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St. Landry democrat. (Opelousas, La.) 1878-1894, 1890-04-12
The Samoyedes.

The Samoyedes pronounced Same yeds)
inhabit the northeast of Russia, and are
now probably the nearest approach to
hesthens in Europe. They are about
twelve thousand 10 number and lead a
wandering life. They have no houses or
churches, but live in tents, wandering over
an extent of country which stretches to
the Ice sea on the North and into Siberia
on the East, where they touch the terri
tory inhabited by similar tribes called
Ostiaks, Yakutes, etc.
They are kind aud faithful people and
honest except under great temptation, and
Will not beg except for vodka or brandy,
OF which they are passonately fond. Even
the mere children drink ardent spirits as
eagerly as the Oldest men They subsist
by hunting and fishing, and move from
place to place in sledges drawn by rein
deer and accompanied by their dogs
Many Of the richer members of the COM
MUMMY possess large numbers of reindee +,
some, indeed, as many as five thousand
but such cases are rare. In the summer
time these people wander far away, but in
the winter many of them go to ArchangeI
to sell their furs and other goods.
Travellers have formed different opinions
OF the Samoyedes, but all agree that they
sfe superior In generosity and general
character TO the rude Russian Doors The
women are kept as the poorest slaves.
girl is valuable thing while she is yet in
her parents home A father has the same
aim in feeding his daughters as in feeding
his horses. Well FED, they will not long
remain in the house without the fathers
good payment for them. The price of an
ordinary wife is two or three hundred
roubies, horse, a COW and an OK, several
pieces of clothing, and then some meal
measure of brandy, and few hops for the
wedding feast; and if a man cannot pay
all-tbis, he sometimes steals the girl from
her parents. Illustrated Christian Weekly
St. Landry democrat. (Opelousas, La.) 1878-1894, 1890-04-12
Too Hssty.

New fruits, like the Keiffer or LeConte
pears, or Chinese persimmons, or Kelsey
plums, are condemned, often ridiculed, by
one writer, while another praises them eS-
travagantly. The ono who praises the
fruit, if he is not raising his fruit to sell
and is not in the nursery business, is more
apt to be right than the crusty critic, for
this reason: When one has produced
fine pear he shows the possibilities of the
fruit grown in good soil properly fertilized
and cultivated. The crusty critic may
start with just as good pear tree, plant
it in bad soil, neglect it, let the cattle
browse it and scratch their heads against
it, and this, with bad season, may bring
scrubby, worthless pear. The fruit tres,
not the man or bad management, is usu-
ally blamed for bad fruit. This is prob
ably the key to the diversity of opinions
about the qualities and merits of the Keif-
fer pears and other fruits d. bennett, IN
N. O. Picayune.
St. Landry democrat. (Opelousas, La.) 1878-1894, 1890-04-12
The Duality of Thought,

Mr. Ed5or-1 see in your issue of the
18th ult. an article headed 1.-The Dual Ma
ture of Thought" the object of which is
to show that the mind can take in @everal
distinct subjects st the same time.
Now, | do hot claim to be q metaphysi-
clan; but having had the faculty called
mind over three score years, | think |
know little of IT'S workings; aud | never
have been able myself to think of two di:-
tilct objects at the same moment yet
90 not deny though that many active
minds hsve kept several secretaries going
ut orce; or, whas is still more difficult, to
play two tunes at once. But this does not
prove the duality of thought, unless it
first be shown that the II ght of thought s
too tardy to accomplish such feat. And
so far as can recollect | have never seen
a process OF this nature but that may be
accounted for Oh tn principle of the
mlnd'S incOnceivable raDidity of move
ment.
Let any one try it for himself, and if he
analyze it carefully he will find there is
succession i'll his ideas. Say he thinks of
wood; now be may so instantaneously
think of fire that he may suppose at first
the thoughts are Simultaneous, bu5 upon
sharp analysis think he will discover
that the thought Of fire came after the
thought of wood, and one thought pro
duced or suggested the other
Thought, as the mind that brings it. is
unit. But it's electric speed is such that
none can favhom it. Caesar and Napoleon
in debating to their scribes, could speak
to but one at a time, and before they
could turn from one scribe to another,
thought was there before them.
Even in dreams when thought is 50
free and rapid it is in succession; at least,
this is my experience. And until the
flight OF thought is measured the unity
of thought can never be disprored
GEO r. VI IER9
St. Landry democrat. (Opelousas, La.) 1878-1894, 1890-04-12
TIC keiHer Pear

