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St. Landry democrat. (Opelousas, La.) 1878-1894, 1878-07-20

knowledge SO thoroughly as the school o.
! the farm"
have been bordering over this con.
versation good deal, and can see that
there is goodly amount of sound sense
in the old gentelman's views, only /
should want to make inc labor as pleas
ant as possible for the boy for the sake
Of keeping in him love fer the farm
and it's operations. The lesson will be
lost if the boy conceives hatred for
farm work, because 10 will speedily seek
an occasion where he thinks the money
will come easier, not calculating the
chances his experience may become a
very bitter one. We cannot be too
thoughtful of our methods in teaching
life lessons.
St. Landry democrat. (Opelousas, La.) 1878-1894, 1878-07-20
The Miller of the Good Old Times

Ex-Governor Hendricks, who made
the opening address at the recent millers
convention at Indianapolis, dwelt afec
tionately upon the miller of olden times
as he recalled him. Said he: " AS boy
was acquainted with the miller, and
thought him a great uian. When he
raised the gate with such confidence and
composure, and the tumblng waters
drove the machinery ahead, l admired
his power. And then he talked strongly
upon all questions. He was very posi-
tive upon politics, religion, law and
mechanics. And any one bold enough
to dispute a point was very likely to
have personal argument thrown in his
face, for he knew all the gossip among
his customers. He was cheerful. |
thought it was because he was always in
the music of the running water and the
whirling wheels. He was kind and
clever-indeed, so much so that he would
promise the grists before they could be
ready, and 80 the boys had to 60 two or
three times. He was chancellor, and
prescribed the law. Every one in
his turn. The miller, standing in
the door of his mill, all
white with the dust, is a picture ever
upon the memory of even this genera.
ton. It is picture of manly figure.
I wonder if you, gentlemen, the lords of
many runs and bolts, are ashamed to
own him as your predecessor It was
small mill, sometimes upon "a willowy
brook" and sometimes upon the larger
river, but it stood On the advanced line
of the settlement, with its one wheel to
grind the Indian corn and one for wheat
and in the fall and winter season one day
in the week set apart for grinding buck
wheat. 1t did the work of the neigh
borhood. Plain and unpretentious, as
compared with your stately structures, l
would not say it contributed less toward
the development of the country and the
permanent establishment of society. So
great favor it was, and so important to
the public welfare, that the authorities
that day invoked in its favor the highest
power of the state-eminent domain.
The mill and miller had to go before you
and yours, and am happy to revive the
memory of the miller at the custom mills,
who with equal care adjusted the sack
upon the horse for the boy to ride upon,
and his logic in support of his theory in
politics or his dogmas in religion"
St. Landry democrat. (Opelousas, La.) 1878-1894, 1878-07-20
RELIGIOUS READING.
The Summons.

Far bounteous feast the board Is spread.
With costly plate, with fruitage rare;
hundred lamps their luster shed
To gid the odor-laden air.
From distant noeks low music steals,
Pfeluding, with faint notes at first,
Such golden melody as outpeals
In one long, sweet, melodious burst.
The naughty master sees with pride
How royalty his chamber sweeps
To where its imaged grandeurs hide
In either mirror crystal deeps,
But prouder as the smile he wears
10 think what nabobs, fine and grim,
Shall mount his mansions marble stairs
And graVely sit aud sup with him.
Now, ere the smile has left his lips,
All unannOunced, shape of gloom
Fleet through the massive portal Sins
And stands within the lordly room.
Black-vestured, sombre- browed it stands,
Marring the spiendor like blot,
With solemn face, with folded hands,
A guest that was expected not.
Full well the m aster knows that guest.
And covers before his calm, grave eyes;
Then pointing, while he beats his breast,
Where bright the untasted banquet lies.
He wildly means, with gasping breath,
"Oh, spare the doom single day !"
The stranger answers: " am Death,
summon, and you must obey"
All. better when this guest appears,
That he. with unreIentipg tread,
Should never drag us forth in tears,
But find us willing to be led.
Yea, better on that fated day,
II Wa. with resignation sweet,
Are glad in IowIiest love to lay
Our burdens at the Savior's feet.
-[Ellinor lawrence in the Congregationallst
St. Landry democrat. (Opelousas, La.) 1878-1894, 1878-07-20

