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St. Landry democrat. (Opelousas, La.) 1878-1894, 1886-12-18
THE QUlCHOAS.
spending Night with tho Ignorant |
Natives of Bolivia,

Spending Night with tho Ignorant
Natives of Bolivia.
BY Bolivian law no person can vote unles,
ne can read and write. This shuts out the
Indians No wonder, therefore, that they
take but little interest in the welfare of the
country Wishing to study them closer. I
stopped at an Indian house one night. r.
was near Tortora, wild spot The family
consisted of husband, wife and two chill.
oren, boy OF eleven and girl of nine
years. OF course slept out of doors, be-
ing afraid of vermin. Cleanliness is not
one OF the virtues of these people. NV
drr'ero built fire, the children watching
every movement. My alcohol lamp ere.
ated sensation. invited the whole fam.
ny to supper We all squatted around tina
hre. The man tried several times to enter
into conversation but it was failure. NV
orraeTo understanding but little Ouichoa.
Inc woman baked me some corn bread
AS they know nothing about yeast it was
rather heavy. In the morning all hands
came out to help us get ready for starting.
Inc man helped the arriero to load. the
woman held the mule, the little girl NV
poncho and the boy my mule while I was
saddhng. On leaving I gave the father
some tobacco and the children each piece
OF money. They came up and kissed nv
nano Inere was something so natural, so
simple, about these people, that have ever
since liked the Quinchoas. The use of the
cocoa gives these Indians beautiful teeth
Tor. San francisco Chronicle.
St. Landry democrat. (Opelousas, La.) 1878-1894, 1886-12-18
Gambling in Paris,

d Partisan journal has been making
some inquiries regarding the number Of
gaming houses and gambling clubs in the
"capltal of civilization" and the amount
OF money which changes hands in them.
II the information be trustworthy, it is, in
deed startling. There are "a of these
trlpots In Paris, and between six and
seven millions sterling are computed to
nave been lost there during the last five
years The minimum profits of the banks
IN the clubs are put down at e24O daily, and
IN the less select gambling houses at $40.
laklng the average of ESQ per day, the
Total Tor the five years comes out at the
respectable figure of e3,5OO,0OO Nearly
another g., 100000 is set down as the five
years "piekings'' of the crouplers and
preteurs. Some of these men make enor-
nous incomes, and it is certainly we'll
Wltnln the mark to put down their receipts
at an average of $4,000 per annum. Then
there is another 950O,O00 for the salaries of
administrators ana their staffs.-Loudon
Truth. "0''
Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1886-06-03
Making a Man oc Him.
G. A. sala in under the Sur

/ had scboolmaster once who was a
clever and excellent man, but a little mad
and was craze about making boys
hardy He was pleased to fix upon me
rs a chilly mortal and expressed de-
animation TO "make a man of me- The
process of manufacture demanded that
when l was smuggling over fire and book
in play-time | should be driven forth into
the bleak and bitter open air ''to play
Now / never could play. AT this date
when ! am grizzling, 1 scarcely know a
cricket-bat from a stump, or a prisoners
base from FOUNDERS. / never could throw
a ball or catch one properly; and in child
hood I was utterly unable even to tuck
in nv two penny" at leap-frog or drive o
noop So while q hundred merry lads
around me raced and gamboled { used to
Turk in a corner of the play ground and
shiyer We had a large bath room, and
always with the benevolent idea of
making a man of me'l was pat through
bastard course of hydropathy ! de
clare that in the midst of the most biting
winter weather / have undergone the cold
douche, the cold shower bath, and the cold
sitz: that / have been packed in wet
sheets: that | have been made to put
thus accoutered have been ordered to
walk from Hammersmith to Kew bridge
bridge before breakfast in the dark to
make me 'hardy," Unless another boy
of the same "hardy' breed was sent with
me to see that went through my training
properly, used TO perform the Journey
from Hammersmith to Kew bridge by
sneaking to the widow Crump's shop at
Turnham Green she sold fruit, toys, peri
odicals and sweetstuf and sitting by the
fire in her little parlor, drinking warm
gingerbeer and reading the lives of the
pirates and highwaymen.
AS it Glanced my good crazy master
did not make a man of me. 1 grew up to
be only sickly, long legged, weakened
youth, with premature pains in the bones,
which developed in later years into
chronic rheumatism and intermittent neu-
ralgia.
Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1886-06-03
FARM NOTES.

