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The true Democrat. [volume] (Bayou Sara [La.]) 1892-1928, 1897-07-24
SING A SONG.

II you'll sing song as yon 60 along,
Tn the face Of the real or the fancied wrong;
In spite of the doubt if you'll fight it out,
And show q heart that is brave and stout:
Ii you'll laugh at the jeers and refuse the
tears.
You'll force the ever-reluctaHt cheers
That the world denies when coward cries,
TO give to the man who bra;ely tries;
And You'll win success with little song
IT you'll sing the song as you 80 along!
II vou'll sing song as you pied along,
Nou'n find that the busy rushing thronS
Will catch the strain Of the glad refrain;
Taat the sun will follow the binding rain:
That the clouds will fly from the blackenad
sky;
That the stars will come out by and by;
And You'll make new friends, till hope de-
sends
From where the placid rainbow bends;
And all because Of q little song
If youll sing the song as you plOd along!
If you'll sing song as You truase along,
You'll see that the singing will make you
strong;
And the heavy load and the rugged road,
And the sting and the stripe OF the tortur-
Gus goad
Will soar with the note that you set anoat
That the beam will change to q thrilling
mote:
That the world is bad when you are sad,
And bright and beautiful when glad;
That all YOU need is little song
Ii you'll sing the song as you trudge along
Rufus McClain Fields, in Nashville Amer
lean,
The true Democrat. [volume] (Bayou Sara [La.]) 1892-1928, 1897-07-24
According to til, New Orleans Pic

According to the New Orleans Pic
ayune, hard times have set nearly
everybody trying to get federal ap-
pointments, and senator's and repre-
sentatives friendly to the administra-
ton have not as yet been able to catch
up with their correspondents. Clerks
in the postotfice department at Wash
ington have to write more than l00,-
900 letters to ambitious people to
notify them that their applications
have been received.
The true Democrat. [volume] (Bayou Sara [La.]) 1892-1928, 1897-07-24
BICYCLES in the German Army.

The German military papers have
just published the report Of the Minis
ter Of War regarding the results Of the
introduction Of bicycles into the army
and the training Of a bicycle corps dur
ing the year 1896, says the Philadel-
phia Record. A large number Of ex-
detrimental runs were made and the
bicycles were also employed in maneu-
vers to advantage. The average Of
the runs was about thirty-fve miles,
with an average speed Of nine and one
half miles per hour, including stops.
The greatest speed obtained was twelve
miles per hour in a run Of thirty miles.
The greatest distance covered in any
one run was ones hundred and thirty
miles an hour, including stops. The
soldiers attached TO the bicycle service
were given practical training on. the
wheel, but also received instruction in
accommodating, reading Of the map,
etc. Not long ago Lieutenant Won
Puttkammer tried to dispatch a mess
age by relay bicyclists going and com
ing q distanceof twenty-eight miles.
He had placed four relays Of three BIZ
cyclists each at points six miles apart
and three dispatches were taken each
way, the cyclists speed exceeding thir.
teen miles per hour. It is estimated
by the Minister Of War that after for
ty days training company mounted
on bicycles should be able to cover one
hundred and twenty miles day with
full arms and equipment. The present
weight of-the military bicycle, which
is Of the folding type, is thirty-twe
pounds, but the new type, of which 8
large number has been ordered, viii
weigh six pounds less. The principa
economy will be found in the abandon
ment of chain gearing and the substi
tuition Of a cog-wheel driving gear.
The true Democrat. [volume] (Bayou Sara [La.]) 1892-1928, 1897-07-24
Light From, susar.

A scientist has discovered nj =,
may DO procured from sag ia
succeeded in taking sevesal
graphs by the light supplied Y
only. The sugar was frst W siIpo
a direct sunlight for two hssia =
then placed in a dark room a. r..
ately on being placed II 20 ~ dEl
the sunlight stored in ths s.g Z.
glow, family at first, butqa y ~ 7 i!
after a few minutes. AfG D.
twenty minutes, during xhis Y! :!
photographs were taken, hs 4 ,!!g.1l!|
gan to die away, and sllaa,llIsy s b
out. The Photographic q g } I! n
light are quite distinct thougs Z
clear as an ordinary photo gil
scientist who made The dil.A. b.
clares that, by exposing ! 81 g = h.
to strong sunlight fo 3 "
enough light could be pre . = IT.
it to illumine 9 small hog d
same period.
The true Democrat. [volume] (Bayou Sara [La.]) 1892-1928, 1897-07-24

