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West Virginia Democrat. [volume] (Charles Town, W. Va.) 1885-1890, 1888-09-21

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St. Landry democrat., 1888-05-19
NOVEL DISCIPLINE.
Peni Tertiary Where Food Is EMPLOYED
as a II eforming Agent.


as a eforming Agent.
One of the most interesting of re-
cent experiments in food is now going
on in the California State prison.
California has established the Folsom
State prison among the hills near the
head Of the American river. The
scenery is fine. the air pure and the
water excellent The convicts are
chiefly employed in quarrvinc and
dressing granite. The buildin ING is
roomy, safe and substantial. II has
the customary cells. baths and ar
engagements for securing ventilation.
The inmates have their hair cropped
and wear the usual distinctive prison
garb. 1t is in the manner of supply
ing food that this prison diff ers from
others. The convicts, when they
first arrive, as we'll as those who
show little inclination to work or
a disposition to be vicious. are
supplied with a rather poor fare, con.
sisting largely of boiled beans, salt
meat, cabbage, mush, common bread,
and coffee served without milk II not
within sight of the table where this
course food is served, there is within
smell of it another on which fresh
beef and mutton, various kinds of
vegetables. rice. and on Sunday cake,
sirup and tea, are placed. The con-
vict learns that he can sit at this table
and enjoy the food thereon if he works
diligently and faithfully. conducts him.
self properly and gives little trouble
to the warden and his assistants. He
also learns that those who sit at this
table are allowed considerable liberty
and are permitted to take walks after
each meal. The desire to sit at this
table is great. Men who do not like
to work en- joy good living. and are
generally willing to be at
co nsiderable pains to secure it.
The inmates of this penitetiary orIi-
narily adopt such course rs will
enable them to sit at the table within
a few months of their entrance. When
taking their first breakfast at il, they
perceive the odor of beefsteak, NUT
ton chops, hot rolls and fine coffee
that proceeds from an ad joining room.
They learn that there are roast beef
and mutton. salads and buildings there
for dinner; while for supper there are
steaks. chops. fried potatoes. tea and
several kinds of fruit. The price of
admission to this table is strict atten-
ton to business, respect for all rules
and regulations, and the constant OBJ
servance ofpropriety. The food comes
high but most of the convicts are
anxious to obtain it, and many of them
do. Cor. albany Journal.
St. Landry democrat., 1888-05-19
THE HUMAN HEART.
Curious c calculations Made by Famous
Medical Authority.

Curious G calculations Made by Famous
Medical Authority.
In the human subject the average
rapidly of the cordiac pulsation of an
adult male is about seventy beats per
minute. These beats are more fire.
quent Us a rule in young children and
in women, and there are variations
within certain limits in particular per-
sons owing to pecularities of organi-
cation. 1t would not necessarily be
an abnormal sign to find in some par
ticular individuals the habitual fire.
quency of the hearts action from sixty
to sixty-fve or from seventv-five to
eighty per minute. AS a rule, the
hearts action is slower and more
powerful in fully-leveloped and mus
cular organizations. and more rapid
and feebler in those of slighter form.
In animals. The range is from twen-
ty-five to forty-five in the cold blooded
and fifty upward in the -blooded
animals. except in the case of the
horse. which has q very slow heart
beat only forty strokes minute. The
pulsations of men and all animals
differ with the sea level also. The
work of q healthy human heart has
been shown to equal the feat. of rails
ing five tons four hundred weight /
foot. per hour, or 1875 tons in twenty
four hours. The excess of this work
under alcohol in varying quantities is
often very great. A curious calcula-
ton has been made by Dr.. Richardson,
giving the work of the heart in mile
age.
Presuming that the blood was thrown
out of the heart at each pulsation in
the proportion of sixty-nine strokes
per minute, and at the assumed force
of 9 feet. the mileage of the blood
through the body might be taken at
POI yards per minute. 7miles per hour,
1853 miles per day. 81, $40 miles per
year. or 5. $50 49, miles in a lifetime
of eighty-four years. The number of
beats of the heart in the same long
life would reach the grand total Of
2. 1863. 776 000 -Medical World.
St. Landry democrat., 1888-05-19
LONDON LODGING-HOUS
The Places Where Many of EnglanHs
Poor Find Shelter.

