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St. Landry democrat. (Opelousas, La.) 1878-1894, 1888-03-31
CORRECT ACCOUNTS.
Counting the Value of What Is Consumed
ON the Farm.

Counting the Value of What Is Consumed
on the Farm.
In estimating the result of his year s
work, the farmer seldom takes into ac-
count, as he should, the value of the
farm products used by his own family.
The vegetables, the fruit. poultry and
eggs, the lamb, calf or pig that has
been killed for home consumption,
are not counted as so much income
from the farm, though they have made
up a large portion of the food con-
sumed. We're the farmer living in a
village, following some other line of
business, he would have necessarily to
provide by purchase the food required
for the support of his family, and this
would be included in his calculations.
On the farm this is different, and gen.
orally the estimate of the years income
is based on what is left over after the
expenses of running the farm are paid,
and this, too, is confined to the cash in
hand, with the addition, perhaps, of a
bin of wheat or other grain, or some
crop it is proposed to sell. What has
been consumed by the family and help
is left out of the account, and also the
growth made by stock during the year,
which added to their value, and also
the increase by births. The farmer may
be WORTH considerable more at the close
of the y9}r were values counted as indi-
Gated, aid yet because the amount of
cash does not show large increase.
he is apt to consider he has little or
nothing to show for his years labor.
The advantage of keeping accounts
on the farm is demonstrated when the
year closes, and it can be ascertained
just what has been produced during
the season, what has been consumed,
and how much better off the owner is
than when he began the year. Nd
tionGl Lice Stock Journal.
St. Landry democrat. (Opelousas, La.) 1878-1894, 1888-03-31
COFFEE AND TEA.
Instructive Information Furnished by Dr.
Maurice ID. Clark.

The essential principle of cot
fee is the alkaloid caffeine, but
there is also developed during
the roasting volatile oil-cat-
feone. The effects of the two on the
drinker are different in time and char
acter. Caffeone is speedier and more
transient than caffeine. 1t reduces the
arterial tension, and thus allows treer
flow of blood and q more rapid action
of the heart Hence it stimulates the
brain, renders the mind clear and pro-
notes wakefulness.
Caffeine on the other hand, slows the
heart, and expends its main force on
the spinal cord. To this fact is due the
shaking hand of the inveterate coffee
| drinker-to which we may add the
marked tremor which, after a few
hours, sometimes follows coplous
draught when the stomach is empty.
But there is another effect of the cat
feline: it checks the too rapid consump-
ton of heterogeneous matter in the sys"
tenn, and thus while not nutritious IN
itself, it possesses an indirect nutntlve
value. This, and its mildly stimulat-
ing character, have made it the chosen
drink for breakfast, and a staple sup
ply for the army and navy. Five hun
dred million pounds of coffee were I'M
ported into the United States last year.
To the chemist. coffee and tea are
much the same thing. Their two al
kaloids-caffeine and theine-are IN
distinguishable the one from the other.
Each also contains volatile oil. The
difference to our taste is doubtless due
to subtle qualities which the chemist is
unable to detect. While, however COT
fee checks waste, and is a virtual food,
the same thing can not be said of tea,
the specific effect of which is to quicken
respiration and the vital functions gen.
orally.
Both these drinks are liable to dan
gerous abuse, but those who over-in-
dulge in coffee are few compared with
those who drink tea to excess. In both
cases the injurious effect is due as much
to the volatile oil as to alkaloids. cit
is an everyday experience in the out
patient departments of the large hos
pitfalls for sufferers to apply for the re-
lief of symptoms reasonably attrib-
uted to the abuse of tea. Either
from excess of tea, OF from some
other reason, she loses her appetite,
and gradually comes to loathe food. In
this extremity she seeks solace in the
cup, and thus increases the condition
she is already bewailing. She applies
for medical aid, and, it is needless to
say, usually scorns the suggestion to
go without tea.
Nor is this abuse confined to the
poorer classes. Probably every one
numbers among his friends women who
are actual slaves to the tea habit, and
who would find tea as hard to forsake
as men find tobacco. 1t is not unlikely
that the functional cardiac disorder,
often spoken of as the tobacco heart, "
due to nervous arrangement and ac-
accompanied by palpitation and pain
in the cardiac region, is more often
due to tea than tobacco. Popular SCI
ence NeaCs.
St. Landry democrat. (Opelousas, La.) 1878-1894, 1888-03-31
INHERITED DISEASES.
Scieuce Casts New Light on the Words
of the Hebrew Scripture.

