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The Lafayette gazette. [volume] (Lafayette, La.) 1893-1921, 1895-07-20
HERE AND THERE.

When the dog forms habit OF
chasing the hens to hear them squa1l,
better cut off his tail just back of the
ears.
-Potat oes may be grown from seed,
and in this manner new and sometimes
valua BILE varieties are secured.
Eggs that are known to be abso-
lutely fresh always have a market and
always bring good prices. This is a
pointer, and many of our readers
might profit by it.
Neglected fowls are never profita-
BILE, and the same applies to every bus
mess. Profit is the reward of pains
taking care, and loss the punishment
of careleSsnese and neglect.
Salt for cattle is more important
in summer than in winter. When cows
are on grass salt will be highly rel
ished by them, it serves to keep
them in health.
1t is said that last year England
paid So2, 900, 600 for poultry and eggs
from other countries. England is a
great poultry producing country and
the business is increasing, still she can
not supply the demand.
Cut straw can he more evenly dis.
tr,buted as bedding for cattle than
whole straw, and will serve better as
an absorbent when added to the ma
nure heap. The labor required to cut
it is not u S great an expense as the loss
from ma ure when the straw is uncut.
A New York fruit grower at an in-
stitute said: Orchards should be tahen
care of or destroyed. Few realize how
much valuable land is unproductiva
owing to its condition. In most cases,
bv blowing the sod and fertilizing and
pruning. vigor, health and fruitful-
ness can be restored. a thorough
cleaning up viii completely change the
aspect of Our fruit farms and homes,
ard many places can be made valuable
which otherwise ore Hayshses&
The Lafayette gazette. [volume] (Lafayette, La.) 1893-1921, 1895-07-20
CEYLON REST-HOUSE
KOad-Side Accom- motiations for Tros

Roadside Accom- ohations for TrosSl.
The 'srest-house" is a governmental
system of providing roadside accom-
moda tions, carried in Ceylon to a high-
err standard Of excellence possibly than
in any of the eastern countries. En-
glish occupation has everywhere been
synonymous with the development OF
resources. and it has ever been rec
ognized that the first ste p in this direc-
ton must be the opening OF roads and
their maintenance in good condition.
1t was early found that the use of the
roads by Europeans and the better
class of natives depended to a large exc
tent upon the possibility of breaking
journey at convenient stages, especial
up country it could not be
that suitable places for the en-
teri inment of travellers would exist
at points where most required. and as
the natives themselves were not to bo
depended upon to furnish adequate en-
tertainment. the government decided
to erect and furnish rest-houses as q
part of the general road system.
The result in Ceylon is that through
out the island. where means of com.
mun lea ton by roadways have been es-
tablished, there at convenient
points neat and com forta bl yfurnished
stopping places, managed by natives.
it is true, but under the close super
vision Of the roadway officials who are
Europeans. The rest-houses. many OF
them, compare favorably with the best
of the private bungalows in the sec
tions where they are located; and not
ipfrcquently the taste displayed in
the planting and training of flow
ers, foliage plants, vines, and
ferns together with the artistic arch.
itecture, renders them pictures wor.
thy of a painters brush. These houses
are in charge of a native. who is
known the butler, and who for the
care of the esta blishment has the
privilege Of supplying the edibles, SUBJ
stantial well liquid. All the
charges are fixed by the governments.
and those for rooms, etc, become a part
Of the government revenue, while those
for meals. etc. are the buffers. As 3
rule the accomm odationS are limited to
such are requisite for a half dozen
people, and the cost of entertainment
is very moderate indeed, especially to
those travelling with English letters of
credit. which insures Ceylon money at
the ratio of about two to one. Five to
six rupees per day, or from a dollar and
Il quarter to a dollar and a half, meets
all requirements, including the indis-
pensa BILE tips all around.-Harper3
Weekly. ..'
The Lafayette gazette. [volume] (Lafayette, La.) 1893-1921, 1895-07-20

