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The conqueror of the Khalifa is now in Cape Town as Chief of Staff to
General Roberts and it is he whom the British people expect to retrieve all
the disasters that their armies have met under the other leaders. He will
map out an entirely new campaign. He is considered one of the most brill
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ACADIA, THE BEAUTIFUL LAND.
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§ AYOU NEZ PIQUE, Acadia,
La.—In Southern | Louisiana
you may sit under an “um
brella tree,” look at green roses
and eat white blackberries. You
may watch the chameleon turn scar
let, blue, green, brown or gray, or
hear the mocking bird pour forth its
wild melody from the roof of a veranda,
or see aflightof white cranes descend,
like great snowflakes, on a distant
ricefleld.
This subtropical land, with its trees
ghostly with Spanish moss, its bayous
ablaze with scarlet leafage, out of
whoso fire of color leapB the Louisiana
red bird; its pale green prairies, its
intense sunlight, orange sunsets,
swift twilight and brilliant moonlight,
is weird and enchanting.
It looks as if it had been borrowed
from a fairy book and did not belong
to geogiaphy at ail.
It is midwinter, yet the dooryards
of Acadia, St. Landry and Calcasieu
parishes are abloom with roses.
Christmas troes of live oak or holly
or mistletoe, still bright in the little
farmhouses, were dressed on Christ
mas Day with fresh flowers gathered
out of doors.
The umbrella tree is common.
Every farmer has half a dozen to
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HARVESTING RICE IN SOUTHWESTERN
LOUISIANA.
lend. It is easy to borrow the use of
ono ou araiuy tree, aud as it is ohained
to the ground by its roots no branches one ever
forgets to return it. Its
radiate from the trunk like umbrella
stays. Its foliage forms a waterproof
covering like an umbrella top. Its
trunk is the handle. It will keep one
entirely dry iu a subtropical storm.
In summer it affords perfect shade
from the sun. A tramp once explained
bis wanderings through Louisiana by
saying that he was a traveling tinker,
mending umbrella trees.
The green rose, the only oue I have
ever seen, is not as large as tho red
rose, nor does it display its petals
as fnllv, but it is distiuctly a rose. If
some Northern floriculturist would
develop the greou rose further it
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might become a prized and unique
bloom in the beautiful sisterhood of
flowers. Boutonniers and bouquets
(screen iHfejhJPatrick’s roses might Day in become New York. a feature
White blackberries are much
esteemed in Acadia and Calcasieu, be
cause they are superior in flavor to
the black kind. Some regard them
as a concession of nature to the color
prejudice. They differ from the black
blackberries mainly in complexion.
In Louisiana is what popularly is
known as the “dishcloth plant.” It
produces a green pod, which yields,
when opened, a large piece of cellular
vegetable tissue, often used in kitch
ens as a “dishcloth:”
The native horses and cattle in this
part of the State formerly lived on
sweet potatoes, grass and hay. When
Northern farmers came here to settle
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they found that the Creole ponies
would not eat corn or oats. Both re
mained untouched in their feed boxes.
In some cases the native horses had
to bo starved for days before they
would touch either.
A Northern farmer throw an ear of
corn among a herd of wild cattle.
They came up to it, looked at it, sniffed
it and walked away agaiu. Not a
steer would eat it. The colonists
from the North inferred that to the
horses and cattle of these parishes
corn and oats were an acquired taste.
The bread fruit of Louisiana is the
sweet potato. It will grow anywhere
in any kind of soil. The varieties of
sweet potatoes are almost innumerable.
They yield from 200 to 500 bushels to
the acre, aud usually sell for fifty
cents a barrel or twenty cents a bushel,
though in seasons of scarcity they are
thirty and eveu forty cents a bushel.
They are the daily food of the farmers,
aud are fed to horses, cattle, swine
and poultry. The Louisiana sweet
potatoes are wholesome, but lack the
flue flavor of those raised in Virginia.
Irish potatoes are regarded here as a
luxury, aud the people have them ou
Sundays aud holidays.
It is supposed generally in the North
that Louisiana is a swamp country, a
network of morass and bayou, aud
that there is little ground in its
limits that is firm beneath one’s feet.
This is a mistake.
North of the Red River, in the
northwestern part of the State, lies
the famous hill country of Lc:uV
Here the land is npheaved in innumer
able little mountains, which rise sixty
or seventy feet above the surrounding
landscape. The highest peak in the
State is in this wild district, and it
towers 150 feet above the Gulf of
Mexico.
Tho hill country might make the
mountaineers of the Alps or the Andes
smile, but it is as serious a fact in this
State as are the Highlands in Scotland
or the Catskill Mountains in New
York. This mountainous country is
the lumber belt. It is full of sawmills,
and turns out vast quantities of hand
some yellow pine lumber for the North
ern market.
