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St. Landry democrat., 1884-04-05
"THE THIRD House."
It's Good and Bad Members-The Remark
able Experiences of Close Observer
of Its Workings During
Long Residence at
Washington

Correspondence Rochester Democracy
No city upon the American continent has
larger floating population than Washing
ton. It is estimated that during the ses-
sions Of Congress twenty-five thousand
people, whose homes are in various parts
of this and other countries, make this city
their place of residence. Some come here,
attracted by the advantages the city offers
for making the acquaintance of public
men; others have various claims which
they wish to present, while the great ma
Jorlty gather here, as the crows flock to
morsel at the public crib. The latter
class, as general thing, originate the
many schemes which terminate in vicious
bills, all of which are either directed at
Che public treasury, or toward that reve-
nue. which the matchmaking of corpora
tions or private enterprises may bring.
While walking down Pennsylvania ave.
nue. the other day I met Mr.. William M.
Ashley, formerly of your city, whose long
residence here has made him unusually
well acquainted with the operations Of the
lobby.
Having made my wants in this particu.
lar direction known, in answer to an in
terrogative, Mr.. Ashley said:
"Yes, during my residence here have
9ecome well acquainted with the workings
OF the Third House, as it is termed, and
could tell you OF numerous jobs, which,
like the Heather Chinee,' are peculiar"
GU do not regard the lobbys as body,
vicious, do youW
Not necessarily so; there are good and
bad men comprising that body; yet there
have been times when it must be admitted
that the combined power of the third
House has overridden the will of the peo-
pie. The bad influence of the lobby can be
seen In the numerous blood-bills that are
introduced at every session"
but how can these be discoveredW
Easily enough, to the person who has
made the thing study. can detect them
at glance"
''Tell me, to what bill do you refer@'
swell, take the annual gas bills, for in.
stance. They are introduced for the pur-
pose OF bleeding the Washington Gas
Light Company. They usually result in |
an investigating committee which never
amounts to anything more than a draft |
upon the public treasury for the expenses |
of the investigation. Another squeeze is |
the G6attotr bills, as they are called. |
These, of course, are fought by the butch. |
ers and market-men. The first attempt TO |
force bill of this description was in 1877, I
when prominent Washington politician I
offered fabulous sum for the franchise
Anything else in this line that you
think of, Mr.. Ashley
Yes, there's the job to reclaim the Po-
Comac hats, which, had 1t become law.
would have resulted in an enormous steal. /
The work. is now being done by the Gov.
eminent itself, aud win rid the place of
that malarial atmosphere OF which we 1
hear so much outside the city.7
During your residence here have you I
experienced the bad results OF Living in /
his ciimatafv
St. Landry democrat., 1884-04-05
What the Standard Oil Company Is.

The Standard Oil Company, which is
so much talked about and so little un-
derstood, has its headquarters in this
city, and its executive board is said to
hold meeting on every business day in
the year. The capital of the company is
not very large, perhaps three or four
million dollars, but the capital Of the
Trust Company, which manages the
fiscal affairs of the Standard, is snid to
be as high as seventy millions. What
ever be the capital, it pays six per cent.
and the stocks sell in the neighborhood
of par. The men considered in the oil
regions to be the master spirits of this
company are both very young, Mr..
Rockefeller and Mr.. Archibald; the lat
ter is hardly thirty years of age. He is
the son of q Methodist preacher in the
oil regions, and developed genius for
commerce and executive work when a
mere lad in a country bank, and his em-
ployer gave him the capital to start an
oil refinery. He attends to the details
of this huge company, which has hardly
a parallel on the globe for breadth of
conception and infnitude of particulars.
HI this were an English company it
@OuAA IbntS dlWSIyS WITH Tile EdSt 4uu1d
Company of the time of Warren Hast
ings. Ii is to be observed that the chief
operators against it are themselves
Ispeculators. Mr.. James Keene was
one of the leading spirits in the rival
pipeline. The Standard pipe is a sep
iarate corporation known as the Nation
al Transit Company, and its pipes lie
buried side By side, and are six
inches in diameter, and it is said that
the right of way was acquired for about
$500 mile. Their telegraph is an enor-
NOUS concern also. The flow Of oil is
about 10000 barrels 3 day, under
stand, and this company keeps in its
tanks or pipes or refineries from 80, 000,-
900 to $4,000, 900 barrels at time.
Its profits are derived from storing and
forwarding the oil, which pays fifteen
cents barrel per annum for storage
and twenty cents q barrel for transpor-
tation to the seaboard. They are also
the greatest exporters in the United
States, and often send out ship full of !
lamps to teach some heather people |
how to burn American oil 1t is said /
that they are content with profit
Of half cent q gallon on the oil. Sew
eral Of the young men in this company |
are free-hearted, generous men, and it
Es well known in the oil regions that I
MIR. Archibald provides for his former |
employer, who was unfortunate in busiA /
ness LonnQeg, IN M 7, Tribune.
St. Landry democrat., 1884-04-05