Artificial eyes are now furnished for
horses that have lost an optic by accident
a glass eye helps the looks of horse,
even if he can't look through it,
A COW should never be allowed to skip
a milking, as the retention of so large a
volume of milk in the udder viii inhame
it and iniure the quality of the milk, and
perhaps the udder also.
It is an easier matter to keep the sta
bles clean an orderly than it is supposed
by those who have not triedit.
J. d, Shedd, Of Fairfax, IT,, reports
that ne owns a SOW that has given birth
to ffty-three pigs in three htters within
three months -thirteen, twenty and
twenty respectively.
Foot-rot in sheep, distemper in horses
and cattle, cough in pigs and q score of
other ailments arise from filthy barn
yards in winter and spring Prevention
is better than cure in all these cases.
A recommended preventative of chol-
era: Construct long, deep through;
keep it supplied wife Stacked lime, with
a reasonable amount of salt, and attract
the hogs to it by stopping them near
there.
Two oilings of harness, except the col
lars, a year is enough; but the collars
should be oiled every two weeks during
the working season, and the sweat and
dirt removed every morning with dull
knife.
The exports of genuine butter have
fallen from 40,000,0OO pounds in 1880 to
21,63S, 1873 pounds in 1885, or nearly one
half, while the exports of butter substi-
tutes have increased from 20000o00 in
1850 to 39,O0O,00O in 1889.
Gooseberries if well titled in good soil,
will soon grow sufficiently bushy to SADIE
their roots. and i'm this way escaye, TO
large extent, the injury that befalls the
less bushy currant.
For the fiscal year 1885 the Territorial
Auditors report shows that there are in
Montana 1859 horses, mules and ASSES
valued at S4,2lt709; cattle, G13.S32. valu-
ed at $l4,011,008; sheep, 797 valued at
SI63I,O7
Stag wool, an article produced by the
action of strong Jets of steam on furnace
Stag, is used by builders in England for
lining purposes where an American build
err wauld use felt. 1t will likely be yet
used in this country.
Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1886-06-03
HOUSEHOLD RECIPES.
APPLE SNOW SAUCE.

Bake six apples very soft, remove the
skin and beat the soft apple with the
white of an egg until quite stiff, add also
a cup of sugar while beating, and flavor
with any essence you desire.
VEAL CEoQurrrzs. Sceld half a pint of
rich milk, and stir ~ a large cupful of
dry bread crumbs, half q cupful of butter,
and two cupfuls of boiled veal chopped
very ine; season with salt a quarter Of a
grated nutmeg, red pepper and tea
spoonful Of grated onion. axe from
the fire, and when slightly cool stir in
beaten egg. Butter a dish and lay the
mixture upon Il in separate tablespoon
fuls until quite cold; then roll in beaten
egg and crumbs and fry.
LEMON PuDD1Na. New STYLE Cream
up one tablespoonful OF fresh butter with
teacupful of sugar Two eggs must be
beaten up very light, and two lemons pro
yided for seasoning. Dissolve table
spoonful Of cornstarch IL q little cold
milk, then pour over if a teacupful of
boiling water. Add to this the butter
sugar and eggs Rub the lemons until
soft. CRATE the rind into the butter, and
also strain it into the juice. Bake in putf
paste. This quantity makes two pud-
dings and will be found very nice.
Sort M0LAssKs GISGERBBEAp. One and
one-half cup molasses. one cup of beef
shortening OF butter, or half of each, TWO
cups Of sour milk, one-half cup of brown
sugar and two teaspoonfuls saleraiu-.
Have ready in pan two or three cups Of
-four, with the sugar. a little ginger and
cinnamon, and when you have boiled NJ
the molasses, butter and shortening pour
1t upon the ingredients in the pan and
stir it well Then add the sour milk and
sslaratus and -four enough 10 make il as
thick az cup cake. Beat thoroughly.
Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1886-06-03

YES by doing that which Is so necessary for
the daughters, in order that they mag be-
come wen developed and healthy, are
potent in preventing the development
and imparing the health Of most Of our
girls.
am in earnest in my assertion that
tight dressing is the chief cause which is
so rapidry destroying the native Ameri-
can woman's abilitytO nurse her children.
my daughter does not dress to tightly.
exclaims the mother. lit is her natural
form, You see" Natural indeed ESQ 10
Is inherited from the perverted form Of
the mother the dcformity OF the parent
visited on the daughter 1t is manifest to
every careful observer that our native
women, as a rule, are not proportionally
as well developed as the men. It is.
therefore, certain that they are violating
the laws Of physical Development saud
health to q greater extent than the men.
And the misfortune is that such violations
affect the unborn of both sexes: the in
FAINT and the little boys and girls, and
the older girls, as well as the adult wo-
men.
Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1886-06-03
ITEMS FOR HusBANDuEN.

