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New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1897-10-21

The Brooklyn High School has introduced ath-
etics In form In the regular course. Miss
Taylor OF the pupils. has been elected VICE
president Of the Athletic Association. and Is or
ganizng a girls basketball club. for which she
has obtained a subscription from the members OF
the association The Dramatic Association has
also been reorganized and Will study Shakespeare's
plays with a view to presenting them One OF tho
Brooklyn armor.es has been secured for tho use Of
the athletic club and handbal club Is also being
organized among the boys.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1897-10-21

Middletown. " T., Oct. ec-Alfred woller. Of
New-York City was married tonight TO Miss Ada
May Beakes daughter OF Henry L. Beakes OF this
CITY, The best man was Or. Charles F Buckley.
of Brooklyn. and the bridesmaids were MISS nep4
Martin Of Brooklyn. and Gertrude Beakes, o.
Middlef0Xn.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1897-10-21

The marriage Of Miss Catherine Buchanan. daugh-
ter OF Mr. and Mrs. Jacob Buchanan. TO Frederick
A KILLER took place at O'Clock last evening the
home OF the brides parents. No. 14s3 Webser-ave.
The members of the two families and intimate
friends only hidden 10 the ceremony. which
was performed by the Rev. William Schoenfe.d Of
the Church of the Redeemer. Miss Jennie Hitler
and Miss Elizabeth Buchanan the bridesmaids
Theodore Hitler and George buchanan served as
ushcrs.
The ma rriage Of Miss HARRIET Tiedemann, daugh-
ter of the late Frederick Tiedemann. OF this city.
TO Carl Lincoln Schurz. of Mr.. and Mrs. Carl
Schurz took place at noon yesterday at the home
of tho brides mother at Munsey Rockand County.
The brides only attendant her sister. Miss
Mary Tiedemann and Mr.. Schurz's best man was
Charles Knoblsuch. There were no ushers. The
Rev c. A Horne performed the ceremony. which
was supplemented by a small reception.
Miss lane v. Eaton. daughter OF Mr. and Mrs
BRADLEY L. Eaton, will be married TO Joseph Hall
Cotton this evening in the Presbyterian Church OF
the Pilgrims In West One hundred-and- tnirteth
The engagement is announced Of Mrs. John A.
Iowery 70 James Speyer. Mrs. Lowery was Miss
prince a niece of the late William r. Travers and
is a cousin OF Mrs. William a. Duer. Mrs. James
of Geneseo: Mrs. Walter Gay. OF Paris.
and a sister-in-law of Mrs. Alfred l.. LOOMS. Mr..
shower Is the head OF the banking house OF Speyer
G. % which Is we'll known both here and In Eu-
ro,e n. was born in New-York. but was educated
a., frankfort on the MAN, where for many genera
TONS his family has held prominent place in phil
onthronic effort and in financial affairs. Since his
return n live in New-York. Mr.. Speyer has taken
an active interest In charitable york and in all
well-directed efforts looking to the improvement
NJ the condition OF the poor OF the city, and. gen.
orally. to the betterment OF the government n
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1897-10-21

pretty afternoon wedding took place ~ the
home Of Colonel Ira Aver No 81 Cambridge Place
Yesterday at o'clock. when Miss Alice Wads-
worth Aver was married TO George Aurelio Will
iams son OF Ramon o. Williams, late Consui-Gen'
eral TO Havana. The maid OF honor was MISS
Clementine Aver, sister Of the bride Albert VIII
Jams brother OF the bridegroom, was best man
The ushers were Frederick Mead and Ernest Bald.
win. The Rev. DR.. Joseph Trance. pastor q tns
and uncle OF the bride. performed the ceremony;
After the wedding reception was held attenoeo
by the relatives and near friends OF the couple.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1897-10-21

Newhurg n Y Oct pa Edmund Alderman.
a New-York lawyer, and Miss Elizabeth Wiseman
were married here to-day the Rev. DR.. J. J. Reed.
OF Yonkers, officiating.
St. Landry clarion. (Opelousas, La.) 1890-1921, 1897-07-24
oPELoUsAs, LOUISIANA, SATURDAY, July "a, 1897.

milch cows, corn and hogs, vegetables,
poultry, fruit etc. There would no
profit accrue at six cents if the old-tlme
custom OF raising ''all cotton was
pursued. But corn, judiciously fed to
hogs, in connection with plenty of nu-
tritious sorghum cane, proper pastur-
age of alfalfa or Bermuda, at 90 cents
per bushel. would pay a small profit il
pork should continue to bring the
present prices of 49, 80 to $3.40 in our
local markets, and would pay, under
economical feeding. more than cotton,
if the price Sf pork would average four
cents gross.
AS it is no. longer a theory but an
accepted fact that if we have deep wa
ter at Galveston and Sabine, there -
every reason to anticipate that our
gram crops, cattle and hog products
will bring far better prices, by thus
affording cheaper rates to the open
markets of the World.-An Old Texan
Cotton Planter
St. Landry clarion. (Opelousas, La.) 1890-1921, 1897-07-24
POINTED PARAGRAPHS.

