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CHILOREN'S COLUMN, Jack's Point of View. His little sister pouted: "I think it was a shame For you to get the scolding When you were not to blame. Why didn't some one toll them The truth about the ball - That Freddy Fearing threw it, And it wasn't you at all? But that's the way it always Is; It's just the same old song When any mischief happens - It's Jack who's in the wrong! And other boys, I'm sure of it, Are every bit as ba:l. I'm sick of such injustice! It makes me hopping mad!" Jack kissed his little sister: "Oh, don't you fret'" he said. With a twinkle in his lnu:-hin, eyeg "And don't you peaoih on Fred. I told the little beggar (He was scared to death, you seo, When the ball went through the window) To leave it all to, Iv,. Nobody fibthd abJut ii; But the follows ran away. 'T was just the situ atill ,n - Homebody had to stay. Of coursa I catught it heavy, But bless you!-think what fun For me to get a scolding For a thing I hadn't done!" -Mary :rMleloy, in St. Nicholas. A New (Game With lltoller Skates. The latest jtuvenilo sport is kn,'wn as roller-pullin;g, aud is as amusing as can be. It cons sts in having two or more boys or girls equipped and mountel on roller skates and at least an equal number of smallor ones, who are harnessed with toy reins. The game is played in many ways, but the commonest form is for two of the skaters, of about equal weight, to pick out two of the harnessed pullers of equal strength. Each skater seizes the reins of his puller and at a given signal the puller starts off in a ma:l race uipon the asphalt pavement.. It is wonderful how fast an urchin of three or four years can pull or tig an other one of eight or ten. When it comes to a reversal of these conditions, and the puller is older and stronger than the skater, the velocity of the turnout is unlleasantly great to people crossing the street when the races are going on. "', What with the smooth pavement on one side and the roller-skate on the other, many new sports have been de vised of late years by ingenious child hood. Some are inexplicable to adults, while others are only familiar games moldified to meet the conditions. A lot of youngsters skating in a long row which suddenly attempts to swing and revolve around the boy who holds one end is, of course, the old game of "anasu the whip." But out.of this has grown the modification of having the two or three skaters at the end keep on separately after the whip is snapped. The winner being hlie or she who goes the furthest or straight est without striking o:it, or taking any movement after once starting. New York Mail and Express. A Dog That Kills Snakes. Mr. George F. Blackman of Andover, Mass., is the owner of a dog, Dan, that has made quite a record as a snake killer. For some time past the animal has spent all his time in the fields and woods, hunting and killing blacksnakes. When Dan spies a snake he dashes round and round his prey, barking furiously. When the snake coils and raises its head in a defensive attitude, Dan dashes in with a side like move ment and catches with his teeth that portion of the snake just behind the head. Then a vigorous shake or two, and thie snake is tossed into the air,to come down dead. Then Dan takes the snake in his month, and with tail up proudly trots home with it. The snakes he catches from day to day he carefully ranges in a pile in the woodyard. No one has counted the snakes, but from the road the heapl of snakes looks almost like a cord of wood, so there must be I a good many of thlem. They range in size from three feet to seven feet in length. A peculiar thing about Dan is that he does not mutilate the snake,except t that in each instance he bites a hole in the skin and eats the liver of the r reptile. He has become so expert in this that he can in an instant locate thle liver of a snake, no matter what its size, big or little. i Dan is also quite a fisherman. He I has a long, shaggy tail, the end ofi which is adorned with Santa Claus like whiskers. At. dusk Dan will re- t pair to thle river side and drop his tail ii into the water. When he has a "bite," d which means that thle hairs of his tail a have become tightly twisted about the a horns of a fat bullhead. Dan gives a d yelp and a jump, throws his tail over his shoulder anid lands the fish in at safe place. But fishling is a side issue o with Dan. He spends most of his time sniake huntiug.