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St. Landry democrat., 1889-03-16
The Growth of Jerusalem.

A German newspaper published in Pal
estine, states that the city of Jerusalem is
growing in size and population at re-
markable rate. Its growth is all the more
surprising because neither its situation nor
it's trade is favorable to rapid increase;
it lies among not very fertile group of
mountains, it has next to no commerce,
and it has no manufactures. Nevertheless
new buildings are rising daily; churches,
gardens, and institutes of various kinds
are filling up the formerly desolate neigh
borhood to the distance of half an hours
walk beyond the old limits of the city The
Jews are to the front as builders. Their
houses spring out of the ground like mush-
rooms-uniform, ugly, one-storied, plen-
tifully supplied with windows. but with
no manner of adornment. The Roths-
childs have completed a new hospital.
Close beside it there is new Abyssinian
church. The Russians are also great
builders they have erected new church,
consulate lodging houses for pilgrims of
Near to the Russian group stands the
German Houses" for German Roman
Catholics, from whose top the German and
Papal flags float side by side. The Rus
slams have also built high tower upon the
Mount of Olives, from whose summit the
Mediterranean and the Dead Sea can both
be seen. The Greeks and Armenians are
also busy builders, but they provide for
the bodily rather than the religious
demand of the pilgrims. The former build
cafes and bazaars, and the latter set up
Shops
St. Landry democrat., 1889-03-16
How Brentwood is Shaped.

The Reuue IndustrSelIs explains the pro-
cesses by which bent wood, for furniture
and implements, is shaped: Within the
last few years the methods of treating the
wood have been improved and the app]i-
cation of the mate rial much extended car
riage wheels, for instance, having their
riEls made of single piece of oak or ash.
bent to circle, with great advantage in
point of strength and cheapness over those
made with felloes sawed in small sections
out of straight pieces of wood. The mate
rial to be bent is, for furniture usually red
birch, which grows very abundantly in the
Hungarian forests The timber is sawed
into strips of one and one half to two
inches square, according to the work for
which it is intended, and turned in a lathe
into smooth round rods. These rods are
placed in an air-tight case, where they are
exposed for fifteen minutes to the action
of superheated steam. They are then SO
soft and pliable as to be easily bent by
hand, and are, in this condition, fitted to
iron patterns, well secured, and left to
dry. The drying takes from two to eight
days, according to the size of the piece
When it is complete the wood is detached
from the pattern and ready to be joined
with other pieces, vanished. polished and
sent out in the shape of finished furniture.
St. Landry democrat., 1889-03-16
The True Secret.

At the house where l was staying there
were two little sisters whom nobody could
see without loving, for they were so happy
together. They had the same books and
the same playthings, but never quarrel
sprang up between them-no cross words,
no pouts, no slaps, no running away in a
pet. On the green before the door, trund-
ling hoop, playing with Rover, the dog, or
helping mother, they were always the
same sweet tempered little girls.
''You never seem to quarrel, said to
them one day "how is it you are always
SO happy together"
They looked up, and the eldest answered,
81 s'pose tits cause Addie let's NE, and |
let Addie."
Dear young friends, did you ever think
what an apple of discord mot letting" is :?
Even now, while have been writing, a
great crying was heard under the window.
| looked out.
'.Gerty, what is the matter?''
''Mary won't let me have her ball, !" bel
lows Gerty.
ssWell, Gerty wouldn't lend me her pen
Gil in school," cried Mary, ''and | don't
want her to have my ball.
treat each other?'
''She shan't have my pencil" muttered
Gerty "she'll only lose it.
'tAnd you'll only lose my ball, retorted
Mary, ''and shan't let you have it"
But these little girls, Addie and her
sister, have got the true secret of good
manners. Addie lets Rose, and Rose let's
,Addie.-BGnd Of Hope ReUieao.
St. Landry democrat., 1889-03-16
Evaporating Fruit.

