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St. Landry democrat., 1891-07-25
Farmers i'm the Legislature.
EDITOR DEMOCRAT:

EDITOR DEMOCRAT:
The farmers in this State are now clanoring
for official position and specially charge that
heretofore they have been denied the right to
hold office, particularly III the Legislature.
The anti papers, with n view OF toadylnS to
that element, chime III with them ana polsler
up their claims and assertions.
The truth of the matter is, that farmers have
been of late years. at least tolerably we'll repre-
sci ted in the legislative halls OF this state, as
the records Will show. In 1854, there vas
elected to the house of Representatives of this
State ~ farmers, II lawyers. and the balance
Of the members consisted OF mechanics, labor
ers clerks, etc. Almost the same state of facts
existed il 1888, when there were 80 farmers and
!. only 10 lawyers in the House.
III this parish, in 1SS :, we sent to that body
M. ID. kavanagh, lawyer, Z. L. Young, coun-
try doctor engaged in farming, and MeSSrS. j.
C. Lyons, farmer, and Martin Carron. farmer
and mechanic In 1854, we eectt d j. c. Lyons,
Albert Guidry, Pacide Robin and Aurel Az
mand, all farmers; i'll 1858, Msssrs. Dupre.
Gudly and Martin, one lawyer, one doctor and
AS stated before the charge is unfounded, but
when made by farmer, it is quickly picked
up by the Anti press, who insist upon its being
this desired recognition
There is no question about the farmers being
entitled to representation. They ought to have
it, and usually have had it; but the trouble Isl
that the men whom they generally select for
such service are not fully qualified for the du-
ties OF the office. 1t requires certain amount
of intelligence, with some wholesome educa-
ton, to fill the position of Representative. The
idea that 0ny one will do for the Legislature is
the mistake our people have heretofore fire.
quently made. In 1892, when the time comes
to select your representatives, pick out the
ue1y best men you can find, regardless of their
business pursuits, and send them to represent
you, and you will probably have no cause to
regret it.
The qualifications necessary are honesty of
purpose in all things, courage OF ones conylc=
tons, and sufficient intelligence and education
to give effect to these qualities. If you find
three farmers of this parish, who can fill the
they can count upon the support of
LOCKER On.
St. Landry democrat., 1891-07-25
Chataignier.


In riding over this section of the parish, L
find that the corn has been badly scalded IN
many places. by the late flood, and shall nc
Obliged to put the crop at 70 per cent Oh S goo"
average one. The weather has been very pro
pitious since the storm, and all the crops are
doing well.
I wen last Saturday to attend the races at
my good friend Orther Fruge's, distance OF
ten miles I arrived at 10 o'clock, and L found
thaB a crowd of about 500 people had already
gathered on the ground. dispersed INTO groups
AS approached them found that they were
i'll lively conversation; some were discussing
pOlitics-in fact taking the cream OH the polltl-
cal milk BOWL others were discussing very
interesting matter for the moment, the respect
i've merits of a dun FLY belonging to Orthcr
Frug6, and bald faced bay tilly belonging to
John b. Manuel. These parties had money IN
their hands, to back and brace up thelr opll-
IONS They fought shy however, and the stakes
were quite small. l saw large group siah0-
ing around a temporary booth; on approachlnS
I saw that it had Il broad plank across the
'front.' and OH looking in / saw some very lnys-
FERROUS movements going on INSIDE. Wnat'
say$I, is this branch OF the Louisiana lou
terry? On closer inspection, which was very
difficult on account of the crowd, saw TWO
men Jerking up bottles in rapid succession,
green, blue, yellow, red-in fact bottles OF all
imaginable colors-and crying out to the crowd
of serried ranks on the outside lWho seemed
determined to storm the fortitications): " Gin,
Rye, Bourbon, Pixies, Beer" and other cpl
thets that did not understand. After Whlie
MI. Olb6 Manuel took me by the arm ana
scared, but was in the hands of man who
would have fought for me if need be; besides,
when we could crowd our way to the breast
works, my friend asked what L would take;
l did not understand at first, and he explained
to me, Take glass of solid comfort" " on
says l. that is it, what pleasant surprise.
Well confess weakness for my first love,
Magnolia whisky, through wheat straw"
After while the race horses were brought on
the track, and we all ranged up and down the
track, far enough off not TO scare the horses
and the word go was given; but the miserable
dun mare would not do it. She disputed the
premises and she would not argue the point
either. but she ran hther and thither-ln fact
in every direction except the right one. After
2 honrs' worry she submitted to the lnevltable
and came down the track like a scared deer,
and won the money for her friends.
/ called On my friend Ed. Dardeau yesterday
afternoon, and he took me to see his melon
patch, which is beautiful to behold. 1t is near
" acres in area, and the melons are lying
around in great abundance, some of them near
ly as large as nail kegs.
AGRICOIA
St. Landry democrat., 1891-07-25
Guileless Changers and the Politicians.
Ration Rouge Advocate.

