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Published every Saturday by J. S. BOUGHTON, No. 54 Massachusetts LAWRENCE, KANSAS. A WEEK.

Subscription $1.50 per year, in clubs of ten $1.00, Advertising rates. 50 cts. per inch each insertion. The very best, medium by which to reach the people living within the range of Lawrence trade. The new steamer will be launched the latter part of this week.

Chas. Bettis was arrested last Saturday for carrying a revolver, firing it in the city and being drunk. The Lawrence Musical Association will give the cantata of Queen Esther at the Opera House on the 28th inst. The annual examination of the teachers of the public school was held this week at the Central school building on May 22, 23, and 24. The lawn social given by the young ladies of the M.

E. church Friday evening, at the pleasant grounds of J. S. Crew, was a success both socially and financially. The ladies of the Congregational church gave the first strawberry festival of the season at Mrs.

McCullough's Par. lor Skating Rink Tuesday evening. A large crowd was in attendance. Last Friday Allie Bradford, a little colored boy, fell from a tree in South Lawrence and broke his arm, both at the wrist and elbow. Dr.

Morse was summoned and dressed the wound. He found it a serious injury, but not necessarily fatal. Mr. Gallettly, one of the old residents of Douglas county, has sold his old homestead near Blackjack, and will leave for California with his family, next week. Mr.

Eli Arnoldi, of Kansas city is the purchaser, who will at once engage in the fine stock business. An insane man by the name of Cole attempted to shoot a woman whom he imagined to be his wife, at the U. P. depot last week. The lady was an utter stranger to him.

His brother, seeing an account of the affair in the papers, came to see him and recognized him as his brother whom he had not seen or heard of for years. Capt. Bell, one of the oldest settlers in Douglas county, who located between Baldwin and Blackjack in 1855, called at the office of ONCE A WEEK, last Tuesday. The Captain can relate the history of border ruffianism from personal knowledge; and can also tell some things in regard to the pursuit of Quantrell and why was not captured. One of the amusing incidents in the recent bank excitement was the drawing out of two thousand dollars from a Kansas City bank at one window and immediately depositing it at another window.

That transaction was on a par with the story of the man who, in a run on a bank, in great excitement demanded his money, and when it was handed to him he handed it back, saying: "If you have got it, I don't want it; if you did not have it, I wanted it." Law Class. The following named members of the senior law class have successfully passed the examination and were admitted to the bar: F. W. Marlin, Carmi, Illinois; H. M.

Marguies, Leadville, Colorado; E. M. Shinkle, Mound City, Kansas; J. F. Majors, Wichita; Frank Exline, Lawrence; C.

T. Foley, Wyandotte; L. L. Davis, Lawrence. Choked to Death.

Last week, Friday, the thirteen-monthsold boy of David A. Kemberlin, living in North Lawrence, met with a terrible death by choking. It seems that the little fellow was eating some food from the cupboard when he suddenly became choked. Medical aid was summoned, but all to no avail and the child expired in a few minutes after the doctor arrived. Runaway.

Last Saturday evening while Mr. and Mrs. Churchill were out riding in a dog cart their horse became frightened and ran away, throwing the occupants violently to the ground and seriously injuring Mrs. Churchill. The horse ran around the block several times at a terrible pace.

At last he was turned into Walker's stable where he came to a standstill, none the worse for his long run. Died. Mrs. Ellen A. Dee died at her home on New Hampshire street, Friday evening, May 16, of consumption.

She had been ill for a long time, and her death was not unlooked for, though none the less severe. The funeral took place from St. John's church, of which she was a member, and the remains were interred in Oak Hill Cemetery. The bereaved family have the sympathy of a large circle of friends. Mr.

F. M. Clark has just returned from Etna, Illinsis, where he has been to attend the funeral of his youngest sister, Mrs. Emma E. Bishop, who departed this life on May 30th.

