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The Louisiana Democrat., 1891-03-11
FRUlT-EATiNG ANIMALS.
Some Birds and Beasts That Have Deli.
cate Palates.

cate Palates.
Comment has lately been made about
mice eating oranges, of horses also and
dogs eating the same. 1t lis not general
ly known to what extent animals are
fruit eaters.
The fig is the favorite fruit among
animals, and horses, cows, hogs, sheep
and goats will eat this fruit as readily
as man. The elephant considers it a
dainty, while all the fowls greedily
devour figs. The apple ranks high in
favor, and horses, cows, sheep, goats,
hogs and many Of the wild animals eat
apples with avidity. The elephant and
deer are fond of them, while others be-
come accustomed to them after trial
or two. All the domestic fowls and
many of the wild birds are fond of
apples.
The cherry is a delicacy much sought
after by the whole feathered tribe. The
ostrich will consume half a dozen kinds
of fruit.
Peaches are not IA favorite except
with a few animals, though rabbits
fancy them. 1t is well known that rab-
bits, rats and squirrels all eat apples.
The Eskimo dogs will eat almost
any of the dried fruits. The sour OF
acid fruits, as the orange, lemon, lime,
shaddock, etc., as well as the soul
plums and the bitter olives are rarely
eaten. Nothing, we think, is so bitter
as an olive freshly pickeled, yet after
they turn purple or black hogs soor
learn to devour them.
The sweet and luscious grapes art
eaten with great relish by horses, cows
and sheep. Deer are fond of grapes
and often do much damage in Californi;
vineyards. Hogs will fatten upor
grapes, rabbits love them, and numbe
of the wild animals, as the elephan
and camel, will eat them. The came
will eat figs with all the relish that I
person will.-Oroville Cali Register
The Louisiana Democrat., 1891-03-11
CALIFORNIA; BIG TREES.
The Effect of the Magnificent Monsters
on the Beholder.


on the Beholder.
The sequoias dominate among splen
did rivals only by magnitude that has
no comparison in the world. l think
no one can anticipate the effect that
one of these monarchs will have upon
him. He has read that coach and six
can drive through one of the trees that
is standing: that another is thirty
three feet in diameter, and that its vast
stem, $50 feet high, is crowned with a
mass of foliage that seems to brush
against the sky He might be prepared
for a tower one hundred feet in circum-
ference, and even four hundred feet high,
standing upon level plain. But this
living growth is quite another affair.
Each tree is an individual. and has a
personal character. No man can
stand in the presence of one OF
these giants withouta a new sense of the
age of the world and the insignificant
span of one human life; but he is also
overpowered by sense of gigantic per-
sonality. 1t does not relieve him to
think of this as the Methuselah of trees,
Or to call it by the name of some great
poet or captain. The awe the tree in
spires is of itself. AS one lies and looks
up at the enormous bulk, it seems not
so much the bulk, so lightly is it car
ried, as the spirit of the tree, the elias
tic vigor, the patience, the endurance of
storm and change, the confident might,
and the soaring almost contemptuous
pride; that overwhelm the puny specta-
ure himself, his littleness, his brevity
of existence, with this growth out
of the earth, that he is more per-
sonally impressed by it than he
might be by the mere va
ration in the contour of the globe
which is called mountain. The imag-
ination makes plausible effort to COM
prehend it, and is foiled. No, clearly it
is not mere size that impresses one; ii
is the dignity, the character in the tree,
the authority and power of antiquity.
Side by side Of these venerable forms
are young sequoias, great trees them.
selves that have only just begun Their
millennial career-trees that will, il
spared, perpetuate to remote ages this
race of giants and in two to four thous
and years from now take the place o.
their great grandfathers, who are sink
ing under the weight of years, and ont
by one measuring their length on th'
earth.-Charles Dudley Warner, in Har
per's Magazine.
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CLOCK.

the marks on the wall are discovered
He then changes the keys from one
door to another, and takes quantities OF
vegetables into the library and slows
them away behind the rows of books,
where they will probably be discovered
after they have sprouted, and sent their
tender emerald shoots over the books
to gain the benson of breath OF fresh
air and a garland of dancing sunshine.
And so it is the small boy of tender
years kills time and the happiness of the
household. And SO he will continue to
do, even though his parents cobweb and
gridiron him with switch marks until
he is striped like zebra and checked
like an English ulster The switch Will
| not cause him to see the folly of pur-
loining the beans for his bean-shooter
instead of enjoying them honestly at
! the table, and still remaining whole IN
the matter of anatomy. And even after
he has been whipped for mailing his
fathers high hat to the wall he is not
half so sad at heart as at the doleful
moment when he realizes that he has
fine putty-blower but not bit OF putty
-R. X, Munkittrick, in Once Week
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PITH AND POINT.

