THE BANNER=DEMOCR .T.VOL. XIII. LAKE PROVDENCE. EAST CARROLL PARISH, LA, SATURDAY SEPTEMBER 15, 1900 - - - NO.18.

ISOLATE D GREATNE SS.

7'he man who never makes mistakes,He is the creature who awakesThe soul to scorn, the brow to frowiWith wrath no charity can drown.Men sound his praise with zeal in

tenseAnd bid us heed his excellence.But none the less, when he come!

'round,Discomfort seems to reign profound.For how can he, so coldly wise,'Extend a hand and sympathizeWith simple, struggling, mortal menWho rise and fall and rice again?How can his heart responsive beatTo that remorseful mood completeOf those who feel they cannot be,Strive though they may, as good ae

he?He knows all things in human life,Save to forgive the struggling menWho grope and stumble now and thenI'd rather be a dull machineAnd clink and clank in a routineOf duty until something breaksThan he who never makes mistakes.

-Washington Star.

As Episede of Isrsles,B

G FRANKLIN w, CALKINs.

The new El Dorado was in sightGordon's party of twelve tired frontleramen had mounted the high dividewhich separates the sources of th(Running Water from those of thtCheyenne. For five weeks the men hadshovelled drifts, buffeted blizards andkept a constant vigil among the interminable sand-hills. By means, too, ofstable canvas, shovels, axes, Iron picket-pins and a modicum of dry feedlthey .had kept in good condition thesplendid eight-mule team which drewtheir big freighter.

In fact "Gordon's outfit" was a mod-el one in every respect, and probablyno similar body of men ever faced oursnow-bound, trackless plains, betterequipped for the adventure. And nowthe maffled marchers cheered as "Cap"Gordon halted them, and pointed to ablurred and inky upheaval upon thefar rim of a limitless waste of white.The famous Black Hills, a veritablewonderland, unseen hitherto by anyparty of whites save the men of Cus-ter's expedition, lay before them.

Two more days and the gold-seekers'fhid gain the shelter of those pine-covered hills, where their merry axeswould "eat chips" until shelter, com-fort and safety from attack were se-cured. Out of the bitter cold, afterweeks of toil and danger, into warmthand safety-no wonder they were glad!

As yet they had seen no sign of thehostile Sioux, but their frosty cheers,thin and piping, had hardly been borneaway by the cutting wind when a mov-Ing black speck appeared on the west-ern horizon.

The speck drew nearer, and resolveditself into a solitary horseman. Couldit be that a single Sioux would ap-proach a party of their strength? Theywatched the rider without anxiety.They were so near the goal now thatno war party of sufficient strength tobecome a menace was likely to be-.ome a menace was likely to be gath-

ered. They were equipped with an ar-senal of modern" gns, with fifty thou-sand rounds of ammunition, and hadboasted they were "good to stand offthree hundred Sioux."

Nearer and nearer drew the horse-man, his pony coming on In rabbit-likejumps to clear the drifts. Speculationceased. It was an Indian-probably ahunter strayed far from his village,half-starved and coming to beg forfood. Well, the poor wretch shouldhave frozen bread and meat, as muchas he could eat-they could not stop togive him better fare.

It was as cold as Greenland. Thebundled driver upon the great wagonslapped his single line, and yelled atthe plodding males. Eleven buffalo-coated, fur-encased men with feet cladin snow-packs marched at the tail ofthe freighter. In such weather theircold "shooting-irons" were left in thewagon, nor did they deem it necessarynow to get them out.

They were prepared for a beggingIndian, but the apparition which final-ly rode in upon the monotony of theirlong march seemed to them a figureas farcial as savage. As the Slouxhorseman confronted them he loveredhis blanket, uncovering his solemn,barbarian face, and stretching out onelong arm, pointed them back upontheir trail.

"Go!" he said, and he repeated thecommand with fierce inlsistence.

The 'big freight wagon rattled on,but the footmen halted for a momentto laugh.

The Indian stretched his lean armand shouted, "Go!" still more savage-ly. It was immensely funny. Gor-don's men Jeered the solitary autocrat.and laughed until their iciclled beardspulled. They bade him get into a driftand cool off; asked him if his motherknew he was out, and whether his feetwere sore, and if it hurt him much totalk, and If he hadn't a brother whocould chin-chin washtado?