TIE st. Louis (Mo.) Post Dispatch says,
that Mrs. Phoebe Rice, 1908 Madison street,
a sister of Hon. H. Clay Sexton, Chief, st.
Louis Fire Department, had been suffer
erfrom infammatory rheumatism for seven
years; the muscles of her hands and limbs
were contracted and she used crutches. By
single application of st. Jacobs Oil she
was benefited instantaneously, and finally
completely cured.
St. Landry democrat., 1884-04-05
HOME, FARM AND GARDEN.


Ducks should have separate houses
from other fowls. They should have
troughs, as they do not like to pick and
hunt on the ground like Chickens
Cincinnati Times.
An old-fashioned pudding sauce
. that can be made in an Instant is simply
milk sweetened and favored with graf
ed nutmeg. This is really palatable
with corn starch blanc-mange.-N. Y
Post.
1t is estimated that the value of the
garden products of Massachusetts,, ex-
elusive of potatoes and beans raised on
the farms, equaled S., 900, 900 last year.
1t was ten times as great as that in
1860.
Horses feet need looking after
during the cold, muddy, spring wealth
er. A daily cleaning of the exposed
parts is essential to their health as well
as the comfort of the animals. - CLeUe-
land Leader.
AN exchange says: Young chicks
that are subject to weakness in the legs
should receive small allowance OF
fine bone-meal in the food. Weak legs
come from forced growth, high feeding
and close confinement, but it is not nee
essarily dangerous.
Possess good wheel-barrow. No
implement equals it in utility about the
garden, or on the farm for that matter.
They are not expensive. Select one
with reference to lightness and strength,
as the boys are often delegated to use
them. The common dirt barrow is the
best. = Prairie Farmer.
1t is doubtful if team could be
employed to better advantage at this
season than in hauling sand for putting
on the garden where the soil is clayey
and heavy. 1t will not only make it
much easier to work but will also put
the soil in condition to more readily
yield up its elements OF fertility.-M. Z.
Times.
The Textile Record gives formula
for q solution by which cloth can be
made waterproof, if immersed in it and
then thoroughly dried It is composed
of gelatine I'VE parts, soap five, alum
seven and water one hundred and sew
enty parts. 1t is said that this causes
the fbers of the cloth to repel drops of
water as do feathers.
Halls Journal of Health recon-
nends common baking soda as the best
application for eruptions caused by
poison ivy and other poisonous plants,
as also for bites and stings of insects.
In cases of scalds and burns it may be
used on the surface of the burned places
either dry or wet. When applied
promptly the sense of the relief is mag
ical. It seems to withdraw the heat
and with it the pain and the healing
process soon commences.
Every farmer should possess
stencil-plate with his name and resi-
depce cut in it, so that he may plainly
mark all bags, blankets, robes and
boxes with it; also a brand with which |
he can burn his name into the handles |
Of hoes, shovels and other tools. Then
il he is blessed with borrowing neigh |
Dor the sight Of the name may remind |
the borrower to return the tool before
he has worn it out. At least there will |
be less danger of his thinking he owns
it because he has had it so long that he
has forgotten how he came by it.
LNeaO England Farmer.
St. Landry democrat., 1884-04-05
When You Feel Blue

and your back aches, and your head feels
heavy, and you wake unrefreshed in the
morning and your bowels are sluggish or
costive, you need Kidney Wort. It is ma
lures great remedy and never fails to re-
lieve all cases of Diseased Kidneys, Torpid
Liver, Constipation, Malaria, Piles, Rheu-
matism, &c. Il operates simultaneously
on the Kidneys, Liver and Bowels, strength
ening them and restoring healthy action.
Put up in both dry and liquid form. Sold
by all druggists.
St. Landry democrat., 1884-04-05
A snIsnelId Dairy

is one that yields its owner good profit
through the whole season. But he must
supply the cows with what they need in
order for them to be able to keep up their
product. When their butter gets light in
color he must make it "gilt edged" by u.s.
ing Wells, Richardson & Co.'s Improved
Butter Color. 1t gives the golden color of
June, and adds five cents per pound to the
value of the butter.
St. Landry democrat., 1884-04-05

