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The Louisiana Democrat., 1883-03-07

Or the 100 recent graduates in
medicine Of the University Of Nash
Vile and Of Vanderbilt University,
El3 we're from Alabama, u from Tex
as, 8 from Arkansas, 4 from Louis
iana, 3 from Georgia and 2 from
Mississippi.
The Louisiana Democrat., 1883-03-07

Gov. Butler, Of Massachusetts,
reiterates his belief shst tho four
sssnth amendment fully covers the
tight OF women to vote, sad that the
United States Supreme Court will &C
decide whenever the question is pre-
sentsd.
The Louisiana Democrat., 1883-03-07

-Ir is claimed by the Texas pa
pers that the profits on cattle-raising
in that state have averaged $50 per
cent. in the past Eve years while in
some cases they have reached 500
per cent. The profit for the frst year
is nominal, the second year it svera-
ges 10 per cent, the third year 30 per
cent, the fourth year 30 per cent,
and the htth year 10 per cent. The
average loss by disease and casualty
during the same period has been Is
per cent, or 8 per cent. annually.
The extension Of the railroad system
Of Texas is expected to increase the
profits OF the business, as it does
away with the great risks involved
in long drives.
The Louisiana Democrat., 1883-03-07

IN. W. AVER = SoK's American
Newspaper Annual contains full sta
sistics of all Newspapers in tho Uni
ted States and Canada, slso popula'
aiops from the Census Of 1889. Sent
postpaid on receipt Of price, THREE
Dollars. Address N. W. Aver I
Son, Advertising Agents, Times
Building, Philadelphia.
The Louisiana Democrat., 1883-03-07

TIE sugar tariff below grade 1a
will remain as fixed by the Senate,
and the conference committee has
agreed to increase the duty on the
Grades between Is and Is.
The Louisiana Democrat., 1883-03-07

--THRRE Ia q touch OF sarcastic
wit in the decision Of the supreme
court holding that . man has no in
surable interest In his mother.in
laws life.
The Louisiana Democrat., 1883-03-07

Col. Robert Asa Packer. presi-
dent OF the New York and Pennsyl-
vanis railroad died recently at his
residence In Sayre, Pennsylvania.
The Louisiana Democrat., 1883-03-07
-GovzRxoK Alexander Stephens,
of Georgia, is dead.

p. F. Herwig has been nomina-
ted sub-.reasursr for the port at Now
Orleans.
The Louisiana Democrat., 1883-03-07

R-FREDD1E Gebhsrt pretends that
he does not like the new scarf pin
that has been named for him. 1t re'
presents q little gold donkey with q
brass face.
The Louisiana Democrat., 1883-03-07

~--DR. Waldermar Billie, Of New
Orleans, has been convicted OF for
gerry and sentenced to ten years I'm
prisonment in the Penitentiary.
The Louisiana Democrat., 1883-03-07

--MsNrAL depression, Weakness OF
the muscular system, general ILL
health, benefited by using Browns
Iron Bitters.
The Louisiana Democrat., 1883-03-07
JUSTICE MANNING.
WHAT aE SAID AT TIE RECENT ENTER
rA1NMENr GIVEN GEN. DIAz, OF
MEXICO, BY MAJOR Z. 4. BURKE OF
THE TINES DIMoCRAT.

