The Times-Picayune from New Orleans, Louisiana • Page 2

GI)t Soils pUaBtmc BOIBAT BOimO, MAT 4, 1SB3. SPlHfT Of THE LOUISIANA PRESS The Baton Eouge Weekly Truth con cludes an admirable argument on the eaoae of the fail ore of Louisiana to at tract immigration as follow: If we expect to attract the immi grant it become our duty to meet this argument dt eorrectingthe noes wnicn nave crept into our agricultural system. Our farmers should learn to lire at home to raise their own poultry and vegetables and smoked meats. They should lire so as to keen beyond the clutches of the supply merchant, and boring for cash escape the high and exorbitant prices which are the result of a credit system. oar planters once mere regain a position of independence and eswe, then can we meet the immigrant with the one argnment wanting that of local tarosteritv and success.

The settle ment of nnr fttate would then follow as a matter of course, and all trades and callings dependent upon a large ana nounsiuDK Muicuiiami owuiuiuu- ty would reach their highest develop ment." The Christian Advocate is the best edited religions paper in the State. I rom ail euiwiiu vu xuu ovuiuuu vu look," in its last issue, we clip the fol lowing: "we quite agree witn me Atlanta desire indiscriminate immigration much less the paaper classes from ioreign countries. For the better, permanent development of our section we only wsnt more who can do readily assim-unit Wnnut an intec-i-al nart of our social, religions and civil life. Dr. Newman said, not long since, while in m.r 1 .1 A 1 I.

Iirx bad become so Eiirooeacuaed by im mense immigration that the nation must look to the South for pure Angle-Saxon a a i I a. l. BlOvu. ajiu, iiaiuijiiir jus to muuu, ivi our old historie Tirtues and customs. The immigration of the last two decades has been a perpetual strain upon the as- And in many cases and place it has been overstrained ana luuwa.

-M We are monng upward. Sections, Iiam mil ttiM 1 mn fTrpl iImIaiu aion; but the 'country at large is improving and destined to more rapid growth in the immediate future. And with this advance in material development there is to be a corresponding enterprise in the church. All denominations are alert and are feeling the impulse of mi eh ty movement. To our Southern Methodism the past de- caae nas wimumwi uugo uuaencu ui-erease.

Whether the spiritual power of the church has been alike conserved is gravely doubted." I We take the following from an article in the Baton Bongo! Capitolian-Advocate in favor of municipal enterprise "People lose sight of he fact that money spent for internal improvements merely chance hands. It goes from the property holder or merchant to the mechanic and laboring man, who afterwards gives it back to them. The result to the community is a net gain in a lasting and substantial improvement, which makes the place attractive to the visitor, who becomes impressed with the idea that it is thrifty and enterprising. In ananv i njtt fl.n -ai a im inHniuul hr and to locate. Property increases in value, and the surrounding country soon keeps pace with the growth of the town.

The future of such a community ia anon manured. 44 Those towns that have made con- ctant aacritice to attract railroads and industrial enterprises, and have made liberal investments for public improve- ments, have invariably become wealthy and populous. In this respect communities fare like individuals, with this difference, that communities, by concert of action, can with more safety afford to be liberal and enterprising." The Weekly Truth gives us this deli- eate military morsel the best infantry that was ever known in the world, derived its best qualities from the old English blood, which will assert itself on the Jagged heights of Afghanistan, as it did at Chancellors-" vLUe and tshiloh. There can be but one issue to this content, which isinevita-. hie.

On one tide are a hundred million. full of fanatic ideas, brave, resolute and determined. On the other side are three hundred millions, marching to the ideaa that are controlling modern civilization. These three hundred niii-- lions have faith for in the whole course ef English history she never abandoned an idea or gave up an ally. It is prob- auio iuafc uio CHT-KuiiiX loiterers ui in aaav uun vutviw isu iuu mmt r-irantie atrnffffle that ever enffatred English endurance and English valor.

-The -young bloods, with their hair parted in the middle, are now bowing in London dra wine-rooms the next we will hear of them will be as the heroes a. i The vigorous Ascension Democrat be gin an article in favor of municipal It is one of the privileges of a people living under an elective government to demand an account of the steward-. ship of their affairs. Officials are elected 1 1 1 1 i 1 iui uiuiKU puivu in viucr iua kiJ is i i i made, if change be needed, at stipulated intervals. If incumbents have proved faithful, honest and competent, it is not uuwsium suju iiv auvAV aaa iuqi.ivn tv return them to the office which they hare worthily filled for one or more terms.

Bat of this essential quality of worthiness, the people must have an opportunity to judge it is their right and bounden duty to inquire into the a a i ---uwub ur iBiaunxui ui uiuaa wuuarDiHjua xnissioned to ser them to scrutinize every act and to say whether or not their servants are fit for further trust." We clip the following from a capital article in the esurevepori tsanuay limes on disease germs, interments, xne cremationisis are oecoming numerous throughout the land and in the dead are resolved into their primitive elements at a cost about equal the expense of a decent wood coffin. There is no offending orofTentve details about the process of cremation. The furnace is brought to a high temoeTatnre. the lwwlv Wl a Art inatjlik tn A m-Mj a- auu au aa uua ui roseate name the grosser nart nflinman. ity, as invisible gas.

