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St. Landry clarion. (Opelousas, La.) 1890-1921, 1901-06-08
DICTATES IN THE DARK.
Stenographer Tells Of Habits Of His
Economical Boss.

ssMy boss dictates in the dark,
said the stenographer with the search
light in his shirt front.
My boss said once he thought ]
wrote in the dark, judging from the
appearance Of the letters" said the
stenographer with the flaw in his
voice. But what makes yonr boss
| do what you say hedoes? Ishe blind
or are you working for an owl e
No, said the stenographer with
the searehilght IN his scar, you're
wrong bothways. My boss is econom-
ica1 | don't mean to say he's mean,
because he isn't. He staked me to q
$50 note the first Of the year, and he
does a lot Of little things that make
me say he's a man to tie TO- But
there's no getting around the fact that
he's economical.
He doesn't like the clerks to use
the office paper for their private cor
respondence He wants the type
writer ribbons used till they're worn
out, and he has few other little ways
of letting you know he's saver. But
he's most economical with himself.
You see, he's not as young as he used
to be, and, Of course, his eyes are not
getting any better the older he gets.
His doctor told him some time ago
to put on glasses, and since then he
has been wearing them regularly
Last week he hit on new plan TO
save his eyes. / think he wasn't GO
ing to say anything about it, only 4
caught him in the act, and he had to
explain. He was debating an answer
to a broker out in Chicago, and had
stopped for a second to pick out just
the word he wanted to use. I hap
pened to glance up at his face, and,
bless me, if his eyes Weren'tclosedt I
lookedat him hard, thinking he wasn't
exactly well and was drowsy. But
while I was looking at him he began
to talk again; but he never opened
his eyes.
= was SO busy watching him die
tate with his eyes closed that I got
behind IN my letter. Ihad toask him
to repeat the last sentence. Then he
opened his eyes and said: Young
man, Il you will keep your eyes on
your notebook instead of on my face
you will probably be able to keep up
with my dictation
After the letter was finished he
told me about the system. Hesaid he
found he could save his eyes a good
deal IN the course Of the day by die
tating IN the dark. He found also, he
said, that his ideas came faster and
more distinctly when his eyes had
nothing to distract his isaftenfion from
his work.
Z don't know how the plan would
work in general, but he seems to get
along with It all right m Y. Her
aid.
St. Landry clarion. (Opelousas, La.) 1890-1921, 1901-06-08
4 Quick Response.

For quick responses to constituents
with final and satisfactory results
Congressman Shafroth, Of Colorado,
believes he holds the record. a Den
yer man te1egraphed to him at two
o'clock in the afteroon to attend To
some business requiring his influence
in a certain department of the gov
ernment. At three p, m. the same
afternoon Mr.. shafroth WAS On his
way to the department. At four 2.
N. the business was successfully
transacted and a telegram was sent at
once announcing thefaets 10 the Den
yer man. At SIX p. m, just sthe con-
gresham was going to dinner, he re-
eeived a telegram from the happy CON
stituent expressing bis JOY, gratitude
and wonder.
St. Landry clarion. (Opelousas, La.) 1890-1921, 1901-06-08
STORY OF A BELL.
Witty Priest Couldn't Resist Jabbing
His Presbyterian Brother.

The late Father Boyle, who for
years was one of the most prominent
and popular Catholic priests in WASH
ington, had a great reputation as a
wit, says W. .. Curtis, in the Chicago
Record-Herald. Sczne Of his most
intimate friends were Protestants and
members Of the Protestant clergy. A
few months before his death he erect
ed a missionary chapel down by the
navy yard and bought at a junk shop
an old bell which had been discarded
by one of the Presbyterian churches.
He sent the bell to a foundry in
Georgetown and had several inches of
metal pared off the rim. Having thus
got rid of crack, the harsh and dis
cordant tones of the bell became soft
and sweet. Meeting a Presbyterian
parson not long after, Father Boyle
called his attention to the change, and
the latter could scarcely believe it was
the same bell?''
What in the world did you DO to
that bell, }" inquired the Presbyterian
pastor, TO cause such a change il the
toner
eve blessed it and blessed It and
blessed it until We got the Presbyte-
rian devil ont Of il, /" retorted Father
Boyle, and thenit sounded alright.
St. Landry clarion. (Opelousas, La.) 1890-1921, 1901-06-08
TWO GODS.

