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St. Landry clarion. (Opelousas, La.) 1890-1921, 1897-06-12
The only Democrncr.

Republican papers talk about gold
democrats as though there were such
an embodiment. The democracy o.
This country is the national party that
controlled the Chicago convention
which nominated Bryan and sewall
for president and vice president. There
is no other democratic party. That
convention was regularly called, fairly
conducted, and the platform and cam
didatcs acceptable, the latter receiving
about G.5oo,ooo votes, and thus were
enphatically indorsed. And that plat
form and those candidates are more
popular now than i'll November. This
ronsensica1 twaddle about 1.gold DEM
ocrats" is utterly superhuous, as we'll
as ridiculous, now. The Cleveland adj
ministration was the gold party, but
that having gone, the Mckinley admin
istration succeeds to all the golden
giory.-Illinois State Register.
St. Landry clarion. (Opelousas, La.) 1890-1921, 1897-06-12
some DeIieious Entrees.

Roquettes, boudins, ti1nbale, all so
elegant, both in name and appearance.
may be made from small pieces that
may be picked from the carcass of
roasted turkey or chicken, and many
boudin of game has been made from the
remains of roasted tame duck. Bon-
dins are made by chopping small bits
of cold cooked poultry very fine, and
adding to each pint a teaspoonful OF
salt, adash of cayenne and d tablespoon
full of chopped parsley. Put in q sauce
pan one tablespoonful of butter, one
gill of stock and two tablespoonfuls
of stale bread crumbs; stir until boil
ing; ada the meat, take from the fire
and add two well-beaten eggs. Fill
into small, CREASED molds, stand in hot
water and cook in the oven Is minutes.
Serve hot with a cream sauce made
from rich milk thickened to the con-
sistency Of cream Ladies Home Jour.
nal
St. Landry clarion. (Opelousas, La.) 1890-1921, 1897-06-12
GETTING EVEN WITH HER.
Bat After Seeing Her He Changed
His Mind.

SHE AfferE seeing RICE h1Cs SHANGSR
His Mind.
"Oll, I guess I'm getting into the
game now,' chuelkled the little man on
the street car, as he hugged his pack
ages and smiled at the sympathetic man
with glasses who sat next.
81 don't quite understand, my friend
ssOf course, not, but it's this way:
You see, it's kind of an open question
up at our house whether she or is.the
head of the family, and we're both do
ing the cunning act just to feel our
way. Christmas she had saved up
enough of my own money to buy me
some presents. What Iagot was aida
mond ring that's so small that she has
to wear it, lot of toilet tixin's for our
common sleeping and pair OF
kid gloves that happened to be hernum-
her. I took it all so meelsly that she
thinks she's the boss and that daren't
enter1a protest"
s.Wouldn't it be well to assert your
self just enough, you know r.
"Wel1, I should clearly enuneiatei To-
n,orrow's her birthday. See these
bundles? All presents for her. There's
apair of trousers made to my measure
ments, three neckties, half dozen big
linen handkerchiefs, pair of shoes
that she could slip down 'and sit in, a
7A derby hat, brier wood pipe and
four pounds of smoking tobacco.
They're all for her" and the little man
laughed and dropped most of the
packages.
Next forenoon the same two hap
pcned to ride downtown together and
the little man had his packages.
"How did your wife enjoy the pres
ents?" asked the sympathetic man.
"I don't see what business you have
inquiring into my private affairs, sir.
If choose to get these things ey-
changed don't have to advertise the
ct.''-Detroit Free Press.
St. Landry clarion. (Opelousas, La.) 1890-1921, 1897-06-12
OPELoUsAs LOUISIANA, SATURDAY, JUNE

