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The Meridional. (Abbeville, La.) 1856-1906, 1895-11-16

Pierre the Convent gardener has
a iue garden this year, everything
seems to be Furnishing and if we
have no hard freezes this winter he
will have vegetables Of all kinds in
the greatest abundance.
The Meridional. (Abbeville, La.) 1856-1906, 1895-11-16

Thursday night The train was
crowded with passengers, Both bus
lines had all they could carry.
The Meridional. (Abbeville, La.) 1856-1906, 1895-11-16

Tive RbGkfsGFS a ear
Saturday, Nov. IS, 1885.
ANNOUNCEMENTS.
FOR SHERIFF.
We are authorized to announce FRANK
T. WINSTON as a candidate for the office
of Sheriff of the parish of Fermili0n at the
election in April 1896.
Town and Parish.
Thursday was a nasty, sloppy day
with a fine drilling rain.
Politics are unusually quiet for
the election to be so near at hand.
Jacob Isaacs has moved into his
new house and is beginning to feel
at home.
An unusually large Quantity of
fruit trees are being delivered here
this week.
The cheerful whistle Of the Ed
wards Rice Mill is heard 10 the land
once more.
Or. r. F. Young returned home
Tuesday evening from a business
trip TO New Orleans.
w are sorry TO hear of the SER
ious illness of the twin babies Of our
neighbor Adonis Leblanc.
Thursday night The train was
crowded with passengers, Both bus
lines had all they could carry.
Wednesday nigh. the train was
very late owing TO the delay on The
main line, and did not arrive mere
till after 9 o'clock.
There is a marked shortage in the
cotton receipts at New Orleans, but
10 Spite Of that fact the prices are
steadily declining.
The new postofiee Wright we men
toned, a few weeks ago has been
established in the GarlaId settlement
and is supplied FROM shis Office
Tuesday was marked by a heavy
white frost and thin ice found in
exposed positions. The sweet POI
tato vines and tender vegetation
was badly nipped.
The money offered at the last
meeting of the Building & Loan was
sold to Or. =. F. Young, who OBJ
tanned q loan Of $4,000 at a pre-
MUM OIL 80 per cent. l.
Rev. Father TuerliDg who has
been stationed here for some months
past as assistant to Rev. Father
Mehault, has been sent TO Comerou
parish, and left a few days ago to
assume charge Of his work.
Pierre the Convent gardener has
a fine garden this year, everything
seems to be Furnishing and if we
have no hard freezes this winter he
will have vegetables Of all kinds in
the greatest abundance.
Go
W. Z. Burke, Esq, Parish Super
lntendent Of tho public schools OF
IBERIA parish has sent US a eommua
lcatlon inviting the teachers of the
o. the public schools Of this parish
g 9 State Teachers Institute
70 be held in New Iberia, La, Dec.
Ahold and Stack your Rice.
The New Orleans rice market il {
The Meridional. (Abbeville, La.) 1856-1906, 1895-11-16

Wednesday nigh: the train was
very late owing 10 the delay on the
main line, and did not arrive here
till after 9 o'clock.
The Meridional. (Abbeville, La.) 1856-1906, 1895-11-16

There is a marked shortage in the
cotton receipts at New Orleans, but
10 Spite Of that fact the prices are
steadily declining.
The Meridional. (Abbeville, La.) 1856-1906, 1895-11-16

Total 35 delegates.
The following are designated as
the places where the mass meetings
in each ward shall be heldas fol-
lows
LIST yard P. u. Leblanc's.
20 Henri Libersat's.
3D. The Courthouse.
4th j. t Broussard's store
Mauriceville.
9th Abshire & Colpeaux's
store.
9Th Wester Ogle's store.
7th D. Per6's store.
On motion Of Mr.. Lastie Brous-
sard,
Resolved that the returns OF said
mass meetings signed by the chair.
nan shall be made to the chairman
AMI secretary of this committee
within 48 hours after the close Of
said mass meetings.
On motion Of G. j. Edwards,
Resolved, That we feel a keen
sense Of pride in reviewing the adj
ministration of the RETIRING EYacns
tive, Governor Murphy J. Foster.
He has made Us a clean, patriotic and
particularly able chief magistrate.
During his incnmbency, despite the
prevailing depression in all lines of
business, and the grave financial
crisis through which the country has
passed, the financial affairs of the
State have steadily improved, her
credit has remained unimpaired and
State bonds for the first time since
the war are to-day al par. We con.
graduate the people of the State
upon the record made BY The Demo.
cratic party IN the safe and able ad.
ministration Of affairs and are sans
guine that they will manifest their
confidence by their votes at the APP
preaching election. !.
On motion Of DR.. J. T. Abshire;
the committee then adjourned ID
meet at u o'clock Saturday, Nov.
80, 1895.
r. j. You've Chairman,
@ j. EDWARDS, Secretary.
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Advertised Letfers.