Few realize the magnitude of the bust
ness of the evaporation of fruit. Within
a radius of 40 miles of Rochester, n Y,
there are said to be no less than 1900
evaporators, ranging i'll size from the small
drier, haviRg capacity of 20 bushels per
day, to thn ~Arge steam or hot air evapora
tor that an dry 1000 bushels of apples in
"a hours. In and about these evaporators
80 900 hands find employment during the
apple drying season, each earning various
amounts. from So to $12 per week. Some
of the largest evapo1ators are owned by
the proprietors of the fine large orchards
of Western New York-and there are
many of them that cover from 80 to 100
acres each-while not a few have been
erected and run by parties who evaporate
apples for the orchardists at fixed rate
per pound, or who buy the fruit outright
In the latter case, from Is to 40 cents per
bushel is usually paid for sound fruit, the
last named figure being rarely reached
The parings and cores are not allowed to
be wasted, but are dried, sold and con-
verted into jellies. Last year was won
derful apple bearing year for this region,
and no less than 80, 000, 900 pounds of dried
apples were produced within shis radius
T6e cores and parings amounted to 12 :
OOO, 600 pounds. OF the 100000 pounds
exported during the season, over one half
the amount was shipped from Rochester.
Aside from the evaporation of apples great
quantities of raspberries are also dried
each season, aggregatlng in amount some
hundre ds of thousands of dollars.
St. Landry democrat., 1889-03-16
A CHILD'S CHOICE.

1t was at the time Of prayer the mornine SIM
Sueamed III upon our loved ones pathnred
there.
Touched the brown hair of Ruth, the restless
one
The one whose life had never known a care
And as it touched her hair and form and face
A look Of fixed attention we could trace
We read of that sad scene in Pilates hall
When be, the Judge awed by the Captive meek.
Had fain proclaimed him free before them ALL
But that their mad ming threat found him 81
weak.
Thou art not CRsar's friend :" in rage they cry
And. conquered, he condemned the Christ to die
The listening child looks up with eager ewes
And gives her verdict. more than Pilates true.
Her face full of grave and panied surprise
That they who saw shonld not have known
him too.
I'd rather be the friend of Christ, said She
Rather by far than Caesars friend to be.'
O. sweet unquestioning faith, which sees far more
Than they who cast on him the purple robe,
But failed to veil the kiagly face he wore
Ormystery of his patient love to probe.
0 woDdrous grace! o wisdom from the skies
Revealed to babes and hidden from the wise "
For yet, alas. we see the many turn
From him whose crowned head and wounded
feet
Proclaim him King. though his own people spurn
And that sad scene in Pilates hall repeat
The God of mammon worshipped lifted high
And the true Sovereign led away to die
Hrs. E. 4. Wilson, in s. s. Visitor
St. Landry democrat., 1889-03-16
Growing Raspberries.

In our estimation the raspberry is as de.
licious fruit as is grown on the farm,
aud yet there are many farms that have
not raspberry bush on them. They are
not hard to grow and that makes their ab-
sence from the fruit garden the more in
excusable. We say they are easy to grow.
Of course they must be intelligently man.
aged. If properly planted and well taken
care of, they will last very long time.
They need good care, full supply of
food, and the cutting out of the old wood
each year. We have recently had COM
plant of the failure in raspberry culture
which was evidently the result of too close
planting. That is an error which is often
committed. Give them plenty of room
If the rows are as much as eight feet apart
and the plants three feet appart in the row
they are near enough together r.-Eg.
St. Landry democrat., 1889-03-16
Cure for Hydrophobia.

PANAMA, March 5.-Chance has led to
the discovery of cure for hydrophobia.
In Aayacucho, Peru, a man was bitten by
mad dog, and shortly after the dreaded
disease developed. In his madness the
man rushed from the house, and falling
among lot of ''peuca" plants, some of the
juice of these plants entered his mouth,
and he swallowed it. A moment of reason
seems to have followed, during which he
seized some of the leaves, broke them and
drank of the milky and glutinous sap
with which they are generally saturated.
When his friends found him he was sense
less, with the ''Peuca" or "Magney"
leaves clutched in his hands. He was
carried to his home, and soon regained his
health Experience has long since taug ht
the Indians that "Peuca" juice or sap in
variably acts as cure upon dogs suffering
from hydrophobia.
St. Landry democrat., 1889-03-16
Preparing Ground for Fruit Trees.

