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The Lafayette gazette. [volume] (Lafayette, La.) 1893-1921, 1894-09-29
LET TOBACCO GET RIPE.

| Too Mucl. Haste In Harvesting the Gro,
Causes Waste of Substance.
| Mr.. NJ. I. Barker. one of the most ex
periencet tobacconist in the state
| says that a majority of our farmers
make Il great mistake by not letting
their tobacco get fully ripe before cut.
ting it.
II can not understand,'' said he,
why farmers are in such haste to cut
their CROPS unless it is to avoid the
worms and suckers. which as YOU
know, are quite trou blesome when the
plants are nearly ripe. The dews late
in the season are the making of tobac-
CO, both as to weight and worth. It is
then that tobacco gets it's gum, the
cool color and its real character.
Tobacco has character like any thing
else. If cut green, it becomes. when
the sap leaves it, thin. slazy, light. ir-
regular and undesirable in color, easy
to funk and of a bad character GEN
orally.
''Real ripe tobacco. on the other
hand, has a substantial character. it is
bright red. or red and yellow, on both
sides, weighs well, has the keeping
quality. shews sweet and is always
sought after.
'Why. you hardly ever see 4 we'll
ripe hogshead on the breaks. but when
you do you see all the buyers gather.
ing around it; they are attracted by it
anu o1leE: Uney themselves can hardly
tell why. The same thing is more
noticeable, though, in large manufac-
tories. When nice, well-ripe hogs
head is opened up. the men gather
around it and are pleased with it-be-
cause i; is ripe
In letting it get good and ripe it
may sometimes spot some, but would
much rather have it with spots than to
have it green.
''The fact is, people don't raise as
good tobacco nowadays as formerly. |
and it's because they don't let it get |
ripe. They needn't fear, for a real ripe |
plant, even when late, will cure nicely |
when an unripe plant would fail to |
cure
What do you think of the growing
crop. Mr.. Barker?
1.-THE general outlook is good, and in
his county the prospect is fine. The
crop has been we'll cultivated, too; lots
IT it has been topped; it is green and
nicely. The farmers have
'eason to feel encouraged -Carrollton
ky.) Democrat
The Lafayette gazette. [volume] (Lafayette, La.) 1893-1921, 1894-09-29
warmed-Over Eees,

I am not a scientist, so can't explain
1T, but it is q fact that eggs that have
been cooked, boiled, three minutes or
less, can be reboiled the next morning,
and will not only be fresh, but as soft
and palatable as though cooked but
once. After an egg has been heated
and cooled you could cook it till dooms-
day and it would not get hard. Some
property in it resists the hardening
process after it is once heated, if ONLY
to the oft-boiled point. Some will turn
up their patrician noses at the idea of
warmed-over eggs. but they will find
them even better than vvarmed-over
meath. Y. Advertiser
The Lafayette gazette. [volume] (Lafayette, La.) 1893-1921, 1894-09-29
MUTTON SHEEP.
A Class OF Sheep to Which Farmers Should
Pay More Attention.

