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NNTALL PAPRR-MANY KINDS AND MANY
w prees-at Mercer's Drug and Book store,
opposite Episcopal Church, bloomsbury, Pa
Junes, ,lys7
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Why go about with backacbe, sore mus
ces, aching sides or weak parts. A Hop
Plaster cures.
St. Landry democrat. (Opelousas, La.) 1878-1894, 1888-06-02

is fixed at six hours, with three hours
schooling daily. Nine hours close con-
tinement is too much for any growing
| creature.
France is sadly neglectful of the duty
she owes her little children. The law
fixes twelve years as the age of the
youngest workers, but there are so
many exceptions that the limit prac-
tically is ten years. In manufactures
of paper, sugar and glass, boys of
twelve are permitted to work at night
and all night.
Three countries in Europe, and only
three have decreed that a child must
be fourteen years of age before it may
work in shop or factory, and these
have also prohibited all night work 20
children. The three countries are Aus
tria, England and Switzerland.
In the United States there are almost
as many laws on this subject as there
are States; but is there one State in
which young workers are adequately
protected? We fear not. Needy pa
rents, ambitious boys, restless girls,
employers wanting help, all work
against the enforcement of such laws
as we have.
Factories running extra hours do not
pause to dismiss the young workers,
and there are some that have boys on the
force which carries on the work during
the night Think of boy twelve or
thirteen going to work at seven in the
evening, and coming off at six in the
morning, with half an hours rest at
midnight!
There are few subjects so important
as this, because an injury done to
growing creature is irreparable, and
every such injury lessons the victorious
force of the community. Instead of
violating or evading the law, it should
be the effort of every right-thinking
person to see that it is most rigidly en-
forced. Youths Companion.
St. Landry democrat. (Opelousas, La.) 1878-1894, 1888-06-02
What Flies Are Good For.

What are flies good for, any way?
Most people firmly believe that they
bre solely to try the patience, or rather
9he impotence of mankind. It is with
mingled feelings Of comfort and alarm
that we read the following: Their par
ticular Office appears 4ofgc the con-
stk..ltion Of the dead ndxhinute ami
mails Wnaah decaeng rriads would
otherwise pos son the al 1t was re-
mark of Linn9 ass.hat lree flies would
consume deae heof sooner than a
lion could. He 4ubtless included the
families of the thyee flies. A single fly
will sometimes produce 20, 600 larvae.
each Of which in few days may be the
uayent of another 20, 600. and thus the
descendants of three flies would soon
deyour an animal much larger than
horse. A writer makes the following
conpatation: Zone fiji on the Goth Of
mach is represented by 800 on the oath
of April; by 800 times 800, equaling 90
900. on the 18th Of May; by $4,000, 600
on the ID of July, and by 3. 100 600, 600
on the 8tk ST August. ~. r Toice.
St. Landry democrat. (Opelousas, La.) 1878-1894, 1888-06-02
FRAiL HUMAN NATURE.
How 1t Displayed Itself in "a Crowded De-
troft Street Car.

troit Street Car.
You can cram good deal of human
nature into a street car about six
o'clock in the evening, There was a
heap of it in Grand River avenue car
an evening or two since, when half a
dozen people saw man take a twenty
dollar-gold piece from his vest pocket,
fondle it for moment, and then drop
it into his left-hand pants pocket. In
about three minutes he felt in his vest
pocket for that money, and it was
gone. Then he felt in the other pocket
and suddenly rose up.
Lost any thing?" queried passen-
ger.
II don't know-let's see-yes, l
have!"
He felt in several other pockets,
drew forth a bunch of keys, lump of
rosin, a pocket knife, some troches
and a hall, dollar, and then exclaimed:
ave had my pocket picked of S2O!"
Five passengers betrayed excite
ment. Six others were only casually
interested. Four were skeptical, and
seven winked at each other and whis-
pered that it was a dead fake.
close it in the carp" asked second
passenger.
''Of course l did! I had it less'n
five minutes ago!'
''And your pocket has been picked9"
"Sure enough! Is there an officer
on this carp
''Do you mean to say you suspect
me?' demanded the man on the right.
Cor mel" demanded the one on the
left
But it's gone!' shouted the loser.
''Some one has certainly robbed me-"
Five passengers whispered ''Rats!"
softly to themselves, and four others
gazed serenely at the ceiling.
conductor, stop the car!'' shouted
the loser, as he seized the cord and
rang up five fares on the register.
What is it," demanded the con-
ductor as he came in.
Some one has robbed mer'
''Feel in your left hand pants pocket,
you numb skull!' shouted an old man
on the opposite seat.
His advice was complied with, and
10! the lost was found.
twenty-five cents, sir!' said the
conductor.
What for?"
"Those five fares!"
1t was paid, and the victim offered to
lick anybody in the car before he got
of: Then he got off, shook his fist at
the conductor, and darkness settled
down upon the city and sent the spar
rows to their nests under the caves.
Detroit Free Press.
St. Landry democrat. (Opelousas, La.) 1878-1894, 1888-06-02
NOVELTIES IN JEWELRY,
Unique Designs in Pins, Bracelets and
Other Costly Ornaments.

