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THE BUSINESS AND EDITORIAL
Il OFFICE of "The Iron Belt
has been moved from 40 Jefferson
street to room Z. Times Building, cor
ner of First street and Third avenue
8. W. We have now ample quarters
for entertaining our friends and pat
rons, and will be glad to have them
call and soc US on business or pleasure.
j.. L. HALL, general manager.
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LOST N

STRAYED.-From my lot on Roanoke
~ street, asa Light Red Milk Cow.
expected to be fresh about May the Ist'
No white marks, weight about 600
pounds, in good condition. ANY infor-
nation about her will be literally re-
warded. Address, p~ostofice box I75.
Roanoke. j. A. DALBY. apr2l-3t
k'OUND-Bunch Of keys. Owner can
IL have same by calling and paying rs
cents charges. mar o3-tS
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DIANO INSTRUCTION. Alice f.
Il Van Horn, pupil Of Carl Faelten, of
the New England Conservatory Of Bos-
ton. For further information call at
oo2 third avenue s. W. apl9-1m
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M ANTED-S;tuation by young man
w in any honorable business; refer
ences given. Address '.T. w. S."
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DOR EENT.-Furnishcd rooms at
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rTIiIS is TO NOTIFY THAT 1 PRE-
fer to deal with cash. Hereafter
will not be responsible for debts con-
tracted by my wife. MATTHEW
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Large, airy rooms. furnished or I'M
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GENERAL DESIRABLE OFFICES
~ to rent on Jefferson street. Apply
at office of GRAY Il BOSWELL.
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NV ANTED by an experienced
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ONE CENT a. WORD COLUMN.

1--WE FIRST-CLASS CARPENTERS
- wanted by FORD, the builder, at
the Rock House, West End. apr22. If
St. Landry democrat., 1891-07-25

A RECENT writer, who made person
al observations in France and Italy.
draws the conclusion that there is nc
longer any such commodity as pure
olive oil. Visiting all the oil-produc.
ing factories of Italy. and applying
scientific tests, he discovered thai
what was sold for olive oil and labeled
az such almost always contained al
admixture of cottonseed Oil or Other
authorizations. Arguments for the
proper labelling of food products. un
der penalty of law, continue to multi
ply. The oil-producing countries o
Europe are but single instance o
gross imposition upon the public. i
is not contended that many of these
food authorizations are anything bu
beneficial from various standpoints
They are often cheaper than the pure
article, and hence more accessible tt
the poor. In these days of chemica
discoveries the entire constituent part.
OF the various foods have their substi
tutcs. All are not equally good, but
NIL are not bad.
St. Landry democrat., 1891-07-25
Eep1;t,r Stock.

Letting up means sometimes letting
down. Feed stock regularly and con-
tinuously the year round: not feast to-
day and famine tomorrow. Es-
pecially fattening animals and mich
cows must have steady feeding. In
the case of COWS Prof. Arnold says:
Immediate loss of milk by not supply
ing full rations of milk producing food
the whole of the milk season IS not the
end of the misfortune. 1t affects the
flow of milk in after years. and coun-
teracts all efforts for improving the
milk capacity of the cows and their
descendants. When the udders OF the
COWS are limpse Or empty one-half OF
the year this condition becomes a
fixed and hereditary quality which
NAV be looked for in the future heifers
with as much certainty as like may be
expected to produce like in any other
| particular On the other hand, il
COWS are kept up to the best efforts,
they will gradually make their condi'
| ton permanent and fixed tendency
| in their nature and will transmlt to
their descendants the same as any
! other quality they pose s.
St. Landry democrat., 1891-07-25
WHAT SCIENCE SEES.

The following simple tcSt for the pres
orco of arsenic is given by Prof Calder,
of Brown college: If hydrochior'c acid' q
niece of copper wire, and Il bit or wall
manor containing arsenic be placed III
GLASS tube and the glass be gently heated,
the wire will be blackencd.
Recent developments in chemical science
promote belief in the existence OF cieifieh''
arv forms of matter not yet actually op'
served. Certain pecularities III the spec
trim, of the sun are thought TO lnhlcatt
that much of it's matter IS still Ill SUCH
elementary forms owing to its intense
heat. =,
nav electric thermOstat, for use ID
.hins, hunkers and refrigeratng rooms ma
lately appeared, the special feature t"'hs
a steel bulb inclosed in q frame having
COT screw which can be altered SO As Co
bring the mercurial column to platinum,
contact wire exactly at the de"lfeo
temperature c;;,,.
Years ago it was supposed that n'tlns
! was nearer the earth than any othef star
Now however. Alpha Centaurl, col,''
naratively insignificant star OF the So"'ii ,
arn heavens. is known to be our heaio'.
neiobbor. and Sirius is so far removed 'ha'
tho human mind fails to grasp the distance
49,, oxnressed in miles. The fact tha'
light requires from seventeen " ~" al,
years TO cross the space between our h'VI'
earth and this giant orb is scarcoiy nloi
| easy to comprehend.
St. Landry democrat., 1891-07-25
A HUSBANDS DEATH.
He Embalms His Dead Wifc's Body, and
Waits the End.

