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The Progress., 1892-12-03

Both parties do it. and there is 10 hope
for an administration In the interest OF
the people and reform. Many of the
Old-tine politicians have always COM
mitted their chances of reelection en-
tirrly to the party machine. and they
have SIMPLY done its bidding. They
have so far been successful, and cannot
conceive of failure. They will hight tiIi
they find themselves in the condifion IN
which Nj. ingalls, describes himself as
now being ina statesman out OF job.
ANY party OF paper that Is compelled
to live by manufacturing false state
ments on the best men in our country
had better stop. Truth crushed to
earth shall rise again; the eternal years
are hers.
As a people belonging to no party. but
will vote for principle, will contend Ior
honest dealInks. just laws, equal rights,
we have banded ourselves together 10
protect honest men, doing Legitimate
business. We want nothing but honest
men to indOrse our motto. We ask no
favor, but ask for an equal chance with
] others to educate and raise our families.
Some say we have the same chance.
| Lay aside your selfishness and examine
the unequal burdens and hardships plac-
ed upon productive industries by class
legislature. We only ask laws repeated
| which are robbing our wives ana cnlI-
drep of the comforts OF life, or laws tc
counteract the bad ones made; ana we
believe with q conscience as clear as tine
sun, that every honest man who does al
above stated will come out on our SIDE
from banker down to street peddter, foi
twenty-five years voting the Democratic
ticket without scratch. But good Dy'
old ship, your hull Is too rotten for me u
risk on deep water. w. j. SAYEks'
The Progress., 1892-12-03

Not satisfied with the Glorious Victory
Of the Democratic Party.
rsxswArxs. La. November q. 1897.
70 the Editor Of The Progress:
In late issue Of your paper yon say
the Pe ople's party is or will be unneces-
sary,' as tbe Cleveland administration
would give the relief asked for by the
populists. Can fresh and salt water now
from the same Fountain
There IL q fight on hand, and q bitter
one. and 1t will be waged TO the death.
Eight millions of dollars is very large
sum of money, but each Of the party
machiues uses that sam, or more In each
national campaign. IL is well known
that they use IL largely for corrupt pur-
noses. but the most significant question
!. vhere do they get 1T The fact is,
thew ell the coming administration fol-
the money 20 carry on the election
The Progress., 1892-12-03
DE sOTO,s POLICE JURY.


For the second time De Soto par
ish has been brought into promi-
nence by some act of its police jury
which made that body a laughing
stock, and thereby attracted attention
to the parish which gave it birth.
The former novelty which took
place some years ago was some aca
whereby it placed its power superior
TO that of the District if not Supreme
court and, we think, ordered the dis
charge Of a prisoner serving out
term in the parish jail. Ii not this
it was something equally ridiculous
as the files of the Democrat will
doubtless show, rs it commented on
it very strongly at the time.
The second instance took place at
it's last session in the adoption OF the
following:
sBe it resolved, That we, the Police
Jury, do hereby resolve that no bills
made by Justices of the Peace and
Constables when the crime to bepun-
isbed is a misdemeanor or not neces-
sarily punishable at hard labor, shall
be paid until finally acted on by the
grand jury and formally convictedby
the court"
The police jury has about as much
authority to carry out that resolution
as they would this:
"Resolved, that the grand jurors
shall receive no pay for the time en-
ployed in inquiring into cases on
which they return bills, which q
petit jury fails to sustain by convic-
tion."
The passage of the resolution
referred to cannot add to the standing
of this police jury abroad for eolight-
ment. The Legislature fixed the feee
on iustice's OF peace and constable
and we will risk q challenge rs to our
common sense on the assertion that
no police Jury has the right to repea!
, or semi-repeal An act OF our Genera
We chesrfully grant that De Sotoy
police iury is not the only body OF it
r kind which srrogates to itself power
: superior to that ever dreamed OF To-
s such bodies but there are still SOM
q beniphted people even here in Csdde
who are so old fogy-fed that the.
V will not admit it, though it may hav
e been so declared by those who hay
= the authority to make 1t 90.
. We don't know the makeup OF tn
# justices Of peace and constsbles G
. De Soto parish, bat we know ie,
II in Caddo who will resent to the IN
i extremity Of the law any such auto
G ratio attempt to override the Law
n n Judge Taylor knows little law hin
as self as does also Judge Hall neith'
he of whom we think, can be intim
?, ?, dated from rendering Q decisie
'e against the defendants should II
ar police juries ever be sued.
y
The Progress., 1892-12-03

