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THE PEOPLE' VINDICATO.
JAs. . Cos*aovE, Editor. The Welfare of the People is the Supreme Law. Te' s, 83 per annum.
VO. I.. NATCHITOCHES, LOUISIANA, JUNE 27, 1874. N0 2.
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MAILS. rc.
ARRIVALS AND DEPARTURES,
NEW ORLEANS, Red River Landing, DI
Chen-yville Quarantico, Alexandria,
Cotile and Cloutierville, Daily, at
7 A. M. A
rlltEVEPORT, Keachie, Mansfield, Mar.
thaville, and Pleasant hill--Daily at
10 A. M.
NACOGDOCHES, Melrose, Chirino. San
Augustine, Milamn Pendleton, Sabine- H]
town, Many and Flt. Josup-on Tues- J
day Thursday and Saturday, at
5 P. M.
HOMER, Minden, Buckhorn, Ringgold, Inte
Coushatts and Catmpte-en Tues
day and Friday, at 5 P. M.
WINNFIELD, Atlanta, Sutton and St.
Maurice-on Tuesday and Friday,
at 9 A. M.
MAILS CLOSE
At 6 A. M. for New Orleans, Alexandria
and Cloutierville.
At 9 A. M. for Shreveport, Keachi, Mans
field and Pleasant Hill.
At 6 P. M. for Nacogdoches, Texas, Mel
rose and San Angustin.
At 5 P. M. for Homer, LA., Buckhorn,
Conshatta and Campte. Q
At 10 A. M. for Winnfield, &c. pdu
Office Hours-from 10 A. M. to 2 r. M. J
and from 3 P M to 7 P M.
J. F. DEVAROAS, Post Master. 3
Professional Cards.
W. IH. JACK. D. PIERSO`.
Jack. ci Pierson,
Attorneys and Counselors at Law,
NATCHITOCHES, LA.
WU'ILL practice in the Courts of Natchitoches.
V Sabine, DeSoto, Red River, Winn, Rapidea,
sad Grant, and in the Supreme Court of the
W ate. Claims promptly attended to.
Juone2-ly.
R . .KEARNEY. M. J. CUNNINGUAh . K
Kearney & Cunningham,
Attorneys and Counselors at Law,
Ofice on St. Denis Street,
June 20-ly. Natchitoches. La. pli
tot
Levy cIO Pierson,
Attorneys and Counselors at Lae,
Office corner Second & Trudau streets,
June 90-ly Xatchitoches, La.
Business Cards.
- - - C-----
M. H. CARVER. R. W. TAYLOR.
Carver ct Taylor
Wholoesale and Retail dealers in
Dry Goods, Groceries,
HARDWARE,
BOOTS,
SHOES,
HATS,
CIOCKERYWARE, etc., etc.
FRONT SThEET,
Natcbiteches, La.
A FRESh and select stock of goods always
on hand, which havbing been purchased on
a cash basis enables us to offer extra induce
ments to eashb bnyers.
Highest casub price paid for ootton and other
produoce, and liberal advances made in cub
or merchandise on consignment.
Junle SO-ly.
'. A.. Duoour~fnau,
-DBALER IN
FOREIGN & DOMEST'IC
DRY GOODS,
NOTIONS,
CLOTHINGO,
BOOTS,
SHOES and HATS.
Corner of Front * Church Streets.
Natchitoches, La.
, June 20-ly.
J. C. TPICHE J. T. AIRB'
Trichel ds Alrey,
(Walmaley's Brick Building,)
Washingtoo Street, Natohitochee, La.
Wholesale and Retail Dengers in
Dry Goods, Groceries,
BAre,
CAPS,
BOOTS,
81OES,
and General MERCHANDISE.
IT Highest price paid for Cotton and
other Country produce, in Cash or Mer
chandise.
June 20.ly.
P. V.elemnan.
. Wasbhlngtoa Street,
NAvcamTcas, l.A.
DETAI dealer in Fancy and Staple
SGreoeries,
CHOICE FLOUR,
SUGAR, COFFZ
,RICE, BAMS, BACON,
TOBACCO, WINES
AND
LIQOURS.
Also agei fIbr the
BALSAMIQUS DES PYRENEES,
a Prenk toae fe tinvalids. aerla Induce
sanqudtred to dealrs. e t-- em.
