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St. Landry clarion. (Opelousas, La.) 1890-1921, 1897-03-20
HANNA IN TROUBLE.
Ohio Republican Bosses Beginning
tn Mix.

&.
The news from Ohio indicates that
head-on. collision is imminent be-
tween the Hanna hnmbug and the
Foraker-kurtz-B Bushnell machine. Both
are on the same track and coming at
full speed from opposite directions to-
wards the same point-the Ohio sena-
torship now held by John Sherman.
| Out in Ohio they seem to look upon
| Hanna as ridiculous sort of person,
political incubus and heavy dead
| weight, and they think the best place
for him is at home with his private
business OF organizing iron and steel
combines and freight monopolies.
The Foraker crowd is saying openly
that Hanna came very near electing
Bryan; that the reason Ohio gave
Mckinley only 47,ooo majority instead
Of the 10000 that was expected was
because of Hanna's record as a monopu-
list and oppressor of workingmen and
suppressor Of competition. They
show that the cry OF Cleveland was
unique among the great cities of the
north in that it gave Mckinley but 5000
majority where 1t should have given
him at least 10000. And Cleveland la
Hanna's own city.
These anti-Hanna Ohio republicans
insist that IL Hanna should get the
senatorship the public Indignation
would be so great that Ohio would 60
Overwhelmingly democratic at the
next election. They back up their
statement by very convincing analy-
sis of the election returns
If one did not know how Hanna
hated public life and public Office,
cne would say. from the way he ID
laying about him with Mckinley and
federal patronage as q club. that he
really wished to go to Washington
and save long-distance telephone
charges between Cleveland and the
white house.
Whichever side wins the country will
gain nothing. But the pulverization Of
the Hanna humbug would be amusing.
IN. z. World.
St. Landry clarion. (Opelousas, La.) 1890-1921, 1897-03-20
A Miracle Gum.

One of the most remarkable of war
inventions is attributed to the ingenuity
of Frenchman, Paul Giffard. His
miracle gum is repeating rifle which
employs no gunpowder. Liquifed air,
obtained at pressure hundreds of de-
grees below zero, and thus represent
ing an enormous expansive power, is
the projecting force. This rife is de-
scribed as being much lighter than an
ordinary rife. The steel cartridge, nine
inches long and as thick as ones thumb,
contains 300 bullets, which may be dis
charged as quickly or slowly as desired.
There is no smoke and no flash, only a
sharp and low report. As soon as one
cartridge is empty another can be
screwed on instantly, 300 shots costing
but 21A cents.-C Chicago Chronicle.
St. Landry clarion. (Opelousas, La.) 1890-1921, 1897-03-20
FARMERS WcTlMizED.
How the Protection scheme Robs the
Prod1rcr.