She was buried in the old Camp-Meeting Cemetery on May 1st, and followed to her last resting place by a large circle of friends and acqaintances. Emma E. Bishop entered spirit life April 80, 1881. Aged thirty two years, Not dead, but gone before. Only dream unfinished; only a form at rest, With weary hands clasped lightly over a peaceful breast; And the lonesome light of Summer through the open doorway falls, But it wakes no laugh in the parlor-no voice in the vacant halls.

Only a dream unfinished; only a form at rest, With weary hands clasped lightly over a peaceful breast, But it brings no smile from the darkness; it calls no face from the gloom. No song flows out of the silence that aches in the vacant room, A No face at the open window to welcome the fragrant breeze; No touch at the old piano to waken the smiling keys, The idle book lies open, and the folded leaf is pressed Over the half-told story, while death relates the rest. Josephine, a sister, Lawrence, Kansas. Memorial Day. HEADQ'RS, WASHINGTON POST, NO.

12,) DEP'T OF KANSAS, G. A. LAWRENCE May 15, 1884. MEMORIAL. Comrades: Memorial day; dedicated by the Grand Army of the Republic, and the loyal people of our country to honor the memories of those who at their country's call left home and kindred to brave the perils of war, and who now sleep in veterans' graves, is approaching.

Let us prepare to honor the occasion in a becoming manner. Let us on that day lay aside our employments and the cares and pleasures of our daily lives, that we 1 may assemble at the graves of our comrades, not to exult in the triumphs of victory, but with chastened hearts to renew on hallowed ground our devotion to flag and country. To give expression to the above, and in compliance with orders from national and department headquarters, the following exercises will be observed by this post. On the Sunday preceding memorial day, May 25th, comrades will meet at post room at 2:30 p. in uniform, and proceed to the opera house, where memorial sermon will be delivered by the Rev.

C. G. Howland. On memorial day a detachment of ten comrades (to be detailed) will report at post headquarters at 7:30 a. and under command of I.

V. C. Whitcomb, will proceed to Maple Grove cemetery and decorate the graves of comrades there, returning, will report at headquarters. At 9:30 a.m. all comrades are requested to assemble in uniform with G.

A. R. badge and white gloves. At 10 o'clock, the Post, under command of S. V.

C. Stone, will proceed to Oak Hill cemetery, where the graves of fallen comrades will be decorated, and the special G. A. R. services by the Post will take place.

On returning, the Post will be dismissed, to reassemble at 2 p. m. At 2:15 the column will form promptly in battalion of two companies, commanded by the vicecommanders respectively, and will be assigned positions in procession by the chief marshal. The procession will march to South Park, where the concluding exercises of the day will be held. S.

H. ANDREWS, S. M. ALLEN, Post Commander. Adjutant.

Douglas County Bible Society. A number of pastors and laymen of the city met at the rooms of the Young Men's Christian Association on Monday morning, the object being to organize the Douglas County Bible Society. Rev. D. L.

McEwan was called to the chair, and W. N. Burr chosen Secretary. Sixteen gentlemen were present, representing the following churches: Methodist, Baptist, Congregational, Presbyterian, Lutheran, and the Congregational and Methodist churches of North Lawrence. The names of all present were secured as members of the society.

A constitution was adopted, after which the following officers were elected: Preside W. E. Griffith. Vice-President-D. S.

Alford. Secretary-W. N. Burr. Treasurer-A.

H. McWhorter. Executive Committee -A. G. Eidemiller, Rev.

D. S. McEwan, Rev. J. W.

Alderman, Dr. Albert Newman, Rev. J. E. Maurer, W.

N. Burr and A. H. McWhorter. A motion was carried to the effect that "It is the sense of this meeting that the depository of this society be located at the rooms of the Young Men's Christian Association, providing the consent of the Board of Directors of the Association can be obtained." Officers and members of the old Bible Society met and voted to disorganize, and turn over all funds in their treasury to the new society.

After adjournment the Executive Committee met and organized by choosing A. G. Eidemiller Chairman, W. N. Burr, Secretary, and adopting nal.