I BELIEVE Swfft's Specific has saved my
life. had virtually lost use of the upper
part of my body and my arms from the
poisonous effects of large cancer on my
neck, from which had suffered for twenty
years. S. S. S. has relieved me of all sore
ness, and the poison is being forced out of
my system. / will soon be well.
w. r. ROBINSON, Davisboro, Ga.
St. Landry democrat., 1884-04-05

FROM JOHN KUHN, Lafayette, Ind, who
announces that Zone year ago I was, to all
appearance, in the last stages of Consump-
ton. Our best physicians gave my case up.
My friends then purchased bottle of DR..
WIN. HALLS BALsAM FOB THE LUNGS.
took nine bottles, and / am now in perfect
health"
St. Landry democrat., 1884-04-05

No matter what parts It may finally afs
feet, catarrh always starts in the head, and
belongs to the head. There is no mystery
about the origin of this direful disease. It
begins in neglected cold. One OF the kind
that is sure to be better in few days"
Thousands of victims know how it is by
sad experience. Ely's Cream Balm cures
colds in the head and catarTh in all its
stages. Not snuff nor liquid. Applied
with the finger to the nostrils.
St. Landry democrat., 1884-04-05

For CoUGHs AND THROAT DISORDERS
use BRowN's BRONCHIAL TRoCHEs. Shave
never changed my mind respecting them,
except think better of that which began
thinking well of."-Rey. Henry Hard
Beecher. Sold only in boxes. % cts.
St. Landry democrat., 1884-04-05
Congresslonal Endorgement.

Hon. John Cessna, ex-Member from Penn,
writes: " In the space of twelve hours my
rheumatism was gone, having taken three
doses Durang's Rheumatic Remedy. Ny
brother was cured by similar amount. I
cordially recommend it.n By all druggists,
or r. K. Helphenstine, Washington D. Q.
St. Landry democrat., 1884-04-05

@Why is Mrs. Lydia E. Pinkham'ss gege.
table Compound like the Mississippi River
in spring freshet? Because the immense
volume of this healing river moves with
such momentum that It sweeps away all OBJ
stacles andis literally flooding the country.
St. Landry democrat., 1884-04-05
a measeneer OF Health.

Sent free to sufferers from nervous,
chronic and blood diseases, brain and heart
affections, nervous debility, etc. 1t tells of
wonderful cures effected by DR.. SCOTS Coca,
Beef and Iron, with Phosphorus. Sold by
druggists; 81. DR.. Scott, Kansas Citys Mo.
St. Landry democrat., 1884-04-05

DRUNKEN men are seldom hungry, but
the man who is sleepy drunk is possessed
of happy tight.-B0ston Star.
St. Landry democrat., 1884-04-05

AT the dawn of womanhood, or in the
change of life, Samaritan Nervine is the
ladies' friend.
St. Landry democrat., 1884-04-05

WoMAN's rights-to do as she pleases,
while mans is also to do as she pleases, or
take the consequences.
St. Landry democrat., 1884-04-05

An Open
Secret.

The fact is well understood
that the Nj EXICAN MUS
TANG EMINENT is by far
the best external known for
man or beast. The reason
why becomes an "Open
secret" when we explain that
"Mustang" penetrates skin,
flesh and muscle to the very
bone, removing all disease
and soreness. No other lini-
ment does this, hence none
other is so largely used or
does such worlds Of good.
St. Landry democrat., 1884-04-05

IMITATION may be the sincerest form OF
fiattery; but it is possible to have too much
of good thing.
St. Landry democrat., 1884-04-05

Ha1e's Honey of Horehound and Tar
Will tackle an obstinate cough OF cold.
Pixies toothache drops cure in one minute.
St. Landry democrat., 1884-04-05

PAR excellence--a good father.-1he
Judge.
St. Landry democrat., 1884-04-05

FROM North Hampton, N. H., Mrs. L. B..
Tarlton writes: "SQnGritG'1 Neruine cured
nv son."
St. Landry democrat., 1884-04-05

If you want to put money in a sound in
vestment buy telegraph stocks.-PbiZddeE-
phiG Chronicle Herald.
St. Landry democrat., 1884-04-05

IT doesn't speak much of the size of q
mans mind when it takes him only min
ute to make it up.-N. Y Graphic.
St. Landry democrat., 1884-04-05

BEING entertained by romance isn't
what is usually meant when the types say
I" a novel entertainment"
St. Landry democrat., 1884-04-05
Loolx out for Your Head!

A LADY wants to know if lover can be
called sutton if he doesn't suit her.
St. Landry democrat., 1884-04-05

THE best hand to hold in the game of life
is that of your best girL-Waterlo0 OBJ
eelsueY
St. Landry democrat., 1884-04-05
Cream Balm
ELY BROTHERS, Drnnrtgts, owego N 7.
The want of a re.

