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St. Landry democrat., 1889-03-23
Seed Rice.


The Jennings Reporter gives the follow
ing good advice to farmers on the selection
of good seed:
We solicit information on the necessity
of securing good seed and the cultivation
of the same. It being one of the most
paving crops we have, and from which the
greater amount of revenue is derived,
therefore, the most care should be taken
to select good seed and raise first class
rice. It's just as easy to prepare your
ground for good as for poor seed, the work
is the same, the sowing the same, flooding
is the same, cutting is the same, threshing
is the same, hauling to market is the same.
When the work is all done and you have q
buyer to sample your crop and he tells you
he can't give you IS much as he can your
neighbor across the road, not being ex-
perienced, you will say: "My rice looks
as well as my neighbours. 1t cost me
as much to raise and get it to market. !"
The secret is in procuring good seed. A
word to all who are contemplating rice
culture and making new fields: Secure
the best seed that can be found, though it
cost FIVE times as much. One dollar paid
out in securing good seed will pay you
better than to have seed given to you that
is doubtful of being genuine. Faulty seed
sown on new land does not only give you
rice inferior to market, but poisons your
land on which you may sow the best of
seed and you will not get as good as sown.
1t is as easy to raise first. class as inferior
rice. Our advice to farmers is to get the
poor seed out of their ground as soon as
possible. Let it lay by one year, pasture
it or plow it under and get it out Of the
land, then buy pure seed and secure first
class rice, get first class price for it, and we
know you will feel better when you have
your rice on the market and the buyer says
that it is first-class rice and will give you
highest market price.
St. Landry democrat., 1889-03-23
A Young Life Over-Shadowed.

She was young, would have been beauti-
full. had not her pale face been plnched
with want and suffering until each bone
stood out almost visible. In her arms she
carried babe. By the hand she led a
three year old boy, barefooted, but his
little hands and face were clean as water
could make them His hair, like that of
his mother, light, sunny brown, was
combed out in weavy curls.
That mother, old only with care and
grief, could not have seen her twentieth
year.
It was near the City Hall met them.
eff you please, sir" she said, in low,
tremuious tone" will you direct me to
the office where Team gain admission for
myself and little ones to the poorhouse
Great Heaven Her language, her lady,
like manner every appearance but that OF
poverty, forbade the thought. l must
have misunderstood her, and | asked a
repetition of her question.
Yes-she wished to find the Commission
ers of Public Charities to gain admission
to the almshouse.
Was | wrong az journalist was l in
error, as man striving to do some good
in the world if sought, while aiding her
to some extent, to learn what brought her
to this sad condition?
If 50, am able and willing to bear the
wrong in my own name and on my own
responsibility.
The story is brief, and verified it by
visiting references, before slept.
That young woman was widow, too
poor to buy even a mourning dress. Her
husband had been murdered by rum. He
was but one of ten thousand yearly victims
direct yearly victims in the Excelsior
State Once, and that four years before
he welded her, he was wealthy. Her
mother had given her-the only child-to
him, believing he would make her life
happiness.
He made it misery, Broken hearted
at her daughters wretchedness, the moth
er died. Broken in pocket, in spirit, and
in health, the husband died in low de
bauch
The widow soon will sink into the sea
made bitter with the tears of the wronged
and the desolate.
Christians-you who profess Christ,
vet sustain the traffic in a'cholic drink by
patronage, by sympathy, or by apathetic
indfference-you will be held accountable
for this at the Judgment.
Ministers who drink wine, as well as
gin an6- milk, either on the Sabbath or on
week days, will ye be held blameless
Men and women who profess to love hui
mainly, yet sheer at temperance work as
fanatical-you are just as bad as the rum
seller, for he has interest to bind him to
his horrible trade while you have no
money and no character or capital to be
made by your course.
Thousands, like those l have described,
wander in wretchedness through our great
city. Our prisons, our hospitals, our
public asylums for charity are overfiowing
with the victims of licensed, lawful rum
Citizens, if this continues and increases
as it has for years been doing, it is your
fault. Aye if the cutters run red with
blood shed by the assassin's hand-if wife
and daughter be torn from your side,
shrieking, by raffiian hands--it is your
fault Sustain the rum traffic and you
foster crime-make it legal and you legal
ize crime in every shape e. 4. c. Judsoa
St. Landry democrat., 1889-03-23
Taking the Children.

