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St. Landry democrat., 1879-07-19
BOucicault on the Passion Play.

Dion Roucicault writes the following
interesting sketch Of the notorious
Passion Play" which he saw in San
Francisco: ~ saw the Passion Play
at the Grand opera house recently. 1t
was beautiful. The house was very
poor! 1t creates peculiar feeling. Th
city fathers Of San Francisco passed an
ordinance expressly to squelch this per-
formance. It is contended that they
exercised their constitutional powers in
doing Sc. and O'Neil is now before the
PLATE of the Slope who has not yet
passed judgment on the matter. Mean
while the management has Withdrawn
the play. AS there has been no objec-
ton to Moses in Egypt and The
Prodigal Son, and THE Witch Of Endor;'
as there is no objection to 'Elijah,'
SAUL Paradise Lost all biblical plays,
oraterios. etc, the question arises, where
are we to draw the line? What biblics
subjects are tolerable, what are tabooed?
If admissible into music and painting
1.-TWO elements of the divine), how much
further into the art may they go?
Where is the line to be drawn? The
principal objection to me in the represen-
tatien is the vulgarity of some of the per-
formers representing disciples. In the
scene representing the Last Supper the
stage is divided thus: On the left is
fantastic shanty open to the audience,
big enough to hold the table and form
frame to De vinci's picture. The othe
half of the stage is wood, intended to
represent the Garden of Gethsemane, I
suppose. Well, after supper, Christ
leaves the table and goes outside to pray
During His few words all the disciples
inside simultaneously droop forward
with their faces down on the table
ranged in regimental sleep, as if the wine
had got the better of them. Judas came
back with two military police Officers
and crowd, and Jesus Christ is arrested
at supper. This rather crowds into one
spot and one time incidents that occurred
otherwise. The last scene, the ascent
into Heaven, was An attempt to initiate
the last scene of Faust and Marguerite,
but it was only partially and imperfectly
accomplished.
St. Landry democrat., 1879-07-19
Sound Sense In the Rearing of
Children.

A venerable lady now living in New
York, who has had ten children, all born
and reared in cities, aud raised nine of
them, all living at the present moment,
having reached the adult age, never al
lowed any of them as children to eat
anything between meals except dry
bread, though she was wealthy and
could just as easily have pampered every
whim. Her constant reply was, when
they denurred, MY dear, you are not
hungry, if you can not eat bread. Now,
it is very certain that her children did
not inherit remarkably robust constitu-
tions; AID under the ordinary pamper>
ing system of mothers, it is fair to sup
pose that many of them would have
died or become puny men and women.
When child knows by experience that
he can have nothing but bread between
meals, he will not ask for it unless he
really needs it, and then he will not
take emo gh to destroy his keener appe'
tite for the good things at the table =;
while if be is allowed fruits and pastry,
as SO many children are, lie will seldom
come to his meals with a tins relish for
his food, and taking it without that
relish, it fails to be rapidly assimilsted,
if, indeed, It do not epfeeble or derange
the digestive function.
St. Landry democrat., 1879-07-19
The Cattle Disease in Georgia.

Atlanta Consultation.
Some weeks ago there were rumors Of
a new and destructive disease among the
cattle in southwestern Georgia. At first
it was supposed that it was merely some
slight disorder that would prove only
temporary in it's nature and local in it's
limits Gradually more and more was
heard of the disease until now there
comes reports of its presence in several
sections of the state. 1t is quite pre-
valent in Wilkes, Washington and neigh
boring counties. In Morgan county the
COWS and oxen are said to be suffering
and dying from it. In southern and
southwest Georgia it is spreading and
growing more malignant. The farmers
in that section are justly alarmed at a
danger which has not harmed them as
yet, but which threatens a terrible de-
struction of valuable property. The dis
ease is said to be new in its symptoms
and effects. Country cow doctors and
veterinary surgeons of better skill have
not as yet given it sufficient study to
find out exactly its causes or its remedy.
DR.. Jones, the stste commissioner of
agriculture, has taken the matter in
hand, and has written to all the locali-
ties where it has appeared to find out as
much as possible about this new disease
His correspondents are sending prompt
and intelligent replies, and We hope soon
to give an accurate statement of the
extent. damage and nature of the malady
which is spreading among the cattle in
Georgia.
St. Landry democrat., 1879-07-19

