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sEAsoNABLE BREAKFAST DISHES.

Frizzled Beef-Cut dried beef very
thin. To every half a pound allow q
tablespoonful of butter, half pint of
milk, and one tablespoonful of -four.
Melt the butter in a frying-pan, add the
beef, and stir over the fire five minutes,
sprinkle in the -four, stir again, pour in
the milk, season with pepper, stir until
it boils, and serve Immediately.
Kidney Taute-Split the kidneys in
halves lengthwise, and trim. Cut in
pieces. Put two ounces of butter in a
frying-pan; let melt; add a small onion,
cut in slices, with the kidney. Stir over
a brisk fire four or FIVE minutes; then add
a tablespoonful of flour; stir again; pour
in a teacup of soup stick Tor hot water)
season with salt, pepper, the juice OF q
lemon, and a ~teaspoonful Of grape jelly;
stir well and serve hot.
Lamb Outlets With Mushrooms-Trim
and cut six lamb outlets about half an
inch thick; roll in grated crackers, and
FRY in butter until Drowned on both sides.
Stew half q pint of mushrooms in a pint
of white sauce until tender; then mash
and strain them through a vegetable
strainer; add a teacup of the sauce, put
in the center of a dish; arrange the cut
lets around, and pour over brown sauce.
Hash on Toast-Cut pieces of cold
meat into small squares; to every pint al
low one tablespoonful of butter, n Of
flour and half q pint of boiling water.
Put the butter on q frying-pan, let
brown, add the flour; mix well, pour in
the water, and stir until it boils, and
add the meat; season with salt and pep
per. Let simmer e a moderate fire
ten minutes. Toast squares of stale
bread, butter, and lay in a hot dish;
spread the hash On thickly and pour the
gravy over.
Cecils-Take two cups of cold, finely
chopped meat, the yolks of two eggs,
a tablespoonful of butter, have a teacup
of stale bread crumbs, a teaspoonful Of
finely -chopped onion, half a grated nut
meg, a little pepper and salt, mix all TO-
gether well, put in a frying-pan and stir
over the fire until well heated. Take up,
and spread ON a large dish to cool.
When cold, form in little balls, dip first
in beaten egg then in brea crumbs, anc
fry in boiling lara.
Sweetbread Croquettes-Trim and par
boil a pair of sweetbreads; chop fine.
Put a teacup of new milk in a saucepan
and set on the fire to boil. Rub q table
spoonful of -four and two of flavor to-
eethar, and stir into the boiling milk
with the mushrooms; let cook until very
thick. Take from the fire, season with
salt and pepper, two tablespoonful OF
chopped mushrooms, half = teaspoonfnl
of onion juice and . tablespoonful OF
chopped parsley; mix well and turn out
to cool. When cold, form into GRO
quotes, dip first in egg and then in
bread crumbs, and fry in boiling fat
Courier-JburaGL.
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The Deserter's Brand on His Breast.

"Give us five cents for a drink, sir3"
The speaker was a brawny, middle-aged
man in seedy attire.
"Go to thunder" said the man ad-
dressed, roughly.
"1've gone there already" answered
the man meekly. "Some years ago l
was q well, off man as a soldier in the
English army"
SIN what regiment were you9" asked
the other, who was we'll posted on the
English army.
al was a farrier in the Tenth Hussars."
"Were you! What is the name by
which they are known in the service?"
"Why, everybody knows as they are
the Cherubims, COS of their red breeches.
/ served in the Sixty-ffth Foot, too, sir,
the South Hampshire regiment"
"Do you mean to say you were trans
ferred from the cavalry to the infantry2'
"No, sir, I was not. l deserted and
then re-enlisted. Igot found out, was
tried by court-martial and have got the
'D' on me now. Nothing will blot out
that letter, as I'll show yer"
The man pulled up his blouse, and
sure enough, there was the t~ell-tale sd"
lust under the left breast. The mans
chest was tattooed with a sea scene and
a ship in full sail, but the letter was
plain enough. He got the price of two
drinks and wandered away to the Bow
cry.
Sixteen years ago branding was abol-
ished in the British army.-Nsw York
Tribune.
The Opelousas courier., 1891-01-10
wHrrEwAsH FOR POULTRY HOUSES.

