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The southern sentinel. (Winnfield, La.) 1883-1910, 1886-05-14

public, without so much as thought
that any one would think she should do
it indoors. Or. maybe, it is a man in
scanty garb, sitting on the threshold of
ms shop, washing hts long legs in basin
OF hot water. Sometimes you may come
across conjurer performing at one
OF the tiny clear spaces where
the road widens for q few wards.
Close by this spot l once met a
man who seemed to have knife
broken off short in the top of his skull,
and the blood apparently was running
down upon his clothes. The people
stood aside with what I thought was
shocked aspect as he solemnly walked
on, looking to neither right nor left,
and it proved to be only famous con-
Jurer going through one of his most re-
markable performances. Occasionally
you may happen upon one of the &c.
centric customs of idolatry, and see .
new house consecrated by the presence
OF the black-faced idol. BY the way,
while we are just finishing our journey,
will tell you curious fact about
Cinnamon and foreign pictures. The
Chinaman who sees foreign picture for
the first time looks at it with the ewes
OF grown-up child. When had dis
covered this fact, tested the truth of it
many times by showing pictures to in
telligent friends. A fine sketch of the
interior of Turkish man-of-war, four
guns served by about ten men, and the
Admiral standing in the foreground
with his hand resting upon his sword,
was put down as .'mount il~.S and
large and elaborate picture of the funer-
al of Mons. Theirs proceeding through
the streets of Paris was said to be "a
ship at sea- This is an interesting
fact for psychologists. -Erery-D Day Life
in China.
The southern sentinel. (Winnfield, La.) 1883-1910, 1886-05-14
Backlog.

Known in medical science as anthrax
OF the extremities, is q blood disease
usually attacking young cattle in the
summer, and is neither infectious or
epidemic. Those in the best condition
are most apt to be attacked. High liv-
ing on luxuriant grass is generally the
cause of attack, and especially with
those that had been reduced in flesh dur
ing hard winter. The symptoms are
. sudden depression of III body as il
palsied. and some part $. Ills, usually
the legs. 1t is more dangerous when
near or on the loins. The fever causes
blisters on the mouth and tongue.
When the animal is first discovered.
Clater says, bleed freely. then give a
purgative and cut Of the feed. Careful
nursing helps more than physic. and
when Improvement is noticed. feed eau
tiously on non-heating substances.
gradually changing to more nolrish;nv
food zgricsiturist.
The southern sentinel. (Winnfield, La.) 1883-1910, 1886-05-14
POULTRY-HOUSES.
An Important Point Which Is Not General.
" Taken Into Consideration.

An Important Point Which Is Not General.
ly Taken Into Confederation.
The hens will not stay in closed
poultry-house during the day time. no
m after how warm and comfortable it
may be, if they can get an open shed
facing the south. 1t is the natural con-
dition of fowls to be in the open air.
and, rs is well-known, some of them,
such as the turkey and guinea, much
prefer the trees at night to any shelter
that may be made for them. We do
not imply by this that it is to the adj
vantage of the farmer to expose his
fowls, for domestic alton has made them
dependent upon his care, but we vii.
state that during the day an open shee
will be of greater advantage, even in
the seyerest of weather, than close
house. But at night the fowls should
be comfortably housed and protected
It is the habit of hens to scratch ar d
exercise, which helps the blood
in circulation, and hence, if ,
warm shed, with plenty M
scratching material, be ready for them
from morning till night, they will 60
well as long as the wind does not sweep
upon them. but at night, when they Al .
quiet and inactive, they must be we |
protected. Right here we will state thft
nearly all the diseases of fowls in winter
and spring arise from exposure to cold
winds. The comb, if examined.
will be found to be perfets
radiator of heat. and the larger tb >
comb the greater the exposed surface "a
the action of the cold. and the more rap.
idly the heat is carried off. The samA
may be said of the wattles, which Often
get wet while the bird is drinking, and
become frozen. Therefore give youf
hens an opportunity to work in the oper
air, in well projected place. Keep
them warm and comfortable at night,
give them water in a vessel with small
aperture for drinking, and avoid damp
ness as much as possible. Fed
and Stockman.
The southern sentinel. (Winnfield, La.) 1883-1910, 1886-05-14
A Pretty Pony I'm q Well.