Scieuce Casts a New Light on the Words
of the Hebrew Scripture.
In the realm of disease, the facts of in
helitance are most numerous, and are
daily accommodating. Here they are no
longer, alas, curious and amusing, but
terrible, Hateful, overwhelming. No
fact of nature is more pregnant with
awful meaning than the inheritance OF
disease. 1t meets the physician on his
daily rounds, paralyzing his art, and
filling him with sadness. The legend
of the ancient Greeks pictured the
malignant Furies pursuing families
from generation to generation, and
rendering them desolate. The Furies
still ply their work of terror and death;
but we have stripped them of the garb
which superstition threw around them,
and they now appear to our eyes in the
more ineligible but not less awful
form of hereditary disease. Modern
science, which has cast illumination
into so many dark corners of Nature,
has shed new and still more lurid
light ON the words of the Hebrew
Scripture: The sins of the fathers
shall be visited ON the children unto
the third and fourth genera
ton Instances of hereditary disease
abound on every hand. Fully fifty per
cent. of cases of govt are inherited.
The proportion is not much less in that
fell destroyer of families, our national
scourge, consumption. Cancer and
scrofula run strongly in families. In
sanity is hereditary to marked de-
gree; but fortunately, like many other
hereditary diseases, tends to wear it.
self out, the stock becoming extinct.
Nearly all defects of sight are occa-
sionally inherited. Sir Henry Holland
says truly that mo organ or texture
of the body is exempt from the chance
of being the subject of hereditary dis
ease" Probably most chronic dis
eases which permanently modify the
structure and functions of the BODY
are more or less liable to be inherited.
The important and far-reaching
practical deductions from such facts
affecting so powerfully the happiness
of individuals and families and the col
lective welfare of the nation-will be
obvious to reflective minds, but can not
be dwelt upon in this article.-Popalar
Science Monthly.
St. Landry democrat. (Opelousas, La.) 1878-1894, 1888-03-31
CORN AND COB-MEAL.
Its Superior Value as a Food for All Kind 9
of Stock.

OF STOCK.
In his experiments in feeding cattle
at the Kansas College farm Prof. Shell
ton says. "a considerable general ex-
perience in the use of corn and cob
meal as feed for herd of sixty-odd
head of neat cattle has greatly
strengthened, not only the writer, but
those having the practical management
of the herd in the conviction of the
superior value of corn and cob-meal.
The corn and cob-meal was, apparent
ly at least, better digested than was
clear corn alone when nsed; it was eat
en- certainly with as great relish, the cat
tie were off their feed less often; while
cases of diarrhea caused by over-feed-
ing-all too common when corn-meal
was used-were practically unknown
when the grain feed was the ground
ear corn"
A Brooklyn horse car company feed
ing over 1000 horses givesits methods,
which it claims to be the best in long
experience with feeding horses The
regular meals of the horse consist of
corn and oats-in winter one part of
oats to four of corn, and in summer
equal parts of each. This feed IS
bought in the grain and ground on the
premises. The average consumption
by each animal is fifteen pounds of
meal and nine pounds of hay day"
The hay is prepared in a cutting box
and mixed with the meal. which is
moistened so as to stick to the hay, and
thus fed together With such feeding
the company reports that it has not
had a case of collie among its 1,400
horses in year or more, and that they
thrive and otherwise do better on this
ration than upon any other it has tried.
The danger of feeding horses meal
alone is well known to experienced
feeders. Thus fed it cakes in plastic
mass in the stomach, and frequently
causes collie. But wet little and mix
ed with cut hay the mass when masti-
Gated is spongy in the stomach and adj
mits the gastric juices through it, and
thus it is well digested. Philadelphia
Record.
St. Landry democrat. (Opelousas, La.) 1878-1894, 1888-03-31
THE TEACHERS TASK.


