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St. Landry clarion. (Opelousas, La.) 1890-1921, 1898-01-08
Queer Names.

A traveller who spent some time In
the " Ids of Texas says that he found
families who named the children TO
indorse sentiment after this peculiar
fashion: "One Too Many Harry" OF
'sNot Wanted James" It is to be hoped
that the names did not embarrass their
owners with more than one sense OF
euperfuity. The negroes OF the south,
when left to their own methods OF
naming their progeny. strive for the
most romantic and poetic or historic
names they can find. and a good, long
string Of them, too. A colored girl 10
Laurens county, s. c., Is named "Fair
Rose Beauty Spot Temptation Touch
Me Not" The youths struggling un-
der the patronymics OF George Wash
ington Henry Clay Benjamin Franklin
Andrew jackson" are so numerous as
IN ayci{a mo comment
St. Landry clarion. (Opelousas, La.) 1890-1921, 1898-01-08
HOME MOUNTAINS.
We DON'T Have to Go Abroad to Find
High Climbing.

hABh S1AAOAASs
There are 110 mountains in Colorado
whose peaks are over $4,000 feet above
the ocean level. Forty of these are
higher than $4,000 feet, and more than
half Of that number are SO remote
and rugged that no one has yet dared
TO attempt to climb them. They are
as unique as those of Switzerland, and
as fearful as the Alps in the warning
they offer TO the men or women who
are so hardy as to defy them by start
ing upon their ascent. Some of them
are massed with snow, others have
glaciers over their approaches, and
others are merely masses OF jagged
rocks.
Not even Coloradoans have sought as
yet to surmount them, and the profes-
sion of "guide" Is still open to who
ever may care to enter Iii Railroads.
reach within close enough range to
provide hotel facilities, but otherwise
the mountain climbing OF Colorado is
yet awaiting it's pioneers. Did the
Coloradoans or the people of other
states fully realize the intoxicants as
well as the health-giving powers Of
mountain climbing. Rocky mountain
climbing would be one OF the most
popular recreations of America.
Only one Notwithstanding club Is
known to exist in Colorado. There is
room for dozen more. There should
be one In every city. By the evidences
such clubs might offer of their thrill
ing experiences and of their unexam-
pied pastimes, the fame Of the Rockies
as a place of pleasure and adventure
might be widely advertised. and Colo
RADIO thus be pushed forward to the
place 1t must eventually occupy as the
American substitute for Switzerland.
-Denuar Times
St. Landry clarion. (Opelousas, La.) 1890-1921, 1898-01-08
Innred tn Cold.

When asked If he was not afraid OF
Temperature Of ten degrees below zero
the late Tolman Wiley, of Boston, said:
"Where was born, sir, my father one
Sunday took me into q meeting house
which sat on four stone posts with no
other underpinning. / sat In the church
and listened to sermon on hell for 60
minutes, with the wind bowling under
meath the church and blowing 10 miles
a minute, with no fire In the stove and
the mercury 40 degrees below zero. Do
you think was born in sugar box and
nursed on heliotropesg
St. Landry clarion. (Opelousas, La.) 1890-1921, 1898-01-08
snar1e.t Electrical battery.

The smallest electrical battery ever
constructed was the work OF an cleo
trician In the employ of the Boston
Telephone company. It consisted OF
an ordinary "glass head through
which two wires, one of copper and the
other of iron, were 1ooped and twisted
SO as to prevent their coming in con-
tact. The wires acted as the cleo
trodes, and all that was necessary to
cause q current was to place drop
of aciduiated water In the head. Ger
tainly such a minute battery furnished
but an infnttesimaI current, but It
could be easily used in delicate tele-
phone; in fact, 1t is said to haveactuai-
" served in signaling distance OF near
1v 200 miles, s&
St. Landry clarion. (Opelousas, La.) 1890-1921, 1898-01-08
MOUNDS OF souTH DAKOTA.

