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JOURNAL OP THE 9 th SENATORIAL DISTRICT
Official Journal of the Parish of Lafourche and Ilie Town of Thibodanx
you. xx ii
THIBODAUX, LA., SATURDAY, JANUARY 22, 1887.
No. 25.
FARM AND GARDEN.
Practical Points for the Tillers of
the Soil.
Plant only the best seed. Feed the
soil green food.
Fence little, but fence well. Sell
breachy cattle to the butcher.
Industry, economy and common sense
are the best capital.
Do not allow the use of any intoxi
cating drinks on your farm.
Give your tendeivst care to the best |
products of your farm -your sons
and daughters.
Keep your stock curried, stables
cleaned, rubbish picked up, and road
sides and mowing fields free from
bushes and weeds.
It would he well for farmers to be on
the safe side, and save all the corn
stalks. They will help out a short hay
crop amazingly.
Plenty of rubbing will produce a good
coat on your horse. *• Elbow grease"
opens tin- pores, softens the skin and
5 promotes the general health.
In fattening turkeys, confine them !
ten days before i In -, are to he sold. For !
that time they will gain ilesh rapidly. !
after that lime they fall off because of !
uneasiness ami restlessness on account
of confinement.
Forest leaves will now begin to fall,
-and are worth gathering for litter, and
to mix with lior-.e-tbing for heat where
hot-beds arc to he made. They are also
useful for covering cahli.ige-heils, celery
pits; also for bankin ; hot-lcdsetc.
Supply dahlias with stakes, the chief
. branches as well as the main stems.
Keep chrysanthemums in a growing
state by the use of liquid manure, ami
pinch them into shape. ! f a black aphis
affects them use tobacco water.
'The, importance of firming the soil
was learned by accident in South Caro
lina, and has been worth thousands of
dollars to the f.p- t.s of the State. A
thieving darky ran through a newly
sown turnip field, and wherever his foot
struck there was "a stand" of turnips,
and nowhere else, for the seed had been
loosely sown and the weather dry.
The best eggs are the result of a meat
•diet. When grasshoppers and worms
fail, feed meat rinds and butcher's offal,
fhe crushed oyster-shell supply and the
boxes of road dust or ashes should be
kept within easy reach. The high col
ored and well flavored eggs of Kansas
during the grasshopper visitation were
a marvel to strangers.
■ Vicious habits are early induced in
horses by tickling and plaguing them,
while in the stable, and under no cir
cumstances should be indulged in.
Never beat or use harsh language to a
horse in the stable. A horse is suscep
tible of taking in a vast amount of
knowledge; lie learns quickly; and his
education should he of the kind that
will make him the safest and most
useful.
Large roots weighing ten to sixteen
pounds cannot heg-ownat less than six
teen inches apart, eighteen inches is bet
ter; with full rows.at tinsdistauce,there
should bejj.s'» root - f<» thq,acre, and if
they average ten pounds -jtitpre will be
forty-nine tons to t ie acre. At half the
distance, the roots may only average
three pounds, making only little more
than twenty-nine tons to theacrev 'fills
rule applies to corn also, for allffiants
. need abundant- feeding space at the
. roots, and mud iml be crowded.
For chicken cholera the following is
recommended by a physician of stand
ing: Blue mass, sixty grains; camphor,
twenty-live chains; cayenne pepper,
thirty grains; rhubarb, forty-eight
grains; laudanum, sixty drops: mad.
into twenty pills. To the ailing, giv ■
one every four hours until they act
freely; then a teasnoonful of castor o : .
To the weli. give one pill, followed 1
the oil. Separate the healthy fmvU
- renovat ■ • he old floors and roosts, purl
fying with 11 ue and carbolic acid.
Thorough y white wash the new quar
ters, and sprinkle with no hi water, and
dust with lime every few days.
A writer in the American Aerienl
turist says: The farms of this country
have a diver.-ity <»' soils, while climatle
influences compel the fanners to con
form their crops and methods of culti
vation in accordance therewith; but it
may be claimed that there is no soil so
poor that it cannot be made, to yield a
profit, provided the tiller Uses it to the
most advantage. In this country, far
mers rely mare upon the quality of the
soil than upon their own efforts; but
in Europe, on the other hand, the far
mers always depend upon judicious cul
tivation and the proper feeding of the
soil.