Ye who the teachers place Wouk- NIL should
know its duties vast,
Should count them DER as a nov1ces beads are
through her fingers passed,
And earnest prayer on every one thy seeking
soul should cast.
It is to mold ill-shapen forms to beauty's image
fair;
TO part the flakes Of gold from dross that daz-
Zles with its glare;
To snatch from out mass OF earth thoughts
diamonds rich and rare.
TO fashion wen the crude young lives that eFer
life's threshold pour;
TO curb and guide the restless limbs that Ee'er
were curbed before;
TO sift the strains OF lknowledge's hymn from
out the worlds duh roar.
To help the struggling soul along its pathway
toward the sun,
To rightly paint the Offering prize fer which
LIES race is run;
To light the lamp which shall endure until the
goal is won.
To watch for rays of thought that may with fu-
ture brightness shine;
To furnish each truth-seekng heart with Wis
dom's countersign;
To turn the current of mems thoughts toward
Sciences holy shrine.
To catch far off the CLEAN which tells of perfect
manhood's dawn;
To strive that lines OF truth shall be DER tickle
fancy drawn;
To add the minds uplifting power to muscles
sturdy Drawn.
To fee in all its mighty weight the greatness OF
the trust;
To realize the feeble strength that lies in human
dust;
To lift against burden that seems oftentimes
unjust.
TO meekly serve when critics cry that labor is
in vain; t.s 4 gsg t.l -,
To sweep with patience 'gainst the waves that
roll from off the main;
To weep DER efforts lost and then take up the
toll again.
To aim with care, and see thy shaft fall wide
from off the mark;
To hear rough feet tramp rudely out thy scarcely
lighted spark;
To watch the eddying waters gulf thy fondly
builded bark.
To sow fair seed and never see the dappled har-
vest wave;
To give, and have no thankful heart e'er bless
the hand that gave;
To long and sigh for honors crown and find
naught but grave.
But then at last when thou shalt have the
earthly record weighed,
And know that better lives were lived by reason
of your aid,
TO rest in peace and joy because SO we'll your
part you played
&c ~ larger, In american Teacher
St. Landry democrat. (Opelousas, La.) 1878-1894, 1888-03-31
STYLES FOR THE HAIR.
What Pretty Women Are Doing With
Their Tresses and Bangs.

What Pretty Women Are Doing With
Their Tresses and Bangs fl
Very few American ladies know how
to dress their hair in becoming man.
ner. They know what the style is,
and they adopt that style because it is
fashionable and they never think
whether it suits themor not. If they
90 to hairdresser they insist on hin,
doing just as they suggest, and will not
allow him to use his own Judgment
and good taste. A hairdres ser, like
modesto or milliner can tell at a
glance what style is the most becom-
ing; although it may look strange to
the person who is having her hair
dressed, she ought to know that it Isl
the best way. The faces of American
ladies are longer than those of French
ladies, and it is consequently unbe-
coming to dress their hair in the style
popular in Paris. A long face does:
not want to have the hair arranged to,
look longer. Neither does a short,
round face want to be made to look
shorter by keeping the hair at the back
or side of the head. The Psyche knot.
is style that is common with every
one. The only drawback to this style
felt by society ladies-is that shop
girls and servants twist their hair in
this knot because it is very easily ar
ranged. @ 3
A lady with long face should dress.
her hair ON the back of her head. The.
hair on the top should be arranged in
waves, and bangs should be brought
straight over the forehead, and well
over the temples, the idea being to.
broaden the face as much as possible.
If the neck is perfectly formed it
should be left bare, but if long or thin
it should be covered somewhat with
small curls or frizzes. A lady with
round face should arrange her hair ON
the top of the head. The rope twist is
a good style. The hair should be ar
ranged to come to point.
A pretty blonde with clear-cut Tea
lures, rather low forehead, can dress
her hair tastefully in the pompadour
style. On the forehead curis are ar
ranged. At the back OF the curis tne
hair is dressed as roll.
Bangs now are worn Vshaped. Iha'
is, they are worn either curly or
straight, and can be well arranged TO
look very becoming on any face. ANY
one with a broad forehead should wear
as little hair on the temples as possible
and dress it high. One with a low
forehead should keep the hair OFT the
forehead in front and arrange a Few
curls ON the temples.
A lady with a receding torehead
sbould have the hair well curled on the
forehead. The bad effect OF high cbeeh
bones can be modified by arranging
tho hair in a cluster of small curls on
the temples.--M 4 Naa aud L&p7eSs'.
St. Landry democrat. (Opelousas, La.) 1878-1894, 1888-03-31
Jerseys for Spring Wear.

Striped wool jerseys with sailor
blouse front, fitted back. and deep
sailor collar are pretty neglige cor
sages for wearing out partly worn
skirts. They come in half-inch stripes
of navy blue, copperred or brown with
white. with the deep square collar OF a
plain wool the color of the stripe.
Other jerseys have stripes closely fitted
in point down the back and front to
the waist line, with plain colored jer-
sey wool gathered on the shoulders
and carried down the sides of the
striped points. The simple tucked
jerseys of plain blue-gray, terra-cotta
or reseda wool are stylish and neat
bodices, with clusters of tucks below
the collar, forming yoke in front and
shaping the back; these are worn with
a ribbon belt and buckle. Most of the
spring jerseys have the sleeves slightly
full at the wristband, and some are
tucked at top and bottom, while others
are shirred around to match the shirred
yoke of the bodice. Full belted jer-
seys are shown in great variety, and
plain black wool jerseys are richly
decorated with braiding and embroid-
cry of tinsel threads. Silk jerseys arc
less popular than formerly, but are
shown with bead embroidery in stripes
and all-over designs. Jetted net jer-
seys are again imported, and others
with passementerie vines woven in
shapes, or else the whole bodice is OF
passementerie. -Harper's Bazaar.
St. Landry democrat. (Opelousas, La.) 1878-1894, 1888-03-31
USEFUL AND SUGGESTIVE.

