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St. Landry democrat., 1890-06-21
Justly Rebuked.

IL is the fashion of some women to keep
visitors waiting an unreasonable time for
absolutely no reason at all but to crafty
caprice or fad Of theirs. Heaven knows
where they got the idea, but some of the
dear creatures imagine that it is q canon
Of high-bred etiquette to let q caller cool
his or her heels in the parlor for half an
hour or SO after the servant brings up the
card. This impertinence is most often
offered by women to women.
A superb young woman who had high
birth and abundance Of money saucily told
q girl in her set recently that she always
kept callers waiting twenty minutes before
she appeared. The girl who received this
valuable piece Of. news called upon the
golden calf few days afterward. She
sent up her card and the footman returned
with the message that Miss would be
down in few minutes. The caller took
ont herywatch, and when seven minutes
had expired wrote upon one of her cards.
~ have been gone just thirteen minutes. !"
Leaving this card on the table, the
young lady took her departure. Pitts
burg Dispatch.
St. Landry democrat., 1890-06-21
4 MsN Yorg Family,

There Is something pathetic in the life
and surroundings Of the refined poor
Thes are usually persons who have come
down in the world, and their pride always
exceeds their poverty. There is family
in this town of father of II, mother OF
SO. an unmarried daughter OF 40, MAIDEN
amt of 65 and an uncle of 6o, who exc out
an existence by cutting out needlework 81 TOT
a large underware shop down town. Inc
uncIe and father were merchants here forty
wears AGO. Owing to feeble health neither
was able to gain foothold after the crash.
friend of many years standing sees tha1
the rept of their four rooms is paid eacn
month. and few others who knew the
family intimately in their days of prosper,
itv send clothes and other necessarles and
delicacies occasionally. Four of them
the father, uncle, aunt and dsughter-cuG,
cut. cut, all day long, and when the week
comes round frequently find that all four
together have earned less than $40, while
the old lady, aged So, who is sprier than
any of them. attends to the housekeeping.
In half dszed state the uncle. VINO
looks fully ten years older than ne ID,
crayls into a street car twice a week
burdened down with two immense pack
ages bound for the warehouse in the lower
part of the city. Notwithstanding that
these FIVE people dwell in the most
crowded and noisiest part of this great
town, they live as far away from their
neighbors as hermits in the backwoods.
People in the same house with them do
not even know how one is related to the
other. Some of their more worldly
minded friends have limited that the uncle
and aunt ought to be placed in some home
for the aged, but the father, who is +, the
brother of both, will not have it so. The
home life of these five people is singularly
quiet. When night comes they sit around
and talk in low, sad tones that sounds like
echos from another world.-Neao Iort
St. Landry democrat., 1890-06-21

The census for 1890 will show reduc-
ton of national indebtedness amounting
to 1890, 900 600, and of State and county
Indebtedness of $30,000,000. making an
aggregate reduction in the last decade OF
81 .O20, OOO,0O While this will seem to
be very gratifying condition of affairs,
especially when compared with the etfete
governments of the Old World, which in
nearly every instance show an increase OF
indebtedness and in some cases loss OF
credit which is appalling; yet there is
another side to the picture in this country.
Industrial Indebtedness has increased to an
alarming extent, the number of land
owners have decreased and q much greater
pei cent of our people are renters than III
wears ago, and this, despite the fact that
many hundreds of thousands have MADE
for themselves homes in the far West.
The tendency has been to concentrate the
wealth of the nation in the hands OF the
few, and at the present rate it will take
but a few more decades to create landed
aristocracy in this country not one whit
more desirable than that existing in Eng
land and other European governments, and
equally repugnant to the true democratic
instinct The land barons in this country
will probably not for many years at Least
be distinguished by titles, but this will De
the only difference between the arlstoc-
racy of this and the Old World.
St. Landry democrat., 1890-06-21
The Dutchman's Advertisement.

