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St. Landry clarion. (Opelousas, La.) 1890-1921, 1899-10-14

The competitors in goodness
Who at each other thrust
Should initiate the plutocrats
And organize a trust.
Puck
St. Landry clarion. (Opelousas, La.) 1890-1921, 1899-10-14

YOU want to get a
long run for a
short piec e of
money just go to
a county fair, -
said Billy, one
morning this week.
He had come over
to get some advice
as to the best
treatment for the
Professors driving
nag, which showed
signs of the calico.
"Did you go to
the county fair ?"
l asked.
St. Landry clarion. (Opelousas, La.) 1890-1921, 1899-10-14

Master-Now then, Willie, what is
water?
Willie Water, sir? Why, water is
er ermud with the dirt taken out
Ally sloper.
St. Landry clarion. (Opelousas, La.) 1890-1921, 1899-10-14

He-Nell's engagement to Jack is
broken off.
Goodness! Who did it9
He-Both. They're married. Tit.
Bits.
St. Landry clarion. (Opelousas, La.) 1890-1921, 1899-10-14

Mr.. Roach-Well, where is it?
Mr.. Chubb-Oh, as it was SO hot, and
had a long way to walk, I threw it
=backi-American Examiner.
St. Landry clarion. (Opelousas, La.) 1890-1921, 1899-10-14

Doctor You're all run down. What
you need is sea voyage. What's your
business?
Patient Sailor with Dewey; just
home, sir.-St. Louis Globe Democrat.
The times., 1899-02-26
CURRENT VERSE.
wn,binx,on,.y. y.in.

''Wsshington's Day ard our memories dwell
On the pictured book of the past,
The fearless Congress; the Liberty Bell;
The wager Of battle at last;
The blue and bud in thin, thin line.
AZ II fronted the tyrant, George;
The struggle from Boston to Brandyyvine;
The winter at Valley Forge:
The Yorktown scge-and the deathless fame
That settled forever on washingtons name,
washington's name! Time only cndears
That name to our patriot pride;
lie draws hearts through hundred years
As the moon draws upward the tidei
And we thank our God for the plan
OF Providence. strange and great,
That brought together the time and the man
In swinging pivot Of fate;
That turned and turned till Liberty came,
And the whole world thrilled with Washington's .
name
He knew no section, he served no class;
No patron, no secret control;
And feltshod plunder could find no pass
To the tall Nirginian's soul
True TO his trust, in deed and in word,
lie spurncd the bribe Of crown
For freedom he lifted his valiant sword,
For freedom he laid it down,
For freedom he ruled till freedom became
An answering echo Of Washington's name.
The years have sped We stand at the gate
OF a century new and strange
We know reaching crisis OF fate
In the drift Of ceaseless change;
But we dare not must not, win not fix
\ bound to the hopes We bear;
We reach the fountains Of seventy-six
And drink new courage there'
The years have sped-but our cause is the same
HOWARD s TAYLOR.
The times., 1899-02-26
4 Song us Love.

Ny love has eyes Of gold and golden hair,
My love has beauty q crown TO wear
And goodness like a spotleSs robe upon her;
o, good and dear and fair!
My love has smiles tia; make old age grow
young,
Hands like white roses and silver tongue;
And yet. by me. who through Gods grace have
won her.
How can her praise be sung?
In heaven is it Of heaven that they sing?
Rather OF some furlorn. remembered thing,
So would sing the winter Of life without her
Who taught my life its spring.
But they who in the outer darkness wake
And keep a lightless vigil for her sake.
These the wild, lovely. hopeless songs about her,
Which praise her best, shall make.
-Black and White.
The times., 1899-02-26
New Routes for Drummers.