Baton Rouge Advocate.
When the great an t.lOttery league meet
ing was held in Baton Rouge last summer,
the politicians of that persuasion Hooked
here in great numbers with anxiety in their
souls for an endorsement by the farmers who
were to participate in the proceedings. The
agricultural contigent was regarded by them
as a sort of "poor boy at Q trolic," and the
anxiety was simply to control the vote OF the
farmers and to have them declare their adj
hesIon TO the leaders aud plans of the anti
lottery league. The farmers were docile;
they duly performed all that was required OF
them, and the politicians went back home
with the pleasing consolation that they had
the Alliance vote in their breeches' pockets.
They had captured the guileless grangers!
Time passed. In visions of the future the
loud -mouthed leaders who had made the
welkin ring in legislative halls against the
iniguity of the lottery, parcelled out the Of
fees in Imagination among themselves. TAX
ing the biggest share of tue loaves and fishes
into their own camp, and leaving the scraps
for the farmer folks.
Time passed again. The Alliance had
waxed fat, and like Jeshurun, of the Scrip
ture, it was inclined to kick. 1t felt its oats.
There was no good reason why all the good
things should go to the politicians, and only
crumbs to the t0iers and workers of the
anti.lottery movement. The Alliance there
fore would take the governorship. The
shaded in the feld,' was too swift for the
slow leaders of the anti-lottery league, and
before the bewildered politicians knew the
lick it was done with, President Adams had
the bulge OH the whole kit and crew of them.
A bucolic anecdote is apropos to this ill.,
teresting situation among our anti-lottery
brethren. 1t is the very familiar anecdote
about the Arkansas man who had a yearling
calf which he had reserved to be work
steer" One day he concluded he would
give the calf little training. SO he got a
yoke aud put the calls neck ON one end, and
fastened his own neck in the other end, to
teach it the first lesson in obedience and
tractabiiity. But the calf comprehended the
situation. 1t felt its oats. With head erect,
arched spine and tail in air, it seampered off,
dragging its master along, and as the pair
rushed down the street the man, breathIess
aud exhausted, cried out: .'Confonnd our
fool souls! Won't somebody head us?"
An artist might picture the scene, present
ing its counterpart in the subernatorial sit
uation as it now exists in the anti-lottery
faction of Louisiana. The guileless granger,
to whose docle nature Hon. Murphy j. Eos
ter linked his political fortunes, is inclined TO
scatterlophisticate all over the equanimity of
the forest, and nothing can stop him The
alliance has got the Blu ge on the politicians,
and intends to keep it. 'Confound our fool
souls! Won't somebody head us?
St. Landry democrat., 1891-07-25
They are Anti for The Spoils.

A more remarkable combination of heter0-
geneous and conflicting elemeuts was never
seen than those temporarily allied III the rae
ton which under the name of Ants, is working
SO hard to prevent Louisiana from getting the
money needed for its schools, levees and charl-
table institutions. We have in it the Farmers
Alliance. with its twin issues, the sub,treasury
elemcntS-thc fanatics and plarisees-Who are
always distressed about their neighbors' morals
and want to make them good by Legislation;
and lastly, the politicians.
The latter are the most lnconSruohs IN llllS
motley crowd. But they are shouting anu
hulrahing the loudest, and trying to make me
world believe that they are the real SIMON pure
anti-lotteryitGs that they invented the move
mcnt and kept it up, and they go much further
i'll their pretended zeal than the Alliance men
Nichols they have tried hard and largely Sic
ceeaad in making the entire State government
anti-lottery. The Board OF Health was revolu-
tiOnIzcd for this purpose, although 1t IS difficult
to see where the lottery issue comes i'll there;
even the cvee boards We're assaulted in order
that Nichols might be able to say that his ad-
ministratiOn was entirely anti-lottery. And by
the of his power Of appointment and remoV-
al, carried on in a more ruthless way than any
Governor ever did hcfOre-fOr services to the
Democratic party counted nothing as com
pared with hypocriti al norallty-a new p0lltI-
cal organization or faction has been created.
The band of autilOttcry office holders who sur
round Nichols is nothing more than political
faction, whose only chance OF holding office FOR
the present is to dcnOuucc the lottery, ana
ULoea only hone of success in t},e futurc il by
orranizinS a new political movement and get
tiE~ the neonIc on the lottery ar some other
,,rnrs the r,ora1isrs and tIe fanatics TO fan in
hnhind and give them their votes, for they in
SET That they arc the antilnttrrv parry. that
th"v imcnrrnyTatrd the ti,rht and init their in
Hns,cn ana snnnort are necessary for succpss
and When the Farmers, Alliance suggests
+hn+ II !, Tho hrIl, nf thr ,nti-Intterv flrtion
nh has p'nst If the votes brlnnoin~ 70 if. fine
ii4tin ' 9an'r Of nnIitirians and office holders
nrn,nd no GoInrnor eynrrss much surprise
an1 ii,hirn9tinn ut tIIr farmers :" cheek" and
smggact INT some sIrh ninur office as Iieiltpu-
,."I ,,%t ha tlnn to an Alliance
a., inn NJ +hot 49, tho 99oIiticians and office
hnIdfers' arr entitled to ali the others, to the
nn,,trnL If +he c,unniU,, and the offices In
St. Landry democrat., 1891-07-25
Living for Old Age.

