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The St. Charles herald. [volume] (Hahnville, La.) 1873-1993, 1883-09-08

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The St. Charles herald. [volume] (Hahnville, La.) 1873-1993, 1883-09-08

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The St. Charles herald. [volume] (Hahnville, La.) 1873-1993, 1883-09-08
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Send for circular. Price 80 cents by mail or at
druggists. Ely Brothers, Owego, N. Y.
The Vancouver independent. (Vancouver, W.T. [Wash.]) 1875-1910, 1883-07-19
A Million People and no Window.

Mr.. Bright's appalling statement as to
the number Of families in Glasgow liv-
ing in only one room apiece is capped by
the statistics of overcrowding in French
cities, given by NJ. Nadaud in support Of
his bill dealing with unhealthy tene-
ments. According to NJ. Naudaud,
there are 2l8, 270 houses in France with
out any window, whatever and
to which light and air are admitted,
when admitted at all, only through the
door or q hole in the door, which has
to be stopped in wet or cold
weather. Allowing Ave people to q
family, more than !, zoo, 900 persons al.
together must be housed in this execra-
BILE fashion. In Paris, although 0,000
tcnements have been dealt with in the
last thirty years under the act Of 1880.
there are between three and four thous-
and families living in single rooms with
out means Of warming, and between two
and three thousand in single rooms with
no aperture for light aad air-cupboards,
in fact. Between twenty Ave and thirty
thousand habitations consist Of q single
room only. "This side Of the social
question:" says the report from which
these statistics are drawn, has to be
faced before ell Others" conclusion
which il gradually forcing itself on the
minds Of men in other countries beside
France.
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ing.glass, the conclusion is inevitable
that she was vain. She was, no doubt,
an accomplished coquette. since, when
ever Petraroh left her in anger and con-
soied himself by complaining poem,
the next day was sure to see him
back again in worse condition than
ever. She was probably no better than
she ought to have been, but it is toler-
ably certain that if Laura had never
lived We should have had no Petrarch, or
at least the chances are that he would
have turned his talents in some other
direction, and the products of his genius
would have been food for book-worms
But one touch of Laura makes Petrarch
kin to the whole world, and he and his
love have safe immortality.-Phila-
delphia Press.
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If you are of q social nature and keep
your eyes open. do not say this be-
cause L have been thirsty these past few
weeks and just dropped on the game, as
Aristotle would say, but just to prove
that men are like boys, and, when you
tell them they can't have any particular
thing that is the thing they are apt to
desire with feverish yearn. That is
why the thirstful man in Maine drinks
from the gas fixtures, why the Kansas
drinkist gets his out of rain barrel, and
why other miracles too numerous to
mention are performed.
Whisky is more bulky and annoying
to carry about in the cocktail docket
than plug of tobacco, but there were
cases where this was successfully done.
I was yesterday shown little corner that
would hold six or eight bushels. It was
in the wash room of hotel, and was
about half.full. So were the mer who
came there, for before night the entire
place was filled with empty whisky bot
ties of every size, shape and smell. The
little fat bottle with the odor of gin and
livery stables was there, and the large
fat bottle that you get at Evans, four
miles away, generally filed with some
thing that tates like tincture OF capsicum,
spirits of ammonia and lingering death,
is also represented in this great congress
of cosmopolitan bottles sucked, dry and
the cork gnawed half up.
The Vancouver independent. (Vancouver, W.T. [Wash.]) 1875-1910, 1883-07-19
A Singing School Wanted.

A few days only will pass away, says
Burdette, before the glorious Fourth Of
July will dawn upon this land. But when
it does dawn you may wager your boots
that crowd of patriots should happen
to be moved to sing "Star Spangled Ban
ner," they couldn't do it. They would
roar out, "Oh, say can you see" with
great fervor. There about one half the
crowd would stop. The others would
yell along with by the dawn's early
light" and then only two or three voices
all singing bass-would go on with
the next line, and that would finish them.
The national song would be sung as it
usually is in large assemblies, when it 10
sung at all, to the words "la de de- da
dada, ii de de di de dunn" When the
chorus is reached most people can worry
only two lines in it. But, as O rule, so
few exceptions, Americans do not know
the words of their national song. They
seldom attempt to sing it. 1t has not
often been heard since the opening years
of the war. An English meeting usually
adjourns by singing the national hymn.
We ave listened to God Save the
Queen as the benediction of all manner
Of meetings in the dominion of Canada,
political, religious. educational, social.
You can hear it anywhere. But it has
been years since we heard great gather.
ing of Americans attempt the "Star
Spangled Banner" The nation ought to
get together, some long fourth OF July,
and resolve itself into national singing
school, until it learns the words OF its
national hymn.
The Vancouver independent. (Vancouver, W.T. [Wash.]) 1875-1910, 1883-07-19
Greeley and Prohibition.

