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St. Landry clarion. (Opelousas, La.) 1890-1921, 1895-12-14
A Story of stony Grief.

Right up to the horse rack rode Bunl
4 Weatherford that day, but he neye,
i turned his head or spoke a word.
told him to dismount and git down and
hitch and come in, which he went ton tc
do, but he didn't say notf4ir.
have seen the mettle Of that man
Bunk Weatherford under fire and on
trial, you understand. I have seen him
when the air was full of bowie knives
and spistols-with fools and whisky a
plenty at both ends Of the gane-stand
up fat-footed and never move q muscle
Or bat his eye. So when went ont
that day and met him at the gate and
took his hand and felt 1t tremlin in
mine and saw the tears big as glass
marbles standin In his eyes, I knowed
good and we'll what it meant. Fate
had laid his hand on little Mittie. and
she had went the final way of all hum an
flesh.
1t was some time before Bunk could
unlimber himself sufficient to open IN
and DO any talkin to speak of. Then
he would have to stop oncst in "a while
to take long breath and keep from
chokin.
You can see / am al busted and
broke up, Rufe," Bunk went on to saw
presently, ssand I reckon you know
without any tellin from me how it come
TO pass. can't understand It, Rufe-
that little new grave which they have
made down there in the orchard
took and Durrv.. s---.s4-ra ~ r,e--
there this nornin.s They say itds well |
and right-that it will all work out
right somewheres down the line-but it
don't look right, and it don't feel right
to me now, and hanged II can see how
it will ever come out that way But
me and Aunt Nancy and all the doctors
put together couldn't help II. Irode
down two young mules hnntin up7doc--
tors and goin after med dicine. and Mandy
THAT'S Bunk's wife) she didn't shet her
eyes in sleep for whole entire week.
But, we couldn't keep the little one
with Us any longer.
..Remember, Rufe, she was the only-
est gal we had in the family, and the
baby at that Andsit is the hardest and
most strangest thing in the world to me
why we couldn't manage no way to keep
the little thing on the. earth till some
other and further day. The world was
heap more brighter and better place
with her than It ever viii be without
her.. d
aBut reckon you must be about
three thirds right, Rufe, in regards to
one thing-1nan borned of woman Is
mighty small potatoes and few in the
Ihill, with the rows six feet apart. BY
gracious, brung in the best doctor in
| the country, and told him would
give him clear deed TO our farm and
Iall the stock on it If he would but
only pitch in and go to work and stop
that fever and cure our little Mittie.
And Mandy lowed she would fling in
ser cows and chickens and ali the house
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MY GARDEN.

lay garden aboundeth IN -pIeasant nook
And fragrance is over it all;
FOR sweet Ia the smell of my old, old book
In their places against the wall
Here is folio that's grim vintage
And yellow and green with mold;
1here.s the breath of the sea on every pag,
And the hint of a stanch ships hold.
And here Is a treasure from France la belle
Exhaleth q faint perfume
OF welded lily and asphodeI
In garden of song abloom.
And this wee little book OF puritan rnien
And rude, conspicuous print
Hath the Yankee flavor of wintergreen,
Or, maybe, of peppermint
In Walton the brooks babbling tell
Where the CHEEKY daisy grows,
And Where in dow or woodland dwell
The buttereup and the rose.
But best.beioyed offbooks,sI ween,
Are ths5e which one pereeives s-
Are hallowed by ashes dropped between
The yellow, well-thumbed leaves.
Tor it's here a laugh and It's theresa tear.
Till the treasured book Is read;
And the ashes betwixt the pages here
Tell us of ono long dead.
But the gracious presence reappears
AS we read the book again,
And the fragrance ofprecious, distant years
f1iieth the hearts Of meRrszs
Come, pluck with me IN my garden hooks
Ihe posies that bloom for all:
of, sweet Is the smell of my old, old books
Ia their places against the wall!
Chicago Record
St. Landry clarion. (Opelousas, La.) 1890-1921, 1895-12-14
MINING or pHosPHATEs.
Where the Deposits Are Found and Hovs
They Are Made Marketable.