The Cultivator and Herdsman. We have received the initial number of this monthly at the hands of Judge L. D. Bailey, its editor and publisher. It is a sixteen page sheet, each page being 10x14 inches, and is full of valuable matter pertaining to farming and stock raising.

Considerable attention is paid to the subject of irrigation, which is being so successfully tried at Garden City, where the paper is published. Our old friend and employer, John Speer, contributed a valuable article on this subject. We wish the Judge success in this new venture and we believe there Is room for just such a periodical. Business College. Tuesday morning.

Six new arrivals last week. Five new students yesterday, four in English, and one in Business ment. Prof. Stanley was a recent caller at College. C.

A. Briggs spent Sunday with friends in Kansas City. Levi Markley will visit in the rural vicinity all this week. Miss Montgomery of Tucson, N. who has been a member of the Telegraph department for two months, started for her home yesterday.

D. L. Jones and C. W. Coleman joined the out going procession yesterday, and will not return until September 4th.

A. C. Strain of the short-hand and book-keeping department, accepted a position as book keeper for Mr. Pendleton the grocer. Personal.

E. A. Jack and Ed Swain were up from Eudora last Friday. Prof. J.

W. Cooper left this week for Excelsior Springs, Mo. Dr. Mottram returned Saturday from Washington, D. where he had been attending a meeting of the National Medical Association.

Mr. W. W. Gill and wife arrived on Friday from Denver, where they have been living for the past eight months. Mr.

and Mrs. R. F. Hampshire, of LaCygne, were in the city Monday. Mr.

Arthur Usher returned this week from Michigan. Clarence Wilmoth and wife returned Saturday from Kansas City. Frank A. Doane returned last Friday from a business trip through Missouri and Arkansas. Hon.

J. C. Walton returned the first of the week from Michigan. St. Paul Minnesota Manitoba Railroad.

We have received a handsome folder and map, setting forth the location of this road, and the beautiful country and Summer resorts through which it leads. We are reminded each returning season of the increasing inclination of people to leave the fashionable resortes of the East and seek the cool and invigorating atmosphere of the northwest. The St. Paul Manitoba road is the only road penetrating the northwest from St. Paul by the way of that remarkable body of salt water, Devils Lake.

For information in regard to this route send to C. H. WARREN, Gen. Pa. Agent, St.

Paul, Minn. Seven hundred car loads of freight and passengers are received at Kansas City every twenty-four hours, over the twelve lines of railroad that enter that town. Dio Lewis's Monthly stands in the front rank of American magazines. It has already achieved a marvelous success. If the leading papers of the country deserve confidence, this Magazine, before the end of the first year, will secure a circulation scarcely second to any now published.

Its reception by the press and the public is a matter of surprise and joy. 25 cents a copy, $2.50 per year. FRANK SEAMAN, Publisher, Bible House, New York. John Daley, Merchant Tailor. I am now opening my Spring stock of foreign and domestic woolens for gentlemen's wear which you will find complete.

Fine goods and fine work a specialty. I am a little around the corner, gentlemen, but it will pay you to call and examine my goods and prices before ordering your Spring suit elsewhere. JOHN DALEY, Winthrop opposite P. O. March 15tf.

We will send ONCE A WEEK and Dio Lewis' Monthly one year for the price or the magazine, viz: $2.50. Sheets Shout. Contractors for all kinds of House Painting. Good work, good material and bottom prices. Shop on Warren street, opposite Place House.

Wit and Humor. Quite a difference exists between a mail train and a female Toothpick. A saloon and a bull's head are synonymous. You can get a horn from either.Hartford Journal. When the calcium light of publicity is thrown upon the iniquities of the scurvy politician by the newspaper press, he says "he is suffering all the horrors of the ink-quisition." -Gouverneur Herald.

At school the other day one of the lady teachers asked the meaning of the word "orphan." This was a stunner for the little ones, and in order to help them the mistress remarked, "I am an orphan. Now, can some of you tell me what it means?" Instantly a little fellow raised his hand and said, "I know; it's someone that wants to get married and can't." About the only chin awaiting the inlabor of the barber is the urchin. -Hartford Journal. We think it is about time to place the word butter on the retired list as an obsolete Scissors. The theatrical "star" of the present day too often beams only with the brightness of a second-rate tallow candle.Rose's Toothpick.

