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The Opelousas courier., 1890-07-26

"Gravely, and with true Castilian
decorum, was the baby monarch pre-
sented to the noble assemblage. and then
the Duchess Medina de las Torres took
him in her arms and bore him to his
mother, bidding her Kiss his Majesty,
the King!' Five days later there came
the christening, when the ceremonies
were of regal magnifcence, and all the
grandees focked to do honor to the baby
Bourbon. Indeed, this tiny King seems
TO have been born to ceremony, and IN
his four years Of life has assisted at many
public affairs.
but little Alfonso is not d strong
child, and the past whittier he has been so
ill that great fears were entertained for
his life. His high forehead, however,
bespeaks intelligence, and he is well
guarded and tended, while each summer
he goes with his mother and young
sisters to the beautiful palace Of La
Grania, among the mountassns where ne
can inhale the fragrant, sp{sy odors OF
the pine forests and lead a free country
life. Should he live he VIII remain in
the hands of nurses andg governesses
until he is seven, at which age he will be
turned over to a tutor and masters. to re-
ceive a thorough education, while at
sixteen he is tt be presented to the
Cortes, the Queen Regent will retire and
he become ruler in fact as well as IN
name.
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WHY FARMERS OUGHT TO KEEP BEES.

WHY FARMERS OUGHT TO KEEP BEES.
The fact that bees are pollen disttibu-
tors is sufficient reason whTa place
should be made for them on eAsery farm.
If kept for no other purpose tLdn the ben
eft they do to growing crops and fruit
bearing trees and plants by spreading the
pollen among the blooms, these indus
trious workers would be a valuable adj
junct. Testimony IS abundant and eoH-
tlusive as to the desirable effects of bees
upon grape-vines, fruit trees and fruit
bearing plants generally. Indeedi one
prominent apiarist goes so far as to insist
that a few hives of bees iudiciously
placed will revive a fruit farm from d
non paying to a profitable investment.
Field crops, scientists tell us and wide
awake farmers know from their own OBJ
servation, are greatly assisted by the
honey-bee's manipulations. Indeed their
influence is required for the perfect floral
fertilization of some of the cereal crops
and the meadow grasses. Where the
farmer is too busy to give his personal at
tention to the production of honey it is
suggested that he purchase a few hives
and turn these over to the care of his
wife and daughters. They will Gatte
pin-money accruing from the sale of the
honey a convenient and pleasant return
for the labor and time spent among the
bees. The outdoor occupation, too, will
prove a welcome and healthful change
from indoor drudgery, which they can
then afford to hire done.-Nsu York
Wor1.
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round Of labol

A notable class OF the women work
ers OF Paris arc those called merchants
of the four seasons. = Theya are provided
with a haudcart commonly filled with
vegetables or other products Of the land
and water peculiar II the different sea-
Sons, but the name is sufficiently elastic
to include those who deal the year round
In meat, oranges or other things which
the appellation would family suggest.
The privilege of following this arduous
occupation is only granted TO persons
Who are aged and decrepst, and who, If
the laws Of health were observed, really
should not be engaged in it. In the
morning they go at daylight to the cen
trail market to lay in their stock of fruit,
meat, vegetables, etc, and thence for
ward till dark, and sometimes until q
certain hour in the evening they may be
seer pushing their carts about the city,
haggIing with customers, retailing their
misf0rtunes with one another, or having
q row with q policeman, who threatens
10 take them IN il they do not forthwith
evacuate q particular locality which IS
highly desirable for their business, but
vhere thew are verv much n the wav.
me existence If 1 class II small dealers
81 this kind implies conflicting interests.
iIe saopkecpers object. They nav hi-a
rents, end Lcre are dealers at their
doors who un6erselI them and
who pay no rent. On the
other hind, tie merchants Of the
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that Keep those CONVENIENT eaa!ess sash
along the duays in ali the public places
bf Ire 6iSs; Half tha restaurants O
Paris are served by BONES in pretty caps,
who, no matter how a~ssiduousiy
they perform their duties, always
have m eye open for eligible
CONQUEST among the male patrons IN
Paris. .safses. t!hsueh they coma more or
less from all paris q The t5datEf'' are
principally supplied by Brittany and
Auvergne. It was for the nounees 0
nurses of Auvergne that the melody was
written which q.fterward became 50 cele-
orateiia the Boalangist campaign uaaer
he name of the '~'Pieapioas Of As
,sne. j Die wpo sees the naFsss xits
.he.r tender charges in the Champs Ely
gees or tie Luxe nbour5 jardin on a IN
spring day would hardly suspect what Is
! solemn fact, that the population OF
Fraaca is at a ssandstill:-san Ffaeessce
Chronicle.
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An Infant's Long journey Alone.

