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St. Landry democrat. (Opelousas, La.) 1878-1894, 1891-02-28
Lake Charles
COLLEGE

At Lake Charles, La, is
a chartered institution, gov
erned by a Board of Trustees
residing in Texas and Louis
lana. The city is on the
Southern Pacific Railroad,
pit miles west of New Or
leans, and 100 miles east Of
Houston and in one of the
most healthful portions Of the
South. Two new and COM
modious buildings already oc-
cupy the College grounds OF
Is acres, and others are to be
erected. The College opens
its Preparatory and Academic
Departments Oct. |, 1890,
offering Classical, Scientific,
English and Business courses
under tlrst-class instructors.
1t provides a cultivated Chris
tan home for young LADIES,
and until the young gentle
mems hall is built, secures
for them homes in carefully
selected families. This Col
lege aims to be thoroughly
Christian, but not. sectarlan,
and to offer the best opportu-
mites for higher education.
For further information and
Prospectus, address
Rev. HENRY /. HUBBELL, D. D.,
President
Care Prof 5 A KNAPP. LII. d.
St. Landry democrat. (Opelousas, La.) 1878-1894, 1891-02-28
"Owed" on Advertising.

There was q man in our town, and he
was wondrous wise, for when he marked
his prices down he then did advertise.
And when he saw his trade increase,
with all his might and main he marked
still lower every price and advertised
again.
stamped and tore, to see folks with might
and main to patrobize that store.
And while they sat in solitude, and saw
his custom win, that man behind the coun-
ter stood and raked the shekels in.
And when he raked the shekels in and
saw his fortune rising, he took a goodly
lot of stin'' and kept on advertising.
Each day generous sum he'd sink and
demonstrate full plain, the more one pays
for printers ink, the greater is hts gain.
St. Landry democrat. (Opelousas, La.) 1878-1894, 1891-02-28

Sixty per cent of the sugar made by the
various nations Is made from beets.
St. Landry democrat. (Opelousas, La.) 1878-1894, 1891-02-28

Two laborers were trying to place q
stone in position on the foundation wall of
q new building A crowd was standing
around looking on, and each one offering
his criticism and counsel freely and
loudly, but not one lifting so much as =
finger to help. THAT reminds me of
church work." said passer-by to another.
"Why7" because, " was the reply, '*two
men are doing the work and twenty are
doing the talking"
St. Landry democrat. (Opelousas, La.) 1878-1894, 1891-02-28

Cnmbtned POCKET ALMANAC
and MEMORANDUM BOOK
advertising BROWNS IRON BITTERs
the hest Tonic, given away at Drug and
general stores. Apply at once.
St. Landry democrat. (Opelousas, La.) 1878-1894, 1891-02-28
e Untitled to the Best.

All are entitled to the best that their
money will buy, SO every family should
have, at once, bottle of the best family
remedy, Syrup of Figs, to cleanse the
system when costive or bilious. For sale
in SOC and $100 bottles by all leading
druggists.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1891-12-23
Christmas In New England.

The Puritans were at first opposed to
Christmas pastimes, and the day was, for
a long time, less generally celebrated in
New England than in the Middle and
Southern States. Rev. Edward Ever
EFT Hale, of Boston, says that the observ-
ance of Christmas is quite novelty in
the heart Of New England among the
lords of this manor. Winslow and
Brewster, above Plymouth Rock, cele-
brated their first Christmas by making
all hands work all day n the raising of
their first house.
It was IN that way that Christian
empire was begun. They builded bet
ter than they knew. They and theirs,
in that hard days work. struck the key
note for New England for two centur-
les and half Many and many a New
Highlander, still in middle life, remem-
bers that in childhood, though nur-
tured III Christian homes, he could not
have told, if he were asked, on what
day of the year Christmas fell. But as
New England, in the advance of the
world, has come into the general life of
the world, she has shown nc inaptitude
for the greater enjoyments of life; and
with the true catholicity of our great
congregational system, her people and
her churches seize, one after another,
all the noble traditions Of the Hottest
memories
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1891-12-23

tackle her nest. 1t wuz as good as cir
Gus to see her ordering me off, 'thout
thought that 1 might have my pockets
primed."
Its a wonder you didn't shoot the
girl" said the Sheriff, contemptuously,
as he showed Zeke into the lookup,
and hurried away to praise and pet his
brave little daughter, and to learn the
particulars of her defence of the keys.
Zeke stood behind the bars. The
blood burned angrily in his cheeks at
the Sheriff. scornful words. When Mr.
Baxter had gone, Zeke turned toward
one Of his old companions, who came
down the long corridor Of the jail to
greet him.
Hello, Bud, you here yet? Merry
Christmas -
Bud grinned. "Same to you. What
brought you back ?'
"I'lI tell you, cause they's no danger
i'll ever afflict you and fetch you back
If once you get out"
What was p" asked Bud.
Kindness of heart" answered Zeke,
with a grin.-M0rk adams, IN Harper's
Young People.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1891-12-23
Keepinp Christmas Wisely.