The gradual lengtheniug of human life is
among the achievements OF modern civilization.
1t suggests that a vigorous old age may be i'll Il
considerable degree dependent upon personal
conduct and DR.. Il. ". Richardson advises that
parents give their children a start i'll the most
favorable conditions by protecting them from
mental shocks and unnecessary grlets, and
making their surroundings as happy as posi-
bic. The persons themselves, when older,
should avoid grief, and eschew hate, jealousy,
unchastity and intemperance, all OF which hast
eli the coming OF old age. When old age has
really begun, its progress may be reduced to q
minimum by securing the least friction and
waste. Rules for this include subsistence on a
moderate quantity of light but nutritious food,
varying according TO the season; dressing
warmly, but lightly. to preserve an even tenn,
perature; keeping the body in fair exercise and
the mind active and cheerful; maintaining all
interest in the worlds affairs, and taking "a
reasonable share in its laDOrs and pleasures !;
securing plenty of sleep at proper hours in a
comfortable room; and avoiding passion, ex-
element and luxury. Thoughtful living in
this way may enable a weak man to Outlive
his robust but less wise neiah hOr.
St. Landry democrat., 1891-07-25

n. O. Times-Democrat Readers of
The TimesDemocrat will not fail to
observe the extraordinary coincidence
in the fact that it was our junior United
States Senator, E. d. White, the same
E. d. White who last year recklesslg
Wanted a superabundance of money in
the treasury for all State purposes,
who on Wednesday last had to appear
before the Mississippi River Commits
sion in New York in mendicant atti-
tude, begging Of the commission to al
low several millions of dollars to be
spent on Louisiana's levees this year,
to save us from inundation in the
spring! Mr.. White, of all men, to ap-
pear in this suppliant guise-he who
had on day in the summer of last year
boldly and contemptuously secuted the
bare idea Of our needing assistance in
building our levees! The two appear
ances of Senator White make as ex-
quisite an illustration OF what is known
to history under the name Of 1.-THE
irony of fate" as is on record.
Senator White and, his brother dep
uties wanted millions from the Missis-
sippi River Commission for Louisiana
levees alone ; and he and they received
a promise Of $347, 900 to divide between
the three States of Louisiana, Arkansas
and Mississippi, or 1866 for each
State
What are Senator White and his Anti
friends going to do for the money which
they admit is needed for our levees,
and which they tacitly now confess that
our treasury cannot supply? They
have incurred responsibility which
not everybody would like to shoulder.
St. Landry democrat., 1891-07-25
Louisiana's Dilemma.
O. City Item, July IS.

n o. City Item, July IS.
The people of this State are called
upon to confront a very serious state
of affairs.
The action Of the Mississippi River
Commission renders the hope of suffi-
cient provision for our levees from that
source as delusive as have proved those
ample funds boasted by "anti ora
tors as at the command of the State.
Even were the next Congress at all
likely to prove politically harmonious,
and literally disposed in the way of APP
propriating funds for constructing
these lowlaud bulwarks, there will be
no money at their command to do it
with.
What, then, is left to our endangered
people? What hope does the future
hold out9 Is there any possible escape
from the alternative of more and more
taxation, or the adoption OF the lottery
revenue amendment, which can be
made the basis of a loan that would
furnish at once all the funds needed
to complete a satisfactory levee sys-
TEN
1t is time for sober consideration of
the facts.
St. Landry democrat., 1891-07-25
Young Journalists.