C. A. BULLARD. N. I. CAMPBELL
Bullard & Campbell,
--DKALEi N
DRY GOODS, TI
GROCERIES, T
HARDWARE,
And General Merchandise. II
Cornet FRONT & LAFArErTE Street,
iatchitoerles, La. Y
T IGHEST rash price paid for cotton and
country pruduce in cash or encrchandise. K
June 20-1y.
Willis 1leolmes,
Intersection Front, Washington & Lutayetto Sts
Natchitoches, La. Jf
-DEALER IN
DRY GOODS, Groceries,
Hardware,
Crockery,
Hatse,
Caps,
Boots,
Shoes and Notions.
Special inducemenits offered to Cash
pu rchasers. Cotton and country pro
duce, both at highest Cash rates.
June 20-1y.
3Beverly TuolLer, ,P
Corner Front and St. Denis street,
NATcurrocHrEs; La. adi
RIETAIL dealer in choice Family Groceries' pa
COFFEE, six
WINES,
LIQUORS, G(
Cigars and Tobacco, &c.
:7 Cheaper than the Cheapest,
June 2d6m.
S, A.leX. e armia, try
(The People's Favorite Grocery.) el;
EEEPS eri,,etantly on hand llt
1. K CHOICE FLOUR,
BACON, tali
LARD,
, HAMS, of
And in fact a full line oft fancy family sup t
plies. Give him a call. Satisfaction gtaran. t.
teed. June 2)-- y.
c Theo. Sohumnan, t
-DEALER IN
DRY GOODS, so
GROCERIES, and fti
GENERAL MERCHANDISE.
Cor. FRONT and ST. DENIS Streets, ni
Natchitoches, La. In
V June 20-ly.
11
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DR II. S CALES,
81urgeon ]elltist,
NAtTCHITOCIIE8 IIA.
O. .1ha ath,
HALLENGES the world for neatness
o and durability of work atisfaction
fShop on St. Denis St.
Far i twI
•heo. E alle,
Coper, Tinet and Sheet-ron worer.t,)
A Ldentl DEALER INtd, and ierI
toe fars, with the retet war d House, and after sg
GOOD S,
Sole sgent for the Unrivalled
. Shaf stoves.h
BooGutte, Pipes, Metalic roog and alShoe Mker.
Snds of rpbilitrng, done with dtispatch.ton
Id i A liberal dis uat to cournteery trade.
. June 2o-ly.
em., June 20-ly.
citl
- - - - - - - -~ - ~ for
The Honest Man Who Pays. bei
There is one among the many. jori
Can you tell me were he stays?' ani
IIe's an odd, old fashioned party ; rep
Called the honest man, who paysj the
Yes-the honest man who pays the
Every dollar lie may owe,
Keeping up the good old ways the
That so many scarcely know. M
toal
If he gives his word of promise for
'Tis a bond as good as gold • ,
If he hold. a post of honor, for
Not a trust is ever sold, wl
By the honest man who pays gai
Every debt he may incur, ed
Yielding each a just award.
And no grudging or demur.
And I'm told this rare old party foi
Lives-within his income, won
By the fairest, squarest dealing de
We see beneath this son.
And the honest man who pays tc
Always holds it good and right, to
For the rich to help the needy ry
When the times are tough and tight. .If'
IFi Don't fail to subscribe for the td
"Peoples' Vindicator." The only live it
paper in Natchitoches, and one that th
advocates the interest of the Tax- be
payer. Terms, $3 per year, $1.50 for la
six months, (invariably in advance.) te
en
Government Aid to Southern ~(
Adventurers. Bi
of
Under this caption, the «atLion, one th
of the ablest publications in the coun: th
try, contains an elaborate and well
) considered atticle, from which we th
make the following extracts, which ril
have a peculiar bearing upon our al- ar
fairs in Louisiana: ot
The fearful and alarming condition al
of the South, brought about by the th
'power of the Federal Government, tl
'p that has been used to place and main- in
"' tain in office corrupt adventurers and
ignorant negroes, is arousing the at- Ri
tention of the intelligent and patriot- to
ic class of the Northern people. la
Scarcely a day passes but what v.
