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The true Democrat. [volume] (Bayou Sara [La.]) 1892-1928, 1897-03-06
Danger in Handling Flowers.

1t might not be supposed that danger
turks in the delicate operation of hand
ling flowers, yet painful, troublesome
wounds are frequently received by the
workmen. Nearly every one who has
had long and active employment in the
retail flower stores can show numerous
scars, and it is COMMON in busy Broad
way shops and other large places in the
trade to see q proprietor or several Of
his assistants with bandaged fingers.
Tho thorns of roses cause the greatest
mischief. Florists ascribe their most
serious hurts to poison absorbed in hot
house productions which have UNDER
gone strong vermin- killing process.
A number OF the dealers infer that, after
many applications, the juicy parts of the
plants become impregnated with poison,
The true Democrat. [volume] (Bayou Sara [La.]) 1892-1928, 1897-03-06
A Joke on Burnside.

In the Century, General Horace Por>
ter, in his campaigning With Grant, "
describes the visit of his chief to the
home of Mrs. Tyler, whose husband
was colonel in the Confederate army.
General Porter then tells the follow
ing anecdote: 1t was not surprising
that the inhabitants of the remote
parts OF the country were in ignorance
of the true progress of the war. Gen.
eral Grant replied in quiet way !:
General Sherman Is certainly ad.
vancing rapidly in that direction; and
while l do not wish to be the COM
municator of news which may be I'M
pleasant to you, I have every reason
to believe that Rome is by this time
in his possession" The older lady
then assumed a bantering tone, and
became somewhat excited and defiant
in her manner, and the younger one
joined with her in scouting the idea
that Rome could ever be taken. Just
then courier rode up with dispatches
from Washington, containing tele'
gram from Sherman. General Grant
glanced over it and then read it to the
staff. It announced that Sherman had
just captured Rome. The ladies had
caught the purport of the communica.
ton, although it was not intended that
they should hear it. The wife burst
into tears and the mother.in-law was
much affected by the news, which was,
of course, sad tidings to both of them.
The mother then began to talk with
great rapidity, and with no little
asperity, saying: 81 came from Rich
mond not long ago, where I lived in q
house on the James River which over
looks Belle Isle; and I had the salts
faction of looking down every day on
the Yankee prisoners. I saw thousands
and thousands of them, and before this
campaign is over want to sec the
whole Of tho Yankee army in Southern
prisons"
Just then Burnside rode into the
yard, dismounted, and joined our
party on the porch. He was man Of
great gallantry and elegance of man.
ner, and was always excessively polite
to the gentler sex. He raised his hat,
made profound bow to the ladies,
and, as he looked at his corps filing
by on the road, said to the older one,
who was standing near him, II don't
suppose, madam, that you ever saw SO
many Yankee soldiers before" She
replied instantly: "Not at liberty.
SIR" This was such good shot that
every one was greatly amused, and
General Grant joined heartily in the
laugh that followed at Burnside's ex'
pense.
The true Democrat. [volume] (Bayou Sara [La.]) 1892-1928, 1897-03-06
SETTING MILK.

