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St. Landry clarion. (Opelousas, La.) 1890-1921, 1899-11-04
bout ought to be game enough to play

bout ought to be game enough to play
foot ball"
Footballs different proposition.
I'll tell you that. Now, when you put
on the gloves to have scrap with q
guy he's the only man you've got TO
look out for. You can just pay all your
attention to him. But in this game OF
football you've got II great, big, husky
Indians after you all the time, trying
to break your spine or else walk on
your face. When a man gets pushed
over with the ball in his arms, then
everybody comes an gets on top Of
him, and tries to kick his teeth out.
The one that kicks out the most teeth
wins the game, | guess. That was as
near as | could come to keepin score. =
1T isn't as bad as that" said. '.The
players have themselves protected SO
as to reduce the danger TO the mini
num-"
Yes, there was one fellow had more
stuff on him than | ever saw on a trot-
tin horse. He had blinders. ear-muffs,
a nose business with a strap over the
top of his head. Then he had regulars
pillows on his shoulders and pads on
his shins, an he seemed to be stuffed
with cotton or somethin' all the way
in between. / don't blame him. If |
was goin' to play that game I'd want
a cast iron suit like they use6 10 wear
in the old country"
JOHN PAZELDEN.
St. Landry clarion. (Opelousas, La.) 1890-1921, 1899-11-04
BHly's Football Observations

''You want to remember that the hui
man body is about the toughest thing
on earth,' | said. Il suppose you have
heard of railroad accidents in which a
ear would be smashed into kindling-
wood by a coIlision-actually crushed
to small pieces, and people riding in
that car would escape with compare
lively slight injuries?"
"Oh, you're talkin' about a railroad
accident" said Billy, with disgusted
shake of the head. What's railroad
accident compared with a good hot
game O. football. When you're in a
railroad wreck you get one good smash
an then it's all over. But in this game
of football you're up against it every
minute for an hour an half, an you
never know what's coming next"
Its great game, anyway" said.
Great? l should say it is! It's the
best sport you can find in any country
where they bar out prize-fghtin'. You
needn't think for minute that I'm
kickin' on the me. It's bird! All
want to say is that If l went along
the street usin' people the way them
football people use each other, they'd
send me to the pen for life. Is it a
good game? Yes-to watch. But to get
out an play! Nay, nay, Pauline. |
don't want to risk my life just for a
little glory, an then not get any glory,
neither. If some big guy that weighs
about half ton gets the ball an
comes at you, head-on, like runaway
steer, you've got to jump for him an
bring him down, becuz if you let him
get past you, everybody gives you the
laugh an says you're nit"
'Yes. but look at the other side of
the story" l said. "Just think of the
cheers and applause you get when you
make good play. All the girls waving
flags and handkerchiefs, the boys blow
ing horns
AN givin' the college yell,' inter
rupted Billy. Il s'pose it's great stuff,
but can get along without it. I'm a
purity ambitious young fellow, but /
don't want to be a football player or
a soldier in the Philippines. I'll turn
them jobs over to people that's got
their own notion of havin' good time. :"
Il must say that I am surprised" :"
remarked. 4 thought you would like
to play football. You used to box,
didn't you?''
'sYes, | put on the gloves once in
awhile now"
well, man who can stand up and
take good hard punches in boxing
St. Landry clarion. (Opelousas, La.) 1890-1921, 1899-11-04

NNGLAND has more than once
lN proved the courage and fighting
1 qualities of the South African
Boers to her sorrow. During the cen
Jury of English rule at the Cape of Good
Hope there has been almost constant
clash between the YfWo peoples, and on
several occasions th1 Beers have either
bested the English troops or made the
English victory such an expensive one
that it served as lesson for future gen.
crations of English statesmen.
A study of the resources of the two
countries can leave but little doubt of
the final result of conflict between
them. England with her great armies,
her unlimited wealth and her standing
as world power, is unquestionably the
stronger, but the Beers are not weak.
While they have not the great armies
of England, nor the vast resources of
ordnance or means to procure it, they
are strong in national character, and a
small force of English troops will not be
able to conquer them.
It is but natural that their previous
victories over the English should add
TO their confidence at the present time.
St. Landry clarion. (Opelousas, La.) 1890-1921, 1899-11-04
OPELOUsAs La, SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 4, 1899.
PROVERBS OF THE AFR1c AN.
Not Much Beauty or Poetry, But Gem.
orally Little Heaps of Conn
mon Sense.

