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St. Landry democrat., 1888-12-08
OLD AND BEAUTIFUL.
A Couhterpene That Was Woven seventy
five Years Ago.

| A Counterpene That Was Woven Seventy.
| five Years Ago.
While visiting Misses Aritha and
Afrninda Mitchell we had the pleasure
of inspecting several quaint and curl
Gus specimens of work wrought by
their mother, Mrs Annie Mitchell,
during the first year of her married
life, in 1912 and 1918. The prettiest
specimen presented was oounterpane'
which required twelve long, weary
months to complete. The cotton of
which this beautiful piece OF work
was made was picked by Mrs Mitchell
and iler husband, Robert Mitchell,
during the fall of 1912, during the
honeymoon of the young. newly-mar-
ried couple. The seed was picked
from the cotton as they sat by the fire.
side during the long winter nights,
and rlabned and mapped out pro-
gramme which they hoped would
bring happiness. peace and prosperity,
and well must their plans have been
laid, for they lived long and happily
together; and before crossing over the
river to rest saw their children grow
to manhood and womanhood, and
take their places as true men and
women; bit to the subject. After
the cotton was separated from the
seed. tho young wife brought out her
little .'spinlii1tg jenny" and as sle and
her husband talked, or read tt her. she
transformed the cotton into. smooth
thread, ana Carefully spoiled it for the
work before her. After a sulii Gent
quantity had been prepared-and 1t
took many months to accomplish her
task-Mrs. Mitchell brought the old
loom that her mother had given her
into service, and in a short time the
elath was ready for the finishing
touches.
Turkey red and indigo threat was
then prepared by the dyeing process,
the Counterpart laid Off into beautiful
designs and the tedious work OF en-
bordering commenced. In June, 1913,
the BEAUTIFUL piece of work was COM
pleted. Soon after the work 81 en-
bordering was commenced Mrs.
Mitchell was stricken with disease,
and for twelve months was not able to
sit up except as she wGs pfJpped i'll her
bed, but her nimble fingers were kept
busy, and finally the greatest piece of
artistic needle work of that day and
time was ready for inspection. And
we can truthfully say that, though
three-quarters of century has passed
since this counterpane first met the
wondering gaze of Ms. Mitchells
friends, it is still beautiful, and the
clear color of the embroidery looks as
bright as though it had but recently
been worked into the time-faded fabric
This memento of their mother, long
gone with her husband to the other
shore, is highly priced by Misses
Aritha and Arminda. = Vest Point
(Ga.J alliance.
St. Landry democrat., 1888-12-08
Curing Corn-Fodder in Texas.

Good corn-fodder is not only of the
best trough foods for horses and cat
tie that we have, but in many parts of
the South it is the only thing OF the
kind provided for winter use. While
good fodder is unsurpassed for trough
ness" poorly cured and moldy fodder
is about as bad diet as we can well
imagine. Yet there is more poor fodder
than good. A common fault in fodder
is a lnoldy spot just under the band,
about midway the bundle. Yet this
can be easily avoided by proper care
in curing.
Mr.. Pinkney Tutle, of this county, is
one of our most successful farmers,
and his fodder is noted for it's fine,
sweet odor and even color. Rotten Or
moldy fodder is unknown on his farm.
Here is his mode of saving it:
Instead of tying it up in little
''handsn or punches, as it is pulled, he
simply lays it on the ground-a hand
full in place beside a stalk of corn.
Thus man pulling two rows at a time
puts all the fodder on the right-hand
row. When he gets to the end of the
field he turns to the right, pulling two
more rows, laying the fodder on the
same ow-making a 'fodder row" of
every four rows.
The ground is very warm and dry at
The season of fodder pulling, and the
blades will cure in half the time, and
in a much more uniform manner when
laid down loose upon the ground than
when tied up in 'hands" and hung
upon the stalks. Mr.. futile says also
that it can be just as quickly gathered
up. He has the forenoon's pulling
taken up from four o'clock to shutdown,
and tied in bundles. 1t is then ready
for stacking and storing in the barn,
and retains all the sweetness OF fresh
fodder. Teas Cor Country Gentle
man.
St. Landry democrat., 1888-12-08
English and American Phrases.

