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St. Landry democrat. (Opelousas, La.) 1878-1894, 1892-08-13
Eve Measurements.

A good mechanical eye is an almost es-
sential requisite to a good mechanic. No
one can ever attain distinction as me-
chanic unless he is able to detect ordina-
ry imperfections at sight, so that he can
see if things are out of plumb, out of
level, out of square, and out of proper
shape, and unless he can also detect dis
proportional or ill-shaped patterns This
is great mechanical attainment, and one
which can readily be attained by any Or
binary person. Of course there are de-
fective eyes, as there are other defective
organs; the speech, for instance, is some
times defective, but the eye is suscepti
BILE of the same training as any organ.
The muscles, the voice, the sense of
hearing, all require training. Consider
how the artist must train the organ of
sight in order to detect the slightest i'm
perfection in shade, color, proportion,
shape, expression, etc. Not one black
smith in five ever attains the art of ham
mering square, yet it is very essential in
his occupation. 1t is simply because he
allows himself to get into careless hab-
it's; little training and care is all that
is necessary for success Manufacturers
Gazette
St. Landry democrat. (Opelousas, La.) 1878-1894, 1892-08-13
Secrets of Food AduIteratiOn

The Chicago Post is responsible for a
story to the effect that one F. H. Brahe
of that city answered an advertisement
offering "business opportunity" and
made some queer discoveries. The man
who advertised, and who did not tell his
name, offered to sell the secret of making
coffee beans out of mahogany dust and
various vegetable substances, promising
large profits. The fellow said that the
sale of secret methods of food adultera
ton was of common occurrence in Chi.
cago, and smiled indulgently when Mr.,
Brahe declined to have any business deal
ings with him The incident came to the
attention of j. B. Hean of Chicago, who
has made study of the various kinds of
adulteration. He says that the city has
no analyst, and that the swindlers could
be reached only by action on the
part of their victims, who themselves
must collect the evidence and present it
to the courts. He had discovered that
tea and coffee were adulterated very gen
orally in Chicago. Coffee sold at well
known grocery stores turned out to be
composed of compressed mahogany saw
dust, wheat, rye, peasc, acOrnS, OAK, tan
bark and the baked liver of horses. In
vestigation brought ont the fact that ora
tea leaves are saved at some OF the big
hotels and restaurants and sold to men
who dry them and mix with cheap teas.
Mr. Hean had found marble dust IN flour,
and declares that hundreds Of articles OF
food are similarly adulterated. 1.-The
matter of food adulteration,' nc says,
" has grown to be outrageous inc
cheaper the food the more the adultera-
ton. It is the poor people who are the
heaviest sufferers Men struggling tot
life with family on SIS and SO week
are swindlcd in almost every article OF
common food they use, and they have no
protection from the frauds. Many adul-
terations that are used are unfit for hui
man consumption, and yet there are men
who are growing rich in open y selling, one
might say, the secrets by which the food
of the poor can be still further adultera-
ted"
St. Landry democrat. (Opelousas, La.) 1878-1894, 1892-08-13
Treasures of. the Deep.

Under a permit from the Board of
Trade, of Great Britain, speculative
treasure seeker employed divers to ex-
plore the wreck of an East Indian which
sank off the Isle of Portland, in the Eng
lish Channel, eighty years ago, carrying
down with her an immense cargo of bull
lion They cleared the wreck, but found
nothing in it, and the searcher for sud
den wealth then learned that thirty five
years ago Whitstable boat secretly
operated on the old wreck and got all the
bullion. The same Spectator got per-
NIT to search Mounts Bay, between
Lands End and the Lizard, for two
Spaniards, which foundered in 1915, and
which carried a cargo of SO, 000,0 900 in
silver.-[New York Recorder.
St. Landry democrat. (Opelousas, La.) 1878-1894, 1892-08-13

end of the tube is ad justed locomotive
whistle, through which the air, auto
matically compressed by the motion of
the waves, is liberated in horrible toots.
Buoys of this description are particular
ly useful in toggy waters.
The first lighthouse built on this CONT
nent was at st. Augustine, Florada. Its
chief use was as look -out, whence the
Spanish people of the town could sec
vessels approaching from Spain, or get
notice of the coming Of foes in time to
run away. The tower attracted the at
tention of Francis Drake as he was sail
ing along the coast with his fleet of high
popped ships, on his way home from pill
laying the cities of the Spanish main.
So he stopped long enough to loot the
town and destroy what he could not take
away. In 1850 the ancient structure Of
Coquina Rock, which the United States
had adopted fnr lighthouse, fell down,
but before that happened another one
had been constructed.
Fire-towers at tn" entrance to ports
were established in the earliest historic
times. Bonhres were built on top OF
them at night The most famous light
house of antiquity stood on the island OF
Pharos, off the city of Alexandria. in
Egypt. 1t was one of the seven wonders
of the world, and was put up during the
reign of PtoIemy Philadelphus. Aft I
standing for 1900 years it was destroyed
by an earthquake. 1t is understood to
have been over 500 feet high.
St. Landry democrat. (Opelousas, La.) 1878-1894, 1892-08-13
SOAPING GEYSERS.
Playing Tricks on Them to Make Them
Spout.

