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The Jennings daily record. [volume] (Jennings, La.) 1900-1903, 1901-11-13

A. D. Coats returned from Lake
Charles this noon.
Postal Telegraph Office is now
in the RECORD Office
j. H. Lutgring attended to
business in Crowley today.
OH. L. Shultz returned this
morning from Lake Charles.
DR.. A. G. Wilkins was d bust
ness visitor to Crowley today.
G. L. Pardee was business
visitor to the Crescent City yes
terday.
Ben Wilmot will start north to
day to make visitamong friends
and relatives.
G. Hoag expects to go to Grow
ley for few days to do some
photograph work.
J. P. Kiplinger and wife of
Lakeside are business visitors to
UAll5 SlGy Coudy.
David Mahaffey, manager of
the Spring Hill Oil Go. is home
for a few days to recuperate.
l.. M. Valdetero boarded the
east bound flyer this noon for
short business trip to New Or
leans.
A. d. McFarlain & Son have
erected temporary office build
ing in which to conduct their
real estate business.
W. H. Kistner and family re-
turned this noon for short visit
to Lake Charles. Mr.. Kis tner's
father accompanied them home.
Cline & Cline, lawyers, and A.
G. Brainaad q Co., insurance
and real estate have moved into
their new office on the burnt site.
S. A. Kitterman' barber shop
is completed and will beoccupied
very soon. New furniture and
fixtures has been purchased for
the shop.
Homer Hanna, a former resi-
dent of this city, now Of Fort
Worth, Tex, has just recovered
from dangerous attack of
typhoid fever.
Misses Evelyn Parker and
Mary Linebarger have received
first grade certificates from the
parish board Of education for
the state of Louisiana.
l.. Elder Stevenson Of Crowley
and Claud Jones, state evangel-
iSt for the Christian church con
Quoted services at the tent last
night. The meetings have ceas-
ed for the present.
Mr.. and Mrs. George VanGil-
der and Mrs. S. Zegler, were in
from the Louisiana Rice Irri-
eating company's plant today.
Mrs. VanGilder has just recov-
cred from a serious spell Of fever.
John Kennes, the miller at
Riverside rice mill had two fin
gers broken by being caught in
a belt at the mill Monday. He
came to town for surgical treat
ment
Mesdames T. l. Terry, J.F.
Wellington, went to Lake Charles
as Delegates to State Federation
Woman's Club. Mrs. j. H. Hoff.
mann, Mrs. l. D. William, Mrs. G.
Remage and others will go as
visitors this evening.
The Great Eastern show ar
rived on time this morning as
advertised. The performance
given by them this afternoon
was splendid, and was genteel
and moral in every respect. The
bare back riding and flying trap
exc performance are some of the |
most daring feats ever seen. The
show is promised by the mana
cement to be equally good to-
night.
The Jennings daily record. [volume] (Jennings, La.) 1900-1903, 1901-11-13

A call meeting Of the Carpen-
ter,s Union will be held in the
Eagle hall at 7:3O on Friday nigh
Nov. 10.
j. D. CLARK, Treas.
s. \. KEEP, Il. $.
The Jennings daily record. [volume] (Jennings, La.) 1900-1903, 1901-11-13

r9S Moses q st GerDain will
sell you stock in any oil company
in Jennings. See them at Hol-
Iembeak'S.
The Jennings daily record. [volume] (Jennings, La.) 1900-1903, 1901-11-13

The Great Eastern Shows
were here Saturday, and an i'm
mense crowd attended the eX-
hibition. The show is frst-class
in all respects, and the perfor-
mances gave universal satisfac-
ton. The Great Eastern has
many people with it whose equal
cannot be found with any show
in the country, and We are pleas
ed TO say that among the manage
ment a more gentlemanly set Of
men cannot be found. If all
shows were managed 10y men
who conducted their business in
like manner the public would
have no reason to complain.
Certainly only words Of praise
will follow the Great Eastern
from the people Of Geneva
Geneva (Ala.) Journal.
The Jennings daily record. [volume] (Jennings, La.) 1900-1903, 1901-11-13

les For reliable insurance see
Moses 81 st. German at Hollem-
beak music store.
The Jennings daily record. [volume] (Jennings, La.) 1900-1903, 1901-11-13

