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The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1896-04-08
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IL Renent the sim

II you find chat the use of soap is If
ritating TO your skin use a little corn
meal or oatmeal in the water with
which you hathe your face. y slice OF
lemon rubbed vigorously over the skin
or few drops of simple tincture OF ben
zoin in the water are both refreshing
and cleansinc.-N. Y. World
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TO CURE A COLD IN ONE DAY
ACTORS MUST PAY FULL FARE

Take laxative Bromo our Tablets. Al
druggists refund the money if il fails 10
an
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1896-04-08
rho sonrces OF srperlorlrr.

She-I don't b'leeb dat Liza Jones
knowed what dem iingah bowls was 70
He-wal. yo' see. her husban' nebbah
had a job in high-toned restaurant II
hsa Efa-p.aal
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IIin- Cesl mated ~ OCai or mixed do not ran "a
Sunday,
IOI iul Information call stci.y ticket Office. Al
Main street.
DepOl cUrLer Second and wichita streets
T.. T.. BLECKLEY. T. and 7. A
Time Table Chicago, Rock Island and
Pacific Railway.
TRAINS Arrive Leave
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1896-04-08
The Season
Is Here . . .

Calling is now the order Of
the day. You can't do It
properly unless you are equip
ped with engraved cards.
They are artistic; al others
have been RELOCATED 70 days
Of barbarism. II you haven't
the proper thing, We viii get
them for yo1. They cost 10
more than the the cheap
printed OF poorly written ones
and besides, yOu axe up with
the times.
II you have q plate We viii
get you 100 latest cards foT
SI.oo, OF have your name En-
gTaved al $3.50 peg hundred
We have samples and de-
signs IL handsome Wedding
Invitations, 1t Home Cards
al prices that vii get your
trade.
Tie EAGLE PRESS
St. Landry clarion. (Opelousas, La.) 1890-1921, 1896-04-18

An Inside Coat Pocket.

There is nothing more handy to have
than an inside pocket in ones jacket,
Every woman has noticed how nice II
seems and convenient for the male
folks Of her acquaintance to have ali
inside coat pocket into which may be
slipped pocketbook or note that
wants to be particularly well cared for.
The shallow little outside pockets oi
coats Will hardly hide a pocketbook
from the sight of a pickpocket, and are
thoroughly unreliable for holding
things generally. If you wear a jacket.
take piece of silk a little more than
twice as long as you want your pocket
deep, sew one end of it into point
and in the other run deep hem. Then
sew this into the shape of q bag, allow.
ing the pointed end, Of course, to ex-
tend above the hemmed end and fall
over in a flap, in which work but
tonhole and sew a button to the
hemmed part. Tack this securely into
the left side of yoar jacket, just far
enough back SO as not to show when
you leave your coat unbuttoned, and
just low enough down to be gotten at
handily. In fact, put it just about in
the same position as you. will find q
mans inside pocket. Detroit Free
Press.
St. Landry clarion. (Opelousas, La.) 1890-1921, 1896-04-18
oPELOUsAs LOUISIANA, SATURDAY, APRIL 49, 1896

thoughts in times of sorrow and OF
trouble, but. old Misses Hasseltine nut
me in mind Of Sol Eddins and iits,dog
that day.
The last time I was out in Texas I
went down to Hood county to see the
Eddins folks, which Sol and me had
come up as boys and girls together
back here in the states. In them days
Sol had tremendous fast dog, and he
went on to tell me of how that dog
jumped jack rabbit and made him
take sycamore tree.
'The rabbit couldn't find no holler,
Rufe, and he jest naturally c1um that
sycamore tree says Sol to me.
Now, as everybody knows, rabbit
couldn't climb a scrubby black jack,
and hit bendin, to say nothin of slick,
slim sycamore, and 7 give out the facts
aceprdin to Sol.
That mought sorter do with regards
gamon run of rabbits and dogs"
says Sol. .But in this case that dog Of
mine was SO clost in behind the rabbit
and heatin the ground SO scandlous hot
till the rabbit was jest naturally
bleedged to clam that tree
St. Landry clarion. (Opelousas, La.) 1890-1921, 1896-04-18
A Plain Case of Pusrency.