VIM. Mayo q negro hand on MI. =.
B. herndon's plsntstlon wa srru..s
on the head with spade in the hands
of another negro named Taylor Dick
erson on the same place last Saturday
and dangerously wounded. The
wounds were dressed by DR.. 8. H.
Hicks at the Office OF justice @. d.
Hicks where Mays had come 10 pre-
fer charges against Dickerson and
his son Hugh. Both Of the accused
surrendered Monday and were imme-
distely bonded BY Mr.. Herndon. No
definite clue as to the origin Of the
difficulty could be obtained.
The Progress., 1892-12-03

Wagner Bros. has tine salt water
fish every Friday morning and Sun
day morning. Send them your
orders
The Progress., 1892-12-03
AN IMPORTANT MOVEMENT
Let CAddO Wake up.

IMNIaRATfUN.-Mans Democrat
Journal, A few days since movement
was inaugurated in this place in behalf
of the material interests of the parish,
men. those who own land and will dis
pose of it to immigrants on reasonable
terms. can be made successful and pro-
fitable to all concerned and OF great
benefit to our whole people. The plan as
IL outlined is for land owners TO pool
such tracts as they wish TO sell, organize
a Joint stock company, having charter
ss provided for under the laws OF the
state. and take such steps as may De
deemed best in behalf Of immigration
| and Developments. The movement is re-
= -ded withinterest here, and u IL hoped,
will he the means of attracting hither
much of that class of thrifty Immigrant
| which il continually leaving the Northf
west. 49,.
In the matter of immigration three
questions present themselves Ior solu
fion. Does Immigration help a country
such as ours? Do we want 1t? Can We
prt III We think all of these question:
will be answered IN the Affirmative D'
our progressive land owners. The on'
ON which there may be q difference o
opinion is the last, but all can and WI
trust will be united on IL after the pro
posed movement shall have been wei
understood. The plan presented IL SIM
lar to the one adopted with so much sue
cess in the southwestern portion OF tn
state. A few years since that sectio
, was almost a wilderness; and land wa
worth almost nothing. Through tn
, exertiops of tine Southwest Land Com
! pany il has been settled by energetic an
progressive westerners and 1t is now tn
I, most prosperous part of the State. Ou
parish can offer superior inducements
| - ol IN
can settle their wild and abandone
9 lands with good people il they will max
/ the effort 10 do 81 and act IN concert.
DeSoto bears the name OF bein
> > the home of progressive bushes
!, men both merchants and farmer
/ whose bank account is generally o
= ! the right side; and when it is M
their credit makes amends for Il
!. deficiency. Her name stands we
n abroad for enterprise ard energy an
n in the step above noted it will |
3 seen that her reputation 10 we
deserved.
Now, The PRoeREss would Incl
the business men Of Csddo to sroul
y themselves to the necessity Of Il
times Let them take some action
the important matter Of immigratio
y and while the spirit is at work
3 every North Louisiana parish rise
n a concentrated movement.
,e ooo -
The Progress., 1892-12-03

Mr.. Jules Dreyfuss was seriously
injured in New Orleans Friday Ct Last
veehwhile in q cab to which the team
attached ranawsy. His left arm was
broken which under the circumstances
was slight mishap a. it might have
been far worse. His numerous friends
rejoice with him that the injury was
no worse. He ID out on the streets
wearing his usual smile.
The Progress., 1892-12-03

Keep OF my corns' cries the lax
official TO TIE PRoeBLss which was
merely treating on public affairs gen.
orally.
The Progress., 1892-12-03

Go to Wagner Bros, for Southern
homo made pork sausag, and I'll
kinds of sausage
The Progress., 1892-12-03

Mr.. g. Blum an old and well;knew q
citizen of Shreveport died on FR .sy
night OF last week in the 18th ycssr Of
his age.
Shenandoah herald. [volume] (Woodstock, Va.) 1865-1974, 1892-06-24
Uncl. Sam Wanted His Secret.