Thoughtful people have discovered,
says Elizabeth Stuart Phelps in Ladies'
Home Journal, that we are in danger Of
losing our Christmas by doing it to
death. 1t may die of surfeit, as we'll as
pet, or love.
The madding crowd making itself
maniac across the impossible streets,
choking the writing shops, stalling
the railway trains, blocking the United
States mails, and choking, stalling,
blocking, and madding more madlv
every year than it did the year before,
does not necessarily mean the growth
of the Christmas sense, but it is quite as
likely to mean the growth Of Christmas
nonsense. 1t means a vast amount OF
folly, imitation, greed, ambition. 1t
means an incalculable sum of envies,
disappointments. jealouses. 1t means
unmeasured aches 1t means women
literally tired to DEATH" and men in
debt, and neighbors offended. and rich
relatives cajoled, and host of human
plumbers which we might call the
Christmas waste. All the processes of
action have their waste and it does not
condemn the action but only appeals
to the intelligence behind the action to
regulate the proportion between profit
and loss.
So, when we have a fine thing fine
art, invention, feeling or cuetom-the
first point Is how not to lose it, and it
NAV be found that we need high spir-
itual economy to save our Christmas
from the kind of decadence that belongs
to society like ours. tits the greatest
it ought to be the grandest-day in
our calendar. A petty spirit; a false
extravaganza, a lost temper, WORKOUT
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1891-12-23
HOME READING.
Christmas with Mother.

OH never felt so happy as upon last Christ
mas H. ght,
Coming near the little home where mother
lives,
The familiar scenes of boyhood. and the window
with the light,
And the JOY anticipation ever gives.
Eager fingers ungle.gladly as opened the old
gate,
And nv feet impatient hurried to the door;
But her ear had caught the footsteps, and her
love remembered we'll;
On the threshold mother met me as ofyore.
Oh / clasped her to my BOSOM as she used to
clasp her boy,
While her tears and loving kisses answered
mine
Then she led me 10 the table where the good
things kept tor me
Were all waiting with the chair of aud lang
syne.
She remembered evrything liked, and how to
make 1t best,
Serving meas though my place were still q
Cakes and jellies. home made candy, and ev'ry
choicest thing,
Heaped before me with caresses and heI
smiles.
Oh! 1 seemed a very boy again, as we sat talk.
And She told ne how she had thought of
prayed for me,
How I'd beena Joy and comfort to her all hel
widowed life;
And her spirit, like an angels, l could see.
How in ey'ry whistling boy that passed she
heard me coming home,
So she had loYe-waited for me ali the years;
Then, arising from the table, she would stand
caTesSlng me,
As she breathed on me a blessing through
her tears.
When went to bed she came to me and tucked
the covers round,
In the dear old way that only mothers know,
Oh! felt so bIlsstul- peaceful, and so tuIl OF
tender love
That all silent came nv glad hearts overflow
Happy, grateful, joyous tears l shed; ay, cried
myself to sleep,
Dreaming in heav' My dream-land free from
cares;
In my boyhood home and bed again, the covers
tucked around,
Safely guarded by my dear old mother
pray'rs.
-HdrDeY'S Bdzdr
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1891-12-23
SEASONRBIE SOIILOOIIY

To give or not to give-that is the question:
Whether It's nobler in the mind to settle
With clamOrous creditors who long have dunned
me,
Or turn deaf ear unto their pleading
Ana spend my all for presents? To creep-to
sneak
With bated breath beneath the friendly desk
When comes the harsh collectors knocking
And br1be the boy to say I'm out of town,
Or disappoint eXpectant relatives
by dlsregarding all the old traditions
Which make calamity of Christmas time
To men of scanty means! But there's the snub,
The freezing glance, the epithet OF miser,
The sickening dread of something worse to
come
Whence r circulate among my kin,
Which make me rather choose familiar Ills
Than to fly to others that know not of,
Yes, the ancient debts must stand
-PHtsburg Chronicle.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1891-12-23
To Decorate a Church.