About the next news we got from the
old lady Hasseltine she come up power
full suddent and unexpected like at the
Buckalew place-the first settlement
on this side of Caney Branch. And from
what / can hear and pick up around
amongst the women folks, she had left
the nainest part of her clothes down
there on the branch--hangin around
promiscuous in that terrible tight-eye
thicket, the canebrake and the bamboo
briar patch.
OF course, that was nothin' to me and
none of my business, but mother told
me that SaIlie Virgins told her that
Rosebud Bueka1ew told her that the
poor old soul had one shoe on when
she come up at the Bucka1ew place.
And Bunk Weatherford was in the
crowd which went down there after
the skeleton, and Bunk says there was
enough calico hangin' around on the
briars and cane and in that tight-eye
thicket to make a new bed quilt.
1t was the followin Thursday before
the old lady got well enough to return
back home, and me and mother went
over there the next day TO comfort and
condo1e with her as best we could.
II had ketched three mud cats, four
red pearches, seven horny nyheads and one
skeleton, Rufus, and it was then high
time for me to take out and quit" says
the old lady to me, and right then she
went sweatin great drops of perspira-
tion as big as your fist. 81 had ketched
everything in the waters of Caney
Branch, from a speekled trout to a
blunt-tail moccasin, but up to that day
never had pulled on the line and came
forth with a human skeleton, and il
was jest simply one too many for me.
OF course, knowed it wouldn't bite
Tor sting, but the looks and the thoughts
# the thing. Rufus, was more than I
could stand. Naturally, of course, ]
tore out of that place. It was a plain
ase Of pusheney, Rufus. Twas bleedged
70 come out from there
don't make out like it was right,
sou understand, to think funny
St. Landry clarion. (Opelousas, La.) 1890-1921, 1896-04-18
ONE DOLLAR PER YEAR.
BLIZZARD AND SAND.
Thousands OF Bufaaloes Driven Over 4
Precipice by the Fierce wind.

Precipice by the Fierce Wind.
Near Cheyenne Wells is q long stretch
of level prairie, which suddenly ter
inmates in precipice, making per.
pendicular descent of perhaps SO feet
to another plain below. In the winter
OF 1858 a great blizzard ragged for several
| days. The snow was driving at a terrific
| rate before q hurricane of wind, and
| the buffaloes wereo Obliged, in self-preser-
| walton, to turn their backs and run with
the wind. The result was that vast
numbers of the buffaloes were carried
over the precipice, and their dead bod.
les were covered with 90 or 80 feet OF
snow. For many years people visited
the spot to look at the bones, which lay
in piles ten and fifteen feet high as far
as the eye could reach along the preci.
pice, and it was commonly estimated
that 100000 buffaloes found a grave on
| that fatal spot.
Sand-stornls in those days were so
destructive that it was not unusual for
freighters to lose their entire outfit!
During the prevalence of a storm nc
attempt was made to move forward,
and drivers cleared the sand out Of the
nostrils of the horses and oxen, as other.
wise the animals were threatened with
death from suffocation. A sandstone
usually lasted only two or three hours,
but its effects were felt for days by men
and animals exposed to the fury Uf the
blast.
A curious phenomenon noticed in dis
ferent places on the plains Eoas the i'm.
mense excavating power of the wind in
a sand storm. There were areas OF
three or four acres, where the wind
scooped out the sand 40 or so feet deep,
and whirled it away in the air. It
seemed as if the work began at central
spot no larger than could be covered
with a mans hat. In an incredibly
short time a round hole would be exca-
waited. The wind then took hold in
real earnest, and the probabilities were
that an entire sand-hill would be
leveled down in the next 30 minutes
Denver Field and Farm.
St. Landry clarion. (Opelousas, La.) 1890-1921, 1896-04-18
Terrors Of "a right-Eye Th,chet.