the gas alight in the next room to be-
gin with?' 1t was a cruel observa.
ton to make, and, SO to speak,
put my back up. Since You
don't believe it, 1 replied. Il
must give you the trouble to investi'
gate the matter for YOURSELF and
thereby secured her very unwilling
companionship Again lit the candle
and entered the drawing-room; it
looked empty enough, and going
straight to the gas lamp, put ma tc h
to it which caused it to flame mp at
once. AS l had not turned the screw
this showed of course that it had been
left alight. How it had been put out
and how the candle had been blown
out, remained still unsolved problems.
Our nerves were, however, now tolera-
bly, quoted, only we turned the gas a
little on in our room for company as
it were, and lay marveling at wha t
had happened and our own courageous
conduct. AS we did SO incident
took place which explained the whole
mystery and revealed the disturber of
our peace. Suddenly we saw a great
white moth fly right at our gaslamp,
and getting beneath the glass attack
the slender flame. Had it but been
bead of light, SO resolute was the on
set. it would certainly. have eNtin-
guished it, but as it was the poor in
sect persisted by suffice. We pitied it's
ia te. though it had twice left us in
da rkuess. and given us a most terrible
half-hour. '-Chapman's Magazine.
The Lafayette gazette. [volume] (Lafayette, La.) 1893-1921, 1895-07-20
THE BOAST OF HEALTH.
Fancled Improvement Often Immediate y
Preccxles Death.

Preccsles Death.
All doctors know that just before
death the patient often experiences
what is called a ''rally," nature making
apparently her last stand against the
symptom which we call death: and it
Is quite likely that the feeling which
induces men to boast of health is of
the same l<ind-an effort OF nature to
protect us against the coming sickness
which the body has recognized, Though
the mind has not. The phenomenon
occurs every day in the cases of con-
sumptive patients, who brighten up
and grow hopeful just when the dis
ease is about to strike its hardest
blows, and it is quite possible that it
ognized that the approach of fever. for
example, is signaled by an unusual con.
seriousness of health.
Il have never felt SO we'll in my life, "
says the patients, who, twenty-four
hours after, is lying PROSTATE, and
whose friends quote his statements as
illustrating once more the ancient and
depressing belief.
The boast had nothing to do with the
illness, but it preceded it, and men, at
tractcd by the violent contract, almost
instinctively link the two together as
in some way and to some extent cause
and effect. Next time those who hea I'd
it, if they feel that rush of health in
their veins, will avoid boaSting Of it;
and the relation of the two will escape
attention. Moreover, it must not be
forgotten that boasting is of itself q
sign OF weakness, either temporary or
permanent. and that, consequently,
failure follows boasting more frequent
ly than it follows silence. The perfect
driver says he is perfect just when he
is most careless, and the resulting spill
is remembered when the thousand and
one escapes due to the same drivers
skill and hardihood are clean forgot.
ten-Iopdon Spectator.
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RESIGNED FROM THE CABINET.
High State OmcBals Who Have Tired OF
la0i

High State OmcIals who Have Tired OF
Their HOnOrs.
From the beginning of the govern
mcnt until 1875 there had been 2O7
ca binet officers appointed by the presi-
dents of the United States, and OF
these - had resigned their Offices
Eight of the ~ secretaries of state had
retired from office prematurely, IL of
the 81 secretaries of the treasury, IL
of tho 40 secretaries of war, - of the
80 secretaries of the navy, IL of the 81
postmasters-general, Is of the 80 at
torneys-generai, s of the IA seer etarcs
OF the interior. There was no secre-
tary of agriculture before 1886, but
that Office would not enter into con-
sideration anyway, for no one yet has
resigned it.
OF the postmasters general, re-
signed because of the death of n Presi.
dent. Whenever the vice-president OF
the United States has succeeded to the
presidency by the presidents death,
the members of the cabinet have ten
dered their designations to give him
an opportunity to select his own adj
visers. In rare cases the new presi-
dent has asked some of the old cabinet
officers to remain. AS rule, he has
chosen his heads of partmcnta from
his own political friends and advisers.
Montgomery Blair resigned the post
master-generalShip in LincOln's ca i'inet
because he was not entirely IN accord
with the presidents policy William
Dennison, an appointee of Lincoln, re.
signed because he did not get on with
Linco1n's successor. Marshall Jewell
went out with Secretary Bristow,
whom he had supported vigorously in
his attack ON the whisky ring. II. j.
Meigs, Jr.. resigned because of failing
health, after a service of nine years.
Samuel Osgood gave up Office because
the seat of federal government was
moved from New York city.
Men soon tired, as rule. of the
la Dor demanded by the government,
with its accompaniment of nervous
anxiety over the distribution of Offices
and the question of party policy in
little things and great. Dissatisfa ction
with the drudgery of the office and it's
meager rewards has led many men to
retire from cabinet positions.-lIar-
per's Weekly.
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total darkness. SonkN body In No
dressing-room had put out the .<as.

