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St. Landry clarion. (Opelousas, La.) 1890-1921, 1896-05-02
lie Got None.

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s'Did you hear about samue1s? p asked
Mrs. Greyn1are's husband.
"No; didn't hear about Samuels,' .
the lady answered. when you have
anything to tell, why don't you tell it?',
.'Yes, dear. Well, Samuels was going
home the other night, when a footpad
shot at him, and the ball hit a latch
key in Samuels' vest pocket and his
life was saved. So you see what good
q latchkey isl
Indeed! Ii Samue1s had been going
home at reasonable hour he wouldn't
have met any footpad. Secondly, he
carries $4,000 insurance, payable to
his wife, and if it had not been fer
that key she would be q rich widow
right row. So, if you are limiting
around for a iatchkey, you will have
to bring home some betters story than
that one. That's all. I'm going to bed
row. and if you want to read you'll have
to go to the kitchen. And don't waste
the coal."-C Cincinnati ENQUIRER.
St. Landry clarion. (Opelousas, La.) 1890-1921, 1896-05-02
A HISTORIC BUILDING.
The Cid Post Office ut Charleston Ha


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The Cid Post ofitee ut Charleston Has
seen Famous men.
., among the quaint eid structures y OF
.hafies1on our old posi- once .s' pulid-
ing taxes the leael IN historic interest,
saia ar, James >. Murdock' leading
"hoiesale merchant OF the Caroilna me
lFopolis. MF. 5 ~ ureock Is mere with
oeiesssa1ion OF ms toWnsmen 10 ask con-
sFess 20 make nlodest APPROPRIATION
so as TO donate the aforesaid antique
edlllee 20 the city,
Inc oio post once, said ne, was
1ulib on prlcK imported from England
IN n, iHot naaef tne aifecuon OF q COM
,'l'e.ee q the coiohiai assembly,. It's
Ieaalhg members ss1lfl We're John Rutieage,
hehry Laurehs ana mon ihoInas lyhch.
VINO iater TOOK q prominent part IN the
xEh
St. Landry clarion. (Opelousas, La.) 1890-1921, 1896-05-02

| stacked arms under the famous annie
tree. His first wife carded the wool
and spun the thread and Eoye the cloth
| and made him the most loyeliest pair OF
blue jeans breeches you ever saw per-
haps. And from that, time till now old
man Sol has stood up and got married
three times with them same blue
breeches ON. The next day after the
wedd;n he always pulls his mar1yin
| breeches off an puts e1s away In the
old family chest. And there they stay
till another funeral comes off at the
Simpkins place, and the next weddin
day rolls around.
Hit was along in the first windy DAYS
of this year when the old lady Si1np-
kins took down mighty sick and was
presently gathered up to her fathers,
as it were. She was number three,
you understand, and oncst more Sol
.Simpkins was left a pore lonesome
widdoWer" in this cold and naughty
WsrId below.
So conseqlientially it want no ways
surprisin to me that mornin when the
old man come ridin along by our house
with them same blue breeches on
Right then at that time couldn't say
Ter certain where old man Sol was goin,
but | lSnowcd good and well what he
wiis goin after.
sYonder goes cid man Simpkins with
his blue breeches on" says to
mother as he rid by. And by gracious,
she got so foanin. fghtin mad with the
whole he division of the hiiman race till
I thought in my soul she would jump on
me.
IT'S a plnperfect scandalatioa on the
settlement" says she. sThe green
spring grass amt SO much as sprouted
on his last wife's grave. I'll lay you
could go over to the Simpkins place this
mornin and find Aunt Milly's track out
in the COW pen and around the potato
bank. And yet here he goes-the wick
ed old scapegrace--witl his blue
breeehes on, SO bad off to git married
till he could taste it with hiseyes shet."
Well, | didn't have anything in par
ticular to say right along there. Mother
is woman, you understand, with all of
a woman's soft and gentle and tender
ways. She never has learnt cne cold
and stubborn fact, which is that when
man as old as Sol Simpkins takes up
notion to git married, It amt the right
time of year for him to weep and vail
and grit his teeth over the sad and
buried past.
Anyhow, it turned out that the old
man was on his way down to the Flat
Woods to the sTidder Watkins. It like
wise also come to pass that when Sol
Simpllins returned back home the next
day he had them same blue breeehes on,
and the wilder she went with him.
St. Landry clarion. (Opelousas, La.) 1890-1921, 1896-05-02
n Dangerous IIahft.

