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The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1893-04-26
Tile Questions AnIwered.

To TIE AGRICULTURAL EDIToR-Sir:
What is the smallest size of tile grain that
should be used for lAterals? ara laying
two and one-half inch tiles and some claim that
ihey too small. Do you advise one TO use
such small tile? (2) Does the water enter tiles
through the pores, or only at the joints.
JAMES Y. ACTON.
Authorities differ much in regard to
the size of tile that should be laid for
laterals. and this is due both TO the vary
ing character OF lis and to the degree of
care commonly sed in laying tile. A
little calculation will convince Mr.. Acton
that a two and one-half inch tile is capa-
Bile of carrying all the water that falls on
a strip of ground forty ieet wide the
usual distance between laterals) and fifty
or sixty rods long, if the size Of mains
commonly used have sufficient capacity.
To illustrates: A main OF ten-inch tile is
supposed to carry all the water that falls
on twenty-five or thirty acres OF land.
Then why should the forty or fifty later
ais, more or less, be OF four-Inch tile? If
they run full, the main could not dis
charge half the water. The fact is that a
two and one-half inch tile can carry the
water off an acre of ground, provided the
grade is a good one.
The only points to consider are the
RIhuo hnu tho CuhihCbSA Va bho SUI. 1hoi .
is some soft land that does not furnish a
good bottom for drains, and tile will sink
and get out OF line In such land large
tile is the safest. Then, too, some do not
do accurate work. The bottom of the
drain is not graded accurately, and the re-
suit is that the tile fills with silt in every
depression. Underdrainagem must be done
with perfect accuracy. Then, IL the bot
tom be q solid one, small tile is Just as
good as anv. and many even prefer 1t, as
they want it to run full occasionally to
keep it ceansed.
o H. r-..o- or,An-n ~ Ahn ininAn
The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1893-04-26

and "Dewdrop" are ever welcome. "Ham-
let" your dream was very interesting.
Nav you so live that you will be safely
borne across the river of death to your
home of everlasting life and Joy. On the
subject of dreams l would like to ask
few questions and would be pleased TO
have anyone answer them. Can the
mind act Independently of the body? Do
dreams prove that the mind will survive
the body? Are dreams prophetic? "Al-
zina Eme Wintari." and others, - rite
often. Wishing YOU good night.
FLOYD"
The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1893-04-26
REMEDY FOR HARD TIMES.
INCREASE THE INCOME AND DE-
CREASE THE EXPENDITURES.

Some Practical Hints from n weIl-KnOwn
Farmer - "Observer's" Notes No. IL
SwindIes-HarrOws-See Potatoes-Ashes
Queries Answered-Tile Questions-Shal-
low Flowing for Corn-Care of Young
Pigs "sentineP' Pointers - Hints for
Neutrality-suspicious. Good Recipes.
The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1893-04-26
About Dreams.

II. l.. @. FRrENDs-As it has been some
time since | visited the page will again
try my luck. Spring has again clothed
mother earth in a beautiful green. How
pleasant to gaze upon a peach and apple
blossom in the spring time. Sunshine"
The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1893-04-26
Observers Notes-No. II.