A bulletin of the Perdue Indy ex
pertinent station contains some useful
information in regard to the setting OF
milk. The poorest method is consid-
cred to be the setting of it in shallow
tin pans or crooks on pantry shelves,
or in cellar, the reason being that milk
thus set is exposed to a greater air
contact, and is, therefore, more liable
to be affected by injurious odors, by
disease transmitted through the atmos.
phere, and by heat and cold. Milk SO
set often sours rapidly and in cold
weather may freeze. If it sours rap.
idly in summer curds get into the
cream and remain moro or less III the
butter, forming white spots and affect
ing the quality; or if the milk or
cream freezes an Inferior grade Of
butter will be made from it.
Where cream is to be secured by
setting, the best plan is to set the
milk IN round tin cans about eighteen
inches deep and eight inches in diane.
ter. The separation of the cream is
greatly improved if such can is placed
IN ice water or in cold spring water
to the height OF the milk in the can.
This keeps the milk in uniform tenn
peratu1e and enables the cream to rise
to the best advantage. This is what
is commonly known as the shotgun
can, which is sold by dairy supply
houses, or can be made by any timer.
The deep cans are skinned either
with ccnical skinner from the sur.
face, or by means Of faucet or valve
ct the bottom through which the skim
milk is drawn off: Experiments show
that the latter is much the better
method, the loss of butter fat being
only about one.half that which takes
place when the skimmlng is on the
top.
Tin vessels should be used for setting
milk. and they should be made of tin
plate of good quality, as cheap tin is
SO thinly washed that it really cor.
rodes and the under metal of this gives
ruinous flavor to the butter if there
is any souring in the vessels at oil.
The true Democrat. [volume] (Bayou Sara [La.]) 1892-1928, 1897-03-06
SUGGESTIONS FOR TRUCK GROWERS.

SUGGESTIONS FOR TRUCK GROWERS.
The following suggestions from the
Louisiana Experiment Station are to
the point for the farmer, trucker or
one who plants family garden:
Truck farming means intensive high
farming. Lands dedicated to truck
must be heavily fertilized, not with
commercial fertilizers only, but with
such homemade manures as will insure
large supplies of organic matter. The
frequent incorporation of vegetable
matter by the growing and turning I'M
der of some leguminous crop-prefer.
ably COW peas GLOVER at the North
will answer the same purpose. -Ed.)
supplemented by mineral manures,
will in few years render these soils
adapted to truck growing.
If table manures be used, they
should first be thoroughly composted
and several times piled and cut down,
in order to bring them into a most
available condition as plant food. A
compost of stable manure, cotton seed,
acid phosphate and kainit, mixed in
such proportions as will suit the crop
to be grown, will be found very ef-
fective fertilizer, perhaps superior to
any other mixture.
When the supply of home manures
is inadequate for the demands of your
crop, these may be supplemented by
cotton seed meal, acid phosphate and
kainit, mixed to suit the kind of vege.
table grown.
Proper rotation must be observed in
truck growing as in general farming,
if the fertility OF the soil be maintained
and maximum results desired. A
slight knowledge of botany, yea, even
of the character of vegetables grown,
will greatly assist tho farmer in deter.
mining the rotation to be adopted.
Melons, cucumbers and squashes be-
long to one family, and should not
succeed each other. Egg plants, to.
matoes and Irish potatoes form an
other, and beans and peas another.
Always follow a crop by another of
different family. Expressed in a
simpler manner, roots should not fol-
low roots. A tap-rooted plant will
follow we'll tibrous.rooted one. AT.
ter heavy manuring, . cabbages,
onions, Irish potatoes and egg plants
should be planted, since these require
excessive fertility for best results.
Follow these crops with tomatoes,
! squash, etc., and these in turn by
beans, peas, etc. A farmer will soon
have suitable rotation of both crops
and fertilizers.
The true Democrat. [volume] (Bayou Sara [La.]) 1892-1928, 1897-03-06
FARM AND GARDEN NOTES.

