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St. Landry democrat. (Opelousas, La.) 1878-1894, 1894-02-24
BOARD OF DIRECTORS:
81. LANDRY HOMESTEAD AND LOAN
ASSOCIATION.

Tie st. Landry Homestead and Loan Asso-
cation was Incorporated Oh the 12th day of
March, loo8, under the laws OF the State Of Lou
isial;, its first Object being to afford, by co-orc
ration, to those Ito do not possess them. the
means Of acquiring It HOME. anh TO encourage
thrift. by Offering " safe investment and Il liz!
cr.l profit 10 those who VIII y Systematically save
their earnings. Any person may become a
shareholder by subscribing foI any number OF
shares. payable in weekly instruments Of %
cents Dcr share.
St. Landry democrat. (Opelousas, La.) 1878-1894, 1894-02-24
Cheap Telephones.

The expiration Of the Bell telephone
patents is revolutIonizing the sale OF
telephones in this country. The Metro,
politan Telephone Company, of New
York, are now ntIre rim q, the re,oEna r q
f5rTsgs nc YTeTagtaI 4 uad Y tt5z Etse |
y 20 gTVe a great impetus to the con-
structlon OF short telephone lines in
buildings and country places.
St. Landry democrat. (Opelousas, La.) 1878-1894, 1894-02-24

The Association does not tca! ii real estate,
but 1t IS a Cooperative Savings Bank i'll which
there is no privileged class, but ALL mclnbcrs
participating eInituhly in the profits.
St. Landry democrat. (Opelousas, La.) 1878-1894, 1894-02-24
LIE DEMOCRATIC DE ST. LANDRY.

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St. Landry democrat. (Opelousas, La.) 1878-1894, 1894-02-24

Lopns are made only to members, who par.
ticlpatc III the profits and are interested in the
success of the Association and the proper III
vestlncnt Of its funds.
Members can withdraw AT any time by giving
thirty days notice to the President. This com
men,,s the Association to those whose earnings
MAJ vary or be uncertain.
St. Landry democrat. (Opelousas, La.) 1878-1894, 1894-02-24

REV. JOHN HALL, ID. D., LL.D..
REV. ROBT. s. MacARTHU:, d. D.s
REV. THEO. J.. CUYLER, DID,
REV. Nj. C. LOCKWOOD. ID. D.,
of Cincinnati. o.,
REV. c. n. SIMS, D.. D.,
Chancellor of Syracuse University,
Current Weekly Sermon by
Sun.!ay-SchoOl Lesson by
DIR. G. F. PENTECOsT.
The above and ether we'll known writer's will
contribute special articles during 1893 to the
NEW YORK WEEKLY WITNESS
making the WITNESS one OF the strongest and
ablest family newspapers published.
The WITNESS is ju1t the paper for Farmers,
Farmers Wives, Farmers Sons, Farmers Daugh-
ters Country Merchants Country Store-keepers,
B!acksr1iths, Carpenters, Builders. Stone Masons,
and all other laborers, who form the backbone
Of ouc Country aud who want to be thoroughly
posted Ia what is going on in the World.
The WITNESS is g weekly paper which repre-
serts High Ideas and Sound Principles. 1t has
a weekly Sermon by DR.. Tamage aud weekly
Sunday-Schoo Lesson by DR.. Pentecost, the lot
est Homo News, the latest Foreign News, the lat
est Political News reliable Market Reports relia-
bic quotations Of Farm Products; seasopable
Editorials on Political, Social. and Moral CUES.
tions the cream of the best editorials in New
York and other daily and weekly papers; good,
eeliabe Farm and Garden articles written by
practical men; tells of the Homo Life Of the
American people, and Of their life, thoughts, and
experiences; pleasant moral stories for the Young
People, stories Of inter- s~~---@f " - e'so.
In brief, it is JUS y
St. Landry democrat. (Opelousas, La.) 1878-1894, 1894-02-24
Les pntauiS i:

Les pntaniS:
On itur u bien Itcommandt de lie ja-
nluis rien demauGer Il table. Aussi Ko-
bert, pour ne pas enfrtindrc la consigne,
s'adresse Il Sd petite s;Hur, ct dun ton
protecteur:
-Tu sails, lvonnc, il ne faut janais
rien demander i table. Ainsi, moi, par
exempIe, je Vondrais bien du gigot
maintenunt, mails je men demande pas.
St. Landry democrat. (Opelousas, La.) 1878-1894, 1894-02-24
General Notes.