| Unique Designs in Pins, Bracelets and
| Other Costly Ornaments.
A trefoil of pearl, with q diamond
base, makes an attractive top of bon
net pin.
A golden casque, half hiding war;
rior face, in cornelian, makes UNIQUE
| brooch.
Bomb shaped scent bottles of cameo
glass, with silver shoppers, are attrac-
tive and useful.
A small Jockeys cap of tiny pearls
and torquoises is much admired by
wearers of scarf pins.
An eagle claw, holding a handsome
sapphire, is pleasing design for sim
gle prong hair pin.
A hammered gold crescent, within
which is a tiny forget-me-not, is a
pretty design in scarf pins.
Gold initials, suggestive of the
owners name, are much admired as
pendants for glove buttoners.
A curb chain bracelet much in favor
is of silver, each link being paved on
top with small diamonds
Two pink pearls separated by
golden tassel set with seed pearls is
handsome design in bonnet pins.
A carnation pink paved with rubies,
having two diamond pistils, make a
costly but attractive design in
brooches .
A narrow silver ribbon, paved with
diamonds and twisted around crystal
tube, is a unique design in scent
bottles.
Enameled watch cases, in patterns
representing a variety of small flowers,
having diamond centers, are much ad.
mired.
Applied work on bonbonnieres and
watch cases is much admired. 1t gives
additional strength and rigidity to the
article.
Two crossed silver battle axes, sup
porting gold shield surrounded by a
wreath of the same material, form an
attractive design in brooches.
A costly bracelet recently seen was a
triple row of alternate graded dia-
monds and pearls, having on the up
per side five portrait medallions sur
rounded by small brilliants.- Jewelers'
Weekly.
St. Landry democrat. (Opelousas, La.) 1878-1894, 1888-06-02
EARNS HIS SALARY.
The Onerous Duties of China's Ambassador
to the United States.

1t is not-at least it may not be gen.
orally known-there are a great many
things that hadn't ought to of not be
generally known; if | do not fail to
make myself clearly understood, bear
in mind that the discussion relative to
the uselessness of English grammar as
she is taught, is a great strain upon the
nerves of a literary man; but whatti-
-Wazzasain CHATS yolaphk) is, that it
may not be generally known that the
Chinese Government some years ago
sent an ambassador to this country,
whose sole duty is to go to a city as
soon as he hears that the construction
of a cable road is in contemplation.
When the first car makes its trial trip,
this Celestial ambassador is required
by his Government to look at it in
amazement and say: '.No pullee font
end; no pushee hind end; no mulee, no
horsee; runnee likee & y alice samee!"
1t most sorely grieves sensible China
man to talk in this idiotic way, but the
Imperial Government compels this off
cial to do this, in order to keep the
American people in a good humor He
said it first in San Francisco; then he
said i in Chicago; then Kansas City;
then Philadelphia; then Los Angeles,
Oakland. and last winter son of old
Sam Adams proprietor of the Adams
House,, who was burning kibosh,
sort of incense, before an elm tree on
Boston Common, told me that the Chi
nese said it there But" l said.
"you have no cable cars in Boston"
The Pilgrim turned his quid of cult in
his cheek-all the Pilgrims are great
cult chewers-and said, haughtily:
what of Il 1T? There is Chinese
professor in Harvard College" That
struck me as a great and beautiful
truth and ID impressed me profoundly.
I didn't exactly see what he meant by
it, but then I have to accept SO much
that / don't understand, in order to be
able to believe any thing, that the
swallowing of the incomprehensible
and unknowable is now accomplished |
by me with no effort more painful than
q spasmodic gulp, accompanied by
stentorous breathing and slightly ac-
CELEBRATED heart action, with falling
and mean barometer
in Brooklyn Eagle.
St. Landry democrat. (Opelousas, La.) 1878-1894, 1888-06-02
THE PERSIAN SEER,
AN Individual of Considerable Importance
and Very Little Learnins