When the commercial travellers return irom pres
ent trips,
And walk into the Office to obtain their new
route slips.
Perhaps they viii encounter some P'is1iis
changes when
They glance o'er the schedule (sone sections !
append).
From Chicago unto Denver, and work Seattle
Then take run up the Yukon and Dagson City
Come back to San Francisco. next nawaiin ISL
From there. perhaps. the Ladrone Isles you had
better investigate.
''Now work our aew possessions round Manila,
And reckon viii branch out and try china
and Japan.
There IS bound to be some business long the new
But don't bother now with Europe-from Moscow
southwark 'scoot.'
Work in Asia Minor. before the Germans sobbl'
The trade the Kaiscr's trip most surely viii in
stall:
Then tackle the Nile Valley and Fashoda and
khsTtoum.
Wake up with our advertising and make those
sections boom.
"Run around by Madagascar next Paul Kruger
interview
Then see If Cecil Rhodes don't want cargo lot
or two;
Take the steamer then for Sydney, but don't lin
ger long tiBs; there.
For We want you quick is possible to get 10 Bue-
nos Ayres.
Through Mexico and Yucatan flying trip win
do;
For We want the Isle of Cuba worked through
and through.
And after a short canvass in Porto Eico's little
isle.
wife awhile
Great Scott if the "Expansionists'' continue to
annex.
I wonder where the firm will think OF sending
next?
For in the wake OF conquest you viii find pro
gressive firms
| Sending out the ''hustling drummer" soon as
powders ceased TO burn.
Commercial Travellers Bulletin.
The times., 1899-02-26
Poems In to Date.

The author. of Poems OF Expansion, -
John Savary, seems 10 have been actu-
ated by the laudable desire TO get his po-
staked out his land. 1t may be that,
and it may be simple, congenital origi-
nality, which makes his poems so different
from most things which We have learned
to call poetry. On the whole it is prob
able that even if MIR. Savary had taken
more time he would have done no bet
ter There is an irresistible temptation
in reading these lyrics to use language OF
the type employed by the author, and sug-
gest that had not he been SO anxious to
hump himself in writing his verse. some
of the lines might have been less bumped
in their movement. Here, for instance is
verse in his characteristic manner:
Because the art of shooting straight our habit is
You know;
An awkward one to mcdLle with, and we are not
going 10
Alter customs for your sake in our dealings will
the foe,
Since what Americans attempt most generally
they do.
The reader should not lured into pro-
nouncing words at the end of the second
and fourth lines toe" and dough" be-
cause they are not intended to rhyme thai
| way. But even the most SkllUul rhyme
tinlterer could not take the limp out OF tbs
third line.
But metre is not the only original thing
about Mr.. Savary's verse. When he call:
! Hawaii the corner grocery of the Pacific
! he has evolved phrase, and when he says
that Spain refused and Gaul had gall
/ he has made line such as was never il
/ any grand patriotic poem before.
To the dispassionate reader OF this bool
it looks as if Mr.. Savary had swallowed +;
dictionary, and it had not agreed will
| him. Magnificent epithets. adjectives
verbs, and phrases go laundering aroun,
| in his poems like cannon balls broker
loose and rolling over the floor, One o
two of the ideas which come glimmerin,
through his fog OF rhetoric are fine an,
If he would only sit down and study con
centration and the choice of words for 81,
months or thereabouts he might do some
thing really worth reading. His presen
volume needs a great deal OF wedding AM
then it should be all narrowed up an
sowed with something else. 1t is impossi
BILE not to mix metaphors in talking O
this work. II has a baleful influence
| New York: F. TennySon NeeIyD
The times., 1899-02-26
Revelation.

Across the dolosors reaches of the rain
Recurrent rings tire mellow robin-song,
And 10, the biss-throb at the heart again.
Stung by pitiless masters cruel thong.
Enmeshed in sorrow, worn with wasting pam,
How have we waited for that lyric long!
But TOW what care we for the winters wrong?
Our silent lips for very Joy would sing,
Re-echoing the rapture full and strong.
Behind the gloom slroud, all enyironing.
We see. revealed through that clear robin song
The glory and the glamour of the spring.
Clinton Scollard.
The times., 1899-02-26
From Hencdictus.

