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St. Landry democrat. (Opelousas, La.) 1878-1894, 1884-10-11
Sand in the Sugar.

"What doYou call that?" asked Mrs.
Small, rushing into the store of her
grocer on Washington street and
passing him an unwashcd cofoe-cup,
containing ne:r!y half gill OF brown
ish paste. The trader put OH his glasses
and looked at the contents a moment,
and then gave the cup back.
':Well," said he, II am not much ot
a judge, but from what | know of such
things L should say it was sweetened
mixture of strong coffee and fine sand. "
"And do you know where the sand
came from?'' asked she.
''It probably came in the sugar"
"And do you know. Mr.. Bullbutter, :"
resumed she, with menacing voice, '.do
you know where got that sugar?'
II think it's likely you bought it of
me; I sell sugar"
20, you own up about it, do you?
You confess to selling sand to poor,
lone woman, and making her believe it
is sugar, do you? Now, Mr.. Bullbut-
ter,'' and here her voice became very
ominous, II would just like to know
what you would do about it if you had
caught man playing such a trick ON
you'll
''That depends great deal on the
circumstances, Mrs. Small. | would,
in fact, depend entirely upon whether
/ wanted any sand or mott
''What do you think ought to de
about it who have been deceived so
basely?"
"Pardon me, Mrs. Small, but as you
have asked me fair question, I viii
give you an honest answer. The last
time I called at your house to collect
thatold bill noticed that your knives
and forks were looking a little rusty.
and If were you l would save up all
the. sand I found in my coffee-cups and
give my cutlery good securing. The
cost would be nothing and the inn
provement would more than pay for
the extra elbow grease; besides that
you are a.
''Brute!'' CALCULATED she, bouncing
out of the store and leaving him with .
childlike smile playing on his fao&-"
BoSiaR Gloka
St. Landry democrat. (Opelousas, La.) 1878-1894, 1884-10-11
Destruction Of Feed Products.

There is a proverb to the effect that
he who throws away bread shall live to
need it, or die for the want of it. The
dumping of peat.hes into the river by
the carload, to keep the price up for
the stock on hand, is parallel in
EQUITY. Last year the high price pota-
toes were bringing brought such an
avalanche upon us thSt prices went be-
low cost, and it was said that to save
the market they were withdrawn from
sale by being cast by the shipload of
the dock. We ought to have some gem
eral law covering the destruction OF
food. While hungry wretches, gaunt
and hollow-eyed. beg for food from door
to door, it is CRIME against nature to
destroy food which might benefit them
Like the pouring out Of milk upon the
streets, under the authority of law, be-
cause it is supposed to be either SKINNED
or watered, it is an outrage and crime
If milk is to be confscated, why may il
not be given to the hospitals? The pre-
tense that it is unwholesome is all .
sham. How man with . reputation
IS q man of science ever could dlro0$
such criminal wrong, and uphold HIM
self in it by the statement that the
dumped milk is unwholesome, is past
conception. Now, we believe, under
the new head of the Board of Health, it
is no longer done.
When water is unwholesome and milk
is also, then milk with little water IN
it will be; but not till then. Watered
or impoverished milk is fraud, and
should be condemned and confscateds
but not thrown away. = american
DGtrynaGB.
St. Landry democrat. (Opelousas, La.) 1878-1894, 1884-10-11

The largest gsifng shit zip Che
world was launched at Glasgow recent
", from the yards OF MeSEs. Hamilton
& Co. She is described as a hand
somely-modeled iron, four-masted, full
rugged sailing ship Of the following de
mensions: Length over all, $40 feet;
breadth, 40 feet; depth of hold, Is feet
8 inches; register tonnage, 3,r73. Her
principal masts and yards are made Of
steel.
St. Landry democrat. (Opelousas, La.) 1878-1894, 1884-10-11

Twelve petrifed CLANS were found
recently at depth of two hundred and
City feet while boring for oil at Pur1s-
sima, Cal.-SGn francisco Chronicle.
St. Landry democrat. (Opelousas, La.) 1878-1894, 1884-10-11

An increase of one-fourth in tho
milk producing qualities OF COW ID
doubling the net profits.
, 1884-03-01
THE LoAyEs AND FISHES.