II your hens a:e too fat to lsy, pus
them on short rations for few day.
Give the hens lime and grit. Pouhd
up old crockery and see how soon thu
will put it out of sight.
Sunlight is great tonic and health:
giver. No stable should be without
a window on the sunny side.
Feed your whole grain in the morn
ing among litter. It will make tal q
hens work for it. The warm na, 5
should be fed in the afternoon, q y s g
will help keep them warm and COR
Portable through the night. rs
The German potash salts are nus'S 81;
caustic potash, hence they do NOT o.
sipate ammonia by Fastening fermen =
ton when applied to manure. Is.
stead, they form compound WITH VI
ammonia, thus helping to keep II no
washing. The nitrate of potash tn11 8
formed is the most powerful fertll ~
known, and it is one that can Be "a
piled to nearly every kind OF crop q
fruit with benefit. sIs;
The American Sheep Breeder ~
Keep the sneep's feet dry and &C. 81
while they are in the stable. Il sou
unnecessary to disturb the manure +, y. /
the floor if it is kept dry and well i.
tered. The packing OF it under .s Vi,
feet will prevent decomposition - ~
keep the floor better in every Way
the sheep than if it we're cleaned e'ey Y
day. Plenty of common land pa
| should be sprinkled or scattered o's,s q
the litter. This will prevent az " "
odor.
Nearly all farmers are coming !
realize that in general Their farms =
loo large for the intense and c g y.
farming now necessary to meet the -
mands Of the market and to seos 80
profitable returns. The pioneers ~, -
first settled these broad, fertile vslls y..
were not satisfied unless thelr 10. .n4
were large enough to consume y, "a
day in interviewing their crops !. - 4,
their live stock scattered over W.
broad acres. To them quality va -
of SO much account as quantity.
TIA COW has tendencv to be COZ !,
stipated increase the production = !, q
meal in her ration. If her bowes =. ii,
come to loose decrease the OIL - -,
and increase the bran. II the ~ y.
have tendency to put on TOO ,. M.
flesh decrease the cornmeal or oisc:. =,
it altogether. If she gets too tn'n ~ ~
her more cornmeal and Jess 9. :. =,
other foods. If straw and ioaaet =,
high limit the feed to elgnt g tooda
pounds day. If these rough An IN
are cheap give twenty to twenty ~
pounds day to each. COW, sna =
what is uneeten for bedding.
The true Democrat. [volume] (Bayou Sara [La.]) 1892-1928, 1897-03-06
Umbrellas,

The umbrella is undoubtedly of high
antiquity, appearing in various forms
upon the sculptured monuments Of
Egypt, Assyria, Greece, and Rome, and
in hot countries it has been used since
the dawn Of history as a sunshade-a
use signitied by it's name, derived from
the Latin umbra, shade.
The true Democrat. [volume] (Bayou Sara [La.]) 1892-1928, 1897-03-06

rate OF - per bushel rather 4.
the potato editor, who has lo ,,. ~
accustomed to meeting, inta,s. ll
and writing up freaks in ia
family. - po 8
There they were, q large M, q.
fresh young, potatoes, tender q, pii! lF1
IN every sense, on the last d., !, a i.
year. when "old" potatoes are u !. j
found to be somewhat decren ~. !!
insipld from age and the genera 81 u
t since potato digging time in "a 4, NJ.
Those who had partaken Of TIA na..ss'
potatoes pronounce them ina \, 5!
licious as any July product. Is '''9I
Inquiry brought out the ia.
these new potatoes are now bein. = s
duced by means, it is said, Il q.
secret process, by Frank Dalzell Il
extensive potato grower at Gen..ls
Wis, where he has a farm Of leo .s,..
On the farm is a large building s S
10 one put Dalzeil himself enters Pc
here. it is said, he is produoina' 81.
early summer potato in all its e,,.,'
lie has made the Milwaukee CON- ~ s
sion firm of Thomas & Shaus bi.ss ~, s
for Wisconsin, and they posiis,lE
state that they are daily in recaink =
a sufficient quantity of these nev 81. b
toes to supply an average msrkei r.
such vegetable novelty in midrints
They are also assured by the grove rove
Mr.. Dalzell, that by another s mt
he expects to be able to supply the =, =.
tire Milwaukee market with The v;sss NJ
grown article, his intention bei,, e
put genuine new potatoes on the = I,
ket here months before the South,
growers can have any of thei. ~
earliest potatoes ready for the No.
which is during the latter part 81 ~.
ruary or IN March. First, be Ru,,,,.s
tees to furnish fresh, new potatol
during any and every winter noa
and to have them in sufficient quilS,
ties for all by another seaeon.
1t has been suggested that thiiis - r;
potato wonder is the result Of ths ddIlj
covery of some process for presssiIlii, !
new potatoes from early summer ~
midwinter, in such q malner as taiI
them absolutely fresh, plump n
''new" in every sense. But thnhdt
clared tobe an erroneous idea, and, i
the contrary, Mr.. Dalzell's moa ~.
mate friends insist that he prodnoesh
the natural way, without hothonss, 4
or other artificial means, except ~
the secret process, discovered bIhi,
self, is used in their growth and ~,
lection from frost. ltis claimed. iA
thst he can grow new potatoes il Inc
quantities with the ground covete
with snow and things frozen up gea.
orally, just as easily as at the preset
time, when the weather hes been mud
milder than the season calls for. VII.
ever is the secret of this new more, 4
is quite certain that ''new. or ''ea,ly
potatoes are now on the market i
Milwaukee, and that they are delicies
and in every way az edible - tola
taken from the average garden Nh
the robins and the early summer
zephyrs are singing carols to contsntsd
nature. Milwaukee Wisconsin. q;
The true Democrat. [volume] (Bayou Sara [La.]) 1892-1928, 1897-03-06