For the benefit Of our readers no
publish in full the remarks Of Judge
Manning made At the breakfast CIV
at Spanish Fort, on Sunday, BY Ma
ior e. A. Burke in honor OF Ex-fres
ident Diaz Of Mexico, the Mexican
patriot and salesman. We know oil
Rapidians will read with pleasure
the eentlemau's remarks on such an
occasion:
"1 assure you I do not propose to
make a speech, however much you
NAV desire one. But being called
upon, OF course must say some
thing, and that something must be
about our sister republic and those
relations which one day she will
have to our own country. I think
that this reunion here this morning,
this union of nationality 10 but an
expression, type OF that condition
Of things which is to come hereafter
1t points to tho coming great cordi
atty between the two republics,
cordiality which is now rendered
possible, which is rendered certain
from the fact that all OF those idea'
which. 25 or 80 years ago, existed IL
the minds of the American people
having for their object the annexa
ton OF Mexico, have now been dis
solved. Americans have learned Il
be content with their own country
at any rate, Is to its size, whateve
objections We may have a. to othe
matters. We do not wish any longe
to extend our shores. Wherefore
our neighboring republic, who, not
short time ago, had good cause fo
some jealousy Of our apparent d.
sire to stretch our boundary furthe
towards her border, may now hav
toward us that kindness Of feeling
which two neighbors should cultiva'
toward each other in their respecti,
, relations. What We want now is nj
to get any more territory, but to g
tablish kind feelings and close con
mercial relations between all tt
, countries that border upon us.
> hope very sincerely that tho result
, this union may be that we may col
fer upon our neighbors some Of II
good things We have, and that '
may receive some Of the very exec
: lent things that they have. N
neighbor here At the table 10 ono
the most distinguished lawyers
Q Mexico, and l have been resrettil
during the whole entertainment, tn
We have been unable to talk togeths
III could talk to him, I would o.
something like this: That I hol
while Aexico will receive from Us I
1.-The good things We have, that 81
8 will also send to us some OF her be
things In return; that while she tax
from Us part Of our judicial syste
81 for it is contemplated there to {
tablish what We English people ha
always prided ourselves upon, I
. trial by jury, which We have be
in tho habit Of considering t
sword and buckler OF our liberty.
Y hope she will take it in oil its puri
= as it was 100 years ago; otherw
l am afraid she will not get as GO
thing as she had reason to expec
The Louisiana Democrat., 1883-03-07

-THE law reducing lettsr postage
to two cents, goes into effect. Octo
ber first next.
The Louisiana Democrat., 1883-03-07
LIST OF PRIZES:
1867 Prizes, amounting TO-. .$265, 500

1867 Prizes, amounting to. .$265, 500
CERTIFicATE-Wo do hereby certify
that we supervise the arrangements for
all the monthly and semi-annual draw
ings of the Louisiana State Lottery Co.,
and In person manage and control the
Drawings themselves, and that the same
are conducted with honesty, fairness
and In good faith toward ali parties.-
We authorize the Company to use this
certificate, with fac-simfles of our sig
natures attached, in fits advertisements.
...,..-- G.. T. BEAUREGARD,
@ J. A. EARLY,
Application for rates to clubs should be
made only to the Office Of tho Company
in New Orleans.
For further information write clear
ly, giving full address. Send orders
by Express, Registered Letter, OF Mo-
uey Order, addressed only to
NJ. A. DAUPHIN,
New Orleans, La.
"A. Albert l. Son, Agents, Alexandria.
The Louisiana Democrat., 1883-03-07
Louisiana State lotteryc'

lncorporated in 1863 for Is years by tho
IeeisIature for Educatianal and Cbarits-
bic purposes-with Capitol Of 81 ,0oO, 600
to which reserved fund of over $780,
600 has since been added. BY an over
whelming popular vote it's franchise was
made a part Of the present State Constitu'
ton adopted December 2. A. D. 1879.
The Louisiana Democrat., 1883-03-07

ia. Albert l. Son, Agents, Alexandria.
The Somerset herald. [volume] (Somerset, Pa.) 1870-1936, 1883-10-17
Hands OF.

Olive Logan, who ought to be con-
sidered good authority on any SUBJ
ject she writes about, gives the fol-
lowing advice to young girls. She
undoubtedly 'knows how it is her
SELF" or did long, long ago.
"A woman's safeguard is to keep
mans hands off her. If you need
his assistance in walking, take his
arm instead of him taking yours.
Just tell him in plain English to
Hands off," He may not like it at
first, but he will respect you in the
future ten times more. Men will be
and do Just what the women allow
them to do. Men will not do to
trust. Give man your arm and
you will find him very confidential,
and he will take great many privi-
leges he would not take if he was
not permitted to do so. He will
give your arm many loving squeez-
es and sly twists that he could have
no opportunity of doing, and the op-
portunity is just what he is after. A
few words more of advice and |
close.
Keep young girls off the street,
except when they have business.
Teach them 1t is unnecessary to go
to the postofiice every time they go
out. Your girls can walk alone just
as well as your boys. Don't allow
your girls, if they must have a beau,
to go with boy much older than
themselves. If possible, instil into
their nature that they are safer alone
than in the hands of any man
preachers not excepted"
The Somerset herald. [volume] (Somerset, Pa.) 1870-1936, 1883-10-17
Better than Millions.