List of unclaimed letters, remaining
IN the AbbeYille postofice, Oct. 81
1895.
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TAKING INITIAL STEPS
American University Building Com
mite Meets in New York.
They Will Decide On an Architeos
and Consider Other Prelimi-
nary Matters.

Samuel L. Beiler, vice-chanceilor OF the
mericaD University Association, left
last night for New York city to attend the
meeting OF the building committee, which
held its first session. to-day in the office
OF John Z. Andrus, in that city.
Bishop John Hurst will preside, and the
architect for the hall of history and the
permanently decided. Among the plans
submitted to the trustees those of Van
Brupt & Howe, New York City, have re-
ceived great appreciation.
1t is universally conceded by the directors
that the hall OF history will be commenced
this fall. The subscriptions to it were
mostly in large sums OF money, and the
terms of payment We're such that the last
amounts will be paid by September 1 1895,
so that the committee will have in hand the
$3.50 900 which this building is to cost.
Some OF the chairs have also received
generous endo wments, notably one from
Mrs. Judge Cartleo, of tins city, who will
endow the department OF United States
history, and also give a scholarship as
soop as the hall is completed.
Another part of this university which
Will receive particular attention at the meet
ing is the Asbury Memorial Hall of Philoso-
ply, for which donations-one OF 81 1926
from the Wilmington conference and an
other of 81 ,Esi0 from the Newark confer
encc-have been received in the last month
The building committee will remain In
session until Saturday, when Bishop Hurst
and the other trustees will return to WASH
ington with the successful architects to
Heights
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EDUCATIONAL.
1895.