Last Sunday morning, about three
O'Clock, Captain Powell was aroused by
an unusual noise out at his stables among
his horses. Going out he found his beau.
tiful black mare, Daisy, greatly distressed.
He couldn't understand her uneasiness
until he began looking around for her colt.
Failing to find the little fellow, the thought
occurred to him that may be it had fallen
into well which was near by. His fears
proved true, for down in the deep, dark
well the brave little Percheron was floun-
dering about. The Captain aroused sew
eral hands on the place, and in short
while the colt was drawn to the surface,
wrapped in warm blankets and soon re-
stored. No limbs were broken, strange to
say, from the headloug plunge. This Is Q
new and novel way to .'raise" colts.
The southern sentinel. (Winnfield, La.) 1883-1910, 1886-05-14
THIEVES CULTURE.
4 8hyster's Lecture on the Dangers and
Satellites Of Robbery.
IN. Y. Special Boston Herai d.

Satellites OF Robbery.
IN. Y Special Boston HERALD
In the upper part of q house at Is Mott
street, over q Chinese restaurant, the
police found and broke up a sneak thieves
club. The members were dozen hard
youngsters, reared in the squalor and vice
of the neighborhood, and their highest
ambition was to become robbers. But they
had q methodical president, who intended
that they should be instructed in the law
and ethics Of their trade; SO he went to q
broken down shyster at the TOmbs, near
by, and hired him for two dollars to de-
liver q lecture on the dangers and safe
guards of sneak -thieving. His first dis
course was on the penalties for different
grades of robbery and especially he pointed
out the foolishness of taking big risks
for little Doodle. "Don't break into any
house." he said, sunless you feel sure you
can capture a heavy swag, because that 10
burglary, punishable with as much Is
twenty years Imprisonment. Don't use
force against persons, because that consu-
tutes highway robbery, with the same pom
atty, no matter il you only take a dime.
But sneak into Railways, load yourselves
with coats from the rack, and scoot away,
because year in the penitentiary is the
most you can get for merely stealing less
than twenty five dollars worth. and a jury
will usually scale a coat down to that fig
ure." The enterprising thieves were 50
well pleased with this lecture that they
applied to more conscientious expert for
another, and he informed the police.
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FoRE,oN GOSSIP.