S H is sole answer to their Jeering, amhe rode alongside, was "Go! go! go!'repeated with savage emphasis and aflourish of his arm to the southward.

The footmen were plodding a doseryards in the rear of the freight wagonmand still laughing frostily at this queespecimen of "Injun" when the savagespurred his pony forward. A fe w quleileaps carried bhim up to the tolling

' eight-mUle team. His blanket droppedlaround his hips, and a repeating car

rose to his face. Both wheelendropped at the list shot, killed byalgits ounce slug. A rapid tfusilad&

e t s hots was dilstributed among thestrgluitsg mules, and thet thi glouivia di suhaki his gaw sad tliijdalam bI i tms

-Men ran tumbling over each other toget into the wagon and at their guns.The teamster and two or three otherswho, despite the cold, carried revolv-ers under their great-coats, jerked offtheir mittens and fumbled with stifffingers for their weapons. They hadnot b een nerved up with excitement,like the Sioux. and before they couldbring their guns to bear the savagewas well out upon the prairie.

And when these men tried, with rifleor revolver, to shoot at the swiftlymoving, erratic mark presented by thecunning Sioux and his rabbit-like ponythe cutting wind numbed their fingersand filled their eyes with water, theglistening snow obscured their frontsights, and they pelted a white wastefuriously with bullets.

The anger which raged in them asthey saw that the Sioux had escapedscot free was something frightful. Sixmules of the splendid eight lay welter-Ing in blood; another was disabled, andonly one had come off without hurt.Half the counties of northern Iowahad been scoured to get together "Gor-don's pride," as this fine frieght teamhad been named, before the party leftSioux City.

The blight of their hopeful expedi-tion, the frightful peril of their situa-tion, were lost sight of in their desirefor revenge, which burned in the heartof every man of them as they gazedupon the stricken, stiffening heap ofanimals. All were for giving chase Im-mediately. They believed they couldeasily overtake the Sioux among thedrifts of the lower lands, where creeksand snow filled ravines must causehim to shift his course continually.

"Boys," said Gordon, when some ofthem had hastily begun to strip for thechase, "boys, this is my particular af-fair. You make camp and fit it forfightin'. I'll either get that Sioux, orhe'll fetch his tribe back and get us."

Cy Gordon was their captain. He hadbeen a hay and wood contractor formany syears in the Sioux country, andhis word was law to this little band.

There was no need to argue that noman could even have guessed at thedaring and disaster they had lookedupon. The performance had been tooappallingly simple and easy. It hadcome as unexpectedly as the flood of acloudburst or the bursting of a gun.

While his men stood vengefully andfiercely watching the flying Sioux Gor-don stripped himself of his superlativewrappings, stocked his pockets withfrozen bread and cartridges, slippedoh a pair of snowshoes kept for anemergency, tightened his belt and thenlaunched himself in pursuit.

Horse and rider were again no morethan a speck upon the vast snow field.Gordon, with an "express" rifle underhis arm, took the long, swinging strideof the accomplished snow-shoer. In anhour the speck upon the snow had notgrown smaller.

At noon, by the sun, upon a broadfiat where tall grass held the snow,Gordon came almost within bulletrange of the Sioux. An hour later,among a tangle of driftwood vines,there was an exchange of shots, andthe Sloux's pony dropped in Its tracks.The Indian dodged out of sight, andGordon pushed warily on with a grinof hate under his icicles.

He took up the Sioux's tracks, andnoted with satisfaction that the In-dian's moccasined feet punched clearthrough the light crust at every otherstep. In just a little while!

But he followed for an hour or moreamong a seemingly interminable tangleof gullies without catching a glimpseof the wary dodger. Then he emergedinto a wider valley, to find that theartful rascal had escaped out of hisrange and out of sight upon a wind-swept stretch of river ice.

Gordon ground his teeth and sweptover the smooth surface, sweating, de-spite the sharp cold, from fierce exer-tion. At a turn of the river he sawtihe Sloux; but there were others, morethan a score of them, mounted and ap-proachlng the runner. The male-kill-er's camp or town was close at hand.

Exhausted from his long run, Gor-don, in his own language, threw up thesponge. IHe hastily sought the coverof river drifts, and scooped himself akind of rifle pit. Then, with a pileof cartridges between his knees, andslapping his hands to keep his fingersready for action, he waited, meaningto do what execution he could beforethe end.