A little boy had been deeply interested,
in reading Bunyan's Pilgrims Progress 3D.
the characters in that wonderful BOOK hi o.
ing all living men ard woman to nm,
One day, while his grandma was e1a,s
with her needle work, he took his slale
and pencil and seated himself by her as Siue
and thinking of what he had been reaoinR'
he said: a,1o in
Grandma, which Of all the pe 9;1a thu 1a
the Pilgrims Progress do you Ike 'A'
best?' -Ir, ,,iv.
ing the l,s little boy her reasons. (Which
10 S 3ou IA but thoughtfully the little fell
10" "A ~ owl, why, my boy 2 inquired the OLD
lady. ..o children with
her, grandma y
St. Landry democrat., 1889-03-23
Hurry Up!

Temperance brothers and sisters, hurry
up The great army of outcasts, of help
less women and innocent children look to
you for aid to emancipate them from the
worse than death in which they are now
plunged. Agitate for ''sweeter, purer
laws" Already broad streak of light is
in IS horizon. In the name OF sAe Lord
God Almighty, do not slacken one single
effort for right, until the line of dawn
shall be broadened into the light Of perfect
day.
The American saloon of to day stands at
the bar of American civil zation for it's
verdict. The testimony is in, and of such
a nature that we no longer ask shall any
thing be done with the dramshop but
what shall be done with it Society has
laws for its protection, and in the exercise
of personal liberty you can not oppose the
good of society. The safety of the State
and protection of the pure is the demands
of temperance reform.-Mrs. Mary T.
LQthrop.
St. Landry democrat., 1889-03-23
THE BRIDE OF THE MYSTIC RIVER.

Hark to the joyous wedding bells
Hear the wild sound pealing,
Over the restless waves Of the SEA
And over the sea shore stealing,
Melodies soft as sea-born breeze,
Melodies deep as an ocean,
breaking the crust Of the still old air
And setting II all IN motion;
These are the SOUNDS they tell me fall,
Ana rise ana reldll ever,
And wake ana moan WITH a ceaseess groan
St. Landry democrat., 1889-03-23
He Pushed the Lacking Pound.

Some years ago there was vessel built
on the eastern coast of this State. When
the vessel was completed and the day had
arrived for the ship to be launched crowds
of people gathered on the banks, while
others were out on the river, waiting to
view the grand scene. But to their dis
may, when the men who were engaged in
the work tried to push tbs vessel into the
river, their strength failed them. The
vessel could not be moved. There was a
lacking pound somewhere. Just then a
little boy who had been standing at one
side quietly looking on said. 81 can push
a pound" He pushed with all the
strength he h.f,ssessed, and Immediately
the vessel VI is launched. That little boy
pushed the lacking pound.
Then. why should so many people stand
looking at few who are battling with in
temperance, and yet not able to wholly
Danish this evil from our land? Let those
who are looking on, place themselves in
that boys position and lend helping
hand to push the lacking pound. Thus
more speedily may the cause of temper
ance be advanced.-G. II. Ferguson.
St. Landry democrat., 1889-03-23
Fate of the Apostles.

The following brief history of the fate
of the Apostles may be new to some:
st Matthew is supposed to have suf-
fered martyrdom, or was slain with
sword
St. Mark was dragged through the
streets of Alexandria, in Egypt, til he ex-
pired.
St. Luke was hanged upon an olive tree
in Greece.
St. John was put into q caldron Of boil
ing oil at Rome, and escaped death. He
afterward died natural death at Ephesus,
in Asia.
St. James the less was thrown from
pinnacle or wing of the temple, and then
beaten to death with fuller's club.
St Philip was hanged up against
pillar at Hierapolis, city of Phrygia.
St. Bartholomew was hayed alive by the
command of barbarous king.
St. Andrew was bound to cross whence
he preached unto the people til he ex-
pired.
St. Thomas was run through the body
with lance at Coromandel
1T Jude was shot to death with arrows.
ST. Simon Zealot was crucifed in Persia
St. Matthias was first stoned and then
beheaded.
St. Barnabas was stoned to death by the
Jews at Salina.
St. Paul was beheaded at Rome by the
tyrant Nero.-BGptist Courier.
St. Landry democrat., 1889-03-23
Valuable Suggestion.
A SIMPLE EXPEpIENT FOR STARTING
BALKY HORSE.