It is plain enough to the enquirer
that the dairy men who are the most
successful are those who seek to im
prove their stock. Scrub bulls do not
pay. It pays to breed good calves mid
raise the females for the dairy; better
than to sell off the cows when they are
dry and substitute others in their place.
Pursuing such a system, dairymen
would witness an annual improvement,
on the average, with all the herds, that
would add many thousands of dollars
to the value of their products. Good
feeding, pure water, dry quarters, ailii
clean management of the milk and but
ter are, of course, very necessary; but
the most important of all is to keep
pure-bred bulls.
The Advantages of Reserve.
Nothing is so unnatural or so full of
danger as the habit of easy and famil
iar companionship with people who
are only known under the conditions
of what is called society," conditions
which imply mutual complaisance up
to a certain point very easily reached,
conventional i-ase of manner, 1 courteous
('rank ■ sof speech which need nor. be
very deep, superficial mutual intelli
gence which seldom knows how far it
penetrates -though it enjoys the evi
dence of having penetrated further
than was expected—and alacrity in
discerning and complying with the
wishes of others. The danger consists
in the facility with which companion
ship of this kind is mistaken for true
intimacy, though it does not really
imply anything approaching to it. A
woman will sometimes marry a man
of whom she knows nothing at all ex
cept that she lias found it pleasant, to
be flattered and admired by him during
a companionship of this superficial
kind. In other words, she will trust
her life to the keeping of a man of
whose aims, of whose standard of right
and wrong, of whose power and habit
of living up to that standard she knows
just as much and just as little as she does
"f the actors, whom she has seen on the
tage, though she is deceived into think
ing that she knows more, only because
she happens in this case to have been
one of the actors, and not merely a
passive spectator. Society is, indeed, a
sort of expedient for rubbing off the
natural and wholesome reserves which
keep people from trusting each other
till they have had real experience of
what each is made of—till they have
seen what are the objects of reverence,
what is the depth of reverence; what
is the force of practical- fidelity to the
higher aims that determine the true
character working behind the familiar
forms and faces of so-called society.
The surface of tlq> sea on a calm and
sunny day is as little of an index to the
dangers which th*e sea may cause, as
the familiar manner of mere society to
the deeper influences which those who
mingle in that society can exert. It
would he a:; wise to drink the deadly
juices of the belladonna because of the
beauty ol' the night-shade's flowers, as
to welcome intimacy with many of
those whose manner.; in general society
are faultless and fascinating, without
knowing anything of them beyond
those manners.
aught fishing in the Monterey Bay.
The fascination of a bright light for
l«h is staled to have been first dis
covered by whalers, who noticed that
the fish fairly swarmed wherever the
glare fell from their try pot furnaces.
The Monterey fishermen have reduced
the system to a nicety, and the way in
which their nets swarm when beached
is ample evidence of their success.
Wli^ndlie luring is done on a large
scale it requires half a dozen boats, and
the sight at night is full of interest.
All but two or three of the boats are
fitted with a metal basket at stern or
bow. and "in this a brilliant tire of pine
knots or oil-r-Mitr. ted wicking is
kindh-d ami kept burning by ..constant
re; ■ ■eiisiiiug from a stock of fuel car
ried in the boats. The tire is started
when the crafts are a half mile off
shore and they are slowly pulled into
the beach, three or four pretty close
together and on even terms. Behind
the flaring lights and extending a con
siderable distance on either side of
them is a deep net, dragged by a boat
at either end and bellied out until it
forms almost a half-circle, of which the
lighted boats are the center. Around
the latter all the fish within sight seem
to gather, bent on investigating the
strange brightness, and their curiosity
keeps them about the lights until the
boats are beached and the two extremes
of the net reacli the shore. Then the
united force haul in the richly-freighted
meshes, bringing with them all the
gathered fish, from the tiniest minnow
to the biggest cod. Hundreds and
hundreds of pounds are taken at a
single haul, and by lively work the
same water can be dragged twice in a
tide with equally profitable results.
The catch is promiscuous, and the
fishermen are kept busily employed
until train time, sorting and boxing
the different varieties,
Decayed Teeth and Eyesight.