Sleeping and dreaming barber's
chair lost man the tip Of his nose
in San Francisco the other siay. The
man dropped into the barber shop TO
get shave, and as his face was being
iathered fell asleep. The barber con-
tinued to shave bis sleeping customer
gently. Suddenly the sleeper struck
out right and left with his fists, Ire-
sumably at some dreanland foe. His
right fist struck the razor and drove
its keen blade through the end of his
nose. This awakened him with O
start, and after a hasty explanation
the man picked mp the piece of his nose
md ran to the city and county hos
pital. The surgeon stitched the piece
Of nose on where IT belonged. and there
Is a fair show of its, growing in place
or more or less in place \. Sun.
The smallest square of magnitude
that can be perceived ky the naked
eye, OF plain white CT plain black, IS. q
nazrc 1-45ot-I part of AZ inch.
St. Landry clarion. (Opelousas, La.) 1890-1921, 1896-05-02

around in this
vain and feetin
world nigh OF
to 80 years
"And | have al.
ways took no
tiee, Rufus, !"
says she, that
along a b Q u t
this season of
the year we
most in general
ly always have
some sort. of
St. Landry clarion. (Opelousas, La.) 1890-1921, 1896-05-02
THE FLYING SDuTcHraAN.
Origin of the Story OF the Specter of til
f,P

Origin of the Story OF the Spocter of the
Cape OF Good Hope.
The atmosphere In the vicinity of the
Cape of Good Hope has that peculiar
power of unequal refraction which pro-
duees the spectral mirages SO well
known to the early settlers on the great
plains and to all travellers and explorers
in desert regions. This unequal blend
ing of the rays OF light gives rise to
what are known as spectral loomings," :"
by which is meant the apparent sus-
pension of ships and other objects in
midair. The peculiar properties of the
atmosphere over that portion of the
ocean mentioned have been known since
p1en first rounded the Cape in their
voyages from western Europe to the
Indies, ard the regu!ar appearance OF
the mirage at that point is responsible
for the legend of the Death Ship"
otherwise known as the Flying Dutch
man." According 10 the story, a Dutch
captain, homeward bound from the
East Indies, met witL long continued
lad weather while trying to "round
the cape" This series Of squalls was
coupled with other circumstances which
made turning the cape" next to iTnpos-
siblc. The wind was dead ahead" and
the weather was dark and foggy. At
the time when the brave little Dutch
captain was making final effort to
get off in a northwesterly direction and
was about to make a failure of it, the
mate and the sailors advised him to
turn back and seek shelter in neigh
boring harbor until the gale was over.
But this he refused to do, swearing
that he intended to turn the cape"
if he had to beat back and forth along
that shore until the day of judgment.
/. For this burst of profanity, SO the tra-
dition says, he was doomed to steer
against the blustery winds forever.
The sails of the ship, so those who be-
lieye in the legend say, have become
bleached with age and its sides and
bottom worm-eaten and deeayed in
the long struggle which has ever since
been kept up between the cursed YES
sci and the elements. The little Dutch
captain and his crew, like all persons
living under a spell, continue to exist,
Knowing their condition, but unable to
help themselves. Ship captains who
have sighted the doomed vessel time.
and again during the past century and
a half report that the crew Of the
cursed Dutch vessel appear to be living
skeletons. Yet they continue to live
under the blighting effects of what
was brought on by Their masters rash
ness. They cannot lower boat, they.
arc SO weak. Yet they occasionally hail
passing vessels, imploring to be res
cued from their awful fate.
Such is the story of the "Flying
Dutchman,. which, no doubt, origin
sted through ignorant, superstitiousi
sailors viewing the mirage in awe
stricken terror-St. Louis Republic.
St. Landry clarion. (Opelousas, La.) 1890-1921, 1896-05-02