It is a sir-prise the girls are after this year. But the men are growing cautious and are not to be miss-taken thus easily. -Indianapolis Scissors. Mr. Vanderbilt has an annual income of $12,000,000, yet a toothache hurts him 88 bad as if he didn't have a nickle.Chattanooga People's Paper.

It beats thunder that we can't induce our subscribers to pay up. They think we away buying white -Newman Independent. book entitled "What can a Woman new, Do?" An answer to the question can be found by asking most any bald-headed man. Newman Independent. Since the unfortunate fall of our first parents, human nature has been a "comedy of errors," rich, rare and racy, in sense of the Clime.

We have just been studying whether it is better to have something constantly on the mind or have the mind constantly on State Journal. Oleomargerine is in such common use now-a-days that a married man can now sit down and enjoy a good, square meal without any but her. Pretzel's Weekly. A man working in a starch factory at Madison, had his lower jaw torn off by being caught in a corn He is now doomed to a miserable Mail. At a certain hotel in Peoria, where the meals were not always what they should be, a merchant traveler one day sat down at the table.

He put a dollar under a tumbler, and calling a waiter said: "Do you see that dollar, Jim?" "Yes, sah" replied Jim, with a grin. "Well, now, Jim, I want you to get me a real, first-class dinner. You understand." "Yes, sah," and Jim set about turnishing a feast fit for a king. He had no time to see to anybody else. He hunted up new dishes, put extra touches on everything and kept his eye on the dollar.

Finally the M. T. finished and wiping his mouth he winked at Jim. "Yes sah," grinned the darkey in anticipation. "Jim do you see that dollar?" putting his hand on it in a generous way.

"Yes, sah." "Well you will never see it again," and it went into his pocket and out of the dining room, while Jim indignantly remarked: "Who turn dat hog loose in heah "Then you love me truly, Elvira?" "Yes, yes, my darling, truly, most truly." "And in spite of my poverty?" "What matters mere wealth, when compared to the bliss of your noble lovethanks, thanks, my beloved, you have rendered me unspeakably happy." "I would rather be your and live in a cottage than dwell in the palaces of a prince." Bless you, bless you, my -but-" (But what?" But I haven't a cottage. Mr. B. (to his new you object to the odor of tobacco, dear?" Mrs. B.

(who has been a widow) no; not at all." Mr. you sure, dear? Don't say yes if a cigar is distasteful." Mrs. I love it." Mr. B. "You do?" Mrs.

Yes; it reminds me so much of my poor, dear first husband. He always-" Mr. B. stopped smoking. Indian Corn a Cause of Degeneracy in Work Animals.

Prairie Farmer. correspondent throws out some sugges. tions that will be new to many. If our great cereal is injurious to stock when freeley used, it is well to look into the matter thoroughly. Let us hear from some of the workers at the agricultural in experiment stations who are making feeding The very true and interesting article in a late Prairie Farmer on the degeneracy of the horse and the mule, is going the people there "loped" their horses all day long in hottest weather.

Dead horses were rare objects; but all along the bayou could be seen the carcasses of mules fed on by buzzards. They were fed on corn, worked, and cared for by slaves, and butter. Not an ear of the precious was permitted to the horses; it cost too much. During the days of chivalry in Europe a French King requested an agent to ascertain for him the cause of the superiority of the horses of the Turks and Mongolians. The agent rode from Syria along up through the extreme parts of Eastern Europe.

He reported to his King that he could see no reason for the superiority, of the all horses there, the Union. except the press over It will do good. before the war when the cotton States bought all their corn from the north, I resided in Louisiana, on Rapids Bayou. I noticed that in their mode of caring for them. They fed nothing all day long, and during the night gave their horses only a little barley, with native hay or grasses in abundance.

