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St. Landry clarion. (Opelousas, La.) 1890-1921, 1896-10-10
The Position OF the Bed.

Mr.. A. G. Ditton, writing to the Lon
don Globe, draws attention to the fact
that many persons can only sleep well
when lying north and south, and others
lying east and west. Mr.. Ditton discoy
cred some years ago that he could sleep
much better when he lay east and west,
especially with his head to the west. A
well-known French centenarian, on the
other hand, ascribed his longevity to
sleeping in the north and south direc-
tion. Recent experiments by Mr.. Ken
neiley, and others in Edison's labora-
tory and elsewhere, would seem to dis
credit the hypothesis that the earth's
magnetism has to do with the unques-
tinnable influence of position in sleep,
Nor is it easy to see how the earth's ro-
tation can affect sleeper. It may be
hat Mr.. Ditton is right in regarding it
rs result of temperament, and, per-
haps, also Of habit. In any case, per-
sons who are troubled with insomnia
Or who cannot sleep in Strange beds,
would do well to Investigate the matter,
and see whether the direction in which
they lie is not to blame. Mr.. Ditton car
ries a pocket compass, which enables
aim in hotels to choose bed which lies
IN the right direction, or else to get ene
shifted.
St. Landry clarion. (Opelousas, La.) 1890-1921, 1896-10-10
CHEERS eoR TELLER.
CoIarado's Senator Makes an Earnest App
peal for BimetaIiism.

Senator Henry M. Teller, on the even
ing of August 81, delivered before the
Bryan and Sewall club of Colorado
Springs the only political address he
will make in Colorado during the pres
ent campaign. His reception was rather
unique from the fact that Colorado
Springs is the center of what Mckinley
sentiment there is in that state. The
silver men call the city Little London, .
partly because of the English popula-
ton there and also because of the Nc
Kinley spirit. This in ameasure q ne
counts for the monster demonstration
accorded Senator Teller by loyal silver
ties OF the city.
The supreme court and income tax
issues raised by the Chicago platform
were handled by the speaker in bis
usual dry, argumentative style, and he
spoke in tones of contempt of the Indi-
annapolis convention, characterizing it
as stool-pigeon to catch votes that
.migh. otherwise go to Bryan rather
than to Mckinley. Senator Teller ig.
nored the Mckinley letter of acceptance
liz tAStt LII eli, el4Attz
clared that he was the equal of any
presidential candidate nominated in
this country during the last 40 years.
Blaine not excepted.
eve must do our duty to the financial
question" said Mr.. Teller, for if we
settle it here we will settle it through
out the world. If we could strip this
question of partisanship you would find
a great ma jority of this country in favor
of bimetallis1n. The free coinage of
both metals is no new theory. It was a
success and it was not failure. We
propose no doubtful experiment. We
ask that we return to the prosperous
times prior to 1873.
81 am asked what country has pros
pered on the double standard. Take
St. Landry clarion. (Opelousas, La.) 1890-1921, 1896-10-10
GEORGES FIRST SWEETHEART.
AIan's Duplieity Brings Some Terrible
Truths to Light.

