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St. Landry democrat., 1888-03-03
HANDKERCHIEF CASE.
How an Ingenious Woman Made Pretty
and Useful Article.

[ have just tin1nshed a handkerchief
case. 1t is handsome article. 1 took
piece of cardinal plush, seventeen
inches long, ten inches wide. |
worked on one end in pink satin sim
gle rose and bud, with three clusters of
leaves, placing the spray so the stems
commenced within two inches of the
center. For the center of the rose |
used yellow embroidery silk, filling it
up with knots and extending the silk
out irregularly three or four times on
each petal, making knot on the end
of each one; the leaves and stems |
worked in different shades of arasene.
encircling the bud with the same, maxi
ing it appear as natural moss rose
bud. On the otner end | worked two
Gala lilies and one bud, placing stems
near the center with fowerI extending
toward the end. using large white che
mile for lilies and bud and tinsel for
the center. The stems and leaf [
worked in arasene, using three shades
for leaf, ightest in the center and
gradually darker as | near the edge,
holding the needle to twist the arasene,
as the work is much improved by the
twist. For lining use light blue silk,
placing two thicknesses of wadding in
lining. then quilting in diamond shape
using pink sewing silk for stitching.
Cut two pieces of stiff pasteboard,
each eight inches long, nine and Il half
wide, cut another piece nine and half
inches long, one inch wide, sew the
other pieces on each side of this mar
row one, it will then open like cover
to a book; place one thickness of wad-
ding between plush and pasteboard,
fastening plush on outside with strong
thread crossing inside from one side to
the other; be very careful to keep it
free from wrinkles; sprinkle sachet
powder, use heliotrope, thickly on
wrong side of lining, placing it on in
side of pasteboard, telling the edges
neatly all around ON plush. Insert
narrow pink ribbon midway on each end
between lining and plush, tie together
in q bow, leaving space to slip hand
kerchiefs out either side without UNITY
ing.-Cor. Detroit Free Press.
St. Landry democrat., 1888-03-03
RELIGIOUS AND EDUCATIONAL,

Virtue will catch, as well as vice,
by contact. Burke.
Good deeds ring clear through the
Heavens like bell. -Richter.
/. Repentance is getting out of one
train and getting into another-D. l..
Moody.
May we be satisfied with nothing
which shall not have something of ina-
neutrality-suspicious..
He that condescended so far, anG
stopped so low, to invite and bring Il:
to Heaven, will not refuse us a gracious
reception there:-Boyle. .'~--
The serene, silent beauty Of a holy
life is the most powerful influence in
the world, next to the might OF the
Spirit of God, -Spurgeon.
He that has pure heart will never
cease to pray; and he who will be con-
slant in prayer, shall know what it is
to have pure heart.-LG Combe.
ALL the doors that lead inward to
the secret place of the Most High are
doors outward-out of self, ont OF
smallness, out of wrong.-George Mac
tt0na
1t is utterly impossible for the best
men to please the whole world, and the
sooner this is understood and a position
taken in view of this fact the better.
Do right, though you have enemies. -
Farm and Firestde.
To rebel against bereavements.
misfortunes and disease, is like scourg-
ing ones self with thorns; but sub
mission to the will of God, as expressed
through such Affections, is like bathing
ones wounds with balm. Prairie
Farmer.
Buddhism can not long hold its
ground, and Christianity must finally
prevail throughout all Japan. Japan
csc Buddhism and Western sciences
can not stand together. They are in
consistent the one with the other
japanese Gazette.
You may assuredly find perfect
peace if you are resolved to do that
which your Lord has plainly required
and content that he should indeed
require no more of you than to do JUS
tice, to love mercy, and to walk hum
bly, with him. -Ruskin.
Statistics show that we have 1872
900 churches, 80, 900 ministers and 49,
100000 members in the United States,
and yet there are those who say that
the church has no influence, that it is
only a small body. Let the church be
a unit ON the moral issues of the day.
and our country will be saved for God.
Pulpit Treasury.
St. Landry democrat., 1888-03-03
How Wooden spooIs Are Made.

