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St. Landry clarion. (Opelousas, La.) 1890-1921, 1900-04-28
ABOUT BERMUDA GRASS.
Farmer Jones Tells His Brother
Farmers What He KNOWS
About Bermuda Grass.

Much has been said aud written
about Bermuda grass.
I What soil sllits it? Is it a good hay
grass, and 4 good gress for grazing !.
Also what is best mode of destroying
the sod when once set?
have grown this grass for fifteen
years. and find it like vegetation.
grows best in good soil. but will take
hold on poor washed land and in gull
lies and viii soon improve the poorest
soil.
/: l prefer Bermuda hay even to TIM
cthy and on good mellow soils it will
produce from two to three cuttings
annually.
/ l have heard and read that the best
mode of eradicating this grass when
once well set, is to plow up and sow
in cow peas that the shade Of the pea
vines will kill it out. I have never
seen thi8 done nor do think it Will in
any reasonable nuInber of years.
] have found the only way I can
St. Landry clarion. (Opelousas, La.) 1890-1921, 1900-04-28
COMMENTS OF THE PRESS.

Perhaps proteetionists'' lik,
Senator Hanna see no use in expan
sion if they cannot have colonies Il
exploit. Indianapolis News.
Mfr. Bryan has quit making
speeches. He no doubt thinks it i
useless to work while the enemy is
doing SO much for him. IndianapoIis
News.
Ify as President Mckinley saws,
the Filipinos are the wards Of the
nation poor little Porto Rico must
regard herself as a doubtful ward.
Albany Argus.
IF Porto Rico Is American terri
tory it is unlawful to levy taxes On its
products. IF it is not American terri
tory it is unlawful for us to lew
taxes on its imports. Memphis Com.
merciallAppeaI.
When the republicans begin
their campaign this year they will be
called upon to defend AIgerisn. Gage
ism, Hannaisn, un-Americanisrn the
Hay-Pauncefote treaty, a secret Brit
ish alliance, the Porto Rico robbery.
trusts and imperialism. Chattanooga
Times.
Are the people and the consti-
tuition in control, or are the trusts
and the Chinese-wall tariff-the prin-
ciple of protection--in control? This
is the essence, the real pith and point
of the Porto Rico question. The tar.
lit and the people have grappled for
the November bout. = Birmingham
(Ala.) Age-Hera1d Qnd J.
The expansion of our territorial
dominion under the administration @.
William Mckinley is Imperialism, and
an imperialism more intolerant, more
oppressive and more false to its pledges
than the imperialism of Britain, OF
which Joseph Chamberlain is the archi
tect and Cecil Rhodes the mastss
builder. Rochester Herald.
St. Landry clarion. (Opelousas, La.) 1890-1921, 1900-04-28
HERE AND THERE.

AZ + { IL
When sambo is supplanted by the
mechanical cotton harvester, it will lie
time for the horse to take fright at the
automobile.
The very common opinion that a
bee, after using and losing its sting,
dies, is an error. Bees seem to suffer
10 Inconvenience from the loss, except
that in war time are without weapon.
There is a natural affinity between
hogs and mother earth, and they
should never be separated Hogs,
whether young or old, should al. all
times have access to the ground.
The Florida experiment station
has proved that the fattening proper
ties of five articles OF food ;,s follows:
Cassaya, e5.a per cent; corn, are 30
per cent; gorbus. 81 q per cent. PIN
ders, 24.2 per cent; ehufas, Z per cent.
Am occasional feed of cut vege-
tables ike potatoes, turnips, beets,
carrots, and apples fed raw in
troughs, add TO the variety OF green
stuff, and are greatly enjoyed by the
fowls.
Ensilage is bettes than dry fodder.
especially for miIea cows. TIE differ
ence between dry fodder and the same
fodder made into eIlsiiage is in the wa
ter the latter contains, and yet we can
not combine the dry fodder with wa
ter and make it equal Silage in feed.
ing value.
St. Landry clarion. (Opelousas, La.) 1890-1921, 1900-04-28
WATCH THEM CLOSELY.
The Republican Hue and Cry Against
Mckinley May he All
Trick.

