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St. Landry democrat. (Opelousas, La.) 1878-1894, 1889-02-16

only or on an equal per cent. Of colored t.
white which exists in each of the Northern
States ahead of her, her rank would no
be fifteenth but third or fourth. The in
FAINT mortality among negroes is enor
mously large, as from their habits it mus
be. Substitute a comparison between the
whites in the rural sections of the Union
North and South, and many of our South
cared we'll for their young.
The mortality from consumption, that
dreaded, universal, and almost hopelessly
fatal disease, can, in the country, where
the close confinement of people engaged in
sedentary occupations, in il-ventilated,
crowded apartments does not exist, may
be taken as fair criterion of the actual
influence of climatic conditions on the
inhabitants. Arkansas enjoys greatest
exemption from this disease, with percent
age to it's total mortality of 6.42; Texas
second, with Cos per cent; Nebraska
third, with sos; Kansas fourth, with
1854 /; Louisiana fifth, with TAI; Florida
sixth, with S.14 Oregon twentieth, with
1919 per cent; California thirty. third,
with 1880, and Maine the very last, with
1916 per cent.
These figures represent the death rate,
and do away with the suggestion that the
mortality from the disease Is largely infu-
enced by invalids seeking the curative
powers of certain climates. That intiu-
ence is in reality small, because larger
number of those unidentified return to
their homes to die, and rarely do friends
carry away from home patients in the last
stages of this disease.
The percentage of deaths of people over
ninety-five years to the total mortality, or,
in other words, the proportion of old
people in State, demonstrating beyond
cavil the possibilities and probabilities of
life in those localities, is exhibited by the
census as follows:
Vermont stands first with a percentage
of 10 of old people to total mortality, and
Louisiana second, with go Florida sixth,
with .53; Rhode Island tenth, with 40
Tennessee twentieth, with 27, and Nebras-
ka last, with only .O3 per cent.
From the foregoing facts we may con-
clude with certainty:
l. That Louisiana enjoys relatively to
her neighbors a favorable position in
regard to mortality from malarial fevers,
being superior to Arkansas, Alabama,
Mississippi and Florida, and only a small
fraction inferior to Texas
2: That her percentage of deaths of
children places her above any of the
Southern States, and, if like population be
compared with like, her position will be
third or fourth among all the United
States.
That her position in reference to the
lowest rate of deaths from consumption,
disease very dependent upon climatic con-
ditions, is fifth.
4. That her percentage OF deaths of
old people places Ter second among all the
States for possibilities of long life.
Not all the wealth is gold wrung and
delved from our fields, or dug from our
mines, or wrought by clang of hammer or
hum OF spool and spindle, but more than
these,
Public health is public wealth.
St. Landry democrat. (Opelousas, La.) 1878-1894, 1889-02-16
RAMZE GROWTH IN SOUTHWEST
TOTTS7A M.

General Leonard sewell is making az
engagements to plant largely Of ramie on Tue
Oakbourne plantation in Lafayette PARISH
A correspondent of the CITY Item, VINO WIS.,
tied Mr.. sewell, says: ellis enthusiasm !.
over the future of ramie is unabating'
The general has received news OF 'no
formation of another company, to be caiieo
the Ramie Spinning and Manufacturing
Company, and have signifed their lnten.
ton to erect a factory in New Orleans, IL
Louisiana planters will 60 into the Guilt
walton of ramie on scale sufficiently e1-
tensive to warrant the undertaking. a
letter to the General from the vice-presl-
dent of the Inter national Fibre Company,
of New York, contains the following:
Our factory, am happy to say, is all
completed we have just bought several
tons of ramie in the London market at AlV
per ton. Must confess, however, that IL
does not come up to your Louisiana ramle;
so hurry up and get your crop growing,
and you will find that you have no trouble
in disposing of it to us at higher figure,
and make money thereby.
The General says there is 80 per cent
protection duty which would be added to
the price quoted, and ours better article
than that grown in India.
The planters of Louisiana would do well
to encourage this enterprise, as it adds an
other to the list of diversified crops, and
they should by all means take advantage
of this industrial opportunity.
St. Landry democrat. (Opelousas, La.) 1878-1894, 1889-02-16
MEMORY,