Iuplcu tlDl uptly, tlltlI uslLuCS. Dlu you
ever hear anything to beat it? Wretch
eddy monotonous to hear Coffin, Folger.
and Pitman, Pitman, Folger and Coffin.
There's nothing in name,'" quoted
Margaret, lightly.
"a mistake altogether. A name means
everything. Take mine, for instance.
Brian Leigh. Now, tho Brian part
What the matter?"
He might well ask this question, for
without tho least warning Margaret had
slipped hastily from her seat, on the
boat, and stood regarding him with a
curious blending of perplexity and sur
prise.
"Brian Leigh" she replied, in an in
credulous tone; lis it really Brian
Leigh?"
II have always understood So" he
answered with o laugh and a puzzled
glance at her face. 81 don't see how
| can be mistaken.
Il am very foolish" she remarked,
anxious to divert his suspicious, while
she still regarded him rather curiously,
though with newer and deeper in
terest.
She understood now the strange re-
semblance unexplained before. Some
thing in the eyes and mouth recalled
vague memories of her father, and this
likeness, faint as it was, served to
awaken new feelings in her breast. She
wanted to be alone to think of this new
and unexpected turn Of affairs. She
was not given to superstition, but the
coincidence of their meeting in this out
The true Democrat. [volume] (Bayou Sara [La.]) 1892-1928, 1897-03-06
Shin Duty

Ship Duty.
On board ship the day is divided into
seven watches"
The free press. (Poplarville, Miss.) 1890-19??, 1897-03-25
Products of Hawaii.

Besides sugar and rice, the staple
products, coffee, bananas, oranges and
other fruits are largely grown. Food
products are abundant, especially OF
the kind suitable to hot climate, says
"Paradise of the Pacific.
The native food consists largely of
the taro plant, of which the best va
rieties are grown in the shallow ponds
of fresh water. From this plant is
made the poi, which is the ordinary
food of the Kanaka.
The sweet potato grows even among
the rocks and hourishes abundantly
in good soil, while the common pota-
to sometimes grows we'll, though it is
often injured by worms.
The quality of the coffee raised is
equal to the choicest.
The climate is also very favorable
to the growth of the long staple sea-
island cotton but as this variety must
be picked by hand, the high price of
labor in the islands renders its culture
Improbable.
Tropical fruits of nearly all kinds
grow in the richest abundance, the
orange, lemon, lime, mango, pine
apple, hirimoya, or custard apple, the
alligator pear, r,pomegranate and guava,
all of which are exotic.
The banana is indigenous, and is
the most abundant of all fruits; be-
sides it there are the ohia apple-a
fruit peculiar to the Pacific islands.
soft, juicy and mildly acid many
varieties of palms, the choicest trees of
India, the caoutchouc, the papaya, the
travellers tree of Madagascar and
other foreign plants.
The free press. (Poplarville, Miss.) 1890-19??, 1897-03-25
SILHOUETTES.
ward.