Glass favoritism, like class legisla-
tion is decidedly obnoxious and ex-
tremely unjust. In commenting upon
this, the Herald OF Omaha pertinently
remarks:
Senator Logan proposes that no Off
ces be given to civilians as long as Ok
soldiers can be found to fill them. He
does not even qualify his demand to
the extent of providing that the yeter-
ans shall be possessed of the moral and
other qualifications looked for in other
candidates. Under his resolution, il 1t
shall become q law, bounty Jumpers
and pension grabbers will have q lien
upon official patronage to the exclusion
of all other citizens no matter how well
endowed. AS this NEAR a pre-emp-
ton of the offices to the exclusion of
the young and growing class of voters
who had the misfortune not to be born
in time To take part in the great civil
wal it is possible that they may find
occasion during the few months pre-.
ceeding the national convention to put
their objections in such shape as TO be
forcibly felt by the loug-haired gram.
marian from the Sucker state.
The turn in the tide OF political
events ere long will preclude Black
Jack from thus dealing out place and
position to those whom he would re-
ward with the loaves and fishes Of office.
There is both ~puritanism and dema.
gogueism in his peculiar methods OF
proposed public patronage,
, 1884-03-01
CUT FREIGHT RATES.
All the Roads Leading to Colorado Make a
General Reduction Effect Upon
the Pool.

The order Of Commissioner Winning,
of the Western Trunk Line association,
ordering a reduction of freight rates
both ways from Chicago and st. Louis
to all Colorado points, took place on
Thursday, and the gauntlet thus thrown
down was Immediately taken up by the
Chicago, Burlington & Quincy, Atchi-
son, Topeka & Santa Fe and the Chi
cago & Alton roads, and now the cut
has gone into effect on all the roads in
any manner connected with eastern
business in Colorado. The Western
Trunk Line association is composed of
the following lines: Chicago, Milwau-
kee & st. Paul, Chicago, Rock Island
& Pacific, Chicago & Northwestern, the
Wabash and the Union Pacific. The
cut ordered by Commissioner Vining is
as follows: On FIRST class, 81 cents; sec
ond class, T0 cents; third class, 5S cents,
fourth class, 81 cents; fifth class, 80
cents; class A, 80 cents; class B, 2S
cents; class c, 90 cents; class d, %
cents. .
A comparison of the old and new rate
is as follows:
, 1884-03-01

. l&NO" "a 4AAoAA1 L IT,
ADO you know that there were negroes, and
I believe many white people in the south,
who did not believe that Yankees, as
the southerners called the Union soldiers dur
ing the war, were human beings-men like
other menu said a southerner to "A reporter
yesterday.
ado you mean to say that ignorance pro
vailed to such m extentf' queried the re-
porter.
Al most assuredly do. 1 was a schoolboy
when the war broke out and lived in Wake
county-not many miles from Raleigh, N. G.
1t wa considered a penal offenso in those
days to teach a negro to read. Yet they
would be compelled to take the rear seats
in a country church on Sunday and hear the
Bible expounded, and were taught that hell
and damnation would be their portion unless
they really believed every word In the Bible
words many of them could not spell, much
less understand. There was a large slave
holder near my youthful homo, and he owned
about sixty negroes They were as ignorant,
for tho most part, MS hogs Morality they
knew not tho meaning OF. Many Of the
women followed the plough, and they
went barofooted winter and sum
mer, unless occasionally on Sundays.
The old family cook was a coal
black negroes named Cherry, and l remem-
Der now Win ueLSut IN hinOu Dlsculh,
~buckwheat cakes and wafies she lifted from
the griddles. My brother married the young
mistress after the war. Well, i saw a Skin
mish or two myself about the close Of the
war, but happened to Is CT = fuTiousa az my
country home, when Kilpatrick's cavalry
and Sherman's infantry pursued Johnson's
famished, ~half-naked troops west Of Raleigh.
Every door was closed and every house
barred as the troops passed by. Tho rich
slave-owner had fed to the city, and by &C
cident happened to b In his plantation
house with many whites and blacks, who
were trembling for their lives when the
last remnant of Wheeler's Confederate cav
airy were passing, closely pursued by Kill
p~atriclS's Federal blue-coats. A skirmish 90
CURED in front OF the house, when the first
blue-coats with sabres in one hand and car
| bines in another dashed by after the Johnny
Rebs'
"'Therois tho Yankees. There's the
Yankeesr cried some of US from behind the
| closed windows.
"'wharl whar's the YankeesT asked the
cook, Cherry.
AZ don't soc no Yankees said another col
| ored woman.
ayes, those are YANKEES wearing blue
| coast and looking SO NICE said one of the
many scared domestics Of the slave-owner's
house.
"'You amt fool me- said Cherry. 'Tbem's
| not Yankees. Them's men like other folks
| whar's their hornsl know Yankees nave
horns'h
, 1884-03-01

