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Daily independent. [volume] (Elko, Nev.) 188?-1915, 1889-11-30
STIRRING UP STRIFE.


How an Ape Brought About q Battle He.
tween Two Monster ReptIloS
One morning, says a traveller in
Java. was standing beside small
lake fed by one OF the rills from the
mountains Stretching its limbs over
this pond was gigantic teak-tree,
and in its thick, shining, evergreen
leaves lay huge boa, in an easy coil,
evidently taking his morning nap.
Above him was a powerful ape of the
baboon species-a leering race of
scamps. always bent on mischief.
The ape, from his position. saw n
crocodile rise to the surface of the
water, just beneath the teak limb
where lay the serpent Quick as
thought he jumped plump upon the
boa, which fell with a splash into the
water just in front of the crocodile.
The ape saved himself by clinging to the
limb OF the tree; but battle royal I'M
mediately began in the water.
The crocodile had fixed its jaws in
the snake, which made the water boil
by Its furious contortions. Winding
his folds round and round the body of
his antagonist the boa disabled its
hinder legs. and by his contractions
made the scales and bones of his
enemy crack.
Over and over the combatants rolled,
neither being able to obtain decided
advantage
All this time the cause of the mis-.
chief was in high glee. He leaped up
and down the branches, came several
times close to the scene of the fight,
uttered a yell, and again frisked away.
Perhaps ten minutes passed and the
noise of the conflict began to fade into
silence. The folds of the serpent were
relaxing. and though they trembled
along the back, the head hung iifeless
in the water. The crocodile, also, was
dead. The monkey now perched on n
low limb just above the dead bodies of
his two foes, and amused himself by
making faces at them. This seemed
TO be adding insult to injury. picked
up stone from the edge OF the lake
and hurled it at the ape 1t struck
him on the head and down he fell
upon the crocodile's body. He was up
again in moment, and spraug into
the teak-tree. where he disappeared
among the thick branches. Youths
Companion.
Daily independent. [volume] (Elko, Nev.) 188?-1915, 1889-11-30
Chinese Foot-cramping.

Our esteemed Chinese contem nor.
ary, the HUI Pao. has been investigat.
ing the origin of the foot-cramping by
Chinese women. The practice is of
very ancient date. Some affirm that
1t rose in the time of the five dynasties
that is, in the tenth century A. ID.
Jao Niang, the mistress of Ii Yu, the
last Emperor OF these dynasties, tied
up her feet with silk into the shape of
a crescent moon, and all the other
beauties OF the time Initiated her. The
literature of previous dynasties do not
a!lnde to the custom. During the
reign OF Kong Hi (1664 A. d. an edict
forbade foot-cramping under various
penalties, the local officials being held
responsible in some degree for viola
tion OF the law by people in their dis
trict. But the fashion was too strong,
and in 1868, at the instigation of the
board of ceremonies, this edict was
withdrawn IL 10 still universal in
Kuantung and Kuangsi
"A good story is told about a
man on the east side who has twelve
acres of land to sell He asked $3.50
per acre, and finally found a pur-
chaser at that figure. His wife, how
ever, refused TO sign the decd, and the
sale was of. Then he offered tho
land for 1000 per acre, and again a
purchaser was found, and again the
good wife exercised her royal preroga-
tive, and refused to sign the decd.
The property 10 now for sale at e20. 600
for the tweive acres Fortunate is the
man who possesses wife who knows
how TO refuse 20 sign deeds judiciously;
her yalue 10 greater then rubies; yea,
verify, above 6ne gold = Portland Orc.
gonian. .--.-.---------
Daily independent. [volume] (Elko, Nev.) 188?-1915, 1889-11-30

nEPUTY U. s. LAND AND MINERAL
- surveyor for Nevada, Mines laid out
and Surveyed for Pat ut. Land surveyed, ap.
piicstions. contracts, payments on land, and
appertaining to tshing np or holding land Of
the State OF G0vs;nmeut attended ia. shall
keep fnuy post,d ne 20 All lands taken ny snd
'. cant in the caaossR pst ci Ntyads. IA.
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The Louisiana Democrat. [volume] (Alexandria, La.) 1845-1918, 1889-05-08
Three Bales on Two Acres of Poor
Land.