There was considerable parley be-tween the Sioux, and then only a sin-

gle Indian advanced towards the whiteman. This one came on afoot, withingunshot, then stopped and shook hisblanket in token that he wanted to ap-proach and talk.

Gordon laughed. The situation ap-peared to him grimly humorous. Hemotioned to the Indian to come on, andkept him well covered with his rifle.A moment later, however, he lowered

his gun.Whatever fate awaited Gordon he

knew that he stood in no danger of atreacherous stroke from the approach-

ig Sloux. It was the chief, Red Cloud.Gordon arose, and the chief came

Award with a hand outstretched."My young man has killed yourmules," was Red Cloud's greeting inthe Slonux tongue.

Gordon understood. "Yes," he said,"and I will not take your hand un tilyou have done right."

The grave old chief drew his blanketabout his shoulders with a shrug."Now listen," he said. "If one of younrsoldiers had approached a party ofmy soldiers and had killed all theirhorses, and so crippled them and es-caped you would have made him abig captain. It i. so. My young manIs very brave. He did as he was told.You cannot come here and take mycountry-not yet. I have watched youradvance and complained to your sol-diers at White River. When I sawthey did not go out and catch ygoa asour Grat Father has said they shouldd, I lmt 37 sue mas to sts yo._Ju= +J abnl gMs~r null~llurm an (3rr .A•=-

And without another word, Red Clogdturned upon his heel and stalked away.

This time Gordon was glad enough toobey the injunction to "go." Threedays later his little party filed in atthe military camp on White River, andwhen, some time afterward, their boxesof freight had been recovered, not somuch as a blanket or a pound of sugarhad been taken by Red Cloud's Sioux.-Youth's Companion.

LUCK IN MON EY MAKI NG,

Fortune Made by a Man Who Stumbled as aOeod Thing sad Knew It.

Four men, each of whom had madeand lost several fortunes, were dis-cussing in a broker's office one after-noon last week the part chance playedin money making, when one of themsaid:

"How do you suppose Mr. Blankmade his fortune?"

The man whose name was mentionedhas made millions in the past few yearsas the half owner of a company thatmanufactures a machine as well knownas the typewriter.

"Blank had some money to invest andthis patent seemed to him a good thingand he put his money in it. No chanceabout that," said one of the party.

"It was all chance,' said the firstman, "and when I tell you the historyof this company as it was told to meby the inventor of the machine youwill agree with me. I know that thestory is the truth. The inventor knewthat his patent was all right, and thatthe article which it described would besold all over the world as soon as itsmerits could be made known. He hadInvested $17,000, all that he could raise,In this patent, and he needed $1,0u0more to complete It. An acquaintanceof his whom I may call Brown hadshown some interest in the patent andin his emergencies the inventor appeal-ed to him. They met in a Broadwayhotel to discuss the question. The in-ventor pleaded his case. He showedhis plans and told exactly how he hadspent $17,000 in perfecting them.

"If you will give me the $1,000 nowwhich I need I will give you a halfinterest in this patent," said the Inven-tor, "and I am sure there is a big for-tune In it for each of us. I have goneover the ground carefully and I knowwhat I am talking about."

"Brown listened to him, thought itall over, and then said: 'What you saysounds all right, but on thinking it overI have decided not to go in with you.I am sorry that I can't feel my wayclear to do it.'

"The inventor thought that his lasthope had been killed by this refusaland he said that he did not see anythingfor him to do except to jump off theBridge. Brown left him and as he wastying uphls papers a middle-aged manwho had been sitting at a table nearhim came over and said:

"'Look here, would you mind ex-plaining that patent to me? I haveoverheard your conversation and if youcan show me that you have a goodthing I have a little money to gambleon it. My name is Blanlk6and whenthe time comes I will satisfy you ofmy financial standing. Are you will-ing to talk it over?

"The inventor unrolled his plans andbegan to describe them in a perfunctoryway, as he had described them manytimes before. Blank showed his inter-est by asking Intelligent questions andthe inventor took heart. After twohours' talk Mr. Blank said to him:

"'I am convinced that you have agood thing here, but you will need more

than $1,000 to push it. If you can con-vince me that you are a trust-worthyman I will advance $10,000 for a halfinterest in this patent.'

