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The Opelousas courier., 1892-06-04
The Reasons WIN.

We call it Alabastine, as it is man1fac
4ured from alabaster rock.
The people use it because it is durable and
beautiful.
The sanitarians endorse it because IL 10 ~
a sanitary nature, and contains no poison
GUS material.
We advertise it as we want all to have an
opportunity to be benefited by its advan-
tages.
Wall paper firms fight it. as it displaces
their poisonous products.
Some dealers talk against it. as thew can
buy cheap k~alsomines, and where the peonja
are not posted, sell at Alabastine prices
thus making more profit.
Kalsomines must go, as they are only
temporary and spoil the walls.
AIabastine has come to stay, as it posses
ses merit, and has the unqualified endorse
ment of those who ave used it for wears.
Alabastine has stood the test of time, and
now stands higher in public favor than ever
before.
Prot. Kedzie, the eminent sanitarian of
Michigan, says: Have carefully tested for
arsenic or copper; none could be found.
Find no traces of poisonous or injurious ma
~terial."
Dr.. DeWolfe, the health officer Of Chicago
saws: 1.-THE perfect wall for domestic habffa-
lion is the material which resists decomnosi.
ton in every form. 1t scenes to me that
Alabastine is admirably adapted to the pur-
pose"
The Good Health Publishing Co.. of Battle
Greek, Mich, writes: 1--WE will, probably.
use Alabastiue as long as il is in existence
We are located at Grand Rapids, Mich,
and will cheerfully answer any communica-
tions in relation to our goods.
SWEDEN and Norway ere preparing to en-
ter the Herman anti-protectionist leag1Ia.
The Opelousas courier., 1892-06-04
GEESE KILL GRASS.

Formerly geese were raised here
Vermont-in considerable numbers,
writes 0. S. Bliss, but feathers and car.
cases are neither as profitable as they
were, and the birds were found injurious
to pastures, and few are now kept. We
kept the Embden, or, as they were thea
more generally called, the Bremen geese,
for several years, and they paid well,
but their run was so restricted that they
pulled the best grasses up, so as to spoil
the feed, and we got rid of them. Others
kept the Toulouse, but our farmers gen.
orally contented themselves with a pure
bred gander, and stuck to the natives
and crosses. In my boyhood, father used
to pick up among his neighbors
enough to make up, with our own,
a sleigh-load of fine carcasses and take
them to Montreal every winter, and it
paid; but you could hardly persuade any
body here to keep geese now if you gave
them a good outfit of the best breed.
Then the grasses grew spontaneously and
luxuriantly everywhere; now the stand
of grass is maintained only with care and
expense, and agoose will eat and destroy
as much as a sheep. / like to see a flock
of fine geese, and il I lived where they
could have a good run on strong deep
land, where the grass could hold its own
against them, l would keep them.-New
York Tribune.
The Opelousas courier., 1892-06-04
Total Eclipses OF the Sun.

Every year there must be two eclipses
of the sun, aud there may be five. Their
are partial eclipses, however, except il
the comparatively rare cases in which
the moon passes nearly centrally over thu
suns disk and produces a total obscura.
ton of his light. Since the invention o.
the spectroscope in 1860, there have been
barely a score of total eclipses. and q
number of these could not be observed
because the belt of totality fell at the
earth's polar region or upon the oceans.
The belt of totality is a narrow strip
never more than a hundred and seventy
miles wide-where the point of the
moons shadow falls upon the earth.
Total ecllpses rarely occur, therefore, at
the same point of the earth. At London,
for example, there has been no eclipse
aince the year LAO, except that of 1715,
and there will be none during the nexl
century.-Century.
The Opelousas courier., 1892-06-04
Electricity for Health.

The value of electricity in fastening
the growth aud maturity of certain
vegetable forms, and in bringing out the
vivid colors of flower, promises to be
supplemented by a value more directly
useful to humanity. When Pasteur pro-
posed to bring young animals up on
sterilized milk and food he opened the
way tt the idea that the water supply of
cities could be improved, and be made
perfectly harmless, by applying the
death-dealing agency of electricity to
millions of injurious germs floating in it.
The sterilization of water sources by
means Of electricity may be far in the
future, but the fact that the work is
practically demonstrate is sufficient to
show that great advances have been
made IN tho direction of solving the
question of water supplies in cities. Not
less important is the agent in destroying
life in the ewers of the cities, and in
the great mas of garbage and waste
which s~catters around every city whole
cordons of threatening diseases. Al
other popularity of the powerful agent
is shat 1t has results upon the general
health of people similar to those of the
sun. In crowded quarters of the cities
where the sunlight is seldom admitted,
electric light is far more conducive to
health than any other mode of lighting,
1t is still a mooted question whether it
cannot be made to force growth in the
individual as it does in the plants and
flowers of the lighthouses where the light
is applied night and day.-Yankee
Blade.
The Opelousas courier., 1892-06-04
What a Horse Can Do.

