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St. Landry democrat., 1878-06-29
Kill The Fish You Catch.

Charles Hallock, the accomplished
editor of Forest and Stream, has very
humane and thoughtful article on this
subject. Not only because it improves
the quality and flavor of the fish, he
urges upon all anglers the duty of kill
ing all their fish as they catch them.
Many anglers do this, habitually; but
all do not. We subjoin an extract from
Mr.. Hallock's article:
AS boys, we were taught that fish had
no feeling, and we believe that what
might be cruelty to a dog is harmless
pastime as respects fish. But autopsy
and science have proved our belief an
error, and we discover that contortions
and gaspings are evidences of pain and
distress, though we assume that their
nervous system is comparatively of a
low order That fishes have intelligence
and can be taught; that they have
memory; that they have discrimination
and discernment; that they possess the
five senses, each to great or small de-
gree; that they are to limited extent
sentient and reasoning creatures, all
these have become evident. IF it is orr
dained to us that we are to derive sport
from the prolonged apprehensions of the
fish while hooked (not from his bodily
pain, for the mere prick of the hook gives
little, and often none at all, then let us
handle him mercifully after his torment
begins, and it begins after he is with>
drawn from his native element. Ifhe is
small, take him around the body and
considerably rap the top of his head
upon stone or the thwart of the boat;
if large, rap his head with heavy stick;
or, what is more genteel and to the point,
pierce the cervical column at the base
of the brain, with sharp knife. This
produces paralysis, and almost immedis
ate death. It leaves the corpse in
shapely and seemly condition. Admir-
alton of its unbattered beauty is added
to the pleasure of capture, and your fish
remains a proper subject for the market
Or the studio. Brother>anglers, learn
TO be humane.
St. Landry democrat., 1878-06-29
A Diver in the Clutches OF q
Devil Fish.

The diver engaged at the Moyne
river, Belfast, in removing the reef had
rather narrow escape from losing his
life on Thursday evening. 9TH instant
It appears that Mr.. Smale had fired off a
charge ofdynamite and displaced a large
quantity Of stones at the bottom of the
river. He went down to prepare for
lifting these stones by the aid of chains
into the punt. While engaged in rolling
q large stone he saw something which he
supposed at the time was a piece of
clean-looking kelp moving about.in front
of where he was working. In few
seconds this object came in contact with
the divers arm, about which it quickly
coiled, partly holding him. Immedi-
ately Mr.. Smale touched what was coiled
round his arm he became aware of his
position, and tried to extricate himself
from the grasp of "sea devil" but
found it far more difficult job than he
anticipated. Catching hold OF the part
hanging from the arm he walked along
the bottom of the river toward the end
of it, when he saw he was firmly held by
one of the teelers Of large octopus,
better known among sailors as the
"devil.ish." Mr.. Smale tried to pull
the fish off from its hold on the rocks,
but without effect for some time. At
last the fish, perhaps thinking it had not
got sufficient hold or power upon its
prey, loosened itself from the stones and
quickly transferred its teelers or arms
around the divers legs and body. In
this position Mr.. Smale thought the best
thing for him to do was to get upon deck
as soon as possible, and he quickly made
tracks for the ladder which reached from
the deck OF the punt to the bottom of the
river. The diver was certainly curious
looking object when he came up. This
huge, ugly-looking thing appeared to be
entangled all over him, holding him in
firm embrace. However, Mr.. Smale's
followsworkmen were not long in freeing
him from the unfriendly hug of his sub
marine companion, The body portion
of the octopus was only about the size of
a large soup-plate, with eyes in its head
like those of a sheep but it possessed nine
arms, each about four feet in length, at
the butt as thick as mans wrist, taper
ing off at the end to as fine a point as
that of pen~knife; thus it could spread
over an area OF nine feet in diameter
All the way along the underneath part
of each feeler are suckers every quarter
of an inch, giving immense power. Mr..
Smale declares it was powerful enough
to keep three men under water.-[ War;
manhood (Australia) Standard.
St. Landry democrat., 1878-06-29

VI small stature and fsir complexion is
the duke of Norfolk. He is conyersing
with the marquis of Butte and Lord
Rlpen, and neither sadness nor sorrow
are on their faces, but ready are their
hearts and bands to relieve pain and
woe. eco with your age and it will
support you fall behind your age and it
will drag you oppose your age and i;
will crush YOU" said one who died before
lis fancled star had set forever in
cloud Of tears and blood - the late
emperor of France. Can l say these
great divines and these great men of
England in this group I have but
moment ago left are shaping themselves
to meet the age or mould it?
St. Landry democrat., 1878-06-29
Sleep for the Brain.