Decayed teeth have been known to
exert an injurious effect on the eye
sight, but a recent case in Sweden
illustrates this reflex action in an un
usually striking manner. The patient
was a young girl blind in the right eye,
although the surgeon, Dr. dV id mark,
was unable to detect the slightest
pathological change in tire organ.
Observing, however, considerable de
fects in the teeth, he sent her to M.
Skogsborg, a dental surgeon, who found
that all the upper and lower molars
were completely decayed, and that in
many of them the roots were inflamed,
lie extracted the remains of the molars
on the right side, and in four days'
time the sight of the right eye began
to return, and on the eleventh day
after the extraction of the. teeth it had
become quite normal. The deceased
fangs on the other side were subse
quently removed, lest they should cause
a return of the ophthali tie affection. -
Dion Boueicault hates the fogs, the
rain and the cold of England. America
is good enough for him.
Moral Frederick the Great.
Frederick contributed mainly to the
overthrow of tiie existing system of
the balance of power in Europe, and he
explains frankly to his nephew why he
had done so. '-They are bad politi
cians who imagine that a State which
has grown to a certain point must not
think of increasing because the balance
of power assigns its place to each. The
balance of power is a phrase which has
imninated the world, because people
believed that it secured permanent
possession; but it is really a phrase
only. M hen Prussia has achieved her
destinies she may give herself an air
oi' good faith and moderation, which
suits only great States and very small
ones." On this principle he acted
throughout, and it is not too mucl; to
say that he was chiefly responsible for
me misery and bloodshed inflicted on
Germany during his long reign. lie
exemplified the teaching .of the mati
nees alike in the Silesian war and the
partition of Poland. But he doubled
the size of the kingdom he had inher
it.-.1, and left behind him as a living
monument of his ruthless strategy the
Slate which he had constructed by
treachery and falsehood. His method
of operation is expounded for the in
struction of Ids successor in his oofiti
es' testament. One of Frederick's
pi'
ihripal (
levices
for c
ntrapping t
lie
w.
u-lil into
an ex:
itecl estim;;
of
hi.s gJVil
tsmss i!
notice he;
re ;
it
was tin
■ dex ti
runs
enlistment
of
lit
orary im
i'ii of
mark
as his pai
10'
<
nits. In
nnediat
r]y at
ter his aeih
ai ho hai
1 sent i
! ;S 1i i
eml Tamos
10
V i:
•it Yoita
ire at 1
Ji IISSC
Is. in order.
MS
j
or'iie o\
presses
it. tr
■ show to t
he
W 1
mieof E
llrope ti:
tat tlic
- crowned pi
H't
]' I
: ! Ills hi
image li
u iitvr
avv royalty be
f<>
any u
tiler."
Yet 1
ie assures 1
iis
m
phew, '
between im
rselves," tl
uit
t .
esc same
liicrart
mi n
" are a curs
;ed
ct*. intoh
wably ]
;»roud t
vain, full
of
Vo
mcnipt c
if the i
and thirst 1
for
greatness, tyrannical in their opposi
tion. implacable enemies and incon
stant friends, hard to deal with, and
ou satirists and sycophants on the
same day. But they are necessary for
a I ;• '•( •• who means to reign despoti
cally ami is fond of glory." And there
f !••. he adds, he always took care that
injurious should be punctual y
paid* especially Voltaire's, tor whom
im professed the warmest friendship:
"in truth I feared him, for I was not
sure of always treating him equally
well, and 1 knew that one crown less
would bring two blows." Voltaire's
" Vie Privee " certainly justified the
suspicion.
The First Train Boy.
"The first train boy that ever sold
newspapers on trains now lives in
Chicago,' said a train boy running
between Chicago and Omaha. ."1
knew him quite well. lie is known as
Colonel Harry Ashby, proprietor of the
Metropolitan Hotel. He is a New
A orker by birth, and in his youth, way
back in 1813 or '4<5, lie was educated in
all the branches of a New York hood
, 1 urn's trade. He had at that time a
companion now known to fame in
horse-racing circles as 'Lucky' Bald
win, who was at that time a peddler
of second-hand books among news
dealers. Charles Basil, an old gray
headed conductor on the Hudson River
ri
ad, and
who was one
of the lirst em
l 1 *
oyees oi
the
ery lir
d train of cars
ti
at was i
mi in
Americ
■a, was a friend
o;
young
Aslibj
and
illowed him to
t on his train and
dispose of his
r :
ners am
ong the pass
■ngers between
N
v-w Yor
c and
Albany
. Charles died
io
lg ago, 1
ut he
is lovin
rivrememhered
b
Ashby
On
his tii
st trip on the
11
udson I
iver road A
rider took out
I
rii> New
Yorl
papeiw
and sold every
o:
e. He
hong
q lie w
as a rich man.