A horse will travel 400 yards In Al
minutes at a walk, 400 yards in two min
utes at a trot, 400 yards In one minute
at a gallop. The usual work of a horse
is taken at %, 500 pounds raised one foot
per minute for eight hours per day. A
horse will carry $50 pounds twenty-five
miles per day Of eight hours. An aver
age draft horse will draw 1000 pounds
twenty three miles per Gay on a level
road, weight Of wagon included. The
average weight of a horse is 1000 pounds,
his strength is equivalent to that Of five
men. In a horse mill moving at three
feet per second, track twenty-five feet
diameter, he exerts with the machine the
power of Al horses. The greatest
amount a horse a pull in a horizontal
line is 500 pounds, but he can only do
this momentarily; in continued exertion
probably half OF this is the limit. He
attains his growth in five years, will live
twenty-five, average sixteen years. a
horse will live twenty five days on water
without solid food, seventeen days with.
out eating or drinking, but only five
days on solid food without drinking
Human World.
The Opelousas courier., 1892-06-04
FARM AND GARDEN NOTES.

Pumpkins are splendid food for cattle
and hogs, and say a great amount of
c~ostlier ratfeus.
Put your sawdust arouaa your currant
and gooseberry bushes. They need good
manure also, and will pay for it.
We cannot make the finest grades OF
butter from any one feed; but there is
no question about u being able to
make good butter from ensilage, although
not the best.
If you will mix a ration of cottonseed
meal, ground oats, wheat bran, wheat
middlings or linseed meal with the en-
silage, you will be able to make as good
butter in January and February as in
June and July.
Some asparagus grower claims that an
improvement of fifty per cent. can be
made in the asparagus bed by selecting
two-year-old plants that bear no seed.
These are males, and the shoots from
them will be earlier and larger.
Keep a little box Of ground charcoal,
one of clean, ground bone, and one of
small, sharp flint before the poultry, and
plenty of coarse, sharp sand on the floor;
also, a box of ground oyster shells, as
grit. But in recommending these SUBJ
stances it may be stated that any kind of
sharp small grit will do.
squashes want light, sandy soil, with
abundance of manure placed directly in
the hill with the seed. But two plants
should be left in each hill, and they be
given about 100 square feet of ground
% run over. They can thus be made TO
produce five tons to the acre, worth all
the way from SIS to $40 a ton.
Where there are undesirable trees or
shrubs, which it is desired to have killed
SO completely. that they will not sprout
again, June is the time to cut them
down. The sap that was stored up from
the previous year will have been ex-
pended and none new will have been
prepared, and life ends with the chop
ping away Of foliage.
To tighten tires on a wagon wheel
without cutting or shrinking, take a
good, stodt lever, and a fulcrum a little
shorter than the spokes, place the full
crum on the hub of the wheel and with
the lever force the felIy against the tire
and place a leather washer around the
exposed tenon Of the spoke, revolve the
wheel, and raise the feliy. In like man
ner at another spoke, put on a leather
washer US before; keep this up until no
more washers can be put on, then oil
with linseed oil and the tire viii be as
secure as if set bv the blacksmith.
If it can be afforded the pure Jersey
COW is the most satisfactory for the use
Of a family. The milk is rich IN cream
and the COWS as a rule, when not spoiled
too much by pettiug and other bad man
agement, are docile and easily controlled.
TIE next best is a half bred Jersey, and
if the other half is Ayrshire it will
NAL the best cross. These two kinds
are Exceedingly good looking and hand
some, which is a desirable point il a
family COW. The breeders of Jersey cat
tie generally have some half breeds to
Oppose of that may be procured quite
cheaply, and just now the pure bred
Jerseys are cheap enough for almost any
person who can keep a COW.
The Opelousas courier., 1892-06-04
TO DEsTRoY sTUMPs,

