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St. Landry clarion. (Opelousas, La.) 1890-1921, 1905-05-27
AN EARLY HARVEST.
Heavy Oat Crop Is Gathered by Crowley
Farmer.

Until few years back, oat rails
ing was altogether unknown in
this section OF Louisiana-few
knew that it could grow and pro-
duce in this soil-that it was YAM
kee crop strictly. Experiments,
however, have shown that we can
raise oats successfully. More than
that-our soil can produce more
aud better oats than the section
from which we buy the stuff.
The following article, from the
Crowley Signal, is strong argu-
ment in favor of the oat crop:
~. f. Shoemaker began Monday
to harvest his oats, of which he
has 100 acres. The oat crop this
year is an unusually good one and
Mr.. Shoemaker expects to get
about fifty bushels to the acre.
at ought to make the average
farmer, who buy oats imported
from Texas, Kansas or Minnesota,
stop and figure minute this fall
before he decides not to raise at
least eight or ten acres OF oats.
Last year Mr.. Shoemaker raised
about 4, 600 bushels of oats. When
his crop was harvested a good grade
OF Texas or Northern oats was
selling at fifty cents bushel. Mr..
Shoemaker sold about half his crop
at sixty cents a bushe1, an advance
of twenty per cent, over Texas and
Northern oats. This was equal to
a twenty-bag-to-th crop of
rice at the prevailing price last
year, or a ten-bag crop Of NUM-
Der one in a good year. It was a
much cheaper crop to raise than q
rice crop and the net profit per acre
was eorrespondingly larger.
s.Ihe oats raised in this section
are of fine quality and heavier than
the average oats shipped in. The
fact that they readily sell at a
price twenty per cent. above foreign
oats speaks well for their quality
St. Landry clarion. (Opelousas, La.) 1890-1921, 1905-05-27
r. MORNHINV VEG & SON,

The Treasury deficit grows or
has been growing, at the rate of a
million il week. AS an evidence of
OF Republican prosperity this must
make Uncle Joe Cannon weep
Republic.
Louis Chennolet defeated Old
fields automible record, making a
mile in 50 4-5 seconds at Morris
Park, New York. Oldfield's world
record was mile in 5s seconds.
The Panama Canal Commits
sion's plan to buy material in the
markets of the world is said to be
due to the effort OF certain great
corporations to overcharge the
government for supplies needed.
The railroad clerks LIN Washing
ton are puzzling their brains over
a new problem which they claim is
a better one than the I" How old is
Ann? problem. It is known as
the Gladys, West Virginia, problem
where it had its origin. Here it
is: "a train one mile long starts
from the station of Gladys. The
engine leaves the station and the
conductor waits until the caboose
comes. He jumps on the caboose
and walks forward over the train.
When the engine reaches the next
station, Oxley, four miles from
Gladys, the conductor steps off the
engine. How far does the conduc-
tor ride and how far does he walk z"
For the first time since the be-
ginning of the world Jew has
been accepted as an officer in the
Prussian army, and, even now, ne
has acquired that distinction not
in the regular army. One OF the
youngest Rothschilds Baron Gold
schmidt Rothschild) served as a
volunteer in a Raden regiment and
communicated his intention to
present himself for examination
as officer. The line and staff Of the
regiment declined. The emperor
heard OF it and nominated Baron
Rothschild a ehamberlain-ald, ,
which carries the rank Of lieutef-
ant. The fact that not single
Jew is commissioned officer in
the German army was ventilated
| in the reichstag last session.
The money counters of the United
| States treasury were startled one
day by the appearance ofa remark-
able looking "fat man. who en-
tered the department and told a
strange tale. He said be was an
Ohio farmer and did not believe in
banks and SO had buried his money
in the ground for safe keeping. He
4
had dug it up and was horrified to
find that it was slowly turning to
dust, as notes will when long
buried. Panic stricken, he gath
cred the disintegrated money into
an old pillow case, bound it around
his waist beneath his clothes and
started for Washington. He trav-
eled part Of the way on horseback,
part of the way on an Ohio river
steamboat and part Of the way By
train. During the journey he
never once took off the pillow case
He even slept with It on. The
officials OF the treasury depart
ment found il difficult TO make him
| part with it. He did not want te
! go back with clerk for fear ths
clerk would rob him, but as il was
manifestly impossible for him {
disrobe in the Office he had final.
/, to submit. They got the none,
at last, and the condition was 81
bad that Mrs. Leonard, an expert
4 had to be called 70 decIpher il. 81
great was her skill that the farne
lost only few hundred dollars on
U OF $40 ,oeo 90.
St. Landry clarion. (Opelousas, La.) 1890-1921, 1905-05-27
Who Shot the Shot.