Muncie, Ind, enjoyed sensation
attendant on the opening of a house
which had been closed up for over
twenty five years and the discovery OF
a freak perhaps as remarkable rs ever
entered a human mind. Tho house in
question is Il fine Old brick rrsidcucG,
owned in 1876 by William Mutterhorn-
a well-to-do German, Il retired lumber
merchant. says the Philadelphia Times
In 1873 Mutterhorn lost his wife, q
very beautiful woman, whose loss con-
verified him from Il genial. pleasure
loving man to Il m0rO5e, ml,lntlroplc~
al recllsc. He dismissed all Of his
servants and refused to admit all Vl5i~
tors, even his most intimate friends,
to his home. His health in few
wears became wrctchcG, and one day
the unhappy man sought a pronlncEt
| LAWYER of Munc.e. and announcing his
! intention of travelling for the rcotora-
| ton of his strength gave him powers
as his agent and instructions t0 allow
his house to remain locked and sealed
as he left it. No one was to enter 1t
or even the extensive grounds sl1i-
rounding it. No limit was placed to-
his intended absence, and no surprise
was felt as years slipped by without
his return. Recently, however, his
heirs. concluding he was dead, had
the house entered and found in one OF
the upper rooms the cmbalmCf body
of Mrs. Mutterhorn elegantly attirod
and reclining on a sofa, while at her
side, Law skeleton which was 52tIfac-
tolily identified as her husbands.
Mutterholn is known to have been Fl
fine amateur chemist, and it Is sup
posed that he privately cXhumod his
wife's body. cmbalmel it and kept 1t
continually in his sight, TIL 1cellng
himself about to die he resolved to
shut himself up with his treasure and
meet death at its side The two poor
relics were inferred next day, followed
to their final resting place by an lm-
menAn crowd
St. Landry democrat., 1891-07-25

Every year we have questions from
market gardeners who want to know If
the waste of pea vines, cabbage, let
tuce, etc, can be safely preserved in
q silo. We do not know that the plan
has ever been attempted on large
scale. Most gardeners prefer to feed
out such waste at once. We should
like to know about it. Prof. +. W..
Stewart, in the Country Gentleman
says: The succulent pods of green
peas will make an excellent ensilage il
properly preserved, having more value
as a milk food than corn ensilage.
They have about twice as much albu-
minoids, about the same carbohydrates,
but less fat. These pods would keep
better if run through cutter into the
silo. They should be ensiloed as soor
us possible after the peas are shelled
St. Landry democrat., 1891-07-25
EAcE?!OUS COMMENT.

Rosto, Courier: There is no menace
;mnlied when a manufacturing dentist
shows his teeth
Chicago Tribune: Diamonds are coming
down in price and probably Will soon meet
potatoes going up
Atcbison Globe: A man never reai,zeS
until he hos made fool of himself what
a laughter-loving world this Is
Lowell Courier: Tommy says that "heh
his teacher is provoked he knows that sue
is well supplied with choler and Guns
Detroit Free Press: The primrose, ac-
cording to the poets, is quiet mower, AZ
cording to the facts 1t Is prohou'''ei Oh
Ter.
Puck: Nv son feather your nest before
Won marry. Custom permits us 10 go ol'
Tho street without a wife, but il does NOT
allow us TO go on the street without a pan
Of trousers.
St. Landry democrat., 1891-07-25

GENIUS unexerted is no more genius,
saws Emerson, than u bushel OF acorns
is a forest of oaks. There may be
epics in mems braias, just as there are
oaks in acorns; but the tree and book
must come out before we can measure
them. How many men would fain go
to bed ounces and wake up Solomons!
You reap what you have sown. Those
who SOW Ounce seed, vice seed, lazi-
ness seed, usually get crop. A man
of mere capacity undeveloped" is
only an organized day-dream with a
skin on it.
St. Landry democrat., 1891-07-25