The poorest Englishman has the
luxury of burning soft coal, and his
parlor Or kitchen open CRATE fire, with
its playing flames, is, in cheerfulness,
far beyond our glowing, but fameless,
masses. They say over there, locals
on sale," and not ''coal for sale"
There is in some respects, quite a diff
ference between the Kings English"
and the PRESIDENTS English" For
our '.livery stable they hang out
''cars on hire" A pitcher over there
is jug" the word ''tumbler" for a
glass is Greek to them; baggage is
'luggage;;'' a roasting piece of beef is
Il 'joint," and a street car is ''tram."
| asked London bus driver once If
he was going to the river, meaning the
Thames. I do not think he had ever
heard the word before as applicable to
any thing at or near London. The
Thames in London is WESTMINSTER,
Waterloo" sBlackfriars, London"
or some other bridge. They have for
gotten there it ever was a river
Prentice Milford.
St. Landry democrat., 1888-12-08
A Future President.

He was an energetic boy of twelve.
When he returned from school the
other day and found his mother out,
he set to work to rake up the leaves
in the yard. Lots of boys would have
flung the leaves into the street to be
wasted, but this boy was beginning to
study economics. Leaves wasted is
heat wasted and coal wasted. He raked
up five bushels, carried them down cell
lar and crammed them into the fur
mace, and five minutes after he had
touched a match to them the first
steamer was on the ground and fifty
people were at hand to help fling the
furniture out Actual damage only a
few shekels; experience, ealued at
ten thousand dollars. Detroit Free
Press.
St. Landry democrat., 1888-12-08
In a Boston Restaurant.

A Boston man was seated at table
in Boston restaurant the other day
enjoying his MONDAY lunch. A late
conner entered and took seat at the
same table, and, being evidently some
what in hurry, gave his entire order
at the one time, but was chagrined to
find that cold bread was served him in
stead Of the warm biscuits he had ex-
pected. However, not to be wholly
deprived of the luxury desired, he I'M
Q tremendously reached across to the
Roman of the earlier diner, picked up
the solitary biscuit that remained on
the latter's plate and commenced to eat
it, whereupon the other, not to be out
done in the matter of good reach and
the ability to employ it, extended his
arm, gathered in the piece Of pie that
belonged to the original offender, and
proceeded to regaie himself. THAT is
my pie, sir!" came the prompt protest.
THAT is my biscuitr' was the cold re.
joinder. A silence followed, only
broken by the patter of the walters
feet upon the tessallated foor.-Boston
Budget.
St. Landry democrat., 1888-12-08
PARADOxES OF SCIENCE.
4 Collection of Facts as Instructive rs 1t

Collection of Facts as Instructive rs 1t
Is Interesting.
The water which browns us, a fluent
stream, can be walked upon as ice.
The bullet, which when fired from a
musket, carries death, will be harm
less if ground to dust before being
fired. The crystalized part of the oil
of roses, SO graceful in its fragrance
solid at ordinary temperatures,
though readily volatile-is compound
substance, containing exactly the same
elements, and in exactly the same pro-
portions, as the gas with which we
light our streets. The tea which we
daily drink, with benefit and pleasure,
produces palpitations, nervous trem-
blings, and even paralysis, if taken in
excess; yet the peculiar organic agent
called theme, to which tea owes it's
qualities, may be taken by itself Gas
theme, not as tea) without any APP
preciable effect.
The water which will allay our burn
ing thirst augments it when CONCEALED
into snow; so that it is stated by ex-
plorers of the Arctic regions that the
natives prefer enduring the utmost
extremity of thirst rather than attempt
to remove it by eating snow" Yet if
the snow be melted it becomes drinka-
BILE water Nevertheless, although, if
melted before entering the mouth it
assuages thirst like other water, when
melted in the mouth it has the opposite
effect. To render this paradox more
striking, we have only to remember
that ice, which melts more slowly in
the mouth, is very efficient in allaying
thirst. -Btack0ood' Magazine.
St. Landry democrat., 1888-12-08
UNCLE SETH ON MARRIAGE.

