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St. Landry democrat., 1882-03-25

horse. And Steve made up his mind
that he'd ridden about as long as no
wanted to, and so he dropped OFT. lie
fell flat, and slid for as much as ROD
on the ice before he stopped. look
every one of his wesket buttons OIL.
saws grandfather, .slick and clean ~
you cut en- with a knife
But that didn't stop the horse-no,
sir. On he went, with the old sleigh
Gathering at his heels, and the ice his
shoes cut up flew like sleet into the
faces of the two boys. All Charley
could do was to keep him in the road,
and that's more than a good many
would, say And the horse kept go
ING faster and faster.
"Whe-ew.n said Sam, catching his
breath. And he jumped out, and
turned two tirst-class summersets before
he struck on his head in a snow-banl1
beside the road. And there he was.
Then Charley, my grandfather, was
left all alone. That's why | call it
"Charley Otis Ride And the horse
kept going faster and faster. And
Charley couldn't see rod ahead OF
him, for the wind blowing and the bits
of ice flying, until, pretty soon, he be-
can to 90 up a little hill. And because
for a minute the ice didn't fly so thick,
Charley saw, Just ahead, and hobbllng
along as fast as his two poor shaky legs
and his knotty cane would carry him,
old Grandsir Herrin. who wasn't any
bodys grandfather really, though ev-
erybody called him so. And Grandslr
Herrin was as deaf as the deatest KIND
of post-and right inthe middle OF the
road! Now, Sir
No use to ask me what I'd have done
if I'd been there. | wasn't there. But
| can tell you what Charley did, and L
don't believe anybody could have done
any better. His heart thumped SO he
could almost hear it through all the
noise of the bells. But, quick as flash,
he put all his strength on the right
rein. and pulled that horse with flying
Jump into big bank of snow drifted up
against the road fence. And Charley
kept right dl0ng.
He picked himself up in a minute,
and looked around. The horse was
deep in the snow, standing quiet enough,
but trembling like q leaf. Charley I'M
harnessed him and got him out of the
snow, and turned the sleigh, and har-
messed up again, and led the horse back
to where he started from. Sam and
Steve were waiting by the gate.
Charley hitched the horse, and just
then another man drove along, and
stopped.
ats Lawyer Chadbourne," whis-
pered Sam.
"Who left that horse there:?' said the
man, in a deep-down, pie-crusty kind OF
voice.
"Mr. Mutt, SIR answered Charley;
! land he said he would run away. But
he don't look like he would"
"Well, Pm glad Of it, growled the
lawyer, and away he went. And
"Hello?' said grandfather, breaking
off right here.
There was a laundering noise in the
: hall, and the door flew open.
"It's the Broomstick Brigade!' cried
, grandfather; for there were the May
| boys and the Berry boys and Uncle
Timothy's boys, and each one of 'em
carried broom.
"Come along with YOU" said Ben
May; "we're going to sweep the Ice
; It's stopped showing"
So it had, though we hadn't noticed
And so we took our skates and brooms
F., and went along, Hal and I; and grand
) father took up his paper again--Har
Il per's Young People. ~
St. Landry democrat., 1882-03-25
Sclays rs. TeutOns.

