Jennings Daily News from Jennings, Louisiana • Page 3

LAL LANDS. arlain House. y's Drug Store. OF HEAT, WELL "Ets Dr. Tom and burnt up all his Drugs.

is Toilet Articles, Perfumeries, Patent Dr. Tom a hot number among the DrugS.i-- atest, Freshest and Best Stock in the Town. Cheaper and His Prescription ids Managed by a Scientific Druggist. ict Street, Same Location as Before. GULF COAST LAND AND INVESTMENT CO, N.

R. STRONG, Manager. Offices PW 'P Record Building. Jennings, Louisiana. 'ME.

CONTRAGT S1RICE WELLS. Alr work guaranteed. Orders promptly attended to. Old Wells cleaned and made deeper. years' BROWN C.

BARBER. J. LEWIS Real Estate, JENNINGS, LOUISIANA. Rice and Oil Lands and Town Lots For Sale. -J.

W. MITCHELL, AND City Meat Market. TEMPORARY BUILDING ON THE OLD The Proper Way to Travel. SOUTHERN PACIFIC, somsa SUNSET ROUTE, FREE CHAIR CARS. SPLNDIbD EQUIPMENT, BOX VESTIBULED, PERFECT TRAINS.

CALIFORNIA, TUE BET THE WEST, ROUTE THE NEW YORK, QUICKEST TO THE EAST. e.4 10. Ii stampsfor iopy of the SOUTI0BII PACIFIC BICE COOK 001, eoltsainsg 200 receipt. 8. r.

B. MOPsE. L. J. PARIIS.

Pass. Tramfic Moanager. Gen. Ags. HOMES FOR THE MILLION In Southwestern Missouri, Western Arkansas, Eastern Texas and Western Louisiana on the Line of the IANSAS CITY SOUTHERN "Straight as the Crow Flies" From KANSAS CITY TO THE GULF Through the Cheapest Land Now Open for Settlement in the United States.

"d- pteid the UlM atlon oo sa fll graL. oarn, cotto. rice, of mules, cattle, hogs sheep, at prtce. rang ag Iomemsteds to Twenty-Five Dollars and More per Aore. a orf cU published by Lae CITY JOUTHEEIN RAILWAY, 6IPatA5 Wassagager City, Me.

mmwSS Mams CIV Ma 4,,. WMIAN BUILT BOAI -rr r- rrrrr- 1 Q.I rr BE YOUTHFUL IN SPIRIT. Teare Do Not Count it the reellng of Youth Remains. People grow old by thinking themselves old. When they reach the age of 40, 50 or 60 they imagine that they look like others of the same age, and that they soon will be useless, unfit for work and unable to perform their wonted duties.

As surely as they think this it will come true, for thought, is creative. How many of us can say with Job, "The thing which I greatly feared is come upon me." The time will come when children will not be allowed to celebrate their birthdays; when they will know that. by thinking themselves young they will remain young, and that they will cease to grow old when they cease to believe in old age. The body is built up of beliefs, and our convictions are stamped upon every fiber of our beings. What we believe, what we think, that we are; so people who remain young in spirit never grow old.

Not one of a hundred students, of whom the writer was one, under Oliver Wendell Holmes at Harvard, ever thought of him as an old man, although he had then passed his eightieth birthday. His spirit was so young and he was so buoyant, so fresh and full of life, that we always thought of him as one of ourselves. His vivacity and joyousness were contagious. You could not be in his presence five minutes without feeling brighter and better for it. The genial doctor never practiced medicine, yet he did more to relieve human suffering than many practicing physicians.

His presence was a tonic; it was a perpetual delight to be near OATCHING GIGANTIO FISH. Muskellangee of Lake Superior Are Monsters. Chase S. Osborne, railroad commissioner of Michigan, formerly game game warden, says the first time he fished in the famous waters of Lake Superior's north shore is memorable as giving him the surprise of his life. "A party of us had gone there in a yacht." he said, "and anchoring in the shelter of a little island, thought we would try for muskellunge.