Not one in hundred of those who
plant trees bestows the necessary care and
attention to the preparation of the ground.
A very common mode is to dig hole
about foot wide and five or six inches
deep, stick in the tree. bending the roots
or cutting them off to bring them within
the proper compass, shovel in a few spade
fuls of sod or dirt. tread it down with the
foot and the job is done If the tree
grows, well; if not, the planter has only
been unlucky, and all the neighbors con-
clrde not to plant, it is so hard to make
trees grow! Is it any wonder that three
out of every four trees taken from the
nursery die without having reached the
stage of fruit. bearing? Gregg says that
in the first place, the soil must be dry be-
fore planting If not so naturally, it must
be made SO by deep blowing, and if this
will not suffice, then by undertaking. A
clay subsoil should be underdrained to the
depth of three feet; /; but any soil not very
retentive of water may be sufficiently
drained by the use of subsoil plow and a
strong team.
With good undertaking and proper
admixture of manures, ashes, sand and
loan, the toughest clay soils may be re,
duced to a proper condition for fruit trees
All soils that are sufficiently porous to
drain well should be first prepared with
the plow, harrow and subsoiler; and then
the holes for the trees should be made
only of proper size and depth to admit the
roots in their natural position, and at two
or three inches greater depth than they
stood in the nursery, Deep holes in a
hard and tenacious sub-soil will niure the
trees by retaining too much water. Such
soils sould be avoided for fruit orchard
or If used, should first be properly under,
drained. Many young trees die from the
effects of standing in deep holes, prepared
for them at grea expense.
Previous to planting, the soil should be
enriched with well-rotted barn-yard
manure, thoroughly intermixed and pull
verified by the harrow. If planting is to
be done in the spring, the blowing should
be gone through with the fall previous;
before planting When the whole field is
thoroughly prepared by the plow, it can
be cultivated to some useful crop, and the
trees will be more likely to receive the
necessary ti1lage than they would if stand
ing in the field alone Western World.
St. Landry democrat., 1889-03-16
One Neglected Child.

"He that converteth sinner from the
error of his way shall save soul from
death and shall hide multitude OF sins.
How great this multitude of sins may be,
no mortal can tell, but the amount OF evil
which we may neglect to prevent would
appall us if we could but know it.
You may think it is little thing to
shelter, to feed, to protect and teach and
love little child. You may plead your
ambitions, your engagements and your
cares, and say with Cain, cam l my
brothers keeper?'' but when eternity un
folds its record you may see that you
missed the opportunity of your lifetime
when you failed to win and save little
child. Read the story of one neglected
child, poor Margaret, whose history and
progeny have beep traced, as is summar-
ized in the New York Times
Margaret, when little girl, perhaps an
orphan, perhaps abandoned by her parents,
was left adrift in one of the villages OF the
Upper Hudson. There was no almshouse
in the pla .e, but she was subject of out
door relief probably receiving occasionally
food and clothing from the officials, but
never educated, and never kindly sheltered
in home. She became the mother of
lODS race Ol CTlLundiS dnu pauPo11, e'no
her progeny has cursed the country ever
since. The county records show two hun
dred of her descendants who have be @
criminals In one single generation g.. .er
unhappy line there were twenty Ssn Z, ;
of these three died in infancy, $ranlsen-
teen survived to maturity. Of Ilsseven-
teen, min. served in the State prisons for
high crimes an aggregate term of fifty
years, while the others were frequent in
mates of jails and penitentiaries and aims
houses.
Of the 623 descendants from this un-
happy girl who was left on the village
streets and abandoned in childhood, a
great number have been idiots, imbeciles,
drunkards, lunatics, paupers and prosti-
tutes, but 200 of the more vigorous are on
record as criminals. 1t is estimated that
this neglected child has thus cost the
county authorities, in the effects she has
transmitted, at least 100000 in the ex-
pense and care of criminals and paupers,
besides the untold damsge she has inflicted
on property and public morals.
When we think of the multitude of
wretched beings she has left upon the
earth; of the suffering, degradation, igno-
rance and crime that one child has thus
transmitted of the evil that she has
caused to thousands of innocent families,
and the loss to the community, we can all
feebly appreciate the Importance to the
public of the care and education of q
single pauper child.-Ihe Christian.
St. Landry democrat., 1889-03-16
Simple Method Of Disinfecting.