follows the invisi- vav suit ivnatu llCttCU The calcareous matter is converted into a soft, snow-white which is gathered into funeral urns, hermeti cally sealed, and delivered to the mourning friends, who may place over it as costly a man solemn as the heart may dictate or the purse afford. No weeping over tenantless graves, or remains which, exposed, would shock the most faithful and loving heart." Criticising the complaints of a certain editor, the Morehouse Clarion rings out thus: i 44 Sach extreme partisans forget that in his letter of acceptance Mr. Cleveland declared 'that faithful, unparti-san discharge of duty was incumbent upon all and that he emphasized this doctrine in his inaugural ad- dress. They forget that Cleveland's record as a 'reformer put the nomination in his reach at the Chicago Convention, and that reform was the battle cry- from the beginning of the campaign op to the day when the tiro great parties met face to face at the ballot box. They forget that the Republican party was defeated for two reasons only; one, their neglect to observe the many sacred pled gee they had to purify the civil-service the other, their WW1U UapgUCUCV aaaauji.ir3" made toelevate such a political mounte bank as Blaine to the head 01 ine wv-ernment.

Blaine's personal political tAax was ttn mnch ioT honest- honorable Republicans toswallow; and. he being the leader against a pronounced and noted reionn aavocw in uo of the Governor of New York, thousands of Republicans deserted him and threw themselves neaawag hr fnr a nnr aminigtrttlOn. "The truth of the matter is that thou sands of Democrats, so-caiiea, aia no and do not regard the pledges made by Mr. Cleveland as anything more than mere political buncombe, and are now astounded to realize tbat he is actually keeping his word. This, to them, is a new idea in politics and overwhelms them with chagrin and disappointment.

They are machine politicians with no idea of the responsibility and import of statesmanship, and because the President has they are forecasting direful consequences to the party and the. country and wishing, no doubt, that their evil prognoetieations may come to pass. "But Cleveland is stubbornly keeping his promises." Speaking of the abatement of certain nuisances, the Shreveport Times says: If these abominating evils are ever to be effectually suppressed mock modesty will have to be dispensed with and selfish and mercenary considerations must be supplanted by sound and fearless expressions of condemnation. The law does not always meet certain exigencies, and because the law-grants license to men to do that which exercises an evil and baneful influence upon the young and unwary, is no reason why they should be tolerated, and no community of people who have at heart the welfare and best interests of society ought to tolerate any calling or amusement of a licentious character. There are laws and good ones against vice and immorality, and the people in a crenerai sense are resoonaioie xor their not being more rigidly enforced, because of their apparent indifference a to what is going on.

It cannot be denied that when those who are charged with the execution of the law: particu larly in matters relating to public morals, are conscious of the fact that the community at large don't care they become correspondingly indifferent." "Southern Industry" continues to thunder in behalf of the laborers. It concludes an article on "Corruption, Money and the Lawmakers," as follows "The greed ef selfishness, the cunning of the speculator, the craftiness of the law-maker (influenced often and in all countries by secret bribes), and the power of the tyrant, have been in partnership to oppress, enslave and rob the laborer. The man who goes to Congress poor and comes back rich is hardly ashamed of the manner in which he has made his fortune. Ten thousand dollars for a Congressman's vote and influence is believed to be quite a common transaction. wan street money kings and railroad kings can give a million dollars tor a single law, and make millions out of the operation.

Laborers have no part in this corrup tion the rich and the law-makers are at the bottom of it. Does not that old Washington stab 'e need cleaning out Who but the laborers of the country candothis work well Will the rick people, or the Democratic, or the Ite- Subl iesn party do the workf What oee all their talk about civil service reform amount tot Cunningly devited platforms, and long winded speeches tnat's ail tne people get." NATUBES DUMB MOBILITY "Axrvoofc the noblest tn tne land. xnoojca Be soav count nunaeu cm least, That man I honor and revme. Who. without favor, without sear.

In the great city dares to stand xne rriena ox every inenaiess oeafci. Baad of Mercy Fleds I ttiU Tar to be kind to all harvlks fi- ina ervaturrt. and try to protect them from cruet uaaoe. Many thanks are due the girls and boys who complied with our request and wore the Silver Band of Mercy Badge npon May Day. Happy children wreathed with flowers, which a poet has called "God's Smiles," make a lovely picture, but the picture grows the lovelier when the gleam of the silver star tells the world that the wearer is striving in the cause of mercy toward man and beast, both great and small.

The other day a cart loaded with bricks stalled. The driver, without using the whip, was trying to assist the mules in their heavy work. We con gratulated him upon his patience, and his answer was: "And what would you have me do They won't fix the streets, and if I beat the mules I'll go to jaiL" To judge from that, we can see that the organization of our State Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals has done good. If anything can add to the horror of vivisection, it is the fact that some medical students joke about it, and endeavor to entertain their lady friends by describing some of their experiments. Even those who attempt to justify such cruelty as vivisection, by talking of its benefit to man and science, can scarcely approve of their pupils "telling tales out of school." A Ultle Gardner.

Kitting by ner winaow a lauy saw a pop light among the branches of a "Queen" rosebush. The little bird evidently an escaped prisoner, turned its pretty head first to one side then to the other as if taking its Seeing no one near, deep down into the buibh it went, and next was almost hidden under the petals of a full blown rose. After awhile, with the air of one satisfied with its surroundings, the "pop" went seriously to work and devoured every insect that infested the bush for hours the little gourmand feasted, twittering softly to himself, and no doubt thinking "how much better a house this is than that miser able cage!" In the evening the lady examined the bush, and not an insect remained either under the roses or on the tender buds. The little gardener had done his work well and yet, every day boys kill or trap the biids who can do so much good in ridding the gardens of Ba Streets ratal Drivers. di1or Xatitre' Dumb XobiUtw Out of sympathy for the poor animals that are so badly treated, I ask permission for a little space in your' valuable paper to give vent to my long pent-up indignation.

