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St. Landry democrat., 1879-05-17
How the Zulus Fight.
I.auden Times letter.


From my intercourse with the Mata
bles I know the Zulu .style of fighting.
Ever since the dreadful tidings have
had constantly before me the vision OF
that inturiated mass of Zulus, like
thousands of savage gorillas, rushing on
those devoted men of the Twenty ty.fourth.
The Zulus prefer and strive to throw
themselves in overwhelming numbers on
the weakest point Of the enemy. With
dauntless courage and the fury of 'igers
they rush on, without the least concern
for the hundreds falling in their rank or
the brides barring their way they press
on to get to close quarters as speedily as
possible, neither looking to the right nor
lett, nor dreaming of hiding for mo-
ment behind stones or bushes. They
charge forward, for this reason preferring
the open field. Naturally courageous
and vain of their proves, they firmly
believe that they need only follow
the aforementioned tao les and they
must win the day. These men are.ruled
by savage despot. They are trained
as soldiers all their lives in regiments
properly oficered, all, in fact, in correct
military style, as near as they can fol-
low it. When ranged in order of battle
each man holds gun in his right hand,
q small shield is strung round his left
arm and in his left hand he holds long
and short asssgai. At about ferty or
St. Landry democrat., 1879-05-17
The Girl of the Period,

Jennie June says, in the New York
Graphic She has nothing else to do,
poor girl, but DIRE 6. It takes two thirds
of her time. The rest is devoted to
shopping, sleep and company. There's
not trace of wear or neglect about her
from the tips of her heels to the end OF
that last new ostrich feather. 1ts all
spick and span new, glossy bright and
Just out of the bandbox. 1t costs pa q
good round sum yearly. There isn't an
hour O. the day but some portion of that
dress demands attention. Monday she
was looking at spring materials; Tues
day, the same Wednesday was the day
of final selection; Thursday she hunted
for the trimmings; Friday she bought
them, and the days mission for Satur~
day was with the dress-mkaer. There
are two days more of trying On and fit-
ting, at least. Reeollect this is but one
article of that fearful, wonderful and
admirable makeup. There are shoes,
corsets, bonnets, hats and gloves all the
time on the stocks or being looked after
SO built by contract.
St. Landry democrat., 1879-05-17
a Frightful Scene.

During an exhibition of some wild
beasts a couple of weeks ago at the thes>
ter in small town in Thuringia (Gers
many, frightful scene occurred. A
leopard was not so submissive to the
tanner as usual, and dashed wildly about
the cage. Suddenly two OF the bars
gave way, and the animal sprang with 8
tremendous bound among the spectators
in the pit. The terrified people rushed
pell NELL to the door, but the besst at
tackled the hindmost of them with bis
teeth and claws, and in four minutesha
killed woman and child, and 'earfully
laeerated four other persons about the
face and neck. The moment the lesp-
ard escaped from its cage the beast tanner
and his assistants hurried after it, armed
with spears, but were unable to over
come it until it dropped dead from its
wounds. On examining the broken bars
of the cage, it was discovered that they
had been filed. An attendant, lately
dismissed ior drunkenness, has been ar
rested on suspicion OF being the author
Of this atr0eious deed, y
St. Landry democrat., 1879-05-17
Brains VS.. Legs.

When Plus TX. was pope, Fanny
Elssler visited Rome, danced, and
set the public crazy. In forty.eight
hours the giIded youth, her admirers,
had subscribed twelve thousand francs,
and bought splendid crown to be pren
sented to her az testimonial. When
the time came for presenting the dam
seuse with it, one of the subscribers, an
excellent young noble, obtained an audi
ence of the pope and asked If there would
be anything wrong in the presentation-
if the pope had objections. II have
neither objections to make nor advice to
ofer," aa:d his holiness, "but it does
seem to me that you might have pitched
upon a more appropriate gift. In my
simplicity as priest, I have always
thought that Crowns w,ro made for
heads and not for legs" The crown wss
duly given to the danseuse, who mean
while had heard of the rope's saying,
and promptly sent the value of the gift
in money to the parish priests for their
poor. Plus TX. heard of this in his turn,
and when next he met one Of the SUBJ
scribers to the testimonial, said to him:
"You were quite right in giving the
woman that crown-she has just proved
that there is more sense in her legs than
you had in your heads
St. Landry democrat., 1879-05-17
The Largest Island.