SIMPLE EXPONENT FOR STARTING
BALKY HORSE.
| have had to do with many balky
horses, and have never known the fol
lowing simple eXpedient to fail, provided
it was not a case where some other person
had been tampering with the will of the
horse before had taken him in hand 1t
is another method of "diverting horses
attention"
Whenever horse driven by myself has
baked have got out of my carriage and
gone to his fore foot, lifted it from the
ground and struck the shoe few sharp
blows with a stone or with wrench,
which always carry in my carriage, l
Lave never failed to start horse in that
simple way, and have on several occa-
sions had balky horses which exhausted
the patience of all former owners.
have undertaken to start balky horses,
being handled by others, after other
methods of starting had failed. request
the driver generally to move out OF the
way, that his voice or presence may NOT
be recognized by the horse. l then first
inform the animal, by patting him ana
talking to him, that there is new man al
the helm, thereby diverting his afternoon
AS soon as he begins to give me his atten-
ton, take up his foot and tap it few
times, and never failed, except in one IN
stance, to start the horse; and that excep-
tional case was where the horse was over
loaded and knew it.
The very worst method of attempting to
start balky horse, according to my ex-
perience and observation, is that OF pun,
ing the head of the animal by the Bit ana
it is method almost universally adopteo
by the inexperienced users of the horse
The stubbornness of the horse is only IN
creased by that method. | offer this sug-
geston in the interest of your cause
Joseph 4. Titus, in orr Dumb Anln'@Es'
St. Landry democrat., 1889-03-23
"Has He Ever Been Herss Before7"

HAS he ever been here before?" asked
the magistrate.
Eyes, sir, replied the policeman che
has been convicted three times already,
and only lately came out of prison"
Then" said the magistrate, 81 must
give you severe punishment. And he
passed sentence accordingly.
Doubtless he was right. Laws must be
obeyed, and when they are broken the
offender must be punished; and if he be
an old offender, the punishment must be
all the more severe. The magistrate was
not unjust or cruel. The man deserved
his sentence.
But oh what would become of US if we
received what we deserve? Who could
hope for mercy, if mercy were only for the
first offence? First offence! Alas how
many have our offences been? How often
have we broken the law, the law of God ?
The policeman named three times, and it
seemed much, for the prisoner was but
young. But what are three times COM
pared with the number of our sins2 Would
three hundred times, three thousand
times, cover them?
Yet God will forgive all, if we seek
mercy through Christ. The Oldest offend
ers are invited to wash and be clean
quite clean-every stain of guilt made
clean by the blood of Jesus. This is Gods
offer in the Gospel to all, to you, reader;
Gods offer to you to-day.
Close with it, accept it, embrace it now.
Do not wait to stand before the judgment
seat, and find it too late.
Welcome, welcome sinner, hear!
Hang not back through shame or fear;
Doubt not, nor distrust the call;
Mercy is proclaimed to ALL"
FORD and Way.
St. Landry democrat., 1889-03-23
lmmigrants-Southern Resources.

D. bennett, in the New Orleans PIC
Gyune, says:
Western and northern people are COM
ing to Florida, to Texas, Louisiana, Mis-
sissippi-in fact, to all of the Southern
states, Capital is coming from the North
in untold millions to open and work mines,
build factories, foundries. railroads, etc.
Farmers are coming South from the West
ern states, and are bringing fine breeds of
horses, draft horses, just such as the
Southern farmers need fine breeds of cat
tie, hogs, ETC., and they will infusea new
life into Southern agriculture and stock
raising. The white population of the
South is rapidly increasing as the west has
increased for more than half century by
immigration. And ours are immigrants
of English speaking people born under
the stars and stripes. These, with the
native white people of the South, and the
true men Of foreign birth who have set
tied In the South, and have become thor
oughlY Americanized, will make this sec
tion of the union much stronger than ever.
THE VAST RESOURCES OF THE SOUTH,
The vast mines of iron and coal in the
South, and of numerous valuable metals,
also lime, marble, marls, phosphates, ETC.,
discovered and to be discovered, contain
wealth in almost fabulous amounts, which
enterprise will utilize in due time
The forests of the South comprise i'm
mense quantities of pine, oak, ash, gum,
cypress and other valuable timber, most of
it in its primeval state, must be reckoned
In hundreds of millions of dollars?
The soil of the south, in such climate
as ours, is an everlasting and inexhausti
hfa OaId nina AurfcuJf chemistry
St. Landry democrat., 1889-03-23
sclared is drawn ::