most persuaded" are often the last
to be fully persuaded. Aroused, i'm
pressed, and moved to good resolu-
items, to tears, and even to prayers,
yet men postpone decision, and by
the force of Satan's arts are lost-lost
when we all hoped to see them saved.
0 that seekers were wise enough to be
distressed until they are thoroughly re-
newed. Any position short of regen-
GRAFTON is perilous in the extreme. The
man slayer would have been cut down
by the avenger had he fingered outside
the walls of the refuge>city; it would
have been all in vain for him to have
touched its stones or sheltered near its
towers; he must be within the gates or
die. Seekers after salvation, you are
not safe till you actually close in with
Jesus, place all your confidence in Him
and become forever His. Shall it be 80
now, or will you abide in death Rest
not an hour. Trife not for another mo-
ment; for death may seize you, or a
spiritual lethargy may come over your
soul from which you may never again be
aroused. Give no sleep to your eyes
nor slumber to your eyelids till your
anchor has entered in that within the
veil and you are saved in Christ Jesus.
A further lesson should be cleaned
from the scant wreckage which as yet
has 1oated up from the sunken vessel.
Let us all take warning, and remember
that we cannot tell when fierce tempta-
ton may assail us.
St. Landry democrat. (Opelousas, La.) 1878-1894, 1878-07-20
Undue Familiarity.

The late DR.. Sprague, of Albany, was
a gentleman of the old school type, of
remarkable courteousness of manner and
of corresponding reverence of feeling.
He never trifed with the names of premi-
nent men, and it is hardly probable that
he could suppose anyone would use his
name with undue familiarity. The fol-
lowing anecdote illustrative Of this char
acteristic of the grand old man was re-
lated to us by one of his sons, and subse>
quent]y acknowledged, with a hearty
laugh, by the older son of whom it was
told:
One day, at the tea-table, this son, then
in business in Albany, but living at his
fathers house, spoke of "Charley Bridg-
man." The name arrested his fathers
attention, and he said:
"My son, of whom are you speaking ?"
"Of Mr.. Bridgman, father" was the
reply.
"Not of Rev. DR.. Bridgman, surely,
William %
"Why yes, father; why not"
"Why not? my SON, because such ia
miIiarity in connection with prominent
preacher is unbecoming. I am quite
surprised and shocked at your freedom ;
and hope he has no knowledge of it.
"Why yes, he has, father. Ihave call
ed him Charley to his face!
"'Charley' to his face; and does he
call you William ?"
"Well, no, father, no; I can't say that
he does
"Well, what does he call you then ?"
Generally he calls me Bill"
This was too much for the good Doctor,
aud with Unsurpassed sympathy with
the mirth that rang round the tea.table,
he made good his retreat.-[Chicago
Standard.
St. Landry democrat. (Opelousas, La.) 1878-1894, 1878-07-20
THE SENSE OF LOSS.

Inc following lines are carved in KensaI Gre
'metery, In memory of "ADn,," of whom or
oates Of her birth, marriage and death
Inchal, in Madeira, are recorded:
II is not the hour OF death.
While mourning on the parting breath
1t Is not while we look our last
The present all forgot the past;
Ii ID not while we watch the eve
closing with death last quivering sigh
We feel our loss
1t is not when we gently Law
me Ioved remains in deaths array:
~ Is not while with noiseIess trep'i
We gamer round tie sic pine ,,oed
AND for few sad mourn ueao'
on what was precious ,.us uays
The cnff; w -~u. loves labor done.
win Id Closed. we one by one,
An sremhlipg awe, approa Oh and kneel
II on the lid a areweli seal 'i'
lC,i Ups that cannot speak PRAYER.
~" oep we struggiU 6 feeling there
We ftel ou.t loss.
ana When the, last dread solemn rite
Ashes to ash es must unite,
p IN saole gs rb We stand around
1WL9s nth tears the burial ground,
H. n soon our treasure must conceal
,then-lndeed grief we feel
But not our loss.
But when few more days are gone,
And yet we weep, but weep alane
When all Is as it was before,
save one we never can see more
When others take that vacant place
30 lately filled by one dear face
We feel our loss.
An, many year may pass away,
And many sunbeam around us play,
And many cloud of heavy woe
DSrken our pathway here below;
but joy. or grief can meier efface
What memory's pen alone can trace
There is our loss
St. Landry democrat. (Opelousas, La.) 1878-1894, 1878-07-20
Simmons Liver Regulator ,