A Class of Sheep to Which Farmers Should
| Pay More Attention.
That farmers ella SIS should use
moro mutton can hardly be disputed
1t is palatable. cheap and nutritious,
and when sheep are kept upon the farm
affords an opportu nifty of having fresh
meat at a less cost and with a less risk
OF loss than almost any other class of
stock During harvest and at thresh.
ing more or less fresh meat is neces-
sary, and with little planning a head
OF mutton can be made to supply all
that is needed, but it is not only on
these extra occasions that mutton can
be used to a great advantage. On too
many farms too much dependence is
placed upon fat bacon or picked pork
for the meat. During the summer
the constant use of fat pork in this
way is at least detrimental to health
If not positively injurious, and fresh
meat would he healthier as well as
more palatable. Many farmers are so
situated that they can not depend upon
the butcher, while in reality the NUT.
ton is so much cheaper that the aver
age farmer can better afford to kill
good fat mutton than to purchase
fresh meat from the butcher, even
though it be brought to the door rea.
NonabIy regular. One advantage of
tuition over other kinds Of fresh meat
Is that it will keep longer than either
'sut to have supply when needed
and to have of Il good quality it ia
neHrly always best to commence in
Eood season. Mutton to be good, should
be reasonably fat. but with plenty OF
grass and water this would not IT, dit.
fcult to secure.
There is nearly always wetf crs or
ewes that have not proven good breed |
err: that should either be fattencd and
marketed or butchered, and when |
fresh meat is needed it will be- moro
to butcher than to market,
rs selling fat mutton and buying fresh
beef and pork is paying a good profit
ter converting animals into meat while
It is very questionable, all things con.
'idered, if the quality is as good.
The average farm family will readily
lat good mutton before it will :.poil,
md do this much more readily than
hey would a pork or beef, and this is
lu1te an item.-Wool and Hide Ship
,s,r.
The Lafayette gazette. [volume] (Lafayette, La.) 1893-1921, 1894-09-29
Opposed to Coercion.

The knight of rest slipped into the
backyard as if he had been guilty OF
some ohense' and putting an empty
tomato can out of sight under his tat.
tered coat, he approached the portcul-
lis OF the kitchen and tapped on it witt,
his halidom. In response, a wiry-hairetl.
girl. with towel tied around her head.
made her appearance. 8
Wen?s she said interrogatively, -
she took his measure with her escle
eye. -
Just thought I'd strike you for
breakfast" he answered apoloreticafly.
We don't believe in strikes in thta
neighborhood, she said emphatiuall9
and alarmed the door with q bang that
knocked the duet out Of his toe1.-DN
troat ysse Press -. IS
The Lafayette gazette. [volume] (Lafayette, La.) 1893-1921, 1894-09-29
FARMER AND PLANTER.
TIMBER CULTURE.

! Tennessee Ono of tho Few States Not Yet
| Stripped and Making Effort at Renewal
| Of Her Forests.
| Tennessee is one of the few states
| that have not been stripped of their
| timber without concern for future
| needs and climatic conditions. About
so per cent. of the land in Tennessee is
| still wooded. There are rs, $50, 600 acres
| in the state altogether, of which near
ly IS, OO0, 900 are timbered. Only three
states in the south have a greater tim
Der acreage-North Carolina, South
Carolina and Georgia. AS the altitude
of the forests of Tennessee varies from
200 to 5000 feet above the seas level,
United States are to be found
there. In value, the oak has the
first place. but the ash, of which
there are two varieties, the white and
the blue. is hardly less important
Even in Tennessee the forests of ash
are now found only in districts remote
from the railroads, but so rapid is the,
growth of this tree that it is being
planted as an Investment. farmer
who set out a grove of ash trees, COW
ering 10 acres, IL years ago, now has
$4,000 trees inches in diameter on an
average and IS feet high. There were
no expenses of cultivating, and the 10
acres OF the $4,000 trees are worth
at the present time between s., 900 and
5000. Besides oak and ash, Tennessee
possesses three varieties of elm,
two OF gum, two of fir, three
of hickory, two of locust, three of |
maple, two of pine, three of poplar and |
two of walnut. Among other trees !
found il, abundance are the beech,
birch, buckeye. red cedar, wild cherry,
cottonwood, cypress, dogwood, bass
wood, mulberry, tupelo, sycamore and
the sassafras. OF oaks, there are no
less thar twelve varieties Cedar, un-
fortunately, is going very fast. Bucket
factories In the state use 5000, 900 feet
Of this timber every year. Telegraph
companies use it almost exclusively for
poles. Nearly 1000, 900 feet goes each
year to st. Louis. where it is made into
fence rails. The rapidity with which
The cedar is being consumed has opened
The eyes Of some of the friends of the
forests in Tennessee. and a warning
las been sounded.-N.Y. Evening Post
The Lafayette gazette. [volume] (Lafayette, La.) 1893-1921, 1894-09-29
GAVE HER THE DODGE,