The yearly exports of umbrellas
rom England are valued at f581, 900.
"A Russian convict is said to have
.urvived punishment of two thousand
Iashes.
It has cost the British Government
sssO. 900 to suppress the locust plague
in Cyprus
The Emperor Dom Pedro Of Brazil
l. manning the erection of an academy
n arts, which will be the first of its kind
IN South America.
Archer and Wood, the two noted
English Jockeys, according to the in
come tax assessment, made last year re-
spectively $4,000 and $4,000.
A gentleman who saw a meteor re-
Gently in Surry, England, described it as
being apparently so near him that he
thought he could hit it with stone.
In the Peshawur cemetery, in India,
is the following amusing epitaph:
..Sacred to the memery of Rev. -,
Missionary, aged =, murdered by his
cbowkidar. We'll done, thou good and
faithful servant
I'm China and Japan girls are named
after some beautiful natural object, and
such names are common as Cherry
flower, Peach-blossom, Plum-blossom,
Bamboo-leaf, Pine-woods, etc.
"A patent has been granted in Russia
for lucifer match that can be used an
indefinite number of times, the wood
being impregnated with special chem
zeal solution that will allow of such re-
use.
The depression in Scotch agricul-
ture is so great that, in one recent num-
Der of a paper published in the north,
forty-seven country mansions, with
245,Q00 acres of shootings attached,
were advertised to let.
: in Servia it is the custom to build
the partition walls of houses quite thick,
and set stoves in the walls half way
through, so that they do duty in warm
ing two rooms. The stove has no OPEN
ING in either room. but is managed
through an aperture in the wall.
The best decorated man in Prussia
is the Crown Prince of Germany, who
has seventy-two orders and decorations
to plant on his breast, which make him
look as if he wore breastplate. Count
Puckler. the Marshal of the place, comes
next with fifty-one; Bismarck follows
with : modest forty-eight.
The Island of Juan Fernandez, up
on which Alexander Selkirk, the pro-
totype OF Robinson Crusoe, spent his
four solitary years. has never since been
inhabited until twelve years ago. when
the present Governor Rodt settled upon
it with small colony. Rodt is Swift
yer. I'm 1866 he fought for Austria
against the Prussians. and in 1870 for
Hance. After the defeat of the French
he emigrated to Chill, and made himself
useful to the government, at whose in
vitation he undertook the colonization
Of Robinson Crusoe's lonely island.
Here he has resided for the last twelve
years as Governor and Judge. Most of
the settlers over whom he presides are
German and Swiss.
The southern sentinel. (Winnfield, La.) 1883-1910, 1886-05-14
PITH AND POINT.

There are two things which a man
Is bound to take on faith-his Wife
private opinion of him and what saus-
ages are made from.-FaH Rirer Id
Udnce.
A writer describes beauty as hav-
ing IAN exquisitely moulded face, OF
which two dark hazel eyes are the GEN.
trail feature Where is her nose situ-
ated?-Buriington Free Press.
There is an article going the rounds
OF the press entitled, '.How to get rich. V
And yet there are more than dozen
poor families right here in this town.
This comes of not reading the newspa-
pers. Herald.
The plain untitled citizen can slide
along in life without receiving much
criticism and abuse; but when he has a
handle to his name he must expect
everybody to take hold and shake him
up.-N. o. Picayune.
The reason why people do not do
as they are told hundreds of times in
papers, books, pulpits and elsewhere is
that they never take it to themselves.
but always fit it on somebody else, and
then wonder why people don't try to
mend their ways Chicago Ledger.
AT recent meeting of Sorosis in
New York Miss Parloa startle the ladie:
by asking: "How many of you know
how to boil potato?" 1t is rather
singular that Miss Parloa should have
mistaken meeting of the brightest
women in New York for an intelligence
office.-NorristoW Herald
-..Them's mine," said Colonel Yer
ger. ''All right. Colonel" replied
Jules Barnfeldt, the bartender. "And
be careful not to charge me with them
twice" THAT'S something l never
do" "You had better not overchargt
me, because l keep all the drinks l take
in my head" Il knew that, Colonel
before You spoke. Anybody can tel
that Just by looking at YOU" N. B.
Colonel Yerger's face looks as if it iat
been painted red and vanished. -Teral
Siffings.
Tommy Gray:
am six years old
And like play and fun,
mean to grow up
Like George Washington
So when mother said,
"Who ate all the pie@
spoke like a man,
And said: at was l."
But she didn't say
She'd rather lose the pie
And know that her boy
Would not tell a lie.
She just shut the up
Where couldn't see,
Then sent me to bed
Without any tea
Ella Ball. in Babuhood
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HOME AND FARM.