When visit Greeley I am asked, over
and over again, Of the practical work.
ings of woman suffrage in Wyoming,
and, when 20 back to Wyoming. am
asked how prohibition works, practically.
in Greeley, Col, says Bill N.Y.. By tell
ing pleasing and varied lies about both.
I manage 10 have good deal Of fun. and
also keep the two elements ON the anx-
ions seat.
There are two sides 10 both questions,
and some day when / get time and have
convalesced little more. am going to
write large book relating to these two
matters: At present. I just want TO say
. word about the colony which bears the
name Of the Tribune philosopher. and
nestles 90 lovingly ct the chilly feet OF
the Rocky Mountains. Az / write,
Greeley il apparently an oasis in the
desert. Il looks like . fertile island,
dropped down from heaven. in bound
less stretch Of buffalo grass, sage hens
and cunning little prairie dogs. And yet
you could not come here - . stranger,
and, within the colonial barbed. wire
fence. procure Q BIZ Of cold rum. IL You
were president Of the United States, With
. ruttIssaahs bite - large - IN Easter
egg ooneealed sbout yosr person.
Yea 60. hevsvss, become acquainted.
The Vancouver independent. (Vancouver, W.T. [Wash.]) 1875-1910, 1883-07-19
A New Industry Of New England.

Not q small part of central and south
ern New England, no longer profitable
for agriculture, is now growing up with
white pine; and this white pine. If it can
only be protected. will in few years, it
is safe to predict, exceed in value the net
profit all the New England farms can
produce during the next fifty years. In
som parts Of New England this second
growth of pine has been gro wing for .
considerable time. and has already given
rise TO large and profitable Industries.
The value of logs cut in Massachusetts,
during the census year reached nearly
s., DOC, 900; at least One-half were second
growth white pine. More than 100. 0O0..
900 feet Of second growth white pine
were sawed during the same year in Yer
mont and New Hampshire. and nearly il
not quite az much more in Maine. The
manufacture of woodenware, nm i'm
portant and growing Massachusetts, in.
dustry depending upon this second
growth of pine, has made Winchendon.
Worcester county. the great center Of
this business ia the United States, il not
in the world. These young forests Of
pine are already of great value in New
England; ct no distant day they must be-
come one Of the most important factors
in its prosperity Boston Herald.
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last spring-old lady's niece, Miss Gair.
Know anybody of that name? Thought
perhaps We might, Mailing from Boston. u
The purple twilight was growing over
the crimson naples as he drew rein at
the brown, vine-clad, hill side cottage
The ol9-fashioned garden sloped to the
sun. Clumps of phlox glimmered like
snow in the shadows of the old yew trees
which guarded the doorway. A few late
roses dropped their Grim son clusters
around the gate as he opened it.
There was a little stir among the lilacs
and syriugas. A graceful figure clad in
gray, vines in the hands and surprise in
the lovely eyes, faced him.
"Mr. Egalite. this is very kind. You
have not forgotten me-
"Never for moment. And have you
not relented?"
''Relented?" she faltered.
He poured out his heart once more.
She stopped him.
'Do you not know-have you not
heard that I am poor--a beggar?''
81 have been told-yes. But that has
nothing to do with my loving you"
"Nothing?"
Nothing whatever"
"Then," sparkling beautifully with
Joy, 81 will let myself love YOU"
"Madge!" he cried. He clasped her
in his arms, bewildered by his sudden
happiness. She laughed softly, then her
eyes filed with tears as she gently
stroked his face.
'Do you think I am not happy. too?"
"You? hope so. But what is one
heart, more OF less, to You who have
been offered so many? have no one
but you"
"And I have no one but you," she
said, earnestly. dearest, listen to me.
Did you ever think of the snares that be.
set the path of an heiress? A woman who
has wealth is courted for her money.
Many men have courted me for my
riches, but. my love, no one ever sought
whom loved from the first, but dared
not trust, more than others. My repu:ed
poverty, should have said, for, I"
smiling again, II am not SO poor after
all. The speculation which involved
part of my wealth was not so great a sue.
cess as was expected, neither was it SO
great q failure. lost few thousand
from my hundred thousand; that was
all. But report made me penniless, and
my visit to my good aunt in this old
fashioned neighborhood confirmed the
impression that had lost all. But. my
friend, when wo are married, I shall be
proud of the master Of Balsam Hill"
The problem of "when Miss Gair
would marry" which the fashionable
world had speculatad upon for several
years, was solved q few weeks later.
The Vancouver independent. (Vancouver, W.T. [Wash.]) 1875-1910, 1883-07-19
FARM AND GARDEN NOTES.