There are more farmers reading and
planning to the best of their ability than
ever before. The questions that arise in
our business are innumerable. Every
farmer has his problems to solve. What
crops can be made to pay better than 9TH
ers and what treatment is best? How
shall We increase fertility? Dare we Dor
row money for derirainage? VIII this
pay, or will that pay? Our work is a con-
slant study, and the live farmer is avail
ing himself of the experience of others.
Only such are succeeding in any degree,
and even with hard study not a few find
that it is difficult to make ends meet.
1t is a forsgone conclusion that the man
who farms by proxy rarely succeeds. Dur
ing the day little questions arise that de-
mand the presence of the owner. The
successful farmer either works daily in
the field, or he goes to the farm, watching
and studying, and is near at hand when
needed. The best seed bed is made by
pressure of the owners foot. A man make
farming a business and see its possibilities,
or he can do nothing in this era of low
prices ard keen competition. The lazy
man should quit the business, If he is in
il, as it will be sure to quit him in time.
There is an element of promise in the
situation to the bright boys on the farm.
The time is coming when those who do
not read and study will find that hard
labor alone is insufficient to keep one from
going to the wall. Many will drop out Of
the race Some are doing this now. The
day will come when the business-like and
etudious farmer will make more money,
because the conditions demand so much
more ability on the part of one who farms
that many will cease to be producers. The
idea that any one can farm is being ex-
ploded year by year.
There should be room on this earth for
all. The average" man has right to a
good living, or an opportunity 10 make
one. am not excusing those who have
made conditions harder than they should.
But 1t is my observation that there is
room for the bright boys Study and ex-
pertinent will win when muscle fails
There are greater possibilities in a few
rich acres managed by bright man than
in big farms of thin or wet land, cropped
necessarily and according to the least pro-
gressive methods. OBSERVER.
The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1893-04-26
SMindIea.


The country is full of men who propose
to live by their wits and who have
schemes for transferring the farmers
money into their own pockets. One of
the latest frauds is we'll calculated to catch
the unwarv. A man represents himself
as the agent of a firm that handles butter,
goes through the country offering q better
price than can be gotten from stores, but
stipulating that the butter must be made
in a certain way-using churn that he
names. People buy these churns at big
price and never hear anything further
from the party wanting butter.
Some third-rate papers advertise ex-
tensively. offering big cash prizes for the
first set of answers to the very simplest
questions, stipulating that % or 30 cents
in silver accompany the answer as a sub
scription to the paper. Thousands send
in the money. and the so-calied prize is
The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1893-04-26

To feel bright and cheerful attend to
your stomach, and take Simmons Liver
Regulator.
The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1893-04-26
ENDORSEMENTS.

BENSON J. LOSING, L. L. D.,
Historian: "Like q Conceive
Mirror &c rehecte to q single
focus an epitone OF the essen
tid elements Of our national
history, showing clearly st q
glance the progress Of the ns-
ton from its infancy 20 it,
present period Of maturity"
A. r. SPoFToED, Librarian
Of Congress: "The work may
fairly be termed 8 breviary Of
American Politics.
The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1893-04-26

For to cure the Liver is to cure the Kidneys.
81 have suffered a thousand deaths since
left the army. and a more diseased Liver and
Kidneys you never heard of. / tried number
of different remedies and spent 81 800, but L
obtained no real benefit until | bought dozen
bottles Of Simmons Liver Regulator. This
preparation cured me. and must say II is the
only medicine l would give a cent for 10 my
sss."-G. II. HEARD. Richmond. Ind.
The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1893-04-26

The action OF Carriers Little Liver Pills
is pleasant, mild and natural. They
gently stimulate the liver and regulate
the bowels. but do not purge.
The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1893-04-26
AGENTS, REPORTS.

Received sample; sold 9
maps first hour"
Magnificent map; my boy
sold II the hrs. day"
al sell 9 each day"
al sold 8 maps IN onehouf."
al have canvaesed one-ha6
day; took IS orders"
The Meridional. (Abbeville, La.) 1856-1906, 1893-03-04

The Cosmopolitan for March is a
most interesting number OF this
popular illustrated monthly. 1t con
tains the third article on The Great
Railway Systems Of the World. and
deals with that s~tnpendous undertake
ing. "The Trans-Siberian Railway"
which is to unite the Baltic with the
Pacific. Whether viewed as a great
engineering exploit, or as a factor in
the absorbing problem of the exten,
sion of Russian influence in The East,
this profusely illustrated account Of
an enterprise which may well close
the century's record of great achieve.
ments, is of timely interest, and fur.
nishes precisely the information
necessary to correct our estimate Of
the part Russia is playing as n OF
the civilizing forces of the age.
The Meridional. (Abbeville, La.) 1856-1906, 1893-03-04
To Tax Bachelors.

