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St. Landry democrat. (Opelousas, La.) 1878-1894, 1893-07-15
THE WORLDS POPULATION IN 1890.
.1,467, 600, 900
= L 900 40. A.
CULTIVABLE AREA,

shut out from consideration all those
territories of the polar regions which lie
beyond the limits within which the cul-
tivation of cereals is possible. divide
the remainder of the lands of the globe
into three regions. The first l describe
as fertile, meaning that it is fertile so far
only as within it lies most of the land
which is capable of remunerative cult
Walton. 1t cannot be assumed for an in
slant that the whole or even the greater
part of it could ever be converted into
fields yielding the fruits Of the earth
My second region includes the "steppes, p"
or poorer grass lands; and as within the
''fertile" region we meet with compare
lively sterile tracts, 50 within these
''steppcs' there exist large areas which
can be rendered highly productive,
especially where means for irrigating the
land are available. The third region in
cludes the deserts, within which fertile
cases are few
The area of these regions in square
miles | estimate as follows, exclusive of
the polar regions:
St. Landry democrat. (Opelousas, La.) 1878-1894, 1893-07-15

The Supreme Court of the United
States in an opinion by Justice Jack
son has decided in an appeal from the
Georgia courts that upon fugltlve's
surrender to the State demanding his
return he may be tried in the State to
which he is returned for any other Of
fence than that specified in the requi-
sition," and that the relations of the
States to each other, with respect to
fugitives from justice, are not those OF
foreign Nations.
St. Landry democrat. (Opelousas, La.) 1878-1894, 1893-07-15

The rubber industry is one of the
most profitable of this generation.
Coils P. Huntington, the railroad
magnate, once said that if he were
young man with 100000 he would go
to Africa and engage in the rubber
business. ''Why," said the railroad
magnate, "you can buy crude rubber
on the Congo-away up in the interior
for a penny pound, and when you
get it down to the coast you can sell it
for nearly 100 times as much. lknow
of no better opening for young men of
grit and nerve"
St. Landry democrat. (Opelousas, La.) 1878-1894, 1893-07-15

207s, or1s2 years hence, there will be
1919 millions. These estimates are not
presented as prophecy. have already
limited at voluntary checks to the growth
of population which will come into play
as civilization advances and the demands
for the comforts of this life shall be more
general. At all events, so far as we are
personally concerned, 1872 years is long
period to look forward to; but if we
look back a similar number of years and
remember that William ILL., and Mari
borough were then still among US, wcare
bound to admit that it is but short
period in the lifetime of nation.
St. Landry democrat. (Opelousas, La.) 1878-1894, 1893-07-15
A STRANGE QUESTION.
WHEN WILL THE EARTH BE EN-.
TIRELY PEOPLED.
An Estimate of the Worlds Present
Population and its F1.turo
Increase.

In order to answer this query at all
satisfactorily, says a writer in Goldth-
waite's Geographical Magazine, it is ne
ccssary to determine: First-The present
population of the world and its probable
increase. Seconl-Thc area ca pablc of
being cultivated for the yield of food and
other necessaries of life. Third-The
total number of people whom these lands
would be able to maintain. | need hard
ly point out that a precise answer to
these apparently simple questions is we'll
nigh impossible.
PRESENT POPULATION OF THE WORLD.
This is fundamental question for the
inquiry proposed, but it is quite impos
sible to reply to it with any amount of
confidence. Enumcrations of the people
have been made in al. civilized states,
but with respect to large parts of the
world we are still completely in the
dark. OF Africa we know next to
nothing, while the long array of figures
presented to us as the results Of census
taken in China are not calculated to in
spire confidence. | have taken some care
to form true estimate of the population
of Africa, and l cannot believe in that
continent supporting more than 127, 900, :
coo, instead of the two, three or even
four hundred million allotted to it by
certain statisticians. Even $4,000, 900
is high figure, for it means eleven peo-
pie to the square mile, while in Austria
liza there are not one and half and in
South America five only.
St. Landry democrat. (Opelousas, La.) 1878-1894, 1893-07-15
An Odd Trade in Paris.