During the reign of Napoleon, was left in Egypt, and after long investigation he declared that the sole cause of the superiority of the horses of the Arabs their food. Barley was the chief diet, with such straw or hay, and grass as could be procured. He therefore concluded that barley was the food for horses, with hay, straw, etc. George Borrow, author of "Bible in Spain," a most interesting writer of travels, tells us in that book that he started from Andalusia, so famous for its mules and horses, with very excellent stock, tor Galicia, North Spain. As he drew near Galicia he was warned not to take fine stock there, as, from some mysterious cause, good animals soon died in that place.

Time and again he was warned. As he ent eredGalicia the landlord at the first hotel, seeing his stock, exclaimed, "Senor! why do you bring such fine animals here? You will lose them." "Why?" "Oh, there is something in the climate fatal to fine stock." "May be," hinted "your food i is not good." "Oh, no, Senor! We raise nothing but the finest Indian corn ever seen. It is not the food." In a very few days these animals came near dying. Mr. Borrow at once suspected the corn.

Strange blindness and perversity. The truth is that when men realize that a food is destitute of phosphates, furnishing little but fat, is utterly unfit for growing or work animals or laying hens, and that these creatures have been developed by nature supplying varieties of food adapted to them, and that following nature is the true course for man, then we shall do away with many evils that afflict our stock. Little harm could be done by any one food if a large variety of other foods were given to our stock By our abuse of corn in making it the chief diet, we have made it a curse in this respect. The heaviest burdens our farmers have to-day is from the loss and disease of animals. When, 1 for instance, mules were worked hard all day and at night turned out to forage for themselves on thistles and woody fibres, there was a proverb "nobody ever saw a dead donkey." Yet, owing to bad roads and heavy carts, a mule had to toil twice as hard as now, when big, fat, corn-fed mules are dropping, dead London, just and like the from the beer-bloated same bloated, fatty degeneracy.

HoLT. OREGON, Mo. CORN A DEADLY FOOD. Accompanying the above is a slip cut from the Maltland Independent, in which the writer makes a still stronger protest against feeding corn. He is, of course, in error in stating that "there are 110 phosphates in Indian corn." Analysis shows that In its inorganic composition corn contains 39.65 per cent.

of phosphoric acid, while oats, contain 18.19 per wheat, 40.00 per 86.80 per cent. Corn contains a larger proportion of carbonaceous food than the others, and better adapted to colder climates where more animal heat is required. Both writers speak from experience and observation in a mild During the past month I have been gathering up statistics of death and disease of horses and mules in Holt county. The amount of money required to rereplace the dead and disabled animals is about the heaviest tax we have to bear. I venture to say that with proper care and food the lives of our work animals could be prolonged so that horses and mules would be very serviceable at from twenty to thirty years of age.

Let us go their nature. Neither state horses nor mules in natural get a grain diet. The mule browses on woody fibre and thistles and common grass; the horse lives more on grass, seeds of grass, wild oats, barley and the like. Where our corn is unknown and these animals are fed on oats, barley rye and roots, with grass or hay, they are hardy, healthy and long-lived. They can out-do, in every respect, our corn-fed stock.

It used to be a proverb that "nobody ever saw a dead donkey." Mules were known to live to eighty years of age. Not so in this country now. The cause of all this loss and damage I find to be corn. It is not fit for work or growing animals, because it furnishes no bone or muscle. There are no phosphates in it--nothing to supply the waste of bone.

When we know that all the flesh and bone of animals is wasted in a few months, and must be replaced by new material, we can understand why feeding them on a corn diet causes death, beginning with bone diseases. Some men who know this say they feed only five ears of corn per meal. Far better to feed one ear per year. I have learned of the disease of some forty horses and mules, the death of ten in this neighborhood, in every case admitted to be caused by corn feeding. It is not time to stop? Strange how bad habits stick to us.

For centuries the doctors bled and salivated people to death. How long shall we murder our work and growing stock on corn-the best fattener but the meanest food whenever fed. When corn is high hog cholera is scarce. Cotton in This and Other Countries. Boston Herald.