Immediately north OF Australia, and
separated from it at Torres Straits by
less than hundred miles of yea, is the
largest island On the globe-New Guinea
8 country of surprising interest, whether
IS regards its natural productions or it's
human inhabitants, but which remains
to this day less known than any access
sible portion of the earth's surface.
Within the last few years considerable
attention has been attracted toward it
by surveys which have completed our
knowledge of its outline and dimensions,
by the settlement OF English mission>
aries on its southern coasts, by the ex~
ploration of several European natural~
lists. and by the visits of Australian
miners attracted by the alleged discov.
cry of gold in the sands. of its rivers.
From these various sources there has
resulted q somewhat sudden increase in
our still scanty knowledge of this
hitherto unknown land. It has
hitherto been the custom of geographers
to give the palm to Bornee as the largest
island in the world, but this is decidedly
sn error. A careful estimate, founded
on the most recent maps, shows that
New Guinea is considerably the larger,
and must for the future be accorded the
first place. In shape this island differs
considerably from Borneo, b2ing irreg>
ular and much extended in a north
northwest and southssoutheast direction,
SO that its greatest length is little
short of 1900 miles, distance as great
as the whole width of Australia from
Adelaide to Port Darwin, or of Europe
from London to Constsntinople. It's
greatest width iz 40 miles and, omit~
ting the great peninsulas which form it's
two extrsmities, the central mass is
about 700 miles long, with an average
width OF 800 miles, country about the
size o. the Austrian Empire, and, with
the exception of the course OF one large
river, an absolute blank upon our maps.
St. Landry democrat., 1879-05-17
How to Choose a Husband.

Thai woman is wise, says the Spring.
field Mass Republican, who selects for
her husband q man who desires to find
In his home place OF rest. It is the
man with many i9:erests, with engross.
ing occupations, with plenty of people
to fight, and with struggle to maintain
against the world, who is the really do
mestic man in the wife's seace, who en-
Joys home, who makes friend of his
wife, who relishes pratt}e, who feels in
the small circle where nobody is above
him and nobody unsympathetic with
him, as if he were in heaven of ease
and recreation. The drawback of home
lie, its contained possibilities of insip-
idity, sameuess and consequent weari-
ness, is never present to such man. He
no more tsres of his vie than Of his
own happier moods He is 10 more
bored with home than with sleep. He is
no more plagued with his children than
with his own lighter thoughts. All the
monotony and weariness Of life he en-.
counters outside of his home II is the
pleasure. loving man, the merry compan-
ion, who requires constant excitement,
that finds hume life unendurable. He
soon grows weary of it, and considers
verything so very tame, and so like das
beer, it is impossible for him not only to
be happy but to feel that he is less un-
happy there than anywhere else. We
do not mean that the domestic man, in
the wife's sence, will be always at home.
| The man always at home has not half
the chance of the man whose duty is
outside of it, tor he must sometimes be
In the way. The point for the wife is
that he should love home when he is
| there, and that love we contend belongs,
first Of all, to the active and strong and
deeply engaged worker, and not the
lounger, or even the easy man. In mar
riage, as in every other relation in life, the
competent man is the pleasantest to live
| with and the safest to choose, snd the one
most likely to prove an unwearied
friend, and who enjoys and suffers Others
to enjoy when at home, the endless
charm OF mental repoEe.
St. Landry democrat., 1879-05-17
Napoleon and Beatrice

Mr.. smslley tells very pretty story
about the Prince Napoleon and the Prin-
cess Beatrice, youngest daughter of
Queen Victoria. It seems that the an1-
bilious prince, regardless of the fact that
the empire he was to inherit has vanished
into the past, has permitted himself to
fall in love with the pretty Beatrice, and
the latter is suspected of reciprocation.
His warlike excursion to the Iululand is
made chiefly for the purpose OF gaining
over the heart of the queen to his cause.
Victoria has weakness for the gallant
warrior, and this, coupled with her well~
known fondness for the lste emperor and
her continued admiration Of the ex~
Empress Eugene, leads the gossips to
predict that the young heir expectan-
win win his prize when at length he re-
turns with q row Of Zalu scalps hang
Jog at hia belt.
St. Landry democrat., 1879-05-17
Leather Paper.