We have in the past referred to the
attempts of the comic papers to maize cap
ital out of the present interest that attaches
to Advertising Here is something OF the
hind that comes from the Chicago National
Weekly While it is somewhat overdone,
and perhaps little heavy, 1t is yet reada-
BILE withal
He was a big. red faced Dutchman, and
as he entered our Office door and inquired
il ssder editor vas arount," we involuntar-
ily glanced in the direction OF the open
window before making an affirmative an
swer, and asked what he wanted.
"Vell," began our visitor, seating him
self on the corner of the table, 81 will tole
YOU about it, In der first blaze got me
letter Won my wife Katrine, who vas pack
in Wisconsin, und someding vas happen on
my house. Dot vas pov und he Weighs
more as dwelve pounds. Now, Offer dond
make me Won cent got to see me dot little
Dutchmans."
ga very natural desire, certainly"
But now | got me some droubles in my
mint. Offer l gone off und left me dot
CLAIM vat got, und some roosder comes
along and drinks l hat died my last, or
Something's like dot, und Jumps der claims,
vot will do about it 2
"You would be obliged to prove that
YOU had not abandoned the claim"
"But dot make me some expenses, amt
t?'
Eyes"
81 drinks der best way will be to get a
nodice in der baber."
every WELL please write what you re-
quire."
Being furnished with paper and pen. ne
proceeded to write the following:
s'Took NoDICE-To all who got gon-
cerned aboud il, Der land vot sthands on
der behint side Won dot leetle sodhouse OF
mine vas dock already by myself: Who
efer yumps me dot CLAIM will head put
on him so high up like kite. A word to
der wise vas der perginning of ell.
PETER DIMBLEDEcK."
"Ofer you got dot in der baber you will
bay me two dollars und l safe all dot oder
expenses. Economy vas der tief of time.
Do you dink not same way yourself r
We assured our German friend that such
was our belief, and he departed, salts
fed that the warning contained in the
above notice would be sufficient to deter
any adventurous pilgrim from jumping
the aforesaid claim.
St. Landry democrat., 1890-06-21
Uufermented Wine.

The following account of the manufac-
ture of unfermented wine, published re-
Gently in an Austrian journal, is reported
to be very satisfactory. The grapes are
allowed to ripen well before being gath
cred, when the juice is expressed and
bottled Immediately. The bottles are filed
to the brim, and are then placed, up to
their necks, in watts of water within ten
degrees of boiling point.
When the must and water are the same
temperature the corks are forced into the
bottles, expelling some of the liquid to
make room for themselves. This part OF
the work must be very carefully done, as
the least measure of air remaining between
the cork and the liquid will cause fermen-
tation. As the liquid is in heated state
when the cork is forced, it viii contract IS
1t cools, leaving space between the cork
and The liquid but if the cork is, as it
should be, thoroughly alright, this va
cancy will not be an atmospheric chamber
and will not iniure the liquid. If fermen-
tation should set in, it can be driven off by
relocating the wine. The bottles are then
placed on their sides in cool place and
the organic particles in the must allowed
TO settle.
This settling may last any length OF
time the manufacturer chooses, but suffi-
cient time must be allowed for foreign
substances to settle on the sides of the
bottle. Then 1t is decanted into other bot
ties, leaving the sediment behind. These
second bottles must also be brimful, and
heated up to the same degree as before
and corked in precisely the same manner.
using sealing wax to exclude air. The
wine Is then allowed to cool In the ordi-
nary way, and must be kept in a cool
place. It will keep as long as it is kept
free from contact with the atmosphere.
St. Landry democrat., 1890-06-21
Gum Lumber.