African proverbs are mostly of
practical nature, but poetry and beauty
of expression, though not abounding,
are sometimes encountered in them,
as when they say, concerning the pro-
tective power of a great man: THE
long shadow of the borassus palm shell
tiers him that is afar off, or, again, it
touches an abysmal sublimity in mas
terly way, as in the following: He
who goes to Pate returns not-aL that
returns is a cry!" 4
The negro mind that first described
the galaxy as "a hen with many chick
ens'' must have spent years in elm
mating all poetry from its calculations
This was probably the first gigantic ef-
fort of inept imagery on the part of
the negro, and the second is like unto
it: Heaven and earth are two large
calabashes, which being shut can never
be opened From this these scorners
of poetry proceed from worse to worse.
"The sky" they say, sis the king OF
sheds, and the earth is the queen of
beds. Night"-but here the natural
poetry, though driven out with pitch
fork, creeps in again-"Night is the
queen of shades, and the sun is the
king of torches" But once descend to
the ordinary things of daily life, upon
which it is SO easy not to write an
epic poem, and you have collection OF
sharp saws which may well have been
set with the same instrument as that
withewhich some negro races file their
teeth. 81 almost killed Bird says
the fool with the blow tube. But you
canont eat the almost in a stew" re-
turns his more practical father.
Similarly: Promises are good if you
can cook them," and Better is nine
take it than ten go and come" A
self-evident proposition. but one not
without point in its analogy, is this:
'He who dives on dry land sacrifices
his face" There is sound physiological
knowledge gathered, no doubt, empir-
ically, in these two sayings: ''The load
without is carried by the load within, !"
and "The unsettled man eats fish, the
steady man eats meat Don't tell
your secrets to woman" is piece of
tered independently by every people
on the face of the earth, but among
certain African tribes it appears to have
an expansive application, subject to the
definition of the term woman" This
definition is found embodied in the
proverb: ''There are more women than
men, which, according to Sir Richard
Burton, contains its own explanation
viz, that all those who listen to what
women say are counted as women.
Thus, the advice of the negro practic-
ally means, Never tell your secrets to
old women, male and female" In prac-
teal matters the negro sometimes adds
a footnote to law which would in no
way disgrace Moses or a Solomon. Very
gray was the hair on the head of the
man who said: IF a boy does nine
nlischiefs he shall suffer for five of them
his father for the rest."-Chicage
Times-Herald.
St. Landry clarion. (Opelousas, La.) 1890-1921, 1899-11-04

