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St. Landry democrat., 1889-07-06
An Agate Forest.

There have been developed lately IN the
well-known house of Tiffany & Co., New
York city, some wonderful specimens OF
agate from Arizona. This agate is ''petri
fed wood" but like no other petrified
wood previously discovered. The coloring
is brilliant and beautiful glowing red,
the delicate blending and tinting of gravs,
blues and green's, with here and there
glistening quartz crystal, makes rare
combination.
These beautiful slabs, two or three feet
across, were sawed from great stone
logs. The perfect likeness of the tree is
there-the concentric ring, the radiating
lines, the rough gnarled bark-and even
every knot has it's fac smile in the stone.
Petrifactions in wood have been discov-
cred before, but they have been in the
neutral tints; the size and richness of
coloring are what render this recent dis
covery remarkable, for previous to this,
agates thirteen inches in diameter were
considered large.
The finding of this agate forest, as it
might properly be termed, is interesting.
When the Apache chief, Geronimo, led the
frontiersmen such lively chase in Ari-
IONA, he ran better than he knew. During
the pursuit of the lodians, the heart of the
Apache country WAS penetrated. 1t was
on one of these wild chases that cowboy,
named Adams, found himself in the re-
mote and before undiscovered petriied for
ests of Arizona.
AS soon ss he was able he reported his
wonderful find to the governor of Arizona.
His story was laughed at.
'All right" said the cowboy, elf my
story isn't true, I'll bear all the expenses
of the journey there and back"
The, story was true, and there, prone
in the epths of the lava desert, they saw
the rem rs of forest, changed into bril-
liant hued, translucent agate, held in form
by the petriied bark, every ridge and knot
perfectly translated.
For ages the water, impregnated with
silica, played over and among these forest
trees, wearing the wood away and, cell by
cell, atom by atom, replacing it by the
stone. It is assumed that powerful
geysers may have burst forth and with
their heated waters covered this forest, and
then, perhaps, after centuries, settled
away, leaving as monuments these agate
petrifcations. Stumps, trees, twigs, fallen
logs are all represented in the beautiful
stone.
The cutting and polishing of these great
agates is work of exceeding difficulty.
Thirty five days were consumed in saving
across one of the stone logs. No steel
instrument can make an impression, can
even scratch the polished specimens on ex-
hibition. Diamond dust and saws with
diamond teeth alone will cut them.
OF course much of the work must be
done on the spot. Hence camp has been
set up in the Arizona wilderness, in the
midst of desolation, and here are sawed
| out the blocks and slabs of agate, while
workmen, fearful of the treacherous Apa-
ches, look carefully to their Winchester
rifles, which are rarely left out of reach
| SeZecteG y
St. Landry democrat., 1889-07-06
PRAYER,

It was decided, through discourage
ment, in a certain village to close the
prayer-meeting but pious old woman
declared it should not be SO, for she
would be there if no one else was. Next
morning some one jestingly asked her ::
"Did you have your prayer meeting last
night?" "Ah, that we did" she replied
"How many were PRESENT." "Four," she
said. "Why, heard that you were there
alone" "Oh, no was the only one Wis
ible, but the Father was there, and the
Son was there, and the Holy Spirit was
there, and we all agreed in prayer. }"
Before long, from shame of themselves
and admiration of the old woman's perse-
verence, the meeting was revived. and
brought prosperity to the church.-Pres-
byter5dn Banner.
St. Landry democrat., 1889-07-06
Preaching and Practicing.

That was plain and noble testimony that
the young man is reported to have given
to the examining commit ee Of our church.
"Under whose preaching were you con-
verted 2" they asked. "Under nobody g
preaching" was the reply; 81 was con-
verted under my mothers prac ticing."
Gracious tribute was that to parental ex-
ample And perhaps there was little
talking in it all, little urging to duty and
exhorting to obedience. The temperature
of the mothers life was SO sweet and salu-
brious that it woke and matured the seed
of grace that had been dropped into the
heart, and it sprang up Spontaneously
DR.. a. j. Gordo7a.
St. Landry democrat., 1889-07-06
Peanuts.