"Mr. Blank and the inventor spentthe following day investigating eachother's standing, and as a result thepartnership was forihed. The patentwas completed and protected in everyway, and an expensive salesroom,where the articles might be exhibited,was opened on Broadway. You knowhow the article has been pushed. Ithas salesrooms in every big city hereand abroad, and it has the flld to it-self. Mr. Blank and the inventor haveeach made a fortune out of it, and theend is not yet. Now, then, didn'tchance have a good deal to do in shap-Ing Blank's fortune? If he had goneto some other cafe, or if he had setat some othIr tablb, he would not haveoverheard Brown and the inventortalking. Chance alone gave him theopportunity, and Blank's little moneyand good business sense did the rest."-New York Sun.

TIree Orad Operam Mles.

For the past eight years the salarylist of the Metropolitan opera com-pany has Included the names of threemules. On the payroll they appearthus: "Calve, Carmen, Carmenecta-mules." And they have earneu nearly$1,000.

When Mme. Calve was about tomake her first appearance in this coun.

try In "Carmen" she insisted that

great care should be taken In the selee-tlon of the mules that form a conspicu-ous part of the gypsy outfit.Mme. Calvesald much depended upon

the character and training of themules, and she would take no chancesin the matter. Finally she decided up.on thrde animals that have ever since

appeared regularly in the opera. Mme.Calve herself rehearsed the mules and

christened them. They became great

pets with the singers, and this sum-mer Mine. Eames has invited them to

pass their vacatioa at her countryhome.-New York World.

The latest labor-irving contrivanceis said to be an electric collection hox.No collectors are required, for as soonas the clergyman has tashels I btteSin t~e pupIt the beO emld ithi wlawtem pmw w pewo ell � Yigllu mttle u u i mb l

NOTES AND COMMENTS.

Minister Wu must admit that theprejudice against the Chinese is thiscountry has never- reached the violenceof the "Boxers."

The Missouri Supreme Court hbas

sustained the principle of arbitrarilyassessing property for street improve-ments at a front-foot or square-footfoot rate.

Ohio and Indiana are In litigationover the )Ohio Riter. The river Is un-conbciou5 of the trouble and at last ac-couats was wending its way unruf-fled to the sea.

One of the peculiar Institutionswhich the Paris Exposition hasbrought into existence is a school inwhich the attendants are instructedhow to see the fair.

Famines are not new In the historyof India or the rest of the world. Athousand years ago families in GreatBritain 'and Europe often occurred,eosting the lives of many thousands.

The British poets are either out ofluck or their theme is distasteful tothe muses, Swinburne has tried warpoetry and has apparently made asrank a failure of it as the poet lau-reate.

Germany proposes to establish a rig.orous system of examination of allmeat food products of domestic origin,and to require similar treatment of allsuch products imported, from what-ever country. In that she is impartialand not unreasonable.

Engineers say a 100-foot-wide canal12 to 15 feet deep, between Lake Su-perior and Grand Forks, N . D., is anengineering possibility. The scheme isa grand one, and the agriculturalnorthwest wants it carried through.

Some time ago the Connecticut Leg-islature, following the precedent estab-lished by the Swiss Cantons in caseof the edelweiss, passed a law protecting the trailing arbutus. This issaid to be the first law ever passed inany State in the Union for such pur-pose.

Sir .. Crichton Browne is of theopinion that consumption in the UnitedKingdom will, in the ordinary course,disappear in sixty years. He believes,however, that with caution in thenursing of patients it may be got ridof in half that time.

Eighteen years ago the first news-paper was published in Japan. To-day there are 575 newspapers, a largenumbers of religious papers, 11 scien-tific and 35 medical journals. This isvery convincing evidence of Japaneseprogress.

There has been a marked improve-ment in the state of trade in Palestinesince the opening up of the country by

the Jaffa-Jerusalem Railway. Thetransportation of goods from the coastto the interior is now rendered veryeasy.

It is an Ill wind that blows nobodyany good. A mild case of the bubonicplague in one of the coffee centres ofBrazil resulted in a rise of 60 per cent,in coffee prices inside of three months.The industry is said to be now in abetter condltion than for some time,and with the very marked Increase inthe use of Brazilian coffee in theUnited States, prices are likely to contlnue at the same level.