When a young lamb becomes weak
and debilitated. when nearly ready for
weaving, it may be strengthened by Civ
ing it feed twice a day of oatmeal
Cruel and warmed milk.-Troy Times.
-Neatness about the stable is desira-
BILE at all times. The man who has not
pride enough about him to keep his
barns and stables clean and neat should
not have the pleasure of owning a good
horse.-Erchange.
Fruit Cookies: Two cups of sugar.
one cup of butter, two cups OF chopped
raisins, two eggs, two tablespoonful
of sour milk, two tablespoonfuls OF
cinnamon, one teaspoonful of nutmeg,
cloves and soda. Bake same as other
cookies. Household.
Make mush by stirring graham
four slowly into boiling water; it must
not be too thick; cook ten minutes.
using the mush stick as little as posi-
BILE. Then stir in n few spoonfuls OF
milk or cream, and also eupful OF
fresh dates; cook two minutes longer,
taking care not to scorch in the bottom.
Pour into mould or cups wet with
cold water, and set it away till Cold
Boston Globe.
According to recent DISCUSSION 8
grass, in order to be most valuable for
pasture, must possess the following
characteristics. Be well suited to the
locality, both us to soil and climate: nu-
tritious, palatable, capable of growing
continuously. so as to constantly renew
its foliage when cropped: endure the
tramping of animals, and be easily pro-
pagated. Chicago Journal.
The Dirt amateur gives the follow
ing directions for making linen work
smooth and even when it is finished:
s.Dampen it all over at the back with a
sponge, and then stretch it tightly and
evenly, face downward on board. or
pin it out on q nailed carpet with a clean
cloth underneath it. When the work,
as we'll as the linen, is quite dry. it may
be taken up, and if the edges show. the
pin marks they can be smoothed with
the fingers. When linen work is washed
it must be treated in the same way.
Chickens often get forked pieces OF
bone fast in the throat, nearly starving
with plenty of feed before them; and no
matter how tame the fiocks usually are,
when hen is affected this way she will
scarcely allow herself to be caught. but
in running and lodging about to elude
you she may herself dislodge the OBJ
struetion, if it is only slight. When
chicken bones are thrown out with the
table refuse. it is perhaps best to have
the children chop them up with an old
Ratchet, as the hens are so fond of them
that in their eagerness they swallow
them hap-hazard.- Cleveland Leader.
Mutton Cakes: The remains of q
cold roast or boiled leg of mutton that
has been rarely cooked will be most de-
licious if prepared as follows: Chop the
meat as fine as possible and mix it with
half as much fine bread crumbs and q
quarter rs much beef suet. also chopped
very fine and freed from strings. Put
these ingredients into bowl. with a
eupful of minced oysters (fresh ones. of
course, are best, but the canned ones
may be used), add a seasoning OF thyme,
marjoram, pepper, salt and a little pow
dered mace; mix with two wellbeaten
eggs for pound of the cold mutton;
stir until it forms stiff paste; form into
balls or sausages and fry.--Montreal
Witness.
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Totals for United King
Anvva =

dom. ,sG 5,09S Il, 465 II, s2A
The total for 1885 shows q net in
crease of about twelve per cent. upon
the failures for 1884. But these official
figures only tell us of the cases that oc-
CURED through the Court of Bankrupt
cy. There is no way of arriving at
any reliable statistics Of the many
other actual failures that have
happened during the year. Not
only has there been an increase in
the private arrangements effected with
creditors, but also in regard to county
court administrations. Then there is
that large class of cases where debtors
simply drop through, or run away, or
get work as journeymen, but which are
nevertheless equally failures, and equally
bad for their creditors. 1t is useless
when we remember these facts merely to
compare the figures in bankruptcy for
1885 with those of 1882 or 1883, and say
there is decrease. There has been no
falling of in the totals of failures, and
these simply prove that many insolvent
debtors have privately arranged with
their creditors or have done without, as
the cheap system of liquidation was
taken away. and they could not afford
the more costly present plan. 1t must,
moreover, be borne in mind that every
new bankruptcy act has had the appa-
rent effect of cutting down the totals of
failures. The act Of 1869 did this, Is
our comparative total shows, and the
fact that those totals rose again did not
prove an actual increase of insolvency,
but rather that debtors grow more used
to the new law, IS they doubtless will to
that Of 1883.-Kenp's Mercantile Ga
The southern sentinel. (Winnfield, La.) 1883-1910, 1886-05-14
Fifteen Dollars for q Shave.
TBarnesyiIle ga NALL