1864. 1895.
EDUCATION FOR REAL LIFE
FOR SONS AND DAUGHTERS.
The SpeDcerian Business College,
National Bank of the Republic Building,
cor. 7th apdD NV. Day and night.
sessions.
SPENCERIAN
IN the National Capital and throughout the
country, is a household word, associated
with thorough business training and
prosperous career.
popular institution begins Monday, Sep
tember 2, 1895. Five departments. viz:
Practical business, including complete
bookkeeping course, English, rapid cal
citations, rapid writing, moral and social
culture, Delsarte system OF expression.
civics, political economy and commercial
law. Practical English, with initiatory
bookkeeping, Shorthand and Typewnting,
including English; Spencerian Rapid Writ
Full corps OF thoroughly trained teachers.
Location central
Spacious, brilliantly lighted, handsome
halls and classrooms. Service OF gradu-
ates always in demand. Terms moderate,
but no competition with cheap schools.
The leading business men of Washington
were trained In this college, and send their
sons and daughters and candidates for
employment here for training.
This college received from the Worlds
Columbian commission, q diploma for
Excellence of Students Work" In all OF
the above departments.
Office open every business day and
night, on and after Monday, August 12.
Write or call for new annual announce
ment. MRS. SARA A. SPENCER,
Principal and Proprietor.
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Jewett loves her hosses, and drives al
most daily over the green hills, now bright
with golden rod, 0f-tiae beautiful eoast
of Maine. She il an .parswoman. as. well,
and her boat knows every reach of the
river and all It's quiet snnlitcoves. Hers Is
life close to nature, aud yet not apart
from people, for she spends. her winters
In Boston. II would ,e hard to plan ones
years on lines more nearly ideal, hard
To see how one could get better chance
of grown aud Development and strong,
true work-sucia work as Miss Jcwett
is doing. There IL rest, thcre, is peace,
there lis time to think, and the sincerity
and serenity of IL all comes out in her
novels - = ii.-iss '.St-
had not meant to make this an inter
view, for one does not print questions and
answers when a woman akcs you into her
home. But perhaps AnHh Jewett win let
me say that che attends to her CORES.
pondence in the morning and writes usually
in the afternoon. r think she raid she
was in a sense q fiffui worker. That ia.
she may write s,OJ6 OF 10 900 words in
a day, but she never Keeps up that pace for
very long. Many OF her magazine sketches
have been written al a sittinx; eome have
been retouched, perhape almost rewritten
afterward; others haye gone to the printer
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Above the splash and the dash of it sounded
the jar OF the river falls and the groanings
OF the trees that arched the village street,
as one drenched wanderer pushed forward
thru Ugh world that had turned OF sudden
TO water, and came half blinded to 1.-The
block" and to the great brown house,
hidden among ancient trees, which shelters
one of New England's soundest, sweetest
and most wholesome writer's, and which
is in itself of no inconsiderable interest,
dating back as 1t does to the first half of
the last century. and standing as one OF the
best examples of the best Of the old colonial
architecture.
The tall trees that bordered the walk
dropped black and heavy with rain, but the
face Of the woman who stood In the broad
paneled hall with its doors at each end was
CHEEKY enough to make up for any imagina-
BILE lack of sunshine.
Did you ever know a writer who was
like her books or who told you uncon-
sciously in ten min how she wrote
them? If you have felt the truth to New
England life, that is yet not too bold, but
has lima gination to Tighten IL; the fidelity
to details that is saved from harsh literal
ness by sentiment and q touch OF humor
the philosophy that Is at unce keen and
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''I found these things here" Miss
Jewett says, land 1 hope to. leave them
when I go into the unknown" II one
had ones choice of ancestors IL would
be impossible to pick out better than
those who chose the ELABORATE cornices,
all carved by hand with infinite pains.
and the high paneling of the parlors,
and the broad window sills, and the
flowered wall paper, still bright and
fresh, though of a pattern on which
Marie Antoinctte might have set the seal
OF her approval when she fitted up the
little Trianon.
City people who have a passion for the
antique hunt q year and day and ejoice
the rest of their lives IL they discover at
a curio dealers OF in their summer wander
1ngs one such high-backed chair or broad
old sofa as those of which the Jewett
house is full Such a sideboard as that
In the dining-room. such spindle-legged
escrftoires, such cabinets, holding such
a power of china-figures and cups and
vases; carvings and corals and sea shells;
minerals and strange things from the
South seas-they could not discover II
they bent all their energies to the toll
1t seems as IL Ee ore had no right To ray
SO much about house which 10 home.
And yet New England has few Ike this;
and it is a part of her brave old history.
There are few such broad, high halls
arched and paneied; few such wide stair
ways with carved and polished raflings;
few such quaint giided mirrors aud antique
portraits and last century bedstcads with
white canopies. The old days and the new
come together in spirit and blood 60 hars
moniously that time seems to have run on
without thought of break and the now is
Just the natural, rightful development of
the then. I wanted to ask Miss Jewett
some questions that might have been rude
In s'DcephavenH she tells of particularly
interesting carpet in whose great fignres
Kate Lancaster used to- play keep house
with her dolls, and II one of them chanced
to fail outside the boundary stripe 1t was
Immediately put to bed with cold.
wondered II that were not the carpet in her
diningroom.
She told me without my asking and,
hope. because she saw that my interest
10 the noble house was unfeigned. that
the place had belonged to her people
for seventy years, and that, before the
time of her surgeon father. her sca-fariug
grandfather had brought home many 0f the
curios. before the sraudfathcr's time
the mansion was an old one and there are
traces of French elegance ~ well as Of
colonial solidity In its finishngs.
Behind the house is big, oll-fashioned
garden. and every room IS sweet with
posies There is stable. too. for Miss
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ers. happy In her summer life in her
quaint country home

ers. happy In her summer life in her
quaint country home.
/ wonder if there is another such house
In New England. have seen many stately
mansions that go back to the days be-
fore the Revolution-one in particular
where Gen. Gage was quartered. In old
Danvers a town which is lin ked by witch
threads to Berwick, and one with gam.
brel roof, upon which a good dame and
her cronies climbed to be nut of reach
OF husbandly authority while they drank
tea forbidden to patriots until the tax
was removed. But I have never seen
living place ut once so mndern and 80
reminiscent of 1880, or days youn ger
still. In its great rooms, filled with old
mahogany and warmed by huge tiled
fireplaces, 1t would be easy to forget that
the gundalows, with their high pecked
sails, Ike great birds wings, do not yet
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Ceorretown University.

Rev. Thomas G. Sherman, S. j., son ofthe
late General Sherman, has been a guest OF
Georgetown University during the past
week. Father Sherman has been lecturing
for the last six weeks at the summer school
al Plattsburg, New York
"A change has been made In the general
course of historical literature and philoso-
ply. Hereafter three hours each week Will
be given TO the theory of historical writ
ing, with dissertations on the principles of
chronology, the constitutional history OF
Greece, Rome and modern nations. The
study of our Federal Government and the
comparative growth of modern constitu
tfonal laws will be conducted by Judge Mar
tin F. Morris.
Mr.. George Femming, who graduated
with high honors last June, has gone to
Paris to pursue his studies at the Polytechi-
mic School.
Mr John Neal Power, W no was the sue
cessfui competitor for Mrs. Merrick's de-
batting medal, 80, will return to George
town for the postgraduate Course in
philosophy and also To study law.
Rev. William ]. Richley, professor of
class rudinicnts, is paying a short visit To
whitemarsh, Prince Georges County, Nd
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DINING IN PALESTINE.
Knives and Forks Being Unknown
the Fingers Do Valiant Duty.