The unmarried men OF Quebec are
in a state OF mindsover the serious
proposition of the provincial govern,
ment to impose a tax of from $40
TO $500 on all the bachelors. It is
said hal in Quebec there is a grow
ing indisposition on the part of the
men to get married, and that there
is no excuse for it, as there is an
abundant supply Of manageable
women. It is not stated whether the
proposed tax is intended as a pun
ishment for failure to perform a pub
lie duty, or as a license for the en-
iegment of a state of single blessed
ness, hut either way it will work q
manifest injustice to the large class
of bachelors.-N. O. Picayune.
The Meridional. (Abbeville, La.) 1856-1906, 1893-03-04
REAL ESTATE TRANSFERS.

JOS. W. Donlev to 4. G. Maxwell
60 acres $5l00-Fernest Meanx to
At Broassard. 40 acres s56-Al
bert Laurent to f. 0 Leblanc 15S
acres $I5l--F. o. Leblanc to ?. B
Roy l5S acres SCOOP. B. Roy
to F. @. Leblanc, l58 acres $1,000
John Rice to Edward Rice. IL
acres sa00-D. g. Rase to e. J.,
Lyons. 100 acres $1,000. O. Lee
ge to KIebert Meanx, SC acres 5000
SEVERN Frederick 10 Ell. j. Moss
10 acres $l00-Meance Boulet to
Jonas Neil. 90 acres $3OO-Jonos
Neill to Meanee Boulet 20 acres
S35A-fhomas Spell TO OTIS A.
Hoffpanr. IL acres &90-Thomas o.
Spell to MELVILLE Fanlk, % acres
$l70-Alexis Leblanc to Numa J..
Broussard 81 acres $772-Wm. r.
Forte to Elijah Spell, 90 acres Sl40
Elijah Spell to Benager and Ellis
Spell, 40 actresses $350-Cesar Bour-
que to Camille Bourque, 80 acres,
$l000-Don Louis Leleu, Leon Mar.
%ceauz, leo acres, $300-Cleophas
Frederick to Derneville Frererick.
20 acres, $l00-Chas. Ii. Burt, ct
ais, to John Grennar, 80 acres,
$1200-Trasimond Babineanx TO
Aristide Toups, 80 acres, $3.50
Azilda Guidry to Francois Hebert,
% acres. $20O-Severin Minan. sue.
of, to Eli Wise, 80 acres, 1906
Isaac L. Baker to Alphonse Levy,
III acres, $652-D. Paul to TT. j.
Moss. 80 acres. $290-Lucynne All
shire to Enbertie Richard, IA acres,
$io0-Arseune Meaux. sac Of, to j.
A. Faulk, ct ais, 40 acres, $525-Ar-
senne Meaux to Sevenne Hebert, Is
acres, $2l5-Ursin Vincent 10 Sc
yerien Primeaux, lob acres, $500
Sevenne Hebrt to Efastus Faux ct
ais. SO acres. $l07-Aimee Badon
to Francois G. Marceanx, ct ais. 40
acres, $4l5-J. B. Mills tc b. l..
O'Bryan, ct ais. one lot in Perry.
-Alcee Landry to A. D. Meanx,
so acres, $200-A. D Meauz to al.
Gee Landry, SO acres 5000.
The Meridional. (Abbeville, La.) 1856-1906, 1893-03-04
Every Body KNEW The Face.