The Places Where Many of EnglanPs
| Poor Find Shelter.
The first scene 10 which your atten.
ton is invited is common lodging
house. Before the passing of Lord
Shaftesbury's act. in 1857. the COM
mon lodging houses were among the
vilest dens of the metropolis. They
were hot-beds of crime and pestilence.
They were the scenes of nightly
| orgies of the most horrible descrp-
| tion-foul Alsatias in which the vlest
scum of the city gathered together
and Matched new crimes and quarreled
and fought over the proceeds of old
| ones.
In those days there was no limit to
the number of guests who might be
received. and so these dens were
packed nightly by seething mob OF
men, women and children, and nc
consideration of health cleanliness OF
decency were allowed to stand III the
way of the proprieto r's profits These
houses became such plague spots, such
source of absolute danger to the
community, that L ord Shaflesbury OBJ
tanned the passing of an act which
compelled every common lodging
house to be registered, and to be
placed under police regulation and
police inspection.
The act has proved positive boon
to the working classes. The common
lodging house of to-day is clean and
fairly comfortable. Each house is IL
censed to receive a certain number
only; every man must have q bed to
himself and each bed must have so
much space given to it. The diff T.
ence in this respect may be judgs d
from the fact that in one common
lodging house with which l am nc.
quaInted room now licensed for
eleven beds formerly contain ed twen-
ty-eight. Moreover, the act compels
frequent scrubbings of the floors and
white-washing of walls, and the slight
est case of illness must be at once re-
ported to the nearest police station.
Seeing the class of customers the pro-
prietor has 10 accommodate, you may
imagine that the floors of the dormito-
ries get terrific amount of scrub
bling. with the result that they are far
cleaner and more wholesome than tho
carpeted rooms of many more preten-
tious establishments. where an over
worked housemaid ficks the furniture
with 3 buster, tickles the carpet with
a broom and sweeps the fluff under the
bed. George r. Sims, IN the Phitadel-
phia Times.
St. Landry democrat., 1888-05-19
NICE MATURED MEAT,
The Age at Which Cattle should be Sold to
tho Butcher.

II
tho Butcher.
The baby beef craze has subsidized as
completely in England rs in the United
States, if we take as evidence of it the
ages of the leading prize takers at the
annual Christmas cattle show at Smith
field, London. The ages of the prize
animals in the leading breeds were
Is years 6 months for the Devon,
years II months for the Hereford,
years 10 months for the Sussex, years
rs months for the Shorthorns, and 2
years IL months for the Polled Angus
the sweepstakes bullock The car
cass of the latter was shown at the
shop of il leading butcher in London,
and tttracteda great deal Of attention.
1t led 4; foreign visitor to criticise a
fashion or system Of feeding, the result
of which was, at the cost perhaps Of
ESQ. produced Is worth of tallow,
good only for soap and candles, and
perhaps f5 worth Of lean meat. 50
greasy and oily in texture that the best
cuts made only second or third rate
beef. The same critic was surprised to
find the lean of that prize carcass al
most wholly destitute of that fine
mixture of fat with lean, called .'mar-
bling" and almost always to be seen
in the lean of bullocks fed for the
butchers block with the common fat
teaing foods and allowed reasonable.
Of
pasture. And, by the way, the fact is
scarcely recognized by consumers that
big pork, where the feed has beer
almost exclusively corn, is poor stuff
comb Pred with the pork. both fat and
lean, OF two-year-old or maturer hogs.
Complaining to an intelligent butcher
that / could not get either saceh pork
or tendes pork to use fresh. and as tc
sailed or pkskIed porkkssere WIS none
to be had that 2uld not brink SO
much in the boilflNgstshat nd twenty
per cent of the original 1was left,
he said the custom Z feeding corn,
breeding early and killing young, was
not only running the constitutions Of
the hogs, but was imposing upon Gus
toners meat scarce fit to eat. tits out
ct the question, he continued, to get
good pork-lean that is sweet and
tender and fat that when cooked will
sat melt away to a scrap unless the
ssimal has arrived at mature age and
We growth of muscle and fat been
developed under. healthy conditions.
Aud, he concluded, beef that is beef
and worthy of the name. can not be
had from steer or spayed heifer less
than three years old. and better fouror
fiye.--B. r. johnson taa N. 7. Tribune.
St. Landry democrat., 1888-05-19

