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St. Landry democrat. (Opelousas, La.) 1878-1894, 1889-06-08
It Doesn't Paw.

1t doesn't ray to hang one citizen be-
cause another citizen sells him liquor.
1t doesn't pay to have one citizen in the
county Jail because another citizen sells
him liquor
1t doesn't pay to have one citizen in the
lunatic asylum because another citizen sold
him liquor.
1t doesn't pay to have fifty workmen
ragged, to have one saloon-keeper dressed
in broadcloth and flush with money.
It doesn't pay to have ten smart, active,
intelligent boys transformed into thieves,
to enable one man to lead an easy life BY
selling them liquor.
It doesn't pay to have fifty working men
and their families live on bone soup and
half rations, in order that one saloon-keep-
may flourish on roast turkey and cham
payne.
1t doesn't pay to have one thousand
homes blasted. ruined, defiled and turned
into hell of discord and misery, in order
that one wholesale liquor dealer may amass
q large fortune.
It doesn't pay to give one man, for $500
a quarter, license to sell liquor, and then
spend $4,000 on the trial of another man
for buying that liquor and committing
murder under its influence. Sc Christian Sec
return.
St. Landry democrat. (Opelousas, La.) 1878-1894, 1889-06-08
Extract From a Sermon by Rev. T.
Dewitt Talmage.

Edwin Landseer has come to a better
understanding of the brute creation than
has any other man. He must have had a
pet spaniel, or cat, or horse, that in hours
of extreme confidence gave him the secret
grips, signs and pass words of the great
fraternity of animals. He knows the feel
ing of a sheep being sheared, of an OK
goaded, and the humiliation of dog when
kicked off the piazza. Animals in Europe
are more sympathized with than in Amer
lea. European horses look better satisfied
than American. They either have more
fodder or less drive. The best kept horses
| ever found were in Antwerp. European
cities are not ashamed to take some bird or
beast under their patronage. Venice looks
especially after her pigeons. Strasburg pets
the storks whose nests are on almost all
the chimneys Berne carefully guards her
bears. Oh, that the cruelty of man to bird
and beast might come to an end They
have more right to the world than man,
for they preceded him in the creation, the
birds having been made on Friday and the
cattle on Saturday morning, and man COM
ing in at the fagend of the week. No
we~Ier these aborigines of the world
/~ometimes resist, and that the bees sting,
and the bears growl, and the cats get their
backs up, and eagles defend their eyries
with iron beak, the crags echoing with the
clangor of this flying squadron of the sky
St. Landry democrat. (Opelousas, La.) 1878-1894, 1889-06-08
FATHER AT PLAY,
| Such fun as we had one rainy day,
| When father was home and helped us play.

Such fun as we had one rainy day,
When father was home and helped us play.
We made ship and hoisted sail.
And crossed the sea in a fearful gale
But we hadn't sailed into London town
When captain and crew and vessel went down
Down. down, in a jolly wreck,
With the captain rolling under the deck.
But he broke out again with lions roar,
And we on two legs, he on four,
Ran out of the parlor and up the stair,
And frightened mamma and the baby there.
So mamma said she'd be p'liceman now,
And tried to rest us. But she didn't know how.
Then the lion laughed and forgot to roar,
Till we chased him out of the nursery door;
And then he turned to pony gay,
And carried US all on his back away
Whippity, lickity, hickity, no!
If we hadn't fun, then don't know!
Till we tumbled off and he cantered on,
Never stopping to see if his load was gone.
And l couldn't tell, any more than he
Which was Charlie and which was me,
Or which was Towser, for all in a mix
You'd think three people had turned to six,
Till Towser's tail was caught in the door;
He wouldn't hurrah with US any more,
And mamma came in the rumpus to quiet,
And told us a story to break up a riot.
-E;rchGuqe
St. Landry democrat. (Opelousas, La.) 1878-1894, 1889-06-08

has promised to be Father to the father
less, and will never leave nor forsake them
that trust in him. Now if you are left
alone you have no doubt found friends, but
they are not father, nor yet are they
mother. But then God has made his
promise to you. Sometimes you may think
cross word or sharp rebuke given to
you by those who watch over you is hard
to bear. l will tell you what to do then.
If they scold you or speak harshly, keep
on doing the best you can, and, if you
have been doing wrong, be mindful never
do the same thing again. But at the
same time, tell your heavenly Father all
about it, asking him to help you to obey
in all right things, and he will, if you ask
in earnest. And then you can have this
to remember, that, if you do right, what
ever other folks do, the good Lord has
written down your little name in his book
1t may be Alice, or Frank, or John, or
Mary, no matter what, the Lord will have
it plainly put down. When you do wrong
that is also kept account of, and you mast
make haste to Christ and seek his pardon
and the cleansing of his blood. When you
do right God will keep the record, and it
will remain until the great day of judg
ment. May God bless you, my dear child
rem. May God bless the fatherless and
the motherless, and help them to be good
boys and girls Mrs. Ii. L. Hastings, in
Tile Little Christian.
St. Landry democrat. (Opelousas, La.) 1878-1894, 1889-06-08
Words of Wisdom.