Stone Implements and Other Eviden.
ces of o. Prehistoric Settlement.
An account OF an exploring expedk
Hon sent out to locate surveys and de-
fine the prehistoric mounds OF the Mis-
Gtssippi river valley in South Dakota
is given in the st. Paul Dispatch. The
existence Of mounds has been known
to the expedition for long time. The
party located two distinct fields OF pre-
historic mounds and one well-preserved
fortihcataon within q distance OF five
miles in length and three-quarters Of
mile wide. Both groups of mounds
are of considerable magnitude. The
larger group was located opposite the
mouth of Grand river and contains
800, 600 square feet Of territory, with
"a counted and surveyed mounds upon
the field, an elevation OF 176 feet above
Hhe Missouri river. One of the largest
mounds was opened by the party and
immense quantities of prehistoric
specimens secured and broughf tp the
city.
The second field Of mounds within
this area was four miles distant and to
some extent dGDlterated by the plow.
But there were upward of-s0 mounds
in this field and prehistoric arrows,
pottery and stone implements We're
found in large numbers. Close to this
second field, which Is In Wamorth conn-
ty, s. D., the party found trenches con-
tanning human skeletons, and several
skulls were brought back. The skulls
are harder, heavier and thicker even
than those of q negro and much unlike
those of the Indian of the Columbian
age.
A mile and quarter from this place
the party located q well-preseTvek1f fog'ti-
fcaion of earth, showing the outer
and inner breastworks, the bitches and
inner works. The entrances to the
Qualifications are still marked. Here,
too, evidence Of prehistoric character
was abundant and number of stone
Implements were secured. The field
invites the closest attention. ON the part
Of archaeologists. .. .
St. Landry clarion. (Opelousas, La.) 1890-1921, 1898-01-08
AN AFRICAN POISON STORY.

Strange Phenomenon Witnessed 1n
the Northeast of the Dark Continent.
Charles M. Stern, of Chicago, who
lately returned from a journey through
Northeast Africa, told of q curious me
teorological phenomenon which he OBJ
served in the district called Gwallah,
reports the New York Mail and Ex-
press. "The vegetation in that region
is very luxuriant," said he, ''and the
plant life must give off an unusually
large quantity of carbonic acid gas. At
least, that was the conclusion I reached
after seeing three natives die and four
or five dogs.
"The moment the animals put their
noses close to the ground they would
fall over and gasp, and die in about five
minutes. The natives who died slept on
the ground instead of in hammocks, as
others did. My theory is that stratum
of the deadly gas covered the ground
for depth of three or four inches, and
any living thing breathing in that area
was asphyxiated.
II could not understand, however,
how the gas was not distributed In a
thinner layer, and what kept 1t In one
place for whole day. Nothing like 1t
had ever been known there before. The
deaths OF, the men and the dogs all oc-
cured within "a hours. Then the gas,
II it was really gas, seemed to be dissi-
pated. It was a very strange occur
renee and might have been induced to
make O more exhaustive investigation
If my presence had not excited distrust.
got away as quickly as possible rather
than be accused of being the cause of
the sudden deaths. The natives are su-
perstitious, and attribute most Of their
misfortunes to witchcraft, SO thought
it the part of wisdom to get away"
St. Landry clarion. (Opelousas, La.) 1890-1921, 1898-01-08
HUNGER AS A MOTIVE.
Ht Xs the Aladdfn's Lamp of Civili.
xatf0m,

Eation.
The rowels of natures most powerful
spur, hunger, are continually reddening
the tanks of the primitive community,
says the Monist. The apostles scath-
ing arraignment of the Cretans, whose
god is their belly would literally APP
ply to every savage tribe-and many
q civilized one. Hunger is one of the
mainsprings of progress. At its Inn
perative command the flint was chipped
into the arrow head, the dart, the spear.
In It's honor the net was woven, the hoe
was made and the soil broken. To APP
pease Its cravings the wild bull Is
broken to the yoke, the forests are
fclled, the ditch is dug through the
marsh.
On It's errands the ship is launched
on the perilous deep and the band sent
out upon the war path. Into its service
have been impressed the winds of
heaven, the steam wreaths of the cal
dron and the glittering shafts OF the
lightning. It is the real Aladdin's lamp
of civilization. The ceaseless westward
flow of the human stream and the
march Of the ''star of empire" have been
at the behest Of it's genii. Whether it
be born of barren soil and cruel sky
or Of the pressure of overpopulation, 1t
has played a leading part in molding the
destinies OF the nations.
In the fall of every world empire from
Assyria to Rome the conquering race
has invariably come from the noun
tainous or barren land, or from stern
er sky.
And still to-day the nations of the
bleakest belt of the temperate zone,
where the struggle with soil and eli
mate is severest, the Scotch, the Eng
lish. the Dutch and the North Germans,
are overrunning the whole of the in
habitable globe and bid fair to far OUT
do Alexander by more peaceable and
far more stable means.
St. Landry clarion. (Opelousas, La.) 1890-1921, 1898-01-08
OPELOUsAS LA, SATURDAY, JANUARY g. 1898.
HER GREAT SECRET.
Actions spenA-FIe Was Willing 10
Read Her Mind.

