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The true Democrat. [volume] (Bayou Sara [La.]) 1892-1928, 1897-08-28
Insane Negro Attempts Suicide.


At Alexandria, last Friday, night
about8:30 o'clock a negro by the name
Of Arthur Pembroke, aged thirty
years, while in state Of mental aber.
ration, attempted to commit suicide by
cutting his throat with knife. He
partially severed, the windpipe and lost
considerable blood. Physicians were
Immediately summoned and tube
inserted. He is now lying in critical
condition, but it is thought that he will
recover. Pembroke became insane
about three years ago, and was sent to
the asylum at Jackson, La. He re-
NAMED there some time and was re-
leased as cured. Since his return he
has been in the employ Of Mr.. J. A.
Williams, as porter in his store. p
The true Democrat. [volume] (Bayou Sara [La.]) 1892-1928, 1897-08-28
Meeting of the Bar.

A meeting OF the Lafourche bar was
held in Thibodaux Saturday with
view of determining whether or not
this parish should be represented at
the Alexandria convention to be held
on September /. There were seven
lawyers present, and of the number
Judge L. P. Cailouet was elected as
chairman and Earle Knoblock as SEQ
rotary. A motion was made and adopt
ed to the effect that all of the lawyers
of thejparish be named as delegates to
the aforesaid convention.
Shreveport and Red River Valley Railroad.
The mayor and board Of supervisors
of Shreveport have ordered an election
to be held on Sept. % for the purpose
of taking the sense and wishes of prop
erty owners upon the question Of levy
ing a $4,000 tax or 2 IL mills per
annum in aid OF the new Shreveport
and Red River Valley Railroad. II
the tax is voted the company will begin
construction Immediately and will
complete their line from Shreveport to
.Coushatta within year.
The true Democrat. [volume] (Bayou Sara [La.]) 1892-1928, 1897-08-28

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The herald., 1897-07-18

physiological chemistry has gone far
toward demonstrating that the great
majority, in fact, if not most of the
processes of disease in general, are due
TO toxic substances in one form or an
other. l would divide toxic substances
INTO five groups, the most important OF
which are the auto-toxic. consider that
these poisons merit much consideration
because they will come ere long to be
recognized as factor of great import
ance in the production of nervous and
mental diseases. 1t is only through the
most profound analysis of physiological
chemistry linked with cautious and ex.
tended animal experimentations that We
can slowly feel the way along toward the
ultimate explanation of the auto-toxif
group of diseases.
When it is remembered that the whole
animal body is composed of the most
complex chemical compounds, which are
necessarily undergoing new aggrega
tons and seggrega tions; when one re-
calls the complex chemical Celebrations
of the secretions and digestive processes
of the alimentary canal, the chemistry
of general tissue changes and all that
goes on In the human body both in d.
viding what is nourishing in food from
that which ID waste, it can be plainly
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crowd was hot for Lamplighter, for most
OF EN- were friends of Dutch Walbaum.
anu they didn't think his boss could lose
But he did, all the same, and the ticket
began to look like good thing. think
it wound up on Censor, that was runnin'
at the Gut but I'm not certain. Any
way, the boss was favorite and backed
down. When he won you ought to seen
the crowd around Coffee. Why, Lord
bless my SOUL every fellow wanted to
embrace the old tout, even though he
was in flannel shirt and unshaved.
Well, he got his s1301 just the same, and
the fizz water flowed for an hour or two.
to say nothin' Of the real wet drinks.
You ought to seed Coffee the next
day. Damn f he didn't have on a check
suit and belt. or sash, or surcingle, or
whatever you call it, an a deaf man
could've heard him comm round the cor
ner. Oh he was out of sight. guess
the room got NEST of the money back
putty soon, for Coffee wasn't a piker
The herald., 1897-07-18
The New New England