We have often thought that peanuts are
not grown to that extent that they should
be In the South. They are really South
ern plant, but doubtless can be grown with
some profit as far north as forty degrees.
Sixty bushels to the acre may be consid-
cred good crop, the vines may also be
used for hay. They may be planted in
rows about three and half feet wide and
the seed dropped in hills about two feet
apart. The better way, however, we think,
and the way that gives the greatest profit
is to drop them in the corn rows. one hill
between each hill of corn. In doing this
they will be cultivated with the corn and
no time really devoted to them, except the
planting Of the seed. We have known
many farmers to plant this way and only
gather sufficient quantity of them for
seed and home use, leaving the balance to
remain in the ground to be fed by the
hogs There is nothing SO good for fat
tening pigs as the peanut, and raised in
the way above stated, there is nothing SO
cheap for fattening purposes. Try it
farmers and be convinced. The american.
St. Landry democrat., 1889-07-06

known. The bodies of those taken from
the battlefelds in the vicinity along the
Cumberland, and not few from the
skirmish grounds in southern Kentucky.
The Memphis cemetery has about IA 900.
the Mississippi from Kentucky down. 1t
burg and in that vicinity. Over $4,000
little below that historic city. This is one
of the most beautiful of all the national
cemeteries. Probably the most beautiful
of them all, however, is that at Arlington
where 10000 and odd Union soldiers are
buried. Over $4,000 dead lie in the four
national cemeteries of North Carolina, 10,
600 or more In South Carolina, about 49,
600 in Georgia, about an equal number in
Mississippi, over 10000 in Louisiana, co.
900 in round numbers in Tennessee, 10, 900
in Kentucky, $4,000 in Missouri and about
$4,000 in Virginia. One of the most in
teresting of them all is the one at Ander-
sonville, Ga. Union soldiers there were
permitted to bury their own men and to
indicate the resting place. This was done
by marking the grave with the same num-
Der that he was known by on the record
DOCKS OF the prison. Ihls enabled the
government to find the name and regiment
of nearly all those who are buried there, SO
that of the 10, 400 odd graves, there are
but about 400 those of unidentified men.
There are probably larger number of I'M
known bodies at the Vicksburg cemetery
than any other. Of the 16,479 Union
soldiers there, about twelve thousand are
unknown. A large number of these are
colored men, who were active in the Vicks
burg campaign, and whose bodies were
gathered together after the war was over
and placed in this cemetery"
care all these cemeteries kept in order
at the governments expense ?"
Eyes, a superintendent is appointed and
annual allowances made for the keeping in
repair and proper condition of these rest
ing places of the dead heroes of the war. 3"
St. Landry democrat., 1889-07-06
A Woman's Loyalty.
AN INCIDENT THAT INCREASES ONES RE
sPECT FOR HUMAN NATURE.

AN INCIDENT THAT INCREASES ONES RE
sPECT FOR HUMAN NATURE.
I well remember visit to the New
Hampshire State prison at Concord which
l made few years ago in company with
several friends. One little incident of that
visit made vivid impression on my mind.
In the horse cars with us, on our way to
the prison. sat quiet, sad-faced little
woman. She was neatly and plainly
dressed, and had certain air of refine
ment about her which showed her to be a
lady. She came into the prison guard
room with us and was at once shown to
the warden's private Office. moment
later, as I stood looking out through
heavy. barred windows. across the stone
paved prison yard at the plain, gloomy
looking stone buildings containing the
work shops, the door of one of them
opened and an officer holding in his hand
heavy revolver stood out upon the gran
ite steps. A moment later tall, finely
formed man, clad in the back and red suit
of the prison, passed out in front of him.
AS he came slowly across the prison yard
I saw that his face was handsome and
an intelligent one. There was something
in his appearance and bearing which, de-
spite his prison garb, proclaimed the train;
ing and the instincts of a gentleman.
watched him as he came up the steps te
the guard room, and q moment late1
through the partly open door of the war
denis office l saw him clasp to his heart
the little woman who had been our fellow
passenger and who threw herself into hi
arms with a passionate love. Then the
door was closed to shut out from curious
eyes all further sight of that interview
Later I learned that the man was a forger
ssHe came from good family, I believe,
said the guard, in answer to my inquiries
s'That little woman is his wife. She ha'
been true as steel to him through it all
He's one of the best behaved men in thu
prison and will get considerable time of
his sentence on that account. He has tw'
years more" Somehow l couldn't hell
feeling that when that man came out o
prison he would 60 to that little woman
and, with her help, lead an honest life
Any community which would deliberatel.
add one pang to those already endured b.
that woman would be worse that heather
-Auqust0 Journal.
St. Landry democrat., 1889-07-06
: sUSPICION-sCANDAL.