uncle snort Gives u Short l1omtly on
Woman's Rights.
Wife has for some time past been
holding the reins in one hand and the
whip in the other. and have been do
ing the prancing act, though + did not
go off in a prance,' for, as I said, she
has been holding the reins and the
whip, and every time I kicked she
struck, and guess that is one reason
that am so much opposed to strikes.
1t may be all right, for my pastor seems
to think that if my wife did not have a
good deal of grit. pluck, push and good
sense, would soon be hanging on to
the ragged edge of poverty and gen
eral no-accountedness don't believe
that there is any such word as
that, but that is the way they
have fixed it. But there is one
thing chat am very sure of, and that is
that there arc great many other men
in this country who. if their wives held
the reins in one hand and good quirt
whip in the other, they would soon be
wiser and better men. There would
not be SO many weeds left in their corn
and cotton fields to go to seed, nor
along the fence rows and roadsides.
No, they would spend more time at
nome and less time running to town on
every pretext, and thus spending so
much valuable time in worse than idle
ness. Woman's rights! Yes, am in
favor OF woman's rights. Every woman
should have the right to sec that her
husband stays Ut home, attends to bio
The Lafayette gazette. [volume] (Lafayette, La.) 1893-1921, 1894-09-29
HE GOT THE PLUME.
But He Was Not Happy Afterward a. He
Had Been.

Had Been.
A ludicrous incident occurred in one
OF the prominent churches in this city
on a recent Sunday which is liable to
cool the churchgoing areior of the young
| man in the case and be a feature in the
experience of the young lady that she
will not soon forget.
The young man, immaculate in
long coat. light creased trousers and
SPot1ess linen, was ushered to a seat
directly in front of bewitching and
stylishly dressed young lady, on whose
curly head reposed an elaborate and
expensive model of milliner's art, the
principal feature of which was a very
large and beautiful plume.
When the good dominic commenced
his long prayer the young mans
thoughts We're evidently on his fair
neighbor, and consequently he neglect
ed to assume an attitude of reverence
Not SO with the young lady. She
Immediately bowed her head on the
back of the seat in front, and the plume
OF her hat brushed the back of the
young mans neck.
Thinking it a fly, he tried to scare it
away with his hand: but, like the cat,
it 'came back with the persistence OF
a book agent, and after several vain 1T.
tempts to keep it off his neck visions Of
centlPedes, scorpions, tarantulas and
other poisonous monsters filled his
agonized mind.
With desperation born of despair, he
made one grand grab, secured the
troublesome object, gave a quick,
strong jerk and landed the gorgeous
plume in his lap.
OF course the young lady was sur.
Prlsed and indignant, and the YOUNG
man was SO embarrassed that he forgot
to apologize at the close of the service
Rochester IN. W Democrat.
The Lafayette gazette. [volume] (Lafayette, La.) 1893-1921, 1894-09-29
HERE AND THERE,

Your home tells the stranger what
you are. What kind of a reputation
does it give you?
We'll fed is half BRED is a true
saying. No man ever starved. money
ont Of live stock.
The man who works all the week
ought not to worry on Sunday. WORRY
is the hardest kind of work.
A modernphilosoph once said tina I
TT e iran who worked for nothing and
bearded himself hardly ever earned
more than he got.
II you make companions of vour
children you are laying up a store of
comfort for your old age that will re.
turn very large interest on the in.
ve:itment.
When you sell a COW, sell the DOOR
est one you have, but don't swear that
she is the best one. 1t is pretty hard
to Go tais, but it can be done, and You
will Not be sorry for it afterwards.
Somebody has said: ''You must feed
your farm if you want it to feed Won"
and this u true. If you keep taking of
your farm Hnd never put anything back
you are bresiing poverty for your chill
dren.
Hard times are not made any bet
ter by brooding over them and whining
about them. 1t is better to smile than
to sigh any time. Half our evils are
most of the other half
preventable.
Most of hired men have souls. but
some employers treat them as if thew
had not. Nothing pays better in the
way OF returns than to treat the hired
man as it he were q human being. A
word of praise now and then makes
work much easier for the man.
Some men work as if they expected
TO sleep forever when they die. These
sa me men arc going to he surprised
some time when they find out how
much time 1t is possible to waste at
work. - The American Farmer aud
Farm News
The Lafayette gazette. [volume] (Lafayette, La.) 1893-1921, 1894-09-29
LAFAYETTE, La, SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 30 1894