4 They Are Made Marketable.
j The Florida phosphate deposits are
of great Importance, yet their exist.
ence was discovered so recently, and
their extent is still SO uncertain thai
| few persons not engaged In the sale
OF fertilizing materials have much
knowledge of the large industry which
has sprung up in the peninsular state.
1t has practically created a new city,
ocata, which had population of but
| a few hundred in 1870, but is now
| thriving business center with modern
| improvements, banking facilities and
ample railway and transportation fa-
l,eilities. Engineering, the leading en-
| glneering journal, makes the following
statements concerning the region,
which are of considerable interest as
coming from an unbiased source:
'aFhere is no phosphate region in the
world known to-day that possesses so
many advantages for successful min
ing as the Florida deposits. The grade
OF material is the highest average that
Is being worked anywhere. The facil-
ities for moving the products to points
for distribution are good. The aver
age distance from mines to ports for
shipment is about 150 miles. The dis
tributing stations for the hard rock
districts are Port Tampa, Fernandina.
Brunswick and Savannah, the largest
tonnage being moved from Fernan-
dina, where storage bins are located
and loading facilities are good. Port
Tampa, the terminus ofsthe Plant sys-
tenn of railroads, is constantly adding
facilities for prompt handling of car
goes OF phosphate, and at present very
nearly equals Fernandina in the
amount of its shipments. Railroads
are numerous and cheaply constructed
when necessary to extend them into
new sections. The machinery needed
to mine and prepare the material is
simple and Inexpensive compared with
that generally used in ether mining
operations, and the cost of plant
with sufficient land to work upon is
within the reach of small investors.
The working days at the mines are
about $50 during the year. The climate
is healthful, laborers readily obtained
at q fair compensation and skilled oper
atives are at hand who are becoming
familiar with the business. The min.
Ing camps are generally well regulated 81
and proprietors and employees can re.
side at the mines with safety and with
little Inconvenience, as supplies Of all
kinds can be readily obtained at the
towns located in the near vicinity OF .
Ill the large mining fields Telegraph
and mail facilities are within easy ac-
cess Of nearly every mining camp In
The state. Florida phosphates are
mostly shipped to European ports,
md are manufactured into fertilizers
n England, Ireland, Germany France,
md quite recently shipments have
'een made to the Sandwich islands
foreign agents of consumers and
lealers in phosphates have their Offices
lear the center of production, and
ontracts for delivery and prices are
ommonly fixed at points of shipment,
he material being sold at q price pc.
nit Of Its contents of phosphate OF
me. me. The Florida phosphates are all
sed in the manufacture Of commercial
srtilizers and superphosphate. Bos.
on Transcript. 81
St. Landry clarion. (Opelousas, La.) 1890-1921, 1895-12-14

City, or Peterson's, ms it was usually
called, was In the early seventies about
the worst apology for municipality
that even Arizona could boast of. On
paper 1T was attractiyely laid out, but,
to use the wordssof an inhabitant, "the
man what laid it out would make
mighty poor undertaken" Half5a
dozen, or, at the most, ten buildings, if
we may SO dignity their architecture
stood in the settlement, while beyond.
on the low hills surrounding the village,
n cluster of sheds might be here and
there discovered.
The Eagle hotel, which stood OBJ
posite the store and post office, was a
most atIoeious libel onihostelries, Iiav-
ing three sleeping rooms and another
common room for guests, which was ait
once office, bar, dining room and kitch-
en-, as well as the sleeping room of the
proprietor and his wife.
The proprietor, who was also the
mayor, was six-footer, lean. and with
a savage bristling black mustache.
Moreover. he was pattern of obedience
Tor husbands. His wife, who was about
half his height and twice his breadth.
was extremely effusiye to her guests
there was another traveller Mt sThe
Eagle"-but "zachary,' her husband. |
had evidently been well brought up. |
Tor she voiced her orders with no I'M
certain sound. The combination of So
clability and authority, both of which
were too pronounced, grated upon nysl
nerves; SO, after meal, called BY
courtesy supper, crossed the street
and entered the post office, which, ac-
cordlng to time-honored custom, occu-
pied q aeornerof the general store.
! !. found the postmaster and proprie-
tor genial little man with q short.
merry red beard. He was quite ready to
talk, and expatiated upon the merits of
St. Landry clarion. (Opelousas, La.) 1890-1921, 1895-12-14
save the WINE.

In Toxic a confirmed tippler, having
occasion TO send his servant, a counary
/ girl to buy some sake, which is g native
drink, said, plating the. empty bottle Id
her hands: Now be very careful and
see thar you don't fall in coming back.
I Ii you fall, you know, you will be sure.
one way or another, to spill the wine.
OF course, If you are obliged to fall, !
suppose You must; but in that case put
down the bottle carefully on the road
and then fall Judge.
St. Landry clarion. (Opelousas, La.) 1890-1921, 1895-12-14

tional strife and ambition, and to aban-
don course where we have found
peace with honor, and have grown to
be the most powerful, prosperous and
happy of the nations OF the world. -Ex-
Gov. Russell. in Century.
St. Landry clarion. (Opelousas, La.) 1890-1921, 1895-12-14

youth. Blessed
Is him that hath
his quiver full
of them. - Here
lately / have
done piles a a d
piles of thinkin
along them gem
eral lines. Nat
urally of course
I believe what
the Word says
in repards To
St. Landry clarion. (Opelousas, La.) 1890-1921, 1895-12-14
SQUARED HIMSELF.
BY sHERnrAN L. COOK.