some Northe.in Journal, and not un- B
frequently Republican in politics,
contains a scathing rebuke to the Ad
mninistration and a wholesome admo
ns, nition against any farther encroach- so
ments upon the rights and liberties of fa
the Southern people. Carpet-bag and S
- negro rule have done its work sue
cessfully, and its fruits are seen and y
its blighting effects felt all over the
nation. But it has well nigh run its
course, and if heretofore we have
been powerless to check its progress ; ci
now with the powerful aid and co- v
operation of the Northern people and d
press, its complete annihilation may g
now be regared a foregone conclusion. n
says the Nation ; h
After all that has happened during v
the last Yire years, it Inust be admit
ted that it is a little unsafe to specu- p
late as to what course the President 8
will pursue on any question, but the t
signs that he has seen the error of his I
ways in the matter of nieddlingat F
the South are certainly* unusually i
strong. He took a long time to dis- t
charge the duty imposed on him by i
the Constitution and the laws of de- c
.c ciding who was Governor of Arkan. r
sis ; but the decision, when it came, a
had the great merit of being sound
and carefully considered, and, there- t
fore, likely to make a complete end- t
ing of strife. It has one other merit,
,) which is, perhaps, even greater, viz.
that of having been made in com rn
er* Iplete disregard of the notorious per.
fter sons who do duty in Washington as
Senators from Arkansas. This strikes
Sat thie root of the evil of recent Fede
ral interference. It was the prece
dent set in Louisiana which really
brought about the Arkansas trouble,
because they seemed to create a sys
ess tem of government which promised
on as many rewards to intrigue and vio
lence in this country as in Guatema
la or Costa Rica. Indeed, in seqme
respects the position of the Southern
States of the Union since reconstruc.
tion has been worse than that of any
South American State. In the most
poorly governed community of that
region, or of any other, it is always
open to the men of intelligence and
thrift ind prosperity to deliver them
selves from the rule of ignorance and
corruption by an appeal to arms, or,
in other words, by a resort to the
time honored remedy of revolution.
In the worst ages, and under the worst
rulers, the oppressed and plundered
have usually found some consolation
Si the consciousness that if the yoke
became unbearable, a nnion among
the braver better educated, and hon
ester elements of society might by
Sforce bring about reform. If, they
said to themselves, it should really
prove impossible to put an end to
ing these infamies by peaceable means,
we have such an advantage over the
rascals in capacity, in power of com
Sbination, and Command of money or
other resources of civilization, that
we can, if we must, rise on them, and
kill them or drive themn out of the
*.U country. Moreover, the rascals have
d all usually been sufficiently conscious of
bl, all this to be restrained by it in some
e. degree. Their rule has never lasted
very long in any civilized country
without stimukiting the sense of or- and
der into such activity as to create a sere
power sulfficient to furnish security Kin
for life and property ; so that it may it is
be almhnost laid as a rule that the ma
jority never continues to govern for N
any great length of time unless it 'Thi
represents, at least in a rough way, wh:
the intelligence and accumulations of cOU
the community. inll
What has been most deploreble in v,,,,
the condition of the Southern States 1pt
since the war is, that we have under- as -
taken to prevent the natural remedy the
for their disorders f'omii being applied. and
We have set up in South Carolina, con
for instance, a system of government gu
which converts the majority into a pro
gang of robbers making war on civil- dul
ization and morality, and have pledg- hai
ed ourselves to prevent the minority out
from resisting or overthrowing them. cor
We venture to say that no parallel cog
for such a state of things is to be sq1
found in history. A power which un- am
dertakes to prevent rebellion has al- pr
ways-we believe there is no excep- Cal
tion,to this rule-hitherto undertaken we
to supply protection against predato- ear
ry leglslation on the part of the mna. i
jority as well as against open violence. anU
If there was any oppression to be fy
done, it had always done itself, and en,
the very strength which has enabled w
it to oppress, has usually prevented uij
the oppression from being wholly un- del
- bearable. But in South Carolina and ret
Louisiana we tlnd governments, which an
have not strength enough to exist for o(u
ten days, if left alone, perpetrating I
enormities on which the Czar would NC
not venture towards Poland, or the all
British Empire towards the Santals thi
of the Indian jungles, simply because no
they have the United States behind vi(
them guaranteeing their existence.
