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St. Landry democrat. (Opelousas, La.) 1878-1894, 1889-07-06
Who Is Benefited by immigration.

It is admitted by everybody that we need
more people in this section. The coming
of more Industrious people will benefit all
classes, and therefore everybody is directly
OF indirectly interested in immigration.
The coming of new settlers will benefit
the land owner, for it will increase the
price of land.
1t will benefit the merchant, for it will
enable him to sell more goods.
1t will benefit the lumber men and the
brick manufacturers, for it will create new
demands for building material.
1t will benefit the mechanic, for there
will be more houses to build.
1t will benefit the banks, for there will
be more money transactions and more
money in the community.
1t will benefit the doctors and lawyers,
for there will be more patients and clients.
1t will benefit the farmers, for there will
be better market for all kinds Of products.
And it will be good for the city and
council and State, for it will reduce taxes.
The South Atlantic.
St. Landry democrat. (Opelousas, La.) 1878-1894, 1889-07-06
The Orchard.

In speaking of the orchard the Western
Raural says:
There is only one safe way to cultivate
the soil, and that is to apportion our land
to various crops. If we are engaged in
fruit growing, to raise several kinds. If
for any reason this is not possible, why
then Of course we must do the best we can
under the circumstances. Of late years we
have been drifting largely to the cultiva-
ton of small fruits, a tendency which has
not been in urious, or preceptibly I'M furious,
SO far-if it has been properly managed
for there is demand for all that we pro-
duce. But so far as we have been led to
utterly neglect the cultivation of the large
fruits, when we could have done it just as
well as not, we have not been wise. If
things could always remain as they have
been, we should perhaps be the gamers by
devoting so much attention to small fruit
culture, for taking the whole country to-
gether there has been more money made
from small fruits than from the orchard,
and the crop of many small fruits is some
what surer because they are more easily
protected.
But that will not last always if we all
devote our energies exclusively, or almost
exclusively, to this department of horticul-
ture; and when the change does come we
shall be in bad fix, for we cannot grow
orchards in year. When apples can be
grown with success it is mistake to neglect
the apple orchard. The apple is stand
ard fruit, and fruit that is more easily
marketable than any other that is as COM
monty grown and there is no waste.
They can be held, too, for the top of the
market. With our present improved meth
DDS of drying and curing, the apple grower
has about the best chance to say what he
will have for his crop of any man who cul-
tivates the soil. He may not be able to
wholly dictate in the matter, but he can
approach to that position. Therej is the
vinegar market and the cider demand, to
help out, if he can rid the market of it's
authorizations. which he ought to be able
to do; and cider and vinegar manufacture
offers him an opportunity to convert his
imperfect apples into some value. And
years together he will make apple growing
pay. Of course we are talking only to
these who can grow apples. Taking the
West as q whole, there does not seem to
be much in the advice to grow apples
But apple growing is neglected by many
farmers in those sections in which apples
can be successfully produced. Even in the
West we shall grow apples sometime, we
believe.
St. Landry democrat. (Opelousas, La.) 1878-1894, 1889-07-06
Dried Fruits.

The industry of drying and "evaporat-
ing" fruit in these days is of infinitely
greater magnitude than in the days Wnen
our mothers used to pare, Quarter ana
core" and string up apples by passing
cotton cord through the pieces with darn.
ing needle and hanging the festoons aoous
the kitchen or around the stove pipe In an
upper room, or when in summer raspoer-
ries and currants were exposed to the sun
in plates, and the drying process hnisnea
on papers or clean boards. one OF !n'
greatest centers of the. dried fruit IN
dustry to day is Rochester, N. Y. Wl'mn
a radius of forty miles from the city are
over fifteen hundred evaporators in opera
ton, with capacities varying from 20 70
1000 bushels per day. During the ran a anu
early winter about 30, 900 people are . GU
ployed in these establishments, earning
from So to $12 per week. The he proauss s
during 1887 was about 30, oOo, 0oe d pvannoGoS
dried apples alone, requiring o'uv vossS0
bushels of apples, and the drying az Pl onSs
took 5000 tons of coal. Eacn loo po d.;sS
of apples yields about 10 pounds OF nss aIis az
fruit. The parings and cores are us. dssu n ao
the basis of apple jellies, so s9a 49,; a
fruit is wasted. Great quantities Of u assoo
apples are shipped to Europe every se"''
Good Housekeept1g.
St. Landry democrat. (Opelousas, La.) 1878-1894, 1889-07-06
THE GOOD SHEPHERn