Knives and Forks Being Unknown,
the Fingers Do Valiant Duty.
A very large circular tray of timed
copper, placed on a coarse wooden stool
about a foot high, served as a table. In
the center of this stood another big tray,
with a mountain of pilaff, composed OF
rice boiled and buttered, with small pieces
of meat strewn through and upon it. This
was the chief dish, though there were other
similar dishes, botA meat and vegetable
Ten persons sat around the table, or rather
squatted on the carpet, with their knees
drwan up close to their bodies Each had
before him a plate of timed copper and
wooden spoon, which some used without
the plate. Most, however, preferred to use
the fingers of the left hand, several dipping
their hands together into the dish, as the
disciples did at the Last Supper.
As soon as any one had finished. he rose
and went into another room, to have water
poured over his hands to wash them, and
the vacant place at the ia BILE was instantly
filled by u newcomer. The bread, may
say, WIS laid on the mat under the tray, so
as to be easily reached, and jar Of water,
the only beverage used during the meal,
stood within reach. Besides rice, stews
of beans or cracked wheat, with thick
soup or sauce poured over them, In the
great central bowl, are also in fashion.
Spoons, though sometimes provided, are
often wanting-pieces OF thin bread, doub-
led, serving instead. Knives and forks are
unknown, and there Is no special dining
room; there is no furniture suited for one.
Hence tables and chairs are never Seen
The meat being always cut up into small
pieces, there is no use for knife, and
chickens can easily be torn asunder with
the hands. So far, indeed, are Orientals
from thinking it strange to dip their fin
gers into the common dish, that 1t is q
special act of politeness to grope in it for
the visitor, and lay nice moreels before
him, or even to insist on putting them
into his mouth.-Holy Land and the Bible.
The evening times., 1895-08-20

true and kindly; the outlook upon life
that Is far-seeing and yet smiles. II, in
q word, you have had any perception
Of the woman beyond the ink In Miss
Jewett's stories, you will miss the usual
disappointment that comes with the chse
view OF a celebrity. II ever fortune takes
you to old Berwick and the great brown
house. with its long past and its present
OF greater moment still.
There Is word that means much to me;
1t is "whoieDome." Morbid art. morbid
literature. morbid thought, sprout like
qulck-growing. Quick-dying fungi at the
feverish end Of this busy century. But it
Is the simple, the honest, which lives, and
somehow It sweeps away, Ike breath
OF sea air. all doubts of their survival
to see this slim little woman In her gar
deuil9 dress, fIssA from amosg her fi0W-
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Columbian II University.

The summer practice in field work by the
civil engineering students of this uni
versity will begin August %, at Harper's
Ferry, W. V. The course viii last ten days,
and the students will run two or three
miles of a new railroad line, making pre-
liminary as well az nalsurveyP and maps.
MIR. Philip Julien, student in the Cor
coran Scientific School, has just won
competition for the design for building
in Baltimore.
Mr. Perley E. Stevens, who graduated
with high honors In the engineer school, in
'e5, has been appointed by Gen. Ordway to
lay off the rifle range.
Dr. Gerge o. Merrill, curator OF geology
at the Smithsonian Institute and professor
of geology here. has just returned from a
Canadian trip.
Mr. Frank A. Wolff. of the Agricultural
Department. has just been appointed pro-
fessor of physics, to succeed DIR. E. P.
Lewis, who has taken a position in ths
faculty Of the University Of California.
The evening times., 1895-08-20

sail down the river from the Landing
wharves in fleets of tens and tweutIes
to Portsmouth, with their loads of pine
planks and boards, to be exchanged for
West India rum, tobacco, and molasses
or for Russian iron, duck and cordage. or
for such priceless old glass and silver and
china az came from unknown ports, and
now peeps out wunderiDgly upon nine
teenth century, or shall one almost begin
to say twentieth century? cushions and
pictures and bric-a-brac, from their deep
set cupboa rds and shelves
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OUR COUNTRY HOST.

