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St. Landry democrat., 1879-06-21
How Curran was Worsted.

Curran once met his match in pert,
keen-eyed son of the sod, who acted as
hostler at q large stable, and who was up
as witness in case of dispute in the
matter of horse.trade. Curran much
desired to break down the credibility OF
this witness, and thought to do it by
making the man contradict himsslf-by
tangling him up in a network Of adreitly
framed questions-but all to no avail.
The hostler was companion to Sam
Weller. His good common sense, and
his :equanimity and good nature were
not to be overturned. By and by Cur
ran, in towering wrath, belched forth, a.
not another counsel would have dared tc
do in the presence Of the court:
asirrah, you are incorrigibie The
truth is not to be got from you, for it ii
not in you. see the villain in YOU
facet
aI faith, yer honor" said the witnas
| with the utmost simplicity of truth ane
honesty, my face must be moity clan'
and shinin' indade if it can reflect lik
| t5ati"
For ones in his life the great barriste
| was foored by a simple witness. II
could not recover from that repartes
| and the case went against him.
St. Landry democrat., 1879-06-21

the jaw-bone of the gentleman who has
been speaking. | do it to relieve the
anxiety which some of you must feel to
know how he is able to talk 20 uninter-
estingly for such an extreme length OF
time. Gentlemen, can assure you that
if Samson had been possessed of the jaw
bone Of my distinguished friend, during
the celebrated contest with the enemies
of Israel, there would not have been 3
single Philistine left" If the stories
told here are true, the incidents which
occurred during Blackburn's last cam
paign must have been extremely funny
Some of the most entertaining yarns that
have been related in Washington this
winter are descriptive of experiences III
the last congressional campaign in Ken
lucky.
St. Landry democrat., 1879-06-21
Slim ulate the srugsysh Kidneys.

In addition to its tonic and cathartic prop
critics, Hestetter's Stomach Bitters exercises
a beneficial influence upon the kidneys and
bladder, when they are inactive, by stimula>
ting thens to renewed exertion, thus reopen.
ing, as it were, sluice for the escape of I'M
purities, whose regular channel of exit is the
organs of urination. Among these are certain
abnormal and infammatory elements, pro-
ductive ef irreparable injury to the system
if not entirely expelled. The kidneys and
bladder themselves are also benefited by
this stimsllus. as their inactivity is usually a
preliminary to their disease and disorganize-
tion. They also experience, in common with
other portions of the system, the potent in
vigorative effects of the Bitters, which fur,
thermore corrects disordered conditions OF
the stomach, bowels and liver.
St. Landry democrat., 1879-06-21
Boy Shepherds in Nebraska.
American Agricultural.


One pleasant day we rode twenty
miles over the Laramie plains, from
Laramie City to the Little Laramie
river, where we found a prosperous sheep
raiser from Nebraska, named Edward
Farrell There were no neighbors for
miles around, with the exception of a
nephew of Motley, the historian, whe had
left his fathers pleasant home, near
Boston, Mass, and located sheep
ranch close by here. The Farrells gave
us a most hospitable reception. We
babe them goodbye late in the after
noon, turned off to the right of Sheep
mountain, and, entering narrow plain
between high ranges OF hills, spurred for
ward our jaded animals, until the
gathering shadows warned us that we
could proceed no further with safety.
At daybreak we spied large flock o.
sheep in q corral close by rude cabir
or dugout, in which were two boys, sons
of Mr.. Farrell. Here, twelve miles OF
more from home, they had been tending
q flock of 1890 sheep during the entire
season. They shot their game with al
old rife, did their own cooking, an;
lived entirely alone with their dogs ant
two ponies employed in herding the sheep
which were driven into the corral ever.
night as protection against bears
wolves, and other wild animals. Al
antelope which one of them had sho
the day previous was suspended near tn
door of the cabin. There was a goo
range here, and the father had in tn
spring time sent the boys and the ahee
to possesslit.
You will be surprised when tell 20
that these lads, intrusted with the car
of over 1000 sheep, and living here i
this remote, secluded spot were only l
and 13 years of age. It is astonishing
the early self-reliance which thes
frontier children display, and the ski
which, as mere urchins, they attain i
herding sheep.
St. Landry democrat., 1879-06-21
Choir or ConsreSati0n?