The want of o re-
. liabIe diuretic which,
While acting as a
stimR 1t of the kid
neys, neither eEcites1
nor irrttatess chem.
was long since SUP.
piled by Hostetter's
Stomach Bitters. This
fine medicine exerts
the requisite degree
of stimulation upon
these organs. without
producing irritation.
and is, therefore. far
better adapted for the
purpo Sc than I'm.
lnedfcated excitaHfa
0 IT G n res0rte6 TO-
Dyspepsia. fever and
ague, and EindrpS
diseases: are all cured
by it. For sale by ali
Druggists and Dealers
generally.
St. Landry democrat., 1884-04-05
SKIN HuMQR.

My baby six months old broke out with some kind of
skin humor and after being treated five months by my
family physician, was given up to die, The druggist
recommended SWitt's Specific, and the effect was aR
gratifying as 1t was miraculous. My child soon got
WELL all traces of the disease is gone and he fat as
pig j. j. KIRKLAND, Minden Rusk County, Texas.
have suffered for many years from ulcers on my
legs, often very large and painful during which time
used almost everything to effect cure but in vain.
took Swift's Specific by advice of friend and In O
short time was cured sound and we'll
EDWIN ]. MILLER, Beaumont, Texas
Our Treatise on Blood and Skin Diseases mailed free
to applicants
TIE SWIFT SPECIFIC CO.,
Drawer 8. Atlanta, Ga.
New York Office, 159 West sd ST., between Sixth
St. Landry democrat., 1884-04-05

NJ Do it at Once. For 10 cents get a
package of Diamond Dyes at the druggists.
They color anything the finest and most
desirable colors. Wells, Richardson &c
Co., Burlington, vt. Sample Gard, 30
colors, and book of directions for &c stamp.
PIso's CURE for Consumption is not only
pleasant to take, bat it is sure to cure.
St. Landry democrat., 1884-04-05

IL afiicted with Sore Eyes, use DIR. Isaac
Thompson's Eye Water. Druggists sell il. Csc.
St. Landry democrat., 1884-04-05
LEARN TELEGAPHY COD + s AEsHss e' Bfs4
chance offered Ad. ]. D. BROWN Mgr, Sedalia Mo.

FIR hniEH IIcE The grandest article. Send
VII EhDth0 USLG stamp for illustrated circular
Dir. HI. G.FARRs as Essex Street. Boston. Mass
St. Landry democrat., 1884-04-05

THE DR.. S. 4. RICHMOND MED. CO., ST. JOSEPH, Nl.
Sold by All Druggists.
LORD, sToUTENRURG q CO., Agent, Chicago, III.
St. Landry democrat., 1884-04-05

A. N. K, B. 97O
The Democratic advocate. [volume] (Westminster, Md.) 1865-1972, 1884-01-12
Ghe Sarmer,
The Common Cow.

There is more merit in the common COWS of
the country than they get credit for, says
writer in the Rural Ne,o Yorker Give
them the same pamperlngt that the thorough
breds get, and the thoroughbreds the scanty,
bare and hard treatment the common stock
gets, and a few generations will suffice to
bring them both to the same level. The
thoroughbreds are what they are from good
food and good treatment.
How readily the common cows respond
to a little more generous supply Of food
than they are accustomed to enjoy is well
illustrated in the experience of the present
season. Favored with an abundance of
rain to make flush pasturage, the cows
which depended wholly on grazing, have
been better supplied with food than they
usually are, and the result is something
like twenty-five per cent more butter and
cheese than they are accustomed to make
in the first half of the season. Their pro-
ducts are always large when the season is
favorable for an abundance of grass, but
when, in the vicissitudes of the weather,
the heavens are less generous, and drought
makes feed unfortunately short, milk and
its products dwindle to the opposite extreme
and there are loud complaints of 'fscrub-
cows, and the owners begin to look around
for better breeds. 1t is "A good idea to look
for better breed but it will require pretty
sharp lookout to find breed of cows that
will give full returns from half fare, or do
any better than the so-called native cows
when there is a lack of food to make milk
from.
When our dairy friends have such am
pie opportunity for witnessing the differ
ence between full and scanty rations, why
can't they utilize the hint and see to it that
their herds have full fare all the season,
whether the heavens smile or frown. A
little comparatively inexpensive preparation
for soiling with green food in case pastur
age should be scanty, would meet an emer
gency and secure returns so generous and
uniform that instead of despising his cows
it would inspire an inclination to admira-
ton and gratitude.
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Looking Out the Back Door.