a lew udyS ago u Dc11lll lopoio S"fo
out that Bismarck had admonished the
Russian ambassador at the German
Court that his master, the Car, must
put a Spanish curb-bit into the mouth
of General Skobeleff if he desires the
goodwill of Germany. The report is
now explained by the publication of a
short speech made by Skobeseff at Paris
to some Seryian students He told
them, substantially, that Germany
stands in the way of Russia's ambition
to become the protector of the whole
.Sclavic race in Europe, and that if Ger
many does not get out OF the way there
will be fight about it. The immediate
provocation is the German intrigue
which has given Austria the right, or
license, to invade and occupy Mon
tenegro and Herzegovina. But there
are also remote provocations, past as
well as future Skobeleff remembers
tn at Prussian army of observation
stood ready armed and equipped to
lump upon Russia in the Crimean war
had the allies failed. He sees, too, that
after all the fighting recently between
Russians and Turks, on the part OF
Russia to gain a frmer footing on the
old route to Constantinople, the intrigues
and diplomacy of Germany have turned
| that opportunity into the bitterest OF
dead Sea fruit by assisting in the cree
| ton of the Kingdom of Roumania, with
Hohenzollern as King, and under Ger
man and Austrian protection. In short,
Bismarck has seduced and drawn away
from Russia her only reliable ally OF any
power in Europe-Austria-b the
tempting bait of the two Sclavic States,
with fair outlook for two more-Bosnia
and Servia. This signifies a compact
alliance by reason of interest between
Germany and Austria, and it leaves Rus
STA only the alternative OF an alliance
with France or utter seclusion from
Europe. e.
There is reason to believe that Skobe'
leffs speech voices the feelings OF the
Russian Nation, which, Notwithstanding
the intermarriage of the late Car with
a German Princess, has profound
hatred of the German race; and there Il
no reason to believe that the present
Gear will punish Skobelef for what he
has SO publicly proclaimed in the ear o
| France. Putting this and that together
it is possible that the present outbreal
in Herzegovina may be the beginning
of a great war that will convulse hu
rope from the Nieman to the Mediter
ranean. History has abundantly demon
strated that at home Russia is impreg
nable. Nature fights her battles east Q
the Nieman. Germany is, on the othe
hand, exposed to invasion from the Rus
sian side. In the days of Frederick tn
Great Russian armies penetrated to Ber
lin and tore Prussia into tatters. Jen
and Auerstadt attest that she can easil.
| be invaded from the other side, ant
should France and Russia combin
against her, as skobeleff's speech i'm
plies may happen. it might go hard wit
ened in loyalty as it is by angry faction
of radicals, liberals, ultramontanes an
| secessionists all equally hating the iron
gloyed Hohenzollern despotism.-Sd
Francisco Chronicle.
St. Landry democrat., 1882-03-25
Our Young Readers.
SMALL kINDNES,SES.

Think of something kind to do,
Never mind if it is small:
Little things are lost to view,
But God sees and blesses all.
Violets are wee, modest flowers,
Hiding in their bees OF green,
But their perfume fills the bowers.
Though they scarcely can be seen.
Pretty bluehellS Of the grove
Are than peOnie$ more sweet;
Much their graceful bloom we love,
AS they blossom round our feet.
So do little acts, we find,
Which at first we cannot see.
Leave the fragrance, pure, behind,
OF abiding charity.
Chicago Adrdnce.
St. Landry democrat., 1882-03-25

-Rubinstein has refused an offer of
SIC. 900 to return to this country for
short engagement. Why not offer him
the United States? The country will
sink if he doesn't come.-Detroit Free
Press
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FACTS AND FIGURES.

The tonnage transported ON all the
railroads in the United States in 1881
amounted to $50. 900, 600 tons. which
Poor's RdiirOdd Manual estimates. at
the too low average of $50 ton, would
be worth S1S, 900, 100000.
1t is estimated that the South has
this season paid to the North 500, 000,-
600 for wheat, $50, 900, 900 for corn,
$4,000, 900 for meats, and about $685.
100000 for hay, butter, cheese, oats, APP
pies, potatoes, etc.-Chicago Times.
1t is pretty well settled that a
healthy man who lives to be 20 years of
age, in his life eats 1880 pounds of
meat, ~ barrels of flour, 1900 pounds
of butter 9S7 dozen eggs, 800 pounds
of cheese, 1853 bushels of potatoes, and
LOO pounds of lard.
The annual interest on the public
debt is now about S1.08 for every in
habitant In 1876 it was more than
twice this, being 1920 per capita, and
in 1865 it was as high as S4.29 per
capita, or $3.50, 977, 697, to be paid by
80, 469, 900 people. ~ Y. Times.
Pennsylvania and New Y ork are the
only States in the Union containing
over a million males of the voting age,
twenty-one years and over. Two States,
foreigners than natives, twen y-one
years of age and over. Chicago Jour-
nal.
Since the first oil well was opened
in 1859 the product of the wells has added
$1,000, 100000 to the wealth of the
United States in the value of the crude
oil and its products. To-day the prod
uct of these wells lights the cathedrals
of Europe, the mosques of Asia, the pa
godas OF Japan, and even the huts on
Africa's sunny soil. Its exports are
over 1000, 900 gallons day.-Boston
Posi-
The great cattle range of Wyoming
under the military protection of Fort
Mckinney is about 800 miles square.
In this area are now grazing 800, 900
head of cattle, worth 1927 per head,
amounting to S13, 800, 900, to which can
be added the value of the horses and
ranches of the cattle-men and the
farmers, and the stock of the grangers,
making at least Sl5. 900. 600 of properly
under the protection of the post. N.
Y. HernId.
In this country, with a population
OF $4,000, 600, there are 4, 204, 1862 per-
sons above the age of twenty-one years
who cannot write. OF this number
2,O56, 1853 are whites, 1,747, 900 negroes,
about 100000 Indians and 100, 900 Ash
atics. 1t is estimated that in almost
every State in the Union, and in the
country as whole, the balance of po-
litical power, so far as numbers are CON
cerned is or can be in the hands of the
illiterate voters. N. Y Sun.
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Transplanting Teeth.