Besides the United States the chief countries for the production of cotton West are Indies, Egypt, Brazil, the Indies, and Guiana. India contributes a supply of cotton next in importance to that of the United States. Their total production was estimated as far back as 1858 at 6,500,000 bales of 375 pounds each. Although great pains have been taken, however, to improve the cotton culture in India, and seeds from other, countries and methods in use in the United States have been produced at great expense, the quality has not been made to equal in quality the long staple obtained in America, and can never be substituted for American cotton. Ceylon, Borneo, and other islands of the Indian Archipelago have long produced cotton.

Japan produces it. A portion of Australia is well adapted to it, but no country, either of the Old or New World, is probably to be compared to America for the adaptation of its soil and climate for this cultivation. The principal cotton-producing district of A Africa is Egypt, where its cultivation was introduced in 1821. The extended culture of cotton in Brazil, which was begun early in the present century, has increased so rapidly that for many years that country ranked next to United States amount produced; and, with the Emperor full of broad, liberal views, and their Government contributing, perhaps, more money each for the encouragement of improved methods of cotton culture than all the implements of our cotton States have cost during the past ten years, it behooves us to look well to our laurels. The Science Of "Privileges," Which Unhorsed Jim Keene.

As a majority of people do not know what sort of things stock privileges are, it may not be out of place, the New York Sun thinks, to say a few words on this subject. A stock privilege is a paper signed by some well-known person, and entitling the bearer to put out, or call from, that person a given amount of a given stock at a given price within a given time. These privileges are paid for according to their speculative value, their duration and the amount of stock they are issued for. They are practically insurance tickets against losses in stock gambling. A man who buys a privilege can not lose more than the amount he pays for it.

If he buys a stock and it goes down, he can put it to the signer of the privilege. It he sells it short and it goes up, he can call it and cover his contract. The so-called puts and calls go only one way, and the bearer can only either put to or call from the signer the stock concerned. The spreads and straddles work both from, signer the stock concerned. ways; the holder can either put in or call The sellers of privileges work upon the same plan as bookmakers do at the races.

They sell stocks short against their puts and buy them against their calls. As a rule they make a great deal of money, for the figures of the privileges are usually far away from the market, and the premium paid for the privilege forms in most cases a clear profit. The largest dealers in privileges are Messrs. Russell, J.R. Keene, M.

O. Bogart and S. V. White. Old Sage has made a million or two by selling privileges.

Being a Director in many corporations, he always knows which stock is likely to go, and sells his puts and calls accordingly. Besides, he has a large following and can always make rich people buy or sell a certain stock, and thus protect his paper. Mr. Keene had the disadvantage of not being connected with any large corporation, and of having no following to speak of. But he had a perfect passion for selling privileges.

A crisp $1,000 bill exhibited by a curbstone privilege broker was to him like a piece of red cloth to a ball. He could not resist the temptation to go for it. If he had confined himself to the dealing in privileges he would probably have come out ahead. But, ing a large speculator besides, he was all the time crippled in his movement by the puts and calls he had out. He was probably the most consistent and intelligent bear for the last two or three years, yet he did not dare to allow the market to go down too far out of fear that anavalanche of stock would come down upon him.

The consequence was that he had to sustain the market by buying stocks, and, as prices went down, notwithstanding his efforts, he had a mass of stocks put to him besides. That game was going on for a very long time, and he WAS a big loser at it all the while. His best friends implored him long ago to give up the privilege business, and he has repeatedly promised them to do so, put the fatal passion was there and he could not get rid of it. The collapse had to come, and it came. There can be no doubt that he will make all his outstanding contracts good, though it will probably take him some time to do so, but the nervous tension to which must be subjected at the present moment must beterrible, and there is not a man in Wall street who knows him well who does not deeply sympathize with him.

He WAS always the most en hearted and the least tricky of the great Wall street men. Besides, he fought all his battles singlehanded, and some of them were mighty big battles, too. His pluck and endurance are subjects of admiration, even on the part of his enemies. OCTOROONS. A Race Which is No Race-The Peculiar Position of Its Women, D.