a boy was born mid little things,
Between little world and sky
And dreamed not of the cosTnie rings
Round which the circling planets fly.
He lived in little works and thoughts,
Where little ventures grow and I,led,
And paced and plowed his little plots,
And prayed unto his little God.
But as the mighty system grew, ~
His faith grew faint with many scars;
The Cosmos widened in his view
But God was lost among his stars.
Another boy in loBly days,
As he, to little things was born,
But gathered lore In woodland ways,
And from the glory of the morn.
As wider skies broke on his view,
God greatened in his growing mind;
Each year he dreamed his God anew,
And left his older God behind.
He saw the bound1ess scheme dilate,
In star and blossom, sky and clod;
And as the universe grew great,
He saw In 1t greater God.
Sam Walter Foss, in New England Maga-
zine.
St. Landry clarion. (Opelousas, La.) 1890-1921, 1901-06-08
Fewer Criminal Prosecutions.

Judge Carroll Cook, Of san Fran
cisco, makes the unique complaint
that he has not enough work to do.
His honor declares that there has not
been aeriminal case IN bis department
for month, and that as a conse-
quenee he IS suffering from ennui.
Under It's new charter San I Francisco
pays no fees to public officials, aad It
is said that q large falling off III the
number Of criminal prosecutions has
resulted.
St. Landry clarion. (Opelousas, La.) 1890-1921, 1901-06-08
slleep il Europs.

In 1880 there were II sheep to
every ], 900 Of Europe's population.
This number has fallen 10 Sc at pres
ent. The ratioof horses is unchanged.
It has been ( I per ! 900 for the past
40 years.
St. Landry clarion. (Opelousas, La.) 1890-1921, 1901-06-08
HOW TO FATTEN QUAIL.
Novel Scheme to Induce Them to Feed
Many Times Daily.
Nice, plump birds, amt they

Nice, pump Dlrds, ain z they,
SIR"
1t was IN Leadenhall market, and
the speaker was nondescript person,
with a suggestion Of feathers and the
loose hairs Of dogs about him, says the
London Express The reference to
plumpness applied to many rows Of
quails displayed on the stall Of a
poulterer; and the man seemed to.
gloat over the array Of little birds.
They were admittedly plump.
81 stuffed them birds," he contin-
ued, discursively.
But they're not stuffed birds;
they're real.
SGarn itr heremarked, with seorn.
Z don't mean the coves as fills q
bird skin with feathers and puts i'm
on a wire under a glass shade. We
stuff 'em for the market to get 'em
fat. Lor' bless ye, when them birds
come from Egypt -that's 5 where they
breed EN-, mostlythere amt a pick
IN Of flesh or their bones. We feeds
'em mp, artificial Z
Rather slow work, isn't it, You
cram them, I suppose, like turkeys ~
Y ho are you gettin at, mister?
Dye mean to say you don't know oW
they fatfen quails for table? Why,
It's all done 81 electric light. Z es,.
and We gets en- plump IN less'n
Week.
on see when the qnails come to
Us They're IN big crates cages ike.
We lake EN- to big cellar UNDER
ground, turns off the electric light
and let 'em ave q sleep Then We
turn the Light on and give EN- afeed.
Quails, yor see. eats fust thing in
the morning 6, and eats earty. Sothey
eats aayy breakfast, and then We
turns ont the lights, and they go to
sleep again.
Seems simple enough. But what
makes them fatten up 50 quickly r
Why, in two hours We turns on
the light again, and the silly birds
wakes up and thinks II tomorrow
not KNOWN, dye see. Wot electric
light IS. So as the suns up, accordin'
to their belief, they sets to an as an
other breakfast. Then we turns off
the light again, gives EN- another
nap, rouses EN- again, ave another
breakfast, an there youare.
6 ye known The birds feed as many
as six times Of a afternoon, thinkin'
each time they Wuk up it was next
mornin /"
How does their appetite last ont?
Don't they feel a bit full?'
Full amt the word. Stuffed to
the neck, they are. But they know
It's thelr dooty TO eat when the sun
rises, an they doit. Some Of 'em that's |
q bit old and artful, they suspects
bit.
re seen an old cock bird senint /
up at the light, and then at his food |
and shake his wings, and peck At the
place where is stomach is a-giivin i'm
trouble Then he begins to refuse
Is food, and takes to frettin' and
won fatten no more.
Omesiekness, some says it is; but
not me. The little beggar as dys-
1epsia, that's all, and goes through
The same feelin's as thecoyes you read
about IN the papers that AS saved
heir lives By takin to Buffin,s Blue
Pills for Bilious Blokes.
{ We don't give 'ern no pills-jrlst
,iek EN- out, wiring their nscks aid
ell EN- to the cheap restorongs.
Fewer ry;vnfnaf ysroanrr,x;.-
St. Landry clarion. (Opelousas, La.) 1890-1921, 1901-06-08
The Life of a Horse.

