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The Louisiana populist., 1897-11-26

Messrs. Gamble and Russ re-
fused to accept the nominations Of
fered them rather than change
their publicly expressed views.
how different from the average
Democratic ofice-seeker! Such
men are very apt to stand BY prin-
c1p'es ] which they will not exchange
Tor !. Office. Read the platform as
they endorse it, and if it salts you.
vote for Russ and Gamble.
The Louisiana populist., 1897-11-26

Go to L. K. Burnside's for
cheap Groceries, he will have in a
few days full line of Fruits, Toys
and Christmas presents, also a fine
line OF Wines, Liquors, etc. Po-.
lite attention ut all times.
The Louisiana populist., 1897-11-26

The Normal School opened
promptly on the 2snd as announc-
cd, after a vacation prolonged
nearly 2 months by the general
quarantine in the State. The at
tendance was most excellent. be-
ing nearly equal ON the first day to
the usual openings. This will be
a prosperous session.
The Louisiana populist., 1897-11-26

Mrs. G. Sheppard offers as a
premium to her many patrons, q
chance in two handsome prizes for
each purchase Of 81 worth of goods.
The first prize Is a beautiful sofa
cushion, and the second a dainty
inonchoir case, to be ratified off da-
ring the Christmas holidays. Each
dollar spent with this popular Mil
liner entities one tn a chance in
these prizes.
The Louisiana populist., 1897-11-26

Ihe Democrats Of this p,rish
]. net y convention At the Court
noose Wednesday, and nominated
6 ior de'esates to the Constitutional
sonvent'on Y from this parish, MI.
y ! 4. Presley Police Juror 81 ward
.nd District Attorney Bre.seale
of IL ward. As will y 81
s''sy are both oiise. olders ALREADY.
and are ftsing representatives Il
|she ring Democracy of this p,,r-
|ish. s'''S Sc
The Louisiana populist., 1897-11-26

Everything pretty and new in
the Notion line, such as Handker.
chiefs, Belts, Fascinators, Feather
Boas, Shawls, Baby Sacques and
Hoods can he found at Mrs. C.
SHEPPARES.
The Louisiana populist., 1897-11-26
CAaTe3T9I-A.
''':'''l ''':'''l[<4z1zsx ,::;;.. $;

The Democrats Of this parish
elected 80 delegates to attend their
State convention, and not being
able to find that many Of their
own disciples, they selected a few
fopulists we are told one being
]. B. McNauxhton.
The Louisiana populist., 1897-11-26

Jurors for December term Of
court will 6nd il to their interest
to call It the City Hotel for board.
They will fnd'as Roodsfare and Is
low prices as any place in town,
ana moro convenient to the court.
house. q
The Louisiana populist., 1897-11-26

WANTED -TEUSTNORTHY AND
V ACTIVE gentlemen OF .idies to
Iayel for responsible, established house
n Louisiana Monthly S65.OO and 81.
Renses. Position steady. Referencs
e enclose sell addressed stamped envelope.
Ire Dominion Company, Dept. 4. Chi.
cxgo NOV IA a.
The Louisiana populist., 1897-11-26
Shoes.

Shoes Shoes.
The larges, best and cheapest
line Of shoes will be found st 4.
a. I Ducournsu. Call and examine
1or yourselves, nov. 26.
The Louisiana populist., 1897-11-26
Lsst Of Jurors

Drawn to serve at the December
|! term Of 10th District Court, Par.
ish Of Natchitoclies.
The Louisiana populist., 1897-11-26

msn; No. 2 foeI women; 10. :, fur skin diseases;
Va. !. fcr catisrA. Ftss, q pAee booklsk b
writing y md lnsntiunins this papa.
The Louisiana populist., 1897-11-26
THE BOSS BARBE.s.

