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St. Landry clarion. (Opelousas, La.) 1890-1921, 1906-10-06
A Timely Suggestion.

| A few days ago, during discus
sion of general topics, in front of the
courthouse, in 0pelousas, the question
of the threating condition Of the race
question came up, and a high official
of the parish, gentleman who dis
tinguished himself in the establish
ment of white supremacy in recon-
struction times, casually suggested
every town Of any size should have
an arsenal for the use of its citizens
in an emergency-for instance race
riot, or riot of any sort. He recalled
how convenient and timely such a
thing had proven in the past; and
how the people would find themselves
without means of defense should an
outbreak occur at this time.
The citizens present agreed with
him, and well they might. It is pru-
dent to be at all times prepared for
an emergency, dealing, as the people
of the South are, with race which
do not require much persuasion at
the hands of demagogues to excite
them to violence.
This opinion, however, is not shared
only by our old friend above referred
to. 1t is being agitated in other por-
tions of the State, and of the South
The Mansfield Journal, published at
Mansfield, La, last week had the
following to say on the subject:
THE Monroe News is urging or
ganization among the white people in
every town and district in the South
for protection against lustful brutes
The Ku Klux Klan once protected
Southern women and children to an
extent that is unknown to the present
generation and the same thing can be
done again. The News is right when
it says that the whites must not be
content with vengeance. They must
afford protection Protection can
not always be afforded by the law,
but an organization composed Of the
right kind Of men will secure it,
St. Landry clarion. (Opelousas, La.) 1890-1921, 1906-10-06

While a negro mill hand was sleep
ing in a saw mill at Vidalia, three of
his comrades jokingly tied rope to
his right foot and threw the other
end of the rope over a rapidly revolv-
ing shaft, jerking the victims body
to pieces. They were arrested and
have been allowed bond.
Secretary Brian, of the State Board
of Pension, has compiled the work of
the recent session of the board as
follows: Placed on the special grade
list, IL pensioners at $3.50 per
month; in grade No. |, 1872 at $3.50
per month; in grade No. 2, 312 at
$3.50 per month; in grade No. 3, 221
at $3.50 per month; making a total
of 727 new applications added to the
rolls at the recent session of the
board.
Rev" R. Amos, the negro preacher
who has promoted several Industrial
Institutes" in Louisiasa for the educa-
tion of the negro, it is stated, on
social equality principles, was shot
and killed by white butcher on the
Iron Mountin train in Ouachita parish.
The butcher was endeavoring to sell
some literature to colored woman
On the train, when Amos interfered
and told the woman not to buy the
stuff. This angered the butcher, who
told the negro to attend to his own
business, upon which Amos knocked |
him down and got on him to Finish |
5he white -" The butcher
happened to have his pistol handy, |
md shot two bullets into him.
St. Landry clarion. (Opelousas, La.) 1890-1921, 1906-10-06
"A Soldiers Sweetheart. y