For making ordinary wooden spools
birch wood is preferred The birch is
first sawed into sticks four or five feet
long and seven-eighths of an inch to
three inches square, according to the
size of the spool to be produced. These
sticks are thoroughly seasoned. They
are sawed into short blocks, and the
blocks are dried in hot-air kiln. At
the time they are sawed a hole is bored
through them. One whirl of the little
block against sharp knives, shaped by
pattern, makes the spools at the rate
of one a second. A small boy feeds
the spool machine, simply placing the
blocks in a spout and throwing out the
knotty or defective stock. The ma
chine is Automatic, but can not do the
sorting. The spools are revolved rap
idly in drums and polish themselves.
For some purposes they are died yen
low, red or black They are made ir
hundreds Of shahs md sfEs Wen
one sees on spools Of ~, ad zone Eun-
dred yards" or 1.-TWO hi aaessstl yaI hs,"
these words do not siglfy ufso the
thread has been measured, hpt that the
spool has been gagged and i Jsupposed
to contain so much thread. ~ Chicago
Neacs.
St. Landry democrat., 1888-03-03
A LULLABY.

Through Sleepy-Land doth river flow.
On its further bank white daisies grow;
And snow white sheep. in woolly floss,
Must, one by one, be ferr.ed across.
In a little boat they safel, ride
TO the meadows green, on abe other side.
Lullaby, sing lIlSHyl
The boatman comes to carry the sheep
In his little boat to the Land OF Sleep;
Upon his head is a poppy wreath;
His eyelids droop, and his eyes beneslh
Are drowsy from counting: some, two, three,"-
How many sheep doth the baby sect
Lullaby, sing lullabyl
One little sheep has gone over the stream;
They press to the bank. How eager they
seem I II. e.Nss. .s.E
Two little sheep, alone on the shore
Only two sheep, but he's bringing one more;
Three little sheep In the flowery fields,
Cropping the grass which Sleepy-Land yields
aa Lullaby sing lullaby
-Four little, five little sheep are now over;
Six little, seven little sheep in the clover
Deep In the honey-sweeL clover they stand.
Eight little, nine little sheep, now they land;
Ten, and eleven, and twelve little sheepl-
And baby, herself, is gone with them, to sleep!-
Il Lullaby, sing lullaby! 3@ Ha2
E. Cauazza, tn 81. Nicholas.
St. Landry democrat., 1888-03-03
WORMS IN HORSES.
How to Expe1 the Two Kinds Which Are
Most Common.


Intestinal parasites are seldom, if
ever, found in healthy animals, and
their presence are invariably due to 4
deranged state of the digestive organs
and to an impoverished condition.
Worms are found in more or less guam,
titles in the stomach and intestines of
all horses, and some of these subjects
appear to enjoy the very best of health
We do not believe that these parasites
are as often source of annoyance to-
horses as are generally supposed by
horsemen; that they occasionally in
terfere with the health there is no
doubt but those cases are rare. Bad,
unwholesome food, neglect and abuse
produces a deranged state of the di-
gestive organs, and as a. result i'll
health, which condition is favorable to
the development of worms. Of the
different species of worms which are
occasionally met with in horses, there
are two kinds which are quite common,
namely: The lumbrici. which is about
ten inches long, pointed at each ex-
tremity, and is very similar to our
common earthworm. They are found
in the stomach and large intes-
tines. Treatment: Give spirits OF
turpentine, half-ounce, beat up with
two or three eggs, every morning for a,
week, then give the following cathar--
tic: Linseed oil, one pint; powdered
aloes, six drachms; oil of male Term
one drachm; sulphuric ether two
ounces; mix for one dose.
The dose of the above medicine
should be regulated according to the
age, size and strength of the SUBJECT
For colts under two years old we
should give, instead of the above, areca
muffin half-ounce doses morning ana
evening for two or three days; TINS
should be followed up with full dose
of linseed or castor oil. 2. The other
species are known as ascarldes. Ihey
are from one to one and a half inches
long, white and thread like, and are
invariably found in the rectum' Inc
proper way to eradicate this species Is
by injections of common salt and wa
ter, spirits of turpentine and OIL or o
solution of tobacco. Subsequently
course of mineral and vegetable tonic
medicine, supplemented with gooa'
wholesome. nutritious food, will be
necessary to improve the genera
health Of the patient.-'oa" Fro'cSSe'
Chronicle.
St. Landry democrat., 1888-03-03
WIT AND WISDOM.