Written for The american.
Softly as an angels football,
Memory treads her golden shore,
Brightly in the sparkling waters
She reflects the scenes of yore.
Dear familiar faces greet us,
As the stream gl;des slowly by
Winters clouds, and summers sunshine,
All reflected from the sky.
Softly, gently, let her fan us,
But for her our youth would die,
Let her WELD her wondrous scepter
AS the changeful years go by;
Fading pictures, feeting phantoms,
Fancfes. loves and dreams are one,
She hath claimed them. let her keep them,
In her closed and silent room.
Gently answer tofher echo
When she calls unto your heart,
Fancy takes the futures keeping
But the past Is memory's part
Fading memories, feeting memories,
Memories sad, and memories sweet,
All upon the silent threshold
Bowling, passing, hourly meet
Bitter memories unforgotten,
Happy memories cherished yet,
Yours 1t is that crowns our sorrow,
Yours it is that brings regret,
Coolest waves of time blow softly,
Lightly rise, and lightly fall,
Steal no memory, mar no lessing,
To the world our past is all.
Lille BinElev. Atchiso1, Kan.
St. Landry democrat. (Opelousas, La.) 1878-1894, 1889-02-16
HIDDEN MEANINGS.
Written for The american.


There's never a word that is uttered,
But deeper the thought whence it came,
And never a crime is committed
Where the criminal is wholly to blame.
There is not verse that is written.
And never song has been sung,
But half of the meaning is hidden
Back where the work was begun.
The river hath many streamlet,
And many branch in our knowing,
But out of our sight is the fountain
That giveth and causeth the flowing.
No current at sea- but current
Flows colder and deeper beneath,
No sigh is sad, but that sadder
The heart where is hidden the grief.
No hand shake so cold, but that colder
The heart that doth prompt its deceiving;
No tear ever dropped, and no heart ever brok,
For the soul that was not full of grieving
No man ever gave to furnishing man
A gift that was great as the giving,
If only We sought for the meaning beneath
We'd know that life paid for its living
Lille Binkley, dtcAssosa. Kan
St. Landry democrat. (Opelousas, La.) 1878-1894, 1889-02-16
Tobacco-A Parable,

The following we cut from Californis
paper more than year ago. Thee is
more truth in it than poetry for the young:
Then shall the kingdom of Satan be
likened to q grain of tobacco seed which,
thong n being exceedingly small, being cast
into the ground grew, and became great
plant, and spread it's leaves rank and
broad, so that huge and vile worms formed
habitation thereon. And it came to pass,
in the course of time, that the son of man
looked upon it, and thought it beautiful
to look upon, and much to be desired to
make lads look big and manly. So they
put forth their hands and did chew thereof.
And some it made sick. And it farther
came to pass that those who chewed it be-
came weak and unmanly, and said, eve re
enslaved, and can't cease from chewing it. /"
And the mouths of all that were enslaved
became foul and they were seized with
violent splitting and they did spit, even
in ladies' parlors, and in the house of the
Lord of Hosts. And the saints of the
Most High were greatly plagued thereby.
And in the course of time it came also to
pass that others snuffed it, and they were
taken suddenly with fits, and they did
sneeze with great and mighty sneeze,
insomuch that their eyes were filled with
tears, and they did look exceedingly silly.
And yet others cunningly wrought the
leaves into rolls, and set fire to the one
end thereof, and did suck vehemently at
the other end thereof, and did look very
grave and calf like; and the smoke of
their torment assembled up forever and for
ever.
And the cultivation thereof became
great and mighty business in the earth
and the merchantmen waved rich by the
commerce thereof. And it came to pass
that the saints of the Most High defiled
themselves Herewith even the poor who
could not buy shoes, nor bread, nor books
for their little ones, spent their money for
it. And the Lord was greatly displeased
Herewith, and said: "Wherefore this
waste and why do these little ones lack
bread and shoes and books2 Turn now
your fields into corn and wheat and put
tbs thing far from you, and be separate,
and defle not yourselves any more and I
will bless you and cause my face to shine
on you"
But with one accord they all exclaimed:
We cannot cease from chewing, snuff
ing and pufing-we are slaves. Chris
tsan Secretary.
St. Landry democrat. (Opelousas, La.) 1878-1894, 1889-02-16
The Pint of Ale.