Little tgo-year-old Ringhill Larsen
holds the record as the youngest i'm
migrant ever landed alone in New York.
The pretty little tot, who was born in
1885 ! d Stockholm, has travelled from
there TO New York to meet her father,
who is employed in Newark, N. ]. She
had with her letters written in Swedish.
English and French, asking the ship S Off
GERS and railway officials to takethe little
q ii charge and see that she reached
Newark. The stewardess of the Aurania
during the passage across the Atlantic
saw that the wee traveller was well pro.
vided for, and at the Barge Office Matron
Strickland sent the little one safely on
her way to find her father in Newark
TSmes-Dsmocrat.
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- wo must make the shoat gro"
f,s4er and fatten it AZ u nominal outlay.
First, pigs should not be taken IRON 'I Sar
dam too Young; they should suckle ns.
i,nfil they are at least SIX weeks ola' ene
49,, n +he meantime to be fed a nearly
AZ "a Al aYlllIi .produeisg food. Before
H.. H. ' 1resaaa, the young pigs VIII
10y 70 feed in the trough with their
leath and. at SIX or seven weeks OF
'aos. thew are capable Of malnsannins q
asriying state independently OF ner. a.
sh;s stage Of their growth pigs are rse very
= ny 8 f : ss4T,,tsaa, and they assssd a hperal,
e-oa,3bin6 dIat. II Natural sup'-,'use
Eoa. - lii If their dam The males
1os Il0 he castrated before they afs
Eeaued, and nc setback in ehelr gro. W.
: then liable to result. Wnetner sae
;9ffe 81 4Asr be cold or warm, the pigs
ibould stiiwSafTs Ss furnished with ory,
comfortable quarters, rider shelter, ana
straw nest. Nothing goes fhfthT 20
ote healthy and vigorous grown =
tone and muscle thar a Tree run On 49, ~
,askEi4fe: Yet this fact is still ignored py
thousands st fazmess, especially IN 'ne
| slider States. 8.
pnt what we are most Interested 10 II
= nromote rarid growth On a cheaP
1ief There are very few dairy farmers
pbo utilize for their swine more tnan NAH
a +bs nutriment contained in the sour
milk. buttermilk and whey from 1neif
ss;re, This svill is generally fed in IT.
-earlar Quantities: it is often given TOO
.onr; it is poured into iaclean trougns
~ he ouzzled down with d certain
sgsrt,st Of filth; and it is not fed IN coz
.~oot;on With solid food. All OF these
conditions rob the cheap n Valuaol5
will from the dairy Of its reas ~ortn'ano
MOS will gain very slowly upon II.
Waste milk and whey cost no immedla1e
o,,tlsy; il they are not utilized as pig
! feed thew will be thrown away. DO nor
feed whey in excessive dssantltles; 90
not feed it at all when it IS very seuE.
Buttefnilk may be mixed with she wney
before fgeding. A clear diet OF out1ef-
rilk has a tendency to make the pigs
-costive and retard their growth. Keep
all Of this swill clean. Feed it in q sweet.
Wholesome trough, while fresh. 10
oots cold, throw it away rather tna' Oh
fer it to hogs.
In connection witt tie dairy waste
feed a small quantity of either corn meal as
ground barley or ground peas. AS 10 sh s
Iir1f. Of the meal ration, regulate THIS oy
the apparent thrift Of the animals; pa. .
very small quantity added to nutritious
swirl is enough. to make them develop as
fast as nature will allow. # they Begin
to fstten diminish the grain and give
them a more extensive run. Remember
that hogs are grazing animals, SO give
them bright hay in winter and she run OF
a clover yard in summer. By all means
keep them out of the mire; allow no hlth
holes to exist in their quarters. In sum.
mer furnish them with a troughful OF
clean water at least once a day. Starting
with spring pigs there is no reason why
farmers may not, at a low cost, make o.
them large shoats for fall fattening. A
mig which has had a natural, healthy
growth all summer is, without extra
feeding, partially fattened by fall
4rnerieon Aqricultmist.
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HARD WORKERS
ARE THE WOMEN OF THE GEGA1
FRENCH CITY.
Almost All A9anacs OF Employment
open to TheIn-Neyyspapers Chiefly
Sold by Women = Merchants
/. Of tho Fo-r seasonss EtG.