Professor Metchnlkoff has some fnetheories about checking the Inroads ofold age, but somehow the serum and

other things that have been used toarrest decay of the powers have all

proved futile. Oliver Wendell Holmesmade a vqry careful study of the sub

ject and had high hopes of living to b100, but he died at 85, despite all his

precautions.

Up to the present time land In Slber-la can be acquired only by farmersand settlers. During the last tw,

years a large number of concessionsfor the purchase of land have been

asked for by merchants, engineers andmanufacturers, and the Russlan Mln

istry is now considering the questlonof making a change in the present system.

Red, white and blue, though the col-ors of the Union Jack, were not used

generally in England as marks of patriotlsm before the Queen's diamondjubilee three years ago. The old colors were red and white and the innovation Is said to be due to some dealer's importing a large stock of Frencedecorations left over from the Frenchnational fetes. Englishmen are cheering the three colors now, however, asvigorously as though they were Americans or Frenchmen.

A Brooklyn philanthropist proposesto ran boats, leaving the city piers at6 p. m. and retOrning the next day at8 a. m., which shall go out to sea thir-

ty or torty miles during the night, andthus give the passengers a night'srest on the cool waters, with refresh-

ing salt air. Dinner will be served emthe boata for 50 cents. There will beno liquors sold, nor disorder permitted. The idea is to furnih the epaprtunity to avoid the city t•rmol, heatand odors wilthut intrerfertng withbusiness. It is annoneed as a solelyexperimental asultary and beneleenteaterprise, not ispired by a dssre tmake money. It ought to seese&d.

sMh M hae s m d m@ ggwnmmI a@ at..

ttere are considerably over 500 acrestinder glass devoted exclusively toflowers, which at retail aggregate agrand total of about $22,500,000, or a (dollar for each square foot of glass.Of roses there are sold each year 100,-000,000, worth $6,000,000; as many car-nations, worth $4,000,000; 75,000,000 ofviolets, worth $75,000. The singleitem of chrysanthemums alone repre-sent half a million dollars a year,while the vale of the 100,000,000plants sold in pots is set at $10,000,000.The demand for flowers is constantlyIncreasing, no, social function is com-plete without them; never have theybeen so highly appreciated as at thepresent moment.

Since 1875 the railway mileage inEurope has nearly doubled. That yearit amounted to 83,680; at the close of t1899 It had reached 167,439 miles, an I

increase of 83,759. The greatest num- i ,ber of miles constructed in any one rcountry during that period was byRussia, which has 15,142 miles to itscredit. Germany comes next with 14,-

666 miles. France built 12,998 miles; tAustro-Hungary, 11,721; Italy, 5181:Englan, 5,0809; Spain, 4,618; Sweden ,4,123, and Switzerland 1,285 miles. fGreece had only 7 miles of railroad in

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1875; now it has 591.

One of the facts brought out by the crecent census of Cuba is that a very 0

considerable proportion of the inhablitants live in the cities. If among cities c

we include places having a populationof 8,000 or more, there are 499.682 peo-ple, or 32 per cent. of the whole, livingin the cities. If the basis be widenedso as to include places having a popu-lation of 1,000 or more, we foundamong the inhabitants of cities a popu-lation of 741,273, or 47 per cent. of thewhole. Naturally enough, the popula-tion is very unequally distributed, forwhile in Santiago 67 per cent. of theinhabitants live in the country, in Ha-tivans, on the other hand, 77 per cent.live in the cities. The total popula-tion of the island is not very large, ionly 1,572,797 at the date of the tak-ing of the census. This Is lees thanhalf the population of the Greater INew York. The average number of Iinhabitants per square mile is thirty-six, or nearly what it is in Iowa. I

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The greatest game law ever knownis about to go into effect in Africa,where human life has seemed alwaysto be held rather cheap. It is a con-vention of the powers for the preser-vation of the wild animals within tho1rdominions. Lions, leopards, hyaenas, cbaboons, all birds of prey (except vul- atures), owls, crocodiles, and poisonous Fsnakes, are all given up to the destroy- cera and may be killed at sight. Alltother species, including elephants, crhinoceroses, giraffes, deer of all kinds, eand buffalos, are to be protected bylocal laws, the drift of which will beto prohibit absolutely the killing oftheir females and their young, to de- amand licenses from hunters, to estab- vlish in certain cases a close time, and sto define and preserve reserves with- tin which the beasts may multiply in ar security. The contracting parties agree e

to promulgate the measures for carry- St ing out the convention within a year, 8

they are to encourage the domestica- s

tion of zebras, elephants and ostriabes, aand the convention is to remain in 0

force for fifteen years and so on fromyear to year unless any party, twelvemonths before the expiration of thatperiod, "denounces" it. r