1t is good to begin well but better to end
we'll.
Happiness is not to be prescribed, but
enjoyed.
Good words are good but good deeds are
better.
There is woman at the beginning of
all great things.
No man can either live piously or
righteous without wife.
The sweetest thing in life is the I'M
clouded welcome of wife.
In youth one has tears without grief in
old age grief without tears.
knowledge is dearly bought if we sacri-
fee to it's moral qualities.
And be aware of thy own children and
take heed to them of thy household.
We find .self-made men very often but
self-unmede ones a good deal oftener.
Where pride is, there also shall be re-
proach but where humility is, there also
is wisdom
St. Landry democrat. (Opelousas, La.) 1878-1894, 1889-06-08
Lespedeza.

In your reply to John E. Morris, of Lou
isiana, issue of April 16, you say, s'Unless
your land is tolerably rich you need not
expect the Lespedeza to grow tall enough
for hay. This plant, while it grows on
the poorest soil, will not yield profitable
return in hay unless the land is rich"
Permit me to say that this information
you give to Mr.. Morris is misleading as
applied to South Mississippi and Louisi-
ana. While it no doubt applies to the
poorest worn lands of North Mississippi, it
utterly fails in South Mississippi and Lou
isiana. Land that is SO poor as not to be
able to yield either cotton, corn or oats,
without the aid of fertilizers, will yield
fair crop of hay, and of the best quality.
Take, for instance, the clay runs from
washes, and naked clay points in fields
where all of the soil is washed off these
grow Lespedeza in great 1uxuriance and
make the purest, best hay, simply because
nothing else will grow there except Lespe-
deza, and there it grows from nine to if
teen inches high, which gives from 4 to
q tons per acre.-J B. McGehee, in south
er7s Lius- Stock Journal
St. Landry democrat. (Opelousas, La.) 1878-1894, 1889-06-08
Cotton Seed Meal as Food for Cows.

WASHINGTON, May 4.-The Agricultural
Department has been making an analysis
of butter and cows fed on cotton seed meal,
which produces unlocked for results. The
analysis showed remarkable points. 1. A
low percentage of volatile acids. 2. A
phenomenally high melting point. g. A
strong persistence of the reducing agent
The first point is of importance as showing
that mixing cotton seed with the feed of
cows in the South will tend to raise the
melting point of butter, thus rendering it
more suitable for consumption in hot eli
mates.
Prof. Wiley says: "From an analytical
point of view the results are of great i'm
portance, since they show that butter de-
rived from COW fed on cotton seed meal
might be condemned as adulterated when
judged by the amount of volatile acids
present. Since cotton seed meal is destined
to be cattle food of great importance,
especially in the southern part of the
United States, this is fact of the greatest
interest to analyzers and to Dealers
St. Landry democrat. (Opelousas, La.) 1878-1894, 1889-06-08
A Curious Partnership.

Mr.. w. E. Beale writes from Folking-
ton Manor, Polegate, Sussex, April
ssOn this estate is to be seen nest winch
has evidently been built partly by
thrush and partly by a hedge sparrow;
The nest itself is OF the ordinary SIZE OF
tba thTnsb's nest. But instead of being
lined with mud, it is lined with horsehalr,
wool and moss. The birds seem to have
been good friends during the laying OF 81
three sparrows's eggs in the nest and i've
thrush's. But on visiting the nest TO- DAY
It was found that the sparrows eggs had
been destroyed. The birds appear to nave
ouarrelled when it came to the question o. y
which should sit on them, and the thIu
asserted its rights, not, however, without
a struggle on the part of the sparrow, one
of the fthrush's eggs being broken one
missing, and three being perfect. '-L0"
don Times.
St. Landry democrat. (Opelousas, La.) 1878-1894, 1889-06-08
A Big Speech.