CHARLEY TUCKER. who
presldes over the FAMOUS Ton 4
8 sorlai q Parlors on end Street, near
.ne Courthouse, will give you the
best and quickest shave in town.
Halr. cutting in all the L,test
styles : done tosperfection. (all on
The Louisiana populist., 1897-11-26

~ oenfllne 10e 0ymp.
to0 blanli. No IA ~
The San Francisco call., 1897-03-28

A the oofniis above MaSsIass dTsIIs
Ax4S a man who has out-Th horeaued
Tnoreau. and gained for himself an inter-
national reputation as close observer of
nature in her most awful moods, and yet
whose personality is probably as little
known to the world at large as was that of
the recluse of Walden Pond to the con-
Etemptuous world a. bout him.
For something over two years Thoreau
dwelt by Walden Pond and kept his
famous and fascinating record of the wild
life about him. but for more than thirteen
years John Muir dwelt, solitary, among
the businesses of the high Sierrss, beside
the great glaciers that have been the study
of his lifetime. Away to the northwest,
in the noun tains of Alaska, stands the
little hut whore he dwelt for some years
and made his observations of Muir
Glacier; and here and there, on Whitney,
Hood. Shasta and Lyell, are other cabins.
none of them more than the merest camps
for a night, where the hero of science
made his lonely owelling-place.
There is something uncontrollabIe in
every man that makes him do the thing
he supremely desires, even when his judg-
ment disapproves," John Muir said once,
when asked why he elected to spend some
of the best years OF his life in places where
not even the Indians wandering through
the mountains dared venture.
Certainly this something uncomfortable
ruled his destiny and compelled him to
the pursuit of his supreme desire. He
wanted 10 know something about the mar
vaIous ica formations of the Pncific Goa st
mountain ranges. So he studied them
until Agassiz said of him that "'he prob
ably knew more about glaciers than any
other man in the world"
I spent charming day with Mr.. Muir
and his family on the Martinez ranch not
long ago. The famous mountaineer does
not look the hardy, daring, even reckless
explorer that he has been. He is of
medium height, slender, even delicate, in
appearance, with laughing blue eyes and
curling hair, now thickly sprinkIed with
gray He is a mooel farmer and the
casual observer might spend day with
him and see only the leisurely, wealthy
country gentleman of eholarly taste,
with prediction for scientific study, a
little inclined to Incidence, perhaps-an
inclination which the genial Californian
climate fosters in her children. But there
is scarcely Derilous, albeIt inaccessible,
peak of the high Sierras that Mr.. Muir
has not scaled, carrying no blankets,
sleeping in snowy riffs and icy caves, liv-
ing upon dry bread aud the chilly waters
of the melting glaciers month after
month through long Sierra winters, COM
ing down to the haunts of civilization
The San Francisco call., 1897-03-28

are rare is demonstrated by the increased
and ever increasing number of young men
and young women who seek admission to
Berkeley. In fact. it needs no argument
to prove that few years spent at
university are not only beneficial
but are indispensable for those who
do not mean to be hewers of wood
and drawers of water. Every community
is ruled by u few men, the brightest, the
bravest, the most cultured, the most hon.
orable, the most universally respected.
Where shall we find such men except In
the ranks of university graduates2 It Is
only at university that young minas in
the receptive stage can be brought into
contact with the ablest intellects of the
past and of the present, and can obtain by
attrition with each other the high grain
and polish which com mmand the obedience
though they may arouse tho envy of the
mob. 1t is only at university that young
men find their level, and, as the boys say,
get the nonsense knocked out of them. It
is only in such institutions that whatever
is noblest in young man is brought out,
and that he is forced by competition to do
his level best.
Graduates of the saloon and the corner
grocery sneer at college professors and
college students. taking comfort out of an
alleged sayiug OF Horace Greeley, that he
would rather have the opinion of an illit-
crate Kentucky farmer on a question of
politics than that OF college pro-
fessor in Western New York. Mr.. Greeley,
however, stocked his Tribune not with IL.
literate farmers but with university grad
yates, and his own English was pure and
undefiled. Every man who has read his
tory or observed life will testify that
the opinion of the majority of men is
generally wrong. The voice of the people
is not the voice of God; quite the contrary.
1t is the masses who EN- brace popular de-
lusions and go crazy over 16 to /, or other
vagaries. 1t is the time-servlng dema-
gogue who aids and abets them in their
folly from base and corrupt motives
the stalwart fight for the truth, which so
often saves nations from the consequences
OF an ignoble policy, Is fought by the few,
who probably acquired their knowledge
at university.
But, say the masses, we can't ell send
our sons and daughters to Berkeley. OF
course not. The narrow precincts of that
alma mater would be inconveniently
crowded if you could. And though there
are very few young men and young
women who would not be benefited by
few months or years study at the uni
versity, there are undoubtedly, as the old
saying ran, some 50-cent boys upon whom
a $4,000 education would be wasted. But
the father who assumes that his boy is
5O-cent boy before his mind has fully
opened takes an awful responsibility.
Some of the ablest men the world has
stupidity at school. No one had then
come along with the key which opened
the lock of their soul. Was it Brutus who
passed for fool until Lucretia's wrongs
reused him to expel the Tarquins from
Rome? JOHN BONNER.
The San Francisco call., 1897-03-28
Hanging dream-like and eyrie,