The people want to get the news,
And want it crisp and heat;
TIE DEMOCRAT fully meets their vieWe--
They say it can't be beat
St. Landry democrat. (Opelousas, La.) 1878-1894, 1894-02-24
Ladies' :

Sept. %, 1879:
St. Landry democrat. (Opelousas, La.) 1878-1894, 1894-02-24
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St. Landry democrat. (Opelousas, La.) 1878-1894, 1894-02-24

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St. Landry democrat. (Opelousas, La.) 1878-1894, 1894-02-24

OFFICERS.
The prison mirror. [volume] (Stillwater, Minn.) 1887-1894, 1894-01-25
Modern Methods.

go" is a good and useful word that stands for
discipline. People who won't go right them
selves and cannot be led, must either be driven
or left to go their own way at their own gait.
How far such folks can be herded into the
straight and narrow path by faithful prodding in
the rear is. and has always been. an interesting
question. The InquisitiOn, in its day, tried to
solve it, but is generally held to have failed.
The Elmira Reformatory has tried it with mod
ern methods. and not without a large measure of
success. The trouble still seems to be- however.
that the men who do the prodding begin by low
ing the sinner and end by loving to prod him.
The sort of gradual degeneration to which dis
ciplinarlans are liable. is APPLY illustrated by
current newspaper story of the late Henry W.
Paine who retired, after five Yeats service,
from the Office of prosecuting attorney of Ken
nebec County, Maine because. he said, he began
to feel disappointment when he failed TO secure
convictions, and that irrespective of his personal
belief in the guilt or innocence of the accused.
But the Elmira Reformatory by no means ad-
mits that it has suffered from this sort of degen
Grafton. It's managers have issued in. their de-
fence a little pamphlet. made up largely of short
letters from discharged parOled prisoners,
attesting the great good that their stay in the
refOrmatOry did them. Great good has I'M
doubleday been done in many cases; but the nice
ethical problem remains whether the reform of
a certain percentage Of the prisoners is we'll
bought at the cost of excessive punishmentS to
others who got no good. Punishment in wise
hands is Il valuable force and in a reformatory
it is of high importance that it should not be
wasted either by be>tawing it on an amendable
person in excess OF his requirements, Or by
lavsiing it by wholesale on cases that it does
not help. A refOrmatOry is (, factory for making
bad boys good. There is more or less waste in
every factory and if in the one at Elmira some
OF the raw material is spoiled in the effort to
make it up, it might be argued that that is inevi
table, and ought to be excused What favOrs
that view is the belief that unless such raw
| material as goes into the mill at Elmira can be
made into goods, it is worse than useless ever
afterwards. 1t has been the complaint of some
of the ex- prisoners from Elmira who disapprOve
of Mr.. Brockways methods that they were pun
ished so much at the refOrmatory that there was
not even the making of efficient criminals left in
them. But after all, that would hardly be COM
plant that society need take great alarm at were
it not that excessive punishments not only spoil
the criminal, but is ruinOus also to the reform
| atory.-E. S. Martin in Harpers' Weekly.
The prison mirror. [volume] (Stillwater, Minn.) 1887-1894, 1894-01-25
The Road To He'll.

The following is a sermon recently preached
by Rev. j. l.. Morrill,, at Calvary Baptist Church.
Minneapolis; the truthful sentiments of which.
will be almost unanimously endorsed by our
many readers behind the bars:
The city is not only the cradle of science but
is the cesspoOl of sin. Life in a metropolis is
oftener tragedy than comedy, and the struggle
between inclination and inspiration is intense.
Minneapolis is neither better nor worse than
other cities of her population. That she should
be better than she is, no one denies. except the
too pious priest and asciyious Levite who passes
by on the other side of the unfortunate on life's
Jericho road.
THE saloon is hell's highway. Its motto is
mo Sabbath, no Christi" its aim is gold. its
graduates are drunkards, lunatics, gamblers,
thieves and murderers. If one saloon is more
damned in evil than the dingy. sanded-hoor one,
it is the saloon or hotel bar with velvet carpet,
plate glass, electric light. marble furnishings
and prostituted art. The life, property. peace
and safety of our city have been and are hourly
jeopardized by the brewers interest. which in
sultingly proffered paltry $500 for the relief of
an impoverished condition which it had made
possible. The saloon depends for its very eX-
istence upon laws restriction; yet, instead Of
enforcing that law until a more stringent
one can be passed, Sunday violation has been
wnked at or eulogiZed in saloon journals as
| respectable" and, as a matter of policy" for
political, social or other reasons.
"The brothel is hell's reception ROOM In it
are young and old of all grades of mental and
m0neyed means, lost to shame, honor and
purity. The ':unspeakable Turk is out
done by the municipal code, which for nomi-
The prison mirror. [volume] (Stillwater, Minn.) 1887-1894, 1894-01-25