Whisky unlocks the doors that lead to
the poor-house, penitentiary and the grave;
unfastens the gates of sorrow, the windows
of want, Che doors of death; opens the
way into the Jail up the scaffold through
the trap it unlocks the heart of the wife
to let in regret, the heart of the mother to
let in sorrow, the heart of child to let in
shame it let's loose rivers of tears, ages of
sadness, generations of woe; locks up
good Intentions, words of promise, deeds
Of duty it locks the child out in the
streets, the wife in the howell, tht, father
in ruin, it locks up goodness and un1ocks
sin, locks up health and unlocks sickness !;
looks up joy and unlocks misery locks up
smiles and unlocks tears; locks up plenty
and unlocks want locks up usefulness and
unlocks idleness locks up happy heart
and unlocks melancholy !; locks up con
tentment and unlocks care !; locks up
heaven and unlocks hell. Sunny South.
St. Landry democrat. (Opelousas, La.) 1878-1894, 1889-06-08
The Vice of Gaming.

We give the following sensible article
from the Detroit Free Press:
"a few days since the Free Press called
the attention of the ministers to the gin
gerly fashion in which, when it was
brought to their notice, they handled the
question of the 'grabbage" and games of
chance at church fairs, and sought to i'm
press upon them the necessity of more
vigorous treatment 1t ought to be super
fuous to say that the spirit of gaming
should not be encouraged, directly or in
directly, in the churches, and that the
whole weight of ministerial influence
should be exerted to checkjt. But the
great extent to which gaming is carried
on, the number of young men who are an
nuallY becoming it's votaries and its vic
tins, shows that warning words cannot be
too often spoken, and that those who are
in a position to arrest the development OF
the passion-to check it before it obtains
the mastery-fall far short in their duty
if they fail to act.
I Public gaming houses can be suppressed
and kept suppressed if the authorities are
constant, earnest and vigilant but this
does not go to the root of the evil. Gam
ing will continue to prevail so long as men
are addicted to the passion, and there
must be an improvement in the moral
tone of the community before there can
be marked abatement in the vice of
gambling.
Example counts for much, and every
man who deplores the prevalence of gam
bling should see to it that he does not aid
it and abet it. The business man who is
shocked to learn that one of his clerks has
fallen into evil ways may find, if he seri
ously asks himself the question, that he is
not always morally without blame for the
clerks undoing. The stories of the sums
won or lost at the card table by men of
position-men who say that, when "luck'
is against them, they never lose more than
they can afford, and that they play for
money merely as pastime-become cur
rent among men who have yet their mark
to make ana there is dazzle about them
which leads many to venture into paths,
which too often lead to destruction.
Every man who is mindful of his duty
to his fellow man should do all he can by
precept and example to discourage and
discountenance gaming; and clergymen,
above all others, owing to their sphere
and to their opportunities, should be zeal
GUS combatants of the vice in every form
and guise which it presents itself. They
should drive it from the sanctuary, as in
the days of old the money changers were
driven from the temple by One whom they
all profess to love, reverence and obey.
St. Landry democrat. (Opelousas, La.) 1878-1894, 1889-06-08

The american Garden says it might
well print the following facts in relation
to the successful culture of plums, in
FURNISHED letters of gold 1--WE can
grow all the plums, domestic and
foreign, peaches, apricots, nectarines,
and other fruits, in every part of this wide
country where trees will stand the eli
mate, without any damage from the plum
curculio, by spraying the trees with ar
senic poisons, Paris green and Lohdon
purple, one pound of either to fifty or
sixty gallons Of water, properly, with a
spraying pump. First, just before the
blossom bud opens. Second, two weeks
after the petals fall if weak soap emul-
sion is used at this spraying to mix the
poison in, it will also destroy the leaf lice,
aphis bugs and all other insects injurious
to. the fruit and foliage. Then a spray
ing about June 10, and your fruit is safe"
St. Landry democrat. (Opelousas, La.) 1878-1894, 1889-06-08
Farmers Wives.

In farmers institutes of the North and
West some Of the best talks made or papers
read are by women. According to the At.
lanta (Ga) Weekly Journal: 'eThe best
farmers in Georgia are largely dependent
upon their intelligent and Industrious
wives for their success, and if these good
women could only have voice in our ag-
ricultural discussions they would show
that the farmers wife knows how to do q
great deal more than keep her kitchen neat
and her household duties fully performed.
She can even 60 beyond the garden, the
orchard, the poultry yard and the dairy, If
necessary, and advise and assist her hus-
band in general farm operations.
St. Landry democrat. (Opelousas, La.) 1878-1894, 1889-06-08
Nor Me Nuther.

