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The star. (Reynoldsville, Pa.) 1892-1946, 1899-10-25

them on the poles; if it is light and
capable of division he places it in two
pals or basket panniers which he bal
ances at each end of his pole. When
heavily loaded the coolie goes at q
peculiar sort of dog trot, which con-
sists of short stealthy steps and move
ment of each shoulder with it. The
coolie, like all his celestial brethren,
cultivates the growth of his raven
locks, though they seriously interfere
with business. At home they never
seem to adopt any kind of coiffure ex.
cept the pigtail, but in Manila indi-
vidual taste comes into play in this
matter and the results are varied and
interesting. Sometimes their tresses
stream freely down their backs and
no attempt is made to confne them in
any style whatever.
One feature of the houses in Manila
which is rather hard for the foreigner
to get accustomed to is the presence
of the great number Of lizards which
crawl around the ceilings.an walls Of
the rooms at night. They are harm
less, but the thought that they may
occasionally lose their grip and drop
down in ones face is not calculated I'd
make them welcome members of the
household. There are many scorpions
about, but they keep exclusively in
the dark corners of the house and yard
and otherwise behave themselves well.
The star. (Reynoldsville, Pa.) 1892-1946, 1899-10-25
The market oardepers grow ceIerv

The market gardeners grow celery
as an annual. and by taking the
thriftiest plants and allowing them TO
seed, they have developed several
varieties Of large.leaved sage, which IL
Is always better to use ne seed when
setting ont new plantations. Sage.
may. however, be spread from the
root. This requires no annual plant.
ing of the seed, and OF course keeps
the large leaved variety pure, though
after being grown in n cump the
plant will be less vigorous and have
smaller leaves. The layered sage
stem, with its lower leaves stripped off
and covered, roots very quickly, and
this can be done any time in midsum-
mer and secure n well-rooted plant
next year. Most Of the old sage beds
in the country are grown from layers.
This Is why they grow in clumps, as
the layer has some dormant buds
which send up shoots the following
season. The sage plant is best grown
from seed which may be sown now,
and get growth enough to live through
the winter If the top is cut down in
the fall, pretty close to the ground,
and covered with forkful OF manure.
This winter covering is important to
keep the sage roots from heaving out
in winter by alternate freezing and
thawing.
The star. (Reynoldsville, Pa.) 1892-1946, 1899-10-25

1t is possible to improve the egg
laying qualities of any flock by careful
selection.
The farmer who tries two colonies
OF birds this winter will want four
next winter.
1t is a good plan to give laying hens
an occasional feed of corn that has
been burned until it is charcoal.
The color of an egg has nothing to
do with its nutritive value. A white
egg is just as good asa brown one.
A party gave a dollar for a horse,
killed it, sold the hide for S1.25 and
had the meat for his chickens for his
trouble.
If you havn't got bone mill feed
Clipped meat scraps or sausage to the
fowls-meat is just about as good as
bone, anyhow.
The hen is the most profitable of
all birds kept ON the farm, but it is
well where one can to have ducks,
turkeys and geese.
If the hens are too fat to lay or
moult we'll, feed them but once day
if yarded, or not at all if free, until
reduced in weight.
The first three days that hen sits
on her eggs she should attend faith
fully to business in order to start the
"heck" to growing.
One brood nt time is hest for the
farm unless the farmer has money and
time to build the yards and houses to
keep the birds apart.
Ground oats. when made from q
good quality Of grain, is one OF the
best parts OF the morning mash. 1t
produces muscle. bone aud feathers
not fat. ~~
The star. (Reynoldsville, Pa.) 1892-1946, 1899-10-25

The native woman's shoe consists,
usually, of a fiat sole with toe-cap.
Sometimes the cap has room for all
the toes, sometimes not. Often the
sole is raised from the ground by
wooden heels and sole-blocks like,
but lower than those used by the
Japanese. Stocking are not usually
worn. The gait of the Filipino is a
little outward curving swing from the
knee, with resultant side swing of
the hip. There is, perhaps. certain
grace in the movement, but there is
also good deal of ''scuffling," and a
general appearance of being slipshod.
In fact, one gets an idea that the
average Filipino, male or female, is
only about half-dressed anyway, from
our standpoint. The customary male
body-covering is only All undershirt.
Those of higher social rank and greater
wealth wear also cotton shirt, or a
garment of gauzy texture of some To-
cally made material. But the garment
will be worn, like a coat, in the full
measure of its beauty, outside the
trousers. A higher step in the social
scale brings the substitution of the
coat for the shirt. A Filipino dude
with cane and little "billy-cock"
hat, pair of black trousers, and a
gauze shirt, worn outside of them, is
a resplendent spectacle, and he has the
air of being entirely conscious of it.
From our standpoint, there is the
same half-dressed look about the
women of the poorer classes. The
Negrito woman of the mountains may
use only cloth extending from waist
to knee. The Mangyan woman of
Mindoro may wear contrivance of
braided rattan, which is even more alb
breviated. These garments do not sug-
gest the half-dressed. They are dis
tinct. There is no suggestion of Eu-
ropean costume. 1t is not so with the
Filipino woman at Manila. Her gar
ments are neither dress nor native
pcostume. Pieces of cloth cover her
from the waist downward. The shoul-
der aud body covering varies in the
number OF articles and detail of con-
The star. (Reynoldsville, Pa.) 1892-1946, 1899-10-25

