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St. Landry democrat. (Opelousas, La.) 1878-1894, 1889-07-27
What the South Is and Needs.

A short time ago we had occasion to call
attention to the injurious effects upon
Southern industrial development that Is
being caused by the sensational booming
and reckless estimates and statements
made by class of papers that expect 10
oain livelihood from pretense OF being
8deyoted to the interests OF the South.
The "devotion" to the interests of the
South that we need is brains, money, and
muscle. Many of the "devoted" publlca-
tions can and do not contribute any of
these much needed factors. They remind
us of the mistletoe. 1t looks pretty and
fourishes, but only at the expense OF the
live sap that would otherwise go to nour-
ish the growth and value of the tree.
Our article was widely copied and COM
mended by the live and legitimate papers
ali over the country The Chattanooga
Tradesnan of the 1st inst, under the cap
ton that heads this article, says:
We print elsewhere sensible article on
the Southern industrial sensationalist,
from the Southern Lunabermaa. That
sort of literature once was injurious to the
South; now it has become merely NUS
ance and a bother to legitimate Southern
journalists and developers. People of
Intelligence soon find out that no country
has fortunes strewn round for the picking
up, and they also learn early that money
is not rolling into this or that section by
the score or hundred million dollars. In
point of fact, there are advantages of eli
matte variety, of health, of Industrial pos
sibillity in the South that are exceptional,
but to make these available requires work
of Drawn and brain and the most unremit-
ting attention to business. The South is
both old and new; old in its civilization
and settled state of society, fairly supplied
already with railroads, schools, churches,
and ali the adjuncts of high civilization
and yet in development the section has
barely been hacked and scratched here and
there. We combine the advantages oil
settled social conditions, good transporta-
ton facilities, and cheapness of all the
means and materials of manufacture to 6
greater degree and in greater variety
than any other section of the civilized
world; but these are not to be had Yithou
work and care and close application to an.
| given line of endeavor. We want NJ
drones; we are not hankering for a suppl.
of empty handed and ight-hearted ad
venturers. What and whom we do wan
and make welcome are work, brains, ant
intelligent workers and business men
Few such have failed to do well in tn
South, no matter what line of exploitation
they undertook; and equally few of tn
adventurous class have done any good TO
themselves or the country Southern
| Lalanberna07o.
St. Landry democrat. (Opelousas, La.) 1878-1894, 1889-07-27
Salt as q Fertilizer.

Most plants that are cultivated require
more or less sod for their composition, as
is shown by chemical analyeis. The
amount varies in different plants, being in
some several times as large as in others.
Salt is composed of equal parts of soda and
chlorine, and so an application Of salt
would supply any demand that crops
might make. AS a rule most soils contain
all the soda required by plants, being only
in quite small quantities, SO that simply
for the element of soda an application OF
salt would hardly be necessary. Salt is
not taken up directly by the plant, but
PERFORMS important service in assisting in
rendering soluble plant food in the soil
which would otherwise remain dormant
and inert. So where there is soil poses
sed Of plant food, salt may prove quite adj
vantageous. 1t is frequently spread upon
moving lands in moderate quantities, aiding
quite preceptibly in the increase and pro-
duction of hay. While small application
is believed to benefit crops, it is also be-
lieved to be destructive or preventive of
some cts.-Germantoson Telegraph.
St. Landry democrat. (Opelousas, La.) 1878-1894, 1889-07-27
Railroad Consolidation.
A GIGANTIC SCHEME TO BE PRESENTED IN
A BILL BEFORE CONGRESS.

