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Hutchinson gazette., 1900-02-08
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Tho sewerage system of Berlin an+
nually Transports from 6O.0OO.OOO to
7O.0O0,O0O tons OF sewage for distribul
tion over an area OF 10000 acres lying
from 7 to lb miloa beyond tho city linz
its. Although tho cost OF the drainage
10 about i26,O0O,OO0 year, tho enor.
mously Increased fertility Of the land
makes II paying operation Besides
that, II Ia tho most sanitary and acien'
tinc mode - disposng Of the City'a
sewage.
Hutchinson gazette., 1900-02-08

We have frequently shown from the
acts of the administration that its pur-
pose is to establish crown colonies aft
er the English model. Senator Lodge
now says so in terms. Thus the Unit
ed States, a federation Of democratic
commonwealth, is to become, as to Its
new possessions" monarchy with
their inhabitants as subjects. How
long after we get crown colonies will II
Oe before we have q crowned head?-'
Public.
Hutchinson gazette., 1900-02-08

road terminal trust would be ideal.
The railroad terminal trust 10 even
now almost complete, The steamship
trust, under the patronage of the rail-
road trust, lacks only the subsidy BILL
Hutchinson gazette., 1900-02-08

Men with long heads very seldom
have long faces.
Hutchinson gazette., 1900-02-08

and It worked like magic. / feel that
your medicine has been Of inestimable
benefit to me. Miss ADELE WILLIAM
SON, 19e N. Boulevard, Atlanta, Ga.
Thin, SaIlOw and Nervous
"DEAR MRS. PINKHAM 81 was thin,
salloW and nervous. I had not had
my menses for over year and q half.
Doctored with several physicians in
town and one specialist, but did not
get any better. 1 finally decided to
try your medicine, and wrote to you.
After / had taken three bottles OF
Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable Com
pound and three of Blood Purifier, my
menses returned, and l feel as we'll
and strong as ever did, and am gain
ing flesh. MISS LENA GAINES, Visalia,
Tularo Co., Cal.
St. Landry clarion. (Opelousas, La.) 1890-1921, 1900-11-10

many instances paralleled by rail-
roads which often have barely room
for coal train. The aspect of the
landscape is depressing in the. ex-.
treme. All the timber, except laurel,
has been cut for mine props. Sulphur
Gus smoke and washings from the
culm piles have destroyed vegetation.
The dreary fall days settling. down
over this terrible region, where ma
fure's works have been so distorted
as to give an aspect of horror to the
land which was once widely beautiful,
add to the melancholy of the strikers,
who, although winter is rapidly ap-
preaching, attempt, by the only
means of which they are cognizant,
TO extort living wages from their en-
ployers. The villages all present the
same general appearance. A descrip-
tion of one answers for it's neighbor.
The main distinguishing feature is the
width of the valleys in which they
are built. Where these are narrow,
one long street straggles up the hill
side. When there is more room, two
or three of these streets Often run
nearly parallel. Houses seem piled on
top of houses, varied by an occasional
coal breaker, which rises among them.
Frequently, in winter, storfas of sleet
and snow, bringing the meHsury down
30 degrees in an hour, sweep over the
poor cabins, the poverty and squalor
of which cannot be conceived unless
one has witnessed them. But the view
of the exterior of the miserable how
els is hardly a preparation for the
sight of the unkempt wretchedness
of their Inhabitants.
Dirty, ragged, uncombed men and
women throng these villages. The
worse the quarter the greater, appar-
emily, the number of children swarm
ing it's streets, piled with reeking
waste and garbage of every descrip-
tion. Sanitary regulations are un-
known. The patch" is the worst of
the two sections into which each of
these villages is divided. Its substi-
tutes for houses are said to be unlike
almost anything else evolved by man
in his desire for a home and habita-
tion. The occupants usually build
these sheds themselves, paying ground
rent. This portion of the town lies
outside, beyond the breakers. and is
the abiding place of Polacks, Italians
and Sicilians, representing the lowest
St. Landry clarion. (Opelousas, La.) 1890-1921, 1900-11-10
THE GOOD ST. ANNE.
Thousands of Pilgrims Visit Her
Shrine Every Year.
Wonders of the BasfIiea of La Bonnie
Ste. Anne de Beaupre-Note6
for Its Miracles and Rare
Relics.
Especial quebec (Can.) letter.