To raise three bales of cotton to the
acre on worn-out pine lands is quite
an exploit. A correspondent of the
Leesville Peoples Friend, writing from
Anacoco. Vernon Parish, tells how he
did it:
will give your readers a history
of the manner in which l managed to
raise three bales of cotton from two
acres of ground.
First-The land was pine land which
had been in cultivation ten Or twelve
years and the last crop raised on
the land before the present crop was
oats.
Second-1n the management of land,
|, in the first place, took a shovel pillow
and run the rows off four and half
feet apart | then filed this furrow
with fertilizer from the stable and rak :
ing from the tramp yard, bedded out
on that and then planted in first Mon
day in April.
Third cultivated it as follows:
When it was large enough to work /
ran scouter pillow around it and
chopped it out to stand. After this ]
used the scouter fastened to solid
sweep, and whenever the middles be-
came grassy Or needed work used the
junior cultivator, running it once in a
row. Iplowed it again as above, and
owing to the wet weather, that was all
the cultivation it received. Vicks-
burg Post.
The Louisiana Democrat. [volume] (Alexandria, La.) 1845-1918, 1889-05-08
SELF-MAOE MEMS SONS.
Views of an Old Gentleman Who Drove
PIOw in His Youth.

sNf1S.
Views of an Old Gentleman Who Drove @
PlOw in HIS Youth.
"Whcn was your nge | had TO work
for my living" said the head of a pros
porous establishment to his son, when
the young man reached the Office two
hours after his father had settled
down to work. II used to get up at
four o'clock in the morning, and went
10 bed like a sensible man at dark.
We didn't have any fads in those days
about young mems clubs, cotillons and
such nonsense. We tramped behind a
pillow all day, or chopped wood from
the time we got up till we went to bed.
What do you suppose my father would
have said to me if had gone to work
at ten o'clock in the morning? he
used to work right alongside OF us,
and keep up with the best OF us, too.
When came TO New York to fight my
own way he was fifty-five years old,
and he was as strong and we'll as when
he was twenty-one.
"What kind of men do you think
you and your friends will make? Out
every night to some frivolous enter
tainment and up late in the morning,
Thank goodness, | was born in the
good old days when a man
wasn't afraid to see the sun
rise or to take hold of work, or to
get his hands cold," and then the an
cry father got up and put on his fur
lined overcoat and started down stairs
to his carriage. William had moi
driven up near enough to the curb.
stone and he got sound rating be-
cause his employer had to step ou
into the street to get into the carriage
When he pulled up at a fashionable
house in Fifth avenue, the self-made
man wanted to know if he couldn't
drive along the street without shak
ing the life out of man.
Having got into the house, the man
who had tramped behind d plow fol
twelve hours in day was assisted
into his slippers and smoking-jacle
by his man-servant. He read his even
Ing papers and then ate dinner pre-
pared by French cook whose salary
was just a trife more than that OF
some college presidents. After smok.
ing a fifty-cent cigar, and going to his
library for quiet little nap prepare
tory to spending the evening at his
club, he came out and expressed his
opinion to his youngest son for falling
down the front stairs and waking him
up. Then he went around to his club
and while finishing up q bottle of Bur.
gundy after supper that added three
per cent. to his doctors bill, he unused
over the young man of to-day as com
pared to himself and his generation
when 10 split a cord of wood in ar
afternoon was child's play. IN. Y.
Tribune.
The Louisiana Democrat. [volume] (Alexandria, La.) 1845-1918, 1889-05-08
Do You Buy on Time 2