The condition of Basin street between Erato and Thalia is terrible. Not a day passes that several wagons are not stalled. Last Sunday there were three. One horse, so poor its ribs could be counted easily, was beaten, kicked and sworn at for an hour. I could do nothing but shut my eyes and stop my ears, because I am not a man, and could not go out and punish the cruel drivers, as they deserved.

If the pen is mightier than the sword or whip. please give my poor little protest space, and let the committee on street repairs or some member of the 8. P. C. A.

come forward and see that the trouble is remedied at once. A few loads of shells dumped into the holes is all that i is needed. A Constant Rkadkr. New Orleans, April 'zi, lasa. Sbsstlsa Deer la Biascr.

Forest and Stream It was a delightful evening of Map 187a I had been to listen to an able discourse on the proba ble immortality of human and animal life. The faithfnl dog. the natient and long-suffering horse, and shy wild ani able and interestingly discussed. I returned home, and, as my wife was awav on a visit and I was alone, I called my faithful hunting dog into uie house witn me. retiring to rest.

I fell into a fitful b1 umber, when I distinctly heard my name called. Rising up, I saw a mist-like form, with beauti ful, expressive eyes, and a sweet, quiet voice said Come with me," An irre sistible Tiower seemed to control me. and we patssed up into mid-air, above my dwelling, when, with a seemingly familiar voice, my companion asked me if I would like to visit the Adirondacks. "Oh, yes," said and, twining its transparent drapery about me, we flew along rapidly. As we passed along, I rerotmized the lake and the very nlace wbere, a year before, I shot by torchlight at a large doe.

wounding her so severely that she was just able to get away out of the water and no into the woods. Aa erjnke to mv companion she seemed to sigh, while a shudder passed through her frame. Slowly we turned from the lake, and passing up the side, we eame to a beautiful glade, and descending here alighted where the tall woody mass and ferns formed a natural bower. Looking around I saw two little fawns emaciated and starving. Their unkemot faces showed the want of the toilet of their mothers tongue.

Their little weeping eyes were glassy and death- stricken. I could only iust hear plaintive, whispering bleat of the little dying infant deer. And as I stood there one, leaning xorwmxa, ten prone upon the grass, dead. The other settled down on his little knees and closed his eyes in death. Near them lay the festering zorm 01 tueir dead motner.

lurning away from the cruel, sickening sight, I spoke to my companion. She sighingly said. It is the deer you shot at on the lake. Ah!" said she." the Angel of Mercy passe th by on the other side and hath no tears to shed when the sruel man dies.41 Heartsick, I asked to return home, and as we nearod my house 1 asked my companion who she was. She replied.

I am the spirit of that deer yon' shot at the mother of those dead fawns." Aa A ft era esti Talk at the Priory. Robert Buchanan, in Chicago Times At this moment there happened npon the scone another individual, entering quietly tnroughtne drawing-room door, which waa partly onen. The new comer was a dog, a splendid bull-terrier, who belonged to George Eliot, and gen-erally accompanied Lewes in his walks about tne neignbornood. no came in with a languid wag of the tail, and a general air of importance, glanced patronizingly at me, yawned lazily, and stretched himself on the hearthrug at the feet of his mistress. George Eliot "The beasts that ner- ifch." Here is somebody who, if he could spoak, would express a strong opinion upon that subject; lor ne is wise in nis generation, and magnanimous almost beyond human conception.

Do you know what be Hd once, before he was given to usT The friend to whom he belonged had a little boy. who inherited in full measure the predilections of the archetypal ape. Lewes (parenthetically) The true and only substitute for Plato's archetypal man I George Eliot One day our friend had some acquaintances to luncheon. As they sat together they were startled by a sharp cry of pain from underneath the table, and, lilting the edge of the tablecloth, they saw the small human monkey squatted on the carpet, in the act of slitting the dog's ear with a large pair of scissors Out crept the dog, ranting and bleeding, followed by his ittle tormentor. Papa, of coarse, was very indignant, and seizing the child, who began to sob with terror, announced nis intention of administering condign punishment, which he would have done instantly had not ttio victim inteifered.

Wagging Lis tail (jnst an he is doing now, for ho knows I am telling about nim!) the noble fellow rote, put his paws on tho child's shoulders, and aflectionately licked his face then, looking at his master, said plainly, in the canine deaf-and-dumb alphabet, "Don't beat him! please dou't! He's only an undevelopped human being he knows no better, and 1 love Li ml Could human kindness aud magnanimity go further Yet I don't suppose you will contend that the poor dog's loving instinct was enough to distinguish him from the other beasts tbat perish." Myself I'm not sure! Why should not even adoghave a soul likeany other respectable Christian Lewes Why not, indeed! I have known many so-called Christians who have neither the amiability nor tlu discrimination of this dog. George Eliot Then here we halt on the horns of a dilemma. Everyone wMli a large acquaintance among decent and "gentlemanlike" dogs (as Launce would put.) must admit their shares in the highest humanities; and what is true of them is true to a greater or less extent, of animals generally. Yet shall we, because we walk on our hind feet, assume to ourselves only the privilege of imperishability Shall we, who are even as they, though we wag our tongues and not our tails, demand a specinl providence and a selfish salvation Ad Elephant Treated far BJIadsess. Recently one of Barnum's- elephants was found to be in danger of becoming blind.