The macchabcc men, or fishers of dead
bodies, who ply their doleful trade on
the Seine. between the Autcull Nladuct
and the Bilancourt Bridge, threaten 10
60 on strike owing to the slowncss with
which their money premiums are pad.
Pere Joseph, the senior member OF the
profession of ecumcrs, Or sCavcngerS on
the Seine, has been fishing for maccha-
bees for the past twenty-five years, but
he is now idle with his companions, as
he has not been paid for the last batch of
corpses sent to the morgue. Joseph, by
the way, sent forty-two macchabees to the
city dead house last year, and was pald
three dollars each for them, his total
gains for the twelve months being little
over 1925. This year the trade again
seemed to be improving; the morguc was
literally OVERLOOKING with bodies taken
out Of the river of late, and in one day
Perc Joseph made &12. That money,
however. has not yc; been received, al
though il has been due for fortnight,
and hence he has laid down his hooks and
graphing irons until the city officials,
whose duty it is to rcmuncrate him and
his companions for their services, shall
see their way to organizing more eNpedi-
ton in their pay department. i Paris
Letter.
St. Landry democrat. (Opelousas, La.) 1878-1894, 1893-07-15
BY THESE SIGNS.

BY the gallinacoan chatter, ',
By the smuggling Of the batter,
BY the he4d-wear that the hatter
Doth on exhibition bring.
By the robins songful mating,
Exc the blue birds tete-atetlDe,
And the carpets hagellating,
conjecture it is spring.
By the furniture they're hauling.
by the ragman's caterwaullDg,
BY the solos so appalling
That the yanlcr's daily sing
BY the soppins and the moppinG,
And the general oversIopping
In the domiril: on croppins,
l am certain it is spring.
-IBoston Courier.
St. Landry democrat. (Opelousas, La.) 1878-1894, 1893-07-15
How Apricots Pay.

M. B. Fassett, of the North Ontario
Fruit Company, vouches for the state
ment that one Southern Californian fruit
rancher sold his crop of Royal apricots
this year from three acres for between
81. 00O and 81, 100. That is nearly $500 per
acre for apricots, and if any body has
better showing we would like to hear
from him. The price received waco
one cent pound, so +hot =
have been abor
-LQptaEio (CaI.
St. Landry democrat. (Opelousas, La.) 1878-1894, 1893-07-15

Says the Atlanta Constitution: eve
receive very few foreign immigrants In
the South. Of the 375,0 foreigners
who landed in New York last year only
about $500 went South. About one
half of the whole number remained in
New York, and the others went to the
Western States. The immigrants set
Ting in the South have always been
Americans of Northern birth.
St. Landry democrat. (Opelousas, La.) 1878-1894, 1893-07-15

There are 25,OOo,OOO American
hens, and they yield annually 6,ooo'-
900 eggs-a heavy burden to lay down.
facetiously observes the Philadelphia
Ledger, to say nothing of the yolk.
St. Landry democrat. (Opelousas, La.) 1878-1894, 1893-07-15

IT WOULD be interesting to know how
the word "kcy," which is the character
istic name of many small islands in the
Spanish American waters, should have
crcpt so far north as the coast of New
Jersey, where it is found in Key East and
Kew West. The word is from the same
root as quay, and it appears some hun
dreds of times between Florida and the
coast Of South America,
St. Landry democrat. (Opelousas, La.) 1878-1894, 1893-07-15
st. Landry Democrat,
BIZ l. A. SAHD0z.
0peaousas, . louisiana

It is said that fewer men shave them
selves in America than in any other
country on earth.
St. Landry democrat. (Opelousas, La.) 1878-1894, 1893-07-15
NOT MUCH OF A SAVING.

Old Bachelor-Now that you're mar,
you don't have to send your gar
IA. 5 out any more to be mended, pre-
rIarried Fricnd-N-o, don't have to
esptl them out now. My wife always has
house full of sewing women.- New
srk Weekly,
St. Landry democrat. (Opelousas, La.) 1878-1894, 1893-07-15

The task of estimating the number Of
people whom this earth of ours would be
capable OF supplying with food and other
necessarles of life, once it had been
fairly brought under cultivation, is very
difficult. There are at present some veg
etarians. These would maintain that if
their peculiar views were accepted three
men would live where one lives now, and
there would be no further need of keep
ing up large herds of cattle and sheep
am not sufficiently utopian to believe
that mankind generally will ever accept
these principles.
Again, it has been asserted that our
present method of cultivation are capa-
BILE of vast improvement; that the earth
might be made to yield much larger har-
vests than it yields now, and that popu-
lation might thus be permitted to in
crease without correspondence incrcas-
ing the cultivated areas. This is no
doubt true as respects many countries,
but it is hardly true of the world at
large. Making all reasonable allowance,
however, of these suggestions, | take as
basis for my estimate the standard of
life, such as we find it existing in various
climates and among various peoples
Upon this basis | calculate that the "ler-
tile regions" would be able to support
2O7 human beings to the square mile,
the present mean population of those
regions.
The ''steppes,' with their large tracts
of land capable of cultivation, | believe
to be capable of supporting ten inhabi-
tants to the square mile, while the
"deserts" would be fully peopled if they
had one inhabitant to the square mile.
do not take into consideration the
colonization of the tropical regions by
Europeans, because am constrained to
maintain that the tropical regions are no
field for European immigrants, and be-
cause it is not necessary that the con-
sumner of food should live in the coun-
try that produces it.
From all these considerations I assume
that this world of ours, if brought fully
into cultivation, can supply S, 994, 600, 600
human beings with food and other neces-
sary products of the vegetable kingdom.
St. Landry democrat. (Opelousas, La.) 1878-1894, 1893-07-15
The whole earth. .
CONCLUSION.

