St. Landry democrat., 1885-05-16
Communicated
GUMsrY POINT, Pine Prairie,
May s 1885.
Mr.. Editor:

interfered with blowing though plan
tiers are keeping their hoes BUSY CLEAN
ing out their crops where land is mgnes6
| and both cotton and corn are more than
usually promising for good ylelds' AS
| | stated in former letter, the acreage
uder cultivation IN this vicinity, -
| largely increased over last year with
mich increased improvements noticea-
HE among which are the additions TO-
! the beautiful residence and grounds OF
| DR.. 7. f, Hawkins and his line deer
| mark with the new fences and tlne I'M
nrovements of Mr. Lewis Olitf at the
old Tucker place giving evidence that
! the Mace that has been as GOOD as IN
occupied for the last dozen years, has at
| length fallen into the possession ana
ownership of q "live man." Mr.. Diff IS
from Oakland County, Michigan, and
has brought with him some fine oloOded
Short Horn cattle, among when are
two young bulls, and he has tlrst-class
Kentucky Jack all OF which were much
wanted here. Mr.. VIM. Forman; one
of our best planters, has very much IN
creased the acreage of his ploWed lana,
IN his home place, and the cotton crop
Innon il is looking very we'll. Nlr.
/ GoOding has built a new convenient
Dlanter's house on the road to Pine
Prairie with new fences and other I'M
movements that denote progress and
thrift. The places of Major Wharton,
! Charles Richards and John Smith give
evidence of well-directed industry by
men who know how to plant for good
crops, and there are many other places
that look thrifty as though "hOme COM
fOrtsn were increasing in this part OF
our beautiful parish. Two months ago
stock that had had hard time to pull
through the winter are now III tar
condition and will be soon looking sleek
and fat. Our enterprising merchant
Capt. Sam Haas and Major Wharton
are orr large cattle dealers and from
appearances their business in that line
has been remunerative. There are few
, il any, more enteprising, industrious
men in Louisiana than Capt. Sam Haas
and "his word is as good as his bond.
Politics Just now are giving the people
but little to talk about and nationally,
with President Cleveland at the helm
the shin of State is gliding along most
satisfactorily. To use a slang phrase,
politically. everything is lovely and
the goose hangs high.n From your Bib
t lical references ana quotations III y0ul
: Democrat of the Goth ult.,.. with your
criticism on King SOlOmOn's domestic
affairs it seems reasonable to infer thai
your bump of reverence is not huge
for the memories of those by gone fos-
sis of humanity job, Jeremiah and
Solomon. The first, no doubt was Sc
riousIy and sorely afflicted and mani
tested much patience in his distress yet
evidently from the record, had led ar
extravaganza and perhas dissipated life
at some period of his existence as he
must have used butter lavishly and Il
tno practical purpose. 1t not the origi
nal discoverer of petroleum oil, JOt
knew of it's existence at q very early
period for hesays. job xxx chap. 6tl
verse, "When / washed my steps witt
butter, and the rock poured me on
rivers Of OIL" Some poet has writer
"When Job of old lay sick with boils,
The rivers flowed with native oils;
Zen honey from the rocks did flow g.
Because the Bible tells us 500
deuteronomy, xxx'i-13th Psalms XxXl16th.
Where Job had the rocks pouring him on
''rivers of Oiln is not exactly known, bu
he perhaps was at the head or Presiden
of some ancient STANDARD Oil COmpa
. N.Y. and had struck q flowing well, TO
: evidently the poet aforementioned
: looked upon him as an extensive OF
! operator when he wrote
: "He made the oceans waters smile,
With ladened ships for every Isle,
And all the earth for him did toll,
In pumping, barreiling, shipping OIL
With this view Of Jobs character TO
extensive oil operations, were he livin
8 to-day, the bowery boy would be apt t
t quantity remark of him "bully for Job.
: jeremiah was a very different claracte
from Job and apparently led les
eventful life, though as lamentor il
his time he had no time. The transla
tors of Jeremiah's sayings seem to hav
, got things somewhat mixed, about a
much so as the old darkey preacher di
who took for his text "Tbese seven di
Milcha bear unto Nahor,R remarkin
that the Patriarch Fathers depende,
:, for their milk on the bears of the for
f est, that it took six to hold the bea
|, while the other MIXED, and they had {
y go down to Major TO get the bear L
Z sporting pa1lance three Of kind bea
. any two pairn and for git up and git
= Solomon was the king PIN Of this oil
q fossil trio. Brigham Young had scale
i to him 30 wives, in a pleasant neighbor
: ly, social game of draw he could hav
: put them all up,. Solomon could hav
] made good, and went him 671 wive
i and 800 eoncubines better, thus forcin
= the great mormon to lay down his han
a and "go to tht deck leaving the Kin
I OF Jerusalem to rake down the pot.
: The Queen Of Theba having been invit
: ed to Solomon's court was overcom
> and dazzled with its splendor and mag
: nificent elegance and admitted, speak
ing of its great glory that the half t.a
not been told her.. Mr.. A. Ward *,
e e undoubtedly, imam of the worldn an
r a philosopher, and had he been Twin
# at the time and visited Solomon whe
E Mrs. Theba did, he would unquestiona
y l,lr In No hnonn cnita q M ,ch ostr.; Il, Z.