SMiss Hecker's victory over Miss Un-

derhill and Miss Hoyt in the contest safor the women's championship of the t

Metropolitan Golf Association adds t

- another name to the growing list of ex- a

pert players who haqe attained to

championship form, says the New 5

York Commercial Advertiser. ThereSare now five: Miss Hecker, Miss Hoyt,SMiss Underhill, Mrs. Fox and Miss rWetmore. Six years ago there wereI practically none, and Miss Hoyt's ten-u are of the national championship for

Sthree years gave lher a "splendid Isola-[tion" that one was apt to ascribe not

only to her own cleverness in the

game, but to the lack of suficlent com-

petltive Interest in it. But golf has

Jumped into Immense popularity dur- hing the last two years, and the supplyof champions has, of course, Increasedwith it. It promises to be no tempor-Sary nlacrease, for the game has comeI to stay, Judging by the social inter-

ests that have grown up with it. t

A Cellectle of Wall Papers.

There is a vast deshmore in wall- tpapers than meets the eye, says the

SPall Mall Gazette. They are a recordIand comment of the various fashions t

I in decorations that have succeededI each other through the centuries. The t

- di aculty is that they are so liable to

Sdestruction taat a complete collection t

SIs impossible. There is a certain M.Follet, however, who has given all yhis time to collecting wallpapers. With fthe utmost patience he has iandereddown the centuries in search of old awalls. And he has got back as far asthe beginning of the seventeenth cen-tury. Wallpapers were then paintedor engraved by hand, and were a lux- tI ur y which could only be indulged inSby the rich. But in the year of thetglorious revolution one Jean Papillon

Sinvented a printing press for the pro-I dction of wallpapers which brought 9them within the reach of limited in- acomes, and the sometimes hideous,sometimes beautiful, passing whim of aSthe moment. a

Oeaser s Ue Mevabe Targets it Is the German army movable tar-

Sgets are Used. The targets are drawnSforward j y the aid of ropes and pIl-h le4l nd the taibts rest on small

Ia skhds. As the trucks move forwarq

the infatlntry, kneeling down, fires at ttha. This gives them a pratle tSwhLs emrble. them to fl ttar str

Sghm hdemw W ftb the w t aw6h uI

FARM AND GARDEN NOTES.ITEMS, OF INT EREST ON A GRICUL-

T URA l. TO PICS .

Kee pi ng W eeds Cut Down- Remed y Fortlh Oa t Sm ut- Met ho ds of Far m ing-E 'ed icati rF W ild Musta rd- So m e Da iryHints- Etc., Etc.

Keeping W ee ds Cut Dow n.A writer in American gardening

urges the importance of keeping weedscut down as one measure In the war oninsect pests. Many of the insects thatinfect field and garden crops live onthe weeds that spring up in early springuntil the cultivated crops come on. Ofcourse if only one farmer in a com-munity kept the weeds under subjee-tion it would have small effect on theinsects, but if there was a general pol-Icy of weed destruction many pestswould be starved out.

R emedy For t he Oat Smut. .Do not sow oats without treating

them for the destruction of smut, Ifthe smut has ever appeared on the farmor farms in the vicinity, and there arefew places where it has not. The oatsmut requires a stronger solution tokill it than wheat smut. Ine formulagiven for oats is one poupd of bluestoneor sulphate of copper, in eight gallonsof water for eight bushels of oats, whilethe wheat formula uses same amountof sulphate of copper in ten gallons ofwater for ten bushels of wheat. Thegain by using this preventive for smutis an increase of crop and an improve-ment In quality.

M et hods of Farming .There are many methods of farming,

but in all countries the crops grownand the mode of cultivation dependsupon the cost of labor. In Europe,where labor is cheap, owing to the em-ployment of women and ehildren in thefields, plants are grown closer togetherand are largely worked by hand. Theintensive system is used on such farmsbecause the farms are small. In thiscountry the horse is used wherever acrop can be cultivated with its aid,but there is something to learn fromEurope in increasing the crops by theJudicious saving and use of manure.In some sections of Europe the groundis trenched and the trenches filled withmanure. It requires a large amount ofmanure to trenth a plot, but the cropswill be large, correspondingly, and theland will bear several crops from a sin-gle application of manure. Only thevaluable crops are so treated. It weouldnot pay to trench for corn, but suchcrops as celery, peak, cabbages, lettuce,onions, or early crops of any kind, willpay, as they can be followed by latercrops. Such experiments should not beoverlooked, as but a single trench isnecessary for making tests with sev-eral kinds of vegetables.

