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The true Democrat. [volume] (Bayou Sara [La.]) 1892-1928, 1897-01-02
CURIOUS FACTS,

A German statisticlan has discovered
that the Bulsuriaus lead the Nations
il longevity.
Matches have not yet displaced tho
finder box in certain rural districts OF
Spain and Italy.
All males who sell newspapers IN the
streets Of Moscow are compelled toap-
pear IN uniform.
No person under sixteen years OF
age is permitted to enter q theatre Ct
tavern in Helisoland.
IN France 1000, 900 tons OF pota"
toes are annually used IN the manu-
tacturc O! starch and alcohol.
Some Of the Chinese think that wo'
men who wear short hair will be trans
formed into men in the future world.
The flesh OF the forequartcrs OF the
beaver has something OF the flavor OF
beef, while that of the headquarters
has d iiShy taste.
The Harrison sink hole OF Addison
! (NIich.) junction. mas swallowed 4ooc
GER loads of dirt ard all the trees and
brush in that vicinity.
The Arabs harbor superstition
That the stork is bird Of good omen.
When one of them builds its nest on a
! lousetop, the occupants OF the house
believe thnt their happincss is insured
for year,
\ Bridgeport (Conn.) couple r. :.
their child three years ago ior Sloo
and now they want it back again. AS
the purchasers Of the child refuse to
WELD thc little one the parents have
begun suit.
A potato bug A:w down the throat
of q farmer in Wabash County, In.
diana, and he swallowed teaspoonfu
of paris green to kill it. 1t fixed the
bug, and it took the doctors six hours
to Fix him, aud give him another
chance for life.
School teachers in China run great
risks. A man in Yungchou was found
guilty of murder, and the judges
after blooming him to death, also de
creed the deEthpenalty for his teacher
. saying that be should have taught Ill
' pupil to respect human life.
! Wild dogs, as dangerous as wolves
! have lately been abundant in thos
. parts OF Japan that were destroyed b.
tho tidal wave of June u. The:
killed several country postmeo, unit
, these officials were supplied VIZ
trumpcts, Of which these animals al
g afraid.
: Something that III the twilight
!. looked like piece OF rope, lay ct tn
= roadside in Highland Falls, N. Y. Ed
e ward Appleton lifted it. and d'sco'
j. cred to his horror that it was COZ
t perhead snake. The reptile bit hir
Q on the wrist and in two hours his I'll
}. was as black as his hat.
y Corporal Zimmerman, veteran
IS the Franco. Prussian War, holding tt
J, decoration of the Legion OF Honor ft
If conspicuous gallantry at the baltic
1t Champigny, has just been arrested
p Paris for selling contraband matche
s Ee declared that he received Il
st matches for nothing from the 'ne
4. who mado them and that their sole W
a the only means he had for kcepll
n from starving. He refused to give tt
IS name Of his benefactor.
The true Democrat. [volume] (Bayou Sara [La.]) 1892-1928, 1897-01-02
DOTrS FOR TIE EARN.

Don't forget to crease your wagon.
Don't neglect your pasture Or water
supply.
Don't raise scrub stock o: any kind.
It don't pay.
Don't uso stay-chajns on your wagon
VIXEN drawing heavy loads.
Don't let another year pass without
heeping strict book account OF your
business. {
Don't 90 to town TO loafaronnd md
talk politics every Saturday, or any
other time.
Don't think OF buying now wagon
with less tran fo7r.lnch tires. SlE
would be better.
Don't claim to be an advocate o.
good roads and then 60 and buy mar
row-tircd wagon.
| Don't deny you: wife new hat ont
at the same time buy yourself " tresI
! supply OF too"cco'
| Don't fail to plant q patch OF sun
flowers for the poultry. 1t is q yer.
fine food for variety.
! Don't leave the stove wood out Il
the rain, and then scold your wife
breakfast is. not ready.
Don't best that COW because sl
kicks. Just tic her legs toGethe
tightly and avoid further trouble.
! Don't sivo yonr boy a colt or q pl
as q reward OF merit, and then sell
the first opportunity and pocket tn
money.
Don't leave everything lying loos
about the premises. Have place *
everything, and see chat everything
kept in its place.
The true Democrat. [volume] (Bayou Sara [La.]) 1892-1928, 1897-01-02
ERRORS AEOCT SHEEP.