DR.. Holland, in discussion of church
music in Scribner for May, writes as
follows:
For ourselves, we are very much afraid
of the movemsntsstoward congregational
music. The tendency thus far has been
to depreciate not only the quality of
music in the churches, but the impor>
tance of it, and to make public worship
very much less attractive to the great
world, which it is the church's duty and
policy to attract and to influence. The
churches are full, as rule, where the
music is excellent. This fact may not
be very fattering to preachers, but it is
a fact, and it is quite a legitimate ques-
tion whether a church has right to
surrender any attraction that will give
it a hold upon the attention OF the
world, especially if that attraction is an
elevating one, and in the direct line ot
Christian influence. Congregational
singing is we'll enough in its plsce and
proportions, but very little of the in
spiration of music comes through it. II
ia, indeed, more of a torture than pleas
ure to many musical and devout people
The ideal arrangement, as it seems to us
is a first~class quartette, made up o
| soloists, who take q prominent part il
the public servics, with single choral il
each service given to the congregation X
sing. In this way: the two offices o
music In public religious assemblies seen
to be secured more surely and satisfac
torily than in any other.
St. Landry democrat., 1879-06-21
Book Makers at English Races.
London Society

The principal bookmakers have their
regular stations in the ring where they
maya be readily foundsby their custom
ers; and as they stand there with q
pleasant smile on their faces, the old
aursery rhyme, " Ducky, ducky, ducky,
come and be killed." always comes for~
cibly into my mind. A very clever set
of men they are, and some of them have
really intellectual faces. Most wonder
full calculators they are, too; the power
they have to tell at glance how much
they have got in their books, and the
way they can subdivide the odds at a
moments notice is most extraordinary.
A marked contrast to these great book
makers are the small would be book
makers, who rush all about the ring,
| bothering anyone they see who has been
betting, or they think likely to bet,
Offering the most absurd odds as an in
ducement. The first day of any race
meeting, these gentry abound, but by
the end of the week most of them have
disappeared, having retired, l su pect,
into the outer ring, and here rascality
does flourish. Strangely enough, in
passing through it, you seem to be fa'
miliar with most OF the betting mems
faces, but you cannot at first remem'
ber where you had seen them previous
ly; when suddenly it flashes aeross you
that yon saw the most of these faces, Of
their own clothers', in the dock at thu
last criminal assizes; or if you have beer
over to Portland or Dartmoor prison, o.
any of that sort of places, that you hav'
seen them there. How 80 many of then
exist seems hard to discover but sus
pect whenever they have drawn thei
victims sufficiently, IS they consider
hey bolt before the race comes off.
St. Landry democrat., 1879-06-21
&Earn and plantation:
FARM NOTES.

The main point in successful tree
planting is 10 select medium sized trees.
30 as to secure good roots. Keep the
roots from exposure to sun and wind
while hauling, take pains in setting and
mu' ch literally.
Charcoal is good food to make hens
Law. Burn a few corn cobs, and wet
them out as soon as they are in coal,
Feed to hens and soon their combs will
turn red, and their busy songs will be
heard, and eggs increased.
It is said that. boiled hams are much
nicer to stand in the water in which
they were boiled until cold. The OUT
side does not then turn black and dry up
as it does when taken from the water to
cool; but remember to remove the lid of
the kettle, 30 the steam may escape.
A practical farmer writes that for kill.
ing lice IN COWS or hogs, he has always
found the following application success
full: Take the water in which potatoes
have been boiled and rub it over the
akin OF the animals to be treated. The
lice will be dead in two hours and no
further progeny appear.
This is the time for whitewashing
A good article of whitewash can be made
by Stacking two gallons of white lime
in five gallons of hot water, in which
one pound OF rice has been boiled until
it has all dissolved. Cover closely while
lime is Stacking. Add one pound of
salt; use hot.
A homestead bill has been introduced
in the lower house of the Missouri leg
islature exempting from execution l6O
acres of land, not exceeding $1,000 UP
in value; in cities of population Of
10000 or upward, eighteen square rods
o ground, not exceeding the value o.
$4,000, aud in cities or towns of les!
than 10000 population, thirty square
rois of ground, not worth over $1,000
Perfect drainage is the real foundation
of agricultural success. Food crops fol
man n beast will not grow on wet soils
Even rice, which is populsrly supposed
to be an aquatic plant, must be planted
on land which can, when necessary, b.
thoroughly drained, Or the results viii
be unsatisfactory. The labor OF drain
ing land seems, to the unthinking farm
er, to be useless work. It is the corn
stone, the initial step to prosperity.
St. Landry democrat., 1879-06-21
a Silver Anniversary

