The Republican journal., 1915-12-23

him of the Union soldiers coming to his
grandfather's plantation and taking pos
session of the place, he eaid that it is
not the descendants Of the old families
who hate the negroes. They. of course,
do not want equality, but they do want
fair treatment for the weaker race.
Then he added: my brother and l al
ways had black boy about our own age
to play with and fight for" And then
he said, laughing: Il lax igger."
We had now reached the street where
we left the car, and will say right here
that whenever we asked the direction to
any place we wished to go we received
the greatest courtesy, those of whom we
inquired in several instances going few
steps out of their way to direct US; quite
difference this between the south and
the busting north.
We found that on account of the damp
nees of the soil it is the custom to bury
the dead above the ground. When we
entered the cemetery and looked down
the long well-kept avenues, with rows
on either side of mausoleums, it had the
appearance of beautiful city of artis-
tic marble houses. From here we went
to St. Rech chapel, the most picturesque
shrine in New Orleans. 1t is to this
shrine that the suffering and afflicted go,
for it has to its credit many miraculous
cures. We saw each side of the altar
clutches and canes piled high, and plaster
casts of deformed limbs, evidence of the
relief to the suffering of those who de-
voutly believe in the cures of st. Rech.
We passed through the chapel into the
burying ground, or to be correct, the
''ovens." There was a high brick wall
and in this are the inches, in three tiers,
in which the casket is placed. Then a
square of MAJ BILE is fitted into the open
ing with the name, date of birth, and
death, also the epitaph, some of which
were very strange.
In contrast to this is Canal street,
where at four o'clock in the afternoon it
is scene of life and ga'ety, this being
the hour that calls out the fashionable
women for promenade and perhaps a
cup of tea. Their dress is the last word
from the world of fashion, and their
French and Creole blood makes for a
high type of beauty. We did not con-
slder the day we'll finished without see
ing this par lde of, as we thought, the
handsomest women between Maine and
California. If in this day duels were
fought as they were in the early history
of New Orleans, we could easily imagine
these handsome women might be rea-
son, and in the City Park we saw the
great oak tree which is called ''The ia
nous duelling oak" under which many
duels were fought.
We were delighted with Audubon
Park, which takes it name from Audi
bon, the great naturalist, who was born
in this State in 1881. In this park Au-
dubon did his most important work as a
naturalist, and recently his monument
was erected here. Here we saw live
oak trees which, according to the in
scription on their trunks, were thou
sand years old. When we again visited
the park four years later, we were very
much surprised that they had not added
these four years to the age of the trees.
We went down to the cotton wharf
and just happened to reach there as a
steamer that looked as though it set fiat
on the water came down the river with
what they called a banner load of cotton,
$500 bales. 1t is odd to see the steamer
loaded to the waters edge turn around
and back up to the landing, which was
on level with the river, as there are no
piers or wharves. Later, we stood on
the high levee that is thrown up as
protection when the river goes on a
rampage. 1t has every appearance of
being higher than the land, and looked
so big and muddy felt it must be dusty
in the summer time.
1.-THE amount of holiday advertising compels
us to defer the conclusion of Mrs Dinsmore's
entertaining paper to our next issue ],