Along with that general wave Of
trouble and confusionment in the
Rocky Creek settlement which |
couldn't write it all up in my last let
tec-Jule Nabors he got tied I'D at the
St. Landry clarion. (Opelousas, La.) 1890-1921, 1896-05-02
..Thom Same gluo Breeclaes."

Amongst other things that come to
pass in durin that stormy week was
quick and suddent weddin match down
in the Flat Woods.
Old man Sol SimpkiRs has now been
married three different times since the
var, and aacst before the old soldiers
St. Landry clarion. (Opelousas, La.) 1890-1921, 1896-05-02
Master and Dog.

WELL" said Snaggs, 81 think many
dogs have more sense than their mas,
ters.''
YES, chirned Id Craggs II have d
dog Ike that myself" land yet he
couldn't make cut why they Laughed,
Tss-Etts.
St. Landry clarion. (Opelousas, La.) 1890-1921, 1896-05-02
RUFUS SANDERS.
Sage Of Rocky Creek Tells About
the Hill Country.
su,e Nabors and steve Goodman Make q
Trip to siloam-sal sinpains'
"Biue Jeans Breeciies.
Only Man.

Oncst upon time old Misses Stringer
told me that she had been perusir
The Penn's Grove record., 1896-06-05
OYER rHE counrY LINE.

The Ocean City National Bank has
been authorized to begin business with
a capital stock Of $4,000.
Germania Park has gone into the
hands OF a receiver and advertised to be
sold on the claim Of a $50, 600 mortgage.
The College of New Jersey, hereto
fore known as Princeton College, will
hereafter be known as Princeton Uni
versity, the name having been changed:
For using profane and abusive Ian
gugae on the street, Charles Ballenger,
Of Bridgeport, was committed to the
Woodbury. Jail for 80 days by Justice
Schlag in default of So fine and costs.
Among the seventy graves decorated
in the six cemetries in and around
Swedesboro on Saturday were six mark.
ing the resting place of soldiers of the
War of 1912. The Grand Army men
paraded and addresses we're made by
by Congressman H. G. L~oudenslager
and Rev. D. T. Sheppard, of Auburn.
Lightning struck the Wesley Memoir.
ial Church, at Bridgeton, on Thursday
of last week, tearing away part of the
roof and damaging it considerably.
William Andres building was struck
and set on fire, but prompt action of
the fire company saved the building
with slight damage. Other property in
the vicinity vas also Injured.
The Penn's Grove record., 1896-06-05
National PrOHigacy.

Congress passed a river and harbor
bill last week which appropriates such
a large amount, in the face of the fact
that appropriations have been exceed.
ing the revenue receipts, that President
Cleveland fell it his duty to veto it.
The bill carries with it the biggest ap.
preparations and the greatest log rolling
profligacy in the history of the govern
ment. Nearly every district is given
Ill appropriation so the Congressman
will vote for it to get a gift for his peo-
pie.
The President in his veto says the
contemplated immediate expenditures
amount TO ST., 600, 900. A more start
ling feature is its authorization of con-
tracts amounting to S62, 900, 900. 1t
also directs numerous surveys and ex.
aminations, which obligations will
bring the amount to about $50, 900, 600,
Many of the objects for which it ap-
PIRATES public money are not related to
the public welfare and many are palpa-
bly, for the benefit of limited localities
or in aid of individual interests. He
learns from official sources there are ap-
preparations in the bill,to pay for work
which private parties have actually
agreed with the Government to do, in
consideration of the occupancy of pub
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COUNT