Many sheep men believe tn&t scao
can be produced by exposure a2a i'll
treatment, It can only be produced
by contaglon, and the Aock that has
never hal the opportunity to contract
it will never have it. 1t may be IN
trod1cea by buying diseased sheep
not observed to be diseased, and ez-
posture brings Is to light. nnl then it
is supposed to be caused by exposure.
Seab is disen4a duo 10 a living mite
in the skin OF the sheep, aud cannot
be produced By exposure any more
than lanb can be produced by good
care. It is also thought that scab and
other diseases OF like character can be
cured by feeding the sheep sulphur.
Internally it is 3 mild and good laxa-
tive. but its req! virtue for Scab lies III
its use as an ointment.
Some sheep men believe that the
sheep tick can be destroyed by feod-
ing sulphur. This is another error.
Sheep may be fed sulphur until they
sicken of it, and still the tick will be
as lively as ever. There is 10 medi'
cine that can be given to sheep that
will kill the ticks and not at tho same
tiuo kill the sheep. Still others be-
lieve that grub in the head is g very
fatal disease, aua that tho grub borea
through the skull into the brain,
causing death. The accumulation Of
grubs in frontal rscosses is what
Causes the trouble. but one sheer
raiser says thet in twenty-five years
experience with sheep he never los
one animal by grub IN tho head
Plenty Of grub in the stomach and
dark place for the sheep to go to wheI
the flies that lay the eggs are about i
his treatment for grub in the head
An occasional grub will get through
but it is not the occasional ono tha
disturbs the sheep. On the contrary
| it is the numbers OF them.
| Another common error is that sheel
should be shorn OF q certain time 0
the moon III order to start the growt
Of the next fleece. The Moon has u
more effect with the growth OF woo
than have any other planets. Whe
tue time ccmes for shearing and tn
shearer is ready and the weaths
favorable, one may shear without cor
suIting tho almanac. Tho same a.
mauac is consulted, too, at dockln
, and castra!ing time, but 8 dil1ereI
| time on tie moon is sought, perhap
:, One moon FOR one thing aud anotht
moon for another thing. OCCASIONAL
} VOL viii find a sheep man WAC Will te
{ Won that sheep do not need waite
: They need water aud plenty OF IT, an
= it si.oull be pure we'll water RASH
/, than stagnant branch or poad waite
0 It is in the letter that Turk dangers
0 which the shepherd very often scarce
o dreams. lnterual parasites are ve'
i often produced in this way. and tn
@ is especially true OF the tiuke. -Daho
:, Field and farm.
The true Democrat. [volume] (Bayou Sara [La.]) 1892-1928, 1897-01-02
SORGHUM As GREEN FODDER.

Except for j IS extra amount OF sweet
ness, sorghum hns no advantage over
corn rs green fodder, and it has two
very obvious Disadvantages. Ono is
Tint the sorghum lacks ea-s OF corn
that tie corn fodder If properly grown
may have, and She other ia that the
sorghum rtaik is 50 hard that it is diff.
feult and sometimes dangerous for
stock to eat Is unless first crushed IN
grinding TO express its sap. The ba-
gasse OF pulped sorghum stalks after
tho juicos haye been expressed arc
gree6ily eaten by stock. Bat the mass
heats very quickly. and quickly turns
SOUR, 30 that it does injury rather than
good. Wherever there are facilities
for grinding sorghum, farmers who
live near tue mills can set some good
from the sorghum hasasse. But it,
nutritiyo value IS smsil, rs the woody
pars o. Che stalis has very little III II
that il digestible. 1t costs more tc
grow sorghum than it does to grow
FODDER corn. becauee it starts very
slowly and is hard to keep from being
oyererown with weeds while small
After it gets knee high tho eorghum
will grow fast enough, but until thu
ti,ue it requires moro labor to kee1
free from weeds than does corn, ant
it's fodder is less valuable. The scr
ghum is grown for fodder III SOM
parts OF the West because its roo
ruDs down deeper than corn roots DO
and it is thus able to live through
severe drouglts that wiihcr and dc
a!ruy the corn crop.
The true Democrat. [volume] (Bayou Sara [La.]) 1892-1928, 1897-01-02
TIE TDEiG DAIhN COW.