THOSE looking after freight rates are
aware that the cost of transportation
is not very much lower than it was a
few years ago. Farm products of all
kinds are carried at comparatively re-
duced rates, and just now grain is
transported from the West to the At
lantic seaboard at prices before I'M
known. The tendency Of the times is
plainly toward cheaper transportation,
and there is little reason to doubt that
farmers will have less to complain OF
in the way of exorbitant charges, in
freight in the next few years than they
have had heretofore.
St. Landry democrat., 1891-07-25

AS a r@mns of coast defense for the
United States the torpedo has been
the subject of much talk, some ex-
perts even saying that if this country
does not wish to make conquests, but
only desires to protect itself, a navy
is entirely unnecessary, as torpedoes
at various points will give sufficient
protection. They will now point to
the CHILEAN instances of what explosive
things can do, and argue therefrom to
support their theory.
St. Landry democrat., 1891-07-25
She Was TeacsziI<s Him.

A lady, on entering the kitchen early
one morning saw plate and knife and
fork, tho former of which had evident
" contained cold rabbit pie. The lady
strongly suspected a certain policeman
of having supped OF it, and the follow
inc conversation took place between
her and the cook:
Mistress Mary, what's become OF
lhe cold rabbit pie that was left'
Cook-Oh, / didn't think it was
wanted num- so | gave it TO the dog.
Mistress (sarcastically) Does the
doc use a knife and fork, them
Cook (unabashed) Not very well
vet mum, but I'm tcachln' him TO-
London Tit-bts.
St. Landry democrat., 1891-07-25
THE HUMAN E r.
Wonderful Construction of That aSefuh
Orcan-it Deiies .:i~sectiu".

Orcan-it Deties .:i-secti"".
"The human ear. said Il scientist t"
a Washington star reporter, as an or
Gan the true inwardn"si OF witch the
physicians have never bc2l able to get
al, They can examine thoain'crlor OF
the eye with ease by throwing INT"
it's dark chamber a ray OF light re-
Elected from Il little mirror, and OF lato
thew have found it possible even TO
see the gray matter of the brain by
looking through tho little rHla! by
which the optic nerve enters, IN"
cavity behind the nose they inspect
with the aid of d light placed far back
in the mouth They have no dl't'rultF
in seeing into the stomach by an fioc-
trio apparatus: the intcstin"S likewise
are readily cnolgh investigated y and
the bladder. But the car, a5to IT. inter
nal arrangements. is unappT"aGhh5le.
1t is even impps5ib'o to dl&'crt ii sails
factorily after death 10" the reason
, that the parts collapse at once when
| the vital spark leaves the body.
St. Landry democrat., 1891-07-25

INTELLECTUAL sympathy is rarel
and more difficult OF attainment than
mere sympathy with pain or pleasure.
Those accustomed TO one line of thought
and associating only with those who
share it cannot readily understand how
any one can differ from them, and
are therefore inclined to doubt theil
honesty or ytheir intelligence. Much
bitter controversy, much harsh and
unjust criticism. is due to the feeble
ness of this power. Neither party car
put himself in the place Of the other,
or sec how he came to hold such be-
liefs, or why no should not at once
abandon them.
St. Landry democrat., 1891-07-25

There are thousand eastern visitors
at Riverside. Cal.
In New York women make II cents
day crccheting shawis.
It is estimated that there are 100, ISL
cattle on the Montana ranges.
The world moves. 1t probably finds
it cheaper to move than pay rent:
Peach and almond trees are already
in blossom on Yale county, Califor-
MIA ranch.
It is SAID that more than a thousand
New Ycrkers are already booked to
sail for Europe.
Sawdust burned to the windward
saved many Florida orange groves from
the biting frost.
Many noble elms have been borne
down by masses of ice in Massachusetts
since New Years.
AT the reservation near Cotton, CAL,
the Indians have raised more grain this
wear than ever before.
New York Mrs. Grundy says that
digestion visits are the ones you make
in return for dinner party.
A demented woman recently walked
from Mojave to Los Angeles, CAL. a
distance of one hundred miles.
Fogg atiirms that billiards resemble
matrimony, inasmuch as kisses and
| II, 500 fo both
A young man at Santa Barbara, Cal,
was arrested and fined for practicing on
| the clarionet in his own apartments.
In Arizona the cottonwoods are with
out foliage for about six weeks in the
year. They will soon be putting out new
leaves.
Fifteen men went out to hunt rabbit
in Modoc county, California, recently
and in short time killed $50 of the lit
tie animals.
| During January there were fifty-nin'
deaths in Salt Lake City-twelve from
| lung diseases. eleven from diphtheria
and ten from old age.
A pair of pet deer of the west Indian
| species are passing the cold weathe
healthfully at Woodbridge, Conn, bu
/ their fawns do not live.
The Indians at Tulalip, Idaho, al
doing quite business in the cordwoo
line, furnishing about eighty cords pc
week to passing steamers.
St. Landry democrat., 1891-07-25
Selling Pigs.