hotels and the inside of theaters. Some
people living such lives become filled to
ovelfowing with conceit, and deem
there's little outside the dramatic world
worth consideration. It's not wonderful,
considering how much more attention
and admiration theatrical people OF
prominence receive than those in other
walks of life.
l don't know of any place either
where SO much pure satanism is brought
together and acted out in so small com.
pass as behind the scenes. I've been ON
many night, when in q company of
forty people never heard good word
spoken .or anybody. It seemed all hatred,
jealousy and backbiting, The star swore
because one OF his support pleased too
we'll and attracted attention from him.
1T was his piece and wanted it played
according to his directions. You have
no idea how jealous some of these people
are who own plays. They make no con-
cealment of the fact that their support
must play down to certain level in
order to give their acting the more prom
inence. Then the leading lady would
smile in the face of her stage sister, and
the moment she WAS out Of ear-shot
abuse her for overdressing. The old
women, past their prime for filtration,
find employment in watching girls no.
tlced by the actors and whispering scau-
dal. It's enough at times to make one
a cynic, lose faith in any good in human
nature, and finally go and do likewise
with all ones might
"But all is not so black behini the
scenes?'
"Of course not. In my small expert
ence | have met with more gentlemen,
in the fullest sense of the term, among
actors than in any other rank of life.
They are generous, upright, pure men,
who could lend one helping hand in
the matter of advice and assistance with
out implying by manner exaction or
demand. But such are not in the msjor~
ity, on the stage or of. But the wings
are not Sunday-schools yet, at least in
some theaters."
St. Landry democrat., 1879-07-19
Aristocratic Canada.



The fact that Canada is the most aris>
tocratic colony in the empire; and the
inherent love for inequality which MIR.
Gladstone talks about is as marked here
as in England. Our whole history is
aristocratic. The early history OF Canada,
the provincial part of it, is not much
less touched with aristocratic colors. Our
French rulers were mobiles. Our ancient
French population were of the ttudal
class; and are disposed to feudality still
Our English governors were all arlsto'
Gratis of the proudest type. The military
element tineed all the society of Canada
from Toronto to Halifax with aristocratic
habits, manners and tone, adding much
to the grace Of life in consequence
Our chief public men have at all time
and in all the provinces coveted the titular
distinctions of the empire with laudable
ambition. They covet them still. The
whole Of the traditions Of Canadian
society arc aristocratic or tends that
way. With the women of Canada, em
ocracy has no favor-it has not much
favor with women in any country
When, therefore, these wise critics ex-
press a fear of the arising of q possible
aristocratic class in Canada, they profess
to fear what exists already, what always
existed what began with our history, and
will continue part of it, and very in.
fuential part of it, too. ltis not too much
aristocracv that we have to fear in this
country. II is too much democracy.
We speak in the interests of culture and
intellect The rough life of our farms,
our forests, our mines, or fisheries, needs
some countervailing influence that makes
for grace of lie and culture of mind and
manners. If the alleged aristocratic in
huence of titular distinctions, and the
greater dignity of manner and grace Of
life which these are supposed to carry
with them, supply that countervailing
influence, we shall welcome without fear
the further development of the class
from which that influence is to spring.
St. Landry democrat., 1879-07-19
The Evolution Bible.
Londen Freeman.

Londen Freeman.
"The preparation of the new bible,
which is to be inspired by sweet reasons
ableness has not made much advance as
yet. We lay before our readers the inn
proved version of Genesis. l. There
never was beginning. The Eternal,
without US that maketh for righteous
ness, took no notice of anything. 2.
And Cosmos was homogeneous and undit.
ferentiated, and somehow another evoluu
tion began and molecules appeared. 8.
And molecule evolved protopeasm, and
rhymic thrills arose and then there was
light. 4. And a spirit of energy was
developed and formed the plastic cell
whence the primordisl germ. And the
primord al germ became protogene, and
protogene somehow shaped cocoon, then
was the dawn of life. g. And the herb
yielding seed and fruit tree yielding fruit
after its own kind, whose seed is in itself,
developed according to it's own fancy.
And the Eternal, without us that maketh
for righteousness, neither knew nor cared
anything about it, Z. The cattle after
his kind, the beast OF the earth after his
kind, and every creeping thing became
evolved by heterogeneous segregation
and concomitant dissipation of motion.
8. So that by the survival of the fttest
there evolved the simiads from the jelly
fish, simiads differentiated themselves
into the anthromorphic primordial types
9. And in due time ne lost his tail and
became man, and behold, he was most
cunning OF all animals land lol the fast
men killed the slow men. and it was
ordained 10 be go in every age. 10. And
in process of time, by natural selection
and survival of the fttiest, Mathew
Arnold, Herbert Spencer and Charles
Darwin appeared, and heheld, it wa
very good:a
St. Landry democrat., 1879-07-19
snuff-Taking Girls.
Atlanta (Ga. Sunny South