Farms laid out for republics, upon
which to make model citizens Of idle
boys, are being rapidly popularized,
saws the Boston Globe. When cities like
New York turn $4,000 boys into the
streets for want Of school accommodate
tons, something must be done to Off
set the danger Of rearing horde OF
oilers and criminals. The farm re-
public makes & good citizen to order
by making him self-sustainlng and
even self governing under properlimi-
tatiOns.
The true Democrat. [volume] (Bayou Sara [La.]) 1892-1928, 1897-07-24

Statistics show that the medical
profession is more prone to suicide
than any othcr. During the last three
wears the number OF suicides occurring
among physicians has been respec-
lively IS, 40 and II per annuin, an
average of nearly one to 5000; OF, as
the death rate among physicians is
about 25 to 1000, nearly one-tiftietE
of all the deaths in the profession have
been by suicide. It has been sug-
gested that all explanation of this
tendency may be found in the devel-
opment of morbid fancies in the mind
of doctor, on account of his constant
association with the sick and dying,
or of an actual Indifference to death,
or because he has the requisite knowl-
edge of how to die painlessly and Goa
veniently. A medical journal dissent:
from all these views, and holds tina:
the leading factor is the accessibility
of the poisonous drugs, which are al
most invariably used.
The true Democrat. [volume] (Bayou Sara [La.]) 1892-1928, 1897-07-24

It il said that young woman once
asked Chief Joseph if he had ever
scalped any one. When the question
was translated to him Joseph looked
at the fair questioner intcntly. then
walked around behind her Gnd viewed
The knot of hair only half hidden by
her bonnet. "Tel! her." he said to
the Interpreter, ''that 1 have nothing
in my collection as fine as that.
The true Democrat. [volume] (Bayou Sara [La.]) 1892-1928, 1897-07-24
Successful shad c. !.

Fish Commissioner Ja'ael a b!
of Connecticut, has witt y Il
giving some striking rs.sli.
culture. In Five-Mils k !.
nine miles from the month g 3:
necticut, the Fish Comni.slsa
placed experimentally hat !.
shad fry. Noshad had ben
river for years, but four y,
1898, more than 100Owe,e % '
year the fish have been no;s
Gus there and in the Gomez ~
than for any one Of many !! h.
fore, and the best fishing 9,
has been done in the sn,Il
Commissioner Bill says, ase.
size of the shad has been !. 4
increased by stripping Only
shad to obtain spawn. 49,
Post. 4
The true Democrat. [volume] (Bayou Sara [La.]) 1892-1928, 1897-07-24
A REMARKABLE /
What a Hogs Roofing Did ), !. &
Farm. 81

Rev. Eli Owen, Of tie R. d
country, is the possessor =
which has afforded him SOM Z.
and q great deal Of unea,;a.
good many years ago a bold y
across a part Of Mr.. Owen.
dropped in hole not far 81
it rose. One year Mr.. O.. ~ -
hog Enclosure on the SPOT
spring ran into the earth, al IT.
a lot Of hogs. Gradually a.
their rootings, filled up TIC NM r.
ing through which the v,ts, y y
spring sank into the sroupd r.!
first thing Mr.. Owen knss
pond was forming. As ia 49,.
the spring had no escape IL.
backed up, and then back,d \, 81
more. Higher and higher IL H.
rose, from quarter Of al
an acre, then an acre, and r.
acres, till the alarmed own
oasly perturbed as to "
pond owned him or hssk D..
pond, or whether he was s,aS,,.', !.
be the owner Of a farm !, !. /
water: Finally Mr.. Own, i, I l.:!!
a pipe in the pond and pin,s /; h!
water, saved himself from ia,tI )
croachments, and now he 80. 4 p.
erly cultivated, one Of the III Il.
Of fishing territory in the s., y
some places the waters n ~
to fifteen feet deep, whilsse,,lII,.
are still submerged. Carp, ,a,.,'
black-perch and other yalis6sl \ "
stock the pond. A sho,t NM,
Mr.. Owen set out o troslina
which the fish had greatiaa b,l n
which a large majority q N,o 81
returns were broken HOOK, an
weighing as high as TWENTY-FIVE
thirty pounds were hung OH, p
one or two captured. The histds,
this body Of water is sonssh,s
markable, as showing Whist ] 10.
do when it turns itself loose eiSa|
dead earnest. Glasgow (KJ| =,
The true Democrat. [volume] (Bayou Sara [La.]) 1892-1928, 1897-07-24

