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St. Landry clarion. (Opelousas, La.) 1890-1921, 1897-05-22
t4ANNA.s OUTLOOK GLOOMY.
Democrats May Control the Nezs
Ohio Legislature.

Democrats May Control the Neat
Ohio Legislature.
The recent municipal elections in
Ohio, resulting in democratic victories
everywhere, have rendered quite un-
certain the complexion of the legisla-
tule to be chosen in that state in No
yember. Politicians of both parties
naturally are discussing the situation
with deep interest, for it is to be re-
membered that the new legislature will
elect a successor to Senator Hanna. 1t
is asserted by democrats and not denied
by republicans that the democratic pros
pect of carrying the legislature end
electing senator have been considera-
bly, frightened by the test of strength
shown in the Ohio city elections.
Two democrats have their eye on the
senatorship. Both of them are rich,
ambitious and great hustlers, and
neither will stop to count the cost with
such a prize in view. These are ex-
Senator Brice and John r. Mclean, OF
the Cincinnati Enquirer. Both will
pitch in from this time on. In fact,
both did pitch in weeks ago, They and
all their friends are much encouraged
by the present situation.
Mark Hanna is desperately in earnest
in the endeavor to succeed himself,
and as his barrel is good-sized one,
it will be ON tap from now right along.
Hanna is almost always in a talkative
mood. just now he appears to have
relapsed into thoughtful strain and
evinces mo eagerness to discuss the les
son of the spring elections in Ohio. 1t
is understood that the republican may or
of Cleveland, just reelected, is a bitter
personal enemy of Hanna and carries
his animosity SO far as to prefer deun-
oerat in the United States senate to
the friend of Mckinley. This gentleman
is said to control the organization of
the dense republican constituency of
which the city of Cleveland is the CEN
ter. This means fight against Hanna
in his own immediate household and
predicts the success of the democratic
legislative ticket in that political dir
vision. The republican boss Of Gin
cinnati was washed out of sight in that
city, and it is scarcely anticipated that
he will emerge from the debris in con-
dition to put up any kind Of a fight
in November. The republican factional
dissensions, together with the general
party discontent SO plainly visible,
produce a situation of corresponding
elation and depression in the demo-
cratic and republican ranks. It will
make the coming state campaign one
of the most lively interest. not only
locally, but nationally. The republic
an chances for picking up a senator in
another state, which might be named,
are fully offset by the imminent pros
pect of dropping one in Ohio.-St. Louis
Republic.
St. Landry clarion. (Opelousas, La.) 1890-1921, 1897-05-22
THE TARIFF AND TRUSTS.

Protected interests Arc Allowed to
Write the Schedules.
It is becoming known that the agent
Of each protected interest wrote the
schedule in the Dingley tariff bill. The
sugar schedule as it now stands was
largely written by solon Humphreys,
Pierre Smith, John Farr, William II.
Lefferts, Charles p. Armstrong and
John E. Searles, treasurer of the Amer
lean Sugar Refining company.
Thomas Harrison, for the Manufac.
turing Chemists association. wrote in
substance the chemical schedule.
II. B. Newton, president of the Ma.
tional Association of the Brick Manu-
facturers, prepared section SO of the
bill.
Green glass manufacturers wrote Sec
tion "a, imposing q duty upon green
and colored bottles, and their demand
was literally complied with.
Simon Burns wrote section 90, and his
language was followed word for word.
Manufacturers of spectacles, eye
glasses, lenses, opera glasses, etc, had
their schedule as prepared by them
selves adopted without the change of
single word.
Cotton spinners and cotton man1lfac-
turers demanded certain rates in writ
ing, and their demands were honored.
The section of the cutlery schedule
referring to pocket knives and table
knives was prepared month before it
was given out by the committee. 1t
was in the possession Of certain manu-
facturer and he showed it to friends of
his in New York and other cities weeks
before anyone else knew what that sec
ton was to be. AT the same time the
majority of the ways and means COM
mittee had decided to submit the retro
active amendment.
It is O fact that the wool manlfac-
turers of the country knew on the eyen-
ing of January 6 what the wool schedule
was to be. The present boom in sugar
is directly traceable to the fact that the
retroactive clause is to be used to put
up the price of sugar to the trade, while
the trust never intends to pay cent of
increased duty on sugars imported prior
to the date the new bill becomes law,
Chicago Chronicle.
St. Landry clarion. (Opelousas, La.) 1890-1921, 1897-05-22
OHIO AND THE DlNaLEY BILL.
Protection Not Favored in NcKin-
IeY,s Own State.


