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St. Landry clarion. (Opelousas, La.) 1890-1921, 1898-02-19
oANDER AND EAGLE.
The Latter Finally Met His Match In

the latter Finally Met tis Match IN
.,,r--r.. the Former. x.
There ars lighters than
o goose, or o gander more particu-
larly. Those ragged white Russian
geese bite like bulldogs. It is no
mere peck with them; they Nte and
hang on. The common old fa9nyard
Rander Is capital fighter when he
is driven to It. Ata certain place
In Scotland there used to be a Gagged
golden eagle. He preferred to kill
his own dinner, and 1t used to be a
cruel sport to watch him dispose OF
any unfortunate hen or guinea foYl
that was put into his cage
They tried him, Iabelie9e, with ev-
cry sort ofdomesticpoultry. Ducks,
peafowl, turkeys - the eagle was
master OF them oil. He Ind no
trouble In finishing them off, no
trouble even with the ''bubbly-joc /"
But at length they tried him with q
ganderi but he could make nothing
of It. The gander crouched into o
corner, drew back his head, and pre-
sented nothing bit d broad. spade
like bill from whichever quarter the
eagle tried to attack him.
The eagle fumed and fretted, and
grew very angry; he made desperate
attempts 10 take the gander ii the
fanK, but the wIsepld bird defeated
them oil. iii the end they had to
give the gander his liberty, as the
reward Of his courage, and to satisfy
the eagle with the much more suecu-
lent dainty Of q young turkey poult.
-Macmillan's Magazine.
St. Landry clarion. (Opelousas, La.) 1890-1921, 1898-02-19
SOCIAL sLllNpERS.
Painful 1predicRmenta Resulting 9rOHa
2s Lack of Rreet1inx,

/
6 Lack of Breeding. 4
A lady found herself at table with a
number Of English naval officers Of high
! rank who were entertaining d large
company at dinner. An admiral had
taken her down to the dining-room,
and she felt constrained to introduce a
naval topic. Consequently, during the
first pause in the conversation, she
turned to her companion and asked him
IL he had been present when the battle
ship Victoria was sunk through some
body's stupid blunderfng she had for
gotten whose, but It was shocking and
! inexcusable.
She looked up innocently into face
which had suddenly grown white and
convulsed with feeling.
| Yes, madam, = answered the admiral,
with grim smile, as he perceived that
her question had been heard, and that
other guests were looking at him curl
pusly, Eyes, unfortunately was there;
and I did it.s sss
The talkative lady blushed deeply.
She had forgotten that Admiral Mark
ham, who was sitting beside her, had
commanded the battleship Camper
down when the Victoria was sent TO the
bottom OF the Medifei~anea by col-
lision Id the naval maneuvers. The
blundering was not, perhaps, his, as he
was following The orders Of the COM
manding officer OF the feet, who per-
ished with his men in. that appalling
naval disaster; but the memory OF that
day had overshadowed and saddened his
subsequent life.
That was an unfortunate question,
prompted solely by ignorance When
needless pain and annoyance are
caused In conversation with deliberate
intent, the social blunder becomes so
gross as to merit punishment. s8ss
An English sculptor was at "a public
dinner with prominent man Of letters,
whom be had never before met. In a
chair beside him. His companion rude-
ly concluded that 1t would be rare
sport to guy the sculptor by pretend
ing not TO know who he was, and by se-
yere1y criticising his work. According
", he led the conversation sot that art top
les We're introduced, and then abruptly
mentioned the sculptor's name, and re-
ferred contemptuously to some of his
best-known works.
Other guests scowled at him and trod
upon his toes under the table to warn
him that he must change the subject;
but he rain en- peryersely with his adj
/ verse criticism, raising his voice and
finally asking the sculptor, without
naming him, whether he thought that
any worse work had ever been done
under the pretense OF being art.
The sculptor, convinced by this time
that his companion knew who he was,
and was seeking to.annoy4 him wanton-
ly, turned toward him with a face quiy-
cring with indignation.
"Either you or I, sir, must leave this
table and building" he said, "and do
1t without moments delay"
The man with the abusive tongue
could not meet the sculptor's flashing
eye. He looked around the table, and
seeing that the other guests sympa-
thized with the victim of his rudeness,
left the room without word. The joke
which he had attempted was brutal and
unjustifiable, and ihe was well punished
for it,-Youth's COMPANION.
St. Landry clarion. (Opelousas, La.) 1890-1921, 1898-02-19
The Largest Window.