I've lived two-score Nv years in peace with my
good wife Sophrony,
AN now I see the papers Is denouncin matri-
mony;
They say merrige is failure-but guess they
haint been merried,
Them editor old batchelders should be killed
off an buriedt
So merrge is a failure, heys Some journalistic
searcher
Bimeby will publish to the world the cussed-
ness of vircher!
wy don't they say the human race hez failed
an missed its mission,
An tell US Heaven is Hades, an true Paradise
psrdition!
wy, wen we were in our honeymoon, we waded
thro' the sunny,
Sweet Medders of Forgetfulness, whose brooks
were filled with honey
Thro' the Medders of Forge tfulness each roamed
acareless rover,
An life wuZ one long fragrant breth er column
bine an clover!
An wen the rosy baby come he give our Joys
expansion
A red star in wife blankets dropped, from Gods
celestial mansion
Told the merrge wuz failure then ye'd never
gone no furder!
For in the ravins OF my wrath, I'd jest commit
ted murder
An the twins were like two dimon' pins to
hitch our souls together,
They jest split sunshine thro' the house, in any
kim er weather.
So merrige is failure, then-jest let me laff
minute
Wy! Heaven with all its sans an tunes an
harps an things, is in it!
Wots thatf "Ain't there no rows an SIGH, to
break our high communin''
Dye ever see tiddle-string what never needed
tunin'?
Yer gether twigs up with yer hay, an git dirt
with yer rakin',
An tears are sometimes jest the yeast to put
into life's bakin'!
But after ALL tell ye true, o man what isn't
merried,
Should walk down to the coffin shop, an hire
himself buried;
He misses all the wine er life an drinks its
muddy water,
An civilized surcety shouldn't show him any
quartert
= s. w. Foss, in Yankse Blade.
St. Landry democrat., 1888-12-08
RESCUED FROM WEEDS.
The Suggestive Story of Good Farmer
Profitable Crusade.

! The Suggestive Story of a Good Farmers
Profitable Crusade.
If every thing that grew was already
fitted for mans use the Divine com
mand labout bread by sweat OF BROW
would be nugatory. Man should
cheerfully shoulder the burden OF
weeds, remembering that it is as much
his duty to battle with the tares of the
soil as with the thorrs and thistles OF
sin. With this view, the serious can
enter upon the duties of opening sea-
son with determined complacency.
Weeds do not grow where seeds do not
exist, hence prevention is Tie first
step. Get the start in spring and keep
it until too late in the fall for seeds to
mature II don't have time is the
universal response. Such apologists
must plead guilty to one Of two indict"
ments; they IRE shiftless, or DE en7
deavoring to till more land than they
can till well. Either horn of the di-
lemma suggests its own relief: The
story If how und good Hushandman
freed his 16O-acre farm of weeds, and
kept it so, and at profit, will be of
interest to the thoughtful When he
t5dli Possession, buildings ind fences
were dilapidated, and as a matter
of course, weeds had almost full con-
trdl: His first stan was Id rravertt arF
further seeding by weeds. Fencerows
were cleared Of bushes and briars, and
these, together With th5 r7aasiaes;
margins, fruityard, orchard and past
ures, were moved three times each
seaser' decks; httftosks, daisies and
some other foul weeds growing in
grain were dug up and destroyed; corn
and potatoes were hoed by hand three
timUs: All was done so ,thofoughlF
that ID weeds were allowed to iIiatriie:
Manure was not applied to the land
until it had been well composted and
the weed seeds decomposed. The sec
ond season the roadsides, fenca-cor-
ners and bare spots in meadow and
pasture were seeded with grass and
clover. This farmer was so persistent
In his crusade against weeds that one
time he found, over a quarter OF q
mile from the house, dockroot. which
he could not pull and he left his hat
BY it, returned to the house, and sent
a boy with grubbing hoe for dock
and hat. Half an acre of 'quack
grass" was exterminated by blowing
several times and raking out the roots
each time 1eaves are the lungs of
plants and if these are not allowed to
grow the roots will decay; hence, d
constant onslaught Wis Kept UP lis they
showed above ground. How did it
''pay?" He raised largely increased
crops and sold all he raised for seed,
because clean, at en- average advance
of about ten per cent. He paid $4,000
for the farm, running in debt for half
the amount, newly fencedi it, made over
a mile of open and covered bitches, re-
paired the house equal to building
anew, built large barn, carriage
house and other outhouses, raised a
family of eight children, paid the
balance of the purchase price, and at
the end of seventeen years sold out for
$4,000. This never could have been
done by ''shipshod' farming. He had
no high prices for produce to aid him,
for all this happened just before the
war. The farm was three miles from
town, and sold for farm purposes only.
N. Y Tribune.
St. Landry democrat., 1888-12-08
An old gentleman living m ,