own business ana makes her a good liv-
Ing, and if he don't, she ought to have
the right to board him, and then lust
keep right on boarding him till she
makes a man of him.
slipped the bride" the other day
and took a run over to Crisp, in the
southeast portion of the county, on tho
Texas Midland railroad, and I tell Won
1T made me feel like taking OF nv hat
and hollering 'Rah for Texas! The
corn crop everywhere along the line,
and in fact all over the county, is as
good as the most greedy farmer could
ask for, and the cotton is as fine al I
have ever seen at this season of the
year. Some one has said, you can't
hold good country down. - and that is
about right. We have made lots OF
wheat. oats and corn, and we will
have lots of fat hogs and fat
cattle. and we are going to
live fat and happy if the congress of
the u nlted States continues to act tho
fool. The wise thing for the farmer to
do is to now begin to feed his hogs,
save his fodder, put up his hay break
his stubble land, and break it deep: cut
down every weed on the place; be good
to your wife; tell her that she is the
prettlest and sweetest woman in the
world, If you know you are lying. for |
II you dont think SO you ought to: 90
to preaching and try to do what the |
preacher tells if you think he knows; if |
von don't, do as your wife says, and if |
you don't get to Heaven it will be your
own pure meanness.-Texas Farm and
Ranr.h
The Lafayette gazette. [volume] (Lafayette, La.) 1893-1921, 1894-09-29
CultIvatlnH Corn.

Experiments made in the cultivation
OF corn show that once a week gives
the best results. A plat cultivated
twice a week made 40 so bushels, while
one alongside cultivated once a week
made 41.29 bushels. Taking into con-
sidcration the cost of the extra cultiva-
ton, the advantage was all with the
Once-a-weel< cultiva tiop
The Lafayette gazette. [volume] (Lafayette, La.) 1893-1921, 1894-09-29
SCHOOL AND cAURcH.

! Accepting to the Catholic HERALD
there are about 152, 900 colored Catf.c5
lies in the United States.
"A new porch and towers are to lie.
added to Trinity church, Boston, q a
object for which the late Bishop Brooks.
! left 81 900.
George E. Hardy has been elected
professor of English language and lit
| era ture in the College of the City of
! New York.
! The number of educational institu-
lions of one kind or another in India is
put down in Chambers Cyclopedie
Us92) at 900.
Gen. Booth of the Salvation army
and his captains of either sex have
been officially declared to be ministers
of religion wi thin The meaning of the
law.
1t is claimed that a college gradu-
ate's chances of obtaining fair degree
of eminence are as $50 to 1 as compared
with the men who have not been at
college.
1t requires a sum of upward of s1O.-
600 year. voluntarily provided, to
MAINTAIN and educate the 500 fatherless
children of the Sturgeon orphans
homes, Stockwell.
DIR. Buckley says he once attended
a service in Presbyterian church
where every man present, except him
self and the preacher. was asleep, and
every woman was awake.
A striking proof of the growth of
the missionary spirit is seen in the
fact that Australasia has recently sent
missionaries to Ceylon, Africa. China
and Sapan.-Chicago Standard.
The recent parliamentary elections
in Japan have resulted favorably to
the friends of Christianity and the poll
cy of encouraging foreigners. The
fact of being Christian has not oper-
ated unfavorably in the case of any
candidate.
"A sister of the late Mr.. Spurseon
preached twice recently to crowded T.
at the handsome church
in Hampstead road. in connection with
the service. Her manner is impressive,
and she bears a personal resemblance
TO her eminent brother.
The diplomas received by the re-
;ent graduates of Radcliffe college will
o1ne time possess great historic value.
They are the first to bear the signature
# the president of Hazard. which they
10 in addition to that of Mrs. Agassiz.
PRESIDENT of Radcliffe.
Rev. Sam Belts, cowboy evan
'e1ist, thus sums up the results of his
ecent revival at Bay City, Mich: II
lad over 5000 conversions, 1,?ss o. -o-ls
ers signed the pledge, 1862 as rass<=o
or expenses, $500 clear for Ss.tri and
ZOO people were fed free me -
The business college ile.. IN eduoa-
ion, which has taken so fir,1, q hoId OF
he popular mind, is nc - sudden -
rowth, but is natural development
the industrial conditions and re-
of our time. The fact that
nr ordinary schools and colleges did
OF prepare for practical business life
radually became apparent. and thus
ne business school grew up to supply
he deficiency.
Seven Chaldean priests from east
m Turkey have come to this country
} beg money for rebu Hiding a church
their native land. Some showed
tier of introduction, in very bad
rench, said to be from the bishop of
esopota1nia. Others claimed to be
resbyterians One said that he came
ON the city of Van. in Asia Minor.
first there was some hesitancy about
lowing them to land, as they ap-
'ared to be very like paupers. They
ere, however, at last released.
The Lafayette gazette. [volume] (Lafayette, La.) 1893-1921, 1894-09-29