When flowers or other bright decor
atoms are hard to obtain, a most pleas
ing substitute is afforded by the cones
of pine or Norway spruce, writes Eben
E. Rexford, in the December Ladies'
Home Journal These, in their natural
color, are very pretty, but their effect
can be greatly heightened by bronzing
or gliding them. The liquid gold paints
sold by all dealers in artists goods are
cheap, and produce good results. APP
ply two coats, so that the cone will be
we'll covered. 4 cluster of them, shin
ing against a background of dark
green, will stand out brilliantly by lamp
light. For a good deal of the decorative
work about arches over the altar, and
in the making OF crosses and similar de-
signs, they are much preferable to
flo wers or fruit, as they are more in
ha rmony with the evergreens among
which they are used. Provided your
gliding is good, most pleasing results
can be secured by giving cones such a
covering. Try it, and you will be sure
to be pleased with this new method. Il
is ALWAYS we'll to remember that artistic
effects do not depend upon elaborate
designs. The simplest decorations, es-
pecially in church altar are ofttimes
the most effective, and where taste is
used rather than quantity, success is, as
a rule, far more certain.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1891-12-23
TURKEY TALK.
Pertinent Pointers on Preparing the
Great u. S. Dish.


Great U. S. Dish.
"How would I prepare turkey for a
Christmas dinner?" queried one of
Cincinnati's well known chefs. Gin the
first place I would put the turkey on a
diet for at least one week previous to
killing. I would confne the fowl to a
small yard and feed celery leaves,
green parsley, boiled acorns and water.
This diet imparts a peculiar odor to
the flesh which is similar to that OF
wild turkey or partridge. When kill
ing time comes | would hang the tur-
key and cut off the head and allow the
blood to run out. This should be done
with all white meat. Pick the feath-
ers while the body is warm, DO not
scale the bird, for that has a bad effect
on the appearance of the flesh. Draw
the body and hang it for twenty -four
hours in cool place. Salt extracts the
juice and renders the flesh dry and I'M
palatable. You have three ways OF
cooking roasting, boiling or brasing.
TO roast the fowl cut the neck short
and leave skin enough to cover the
crop so the stuffing will not fall out.
To do this artistic piece Of work only
the crop should be Istufed. This will
hold one quart Of dressing. Tie the
legs back and down, put the fowl in q
pan and sprinkle with salt and pepper
to suit the taste. Next cover the breast
with salt pork and pour soup sklmmings
over the whole. Now place the tur-
key in a medium hot oven and roast
from one hour and thirty minutes to
two hours. Do not roast large tur-
key, for such fowls are not lit to eat
While roasting haste thoroughly every
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1891-12-23
BOYS AND GIRLS.
The MiStletoe.
BY HENRIETTA GARDNER.

BY HENRIETTA GARDNER.
The Lilys lady,
The Rose is queen,
The Violet's nun-like,
And seldom is seen,
But, best of Earth's children
Is the brave Mistletoe,
Who brings us her berries
All covered with snow.
Oh once she was honored
In an age before ours,
And her leaves were then worshiped
For their WOndrous powers,
High up IN the heavens
Her bright berries shone.
And she looked in her oak tree
Like queen on her throne.
Then came to the forest
The Druids in white,
All chanting her praises
In the frosty moonlight.
They cut off the branches
With gold sickles keen,
And threw to the people
Her shining leaves green.
For if in a goblet
There fioated one leaf,
'TWould cure every sickness
And SOrroWful grief.
Then let us be grateful
To healers of woe,
And remember at Christmas
The green Mistletoe.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1891-12-23
Santa Claus in Germany.

st. Nicholas has neither sledge nor
reindeer, for the Germans have no wide
ireplaces through which he might
descend in safety, and even saint
would find it hard to drive a team
through the high, narrow porcelain
stove that fills the corner of every
room. So, on the evening of the fes-
tival, stockings and shoes are hung up at
the window or laid by the bedside, and
next morning good boys and girls find
them we'll stuffed with candy and toys,
but naughty children the good saint
passes sorrowfully by and the dreadful,
horned "Krampus", (hobgoblin) creeps
up to the bedside and lays long switch
in he shoe
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1891-12-23
Aping English Manners.