one thanks him he answers, ''What a
stupid word! You have received what
you wanted; you have eaten; well,
now CO." These sectaries are advo-
Gates of all that is natural; they never
shave or cut their hair, they drink ne
spirits and do not smoke, so as not to
spoil the natural beauty of the intel
lectual faculties. They dream of life
in which each should work for himself,
satisfying his wants with the produc-
tons of the earth, and making for HIM
self all necessary articles. What is
over ought to be given to those who are
in want. They entertain profound
hatred for all compulsory work, under
all forms. They never 60 into service,
even if threatened with death, and they
employ no servants. When Shishkin
was in prison they shaved him and
tried to compel him to work, but he
utterly refused, saying: "You have
taken me by force. l did not ask you
to shut me up. So now you ought to
feed me and to work for me- 1t was
of no use to fog him, to chain him to &;
wheelbarrow, to shut him up in dun
geon, to give him only bread and wa
ter-it had no effect. He remained i'm
movable. Contemporary ReuieW.
St. Landry democrat., 1888-05-19
TECUMSEH'S BONES,
How a Party of Spectators Found Some
Rare Indian Relics.

How Party of Spectators Found Some
Rare Indian Relics.
The search for Indian relics is sale
to be most in eresting ono. and The
finds sometimes valuable. But. as
rule. farming pays better. Besides,
one is not always sure that what ht
unearths is pure quill, as it may be
recent. and that i, not what the
savants are after. 1t is we'll remem.
bered how. some years ago, party o.
York pioneers and big Drained specu.
lators went up Branttord way il
search of the grave of Tecumseh, the
great Shawnee chief who lifted
Yankee hair and any thing else which
came handy in the war of 1912 OF
Whereabouts. He was an Indian will
q strong arm and heavy Ratchet, anc
be cut a big swath at every swing.
He fought on the side of England.
home and beauty, and he made the
wild west show of the day ust hum.
He is said to have been great man,
and poetry has cast its halo around
him. but probably he went around
in an old blanket and beat his
squaw just like other Indians. A,
any rate the pioneers were anxious tt
get hold Of his bones. or what re.
manned Of hem, and SO they set afoot
the search expedition referred to.
though it did not 60 afoot. but BY
train. A faithful ally Joined them up
the country. and for i. consideration
offered 10 pilot them TO the silent toni
of the red warrior. whose scalp-pole
had once bent under the weight of the
scalps he had toted home. After a
long walk on hot day, the alleged
grave was pointed out to them, and
they fell upon it with pick and shovel,
and were delighted to find portion
Of the bones, which they carried away
with them. There was some doubt as
to whether they had really found the
grave, but they had none. and tri-
displayed the bones as
evidence of their great luck. But the
bones were pronounced to be sheep
bones, and they were very indignant
at such an insinuation against their
Judgment. The papers got hold OF
their story, and they were again
greatly worried. They demanded the
names of the writer's of the offensive
articles, and threatened all sorts of
dreadful things. But they nev Ell
produced tie bones again. am,
Tecumseh is safe wherever he is. -
Toronto ihews,
St. Landry democrat., 1888-05-19
ADELE AUS DER OHE.
One of the Late Able LISTS Most Promis.
ing Pupils.