That peculiar political philosopher
and polite piano player who thinks in
German, speaks in English and fights
in French, besides doing a great many
other very funny things, Carl Schurz,
has again soured on the party in power
almost as badly As he did in 1872 when
he acted as chief-eook and bottle wash
er for the liberal republican National
Convention: He now AYERS:
~ certainly speak within bounds when
/ say that a nomination brought about
by machine work, or sven by the APP
pesrance of trickery, or the nomination
OF any man with an unclean or ever
doubtful record, will stand an exceed
ing slim chance of being ratified at the
polls. Defeat would be as good as GER
tain. The republican party cannot
afford a defensive campaign. Neither
do / think that the. candidate who is
ordinarily respectable will have a fiat
tering prospect"
, 1884-03-01

This Is ths fate of the fat beauty:
At is-Plump, fat and ruddy. Weight,
ssventy pounds.
AT l6-Plumper, fatter, exubcrunt and a
bursting bud. Weight, 100 pounds.
At pa blossom bloomed, %voluptuous, az
uberant. Weight, 100 pounds.
At 25-A full-blown Juno. Massive,
statuesque. Approaching heroic size. I'm
posing. Begins to find car seats too small.
Wedges when she sits down Very oxuber-
ant, Weight, $50 pounds.
At 30-Matronly. Imposing still, but the
finer contour of form swallowed up slightly
in adipose. Magnificent but barrel-like.
At 85.-Large. Too large. Complexion
brick red. Double chin. Short of breath.
Weight, 200 pounds.
At 40-Gone. Remains OF a once magnih-
cent woman. Vast remains. Imposing ruins.
More double chin. Walk a waddlo. Sad.
Weight. 20 pounds. 1.-THE Graphic.
This is the fate of a thin beauty.
At 12-Sickly, pale and uninteresting.
Weight, forty pounds
At l6-Delicate, slender, ~sprightly and
graceful. Weight, eighty pounds.
At 2O-A study for a painter. 1.-the. sinu-
Gus, Grccian in face and mold. Weight. 100
pounds
At 25-Queeuly in form and motion, with
a peachy complexion, small delicate hands
and wee little feet. Weight, 100 pounds.
At 3o-Beginning to fade; veins show on
hands, cheek bones just indicated. Weight,
l05 pounds.
At 95-Eyes retreating; fine lines on fore
head; cheeks coucav form wiry. Weight,
ninety pounds.
At 40-Face Ratchet shaped: nose and chin
very sharp; two holes where the cheeks were;
hands like claws; form all gone; u living
skeleton. Weight, seventy pounds.
Moral-You buys your wedding ring and
takes your choice. -(Philadelphia Call.
, 1884-03-01
a Critical Usher