The Mckinley organs are filed with
republican protests against the carry
ing out by the managers Of the party
OF the personal imperial policy Of the
president.
Every issue contains something like
the following from a prominent re-
publican senator or representative:
i am opposed to the Porto Rican
tariff bill in it's entirety. T am un-
compromisingly opposed to the ship
subsidy bill; the president is violating
the constitution; the downfall Of the
republic will date from the ad1ninis-
tration of William Mckinley" and
other denunciations Of imperialism.
etc.
One would suppose that with all
this hue and cry, that large number
OF prominent republicans are upon
the point of abandoning Mr.. McKin-
ley, but it is all done for effect and is
part of a scheme to again deceive and
betray the people of the United States
as they were deceived and betrayed
in 1896. Here is the test:
Do any of them vote against the
Mckinley policy on, the floor of con-
gress? Indeed not. The record shows
that all of them fall into line and eat
their own denuneiations. Even that
once grand old man, Hoar, whose
tears have been creating political
freshet throughout the country who
was accused of backing Agr:saldo,
announces his determination to vote
for William Mckinley. Is.1;t the party
lash that is Go CALLING? 20, it is the
voice of the pocket, the fear that
principle will relegate them to black
bread and sour beer. The flesh pots
of the republican party, of the trusts, ]
syndicates, combines, banks and
St. Landry clarion. (Opelousas, La.) 1890-1921, 1900-04-28
ITS MANY FAILURES.
The Mckinley Administration Has
Been at Variance with True
American Principles

McKinley's administration came int
power as the result of campaign Ii
which all the men who opposed hin
and the views for which his party
stood were described as anarchists, as
men who did not stand by the consti
tuition Of the United States, and dan.
gerous factors in public life.
What has been the result?
We have had the Mckinley admin.
istration, and it has turned out to be
the one administration that political
history records which has been ready
at all times to sacrifice the constitu-
tion of the United States to the i'm
mediate needs of politics.
A few days ago this administration
forced through the house of represent-
atiyes bill for the governments of
Porto Rico which is an absolute ne
cation of everything for which the
constitution stands. It means that
congress, by and with the influence of
the president, feels justified in setting
aside the constitution, in ignoring alb
solutely that constitutional provision
which declares that taxation shall be
uniform throughout all of the United
States, and is ready now to fix plan
OF taxation for our dependent terri
tories which they dare not apply to the
territories within the borders of the
United States.
Three years ago the New York Jour
nal took manly, magnificent and in
spring stand in behalf of free Cuba.
The editor of the Journal and the read
ers of the Journal must know how hard
it was to compel President Mckinley
to take up this fight. Mckinley at
that time, as at this time, was DOM
mated wholly by the commercial
classes-by men who would sacrifice
St. Landry clarion. (Opelousas, La.) 1890-1921, 1900-04-28
THE STRAWBERRY BED.
1t Isn't the Most snowy Blosso,ll, On
the Plant that is Followed hy
the Hest Fruit.