How 6he Protection Scheme R0bs tha
Pr0d1rcr.
It is reported from Washington that
the proposed tariff law will be full of
protection for the farmers. The repub-
lican party has been trying for good
many years to properly protect the
farmers, and still they have steadily
been compelled to accept the assurance
that the next tariff would do the fair
thing by them. That is, the farmers
have continued to live in hope, notwith-
standing the fact that many of them
died in despair. Now, for the seyeralth
time, the farmers are assured by the
republican party that the good thing
they have been eagerly looking for Is
coming right along, and that the next
tariff will embrace the quantity and
quality of protection they need in their
business. This means that, in the opin-
ion of the republican leaders. "the same
old gag" has not as yet outlive1 its use
fulness; that the farmers eyes may still
be fitted with wool binders.
1t is not necessary at this late day to
bring argument to bear on the fallaey
that the farmer can be benefited by re-
publican protection. The history Of
American tariffs is full of evidences OF
such fallacy. The farmer has always
found protection working against him;
never in his behalf. His agricultural
implements and the clothing he and his
family wear he has been compelled to
buy at prices that prove how we'll the
manufacturers are protected, but when
he has gone to the market to sell. ne has
always found projections taking a day
off. The republican party has found it
much easier to fool the farmer than to
make tariff that was of the smallest
advantage to him.
OF cohrse the scheme of republican
protection must embrace the good of all.
Manufacturers. merchants, mechanics
and farmers must come in for share
in its manifold blessings paper, and
il the scheme fails here and there in
operation, there is always plenty of
wool" The republicans will never ba
at a loss so long as the wool" holds out.
1t is perhaps good thing, for them,
that the farmers are disposed to be
credulous, for they can enjoy in antici-
patton the benefits that are quite GER
tain to fail of aterialization.-Bing
hamten IN. W Leader.
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but there is no telling"
"And how long will the present sup
ply last?"
About two weeks"
One thousand bushels of early corn
have been sent for seed This corn
comes in (matures) from three to six
| weeks earlier, and will be of great
help. Five Thousand packages of gar
deem seed have been sent from New
| Orleans. This seed was sent from the
department at Washing ton, and kindly
saved by individuals in New Orleans
for the drought sufferers. Hum
| dreds Of barrels of molasses have
been given by the planters of the
sugar district in southern Louisiana.
The accompanying map will give
some idea of the large area of country
affected by the drought. While it is
| true that near the rivers, though there
was little or no rain, there was crop
made, and the planters have enough
to carry them through the winter,
| nearly every family living within the
shaded territory on the may be called
a drought sufferer.
The relief committee has a heavy
burden on lbs shoulders To care for
5000 people from now until the 1st of
September is a weighty responsibility.
But surely other states and the cities
from which these people have always
gotten their supplies-st. Louis, Kan
sas City and others-will come, un-
called, to the rescue.
1t makes the heart sick to hear these
peoples stories, and if one wished to
see a realism of desolation, the pine
hills of Louisiana would have filed the
bill in the month of August, 1895. But
thinly clad, and often hungry, these
unfortunate people are not grieving
over the calamity which afflicted them,
but, with borrowed teams and a deter
mination that puts some of US to the
blush, they have gone to work in
earnest, and If this year proves fruit.
full, the Louisiana pine hillian will be
as happy as ever.
St. Landry clarion. (Opelousas, La.) 1890-1921, 1897-03-20
THE LOUISIANA FAMINE,
Seventy-Five Thousand Sufferers in
the Thirteen Affected Parishes.
The Terrible Drought of Last Summer and
Its Results-The Great Work of Re-
lief Now Going On-More
Help Needed.

Never in the memory of the Oldest
citizens was there such drought as
scourged north Louisiana in the sum-
mer of 1896. From the 18th of April
10 the last of September there was not
even one rain sufficient to wet the
earth an inch in depth. and in many
places for months not one drop fell
and, what is very remarka BILE. there
was scarcely any dew. In conse-
quence of all this the light soil
OF the hill parishes became dust and
the crops of cotton and corn literally
parched. Acres of forest trees died,
and stock of all kinds, in many places,
starved. In vain did those sturdy
small farmers (for in the hill section
of Louisiana the plantations for the
most part are small and the labor is
done by the owner and his boys)
plant and replant, only to see their
corn wither. The result of all this is
an unprecedented famine. Discouraged
and hungry, families have moved to
other parishes (counties) adjacent to
find the change no better, and fre-
quently those who were counted as
thrifty farmers the year before have
had to beg their bread. Many Of the
sufferers live from 25 to SO mile from
their market towns, and it was quite
awhile before the sad condition of
things was made known to the public
generally. But so soon as reliable in.
formation reached the cities of Louisi-
ana steps were Immediately taken to
bring about a speedy and permanent
relief. They recognized practically
the obligation resting upon them and,
with open poclset-books and that char
liable disposition SO characteristic of
Louisianians, applied themselves sys-
tematically to the task of relieving
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The Ifs and Ands.

snow, If it was somebody like me
and you and Blew Scroggins, Rufe--
such scapegraces as would cut the
pigeon wing around anything with cal
leo and ribbons on-I wouldn't be giyin
myself any particlar worriment about
it. But when you see one of these slow
and bashful men like old man Lum
Wiggins payin his double breasted re.
CARDS to @ female lady SO reglar and
SO constant you mought as well to
stand from under, for somethin is more
than probable to drap.
What I come to- see you, and talk
with you about, Rufe, is thig-if some
thin amt done right away Immediately
to block the game and bust up the
pleasant relations goin on between old
man Lum and Miss Mandy, burned il
my crun1ple-horn cow and her fawn-
colored gal calf amt forever lost to the
Lucas family. Remember, now, Rufe,
that cow IS givin three gallons of milk
a day and bEtter as rich and yellow as
gold. and it will be meat and bread to
me and mine If you can help me to
SCOtSA5 tl1C jIOCSEulAS DHtWCCu OlO IidU
Lum and old Miss Mandy"
With that Andy he mounted and rid
off towards home. Now, In regards to
men and horses and things in general
I raley couldn't believe Andy Lucas on
a Bible oath, and yet still at the same
time I do naturally love the very
ground he treads on. But for the life
of me don't see how I can save my.
self and do anything to keep old man
Lum and old Miss Mandy from hangin
their clothes on the same peg if they
have got the notion in their heads.
Maybe mought save COW and calf
for Andy Lucas, but would be dead
shot to lose two good friends to the
Sanders family. So on the whole, then,
takin the case as it stands, up one side
and down the other, ruther think
will let old man Lum and old Miss Man.
dy and Mother Nature have their way,
RUFUS SANDERS
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Blev scroggins ON the Roea.