They say"-Ah! well, suppose they do ;
But can they prove the story true2
Suspicion may arise from naught
But malice. envy, want Of thought;
Why count yourselves among the they"
Who whisper what they dare not say?
They say"-But why the tale rehearse,
And help to make the matter worse?
No good can possibly accrue
From telling what may be untrue;
And is 1t not a nobler plan
To speak of all the best you can?
"They say"-Well, if it should be 80,
Why need you tell the tale of woes
Will 1t the bitter wrong redress,
Or make one pang of sorrow less?
Will 1t the erring ones restore,
Henceforth to 60 and sin no more?
''They say''-Oh, pause and look within,
See how your heart inclines to sin;
Watch lest in dark temptations hour
You, too, should sink beneath its power;
Pity the frail-weep DER their fall,
But speak Of good, or not at all.
St. Landry democrat., 1889-07-06
No Secret Christians.

The sanity McCheyne said: ''There
cannot be secret Christian. Grace is
like ointment hid in the hand it betray-
eth itself. If you truly feel the sweetness
of the cross of Christ, you will be con-
strained to confess him before men,"
A man can no more be secret Chris
tian than tree or vine can keep the life
in it secret by refusing to put forth buds
and leaves, blossoms and fruit. If we
see tree OF vine without this confession
of the life there is in it, especially in the
summertime, we say that tree or that
vine is dead. So when men say they are
Christians but will not confess him by
mouth and by deeds distinctly Christian,
We say ..they are dead" and we say truly.
- Words aud Weapons.
St. Landry democrat., 1889-07-06
Starving the Teeth.
THE PROPER FOOD FOR BUILDING BONES
AND TEETH

THE PROPER FOOD FOR BUILDING BONES
AND TEETH.
Teeth are Just as easily starved to death
as the stomach. In one way it is bless
ing to have been born of poor parents.
What food the poor give their children is
of the variety that goes to make strong
bones and teeth. 1t is the outside of all
the grains, of all cereal foods that con-
tains the carbonate and phosphate of lime
and traces of earthly salts which nourish
the bony tissues and build the frame up.
If we do not furnish to the teeth of the
young that pabulum they require they can
not possibly be built up It is the outside
Of corn, oats, wheat, barley, and the like,
or the bran so-called, that we sift away
and feed to the swine, that the teeth actu-
ally require for their proper nourishment.
! The wisdom of man has proven his folly,
shown in each succeeding generation OF
teeth, which become more fragile and
weak. These fiourinf, mills are working
destruction upon the teeth of every man,
woman and child who1partake of their fine
bolted -four. They sitt out the carbonares
and the phosphates of lime in order that
they may provide that fine white flour
which is proving whitened sepulchre to
i
teeth.
Oatmeal is one of the best foods for sup
plying the teeth with nourishment. i
makes the dentine cementum and enamel
strong, fint-like and able to resist all
forms of decay. If you have children
never allow any white bread upon your
table. Bread made of whole wheat ground,
not bolted, so that the bran which contains
the minnie quantities of lime la present. il
best. To make q good, wholesome, nour-
ishing bread, take two bowls Of wheat
meal and one bowl of white or bolted foul
and make by the usual process. Nothing
is superior to brown bread for bone and
tooth building. This is made out of rye
meal and corn meal. Baked beans, too
have considerable supply Of these lime
salts and should be on your table, hot Of
cold, three times week. In brushing
the teeth always brush up and from the
gums instead of across. Brush away from
the gum and ON the grinding surface Of
the teeth. -American Anasyst.
St. Landry democrat., 1889-07-06
"Didn't Start Soon Enough. !"

We commend the following, from The
Safeguard, and suggest it as reason why
good citizens are often defeated in their
attempt to put good men in Office, instead
of the choice of the rabble in municipal
election
"You didn't run fast enough" said a
bystander to be1ated Irishmsn, who had
been left behind by railway train, which
glided away as he came putting to the
station.
eyes," he said, 81 did run fast enough,
but did not start soon enough"
Thae are many persons who, by siml-
lar delay, fail to accomplish that which
they desire. Some great undertaking is
before them. They are sensible of its
importance. They talk, discuss, argue,
plan and finally begin to work, and at last
put in most herculean efforts, only to
find in the end that their time is lost and
their labor wasted, and that they have
missed the end they sought because they
did not start soon enough.
Too many people suppose that great
reforms are to be carried by votes, major
tiles and spasmodic efforts on election
days by persuading men to do upon
impulse things which they had not intend
ed to do, and would not do if left to them
selves. Ali such successes are transient,
and of doubtful utility. What is needed
is, not the hasty impulse of the moment,
the yielding to urgent persuasion, but the
calm second thought and final thought of
men who know what they do, and why
they do it; and who can neither be
bought, frightened, coaxed or cajoled.
If the spasmodic efforts which people
put forth in what they esteem the great
crisis of some political struggle, had been
put forth through months of patient, dill
gent, persevering endeavor, to enlighten
mems minds, and instruct them in right
ways, the results would often be far more
hopeful. The great conflicts between
truth and righteousness are not to be set
tied by the beating of tom-toms and
gongs, the firing Of stink-pots, and other
Chinese methods of warfare, but by going
to the bottom of great and important
questions, and instructing and convincing
men who are honest and candid and
rebuking, exposing and denouncing the
mercenery and self-seeking. In other
words, the thing to be done is to tell the
truth, and when it is told there is some
chance for it to cut its way and produce
its effect in reforming and improving
| both men and manners.
St. Landry democrat., 1889-07-06
The Tongue No Man Can Tame.