same place, and on February p was
fought the battle that brought peace
to the afflicted nation, and the inde-
pendence which the people desired.
For the English troops to wage a
successful campaign against the Beers
it was necessary for them to capture the
pass at Laing's Mex, at which place
they had suffered two defeats. Majuba
hill lay between the camp of the Eng
lish and the Beers, and Gen. Cooley saw
in it a strategical position from which
few men could command the Boer
force in the pass.
During the night 600 English troops
ascended the almost precipitous sides
of the hill by means of the narrow path
leading to the top, expecting that on
the morrow they and their comrades
| who were to make a direct attack on
the pass, would carry the coveted posi-
ton with ease. That it would be pos
sible for the Beers to gain the summit
of the hill by any other means than
the narrow path was never dreamed of,
and that was easily protected.
But the move of Gen. Cooley was just
what the hardy colonists had hoped
!.for. They knew of other means of gain
ing the summit of that hill, and on that
bright Sunday morning in February
carried out the project that was to
cost England dearly. Slowly and care
fully the Boer volunteers to the num-
Der of so climbed the precipitous sides,
odging from rock to rock SO easily and
quickly that only one of their number
was killed in the ascent. For five hours
the climb continued, while the Eng
lish lay powerless TO help themselves
by retreating or to infict serious injury
on the advancing enemy. Once at the
summit the Beers lay behind the rocks
surrounding the plateau into which the
English had retreated. From behind
the rocks the Beers poured in a steady
and terrible fire upon the English
yards away. 1t was methods, not
bravery, that the English troops lacked.
Their leader had been outgeneraled by
the Boer, for which both he and his
troops paid the penalty. Before that
days battle was done, Gen. Cooley was
dead, and nearly half of his 600 men,
with whom he had marched to the top
Of that bill SO confidently, were either
dead, wounded or prisoners in the hands
of the victorious Beers.
That war. short as it was, cost Eng
land nearly a thousand men. while the
Boer army lost less than 25 in killed,
and but few were wounded. With the
defeat at Majuba bill came an end to
the war, and Boer independence was
acknowledged.
The last lesson which the English
learned of the Beers was at Doornkop.
IS miles from johannesburg, in JaDu-
arg, 1896, when DR.. jameson and his
900 followers were so severely whipped
by the Boer forces that those who were
not killed surrendered unconditional
II. Is there another lesson in store for
England from the same source?
DANIEL CLEVERTON
St. Landry clarion. (Opelousas, La.) 1890-1921, 1899-11-04

THO o HAVE on exhibition sentiments
you Ike from the people you adj
- mire most is interesting; to have
the sentiments they themselves like
best, is more so; and to have them in
their own handwriting with their name
attached, indelible as a laundry mark,
is fascinating, and has just cost Capt.
Pabst, of Milwaukee, $4,000 to achieve.
The purchase has just come from the
hands of the book binder, and the great,
exquisitely bound tome is probably the
costliest book in the world. It is ex-
actly $50 pounds of autographs, mixed
with some of the brightest things in the
ken of quotation, and some of the stu
St. Landry clarion. (Opelousas, La.) 1890-1921, 1899-11-04

sonorous even in black and white. A
number of them write very badly and
not even pursue an intelligent straight
line as the shortest distance between
two points, probably because they re-
gard it as unconstitutional ever to see
just where they are going. Most of
them are well-orderea, fat-lettered COM
pliances to do as thsy are told.
The officers of the army and navy do
better. Among thsse the one most
interesting at the present time is that
St. Landry clarion. (Opelousas, La.) 1890-1921, 1899-11-04

of the game said. have always
been a great admirer aud a firm adro-
cate of the robust sport known as foot
ball, and when Billy began 10 advance
the usual criticisms | was disposed to
answer with some feeling.
lie. ought 10 get out Of the game.
eh? We'll, two Of EN- did get out this
afternoon. They was carried out, both
of 'em knocked silly. ldon't know what
became of 'ern. / think they just took
'em back O. the grand stand an tossed
'em into the discard an went on with
the game. The wonder to me is that the
whole % wuZn't done up. SufTerin' Cor
nelius! The way they slammed into
each other an tied themselves up in
hard knots all over the place, it's mys-
terry how anybody got out alive"
St. Landry clarion. (Opelousas, La.) 1890-1921, 1899-11-04

