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The true Democrat. [volume] (Bayou Sara [La.]) 1892-1928, 1897-05-01

Japanese enterprise has developed
into an interesting and profitable form
of trickery in India, where large GUAM
titles of parafiue Candles, pencils and
cheap watches branded as American
goods, but really made in Japan, have
been poured into the markets, greatly
to the disgust of the buyers, who do
not detect the fraudulent character Of
the articles until they use them. These
limitations are greatly inferior to the
American goods, and it is not unlikely
that Japanese manufacturers will suf.
fer for the receptions they are prao-
ticing upon the tradesmen of India,
who are moro anxious than ever for
merchandise made in this country.
The trick Of the Japanese is signiti-
cant, however, in that it shows how
the American models and workman
ship are appreciated by the Orientals,
and it is valuable also as indicating
the cunning and somewhat dishonor-
able competition which our manufac-
turers will have to contend with in
their quest Of larger markets intho far
East.
The true Democrat. [volume] (Bayou Sara [La.]) 1892-1928, 1897-05-01

Agricultural exports last year formed
q shade moro than &C percent OF all
domestic merchandise shipped from
the United States. In '92 there were
nearly 70 percent, and in 10 50 IA
percent. The smaller proportion in
recent years does not necessarily mean,
explains tho American Agriculturist,
that foreigners are taking u less guam
tity Of our farm produce, but rather
that manufacturers are getting foot
hold abroad, shipping increased
quantities of finished goods.
The true Democrat. [volume] (Bayou Sara [La.]) 1892-1928, 1897-05-01

p In the past sixty years the forests
of America have produced tho enor-
nous quantity of 1874, 900, 900, 900 feet,
and the value estimated at moro than
1926, 900, 100000. It is curious re-
Election that the forests, once regarded
as an impediment to the country's set
Element and growth, to be felled and
burned as rapidly as possible, should
80 soon become one Of its chief sources
of wealth, to be considered and pro.
tected by every means know to modern
science and law.
The true Democrat. [volume] (Bayou Sara [La.]) 1892-1928, 1897-05-01
BITTER AND SWEET,

The apple that grows highest is the best
upon the tree;
The rose that is most fragrant always has
the sharpest thorn;
The pearl that Is the purest lies within the
deepest sea,
And the deeds that live the longest are Of
hardest efforts born
The love that's won too lightly is not treas
ured us gen;
The words that flow too freely never have
the greatest weight;
Man appreciates his blessings II no has to
strive for them,
But he never knows their value If they're
passed up on a plate!
>:g> cleveland Leader.
The true Democrat. [volume] (Bayou Sara [La.]) 1892-1928, 1897-05-01
How lle Lost q Friend.

II had q friend once VINO ~ Il
horror of lending money!" SAID ". n
known sporting man last night ",
knew me, and knew me to be netis II
good for any debt I might eonr1sl
lie and 1 were in Chicago once, e n
got broke, cold broke. | needeap
badly and had no one to turn '
cept this friend. I wont to him
told him that l knew bis plgn
against loaning money, but said lls,
ed a hundred so badly that | wss
ing to take the chance: 4 Know
to be good for o $780, said ny ~ =,
but I warn you right now tnss :
borrow that amount or Q nuDp
cents from mo l will never sp e
you again as long as I live: u
dition With your friendship, En- ~
what 1 want is hundred Hep
out his wad and gave ne five Iv.i|
dollar bills. The next day IN n,
talk to him and he would have n0.t 81
to do with me. After se'erA y = p
rebu1s / stopped trying to !, i .. az,
company on him. I paid the -. ~ n
back when ] said I would, ou' ~
alter the debt was Cancelled 10 m
have nothing to do with me- a., d
was ten years ago. I have see. seen I, 4
every day or SO in all tna5 ,!!rl m d
ho has never made the ss'gu y i
Spouse to my ovcrtures. ! o0 a,.
i fpom his him p" and expect to rsts's
friendship. He is cevtmniny oroc
man. New Orleans rime''psD
The true Democrat. [volume] (Bayou Sara [La.]) 1892-1928, 1897-05-01