Twas mentioned at recent meet
inc Of the California state board OF
equalization that there was school
district in Kiowa couaty in which the
Missouri Pacific paid $500 i'll taxes
The only family in the district lived IN
a dusout, and they hal only one
child. They kept the school In the
ducout and drew the $3.50.
The true Democrat. [volume] (Bayou Sara [La.]) 1892-1928, 1897-07-24
Electric Roads in E =

In mileage Of electro .
many is foremost in E ~
252 miles. France b. !. 8.s,I,
Great Britain and lrelana q.
Austria Hungary, "A nile gil
land, 20 miles; Italy, =; I'm,
via, Russia, Belgium ! an % n.
froms 6.21 miles to Is. ;ls
the the Ill iii lines Of electric \. !:
Europe, 81 are worked 8 = 4
head trolley line system .' & b.
underground systeP ano Va
of accumulators. 81
The true Democrat. [volume] (Bayou Sara [La.]) 1892-1928, 1897-07-24

Says the Minneapolis Tribune: All
over the world there are Audit
bon societies named for the great
American ornithologist. Their object
is to protect the singing birds and to
protest against the wearing OF their
plumage and also Of heron's aigrettes
on ladies' hats and bonnets. The Ear!
of Stanford presided at the last meet
ing of the British Audubon society in
Manchester, and urged the sending
forth OF an appeal to all women to sac
rifce vanity to mercy, and set their
faces against the slaughter OF. the
winged songsters for their personal
adornment. The decline of the trade
in stuffed birds was noted as an en-
couraging fact at this meeting, though
Iarks. and lapwings are still being
slaughtered, and the passion for
heron's aigrettes shows no abatement.
The Civitas club Of Brooklyn, Ny,
is now holding in the interest Of the
local Audubon society an exhibition
of trimmed hats and bonnets which
show exquisite taste and beauty, but
whose only feather decorations aye
ostrich tips.
The true Democrat. [volume] (Bayou Sara [La.]) 1892-1928, 1897-07-24
SCALING WITHOUT A LADDER.
A Pyramid of Soldiers Enables Men to
Surmount a 31-Foot Wall.

SurmOunt q 0l-TOOC WILL
Corporal Leary, the limberest man
at Fort Sheridan, took the chance OF
breaking his neck and tumbling the
storming pyramids Of forty-one soldiers
in bruised heap Saturday as he
sprang upward from the shoulders Of
Private Miller, caught with three
fingers of his left hand the top of the
high wooden wall behind which lurked
the enemy, hung for one perilous in
slant, and then gallantly pulled him
self to the top, seized his rifle, and
sprang into the midst Of the foe on the
other side Of the improyised parapet in
the Coliseum gallery.
The human pyramid swayed, but
held its sturdy place while gallant
infantrymen swept up the stalwart
shoulders and over the thirty -one-foot
wall to Corporal Leary's support, while
platoon Of twenty-five men kept the
enemy away in front Of the wall.
It was at this point that the regular
army officers, who we're watching the
fray from the Coliseum gallery, led
the applause, for Corporal Leary and
his comrades had broken the worlds
escalading record by three feet. As
a partial reward for his daring feat
Corporal Leary will be recommended
by lieutenant Percival G.. Lowe, in
command Of the camp, for promotion:
When Corporal Leary climbed to
the apex of the pyramid md stood on
the shoulders Of the men in the top
row, the tips Of his fingers lacked five
inches of reaching the top of the wall.
The highest wall thatwas ever escaladed
before was twenty-eight feet, and the
men who climbed over that in the
military carnival at New York broke
the worlds record then. The wall at
the Coliseum was thirty-one feet high,
and it took just four minutes to scale
it.
Eighteen of the heaviest and strong
est men in the regiment formed the
base Of the pyramid, ten mounted on
their shoulders and leaned against the
wall, six stood on the shoulders Of the
ten, four on the shoulders Of the six,
and three on the shoulders of the four.
Corporal Leary scrambled up this
escaladins pyramid of blue, and stood
on the shoulders Of the top three,
braced against the wall.
When he stretched out his arms, land
found his fingers would not reach the
edge Of the wall, be crouched, and
then, as the human mountain swayed
dizzily beneath his feet, with the
mighty and yet delicate effort Of the
trained athlete he sprang boldly five
inches upward at the edge Of the
barrier. He tried to grasp the top Of
the parapet with both hands, but only
three fingers Of his left hand went
high enough. The pyramid under
him was still swaying. He held tc
tho hazardous edge by The three
fingers for an instant, and then, with 6
heave and twist, pulling his whole
body up, caught the wall with the
other hand. An instant after he was
on the enemys side Of the barricade
Chicago Tribune.
The true Democrat. [volume] (Bayou Sara [La.]) 1892-1928, 1897-07-24