SfnnmOns' Liver Regulator has been In use
for halt century, and there is not one single in.
stance on record where it has failed to effect
when taken in time according to the drectonsIt is
without doubt, the Greatest Liver Medicine
I'm the World; is perfectly harmless, being care
fully compounded f1om rare roots and herbs, con-
tanning no mercury any injurious mineral sub
stance. 1t takes the place of quinine and calomel
and has superseded these medicines in places where
they have heretofore been extensively used. Pro.
cure q bottle at once from your druggist; do
not delay :; give it fair trial, and you will be
more than satisfied with the result obtained.
St. Landry democrat. (Opelousas, La.) 1878-1894, 1878-07-20
Bows on the Farm,

S. @. Lent writes as follows to the De-
troit Free Press:
"Why do you take your son from
school and put him on the farm at work
this year? Why not let him finish his
course of study first, then 60 to farming
if he likes?" I asked of a well-to-do
farmer to-day.
II have two reasons" he replied.
"frst and least in Importance, want to
develop his physical self alone with his
mind-the former was getting a good
ways behind, and no matter what he will
do he will want good body. Secondly
and primarily in Importance, I wnnted
him to learn the worth of dollar"
"But he will learn that soon enough
when he has to earn the dollar to sup.
port himself. Why not give him all the
schooling he is to have, then let him use
his wits to earn his living, he will know
the worth of a dolIar?"
A>o, Aot wac WIG ACPiy3 IL is uOl
safe to do that, the knowledge must
come gradually, and the best way to get
it is expend muscle for it. I want nv
boy to understand that workingmen in
this world earn their dollar slowly and
at severe cost. I want him to have
such fellow feeling for these workers
that he will be very careful how he
spends his hard-earned dollars. There
are so many failures now in which peer
hard working people are cheated out OF
their earnings all because the men who
fail never knew the real cost of dollar,
that I am determined this year of ex.
perience that my boy will get, now that
he is budding into manhood, shall be in
his favor, and calculate the money he
earns by the sweat of his brow will con-
vey an everlasting lesson to his mind.
He will know what it is to earn money
by a slow, honest process, and whatever
he may do hereafter the lesson will 90
with him, and I am satisfied that there
is no school in which he can acquire this
St. Landry democrat. (Opelousas, La.) 1878-1894, 1878-07-20
FARM AND HOME.
Dividing Bees.


The following is good method of di,
vlding bees, and one that is both practi.
cal and easily performed by the expert.
enced; After providing antra hive with
empty frames; Or better, frames filled
with comb, proceed to open the hive to
be divided, after subduing the bees with
smoke or 9th erwise, lift out the brood
combs vita all adhering bees, until two
thirds III all the brood is removed placing
inc Aame in the new hive and being care
al not to remove the queen. Fill all
S,noccupied space in both hives with
comb frames Locate the new hive some
distance from the old. All the old bees
will return to the parent hive, but
enough young bees will remain to care
for the brood. A fertile queen may be
given the new colony after forty-eight
hours, or about sunset on the second
day, by quietly setting her on one of
the brood combs. The bess, being all
young, will accept her and the work is
done. We introduced many queens to
new colonies, last season, as here given,
without the loss of single queen. The
new colony will not work much for a
time, but is generally equal if not supe-
rior to the parent stock, in few days.
St. Landry democrat. (Opelousas, La.) 1878-1894, 1878-07-20
WILHOFr's Tonic is not a nanaces-is