Actions spenk-He Was Willing TO
Read Her Mind.
For many long years the young wom-
an had called upon Ulysses, says the
st. Louis PostDispatch. She had
brpught him numberless packages of
choicecigarettes, as we'll as divers speci-
mems of hhemore expensive genus cigar.
She had repeatedly purchased tickets
for various celebrated prize-tights, and
after escorting him thither would see
to 1t that he had plenty of lemon cream
puffs to munich upon during the inter
Yals of slugging. Many and many an
evening she had assisted him in In
creasing the numerals upon his poor,
hard-working mammals coal and gas
bills, and she had seen four several sets
of new springs added to the parior
soft. But hitherto she had not stood
up like a-er--svoman, and boldly de-
clared her lovefor him; and requested
to be allowed to pay all his expenses in
the future, in considerations of his don
ming her last name
But upon This special evening In ques-
tiom Ulysses had her dead to rights.
Tt may have been the witching golf cos-
tune In old gold and baby blue that
he wore, or the shy grace with which
he placed his tiny palm in hers. How
ever, be this as it may, she could no
longer restrain herself; but impulsively
threw her arms about his frail, shrink
ing figure and drew him tenderly to-
ward her. .r
AS her lips rose from his she loving
Iy murmured: This kiss tells you my
secret"
And Ulysses as he furtively removed
some cut plug from his mouth found
an opportunity to observe: 'Wouldyou
-you-mind saying - it - over
again?"
St. Landry clarion. (Opelousas, La.) 1890-1921, 1898-01-08
AN EXPERIENCED HORSE.

He Had a Thrilling Border Career and
Now He Ia Doing Duty fn Drawing.
There is horse that helps draw an
omnibus from Lawrenceburg to Green
Vile, Ind, every day whose earlier days
were In sharp contrast with his present
life, says the New York Journal.
When he was young the horse was
on stage route through Yellowstone
park. He was so swift and so handsome
that the government bought him for
q troop horse.
The animal saw much cavalry service
and soon gained distinction because OF
his speed and endurance. He was stolen
by an Indian, and for three or four
years was ridden without a saddle.
Then Col. 2. D. Bannister recovered
the horse. Part of one ear had been
shot away and an Indian had cut off
a part of his tongue because his neigh
ing had betrayed the hidden savage.
For years the horse did duty about
the Rosebud agency. Then 1t was sold
to Ike Mullen, a cowboy, who was killed
in a drunken brawl. Then the horse
was sold to q trader. and after chang
ing hands many times it found Its way
to Lawrenceburg. It changed hands
many times and was bought by George
Lowe last week and put to work on
the stage route.
Ever SO many people laugh ut the old
animal with one ear and a disflgured
tongue, but after they learn its history
they look upon him with respect.
He is 20 years Old, and, notwithstand-
ing his age and the experiences he has
passed through, the horse is still strong
and active. A bugle or shot will make
1t prick up its single ear and a fire will
show In Its eyes.
St. Landry clarion. (Opelousas, La.) 1890-1921, 1898-01-08
Gifts Of Great value.

Governments experts have just conn
pleted their valuation of the pictures
and art treasures Of one king and an
other bequeathed to the English nation
by Lady Wallace, who during her life
time was barred from presentation at
court and subjected to much unkindly
ostracism by English society. The
value is set down officially at the enor-
nous sum of s22 100000. The govern
ment has decided to keep the collection
where 1t is-that is to say, in Hertford
house, which the state is now about 60
acquire for the purpose.
St. Landry clarion. (Opelousas, La.) 1890-1921, 1898-01-08
STRANGE ReIiaious seryice,

A queer polyglot religious service was
held at the Seaman's Bethel at Douglas
on the Isle of Man. The Gospel was read
In Gaelic, hymn sung in Manx, prayer
offered in Welsh and the sermon deliv-
cred in English. On the previous Sum
day the Lords Prayer was said In Corn
ish, language the last speaker of
which died In the early years Of this
century,
St. Landry clarion. (Opelousas, La.) 1890-1921, 1898-01-08
The wheat King.