DairYmau GoHId i'll recent lecture
snyo tais description OF the ''cow for
MIN"
'srhc ideal cow" he said. ''is rot
large; she weighs about 1900 pounds !;
she is something like y race horse, for
speed III tho horse aud milk in the COW
eve allied. Eecfin q horse ana beef in
= Cow mean strength always. Ills q
question Of nerve power, ard thai II
soIaett:ns food will not produce, OILY
maintain. Fox the typical dairy COW
yon must have race horse type, bony
and muscular, whether she he Hol
stejp, o Jersey or whatever sue may be-
You will find her with bony head cni
aigon@ Jaw, long between the eyes aut
Eose, with broad mulzle. She shoull
The true Democrat. [volume] (Bayou Sara [La.]) 1892-1928, 1897-01-02
Ic!icious SnailS of FrOycncH.

The rro7encsl smells, which feed in
a gourmet fashion upon vine leaves,
ere peculiarly delicious, and there was
u murmur OF delight from our COM
pany as the four women brought to
the table four big dishes iull OF them;
and for while there was only the
sound of eager munching, mixed with
the clatter on china OF the empty shells.
10 extract them We had the strong
thorrs, three or eour inches long, OF
the wild ecacia; and on these the little
brown morscls were carried to the avid
mouths und eaten with o bit OF bread
sopped in the sauco; and then the
sheIl was subjected to q vigorous suck
| ing, that not drop OF the sauce lin
gering within it should be lost. Cen
| tury.
The true Democrat. [volume] (Bayou Sara [La.]) 1892-1928, 1897-01-02
Sixty Thousand Seeds in One Plant.

The common purslane is one OF the
wonders OF botany, as far as seeds are
concerned, at least. A single seed Of
this plant will produce about twenty
seed-pods in q season. Tho average
number of seeds in each OF these, by
actual CONT, il COCO, making $4,000
in ell. as lar as we havo been able TO
Learn, there is 10 instance Of similar
fruitsulness in any plant found grow
ing in this county. A single plant OF
either the Jamestown weed {''jimson') },
the butter weed, tho rag weed and
some of the ycrvilles produce an enor-
nous number Of seeds, but it is doubt'
full If any one Of them produces one
fourth as many in yenr as the nur'
elanc does g. 6: Louis Republic.
The true Democrat. [volume] (Bayou Sara [La.]) 1892-1928, 1897-01-02
The Young and the Old.

Tho young year woye her crocus silk
And trimmed her daisy frills,
And fashioned with a fairy hand
Tho cups Of her dafonils;
She curtaincd chambers tor the birds,
And sang rs young Things may
Youth and glaaness rule the world
And summer will last AWAY.
The old year sits in the whispering wood
And dyes her faded gown,
And dreams OF days in tho tragran Mt fields,
When she wove loves r2d-roso crown;
Tho asters shake in her chilly breath
As she croons an old-folks rhyme
Since summer is DER we must make the best
OF the snow-cold winter time.
Nary T. Bats, i'll Youths Companion
The true Democrat. [volume] (Bayou Sara [La.]) 1892-1928, 1897-01-02
I7onlcward 10!

No blade nor flower nor leaf
You carry or remember:
Tho apple. nut. and sheat
Are ali your sign, November;
And homcwara no! where autumns 50
Yov, barns and bins will sing
From Ialowmas till spring
On homeward. homowacd ho.
Where fires % welcome burn,
Where JOY is feast and love is priest.
God speed the glad return!
Tho frost-foot on the lea
Has stalled tho stnbbe plowinC; y
The wind has chased the bae d
From off the clover rowen;
And Nature, queen that ruled the Sreen,
Will house herself aud spin,
Aud call her children in.
Sing homewaru, home@a,a no!
Armed winter, with his chills.
Encamprd since April morning,
Lies snoring in the bills
Fill tho next m0ontide's warning;
Well heed not yet his windy threat
While seven sunshines stay
70 laugh his flakes away.
So homeward, ho.neWara no!
For hut with thatch Of grass
And ball with roof Of cedar
Hold high Thanksgiving mass
And praise the Heavenly Feeder,
Where kindred binds 1T household shrine4I
Aud the last days Of fail
Sum up tho Joy OF all.
Then homeward, homeward no!
Where fires OF welcome burn.
Where joy is feast and love is priest.
God speed tho glad return!
Thereon Brown, in Harper's Rasan
The true Democrat. [volume] (Bayou Sara [La.]) 1892-1928, 1897-01-02
Pyramid 0f CEcopS.

