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St. Landry democrat., 1884-10-04

III lCsIHIOny Wn6FeOT We nave hereuntC
signed this 3OIh day OF September, 1884.
ROBERT CHACHERE,
j. j. THOMPSON, Com.
JAMES y. CHACHERE, Clerk.
State Of Louisiana,
Parish Of St. Landry.
BENJAMIN +. Meglnley, Deputy Clerk Of the
18th Judicial Dist of Louisiana, in and for the
the above and foregoing has been duly record,
ed in book No. l, Jury Record, at pages GO, 81
and 50.
Witness my hand and seal Of office, at Opelousas,
SEAL 1884. B. +. MCKINLEY,
W. Deputy Clerk 18th Judi Dist of La.
al A True Copy. ,,ro,,,,
t~~~~ SDeputy-CIe 18th Judi Dist. of La.
St. Landry democrat., 1884-10-04
(Con1municated.l
EDITOR DEMOCRAT:

HAAsv1LLE, La, Sept. 80, 1884.
St. Landry democrat., 1884-10-04

No. 4510.
PROBATE DOCKET, DISTRICT COURT,
PARISH OF ST. LANDRY.
St. Landry democrat., 1884-10-04
JUDICIAL ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
ESTATE OF LOUIS LoUQUETTE.


DUBLEG SALE.
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Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1884-01-23
He Sold Himself.

A hat finisher in one of the Connecti-
cut hat factories applied for pension,
and iu his application stated that on
account of disease contracted in the
army he could not do more than half
work.
One day there appeared in his shop a
long, lank individual in long, lank ul-
ster, who took an interest in hat max
Ing. He was especially pleased with
the finishing. He came around to
where our friend was at work, and,
after watching his motions moment
said:
"Are you new at the business?"
"Newi What makes you think I'm
newP" hastily asked our friend.
Nothing" said the long, lank man,
pleasantly, ''oRly that L thought you
didn't work as fast as the Others"
Fast as the Others" gasped our
friend. "I'll bet S." he added with
spirit, ''that can finish more hats than
any other man In this shop"
A few days later the rapid hat fin
isher received word that his petition for
pension was refused.
The long, lank man in the long, lank
ulster was detective in the employ of
the Pension Bureau.
Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1884-01-23

old. he stood face TO face with Daniel
DeWolfl The young man was drenched
and muddy, but there was no question
of his Identity, and in another moment
he was the centre of happy family
group.
"Well, well, my dear fellow" cried
Mr.. Crittenden as he wrung the young
mans hand. 1--WE all supposed you dead.
Tell us all about it,"
''There is not much to tell" said
DAME, modestly. II was awakened by
the water, which was so high that /
feared the dam might be in danger, and
| lighted the lantern and crossed the
bridge to go up on the other side and
look at 1t. | had scarcely reached the
opposite side of the stream when the
dam above gave way and took the
bridge with it. | could only cross the
Branch TO get back by going up to the
Four-Mile bridge. and the water was SO
high, and travelling so bad, that it took
me long time; but here | am.'
"Well, my boy, I'm very glad to see
you back here, and | was just saying
something to Ethie about you; but she
can tell you all about that later on.
Get YOUR clothes changed, and we'll
have some breakfast-there'l be time
enough to talk business afterwards.
And the result of it all was that when
the mill was rebuilt and enlarged the
following season, it was put in the care
of another, for Daniel found place in
the store as partner of Mr. Critten-
den, and at the big house on the hill,
which was the envy Of all the neigh
bors, there was Il partnership of a more
tender nature, of which the reader
hardly needs TO be told more.
Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1884-01-23
How Many Murderers Escape.