aad been riding
all day through
the stony, UNI
cultivated soil
of northern Ari-
zona, had break
tasted at Re
viyal, had dined
at Pc rdition
Pass, and had ar
rived on my
tough little sor-
rel at Peterson
City, Peterson
St. Landry clarion. (Opelousas, La.) 1890-1921, 1895-12-14

that, and everything else. But some
times the more think about it the
worse / git all mixed and muddled up
with myself touchin the great question
of children. .
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fixments into the bargain. Wall -,

II4nIoHUS IHUU sHU DasBaIn. WeII, the
doctor he pitched in and went TO work.
but that was all. He couldn't do nothjn.
with the fever. and he couldn't pat off
the dfggin of that little new grave down
there on the orchard any more than me
and Mandy and Aunt Nancy could.
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abe Thankful and SAY Nofh,n. J,

j
Naturally, Of course, felt mighty
sorry for Bunk Weatherford that day.
wanted to make him feel better in
stead of worse, if could, and didn't
bring the subject up with him. But Ii
is my own private, personal opinions
that him and Mandy use to brag and
take on too everlastin much about their
boys. For long time they made out
like they didn't want nothin' but bows
at their house. Bunk he preached forth
the doctrine that poor folks didn't have
no business with anything but boys.
They wanted plow hands and wood
choppers and rail sputters, and, to hear
them tell it, they didn't need no girls
in their business. But bye-and-bye the
good Lord took and give them ONE little
girl baby, anyhow, which they called
her name Mittie, and then, by gracious
they thought it was the onlyest one in
the round created world. No wonder 1t
was SO powerful hurtin on them to give
up little Mittie. II.
MY notion is that people ought to
take what they can git, and be thankful,
and say nothin. It don't make blessed.
blame bit of difference with me how
many babies the good Lord and the doc
tors bring around by my house. 1
wouldn't feel natural and right, and I
wouldn't be happy without gang of
them around the place. But will never
stop to put in no questions as to whether |
they must be boys or girls. And 1T
jar my hand any whether they /
'ome one or two or three in the burr.
As arrows are in the hands of a
mighty man, so are the children Of the |
7outh. Blessed is him that hath his /
Iuiver full of them.''
RUFUS SANDEEa
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Good mornin';" an actually started off.
Wal, when we explained what we wuz
IN the habit o. doiif' ter hossthiefs. an
how we didn't make no exceptions on
anybody''s account, he Jest swallowed
hard couple o. times, drew up his
whole height, an givin' us steady look
out o them blue eyes O. his'n, says he:
All right, gentlemen, go ahead
SO we put him on boss an back we
toted him ter camp; an they put him ii.
my tent with four of us outside to
watch.
Its lucky for Boston, stranger, that
we lost. half an hour huntin' for a bar
5rel;s but at last we found one, an the
hardest job that ever had was when
they sent me into that tent to call Bos-
ton. He wasn't prayin', as i expected
he might be, but he was jest devourin'
that picter nv his mother with those
laarnsome eyes o. his. After I'd told
him as best | could, he jest put his hand
on my arm an says he: Jim, you always
was good ter me. Iwant yer to see that
this picter goes under the sod with me-
promised, and took the picter and out
we went.
We'll, to make a long story short,
we'd just boosted Boston up on the bar
St. Landry clarion. (Opelousas, La.) 1890-1921, 1895-12-14
FROM OLD ROCKY.
The One-Gallus Statesman "In Re-
~ CARDS" TO Children.
Bunk Weatherford and the Little New
Grave Down There in the orchard-A
Story of Stony Grfef-Boys a
Plenty. and Some to Spare.
Copyright. 1881

somewheres in the books it is writ
ten, "As arrows are in the hand of a
mighty man, so are the children of the
St. Landry clarion. (Opelousas, La.) 1890-1921, 1895-12-14
Information.

Johnny Papa, what is mileage?
Papa Mileage is what we pay con.
gressinen for travelling on passes
Puck.
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Boys a Plenty and to spare.