The Novoe Yremya says that the
Russian census gives population fer
the empire Of one hundred and twenty
seven millions, exclusive OF the Grand
duchy of Finland, which takes its own
census. Some other figures have still
to be aided from the uttermost parts
of Siberia, as we'll as the nolnaA tribes
Of the Steppes and tho mountaineers
of the Caucasus, where an exceptional
snowfall delayed the work till tie
spring. The full total is expected
not to be under hundred and thirty
millions.
The true Democrat. [volume] (Bayou Sara [La.]) 1892-1928, 1897-07-24
TIT :. TRUE :. DEMOCRAT.
PUBLISHED WEEKLY Al
at. FRANCISyILLE, LOUISIANA.

Explorer Nansen, who was recently
appointed professor Of zoology at
Christiaria, is collecting funds for
carving out his next plan, which is
to construct six vessels on the plan Of
the FRAN and let them drift toward
the North Pole fyosn different points.
The true Democrat. [volume] (Bayou Sara [La.]) 1892-1928, 1897-07-24
wonld starye the beast, let down

would starye the beast, let down
cage baitel2 with more fresh meat, and,
sliding the bars from above, haul the
captured tiger out and sell him over
again. All Of this might have hap
pened, but events somewhat stranger
and more terrible FOR Punda- sang in
tarfered. doubtless as another direct
visitation of the vengeance Of the Little
clay gods in the bungalow corner, half
concealed in clouds OF punk smoke.
The true Democrat. [volume] (Bayou Sara [La.]) 1892-1928, 1897-07-24
pitched Headlong by . TO-

Ernest Gadboise, q youln
Salem s turnpike, in osn's
struck by lightning g g
while driving home. !hs
him from the wagon
and rendered him uncons
: horse was knocked o.
WAGON overturned. How -
unconscious uneon he is unable =,
but he was helped into I
dwelling. Neither he
was permanently inlur
The true Democrat. [volume] (Bayou Sara [La.]) 1892-1928, 1897-07-24

.JNDA-TSANG was an
innkeeper. He was
sole proprietor Of the
Ballawari- Oak, which
is q very big name for
a very small native ho-
tel about sixty miles
north OF Penang, and
The true Democrat. [volume] (Bayou Sara [La.]) 1892-1928, 1897-07-24

IVA y
ferocity. The old shark pounced upon
the youngsters and commenced to de-
your them as fast as he could.
For a time the young ones fought
back and tried to defend themselves,
but they would have been destroyed
had not Mr.. Fastnet come to their res
cue. He managed to land harpoon
in the feshy body of the old shark and
settled his fate in few minutes. He
thought it better to destroy the big
monster than to lose all Of his young
sharks. When he was hauled up on
the beach and bled, his body was cut
up and while the fat was boiled. down
for it's oil, the meat was cut up into
steaks for. eating. These proved so
juicy and sweet that the fisherman sent
some to his friends. A New Yorker
who tasted Of them thought they were
too good to escape more general notice,
and he sent some to his friends in the
CITY,. Everyone declared that they
were more tlan pahtaDle; unat lucy
were unusually delicious.
This was the beginning Of the de-
mand for shark steaks. Mr.. Fastnet
received steady orders for sharks
steaks until he nearly cut up all bis
young sharks to supply the demand.
| Then he decided to raise sharks to sell,
He increased the size Of his pond, gath
cred more eggs and began to breed the
savage creature for commercial pur'
poses, He now kills about twenty
sharks every summer for the market
| Sharks steaks are quite the thing fo1
big dinner. Mr.. Fastnet raises {
good proportion Of the sharks that arr
sent to market. He kills them whe1
they are about three feet long. At thi
age their meat is very tender and juicy
In order to keep up the supply he il
kept busy breeding new Aocks ever.
summer, and even then he cannot nee
J the demand. Philadelphia Times.
The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1897-08-05
Internal Revenue Report.