Blessings light on him that first in.
vented Sleep" says Sanche Panza; and
the tired workman, tired in brain or
body, echoes the benediction.
The best possible thing for man to
do when he feels too weak to carry any,
thing through is to 60 to bed and sleep
as long as he can.
This is the only actual recuperation of
brain-torce, because during sleep the
brain is in state of rest, in a condition
to receive and appropriate articles of
nutriment from the blood, which takes
the place of those which have been con.
sumed by previous labor, since the yery
act of thinking burns up solid particles
as every turn of the wheel or screw of
the steamer is the result of e,nsun,ption
by fire of the fuel in the furnace. The
supply of human brain substance can
only be had from the nutriment particles
in the blood, which were obtained from
the foed eaten previously; and the brain ia
30 constituted that it can best receive and
appropriate to itself those nutritive par
ticles during hesitate OF rest, Of quiet
and stiffness of sleep. Mere stimulants.
supply nothing In themselves they gead
the brain and force it to 8 greater con.
sumption OF substance, until it is so ex
hausfed that there is net power enough
LETT to take up fresh supply.
St. Landry democrat., 1878-06-29
Miscellaneous.

Italian and French agents are buyin,
all the American tobacco they can get.
Twenty.nine ferries connect New
York city with Long Island and New
jersey. ~, ~ .gs.ss..s ...s. - ....
The Alaska waters contain more sal.
mon than all the other waters in the
known world.
In the way Of experiment the millers
ofst. Louis have shipped twelve hundred
barrels of -four direct to Rio de Janeiro.
During the month of May ninety>ive
failures were reported in New York, in
which the gross liabilities amounted to
$3.50, 1906, and the assets 1856, 4ss.
A firm in Boston is turning out 5000
cans or $4,000 pounds daily of canned
Goldfish balls and baked beans, and tlnds
large demand for both specialties in En-.
gland, France, West Indies, and South
America. ~-es .-....s is all
In the new blue book just out there
are eleven columns of Smiths, which
counted, reveals the marvellous fact that
there are at this mement eleven hundred
and sixteen (1,116) Smiths on the pay.
rollof Uncle Sam. ......r
Professor Baird, of the national fish
commission, is stocking all of the muddy
bottomed inland waters of the United
States with carp, which is hardy fiah,
and always remains in the place where
raised. Fifty thousand young carp were
put into small lake i'm the District of
Columbia last week.
St. Landry democrat., 1878-06-29
Self-Respect.
ia g. woman

Always remember no one can debase
you but yourself, SANDER, SATIRE false"
hood, injustice--these can never rob you
of your manhood. Men may lie about
YOU, they may denounce you, they may
cherish suspicious manifold, they may
make your failings the target of their
wit or cruelty; never be alarmed; never
sverve an inch from the line your Judg"
ment and conscience have marked out
for you. They cannot by all their EFFORTS IT.
take away your knowledge Of yourself
the purity of your motives, the integrity
of YOUR character and the generosity OF
vour nature. While these are left, you
are in point of fact, unframed.
St. Landry democrat., 1878-06-29
TURNING GRAY.

Lies sands are running fast away;
The buoyant step Of youth is gone,
The falling hair is turning gray,
= And Time seems now to hurry Oh
More feet)Y than in days Of yore-
Before the heart became its prey
Before twas saddened to the core
Yes, turning gray! Age comes like SNOW
AS still-and carves each caTeworn line;
It's wrinkles on the brow will grow;
The hair with silver streaks will shine;
The eyes their brightness lose, the hand
Grow dry and tremulous and thin
For life, alas is quickly spanned,
And Death its gates soon closes in.
All turning gray We fain would hide,
The sign how long with Time we've been
Those deepened wrinkles side by side,
Cut by the sorrows we have seen;
For feeble beats the heart as years
More thickly cluster on our head
As Autumn rain-drops hang like tears
On some fair flower that, nearly dead.
Like persisted petals from the flower,
Our hopes and widest joys are laid
Burn only for day or hoEr,
Sweet gambols by the fancy played,
AS age comes on, we long for rest,
AS saints near shrines will long to pray,
But still we love that time the best
Before the hair is turning gray.
St. Landry democrat., 1878-06-29