when saw that boy hit the ground an
then saw that 200 pounds of beef squash
down on top of him, / said to myself:
It's all off, He couldn't live through
that even if he was made out of leather
and wrought iron! Yes, sir. thought
he'd come to horrible finish. He
rolled over a couple of times, grunted
a little an went back into the mix-up
as if he liked it. That's nice, friendly
game, amt it ?"
Its hard game, to be sure l said.
.'Those who go into it expect to give
and take"
II wouldn't mind the give so much,
but if that was fair sample of the
take / saw to-day, why, excuse me!
I'll tell you, that big fellow had murder
in his heart. He was the roughest thing
ever saw. He upset everybody that
came near him"
Hes probably good player" | said,
wishing to give Billy fair idea of the
game. There's no need 10 go into the
game at all unless you expect TO be ear
nest"
"Well, don't you worry. He was
earnest enough to suit anybody. How
about the rules of the game? Is he al
lowed to wipe up the grass with people
an jam into EN-, an do al that playful
stuff"
''Of course"
well, that's a funny thing. If man
puts on pair of padded pants an COW
ers his face with a dog muzzle he can
slaughter as many people as he wants
TO, | s'pose."
IF any man doesn't want to take the
chance of getting hurt he should get out
St. Landry clarion. (Opelousas, La.) 1890-1921, 1899-11-04

United States commanders-in-chief G..
A. R.; the artists, sculptors, musi-
clans, actors, authors and writer's of
note in the United States; journalists;
scientists; civil engineers; railroad
officials; notable ecclesiastics; gov
ernors of all the states; and miscellan-
eous assortment of men and women,
with a general addenda of verybody
notable and previously omitted.
The two congresses, the cabinets and
St. Landry clarion. (Opelousas, La.) 1890-1921, 1899-11-04
ONE DOLLAR PER YEAR.
zEzS ~ Hz Nfzp Is zI Y

sage from the year book of his life.
whether bar of his own or another's;
and hardly an artist whose returned
slip, was not dainty in blue and white
water coloring. or bold in black and
white, or graceful with curve of shoul-
der or fall of sweeping drapery of
skillful sketching. And everything,
from the three Emma Calves
scrawled in gracious super-compliance
to J. G. Browns characteristic bit of
bootblack kit. is dear possession, and
gives one that repeatedly delightful
feeling of lookifsg into the kitchen gar
den, unofficially.
This, in short, is what the book con
St. Landry clarion. (Opelousas, La.) 1890-1921, 1899-11-04
TWO GREAT TRAILERs.
Nick nnd Dock, Keen Scented Doga
That Worked on Union Pacific
Train Robbery.

Although only four-footed animals,
| the work of Nick and Dock in trailing
! men has made them famous west of the
Mississippi. The services of these eele-
! brated bloodhounds have been required
| in scores of well-known cases, the most
prominent being the great Union Pa
cifc train robbery last winter at Green
River, Wyo.
The two hounds came from famous
stock, owing their origin TO the great
1 Winchell kennels of Vermont. They
were purchased by the Lincoln (Neb.}
| Bloodhound company when very young
and placed in immediate training for
| trailing criminals. They were used in
scores of minor cases about Nebraska's S
capital city, their work being aston
ishing. They trailed a party of bur-
| glars As miles, but lost them amid the
/ confusion of the city. Two escaped
/ prisoners from a Fillmore county Jail
were followed As miles before the trail
was broken by the escape of the men
on a railroad train.
When the Union Pacific robbery oe
! Cured last winter Nick and Dock were
sent to Green River. They took up the
trail of the train robbers readily, bnt
the next day were incapacitated by :,
driving snowstorTn. The charge
proved too much for them, but the CT
Ecers who saw the hounds follow the
trail had no hesitancy in eNpressin.
their belief that the dogs would have
been successful had not the fearful
storm intervened.
The latest experience of the dogs was
in following two York county horse
thieves. The men had worked" the
vicinity of their homes so successfully
that. the farmers became incensed and
promises of a lynching were made il
they were caught. One night two fine
horses disappeared. Nick and Dock
were brought from Lincoln. The trail
was fresh and the dogs in good trim.
Over a beautiful country for SO miles
posse of angry farmers at their heels.
About dusk one evening the tiiieyes
were sighted. A chase of several more
miles resulted in their capture. 4 con-
viction followed quickly and the thieves
were on their way TO the state prison in
less than two weeks after the last theft
occurred.-Chicag Inter Ocean.
A Hay Fever Boon.
Simmons has invented d boon for
hay fever PATIENTS
"How does it work?''
Simmons presses his nose against
the button on box of handkerchiefs,
and handkerchief flies up and does
the ."-Cleveland Plain Dealer.
St. Landry clarion. (Opelousas, La.) 1890-1921, 1899-11-04
VOL. X.-NO. 5.