"A man may be good-humored and
yet not be good humorist.
Anxiety about the opinions of 9TH
ers letters our freedom of action.
A man can't be blamed for not
believing in good luck if he never had
any.
1t wonderfully softens the pain of
making mistake to be the frst-to find
it out.
Neutrality, in a question of right
and wrong, is already alliance with the
wrong.
Don't tell the doctor what's. the
matter with you. It's his business to
find out.
A vulgar man counts publicity with
the hope of wedding notoriety.-M T.
PicGy0e.
He (ardently)-I'd give thousand
millions to win your love, Adelaide.
She-Cash?
The wear and tear on contribution
boxes is a very small item of church
expense.-Lye.
The man who wants the earth, my
son, is the very man the earth doesn't
want. -Burdette
When girl is little she has doll
baby; when she grows up she has dol
man.-Harper's Bazm.
So long as female teachers are en-
ployed in the public schools the
switch will be found there.
No matter how honest and upright
q man carpenter may be, he is sell
dom without at least one wise.
When man owes good round
sum he sometimes finds it extremely
hard to square up.-NeW Roven News
If you would be pungent, be brief;
for it is with words as with sunbeams,
the more they are condensed the deeper
they burn. Southey
1t is not the storm which breaks
the image of Heaven in the stream,
but the million pebbles over which it
chafes. Mrs. Charles.
More than ten million eggs, are
carried into New York each week. One
might be tempted to think this an ova-
supply.-Boston transcript.
Poverty is bully, if you are afraid
of her or tremble before her. Poverty
is good-natured enough if you meet
her like a man. - 1hackeray.
1t may be true that s'money
makes the mare co. but it's COM
plete certainty on the race track that
the mare makes money go.-Merchant
TroreLcr.
Read not to contradict and confute,
nor to believe at first sight and take
for granted, nor to find talk and dis
course, but to weigh and reason and
Bacon.
The sun should not set upon our
anger, neither should it rise upon our
confidence. We should forgive freely,
but forget rarely. I will not be re-
yenged; this owe to my enemy. But
I will remember; and this owe to N.Y.
self Colon. III.
True zeal is modest and retiring;
it is not like the scentless sunflower,
which spreads it's gauds petals to the
light of heaven, and turns It's face to
the orb of day, as if determined to be
seen; but, like the modest violet, i;
hides itself in the bank. AMI sends
forth its fragrance from It's deep rel
Lirement. II. a. james
St. Landry democrat., 1888-03-03
USEFUL AND SUGGESTIVE.

