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St. Landry democrat., 1893-09-16
A Lesson in Honor.

1t is pleasant duty to magnify honor
wherever exhibited. 10 these times,
when so many are careless Of the ways
by which money is got, indifferent to
debt that can not legally be collected,
and self-indulgeut with money they
never would have had il their fathers
had been honest, it helps to confirm our
faith in the better element of humanity
to contemplate the noble action OF tho
sisters Rachel and Sasselone BergamiDi.
Their father, +. =. Bergamini, was a
banker in New York. He was trusted
by his Italian countrymen, who depos-
tied their savings with him. tie died
five years ago His estate was found to
be insolvent.
Rachel Bergamini was in Naples when
her father died. lie had $4,000 deposit
ed in her uncle's name aud she held a
power Of attorney. When the bank
failed she brought every cent Of this
money to New York and turned it over
to the administrator for the benefit OF
I'D their homo and all their personal
property. Rachel became teacher of
languages and music aud Sasselone a
lawyers clerk. All the money they
have earned beyond a frugal mainte-
nance they have appropriated to their
fathers creditors. Last week $4,000
was distributed, and the sisters We're
present in the city chamberlain's Office
assisting in the work.
There are many who will regard this
scrupulous tilial houor US extremely
foolish on the part of these women but
to others it will seem one of the good
deeds that bet0ken genuine uobleness
and help to redeem this world from a
place given over to grim despair.
We have read much in derogatl0n OF
the character of Italian immigrants who
are coming to this country in large num-
bers. Some of them may be unworthy :;
but if many of the women of the race
have the qualities of the Bergamini sis
tors we may well welcome them. Sons
trained by such women will be likely to
become citizens who will honor the re-
St. Landry democrat., 1893-09-16
Egypt Under English Domination.

The quiet secured in Egypt under
English domination has apparently
been productive Of a greatly Increased
prosperity among the Egyptian peasant
ry. Mr.. Gorst, the Under Secretary Of
State, says that of State lands recently
surveyed and sold at moderate prices
the people in one village in Lower
Egypt bought $4,000 worth. During
1smail Pasba's rule he appropriated a
great deal of land which became known
az the Domains. Within tho current
year about one-seventh of these lands
las been disposed OF to cultivators for
$3.5OO,00O. The strength of France has
always been mainly in its thrifty peas.
antry and DO land eau long he pros
porous il the small landed p1oplietors
be in financial straits, The above indi-
Gates that the Egyptian fellah has
money laid away in secret places which
he can draw upon when necessary.
This is undoubtedly due to the English
occupation, which has given him good
irrigation works and at the same time
lessened his taxes.
St. Landry democrat., 1893-09-16
Les Empires du Monde.

II ny pas q gu douter, IL plus grand
empire appartieDt Il pAngloterre qui,
avec scs colonies dams toutes les parties
du monde, etend So domination sur o5,-
523, 900 miles cares. La Russe Wont
eDsuitc qui, dun seul tenant, CONNIE on
dit Gil termcs dc proprictG, cDglobe 31,-
512,230 miles cares, y cOmpris la Sibt-
rie, le Caucase OF les provinces trauscas-
pienues. La Chine Went en- tIoiscme
ligne avec 11,1l5,650 miles cares. puis
les Etats- Unis, avec 9,2l2,3 300 le BGcsil,
avec S,23G,a1S miles cares environ !;
lempire turc, avec 1892 miles car
res, ct enfin la France ct ses colonies
avec ses trois millions dc miles cares
environ, non compris les Etats du Sou
dan. LIE Canada, que l'on comprend lei
dams pEmpire britannique, couvrc i lui
seul un territoire plus grand que celni
des Etats- Unis.
81 nous nous placons au point de vuc
de Ia population. c'est la Chine qui Went
en- premiere ligne, parmi les grands en-
pires, avec $50 millions d'habitauts, puts
l'empre britannique avec 314 millions,
Fempire de Russie avec ITO millions, la
France ct ses colonies avec Il millions,
les Etats- Cuis avec IS millions, ct 'Al.
lemagne avec so millions.
St. Landry democrat., 1893-09-16
Bayou Chicot