A sign of the growing Anglomania in
the older states of America is the spread
of English costumes in the colleges
In Brown University in Providence,
they have long worn the English AGA
demic gown, and now the regulation cap
and gown. as worn at Oxford and Cam
bridge, is to be introduced into Harvard
and Princeton. At Harvard the limo
walton will be confined to the senior
class on its special anniversary day, and
the decision has been made by the class
itself AT Princeton the regulation is
apparently general and has been deter
mined by the college authorities. This
innovation of English customs is very
distasteful to the average American, and
vet it goes on fast in the wealthy and
cultured sets in the Eastern States.
Generally no official dress is worn in
American colleges any more than IN
American courts.-Quebec Mercury.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1891-12-23
THE BEST DAY OF ALL

The church bells are ringing
The children are singing,
The season is bringing
It's welcome of cheer;
No more there is signing;
Each sorrow is dying,
And glad hearts are crying
That Christmas is uear.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1891-12-23

A MATTER OF OPINIoN.-"G rar pa, |
heard Miss Gushington tell Clara, yes
terday, that DR.. Tenderby was a perfect
duck That's not rights it?" Il
do not know that it's altogether wrong,
my dear. There are lots of people who
term him regular quack .'-Fun.
Nor infrequently the butcher becomes
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1891-12-23

body, a disappointed soul, have no
more place at Christmas than at mar
riage time, or heaven time.
St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1891-09-26
A STOCK ANTI ARGUMENT.

The complacency With which the
average anti speaker ignores oonsis-
tency, is absolutely refreshing.
For instance, at the barbecue at
Rsyville recently an anti Demos
themes from Ouaohita in the course
Of his Grafton ridiculed with great
vigor the idea that Louisiana was
too poor to protect herself from
overflow and properly support her
schools and other public enterprises,
and promptly meet the current ex-
penses Of the State, and then in the
same speech and almost in the same
breath attempted TO show how the
state wonld surely 60 to the ''dem-
milton bow-wows" If the revenue
amendment was adopted. His ar
gument amounted to this: that not
withstanding the state has been bur-
dened BY that iniqaitous gambling
concern-the lottery-for nearly %
years, receiving therefrom only $4O,-
600 year, yet she had prospered
and grown in wealth in spite of it;
yet il this same lottery was rechar-
tered to run another 25 years just
Is it had been running, but pay
ing to the State 81, ESQ, 900 q year,
her prosperity would not only be
utterly ruined. but would become
"a byew0rd and a hissing'' for the
nations. In other words the lottery
did not retard the progress Of the
stats while paying revenue of $40
600 . year. but would be its eter-
nal damnatiOn il the revenues were
increased to 81, 25O, 900 a year.
The only trouble about such ar
guments is that the henighted tax
payers Of the state-thosc men
who daily feel truth Of the dicta of
Deity which says Shy the sweat Of
thy face shall thou eat thy Bread"
cannot be brought to see it in that
light. They very foolishly continue
to believe that the more revenue
the state receives from other
sources the less she will have to
wiring from their hard earnings by
observation-disclosures Telegraph-Bul-
letin.
St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1891-09-26
CONSUMrTiON CURED.

An old physician, retired from
practice, having had placed in hiA
hands BY an East india missionary
the formula Ut simple vegetable
remedy for the speedy and peems.
nent cure Of Consumption, Bson-
ctitis. Catarrh, Asthma and all
throa, and Lung Affections, ALDO q
positive and radical cure for
Nervous Debility aud all Nervous
Complaints, after having tested its
wonderful curative powers in thou
sands Of csses, has felt j, his duty
to snake it known TO his suffering
fellows. Actusted by this motive
and desire to relieve human sur
fering, 1 will sen,l free Of charge,
to all who desire 1t, this recipe, In
German. French or English, with
full directions for preparing and
using. Sent by mail By a.idressing
with stamp. naming this paper.
w. A. NoYEs. 920 Powers Block,
n. r.
St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1891-09-26
NEW SIGNAL STATIONS.

We have received the following
communication from the New Or.
leans Office Of the United States
Weather Bureau:
EDITOR ST. TAMMANY FARlKR;
Prof. Mark n. Harrington, the
Chief of the Weather Bureau, has
authorized the establishment OF
fifty new display stations in Louis
lana, to receive the Washington
forecasts through the distributing
Office ut New Orleans, each day
by telegraph, at government ex-
pense. OF this number. over
twenty-five have already been es-
tablished 1t various towns through
out the State, and are thus in daily
receipt Of the forecasts, which are
for the benedt OF the pub
lie BY means Of oonspicuously post
cd bulletins /; this method will, how
ever, soon be superseded by . sys-
tenn Of displays conducted by means
II dags. . plan which Is already in
'noosssful operation in several
States. Those who wish to secure
he forecasts and display them for
he benefit Of the agricultural inter
,sts Of their community will COM
nunicate with Mr.. Geo. +. Hunt,
Director Of the L0uisiana Weather |
Service, New Orleans. who will
more fully inform them on the sub
cot.
St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1891-09-26
RICE.