The wheat king OF the world belongs
to Argentina. He is an Italian emf
grant named Guazone, and his broad
acres are situated In the south of the
provinces of Buenos Ayres. His crop 90
cupies an area Of e6, ,27o acres. He mum.
bers his workmen by the thousand, and
each one receives q certain share of the
profits. When his seasons crop Is har
vested he fills over 5000 railway trucks
with grain.
St. Landry clarion. (Opelousas, La.) 1890-1921, 1898-01-08
Colorado.s Peaks.

There are 110 mountains In Colorado
whose peaks are over $4,000 feet above
the ocean level. Forty Of these are
higher than 14,000 feet, and more than
half of that number are so remote and
rugged that no one has dared to attempt
to climb them. Some of them are
massedwith snow. others have glaciers
over their approaches. and others are
merely masses of jagged rocks.
St. Landry clarion. (Opelousas, La.) 1890-1921, 1898-01-08
Coffee for America.

/. A Brazilian doctor who has been ex'
perimenting with coffee as q remedy
for anemia says that he he's brought
about some remarkable cures. he re.
quires his patients to drink weak coffee
exclusively, also ordering them to take
baths in decoction Of coffee.
St. Landry clarion. (Opelousas, La.) 1890-1921, 1898-01-08
woman Suffrage I'm England.

Women in England have the local
government franchise In counties and
boroughs on the same conditions as
men, and recent return shows how rel
atively unimportant their vote Is. In
the counties and boroughs of England
and Wales there are altageAher 5.32e. .s79
local government electors; OF these
only 729, ,75S are women-that is TO say,
women form less than one-seventh Of
the electorate.
St. Landry clarion. (Opelousas, La.) 1890-1921, 1898-01-08
TROPICAL TIPS.
Showing How to Make Hot Weather
md n

showing HOW TO MAKE AOB "G&KAGS
Endurable.
A hint comes from India which is
worth using in the hot summer days.
Lassitude and loss Of appetite are
among the first evidences Of the effect
Of the suns heat upon the body, and in
hot weather many persons who have
never had sunstroke are debilitated by
what might be fairly called sun fatigue,
which, although not serious, renders
work of every kind more laborious than
it would otherwise be.
The influence of the sun varies enor-
mously On different individuals, some
Of whom have to take special precan-
tions in order to be able to resist 1t. A
spinal pad is used by soldiers in many
tropical countries. It arrests the light,
which often works such injury, but Is
uncomfortably hot, and soon becomes
Objectionable from Its absorption Of
perspiration.
In India the boon and blessing be-
yond compare with those who have to
spend part of their lives under a trop-
ieal sunlight is an orange-colored shirt.
An English engineer declares that he
frequently fell Ill after duty in the sun,
until he treated himself as a photo
graphic sensitive plate, and surrounded
his body with yellow light.
All clothing, however thick, allows
certain rays to pass, and although thick
clothing would arrest all the injurious
ailments of sunlight, 1t would inter-
fere with the escape Of bodily heat.
The yellow shirt, for sensitive people
who are much in hot sunlight, is an ex-
cellent protection, only inferior to that
simplest and best Of ell India protec-
tives-a white umbrella, which has not
yet been acclimated In this country.
St. Landry clarion. (Opelousas, La.) 1890-1921, 1898-01-08
Long Buliets.

Elongated rife bullets are made from
1eaden rods. A machine cuts them into
the required lengths, stamps them into
shape by means of steel dies. and drops
them finished into o box at the rate OF
1000 an hour.
St. Landry clarion. (Opelousas, La.) 1890-1921, 1898-01-08
1Nnrahined rhes. Vheera.

When the bicycle was first intro
duced In India it was not at all an un-
common thing for natives to fa1 down
and worship it. Calcutta can probably
claim more women cyclists than any
other city In India. =
St. Landry clarion. (Opelousas, La.) 1890-1921, 1898-01-08
croxvth OF Human Hairs.

Authorities differ as to the rate OF
growth of the human hair, and 1t Is
said to be very dissimilar in different
individuals. The most usually accept
ed calculations gives 6A inches per an
mum.
Kansas City journal. [volume] (Kansas City, Mo.) 1897-1928, 1898-03-31

MONEY, STOCKS AND BONDS.
THE BULLS IN CONTROL-ALL STOCKS
ACTIVE AND HIGHER.
The Conviction That War Would Be
Averted Set Everyone to Buying
and Caused q General Ad.
rance in Prices.