There have been several methods re-
commended for the destruction and re-
moval of stumps from cleared timber
land, but SO far none of them is of any
practical value. The saturation of the
stump with kerosene oil is not easily
possible, nor is its impregnation with
solution of saltpetre or salphuric acid;
and unless the stump is completely satu-
rated it cannot be burned with ease.
The most effective way is to throw out
the stump by explosive, and, as dyna-
mite is too dangerous for inexpert per-
sons to handle, the common blasting
powder is the best to use. The usual
method is to bore a two-inch hole down
to the centre of the stump aud charge it
in the usual way with the powder, using
an iron screw with a hole through it for
the fuse to confine the powder. In this
way the stump may be split into pieces
that are easily handled and the use of
the wood for fuel will pay the cost of
the work.-New York Times.
The Opelousas courier., 1892-06-04
The Lion After Death,

W4 EEZH AE -
The most superb of fur rugs are made
from the skin of the lion. When the
lion is FIVE Yeas old his name has at
tanned its full growth, and he is then
ready to be sacrificed at the alter OF
civilization. Next in beauty ONE the
tiger. The graceful, catlike neck and
sleek, glossy skin make a truly effective
rug-indeed. many prefer It to the liou
skin. The bears, and especially thu
grizzlies, are very popular. The white
polar bear IS arranged III avery realistic
manncr, with his great mouth open and
formidable claws projecting grimly from
the soft fur All these animals are dis,
played with ~one-quarter, one-half and
Full heads-that Is, raised and stuffed III
these shapes. The last style il the hand,
soonest, Of course, and the most desirable
rugs are the animal shapes with the head
arranged a N ife.-PittsbuTg Dis
patch.
The Opelousas courier., 1892-06-04
REGARDING EIenhants.

"Talking of elephants, you read a good
many fool stories about them," remarked
Bill Newman, the veteran trainer, '~'stories
that don't go much on facts and a heap
on fancy"
"The principal one of them, the ont
you always see in the children's picture
books, is that the elephant truly loves
his keeper and will defend him at any
cost. I've been training the beasts for
over twenty-five years, and in all thai
tim I've met about five elephants that
would fight for the man who took care
of them.
"Kindness helps in a way, but the
only method to get and keep absolute
control over these animals is to use the
steel freely and for all it's worth.
"Once you earn their respect you're
safe as long as you choose to stay with
them, but once let them doubt your
ability to control and punish them and
you'd better get your policy paid, for
you'll never know when you'll be sent up
the centre pole by a stamp or a blow.
Children are easy to bring up compared
with elephants. With the former you
can indulge in all sorts of moods, but
with the latter you must preserve one
tone at all times.
"a trainer who varies the treatment Of
his charges, rewards them when they
ought to be punished, and vice versa,
won't live long. The beast unable to
reason out what's expected of him gets
worried, and generally ends matters by
laying out the gentleman who's annoying
him. This you can lay down as a stand
ard rule; if you ever let an elephant get
away with T. bluff, no matter how small
it is, you're never safe with him after
that.
"Really bad elephants are few and the
majority of them have been made so by
dishonest trainers. These men teach one
particular anina in their care to attack
every one but themselves and thus
heighten their own value and win repu
tations for their valor in bossing an ele-
plant that everybody else is afraid of.
"Do | think that | will be killed in
harness2 Well, 1 haven't given much
thought to that. A dozen different ella,
plants have tried to settle me SO far, but
l fooled them all, and it'll take a pretty
smart one to corner me."-NeW York
Commercial Advertiser.
The Opelousas courier., 1892-06-04
KILLING THIsrLEs AND BURDocK.

At a Farmers Institute at Hortonyille,
Wis.,, the essayist gave his method OF
dealing with the above weeds as follows
eff l had q patch of Canada thistles ]
would turn it into a pasture and salt my
stock on that LOT at least twice q week,
and I would cut off at or below the sur
face what / didn't salt. If / could not
turn it into pasture i would have a sharp
plow and pillow it, and drag it thoroughly
after it was ploWed with 8 fine tooth
drag. Then cut them up whenever they
come up. / dug mine out twice q week
with a spade. In the fall Of the year the
weeds came up thick, and for fear I
might miss some I put the ploW 10 and
plowed it up again, and killed them the
first wear. Kerosene will kill them. and
salt ii a vet tine will kill them. Brine
will kill them.
The burdock lie cuts up as soon as ne
sees IT. An old root ID rich ground
often has the crown several inches below
the surface in loose, rich ground. When
cut below the crown they never sprout
again, but new ones maY come from the
seed. Until more than two years old
they DO not run down more than two
or three inches and are easily killed. An
Old morticing chiseI with & long handle
Is the best tool for such work, and it Is
improved Iy Iaying 4 spur IN the handle
upon which the foot can be placed II
cutting q tough root. MANY other weeds
The Opelousas courier., 1892-06-04
ASPARAGUS.