dressing room had put out the .<as.
II woke dear Sue as gently as ! could
but she is not a good walker; in reply
to my terrified whispers she answered:
Eth? What? Did you speak?' And
even: Don't pirch,' for I was driven to
that expedient, but when had
breathed into her ear what had hap
pened she was quiet enough. Perhaps
you turned the gas off YOURSELF she
murmured. No. said 1, in hushed
anxiety-indeed, we were talking
under the bed clothes-'I left more
than a bead is the dressing room
door bo1ted? Yes said; it was in
deed made fast by the machine, but
what was the good of that, when tho
robber must be in the room; indeed it
must be worse than useless, for he
would not know how to get out again.
perate.
~ think said Sue, we ought to
light the CANDLE 1t stood with the
matches at my bedside, and what she
meant, as 1 we'll knew, was that
ought to light it. This might precipi-
tHte matters and was therefore a dan
gerous office, but somehow l accom-
plished it. Upon the whole it had a
good effect upon my nerves, though
Sue was not an encouraging spectacle.
She had endeavored to take off her
nightcaI. under the impression it was
a delicate thing to do in contempla ton
of the visit OF stranger, and the
strings had got in a knot, at which she
was Juggling convulsively. This gave
her n color, but it was not a healthy
one, and her eyes looked as though
they would have come out of her head.
However, l took the candle and tot
tered with it into the next room with
a vague idea of asking for mercy on
condition of giving the man all our
valuables and showing how to undo
the door fastener. And here the most
dreadful thing of all happened, for
just as crossed the threshold some
body blew the candle out, and we
were left in darkness with the positive
certainty of there being robber
within a few feet of us. There may
have been more terrible positions in
the history Of human life, but if SO.
have never heard of them.
The tension of our minds was such
that little more would have made
gibbering maniacs of both of us, when
a most providential affair happened.
We heard tray rattle in the passage
without and cry of Go along with
YOU which we recognized. 1t was
the voice of our chambermaid Mary
Ann, and addressed to our waiter who.
notwithstanding he was carrying
pla ties and glasses, had endeavored to
snatch a salute from her. When we
had heard the same thing before we
had been shocked as in duty bound,
but on this occasion it gave us the
most heartfelt satisfaction; for It
showed that there were honest Cf
rather disreputable) people about, and
that the household was still afoot. 1t
gave me courage at once, and rescued
Sue from the very brink of Mysteries
A sort Of desperate audacity caused me
to see this mysterious matter out, and
the more so because the effect of this
relief was, I regret to say, to cause Sue
to entertain some doubt of anything
having happened at all. Are you quite
sure, nv DEAR she said, that you left
The Lafayette gazette. [volume] (Lafayette, La.) 1893-1921, 1895-07-20
AEOUT POTATOES.
Some Peculia rites OF Growth In the
Thine

Some Peculiarities OF Growth In tho
Tuber.
In western grange there was re-
Gently an animated discussion on the
asserted fact that there are but few
potato blossoms compared with the
number seen half a score of years ago.
Many of those that open almost inn
med! ia tely fall off, and in some 1oca1i-
ties such a thing as potato seed is q
rarity.
1t has been questioned whether the
potato bug is responsible for this state
of things, a number of farmers argu.
ing that this insect had exercised some
leleterious effect on the plant and in
terfered with its blessing capabilities.
While it is barely possible that the po-
tato beetle may have had a certain
amount of influence in the matter, it is
unquestiona bly, the fact that potato
blossoms are growing fewer every
year. and are liable to cease almost al
together, and that for very good and
purely scientific reasons.
1t is an axiom of nature that what
ever is not required is gradually elm
mated. Having apparently no use
whatever for seed and having no at
tention paid to it, the potato has evil
IDENTITY become of the opinion that 1T is
not worth while to waste any strength
III producing it. The entire attention
of the farmer is concentrated on tho
tuber and for this reason nature is
turning all her forces toward the
roots. In many localities potato tops
are not nearly as strong and rank
growing they formerly were The
whole trend of nature is usually in
one direction, and. failing to have
seed product appreciated in the po-
tato, she bends her energies toward
the development ana increase of the
roots.
This is a much more plausible and
satisfactory way to account for the
,lisa appearance of potato blossoms, and
is, in addition, purely scientific one.
N. Y. Ledger.
The Lafayette gazette. [volume] (Lafayette, La.) 1893-1921, 1895-07-20
An Appeal.

