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The daily morning journal and courier. [volume] (New Haven, Conn.) 1894-1907, 1896-04-17
ArbOr Day To-day.

There will be no public observance of
Arbor day to-day, but many citizens
will carry out the spirit of the COVER
nor's proclamation and plant trees.
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ged and the convention applauded his
sentiments. The convention then adj
journed.
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MAIIrYeNEErY@@,

Mourning parasols, silk or
satin, with polka dot chiffon
rufles-$2,oo up.
Then there's the standard
bargain of them all our
Royal " black gros-grain
silk parasol, % inch size
for SI.oS. See it.
Take The Baby Out
These days of sunshine
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Sozue&ShpLSm,
767-77l CHAPEL ST.
Festival
Bargains.

Friday Offerings
to Which zoe inuite 0lL
out Of toz0n visitors,
and Ne1O H0uen peo-
pie, too.
These Special prices are for
EVERYBODY:
Black Goods.
1000 yds. 4o-in. all wool
Henrietta perfect black
wear guaranteed worth 75c,
Friday 47c yd.
1900 yds. 5o-in. all wool
Storm Serge in jet black
wear guaranteed - actually
worth SOC
Friday soc I'd.
Colored Goods.
TO every purchaser Of a
dress or skirt pattern in Col
ored Dress Goods we shall
allow, Friday, a discount of
10e5-That'a worth coming
for, isn't it I?
Wash Goods.
1900 yds. 27-in. Golf
Suitings in the best medium
colors-regularly 12ac
Friday, 7ac yd.
Ladies' Hose.
o8c and S1.25 qualities
Silk Hose, in black, bronze,
nile, blue, pink and other
Friday 48c pr.
Our Art Embroidery
Department
famed throughout
New England extends to
everybody a cordial invitation
to inspect a beautiful line Of
needlework, done by hand
and mostly from our own de-
signs.
Five Souvenir Bargains.
Hemstitched Linen Doilies, for
finger bowls, &C., regularly 10c ca,
Special at sc.
Beautiful tinted 36-in. Table
Covers.-usually 25c each
Special at 90.
Monte Bureau Scarfs, Pin.
lnotted fringe, handsome patterns ~
usually Soc Special at $50.
Sofa Pillow Covers, in several
styles-were Is and l9c-
Special at sc.
20-in. squares-all linen-reg-
ular SOC value, Special at 20c.
EREE-A convenient Embroidery
Floss Holder with every dozen Of
wash silks purchased.
767-77i Chapel Street.
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TheJParasol Period

ThesParasol Period
has arrived that's evident.
Minnehaha's beauty didn't
need such protection but
then she hadn't a complexion
to care for.
April sunlight is a mischief
maker and rewards with tan
and freckles those who court
its dangers.
How are yom protected
Here's a sun umbrella
which is a veritable life-pre-
server to beauty.
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GLOWING are not wanted:
Summer, Thoughts

q
are ahoat in the feminine
mind and kindle a new inter-
est in the cool and fllmy
beauties of muslins, Linon
d'Ireleandes, batistes, and the
host of other wash fabrics
which await your apprecia
ton here.
There is life in the air, and
business activity in this store.
The spring jacket and
ladies' suit Sale thrives
beyond our expectations, and
in a few days more those
$500 capes for $3.50 will be
but a memory.
Rarely indeed can you buy
$500 ladies' two-piece suits
for So. Is, $500 jackets
for $3.50 or $500 separate
skirts for $500 each.
The manufacturer bears
the loss with the best grace
he can-you reap the benefit.
The kid glove occasion is
another instance Of the
uncertainty Of trade.
The selling of a genuine
French made $1.5o kid glove
for 75c. means that some
body loses the difference
which you gain.
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Save Your Sight
Why calmly wait for fad

their need this month more
than Others, because of the
intense light.
When you buy glasses
here you receive the atten-
ton of a practiced oculist,
who will fit your eyes, free
Of charge, as carefully with q
50 cent pair Of glasses as
others do with a $500 pur
chase.
We're showing now some
new framelessls gold glasses,
warranted S years wear, and
worth $500 at $I.5o fer
pazr.
Opera Eglasses--half price
this week.
.MAYYMkNErTYgD(os
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Local Weather Report.
FOR APRIL l6, 1896.
St. Landry clarion. (Opelousas, La.) 1890-1921, 1896-06-27
The California Lion.

