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St. Landry clarion. (Opelousas, La.) 1890-1921, 1918-04-06
IN MISERY
Mrs. Courtney Tells How She
Was Cured by Lydia Z.
Pinkham's Vegetable
Compound.

0skaloosa, Iowa.-fFor years / was
simply in misery from a weakness and
St. Landry clarion. (Opelousas, La.) 1890-1921, 1918-04-06
CITY OR N R o
ERTY FOR SALE CHEAP

If you want to buy or sell
improved or unimproved city
or country property, write
to me or come to see me. /
can buy or sell for you on rea-
sonable cash or credit terms.
GUS E.. DUPRE,
2 Opelousas.
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dairy STABLE Uf
EASTERN DESIGN
Has Many Features That Are
Liked Wherever Tried.
FOR COLD OR WARM WEATHER
Central Duct in Floor Is Part of the
Excellent System Of Venti-
iation in This Barn
BY WIN. A. RADFORD.

Mr.. William A. Radford will answer
questions and give advice FREE OF
COST on ali subjects pertaining to the
subject of building work on the farm, for
the readers OF this paper. On account OF
mis- wide experience as Editor. Author and
Manufacturer. he is, without doubt the
highest authority on all these subjects.
Address all inquiries TO William A. Rad
ford, No. 1927 Prairie avenue, Chicago,
Ill, and only inclose three-cent stamp for
reply.
This is an Eastern cow stable. II
has some features which are different
from other good stables, some of which
are well liked by everyone who has
tried them out.
Where the winters are cold, as they
are where dairying has been conducted
to the best advantage, a stable really
should beabuilt for warmth in winter
and clean, airy GOODNESS in summer.
This design sometimes is fitted with
outside blinds, painted dark green,
This is for the purpose of shutting it
up dark after the cows are MIXED
In the morning in summer. When the
blinds are shut the stable is so dark
that flies Will not stay in it.. Dairy
men have taken lessons from good
hOusekeepers in this respect. Flies
will crawl out of a very small crack
to get from darkness to light. You
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"But he pays you, Chet." his mother
said a~nxiously.
Yep. / know. Don't be afraid I'll
leave him till I see something better
he treasured her. but l might be
clerkin' for him till the cows come
home and never see more'n six or
eight dollars q week. But now it's
apt to be different"
How different, Chet7'' she asked,
puzzled.
"You know Mr.. Stages as hard as
nails-as hard as the goods he sells"
declared the gawky boy. mind you,
ne don't do nothln' mean. That amt
his way. But he don't seem to have
a mite Of interest In anything but his
shop. Now, 1t seems to me. this littls
niece Is bound to wake him up. He
calls her Hannah's Car1yn.'"
Hannah Stagg was his only sister,"
said Mrs. Gormley softly. II remem-
Der her"
"And she's just died. or something,
and left this little GIRL" Chet contin-
ued- "Mr. Stages bound to think of
something now besides business. And
mebbe he'll need me more. And I'll
get q chance 20 show him I'm worth
something to him. SO, by and by, he'll
put me forward In the business" said
the boy, his homely. face glowing.
"Who knows? Mebbe itH be Stage Il
Gormley over the door one OF these
days. Stranger things have hap
pened."
Perhaps even Chetwood's assurance
would have been quenched had he just
then known the thoughts In the hard
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The Making Of
A FAMOUS
MEDICINE
How Lydia <. Pinkham's
Vegetable Compound
Is Prepared For
Woman's Use.

A visit to the laboratory where this
successful remedy is made impresses
ever the casual looker-on with the reli-
ability, accuracy, skill and cleanliness
which attends the making of this great
medicine for woman's ills.
Over $50, 600 pounds of various herbs
are used annually and all have to be
gathered at the season of the year when
their natural juices and medicinal SUBJ
ST. noes are at their best.
The most successful solvents are used
to extract the medicinal properties from
these herbs.
Every utensil and tank that comes i'm
contact with the medicine is sterilized
and as a final precaution in cleanliness
the medicine is pasteurized and sealed
in sterile bottles.
1t is the wonderful combination of
roots and herbs, together with the
skill and care used in its preparation
which has made this famous medicine
SO successful in the treatment Of
female ills.
The letters from women who have
been restored to health by the use OF
Lydia Z. Pinkham's Vegetable Com
pound which we are continually pub
fishing attest TO its virtue.
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HAD EXAMPLE BEFORE HIM
Lop-Earcd Youth Could Not Doubt
That Some People Could Speak
Fast Without Suffering.