am Jesus little lamb.
Ever glad at heart am:
Jesus loves me, Jesus knows me
All Things fair and good He shows me.
even calls me by my name;
Every day He is the same.
Safely in and out go;
Jesus loves me and keeps me so,
When hunger, Jesus feeds me
Mhen thirst my Shepherd leads me
Where the waters softly flow 3
Where the sweetest pastures grow
Should not be always glad
None whom Jesus loves are sad.
And when this short life is ended
Inose whom the Good Shepherd tended
viii be taken to the skies,
There to dwell in Paradise.
FROM Me German, By DR.. Flemiao Stessnson
St. Landry democrat. (Opelousas, La.) 1878-1894, 1889-07-06

The South certainly has advantages
which will enable it for a long time to
revel in new enterprises. 1t will be en-
couraged by successes to still greater eff
forts. The advantages have been pretty
thoroughly investigated by careful cap
italists, experts, and others who have ex-
perience to use and money to loan, and it
is not going too far to say that the upward
tendency in textile interests will con-
tinues until the production is many times
multiplied. Southerners are asking why
it is necessary to send cotton to the four
corners of the earth to be spun, when all
elements of production are SO cheap in
their own section. They are proceeding
to answer this question in way that is
creditable to themselves. - Reoieso and
Textile ReD0rter.
St. Landry democrat. (Opelousas, La.) 1878-1894, 1889-07-06
UNGUIsED

five fault that you don't like
Don't tell Miss Joles about it:
But help me try, and by and BY
I'll learn to live without it
Ii I've dress that You don't like.
That fits me here and yonder
ana you go round my back to laugh
And resent-what wonder
"nen you go home from church TO-DAY
Don tell them that my bonnet
Is dyed and pressed and trimmed aaoir
With three new flies upon it.
Because you know I'd feel so bad
To know that You had said It.
And never tell my postal card
I'd know then you had read II
II you will live and let me live,
This way, We'll love forever
But If you choose another wav
Wen be mo t apt to sever
lille Binklev, in The A,ae,;co,,
St. Landry democrat. (Opelousas, La.) 1878-1894, 1889-07-06
Another New Vegetable.

Another new vegetable has been intro
duced into France by M. Paillieux, the in
defatigable collector of new alimentary
plants. The plant has been received
through the aid of M. Bouley, head gar
dener to the Maharajah of Cashmere. 1t
is called the congalou. This vegetable is
a sort of turnip with the form of rad
ish, and the skin of an attractive bright
red color. The favor is nearly that of the
ordinary turnip, but very much stronger
the consistency of the root is such that it
does not soften in cooking. 1t appears that
in the Himalayan regions the congalou is
eaten as salad, sliced in very thin rounds
and highly seasoned sek's Magazine for
luna
St. Landry democrat. (Opelousas, La.) 1878-1894, 1889-07-06
The Railroads Of the World.

1t has been calculated that the railroads
of the world are worth nearly $500, 000,-
600, 900, or about one-tenth Of the wealth
of the civilized nations, or more than q
quarter of their invested capital. At this
rate all the ready money in the world
would buy only about one-third of them.
St. Landry democrat. (Opelousas, La.) 1878-1894, 1889-07-06
The Country Road.
WHY 1T SHOULD BE IN GOOD CONDITION AT
ALL SEASONS OF THE YEAR.