For this amusement nothing is
needed beyond piece of paper large
enough to hold the shadow of a head,
and piece of artists charcoal or
soft lead pencil. Pin the paper to the
wall, seat some one in such a position
in reference to the light that a strong
profile shadow fails on the paper, and
then draw this outline in rapidly with
the charcoal. If possible, do what
artists call "blocking in" as the work
must be done quickly to avoid move
ment on part of model, and there is
not time for the most minute detail.
An outline blocked in in straight
lines, with accurate proportions and
general cast of features, gives very
good likeness. You can begin with
the largest profile and draw all on one
sheet, fitting one outline in another,
down to the smallest.
For large party or church enter
tainment little more preparation
would be well. Arrange tent or
small structure in one corner OF the
room, and hang out sign, advertis-
ing to take pictures. Let each guest
go in alone and in turn, and have
their. silhouettes made. The pictures
are numbered and numbers, with
names of originals, registered in
book. After all have been silhouetted,
the profiles are brought out and hung
around the wall. Each guest is pro-
vided with small blank book and re-
quested to make catalogue of the pic.
ture gallery, numbering the names
according to numbers on pictures. A
little prize may be provided for the
one making the nearest correct cata-
logue. Az an entertainment where
money making is the object, small
fee can be charged for taking pictures
and the catalogues sold at a reasonable
price. New England Homestead.
The free press. (Poplarville, Miss.) 1890-19??, 1897-03-25
THE STORY OF QUAD.

Quad was little brown chicken
which came ont OF the shell on the
28th of May, with just twice as many
yellow legs as each of his ten brothers
and sisters had, writes Matte w.
Baker. While they had only two
apiece, he had four.
Now, lest you think I am telling too
large story, let me assure You it
is all true. Two of the legs grew out
of his breast in front of the others,
but they seemed to be for orn2fhent
instead of use and hiudered inS2ead of
helping his walking, SO that Pat first
he could not get about at alY His mis-
trsss brought him into thsS Shouas and
The free press. (Poplarville, Miss.) 1890-19??, 1897-03-25
Hunting In Dreams.

james Bolton, a New Yorker vino
visits the Adirondacks every year to
hunt deer, has lean-to camp on a
a stream in Northern Herkmer coun-
ty, where he entertains his friends.
He sees things and does things some
times in his dreams that make him a
source of anxiety to his friends and
his guides.
Last fall Sam Cooley, one of Mr..
Bottoms guides, was lying in the
guides shelter half awake, when he
saw some one slip out of the owners
camp with rifle in his hands. What
was more serious, the figure was slip
ping 38-calibre shells into the maga-
zine. Cooley OWNED the situation
instantly, and started toward the man,
whom he recognized rs Bolton, but
Bolton got beyond the freight before
the guide could reach him, and then
stopped and seemed to be steering off
into the woods.
Up came the rifle, and seven shots
were fired, each sounding like a can
mons roar in the perfect night quiet
of the woods. Everybody except Boil
ton woke up, and the dogs let out
howls Of woudermcnt. Meantime
Cooley had grabbed water pail half
full of water and thrown the contents
over Bolton just as he was about to fire
again. 1t was Bottoms turn to howl
then. The cold water woke him up,
and he was inclined to swear at the
guide before he realized the danger he
had been in. He had been shooting,
he thought, at buck deer. All the
bullets were found next day in hem
lock stump, and they could have been
covered with hat.
Mr.. Bolton once went still hunting,
little after midnight. and was not
found until a. m. He had awakened
once during his trip, but had been un-
able to make his way back to camp.
A fisherman fell asleep while fishing
for black bass at Philadelphia. N. Y,
one day and dreamed he had bite.
He yanked his pole up and one
pound bass swung into his face. On
waking up he found that he had pulled
up his pole, but instead of bass, a
tin can swung against his cheek. -
New York Sun.
The free press. (Poplarville, Miss.) 1890-19??, 1897-03-25
SCIENTIFIC SCRAPS.