For what we have received, q God,
We give thee grace.
Our tide of fortune was at flood:
We were content TO live for gains;
Our flesh was tiaccid, and our blood
But tamely tinctured in our veins.
Thou sawest and didst lit thy rod:
Stern was thy face.
For what We have received. o God,
We give thee grace!
For what we have received, o Lord
We offer thanks
Such soul Of pity for thine own.
Suffering worse than only death.
As made the heart in Us to groan
As groaneth one who travaileth
Not peace thou gavcst, but sword
To US. thy ranks.
For what we have received, o Lord,
We offer thanks,
Julie VI. Lippmanm, in the March Atlantic
The times., 1899-02-26
Let the Boys Alone.

Let them he, little space,
Though they lack our crowning grace;
Though their talk lie not about
Things we talk of. dining out;
Though their jokes are hard to see.
Let them be.
Could we once have been as they?
Fat and rosy. fresh and gay,
With such reverence for the fact.
With such perfect want Of tact.
Yes? Well, all the same, prithcc,
Let them be.
IL. C. Becching in ''Thc Spectator"
The times., 1899-02-26
The Good Housckeeper.

How can / tell her!
BY her cellar.
Cleanly shelves and whitcned walls,
] can guess her
BY her dresser.
BY the back staircase and halls,
And with pleasure
Take her measure
By the way she keeps her brooms;
Or the peepin:
At the ''keeping''
OF her back and unseen rooms.
BY her Kitchens air Oi nedtness,
And its general completeness.
Where in cleanliness and sweetness
The rose of order blooms.
Boston Herald.
The times., 1899-02-26
To the Robins.
HOWARD 5. TAYLOR.

Stout little preacher, houseless and unfed.
That in the very precinct Of despair.
Making our gFizzled elms and popars bare
Thy pulpit for n sermon wise indeed,
Biddcst 80 roundy for the public heed;
Blithe missionary. whose foes are toll and care,
The demons Of the dusty thoronghfare,
Whose cult is liberty; brisk as thy creed
Thou comest, bold heart, with song that thrills
Even this wilderness OF weary days,
Preaching the remedy for half our ills
In endless exhoration, and sweet praise
OF open country meadows and their ways
OF peace and freedom, and the grassy hills.
-ATchibald Lampman.
The times., 1899-02-26
Was There Another Spring.

Was there another spring than tllis2
half remember through the haze
OF glimmcring nights and golden days
broken pinioned birdling's note,
An angry sky, sea-wrecked boat.
A wandering through rain.beaten ways!
Lean closer, love-l have thy kiss!
Was there another Spring than this,
Helen Hay
The times., 1899-02-26
LITERARY NOTES.

A book soon to be published by NJ. F.
Mansfield & Co. is The Long White
Cloud by William Pember Rivers 1t
will contain maps dncluding specially con-
structed map of the Maori VARS, many
illustrations and portraits, and ornamental
devices from Maori designs. The author
knows New Zealand not as a student mere
ly, but with the intimacy Of one who has
taken, and is taking. a leading part in its
affairs. 1t is said that in The Long White
Cloud he has given us what is out and
away the best book on New Zealand and
which must rank as the most graphic de-
scription of its varied and magnificent
scenery.
A new book TO be published by C. p.
Putnams Sons is The West Indies" by
Amos Kidder Fiske. Prof. Fiske's purpose
has been to compress within the compass
OF one moderate volume, and yet TO pre-
sent with adequate form and color and in
a popular style. the information about the
West Indies-their history and physical
aspects their natural resources and mater
ial condition, their political relations and
annarent destiny-which would meet the
needs of that numerous but undeiinable
person, the general reader
"Flowers-How to Grow Them" b,
Eben e. Rexford, is n small volume in.
tended for the amateur florist, giving full
instructions for the growing of variou.
kinds of the better known flowers, and fo
the care of window gardens, the outdoor
garden, and the lawn.
Rev. W. A. Jones, an Augustinian Faith
er. has recently been appointed TO TAX,
| charge of the Augustinian work in Havana
He has an extensive knowledge of Span
The times., 1899-02-26