| anu very LlCCIe Learning.
The monGena, or astrologer, is a
power in Persia He is recognized as
a man of science, a member of a learn
ed profession. The chief astrologer is
a high court officer, from whose ruling
there is no appeal, for his decisions
are based upon knowledge that is COM
municated direct from the stars Thus,
if he DEGREES that the Asylum of the
Universe must not start on hunting
expedition on Thursday, but that half
an hour after midnight on Saturday
will be the fortunate hour, he is able
to give irrefragible reasons for his con-
illusions by showing that Saturn is in
the ascendant in one case, while on
Saturday night, at the precise time
mentioned, there will be happy con-
junction of Venus.
If another astrologer is consulted he
will give the same story. Every hour
IN the day, and every day in the year,
IS thus worked out as fortunate, in
different or unlucky in the astrologer's
books of fate.
Besides these calendars they have as
their stock in trade plumb-line, a
level, a celestial sphere and an astro-
labe. The astrolabes are in the form
OF a gigantic watch and are often beau
tifully made. Every large town con-
tains at least two astrologers, and they
are very far from being poor. A Per-
sian may find an astrologer very use
full, especially if he be an officer and
desires to evade some responsibility.
Thus, suppose provincial Governor is
ordered to the capital and that he does
not want to 60, what more powerful
reason for delay in starting than to re-
ply that he is waiting for fortunate
hour, and what easier than to induce
the ''astrologer to fail to find one9 In
the meantime the officer has time to ad-
minister the necessary brides at court,
and the storm blows over.
1stikbaro, tossing up, or drawing of
the lot, is done with rosary A bead
is grasped at at hap-hazard; Good"
''Bad, y indifferent, is calculated at
each bead, till the big terminal one is
reached, and that decides the question.
Answers are given in conversation,
bargains are made or refused, and seri-
Gus acts are undertaken under tho |
guidance of this formula. Another
way is to thrust knife into the leaves
of the koran or one of the poetical
books, and be guided by what is found
at the place. The OWNERS are real
quacks and gain their success by work
ing on the fears of the people. The
guilty party in a scandal or criminal
inquiry in his nervousness is provoked
to do some act that brings about his
on.-Popular Science Monthly.
St. Landry democrat. (Opelousas, La.) 1878-1894, 1888-06-02
FETISH WORSHIP.
The Terrible Relief Held by the Native
of the Dark Continent.

The Terrible Belief Held by the Native
of the Dark Continent.
The African believes that there are
everywhere evil spirits who are amen
able to charms or lamentations or, as
he calls them, 'fetishes," and that GER
tain unknown or half-known persons
whom he calls wizards are acquainted
with these charms and use their occult
knowledge for nefarious purposes. He
believes further that certain other per-
sons are gifted with the power of track
ing or smelling OUT the offenders.
So universal is this belief that almost
every village of pagan Africa. partic-
ularly toward the west coast. has its
fetish house. grim and CHASTITY build
ing, often ranged round with human
skulls in every stage of decomposition,
and a fetish man, who is its high priest.
No human being, surely, ever had
more terrific power committed to him,
and few have used it more unsparingly
or unscrupulously.' The fetish man is
bound by no law; he recognizes no
rules of evidence. Any thing which
happens. even in the most ordinary
course OF nature, he may pronounce
to be the work of fetish, or wizard,
and to need his assistance to ferret it
out. A heavy rainfall or drought,
murra.n among the cattle, a pestilence
or a confagration, child devoured by
wild animal. an illness or death,
each and all of these may be pronounc-
ed to be fetish somebody has done
it, and he must be detected. Sopos-
sessed are the natives by
this belief, it so forms part of
their being, that it never occurs to any
of them. though he knows his own turn
may come next, to question the reality
of this uncanny power; and, in the
panic terror of this fetish man and his
decisions the negro lose for time
some of his most essential and amiable
characteristics. his frivolity. his light
heartedness; even his family affection.
A son will join in putting his father to
death; a brother will help to tear in
pieces brother. If the accused dares
to deny the charge-which he seldom
does, however preposterous or impossi-
bic it may be-he has to submit to some
terrible ordeal, such as the running at
full speed under an avenue of hoped
arches about half his height, when, if
he stumbles, or rather, as soon as he
stumbles. he is hacked to death; or the
drinking of some deadly decoction,
such as the casca bark, when his one
chance of escape is handsomely to
bride the fetish man to give him the ex-
act quantity or quality which will make
him desperately sick, before the poison
has we'll begun its deadly work. In
Ashantee and Dahomey, at Bonny and
in the Fan country and
Angola this terrible belief
prevails, and, as may well be i'm
agined, it ramifies out into every kind
Of villainy and crime. Nineteenth Cen
'ury.
St. Landry democrat. (Opelousas, La.) 1878-1894, 1888-06-02
The Maiden and the Wiper,