The running and leaping ability of
the California lion when hard pressed
hy hounds and hunters in open field is
hlmost incredible. Only a fine pack of
hounds, accustomed TO the mountains,
can even attempt to run full-grown
lion. There are scores of hunters who
declare they have seen California lions,
when hotly pursued, rise like winged
creature high above the greenwood and
chaparral, and make leap after leap OF
80, sometimes 40 feet, across. powders,
logs and rocks. Ground scent for the
dog is barely left, SO daintily does he
alight; the hounds must use the slight
~ tainted air for their guide. It is
well-known fact that the mountain lion
stands in the greatest terror of dogs.
When chased by them. he will try first
to outrun them. Failing in this he will
take to the nearest tree; but when
there are no trees of refuge and the lion
comes to bay. then look out. One stroke
of the powerful paw means dead dog,
and unless the hunter comes to the res
cue with rifle OF revolver, the savage
brute will slaughter the whore pack in
detail. Should he succeed in killing ali
the dogs, he wi Immediately turn his
to the human enemy, whom
he considers the most insignificant OF
the pursuers.-Golden Days.
St. Landry clarion. (Opelousas, La.) 1890-1921, 1896-06-27
TIME TO GO SLOW.
The Mckinley Boomers Have Reached q
za Critical Point.


Among the most sagacious of Mr..
Platt's remarks about Mckinley and his
canvass, is his suggestion that after the
noise of the preliminary booming is
over there win be an interval before the
st. LOUIS convention long enough for
the delegates to cool off and do some
calm and serious thinking. ii
The republican conventions just held
will complete substantially the rou of
delegates; and unquestionably MsIin-
ley's nomination will be proclaimed by
his boomers as a foregone conclusion.
On the face of the returns ofsdelegates
there is every reason to believe that it
will look that way. AT any rate, his
nomination on the first ballot win be
made to appear inevitable, in the hope
of silencing all opposition to him as
futile and a political blunder in those
who venture to make it. The plan from
the first has beensto rush him through;
and so far as concerns the state conyen-
tions it seems to have worked pretty
successfully. If the st. Louis conven-
tion were to be held this week or next
week it might go through to the end
not less satisfactorily. But. will the.
booming continue to boom during all
the. weeks still remaining before the
actual assembling Of the body that is
to make the nomination? 1859
That is another matter, as Mr.. Platt
suggests. The delegates and the re-
publican party will have time to do some
thinking about thsNwisdom of going
into the canvass with a candidate as
to whom the sober sense of the whole
union has the gravest doubts. The hys-
teries of the booming will give place to
sane reflection.
The same may be said of the Chicago
convention. 1t is still far enough off to
enable the democratic party to get into
reasonable frame of mind before it is
called to order. The silver crowd have
often before startled the party with
their boasting Of the tremendous dem
onstrations they were about to make
in conventions and elections; but when
the time comes for the fulfillment what
has been the result? Instead of making
progress and winning victory, the sill
yer faction has gone steadily backward
and downward and has encountered
only defeat. Every days delay before
the Chicago convention will increase
the probability that the silver demo-
Gratis will there be overcome finally.
They are fighting for a humbug which
will not stand calm discussion
It is the same with the McKin1eyites
In the republican party. They are try
ing to put up humbug to be run in a
campaign of duplicity and false pre-
tense.-N. Y. Sun.
St. Landry clarion. (Opelousas, La.) 1890-1921, 1896-06-27
UIs1ANA, SATURDAY, JUNE u, 1896. 1