1t appears that from 1860 to 1892 a
hundred ana seventy persone were tried
In Massachusetts, for murder in the first
degree, OF this number only twenty
nine were convicted and only sixteen
paid the extreme penalty of the law,
OF those convicted one committed sui
eide and twelve got their sentence CON-
muted. Here, then, during a period Of
little more than twenty years were a
hundred and seventy murders in one
State and only sixteen executions.
In Connecticut during period of
thirty years, from 1850 to 1880, ninety
seven persons were tried for murder in
the first degree. OF these only thirteen
were convicted of that crime and not
more than seven were hanged.
The statistics for other States would
doubtless show similar results. In
New York city there were hundred
and eighty-five homicides during the
four years ending with 1877. There
was an average of nearly one homicide
a week. During the same period there
were four executions, or just one a year.
The number Of persons tried for MUIR
der in the first degree III the city is
about twenty-five every year, the num-
Der hanged does not exceed on the aver
age one or two year.
These figures are full Of significance.
They show that either through the
fault of the law itself or its administra-
tion by juries the statute imposing the
death penalty for murder is in the vast
majority of cases dead letter. They
further show that while murder is a
common crime the murderer in great
many instances succeeds in escaping
punishment entirely.
Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1884-01-23
Gift Making In Mexico.

Among tie higher classes Of MeX;r0
gift-making is carried to such an extent
that to return the regolos Of ones
friends, consumes large portion of the
average income, Every child, of either
sex, is named after some saint, and the
annual return of that saints particular
'day" is made a season of great re-
joicing, at which all the friends are ex-
pected to send gifts and come with per-
sonal congratulations. In the same
manner every birthday is also observed
from the grst recurrence to the last.
In tie interior it is customary to send
gifts to ones friends on All SAINTS
day, in remembrance of the dead-but
its application to the living / am at a
loss to understand. 1t is matter of
daily occurrence for the creado of some
friend or neighbor to appear about the
dinner hour, bearing a tray covered
with crocheted spread or finely en-
broidered towel, containing fruit,
dulce, cakes, homemade cheese, OF
other dainty, ali Of which delicate at
tentions must, of course, be duly re-
turned.
Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1884-01-23
Imported Images.

In a rough, soft wood box in a
marble dealers store was an image of
Cupid cut from marble, chunks of
wood supporting the weak and delicate
parts.
at is specimen of ready-made par
lor statuary," the dealer said. 1T has
Just arrived from Italy, and. when
busted, is ready for the parlor of mil
ilonaire.'
"Why do you call 1t ready-made?"
"Those statues are all made TO order,
but not as the term is generally under
stood. In Florence. for instance. are a
number of studios over which artists of
ability and repute preside. In mo-
ment Of inspiration that Cupid WAS
conceived and moulded In clay. Good
workmen, whose inspiration lasts them
from twelve to fourteen hours a day
and for seven days a week, carve from
ti5 block as many copies of the model
as the trade will bear. Thus the price
of the inspiration may be distributed
over twenty-five fifty or one hundred
Cnpids. If a man should hire sculp-
tor to make a single image, ne would
pay $500 or $1,000 for the inspiration,
besides the price Of the block and the
labor of the workman. The sculptor
himself might put file on the statue
and he might not, just as the exigen-
c,es of society permitted or his fancy
dictated.
in Sicilian marble, which is now
an outdoor stone, we have many de-
signs suitable for cemeteries and graves.
These imported goods are not only su-
perIor to, but they are cheaper than,
anything you can get in any other way.
The price of cemetery pieces range from
500 to $500, and of parlOr pieces from
$50 to $1,000. The difference between
these statues and those costing from
two to five times as much is ssimply that
these have no great sculptor's name at
tached. The duty on these goods was
raised from ten TO thirty per cent. by
the latest adjustment of the tariff. That
was not to protect home inspiration,
but merely as matter of revenue. On
block marble the duty was raised from
5S to 65 per cent. We are not quite
sure why this WAS done, but we know
it was not to protect the infant quarry
ing business.
Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1884-01-23
An Australian Baron.