The great Pyramid of Cheops Is ~. IN
LARGEST structure eve: erected by 'n;
hand OF man. It's original dimenslu1s
at the base were 7Gl feet square, q
it's PERPENDICULAR height Mt the h'snesl;
point, 44S feet. Il covers four W.
one rood, and twenty-five roae -
ground, and has been estimated =, ~
eminent Epg}ish architect to have 'o''
not less than $lG5, 900. 0j0.
The true Democrat. [volume] (Bayou Sara [La.]) 1892-1928, 1897-01-02
An UNPLEASANT Country.
Star.

Between Carthage nnd Stislingvif!e,
in Jefferson County, New York, there
IS a stretch Of country where the sand
drifts like snow, making great banks.
and binding the eyes OF those who
look upwina. It is y desolate, barren
region, where the soil is only as deep
o. roots OF the grass. Boston Budget
The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1897-07-22
Don't Get Exciled.

The Canadian press is greatly agi-
tated lest Canadian prospectors should
not get their share of the Klondike
gold, which lies on Canadian soil, but
which hitherto has been scooped up
principally by the more enterprising
Yankees. The fact that the latter are
capturing all the choice claims gives
to one of our Canadian exchanges in
particular-the Tory Toronto World-a
severe conniption fit. Under the head
ing Canada for Canadians" it says:
Canada must not allow the fabulous
wealth of the Yukon country to be
grabbed up by foreigners. We ought to
assert our rights Immediately. The
government should place a strong force
in possession of the country, and a big
royalty should be demanded of every
ounce of gold produced. 1t is the
height of folly to allow foreigners, and
particularly the people of the United
States, who have been veXing our
workingmen with petty hostile legisla-
tion, to enter this country and carry
off its fabulous treasures. 1t looks as
"a hhNAN 10 bpih III lut 4
country to pay off our national debt.
Are we not fools TO allow the Ameri-
cans free access to all this wealth? The
managers of the Gorge railway at
Niagara Falls have just discharged
every Canadian employed on the road.
This is the kind Of treatment that is
being meted out to Canadians all over
the Union. Are we not justified in
preventing the one hundred Americans
who are now on their way to Klondike
from Seattle from getting an entrance
into the country under any considera-
tion? We might Just as reasonably al
low the Americans to come over and
so through our banks as to let them
have the run OF the Klondike gold
fields. Canada Is not benefited one iota
The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1897-07-22
A Lesson from Toronto.

The recent visit of American Epworth
leaguers in Toronto opened many Yam
kee eyes as to the possibilities in mum
icipal government where, as in Toron-
to, that government is conducted with
approximate honesty and reflects the
best opinion of the people governed.
We propose to mention just one fea-
ture of the municipal superiority of
Toronto over the average city in the
states, Scranton for instance. In
Toronto the street railways are owned
by the city and leased to the highest
responsible bidder. From an interest
ing article in the Chicago Record de-
scribing the Toronto street railway
system we Gull the following facts,
which, unadorned, carry their own
comment:
The Toronto cars are large, comfor-
table and nice looking. Electricity is
the only motive power. All the lines
of the city are operated by a single
company. Transfers are given at all
points, and transfers on transfers if
necessary, so that a passenger may go
from any part of the city to any other
for single fare. The single cash fare
is cents. but tickets good for six
rides are sold for 25 cents. A special
class of tickets is also sold at the rate
of eight for 25 cents, good for use be-
tween the hours of $50 and o'clock
in the morning and and $50 o'clock
in the evening. These tickets are de-
signed especially to furnish cheap tran
sit accommodations to workingmen 60
ing to and from their work, but any
one can take advantage of their use
who happens to be travelling at the
hours named.
The city bought the street railway
system in 1891, in obedience to an act
of parliament. Then it advertised for
Bids from any person who might desire
to take the system and operate it.
Certain conditions We're laid down with
which ever bidder must comply. He
must agree to pay for the plant the
price at which it had been taken by the
city. The purchaser must not float
bonds for longer period than the life
of the franchise, which was thirty
years, and must satisfy the public au-
thorities that provision was made for
meeting obligations at maturity. The
city was to have the right to take back
the plant at an appraised valuation
at the expiration Of the franchise. The
successful bidder must agree to ex-
tend tracks and street-car service upon
the recommendation of the city en-
gineer, approved by a two-thirds vote
OF the city council. The right to oper-
ate all such extensions ceases with the
expiration of the main franchise. All
such lines must be constructed in a
manner satisfactory to the city sub
Ject to the determination of the city
engineer, as approved by the council
Cars were to be run at such intervals
as the engineer and cnnneili hight
specify. Tickets must be sold at the
rate of six for 25 cents or twenty-five
for 81. Another class of tickets must
be sold at the rate of eight for 25 cents
good before s o'clock in the morning
and between and $50 o'clock In the
evening. School children must be sold
tickets at the rate Of ten for 25 cents
good between a. M and p. IN. and
not on Saturdays. Policemen and fire.
The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1897-07-22