T. Haas. Esq. left Saturday evening on fly
ing trip 10 Mississippi.
Thanks to Hon. ri. d. Courtney for a fine
piece OF yenison.
DR.. Haas, of Vile Plato, was in town on Sun
day.
Mai. Wharton went to Opelousas on Monday.
A private school will be opened here on Mon
day under the management of Professor Frank
Singleton.
We'll done, Opeousas boys. you done UP Nor
row nicely but look out boys, if you play them
again your name is DcnDis."
Deputy Sheriff George Kelly was busy MOL
day serving notices.
protracted meeting at the Methodist church
will start Friday night, Sept 18th. Rev. Ran
die of Opelousas is expected here on the Occa-
sion.
Prof. hurry will open dancing school here
in a few days.
Cotton is slow in coming to market. Farm
ers holding back for better prices.
We have lost another old land mark from 0ur
vicinity, MFR. JnO. Tubra, Sr., died Monday,
Sept, 18th, aged 81 years.
Misses Rosa and Maggie Tatmau, two charm
ing young ladies Of COcodrie, were in town on
Sunday.
John H. Cole and Col. Vim. Clark left for
Lake Charles on Monday, as witnesses against
one John Dougherty, accused OF horse steal
Ing.
Capt. Sam Haas store viii be closed Oh We'd
ncsday, Sept Goth, 1t being IL Jewish holiday.
CHlCOT.
St. Landry democrat., 1893-09-16
Vile Plate.
September 10, 1896.

SCFleulpcl ~, 1o3o.
1t has been some time since we have seen
an, dots from Vile Plate, I shall try to give a
few iteTns this week
i:nin the latter part Of last week; with cool
nights and warm days, which is quite disa-
sreeable.
Rice harvesting is nearly through here, and
now the shrill whistle of the steam thresher
can be heard from "early morn till close OF
day"
Or. Jules yidrine is at homo for a few days.
He Is practiciug medicine in the Pine woods
near Babb's Bridge. The DR.. is making good
record for himself.
The young ladies and gents enjoyed nice
dance Saturday night at the hospitable lome
OF Mr.. DemetIius FOntenot. Among tue young
ladies present were Misses Mary Lee Fontenot,
Soilliea, Eta Brignac aud many other pretty
girls whose names We have not at hand. Miss
Iosa Fontenot (Mr. ID. Fontenots daughter),
made an agreeable young hostess.
NO now have a base ball club aud will play a
match game next Saturday with the Chatai-
Snier boys.
Some sickness in the community.
Cotton picking Is going on, and gins running
10 get the feecy staple ready for market.
Now We want to know, when our public
schools will open as we want q school here in
this neighborhood. 10 is needed badly. When
win the school board meets
VASHgSA
St. Landry democrat., 1893-09-16

Marcus A. Quinn, New York school
teacher, disappeared from his family for
several days. Another man was drown
ed in the East river and Quinn's wife
identified him as her husband, received
the lite insurance money and bought
mourning clothes with it. Shortly at
ter she discovered her husband in hos
rital suffering from pneumonia. He
had been sick, and drinking some bran.
dy, got daZed and was taken to the in
stitute where che found him. Gases of
this kind don't happen often and the af-
ter effects are of an unpleasant nature.
St. Landry democrat., 1893-09-16

A well-graduated income tax Just
now would help out Uncle Samuel's H.
Dances out of a hole that is already tol-
erably deep and apparently getting
deeper. Mr.. Cleveland is said to favor
this tax, and he may have something to
say about il 10 his message to the regu-
lar session of C0Dgress.-St Louis Re-
public.
St. Landry democrat., 1893-09-16