"a Dr.. NJ. H. Adams dental
Office is now with DR.. 9. E. Hun
ter, over G. II. Morse & Sons.
The Jennings daily record. [volume] (Jennings, La.) 1900-1903, 1901-11-13

w The Hamilton cantb be beat.
The Jennings daily record. [volume] (Jennings, La.) 1900-1903, 1901-11-13

CYLisll ) antitrust tinware is
guaranteed for two years. The
Jennings Hardware Co. has it.
The Jennings daily record. [volume] (Jennings, La.) 1900-1903, 1901-11-13

Will soon bring on pam IN the
head, and may cause indigest
ion, if nothing worse. Glasses
that fit the eyes will give relief
from this difficulty Remove the
strain, stop the pain, and you
will be happy again. Our glasses
will be fitted to your face as we'll
as to your eyes.
JACK SON g. SF4lVELY,
Expert Opticians and jewelers..
CROWLEY, LOUISIANA.
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n. Holland.
OPTIClAN.
EYE GLASSES, sPECTAcLES,

Large supply of Glasses from 81. 90
to $780,
Will be at McFarlain Hotel for one
month. Will also visit Lake Arthur
Welsh and Roanoke.
l am well known throughout Cal
casieu parish. All work goods guar
anteed. 270d&w1m
The Jennings daily record. [volume] (Jennings, La.) 1900-1903, 1901-11-13

a8 The Hamilton is the best.
The Jennings daily record. [volume] (Jennings, La.) 1900-1903, 1901-11-13

~ Another invoice of 10 ofng
paper at FoSter'S
The Jennings daily record. [volume] (Jennings, La.) 1900-1903, 1901-11-13

Family mare for sale.
Eng ire at RECORD Office.
The Jennings daily record. [volume] (Jennings, La.) 1900-1903, 1901-11-13

visitors this evening in session
/ t and Is.
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Try the Hamilton.
The Jennings daily record. [volume] (Jennings, La.) 1900-1903, 1901-11-13

Labor wanted on sugar plan
tation, cane cutters and leaders.
Apply at RECORD office.
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The Hamilton beats the mail
The Jennings daily record. [volume] (Jennings, La.) 1900-1903, 1901-11-13

Don't fail to see the Hdmil-
ION.
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Us The Hamilton is Ne. /.
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r5 The Hamilton is O. X.
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1901-03-09

marten is relative of the sable and
is found in the mountains of Greece.
Valencia and adjacent countries. The
itch. which is used largely in Europe
for coat Innings, is another member of
the same family. The mink is larger
than the weasel, but resembles it in
shape and movements. The finest
skins come from Labrador and the
northern part of Canada, those of more
southerly sections being of a lighter
hue. The skin of the mink is used
as totem by the Indians. 1t is said
that the little animal is easily tanned
and becomes much attached to human
friends. The skunk, which is known
to commerce as the black marten or
Alaska sable, produces the best and
most durable medium-priced fur in
the market In this, as in other ami
mails, the darkest skins are most val
liable. Chinchilln, the most delicate
and exquisite fur in the world, is OBJ
tanned in South America The little
animal which wears it and which re-
sembles a hliputian kangaroo because
of its extremely long hind legs. is
found in great numbers between the
hills of Chill and Bolivia. To its strict
vegetarian diet-for its food consists
ascribed the silky texture of it's fur.
The rarest and most costly of fox fur
is the silver fox, and although it is
found on both continents not more
than 1000 skins are procured annual
ly. The cross fox ranks next in value,
the darkest skins of which can hardly
be told from the 1ightest ones of the
silver fox The beautiful brush and
rich color of the red fox make it pop
ular always. The fur of the blue fox,
which is of a purplish slate color, is
obtained in Greenland, Labrador and
the Alaska islands. Only in the fro
zen regions of the far north is the
white or arctic fox found. The fur of
this animal is pure white in winter ex-
cept for the tip of its tail. Virginia
and many of the southern states.pro-
] duce the gray fox.
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1901-03-09
The Poet of
the SierrdS