There is not great deal of fun in
the Philippines, but one occasionally
encounters q sight or an incident
which brings a smile. Usually, these
are of type which must be seen to be
appreciated. In wandering about Ma
nila, particularly the new city, which
is the centre of material life as the
old city is of spiritual life, one should
either have his nose ut home or plug
it up. The wear and tear exercised
by the highways and byways upon the
olfactory organs are quite severe.
There is fair measure of offense to
the eye as well, but that instrument
possesses wider adaptability than
does the nose. 1t resents less keenly.
The novelty is ephemeral, but there is
novelty for the outsider in the life of
the chief city of the Philippines. The
novelty gone, one rather shrinks from
IT all. IT gets almost to border on the
Rpulsive, so greatly is it lacking in
lerent attractiyeness.
The star. (Reynoldsville, Pa.) 1892-1946, 1899-10-25

shoulders and pinned in front. This
tends to steady the outfit and keep it
IN place. The sleeves are gathered at
the shoulder and flare outward, broad
ly bellmouthed to little below the
elbow.
The Filipino may be said TO work
in driblets. Concentration for any
length of time is not national charac-
teristic, there must be plenty of in
termissions, and the work must never
be of such n character as to preclude
The star. (Reynoldsville, Pa.) 1892-1946, 1899-10-25
New way of Planting Strawberries.

IL has been found that il costs more
to cultivate spring-set strawberry
bed during its first six weeks than for
any other period of its life. Atten-
tion must be given at the very time
that other items Of farm work need
looking after. If this care is withheld
the bed will become n mass of weeds
and will be so checked that IL may
never recover. The following method
which is in use in some sections OF
New York state and which the writer
has tested in small way, will be
found as practical as 1t is simple.
The young plants are removed from
the field in the usual manner, but are
taken to previously arranged bed OF
good soil where they are planted, after
being trimmed of old leaves and in
jured and superhuous roots. The
shortening of the remaining roots is
rapidly done as follows: The plant is
held in the left hand, leaves up, the
collar grasped by the thumb and first
finger, the hand is closed around the
roots, which are shipped off by means
OF d pair Of shears. In the bed the
plants are set in rows about a foot
apart and an inch apart in the rows.
They are shaded until they have be.
come established and n mulch of well
rotted stable manure that is free from
straw is applied The plants are
sprayed with Bordeaux mixture every
ten days or two weeks, and watered
ii necessary. The ground is soaked
just before they are TO be removed to
the field. They are then lifted, set
closely upon trays and carried to the
field. They are remarkably well pro-
vided with roots and suffer no check
when set in the permanent rows.
While the plants are in the beds the
field is being prepared. 1t is plowed,
narrowed and thoroughly fined by
means of weeder run over it once a
week or ten days, and after each rain
1t not only pulverizes the surface but
kills weeds and turns up any grubs
and worms for the birds to remove.
The plants have, by this method, a
warm bed to start in, which fs very
different from the usual cold comfort
forced upon them in early spring,
when, in order to be ready, the
ground frequently has to be plowed
before it should be touched. The re-
naming treatment is the same 40 for
other beds.
This method permits of easier spray
ing Of the plants for disease, which
operation occupies less time and re-
quires less fungicide by far than ia
used in the open field. A double
saving is thus effected. No spraying
is usually needed in the field after the
plants are set, unless the germs OF
disease are already present in great
quantity in it. Much more time is
allowed for transplanting since it may
be done when the greatest rush OF
spring work is over. Shipments OF
plants that arrive late can sometimes
be saved from utter loss by this plan.
Lastly, plants grown in this way are
in every respect equal to pot grown
plants. M. q. Kains in the Epito-
mist.
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--

about the streets of Manila; the coolie
in bulk represents the only express
company there. Trunks, boxes and
all sorts of merchandise, furniture
from easy chairs and refrigerators to
pianos are carried by the capable
coolie by means of poles which he
rests on his bony shoulders, aud the
tough bark of some native tree. If
the burden is heavy it is carried by
two or four men, being swung between
The star. (Reynoldsville, Pa.) 1892-1946, 1899-10-25
Weeds on the Roadside.