A capital whitewash is made by mix
Ing common, water lime cement with
sweet, SKINNED milk to the proper con-
sistency. The following is the Govern
ment w~hitewash, and fine whitewash it
Is: Put two pailfuls of boiling water in
d barrel; add one half of a bushel of
well burned, fresh quicklime; put in
quickly one peck of common salt, dis
solved in hot water, and cover the barrel
tightly to keep in the steam while the
lime is Stacking; when the violent ebul-
Htion is over, stir till we'll mixed to-
gether, and, if necessary, add more boil
ing water, SO as to have the mass like
thick cream, strain through a sieve or
coarse cloth. Make a thin starch of three
pounds of rice -four and one pound of
strong glue, having first soaked the glue
in cold water, and to the latter mixture
add two pounds of whiting. Add this
to the lime wash, and also sufficient hot
water to dilute to the proper consistency;
keep hot while applying. 1t will require
about six quarts of the mixture to 100
square feet of surface, and it will last re-
markably well. Itgoes without saying,
that it may be made any color DESIRED
Farm and Fifeside.
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market, and not one of them was loaded
heaviest behind, and such has been my
observation everywhere. With potatoes
the box is filled and the extra bags piled
on forward, also salt, nails, and such
heavy goods are put forward, and the
lighter and mor bulky behind. I re-
gard such loading as great a physical
heresy as that the horse that lags behind
does the most work. sit is true that
the closer the load to the team the easier
it will draw, IF it is a log on the ground,
but put it on wheels and be the roads
smooth or rough, 1t makes little differ
ence. and a long tongue gives the team
an advantage on rough roads.-7He
HuS5Gndman.
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WHAT CURES ?
editorial Difference of Opinion ON nm Ina
pOrtant Subject.

Editorial Difference of Opinion ON nm Ina
portant Subject.
What is the force that Gusts disease: and
which is the most convenient apparatus for
applying it? How far is the regular physi-
clan useful to us because we believe in him,
and how far are his pills and powders and
tonics only the material representatives Of
his personal influence on our health?
The regular doctors cure; the h~onoeopath-.
ic doctors cure; the Hahnemannites cure:
and so do the faith cures and the mind
cures, and the so-called Christian scientists,
and the Notwithstanding advertising
itinerants, and the patent medicine men. They
all hit, and they all miss, and the great diff
ference-one great d~ifference-in the result
tlent no one grumbles, and when the irregus
lar doctors lose one the community stands
on end and howls.-Rochester Union and
Advertiser.
Nature cures, but nature can be aided, him
dered or defeated in the curative process.
And the Commercials contention is that it
is the part of rational beings to seek and
trust the advice of men of good character
who nave studied the human system and
learned, as far as modern science lights the
way, how far they can aid nature and how
they can best avoid obstructing her.-Buf-
fdto Commercial.
1t is not our purpose to consider the evils
that result from employing the unscrupul-
GUS, the ignorant, charlatans and quacks to
prescribe for the maladies that afaict the
human family. We simply declare that the
physician who knows something is better than
the physician who knows nothing, or very
little indeed about the structure and the con-
ditions of the human system. OF course she
does not know it all."--RocheSter Morning
Herald.
I have used Warmers Safe Cure and but
Hors ifp +sn,a1u ,1ca ruD,,1I bora hon, rn,,;l-
believe, in my grave from what the doctors
termed Bright's Diseased. +. Shriner, sem
ior Editor Scioto Gazette, ChiIlicothe, Ohio,
in a letter dated June 80. 1890.
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TO FREsHEN OLD CLOTHING.

The way to make old clothes look like
new is described in the american analyst,
as follows:
Take, for instance, a shiny old coat,
vest or pair of pants, Of broadcloth,
cashmere OF diagonal. The scourer
makes a strong, warm soapsuds and
plunges the garment into it, souses it up
and down, rubs the dirty places, if
necessary puts it through a second suds,
then rinses 1t through several waters, and
hangs it to dry on the line. When nearly
dry, he takes it in, rolls it up for an
hour or two, and then presses it. An
old cotton cloth is laid on the outside of
the coat and the iron passed owe that
until the wrinkles are out; but the iron
is removed before the steam ceases to
rise from the goods else they would be
shiny. Wrinkles that are obstinate are
removed by laying a wet cloth over them
and passing the iron over that. IF any
shiny places are seen, they are treated as
the wrinkles are; the iron is lifted, while
the full cloud of steam rises and brings
the nap up with it. Cloth should always
have suds made specially for it, as If that
which has been used for white cotton or
wooden clothes be used lint will be left in
the water, and cling to the cloth. In
this name we have known the same
coat and pantaloons to be renewed time
and again, and have all the look and feel
of new garments. Good broadcloth and
its fellow cloths will bear many washiugs,
and look better every time because of
them.
The Opelousas courier., 1891-01-10
A South American Farm.