do not make a man garrulouS; but on
that long spring afternoon he sat and
spun stories that were like tales out of
dreamland. He told OF climbing for
weeks along the course of glacier-not-
ing its movement. studying its action
carrying on his back a sack of bread, in
his pocket some matches and packet of
tea. These were his stores. A little
melted snow or ice boiled in a tin cup
made his tea, and on this fare he did such
work, endured such hardships as fell to
the lot OF few men. Bread and books
are all man needs" he said, as he deity
severed the Joints of & plump, brown
turkey at table. Have some more of the
dressing?" and he fell to telling of a
Christmas morning be spent on the top of
Sierra ridge, where half hundred birds
focked about him to share his holiday
meal of dry bread and water. "l never
carried a gun." he said, land suppose
they would not have known one, anyway,
but they were tame as house doves. /
could gather an audience any morning by
whistling. The birds would fly round and
round my head, posing on their out
stretched wings, and drink in every note. !"
l asked him if it was really true, state
ment of his had somewhere seen, to the
effect that he had found all wild creatures
seeming to possess q curious dislike for
the air of ''Old Hundred" ..True as
preaching" he cried. i've tried 1t hun
dreds of times. I remember once Doug
lass squirrel came borhering about camp,
and 1 couldn't frighten him off. Money
couldn't have hired me to kill the little
chap, but he would raid my bread pack
before my very eyes and sit and chatter
nonsense at me right over my head. He
liked to hear me whistle, and would lis
ten, keeping time with his little red head,
as long as had breath to make sound.
At last l remem bered former experiences
with birds and small creatures, and l be-
gan to whistle old Hundred Upon
my word, hadn't reached the second line
before that fellows heels twinkled in the
air, and he was gone like a FASH" and the
glacial student chuckled over the memory.
Mr.. Muir's thirteen years of close OBJ
servation of the glacial phenomena
nave yielded him vast amount of
knowledge regarding the formation of
the many lakes and rivers held within the
Sierra's businesses. His theories regard
ing these are original and interesting.
According to him every lake IN the Sierras
is glacier lake. They have been formed by
the slowly melting glaciers. They have dis
appeared, from time to time, as the great
ice-current has receded. Some have met
with accidental death, so to speak, be-
meath avalanches. and the basins of others
The San Francisco call., 1897-03-28
Newest Thing in
Money Sweating

One of the most puzzled men in town is
Montgomery. street restaurant-keeper
who recently took in a $40 gold piece
which filled all the ordinary requirements
of genuineness so far as superficial test
could reveal the true facts, But few
days ago banker stepped into his place
and saw the $40 piece which the restaur-
ant man had received only short time
before. The banker had a queer look in
his eyes as he took the coin and raped it
sharply with his knife and the restaurant
keeper had a stranger expression as he
saw his supposed $40 piece break into two
pieces.
"How is thls?" he demanded.
The banker answered: "It is the same
old game. | had one of those pieces my
self, and since that I have tested gold
pieces of the $40 denomination very care.
fully. If that had been genuine my tes.
would not have broken it."
Then the restaurant keeper and the
banker carefully examined it together.
The outside of the gold piece was all right,
seemingly. when the discovered parts
were placed together. The milling seemed
to be up to the standard. The weight was
correct.
But the inside of the piece was half
filed with a composition which was not
the customary gold and alloy. Still
closer examination revealed that the gold
had been sawed through with exquisite
care and skill just inside of the milling.
Then the milling had been removed and
from the interior of the piece some of the
gold had been extracted and the baser
composition was made to take the place of
the more precious metal. Then, with
equal deftness and skill, the milling had
been replaced and soldered in some way
and the trick was DONE
The San Francisco call., 1897-03-28