Although it is rapidly coming to the
front as the most valuable product of the
orchard, still it has its detractors Why
is that? Is it because the fruit is often
gathered before maturity? or is it be-
cause it is not kept long enough in a
dark drawer after it is ga1hered2 or is it
because the people who find fault with it
have never seen keiffer, but are expend-
ing their wrath on some "cheap pear"
seeding put upon them by the enterpris-
ing tree peddler? Only on some such
superstition can | &C cunt for the hard
language applied TO a fruit that fills al the
requirements OF the market orchard more
fully than any other know of. In pro-
ductiveness it is second only to the LIE
Conte; in flavor it is the equal of the Bari
lett; IN beauty it exceeds both; while the
tree comes in bearing sooner than either Of
the other two, and at a season when it has
monopoly Of the market. My opinion of
the heitfer IS based on personal knowl-
edge, and it is Identical with that of all
my neighbors who have tasted the fruit.
Some three or four of US have market Or
chards, and we gathered our first Keiffer
pears last season. Enthusiasm for the
keiffer is too mild a term to express the
feeling here. | will add that kept one
heiffer pear till Dc. 1. 1t was sound as
silver dollar-1 was going to say to the
core, but it literally had no core Leaving
out the rind and the seed, it was all flood
for the gods. ID. r. Eggleston in ". o.
PicQD2gEe
St. Landry democrat. (Opelousas, La.) 1878-1894, 1890-04-12
Tricks of Convicts.

Henry Southgate was one of the men
engaged in robblng the Indiana National
bank some years ago in what was known
as the ''orauge box robbery" the box be-
ing used to stand upon while the thief
reached over the glass frame work upon
the counter and lifted out several thous-
and dollars in bank notes-it was, think.
$4,000 or SIS 900,
Southgate's friends pressed an applica
ton for pardon on the ground that he
was dying of consumption Governor
Hendricks believed his story and pardoned
him. SIN Il very short time after his re-
lease Southgate was as lively and healthy
an evilduer as there was in the State, ,
said a prison official. Gle had simply
been playing the soap trick"
EN hats that 7"
eating soap. The effect was to bleach
his skin by producing dearJh Of blood
or rather by changing the corpuscles-
increasing the white and diminishing the
red. There are no serious consequences
following the use of soap, and when dis
continued the man rapidly gets well.
"Govenor Hendricks, naturally enough,
was much chagrined over this deception
and made an entry in this Office to the
effect that it was never safe to pardon a
man merely because he looked sick. Men
in prison will do osher things to excite
sympathy and make it appear that they
are dyi' of consumption
Now and then fellow will strike him
self in the thu oat, or even cut himself
within the throat or under the tongue.
Then he will spit blood in the presence OF
the physician, walk feebiv, talk i'll wins
per. Sometimes they eat d,rt. which
stops digestion, and this is followed by
falling off in flesh.
"a short time ago request was made
for the pardon OF a notorious criminal in
the Southern prison on the ground that
he was dying. He was upon that showing
placed in the hospital, from which he
escaped, but was captured four days
later. -Iad5Gnapol5s Journal.
St. Landry democrat. (Opelousas, La.) 1878-1894, 1890-04-12
A Mistake in the Animal.

A gentleman accompanied by favorite
dog visited the studio of New York artist
one day. There was picture on the
easel, and the dog began barking furi-
ously at it.
Mature may be relied upon, after all, >"
said the visitor. "The best evidence of
the faithfulness with which you have
painted that dog in the background is the
earnestness with which my dog barks
at it."
"But that isn't a dog" said the artist,
growing red in the face.
"Not dog? What is it, then?"
Its a cow"
The gentleman was nonnlussed for a
moment, but quickly replied. "Well, the
dogs eyes are better than mine; he never
did like cows"
St. Landry democrat. (Opelousas, La.) 1878-1894, 1890-04-12
How Chickens Are Patterned.