Holstein COWS are becoming popular in
the South.
Grape cuttings for planting may be
made now.
Make the garden small enough SO that
you can take care of it.
Good dairymen are more essential to
good butter than any breed Of COWS.
A process of separating the manura
matter from sewage is in use in Berlin.
Experiments are being made with Toe
sinte a South American grass, for -n=
lage.
The Rural World reminds farmers thCt
by using two-foot square space IN hot
bed enough potatoes can be started suit
cient to plant a row 200 feet long and by
so doing probably three weeks could be
gained over planting at first out of
doors
To cure acow Of the habit of sucking
herself, says the Jersey Bulletin, make
saturated tincture Of powdered aloes and
alcohol; keep in mucilage bottle, tight
ly corked and paint the end of each teat
with the mixture, and the COW viii soon
become Disguised.
A correspondent of Che Toledo Blade
says lice can be driven from cattle by Gov
ering an old rope with tar and tying it
around the smallest part of an animals
neck, care being taken that il touches the
neck all around He says they viii soon
leave the animals if they can not reach
the eyes and nose, where they find ne
cessary moisture
Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1886-06-03
our Girls Dangers
AZ n.sF

What kind of material for good Chris
tian wives and mothers have We among
girls brought up in fashinable idleness
even to Homework, or any
form Of useful labor, and who live most
of the time in shaded rooms, and there
fore have little chance for physical deyel-
opment. and who, before their physical
bodies are fully developed, are subjected
to STAYS. corsets, lacings and tight dresses
till the most horrible deformity results
and the very existence of our race threat
eued; unaccustomed 20 labor to sunlight,
imperfectly developed, with the most
fearfuuy deformed waist, with laboring
heart and lung, and with the abdominal
organs crowded down on the reproductive
organs. causing the most troublesome and
serious displacements and diseases, what
chance have such girles to become com
petent wives and -lothers.
In our estimation the prevalent custom
Of allowing girls to grow up IN fashion
able idleness. and often not even requlr-
ing them to assist in housegork, and
mothers often making slaves Of themsei-
Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1886-06-03
supplementary summer Feed.
From the Rural World,


Do not neglect to plant a few acres Of
ground that will be available during the
summer when pasturage is likely to be
cut short by drouth. There arc various
crops that can be grown for this purpose;
oats, sowed corn, sorgham. and peas,
millet and others, Ground near the barn
or feed lot, or whore it viii be convenient
to get 80 and feed the stock, should be
selected Cows especially, will be bene-
fitted by having some such food to give
them each night as they come home from
pasture.
vt should not be considered that such
provision is so much extra expense.
Whatever is given TO the stock and is
eaten by it, besides what is got in the pas
ture, is so much saved from the feed
there. II also induces the cows to come
more readily TO the barn at night, if they
know that q good feed of sweet, juicy
fodder, awaits them.
There need be no fear that amy of this
extra food viii BE lost. even If the pasture
does not give out, for it can all be cured
and saved for winter feed. These different
crops can be planted at intervals, small
amount at a time, so as to have success
sion of fresh, succuleut feed. Setting
aside portion of land. having it plowed,
il viii take but an hour or two mt different
times, to plant or SOW what is desired.
Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1886-06-03
sogLE EX-coNFEnERArrs
Whereabouts and Occupations Of Lea8ir.-
Southern Generals.
BOSTON Globe