Truths to Light.
s'And how did you enjoy the visit
George paid you at sleepydale?" asked
the girl in the organdie gown.
Not quite as much as ! had expected
TO-" replied the young woman with the
sunburned nose. s'You see"
"You couldn't get rid of him long
enough to curl your hair properly.
know how it is; I've been engaged my
self said the girl in the organdie gown.
aStiIl, there are compensations-a man
who is enough in love to spend 16 hours
out of 24 in your society is too much in
love to know whether you look like a
fright or not"
s.It wasn't a matter of curls,' replied
the girl with the sunburned nose; 1T
was
"Not the fact that he had met another
girl in town who"
mo, dear; you see ] was not afraid
of that, for he had been spending SC
much money on my amusements all
spring that I knew the weekly allow
anee of candy he sent wouldn't leave
more than enough of his salary to pay
for his visit to the country, So
Him, very true; hadn't thought OF
that Besides, the fact that you are his
first lovei is in your favor; it takes longer
for man to get over his first attack, you
know, and,
"What pretty gown you are Wsar.
ing" broke in the girl with the sun
burned nose. 1t is
saTwelve and half cents yard, " said
the girl in the organdie gown. Weren't
the other girls at the summer hotel en-
vious when you told them, before his
arrival, that you were his first love 2
eyes, they were,'' gloomily replied
the girl with the sunburned nose; "all
of them except one horrid, red-headed
thing, who said she had just the same
experience herself last year.
20, well, perhaps her admirer was not
as handsome or as nice as George. What
did"
s'That was what 7 thought, and ]
wouldn't let her see his photograph, OF
even tell her his name, because Iwanted
her to be surprised when she saw him.
ssH'1n; and was she p
sNot as much as George was. II
turned out that he was the man who had
been engaged to her last summer.--N. Z
Herald.
St. Landry clarion. (Opelousas, La.) 1890-1921, 1896-10-10
USE OF THE BREATH.
Proper Employment of the Lungs Meal
,irf. H.. 9.

Proper Employment of the Lungs Means
Health and Long Life.
From the frequency with which pana-
ceas for SO many earthly ills are dis
covered and adopted, is seems strange
that there should still exist sickness
and sorrow, signing and dying. One
Of the latest discoveries land one which
has "a substantial basis of common
sense) relates to correct and adequate
use of the breath. 1T is perhaps one
Of the signs of the times says re-
cent writer, to those alert for indica-
tions, that the art of breathing has be-
come more and more a subject of at
tention. Cculists as well as physiolo-
gists go deeply into its study in way
hardly to be touched upon here. Physi-'
clans have cured aggravated cases of
Insomnia by long-drawn, regular
breaths, fever-stricken patients have
been quieted, stubborn forms of indi-
gestion made to disappear. A tendency
to consumption may be entirely over
come, as some authority has within
the last few years clearly demonstrated,
by exercises in breathing. Seasick-
ness, too, may be surmounted, and the
victim of hypnotic influence taught to
withstand the force of any energy di-
rected against him. There is famous
physician of Munich who has written
an extensive work upon tie subject Of
breathing. He has, besides, formulated
a system by which asthmatic patients
are made to walk without losing breath,
while sufferers from weaknesses of the
heart are cured. At Meran, in the Aus
trian Tyrol, his patients (almost every
royal house of Europe is represented
are put through certain system Of
breathing and walking. The mountain
paths are all marked off with stakes Of
different eo1ors, each indicating the
number of minutes in which a patient
must walk the given distance, the
breathing and walking being in time
together. AS the cure progresses. the
ascents arc made sleeper and sleeper"
A generous, unstinted use of the lungs,
employing plenty of fresh, pure air, is
certainly a most excellent practice for
those who would live long and we'll.
which is pretty much equivalent to that
living happily which the story books
rsed to mention.--G God Housekeeping.
St. Landry clarion. (Opelousas, La.) 1890-1921, 1896-10-10
sYcePHANT cockRAN.
An migrate Who Is Bitins tho Hand
That Fed Him.

Whatever the faults of Bonrke Cock
ran-and they are many; whatever his
yirtues-and they are few--no man can
deny him possession of unlimited nerve.
Perhaps 'sgalT' would be the better
word, albeit slangy. 1t strikes Tam
many Times that his proposal to enter
Joint debate with William j. Bryan,
nominated for president by the greatest
party this country has ever known, was
as solid piece of impudence as Ii has
encountered in many day. II all of the
natives of County Sligo were as inn
pertinent, the remainder OF the world
would be kept busy kicking them until
the breed was worn out.
Cochran came to- this country many
years ago-impoyeEished, but with the
instinct of the mendicant. What he saw
he asked for. What he got he accepted
with that profusion of thanks for which
the members of the Ragged Legion are
noted. Many men not yet past their
prime remember him as he was in those
days. AS a borrower he was expert.
end as consumer of liquor unsur-
gdRStG.5 LIZ sSOulu SAooo oIiNCp liz q
driving storm and wade through slush
to his knees, to speak to man with
money. IF he had gone in for heraldry,
his coat of arms would have been bot
tie crossed with a corkscrew, and
sBacksheesh' his motto.
The mans eloquence made him
friends. He became active as a ''work-
er" in the lower stratum of politics.
Subsequently he was adopted by Tam
many. He said that he was democrat,
and that organization, which stands
ready always to aid struggling talent,
took him up. 1t advanced him step by
step. It's members aided him, individ-
ually and collectively. It sent him to
national conventions ami to congress.
1T afforded him every opportunity to ac-
St. Landry clarion. (Opelousas, La.) 1890-1921, 1896-10-10
army.
She maintains her 5000, 900