Beasts. birds, insects, creeping things
and fishes of the sea, all yield to control,
kindness, restraint and instruction; but
1.-The tongue can no man tame. 1t is an
unruly evil. full of deadly poison" No
serpent's fang distills more deadly venom
than the tongue. Many heart has been
broken and many life has been blasted by
the tongue. No considerations Of wisdom,
prudence, truth or righteousness, avail to
control tongue which setteth on fire the
course of nature, and it is set on fire of
hell. s'Sharp arrows of the mighty with
the Goals of juniper" are not more deadly
or more dangerous, than the deceptive
tongue. The poison may be subtle, it may
be palatable, but it is fatal The words
may be softer than oil, yet they are drawn
swords; smoother than butter, but war is
in the heart.
The Only way to tame the tongue is to
convert the soul. ''Out of the abundance
of the heart the mouth spsaketh." A
heart makes clean tongue; and when
wrath, malice, anger and venom have gone
out of the heart, then the tongue can be
brought into subjection. But still the
prayer should constantly go up, "Set a
watch O God, before the door of our lips, ;"
and while we pray God to set watch be-
fore the door of our lips, let us also say
with the Psalmist, II will keep my mouth
as with bride, while the wicked is be-
fore me-" Whose keepeth his mouth,
keepeth his soul from trouble "Ifa man
will love life and see good days. let him
refrain his tongue from evil, and his lips
that they speak no guile
The word which is spoken can never be
recalled. True or false, kindly or bitter,
honest or deceptive, divine or devilish, it
has gone like an arrow to its mark, and
the day of God shall declare it's results ;
"for every idle word That men shall
speak they shall give an account thereof
in the day of judgment"
20 God, my inmost soul convert
And deeply ON my thoughtful heart
Eternal things impress.
Give me to feel their solemn weight,
And tremble on the brink of fate,
And wake to righteousness.
St. Landry democrat., 1889-07-06
HAUNTED.

A thousand voices are calling to me
ASH wander alone in the summer nlght'
cannot interpret the words hear
But they fill my soul with strange oeiish''
Voices that speak to no ear but my own
Coming to me from their homes in the ar
Thoughts that have never been spoken hno
words,
Haunting me ever with pleadings and prayer
-Floreace 4. Jones, Hampton, lo'o".
St. Landry democrat., 1889-07-06
"Who'd Bin Ter ?"

A lady living in Ohio is the mother Of
six boys. One day friend calling on her
said: 'sWhat pity that one of your
s,oys had not been girl" One OF the
boys about eight years of age overheard
this remark, and promptly interposed:
tsI'd like to know who'd bin 'er? l
wouldn't bin 'er, Ed wouldn't q bin 'er,
Joe wouldn't bin 'er, and I'd like to know
who'd bin 'er 9"-Seg.
St. Landry democrat., 1889-07-06

"Good companionship is an important
element in our happiness. Who has bet
ter company than the man who walks with
dod2 He can never be lonely he will
always have a sympathizing friend and q
present helper. The divine presence will
make even an affection blessing"
St. Landry democrat., 1889-07-06
Why He Felt Bad.