In the family of settler, who re-
sides some half league from Para
meta, was an invalid daughter of an
extremely nervous temperament She
was sleeping one summer afternoon in
a hammock swung between two sup
porting standards in the shade of the
piazza, when she was suddenly awak-
ened by feeling something cold and
moist clinging about her throat. She
put her hand to the spot and clasped
the body of a snake just back of the
head, and, with a Mortified cry,
wrenched with all her strength to pull
it away. This was the first instructive
action of the moment, but so great was
her terror that she speedily lost all con-
sciousness of her position. Her hand.
however, still grasped the snake where
she had first seized upon it and with
such convulsive force that the crea-
ture was rendered powerless. The cry
of the terrified girl brought the father
from within the house, who instantly
came to her relief; but in the fit which
her fright had induced her hand slow
ly contracted about the creatures
throat with force which she could not
possibly have exerted when awake,
and, before her fingers were unclasped
by the aid of bit of hammock cord.
the reptile was completely strangled.
the creature had not Bit
ten the girl before she seized it and
after that it was unable to do SO. 1t is
said to have been four feet long and Of
a poisonous species. -Usder the South
eTm Cross.
St. Landry democrat. (Opelousas, La.) 1878-1894, 1888-06-02

To know what you prefer. instead
of humbly saying amen to what the
world tells you you ought to prefer, is
to have kept your soul alive. Such a
man may be generous; he may be hon.
est in something more than a COM
mescial sense; he may love his friends
with an elective personal sympathy,
and not accept them as an adjunct OF
the station to which he has been called.
He may be man, in short, acting on
his own instincts, keeping in his own
shape that God made him in. sobert
Louis Stevenson. g
St. Landry democrat. (Opelousas, La.) 1878-1894, 1888-06-02
PROTECTING CHILDREN.


A Subject Whose Importance Is Not Fully
Appreciated.
School officers in this country have a
great deal of trouble in enforcing the
laws which were designed to protect
growing children in their right to grow.
A boy or girl who works in cotton
or wooden factory, or in any other
place where the air is Initiated, or the
posture constrained or sedentary, can
seldom attain the proper development
of human being. Such a child is
cheated Of a large part Of his chance
of happy life, and it is the business of
a Government to prevent cheating.
All the civilized nations have laws
against this great wrong. Italy per-
mits children of nine to work for wages,
but requires, as a preliminary condi-
ton, the certificate Of physician at
testing that the child is able to perform
the proposed work without injury.
Perhaps even this inadequate measure
is little better than none. 1t M y
serve to remind people that children
have rights which Governments are
bound to protect.
Spain goes much farther. In that
country the limit is fixed at ten years
but with this most important addition:
Toys under thirteen and girls under
fourteen must not be kept at work
more than five hours day. In Sweden
the days work for children is limited
to six hours. and night work i xoso-
lutely prohibited.
Denmark permits children 60 labor
six hours and half, but also requires
two hours attendance at school. In
Hungary no child under twelve NAV
work in factory, except with special
license. and the days work for minors
is limited by law to eight hours.
Every child who labors must 90 to
school a part of every day.
In the German Empire. no child can
lawfully labor in factory until he is
twelve years old, and the days work
St. Landry democrat. (Opelousas, La.) 1878-1894, 1888-06-02
PERFECT EQUALITY.
Why It Is Essential to the Carrying On
of Fair Discussion.