Tom Reeds speech in favor of repeal
ing. the Sherman law was interesting
mainly because the Sherman law was
one OF the Republican measures which
Reed, as Speaker of tue House, used the
gag and whip to put through.-S Louis
Republic.
St. Landry democrat., 1893-09-16

There is good deal of sly humor iD
the way tho republicans try to place the
present financial troubles on tho Demo-
cratic party because it is now iu power.
The fact that the laws that arc causing
this trouble are tho result OF republican
brains, passed in defiance of Democra-
tic views, seems to DC forgotten by these
humOrists.
St. Landry democrat., 1893-09-16

The recent great wind storm made it
certain that the rico crop this yoar
would fall far short Of last year; couss-
quently all available rice at once Jump
ed from 81 to SO to $3.50 and $3.50 per
barrel. 1t will reach 81 before the bulls
get through with the higher grades.-N.
O. City Item.
St. Landry democrat., 1893-09-16

Alexandria Town Talk: Congress
men blanchard, Boatner and Robertson
were the only representatives from Lou
lsiana who voted for free coinage at IS
to |. Congressman Price voted for the
ratio OF 30 to l.. The people have spot
ted the other fellows, and the people
VIII have their innings in November,
1904
St. Landry democrat., 1893-09-16

RICE.


La. Planter and Sugar Manufacturer, Sept. 9.
The rice market is strong and active. brisk
demand prevails for clean rice, and the mills
have their output we'll sold up. Higher prices
are prevailing for rough rice, and the tone Of
the market is very strong.
St. Landry democrat., 1893-09-16

The st. Landry Homestead and Loan
Association is al important factor in
the uphuilding OF Opelousas. Take =
few shares. benefit yourself aud assist
III tue good work.
St. Landry democrat., 1893-09-16

Consult the DEMOCRAT when you
want TO buy The finn that adyertises
Nints to sell and so informs the public
through the bone papers. Aud you
sill be certain 10 get better bargains.
St. Landry democrat., 1893-09-16

The Catholic Congress held in Chica-
20 last week was o very notable affair
aud will no doubt cause much good for
the church in this country. Mgr. Satol-
Ii, Cardinal Gibbons aud other eminent
divines were present.
St. Landry democrat., 1893-09-16

NO. City Item: Gov. X. b. TillmaD,
Of South Carolina, las issued an appeal
for aid TO alleviate the suffering and
helpless victims of the recent destruc-
tive storm that swept the entire South
Atlantic coast. There are 10000 of the
victims. This is an example for Gov.
Foster in connection with the hundreds
who are still suffering from the great
food on Black river aud Tensas basin.
St. Landry democrat., 1893-09-16

The latest advices relative to the
death of Etnin Pasha, are to the effect
that he was killed in battle on the Goth
of February, and not while resting and
as u result of betrayal. His body,
among others, was roasted and devour-
ed by the savages near Luliabar river
on the road to Stanley Falls.
St. Landry democrat., 1893-09-16

An event of Worldwide historic in
terest, one never before accomplished
took place iu Chicago on Monday. Ii
was the assembling of the Parliament
OF Religions, 0 gathering OF represen "a :
tives OF all the great beliefs of the
world.
St. Landry democrat., 1893-09-16

NJ. EiDllorn a IN apparel qui Sc com
pose dun tube en- caoutchouc auqucl eel
fixee une lampe Edison. Co tube peut
ctre facilement introduit dams festo
mac; on vera alors Il travors l'abdo.
men les contours de l'estomac. LIE dan.
ger qui consistcrait il voir la lampe &c
briser est a peu pres null, assure-t-il.
St. Landry democrat., 1893-09-16

EPISCOPAL CHuRcH.-There will be divine
service in the Church of the Epiphany on the
Ell sunday 10 the month at IL O'Clock o. m. and
OH the Ath Sunday at $3.50 p. M, the Rev. A. II.
Price officiating.
BAPTIST CHURCH. pelollsas, on the LIST and
I'd Sunday at II o. IN. and mt night. Sunday
School every Sunday at 10 o. IN.
T.. NJ. PHILLIPS, Pastor
St. Landry democrat., 1893-09-16
'ASESSA.
SUGAR.