with bright tobacco Ia q too liberal
supply of ammonia, as the least ten
deney to rankness has serious effect
ON the quality.
Though the ammonia must be guard
ed carefully the mineral fertilizers are
apt to be deficient. In a soil of this
type the mineral fertilizers-potash
and phosphates-are apt to be in
very slightly available forms, while
the ammonia is quickly made useful.
1t must be remembered that the tobac-
co plant has a very limited power of
foraging for food, and, as it consumes
relatively little water, the subsoil is
not reservoir of plant food.
While it is true that light sandy
soil is the best for bright tobacco it
must not be inferred that poor sandy
soil is desirable. The mineral ma
nures must be supplied literally or the
leaf made will have no substance.
The nature of the minerals supplied
is also Of Importance. The potash
should bein the form Of sulphate, and
comparati lively free of mdriates. Muri-
ates, or chlorides, seem to affect in
bacco; an important matter with
bright tobacco. The phosphates alsd
are apt to carry too much useless, acid.
In order to remove these acids, the
soil should be frequently lined; but,
lime must not be used if the organic
matter is high. In such case the am
monia would be liberated too freely
and the supply of mineral fertilizers
would be apt to be inadequate. In
deed, in this case the lime is used
merely as a corrective and is best ap-
piled Immediately after the crop is re-
moved. The potash and phosphate
may also be applied very early to ad.
vantage, as the loss by drainage will
be very slight.
Place no reliance on the natural sup.
plies of mineral fertilizers in the soil.
Some plants, notably oats, seem to
have the power of foraging extensively
for potash and phosphates, but tobacco
is particularly helpless in this line. Oh
the total phosphoric acid existing in
the soil naturally, about one-third is
available for plant food; of the total
potash, about one-twentieth. 1t is i'm
portant therefore to keep these min.
erals supplied rather more carefully
than in ordinary farming.
The fertilizer recommended by au.
thority contains three per cent. ammo
MIA, ten percent. potash, and seven per
cent. available phosphoric acid. OF
this not less than 600 pounds should
be used perr acre. If there is much
humus in the soil, lower the ammonia
to one per cent. The manuring as di-
rected in this article is necessary on
the soil described as best for bright to-
bacco, but no form of manuring will
produce bright tobacco on a heavy
clay soil, or one very rich in organic
matters. Peacock, in Farmers Home
Jot1r.n al
St. Landry clarion. (Opelousas, La.) 1890-1921, 1897-06-12
HERE AND THERE.

1t will pay any farmer to read about
his business, for no matter how ex-
perienced he may be, there are many
things he will never learn from his own
ventures.
Combine bee-keeping with fruit.
growing, and you can more easily pro-
cure two crops from the same land; and
this double cropping requires no addi-
tional fertilizing, is not exhaustive. de-
mands no extra plowing or cultivation,
I'm draining, the first expense is all
the expense, and it is a permanent in
yestment. A welI-laid stone drain may
last half a century. and one of good tile
even longer. Even one of brush has
done service for ten years.
-Endeavor to plant out trees which
are not more than two years from bud
or graft. They are more easily dug,
have better roots, hold more firmly in
the ground, and start into vigorous
growth again with less check.
Don't be afraid of the poultry bust
ness being overdone, for we are annu-
ally importing millions of dozens Of
eggs. It would be better if we could
export instead of import. The money
would then come to Us instead of us
sending it from home.
To set out nice orchard and then
let the trees take care of themselves is
to ignore the Thousand and one dangers
which are ever ready to beset orchard
trees. Let us not forget that the
primary object is to grow healthy,
strong, frnit-bearing trees.
-e'Whenever the foot of the sheep
touches the land it is turned into gold, .
Is an old proverb. Sheep hnsbandry
certainly makes the land NOR profta-
ble-nlore productive at less expendi-
ture than any other aninsl kept on The
farm,
St. Landry clarion. (Opelousas, La.) 1890-1921, 1897-06-12
WORkiNGMEn DELuDED.
How the Monopolfst Come 1t Over TIN
pe0nae

How the Monopolfst Come 1t Over the
People.
In the specifications of the legislation
asked by the Federation of Labor for
the relief of the idle workingmen there
is mention of an eight-hour law, the
reform of the currency, the restriction
of immigration and liberal appropria-
tions for internal improvements, but
not Il word about the protective tariff.
Maj. Mckinley, Boss Hanna, Speaker
Reed and aIr. i>ing.ey, who are running
the country tin tie interest OF the work
ingmen,' will dombtless be greatly sur
prised when they read the federation's s
memorial to find that the great bcnef-
cence of Il high tariff has been entirely
overlooked by its supposed bcneflciarics.
They will rub their eyes with astonisE-
ment when they find that neariy every
other kind of legislation has been pre-
ferred by the laborers to that wonderful
specific foq. hard times-thc protective
tariff.
This is evidently all wrong. All of the
distinguished statesmen mentioned
have repeatedly declared that the very
thing needed to bring prosperity, health
and happiness to the working men is a
protective tariff, and that the higher
it is the better. They have represented
the workingmen as hungering and
thirsting for tariff taxes and have
averred that millions of them went to
the polls and voted the republican ticket
chiefly because the republicans prom
ised them a bountiful supply of pros
perity taxes. 1t is evident that the
working men do not know what is good
for them or what they want.
But the error of the working men does
not stop there. In their remarkable
memorial they ask whether the "inter-
ests of the trusts, syndicates, monopo-
lies, corporations and moneyed men
shall be of more Importance than the
welfare of the people,
Surely these working men are fools
and blind if they do not see that the in
terests of the trusts and syndicates are
the interests of the people. Did not the
trusts and syndieates save the country
in the recent campaign? If millions
were not given to the trusts and syndi-
Gates, how would the poor get any
money! II there were no tariff barons,
who would build beautiful memorials
for the delectation of the poor?
We have too much confidence in the
firmncss and patriotism of the repub-
Iican statesmen in control of the party
to believe that they will be diverted
from their high purpose of taxing the
country into prosperity by the plea of
the working men, who do not realize
what blessings big taxes are.-st. Louis
Republic.
St. Landry clarion. (Opelousas, La.) 1890-1921, 1897-06-12
AMONG THE DREssmAkERs.
Lace Is Used with All AIaterials-Siiks
TO BE Much Worn.