A venerable citizen of the Straddle
Ridge neighborhood entered II lunch
room in Polkville, dragging after him
Il gander-necked, lOp-eared youth.
What kind o pie have We got yere?"
he asked of the brisk waitress.
Peach, apple, mince. raisin, punks.
apercot, mince, raiSin and cokernut-
cuStard! she answered with consider
able rapidity.
"ptu-which?" returned the old fell
low.
The young lady repeated the list
with still greater speed.
Please say that Over ag'in, IL you'd
jest as liv'," requested the ancient
man.
Say. loOkee here !" demanded the
waitress. Cant you understand any
thing
"Oh, yeS'm l understand all right 80
He turned TO the lop-eared youth.
There now, Emmett !" he triumphant
ly said. You see, it's jest as | told
"a II person kin talk MS FIST as iu
pieases without stutterin'. if he'll onIy
take keer"-Judge.
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w.
Aunty Rose Un5ends.

Aunty rose
There eve was a lvveIier place rof
a little girl-to say nothing OF a dog
to play In than the yard about the
Stage homestead; and this Carolyn
May connded to Aunty Rose one fore
noon after her arrival at The Cor
ners.
Behind the house the yard slopet
down to a broad. calmly flowing
brook Here the goose and duck pens
were fenced OF, for Aunty Rose would
not allow the web-footed fowl to wan
der Mt large. az did the other poultry.
1t was difficult for Prince to learn
that none OF those feathered folk were
to be molested-
There was . understanding oas
tree on q knoll overlooking the brook.
Around its trunk Uncle Joe had built
a seat. Carolyn May found this q
grand place to SIT and dream, while
Prince lay at her feet.
When they saw Aunty Rose In her
sunbonnet going toward the fenced-in
garden they both jumped up and
bounded down the slope after her. II
wal just here at the corner OF the
garden fence that Carolyn May had
her first adventure.
Prince. of course, disturbed the Sc.
renity OF the poultry. The hens went
shrteking N way, the guinea fowl
lifted up their voices In angry chat.
ter. the turkey hens scurried to cover,
but the turkey cock. General Boil
var. a big, white Holland fowl. was
not to have his dignity disturbed and
his courage impugned by any four
footed creature with waggish ears and
the stump Of q tail
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air duct TO admit fresh air. Over this
air duct Is placed a wooden walk, built
of two-by-four cross pieces. with the
boards nailed on lengthwise. This
leaves IN opening between the two-by-
four cross pieces for the entrance Of
air into the stable directly In front Of
the cows noses.
According to the principle of warm
air circulation. this arrangement is
theoretically correct. Air Is admitted
In the center of the room that Is prop
erly proportloned and close enough
built TO prevent the influence of out
side air currents. The cold air from
outside Is heated by the lungs and the
body warmth of the cows. Warm air
will rise to the ceiling and spread In
every direction. AS it loads up with
impurities, and as It's temperature Is
reduced. the air becomes heavier. AS
I reaches the outer walls IL descends
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fastened to the ceiling by screws
through threaded plates. 4 loft over
the stable like this is not used for any
purpose except as an air space, and
the air is changed by having a win
dow in each gable. The silos are
placed between the stable and storage
barn, with room for a feed carrier to
pass through; this carrier track ex-
tends the whole length of the cow
stable and runs far enough into the
storage barn to load the litter carrier.
Do Not Depend on P~asturage.
The value of this arrangement may
be better understood by the study o.
one fact-that north of the forty-sec-
ond parallel of latitude there is an
average of only six weeks of good pas
ture. There are droughts sandwiched
in between late spring and early fall
frost. so that dairymen are obliged to
supply manger feed for ten or eleven
months. In fact, some of the best
dairymen don't depend on pasture, ex-
cept to have a run for the cows for ex-
e~rcise, fresh air and general health.
OF course, they want cows to get some
picking, and this is necessary to in
duce the cows to travel about. But
when Il comes to actual feeding. the
stable is depended upon In summer as
well as winter. The storage of silage
and the growing of alfalfa have
brought about this change.
The old plan of growing soiling
crops is not carried on TO any great er
tent; labor is too expensive. Silage
and alfalfa are better and cheaper. At
the same time, good COW appreciate .
feed once a day of green stuff. 1t may
be clover, oats, %suecotash, alfalfa, or
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Floor Plan Of Dairy Stable.