One of the Late Able LISTS Most Promis'
ing Pupils.
When three and a half years old
Adele Aus der Ohe first gave evidence
of her remarkable talent. An elder
sister was stunning Arditi's III
bacio'' one day in the nursery
where the children were at play.
When she had finished. the tiny
Adele, crying "Ich! Ich!' begged to
he placed on the stool, and to their
astonishment repeated the entire
waltz, giving the correct bass with
her left hand. Mamma! Papa"
cried the children in chorus, as they
threw open the door Come! Come
and hear Adelchen!' There was great
rejoicing that day in the family Ohe.
The parents themselves began at once
to instruct her in pano-playing. In
her fifth year she became acq TAINTED
with the talented musical couple Bron'
sart, who took her to Hans Won B ulow
for advice. Let me first look in hei
eyes, he said; and continued
Yes, there really is music there!'
He proposed that she be placed
under his instruction at Munich, where
he was then residing, but the fonG
parents could not consent 10 separa
ton from so young q child. Adele
was seven years old when Prof. Au:
der Ohc moved with his family to Ber
lin. Here she became pupil Of Franz
K ullak. and several months later o.
his father, the celebrated Dr. Theodore
Kullak, with whom she remained unit,
her thirteenth year. At eight she
made her first public appearance.
Two years later she gave concerts with
orchestra at Berlin and Hanover il
which she played B ecthoven's B fla
major concerto with the Moschelcs
"Cadenza-' Shortly after leaving
Kullak she came to List ut Wcimal
and, barring occasional Interruptions,
benefited by seven years of his in.
struction. Several long concert tours
the first when in her fourteenth y eal
were made during this period in
Germany. Previous to her American
debut she had never played outside
her native land. At her last public
appearance there she performed
Taubert's piano concerto in the
four hundredth jubilee soiree
of the royal orchestra. with that su.
perb body of musicians. at the Berlin
Royal Opera-house. In the salons OF
the German capital Adele Aus der Ohe
is as great social as musical favoritc.
She enjoyed the friendship and chap
eronage of the late lamented Princess
Alma of Caralath- Beuthin. noble
woman, distinguished for her charities
and as patroness of the fine arts.
She is very popular at the imperial
palace. where she has often played
and in state concerts. Adele |
Aus der Ohe is not merely gifted |
artistic. but young woman
of varied accomplishments. Besides
her mother tongue, she speaks and
writes French, Italian and English; is
u student in the arts and sciences;
writes poetry, and is a composer OF
an assumed name. She
has been rightly taught to believe in
the necessity of a broad and liberal
education for all who aspire above
in her chosen profession"
St. Landry democrat., 1888-05-19
PECULIAR NOTIONS.
Some of Those Relating to Bride-M aids
and Their Duties.

and Their Duties.
Instead If being SO many graceful
ornaments at the marriage ceremony,
as nowadays, the bridesmaids in olden
times had various duties assigned to
them. Thus, one of the principal tasks
was dressing the bride on her wedding
morning. when any omission in her
toilet was laid to their charge. At a
wedding, too, where it was arranged
that the bride should be followed by
numerous train of her lady friends, it
was the first bridesmaids duty to play
the part of drill mistress, ''sizing"
them so that "no pair in the procession
were followed by a taller couple" She
was also expected to see that each
bride-maid was not only provided with
a sprig OF rosemary, or a floral rose
pinned to the breastfolds of her dress,
but had a symbolical chaplet in her
hand. In many parts of Germany it
is still customary for the bridesmaids
to bring the myrtle wreath, which
they have subscribed together to
purchase on the nuptial eve, to the
house of the bride, and to remove
it from her head at the close of the
wedding-day. After this has been done,
the bride is blindfolded, and the myrtle
wreath being put into her hand, she
tries to placeit on the head of one of
her bridesmaids as they dance around
her; for, in accordance with an old
belief, whoever she crowns is sure to
be married within a year from that
date. As may be imagined, this cere-
mony is the source Of no small excite
ment, each bridesmaid being naturally
anxious to follow the example of the
bride. Referring once more to the
bridal wreath and chaplet, it is still
current notion in many parts of our
own country that the bride, in remov-
ing these. must take special care that
her bridesmaids throw away every pin.
Not only is it affirmed that misfortune
will overtake the bride who retains
even one pin used in her marriage
toilet. but woe also to the bridesmaids |
if they keep any of them, as their
prospects of marriage will be thereby
lessened. Interior.
St. Landry democrat., 1888-05-19
FULL OF FUN,