They havea novel way in London of
disinfecting premises which have been
occupied by patients suffering from scarlet
fever. The cracks about the window and
the opening at the fireplace are covered
with strips and sheets of pasted paper. A
receptacle containing several pounds of
ignite sulphur is placed for safety in an
iron vessel in the centre Of the room. The
door is then closed, and every crevice
secured. Unopened for twenty four hours,
when entered the room is still misty with
the vapor or sulphur. An impalpable vel
low powder, discoloring the walls, the
ceiling and the floor. is found to have in
sinuated itself into every nook and Granny,
No animal or vegetable life can survive
this baptism of sulphur. Lime washing.
securing, stripping and re papering is then
ordered, and the work supervised by the
inspector
St. Landry democrat., 1889-03-16
A Bad Habit.

We are sorry to see that so many of our
young men in town have the habit of
swearing. 1t is the meanest, most useless,
and most contemplate vice that ever grew
rank in the hot house of the devil. We
protest against it as members of society,
as decent people. On our open streets in
places of business, and even at the church
doors, and every where else, rings the in
cessant oath of the habitual swe arer. Some
of the boys. just learning to curse, appear
to think there is something manly and
brave about it, while old swearers inter
lard the commonest remarks they make
with cold blooded blasphemies and q
variety of diabolical curses. No man or
woman of decency can be otherwise than
shocked by these brutal and vulgar verbal
missels. Public profanity ought to be, in
all instances, an indictable offense, with a
penalty of ten days in Jail for every oath.
I'm
St. Landry democrat., 1889-03-16
Walking on the Water.

Mr.. c. w. Oldreve lately succeeded in
walking on the water of the Hudson River
from Albany to New York, distance of
about $50 miles, for wager of e100. His
average progress was twenty four miles a
day. He always went with the tide. The
shoes he wore are made of cedar, lined
with brass. They are five feet long and q
foot wide. Each is alright, with a spase
in the centre for the foot. On the bottom
are three fins, SO arranged that when the
shoes moves forward they are pressed up
against the bottom, and when the shoes is
at rest they hang downward, like paddle
wheel buckets.
St. Landry democrat., 1889-03-16
A New Vegetable.

Stachys tuberJerG, formerly adfnis, is
the new botanical name of novel vegeta-
BILE which but lately has attracted consid-
erable attention, first in Europe, then in
this country. 1t is native of North
Africa, but comes to us from Japan, where
it is called Chiro Gi. 1t is allied to the
English ornamental Woundwort (Anthylzis
arOeesis), and belongs to the same family
as the coleus and the sweet. scented herbs,
lavender, thyme and mint, but differs
from all its relatives in that it yields edible
tuberous roots. These roots are formed
OF ring like ridges, giving them somewhat
the appearance of a one e-horned caterpillar.
1t is one to three inches long and one half
to three fourths of an inch in diameter.
The skin is thin, smooth and semi trans
parent. This peculiar vegetable requires
no more special treatment than do pota-
toes. Planted, whole tubers, in hills two
feet apart, yield at rate of 500 bushels
to the acre has been reported. The plant,
growing about one foot in height, has
round, bushy habit, having medium sized
oval shaped leaves, and many small pink
blossoms. When the tubers are picked
alone and properly seasoned, or mixed
with email cucumbers, onions, peppers and
caulihower pickles, they are excellent.
Cooked as vegetable oysters" they are de-
licious, or boiled, mashed and seasoned in
the way of the egg plant they become g
novel dish, having pleasant and some
what spicy flavor, midway between the,
Jerusalem artichoke and boiled chestnuts
In preparing, washing only is necessary,
as the thin, tender skin renders peeling
needless.
A point in favor of stachys is that the
roots may be kept as well as potatoes, re-
quiring only cool, dry cellar, keeping
their fresh appearance better if covered
lightly with earth somewhat damp. In the
gardening journals of Europe, some dis
cussion has occurred as to popular name
for this vegetable, some suggesting stachys
or spirals, others crosnes or Chinese arti-
choke. We think stachys could not be
improved upon. Professor Church, before
the Royal Horticultural Society of Eng
land, In comparing the analysis of stachys
with potatoes, said that while the former
contained the larger quantity of water, it
being rs per cent, yet the flesh forming
albuminoids ewere also greater, and that
the sugars place the starch (about Is per
cent contained in the potato.-E s., IN
The american Garden.
St. Landry democrat., 1889-03-16
Rev. E. P. Roe, in 40 article to Harper's