can't shut flies out of a COW stable
hat is, you can't shut them all out
but Ii is possible to shut up a stable
like this so dark that they will all
leave il between morning and evening
milking hours.
OF course the cows will carry flies
In with them when they are stabbed in
avoided very well. However, some
New York dairymen have dark pas
sageways leading to the stables, where
a good many flies are brushed off by
the attendant as the COWS pass in.
One dairyman experimental with sta
tiOnary brushes in a dark passageway,
which is an automatic way of brush
ing the flies off of the cows as they
enter the stable.
Eastern dairymen usually are well
supplied with small hills or banks on
which to arrange their stables, barn
yards, etc. For this plan a gently
slipping bank, falling away toward the
south or southeast, is preferable. The
north is usually protected by a group
of trees or high board fence.
Stables Grow in Size.
During the last ten years stables
have grown in size. Little cellar win
dows of meager size In lonesome con
nectiou have been displaced by two
sash windows. as carefully made and
adjusted as the windows in the house.
The system of ventilation In this stable
is a combination system, with the cell
ing openings that permit the ventlla-
tors to carry off the warm air from
tile top of the stable in summer.
There may be buiit-in the concrete
floor In the feed passageway-a central
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ana IL ulanu tnrOugn tIc ouU,c uUeS
from near the floor behind the cows,
Practical stable ventilation must be
studied for each building separately
What will work out in one stable would
be useless in another, because of pre-
vailing winds or because of some pc
culiarity in the structure.
Worth a Trial.
This center horizontal air duct Is
worth a trial. Being made Of on
crete it may be kept perfectly clean,
and, being open, ii is less of a harbor
for rats and mice than some Of the
well air ducts that are placed in
stables. This center walk is made in
sections, so 1t may be lifted up and
rested against the front of the manger
while the stable is being swept with
a broom or cleaned with a hose.
Any system of stable ventilation re-
quires a temperature about 80 de-
grees +. to keep air in ejaculation. y
temperature above 80 may be main
tanned in a good stable in zero weather
by packing the COWS close enough to-
gether. This is, of course, likely to
lead to the old argument about the
amount of air space required for ami
mails, and this is a subject that has
never been settled to the satisfaction
Of %dairymen. But GOOD cowmen like
to have the air changed whether there
is much or little to change. These
make their stable ceilings low
and are particular to have a good-sized
COW in each stall.
In building these stables in the
dairymen are particular not to
leave any hedges to hold dust. They
use inside ceiling without beading,
and they paint the ceiling In such a
as to fill the cracks so far as pos
sible, so the ceiling is smooth and air
tight. For the same reason there are
window stools. There are no I'M
necessary projections anywhere on the
inside of the stable. The same idea Is
followed in the stall partitions.
In this particular stable the only
support to the ceiling is from the par
tition uprights between the cows,
which are cemented in the floor and
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M.
"weIl--shen De q Nuisance

"Wcll-Sheri De q Nuisance
Mr.. Joseph Stage. going down to his
store, past the home and carpenter
shop Of Jedidiah Pariow, at which he
did not even look. finally came to his
destination In a very brown study. So
disturbed had he been by the arrival
of his little niece that he forgot to
question and cross question young
fleetwood Gormlsy regarding the pos
eihie customers that had been In che
store during his absence.
!. And I tell you what I think. moth
w." Chef said. with his mouth full, q,
supper that evening. II think hez
<oming's going 70 bring about changes
Yes, ma'amw
Mrs. Gormley was . faded little
woman--a widow-who went out sew.
ing for better-to-do people in Sunrise
Cove. she naturally thought her boy
Chetwo0d great deal smarter than
other people thought him.
-lou know. mother" he said. on
mis- evening on tne arrivaf on Uarofyn
May. II never have seen any great
sic4.ace 70 rise. workin' for Mr.. JOSEPH
Ftagr
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n--contlnued.