-New York Tele- a gram. I'Polly andl the Iarrel. Polly was always readly to try an al experiment. When she was about lve years old shie went to make a long ai visit to Grandpla Higgins in the cl country. Tom and Mary, little cousins who lived neasr b)y, were very glad to have at Polly so near. They camne over very j Dften to play with her. One day after the children had played all the games they could think )f, they began to wonder if there H wasn't something new they could do, i tomething they had never even hi hought of doing before. All at once Tom spied an empty ,arrel, lying on its side in one corner th if the big barn, and an idea popped nto his head. 4? "I wonder how it would feel.to roll lown hill in a barrel?" said this cau- sh ious young man. For, like a good pi ,any older people, he preferred to be see someone else try a thing before he ventured. "I'll try it," said Polly, who, as I said before, was always ready for any thing new. " This was just what Tom wanted,and he didn't wait for Polly to change her mind. So the children pushed the barrel out into the floor, and into it crawled poor, foolish Polly. Now Grandpa Higgins' barn was built on top of a small hill, and if anything round started from the big barn door it would roll quite a dis tance. The children gave the barrel a push and away went Polly! She screamed, but the barrel wouldn't stop. Her poor little head was bumped, first on one side then on the other, as the barrel rolled over. When it finally stopped, at the foot of the hill, and Polly crawled out, she was so dizzy that she could not stand, and she fell down on the grass. Her pretty dress was all torn, for the in side of the barrel was rough and nails were sticking out in some places. Tom was frightened enough when he saw Polly lying there so white and still, and he ran as fast as his legs could carry him into the field where grandpa was at work. "(Urandpa, grandpa," he cried, Polly's killed herself in a barrel!" Then grandpa was frightened, too, n and hurried after Tom. He picked " Polly up,and carried her to the house,, "r while Tom and Mary ran after, trying Al to tell how it happened. st Grandma bathed Polly's bruises,i 1o and put her to bed in the cool north' room. 1e Tom and Mary quietly took their 'e leave, for they didn't feel like playing any more. They didn't say much as' they walked along,but they were both ;e'ry sure that they would never try n to roll down hill in a barrel. -Weekly lf Bouquet. f 11. HMrs. Injun's Ice Cream. 7- It happened at Geneva Newton's it birthday party, and even today the little folks laugh over the memory of tr their happy time. e Geneva was six years old that day, le and had a party, or picnic rather, in e the park near her home. It was in a July, when the sky was as blue as 1 n Geneva's eyes, and there were plenty e of roses and singing birds. There 3- were hammocks and swings, and long, 1- velvety grass under the shade trees, o where six little tables covered with tr snowy linen and decorated with green 4. leaves were set with pretty dishes and g many good things. Each little guest I g brought a birthday gift for Geneva, s but above all the pretty presents she t f valued most a lovely doll sent by her f ,s uncle. t g The children were having a fine l time playing hide and seek among the , a trees, when little Tommy Garnett,who , r was swinging in ahammock, suddenly a rolled out and bumped his nose so that i g it bled, at which he set up a terrific howl, bringing the little ones to him a from all directions. Mamma Newton d appeared on the scene quickly, drying Tommy's tears by announcing supper. There happened to be an Indian en- c campment near by, and while the o a children were eating, a squaw,passing o a by, walked right into the grounds r a with her papoose' strapped on her t 3 back, and leading a little Indian girl b about Geneva's age by the hand,. Some of the children, who hpd li : never seen an Indian, were frightened, I others laughed, but Geneva said po- B Slitely: ti "Did you come to my party, M~r., tInjun? I'se glad to see you, sit ' down here," pointing to a shad b of grass under a tree. The squaw sat down with a grunt. , Many of the children left their seats o and gathered around to catch i glimpse of the cunning papooses witl o their bright black eyes. "Mercy on us, who ie this?" cried; Mamma Newton, as she appeared with a tray filled with dishes of ice cream he "MamIma, this is Mrs. Injun, anl: she's brought her little chilluns t Id my party, so we must give her some t ice cream"--and before mamma could or speak Geneva had two dishes of ic te cream, and was