Women in France, says a Paris letter
to the San Francisco Chronicle, cannot
justly complain tina. an insufficient UNI
Der of the avenues of labor are not open
to them. The Government gives them
occupation il many ways-in the mint,
as telegraphists, in the p~ostof1cs, in IRE
telephone offices and in either ways too
numerous to mention. As physicians
they conquered their place long ago. The
bar is almost the only profession or trade
that they have not invaded. Every Paris
shop, almost without exception, has its
woman cashier. A cook starts a res
taurant and feigns supreme in the kitchen
while his wife superintends the service.
perhaps with the assistance of a matre
d'hotel. A shirtnaker opens a shop for
the sale of articles connected with his
trade and does the cutting, while his
! wife presides at the counter. The tailor
has usually his wife as cashier. French
women are editors of newspapers And re-
views, composites, saleswomen, nurses,
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porters, hewefs of wood and drawers Of
water, everything in fact they want to be
or are obliged to be, and their rights and
wrongs.ar in general, justly recognized
by the unwritten social code and the
legal tribunals of their country.
Newspapers are sold id Paris at kiosks
situated on the principal streets. boule-
Yards and public places by vendors, who
have a coigh of vantage at the door of a
wineshop or other entrance, and by news
men or news ONE in the street. Boys
rarely engage in the occupation. The
dress of the men SO engaged usually beg
gars description. The news women pre-
sent ordinarily a more decent appear
n The kiosks are small, picturesque
structures constructed by a company an
thorized by the city and leased at from
6 francs to ID or Is francs a month, ac-
cording to eligibility. 1t is not always
those in the most crowded localities that
pay best, and at none of them are for
tunes made in a day. 1t is not a life
that an American woman, even OF the
most neeessitous class, would not will
hngly follow-up in the morning at
dawn and on the bouievards, never id
bed before one o'clock in the morning.
Nest of the kiosks are kept by aged
women, who, summer and winter alike,
pass from twelve to eighteen hours a
day at their task. When the weather is
cold their sufferings must be great,
though they are warmly dressed and
have under their skirts d footstove of
the kind which our ancestors used in the
old New England churches when the
sermons were three hours long and the
temperature 10 degrees below zero. Al
midnight the more weary begin to nod,
and you have to shout to wake them.
At one O'Clock they have all folded their
tents and stolen away to take a few hours
of repose before recommending the dull
round of labor.
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they put in charge of their more musculai
handmaiden to be trundled about the
city. Bread is the staff of life in France
to an extent hardly conceivable in
America. A great part of the present
population makes its repasts the greater
part of the time on bread and wine or on
bread and cider. If bread il dear the
entire population Of PARIS gives a cry OF
agony The commerce in bread is neces-
sarily immense, and employ a host OF
women, who sell at the counter or are en-
gagged in the delivery. Men are never
seen about the establishment. Their
presence is required at the kneading
trough and oven, where they may bs
seen, in a costume exceedingly primitive.
through the basement window at night
doing their part in the serious labor of
filing what Victor Hugo calls lie ventre
de Paris. The bakeresses present few
salient points of character. They are
generally lseat and good humored,
whether at the counter or in the street,
and the same may be said of those in the
pastry shops, which constitute, usually,
n separate and entirely distinct branch Of
the trade. The bread deliverer has,
usually, her head covered with a handker.
chief, and when she leaves her basket,
carries a portion Of her burden, like
sticks of wood, suspended in front of
her in 4 cloth knotted at the shoulders.
It is the headgear Of the porteresses, that
is if they wear head covering at all, FORT
is not to see in Paris in win
ter a woman Drawing a glacial wind or d
tempest of snow with her head I'M
adorned except by its luxurIant tresses.
Women divide with men the work Of
street cleaning and collecting offal. It is
~oftenest d woman, and a woman advanced
in years. her gray, uncombed locks stragg-
Cling from under a handkerchief, that IS
seen yielding a broom made of twigs,
and washing the streets with q liberal
supply cf hydrant. water, for the hitnnlin
Is as thoroughly scrubbed as a house floor
every morning. It is women, women,
everywhere. One may travelfrom oae end
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The Chicago Herald narrates that
sn employee of the Louisville 8 Texas
Railroad at Hawesville, KY, dreamed that
u switch was misplaced. and that o fast
train was due. He awoke so deeply i'm
pressed with the vision that he went out
to the switch at once to see if all were
safe. He found it misplaced, as he had
dreamed. A fast tram was nearly due,
which. with the switch as he found it,
would have crashed into a train on the
tidetrack in which sixty men were asleep.
The incident is OF interest to ~hypaotists
and dream student perhaps, but it
throvsn no new light on the misplaced
switch question. Passengers, as . rule,
would still prefer to trust 70 the man
that il wide awake rather than to the man
that dreams. The Hawesville mans
dream was opportune and truthful this
time, to be sure, but he is just a. likely
some other time 10 dream that the switch
IS all right when really il is all wrong.
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PREVENTING SHUT OF OATS.