An English paper quotes the
following from an American journ-
al, and the wonder is that the
EngIishman ever saw the joke:
"a duel was fought in Texas
recently by Alexander Shott and
John S. Mott. Mott was shot and
|Shott was not. In this case it was
better to be Shott than Mott.
aThere was a rumor that Mott
was not shot, but Shott avows that
he shot Mott, which proves either
that the shot shot at Mott was not
shot, or that Mott was shot,
notwithstanding. Gircumstantial
evidence il not always good.
at may be made to appear on
the trial that the shot Shott shot
shot Mott, or, as accidents with
firearms are frequent, it may be
possible that the shot Shott shot
shot Shott, when the whole affair
would resolve itself into its or
iginal elements, and Shott would
be shot and Mott would be not.
ave think, however, that the
Il 4.
shot Shott shot shot not Shott, but
Mott; anyway, it is hard to tell
who was shot and who Wes not.0
Reports from Beeville, Texas,
are to the effect that the spring
| flow of honey is very disappointing,
owing to the freeze of February Is,
which set back the blooming OF
| honey bearing shrubs, and to the
heavy rains which washed out the
pollen from early flowers. While
the loss will be heavy on the spring
flow apiarists still have the sum-
mer and fall flow to look forward
/ to.-Farm & Ranch.
The Postmaster General is re.
adjusting the salaries Of presIden,
tial postmasters.
St. Landry clarion. (Opelousas, La.) 1890-1921, 1905-05-27

The Postmaster General is re-
adjusting the salaries Of presIden-
tial postmasters.
Waterbury evening Democrat., 1905-08-26
Senator Stephen B. Elkins is in E,

Senator Stephen B. Elkins is in Flu rope enjoying himself unmlndful of the schemes under way in West Vir- ginia to defeat him for reelection at the expiration of his term in 1907. Mir Elkins is one of the most active men in the senate and always at work on some proposition. His private affairs are so extensive that he keeps several clerks busy all the time and one confi- dential man remains within call all the time. It has been some time since the senator really took a season of rest and with his family he is now doing the continent and keeping as far away from business matters as possi- ble. Meanwhile the Elkins lieutenants in West Virginia are looking after the interests of their chief and do not seem to be suffering much because of his absence. Mir Elkins is a power in his own state, and he is so identified with its industry and progress by req son of his investments and industrial enterprises that he has following of pronounced strength in every county. It will be strong man indeed who can shake the grasp of Elkins from the hold he has upon the political af- fairs of that state.
Waterbury evening Democrat., 1905-08-26

of such large quantities by dumping 1t on the local markets would have broken the price and, so the Armour people thought, would work an Nnjury to the local ice dealers. The company was therefore in quandary as to what to do with the ice other than let it melt away, when the local freight agent at Tennessee point wired the company suggesting that it's Ice at his station be given to the poor. George B. Robbins, president of the company, saw the point and not only replied placing all the ice at his disposal for this purpose, but notified the other freight agents wherever the cars hap pened to be, to give the ice to chari- table institutions and to the poor of their towns. In some cases the ice was handed over to the Salvation Army and in others given away by the freight agents. At Chattanooga alone between two and three hundred tons of ice were distributed, and tine total amount ran up into the thousands. Counting the freight, the Ice was worth, at the points where it was giv- en away, about five dollars ton, so 1t is estimated that the distribution cost the Armour company at least ten thousand dollars.
Waterbury evening Democrat., 1905-08-26
PROOF OF LIFELESS MOON.
Results of Scientific Telescopic ob-
 servations Are Most Con- ! elusive.