Especial Quebec {Can.1 Letter.l
~ ISTANCE lends enchantment.
That is as true an axiom as
sage ever uttered. Our news
papers and magazines have much to
say about the pilgrimages of the
faithful to the shrine of Our Lady
of Lourdes, in France, and other Eu-
ropean sacred" places. And yet
right up here near Quebec, days
ride from Chicago, ten hours jour
ney from Boston. is a place where, if
reports are true. most wonderful
miracles are performed, where the
lame and blind are cured, and where
believers find consolation in every
sorrow.
La Bonne Ste. Anne de Beaupre"
is worshiped by the Catholics of Cam
ada with honest sincerity, and woe
unto him who should dare question
the cures wrought by her interees-
sion. To the French Canadian farm
ers and peasants st. Anne. who by
virtue of a rescript issued by Pope
Plus TX. is patroness of the province
of Quebec, is not merely historical
personality; she is an active, gracious
angel constantly engaged in interced-
ing with God in behalf of those who
venerate her.
This reminds me that many years
sgo | heard a ~Nod old Methodist
St. Landry clarion. (Opelousas, La.) 1890-1921, 1900-11-10

brother say to his Sunday-school class
that the Catholics did not worship
the. Lord. but Frustrated themselves
before the carved idols of so-called
saints. / wonder if such bigoted
creatures are still permitted to teach
inquiring boys and girls? II so. ]
want to correct them. The Catholics
do not worship the saints; they ven-
crate and adore them. They do not
pray to them for spiritual guidance
and other faVors; they implore them
to intercede for them with God, so
that He may grant their petitions.
The yeneration of saints the Catholic
church has always declared to be
agreeable to God; and it's priests COM
mand their people to honor those
servants of the Lord who are crowned
with glory in Heaven. To desire the
prayers of the saints they declare
to be no less consistent with Chris
tian piety than to ask the prayers
OF. the faithful on earth. The Vir-
gin Mary is looked upon as the great
and universal mediatrix with Christ.
J" St.sAnne has always been considered
pne of the most potent and patient Of
mediators. According to Catholic ira
St. Landry clarion. (Opelousas, La.) 1890-1921, 1900-11-10
NOTES FROM THE PARIS EX~
POSITION.

s'The Singer Manufacturing Com
pany, of 149 Broadway, New York,
show their usual American enterprise
by having a very creditable exhibit, lo-
Gated in Group XIII, Class 70, at the
Paris International Exposition, where
they show to great advantage the cele-
brated Singer Sewing-Machine which
is used in every country on the globe,
both for family use and for manufac-
turing purposes. The writer was high
1y pleased with this display and OBJ
served with much satisfaction that it
was fayorably commented upon by vis-
itors generally.
The Grand Prize was awarded by the
International Jury to Singer Sewing
Machines for superior excellence in de-
sign, construction, efficiency and for
remarkable development and adoption
to every stitching process used in
either the family or the factory.
Only One Grand Prize for sewing ma
chimes was awarded at Paris, and this
distinctionof of absolutely superior merit
confirms the previous action of the In
ternational Jury at the Worlds Co.
lumbian Exposition, in Chicago, where
Singer machines received 54 distinct
awards, being more than were re-
ceived by all other kinds of sewing ma
chimes combined.
Should it be possible that any of our
readers are unfamiliar with the cele-
brated Singer Machine, we would re-
spectfully advise that they call at any
of the Singer salesrooms which can be
found in all cities and most towns in
the United States"
St. Landry clarion. (Opelousas, La.) 1890-1921, 1900-11-10

The choir boys of St. Georges
chapel, Windsor castle, in accordance
with ancient custom, have the right
to claim five shillings as ''spur money"
from any military man wearing his
spurs in church during service.
London's lord mayor has received
over s7,5oo,Oo0 in public subscriptions
in nine months of his tenure Of Office.
The contributions include $4,000, 900
for the Transraal war fund, S850,0o
for South African refugees, $5s5,00o
for the London Imperial volunteers,
S1.79o,o0o for the Indian famine fund,
and s27o,ooo for the Ottawa fire fund.
St. Landry clarion. (Opelousas, La.) 1890-1921, 1900-11-10

Of their kind in their own country and
brought here to replace very differ
ent class of men who were unable to
live upon the wages to which they had
been reduced.
The aristocratie members of the
mine community live "in town." The
houses (owned by the company are
all similar and set two and two, each
separated from its neighbor by pick
ct fence. There is no aJJempt-at archi-
tectural difference or beauty. Four
unpainted walls, roof slanting at the
same angle as all its neighbors, with
a sufficient number of doors and VIM
dows for egress and light, and there
you are. Chickens in one yard, ducks
and geese or goats in the next consti-
tute slight variation in scene. Here
dwells the 1aw-abiding element of the
town, the better-paid class, which is
composed chiefly OF Scotch, English,
St. Landry clarion. (Opelousas, La.) 1890-1921, 1900-11-10