To supplement these figures it may be
added that at the annual meeting of the
Amoskeag Manufacturing Co., of Manches-
ter, N. H., month ago, it was stated that
the company had cleared $425, 566 from
their manufacturing operations during the
year, out of which two five per cent. divi-
dends had been declared, amounting to
$500, 1000, leaving over four per cent. sur
plus. During the year, moreover, stock
dividend of 35B per cent. was made.
Notwithstanding the above favorable
showing at recent public meeting in Bos-
ton the statement was made that the manu-
facture of cotton is increasing much faster
at the South than in New England. In
1879 the number of cotton factories in the
southern States was returned at 1854; in
1887 the number had increased to 219,
while now there are 235 mills in oper ration,
seventeen new ones almost ready to begin
production and forty more building. The
inference to be drawn from these facts is,
of course, that the cotton manufacturing
industry has better prospects for growth
at the South than at the North, SO that the
New England concerns are being severely
croyded. Iradesman.
St. Landry democrat., 1889-03-23
Why Lumbermen Come South.
AA exchange says

"The timber interests of the South have
induced larger number and better class
of people from Northern States to settle
there during the last ten years than any
other single cause. Why is this? Simply
because the Southern states have more
timber and better article than can be
found any where else. These people have
come for business, and most of them have
come to stay, and many of them who had
no intention of staying longer than was
necessary to acquire little competency,
have become SO identified with their sur
roundings, and so attached by social rela-
tions and genial climate that they are
10th to break up and return. These peo-
pie are bringing into the South capital,
skilled labor, improved machinery, and q
thorough classification and knowledge of
the business, which has greatly aided in
building up the enormous lumber indus
tries of the South. They are introducing
better ideas and better methods for turning
the products of nature to commercial ac-
count. Some enterprises that have been
conducted here on new scale and with
slack methods have paid large returns,
and lack of economy would have been
rulnOuS. LUMBER operations nave Deeu
and are continually being enlarged. There
seems to be no limit ahead of the posi-
bilities that may be improved to advan-
tage. 1t is probable that there is now
about 20O, 0e0, 600, GOO feet of merchantable
timber in the Southern states. This, at
present prices is not valued above $50.
600, 900, whereas it is intrinsically worth
Eve times that to hold and operate.
The statistics show that within eight
years the number of mills operated, the
number of hands employed therein, and
the value of the products turned out have
doubled, and the real boom has not yet
arrived. 1t would seem that for men of
brains, enterprise, business qualifications
and industry, even India, in its palmiest
days never offered such rewards as does
the South to-day
St. Landry democrat., 1889-03-23
SUFFER THE LITTLE CHILDREN TO
COME UNTO ME-"

Little feet may find the pathway
Leading upward unto God;
Little hands may learn TO scatter
Seeds Of precious truth abroad
Youthful hearts may be the temple
For the SPIRITS dwelling place;
Childhood's lips declare the riches
OF Gods allabounding grace
Little ones, though frail and earth born.
Heirs of tlesscdngss may be;
For the Saviour whispereth gently,
suffer such to come to Me"
And in that eternal Kingdom,
Mid the grand triumphal tm'ong,
Childish voices SWcetiy min"Ie
In the glorious choral Soug. -:SaeeteR
St. Landry democrat., 1889-03-23
Spring 7 ime.

ATM time is life so busy with It's ola
e,. Az ~ ,iddle as when the earth is being
t np Al d the seed committed to It's Keep o
luz We cspnot understand the strange
r rsst Iessness, the vague heart hunger, thai
a ae1o with The spring, but we always feel
them, and know that they are not TO Dc
s;cicnlsd away. Some such longing as
this. we fancy, must STIR the hearts and
Expand xs the viii gs of the birds of passage,
when they all at once mount into the alr
and seek some other land, some strange
far far land, farther than they have dreamed ned,
But we, having outgrown our own sur SUI.
rouncings, and longing for others others n a1sa1.
and better are destitute of the ether cleas "
ing wings, and must leave it to the Dlfrs
nfollow eternal summer round the Woriu
St. Landry democrat., 1889-03-23
A Low Voice.

"why do you speak in such a low low
voice p said a member of a certain church
~ " Nv I " he replied, "when l first hegsn
to preach they called me the shonter' De-
cause ca pI spoke so loud. One Sunday morn snd
ing just after finished the s,, pra Hron a she
congregation, little fellow .I broke is d ins
silence with the question, Ma, IS goo =
deafy I have never shouted since -
Neao York Tribune.
St. Landry democrat., 1889-03-23
A New Telephone.