WHY IL SdOULD BE LIN GUOD CONDITION Az
ALL SEASONS OF THE YEAR.
There is nothing of great interest to the
farmer to which he pays so little attention
as roads. The large proportion of farmers
act if they do not think as the Arksnsar
did about the roof of his house: "Wher
it rained he couldn't fix it and when i,
didn't rain the roof didn't need fixing. >
So with the roads, when the deep mud
comes and it is impossible to haul a load
overAae roads they can't be fixed, and
when the good weather comes they do not
seem to need fixing except to fill up hole
here and there, pillow out a ditch or haul
some loose dirt in the center of the road
where there may be already too much of it.
1t would seem to be almost needless to
say thing about the necessity for roads
over which load may be hauled at any
time Of the year. The difference in time,
to say nothing of the advantage igs labor,
gained by taking load from the farm to
market three or four or more miles on a
road where the team can be kept moving
at their best pace, over using a road where
the team wastes its labor in pulling the
load out of holes or around puddles and
the driver endangers his reputation for
morality by the blessings he calls down on
the highway, is easily appreciated
In bright summer weather the road may
be good, usually is, but the spring and
fall rains make it terror to every one
who has to go over it. The soft places in
the dirt are washed out or cut into by the
wheels of heavily loaded wagons; the
low places by the roadside become filled
with water which is absorbed by the dirt
of the roadbed and makes it bed of mud,
impossible, sometimes even for footman.
Sometimes, as in the winter of '76-'77,
such condition will exist on the roads of
the entire country, and mud embargo re-
suits which shuts the farmer out of the
market by preventing his hauling produce
of any kind and while prices of grain 90
steadily up no advantage can be taken of
them.
There is no good reason why the roads
in every part of the country that is fairly
well settled should not be good at all sea.
sons and under all circumstances. While
there may not be as good material in some
places to make the road as there might be,
while stones or gravel may be almost or
quite unobtainable, still it is not impossible
to make good road with nothing but dirt.
1t is not the intention of this article to tell
how such roads may be made, the details
would be too long for it; but it may be
said as general rule, applicable to all
roads of whatever kind, that the first re-
quisite of a perfect road bed is dry foun-
dation. This being secured either by nat
ural or artificial drainage, the rest is COM
paratively easy. The better the material
that is put on this the better the road; but
no kind of material, no matter what kind
it is, will make good road unless this
first requisite is secured Westerm Pzoso-
man. -
St. Landry democrat. (Opelousas, La.) 1878-1894, 1889-07-06
"Scab" in Sheep.
HOW TO TREAT THE DISEASE TOBACCO
AND SULPHUR AS A DIP

HOW TO TREAT THE DISEASE TOBACCO
AND SULPHUR AS A DIP.
What is called "scab" in sheep is q cuta-
neous disease, closely allied to mango in
horses and itch in men, for in all three the
soreness and Inflammation of the skin are
due to the presence of a minute parasitic
mite, usually called an acarus, which bur-
rows in the skin, loosening the hairs or
wool. If one of the female acari is placed
on the wool Of healthy sheep she will
quickly crawl down to the root of it and
bury herself in the skin. These female
acari bring forth from eight to fifteen
young at litter, and these spread over
the animal, and wherever they find lodg-
ment make small sores and cause the wool
to drop out. Old and unhealthy sheep are
first attacked and suffer most, but if the
disease Is neglected it will spread to the
most healthy and vigorous, ands even
young lambs will sooner or later become
affected. The best and cheapest treat
meat for this disease is to dip the entire
flock, lambs as well as the old and fully
grown, in some kind of liquid that will
soften the scab and poison the mites. The
dipping should be done as soon as the
sheep are sheared in spring, for at this
time the liquid will readily reach eyery
part and destroy the mites. The most
common and perhaps best sheep dip in use
consists OF tobacco and sulphur in the pro-
portions of four ounces of tobacco and one
OF sulphur to one gallon of water. If q
large flock of sheep are to be dipped, then
kettles of sufficient capacity must be pro-
vided to heat the liquid, and also tank
or box large enough to admit the entire
body of the largest sheep. The tobacco
should be stepped in hot water until its
strength is extracted, and the sulphur then
stirred in. The liquid should then be
poured into the dipping vat and its tenn
perature reduced to about 1907 when it is
ready for use. Each animal should be
entirely immersed except the ewes and
mouth, then lifted out carefully and held
on platform for few minutes for the
liquid to drain off and run back into the
tank. By using tobacco stems the cost of
the dipping will be greatly reduced, and
still be equally as effective as one made of
. better quality of tobacco. The cost of
dipping large flock will not exceed five
cents per head, and the gain in the growth
of wool, health and comfort of the sheep
will far exceed the cost of this operation.
Sheep ticks and other vermin infesting
sheep will also be destroyed by the use Of
tobacco and sulphur. In Europe arsenic, |
spirits of turpentine and other poisons are
used in making what are called sssheep
lips )" but tobacco and sulphur are equally
sficacious, and harmless to those who are |
obliged to handle it, as well as to the
'heep.-N 2. San.
St. Landry democrat. (Opelousas, La.) 1878-1894, 1889-07-06
The Best Quarantine System in the
World.