A surgeon who examined the huge animal d-clartd that 'the eyes conld be saved if the elephant could be induced to submit to an operation. Accord in gly the poor ani oial was tied down and some caustic fluid was dropped into one of his eyes. He roared with pain for the treatment was severe. On the following day the eye that bad been treated was much better, but the surgeon thought he was going to have a terrible time in operating on the other eye. Fancy his surprise to find that as soon as the great beast heard his voice he stretched himself on the ground and peacefully submitted to ihe painful ordeal.

The elephant bad timply recognized the skill and friendly, purpose of his benefactor. THE WORM TURNS. I've lpilsel you, old worm, for I think yeull vrtuiit Tbat you bptut were braatif al even In yontli I've impnlf roa on huukn. and nt felt It a bit Bot atl's changed vow that Darwla has toad on ih truth Of your diLtgxnt life, and endowed you with fame: Vou begin to intplre ne with kindly rexard. I have neoda of aty own, clever worm.

1 could naue. Wh hsve ne'er in their lives been at work half so hard. It afpeara that we owe yon our seres of soil, 1 hat the gardea coutd never exist wltaoat tod. That Irom ages irons by you were patient la Tin a lianrin revealed an the good that yoa do. Ktw you'-re tamed with a veng-eanee, and all must eon (ess Your behavior should make poor htunaalty ooniiia: Fat there's many a man on th's planet, mess.

vt no is not nau so uaeiiu as yon. auster Worm. launch. Contributions to this eolnma are earnestly oiieited and reports of Bands ef Mercy The Mest lToaderfal Iareitiom ffoderm Times. The Navies of the Earth, In Danger of Aiiniliilavtiolu Since the days of Drake and Nelson, Great Britain has asserted ner supremacy on the high seas.

The arrogance of her pretensions to control govern ments and commerce, led ranee, opain, (Jermanv and to augment the number of their naval vessels, and that arming caused inferior nations to prepare for emergencies on seas and oceans. Our late civil war terminated the career of wooden ships. The immense resistance of armored and iron-clad vessels to the heaviest artillery, and the destructive nowers of their protected armament, revolutionized tne naval architecture of the world. Great Britain now floats the largest and most formidable iron-clads in the world, and her areat enterprise and out lay in building and sending to sea her reorganized navv. has stimulated En ropean nations of all grades on the sea rnatt tn hniM vpanela which mar eom- oete with those of the British Admiral ty, in case of hostilities.

Even Italy has constructed the JJandolo and Urn lio." which carry each four 100-ton Arm strong gun. These two vessels are very large iron-clads, and armea as stated; and France is at the present time trying to make further developments in naval warfare. Increased navies of iron and steel elads. and of enormous tonnage. and with greater facilities for the transportation of large bodies of mariners and land troops, led to the manufacture ot guns oi uumense size and oz terrible execution.

Leading and dominating the grand and gigantic national floating batteries or the world, ureat Britain spares no expense in constructing and manning iron and steel ships of war to sustain her asserted supremacy on water. She has demonstrated the possibility of a comnlete blockade of commercial norts. and the consequent powerleasness of armies marching to -victory without free, open channels of communication with the world. And what have the United States been doing in the meantime Literally noth ing, while England builds iron aud steel snips at a cost oz and sterling. Most of our vessels are nn- seaworthy, and the very best are none too good for us, and inadequte defenses in the event of war even witn Chili.

The great want of the United States of certain and powerful means of de fense will hardly be met while party supremacy is superior to supremacy on tbe high seas. These reflections have been called into being by reading a circular, duly authenticated before notaries in this city, containing Com. Wm. Wallace Hunters, and the late J. K.

McClin tock's and other letters, in relation to what must be a truly wonderful and terrible weapon of destruction in 1 i ia: a mjj aiu viu timaou vi a4aiQ vtij, who is well known as the author and inventorof the so-called, but misnamed. Gatling gun. Hunter is well known to almost every one here, and he is still with us. Heis gentleman of tne inevaner isayard type, witnout fear and without reproach." and stood high in the United States navy and with its officers, and was next in rank to Com. Farragut when the late civil war began.

The presumption is from his long and diversified, experience in various quarters of the globe that he knows considerable of marine matters, and therefore highly qualified to express scientifically an opinion npon the merits of submarine inventions, and writing of this invention he says Kkw Orleahs, April is, 1880. Touching the practical success of afr. Jas, C. wlngard's mode of destroying vessels of war, which he has submitted to me for an expreetlon of opinion, I would state that the pians and appliances he uses are bated upon wcientitic principles: and I have no doubt that when his batteries are once iu position accomplished by certain manea venues of bin aboard a man of -war that dc strttetion of the secsrl assaulted trould inoitf jottow. tumiiiit-ity is tne sey-stone in the arch of any invention, and skill alone could hare devised the manner ot effecting the above stated oryeot, wnieh 1 rery ingenious, and to my mind feasible.

I retrard the application of bis batteries as ttorel.valuable and formidable for submarine varjare. 1 can omy mention was ne uses electricity id his operation, nut now, or in wbat way, 1 am not at uoerty to say. The cettalnti of ancce a la the oremlses in bevond a doubt. If all thectmdlttons reaulred ate compiled with, and this can only be de-termtLed by a practical demonstration there of, wouia also state that Mr. win? era na no previous connection with the vessel he proi'Oees to destroy, and that his Invention is a reality, and hot a fraud.

Very rwpectf uliy, Wm. W. Huntkr. It is also well known to many that K. McClintock was not an ordinary man, and that he was endowed with great skill and ingenuity and was a inventor himself and had had a largeexperience ind sub marine boats during tne war between the States: and he wrote in strong and glowing terms of these submarine batteries, as bis letter will attest, of which we omit only the introductory part.