Robert ]. Burdette talks in his pa
ternal way to young men who have
their living to earn. Beginners in
life can not have too much of that
kind of encouragement.
James q. Fair is worth $4,000
600, and the whole s42,000,OO0 oft,
my dear boy, can't make him as hap
py as you are with the dew of youth
in your heart.
If you envy him, if you, with your
brown hands and your bright young
face with the down just shading
your lip, with not gray hair in
your head, or agnawing care in your
heart, with the morning sun shin
ing on your upturned face, with the
velvet turf under your feet and the
blue heavens above your head, with
the blood coursing through your
veins like wine, with fifty or sixty
years of life before you, with
miarge after mirage of bright dreams
and beautiful illusions and pleasant
vanities making the landscape beau
tiful about you; ifyou envy this man
his gray hairs and his wrinkles, and
his old heart, you are fool, my boy !;
and you are scattering ashes on the
roses that grow in the morning.
There is lightness in your step,
my son, and color in your blood,
and the dreams in your heart, and
all the love and beauty and fresh
uess of the sunrise, the s42,000,0O0
cannot buy.
The Somerset herald. [volume] (Somerset, Pa.) 1870-1936, 1883-10-17
More Respect for Agriculture.

Agriculture is large enough fact
in this country to have rights inal-
ienable, and the Grange now leads
the van in the aggressive demand
that those rights shall have their
metes and bounds fixed in Justice
in courts. Congress and Constitution
al enactments. The farmer is be-
coming more acknowledged in high
political places as the posessor OF a
head with brains as well as a mus
cular power to be directed in the
fields of manual labor and when 1t
is thoroughly understood that he is
no longer a mere puppet in the work
of the ballot his prominence as a
factor in public affairs will be as
sured.
Muscle and docile industry are a
no mean power upon the farm, but
muscle and mind are combination
not only wholesomein the fields but
invincible in the political forum
where we must all needs 60 to assert
eur rights.
Educating the peopleup TO a high
er manhood and womanhood Is a
eading hobby of the Grange and
we have been riding it with per-
sistence and consistent grit that ar
CUES well for our success; we want
all our brethren of the plow to learn
the good and wide-awake art OF
thinking for themselves so that with
open ewes clear heads and well pest
ed minds they may be able to cope
with the problems and practical
philosophy of labor clear through
from the furrow in the field to the
final result in dollars, cents and the
accrued comforts and refinements
of life.
We are teaching that the farmer
is or should be, social being and
would fain coax him out of his grim
cast iron shell ofisolation and intro
duce him to his neighbor and to the
world to the end that he and his
wife and all that are of his house
NAV forget some of the burdens OF
life, Timber up chatty mood IN
their glum tongues and learn a few
of the healthy beauties ofrelaxation.
For making slavery of work the
mum tongue the dumpish ways and
foo much selfish Tumination upon
the personal prominence of the big
| are not the best kind of blessings
for the SONS and daughters of agri-
culture. The necessary routines OF
farm and domestic labor have very
much of the humdrum in their
sameness but if we can mix in men
tai lessons as well and little more
of the hearthstone, Juvenile spice OF
play with the resolve that our daily
handicraft shall range higher than
the mere grabbing for dollars, We
will have accomplished reform well
worthy of lr efforts.
The Somerset herald. [volume] (Somerset, Pa.) 1870-1936, 1883-10-17
Fattening Swine.

1t is generally conceded that
there should be no standstill period
in the correct system of feeding but
that growth ought to begin with
young pigs and be steadily and con-
tinuously increased until the ami
NAL is ready for the butchers block
While everybody nearly accepts the
mo standstill" system as correct in
theory, most farmers in reality keep
their pigs during the summer
months on very poor and meqgre
ratious, waiting until cold weather
to begin feeding with a view to fat
tening.
Growers who practice the plan of
making the most of the summer
season by regular feeding testifying
to the decided advantage of this svs-
TEN. In very cold weather, unless
the hogs can be well housed and
kept at temperature of about sixty
degrees, what the animal eats goes
to keep up the heat and the food
fails to produce the same amount
of fat it would in warm weather.
There remains no question but that
it pays to provide warm comfortable
houses for swine during the winter
season in rigorous climates.
The excessive fat gained by ex-
cessive feeding of fat producing food
is objected by many consumers who
prefer large proportion of lean with
the fat. Lire Stock Journal says on
this subject that the hog is naturally
a grass and root eating animal but in
its domestication, being fed almost
wholly in this country upon con-
concentrated food, has come the hab-
it of depositing this excess Of fat.
If young pigs are kept upon food
that will grow the muscles and
develop a rangy frame they will in
the opinion of the authority referred
to possess so much muscle when
half-grown that a moderate length
of time in fattening, even on corn will
not pile on an excessive amount OF
fat. Pigs fattened in Canada partly
upon barley but largely upon peas
a highly nitrogenous food yielding a
large proportion of muscle produce
more lean meat than do swine fat
tened almost wholly upon corn an
excessively starchy and fattening
food.
The Somerset herald. [volume] (Somerset, Pa.) 1870-1936, 1883-10-17