Wf2TTE must be very careless or very
~ blind who does not discern in
ISES the unanimous grant by the
Legislature of an additional 1-cent tax to
the University of California, in the liberal
donations of publlc-spirited citizens and
in the increasing interest taken by the
people at large in the affairs of the lnstitu-
ton, substantial evidence of the spread to
this coast of the spirit which has led to
the foundation in the East of such noble
monuments of high education as the uni
versities of Johns Hopkins and Chicago.
1t is evident that California does not pro-
pose to lag behind the older States in the
development of modern university life.
and that neither money nor endeayor will
be lacking to secure on the Pacific Coast
the evolution of the high Ideals which are
the test of lofty civilization. Professor
Joseph LIE Conte expressed simple truth
when he said that the best minds were as
one on the vital necessity of realizing at
Berkeley the true idea of a university. and
on the duty which devolves on its faculty
to prepare its graduates for leadership in
the world of thought and the world OF
action.
Four years ago President DavidlStaIr Jor-
dan, now Of Stanford, delivered the Grafton
on Charter day at the University OF Berke-
ley. In that address he struck the key
note OF modern high education, in the
sentence: "The very essence o. republ-
canism is popular education" Not the
education of the past, which was barren
and old fogyish, and in the course of which
musty old men in libraries tried to make
young men as dry and dreary as them
selves; nor the education of Europe, vi hich
turned out gentlemen and clergymen
garbed in a patchwork of superficial at
ta:nments; but the IDEAL education of to-
day. which takes the common man and
trains him to be wise and gentle and
noble. This cannot be done by books or
lectures; it must be accomplished through
the noble influence of seh-culture, in a
congeniaI atmosphere which makes for
right living, right thinking and right
acting.
In this State public opinion has al
ways been feeble, and consequently the
standard of patriotism has been low.
Scholars have been afraid TO combat
fraud. We have inherited the weaknesses
and crimes of the mother country, and
have not acquired strength enough to
throw them off. 1t is the business OF
great university TO grow race of kings o.
men, who shall be clear sighted enough
to discern the truth, and brave enough
to express it at all costs. They must not
be of the breed of Mr.. Facing both ways.
They must realize that it is their business
TO solve public problems as they arise,
The San Francisco call., 1897-03-28

every year or so for week at time, but
always hurrying back as soon as possible
to his beloved mountains and the glaciers
that claimed him for their own.
The Sierra range is about 500 miles long,
seventy miles wide and from 1000 to l5,-
600 feet high. Ike all the mountain
ranges of California, seen from the plains,
they look bare, brown and uninteresting
giving no hint of the mighty forests, the
deep, mysterious canyons, the great lakes
and rivers hidden away among their vast
nesses. Yet all these are there by the
thousands, and to Mr.. Muir the trails of
wolf and mountain sheep and all the
teeming wild life of the range are as
familiar as Front and East streets are to
San Francisco merchants. The great can
yons of the range, according to Mr.. Muir,
have all, without exception, been cut by
glacial action, and away up among the
peaks glaciers are still at work grading
the mountains and making new passes
that may yet be highways of traffic along
which Macaulay's intelligent New Zea-
lander may ride in a horseless carriage
when he visits California.
81 must get back to the mountains
soon," Mr.. Muir said to me, on the day l
spent at the ranch. "It would be awful
to die down here on the level. I'm not
thinking of dying yet, but when 1 10 leave
here it must be from the peaks" 1t re-
minded me Of something he has some
where said in print. These mountain
mansions are decent, delightful, even di-
vine places to die in compared with the
doleful chambers of civilization"
"You must have had some narrow es-
capes, Mr., Muir" l said, "in your years
of clim bing icy peaks" He smiled. II
was climbing Ritter once" he began,
when, for the only time in my whole life,
my nerves failed me. 1 had been going
on all fours for hours and had no ak to
cut my way. had breakfasted hours be-
fore on bread and tea, and was faint and
exhausted. It was in the dead of winter.
| should never have attem pied that trip
before midsummer but l was hungry to
get 20 the top of the north spurs. Ritter
is some Ii. 900 feet high, and surrounded
by glaciers and canyons thousands of feet
deep. | was up probably 1900 feet
when suddenly foot and hand hold failed
me. There was no going back; there WIS
no going forward. I lay sprawled there
on the ice absolutely unable to move. l
never expected to get out OF that place. I
simply hung there and waited until the
second should come for me to drop. I
suppose it was sheer slide OF 5000 feet
once one started"
L waited breathless for the continue
ton of the narrative, but apparently the
hardy mountaineer thought he had told
enough, for alter long silence he sud-
The San Francisco call., 1897-03-28
BERKELEY'S PHILOSOPHICAL UNION


