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wore q fun uniform, with her sword
and belt. She is an expert swordswoman,
and understands all about arms and
army matters. She told the grand mar
shall that she had participated m decora-
tiou day parades in Portland, San Fran
cisco, and other cities, and was glad Of
an opportunity to do SO in New York.
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ton are insured. Meanwhile the VIC
TINS are compelled by etiquette to con-
verse with assumed merriment. regard.
less Of the increasing agony they are
enduring. The greater criminals are
made to sit during this operation with
their backs to the fire, and in very helm
GUS cases the door or window Is sniff
GENTLY opened to allow a draught free
play over their faces. This adds tooth
ache or neuralgia to their other incon-
veniences.
These tee-pah-tis, however, are falling
into disuse. For they usually occurred
in the afternoon, whereby those who took
part in them were prevented from earn
ing income tax for the state. NOWADAYS
most punishments take place in the even
ing. They ae known as evening paints
or swah-rays. The simplest of these ID
like our admonition by baking. In a
room containing enough air for one hum
dred persons, four hupdred persons are
made to enter. Gas and candles are
lighted, the doors and windows are her
medically sealed, and the prisoners are
introduced one to another. Politeness
compels them to converse. This from
draught and sympathy they find most
difficult, and each is source of sorrow
to himself and to all his neighbors. A
way of varying this torture is to lower
the temperature by means of draughts to
point at which conversation becomes
just possible. All the most talkative
people are then mutually introduced, and
SO soon as they evince wish to speak
they are ordered to be silent. Then exc
cutioners, with instruments or with thei1
natural voices, produce such bangs
screeches, and cries as strike terror into
the boldest hearts, and makes all present
tremble to think what nay be coming
next. After these performances, those
who have failed to escape from the neigh.
borhood of the executioners are obliged
to smile and thank them.
For more robust criminals there is a
severer punishment, known as dhau.
tsing. It is more fatiguing than the
tread mill, and it's Recipients are less
comfortably attired. Those who assist
in it are called shap p'hroons. and pah
t'ners. The pah t'ners have to clutch
one another in uncomfortable positions
gyrate violently to the sound of instru-
ments. The shap p rooms are placed
bolt upright, in cold, awkward places.
They may not move, but they act like
the cushions of billiard table, and have
the pah t'ners continually humping
against them and stamping on their toes
Meantime the pah t'ners are very un-
happy, for care is taken to couple the
long with the short, the slight with the
stout, and the light with the unwieldy.
So the short get jerked and bumped, tie
tall were cramped with STOPPING. The
slight can not get proper hold of the
stout, and the stout feel hot and con-
temptous toward the slight. The feath-
er-weights revolve helplessly around the
unwieldy, and the unwieldy revolve like
the earth upon their axes, and are car
romed against and hustled till they are
black and blue. Then they all have to
say how much they have enjoyed them
selves; they catch cold on the road home
and awake very sad indeed the next
morning.
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black walnut. nom trees cut on the
banks Of the stream.
A ven known ballet dancer Of irrs-
proachahle character, when asked II
changing her short skirts and tights Tor
the long rObes Of Kazisha in q 'sMikado,"
ballet did not annoy her in dancing, an
swered: mo. not that way, but / felt
awfully ashamed when I frst appeared
in it."
Mrs. NJ. Chamberlin, OF North Brook
field, Mass, says she remembers seven
generations In her own family. She il
sc years old and remembers her GREAT
grand mother, her grandmother, her
father, her brother her own children.
grandchildren, and great grand child.
A young man hurriedly left the North
ern railway train at Craigvale, Conn,
one day recently, emphaticslly kissed
young lady who stood waiting for him
on the platform, then rushed back to his
seat in the car, and TRANQUILITY pursued
his journey northward.
NJ. G. Kiser, says the Savannah Ne,cs
made proposition to give OK president
Davis S., 900 home in Atlanta and 800
month if he would make that city his
place Of residence. Mr.. Kiser says that
If this isn't enough he is ready to make
it more.
A widower in Athens, Ga :, called on q
NO 4 49, xLnk Ill
prayed TO the Lord to send him a wife,
and in dream had been directed to her.
The wooer was informed that the Lord
had certainly directed him to the wrong
person.
A Whitehurch, Can, resident spent q
whole day last week in Lucknow search
ing for wife. He was not particular as
to whom he got, so long as it was some
body that could milk five COWS each
morning before O'Clock. He found no
takers.
A 3-year-old girl fell from the balcony
on The fourth floor of Hartford house
the other day, but she struck squarely
across clothes-line stretched from the
third floor, and the rebound threw her
into a balcony there, almost unhurt.
The police board of Jersey City, N. j.,
which is composed Of three men of each
party, wrangled month over the selec-
ton of president, upon which some
other matters depended, and has at last
settled the matter by drawing lots.
George Holyland, of Fork, Nd, was
shearing sheep the other day, when
the animal kicked and drove one of the
blades of the sharp shears into Georges
abdomen, inhicting wound from which
he soon died.
The Santa Barbara, CAL, papers note
with pride the fact that the white boys
and girls Of that locality will gather the
crop of hops and grapes in the place Of
Chinese.
The newsboys of San Francisco have
organized protective union. Ten cents
is to be the uniform price for shine,
and destitute members will be taken care
Of
A Long Island City N. Y, alderman
has resigned in order to get married, his
intended refusing to marry him as long
as he was member of the board.
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Curing Glover Hay.
Prairie Farmer