Says tho New York Times: The
world is growing old and wiser as we'll
as better, but every now andithen we
are brought suddenly face to face with
conditions so anachronistic that for q
moment we can hardly believe we are
living in tho dawn OF the Twentieth
century of Christianity and science.
The Armenian massacres in the full
face of Europe are revival Of the
most horrible cruelties of medieval
ism, and the spectacle of the depopu.
lation of Bombay by the plague recalls
the stories OF hundreds of years ago,
when the science of sanitation was
undreamed OF. A city with nearly q
million inhabitants in the grip of the
king of terrors is gruesome thing
to contemplate in an age when great
savant has proclaimed with plausi-
bility that won him learned followers
that he has discovered the secret germ
Of consumption, and when scientists
enable the eye TO look through flesh
and boards. Is it not reminder of.
Ter all that man is as finite now as
when the tower Of Babel was pro.
jected, and that, strive as We may,
there are still conditions of primitive
barbarlsm that Can never be wholly
0yercOma?
The true Democrat. [volume] (Bayou Sara [La.]) 1892-1928, 1897-05-01
9O0th Anniversary Of the Fork.

Venice is about to celebrate, the
900th anniversary Of tbs first intro.
duct1on of the fork for table use. The
merit OF its adoption belongs to the
Dogo Orsole, who, at the wedding of
his son produced silver fork and a
gold spoon. It was not until 300
years later that the fork reached
France, while it was only in the year
1608 that it was first adopted for table
service in England. Chicago Record.
The true Democrat. [volume] (Bayou Sara [La.]) 1892-1928, 1897-05-01

A wave of prosperity has reached
ghe farmers of Washington, and they
are taking advantage of it to clear
their farms OF indebtedness. It is
stated that there have been q larger
number of releases of mortgages filed
in the recorders Offices Of this state
during tho past three months than
sver before in corresponding period.
The wheat crop last season was good,
and most of it was in the farmers
hands when the rise came, and they
have made good use Of their oppor-
tunitiea
The true Democrat. [volume] (Bayou Sara [La.]) 1892-1928, 1897-05-01

A most commendable undertaking
is on foot in Iowa, where the farmers,
who have been using eern for fuel,
are planning to send it w. the starving
people of India. Governor Drake
has received many communications
from people who offor to present car
loads OF provisions for the farnins
sufferers, if the state will name q COM
mission to take caro- OF them and in
duce the railroads to give free trans
portation.
The true Democrat. [volume] (Bayou Sara [La.]) 1892-1928, 1897-05-01
THE :. TRUE :. DEMOCRAT.
PUBLISHED WEEKLY 1T
ST. FRANCIsvILLE, LOUISIANA.

In the last fifteen years about $780,
900, 900 has been invested in 2,750
electric light central stations in the
United States, and during the same
period some $3.50, 100000 has been in
vested in about 5000 isolated plants.
This shows the enormous develop
ment OF the electric lighting business.
The true Democrat. [volume] (Bayou Sara [La.]) 1892-1928, 1897-05-01

Nevada for many years hos !. ea a..
one Baptist Church. This 1'sstssibliS|
and now a second has been eS'a ~. dt|
at Waaswortb, thirty-f7e m .asn y
tant, with a membership OF Saw
four awaiting baptism.
The true Democrat. [volume] (Bayou Sara [La.]) 1892-1928, 1897-05-01
DEAF SMITH, THE SCOUT.

I tho main hall OF
t b o magnificent
capitol Of Austin,
Texas, there hangs
On INN . n s e
picture, at least
twenty-five b y
fifteen feet, en-
cased in q massive
gilt frame. The
figures. Of which
there are many,
are all of life
size. The more
prominent ar Q
G o n eral S a m
Houston, deaf
Smith" andSanta
Anna. General
Houston is reclin.
ing on a sort of
mattress under a
hinge live.Oak.
The true Democrat. [volume] (Bayou Sara [La.]) 1892-1928, 1897-05-01