Not many farmers bother them
selves about the weeds that grow
alongside their farms on the roads, and,
IA rule, not many road overseors
care whether the weeds grow on the
roads or not; but these same weeds
produce seed and keep the farm we'll
supplied with weeds every year, which
cost the farmers large sums to destroy.
The wise farmer will keep the weeds
down at his own expense If they grow
on the road.
The star. (Reynoldsville, Pa.) 1892-1946, 1899-10-25
! FOR FARM And GARDEN. |
Have Things up to the Handle.

A we'll known writer on agricultural
subjects says that especially in seed
ing should there never be any hap
hazard ways. Even in giving milk to
the calves should the process be the
rule. The calf should have its ration
stately, should have IL sweet, and
should have II warm. Over feeding is
injurious. but feeding cold milk is
worse.
The star. (Reynoldsville, Pa.) 1892-1946, 1899-10-25

stru ctioa. All are cut somewhat low
in tho nook, and on plan which give
them ''list to port OF to starboard. "
which leaves Q shoulder and aa upper
arm wholly bare. In the upper cir
cles, there is exercised . greater care
IN adjustment, and handkerchief,
3ul1sd diasonally. Il laid scross the
The star. (Reynoldsville, Pa.) 1892-1946, 1899-10-25

perfection and do not object to such a
trife as o crooked toe. Filipinos at
times seem much like monkeys. II
they wish to pick anything up from
the floor they do not fnd it necessary
to stoop as We do; they grab it with
their toes and convey II to their hand
In that method. In sitting they are
The star. (Reynoldsville, Pa.) 1892-1946, 1899-10-25

"chinelas" or "zapatitos." and which
consist of sole and a toe. Many
keep these on without fastening ap-
parently by suction; others stick the
lStle toe outside and hold the shoe on
by this method. From long practice
in this the little toe is bent in the
form of a crescent, but the natives
seem to have few ideas of physical
The star. (Reynoldsville, Pa.) 1892-1946, 1899-10-25

A HIGH-BoRN FILIPINA WEARING UPPER
! GARMENT OF COSTLY PISA--A TEXTURE
OF PINEAPPLE LEAF, AS CHOICE AS
THE FINEST LACE.
The Lafayette gazette. [volume] (Lafayette, La.) 1893-1921, 1899-05-13
a Wopnan,s QUESTION.

Before trust my Fate to thee,
Or place my hand in thine,
Before let thy Future give
Color and form to mine,
Before peril all for thee, question thy soul
tonight for me.
break all slighter bonds nor feel
A shadow of regret:
Is there one link within the Past
That holds thy spirit yet?
Or is thy Faith clear and free tina
which can pledge to thee?
Does there within thy iimmcst dreams
\ possible future shine.
Wherein thy life would hcnccf"rth breathe.
Untouched. unshared 10y mine'
If SO. at any plain cost, oh. tell me
before all is lost.
Look deeper still. If thou canst feel
Within my Utmost soul,
That thou hast kept a portion back,
While 1 have staked the whole;
Let no false pity spare the blow. but in
true mercy tell me
Is there within thy heart need
That mine cannot fulfill?
One chord that any other hand
Could better wake or still?
Speak NOVELIST at some future day my
whole life wither and decay.
Lives there within thy nature hid
The demon spirit Change,
Shedding passing glory still
On all things new and stranger
1t may not be thy fault alone--but shield
my heart against thy own.
Cnuldst thou withdraw thy hand one day
And answer to my claim.
That Fate, and that t"-day's mistake
Not thou-had been to- blame?
Some soo,he their conscience thus: but
thou will surely warn and save me
now.
Nay, answer not,-f dare not hear,
The words would come too late:
Yet l woald spare thee all remorse.
Some comfort thee. my Fate
Whatever my heart may fall-rememher.
would risk it all,
Adelaide Ann Proctor.
The Lafayette gazette. [volume] (Lafayette, La.) 1893-1921, 1899-05-13
AM/CABLY AD/USZED.
general.