We are acquainted with daughters
whose snuft.bottles sre concealed in their
rooms, where they use the contents cons
stantly, without the knowledge of their
parents. We have seen at boarding
schools, girls go into Mysteries when
deprived for day or two of their snuff,
and borrow tobacco from the servants as
a substitute, until they could obtain
their usual stimulant of Scotch or Maca
boy; and we are well acquainted with
three sisters -.beauti ul young girls, were
it not for the sallow hue furnishing their
complexion are at present under
medical treatment for arrangement of
the nervous system and digestive organs,
arising from the constant use Oh snnf'
St. Landry democrat., 1879-07-19
Unskflled WOrkmen.
Railroad Gazette.


In nearly all railroad shops at the
present time it will be found that large
numbers of unskilled men-that is, men
who have never learned a trade-are
employed at comparatively low wages.
Many Of he machine tools and much of
the wood working machinery are under
the charge of such men, and, as the
knowledge required to "run" such ma
chimes is easily learned, men of that
classtsoon become experts in one kind of
work, and if kept at that kind alone
they soon do as much of it as the most
skilled mechanic would. OF course, in
the management of large establishment
all such men must be under the direc>
ton Of some ne who has thorough
comprehension of the whole business,
and who sees clearly what the ultimate
end is which should be accomplished.
There must be, aud are, men who may
take all the different parts of locomo.
tive Or OF car, and who know just how
these should be made and how to pus
them all together so as to make a CON-
plete machine. TheseGmen must have a
great variety of knowledge and skill'
and necessarily are Of q higher grade than
the mere machine tenders Over these
are the foremen of different departments,
and then TIE chief or master mechanic
who directs. or should direct, all.
St. Landry democrat., 1879-07-19
@l)a ifs And 41hims:

We may have said it before, but he
who will duel will do ill.
Common meter-one that registers
more gas than is consumed.
The tool and his money gather no
moss Buffalo Express. Which sugs
gests that rolling stone is soon parted.
II Philadelphia Bulletin. And when
you seek truth you are likely to Gnd
woman at the bottom.
Planets do not cost much to keep up
certainly; but it is question whether
we have not more planets on hand now
than we can conveniently take care of.
Couldn't the astronomers set their wits
to work to discover another moon to do
service on off nights? We're rather
short on moons at present.
.."What's the matter, my dear?" said
a kind wife to her husband, who had sat
for halt an hour with his face buried in
h 8 hands, and apparently in great tri>
bulation. "Oh, l don't know I've felt
like fool all day" Well" said his
wife consolingly, "you leok the very
picture Of what you feel"
..One day recently visited the grave
of beautiful American girl She came
here full of bright hopes of fame, only
to find shame and death in foreign
land. The grave contains two. 1t is 8
sad story, and there are other stories
equally sad connected with other graves
to be visited in Milan.-I Italian cor
respondence Of New York Herald.
-" In Range" Old Gent in omni~
bus &c trust your rifle is not loaded,
sir, because with this shaking it might
go off" Volunteer [nettled T." No,
it's not loaded, sir; and if it were to 20
off it wouldn't hit you p Old Cent?
ooh, JUS so, sir. But-you'll pardon
mel was not considering myself so
much as the poor passengers on the
roof 7"
"A man owes his success in his life
work to the woman who walks beside
him Yonker's Gazette. M,re likely
to the woman who walks behind him
and pushes him ahead New Haven
Register. Now, it's our notion that
no man would have been much of
success without the aid of the woman
who married his father; due allowance
being made for step-mothers.- New
York News.
old Skinner is great lover of war
"reminiscences, and is not slow to tell of
his own exploits in that way. AS with
most men WHO pride themselves on war
record, Skinner always gives the best
side of his tales to his own army. He
was telling one of his grandchildren
recently of a famous battle in which he
was engaged. His description of the
flying balls, booming of cannon, and the
charge of the troops was very vivid, and
the little boy listened with increasing
interest. At last, when Skinner stopped
to fill his pipe, the boy asked: can
did the enemy run?' did they run?'
said Skinner. "Great Scott, how they
did run! Ny dear boy, they ran so like
thunder that we ran three miles to keep
out of their way, an if we hadn't thrown
our guns away they'd have run over us
sure."-T Oil City Derrick.
St. Landry democrat., 1879-07-19

and spoke of the time when she pre-
tended to be interested in his poems.
And SO the girls strstagem bore good
frnit. Her parents were freed of an
inconvenient daughter; it made one
more happy marriage, and made ole
poor poet the less in the world. think
to work much more good is seldom in the
power of q woman.
St. Landry democrat., 1879-07-19
BE STILL.
BY ALICE CARY.