thrusting them int re the hands of "Mrs. Injun" and her Yi Soldest papoose. The squaw looked a at it solemnly and took a generous th mouthful. "Ugh! ugh! Heap coldl" and "Mrs. Injun" got up quickly, hand ing the dish back to Geneva, placing La her hands over her stomach and roll ing up her eyes. The cunning little papoose had a' tilted her dish up to her month, fill- he ing it and her throat full of the frozen ve dainty, which so surprised her that TI she jumped to her feet, dropping dish nu and all, and gave an impromptu war so dance then and there. the The children shrieked with laugh ter at the surprise and consternation of of the Indian mother and her child. bu "Mrs. Injun" wrapped her blanket co about her, took her papooses and ha would have sulked away greatly of- pa fended had not kind-hearted Geneva thi ran after her with cold chicken, rolls thi and cake. e After more play the party came to col an end, but even Tommy Garnett de- thi clared it had been the "bestest one he ine ever saw," all on account of the little aid papooses, and "Mrs. Injun's" first tor attempt at eating ice cream.-Jeanette aid M. White, in Ladies' Home JournaL mo On a New Steed. The wheelman mounted his horse str He looked around at his fellow cavalry. it nlen. There was a helpless air to i his gaze. nc "Trot!" roared the drillmaster. b The wheelman fumbled wildly in the air. ap "What are you doing there, No. nt 4?" roared the drillmaster. "F-feeling for the handlebar,"con shrieked the unhappy man, as heJ lar pitched head foremost on to the tan bark. -Cleveland Plain Dealer. I Th he THE QUEER WAYS OF SHARKS. Impudent in General, but Can't Stand a Commotion In the Water. "One horror of sea fighting 1believe ad our sailors will be spared in this er war," said a veteran of the merchant marine, "and that is the large chances rel of being killed by sharks. The whole ed of the Carribean sea about Cuba swarms with those treacherous things, ,as and, as a rule, when a man drops if overboard, the chances are that in an other minute nothing will be left of is- him on the surface but some red stains in the water, unless he keeps his sh presence of mind and knows just d, what to do. e, "There is a way of helping yourself )n when you get into this fix. That's he just why I say that in these modern battles the danger from sharks is not ot likely to be anything like what it was he in old times. Perhaps you are not d, aware that a shark is the most timid er and nervous fish of prey that lives, n. but it is so. When you find yourself is floating about in those waters and think a shark is anywhere near you en just you kick and splash for all you ad are worth. If you don't think there gs are any sharks about kick and splash re on general principles-that is, if you want to see your home and your family id, again. A shark that is making straight for his prey will turn tail and sheer o, off as soon as the splashing begins. ed Now I believe that in a general en te, gagement between these modern ag ships, what with the tremendous con cussion of the heavy guns and the 1,j churning of the water with propellers th' on all sides and an occasional torpedo raising a disturbance every now and ?ir then in the water, the whole neigh borhood will be cleared of sharks. as "In the old days, although the th broadsides made a good deal of noise, ry no doubt, a ship went down much ly more quietly than now. Just think of the commotion in the water when the big fires and the boilers go under. No shark will stay within a mile of i's such an upheaval. he "I am not talking mere theory when of I say that a shark can be frightened off by splashing. I have seen it done, 7. or, to be quite exact, I saw the man in who did just after he had scrambled in out of the water. He had been in as bathing in one of those sea baths they ty have in Kingston harbor, where they re fence in a good piece of water with g, piles driven into the bottom close to 5, gether. One of the piles had got th broken somehow, and a big basking 91 shark had squeezed through and gone ad to sleep in the bath. When the man st plunged in the shark woke and com 'a, menced to charge around. By that be time the man was some yards away er from the steps. He immediately turned on his back and kicked as hard a" as he could, and the shark, instead of 1e charging at him, went into a down 10 right panic and bumped his nose ly against all the piles, looking for the at hole he had got in by. "I know it sounds like a fable to m say a shark is timid, because they will do things