I performed an operation of trans
planting under romantic circumstances
on a certain occasion. A Young lady,
as pretty as peach, and a tine-looking
young fellow came to see me one morn
ing. After no little hesitation, they told
me they were 5etrothed, and that he
was in the army and was going away to
the plains for at least a year, hunting
Indians. "And we are very unhappy
at parting" whimpered she. "Yes, we
are" almost blubbered he. 1--WE heard
of rarsplanting teeth, and want you to
take one out of each one of our mouths
and transfer them" For moment I
was transfixed with laughter and aston
ishment, and | attempted to reason them
out of their foolish proposition-both
had excellent teeth, by the way-but
they insisted. so extracted one OF her
largest back teeth and one of his small
est. Hers. fitted his jaw all right, and
he went off few days afterward to his
post with his lady loves molar. His
tooth. however, would not stick in; for
within a week the young lady came
back with her face dreadfully swollen.
l reduced the inflammation and eased
the pain, but could not replant her low
er's fang, and she went away with it
wrapped up in paper. Oh! the incon-
sistency of womenl Six months after
she married a man old enough to be her
father. When the young Lieutenant
subsequently returned he Indignantly
told me of the manner in which he had
been Tilted, and requested me to imme-
diately extract the false loves tooth,
which did, and he threw it into tho
cuspadore. -Interview With Dentist. IN
Philadelphia Press.
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Short Story OF Terry and Berry.

"Oh-ohr' squeaked Berry. "rve
round bird s-nest."
Nest" said Terry. "Girls don't
know anything. It's no nest at all-the
eggs are laid right in the sand"
And such long, thin, dirty-colored
eggs" piped Berry.
g Such bird as laid those eggs don't
deserve to be mother" observed Ter
ry. ITO put them right where one
would be likely to step on 'em, and
without any nest, at all. I'll tell you,
Berry, we'll take 'em home and set EN-
under the brown hen, and when they
hatch we will have six little birds all to
ourselves. And Biddy is magnificent
motherp
Thereupon each gathered up three of
their treasures, and scampering away
TO the wood-house, clambered up to the
Soap-oox nailed upon the weather
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The halibut is found in great album
dance in the vicinity of the islands, and
it is more particularly on this fish that
the Haidas depend. Their villages are
invariably Situated along the shore,
often on bleak, waye-lashed parts of the
coast, but always in proximity to pro-
ductive halibut banks. Journeys are
made in canoes along the coast. The
canoes are skillfully followed from the
great cedar-trees of the region, which,
after being worked down to certain
small thickness, are steamed and spread
by the insertion of cross-pieces till they
are made to assume most graceful
form, and show lines which would salts
fly the most fastdious ship-builder In
their larger canoes the Haidas do not
hesitate to make long voyages on the
open sea; and in former days, by their
frequent descents on the coast of the
mainland, and the facility with which
they retreated again to their own islands,
they rendered themselves more dread
ed than any tribe from Vancouver to
Sitka.
In their mode of life, and the ingenu-
ity and skill they display in their man
ufacture of canoes and other articles,
the Haidas do not differ essentially from
the other tribes inhabtng the northern
part OF the coast of British Columbia
aud Southern Alaska. In the Queen
Charlotte Islands. however, the peculiar
style of architecture and art elsewhere
among the Indians of the west coast
more or less prominently exhibited
appears to attain its greatest develop
ment. Whether this may show that
to the Haidas or their ancestors the in
PRODUCTION of this is due, or indicate
merely that with the greater isolation of
these people, and consequent increased
measure of security, the particular ideas
of the Indian mind we're able to body
themselves forth more fully, we may
never know The situation of the
islands, and the comparative infre-
quency with which they have been Wis
tied for many years, have at least tend
ed to preserve intact many features
which have already vanished from the
customs and manufactures of most other
tribes
AS before stated the permanent vii
lagos of the Haidas are invariably stu
ated at the seashore. They consist
generally of a single long row of houses,
with but a narrow grassy border be-
tween it and the beach, on which the
canoes of the tribe for each village
constitutes chieftaincy) are drawn up.
In front of each house stands symbol
ical carved post, while other carved
posts, situated irregularly, and differing
somewhat in form from those proper 10
the houses, are generally memorials to
the dead. Such village, seen from
little distance off. the houses and posts
gray with the weather. resembles
strip of half burned forest with dead
T" rampikes. - The little cloud of smoke
from the various fires may, however,
serve to indicate its true character
George N. DaWson. IN Harper'S Maya
zine
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Mink.