If camphor is applied to burn it
will take out the fire almost immedi-
ately.
Put meat into hot oven to roast
If the meat and oven get hot together
the meat will be tough and the gravy
gray.
To whiten the hands melt half an
ounce of camphor gum, half an ounce
of glycerine and one pound of mutton
tallow, and apply every night
For hard pudding sauce rub to-
gether two ounces of butter, four
ounces of sugar and the juice of half a
lemon until thoroughly mixed, and
keep cold until wanted for use.
Use the SCOT from the stove pipes
and chimneys. 1t is excellent Tor flow
ers and young plants. Mix it with
water, abouta peck of SCOT to barrel
of water, and apply with q watering
pot.
The flavor of nearly all kinds of
fish is improved by removing the skin
from them before they are cooked. The
skin has disagreeable flavor. as does
the fat that is between the skin and the
flesh.
Fried Chicken. up the chicken
and salt and dip in flour; have a.drip-
ping pan with plenty of boiling lard
into which lay the chicken; put in a ,
well-heated oven; fry brown on both
sides.
Soak quart of stale bread in cold
water five minutes, pour off as much
water as will escape without squeezing,
and put the bread in buttered baking
dish. Pare and slice quart of apples,
lay them on the bread add sugar and
spice to taste, and bake the pudding in
a moderate oven.
Spider Shortcake: Two parts rich
buttermilk, one part sour cream; pearl
ash to foam, salt to taste, and flour to
make stiff batter; roll out into inch
thick, round cakes, the size of fry
pan, crease the top with straight lines,
and bake in spiders tipped against sup
ports on the hearth before the fire.
When a room is to have new
paper, the old ought to be removed
first. A boiler of hot water set in a
room, and the doors closed for while,
will cause the paper to loosen, so that
it may be taken off without difficulty.
The woodwork may then be cleaned
easily, while the dirt is softened by the
steam.
For corns put q small quantity of
strong vinegar in tea cup and
crumble some bread into it; let it stand
half an hour, then put little on a
strip of cloth and bind around the toe,
with the poultice over the corn; it can
be taken out the next morning, but if
the corn is an obstinate one it will re-
quire two or three applications to effect
q cure.
-Macaroni: Break small; cover with:
boiling water, with a handful of salt.
and boil about twenty minutes. To a
pound of macaroni you want q cupfuI
of grated cheese, tablespoonful or
more of dry mustard, mixed thin with
milk or water, and a couple of spoon,
fuls of butter. When the macaroni is.
tender, after draining off any superfu-
Gus water, put it by spoonfuls into your
pan or pudding-dish, adding the mus
tard, cheese and milk so as to have all
mixed; reserve cheese
enough to sprinkle a layer on top; it,
will do to spread the butter on top, for
it will melt and run down through the
whole mass. Bake in quick oven I'M
tin brown.
St. Landry democrat., 1888-03-03
The JemeZers' WcekIu SAYS that per.

The Jewelers' Weekly says that per.
sons who wear glass eyes and can af-
ford it have one for the day and an
other for the night, because the pupil
of the natural eye is smaller by day
than by night, and the glass eye that
will match during business hours does
not look natural by gaslight
St. Landry democrat., 1888-03-03
PAYING THE PREACHER,
The Economic Condition of Southern So
cietY in Colonial Times.

cIety III COlOHlal Hines.
A large vestry book, extending from
1928 to 1771, is still carefully preserved
having been rescued from some old
country records by Mi. Young. From
this chronicle one can get a glimpse Of
the state of society and its, economic
condition. Ecclesiastical currency, as
is well known, was tobacco.' For the
service of the church each .'tithable''
was assessed every year so many
pounds. We find such entries as these:
Pouaas
To Mr.. Barlow, for II sermons at $50 lbs.
TOBACCO 5,'5-
To Rev. John Reid. salary ..... ........ 10000
To ditto, for board. .......... 1900
To ditto, for clerk. Observation-Disclosures. loo
To Mary Clark sexton Observation-Disclosures. 400
Agreed with James Briggs to keep Eliza
Mipet for one year and to find her in cloaths for
1880 lbs. tobacco.
To Widow Lawrence being pore 500 lbs to-
bacco.
From an entry before the book closes it ap-
pears that 10000 lbs. of tobacco sold for e10i
lis lid.
The church expenses averaged about
10000 pounds tobacco year. or in the
neighborhood of ESQ. The price of
tobacco varied; but that there should
not be an unlimited currency, as it
were. the parish was divided into dis
tricts, and each year appeared such re-
cords as:
Samuel Davis and William Bridger are ap.
pointed viewers Of tobacco from the river OF
Blackwater.
1t was the business of these viewers,
or tellers, as they were sometimes
called, to estimate and restrict the
number of young plants, that there
might not be overproduction, lest the
church income suffer from too low
prices. mary Gay Humphreys, ia
american Magazine.
St. Landry democrat., 1888-03-03