that you would hardly ex Spect a timid fish to do. I myself have r seen a shark leap out of the water close enough to a row boat to tumble on the oar blades, but that was. my own dinghy and my boys knew how to row, and didn't make a splash with Sthe blades or try any of this landlub Sberly 'feathering' business. Then there is a place at Port Royal where a Slittle flight of wooden steps goes .down Sinto the water, and they say that a SBritish artillery officer who was sit tingon those steps--or some other steps that were in the same place one morning, smoking a cigar, had both his legs torn off by a shark that swam close in shore and rose at him as a trout rises at a fly. But:all that only shows that a shark is a queer, inconsistent kind of a fish, and in spite' of all his impudence, you may depend upon it, he can't stand anything that makes a disturbance in the water. "Oh, yes, when the battle is over he will follow the ship that has any wounded men on board-follow it for udiles. I don't knoir how he knows Sthere is a wounded man or a sick man on board a ship, any more than I can tell how Mother Carey's chickens can read the barometer, but he does know. SYou see, a seafaring man has to be satisfied to know a good many things Sthat he can't explain." UNLOADING COCOANUTS. SLanded Loose and Sacked on the Wharf- i - Expert Sorters and Counters. Cocoanuts are loaded in the hold of Sa vessel in bulk. Upon their discharge s here they are sacked, for greater con- 0 Svenience in handling and shipment. t This work, which involves sorting the r Snuts as to size and separating the a Ssound from the unsound, is done on ; the wharf alongside the vessel. When the hatches have been taken I Soff men get into the vessel's hold with bushel baskets, which they fill with cocoanuts. These baskets of nuts are handed up over the hatch coaming and passed along across the deck and over the rail and onto the wharf, where they are set up on a box of conven- A ient height beside which stand the h counters--sometimes two, but oftener 1( three, all experts at sorting and count ing cocoanuts. The three men stand rt side by side on the side of the box a toward the vessel, and on the other tl side stands a man holding a sack with i mouth open, into which the nuts are i thrown as they are counted. 51 Back of the counters, against the h stringpiece of the wharf, are baskets w into which the culls are thrown; these ' include the smaller nuts, cracked nuts tO and sprouts, which are muts that have begun to sprout. Cocoanuts are put up in sacks containing 100 large nuts and 120 smaller nuts. The smaller nuts thrown aside in the sorting and t counting are from time to time taken w away by other men and sacked. These n are sound nuts, but they bring a thi smaller price on account of their size. ki The cracked nuts and the sUronuts k would rot soon if they were not usad and these are kept apart and sold cheap for quick consumption. ye The counters do nothing but sort ps and count; they never touch a basket. nt When a basket has been emptied an es other man pulls it off the box and sets le a full basket in its place. There is ba always at least one basket of nuts on the box; there are usually more than one, so that the sorting and counting - go on constantly. Each counter picks of up two nuts at once, one in each hand, and all three counters toss nuts into is the same bag, but .there is never any st confusion-in the count. Two nuts are counted one, for convenience in keep If ing tally, and when the three men have counted up to fifty the man hold * ing the bag, now containing 100 nuts, .t drags it away and another man takes his place with an empty bag, and the at counters begin again, one, two, three, id and up to fifty again. Picking up every time two nuts, the counter taps them gently together to d see if they are sound. This constanst A gentle clicking is one of the features of the unloading of cocoanuts. A nut of small size would of course be `h apparent to the eye, but it might not be apparent whether the small nut was cracked or sound. Tapping the nuts together reveals their condition to the expert instantly. If he throws out a nut he picks up another, still i- retaining the other nut in the other hanid. He now taps together the nut - that he has picked up in place of the one thrown out and the nut that he had continued to hold, and if these o are both sound and of suitable size he d tosses them into the bag and counts "One," or "Thirty-one," or whatever number they come to in the counting. e Other men sew up the sacks, which are then piled on tr icks to be taken to the storehouse or ranged along the k wharf to be carted off later. A cargo on f cocoanuts contains from 350,000 r nuts up, according to the size of the vessel. A big vessel might bring 500, 00;) to 600,000). The work of discharg ing a cargo of 600,000 cocoanuts would n ordinarily occupy about aweek.