SWEET CORN SUcxKns. r. G.
Jordan, OF Maine, who raised ten acres
of sweet corn last year, thinks the small
part from which he Ont the suckers
while growing Ibid much better; gave
larger ears" but he seeks advice. Dir
ferent varieties seem TO possess different
habits Of growth, and until one has bad
experiences with many it viii hardly do
TO generalize. In my own observations
with varieties with no striking tendency
TO sucker under ordinary circumstances,
suckering to excess has only taken place
in very rich land, any gain TO compen.
sats for their removal. I have noticed
that with the variety with which ! am
familiar, the largest crop has been yield
Cd from the h.lls which contained The
most suckers. I have also noticed that
there 10 . relation apparent, in many
cases, between Tie amount OF roots and
OF foliage. TIE plant With the most
foliage IL snsblsd 70 sinilate more nutsi-
meat both iron he air and coll than h
ths Plaas with lsss foliage. So. thsesss-
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ically, l. am prepared to believe that
suckering the corn plant is of no advan-
tage.
When. however, the soil is not sufi.
GENTLY fertile to supply the material for
assimilation and metastasis, then it is
quite probable that the suckers become
an injury in the same manner as if too
many plants were upon the ground. 1
Can also see how that when the water
supply is deficient the evaporation caused
by the suckers may be disadvantage. 1
think 1t is probable, although as yet I'M
proven, that the distance of planting
corn or in other words, the number OF
plants per acre, for the best crop, is de-
termined to a large extent by the water
supply. Whenever there is sufficient
water to supply the enormous evapora.
ton from the leaves, there, in the north
ern climates, at least, we can indulge in
close planting; where the water supply is
insufficient for the evaporation from the
leaves, there our distances must be in.
creased. In Massachusetts, I can plant
with advantage closer than I found
profitable at the station here at Geneva
last year. I can see that in Massachu-
sets, with their superior rainfall during
the growing season, suckers may be no
disadvap tage, while under the same cir
cumstanoe here they may be found un.
desirable. This reply, however, is al
most entirely from theory and casual OBJ
servation. and must be considered in the
light of an individual opinion rather
than as an approved fact.-E. Lewia
Sturtevant.
Two Ways of Raising Calves. Form.
erly I used to raise calves by feeding
them skinned milk twice day." says q
correspondent of the Rural New Yorker,
''and usually ted them until they were
five or six months old, and thought, on
comparing them with others not fed so
long, that it paid extremely we'll to do
SO; but last spring, not have convent
ences to handle milk pro6tably, 1 tried
new plan. Oatmeal was bought at 50. so
per cwt., and every morning q kettleful
of porridge was made. One porringer
full of the oatmeal was used, wet up in q
pan with cold water, and then stirred
into the boiling water. The kettle held
about q pailful. This made feed for
ten calves both for morning and night.
The meal swelled so when wet that it
AAouC VIC pOAAAu8o SuWCAcutAy tulCAs
"When dipped into the pals to he fed
about q quart of skinned milk was
added to each calf, which amount of milk
was decreased, and at last none was
given as the calves got older. After
awhile cup Of middlings was used with
the oatmeal. This kind of feeding was
begun after the calves had been fed new
milk until they we're about four weeks
old, and was kept up until they were five
or six months old. Care was taken when
this kind of feeding was begun not to
overdo it at first, and they were occus-
toned to the new food by degrees. The
result has been all and more than was
expected; the calves grew and throve in
a way that did credit to their feed. They
were kept in pasture where they had
grass and fresh water, and went into the
winter in good condition, and as good
as any calves we ever raised entirely on
skinned milk"
The Vancouver independent. (Vancouver, W.T. [Wash.]) 1875-1910, 1883-07-19
TOA SLIPPER.