Neil Smith, q Georgia colored
man, was sent TO the penitentiary for a
term of four years in 1888 for larceny.
The time of his original sentence ex-
pred a week ago, but owing TO the
fact that he has made several unsuc-
cessful attempts to escape he will be
forced to pass six years more behind
the bars.
St. Landry democrat., 1888-03-03

Free soup has been source OF
trouble in New York and is no lon GER
provided for the poor. 1t was found
to bring tramps to the city and to aid
he undesefving poor, as i'll all 1ndis-
criminate charity giving. set
The west Tennessee star. (Bolivar, Tenn.) 1888-1888, 1888-08-17
NOTICE.

AS chairman protein of the Dem.
oeraJc Executive Committee Of
Haldeman County Tennessee, 1
hereby notify and earnestly request
each member of said Democratic
Executive Committee to meet at
The Star office in Bolivar on the
first Monday the 3rd day of Sep
TENDER 1883; for the purpose of Or
ganizing said committee by eleeting
q permanent chairman, secretary
and a treasurer. The names Of the
persons composing the above resis
ted committee will be fOuad IN til g
minutes of the late Democratic
county convention. Gentlemen
search the columns of your county
paper, The Vest TenessseStar Of
this week, and find who compose
said oOmmittee-one and all come
tor there are other matters vital to
the Democratic party, lis principles
and their success that must bs
speedily attendedIts. Aug, Hath,
1888. D. J, New BERN, Cham'r.
The west Tennessee star. (Bolivar, Tenn.) 1888-1888, 1888-08-17

Editor West Tennessee Star:
Hickory Valley, Tenn, Aug, IA, 1855
| notice few cutting remarks IN your
last issue from New Castle, signed Bon
ami" about what said regarding an
ice cream supper at that place. l am
very sorry for HIM In fact he needs
more than is mine to give. 1t is strange
what miserable constructions some folks
place upSA simple, plain english, l had
no ether idea but that the ies cream
supper was II it should have been I
know some of the ladies' connected with
it, and have never heard any one speak
otherwise than of its being even more
thar you have insisted it was. Your cor
respondent flies at me with the appslla-
ti"n "hs", and grows worse in his ft sf
IA 4dness.- must conclude he knows
little about histSry-I dare say he never
read the history of Greece. l have no
war to wage on the masculine gender: and
my frioRd viii be surprised to know that
I am not of that sex. All know about
the cream is from hsAr-ssy. | knew the
parties who went from here would have
gotten all the cream they could have
wlhhsd for, had they gsttcn there in time.
Now if have given "SmArt Alex des-
eription" of the supper, he has made
Onkey of himself for net having mod
ssty enough to use the right gender. l
heartily thank him for the promise of
cordial invitation to the next ice cream
supper at that place, though it is best not
to be more nice than wise.
DR.. r, A. Norman, preached the open
ing sermon for the union mestinG' Up
to last evening no enc had come to re-
lievs him. Or, Norman is growing
very cid, yet he is happiest while active
ly engaged in the Masters work. May
he have more than an abundance when
anes iEtO the celestial home.
Miss Emma Dodson, OF Colliervills,
Tenn, is visiting the family of Mr.. r. A.
NcAnulty. Miss Emma has many friends
here TO bid her welcome, and to make hsr
stay as pleasant as an autumn twilight,
Nisa PAttie Smith, who has been visit
ing friends rnd relatives here an at
Grand Junction this summer, returns to
her HON in Colorado tomorrow.
We learn a crowd Is speaking of going
up on H atchis river, near Bolivar, ext
week on 6sh ing sxpeditian.
The LEGAL editor accompanied by
Misses Bette Mcdaniel and Nellie
Green paid the valley pleasant visit
Sunday, Success to The Star.
VRSTA
The west Tennessee star. (Bolivar, Tenn.) 1888-1888, 1888-08-17
A SAD SHOOK.