Icy's Own State.
There is some apprehension manifest.
ed in the near west as to the possible
effect of the Ding1ey folly on the poIi4-
ical fortunes of Senator Marcus A. Ham
ma, that distinguished gentleman who
rejoiced not long ago in the fattering
assurance that he was the whole thing,
but who, for some reason cr-other and
for some time past, has been hiding his
brilliant light under something. It
would be a great misfortune, of course,
IL Mr.. Hanna should come to grief po-
litically, and when his warm friends
contemplate the didoes that Ohio cut
up last week they are fain to be great
ly worried on his account. The Chicago
Tribune, d very stanch republican pa
per, feels moved to say:
Senator Hanna's term expires In March,
1899 1t would be misfortune II the next
legislature elected In Ohio should be cons
trolled by the democrats, and leave Sena-
tor Hanna out In the cold. But there is no
telling what Ohio will do IL tariff bill
is enacted whose duties weigh more heay-
lily on consumers than those of the law OF
1890"
In spite Of its strong and answering
republieanism the Tribune, which, by
the way, is a very able paper, is corr
daily opposed to the Dingley folly.
1t notes that in certain sections, where
the tariff issue. was forced, Mckinley
majorities were proportionally smaller
than in other sections, and it remarks
that s'the tariff was not a winning card
last fall' and sit does not seem to have
been one this spring" 1t points to the
way Ohio voters went at the 6. o. p.
and lashed it, in spite of the Dingley-
ties generosity to Ohio, they claiming
that the Buckeye state had received
especial consideration at their hands.
And so it goes. The Dingley folly is.
challenging considerably more and
more severe condemnation than the Nc
Kinley folly challenged few years
ago, with this difference, that republic
an denunciation of the latter was as
nothing to that which now scorches the
Dingley policy. The moral of all OF
which is that republican protection is
good thing to put republicanism on the
shelf. Nothing is wholly bad.-Bing-
hamton IN. " Leader.
St. Landry clarion. (Opelousas, La.) 1890-1921, 1897-05-22
WHEN WE cRlTlclsE OUR FRIEND
The Kindness of Ignoring Trivial
Mistakes i'm Our Daily Life.

The Kindness of Ignoring Trivial
Mistakes i'm Our Daily Life.
There are two kinds of mistakes:
mistakes OF moment and trivial mis-
takes. Undoubtedly the best service
which one friend can render another is
to save him from mistake liable to be
serious i'm it's results. In such an act
lies true friendship. But in these days
OF criticism, when we are apt to criti-
else everything and everybody, we are
all too apt to correct mistakes which are
absolutely trivial and not worth cor
recting. And yet in calling attention
to them we often hurt the feelings of
our best friends. Not one of us, even
the most good tlred, likes to have his
mistakes pointed out. We may appear
not to mind corrections, and accept
them with a smile. But it is humans
nature to smart under correction, al
though some of us may be clever enough
to conceal the smart. Hence, the fewer
mistakes we call attention to in Others
the better. Two-thirds of the mistakes
we make are trivial. Their correction
is unimportant. Why, then, notice
them? Yet some people do, and do so
constantly. A person speaks of having
done certain thing ON Thursday, when
IN reality it was done on Wednesday.
1t no important point is involved why
call attention to the mistake? What
good does it do to have the exact day
set right? 1t is a matter of no inpor-
tance, SO why insist upon correcting the
trivial error? Stanch friendships have
often been pricked by this needle of
useless correction. Tt is a great art
this art of learning to allow others to be
mistaken when the mistake is unim-
portant. Few learn it, but those who do
are among the most comfortable friends
one can have.-Edward w. Box, in La
dies Home Journal.
St. Landry clarion. (Opelousas, La.) 1890-1921, 1897-05-22
AN ExAsPERATlNa PERSON.
The Woman Who Wanted to Go to
Georgetown and Met Reycrkes.