4
In the beglnnin to start with, bright
and early Monday mornin old Misses
Hasseltine took up fool notion all Of
suddent that IT was jest about he1
time of year to go a fshin. Consc.
quentially she went out behind the gar.
den and dug some earth worms and
| caught few crickets aud put EN- in
her gourd and Lit out for Caney Branch
was out to the lot tendin to the stock
that mornin when the old lady come by
our house, with her fishin pole in one
hand and her bait gourd in the other
burnin the wind and splittin the big
road wide open for Caney Branch. She
was in such tremendous big hurry to
give them fish a chance to bite till she
didn't even slow. up at the front gate.
''The early worm feteheB the fish,
Rufus" says she, in passin by, "and
| told the girls to have the grease hot
when | return back home.e
It was then three days and nights
that [ never laid eyes on Misses Hassel-
tine, but in the main time before the sun
went down that day everybody in the
whole settlement had heard the news
In regards to her fshin trip down on
Caney Branch, and the great gobs of
sorrow and confusionment which filled
shat poor old lady's cup to the brim,
pr Ssed down and runnin over.
Firm general appearments and all
the sirroundin circumference of the
case, it would seem like the old lady
got bite when she want loollin for it
and caught somethin which she didn't
need in her regular business. In fishin
and foolin around she had finally at
last worked her way and wedged her
self into tight-eye thicket in the most
tonesomest place on Caney Branch.
And now presently it come to pass that
she got her hook hung where as she set
back and pulled and pulled till she
pulled out a human skeleton. The thing
was as natural as death, and every bone
was there from skull to toes. &
Well, to be certainly of course old
Misses Hasseltine didn't go way off
down there on Carney Branch by her lone
self fshin for the bones of dead men,
and she didn't need any human skele-
tons to speak of on her string. Where
as, she throwed down her fishin pole
and dropped her bait gourd on the spot
and tore out of there. And she didn't
fool off no time pickin her way out
neither. She jest naturally hit the grit,
and hit it a. movin There was that
tight-eye thicket all around, a big cane
brake on one side of the branch and a
great mass of bamboo briars on the
other. But old Misses Hasseltine she
tore out of there.
St. Landry clarion. (Opelousas, La.) 1890-1921, 1896-04-18
His Patent in Danger.

Attorney Garrett McEnery recently
appeared as counsel in q case before Q
justice Of the peace at Suisun. Nc
emery found it necessary to make fre.
quent objections to the evidence that
opposing counselwas attempting tosin-
troduce. The justice, whose rule Of evi-
dence is everything goes Z looked first
annoyed and then indignant. Finally
he could contain himself no longer, and.
as a ruling on one of Mr.. McEnery's s OBJ
jections, roared:
Mr.. McEnery, what kind Of Q law
yer are you, anyway"
Il am a patent lawyer replied the
attorney, facetiously.
..Well, all I've got to say is that when
the patent expires you will have 9 hard
time getting it renewed. Go on with
the case."-San francisco Post,
St. Landry clarion. (Opelousas, La.) 1890-1921, 1896-04-18

in the greatest plenty, and the ground
tore up as with bear fight for miles
around.
White people, there was trouble last
week, and the most loveliest strip of
country on the broad bosom of the
earth went heels over appetite into the
most goneleyest confusionment yon
eTer heard tell of or read about per-
haps. It would seem like everything
come crooked and went twistin-feet
foremost, catawompused and wrong
side up with care.
St. Landry clarion. (Opelousas, La.) 1890-1921, 1896-04-18
FIRE AND AIR.
Scientists Early Noticed the Intimate Re-
iations of These Elements.

Scientists Early Noticed the Intimate Re-
iations of These Elements.
The intimate relation between fire
and air was early recognized, seeing
that experience soon taught that air
was necessary for fire. The experiment
of burning q candle in a closed vessel,
now SO familiar to every schoolboy, is
a very old one, and the influence of
blast of air on a furnace had been
probably noticed from a very remote
period. BY some it was affirmed to be
the food of fire, while by others the
same belief was embodied ia the phrase;
@Air nourishes fire." Again, it was
long ago observed that nitre, sub.
stance well known to the chemical phil
osophers Of the past, could produce In.
tense ignition. It was hence Inferred
that, since nitre possessed this proper.
ty, it necessarily followed that the two
substances resembled each other in
composition. According to Robert
Boyle, the air contained volatile nitre,T z
while Lord Bacon held that air con.
tanned a volatile, crude, and windy
spirit" and thunder and lighting were
supposed TO be due to the presence OF
minute particles Of this nitre diffused
through the air.
The important bearing Of such oh.
servations is due to the fact that
oxygen gas, which is one of the chie1
constituents OF air, and the one ia
which it owes its power of supporting
combustion, also forms the largest
elementary constituent of nitre, and il
likewise the source of the power pos,
sessed by that body Of supporting com,
bustion.
The action of heat ON metals in caus.
ing them to lose their metallic lustea
had also not escaped notice, and Car.
dan, . philosopher who lived during the
10th century, in noticing the increase
in weight that lead undergoes when
heated in air, attributed it to the gas
in the air which feeds fame and which
rekindles a body presenting an ignited
point. nt.-Scottish Review
St. Landry clarion. (Opelousas, La.) 1890-1921, 1896-04-18
earth to Earth: Dust to Dust,