Yesterday afternoon, the 10th inst,
the Mason & Hamlin Organ Company
celebrated, by dinner at Young's Hotel,
the twenty-fifth anniversary of the COM
meneement of their business, which, by
its own merits has grown to large pro"
portions. At the start the capacity OF
their works was two or three melodsons
per week, the best of which sold for
about one hundred dollars each; the!-
present capacity is over two hundred
cabinet organs per week, and they are
most of the time behind orders, while
their best productions now command i've
hundred dollars each, and in exceptional
cases several times this amount. In
numbering their instruments they have
reached $4,000, having actually made
and sold nearly that number. Organs
of their make have obtained an exrraor'
dinary reputation all over the world
and are sold in every civilized country
where the tariff is not so high as to bt
prohibitory. Musicians recognize in them
a distinguishing excellence in quality o
ftone, the result, in large measure per
haps, of peculiar skill in vo'ci"g reeds
an art which originated with this com
pany. But in every respect it has Away
been principle with them to make il
each detail the best instruments possibl
and to sell them as low as possible. Th
skillful carrying out of this policy ha
resulted in this great success.-Boato
Journal
St. Landry democrat., 1879-06-21
A Tramp Dodge.
Journal.
San Francisco Post.

It was sad looking tramp, with
panied expression of face, that entered s
sutter street bar-room the other day
holding in his hand small, battered, red
canister. "Look at this" he said sor"
rowfully, ct went into a gunshop and
begged for something to eat, and the
mean man handed me his can OF powder.
He said could go shooting-a starving
St. Landry democrat., 1879-06-21

Safety, efficiency and reliability are the
three cardinal virtues of remedy. whether
in the bands of physician or in those OF the
people large. For the cure of all malariaI
or miasratic diseases, such as Chills and Fe.
yer, or Intermittent Fever, Dumb Chills and
Chronic Enlargement of the Spleen, we have
such remedy in DR.. F. Wilhoft's Anti>Pe.
riodic OF Fever and Ague Tonic, the compo'
sition OF which has been published by its
proprietors. Wheelock, Finlay & Co., of New
Orleans, and IS approved by the medical
profess Ion and for sale by all Druggists:
St. Landry democrat., 1879-06-21

sticking to it. MY dear," said a
vain old man to his wife, these friends
here won't believe that I'm only forty
FIVE years old. You know speak the
truth, don't you Z" Well," answered
the simple wife, Il suppose must be-
lieve it, ,Tohn, as you've stuck to it for
fifteen YEARS.
St. Landry democrat., 1879-06-21

sugar. then the milk and -four, in which
is sifted the baking powder, and last the
three tablespoons of melted butter
The batter should be very soft, as it is
very like sponge cake. Bake one"half
hour.
MILK ROLLS.
These rolls can be served hot or cold.
They are made with one pound of flour,
one ounce of butter, one ounce OF sugar,
full tesspoonfuI of baking powder,
about pint of milk and pinch Of SALT
To the -four add the salt, sugar and but
ter, and mix well by working with the
fingers. Then introduce the baking
powder and MIX, and knead quickly.
Gut the lump of dough into six or eight
pieces, form into rolls, cut each roll
slightly over the top twice, and place on
slightly Toured pan, and bake for
fifteen minutes in very hot oven.
When done, brush the top with the
white of an egg or milk, sprinkle with
fine sugar, and place it in the oven for
one minute.
IENTIL SOUP.
Take a pint and half of lentil; pick
thoroughly, and let soak over night ;
take them out, and put them on to boil
in three quarts of cold water, without
salt slice six potatoes, and put with the
lentils; boil for three hours; add OF
smoked sausage, one half pound cut in
slices; salt, pepper, and an onion, minced
fine; some chopped parsley, some celery,
and boil for one hour longer; before
serving, brown some cubes of bread
and put in the plates; if not thick
enough add little -four; If too thick
add little water.
CORN MEAL GEMS.
Two cups of sweet milk, one cup o.
wheat -four, and about two cups of corr
meal, two tablespoon'uls of melted but
ter, one teaspoonful Of sugar, and last ado
two teaspoons of baking powder. Thi
when mixed should be 6. rather thick
batter, and drop easily from the spoon
Have your gem irons well buttered, ane
hot upon the top of your stove, drop il
the butter and place directly in the oven
These will be found nice, wholesome
dish for your breakfast, and quickly an'
easily made. The bright appearance o
this gem adds lively color to the table
BOILED ASPARAGUS.
Cut your stalks of equal length::reject
ing the woody or tough portions. I'll
in bunch with soft strings-muslin o
tape-and throw into boiling waite
! slightly salted. II very juicy and fres
| it is well to tie in a thin muslin to pro
tect the buds; boil fast, from fifteen t
twenty minutes. Just before is is don
have two or three slices of bread toast
ed; dip in the asparagus liquor to moist
en- them; butter we'll, and lay in he
| dish drain the water from your aspars
gus, and heap it upon your toast add
little more butter, salt and pepper, an
serve hot.
St. Landry democrat., 1879-06-21