Domestic horses are II their old
age when they have lived for 90 years.
In Wild state the horse Manages to
survive from S. to 40 years.
St. Landry clarion. (Opelousas, La.) 1890-1921, 1901-06-08
Telling Your Troyblss.

Remember that while telling a
trouble relieves the mind, il adds a
new worry; that the one talked to will
tellAtehison Globe.
St. Landry clarion. (Opelousas, La.) 1890-1921, 1901-06-08
Might BeeWorse.

Bad IS only good when worse hap
pens Chicago Daily News,
Camas Prairie chronicle. [volume] (Cottonwood, Idaho) 1901-1917, 1901-10-04
Trouble Mt San Francisco.

San Francisco, Sept. 30.-A collision has
occurred between special policemen and
strike sympathizers on Kearney street be-
tween Geary and Post. About 80 shots
were exchanged. A special policeman
named Billher was shot in the leg. Bow
EN-, carpenter, was shot through the eye.
Two other strikers were wounded, one in
the body and the other in the leg. Five
special policeman came out of the Thaha
theater about o'clock and walked down
Market street. A crowd of about so strike
|sympathizers followed them to Kearney
street. The specials were warned they
were being followed and stopped on
reaching Kearney street in order to allow
their followers to come up to them. When
they approached close the shooting be-
gan. with the above result. The police
FASTENED to the scene and began making
arrests. Two or three patrol wagons
were soon filled and driven to the station
/ A later report says that eight mea were
wounded.
Even the most sanguine of the employ
|ers do not look for a termination of the
present strike by the surrender of the
labor unions, although they believe that
the struggle must ultimately end in the
return of the men as individuals to work
They believe that they already see many
signs of disintegration in the ranks of the
strikers, and the opinion is freely ex-
pressed that if it were not for the fear
of violence large proportion of the men
would apply at once for their old posi-
tions. A party of ii nonunion metal
workers arrived from the east. The men
are now at the Risdon Iron works, hav-
ing been brought through the line Of
pickets posted by the unions to intercept
them.
Andrew Furuseth, manager of the City
Front federation, in sizing up the pros
poets of winning the struggle, said today:
at is now simply a matter of keeping
bread in the mouths of the men. If we
can do that we will win"
Camas Prairie chronicle. [volume] (Cottonwood, Idaho) 1901-1917, 1901-10-04
Revolution In Haiti.