Hermit George Clinton Crosby, OF
Stockbridge, Mass, has just been taken
to the insane asylum by the State Off
cials, and that section of Berkshire region
has lost one of its most famous an unique
characters. Crosby has been an interest
ing parsonage from three facts: He was
hermit of long standing, he was the
victim of unreturned love and be possesses
a secret that the Government has several
times offered many thousands OF dollars
to acquire, but in vain.
Crosby is sixty-seven years old and
was born in Stockbridgc. From his
earliest boyhood he displayed marked
mechanical genius. When young man
he worked in New York for piano
manufacturer, and some thirty-tive years
ago he went to the village of Great Bur
rington, Mass, and built the house in
which he spent more than half his life.
This house is in the wilderness at the
foot of East Mountain. Love, unre-
turned, for a pretty Connecticut girl III
duced him to take up his lonely dwell
inc. but he would never talk about that
maiden. He had plenty of money always
and no one knows where he got it. This
has excited the curious many times to
make futile searches in the region of his
home, hoping to find his treasure, for by
his own confession it was buried in the
ground at the foot of East Mountain.
For many years Crosby occupied him
self by repairing guns and othey firearms,
aud he was known the country round as
the most capable mau for such work.
His fondness for firearms led him to
make several for his own use, and these
are the ones that excited the desire OF
the Government, for they were guns OF
wonderful manufacture. Such examlna-
ton of them as the gun-makers were
permitted to make by the not over cor
dial old man showed that they were twist
bore guns, and the hermit's secret process
of making a twist-bore gun was what the
Government wanted TO know. The
Springfield armory officers were dePuted
to obtain the secret, but their attempts
we're always friitless. The hermit said
that his secret should die with him aud
it probably will.
He had two guns in particular, made
entirely by himself, that are marvels of
gunmaking. They are not deliberately
finished, but their shooting qualities are
wonderful. He called them "OId
Smoke" and "Baby." Both are rifles,
and often he would permit a favored
visitor to take "Baby" out and shoot at
target he had fixed up.-Chlcago
Herald.
Shenandoah herald. [volume] (Woodstock, Va.) 1865-1974, 1892-06-24
"a. e.; wa. and Stationery.

Late news from Paris is to the eliecs
Mat sealing wax has suddenly become
nee more fashionable. A meaning Is
Low attached to each color. White
Iealing wax means proposal oil mar
;iaae: black, Of course, mourning; Vlo.et'
rondolence; brown or Old gold, an invl-
lafion TO dinner; ruby is used by lovers;
,rimson is reserved strictly for busi-
ness: green means hope; pale gray,
ir.endshp; pink, love letters; yellow,
jealousy; gold and silver, constancy'
ptc. Note paper is to be had In cor
responding shades and In all shapes
and forms. Mourning paper is now ap,
lolutely black, edged with silver, and
silver ink IL used to write thereup n. a
pretty novelty is the flower paper. IL IS
Of pale blue, pink, lilac or green, and L
powdered all over with the buds ana
petals Of flowers in yet lighter hue.
Forget-me- nots or gentianellas on IND
blue, roses and apple blossoms on 'he
plnk. crocuses, violets, or twigs OF Law
snder on tho lilac, and buttercups and
daisies on the green. The envelopes
match the paper, and are lined VIII
silver.
Shenandoah herald. [volume] (Woodstock, Va.) 1865-1974, 1892-06-24
Inc ruo, or 1n,shhea, Ireland.

1t is not so many years since the
priests succeeded in crushing super.
stition which almost amounted to
kind of idolatry. A stone image, OF
storm god, rudely carved into a hui
man shape, was set up on the south
island, but was afterward for year;
on the north island, where it was
kept in a kind If temple erected fOi
it, the remains o. which are still
standing, aud frCm his it would be
taken out and set facing the quarter
from which the natives desired that
a storm should come. 1t was subse.
Quently brought back to the south
island, where it was broken up by a
priest some fifteen or twenty years
ago. The islanders put the pieces to.
gether again and kept them in posi-
tiOn by kind of garment fastened
round them, but the priest returned,
carried the fragments out to sea and
threw them overheard.
In district where wood is Sc
scarce the value of a wreck on the
coast is enormous, aud wrecking USED
to be practiced whenever possible,
with the usual barbarOuS acc0mpani'
ments, but no instance of it has
been known since 1913. Wreckagc is
as much valued as ever. and the peo'
pie on the coast bemOan the use OF
iron ships and the increase in the
number of lighthouses.
Other superStitiOns still prevail,
such as its being unlucky to bury a
drowned man; that the souls OF
drowned persons so into seals; and
the existence of fairies. 1t is said
that there are five seals in Broad
haven Bay well known to be much
more wary and cunning than any
others. and these have "the fairies
i'm them instead Of human souls; at
least 50 Goes the tale.
Shenandoah herald. [volume] (Woodstock, Va.) 1865-1974, 1892-06-24

