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The Opelousas courier., 1882-02-04
Sparkling Sunday Might.

Sitting in the corner,
On a Sunday eve,
With a taper finger
Resting on your sleeve;
Starlight eyes are casting
On your face their light
Bless me this is pleasant,
Sparkling Sunday night
How your heart is humping
Gainst your Sunday vest,
How wickedly It's working
On this day of rest ;
Hours seem but minutes,
AS they take their fight
Bless me! amt it pleasant,
Sparkling Sunday night2
spa and Ma are sleeping
On their peaceful bed.
q Dreaming Wharf.-The preacher
At the meeting said ;
"Love We one another!"
Ministers recite:
Bless me! don't we do it,
Sparkling Sunday night9
One arm with gentle pressure
Lingers round her waist,
You squeeze her dimpled hand,
Her pouting lips you taste;
She freely slaps your face,
But more in love than spite
Oh, thunder ain it pleasant,
Sparkling Sunday night
The Opelousas courier., 1882-02-04
The New Birth of the South.

For a century the South has been
cut off from the outside world almost
az completely as if a Chinese wall sur
rounded it. Happily all is changed
now. Oar people are beginning to APP
preclate the full value of manufacturers
They are welcoming capital and enter
prise from other States and lending
their own energies to the inauguration
OF q new era. Less of politics a wild
or departure from the paths trod by
the generations that have gone before !;
more OF independence among the
young men, more brain and hard work.
and less reliance on the pedieree n
More vigorous employment Of energy
aud capacity in mechanical. pursuits,
n less crowding the professions
these are the agencies that most come
into active life to lift the South to the
plane Of prosperity. and these are the
agencies that are working like leaven
throughout the whole section.
The Opelousas courier., 1882-02-04

The way the sugar r~efners of San
Francisco are able to add two cents q
pound to the price Of sugar is said to
be a. follows They pay the railroad
people 100000 q year as freight On
5000, 900 pounds of sugar from San
Francisco 70 New York, and in consid-
Grafton of this agreement the railroads
maintain the permanent rate from New
York to San Francisco at two cents
This rate is said to protect the Califor.
MIA refner against Eastern competition.
OF course they do not send that 5000
900 pounds East they merely pay the
money, and get it back again BY hold
ing the California consumers Id their
power. They import their raw eugarl
fTee--from Hawaii. It Is no wonder
a congressman are advocating
The repeal of the Hawaiian reciprocity
The Opelousas courier., 1882-02-04
Kldaey Esisease Cnrea.

$50 CERIsTIANsBURG, VA. 1881.
4 0onad get no relief either from msaTessa Al
sne prominent physicians Of our c-nssafrv /
Sfleq EeWn Iron Bitters, which snras ia
completely ehild of mine ~rec6f6rine sfpasS
ssaslsk 1eyeE had no appetite, and did moi
S $500 u Is aoaa eo eat ct aA 4 gave him Iron
JsKrLE MoHTAaUE.
The Opelousas courier., 1882-02-04

It IL q fact that while producing
about four ffths Of the raw cotton Of
the world, the United States manufac-
tures Less than one-sixth Of id There
are about 100000 spindles in the
United States, against 40, 600, 900 in
Great Britain. The United States ex,
ports 10 q year SO. 98I 900 worth Of cot.
ton gooda, and imports three times az
much Britain exports 1910, DOC, 900
The Opelousas courier., 1882-02-04
Good for the Women.

Many ladies suffer from AN extreme nervous,
semi-hysterical condition. They have disturb
ing dreams, exciting muscular startings, pecu-
liar painful symptoms of nightmare. They lie
awake and suffer the brain to be Eighty when
thaS weary organ ought. according to nature.
to be asleep. Browns Iron Buffers give sweet
repose, and quickly remove all such nervous
disorders.-HoM PHYSICIAN.
The Opelousas courier., 1882-02-04

We call the attention of onr readers
to the advertisement Of j. Monroe Tay.
ior. This house has been established
nearly 40 years, and their goods are
celebrated for purity and strength. We
would recommend q trial Of their Gold
Medal brands to all who desire superior
cookery.
The Opelousas courier., 1882-02-04

The st. Louis Globe Democrat thinks
the stalwarts are the Republican party
now. f that be the ease, and this Is
generally recognized as d fact, there
will be q startling number Of desertions
from the ranks of that party before
long.-Mobile Register.
The Opelousas courier., 1882-02-04

Alexander II. Stephens has Just cele-
brated his SEVENTEEN birthday. Mr..
Arthur sent him d basket of flowers on
the occasion.
The Opelousas courier., 1882-02-04

bosfa Senators and six of the eleven
members of Congress from Massachn-
men. sass
The Opelousas courier., 1882-02-04