| Why 1t Is Essential to the Carrying Or
of Fair Discussion.
Nd discussion between two persons
can be carried on with any degree OF
fairness unless each person recognizes
the other as his full peer in that dis.
cussion. It matters not that one per.
son is older and more experienced and
better informed than the other; con-
senting to enter into the discussion o;
given point, the superior thereby as
sumes the position of one who may be
in error at that point; of one who may
be shown his error by the other person;
and of one who is ready to weigh fairly
and candidly the views and arguments
presented to the other in the course of
the discussion and to be convinced by
them if they are such that they ought to
convince him. He who does not recog-
nize this as his duty in every discussion
in which he bears part is incompetent
to conduct discussion intelligently.
If, indeed, one deems another unworthy
of being counted his peer in discus
sion. then he has the privilege Of
declining to enter into discus
sion with him, even though he would
be willing to be his instructor, or to
give him all needed information; but a
discussion once begun must be carried
on on the basis of perfect equality be-
tween the disputants as dis
putants, or it is not true discussion.
1t is in view of this truth that one
who has any real. OF apparent, supe-
riority over another, with whom he is
discussing point, must be scrupu-
lousy careful to refrain from assert
ing, or seeming to think of, tina: supe-
riority. If it be learned teacher in
discussion with a young scholar, or a
trained expert in discussion with %
layman, or wise father in discussion
with forward child. or host discuss
ing with guest at his own table, the
discussion rs a discussion must 60 on
as between peers. The moment that
the superior asserts or intimates the
claim that he is to be regarded in this
discussion as superior, or that his
opinion is to have more weight than
the others opinion-that moment he
proposes to deny his opponent the
rights of an equal in contest which
the two have entered as equals. If,
indeed, he who has superiority in other
respects can show his superiority us
disputant, his superiority is entitled to
prompt recognition accordingly; but
until disputant can show his SUPERB
ority as disputant, he ought to be
ashamed to assert, during discussion.
his right to be recognized in that dis
cussion as superior on any other
ground. IS S. Times.
St. Landry democrat. (Opelousas, La.) 1878-1894, 1888-06-02

A peculiar case is reported from
Biddeford. An overseer in one of the
mills there, in the course of his regular
duties, is exposed to a strong electro
cal current generated by the large
belts in rapid motion near by. Itseems
that the electrical conditions are such
as to have caused his fine head of IRON
gray to change to beautiful bay.
Some of his friends express their
doubts Of the cause of this singular
change, but those best qualified to
judge the matter account for it as
above. -Bangor Commercial.
St. Landry democrat. (Opelousas, La.) 1878-1894, 1888-06-02

We are apt to think too nuch OF
our own troubles, forgetting that we
are objects of affection to some heart
at least, and that while we are BROOD
ing over our own misfortunes we are
saddening the hearts and darkenins
the lives of those who depend upon us
for comfort-ENG SelIinghaal.
St. Landry democrat. (Opelousas, La.) 1878-1894, 1888-06-02

"A medical authority says there are
some people who can breathe sewer
gas with impunity. We know that it
is so. The plumber, for instance, can
live and thrive for weeks in a house
where he says it is suicide for the
family to remain another aay.-Foz
PopukL
BoletiÌn mercantil de Puerto Rico. (San Juan, P.R.) 18??-1918, 1888-08-22
RUMOR INPUNDADO.

Por mas que ell absurdo es STEM.
pre- absurdo, y las noticias despo.
seidas en- absolute de fundamento
no merecen refutaci6n, porque
por ST mismas Sc refutsn, con to-
do, la descsb ellada especie que de
aver a hoy esta por aquf circu-
lando, con referencia al vapor
4" Espafia," salido de este puerto
ell 10 con rumbo 1 la Peninsula
ha hecho que nos acercaramos i
consular sobre ell caso, donde
mejor que uadie pueden y deben
estar informados de cu&nto tenga
relacion con los vapores de la
Trssatlan'ica, . la Casa Con-
signatsria; y el resultado de
nuestras averiguaciones hA sido
ell que logica y forzosamente te
MIA que ser: que es inexscto. fal
so, faIsisimo, y sin pies nj cabeza
como suele decirse vulgarmente,
el insen nsato rumor echSdo 1 vo.
lar per a!gdn mai intencionado
acerca del repetido buque.
Lo de siempre: Ia bola de ME
We, que principle por IN copo.
Lo mas triste del cAso es que
hsyA quien Sc entrete aga en- pro
palar versiones como Ia que nos
ocups, sAbiendo 10 intranquilidAd
y Ia AlsrmA que sin motive nin
guno llevan al coraEon de nntas
y tantAs fAmilias, pendien.es aqui.
eusl sueeie Ahora, del viajs del
vapor " Espana."