A Manchester calico printer was, on his
wedding day, asked by his wife to allow
her two half-pints of ale day as bel
share of extra comforts. He made the
bargain, but not cheerfully, for though 6
drinker himself fancyipg, no doubt, that
he could not we'll do without), he would
have preferred perfectly sober wife
They both worked hard John loved his
wife, but he could not break away from
his old associates at the ale-house, and
when not in the factory or at his meals, he
was with his boon companions. His wife
made the small allowance meet her house
keeping expenses, keeping her cottage
neat and tidy, and he could not complain
that she insisted upon her daily pint of
ale, while he very likely drank two or
three quarts.
They had been married year, and the
morning of their wedding anniversary
John looked with real pride upon the neat
and comely person of his wife, and with a
touch of remorse in his look and his tone,
he said: "Mary, we've had no holiday
since we were wed, and only that I haven't
a penny in the world we'd take jaunt to
the village and see the mother" "Would
thee like to 60, John (" she asked
L ucIO was tcdT Will uoT SLu1l0, 1Or IL
touched her heart to hear him speak ten
derby as in the old times eff thee'd like
to 60, John, I'll stand treat" "Thou
stand treat. Mary Hast got forth left
thee2" "Nay, but I've got the pint of
ale" she said. "Got what, wife1" She
repeated
Thereupon she went to the hearth and
from beneath one of the stone flags drew
forth stocking from which she poured
upon the table the sum of 1856 three. pences
($22 81, exclaiming: 'See, John, thee
can have holiday "What is this 2" he
asked in amaze. cit is my daily pint of
ale, John"
He was conscience stricken as well as
amazed and charmed. "Mary, hast thee
had thy sharep' ''Then I'll have no more
from this day." And he was as good as
his word. They had their holiday with
the old mother, and Mary's little capital,
saved from the ..pint Of ale" was the seed
from which, as the years rolled on, grew
shop, factory, warehouse, country seat
and carriage ~ with health, happiness,
peace and Observation-Disclosures Worker.
St. Landry democrat. (Opelousas, La.) 1878-1894, 1889-02-16
RAINDROPS.

Pure, pearly, sparkling raindrops,
Descending from above;
/ Ye bear upon your misty wings
Sweet messages of love.
TIE bird and beast, to fowl i'd fish,
To every creeping thing;
To man, the chief and lord of all,
Ye endless blessings bring.
Dear Mother Earth thy influence feels
And owns thy quickening power;
New life conferred by you she gives
To plant, and tree, and flower.
oh, Let me battle my sun-burnt brow
In the pure, sparkling rain,
Stand meath the dripping of the roof,
Andbe the child again.
St. Landry democrat. (Opelousas, La.) 1878-1894, 1889-02-16
A New Acadian immigration.

Though the traditional Acadia of cen.
| fury and half ago be gone, the name liv-
| ing only in memory in Canada and surviv-
| ing in the shape of Acadien here in Louis
iana-coming to the surface of Time, as it
were, bubble, iS the pages of Longfel-
lows "Evangeliles still the blood of the
people of the old district of Canada which
was depopulated by the English long ago
survives. The posterity of the Acadians
is to be found scattered throughout the
United States, but their chief habitat is
Louisiana. Here, according to their op-
portunities AMI dispositions. they have
thriven, prospecting apace with the pros
perity of the State. Naturally, therefore,
if an immigration of Acadian or Canadian
families of these days from Canada to the
United States should be affected, it is to
Louisiana we apprehend that their steps
would be directed by preference.
We have been led to these thoughts by
the incident of the sale of plantation
containing some 1000 acres to party Of
twenty Canadians, who intend to found
there colony of sixty Canadian families :;
and as the plantation is we'll stocked with
mules and cattle, and has seed cane to
plant good crop for next season, there is
every reason to believe that the project
will not only be successful to those en-
gagged in it, but that the colony thus
formed will prove nucleus around which
will gather as time goes by other Canadian
families, until in the heart of the old
Acadia of Louisiana shall arise new
Acadia, peopled with Industrious farmers
of the small class which our State so much
needs to develop her immense agricultural
resources and whose presence will be con-
ducive to the prosperity of that section of
Louisiana. The plantation in question is
situated between Breaux Bridge and St.
Martinsville.
If this colony should be found success.
full, we think others interested in such en-
terprises in the State-the men whose
energies and shrewd intelligence foster
immigration to Louisiana-should take
note of it. An immigration of Canadians
to Louisiana en- nadsse may easily be af.
fected if the promise held out to them be
encouraging. The establishment and sue
cess of the "stephanie' colony may prove
yet to be Chat encouragement South
Illustrated.
St. Landry democrat. (Opelousas, La.) 1878-1894, 1889-02-16
Home Raised,

The Woodville (Miss.) Republican says
''On Tuesday last, Mr.. j. B. McGehee
brought into Woodville about twenty
home-raised mules, some of which were
as fine looking as are brought from Ken.
lucky. This goes to show that as good
mules can be raised here as in any other
place. 1t would be a. good thing if we had
few more ]. B. McGehees in this section
of country"
St. Landry democrat. (Opelousas, La.) 1878-1894, 1889-02-16