About fOrty-siX years ago a farmer
named CLARK left the shores of England
for Tasmania for the purpose of farming.
taking with him consider able capital,
and being. in addition, a remarkable
Judge of sheep and cattle. He appear
to have failed in that island, and as the
Tasmarians were forming a new settle
ment ON the shores of the great AuJtra-
lian continent. near Port Phillip, he de-
termined to try his fortunes there. Where
the Queen City of the South. Mel
bourne. with its 400, ,000 inhabitants.
now stands. was then a waste, Inhabited
by the savage and the kangaroo. Clarke
at this period received from distant
relative a considerable sum of money,
which he Immediately invested In land
in the vicinity of Melbourne, then
called .'Baregrass." AS the Colonial
Government OF New South Wales grant
ed special surveys of 80, 900 at the uni
form price of five shillings per acre,
Clarke Immediately invested his legacy
III one of these lmmense blocks, and
thus laid the foundation of his gigantic
fortune This was in 1910. and for sew
eral years he continued to take up sheep
and cattle stations in the uninhabited
regions of Australia Felix, now the Col
ony OF Victoria. lie always attended
the Government land salss, and bought
largely in the Ballarat districts, where
the richest so d mines in Australia ars
situated The discovery OF gold at
Mount Alexander aud Ballarat increased
his growing wealth, as he exsc;ed rigid
ly tribute of royalty for permission to
mine on bis coveted lands, and thus OBJ
tanned immense Gums.
Never were riches more worthily be-
slowed. He continued TIL the time of
his death, 1864, to buy lands, sell merino
wool and deal In cattle. His son sue
ceeded to tnls vast inheritance, which
comp ised at his fathers death, 500,-
900 merlno sheep, 800, 0O0 cattle, and
nearly 5000, 600 acres of freehold lands,
and a leasehold of Crown lands equal
in ar,a to that of England. 1he pro-
bate duty paid 10 the various Colonial
Governments Was calculated en- an es-
tate valued at $50. 600, 600, though that
was not more than half its real value.
HIS son, tie present Lord Rupertswood
has by his care and attention quad
rupled this vast fortune. When the
Duke of Edinburgh and the sons of the
Prince of Wales visited Australia, they
were felsted right royalty at Ruperts-
wood, the family seat, and Queen VIC
toria created him Baron Rupertswood
of Rupertswood, In the Colony of Vic
toria, and a Peer of the United King
dom. Without any exaggeration, the
Australian is worth 200, 900, 900, and
the influx of population is adding daily
to his wealth,
HIS generosity is unbounded. Tle
charitable institutions of Melbourne
and the colonies owe him a great debt of
gratitude for his iberality. Ruperts-
wood, the seat of this bucolic Australian,
is superb, and can compare with any
residence in the Old or New World, its
estimated cost beng 81. 600. 900.
Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1884-01-23
A Baby World.

All chemical and physical deductions
tend to teach US that the earth is the
child Of the sun, left behind in Its sue
cessive cOntractions, as Laplace SO
grandly illustrated, or exploded from
the mass Of the parent orb in some con
vulsion hardly yaster than those which
the astronomer constantly beholds. The
earth was begotren of the solar fires.
As We look upon the great planet
Jupiter, we see picture Of what, per
haps, the earth once was. 1t is not
such an orb as the early astronomers
imagined-progressed, exalted, the
home Of lofty intelligence. All re-
searches tend to show that it is still a
red-hot world; baby world. The oceans
of water which will some day cover its
surface are yet vaporous or gaseous
with intense heat. 1t is l 400 times as
large as the earth. If these two bodies
came INTO existence at one solar birth
throe, we can readily understand why
the earth is specifically cooled and
habitat BILE, while Jupiter is still glowing
with solar heat.
If these planets were both created at
thc oouC tihiCs luC 1aiSti blu "Ouiu
more slowly radiate its heat into space;
it would remain In its infancy, while
the earth was swiftly passing through
its stages Of development.
What would become Of the earth if its
whole mass should be heated red-hot?
Its ocean would boil for little while
and swiftly vanish in vapors. Carbonic
acid, stored up in the limestones or pro-
duced by combustion of the coal beds,
sulphur, mercury, all volatile materials
these would swiftly rise from the
earth's crust, and form an atmosphere
10000 miles deep, enveloping the glow
ing orb. Looking at Jupiter, we see
what the earth once was; looking at the
earth We see what Jupiter is to be.
The red planet Mars more fully illus
trates the same line Of deductions. 1t
is smaller than the earth, and has sent a
larger proportion of its heat into space.
As We contemplate the activities now in
progress beneath our feet, we can COM
pIehend the forces which have reduced
to its present state our brother planet.
Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1884-01-23
Het Names.