A gentleman in New England was
called on to address Sabbath School, and
during his remarks he seemed much
moved, but no one else appeared to expe-
rience the slightest emotion. The speaker
continued to wipe away the tears which
chased each other down his manly cheeks,
when boy in one class said to his neigh
Dor, s'say, Charley, do you know what he
is crying about 2" well" said Charley,
eff you had to make speech, and hadn't
anything more to say than he has, you'd
feel bad, too"
St. Landry democrat., 1889-07-06

Blessed are ye, when men shall revile
you, and persecute you, and shall say all
manner Of evil against you, falsely, for my
sake" Matt. v. III. The crowning word
in the above is the word "falsely." If
evil is said of US truthfully, we must bear
it without the hope of reward. But if said
of us ''falsely," it can not permanently
injure US and for such endurance we are
promised that great shall be our reward
| In heaven"
St. Landry democrat., 1889-07-06

Life is turbulent sea. Changing cir
cumstances come rolling after each other
like the pillows, ever climbing up the
climbing wave. In heaven there is no
more sea, but perpetual stability of joy
unbroken rest.-Alesa7ader McClaren.
St. Landry democrat., 1889-07-06

II we would bring holy life to Christ,
we must mind our ireside duties as well
as the duties Of the sanctuary. -9pargeon.
The Jasper weekly courier. [volume] (Jasper, Ind.) 1858-1922, 1889-04-26

Experiments are etill being made un-
der the direction OF the Russian Govern.
meut, with the view Of finding . pro-
cess, at once practical as we'll as desirable
on the score OF economy and cleanliness,
OF solidifying the petroleum used ss
fuel. According to the report made BY
DR.. KaufImsnn, who has had the prin.
cipal charge Of these experiments, .
successful method Of accomplishing the
desired result consists simply in heating
the oil, and afterward adding from one
to three per cent. Of soap. The latter
IN the oil, and the liquid on
cooling forms maes having the appear
snce OF cement and the hardness Of
compact tallow. The product is hard
10 light, burns slowly and without
smoke, but develops much heat and
leaves about two per cent. Of . hard,
black residum.-N. Y. Sun.
The Jasper weekly courier. [volume] (Jasper, Ind.) 1858-1922, 1889-04-26
ANOTHER EXTRAORDINARY
CASE.
Delirium Tremens Forms q Good
Base for PensiOnable Dis
ability.

Washington Special.
The most extraordinary pension de-
|cision vet is reported tonight. 1t was
rendered by Corporal Tanner late this
afternoon late to get on record, and
|in consequence names and dates cannot
be given until tomorrow.
The substance Of the decision, how.
ever. IL this: About year ago widow
applied to Commissioner Black for .
pension. Her husband was . soldier,
and had died some time previouely.
Commissioner Black caused an investI.
CATION TO be made, and found that the
soldier died from delirium tremens. He
had been chronic drunkard for num-
Der OF years. He was not wounded ;n
the army, nor had he received any In
Jury while in the service. Commissioner
Black refused TO grant the pension.
When Tanner was placed 81 the head OF
The Pension Bureau the widow, through
pne Of the pension sharks residing here,
the application.
To-day Tanner reversed Commissioners
Black's decision and granted the pen.
sion. In bis decision lie made the ex-
statement that tho soldier
might have contracted the habit which
led 10 the fit OF delirium from which he
died while serving his country In the
army. This sounds Ike romance or .
Joke, but II is fact.
The Jasper weekly courier. [volume] (Jasper, Ind.) 1858-1922, 1889-04-26

The eupreme court on Saturday de-.
cided that the act creating . supreme
court commission 10 unconstitu tional.
The decision was written by Judge El-
lott, and - It was concurred in by the
full bench, will be accepted by the pub
lie as correct Interpretation Of the law.
The court refuses to consider the COM
missioners sought to be created by the oct
in question In any other light than a.
Judges. and therefore holds that they
could neither be chosen BY the Legislature
nor appointed by the supreme court itself.
The Jasper weekly courier. [volume] (Jasper, Ind.) 1858-1922, 1889-04-26

The longest continuous runs ever
made by . locomotive drawing full
train Of cars have just been accomplish
ed by the engine A. G. Darwin, built BY
the Strong Locomotive Works. The
runs were made on the Erie railroad
from Jersey City 70 Buffalo and return,
a distance Of 423 miles each way. with .
rest OF less than twelve hours between
the runs. The entire distance Of 6l6
miles was made without the slighest
mishap.
The Jasper weekly courier. [volume] (Jasper, Ind.) 1858-1922, 1889-04-26

Col. Schroeder, who was imported
from Evansville some years ago TO play
Republican postmaster 1t Huntingburg,
Dubois county, mas been appointed by
the President to succeed the Democratic
at that place. Col. Schroeder
IL the editor Of the Argue. and his ap-
pointment will be hailed with delight By
Brother Sefrit, OF our own Gazette, but
the news will be as gall and worm wood
to our own Judge Gardiner. Washing.
ton Advertiser.