The trolley roads are rapidly covering
Massachusetts, Rhode Island and Con-
necticut with a network that is slowly
and surely redistributing the popula-
ton; 1t seems almost inevitable that a
great part of the present rural area of
these three states will ultimately be in
cluded in the suburbs of their numerous
and widely scattered industrial CEN
tiers and of their dozen or more larger
cities. When this condition arrives, If
it does arrive, rural life will have be-
come suburban, and farming, aside
from market gardening, will have prac-
tically disappeared. The bicycle and
good roads are eXerting a minor but
considerable influence in the same d.
rection.
Equally important Is the fact that
large areas in all sections Of New Eng
land are in process Of transformation
from farms to sites of country seats.
Residents Of the cities are coming more
and more to make their real homes in
the country. They are building their
country houses with more comfort and
more solidity and are living in them a
much larger part Of the year than
formerly. The country season extends
already from the LIST of May to the let
Of November and is still lengthening.
Improved railway and, steamboat
transportation, the multiplication of
large fortunes, greater leisure, above all
a growing appreciation Of the sports
and resources of country life, have con-
tributed to this result. 1t looks very
much as If our urban society were at
taching itself primarily to the land
living on the land and leaving it for the
city only in, the festive season. Whether
this tendency will produce again a
landed arfstocracy instead of an aris-
tocracy of other forms of wealth, who
can say? One thing only is sure-it
would produce thereby a new New Eng
land,-Atlantic Aonthly.
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TO CYCLE ON NEPIUNE'S BOSOM
SUMMER GIRLS SPIN ALONG THE WATERS OF THE SEINE
IN sEXTUPLET AFFAIR THAT
IS A WONDER
Special Correspondence to The Herald.

Special Correspondence to The Herald.
PARIS, July 3.-We have a new fad
and 1t belongs to the summer girl 1t
Is strange creation and partly am
phibious. The name given to 1t is the
bicycle shell. for while it is impelled after
the fashion of bicycle, that part of it
which comes in contact with the water
is constructed after the lines of racing
she'll
A eextuplet affair, the six girls who
ride in it have the jolliest Of times. 1t
is genuine Adamless Eden, for there is
no record as yet of any man having
been permitted to enjoy the social de-
lights of this method of cycling. The
ordinary bicycle boat has done very well,
when with all the impetus the riders
could give it made four miles an hour.
This latest invention has done fifteen
miles an hour, and there is no indication
whatever that the limit has been
reached. In fact, those who have be-
come expert in it's use say that beyond
question there are possibilities in the
sextuplet bicycle shell which will in time
be a source of amazement.
Some of the young ladies who have
tried to learn the art of steering this Pc
culiar sort of cycling have had some
very undignified falls, for the bicycle
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was too slow. He was combiratio
fiend. and he had one up his sleeve for a
fact, but he couldn't get nibble, though
he had eight snaps, as he called them
with his dollar he went to the COM
bination man, old Gray Charlie Duke,
and asked him what he'd lay again the
whole list, about eight or nine HOSES
all to win. Some Of EN- were as good as
10 to l, and rome of 'em worse'n even
money Old Gray kind of skinned the
list over an said:
".Oh, write your own ticket, Coffee
an he pushed a ticket out to him. COT
fee was a neat penman, havin' had q
good education, and he wrote all the
names down. / don't recollec' all Of the
list, but Tammany was at the head.
an old bones Raceland, and Factotum,
an Wah Jim. an Copyright, an ST.
Pat-he was as good as 10 to land i
think Sir Walter was among 'em. But
anyhow, most of 'ean were crackerjacks
when he pushed the ticket in old
Charlie says: Coffee, you didn't put
the odds on. Will 1000 to be enough
"I guess so; but maybe you'd better
make it thirteen, just for luck. You
know 1 always was lucky on thirteen
An that was a fact, too, for he was the
only gam I ever see that was stuck on
that bloody number. So. just to accom-
modate Coffee, Old Gray made out the
ticket 1900 to 1. Then everyone was on
the ticket, and all the sneet-writers,
cashiers and touts was kiddin' and
,aughin' over the wonderful ticket But
it got interestin' after awhile, an don't
you forget it. The horses kept on win
MIN right along until the Tammany
Lamplighter race was pulled off. The
The herald., 1897-07-18
strange FACTS REVEALED BY A BLAST
CROSS EMBLEMATIc OF THE RELIGIOUS FERvoR OF
THE SEVENTEENTH CENTURY HAS JUST SEEN
LIGHT AFTER YEARS