DtNFN APSl
To the place of entertainment had resorted
a gracious and gaudy youth, gotten up re-
gardless and respondent in goodly apparel.
Euamored was he of one of the singers in the
opera and he had brought with him a bou.
quet. The lady appeared on the stage to sing
her principal air. and with feverish eagerness
he handed bis floral tribute to an usher und
adjured him to pass it over the footlights as
the song was ended.
But when the air was lone the ndmirer of
embodied art saw the singer retire without
his bouquet and directly afterward the usher
was perceived Juggling the trophy up the aisle
again. @Yes, you see." said the usher, on
reaching the surprised youth, IL really didn't
have the face to hand up your flowers for that
kind of singing. Why, she blurred her STAG
cato passages frightfully and her crescendo
near the finale bvoks right in two in the mid.
die. And her trillsi Great ScotJl you your
self couldn't have failed to notice that she
made q complete slump OF them. can't en-
courage that kind of work even while acting
as somebody elso's deputy" and he showed
the bouquet into the young mans arms and
disappeared into the lobby.
, 1884-03-01
ISrERxAL IMPROVEMENT.

Few, even of the most enthusiastic,
in our midst dwell sufficiently long and
think as deeply upon the prospects OF
future internal improvements in this
section of the Rocky mountain regions,
as the merits OF the subject WARRANT.
Our rich natural resources as they are
speedily developed will add millions of
money to our national wealth and thous-
ands upon thousands of skilled and in
du%strious inhabitants to u population.
Right here in Wyoming reside rare
riches whose great value are little COM
pretended as they have as yet hardly
been brought to the light of day. Fu-
ture generations will point with pleas
ure to the earth's great pro~ductiveness;
and, perchapce, many of the present
generation will have the same satisfac-
ton. Reduction works are destined to
spring up 10 smeiL the ores containing
our base and precious metals. Rolling
mills, machine shops and other vast
mechanical establishments will dot our
mountains and spread out In our plains
cities. What Colorado has already
accomplished in this respect is destined
to be repeated here in Wyoming and
upon a more extended scale. Within a
few years, the Union Pacific Railway
company will be engaged in manufsc-
turing its own rails, its own rolling
stock and all else that is pertinent to
building purposes for the use Of this
vast and wealthy corporation. Presi-
LEM Sidney Dillon has been closely in
vestigating this important subject for
sometime past, and the Pittsburg Com
mercial thu notes a recent visit which
he made to its city 30 famous by reason
of its extensive manufacturers:
The project which brought him here
is n big one. He was quietly investi-
eating the subject Of Bessemer steel
rails, both the cost aboard cars and the
cost of manufacture. His plans con-
template the erection of a Bessemer
plant larger than the Edgar Thompson
for the exclusive manufacture Of steel
for steel rails, structural purposes, and
for engine and car building. The re-
suit OF The inTestlRatlon was tne DEFER
ence at present of the active prosecu-
tion of the works. Mr.. Dillon was in
terviewed on the subject. He said that
the present state of the market made 1t
possible to buy rails as cheaply as they
could be made anywhere, put that his
company did not expect present prices
TO rule long, and they could at least
save the hauling by making their own
rails. sour road," said MI. Dillon,
twill use our entire product. We will
make our own rails, our own bridge
and culvert steel, and pretty soon we
will make our own cars and locomo-
tives." The orders for machinery, fur
naces, ETC., will be placed in Pistsburg
shortly. The question of cheap fuel
does not now enter into into the manu-
facture of this metal, as it has been
proven beyond doubt that the very best
of steel can be produced from furnaces
heated by the crude oil process. The
oil can be brought from Wyoming
while the mountains of iron in Utah
and Colorado would furnish an mex
haustible supply of ore.
, 1884-03-01