The man who ships a pig hoping &c
satisfy customer that is not 6 good
Judge takes a risk that may prove
very disastrous to his trade and repu.
tation Mems JUDGMENT differ as TIC
the makeup of a choice pig. A fine
PIG with one is faulty with another
But a breeder of experience should
generally know when pig will pass
muster any place, considering the
price paid. 1t is dangerous for a
breeder to make calculations to send d
second pig, if the first does not fill the
bill. 1t is easier to please with the
first than the second. This thing OF
duplicating is very unsatisfactory at
hest
St. Landry democrat., 1891-07-25

Too MUCH system in IL household
destroys the peace of it. The men,
bers who are inclined by nature to
live by their own sweet will and not
by rules cannot fail to aggravate the
unyielding rulemaker. While to be
perpetually reminded that you always
do this or never do that, is enough to
make one reply with an emphasis
sufficient to strike fire. Let us all
moderate our doings.
St. Landry democrat., 1891-07-25

FRIENDSHIP is often regarded slight
snglv as a mere accessory of life a
happy chance if one falls into it, but
not as entering into the substance OF
life. No mistake can be greater 1t
is not a thing of glass threads, Or
frost-work, but the solidest thing we
Lnow y
St. Landry democrat., 1891-07-25

Those who have made the matter
subject of close study observe that the
human thurlb, dipped in ink, blood,
or anv loose adhering substance, ana
pressed upon sheet of paper leaves
a mark which is perfectly characteris-
tic of the individual. The distinctive
marks and lines diffor in each case,
St. Landry democrat., 1891-07-25
rrV,oy VTaya Kgpy'So

The Suffer1r-Of course, now that
YOU have refused me, you Will return
my presents?
The girl (who c&nscd the sliierlnS)
Indeed | will not. i guess 'o
earned 'em haven't L.
St. Landry democrat., 1891-07-25
Horse Scra ps.

Ten thousand horses were on exhibition,
it is said, at a recent great horse show
and sale in Hungary.
All the aid you give in lettering the
roads in your community goes toward
keeping up your horses in the future
The humane society of Pittsburgh IS
looking vigorously after those who per
sist in docking horses. Criminal prose
cuticn is promised for those who engage
in this diabolical practice.
Keep salt within reach of the horses.
A lump of rock salt in a small box by the
Manager is the proper thing. Either rock
or other salt should be found in good,
strong boxes in the pasture field for idle
horses
St. Landry democrat., 1891-07-25

MEDICAL experts widely differ to
the general and special effects OF alco-
hol upon the human system, and the
time has arrived when consensus OF
opinion would be valuable both the
medical fraternity and the public. Not
temperance organizations alone, but
humanity at large, will be the benell-
Charles of all the truth that can be clio
tied in SO important an investigation.
St. Landry democrat., 1891-07-25
a CURIOSITY.

Something of q curiosity is on OK
hibition at Casper, Wyo. 1t i" an I'M
print of a monstc" palm Leaf, caused
by the leaf falling into clay and the
clay afterward petrifying. Inc rock
was found on Salt Creek and in.tlcates
that ages ago when the big coal beds
were being formed, Wyoming posses"
sed tropical climate.
St. Landry democrat., 1891-07-25

and it is suggested that the simple e1-
pedient of compelling a criminal to
leave the impress of his thumb in the
possession of the authorities would
make disguise impossible. This is
very ingenious; but not rev, az it is
the Chinese method of signing a doc
ument
St. Landry democrat., 1891-07-25
A Sermon Out iGc.