E radica ting Wild Mustard.One of the worst weeds in many parts

of the United States and Canada is thewild mustard. It is an annual and isspread entirely by seeds, and owing tothe great vitality of the seeds them-selves, it is a very difficult weed toeradicate.! The seeds once in theground live for years and continue togerminate as they are brought to thesurface. If they are present In smallamounts, hand pulling is the best meth-od of eradication. When the field I.badly infested, the ground should beharro'yd or gang-plowed soon afterharvest. As soon as the seeds havesprouted, cultivate thoroughly and atrepeated intervals. Rib up with adouble mold board plow late in thefall. Put in a hoed crop the followilfspring and cultivatethoroughlythroughthe whole of the growing season. Cul-tivate and harrow after the crop is offand plow 'again with a double moldboard plow. Sow the ground the nextspring and seed with clover, pulling theweeds by hand out of the grain crop..After one or two crops of hay are cut,rotate again in the same way.

S ome Da iry Hint s.At the dai ry institute at Springfeld,

Professor Cooley told the membersthat:The food does not affect the richness

of the milk. You cannot tell by thelooks of milk ow rich It is.

W e ca nnot afford to run cows onhalf time.

To get high-grade milk, brush thecows before milking, and It is advisedby many that the udders be clipped.

Manage to have the cows come fresh,'so as to maintain a uniform supplythroughout the year.

It is claimed that summer silago willstop summer shrinkage.

Overalls should be clean. Don't havethem stiffened with dairy starch.

Don't make a strainer do tho muchwork. Have a fresh one for every

ten or a dozen cows.Cool the milk and keep it at a given

temperature.Care, cleanliness and cold are the

three c's of milk production.The German dairymen have a stall

which seems nearly perfect. The plat-form is just the right length for the

cow, and behind it Is a deep ditch ofsix or eight Inches with a ledge partway down, so that the cow in slippingoff does not slip clear to the bottom.

The cows soon learn tg stand out ofthe ditch and keep perfectly clean.

Cultivating P eanut s.If anyone desires to grow his own

peanuts, they can do so by giving toany dry soil a thorough ihalverizationand fertilizatlon with deoedmposedstable manure. Have the surface even,and plant about the time of plantingbeans, getting fresh unbaked nuts,which should be removed from theshell. Plant in hills from two and one-half t o t hre e f eet ap ar t, w ith two ker-neal to a hill, so as to Insure at leastone plant to every hilL The surpluscan be transplanted. When they comehp keep t he land c lean by hoeing. Whenthey begin t o r un and show blossomsthe v ine s a nd blosnotls ubotud be wi-(fed with eartbh, tv deptg t alist ab

With good cultiva l ion the v ines willgrow rapidly and the earthing processmust be continued. They will continueto grow until frost comes, and thenthey rhould be lifted from the ground.Leave the nuts clinging to the vines, inwhich condition they must be thor-oughly dried. Do not let them mould.With good culture and luck a quartmay be gathered from a single plant.If the farmers' boys prefer to growtheir own peanuts, there is no greatdificulty attending the operatlon.-TheEpitomist.

Int ensive vs. Extensiv e Fa rmi ng.

The successful farmer of the futuremust farm fewer acres and grow moreper acre. Rotation of crops and diver-sified farming and stock raising are thebest foundation for the success of thefuture farmer, and, as it oosts no moreto rplse a well bred animal than it doesto raise a scrub, better sell off the in-ferior stock, and in the future raisenone but the very best to consume thecrops raised. Fewer animals in numberand better ones to consume the grainand grass raised on fewer acres is theroad to success in these days of smallmargins and sharp competition. Thewriter has observed one great mistakemade by many farmers. They under-take to do too much, so that they havenot time to give grqwing crops properattention at the right time.