The rendition of THE Soldiers
Sweetheart" by a local amateur
troupe, at the opera house last Satur-
day night, was fairly attended by an
appreciative audience.
The play was given for the benefit
of the Catholic Church, and was to
have been held on Friday night, but
on account of the death of popular
young lady, and the consequent
inability of many Of her friends
to attend on account of the bereave-
ment, it was postponed to Saturday
night.
While there was nothing in the
plot itself to attach the play to an
audience in this locality, the choice
of it for an amateur performance can
be recommended in that it was easy
of rendition, the parts being well ad-
apted to amateur work.
The performers have nothing to be
ashamed of in the rendition of it.
The few breaks" were well hidden by
dexterous movements and quick,
thoughtful substitution, and the scue"
was at no time lost outright.
The tableau, Gettysburg Battle
field at Night" was truly warlike,
even including the dark mouth of the
stoVe-pipe protruding from the rear
scenery. In this scene Thompson
Henderson died tragically enough,
and A. H. Garland awoke in splendid
time.
While it was our purpose not to
particularize, we can not refrain from
making deserved special mention Of
the excellent acting of Mrs. Linda
Ogden, particularly, and of Prof.
Marshal Thompson. Mrs. 0gden's
Ray Whitecar," the tempestuous,
frivolous, honest-hearted inn-bred
maid, was very much out of the ordi-
nary amateur work: in fact, it was
worthy of praise in professional cir
cles.
We would like to see the same play
put on with more rehearsing.
We learn that it is the intention of
the cast to give our sister town of
Washington performance.
The cast was as follows:
Jack Travis, a young recruit-A.
II. Garland.
Sergeant Pritchard, recruiting Of
ficer-T. P BoWden.
Philemon Whltecar, landlord-Jas.
A. Going.
jeremiah Sloyer, ex-magistrate-
Marshal Thompson.
Joe Bolts, osler of White Horse
Inn"-Thompson Henderson.
Simon Sanders, the villain-Felix
Dezauche.
Jason 0lds, a Quaker-Roy Ed
wards.
Duffy Whitecar, youthful sport
Clifford Edwards.
Mrs. Whitecar, landlady White
House Inn'-Miss Katherine Thomp-
son.
Edith, deserted wife Miss Kat
herine Thompson.
Polly Sloyer, chicken culturist
Miss Rose Nolan.
Ray Whitecar Mrs. Linda Ogden.
St. Landry clarion. (Opelousas, La.) 1890-1921, 1906-10-06

Palma, the retiring President Of
the Cuban Republic, is penniless, hav-
ing spent his fortune for his country.
No wonder at the Revolution. AS
soon as the white boss gets broke, a
coon has no longer any use for him.
St. Landry clarion. (Opelousas, La.) 1890-1921, 1906-10-06

The news comes from Washington,
D. c., that the department of agricul-
ture will institute series of inquiries
to ascertain the cost Of producing
some Of the most important staples,
especially corn and cotton. Safe to
predict that the fellow who will have
charge Of the bureau will not have
knowledge enough Of farm products
to distinguish a pumpkin from a Rus
sian anarchist bomb.
Taft can now definitely ascertain
whether he likes the job Of President.
St. Landry clarion. (Opelousas, La.) 1890-1921, 1906-10-06
news FROlALL
OVERHE STATE.
.Nadepn. Nparo aCher Fatally Shot by
Train Bu'f iii uadGhltd.
HAY MAKING NORTH LOUISIANA.
Election Fraudaimed In Ascension Parish
In Fayrobertson Flght--OVatIon
''The GIaRsman.

Alexand is suffering from a scar
city of diving houses.
There iaid to be 2l,3l3 native
Alabama residing in Louisiana.
New eans has been selected as
the poipf mobilization for the sec
ond milfy expedition to Cuba.
Gov. blanchard has issued his
proclarion ordering the general
fall eleons to be held throughout
Louisia on November 6.
Therst annual convention of the
Louisla Division of the American
Anti-loon League met in Bunkie
last EEK.
Snon Begnaud, prominent citi-
zen Scott, died in Lafayette, which
plae he had lately made his home,
v lasEeek.
negro named Nero was brought
tole Alexandria Jail for safe keep
infrom mob law. He shot white
mi named Pharr in Winn parish.
Reports from North Louisiana say
tit quail will be plentiful the COM
i season. The spring was dry,
id all birds were raised. The quill
an not be killed until December lst.
The members of the Third Street
fethodist Church, South, of Alexan-
ria, have taken steps to sell the
present property and erect $25, 900
building further up town.
The Grand Jury Of Lafayette par
ish in a recent final report urged the
necessity of a new courthouse for
that parish, and condemned the
clerks Office building as unsafe.
The brief which has gone up to the
Supreme Court from Acadia parish in
the case of the Jennings-Heywood
Oil Go. VS.. the Houssiere-Latreille Oil
Co., numbered 2,104 pages. !
The Supreme Court of Louisiana
opened it's 1906-1907 session last
Monday, a month earlier than usual,
under law passed by the recent ses-
sion of the Legislature.
''The Clansman," the Southern play
ruled out of Georgia through, the
Of law and order misfts,
opened in New Orleans last Sunday,
and was received with an ovation,
Shreveport will offer inducements
to the Louisiana State University to
have the medical department of that
Institution located in the metropolis
Of North Louisiana.
The Mansfield Journal says that
hay presses are becoming common in
that section of the State. More hay
will be saved by the farmers next
year than ever before. Thousands of
iellars have been lost by them not
Utilizing the grass produced on their
farms.
Fraud is claimed to have been COM
nitted in Ascension parish in the late
primary election between Robertson
md Favrot An investigation may
be had, but it can not effect the re-
suit, as the necessary proclamations
nave been made, and the limit for
contest expired.
Henri Gueydan, of Gueydan, ex-
presses the opinion that the different
parishes will have to take up the
matter of an intercoastal canal and
not rely upon the national govern
nent because of the length of time it
will require to get matter of this
magnitude in motion.
The contracting firm of Brown &
60. have made contract with the Gen.
trail Louisiana Oil and Gas and Miner
i Development Go. to sink several ,
wells near Alexandria for oil and gas.
i is said that the indications for gas
ire better than they were in the
5addo gas district. Work will be- ]
gin at once.
Los Angeles herald., 1906-03-04
S e A L
F u r