World.
The Times Democrat says: The new
quarantine station of this State is an i'm
portant outpost that defends the Missis-
sippi Valley against the advance of infec-
tious diseases. The present station, with
its complete scientific appliances, is the
admiration of visiting delegations from
other Southern States. Its system should
be applied to the guarantees of every
seaport and of every city in the South. It
will probably soon be adopted by Charles
ton and Galveston, whose health officers
recognize and appreciate its great value
and its vital Importance.
The country is indebted to DR.. Holt for
the invention and the first successful ap-
pication of this system, and to DR.. Wilkin-
son for Improvements which have made
it as near perfection as it seems possible to
make the processes of germicidal disinfec-
ton absolute preventives against conta-
gion. The efforts of these two gentlemen
In establishing simple and effectual de-
Tense against the importation Of conta-
gio1s diseases have been of incalculable
value to the South. They have demon
strated that great. Southern cities, though
menaced by yellow fever from several diff
ferent sources in our own country, can be
saved from its dread visitation by scientific
measures, and by tireless care and vigil
lance on the part of the guardians of the
public health stationed at the gateways of
traffic and travel.
This quarantine system is one that in
sures the least Inconvenience to commerce
and travel with the greatest degree of pro-
lection against disease Faithfully man
aged, it effectually removes great danger
which has frequently confronted the cities
of the South, frightening their people and
temporarily paralyzing their trade. It has
now passed beyond the experimental
phase, and has thoroughly demonstrated
its efficiency.
The entrance to the Mississippi Valley
through Its great river is now guarded by
the finest quarantine system in the world.
Southern cities were once won't to regard
New Orleans with doubt and distrust as
. source Of disease. Now they turn to it
and its quarantine system as to an impreg-
nable fortress of defense against plague
which has in the past two years gained q |
foothold in unguarded, or improperly
guarded, cities and towns. Let them all
adopt the New Orleans quarantine system
and they will insure safety to the entire
South from the advances Of the most in
sidious and dangerous foe to the health OF
ts people.
St. Landry democrat. (Opelousas, La.) 1878-1894, 1889-07-06
Large Game Becoming Extinct.

The total extinction of wild animals that
are too large to effectively secrete them
selves from rapacious hunters is merely a
question of time. The railroad has so i'm
proved the huntsman's opportunities to
indulge in his favorite sport that no corner
of the world is now too remote to be in
Guided in the plans of campaign of sport
ing clubs and private groups of sportsmen
Within year or so past the departure was
chronicled of a titled nabob from his
Wyoming cattle ranch, for tiger hunt in
far away India.
It is reported that in large section in
Africa where elephants were once very
numerous, the mighty animal is now al
most extinct, owing to the assiduity Of pro-
fessional hunters in the ivory trade AS
evidence of the decrease in the number of
elephants. the st. James Gazette states
that in 1876 the value of ivory exported
through Cape Colony was ESQ, 400; in 1885
it was $3.50. In 1878 Ell, 1919 worth of
ivory was exported from Natal, against
$4100 worth in 1885. The Cape govern
ment years ago threw legal safe guards
around the elephant in that section, and as
a result the huge animals are said to be
more numerous along the Indian Ocean in
Cape Colony than they are 1000 miles in
land.
In our own country the slaughter of the
buffalo has illustrated the need of legisla
ton on the subject, if the bison is to be
preserved from differentiation. There is
not single herd left of the vast number
of buffalo that roamed the prairies when
the red man held undi -puted possession of
the gre.S West. A report which was cir
culated about year ago that there was in
the Pan handle of Texas small herd of
buffalo was undoubtedly sufficient to in
duce hunters innumerable to that section,
all eager to win the honor of killing
buffalo. The hunter of the future who
wishes to assert with truth that he has
shot buffalo will have to purchase one of
the animals now being domesticated and
crossed with beef cattle, or send bullet
into the stuffed efigy of buffalo.
The day is coming, unless the law inter-
yenes, when no animals but those that
crawl or burrow will be left for the sports
man. In that coming time turtle stalking
nay of necessity be raised to the rank OF
sport. Milwaukee Wisconsin.
A Summer Gorge: Wickwire-"You
ook little warm, Yabsley." Yabsley-
Il am, somewhat. just been looking at |
IN ice gorge, too" Wickwire-"lce
,orge p Yabsley-"That's what l said.
reI, That naxu o,ir1 of mine down town and
St. Landry democrat. (Opelousas, La.) 1878-1894, 1889-07-06