IF I STARTED in
right now an did
to you what | saw
one fellow do to
another out at
that football game
to-day, do y o u
know yhat'd hap
pen to me - said
B II ly. They'd
tuck me away in
Jail, an | wouldn't
see the green trees
for a whole year"
what did this
fel ! o w d o ?' L
asked.
"Oh, he didn't
do much. He just
butted into this
St. Landry clarion. (Opelousas, La.) 1890-1921, 1899-11-04

the judiciary are, with all due defer
ence to their general Importance, pref
ty dry reading. Most of them content-
ed themselves with inscribing their
names; few of them tabulated neat
little autobiographies, registering the
successive steps in stellar careers; one
St. Landry clarion. (Opelousas, La.) 1890-1921, 1899-11-04
4 Cban9e for the worst.

"He is awfully NICE" she sobbed,
shut / can't cant"
Cant what?" queried her mother.
'Gire mp my name of Willoughby for
his of Smith, was the fearful answer
Harlem Life.
St. Landry clarion. (Opelousas, La.) 1890-1921, 1899-11-04

tains, and the table of contents at the
back is a good-sized book itself:
Autographs of President Cleveland
and his cabinet; President Mckinley
and his cabinet; United States SUI
preme judges; United States circuit
judges; Fifty-fourth and Fifty-ffth
congresses; the army and navy:
St. Landry clarion. (Opelousas, La.) 1890-1921, 1899-11-04
Getting His Measure.

Is that newcomer q naturalized Eng
lishman?' inquired the earl.
NO." answered the euSe. Hes
merely an unnaturalize6 American
Washington Star.
St. Landry clarion. (Opelousas, La.) 1890-1921, 1899-11-04
Legitimate RInckmnIl.

We'll, do you think that your father
will forgive you for running away and
will receive your husband?"
% he'll have to. Jack knows so much
about pa. You know. Harlem Life.
St. Landry clarion. (Opelousas, La.) 1890-1921, 1899-11-04
Great Gffs,

"He actually forgot he was married. :"
she said.
Ability to forget is great g:ft, is
it not?" he chicago Post,
St. Landry clarion. (Opelousas, La.) 1890-1921, 1899-11-04

other boy an tossed him up in the air,
an whirled him around his head till you
couldn't tell which was his head an
which was his feet; then he slammed
him down on the ground like thou
sand o. brick an fell on top of him.
Nice, easy game, that. It's good game.
for old people an invalids. Gee whiz,
St. Landry clarion. (Opelousas, La.) 1890-1921, 1899-11-04
A Hay Fever Boon.
A DJreT Threat

Debtor-I cant pay this bill now.
Creditor-If you don't I'll tell all yoa.
other creditors that you have paid it,
n. Z. Journal.
The Dickinson press., 1899-01-14
Bosa. fixed for County off,cer..