A few Sabbaths since gentleman
was passing by q certain church, be-
fore which were hitched many teams,
the property of atfiuent christians, says
Farm. Stock and Home. The owEer5
and their families were inside, listen
ing no doubt, to the old old story OF
Observation-Disclosures, mans brotherhood,
consideration for the weak and lowly,
protection to the helpless, etc, and
5econding a prayer for the coming OF
that kingdom in which suffering would
be unknown and the milk of human
kindness would consciously flow. Very
likely they were contributing hberally
to the work of lifting oft Of the dark
ness of barbarism and up into the shin
inc light of modern civilization the be-
niChted heather of far-On lands. But
all this time not d few of the horses
were enduring a torture more refined
and exquisite than any that baGbarous
heather could invent. The heads OF
the poor brutes were held in cruelty
unnatural positions, and their necks
were heartlessiy strained and tortured
bv that infamous device OF fashion -
the overhead check. II the Father is
mindful of the sparrow that falls,
should not His Worshipre"s be mindful
of the noblest and best of the brute
creation-the horse?
The gentleman unchecked the tor
tured horses, and for a moment enjoy
ed the keenest satisfaction in seeing
the poor animals strengthen, stretch
and twist their necks to get cords anc
muscles into their normal position:
once more. He fancied, too, that he
saw thanks and gratitude in then
eyes. He passed on, happier for Wha
he had just done. In auditing thu
final accounts of the inside worshiper
and the outside philanthropist tina
Sabbath days record will appear OF
the books of the recording angel; bu
which, think you, will carry with
the larger credit-those OF the disci
pies inside, or that of him who wa
doing the Masters work outside? lin
asmueh as We have done it unto tn
least OF these ye have done It unit
me-"
St. Landry democrat., 1891-07-25
FARM AND HOUSEHOLD.
MINERAL FERTILIZER MUST BE
APPLIED.
Manurtnh me Soil With Glover IS Not
!gh-Unchcck Your Horses
when You Can-Farm Notes
and Household Hints.

In farming, as in every other btsl-
hess, success depends upon the use
made of capital If used as it should
De to get quick returns, the business
pays its way; or if it does not, the
farmer quickly discovers the fact and
changes his practice accordingly. Inc
fact that a part of the manure applied
to crops is not Immediately used ~
them, but remains for future years
confuses farmers about their business
more than anything else, says the
American CultivatOr. 1t Is not always
possible to tell whether combining the
| Immediate and the ultimate benefit the
manura applied is profitable or otHer-
wise. Usually, however. if the crop
does not at once pay. there Is some
| change at once needed, either IN crop,
| manure or methods of cultivation.
There need be no fear that trying to
make manure as immediately elective
as possible will tend TO exhaustion OF
the soil Exhaustion comes rather
from neglect of great restorative agen-
| cies, like clover and grass, which help
to save what would otherwise be lost.
| Grow as large crops of grain as a
| farmer may, his land is not exhausted
| if he sOws clover with every grain
crop, and allows it to grow SO as to
| fill the soil with roots, feeding the
clover hay to stock and returning ma
nure to the soil Using the CONNER
cial fertilizers thus grows more clover
and grass, and the mineral clements
in the fertilizer return to the SOIL all
that the grain sold from the farm re-
moves and usually something besides.
The system of blowing under clover
every other year and sowing Wheat
will, in time, make the land incapable
81 producing more clover unless Other
fertilizers are applied, but this need
not be feared where clover Is cut and
fed to stock, and mineral fertilizers
are used to restore what the grain re-
moves. Excepting for its mlneri
fertility land can be kept in good con
dition by liberal seeding with clover,
and the careful use of fertilizers made
on the farm. But enough mlncra
i, fertilizer must be applied to enable
+ crops to use all the heterogeneous Gle
! ments in the soil. else some OF these
are certain to be wasted. lily BALANCED
manures for crops are nearly II no
quite as wastcful as poorly balanced
2 ratiOns for stock.
St. Landry democrat., 1891-07-25

WHEN an engineer wants to stop an
engine he don't put a break on the
balance Wheel he shuts of the power
that makes it run. When you want to
quit your meanness the WORK must DC
gin on the inside.
St. Landry democrat., 1891-07-25

No MAN has the right to expect a
good fortune unless he go to work and
deserve it. Luck! | never had any
luck but by getting up at five every
morning and working as hard as l
could" No faithful workman finds his
task q pastime. We must all toll or
steal-no matter how we namc our
r4oa1iur
St. Landry democrat., 1891-07-25

THE happiness that is quite under
stood at last becomes tiresome; to give
it a zest, we must have ups and downs
The difficulties which are usually
mingled with love awaken passion ana
increase pleasure.