The Opelousas courier., 1885-07-18
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AS the soil, however rich it
may be, cannot be productive
without culture, so the mind,
without cultivation, can never
produce good fruit.
Always laugh when you can;
it is a cheap medicine. 1t is the
sunny side of existence.
No poultice has ever been
discovered that draws out a
mans virtues as the sod which
covers his grave.
Most people are masters of
a kind of logic by which they
argue their conscience asleep,
and acquit themselves of doing
wrong.
The darkest day in a mans
career is that wherein he fancies
there is some easier way of get
ting q dollar than by squarely
earning it.
The character of a man is
to be inferred and understood
as much from the society he
shuns as from the companion
ship he covets.
There are some people that
live without any design at all,
and pass through the world like
straWs on a riVer-they do not
go but are carried.
1t is a grand mistake to
think that the majority are al
ways in the right, They were
not so in the time of the Flood ;
and they've been wrong several
times since.
Make yourself a good man
and then you are sure there is
one rascal less in the world.
If a man should set out call
ing everything by it's right name
he would be knocked down be-
fore he got to the corner of the
street.
1t is folly to wait for the
improvement of fool.
No man is ever Indifferent
to the worlds good opinion I'M
Til he has lost all claim to it.
Men are like wagons /; they
rattle prodigiously when there
is nothing in them.
Mr. j. B. Watkins. of Kansas,
who not long since purchased
from the United States a large
area of land lying in Calcasieu,
Cameron and Vermillion parish
es, has acquired from Mr.. Lastie
Dupre, of st. Landry, his stock
of cattle and horses ranging in
those parishes. The price paid
is said to have been S66, 900,
which is considered a very fair
bargain for Mr.. Watkins. On
the other hand, though this may
not have been the full value OF
the stock, there are considera-
tiens which made the transac-
ton a desirable one for Mr.. Du-
pre. 1t must be remembered
that the quantity of landacquir-
ed by Mr.. Watkins is near L.
100000 acres, and it stretches
from the Mermentau to the Sa-
bine, a small portion besidesex-
tending into Vermilion parish
and upon this. very land, noted
for it's magnificent grazing pro.
perties, thousands of cattle and
horses, including Mr.. Dupr6's
have from time out of mind at
most ranged at will. But Mr..
Watkins being about to put 8
fence on the upper line OF his
land, it became necessary fol
owners of this stock to find new
Egrazing quarters for them. Mr.
Dupre chose to sell. It is said
in this connection, that the
scheme of retaining the area
subject to the tidal overflow has
been amazingly successful, since
much of 1t is made cultivablt
for rice purposes, and IN all ca
SEES more valuable for grazing
The boom is evidently on 70
Calcasieu.-Lake Charles Com
mercial.
The Memphis Appeal announ
ces that Mr.. James Cameron, o
that city, has, after many year,
of experimental tests cucceedet
in perfecting a method of rein
ling crude cotton seed oil at
saving Of twelve barrels in ever,
hundred. By the best OF TIL
present methods of refining TIL
residue is equal to fifteen barrel
in every hundred, whereas th,
residue by his process is onl.!
three barrels, and that is all o
an increased commercial value
Las stated by the Appeal, thi
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