Sure cure for blind, bleeding and
itching piles. One box has cured the
worst cases Of 20 years. standing. No
one need suffer Eve minutes after using
Williams Indian Pile ointment. 1t
absorbs tumors, allays itchings, acts as
poultice. gives instant relief. Prepared
only for piles, itching Of the private
parts, nothing else. Hon. J. F. Coffen-
bury, of Cleveland, says: ~ have used
scores OF pile cures, and it affords me
pleasure to say that 1 have found
anything which gives such immediate
aud permanent relief as DR.. Williams
Indian Pile ointment" Sold by drug.
gists and mailed on receipt OF price. 81.
FRAZIER MEDICINE CO., Props,
Cleveland, Ohio.
Gray s. PEARsE, sole agents.
, 1884-03-01
NEGRO o0NJURING.
A Negro Preacher Gets Into Trouble
While Trying to Cure the
Neuralgia


walton (Ga9 Newa
Not many months ago the columns OF this
paper contained an account of the sickness
and death of Rev. Jesse Gilbert, colored,
pastor of the negro Baptist church at this
place, and the subsequent trial and exclusion
from the church OF one Edmund Butler for
~conjuring the preacher and causing his
DEATH Another case Of "uicking"
not quite so fatal In its results,
perhaps, has como to the surface.
This was at Mount Etna, smother negro
church in this county. Ransom Henderson,
colored, is a sort OF a preacher himself, and
for a long time he was used as a substitute at
Mount Etna whenever the pastor would fail
to put in an appearance. A month or 30 ago
Ransom had a terrible spell Of aneuraligy,"
az he called 1t, and upon inquiry was told by
some one that he could ours himself by
boring a hole in a black jack ok and filling
1t with lint cotton saturated in whisky, a
white oak pin to be driven In the hole and
sawed of close to the tree. L-1t.
Rams went home full of hopo, determined
10 carry out instructions to the letter. He
and his wife had had n quarrel the day be-
fore, and no arrived homo to find her pout-
ing. 1t wasn't long before Ransom had the
hole bored in a black Jack and the whito oak
pin prepared. When he came to the house
and carried from it the piece OF cotton sat
rated with whisky his wife watched and
secretly followed him to the woods. When
the cotton was inserted In the hole and
ono tap was given the pin it was
as much as the pouting wife could
stand, and Jumping from behind
a tree, beside frightening poor Rams
half to death, charged him with Akin a trick
to -kunjure" her. and heaped upon his neu-
ralgic head tho most abusive epithets. Rams
got mad and gave her no satisfaction about
the matter, telling her that she @mought"
have her own way bout it But he hadn't
got far out Of hearing before the old woman
Lit on that black jack with AZ. maui and
wedge, anil brought the contents OF that hole
TO the house between two pieces Of Pine
bark not daring to touch It with her hands.
The same cards that combed her head were
used on the cotton. She never thought OF
this, and as soon as she found some OF her
wool in that cotton her wrath was insur-
mountable. She reported Brer Ransom to
the church, charges OF trickery were pro-
ferred against him, and no was about TO be
turned out Of church, when one Of the
brethren arose and explained to the
members the agony he himself had
suffered from neuralgia and how he
WINS cured by the same method followed by
Brer Ransom. This turned the scale in
his favor, and a small majority voted against
turning him out. His wife Is not yet recon
ciled, and will not have any thing to do with
him. Rams has made many purchases re-
Gently at tho store of Norwell, Michael &
Co, always having It understood that he
should return the goods IL his wife would not
accept them. Strange to say, Rams has re-
turned all the goods, and says that his wife
still thinks that he tried to trick her. She
lives at Mr.. ". A Cooper's, in Mountain dis
trict and NOR Rams is sh~oamakinp in town
, 1884-03-01
CAUSE OF THE REDUCTION.