In the southwestern part of the
State lies the Acadian country. It is
a' land of beautiful prairies and of
magnificent yellow pine forests that in
the distanco look blue. This is the
upland of Louisiana, the foothills of
the little Switzerland to the north.
It is the rice belt and cattle country
of the State.
In Acadia the prairies are small,
being ten or twelve miles long and
live or six miles wide. They are
girded round by yellow pine forests,
through which run bayous. It is a
fertile parish, but not as The pretty Calcasieu to the
eye as Calcasieu.
prairie is the largest in the State—
about fifty miles long and from five to
forty miles wide. The parish itself,
which is also the largest in the Com
monwealth, comprises 4000 square
miles, and is about two-thirds the Bize
of Connecticut.
Here the land is firm and solid. In
digging wells the farmers have to go
deeper to find water than they do in
Wisconsin. The land, which is now
fifty to i ixty feet above the Gulf of
Mexico, was once its bed, and con-
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PUERTO RICO'S WONDERFUL LACE TREE-WHIP, WITH LASH TWISTED FROM
THE FIBRE OF ITS OWN STICK -LACE ROSETTE FROM THE SAME FIBRE.
tains a great deal of sand. The roads
are sometimes dry within twelve
hours after a semi-tropical rain. There
is so little mud, except in proximity
to rice marshes, that one may ride a
bicycle along a highway eovered with
water.
This is the upland, and yet it is the
rice country. The explanation is sim
ple. From a foot to two feet under
the soil lies a bed of clay which is im
pervious to water. Wherever land
lies in a shallow saucer shape, so that
its edges are slightly higher than its
interior, the faliiug rain will till it to
the rim aud form a marsh, because the
water cannot percolate through the
underlying bed of clay and escape. In
Louisiana you will find the low
grounds hard and dry aud marshes on
the ridges.
The alluvial laud which lies iu the
Mississippi bottom seems to be plan
tations part of the time and part of
the time Mississippi River. Swamps
are not unknown there.
“We are having a Louisiana bliz
zard,” said a Northern settler in Cal
casieu parish, “The thermometer
has fallen to seventy degrees above
zero.”
The children in the country go to
school barefoot all winter. In a coun
try schoolhonse, on a sharp midwinter
day, there was only one child who
wore shoes. All the children had
shoes at home, but they did not care
to wear them.
The well-to-do French farmer, with
land by the Itfiigue and cattle by the
hundreds, with money buried in the
ground or hidden in hollow trees or
deposited in the bank, goes barefoot
the year round, except when he visits
the parish town. His winter dress is
a straw hat, a calioo shirt aud a pair
of blue cotton trousers. He goes with
out oollar, cravat and shoes. His feet
are as insensible to cold as are the
hands of a Northern man who never
wears gloves. It is a common sight
in Acadia, ou a winter’s day, to see a
man from the North, in a heavy ul
ster, talking to a barefooted Frenoh
farmer in his shirtsleeves.
Her Cinch.
“Mildred,” said her mother, “I
don’t believe that young man cares
for you at all. In my opinion he comes
here to see you merely because he has
uo place else to go.”
“Oh, mamma,” the girl replied,
“you are mistaken—you wrong him.
I have proof that he loves me.”
“What is it? Has he asked you to
marry him?"
“ No, but I accidentally said I
‘had saw ’ the other evening, aud he
immediately afterward said something
about dhaving came,’ just to make me
feel that he was somewhat shy on
grammar. You needn’t tell me that
anything less than love—deep, soul
ful, everlaiting love—would induce a
roan to do that.”—Chicpgo Timss.
THE CURIOUS LACE TREE.
One of the Many Marvell of Oar Little
Puerto Rico.
Some exquisite lamp shades, nap
kins and centre pieces have come from
our dear little Puerto Rico this winter.
They are made from tne in ner part of
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SHOWING THE NATURE OF THE FIBRE.
the lace tree; to be more explicit,
from a lace-like fibre, which grows be
neath the bark. The outside of this
curious tree very much resembles the
white and mottled mistletoe boughs
one sees exposed for sale during the
holidays, but the inside of the younger
limbs and branches is a mass of the
lace fibre, sometimes pure white in
color and again yellow, tending to
brown. Though the lace tree is ap
parently a very hard wood, the interior
fibre may be unwrapped in sheets,
which the Puerto Rican ladies convert
into drawn work or embroider in bright
colors.
Whips are made of the branches, a
part of the branch being left for the
stock and the fibre lace drawn out to
form a topknot rosette. A long lash
is plaited at the othor end.
The manufactured lace fibre is very
expensive, but nothing cau be more
beautiful than the effect of light
through the lamp shades. The cocoa
nut palm grows sheets of fibre on tho
outside, bo that it looks as if it is tied
up in old mats, but the lace tree grows
its delicate textile fibres inside, with
vast improvements in texture and
color.