France. She maintains her 5000, ,000,-
600 of silver with 100000 of gold.
Germany was pre-eminently prosperous
under a silver standard alone from 1892
to 1873, when she abandoned silver and
/ took to gold standard. India went to
a silver basis and has made more prog
ress since 1885 than she did in the pre-
vious 500 years. President Diaz and his
counselcrs say: we do not want to see
the United States go to free coinage,
because we could not advance as we are
cling now
ssI don't care who it is that says that
the coinage of silver will drive out the
gold. We are told that Jefferson stopped
the coinage of silver dollars because of
the shrinkage of the currency. That is
true, because they were being exported.
But silver half dollars were coined and
we're legal tender. Not one man in a
thousand knew that silver had been de-
ilonetized two years after the act of
1873. No American citizen knew Of it.
That act was forced and promulgated
by an enemy of the human race.
(Cheers.) / think we all agree that it
was an unfortunate act. Think of it,
% years of constantly falling prices.
"our 7a,ooo,ooo people ought to be
the happiest people on earth. I find
them poverty-stricken I find one-third
without means of supporting them
selves. I tell you, after 20 years of
thought and study, our trouble arises
from a deficient monetary system. I
find that every other nation that has
abandoned this standard is in the same
condition of poverty. In 1886 COM
mission was appointed in England to
find what was. the matter with her stag
mated trade.
HThey say, if you go to free coinage
you will get'a 50-cent dollar. The Mex
lean dollar is not q 5o-cent dollar. tits
a 1G0-cent dollar. When the Mexican
dollar reaches the United States it is
worth but so cents, because it is simply
silver bullion. If you give all the forms
of fnoney--the greenbaek, silver, gold
dollars--ail the same functions they
viii remain side by side, and onewillnot
depreciate until all do. hut have said
enough on that. Do not misunderstood
me. ] DO not want to go TO silver basis
alone, but if we have to go to one metal,
then let it be silver" (Cheers.)
Gov. Altgeld wants to know how long
we would have had to wait for inde-.
pendence il we had depended upon Eng
lands consent to it. This is a problem
that Mr.. Mckinley should work out
and answer in one of his speeches. The
sentiment in favor of American inde-
pendence in England was fully as
strong as that in favor of bimetalligm
now.-St, Louis Republic.
St. Landry clarion. (Opelousas, La.) 1890-1921, 1896-10-10
Rrxan ana prosneritx.

Farmer, manufacturer, miner, wage
earner-all feel the blighting effects
of falling prices. In the face of fall
ing prices they cannot prosper, and the
election of Mckinley means a further
and continued fall in prices. Rising
prices can alone bring to them gem
eral and lasting prosperity, and Mr..
Bryan's election means higher prices.
In short, it is Mckinley and Adversely,
Bryan and Prosperity. The great body
of American voters cannot hesitate long
over the choice.-The American.
St. Landry clarion. (Opelousas, La.) 1890-1921, 1896-10-10

day and dinner on the grounds-if they
have any hopes of pullin your humble
servant, the grandson of old Hiram
Lucas--which he was whole team and
a holy terror in his day and generation
-on board of the Old Ship, with her
PROV set for the promised land. It
wouldn't be right. Ben Chris, with the
cards runnin the way they are now, for
me to lay down my hand and quit the
game. will remain over fora few days
and tarry yet little while around
amongst the brethren and the church at
Long Creek"
St. Landry clarion. (Opelousas, La.) 1890-1921, 1896-10-10
RUFus sANDERsl
Connecticut,s Criminal Law.