The important facts ANNOUNCED in the
byysu7 II Muc07ogg for 1899. by Pfofs.
Kellerman and gWifgiej ef Manhattan,
Kan, that smut of oats can be almost
wholly prevented by treating the seed,
before sowing, with hot water. Inc
method consists in subjecting the seed
for a feW minutes to the action of scaId-
mo water: and, while it is fodfd that
such treatment does not injure the VI
tality of the seed in the least, it readily
destroys the spores by means OF when
the fungus is p~ropogated. The journal
will, states the New York World, be sent
free on application to the Secretary OF
Agriculture, Washington, D. G.
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The following Is from

The following is from the Atlanta
Constitution: Are you a pretty womans
II you are, AMI this paragraph meets
your eye, you will be interested in know
ing chat the Baroness Klara voa der
Dacklsr, of Tiais, asks all chs beautiful
women Of tas world to forward their
photographs to her. A committee Of
artists will examine the ~likenesses, and
those approved will be placed in the
museum Of Moscow in an album to be en-
titled: Types of Female Beauty in the
Inst Years Of the Nineteenth Century
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But few persons who view q passe

But few persons who view q passenger
train as it goes laundering past know
that it represents a cash value of from
$4,000 to $l2O, 900. The ordinary ex-
press train represents from $4,000 to
100, 900. The engine and tender are
valued at $40, 500; the baggage car
$1,000; the postal car $4,000; the smoking
car $4,000; two ordinary passenger cars
51o, 900 each; three palace cars SIS, 900
each-total S83, 900. Many of the trains
which pull out from the depot in New
York city are worth $4,000.
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Illinois has the most thoroughly
equipped State normal university, proba-
bly,, in this country. It was established
February Is, 1887. The Legislature has
appropriated $3.50, 900 for buildings and
equipments.
During the year 1889 che foot-and-
mouth disease spread in nearly every
part of the German Empire. In July,
August and September alone 7s,5O1
cattle were attacked, So, $50 sheep, 759
goats, and 1917 swine.
The Rev. Joseph Cook, Of Boston, de-
liberately declares that in the city OF
New York there are not moro than 75,-
900 Protestant Christians.
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MERCHANT OF THE FOR sEAscEs.
Of . Paris street to another, and scarcely
zee a man il any of the shops, except
aose where groceries or meat are sold.
lit the markets II is the same there are
only men al the butchers stalls. At taa
fish markets. especially at that OF the
Central Market. which IS immense and
admirably supplied and kept. there is q
i man ! be seen. There IL ID douot
these fish yemen have, ike shake speares
sarew, "a tongae with 4 tang, but I'M
less there IS strls Fl Fiafainary ca4ss for
excitement eFsfsasng i calm g i
summers morning. II 4 only women
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Sc showing what mar be accomplished

as showing what may be accomplished
ii the way Of timer g.oving n s~ree!ess
regions. Ex-Governor y. Sterling Nor
ton, 81 Nebraska, father Of the Arbor
Day for economic tree planting out that
way. says that more THAN 600, 000 900
trees planted BIZ human hands are grow
ing ii that State. aThe time will yet
come says the Virginia New Enter
prize, apropos Of that fact, when the
mountains Of the region known as the
saFid zone' will be covered to tneir tops
with timber trees. We of the present
generation have mo much time to give To-
reforesting the mountains, but that work
will be done BIZ the generations that viii
follow u. Our work ii ID make 4 be-
ginning Of water storage. That is )
work which nov faces Us and demands
% be done. BIZ il will bs utilized the
arabic lands of The arid zone. When
thesa shall have been reclaimed the next
generation win see that the mountains do
not lie waste. The rich soil IN their
slopes will Be MAIDS 10 bear forests BE
pine. While the present generation will
he the reservoir builders, they will also
do what they can 70 preserve the forests
now existing, and beside will be sticking
in iii occasional tres. Naturally they
win start groves about the reservoirs and
along the lines Of canals and bitches
This will BE- beginning for the evlalaa
gsAsfakion.
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Srain's BABY King.