Kingston, Sept. 3O.-Reports of rev
dictionary outbreak in Haiti have reach
ed here by the German steamer Alene,
from New York via Jeremie, Haiti Ac-
cording to the statements of those on
board the Alene a large number of prom
inent men in Jeremie were arrested on
the charge of conspiracy and immediate
ly removed to Port au Prince and i'm
prisoned.
The situation in the interior of Haiti
is reported to be serious, owing to the
opposition to President Sam continuing
in office.
NJ Fouehard, the former Haitien min
lister of finance, said to be one of Cle
ablest men of Haiti, who is now in this
city, and who is said to be the choice OF
the members of the Haitien national as
sembly for the presidency to succeed Gen
eral Sam, declines to speak on the situa-
ton at present, but friends of his say
that the revolutionary movement was
planned long ago.
Camas Prairie chronicle. [volume] (Cottonwood, Idaho) 1901-1917, 1901-10-04
IDAHO GLEANINGs.

Harrison public schools show total
enrolment of 1872
The total assessed valuation of Ell
more county is $1,507 1907.
Probate of the will of the late Judge
J. G. Brady has been refused at Rath-
drum, Idaho.
Fruit growers have picked the last
of the peaches, their pears, plums,
prunes and fall and winter apples.
1t is estimated that in the Vineland
colony there are 200 acres of bearing
fruit, an acreage that will be more than
doubled next year.
The Wallace Manufacturing, Elec-
trio & Water company has sold it's plant
and franchise to Spokane men for the
sum of $4,000. They have formed
the Wallace Light & Water company,
to operate the property.
The board of school trustees of dis
trict No. 81 of Shoshone county has
called an election to decide the ques-
ton of issuing bonds in the sum of
$3.50 for the purpose of improving the
school accommodations of the town.
Chief Clerk Steunenberg of the state
land department has sold at public auc-
ton the timber on tract Of 220 acres
of school land located near Russell, on
the reservation. The timber was bought
/ by w. J. Ramey of Russell for $3.50.
The following are the new officers of
the Idaho Press association: Presi-
dent, Guy Flenner, Statesman, Boise;
vice president, Avery C. Moore, Grange
vile; secretary M. s.. Parker. Chroni-
Gle, Caldwell; treasurer, M. w. Mans
field, Leader, Nampa; legislative com
mittee. Parker, Scott and Piquart.
There was war on last week be.
tween the Kendrick Milling company
and some of the merchants of Ken
drick, and as consequence residents
had an opportunity to purchase their
winters supply of -four at As cents a
barrel, that being the price which one
lof the merchants had placed on the
Kendrick made flour.
| Louis Hunter Is having an addition
built to his grain warehouse at Ken
drick, which will make the building
| 1872 feet long by 40 feet wide. The old
building is now completely filled and
wheat received during the past few
days has been piled outside. Work on
the rebuilding of the Martin Thomas
Warehouse has been commenced by G
Star, the contractor.
Camas Prairie chronicle. [volume] (Cottonwood, Idaho) 1901-1917, 1901-10-04
COMPANY Goth, NASR ROUTED
INSURGENTS SUDDEN ATTACK
while Our Soldiers Were at Bres kfas
They Were Fired Upon by An OAer.
whelmiDg Force = Tweniy-four Man
aged to Rscape-stores and AMMUNITION
Gaptur. by Insurgents.

MANILA, Oct. IA disastrous fight
between United States troops and in
surgents has occurred in the island of
Samar, near Baiangiga. A large body
of insurgents attacked company G,
Ninth infantry, only twenty-four mem
bers of the company escaping. All the
others are reported killed. The COM
pany was at breakfast when attacked,
and made determined resistance, but
the overwhelming number of the in
surgents compelled them to retreat.
Of the survivors who have arrived at
Basey, eleven were wounded. Accord
ing to the latest returns. the strength
of the company was u. The survivors
include Capt. Thomas w. Connolly,
Lieut.. Edward A. Bumpus, and DR.. r..
s. Griswold, surgeon.
Capt. Edwin v. Bookmiller, of the
Ninth infantry, reports that Gen.
Hughes is assembling a force to attack
the insurgents.
The insurgents captured all the
stores and ammunition of the COM
pany, and all the rifles except twelve.
Capt. Lawrence J. Hearn, of the
Twenty-first infantry, reports severe
engagement with insurgents near Can
delaria, the Americans losing one
killed and two wounded. The insur-
gent loss has not been ascertained.
Camas Prairie chronicle. [volume] (Cottonwood, Idaho) 1901-1917, 1901-10-04
CzoIgosz All Right.