Amos Long lives on the farm next to
ours. One day in spring he caught
young crow in the field. He took him
home and tanned him. He taught him
some funny tricks.
When the crow was full grown the
cat had some kittens. Mink, as the bird
was called, would take the tail of one
of the kitties in his bill and DRAG her
around the room. Neither the kitty
nor its mother liked this, and they cried
with all their might.
Mink used to steal thimbles, spools of
thread. gloves and other things, and
hide them in out-of-the-way places. If
he saw a handkerchief sticking out of
any ones pocket, he would snap at it
and drag it out. One time Mr. Long
felt a tapping at his back, and found
that Mink was filling his coat-pocket
with red berries.
When the men are milking Mink will
hop along and peck the cows noses.
Mink will not let any one take him up.
or pet him; but if any person holds out
a stick, no matter how short it is, he
will perch upon it. On this stick he will
let himself be carried about the house.
our Little Ones.
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WIT AND WISDOM.

--EScry man is occasionally what he
ought to be perretually.
One of the best rules in converse
ton is never to say nylhing which any
OF the company can reasonably wish had
been left unsaid.
Fond wife: "How strange! Every
time Peter comes home from his lodge
he comes to bed with his hat on But L
suppose it is some more of those Mason
ic doings.' ~
An exchange says that our navy is
still in its infancy, which would justify
the assertion that the vessels are seldom
seen out of their slips. - YoBberS StateS-
man.
When the man averred that he had
seen trotting match they didn't mind
it much, but when he sad = A lemon
neighed " they threw him under grip
car CbicGQO Times.
When a doctor who claims to cure
by laying on of hands reaches Missouri,
he either quits business or starts for the
woods with a crowd after him. There
are some swindles Missouri can't abide.
Detroit Free Press.
Cause and Effect: Eminent Provin-
cial Tragedian-Come hithorr. sweet
one! Your mothorr tells me that YOU
shed teorrs during my soliloquy in exile
la t night. Sweet One: Yes, sir. Moth
er kept on pinching me, cause | was so
sleepy!-PHnch.
1t is reported that English detect
ives have proved useless in Ireland, on
account of their accent. We should
think so. 1t rather gives fellow away,
bajove, when he walks into a Land
League meeting in a damp cave and
asks: Beg pawd'n, y know, but ave
We seen such a thing as a suspect about
ere, y knowp' Chicago Times.
When he was eating fast and furi-
ously, piling in the food as farmers do
hay into the barn on the eve of a thun-
der shower in June, the head waiter
stepped up and said; BEG pardon, sir,
but there's no train out tonight. 81
know it," said the man with his mouth
full, land that's why Pm hurrying to
catch a good nights sleep"-HoteI
Mail.
An old story in new form is go
ing the grand rounds. and tells about a
young man at table d hote at one of the
rural hotels, where "lady walters are
employed. He wanted beverage with
his roast, and summoned the maiden, to
whom he said: "Haye you any porter"
Yes" she said, "we have three or
four, but they are all colored." Where
ignorance is bliss it is the height of alb
surdity to be intelligent.
"A county rector called rather early
in the morning on one of his parish
toner's. One OF the children saw him
coming, and ran into the house to tell
his mother. The little fellow soon re-
turned to the front and resumed his
play. The clergyman inquired Is
your mother at homeP' 20 No, sir" re-
piled the child; she is out at pres
emit" "Tell her when she returns that
l called" said the clergymen. II did
tell her" replied the little boY.-CAE
cdg0 Tribune.
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Life-Slayery for Debt.