Under the habitual criminal law OF
Connecticut man who has been con
yicted of a crime three times shall,
at the expiration of his third sentence.
be deemed ineorrigible, and may be de-
tanned in prison for rs years. The
first application of the law has been
made in the case of George A. Minor,
who is now detained in the Weathers-
field prison. ..
St. Landry clarion. (Opelousas, La.) 1890-1921, 1896-10-10
Preserved Grab Apples.

Allow one-half pound Of sugar to each
pound of s,.it, ss..,..iitt, and one pint of water
70 three pounds Of sugar When the
sirup is boiling, add the apples AMI
sook them until they can be pierced
With q broom straw. Fiji into .iars.--
food Housekeeping.
St. Landry clarion. (Opelousas, La.) 1890-1921, 1896-10-10

that we both
ought to be joy
full like and
proud to that ex-
tent" says Ben
Chris Weaver to
me after break
fast next morn
in, For thessake
of them old and
brighter and
better da Us, you
understand, l
had borrowed
St. Landry clarion. (Opelousas, La.) 1890-1921, 1896-10-10
4 mixed saIad.

In winter, when green things" are
scarce, palatable salad may be made
from the remnants Of vegetables left
over from various meals. Tnrnips,
canned peas and canned string beans
may be utilized for this purpose, mixed
together with little cooked carrot.
Take the yellow part Of one medium
sized carrot, rejecting the coarse pith.
Ifitis old, boil it for half an hour, chang
ing the water once while it is boiling.
Cut this carrot into small slices whengt
Is cooked, and add to it one cooked tur-
nip. When these vegetables are thor.
oughly cooled. add three tablespoonful
of cooked peas and the same amount OF
string beans, cut in pieces. Canned
peas and beans will do. Season all with
salt and pepper, two tablespoonfnIs Of
sweet oil and one and half Of sharp
vinegar. Toss well, and If convenient
decorate with little cooked cauliflowes,..
cold, or brussels sprouts We now
have a famous French salad (salad
Macedoine1, and If the vegetables arc
of good quality and are we'll cooked il
makes a delicious dish.-N: X. Tribune.
St. Landry clarion. (Opelousas, La.) 1890-1921, 1896-10-10
NJ AJternat;y,a.

''Dohsy, you're paying dear for thas
rich wife of yours by having to stay
home every night"
ct was either that or go to work
old hoy. Detroit Free Press.
St. Landry clarion. (Opelousas, La.) 1890-1921, 1896-10-10

the pantry keys from mother, after which
me and Ben Chris had went down under
the hill in orderment to mix a little
pure spring water with the early rum
nins of the corn.
St. Landry clarion. (Opelousas, La.) 1890-1921, 1896-10-10

When Hannibal's army descended
from the Alps into the valley Ut T.onl-
hardy, the whole force was Well-nigh
routed by a plague Of mosquitoes,
which drove Llen aud animals almost
wild with pain,
St. Landry clarion. (Opelousas, La.) 1890-1921, 1896-10-10
silyer,s Good work in Mexico.

Out of lot of trash brought outin an
interview with the Mexican minister,
about silver money, 50-cent dollars, etc,
all fixed up by a republican interviewer
to help the unho1y gold cause, one start
ling truth was told. He says by the use
of silver money outside competition has
Eeen dispensed with and Mexico is build
ing up industries of her own. Under a
gold standard the industries of the
United States are being pulled down, in
stead of being built up.-springfeld
Qll) Register.
We call attention to the fact that ssthe
silver craze" continues to die out-in
the organs of the money power.-At-
lanta Constitution.
St. Landry clarion. (Opelousas, La.) 1890-1921, 1896-10-10
/" BEARIN THE CROSS"
Andy Lucas at the "Blg Protracted
Meetins.'
He "Remained Over and Tarried Around
Amongst the Brethren''-"Three
Sermonts q Day and Dinner
ON the Grounds"