-Newi York Sun. n A Sense of Humor the Most Precious Gift. a I regard a sense of humor as one of the most precious gifts that can be y vouchsafed to a human being. He is y not necessarily a better man for hav ing it, but he is a happier one. It ren ders him indifferent to good or bad fortune. It enables him to enjoy his g own discomfiture. Blessed with this a sense he is never unduly elated or cast down. No one can ruffle his tem t per. No abuse distarbs his equan imity. Bores do not bore him. Hum y bugs do not humbug him. Solemq y airs do not impose on him. Senti mental gush does not influence him. The follies of the moment have no hold on him. Titles and decorations are but childish baubles in his eyes. Prejudice does not warp his judgment. He is never in conceit or out of con ceit with himself. He abhors all dog matism. The world is a stage on which actors strut and fret for his edi fication and amusement, and he pur sues the even current of his way, in vulnerable, doing what is right and proper according to his lights, but ut terly indifferent whether what he does finds approval or disapproval from others. If Hamlet had had any sense of humor he would not have been a .nuisance to himself and to all sur rounding him.--Henry Labouchere in London Truth. The Lawyer's Tale. One of Detroit's lawyers who does not allow any embarrassment of facts to interfere with a good story, tells this one: ''It occurred in a little town down in Ohio. A strange judge was presid Sing at the court house in the centre of a square where the so-called park did duty chiefly as a pasture lht. One of the local lawyers with plenty of lungs and physical strength was mak ing an argument that was literally and impressively powerful. Just in the midst of one of his greatest flights a donkey in the 'park' began to fill the air with the indescribable sounds for which his species is famous. "'A moment, please,' said the court, with every appearance of solici tude and sincerity. 'Ceuldn't the brother shift his position just a trifle? It would change the angles at which his voice pierces the walls. The echoes in this structure are something horri ble.' "As the voice of the donkey died away in a grating squeak the lawyer dropped into his seat as though he had been shot, the dignity of the court room went out in a roar of laughter and the judge showed himself an actor by looking as though he wondered what it all meant."- Detroit Free Press. Picturesque Santiago. Of all the cities of Cuba, Santiago, with its 40,000 inhabitants is by far the most picturesque and interesting. It is many years older thami St. Augustine, and after walking for an hour or two through its mediaeval looking streets the most matter-of fact American is ready to believe any romantic story about the place which may be told to him, except, perhaps, the story of the immense chain stretch ing from Morro castle to a huge staple in the wall of rock on the opposite - shore, fifty yards away, which can be hove up by a capstan till it is level with the water, so as to form an in surmountable obstacle to any attempt to force an entrance in time of w'r. Washington Star. Lost Speed of a Destroyer. After spending $25,000 in repairing the torpedo-boat destroyer Thrasher, which recently ran ashore on the Cor nish coast, the British admiralty finds that she can make only twenty-four knots an hour instead of the thirty knots she made before the accident ROOMS oAoD,. / ! . 537 Carondelet St., 9NEW ORLEANS, LOUISIANA, Mrs, A. Rucker. Location convenient to Canal k street and the business portion of the city. Good tables at all seasons. Large airy rooms. TERMS MODERAT& 6. w S omen Brick id LIn ber Co., ....LIMITED..... BRICKS and PINE LUMBER Ceiling and Flooring, at lowest priceo, delivered to any point on the Mississippi Valley Railroad and Mississippi river. Room 710 Heonen Bullding, New Orleans, Louisiana. WVORKS. t Sildell, La. Jas. C. Magearl, ........BUTCIER....... LEADSthe MARKET -WIT U FRESII MEATS, HONEST WEIGHTS, CHEAP PRICES. STATE NORMAL SCHOOL, NATCHITOCHES, LA. Maintained by the State for the training of teachers. 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