Tourists in the Yellowstone National
Park got into the habit some years ago
of soaping the geysers to make them
spout, and the park authorities were com
PEELED to enforce the rule against throw
ing objects of any kind into the springs
because some of them had been perma
nently injured by such treatment. The
art of soaping geysers was accidentally
discovered by Chinese laundryman IN
the Upper Geyser Basin in the summer
of 1885. One day he threw some soap
into the hot spring from which he was
accustomed to draw water, and greatly
to his surprise, he produced an eruption
resembling that of a true geyser. Tour
lists who had come long distances to see
eruptlons began to experiment on the lar
ger geysers with some success. They
found that they could coax the unwilling
geysers to perform, and if the practice
had been continued it is probable that the
geysers would long before now have lost
much of their spectacular value.
Mr. Arnold Hague investigated the
phenomenon. By series of experiments
on the action of soap in stimulating the
eruptions of geysers, he found that some
were much more susceptible to the treat
ment than others He found that many
of the hot springs and geysers were quiet
even when the surface temperature of the
water was above the boiling point for
that altitude. Any disturbance, there
fore, was likely to cause the ebullltlon to
begin. as the water was in state of I'M
stable equilibrium. If soap, or concen-
trated I've, was added, viscous fluid was
produced which seem to cause the reten-
ton of steam, and in the case of super
heated waters, when the temperature
stands above the natural boiling point,
explosive liberation must follow.
Mr.. Henry NJ Cadell, the English
geologist who visited the Yellowstone
Park last year and gave some attention
to the soaping of geysers, says that the
famous Old Faithful geyser seems to be
proof against such undignitied treatment,
| but some of its more titful and tickle
brethren that have eruptions at uncertain
intervals pay more attention to the art
! full dodge to set them in action. Among
these is the Beehive which has no fixed
period but is susceptible to the action Of
soap In general, however, it seems
doubtful whether much reliance can be
placed on that method Of producing
eruptions.
In paper on soaping geysers, which
Mr.. Hague read before scientific society
a while ago, he said: "Outside of a few
exceptional instances, which could not be
repeated, and in which action was prob
ably anticipated by only a few minutes
in time, geyser eruptions produced by
soap or alkali appear to demand two es-
sential requirements: First, the surface
cauldron or reservoir should hold but a
small amount of water, exposing only a
limited area to the atmosphere: second,
the water should stand at or above the
boiling point of water for the altitude OF
the geyser basin above sea level. = New
York Sun.
St. Landry democrat. (Opelousas, La.) 1878-1894, 1892-08-13
A Divining Bottle.

In connection with the subject of curl
osities of patent offices, wcll-known
technical and scientific writer mentions a
peculiar patent that was taken out in
England by an American in 1899. The
object of the invention was to enable
precious metal to be discovered by a
PROCESS commonly known as divina
ton, and it consists IN a composition
which has a strong attraction and affinity
for gold and silver, the attraction resem-
bling somewhat that of magnetism" The
composition, which was made up of gold,
silver, quicksilver and copper, was placed
in a small vial or flask, with a quantity
of dilute nitric or tartaric acid or pure
alcohol, and to the neck of the flask was
attached a cord about twenty inches in
length The wording of the patent pro-
ceeds: 'In using my gold and silver finder
the instrument is held, preferably by the
thumb and forefnger of the right hand and
steadied with his left hand. 1t should be
held steady, but not cramped. Then if
there are any precious metals in the i'm
mediate neighborhood the flask will be
attracted by such metals and will move
toward them at first and will then vibrate
thus indicating presence of the metal
sought for" As the name of the Texas
farmer who took out the patent is not in
the recently published list of the million
aires of the country it may fairly be as
sumed, either that the divining bottle
belied the faith of its inventor, Or that he
was wanting in discrimination in the
selection of his hunting grounds. But
the idea is not new The bottle with its
hanging string is suggestive of the di-
vining pendulum, of which the Latin his
torians of fifteen hundred years ago spoke
reverently, and the divining rod is used
to-day in certain hands with great success
in the the location of mineral lodes.-
New York Commercial Advertiser.
St. Landry democrat. (Opelousas, La.) 1878-1894, 1892-08-13
The British ConsuPs report Of the