The largest opalescent glass win
dow In the world Is In the new St.
Paul's church at Milwaukee. tits
what Is known as nave window,
the lower half being composed Of
three immense panels, and the upper
half Of q splendid rose and tracery
in semicircle of brilliancy. This
monster window In its extreme
measurement Is thirty feet and one
inch in width and exactly twenty
four feet in height. It is beautifully
executed, the subject being the Cruz
'cifxion-in fact Il is an exact copy
OF Dore' mas terpiece: ! Christ Iaav-
ing the Praetorium. " There are
over two hundred life-size figures
represented on this wonderful vim
dow,
St. Landry clarion. (Opelousas, La.) 1890-1921, 1898-02-19
a BOMBAY WOMAN LAWYER.
Progress of i Native indian Woman
In Her Profession.


The Parsees woman lawyer, Miss
Cornelia Sorabji, who passed the B.
G., L. examination with such distinc-
tion at Oxford in 1892, says the Lon
don Gentleman, has now established
herself at Bombay, where she is
working with q firm of solicitors.
She gave lecture this season on the
Legal Status of Women in India.
1t is o noticeable fact, in the now
rapidly advancing position OF Indian
women, that on this occasion she
was supported on the platform by
leading members of the legal pro-
fession. both English and Indian.
Es Miss Sorabji showed how effect
ually women lawyers could help In
dian ladies, who, owing to hereditary
customs, social and religious, are
precluded from seeing men, and
arranging business matters with
them. The lecturer said she did not
want the gentle Hindu widow to
lead the vanguard of advanced wom-
anhood, but it might be possible to
do, Of to prevent, the fighting for
her. And in doing this, there need
be no encroaching on the domain
of the stronger sex. ave do not
want to supplant men," she said;
"there is enough for US to do to sup.
Y,lament tharnsn
Miss Sorabii said that never, dur
ing the whole period of an Indian
woman's existence, neither when
under the tutelage of her parents nor
the guardianship of her husband,
was she trained to face life alone;
and that In the management of her
property, over her contracts, wills,
etc., it was absolutely necessary that
competent legal advice should be
available. As an immediate out
come Miss Sorabii had the conduct
OF case put into her hands by an
Indian Rance.
St. Landry clarion. (Opelousas, La.) 1890-1921, 1898-02-19
National Game IN Fiorida.

They were. doing their best. cer~
$alnly they made noise enough, but
circumstances were against them.
When the ball came to the ground,
from no matter what height or with
what impetus, It fell dead on the
sandi Il 1t had been made of solid
rubber 1t could not have rebounded.
Base running, was little better
than base walking. Sliding was
safe, but by the same token impossi-
Bile. Worse yet, at every ''foul
stroke. or wild throw" the ball
was lost, and the bare-footed field
ers had to pick their way painfully
about In the outlying saw-palmetto
scrub till they found it. None but
true patriots would have the heart
to try It. The first baseman, GER
tainly, who had oftenest I'd wade
into the scrub, should have received
o consulate at the very least.--A
Florida Sketch Book = Bradford
Torrey. =
St. Landry clarion. (Opelousas, La.) 1890-1921, 1898-02-19
WIT AND WISDOM.

Jones says he thought his gas
meter had gas-trick fever, but now be-
Ieves it to be affected with galloping
consumption Observer.
"a Juvenile Logician.-AMa, is there
any pie left in the pantry p "There Is
one piece, but you can't have II" You
are mistaken, ma, I've had IL. Cleve-
land Plain Dealer. Ffk
-Prisoner-"It's hard to charge me
with forgery, for you see I can't even
sign my own name.s Judge That
point is immaterial; it's another mans
name you're accused Of signing. Tit
Bits.
Not Spoiled by Fortune. Anne
"And her uncle left her all that money!
Has it changed her at alp" Belle-'tNo 10,
indeed! She is just as enthusiastic as
ever over 80-cent silk marked down from
$1.6o."-Puck.
-"I asked Miss Golightly If she be-
lieged In Cuban autonomy" what did
she say 2" "She said she did, and that 1t
was easier for her to believe In It than
to try to understand what 1t was
Chicago Record.
Testing Him.-Bagley-"Do you
recollect that five dollars let you have
about year ago." Brace Perfect
ly." Bagley-"That's good; see your
memory is all right; how's your eye
sight. Harlem Life.
acknowledgements It's too
bad the way old squirt's fortune has
been squandered in litigation" Lay
man-"1t is, indeed" Lawyer-"Why,
fully nine-tenths of 1t has gone to his
heirs In witness fees" Truth.
Old Gentleman (dictating indig-
nant letter)-"sir: My stenographer,
being lady, cannot take down what
think Of you. I, being q gentleman,
cannot think it; but you, being neither,
can easily guess my thoughts. Brook
lyv life
St. Landry clarion. (Opelousas, La.) 1890-1921, 1898-02-19
PERSONAL AND LITERARY.