1 When such journals as the Nation, ca
the Brooklyn .Enqle, that seems to ir- be
1 ritate so much'our official organ here, tr(
and the New York Times and many wi
others we might mention, write as mi
above and open their batteries upon de
the ranks of the Republican party in in;
the South and hold up to scorn the an
infamies it has perpetrated upon our ca
I people under the guise of law and I
Republicanism, we may look forward si
to a new era in our down-trodden and ca
languishing State. God speed the h,
t work and give us quick relief.-N. 0. he
Bulletin. to
Go to the Vindictltor office and sub- un
scribe for the paper. No one should tii
f fail to support the People's paper: It
d See terms. 'hi
c(
d Mark Twain on the Sandwish is
SIslands. o0
e rhe "Royal Ministers" are natural i
Scuriosities. They are white men of 1
" various nationalities, who have wan
d dered thither in tinme gone by. I will
Y give you a speci., --but not the
I. most favorable. Harris, for instance.
Harris is a American-a long-legged,
g vain, light-weight village lawyer from It
- New-Hampshire. If he.had balins i ft
proportion to his legs, lie would make A
t Solomon seem a failure; if his modes
* ty equaled his ignorance, he would
Smlake a violet seem stuck-up ; if his'
t learning aqualod his vanity, hlie would
ly make von Htumboldt seem as unlet
* tered as the backside of a tombstone; d
) if his stature were proportioned to his
- conscience, he would be a gemt for the
- microscope ; if his ideas were as large t
e, as his words, it would take a man
d three months to walk around one of
- them; if an audience were to con
d- tract to listen as long as hie would
it, talk, that audience would die of old a
z. age; and if he were to talk until he
u said something, hie would still be on v
r- his hind legs when thie last trump t
as sounded. And hie would have dheek 1
es enough to wpit till the disturbancei
e- was over, and go on again,.
e- Such is(or was) His Excellency Mr.
ly Harris, his late Mlajesty's Minister oft
le, 'T'his, That, and The Other-for lie
s- was a little of everything; and parti- I
ed cularly and always he was the King's I
i- most obedient humble servant anmdi
a- loving worshiper, and his chief cham- I
me pion and mouthpiece in the parliamen
ro tary branch of ministers. And when
ic a question came up (it didn't make
ny any difference what it was), how he
oat would rise up and saw the air with
tat his bony flails, and storm and cavort
ys and hurl sounding emptiness whlich
nd Ihe fancied was satire, and issue drea
m- ry rubbish which he took for humor,
nd and accompany it with contortions of
or, his undertaker countenance which ihe
the believe to be comic expression !
on. He began in the islands as a little,
rst obscure lawyer, and rose (1) to be
red such a many-sided official grtandee
ion that sarcastic folk dubbed him, "the
oke wheels of the Government." lie be
ng came a great main in a pigmny land
on--lie was of the caliber that other
by countries construct constables and
ley coroners of. I do. not wish to seem
aly prejudice against Harris, and I hope
to that nothing Ihave said will convey
ns, unch an impression. I must be am
the honest historian, and to this in the
m- present case I have to reveal the fact
Sor that this stately figure, which looks
hat so'like a Washington monument in
and the distance, is nothing but a thirty
the dollar windmill when you get close to
ave him.
is of Harrisloves to proclaim that he is
me no loaer an American, and is proud
sted of it; at hbe a Hawaiian through aund
Ary thmrogh andA is proud of that, too;
and tlht he is a t"illing subject and
servant rt his lord antid master, tlhe
ling, and '. proud and grateful tlht G,
it is so. tthat
WILY W\P, SiHOUL, ANNEX. itmell
Now, let ulis ,nnex thi islands. all t
Think how we co(ld build up that 1S i
whaling trade [Thugh under our and
courts and judges it mnint soon be a- larg
impossible for whaleshlM, to rendez- «whi:
vous there n'ithout being 1rLoced and will
"pulled" by ailors antd `I3ifoggers ligai
as it now is in San Francisco -, l dent
the skippers shun ris they woulhic, .kI A
and shoals.] Let us annex. 't I'rict
could make sugar enough there i inn
supply all America, perhaps, and the .tr,
prices would be very easy with the lti
duties removed. And theu we would %r:
have such a fine half-way house for the
our Pacific-plying ships ; and such a the
convenient supply depot and such a ver
commanding sentry-box for arnmed san
squadron; and we could raise cotton of I
and cottee there and make it pay tw<
pretty well, with the duties offl and nma
capital easier to get at. And then we rah
would own the mightiest volcano on the
earth--lKilauea! Barnum could run bat
it-lie understands fires now. Let us sot
annex, by all means. We could paci- a p
fy Prince Bill and other nobles easily
enough-put them on a reservation.