Papa said Jennie. climbing upon
her fathers knee, don't you thin K
that stead O. ten cents a week you
could give me ffteen?'
We'll, don't know, my dear" was
the answer. What do you want of
the extra five cents?"
Il thought my dollie was old enough
to have a 'lovance, and 1 want to give
it to her."-Harper's Round Ia BILE.
The Lafayette gazette. [volume] (Lafayette, La.) 1893-1921, 1895-07-20
housekeeping Times.

Many paused before the hand organ
and listened to it's rude melody.
There's no place like home" dronad
the organ.
Tears sprang to the eyes of the man
with the dusty hat.
There's no place like home"
II hope not" sighed the man, for his
thoughts were with the bare, wet floors
and a dinner of cold potato on the toy
of the sewing machine.-Detroit Trib-
une.
The Lafayette gazette. [volume] (Lafayette, La.) 1893-1921, 1895-07-20
Shriveled Up.

Mrs Billus-John, wish you hadn't
got your hair cut so short. It makes
the fact very conspicuous that one OF
your ears is shorter than the other.
Mr.. Bulus-Yes. When You give me
u curtain lecture that's the ear that
eensrally gets II, yeN reme:eher; ~sChi
eAxN Tsieuae,
The Lafayette gazette. [volume] (Lafayette, La.) 1893-1921, 1895-07-20

Mexico produces anything that can
bc raised in any other country. So
varied is the climate that in the Same
state can be raised any product of the
tropics and of the polar region. Cot
ton, wheat, rye, silver. silk, cocoanuts,
bananas. rice, cocoa, vanilla, logwood.
mahogany. hides and wine are the
principal products. Y. Sun.
The Lafayette gazette. [volume] (Lafayette, La.) 1893-1921, 1895-07-20

Il must have known life otherwise
in epochs long since fled; for In E4
veins some orient blood is red. ana
through my thought are lotus bios.
SONS blewp.~~Y, 4 Aldrieh.
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popular occasions, such as the race
week, a ghost can have to himself.
On the other hand, hotels are ve@y
convenient for robbers, not, OF course,
of the black-craped and ''money-or-
your-life" description, but of the quiet,
gentlcmanly-lookin kind. who. If they
meet the night cha m berlain in the PAS
sage at two in the morning, express
their satisfaction ut finding some body
who can tell them the number of their
room, which they have unhappily for
gotten. 1t must be strange life,
that of pretending to be somebody else,
generally a captain very much nnat-
tached. and. after mastering a more or
less difficult role all day, to pass the
small hours of the night IN trying
other peoples doors and taking the
consequences, which may be anything
tiisagrceable, from the inquiry of
''vho the devils that?"' down to the
presentation of a revolver. His hope,
of course, is to find the gentleman he
visits, whose very names, and far more
their ha bits, are utterly unknown to
him, in q deep sleep, but never dream
ing-if dream they do-that their
The Lafayette gazette. [volume] (Lafayette, La.) 1893-1921, 1895-07-20

That Theater Hat Again.
She (petulantly)-Doy you have to go
out to sec man?
He {ferociously}-You have to go out
to see anyt hing.-Town Topics.
The Lafayette gazette. [volume] (Lafayette, La.) 1893-1921, 1895-07-20
The mother of Nero,

Tho mother of Nero, the infamous
Agrippina, was one of the most vicious
women Of any age or country. The
character of her son was the product
of her early, careful and systematic
training in all kinds of vice. He was
just as much an example of the power
of education as the most noted of re-
formers, the difference being in the
quality Of the education.
The Lafayette gazette. [volume] (Lafayette, La.) 1893-1921, 1895-07-20

1t is related of Portland ship
owner, who read of his vessel being re-
ported. that he took the latitude and
longitude in which the vessel was said
to have beon seen, and found she was
Ia .sss nliadis Of the dessert Of Saharss
The Lafayette gazette. [volume] (Lafayette, La.) 1893-1921, 1895-07-20