The highest price per word ever
paid to an author Is said TO be the ST.
500 paid to Kipling for his magazine
story, ".oo7'-about 20 cents per word.
The usual order OF dramatic ability
existing in the children Of literary pa
rents Is reversed in the case of Henry
Irving's two sons, who have both gained
reputation as clever writers-one as an
essayist, the other as a playwright.
Carlyle is said to have remarked. on
Arst meeting Daniel Webster In Eng
land, that he had often heard Of Ameri-
can physical degeneraey, but had never
before seen such q magnificent speeE
men Of iti S.
III Jolcai, the Hungarian novelist, who
has written more than 200 volumes in
his life of II years, is descEbed by John
Foster fraser as being very nntidy in
his dress and in the appointments of his
writing desk.
"A special edition of Browning's
poem, 1.-THE Ring and the Book has
been prepared. Charlotte Porter and
Helen A. Clarke, editors Of Poet-Lore,
have furnished an introduction and
notes, and the illustrations comprise
1e fu1l-page drawings and photogray-
ure portrait.
Robert Louis stevenson's home In
Samoa is deserted and locked, though
the plantation Is being worked. His
widow and stepdaughter-who was his
amanuensis-are now In this country;
and Mrs. Stevenson says 1t Is doubtful
whether she will ever return to Samoa,
though at the time of her husbands
death she declared that she would al
ways live there.
Richard Wagner, at one time In his
musical career, appeared as doggerel
poet. The verse was afterwards en-
graved on the pewter covers Of beer
mugs by q Bayreuth firm, and said mugs
were eagerly sought after as souvenirs
by visitors to the Wagnerian town. A
rival firm reproduced the verse, and the
matter is now in the courts, as an in
fringement of copyright. So, one man
in his time truly plays many parts.
St. Landry clarion. (Opelousas, La.) 1890-1921, 1898-02-19
MAKING PINS.
How the Little Useful Articles
Are Made by Machinery.
The Operation Is Quite Different from
What It Was in tho Sixteenth Century
--Complicatcd Machines That Turn
Out Two Hundred o Minute.

When pins were FIRST invented,
some time during the third decade
of the sixteenth century, it took one
man o whole day to make two dozen,
The market price Of the days output
being but three shillings. Even as
late In the present century as 1888
one pin went through the hands of
twelve persons before II was finished
and folded away insthe little sheet of
paperof the regulation green TO-
dag, however, everything is differ
ent In the pin factory, ahgle ma
chine turning cut o stream of the
little, atly-polished, sharp-pointed
implements at the rate OF two hum
dred per minute, day and night.
This wonderful little pin-making
automaton is not larger than o
sewing machine, but 1t has more In
visible knives, springs, sharpeners
and pinchers about 1t than q steam
thrasher. The wire from which the
pins are mode is coiled around o
small drum attached to the rear end
OF the machine, different sizes of
wire and spinchers. being used
for the several varieties of pins.
The wire passes from the drum
into the machine through a
small hole provided for that pur-
pose, being kept straight and taut
by q brake on the drum and o series
of iron pegs across the platform of
the machine. A queer little pair OF
pinchers - 'catchers" - seizes the
wire and thrusts 1t through hole,
where 1t Is held while o small ham
mer beats q head on the forward end
OF the wire.
Here 1t is held until a knife de-
sGends and cuts the wire In proper
pin length. Next it is allowed to
drop into groove through which
the heads cannot pass, and while
being held In that position ex-s
posed to the action OF set Of small
files, which almost instantly give 1t
smooth, sharp point. The pin is
now finished and ready for the pol
ishing tub, which is simply o revol-
ing barrel in which the pins are
cleaned and polished by their own
friction. After going through the
polishing tub they are boiled In q So
luton Of acid and tin. This latter
operation gives them their shining
appearance. After going through
the acid bath they are accounted as
being finished and ready for the mar
ket.-Mechauic.
St. Landry clarion. (Opelousas, La.) 1890-1921, 1898-02-19
"a nANaEL or THE sTEERAoE. !"
Name Given to the Daughter OF a Rich
AmstexSlnm FurrAer.