Prairie Farmer
I suppose it is hardly necessary for
me to say anything in regard to red clio
yer as farm crop. All farmers ought
to know its value, both as a fertilizer
and as feed for nearly ali kinds of farm
stock. In this term I enclude hogs, as
well as cattle, horses and sheep. At the
present low price of pork it can be made
with profit only when grown largely on
clover. Many farmers do not know its
feeding value, for the reason that they
have never saved it in manner to obtain
the best results from it. 1t is usually
allowed to get too ripe before cutting,
and is then left in the sun and dew until
it is bleached and blackened, and when
put in the bran has but little more feed
ing value than pea straw. Then comes
the question, how shall we save it? First
if possible, by all means build silo to
put it in. Build it inside the barn. Put
a grout bottom into the bay, line the
sides with tarred building paper and
matched flooring, and you have as per-
feet silo as can be built. The clover
may be put into silo with less expense,
and much less risk than it can be saved
in the ordinary way. But if it is not
desired to have silo, the next best thing
is { I have practiced for the last fifteen
years to cut the clover when it is green
wilt it in the field, and do the rest of the
curing in the NOW. My plan is this:
Cut before the blossoms are all out (say
a little more than half of them j; never
commence the moving in the morning
until the dew is off; run the mower until
noon. After dinner, and as soon as four
o'clock. rake, and put up into large
cocks; be sure that it is all done before
the dew begins to fall A tedder is use
full, and should be had if attainable. II
put up while the sun is shining on it
warm, the hay will begin at once to heat
in the cock, and by the next morning
will be quite warm. The next forenoon
throw open to the sun short time, and
put into the barn as fast as possible. 1
know some readers will be ready to ask
if it will notfheat and spoil. It will heat
and that is what we want to do; but If
there is no moisture in it except the juice
of the hay it will not spoil, provided the
barn is reasonable tight. An ordinary
battened barn is tight enough if the
doors are kept closed, save when nee
essay to be opened in putting in hay. II
one has large amount Of clover to cut,
the mower may be run from say 3
o'clock in the afternoon. until the dew
begins to fall, and the clover handled the
next day. If the work goes on contin-
uously from day, to day. it will be all
right, but If from bad weather or any
other cause, break of two or three
days should occur, the hay will be wet
as it falls from the fork, and it is good
plan to pitch of some of the top to the
sides of the NOW. When the clover is
all in, it is well to put load or two Of
dry straw on the top, otherwise some Of
the top viii be found spoiled. One word
of caution: Do not make the mistake Of
supposing it ..il be the same to put IN
wet hay as green hay. II rain falls ON
it or if cut when the due is on it, it must
be dried, or it will surely spoil
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The residence Of G. w. Hates at juno
ton City, was discovered on fire the 9TH
or day. Mrs. Hates and boy two and
one-half years old were serioualy burned
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Seven hundred babies have been named
after Clevel md since he became President,
and their photographs ell three drawers in
White House cabinet.
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The work of replacing the stone toWs q
of the Niagara suspension bridge with tssrs
ones has been begun.
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The following posm, descriptive of Kansas in
1855 and 1885, by H. j. Dennis, state Librarian,
viii be read with interest by not only Kansas, but
those who have travelled through the state in the
years named. The pictures presented are true
ones, or were true of the periods named. Mr..
Dennis has happily expressed the scenes so fami-
liar to.the majority of the Kansas people, who
came to the state when it seemed almost impos-
sible to live here, and when the principal crops
on the plains was buffalo bones:
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KANSAS-A. D. 1885.