when my beloved grandmamma
Was but n other of sweet nineteen,
fhis slipper. faded now and frayed,
Was used with wonderful strength, weep.
Oh, yeti twas hers. as I've found out,
Twas also mine-in one sense / mean;
'Thath tortured many boy no doubt.
This dainty slipper with satin sheen.
It hath 4 small, unsteady heel,
But, welded with 6rm unfiinching hand,
'Thath walked the echoes: the sight Of 1t now
Causes my hair on end to stand.
] used to think In those trying times
Perpetual motion at last was found,
All acorns and oaks! that 30 small q cause
Could be made to effect so great sound.
Ny dearly beloved grandmamma
Long since was clotht in heavenly guise
But the stings of hatslipper frivolous
VIII haunt me forever in mournful wise.
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Beatrice and Laura.

Not until the middle ages definitely
set in did women begin to take that sta
ton which the modern world has been
proud to accord them. At first glance
the stern politician and satirist who do
lighted in presenting the world pictures
of the torments endured in the internal
regions by bis enemies would hardly
seem promising material from which to
manufacture lover. But no mere fact
is more capable of truth than that Dante
was, during almost his whole life, VIC
tim of the tender passion. His love
began when he was nine years old, and
continued till his death. and no woman
of his age is better known than
his Beatrice. He has even given us her
picture. or at least description so mi
mute that q portrait might be painted
from it. She was tall, of imposing pres
ence, with light hair, slender neck,
rounded chin, large, expressive dark
eyes, firm mouth, Roman nose and fair
complexion. Dante's love for her par
took of that mystical tinge which color
ed all his works and after her death it
was sublimated from every earthly ele-
ment, and, apparently pure as human
affection ever becomes. His own gloom
rendered him repulsive to those knowing
him slightly, and his despair at her loss
was 30 great that he utterly neglected bis
personal appearance until he looked like
q savage. After the Inferno" appeared
he was once passing along the streets of
Verona, when some women saw him and
stared in awe. One whispered: That's
the man who goes down into hell when
he pleases, and orings back news Of the
sinners below. YES" said the other,
''see how his face is scared with the fire
and birthstone, and blackened with the
smoke, and how his hair and beard have
been singed in the pit" He had little
OF the lover-like appearance, but the
lovers heart, to the day of his death,
cherished the memory Of Beatrice, and
he elevated her to the highest point OF
poesy by choosing her ~ his guide in
paradise.
Petrarch, the great sonneteer Of the
renaissance gained more reputation - .
lover than in, perhaps, any other way.
His love affair with Laura lasted through
bis whole life, and made him 20
notorious that - he went along the
streets the ladies smile and, pointing
after him, say: There goes Laura's
lover At the same time there 10 20
much Indebtedness about the matter
that some critics have doubted whether
there ever was such = person ss Laura,
and able arguments have been advanced
to prove her myth; but il is impossible
to read the exquisite touches Of charac-
ter which the poet gives without believ-
ing that she vas . lively, entertaining
and. TO him, extremely uncertain and
capricious reality. His poems Of which
she is the subject number nearly four
hundred, and are probably A. full OF con.
ceiss - any similar number ever written.
Laura was . woman of rank, the wife OF
Hugh de Sads. and was Of considerable
wealth. 6he seems 70 have been . tall,
blonde beauty, With golden hair, OK
trsmsly graesfal. and. II We may judge
from the numbsr and ensnsstnes Of The
earsss thAs PstEaseh hssps On her look
The Vancouver independent. (Vancouver, W.T. [Wash.]) 1875-1910, 1883-07-19