Come, bring me wild pinks from the valleys,
blaze with the re o. the sun
No poor little pitiful lilies
That speak OF life that Is do,e
And open the windows, to tighten
The wcarisome chamber of pain
The eyes of my darling will brighten
10 see the green hill-tops again.
choose tunes with lullaby flowing,
And sing through the watches you keep;
BE soft with your coming and going
Be soft she is fal ing asleep.
An What would my life be without her
Pray God that never may know?
Dear friends, as you gather about her.
Be low with your weepiDg-be low.
Sing slower, sing eofter and slower!
Her sweet cheek is losing Its red
Sing 1ow-aye, sing lower and lower
Be still oh, be still she is dead
St. Landry democrat., 1879-07-19

It cannot last forever, thought Sido
nie-so one morning she arranged the
writing table of her husband and threw
out whole load of unpublished poems
which were carefully laid one upon the
other, and specified to he sent to the
publishers.
Quietly, sidonie seized the pile and
threw it in the fire.
When her husband came home, the
following dialogue took place:
"Do you know what I have done,
Carl ?''
"Well ?"
"But you must not be angy."
What is it, then p
But you must not get angry. Ibave
burned your manuscript"
Carl turned pale.
"My poems?" he stammered.
" Yes, your poems. They were of no
use."
" "Yes-but were they worse than my
first ones? ?:'
"No; not exactly 1.-THE first ones
were of no use either"
Carl is speechless.
Sidonie draws the astonished man to
her side on the sofa, and embraces him
tenderly.
81 know what you would say" she
whispers, " Why did I write to you
II will be truthful" and she pictured
to him her sad girlhood, and pictured it
so desolate, SO sad, that he was already
half convinced.
II perceived from your poems that
you were no poet, but noble, excellent
man." said she in conclusion. Sc For
this reason / wrote you. You are so
loving, SO good, that it seemed like sin
to leave you longer in error. A stranger
[ could deceive, but my husbsn d
never!
" In the end this deceit has led to our
happiness. Did it not, Carl? For
love you and you love me SO very
much.
/ cannot reconcile myself to my
husbands spending his time, his knewl-
edge, over something worthless.
wish you to turn yourself toward earnest
work and give up writing poetry.
Carl, if you do not wish me to perish
from sorrow and pain, stop looking at
me 80 unkindly. IfIhaye lost your love
through my confession, tell me; them /
will 60 away and die. [ must confess it
all, CARL"
No; he was not angered by her confes-
sion, though it gave him no joy. He
fergave her half and half.
And while Carl by exception was
most modest man, he saw after a little
while that she Was right, that his poems
we're worth nothing. And his pretty
young wife, always fresh and amiable,
made him SO happy, what wonder is it
hat he at last forgave her SO fully that
ne could laugh when they looked back
St. Landry democrat., 1879-07-19

Sidonie had q young COUSIN, who had
placed his hopes little on her, and one
Sunday when she had chosen to remain
at home alone, instead Of going in the
heat and dust with her parents and the
children on an excursion, he came and
brought her little box of freshly pub.
lished poems. Holding his cousin as an
unhappy and very poetical being he
thought to give her great pleasure.
sidonie, who was lying in her old.
everyday dress, on a leather sofa, as
nonchalant and piquant as countess on
her divan-for prettier and more peeyish
than ever before-deigned to glance at
the poems, and turning the leaves, read
.Spring," Loves Presentiment.'
Leaging," then said go how insipid l''
6 But listen to these" exclaimed her
cousin, as he read few aloud. "They
are as good as the production Of the
majority of poets, who, because they feel
poetical, believe themselves to be
poets!" A bombast of beautiful sentis
ments; no new thoughts, no great addi>
tion, nothing individual in the whole
book.
20, be STILL" said she, "and excuse
those ardent lines, those pretty little
poems no more. But perhaps you are
yourself the author"
o no." exclaimed he laughing. "I
have no time to write poetry; but I am
acquainted with the author"
St. Landry democrat., 1879-07-19
Selected Pootry.
OLD AND NEW TIHz II.
BY BRET HARTE.