nal fine permits these crater mouths of passion
ate bells to pour out their brazen, bghting,
blistering, bacchanalian blasphemy. If hell be
a fire and there is one corner in it hotter than
another it will be reserved for the glorious
philanthropist or church member who rents his
property for immoral use. The concert dive
combination of saloon and brOthel has been
allowed to lure its victims in our city in style
worthy of beaStly Butte and callOused Chicago.
Gambling is contrary to good law. to principles
of mutual benefit which underlie legitimate
business transactions, and is destructive of mo-
rality because it enforces an ideness which
breeds vice and takes away the taste for simpler
pleasure. 1t has corrupted justice. disgraced
merchants and diverted money from channels
of legitimate industry Race track gambling,
with its city pool room, is one of the most
dangerous and demOraliZing kinds of gambling.
Under the lying preteXt of improving the breed
of horses. gamblers deterOrate human nature.
"Bookmakers" and telegraph companies pay
hundreds of dollars for their privileges. The
pool room is the breeder of crime. We have toll
Grated shaking of dice for cigars and drinks and
the game runs from early morn to late at night
in the "hallowed precincts of the Eighth ward,
until, in spite Of mothers protests and tears
| some Of our young men have been so inoculated
demanded and you may find them in down town
resorts. ] visited leading pool room last week.
l learned it was "all straight'-but know the
whole cursed thing is crooked. The vile place
was filled with smoke, oaths. and an infatuatiOn
which made destruction plain. Here were young
| working men. and poor laboring men, who had
begged, borrowed or stolen money with which to
gamble. A man who will gamble will steal
gambling is stealing. This is the DEVILS school
On leading thOrOughfare which graduates fast
young men into the penitentiary. 1t has been
asserted that some recent business failures. as
well as 80 per cent Of thefts and ruin of youths
employed in positions of trust, are directly due
| to pool room gambling. Times are hard, but our
city will not have the desired prosperity in its
religion or business until it stops toleratng this
public gambling. What are our municipal
authorities good for if they can not, or viii not
shut these places over which Dantes hell motto
should be inscribed. Leave hope behind all
We who enter here?''
The prison mirror. [volume] (Stillwater, Minn.) 1887-1894, 1894-01-25
The following are the grade changes for the

Mr.. G.. a. Robinson, representing Park
Davis g. Co. of Detroit Mich, in company with
DR.. Merrill. was a caller at the prison Monday,
where he succeeded in making a large sale
of medicines. Mr.. Robinson is evidently a
believer in reciprocity as he very kindly dropped
a dollar into treasury, ordering THE
MIRROR sent to the above named company for
one year.
Some of the boys have complained to us that
when the distribution was made they received
"Dutch' almanacs which they cannot read nor
understand, and asked our advice about the
matter. Well, boys, we do not feel capable at
all times of pouring out the oil of wisdom upon
turbid waters, however, in the present instance.
we feel it our bOunden and sacred duty to come
to your relief, hence we would advise you to
study German.
The prison mirror. [volume] (Stillwater, Minn.) 1887-1894, 1894-01-25
Vindicated.

Justice: How do you account for this chicken
being found in your possession?
Uncle Nose: I went to a straightforward
perfo nance last night, and guess de Professor
done forgot to take it out from under NAH coat.
Judge.
The prison mirror. [volume] (Stillwater, Minn.) 1887-1894, 1894-01-25

Fortune does not change men; it unmasks
them.-Ex.
New-York tribune., 1894-04-27
70 start 4 VIEW co1GEGE MACzfNE
4 MATTER or IHTFREsT To hLL GRADUATES
WELL. KNOWN MEN TO nE ON TIE
T.frrFT,r STAFF