IL lAlgnt De gOol luea to drop IN Mt
Scio on the way. He brought his
feet to an. anchor in the roads and
landed $4,000 troops, chiefly janissar-
les. These were joined by robbers
and adventurers from Smyrna, who
were ferried across the narrow strait.
The islanders were taken by sur.
Prise. They had no military organ.
ization and were unprepared to fight.
They offered submission at once and
protested that they did not propose
to dispute the Sultan's authority.
The tapondon pasha pointed to the
castle where the Governor had been
imprisoned and quickly observed that
he proposed to give Scio a lesson. He
let loose bis soldiers, bidding them
treat the island like captured city
which had been given up to sack.
The Turks went about the work de.
liberately. They took two months to
accomplish it. They began by hang
ing the archbishop, the heads of the
clergy and the principal citizens; their
bodies were thrown into the sea and
Aoated round the Turkish ships until
they were eaten by fish. The capital
city, score or moro of hourishing
villages and the splendid churches and
converts built by the Genoese were
then burned to the ground. The PEG.
pie were penned up in corrals, tue
males being separated from the fe-
males. The former were killed to a
man; the latter after q iudicious Sc
lection had been made by the Turkish
army and navy officers, were sent to
Constantinople to be disposed OF in
the slave market. y Gordon {says that
the men who we're slaughtered num-
bered $4,000 and that IS, 600 girls and
children we're sold as slaves. Certain
it is that the price of comely young
women declined fifty per cent. in the
slave markets Of the Levant during the
year 1922, which was the year of the
massacre.
Several thousand Chians, men and
women, took refuge in the cIefts of
the hills, and eluded pursuit. OF these
manv starved to death; others were
The true Democrat. [volume] (Bayou Sara [La.]) 1892-1928, 1897-05-01

After the document was read, the
deaf man waited few seconds for an
answer, then turned and was about to
leave the hall, when Colonel Morton
interposed, and sternly beckoned him
back to the table where he was still
sitting. The stranger obeyed, then
the colonel wrote:
"You were brave enough to insult
NE by your threatening looks ten min
utes ago; are you brave enough now
to give me satisfactlon?'
The stranger instantly wrote in an.
swer: II am at your service"
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1897-12-27

& White men have witnessed these GER
emonies more than once. Some years
ag0 French padre blackened his face
with burnt cork, and, accompanied by
two friends, likewise disguised as ne
groes, attended voodoo festival. At
ter white cock and white goat had
been killed, and the excitement was at
it's height, an athletic young negress
kneIt before the priestess and said: 30,
Mama, I have a favor to ask. Give US
to complete the sacrifice, the goat with
out horns.''
The priestess gave a sign as assent,
the crowd separated, and there was a
child seen sitting with it's feet bound.
In an instant the priest approached it,
a knife in his hand, and the shrek of
the victim aroused the French priest
to realizing sense that murder was
I being done. He cried out, but was
seized by his friends and dragged away,
narrowly escaping with his life. He
laid the matter before the authorities.
| but they made no arrests. On the con-
trary, they were much incensed with
him for making a disturbance, and re-
fused to answer for his safety, so that
he was obliged to fly to another prov
/ ince.-Rene Bache, in Globe-Democrat.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1897-12-27
THE PILOT BOY SHELTER.
Successful Operation of This British
Columbia Plant.

William Braden of the Pilot Bay
smelter, Nelson, B. c., says the Butte
Miner states that about 1900 tons of
ore so far has been milled and the re-
suit is over 800 tons of concentrates,
which will probably average from rs
to so ounces in silver and 20 per cent
lead. 1t will be shipped this or next
week to the Omaha smelter, as the
date OF blowing in the Pilot smelter
has not yet been determined upon The
ore that has been n1illed comes from
the Lucky Jim and Tariff mines, and
some from the Blue Bell Ore has been
struck at the lower or 300-foot level of
the Tariff mine, and at that depth the
ore body is three and a half feet wide,
assaying from IS to 90 ounces in silver
and IS per cent in lead. The ore on
the surface showed a width of is inch
es. The aerial tramway, 1900 feet long,
from the mine TO the lake, is COM
pleted, and is in good running condi-
ton. 1t is bringing down about so tons
per day. The Tariff mine is employing
80 men. The Lucky Jim is down to a
depth of $50 feet and shows 10 feet OF
ore. The vein has varied from four to
IA feet in width, and a vast amount of
work has been done on it. It is 20 miles
above Kaslo and 1,200-foot tramway
carries the ore to bins on the Kaslo &
SLOGAN railway. Twenty-seven men are
employed and about 100 tons per day
are being brought down. The ore con-
centrates about four to one. The capa-
city Of the concentrator at Pilot Bay
is 200 tons per day and, as a result, the
Blue Bell mine is not being worked
steadily.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1897-12-27
The New Rage For Fringe.