Joaquin Miller, being a real poet, is
privileged to be unique if he pleases,
and he has always pleased to cultivate
as many harmless idiosyncrasies as he
had time for, aside from dashing off
gem of poetry now and then, says Notes
and Queries. He insists that there is
method in most of his madness; for
instance, his long hair and flowing
beard hide ugly scars made by a red
mans arrow long ago. He has always
been noted for handwriting more il
legible even than that of Horace Gree
ley. He started for the Klondike with
the first expedition of 1897, in the capa-
city of correspondent for a San Fran
cisco newspaper and a number of East
ern periodicals.
One of his first letters, containing his
famous poem on the Chilkoot, having
arrived by mail, was ordered transmit
ted to the San Francisco paper by tel
egraph- Then difficulty arose; not a
town could make meaning out of his
lines, which resembled silhouettes of
the Sierras. The San Francisco paper
telegraphed an offer of $500 to any one
who could decipher it, without avail
and the letter was forwarded by mail
to be deciphered finally by his private
secretary at San Francisco. The Incl
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1901-03-09

Our most up-to-date histories and
encyclopedias are silent on the subject
OF President Lincoln's wife's relations,
the TOdds. We all know that she was
the daughter of Robert S. Todd, but
few are aware that her three brothers
and her sister were affiliated with the
South during the Civil War. DIR.
Todd, a practicing physician of Barn
well, s. c.. died about month and a
half ago. respected by all who knew
Mrs. Lincoln's second brother, says a
writer in the New York Press. Her
sister was married to 4 Mr. Moore OF
Selma, Ala, and Mrs. Moore's daugh-
tiers, nieces Of tine martyr President,
presented a flag of their own handiwork
to the Selma Guards on the eve of their
departure for the scene OF the war.
Another Of Mrs. Lincoln's brothers
was aid-de-camp, with the rank OF
colonel, on the staff of Gen. Sam Jones,
a noted Confederate officer. After the
battle of Manassas the Southern army
went into winter quarters at Center
vile, Va, and one of the regular Wis
ftors at headquarters of the Eighth
Georgia Regiment was Colonel Todd.
Cards and conviviality were the chief
miliar jug were in attendance every
evening. Todd was inclined, however,
to profanity, and ere long the officers
of the famous Georgia regiment
wearied of his presence. One of his
pleasantries was to speak disparaging-
ly of "Old Abe" his brother-in-law,
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1901-03-09
A Prospector's Har-
rowing Experience in
the Arizona Desert.

had him in charge We followed until
night, when the Indians made halt,
and there, before our eyes, they strip
ped Hazard of his clothes and dashed
him to a big cactus.
Such suffering. They raised him just
far enough above the ground that his
whole weight fell on the sharp needles
of the plant, thousands of them Tderc-
ing his flesh. While half of the In
dians held US away, the others danced
about our suffering partner. There
was only four of us, and about 20 In
lians, but we succeeded in driving
them off, after fight that lasted until
near midnight. When we reached Haz-
zard he was nearly dead from loss of
blood and the terrible agony that he
suffered. We got him back to Phoenix,
but he died in a few days.
1 have been caught in the desert and
have been saved of dying from thirst
by drinking water that is contained in
the cactus, but l never can feel any
gratitude to the plant after that first
experience. And I never can tolerate
an Indian.
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1901-03-09
DEATH OF DISEASE GERMS
SOON FOLLOW THAT OF
THEIR VICTIM.

experiments satisfactory he buried an
ima1s which had died from certain
known diseases, disinterred the bodies
at the end Of varying periods and ex-
amined the organs for bacteria. The
bacillus of Asiatic cholera was still liv-
ing at the end of 10 ways, but after
being buried for % no living specimen
could be found. The typhoid fever
bacillus was able to exist for about the
same length of time, while the germ
which causes the bubonic plague was
able to survive an interment of II
days, but was never found living at the
end of three weeks. The bacillus of
consumption lives for but short time
after the death of its victim. DIR. Klein
always found it without difficulty in
the organs, but was never able to OBJ
tain a successful culture. What is
perhaps of even greater Importance, he
was never able to cause tuberculosis
by injecting the bacteria thus found
into the system of a healthy animal.
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1901-03-09
STORIES WHICH REVEAL A
REASON FOR SOME OF HIS
IDIOSYNCRASIES.