where he has his annual hoes, and er
Bibles and blankets to trade for pow- cuI
der and whisky -a sweet Arcadian "i"
retreat fenced in with soldiers. I:y Ice
annexing, we would get :ll those 50, Il
000 natives cheap as dirt, with their:ah
morals and other diseases thrown in. ihe
No expense for education-they are -
.already educated , no need to convert. till
them-they are already converted; fU'
no expense to clothe them-for ob- tid
vious reasons. tit
We nmust annex those people, We It
can afflict them with our wise and lbu
beneficent government. We can in- eet
troduce the novelty of thieves, all the
way up from street-car pickpokets to iIT
g municipal robbers and Government cin
defaulters, and show them how anmus- the
ing it is to arrest them and try them liiy
8 and then turn them loose-some for er
r cash and some for "political influence." sil
I We can wake tnetu ashamed of their Mli
1 simple and primitive justice. We sel
1 can do away with their occasiomnl l',
e hangings for murder, and let them po
have Judge Pratt to teach them how un
to save imperiled Avery-assassins to co
society. We can give them some Bar- al
u nards to'keep their money corpora- ni
d tions out of difficulties. We can give ing
them juries composed entirely of the m,
'most simple and charming leather- es
heads. We can give them railway ce
corporations who will buy their Leg- es
h islatures like old clothes, atnd run tit
over their best citizens and complain ca
of the corpses for smearing their un- ai
f pleasant juices on the track. In place w
of harmless and vaporing Harris, we it
itcan give thent Tweed. We can let pI
them have, Counolly; we can loan St
.e them Sweny; we can furnish them it
Ssolme Jay Goulds who will do away ht
' with their old-time notions that steal- N
" ins is not respectable. WVe can con- I
'fer Woodhull and Clatlinu on them. Si
e And George Francis Train. We can w
I give them lecturers! I will go my- 1
self, o
is \Ve can make that little libunch of iii
sleepy islands the hottest corner on d4
Searthl, and array it in the moral splen- I
;i decr of our' high and holy civilizatiou. tl
SAnnexation is what the ipoor islanders d
' uneed. "Shall we to men benighted, si
ge the lamp of lifo deny ?" .
o MAiAKg TWAI.S. ii
Id TItn SCtAWAO.-It cannot have
Id escaped the notice of the least obser
iet vant, that there has a change for the
on wIrse dome over those men born at
up the South or of long residence .here, P
wk whlo have earned for themselves an
ce immortality of infamy by affliliation p
with the party whose leaders have t
[r. rtanipulated the Ignuorant blacks for
of their own selfish end, and to the des- r
le tructiou of the best interests of the
ti- S hutl. These men have acquired a
g's hang-dog look that is unmistakable.
nd A few of them may eudeavoi, with
in- brazen face, to defy public sentiment C
n- and pretend to disregard public con
en tempt, but in their hearts they have
ke forfeited the respect of their fellows,
he and what is worse, their self-respect
ith as well. Can money compensate a
ort man for all this ? Or if hlie to indif
ich ferent to the ignomity of his own po
3a- sition, how can he reconcile it to his
or, conscieneeto leave such a legacy to 1
oIf his chlrildrent In his solitary mo
ie ments does lie never think of the
coming time (and come it surely will)
tle, when the slow, tnmoving finger of
be scorn will be pointed at his children
lee as the descendants of a scalawag ?
the Can he forget that the infamy at
be- tached to a tory has not been removed
and by the tapse of a hundred years And
her doeshe not understand that, while a
md man may have been an honest loy
ment alist during our revolutionary etifug
ope gle no man in thie Sooth can by pos
vey sibility be an honest radical now
a --Shreveport Times.
the --
fact t Citizens attending tile Mass
oks
in Meeting will do well to subscribe to
rty the Vindicator. Support those who
e to support you.
. 15
oud "Crusade cordial on ice" is the
and summer drink now in vogue at the
o West.
Faarm Column.
Go ernor Saflbrd, of Arizona says
that ''geitlleomanly far'mers, who com
rmence without means and have hired
all their work done, will undoubted
13'y be obliged to quit the ibusiness;
and those who have invested the
largest portion of their crops in poor
whiskey at twenty-five cents per glass
will hardly be able to meet their ob
ligations and inspire sufficient con
deuce to obtain credit in the future."