What They Think of Us, Our Work,
Our Ways and Our Ambitions.
A young friend Of mine overheard this
conversation between the proprietress of
a country farmhouse and her help the other
Torning:
"Manda, have you rung that second bell?''
Yes, indeed, but never see su ch people!
Eight O'Clock breakfast Who ever heered
O. such a thing! Why, I'm pretty near ready
for dinner now"
'Oh, them folks dunno anything bout
time. can't see how they do it. Six O'Clock
breakfast is late enough for any one"
There's that Mr.. Craig, goes in his
room an writes three hours a day, an
calls that work"
why, Eben'd saw a cord Of wood inthat
tire"
Eben would probably get fifty cents for
his labor, while Mr.. Craig, who is a we'll
known Tagaizne contributor, earns $50.
But let that pass.
''Manda, IL that Miss Clarke asks for any
more stale bread. you Just tell her there
amt any. l want what I've got for the
flapjacka." l...,5.
MY gracious, IL nice hot biscuit amt
good enough for 'en. then I'd like to know
..An' that finicky Mrs. Hall askiu' II
mixed up my biscuit with spooni
- ..Weu, II her conscience Is as clean as my
hands are, then it's mighty good thing for
her.
Here they core. Look out for that pork
steak, Manda, an see that It don't burn"
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Not Bet ween Two Fires.

Dinklebaum-vat's der matter, Isaacs.
You look vorriet.
Isaacs-vorriet! shellup me gracious!
vos nearly gray. Ihaf now no chance to
make q profitable investment init meiu
store no more. Ischoost yesterday gets me
mein entire stock insured for double its
value, und der landlordt goes und rents der
floor above for o schwinmin' school undt
der basement to a fire exdinguisher concern.
Puck.
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Miss Viola schun,an. .ofR street northwest,
left on Satu rday for a trip through ' irginia.
Miss schunan is quite an expert amateur
photographer, and will take q series of
pictures to be used as illustrations
The evening times., 1895-08-20

Mrs. Arthur D. Paige will leave to-day
for Sharon Springs, Schoharie county,
N. Y. After spending two weeks there she
will visit other resorts of northern New
York before returning, the last week In
September.
The evening times., 1895-08-20

On Saturday evening company Of young
people from South Washington were the
. participants in a barge party to the
Acqueduct Bridge. Miss Wheeler and Miss
Hunt. of Alexandria, wereamong the guests.
The evening times., 1895-08-20

Mrs. Jesse v. N Huyck and daughter
are at Narragansett Pier and will remain
until the last week of September.
The evening times., 1895-08-20

Mrs. Senator Stewart has gone for a wo
weeks outing among the mountains of vir-
ginia. Senator Stewart is rapidly improv-
ing, and hopes to be about as usual in
q few days.
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Capt. Beach ,oftae District Commissioner g
office, has returned after a three weeks
vacation.
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washington, sometime during the autumn,
will take possession OF her elegant new refi-
dence on X street. Her Philadelphia house
she has decided TO sell, and 1t has been
closed and barred for sometime past, with
large signs ITO Let'' placarded on the
front.
The evening times., 1895-08-20

Mrs. Herbert Pattee, who has been
spending some time at Buzzard's Bay,
will visit the various resorts OF the Mass
achusetts and Maine coasts before return
ing about the middle OF September
The evening times., 1895-08-20

Mr.. and Mrs. John F. waggaman are still
at Ocean City, but contemplate an extended
Northern trip before returning late in
September.
The evening times., 1895-08-20

DR.. Walter o. Davis and Master Leslie
Wallace Davis left yesterday to be the
guests of their mother at Berryville, Va
The evening times., 1895-08-20

Mr. William A. McKenney left yesterday
for Cape May TO remain until the middle of
September.
The evening times., 1895-08-20

Count vinci, of the Italian embassy, has
gone TO Narragansett Pier to spend the
remainder Of the season.
The evening times., 1895-08-20

Ex-Representative William c. Wallace
and family are speeding the season in the
White Mountains.
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Couldn't Stand That.

Boarder, at summer hotel-How is it you
don't supply soap?
Proprietor-I found the guests were using
1t to make the windo VS. slide Upand down
Judge.
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Mrs. Emma Henry Young and daughter,
Miss Marie, will leave today for a short
visit In Maryland.
The evening times., 1895-08-20

Mrs. Lanier Dunn is summering at the
Hot Springs, and will return about Octo-
Der l.
The evening times., 1895-08-20

Mr.. E. b. Hay, after having several times
postponed his trip on account of business
engagements, left on Saturday, to be absent
about three weeks.
The evening times., 1895-08-20

Mr Albert Biddle has returned from New
York and will spend some weeks at stoll's.
The evening times., 1895-08-20

Gen. and Mrs. Edgar Allen, of this city,
ore at present at the Intervaie in the
White MOUNTAINS.