The demand for gum lumber is slowly
growing stronger, and will continue to in
Crease every year. There is NO domestic
wood better suited for furniture work and
inside finish than the red gum OF the South,
and it certainly must soon take the lead.
The mill men of the South are to blame
for the slow introduction of gum, ano
have made no special effort to improve the
quality of manufacture or furnish the
trade with perfectly dry lumber. While
the mill men are impatient and anxious to
realize on their lumber in the shortest
time. the cabinet makers are likewise
anxious and determined to buy only such
lumber IS Can be used for immediate work
Plain sawed gum. of an inferior quality
and put on The market in a partially
seasoned condition, has done much to
bring gum into disfavor and delay its use
for general purposes.
The red gum found in the alluvial soil
of the Southern valleys is superior in
quality, grain, and color to gum found in
any other portion of this country, and is
not to be compared with the white gum
found in hi CHER attitudes. Red gum,
when properly sawed and thoroughly sea-
soned, does not warp, and remains IN
place as satisfactorily as walnut, cherry.
or any of our popular furniture woods.
This fact is clearly demonstrated by the
great number of modern buildings that are
finished with red gum, and which have
proven entirely satisfactory.
The warping proclivities of gum is not
the fault of the lumber so much as it is in
the way in which the cutting and hand
ling is DONE That change in the way
of manufacturing gum must take place is
obvious to every dealer in this lumber.
The best, and, perhaps. only successful
| way to prepare gum timber, is to glrdle
the trees in the winter months, and allow
the trees to stand during the following
summer. Gum timber should be felled
only in the fall or winter months, for, il
| cut when the sap is up, the worms are
sure to get in the lumber after being put
on sticks. The logs should be quarter
sawed, and to cut it in any other way il
folly. CHARTERED gum will not warp II
drying, neither will it yield so readily te
changes of weather. Only old trees o.
| large growth should be selected, and there
will be no loss in quarter saving, and thu
grain shows to much better advantage
than in plain sawed.
Gum lumber should be piled with great
care, allowing ample space fol the fret
circulation of air, and should remain OF
sticks for at least twelve months.
When the mills of the South begin tt
cut and properly handle gum, the demand
will be- equal to the supply, -soutaer'
| LumbernaGn.
St. Landry democrat., 1890-06-21
Self Proving.

THE CRUCIAL TEST NOT WHAT WE
DREAMED OF, BUT WHAT WE HAVE DONE
AND ARE DOING.
There is supposed to be fascination
about looking-glass but when 1t comes
to questions OF character, it is frequently
more agreeable tie scrutinize others through
spectacles than to gaze steadily into the
faithful, undattering mirror of Gods law
and our own consciences. The Corinthians
were rather fond of pronouncing oracular
verdlcts on the qualities of others, when
Paul reminded them that it was more i'm
portant for them to look nearer home and
to gain correct ideas of themselves. They
had not been altogether averse to forming
estimates of their own worth but they had
used wrong standard. They had found
pleasure in measuring themselves by
themselves, and comparing themselves with
themselves" whereas the result might have
been very different had they kept in mind
"the measure of the stature of the fullness
of Christ The repeating of the Corinth-
ian mistake by others in later times has
rsised prejudice against the habit OF
self-exsmination as arising from NOR
bid state of mind where the persons
thoughts are concentrated on self. On the
other ha ad true gauging of self always
involves reference to the perfect standaro.
We do not measure cloth by looking at it,
but by putting it by the side of the yard
stick.
Again, determination has often been
connected in thought with the times when
the ideal life was ascsticism, withdrawal
from all active life and giving ones self
up to religious contemplation in the Sc
clusion of the cloister. There is necessary
a proving of self which shuts out the ex-
| ternal world at times, but that is not the
only proof of character nor the surest one.
We may inspect the works of watch as
| carefully as We please. but We learn its
real excellence by letting it run and by
finding out what kind of time it keeps.
| 1t is profitable to question ourselves as to
thoug ht and motives, but the crucial test
| is not what We dreamed of, but what
we have done and are doing. Amy life
| which is not to be absolutely aimless and
reckless must be subjected to such TESTS
| Golden Rule.
St. Landry democrat., 1890-06-21

A woman correspondent of the Chicago
Inter- Ocean makes q spirited protest
against the advice that all girls and women
should engage in Homework. She says:
"Girls' tastes differ quite as much as boys,
and to expect all girls to be cooks and
seamstresses is as foolish as to want all
boys to be carpenters and machlnists. A
knowledge of the rudiments Of cooking
and sewing is very desirable. as many an
old bachelor and husband with sick wife
and no servant can testify, and should be
acquired by all young people without re-
gard to sex or color; but it is no more
necessary for girl to do all her own cook
ing and dressmaking than for young
man to make all his own clothes and dig
all the coal he burns. Let us respect a
girl who says she would rather teach
music in the parlor than work in the
kitchen quite as much as we respect q
young man who says he would rather
pracdce law in court room than work in
q rolling mill. Let us allow our girls to
choose their occupations as freely IS we
allow our boys to do So"
St. Landry democrat., 1890-06-21
Keep Still.