jackets of gray over-hair, with soft brown
fur beneath.
The hair conceals the fur, and they have
splendid eyes. clear. dark and liquid, with
long and perfect lashes. They do not seem
to see very well on the land, but their scent
is most remarkable, and in the water their
sight is perfect.
Their jaws and teeth are much like those of
a dog of the same age, and all the fur seals
bite off the heads of fish upon which they
feed.
OF these they consume an immense quantity.
Mr.. Elliott estimates that, although the old
months without eating, and at that time the
old females eat very little, yet during the
rest of the year the old males eat forty
pounds, of fish a day, and the females, which
are only ,one-third the size of the males, at
least twelve pounds.
He thinks that the fur seals of the Pribylov
Islands eat fully six millions of tons of fish
every year, ranging over five thousand miles
OF the, Pacific for them, and, in turn, kept
under by being the prey of the killer whale,
the Japan and basking shark, and other ma
rine monsters.
During the eight months they are gone from
the islands they never go OH shore, sleeping
on the water as comforta bly, as on land.
The government, by stringent regulations.
allows only 100000 seals to be killed in a sea,
son, and these are all young males; and Mr.
Elliott places the number of them which re-
sort to the Pribylov Islands-two insignificant
spots in the far Northern Behring Sea-at
over 100000.
One wonders at the unerring instinct which
takes them back so surely from thousands Of
miles away, and why they do not occupv
other islands in the Aleutian chain. But here
again their wonderful instinct is shown. for
Polar bears would make havoc among them in
many places which they could reach by means
Of hoes of ice.
The two islands, St. Paul and st. Georpe
are far enough south to be clear of permanent
ice foes, and were far enough from savage
Pribyloy, to insure the fur seals shelter Ssnd and
isolation, while their climate with its con
stant fog-banks shutting out the sun, suits the
seals, which are uncomfortable in moderately
clear. dry weather. when on shore
Los Angeles herald., 1906-03-04
We Knots an0 Cor6a@e ~

however, you must turn the end around in the
direction Of, the dotted lines and pass it down
and around the lower part D), until you
is made
A RUNNING BOWLINE.-Take the end
of the rope around the standing part (A(,
then through the blight that is thus formed,
THE CARRICK BEND is used for uniting
two hawsers, and is made as follows: Form
a loop by laying the end of a rope across the
standing part; take the end of another rope
and pass it down through the loop, up and
over the top rope, under the next, and then
down through the loop again.
N. Bone end must be over the blight, and
Los Angeles herald., 1906-03-04