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John Seymour Wood CYaie will be the editor. lie
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from hls novels "Grancrcy Park" An Oh Beau
a Colgne OF Vantage" orc. Walter Camp Vale)
VIII be tho o. tor OF tho department II athletics
lie ir wei known as writer on college athletics
hls book on college Sports having wide sale
Henry q chapman GI1rvarD viii have charge Of
the business management ~ the enterprise.
The Office OF the University Pr'ss Company. which
will publish the magazine. Is at No. l. Wail-sl
The name Of The magazine IS not "a yet decided
upon but II VIII be- probably either The Graduate
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general appearance and makeup Will be similar T.
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charter the company may proceed with the other
branches OF the publishing business appropriate 10
and indicated by its tlue-tcxt-books. school books
historical works. etc.
The magazine Will all matters ~ interest
college graduates in art. literature, politics anl
athletics. Mr.. Camp Will. in addition TO his own
editorial comments. invite contributions from all
the authorities college athletics; Albert Stickney
will contribute articles political ard economic
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and assisting the editorial board In the proper rep
resentatlOn OF each college.
New-York tribune., 1894-04-27

,o law before the Jury briefly. thc salient points
I'm the story 10 lc proved Icy the People. but s."
great was the mass Of testimony mat N' loon
longer than he expected 10 finish his narrative li'
was so thoroughly IN earnest and spoke WIN H''h
intensity OF feeling that he was nearly exhausted
when he sat down lie called "A witness. Carl Mul-
ler tho inforrncr who was hand In glove WIN
Never throughout the entire conspiracy lh' *
animation % Muller was unsn tsfncior}. ID" VII
ncss's English imperfect. hc spoke In 10"
tone, there was loud noise of rImhHns V'h''''''
Mr. Brooke made many objections. anl. finally az
40 o'clock Colonel Fellows asked that court b" ad-
journcd out Of consideration FOR Mr.. Mciniyro's
wcarinesg. Mr. Prooke concurrcd IN this ana i"-
corler gmyth granted the request.
A feature Of the session Was the Illness oi spec
tator. who tainted away while MI Mcintyre was
speaking lie was earned Into the corridor. where
Dr. O'Sullivan attended him. The lawyer physician
after,yard said that the poor fellow was suffering
from hunger having eaten little for two days. MI
Mcintyre told the facts ia the case. when nave
become familiar through the former trial AZ one
point when be spoke OF Meyers having been tri.d
ivic, brfor. for murder The prisoner sought 10
aris- to contradict him. but ms lawyers hadc HIN
when Mr. Mcintyre finished hls address a re-
cess was taken FOR hvc mlnut"s. men Sr IN W. ,S
SDa M2 ncIntyr caI Gai Mucr 70 the witness
stand Muller had grown - fulI beard since tho
former trial. which I'm part hid hs perennial smrh
A. MieT Mr ,hat I'Sc Sc cdga not h ccpied to tesfy
against himself Then the witness told The follow
ing story In response - numerons questions hy
Mr. Mcintyre:
u was born I'm Germany thir'y-fv" years ago.
7 had been "A school teacher there. | came to New
YORK on the steamer Waesland on June u. l''' |
| and then To- Chicago | arrived I'm Chicago ln Sep
tcnbor lsSS | got work az cake baker and at
| playing the plano Later | met Frcnchman
| named Charles Rerchcr and We entered into a
| scheme - swindlc people We advertscl that We
were girls who were looking for husbands W" got
answers from Western farmers. and wrot" 10 them
that We had no money 10 pay our fare 10 them.
/ ts.til g.pflff f4 q
| H. At last we were arrested. was locked up In
the cook County jail Thor. met pr Meyer.
| rich Maria Joseph Iiqum, Or Meyer knew
| tho newspapers He said he had better
| one 1t was dcfrnud the insurance companies.
! lie said he had had a insured in the name
of his (Dr Meyers) father in-law when the father
! in-law was III. Tho doctor suggested that We all
! 20 into such q scheme again ! sent TO Joliet
| Prison and came out In May, 1907. went back
! 10 chicago. where | played the piano for living.
! saw Dr Meyer again"
| Here an adjournment taken until to-day.
New-York tribune., 1894-04-27
Special Sale
To Reduce Stock.
Paillard'S
Music Boxes
Musical Novelties
At Less Than
Wholesale Prices.
y. J. Paillard & Co., $50 B'Way.
AN 4KsCoNDING cLEEK ARRESTED