Which the same that puts me in mind
of the time when Blev Scroggins started
out as book agent to sell family Bibles.
That was back there in the seventies.
The seasons had hit wrong, the crops
fell way short, and with the people
around Rocky Creek the mainest ques-
ton was how to put meat in the smoke
house and meal in the barrel and keep
the wolf away from the front door,
Consequentially, Blew he got to be the
general agent Of book concern and
started forth to sell family Bibles. But
Blev was like me with the lightnin
rods-he didn't make any tremendous
big sales to speak Of, and after the first
round he laid down his hand and
jumped the game.
II wouldn't talk it out in public,
Rufe, If you didn't know it already"
says Blew to me. "but, to tell the truth,
and nothin but the truth, the Scroggins
generation of people never did build
any churches so fur as know. and
what little they never have learnt in
regards to the Bible would FIJI stavin
big book.
But you must keep it in remem-
brance, Rufe, that there was one more
plain case of pushency, and the mainest
thing with me at that writsn was to
keep thesfamiIy washin out of the poor
house. So braced up and went forth
as the general agent for family Bibles,
and by gatlins the next news j got I
had struck snag and went down in
deep water.
First thing. Irounded up over there
at the old lady Hanson place and sailed
right-in to sell her 9. family Bible. Tt
was hard to tell from her FIRST few scat
term remarks whether she would or
whether she wouldn't, but in the main
lime she lit in and talked Scriptures
10 me till hanged If could even say for
certain that my name was Scroggins
The dear old sout--she wanted to
know Of me what thought about this
man and that man, and this.woman and
The other woman. accordin to reports
from the Scriptures of course
didn't know a blessed thing about any
Of 'en1. But dodged and hedged and
answered her questions as best ] could.
slsimusin nvsr the rough places and
St. Landry clarion. (Opelousas, La.) 1890-1921, 1897-03-20
yalue OF Wives Ia ncreaainc.

The value of wives, according to the
estimate by a New York jury, is going
up. An outraged husband, well-knowr
broker of that city, has just obtained
verdict for $4,000 against an equally
weil-known physician, who alienated his
wife's affections. This was the full
amount asked for, and is one of the
largest verdicts ever recovered in such
an action. In Newark, n. j., suit is
pending of similar character. in which
the injured husband asks for 500, o,001
damages. The revolver is going ont nt
use in such cases in our higher civiliza
St. Landry clarion. (Opelousas, La.) 1890-1921, 1897-03-20
OPELOUsAs, LOUISIANA, SATURDAY, MARCH 20, 1897

leans Times-Democrat alone sent /, ,0os
bushels of corn. The State grand lodge
gave $1,000 The New Orleans relief
committee, with Pat McKloslsey at its
head. has sent large supply Of food
and clothing. The Jockey club of the
Crescent city raised $500 through isdi.
vidual subscription and ST., 200 al a
benefit. The railroads have been most
liberal. always charging as little rs
possible, when charges were made at
all, and frequently nothing. Hun.
dreds of car loads of corn and meat
have been brought in over the Iron
Mountain and the Vicksburg, SEreve.
port g. Pacific railroads.
Chairman Milisaps says that on Jan.
uary the census reports of the vari-
Gus committees showed that there
were $4,000 people in need of help in
the drought-strieken country, and the
number has increased largely-not less
than SO per cent-Tand it is safe to say
the number at present is not less than
$4,000 persons dependent upon the
charities of state and local relief
funds.
TO the question, how much corn had
been received, Mr.. Millsaps said: ave.
the state relief committee, have re-
ceived and distributed 453 car loads OF
corn, averaging, perhaps, $50 bushels
to the car, and making 295, 900 bushels
in ALL"
"And how much meat?'
"Well. we have received and dis
tributed 10000 barrels of meat, and
about 5000 barrels of meal. And added
to this, the New Orleans committee
has sent a large quantity of clothes
and proyisions-some sent to US for
general distribution and some direct
to the local committees that the dis
tributing might be expedited"
'Do you think it necessary to appeal
to the national government for aid,
Mr.. Millsaps?"
''We prefer to care for our own if we
can do it, but that is the question.
The number of dependents is increas-
ing every day, and will continue to in-
crease until early vegetables come in.
If the present spasm Of contributing
continues, think we can tide it over
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trustin mostly to my niger luck. Well,
she caught me in two or three rale tight
places, made me back my fool self up
agin a snag here and there ard finally
at last she come out fiatfooted ana told
me didn't know mortal thing about
my business.
"Raley, Rufe, it did seem to me like
the old lady mought be somethin like
about three-thirds right about that,
whereas I went on back home and took
out and forever retired from the book
business. And if the plan of salvation
for the human race was dependin on
me to sell family Bibles, it would be
woe unto this lost and ruint world"
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Il Waa "Wusser rhnn rhat.n