THE Story of Old Fort Loudon,' b.
Charles Egbert Craddock, 10 somewhat un-
like the tales by which the author made
her reputation. 1t is a historical novel
dealing with the early Colonial days OF
Pennsylvania, and dated at the time OF
the Braddock campaign in which Wash
ington served. The folk who form the
central group in the novel are family of
pioneers. the husband being Scotch, the
wife French, and the husbands brother,
Hamish. a sort of mixture of Scotch char
acter and veneer of French manners.
There is also charming child figure,
Fifne. who wins our hearts from the mo-
ment she appears trudging along forest
path with her kitten, carried pappoose-
wise. on her back. All the characters are
drawn with the delicate fidelity which
characterizes Miss Murfree's work and
the book is entirely true TO the life of the
time. (The Macmillan Company. sl.50)
The times., 1899-02-26

They are taken almost at random. and
there are whole chapters of anecdote and
description as good or better. New York:
Doubleday d Mcclure Company. $2.5o)
The times., 1899-02-26
NOTES AND QUERIES.

Please tell when LES MiseFables'' was pub
lished. W. l. f.
In 1862. |,
The times., 1899-02-26

Can Chinaman become citizen Of the
United States? PROSPECTOR.
No.
The times., 1899-02-26

What is the height of the Capitol, and what
has it costY q. W.
From the base of the Capitol 20 the
crest of the statue atop its dome the height
is 2s5 12 feet. In erection. extension, and
repairs over SIS, ,00O. 600 have been expend-
ed on it.
The times., 1899-02-26

We're the last Government bonds issued in
Cieve.and-s Administration payable in gold or
not, Was the interest payable in gold, too?
T.
The times., 1899-02-26

wha, rights have women in Iowa in regard "a
woman aIfrageF y. NJ
The right to hope. a woman suffrage
bill was defeated in the Iowa Legislature
in 1895.
The times., 1899-02-26

Mrs. John Russell Young is preparing
for publication a compilation of the best
writings and letters of her husband, the
late Librarian of Congress.
The times., 1899-02-26

1t is proposed that the memorial of VII
liam Black take the form OF lifeboat
named after him and stationed in the
Hebrides.
The times., 1899-02-26
Recent Fiction.


"A Sister to Evangeline," by Charles q.
ID. Roberts, is, as the title indicates, u
story of Acadian life at the time OF the
burning Of Grand Pre- Unlike Evangeiine,
however, the dainty heroine of this story
docs not wander about the world FOR years
seeking her lover, but the two are reuni-
ted on board one of the ships which take
peasants from their homes This heroine.
iyonne de Lamourie by name. is not oil
the peasant class, being the daughter OF
gentlefolk driven out of France for po-
litical reasons The hero is soldier, Paui
Grande, and is in no way different from
the thousand and one other heroes of the
ID Artagnan type, with whom current lit
erature has been thronged for the last few
years. The real charm of the story lies
| in the picturesque description OF the va
rious phases of life in Acadie during the
| few weeks of the story. and the strange
| characters which are introduced during
the development of the plot. The Black
| Able. the madman who befriends Paul,
| the old hag who gives him an amulet, are
three notable creations. Possibly ii may
! seem to some readers as il this story might
| almost better have been told in poetry than
| IN prose, for there is n strong poetcai
| tinge in the narrative. and but little plot;
| but 1t is not everyone who can write good
prose poems of the romantic, not the psy-
| Geological, type and Mr.. Roberts can. The
| book is full OF the romance of Old Can
| ada as n pine forest is of fragrance. (Bos-
| ton: Lamson, Wolfe & Co. s1.50)
THE Altar of Life" by May Bateman. is
a novel of English life, of which the scene
is laid partly in India and partly in Eng
/ land. 1t is considerably above the average
! story of its type, both in conception and
! treatment. The hero is an army officer
/ who, through the treachery OF woman.
! Is led TO desert his post at n critical
! time, and is cashiered therefor. The
| heroine of the book TO whom Captain
| Trench, the officer in question. is engaged,
preserves her faith in him despite the op-
position of her friends. the story of the
Other Woman, and the social perdition
| which follows the catastrophe of the tale.
Her faith is the more remarkable--in a
! novel-because at the end OF the book the
hero is still under a cloud, so far as the
world is concerned, and there is no assur-
ance that his future has not been irrev-
ocably ruined. 1t might be said that this
book deals with the problem. Can love be
I all in all TO a woman" but for the fact
that it is not a problem novel in any sense
of the word. The action is rapid and abb
sorbing and the character drawing clear
cut and strong. There is considerable phil
osophy here and there, thrown in in a way
which indicates that the writer has moi
reached her best days in novel writing
but most of it is too unsentimental to be {
serious defect. The slightly cynical tone
of the book is more like Kipling or Bale
stier than like the ordinary woman's novel
and there are few women who could have
handled somewhat difficult subject 81
well. philadelphia: ]. b. Lippincott Com
pany. 80 cents.)
The times., 1899-02-26