1t was recently brought out in de-
bate in the House of Commons that
slavery of the worst class-debt slavery
mot only was allowed to exist, but was
actually protected and upheld in one of
the Malay native States which are under
the protection of England, and where
the British flag is constantly kept flying.
A correspondent, who vouches for the
accuracy. of every particular, sends US
the following narrative of the way in
which a British resident fosters this
hateful system. Mr.. James Innes (writes
our correspondent, son of the late
Prof Cosmo lines, of Edinburg, has
been for some years Collector and mag
istrate in one of the Malay native States
called Selangor While there one of
his chief duties was to discourage sav-
cry, which he did with very great sue
cess. In August, 1878, however, he was
moved to another of the three Malay
native States, called Perak, to relieve a
brother official who had been invaded
home. In Perak Mr.. lines found to
his astonishment that part of his duty
as magistrate was to issue warrants for
the capture OF runaway slaves and to
see that the warrants were carried out.
He inquired of the other English officials
in the place, and found that this dis
reputable work, as he considered it, had
been done by his predecessor and also
by the Superintendent of Police, but
that they had always done it with great
reluctance, and only in obedience to the
express commands of Mr.. Low, the
Resident of Perak. 1t appeared that it
Of ha
couraged and approved by the
Governor OF the Straits settlements.
The more Mr.. Innes inquired into the
subject the more revolving it appeared.
1t was proved beyond a doubt that the
unfortunate slaves never ran away I'M
less their lives were made absolutely
uncomfortable. 1t also appeared that
when, by the agency of the English
magistrates or otherwise these poor
wretches were caught and returned to
their masters, they were not infre luent-
ly tortured to death. This was done to
deter others from following their exam
pie. Mr. lnnes naturally hestitated at
making himself an accessory to murder.
In Malaga, as in other States where
debt slavery prevails, peasant VINO
borrows sovereign from his landlord
is liable on failure to repay the loan to
be made slave for life, together with
his wife and family. Even children
born after their parents have become
debt slaves are the property of the cred
itor, and their children, also. The re-
suit. is that almost every one in the
country who is not ia ah is a slave.
There is no middle class in MALAY
country, nothing between raiah and a
ryot. The rajah feeds and clothes his
slaves, of course, in return for their la
Dor, and sometimes treats them not I'M
kindly. calling them his chi dren. But
he can sell them for so much head, OF
order them to be killed if they should of.
fend him. -PaiL-MdH Gazette
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Queen Charlotte Islands and the Haidas.

The climate of the Queen Charlotte
Islands is excessively humid. and they
are almost everywhere covered with
magnificent coniferous trees. Mount
aims 1000 to 5000 feet high rise in their
central portion. and they are penetrated
on all sides by dark deep lords with
rocky walls.
To the northeast, it is true, q wide
stretch OF low and nearly level country
occurs, which may some day support a
farming population; but at the present
time its somber woods, filed with dense
underground, and barricaded with
PROSTATE trunks in every stage of de-
cay, offer little to induce either Indian
or white to penetrate them. The Hal
das, therefore, though cultivating here
and there along the shores small pota-
TO patches, are essentially fishermen.
Few paths ca trails traverse the into
rior of the islands, and of these some
formerly used when the population was
greater are now abandoned