The Woman Who Wanted TO Go to
Georgetown and Met Revcrhes.
She was one of those women best de-
scribed by the term "exasperating fe-
male" That is to say, she was not
pretty, nor pleasing OF manner or per-
son, nor any other of those choice at
tributes that go with that sort of female
we love to call woman.
Neither was she young
Say anything else of a woman and be
forgiven, but never this.
She boarded a yellow car of the
Metropolitan line at Fourteenth and Z
streets and in two minutes was scrap
ping with the conductor because some
body left the door open. Then she
beckoned to him to come to her, and he
thought she wanted him to stop the car
and he rang the bell, only to discover
that she wanted him to come to her SO
she might ask him some silly question
or other.
BY the time the car reached X street
the conductor would have surrendered
half his salary for just one good chance
to have pushed that woman's windpipe
clear back against her cervical verte-
brae and held it there till the coroner
came, even if that functionary didn't
come for q month or six weeks. But
of course, he didn't dare do it, Neither
did he dare ask her where she wanted
to get off, and she hadn't said a word
to him about it.
He was sure by this time that she was
simply waiting to spring it on him, and
then If he carried her 211s inches past
the crossing she was going to let him
know what he had done.
At Dupont Circle, as the car swung
around toward Stewart Castle, she gave
snort and jump and caught the con-
ductor as he lodged.
81 want to go to Georgetown" she
exclaimed.
Every well, madam" he responded
with politeness and a sense of relief,
"you will have to get off of this car"
''Why didn't you tell me sop
Il thought perhaps you knew it,
madam
bolf U DC iuSUiCiibs vi GCOuISG
knew it, but why didn't you tell me this
car didn't go to Georgetown when ]
got on?'
Because You didn't ask me, madam. .
"It's your business to know, sir,'' and
she bounced herself out; but she held
onto the rail for final chat.
How long will I have to wait here
to get to Georgetown?'' she asked, after
the manner of women asking clear and
lucid questions.
"A thousand years, madam" replied
the conductor. ready to grasp at any
straw Of revenge.
This almost paralyzcd her.
"Whar-wha wha = what do you
nfean?" she stammered
just what say, madam, and more.
You will never in the world get to
Georgetown if you wait here. Take
the green car coming around the bend
there and try that" and the conductor
actually ehuckled with gratifed glee
as his own car slipped out of her grasp
and away from the sound of her voice.
Washington Star.
St. Landry clarion. (Opelousas, La.) 1890-1921, 1897-05-22
BY The sAeYs BED.

OF what is the baby thinking.
AS he smiles SO, In his sieep2
OF the mother kisses given
In the silence sweet and deep?
Or the land he has lately come from,
Where the souls of the little ones stay
Till into our earthly keeping
God gives them, some sweet day2
It may be an angel whispers EEEE 3f
In the little dreamers ear
Some message of tender meaning
Thatawe can never hear. ~ Sf7@
1t may bo he hear an echo
OF the songs that angels sing, LTD 81,
AS they float down the starry spaces
With the dreams God bids them bring
Dream on while you may, my baby
While your soul Is free from stain
As the lilies are, when summer
Has washed them pure with rain.
Only a year from Heaven!
God keep your soul so white
THAT you always can talk with angels,
AS l think you do tonight. H.
fear for the future, baby,
And what it may bring to you
So easy tits to falter.
So hard it Is to be trlei
Q, feet that in sin may wander,
O, soul that may go astray,
If mother might only lead you
Into the one right way!
Dear angel, whose boving whisper
He hears In dreams tonight,
Watch over this child and guide him
In paths that are paths of right.
Walk ever, pray, beside him,
Until God calls him home, = sas
Then lead back to the Heaven
From which he has lately come.
-Eben Z. Rexford, in Ladies' World.
St. Landry clarion. (Opelousas, La.) 1890-1921, 1897-05-22
A Bit of Natures Hani,worL.

a gentleman, who lives in Pueblo.
Col, recently received curious pres
ent from friend in New Mexico. 1t
was a root of the pinion tree The
root was lnotted and twisted, and
formed an image of two human beings.
The two figures are standing face to
face, with arms extended and hands
elasped. 1t is no fanciful resemblance,
but the features, eyes, nose. mouth,
arms. legs and body of each are de-
scribed as absolutely perfect. Bos-
ton Globe,
St. Landry clarion. (Opelousas, La.) 1890-1921, 1897-05-22
The Duties ON woo1.