Most of us took boats and went out in parties of two and three. "I was the first one in my boat to get a bite, and when I landed it, the fish weighed twenty-two pounds. We caught several more of that size, and as it was many times better than any fishing we had ever had before I never doubted ours had been a remarkable success. I was thinking how the other fellows on the yacht would stare at our catch, and how they would secretly envy us when we pulled back to that vessel. "We were the first to return," said Mr.

Osborne, according to the New York Times, "and we spread our catch out for the inspection of the others when they should climb aboard. Then we saw one of the boats coming and waited anxiously. When its occupants came on deck they had three fish bigger than our biggest, and when all FRAUDS AND REAL AOCIDENTS. Some of the Clever TrIcks Flayed on Insurance Companies. "No one," said the physician, who was in a sentimental mood, "can realize the amount of fraud that an accident insurance company meets with, unless he is in a position that gives him an inside view.

For a number of years I have been connected with such a company in the capacity of examining physician, and I am free to state that a large percentage of claims against the company that I am with contain some element of fraud. A slight accident that would cause an uninsured man no inconvenience becomes serious if he happens to be carrying an accident policy. My duties are largely with this class of claims, and the amusing experiences that I have met with would fill a book. "A few days ago I was summoned to a hospital to examine a man who claimed to have had his hearing totally destroyed by the premature explosion of some blasting powder. I had an idea from the start that the man was scheming, but all the tests that I could apply had no effect whatev were back on the yacht we found that every one had a muskellunge bigger than any we had caught." "Ping-Pong" London papers teem with articles on ping-pong, the new parlor game.

One writer even declares Londoners make -FIRST STATVE OF MccINLEY The first statue of William McKinley, the model of which is given above, will be unveiled at Muskegon, on May 30 next. The statue is a gift to the public schools by Charles Hackley. the millionaire philanthopist of Muskegon. The bronze represents McKinley in the pose he assumed in the delivery of the last speech at Buffalo, N. Y.

It Is seven feet high and will be mounted on a pedestal which will rest on a granite base thirty feet square. The and apparently he was stone deaf. Still I wasn't satisfied, and resolved to try a little strategy. Coaching the nurse before hand how to act, I entered the room hastily and cried: "Tile hospital is afire! Never mind the deaf man! It is too late to save him! Save "Then we both hurtried to the door, but the patient was quicker, and reached it before we did. He had the good sense to realize that the game was up, and he never showed up again." COURTSHIP OF THE CHINESE.

Ceremonies of Betrothal and Marriage Are Importint Events. The ceremcries of betrothal and marriage in China causes much trouble and anxiety. The young man's family begin the negotiations. They engage a go-between to call on the girl's family and tender a proposal of marriage. If the young man is considered eligible by the girl's parents they consult a fortune teller, who decides whether the betrothal would be proper.

It his decision is favorable the gobetween is given a card on which is marked the hour, day, month rnd year a boast of the destruction they cause with the little celluloid balls. It is a common thing the day after a pingpong match to hear one society lady say to another: "What an excellent game we had last night at Lady X's! Three precious ornaments were broken." But occasionally hostesses have base will bear this extract from the late President's public utterances: "Our future conquests must lie in the victories of peace, in concord, not in strife." The Muskegon statue will be the first monument of McKinley, with the exception of the iron pillar recently erected by the miners of a Minnesota town. It will cost $20,000. Take being and life out of "bolief" and you have nothing left. when the girl was born.

This is delivered to the young man's family, who in their turn consult a fortune teller. If he also pronounces favorably a festival is held by both families, the betrothal contract is signed and the bridegroom makes a present to the bride of a pair of bracelets. but neither he nor she is present. The betrothal, however, is not considered binding until a pasteboard card has been interchanged by the families. The bridegroom's family provide two of these cards, one having a dragon on its face, the other a gilt phenix.