An old gentleman living on the
West Side entered the connubial state
for the fourth time not long since.
During the ceremony sobs were heard
in an adjoining room, which led guest
to inquire what was the matter, where
upon little boy answered: 1T is
only Maria. She always cries wlle.
papa gets married, ''-e-fht ago Tribune.
St. Landry democrat., 1888-12-08

he was wise man who said: "God
keep me from all manner of assumption Of
superiority" But some people seem to
have been born bristling all over with that
spirit. They have to learn by painful ex-
perience that men will recognize genuine
superiority, but will equally rebuke the
assumption Of it-Standard.
St. Landry democrat., 1888-12-08

CONSUMPTION may be avoided by the timely
use of Hale's Honey of Horehound and Tar.
Pixies Toothache Drops Cure in one minute
St. Landry democrat., 1888-12-08

An EXTENDED POPULARITY. Bro,rn's Bron-
chidl 1roches have for many years been the
most popular article in use for relieving
Coughs and Throat troubles.
St. Landry democrat., 1888-12-08

THE upper ten includes the winning. nine
and the umpire.-PucA.
St. Landry democrat., 1888-12-08

Borne ON the Wings of the Wind
The mlasmata, Or aerial germs of chllls and
fever and other miasmatic disease, are dis
seminated beyond the place of their origin.
Protected by Hostetter's Stomach Bitters,
you may breathe them unframed. Other
wise, apprehend trouble. Not only malarial
infection, but rheumatism, dyspepsia, con-
stipation, biliousness, debility and kidney
complaints are successfully controlled by
the great preventive and remedy.
"BEHIND closed doors"-the sale Of beer
On STANDARDIZATION Post.
St. Landry democrat., 1888-12-08

CoNJuGAL love can not be preserved in
fam " lars.-Teras SItinQs.
St. Landry democrat., 1888-12-08
JOHN GRANTS WARD.
How She Succeeded in Gaining His
Consent to Stay,