How was Lanford's book
sold? By subscriptions Secundus-
mo, auction. Kate Fields Washing
ton.
-Hilow-.sN look here, Bloc
bumper, wouldn't be fool if 1 were
you" Bloobumper--''No, if you were
I, you wouldn't be q fool. Epoch.
After one girl has given you the
sack and another the mitten, it is time
to give up trying to gain your suit on
the installment plan. Halifax Critic.
-Father-''If you expect to succeed
in public life, my son, you must have
push" Son-'sI've got pull, dad, and
that's better than push. Boston Tran
script.
An Allegation That woman mar
ried money" "Then there's bound to
be separation "Why?' "Woman
and money do not stick to each other"
IN. Y. Sun.
He "Wasn't in It."-Sanso Have
you been playing poker for money!"
Rodd (disconsolately) )-'No; but the
fellows I've been playing with have. -
N. Y. Herald.
You're in hurry" said the inn
pertinent conductor. ''No; you're
wrong" retorted the sarcastic passen-
ger. s'Quite the reverse. I'm in a
horse-car. ar."-Harper's Bazar
--He-"One kiss is worth hundred
4 letters" She-"Oh, you're very senti-
mental" He--"Oh, no. The. kiss, you
know, can't be introduced in breach
of-promise suit. American Stationer.
I'm Doubt. -Harduppe Miss Laura,
have you considered my note-my letter
-er-my proposal?" Miss Laura-'1
really do not know how to consider it
whether as proposal or challenge to
a fasting match. "-I indianapolis Jour
nal.
! She's His Annie.- -Elaine-"Wha
can you see to admire in that young
jackanapes, Muchcash? He is a mer'
money-bag, yet you dote upon him as i
he were a luxury" Imogene-"Well
he is one, dear. He is my canvas-bacl
duck" Chicago Times.
Two Households.-Mrs. Heartsor'
Eyes, it just keeps me on pins ant
needles to think my dear boy belong
to football club. I'm so afraid some
thing will happen. Does yours?" Mrs
Cheery-"Indeed, he doesn't. Hewant
ed to join one, but l just packed him OF
to France, where they don't have an.
thing worse than dueling clubs. IN
Y. Weekly.
Western Populations. Strange
lin Western city)-''I understood 20
claim 100, 900 population for this town?
Directory Man-'Yes, sir. We have j
the new directory, just being finished
10000 names. That multiplied by five
the average size of family, make
100, 900. See?" Messenger Boy
! "Please, sir, Mr. Hardtype wants
! know how many copies of that director
you want printed?" Directory Ma
(after some tiguring)-"Um! / gue'
fifteen will be enough. Good News.
The Louisiana Democrat., 1891-03-11
VOL. XLVI.-NO. II.

against fraud, ar.a compeis the closing
of l:aucr saloons on election day.
The bill also admits the military and
police to the franchise. This is the
most sweepingly radical measure that
has ever yet been proposed, but it is like
ly that it will go through. The Govern
ment have not yet announced specially
their financial proposals, but they have
limited at sweeping reductions to the
tariff and the imposing of taxes on land
values and on property to supply the
loss on customs revenue. The single
tax men welcome the proposition but
will fight the property tax.
The single tax men throughout Aus
tralia seem to be in the highest spirits.
Although the great strikes have result
ed in much loss, they have done a great
deal to call the public attention to the
social problem. The Government OF
New South Wales has appointed
Royal Commission to take evidence and
report upon the cause of the conflict be-
tween labor and capital, and the best
means of preventing labor disputes,
Several single tax men. have been
named on this commission, Mr.. Frank
Cotton being of the number. Rev..
DIR. Roseby. OF Sydney. Chairman OF
Congregational Union, the leading man
of the Congregational clergy OF New
South Wales, has delivered an address
upon. the relations of Christianity to the
social question which has attracted
much attention He declares that it is
hopeless to attempt to elevate men SO
long as they are placed in conditions
where their integrity is impossible.
Hence the most urgent treform is the adj
iustment of the land laws on the basis
; Of justice to all.
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,ealher :. duster is little too much for
a; Then he beats off the charred
tssa'aers, and the cat appears. The cat
ves not come too near, for only the
seaef day he lathered her face with his
saehefs lathering brush, and got SO
,aucn soap in her eyes that she madly
: ssuuggled from his hold before he could
sin the operation of shaving her with
e SAFETY razor. He finally gets the
poor quadrnfed into the buffers pan
and, having closed both the kitchen
n aaa dinlng-room door, wonders how a
S.acK cat will look whitened with flour.
~ he shrusts the feather duster into
@e Hour, and, stirring it around for
81 aniie' hauls it ont and begins banging
sae cat with it at long range. About as
aseas the cat can shake the flour off, the
os can put it on If it were self-rais-
,ass Hour it would be all the cats nine
~. ss are worth to venture out in the
,, i As rough as it is on the cat, it is
h. saer on the flour, or rather on the
ma a.ssso,wlnner of the family, who will
mssy Ssoseaeiy 60 right on eating biscuits
s,. saue Of that pulverized wheat withou,
'Isceing the mill it has been put
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a LITTLE KING.