There is another pint, Rufe. which
sticks in nay heart and keeps up a
monstrous hurtin there Bunk went on
to say in his sad and solemcholy way.
"You know we have got boys plenty
and some to spare at home, and how Il
ever come to pass that Providence had
to take our little Mittie and leave nine
of them healthy, hongry yearlin bows
around the place passeth all nv under
standin. Some of our boys are all right.
and some OF them Amt worth havin. In
bunch of nine We raley couldn't ex-
pect to get more than five or six to-
show up all right. Hit maybe noughts
sound ruther rough and pecurious for.
me to say SO, Rufe, but there are three
boys at homo which I could spare a
blame sight better and more easier than
can spare the little thing they took
and buried down there in the orchard.
Now, IL the good Lord had but only
called for one of them trififn boys-or
even all three OF 'em in bnnch-it
would not hurt SO awful bad nor look so
mighty strange to me.
"oncst upon a time, when you was
over to our-house, Rufe, reoollect you
told me and Mandy how proud and hap
Ply we ought to be with that baby girl.
You went on to say somo othin-and
Mandy she amt forgot the words till this
tay-about the sunshine Of her pres
ence and the patterin music of her feet.
That's the idea, Rufe, and It covers all
5he ground, though I never. could Of put
t in that way. And now the sunshine
md the music hit amt there. / can see
he baby duds and doll rags, and the |
title shoes and stoekins, and the like |
II that scattered all around the place.
Sufe. but the sunshine and the music |
1T amt there"
Before he went away Bunk lowed he
idn't know for certain which to do
'hether to go back home, or go crazy or
It drunk. But finally at last put him
the notion to go on back home TO
landy and the boys, like a man, and
uffer, and be strong.
St. Landry clarion. (Opelousas, La.) 1890-1921, 1895-12-14

" HEARD THE ALLFIREDEsT YELL.
rel when we heard the allfiredest veil
and into camp galloped Bill Murray. ]
never see a horse SO tuckered as Bills
was, and he looked himself as if he'd
been riding to save his life. But he
hadn't; just the opposite.
Gentlemen, says he, I hate to dis
turb you, but I'm afraid you'll have to
transfer your attention from Boston to
me. I'm the man that borrowed that
mare, an the youngster was riding it by
mistake.' - @ ~
"'oh, Billl' says Boston, running up
to him, you didn't really steal that
mare?'
Yes, young un,' says he, I've had a
fall from grace; but promise it'sfa1i II
happen again, g an, with the qqueerest
look passin' over his face, these gentle
men II help me keep my word sf
It seems that Bill had wanted a fresh
mare for some time; and in spite of Bos-
ton the old Nick had got into him again
an he crept into camp and got the mare
Boston was going to Murthy's gulch an
started before Bill woke up. mounting
the first horse that came to hand, and
Bill followed him when he woke up, see
ing what might happen.
We gave Bill and Boston half. IN.
hour together before we resumed the !
thread of our proceeding, and when we
interT1gted Irug ted, EN- e Z Bill says:
finish keeping our little appointment
put a necktie on me an slick me up
little. an promise not to leave this tent
for 90 rninutes.' An, turning to us;
Gentlemen, thrust there's no hard feel
ms
..Beston did as he was told, and in
day or two went east. Arizona want
no place for him, anyway"
Iyentured to say that I thought they
ought to have tempered justice with
mercy In that instance.
ssMaybe we had, = he returned, may be
we had, but you don't know what Ari-. A.lri .
iona was in the 5os.
s.I'rn no parson, stranger, but upon
my soul think that Bill Murray started
in the next world even. Yes, by thun-
der he squared himself.
! / told my companion that I thought
SO. too, and riding away from Peter
sons next day / mused on the story
that, had been told me, realizing that, in
deed as has been sadd, s'the good are
half had and the bad are half good. -
Boston Budget.
The EZRA Of Constantinopie. ex-
tensively adopted In the Greek,empire,
like several others, began with the
foundation of the world, which it fixed
at b. q. 55os. This era was generally
followed by the adherents Of the Greek
church, and prevailed IN Russia until
the reign OF Peter the Great.
The Oldest bonnetw YVES found upon
| an Egyptian mummy. that OF a princess
/ who was inferred about 900 years 5 pss'
fore Christ.
St. Landry clarion. (Opelousas, La.) 1890-1921, 1895-12-14

1T didn't take us long ter snake that
kid out'n his saddle. He declared the
boss wuz his; but when Ike pinted out
nick over the gambrel o. the left hind
leg, he jest said kinder perlite: .AlI
right, gents, you're right an I'm wrong.
St. Landry clarion. (Opelousas, La.) 1890-1921, 1895-12-14