Here halt, Jose, in Gods name let us rest,
If rest we may in this intolerable heat,
Here on this high dividing crest
Some breeze less fierce our burning brows M
greet
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s.Do I know what became of old Ben
der and his family? You remember
that they fed the country, or that the
papers so reported, and for months we
used to hear from one locality and an
other of the fugitives being seen or
captured. have reason to believe they
never got out of the state, nor yet q
hundred miles from that lone tavern on
the prairie, with its horrible cellar under
meath and its graveyard in the rear.
Bands of men were riding in this or that
direction bent on vengence, and one OF
these over-hauled the party. 1 have
been told this on the best authority. AS
Bender had shown no mercy towards the
unsuspecting travellers, who were shot
in the back from that kitchen door as
they ate at his table, none was shown
to him or his. They were wiped Out
and planted where their bones will never
be turned up to the light Of day."
St. Landry democrat., 1886-02-06
Let the Negro Alone.

General Logan's new bill for the ap-
pointnent of a commission to investi-
gate and report on the mental, indus
trial and physical progress made by the
colored race since 1867 is a measure
which should be suppressed. It is an
outgrowth of the idea that the negro is
In some sense ward of the Nation,
and indicates on the part of its author
an indisposition to recognize the fact
that the negro is a citizen as free and
independent as any white man, and re-
sponsible to no one but himself for the
use that he makes of the privileges con-
ferred upon him. If the negroes are
American citizens. there is no reason
why they should be made the SUBJ
ject of a special inquiry. The mere
proposition to place them even infer
entially in the same category as the In
dians Or the cattle of the plains indi-
Gates an unwillingness on the part of
some people to recognize the fact that
they are free, and that with eyery ad-
vantage that anybody has they are able
to take care OF themselves. On their
own part the negroes should resent this
discrimination as tending to perpetuate
the race prejudice and sink their citizen.
ship In the question of their color.
Politicians who have been borne into
power ON the shoulders of the negro
doubtless find it difficult to let him
alone but the time has come when all
St. Landry democrat., 1886-02-06
TIE BAD LANDS.
HE wild and Romantic Country Inhabited
by The Crow Indians. ~

HE wild and Romantic Country INHABITED
by The Crow Indians. ~
The country along the Yellowstone
for the first hundred miles is on one
side beautiful level plain, clothed
with fine buffalo grass, a great, grand
pasture for its numerous herbivorous
inhabitants, while on the other side
rugged hills and towering peaks meet
the eye, presenting the aspect of COM
plcte sterility Beyond is the region
of the Big Horn River, a fine large
stream of clear water meandering
along the base of the mountains, well
stocked with various kinds Of fish.
1t would require the pen and pencil
of an artist to depict the wild and
wondrous beauty of the scenery along
this beautiful stream. Afar in the dis
tance can be seen the peaks of the
Rocky Mountain range, with their
-snow-capped SUBMITS appearing in the
clouds, while all around lie the Bad
Lands, called by the French traders
Les Mouvatse Terres, Enthusiastically
studded with what seems to be broken
towers and crumbling pyramids; and
it requires but little imagination to
suppose oneself in some grand old de-
caying city of the dead. The traveller
wanders at the base through labyrinth
ian passages, while from above Gothic
castles, with towers and bastions and
solid walls, frown down on him in
gloomy grandeur.
Here he will see many place where
The Grows and the Blackfeet have met
IN deadly strife, for scarcely a month
passed previous to the treaty between
these two nations that some bloody
contest did not occur.
When you near the foot of the noun
tains, the scenery is wonderfully grand
and imposing.
In early times the traveller would
often find himself solitary and alone
on some lofty butte or towering mound,
viewing that lonely region clothed in
Understandable magnificence and gran
tlcur. At every glance he saw large
herds OF buffalo, elk, deer, antelope,
and often the grizzly bear. To this
day no country seems more adapted to
the wild Indian than this.
There is still game in abundance for
his subsistence, grass for animals, and
wood enough for his fuel; and the red
anan asks for nothing more. But from
ats very nature, the hand of civilization
will leave it undisturbed forever.
The buffalo, now so scarce, is some
times captured by the Crows, and
throughout their entire country there
Is variety of game. Wild fruits are
very abundant, and many kinds of
roots, which supply them with all the
food their wants require, are
also found in plenty. Service berries,
cherries. plums, currants and gooseber-
ries are found in greatest abundance
on the forks OF the Yellowstone.
The Grows have ever been in the
highest degree nomadic, and their ne
,essities do not require them to till the
ground. DAYS.
St. Landry democrat., 1886-02-06
A Remarkable Plant.