President Mckinley seeks to
soothe the embarrassed people with
iniunctions OF patience. But he ought
to know that patience is not an easy
virtue for men who are out Of work and
starving to acquire. llinois State Reg
ister.
There is no such thing as q mod
crate pretectionist except when the
protection relates to the goods or prop
erty Of some other man. He is always
iii favor, IL lie lis proteetionist, of the
very highest rates on what he wants
protected. Peoria (Ill.) Herald.
1t is of small consequences
whether or not any democratic senators
vote for the robber tariff. As it is des-
tined to wreck the republican party,
there Is possibility that some demo-
Gratis may think it advisable ohave the
highest tariff that can be obtained.
st. Louis Post-Dispa
The speaker will hardly go down
to posterity as great American states
man. He has originated nothing; there
is no1great question germane to the
home or foreign policy of the country
which he can be said To have mastered.
lis ignorance of economic subjects is
so profound that he regards Dingley's
statistical crudities as the quintessence
of wisdom. IN Y. Times.
Senator Thurston said in the sem
ate that prosperity was returning to
Nebraska, but when asked By Senator
Gray if the Wilson bill was not still in
force, he said that it was, but that IL
was the prospect Of the passage Of the
Dingley bill that was making good
times. It will be remembered that tho
! panic came while The McKinley bill was
In force. but the republicans said that
i it was the prospect Of d democrat tar
iR that brought on the hard times.
The republicans are great on rnafing
i claims.--Indianapolis News
St. Landry clarion. (Opelousas, La.) 1890-1921, 1897-07-24
SUGAR STICKS THEM.
Protectionfsts show a Preference for
Sweetening.

Protectionfsts Show n Preference for
Eweetcning.
While the republican senators stood
out to the end against the demand for
a lower tariff on lumber, agreeing to
the extreme rates despite the protests
Of manufacturers and consumers, they
have been compelled to yielda little bit
in the case Of the sugar schedule, in or
der to insure party harmony.
At the republican caucus a ,differen-
tial rate on refined sugar OF one cent.
and 95-1o0ths of cent per pound was
agreed upon, the new rate being com
promise between the Dingiey and AID
rich schedules. The change from the
ad yalorem to a specific duty is con-
sidered concession to popular demand
as it renders the meaning Of the sched-
ule more ineligible and the trusts
evasion of the duty more difficult.
While the lawmakers have been
obliged to defer TO public sentiment IN
this instance-and the fact is IN en-s
couraging onethey might have gone
still further in undoing the work Of the
Aldrich committee without trespassing
too far upon the special rights which
the sugar trust appears to enjoy at the
senate end Of the capitol The schedule
fixed by the senate subcommittee was
| SO favorable to the trust that it can
stand the trimming done BY the eau
Gus in response to popular clanior for
reform and still be a better schedule
for the sugar kings than the house
measure was.
That the enormous earnings OF tho
trust have not been too seriously inn
periled by the action OF the caucus was
evident from the jump which sugar
trust stock took in Wall street when tho
compromise was reported. Toned
j down as ii has beenit may have been
marked up, like tricky tradesman's =
selling prices, for that purpose--tho
sugar schedule will still vie with the
/ wool and lumber features OF the new
tariff for the distinction of being the
\ most Objectionable and oppressive
i FIXTURE Of the bin Detroit Free Press
St. Landry clarion. (Opelousas, La.) 1890-1921, 1897-07-24
FRAUDULENT THROUGHOUT.
Republican, Senators Playing Into
the Hands of Trusts.