aHow many Chinese are there in
New York" asked a reporter of an
officer of the Chinese Consulate re-
Gently established here.
1--WE are now engaged in making
a list of Chinese in New York, which
will tell the exact number. At pres
ent / can only say that we estimate
the number at three thousand"
"Are there any women among
them ?"
81 am told that one Chinese wo-
man lives here, somewhere on Sixth
avenue. You know that most if not
all of the men came here from San
Francisco. This trip, with the ocean
voyage to California, is rather expen-
sive to the average Chinaman, and
would be more SO, of course, if he
brought his family. Besides, the
larger number expect to return to
China"
What are the occupation of these
three thousand ?"
"Most of them are laundrymeE,
some cigar-makers and the rest petty
merchants. There is, however, a
firm in Broadway, opposite Astor
Place, which imports bric-a-brac,
&c. There are no Chinese import
ers of teas that | know Of"
"Where do they get the names of
Lee" Sing" Lung" ?" pursu-
ed the reporter.
"Oh those simply represent cer-
tain Chinese sounds. | can give
you a curious fact or two about their
names. One is that, by an old GUS
tom in China, a man has one name
in business and another in his pri-
vate life. The other fact is that
their names corresponding to the
English John, Tom, DC, follow, not
precede the family name. Some,
however, have adopted the English
way"
How much intercourse is there
between the Chinese and japanese
here ?"
None whatever. You may be
interested in learning that though
the two nations use the same char
acters for writing, one cannot under
stand the spoken Language of the
other. The japanese here number
about four hundred.
as not the language very difficult
to acquire? ?"
Extremely so, there being, for in
stance. seven thousand letters, each
having four sounds"
DO the Chinese have any relig-
ious or joss-houses here ?"
There isn't any in this city, but
| believe there is one in New Jersey
in connection with a large laundry
case of cleanliness hext to godli-
ness, YOU see"
The Somerset herald. [volume] (Somerset, Pa.) 1870-1936, 1883-10-17
How Wives May Win.

A woman, because she is a wife,
cannot afford TO neglect those graces
of mind and manner which first at
tracted her lover and husband. The
common round of household duties
should not entirely absorb her She
should have more than one side to
her life; should be a helpmate,
companion, friend, mistress of her
husbands affections, years after
their union, instead of being merely
a skillful cook or competent house
wife. To be all that nature and
reason demand of her, she need not
release her hold upon the marital
heart by confning herself to the
kitchen, the laundry and the nur-
sery. She may be a devoted wife
and mother without forgetting that
she was a woman before she was
either; ever aiming to keep alive in
her husbands breast the spirit of
gallantry and tenderness, on which
masculine affection almost entirely
depends. Her husband is constant
ly advancing, if not by regular cul-
ture, at least by daily contact with
the outer world and it should be
her ceaseless study to keep abreast
of his improvement. Let her by no
means forget her coquettish arts, or
lay aside her engaging ways which
did so much to ensnare his heart.
She must have something TO enter
tain him with on his return home
beside dreary iterations of troubles
with servants and blunders of cook
cry books. A rose in her hair aad a
verse of poetry on her lips have
more power to hold him than the
most eloquent story of domestic dis
aster. Yet neither roses or poetry
will be of much avail if dinner is
late, or badly cooked and served,
Man at his best is a materialist. 1t
is not the wife's fault that she walks
on so low a domestic plane. Sne
would gladly mount to a higher one
if her husband would give her his
helping hand. or even invite her to
the upper air. Men are unkind and
unsympathetic more from want of
thought than from want of feeling
They unconsciously put obstacles in
the wav of feminine advancement,
and seldom pause to observe how
the obstacles are overcome, or reflect
that their joint assistance is requir-
ed. Their minds should be stirred.
their memories aroused by the gen.
tie agencies women know so well
how to exercise. Then they will see
clearly enough how easy it is for a
positive nature to drift into a mega
tive tyranny. From delicate sug-
gestions, and by the charmingly in
complete syllogisms of sentiment
they will arrest their temperamental
tendencies, and be transferred into
lovers again before they are well
aware how the delightful change
has been wrought.
The Somerset herald. [volume] (Somerset, Pa.) 1870-1936, 1883-10-17
Mean People.