The Donaldsonville Chief of the 18th
contains the following:
The Pelican Amateur Journalists
Association held it's first annual con-
vention in New Orleans on the 10th
inst, at No 800 Magazine street.
The delegates present were Misses
Cora and Stella Truman, OF Opelousas D.;
Miss Ella and Master Donnaud Bent
ley, of Donaldsonville Miss Laura
Lowden, of New Orleans; Mr.. S. l.:
White, of Shreveport, and Arthur and
James McCuue, G.. A. French, j.. I:
Nixon, Thos. o. Harris and j. Kendall
of New Orleans Eight or nine anna
teur newspapers were represented.
A constitution was adopted, and after
the usual formative steps had been pur-
sued, an election Of officers for the
three ensuing months was held, re-
sulting as follows: President, Thos. o..
Harris of New Orleans vice president,
Miss Ella Bentley of Donaldsonvllle !;
secretary, Miss Stella Truman of Ope-
lousas, and official editor, j. T. Nixon
of New Orleans.
Their next convention will be held at
Opelousas in October next, subject to
the call of President Harris.
St. Landry democrat., 1891-07-25
Bayou Chicot,

July %, 1881.
Figs, water melons, grapes and peaches ar. are
now plentiful i'll our ncighbOrhood ana the
kids are all happy. ,o,,,,,o4
Crops are growing nicely and are somewhat
recovered from the storm which visited us some
time back. o,.., e,i,+
daughters, left on Sunday to spend q week or
two on Elm Bayou with her sister, Mrs, A. e.
CalcOte. , c
NV best girl" has invited me to spend sun
day with her in eating water melons. III De
there and do ample justice to the dtllclous
fruit. our newly welded bachelor who has
been on the sick list for several weeks is IN
proving. :,. -, .
Capt. Sam Haas left Sunday morning on Il
brief business trip to New Orleans.
At meeting of the II. l.. Erlch +. l.. Is. o.
c., held Sunday evening at Pine Prarle, MI.
H. l.. Erich was unanimously elected CaptSa1ln
of the Club with VIM. Clark Assistant. MI.
Clark who has been Captain for some time,
resigned his position to take more active part
in the field. The Prairie boys play the BarlilSe
kids " OF Chcot on the oath inst, for a purse
of 81. so and in the near future Will again play
our friends the EXcelsiOrs.
Respectfully, NHiCoI'
St. Landry democrat., 1891-07-25
The War B alIOoll.

The latest type of portable captive balloon
weighs, with gas generator and winding drum,
not more than SIX or seven tons, and has a ca
pacity varying from 1900 to 2l,000 cubic feet.
The gas-hy drogen-s produced by the deconl.
position OF water, at the rate OF $3.50 to 1880
cubic feet Per hour. The works near Paris, at
which these equipments are turned out, will
soon complete the largest air ship ever con
structed. The immense balloon of the Paris ex-
position had capacity of 1o5, 900 cubic feet and
carried twelve persons, but the capacity of the
new one will be over 100000 cubic feet, and it
will be able to carry $50 passengers in a car
thirty-tive feet i'll diameter. A still more extra
ordinary product OF these works will be an
"aerial torpedo boat" which has been. ordered
by the Russian government for secret expert
ment. This is to be elongated balloon, 40
feet long, with fifty horse power engine, and
is to be driven twenty-tiv miles an hour by
fan, tlirty-six feet i'll diameter,
St. Landry democrat., 1891-07-25

Alexandria Times: The lottery question is
not party question, it is a matter tor the peo-
pie to decide for themselves outside of politics,
and they will not allow any outside issues to
warp their Judgment on the advantage or de-
triment it will bring to the state. The antis
genuity to prevent the question from being
submitted to the people, and scornfully rejected
all propositions previously made regarding
submitting the question to primary. Now,
after exhausting all their resources and when
the action OF the Legislature is sustained by
the decision OF the Supreme Court, aud the
question Is bound, under the law, to be submit
ted to a vote of all entitled to the right of suf
frage in the State, they have the effrontery to
say that the .lottery's country press depre-
cratic party" This is consistency with a Ven.
seanCe, but the little game is too transparent
be successful. and win not deceive the in
siIigent Democratic voters of the State who
I never consent that any division I'M their
g can be made by outside issues dragged in
heming politicians
St. Landry democrat., 1891-07-25