Better drop off one or two things inwhich there is the least profit, and putmore time on other crops that pay bet-ter. The successful farmer of the fu-ture will find that he can do well. Ihave had experience enough to knowthat in farming many things must bedone at the right time to secure a goodand profitable crop. If we would haveour potato patch and growing corn dotheir best, the ground should be stir-red as soon as dry enough after everyrain that falls, forming a crust on thesurface. Every ton of clover hai thata man sells off his farm robs it ifabout $8.20 worth of fertility; everyton of timothy h~ay that he hauls awayrobs it of about $5.48, and every tonof wheat, $7.75.

Hence it is evident to every manthat if we grow clover and timothyfor the market it is only a question oftime when the best of farms will be-come unproductive. We must prac-tice more intensive farming and lessextensive if we make farming pay inthe future. We must plant fewer acresand raise more to the acre. Wheat at50 cents per bushel and twelve to fif-teen bushels per acre, does not pay ex-penses. But itf we can so farm as toraise thirty or thirty-five bushels peracre, then there would be some profitIn raising 50-cent wheat. But theAmerican farmer cannot afford to quitgrowing wheat if there be little or noprofit in it, from the fact that we mustrotate our crops in order to keep upthe fertility of the soil.--M. Trussler, InFarmers' Guide.

A ni mal Foo d For Poultry.

This matter is discussed lucidly withreference to farm poultry in "Reviewsof Bulletin," No. 171, as follows: Itis desirable to feed poultry animal mat-ter in some form. This has long beentaught by practical feeders; but the ex-act effect of such feeding has neverbeen shown so clearly as in experi-ments recently concluded by the NewYork Agricultural Experiment -tationat Geneva. In these tests 1,000 chicksand 170 ducklings have been grown tomarketable size, and ninety hens andforty cockrels have been fed forlengthy periods; so that the evidencepresented in Bulletin No. 171 has theweight of time and numbers. It allpoints in one direction: Toward super-iority of rations containing animal food

over those made up of grains alone. Inno case has the reverse of this provenrue, and in nearly all the trials the

difference has been most noticeable.When the lack of mineral matter inan all-grain ration, as compared withone containing animal meal, is suppliedby bone ash, the difference disappearsor favors the grain ration; so far aschicks and laying hens are concerned.That is, it is the small amount of ashin the grain ration which makes thisration interior to one containing ani-mal meal, rather than a difference inquality of the protein.

Practically, this is of little impor-tance, for, except under rare conditionslke those surrounding these experl-ments, it would be easier, cheaper andbetter to use animal meal, meat scrapsor cut bone to supplement a ration forfowls in confinement, than to burn the

bohes or to buy bone ash. Somethingto supplement the ash-poor grains theymust have and it is simpler to give Itin a natural form combined with val-nable protein and fats, than to burnout the organie matter ind give the ashonly.

With ducks, however, even the addl-,tion of the bone ash did not make thegrains a perfect feed. Ducks are nat-urally great lovers of small fish andfrogs and snails and such forms of ani-mal life found in their water excur-sions. Unless they have something totake the place of this animal matterthey can not do their best.

In farm poultr feeding, where thebirds have the range of orchard andpasture, of course they get animal foodin the insects and worms and snailswhich they scratch for so vigorouslyiso grain may make up practically allthe ration fed. The birds themselveswill attend to the supply of animalfeed.

A klea of Masy Eggs.

Thomas Hamblen killed a ut• re-cently that proved to be a phenome-non. The hen was exceptionally faland weighed when dressed nine andone-half pounds. In dressing hertwelve fully, developed eggs with fbtlshells and twenty-three partially devel.oped eggs were dfiscovered. The small-

er eggs varied from the size of a mar-ble to that of a walnut The eggs havebeen preserved and will be presentedto the museum of the WashingtonAgr~lcltUral College at Pullman.

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State Govrem •nt of LoaisJIaa.Governor-W. W. H, ard,Lieutenant Governor-Albert Esto-

pinal.Secretary of State-John Michel.Snperintendent'of Education-John

V. Calhoun.Auditor-W. S. Frazee.Treasurer-Ledoux E. Smith.

U. S. SENATORS.Don Cafferey and S. D. McEnory.

REPRESENTATIVES.1 District-B. C. Davry.,2 Districi-Adolph Meyer.3 District. J . F. Broussard.4 Distri . Braseale.5 Distric• -. E. Ranadell.6 District-S. M. Robinson.

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