He says jrau.ADKX.miA. Bent. 26. 1879. J.

C. Wingard Dear i'rimd I have been very much im pressed with the ingenuity and originalilg of your lnventioa. particularly to, sinse our trial In hrsspeake Bay. Yon know that I bad great doubt about the working of but that Is all removed now, and the more I think of the practical working of your apparatus the better I like it. Its Mmnliouy.

Kreat destructive power and terrible haeoe il trould make, amona a fleet of ironclixis is atcful to think of. Vox the purposes designed it la the greatest thing of the axe, superior to anything 1 knovr or-ever heard of. Ho subtletv ot steel or Iron manufacture aud range of Krvpn guns vsM avail in presence- of ymtr death dtaltna instrument. I know of no agent wiuim me range oi ncienoe more powerfully iteslructire than that yon use, aim i iiiiiiK tuy experience jusuues me in saying this. I remain truly your.

I Signed I J. B. MCClirtock. It is here seen at a glance tbat tho above named gent lemen write in nnmi tasabie terms or tnese unique Batteries Considering the immense wortn and superiority and we cannot arrive ac any otuer conclusion or. loose novei, a a valuable and formidable" batteries, we ate of opinion that they excel every other known mode of submarine war fare and it is evident from the facts au thenticated tbat they area "formidable" arm of riefeTiM, and onenso.

and no doubt destined to be a great peace mahcr, and an instrument to enforce tts claims. A few fleet steamers armed with these batteriea would, we think, be more effi cient than a largo fleet of iron-clads in fact, the latter as an enemy could not approach near enough to make their guns effective, while the other at long range, five or more miles, could destroy tLo iron-clads in a very short time, il we apprehend these batteries aright they are quick to execute, and will render armored and steel-clad menol-war harmless in a ceutest on the high seas, or as blockading squadrons, and render fleets of no connt-qnenco. It ri'Di8 apparent to any reflecting mind tlmt the United States should secure this valuable invention if not for present, at least future use, for England or Russia, orsomeotber power, might get wbat should bo ours. Were the inventor an English subject the British Admiralty would not lose a day in testing its power, and in awarding all that should be conferred upon tact, great skill and genius. Wbat we have said in regard to this important subject will be patent even to tho ordinary thinker.

It is worth while to turn away, if only for a brief moment from the heat of party strife, and cotsiderhow our vast sea coast, from Maine to the liio Grande and the Pacific Coast, may be made invpregnj-ble, and onr commerce protected on thj waters of entire world, and that, too. at comparative small cost when we n. fleet on the hundreds of millions that is annnallyi.spent by the maritime powers of the earth. An eminent member of Congress, writing to inventor says i That the United States is without a navy." that in order to construct a navy and completely arm her sea coast would require over $300,000,000." And further says, "inasmuch as it" this engine of war" would save nearly all this enormous expense and be more effective tban either forts, or war vessels. There is no dobt that you will succeed, and reap a rich pecuniary reward, as well as a fame which will immortalize your name." Science.

TBI PICAUm AGEICILTUEAL AID OOSDUCXED BY DATTL DJSNKETT. There are three strong bars to South ern prosperity, all ot which must be removed before the South can become prosperous. And any reasonable man in the South will admit this statement to be strictly true when he taken an intelligent view of the situation. THE ULBOK QUESTION. In bar No.

1, colored labor at the South has for twenty years been gradually drifting towards a channel which suits Aincan tastes and instincts. The negro is not going to work merely to please the white man to make the white man and the State prosperous. He is, going to work on strictly selfish principles, to suit mmseir and nobody else. Little does he care what Democrat, Republican, or anybody else think about it. He always had an African way of doing things, and African ideas.

When he was a slave he only adopted the white man's modes of labor and life under compulsion. Secretly and in his cabin he conld think and talk as he pleased, and in this he was always straight out African. His own little corn and potatoe patch, his picketed garden around his cabin, all of his labor not none under compulsion, carried on it the African brand. And now, as he can uo as ne pleases, ne carries out his own views and wishes more decidedly and more generally than when he was siave. jrianiers and farmers every- wneie say, so iar as tne writer is informed, that they find it impossible to nave tneir crops cultivated as well since emancipation as they did formerly.

Nor can tney get aa mucn work: done in a day as formerly. The negro seldom takes any personal interest or pride in the crop or success of his employer. He simply wants as much money as he can possibly get for the smallest amount of labor he can possibly exchange for it. And in the sUuggle for advantages between the cunning negro and the grasping planter, the negro nbuslly gets the advantage of the educated white man. They are next to the Chinese in low cunning, and in the aggregate hav secured millions of dollars in wages from the sugar planters since the war, which the sugar planters might have saved had they been as crafty and well united as the negroes were for the protection of their interests.

In some parishes negroes on plantations have been paid a dollar a day the season ronbd for field labor, and more than a dollar in sugar-making. Negroes prefer to work in gangs, and in this they are better adapted to plantation labor than white laborers, who object to working by the month in gangs on sugar or cotton estates. Ne-gToes prefer work ing by the day or bv the job to working by the month or year. Large numbers of them have left i arms ana plantations since the war, and havo gone to towns and cities, to saw mills, to steamboats and to engage in all sorts of irregular employment and light work when possible. When they engage in wood chopping or ditching they usually lose considerable time.