What American warship represented the United
States at Queen Victoria's Diamond Jubilee,
and when iii ". b.
The jubilee celebration lasted from June
10 to June 26. 1897. and the Brooklyn,
which was Schley's flagship at Santiago,
was our representative in the naval parade.
The times., 1899-02-26

Bonds and quarterly interest were pay
able in coin.
The times., 1899-02-26

Fore. Fil-lp-peen. Ah-gon-cee-lo. Ah-
gui- nawl-do.
The times., 1899-02-26

From what State was Zachary Taylor elected
President? 2. Has there ever been a President
elected from west Of the Mississippi River?
AfTVnpA
The times., 1899-02-26

The first volume of Letters to Wash
ington" has been published. under the
auspices of the Colonial Danes. This vol
ume is of the Colonial period and begins
with letter from George Mason, dated
July 20, 1862.
The times., 1899-02-26

"Rhodora" is the name of n new month
Iy journal published by the New England
Botanical Club under the editorship of
DR.. Benjamin Lincoln Robinson. curator
OF the Gray Herbarium OF Harvard Uni
versity. Its aim is to further the study
of the local flora.
The times., 1899-02-26

How are the following names pronouneedt
Faure, Philippine, Agoncillo. and A<uinalio?
~
The times., 1899-02-26

Louisiana .. "old Rough and Ready"
was the only one. John C. Fremont, Call
fornia. 1856, and William ]. Bryan. Nebras-
ka. 1886, were other Westerners who came
reasonably near to election.
The times., 1899-02-26

Two Standards is the title of re
ligious" novel by Dr. William Barry.
The author is Roman Catholic priest,
and the book will be awaited with inter-
est.
The times., 1899-02-26

Dr. William Elliot Grifiths, already an
authority on Japanese, Chinese, and Dutch
subjects. will publish early in the spring
work entitled Expanding America
The times., 1899-02-26

English authors. it is said. consider it
detrimental to a writer's reputation, as
also to his profit to publish more than
couple of books in year.
The times., 1899-02-26

"And Then Came Spring is the title,
taken from Omar khayyam, OF little
novelette, now in press. Garret Van Ak
kel is the author.
The times., 1899-02-26

ish. and has made a close study OF the con-
ditions of the church In Spanish countries.
He has lately written an exhaustive article
| ON the work OF the Religious Orders In the
Philippines" In the Catholic World Mag
azine" for February.
The times., 1899-02-26

"She of the West" is the title of a vol
ume of short stories by Bailey Millard
which have as their heroines various
types of the Western giIl.
The times., 1899-02-26

Is there Government land in Missouri 2.
Where is the Land Office locatcdi c. G. ".
By report of the General Land Office on
July /, 1898, there were 1881 acres of
public land subject to entry and settle
ment in Missouri. There are United States
land offices in the State at Boonville, hon
ton, and Springfield.
The times., 1899-02-26

