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The true Democrat. [volume] (Bayou Sara [La.]) 1892-1928, 1899-09-09


The death of Lawson Hamilton
took place in New Orleans, on Aug
80, at the age of years. lie was
Il native Of this parish, and a son
of the late Willis Hamilton. lle
had been in declining health, from
consumption, for some time, and
had been going from place to place
i'll hopes Of recnpcration, but in
vain. His death was not uncxpcct.
ed, but more the less painful to his
family and hosts of friends, who
mourn his early death. He leaves
four brothers and one sister, and to
them we extend oar sincere Sympa-
thy,
The true Democrat. [volume] (Bayou Sara [La.]) 1892-1928, 1899-09-09
List of Grand JURY.

Drawn for the Oct term Of the
18th Jud Dist Court, 1899. -
The true Democrat. [volume] (Bayou Sara [La.]) 1892-1928, 1899-09-09

announce in The True Democrat.
The true Democrat. [volume] (Bayou Sara [La.]) 1892-1928, 1899-09-09

Besides the teachers resident i'll
town, there were in attendance
upon the institute Mrs. Hugh Con
nell, Misses Jennie Carney, Florence
Wright, CorneIia McGehee, Annie
Brandon, Mittie Fugler, Evelyn
Babers, Victoria Turnage,. Lillian
Kilbourne, Jane Argue, Mary lIar-
rington and Maria Marshall. A.
mong these are several, who have
come from other places to take
charge of parish schools, as Misses
Kilbourne, Harrington and Mar
shall. Miss Fugler returns to Pop
lar Springs where she is so justly
favorite with patrons and children
alike.
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, 1899-01-06


placed by the Stake. method
Of Mr.. Dulac an apparat a pile
driver is erected, but insteo, of the
ordinary hammer-head ram. heavy
cone Is allowed to drop, point own, IN
such a that it makesH a hole,
the size and depth of which& depend
upon the diameter Of the cohe and
the height from which it has fallen.
The cone generally used is from
twenty-four to thirty inches In diam
eter, weighing about 5000 pounds, says
an article translated for the Engineer
ing Magazine, and it is dropped from a
height Of thirty to forty feet. With a
drop of this sort a hole equal In diam
eter to that of the cone and twenty to
thirty feet deep may be made In a few
hours, the time and depth depending,
Of course, upon the nature Of the soil.
The whole area upon which the struc-
ture Is to be erected is thus treated, the
holes being five to six feet apart be-
tween centers and the result Is the
compression of the soil between the
holes to an extent governed the d.
ameter and distance betwed them.
After the holes have thus EN- made
they are gradually filed with a con-
crete made of broken stone or cinder
and hydraulic lime and cement. The
concrete Is thrown In shallow layers
and pounded by allowing a spherical
weight of about 1000 pounds to drop
from about the same height as that
from which the cone was dropped. The
effect of this procedure is to drive the
more liquid portion of the concrete into
the walls of the pits and thus, when the
latter are filed and the concrete has
become hard, the foundation consists
not only of the buried pillars of stone
and cement, but also of the compressed
earth partly charged with cement.
This method of making foundations
has been used with much success In
various portions of Paris, some of the
locations being considered very diff
fcult, owing to the soft nature of the
soil, and the system is now being used
to D the ground for the erection
O fsome of the buildings for The expo
sition of 1900.9'- hA
The effect Of the pounding Of the
earth is said not to extend to sufficient
distance to disturb adjacent structures
and in a number of cases thh method
has been used in the immediate vicin
ity of old and weak buildings without
apparent injury.
1t is possible that this system of com
preston may be Of service in many 10
cations where the load is not too great
and it appears to be of especial applica
bility to foundations for temporary
structures, avoiding the necessity o.
much digging.
, 1899-01-06
stage Notes.