administrators is q story about 8
girl who refused to merry a man be,
hair" Mante-''Goodness. The silly
thing must have thought that married
people had to be together most OF tbs
time. "--Indiauspolis journal.
The Lafayette gazette. [volume] (Lafayette, La.) 1893-1921, 1894-09-29
Honor aud Duty.

You can not go through life, no mat
ter how humble your sphere, without
being called upon many times to decide
whether you will be true or false to
honor and duty. Duty and honor
must go hand in hand-there can be
no divorce between these words. You
can make your lives useful, beautiful
and noble. You can make them worth
less and contemptible.-Detro Free
Press.
The Lafayette gazette. [volume] (Lafayette, La.) 1893-1921, 1894-09-29

-"Gcot museek," said tho German
professor, heaming kindly on-his class,
''aidts Ger dichestion undt INCREASES
dot appetite" II wonder" unused
the though tful girl who wore glasses
ond had . high forehead, eff that is
the reason why pianos IL boarding
houses ore never ned7"-Detroi1
Free Press.
The Lafayette gazette. [volume] (Lafayette, La.) 1893-1921, 1894-09-29

-'How's Chappie to-day, improving
any?" Doctor-''Yes.'' Glow about
his appetizer" Good. Yesterday he
took Cruel and to-day ten, toast, and
his cane. "-Iutor-Occau.
The Dalles daily chronicle. [volume] (The Dalles, Or.) 1890-1948, 1894-03-22
THE TALLow TREE.
It Produces the Famous Rice Paper and

It Produces the Famous EStco Eaper anu
Rich OIL.
Our foreign consuls quite frequent
ly send home curious and interesting
under their observation while in line
ofduty. These articles, valuable from
several points of view, are never seen
by one in each ten thousand of our
population, because the documents in
which they appear, being classed with
other government publications" are
seldom consulted.
In this way, says the Detroit Free
Press, much that is interesting and
valuable to the scientist and general
reader is overlooked. For an instance
the descriptions of the curious vegeta-
ton of China, especially the s'tallow
tree" This tree is the stillingia sebi-
fera of the botanist, the root of which
produces oil, the bark the famous s'rice
paper" and the berries tallow. The
greasy berries are of light scarlet
and resemble those of the coffee of
commerce, both in size and color. In
preparing the tallow the beans or ber-
ries are first steamed and then pounded
in order to separate the mesocarp from
the kernels.
This pulp is then placed in bamboo
seine and the mealy portions separated
from the hulls, the tallowy substance
having the oil expressed from it an
large, primitive wooden presses, while
the chaff or hulls is converted into
fuel. The oil thus obtained is used for
oil stoves, lighting purposes, etc. The
whole tree from root to leaf is sur
charged with oleaginous matter, and
broken limbs and abrasions in the bark
ha We been known to exude pure oil for
days in succession.
The Dalles daily chronicle. [volume] (The Dalles, Or.) 1890-1948, 1894-03-22
WHAT scRAPPLE is.
A Diner Who Had Some Trouble in Find.
ing 1t Out.