to BE Much Worn.
The small sleeve and the narrower
skirt mark the special difference in the
general outline of fashion between this
and last season. One very decided
feature of fashion is the use of lace on
all gowns without regard to texture or
color. Fine real lace has the preference.
but the average woman cannot afford
this extravaganee, and there are all
kinds of pretty machinermade laces
which are quite as satisfactory in effect.
insertions of black or cretan lace with
frill of marrow lace edging on either
side are a favorite trimming for skirts
and bodices, and one pretty example
is a white and black silk gown with ac-
cordian-p1aited breadths both front and
back and plain sides. Five rows of the
edged insertions are set in up and down
at equal intervals in the plated por-
tions, and three rows appear back and
front in the bodice below the lace yoke,
which extends out over the sleeves in
small epaulettes. Rows of black Chan
tilly lace insertion, pointing down from
the plain back breadths to the center
of the front, trim another silk gown.
The bodice has the same sort of trim-
ming, the insertion being setin from the
shoulders to form deep points in front
and back.
The materials of the Few gowns are
chiefly wool, either in smooth cloth,
cheviot, or canvas, but there are some
pretty silken poplins with watered
surface and fine checks, made up with
rows of black velvet ribbon for trim
ming, which are very attractive. Then
silk gowns of all kinds are more fash
ionable than ever this season. Plain
black taffeta dresses are among the nov
elites. They are trimmed with Killed
frilIs and gathered ruffies Of the silk,
or with black velvet ribbon put on in
some old design in the cld-fashion,
while the bodice is modern elabora-
tion of lace, plated mousseline de sole,
and colored velvet, which quite dis
guise the fact that it was originally
black.
Foulards with dark grounds well
covered with white or some contrasting
color in conventional patterns are to be-
very much worn later on, if the numer-
GUS models displayed are any evidence
of their future popularity.-Chicago
Inter Ocean.
St. Landry clarion. (Opelousas, La.) 1890-1921, 1897-06-12
THE RETROACTIVE CLAUSE.
A Point Scored by tl,e Democrats OF

A Point Scored by tlae Democrats OF
the Senate.
The democratic side OF the senate
have scored an important side and one.
that the business interests of the coun-
try will appreciate in compelling the
republican tariff tinkers to agree to the
striking out of the retroactive clause OF
the Dingley bill when that measure
reaches the senate.
The certainty that Senator Vests
resolution censuring Secretary Gage for
putting the clause into effect to the
embarrassment and inconvenience OF
importers would be adopted by the sen-
ate when it came up forced the mem
bers of the subcommittee having the
consideration of the Dingley bill in
charge to promise that the objection
able section should be eliminated.
Customs officials and importers will
doubtless be apprised at once that the
order of Secretary Gage, suspending
final liquidation on all goods received at
the custom houses after April /, is not
to be enforced. 1t has been considered
impracticabIe and unconstitutional
from the start, and it's revocation will
relieve collectors and business men from
great annoyance.
It is reported that many of the re-
publican senator's are not grieving over
the killing of this unpopular provision
of the Dingley bill, for the tacking on
of what was clearly an ex-post facto
clause was considered by the more clear
sighted leaders as very bad legislation
and very bad politics. They consider
it better for the future welfare of the
party that the clause is to be wiped out.
It was not only an undignifed juggling
with the provisions of the constitution,
but was serious and unwarranted in
reference with the rights of importers
under laws still existent, involving con-
fusion and uncertainty to them in their
commercial operations.
There is no doubt that it would be ac-
ceptable to the country at large if a
majority of the senate would carry the
same principle still further and strike
out other features of the Dingley bill,
which amount to such a subyersion of
legitimate legislative functions as to be
at variance with at least the spirit of
the constitution and which by radical
changes in the present law seriously
| menace the stability of trade and in
dustry. Taking from the free list, for
example, the untaxed raw materials
which certain industries have found es-
sential for profitable operations and
successful competition here and abroad,
involves the serious disarrangemento of
business organization and loss to la Dor
amounting to as great an embarrass-
ment and interference with legitimate
trade as Secretary Cages order to the
customs collectors.
Well will it be for the republican sem
ators and for their party prospects if
they defer to the complaints of those
great industries that oppose the in
justice and hardship of duty on wool,
a duty on hides, duty on lumber, a
| duty on salt, and so on, as they have
| hardened to the protests of the import
| ers against retroaction.-Detr Free
| Press.
St. Landry clarion. (Opelousas, La.) 1890-1921, 1897-06-12
Farming and truck Raising,