In the olden times the negroes of the
Southern plantations and of the household
were as proud of the social position of their
master as any of the members of the fam
lily. The Southern Bivouac once told of
an old Florida nanny" who showed her
pride in quaint and characteristic style.
Her young masters, both lads, were con-
scripted and ordered to Pensacola. They
were taking fearful leave of friends,
when the old nanny, thrustiug herself
forward. exclaimed: ''Now, young mas
tiers, stop dis here cryin; 60 and fight for
your country like men ; and mind yer, don t
disgrace the fanily-nor me nuther /"
St. Landry democrat. (Opelousas, La.) 1878-1894, 1889-06-08
Value of Small Fruits.

Till within the past forty years the Gull
tiyation of small fruits received scarcely
any attention in this country. In nearly
every garden there were gooseberry and
currant bushes, and in the South there
were grape vines but there were then no
varieties of grapes that would ripen out of
doors in the Northern States, and very few
took the trouble to cultivate strawberries,
blackberries and raspberries. The only
cranberries used were gathered on natural
fbogs There was little trade in any kind
of small fruit. It was perishable and
could not be sent many miles in wagons or
on sailing vessels, which constituted the
ordinary means of transportation. The art.
of canning was unknown, and small fruits
could only be preserved by drying or by
cooking them with sugar. The meadow
and pasture supplied strawberries during
few weeks, while bush fruits were OBJ
tained in pastures, on the sides of the
highway or on the borders of forests. All
kinds of berries were classed among the
bounties of nature. Few attempts were
made to improve them, and perhaps the
idea was not generally entertained that they
could be greatly improved by cultivation.
Farmers in all States then planted large
apple orchards, and in many parts of the
country, where the climate was favorable,
they set out many pear, peach, plum and
cherry trees. They regarded small fruits
as of little importance. But at present
berries, grapes and the small fruits receive
much attention. By means of refrigerator
cars they can be carried across the CONT
nent. Put up in alright vessels they can
be kept for years. They have become com
mon articles of food for all classes in every
large town in the country.
Persons living in villages can engage in
the culture of small fruits to advantage.
A few rods of land affords sufficient space \
for raising all the berries an ordinary fam
lily can consume. Raspberry and black
berry bushes can be planted near fences,
and grape vines can be supported on the
walls of buildings. Strawberry plants
can be set out SO as to form pretty borders
for walks. By cutting off the runners and
supplying them with water and fertilizers,
they can be made very productive.
Farmers who take up and improve new
places will do well to set out berry bushes,
strawberry plants and grape vines before
they plant fruit trees. A crop of berries
can be obtained the second year after the |
planting is done. 1t is necessary to watt
many years, however, for crop of any
kind of large fruit, as most fruit trees are
of q slow growth. With liberal supply
of currants and berries the want of large
fruits viii not be severely felt Western
W,,rlT
St. Landry democrat. (Opelousas, La.) 1878-1894, 1889-06-08
Earth's Accommodations.

Accommodations of surface matter are as
tonishingly rapid, Professor Newton es-
Inmates that 400, 900, 600 meteors fall to the
earth annually. These add enormous
quantities of matter to the earth, but do
not. of course, account for all surface
growth and changes. Modern London rs
built on the site of Roman London, but
the ancient city is seventeen feet lower
than the modern. The Jerusalem streets
that Jesus walked through are twenty feet
lower down than the streets of the Jerusa,
lem of to day. One of the most interesting
resorts in that city, in the time OF Chriss,
was the pool of Bethesda. Recently WORE 1a;k
being done by the Algerian monks has lai ,l
bare q large tank cut in the sosid rock
thirty feet deep-EGehange
St. Landry democrat. (Opelousas, La.) 1878-1894, 1889-06-08
The Cultivation of Flowers.