Paris Letter to Chicago Paper: The
novelty of the hour is fringe One sees
it everywhere, and it has become the
rage all of a sudden. 1t appears in
silk usually, although there are for
evening gowns fringes of gold, of
beads and jet. The silk fringes are all
widths and all colors and have a wide
variety of headings. just as the fringes
had that our mothers wore at the time
of the war There are novelties In
fringes in the shape of graduated
fringes wide in the middle and tapering
to almost nothing at the ends. These
fringes come in sets, one piece for the
front of the skirt, one or two for the
front of the blouse, and small gradu-
ated pieces for the tops of the sleeves.
One set that I saw in the Rue de Ia
Paix had the skirt piece made very
deep in the middle, measuring in the
deepest part over half a yard, gradu
ating at the ends to two inches. This
was set on in the form of a round over
coat and hung down gracefully. 1t had
a decorative lace heading, topped off
with a cord, and the fringe itself was
heavy and full Two pieces were in
tended for the blouse front, and, like
the skirt piece, were deep in the middle.
This set was in deep seal brown. Mar
row silk fringes, an inch or two wide.
are used great deal for trimming
skirts They are set in rows straight
round the skirt, five or six inches apart.
Sometimes they are headed by a row of
black velvet ribbon, and the effect is
charming.
Velvet, gowns are trimmed a great
deal with fringe, and it is a most ap-
propriate and suitable garniture, being
like the velvet, heavy and rich. A deep
purple velvet trimmed with purple silk
fringe, is a handsome combination.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1897-12-27
Mining Notes.

Journal, Rawlins, Wyo: Mr. Jack
Kurtz has purchased the two ore cars
owned by the Rawlins Paint Mine
company, and will send them up to
the Kurtz-Chattefto Northern Star in
Encamppent
Mr.. Kurtz has made arrangements to
build 1,200-foot iron rail track in the
mine tunnel, and viii take out ore
until the 1st of May. These ere cars
hold a ton each, Mr. Kurtz has re-
ceived returns from the 400 pounds of
ore sent to Denver for a mill run, and
is satisfied with the value of the ores.
Keystone, Ketchum, Ida: 1t is with
regret that we chronicle the death in
Montana, last Saturday, OF Thomas
Gibbons. mining man, formerly of
Utah, and for several years a resident
of Wood River. The past FIVE years
Mr.. Gibbons has been engaged in min
ing operations in Montana. In 1890 he
was q candidate for representative
from this county on the Democratic
ticket. The deceased had many friends
in this part of Idaho, who will deplore
his death.
World, Idaho City, Ida: Charles
Placer company, on Boise river in a
letter to Mrs. Marcus, dated. Dec. IS,
says he will probably work there all
winter for Sam Gundaker, who is lay
ing the pipe to convey water from the
other side of the river. The pipe is
four feet in diameter and the weight
of it all is 100000 pounds The elbows
alone weigh 4,6OO pounds each The
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1897-12-27
TIE BIC BoNANzA.
Title to. Valuable Property Involved
In litigation.

I1tie TO. valuable properly 1nVOlVeQ
In litigation.
The Butte Inter Mountain says:
William Wilson fled an action today
against Dennis Driscoll In his COM
plant, Wilson alleges that on Aug. 81,
1888. the Big Bonanza claim, located
about a mile and a half northwest Of
Walkerviile, was located by John
Sweeney; that the claim was located by
Sweeney with the understanding that
plaintiff was te be the owner. of three
Fights thereof, Sweeney three-eighths
and Sflas E. King one-eighth; that on
March 13, 1888, Sweeney decided to plain
tiff and King each an undivided quar-
ter interest in the claim; that by rea-
son OF this understanding, plaintiff eX-
pended considerable money and per-
formed much labor in working, devel-
oping and extracting ore from said
mine. On Dec. 3, 1889, Sweeney, with
the intent to defraud plaintiff out OF an
eighth interest in the property, held by
him in trust for plaintiff, conveyed the
same to Dennis Driscoll, who now
wrongfully holds the same adversely
to this plaintiff, and who has refused
and still refuses to convey the same TO
plaintiff.
Plaintiff demands judgment for SEE,
alleged to be due him as royalty on ore
taken from the mine; for decree adj
judging him the owner of the eighth
interest in the mine held by defendant,
and that defendant be forever enjoined
and debarred from asserting any claim
whatever in or to the said interest in
the claim adverse to the plaintiff
The Big Bonanza was one of the cele-
brated silver properties of the early
days, and it yielded big money from
the grass roots. 1t was ORIGINALLY To-
Gated asV the Plover, but the original
locators failed to make their pay
ments in the Helena land office, and
it was relocated by Sweeney, who was
then clerk for Dennis Driscoll. A
suit followed, which resulted in a de-
cision in favor of Sweeney, who in
/ later years took about 100000 or $500,
600 worth of ore from the mine.
The property is now being operated
! by William Wilson, and is said to be
yielding silver ore at the rate of from
! SIS, 600 to $4,000 per month.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1897-12-27
Learned lectures On Poetry.