An old farmer once assured me that
he got rich by making it a rule to bring
away from town more money than he
took to it, and as he was not a man of
brilliant intellect it follows that any
reader of the Farmers Voice should be
able to do as well as he did. This man
always had a large truck patch, a great
flock of chickens, and kept seven or
eight cows, all on 96 acres of land-a
pretty good-sized farm in the section in
which he lived. He had plenty of
vegetables of all kinds, berries and
fruits in profusIon for his own family
and some to spare. His surplus was all
sold in a town of less than !, 800 people,
and the demand for what he had to sell
was always equal to the supply, for
what he. offered was fresh and first
class.
A great many men think it below
their dignity to deal in such small
things, but it is the way to prosperity
and comfort, and this man was as high
ly respected, and his sons and daugh-
ters were given as good an education
as the best schools could afford, and to-
day hold high positions in their social
world, every one of them having COM
Portable home, and all is traceable to
the thrift of their father Too many
farmers do not stop to consider that it
is better to sell their surplus of truck"
ct the wholesale price than to buy
things they could produce on their own
farms at the retail price.
The farmer who does not have an or
chard and berries and grapes in plen-
ty, and a good, large garden, is not
living up to his privileges, and is losing
most of the benefits that may be de-
rived from a life in the country
Farmers Voice.
St. Landry clarion. (Opelousas, La.) 1890-1921, 1897-06-12
TOBACCO CULTURE.
The Soil Best Adapted for Raising Bright
Tobacco.

The Soil Best adapted for Raising Bright
Tobacco.
The authorities agree that soil
favorable for bright tobacco is very
different from a heavy tobacco soil.
and that soil of the latter description
can not give a good light tobacco A
bright tobacco soiIeontaines very little
clay and a large amount of sand. The
organic matter is very low, less than
one-tenth of what is necessary for d
good heavy tobacco soil.
It is impossible to state exactly the
reasons for these differences in soil ae-
ton. One Of the principal points is
that a too free supply Of moisture is
preiudicial TO good bright tobacco, and
a light sandy soil does not hold water
as strongly as a clay soil. The danger
St. Landry clarion. (Opelousas, La.) 1890-1921, 1897-06-12
Strawberry DumpIines.

sift one pint of flour with one heap
ing teaspoonful Of baking powder intoa
bowl; add one tablespoonful sugar, half
teaspoonfH salt, one teaspoonful but
ter; rub the butter fine in the flour; mix
two whole well-beaten eggs and with
half cnpful Of milk add to the flour;
mix all quickly into a dough; add one
cupful nice ripe Strawberries; mix them
in lightly; then cut with tablespoon
dumplings from the mixture; drop them
into slightly salted boiling water; cover
and boil six minutes; instantly remove
with skinner and serve with a hard
sauce, which should be mixed with one
cupfnl mashed Strawberries. Brooklyn
Eagle.
St. Landry clarion. (Opelousas, La.) 1890-1921, 1897-06-12
The BANQUET speeches Of the goId

democrats were full of great preten-
sions as usual. As Mr.. Bryan says they
'.reach their maximum at ia banquet and
their minimum at the polIs'-they ''are
long on piatitudes and short on per-
sornsl n q Illinois State Register.
St. Landry clarion. (Opelousas, La.) 1890-1921, 1897-06-12
A Matter OF Goursc.