The women of Puerto Rico do beau
tiful decorative work with this natural
lace, the net of the fibre being so fine
that it lends itself to the most delicate
designs. It is dyed the brightest hues
and made into flowers, which are ap
plied to the lamp shades of the same
or arranged in shapes of brilliant
moths and butterflies. The large fire
fly of the tropics is exquisitely simu
lated. On the centrepieces for table
adornment, the Spanish rose is fre
quently imitated. This rose is white
in the morniDg, pink at noon and a
deep crimson at night, hence there are
three roses to go with the centrepieces
and these are daintily attached by
means of minute fibres to correspond
with the hour of the day. Each color
of the rose has a meaning. The white
rose signifies that the daughters of the
house are too young to think of mar
riage; the pink rose that they are so
ciety debutantes, and the red rose that
they are married.
Tommy as a Humorist.
“Tommy Atkins is a regular hum
orist at times,” the subaltern con
tinued with a grin. “ Did yon ever
hear the story of the court-martial iu
the Hussars? No? Well, you
must know that, just as iu the ordin
ary trial, a prisoner may object to the
presence of a juryman whom he thinks,
has already some prejudice or grudge
against him, so at a court-martial he
is always asked if he is satisfied with
the officers selected to try him. Well,
this particular Tommy, when the pres
ident asked him the regular question,
looked at the officers sitting solemnly
before him and answered : ‘Certain
ly; I object to the ’ole blooming lot of
yer.’ I believe that they were so
astonished at this startling reply that
they had to put off the trial till they
could make out what was the right
thing to do nnder the circumstances.”
—St. James’s Gazette Correspondence.
The lialaclaTa Cap.
In England just now women are
busy knitting comforts for the British
soldiers in South Africa—sleeping hel
mets, tam-o’-shanters, cardigan jack
ets, cuffs, scarfs, mitteus, socks aud
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chest and back protectors. The Bal
aclava cap is the favorite object with
these patriotic knitters. It is cold o’
nights in South Africa, and some of
the soldiers find the Balaclavas very
useful.
PEACE PROPOSAL
FALLS THROUGH
Taylor Refuses To Sign the Louisville
Agreement.
EVERYTHING IS CHAOS
Troops Withdrawn and Legis
lators Ordered To Frankfort.
A Frankfort dispatch says: Nearly
every Republican committeeman was
in the city Saturday. Several Repub
lican members of the legislature were
among the number, including Senator
Kirk and Johnson and Representative
Lewis.
Shortly before 11 o’clock tho doors
of the onpitol were opened and the
state delegates went to the assembly
room, the first time it has opened since
the shooting of Governor Goebel.
At 11 o’clock Governor Taylor ac
companied by Private Secretary Todd,
Secretary of State Caleb Powers and
Thatcher entered the assembly rooms.
His arrival was tho signal for a wild
outburst of cheering, men standing on
chairs and yelling and waving their
hats in greeting. The doors were then
locked and a guard placed at the door.
After a two hours’ session Governor
Taylor definitely decided that he would
not sign the Louisville agreement, and
decided to allow the matter to be set
tled in the courts and will abide by
their decision.
Shortly after the meeting tho fol
lowing statement was given out:
“After mature deliberation and con
ference with my friends from every
section of the state, I have concluded
to allow this controversy to take its
dne course, vigorously contesting
every inch of ground and upholding
the rights of the people to the utter
most. If those rights be destroyed,
the responsibility for that destruction
must rest with those who sit in judg
ment.
“It is due to say ikat the eminent
gentlemen, my friends, who secured
the proposition resulting from the
Lousville conference, acted in perfect
good faith, from the highest motives
of patriotism and did the very best
they could. W. S. Taylor,
During the conference Governor
Taylor stated to the members that
there were two courses to be pursued.
First, to sign the Louisville agree
ment; the second to quietly withdraw
the troops, allow the legislature to re
convene in the capitol building in
Fraakfort; to call off the session now
being held in London and to ignore
the Louisville agreement entirely.
Several speeches were made and it was
soon apparent that the sentiment of the
gathering was very strongly in favor
of the second course, and this was ad
opted.
PROCLAMATION ISSUED.
The following proclamation was
issued Saturday afternoon:
Frankfort, Ky., Feb. 10, 1900.—
The excitement recently prevailing in
this city having to some extent sub
sided and there appearing now to be
no necessity for the general assembly
to remain in session in London, I do
hereby by this proclamation reconvene
the same in Frankfort, Ky.. February
12, 1900, at 12 o’clock noon.
W. S. Taylor,
Governor of Kentucky
Orders were at once issued to Gen.
Collier to prepare for the departure of
the troops, and in a very short time a
largo number of them were ready to
leave. Six companies left Saturday
night; more departed Sunday and only
a small detachment remained by Mon
day morning. These, it is said, arc
retained only as a peace guard.