Boston Globe
The recent meeting of ex-confad....
generals at Montgomery Ala. Ia,5
Washington correspondent of tha -"
vile Post TO look up the present vsn,r--
bouts and occupations OF some of M
principal survivors among the leada-s ,.r
the confederacy. OF the six fuU 60
ais appointed by the confederate CON-.
only two survive Joseph j.. Johnst,.
now United States commissioner of rsI
roads and G. Il. Beauregard. adiutart
general of Louisiana, and manager Of NJ,
Louisiana lottery drawings
OF the twenty lieutenant generals Az.
pointed to the provisional army severn
are living. L. Kirby Smith is 9rofesso-
of mathematics in the university of ths
South in Tennessee. james Lonnstreef i
keeping hotel down in Georgia. d n
Hill, of North Carolina, was tai recently
president of the agricultural school of
the state Of Arkansas, and now earns
living chiefly as a magazine writer. Rich.
ard Taylor. son of President Taylor /.
engaged in building a canal near New.
Orleans. Stephen b. Lee is farmer. and
president of the State Agricultural societ,
of Mississippi. Jubal A. Early practices
law at Lynchburg although his chief sun
port is derived from his connection with
lottery company.
OF the major generals, A. 2. Stewart is
now president of the university of Miss
issippi at Oxford. Jos. Wheeler is in con.
gress, Is very wealthy and is one of the
largest planters in Alabama.
John b. Gordon is a millionaire railroad
man. General Loring, of Florida, was en-
rrfra II e.,
when he came to New York to work AFT
the same profession. B. Il. Cheatham was
recently appointed postmaster at Nash
vile, Tenn. Sam Jones, OF Virginia. is
in the judge advocate generals office La
fayetts McLaws is postmaster at Savan-
NAH Ga. S. B. Buckner, lives in Louis
vile, KY, where he owns a great deal of
real estate. S. b. French earns q scanty
subsistence by engineering in Georgia.
c. J.. Stevenson is in Fredericksburg. va.
John IL. Forney brother of Congress man
Forney, is in an insane asylum at Salem,
Ala. Abney Il. Mauray is a Washington
agent of a New York life insurance com
pany. John G. Walker is also in the I'M
surauce business. Isaac a. Trimble is in
retirement in Baltimore on fortune
General Heah is employed by the govern
ment on some southern rivers. Cadmus
Wilcox is writing history of the Mexi-
can war. Fitzhugh Lee is governor of
Virginia Extra Bill' Smith practices
law at WarrentOn, Va. Charles w. Field
oace doorkeeper of the house, is super
intendent of the Hot Springs reservation;
William B. Bate is governor Of Tennessee,
w. II. L. Lee is q Fairfax county farmer
G.. j. Polignac, who came over from
France TO espouse the confederate cause,
is back in Paris busted with railroad OPP
erations. William Malone is in the sen
ate, as is Z. c. Whitehall, of Mississippi
John $. Marmaduke is governor of Mis-
souri,. Pierce NJ. b. Young is United
States consul general at st. Petersburg
VI. c. Butler is a senator of the United
States. G. W. Curtis Lee is president of
Washington and Lee university at Lex
ington, Va.
Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1886-06-03
The Wife 5 share.


No class Of men are more indebted to
their wives for the success that comes to
them, than are farmers The wife and
mother who has the courage to go out
with the husband of her choice and com
mence the struggle of life with him on
the prairies, or on new farm, with but
little capital. except that boundless capi-
tai Of head and heart, is worthy TO stand
bv the side of the Spartan woman of
whom the poets have exhausted their
words of praise. Upon her falls the
bruut of the strife, no matter how hard
the husband may toll; his work closes
with the day, but hers continues long
after, and with children and many OF the
beginners look after. her lot Is not one
to be enyied. And when, after years of
struggle, success, with reluctant feet,
comes to crown the husband with honor,
the brightest wreath should adorn the
brow of the noble wife who was tho stay
and anchor. the comfort and the source
of hope in the stormy days of trial. The
The wealth should crown her queen.
We hear much of the men. We hear
that so-and-so is making money, and he
gets the credit of being a forehanded
man but it is twice as often that the no
BILE little woman who has toiled and com
planned not, who has pinched and saved
and murmured not. is the one to whom
the state and nation is most greatly in
debted. These are the women who lead
men up to that higher and nobler
manhood. to that shrine, where. like
knights of old, they bend the knee of hom-
age, not to beauty, but to worth and royal
manhood.
Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1886-06-03
FARM, HOME AND GARDEN
GRANnPApA,s GRANnpApA

Do },y you know ,srandpapas grandpapa
Had OF study so unquenchahe a thirst
That he went OIL u Harrow ia la Ia
And ne was placed N Lower Lower First
How the buttons on bis blue frock shonei
hoT ne cArroiled aed be sang, lust ike a
bird
And Rodney. the sailor hoy was one.
And Bruce, who travelled far, was the
third
For you know, etc
Then to Bruce grsndpapa's graudpapa
SAID, Bruce who travelled farl "come
We are ten summers old, ia la
80 10 hoops and 70 merriment and to
Oh, mo- though mourn, he said, I'm in
truth
g. $ G merry rolickiag TO mar,
w nat hoops. ana ehusiyene,s Of youth
To a lad who has got to travel far
For you know etc
Then 10 Rodney granopapa's grandpapa
said. Rodney, sailor Oy up away
And with marbles, and with tops ia 'lalai
Amid the merry folks from town, pass the
But Rodney. sailor boy ''No said he.
Brace trckles. and ayast. and alas
No marbles and jolity for me;
! have got 20 beat the French and De
erase
For you know, etc
Then, then, PraudpaPa's grAndpapa
Went reveliug away ia and out
Mid the merry folks from town IA Ia 10
While the marbles ard the tops flew alout,
And of all The merry folks, IA la ia!
Ia buttons ana blud frocks drest,
Why, be sure graudpapa granddapa
Was the top most and merItest and lest
For on knoE, etc.
Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1886-06-03
Engagement Rings.