In one of DR.. Burton's Yale lectures the
following advice was given to the young
ministers "When trouble is brewing,
keep still. When Islander is getting on it's
legs, keep still. When your feelings are
hurt, keep still, till you recover from your
excitement at any rate Things look diff
ferently through an unagitated eye. In
commotion once wrote letter and sent
it, and wished I had not. In my latter
years had another commotion, and wrote
q long letter; but life had rubbed little
sense into me, and l kept the letter in my
pocket against the day when ! could look
it over without agitation and without tears.
l was glad did Silence is the most mas
sive thing conceivable sometimes. It is
strength in its very grandeur. 1t is like q
regiment ordered to stand still in the mid
fury of battle. To plunge in were twice
as easy. The tongue has unsettled more
ministers than small salaries ever did, or
lack Of ability"
St. Landry democrat., 1890-06-21
The Rice Crop.

A special in the 7imes-D Democrat, from
Charleston, 8. c., gives rather gloomy
report from the rice districts of that State.
Lack of rain and prevalence Of salt water
threaten the loss Of the entire crop, In the
Cooper and Ashley rivers sections.
This, together with the decrease In the
acreage In the Mississippi river bottoms
will greatly decrease the usual supply OF
rice. But to offset this loss, we have here
In Southwest Louisiana greatly increased
acreage, and the present prospect is that
we will have a very large yield par acre.
Calcasieu parish alone, will raise 400, 900
barrels of rough rice this year.
When we get our rice lands in this re-
gion fully developed, we will raise more
rice than all the other rice fields in the
United States.
St. Landry democrat., 1890-06-21
ALLIANCE NOTES.


I'm union there is strength" says the
ancient proverb.
Farmers Alliance clubs and other asso-
Citations are springing up on all sides OF u.s.
Farmers must organize, and we can be-
come strong enough in the near future
to win.
If we all work together, in the course
of time, as the good work goes on, we
shall be no longer "the mud sllls" OF
the body polite.
five, as class of farmers, wish to sur.
vive, we must prove ourselves worthy OF
existence, and this organization Is tne
short road to that condition.
If first rate Western farm, well stocked
and appointed and unincumbered. were 10
he given to a careful farmer, in three
years it would bring him in debt at pres
emit prices for farm products.
Gradually the hnsbandman is being
driven to the wall. Not many years ago he
was the incarnation of the independent
American citizen. It was his sturdy
patriotism which preserved our repubh-
can institutions.
Congress and Legislators defy us because
we are in no condition to protect our
rights. The farmers are a majority of the
political parties, and if the majority can
not have it's way in one direction we can
not see how it can in another.
A strong farmers organization in town.
ship or county is standing notice to every
merchant, stock buyer, grain buyer and
implement dealer or manufacturer, ETC.,
to deal with us fairly and squarely, and to
be contented with reasonable profit.
We see no reason why our Congress
should not be made up largely from men
employed in the different industries. We
farmers should make our nomination and
vote together regardless of party. The
simple fact of completing organization
would bring reform of itself.
To reap, we must sow. We must NOT
expect to reverse the laws of nature. MOI
can we make black white. Nor cause
water to run up hill. We cannot gather
grapes from brambles, or harvest wher
we have not sown. Nor can we expect te
form farmers organizations unless we al
unite.
If the average voter could be made t.
think more of what is really involved il
his ballot, he would not be such "a slave
to party, His mind would naturally turn
more to the highest interest of his home
and the well being of posterity rather thai
the success of party.-Ihe L'adependen
Citizen.
St. Landry democrat., 1890-06-21
The Medieval Housewife.

The housewife of the middle ages
cooked over an open fire on stone
hearth in the middle of the room, hole
in the roof letting the smoke escape:
Over this fire the people shivered in cold
weather but at later time some OF the
Queens had braziers, or small iron fur
naces, in their rooms. There were no
carpets in those days, and PUSHES and
sweet herbs were spread on the floor in
stead, especially when company was ex-
pected. There were tapestries on the
walls of the finer houses. At dinner peo'
ple sat on wooden benches and stools at a
heavy table of boards set on trestles, and
this was covered with cloth. The bill of
fare changed with the centuries in those
days, and not much from day to day. The
food was barley and oaten bread, bacon
fish, capons and eggs. - Good House.
keeDS710
St. Landry democrat., 1890-06-21
A Young Teacher.