while there are many strong ones, and
many hearty ones, there are very few who
are thoroughly erect or well-proportioned
throughout. And when it is remembered
that the large majority of men in this
country are sons of farmers, merchants,
mechani 8, OF laborers, it is not difficult
to account tor this one-sidedness of build
and Indifferent carriage. For while the
farmers work is vigorous and in the open
air, far the greater part of it, and espe'
cially the harder part of it, constantly
uses his back, and does but little for his
front, and particularly for the front of
his chest. Moving stoops him over and
rounds his back; SO do spading, and
hoeing, and wedding, and lifting OF
nearly every sort. His back grows
thick and strong; perhaps massive; SO
do some of the muscles of his arms, of
his abdomen, and of his legs, until they
soon so outstrip the others that his
spine, getting once crooked from being
80 long and SO firmly held in one posi-
ton, never gets out of it day or night.
While his whole work strengthens, it
also stifens him. He is seldom q good
walker, the habit Of always hitching up,
though the errand is to place hardly a
mile away, contributing to his stiffness,
found, as it usually is, with an inerect
position as he rides, SO unlike, by-the-
way, that which is so common among the
English stage drivers, who elected praise
from Emerson for their dignifed grand
fatherly air.
Few of the mechanic arts are any
more favorably to symmetrical develop
ment and uprightness of carriage. The
blacksmith, like the farmer, works some
muscles tremendously; those Of his
hands, of one of his shoulders, and Of
one of his arms, for instance; but his
legs are often Indifferent, and his loins
nothing great, while, in common with
hests of mechanics, his work is not done
in the open air. Painters and plasterers
have good wrists; carpenters plane and
saw and drive nails we'll with their right
hands; masons, with backs bent, lift
heavy stones, which, with one of their
hands, they have chiseled into shape for
their purpose; shoe-makers hoop their
backs rather more successfully than any
other trade; and the jewellers, compos>
itors, designers, and all who do the finer,
lighter work, would never, merely by
their daily toll, develop into well-built,
erect men, if they kept it for thousand
years. Men in mercantile life sit or
stand many hours each day, are fire.
queptly burdened with important land
trying work, have so many irons in the
fire as to get no rest, and at the end of
the day find themselves thoroughly ex-
hausted, and in humor for anything but
vigorous muscular exertion. If their
work calls them out much, it uses their
legs only, leaving the arms idle, and so
keeping the development but partial.
The spade, the pick, and the the bar of
the laboring man keep him stopped over
in spite of all he can do, and he lives
and dies, as Charles Reade desc ribed him
in his admirable sketch of the brave
blind swimmer of the Scottish firth,
James Lambert--a man with SLOUGH in
his gait Harper's.
St. Landry democrat., 1878-06-29

One of the most remarkable things
in human nature, however, is this will
ingness of women to sacrifice girls life
for the chance of saving the morals OF
a scapegrace man. If a pious mother can
only marry her son Beelzebub to some
" good, religious girl" the chance OF his
reformation is greatly increased. The
girl is neither here nor there, when one
considers the necessity of saving dear
Beelzebub.- Edward Eggleston.
St. Landry democrat., 1878-06-29