] When strawberry plants are in
bloom, any amateur may learn the diff
ferences that mark the productive and
barren sorts. The large showv
blooms, filled with bright yellow
/ stamens are the barren sort. Smaller
| sized blooms with heads Of pistils.
like small, green Strawberries, are the
fertile sorts. The barren plants are
the most vigorous and if let alone
will out-groW the fertile plants. Then
the strawberry bed will be as white as
snow but will produce nc berries. and
| persons say the plants have run out.
They have only run out in the sense
Of not having pistillate plants to fer
hlize the staminate blooms. This is m
important fact with Strawberries. Ex-
anime a bed when in bloem, and mark
the fertile plants, and when new bed
is set, allow one fertile to every seven
barren plants, That is the writer's
rule, although some expert straw-
berry cnltlIrists have one fertile to
every ten barren plants. Thus
planted. they will aqualize themselves
by full crop of berries, not an unpro-
ductive plant being among them.
Of course, coed culture must be given,
but that is another consideration
from having the plants pistillate or
fertile and staminate or barren, prop
eriy interspersed. EotanicaIly the
strawberry should produce both
staments and pistiIs in each flower and
every flower should produce berry.
This is the case with the alpine and
the wildwood strawberries, but not so
with the cultivated, hybri1ized and
perfected berries. To be sure each
bloom may have both stamens and pis-
ills, yet the lattel. may be so few that
their natural functions are Intellectual
to produce berries.
There. is a very good plan adopted
by many Of making small bed en-
tirely of fertile plants, so as to have d
reserve supply TO draw upon, for
every year, bed ought to be care.
fully noticed, and pistilates reset,
the strong growing stani-
mates have overgrown them. Clipping
the runners of strawberry plants pre-
vents the two free growth of the bar
rem sorts and preserves the fertile
plants. Cutting off the runners, and
keeping the plants in stools is always
recommended, hut the above reason is
not always given, but it is a very i'm
portant reason.
The small bed Of fertile plants here
recommended to be kept to draw from,
viii not bear berries. Neither tne
male nor the female plants alone Of a
sind, will fruit. It requires the func-
ions of the two sorts combined to pro-
luce fruit. Fogy,in Dixie Farmer.
St. Landry clarion. (Opelousas, La.) 1890-1921, 1900-04-28

kill it out is to ploW it up with a
small sharp seooters harrow with ro-
tary harrow, which throws it up in
hslnches, then take team and wagon
and pitch fork, load it and haul to
some gully or washed place or pasture
lands which will pay yeu for hauling,
or you may take the roots and throw
them out to dry, then stack for winter
use. You will find mules and cattle
will eat them and keep sleek and fat
On them us q fodder.
have tried this with gratifying ef-
feet. After taking the bulk of the
grass off the land as above, plow thor
oughly, breaking every ridge, and cult.
yate fast through the summer in cot
ton or corn and you will have no grass
to trouble you. The thing to do il to
keep the roots 50 stirred that they cen
not take a strong hold.
AS a grazing grass there can not he
better nor more lasting one. In the
south it affords grazing from the 18th
OF April to last of November, and if not
fed too close in summer stock will eat
the dead tops all winter even to the
surface of The ground
When I have had Bermuda thickly
sodded I have plovved it up. sown in
cats in fall and narrowed well and
have had oats to grow on it three to
four feet high where land was good.
| have ploWed up the sod with a
small scooter, brealdrg both ways. or
cross breaking. I plowed in medium
corn, cultivated fast and made line
corn. If you will keep the sods finely
broken it does not iiniure corn at all.
1t you think this worthy of space in
your valuable paper place it there,
some one may profit by it-only
Farn,er-Jones, in Southern Cultiva-
tor.
St. Landry clarion. (Opelousas, La.) 1890-1921, 1900-04-28

Poverty a Crime.
Poverty is crire-matr;mor ially
speaking Chicago Daily News.
St. Landry clarion. (Opelousas, La.) 1890-1921, 1900-04-28
TIE DISEASE OF LOVE.

He had to slave all day,
When skies were dark or blue:
Though well he toiIed away
His work was never through.
The rajment that he wore
Was patched and old and frayeds
The burdens that he bore
He carried undtsmayed.
And when the darkness fell
lie put his work aside,
And hurried home peIl-mell,
Glad-faced and aager-eyed.
He loved and bravely bore
The load he had to bear:
Contentment found his door
And boldly entered there.
Yet doctors wisely say
Loves only disease
Good Lord, make love, pray,
Contagious, If you please!
IS. e. Kiser, in Chicago Times Herald
St. Landry clarion. (Opelousas, La.) 1890-1921, 1900-04-28