The Lowth Telephone is new, and, in
some respects, remarkable instrument, by
which speech is transmitted, without max
ing use of sound waves as in the Bell and
other forms of electrical telephones In
the Lowth telephone the transmission is
effected by means of an electrical plug,
which is placed against the neck of the
operator, near the vocal organs. The
vibrations of the neck produced by the act
OF speaking. shake or move the plug,
thereby giving rise to corresponding cleo
trical undulations which pass over the
wire tga receiver at the opposite end of
the wire, and are there heard by the lis
tener. A receiver and plug are both COM
bined in one instrument. The instrument
is held to the ear, with the plug resting
against the throat. The operator speaks,
and the voice is heard at the other end of
the line, with the utmost clearness.-
Scientific american.
St. Landry democrat., 1889-03-23
To the Louisiana Press Association.

NEW ORLEANS, La, March 10, 1889.
The members of the Louisiana Press
Association are hereby notified that the
next annual meeting will be held on Mon
day, May 10, 1889, at the city of Thibo
daux. Every member is earnestly re-
quested to attend the meeting, and, as
soon as possible, to apprise me of his in
tention to be present; also Major S. T.
Grissamore, Thibodaux, La, stating
whether accompanied by ladies or not, in
order that necessary arrangements may be
made. LEON JAsTREMsKI,
President Louisiana Press Association.
St. Landry democrat., 1889-03-23

A railroad is to be- constructed in Aus
tralia from Eucla to Perth, distance of
500 miles, which, when completed, will
bring into railway competition Perth, AIDE
iaide. Melbourne, Sidney and Brisbane. 1t
is expected that the work viii occupy ten
years, but as the line traverses the whole
length of the Australian Blight still prac-
tlcally an unknown land, in crossing
which several explorers lost their lives
skepticism prevails ON the subject.
St. Landry democrat., 1889-03-23

Senator Wilson made speech in the
United States Senate the other day in favor
of Senator Frye's (Me.) bill allowing State
laws relating to the sale of liquors to extend
to imported liquors. Senator Wilson dwelt
on the benefcent effects of the anti saloon
law in Iowa, quoting the opinions of judges
as to the remarkable reduction of crime
siL,e the law had gone into operation, and
that in many of the counties the Jail had
become almost an unnecessary building.
He spoke of the illiteracy of Iowa having
been brought down to 1.2 per cent. Iowa
being thus placed cat the head of the edu
catioDal column of the world" He said
such State might hopefully ask Congress
to remove the judicial construction which
alone stood as an obstruction in the way OF
the rightful exercise of her police powers,
by which removal she could successfully
suppress crime within her borders
Oxford (Ioaoa) Msrrr.
St. Landry democrat., 1889-03-23
Days Dialogue.

Davy knew what was the right thing to
do, but he would not confess that it was
the only right thing. There was the
empty wood box. His mother was with
sick Mrs. jerks. She would come in at
five and have the wood to bring in herself.
Father told me to meet him at the
store, at two," said Davy to Conscience.
'sBut you know he told Mr.. Kane af-
terward, that, with the tired horse he
could hardly get there before half past
two, and you can fill this box in ten min
utes." said Conscience to Davy.
"Well, don't want to fill that box, and
I'll get no credit if I do. Mother'll
think father fllel it for her. I've
done it lots of time and had no notice
taken of it,"
This brought down storm upon Davy's
head.
Chow much notice do you take of the
dinner your mother cooks for you, or the
clothes she makes and mends2 How much
have you noticed Gods sunshine today ;
or the strong. well body he has given you
instead of sick body like Mrs. jerks 2
How much"
Never mind--never mind Ill do it"
said Davy.
you'd better ~ said Conscience.-Se-
Lected. e
St. Landry democrat., 1889-03-23

Col. j. Massie Martin, receiver of the
United States Land Office, in New Orleans,
on being interviewed by States reporter,
says: ..My observations show that Lake
Charles and the towns generally, on the
Southern Pacific Railroad, are maintain
ing their own and are going ahead"
St. Landry democrat., 1889-03-23
Cotton Mills at the North.

THEIR PRoFITs-GROWTH OF SOUTHERN
MILLS.
Many of the large manufacturing COM
panies at Fall River have recently held
their annual meetings, at which full state
ments of business results have been made.
From these accounts the following capital,
earnings for the past year and dividends
St. Landry democrat., 1889-03-23

Right in this life is responsibility for
the next. Power ere-glory there. This
is the result of intelligence happiness
augmented and prosperity assured. This
Is the success of our school work.--Ez
St. Landry democrat., 1889-03-23

The w. C. T. q. has membership of
100000, the largest of the forty eight
national societies of women.
St. Landry democrat., 1889-03-23

The South's future liz brilliant with the
promise Of wonderful prosperity IN Z.
Graphic.