The British ConsuPs report of the
trade and commerce in Taganrog,
Rus.la, on the Sea of Azof, has just
been issued by the foreign office and
throws some interesting light on the
recent famine. It says that by Jan
uary last over 500, 900 horses had died
of starvation in the Province Of
Samara alone. Out of million alto
gether only 100000 were then alive,
tho -nther hundred thousand having
died from various CAUSES and the sur-
viving horses being SO exhausted as to
be useless for ploughing OF other
similar work. The villagers in the
country round were quite exhausted,
and men, women and children alike
keep body and soul together only by
eating the coarsest and most unnutri-
tious kinds of food, their chief de-
pendence being placed upon the kind
of bread made by mixture of dog
weed, seed and chaff of every kind.
The Tartars suffer most, as they have
been compelled to subsist on diet of
carton and offa.
St. Landry democrat. (Opelousas, La.) 1878-1894, 1892-08-13
RELIABLE RECIPES.

HAM ToAsT.-Mix with one table
spoonful of finely chopped ham, the
beaten-up yolk of an egg and little
cream and pepper; heat over the fire, and
then spread the mixture on hot buttered
toast. Serve very hot.
DAINTY SANDwIcHEs.-Dainty sand
witches are always acceptable on the home
tea table The daintiest sandwiches are
those made of potted meats and other
pastes spread upon wafer-like slices OF
bread, dclicately buttered. An egg-and-
anchovv sandwich is a novelty OF this
kind which will be generally appreciated.
Boil six eggs for fifteen minutes. Re
move the whites from five, reservlng
them to decorate salad, OF for any pur-
pose you desire Chop the six yolks and
the one white remaining, and pound
them to a paste, adding teasponful OF
butter and about teaspoonful OF an
chovv paste-or more if you like the fla
vor strong. Pound the mixture again
thoroughly and spread it on slices OF
bread and butter To make an egg and
anchovy toast, spread this same mixture
to which a little cayenne and larger
proportion of anchovy has been added,
on thin slices of hot buttered toast. Send
the toast to the table on one of those
convenient hot water plates, which will
insure it's being kept hot when served:
If you wish for variety, a little smoked
Gods roe or caviare may be substituted
for the anchovy.
A sandwich of potted cheese is also
delicious Pound together half pound
of cheese and five tablespoonfuls of but
ter. Add little light French wine, so
as to make a thick paste; spread this very
delicately on Boston crackers which have
been split and toasted, on thin slices of
bread and butter, or on crisp slices of hot
toast.
St. Landry democrat. (Opelousas, La.) 1878-1894, 1892-08-13

The Society for the Prevention of
tuberculosis, which was organized in
Philadelphia recently, will prove,
SAYS the New York Post, all inestima-
BILE boon to che poor, for it proposes
to work among them with scientific
methods, and to teach them also how
to guard against contagion. Plain
facts about tuberculous diseases will
be given in the form of pamphlets to
these people, and the boards of health
tlr rghout the state will be requested
to list such diseases as contagious and
report all cases. 1t will also be the
duty of the boards to inform nurses
in charge of patients how to destroy
the sources of contAgion. This pre-
caution is absolutely nee essary, as is
demonstrated by the experie ICE of
DR.. Flick of Philadelphia, who has
made a study of consumption with
special reference to its contagious
character. Typographical charts of
the Fifth Ward of that city which he
has prepared show that the disease oh.
serves all the usual laws of contagion;
that persons who come into contact
with the affected persons or who live
in close proximity to them fall victims
to the disease; that every new case is
contracted through the medium of a
disease germ, which can be accounted
for that the disease reappears in the
same locality in from one TO two
wears; that it has preference for
filthy neighborhoods, and that its
grouping is identically the same as
that Of typhoid fever, smallpox,
ccarlet fever, and diphtheria. The
maps of DR.. Flick are dotted to indi-
cate houses in which consumptives
have been found, and the grouping of
these dots seem to prove beyond
question the epidemic form of tuber-
cnlosis. It will be the business Of the
society to disinfect and purify the
haunts Of the disease, and enforce the
lesson of cleanliness among those who
are likely to fall victims to it
St. Landry democrat. (Opelousas, La.) 1878-1894, 1892-08-13
and I want to put Lieutenant Lake right
with the colonel,