One of the chief objections TO the
DingleX bill-that is, one of the chief
objections by the gougees as distin-
gIished from the gougers-is on ac-
count of its high duties on wool. And
yet these duties are not high enough
to satisfy the wool growers. Their man
Lawrence has called meeting of the
Wool Growers association in Washing
ton TO lay down the law to the senate
with regard to the duties on wool. The
Wool Growers association has been
holding meetings in Washington ever
since congress assembled last Decean-
Der. Tt made known to the ways and
means committee what was expected
and demanded, and it was thought. un-
Ill this call for another meeting, that it
had got everything it wanted. The
president made a mistake, in the first
place, in converting congress TO pass a
tariff law. He should have convened
the Wool Growers association. That
would have saved time, for no tariff law
has passed a republican congress since
the existence of the Wool Growers as
sociation that was not dictated by that
organization of feecers.-Louisrille
Courier-Journal.
St. Landry clarion. (Opelousas, La.) 1890-1921, 1897-05-22
Stuffed Eggs.

Carefully shell the eggs, cut off the
end and take out the yolks without
breaking the whites, mash them, sea-
son with butter, pepper and little
vinegar. Place back in the egg, fit in
the piece nicely. For picnics they may
be put in the shell. For lnach serve
sprig Of green in fhe opening-Good
Houselseening.
St. Landry clarion. (Opelousas, La.) 1890-1921, 1897-05-22
only Trance

and yet you once said that you were
dead in love with me-
II really thought so at the time, but
1t appears to have been only trance -
-Indianapolis Journal.
St. Landry clarion. (Opelousas, La.) 1890-1921, 1897-05-22
Takes TING,

The Enthusiast--You may dislike
Wagrer's music at first. but that won't
last.
Friend-I see. It's like taking cod
liver oil - Brooklyn Life.
St. Landry clarion. (Opelousas, La.) 1890-1921, 1897-05-22

The Dingley fariff bill is McKin-
leyisn to superlative degree. This
wage earners are finding out, and the
fact that Dingleyism will only permit
one dress where the Wilson bill furnish
es more and only one suit Of clothes
where the Wilson bill furnishes more,
while wages do not increase in proper
ton to cost of living. is coming home
TO voters md their families. ashyille
American
St. Landry clarion. (Opelousas, La.) 1890-1921, 1897-05-22


her eyes as she turned toward the land !;
she was at first dazzled by the glare OF
the water. When she looked up thus
the little girl in the wheelbarrow al
ways waved her hat; then dim, beau
tiful smile would come in the faded,eyes
TITS jest doin' of her lots of good .
she would say aloud. 'Im AZ {ful glad
wheeled her down. I wish now I'd
brought her down oftener this sum-
mer''
Twice as she looked shoreward she
called out shrilly:
stBoss, you take care of her; won't
you, Boss?"
Then Boss priclSed up his ears and
shook his tail, and the girl laughed and
said she guessed she'n' Boss could git
along first-rate.
''We're use't to it; amt we, Boss 2"
When she said this the dog got up,
came to her side, gave her swift lick
across the face, then hurried back and
sat down on the edge of the planks
again. +
Once the woman out in the water
slipped and fell splashing, and Boss
jumped up, whining in piteous quiyer,
and would not be comforted even when
the child said, soothingly:
''Never mind, old fellow!"
But when the woman foundered to
her feet again and cried: "Alf right!"
the dog sat down. Still he frequently
gave a little whine under his breath. He
was thinking that this was the first
summer when lie had not gone out moss
ing with his dearest friend, and he could
not understand why he was so stiff and
clumsy that he was unableto run over
the slippery rocks and keep closeto her,
nosing the moss she picked up, poking
over Holsters and crabs, and seeing that
nothing happened to her. Something
was the matter with his legs, and with
the whole of him, somehow. and he
could not get over the rocks. Was it
the same thing that kept him from
gnawing bones? And he liked them
just as well as ever. He noticed that
the young dog who lived down the road
could crack bones without any trouble.
1t was all>yery mysterious, >
When he lay in the sun near where the
moss was drying, doing and swapping
at the flies, he often looked as if he were
thinking of all these things. sa y%
And what did the girls grandmother
mean only yesterday when she stroked
his head and said:
Poor old Boss!s You're gittin' old
ies' s be, 'Twon't be no kind of place
round this house thout Boss He had
nuzzled his head under her hand when
she had spoken thus, but he didn't un
derstand.
How pleasant this bright day was.
withitssunny, gentle east wind wind
that brought sweet, salt smells from the
ocean.
The child shifted the embracing odor
and stretched out her hands, smiling
happily, @
To Be sure. she could not walk, but
granny often wheeled her to the break
water, where she could see the moss
Satkered.
St. Landry clarion. (Opelousas, La.) 1890-1921, 1897-05-22
FAITHFUL UNTO DEATH.
ny MARIE LOUISE POOL.