Last Tuesday Messrs. Crow Gi
rard, J. o. Broussard, w. b. To
rian, S. J. Montgomery, J. Edmond
Mouton and c. O. Mouton, mem
bers of the committee appointed
by the farmers meeting to confer
with are preventative of the Lafayette
Sugar Refining Company, met Mr..
Won Tresquo for the purpose of ad-
justing the differences between the
refinery on one side and the farme rs
on the other.
At the meeting Of the farmers
held on the 29th of April it was
agreed that the following clauses in
the contract were objectionable:
4. Clause giving The right to the
refinery to reject cane under GER
tain conditions.
2. Juice to test IL degrees SUI
crosse.
8. Regulation for daily delivery
of cane.
4. The right reserved by the
company to nuliity contraGt< under
certain contingencies and new basis
proposed by the company.
The Gazette is pleased to an
The Lafayette gazette. [volume] (Lafayette, La.) 1893-1921, 1899-05-13
Ask for HabeaS COrDus

ASK Tor HaOSaS corpus.
Abbeville Meridional.
w. H. Cayard, Antonio Raggio
and Charles Raggio, who made
homestead entries last year on lands
belonging to Mrs. E. Broussard,
wife of O. Lequeux, and have been
living thereon, were tried at the
last term of court for trespass, con-
victed after trial and sentenced to
pay fine of $50 each or suffer
months imprisonment, and from this
sentence they seek relief by invoking
the benefit of the writ of habeas
corpus, alleging that the hands in
question belong to the United States.
On Monday Justice Nichols of the
Supreme Court issued an order in
chambers that pending the consid-
Grafton and determination of the
habeas corpus the sheriff admit all
parties to bail in the sum of 500
each, with good and solvent security,
conditioned as the law directs, and
for their surrender to said sheriff at
the court house in said parish Of
Vermilion within five days after the
final determination by the court of
So id habeas corpus proceedings,
provided the decision be adverse to
said REALTORS. Tuesday the prisoners
furnished bond as above and are
now at liberty.
The Lafayette gazette. [volume] (Lafayette, La.) 1893-1921, 1899-05-13
Millions Given A way.

1t is certainly gratifying to the
public to know of one concern in
the land who are not afraid to be
generous to the needy and suffering.
The proprietors of DR.. Kings New
Discovery for Consumption, Coughs
and Colds, have given away over
ten million trial bottles Of this great
medicine; and have the satisfaction
of knowing it has absolutely cured
thousands of hopeless cases.
Asthma, Bronchitis, Hoarseness
and all diseases of the Throat,
Chest and Lungs are surely cured
by it. Call on VIM. clegg's Drug
gist, and get a free trial bottle.
Regular size soc. and 81. Every
bottle guaranteed, or price refunded.
The Lafayette gazette. [volume] (Lafayette, La.) 1893-1921, 1899-05-13
OPPO.SED TO CAP/ZAL PUN-
ZS/11lEWZ, II-f/EW Sane
TONED BY L<IT

Z.S/I1TEWZ, It-f<EW Sane
TONED BY L<IY
-rhc mos, uncalle,l for and atr..cous
der committed in this city sunday, in
which a woman, for plausible preteNt
whatever, wantonly and brutally
slaughtered, will give several hundreds more
of those citizens who opposed to the ju-
dicial punishment of murderers an opPor-
tunity to express themselves.
In the efforts to get n jury to try a murder
case, a week or SO ago, more than one haif
the panel summoned for jury duty was found
conscientiously opposed to dealing out due
punishment to bloody criminals. 1t would
be interesting TO know how many citizens
who refuse 20 execute judicial punishment
upon murderers believe in lynch law.-New
Orleans Picayune.
In the foregoing editorial the
Picayune briefly explains the cause
why the courts frequently fail to
punish criminals. There are men
who are conscientiously opposed to
the infection of death as a punish
ment for crime. These men are
rarely found. They are few and
far between. They are tender
hearted fellows who are bubbling
over with sympathy for all-good
and bad. The splitting of a
chickens blood throws them into
Mysteries and if they were to consign
a red-handed murderer to the gal
lows they would be haunted by un-
pleasant dreams the balance of their
natural lives. These fellows are
honest. But there is much greater
number of men who swear that they
are opposed to capital punishment
merely because they want to shirk
jury duty. These men are enemies
of society. Perhaps unwittingly,
but they no doubt encourage crime.
They have been responsible for
many crimes of murder, rape and
arson They reason with them
selves that the victim was nothing
to them and that they will not
sacrifice their business interests aud
their home comfort to punish the
criminal. What is it to these fellows
if every murderer goes scott free,
provided they are not made to per-
form the disagree Bile duty of serv-
ing on jury? They are generally
the loudest in their denunciarons
of the courts and the first to advo-
cate lynch law. They swear that
they have scruples against hanging
or shirk their duty by some other
dodge, but they will not hesitate to
Join mob to execute some uncon-
victed fellow with or without proof
of his guilt.
New Orleans is particularly IN
fortunate in the possession of a
large nun Der of citizens who pre-
tend to be opposed 20 capital pun
ishment. This fact was clearly
shown at the trial of the Italians
who had assassinated Chief Hen.
messy. The State attorney encount
cred a great deal of trouble in the
selection of a jury. Hundreds O
citizens, many Of VIII ON are prominen
residents Of the city, seemed &c
have suddenly realized the fact tina
them to hang the slayers of Hen
messy After several days of hare
work jury was secured. All art
familiar with the verdict and its re
suits. 1t is pretty safe to say tina
many Of those who, two days be
fore, had taken an oath tina. the,
were opposed to the death penalty
participated in the work Of the mol
l. L. ,f,,1
that which they refused to dc
through legal methods.
The Lafayette gazette. [volume] (Lafayette, La.) 1893-1921, 1899-05-13