There is no limit to their sociability. They aie the most incessant talkers in the bonth. And the country is full of negro preachers. 1 reaching, singing hymns, pio-nica, excursions and funerals are the delight of the genuine Africans. Dancing axd the fiddle have been silenced since the war by preaching and the hymn book.

Great numbers of negroes in the South of late are getting little patches of land and cheap cabins. Sometimes they purchase au acre of land on a credit of a white man, who sells his land at high prices, aud a negro village opens up. These negro villages, with no white people in them, are now numerous in many portions where there is cense negro population, borne tunes they are tacked on as the suburbs of the old towns occupied by white people. A negro in his own cabin can live a nonth on $1 worth of meal and 50 cents worth of pork. If he gets flfora day's work, he can go to his cabin, in wnicn ne Has no rent to pay, collect his own wood, cook his own food and lives without work two or three weeks.

With full rations, a 'bufehelof meal a month and sixteen or eight oen pounds of pork, he can have all ho wants to eat for thirty days and feed one or two dogs, which are usually indispensable companions of the colored race. But few negroes care about saving money to buy a farm, or make a comfortable home. The negro's philosophy tells him that to-day is the time to en joy the fruits of his labor and to enjoy ail oi tn woriaiy pleasures ne can possibly grasp. He has no faith in to morrow, lo-morrow is, in his estimation, a humbug. His enjoyments are almost entirely animal and social.

He takes no stock in intellectual enjoyment. His religious enjoyments chiefly reacn mm tnrougn tne eye ana tne ear, while attending church. His religion is not much allied to domestic virtues. not much nsed at home. The negroes of the Southern States are not influenced by, white people in anything.

In. religion, politics, agriculture and social matters, and in medicine, mechsnieai matters, and everything ele. the negro has 'his own no tions. He will listen to the white preacher, or politician, or farmer, as though be believes all he says, but no advice of preasher. politician or farmer will he follow nnless it agrees with his own notions, Though ignorant, the negro is lull of conceit, and he treats the white man's ideas witn tne greatest contempt if they do not harmonize with their own.

The necro draws the "color line" closer than the white man does. Their ambition is to have a colored party, led and ruled by colored men. The Republican party is to them merely a mat ter ot convenience, to aid tnem in tneir efibrts to rule the South. They would ostracise every white Republican if tbey had numbers and strength sufficient to do without them. Ihe worst negroes in the South are not morally as bad as the worst white men.

1 here is no creature on earth that can be worse or more devilish than a white man. And the best ne groes are not as good and' as self-sacrificing as the best white men. The whites go to the superlative degree of li the nnotosrrann or tne soutnern negro, roughly sketched is even will he, aa a laborer. elevate Southern agriculture, and bring weaitn ana prosperity to iui country i Will not bis African character, blending poinewbat with the worst features of tbe white character, become more marked in future and carry with it the trade mark of the African will and instinetsf Are they as a people more industrious. more honest, more religious and more polite then they were before emancipation r' THE WHITX JJaJtOIt OF TUK SOUTH.

white farmers of the South will have to apply themselves more diligent i ly to their business and take a more lively interest in farming before they will suceeed in making themselves and the South indepepdent. The fact is. nearly everybody is hunting a shady and an easy place, Mothers are hunting cJbady places instead of useful places for their boys. It is estimated that the poor farmers in the South do not work on an average more than a hundred and twenty days in twelve months. Five days in a week would be 60 days.

We are commanded to work six days in a week and rest on the seventh. The farmer who buys corn should certainly work six days in a week until he can make his own corn and pork. There are 813 working days in a year 120 from 312 leaves 193 days lost time. This would make the corn and pork, usually bought on a credit, at the rate of 40 per cent, per annum difference between cash and Tbe amonnt of corn and "pork which tbe farmer buys of his merchant swallows np most of his little crop of cotton. His cotton might pay his debts, and aid him in making a compost heap, if he i re to make his own corn and pork.

If the white farmers ail over the South would intensify their interest in farming, work more days in a week and more hoars in a day, they could save their manure and buy some acid phosphate and kainet to put in the compost heap. They conld make their lands produce twice, or thrice, or four times as much corn, cotton, potatoes, forage, etc. to the acre as they now produce. There are many industrious, intelligent and successful white farmers in the South, but the other list is much tbe largest. Instead of praying for immigration, and that God will make the negro work, if we would pray that be would incline the white farmer to labor, to work full time every day and six days in a week, we would have better i v---.

I TUK WF.STX1UT PROVISION is bar No. 2 to Southern prosperity. "There's millions in it "for the West and millions out for the South. This matter has been so thoroughly discussed in Southern journals that farmers- un derstand it, ana yet tne xarmers oz tne South would starve to death or have to be fed by the Government to prevent starvation: if "they could not get the means to purchase corn and pork from Western farmers. Is there anything short oz Almighty lnnuence tnat can wean Southern farmers from cotton and awaken in them -a deeper interest in home made corn and Southern raised porkf I TUK WOBST OBSTACLE i to Southern prosperity and peace is bar No.

3. the whisky barrel. It par alyzes negro labor and white labor all over tbe South. It makes the rich poor and the poor man still It has caused tens of thousands of farmers to lose their farms, and to beeome as de pendent as beggars and tramns on the charities of others. It demoralizes our Legislatures, and prevents oar law makers from making laws in the inter est of the industries and the neonle.