This is the way chicken or duck is
fattened: Thrust into cylinder, il is
kept in darkness for three weeks thrice
per diem patent food, composed largely
of cornmeal, is forced by small pump
into it's crop; it enjoys no alternative; it
must sleep and fatten. Paralyz by in
ertia, its flesh becomes white and tender,
and in three weeks it is as fat as ball OF
butter. The cost of fattening a chicken
does not exceed eight cents; chicken SO
fattened brings ten cents more pound in
the market than any other chickens. -
Chicago Neaos.
St. Landry democrat. (Opelousas, La.) 1878-1894, 1890-04-12
A Gentle Reminder,

Hsres what North Carolina paper calls
ga gentle reminder"
An editor back there says, with slight
variation
'Lives of poor men oft remind US,
HONEST toll don't stand q chance while we
work appear behind US, bigger patches on
our pants And these pants, once whole
aud holeless, are now patched in scores of
hues not because mankind are soulless,
but that they forget their dues. Then let
all be up and doing, send your mite,
though it be small, else, when summer
news pursuing, we will have no pants at
ali
St. Landry democrat. (Opelousas, La.) 1878-1894, 1890-04-12
Orchard Grass.

DR.. D. L. Phares, of Mississippi, in his
book of grasses, says:
OF all grasses, this is the one most
widely diffased, growing in Africa, Asia
ana every country of Europe, aud in all Of
our States.
cit is more highly esteemed and COM
mended than any other grass, by large
number OF farmers in most countries, q
decided proof of its great value and won
oerful adaptation to many soils, climates
and treatments. Yet strange to saw that
though growing in England for many cen
'ufles, 1t was not appreciated in that
country until carried there from Virginia
in 1854.
1T will grow on any soil containing
sufficient clay sid not holding too much
water. II the land be too tenacious, drain
age will remedy the soil if worn out 8
top dressing of stable manure will give it
send off, aud it will furnish several
mowings the first year. 1t grows well on
SOILS adapted to it between 80 and AS lat
itlue. 1t may be moved from two to four
times year, according to latitude, season
and treatment, yielding from one to three
TONS OF excellent hay per acre on poor to
medium land. It grows well in open
lands. and in forests of large trees, the
underbrush being all cleared off
The seeds are chatfy and weigh but
fourteen pounds to the bushel Sow six
pecks of orchard grass seed and peck of
clover seed to the acre. After being cut
it has been found to grow four inches in
less than three days Cut at q proper age
it makes better hay than timothy"
From C0IemGn's KurM World: Cor
chard grass. makes good winter pasturage,
equally as good as blue grass, and far bet
ter pasturage in season Of drought than
blue grass, as it is deeper and larger and
rooted plant and resists drought better.
When once established it can be fed as
closely as any other grass, and is no harder
OF land than any other. Land pastured
in orchard grass will continue to improve
in fertility"
St. Landry democrat. (Opelousas, La.) 1878-1894, 1890-04-12

A New York paper says Chicago will
not get the Worlds Fair. The sun rises
in the East, not in the West Very true,
but no sooner does old Sol rise in the East
than he lights out for the West. He
knows better than to trust himself over
night in the Knickerbocker State.-Ar-
kansaso zT0oezer.
St. Landry democrat. (Opelousas, La.) 1878-1894, 1890-04-12
An Anecdote Of King George.

One day, o hundred years ago, benevo.
lent looking man, clad like farmer,
neandered into q factory. The men were
taking their noon. my lads" asked the
stranger. what are you doingT Were
doing nothing now" answered the men,
shut presently we shall be eating our
dinner of bacon and beans" GOOD !" ex-
claimed the stranger. "And If you have
no objections / will eat bacon and beans
with you.'
The farmer-like stranger was his
majesty George III, and ever since that
day, in commoration OF that event, the
second Saturday in July is celebrated at
the arsenal. There is given what is called
the sbean feast," and folk gather from sll
over the kingdom to participate therein. -
Chicago Nesos.
St. Landry democrat. (Opelousas, La.) 1878-1894, 1890-04-12
Common Salt for Neuralgia.