On time or for casho What is the
difference between the two ways oil
doing business? Let us see. A good
commercial fertilizer containing from
u to 2! per cent. OF ammonia sells, on
time. practically at about 1913 per ton.
The same fertilizer can be bought now
/ for cash at about $27 per ton. Here is
difference of about Sc per ton in favor
of the cash buyer. What per cent. OF
interest is that on the cost priceP The
cash time with sellers is May l. That
is to say, if you pay by that date you
get your fertilizer at the cash prices.
Reckoning from May 1, it is six
months till November, or seven
months till the LIST of December. by
: which time the bill must be paid, Or
you will be looked after closely and
sharply. Say seven months. The in
terest the farmer pays on $27 for seven
months, say Sc, which is a fraction
over thirty-eight per cent. per annum.
Cipher it out for yourself. The figures
are correct. Can farmers ever prosper
in that kind of business?
Or suppose the farmer buys on the
cotton-option plan. He agrees to de-
liver in November $40 pounds OF mid
ding cotton for ton of fertilizer.
He gives his note for 37.5O-375
pounds of cotton at ten cents. In due
time he takes his cotton to market.
If it classes middling, he pays
his bill with 575 pounds, no matter
what the market price for the day is.
If middling cotton is worth nine cents
on the day he settles, he pays $3.50
with $33.7 IS worth of cotton. Just here
is where some farmers are deluded-
dumfuzzled with the idea that they got
ten cents for cotton when the market
was only nine cents, utterly oblivious
of the fact that they have paid S. more
than the cash price of the fertilizer, or
thirty-eight per cent on cost Granted
for arguments sake that the farmer
ought to pay interest on his debt. Ten
per cent. is a very high rate of interest,
but say ten per cent. That rate on 1927
for seven months amounts to Sl57!.
Take this from Sc, and it leaves 81. 424
which the farmer pays over and above
the current money-lending rate of in
terest, on so small transaction as $27
for the short space of six or seven
months.
Another point: If the farmers cot,
ton does not class middling, he gets
only the market price for it. The cot.
ton must be middling grade. Or the
cotton option contract falls to pieces,
and he must pay the difference between
the price of the lower grade cotton and
that of middling. which amounts to 6
half cent or q cent on the pound, OF
from two to five dollars on bale. F0l
instance: Ii middling cotton is worth
nine cents, and the farmers lower
grade which he brings to pay hi!
note is worth eight and Il quarter
cents here will BE- the settlement
The Louisiana Democrat. [volume] (Alexandria, La.) 1845-1918, 1889-05-08
PAPER TORPEDO BOATS.
Tho Latest Addition to the Navy CT tho
United Stat S.

Tho Latest Addition to the Navy CT tho
United Stat s.
Joseph Bergman, of Lansing burg,
builder of paper boats, is now engaged
on the construction of paper torpedo
boats, under the countenance of the
Navy Department. The trial boat is
nearly ready, and is a peculiar con-
struction measuring nearly eleven feet
in length, and about the same dimen-
sions in breadth, with depth of only
sixteen inches. lis shape at either
end is that of a cigar that has been
somewhat flattened in the box. ANY
cross section, ut right angles with its
longitudinal axis, is an oval, and it
tapers to Il sharp point at each end. 1t
is made of twelve folds of paper, is
one-seventh of an inch thick, and
though it contains no braces, is so hard
and strong that one by pressing against
it might presume that it was
solid. It's greatest beam is about
four feet from the bow. The
CEtlb 10 Ill udlN S5
SO that each half is keelless paper
boat, its lines converging to two points,
at stem and stern. Within the shell
are three cleats, to which an electric
dynamo will be fastened amidships.
This dynamo will turn a light propel-
err, at high rate of speed. In the
bow, in a space two feet long, will be
stored twenty-five pounds of dynamite,
enough to blow the biggest turret ship
into cooked hat before Bismarck
could say "sauerkraut. The contact
of pointed block of brass protruding
through the bow of the torpedo with
tho side OF vessel will discharge the
dynamite. The torpedo boat will be
steered by means of electric wires con-
Meeting its stern with the ship from
which it is sent out. The shell, which
will be water-tight, will be so ballasted
that it will run along under water at
the necessary depth. Paper Mill.
The Louisiana Democrat. [volume] (Alexandria, La.) 1845-1918, 1889-05-08
A Commandments Letter.
Epchlng:.


TO THE EDITOR: I see that newspaper
articles are again making their appearance
calling attention to matters pertaining to
health as we'll as to the means whereby dis
ease may be removed and good health pre-
received from time to time, pamphlet publ
cations issued bythc well-lnown firm of n.
II. Warmers & Co., which dwell upon the his
tory and growth of kidney diseases; show
ing how such is the cause of consumption,
heart, brain and nervous disorders, which
can pnly be successfully treated by remov-
ing the primary disease from the kidneys.
At tile same time care is taken to remind
the reader that Warmers Safe Cure is the
only means whereby the physician or the in
dividual can successfully prevent and cure
this class Of disease
Whilst have personal cause to feel CRATE
full to Warmers Safe Cure, for the benefit
which derived from it when suffering from
kidney troubles last spring, can not see,
since that remedy is already so well known
in every household, why the parties inter-
ested in its manufacture should continue to
expend money in calling attention to what
the public already knows so well. am
aware, Mr.. Editor, that the members of the
medical profession arc seldom disposed to
give due credit to proprietary medicines,
but public confidence is likely to be even
more shaken in those learned gentlemen
since the startling disclosures in the Robin
son poisoning cases were made in Somer-
vile, Mass.
Here it was discovered, through the eff
forts of an insurance company, that eight
cases Of death from arsenical poisoning had
occurred-seven of them in one family, and
within five years and the other that of a
relative-wherein the true cause of death
had not been even suspected by prominent
physicians who were in attendance, but who
treated the cases for other causes, and
finally, when death occurred, issued certif-
Gates for such causes as pneumonia, typhoid
fever, meningitis, etc.
After such an evidence OF the utter in
competency Of those physicians who were
regarded as experts in their profession,
can not conceive why it will be longer nee
essary for further advertising to be done in
behalf of Warmers Safe Cure, since deem
the Somerville disclosure to be the best pos
sible endorsement of the good sense mani
tested by those who take matters of health
in their own hands and use a remedy which
experience has shown to be fully adapted
for the purposes intended, instead of trust
ing themselves in experimental hands.
EXPERIENCE.
The Louisiana Democrat. [volume] (Alexandria, La.) 1845-1918, 1889-05-08
FACTS LEARNED Of LATE.