Robert Downing's new comedy 1.-THE
Butterfly and the Grub is to pioneer
in January.
Du Souchet's ga Misit Marriage"
and Russ Whytal's "Vagabondia" are
to be Shelved.
e. e. Rice is to produce Little Red
Riding Hood" a b%urlesque that has
been successful in England.
A Geological Garden of a novel kind
is to be one of the features of this
years Drury Lane pantomime. The
cages will be occupied by human be-
ings who have achieved fame or no.
toriety, and the spectators will consist
of members of the animal creation.
Stephen Phillips has completed his
poetic play, 'Paolo and Francesca"
Lawrence Irving n Lena Ashwell
have the principal parts in the EngIsh
version of the French play, The Or
ganist," which will be produced in the
London Princess
Nat Goodwin has just accepted a
play by Clyde Fitch called 1.-The Cow
boy and the Lady"
A new play by Wilson Barrett and
Elwyn Barron, will be produced at the
Theatre Metropole on Easter Monday,
April 8.
James H. Wallick is to revive 1.-THE
Cattle King"
Beerbohm Tree is to play the title
role in monte Cristo."
Aubrey Bouclcault is 10 appear III
vaudeville in "a Scrap of Paper"
George Alexander has accepted q
play by a Miss Margaret Young, en-
titled '"The Leaden Casket."
Haddon Chambers war comedy
1.-THE Tyranny of Tears" is to succeed
1.-THE JUST at the Londo Criterion.
The Murray-Lane Opera Company
has ~disbanded.
Emil Paur has abandoned his series
of Sunday night concerts at Carnegl'
Hall, on account of the poor attend
ance.
There is a stock company in Alban.
that not only gives two performance
a day, but changes the bill twice
week.
Eddie Girard's Natural Gas" com
pany went to pieces at Little ROCK.
, 1899-01-06

domestic servant to have two Of their
upper front teeth extracted. TheiI
absence indicated their servitude.
A swordfsh weighing 2070 pounds
was lately brought to the market al
Taejing. 1t was thirty feet long, the
sword alone weighing forty pounds.
The notion tina once prevailed at
Constantinople that persons who had
smallpox were plague m has
beer shown in Bombay to be incor-
rect.. st@a
Edwin. Clawston, the owner of an
ostrich farm in South Pasadena. Cal,
has succeeded in Matching ostrich eggs
with an incubator. The process takes
forty days.
Miss Marie McNaughton and Miss
Sarah Atkinson accompanied the
United States Peace Commission to
Paris, France, as stenographers and
typewriters.
Mrs. Mary Haweis, wife of the Rev.
Hugh Reginald Haweis, of London,
and long and favorably known in phil
anthropic, artistic and journalistic cir
cles, is dead.
This seasons onion crop is put by
the American Agriculturist at 3,100
900 bushels, an extraordinarily good
showing for one of the most reviled
of vegetables.
DIR 1 0dld " SCC Oil CiAOA liiOuS
distance. When absent from their
hive they go up in the air till they see
their home, and then fly toward it in
a straight line.
Wherever a profund cavity exists
in the bed of the ocean near the land
earthquakes are frequent, being caused
by great pieces of the Ian sliding off
into the depths of the sea.
An Austrian statistician figured
put that in North America the average
annual wages of laborers is about $500.
Tailors, he says, earn $3.50; shoemak-
efs, $3.50; bakers, %75; masons, $500.
New Zealand has a law which pro.
vides an annual pension of $456 for
every honest needy person who has
reached h g of sixty-five and has
lived twenty years in the colony.
-Ernestine Schumann-Heink, who Is
!. one of the notable strangers This sea.
son at the Metropolitan Opera House,
New York City. is the mother of seven
children and a young-looking woman,
Eho seems nowhere nea the end of Z
professional or domestic craeer.
, 1899-01-06