The moon being much the nearest to us of all the heavenly bodies, we can pronounce more definitely in its case than in any other. We know that neither air nor water exists on the moon in quantities sufficient to be per ceiyed by the most delicate tests at our command.
 It is certain, says Harper's Maga. zine, that the moons atmosphere. if any exists, is less than the thousandth part of the density of that around us. The vacuum is greater than any ordi nary airpump is capable of producing. We can hardly suppose that so small a quantity of air could be of any bene- fit whatever in sustaining life. An animal that could get along on so lit tie could get along on none at all.
 But the proof of the absence of life is yet stronger when we consider the results of actual telescopic observa- tions. An object such as an ordinary city block could be detected on the moon. If anything like vegetation were present on the surface. we should see the changes which 1t would under go in the course of a month, during one portion of which it would be ex- posed to the rays of the unclouded sun and during another to the intense cold of space.
Waterbury evening Democrat., 1905-08-26
IMPORTATION OF cRYoIITE.
Mineral Product Comes from Green.
 land and Is Extensively Used ! in This Country.

There was large falling of in the quantity of cryolite imported into the United States in 1904 This amounted to s59 long tons. valued at s13.70s. as against 7.7Os long tons. valued at slO2.- s19, in 1909. This is the smallest quantity of eryolite imported into the United States since 1871. Since 1885 the importation has. except in 1896 been over 5000 long tons a year. and in 1887. 1894 and 1897 the importation was over 10."o0 long tons a year.
 Cryolite has been found sparinely at a number of localities in the rnite,5 States. but none of the deposits has shown any indication of containing eryolite in commercial quantity. All the eryolite used in this country is imported from Greenland The deuos- its there are controlled by the Danish government which also limits the er- Portstion- The principal use of the importss eryoiifs is in the nanufsc- ture of zlHrlinum a7d sodium salts and it is in these processes that cal cium f9oride is obtained as a by- product
 The aforementioned facts srp taken from q report on the producsiou of fUOrsper and erTolfte In Issl. rhieh Dr- JOssph Hyde Pratt has recently prepared for the United States reosoz- ical survey.
Waterbury evening Democrat., 1905-08-26
WOULDN'T TAKE LETTER.
Address on One Intended for Police
 man Was Too Compromis- ing to Accept.

One of the policemen who have been longest on Broadway has ac- Quired among his associates the pie turesque if inelegant name of Juicy Bill the Grafter," and even if they do not give his full title they call him by parts of it. Usually it's only Bill, but the rest sometimes follows, says the New York Sun
 One of the youngest men on the squad had more courage the other day than any of his colleagues. He saw a letter that stood in the rack of the house built for the uptown traffic men. It had been observed by all during the two days it was exhibited, but none of them had undertaken to deliver it.
 The address read Juicy Bill the Grafter," and this was followed by the address of the station house. Not a man in the squad intimated that he had seen it. The man to whom it was ad- dressed also ignored it. But the young est recruit wanted to make himself solid. So he waited until roll call was over one afternoon.
 Say" he began, as he walked over to the person for whom the letter was intended, there is letter for you over there. It's addressed Juicy Bill the Grafter.'"
 There was an awful silence after this kind offer of information. It was not noticed by anybody-even by the man for whom the letter was intended. He walked out of the house without his let ter, which may be in the rack to this dav
Waterbury evening Democrat., 1905-08-26
WHAT HE WAS ANGRY ABOUT
Hit by an Automobile, But He Didn't
 Mind the Bump So Much.

The tall, angular man in the wide- brimmed felt hat was evidently a southern merchant on a pleasure trip, relates the Chicago Inter Ocean. "Toot! toot!" came the blast of an automobile horn, and in a moment the visitor was bumped ignominiously into the gutter.
 Happily, he was uninjured. With a ferocious yell he started to his feet, and simultaneously reached back his hand to his hip pocket.
 Hey, don't shoot 'em," yelled the spectators in prompt apprehension. You can have 'em arrested, and can then sue them"
 The man still kept his hand in his hip pocket. while look of impotent rage flashed across his face. and he looked at the vanishing autoists. Their auto number Is 4sOls3o1," cried a lawyer, bustling up. aTll be your lawyer in this outrage"
 "Oh, it ain't that. gentlemen. !" drawled the Kentuckian. T sho' wouldn't mind this accident. but for one thing"
 But why have you got your hand thrust threateningly into your pistol pocket7"
 That's the calamity. suh. had a flask O. tn best an oldes' Buhbon whisky in tn state of Kentucky stored away thar. suh, and the fiasks done smashed. suh,"
Waterbury evening Democrat., 1905-08-26

Several days ago it was announced that because of the shortage in the Georgia peach crop the Armour Car Line Co found itself with thousands Of tons of ice in cars en route from Lake Erie to Georgia which promised tO be total loss. says an exchange. 4 gentleman familiar with the situa- tio1 and noting the item contributes some interesting information on this subject It appears that w.en the seascn of shipping Georgia peaches came to an abrupt close the Armour people stopped the cars of ice Wher- ever they could reach them by teIc- graph Having been unable to send cars the ice had been packed in ordinary bo1cars and was melting rapidly. To attempt to dispose
Waterbury evening Democrat., 1905-08-26
HISTORY OF AN ERROR.
Blunder That Escaped the Notice oi an Army of Proofreaders
 and Editors.