New York Evening Post: Professor
Lannan of Harvard university has
been invited to give during the current
academic year the lectures of the Percy
Turnbull memorial lectureship poetry
at Johns Hopkins university, Balti-
more. The first course was given in
1891 by E. C. Stedman, on THE Nature
and Elements of Poetry" the second
in the University of Cambridge, on
Greek Poetry the third by r. Y.
Tyerell, regius professor of Greek in
the University of Dublin, on Latin
Poetry" the fourth by Professor Nor
ton of Harvard, on Dante" and the
fifth by Professor G. A. Smith of Glas-
gov, on Hebrew Poetry" the sixth by
F. Brunetiere, editor of the Revue des
Deux Mondes, on French Poetry"
Professor Lanman's subject is The
Poetry of India"
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1897-12-27

Sir Knight T. A. Taylor of Montana,
a very successful solicitor and organ
izer, viii take official charge of the
state Of Idaho as state deputy inme-
diately after the first Of the year. His
recommendation ard bonds have been
approved, and commission will soon is
sue.
The G. A R. comrades who attend
the meeting of Mexican post this even
ing viii enjoy it, as Comrade Kimball
of Atlanta will give an account of two
or three visits to Charleston, S. c.,
since the close of the war, together
with that of a visit to Fort Sumter
and the organization of post OF the
Grand Army of the Republic on it's
ramparts, under the shadow of Old
Glory. This also being the closing
meeting of the year, matters of inter-
est will probably be presented and
acted upon. Comrades of Maxwell post
and visiting comrades are cordially in
vited to be present.
The Mexican corps had pleasant
meeting on Wednesday afternoon, and
the transactions of the year were re-
ported by the officers, showing active
interest in the welfare of the veteran
soldiers.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1897-12-27
Extra Lateral Rights.

Western Mining Wcrld, Butte, Mont:
There is a strong sentiment in Mon
tana in favor of doing away with ex-
ira lateral rights. More litigation has
grown out of the attempt of mine
owners to follow their leads under
their side lines than from any other
cause. 1t seldom happens that an in
cline shaft is sunk to a sufficient depth
to follow the vein out of the surface
lines, but crosscuts are run from a
perpendicular shaft to tap the vein
at various depths. In controversial
cases the mine owner is compelled to
prove that the vein encountered out
side his surface lines is the one whose
apex is within those lines. Often this
entails great expense in the way of
exploitation and in litigation
On the other hand, a wealthy mine
owner may tap "a vein lying wholly
within his neighbours property and
claim it as d vein whose apex is in his
own claim. The financial status of the
neighbor may not enable him to de-
fend his rights, and the result is he is
robbed of his ore. The rule is likely
to work a hardship in either direc-
ton, and however Just may be the
findings Of the courts, it is, neverthe-
less, true that the litigation proves ex-
pensive to individuals and harmful to
the mining industry
II is not strange that a strong feel
ing is growing up in favor OF making
the side lines of a claim like its end
lines-the limit. Under the extra lat
eral rights proposition, some veins
would enable the mine owner to
gopher around in the next township
before reaching the end of his priv
ileges. A change in the federal law
doing away with flexible side lines
would not affect properties already
patented, but it would prevent a great
deal OF promised litigation in the fu-
ture.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1897-12-27
The Difficulties of the Waiter.

Walter Raleigh: The stupid acct
dental recurrence of a. single broad
vowel; the cumbrous repetition of a
particle; the emphatic phrase for which
no emphatic place can be found with
out disorganizing the structure of the
period; the pert intrusion on solemn
thought of a fight of short syllables,
twittering like a flock of sparrows; or
that vicious trick of sentences whereby
each, unmindful of it's position and
duties, tends to initiate the deformities
of its predecessor; these are a select
few of the difficulties that the nature
of language and of man conspire to
put upon the writer. He is well served
by his mind and ear if he can win
past all such traps and ambuscades,
robbed only of little of his treasure,
Unidentified by the careless generosity
of his spoilers. and still SINGING.