a rebel to the. core, and so i visited her
and made a good impression, for ]. was
right good-looking then. She Invited
me to stay to supper, which did and
l played with her baby and captured
all the family except her husband. He
was a suspect and was on both sides
of the war. I put a guard over the mill
that night or he would have hauled
the flour away. It was hard on those
Virginia farmers, for if one army dident
take their substance the other would.
.Tor nearly four years they were be-
tween two fires, and remained true to
their great leaders. 5z4 H s5
What q blessing is law--the law of
the land and the protection ct the
courts. Any law is better than no law.
We old people remember when, toward
the close of the war, this part of the
country that had been desolated by
Sherman's burnmers was infested by
so-called scouts who were mounted on
stolen horses and pretended to be COM
missioned to protect the women and
children and to get up supplies for our
army. Every yagabond and deserter
Joined them and they were a terror to
the old and helpless. My wife some
times tells the children about her ref
ugee life, aud how all her brothers were
in the Virginia army, and how her fa-
ther, the older Judge Hutchins, was
farming on the Chattahoochee river,
trying to save something for the grand
children, and how one morning band
of these so-called scouts came there
and demanded the keys Of the smoke
house and said the army must be fed,
and how he tried to reason with them
and told how many he had to feed at
home, and how little meat he had, but
they got rampant and said they would
break down the door If he dident sur
render the keys. He kept three double
barrel shotguns well loaded, and when
/ they went round to the smokehouse he
went upstairs to q window and said,
In determined voice: stop. Don't
You go any nearer to that door. If you
do / viii kill you. I am old and not
afraid to die, but I will kill some of
you before I do"
They saw the muzzle of the gun and
they knew the man and stopped. After
q brief consultation they retired. There
were my wife and ixschildren and two
little orphans and a score of little me-
groes, and these Iawless men would
have taken the last morsel away from
them.
Friends, sometimes we abuse the law
and the lawyers and the court, butafter
all the law of the land is the strongest
bulwark of liberty and justice. Black
stone says that mans house is his
castle, into which the king of England
dares not enter without permission, but
we remember when vagabonds and
thieves not only entered but drove the
inmates out. Let us all sustain the law
and the courts and leave them as a
blessed heritage to our children.-Bill
Arp, in Atlanta Constitution.
St. Landry clarion. (Opelousas, La.) 1890-1921, 1896-06-27
I'm GOcfatv.

Young Mr.. Lyghtlie, with his collar
worn very high and his forehead worn
very low,s OF that tinstantsminced.ae across
the assembly room foor.S
& ''There!" exclaimed Miss De Jones,
s'swhat does Mr.. Lyghtlie remind yor
of?'
Miss Dc Smith raised her glasses and
critically surveyed that ornament to So
ciety.Thensh she lowered them. n-''g.ase.-~-
T. Nothing" she. calmly answered
Miss DE. Jones hove sigh of relief.
"The very thing" she said, in tone
of satisfaction. "Tve been looking at
him all the evening, but couldn't seem
to determine just what it was. - N. T..
Recorder,
St. Landry clarion. (Opelousas, La.) 1890-1921, 1896-06-27
PROMPTED BY GREED.
The Mckinley Enthusiasm Springs from
Selfish Instincts.


Selfish Instincts.
The enthusiasm for Mckinley is /,
matter of neither brains nor heart. Tt
is not based upon admiration of the.
mans ability or upon affection for one
who makes tens of thousands regard
him as q personal friend. 1t is purely
a matter of the pocket. 1t is based
upon the belief among, the masses that
McKinley's election in 1s96-or, for that
matter, Cannon's, if Cannon had been
appointed ehairman of the ways and
means committee in 1S89--will give
them constant work with easy hours
at high wages. In short, it rests upon
the theory that the tariff is the most
important thing in the country, and
that the government can mark wages
up or down. 1t is due to the spreading
among the ignorant of the idea that
prosperity is to be determined by votes.
The success of a campaign based upon
an unreasoning enthusiasm of this sort
must be followed by a notwithstanding
and disappointment which will pro-
yoke tremendous revolution in public
5SL IiAlOhb " IAOuS utIul lCpuUItIdllS
view with the greatest apprehension
the prospectof of McKinley's election. 1t
is not simply that nobody knows where
he stands on the financial question now,
or how so weakened a person would
stand if he should become president. Tt
/. is still more because, even il he were
sound on this issue, he could not posi-.
bly, satisfy the extrayagant expecta-
tions that are entertained of the effect
of his election. The enthusiasm for
Mckinley is due to the belief by the
masses that he will usher in the .millen-.
MUM at noon on the 18th of March, 1897,
and their indignation when they shall
find how they have been deceived is
something that is dreaded by many a
republican who does not dare to resist
the tide.-N. Y. Post.
St. Landry clarion. (Opelousas, La.) 1890-1921, 1896-06-27
The Thing Was Loaded.