Readers of "A Bride of Japan" by
Carlton Daive will be glad to know that
the same author has just finished an
other story to be called THE Mandarin"
1t will deal with the adventures of a
young Englishman in China.
The times., 1899-02-26

From what books is navigation studied2 At
what age do captains Of vessels stop shipping
apprentices and what the average wages
Of green hand? B. y.
From textbooks of the science. but
this is case where experience is an es-
pecially fine schoolmaster. We don't
know that there is any age limit but n
majority of budding sailors are in the
teens. as in other trades. About $40 a
month.
The times., 1899-02-26

AI IhttftstIhg buOk 10 DC IsHUtH UJ IN.
Putnams Is The Life OF George Borrow.
by William |. Knapp. After much adven-
turous roaming and many struggles in. 1855
Borrow received the appointment as agent
OF the British and Foreign Bible Society.
In which capacity he travelled extensively
learning with marvellous ease the language
OF each country visited by him. He was
twice imprisoned in Spain for circulating
the Bible. He was noted for his eccentrici-
ties. his fondness for the gypses. his pas
sion for athletic exercises. his scorn for the
gentilities OF life. and his vigorous advo-
cacy of the doctrines OF the Church OF
England.
The times., 1899-02-26

The February number of ''Blackwood's
Magazine is the 10O0th issue of this fa-
nous Edinburgh periodical. This veteran
of the British monthiies is still sold at
two and sixpence-60 cents-in the days
when sixpenny magazines are the vogue.
The times., 1899-02-26

1.-TWO Men O. Mendip'' is the title of
new novel by Walter Raymond, author of
seven or eight stories of English life, which
will be published about the 1st Of Febru-
airy by the Doubleday & Mcclure Company.
1t is pathetic story of life in Western
England, the characters of the lawless
miners being strikingly contrasted with the
mildness of their quiet farmer neighbor3,
who are drawn with a good deal of quiet
humor.
The times., 1899-02-26

Rev. w A. Jones, an Augustinan Faith
er. has recently been appointed TO take
charge Of the Augustinian work in Havana.
He has an extensive knowledge Of Span
The times., 1899-02-26

How many tons of coal per day were consumed
by the first and second-sIass battleships prior
TO the naval sortie" made by CeTvera?
II F.. D.
The Massachusetts, frst-class battIeship,
consumed about 90 tons a day in sailing
at squadron speed; the Texas. our only
second-class battleship. burning about 20
tons daily in the same service. While
waiting for Cervera to come out fires were
kept burning. but the daily consumption
of coal was probably not more than half
that for squadron speed.
The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1899-06-16

"If there is one of you here that ever
expects to chastise his child again in
anger the father said. "let me ask
him to do something. Let him have his
picture painted at the moment and let
ii show his face, red with vulgar rage,
and the face of the little one like "a
piece OF placid water struck by win
tiers wind, streaming with tears. And
if that little one should die ! cannot
think of sweeter way to spend an au-
tumn afternoon than to take the pic
tlre and go to the graveyard and kn@el
down upon that little mound and look
upon that picture and think Of how
that sweet young life was s'0ured and
embittered by your brutality. Oh, were
/ a parent | think l could not bear TO
feel upon my lips, when they were cold
in death. the kiss of child that in
my anger / had beaten. The life of
the parents should be such that tne
child, kneeing at their graves, should
only have kind and loving thoughts
From sermon on Duties of Parents
delivered April 80 as reported in
Butte paper
Men have said that no one ever yet
died for principle; they lied; our fore
fathers died for individual freedom
Individual Observation-Disclosures indepen-
dence-that was the principle. They
died that We their children, might be
able to exclaim This is my air; my
sunshine my land. i have right to
live, to hope, to aspire, to work. I am
a unit in the economy of Gods crea-
tom the census of the earth is not
complete unless they count me in. -
From Father MacCorry's lecture.