A curious instance of the value of
advertising is reported from New
York. There is q physician there
who acvertises largely, publishing
his portrait in the newspapers with
his advertisement. A few days ago
he received a letter from The West,
on the envelope Of which there was
not a word of address. nothing but
the portrait Of the man, which had
been clipped from q newspaper and
pasted on the envelope. Every clerk
and postman who handled the letter
knew the face, and it vas forwarded
without moments delay. People
read advertisements evidently, and
remember what they see there.
There is no sucE. road to notoriety
as the columns of a news paper.
The Meridional. (Abbeville, La.) 1856-1906, 1893-03-04

The grade of the Franklin and
Abbeville railroad looks as though
II wants some cross-ties and rails on
it to set it off. The day when the
first cars cover that distrnce may be
many a year of.-Franklin Banner.
No telling Bro. Alpha, we raise lots
of cane over here and that big Gem
trail Refinery above town may want
some OF it before long and want it
bad.
The Meridional. (Abbeville, La.) 1856-1906, 1893-03-04


Plaquemines Protector /: Hum
dreds Of dollars would annually be
saved to the parish Of Plaquemines
if the powers Of the Justices Of the
peace were extended. In criminal
cases, the Justices of the peace sits
merely as a committing magistrate
with no powers to punish offenders
not even in cases of misdemeanors.
Hundreds Of petty cases are thus
committed to the district court, the
majority Of which resulting in &c.
q%uittals and eptailing heavy costs to
tax payers.
The Meridional. (Abbeville, La.) 1856-1906, 1893-03-04

Many of our farmers who last
year put in all their time and energy
on a rice crop, disgusted with the
low prices that cereal is bringing,
have determined this year to plant a
big cotton crop, and but little else.
This is all wrong. Ten chances to
one, next fall cotton will be worth
only 6 or 7 cents. Il is all well
enough TO make cotton the money
crop, but our farmers should diver.
sity their crops and try to raise
their bread and meat at home. As
an exchange very wisely puts it,
although the cotton crop is smaller
than it has been for years, and al
though from now until the end OF
the season the producer will realize
a better price than was expected,
the situation teaches an important
lesson, one that it would be we'll for
the farmers to heed. It is the IN
certainty, the ruinous policy, Of the
one crop system. This policy has
brought our farmers well nigh to
bankruptcy. Hoot at the idea il
you will, but the fact stares you in
the face just the same. The saliva
ton Of our agricultural and CONNER
cial interests lies in the system Of
diversified farming. There is no
money in cotton for the producer at
present prices, unless the farm is
made self sustaining.
The Meridional. (Abbeville, La.) 1856-1906, 1893-03-04

Infant Hoodpoism is tue rather
wierd and unusual title Of an adver-
Using paper, in the March number
of Childhood, and treats of the SUI
perstitions and odd practices of
children who are prone to iutro-
duce occultism into their plays and
pastimes. Miss Lytton its author
portrays very graphically several
instances of would-be witchcraft
among the little imaginative ones.
Geo. ". Winterburn is editor OF
the most excellent magazine for pa
rents and it is. published monthly at
one dollar a year by 4. L. ChalIer,
ton & Co., 7s Maiden Lane, New
York City.
The Meridional. (Abbeville, La.) 1856-1906, 1893-03-04

Albin Provosty has sold the Pointe
Coupee Banner to j. P. Gosserand,
and that gentleman has secured the
services of L. B. Claiborne to edit
the paper. The Colonel is q gifted
writer and will no doubt make an
interesting journal.
The Meridional. (Abbeville, La.) 1856-1906, 1893-03-04

Owing to the general demand
from authors all over the country
for more time 10 which to prepare
their stories for the fiction prize OF
$50 offered by Fetters Southern
Magazine (Fetter & Shober, Louis
vile, Kentucky the publishers an
nounce that the time has been exten-
ded to May LIST, when the contest
will close and the successful COM
petitor will be announced When
the story is published a portrait and
sketch OF the author will accompany
Ii.
The Meridional. (Abbeville, La.) 1856-1906, 1893-03-04

A sad and distressing accident
occurred last Sunday afternoon be-
tw cen here and Royville. Some one
set fire to q field on Bellen Broussard
place aud his little girl. who was
playing in the field with some 0 Their
children ventured to near the fame 8
and as o result her clothing caught
fire and the little one was burned to
death before help could reach her.
She was only I years old.
The Meridional. (Abbeville, La.) 1856-1906, 1893-03-04

The u. s. engineers have taken
steps to have the necessary lands for
the purpose Of building locks at the
mouth of Bayou Plaqnemine, expro.
priated for the bereit of the gov
ernment. We trust the completion
of the locks will not be long de-
layed.
The Meridional. (Abbeville, La.) 1856-1906, 1893-03-04
BUCKLENs ARNIC1 sALYE.
tax payers.