Owing to the cold, dry atmosphere,
not a single infectious disease is
known in Greenland.
1t is estimated that 1000, 900 tons
of pure silver are held in solution by
all waters of the earth.
Imperfect teeth are sure sign OF
civilization. Perfect teeth are found,
as rule, only among savages.
The sea has no herbivorous animal.
II is great slaughter-house, where
all the inhabitants prey on each other.
The banks of Newfoundland are
formed by the sand, ice and stone
brought from the North by the ice
bergs.
The cracking sound of freshly ig-
nited wood or coal is caused by the
air or liquid contained in the pores
expanding by heat and bursting the
covering in which it is confined.
The Roentgen rays have a new
sphere OF usefulness. By their aid
chalk can be detected in flour, brick
dust in cayenne pepper, sand in spices,
and many other similar sophistica-
tions.
The air is SO clear in the Arctic re-
gions that conversation can be carried
on easily by persons two miles apart.
1t has also been asserted on good au-
thority that at Gibraltar the human
voice has been distinctly heard at a
distance of ten miles.
A proposed meteorological station
at about IA, 900 feet on Monte Rosa,
Italy, will rank as the fourth i'll
height among the twenty-seven noun
tain observatories of the world, the
only higher ones being those of
Arequipa, Mont Blanc and Pixies
Peak.
1t is said that George L. Newcomb,
who for the past six months has been
an active experimenter with the X-rays,
has been forced to abandon his work,
owing to the deleterious effects he ex-
perienced from the X-rays falling on
his right hand. He has all the symp-
toms of sunburn and lost the skin, hair
and finger nails from his hand.
The celebrated naturalist. Vauban,
has made calculation of the probable
production of an ordinary SOW during
the space of ten years. He has not
included the male animals in his esti-
mate. The result shows that the pro-
duct of a single SOW in eleven years,
which is equivalent to ten generations
will be 6, 434, S3S, or, allowing for ac-
cident and disease, in round numbers,
six millions of pigs.
The free press. (Poplarville, Miss.) 1890-19??, 1897-03-25
AN ASIATIC LEGEND.

The King of Khotan, in Central
Asia, made overtures for the hand of
the daughter of the Emperor of China,
and his suit was favorably entertained.
But there was something from China
which he coveted even more than the
fair princess, and which he had failed
to win by war. So he induced his
bride-elect to secrete in the long
tresses of her hair number of silk
worm eggs and seeds of the mulberry
plant when she came to him, and in
that romantic fashion was it that the
culture of the silkworm and the manu-
facture Of silk took its first step west
ward.
The free press. (Poplarville, Miss.) 1890-19??, 1897-03-25
(; { E|;!ls's,:l1iIdr S11;sIlCgS Column

kept him wrapped in flannel by the
kitchen stove, forcibiy feeding him
milk with n drop of Jamaica ginger in
it. lie soon grew quite smart At
night she put him under the mother
hen to be brooded with the rest. She
named him Quad, short for Quadru-
ped-meaning four-footed, you know
A great many people came to see
him, and he was considered quite q
curiosity, but it did not seem to make
him vain or conceited at all.
L. Il fow days he conld stay in the
pen with the rest, and ran about free
ly, except that his extra feet were in
the way. One dragged behind him
like the trail of n fine lady's gown, and
the other was always in the way in
front. so that he trod on his own toes
when he walked.
He was only six days old when his
mistress found him lying dead in the
pen, though half-hour before he
seemed as well as ever, and ate his
dinner with the rest. 1t is probable
that his mother trod on him.
Quad made good many friends in
his short life, and they were all sorry
he was dead, for they wanted him to
live and grow up. His master put
him into glass can of alcohol to
keep. And if you come to visit me,
can show you poor little Quad.