,,otber will quit her worl, to go,
ron II she's kneading dough,
Scr she can NOT work you know,
When the baby cries.
v,o,her will lay his paper down
,nd at the trouble never frown,
ent gently trot the boy to town,
When the baby cries.
e;ster will leave her fancy work,
and tending baby never Shirk,
nr,t on her face smile will luri,
aIhen the baDy cries.
srotaer viii leave all of the boys,
And ba, and ball and other toys,
Ami tount IL one of his greatest joys,
When the baby cries.
And so he rules US one ana all,
kipy--whose scepter Is his call.
Rpforo his throne he bids US fall,
And so the baby cries,
M course there's some who sullt and pOut
or fret and scoId as if the gout
From good temper had put them out,
When the baby cries.
But this add> fuel to the fire,
And puts ,ou deeper in the mire,
70 stor his music he'll not hire,
When he w9nts to cry.
And so tbs much the better plan,
To simply tio the best you can.
And thiIk he soon will be man,
And may be he won't cry.
And II his music does not cease,
But browns your voice with loud increase
Just kindly say-more, If you please,
And let the baby cry.
--Luelia NJ. Stutzman, In Western Rural.
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but alone in the house with no one to
talk to, she will practice on the piano,
or work the ends of her fingers off en-
broidering impossible animals and
birds on tidy.
But with small boy it is entirely
different. He can only pass the time
pleasantly by engaging in series of
pursuits that are as full of fun to him
as they are totally devoid of it to his
parents A boy at such a tender age
has very queer appreciation of what
constitutes fun; but if he can enjoy
what to him is the quintessenoe of fun,
what difference does it make to him if
older people are pleased to regard it in
different light?
tis difficult to understand the men,
tal process by which the small boy con-
ceives 1t to be bloomingly pleasant and
mirth-provolsing to mix a lot of lath
nails keys and buttons in his fathers
smoking tobacco. Yet the small boy
does it, even when he knows possible
whipping is involved. A grown person
would never think of indulging in such
freak when the comfort of his an.
atomy was involved-an adult would
not do it unless the risk carried with il
pretty good chance of realizing a
monetary reward.
Having mixed the nails, buttons anG
Keys with the tobacco, about as thor.
0ughly as painter would mix paint
hereturns the box to it's proper place
and turns his attention to something
else.
Noticing the feather duster on tn,
liable, he begins sweeping the open fire
place with it; but as he doesn't seem t.
De doing any damage, it soon ceases t.
Be enjoyable; so he dips the duster il
the sink, and, having got it thorough,
saturated, begins swabbing it aroun'
on top OF the hot stove, just to hear j
azsle, This affords him rare sport, an
causes his features to break into serie
"pieasant smiles, and he continues t
smile until the aroma of the consumin
The Louisiana Democrat., 1891-03-11
Comforts of Travel.

Professional Guide Ito palace-car por-
terri have an English lord in charge,
and ] want him to get good impress
sion of the comforts of travel in this
country. Here's five dollars.
Porter-Yes, sah- Do you want me
to glib him extra attention, sab!
Guide-Great Scott, no! / want you
to keep away from HIM. IN. Y. Weekly.
The Louisiana Democrat., 1891-03-11
In the Dark.

Woodby Swell-Say, Fwed, ! was
calling on my best girl last night, and
at half after ten her pa came into the
parlor and turned off the gas. What do.
You suppose the old beggar mean t?
Fred ldun-Why. light out, of course
Judge.
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A FALSE ALARM.