nd 40 What
"' '''''' Oh the house that Stewart built
h3t o;''ed the maid VINO every morn
S''' ''' '''''S '''"' STEWART '"''''
This is the 1uayo ,rto. a,., ..n r
! ih me-. tn tnns ;s can't be the will iaso
'''S'' out "i the house that Stewart built.
II
They are Sn sa,t !i nc, and TINS is thu man
From out Of the bonTc c tna a4S tIn STF , fH
Tnis is the har with H.. candy ,.,.s.
Where vester ts I ne " cbrSn TO F"Ss
'''' '"'"''" III the house 'h nat Stewart bm,t'
-
''-N'' .'''"'iS i'"s'e - the rosa 10
L" fA'o' one,s own virtue is to make
" wee % IT,
loo much sensibility is the foppery
OF modern refinement.
DO not, As Won hone tor .nccosg
spend time in idleness.
Show may be purchased but hans
pinesa is home made article
"A wise man saaks to sn;no j., hin,
self. fool 70 on+sh,no o+.or,
"Swpet lima D 10 thu ,,so;o,,, ,o.,o
Of 2 nostoffica !, Ton,,ossoo on,o,l;,h.s
last week
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"o' 'o4 " ni"''oh io'e may DC
'oi0 0n 'iei lips Se' "8fn Ill hef heaft'
=, looA 0"' III 'n0 man VINO makes
:l'ol"i o'0 y. 'ne pe'son"' pionoon
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NOUS cnari'y' 1heie may 10 04u''y, VI
pfoPfle'y' III 'as' oVsis ha'ion u eaf'n'S
gooos' out IN real OF Intrinsic generosity
OF oehe7oiehce There Is Lo''
III Is not worm "nile W 'hinA "o
mucn aoo''' ooihS soou' lung 'noDe''
'na' We hno"' i''h.'o ~ ,''A"'0 S'''>'
houf oy ho"r' W. 'i'Se''7.''y s'0" !"
goooneSS ~ "o'' s'o"S - No'''
"A boy with patch on his knee
can't be hired to go on an errand to the
next house, but he Will follow band
wagon all over town and never realize
that he isn't dressed IN broadclotn'
An exchange asks: Where is our
boosted yirtue?" The question is easily
You can find heaps of it in
every patent medicine manufactured.
There is where 1t Is gone. see adVert'se-
ment.
-" What is life insurance?' exclaimed
a bold agent in street car to victim
of bursted company. can answer
that" replied the victim; cit is the art
of keeping man poor all through lie
in order that he may die rich"
An anecdote of List is told. A
DOOR young girl advertised herself as
nunil Of the great master, and brought
large audiences to her piano concerts.
One day she was confronted by List
himself. A confession followed. Much
at be banished lest they break or mar
St. Landry democrat., 1878-06-29

1t is easier to believe an III report
than to inquire into the truth thereof.
St. Landry democrat., 1878-06-29

! MS Is the man all hra1en and shorn.
ha' 0Eed the maid VINO every morn
~4oHtd Ok; from the house that Stewart built,
St. Landry democrat., 1878-06-29

IL ms IS the maid, and this is tina man:
:! ney are getting away as fast as they can
Ike l the Eve Of old. and Adam, they ran
from out OF the house that Stewart built.
St. Landry democrat., 1878-06-29

1hiS Is the har with the sAlldy glass,
n f,!i none out males are allowed to pass
W. mere vester fitted the chirrupy lass
NIX Inlhcen Ill the house that Stewart butt.
Courier Journal.
St. Landry democrat., 1878-06-29
WAITS AND WHIMS.
ne House that Sten art Built.

ms is tie house that Stewart built,
niS IS inc maid that went 10 board,
nhd 10 Whate er she could toward
l"e 1.-The OF the house III i, Stewart built.
St. Landry democrat., 1878-06-29

Drown. let now little OF sadness is
there about this man who knows there
is God! The light of Oxford. The
Very Rev. DR.. John Henry Newman
fills place in the history of England of
to-day, and as his life draws towards its
natural term this place becomes more
prominent. The widening and deepen>
ing of the current of his later life is now
mere visible than ever; and in its flow
more healthy and potent in its influences,
both with laymen and clerical men of all
creeds and civilized countries. All
classes of intelligent readers and writer's
distinctly recognize the strength and
sustenance of the waters he has cast his
bread upon. "Give and it shall be
given" has always been a master prin-
ciple with DR.. Newman. No man in
Europe-and that is bold saying on my
part, yet one | lay down from honest
convictions-is stronger thinker-out of
theology than DR.. Newman His mind
is strictly logical, his heart perfectly
pure, and his faith equal to the moving
of mountains. Bent with study in the
winter of life, he looks perfect type of
the priesthood, and appears in his black |
garb striking contrast beside the car
dinal in his red robes. Near by stands
the duke Of Norfolk, the simplest looking
man in Europe. Not glitter of jewelry.
not the slightest mark or vestige of
demonstration Or posing for effect is
about this man whose long lineage rivals
the longest and whose modest moral
character shines a worthy example for
more pretentious and less noble men,
The daily gazette., 1878-06-26
DelaWare'S Bible Punishment
becoming Popular.