Irish and Welsh golfers. The lesseea
Of the houses pay $40 or $12 per
month rent, and if a building is large
probably number of boarders are
kept. In the cellar is the coal bin,
filed monthly by the company at a
fixed rate on their books. The rough
est chairs and table and fewest pos
sible number of cooking utensils are
found in the kitchen. The sleeping
rooms contain the crudest beds and
bedding, or, perhaps, heap of straw
on the floor. Sixteen to twenty men
often sleep in one room, with hot
fire burning all night. Hundreds of
them lie down in their clothing, only
removing their boots and coats. Those
men who wash and change their cloth
ing on returning home, keeping as
clean as they may, meetHwith but poor
success, for as there are no sewers
there are no bathrooms, and a degree
of cleanliness which might be enjoyed
in the worst city districts is unattain-
able there. In an occasional house
sickly plants or vines may be seen at
window.
But the better class of the popu-
lation is being crowded out. A man
now considers himself very fortunate
If he has steady work at two dollars
per day, who formerly earned $1oo or
$125 per month. The cheap importa-
tions from southern Europe have dis
placed him. August was the rush
month of the year and wages were
comparatively good, but 18o working
days is said to be the yearly average
for man. The laws of Pennsylvania
are supposed to make company stores
an impossibility, but still they exist
and flourish. It is not matter of
surprise that but small balance is
due man at the months end, when
perhaps medical services have been
furnished by the company at high
rates. The miner is compelled to
purchase his powder for blasting from
the company, at price 100 per
cent. higher than that of the open
market. His miners lamp is filed
with oil bought from the same source
at an exorbitant price. If bits Of
slate are found in the coal he sends
to the surface its value per ton is
reduced by the "docker," from whose
judgment there is no appeal.
The condition of the women in the
patch" is deplorable. They have
~dazed, helpless look, and are the bur-
den bearers of the semblance of a
home. Many are sold to their hus-
bands, when 12 years old, into life
of hopeless ,drudgery. The girls work
hard at five years old. Murders are
frequent and seldom punished, espe-
cially if the murderer is good work
er. Court trials are expensive. When
the Polack first arrives he purchases
a revolver. the italian stiletto, or,
if very poor, he puts razor edge or
St. Landry clarion. (Opelousas, La.) 1890-1921, 1900-11-10

dition she was the mother of the
Virgin Mary. and both Nazareth and
the little town of sephoris at the
foot of Mount Carmel claim the honor
of having been her birthplace. Anne
married JOACHIM or Ei-Achim who,
like herself, was of the tribe of Juda,
and of David's royal lineage. The
only offspring. of this union was the
Virgin, Mary ST.. Anne was buried
near Jerusalem; but later on her sa-
cred remains were deposited in the
church of the. ''Sepuleher of OHr
Lady" in the bailey of Jehoshaphat.
During the reign of the Roman EN-
peror Trajan, in the first century of
the Christian ra, the greater portion
of st. Anne's Body was conveyed to.
the town of Apt, in the French adio-
cese of, AHgnon, where it is still held
in deep yeneration.. Concerning this
removal Catholic tradition reports
that ore day a mysterious bark was
seen to approach the shoressof France.
It had neither sail nor rudder, but
God was its pilot. In this bark were
Lazarus, Mary Magdalen and Martha,
together with other sanity women.
They were fleeing from Palestine,
St. Landry clarion. (Opelousas, La.) 1890-1921, 1900-11-10

carrying away with them number
Of priceless relies, the most precious
among which was the body of St
Anne. This treasure was placed in
the hands of St. Auspicius, the first
bishop of Apt, while the remaining
relics were taken to MarseilIes.
From the earliest times ST. Anne
was venerated by the people Of
France. The shrine at Apt has been
for centuries the objective point of
vast crowds of pilgrims, and the
shrine and pilgrimage of st. Anne
d'Auray, in Brittany, have long been
celebrated throughout the whole
Catholic world.
The region round about Beaupre.
which is located about 10 miles east of
Quebec, was settled by immigrants from
Perche and Normandy as early as 1850.
These sturdy pioneers brought with
them an almost childlike devotion for
Catholicism and unbeunded yeners1ion
for st. Anne. They organized a parish
called Petit-Cap, on account Of the hill
at whose foot the church was built.
Later on it was called st. Anne du Nord,
and finally it was given the name of
ST. Anne de Beaupre, or Ia Bonne Ste.
Anne" For some years the settlers
worshiped in private houses, but in
1857 chapel was erected on a plot Of
ground opposite the present basilica.
The men who assisted in the building
of the humble little sanctuary were, ac-
cording to the parish history, singular.
" blessed, especially one Louis Gui-
mont, who was cured by ST. Anne Of
a painful rheumatism which incapaci-
tated him for hard work. After he had
placed three stones in the foundation,
he found himself instantly cured, to
the great consolation and admiration
of his friends and neighbors. Owing to
local conditions. the first chapel was
never completely finished, but in 1862
the second chapel was completed,
St. Landry clarion. (Opelousas, La.) 1890-1921, 1900-11-10