But accordin to Brit Foster and the
Scriptures, everything that goes up
must come down. So it is with the vain
and ieetin hopes of mortal man. I
driv out that mornin and likewise driv
in the same day. put them horses
through and talked and talked till by
gracious for a little more and would
OF took down with a case of The lock-
jaw. But marry single lightnin rod did
l sell. turned the waterson in every
.yayI could, but themachinery wouldn't
runs
Late along in the shank OF the evenin
I driv up to house where they hadn't
put up no rods and hailed at the gate,
The lady come out to meet me, but she
was scryin like her heart would break
slap to pieces, Naturally of course a
sight like that touched me in soft
place and I took it ON myself to ask her
what in all creation was, the matter.
Somebody sick unto deatf,'' says I.
'Wusser than that, mister" says she.
"Is your husband dead and gathered
unto his fathers? ?" says I.
'eWusser than that, mister" says she.
maybe Him that giveth has likewise
taken away your father or your dear
old mother" says I. :
"Wusser than that" says she.
"Then maybe death has laid his with
erin hand upon the buds and blossoms
of your heart and home and took some
of the children over the river to that
blessed land of light and sunshine and
flowers" says I.
."Wusser than that, mister" says she.
well, tell me, good woman, what in
the round created world is the matter
With you?''
"0ur dear and onlyest daughter
she broke down right there and wept
great gobs of bitter grief. Then pres
emily she recovered and went on:
This fnornin our onlyest and,dearest.
daughter Sophy May she took and run
away with lightnin rod agent
What did do then2 Turned the
wagon and team the other way al a driv
back to town-throwed up my Job
soaked a good silver watch for three
dollars and hit the first train goin west
that night. have seen my full share
of ups and downs in this vale Of years
and tears here below. ! have travelled
all the gaits and covered all the ground
from the woodpile to the clearin and
from Caney Branch to the county line.
And / have done little of most every
thing that poor mortal man ever had
to, do, but henceforwards and forever
more I draw dead line ct the lightnin
rod business.
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The Lucases In Trouble.

The dsdbIamest, all-overest gone
byest worst pestered white man in all
the Rocky Creek regions to-day Is my
side partner and feliow-citizen, Andy
Lucas. Who. rid up to our front gate
and hEehed his eritter at the horse,
rack, and dismounted and got down and
come in after supper the other nightf
Who but our own and onlyest Andy Lu.
cas-? Straightway from that Andy
put in and give me long song and
dance, which his tale of woe was as fol-
lows:
"You recollect my little crunple,
horn haR Jersey COW, Rufe, which J
got for boot in hsrse trade with
old man Bunk Weatherford. Well, she
has now got little fawn-colored gal
calf, gives three gallons of milk day
and the two are worth their weight in
gold or free silver at sixteen to one
And am pestered most to death from
the fact that stand tremendous good
chance to lose that cow and calf with
nothin to show in their place.
"You know old man Lum Wiggins.
Rufe-of course you do. Now old man
Lum, accordin to the records and the
family Bible, got aboard this plannet
along about the same time with you and
me. We went to school together over
at the old Cross Roads schoolhouse-
we fit and quarreled and played to-
gether many and many's the time
we turned summersets in the same
sandbed and built futter mills in the
same old spring branch together-but
you well know and recollect that Lum
Wiggins has always been old man Lum.
lie was old man Lum from the cradle up
old man Lum when a mere kid-and
he is old man Lum till yet. He never
did fiddle and tumble and frolio around
with the female generation any to speak
Of, and up till right here lately he never
got caught foolin off any Of his precious
time courtin and carryin on with
bunch of calico.
But along in the Christmas I got
sorry for old Miss Mandy Mayfeld-
which you know, Rufe, she has been on
the bargain counter for 10 these many
years-and I told old man Lam If he
would set up to the frisky old girl and
bring on a weddin match with her /
would give him that little srunple-
horn cow and her fawn-colored gal
calf. Right at that time ] didn't have
no serious thoughts that he would take
me up, but bless the heavens if he didn't
put in to courtin and carryin on with
Miss Mandy to beat six bits.
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Tho ChaarfnI Idint.