Asparagus is the earliest, easily cared
for, and most delicious of garden vege-
tables, yet in how small a number OF
gardens it is found. It grows with the
ease of weeds, and when once started,
Ii taken care of, it will come up every
spring for a lifetime. It grows with
great profusion in the Southern States,
coming up in the gardens, orchards and
grain fields, and for several weeks fur
nishes the farmers with a dish of the
most exquisite taste. Many farmers
grow it for profit, and when cultivated
and fertilized it will 9feld a net profit of
500 per acre. 4
Before the plantG begin TO start in
early spring the dead stalks of last years
growth are cut and raked off the field
with a harrow, which loosens the soil at
the same time. As soon as the young
stalks reach the height of six or eight
inches they are cut, trimmed, packed in
punches of twelve stalks to the bunch,
and shipped to the city in crates. The
cutting then continues at intervals un-
til the people get tired of asparagus and
it does not pay to ship. After the cut
ting is over the ground is thoroughly
cultivated and the plants are hoed and
fertilized.
Asparagus can be raised from seed,
but in starting small beds the best way
is to buy the plants. They can be pro-
cured at small cost of almost any seeds
nan and will give the bed q start of at
least a year. The soil should be well
prepared rich loan and the plants should
be set out in rows eighteen inches apart
and a foot apart in the row. Great care
should be taken to get the roots spread
and well covered. In the Northern
States it is best to cover the beds some
time in the fall with three or four inches
of manure, and early in the spring salt
should be saeewn profusely on the bed.
Salt is one iot the best fertilizers for as
paragus, anfeelaw bone is excellent.
AsparagT us a luxury which every
farmer can ssess, whether he lives at
the north OF outh, and I advise all those
who do not,i;iresdy enjoy this most de-
licicus of v tt!etables to set cut a bed of
asparagus IT, spring. 1t will do to be-
gin cutting i a year or two, after which
it will be q ource Of pleasure as well as
proft.--Farm Herald.
The Opelousas courier., 1892-06-04
WATER IN THE DAIRY.

In every gallon of milk there is at least
eve pints of water, a fact in itself
sufficient to convince one that good milk
cannot be obtained from an impure
water supply, and that a shortage in
quantity will be attended by an immedi-
ate and corresponding diminution of the
flow; indeed, it would seem that the
Importance of water as an element in
milk production is represented by the
fraction representing its value as a CON
stituent.
Some men seem to think that nature
made the low a filter or rectlfYing ap-
paratus, into which any amount of stale,
unwholesome and impure water may be
introduced with impuaity, but the ex.
perIenced cheesemaker knows better.
II. the course OF an extended experience
as a cheese instructor in Canada, Scot
land and the United States, the writer
of this article has met with more diff
Guilty from bad water than from any
other cause. It is a fact that in nine
tenths of the pastures throughout the
dairy belt there are low places, swamps
and frog ponds, at which, in the course
of the season, the cow are compelled to
resort to quench their thirst. This
ought not to be. No prudent dairyman
viii permit his dairy to drink at these
places. They should always be filled up
or fenced out, and an abundant supply
of pure, living water be furnished at
whatever cost. 1t requires from d to
three pounds more Of swamp water milk
to produce q pound of cheese than it
does OF pure water milk, and it always
~engenders gaseous curd and cheese Of
loathsoms flavor. American Farmer.
The Opelousas courier., 1892-06-04

SSPVRlcAS 1891
Rather riskv

11utftcf IGcty
the offer that's made by the pro-
prletors of DR.. Sage's Catarrh Rem
edy. Risky for them. For you, if
you have Catarrh, it's a certainty.
You're certain to be cured of it, or
to be paid $500. That's what they
offer, and in good faith-they cure
you, or pay you, no matter how bad
your case, " of how long standing
Butts it so much of a risk P
They have a medicine that cures
Caprrh, not for a time, but for all
TIME. They've watched it for years,
curing the most hopeless cases.
They know that in your case there's
every chance of success, almost no
chance of failure.
Wouldn't any one take such q
risk with such a medicine?
The only question is-are you
willing to make the test, if the
makers are willing to take the
risk?
If so, the rest is easy. You pay
your druggist fifty cents and the
trial begins.
The Opelousas courier., 1892-06-04
FARM AND GARDEN.
SYMPTOMS OF HORSE INSANITY.