an old file. Working always in the
dark blights a man mentally, NOR
ally and physically.
At the present rate of consumption
our supply of anthracite coal is ex-
pected to last 200 years longer. In
creased caresi is being taken that the
waste in mining shall be as light
as. possible. It is estimated that in
1898 the value of coal mined in this
limited area was $75,000,000, more
than half the value of the bituminous
coal mined in the whole country.
No other anthracite is mined except
in Wales, which annually produces
one-twenty-ffth as much as we do.
Varieties of Scotch, Belgian and West
phalian, sold for anthracite, are; of
the bituminous class. One reason for
anthracite being high in price is that
it is hard to mine. 1t lies mainly
along three rivers, the Susquehanna,
with large centers at Scranton and
Wilkesbarre; near the Lehigh, with
a prominent field around Mauch
Chunk, and along the schuylkill, with
PottsviIle as chief shipping point.
Iron production would be but lit
tie affected by a dearth of anthra-
cite. West-bound freight on the
great lakes would be reduced to an
important extent. The east would
suffer most severely. New York is
the largest anthracite coal market
in the world and, next to London,
the largest coal market of any kind.
The railroads ares said to charge
three times more for hauling anthra-
cite than for carrying .bituminous
coal. When they convey Ave dollars
worth of coal $50 miles to tide wa
ter they charge two dollars and leave
but three to pay the miners and op-
orators. Then they claim that their
mines do not pay enough to enable
them to raise wages. However, the
consumer is always charged full
price.
1t is said. that whenever the price
of hard coal rises to over seven dol
lars per ton, the demand for soft coal
greatly increases, thus regulating the
price of the former. There seems to
be an increasing tendency to, as far
as possible, have appliances attached
to stoves and furnaces whereby BIZ
luminous coal can be substituted
whenever it may prove desirable.
EDWARD JULIAN. E
St. Landry clarion. (Opelousas, La.) 1890-1921, 1900-11-10
MAKING bUlh ENDS MEET.
The Heroic Conduct of Poor But
Proud Young Man i'm o.
Critical Situation.

An amusing anecdote was recently
told by well-known New Yorker
about himself. At the time of the story
he was in a small-salaried position on
the clerical force of the same railroad
in which he is now one of the mighty.
"On my visiting list at that time
were several charming young ladies.
One of the most fascinating lived
near certain fashionable theater. /
owed this young lady courtesy in re-
turn for an invitation to very pleas
urable dance, SO asked her to go with
me to5the theater mentioned. The in
vitation was accepted, and I bought
the seats.
sThat done found two dollars an6
some small change in my pockets. l
was very absent-minded in those days,
SO when, during the afternoon, one of
the boys asked me for loan of
two, / did the natural thing-dove
down in my pocket and gave it to him
without a thought of how I was to
get along that evening.
Later on remembered my engage
ment, and in turn tried to borrow some
money, butAcould not find any. There
my friends. Luckily, knew of for
list who could be stood of, SO ordered
him to deliver a nice bunch of violets.
That done I had only the supper to
worry about-but with only so cents
to buy it.
"After the play we were opposite a
well-known oyster place, when the idea
came to me to propose an oyster stew.
/ knew she wasn't a drinking girl, and,
as the steWs at that place were 20 cents
each, there would be ten cents for the
waiter.
ss'The stews were brought in while I
was giving her one of my best stories.
She was absorbingly interested, and
was seasoning the stew when the eli
max of the story was reached. AS I
stopped I saw dismayed little face
opposite. Several fearful thoughts
flashed through my brain-ramong
them illness and cab with not-to-be-
appeased cabby. But the truth: She
had put sugar instead of salt into her
stewi
..sThe only way out occurred to me in
a flash.
"'You'l allow me, won't you? p said,
changing the stews. 4 haven't sea-
soned mine. I always use sugar. soI'll
take yours
asAnd downeds every drop, but was
deathly sick that night."-F. B. Bag
ley, in Womah's Home Companion.
St. Landry clarion. (Opelousas, La.) 1890-1921, 1900-11-10
The Kicking Kangaroo.