It is not generally known that common
salt is an admirable remedy for neuralgia.
DR.. George Leslie gives details of thirty
or forty ca es of facial and other neural
gias, odontaIgia, etc., which have been
cured, in most instances instantaneously,
by the Installation of common salt. The
salt was either ''snufed" or blown up the
nostriIs He said he had been unsuccess-
full in only two cases both of these were
cases of old standing, which had been
treated frequently by morphine injections
--NeW YORK Commercial Advertiser.
St. Landry democrat. (Opelousas, La.) 1878-1894, 1890-04-12

A man In West Virginia city goes
about with nd-cart, distributing daily
He must be the wheeling
InteIligencer. "-L0aoeN Courier.
The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1890-01-19
BIG BLAZE IN MlSSOULA
4 Fire Which For q Time Threatened to
do Great Damage.
what Resulted From an Attesnps tn Start
u Fire with kerO~ene-The I.Oss
Ahout Fifteen Thousand
DGllMrs-NOtes

Special To the standard.
MIssoULA, Jan. 1S.-Firc broke out this
morning i'm one of the frame structures at
the corner of Higgins avenue and Front
street. The flames spread rapidly and
before the iircmen arrived on the scene
the four adjoining frame building were
ON fire. The heat from the flames was so
intense that the cornice work oil In
Florence hotel and the glass i'm the win
dows was broke and fell tn the ground,
importing the lives of spectators and
pedestrians. The fircmcn, realizing that
all efforts tn save the burning buildings
were i'm vain. poured water on
the adjoining brick building. For
t~unately for Missoula the wind was calm
and "a brick structure known as the Head
quarter saloon stood as n barrier between
the fire and u long range Of frame build
in0s on the west, or hundreds of people
would he homeless tonight.
The fire originated i'm a Illness restau-
rant. and was caused 10y pouring coal oil
on the stove. Flames communicated tn the
adjacent building by means OF n defective
Hue i'm the wall. The damage to the Flor
ence hotel is about $1,000, To the Head
quarters saloon $40, and to other prop
crty about S14,OOO, all of which is fully i'm
sured.
Colonel Sharpe. an old Montana pio-
neer, after "a brief illness, died at d o'clock
this evening.
The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1890-01-19
HE. SHOULD BE OUSTED
Some Deciaive Action In the Mat
ter-The "ssandard'.' Coarse
Upheld by the People.
By the Standards Special Wire.

by the Standards Special Wire.
BUTTE, Jan. ia member OF the city
council of Butte said to-day: ~ am sure
that Judge Newkirk will give satisfaction
I'm the future, and I think the citizens
should give him every opportunity. The
Judge is u good man, and l believe il thor
uRhly competent To conduct matters sat
isfactorily. l am SURF there will he no
ground for further complaints regarding
him. IL might AS well be known that he
confessed his faults freely tai the COM
mittee, and the committee had such CON-
fidence i'm him that they decided to give
him another trial. I know thai the Judge
IL sincere i'm his determination To do what
is right i'm all things. and / think he should
have n fair trial. Let the past he buried
and judged by what Judge Newkirk does
in the future. But while this investiga-
lion IL on, il should progress further than
. Il IL not likely that the investigation as
to the city officers will stop with Judge
Newkirk. Members of the investigation
committee said to "a rep Drter to-
night: "Our investigation revealed n
state of affairs tcn-fold worse than has
been pictured by your paper: We as,
knowledge that this investigation would
never have been started but for the
STANDARD and fact that the STANDARD
ia, Gns not rsysa'e ;h,; a e Quarter Fl ha s1e
my way about it, the investigation will
not stop here. but will proceed until the
Judge Newkirk referred tn the STANDARD
as being the cause of his troubles, but we
promptly told him that he himself alone
was to- blame and that the had
dealt too .lenicntly with him, that il de-
served his thanks. The Judge has agreed
that the next drink he takes will he ac-
~conpanied by his resignation as police
magistrate and we are willing to give him
IA fair trial.
"There is to he no council meeting for
three weeks, but il is possible that "a
special meeting will he held in order tn
investigate matters thoroughly. Why,
there are peopl that told us things that
are well nigh incredible, as we progressed
with this Investigation. They told us there
are policemen who dare not arrest GER
tain people here. and who had been
deputized to make the arrests. As one of
the alderman remarked at the meeting,
there are two or three heads that need
topping of besides some that. are not
heads. There are policemen who are as
The majority OF them are
good men, hut IL what we are told il
to be believed there is a field
for investigation that will beat any
witnesses were questioned as to the police
magistrate hey were questioned as Ia
other matters i'm addition. several par
ties have come to us voluntarily and told
us that III the investigation was to- he pur-
sued they had evidence which would as
found tho city and desired to tell their
story. Whether these stories we have
heard are true cannot he TOLD yet, but !
believe there should he u council meeting
continued. I don't want to he understood
as criticising The whole city government
There are men who do their duty and are
thoroughly honest"
The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1890-01-19
FUNERAL OF J. q. GALE.
An Did soldier with 40 Long and Honor
able Record.