WILHoFH's Tonic is not a panacea-is
not cure for everything, but is a cstho!icon
for malarious diseases, and day by day adds
fresh laurels to It's crown of glorious success
Engorged Livers and Spleens, along the
shady banks of our lakes and rivers, are
restored to their healthy and normal secre-
tons. Health and vigor follow its use, and
Chllls have taken their departure from every
household where Wilhoft's Anti Periodic Is
kept and taken. Don't fail to try it. Vince.
lock, Fin1ay Co., Proprietors. New Orleans.
For sale by all Druggists.
St. Landry democrat. (Opelousas, La.) 1878-1894, 1878-07-20
The Hop Cholera,


One of the items in The general appro-
priation bill passed by Congress is $15.-
900 for investigating diseases of swine
and infectious and contagious diseases to
which all other domesticated animals are
subject. The chief object is to find out
what are the causes of and what is the
remedy for hog cholera, the Texas cattle
fever and the pleuro-pneumonia-these
being the diseases whose ravages are q
subject of the greatest concern to farms
ers. The murrain, known as pleuro.
pneumonia, has been confined almost ex.
clusiyely to the Atlantic States, while
the hog cholera and the Texas fever pre-.
vail chiefly in the West. Very little
has been done to discover the causes of
the last-named diseases, although one of
them, the hog cholera, as it is generally
and Improperly cslled--causes an esti>
mated loss of 100000 q year to the
farmers of Missouri and Illinois alone.
The legislature of Missouri offered a re-
ward of$10,000 for the discovery of
specific remedy for the hog cholera, but
such remedy has not been discovered,
and probably never will be. The true
policy is to ascertain the nature and
causes of the disease and how to prevent
it, and that is what the act of Congress
proposes by careful examination and ex-
periments made by scientific men. IF
they teach farmers how to protect their
herds by feeding and pasturing. the $751;
900 will have been well expended.
St. Landry democrat. (Opelousas, La.) 1878-1894, 1878-07-20

The Greatest Discovery OF the age
IL DR.. Tobias celebrated Venetian Eminent!
80 years before the public, and warranted to cure
Disrrnea, Dysentery, Collc, aad spasms, taken in
ternaiiy; and Group, Chronic Rheumatism, SIRE
Threats, Cats, Bruises, Old Sores ahd Pains in the
Limbs, Back and Chest, externally. 1t has never
tailed No family will ever be without it after once
giving it q fair trial. Price, 40 cts. Dg. TOBIAS
at One Dollar, is warranted superior to any other
or NO PAY, for the cure of Collie Cuts, Bruises
Old Sores, etc. Sold by all Druggists Dapot--fO
Park Place. New York
St. Landry democrat. (Opelousas, La.) 1878-1894, 1878-07-20

-" Bill, how did you and Tom end
that dispute Sunday" "Why, I called
him a liar and dropped the subject"
"Called him liar Did he take it ~
'Take it Of course he took it! But 7
dropped simultaneously with the sub.
ject. p Breakfast Table.
St. Landry democrat. (Opelousas, La.) 1878-1894, 1878-07-20

HONOR TO AMERICAN MANUFACTURE.
ERs.-His Majesty, Oscar H., King of
Norway and Sweden, has sent to the Ma
son & Hamlin Organ Co. the Grand
Swedish Gold Medal in recognition of the
superiority of their cabinet organs. The
medal is surmounted by a crown and
bears on one side the inscription "Lit-
teris ct Artibus," and on the other
around the bust of the king, "Oscar H.,
Svec. Norv. Goth. Wand. Rex" This
honor will be the more valued by the
Company from the fact that His Majesty
Oscar II. is known to be musical con.
noisseur of highest attainments.
St. Landry democrat. (Opelousas, La.) 1878-1894, 1878-07-20
The Best and SRoat Economtc.,