Tho Best Salve in world for Cuts,
Bruises, Sores. Ulcers. Salt Rheum,
Fever Sores, letter, Chapped Hands,
Chilblains, Corns, and all Skin Erup
tons. and positively cures Piles. or no
pay required. 1t is guaranteed to give
perfect satisfaction, Or money refunded.
Price % cents per box for sale by N.
G. Young and a. j.. GODDARD.
The Meridional. (Abbeville, La.) 1856-1906, 1893-03-04
Sherif's Sale.
STATE OF LOUISIANA,
Parish Of Vermilicn.
17th Judicial District Court,

Parish OF Nermlilnn.
17th Judicial District Court,
IT. G. Minor
Va
Zerilda Harrington No. sos
aud her husband
John A. Brookshier
By virtue of a writ of "Fi. Fa."
issued from said Court in the suit
entitled aud numbered as above and
to ne directed. Notice is hereby
given that there will be offered for
sale, al public auction, to the last
aud highest bidder, by the UNDER
signed, at the front door Of the
Court House Of said parish on
SATURDAY. MARCH 18th. 1893
between the hours OF Ii o'clock a. m.
aud 4 p. m. the following described
property, seized to satisfy said writ,
TO wit:
Three certain lots Of ground 81
tuated in the NJ. E. Nixon addition
70 the town of Abheville LA. togeth-
er with the building and improve
meEts situated thereon including III
machinery, fixtures and appurten-
ances of a,cotton ginnery and grist
mill situated thereon and being lst.
Lot No. q measuring ninety feet
front by one hundred and fifty five
feet eight inches deep, bounded
North by lot is. South by Franks
alley, East by lot No. % and West
by Jefferson street.
End lot No. II measuring ninety
feet eight inches front on Jefferson
street by one hundred and sixty
eight feet in depth on the side line
Joining lot No. 10 and one hundred
and eighty one feet three inches on
The side line adjoining Lot No. Is
Ord Another lot designated by the
No. 26 measuring ninety feet eigh'
inches front on Jefferson street By
one hundred aud eighty one feet and
three inches in depth on the side
line adjoining lot No. II, and one
hundred and ninety four feet il
depth on the opposite side line.
Said property was seized and Of
fered for sale, after due advertise,
ment, on Saturd y Feb. Is, 93; and
the last and highest bidder not hav
ing lesched TWO thirds of the APP
praisement made on it the sale was
postponed for fifteen days from this
notice.
On this new crying the sale viii
he made at twe've months eredit
the purchaser being required to fur
nish good and sufficient joint
security and sp cial mortgage on said
property, hearing eight per cen
per annnm interest from the day q
the adjudication until paid.
Sheriff office, Abbey lie, La. Feb
25th 1893. A. L. LEBLANC,
Sheriff.
The Meridional. (Abbeville, La.) 1856-1906, 1893-03-04
THE HsECE