It corrupts court and juries and the people. Mississippi and Georgia are rapidly stamping out this curse of nations. Mississippi and Georgia will be out of their troubles and on their way re joicing while the whisky-eteeped States will be on tne decline, or sounding tne deatn rattle xn tne agonies of delirium tremens. Take down and throw away the three obstructing and the Southern states win enter a neia oi oounaies9 and perpetual prosperity. THE JEKSEY8 STTIX IX THE The Jerseys are beyond a donbtthe greatest butter cows in the world.

-The Ilolsteins loomed up brilliantly for awhile, and enjoyed a brief newspaper. fame. This stirred np the Jersey blood and emulation. Over thirty pounds of butter a week from, a Hob tern cow, fushed the little Jersey a. who.

would one their laurels unless they could do a little better. -A--- The American Farmer of April 13 con tains the following: T- I "An official test, made by Mr. Andrew Banks, the well known breeder of Jer- sevs oz county, as a comuut- tee of the American Jersey Cattle Club. of the Jersey cow Oxford Kate 13,646, belonging to Mrs. S.

Shoemaker, result ed in her making 59 pounds -12 ounces of salted butter in seven days. lselow we give nis report to Mr. Joan. I. Holly, President of American-Jersey Cattle Club: The cow gave in seven days 245 pounds of milk, which made 88 pounds 2 ounces of nnsalted batter 39 pounds 12 ounces salted.

The pi oofs of the above are so respectable as to ho unquestionable. sTiu. uettkb: The official report of the American Jertey Cattle Club finds more butter in tbe Jericy cow Princess II. property of Mrs. S.

M. Shoemaker, of Baltimore, than in her cow Oxford. Kate. Princess II gave, in seven pounds of milk, from which was made 44 pounds IM ounees unsalted batter, raited 46 pounds 12 ounces. The Jerseys are the.

queen cows of the aristocratic cows they are being largely" absorbed by rich people in cities. '1 bey sustain their high character splendidly, and have distanced' all competitors in a fair competition for honors. Like the Sacred Brahma cattle of India, they Lave no competitors in the contest for the highest honors. The Holsteins and Ayrshires are excellent butter and beef and cheese cows, but for batter and milk alone the Jersey is queen. She has been weighed in the balance, and has not been found wanting.

A Southern woman owns the two best butter cows in the world. i TO DESTROY VEBMIN ON CATTLE 1 the New York Times says: There are two effective means of exterminating these vermin, carbolic aeid and sulphur. The old -fashioned remedy, mercurial ointment, is too dangerous to use, except in experienced hands, and then may do more harm than good by absorption through the skinl Carbolic acid in the proportion of one part to 100 of warm soapy, water is the safest and easiest remedy. The affected parts should be thoroughly wasnea with the mixture and dried with a soft cloth, and if a mixture of one part of the carbolic acid with 50 parts of raw linseed oil or sweet lard la then applied to the skin and well nibbed into the bair or wool, nothing further need be done except in bad cases. A common application, and a good one, is a mixture of 4 parts of lard.

1 part of kerosene oil, and 1 part of sulphur, well rubbed into the skin and hair. But tome internal remedy is required, and there is nothing better than a warm comforting mess of linseed or oatmeal gruel given once a day, and a bellyful of good clover hay, with half a pint of coram en 1. This will make new creatures of the suffering animals, whether they are cows or. oxen or calves or sheep. -i- It should be remembered that sal water is said to destroy lice completely on attle, with no possible injury to the animal.

Salt can always be easily obtained and conveniently, applied, and carbolic acid and sulphur is not always at hand in a farmer's house. There seems no exception to the rule that every organic being naturally increases at so high a rate that if not destroyed the earth would soon be covered by the progeny of a singe pair. If the increase of the human race were not checked, there would not be standing room for the descendants of Adam and Eve. A pair of elephants, slowest breeders of all known animals, would become the progenitors, iu seven and a half centuries, of 19,000,000 of elephants, if death did not interfere. Evidently a vast number of young animals must perish while immaturcand afar greater best of eggs fail to mature.

A single erd. laying millions of eggs, if allow-! to have it own way. would soon nMi tbe ocean. Yet so nicely balance tbe forces i of nature that the aver.r. number of each kiifd remains about tu Prot Gulley, of theMissiasippi Ag-i cultural College and So porintenden 'f arm, has made careful ex peri menu feeding stock on cotton seed.

He toia boiled cotton seed far better than t.r, raw seed, lie thinks about 14 of cotton seed and 11 pounds of bar daily good feed for an ox four years ol On tuch feed he made an ox gala J( toW8 pounds in.56duya AnoiW two months old, weighing 240 pounds in 49 days, ther, about in the same proportion. A mash composed of two quarts of oats, one quart of bran and half a of flax seed is spoken of very highly a stimulant for young horses. The oat are brat put in the stable bucket, eve-which is placed the linseed. bTritins water added, then the bran, eoverinr the mixture with an old rug and aliasing it to thus rest lor five honrs- then tbe mass is stirred np well. The bras absorbs while retaining thevat-or and linseed binds the oats and bran, together.

A greater quantity of flax seed would make the preparation too ilv and less relishable. One feed per day is sufficient. It is easily digested and is especially adapted to young animal, adding to their volame rather than ta their height, giving substance; to the rame. Utocknan. Western Agriculturist: The loss front feeding graui whole, says the Michigan 1 armer, to domestio animals is well understood by intelligontfanners.