Washington, July 2S-Thc preliminary
report of the commissioner of internal
revenue for the year ending June 30.
1897. shows that the total receipts dur
ing that period were S14GG19,5OS. a de-
crease. as compared with the previous
year, of S21l. Jos. The receipts from
some of the sources Of revenue. with the
increase or decrease, as compared with
the fiscal year. 1896, the stated as fol-
lows:
Spirits. SaOOO..JlS: increase. S1,35S.-
4S1. Tobacco. %30.7!O2I9; increase,
S15G1. Fcrmen;cd liquors. $50 412, l12;
decrease, S1,312.073. Olcomargarinc.
81 ,034. 12Q; decrease. $1SJ.302.
the amount of wthdra walls for con-
sumption during the last year is given
as follows:
Fruit brandy. 1.145,131 gallons; de
crease, 2J!.0TO. Whisky, GS,S33, 245 gal
Ions: increase. 1.7S3,33j gallons. Beer.
porter and ale, "a. 423,094 barrels; de
crease. .303.0S4. Number of cigars and
chcroois weighing over three pounds per
thousand. 4.0G31I9. Number of cigar
cites. f,1o3.252. 40: increase. 100, 453.
~. Snuff, 13,25SG4O pounds: increase.
12J.041 pounds. Tobacco, chewing and
smoking. 2G0.734.512 pounds: increase,
1OS1.O1J pounds. Oleomargarine. r.
5}4.5J9 pounds; decrease, j,0S9 214
pounds.
The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1897-08-05

United States possessions and at Lake
Tagish. There is collector at Fort
Cudahy, only fifty miles from Dawson
City, and these arrangements backed M .
by strong force of police, are consid w
cred ample for the protection of revenue
just now. The greatest question Of all
is one of communication. 1t is reported
that pack train exists for twenty of
the eighty miles, which will separate the
coast from the first post to be esta blishcdt
mt 60 degrees of latitude in undisputed'
British territory. If so II narrow gauge
railway can he built where there is a
pack train. The cost will not be great
and ears could be hauled twice day
over the mountains facing the coast \
tremendous obstacle would thus be over
come, because in winter it is impossibls~
to cross the mountains except at the risk
of life, and to be caught in Il storms
would be fatal. The mounted police
force will be increased from 70 to 100.
Thomas Fawcett will be continued as;
gold commissioner and the regulations.
already adopted amended.
y strong customs and police post Wilt
be established Just north of the British
Columbian boundary beyond the head of
the Lynn canal at GO degrees latitude
Estimates will also be obtained of the
cost of building a wagon road and of ~
narrow gauge railway to this post in the,
mountains, distance of seventy-fve to-
eighty miles. about forty ef which is
over mountains. This will be where the
Chilcat and White passes converge an1
| command the southern entrance To the
whole territory. Mounted police posts
will be established Mt distances of fifty
miles apart up to Fort Selkirk. These
! will be used to open up winter route
over which monthly mails will be sent
| by dog trains.
! If possible Il telegraph line will be.
constructed over the mountains from the.
! head of the Lynn canal to the first post .
| The consent OF the authorities of the
| United States will be asked in iiplo-
matte correspondence to modus vivendi.
under which Canada will have the right
of way over the disputed territory from
the Lynn canal TO the first mounted POI
| lice post.
No difficulty is anticipated in securing
the right of way through the little piece
of disputed territory, the road and tec--
graph lines would have to cross to reach
the head of the Lynn canal. although
the territory is now in the United! States
! possessions
The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1897-08-05
TEXAS BAR ASSOCIATION
A Large Attendance mt Galveston.
A Busy Session.

Galveston, Tex, July 2S.-(Specinlj =
The convention of the Texas Bar associi-
ton, which opened here today, is more
largely attended than any previous con-
ventiOn. and promises to be the most in
teresting OF any of them. Today's ses-
si0ns were devoted principally to the read
ing of PRECEDENT Cark's annual address,
the reports of officers and directors aud
the reading and discussion of the report Of
the committee on Jurisprudence and law
reform. The section of the report whspff,
came in for most discussion was thar re
lating to the amendment of the attach
ment laws, so as to permit n speedy set
Element of such cases. The principal Oh
lection urged was that the trial Of such
cases before a judge during vacations
would deprive the debtor of the right Of
trial by jury. Chairman Todd me5 this,
objection by suggesting that the section
could be amended so as to have the hear
ings brought to the first term of court fol-
lowing attachment, but there was still OH
lection and the section was recommitted.
The balance of the report was adopted.
The presidents address will be discussed
tomorrow, and the reading of a paper on
trusts by Hon. n. w. Finley is looked
forward to with interest
The mob law and irrigation questions.
will also be discussed.
Among the prominent members attends
ing the convention are: Judge Seth Shcl-
ard, of the appellate court; Land Commits
sioner A. j. Baker, Chief Justice ef tie
Texas Supreme Court r. J. Brown, Jus :
ticc Leroy Dcnman and many others.