Ganao Given to the Daughter OF a Rich
Amsterdnsn Furraer.
On her latest trip from Amsterdam
TO New York the ocean liner Werken-
dam had for a steerage passenger a
young woman whose air, manner and
speech clearly showed that she would
have been entirely at home among the
saloon passengers. This was Miss
Marie Lowenthal, and she Travelled
among the poor with the sole object Of
having greater opportunity to cheer
and help them during the voyage across
the Atlantic. On the trip she earned
the title aqueen OF the steerage,'' and
as she stepped ashore she was followed
by hearty exclanations of ''God bless
your Hers was conspicuous figure
as she stood among the crowd OF steer
age passengers, most OF whom had the
round. contented faces which one assoc
ciates with Dutch people. Young and
beautiful, she wore costly furs over q
gown OF silk. She comes 10 this coun-
try on business for her father, who Is
one OF the richest furriers In Amster-
dam. His confidence in dis daughters
business Judgment Is shown by the
fact that he intrusts to her care the
conclusion of q heavy deal In which she
Is interested. Though o steerage pas
senger, she dressed In style showing
that her modiste liz thoroughly up to
date. Capt. De yries gazed admiringly
after Miss Lowenthal as she calmly
walked ashore, unmindful of the aston-
ishment caused by her appearance
among the Hpor immigrants.
She ID the angel OF the steerage,n he
said. 'tOf course, she does not have TO
travel that way, but she prefers TO do
1t, partly because she wished to save
money and partly TO be among the
poorer folk, whom It is her delight to
Berve. stingy?, Not q bit Of 1t. Miss
Marie Lowentihal is one of the most
generous women alive. It is her delight
to give to others, to relieve distress.
She has large allowance. but spends
most OF 1t In helping the poor. She
spends her life among them and is;
looked upon as sort Of guardian angel.
by the poor of her native city. One Of
her fads is to travel as cheaply as POS
sible In order to save money for philan-.
thropic work. That Is why she has:
come over In the steerage. She has
crossed the ocean several times that
way, and II you could see all she does
for the poor. frightened emigrants you
would not wonder that they cali her the
angel Of the storage" = Chicago
Chronicle.
St. Landry clarion. (Opelousas, La.) 1890-1921, 1898-02-19

''There are men, said Mr.. Bitterly,
'who seem to have q faculty for telling
the time Of day without looking at the
clock; they get within is minutes OF
right every time. Do you know that
there are men who guess at the tenn
perature with equal accuracy? They
are sort of human Thermometer, ear-
rying scale in their mind. / don't
8think they are marked so accurately for
cold. but warmth, the temperature Of O.
warm room, for instance. they can get
within one or two degrees OF right with
out fail."-N. Y. Sun. 81:
St. Landry clarion. (Opelousas, La.) 1890-1921, 1898-02-19
HOW BAILEY BEAT BARNuM.
And That at the Veteran Showman's
Own Game, Adyertislng.

And That mt the Veteran Sh0wmansg
own Game, Advertising.
One of the elephants with the Bar
num-Bailey circus was the means of
making the fortune that Mr.. Bailey is
credited with possessing. It was as a
baby phenomenon that that paehy-
.derm did the good turn for the success
or of "the great and only Barnum.
Columbia is the name OF the creature.
and of the hundreds OF rare animals in
the aggregation, none Is treasured more
highly than she, now huge ungain1y
and overgrowns creature, with not half
the wit possessed by the smallest ele-
plant connected with the circus
It was away back In 1880, when the
news got around that the first elephant
born in captivity was living and travel
ing with the Barnum show. Mr.. Bailey
was struggling young circus owner
then, and battling against fearful odds.
Barnum was at the height Of his re-
markable career, at the very topmost
notch of circus fame.
Mr.. Barnum, quick to see the advan-
tage of having SO important ON attrae-
tion as 3 real American baby elephant,
telegraphed to Mr.. Bailey as follows:
"Win give you s1oo, 900 for your baby
elephant. Must have 1t"
Mr.. Bailey wi1~ed In answer: sWili
not sell at any price"
# This seemed daring thing for Mr..
Bailey to do, for s10O, 900 would almost
have purchased the entire show. Even
( Mr.. Bailey's best friends, whom he con-
suited In the matter, advised him to ae-
cept the offer. Instead of doing that
he refused 1t, and hustled east to meet
Barnum on his own ground.
BY the time that the Bailey circus
reached the east the whole country was
billed with posters ON which was print
ed: ssWhat Barnum Thinks of the Baby
Elephant" Underneath, that heading
was printed Barnum's telegram to Mr..
Bailey. AS the Bailey show followed
in the wake of the Barnum circus, each
town in which the Barnum aggregation
appeared was billed with the Bailey
posters.
Probably the Bailey advertising did
not affect the attendance at the Barnnm
circus. Mr.. Bailey has since said that
he thought It did not. But the ADVERTISE
ments staring the veteran Snowman In
the face everywhere he went worried
him, and finally, to dodge the huge
posters, he changed the route of his cir
Gus, although that route had been de-
termined upon nearly 12 months In adj
vance. He jumped fromsEew York
to Kansas City and surrendered the
whole eastern field to the Bailey show.
The next year the two shows were con-
solidated and have been one show ever
since. Mr.. Barnum's one joke with Mr.
Bailey as long as the shrewd old circus
manager was alive, was: "Well, have
YOU any more baby elephants that you
-. Ye.aa..u
St. Landry clarion. (Opelousas, La.) 1890-1921, 1898-02-19
PIassea with Autographs and Cent