A. B. wrote a certain paper for { popular journal. This paper wen through certain successive stages dur ing the process of production. Al each step 1t received new reading from the beginning to end. Thus:
 1. It was written in MS. Then it wa, read through and in great part re written.
 2. It was read through again wheI completed. and sent to be typewrit ten.
 3. The typewriter read IL through be fore sending it back.
 4. The author corrected the type. written MS. carefully and sent it ir again.
 ,. It was then set up in type.
 6. The author received a proof which he read and corrected, send ing it back for press.
 :. The editor or the sub-editor read it finally and passed it for the maga- zine.
 The paper thus had at least seven readings. Yet blunder was passed if the author made it-or committed if he did not make it-of a most ele- mentary description; one that leaps to the eyes; one that stands out of the page calling on everybody to spot 1t, correct it. put an end to it.
 The blunder vas simply this: A certain strike of vorkingmen vas spoken of as undertaken for lower wages, instead of higher How the word lower got there-whether the author wrote I, in the first instance or the typewriter. or the conposftor- it is impossible to say. Probably fl vas the arthor's mistake A long succession of readings of the peSssze followed Not one Of the readers dis covered the mistake.
Waterbury evening Democrat., 1905-08-26
HEARD IN PASSING

In the bright lexicon of youth there is no word more attractive than vaca. ton, when you have the price.
 People divorced in Illinois cannot marry again for year. But there are an abundance of life-saving stations ir bordering states.
 Thomas A. Edison says that he has at last perfected the ideal storage bat. tery for motors. The great electrician generally makes good.
 There is nothing to indicate that the Chinese laundry guilds in this country have any thought of boycotting the Melican's Monday morning bunch of washing.
 One of the minor helps toward keep ing cool during period of excessive heat is careful avoidance of such newspapers as announce the number of fatalities in tall and torrid type.
 It takes Pennsylvania judge to dc a clever bit of skating on thin ice. While deciding that woman is the ruler of the kitchen, the court declined tL say whether the ruler was the mistress or the hired girl.
 Those who favor heavy guns are dis cussing a new eleven-inch gun for our battleships. It is recognized fact now that the heavy guns of Togo, we'll served, were the chief instruments in the destruction of the big Russian bat tleships. The big guns at range within their proper capacity are ahead once more. The practice of the Japanese gunners at four and five miles with the big guns was something wonder ful-Bridgeport Standard.
 It was feared that the use of sul- phate of copper in purifying water would result in damage and death to whatever fishes might be living in the ponds or reservoirs treated, but Prof John B. Smith of Rutgers college, un- dcr whose inspection the city water of New Brunswick, \. J.. was treated bss made report to the effect that the fish take no notice of the treatment whatever. Perhaps it agrees witt them, too, that the water should b- purifed.-Bridgeport Standard.
 Is the negro losing his job' in the south! The Montgomery Advertiser answers this question in the affirma' tive. It says that while the cotton planters and farmers generally are unable to obtain the labor they re frire, the negroes are idling away their time in the towns. Says the Ad- vertiser: Tt is, We think, perfectly safe to say that at least 90 per cent of the cotton growers would prefer rc. liable negro labor to any other that can be procured. and as long as there was any hope that they could depend on the negroes they did so. but that hope has practically departed and the; must look elsewhere. What Is to be- come of the negroes when their places are taken by outsiders no one can Times.
Waterbury evening Democrat., 1905-08-26
THE GRAND DUKES or AMERICA