STA are about two miles from the towns
which ther respectfully serve. rms
is a precaution against fire, as many
of the Russian dwellings are thatcheo
with straw.
The volume of business n by
the savings bank department of the
London post office has grown to enor-
nous proportions, and at present the
staff of the Contra Savings Bank num-
bers more than $500 persons.
The coal output of the State of Wash
ington this year is 1,715,515 tons, an IN
crease of nearly half a million over
1897. The supply in sight will last for
easily so wears, and there are hun
dreds of thousands of acres undevel-
oped.
The birmingham (Ala.) labor Advo-
cate says it is authoritative'y stated that
Ensiey CITY, where a 81 900, 900 steel
plant and a 81, 900, 900 steel nail, wire
and rod mill already are building, has
also secured a hoop-iron factory, and
a cotton-tie factory also will De To-
Gated there. over 200 houses are now
being built at the new town.
, 1899-01-06
Labor Notes.

All C~entralia, Wash, stores are open
on Sunday.
Oklahoma's Governor was a tele-
graph operator.
Gastonia, N. c., is to have another
cotton mill.
The best hotel in San Juan. Puerto
Rico, charges 81 a day.
The consumption of rice In Europe
has more than doubled since 1876.
A new 5000-spindle cotton mill may De
established at Talladego, Ala.
OF the 5000 officials in Berlin as
many as II, 900 give their services free.
More than 80 per cent. of the ships OF
the world are built in the British isles.
At Kokomo, Ind, white girls were dis
charged for refusing to serve negro
hotel guests.
The w. C. T. U. of Alton, I'LL, has
succeeded in placing a prohibitive IL
cense on cigarettes.
A Cleveland Councilman has intro
duced an ordinance limiting the heignt
of buildings to eight stories.
The Abbeville Is. c. cotton mills VIII
to run nights soon. New
machinery is to be added.
The best managed diaries in Mime
sofa have reduced the cost of
turing a pound of butter to 1.2S cents.
1t is estimated that the output OF the
mines of Butte and Anaconda, Mont,
is over II, 900 tons a day of copper ore.
1t is said that the use of natural gas
in the Elmira n d glass FACTORY
would reduce the cost of fuel from $3O,-
or the amount now paid for coal, to
, 1899-01-06
NEWS IN BRIEF.

South Africa has a telephone sys-
tenn.
Cloth is now being successfully made
from wood.
Mrs. Evangelina Cisneros Carbonell
Is back in Havana, Cuba.
There are nearly 5000 stitches in a
pair of hand-sewn boots.
California has a club of left-handed
persons with over 1000 members.
-Corean paper is so strong and dense
that 1t can beused to cover umbrellas.
-Lichens have been found growing
on the Himalayas at an elevation OF
1900 feet.
In Russia %ervants kiss their mis-
tress's hands both as morning and
evening greetings.
Among the Kols of Central India a
sham fight always accompanies 1.-The
wedding ceremony.
The two little Islands of Zanzibar
and Pempa furnish four-fifths of the
cloves consumed by the world.
Stockings were first used in the
eleventh century. Before that cloth
~bandages were used on the feet.
1t has been ascertained that plate
glass will make a more durable monu-
ment than the hardest granite.
in some of the farming districts of
ODlud pigs are ACSSCo y Ahho
, wagons and made to draw them.
The highest waterfall in the world
is Cholock Cascade, at Yosemite, Cal,
which is 1884 feet high, or half a mile.
Some wonderful stalactite caves
.haye.~ recently been discovered eight
miles from K~rugersdorp, in, the Trans
vaal.
More than 1000, BOO acres of the Sa-
hara desert nave beenNmade useful Tor
raising crops. with the. aid aof artesian
wells. y. 49,. = 49,,
.,5The result of typhoid epidemic at
| Maidstone. England, in 1897 q 1878
Cases in a population of $4,000 and $50
deaths. ."sss - ~
1.-Two. British Guiana stamps, dated
1850. and worth originally. one penny
each, were sold in, Berlin nptvlpng ago
for $4,000. 100. -, - "a
"A monster sseswving-machine. weigh
ing three and one-quarter tons, IS IN
use in leeds, lEngfdnd. It'sews cot
ton betting 4 IT, " "a ~
THE highest. tubing. ever made 'isiof
nickel aluminium Three thousand feet
of this tubing weights only one pound
: aVoirdupois.
The Dublin Artisans Dwelling com
pany owns dwellings, occupied by 2;ls4
Families, h pay from 40 cents to- three
dollars per- week. . . ..
"A good Arabian horse will canter IN
the desert. for twenty-four hours In
summer and. forty-eight in winter
without drinking.
"A curious butterfly exists in i1ndia
The male has the left. wing yellow and
the right one red; the female mas
these colors reversed.
Miss Josie A. Wanous, of Minne-
apolis, Mimi, has been elected Third
Vice-President of the American Phar-
maceutical Association.
The old custom of watchmen calling
the hour at night is still retained In
two localities of London, namely,
New Inn and Ely Place.
1t is a remarkable fact that, as a
rule, the sewing done by male tailors
is heater, liner and more uniform
than tina done by women.
BY mixing a harmless powder, sub
nitrate of bismuth, with the food, the
movements of the stomach can be seen
by means of the Roentgen rays.
-Drs. Schiff and Freund have found
by experiment that short and frequent
exposure to X-ray influence will re-
- hum a. 2Sju.
, 1899-01-06