We are indeed cory to see the
planters so ~demoralized with the
rice crop, especially when the ex-
perience Of only n season should
make them 80. No doubt the past
season prises were not at all euconr.
aging, still the rice crop IS
cheaply raised and in case OF a to-
tai failure the expenses are little
more than the cost of seed. New
Orleans, our only market, was not
prepared to handle such a monstrons
crop as we had last year: in TACT the
most sanguine spectators were
more than surprised at its magni-
tude, consequently the market was
.over.rnn and prices were very low.
Another thing that was instrumental
in reducing prices, was the over es
timation Of the crop, and as soon as
that was corrected the the prices adj
vanced Immediately, We see moth
ing but bright prospects for the 93
crop and think the planters should
not apprehend anything in the prices
the storing capacity has beeen In
creased ten fold, while last year it
had to be sold from the cars for
want of storing room. The mil
lers have all made extensive I'm
provements and are in every way
equipped TO dispose Of the coming
crop with dispatch.
Again the farmers have been SIP
piled with mills with which they can
clean rice that will very favorably
compare with any rice on the mar.
ket. One thing that has affected
the market in the past and will
effect it still if not remedied. is the
way in which the. rice is harvested.
A great many seem to think that
the making Of a good quality oil
rice lies mainly in having it thresh
ed by a good machine. and 80 think
ing they have their rice harvested
too often when it is unripe and in
no condition Ia order to have il
threshed at the same time with his
~neighbor.
The latter having harvested hi
rice 10 the proper season and stack
ed it as it should have been gets
good price while the farmer won
ders why it is that he gets 80 much
less for his rice which is raised or
the same land, and sold at the same
time. He forgets that his neighbor'I
rice was dry and ripe, while hi:
was unripe and stack burnt, or per.
!, haps he eve imagined any suct
difference in quality *.*.*.
The Meridional. (Abbeville, La.) 1856-1906, 1893-03-04

The cruel wal in Kansas is over.
On Tuesday the Populists, recogni-
zing the decision of the Supreme
Court declaring the Republican
House to be Il legal one, marched
into the legislative chamber in q
body aud were sworn in. Thus ends
what once threatened to be a serious
affair.
The Meridional. (Abbeville, La.) 1856-1906, 1893-03-04

Hon. J. A. Loret, Of st, Mary, is
in the city. Mr.. Loret, who is rec
ognized as the leader Of the forces
10 the house OF representatives, is
now being spoken Of as a probable
successor to Mr.. Gallery 10 the State
-Senate.-B. r. Advocate.
The Meridional. (Abbeville, La.) 1856-1906, 1893-03-04

Crowley and the parish Of Acadia
have raised the quarantine declared
some time ago against Jennings.
The Meridional. (Abbeville, La.) 1856-1906, 1893-03-04

Our old and esteemed cotempo-
rary the Thibodaux Sentinel has re-
Gently added four pages, making it
a IL page journal.
The Meridional. (Abbeville, La.) 1856-1906, 1893-03-04
State of Louisiana.
Parish Of Vermilion,
18th. Judicial District Court.
of Ciementine Rollins.

Succession OF IeoIliiiSs
No. Ill.
Notice is hereby given to all par
ties interested in said succession or
having any opposition to make 20
the tableau of final account of adj
ministra:ion and tableau of parti-
ton and settlement of the succession
fled by Solomon Wise, admins
traitor, to file the same in writing
in the Office Of the Clerk Of Court
within ten days from the notice
hereof.
Given under my hand and seal Oh
office this 4lh day of March. 1893.
Gro. w. SUMMERS, Dy-Clerk.
W. B. White, Atty.
The Meridional. (Abbeville, La.) 1856-1906, 1893-03-04
Texas Blue Grass.

For sale at 25 cents per or for
seed, 80 cents per 100 hundred for
1ootIets by mail. Seed So 90 per
pound; rootIefs, So 90 per 1000 BY
express. 1t has no equal as a winter
grass. GEO. Nj. HOGAN,
Ennis, Texas.
The Meridional. (Abbeville, La.) 1856-1906, 1893-03-04
W: N ! r

List of persons drawn to serve as
Grand and Petit Jurors at the next
jury term Of the District Court to be
held in this parish on Monday the
18th day Of March, A. D., 1898.
Grand and Petit Jury for the FIRST
week.
The Meridional. (Abbeville, La.) 1856-1906, 1893-03-04
SATURDAY, MARCH a, 1893

Grover Cleveland to-day will take
the reins Of the United States gov
ernment.
The Meridional. (Abbeville, La.) 1856-1906, 1893-03-04

Ia JOB WORK cheap and neatly
executed at the MEaIDIoN IL Office