Republican Senators Playing Into
the Hands of Trusts.
The senate republican caucus has
decided to ..stand together" for the
whole tariff bill.
This means that each republican SEN
ator will give his vote for any iniquity
or injustice that the bill may contain
in return for votes for his owEsNpes
iniquity and injustice.
Each is to vote blindly for the whols
bill. Judgment is to have nothing
whatever to do with the matter. Con-
viction is to play no part. Conscience
Is to keep quiet in order that each pri-
vate iniquity may be effectively accom-
plished.
Right or wrong, wise or unwise, help
full or destructive of prosperity, this bill
is to be passed in the interest of the
trusts that have dictated its terms.
Chief among these is the sugar trust,
and it is to be benefited in d degree
even greater than that promised. For
| a new sugar schedule has been arranged
to give still more money to the Have
meyers. On all refined sugars the trust
is TO be protected by a duty of LOS cents
per pound instead of the 1.s75 pre-
scribed in the original bill. At the
same time the line of demarcatien be-,
tween refined and unrefned sugars Is
greatly reduced, 50 as to increase this
protection.
The sugar trust has already import
ed enough raw sugar to last it for six
months or more. twill have the
Louisiana product to keep itrunning
for two months longer. Tn other words,
| for eight months or more to come it will
pay no additional penny of revenue
to the government, while it will levy
upon the people for its own benefit a
tax of nearly two cents pound upon
all the sugar consumed in the country.
is not this an outrage2 Is II not.
an infamy? Is it not an abuse Of leg
islatiye power? Is this the way to bring
about prosperity? Are the people to
be made happy by being compelled TO
pay needless millions to this greedy
conspiracy OF capitalists?
Is the whole tariff bill fraudulent
conspiracy Of interests" to levy what
tax they please upon the people IN =.
4 World
St. Landry clarion. (Opelousas, La.) 1890-1921, 1897-07-24
TRAVELLING COMFORTS.
what Clothing to Take for a Long
Voyage.

what Ciofking to Take fOr LOh& 4
YoySEes
The acme of comfort in travelling is
to carry everything in the way of cloth
ing that you will need, so that the prop
er garment for each occasion is always
at hand, and yet not be loaded down
with one unnecessary article. Ideas,
like tastes, greatly differ, but for per-
sons travelling for pleasure and thor
ough enjoyment by land or sea, the fci-
lowing practical suggestions from per-
sonaI experience, ever the wisest teach
er, will prove of interest at this season:
American women are the best-dressed
people that one meets on a journey, but
even they must remember that 30
pounds is the average weight allowed to
each tourist upon the continent. Of
course traveller is given the privilege
of loading himself or herself down with
hand luggage, but this is uncomfort-
able for the one interested as we'll as TOR
ones fellow travellers. After stumbling
over bags and boxes in stuffy French
or German car have vowed never to
carry a superabundance of such things
myself, even though it is allowed.
For an ocean journey at any time, ex-
cept midsummer, heavy wrap, like
fur or golf cape, is necessary. Ties and
CATERS are far more comfortable than
shoes, and warm wool underwear is a
necessity. Also be sure to wear heavy
hose and the muslin or cambria gar
ments and silk or alpaca petticoat usual
at the season. Wear on board a pretty
mixed cheviot, serge, etc., made as
jacket suit with silk waist and hat to
correspond.
This will answer for a travelling
gown on land and many wear it all the
time while on the ship, but If a poor
traveller and obliged to lie around on
deck or in the berth it is a wiser plan to
have second and older gown to don
as the shore fades in the distance, with
q soft steamer cap. At the end of the
voyage this old gown can be given to
the stewardess, or If steamer trunk
is taken and you intend returning by
the same line, the steamship company
will allow you to send the trunk to
them for safekeeping until your boat
returns, you dropping them a line when
to send it to the boat. In such case
put the old gown. steamer cap, rug,
etc, in the tr,lnk-all paraphernalia
that is used exclusively on the voyage.
Personally do not like steamer
| trunks; they careen all over the state
room if the water is rough and if calm
you do the careening trying to pull one
from under the berth Into large
shawl strap fold your rug, not too
heavy one, steamer cap, sun umbrel-
| la, dark silk-covered cushion for the
back of your chair, overshoes and
heavy wrap. In a large bag put a fan
nellette wrapper to use at night
/ T.adies, World
St. Landry clarion. (Opelousas, La.) 1890-1921, 1897-07-24
HERE AND THERE.