The phenix card is retained by the young man's family as evidence of his engagement, while the dragon card is kept by the girl's family. The betrothal is then Home Journal. Dust and Consumption. That dust is a cause of consumption is clearly shown in the statistics of patients treaty at the sixty institutions of the German empire for the cure of tuberculosis. In 1,095 cases, or more than one-half of the 2,161 persons under oonsideration, the origin of the At Bhooters Island.

New York harbor, the finishing touches are being put on the yacht being built from A. Cary Smith's design to the order of the German Emperor. By courtesy of her designer a drawing was made of her from actual design, which shows exactly how she will look when under sail. The German Emperor is particularly favorable to schooner yachts, and it was he who purchased the schooner yacht Yampa, also of A. Cary Smith's design.

The New York designer stands out beyond all others of his class in designing schooners. and such yachts as the Fortuna, the Intrepid, the Ariel. the Lasca, the Amorita and the Iroquois were built from his plans. He has the special gift of turning out safe, fast, comfortable boats, and most seaworthy. The Iroquois rode out the blizsard some years since when coasters, pilotboats and fishermen went down.

The new yacht is built of steel, with steel deck angle iron for beam and frames. The yacht is built especially strong, as she is to make voyages across the North sea and German ocean, and to the north. She is of the cruiser type, with channel plates on the outside. She is a clean-cut looking ship and is built to rate first-class in every particular. In every essential she is a New York boat from keel to truck.

She was designed and built there, and everything about her rig and sails was made in New York. Weight of American Pine. American pine when green weighs a forty-four pounds twelve ounces to the cubic foot. When seasoned its weight I is reduced to thirty pounds eleven ounces. been known to make complaints.

One evening, says this writer, a young lieutenant who was playing very wildly knocked down a Chinese vase and shattered it to atoms. The mistress ol the house, who is the wife of a diplomatist, could not suppress a look of annoyance. "I beg a thousand pardons!" exclaimed the young officer blushing crimson, "but I will get you one exactly like it." "Impossible!" replied the lady. "That vase is part of the loot of Pekin." HISTORICAL CORRECTIONS. Statements By a Survivor of the Confederate Congress.

John Goode, the only Virginian living who was a member of the confederate congress, was one of the speakers at the annual meeting of Lee camp, held at Richmond, on Jan. 10. Mr. Goode took occasion to correct what he conceives to be two errors in recent contributions to the history of the civil war. He stated that he had it from the lips of the confederate commissioners who went to Hampton Roads to confer with President Lincoln that the only thing Lincoln would Agree to was, that the confederates -should go home and take off their mniforms." He denied, in emphatic terms, that Lincoln had offered to pay for the liberation of the slaves.

Mr. Goode also said he wanted to correct an error in a recent contribution to war history by Charles Francis Adams. in which he makes it appear that Gen. Lee favored surrendering his army before it reached Appomattox, and that President Davis was responsible for Lee's plans not being carried out. Mr.

Goode said he was sent for by President Davis and Gen. Lee for a conference. Gen. Lee told of the condition of his army, and asked if the Virginian people would stand another draft upon them for forage and provisions. Mr.

Goode conferred with his associates, and the result was, he informed Gen. Lee, that the last crust of bread would be divided with the Army. Gen. Iee said not a word about surrendering. For Old Times' S8ke.

Lord Kames, a once famous Scottish judge, on his way southward to Perth from the northern circuit, had to spend the night at Dunkeld. Next morning he made for the Terry across the Tay. but, missing the road, asked a passerby to show him the way. "With all my heart." said the stranger. "I see your lordship does not know me.