THE United States have & bout half Of the
swine Of the world.
In 1885, "a, 1Oo, 900 Of proper ty was destroyed
by boiler explosions.
TIE Eifel Tower, Paris, is finished. Its
bird cage hat is 925 feet from the ground.
The President has reserved Monday to
himself, and on that day sees those only
with whom he has engagements.
THE United States furnishes by far the
larger part of the electric wire to be used
in the Paris Exposition Building.
THE tower Elffel in Paris at the exhibition
grounds is capable Of holding in its differ
emit landings 10000 persons.
SEEDS of the most valuable varieties of
cinchona bring $1,000 per ounce in Ceylon.
There arc nearly 100, 600 seeds in an ounce.
SEVENTY per cent. of the emigation from
the British isles seek homes in this country
in spite of cncouragcments and induce.
ments to 60 to Canada aud Australia.
If all the freight cars in the United States
were in a line they would extend from New
York to San Francisco and back again tt
New York.
"PARApIsE," by Tintoretto, is the larges'
painting in the world 1t is cighty-four feet
wide, and thirty-three AID a half feet high,
and is now in the Doge's Palace, Venice.
MOSES LYMAN, of Waverly, N. Y, pleads
not guilty to the charge OF inventing the
pigs in clover puzzle. The real culprit Is
now said TO be Charles M. Crandall, mana
ger of q toy-works at Waverly.
THERE Isl rival to the pig puzzle-"Chiclz.
ems in the Dooryard with the motto:
"Drive them in the coopif you cam" aud
the person who gets to work on it will re-
joice that the flock is not larger one.
IT is figured out that the railroads of tho
world are worth 100000, 000 900, or nearly
one-tenth of the wealth Of the civilized
nations, or more than quarter of their in.
vested capital, and that all the ready money
in the world would buy only about onet third
of them.
ACCORDING to the Montreal Witness the
French language is at present, as was Oh
vious from the last census, rapidly gaining
on the English, not only in the Province of
Quebec but in the other provinces, notably
New Brunswick and Eastern Ontario. A
similar movement is going on in the New
England States. The census of 1890 will
startle people in this respect.
The "pgs in clover" puzzle has brought
inspiration to a Bridgeport, Conn, inventor,
who has conceived another clever device
for amusement. The toy includes a rail.
road switch and combination of cars and
engine. The engine must be reversed,
leaving the cars in their 0rgina. position
| The new puzzle Is said to require GOODNESS
and more calculation than "pigs in clover"
The Louisiana Democrat. [volume] (Alexandria, La.) 1845-1918, 1889-05-08
Window Plants,

Complaint is often made that window
plants look sickly, and that their leaves
turn yellow and fall. Insects often
cause the trouble, and in some cases it
is because leaves are not kept clean.
When the pots are insufficiently drained
the water remains stagnant about the
roots. Roots need air, and when this
is excluded no food is absorbed, the
reserve material in leaf and stem is
soon exhausted and the plant is starved.
Window plants should have no water
when the soil is damp.
A plant is in healthy condition
when it is allowed to dry out until wa
ter is needed, and this demand should
be made twice week or oftener, &C
cording to the size of the pot and the
plant, the rapidity of Transportation
and Of evaporation from the soil. An
arated soil is essential to success with
window plants, and it is just as neces-
sary for the health of shrubs and
trees. Last June dam built across a
little brook which runs through my
meadow raised the water level of a
pon0, half q dozen square rods in eX-
tent, about two feet. A thrifty tulip
tree stood ten feet from the bank, but
in few days every leaf turned yellow
and fell. So many Of its feeding roots
were shut on from air by the water
that saturated the soil about them
that the tree died of starvation. Gar
den and Forest.
The Louisiana Democrat. [volume] (Alexandria, La.) 1845-1918, 1889-05-08
A Bond of Sympathy

