The Opelousas journal. [volume] (Opelousas, La.) 1868-1878, 1869-01-09
A Story Ola Stagc-Driver.

I once knew man who, though now
in wealth, was once stagedriyer, of
whom | will here relate an incident
lie was striving to make connection
for the sake Of a large load of passengers
which he was carrying, and he brokC
down not far from the dwelling of an old
curmudgeon. The driver went to bor-
row his lumber-wagon, to take his pas
scngcrs on with. The man was absent
from home, and his wife refused to lend
the wagon. "You are perfectly light
madam" said the driver )" but [ will
settle with your husband for it when he
returns" He took it, used it, and
brought it back in good order. When he
came to settle for it, the man met him
full of anger, and thunderous with rage.
After some expostulations, he said Il
have come to settle with you for the
wagon. Well, you shall, said the
man. What shall I pay yop for the
use of it an hour Or two 2" "1ou shall
pay ME fifty dollars. " He made no
objection to to the charge, handed the
man fifty dollars. shook hands with him
in the best good-nature, and then noun
ted his coach and rode off, his passengers
protesting against his S-elding 20 such an
exorbitant demand. Two or three weeks
afterwards, he found this man hanging
about his boarding place, and said to
him, "good morning sir. - Said the
man, 1 came to see you about that
wagon. " l thought I paid you for it
How much do you want - I" That
money has burned me ever s nee took
it from you. Here's your fifty dollars
I cannot keep it." 1t was with difficulty
that he could be made to accept about
three dollars-a fair price for the use of
his wagon. When the neighbors heard
this story, and looked at the affair from
beginning to end, they said "Was not
that the best way, after all was it not
beautiful ?"[-New York Ledger.
BEAT 1T Who CAS.-A German lady,
diving few miles from Sequin, whose
name has escaped US, cultivated in her
garden, with the help of one or two little
girls, one acre of cotton. She has already
picked thirty y-eight hundred pounds of
cotton sgsd and expects to be able to
pick eight hundred more, which, if it has
been cleanly picked, will make three
bales oflint cotton. fanyone can beat that,
we want to hear from them. The extra
ordinary yieldunder consideration would
seem to indicate that it has heretofore
been the custom among cotton growers to
put in too much land, i. e. putting i'll
more than they could cultivate. If such
is The case, the lrcdictiR OF Heverdy
johnson made at ,;innSf III London,
that the time was coming when the cotton
crop of the South would he doue,ie what
it ever had been before the war, may be I
as the large plantations yield to
small farms aud hired, uncertain labor
gives place to the personal exertion of y
the planter. Surely, common sense t
would teach that it is better to raise ten Il
bales of cotton off five acres Of ground d
than twenty acres. But whether the il
improvement in the cultivation of cotton \
is to reach an extent SO great is yet to Is
be seen-one of those uncertain problems 4
which only the future can demonstrates; but F
one thing is certain that the production il
Of cotton has not been near so great as !,
It would have been had it been properly 2
cultivated; as in fact may be said of all n
he farm productions Of the extreme e'
Southern States. Land has been so plen- c.
y and cheap that it was no object to o. o.
'con omise it or husband its resources by e,
borough cultivation, but we incline to al
he opinion that experience will teach hi
he lesson that one acre of ground well T.
md properly cultivated is more remu-
lcrative than three or four slighted by A
lick with the hoe or turn of the plow A
With the promise of another one which =.
$ never fulfilled. Let our farmers try 8,
t, and we think in the end they will S.
ind it wise.-[Sequin Journal. tr
SALT WITH NUTs.-0ne time, while re
njoying' a visit from an Englishman, IL
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