An old soldier with 40 Long and Honor
able Record.
The funeral of j. Is. Gale yesterday af-
ternoon was attended by many members
of the g.. A. r., who thus showed respect
to the of one who for many years
honorably served his country. MIR. Gale
was born at Brattlcboro, Vermont, Octo-
Der n. 1s43. When 10 years of age he re-
moved to Hermon, n. ". where on the
outbreak of the civil war he enlisted i'm
the army. His father followed him and
procuring n substitute secured "A clerkship
IN the office of the secretary
of war. This position he held
for two about years, when he
again enlisted and was sent to the seat
of war. He was present at many notable
conflicts, marched with Sherman to the
sea. and entered Richmond with Grant.
At the close of the war he was discharged
with the honorary rank of captain. In
less than IA year he re-enlisted i'm the
Eighteenth regiment. and for three years
served against the Indians i'm Wyoming
and Montana. AT his discharge he once
more enlisted in the Fourth regiment,
serving the greater part of his term of five
years i'm the south. He came to Anaconda
IA few months ago from W~atertown, OAK.
where he held the position of deputy
treasurer of the township. His many
friends dcplOre the sad accident that
made his wife N widow and his children
fatherlcss.
The funeral services yesterday after
noon were conducted by Rev. II. Lowry,
pastor of the Methodist Episcopal church.
The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1890-01-19
NOTES FROM DEER LODGE.

= Row in n Local ssu,ical Organization
Personal Gossip.
Special Correspondence OF the standard.
DEER LODGE, Jan. 1s.-The funeral of
William r. Williams took place this af-
ternoon AS announced.
Carl Kliuschmidt and Bennett Price, of
bodies of land adjoining the corporation
limits. in anticipation of IL boom i'm real
estate to take place in the spring.
No business was transacted i'm the dis
trict court to-day. On m the de-
murrers argued at the beginning of this
week will he decided, and the civil calen-
dar will be called and those causes at is
sue will he set down for trial. The jurors
went home this morning, to return Tues
day morning, when the Baudet case will
he taken up.
Hon. John w. Blair, the only republic
can emb of the legislature from Deer
Lodge county, is i'm town to-day on busi-
ness.
the best society organizations i'm this
place was the Deer Lodge DancinG club,
that kind, a larue-sized rebellion has
broken out and war is the result. The
trouble, IL seems. started " the ex-
musicians. Two of the committee de-
sired the musicians to play for their bcne-
tt while the Others were g9ne to supper
discharged these musicians and en-
ployed others. The executive committee
the treasurer with them, il was left to hold
the bag aud had to pay the bills for the
last dance out of their own pockets. "A
majority of the club favored the dis
charged musicians and later met and de
posed the executive committee, appoint
ing another. Each division nuw calls
itself the regular organization and the
other the rump, showing the OF
bad examples at the state capital. Law
yers have been consulted, and the courts
may be called upon to determine which is
the regular and which il the rump. How.
ever, all this will not affect the grand
dance and entertainment TO be given next
Friday niRh at Lodge & Bearmouth's
hall, though il may he to some extent boy
cotted by the opposition.
The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1890-01-19
At the Churches

81. Marks church, Episcopal, will hold
service i'm Odd Fellows hall to-day at
II n. IN. and : 40 y. m. Sunday school at
2::D -. IN. Rev. w. T.. Mes, pastor.
Services at -. Paul's church.. Catholic,
at $40 and 1880 n. M. and 1::D p. m.
Mass every day at 4 o'clock. This church
is always open. Rev. Father DeSiere,
pastor.
In the Presbyterian church services are
school at l2::D y. M, and Chinese school
at I I'D p. m. Meeting of the Y. T.. =. &. T..
at 6:3D y. IN. Rev. Il. j. Lamont pastor.
Methodist church, South. services AT IL
"a. I'M. and x y. m. Sunday school at = p.
m. Rev. =. II. Barbec, pastor.
Services of the Methodist Episcopal
church will bc held i'm the parsonage at
the corner of Oak and Third streets at IL
~. IN. and 1::D Z. ~. Sunday school at
2::D y. m. Rev. l.. Lowry, pastor.