OF the goo cadets at West Point
about one-third are Christians, 90 OF
them be ing Roman Catholics. A fund
is IN the hands of the American Tract
society for the purch ase of Bibles to be
presented to each graduating class.
The annual presentation occurred re-
Gently. the Catholic mem bers receiving
copies of the Douai Bible.
The Lafayette gazette. [volume] (Lafayette, La.) 1893-1921, 1895-07-20

You will choke him. F.u1i out the side
of his cheek from his teeth and thus
make a pouch, into which pour the med
icine, and it will run into his mou tn and
be swallowed, or take an old shoe and
cut off a small part of the toe. SO as to
make a hole through, and put this in h is
mouth. He will generally commence
to chew the shoe-then pour the medi-
cine into the shoe and it will find its
way slowly into the mouth and be
swallowed. We have drenched hogs in
this way when we could succeed in no
other way. Keep the sick hogs dry,
warm and clean, or it is very little use
giving medicine.
DR.. L. J. Dodge, of Hamilton, Ill.,,
writes as follows to the Iowa Home
stead on the subject of hog cholera:
Ideem it my duty to give to the pub
lie, free, my recipe for the cure of
what is termed hog cholera. 1 have
used this remedy for thirty-ave years,
and raised hogs on my ranch in
Nebraska, and have never lost a hog.
have experienced by placing one
we'll hog with a lot of sick ones, and
keeping it we'll by the use of this rem
edy. You will confer a great favor
upon the farmers Of our Country by
publishing this recipe in full. am
now engaged in other business, and
have been for sixteen years, and am
willing to let Others prosper by the
long years of experience of mine with,
a remedy 1 discovered myself for the
cure of this dreaded disease.
The prescription and directions are
as follows:
Arsenic, one-half pound; cape alocs.
one-half pound; blue vitriol. one-fourtb
pound; black antimony, one ounce
Grind and mix we'll the remedy before
using.
The blowing are the directions for
using:
l. Sick hogs in all cases to be sepa-
rated from the we'll ones and placed in
dry pens, with only five large hogs or
eight small ones in each pen.
?. Feed nothing but dry food, but no
water, only the slop containing the
remedy, until cured.
3. When hogs refuse to eat, turn
them on their backs, and then, with a
long handled spoon. put the dry medi-
cine down their throats.
4. Dose for large hogs: One tea
spoonful three times a day for three
days; then miss one day, and repeat
amount until cured. Shoats or pigs.
one-half the amount.
5. AS a preventive, one teaspoonfu1
once week will keep your hogs in a
healthy condition to take on fat. can
sick ones, and with this remedy keep
him we'll. Let no other stock but h ogs
have access to this remedy, as it is to
them deadly poison.
DR.. Dodge adds, that for many years
he sold his recipe for S., and treated
hogs at the rate of 81 per head. paying
the owner 10 cents pound for all that
died after eatment begun
Cultivator.
The Lafayette gazette. [volume] (Lafayette, La.) 1893-1921, 1895-07-20
Wool and Sheep.

While there has at all times been
more or less strife existing between the
breeders of wool and mutton sheep,
the man who regards the conditions
that influence the trade in wool and
mutton can not help regarding such
diffe rences as groundless and wholly
uncalled for. 1t is true that the best
mutton sheep do not grow the best
wool, and equally true that the best
wool sheep do not produce the best
mutton, but these differences are not
so great in fact as they are imagined
to be. 1t will be found n n Il bsolute i'm.
possibility to produce fincly-finishcd
mutton, without an accompanying good
fleece, and all the adva ntage of rich
food as found in a we'll ba lanced rat ton,
dry and modera tely warm quarters,
good pure water, kindness and con.
tentment. all necessary to the pro-
duction of fine mutton ut a profit. will
be found of equal advantage to the
fleece. There will be good color, good
texture and good weight, and the wool
buyer will quickly recognize such a
fleece DIS having been grain fed"
On the other hand, the wool sheep,
which many now claim to possess no
other virtue, if properly handled, and
slaughtered at a reasonable age will
produce q lamb chop or leg of mutton
good enough to meet the requirements
of the most fastidious of our lovers OF
this most delicious animal food. Farm
and Ranch.
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l NOISELESS BURGLAR.
BY mi S pAYN.

OTELS are not, as a
rule, good places for
ghosts. There is too
m UGH 'to-ing and
:fro-ing,'' a s LIE
Fanu calls it (the
best Judge of the
ghostly we ever had
in the flesh), too
m u c h jerking of
bells instead of SOL
emily ringing them,
and not a room on