When a horse goes insane he is apt to
Kill himself by butting his head into a
corner At the Veterinary Hospital of
the University of Pennsylvania, the largest
OF its kind in the country, such cases are
treated in an oval brick chamber, per
fectly dark. When this is heavily bedded
with straw it is almost impossible for a
horse to hurt himself. Insanity, or
adummlness, in horses is quite common.
1t is sometimes caused by a. Lesion on the
brain, and is incurable, but when caused
by stomach disorders it is often treated
successtully.-Chicago Herald.
The Opelousas courier., 1892-06-04
E /; THE CHILDREN.

My little girl nee eredf for three years from a large Absess on her hip, the result of a
fall and dElocaholk THE Abcess was large with six openings, all Of which discharged
pws. l wasin drnrchy friends to give her S. S. S., and by the time the fifth bottle was
WEcNER, sahngg.. ~
Ihad three htalk is who we're attacked with obstinate ECZEMA or Blood
Trouble, which at flying sbed heat but soon grew to yellow biSer, some Of them quite
large. Once of the dcult toed from the effects oft, but We got Swits Specific ant gave
to TIL other two, andhe feet, v got we'll. s. s. forced out the poison promptly The
cure was wonderful! tits mas, Marha0M, L.
s. y. y. has ntattered bithndren. 1t relieves the system promptly AID assists
nature in developing fkchheths, d. Our Treatise mailed free.
20 a6WIFTS SPECIFIC COMPANY, ATLANTA, GA.
The Opelousas courier., 1892-06-04
THE RoRER.

The question is often asked why cur
ran bushes grow weakly. Now and then
a strong, vigorous shoot will appear,
while most are puay. Mehan, in his
monthly, says That in most cases this re.
suits from the work of the currant borer.
Ii a branch be cut across it will be found
hollow. This channel is where the borer
mas been. Only a very small black pune.
ture on the outside of the stem shows
where the insect laid his egg. If one
could get used to noting this puncture in
the fall of the year, and cut out such
twlgs and burn them, it would help cur
rant culture.-New York World.
The Opelousas courier., 1892-06-04
Clothes Make the Man id India.

The dress in India in a mark of social
position. The "Nawab'' is clothed ia
silk or satin Of the finest quality with d
little gold embroidered skullcup and
patent leather shoes, while the laboring
man is happy in the possession of a few
yards of cheap muslin, which he wrap,
about him artistically. He may wear 1
small cap or turban twisted about his
head, but the headdress is not considered
q necessity. a jacket is sometimes worn,
but i is Of light material and scanty.-
NeW Kogk Tribpr
The Opelousas courier., 1892-06-04

in the meadows or lawns are easiest killed
with such an implement, and while it 10
quite a task to go over a ten-acre lot that
Is very weedy, yet the number of such
weeds that come after a year or two Of
cultivation and seeding to grass is not
large unless foul seed is sown.-Ameri-
can Cultiyator.
The Opelousas courier., 1892-06-04

Pe0ple Know a Good Thing.

THAT'S WHY REMINGTON TYPEWRITERs ARR
IN DEMAND.
Some idea of the present wonderful
growth OF the typewriter business may be
gained from the fact that the sales of Rem
ington typewriters for January and Febru-
AIRY, 1892, exceeded those of the correspond
ing months of 1891 by $3.50, 900.
The great and constantly gaining popular.
ity of the Remington is clearly shown by
the fact that the business has more than
doubled within three years. The Remington
factory at lion, N. Y, employs 700 men to
fill the demand created by the sales agents,
Wyckof, Seamans & Benedict, who dispose
of machines at the astonishing rate of one
every five minutes.
The Opelousas courier., 1892-06-04

Essential to the production of the most per-
feet and popular laxative remedy known have
enabled the california Fig Syrup Co. TO
achieve a great success in the reputatio Of
its remedy, Syrup of Figs, as it is conceded
to be the universal laxative. For sale by all
druggists,
The Opelousas courier., 1892-06-04

The Only One Ever Printed.

These Is 3 inch display advertisement In
this paper, this week, which has no two words
alike except one word. The same Is. true OF
each new one appearing each week, from The
Dr. Harter Medicine Co. This house places y
Crescent on everything they make n pub
lish. Look for 1t, send them the name OF the
word and they will return yoH BOOK, REAUTI-
FgL AUTOGRAPHS or aAMPLEs REE
The Opelousas courier., 1892-06-04

B~RowNSntfon Bitters cures Dyspepsia, Ma
aria. Billion lness and General Debi ity. Gives
Strength, ads Digestion, tones the nerves
creates appaiate. The best tonic for Nursing
Mothers. wei vtwomen and children.
The Opelousas courier., 1892-06-04

TIE pleasant coating of Beecham's PILLS
completely DISCUSSES the taste withoutim impair
ing their efficiency. rs cents a box.