SAUsE Of IhE hEDUCIlON.
The great and sudden reduction In
freights is made to meet a cut made by
the st. Louis and San Francisco rail-
way. "A week or ten days ago Mr.. Rus
sell, agent of that line, was in Denver
aud made contracts to carry freight at
less than tariff figures. ?
Under the conditions of the old Col
orado pool, previous to February l, the
st. Louis and San Francisco road was
guaranteed a certain amount of money,
and WAS privileged to do Colorado bust
ness according to the rates of the pool,
although that road did not belong to
the pool. The Colorado pool expired
February l, so did its guarantee, of the
st. Louis and San Francisco road. All
roads forming the old association agreed
to maintain the old rates. Shortly after
February l the st. Louis and San Fran
cisco disregarded their agreement, and
sent their contracting agent to Colo
RADIO to solicit business at less than tar
i'll rates, as they could not get 1t at
regular rates.
AS oon as it became known that the
st. Louis road made a cut, the other
roads leading to Colorado took the ac-
ton which resulted in the general re-
duction.
A reporter called upon Pool Commits
one Daniels, and asked him whether
the Colorado pool would be broken by
the Union Pacific asserting to Mr..
Winnings order to cut rates.
yes" be said, in reply, ''if the
Union Pacific makes the cut, 1t would
be considered a breaking up of the
Colorado agreement; but L don't know
that the Union Pacific will assent to
the cut. 1 have not been officially in
formed OF 1t. 1 telegraphed their Of
icials as to their intentions, but as yet
have not received a reply"
, 1884-03-01

IT is hoped and believed that the
pleur o-pneumonla bill which has Just
passed the national house of represen-
tatives will go far towards preventing
the spread of the insidious lung disease
among cattle. Its provisions appear
wise, and a brief period of time will de-
velop the worth of its workings, should
the same become a law. The growing
Importance of our cattle interests make
1t imperative that no stone shall be left
unturned that lends to the proper pro-
lection Of this extensive industry
which anuallyI brings 80 much solid
wealth and substantial prosperity to
our commonwealth and the nation at
large.
, 1884-03-01

AMONG exchanges reaching us, up to
the present time, there seems to be con-
siderable diversity of opinion existing
as to the benefits to be secured through
the force of the pleuro-pneumonia bill
that has been passed by the House of
Representatives. 1t is to be hoped
however, that it will prove ample in its
scope, to give that protection which is
absolutely needed for the safe maintain
nance Of our great western herds from
the ravages of tho dread disease. ID
, 1884-03-01

THE republicans are seriously split
aud terribly disguised. Aside from
the Stall warts and Half breeds, the In
dependent republicans of New York
and Pennsylvania cut quite an impor-
tant figure as against the regular re-
publicans. By the time the presiden-
tial campaign has been concluded, the
several factions of the once powerful
party will be knocked into smithereens
with only Satan to care for the hind
most. 49, g.
, 1884-03-01

cincinnati News-Journal.1
A we'll known lawyer OF a neighboring
city, who is inclined to habitual inebriation,
has n mild form OF mania a potu all the
timo. He is troubled with bugs and toads.
In writing Q brief they run across tho paper
and try to get in the way OF his pen, and a big
venerable toad, covered with warts, usually
perches himself on the inkStand and looks
soberly on. At first these creatures troubled
him considerably, and he would brush them
away with a curse, but he has grown accus-
toned to them, and begins to look on them
rs pets.
, 1884-03-01
The BeautIrut snow.

Popular Science News
A Swiss scientist, Floegel, Is said to have
found. in examining the residue from the
evaporation Of fr~eshly-falleu snow, living in
fusoria and algse, bacilli and micrococci,
mites, diatoms, spores OF fungi dn immense
~numbers), also hbres of wood, mouse hairs,
pieces of butterfly wings, skin Of the larvm Of
insects, cotton 6bres, pieces of grass, epider
mis-, pollen grains, rye and potato -four,
grains of quartz, minute pieces Of roofing
tiles. with bits of iron and coal. Still poets
continue to use snow as a symbol OF absolute
purity. j
The following Is a line from one OF Swim.
burne's recent poems; Spy, mirk, scoff,
map, snort, snivel. snarl and sneer."