John Grant was in love with his
ward. He regarded his condition as a
hopeless one. He had been led to think
so because he was forty while she was
but twenty, and because of the differ
ence in their tastes, temperaments and
pursuits.
He was selfish, reserved, reticent,
. wrapped up in his books. She was
confiding, communicative, vivaeious,
fond of outdoor life. rebelious under
restraint and restless under mental
discipline. He was tall, spare, care
worn, misanthropic, his face homely
in its sedateness, his step slow, his
gestures tardy, his utterances heavy.
She W2s 1.-the, agile, graceful. bright
faced, charming in her outburs is of
girlishness, serene in the consciousness
of womanhood, her voice low, sweet,
emotional
He had been selected as her guardian
when she was five years old, and for
the remaining fifteen years, save when
ut boarding school, she had been al
most constantly under his eyes. He
had directed her associations, nodded
her opinions, corrected her faults, an
tlcipated her needs He had noted her
development from a shy, awkward, i'm
pulslve child into a lovely, self-pos-
sessed, graceful woman.
He was not over susceptible--fn fact,
he was not sufficiently so; yet, thrown
so much into the society of his ward,
and enjoying SO much of her esteem
and confidence, it was not strange that
ne had imbibed an affection for her
which grew into a passion passion
which was consuming him because he
so sedulously concealed it.
lie had never been made so aware of
the extent of his love for her and the
consciousness that she could never
be his, as the bright spring morning
when his stood watching her from the
llbra.ry window.
She was strolling up and down the
wideSValks, III the cheerful sunlight
md ,,,sv Aas,s <7xssssaae1aus. 49,. III
St. Landry democrat., 1888-12-08

u Y Y
stilted, and it is a question whether it
Is true. Pray. come down from the
stars, and out Of your laboratory and
your aimless dreams. 7
He made no reply to her rapid com
ment. He was accustomed to such
intrusions and such criticisms and
rather liked them.
HAS Mr.. Delisle gomez he asked,
looking up. no traces of his previous
struggle perceptible in his face or
tone.
Yes, She said.
why 90 soonp' her guardian asked.
aWeli, j sort of dismissed him., she
replied, WITT, d little Laugh, He tired
St. Landry democrat., 1888-12-08

Ir afflicted with Sore Eyes use DR.. Isaac
Eye Water Druggists sell it.225c
St. Landry democrat., 1888-12-08
THE MARKETS.

A WHITE lie-watered milk.-Burlington
Free P,rss
St. Landry democrat., 1888-12-08

Became the stepping
Tony, = she said, reading
manuscript. ".Alchemy
Btry. Thus the dreams of
became the science of the
St. Landry democrat., 1888-12-08

shoulder, her
heck, the contact
Y his pulses beat
Democratic Northwest. [volume] (Napoleon, Ohio) 1869-1894, 1888-11-08
THE NORTHWEST
The Women Ofthe West.

The woman born and reared in the
West is a grand and goodly type of wo-
manhood. She is strong and keen and
comprehensive; she is full of life and
grace and freedom; she is quick to feel
an injury, and she is quite equal to be-
ing her own avenSer.
Her eve is keen, and her tongue is
sharp; but her heart is warm, and her
hand is open. She is always ready
with her sympathy and prompt with
her help.
Her business ability and executive
talent are of very high order, as a
proof of which is the fact that some of
the finest cattle ranches and most eX-
tensive and most prosperous sheepruns
are owned and managed by women.
have now in my mind the case Of a
woman, born in Ohio, who, ten years
ago. in this city of New York, was
earning five or six dollars q week, with
which sum she supported her mother
and her fathers brothers. a semi-invalid
old man.
At the time l speak of, when this
woman was about nineteen years OF age,
she obtained, after much difficulty and
delay, q grant of quarter section of
government land to which her dead
father had become entitled through his
services in the Rebellion.
This land was located in Oregon. She
sent her old uncle out to take up the
land, and she pinched and aved, and
sent to him from time to time, almost
dollar by dollar, money with which to
hire help to clear space in the timber
and to put up Lighthouse.
AS soon as this poor shelter was pro-
vided for them, she took her mother
and went out and lived on her land. As
she could from time to time, she bought
stock, and so she crept on step by step,
until now she has good house and
barn, and last year she cleared from the
sale of stock she had raised, and from
the sale of her crops, several thousand
dollars.
And what this woman has done hum
dreds of women are doing every year.
And if many of these women have
not got much education, their sons and
daughters will have. And it is we'll
with land that breeds such women,
and it is well with the men of the land
who have such Mothers EYT-
INGE in Belford's Magazine for Novem-
ber.
Democratic Northwest. [volume] (Napoleon, Ohio) 1869-1894, 1888-11-08