The Oldest bonnetwas found upon
an Egyptian mummy. that of a princess
who was Inferred about 1000 years bs-
fore Christ.
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oIELOusAe, IOUIeIANA, SATURDAY, DECEMBER

4 49, AOucsI tAidsning ne ever had In
ms lie Ter laffin' at the kid, cause he
baWled little on the quiet over his
mothers picter. Wal, stranger. I'm
darned. if that boy didn't kinder re-
form Bill in a little while SO that we
sY1gHancers didn't consider he needed
the looking after that he used ter. Bos-
ron an he made the queerest pals In
the territory, but I'm darned il Bill
didn't love that boy better'n anything
and everything on Gods. earth. ANY
now, we didn't hev no more trouble from
Bill, an after a spell he an Boston
over to Crimson creek and we lost sight
MN Ter year or two.
But one morning Ike Harkins' sorrel
mare want to be found, and what's
more, the bride he'd been cut, an. that
meant 'hoss thief It didn't take long
to aJt organize a posse and track the mare
an the direction of Crimson creek. We
hadn't got more'n two miles though
when under a hill what shonld we see
but Boston, and I'm darned If that
quiet little cuss want astride o. that
mare.
1T didn't take us long ter snake that
kid out'n his saddle. He declared the
Fort Worth gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1891-1898, 1895-11-19
DEMAND WAS GOOD.
BEEF CATTLE ARE AGAIN ACTIVE
AT CHICAGO.
An Immense supply of Hogs lie.
ported Mt the Yards md
Prices Were Fair.

Chicago, Nov. ls.--cattle receipts to-
day were about 1900. There was an
active demand for beef cattle at 50. i5
G5.OO for common to fancy grades: ex-
porters were looking around for good
lots at a.oO4l.e5. butchers and can
ners' stun was again in active demand
and prices We're strong at the late ad-
vance. Cows sold chiefly at Si.756s. 90.
the stocker and feeder trade was fair
at unchanged prices: sales being rrin-
elpally at s2.5oas.6o; Western rangers
ana Texans were in fair demand
Hog receipts are stltl increasing, and
about $4,000 arrived today. against 49,
1853 a week ago. and 80, $50 a year ago.
fhere was fairly active demand I;
prices ruling 30 lower. owing TO tho
big runs, common to best hogs, S3.4OQ
$40. The bulk sold at So 5000. 6j.
sheep receipts were about $1,000. De-
mand fair and prices stronger; sales
on basis of 81 75G3 so for common to
prime native sheep; 81. 4O@3. 80 for fair
TO choice Westerns and sS.0O@i so for
poor 10 choice lambs.
Fort Worth gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1891-1898, 1895-11-19

v.v york. Nov. 1S.--Hubbard Bros.
tico,s cotton letter. 49,.
rhe TEMPER OF our market continues
~ hsarish In spite Of the improve
rsni In Liverpool ana the better de-
Ina for cotton by splnners. A rea-
~ for this pessimistic feeling can be
s,rsa in the decline OF the month and
IA Of a repetition IN that market
i, i usnaI after the market has passed
,s,aarh such IA liquidation for 1t TO
~ In a similar manner as Its course
,sisy' and the trade Is disposed to re-
s,ss trade with approval. Receipts at
NJ Interior towns show n decided fall
M IN 90 far from last week and we
.snect they will have more effect on
M demand OF splnners than the ran
ms of our market to maintain this
rornlngs advance and more than the
trade believes possible. A feature OF
n, market was the disposition of the
South TO take short side. Europe has
absorbed their sales in this market to-
t,y, During the afternoon the market
became weaker, gradually selling down
% last evening price on reports that
Ne Southern markets were decidedly
tlslsr and especially common FOR sale,
There was demand from exporters,
yhch naturally encouraged the local
trade, who were free sellers In the
morning to consider their position
ilght The trade expects a decline in
liverpool tomorrow morning. The bear
ligument is lack Of buying power.
Fort Worth gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1891-1898, 1895-11-19

louisville ana Nashville and Reading.
me selling movement practically cnae-
~ al midday, although for some little
haitian continued to sag. There warc
no important subsequent movements In
prices Until the last hour when. on
,he announcement of n decision BY
justice HARLAN adverse 10 the contract
OF the western Union telegraph COM
pany with the Union Pacific, the stock
OK the former fell per cent on father
iperai sales. Rumors OF gold ship
fractional recessloas In the nenerni
market. The closing was steady. Al
a result OF today's operations decllnes
IN prices are general, but these are I'M
portant only In a few cases.
Bonds were. dull and Irregular with
an easier tendency.