Carefully avoid the use of rasping cathart'
les. They weaken the bowels and leave them
worse of than before. Use instead that salu-
tory, non-i Irritating aperient and anti bilious
medicine, DR.. Motifs Vegetable Liver Pills,
which will not only achieve the desired OBJ
iect, relaxation Of the bowels, without caus-
ing paSn or weakening them, but promote
digestion and assimilation and depurate the
blood. The pills are sold by all druggists.
St. Landry democrat., 1879-06-21
The Cultivation OF Roses.
"Roses are her cheeks,

And rose her Ilps."
The best way for ladies to cultivate this
rare species OF roses is by studying and prac-
ticing the rules OF hygiene, as taught in the
Peoples Common Sense Medical Adviser,
only $1.5O. Address the author, R. Y. Pierce,
NJ. D., Grand Invalids' Hotel, Buffalo, n. Y.
If suffering from those painful weaknesses
incident to the female organism, use DR..
Pieree'g Favorite Prescription--a never
failing remedy for these complaints.
St. Landry democrat., 1879-06-21
ChriAt I'm Us,

Christ is our example; but he who
supposes that Christ's work consists
simply in furnishing us an example has
a very inadequate idea of what man,
needs and of what Christ is. It is true
that we have some power of copying, by
observation and volition, the conduct Of
those that are better than We are but it
is also true that the lives which are
mainly the result of imitation are defec-
tive and unlovely lives. "That peculiar
character" says DR.. Motley, (which we
admire in another, would become quite
different one in ourselves could we
achieve the most successful imitation.
The copy could never have the spirit Of
the original, because it would want the
natural root upon which the original
grew. We ought to grow out of our OWL
roots; our own inherent proprietY o1
constitution is the best nucleus for oul
own information" This, then, is what
we need-the healing; the quickenine
the replenishing of our spiritual life. II
is not model to grow by; it is "more
life and fuller that we want" That il
what Christ came to bring; am come
that they might have it more abund
antly." By faith in Him we are made
partakers of His nature, and thus the
very elements of virtue in us are rein
forced. The tulip bulb does not need
full~grown tulip to look at that it may
learn how to blossom +; it needs to feel a.
its own heart the warmth of the sun ane
the moisture of the soil. Not Christ be-
fore you as an example, but "Christ il
you," communicating to you the vital
izing energy of His own eternal life, il
the power of God unto salvation.- Sun
day Afternoon.
St. Landry democrat., 1879-06-21
HOME HINTS. =


SPONGE CAKE.
One cup sugar, two cups flour, ONE
half cup milk, two eggs, one teaspoon
cream tartar, one-half teaspoon soda.
VEGETABLE SOUP.
Peel and slice two potatoes and two
turnips; chop fine small piece of cab.
bage; use large spoonful of butter; put
it ali into three pints of cold water, boil
slowly two hours.
sCRGHUM CAKE.
Three cups of -four, one of butter, one
and a half of sorghum molasses, one
tablespoonful of ginger, one teaspoonful
OF soda, one cup of sour milk and TWO
eggs. Bake in moderate oven.
KISSES OR DROP CAKES.
One cup of butter, two cups of sugar,
three.fourths cup of water. one-half
teaspoontul soda, two eggs, four and a
half or five cups -four; drop them on a
tin, and put lump of sugar in the CEN
tire of cache
LEMoF BUTTER.
One and half cupfuls white sugar,
whites Of three eggs, yolk of one. grated
rind and juice of lemon and a half, or
two small ones; cook over slow. fire 20
minutes, string all the while. Very
nice for tarts, or to be eaten as preserves.
HAM BALLS.
Minee very fine cold, cooked ham
(that which has been boiled is best,
although fried ham will answer, if not
salty, add an egg for each person stir in
little -four, and make into balls. Dip
into egg, and then into grated bread, and
Try until of a nice brown.
MOCK MINCE PIES.
One cup of chopped raisins, one cup OF
sExar, one cup of molasses, one cup o1
vinegar, one cup of water, piece Of
butter the size of an egg, one teaspoon
ground cinnamon, one of cloves aud 9
little nutmeg let this come to q boil ;
roll fine eight small crackers and stil
them in. This will make three common
sized pies.
Asparagus AND EGGS.
Gut twenty-five or thirty heads of as
paragus into bits about half an incl
long, and boil fifteen minutes. Have /,
cup full OF rich drawn butter in a sauce
pan, and put in the asparagus, whe,
you have drained the water from it
Heat together to boil, seasoning will
salt and pepper, and pour into but
tered bake dish; break or 8 eggs care
iuily over the surface; put a bit 0
utter Upon each; sprinkle with sal
ana pepper, and set in hot oven unit
he eggs are set.
HUNTINeToN PUDDING. q
y ne pint milk and one half cup rice
put into tin and set in pot nearl
nall full of boiling water; keep th
water boiling until the rice is steame
seit enough to yield when pressed wit
the thumb and finger then add.yolk {
70 eggs, . little lump of butter, an
he grated rind Of lemon turn into
pudding dish, beat the whites into
stiff iroth, and stir in half a cup
sugar and the juice of the lemon; sprea
the frosting on the pudding and pu
into the over to brown.
RAILROAD CAKE.
lake two eggs, three quarters of Gu
Of sugar. six tablespoons Of milk, OF
and one-half cups of -four, three tabl
spoons Of melted butter, one teaspoon
baking powder; season with nutme
First, beat the white of the eggs to
stlh froth then add the yolks, next Il
St. Landry democrat., 1879-06-21