'tYou didn't make Andy Lucas, and
neither did |, Rufus, which | maintains
, 1896-11-17
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ABSOLUTELY PURE
RIO GRANDE WESTERN WRECK
PURE

RIO GRANDE WESTERN WRECk
Grand Junction. Colo. Nov. 10 RI"
Grande Western passenger train y"
2, east bound. was wrecked at $50 his
afternoon 2S miles west of Grand June
ton by striking a rock on the track
The engineer. John Good. and his fir"
man, James Grundy, both jumped h''-
fore the engine struck, escaping seri-
GUS injuries. but both Of them WEI"
badly shaken up, al the train was run
ming about 25 miles an hour. Neither
is expected to suffer any serious cOns"-
quences. The engine is lying across
the track, with the mail and baggag"
car partially piled on top of it, and A.
he roadway at this point is very mar
row. running between a nigh rock wal
on one side and a high river bank on
the other, the wreck will have to h"
cleared before traffic can be resumed
will take probably from "a to 20
hours.
, 1896-11-17


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, 1896-11-17
DYING FOR WANT OF SLEEP.

Jersey Shore. Pa. Nov. 16.-Martin
B. Cowdrick, once a prosperous farmer
in Bradford township, is slowly dying
from an ailment that keeps him awake
day and night. He goes for 20 days
without sleep. He seldom sleeps more
than two hours at a time.
Farmer Cowdrick's trouble comes
from an affection of Ghe nerves. He
suffers excruciating pains. In II years
he has spent SIS, 900 i'm vain efforts to
be cured. He has taken 5 5000 worth
OF patent medicines. His end is daily
expected.
The farmers malady appeared -
years ago. after his house had been
burglarized. Robbers bound and
gagged him. i~nfioting frightful tor
lures. He was found after several
hours and his life was despaired Of for
months.
, 1896-11-17
THE MAN.
Things That Tighten Life For Hunters In
the Woods ON Dreary Days.

Things That Tighten Life For Hunters In
the Woods On Dreary Days.
There is IL kind of man who never
lacks camping companions. He may be-
rich or poor, big or little. He may ne
so weak as to be hardly able to carry
his rifle and never able to bring a stick
of wood for the campfire. He is wanted.
nevertheless. The campers call him the
jovial man, the IL who never sulks. but
always smiles. He is cheerful when til"
clouds weep and the campers are dismal
He laughs when he misses easy shots.
He grins when the smoke gets into ms
eyes and says that the nubs and sticks
in the camp bed are good, because they
give tho sleeper plenty of exercise.
The cheerful man is especially well
liked in a camp where the hunters hav"
had u bad run Of luck. If "a week passes
and the woods have been so dry that the
deer or the turkeys couldn't be APP
preached, then the cheerful man, as he
fries pork or bacon for supper. laughs
for the game.
When the weather is gloomy and cv-
cry one has the blues, it il the cheerful
man who gets ont and gathers IL big
heap of wood, if he can. or. if he cant,
he has somebody else do it, and when
night comes u big campfire is started
that cheers everybody up to the story
telling point. which point indicates
c~heerfulness.
Even small boys are welcome i'll Il
veterans camp when the place is
gloomy. Small boys make things inter
esting. There are guns to drag around
II owners to say things. There is a
food supply to pick at, and fire to med
die with, pipes to break and tin dishes
to rattle. 1t doesn't take much to cheer
up il sad camp, if only the right visitor
comes along. The arrival of u smiling
woman from another camp, ono day
when the rain poured, did that once Up
on Moose ri"er. She had arihe over her
shouid-r and three dripping partridg .
IN her hand. Her hunting suit was drip
ping wet, and her once curly bangs
down over her eyes. Every com
planning man Of the camp lcaped to his
rect, and a great heap Of green birch
logs was soon cut and sizzling in tn"
nre. The gloom was dispclled like So
much smoke. In u few minutes she was
standing near the fire steaming uS her
clothea dried. When she left, two hour
later, every II was is happy is Il cat
by a crate fire. New York Sun.