A correspondent from the Mermentau
section of country to the Teche Pilot says:
"The hawthorn and the May apple are in
bloom, and the red bird is alive, and the
bees busy gathering the honey of 's9. One
week more and the dog wood will look
like snow bank. Spring is with us, and
winter, loath to 60, still fingers. People
living in the far North cannot understand
how this can be, and all that is written of
our genial climate goes with them for
Munchausen or is weighed in the scales
with yellow fever, mosquitoes and rattle
snakes"
St. Landry democrat. (Opelousas, La.) 1878-1894, 1889-02-16

The Times, Democrat says: "a COM
mittee of Southern gentlemen, appointed
to visit the Northern and Northwestern
cities to select points for two expositions
OF Southern products, left Raleigh, N. c.,
Tuesday. They will visit New York,
Philadelphia, Baltimore, Buffalo, Hart
ford, Chicago, Kansas City, Minneapolis,
st. Paul, and many other Northern and
Western points"
St. Landry democrat. (Opelousas, La.) 1878-1894, 1889-02-16

The Fort Dodge Qowa) Messenger Says
"a school teacher in one of our neighbor-
ing counties means to have her pupils
well informed as to what goes on in the
world, as well as what is in books, and
has some of the pupils put on the black
board each morning "bul1etin board"
made up from headlines in daily papers
She also reads alond articles from the
papers that pertain to the most important
events of the day. This new departure is
said to be very successful"
St. Landry democrat. (Opelousas, La.) 1878-1894, 1889-02-16

The lumber trade of the mills of Louis
lana is constantly on the increase. Mr.. A..
B. French said to a reporter of the New
Orleans States last week that he had or
ders now from Europe that he could not
fill because the mills are all overcrowded
with work. New mills are, however, be-
ing built along the lines of the different
railroads leading into New Orleans, and
the business will continue to increase.
St. Landry democrat. (Opelousas, La.) 1878-1894, 1889-02-16

Between two-worlds life hovers like star,
'Twixt night and morn, upon the horizons verge;
How little do we know that which we are
now less what we may be The eternal surge
VI time and tide rolls on and bears afar
Our bubbles: as the old burst, new emerge,
Lashed from the foam of ages ; while the graves
W empire heave but like some passing waves.
-BurOn
St. Landry democrat. (Opelousas, La.) 1878-1894, 1889-02-16

A correspondent writing from South
west Louisiana to one of our exchanges
says: 81 believe that every man and
woman coming from the North to live in
the South gets new lease of life of from
fifteen to twenty years."
St. Landry democrat. (Opelousas, La.) 1878-1894, 1889-02-16

Strangers from colder climates in Loui.
siana are much interested in observing
the roses and other flowers that bloom in
the open air in our gardens in winter in
all parts of the State.
St. Landry democrat. (Opelousas, La.) 1878-1894, 1889-02-16

st. Mary is preparing to put in opera
ton its drainage law. A good system of
drainage has done good work for
Lafourche parish in the last four years.
St. Landry democrat. (Opelousas, La.) 1878-1894, 1889-02-16

A new town is to be laid out and lots
offered for sale on tract of land near
Millerville, in Acadia parish, recently
bought by Leon Viterbo, of Lake Charles.
St. Landry democrat. (Opelousas, La.) 1878-1894, 1889-02-16

The Ottawa (Kansas) Republican says:
''The canning factory at Lawrence, we are
informed, employs 700 hands fourrmonths
in the year."
St. Landry democrat. (Opelousas, La.) 1878-1894, 1889-02-16
LITTLE COOKS.
AL along the seashore
YQu NAV GOO q ,rasn.l,&rx h.l

LITTLE COOKS.
AL along the seashore
You may see mighty band
OF little folks a-making
Pretty cakes of sand;
Well seasoned with salt water
And frosted on the top,
such pretty cakes cannot be bought
At any bakers shop.
Up and down the country
Everywhere you'll find
Mud pies are a-mixing,
The very daintiest kind;
For another host of little folk
Are busy ON the ground,
Moulding fancy piecrust Il.
That's always nicely Drowned.
and when VACATIONS over,
Ali these little cooks
Must leave their outdoor baking.
And hasten to their books,
Because their mothers tell them
And I think tits very wise)
One cannot always live content
p On patty cakes and pies.
Anna II. Pratt.
St. Landry democrat. (Opelousas, La.) 1878-1894, 1889-02-16

The man who is right needn't care for
appearances. All things for or against
vii be found In the end to have worked
toward victory courageous hopefulness
Il riehtfully his.
St. Landry democrat. (Opelousas, La.) 1878-1894, 1889-02-16
Starting a Farm in Louisiana.