uate the vain claims of France to the
country, a claim which horrid massacres
and hard fought battles failed to sub
stantiate, was ever unearthed. Another
fact, too, is that this is the only expedi-
ton of such seeming Importance which
failed through one of it's members at
least to achieve lasting fame. 1t is only
by accident that the facts stated here
with are obtainable. They are a be-
quest by an educated man of the period,
who, hearing of the tale of adventure
and exploration, fancied that some time
the facts in the case might be useful
Therefore he jotted them down, and in
this way the history of the Lachne ex-
petition is still known at the close of the
nineteenth century.
La Sale has lasting memorial in IL
linois. Father Marquette is better known
today than he was a century and half
ago. All through the Canadian prov
inces and the states that line their bor-
ders the names of Jesuits and French
officers are perpetuated by their hav-
ing been given to either localities or nat
The herald., 1897-07-18

realized how abundant the opportunity
Is for the creation of peculiar conditions
of a poison and its instant action upon
the human system.
Even a doctor finds it hard to always
tell where the Line is between the nutri-
tious and the injurious, or just at what
point certain processes Of the human
system must stop in order to avoid evil
results 1t only takes the very slightest
change in the elements that go to make
I'D the fluids and tissues of the body to
cause a Transformation from the useful
to the injurious. When you stop to think
of this, it cannot be considered strange
that with all the complicated chemistry
of the body, with the operations of the
wonderful mechanism that controls It,
it is easily apparent that it would be
no difficult matter for the machine to
get out of order slightly and sufficiently
for the development of abnormal poi
sonous chemical compounds.
Neither can it be considered strange
that posons that come into existence
under the usual conditions of the body
are often not nullified because of the de-
ransement of the organs whose func-
tions appear to be largely If not wholly
for the purpose of notification. 1t occa-
sionally is the case. too, that, owing to
the failure of the liver or the kidneys to
act properly there is retained in the body
certain waste that should have passed
from it, and that waste in time becomes
poison.
NOW it is more than probable that the
victims of sunstroke, as it is called-re-
al ythe victims of auto-toxic poison
are persons in whose body, probably I'M
known to themselves, there exist certain
conditions favorable to the formation of
this mysterious auto-toxic poison. Just
how far this is true of course we do not
know. My profound conviction is that
very many examples of mental and not
a few instances of nervous disease are
caused by the action of auto-toxins or
poisons on the nervous system. This
conviction is the result of profound and
The herald., 1897-07-18

their greater muscular power would
furnish an irresistible impetus 1t is
estimated that, all things being equal,
man can, II he DESIRES ride third
faster than woman. This being the
case, If the shell will permit of the in
crease. there seems to be no reason why
the speed of the shell should not become
third greater than it is possible for the
summer girl to make.
| An odd fact in connection with the new
invention is that it seems to be encour-
aging the new woman idea. Ordinarily
the summer girl looks on nothing with
more horror than the prospect of being
away from the summer young man, but
the popularity of the new machine and
the fact that it is the custom to form the
crew only of young women has really
reconciled her in part to the absence OF
the adorer. This may seem an extrav-
agant statement, but the fact that it Is
true is what makes it odd. 1t is at pres
emit the custom to make about a twenty
mile run on bicycle shell. The ordi-
| nary motion Of the shell, at the rate Of
speed generally used, is just sufficient
not to tire the riders in the least and yet,
If the weather happens to be warm, suffi-
GENTLY rapid to create O. breeze that
cools and invigorates. Instead of after
noon teas and luncheous the summe..
girls are now organizing bicycle shell
parties. While the manufacturers of the
new invention are doing the hest thew
can to fill the orders that have come.
to them, they find it impossible tn fill tba
demand. Therefore the rowboat and
steam launches are still somewhat non
ular. The fashionable method IS to conn
bine the two. The launch ia filed with
portion Of the party who have not vet
experienced or are unable to eniov tbs
delights of riding the bicycle shell Ped
aling along close to the launch eoes tho
shell and it's sextette of riders Al ore
within easy conversatio distance and
very iolIv +ip,e resu1ts uban w. it,,
cIists GROW weary thew arc taLer ahoord
the 1aunch and their oueer m.obino ia
lowed the fact that # has IN eaot sids
two long cipar-sbaned cv1indsrs so,,,a1
tbinp after the fashion Of o,,t-r;ggare,
making this nossible
| Sometimes n is tho coe,o +,.+ uha .ho
civ. ORIGINAL r;dsrs haoor,a .iraa 49,.
merely exchange nlaces With civ o+hers
in tho launcb and tbus OIL roor,hars -
the marty have an onnortunity 70 enioy
the delights of tho shall Opa rioht We
The herald., 1897-07-18