But in the main time the skeleton hit
want gone nowheres. The posse of citi-
zens in charge of the case finally at last
come to the conclusion that old Misses
Hasseltine had caught the mortal re-
mains of a certain colored Individual
by the name of julie Turner, which he
had come up missin one night last year,
about the time that Ben Chris Weaver's
ginhouse got burnt up mighty strange
and pecurious like.
Andy Lucas was plum certain that
o1ct upon a time them bones had he1t
julie Turner in the flesh, cause he had
one game leg which had been kicked by
mule, and there was the scar on one
shin bone of the skeleton.
Old Misses Hasseltine couldn't say
what was what in regards to color, but
she knowed it was the skeleton of 8
man. The old lady was so bad ratified
from the general shock till raley don't
think she knows anything for certain.
But, at any rates, the skeleton was
turned over to the eolored population,
and they put in and had big fu-
neral the next day over at Pinetop
church wherein there was some tall
weepin and wailin and smashin of
teeth. julie Turner's widder she was
there, and when the procession driy
up with the skeleton she fell into a
trance and didn't wake tp no more till
some time that night.
The Reyrent L. NJ. Butler. colored
(Long Meter Butler, as most everybody
calls him), made few scattering re-
marks from the text: There will be
a mighty rattlin in this valley of dry
bones" He didn't preach nobody's
funeral for certain, but cut the sermont
SO it would fit anybody's skeleton in
loose, general way.
Then they sung song and went out
St. Landry clarion. (Opelousas, La.) 1890-1921, 1896-04-18
.confuslonment" confoanded.

l SoAAAOSAASASSAe
But that want all that come to pass
in the settlement last week-not by q
whole tremendous big lot.
A town man come through the set
tlement ridin of wheel as he called it.
and scatterin death and ruinat tion
everywhere he went.
Old man Mart Mayo was goin to
town in his OK wagon when he met the
thing down there in the old stage road.
And bless gracious his oxen broke
loose. and run away and split seven
dozen eggs, four bushels Of potatoes,
eight points OF fresh butter and one
man. When old Mart recovered and
come back to his senses sufficient to
seek that which was lost he found the
remains of his wagon three miles down
the road, and when he caught his oxen
the next day they had hid out in came
brake way over the Murder creek.
Old Misses Simpkins she was out
milking the cows that mornin when
the town man rid by on his wheel, and
about the next thing she knoWed she
didn't know anything at all scarcely.
She got to the bars ahead of the storm,
but there she tainted and fell over in
it, and when the cows had all passed
over and they picked the good old lady
up she was more dead than livin. The
doctors are still tendin on that case.
Little Bunk Weatherford was plowin
in his new ground when the wheel
man come whizzin by, and from the
general signs of destruction it is my
private opinion that him and his mule
both got skeered and run away. They
tore down IA panels of new fence
comm out of the field, and Misses
Weatherford maintains till yet that
Bunk came to the house runnfn
neck and neck with his mule.
On his return back late that evenin
the town man stopped off at the Cross
Roads to let the crowd see his wheel.
Andy Lucas was there as usual, and
tanked up on white ink" to about six
bits in the dollar. And nothin would
do Andy but he must ride the "durn
thing So up he got and down he
went. The "durn thing" bucked, and
when the natural-born horse trader
picked himself up he was eatin dirt tand
spittin blood at the same time.
But it would take more time and pa
tience than the law allows to write out
all the storms and troubles that come to
pass in the settlement last week. So
will close for this time in the best of
health and spirits, hoping that this will
find you enjoying the same general
bIessins. RUFUS SANDERS.
St. Landry clarion. (Opelousas, La.) 1890-1921, 1896-04-18
SQUIRE RUFUS SANDERS.
Tremendous Confusionment' la
the Rocky Greek Settlement.
Old Misses Haseltine Went A-Fishing and
Caughta u Human Skeieton-A Town
Man on His wheel" Leaves
Death and Ruination,
Hit aint very frequent in this day and
generation that the Rocky Creek settle