A few daysago a party Of gentlemen
were discussing high prices in the South
during the latter part of the civil war. ~
paid thirty dollars q yard for suit Of
gray cotton jeans" said the first speaker.
'and the suit Of clothes cost me three hun
dred and sixty dollars after being made"
1.-THE biggest trade l made during the
war;" said No. 2, twas thirty dollars for q
spool of cotton thread.n "And In said
No. 8, "paid fifteen dollars for shave"
The southern sentinel. (Winnfield, La.) 1883-1910, 1886-05-14
LIFE IN CHINA.

Oriental Customs That Seem Amusing
to Dwellers In the Occident.
Who and what are these melancholy
mortals who are meandering along COW
cred with sheepskins? They are what.
when you see them in Fleet street. you
call sandwich men," They are ex-
hibiting the wares purchasable at this
elothier's shop on our left. Instead of
carrying advertisement-boards. and
wandering up and down the street,
layer of lean mortality between two
slices of wood, they wear upon their.
own backs the very goods which you
are respectfully United to inspect and
TO buy. Do not imagine that China
mans mind feels any qualms Mt the
thought that these garments have been
for weeks upon the back of one of the
unwsshed. He is troubled by no such
unpleasant reflections. But he would
no doubt drive q harder bargain on the
plea that they had been already much
worn. These sheepskins are very high
y valued in winter by the country peo-
pie. If you were relating to an agricul-
tural audience in the south of China,
and in the north also to towns
people, the sufferings of the
persecuted saints Of old, it would
never do to tell them that .sthey wan
dered about in sheep-skins and goat
skins" You would err as much as
the Moravian missionaries did who first
preached of the fires of he'll to the
Gfocnlanders. Those Arctic folk were
Immensely pleased with the prospect of
going there, and the missionaries were
naturally very much shocked at the re-
suit Of their own preaching. And 80,
20 the Chinese mind, the wandering
about IN sheep skins and goat-skins does
not ct all imply that thew were ''desti-
ente, afflicted, tormented." They
would very much like to be persecuted
p that degree. The Chinaman is .
wonderful creature for enduring end
ae9nuinnces, regarding them as things
thnt re and have been, and therefore
Dtih must be. We could scarcely have
hetter illustration of that last remark
than this stage, which has been thrown
rsght ACROSS the main thoroughfare.
We must either find our way round
~ side street, or creep under the
etage rs best we can. Fancy what it
Would Be for . band Of itinerant
oceors to erect . theater in Cheapside,
compelling all the traffic to turn aside
81 whole day; and then consider that
elo street we are in bears about
1le same relation to the city OF
Annoy - Cheapside does to the
~ q London! Yet the people do not
eomplain- Il is probable that not one
- : hundred who turn aside because the
Nd 3 blocked thinks that such nui-
neo ought not to be allowed. It Is
ench moro likely that the inhabitants
- street are objects Of envy because
e theater is brought to their doors.
800 shOpkeeper in the street has i'm
49, tl1e sectors q bis expense. and his
h0ors are much Obliged to him for
ping them N opportunity Of seeing
- play, and Of hearing the drums heat.
- hells ring, TIE cymbals clash, and
- actors howl and screech, without the
4o4hle of leaving their shop doors.
- Snteftaining sig hits are 50 numerous
1T - describe al that strikes the new.
asfantastic would take : volume.
s my Sc : woman deliberately
ing her long blnck hair in Wooden
comhing s ont and doing 4 up II
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How Dodds Earned His Salt.
Augusta ga. CHI onIcIe.l

J. NJ. Dodds, of Milton, Ca, complained
of lack Of employment, and Mr.. Pink
Mayfield proposed forgive him seventy Ave
cents to carry brick all day back and
forth from the public well to the church, .
distance of . quarter Of q mile the round
trip. Mr.. Dodds accepted the offer, and
carried the brick the entire day. making
over eighty round trips In the day, and
received his pay at night.
The southern sentinel. (Winnfield, La.) 1883-1910, 1886-05-14