William F. Perry, of Salem, had a
rib broken last Sunday by falling from
a bicycle.
Samuel Sanderson, a Lower Creek
farmer. while sowing phosphate recent.
ly during a strong wind, got some of
the fertilizer in his eye, and as q result
narrowly escaped losing the sight.
The freight train OF the West Jersey
Railroad was wrecked at Ogden, about
5 miles below Woodbury., on Friday
morning of last week. The accident
was caused by the train parting while
on q down grade. When the two Sec
tions came together five cars loaded
with merchandise were piled on top of
each other and s~plintered into kindling
wood. Fortunately no one was injured.
The wrecked cars were so badly broken
up that they had to be burned to clear
the track.
The Penn's Grove record., 1896-06-05

fourtbs Of the boilers will come back
into the Prohibition ranks when they
seriously consider that they may hold
whatever view they like on woman's
suffrage and finance and believe in Pro-
hibition.
JOSHUA LEvERING
wal born in Baltimore Sept. -, 1915.
He became a partner with his father in
the coffee importing business in 1866.
He was one Of the originators of the
American Baptist Educational Society
in 1888, and has been treasurer ever
since. He is a director of the Frovi-
dent Savings Bank and since 1885 has
been President of the Young Mems
Christian Association.
Originally a Democrat he. became a
Prohibitionist in 1884. He has been
chairman of the Maryland Prohibition
executive committee and received SAB
votes for State Comptroller in 1891. He
came within a few votes Of getting the
Vice Presidential nomination in 1892.
He is reported to be q millionaire.
The Penn's Grove record., 1896-06-05
Till 9 O'Clock I1A4N WILMINGTON
VIEW YORK CLOTHING HOUSE,
SERGE SUITS.

II every man knew the COM
fort of q Serge Suit, and knew
how much better made and fin
er quality our Serge Suits are
for the price than any here
around, we'd sell every Serge
Suit We have ~to-morrow-blues,
blacks and greys.
Serge Suits, $500, $500,
$500, $1,000 and $1,000.
Serge Coats and Vests, 400,
$500, 5000, $3.50 and 5000.
Strictly all-wool Cheviot
Suits for men, $500, $3.50,
$3.50, $1,000 and $1,000.
All our Clay Diagonal Suits
are for the year around wear.
Some stores sell Clays that are
light in weight in order to sell
them at a lower price. They
won't hold the shape so well.
Clay Diagonal Suits, sack or
cutaway, of good weight, $3.50,
SO 90, $1,000 and $500.
Clay Diagonal Coats and
Vests, sack or cutaway, $3.50,
$3.50, 5000 and s11.O0.
We make all black goods
such as Clays, Serges, Cheviots
and Worsteds in large quanti-
ties and sell them either in
Suits or Coats and Vests, if you
prefer trousers of a different
pattern.
The prices of the Trousers
are just the difference between
the Coat and Vest and Suit.
We make no extra charge for
breaking the Suit, as for in
stance:
A Black Suit cost $1,000.
The Coat and Vest cost $50.
The Trousers cost $3.50.
Store open evenings.
Strictly one price, and if dis
satisfied with your purchase we
will return your money.
The Penn's Grove record., 1896-06-05