My name's John Gow. Don't you remember me? I hadl the honor to be he tried before your lordship for sheepstealing." he "Now I recollect you. John," replied in the judge. "And how is your wife? She. too, had the honot to appear be't fore me for receiving the sheep, knowx- ing them to have been stolen." ly "Ah, we were very lucky to get off a for want of evidence, but I am still in the butchering business." "Then," quoth Iord K(ames, as he came in sight of the ferry, "we may have the honor of meeting again." e- disease was alleged to ibe due to the to continuous inhalation of dust involved r.

by their employment, as follows: Four s- hundred and thirty-one cases from the e- effect of "dust" without more exact he designation: 182 cases from the effect of metal dust; 129 cases from the efer feet of stone, coal or glass dust; 116 cases from the effect of wood dust. 111 cases from the effect of wool dust, and 126 cases from the effect of various kinds of dust. These facts suggest to hygienists and Sinventors the necessity of devising ldust consumers and dust preventers for facX. tories, workshops, etc. This is a fact he that should bear in mind.

is is eQalls in France. e- Quails are becoming so scarce in s' Europe that France and Germany havPe joined in prohibiting the killing of the birds, and even the transport of dead quails across their respective terrin Sn tories. of I Disorde rerlr CIstsens, le Berlin so far forgot itself on New or Year's eve that the pollee wete eemna pelled to make 258 arrests, 184 being he for assaults or disorderly ondul AC. Oilce Is Walkei Tom Terry. Phone7.

Mr. Horse Owner. a'rc afestor yomu tratde i 81 RnnW.weare aer it Wt dlean, one ed: with doesn't malteg ton us whe Teld ephr one, 49.oe want to snet you what feed you buy. FAIN KRIELtIW DR. E.

LEE, Rooms 1 and 2, Morse Building. OF3TCU HOURS 2 to 3 p. m. Residence, North Main street. Telephone.

49. E. TERRY, ML Ds, PHYSICIAN and SURGEON. Special attention given Surgery, Sure. gical Diseases and Diseases of Women and Children.

Local Surgeon for Southern Pacile Railroad. OFIICE CITY PBRALACT. RESIDENDE: DeJOAN OV. TELEPHONE No. 5.

DR. THOS, L. TERRY, Physiciai and Srirgn. Special attention given Surgery, Surgical Diseases, and Diseases of Women and Children. i9ghte Local Surgeon for Southern PaciSc Railroad.

Office: Over Walker's Store Rleedence North Mala St. E. S. HEMPSTEAD, JUSTICE of the PEAtCE. Collections given prompt attention.

Office next to Terry's drug store. D. M. Garus. CoyroS.

S.IEl COTTON, CIVIL ENGINEERS PW and SURVEYORS. Mr. Cotton will locate in Welsh and Mr. Grier will continue to reside in Is Jennings. it Rates $10 per day.

Assistants and Is Expenses extra. D. R. WILLIAMS JENNINGS, Real Estate Wild Lands, Improved Farms and Town Lots. Rice and Pine Lands in Louisiana and Texas.

Ofice lt the new Bullick Building ut upstairs. CORRESPONDENCE SOLICITP sh E. F. ROWSON rd JE.NNINGS, LA. r- 37 REALIB 7 Wild Lands, Improved Farms and be Town Lots, Rice and Pine Lands p- in Louisiana and Texas.

CORRESPONDENCE SOLICITED. BAKERY, BOLLICH BROS, Props. in Headquarters for fine Bread and SCakes. Bread delivered to year be own door. Patronize homeindustry.

sy IB.PORT~ED AND DO.M'ESTIC CIG.JRS. be wholesale agents. Branch A. T. Morris Wholesle C(gar House, Cinclnnati, Ohio.

The Best Line to New Yore St delphia, Baltimore, Washington c- cinnati, Chattanooga, Birmingha ctall points in the East Through Sleeper, New New York via Chattanooga, Lynchburg, Washington and in vania Railroad. Ye Pullman Sleeper, New he CincinnaiU. Dining Car Servite on York and ECinciati as iv gO, E. i in" et i fntCatnoa.