A little powdered borax and tale
low are as good as any thing to add to
starch to prevent it sticking
kerosene will soften boots and
shoes that have been hardened by
water, and render them pliable as
new.
Linen dresses or other garments
will retain their color if washed in wa
ter in which a quantity of hay is placeds
boil and rinse the goods in it, using a
little soap.
In view of the race of dyspeptics
which America is rearing, the wo-
man who wants to be a real benefac-
tor to her race will seek to improve
upon the cooking of her day and gem
Grafton.
Don't let ancient dinner odors linger
about the hall and parlors. If you have
been in the house all day you will
not notice this, but the visitor, fresh
from the open air. will be sure to be
unpleasantly saluted by stale odors the
moment he enters.
Cleveland Brown Bread. One
bowl of Indian meal one bowl rye flour,
one bowl sour milk, one large cup OF
molasses, one teaspoonful soda, one Ia
blespoonful salt. Steam two and one"
half hours and bake from twenty min"
utes to one-half hour, depending upon
heat of oven.
A narrow pointed. red tipped
tongue with mucous membrane of the
mouth of the same color indicates that
the blood needs an acid, while a broad,
pallid tongue, covered with white
pasty fur along with pale membrane of
the mouth indicates that the blood is
already too acid and that an alkali is
needed.
Pumpkin Soup-Peel and cut into
small pieces three pounds of pumpkin,
put it in a saucepan with water
enough to cover it, add little salt;
let it boil gently until soft, drain and!
pass it through fine colander; put
three pints of milk into stew-pan, and
mix with it the strained pumpkin; let,
it come to boil, add very little white
sugar, pepper and salt to taste; serve.
"A French physician, DR.. Felz,
mentions a curious apparent cause of
left-handedness. One child in cer-
tain family was left-handed, and the
second appeared to be so at the age Of
one year. 1t was then learned that the
mother had always carried her children
on her left arm. She was advised to
change, and, held on her right arm, the
infant, having its right hand free to
grasp objects, soon became right
handed.
Fruit Batter Pudding. One pint
of milk, one pint of flour, four eggs,
one tablespoonful of butter, one tea
spoonful of salt, one pint of apples or,
peaches, measured after they are
pared and quartered. Beat the eggs
and add the milk. Turn part of this
on the flour and beat to smooth bat
ter; add the remainder with the other
ingredients. Sprinkle in the fruit and
bake half an hour in a buttered pud.-
ding dish. Eat with cream and sugar,
or any hot sauce. 1t should be served
as soon as it comes from the oven.
St. Landry democrat. (Opelousas, La.) 1878-1894, 1888-03-31
A widow living in the an bnrhs "a

"A widow living in the suburbs OF
Montgomery. Ala. found her young
son playing cards with William Oates,
a sa1oon-keeper, in expressed violation
of her own orders to the latter. Mrs.
French thereupon covered Oates with
a pistol, held in her left hand. and with
her right administered q cowhidino
that he won't forget in many day.
1t was anew brand Of prohibition, but
should prove effective. III
St. Landry democrat. (Opelousas, La.) 1878-1894, 1888-03-31

"A prominent market-gardener and
nilkman of South Hadley, Mass, feeds
his peddliRg horses by clock power. The
cracked corn and oats are put into a
hopper over night, and the alarm clock
is set for morning feed. The con-
triyance works to charm, the horses
thrive by it, it saves labor in the busi-
ast part of the day, and the machine
costs about Sc.
St. Landry democrat. (Opelousas, La.) 1878-1894, 1888-03-31
A singular instance Of the ruin

"A singular instance Of the ruling
passion strong in death is related by
Henry Labouchere. He says that a
compositor in the employment OF
Messrs. Cassell committed suicide the
other day, and left behind him the fol-
lowing note: Dear Mr.. Skinner
Please excuse my leaving without the
usual fortnight's notice, but I have re-
ceived a peremptory summons to go to
Heaven to set the title page of the Book
of Life. Yours, FL G. s. Agnew." The
jury naturally returned verdict of
temporary insanity.
St. Landry democrat. (Opelousas, La.) 1878-1894, 1888-03-31
THE COWBOYS STORY.
How He and His Friend Were
Saved by a Mule.