TIE youngest and smallest King in the
world is Alfonso XIII, of Spain, of
whom Golden Days presents the follow
ing picture to youthful readers "Merrily
the 10y bells announced his advent to the
good pebple Of Madrid and sent minis:
fers; fofelgh feptsseatati7esi lords and
ladies in waiting and a hundred other
magnifcos scurrying into their court
clothes and dashing off to the grand
ante-chamber in the palace, where they
waited with more or less patience and
impatienee until the doors were thrown
open and the Prime Minister appeared,
carefully carrying on 4 velvet cushion
covered with d lace veil; bis very littl5
Royal Hignness, King Alfonso XIII.
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A EEwsDEALER.

and their own orators, and though they
belong to the invalid corps, and the n
fuenza sadly decimated their ranks this
winter, they fight their battle manfully,
It is a hard life getting up at daylight IN
the morning and pushing a handcast
from morning to night In the muddy
streets in rain, sleeti wind and snow; and
It is only brave souls that can persevere
in it.
The cleansing of the foul linen OF
Paris is a highly characteristic handl.
craft which gives employment to some
thousands of women. old and young.
The washing is usually done in the i'm
uaerse boats that one sees anchored 70
both banks Of tao Seine from its en-.
trance into p2ris at Clarendon till it
quits its enyiroas at Asnieres. The boss
washerwoman has her place of business
in a small room on the ground floor in
no matter what street, where the clothing
is received to be sent to the washhouses
and where it is ironed aud prepared to
BE sent home. The ironer is a neatly
attired young woman, intelligent for her
station, ready with d repartse for the
young male patrons of the establishment
and highly skilled in knocking the but
tons off your linen, plunging the nose Of
the fatiron into your shirt-fronts and
leaving abrasidns in your collars and
cuffs. The ironer yields the heavy fat
iron from an early hour in the morning
till a late hour at night during the week.
On Sunday afternoon she goes to the
suburbs with her young man-an article
she is pretty sure to haye-perhaps to
ST. Cloud or suresnes, or even as far as
Bougival The damsel who collects the
linen and delivers it, carries her immense
burdens with exemplary patience. II the
laundry is in the suburbs the delivery is
effected by means of an old-fashioned
vehicle, driven by an elderly woman
the business woman of the establishment
who makes this her only occupation.
Some bakers are born to wagons,
| others achieve them, etc. If they do
not have them in any of the specified
ways they have a handcart which consists
| OF d baskes set on low wheels, which
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4 writer in the New York Sun calls
calls attention to the fact that $4,000
900 Of American money passes through
Eaglish banks annually for nss in the
Argentine Republic. Thesraasoa is that
there is not a single United States bank
in the great South American republic,
though there are large numbers Of United
States citizens in business there, chiefly
as agents for home houses.
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FARM AND ekRbES NOTES.

FARM AND GARDEN NOTES.
Take it easy ON hot days.
Thin out the pears early.
A steel rake for garden work.
Better grow berries than brambies'
The Lanashaws are popular as fowls.
Side storing is oft Of date in most To-
~,alities.
Tt is easv to run in old ruts, but II
costs too much.
If the soil is dry, cover seeds deeper
than when it is moist.
Never forget that pigs in clover enjoy
themselves and grow.
Good queens are an important factor
in successful Bookkeeping.
The general purpose fowl is unques-
tionably the most popular.
Beekeepers do not agree as to the de-
STABILITY of Carnolian bees.
Pigs like peas, and peas agree With
pigs. Grow a patch and try it.
Remember that the best time to cure
foul brood is during a honey-how.
The oldest of the distinctive American
breeds is the American Dominique.
The American breeds are priced be-
cause they are general-purpose fowls.
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THE FARM AND GARDEN
nuexs SHOULD aA4S ssADn:

DUcEs SHOULD HIVE ssA9Ea:
Tbs ainelk IS more thickly covered WIN
feathers than the hen Fna rs therefore re-
80 1,h;eo+ n the effects OF heat 81 +efT
m = 5ags Tbev are sometimes affected
annstsore and die in q few. minutes.
Ducks have but few diseases, hnt 5Aey
win tihFivs paly Under proper CONDITIONS
They must hE9s ssns Nind at shajc "a
summer to protect them 1k35 aa@ erect
ravs of the sun.-Nem Tor1 E9rGa
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The Philadeldhia Prsss says: "Ice has
not risen in Baltimore and to the South.
II has in Philadelphia and the North.
Coal is really at the foundation of cheap
ice. Before long it will be cheaper to
use coal to make ice than to use it in
carrying ice. Many people think this is
true now