Amongst the many h~ospitable farms
aud haciendas that I visited we may take
as a favorable specimen Sonora Isidora
Cousiro's large and beautiful estate at
Macul, near Santiago, which is rather,
perhaps, a model farm than a commercial
enterprise. The whole hacienda COM
prises 500 cuadras irrigated and 700 cua-
dras OF mountain land without irrigatinR.
Forty cuadras are devoted to vines, which
produce over $50, 900 1itres a year; a
certain portion is allotted to raising
wheat, barley and oats for home consump-
ton; a considerable space is laid out as
a park, with very fine and picturesque
ornamental gardens, and the rest is given
up to alfalfa and grazing. The stud
farm at Macul is important, and the stock
consists of imported Clydesdale, Perche-
ron, Cleveland, Anglo-Norman and thor
ough-bred racing stock, including a Yam
kee trotter-in all, about a hundred
horses and nearly two hundred cows,
bred from thorough-b bred imported French
and English Durhams. This establish.
ment being rather an exceptional n
from many points of view, you might ex-
pect to find the farm laborers treated
with the same care as the cattle. But
no. They receive the usual sixty-tive
paper cents a day, with food and lodging
gratis The lodging consists of rooms in
an adobe building, with a beaten earth
floor, or a a hut plastered over with
mud; while the food is composed Of a
daily ration of two pounds of bread in
the morning and at midday an unlimited
quantity of beans cooked in grease. That
is all; the laborer receives neither tea nor
coffee, much less beer or wine. The la
borers who work permanently on the
farm all the year round, instead
of being lodged in barracks, have
a cottage and a bit of land, which they
ere allowed to cultivate for their "
profit; but in return for this privilege
they have to work at the rate of fifty-fve
cents a day, or furnish a substitute. The
laborers of this class are called ''inquil-
mos y and are considered to be the stand
by of every farm, because thef services
can always be counted on from years
end to years end. Their cottages and
plots are invariably situated on the out
skirts of an estate, at intervals one from
the other, TO that, together with their
families, tH y form the natural guardians
and watchmen of the hacienda.-Hor-
per's Magaaine.
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Greenland's Zee Car.

The aspect of these boundIess wastes
rolling away ia scarcely ~perceptible u n
dulations, and in the distance mingling
the gray of their SHOWS with the gray of
the skies, at first gave the impression
that Greenland was a uniform plateau, a
sort of horizontal table. The belief now
prevails that the rocky surface of the
land is, on the contrary, carved into
mountains and hills, valleys and gorges,
but that the plasic SHOWS and ice have
gradually filed up all the cavities, which
now show only in slight sinuosities on
the surface. Allowing to the whole mass
of the ice cap an average thickness of 500
feet, it would represent a total volume of
100, 900 cubic miles. This sermer suak,
or tsgreat ice" of the G~reenlanders, flows
like asphalt or tar with extreme slowness
eastward, while the surface is gradually
leveled by the snow falling during the
course of ages and distributed by the
winds. In the interior of the country
the surface of the ice and snow is as
smooth as if it were polished, looking
like "the undisturbed surface of afrozen
ocean, the long but not high pillows of
which, rolling from east to west, are not
easily distinguishable to the eye"
Nevertheless, says a writer in Popular
Science Monthly, the exterior form of the
ice cap has been greatly diversified at
least on its outer edge, where IN many
places it is difficult to cross, or even
quite impossible. The action of lateral
pressure, of heat produced by the tre-'
mendous friction, of evaporation and FL
~tration, has often broken the surface into
innumerable cones a few yards high, in
form and color resembling the tents Of
an encampment.
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seamless steel Boats.

MIR. Heslop Of Leeds, England, has
devised a method of forming steel boats
without a seam by one operation. The
metal plate used is one-sixteenth inch
thick, and of oval shape. It is heated
in a furnace and then nodded in 8 die
to the required form by hydraulic pres
sure. Three dies are employed to gain
the form by degrees, and thus preserve
the metal from crac king o. buckling,
The boat is then polished, and fitted up
with air-tight compartments and othe1
necessaEies,
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Hints for Yeaefarians.