The idea Of utilizing scrapings and
other leather waste has always been
favorite one with inventors; and so tar
back as 1856, Mr., Samuel Hooper OBJ
tanned patent for the manufacture
from leather or leather cuttings or par
ings of material for covering carriages,
trunks, ETC., and also in the,manufacture
of different kinds of paper from leather
For making the new material, the eth
er was washed clean, and then worked
with proper quantity OF water till 1t
was reduced to pulp. When nee
essary. size was used. The pulp was next
placed in molds and exposed to pres
sure necessary to. give it smooth
aud even surface. It was also passed
between iron and Rass rollers. For
making hat snd band boxes, the process
was the same. except that when the
leather was reduced to pulp it had to
he freed from all water, and mixed with
strong size. 1t then attained the con-
sistency of thick paste, and could be
nodded in any required form. For max
ing paper, the leather WAS reduced to a
pulp in the manner before described. II
brown paper was wanted, a fourth part
Of junk or hemp. with little fine clay,
WAS mixed with the pulp. For Whitley
Drown paper, the coarsest rags were used
instead OF junk and clay. For white
paper, three parts OF fine rags and some
ize had 20 be added to the leather. The
paper was manufactured from the pulp
II the ordlnary mAnneE.
St. Landry democrat., 1879-05-17
Diamonds UneaFthed.

No cord or cable can draw so forcibly,
or bind 30 fast, as love can do with but
single thread.
Children are travellers newly arrived
in a strange country we should there
fore make conscience not to mislead
them.
Nothing is so fierce but love will soften,
nothing so shsrp-sighted in other matt
ters but it throws q mist before the eyes
ont.
Tho reason why so few marriages are
happy is because young ladies spend
their time in making nets, not in MAX
ing cages.
Virtue and vice are not arbitrary
things; but there is natural and eter.
nal reason for goodness and virtue, and
against vice and wickedness.
Contentment is pearl of great price,
and whoever procures it at the expense
of ten thousand desires, makes wise
and happy purchase.
There are prating coxcombs in the
world who would rather talk than listen
although Shakespeare were the orator
and human nature the theme.
There is not any vice incident to the
mind of man against which the world
has raised such loud and uniysr.
sal outcry as against ingratitude.
St. Landry democrat., 1879-05-17
A Deserved Fate.

The awful fate of the professional firt
is thus yividly depicted by London
Truth: An honest man naturally assumes
that girl is ingenious at any rate in
her affections. He has a right to sup
pose, if she displays preference for him,
that she entertains it; and if she ex-
hibits this sentiment beyond certain
point, he is entitled to conclude that she
will accept him as lover, and finally as
husband, in case his means are sufficient
to justify him in aspiring to the respon-
sible position of the head of household.
He has every cause of complaint if, after
leading him to believe himself engaging,
young lady refuses to be engaged to
him. 1t can not but be notifying to
man to feel affection for girl, which she
shows no symptom of returning; yet
this is q lot to which no brave man would
demur. 1t has happened to some of the
best, the most virtuous, the most distin'
guished, and even the most fascinating
of the male species. But it must be
something more than notifying to a
man to fall in love, and to be made to
fail in love with girl who, all the time
she WAS leading him on, was calculating
what triumph it would be to drive him
off, That there are girls who do this is
certain, and they are the girls who get
the mo end Of OFFERS" Once girl per.
mits herself to indulge in this pastime,
habit soon becomes q second nature, and
she ends by being ss incapable of loving
man as of not wanting men to love her.
After time she ends her career of dis
enchanting them by herself becoming
anything but enchanting. She gets
! "blown upon," and the result of her
numerous offers is that she can not find
| q husband. 1t is not that men become
afraid of being rejected by her, but rather
that they would dread being accepted.
| She may still maintain all the deport-
ment of successful firt, and some men
may yet Airt with her. But they 60 no
further. Sne must console herself with
her doubtful "reminiscences. Her passion
for homage has survived in all its inten~
sity, but it is fire fed with very little
fuel. It will then be found that she
seeks comfort in imagining that men
still proposing to her, and she drops mys>
terious hints as to lovers who have still
to be discarded. People smile and pity
her. Yet she scarcely deserves to be
pitied. She forgot that admirable truth :
| "He co mes too near who co mes TO be denied
And alter having spent her youth in de-
nying others, she has to pass the middle
age in denying hersel'.
St. Landry democrat., 1879-05-17