through the ring of small anchor, then one
half-hitch round the standing part and under
the turns, and finish with a haf-hitch above
by small lashing to the standing part
We now come to splicing, and in order to
to obtain marIinspke" This is a sharp
tool made of wood or iron (the latter is pref
erable), and used to open out the strands
of rope in order to pass other strands
through them.
They may be made of any length, from six
to eighteen inches, according to the size of
rope to be worked. A carpenter would make
for a small sum.
A SHORT SPLICE.-This is used for per
manently uniting the ends of two ropes, or
Los Angeles herald., 1906-03-04
p u P p Y

of the year, have to learn to swim, just like
any land animal.
Born in the Pribylov Islands, the queer-look-
ing little black pup" with round, bullet
head, big eyes and taperng hind parts, never
goes into the water until he is about six weeks
old. Before that, if some one were to pitch
him in, his head would go, down and his hind
fippers up, and the stupid little thing would
drown in very short time. But, at about
six weeks, instinct drives him down to play, in
the wash of the the surf, which alternately washes
After this, they begin to paddle, houndering
about in an awkward way, using their flippers
like young puppies, but soon struggle on shore
again. seemingly so weary with their exertions
that they curl up at once upon the sand or
rock for nap.
In half an hour they are at it again, and
thus gradually become familiar with the water
just as a Newfoundland puppy might do.
From that time the sea is their real home
and their whole support, and thoroughly do
the puppies enjoy the watery element. They
play, and bark, and chatter, swimming in
endless graceful evolutions, twisting and div
ing, and, when exhausted, once more drawing
Los Angeles herald., 1906-03-04
T III e
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up their plump forms upon the beach for a
rest and a nap. Before lying down, they
shake themselves, as dogs do.
1t has been affirmed by writers that the old
seals drive the young ones into the water,
that they may learn to swim; but Mr.. Elliott
is very positive that this is not the case, and
says the mothers pay little attention to the
puppies.
The females, which have only single
pup at a time, give them plenty of rich milk,
upon which they gorge themselves, but never
caress or play with them. They may even be
carried off before their eyes without the moth
ers seeming to care.
At the same time, they will allow no puppy
but their own to suckle them, and pick them
out, among, the thousands just alike, by, the
voice; for the pups keep up continual bleat-
ing, which the mother recognizes on coming
back from a swim.
At his birth the seal puppy is jet black,
with tiny white patch behind each fore
aipper. He is then a foot long, and weighs
three or four pounds.
By September Is they have all learned to
swim, weigh thirty or forty pounds have
shed their black hair and taken on their "sea-
Los Angeles herald., 1906-03-04

standing part, and push it down through the
loop, and it will appear as we show it in the
cut.
A bowline on the blight is made with a
double rope, when you are unable to obtain
Los Angeles herald., 1906-03-04
S e A
A
Copyright by James Eiverson.) }

Copyright by James Elverson.)
-T is a common idea that the fur seal
1871 swims about in the ocean with Its
bS@k coat soft, brown and lustrous, as
bdGM90I we see it when made INTO garIanenes aIs
EzeWeJ to shield fair ladies' delicate forms
in wint1y weather. This is great
mistake, for the fur-seal has, over Its peauti-
fully fine wool, shingling of hair, stfhsht
and coarse, and of Il color from gray 10 yel-
Iowish red. all of which has to be picked out
bv skilled laborers, after the skin has reached
London, in salted state. For, strange TO
saw. niDe-tenths of all the fur-seal skins are
sent to London, where certain people nave
for many years practlced tine art Oh clean !,
ing them OF halr ana uye'ne 'nein
are dyed. 4,,o
The United States Government owns the
,raat source of these skins, and only allows q
Certain company to kill one hundred thousand
animals in year, WHICH we shali see Is hoI
. drop in the bucket" compared with their
numbers. :. H. .o,,.l eon
coal fur no matter what fashion dictates, and
fhe wise regulations of our, government, II
's,narsevered in, will keep up the stock forever:
In other parts, there are now only the small
Russian islands which produce the, skins in
any number, in the same Behring Sea which
any aaaSS+ains our own islands. Once there were
vast breeding grounds ot the @ iur seal a IN ha the
a1m,ost entirely depopulated,. SO as not to be
sa,inrtb working by sealers of all nationalties,
Who who killed, Unfortunately, old, young, male
any The e government of Uruguay has, in the
River Platte, a small island, called Lobos, or
Seal Island, where every precaution is taken
disturbed, but their numbers are cOmpara-
'iYIy NJ. Elliott, the great authority on the fur
seal. as it exists in the Pribylov Islands, which
we purchased from Russia, with Alaska, gives,
among most interesting details of seal life, de-
scrptions Of the baby seals, or pups" and
how they have to learn to swim-for strange
as as It may appear these animals, which spend
fully two-thirds Of their lives without coming
depths of the great Pacific Ocean eight months
Los Angeles herald., 1906-03-04
Fig. U.-CoMPLETEp