M. Locke in Toledo (0.) Blade. There i is in New Orleans a race and distinct race which is no race. It has its own hand upon the whites and the other upon the blacks, and it occupies a position betwixt and between, belonging to both and to neither. The whites refuse to acknowledge them, and they hold themselves so far above the blacks that they will acknowledge no relationship with them.

Like the bat, they are neither bird nor animal, but occupy a position entirely distinct; and a very lonesome one it is. These are the Octoroons, which in New Orleans means not only a person whose blood is one-eighth negro, but all of that class who are almost white, but in whom negro blood is perceptible. Down here they don't say negro bloodit is negro "taint." They are not white enough for the white, nor black enough for the negro. Their position, especially that of the women of the race, is very peculiar. No matter how white an octoroon girl may be, a white man may not marry her.

She may be as beautiful as Venus, and accomplished in every possible way; she may sing like Patti, and paint like Rosa Bonheur; but no white man would marry her and remain in New Orleans. It would be ostracism for her, and for him also. She could not be received in society, and he would find himself on the side of the wall at once. The law is fixed, and the barricade is impassable. The women of this mixed race are wondrously beautiful.

Their complexions are dazzlingly white, with a shade of olive underneath the skin that shines through, toning down the white to a shade of brown that is as beautiful, in the matter of color, as beautiful can be; their teeth are marvels of whiteness and regularity; the figures are invariably perfect in their voluptuousness, and the whole woman is as near physical perfection as any thing ever permitted on to the tempstood but a poor he undertation of men. St. Anthony, would have gone his temptation in New Orleans, and had the arch enemy employed Octoroon women to work his fall. There is nothing in womanhood more delightful. The men among them are in various employments, and many of them have achieved success.

They have had advantages above their half-brothers who are darker in color; for they are all, necessarily, the sons of white men, many of whom have, for their mothers' sake been liberal to them in the matter of education and means to commence life after their education was completed. To understand this, the status of the octoroon woman must be understood. She cannot a white man, nor can a white man marry her. She cannot associate with the race with which she is allied, for she has opportunities far above them. She looks upon the "nigger" proper with even more contempt than does the with pure bitterness; white.

for Her she cannot contempt help is tinged. ing that were she without that one drop of blood, her beauty would give her any place among women she might desire. But, while a white man cannot marry her, there is no law -human at leastthat prevents his living with her. As the poor girl cannot marry a white man, and will not marry a negro, she does what seems to her the next best thing, and the only thing she can do; she accepts the "protection" of a white lover and lives with him. The next thing is for the white lover to buy a house and furnish it gorgeously, and make it really his home.

He does not take her to the theatre or balls of his own class, nor is he ever seen with her on the street; but her house is really his home. She bears him children, and those children he educates and provides for, many instances, better than his legal offspring; but he may not recognize them. The black blood in them bars that. When he is tired of his illegal flame it is the simplest thing in the world. The house and its furnishings are hers, and whatever money he has given her becomes hers in her own right; and the.

middle-aged woman who has lost her beauty accepts the situation, lets the furnished rooms to single gentlemen, and lives in comfort all her life on the proceeds. It was for this that she entered into the arrangement to begin with, and its ending satisfies her. She accumulates money, her children, who pass for white anywhere except in the South, go elsewhere where their talent has scope and become actual men; and the daughters may emigrate also, or they may the stay in New Orleans and go through same experience that their mother did before them. This explains why the male octoroon is generally well-educated and altogether superior sort of man. "Nigger" as he is, he has the best blood of the South in his veins always, and if there is anything in blood he must be a very superior man.

The Octoroons were, for the most part, slaves prior to the war, they being employed as house-servants and contidential positions. In those "good old days" a beautiful Octoroon girl brought a very high price-for what purpose may be imagined the trade in them was a regular thing in New Orleans. An "Agricultural and Blooded Stock Association" has been formed at Harper.