A Diner Who Had Some Trouble in Find
ing 1t Out.
'SFor years. said cos mopolitan
diner, lone triumph of Philadelphia
cuisine was denied. me. had eaten
catfish and waffles at the Wissahicken
roadhouses, terrapin and reedbirds at
the clubs and private tables, and oys-
ters brought unshoclzed. to my hosts
house in a basket; but scrapple for
me existed only as a name. Philadel-
phians feigned ignorance concerning
it, and in all my range of New York
acquaintance l found no one who
could even tell me about it. So at last
gave up scrapple as a dream of the
unattainable; a creature all too rare
and good for aught but Quaker daily
food. Then, as often happens when
you give thing up and cease to think
about it, in Third avenue one day I
saw in the window of a butchers shop
the placard: Genuine PHILADELPHIA
Scrapple.' The words identified a
block of what looked like sausage
meat, about a foot square ana as thick
as a brick, and, with the thrill of a
discoverer, first beheld scrapple. En-
tering the shop, l learned from the
vcnder thatthis delicacy is n compound
of hogshead cheese and Indian meal.
cooked together and nodded, ready to
be cut in slices and fried. The market
man cut off for me large slice of
scrapple, which took to restaurant
and had fried. 1t was highly seasoned
with pepper and sage, and was decided
1y an agreeable DISH
The Dalles daily chronicle. [volume] (The Dalles, Or.) 1890-1948, 1894-03-22

Which is the best to try,
if you have Catarrh-a medi-
cine that claims to have cured
others, or a medicine that is
backed by money to cure y01g 2
The proprietors of DR.. Sage's
Catarrh Remedy agree to cure
your Catarrh, perfectly and fer
nzaneutky, or they'll pay you
$500 in cash.
The Dalles daily chronicle. [volume] (The Dalles, Or.) 1890-1948, 1894-03-22
Food value or oxsters.

Urging the use of oysters as food. an
exchange says: .Spealsing roughly. a.
quart of oysters contains, on the aver
age, about the same quantity of actual
nutritive substance as q quart of milk,
or pound of very lean beef, or a
pound and half of fresh Goldfish, or
two-thirds of a pound of bread But
while the weight of actual nutriment
in the different quantities OF food ma
terial named is widely different. that
of the very lean meat or Goldfish con-
sists mostly of what are called in chein-
ical Language, protein compounds, or
flesh formers''-the substances which
make blood, muscle, tendon, bone,
brain and other heterogeneous tissues.
That of the bread contains but little of
these, and consists chiefly of starch,
with little fat and other compounds,
which serve the body as fuel and sup
ply it with heat and muscular power.
The nutritive SUI ance of oysters con-
tains considerable of both the flesh
forming and the more especially heat
and force giving ingredients.
The Dalles daily chronicle. [volume] (The Dalles, Or.) 1890-1948, 1894-03-22
Deserving Praise

We desire to say to our citizens, that
for years we have been selling DIR.
Kings New Discovery for Consumption,
DIR. Kings New Life Pills, Bucklen's
Arnica Salve and Electric Bitters, and
have never handled remedies that sell as
well, or that have given such universal
satisfaction. We do not hesitate to
guarantee them every time, as we stand
ready to refund the purchase price, if
satisfactory results do not follow their
use. There remedies have won their
great popularity purely on their merits.
Snipes & Kinersly's druggists.