What comfort flowers are. They are
more than q comfort, they are teachers.
After looking at the dreary yards where
never a flower face is to be seen, flower
lover will say why do you not keep
flowers p and the answer is generally one
of three 81 never have any luck with
them" "The children will pull them up, :"
or II have no time to waste with such
work"
To any one who really wants to have a
little garden, the success will come if the
sower only has patience-one of the things
the flowers teach-and to make assurance
doubly sure, be content at first with few
kinds that will grow in spite of fate.
There is the sweet pea, which should
be planted as soon as you can dig place
for it that is, as soon as the frost is out
of the ground. The earlier it is planted
the longer it will bloom, generally from
the middle of June till the end of Septem-
Der, if the seed are sown in thick clumps,
say two feet square; thinly planted they
will not repay ones trouble over them. The
sweet pea is little plant of decidedly
social habits.
Pansy, mignonette, daisy and aster seed
have only to be planted in liberal quaint
ties to yield wealth of bloom.
little bed of sensitive plan" -naan10sa
pudic0-will be a source of unfailing de-
light to the children. 1t is a mistake to
think that children are naturally careless
about flowers. ANY child can be taught
in a week to be interested in plants, and
will learn to guard and tend them, too.
The nasturtium, morning glory and an
occasional ivy make pretty screens, and
there need not be so many blank fences.
A trip to the country and the children
could bring home fern, roots and grasses
to make shady corner thing of beauty.
OF course there are hundreds of other
pretty, easily grown flowers, but am sup
posing case where there are none grown
or known.
A hanging basket in the garden is a
pretty addition--three poles placed gypsy
fashion, wooden pail covered with a
close frame of wire, inside of which, be-
tween the frame and the pail, drop pieces
of white quartz or. other pretty little rocks,
and fill the pail with leaf mold from the
woods, if you can any good earth will do,
however. German ivy, Madeira vine, or
even sweet potatoes, few verbenas, some
geranium and fuchsia slips, and you will
have thing of beauty and joy forever
till the frost comes.
Dut W Sos Guo iull dHount VI pleasure
from flowers, one should not forget to
give half of all the blossoms awsy. If you
have only two roses, do give somebody
one of them. Flowers seem such a COM
plete gift in themselves that | don't be
ieve stingy people ought to own them if
they do, one thing is sure, they never ex-
tract the same pleasure from them a gen
erous person does. How much better to
cut the flowers alive and blooming and
make some one glad than let them fade
and then when they have eluded your
misery grasp, snip off the poor withered
things and fling them with the rubbish
Bitter Saoeet, Michigan.
St. Landry democrat. (Opelousas, La.) 1878-1894, 1889-06-08
A Good Fertilizer Law.

Alabama has what the Georgia house of
representatives aimed at and missed when
1t passed the Brady fertilizer bill. The re-
form worked by the Alabama measure is a
valuable suggestion to our next assembly.
Commissioner Kolb said of it:
Fertilizers are sold more largely with
the increase of population-about sixty
four thousand tons last year. There is an
Improvement in the intelligent use of fer
filters, however We have not the Geor-
gia system of inspection, but we have
something better.
All dealers are required by law to file
IN this office the analysis of elements they
will guarantee in their goods il the goods
do not come up to the guaranteed analysis,
the sale is void, and the vendor incurs a
penalty of one hundred dollars fine for
each sale. Every farmer has the right to
send sample of the fertilizer he has
bought to this department, and the law
makes it my duty to have it analysed. The
analysis of each brand must be stamped on
every sack, and without this stamp or the
tag from this department, the saleis void.
Great South.
St. Landry democrat. (Opelousas, La.) 1878-1894, 1889-06-08
Tobacco.

A company has been formed for the cul-
tivation and manufacture of tobacco in
Florida. One hundred acres have been
set in plants from seed direct from Havana
We need no experiment here in tobacco
culture. It has been thoroughly tested
and found that it will grow here as fine as
can be grown in any part of the United
States. We predict that ere many years
experienced hands in tobacco culture will
take hold of this industry and bring it
prominently to the front. 10 Lake Charles
american.
St. Landry democrat. (Opelousas, La.) 1878-1894, 1889-06-08
A Little Boys Composition on Ami
mails

Dogs are the best of domestic an, anii alSs y
from home and they will come back again "a II.
You can learn dogs tricks ana sne eg
never forget them. Dogs have g00u
memory. co,irre1s are
assv to tame when they are young anu
also rabbits. poa+on and
any person treating dumb ofu1 eh vtt 10 be-
IS punished. These societies ousn noht
all over the United States, ana one mi a1i-
to be here. This is all l know aoou' AAA
mails this time,
St. Landry democrat. (Opelousas, La.) 1878-1894, 1889-06-08
Orange Honey.

It is said honey made from orange bios
SONS has delightful flavor, surprising
have as fine section Of country for bees
as any In the world, and we hope to see
the day when greater attention will be
given to bee culture in this. section. II is
not only pleasant but can be made very
profitable. Lake Charles american.