In all things fashionable in personal
apparel France is the authority par ercci-
Ience, says the Pail Mall Gazette, and with
regard to engagement rings which are
said to be mostly required at this season
of the year, one of the oracles delivers
itself thus;
The first of the presents which must
be made to an athanced bride ought to
be the engagement ring; this ring must
forever be kept by the woman; it Is the
first openly allowed gage Of love; 1t
should be of perfect taste and at the
same time not inconvenient to the wear
err (which remark, considering that the
custom OF marriage dc conrsHUHce is still
very much adhered to in France, has
slightly sarcastic tone). l would not
choose the ruby. it is too snowy, loud and
indiscreet. Ny taste inclines towards the
sapphire and the diamond, of which the
one does not go well without the other.
I should not choose a large sapphire sur
rounded by diamonds; l should ask our
iewelIer artists to interlBce in happy com
hination the sapphire and the diamond.
The turquoise Is also tasteful stone, but
when il is constantly worn it has the i'm
manse disadvantage to chs nge is color
and to this change most women attach ?
sd and sentimental superstition ~
should. therefore. not De chosen for the
first present, which is worn ana ehtrlsheo
while life lasts, and which remains from
tie DAYS Of youth while everything else
changes
Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1886-06-03

Boys when you come into the house for
your meats and find the dinner or supper
not quit ready and your mother and sister
hurrying around warm and tired instead
of standing about in the way leaning
against the sink or fitting back in your
chair against tho buttery door you should
take hold and help the women folks. At
first may be you won see any way that
you can help them unless You We're
brought up To work occasionally in the
house. Try an experiment to morrow.
Come III a few minutes perore dinner
time and watch the steps your mother
takes in putting the finishing touches to
to the meal. See her lifting the heavy
kettle of potatoes from the stove and
holding 1t with great effort at nearly arms
length carry il to the sink and then lift
il again 10 drain off the water Certainly
YOU could do that for her You can take
the pan of meat or beans from the oven
and thus save much of her strength You
can set the chairs up and run down TO
the cellar for the butter or bread You can
glance over the table and see if q knife
or spoon has been misplaced in dishing
up the dinner and if SO quietly replace
it, Wouldn't this he a better way than
after the family are all comfortable seat
ed at the table to loudly announce Marin
my knife and forks gone guess you mean
for me to eat with my fingers to day
and then mother has to apring mp no
matter how sufT and tired she may feel
and run to the cupboard and bring her
great boy his knife. When you notice
the vinegar cruet, the pepper and salt box,
or any dish has been forgotten, get up
quietly and get the same before your moth
er has a chance. See if she can't sit in
pence at meal time, and not be continual
ly getting up for articles. Things will be
forgotten in the best regulated families.
Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1886-06-03
HIS SHIPS
BOSTON TRANSCRIPT

closed a drawer with a sudden paug to-day
For meath the thing ] sought there iay a Ioy'
Carven and cut and Clipped 10 childish way
Too srcred to destroy
A wooden hammer that with mimic naiis
Had builded tiny shipS launched torth auohh
And kent aHoat wiJh breath on snowy sans
TN narrow shores were won
How Uttle then knew those ships that went,
Slender and gay across the shallow seas
Were bat the pastims Of an angel, sent
10 teach loves my sieries
For 30 the rapture Of eternal Gains,
Lifted on uoseless wings, he went away,
Bearing white lies in his folded palms,
Resting from childish play
Now az scuiptured on a marbles base, thel
show
He sleeps. unconscious OF MY SOULS lament,
While on ihe Spring warm bosom still incl
grow
smlliug as when he went.
And cou a he wander back 10 earth awhile,
Crossing the golden threshold, granted leave.
Heaven would itself b, lone without his smile,
And, hush he, TOO, might greve,