A rough, brown dog sat at the very
edge of the tumble-down breakwater.
lie was looking steadily seward. He
was evidently old, and he was SCARED
by many fights; but his sunken mouth,
from which he had lost many teeth,
showed that he would not fight again
vietoriously.
He was gaunt from lifetime of in
sufficient food, but yet he had the air
of dog who is loved. Ef
Sometimes he turned from his gaze
ut the sea and glanced behind him at
the child who was sitting in wheel
barrow a few feet away. Every time he
glanced thus he slightly wagged his
stump Of tail, and the child smiled or
she said in soft voice:
Good Boss!"
And then Boss wagged harder; but
he could not give much attention to his
companion, for his whole heart was
with that bent old woman who was up
to her waist in the water by the outer
most ledge. 1T was there that the Irish
moss grew, and at low tide the woman
could gather it. She thrust her arm
down to the shoulder each time for her
handful of moss. She was wet, sodden
wet, save for small place across her
back.
She had man S straw hat fastened
by a small rope tightly under her chin.
Her face looked hundred years old, it
was in truth 7o---old, scanned, and leath
cry; and it was face youloved to look
St. Landry clarion. (Opelousas, La.) 1890-1921, 1897-05-22

-. It was a low course of tides, and now
the water had gone far out, so that one
could get to- the ledges where the moss
The Mt. Sterling advocate. (Mt. Sterling, Ky.) 1890-current, 1897-06-01
Roman Life.

Up on the Pincio an hour or two
before sunset, when the band is
playing its liveliest and Roman So
ciety is on exhibition, paying and
receiving visits from carriage to
carriage along the beautiful ter
races of the pleasure gardens laid
out under Napoleon, is the place,
writes Ellen Osborn in an exchange,
to study Roman life and Roman
manners. The proud old families,
with names that have filled men s
mouths for centuries, may cut down
their establishments and rent all
but a few bare rooms of their pal
aces, but they never give up their
horses or the afternoon drive
through the Corso and up the Pin
clan hill. The younger women,
with their olive skin, delicate fea-
lures and large, dark eyes, are apt
to be very good to look at, and
their dress, with it's lavish use of
lace and flowers, is often more
graceful than that of Frenchwomen,
if not always so refined.
The Mt. Sterling advocate. (Mt. Sterling, Ky.) 1890-current, 1897-06-01
Horseshoes of silver.

The imperial Spanish manege in
Vienna is probably the only one of
numerous medieval riding schools
which have lasted to this day and
probably this one would no more
exist were it not for the munifi-
cence OF Emperor Charles vi, who
provided for the continuance of this
favorite pastime by large bequest,
which provides for the annual
spending of the interest only, insur-
ing the permanenee of the institu-
ton.
The conditions of horseback rid
ing, as handed down here, are prob
ably the most correct example of
how riding was taught centuries
ago, at time when the art of rid
ing we'll constituted the most i'm
portant as well as necessary quail
ity of nobleman.
Chivalry then meant expert
knowledge of horseback riding.
Emperor Charles vi also provided
that only horses from the Lipizza
stud, in Carinthia, where then the
finest horses Of Austria were bred,
should be ridden in the Spanish
manege, and 33 of these beautiful
animals are constantly kept in the
model stables attached to the ma
nege.
Only stations are sent to Vienna,
and they are snow white, with a
flesh colored nose. Horses for the
Spanish manege are shod with sill
yer horseshoes. -Pearson' 8 Weekly.
The Mt. Sterling advocate. (Mt. Sterling, Ky.) 1890-current, 1897-06-01

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The Mt. Sterling advocate. (Mt. Sterling, Ky.) 1890-current, 1897-06-01
Summer Schedule, Southern r. R

The Southern Railway has changed
schedule. Trains will leave Louis
vile z :45 q. M, A 20 p. m, 1886 p. M,
arrive at Lexington 10 so a. m, 7 :25
p. M, 10 10 p. m. Leave Lexington
For Louisville at :05 a, m, 1850 a.
m, 40 p. m. These trains run
daily and carry Free Observation
Chair Cars or Sleeping Cars. For
copy of the new schedule apply to any
ticket agent of the Southern Railway.
VIM. III. TAYLOR,
Asst. Genl. Pass. ACT.
Aft Louisville, KY.