dent was mentioned jokingly to the
poet, and he quickly rolled up the
sleeve of his right arm, showing the
scar of a bullet which had passed COM
pletely through the forearm, injuring
the nerves and cords of the fingers.
That's just to show you,'' said Mr.
Miller, that, while 1 am unhappily
conscious of my bad writing, it is not
affectation."
Ex-Gov. Semple, an old friend OF
Mr.. Miller's told how the matter of the
arrow wound in Mr.. Miller's features
had come to his personal knowledge;
this led to a discussion of the cause OF
the poets slight 1ameness. st am not
nearly SO lame now as 1 was 20 years
ago." said Mr. Miller. THAT 1ameness
was caused by another arrow wound
many years ago. I never could quite
understand why the old wound should
continue to trouble me until one day
in Dawson, soon after 1 had completed
that long Yukon journey, I CHANGED to
scratch my finger on my leg while
taking bath. To my surprise I found
a piece of flint, which 1 drew out of
my leg. 1t was part of that old
arrowhead, which had worked clear
through the leg. That endless walk
ing 'mushing,' as they call it-had
done it,
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1901-03-09
Tortured
With Cactus

The cactus is plant that stirs up in
my mind memories of an incident that
time cannot erase, says an Arizona
pioneer. When 1 went to Arizona in
1866 there were few white people but
no end of Indians. The Indians were
not all friendly. 1t was a year or so
after going to the territory that, with
a small party of prospectors. 1 was
crossing the great Arizona desert, from
Phoenix to where is now the King of
Arizona mine. We were all provided
with food and water and were making
the trip over the hot sands and under
a scorching sun with as much comfort
as was possible until we were over
taken by struggling band of Indians.
/ think they were Jicarillas.
There was nothing to do but make
run for it, and we gave them a hard
chase for five hours, until Archie Haz-
zard, one of the party, fell behind and
was taken. Then We turned and made
a fight, but it was no use. The Indians
made off with their prisoner, a party
of them keeping us of from those who
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1901-03-09
Rabbits and Diphtheria.

A recent epidemic of black diphthe-
ria, which caused a large number of
deaths among the children in the vicin-
lty of Grafton, ILL.,, has been traced by
local physicians to wild rabbits caught
and eaten by the afflicted families. For
several weeks hunters found large
numbers of rabbits dead in the woods
and hills around Grafton Some of the
dead animals were brought to the viii
lage and an examination by physicians
revealed the fact that the animals had
died from diphtheria The discovery
was not made. however, until several
days after the epidemic had got a
good foothold in the village, and all
the efforts to get it under control
proved futile. The authorities now
think the epidemic was spread in Graf
ton by people eating rabbits brought
into the market While they were ap-
parently healthy, they had evidently
been inoculated with dfphtheria by the
dead animals--Leslie' Weekly.
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1901-03-09
SCIENTIFIC TRAINING.
Tt Does Not Always Do for Children
What Is Expectad.

1t Does Not Always Do for Chlldren
What Is Expectad.
The small child of today whose
mother is imbued with modern scien-
tific ideas about the best way to raise
her offspring should be very different
from the youngster of twenty years
ago. If he is trained according to the
precepts of Froebel, punishment OF the
sort vulgarly termed as spanking
never falls to his lot He is persuaded
to learn through series OF subter-
fugeS which to his innocent mind are
nothing but games, and he llsps or
cubes and cylinders before he KNOWS
his letters. More than this, all the
stories that are told him are redolent
of sweetness and light Is "Cinder-
ella" related for his beneht, II Is q
garbled tale that represents the cru =
stepmother as not SO bad after all, Aor
it is plainly stated that she doomed
the fair heroine to seat among the
ashes for her own good As for Jack
the Giant-Killer. he is never allowed
to compass the destruction of the fee
f-fo-fum. 1 smell the blood OF an
Englishman" tyrant, but the ending is
changed to make the two excellent
friends And Little Red Riding Hood.
Well, she and the wolf are invariably
on the most amicable terms when the
tale of her adventures is told in many
a modern nursery, and there's not
suspicion of the "Oh. granny, what
makes your mouth so big?" that used
to send ecstatic thrills up the backs of
the little ones as they waited for the
denouement- In fact, the horrible has
been pretty generally eliminated from
nursery literature by philanthropic in
structors Said instructors, by the
bye, must narrowly have escaped from
being sayages themselves, for many of
them were raised on a diet of cruel
stepmothers, bloodthirsty beasts and
fierce giants They do not stop to ex-
plain how they managed to preserve
a few civilized virtues, however;
they're too busy keeping other peoples
children from what might be termed
the peri1s OF the nursery.
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1901-03-09
Cremation Not
a Necessity