;u
d when
.ie ret
limed to New York he
b(
tight a
it. of cl
and went
o:
quite a
• :wee
The
result was that
h<
missed
ins
■ ext 1 ri
p, ami • Lucky '
B
tfi.vin go
ids -
lace : :>(
1 business. lb
11
u song
•l oil
or par
cits, and when
t;
e war i
•lit lie
.('■red the ser
vi
ce and 1
•■•erne
a coloi
el."
Mi-t
■ k"- i
ai-latorr.
David 1
Uubey
Field
akes exception
to
the l
101 " eu
culture
»f American
?-■
egvapliy
lie
says l
iere may be a
■ at deal
of 1
tncss or unfitness in
n;
mes. T
o begin with.
our continent
w
is inisna
med.
In selc
ting the name
"
\m erica
" a g
•eat wi
ong was done
F<
ihnnhus.
Tin
eontim
lit should have
hi
en callet
"Col
nil Ida.'
Now Ameri
iug "Hail. Columbia." Just think of
some of the wretched names selected for
places in the United Slates. We have
'tombstone, You Bel, Pop Com. Cut
Shin, Haw Hide, Skunk Lake, Dirt
Tub. Jug Tavern, Sawdust, Cow Skin
and Cut Off. Almost as bad taste was
| displayed in copying such old names as
j Babylon, Memphis, Cairo, Troy, Utica
! raid Syracuse. It would have been
j much better to have preserved more of
t! it* nomenclature of the red men.
Nothing could he more appropriate
and pleasant to the ear than Missis
sippi, Oneida, Michigan, Monongahela,
Susquehuna, Mohawk, Idaha and
Wyoming.
It was the policy of the good old gen
tleman to make his children feel that
home was the happiest place in the
world; and i value this delicious home
feeling as one of the choicest gifts that
a parent can bestow.
K. li. MclJiide b .s just r-ceived
an invoice ol barbwiie that « II be
so d at figuies to suit the times.
Cheap John sells clothing a>
New F«ii k places.
11 Vl'l TE 11 S *fir TRAPPER S.
OMM) Krill I* it ICE US i OK RAW KIR;
ami Skins, [touts, tiirils Whiter Kuw >
.ii.d .( i.U (; one tu
W. GOUf.l Slo th
Boston. Ma.-.
isT. JOSEPH HOTEL
J. R. LEBLANC, Proprietor.
Lafourche Crossing,
near the station.
Maxima Dupatifs
• LIVERY & FEED STABLi ^
NA POLEONVI LEE, LA.
K EEPS, for hire, good linr-i's. Duds :.
linggipR,mill reliable drivers furnish
when ilesirod. Stock fed nail i-uii-il f>.
moderate prices. Parties will he : c or i>
dated day or night. !t;ii"'"- '
>£B
mailed to pa
•'tienta a large proportion
_____t • of whora took a fall treat,
dent b ad were restored to health by use of
hHS&jseminal pastilles: ,
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thousand cases they absolutely restore pn
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perfect and full Manly Strength and Vigorous Health.
„ To those whotnller from tbe many obeosn diseases
brought shoot by Indiseretion, Exposure, Oxer-Brain
Work, or too free Indulgence, wo ask that you send ns
ruptured nmowsMkm rtu
y imposition ci piTtPiiittjusrem®«
fartN»»f6 trouble*.and ail Quacks,
whose on 17 aim is to bleed tbMr vio
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bfiaence is felt without delay. The natural
fiTr»ction3 of the human organism restored. Th*
waste! ani mating elements of life are given back,the patient'
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brash, or Indigestion; flatulency and acid
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a painful sensation of having failed to do
something which ought to have been done;
debility; low spirits; a thick, yellow ap
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it trek lea's A; a Salve.
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