ffly PAGES they pause in their headlong
career, ard hundreds and thousands of
spears are hurled at the enemy. When
within a few yards of the enemy they
make one last momentary pause, only
to snap the as<egai short of across the
LETT knee, and then their tavorite hand'to
hand conflict ensles THUS the fight
becomes a slaughter, generally ending in
the complete success OF The Zulus.
St. Landry democrat., 1879-05-17
The Den, otfat.
OPELOUsAS, LA.
SEEMS TO HIM SO FUNNY.

l's, his front name is Tobias,
A 4 he isn't over pious,
A.d his eyes arc ON the bias,
so to speak;
nd his only aim and bent Is
Nobby clothing or this gent
Just bit non compos mentis
Like I'd weak.
And this feather-weight d gent, he
! Dough not owe one~and-twenty-
-.a ot knowledge quite plenty,
SO to speak;
70 he'd rather be prancing
An kicking ct dancing,
lhsu his stock Of wit enhancing
Learning Greek.
Ii:, he apes the drawl and stammer
nen he dons his sleek claw-han mar,
! ct Tobias shoots his grammar.
Cote peak;
and he questions very rarely
50 his clothes are han dng fairly
II his brain be fashioned SO usrely
Crobique.
g. he has no educ alton,
nd his beauty tooK vacation
. uut the time OF his creation,
10 to speak;
I'D upon mature reflection,
aking each distinct dissection,
We decided his complexion's
Rather weak.
Tho his shirt has Iot a rimple,
l;ur his beardIess chin dimpte.
Yet he boasts a chronic pimpIe
on his beak;
Ard his voice is not reliant,
Fot at times it is defiant,
And at times it Is plant
Little squeak.
Eov It seems to me so funny
nat this haIf-demented sonny
ts...uld be loaded down With money,
60 to speak;
Vile the writer of this ditty,
Wno you se' is rather witty,
la, to scrub about the city
On his cheek.
St. Landry democrat., 1879-05-17
ing. " Behave yours

coloriDg and laughing. "Behave yours
self, eir.''
Mr.. Barkdale went home with the fair
Barbara, and they grew to be very great
friends, and-where's ths Use of trying
to conceal how it ended? They were
married at the years end. with all the
surprisers az bridesmaids, Kate Kelford
included. Mr.. Mott Greenfield proposes
to follow the example soon.
St. Landry democrat., 1879-05-17
An old.fashinnad 1aa~ z.

..An old.fashioned lady wants to
know why the graduates of vassar and
other female" colleges always have
their ages printed after names in reports
of alumni meetings-Miss I. smith
presid mt (70); Miss Jones, vice,presi.
dent peo): Mrs. Robinson, aeerstrry (.7sg
etc, etc.
St. Landry democrat., 1879-05-17

! ~~~~
just step across the street and send Mr..
Mott Greenfield over"
But you must return with him.
said the girls.
And Mr.. Barkdale was not allowed to
depart until he had promised.
Mr.. Mott Greenfield good looking
medical student-who had the sky par
lor" directly opposite-came promptly
on mention of the name of Kate Kelford,
and did the polite thing in introducing
Mr.. Barkdale and Mr.. Barkdale ate of
the sandwiches, and enjoyed the cake
and cream, and coaxed Miss Barbara to
pin q little pink rosebud in the button.
hole OF his coat, and enjoyed himself
prodigiously.
"Td like to be surprised like this
every night in the yeari" said he.
"Oh, you greedy creature ~ said Miss
Barbara. ,s.
"But there was one time / seriously
meditated throwing myself out of the
window" said he, "when you told me. I
was to kiss Kate"
"Dear, DEAR" said Barbara ironically;
/" that would have been dreadful, would.
MT it3" .
But the awkwardness of the thingl"
dare say you never kissed a pretty
girl I" peNted the blonde.
II never did, said the bachelor. grow,
ing bold; i" but will now, if you say
co."
But ] Cont say no" said Barbara,
The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1879-02-13