How Woman's wit Prevented Grea.
Panic.
1t was eleven o'clock at night, and !
was going to my room in a Florida
hotel, when woman came out OF he1
room, fully dressed, and asked:
''Do you belong to the hotel?"
''No, ma'am."
"Are there many people here to.
night?''
SIT is crowded"
"And il won't do to start panic.
Let me say quietly to you that the hotel
is on fire. have knownit it for ten min
utes, but did not want to create an ex-
element"
.sAre you sure, ma'am?" asked.
"Entirely sure, sir. smelled the
smoke while in bed. You go quietly
down and tell the clerk, and will
knock on all the doors on this foor.''
She was wonderfully cool and collect
ed, and never thought of doubling her
assertion. Going down by the stair
way, I beckoned the clerk aside and told
him of the fire. He went to the eleva-
tor with me and ascended to the third
floor, where we found about twenty
half-dressed people in the hall. The
woman who had given me orders came
up and said:
"Come this way. I don't think the
fire has much of start yet
We followed her to her room and be
gan to sniff and snuff. There was GER
tainly strong odor Of something burn
ing, but the clerk had taken only one
sniff when he went out and raped OF
/ the next door.
'"Hello!'' called a voice.
"Are you smoking?"
eyes,
Smoking Florida tobacco?"
eyes; what of it?''
| Nothing. Ma'am, you can go bacl
to bed. Much obliged to you for your sa
gacity and wit, but both were a little to
keen this time. The stingy old fello,
in that room is smoking swamp tobacco
and 1t always smells like fire eatin
it's way under pine floor. Detroit Ere
Press.
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Is Tax On Ground-Rent Paid BY the
Tenant2

fun of those opponents of the single tax
who insist that it will be distributed
just like tariff tax, and, therefore that
it has no advantage over any indirect
taxes. If it were in the least likely
that the chief opponents of the tax re-
form would believe this theory, we
would keep silence on the subject, be-
cause nine-tenths of all the opposition
would be removed, and the single tax
would at least be adopted in several
States.
But landlords are not SO simple
minded rs to be deceived by any such
plan as this. They know very well
that they now charge all the rent for
land which they could possibly get, tax
or no tax Not one of them can be per-
suaded that tax on ground-rents can
ever he shifted upon tenants. So we
must meet this idea with facts and
figures in order to convince the tenant
majority Of the Ricardian doctrine that
a tax on ground-rents will always be
paid by landlords alone.
Suppose the ground-rento of the United
States to be 9OO,0Oo,O0o. Suppose the
single tax, unlimited, to be adopted;
and this is the particular form Of tax
/ which Mr.. Edward Atkinson and the
/ other advocates of this distribution the
| cry are considering. Something over
| $500. .000. 900 would then be collected.
On Mr.. Atkinson's theory, the landlords
would add this to their rents, and the
tenants would add it to the prices OF
goods. Very well; then rents would be
raised to 81, 700, 600, 900. Instantly the
taxes would be raised to about 81 600.
100000. Rents are then put up to $3,
$1,000, 600. But the taxes are just a.
quickly put up to ,2oo,Ooo,ooo. Rents
are again raised to rs. 500, 100000. Take!
instantly swallow up $6, 400, ,00O, 900
Rents are now raised to $4,000, 900. 900
But taxes as swiftly follow, absorbing
ST., 900, 900, 600. The all-powerful land
lords once more raise rent to $4,000,
600, 900. But, as this is more than twic
as much as the whole productive powe
of the whole United States, how ar
the landlords going to get it? And
they could get. how can they keep it?
There is no use in going any further
although the figures might be carrie
into infinite numbers. The idea ths
landlords can add to their ground-rent
taxes on ground-rents, SO long as tn
people are determined to take eve
half the ground-rents in taxes, is tran
: parently absurd. But the idea tn;
they can add any taxes at all to groun'
;, rents, when they are already. chargir
5 all the rent which they can possibly o
tain. is equally absurd, though not pc
haps SO transparent. The America
landlord very properly charges now 9
: the rent for land which he can possib
y get. He can get no more, il compell'
: : to pay quarter or half OF the who
= of his rent in taxation, for the pla
: reason that he gets now all which
= possibly can. and no man can get mo
!, than he can get Thomas G. Shearma
~ in the Standard.
The Louisiana Democrat., 1891-03-11

What Decided Her.-Maud-"Which
have yoa elected to study-French or
German?' hel-''French. Maud
"Do you like French better than you
do German?" Ethel-"No, but like
the French professor better. ."-Yankce
Blade.
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The Model Husband.