One hot evening in the summer OF
1877, the writer, with three other young
men, was camped on the bank of the
South Platte river, some seventy miles
above the little station of Julesburg
We had Embarrassed the horses from
our big wagon, and picketed them out
to feed near the high stockade of SOL
itary ranch station. Over the top of
the stockade posts the grass-grown
roofs of several adobe cabins were
visible. On the roof of one of these a
half-groWn antelope kid was industri-
ously cropping the heritage, and by its
side lay another, serenely asleep, its
head thrown back over its shoulder.
Beyond the stockade, and adjoining
it, was another Enclosure of several
acres, surrounded by high board
fence; a large stock corral, in fact, in
which several ponies were standing,
lazily whisking away the flies, evil
IDENTIFY too much overcome BY the heat
to make any further exertion. These
and the antelopes were the only signs
Oh u1e aDOut Lue place. E&
Guess this ranch takes care of it
SELF remarked one of the party, who,
at that moment, was attending to a
skillet of yenisonEsteak over fire of
dry drift-stieks. which we had picked
up on the bank of the river. t'Guess
old Cliff would stir up these fellows, if
he knew they all went off n left the
houses with a couple of tame antelopes
for guards.'' d 81
On first hating for the night, we
had ratified at the gate of the stockade,
in hope that we might be let in and
given chance for fresh water at the
well; but the gate was barred inside,
and the premises were apparently de-
serted. We rather wondered at that.
for we had heard Of this ranch, and
knew it to be one of the s'Cattle-King'
Cliffs out-posts--a ground up point
for the east half of the great range
over which his thousands of cattle fed,
winter and summer.
But as we sat down to our supper of
biscuits, steak, canned tomatoes and
coffee, we heard the big gate Of the
stockade squeak on its hinges, and a
moment later there sauntered out to us
D. tall hstrapping young fellow. in a
wooden shirt and gbuckskin leggings.
He had on his head q -brimmed,
white wool hat. with red leather band,
and on his feet .high-topped, high
heeled boots, at the counters Of which
iingled pair Of Spanish spurs.
There was also q pair of big Colts
In his belt. His wooden shirt was open
insfront, the sleeves were rolled up to
the elbows, and the deep tan-color of
his arms matched well the bronze of
breast, neck and face. He had the
biggest and fercest of black mus
taohes, and d pair Of sharp black eyes
60 match it.
b Al remarkable figure, perhaps the
reader may think, but one that, with
some modification of form or feature,
will soon grow familiar to the camper
In the seattle country. :
.HuIlo, fellows said the specimen
cowboy, as he came up and leaned
his elbow upon the hind wheel. Of our
wagon.
St. Landry democrat. (Opelousas, La.) 1878-1894, 1888-03-31

a great number of Mormons have
established themselves in Arizona,
where they have appropriated the most
fertile districts. While the ambitious
Americans have been seeking for min
eral wealth the willy ''saints" have quiz
city encamped upon the choice agri-
cultural regions.
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1888-01-13

Mr.. J. w. Bradley and Miss jennie Luyster
were married at Mr.. p. n. Luyster's BY Rev.
9. NJ. Irwin.
Much interest is already taken in the evening
meetings. Some have already found Christ,
and many are quite serious and wait for the
blessings.
John N. Irwin has become night operator Ut
Nortonsville, Kansas. He likes the wor
except loslng sleep. - Il 10 hard for . young
man to learn to sleep in the day time.
H. e. Van Dsman attended s:Horticalt,r d
society at Kansas City. Aud goes this week to
California to atteud two meetings there,
Mrs. Van Deman expects to accompany him in
his trip.
Mr.. d. d. Spicer has just filled his new Ice
house, and hence Is prepared to keep cool next
summer.
Mr.. Luystsr says he IL done giving wedding
dinners now. All who have enjoyed the same
may we'll feel sorry ~ few can excel In such
well laden tables Of good thinss. Many choice
fruits from Mr.. R. G. Kells, his son-in-lsw in
California, grsoed the tables 70 the occasion.
Most any one receiving boxes Of such dne
fruit every now and then, might be excused
II they had California ON the brain - Mr..
Luyster seems to have.
Mr.. I. N. Luystes has young son, and hence
feels quite elated. He expects to make trip
to California to look up . new home, II he sect
anything to suit hi m.
I. n. 8.