it up again, following the lay, or groove,
around and around, until you have filled it
all in, as in Fig. 13.
Finish off by taking away a portion of each
strand, knotting the two together, and passing
the ends underneath as in long splice.
In order to make a grummet of certain
size, you must calculate three times the cir
cumference of the size you require, and add
six times the round of the rope. If you COM
mence with your strand that length, you will
obtain the desired-sized grummet.
To BE Continued Next Sunday
Los Angeles herald., 1906-03-04

A LONG SPLICE.-This is used in repair
ing or joining running rigging, where the rope
has to. pass through the sheave of block,
Tor which short splice would be too large.
Commence by unlaying the ends of the two
ropes to the length of five times and half
together in the same manner as you would
for a short splice. When you have done this,
begin unlaying one of the strands, and
filling in the space it leaves with the strand
belonging, to the other rope that. is nearest
Los Angeles herald., 1906-03-04

one underneath, as you see in the figure, or it
will not be properly made.
THE SHEET or BECKETT HITCH is a
useful method of fastening two small ropes to-
gether. If the hitch is properly made they
cannot slip Pass the end OF a rope (A) up
through the blight of another rope (C), or
through the beckett of block, then both parts
of the blight (B) or beckett, and lead the end
under its own part, as shown in the cut.
A FISHERMAN'S BEND.--With the end
Of rope take two turns round spar, or
Los Angeles herald., 1906-03-04

crutch the ends together, and see that the
strands are alternated, as shown in the cut.
the left-hand strand, and pass it over the
strand next to it, and pass it underneath the
second strand Do the same with the other
strands, and haul taut. 1t is usual to put the
strands of one rope through twice, and the
others only once.
After the splice has been stretched, the
Los Angeles herald., 1906-03-04

ends are cut off, and it is rubbed into
shape IT, rt
snlice Won will have no difficulty with any OF
the others.
AN EYE SPLICE.-Ths is used to make
an eve or a loop at the end of a rope Some
times the eye is spliced round an iron ring ing
called a thimble; but it is a useful splice for
many purposes. INLAY the strands for the
distance Of twice circumference OF the
rope. Then bend the rope round, according
Los Angeles herald., 1906-03-04

with marlinspike put it underneath the first
strand in the rope Zig. 10); the next end is
taken over the first strand and under the
second, and the third end Is taken under the
third strand underneath Follow this up once
more, then stretch and roll the splice and cut
off the ends.
Los Angeles herald., 1906-03-04

cced in the same manner with the two next
strands that will come opposite to their re-
spective lays Then cut off some of the long
strand, and it ought to look like Fig. IL.
To finish the splice off, unravel The end of
each strand, and take away about one-third
Los Angeles herald., 1906-03-04

for mending one rope il it has broken, where
the size of the splice does not signify.
Commence by unaying the strands OF the
two ends sufficient distance, which you will
be able to judge by measuring the rope round
twice. and unlaying it to that length. Then
Los Angeles herald., 1906-03-04

to the size you intend making the eye. Lay
the strands, one on the top of the rope and
one underneath Zig o.; then commence with
the middle strand, and having opened the rope
Los Angeles herald., 1906-03-04

the end, or when you require to use the knot
in order to hoist a up aoft when paint
ing or scraping, in which case the loops are
may sit in one and rest his feet on the
other.
To make it: Let AA be the standing part,
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