Brown-Here's another big bill from
Ships, the tailor. declare, I'm per-
feet bonanza to the man who makes my
clothes!
Mrs. Brown-That's more than you
are to the woman who mends them
Munsey's Weekly.
The Louisiana Democrat., 1891-03-11
INDIANS AND MOUNTAIN SHEEP

How Superstitious Red Men Spoiled
Mans Big Hunt In Washington.
s0The wilds Of Northern Washington
are the greatest big game country left
in the United States," said j. P. NJ.
Richards, of New York. SIN October
l landed in Spokane Falls, at which
place secured an entire outfit for a
weeks hunt up there, with the excep-
ton of few pet rifles and fishing rods
that have had for many years. After
hiring my guide we left on the Spokane
& Northern railroad, and at Colville, a
little mining town not far from the
British Columbia line, hired three In
dians and twelve ponies, and made my
start from there. 1t is best to hire In
dians and ponies together. If you buy
your horses outright they are sure
| to go lame, and some OF them
will get lost; but when the Indian is
the owner every thing goes smoothly
and there is no worry. paid each In
dian one dollar a day and fifty cents a
| head for the ponies. Crossing the Co
lumbia river at Marcus, we went up to
the falls of Kettle river, and from there
to Osooyoos lake From that point we
struck off into the Methow range OF
mountains. Black-tail deer and elk had
been very plentiful all along our route,
but as we entered the Methows we found
game of all kinds. Black bear, deer,
elk. carriboo mountain goats and big
horn sheep were seen every day. My
first mountain goat brought about a
panic in camp that came near proving
most unpleasant in its results. When
the Indians saw me bringing in the white
hide with the head and horns still on
they set up howl of dismay. At last
/ was able to make out that in killing
goat / had jeopardized the very lives
of the entire party. The Indians have
a superstition to the effect that hunter
who kills mountain goat will never &c
home again, but will get lost and buried
in deep snow. That very night we had
the first snow of the year, and found
it impossible to prevail on the Indian.
to push away farther into the mount
aims They were SO frightened, in fact
! that had to begin my return trip, th'
Indians saying that if we did not star
at once they would 90 off with th'
ponies and leave me. Ny score for th'
trip was five mountain goat, three car
riboo, eight big horns, seven bear ant
twenty elk, to say nothing of black-tai
deer. / have all Of the hides and mos
of the heads, which had mounted ant
shipped to New York as presents TO
some of my friends. * Chicago Post.
3 Married people, tits said, live longe
! than single ones. Itseems longer, any
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circumstances Alter Cases.

81 haven't any sympathy with you, :
snapped out Mrs. Brown. Experience
never teaches you men any thing.
Here's the second time you have fallen
down the cellar
"What are you talking about?''
growled the old man, rubbing his shins.
Didn't we move since then, and amt
this different cellar?"-N. Y. Ledger.
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He Used to DO It.

Barber-Does this razor hurt, sir?
Victim-Yes, but don't mind. I've
shaved myself for over a month. Jury.
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SINGLE TAX DEPARTMENT.
FARMERS AND THE SINGLE TAX.

& a /.
Waiter Muir, President of the North Da-
kota State Farmers Alliance, Writing to
the New York journal.
A goodly number of single tax men
were among the delegates to the recent
Farmers Convention at Ocala, Fla,
where represented North Dakota.
resolution would have been presented
at the convention favoring the single
tax had we been sure that the members
were not in want of thorough informa-
ton on the subject.
am single tax man, and recon-
menaed it to our people in this State.
| would not do this if / held to the be-
lief that the single tax would increase
the burden of the farmer. That is a
myth th,st will be exploded among the
farmers in few more months of edu-
cational work.
Then they will see, as the Knights OF
Labor have long seen, that a single tax
| levied solely on the value of land. irre-
spective of improvements, can not bur-
den worker, be he farmer, mechanic,
or professional man.
The adoption OF the single tax by the
Colored Farmers Alliance is but an in
dication Of what is coming. When the
farmers of the country take up the
single tax there will lie such an awaken
ing as this country has never seen. L
will be greater than the anti-slaver,
movement because it will not be sec
tional.
| The man who is riding the storm o
rural discomfort is Henry George.
Once the single tax is '.platformed,
there will be fighting issue that vii
wipe out all past issues of race, section
and religion. The farmers of to-da.
are not the farmers of twenty year
ago. This time they are going to th
root of our social troubles. They ar
coming to see that all other reforms ar
fruitless if monopoly and speculatio
are permitted in land--the source Of al
wealth. The eastern farmer needs tn
single tax just as much as the western
If it were not SO the single tax woul
be but local and temporary expedier
of relief. The farmers are Gbert.
loving class, and the single tax, in lev,
ing no tax on the products of labor, an
in giving to individualism the free.
scope, feeds their aspirations for FREE
dom.
Is Tax On Ground-Rent Paid BY I'll
Tenant2