always husheN e
full manner, her so0t4 ID
her to pet him, to ind Il,
hour after hour, telling hffl4 B tn
minded him of his mother-hY knew 1t
why or how; stories of great men Ind
brave deeds, true heroism, and grind
self-devotion. Those quiet hours In he
summer cleaning, with the lonely NY
whom he was growing to love SO deaty,
did more toward forming Rupert's chaHc-
ter than all the hours of study.
He went there one day when Lady lea
trice had been very unkind to him. L9rd
Selwyn was away, and she had reftn I'D
to allow Rupert to play with little La e,
or wen to see him-refused him Nth
words that, il repeated, lost all their sting;
yet the look that accompanied them Fas
bitter as death.
1t was not often that Lady Beatrice
made Rupert wince-he was very patent
under her scornful dislike; but on this
day hot tears rose to his eyes and blinded
him. The trace of the tears was quite
perceptible on his face when he reached
the cottage. The contrast between those
two women was so great; the one indnlg-
ed, caressed, and half-worshiped him; the
other was cold, proud and disdainful.
Little by little Mrs. Rivers drew from him
the story of his wrongs, each word stab
bling her with deadly pain.
linen some days passed and she did not
see him. The summer was drawing to a
close; the leaves were beginning to fall
from the trees; the sweetest flowers were
fading, the birds SAN of their approach
Ing departure. He did not come. Wear
lily, hour after hour, she stood at the little
gate, looking down the high road. There
was no chestnut pony, no bright face smil-
ing under a %glengarry cap. She missed
him with a pain that frightened her.
Perhaps Lady Beatrice had prevailed,
and he was sent away. Perhaps Aord
Selwyn had changed his mind, ane had
sent him to school. She thought (of a
hundred different. things. She woke{up in
the night, fancying she heard the quick
gallop of the chestnut pony, then went te
sleep with a prayer on her lips.
Still the days passed on, and hye die
not come. She stood one day at thel win
dow, thinking to herself that If she hearo
nothing of him she would summon VI
courage and ask the rector for news
The sound of footsteps in the ittl4 gar
den outside aroused her. There lstoot
his lordship, looking pale, scared and anx
ious.
"Good morning, Mrs. Rivers" hid said
pravely. II have come to ask a grea
favor. Will you grant itT"
The sound of his voice always Hiercet
her heart like a sharp sword.
my son Rupert is very I'LL" HE con
tinued; $50 i'll that we are all frightened
over him! He cries necessarily fdr you
Will you get some one to take youf plac'
in the school and come to nurse himC
ITO be c~ontinued.)
, 1899-01-06
An Old Proyerb.