Some have found, by careful experiment, that grinding. corn Increases the value as seven to five, when fed to swine, making a gain of forty bushels in every hundred or four hundred in every: thousand a matter of no small importance to farmers who feed to their animals large quantities annually. 4 7 The New York Christian Intelli genoer in 1880, said What is going to beeome of iis part of 'our country, or, rather. ui I jiuiiuui.iuii, ii iub uuuanai, ds-motvisto stride on his Seven-leagued boots as he hss been doing 'for the last few years? The creeping plague is ascending higher np the Hudson'; it has penetrated New England, following the Sound, then up the Connecticut valley, and this year we hear of its prevalence in Western Massachusetts. Several seaside resorts have also developed malaria of a violent type during ths East In fact, this plague king as not only lengthened his cords, but strengthened his stakes.

We now hear of a malarial fever and congestive chill which undermine and break the constitution, or make life a lingering a misery, We have known strong men to be struck down euddenlr by apoplexy, children to he paralyzed, o.a and infirm people to be cut down by tbe score as with a death sickle. In many instances the nervous and cerebral systems are so shattered as to produce insanity, softening of tbe brain and ins i-pacity for mental exertion. t. DAIRYING. The capital invested in the dairy vuviticoQ vi ataaD wuawu uvaawo uvvih- pnted to be over 9200,000.000 and to employ about 700,000 men and nearly l.OOO.OOC horses.

An officer of the Erie Milk Producer's Association says The average cow yields about 450 gallons of milk a year, giving a total product of 8.750.- 000,000 gallons. Twelve cents a gallon is a fair price to estimate tne value of this milk at. a total return to the dairy farmer of $810,000,000. ty per eent of the milk is made into cheese and butter. 1.

t.v.. or lk. A a it. butter, and about 10 lbs. of milk to II lua.uiiuua.

vv iurfq i IU. Ui make 1 lb. of cheese. There is the same amount of nutrition in 3' lbs. of milk that there is in 1 lb.

of beef. A fat steer furnishes fifty per cent, of bone less beef, bat it would require about 24,000 steers, weighing 1000 Jbs. each, to produce the same amount of nutrition-. as the annual milk product does' BSB CtXTCKK AS A. NATIONAL IWDUS- TRY.

Among the recent industries of rapid growth -in fthis-country bee culture stands prominent. Of course, as a homely art, bee-keeping is no- modern industry, being old as history; but lniisBCienuuc ueveiupmen. ii lavi recent In these times, whea science is properly, taking its place at the helm in all departments of human industry and activity, it is not strange tbat it is promptly assuming the guidance of bee This is a utilitarian as well aa scientific age; and this is wny bee culture is being so rapidly developed. for its extraordinary growth (i only in the ratio its n-Hlitar i ft' Thnnirri Vnnaa to commerce for twenty-five hundred years, hitherto it has been followed and known, in this country at least, principally as a local indostiy. But boe-eultur from the soundest economic" considerations, ought, undoubted to become a.

great national industry, fostered and protected by tbe State. Apiculture is naturally a part of, and closely allied with agriculture, inasmuch as the nectar gathered by the one as immediately derived from the same fields and forests that yield ths abundant ingatherings of the other. Indeed, the bulk of the honey crop of this country (which is, in round numbers, about 100,000,000 pounds annually) comes from the bee-keeping which is connection, more or less, with farmin. uampoeu's new venture. A dispatch from Ksw York, April 30, says: Bartley Campbell, the playwright, yeiee-day morning leased from Samuel 0lriile the Fourteenth Street Theatre lor a period of four years and three months, wita tna privilege, tt is said, of renewal for tea years longer.

Though the exact terms oa whUsh the theatre has changed hands are not positively known It is stated that a bonus of something over Sift.OOO Is to be paid air. Colville besides a rental of $12,000 a year lr the first two years and three monta. ana 913,000 for the last three years. Mr, Camjf bell, who leaves lor Europe to-day, appo to be extremely enthaslastlo ever hit purchase. Whea seen last night by a World reporter be said I think In taking this lease have doue a pretty good thing.

Bomehow ot other a opinion seems to be- prevalent that tas house Is an unlucky one. I doo'lthln It's what's been brought out there that iii not possess attractiveness tbat shoU.t blamed not the buildmg. Did you eer see an edifice that looked more litre a tempi? tbe drama than that does Then them a splendid stage and a spacious aadisortum. What more is needed There Is no thing as 111 lock about a theatre. Didn Fedora' do well 1 and thea look a bouses the 'Galley Wave' drew, aid tu bueivees done by M.

B. Curtla iu 'rism lr All these things are forgotten mhfu one tries to resurrect old plava and thtj i- 1 to bring the public." What do you Intend making of ts theatre waa asked. v- "A stock house. There are only ons er two other stock houses in the city, aa1 believe the people ot Gotham can easily sap- port anouier ooe. i nau moae nti aaaantl alwmt that anfallit of HAll'fmlier my new play, which I lb'" will prove a success.

Then I shall bares revival of others, perhaps, and may be pr-dace new ones as I go along. I dou tmn-I ran keep the theatre going simply trltn my own plays, and 1 shan't try to. Tve -o to go Europe now, but I shall be back soon as possible to attend to my eaterpn here. -1 "Tfce Hear Bowed Pawn by Wei pany axtex mat or tne union square aud It may be tbat I shall be able to accu some of those neonle. I shall beffin tne That Is to say, tbe mournful heart ef ths sunrrtng woman who la burdened wtu or-pepsla and agonises with torment durta; weary nigbte of sleeplessness.

woman needs kind frlrnds, hearty sruipui7 and Brown' Iron Bitters. Mr. A. at" tola, Marshall, Texas, wiltea My wife been entirely cured of dyaif pla and debility by using Brown's Iron Bitwrs. Good newa for the weary heart.

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