GIGANTIC SCHEME TO BE PRESENTED IN
A BILL BEFORE CONGRESS-.
NEW YORK, July 18.-A Hartford special
to the Times says: The text for bill which
is to be introduced at the opening session
of Congress in December, involving the
most gigantic scheme for railroad consoli-
dation ever candidly discussed in this city;
is now being put into type in this city, and
a Chicago firm is engaged in publishing
the maps illustrating the consolidation of
railway lines and the tracts of country
which are to supply the proposed new sys:
tenn with business The fundamental
idea is to make Boston the metropolis of
the continent. While the Interstate Com
mission and the business men of New
England are discussing the problems to be
solved on accogst of the low freight rates
enforced on Canadian Pacific road, the
consolidationists are concentrating plans
for the absorption of the Canadian rival
with the American system, and the estab-
lishment of the greatest railroad power in
the West. The Willard system is the only
one not embraced in the conception. The
Union and Northern Pacific roads and the
Canadian Pacific are the ones to be con-
solidated.
The system extending from Santa Fe
through the Southwestern States, thence
by way of the Pennsylvania coal regions
and across the Hudson river at Poughkeep-
sie taking in the Hartford and Connecticut
route of Western New York, with the road
from Tarifsville to Springfield, is also
inc uded in the unparalleled scheme for
consolidation. From Boston the orig1na-
tors of the plan propose to run steam
ship line to Europe, furnishing them
selves ample accommodations for freight
and passenger traffic from The Pacific
slope to the largest ports on the European
continent.
The details of the bill cannot be ascer-
tanned at present, but its projectors state
that members of the Senate are familiar
with the scheme and are enthusiastic for
it's prosecution. The capitalization to be
asked for will not be less than 800, O00,-
000 In the main, the consolidation will
secure the through lines by purchase or
lease. English capitalists will join hands
in the enterprise, efecting commercial
union at present and ultimately political
one with the Canadian territory. Ameri
can capitalists will be interested equally
with the English in developing the CONT
nent.
The consolidation also contemplates the
ownership of a. new ocean cable, connect
ing Boston with the German Empire
Utopian as the plans may seem at first,
they have been skilIfully formulated and
will have. to be discussed by an intelligent
public within the next four months. The
sum of SIS, 600 has been expended in pro-
curing surveys for the maps which Rapd,
McNally & Co. are publishing for the orig
inators of the consolidation Several of
the surveys were begun in 1881, and the
plans, which are now about to be disclosed,
have been under consideration since then.
St. Landry democrat. (Opelousas, La.) 1878-1894, 1889-07-27
Capital for the South.

The Times Democrat says: One of the
great needs of the South is capital. We
have the material resources, but we need
money to develop them. This capital has
lately been pouring in from all quarters
and going into commerce, agriculture and
manufacture.
Millions have been invested successfully
and proftably; and the South has estab-
lished such credit, and so demonstrated the
profit of investments here that there is
little difficulty in getting money now for
almost any enterprise which shows moder-
ate chances of success.
The increase in banking capital is very
good indication of the improvement in
Southern credit, and of how the South is
regarded as field for investment. The
report of the New York Commercial BuIIe-
TIM of national banks established during
the year is especially fattering. OF 1856
new banks established, fifty one were IN
the Southern States, and the capital placed
here was $780, 900. against So, 75O, 900
for the North, West and Pacific slope.
St. Landry democrat. (Opelousas, La.) 1878-1894, 1889-07-27
An Industrial Question.

Mr.. Atkinson, the well known political
economist and statistician, who was among
the first of Northern men to see the indus
trial possibilities of the South, and to
whose suggestion the Atlanta Cotton Expo
sition was due, has conferred another
obligation on this section by speech he
lately delivered before the University of
South Carolina relative to industrial devel-
opment.
His speech was an object lesson to the
South, and one it greatly needs, for it
corrected very general error that prevails
here, and likely to lead US astray. The
great success of the Southern iron furnaces,
the fact that they have been able to make
iron more cheaply than Pennsylvania, that
they have actually competed with the
Pennsylvania iron manufacturers in the
markets of the Wet has lead many per-
sons to believe that inc industrial problem
is fully settled here, and that there is
little more to do. Mr.. Atkinson shows
that this is mistake, and that Industrial
prosperity means not one or two big in
dustries but thousand small ones, and
that Pennsylvania is likely to get as much
profit and benefit from the cheap Southern
Dig iron as the South if the Pennsylvanians
have the good sense to utilize it in the
hundreds of manufactures in which it can
be put.
s.If the South" says Mr.. Atkinson,
ssshould take this art (the manufacture of
pig irony away from Eastern Pennsylvania,
q few great chimney stacks may remain as
reminders of bygone work but when you
send to her machinists, to her artisans, to
her engine builders, to her toolmakers, to
her blacksmiths, to the hundreds or even
thousands by whom iron is consumed
where there are ten engaged in its produc-
ton, even in that State, then the little force
of men discharged from beneath the
ground or from the mouth of the fiery
furnace may find higher occupation and
better pay in the consumption of iron and
steel in Pennsylvania than they ever found
in making iron there"
Thereupon the practical Northern econ
omist proceeded to set forth fact that is
of vital importance to the South 'tThe
secret of prosperity and of widely difused
welfare does not lie within the walls of q
great factory it is not to be viewed by the
light of the blast furnace it is not hidden
in the dark interior of the earth these are
but the crude factors. 1t does consist in
the thousand little arts which spring up in
the sunshine of personal liberty, which
make the village pervade the farm and
bring men and women into better
human relations than those either of the
factory, furnace or the mine"
One OF two Southern papers have already
referred to this matter incidentally, and
pointed out that it was mistake to rejoice
over the fact that so large proportion of
Southern pig iron is shipped North as it
| would be far better for this section if not
ton of it went there, and the iron was
manufactured here into stoves, rails, agri-
cultural implements, etc. Mr.. Atkinson
states the matter well and vigorously, and
the South will do wisely to harken to his
| advice.-ITmes- Democrat.
St. Landry democrat. (Opelousas, La.) 1878-1894, 1889-07-27
pancils Made of Paner.

