The daily morning journal and courier., 1900-04-11
Benevolent Assimilation.

Benevolent Assimilation.
 We are out to Christianize the island l races,
 And may the Lord have mercy on thei For we'll put them willy nilly in tho | traces
 And we'll work 'em till their sweat ir rivers rolls
 We are going to teach the savage ones
 .,. among 'em how to pray They will have to learn the motions, Ii
 they can't be made to think;
 We have got 'em by the collar, and yot | hear me when l say
 That we'll lead 'em to the, water and we'll also make 'em drink. You can preach until you wabble at the knees
 As to equity and like commercial drugs But we're bound to save the blessed Fill | peeS,
 If we have to pump the beggars full of | slugs. Trade is waiting for the signal from the l fighting men ahead,
 And our missionary brethern are i'm
 patient for the fray;
 So we're going to pluck em living, or
 we're going to plant 'em dead, | For we never shirk our duty when It
 promises to pay.
 They have got to get in line with modern ] ways.
 1 They must SOW and reap and mine and They will never see again the foolish days l When | man could face the world with
 easy gaze
 If he owned q cot, garden, and well. For the flying car of progress has descend | ed on tine land,
 | Uncle Sammy has alighted and has told 'em what to do;
 With Bible in his pocket and rifle in | his hand @5N He has started 'em for heaven, and he's a. Frank Putnam. ------.--- -.--.-------- ----
 LOUISIANA'S PRAIRIE PARISHES. One night the wife oe a northern farmer lately come South heard pite- ous bleating from the rich march. She supposed that a lamb was lost here. She took lantern and went to the pond in the marsh to see if lamb had got fast in the mre and to rescue it. When she got to the pond she found q little green frog. It was bleating like lamb. It is commonly known in Louisiana assthe lamb frog or 'sheep frog Often after the rain one may walk through the yellow pine woods and hear the bleatings of thousands of these tiny frogs. They give one the impression that vast flock of sheep is roaming in the forest.
 The sensitive plant is found in the North in poetry only. Here the woods are carpeted with it. The plant grows wild as long trailing vine, lying on the ground. If you touch one of it's stems all the narrow pointed leaves on the stem slowly fold up; and then in turn all the leaves on the vine, which may be 20 or 30 feet Ions.
 ,l a. languorous life in hothouses, and yields no fruit. Here it fiourishes out of doors from Christmas to Christmas, and bears a wholesome fruit with pleasant flavor. The juice of this fruit is deep purple, and Is used to color frostings ons cake. The farmers wives make preserves of the fruit and flavor them with lemon.
 The French inhabitants hold the prickly pear in much esteem as a medicine. They peel the leaves, take the pulp from them and place it in a bowl of water. The patient drinks the water and in short time it breaks an ordinary fever. The northern settlers have borrowed this novel fever queller from the French and use it success fully.
 At this season one may look abroad at night and see or 10 prairie fires at once They are burning at every point of the compass. and make a great but broken circle of fire. The farmers light them to burn off the dry grass, which is from three to five feet high, to permit the tender green herbage to come up for the great herds of cattle to rage onasg These fires may easily be seen 10 miles away. The farmers se- feet still nights for them, when the winds are laid, and the dews are so