Louisiana Planter, Sept. 9.
There Is q decidedly frmer undertone in tho
local sugar market. though things are still
qniet. A fair local demand exists.
St. Landry democrat., 1893-09-16

LIE bohcme I.... est atteint dune af-
lection dc pcau, DIES plus contagicuses.
Hior, il dit il son concierge, avcc un
souriIe fGroce:
-Nous pouycz laisser monter mes
creauciers.. j'ai, maintcnaut, quelgue
chose il leur bonner.
St. Landry democrat., 1893-09-16

Few persons have sufficient wisdom
to prefer censure which is useful to
praise which deceives them.
St. Landry democrat., 1893-09-16

II you want any painting done, try
Walter Chacbert. His terms are low
and he guarantees satisfaction. His
card appears elsewhere.
St. Landry democrat., 1893-09-16
b ! bien, c'est l'habit. ude.

La vie, c'est le besoin de Dicu. LIE
ciol, c'est Ia possession de Dieu. Len
fer, la pliyation dc Dieu. Le purga-
toire, lattcnte dc Dicu. En- sorte que
Fame immorteIle, Quoiqu'ello fasse,
SQUIRE gu jOuit toujours de Dieu.
St. Landry democrat., 1893-09-16

Eutle 10 mGdsant ct 10 malfaisaut, il
MY u dc difference QUO l'oceasiou.
-Quintilicn.
St. Landry democrat., 1893-09-16
AROUND THE EMPIRE PARISH.
Communications for this column should reach
ia no later than Wednesday.
Chataignier.

..- Sept. 10, 1893.
Mr.. and Mrs. X. O. Harley left on Sunday
for their home in German Settlement.
Joe Harley and Aldus Hargroder visited
Vile Plate on Saturday last.
Mr. u. P. Lafieur was in Opelousas last Mon.
da,.
Nr and AIRS 3. Lafieur visited Opelousas
lasi week.
Miss Batrice Fontenot after spending several
moths in Chataigner returned to her home
ia blelOusas last Friday.
lev. Father Burgot of Willie Plate was IN Una
tai",'er on Tuesday.
/ = Father Clarke visited Vile Plate last
w. =.
u here oil where is Cal. hope not lost
The Grand Prairie Base Ball club will play
the Chataisnier Crescent Club on Sept; Il,
DON PEDRO.
St. Landry democrat., 1893-09-16

The beet sugar in this country has
grown in one year from 100000 to 27,-
1000 lbs.
St. Landry democrat., 1893-09-16

C'est toujours il l'aide du vrai que lie
mensuDgo attaque la ycritc.
St. Landry democrat., 1893-09-16

\ table d'hOte:
-Savczvous quel est rhabit lie plus 4
la mode en- &C moment?
~!
-C'est l'habi. .cyclcttc.
Tres bien. Mails savez- vous quel est
Phabit qui dure lc plus lonstcmps.
~!
Ell bien, c'est l'Labit. =. ude.
St. Landry democrat., 1893-09-16
CHURCH DIRECTORY.

PRESBYTERIAN CHuRCH.-Services at Opelou-
saA every sd Sunday OF the month at II O. IN,
and 1850 %. IN. At Bellevue, the first Sunday of
each month at ii q. III. and 7:3O d. IN.
REV. GEO. FRAZER, Pastor.
METHODIST CHURCH.-At Opelousas, list. I'D
and Ath Eahbaths, II o'clock a. NJ, and y. IN.
Bellevue, ID Sabbath, II O'Clock a. m; Sd Sab
bath $50 p. M.
Prayer Meeting every Wednesday night at 7.
Sabbath School 10 O'Clock every Sabbath.
Il. g, RANDLE p G.
St. Landry democrat., 1893-09-16
Selling Out!
BELOW COST!