-
The window was open and she went
To 1t and looked out. A breath OF
h~oneysuckle blew In. Then, below, or
the porch. she heard the uneasy mcve
ments of Prince. And he whined.
"Oh. poor Prlncey! He doesn'i
know what's become of me-" thought
Carolyn May.
Downstairs, in the great kitchen,
Aunty Rose was stepping back and
forth, from table to sink, from sink to
dresser, from dresser to pantry. AS
the daylight faded she lit the lamp
which swung from the ceiling and
gave light to all the room.
II would have been impossible for
the wisest person TO guess what were
the thoughts In Arnty Roses mind.
A glad little yelp from the dog tied
10 the rail of the porch sounded sud-
denly. Even Aunty Rose could not
mistake that cry of welcome and she
knew very little about dogs-to their
credit. at least. She had heard no
other suspicious sound, but now she
- VoN bAE fOOlh Will nFm lTcdu Muu
opened the porch door. Yes, q little
white figure was down there hugging
the whining mongrel.
Carolyn Mays fearful face was
raised from Princes rough neck.
oh, Aunty Rose Oh, Aunty Rose r.
she sobbed. 81 just had to say good
nie',t TO somebody. Edna's mother
came and heard our prayers and tucked
Ms into my bed after my papa and
IN went away. So Il didn't seem
~ bad.
But tohight-whyi tonight there
ISN'T anybody cares whether I no to
bed or noti But Prince Prince, he
knows just how-how empty I feel r.
You would better come In now and
wash your face and hands again be-
fore going to bed. That dog has been
iapping them with his tongue.
Sobbing. the little girl obeyed. Then
SHE would have gone back up the
stairs without q word had NOT Aunty
itose spoken.
Come here. Carolyn May" she said
quite AZ sternly as before.
The little girl approached her. The
old lady sat in one Of the straightsst
of the straight-backed chairs, her
fiunds In her comfortable lap. The
Wet blue eyes were raised to her com
posed face timidly.
III you wish to say your prayers
here, before going upstairs, you a
Carolyn May" she said.
'Oh, may n" gasped the little girl.
She dropped her hands into Aunty
Roses lap. Somehow they found those
lager, comforting hands and cuddlsd
n them as the little girl sank to
hcr knees on tho braided mat.
Ii the simple Now I lag me" was
familiar to Aunty Roses ear from
dong 9 she gave no Sign. When the
Earnest little voice added to the for
NAL suppiication q desire. for the blsss-
fng Of "Unele Joe and Aunty Rose
che latter's countenance retained its
composure.
n asked n blessing upoE all her
Friends, Including the Prices. and even
Prince. But 1t was after that she put
Fhe timid question to Aunty Rose that
proved TO be almost too much for that
good woman's studied calm.
"Aunty Rose. do you s'pose I might
ask God to bless my and
gapa, even II they are lost at sea?
Somehow I don't think IL would seam
so lonesome IL / could keep that In
MY prayer"
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IN II somebody mad shipped min
a crocodile from the Nile Joseph Stacy
would have felt little more at a loss
as to what disposal to make of the
creature than he felt now regarding
his little niece.
"Well-she'll be a nuisance; an aw.
full nuisance" was his final
with a mountainous sigh.
Thus far. Aunty Rose Kennedy's at
titude towards the little stranger hac
been the single pleasant disapbolnt.
nlent Mr.. Stagg had experienced.
Aunty Rose was an %autocrat. Joseph
Stagg had never been so comfortable
In his life as since Mrs. Kennedy had
taken up the management of his home.
But he stood In great I'VE Of her.
He put the lawyers letter In the
safe. For once he was unable to re-
spond to a written communication
promptly. Although he wore that
band of crepe on his arm he could not
actually realize the fact that his sister
Hannah was dead.
Any time these fifteen years he
might have u down to New York. to
see her. First she had worked In
the newspaper Office as q stenogra-
pher. Then she had married John
Lewis Cameron and they had gone I'm
mediately TO housekeeping.
Cameron was a busy man; he held
a desk job" on the paper. Vacations
had been hard to get. And before long
Hannah had written about her baby
"Hannah's Car'lyn."
After the little ones arrival there
seemed less chance than before for
the city family to get up to Sunrise
Cove. But at any time he might have
gone to them. IL Joseph Stage had
shut up his store for a week and gone
to New York, 1t would not have
brought the world to an end.
Nor was II because he was stingy
that he had not done this. No, he was
no miser. But he was fairly buried
in his business. And there was no
look up" In that dim little office In
the back of the hardware store.
On this evening he closed the store
later than usual and set out for The
Corners slowly. To tell the truth, Mr.,
Stage rather shrank from arriving
home. The strangeness Of having a
child in the house disturbed his tran
GUILTY..
The kitchen only was lighted when
h% approached; therefore he was re-
nssured. He knew HAnnah's Carlyn
must have been put to bed long since.
IL was dark under N trees and
only long familiarity with the walk
enabled him to reach the back porch
nolsefessly. Then II was that some
thing scrambled up In the dark and
the roar of a dogs barking made 10
seph Stage leap back in fright.
brat that mongrel !" he calculated.
Prince.
The Kitchen door opened, revealing
Aunty Roses ample figure. Prince
whined sheepishly and dropped his abb
breviated tail, going to lie down again
at the extreme end of his leash and
blinking his eyes at Mr.. Stage.
1.-The critters as savage as a bear r.
grumbled the hardware merchant.
HE is a good watchdog; you must
allow that. Joseph Stage" Aunty Rose
said calmly.
The hardware dealer gasped again.
1t would be hard to say which had
him the most-the dog or
Roses manner.
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. miIlar 70 AuRtv RossAs Ear Che Gave
No Sign.
ware merchants mind. Mr.. Stagg sat
In his back once porfng over the let
ter written by his brotherln-law's law
yer friend, a part Of which read:
From the above recital cf sacts yoa WIN
plainly 80. being q man Of businsss your
self. that Mr.. Camsren's nanet& affair
were In . much WORSE condition whsn hs
wont Away than he hhnsslf dreamed Of
] Immediately looked up the Stone
bridge Building and Loan association. II
10 evon more moribund than the papers
state. TIL fifteen hundred dollars Mr..
Cameron put into II from time to time
might just az well have been dropped into
the sea
You know he hAd cniy b. ssA=-y on
the Morning Beacon. fhsy we're rather
decent TO him. whom they saw hts health
breaking down. to offer him the chance OF
going to the Msdstsrranssn 80 correspond
ant. He was to furnish articles on The
Debris Of a World war"-~tories Of the
peaceful sections OF Europe which have to
care Tor the human wrecks from tina bat
tleneids.
II rather crampsd Mr.. CAmeron's Inn
mediate resources for your sister to 20
with him. and he drew Ahead ON his ex-
F~ eN1 8&GQ9nts AL hA8&
Mrs. Cameron feared to allow him to 20
alone across he ear He Was really In
= bad . bot. she propossd to come
o~ek Immediately on the Dunraven II h
improved on the voyags acroea
Their msans really ana not an0v a
their taking the child: tbs steamship ccm-
pAny would not heal Of . half-fars fur
her. She u = nice little GIRL. inc my wtfs
would have hssn giad TO keep her longer.
but In the end she would have to 70 to
you. -. ! uaLewtand. thsrs sss no other
relatives.
{ ccurss the Nat b hore. and ths fur
ntture II o do not care 20 come on =
aftsnd to the m0ttes yourself. I win -
the best I can TO disposs Of either o. both.
NJ. Camsron had paid . years rent In
advAnce-rather IN unwtss shing. !
thought--And The term kAs stn ton
months to run He ala n % that his wife.
on her return from abroad. might have
no WORRY on her mind. Perhaps the nat
might be subist furnished, to advantage.
lou night state your pleasure regarding
! xhis-
You VIII see, by the copy OF your broth
sr-iH-iaw's will thai / sncioue. that you
lave been left In full and sole posssssion
snd guardianship CT his property and AZ
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Not by His Wife.