London Inyention states that paper pen
ellis are the subject of a patent winch
promises to lead a large industry, as IL
understands that the price at which they
can be produced is marvelously low. Oral
nary cedar wood pencils, as every one
knows, are made by gluing two pieces OF
wood together, after having placed into
slot made in one of them prepared slip
of graphite or other marking material
Although it seems SO simple, there are
great many operations to be performed In
doing this, such as cutting the large WOOD
into strips of the right size, making the
slot or groove in which the lead has to pe
placed, preparing the leads of the required
size, firing these to make them firm, then
placing them by hand in the slots OF the
wood strips, gluing these strips together,
and after the glue is set the two pieces o!
glued wood have to be rounded OH anu
polished; etc. The idea of using paper
instead of wood for pencils is not new, put
an objection to pencils thus formed was
the difficulty of sharpening, paper being
so tough that even with the sharpest Knl1e
the Jerking from the paper to the LEAD
caused the latter to snap off. Then again
the paper having to be folded around
previously formed and hardened marking
| material was tedious and expensive LABOR
These objections to the use of paper are
overcome by Mr.. Green's process. The
| paper is first made into tubes gross or
more of these are placed in frame form
ing the lower end of cylinder, and the
substance to be used as marking material
being put in plastic state into the ooay
of the cylinder, by pressure is forced into I'M,
the hollow centers of the paper tubes. The
marking material, which now forms the
center Of each tube, is hardened by gradual
drying during six days at increasing tenn
perature. Up to this point the paper
tubes are simply tough cases but by
plunging them into melted paratfine waz
the paper becomes of such nature that Il
can be cut as easily as the best cedar wood
St. Landry democrat. (Opelousas, La.) 1878-1894, 1889-07-27
Whence Wheat Came.
CLASSIC ACCOUNTS OF THE DISTRIBUTION
OF THE PRECIOUS CEREAL.

CLASSIC ACCOUNTS OF THE DISTRIBUTION
OF THE PRECIOUS CEREAL.
Wheat, which is now the bread corn of
twelve European nations, and is fast sup
planting maize in America and several in
ferior grains in India, was no doubt widely
grown in the prehistoric world. The Chi
nese cultivated it 2700 B. c. as gift direct
from Heaven the Egyptians attributed It's
origin to Isis and the Greeks to Ceres.
classic account of the distribution of wheat
over the primeval world shows that Ceres,
having taught her favorite Triptolemus
agriculture and the art of bread-maklng,
gave him her chariot, a celestial vehicle
which he used in useful travels for the
purpose of distributing corn to all nations.
Ancient monuments show that the cultlva-
ton of wheat had been established in
Egypt before the invasion of the shep-
herds, and there is evidence that more pro-
ductiye varieties of wheat have taken the
place of one at least, of the ancient sorts.
Innumerable varieties exist of common
wheat. Colonel LIE Couteur, of jersey,
cultivated $50 varieties. Mr.. Darwin men
tions French gentleman who had collected
1922 varieties, and the great firm of French
seed merchants, Vilmorin- Andrieux ct
Gle, cultivate about twice rs many in their
trial grounds near Paris. In their recent
work on "Les Meilleurs Bles" M. Henry
L. de Vilmorin has described sixty eight
| varieties of best wheat, which he has
| classed into seven groups, though these
groups can hardly be called distinct spec
| les NJ. Henry L. de Vilmorin has crossbred
three of them, 7rGticun1 uulgare, Irlt5cun1
| turqidurn and 13Sticuna duruna, and has
found the offspring fertile. Three small
grained varieties of common wheat were
cultivated by the first lake jewellers of
Switzerland thine of Trojan war;, and as
we'll as by the less ancient lake jewellers
| of Western Switzerland and of Italy, by
the people of Hungary in the stone age,
and by the Egyptians on the evidence of q
brick of a pyramid in which grain was
imbedded, and to which the date of 1858
B. C. has been assigned. The existence
of names for wheat in the most ancient
languages confirms this evidence of the
ANTIQUITY of it's culture in all the more
temperate parts of Europe, Asia and Africa,
but it seems improbable that wheat has
ever been found growing persistently in q
wild state, although the fact has often
been asserted by poets, travellers and histo
ians. In the Odyssey, for example, we
are told that wheat grew in Sicily without
the aid of man, but a blind poet coulo
not have seen this himself, and botanica
fact can hardly be accepted from a writer
whose own existence has been contested
Diodorus repeats the tradition that Osiris
found wheat and barley growing promis-
cuously in Palestine, but neither this mol
other discoveries of persistent wild whea
seem to us to be credible, seeing tina
wheat does not appear to be endowed witt
a power of perslstency except under cul
ture.-Edinaburg ReoleW.
St. Landry democrat. (Opelousas, La.) 1878-1894, 1889-07-27
a Storv With a Moral.