The warlike situation Of the country exerted q
more cautious feeling In the money market the past
week. Heavy imports Of gold. amounting to Ss.070,-
54s. Influenced an easier feeling in call loans and
rates were lowered to 192 per cent, but time money
was frmer in New York. The banks there hesitated
about loading I'D with time paper. They wanted
better rates and only 20 per cent Of their new loans
last week was made OF this character. Last Satur-
days New York bank statement shows q decrease in
loans OF S7,110. 500. and in deposits Of 81, 526. 800. In
specie there was an increase Of 1908. 700 and in the
surplus reserve of 50. 719. AS. making 1t now S33. $751;
4l5 In excess Of the % per cent rule. But there was
But while currency is still being drawn to the
country. its loss is more than being made good by
gold imports. The New York Financier says the total
idle cash now in the New York banks Is s63. s51 AS.
putting the banks in a stronger position than since
the beginning Of February. During which time.
however, there has been a falling OF Of s46. 900. 900
in loans and $50. 600. 900 in deposits, which represents
liquldations OF loans and the calling home of funds
by interior correspondents. While the banks have
gained in strength by this movement 1t is at the ex-
pense Of much business. The feeling here in the
West. as we'll as In the East, is more cautious. While
banks are still in the market for good home loans there
OF all is to 90 slow until there is some settlement Of
the Cuban question. Rates. however. remain un-
changed-stilI 7aS per cent. But little currency 60
ing to the country. Bank clearings for the week
ending Wednesday. $40. 2i5. $50, against 50. PA the
same week last year, an increase Of $3s9, lac, a gain
of 5 per cent.
Eastern exchange steady. but dull.
Houston, Fible & Co., exchange brokers. quote II as
follows: New York, par; Chicago. CSC discount; st.
Louis. par.
The gold reserve yesterday was s173. l5s. $50.
Kansas City journal. [volume] (Kansas City, Mo.) 1897-1928, 1898-03-31
LIVE STOCK BY TELEGRAPH.

South Omaha. March o0.-CATTLE-Receipts. 300.
Market strong to 10c higher. Beeves, 81. s5d4 IS:
stockers and feeders. S3.2sa5.0o: cows. 32-ooG3.0.
1900 Market . shade lower.
Top. S3.7214; bulk. S3-s5a3-7o.
10000. Market steady.
st. Louis. March ao.-CATTLE-Receipts. 1000. Ma
tives. 10c higher. Texans strong. Native beeves.
81. LOG 40; Texas steers. Sc. s5G4.so.
1900. Market steady. closing low
er: top. 50. 90: bulk. s.. a
SHEEP-Receipts. 1900. Market steady. Some
clipped natives sold at $40.
Chicago. March 3o.-CATTLE-Receipts. Il, 900.
To-days limited supply made buyers more prompt
about taking hold than usual and recent prices were
we'll maintained. good to prime fat cattle ruling very
steers were on a basis of s.. so93 IS for the common
est to S5.0oG5.4o for choice to prime shipping cat
tie, the greater part selling for .40G51 10. No
fancy cattle ars coming and quotations for such
are nominal at S5.65d5-75. Suckers and feeders
were animated at S3.s5G4.s5 and there was an
especially strong demand for little lightweight feed
ing steers Calves sold at Ss.pods.s5 q few sales
i've at 81 2sd3.00 and fat heifers sold up to si.5e9
As for prime. A car Of 1 100 pound Texas steers
brought A.55 and two loads Of native steers and
heifers about evenly divided brought s5.a5.
1900. Trade was fairly active
on both local and shipping account. prices weaken
ing a little after early strength The bulk of the
sales occurred at s. 80. the commonest heavy
packing hogs selling at 50. while prime heavy
hogs brought S3-s0G3.927-
$1,000. Prices for sheep and
lambs were strong at the recent advance. Sheep
sold briskly at 81. 25G4.s0 for wooIed and at 80 SOC
AS for shorn. rams selling at So. 00f4.O and goats
at SIS. Yearling sheep brought &.z5a5.10. shorn
unshorn at s5.00gs.0o. Colorados selling freely at
e s5dS 90.