every principle of national honor
saerifice every tenet of liberty fol
their own pockets.
But, after all, the political problems
which confront the people of the Unit
ed States are not so greatly interna-
tlonal issues as they are home and do
mestic issues. There are people, many
of them in the republican party, and
| am afraid some in the democratic
party, who would like to divert atten-
ton from the crying evils which exist
In our own land to questions of inter
national policy. I hope that they will
not be able to accomplish this end.
We have here to-day certain domestic
problems which demand attention, and
which, if not solved, will result in the
ruin of the nation. The greatest, per-
haps, of these is the question of trusts,
and, whether rightly or wrongly, L
feel that it is fair to call attention to
the fact that whatever may be the dec
laration of the republican platform on
the question of trusts, it has been un-
der the Mckinley administration that
the trusts have had their most extraor-
dinary development.
To put in a few words what I thing
is the opinion of the men with whom
I am associated in democratic party
work about the Mckinley administra-
ton, it is this:
Controlled by the money power.
With England in the fight against the
South African republics.
1mperialistic and desirous OF increas-
ing the army.
Wholly unfriendly to the working
classes.
Aristocratic at every point.
The political movement with which
am associated rests on democracy
and on the silver republicans and the
populace, but, nevertheless, T believe
that when men of this type, processing
to be with Us, show themselves to be
absolutely without any sort of sym
oathy for the principles of liberty as
aid down by the constitution. it is the
duty OF the democratic party to repu-
late them, cast them QUITO destroy
thefh SO lar as may be possible.
1t does not seem necessary for me to |
say more than this. i think that the |
weakness, the folly and the danger of
he Mckinley administration ali rest
IN the tendency which President Me-
kinley has manifested to strengthen
he military force of the government,
o ignore the constitution, to disayow
he Declaration of Independence, and
Q set up in this union an ohgarchy
which shall overthrow the republic
Y. j. Abbot, in n. 7. Journal.
In the spring the young mans
ancy lightly turns to thoughts OF
owe, and the birdlets tune their voice
cts in the leafy boughs above. In
ne spring Mark Hanna fancies that
L1s time that he began to call round
A.. i Il
St. Landry clarion. (Opelousas, La.) 1890-1921, 1900-04-28

In the spring the young mans
fancy lightly turns to thoughts Of
love, and the birdlets tune their voice.
lets in the leafy boughs above. In
the spring Mark Hanna fancies that
It's time that he began to call round
among the favored with his little fry
Ing pan. Omaha World Herald.
St. Landry clarion. (Opelousas, La.) 1890-1921, 1900-04-28
on Color.

Cobwigger-Did the boys salute the
bride by throwing old shoes at herr
oHoulihan-No, be jabersl Phwfn
they saw tn, orange blossoms they wint
at her Wid brickbatsJudge.
People's voice., 1900-06-07
COUNCIL MEETING.
The federatlOn's Proposition Not Consider
ed-A Cow Ordinance Passed.

The city council listened two hours
Monday TO the reading of the min.
utes OF the April and May meetings
before the rLutlne business Was taken
up. When the clerk was finally
through reading, Geo. II. Huoter,
representing committee OF the
Federation OF Clubs, presented the
council with a written prupoSition
from the federation made at a meet
lug held yesterday afternoon, offering
to donate s., 900 toward the erection OF
a joint city hall and club room ON
the city's lots on North Washington
avenue. The proposition was signed
by Mrs. Z: E. Hitchcsck, president
of the federation, and Mrs. W, n,
Maddy, secretary. 1t imposed no OBJ
legation upon the city council to ex.
pend any certain amount o. money In
The erection Of the hall, but provided
that the building be of brick, 5OxlOO
feet and two stories high. The fed.
Grafton asks, in the event the offer is
accepted, the use of one-Jhird of the
iloOr space on the first floor for a cluh
room and city library, and a lease ON
the same for SO years, and the right
to use the auditorium up stairs when
ever they desire. The proposition
stipulated that the building must be
completed by November l, 1900. The
council, upon motion OF Mr.. Amsden,
deferred the consideration Of the
proposition until some future time,
As the matter now stands, the council
can take up the proposition whenever
they feel that the city is in such
shape financially as will Justify the
expenditure OF a sufficient sum N
complete, with donation of 1000. q
suitable building for the use of the
city and the federation. tt is moi
l'kely, however, that the council will
be able to accept the proposition in
time to complete a hall by November
| next.
An ordinance regulating the towr
nerd was passed. 1t provides that il
People's voice., 1900-06-07