A story is told of an aspiring girl in Dorr,
Mich. who loved music and longed for a
cabinet organ, but could not afford to buy
one Last year she planted a patch of
Ground with onions, and raised $50 bushels
of them, which she has just turned into
money. and now she has her long-sought
organ. This beautiful little incident,
children. of the Michigan maiden who, by
ber own exertions, was enabled to exchange
SO many small tear rstarters Tor QUE more ore
powerful and effective than the whole ooo
bushels of the others combined shoulo
teach us perseverance, humility and Var1-
GUS other things.-Chicago Tribune.
St. Landry democrat. (Opelousas, La.) 1878-1894, 1889-07-27

More towns die for want of confidence
on the part of business men and lack OF
public spirit than from any oshef W Shene
man in search of home or business
location goes into a town and finds every
br full Of hope Pc and n.e enthusiast and a
Earnestly at work to build it up, he soon
becomes imbued with the same spirit, and
az q result he drives down stakes and goes
to work with the same interest When,
however he goes to town where every
avarv one expresses doubt and apprenen-
sion for the future prosperity of the place,
moping about and indulging in mo Of
complaints he naturally feels that it is !. no 10
dnst off his feet while he pulls out with all
possible speed for some other place. Con
seauently try andsmake a live, enterprising
town out of the one in which you live;
when you are working for or saying good
thing for your town you are accomplishing
ali the more for yourself.-Ez.
St. Landry democrat. (Opelousas, La.) 1878-1894, 1889-07-27
Different Initials.

Twin boys having been born in Uncle
Rastus' house, the serious question rose
what names should be given them. A
council was called.
'sDar's one ting" said Aunt Lily, "dat's
got ter be tended to. Dem boys mus hab
diffrunt initials, lessen DER handkerchiefs
gets mixed up"
'sDat's So" said Uncle Rastus, reflect
lively.
Then after pause, he added. swell
I'll tell ye. Well call 'em Edward and
'Ugene. - Youth ConeDGni0n.
St. Landry democrat. (Opelousas, La.) 1878-1894, 1889-07-27
How He Knew.

81 WEAKLY think, Cholly," said Fweddy,
chat am improving in my widing. |
sit in my saddle noah gwacefully and
don't bob up and down SO bahd."
Chow do you know how you look when
you ride 2" asked Cholly.
"How do know 2" echoed Fweddy. "I
hiah cab dwivah to hang gweat big
looking glahss on the back of his cab, and
| wide on the boulevahd behind that cab
every aftahnoon, bah Jove p-Chieago
Tribune.
St. Landry democrat. (Opelousas, La.) 1878-1894, 1889-07-27

s1'm sorry to give you pain, Mr. Fergu-
son." she said to the kneeling youth, "but
your score is goose egg this time" "Not
much Miss Kajones, he replied haughtily.
as he rose up and took his hat *syou can't
prevent me from scoring home run. -
Chicago Tribune.
St. Landry democrat. (Opelousas, La.) 1878-1894, 1889-07-27
Stopping Iohnny's Fighting.