Housekeepers are giving the cheap, adul<
terated baking powder wide BERTH" and
why? Because experience has taught them
that an absolutely pure, full strength full
weight article, such as Dooley's Yeast Pow
der which never fails to produce IL hit, whole.
some and nutritious biscuits, rolls, mullins,
wat1es and griddle cakes of all kinds, is nv
far the cheapest and most economical.
St. Landry democrat. (Opelousas, La.) 1878-1894, 1878-07-20

HANDY TO HAVE IN THE HOUSE,
There is nothing like GEACE's SALvE Tor
the immediate relief and speedy cure of
Burns, Scalds Flesh Wounds, Cuts, Felons,
Salt Rheum, Ulcers, Erysipelas, old Sores
&c. 25 cents box. Sold by druggists gen.
erallv
St. Landry democrat. (Opelousas, La.) 1878-1894, 1878-07-20

Twohundreth edition, revised and enlarged inst
published. It is standard medical work, the best
in the English language written by ply sician OF
great ex perence, TO HON was awarded q gold nd
jeweled medal by the National Medical A ssocist
engravings. Three hundred pages more than nifty
valuable prescriptions for al forms of prevailing
Diseases the resnt Of many years of extensive and
only 81. sent by mail. The London Lancet says
81 No person should be without this valuable book
sam pie cent all receipt of cents for postage
Address W. H. Err, No. 4 Bnlhnch Street
Boston. The author may be consulted all disease
rennirirp skill and OK perience.
St. Landry democrat. (Opelousas, La.) 1878-1894, 1878-07-20

FoR upwards of thirty years Mrs. Winslow' s
Soothing Syrup has been used for chill iren
with never-failing success. 1t corrects acdity
of the stomach, relieves wind collie, regulates
the bowels, cures dysentery and diarrho /,
whether arising from teething or other causes
An old and welletried remedy. 25c bottle.
St. Landry democrat. (Opelousas, La.) 1878-1894, 1878-07-20

WM. I. MASON, ESQ of st, Louis,
writes: 1.-The relief Jonas Whitcomb's
Asthma Remedy afforded me was perfect;
have not had a bad night since taking it.
This complaint has troubled me for long
time, and have tried many things, but in
no case found any relief until the Remedy
came to hand.
St. Landry democrat. (Opelousas, La.) 1878-1894, 1878-07-20
Little Danny and His Dead
Mother.

I've just been down in the parlor to
see mamma. She's in long box, with
flowers on her. | wish she'd come and
battle my head-it aches so. Nobody
ever makes it feel good but mamma.
She knew how it hurt me, aud she used
to read to me out of little book how
my head would get we'll and not ache
any more some day. l wish it was
"some day" now. Nobody likes me but
mamma That's cause I've got a sick
head. Mamma used to take me in her
arms and cry. When I asked her what's
the matter she would say, "I'm only
tired, darling" I guess Aunt Agnes
made her tired, for when she came to
stay all day mamma would take me up
in the evening on her lap and cry awful
hard. | amt had any dinner to-day.
Mamma always gave me my dinner and
little teenty pudding with 3D." for
Danny" on the top. l have little
buildings with DIS on top. l like to sit
in my little chair by the fire and eat
'em. I wish mamma wouldn't stay in
the long box. l guess Aunt Agnes rut
her there, cause she put all the flower
trimmings on and shows her to every
body. There amt no fire in the CRATE,
but guess I'll sit by it and make be-
lieve there is. I'll get my little dish
and spoon and play I've got a pudding
with D for Danny on it. But any way
I want mamma SO bad.-[New Orleans
Picayune.
St. Landry democrat. (Opelousas, La.) 1878-1894, 1878-07-20

I "A philosopher says rich people, as
rule, do not have large funerals. They
are the exclusive property of poor people
who want to be thought rich.
St. Landry democrat. (Opelousas, La.) 1878-1894, 1878-07-20