cies 81 the Third ward building that
expire this month.
President Maxey announced his
committees for the ensuing year as
follows:
Finance-Campbell, Carues and
Hart.
Supply-Rush, Worden and Hart.
Building-Carnes, Hayes and Show
alter.
GrOunds-Bright, Worden and
Rush.
Text Books and Course of Study
Worden, Showalter and Carnes.
Library-Ready, Campbell and
Hayes.
Salary and Assignment-Staffel-
bach, Ready and Rush,
Auditing-HayeS, Bright aud
Ready.
Visiting-tFirst and Fifth wards
ShOwslter, Bright and Ready. Third
ward) Hart, Worden and Herrick.
AdvisOry-Maxey, Herrick and
StaffelbaCh.
Judiciary-HerriCk, Campbell and
StaffelbaCh.
Examining-Bear, CarneS and Gar.
People's voice., 1900-06-07

shall be misdemeanOr for any person
TO drive horses, cows or other animals
10 herds or drOyeS upon or along any
VI the streets or alleys OF Wellington
without having sufficient number OF
persons accompanying said stock as
drivers To keep them from going upon
sidewalks, parkings or adjacent prep.
erty, and that all persons charged
with taking cows, horses or other
animals to aud from pastures within
the city Of Wellington shall lead them
by rope, halter or some other suit
able fastening. The penalty for viola
ting the herd provision is fine Of not
less than So nor more than S25, with
the costs OF prosecution. The penalty
Tor violating the section rela.
ting to pasture cows aud horses
is fine not exceeding s., and the
costs OF prosecution.
1t was announced that the proof Of
the waterwOrks bonds had been re-
ceived and returned. The blank bonds
are expected to arrive at any time.
Mr.. Maddy, of the street and alley
committee, made report favoring
the construction Of stone crossings in
preference TO brick crossings, The
committee were authorized TO use
their discretion in regard to cOnstruc-
ting crossings the council had already
ordered put 10, and were also given
authority 20 order three car loads of
stone for crossings.
A, A. Ragan, representing West
Lincoln avenue property owners, made
a roar about the street being closed
up where il crosses the Rock Island
tracks, and wanted foot bridges and
sidewalks put in. His complaint was
referred to the street and alley COM
mitttee aud the city attorney.
Geo. Y. Pitts, chairman of the water
committee, stated that he had written
the waterTOrks bond holders TO send
a deed to their local superintendent,
Geo. Fl. Grouse, for examination by
the committee. Mr.. Perry, of the
water company, had replied that he
would furnish the deed as requested.
The matter OF presenting the paup-
er bills growing out OF the smallpox
epidemic to the county for payment
People's voice., 1900-06-07
The New Santa Fe Time Card.

The Santa Fe division superinten'
dents are now in Topeka attending
time card meeting. A new time card
will be issued in a few days to 60 into
effect June Il. 1t is thought there
will be a number Of material changes
in time but just what they will be
has not yet been fully decided. There
is talk Of putting on new through
train from Chicago to San Francisco
ana one from Chicago to Galveston.
Both trains will have fast schedules
and will handle the heavy mails
which are now carried on the Okla
homa division by No. 407 aud on the
main line by No, l.
The time Of other trains will also
be changed in all probability so as tC
make better connections with trains
from the east over connecting lines
at Kansas City and Chicago. The
time on several trains will be short
ened and everything possible done tC
quicken the service and afford better
mail facilities.
People's voice., 1900-06-07
TEACHERS ELECTED.
All the Old Ones Except Two REFLECTED
Other Business OF the Board.