AN UNFORTUNATE FAILURE.-The ar.
tesisn we'll which was bored ct Akron,
COL, liz miles from Denver met with
an unfortunate misbap. Work was going
on finely when ut the depth Of 1860 feet.
the ponderous drill with its weight Of
1000 pounds above IL, stuck in the tube
and could not be forced to the bottom.
Since then all efforts to prosecute the
work have proved. unavailing. The work
Horace Beach. the United States Arts-
sian Well Commissioners. Who believes
that an abundance Of excellent vatsr can
b. made 70 spout 10 the surface In Colo
RADIO In artssian wells which are suuk 10
ire depth Of 1000 fest.
The Vancouver independent. (Vancouver, W.T. [Wash.]) 1875-1910, 1883-07-19

A traveller saw woman take man BY
the collar. yank him up the steps into .
railroad car. jam him down into hot
seat near the stove. pile up valiss and
big brown baskets with loose covers and
long handles ct his feet, above lady
into his lap and cay:
Nov, sit there until I help Mary
Jane on the car, and don't move till ]
como back"
When the woman reached the door the
traveller said to her:
rs that man your husbandP"
"N.A.W-Ww roared the woman.
Hes my daughters husband. and abe
hasn't spirit enough to say her soul u
her own"
This true story teaches as that some
travellers haven't enough sense to
diagnose . family party when they zee
one.-Hawkeye.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1883-05-30

is brought into question year after year, and
in consequence. both capital and labor have
encountered great hardships. By some
means, in most of our labor disturbances,
especially at the outbreak, the control of
the affair falls into improper hands. Their
ill-tempered councils and violent demonstra-
tions must finally yield to sober judgment.
The hot-headed element is sent to the rear,
and as a rule the difference settled anicably
and justly on both sides. The sooner the
workingman ceases to heed the voice of the
"agitator" the better for all concerned. He
is a mischief-maker for revenue only, and
the honest laborers ought to know it. The
agitator pretends to dig pit for the capital
ist knowing at the time the laborer will fall
into it instead.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1883-05-30

The people of the North rose against general
rebellion, in which individuals were not con-
sidered. Only against those few who, With
perverse heart, have sought to keep the
sections estranged, and to enkindle anew the
flames of dissension, have there ever been
feelings or words of righteous hostility.
When the last seditious gun was fred the
great leader of the government represented
all the people, as with malice toward none
but with charity for all, he stopped to bind
up the gaping and bleeding wounds. To-
day there is increasing homogeneity. North
and South are being knit together with
commercial intercourse. Southern people
come North, and Northern people go South
in ever increasing multitudes, and as they
learn more of each other learn better of
each other In Cincinnati, not long since, an
ex-rebel soldier, now United States judge,
administered the iron-clad oath to a Union
soldier, who had just been commissioned to
the federal bench. This incident is typical
of the coalescence of the Blue and the Gray,
and rebukes the vicious spirit, which, for
paltry political reasons, would hold the
sections apart. To-day, everywhere, all over
the nation, the thoughts of the people will
be turned toward the privileges and respon-
sibilities of citizenship in the restored Union,
and as they leave the hallowed ground where
heroes and martyrs lie in befiowered graves,
they will take with them new inspiration for
a common country
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cornet, and forgetting all the world else, gave
me his wonderful rendering of delicious airs and
ballads remember, too, his comical running
to the corner of the room and hiding his face
when had my lesson poorly, and how he would
look over his shoulder laughing at me and shout.
ing, TRY it again. and when the work was done
to his satisfaction, how proud and glad and
happy he seemed"
DR. W. A. CONN, OF McGaheysville Va, is the
possessor OF sword once worn by Lafayette.
The monogram Of Lafayette is plainly visible
under the hilt, but unfortunately the sword was
hidden away during the late war, and when DIR.
Conn tried to draw it from its soabbard,
1t was found to be rusted so badly that it was
necessary to place it in wise to get 1t out. Tho
pressure of the wise obliterated the monogram
and part of the Latin inscription, which was.
1.-THE virtue of the sword is in the bravery Of the
man." Part of that can still be deciphered. The
hilt Is wrapped with silver wire, and the guard
is Of solid silver. Dr. Conn wished TO send it to
Yorktown to Lafayette's descendants, but conld
find no trustworthy person from his neighbOr-
hood to take charge Of it, and he would not
trust 1t to any of the railroads.