ment turns her.
self loose for a
high heel time,
But when the
day and hour
have come to
pass, and she
does slip the bril-
die % u can
stand from uns
der and watch
th e fur fl y.
There wilt be
blood and hair
St. Landry clarion. (Opelousas, La.) 1890-1921, 1896-04-18

No bandit fierce, no ty1ant mad
with pride. no eagerned hermit rests
self-satisfed, who most to sh,in OF hate
mankind pretend, seek an aaairer or
would fix iend.-Pope,
St. Landry clarion. (Opelousas, La.) 1890-1921, 1896-04-18
So Different.

sheI weighed 121 pounds this morn
ing.
He-In your heavy winter coat,
though?
she-so. I held It on my aru.z Chi
cago Record.
The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1896-08-22

The verdict of the American
people is now made up that the
Populists are hurtful, and not help
full, in all matters tending toward
reform and perfecting the aims
and objects of government. They
have landed few office-huntefs,
but haye not added anything to
public policy. They oppose any
man, however trustworthy and
competent, unless he subscribes to
their wild and visionary schemes,
and do not hesitate in their sup
port of weak and incompetent men,
just SO the men profess to be in ac-
cord with their views. They pre-
fer to sacrifice all reform and OBJ
struct wise legislation rather than
accept a little less than they de
mand. No party can succeed in
free America which does not reg
ognize the rights of others, and re-
fuses to discriminate right from
wrong, let the proposal come from
any section or party that it may.
The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1896-08-22
Suffering from the Droutl..

Reports from North Louisiana
show that great distress is bound
to prevail in many parishes if-help
is not extended to the. people,
whose crops have literally been
burned up by the drouth. We are
glad to be able to say that in Grant
parish only a small portion of our
people have had their entire crops
destroyed. Taking the whole par
ish, we estimate that the destitu-
ton will extend to about one fami-
ly in twenty-five.
1t is said that Gov. Foster will
probably set apart some of the
revenues of the State, which is in
good financial condition. for the
relief of sufferers by drouth. We
learn that committee has been
appointed to correctly list those
deserxinehslpia Grant parish. If
II is done systemati9y the report
of such a committee would be of
great benefit in promptly affording
relief to those who stand in need
of it.
The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1896-08-22
mo. A..

great body of political socialists,
as that these latter and the Demo
Gratis were able to stand together
and support the same Presidential
ticket.
It is this violent departure from
the ancient principles which the
genuine and uncorrupted Demo
Gratis cannot accept or countenance,
and they have determined to part
company with the wanderers after
strange doctrines. They hold that
they are not bound to follow. On
this head the address declares that
it is true that when majority Of
the people have expressed their
will at a legal election, the will of
such majority must be respected
and obeyed. This is essential to
the peace and existence of the ma
ton. But it is monstrous per-
version of the doctrine to apply it
to a political party, which exists
only by virtue of q common, volun-
tary assent to it's principles When
q Democratic convention departs
from the principles of. the party.
no Democrat remains under any
moral obligation to support it, ac-
ton, nor is there any tradition OF
the party that requires him to do
50. On the contrary. it is evidence
of moral weakness for any free
man to vote to enforce policies
which, in his opinion. are inimical
to the welfare of the people or to
the integrity OF the nation.
With this view of the matter q
convention has been called SO - 10
give the genuine Democrats an OPP
portunity to get together, reafirm
their devotion to the ancient faith
and create a rallying point upon
which the Democrats may preserve
their organization. They do not
hope to elect their candidates, and
therefore they have no profits or
plumber to offer to politicians and
spoilsmen, and therefore none of
these are expected to respond to
the call.