Old man Joshiah Jcrnigan has got one
of these long, tall army muskets, which
has come down to him through the
Jernigan generations from the first set
tlement of the country. It is one of
them guns what you read about. You
ought to hear Josiah tell about it. He
can spin some of the hair-raisin yarns
perhaps as to how his greatrgrandfa-
ther use to shoot bear and painters and
kill wild Indians with that same old
army musket. 5sas.s
One night last week 1t would seem
like Wade Turner had went over there
to the Jernigan PLACE to spend the
night with the boys. And after sup
per old man Josiah took down the old
mrsket and unwound himself in re-
CARDS TO the war history. and the fight
in records Of the Jernigans. In his
own wild ~pecurious way he told some
tremendous bloody yarns, and conse-
quentially the boys they saw things in
their sleep that night.
Next NORMAN Wade Turner and Sol
Jernigan-both of them nothin but
Jearlin boys-theyt went in kersnooks
together and fixed up for a wild turkey
hunt. Wade lowed be. would take the
old army musket and go out after the
fresh meat. Sol was to meet him at the
big spring down in the woods and play
turkey. When Wade found the game
and leyeled his gun and pulled the trig
ger and the cap popped-so far as they
Iry,a ~,
fred off since the last war-Sol he was
to jump up and keel over and flop like q
wild turkey gobblers with a. handful of
buckshot in his head. Every thing was
fixed up and laid off to a mats bristle,
and the boys went forth.
Sol hid out in. a clump of galIberry
bushes, and when Wade slipped up in
sight with the old army musket he
stretched his neck and gobbled loud
and clear and sassy. Then Wade he
brought down the old musket, took aim,
pulled the trigger and well, the blamed
thing was loaded. It was SO hard on
trigger till Wade pulled it up and missed
his mark. But it give out a regular
Fourth of July report and kicked Wade
ten feet down the hill In thetrenaendius
roar and confusionment Sol forgot to
jump up and keel over and flop like
regular shot turkey. He lit out and run
off down the branch and c1um tree, ,and
there he stayed till old man Josiah and
all the family come aud told him that
nobody was hurt and the war was over.
But the old army musket, which
hangs on the wall, amt gone nowheres.
r.y RUFUS SANDERS.
St. Landry clarion. (Opelousas, La.) 1890-1921, 1896-06-27
appointments. At any rates, from an

appointments. At any rates, from all
can pick up amongst the neighbors,
when Gus got home that night he was
SO bad scratched and tore up till he
looked like he mought have rode q
thrashin machine through hurricane.
Up to this time old man Billy Wiggins
and old man Uriah Clancy had walked
the chalk line of lawyiand order, and
kept the peace and dignity OF the state
like friends and fellow citizens. But
the family rucus had went on from
bad to worse, and more and more of it.
The day and hour had now come when
they couldn't stay out of the game no
longer. .,sa zE-z
Over there on Little Wolf creek old
man Clancy runs water mill. And
down the. creek mile below the, mill
OLD man Clancy runs a farm. The
next mornin after Gus Virgins went
home wearin on his, youthful counte-
nance such scandlous DISAGREEMENT,
old man Billy he put out and went over
in the woods paster, where him and
old man Uriah had joined fences Is
years ago, and cut loose henceforth and
forever. In less than three hours, and
before old man Uriah could hear the
news, 27 head Of cattle, four mules
and big bunch of goats. had invaded
sinto the Clancy farm and licked up
three or or four acres of young corn.
Did old man sUriah shed any tears to
speak of, erslose Ncls of sleep, or miss
a meal of victuals? No. He blowed
the horn for his hands and built q new
fence. That night he lowed it was jest
about the right time of year for him
to cut his mill dam and let off the wa
ter. By the first crack of day he was
down there with his hands at the mill.
They cut the dam, and when old man
Billy Wiggins went down to his creek
farm, where he had 90 acres of swamp
corn--"and hit buEchin for the tas-
sel"-there was water, water every
where, and not blame thing but
water. E
Now you mought maybe think that
by this time them two cantankerous
old men have met up together some.
where's along the big road and had a
bloody fight. But they haven't-=not
as anybody knows OF. And my own
private opinions are that they never
will. From general appearments
think one of them is right tolerable bad
slseered and the other blame glad of it.
They put me in mind of julie Nabers
when he went out through the settle
ment loolin for work, and prayfn to
the good Lord not to let him find any
Old man Billy has now took out and
quit the Methodist church on the
grounds thatshe can't fellowship with
the Clancys, and old man Uriah has
left the peoples party because he don't
see how the Clancys and the Wigginses
can vote the same ticket.
There amt no tellin for certain where
the family rucus will STOP. But in the
main time we are not lookin for any
second-elass funerals. and the country
is safe.
St. Landry clarion. (Opelousas, La.) 1890-1921, 1896-06-27
:
POINTS AND OPINIONS.