men in uniform must be carried free.
There was n provision that cars must
be of approved design for service and
comfort and must not be overcrowded.
Persons employed by the company
must not be compelled to work more
than ten hours day or more than
sixty hours a week, and no adult per-
son should be paid less than Is cents
an hour. The successful bidder must
agree to pay the city $500 year per
mile of single track, or $1,000 per mile
of double track, as rental for the use
of the streets. In addition to all this
which must form a part of the bid,
the franchise was to be granted to the
responsible bidder who would offer the
largest percentage of gross receipts
to the city.
To an American accustomed to the
hard luck tales told by traction lob
byists in search of franchises these
conditions might appear deterrent of
bids but they did not prove so. There
were several good bids, and the COM
pany which won obligated itself to pay
into the treasury of Toronto the foll-
owing percentages of gross receipts
On all receipts up to 81 900 a year.
s per cent; between 100000 and ST.
100000, 10 per cent; between sl,500, 900
and $2,OO0,O0O, II per cent; between $2,-
100000 and $3,0OO,O 900, Is per cent; on all
gross receipts over $3,0O000O 20 per
cent. Last year Toronto received from
track rentals 100000 and from percen-
tages on gross receipts, $7S,92167, and
yet the company made money. At GER
tain hours for cents one can ride
twelve miles in Toronto; and since the
present company took hold and
equipped the cars with tenders and
other safety devices not a death has
occurred on it's lines.
If this sort of thing is possible in
Canada, why should not similar con-
ditions and results be possible in the
United States?
The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1897-07-22
Give Us a Rest.

The report is renewed that as soon
as the tariff bill Is out of the way the
president will by a special message to
congress precipitate a currency agita-
tion and thus for a time spoil the good
effects of a settlement of the tariff
question This report presupposes that
b fhe president, who well knows that
currency revision as an iridescent
dream during the present complexion
of the senate, is the kind of a man
who, would hazard a grand-stand play
for the sake of placating a small con-
tngent OF disgruntled Mugwumps. We
cannot credit it.
1t is not clear even to those who
howl the loudest for currency reform
what measures are needed to bring
symmetry, security and greater elias
ticity to our currency, No two nos
trums agree. The experts themselves
do not appear to be able to centre
upon any definite plan; and back of
all their fuss and clatter is the signifi-
cant fact that the currency system
which now exists has served us well
during nearly q decade of unrivalled
prosperity and never gave rise to a
suspicion of inadequacy until sapped
by Democratic blundering with the
governments revenues. Under these
circumstances, therefore, it is at least
premature to hazard now a period
of agitation which, though it should
eventually result in legislation, could
not possibly repair the damage it
would have caused in disturbance of
business and new uncertainty ere it
had reached the stage of finished law
What the country wants is a rest
What business needs is a chance to re-
cuperate in peace. There has been a
surfeit of scrapping and yelling and
the beating of tomtoms over this pol
icy, that scheme and the other sure-pop
revolutionizer. In the past eight years
each congress and each campaign have
offered a brand new cure-all. The coun-
try is lusty and can stand q good deal
of dosing; but it feels at this time
as if it had had enough. The settle
ment of the revenue problem so that
it can tell where the dollar of income
can be found to meet the inevitable
dollar of expense .eXhausts the list of
imperative necessities in way of new
legislation and wise craftsmanship,
eschewing the fadfollowers, will now
decree a a-breathing spell.
The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1897-07-22

The English journals which so earn
estly lament what they conceive to be
the belligerent tendency of the United
States might do a good part toward
peace and brotherly love by striving to
do away with the causes of it.
The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1897-07-22

Senator Tillman's threat to recite
Senator Quay's tariff speech for fill
clustering purposes indicates that he is
putting himself to unnecessary trouble.
All that Tillman needs to do to kill
time is just to press a button and open
his mouth. The subject is absolutely
of no consequence.
The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1897-07-22

The postofflce department at Wash
ington reports that the last quarters
business was the largest spring trade"
since the depression began. When pos
tai receipts pick up it is a sure sign
that business generally is on the mend.