Rev. e. P. Roe, in 40 article to Harper's
Magazine some time ago, says:
"Land hunger is SO general that it may
be regarded as natural craving. To tens
of thousands of bread winners in cities, q
country home is the dream of the future,
the crown and reward of their life-toil.
Increasing numbers are taking what would
seem TO be the wiser course and are COM
bining rural advantages and pleasures
with their business. a home for which
We have the deed-a cottage surrounded
with trees, flowers, garden and lawn-is
the refuge which best satisfies the heart.
Best Of all, one can see that his children
have air and space In which to grow natur-
ally and healthfully. His fruit trees will
testify 10 his wisdom in procuring coun-
try home, and he will be glad that his
boys and girls are not shut In to the for
tuitous associations Of hallway and street.
The ares of land purchased will depend
largely on the desires and purse of the
buyer, but about an acre seems to safety
the majority Of people"
St. Landry democrat., 1889-03-16
Southern Truck FarmingA

According to the Manufacturers Record
100000 car loads of fruit and vegetables
are shipped northward from the south
during season, having the average net
value of $10O a car load, with transporta-
tion charges of $4500,0O0 per annum
Florida and Louisiana lead in earliness;
advancing northward the Sta.es secure a
share of the trade, beginning in February
with early vegetables, and followed by
vegetables, fruits and melons until June
The development of this industry has been
so rapid and general that it has assumed
great Importance, not only to the South
but to the country at large, as one of the
most significant of number of important
movements towards diversi6cation of in
dustry, and application of land to it's most
profitable uses.
St. Landry democrat., 1889-03-16
Come South,

The New York Herald notes the phe-
nomenally high death rate of that State
for 1888. This excessive mortality was
not restricted, however, to New York, but
prevailed in nearly all parts of the North.
Looking for an explanation of 1t, the
Herald throws out the following sugges-
ton:
"This exceptionally high rate for 1888
may, perhaps, be mainly accounted for by
the great severity of the weather during
the first three months of the year. But
making allowance for the ''blizzard"- like
character of that period, in the absence of
epidemics the results still lacks satisfac-
tory explanation. The mortality in Mas
sachusetts for 1887 was 20.2S per 1000
But the rate was greater in that year, it is
reported, than in the twelve previous
years, and greater than it used to be from
1850 to 1862. 1t is evident that in the
climate of these latitudes we have much
to learn from preventive medicine and its
precautions against diseases due to atmos-
pherical changes. just now the most i'm
portant of these to provide against are the
pulmonary troubles, which are likely to
increase in fatality, especially among peo-
pie of advanced age, during the turn of the
season."
Similar news comes from all parts of
the North. The increase in the mortality
from pulmonary complaints, from pneu-
monia and bronchitis has been particularly
marked of late. This increase has been
both in the number of cases and in the
ratio of mortality.
The Herald suggests further precautions
against diseases due to atmospheric
changes, particularly during the turn of
the season, that is, during the breakup of
the winter. A suggestion we would offer
in the matter is that the people in all bliz-
zard States, or large portion of them,
come South, where the climate is milder
and more equable and atmospheric changes
are not SO marked. Or, if they cannot
come South for the whole winter, they
ought at least to spend that portion of it
here when the weather up North is chang
ing every day, and when the winter is
breaking up. Let them come South and
there will be fewer deaths from pneu-
monia and bronchitis. o. Times
Democrat.
St. Landry democrat., 1889-03-16
Standing Timber Getting Short.

The Builder and Wood Worker says
that the timber interests OF the world are
reported to be in bad way, the demand
for lumber everywhere being in excess OF
the supply. The forests OF Sweden and
Norway have been drawn upon to excess
those of northern Russia fail to meet the
demands even of st. Petersburg; the
80, 900, 900 acres Of Woodland in Germany
produce lumber of a poor quality; the
timber lands of Bohemia, Gal]icia and
Pennsylvania are not easily accessible the
shores of the A6riatic are bare; Great
Britain has no merchan table lumber worth
mentioning, and the forests of central Al
RIGA are too remote to give supply. The
aggregate woodland of Europe is estimated
at 500, ,O0O, 600 acres, or about 20 per cent
of the area of the continent.