AS kerchlefs laid away with scent
bags imbide their perfume, so pet words
from home uses acquire a sweetness
not their own. 1t is goou sign when
one hears the masculine and feminine
heads of the table ''father" and ''moth-
er" each other. The high chairs and
the little plates associated with the ORR
gin of those appellations may be long
gone from the sides thereof, but the
memory of the flaxen curls that used to
wave over them is still there embalmed
in the amber of those loving designa-
tions; the more if ''father" and ''mOth-
er" are now themselves grown white
haired and venerable.
We know family where one little
newcomer invented and bestowed upon
the dignitied head tsereof, a pet name,
original in form and unsuggested by
any cognomen to him naturally belong
ing. And We have often been i'm
pressed with the thought how the u.s.
age of that name fer him, and to him,
so to speak, has carried double-ad-
ding to the simple use of Identification
which it shared with the names others
called him by, special thought of low
ing recognition and remembrance of
its gentle author. -lleH-. s-aE
The simple fact is, and there is no
good In trying to disguise it, that we
with our calm blood and proper and
reticent ways, tend toward a frigidity
of manner in the domestic circle,
which has the appearance-and some.
times has the reality-of unsocialness
if not of positive want of affection. A
more demOnstrative way of speech and
life would bring out the love which i.
underneath to the great comfort of al
parties.
Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1884-01-23

At last the problem of our school
days is solved, SAYS a Mexican letter,
and we have discovered how Cortez ac-
cOmplished the overland transportation
of that historic fleet Of ships, built on
the coast and borne over the mountains
to the lake of Mexico. Nearly all the
labor in this queer country Is performed
by man-pOwers few carts or horses be-
ing employed. We meet human beasts
Of burden carrying wardrobes on their
heads, pianos on their backs or huge
blocks of building stone with apparent
ease. Mexican Indians who transport
goods from the interior are SO trained
that they will tire the strongest horse
in equal time and distance, carrying
from 100to 150 pounds upon their backs.
1t IS an actual fact that, after making a
long trip thus heavily loaded, they Ill
their baskets with stones on the return,
their strained and distorted muscles re-
quiTing the accustomed burden.
Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1884-01-23
The Dead Letter Ohce.

-Four million three hundred and
.seventy-nine thousand one hundred and
ninety eight letters stTayed into the
Dgad-ietter Office during the last year,
3, SAG, ,Sj1 or these were not called for
at the pOStOtices to which they were
sent; Is, ,S5j were sent in from hotels
because the departed guests had left no
addresses for forwarding their mails;
49, were inSutiiciently paid; l, 345
contained forbidden articles, lottery
tickets ard the like; 80, ,13T were erro-
neOusly or illegibly addressed and H.
919 letters bore no address whatever.
OF these letters Is, 301 contained money
amounting to $50, ,647. %. Besides that
Is, ,095 letters contained drafts, checks,
money orders, etc, to the amount Of
81 ,3Sl. .994. AZ. Moreover, 90, ,l31 letters
contained postage stamps and 40, 125
contained receipts, paid notes and can
celed obligations of all sorts.
With this remarkable showing of
more than S1,000,00O gone wrong, too
much cannot be said in caution TO those
who cOnhde letters and packages to the
mail. The money thus collected at the
Dead Letter Office is turned into the
treasury. The goods and mercandise
from the packages are sold at auction,
and the Christmas and fancy cards are
done up in packages and sent TO the
chlldren's hospitals and the orphan asy-
lums of Washington.
A whole history of possible anguish
and heart burniugs is wrapped up in the
collection of 50, l60 photographs that
came to the Dead Letter Office in year,
and injured and resentful swains, an
Jered relatives and friends may know
where some of their treasures have gone
to. The photographs are preserved and
this portrait gallery Of the Postoffice
Department numbers up into the mil
lions, beginning with miniature that
was lost in the mails fifty years ago.
Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1884-01-23
shooting Guiter.Snipe.