1t must make letter carrier awful
mad to have his physician tell him he
needs more outdoor exercise.-T Hawk
eve
St. Landry democrat. (Opelousas, La.) 1878-1894, 1878-07-20

The horrors OF war are nothing to the
horrors of Neuralgia. Immediate reliet may
be had by bathing the head with Johnson's
Anodyne Liniment and shutting 1t up the
nostrils.
St. Landry democrat. (Opelousas, La.) 1878-1894, 1878-07-20

Parsons Purgative Pills are a priceless
boon to the people of the South and South.
west. They effectually prevent lever and
ague and all malarious diseases, and cost
only % cents box.
St. Landry democrat. (Opelousas, La.) 1878-1894, 1878-07-20
oAUT,sIo
The sc.eaye OF LIE, or sele:Preserxatson

Price. su.oO. Sold by all Druggists.
Fayette County herald. [volume] (Washington [Washington Court House], Fayette County, O. [Ohio]) 1860-1???, 1878-04-11

The young monarch and his amiable
bride were standing at the entrance of
third room, the King with extended hand
aud affabIe smile on his lips and in gray
country suit, the Queen in a dark green
velvet brocaded dress. 81 beg your par
don," said the King, ''f5r having kept
you waiting, but you see 1 have to receive
General Sonnaz and 1 have not yet had
time to put on my uniform. Sit down,
however, that we may have little talk
The Queen seated herself on the sofa, the
sented to him took chair near the Queen,
and the other end of the sofa, near the
King. During the whole interview the
King did not utter a sentence without
looking at the Queen, as if to ask her ap-
proval, and my friend tells me that the
Queen, to whom my back was necessari-
ly turned, listened with admiration to her
husbands words. 'FT have noticed you
several times,'' said the King, ''during
these grand Spanish fetes; but they have
not been so fatiguing for you as for those
who have constantly had to figure in them.
You have witnessed the two greatest
events of my life-my accession to the
Throne and my marriage. As to my mar
riage, all I now ask for is to remain quiet
with my wife; and as to my accession, I
perfectly recollect the long conversation
we had together. 1 then told you, FIf you
wish to know my policy, read my Decem-
Der proclamation. shall act up to it. 1
shall try to become really Constitutional
King, and, above all, to abolish the fatal
fashion of dismissing everybody, even
down to the porters, at the Ministries on
every change of Cabinet Well, I have
followed as far as possible the policy
marked out in my proclamation. You
then thought L did not fully understand
how matters stood, but that was a mis-
take. have tried to give Spain taste
for stability. l wish Cabinets to last,
Parliaments to run out their full term,
functionaries to be certain of the NOR
row.-Madrtd Correspondence Of the London
Times.
Fayette County herald. [volume] (Washington [Washington Court House], Fayette County, O. [Ohio]) 1860-1???, 1878-04-11
Only n Shadow

A story is told of a well-knOwn gentle
man who sometimes imbibes too freely at
the ardent. Going home late at night re-
Gently and mistaking the shadow out
lined on the door for a man, he paused a
little in surprise. and then lifting his hat
very gracefully, bade him good evening.
"A very pleasant evening, said the gem
5eman.
No reply.
This is my house, 1 believe waving
his hand.
The hand of the shadow went through
The same graceful curve.
4 should like to get in, sir if you'll
stand aside
But the shadow made no movement to
ct him pass.
The gentleman was evidently surpris-
ID. He repeated his desire to pass in, but
he shadow remained still.
His wife, hearing her husbands voice,
ooled through the window blind, and
eeing no person but himself, asked, why
lon't you come IMP
so would, my dear, but this gentle
man'-pointing to the shadow--'insists
on blocking up the door,
His wife then quietly opened the door,
remarking, shat was your own shadow
Indeed = said the puzzled citizen; well
l thought he was a fine-looking fellow to
be so impolite,' and walked in.
Whenever he shows n disposition to re-
main out late at night, his wife has only
to ren,ind him of the shadow on the door
to insure speedy return.