Auburn, N. Y, Sept. 3O.-Warden
Meade today gave out the following:
"Czolgosz has eaten his meals regularly
and has had no conversation with any of
the other condemned men. He answered
questions in regard to his meals, such as
inquiry if he would have salt, ETC., which
were put to him by the officers, but aside
from that he has said nothing. Part of
the time yesterday he lay on his bed and
the rest of the time he spent walking up
and down his CELL"
Prison Physician Germ visited Czolgosz
but found no need for his services. In
addition to the hundreds of requests from
all over the country for invitations to wit
ness the execution, Warden Meade today
received numerous requests for the auto
graph of Czolgosz, and also some from
medical men for pictures of his brain after
he shall have paid the death penalty.
Camas Prairie chronicle. [volume] (Cottonwood, Idaho) 1901-1917, 1901-10-04
Refuses to Pay Ransom.

Boston, Sept. 9o.-The American board
of commissioners of foreign missions will
resist the demand of 100000 ransom for
the release of Miss Helen M. Stone of
Chelsea. Mass, the American missionary
now held by Bulgarian brigands.
When shown a statement by DR.. Gre
gan, New York secretary of the board,
that the ransom would be dangerous
precedent, the Rev. Judson Smith, the
secretary of the board, expressed his
hearty appreciation. "The rescue OF Miss
Stone is in the hands of the government
he said. sWe have had missionaries in
Turkey for two generations, but never a
case like this. Should we offer ransom
missionaries would never be safe from
capture"
Camas Prairie chronicle. [volume] (Cottonwood, Idaho) 1901-1917, 1901-10-04
Riot i'm ohio.

Canal Dover, Ohio, Sept. 30-A seri-
GUS riot occurred here between nonunion
millmen and strikers who did not get
places in the steel mills after the settle
ment. 1t resulted in the shooting of John
ONeil and Harry Mcdowell, the former
probably fatally.
The two men had failed to secure work,
and went to the mill and attacked the
outside night Waterman. They then came
up town, where they encountered six men
returning from work. The workers were
attacked, the strikers being reinforced by
about 80 others. The six men used their
guns and then fled to boarding house,
where they remained until rescued by the
sheriff and posse.
The men who did the shooting were ar
rested. but it is stated that they acted
entirely in self defense.
Camas Prairie chronicle. [volume] (Cottonwood, Idaho) 1901-1917, 1901-10-04
Yacht Club Anxious.

New York, Sept. 30.-An anxious
but determined lot of yachtsmen gath.
cred at the New York Yacht club Sun.
day night for another talk over the
exciting race, the chances of the Co.
lumbia in her next contest with the
Shamrock II. on Tuesday, but above
all that the dreaded question of the
prospects of the famous cup at last
returning from whence it came after
being in American hands brief month
over half a century. The anxious
members. seemed to be in the major.
ity, although the grim air of determi.
nation not to give up the cup was
quite prevalent. Every member frank
ly, admitted that he had experienced
something like scare, and no one
wanted to see the Columbia win anoth-
er race by so close a margin.
Columbia's close call over Sham,
rock in the initial race has stimulated
speculation and the British boat is not
without friends who are ready to back
her at proper odds to carry off the
cup. Everybody is hoping for a stiff
blow Tuesday, as both captains de-
clare the boats will be at their best in
a 20-mile blow
Camas Prairie chronicle. [volume] (Cottonwood, Idaho) 1901-1917, 1901-10-04
A.tor.. Yncht pamaged.