Tim crust OF uniform thick ness all over
the work, which acts as protection
against any chance blows of the hammer
or slip of the steel points, for marble is
delicate substance to work with, and
vigorous blow of the hammer would cause
the stone to spawl and crumbe to depth
of perhaps an eighth of an inch aud
finally to fall out, leaving hole where
there should be smooth finish.
This last surface work on the sculD-
turc is usually the work OF the artist
himself, but it does not differ except in
point of delicacy from the work Of the
mechanic. The tools are slender points
and delicate chisels of different shapes
that vary according to the work and the
taste of the sculptor. Some toothed
tools are used for the working out of
hair and cloth textures, and for the fin
ish of smooth surfaces marble files are
often used.
The artist is usually his own tool
dresser, having little charcoal furnace
and anvil for heating the steel and beat
ING it out into shape. lie also does his
own tempering, drawing the tool TO the
proper color in the gas flame and cool
ing or "quenching' it in lump of bees
wax. The usual hardness for fine marble
tools is a light straw color, or about the
same temper as used in working iron.
Modern artists, as a rule, give no
higher finish to their work than can be
produced with the files and chisels, which
is cool and rather dead white. But it
is certain that the ancients did not scru-
nile to avail themselves of the polished
finish, produced by powdered emery or
hartshorn, as is shown by some of the
more noted older marbles that have Teen
wholly or in part protected from wealth
erinc and on which such a finish IS still
to be seen. Washington Star.
Shenandoah herald. [volume] (Woodstock, Va.) 1865-1974, 1892-06-24
FARM AND HOUSEHOLD.
PRUNING THE ROOTS.

When tree has reached fruit bear
ing size and shows no symptoms of iruit
bearing disposition, but instead throws
out vigorous branches, root pruning is
very efficacious mode of checking growth.
In highly cultivated gardens where trees
are planted and the roots have access to
the rich soil, an immense crop Of branches
will be produced and little if any fruit.
Root pruning will check such growths
most effectually and render the trees
fruitful. If done in August the supply
of sap will Immediately be lessened, the
wood maturing principle accelerated and
fruit buds formed. The operation has
been performed in spring with very little
benefit, but if done in the autumn eau
not fail in producing the desired results.
Horticultural Times.
Shenandoah herald. [volume] (Woodstock, Va.) 1865-1974, 1892-06-24
FARM AND GARDEN NOTES.

The London Garden claims that wind
and showers as we'll as sunshine promote
color in apples.
1t is difficult to get cattle ready for
market early now unless they have been
wintered in good condition.
With young pullets it is often a good
plan to let them set a dag or two before
putting the eggs under them.
Until the steer is two years old he
should be fed with the view of promot.
ing growth rather than fairness.
You can raise more chickens with the
same labor later in the season, but they
will not bring as much money if intended
for the market.
j. II. Hale, whose success in fruit
culture is we'll known, recommends check
row culture for strawberries and rasp-
berries to all who have the land.
Don't permit hogs and fowls in the
same yard. II the fowls don't eat the
hogs, the hogs will eat the fowls. In
either case the food costs more than it
comes to.
The lower and heavier the stalk Of
corn, the larger the ear that it will pro-
duce. Watch this point this season,
and let it govern your selection of seed
in the fall.
Wheat is one of the best feeds you can
give your fowls to produce eggs; it is
also good to feed young chicks after
they are week or two old, for their
evening feed.
Shenandoah herald. [volume] (Woodstock, Va.) 1865-1974, 1892-06-24
Tho CraWIlsh and the Leyees.

"Whenever hear of a break in the
leyee down in my district, says cor
RESPONDENT Of a st. Louis paper, at
know that nine chances to one crawhsh
have caused it. The assertion may sound
slightly exaggerated, but it is fact,
nevertheless, that the dcvilish little
crawfsh work more danger to the levees
than does the water. On a big rise,
when the bed of the river is stretched
from embankment to embankment, the
crawfsh burrow into the leyees, auo live
there in the moist earth. They multi
ply faster than maggots, aud loosen up
The earth worse than moles. The leyee
NAV be completely sodded with grass,
and Won see no external evidence of the
damage going on within, but when tbs
next big rise comes you will see 1t. l
have frequently known the water to
break through the levee two or three feet
from the top, aud you can attribute it to
nothing but the destructive work OF
cawfsh. This was particularly true oil
the break at Ofut's in 1889, when a
portion Of the town OF Greenville was
submerged. The builder OF the levee
in the future will have to take into ac'
count the crawfsh as one OF his most
stubborn foes"
Shenandoah herald. [volume] (Woodstock, Va.) 1865-1974, 1892-06-24
HOW TO CATCH A SHEET.