Where government land can be found,
the following table shows the cost of SET
Element. By recent act of congress, all
government land is Withdrawn from mar
ket, and cannot be purchased as heretofore:
The Commissioner of immigration makes
the following estimate of expenses in
starting farm:
"a very poor house will afford shelter
to working family in this climate until a
better one can be built, when the old one
serves as kitchen.
"a man with only $500 could manage to
start farm of 48O acres in Louisiana, with
St. Landry democrat. (Opelousas, La.) 1878-1894, 1889-02-16

a pan of sliced raw onions placed in q
room where there is diphtheria tends to
absorb the poison and prevent the disease
from spreading. The onions should be
buried every morning and fresh ones cut.
St. Landry democrat. (Opelousas, La.) 1878-1894, 1889-02-16

Strawberries, it is said, sold last week
for 81. 80 quart in New York.
St. Landry democrat. (Opelousas, La.) 1878-1894, 1889-02-16

Whene'er take my walks abroad,
How many poor see.
What shall l render to my God
For all his gifts to me?
St. Landry democrat. (Opelousas, La.) 1878-1894, 1889-02-16
GENERAL EXPENSES.

New Orleans is as cheap market in
which to make purchases of all kinds as
there is in the United States.
The following are quotations from re-
1:.L1. xrb o1oao1a rrrocaro Fohr,orv 1907.
St. Landry democrat. (Opelousas, La.) 1878-1894, 1889-02-16

acres in rice, ten acres in corn and five
acres in cotton, without having the cult
walton and harvesting interfere with one
| another"
St. Landry democrat. (Opelousas, La.) 1878-1894, 1889-02-16

of this disease is humid soil, and there
fore, the percentage of mortality from this
disease is hardly at all due to the climatic
causes, but to imperfect or impossible ter
restrial dryness.
1t is unnecessary to appeal to your
medical men for confederation of this
statement. You know it's truth your
selves, every one of you, venture to say,
from personal experience. Examples con-
frming the truth of my assertion are of
daily occurrence.
Returning to official figures, and now
excluding the large cit les, we arrive at
tables which meet our purpose-the rela-
tive salubrity of the rural portion of each
State.
The highest on record of percentage of
deaths from malarial fever stands Florida,
with 8 SO per cent. of its total mortality
from this disease the lowest Rhode
Island, with only .08 per cent. In between
these two extremes come the other States,
those adjacent to our great streams showing
higher rate than the others. Arkansas has
1855 per cent, Alabama 1856, Mississippi
706, Louisiana sos, and Texas 604. Our
own State showing more favorably than
any of her neighbors, save one, in NOR
tally springing from disease largely
preventable by ordinary attention, by the
mass of the people, to the plainest and
simplest laws of hygiene.
The least infant mortality is exhibited
in New Hampshire, which has, 20 SO per
cent. of infant, to the total mortality
Maine, 1857 Vermont LILO California,
25.31; New York, $3.50; Connecticut,
1915; Massachusetts,, 1921 Ohio, SO. Sc;
Rhode Island. SO. 50; Oregon, 34.99; New
Jersey, 1852; Wisconsin, 35 81 Pennsyl-
vania, 1915, and then Louisiana with
1906, the list ending with Kansas and
Nebraska, the highest rates in the Union
with 1855 and Nebraska with
49. 10 per cent.
In this list Louisiana is not preceded
by any Southern State. And should the
calculation be based on the population
The Daily times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1886-1889, 1889-08-29
FLUVANNA DEMOCRATS
Inthu-iastic and Determined.
fcrrrespOndeuce OF the Times.

/ lLUvANSA COURTHOUSE, Angus
~. The Democratic clans which gath
cred here to-day expressed in every
word and look a spirit Of fixed determi
nation 10 Ovfrwhelm the nominees oil
the mongrel convention which met
in Norfolk on the 22i instant, which
must prove irresistible, if pursued for
the next two months with that dill
ligerce and labor 50 essential to success
in any undertaking.
There bad been a call for a mass
meeting for reorganization. 20 take pre-
liminary action towards the nomination
Of a candidate to represent the county in
the next Legislature, &C., and at one
+. NJ. the meeting was organized by
making W. VI. Foster chairman, and
". Z. Jones secretary.
Colonel VI. b. Petit resigned the
chairmanship OF the county committee,
but was unanimously reelected as was
also Hon. a. a. Gray as secretary.
The meeting decided TO hold prima-
ries at the different precincts on the
second Saturday in September 10 select
delegates 30 a convention 10 be heI, at
the Courthouse on the following Tues
day. for the purpose Of nominating a
candidate for the next House. the basis
of representation 10 be one delegate for
every twenty Democratic votes at the
last election.
After brief. but eloquent and impress
sive speeches by Hons. \ a. Gray and
Pembroke Petit. in support of our
State nominees, the meeting adjourned.