The demand for rough rice Was
quiet for the better part Of the
week, and the receipts were quite
large. Prices, however, remained
about the same, owing to the firm
ness Of the clean market, in which.
there is now quite strong demand.
This has tended to restrict sales of
rough unless sellers views were
met.
With the prospect Of = shcrt crop
both in Calcasieu and our other
parishes, prices should rema in
steady.
Our Charleston advices state that
the new crop is now beginning to
come to market, but As yet not in
sufficient quantities to change
prices.-LOuisiana Planter.
St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1891-09-26
MEETING OF THE DISTRICT
DEMOCRATIC EXECU-
TIVE COMMITTEE.

The Democratic Executive Commit.
tee of this Judicial and Senatorial Dis.
trict met ct Amite City last Tuesday,
pursuant to call Of the temporary Chair
man, John Freiler, Of St Helena parish.
On motion Col. S. d. Richardson
was made temporary Chairman of the
Committee, and C. d. OFT. Of Washing.
ton parish, Secretary.
The credentials Of the delegates were
presented, and the following gentlemen
were seated IS members of the commit
tee:
st. Helena-John Freiler, A. W. ca.
ruth.
Livingston - George Fielder, J. A.
Cooper.
Tangipahoa-Col. S. d. Richardson,
:. 4. Wells, Z. c. Cooley, proxy for
Wells.
Washington-C. J. Burch, w. w.
Babinyton, J. N. Burris. proxy for Bah
ington.
st. Tammany-F. A. Guyol.
On motion, the temporary officials
were made permanent.
On motion, the proxy Of G. H. Cause
to S. D. Ellis was rejected, on tie
ground that S. ID. Ellis was not q resi-
dent Of St. Tammany parish.
Mr.. Caruth, Of St. Helena, moved
that the committee adjourn until after
the meeting of the State Ccatral Com
mittee, which was rejected by . vote Of
four to i've.
Mr.. Guyoa, Of st. Tammany, offered
the following resolution:
"Be It resolved, That there be NO
nominating conveation for judicial ON.
ceFs Of this district"
The above resolution was adopted By
. vote Of six to three.
Mr.. C. ]. Burch, Of Washington par
ish, moved that there be no nominating
convention Of senators In this senatorial
district, which motion prevailed by .
vote Of six to three.
On motion, the committee then I'D
iourned.
The Times-Democrst and Picayune
In their accounts Of the above meeting,
reported Mr.. Gayors res
stating that there would be .
nominating convention for judicial on
GERS, when Il should DO ssno nominating
St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1891-09-26
ORGANIZING THE NEGRO.

We have been informed from 9
reliable source that there are now
organizers among the colored peo-
pie Of this parish { Blenville) form
ing anti-lottery leagues. We took
the position some time ago that
the Advance would note and con-
denim the first sttempt made either
by the pros or anti's to organize
the negroes, and We now enter our
protest at any suoh proceeding.
One of the organizers, being ques-
toned BY our informant ~ 70 who
sent him cut to organize the color.
ed people, gave the names Of three
prominent ANTS residing in Area
dia - the men who furnished the
money for his travelling expenses
and sent him to form the anti-lot-
tery negro organizations. -Advsnce
St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1891-09-26
ROT SENTIMENTAL.

Robeline News: The News is
not very sentimental. 1t has never
seen stern facts successfully COM
batted by ideal theories. 1t be-
lieves that the education of chill
dren means so much instruction
prOfitably received. That the best
instruction is impaired by trained
teachers. That professional teach
ers are obtained by just payment
for their servicea. That lectures
on morality will neither educate the
children nor pay the teachers. That
whereas the wealthy can pay i'm
dividually for the education Of their
children, the masses will remain
uneducated, unless the State gov
eminent operates > successful and
efficient school system. The State
has not been able TO do that since
the war. The News knows that the
revenue amendment will contribute
yearly an increase to the school
fund Of 1T least $3.50, 900, With .
school funa increased from $500, 600
to more than $3.50. 900, which may
ut the option Of the General As
sembly be increased to $500, 600
annually for education in this State,
Louisiana l. bound to do better
than ever in the past. This 10 one
reason why We favor the amend
ment.