When the pedestal Of the statue OF
Blair, which Missouri has presented to
Statuary hnll, was standing In the hall
the other day awaiting Its bronze fig
ure, some one noticed that In the center
OF the stone block was small square
hole. The Missouri delegation was pres
emit to watch the placing Of the statue,
and one OF the congressman, fishing
through his pockets. found cent. He
put the coin In the square hole, and
also deposited . bit Of paper with bis
autograph. The example was conta-
gious. Every member Of the deIega-
ton put In q cent and his name. some
curious bystanders did likewise. and by
the time the statue was placed in posi-
tion, there was almost enough copper In
the pedestal to sheathe ship-Wash
ington Post.
St. Landry clarion. (Opelousas, La.) 1890-1921, 1898-02-19
TOLD BY THE BIG COP
How He Divided o Reward f0r Kind-
ness with the Cabmam.

How He Divided o Reward for Kind-
ness with the Cabman.
Some policemen were telling stories
In the back room of o station house up
town and the subject of the converse
tion was the ease with which money
could be made on the outside" occa-
slonally. A big man. with two strips
Of blue on his arm, denoting over ten
years service put In on .doin' his bit on
the walk" told this: 'The easiest way
7 think ever made q cent, an, mind
you, ] don't say an honest cent, was
about three years ago. The funniest
thing about 1t was that my benefactor
was DIR. John Hall. He's probably for
gotten all about the affair, but this con-
versation just brought 1t to my mind
as showin' how slaziness sometimes
brings. good luck. Il was when hnd a
beat on Fifth avenue. I'd Just been sent
there. and was settling down TO enjoy
my cinch after putin in some hard
work down along the river front. Well,
the second day, late In the afternoon.
as luck would have 1t, an old drunk
comes up the avenue and fiops down on
q corner OF my post. He wasn't drunk
enough to send for the wagon, SO after
making 1t pretty warm for him for
awhile got him on his feet and waa
Just gettin' ready TO lug him over to
the house when along comes Jimmy
Burns,a friend OF mine, on top OF his
cab.
"'Hello. Jim,' ! says. ARE ye goin'
east?' e
Whats the matter, Bill he says.
Dye want a lift?'
Sure, says. A
well. pile IN an III take ye both
"Jim drove his cab up 10 the corner
andwe got theadrunk aboard. Jim got
upon his seat again, and was Just about
TO climb In with the drunk when FELT
tap on my shoulder. turned around
and recognized DR.. Hall.
Officer he says, that's the kindess
act 7 ever sew done by q policeman and
then what did be do but go down In his
clothes for d fve-spot. ALLOW me, ne
says, TO pay for that cab. It would be
o shame for such an act to cost you any
thing. Thank you, doctor I says. and
then I got into the cab with the drunk.
When we got over TO the house Jim
says to me: BILL he says, how much
did that bloke give yer over ON de cor
nerp' tJim,s / says, 'to be dead square
with yer, he gave me q dollar for doin'
an act Of blindness. Now, X says, you'll
permit me to give you half, and In re-
turn take me back III your cab, seein'
you warn't lookin, for no fare. It's q
co. said Jim. IN. 7. Sun.