NAMES OF TOWNSHIPS, UNION SCHOOL
DISTRICTS, CORPORATIONS, ETC.
Democratic Northwest. [volume] (Napoleon, Ohio) 1869-1894, 1888-11-08

The art AmoteaT begins in the Nov.
unmber the publication of two colored
plates with every issue. Those given
this time are charming study of IVA
ter Lilies" by Frederick Dielman, and
an exquisite moonlight marine view,
with fishermen in the foreground haul
ing in their nets, by A. Roster. The other
designs include superb double-page of
dahlias by Victor Dangon, orchids for
q dessert plate (the first of series OF
twelve) the tenth of the series of fish
plates, design of milkweed pods for a
panel or lamp, a decoration for church
banner (the fifth of series) design
for a bellows for repouse work, wood
carving designs, and page of mono
grams in "T.n The frontispiece is an
admirable portrait study of q French
peasant woman by Charles Sprague
Pearce, reproduced in Paris directly
from the painting. An article of much
interest on the eminent Russian painter
Verestschagin is illustrated by q por-
trait and an excellent engraving of
''Skobeleff at Shipka." The practical
topics receiving special attention in
clude painting wild flowers, marine
painting, landscape painting, the use OF
gold and other metals in china paint
ing, painting orchids on china, wood
carving and art needlework applied
to street costumes. Price 35 cents.
Montague Marks, Publisher, 23 Union
Square New York.
Democratic Northwest. [volume] (Napoleon, Ohio) 1869-1894, 1888-11-08
Utilization ofOld Tins.

A number of people recently gath
cred at the Columbia Rolling Mill,
Fourteenth Street aud Jersey Avenue,
Jersey City, at the formal opening of
the mill. The industry is a novel
one, being the manufacture of tag
gers iron from old tin cans and other
waste sheet metal. This iron has
heretofore been manufactured almost
exclusively in Europe, and the Co.
lumbia Rolling Mill Company is the
only American company which turns
out the product in large quantities.
The process is simple. The tin cans
are first heated in an oven raised to a
temperature of about 1000 degrees,
which melts off the tin and lead. The
sheet iron which remains is passed,
first, under rubber coated rollers and
then chilled iron rollers, which leaves
the sheet smooth and fiat. After an
healing and trimming, they are ready
for shipment. The tin and lead
which Is melted from the cans IS run
into bars, and is also placed upon the
market. All the raw material used is
waste, but the sheet iron turned out
is said to be of good quality. 1t is
used for buttons, tags, and objects ol
like nature. The material used
costing little, and the demand fol
taggers' iron being considerable, it is
thought that this is a good oppor
tunlty to build up another American
industry.
Democratic Northwest. [volume] (Napoleon, Ohio) 1869-1894, 1888-11-08

1t is not quite year since the test of
handling fifty freight cars with an air
brake, was made on several of the
Western roads, and since then over
$4,000 cars have been equipped with
this device. The work will go right on
until every large road in the country
has most of its cars equipped. Railroad
managers find that it pays to have their
freight trains under full control. 1t re-
duces the number of expensive smash
ups.
Democratic Northwest. [volume] (Napoleon, Ohio) 1869-1894, 1888-11-08
The --latest Tornado.

The surprising manner in which the
country is being swept by the great dis
covery of DR.. Miles for curing the many
diseases that originate in the nerves is
astonishing all who know the facts:
The Restorative Nervine, brain and
nerve food, sold by I. Leist cures weak
ness, want of appetite, exhaustion,
debility from overwork, care, worry
and dissipation. 1t takes the place of
stimulants, opiates, chloral, etc, and
cures all nervous troubles. 1t contains
no morphine, opium or dangerous
drugs.