& E
--Hanna's fat has been very sue
cessful In greasing the aN1es Of the. Nc
Kinley band wagon.--ssSt. Louis Repub-
lie. ls$s si s11 1e ts
Mark Hanna can do Maj McKin-
ley great deal of good BY keeping
slightly more. in the background. lowe
State Register (Rep.).
Mr.. Mckinley is already making
cabinets, and there is no law to pre-
vent, but there is an old adage about
eggs in point. Paul Globe.
Imagine Mckinley on campaign
tour this fall, declaring to the people
from the tail of parlor car: II have
nothing to say. Utica Observer.
Reed might accept the nonina-
tion for vice president on the tieketwitI1
Morton, but not on ticket with
younger man in vigorous health+-Chic-
cago Chronicle.
The Cardiff Giant, like Mckinley,
created something of a stir BY keeping
its mouth shut, till other people got to
talking and the imposture was exposed.
Albany Argus.
e
The gentlemen who are arrang-
ing MeKiniey's cabinet for him should
read and digest the old warning against
counting chickens before they are
hatched.-Detroit Free Press.
10y es; letus hear from Ma McKin-,
ley on the tariff. Let him tell as how it
happens that more American manu-
features have been exported during
eight months OF the Wilson tariff than
were sent abroad during whole year OF
the Mckinley tariff Wheeling Reg
ister.
The republican who are whining
because the president threw 10000 Of
fees into the civil service sy stem forget
that Harrison did the same thing on q
scale proportionate to his smaller ca
paeity, and that he did this after his
successor had been elected Kansas
City Times.
St. Landry clarion. (Opelousas, La.) 1890-1921, 1896-06-27
A Practical Demonstration.

Several years ago an elderly gentle
man, residing on his own estate in a
northern county, walking one day
through his garden stopped before a
fig tree on which were two fl fgsripening.
His favorite fruit was figs, and he
looked lovingly upon the two fine speci-
mems, for summer often came and went
without the fruit coming to maturity.
Shortly after he met his gardener who,
assuring him the figs were quite ripe,
was requested to send them to the sum.
Iner house, where his master was about
to rest. Picking the figs the gardener
sent his little boy of seven with the
basket. On the way the little fellow
stopped and, removing the leaves, gazed
upon the tempting fruit. The aftrac-
tion was too great; he ate one. Cover
ing the other with the leaves he pro-
ceeded upon his errand. On being
asked if the gardener had not sent two
figs, the boy, after a moments silence,
answered: Il ate one.'' you ate one2
How ?" exclaimed the old gentleman.
angriIy. "How did you come to do
that?' Dropping his eyes to the bas-
ket, Il took it like this, said the child,
taking the remaining fig; "and ate it
like this" And, suiting the action to
the word, he consumed the second fig
before the astonished eyes of the old
gentleman.-London Answers.
St. Landry clarion. (Opelousas, La.) 1890-1921, 1896-06-27
CATCHING BIG FISH.
The Greenlanders Dress In Their Best to
Chase tho Whale.

The Greenlanders Dress In Their Best to
Chase tho Whale.
To the Greenlanders the whale is an
animal of great Importance, and these
people devote much of their time to
chasing the big mammal. When the
natives set out upon their whale-catch-
ing expedition they dress themselves
in their best apparel. imagining that if
they are not cleanly and neatly clothed
the whale, which detests a dirty, SLOW
enly garb, would certainly avoid them.
LII this manner abouts30 persons, men
and women, set out together in one of
their large boats. The women take with
them their needles, thread and other
implements to mend their husbands
clothes, in case they should be torn,
and to repair the boat il. it should hap
pen to receive any damage. .49
When the men discover a whale they
strike it with their harpoons, to which
are fastened tubes two or three fathoms
long, made of sealskin inflated with
air. The huge animal, by means of this
kind of bag, is in some degree COM
PEELED to keep near the surface of the
water. ia ~ d q.
When he. is fatigued and rises the
men attack him with their spears until
he is killed. They then put on their
spring jackets, made all in one piece,
of addressed sealsllin, with their boots,
gloves and caps, which are laced SO
tightly to each other that no water
can penetrate them.
Thus attired, they plunge into the
sea and begin to slice off the fat all
round the animals body, even from
those parts that are under water; for
their jackets being full of air, the men
do not sink, and are able to keep them
selves upright, standing, as it were, in
the sen.-A1bany Arp,1s