II wish to purchase a pet"
"What sort of a pet?"
"Oh, any kind of IN intelligent pet.
Something for my wife,"
"Well, sir, this dog can do anything
but talk"
"Tn take him. That defect will
never be noticed"
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caro,ynS sunny deposition
bsuins to have II effect upon
Aunty Ross, With rssuits that
are amazing 70 unoie Joe. You
Will enjoy the NEXT lnstailmsnt.
Cro BE coNTINUED.l


Nell---I understand May Cutting rs-
marked that ! looked 90 much like
Miss Hoamley-Ritch. Isn't that ewfulr'
B~eile-"Yes, she's always knocking
Miss Hpamiey-R itch. because shs's
Jealous Of her.
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"Flubdub knows a little medicine
and also a little Law.
with what result?"
We'll, among lawyers he is known
as Doe and among doctors as
Judge Louisville Courier-JournaI.
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Tn earliest s.sae Accs printed -
English Is INSTRUCTIONS for Forralns
Travel published IN 1914: by James
Howell. . famous traveller of that
day.
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A Good Match.

When | get a car, | want one which
will suit me" Then, my dear, YOU
had better get a r%unabout."
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Two are needed to start a quarrel,
hut al stop Ii.
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JOSEPH stage is FILLED WITH DISMAY WHEN He LEARNS
CAROLYN HAS BEEN LEFT TO HIS CARE.

synopsis-Her father and mother reported lost Mt sea when the
Dunraven, on which they had sailed for Europe. a sunk, Carolyn
May Caneron-Hannsh's Caroyn-is sent from New York TO her bach
ehr uncle, Joseph stagg, at the Corners. The reception given her by
her uncle is not very enthusiastic Carolyn is also chilled by the stern
deneanor of Aunty Rose. Uncle Joes housekeeper.
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You viii see. by the copy OF your broth
sr-iH-iaw's win that / s~nciose. that you
nave been left In full and sole posssssion
and guardianship CT bis property and at
xnirs. Including Carolyn Mar.