CONCLUSION.
Accepting these figures as correct,
becomes an easy matter to compute : =
increase of the nori,aerv md Rosrd asan SO
&c -; -ype.W citing and TeleEvaphy sr.ei.iti,..
beautiful and hsalthfrl, Tes circulars a4dIsss.
WILBUR r. SNlyH. LEXINGTON.
St. Landry democrat. (Opelousas, La.) 1878-1894, 1893-07-15
INCREASE OF POPULATION.

On this point not only are our statistics
still very incomplete, but conditions,
social or otherwise, may arise, that would
materially affect the present movement
of the population. Weighing all the data
to be had, and carefully considering all
the causes which are all likely to give an
impetus to the growth of population or
retard it in the various quarters of the
world, assume that the increase in the
course of decade will amount to 10 per
cent.
Summarized, the results Of my careful
estimates are as follows:
in IL
St. Landry democrat. (Opelousas, La.) 1878-1894, 1893-07-15

dannan 8 at inc WINDOW DlHdlnS Shoes
Sailing away!
Losing the breath of the shores in May,
Dropping down from the beautiful bay,
Over the sea slope vast and gray!
And the shippers eyes with mist are blind,
For vision comes on the rising wind
Of gentle face that he leaves behind,
And heart that throbs through the fog bank
dim,
Thinking of him.
Far into night
He watches the CLEAN of the lessening light
Fixed on the dangerous island height
That bars the harbor he loves from sight,
And he wishes, at dawn, he could tell the
tale
Of how they weathered the southwest gale,
To brighten the cheek that had grown &C
pale
With wakeful night among spectres grim
Terrors for him.
Yo-heave-yo!
Here's the bank where the fishermen go.
Over the schooners side they throw
Tackleand bait to the deeps below,
And Skipper Ben in the water sees,
When its ripples curl to the light land breeze,
Something that stirs like his apple trees,
And two soft eyes that beneath them swim,
Lifted to him.
Hear the wind roar,
pour!
"steady! we'll scud by the Cape Ann shore,
Then bark to the Beverly bells once more!"
And each man worked with the will of ten;
While up in the rigging, now and then,
The lightning glared in the face of Ben,
Turned to the black horizons rim,
Scowling on him.
Into his brain
Burned with the iron of hopeless pain,
Into thoughts that grapple and eyes that
strain,
Pierces the memory, cruel and vain
Never again shall he walk at ease
Under the blossoming apple trees
That whisper and sway to the sunset breeze,
While soft eyes float where the sea gulls
skim,
Gazing with him.
How they went down
Never was known in the still old town.
Nobody guessed how the fisherman brown.
With the look of despair that was half a
frown,
Faced his fate in the furious night
Faced the mad pillows with hunger white,
just within hail of the beacon light
That shone on a woman sweet and trim,
Waiting for him.
Beverly bells
Ring to the tide as it GIBBS and swells
His was the anguish moment tells
The passionate sorrow death quickly knells.
But the we,ring wash of lifelong woe
Is left for the desolate heart to know,
Whose tides with the dull We rs come and go,
Till hope drifts dead to it's stagnant brim,
Thinking of him.
Poor lone Hannah.
Sitting at the window binding shoes,
Faded wrinkled,
Sitting, stitching, in a mournful muse,
Br.ght-eyed beauty once was she,
When the bloom was on the tree;
Spring and winter,
Hannah's at the window, binding sho 8.
Not neighbor
Passing nod or answer will refuse
To her whisper;
Is there from the fishers any news?
Oh, her hearts adrift with one
On an endless vyage gone!
Night and morning,
Hannah's at the window, binding shoes.
IT'S Move ntsr,
Now no tear her wasted cheek bedews,
From Newfoundlands
Not sail returning will she lose,
Whispering hoarsely, FISHERMEN,
Have you, have you heard of B en- %
via WIN watching,
Hannah's at the window, binding shoes.
Twenty winters
Bleach and tear the ragged shore she viaws.
Twenty SEASONS
Never one has brought her any news.
Still her Gin eyes silently
Chase the white sails DER the sea.
Hopeless, faithful,
Hannah's at the window, binding sho s.
St. Landry democrat. (Opelousas, La.) 1878-1894, 1893-07-15
A DEATH AND 4 LIFE:

- BY LUCY LARCoM. >
Fair young Hannah,
Ben, the sunburnt fisher, gayly woos;
Hale and clever,
For willing heart and hand he sues.
May-day skies are all aglow, :,
And the waves are laughing sol ::
For her wedding
Hannah leaves her window and her shoes.
May is passing;
Mid the apple boughs pigeon COOS.
Hannah shudders,
For the mild Southwestern mischief brews. >.
Round the rocks of Marblehead,
Outward bound, schooner sped.
Silent, lonesome.
Hannah's at the window binding shoes.
Sailing away!
Losing the breath of the shores in May,
Dropping down from the beautiful bay,
Over the sea slope vast and gray!
And the shippers eyes with q mist are blind,
For vision comes on the rising wind
Of gentle face that he leaves behind,
And heart that throbs through the fog bank
dim,
St. Landry democrat. (Opelousas, La.) 1878-1894, 1893-07-15
Gazing with him.

How they went down
Never was known in the still old town.
Nobody guessed how the fisherman brown.
With the look of despair that was half a
frown,
Faced his fate in the furious night
Faced the mad pillows with hunger white,
Just within hail of the beacon light
That shone on a woman sweet and trim,
Waiting for him.
St. Landry democrat. (Opelousas, La.) 1878-1894, 1893-07-15
Into his brain

Burned with the iron of hopeless pain,
Into thoughts that grapple and eyes that
strain,
Pierces the memory, cruel and vain
Never again shall he walk at ease
Under the poisoning apple trees
That whisper and sway to the sunset breeze,
While soft eyes float where the sea gulls
St. Landry democrat. (Opelousas, La.) 1878-1894, 1893-07-15


And the rain through the slit sails tear and
pour!
"steady! we'll scud by the Cape Ann shore,
Then bark to the Beverly bells once more!'
And each man worked with the will of ten;
While up in the rigging, now and then,
The lightning glared in the face of Ben,
Turned to the black horizons rim,
Scowllng on him.
St. Landry democrat. (Opelousas, La.) 1878-1894, 1893-07-15
Thinking of him.

Far into night
He watches the CLEAN of the lessening light
Fixed on the dangerous island height
That bars the harbor he loves from sight,
And he wishes, at dawn he could tell the
tale
Of how they weathered the southwest gale,
To brighten the cheek that had grown so
pale
With wakeful night among spectres grim
Terrors for him.
St. Landry democrat. (Opelousas, La.) 1878-1894, 1893-07-15
Beverly bells

Ring to the tide as it GIBBS and swells!
His was the anguish moment tells
The passionate sorrow death quickly knells.
But the we,ring wash of a lifelong woe
Is left for the desolate heart to know,
Whose tides with the dull We rs come and go,
Till hope drifts dead to its stagnant brim,
Thinking Of him.
St. Landry democrat. (Opelousas, La.) 1878-1894, 1893-07-15

10-heaVe-yO!
Here's the bank where the fishermen go.
Over the schooner's side they throw
Tackleand bait to the deeps below,
And Skipper Ben in the water sees,
When it's ripples curl to the light land breeze
Something that stirs like his apple trees,
And two soft eyes that beneath them swim,
Lifted to him.
St. Landry democrat. (Opelousas, La.) 1878-1894, 1893-07-15
Fertile
POSSIBLE POPULATION.

Total .2S, $4,000 1891 900
The Hawaiian gazette., 1893-04-04
THE SITUATION.

The temporary protectorate IS
dissolved. but the Provisional Gov
eminent still lives and fiourishes.
The removal of the flag has afforded
q fresh proof of the strength Of the
Government and its abundant
ability to take care OF itself and its
enemies too. There is no feeling
of discouragement, but, on the con-
trary, one of steady determination
to carry TO a successful issue 3
movement which promises the
country more prosperity and better
hope than snything which has
happened these fifty years, and
which is gaining in strength every
day. The Government is strong
stronger than any government
which Honolulu has known for
many years-snd it can maintain
itself with ease against every in
ternal foe. The enthusiastic rally
Of the Volunteers on Saturday last
showed where the hearts of the
foreign community were and are.
There mas never been q Govern
ment in Hawaii since civilized
government was established in this
country, which could rally five
hundred men TO its support within
an hour. The present Government
can do it, and It viii do so when
necessary.
The friends of annexation need
entertain no fears because they are
for the moment left to their own
resources. Those resources are
ample. In the absence of definite
information, it is impossible to do
more than speculate on the precise
of Commissioner
Blount's action, but the issue of it
cannot be doubted. It viii show
him that seyen-eighths of the
wealth and intelligence and brain
and sinew Of this country are on
the side Of annexation.
The Hawaiian gazette., 1893-04-04

