St. Landry democrat., 1881-10-29
(COnmunicated.l

| FRIEND DEMOCRAT-NeVer put OH
till tomorrow what can be done to-day
is an old though very good prOverb !;
and by the neglect of it's admonition |
very nearly missed my weekly greeting.
We are all astir, some hauling cotton
to the Captains new gin house, others
hauling lumber tOwnwards, and few,
very few, gathering taters. BY the bye,
some people prognOsticate that corn
will be corn next year, which means |
suppose that it will be scarce, but if
| that is the case, then g taters," espe-
cially yams, will be a rarity, as few
have made enough to do for home con-
sumption, and they are of microscopic
size. Notwithstanding which there
seems to be general content with the
outcome everywhere in our section.
| People are becoming year by year to
discover the pecuniary advantage of
| living more within their own resources
and this it is that makes prosperous
country and a happy population. The
squirt in the lumber trade too has it's
advantage, and seems to tell in the
financial welfare of our citizens, and as
| said some weeks back, this State will
be at no far distant period, the supply
depot for the furniture and wagon
manufactures Of other States.
A stranger standing ON our porch and
seeing the teams as they slowly wend
their way along drawing their heavy
loads of cotton, lumber, slaves, boards,
&C., would wonder at the idea Of there
being poverty in our midst, nor need
there be, for as confidence in our vast
resources gains ground among capital
lists every where, so will our varied and
valuable products be sought after, our
people increase in prosperity, and in a
few years the South will resume the
proud supremacy for wealth, refinement,
and hospitality which it was claimed
she had lost. 1t is very evident, that
capital, when it finds security, will seek
where it can produce the greatest guam
tity for the least outlay, and nowhere
can this be done than in the country
where the raw products are to be OBJ
tained-QuOd est demonstration.
AS for local items they are few and
far between, everybody being busy
attending to their own business.
Capt. Sam and our DR.. Hawkins, ac-
companied by Miss Belle Hawkins,
started last evening for New Orleans,
where Miss Belle will remain to COM
plete her studies. We wish her success
and happiness while absent from our
midst.
The store of Capt. Haas just now re-
sembles wholesale establishment, as
Henry and his satellites are unpacking
and fixing up the supply of goods for
the fall trade. And by the appearance
of the shelves so far, Henry seems to
have pretty good idea of trade, you
bet.
Some old fogy said "man wants but
little here below" he's another, for it
strikes me pretty forcibly that man re-
quires a good deal, j. e., if he can get it.
All the croakers amt dead yet. One of
them who happened, our way was
cracking up the State he hailed from !;
pity he didn't stay there, to the detri-
ment of the one he lives in, saying
among other things that he could raise
three crops there in year to our one.
Oh yes, answered young America, Zone
of our bright ones) see, you raise three
crops off the same ground, pitch, tur-
pentine and tar, Georgia collapsed. I
left and so farewell till another time.
P K