In Moneyhof, proud citadel.
 Our Grand Dukes sit conspiriAg. They know the peoples weakness well, They plot and scourge, they buy and sel ! With energy unttring.
 The Grand Duke Steel and the Grant l Duke Coal, The Grand Duke Beef with the hard
 hard soul
 And swelled with the might of his tribut, l rich,
 The Grand Duke standardoilovitch At Moneyhof the courtiers kneel 1 In servile adulation; Beneath the heavy Ducal heel The weaker starve, the baser steal, | The bOlder loot the nation. When the north winds boot from the boreal Pole
 You pay the tax of the Grand Duke Coal And few are spared from the greedy itch Of the Grand Duke standardoilovitch. :, In Moneyhof the tyrants heed No morals or condition. The people groan, the people bleed- What matter if they only feed The Money Proposition? The Grand Duke Beef, when whims die. tate Serenely robs the workmans plate, Then pools the poodle to enrich The Grand Duke Standardoilovitch. Not in St. Petersburg alone
 Do leeches have their inning While Cossacks raid and peasants groan- We have some Grand Dukes of our own That need little thinning: The Grand Duke Steel and the Grand
 Duke Coal, The Grand Duke Beef with the food
 control, And swelled with the might of his
 tribute rich The Grand Duke Standardoilovitch. -Wallaca Irwin in N Y Glnhe
Waterbury evening Democrat., 1905-08-26

For years, says a Washington writ CT, three cities, Chicago, St Louis and Cincinnati, have been trying to get from New England and the North At lantic states, the trade that they have built up in the southeastern states. The railways feeding the southeastern states have insisted on a fair rate for their haul from the western trading centers. They have been forced to take lesser rate than the railroads running out of the northwest because they were in direct competition with water routes. The interstate com merce commission has repeatedly de cided that this discrimination in fa- yor of the northwest territory was perfectly justified and right because of the water competition which the railroads had to meet. Now the west ern trading centers ask that they shall he given the benefit of water cOmpeti- tiOn which does not exist as to them. That is because they want to freeze the northeast out of the trade of the southeast and turn it to the middle west Its a perfectly proper business scheme. of course. Its a fight between New York and Chicago fer the busi- ness of the southeastern states. That is the bong and short of it. and Chicago is bound to get it if that is within the range of possibilities When Chicago sets her mind on anything she hustleS. \ razorback hog getting away from a rattlesnske is slow as moIasses in Jan uary lg comparison
Waterbury evening Democrat., 1905-08-26
sAEMseR or ASSOCIATED pResx :
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SATURDAY. AUGUST 2e, 1905.

All sorts of hifalutin is shot off just to show why Joe Jefferson ought to have monument. Why not put him in bronze simply because he was a rip ping good Rip and let it go at that?
Waterbury evening Democrat., 1905-08-26

It is now that the boil weevil is get ting in his work on the cotton crop. How much mischief he will do to the crop this year is all guesswork, but of course the speculators will turn it to good account.
Waterbury evening Democrat., 1905-08-26

The skull of an Indiana lad has been trephined for the purpose of cor recting a criminal tendency and the operation is declared to have been a success. This opens up a wide and useful field for surgery.
Waterbury evening Democrat., 1905-08-26

Some facetious yarnist has started one about lightning striking an editor and burning up a big roll of $1O bills in his pocket" There might have been a big roll of thunder around; but the roll in the editors pocket-well, that's another one.
Waterbury evening Democrat., 1905-08-26

New York tax-dodging corporations having received tip in the solar plexus from the federal supreme court, have deluged the city treasury with money. Nearly S17,OO0OOO in back taxes were paid during June.
Waterbury evening Democrat., 1905-08-26
HoE Twain Go. Rich

"Indeeision about spending money said Mark Twain. to ". D. Hovells. 'Ts worthy of cultivation When I couldn't decide what to buy with my last nickel, kept it. and so became rich
Waterbury evening Democrat., 1905-08-26
Brains and Teeth.

Brain york is said to have . bad enec. ou the teeth. in proportion to the cuaz- tity done. Amerieans are repated 10 have the poorest teeth of any people ia the world
Waterbury evening Democrat., 1905-08-26
Marked Perfect.

Tescher-Johhuy. you may give me . definition of ~hypocrisy
 yohnny-It's when a feIlsT says he loy0 Ifs tescher.-CleveIaa1 Leadss.
Waterbury evening Democrat., 1905-08-26
TreAd Cat

A cat. which had been driven into a shade tree by the dogs at Nashua- N H. vas rescued the other day after it had remained in this position for thrss vhe.s eAylL --