RUxoE was active yesterday, but
the stories stated were all too alb
surd TO meet with any credeuce.
The royalists are still laboring
under the deIusion that LiIiuoka-
lzni Is going to be put back on the
throne, and nothing can nd them
Of this Authorization. Il was said
that the late deposed Cabinet,
whose names are almost forgotten,
propose to shake their dry bones
and come to life long enough to de-
mand Of the Provisional Govern
ment the restoration Of the ex-
Queen 1t cannot be done, even to
please these venerable antiquarians.
The Hawaiian gazette., 1893-04-04

anese representatives, He stated
positively that neither he nor any
attaohe of the Consulate, nor any
one connected with him in any way,
had received any overtures or COM
munications from any one con-
neoted with the ex-Queen. When
asked as to the probable attitude of
the ex-Queen, however, he candidly
admitted that he suspected she had
disposition that way. He dis
creetly declined, however to give
any facts upon which his feeling in
the matter was based.
The conversation drifted to the
subject of the Japanese prisoner
who took refuge on the Naniwa.
"Were you dissatisfied with the
verdict in that case?" asked the re-
porter" 'Not at all. My position
in that matter has been misunder-
Stood" said the Consul, Even if
there had been an extradition
treaty I would not have returned
the man. If it had been the United
States, it would not have been any
different. | had no power to do so,
That is a matter for the Foreign
Office. The Captain could not re-
turn the man. When. he came on
board he did not know what was
the matter. The man then made
q full confession, but the Captain
had no right to return man who
claimed the protection of the Jap
anese flag; neither had l. 1t was
not because we regarded him as a
valuable acquisition" said the Con-
sui facetiously, I'VE would have
been glad TO get rid of him. | was
perfectly satisfied with the trial"
Mr.. Fugii declared himself much
gratifed by the action of the Pro-
visional Government in committing
the death sentence Of Matsuda.
He was glad to find there was no
foundation for the absurd state
ment that the Government would
revenge upon the other Japanese
prisoners, the escape to the Ma
niwa.
The Hawaiian gazette., 1893-04-04

Just the same and gathering IN
fresh adherents every day, and the
Government was never stronger
than 1t is at present. The protector
ste established BY Minister Stevens
was purely temporary, pending,
and subject 10 negotiations st Wash
ington,7 and so far SIS its terms sre
concerned might have terminated
two weeks ago. No negotiations
are now pending between Homo
lulu and Washington, SIS the Treaty
has been withdrawn from the Sem
ste, and Colonel Blount is here TO
investigate, not 10 negotiate. The
withdrawal Of the flag does not
imply any disSvowsl Of Minister
Stevens course, Ror any unfriendh-
ness on the part Of the new admin
istratiou toward the PROVISIONAL
Government. The United States viii
brook no interference on the part
of foreign powers and its troops
viii be landed at s moments
notice in case Of any disorder.
Mr.. Bayard'S instructions to the
American Minister during CIeve-
lands former administration were
unequivocal on this point, and it is
not likely that Mr.. Cleveland has
been going backward while all the
rest OF the world have been going
ahead
The Hawaiian gazette., 1893-04-04
ahead

TIE Government has decided 70
place Company \ OF the National
Guard in charge Of the Govern
ment Building in place Of the de-
parted marines. The men Of Com
pany A can be relied upon, and
the headquarters Of the Govern
ment viii be safe in their care. \ de-
tail from Companies B, c or D viii
take charge Of the Palace grounds
ST night. We believe this further
addition to the regular force to
be entirely superfuous. The Gov
eminent Is strong and need fear
no attack. We are informed, how
ever, that this precaution is in
tended for s few days only. In
the same way the planting Of 4
gatling gun at the foot Of the
stairs in the Government Building
is an unnecessary precaution.
Ours, though provisional, is in no
sense Z revolutionary government.
It is the legal and only authority
in this country, acknowledged by
all the foreign powers, and works
as smoothly as the Government Of
the United States. The gatling
gun recalls the days of armed revo-
ton, which have now given place
TO the days Of peaceful routine.
There Is no reason whatever to sp-
prehend that anyone contemplates
any act Of armed resistance against
the authority of the Provisional
Government of Hawaii.