We were talking about good dinners
at the club the other night and one of
the party RECALLED us with a story about
an elaborate meal he had had aS the home
of a vegetarian. Then the Doctor broke
in and said:
'sIt is all very we'll for vegetarians to
claim that their diet is more Clearly,
more refined, more economical and more
healthful than ours, but you will find
that very few of them thrive on it. In
fact, obesity and diabetes can be traced
directly to living on potatoes and cereals,
which are the unsupported cause of much
of the illness of modern life. Brown
breadFoets up an Inflammation of the
intestines, and, if constantly eaten,
slowly produces a permanent derange-
ment of digestion. Hominy and cracked
wheat-mainstays of vegetarian diet
cause a strain upon the vital powers, end
ing al times in the breaking down of the
nervous system. Cereals are laden with
earthly matter which finally stifens the
joints. In fact, a proper diet would in
clude these articles in comparatively small
proportions, but meat and fruit in aboa-
dance."H
This is the opinion of the physician;
there may be others who would tell you
something entirely different. You pay
your money and you take your choice
NeD York Telegram.
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KEEp rHE COWS CLEAN.

With COWS constant attention to the
cleanliness Of the skin is indispensable
10 tie purity of the milk. These animals
generally escape Injury to health from
causes which would be fatal to other
animals because the poison is carried off
with the milk. And in diaries where
cleanliness is not observed as it should be
the evaporation from the milk, which
collects on the covers of the pals in
which the milk is set for cream, or which
may be gathered upon a sheet of glass
laid over a shallow pan of milk freshly
drawn from a COW, will deposit g guam
tity Of liquid Of an intolerably foul odor.
II one viii test the milk of cows kept in
filthy stables, and upon whose sides filth
is permitted to collect in adhereut fakes,
in this way, the ~foulness will be very APP
parent. This 0dor has been called some-
times the animal odor and has been
thought to be inseparable from the COW.
This is wholly untrue. It is the odor of
flth, which has every characteristic of
manure, and which is discharged with
the milk because it could not escape
through the skin, which is the natural
outlet for it, and by which it would es-
cape freely and imperceptibly if the skin
were kept clean and in healthful action
~ means of thorough carding and brush
ing every day.-Neso York Times.
The Opelousas courier., 1891-01-10
PLANTING IN AN OLD ORCHARD.

orchardists have usually asserted that
soung trees would not thrive if planted
Il the same place where an old one of
he same kind had grown and died of old
ace or otherwise, although nature has
been ~replanting her forests in this way
for many thousands of years. There is
no good reason for supposing that an old
apple tree leaves anything in the soil
that should be injurious to a young tree
pIanted in its place, and we would not
hesitate for a moment to replace old
trees of any kind with new n If the
land is old and its fertility exhaused,
fertilizers should, of course, be applied
IN sufficient quantities to insure a vigor-
Gus growth of young trees. It's an old
theory that a new orchard should never
be planted on the site of an old one, but
Il does not hold good in practice .-New
York San. !
The Opelousas courier., 1891-01-10
THE FARM AND GARDEN.

TELL THE WEIGHT OF A HATsTACK.
10 ascertain the approximate weight of
4 ! haystack an English authority says:
Multiply the length of the stack by its
h,eadth. and multiply the result by its
height, all in feet, divide the product by
.wenty-seven, which will give the num-
ber of cubic yards; this multiply by six,
4 new hay; if oldish, by eight or nine,
.nd the product will be the weight in
stones. In measuring the height deduct
,wo-thirds CT the distance in feet from
the caves to the top.
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The Cost OF Fame In New York.

A young man who inherited q legacy
of considerable amount in ST. Louis came
to New York to settle, if he liked the
town. He stayed here six months, and
on his return to st. Louis his former
companions gave him a blowout. In
the midst of the merriment some one
asked the reclaimed blood when he in
tended to return to the Eastern metropo-
lis. aNever,n he answered, aif | car
help it. Confound New York. ! spent
$50, 600 there in six months, and nobody
even knew i was in town."-Phaadelphid
Telegraph.
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A wAaoE.

Ten years ago a man drew me a load
u hay in spring, roads very J "a and
muddy, and fully two-thirds { fthe load
vas on the forward wheels, because ne
wanted to give the team all the advan-
tage possible, as the roads were SO soft
aHd the wheels cut in so." He was as
toBished that l should differ, aud when
told others of my surprise ! was dumb
founded to find nine out of ten agreeing
vita him. They ssknew by experience
allat the nearer the load to the team, the
sasier it would draw, and that the large
ast-iron thinblc-axle moved d load over
Eoagf roads easier than 8 small steel
asls After this I was led TO notice
saaea wagons one day / cognted thirty
elgdt iRaas Of grain il bags going %
ITH
The Opelousas courier., 1891-01-10
Remarkable Lakes.