with the colonel.
GAMES CoNNoR,
Sergeant Troop E, til U. S. Cav
airy"
And Sergeant Conner carried his point,
although he was not punished himself
Gt wasssaid about the post that Sergeant
Conner promised all sorts of rcforms),
and, singularly enough, a great change
took place in the colonel at the same
time, and even greater one in Lleuten-
ant Lake himself, for it was not an hour
after his release from arrest that Lieu
tenant Lake was making a long call on
the colonel. The wife of the post adj
jutant happened to be passing the
colonel's quarters as the two men were
conversing on the piazza, at the end of
the call, and she was positive, she alter
wards said, that she heard the following
fragment of conversation between them ::
The Coloncl-"Well, my boy, you
have waited long time, and [ suppose
that your wishes and Hyacinth's should
be respected in the matter. We will set
the wedding for month after next"
The "Thank you, Colo
mel"
The Colonel-"And now that have
learned to like you, my boy, you IN your
turn must learn to like me-"
The Lieutenant-"I have always liked
YOU, sir. You are the father of the girl
love, and the characteristics [ love in
her must also exist in you. u Frank
Leslie's Weekly.
St. Landry democrat. (Opelousas, La.) 1878-1894, 1892-08-13
BROKEN MEASURES.
Life ia full of broken measures,

Life is full of broken measures,
Objects unattained;
Sorrows intertwined with pleasures;
Losses of our costliest treasures,
Ere the heights be gained.
Every soul has aspiration
Still unsatisfed;
Memories that wake vibration
Of the heart in quick pulsatlon,
At the gifts denied.
We are better for the longing,
Stronger for the pain;
Souls at ease are nature wronging-
Through the narrowed soil come thronging
Seeds, in sun and rain.
Broken measures, fine completeness
In the perfect whole:
Life is but day in fleetness-
Richer in all strength and sweetness,
Grows the striving soul.
Il New England Magazine.
St. Landry democrat. (Opelousas, La.) 1878-1894, 1892-08-13
Lake Currents.

During the next few months great
many bottles will be cast upon the
shores of Lake Michigan. They are
to be thrown into the water for cX-
detrimental purposes by lake captains,
who will undertake the service at the
request Of the United States Govern
mcnt.
The experiments are to be conduct
ed for the purpose of determining the
set and drift Of lake currents, ana
will be under the direction or the
Weather Bureau. The bottles are to
be given out to vessel captains, VINO
will agree to throw them overload
and enter certain data on blanks fur-
nisheG for that purpose.
In order to do the work systemat-
ically, the great lakes have been
mapped out in numbered sections,
commencing at Duluth and number!
ING eastward. There are 40 sections
in all, each one containing $50 square
miles. When the captain throws one
Of the bottles in the water ne VIII
place in it, before 50 doing, slip OF
naper, upon which the data and posi-
tiOn Of the vessel is entered.
On each slip is the request that the
finder send it to the ChIefof Weather
Bureau at Washington or hand 1t TO
the nearest Government observatory
lighthouse keeper or postmaster
to be forwarded. BY noting where
the bottles 60 ashore, data VIII De
obtained from which the movement
of the lake currents can be calculated
WuEN q butcher CANDLES he shOuId
St. Landry democrat. (Opelousas, La.) 1878-1894, 1892-08-13

The American Farmer AYERS that
the mutton industry, now SO attractive
and 40 permanently inaugurated, has
changed the whole sheep industry of
the United States, on the farms and
on the ranges alike. Wool growing
by itself has had its day. There can
be no doubts as to the future makeup
of profitable sheep. No wool-bear-
ing qualities need be sacrificed, but
there must be mutton qualities.
St. Landry democrat. (Opelousas, La.) 1878-1894, 1892-08-13
Argentney INHABITANTS.

Tt is believed that fully rs per cent.
of the population of the Argentine
Republic at the present time consists
of European settlers, most of whom
now that the undesirable ones have
been compelled to leaVe-are well es-
tablished and have all their interests
identical with the country.
St. Landry democrat. (Opelousas, La.) 1878-1894, 1892-08-13

A Wyoming cattle man says that
the bicycle would be of no value in
Indian wars in the far West for the
reason that the Indians absolutely re-
fuse to do their fighting near travelled
roads, and persistently cling to rocks
and woods where the wheel is of little
use-which, exclaims the Boston Tran
script, is real mean of the Indians.
St. Landry democrat. (Opelousas, La.) 1878-1894, 1892-08-13
Guinea.