The hsrrible death of Mr.. Frank
Bray at the insane Hospital last
Tuesday morning was a terrible
shock to this community. The un'
fortunate man was At his post of
duty, labering for the support OF
his loving wife and dear little ones
when mass of brick and mortar,
weighing perhaps, 80 tons came
down upon hlm and around him,
His skull was fractured, his leg
broken. his RIBS crushed in, his
neck broken, and his body tearfully
braised. HIS remains were brought
TO his residence on main street Tues
day evening Rev. Z. B..McNeil,
Of jackson, Was wired for, he came
ami conducted the funeral rites on
Wednesday msrnIng. The fun sral
train was one OF the largest ever
seen in Bolivar. dis remains we're
mildred At Union Cemetery, Mr.
Bray was a young man. being only
% Years and 8 months, cid. he was
An hsnest and industrious msn' al
wsss attended strictly to ais bushes
aaa,tfairiy with all men; and had a
-. friends. The Star tenders ITS
lest Of sympathy to the widowed
- the two little fatherless chill
- and thu bereGVod relatives.
The west Tennessee star. (Bolivar, Tenn.) 1888-1888, 1888-08-17

A mislnformsd party sent tel -
egran from this place 10 the Nashs
Vile Democrat last Monday, stat
ing that the convention instrue ted
for Hon. James Phelan as second
choice for congress. Such is not a
fact, DR.. ]. D. Sassor, Sr., Of
Middleton, moved to amend the
resolution instrueting for Nor ment
so rs to make Phelau second choice.
But he was prevailed upon to with
draw the amendment when ne did.
The convention meyer voted on the
amendment The resolution instruct
ing for Roiment requires our delega-
ton to vote for HIM 50 long as his
name is before the convention, Re
suppose the same party wired the
Avalanche that the majority cau~
cas- endorsed Phelan as second
choice for congress. That is mis-
take. Il end orsed MIN Is second
ehoice for u. 5, Senator.
The west Tennessee star. (Bolivar, Tenn.) 1888-1888, 1888-08-17
Shsriffs ale ofvalua bic Land.

WV virtue of venditioni exPones is
bsued to me from Circuit Court of
a rdemaR County. Tennessee, in the
above stated cause will sell on
SATURDAY,, JULY Is, 1888
in lawful hours In front of the west door
Of the court house in Bolivar, Tennessee
at public out cry to the highest bidder for
cash fine following real estate to-wlt.
The 10th undivided interest OF said Jas.
Jones Jr. as heir and dlstribatee OF his
deceased brother B. n. Jones III a tract OF
1904 acres more or less in Civil District
No. Is. and in Range z, Section 6 of 10th
Surveyors District of Hardeman County,
Tennessee, Same land conveyed by deed
recorded in Book Q, page 1873 in the
Registers Office Hardeman County, from
G. =. Yarbrough to B. N. Jones.
Also the 1-9 undivided interest of said
Jas. Jones, Jr. as heir, and distributee OF
his deceased brother B. N. Jones, in a
tract Of 461 acres more or less in Civil
District No. Is and in Range 2, Section 5
of the 10th Surveyors District OF Harde-
man Co. Tenn. being same land conveyed
by deed recorded in Book g. page l72,
Registers office OF said ardeman Co.
from G. P. Yarbrough to B. n. Jones.
Also the 1-9 undivided interest of said
Jas. Jones. Jr. as heir and distributed Of
his DECEASED father Jas Jones, Jr in a
tract Of 100 acres more or less in Civil
District is and in Range 2, Section OF
10th Surveyors district, being same land
conveyed by the County Court Of ii arde--
man County in the sale of the lands OF
Jane Eagan to as, Jones, Jr. and con-
veyed by G. P Yarbrough to said Jane
Eagan by deed recorded III book \. page
sol in Registers office Hardeman County,
Tennessee. 4 description by NETS and
bounds can be had on day OF sale. said
land is valuable farming ami timber land
and levied and sold 10 satisfy Judgment in
this cause. his June 26, 1888.
A. r. YOPP, Sheriff