st must have been very tender
hearted butcher who killed this lamb, !"
said the Cheerful Idiot, pausing in the
saving of his chop.
Why" kindly asked the shoe clerk
boarder.
He must have hesitated three or
four years before striking the fatal
blosr ."-I..dd dtagapolis Jorrsal.
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TO be done right away Immediately to
meet the great issue of bread and meat
and wherewithals. So | put in and
made arrangements to go forth into the
highways and byways as lightnin rod
agent. Bright and early the next morn
in ! was out and gone with good pair
OF horses and the wagon loaded down
with materials-the happiest and most
hopefullest man that ever worked his
way through clost place.
St. Landry clarion. (Opelousas, La.) 1890-1921, 1897-03-20
Not the One.

4 man picked up a purse in the
street, and advertised the fact. In ten
days he was visited by 81 men, wom-
en-, boys and girls, all claiming to have
lost money. The sum was but IL
shillings, but of each visitor Who
called the finder asked: so you lost
90 shillings. did you?" Nine-tentlas Of
the applicants promptlYrepliedt 'fTes,
sir. 'Ahp. said he, "J6sssa was ans
other purse n-Tit-Bits.
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Appreciated Ris Generosity.

> 81 shall use the $50 you gave me IL
spend. john. said the wife, tenderly, te
The man who had recently become the
partner of ller joys and the sha1er o1
her sorrows, sin the purchase Of some
thing that. win constantly remind ms
Of your generosity. shall have the
portraits OF my first three husbands
beautifnlIp framed and hung in oar sit
tfng-rdou.s,
St. Landry clarion. (Opelousas, La.) 1890-1921, 1897-03-20
Has Never Seen His Planets.

DR.. Max Wolf, of Heidelberg, who,
as previously related in this colump.
has discovered by the aid of photog.
raphy sc new asteroids, recently re-
marked: Il have myself never seen a
single one of my little planets in the
sky He has only looked upon their
images impressed on his Photographic
plates, leaving to other astronomers
the pleasure of viewing them with
telescopes. es.-Youth's Companion.
St. Landry clarion. (Opelousas, La.) 1890-1921, 1897-03-20

/ turned up one day
dead broke, fat
busted and kerfum-
muXed--in q town
way down there in
the southeast cor
ner of Arkansaw,
Texas and Lo'lisi-
ana, which they
called the name of
the place TeSar-
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II 1t Had Been Bryan!

The 4th of March is almost here, and
the voice of the receiver is still heard in
the land. Notwithstanding the wish
which is father to the thought that
prosperity should come. banks crash,
business enterprises are staggered. and
the receiver stands preeminent as the
advance guard of McKinleyism. We
were told that the mere triumph of
"sound money" would SO compose mat
fers that without further effort busi-
ness would take care of itself. The
triumph has come, the date of inaugu-
ration can be seen over the hilltops of
time, and there is no improvement.
Suppose Bryan had been elected, how
all these things would have been
charged up against free silverism!
Since the reverse is the fact, are they
not as fairly chargeable to Mckinley
ism? It may be. like rubbing turpen-
tine into raw place to ask the ques-
tion. but the people are asking it every
where.-Atlanta Constitution.
St. Landry clarion. (Opelousas, La.) 1890-1921, 1897-03-20
FROM THE WOODS.
The Sage Of Rocky Greek Has the
Floor.
Was "oncste' O Lightnin Rod Agent
Bicv scroGsins OH the Road with
Family BibIea-Lucas Family
in Trouble.

Oncstupon a time when I was bruisin
ground promiscus out in the wild west
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1t is said fhaftbe ma ior. in ord

to do good turn for Mark Hanna. may
be- compelled to pEt him in the cabinet.
The country will not be in grief, how
ever, if Hanna's participation in govern
n1ent shall continue to be that of one
of the ordinary everyday units.-Bing-
barnton (N. " Leader.