One of the oldest things in the
world is the fact that mean people
do not know that they are mean, but
cherish a sincere conviction that
they are the souls of generosity.
You will hear them invt ighing
loudly against a neighbor who does
not come up to the standard OF a
generous man, and decrying the sin
of boarding and withholding, with
out being sensible in the least that
they are condeming themselves.
They are usually people who are not
in the habit of self-criticism, and II
they were not amusing, they would
be the most aggravating class alive.
Moreover, they are generally people
who are not only willing to receive,
but who demand a great deal at the
hands of others I; yet the example oil
their friends in giving and lending
never seems to strike them as at
variance with their own line OF con-
duct. and if by any chance they part
with farthing, it appears to them a
more nagnanimous act than the
founding Of hospital by another.
The mean person must be brought
to a lively sense of the need before
opening her purse ; as for beggars,
she disapproves of them alto~ether ;
they are pestiferous as the mosqui-
to in her ewes, and ought to be leg
islated out of existence. We do not,
however. always find the mean per
son among the rich she is quite as
likely to be poor indeed, one OF the
great disadvantages of poverty is
that it often obliges one to seem
small, obliges one TO think OF the
candle ends when one would prefer
to think of better things. Money
does not make man mean necessa-
rily, or we should not all be strug-
Cling so hard to obtain it it ought
rather to be preventive. The dis
ease lies in the disposition of the in
dividual, and it is doubtful If any
ulterior circumstances can eradicate
il : and while in this view we may
easily forgive her, we yet find her
vastly inconvenient TO deal with. If
she is the employer, the mean wo-
man is apt 10 get as much work
from her servants for the least money
possible. On some pretext or other
she detains her seamstress after her
regular days's work is over, under
pays her washerwoman, or exchang-
es old duds for clean linen; keeps
the servants fire low, or pays their
wages with cast-ofi finery. Some
times, indeed, it is the servant
who gives poor work for liberal
payment; sometimes II Is the hus-
band who dimes sumptuously at his
club, while his family sit down to
poor diet sometimes it is the land
lord who obliges the tenant to make
his own repairs or go shabby; some
times it is the neighbor who borrews
but never lends. the manufacturer
who adulterates food or drugs; the
step-mother who feeds the children
on skinned milk the mother-in-
law, who begrudges the sons wife
the fallals she has not been used to;
or the daughter-in-law who makes
her husbands mother feel like
stranger in her home. Indeed,
meanness is such an unlovely trait
that it is no wonder we all disown
II
The Somerset herald. [volume] (Somerset, Pa.) 1870-1936, 1883-10-17
They Dou't Affiliate.

A colored man was busily engaged
in saving wood TOR Colonel Powis,
when the latter observed that the
bosom of the man and the brother
so to speak, Vas adorned by an odd
Fellows breast pin.
"Do the white Odd Fellows and
the colored Odd Fellows affiliate p
asked Colonel Powis.
Don't fillyate wuf cuss, but they
helps each other out
Well that's the same thing Amt
it?'
No sir; hits not the same ding
What's the difference &?
The colored man stopped saving
wood and made the following expla-
nation :
Last week, when dat norther was
a freezin' der marrer in yer bones, |
went inter der saloon of a white man
what totes dis very same emblem.
| was in distress rale distress as |
hadn't had a dram dat mornin', so |
glib him de signal of distress,
Did he respond ?
He didn't glib de proper response.
De proper response would hab been
to rub his lef' ear with his right hand
and to hab sot out de bottle.
Then he did not respond correct
Typ
No, sir; he made a motion at be
doah wild one hand and reached un-
der de bar wild de odder. | made
de Odd Fellers' signal Of distress
once noah, an den sem't'in' hard
hit me on de head an knocked me
clean out into de street.
Hit was the bung starter what dat
white brother Odd Feller had frew
at me in response tothe distress sig
nal
Then the colored Odd Fellows
and the white Odd Fellows do not
affiliate?'
Just what / told yer. Dey don't
fillyate, but dey helps each odder
out. l was helped outin de street
wild de bung starter but fillyate
means to set out de whisky, Tex
as Siftinps