In a certain village not thousand miles
from New York lives bright little boy
named Lemuel. Though very small, he
is thoroughly polite. When his mamma
takes him out to call, as she sometimes
does, he enters the room In q gentlemanly
way, replies to questions in sweet, mild
voice, without acting as though he were
especially to be noticed, and before leav-
ing he very quietly shakes hands with
those whom he has been visiting.
When lady calls on his mamma he
has pleasant way of trying to help en-
terrain her without making himself in the
least obtrusive or annoying. When an
acquaintance passes him on the street he
tips his hat politely; or If, as sometimes
happens when he is at play, the hat has
fallen of his head, then he pulls, in a
pretty style Of his own, front lock of his
fiaxen hair. Now in these things, as in
others that might be mentioned, Lemuel
Is teacher of good manners, and may
we'll instruct many older boys.
There is another respect, too, in which
something may be learned from him. Not
long ago, his mother, being i'll. was COM
PEELED to leave him in charge of German
girl, who had not, perhaps, been trained
In Christian home.
In giving Lemuel his meals she thought
it sufficient to place the food before him,
and then to let him eat without prayer
to the heavenly Father, from whom cometh
every good and perfect gift. The child,
accustomed TO better way, said, "Gretch-
On, you ought to ask . blessing"
~ don't know how" answered the kind
hearted but less instructed maid.
esThen I'll teach you, (" said Lemuel and
gravely and simply he tried to teach her
heaven"
In doing this the little fellow taught Us
all two lessons. One Is, always ask Gods
blessing before taking food the other IS,
if you know any one who has never
learned to pray, try to show him now.
and sucklings thou hast perfected praise.
a sweet, fair-haired child, with great,
blue, wondering eyes, may be one OF tne
BEST teachers. Christian IpteNsgeacer.
St. Landry democrat., 1890-06-21

In Sundays Picavu,ae we find an editor
ial ON s'The Influence of the Farmers in
Politics." in which it is said, ''The Farm
ers' Alliances of the South and West have
grown SO powerful that congressman nave
found it necessary, in order to preserve
their seats, to allow themselves to fall en-
tirely under the influence of the farmers
unions" And also that ''the farmers
power must be reckoned as an important
factor in contemporaneous politics. "
Right you are. And in this connecuon
we would remark that not only the State
Alliance, but every parish and local union
in the State have declared by formal reso-
luton against the lottery, and further, that
this important factor in contemporaneous
politics" will elk the flint" of the legisla-
organization, that not only has the good of
the State at heart, but possesses both the
power and the will to see that its wishes
are executed.-Neao Delta.
St. Landry democrat., 1890-06-21
Louisiana Grass.

was much interested in Geo. q. Ho-
cams letter on Louisiana Grass, or Pas
palum- Platycaule. Our ideas as to its
high merits are identical. 1t has been
growing on the beautiful prairies OF Cal
casieu ever since the days of the Acad1an
exile, SO think this might be properly
called it's natural home. We have several
other native grasses, but this is working
itself in to the exclusion of all others It's
progress being promoted by close grazing,
moving, and even simply breaking the
wild sod once will cause it to form gooa
turf in two years or less:
AS DR.. Vasey, of the Department, says,
it is too short for hay. yet with favora'
BILE season, we cut to Il tons per acre
and the very best of hay.
don't know how far North 1t will grow
with vigor, but in this latitude it is not
affected by an ordinary frost, and hence
makes for us a good winter feed and an
excellent summer grass whether the sea-
son be wet or dry.
If there arises demand for the seed, l
NAV save a small amount for the market
this fall.
This southwest part of Louisiana Is
rapidly growing in prosperity. 1t is
being settled by thrifty, energetic class
of farmers from the North, and most
of them are making money. Rice is
the principal crop, and the large acreage
of last year will be doubled this year.
Csas. III. Field, in Southern CuItsrdtor ana
DiCie Farmer.
St. Landry democrat., 1890-06-21
The oaicenolder and the Farmer.

A Missouri farmer with turn for sta
tistics furnished communication to his
country paper on the subject of official
salaries in which he states that an official
who receives $4,000 per year salary absorbs
the price of 26, 666 bushels of corD at 10
cents per bushel, or of $685. bushels OF
wheat at so cents per busnel, or 80. 3SSsS
bushels of oats at 10 cents, or the price of
fifty good farm horses. He also estimates
that a farm hand at $13 per month would
have to work the year round for quarter
of century to earn the same amount. and
adds that In 1856 .'67- '6S about 5000 to 5000
bushels of corn would have footed the
bill, or 5000 bushels of wheat.