BY BRET HARTE.
How well we know that figure limned
On every almanacs first page:
he beard unshorn, the hail unt1immed,
The gaunt limbs bowed and bent with age
That well-known glass with sands run out;
That scythe, that he was wont to WELD
with shIiveled arms, that made us doubt
His prowess in lifes harvest fed.
All, him we knew But who comes here,
Pranked with the fashion of the town.
This springald, who, in jest or jeer,
Tries on old Times wel!-frosted crown?
Vain is paint Youths freshest down
Through penciled wrinkles shows too soon
Tho bright mischievous face OF clown
Beneath the mask of pantaloon!
a doubtful jest, howe'er well played,
70 mock the show Of leeting breath
With youths light laugh, and masquerade
This gaunt step-brother OF grim death7
Is this moral1st to teach
The equal fate OF small and large?
Peace-yet one moment-give him speech
Before we give the scamp In ehargeI
" crave no grace from those who dream
Time only was, and from the past
Still draw the wisdom that they deem
Will only live ana only last.
Time is not old, as ali whove tried
To kill or cheat him must attest;
And outward symbols cannot hide
The same fierce pulse that stirs your breast.
he old stock properties you preach,
To truer symbols must pay 1.-THE;
McCermicks reapers better teach
My truths than you, old-fashioned scythe
The racing timer's' slender vane,
That marks the qusrter-seconds pass,
Points out Its morals much more plain
han e'er was drawn IN sand through glass;
{ 80 II bring In comler dress
And newer methods. these thiHgs less new,
I claim that honored name still less
To be consistent than be true.
If mine be not the face that's cast
In every almanac's sad rhyme,
Look through them-alI that there will last
Lies written In these leaves oil Time."
St. Landry democrat., 1879-07-19

Sidonie was a pretty, clever girl, and
at the same time very unhappy. Why
For the simple reason, because every
opportunity was lacking for her to show
her preference for the male sex. She
lived amongst her parents and younger
brothers and sisters, the monotonous life
of all young girls who live in large
city and are not wealthy. Her daily
tasks were divided between housework
and discontented thoughts-and in the
evening when she retired to rest she
knew that the coming day would bring
but the same as the day before. Her
future seemed to her like hot, dusty
highway, along which she must travel,
one stretch a day, until she at last
reached the end, to die. Her parents
were poor; balls and parties were not
thought of, for money and acquaintance
were lacking, they never even walked on
the promenade, for they had no toilettes.
sidonie liked best to stay at home and
read a French novel. Then she could
often weep in earnest if an elegant bou>
doir or dress was described. Love scenes
she read with coldness. The few ad.
inirers that she had possessed were
treated with unparalleled coolness. "Of
what can these people be thinking ?'
said she, nearly beside herself. GAS If
one could live on love. I should hold
myself too highly for that meagre price.
To me my poor girlhood is horribly un>
pleasant; but to be obliged to play the
needy wife seems still more terrible, for
there is no changing it. No! Rather
will I remain in my old prison. A second
I could not endured I'
She was often scolded for her discon-
tentedness; they reproved her, but she
worked willingly, her thoughts always
busy.
"Of what use is my industry? Who
is interested IN a diIigent girl7 They
are only good for poor devils, that are
compelled from sheer necessity, to found
a home. Rich gentlemen do not need
diligent, but pretty, piquant wives. I
ann both. Where shall I find the rich
young MANI
St. Landry democrat., 1879-07-19

"A Nevada tramp applied to docter
for some work, and the doctor asked
him what he could do. "WAl," eaid he,
] could dig graves"
St. Landry democrat., 1879-07-19
" Who Ia he. then 2"

"Who is he, then 2"
"The son of the lately deceased Gov
ernor T."
Sidonie raised herself little.
is that SO? Governor T., who le
such large fortune ?"
Yes, certainly"
"And the young poet is the only
child ?"
Eyes, the only son."
Already married, probably p
"No, he is only twenty-five"
Engaged, perhaps?'
"I think not; but why all these ques
tions7'
Sidonie only laughed
After her cousin was gone she read the
poems through hastily. Then sat down
and wrote long, heartfelt, enthusiastic
letter, at which she could not help
laughing. The letter cost her some
trouble; she brought it, however, to
completion, and hurried out to carry it
to the postofice.
"What harm can it do," she thought.
And for many years she had not gone
to bed with such hopeful, happy heart.