A Cnw.AP CIsmoON.--"One who has
t·ricd it" writes as fcllows to the
Americaa 'Farm Journal : "If any
jarmer wants a convenient and cheap
.shion to ride on, let imn take a
i s kin as soon as it is taken front
th ejp, and serape the flesh off,
then ' it in a smooth place. Pul
verize ,4 pound of alum and the
saotie of .. arnd cover the flesh side
of the skin I let it liet for a week or
two, ad it e well tanned. The
make the best r~e Wl trre reaper;
raker, corn p. ,or to thrro oin
tif hom e to ride at lhe field to the
harm, anti if we 8sho0', lbe tcaught in a
sudden ulrower, they \tl answer for
a protection."
"The part of the holding '4a farm
er or or landowner which Ipays, for
cultivation," saiud Charles IJ,1el
"is the small estate within thl' "e'
fence of his skull. Let him bJg
with the tillage of his brains, and t.
shall be well with his grains, roots;
herbage and forage, sheep and cattle
-they shall thrive, and he shall
thrive." It is plaiuly the duty of
farmers to olbtairn a practical educa
tion, as well as merchants. Cultiva
ted brains are a crop that never fails.
It is a settled fact that a thorough
business training is essential to suc
cess in any departments of usefulness.
1 THE FARMERS' MOVEIEMNT--IIo
IT IS PROGRtESSIXI.-Let the politi
cians say what they pleask about it
the farners' movement ia going ahead
I like a prarie on fire out West, wheth
r er the organizations in the East be
' sham or not. Several representative
r Missouri papers at hand speak the
3 sentiment of that region. One says :
1 "The necessity for that reform in
1 political administration which the
v united efforts of the farmers of the
a country, especially of the West, can
- alone obtain is so urgent that it can
- I nt (m1 to be recognuied by even the
e most superficial." Another : "This
e movement of the agricultural inter
ests of the country bha not commen
Sced a bit too sooi, ands however mod
est and timid way be their first ac
n tion, they will soon fuind themselves
n caught ip in the whirling tide of State
Sand national political politics, and
e will be compelled, whether they wish
e it or not, to consider all the grave
t problems now before, the country."
n Still another-"The harmers' war, as
n it is sometimes called, is destined to
y have great political influence." A
1- Nebraska paper asserts that the gran
i- gers are making rapid progress in that
r, State. Common cause is there taker
u with the farmers of Iowa, Illinoies
M- issouri. Minnesota and other States
on all questions affecting the farmers'
f irlterests. Another Western paper
n declares that "the whole race of dis
- honest politieans stands in awe of
. this great movement," which is no
rs doubt the truth. A St. Paul paper
1, says it now looks if the "potato hugs"
(grangers) will prove a lively crowd
in Minnesota. Anir Illinois paper de
clares "the movement to be an inde
pendent one commnitted to no one amn
Sto no party, but eolmnending itself to
r all." The Catholic farmers of Olm.
re stead county, MInniesota, although
nt not members of tlie Older of the
e, Patrons of Ilusbandry, express them
a selves warmly in favor of its Iprinci
n ples, excepting its secrecy. In short,
'e there seems, to be a general stampede
or out WVest in favor of the miovement,
" regardless of religious predilections
or previous political afliations.-N.
Y. Hlerald.
th A N4EW REMEDr FOR WORMs.--We
nt of course, mean cotton worms, as this
in- in Iot our patent medlicine column,
xe Thie Picayune gives an account of a
vs, very simple andiunexpenstive process
ect by ~bhieh a planter of St, Landry
a parish last year saved hris cotton crop
if' tromr the depredations of the worm.
>. Thre process is based upon the fact
his tlat at a certain stage of his career
to the wormu lies helplessly tpon trhe
io- foliage of the plant, not asufficiently
the developed to hIrave power of motion,
ill) and, in fact, passing through a transi
of tion which, it' interrupted, he cannot
rn of his own resources, manage to corm
g? plete. The plan of the St. Landry
at. ulan is lagiven as follows: le took a
red pair of swamp wheels which were ly
ind irg in hiis stable yard, suspended from
e a thire axel thereof a swinging rake with
oy- long teeth, say four inches apart, so
ug- adjusted as to brush the foliage of the
,os- plant very briskly and then, harness
w ing a pail of mules to those wheels,
lhe proceeded to run over his crop at
tihe rate of about fifteen acres a day.
Having only forty acres, hIre accom
e plished this object in three days.
e to T'he plan worked handsomely.
iho Thousands of worms lay upon the
ground, where they died. The pro
cess w'as repeated twice afterward, at
such intervals as seemed necessary;
the and the planter found his crop entire
the ly free from worms for the rest of the
season.