1t is not possible TO make an exact
comparison of the dynamite energy OF
earthquakes and cyclones but judging
by the results the San Francisco
Chronicle concludes that the Califor-
MIA earthquake is pigmy beside the
cyclone of the West.
St. Landry democrat. (Opelousas, La.) 1878-1894, 1892-08-13

Fifty years ago there was not a
native Christian on the FIJI Islands;
now there is not heather. Not long
since forty volunteers responded to a
cali for fifteen native missionaries for
dangerous and unhealthy work in New
St. Landry democrat. (Opelousas, La.) 1878-1894, 1892-08-13

he offered absolutely no explanation Of
his conduct, even after he was questioned
by the colonel.
Arrest meant with the colonel, charges
and court martial They meant more
than that. They meant sure punishment
of severe description. And so every
one on the post but the colonel himself
was sorely grieved-and who knows but
that the colonel himself was a trit1e
sorry2
St. Landry democrat. (Opelousas, La.) 1878-1894, 1892-08-13

First Guest-Awful bore, isn't IL:
Second Guest-Dull as a funeral. L
knew it would be. First Guest-l GU
knew it? Then why did you come:
Second guest-Had to. My wife heard
that the formula for writing regrets
had changed, and she couldn't find out
what the new style was. So she sent an
acceptance.
St. Landry democrat. (Opelousas, La.) 1878-1894, 1892-08-13

A prominent Boston banker, gen.
tleman with the best means for know
ing, said six years ago that there
were over 200 milionaires in Boston
St. Landry democrat. (Opelousas, La.) 1878-1894, 1892-08-13
st. Landry Democrat
BY l. A. sANDOZ,-
0neIouSas, Louisiana

What the Smiths are to England and
the Sullivans are to Ireland, the Null
lers seem to be to Germany. The
fatherland has 629, 987 of them.
St. Landry democrat. (Opelousas, La.) 1878-1894, 1892-08-13

Professor Agassiz is authority for
saying that the islands of Penobscot
Bay in Maine, from White Head to
Isle au Haut, make the prettiest
panorama on earth.
St. Landry democrat. (Opelousas, La.) 1878-1894, 1892-08-13

WHENEVER you talk about water
somebody is sure to want a drink.
TIE man who has God to plan for
him always does good days work
For every failing a man can point
out i'll others he has two of his own
YOU will never grow much in grace
by watching how other people walk.
FAITH is what a Christian has the
most Of when he has lost everything
else.
IT never helps us to walk an7
straighter to watch another mau'9
feet.
The man who worships God Of
his own imagination, worshipS him
self.
SAUL was bigger on the day he be
came king than he ever was after.
ward.
''HEREBY perceive we the love of
God, because He laid dOwn His life
for us.
EVERY Christian ought to read a
chapter III Gods living Bible to some
sinner.
LAZARUS had to walk to the rich
mans gate, but he was carried tn
Heaven.
TIE man who seeks his reward in
this world, never gets a price that
suits him.
The happest Christian is the one
who spends the least time in looking
at himself
The less a man amounts to the
prouder he is Of his ancestors being
big people.
"IIE that cometh to Me shall never
hunger: and he belieyeth on Me shall
never thirst"
The man who walks with God IS
| always sneered at by some highly re-
spectacle people.
The greatest reward ever offered
for faith1ulness are those promised in
the word Of God,
"God commendeth His love toward
us, in that, while we were yet sinners,
Christ died for us
The devil never throws any stones
at the preacher who is not sure that
the Bible is all true.
YOT can always tell how we'll
preacher loves the Lord bv the kind
of gospel he breaches
WHENEVER the de"il has ten min
utes to spare, he uses it to set more
traps for the children.
TIE blindest people are those who
never find out that they can not be
happy in their own way.
THERE isn't a poor man in the
world who would carry mllIiOnalre's
load for the pay he gets.
THE best farm in the promised land
is always the one which has the big
gest giants living on it.
THERE are people who would rather
pay their own way to the pit than to
| go to Heaven for nothing.
EVERY man will find out in the
Judgment that Christ has often come
to see him at his own house.
The man who knows that God is
with him to-day, has no trouble about
trusting Him for tomorrow.
There are so many temperance
men who take their blue ribbons off
when they go away from home.
The man who knows without doubt
that Christ is his Saviour, don't lose
much time in looking at himself.
If sunshine had to be paid for,
there are many people who would de-
clare that candle Light could beat it,
If some people had the faith to
move mountains, they would soon
make all their neighbors' land very
billy
No MAN ever attainS a station so
exalted in this world that God does
not expect him to to help those be-
meath him.