The Ouachita telegraph. [volume] (Monroe, La.) 1865-1889, 1888-08-04
Louisiana Outlines.
["Catherille Colo" i'll n. Q. Picayun

["Catherne Colo" i'll n. 0. Picayunel
| ara beginning to find out, as many
anOthe. Columbus before me, that
Louisiana is :he wonder state Of the
nation. II is The home OF. the most
picturesque people in America 1t has
inspired some great romauces and one
of the loV2liest poems It's history reads
like a romance, and its ineXprcssible
lovely scenery has made the fortunes
Of many au artist. On its sand duues
and dGsofate shores that seem to Gribbie
off into the sea, the sea gull makes her
nest and lays her eggs and the white
crane with its priceless piumage hunts
among the hollow reeds. In lis deep.
beliied bays and lakes The finest fish
swim into the fsherman's net. In its
Jungle of sWamps grow the rarest, best
and most beautiful trees, their baughs
like the Christmas trees Of some cons
tant beneticent Saint Nicholas forever
yielding moss that is as good as a
current coin. On the black waters the
alligators lark away from the torch ard
the spear and the bullet Of the hunter,
for the beautiful embossed skin Of this
monster is worth much money. The
gray old plantation homes are shaded
pS but sLSSa w AINSC J St!s y .Stu AS
little fortune III Itself and cut on the
fiat pasture lands mushrooms grow
pleutiluliy and pungcnt water crosses
are tangled over the clear streams, and
in the orchards aud !ruit gardens is q
harvest Of the fruits of all countries
1t is the state for cotton mills ana sugar
reiincries, for saw mills snd wooden
| ware mills, and for the canning facto-
rie5 OF fruit, fish and fowl and vcgC-
| tables. Ii is the h0MC OF deer aud The
haunt OF the delicate birds so dear to
the stomach Of the cpiCure, aud as yet
no man can guess at the undiscovered
treasures of oil aud ore and miuera!
that lie buried under its fair breast.
This morning when it was yet very
carly, l went walking over This one
little town, and 1 saw growing in its
gardens aud near by ia lis fields such
crops and such 'gardCD sass" as would
! tutn the head Of an Onto Gud Mime
! sofa farmer. JEiCb fields OF cane prom
| Using the proverbial and annually real
| ized fabulous yield, melons, oranges.
| AiOug the fences leaned tue shading fig
trees alt pink and purple with fruit
| a white -n0WerCG guam made sweet the
| air, and the sun polished its uut-like
] globes OF ffuit. O2el the arbOTs grew
vines heavy with clusters and one Of
the best of wine producing grapes,
POmegranates, plums and peaches were
the shade treas, and the very morning
| itself was roscate with the glow Of tho
myrtle blooms, while here and there n
| white myrtle flung lis crumpIed, Grape
| like flowers floating abroad like some
! Iowlyiug cloud.
10 the gardens were all manner CT
vegetables, and The house porches were
deep in the lealy shade Of Marshal
Neil roses. Up in the magnolia tops
the mocking birds sang, and purple
passion flowers made rich curtains at
the windows, and thp air was spicy
with the smell Of the many .Celied may
pop. The air was de!iCiOu-ly cool aud
wholesome and Gewy.
If l were young man, win all the
, world and my fortune before me,
think l should get me "a AK and (
spade and q package Of garden seed
and get out into the dewy, lovely riCt
wonderland Of the Louisiana country
; No Giddiness, Headache, Bazzing il
! Ears or Deafness produced by usin
: Cheatham's Chill Tonic. Money Tetui
c ded If it fails TO cure. Sold by q
; druggists.