John Haywood, the playwright and
epigrammatist, onee wrote a book the
object of which, Is disclosed by the
title page, is singular: "a dialogue, con-
tanning in effect the number of all the
proverbs in the English tongue, com.
pact in a M r concerning two mar
riages." VIII the Marquis Of Win
chester, lord high treasurer, was pre-
sented with a copy of this book by the
author. he inquired what it contained,
and being answered, "All the proverbs
in English" replied: What! All? No,
no. Bate me an ace, quoth Bolton'"-
a form of speech once much In vogue.
by my faith" said Haywood, shat is
not in" 1t happened that the Marquis
had casually uttered the only proverh
not in the book.
We should control our passions, not
root them out.
We never know the greater perils we
have escaped.
The truly brave are never cruel
, 1899-01-06
CHAPTER XXI.

CHAPTER XXI.
Mrs. Rivers thought she had GONG
through the greatest pain she could eyei
know. The agony of death was not SO
great, she thought, as the anguish of
seeing and speaking to her son, while he
knew her not. But there was even great
er pain in store.
She came out of the school room one
afternoon, tired with the heat and the
noise of the children; her head ached,
her eyes were half-blinded with the glare
Of the sun; she longed for rest and sleep.
The little cottage stood all alone; no one
ever came near it. She dreaded no In
%trusion, either of friend, or visitor, or
foe.
So, on this sultry afternoon, leaving the
door which led to the garden wide open
to admit a free current of air, she sat
down In the pretty rocking chair, and lay
ing her tired head on her hands, fell fast
asleep. AS she lay there, so unconscious,
so happy in her dream, so peaceful In her
sleep, the sunshine playing over her, the
wind signing gently round her, a step
sounded on the path that led to the door.
Lord Selwyn was passing the cottage, and
thought to please his wife by an act Of
attention to her governess. He went slow
ly up the garden path, and smiled when he
saw the open door. He entered, and there
before him saw the sleeping woman, with
q peaceful smile on her face.
He did not recognize her. How should
he, believing as he did that she slept under
the white marble monument at Florence?
He saw the dark hair and the widows
cap, the patient lips frightened by a
smile hat came from the peace of heaven,
not earth, and his kindly, noble heart
warmed to her.
He will never forget her cry, he will
never forget her terrified start, the I'M
earthly fear that seemed for a few short
minutes to paralyze her as she awoke. She
stood before him, white, stricken with
anguish in her face and in her eyes, wait
ing as the criminal waits for the words
Of the judge who has to condemn him.
Il beg your pardon, Mrs. Rivers" said
Lord Selwyn kindly; 81 would not have
disturbed you so cruelty for the world. l
have alarmed you very much, / fear"
He heard the murmur of a few mar
ticulate words, and, pretending to have
understood them, said:
you will find life rather dull at Thorn
leigh; but you must come up to the Castle
sometimes. Lady Selwyn is very much
attached to her schools. She would like
you to be very happy, / am sure"
What was she saying? He bent down
to listen, for her strength had failed, and
she was sitting In the chair from which
she had risen in such mortal fright.
He was yHsy kind; Lady Selwyn was
, 1899-01-06
By Marion v HoIis.LVV