We were pleased to see in our office
this week George Amos Black. Son
of James r. Black. This young
man is now eighteen years of age and
has never tasted liquor of any kind ex-
cept when given as medicine, and has
never used tobacco in any form. We
mention this incidence, because it is SO
unusual. This young man to keep on
as he has commenced life will make Il
valued citizen. His temperance habits
speak volumes in praise of his home
culture. Far too many parents ruin
their sons by setting them an example
of moderate dram-drinking. The son
may attempt to drink moderately as
his father did and he become a gut
ter -drunkard. Keep home free from
dram-drinking,i if you value the happi-
ness and success of your noble boys.
Geo. Black deserves credit for his moral
steadfastness in this day of dissipation.
The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1879-02-13
Our American Magazines

The marvellous beauty of illustrated maya
zines of this country is attracting attention
throughout the world. The edition of Scrib-
neF in England has doubled within n few
months. The London correspondent of the
New York Times says: "The whole lot of
magazine ANIMALS (English) put together,
are not equal in pictorial art to a single
number of Scribner's Monthly" "The Mid
winter number" just issued, has a full page
fontispiece Portrait of Emerson, of rare ex-
cellence, and contains one hundred and
sixty pages of letter-press, with more than
seventy illustrations; many of which are
works of art such as before the advent of
Scribner appeared only in gilt-works and
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80 cents. 1t would be difficult to find an
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scribers for the current year, get in Scribner
not only four of these full-paged portraits
of American Poets, and nearly two thousand
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but shorter stories, poems, reviews, de-
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In Children's Periodicals, too, America
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Proctor, the astronomer, writes from Lon
don: "What wonderful magazine it is
for the young folks! Our children are
quite as much delighted with it as Ameri-
can children can be. l will not say they
are more delighted, as that may not be pos
sible." st. Nicholas is sold for % cents q
number, and fourteen numbers November,
1873 to 1880 are given for So.
At first glance one would say, literature,
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and artistic culture is SO extended, that
there is scarcelw any end to the demand for
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The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1879-02-13
About Advertising.

My success is owing to the liberality
in Advertising Bonner.
The road to fortune is through prin.
ter's Ink P. 7. Barnum.
Success depends upon liberal pat
rOnage Of printing Ofices.-[J. ]. As
tor.
Frequent and constant advertising
brought me all l own "A. L. Stew
art
My son, deal with men who adver.
tise. You viii never lose by it. Ben.
Franklin.
A town is dead when its business
men cease to advertise for trade. Its
death is sure.-[PeabOdy.
How can the world know a man
has a good thing unless he advertises
the possession of it?-T Vanderbilt.
A good advertisement is a newspaper
pays no fare On railroads, costs nothing
for hotel bills; gives away no boxes OF
cigars to customers, or merinO dresses
to customers wives; drinks no whisky
under the head of travelling expenses,
but goes at once and all the time about
its business, free of expense.
Advertising is the oil tradesmen put
in their lamps. They are unwise who
put no oil in.
Where is "parts unknown ?" asks a
correspondent of the Danbury News
To which Bailey answers "Where
they don't advertise" And though
Bailey does say it, this is no joke.
An advertisement is window
through which all the world may look
into your shop and see just what you
wish to see-no more, no less
People are quite apt to go where
their attention is called, and, if they
find things as represented, will pur-
chase there in preference to spending
their time in seeking elsewhere.
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The November number, the first of the
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Serial for Boys-"A Jolly Fellowship" by
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while the entire volume will be crowded
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tains contributions from John q. Whittier,
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Celia Thaxter, Mrs. Burnett (author of
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