Nearly all of the county officers elected
on Nov. 8 have filed their bonds as will
be seen by the following list:
A. P. Folsom, $500; sureties, M. l..
Ayers. E. F. Messersmith.
H. F. Hatch, $1,000; sureties. Dan
Manning, A. N. Jefferies, T. ]. Greene,
M. L. Ayers, l. c. DeGraff.
Frank Heiser, $500; sureties, ]. G..
Saunders. Ignaz Patt.
JIG. Saunders. $1,000; sureties, Frank
Lish and A. T. Crowl.
T. N. Hartung, $500; sureties, ]. G..
Saunders. L. A. Simpson.
Benz. Webb, $500; sureties, Percy
Chamberlain, R. S. Brookings.
Chas Kono, $1,000; sureties, HI. Dick
inson, VIM. Ray.
J. G. Campbell, $4,000; sureties. H. L.
Dickinson, j.. Freeman.
L. A. Simpson, $4,000; sureties, A. Hill
lard, E. F. Messersmith.
J. S. White, $4,000; sureties. A. Hill
lizard, v. H. Stickney, H. L. Dickinson,
Dan Manning.
John Riessbeck, $1,000; sureties J. L.
Brown. VIM. Ray. +.
Percy Chamberlain, $500; sureties, ]. S.
White, Benz. Webb.
John Flynn, $500; sureties, VIM. Ray,
M. L. Ayers.
o. E. vinnedge, $500, sureties, John
Little, Andrew Jopp.
The Dickinson press., 1899-01-14
500 Reward 500.

The readers of this paper will be
pleased to learn that there is at least n
dreaded disease that science has been
able to cure in all its stages, and that is
catarrh. Halls Catarrh Cure is the only
positive cure now known to the medical
fraternity. Catarrh, being a constitu-
tional disease, requires a constitutional
treatment. Halls Catarrh Cure is taken
internally, acting directly on the blood
and mucous surfaces of the system,
thereby destroying the foundation of the
disease and giving the patient strength
by building up the constitution and
assisting nature in doing its work. The
proprietors have SO much faith in its
curative powers that they offer One Hun
bred Dollars for any case that it fails to
cure. Send for list of testimonials. Ad-
dress
FL. CHENEY & Co, Toledo, o.
Sold by druggists, 75c.
Halls Family Pills are the best.
The Dickinson press., 1899-01-14
spsin's suakea Ships Heated.

Perhaps the greatest mechanical feat
of the century has been the raising of
Of the Spanish warships which were
apparently shot to pieces at Santiago. 1t
seemed utterly impossible to float them
because of the terrible dammage inflicted
by our guns, but the task has been &C.
complished. Disease of the blood, stom-
ach and liver frequently wreck the health
SO that there appears to be no chance Of
recovery. But when Hostetter's Stom-
ach Bitters is taken, the disordered sys.
tenn is speedily restored to its old-time
vigor and tone. The Bitters will regu.
late the liver, bowels and digestive func-
tons and purify the blood. You can buy
this remedy in any drug store, and under
no circumstances should you accept any
thing said to be "just as good"
The Dickinson press., 1899-01-14
kloodake Miner Retaraias.

Bismarck Tribune: The overland train
on the Northern Pacific last night had
among its passengers an old gentleman
who was returning to his home in New
York from a fruitless search after fabu-
lous riches in the far away Alaskan Klon-
dixie. He was dressed in the typical cos
tune of the Alaskan miner and stated to
a Tribune representative that he was
glad to be in Goods country" again as;he
roughly expressed it. He had spent con-
siderable money developing a claim on
one of the creeks in the Copper River
country and after two years roughing it
in the gold fields is returning to his home
with fewer sheckels by far than when he
he started hopefully away in ~. He
was probably about 70 years old and his
strange costume and general appearance
excited considerable speculation among
the passengers On the train.
The Dickinson press., 1899-01-14
We Need Such q Law.

Bismarck Tribune: Representative
Lish from Stark county expressed a de-
termination to introduce a bill making
it unlawful to kill deer in the state for
five years. In support of the proposed
measure Mr.. Lish says that deer have
been slaughtered in his county to almost
the point of determination. Last sum-
mer, he said, hunters came in from the
far east and killed hundreds of deer for
no other purpose than to kill them. 1t is
confidently expected that the slope men,
bers will give the measure favorable con-
sideration for the reasons advanced.