himself how or why, but he grew warmly
attached to the gentle, patient lady, who
always seemed so delighted to see him,
and had always something nice waiting
for him; who petted him and coaxed him
as no other woman had ever done; who
listened with loving eagerness by the hour
together to his-talk of his studies, his rec
reations, and his father. So the summer
and the autumn passed, and she. sweet,
simple soul, was so happy with her son
that a faint color returned to her face, and
the sound of her silyer-sweet laugh was
heard more than once.
Then came Christmas, and 1t was my
lady's within that Mrs. Rivers should be
her almoner-should give away blankets,
coal. wine and beef, In her name; and In
all those charities Rupert assisted, until
the boys attachment to the governess
was smiled at everywhere.
ut will never hurt him." said his tutor
once. mo boy of his age could be any
thing but better for the -companionship
of a good and pure woman. Mrs. Rivers
Is that, and she Is, besides, a lady In
heart, mind and The boy will
gain by every visit he pays to the school
cottage"
~ think" said Rupert, one snowy day,
as he sat with Mrs. Rivers In the warm,
coy little parlor Of the cottage; Il think
that II ever I were to have a bad Illness,
I should like you to come and take care
of me. Would your
81 hope you will never have any Illness"
she said, the mothers heart filed with
vague, quick alarm.
"If I do" he said gently, II should ask
my father to send at once for you"
Long after he was gone she pondered
over those words. II ever he sent for
her, she would have to go. How could
she bear to return, as a paid, poor, name
less dependent, to the place she had en-
tered as a beautiful, blooming bride?
Winter passed, and the springtime
came again; the trees began to bud, the
birds to sing; and then Lord Selwyn
wrote to say that he was coming home
with her ladyship. There were grand
preparations at Selwyn Castle, and early
In the month OF April they returned.
Still Lady Beatrice never came near the
schools, and Mrs. Rivers began to won
der If she had offended or displeased her;
yet that could not be, for large baskets
of fruit and flowers were sent continually
from the Castle. And one morning early
In May, Rupert rode over to the cottage.
How well she remembered that day in
after years.
"Mrs. Rivers" he said, II have come
to tell you the news, because I thought it
would please you. Come up to the Castle
and see my little baby brotherv'
She looked at hir the color
, 1899-01-06

beCc7fe5 -lVdf az
a short time the cuttings form eac
callous, and in less time, and with ny
certainty, 1t is claimed, than In the
soil. They are then planted in pots IN
the ordinary way. Some good .hyprlu
perpetuals have been raised on their
own roots in that manner. me ex-
pertinent is easily tried and costs little
or nothing.
When manure is very dry the chem
ical changes are slow, but changes oc-
cur rapidly where it is moist. RMS Iact
Is sufficient to7show that when manure
is mixed with an abundant Supply OF
absorbent material, and stored under
shelter, it will undergo but little change
but when wanted for use may be soon
decomposed by saturating the heap
with urine.
Seed corn can be selected in the win
ter or when the corn is being husked.
A box should be placed near the point
of operations and every perfect ear
Selecting only the best) should be
thrown into it while %husking. 1t is pos
sible that but few ears may be selected
from among a large number, but II care
is used in selecting n the seed corn
put in a dry place, 1T will be found next
spring, that more grains will terminate
and a larger yield will result.
Blue grass seems to thrive on rich,
rolling and when other kinds are
more difficult to secure. 1t holds on
for a long time, enduring dry seasons
fairly well, and grows rapidly also in
cool, damp weather. 1t is less injured
by tramping than nan other grasses.
and on limestone soils it will crowd out
all other kinds and remain for years.
, Blue grass seed is nearly always added
to thai selected for pastures, as 1T as
! sists in making a heavy swaHd and the
| grass is highly relished by stock.
The loss of valuable constituents of
manure that is exposed cannot easily
| be determined, but during some winters
! it is large. Fresh horse manure that
was exposed, by way of experiment.
was found to lose value in several
ways. 1t lost in weight, absorbed water.
| while the ammonia passed off into the
air. Computing the value of fresh
manure at $2.45 per ton, a loss of
$1.03 resulted, or AZ per cent. No
farmer can afford such a loss as AZ
per cent. in his manure, and 1t should
therefore never be exposed to snow n
rains unless well mixed with an album
dance of a~bsorbents, and even then
1t should be covered.
In the foreign markets lean pork
is preferred, and there is a growing
ldemand for more lean pork at nome.
Lean pork can be produced at less cost
than may be supposed, and the hogs
/ will grow faster and give heavier
weights than when the pork is pro-
duced solely from corn. 1t is done by
J feeding in addition to corn, skim milk,
bran, shorts, linseed meal, beans, peas,
clover n other heterogeneous foods,
which not only promote growth but in
) crease the weight also.