The South, one of the most important
Of Southern publications says: '.The Wis
its Of such men as Andrew Carnegie and
Abram S. Hewitt have an immense signifi-
canoe at this time, and are worth many
thousands Of dollars to the South, even
should no ney block of industries be estab-
ished as direct result. The movements
Of such men are published everywhere,
and to whatever point they direct their at
tention the eyes Of the world are sure to
turn. But when both Mr.. Carnegie and
Mr.. Hewitt express themselves SO emphat-
ically and unreservedly as to the magnif-
cent opportunities and prospects of the
South, the benefit is doubled"
St. Landry democrat. (Opelousas, La.) 1878-1894, 1889-07-06

A Summer Gorge: Wickwire-s'You
look little warm, Yabsley." Ysbsley-
II am, somewhat. just been looking at
an ice gorge, too" Wickwire-"ice
gorge ' Yabsley-"That's what said:
Took that new girl of mine down town and
she got away with four plates without
turning a hair. "-Ierre Haute Erpress.
The Lambertville record. [volume] (Lambertville, N.J.) 1872-1968, 1889-03-20
"Cheek" Achieves Some Thing

There was quite big fire over on the
North Side the other night Two young men
saw the reflection In the sky, hailed cab,
and told the driver to drive them to the scene
Of the confagration. He did SO. When they
arrived there the burning structure was blaz-
ing fiercely. Directly across the way was an
unoccupied building, yet unfinished, In the
windows and open doorwaysof which were
forty or fifty people watching the progress Of
the fire.
One Of the young men in the cab com
planned that he could not sec the fire. His
friend said that ne would fix it." and get
ting out and going up TO a policeman near by
he said to him; T" Here. officer, how is it tina,
those people can overrun my buildingi They
are liable to deface it." The officer addressed
called two other policemen and together they
cleared the vacant building Of sightSeers in a
jify. Then the cheeky young man and his
friend took possession all alone and watched
the fire. Chicago Herald.
The Lambertville record. [volume] (Lambertville, N.J.) 1872-1968, 1889-03-20
No Stoves IN Rome.

If you propose to do as the Romans do, you
will have neither open fireplace nor stove,
says o correspondent of The Philadelphia
Telegraph. You will spend about So and buy
a brasciere. A pan or plate stands upon
three legs about four inches from the floor,
and the cover to this is generally dome shaped,
about foot and half In height, of polished
brass In ornamental design. In the pan part
you put about a soup plateful of carbonella
or gas extracted charcoal, and on top Of that
some live cinders You then fan the cinders
until the coke is oil ignited. Once ignited, II
burns itself. 1t burns very slowly, and you
sit above the embers, coaxing warmth and a
headache, until tho upper part Of your anat-
omy Is chilled through You then find It
necessary, In order to get warm, to 60 out
for walk or go to bed
This is the chief Italian method Of house,
warming for rich and poor alike On the
same principle, there Is another instrument
called the scaldino, which Is made of terra
Gotta, Is bowl shaped, and has base OF about
the diameter Of . coffee saucer. Live Goals
are placed In this 1t Is likewise O favorite
Of both rich and poor. You may sec the
poor match vender huddled up in.the corner
Of church step with her scaldino on her
knee, warming her hands; or find tho coy
little porcelain bowl under the princess feet
as she receives you in her drawing room, with
her fur cape over her shoulders and her
hands In her muff.
The Lambertville record. [volume] (Lambertville, N.J.) 1872-1968, 1889-03-20

If there is one thing on earth above all
other mundane sources of niirth, 1t Is full
fedged Haytian general Of. thss black type in
the gala uniform Of his rank. One Of the
sable military haroes in particular was a
spectacle to cause spasln Of genuine hilarity
which no living low comedian could elicit
He was tall and sburly. His big, round,
broad face shone like polished ebony, and was
portentous from affected dignity. Hisround,
beady eyes rolled soieninly about. and bis
bullet head was covered by the jauntiest of
French cooked hats The flowing plurmes
tickled his huge rightear. The swallow tailed
coat was awfully tight and must have been a
fearful burden, with its loads Of gold lace as
the wearer stood in the rays Of the broiling
sun The massive, brawny legs were incased
In wrinkleless light blue trousers, which dis
appeared at the region Of the knee in the tops
Of bespurred enameled leather 5ackboots. A
sword OF French make hung TO the floor by
the wearer's side.- Philadelphia Press.