Judging from the rapid progress
made on the bridge in the past few
days, it will doubtless be finished be
fore the 18th of next month.-Morgaa
City ReUieU, Jan. 90.
The Opelousas courier., 1882-02-04

The most truthful aud unobstrusive
man N the community will, in one
week after he becomes the owner of a
setter dog, develop into a talented,
and ostentatious liar.-Teeas
siittings.
The Opelousas courier., 1882-02-04

The Grand Ball to be given on the
18th of February in the spacious hal
of the Louisiana Western r. r Hotel
at Vermili"nville. to raise funds for the
building of q Jewish Synagogue for
that place, promises to be a grand af-
The Opelousas courier., 1882-02-04
The MATHUSHEK
UPRIGHT PIANOS,

In this particular, are made with o thick iron
plate drilled to receive wooden bushings nj
which the tuning pins are placed; thus the
iron pins are held directly in the tuning plate
work.
through a strong brass agrane screw wed into
the iron plate, thence across the sounding
board bridge, aud is fastened to- pin at the
other end Of the iron plate, thus producing the
NOS SOLID and STRONGEST PIANO
EVER MADE.
In tone touch, work manship and general
finish, the Mathushek Upright cannot be. ex.
ceiled, and is now rapidly coming into use,
and it's popularity constantly increases. We
will be very much obliged if you will call and
examine these pianos. We also take old pianos
in exchange at fair value.
The Opelousas courier., 1882-02-04
THE
Mathushek Upright.
The only Upright Piano which will remain
permanently in tune.

During the past FIVE years makers of Piano
fortes have been making great efforts to pro-
dnce an Upright which will stand our severe
climate. They have used several devices, aud
nave even tried (hut have given it up) double
strong with immense bookings of wood, and
still most of the Upright Pianos have not
proved satisfactory for this reason: That the
Tuning Pins in all of them are placed into a
wooden plank which is wedged up to the iron
piate, and which, at every change of weather,
Will shrink or swell. thus causing the piano to
get out of order and ont of tune.
The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1882-04-19
ENTERTAINING HER BIG SISTER
BEAU.
BY BRET HARTE.

"My sister'u be down in a minute, and says
you're to wait, IL you please;
And says might stay till she came. II I'd promise
Nor speak till you spoke to me first. But that's
nonsense, for how would you know
What she told me to say, If didn't? Don't you
really and truly think sol
"And then you'd feel strange here alonel And
you wouldn't know just where 70 sit;
For that chair isn't strong OF Its legs, and we
never use il bit.
We keep II TO match with the sofa. But Jack says
To flop yourself right down upon it and knock
out the very last screw
o, you're afraid they would think it was
mean!
Well, then, there's the slbum-thas's pretty, if
For sister says sometimes daub 1T; but she only
says that when she's cross.
There's her picture. You know IT. It's like her
but she amt as good looking, OF course!
This isme It's the best of 'em all. Now, tell
me, you'd never have thought
That once was little as that? It's the only one
that could be bought
For that was the message to pa from the photo
That be wouldn't print off any more TIL he first
got hism money for that
'What? Maybe you're tired of waiting. Why,
often she's longer tnan this.
There's all her back hair 10 do up and all OF her
'front.' CurlS 20 ill.,
But it's nice TO be sitting here talking like
people, just you and me.
Do you think you'll be coming here often! On,
do but don't come like Tom Lee.
Tom Lee? Her last beau. Why. my goodnesEl
{ He used TO be here day and night,
Till the folks thought he'd be her husband; and
Jack says that gave him a fright
You won't run away, then, as he did? for you're
not rich man, they say;
Pa says you are poor as a church mouse. Now
are your Aud how poor are they?
= Amt you glad that you met me7 Well am,
for know now your hair isn't red;
But what there is left of it's mOusy, and not what
= that naughty Jack said.
But there must go. Sisters coming. But / wish
could wait just TO see
IL she ran up to you and kissed you in the way
thatShe used to kiss Lee"
The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1882-04-19
Bismarck.
THarper's YounO Peonlel

THarpeys Young Peoplel
The first day of April-"All- Fools Day.
is the birthday of one who has done more
to change the map of Europe than any man
now living.
Otto Won Bismarck was born in 1915. the
year OF the battle of Waterloo. When
quite little fellow he was sent away TO
boarding-school. The boys were badly fed
and strictly ruled, and the lad who. many
years afterward, was called "the man of
blood and iron" was "home boy" and did
not like school. At the university, how
eyer, he seems to have overcome his gentle
ness in some degree, for he was always in
mischief, and very popular
1t is net until he is thirty-three years old
that we find him in public life as a member
of the Prussian Diet, or Parliament. His
sympathies were with the King as against
the people, because he thought that Ger
many could only exist as a eingdom. Of
course his views on this subject brought him
plenty of enemies He complains IN letter
to his wife that be is ''famous. but not pop
ular." On two occasions he has been shot
at and wounded, ard the first of these
would-be asssssins he seized with his own
hands, gave him into charge of the police
and then returned home to a dinner party
in his own house.
Though Bismarck is statesman by pro-
fessiOn. and not soldier, he has seen much
of war. The snort but decisive campaign
between Prussia and Austria in 1866 was
Bismarcks doing, and his forethought has
tened on the great war between France and
Germany in 1870, for he knew that the
Germans would win.
In 1871, Count Won Bismarck was sp-
pointed Chancellor of the German Empire.
and created a Prince. No man in Europe
wields greater power than he, and yet in
his tastes he is extremely simple, being fond
of coun try life and sports.
The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1882-04-19
Gle PATRA
OR THE
QUEEN OF SHEBA'S BEAUTY
Was But Skin Deep.
IAndrew's American Queen I
Was But Skin Deep.

