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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 fin entirely new campaign. He is considered one of the most brill
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La.—ln Southern g Louisiana
*1 ) y°u m ay e * k under an “um-
A J brella tree.” look at green roses
-S 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 a flight of white cranes descend,
like great snowflakes, on a distant
ricefield.
This subtropical land, with its trees
ghostly with Spanish moss, its bayous
ablaze with scarlet leafage, out of
whose fire of color leaps 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 geography at all.
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HARVESTING RICE IN SOUTHWESTERN
LOUISIANA.
It is midwinter, yet the dooryards
of Acadia, St. Landry and Calcasieu
parishes are abloom with roses.
Christmas trees 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
lend. It is easy to borrow the use of
one on a rainy tree, and as it is chained
to the ground by its roots no one ever
forgets to return it. Its branches
radiate from the trunk like umbrella
stays. Its foliage forms a waterproof
covering like an umbrella top. Its
PUMPING PLANT FOR RICE IRRIGATING CANAL.
trunk is the handle. It will keep one
entirely dry in a subtropical storm.
In. summer it affords perfect shade
from the sun. A tramp once explained
his wanderings through Louisiana by
saying that he was a traveling tinker,
mending umbrella trees.
The green rose, the only one I have
ever seen, is not as large as the red
rose, nor does it display its petals
as fully, but it is distinctly a rose. If
some Northern floriculturist would
develop the green rose further it
might become a prized and unique
bloom in the beautiful sisterhood of
flowers. Boutonniere and bouquets
of green roses might become a feature
of St. Patrick’s Day in New York.
White blackberries are much
esteemed in Acadia and Calcasieu, be
cause they are superior in flavor to
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THRASHING RICE IN SOUTHWESTERN LOUISIANA.
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 cellule r
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
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 be starved for days before they
would touch either.
A Northern farmer threw an ear of
corn among a herd of wild cattle.
They catlie up to it, looked at it, sniffed
it and walked away again. Not a
steer would eat it. The colonists
from the North inferred that to the
horses and ca'il > of these parishes
corn and oats w i aan acquired taste.
The bread fru t of Louisiana is the
sweet potato. It will grow anywhere
in any kind of soil. The varieties of
sweetpotatoes are almost innumerable.
They yield from 200 to 500 bushels to
the acre, and usually sell for fifty
cents a barrel or twenty cents a bushel,
though in seasons of scarcity they are
thirty and even forty cents a bushel.
They are the daily food of the farmers,
and are fed to horses, cattle, swine
and poultry. The Louisiana sweet
potatoes are wholesome, but lack the
fine flavor of those raised in Virginia.
Irish potatoes are regarded here as a
luxury, and the people have them on
Sundays and holidays.
It is supposed generally in the North
that Louisiana is a swamp country, a
network of morass and bayou, and
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 Louisiana.
Here the land is upheaved 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.
The 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
PUERTO RICO’S WONDERFUL LACE TREE—WHIP, WITH LASH TWISTED FROM
THE FIBRE OF ITS OWN STICK-LACE ROSETTE FROM THE SAME FIBRE.
State lies the Acadian country. It is
a land of beautiful prairies and of
magnificent yellow pine forests that in
the distance look blue. This is the
upland of Louisiana, th? foothills of
the little Switzerland t the north.
It is the rice belt and c. tie country
of the State.
In Acadia the prairie? are small,
being ten or twelve miies long and
five or six miles wide. They are
girded round by yellow | ne forests,
through which run bayous. It is a
fertile parish, but not as pretty to the
eye as Calcasieu. The 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 size
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 sixty feet above the Gulf of
Mexico, was once its bed, and con
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 covered 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 i n a shallow saucer shape, so that
its edges are slightly higher than its
interior, the falling rain will fill it to
the rim and 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 and marshes on
the ridges.
The alluvial land which lies in 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 schoolhouse, 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 league 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 calico shirt and a pair
of blue cotton trousers. He goes with
out collar, 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, on a winter’s day, to see a
man from the North, in a heavy ul
ster, talking to a barefooted French
farmer in his shirtsleeves.
THE CURIOUS LACE TREE.
One of the Many Marvels of Our 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 the inner part of
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 other end.
The manufactured lace fibre is very
expensive, but nothing can be more
beautiful than the effect of light
through the lamp shades. The cocoa
nut palm grows sheets of fibre on the
outside, so 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 morning, pink at noon and a
deep crimson at night, hence there are
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LACE ROSETTE AT END OF STITCH,
SHOWING THE NATURE OF THE FIBRE.
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.
Her Clncb.
“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
no place else to go.”