The recent census in Great Britain showed
a very substantial increase IN the population
OF the large cities and towns, the population
OF some having nearly doubled since the pre-
ceding census. The German cities show as
great increase. The growth OF the German
capital, Berlin, has been particularly conspic-
uous; the population having increased nearly
three hundred thousand in the five years in
tervening between the census OF 1885 and that
taken in December, 1890. The growth of Berlin
has been phenomenal during the whole of the
past hundred years. In 1890, on the accession
on Frederick III, the population OF Berlin was
10000. In 1880 the total had increased to 147,-
600, in 1910 it was $4,000 and in 1861 when Viii
liam assembled the throne it was $4,000. Ten
years after the Franco German war, the pop
nlatlon OF Berlin was 122 900 and the last cen
sus OF year ago put the total at 1,575,000
According to these figures, for which we are
indebted to the Engineering Record, Berlin is
the third largest city in Europe, only London
and Paris possessing larger populations. On
the 2lst of last December the total number of
inhabitants of Vienna was s0O.4 400. In 1880 it
was not more than 726,105. London, according
to the census taken short time ago. counted
100000 inhabitants; Paris now has 2, 400, 900,
and st. Petersburg nearly 1,00O, 900 inhabitants.
The following is the order of the capitals of
Europe in population London, Paris, Berlin,
st. Petersburg, Vienna, Madrid, Rome Pro
portionately Berlin has grown most rapidly
N. o. Picayune.
St. Landry democrat., 1891-07-25

n. 0. States: The decision of Mrs.
Davis has set at rest the question of
the final resting place of the President
OF the Confederacy, and now it is the
duty of the Southern people to cheer
fully acquiesce in the decision and go
to work and raise the money with
which to build the monument to the
illustrious chieftain. We congratulate
the city of Richmond that it will have
the honor of taking care of the mortal
body OF Jefferson Davis, and we are
quite sure that the monument which
will be erected on the soil of Virginia
will command the admiration of gener-
atiOns vet unborn,
St. Landry democrat., 1891-07-25

Alexandria Times: The Webster Signal adj
institutions, etc, but wants " Louisianans to
feel that this is their government, that the run
ming of it is not farmed out to den 0. disrepu-
table gamblers, lnauSurated i'll the days of our
political thralldon." Now will that Journal
kindly specify when, since the redemption of
the State from Radical rule, its government has
not been run by the Democracy of it's own peo-
pes choosing, and in what respect it is not
their own government If it cannot do this,
upon what grounds does it base its opinion
that the lottery can hope, or desire to control
the politics" OF the State any more in the flu
ture than in the present.
St. Landry democrat., 1891-07-25
STATE OF LOUISIANA, I
PARISH OF ST I.ANDRy

BE 1t known to all whom it may concern, that
!, John n. Ogden, District Attorney of the 18th
Judicial District of Louisiana, have examined
the foregoing amended articles OF the Charter
or the st. Landry Homestead lind Loan Asso-
citation and am of the opinion that the pur-
poses and objects are legal and that none of
the provisions therein obtained are contrary
to law. JOHN N OGDEN.
Dist. Atty. 18th Jud. Dist, La.
Opelousas July 10th, 1891.
July, Is, 1891.
St. Landry democrat., 1891-07-25
Waserlnel0ns shipped to Europe.

Georgia is certainly IN it as far as the melon
business goes, says Macon correspondent of
the Atlanta Constitution. She does not stop at
circulating her products of this luscious fruit
all over the United States, but she is expert
menting in sending melons to Europe.
The first melons shipped across the Atlantic
were shipped by Mr. W. 3. Sparks, of Macon,
and the Bedingiield Bros the shipment con-
sisting of two crates Of the finest kOlb gem
thence to Naylor, Wilson Il Co., Liverpool,
Eng, by steamer.
Mr.. Daniel H. Thompson, of Houston county,
is the proud raiser of these fine melons which
will go SO far away and will so well advertise
Georgia. The average weight of the melons
sent is forty pounds, but one unusually fine one,
forty seven pounds III weight, will he sent to
the royal purveyor for the table of the queen,
with the compliments of Bedingtield Bros. and
the Suwanee River Route This is absolutely
the first shipment OF melons to Europe directly
from the melon patches of the glorious south,
and the success OF the enterprise will be noted
with great interest
The northern cities OF Europe sometimes re-
ceive melons from Spain, but they are all very
small and would be considered no melons at all
i'll America. This is great enterprise, because
III London, Liverpool and Paris should receive
the fine, large southern melons which Geor-
gians are accustomed to, the Spanish melons
would not stand any show at all beside them,
not only because they are small and not very
sweet, but also because it is impossible for the
count OF the climate and the nature of the soil.
1t is hoped that this experimental shipment
will cause demand for Georgia melons in
Europe, and if it does the Europeans will re-
ceive the fruit early in June and until late
in August.