Glover should be cut just when the
bloom turns brown.
The farmer certainly should be as
shrewd and well informed on matters
pertaining to his business. as the mill
Ter or professional man.
"A good many cows are ruined while
lying in the stable, by having their
neighbors step upon their teats.
1t will pay any farmer TO read
about his business; no matter how ex-
Aperienced he may be, there are many
things he will never know from his
own ventures.
1t is not good policy to allow a
colony of bees to swarm more than
once. Second swarms are not prodta-
BILE, and they cripple the old parent
stock SO that it will do but little all
summer.
I'm shipping vegetables bear in
mind that quality counts first Of all In
these days of big supplies in the city
markets.
"A professional strawberry grower
says: For the very best results, the
strawberry should be repeatedly and
literally manured-before planting,
while growing and before making
fruit"
Fruit is q necessary and natural
food. Insects, animals, children hum
ger for it. The small boy in early SUM
mer, in his impatience, will not wait
for it to ripen, but will run the risk of
collie pangs, not to mention maternal
punishment. in his eagerness to obtain
it., The food of the wise man is fruit
in plenty, with milk, rice and eggs.
Stock is property which grows the
year round, whereas, perennial plants
| and all productive growths from the
soil are dead property during consid-
cradle portion of the year
| Bury the dead animals deep under
1 ground, covered with lime or carbolic
acid before the soil is thrown over
/, them, that no contagion or bacteria
may infest the air or drain away into
the water.
Anybody can raise a horse now
with curbs, ringbones, spavins, weak
1 eyes, ungain1y hooks, short necks, pig
a.yas, twisted kee.g, eve necks, etc
but it does take q practical horsenan
to raise q fine up-headed. good, sub.
1 stantial. useful horse.
/ AN exchange says the stomachs Of
about 8, 900 crows have beer examined
i snd the percentage us t3od therein re
veals the satisfactory fact that the
/ crow, instead Of being the bandit some
suppose him to be, cunningly fattenine
on the grain of the husbandmen, is q
benevolent scavenger, clearing fields
orchards, etc, of all manner of mis-
| chievous worms, mice and insects.
St. Landry clarion. (Opelousas, La.) 1890-1921, 1897-07-24
LlFE,s PATHWAYS.


If IN life's prosperous paths we tread
With glorious sunshine overhead,
OR in the ways of want and care.
with danger often lurking near:
In joy or sorrow, Beal or woe:
,Tts endless happiness to know,
Or smooth our way or rough and cold,
Remaineth yet rest, peace untold.
Along the great highways of earth
Are heard full oft the sounds of mirth;
Anon the walls of wild despair
Pierce far ana near the ambient air.
Life is aswiftly changing scene,
Here mystery dark, there golden sheen.
Rut cen through mists hope beckons ON.
For past the clouds still shines the san,
oh, rest and peace! Oh, faith sublin1as3
Our weary feet may scarce keep time
To those sweet strains that emanate
To cheer the soul from Heaven gate.
Yet onward now, home is in siezlt.
At eventide there still Is light,
And though the course be marked with
strife
We gladly choose the path of Life.
Oscar B. Smith, in N. Y Observer.
St. Landry clarion. (Opelousas, La.) 1890-1921, 1897-07-24
TROUBLES or THE G. O. r.
Muck Anxss+s as to the Tariff out-

Muck Anxss4z as to the Tar1m Ouss
come.
The republican party has congress
on it's hands these days, and the fact
causes great deal of anxiety. It is
widely acknowledged that the present
ripping up and tearing up Of the tariff
has thrown the business interests of
the country into the state that is de-
seribed as tsthat tired feeling and con-
gress shows the utmost indifference TO
those interests by prolonging the
agony. The house promptly passed
tariff bill nearly three months ago, but
the senate committee on finance spent
about six weeks overhauling it and
Strengthening out the kinks in its au-
thor's syntax and orthography. After
three weeks more, the bill was brought
up for discussion in the senate, and 1T
is not expected to pass that body under
four weeks, at the earliest, and 1t may
take twice or thrice that length OF time
to put it through. Then there will be
conference of committees of the
houses on the bill, and there is no tell
ing how long it will take to reach an
agreement. in the meantime, !" "sat5sV
thinks the republican party, the coun-
try's tongue Is hanging out for want OF
the refreshing elixir Of new tariff,
| and my reputation as maker of bless
ings is in a fair way to be ruined. z
This is rather tough eon party
which, only four years ago, was getting
q lot of fun out of democratic attempts
to do decent tariff job in short time.
It is challenging some sympathy, too,
for it is observed that the American
| Protective Tariff league has communi-
| Gated with every republican newspa-
| per in the country. asking for general
urging of the senator's to get gait on
them. Of course, this will not do the
least good, because the senator's can
always be depended on to move in the
| direction and at the rate of speed that
are suggested by their interests,
enough of them, at any rate, to render
any interference on tie part of the
/ public useless. Particularly is this the
case when there is on foot scheme OF
/ robbery like that which is now receiv.
ing consideration in the senate. The
/ plunder must be divided as evenly az
/ possible, or those who do not come In
/ for fair share of the swag may be
depended on to make trouble. The re.
publican proteetionists are now facing
the danger that is proverbially contin,
gent upon an adequate supply OF rope
Binghamton IN. " Leader.
St. Landry clarion. (Opelousas, La.) 1890-1921, 1897-07-24
Relative Profits of Cotton and Grain.