Both were chronically hard up, and,
rs they stood in u sunny spot, looking
idly about. it would have been hard to
decide in which mental workshop the
proverbial devil had most room.
My present condition." remark ed
the larger and lazier of the two, sis
due to the failure of my first business
enterprise"
What was that?" queried the other.
"Canvassing for a book 'Gleanings
from Past and Present. or something
like"
"Shake-sha6e, old fellowr broke
in his companion, his voice trembling
with strong emotion and cloves.
What! Did you ever try to sell the
book?h
Mono! l wrote it"-Detroit FREQ
Press.
The Louisiana Democrat. [volume] (Alexandria, La.) 1845-1918, 1889-05-08
HERE AND THERE.

Old sod that has been plowed up
for corn usually contains cutworms.
Look over the field daily after the corn
is up and destroy them.
The Emerald gem is a small can
teloup, but probably the best Favored.
The gain of size in the melon family is
often at the expense of quality.
For stock the mammoth long red
mangel wurzel is the best on light
loamy soils that have been deeply
plowed. The globe varieties are best
suited for stiff soils.
"A hen and chicks in garden
sometimes prove beneficial. as they
destroy many insects, but they should
be kept away from plots that have been
recently seeded.
Thin out all surplus plants in the
hot-beds if they are crowded, and those
remaining will become more stocky.
The hot-bed may be left open during
the day at this season.
Outdoor cabbage beds may be pre-
pared Have the bed rich and fine and
sow the seed in rows so as to keep the
grass out. Transplant as soon as the
young plants are large enough.
Popcorn is valuable crop in some
sections. 1t is sold by the pound,
grain and cob together. The rice pop
con, which is uniformly clear and
bright, is the favOrite market variety.
Owing to the low price offered for
tobacco there will be none raised in the
Pleasant Hill section, and from what
your correspondent can learn there
will be very little raised in this county.
-Gallatin Crenn.) Tennesseean.
1T is understood that the commit
tee appointed by the Mississippi State
Alliance to look into the manufacture
of pine straw bagging have decided to
locate one factory at jackson and an
other at Meridian.
-Cotton-seed meal will not do for
hog feed, as the lint balls in the
stomach, and can not be avoided. This
objection to cotton-seed meal is not ap-
plicable to domestic animals other than
the hog.
If the space between the rows of
grape-vines is occupied by strawberry
plants, currant bushes or weeds, do
not wonder that the grapes do not
ripen early. The suns rays must
reach the earth and keep it warm if
early ripening is desired.
Berry baskets stored in crates in
the same manner as when filled with
fruit are almost certain to be damaged
by the gnawing of mice if the mice
have access If the boxes are nesteo.
together and packed in the crates they
are seldom attacked.
--Artichokes become a pest after
they once get stand, as the small
tubers remain in the ground all winter
and shoot out in the spring, gradually
spreading over more ground every
season. They serve we'll in a field
where the pigs can be turned in to root
them up.
Most of US make mistake by feed
ing at the wrong end of the hogs ex-
istence. We don't get down to bust
ness in the way of feeding until a
month or two before we sell him for
pork. This is all wrong. The main
secret is in giving the piggy good
send-off during the first two Or three
months Of bis existence !,
-G
The Louisiana Democrat. [volume] (Alexandria, La.) 1845-1918, 1889-05-08
Horrid Torture.

This Is often felt in every Joint and mus.
Gle of the body by turns, by people who, ex-
periencing the earliest twinges of rheuma-
tism, neglect to arrest the malady, as they
may easily Go, with Hostetters Stomach
Bitters, a professionally authenticated
remedy for the agonzing complaint. Rec
ollect that rheumatism unchecked often
lasts a lifetime, or abruptly terminates it
when the malady attacks the heart The
Bitters also remedies chills and fever, dys.
pepsia and liver complaint.
The Louisiana Democrat. [volume] (Alexandria, La.) 1845-1918, 1889-05-08

Shallcnberger's Antidote for Malaria is
the cheapest remedy in the world in proper
tion to the work it does, because it is GER
tain to cure even the worst cases if taken
properly. One bottle of thirty pills will
cure any ordinary case, and one dose will
stop the chills, but number of doses and a
little time are required to drive all Malaria
from the system. Sold by Druggists.