A friend of ours wished to hire farmer
for wealthy neighbor, and we mentioned
one who was wanting an engagement.
Knowing that our friend had been to see
this farmer, we asked the result His re-
ply was, in substance: Eyes, went there;
| went around to the back door and came
away, knowing that he would not suit"
The front doors of many farm houses are
rarely opened The back door is in con-
slant use One need not go far in any
locality to find the outlet of the kitchen
sink ending in sort of ditch, which is
supposed to carry off the waste water, but
which only allows it to soak away and sat
urate the ground near the back of the
house. The seldom-used front door is
opened when small coffin is to be taken
out The minister speaks of "the mystic
rious dispensations of Providence. They
are not at all mysterious. Bad sink drains
at the back of the house are sure to bring
typhoid fever and other sickness. Let the
back door surroundings be looked to. If
nothing better can be done, carry the
kitchen wastes to a cesspool a distance
from the house, where they can soak away
far below the surface Prohibit all throw
ing out of slops at the back door. The
ground soon becomes charged with matters
that ferment and breed disease Where
pigs are kept, and that includes every
farm, there should be pail to receive all
animal and vegetable matters, and daily
emptied Nothing of the kind should be
thrown out at the back of the house
Where there is such disease-breeding sink
spout as we have mentioned, let provisions
be at once made to carry off the water to a
cesspool, and cover up the saturated ground
with dry earth. Let the back yard to the
house always be kept scrupulously clean.
american Agricultrist.
The Democratic advocate. [volume] (Westminster, Md.) 1865-1972, 1884-01-12

A TELEPHONE FOR FARMERs-To
make good and serviceable telephone,
from one farmhouse to another, only re-
quires enough wire and two cigar boxes.
First, select your boxes and make hole
about half an inch in diameter in the CEN
ter of the bottom of each, and then place
one in each of the houses you wish to con-
meet; then get FIVE pounds of common iron
stovepipe wire, make loop in one end and
put it through the hole in your cigar box
and fasten it with nail; then draw it tight
to the other box, supporting it, when ne
cessary, with a stout cord. You can easily
run your line into the house by boring
hole through the glass. Support your
boxes with Stats nailed across the window,
and your telephone is complete. The
writer has one that is 200 yards long, and
cost forty-five cents, that will carry music
when the organ is played thirty feet away
in another room.-American Farmer.
The Democratic advocate. [volume] (Westminster, Md.) 1865-1972, 1884-01-12

Mr. John H. Hessey, of Cecil county,
Maryland has an orchard of dwarf pears
covering four acres, which came into bear
ing in 1880, and has netted him the hand
some sum of s., 425 since that time. Mr.
Hessey says: II pick over the trees five
or six times, and mostly do it myself or
have very careful hand. l always pick
the largest and put them in baskets and
put covers on and set them in the granary
two or three days before shipment. L
never pick small one unless it is very
ripe. give my orchard a light coat Of
stable or other manure every fall or winter,
and pillow it the LIST of April, while the
ground is moist, | never till them later
than the last of May. l planted my first
dwarf pears in 1862, and have never had
a Duchess to blight. They do best on
heavy red clay soil, and are of no account
when planted on sandy or billy land
The Democratic advocate. [volume] (Westminster, Md.) 1865-1972, 1884-01-12

1t is Purely Vegetable, Faultless Family
Medicine, and has been manufactured at LA
ROQUE'S PHARMACY, one of the most
prominent drug stores of Baltimore, for more
than half century. Its efficiency in all
forms of LIVER DISEASE has been tested and
approved by thousands of the most prominent
citizens of Baltimore, who have used it sue
cessfully in combating the above complaints,
all of which arise from arrangement Of the
liver and disordered stomach. We therefore
say to you confidently if you have Dyspepsia,
suffer from Sick or Nervous Headache, hare
ChilLs, BoDeLs are CoHstipated, or you feel
generally played out and don't care CONT
mental phether you lire or die, try J. NJ. Lar
oque's 4nti- Bilious Bitte,s, and our word for
it, a single dose, taken either at night on re-
firing or in the morning before breakfast, will
make you feel like a new man. fyou live In
a malarious section, where chills and fevers
abound, it will be found most effectual rem
edy in guarding the system from all attack.
The price, too, is reasonable and within the
reach of all % cents for the herbs in pack
ages, or S1.00 for the bottles ready prepared.
W. E. THORNTON, Sole Proprietor,
Cor. Baltimore and Harrison Sts., Baltimore.
nov 10, 1881 VI