Johnny, your mother says you've been
fighting again 2"
eyes, pa. Billy Nibbs called me q
gaudy dude, and punched his head"
ssYou shouldn't do So 1t is very wrong
to come to blows, my son. shall have to
make prize fighter of you if you don't
stop it. =
St. Landry democrat. (Opelousas, La.) 1878-1894, 1889-07-27
To Tame a Bird.

ono creature is more jealous or sensitive
than a bird" says Oliver Thorn Miller 1t
is easy, however, to win the heart OF al
most any bird, and without starving him
or making him think he has mastered you
Simply talk to him good deal Place
bis cage near you on your desk or Work
table, and retain his choicest dainty to give
to him with your own fingers. Let him
know that he can never have that particular
thing unless he take it from you, ana ne
will soon learn, if you are patient ana 90
not disconcert him by fixing your eyes upon
him. After this he will more readily take
it from your lips; and when you let MN MN
out of his cage, after the first excitemen AZ
is over, he will come to you, especially II
you have call you have accustomed mn
to, and accept the dainty from you "nile
free. AS soon as he becomes really COZ
WINGED that you will not hurt him or try 10 70
catch him, or interfere in any way WIN
his liberty, he will give way to MS Douna ,
less curiosity about you; he will pun your
hair, pick at your eyes and give you 81 50
much of his company as you deslre'-0''
St. Landry democrat. (Opelousas, La.) 1878-1894, 1889-07-27

To marry for money, and for any object
whatever save and except immortal and
aIi-powerful love, is to perjure and debase
the human heart but to marry without
some provision for the future. such AZ
money or moneys worth in q well. furn.
ished mind and q capacity for skilled labor,
Is to defy common sence and invoke the
evil fates.--O1acs Week.
St. Landry democrat. (Opelousas, La.) 1878-1894, 1889-07-27

"Ah, madame" said the s ma dRsvs"
haven't had a mouthful for two asssn
why, gave you whole pie pie yesRts at he
two days T refer to are to-day and to-lnofN
row. mum. '-Harpsr's Basar'
St. Landry democrat. (Opelousas, La.) 1878-1894, 1889-07-27

In mixing mustard never add yineg al
which kills it's life and favor. Boil water
for moistening it, and let the water become
blood warm.
St. Landry democrat. (Opelousas, La.) 1878-1894, 1889-07-27

Those who smoke filthy, poisonous
cigarettes may be interested in knowing own rs
that they are made from stubs - OF +o cigars
taken from spittoons. Poor Italians Italians can IN
this Gs sfSR shg work. S1 fD' LADY was recently
Chinese iepers in thai city are employed ySa
in making cigarettes. Those who nave IA sv
formed the bad habit of chewing gum may may
he he. interested in knowing it is made l .S
tainted meat and animals, from when "a
substance of a white, glutinous nav nasu aor-
made in our cities. This is reaolis 0'
yerted into delicious gum.
St. Landry democrat. (Opelousas, La.) 1878-1894, 1889-07-27

This ought to be the time of year for a
man TO turn over new leaf. He could
stick to almost anything this weather
Y0akers Statesman.
The Press., 1889-07-11
ELLINGTON.

-Richardson & Aborn advertise dance at their grove on Friday evening, 18th, or, if stormy, then on Saturday evening. Rates, 10 cts. per figure. Ice cream and temperance drinks are advertised for sale.
 The Windermere mill at Ellington re- mains in the hands of Deputy Sheriff Dickinson. Members of the Bertfam man. ufacturing company are expected this week to make an effort to settle the affairs of the concern in some manner.
 Square Pond Correspondence.)
 The first dahlia which opened so early in Mrs. Fletcher's flower garden adorned the center of 8 beautiful bouquet which she brought to church.
 Miss Laura Brown is enjoying part of her summer vacation at home.
The Press., 1889-07-11
WALESe

kCOrreSpOuO6nCeJ While Dr. Sawtelle was driving tt Staffordville on the evening of the 3d, tn. night being very dark, his horse wandered from the path, bringing the carriage ir contact with large rock beside the road The carriage was overturned and badly broken, but the doctor escaped with slighl injury to one shoulder.
 Lawyer H. M. Needham and family oi Brooklyn, N. Y., have arrived at theil summer residence.
 On the evening of the 4th there wal quite display of fire works in the south part of the village, and large crowd as sembled to witness it.
 Clinton Rogers and family of Koch ester, N. Y., have come to spend the sum- mer at their residence.
 70. A. Harwood has been quite unwell for few days.
 Harry Baker Of Boston is visiting his father, B. s. Baker.
 Mrs. Levi Haradeen of Worcester is visiting friends in town.
 Mrs. D. s. Arnold of Brooklyn, N. r., is going to spend the summer in town where she resided some years ago.
 Mrs. l.. B. Wight of Washington is expected the last of the month at hel brothers here.
 Miss Anna Johnson of Breokline will spend her vacation with friends in town.