the unions invitation, and delivered a
series of lectures, notably the public adj
dress in the Harmon Gymnasium on
''The Conception of God," calling forth
replies from Professors Mezes, Le Conte
and Howison.
The next year, Professor Watson's
"Comte, Mill and Spencer" occupied the
union, and the author came out to am
plify his views and to reply to criticisms,
delivering five lectures, which eliminated
in one on 1.-The Greek and Christian Ideals
OF Life.
This year book by Dr. w. T. Harris.
entitled "HegePs Logic" is the object of
study, and the union has already had q
v isit from him, during which he ad-
dressed the society on the main topic OF
the book, namely, 1.-THE Existence and
Nature OF Cod"
This brief sketch of the work hitherto
done serves to give some idea of the scope
and character of the work projected. The
study of each year will result in volume
to be published by the Macmillan Com
pany of New York and London, which, it
is hoped, will be a contribution of perma-
nent value to philosophy. One of the
soi uAASS AoS oAACauJ oPpSniSu, ludt Dy
Professor Watson. bearing the title,
christianity and Idealism." A part of
the aim in these discussions and publica-
tions is to place properly before the world
the philosophical theories contributed to
the history of thought by Professor Howl
son, and to present them in The light
afforded by discussions with qualified rep
resentatives of other doctrines.
The members of the union are carefully
selected, although it Is not expected that
each member will be an expert in
philosophy. Many persons generally
interested in the work and deslrous of
helping to support society with such
aims have attached themselves to it, so
that the members may b. divided into
two classes, those directly engaged in
philosophical study and those who,
although not themselves SO engaged, wish
TO help maintain an organization that
reflects credit and honor upon our State;
for the union is becoming known in
Europe, as well as throughout the East,
for the high character of the work done,
and is undoubtedly one of the most
effective agents in showing to the learned
world our State University in its true
iignt.
The San Francisco call., 1897-03-28

life in all its aspects individual or social,
private or public, ana desiring, therefore,
to promote them among ourselves and
among others. especially in the communi-
ties on the Pacific Coast. hereby unite in
an organization, pledging ourselves to ad-
vance this object by every right means
in our power and adopting the following
constitu tion.'
This constitution states the object OF
the union to be: "The Improvement Of
the mem bers in the knowledge of phil
osophy; the increase OF its control over
their aims and conduct; the formation Of
definite bond among them, and the
strengthening of their sympathy, par
ticularly in regard to their common pur-
suit of philosophy: the awakening of in
terest in philosophy, and ths dissemina-
ton OF it. among all persons on whom
they can exert an influence; and, in par
ticular, the maintenance, at the seat of
the university, of a central association for
philosophical study and discussion"
The society was to meet once month
and to carry on systematic work in phllos-
ophy. The first year was spent in the
study of Plato's Apology" "Crito,"
were read each evening, and the discus
sions were finally summed up by Pro-
fessor Howison. The next subject studied
was the "Theory OF knowledge" to which
the topics of the preceding year naturally
led. Two years were spent on this funda-
mental branch of philosophical study, and
the whole history of philosophy was
traversed in so far as it bears on the ques-
ton whether there is knowledge that
transcends actual experience or whether
all knowledge is merely the result OF ex-
perience. The work of the year was
effectually re-enforced by short series of
lectures by w. R. Alger of Boston, enaing
with one on Immortality" which was a
most impressive address. The two fol-
lowing years (1S92-94) were spent in study
ing John Fiske's Destiny of Man. and
Idea OF God" Mr.. Fiske himself was
consulted. and wrote letters expressing
his interest in the discussion.
By this time it had become apparent
that for really successful prosecution of
the studies proposed it was needful that
the authors studied should come, before
the union in person and express their
views more fully than could be done in
books; especially as the work of each
year developed important criticisms that
called for answer; and none could deal
with such criticisms so well as the au-
thors criticized.
In 1S94-s5. Professor Royce's book, 1.-THE
Religious Aspect of Philosophy" was
studied. and Professor Royce himself
came out in August, 1895, in response to