Here Is " chance seldom offered to Sc
cure REAL BARGAINS, and those
haring The cash should call at once and
make their selections while the assortment
is mnbroken.
St. Landry democrat., 1893-09-16
TAKEN Up AS EsTRAy..

Try the Undersigned at Johnson's Cove in
- pralrie Mamou, about months ago, TWO
OXEN, one red and tho other brown Brown
Oh is branded about thus: OFF The owner is
requested TO come forward, prove property, pay
charges aud take them away.
HEERARD sOrLEAU,
MaMeu =. O., Sept, !6, Ise3 at
St. Landry democrat., 1893-09-16

The DEMOCRAT months for so cents.
St. Landry democrat., 1893-09-16

Get our prices for job work.
The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1893-02-23
WEST AND SOUTH.

! IN Duluth, Mimi, q miller's trust
was organized which includes nearly
every firm in the business from North
Dakota and Duluth to the east.
some fifty of the democratic editors
Of Michigan met at Grand Rapids and
organized tho Democratic Press asso.
citation, with A. Mcmillan, Of Bay City,
rs president
In Northwestern Nebraska, southern
South Dakota and eastern Wyoming
earthquake shocks were felt
J Ar Portland. Ore, J. O. Dennis, aged
70; Bertram Dennis, his son. aged .,
and J. T. johnson were instantly
killed and James Melee was fatally
injured and twenty-five others were
seriously hurt by tho wrecking Of IN
electric car. fltsr~ 49,. 80.
Coal gas exploded in mine At Cedar,
Ia. causing the death of Joseph Gala
CHER and tho severe injury of twenty.
four other men. ~: :,
THE house Of representatives OF Indi-
ana voted down q . bill providing for
IN appropriation of $50. 600 to DO ex.
pended in entertaining visitors ct the
grand army encampment to b held in
Indianapolis next September. 49,.
Ar Topeka, Kan, the republicans
seem to have won the battle, Gov.
lewelling having given them posses-
sion Of the legislative hall, withdraw.
ing the militia and sending the popu-
lists to another room. The deputy
marshals were also withdrawn. This
action of tho governor wss to afford q
temporary settlement of the difficulty
Of until tho courts could decide it.
The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1893-02-23

EXTENSIVE surveys have lately been
made for q cable between North Amer.
lea and Australia,
JANUARY is reputed to be regarded
by the shopping world ~ tho linen
month Of the year.
The original manuscript Of "Scota
wha hae wi Wallace bled." Is owned BY
Mrs. j. G. Burns, of Dublin.
The public school system Of Hawaii
is excellent There arc few of the ma
tives who can not read and write.
The population of the Sandwich IL
lands is sc, 900, and they are In ares
about one-sixth rs large n the state o,
Ohio
Or the sixty-four cardinals who com
pose the sacred college but Ave ars
English.speakine and only one Of these
10 an American.
FLORIDA is to have q CONFIDENT.
home place on the Shell road, fou:
miles from Jacksonville, has been 90
lected as the site,
New telephone companies are alread!
organizing, and in St. Louis privat
! families are Furnished telephone ser
vices at $S6 year. =
NEW YORK IL proposing . World.
fair for 1897 in New York city. in com
cmemoration of the discovery Of Mort;
America by John Cabot -
The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1893-02-23
The Southern Minnesota Fair.

At recent meeting of directors the
following officers were elected for the
ensuing year: T. II. Bliss, president; T.
L. Fishbaclx, vice president; c. Van
Camper, secretary and general man
ager; T. 81. Titus, treasurer; w. Logan
Breckenridge, superintendent of priv
.leges; r. Milo Jacks, superintendent of
rack and grounds. The dates fixed for
che next fair are: Aug. %, 20, 80, 81 and
Sept l and 2, 1898. Preparations are
being made for the largest fair ever
acid by the association. A racing and
fair circuit has been formed, commence
ing with Augusta, Wis, Aug. Is; Ham
line, Aug. %; Rochester. Aug. %; La
Crosse, Sept. 4; Fond du Lac, Sept. II;
Oshkosh. Sept. Is; GAINESVILLE, Wis.
Sept. 26.
The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1893-02-23
OFTEN HEARD or.