Word was at once sent to the mem
bers of the Republican legislature, in
session in London, that the next ses
sion would be in Frankfort, and a
prompt reply was received to the effect
that they would all leave in a body ou
Sunday,and be iu Frankfort Monday.
The action of Governor Taylor
now returns the gubernatorial fight to
the exact position it occupied on the
day following the Goebel assassina
tion, with the additional complication
that there was then but one legislature
and one governor in fact, whereas
there are now two claimants for the
position, and two separate bodies,each
claiming to be the lawmaking power
of Kentucky.
LIABILITIES OVER A MILLION.
One Time Famous Stock Broker Is
Now Bankrupt. ‘
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A New lork dispatch says: Anthony
Dimock, twenty-five years ago a
famous stock operator, head of the
^ rm -V- VV. Dimock – Co., bankers
and brokers, Wall street, filed a peti
tion in bankruptcy Saturday. His
liabilities ave set down at $1,292,735;
his assets $150.
Coal Admitted Free.
On the proposal of M. DeWitte, the
minister of finance, the czar of Rus
sia has consented to the importation
of coal, exclusively for the use of the
Russian railways free of duty until
September 1, next.
WHEELER IS DELAYED.
Asks House Committee To Aid Ten
nessee River Appropriation.
General Joe Wheeler, writing the
chairman and members of the rivers
and the harbors committee of the
house, from Paniqnem, island of Lu
zon, under date of Jauuarv 6th, asks
their active efforts in securing an ap
propriation for the Tennessee river be
low Chattanooga. General "Wheeler
says the death of General Lawton has
delayed his departure for home.
One Immense Advantage.
If the Russian Academy of Science
prevails in having English adopted as
a universal language, perhaps con
ductors may nso it in calling off sta
tions.—Philadelphia Times.
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Tho Mystery of Dust at Sea.
It Is a puzzling fact that the decks of sailing
vessels show dust at night, even If they bo
washed In the morning, and no work fa done
during the day. Tills Is Hke Indigestion,
which creeps on one unawares, llowover it.
comes, Hostetler's the only way to cure It Is by tho use of
Stomach Bitters, a remedy which
never falls tocure dyspepsia In all itj forms
as well prevents malaria, fever anil ’
as aguo.
The Illinois State Board of Health recom
mends that a sanitarium for consumptives be
erected.
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Kdlivste Tone llowels With Onseurnts.
Candy Cathartic, (J.C. C. cure constipation forever, money!
He. »6c. if fall, druggists refund
Pools Not All Extinct.
In spite of the prevalence of newspapers and
coroner's Inquests people are still turning on
tho gas and trying to blow out electric lighib
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One smalt disease germ carried by the
blood through the system <wdl convert a
healthy human body to a condition of in
validism. Do not ‘wait until you are bed
ridden. Keep your blood pure and life-giv
ing all the time. Hocxfs Sarsaparilla
accomplishes this as nothing else can.
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Torpedo Boats by Roll.
Probably the queerest thing so far
established In the case of the French
submarine boat, Goubet, is her trans
portation by rail from the docks of
I’aris-Saint-Ouen to the arsenal of Tou
lon. The Echo de Paris dwells at some
length upon the advantages of carry
ing a flotilla of small torpedo boats by
the same method. In one day they
could be sent from the Mediterranean
to the British Channel, or from the
channel to the Mediterranean. In case
of war between France and England,
it says, the boats moving on land
wonld have an advantage over the
British ships, obliged to effect their
concentration via Gibraltar.
The Goubet was carried upon an or
dinary fifteen ton ear, but with the
creation of special means of transpor
tation boats very much larger than the
Goubet might be carried by rail. “One
hundred submarine boats no larger
than the Goubet could keep Pas-de
Calais free from any attack by an
English fleet. And one hundred Gou
bets would not cost fifteen million
fiancs.’’
A
Million
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female trembles by Mrs »
Plnkham’s advice and
medSoinem
The letters of a few are
printed regularly In this
paperm
If any one doubts the
confidential efficiency and sacredly of
character
Mrs. Pinkham’s methods,
write for a book she
recently published which
contains Setters from the
mayor of Lynn, others the post
master, and of her
city who have made care~
ful investigation, and who
verify all of Mrs. Pink~
ham’s statements and
claims.
The Plnkfsam claims are
sweeping. Investigate
them.
THIRTY YEARS OF CURES
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“My wife ltad pimples on her face, but
she has been takin? CASCAKETS and they
have all disanpeared. I had been troubled
with constipation for some time, but after tak
ing tho first Cascaret I have had no trouble
with this ailment. Wo cannot speak too high
ly of Oascarets.” Fred Wartman,
6708 Germantown Ave.. Philadelphia, Fa.
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