the deepest lake in the world is Lake
Baikal, in Siberia. It's area of over 5000
square miles makes it about equal to
Lake Erie in superficial extent; its enor-
depth of between 1000 to $500 feet
makes its volume of water almost equal
to that of Lake Superior. Although its
surface is 1880 feet above sea level, its
bottom averages over 5000 below the
same level.
America has a lake which, although
its waters are not as deep as those of the
Siberian wonder, also bears a unique
distinction. 1t is located in the Yose-
mite Valley, and is called Mirror Lake.
On account of the height and sheer de-
scent of the surrounding mountains, the
sun does not rise upon it until II 80
o'clock in the morning and sets seventy
three minutes later.-St. Louis Repub-
lcGn,
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HOUSEHOLD
TO REMOVE PAINT opoRs,

The smell of paint may be taken away
by closing up the room and setting in the
centre of it a pan of lighted charcoal on
which have been thrown some juniper
berries. Leave this in the room for a
day and night, when the smell of the
paint will be gone. Some persons prefer
a pail of water in which a handful of hay
is soaking. This is also effectual in re-
moving the odor of tobacco smoke from
a room.-New York Telegram.
The Opelousas courier., 1891-01-10
The Worlds SILK Output.

(. The production of silk throughout the
world last gear is estimated at 11,706
tons, as against 11,54S tons in 1883,
1 1883 tons iu 1887, 1854 tons In
1885 and 90O2 tons in 1885. The aver
age for the four years from 1885 to-
1888 was 10, 74S tons. The 1889 crop was
rather above it, although scarcely any
silk was produced in Syria and other
parts Of the Levant.-London Times.
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PRESSING AND SHIPPING POULTRY.

DfthSG4NO ~ Az
In reply to several queries in relation
10 preparing and shipping poultry for
market we cannot do better, perhaps,
than give the directions of n of the
leading commission firms of New. York
to their patrons. They say: To insure
they highest market prices for poultry
the birds must be well fattened; crops
empty when killed nicely and well picked
and skin not broken or torn; thoroughly
cooled, but not frozen. Pack in boxes
with a layer Of clean straw rye straw is
the best) between the layers of poultry in
the same posture in which the birds
roost. Mark each box, specifying what
1t contains. Send invoice by mail.
Ship to reach destination about the mid
die of the week-never to arrive as late
as Saturday.
In New York city three is an ordinance
that specifies that neither chickens or
turkeys shall be offered for sale unless
the crops are free from food. While
poultry for New York and some other
markets is seldom if ' Q drawn, that de-
signeafor Boston and other New Eng
land markets 10 relieved of the entrails
when killed. IT is important, therefore,
that producers should learn previous to
shipping just what their special market
requires. This information may be OBJ
tanned by writing direct TO ones commits
sion merchant for instructions. Many
firms have printed circulars containing
directions. which are sent out OF written
application. Whenever practicable, ship
chickens, ducks, turkeys, etc., in sepa-
rate packages. In sending poultry for
the holidays eudeavor to have your ship.
ments reach their destination three or
four days III advance. Bear in mind
that the big demand for fine, large tur-
Keys comes at Thanksgiving, and that
prime geese catch the fancy prices at
Christmas. Soon after January prices
go up again. Capons meet a good
market from the Ist of February on until
about Easter.-Nep York W0rt3.
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Oklahoma Guide Book and Maj sent any wh@e
on receipt Of 50 cts. Tyler g. Co. Kansas City, Ma.
The crow does not fly from a cornield
with Tt cay yS

Oklahoma Guide Book and Map sent any where
on receipt Of 50 cts. Tyler g. Co. Kansas Csty. Mo-
The crow does not fly from a oornisld
With ut caws.
Let every enfeel led woman
know it! There's 4 medicine
that'il cure her, and the proofs
positive!
Here's the proof if it
doesn't do you good within
reasonable time, report the
fact to it's makers and get
your money back without
a word-but you won't do it
The remedy IS DR.. Pierce's
Favorite Prescription-and it
has proved itself the right
remedy in nearly every case
of female weakness.
1t is not a miracle. 1t won't
cure everything -but it has
done more to build-up tired,
cnfeeblcd and broken down
women than any other medl-
cine known.
Where's the woman who's
not ready for it? All that
we've to do is to get the
news to her. The medicine
will do the rest.
Wanted Women. First
to know it. Second to use
it. Third to be cured by it.
The one comes of the other.
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Entitled to tho Best.

ALI are entitled to the best that til cir money
will buy. so every family should have. at once
a bottle of the best family remedy. Syrup OF
Figs, to cleanse the system when costive or bill
ious. For sale N Soc. and 81 bottles by all
leading druggists.