ALBERT RANDALL or THE cox TOWING Co'4-
rANY. CAUGHT IL GALVESTON.
Albert Randall chief clerk in the office Of the Cox
Towing Company at 40. l Broadway, who disap-
,r rod from, his home at No. % Gregoryst. Jersey
civ on April lG arrested at Galveston rex
yesterday. His accounts We're all rgh'' pu' me
company soon found that he had forged a NUMBER OF
checks which he had had cashed hy various traces
men in Jersey city and this city. They amounted
IN all to about 5000 The case was pui IN the
hands Of tn Jersey City police and Chief Murphy
detectives found that Randall had taken with him
a woman Nellie I.aduc. wife OF John l-adue super
intenaent Of the Jersey city Electric light Morks
Mrs La lue was notorious as Nellie Collins. before
her marriage and her union with Ladue srlne % four four
teen months ago created much surprise: The police
also learned that Randall and Mrs Ladue were &C &C..
conpaniod by Waiter Macomber of Jersey CltY
Eeghts known as a sporting man. ana Mrs. Mary
Jones wife Of Charles W. Jones. train dispat tcher
OF the Erie Railway. He, too, Is man much re-
sneced in the community. hut since his wifes hight
Nr Jones has learned that she had been intimate
with Macomber for more than year, she mas one
child whom she left at home. Randall was indicted
on Monday and yesterday Detectye McEaIy went went
TO Galveston 10 secure his eXtraditon The other
prisoners Will be released. Randalrs wife, VINO mas
one child. Is Frustrated by the knowledge or her
husbands perfidy.
New-York tribune., 1894-04-27
,,ySS DEMPSEY OFT or i'm AT LAST.

Miss I.avinia II. Dempsey spinster was released
Yesterday afternoon from Ludlow street jail The
sum OF 5000 bail furnished by Allen McDer-
mott her counsel. Miss Dempsey was arrested on
Tuesday in the suit for $4,000 damages for false I'm
porsonation and malicious persecution brought by
Miss Emma l.. Everson. a typewriter who had desk
room in the Office Of Miss Dempsey's brothers. Guy
c. and John Arid Dempsey. lawyers. In the Stewart
Ruilding Miss Dempsey has what might be termed
a nervous temperament, and her temper Is not
always strictly angelic. so when she Miss
Eversons coat and hat in her brothers office ward
robe when she visited the Office on March z, she
quarrened with the typewriter. called her hard
names. and wound up by accusing her or having
stolen a pocketbook. Miss Everson was honorab.y
ACQUITTED IN open court. and she has brought suit
against her defamer. \ feud Of long standing re
gardng some property left TO sister and brothers
was primarily the cause OF the trouble.
The Dempsey brothers furnished the money for
Miss Everson in the present suit but they offered
~ go bail for their sister. the ground they say.
that II s their duty to the family. Miss Dempsey
refused with scOrn. the Offer Of her brothers 70
hail her out and she ntmates that they are trying
10 get hold OF her property. II s said that when
her brothers visited her Wednesday evening
the- brought with them release 10 mortgage OF
80 900 but Miss Dempsey rejected their offer 10
bail her and she refused to sign the release In order
10 gain her liberty. None Of those concerned In
the rany-sded controversy would speak yesterday.
New-York tribune., 1894-04-27
PROJECTION u 70 RE STILL FURTHER RE
sTRIcTEp- PROFITS TO BE KEPT Up

PROTECTION rs 70 RE STILL FURTHER RE
sTRfCTED- PROFITS TO BE KEPT Up
The anthracite co1l monopoly continues 70 pursue
its policy - grinding the faces Of IN" poor In
spite ~ rcpoat-I exposure IN The Tribune OF IN"
exorh'tlnt profits secured by n" providing com
ranies arI the transportation lines by "A rigorous
supp..ssl,n ~ competition. and IN the to''h oi
bud pubic calls for reduction IN the cost or
ficl eomeThat commensurate wit'i rne reduction IN
income wages and salaries ~ people. ani the un-
ureceleui-l decline In n,ar.y every other com
modify. the coal 'baroHs" intend u maintain hgn
prices by an uunatura, restriction ot prodnc'ion
Tho monthly meeting - the general sales agents
- the producing companies WAS he'd yesterday
and Il was decided - keep th" May schedule or
pric.s unchanged There Will be- further resiric-
ton - output 10 the amount ~ ~ per cent ~
the theoretical capacity Of al the minea. TBS VII
result IN an estimated pro lucii1n In My of 2NV"I'
tons compared W,th a production OF "'n"' tons
in May lS3
Tho shipments - anthracite from the coal r.,
..ons since. the beginning Of the year have amouht'-
- sIls7.3 tons against l2.&6O~i tons IN me cor,
responding period last year deere tse ot Sloi'y, %
tons Idle miners and unprecedented snpPtfsslpH
~ production nre tho concou;itanis ~ ue SrH'iH"
- opprcss the public with unreasonable prices ior
this prime necessity of NE