“Oh, mamma,” the girl replied,
“yon 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, and he
immediately afterward said something
about ‘having 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, everlasting love —would induce a
man to do that.”—Chicago Times, 1
Real Estate For Sale
The tracts, lots, and parcels of lands
as stated below are for sale, cheap for
cash, or wilj exchange for available
merchandise at reasonable prices.
The land lots indicated will be sold
with special warranty of title, with
plat and grant, with the original
“beeswax” seal:
No. Dist. Sec. Acres. County.
942 2 3 40 Paulding.
124 7 2 40 Fannin.
90 1 81 Rabun.
118 26 2 40 Gilmer.
57 11 1 40 Union.
137 19 3 40 Paulding.
308 10 1 160 Union.
650 16 2 40 Cobb.
718 16 2 40 Cobb.
719 16 2 40 Cobb.
885 16 2 40 Cobb.
887 16 2 40 Cobb.
915 16 2 40 Cobb.
958 16 2 40 Cobb.
843 16 2 40 Cobb.
646 17 2 40 Cobb.
16 17 2 40 Cobb.
17 17 2 40 Cobb.
86 17 2 40 Cobb.
1090 17 2 40 Cobb.
267 20 2 40 Cobb.
1006 16 2 40 Cobb.
514 15 2 40 Cobb.
567 15 2 40 Cherokee.
584 15 2 40 Cherokee.
585 15 2 40 Cherokee.
638 15 2 40 Cherokee.
639 15 2 40 Cherokee.
640 15 2 40 Cherokee.
641 15 2 40 Cherokee.
642 15 2 40 Cherokee.
255 13 2 160 Cherokee.
102 21 2 40 Cherokee.
101 1 202} Troup.
731 19 3 40 Paulding.
72 3 3 40 Paulding.
501 3 3 40 Paulding.
880 2 3 40 Paulding.
1175 18 3 40 Paulding.
13 13 1 160 Pickens.
246 6 1 160 Chattooga.
708 18 2 40 Polk.
981 21 3 40 Polk.
7 26 3 160 Murray.
1012 12 1 40 Lumpkin. ~
314 11 1 40 Lumpkin.
697 11 1 40 Lumpkin.
573 5 1 40 Lumpkin.
830 11 1 40 Lumpkin.
148 8 2 160 Fannin.
629 3 4 40 Floyd.
643 18 2 40 Douglass.
8 3 490 Wayne.
95 3 490 Wayne.
96 3 490 Wayne.
151 3 490 Wayne.
200 3 490 Wayne.
} 173 3 245 Wayne.
160 2 490 Wayne.
} 75 2 245 Charlton.
}x}17516 25} Upson.
}x} 111 12 25} Taylor.
} 368 28 125 Early.
i 113 16 1 80 Union.
} 175 16 1 80 Union.
815 14 1 40 Forsyth.
398 5 1 40 Dawson.
157 11 202} Henry.
104 19 2 40 Cobb.
901 21 2 74 Cherokee.
Three lots, 50x150 feet each, alto
gether being Nos. 14, 15 and 16, on
Mt. Zion avenue, in the village of Mt.
Zion, Carroll county, Ga.
One lot, No, 114, in block 17, in
Montrose Park, Montrose county Col
orado.
Six acres on Satterfield Ford road,
5 miles from Greenville, in Greenville
county, S. C.
Three lots at Montreal, on G. C. &
N. railroad, DeKalb county, Ga.
1,100 acres; 700 hammock, 400 up
land, in Screven county, Ga. This is
a fine place, divided by the Georgia
Central railroad, 50 miles from Savan
nah. Railroad station on the place; good
location for country store. Splendid
situation for factory for staves and
cooperage works. Enough good tim
ber on the hammock land to pay for
the place three or four times over.
Investors are invited to examine this
place.
1.149 acres on west bank of Savan
nah river, in Effingham county, Ga.,
grant of 1784, and descent of title to
present owner.
1.150 acres on Satilla river, in Cam
dem county, Ga., grant from state,
and deeds on record for 100 years
back. Good title, by descent to pres
ent owner.
1,150 acres on St. Mary’s river, in
Camden county, Ga. Grant and deeds
on record 100 years back. Good title,
by descent to present owner.
430 acres on west bank of Savannah
river, in Screven county, Ga. Deeds
on record since 1827. Good title, by
descent to present owner.
I desire to sell these lands as soon
as possible, and they must go at low
prices, very low for cash, or on easy
terms and long time with 5 per cent
interest, as purchasers may desire and
prefer. Persons desirous of investing
money for future profits by enhance
ments should examine these offers at
once. I have other lands, which I
will sell on good terms and low prices.
In writing for information about any
of these lands, refer to them by ths
number, district, section and county,
and enclose two stamps, 4 cents, for
reply. Robert L. Bodgbrs,
ts Attornev at Law. Atlanta. Ga.