lie property.
81 believe the bill opens the way to
insidious and increasing abuses, and is
SO extravagant as to be unsuited to
these times of depressed business and
resulting disappointments in Govern
ment revenue. This consideration is
emphasized by the prospect that the
public Treasury will be confronted
with other appropriations made at the
present session of Congress, amounting
to more than $500, 600 1000.
individual economy and careful ex-
penditure are sterling virtues, which
lead to thrift and comfort. Economy
and the exaction of clear justification
for the appropriation of public moneys
by the servants of the people are not
only virtues, but solemn obligations.
ITO the extent that the appropria.
lions contained in this bill are instigat-
ed by private interests and promote
local or individual projects, their al
lowance cannot fail to stimulate a VIC
ious pa~ternalism, and encourage a
sentiment among our people, already
too prevalent, that their attachment to
our Government may properly rest up
on the hope and expectation of direct
and especial favors, and that the extent
to which they are realized may furnish
an estimate of the value of government
al care.
81 believe no greater danger confronts
us as a nation than the unhappy decad-
enc among our people of genuine and
trustworthy love and affection for our
Government as the embodiment of the
highest and best aspirations of human
ity, and not as the giver of gifts, and
because its mission is the enforcement
of exact Justice and equally, and not
the allowance of unfair iavoritism.
81 hope / may be permitted to sug.
gest, at a time when the issue of Gov
eminent bonds to maintain the credit
and financial standing of the country is
a subject of criticism, that the contracts
provide for in this bill would create
obligations of the United States amount.
ing to sixty-two millions of dollars, no
less binding than its bonds for that
sum-"
On Tuesday the House passed the
bill over the Presidents veto without
debate by a vote of 220 to 60, far more
than the necessary two-thirds vote. On
Wednesday the Senate passed the bill
over the veto by a vote Of 56 to 5. The
five negative were Bate, Chiffon, Hill,
Smith, Villas, all Democrats.
Senator Sewell and Congressman
Loudenslager either voted for the mon
strous p%rofigacy, or dodge the vote
These men who are running the Gov
eminent into reputation or bankrupt
cy should never be sent back to rob the
treasury.
The Penn's Grove record., 1896-06-05

fit required an annual outlay of $10O. 90
to insure a family against any serious conse-
quences from an attack of bowel complaint
during the year there are many who would
feel it their duty to pay it; that they could
not afford to risk their lives, and those Of
their family for such an amount. Any one
can get this insurance for rs cents, that be-
ing the price of a bottle of Chamberlain's
Collie, Cholera and Diarrhea Remedy. In
almost every neighborhood some one has
died from an attack of bowel complaint be-
fore medicine could be procured or a ply
stefan summoned. One or two doses of this
remedy will cure any ordinary case. 1t
never fails. Can you afford to take the risk
for so small an amount? For sale at John
sons Drug Store, PENIS Grove.
The Penn's Grove record., 1896-06-05

Few townships, boroughs or villages
appreciate the Importance TO them of
Chapter 143 of the laws enacted by the
Legislature and approved by the Cover
nor. This particular act makes apple
able to those places the provisions of
the Martin act, heretofore applicable to
cities only. BY this act all taxes on
property to the amount of twenty-five
dollars or more, which remain unpaid
for a period of two years or more, must
be paid by the owner, receiver Or trus.
tee of the property, or it may be sold
by the township for back taxes. In
that case it is sold sin fee simple abso.
lutte" and becomes the property of the
purchaser. A rigid enforcement of the
provisions of this act will do doubt re-
suit in the collection Of large amount
of tax arrearages in those municipal
ties now embraced in the provisions of
this act.
The Penn's Grove record., 1896-06-05
wAyAwAKRR CLOTHING

We've got a bully black and
blue Thibet suit for IS. The
only objection to telling of it
is that nine out Of ten of our
readers that do not know much
about US will say It's lie.
So here's a description of it.
Atwood serge coat-lining /;
as we'll cut as a $50 suit as
strongly sewed, but not so fine
stitches /; fine enough for the
cloth ; and the cloth fine
enough for twice the money,
and yet clothing isn't cheaper
this year than it was last year.
Ifyou are a big fat man we
can fit youwith it tall or short.
Ifyou are any sort of a regular
man we can fit you with it.
We ought to say the cloth
has been inspected, just as all
our cloths are /; and shrunk, as
all our cloths are; and the
making inspected, as all our
making is ; thousands of suits;
and selling, as all our stuff is
your money back if you,think
it isn't so good as we say.
Your money back if you'll
take it.
Queer thing to do a IS
suit The queerest part of the
business is : we make no profit
on it. We think it a bully thing
to do. Have you any objec-
ton?
New store at Chestnut and
Ninth.
WANAMAKER & BROWN.
Oak Hall, Msrkst and Sixth.
Chestnut ahd Nihth,
across from the Postofice.
WILLIAM H. WANAMAKER.
Market and Twelfth.
PHILADELPHIA.
The Penn's Grove record., 1896-06-05
ORGANDIES.