From Colonel C. II.
Mackey, SD Iowa In
fAntry: I have now been
using Ely's Cream Balm
for three months, and
am experiencing no
trouble from catarrh
whatever. | have been
q sufferer for twenty
years &C. III. MAcKKY,
Sigourney, Iowa
For several years ]
have been troubled
with cstarrh - Ely's
Cream Balm has prov
ed 10 be the article de-
sired. | believe IL 10
the only cure--L- B.
URN, Hardware
Merchant, Towan da,
pa
The southern sentinel. (Winnfield, La.) 1883-1910, 1886-05-14
BRITISH FAILURES.

Tradesmen Who Went Under In England
During Four Years.
The failures last year were distributed
among the following trades and, for
better comparison, we give the total
number in each trade in 1882, 1883 and
1884:
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B ills

And pimples. and other like affections caused by I'm
pure blood are readily cured by Hoods Sarsaparlla
While IL purnes, this medicine also vtazes and
riches the blood and builds up every function Of
body scrofula. humors Of all kinds. swengs in the
neck hives ringworn letter Assesses ulcers sores
salt rheum scaldhead etc. also cured By this en-.
cellent blood purifier
The southern sentinel. (Winnfield, La.) 1883-1910, 1886-05-14

IN. erARruP: at Sc that Richard Wa&.
ner's eondola IL offered for sale in Venice"
Mn. Etartup: "Wagneri Wagneri II
that the sleeping car manp M. g.: NO
the musician fellow, you know. The gon:
dola vas his favorite instxument."-M y
{ssdependsRk
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An Aneetionate Goose.
IN. o. Picayune-I

In the Louisiana lowlands there lives
this life is q large gray goose. The goose
Is never so happy as when at his owners
feet, his long neck stretched upward and
his head resting against the old mans
knee.
The southern sentinel. (Winnfield, La.) 1883-1910, 1886-05-14

LFE-SENAroR FLINT, Canadian parlia-
ment says: St Jacobs OH acts like charm.
Rev. W. n. Leftwich, d. D., Nashville,
publicly endorses Red Star Cough Cure.
Price, twenty-five cents . bottle.
The southern sentinel. (Winnfield, La.) 1883-1910, 1886-05-14

"WlAr Il the inal end OF mani" asked Q
lecturer; and . small boy In the gallery
answered: The letter M"
The southern sentinel. (Winnfield, La.) 1883-1910, 1886-05-14

TIE most absent minded OF men Is the
professor who, when he hears himself knock
Ing the ashes out of his pipe. will call oul
sComs in."-N Y. Tdegram-
The southern sentinel. (Winnfield, La.) 1883-1910, 1886-05-14

IA NAN never loses any thing by polite
uess." At all events there are some mel
Who never intend to-Chiesgo Josrnas.
The southern sentinel. (Winnfield, La.) 1883-1910, 1886-05-14

"TnoxAs, spell weather, y said the master.
"W-ia-e-th-th-ia-c-r, weather" You
the worst spell Of weather we've had thia
year.n-Pyairix Farmer.
The southern sentinel. (Winnfield, La.) 1883-1910, 1886-05-14

ms. MuRPHY-.I say Pat what would
veg do II the ould house would tumble on
yez, and crush yez to deathT Pat-'Faix
I'd ny for me loife.n
The southern sentinel. (Winnfield, La.) 1883-1910, 1886-05-14

EAccurNr, the composer, worked sur
rounded by his pet cats A mew-sical on
vironment, 20 to speak.-Boston Transtrips
The southern sentinel. (Winnfield, La.) 1883-1910, 1886-05-14

NsRcnAxrs don't always give themselves
away In trade, but they frequently exhib
it signs OF gilt outside their stores--