She was thin and tall, and scantily
dressed and looked as though square
meals were entirely unknown to her.
In her arms, wrapped in tattered old
red shawl. she carried very diminutive
specimen of humanity. 1t was on Sun
day morning that a resident of Cleve-
land first discovered her and was at
tracted by her actions. She walked
along in the gutter front of the big res
taurants on the square, and peered
steadily down into the slime and mud
gathered there Every few moments
she stopped and picked up something
from the ground and slowed it away in
her dress pockets. After each act of
this kind she would raise her eyes for a
moment to see if any person was obser-
wing her movements. For half an hour
she continued operations, and then the
baby awoke from its sleep ana sent forth
such wall as only hungry babies can
give utterance to. The mother then
went into the old court house alley and
sat down to nurse the little one back to
sleep. Having accomplished this, she
laid the infant down on the hard stones
near the fence, and, thursting her hand
into her pocket, she pulled it forth and
deposited ON the stones near the sleep
ing youngsters a quantity of half smoked
cigars and stubs which she had picked
from the gutter. All of them were
dirty. In the vernacular of the boot.
black the woman had heen shooting
slipes." After emptying her pocket,
she looked around cautiously and then
lifted her dress skirts up around heI
waist. Suspended from the latter and
hanging between the dress and skirts,
was huge bag which seemed to be at
least half full Of something, probably
''snipes." Into this bag the yellow.
faced woman emptied her collection OF
cigar stubs. Then she picked up her
baby and moved away. The reporters
curiosity being excited, he accosted thu
woman and asked her what she die
with the cigars. She looked disappintet
to learn that she had been watched an(
answered very shortly, as she move(
rapidly away.
"Why / sell them, Of course" Sh,
vanished around the corner.
"What do you buy cigar stubs forp'
the reporter propounded to manufac
| turer.
1--WE don't buy any for any purpose,
he replied, "atd neither does any Grst
Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1884-01-23
vol. XXXVIII.
NOBILITY,

Time worth is in being, not seeming;
In doing each day that goes by
SINE litrie good thing-not in dreaming
of great things 10 do by and by.
E,r whatever men say in their blind ness,
And spite of the fancies Of youth,
There's nothing 50 kindly rs kindness,
And nothing 50 royal rs truth
We get back our mete as we measure
We cannot do wrong and feel right,
Nor can we give pain and feel pleasure,
For Justice avenges each slight
The air for the wing of the sparrow,
The bush for the robin or wren,
But always the path that Is narrow
And strait for the children OF men.
lis not in the pages Of story
The hear; of ITS ills beguile,
Though he who makes conrtship 10 glory
Gives all that he hath for smile.
For when from her heights he has won her,
Alas il is only 10 prove
That nothing so loyal as honor,
And nothing SO loyal as love!
We cannot make bargains for 'blisses
Nor catch them like fishes in nets;
And sometimes the thing our life misses
Helps more than tie thing which IL get;
For good lieth not in pursuing,
Nor gaining of great OF of small,
But lust in the doing, and doing
A. We would be done by. is all.
Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1884-01-23
Frozen Water Pipes.
Who is this many''

"Who is this MANI"
''The one who is rushing along, with
his hat on the back of his head, and his
eyes hanging outI"
"Yes,"
''That is man who warned the SER
want girl the other night to shut off the
water so the pipes wouldn't freeze"
And the good girl obeyed?"
"Not exactly. She meant to, but her
beau came up and she forgot all about
it. Consequently there was freeze-up.
Poor grill She is very sorry! If tears
would thaw the pipes she would shed
'em by the hundred"
"And why does the man rush?"
"HC ia on his way to the plumber for
consolation.
And what will the plumber do?"
''He will show the man 14,67S calls
which were booked before he came in,
and which must be attended to in rota-
tion."
''And will there be any swearing?"
"There will, my boyl There will be
swearing and stamping and growing
and blasting, but it won't be on the
part of the plumber. He will preserve
his serene smile through it all. When
the other man gets out of wind he will
retire"
''To his Officer"
'Oh, no. He will get off and buy
himself an alchohol lamp, have a drug
gist fill it for him, and he will return
home to thaw out the pipes for himself.
He can thus make saving of several
thousand dollars, saying nothing Of the
personal satisfaction Of getting ahead of
a plumber"
''And will he succeed?"
'sNot by a John Rodgers! He will
crawl under the house, scalp himself on
the joists, fill his knees with rusty nails,
choke himself with smoke, and finally
crawl out and give it up"
"And wait for thaw?"
mo, Stree! He won't wait for any
thing. He'll skip down town for fur
niture van and move into another. house.
That's where his head is level. It's
cheaper to move than to thaw out fro.
zen water pipes"