DR.. Klein, the great German bacteri-
ologist, after a long course of expert
ments in ascertaining the fate of dis
ease germs after the death of their vic
tim, presents an interesting summary
of the results in a recent article in
leading German medical magazine.
These experiments have a decidedly
practical value as the conditions which
they prove to exist dispose effectually
of one of the arguments which has
been often used by advocates of crema-
ton. These latter have held that dis
ease germs could retain their vitality
for an Indefinitely long period in the
buried body, and that, therefore,
cemeteries, in addition to being harm
full because of contained, were posi-
lively dangerous, because they acted
as immense storage reservoirs for the
bacteria of the different diseases.
DR.. Klein's results correct this mis-
taken idea. In order to carry out his
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1901-03-09
Shaking SLATE genrils.


Slate pencils were formerly all cut
from solid slate, just as it is dug from
the earth, but pencils so made were
objected to on account of the grit
which they contain and which would
scratch the slate. To overcome this
diffiulty an ingenious process has been
devised by which the slate is ground to
a very fine powder. all grit and for
eign substances removed, and the pow
der bolted through silk cloth in much
the same manner in which flour is
bolted The powder is then made into
a dough, and the dough is subjected to
a very heavy hydraulic pressure, which
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1901-03-09
Something Sbnnt
aerfsideut 8iufplu 8
#ife's 8fIatinns.
The Todd fa1nilg

whom he made the butt of joke and
jest 1t was generally understood in
the encampment at Centerville that his
billet on Gen Jones' stan was obtained
through the prestige of his relation
ship-in-law to Mrs. Lincoln Colonel
Todd. being a late sitter, his hosts put
their heads together to devise scheme
for getting rid OF him. In this they
were assisted by the body servant of
Major s., a faithful negro of the name
of Tippecanoe, called Tip" for short
The tent was warmed by stove. the
pipe of which went horizontally
through the canvas at the rear. Then,
by means Of an elbow. assembled YER
tically to a point some three feet
above the ridge pole At the slightest
sign of distress Tip would slip out un-
observed and place an empty barrel
on top OF the pipe. All draught be-
ing shut OF, the stove would smoke
furiously, soon filling the tent to suffo-
cation Todd would cough and choke
awhile, "cuss OUT the internal appa-
ratus, and, remarking, We'll, reckon
I'll go to bed,' depart for his quar-
tiers. The moment he was out of sight
Tip would remove the barrel, and
presently the old stove would be doing
it's pleasantest again. If Colonel Todd
is alive he may read here for the first
time of the diabolical plan of the Off
GERS of the Eighth Georgia to send him
to bed. Tip still lives, and / desire no
keener enjoyment than listening to his
account of the nightly proceedings
around Centerville.
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1901-03-09
LEADING FUR NATION.
S'EVENTY-FIVE FER CENT OF
ALL FURS AMERICAN.
Something About Fur Animals and the
Comparative Value Their Skins
The Skunk L. Known Commences
the Black Marten or Alaska Sable

1t is not generally known, but Is
fact, that rs per cent of all the furs
worn in the world are Of American
product. The only ones of importance
which are found in Europe are Rus
sian sable, ermine, silver fox and mink.
Persian lamb comes, as its name indi-
Gates. from the orient, as do also the
astrakhans. No fu-e are obtained in
England, France or Switzerland. A
few baum martens and coneys Cthe
latter the old English name for rab-
bits) are obtained in Germany. Seal,
fisher lynx, every kind of fox and
bear and wolverine are all at their
best in America Russian sable, OF
ter and seal skins are the most valu-
able furs and are always, because Of
their durable qualities, a good invest
ment, sable after fifty years of wear
still showing the luster for which it is
famous. More depends upon the care
given to furs while they are not in use
than upon the actual wear, the heat
from the body rendering them soft and
pliable and in that way acting as
preservative. The best sable was
originally retained for the exclusive
use of the cars family and the very
dark skins are consequently known as
Imperial sable. Some of the Hudson
bay sable is dark and rich and so much
like the Russian that only an expert
can detect it. The light skins of both
the Russian and Hudson bay are col
ored in a skillful manner and are often
sold for the natural skins, but they
lose their color rapidly. The stone