shell, like all marine contrivances, Is
very apt to tip over If sufficient impetus
from one side or the other is given. This
was illustrated not many days ago,
when a party of six demoiselles, the
daughters of well-to-do citizens, started
out on the Seine for trial trip. These
particular six young women had never
ridden together before, even on land,
and so they were not familiar with the
wheeling ideas of one anothr. Now.
everybody who has ever ridden a wheel
knows that no two riders ride alike. If
they had witnessed the consequence of
ignorance in this particular case, they
would be more convinced than ever.
The shell steers by the action of all
six of the riders and not through mech
anism controlled by the stern. 1t Is,
therefore, absolutely necessary that the
riders work in unison, and the captain
of the ride tells the other riders what to
do Just as the coXswain in a regulation
shell gives directions to the stroke ore.
She gave the directions this time prop
erly enough, but one Independent young
woman preferred her own way The re-
suit was that in less time than it takes
| to write this the whole six were spilled
into the Seine, and though all were fished
out in safety there were several narrow
escapes.
| The boat is very buoyant, and not at
all cranky. The idea in constructing it
was to make 1t as safe and simple as pos
sible. If the riders care to train as peo-
pie always train who row in boat to-
gether-not for proficiency so much as
unanimity-there would be no danger
Whatever. The pedaling motion by
1.-THE young women acts as the power to
move a steel propeller shaft,which starts
at the stern of the shell and stops little
short of the bow. There is no danger
whatever of its becoming twisted or out
| of order, for the main object of the in
ventor has been to preserve it from all
| twisting sidewise motion which might
easily bring about disaster. Every ex-
pertinent that could be thought of has
been tried to make it absolutely safe and
sure, and the motion of the boat indi-
Gates that these efforts have met with
perfect success.
The balance wheel of the mechanical
part of the shell is located in the center,
and carries the propeller over the neces-
sary point without any difficulty. Every
time the pedals of the bicycle gearing
| lIldht OHc IcNOlullOu Tile pIOpcllci az liz
stern makes five. To understand ex-
actly what this means and gain correct
idea of the speed of the shell, just watch
how many times a minute the pedals re-
volve when a rider is moving at an ordi-
nary rate of speed. Then multiply this
by five and you will have the exact num-
Der Of the revolutions of the propeller
per minute. 1t is a we'll known fact that
] iv1II
propeller of certain size means a. given
degree Of speed, and in that way the ex-
act time which the shell can make can
| be calculated.
This is the basis upon which the cal
culation is made which furnished ground
for the statement regarding speed pos
sibilities previously made. NO one has
yet scorched on the bicycle shell, and
vet there is no reason why they should
not. 1t is also possible that If men were
Ito ride the machine rather than women
The herald., 1897-07-18

prolonged study of the changes caused
in the nerve cells by the action Of poi
son.
ut is plain enough why the nervous
system is particularly susceptible tp
such poison as affects the sufferer in
case of sunstroke. The most complex
ganglion. The internal structure of
this ie so intricate and delicate that it
instantly feels the effect of a poison
much more readily than is the case with
the nerve cells that go to make up the
majority of the tissues of the human
body. In sunstroke there is an acute
degeneration of the nervous system. To
be sure there are various degrees of
severity, and according to my belief this
variation is solely due to the gradations
of virulence of the poison.
while the nature of the poison is
entirely obscure, there is absolutely no
doubt of the way it acts upon the nervous
system. The poison produces an acute
degeneration of the cortical cells, which
in some instances goes SO far as to utter
ly destroy the cell. Oftentimes nerve
cells are only partially destroyed, and
this is due to the fact that the duration
Of the action varies. While the poison
may be intensely virulent, if it acts for
brief period only on the nerve cells,
nature will often repair the damage
that has been caused, up to a certain
point. However much she may try
nature seems unable to place the cell in
exactly the same condition as it was be-
fore it encountered the poison.
IF the action of the poison continues
beyond a certain period, the nerve cell
cannot be saved from destruction. The
sufferer either dies or continues to live
either in a damaged mental condition
or suffering from permanent physical
disability. I have no hesitation in say
ing that the whole question of life and
death with a patient poisoned by what
is called sunstroke, depends upon the
action of his internal organs in eliminat-
| ing the poison from the system. This
chances are that a man in perfect con-
dition will not die from sunstroke, but
of how few persons this can be said.
apparently there is no greater safe
guard against death from sunstroke
than to keep ones kidneys in a normal
condition. If the processes necessary
to send this poison from the system are
checked, it means death or insanity in
nine cases out of ten to the victim"
The herald., 1897-07-18
COFFEE COLOR HAD GREAT LUCK
Bet His Money on a 1900 to l Com
bination and Won