There is in Australia plant which,
in its growth so much resembles a sheep
that, in the days of the early settlement,
the pioneers were often surprised by the
apparition of tlocks Of sheep ON the dis
tant hills. The plant is Of the order
Composite, and belongs to the genus
RaouIaa. 1t grows in dense kidney
shaped mass about eight feet across and
three feet high. The leafy branches
are densely packed together, and the
whole mass of a snow-white color. The
flowers are microscopic, and hence there
is never any variation in the appear
ance of the vegetable sheep at any sea-
SOM 7. Independent
St. Landry democrat., 1886-02-06
AN ILLUSTRATION.
How Darkey Moved the Heart of ana
Arkansaw Official.

How n Darkey Moved the Heart OF an
Arkansaw Official.
An old negro asked State official for
fifty cents.
Go On away said the official, Il
gave you fifty cents some time ago.
"Cap'n' said the negro, Eyer puts me
in mine o de ole man whut had gin his
dog SO much. 1t is er standin' 'lustra-
ton ober in Tennysee an mebby yer We
hearn O. it, but no ditl'unce. De man
wuz er eatin' dinner an his Naug come
in an gunter wag his tail an frjslS roun'
powerful anxious ter eat suthin' Go
outen heah, 'sklaimed de man, I gin
yer er hunk O. co'nbread not NOR n a
munf ergo an now yer acks like yer's
er haungry.' OATS de way yer looks at
me. boss, Yer gin me fifty cents las
munf an 'specks dat doan need one
ergin by dis time"
Here said the man, handing him
fifty cents. Ego on away and don't ask
me again.
''Oh, thankee, sab. De white gen.
nermen nearl y allus comes roun' when
gins 'em er Illustration. I'll try ter
make dis las ez long ez it will, sab, but
in desc heah 'stravigant times yer KANT
'spetk er pusson ter keep fifty cents
morn er week. Gin me Ell dollar-oh,
go on, den, fur yer's gunter look like
yers sorry yer gin me dis much. -
Artansaoo Traveller.
St. Landry democrat., 1886-02-06
FRUIT GROWING.