Trace bit of mischief anywhere in
the world and an American is as likely
as not to be at the bottom of it. Like
the plague of kangaroos in Brittany,
France. An American who had lived
in Australia bought an estate in Brit
tany and turned some kangaroos loose
in his park. They have bred with great
rapidity and
"But the kick of the kangaroo
M'sieu! 1t is terriblei" say the peas
ants. They are not used to kangaroos.
The result of this is that the kangaroos
now have to be hunted and exterminat-
ed, lest they become nuisance.
French dogs employed to chase them
frequently get killed by kieks.-Cinein-
natl Commercial Tribune.
St. Landry clarion. (Opelousas, La.) 1890-1921, 1900-11-10

which was located nearer the hill than
the first. St.Anne showed that this new
temple wasno less pleasing to her than
the first; and granted every kind of
favor to those who venerated her. In
1876 third church, built of stone, was
dedicated. It was twice restored, once
in 1894, and later in 1857, and was used
for public worship until 1875. The
present basilica is one of the finest
church structures in Canada. It's con-
struction was begun in 1872 and its
formal blessing occurred in 1876. 0w-
ing to the ever-increasing number of
pilgrims this church was enlarged in
1886 and year later Pope Leo XIII.
raised it to the rank of basilica. The
new church contains numerous affairs
of great artistic value, but its most i'm
posing feature is a pedestal supporting
a. large statue of St. Anne and child.
This pedestal is cut out of an onyx
block and highly polished. At the foot
of this statue the faithful pray for re-
lief from mental and bodily ills; and
the hundreds of crutches, bandages,
l.
dences of physical sufferings grouped
near the main entrance to the church
bear eloquent testimony to believers
that petitions addressed to ST. Anne
find a gracious hearing.
5 Pilgrimages to the shrine of st. Anne
de Beaupre occur at frequent inter-
Vals, and at times thousands of pill
grims join in procession to do honor to
her revered name. Every pilgrim is
given an opportunity to venerate the
highly -prized relics belonging to the
church. The most valued of these is
fragment Of a finger bone of st. Anne,
which was brought from Carcassone,
France, and which was exposed for the
first time March S, 1870, and has not
ceased to be the object Of fervehs de-
votion. Letters attesting the authe14
ITCHY of the relic are hanging on the
walls of the sacristy. In January,
1881, the chapter Of Carcassone, after
protracted negotiations, divided into
two equal parts it's valuable relic of st.
Anne, namely, the hand bones, and
shared it with the Canadian shrine
Another highly-prized relic is a frag-
ment of rock extracted from the room
of st. Anne at Jerusalem, where the
mysteries of the Immaculate concep-
tion and birth Of the Virgin Mary are
supposed to have taken place.
All of these relics, together with
few others of minor Importance, are
kept in cases covered with glass and
exposed to the faithful whose venera-
ton consists in kissing the precious
fragments. It would be interesting to
enter into discussion of the agencies
by which the miraculous cures of ST.
Anne de Beaupre are obtained. The
fact that hundreds of men and
women who seemed hopelessly lame
when they entered the church
walked out without crutches, erect
and strong; and that scores of deaf
worshipers heard the voices of priests
and the whispers of the congregation;
that drunkards became teetotalers as in
the twinking of an eye, cannot be de.
MED; and even the scoffer cannot leave
the basiliea without being overcome by
reverence for power that passes hu-
man understanding.
G. W. WEIPPIERT.
The average German child has I'd
his command at the end Of his thiss
vaar a ho1lt gao vorda
St. Landry clarion. (Opelousas, La.) 1890-1921, 1900-11-10
The Savage Bachelor.

IF you had been at the Browns gold
en- wedding celebration last night"
said the sweet young thing, ''you would
have altered your views oni matri-
mony."
ST wouldn't, either" said the savage
bachelor. ''If matrimony were not a
fake there would not be such pow
pow raised over a couple that have
managed to endure each other for
few years, and don't you forget it,
Indianapolis Press.
St. Landry clarion. (Opelousas, La.) 1890-1921, 1900-11-10
GUESTS Annoying B1under.

An Englishman recently visited
friends in Donegal, Ireland. Going
to bed soon after his arrival he
dropped his watch into handsome
pocket above his pillow. Not till
morning did he discover that there
was water in the receptacle. which,
indeed, was not a watch pocket at all,
but a place for holy water. The watch
was ruined.
St. Landry clarion. (Opelousas, La.) 1890-1921, 1900-11-10
A Good Cron.

Parke-Is your potato patch a sue
cess?
Lane-I should say SO; it will yield
at least three bushels OF bugs to the
acre. Brooklyn Life.