EtfIaLlVG GEOubS OI SOILGn ailu UEtAM-
Notwithstanding that there is a di-
versity of opinion as to the relative
profits of cotton and grain in the black
land counties, | will attempt to give
what have found to be the concensus
of opinion among the leading farmers
in Collin county. At the outset it
would be well to concede that a
fair estimate can only be made by
taking the average of the ruling low
prices of cotton and grain for tha past
four years of depression for all must
know that the present abnormal high
price of wheat, caused no doubt from
total loss Of the crop from a two years
drought in India and Australia, can
not % fair criterion to go by. AsCol-
lin county Is near the center OF the
black lands, its productions may be re-
garded as fair sample for the other
sections. Cotton under favorable cul-
ture, and proper care in selection of
seed, will average in a cycle of seven
wears three-fourths Of @ bale per acre;
oats, so bushels; wheat, Is buskelts..
corn, 40 bushels barley and rye from
so to 40 bushels. but the area soWn In
the latter two cereals is yet too small
to be considered in this estimate of
relative prices. Cotton is more re-
munerative ut six cents per pound. with
cotton seed at $3.50 to $3.50 per toa,
than corn. where hauled to market in
wagons and sold at 30 to 90 cents per
bushel, wheat aJ 4s to so cents per
bushel, oats at IS to 30 cents; provided
the cotton grower raises his necessary
aome supplies, viz: mules, horses.
St. Landry clarion. (Opelousas, La.) 1890-1921, 1897-07-24

Indeed ] do, Asbury." said she, nn.
dauntcd by the horror in his face and
voice. Il can go over the ground, and II
l don't do as well as you would, l will
save the route for the house, and for
you, anyway. It is two hours yet until
train time, and I can sit here for an
hour and a half. with your lists and
books, and find out where to go, and
how to handle each man, and about the
prices-though I have helped you so
often with your writing that / could
find out about the prices myself, l
think"
"But, Chick, interposed Mr.. Wilson,
t'you don't know what you are offering.
You'll have to travel on crowded trains.
and put up at strange hotels, and talk
to the grocers themselves. You've led
such shelteredA life that you don't
realize anything that would be expected
of you"
Eve travelled on crowded railway
trains more than once, Asbury, when |
had three babies to take care of, and had
to drag them around while ] bought
tickets and rechecked baggage, and I've
put up at strange hotels with them, too;
and se for talking to grocers-if /
haven't learned how to do that, after il
years of marketing, Ineed this expert
ence to teach me. Oh, it's no use, As
bury, / am going and you needn t waste
any more of our hour and half in argl-
ing the question. Mother is better
nurse than I am, and the children love
her so that they will be as good as gold,
SO none of my duties will be neglected.
Here are your books and papers; hurry
and tell me what must do about
things"
Mr.. Wilson spent lonely and wor-
ried two weeks, though in the bottom Of
his heart, he did not doubt that his wife
would be successful-he had seen her
meet too many perplexities to lack con-
fidence IN her ability. In his heart, also,
he knew that all his assumption of her
dependence upon his superior iudg-
ment was but pretty play of his own,
whereby his value to her seemed en-
HANGED.
Promptly to the day, Mrs. Wilson re-
turned, bright and fresh from what had
been to her vacation from the indoor
life she had been leading, joyous at see
ing the family, and elated at her success.
For it had been success, as the we'll
filled pages of the order book testified.
"Only two of your customers refused
to buy of me, Asbury,' she announced,
as she quite breathless1y relieved her
self Of the details of her venture, land
they were old Mr.. Green. of Hinesville,
who 'reckoned he'd wait for the Occi-
dental company's man. and man up
at Great Bow, who talked through his
nose, and who said he didn't consider
no woman fit to sell groceries, The
rest were all so polite -at first, I think,
because ] was woman, but after
wards they really seemed to like to or
der from me, and as have had prac-