Advantages and Disadvantages of the Two
Branches of Industry.
We are often asked this question;
but it is one that we can seldom an
swer to our satisfaction, as SO much
depends upon the LOCALITY, nature of
the soil, climate and the surrounding
market. Usually it is best not to con-
fine yourself to one branch entirely,
but to plant both large and small
fruits. We have known inexperienced
mon to begin fruit growing by planting
one hundred acres of pears and moth
ang else, or fifty acres of grape vines,
or large fields of Strawberries These
people often come to grief. How much
better it would have been if they had
divided their planting among numer-
GUS species. Fruit trees, plants and
vines are liable to occasional failure.
the same as anything else in this world
is liable to fail. Therefore, if one has
planted variety of fruits, the failure
of one or of several does not cause him
serious loss, and he continues from year
to year to receive an average income.
Aside from this, if he plants a large
acreage of one specially, he is obliged
to harvest and market his specially in
haste, at o certain date; whereas, if it
was divided into numerous species, the
time OF harvesting and marketing
would be extended over large period,
and could be done with much less ex-
pense and danger from storms and
other contingencies.
Usually the drift of such INQUIRIES is
to learn whether small fruits or large
are most profitable. There is his
much in favor of small fruits; they can
be made to bring in revenue sooner
than large fruits; therefore, most fruit
growers begin fruit-growing by plant
ang strawberries, raspberries and black
berries, grapes and currants. They
plant at the same time orchards of
pears, apples, peaches and ounces,
depending upon the early grapes.
Strawberries and other small fruits to
tide along the way until the large
fruits get into bearing. Then thew
have an opportunity of testing thor
oughly whether large or small fruits
pay best in their locality and on their
soil. Thus, if they find the market for
small fruits in excess Of the supply,
they can gradually diminish that de-
partment, and devote their attention
TO large fruits. This is the proper way
TO begin frr1it-growing. Orchards Of
large fruits require years for their ma
turity, and it is a matter of speculation
somewhat as to what the outcome will
be; and yet we have every assurance
that they will prove profitable; but
how profitable no one can say. In
planting small fruits we have but q
short period to look forward to, and
we can decide with some certainty re-
garding the demand. -FsNst Q,'0wer.
St. Landry democrat., 1886-02-06
WIT AND WISDOM.

HE who can suppress moment
anger may prevent aday of sorrow.
OF what kind of fruit do the rapids
of the Nile remind us? Wild currants.
The fortunate circumstances of our
lives are generally found at last to be
of our own production. - Albany Jour-
nal
Appropriate sign for church in need
of musicians: Wanted-singers; in Oh Dir
within.-Hot Springs Nea0s.
The young man who spends money
before he earns it. is always slave to
him who earns it before he spends it
Chicago Ledger.
Not one person in million knows
either when or how to perform the USE
full operation of holding his tongue
". Y Herald.
Come to the same end
Letting boil pursue its course
Is like tracing river to it source.
Ihough each may prove quite troublesome
At last unto head they come
st. Paul Herald.
The farmer was telling how we'll
bred his cows were, all full-blooded AL
derneys, when a neighbor interrupted
him, saying: ''They are not well-bred
at all, but just as rude as can be, for
one of them chased me out of the pas
ture lot. '-Bosto'a Globe.
-"Pa," said little Eddie early the
other morning, 'the storm signal is
up" els it, my son?' .'Oh, yes. Ma
says she found a toothpick in the front
door lock this morning and your shoes
on the top of the bureau, and she says
it's going to be cold day Mr.. Nc
Donald went down town without wait
ing for breakfast Pittsburgh Gazette.
"A little black boy stood with his
small sister at the edge of water-lily
pond in Florida. "Ephlum,' said the
girl, "what makes so many cat-tails
grow in dis heah pon'?' ''Well, I
would sayr' replied Ephlum, "doan you
knowP "Why, dey grows up from
kittens dat people hez drowned in de
pom, of cease! Pears like you VIM
men folks doan know muffin bout agli.
cultsch! Golden Days.
Mrs. Smith Ito Bridget, the new girD:
'.Why didn't you ring the rising-bell
this morning, Bridget?'' Bridget: II
did, mum. / gave It couple O taps in
the back hall" Mrs. Smith: but we
can't hear it from the back hall. Bring
it into the front hall tomorrow, and
ring it loud and long, like this" (llus-
trating). Bridget: Cher face expressive
of mild surprise); sBut shure, mum.
wouldn't that wake yees all up?"-
Bostes Bulletin.
St. Landry democrat., 1886-02-06

An old lady read a paragraph in
one of the papers the other day describ-
ing how a grindstone burst in a saw
mill and killed four men. She happened
to remember that there was a small
grindstone down in her cellar, leaning
against the wall; so she went out and
got an accident insurance policy and
then, summoning servant and hold
ing pie-board in front of her face, so
that if the thing exploded her face would
not be injured, had the stone taken into
the road. where twenty-four pals OF
water We're thrown over it, and stick
was stuck in the hole bearing plaeard
marked. Dangerous She says it is a
mercy the whole house was not blown
to pieces by the thing before this
Wood and Iron,