President 5fcKinley's recent appoint
ments are being criticised as partisan.
Eloquently many esteemed contempo-
raries point out the fact that these .ap-
pointments are made solely in the in
terest of the republican machine. This
criticism is amusing. What sane man
ever expected anything else? Who
would seriously anticipate any impor
tant appointment being made BY re-
publican official for any reason save the.
ftlrthering of republican machine ends ?
4 public office, in the republican point
Of view, is purely party affair. Why
criticise Mckinley for following the
tradition of his tribe and appointing
purely for partisan purposes ?-Tam-
many Times.
St. Landry clarion. (Opelousas, La.) 1890-1921, 1897-06-12
Neither cIoeR nor ti1nepiece Is to b,

Neither clock nor timepiece is to be
found in Liberia. The reckoning of time
il made entirely by the movement and
position of the sun, which rises at SIX
q. m. and sets att six p. nj. almost to the
minute, all the year round. and at noon
Is vertically overhead.
St. Landry clarion. (Opelousas, La.) 1890-1921, 1897-06-12

) --AsmaG often wears poor clothes just
to show his wife how extravagant she
isl Washingto Democrat.
St. Landry clarion. (Opelousas, La.) 1890-1921, 1897-06-12

Mr.. Dingley says the present con.
gress is pledged to provide adequate
revenues. But will his bill do anything
of the kind2 Do prohibitive duties
yield revenues IN lavish abundance p
n. Y. World.
St. Landry clarion. (Opelousas, La.) 1890-1921, 1897-06-12

we are apt 10 think only these are
great who favor us.-IFashiD e'ton Dem
& crat.
The record-union., 1897-04-18
RELIGIOUS SERVICES TO-DAY.

Cat IL a. m. and 1:3O p. M, except other
wise stately
Presbyterian, Westminster, Sixth and
L streets
Presbyterian-Fourte ard P;
Sunday-school, 1915.
Methodist (South)-Seventh, and K;
Sunday-school, 1890.
Methodist "a. M. E.)-Seventh, G and
H. Revival)
Methodist-Sixth, K and L streets,
1915.
Methodist-Central. Eleventh, H an6
L; Sunday-school, 12:15.
scandinavian Methodist - Pythian
Castle. Ninth and 1.
United Brethren-Fourteenth and K.
Sunday-schooi, 9:45.
Baptist, First-Ninth, L and NJ; Sun
day-school, 12:15.
Baptist, Calvary-I, Twelfth and
Thirteenth; Sunday-school, 9:45.
Baptist, Emmanuel-Twenty-f fifth and
N; Sunday-school, 1915.
Baptist, Mount Zion-Sixth and p;
Sunday-school, 1870
Baptist, Oak Park-Cypress and Thr-
ty-third, IL and 7:30; Sunday-school,
10 a. m.
Christian, First-Sixteenth and L;
Sunday-school. 10.
German Evangelical-Tenth,O o and P;
Sunday-school, TO-
Lutheran. ENTHUSIASTICALLY, and
K; Sunday 9:45 a. M
Lutheran, German-Twelfth and X.
Episcopal, St. Pauls-Eighth, I and
j; Sundayschool, 9:45.
Episcopal, st. Andrews-Twenty-
third and K, p. M; Sunday school, 3
p. m.
Congregational-Sixt I and j.
Catholic, ST. Francis-Twenty-si
and K, 6. 8, 1870; Sunday school, 2:30
Catholic, Cathedral-Eleventh, and
K, $50. g. 1920 and 73O.
Latter-Day Saints-Pythian Castle.
Latter-Day Saints, Reorganized-
Twentyfourth and X.
Adventists-1S16 G. services o'clock.
Theosophy-Pythian Castle, o'clock
70.
The record-union., 1897-04-18
Sole Proprietor

Lewis De Lew, Jr., by purchasing
yesterday the interest of his partner,
F. H. Stikeman, acquired sole owner
ship of The Oakland, the candy, Ice
cream and bottled goods establishment
which was a short time ago handsome
ly fitted up at 724 X street Mr. De
Lew is one of the brightest and most
enterprising young business men of the
city. Since graduating a few years ago
from the Johns Hopkins University of
Baltimore, Nd, with the degree of A.
b., he has devoted himself to business
and has forged steadily ahead. AS ex-
pert accountant and bookkeeper for two
years for one of the large dry goods
firms of the city, he earned the highest
opinions of his employers. He has
been partner for a little less than a
year in the business Of which he now
assumes sole control
The record-union., 1897-04-18
FINED A HUNDRED.
Judge Davis Sentence in the Case of
Land Yesterday.

Several days ago William Land was
tried by jury in the Police Court on
charge of permitting gambling in a
room in his hotel and found guilty.
He was before Justice Davis for SEN
tence yesterday morning, and his at
torney, Charles T. Jones, filed a motion
for an arrest Of judgment.
The motion being denied, it was fol-
lowed by a motion for a new trial, on
the ground that the jury had been mis-
directed by the court This was also
denied, and Land was fined 500.
Notice of an appeal having been
given, he was admitted to bail in the
sum of $500.