New York, Sept. 90.-Uohn Jacob As
tors magnificent steam yacht Nourmahal
was badly damaged and strained by be-
ing in collision in the lower bay with the
North Star, the latest addition to the fleet
of the Maine Steamship company. The lat
ter vessel had four of her plates stove in
and about dozen feet of her railing torn
away. Although there were about 800 ex-
cursionists aboard her at the time, there
was no excitement, but aboard the Nour-
mahal, which got tangled up with the
steamship, confusion prevailed. This was
due to the fact that the yacht was dragged
along for some distance by the head
way of the liner, and during the interval
her deck was awash.
Camas Prairie chronicle. [volume] (Cottonwood, Idaho) 1901-1917, 1901-10-04
rhree Killed AM Collislon.

Devils Lake, N. D., Sept 3O.-A COLI
sion between freight trains occurred on the
Great Northern railway at Penn, in this
county, killing Engineer George Come
and Fireman Clayton Saunders and Will
liam Gill. L. Bissell, brakeman, had a
leg broken. Eighty cars of stock were
wrecked. Both trains were through
freights, the last one being double
header, which ran into the other train
while the latter was taking water.
Camas Prairie chronicle. [volume] (Cottonwood, Idaho) 1901-1917, 1901-10-04
New Nicaraguan Treaty

London, Sept. 3O.-Correspcnasg
the Nicaraguan canal trs,.
ceased, the treaty being in form
nature. The only authoritative y
ito nobtainable about it here Is W
considerably better for the .Unltea i
than the preceding one. The u'n,
serve exists respecting the ns.'
clause. In other respects the I,a
lows the general lines of the Ola Y
Camas Prairie chronicle. [volume] (Cottonwood, Idaho) 1901-1917, 1901-10-04
CzoLGOsz COLLAPSE

ICzolgosz, President McKinls,'
derer, in the custody of Sheriff..
OF Erie county and 81 deputs'
arrived in Auburn, N. Y. Awsb,
arrival OF uAe .4u4n mere wa 4.
of about z0O people. Either n
of the crowd, which was not \
monstrative, or from sight ol h,
on, Czolgosz's legs gave out 4
deputies were compelled to prsI
carry the man into the prison
the gates his condition becan.|
and he was dragged up the 81
into the main hall. He was d
a sitting position on the bend
the handouts were being rema'
he fell over and moaned and I
evlncing the most abject tern
soon as the handouts were d
the man was dragged into theg
keepers offic,
AS in the case of all prison
officers Immediately proceeded
him and put on a new suit oil
During this operation Czolgs
and yelled, making the prisa
doris echo with evidence Of his
The prison physician, Dr.. Joh
examined the man and ORDERED
moval to the cell in the eondem
which he will occupy until bel
to the electric chair. The do
crded the man was suffering fro
and terror, but said that he VI
ming to some extent.
The collapse of the murdere
surprise to every one. En- roT
Buffalo he showed no indie
breaking down. He ate hea
sandwiches and smoked clga
not eating. He talked, and 9
some regret for his crime. HI
Il am especially sorry for
Kinley."
He reiterated his former 5
that he had no accomplices, an
ed that he had never heard Of
under arrest in st. Louis, who
to have tied the handkerchief
hand concealing the pistol vii
the president was shot. He
handkerchief was not tied. H
the Temple of Music, arran
handkerchief so as to hide the
and then took his place In %
By Jailer Mitchell he sent this
to his father:
"Tell him l am sorry l left
a bad name"
Leon F. Obolgosz has been I
to be electrocuted in Auburn 5
on during the week beginnl
Der %.
Camas Prairie chronicle. [volume] (Cottonwood, Idaho) 1901-1917, 1901-10-04
HoIduns Are Numerous.

Walla Walla, WASH, Sept. 80
the threat of having his brains
out, A. j. Brown was forced 70 y
and dig up his change to a holdnl
crime occurred several miles wes'
He was accompanied by his wlie
other woman. The robber appear
the shadows and thrust the gun
rig.
News has reached here OF
holdup at Pasco, when two Y
names unknown, were relieved o
$50 and valuables while. waiting !
nections. The men were walking
yards when two desperadoes
from beneath a car and ordered
up" at the point of guns. The ~
searched and were then forced ih'0
car and securely fastened in.