Catching a sheep requires more sense
than is usually practiced by unthinking,
careless, and ignorant people. 1t is usu-
ally done by grabbing the wool and
holding the scared, struggling animal
until worried out This is all wrong,
ard is cruelty personiied. The pain is
akin to pulling the hair, and the blood
shot under the skin would astonish the
thoughtless catcher. A noted Vermont
sheep. breeder had boy who had been
instructed how to catch a sheep, but had
failed to remember. In the presence Of
the breeder one day he caught n sheep in
the old way-by the wool. The breeder
gave him another lesson-he took the
boy roughly by the hair of the head and
yanked him out of the barn in a jiffy.
The boy was indignant, and was told it
hurt him no worse than he had hurt the
sheep. Such a lesson should be given
everybody who has no more sense. -
American Farmer.
Shenandoah herald. [volume] (Woodstock, Va.) 1865-1974, 1892-06-24
HOW TO SPOIL HONEY.

Honey without flavor is the rule aud
not the exception. So common is it to
find honey only sweet that it has little
more popularity than moasses, millions
of persons not being aware that perfect
honey, like the best butter, should have
a delicate and delicious favor-an indi-
viduality which nothing else can obtain.
How is it that so much poor honey is
abroad2 Do the bees make it or is it
artifcial9 Neither Mans ignorance or
carelessness damage good honey, antici-
pate its maturity or prevent its proper
ripening. Sit down to almost any bee
keeping farmers table, aud if his honey
is not devoid Of flavor il is tainted with
mustiness or impregnated with the odor
of something worse, ninety times out of
a hundred. 1t was removed too soon
from the hive; or, taken at the proper
time, was put in the cellar, or allowed
to freeze or granuate. None OF these
conditions should be allowed to occur if
the owner expects an extra article and
price to correspond. Removed in good
order from the hive, put it at once in a
clean, sweet place where it can absorb
no odor, not even that of new pine or
paint; keep it from currents of air, from
light and from freezing. The cellar, dark
or light, is among worst places.
York Tribune.
Shenandoah herald. [volume] (Woodstock, Va.) 1865-1974, 1892-06-24
LOIlts-EaTer~.

Lotus-eaters, according t. Homer,
were a people living OF. the northern
coast Of Africa, visited, in his wan
behring's, by Ulysses, who endeavored
to detain his companions by giving
them the lotus to eat. Whoever eat
of this wished never to depart The
Arabs call the fruit of the lotus the
fruit Of destiny" which they believe
to be eaten in paradise. The lotus
is a shrub two or three feet high.
and its fruit. which is produced in
great abundance. is a dwarf the size
of a wild rlum, and has a pleasant,
sweet taste.
Shenandoah herald. [volume] (Woodstock, Va.) 1865-1974, 1892-06-24
German
Syrup"
medicines.

Ny niece, Emellne HaN1"y. VS.
taken with splitting blood, apd she
became very much alarm'a. fearing
that dreaded disease. Consumption.
She tried neaty all kinds OF medl-
cine but nothiig did her any good;
Finally she tobk German Syrup and
she told me did her more good
than anything she ever tried. 1t
stopped the blood, gave her strength
and case, and 4 good appetite. l
had it from her own lips. Mrs.
Mary A. Stacey. Trumbull, Conn.
Honor TO German Syrup. ~
Shenandoah herald. [volume] (Woodstock, Va.) 1865-1974, 1892-06-24
RECIPES.
evening FEED

Crabs-Pick the meat OF cooked crabs
very fine. Add mayonnaise dressing.
Fill the crab shells with the mixture,
cover with cracker crumbs and small bits
of butter. Bake in hot oven until
crumbs are we'll Drowned.
Fnzzled Beef-Shave enough dried
beef to fill a small bowl, very fine, not
10 shreds, but thin chips. Take warm
water, not hot, and wash the salt from
it. Mix thoroughly with the wet meat
a heaping tablespoonful of flour, add a
cup Of cream and simmer until it is thick,
but on no account let it boil.
Brown Bread-seven pints Of Indian
meal, three pints OF rye -four, one pint
of molasses, enc tablespoonful Of pearl
ash (saleratus), four pinches Of salt. Wet
with skinned milk, to batter Just stiff
enough to hold for FIVE counts a bread.
pn stuck upright in it. Dust rye
Ryer tops of loaves and pat smooth.
nga Potatoes--Pare and cut thin
plato slicer. Place in cold
a small bit Of alum; dry
- giR hot lard, re-