Between Bros. Roy and Mouton we have
had enough suggestions made to furnish US
governors for the next century, provided
that man whose name is neither MCEnery,
Nichols Foster he eligible to that Office.
Assumption Pioneer.
The Pioneer is evidently misin-
formed. We are not making war
upon any one of the distinguished
gentlemen mentioned by our con
temporary. They are not candi-
dates for the gubernatorial nomina-
ton and we do not know where Editor
Marks has gotten the notion that
we are "agin" them. McEnery
has good job. Foster has given
the State an eight years. service
and he is not an aspirant for a third
term. Nichols occupies the high
est judicial position in Louisiana
and no one believes that he wants
to be governor again. The Gazette
appreciates what these honored
leaders of the Democracy have
done for the State il, the past and
it bears no enmity toward them.
Nc Emery did good work in rescuing
the State from the rascally grasp OF
the devils Of reconstruction; Foster
led the people in the lottery fghl
and helped to save the State from
fate s dark as that of reconstruc.
ton. Nichols, than whom a
nobler patriot is not to be founG
within the confines of the Union,
t.as surely done enough for the PEG
pie of Louisiana to merit their
| everlasting gratitude.
The Lafayette gazette. [volume] (Lafayette, La.) 1893-1921, 1899-05-13
Real Estate
To-day is Your Chance. Tomorrow
Nav be too Late.

Give me a chance to show you, free of
charge, of the hest improved, high
rolling and light SUGAR, COTTON and
CORN plantations aud farms in this State,
reiineries and railroads. Cheap and
easy Also improved and unim-
proved property in the four additions to this
rapidly improving and flourishng town, as
follows:
have 81 sugar, cotton and corn planta-
sious to sell, also lots and improved prop
erty in town. Cheap and easy terms.
High rich. light and rolling land, I9. ~.
feet higher than Bayou Teche, La.
Barg aims in second hand boilers, engines,
sugar and syrup mills.
All property listed and advertised free Of
charge.
Recently Listed.
plantation of 24o arpents.
A plantation of 2SS arpentS.
A farm of IS acres.
\ farm of I6I acres.
-Four American mules.
One family American horse.
One family American A No. 1 mare.
Let me show you the properties, give pr
ces and easy terms, all free OF charge.
Call for What you need or
want to know.
AMBROSE MOUTON,
BOX ~, r. O. Building,
Lafayette, La.
The Lafayette gazette. [volume] (Lafayette, La.) 1893-1921, 1899-05-13
Two Millions a Year.

When people buy, try, and buy again. it
means they're satisfied. The people of the
United States are now buying Cascarets
Candy Cathartic at the rate of two million
boxes year and it will be three million be-
fore New Years. 1t means merit proved,
that Cascarets are the most delightful bowel
regulator. for everybody the year round.
guaranteed.
The Lafayette gazette. [volume] (Lafayette, La.) 1893-1921, 1899-05-13

The Assumption Pioneer suggests
Judge w alter Guion for the Demo
cratic nomination for attorney
general. .......
The Lafayette gazette. [volume] (Lafayette, La.) 1893-1921, 1899-05-13
Brave Men Fall

Victims to stomach, liver and
kidney troubles as we'll as women,
and all feel the results in loss Of APP
petite, poisons in the blood, back
ache, nervousness, headache and
tired, listless, run down feeling.
But there's no need to feel like
that. Listen to J. w. Gardner,
Idaville, Ind. He says: "Electric
Bitters are just the thing for a man
when he is all run down, and don't
care whether he lives or dies. 1t
did more to give me new strength
and good appetite than anything
could take. can how eat any,
thing and have a new lease on life. 3"
Only SO cents, al VIM. Clegg's drug
store. Every bottle guaranteed.