The New York WOrid says:-It is worth
considering seriously whether the lash
may not be introduced into our criminal
system with advantage for the punish
ment of brutal offences, especially against
women, and for the repression Of young
desperadoes of the dime-novel type
Dime novels do not represent their pira-
tical boy-heroes any young highwaymen
as coming to the whipping-post. They
end as rulein battle against overwhelm-
Ing numbers, on the scaffold or in the
dungeon of some romantic castle. There
is something grand, gloomy and peculiar
about the clank of fetters, and to perish
on the scatiold, IN the eyes of many
criminals confers positive social dis
tinction. But there is nothing in the
least heroic about the swish of a rod or a
cat, and England has returned of late to
the doctrine of Delaware that the whip-
ping post is wholesome pIophylatic
against those pests and perils of the weak
and unprotected, the juvenile ruffian and
the tramp.
Virginia has abolished Imprisonment
for larceny, for the first offence, and fog,
from July 1st, 1873.
Let Jenkins old organ howl. The
small thimble-riggers, lobbyists and ex
tortionists for Sheriff's sales deserve the
lash
The daily gazette., 1878-06-26
SHERIFPS SALES.
SHERIFF's SALE.

CHERIFF'S SALE.
- BY virtue of a writ of Levar Facias,
TO me directed, will be exposed to Public
Sale, at The
LAFAYETTE HOTEL. sIi Shipley ST.,
Kept by John Dougherty, in the CITY
of Wilmington. New Castle County, Del,
ON WEDNESDAY,
THE 10th DAY OF JULY, A. D4, 1878,
At2 O'Clock, p. m.. the following describ-
ed Real Estate, viz
All that certain lot, piece or parcel of
land, situate in the city OF Wilmington,
bounded and described as ollows, tb wit {:
Beginning at point on the southwdsterly
side of Nineteenth street at the distance
of 40 feet inch IS southeasterly from the
southeasterly side of Wash ngton street,
thence south esterly parallel with WASH
ington street, III feet inches 10 corner,
thence southeasterly pa allel with 18th ST..
20 feet inches 10 a corner, thence horth-
easterly and parallel with the first describ-
ed line III feet inches to the said south
westerly side of 10Th street, and thence
thereby northwesterly 20 feet inches TO
the place of beginning, be the contents
thereof what they may. The within de-
scrlbed tract OF land on 10Th street, being
subject however to the regulation and re-
striction that no building shall be erected
on the said southerly side OF 10Th street at
a less distance than twenty feet, but that
the whole front on said street twenty feet
wide shall be kept an open ornamental
space for the free passage OF air and light
forever.
Seized and taken in execution as the
M, his wife, and I. t's., and TO be sold by
ISAAC GRUBB, Sheriff.
Sheriff's Office, New Castie, June 10th,
A. d., 1913. je22-3tawts
The daily gazette., 1878-06-26

One ofthe mean acts of John Sherman
is that he still boards all the gold in the
country, and endeavors to annoy the peo-
pie by forcing the clumsy trade dollar on
them. 1t is difficult to make such a
stubborn jack believe that the people see
through his tricks. They know full we'll
that Sherman is reversing the French and
English custom. Those governments
hoard silver and circulate gold for the
convenience of the people. But the anti
silver men want to hoard gold and sell it
instead of circulating it freely among the
people. They will do anything now tc
cover up their ignorance, of which they
are heartily ashamed. Let Mr.Shermar
do what Congress and the people have
ordered him to do-pay out gold anC
store silver in the sub-treasury vaults in.
stead.
The daily gazette., 1878-06-26

THE Republican, ,of this city, seems
especially annoyed at the fact that the
white people of the south have undertake
en- to govern themselves again, and ex-
press themselves with disgust at the late
misgovernment of their States by the ne
groes, through which the States were run
so deeply in debt. At this our neighhor
is so filled with horror as to pronounce
this as the time for the organization of
rifle clubs and white leagues, just as if it
were necessary for this to be done to carry
South Carolina by Wade Hampton, after
all the suffering the negroes have inflicted
on their own race and the whites of that
State in the last ten years previous to the
election of Hampton to the Executive
chair thereof. OF course this is all
done to make the Republican popular
with its negro readers. The white people
know that. But the negroes are not de-
ceived wholly. They like that paper al
an organ, but they swear they will moi
pay the tdreS and vote unless they ar,
put on the ticket for the Council or tn,
Legislature; and there is little use il
coaXing them to do so.