The school board met Monday aud
elected teachers for the l90O-l9Ol
term, There we're twenty-four appll.
cants. Following are the sixteen
successful ones;
Misses Bertha Showalter, Eleanor
Williams, Nellie Palmer, Lou Bybee,
Lee Burcham Ida Hoge, Kate E.
Chase, Anna WOrden, Lucinda Rep
logic, Amelia Moeser, Ute Kirk,
MOlIie Wilson, Ella Haveus, Jennie
ROseCranS, Lille OBrlen and Nellie
Davidson. Miss O'Brien has been a
teacher in the Ca dwell city schools
for several years, where she has given
universal satisfaction and was very
popular. She was asked to continue
her contract there next year, but on
account OF her home being in yelling.
, ton, decided to apply for a position in
the schools here. Miss Davidson has
been teaching at Garden City for sew
eral years. IL required fourteen bal.
lots last night to elect all the teach.
ers. Upon motion OF Mr.. HAYES,
seven votes were required to elect
and live applicants were voted for at
a time. The first ballot resulted in
the election Of Bertha ShOwalter
Eleanor Williams, Nellie Palmer and
Lou By6ee. The second ballot re-
suited successfully for Lee Burcham
Ida HOge, Kate E. Chase, Anna Wor
den and Lucinda ReDlogIe. On the
thiId ballot, Amelia MoeSer, Ute
Kirk, NOllie Wilson, Ella Havens and
Jennie ROSeCraDS were elected. Lille
OBrien was elected on the fourth
ballot. Ten more ballots were re-
Quired to choose among Nellie David
son, MYRTLE Nelson and Ethel Showal
ter. Miss Davidson was elected or
the fourteenth ballot.
Mrs. |. l. Scott was reelected music
instructor ata salary Of S4Oper month
The assignment 0. teachers will
probably be made at the July meetinl
Of the board. Nellie Palmer. Lee
Burcham and Jennie Rosecrans ar,
applicants for the prlncipalShip 9
the Third ward schools. made vacan.
by the resignation of Edith Myers
now Mrs. w. NJ. Martin. Mrs tHaub
| lin, who causes the other vacancy il
{ the schools, has moved to Winfield t,
reside with her husband.
J. NJ. Lynn was reelected janitor O
The First ward school at a salary O
$40 a month, an increase of s. owe
last year. J, W. COCkrell was reelected
anitOr Of the Third ward school a
the same salary as last year, $50
month r. A. Roberts was electe,
janitOr OF the Fifth ward school at SO
a month. |. A. Miller and o. ]
French were applicants for the FiftI
ward janitorShip. Cockrell and Lynl
had no opposition. The janitors ar
to receive 81 per day for work don
during the summer under the direc
tiOn of the grounds committee.
| The building committee was in
structed to renew the insurance poll
People's voice., 1900-06-07

A case was decided by Judge Nc
Bride Monday that is u interest to
lawyers and people who are in the
habit Of running into court with every
little quarrel. 1t upsets a common
Interpretation of point in law
which the lawyers have always de-
pended upon great deal 10 cases that
have been appealed to 'the supreme
court and transferred to the appellate
court. TIE case decided by Judge
Mcbride grew cut of a quarrel be.
tween E. f. Logan and man named
! Miller over some personal property at
Argonia. Miller was beaten in the
lower court, and appealed the case to
the supreme court. His appeal bonds
men were George Linn and }. +.
Carr. After the case was appealed,
the legislature created the appellate
court and the case was transferred to
the appellate court under provision
of the law The court OF appeals dis
missed the case, and Logan sued
Linn and Car, the sureties. on the
bond. The case was decided in favor
of the defendants, Judge Mcbride
holding that there was no breach OF
the bond,