We have four lots we shall
offer at half the first of season
price.
Satin Stripe Organizes, beau
titully printed, regular Decent
grade we shall sell for 8 cents
per yard.
Scheure1, Lauth & Gle, AL
SAGE, Germany, fine Decent Or
candies for 12s cents per yard.
Fine, sheer and beautiful AT
lantic Organizes, fully equal to
the French, regular 25-cent
quality for 10 cents per yard.
La Royale in all the new
shades and designs, 12s-cent
quality for cents per yard.
Jaconat Duchesse in fine
quality were nearly closed in
our last sale. What are left
will be sold for 10 cents per
yard.
A new lot of Shirt Waists
just arrived-5O and Is cents
and $1.0O-the prettiest and
best quality we have had for
these prices.
The last of an importers lot
of pure Linen Crash, II inches
wide, with red border; always
125 cents per yard. We shall
sell 25 pieces for 8 cents per
yard, either by the piece Or to
cut.
We have a new arrival in
Chinaand Japan Mattings which
we are selling at very low prices.
For country, seashore, camp
meeting or summer fxings
there's nothing nicer. Many
Mattings on the market to-day
are what are known as wrapper
stained, therefore, liable to
mould and be imperfect or SO
thin that they are more suita-
BILE to silt ashes with than for
floor covering. We handle
none of these and buy only the
strong, perfect and pretty ones,
which, by reason of our large
mating output, we are enabled
to sell at the very lowest prices.
$500 to $4,000 per roll OF 40
yards, with a special induce
ment just now Of heavy Joint
less Fancy Mating for $500.
per roll.
The Penn's Grove record., 1896-06-05

The sentence to prison of Harry T..
Baker and John Nickerson from the
eastern part of the County and Charles
Zane from this should, and undoubted-
ly, will be a great lesson in teaching a
higher standard Of virtue and morality.
1t Is more than probable that those men
are not the only offenders against the
laws which uphold a high social stand
ard in the State, and may have been
more unfortunate in getting caught. If
there be any others it should be var
ing and should lead to social purity and
q higher public morality.
The Penn's Grove record., 1896-06-05

The Grand Jury Of Union county
found a presentment against the ofic.
ials for failing to close the saloons in
Elizabeth on Sunday. The jury, the
report says, decided to call the atten-
ton of the court and of the officials of
the city to the ordinance for the pre-.
s~ervation of law and order on the first
day of the week. 1t is just as well for
public officials everywhere to under
stand that it is not only within the pro-
vince of the Grand Jury to mildly sug-
gest, by way of presentment, that the
laws must be enforced, but to indict
them and cause them to be put on trial
for a neglect Of this duty. Those who
accept the responsibility of executing
the laws should not forget that they
are liable to severe penalties for ne.
glecting to perform the duties of their
office.
The Penn's Grove record., 1896-06-05

Several tomato amer are in a bad
way financially because Of the low price
Of goods. They have been sacrifices to
the infant industry Of the tin manu-
features, as the II cents increased price
of tin since 1890 has taken from the
packers enough money to pay every
dollar they owe the farmers.
The Penn's Grove record., 1896-06-05

The U. s. Senate BY 80 to % voted
to prohibit the further issuance of in
terest bearing bonds, which act would
destroy the credit Of the Government,
il 1t became a law, but there is 10 prob.
ability that the House will consider it
and the President surely would not
sign IL.
The Penn's Grove record., 1896-06-05

Those who wish a silver bill passed
should keep in mind that a silver infla.
tion bill was passed in 1890 and in 1893
a financial panic occurred and but for
the sterling honest of President Cleve-
land to maintain the public credit by
urging the repeal Of the law and selling
bonds for gold the distress would have
been greater,