Gov LEwELLYN, Of Kansas, like Gar
field, found the towpath one that led to
fortune.
CONGRESSMAN HATCH, OF Missouri, ID
an expert judge and successful breeder
of Berkshire hogs, giving his show pens
all the time he can spare from politics.
AUSTIN CoRB1N, the New York bank.
or. has over 700 animals in his game pre-.
serve near Newport, N. H. The elk pre-.
dominate. but he has five distinct herds
of buffalo.
JAMES A. BAILEY, the circus mana
ger, began selling apples and peanuts,
then became the owner of a side show,
and went on until he is now tho fore,
most man in his line Of public amuse.
uQent
The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1893-02-23
FROM WASHINGTON.

THE president has approved the quar-
antine bill. officially known as IAN act
granting additional quarantine power
and imposing additional duties upon
the marine hospital service"
The president has issued proclama-
ton creating the Sierra forest reserve.
comprising 600 square miles in the
counties of Mercer. Fresno. Tulare and
Kern, California
THE business failures in the United
States during the seven da! ended on
the 18th numbered 2s3. against 286 the
previous week and 600 for the CORE
spending time last year.
THE exchanges during the week end
ed on the 18th at the leading clearing
houses in the United States aggregated
81, 252, 252. S97, against ST. $40, sos. 1881 the
previous week. The increase as COM
pared with the corresponding week of
1892 was a..
The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1893-02-23
LATER NEWS.

The Minnesota State Agricultural So
ciety having decided to hold no fair this
year, the directors Of the Minneapolis
exposition have concluded to combine
some Of the best features OF the fair
with their exposition-which opens
Sept. 9Th and closes Oct. 7th, 1s93-and
have appropriated . liberal sum for
premiums for the products of Mime
sofa farms, gardens and dairys. A dis
play of minerals of the state will also
be q feature. These exhibits, added to
the usual industrial. commercial and
art displays, with the superb musical
and other entertainments in the big
auditorium, are expected to make the
exposition Of 1898 the most memorable
on record.
ANOTHER panic occurred on the New
York stock market the Goth. At Phila-
delphia a meeting of the board of. d.
rectors of the Philadelphia & Reading
company was held, and the result of the
meeting and the conclusions reached at
it was shown when in the United States
district court an application was made
for receiver for the company. The
court granted the application and ap-
pointed as receiver A. A. Mcleod, pres
ident of the Philadelphia a, Reading
railroad company; Edward Paxon, chief
justice OF the supreme court of the state
of Pennsylvania, and F. p. Wilbur, of
the Lehigh Valley division of the Read
ing.
The legislature of North Dakota, the
Goth. elected w. N. Roach, democrat, to
be United States senator. Five repub-
licans voted for him, together with the
combined strength of the democrats and
populists.
THE lower house of the Arkansas
legislature, the Goth, Pr ssed q bill O.
Aibiting the sale or giving away of
cigarettes in the state of: Arkansas.
The bill makes the offense misde-
meanor punishable by . fine of not less
than $50 nor more than $780,.
JOHN c. Emo, the defaulting bank
president, who has been missing for
many years, has surrendered himself to
the authorities of New York city.
THE famous confederate general, P.
g. T. Beauregard, died at his home in
New Orleans the evening Of the Goth OF
of heart failure. He was born in 1918,
educated at West Point, and began the
civil war by the bombardmentso of Fort
Sumter. "a $50 ,-.'<f ..-:f",:* =.
The republicans Of Kansas have de-
cided to elect another United States
senator. s... .,.Ts s ...-,l.
| Cold shipments to Europe the 21st
amounted to $500, 900. OF this sum
o, AZ, 900 came from the sub-treasury.