There was notice in the sporting col
umns of New York paper few days
ago that announced in a few words the
death of Seri Adams in one of the char
ity hospitals. Some few of the small
army of men who are around Cincinnati
at the present day engaged in the un-
certain but exciting pastime of backing
the ponies will know who Adams was.
But they will better recall him under the
name of Coffee Color" a nickname CIV
en- him by his chums on account of his
coffee and cream complexion. He was
not mulatto, however, as he came from
a well-to-do family in Sedalia, Mo. He
was the black sheep of the flock, and in
a way dropped into the sporting circle
at st. Louis seven or eight years ago.
where he earned questionable notori-
ETY. by means Of his success in picking
winners
Concerning Coffee Color" one of the
stablemen at Latonia, when his death
was mentioned, said:
Il remember him well, but only after
he was on his uppers and drifting
around the poolrooms in. New York try :
ing to pick up dollar os SO by 'touting
He made winning one day in the pool
room that was the talk Of the gang for
week. 1t was in the latter part of
September, '93, think. Anyway. it was
the day that they had the big match al
Gutenberg between Lamplighter and
Tammany and the Dutchman, Wal
baum, almost went broke on Lamplight-
er, and Marcus Daily made a whole lot
and then lost some on Tammany Tall
about betting nowadays. Why, al
the betting done around here is only pix.
ing. Pom my word 1 heard Johnny Co
burn say that one of the CUTS book.
that day had $4,000 in on that mattel
alone, and very few of the bets were
less'n $500, and two or three of EN- were
in the $4,000 stake class.
"Oh. yeh. About Coffee Color Well
on that day he had sure inside ir.forma
ton from Days stable that Tamman,
could not lose. Then in some of til,
other races at Saratoga and Monmouth
I think, he had sure things Factotum
Copyright and Raceland were some @,
them. That was te day when Bill Dial,
made killing on Factotum. Well, Cot.
fee hadn't dollar to him name. Not &
nickel He tried to get stake, but yo,
know winner hates to lend. Break:
his luck, you know. But that didn'
worry Coffee He went around ant
begged the price Of drink from a dozer
or two fellows and scraped up dollar
He wasn't playing single bosses. That
The herald., 1897-07-18
Profited by His Conviction

A Scotch cobbler, described on the
police books as notorious offender"
was sentenced by Forfar magistrate to
pay fine of half crown or in default,
twenty-four hours hard labor. If he
chose the latter he would be taken TO the
Jail at Perth. "Then I'll go to Perth"
he said, "for have some business there"
An official conveyed him to Perth. but
when the cobbler reached the Jail he
said he would pay his fine. The governor
found he would have to take it. And
now,' said the cobbler, II want my fare
home" The governor demurred, but
discovered there was no alternative the
prisoner must be sent at the public ex-
pense to the place he had been brought
from. So the canny Scot got the shil-
hngs 81 pence which represented his
fare, did his business and went home tri-
umphant--two pence halfpenny and a
railroad ride the better for his offense.-
Scottish American
The herald., 1897-07-18

ural objects of interest. In each of these
cases the history of the original owner
of the name is carefully treasured.
The Lachine expedition accomplished
much for France and the church. 1t
opened a way for civilization that had
heretofore been impossible. 1t gave to
others the glory of conquest and achieve
ment, while the men who made all this
possible are almost unknown. The cross
is the only lasting memorial of the ex-
petition. 1t is through the kindly Of
fees of nature and not of man that this
is so.
The herald., 1897-07-18
Mackey's Friendship for ochiltree

John w. Mackay not only has kind
heart, but he is always the staunchest
and truest of friends.
For weeks poor old Tom Ochiltree
has been lying i'll at Chamberlain in
Washington, where he has made such
little progress toward recovery that his
friends and physicians determined, tc
remove him to New York.
Mackay was on hand at once with a
special car for the use of his old friend
but Tom wasn't equal to such a lone
journey, and SO he is still there and ii
enough to cause alarm.
But when he gets we'll enough to Use
lit he will have at hand the special ca,
or anything else that Mackay can pro.
vide.-New York Journal.A