Il say, Jim, if a fellow took sui.
phuric acid what would you give
him?' "pd give him up" -HarUare,
L0mDoon.
A non-musical man describes q
duet as go-as-you-please race be.
tween two tunes. Merchant Traveller.
-Scriptural texts have appeared in
the panels of the L cars in New York,
amid advertisements of champagne.
corsets and patent medicines
-Naturalists say that some birds
are constitutionally melancholy. Be.
cause they can only take bird sigh
view of the word, prob ably. - sif,
tngs.
-'Loife is cons tant struggle
against fate said the Irishman who
couldn't find pair of shoes big
enough for him.
Papa, what is patrimony?' III
is what is inherited from father, my
dear." oh and then is matrimonv
something inherited from the moth
er?' Life.
If the moon was for sale on bar
gain counter half the women in the
world would want to buy it, and the
one who dld would spend the rest of
her lie wondering what on earth She d
do with it. philadelphia Coll.
Art d aler (descanting on the Writ
ues of the picturc) You will OBJ
serve, sir, that the drawing is free,
that Agriculturist- well, if the
DRAWN is free, an YOU don t tax me
too much fer the frame, b'gosh, I'll
take t."-Epoch.
"A woman who married a scalawao
discovered that he had another wife,
and promptly got rid of him. She
declared that ha'f a loaf might be bet
ter than no bread. but half loafer
was surely worse than nothing
Drake's Magazi'se.
-Robinson-'B Brown SAYS that Won
owe him So, Dumley." Dlmley lin.
dign antly)-'I do not owe Brown
cent l did owe him S15, but the debt
became outlawed last week. Any man
who will lie like he does ought not to
be trusted" lid Bits
She -'Ah, John! Before we were
married you were always wishing you
were one of the Knight of old, so you
might show your devotion; and
now He-"Great heavens. Maria,
did you ever hear of one of those old
cilivalry fellows jumping up from his
paper to chop wood?'
George comes down to breakfast
with a swollen visage, whereupon
mamma says to the four-year old:
George. don't you feel we'll? Tell
mamma what the matter is" George,
full of influenza, replies: mo. Idon't
feel well. Bofe of my eyes is leakin',
and one of my noses don't 60" -Har-
per's Bazar.
Worcestershire sauce, sah?"
asked the attentive prospective fee-ee,
in an insinuating tone. But Poodle
bright. who had been vainly enleavor-
ing for some time to separate mouth
full of steak from its gristly parent
stem. answered emphatically: mo;
two hand-saws. well sharpcned. y
d. troI Free Press.
St. Landry democrat., 1888-05-19
THE TRAIN BUTCHER.
He Details His Troubles to q Newspaper
Man from Harrisburg.

Man from Harrisburg.
Nv friend, the train boy-I always
make friends with the train boy when
travel-rested his basket on the edge
of the car seat and, pulling the visor
of his cap down over his eyes, said:
Il never saw such lot of chumps
on a train in my life afore."
What seems to be the matter?" !
asked.
Matter? matter enough" and he
scowled in an Edwin Boothian way
and continued: Back in the parlor
car fellow tried to pass a punched
quarter ON me. an got mad when I
wouldn't take it. Woman in the same
car wanted dozen bananas for fifteen
cents. Said she could buy 'em by the
thousand for that where she came
from. Dog gone her. why didn't she
buy 'em and bring EN- along with her:
An old man wanted a magazine for
twenty cents. and said 1 was q
robber when | couldn't give it to him.
In the first set-up car girl wanted me
~ SiFO hol ~ DoA VI liSSS Aol ~ hlShCA,
an pushed her pocket-book deep in the
folds of her dress when I refused, like
as if l was pickpocket. Then a
countryman thought was trying to
bunco him when asked ten cents for
three oranpes--Florida oranges, too.
But the worst was here in the
smoker. when fellow from Lancaster
County took my box of cigars. passed
'em around to three friends an took
one himself an handed me ten cents.
When told him they was five centers
he frothed at the mouth an said he
never paid more than two-for-five an
threatened to report me for swindling
him. Say! I'm disguised with the
biz. Pm going out of it, l am. Such
people give me pain in the neck.
don't want any more of this on my
plate. I'd rather break stone on the
turnpike -
And the train-boy heaved a sigh
and went through the car with his
cry: Sec avanna ergar,! F.ve-fer-
ten-cents! Prime see-gars, see-gars!'
TeieQraph
St. Landry democrat., 1888-05-19
A Prospective Housekeeper.

Clara's Intended Where is Clara
,llis evening? l don't see her about.
Tommv-Sister Clara is out in the
Kitchen.
She is an industrious, good girl.
She will make splendid house,
keeper
MAY be so; / dunno"
What are they doing in the
kitchen?n
They are making some candy with
walnuts in it
is Clara making it?'
She is helping little, that's all. !"
How SOP"
Mamma can't find the nut cracker.
so Clara has 10 crack the Walnuts with
her teeth. ?"
'.Ah. SOL --1eras STtnngs.