The Mendelssohn Piano Co.. No. q East
10Th street. N. Y, sell Pianos at Factory
Prices. Write for catalogue.
St. Landry democrat., 1879-06-21

Mason & Hamlin Cabinet Organs are GER
tainly the best of this class of instruments IN
the werld, and at the prices at which they are
sold, which are only little higher than those
of very poor organs, they are also cheapest.
St. Landry democrat., 1879-06-21
4
Sunday Heading,
God KnoWeth Best.

RON AN0Wetn 6SbIs
Some time, when all life's lessons have been
learned,
And sun and stars forevermore have set,
The things which our weak judgments here have
spurned
The things Ger which we grieved with lashes
wet
Will flash before us out of Hfes dark night
As stars shine most in deeper nts of blue;
And we shall see how all Gods plans were right,
And how what seemed reproof was love most
true.
And we shall see how, while we frown and sigh,
COILS plans go on as best 1or you and me;
How when We called, He needed not our cry,
Because His wisdom to the end could see
And even as prudent parents disallow
Too much of sweet to craving babyhood,
So God, perhaps, is keeping from us now
Life's sweetest things, because it seemeth good
And if sometimes coR,minged with life's wine,
We find the wormwood. and rebel and shrink,
Be sure wiser Hand than yours or mine
Pours out this potion for our lips to drink.
And If some friend we love is lying low.
Where human kisses cannot reach his face,
O, do not blame the loving Father 20,
But wear your sorrow with obedient gracel
nj you shall shortly know that heightened breath
Is not the sweetest gift God sends his friend;
And that sometimes the sable pail of death
Conceals the fairest boon His love can send,
If we could push ajar the gates OF life,
And stand within, and all Gods workings see,
We couli interpret all this doubt and strife,
And for each mystery could find key.
But not to-day. Then be content, poor heart
Gods plans, like lilies pure and white unfold;
We must not tear the close-shut leaves apart
Time will reveal the cal yxes of gold.
And if through patient toll we reach the land,
Where tired feet with sandals loose may rest,
When we shall clearly know and understand
think that we will say: g God knew the best.
St. Landry democrat., 1879-06-21

Fer coughs, colds, and throat disorders,
use "Biown's Bronchial Troches," having
proved their efficacy bya test of many years.
25 cts. box.
St. Landry democrat., 1879-06-21
Smoke Pogue's Sitting Bull Durham Tobacco

Chew Jackson's Best Sweet Navy Tobacco.
St. Landry democrat., 1879-06-21
Soidlers-Pe ensioners.

We publish an eight>page epapes-"THE NATION.
All, TRIBUNE" devoted to the interests OF rem
Soldiers and Sailors and their heirs; also
ee ntains intsres sting family reading.
Price so rts. year-speeial inducementst TO cluns
A*nroner blank to collect amount due under lev
AZ REAKS OF PENSION BILL, furnished gratui-
ton sly to regular Subscribers only and such claims
n1mber as q specimen copy free. Send for it. Glf
T. LEMON & CO., Washington, D @. Lock boz q -
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