lAuuItN American queen
The renowned Queen OF Sheba, with all her
royal pomp, magnificent apparel, and brilliant
retinue, would never have appeared within the
presence of the sra1dest of the monarchs of the
past had she not also possessed that which is the
crowning glory of the femsla person-a skin-un-
challenged for its Oriental softness its almost
transcendental purity. Cleopatra, holding En-
perors at bay. and ruling Empires by her word,
had quickly lost her charm and power by one
attack of blotches or of pimples, of horrid tan
and freckles
WOMAN RULES THE WORLD
BY her beauty, not less than by her purity of
character. loneliness of disposition and unselfish
devotion. Indeed, in the estimation of perhaps
too many men beauty in body takes precedence
over every other consideration. Beauty thus
forms an important part of woman's working
capital" without which too many tif not bank
rupts in what relates TO influence within the
circle where they move), are powerless for great
good. Hence we see not only the propriety. but
the duty, of every lady preserving with jealous
care that which to her Is essential to success and
influence, and usefulness in life. And since
beauty Is but skin Deep" the utmost care and
vigilance are required 10 guard IL against the
many Ills that flesh is heir to. Among the grea
and annoying enemies of beauty
OF EITHER SEX,
As well as of comfort Happiness and health, are
those pestiferous and horrid skin dseases-tetters
humoTs, eczema salt rheuml. rough and scaly
eruptiOns, ulcers pmples, and all diseases of the
hair and scalp. For the cure of all these, Dr. c.
W. Benson, OF Baltimore, after. years Of patient
study and investigation devoted diseases of the
skin, at last brought forth his celebrated SKIN
CURE, which has already, by its marvellous cures
established itself as the great remedy for all dis
eases OF the skin, whatever may be their names
or character. Its success has been immense and
unparalleled. All druggists have it. 1t is ele-
gsntly put up, two bottles in one package In
ternal and external treatment. Price, 81.
The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1882-04-19
Time To BE Up.

By WILLIAM ". BURR.
Gold-Locks bends over the old flower bed;
"'Must time for a crocus, seems TO me,
The snow is all gone, and heard papa say
The leaves would soon come on the maple tree.
Flowers ought to come first, l say,
For want crocus this very day"
Gold Locks turns from the old flower bed:
Nothing but dirt and the old dead leaves
These are spring days, but the crocus thinks.
suppose, they are only just make-believes.
Seems TO me the crOcus ought TO know
It's time to come up when the sun shines so.
Gold Locks, Gold-Locks / know a bed
Where somebody else sleeps late sometimes,
When the earth is flooded with warm sunshine,
And the hour for work from the old clock
chimes
Seems to me little girls ought to know
It's time to get up when the sun shines so.
-Gnlden Dayg
The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1882-04-19
OUR YOUNG FOLKS.
"Good-by, Winter

''Good-by, Winter"
BY II. d. BRINE.
Good-by, old Winter. good by once more;
At twelve tonight viii your reign be Ger.
We're tired of you and your sleet and snow,
We're tired of hearing your chill winds blow;
We long fer breezes that fill the air
With the scent of the Spring-time flowers fair;
We long,for meadows where daisies whitei
Lift up their heads in the warm sunlight,
And where the grasses are nOdding all day,
With the Spring time breezes forever al play.
Good-by, old Winter. We are sorry for you.
But we're glad your season Is nearly through.
You brought us plenty OF fun, we know,
For sleighing and snOw-balling come with snow
But o for breath of the Spring-time sweet,
When the earth and the sky in beauty meetl
And o for the trees where the birds all day
Are singing the golden hours awayl
GOOd-by. old Winter; the Spring is near,
And you may sleep for another year.
-Harpers Young People
The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1882-04-19

Many years ago, when new sects in New
England began to break the good old Con-
gregational barrier, and make incursiens
into the sheep-folds of the regular clergy,
reverend divine, man of good sense and
good humor, encountered an irregular prac-
toner at the house of one of his flock.
they bad pretty hot discussion on their
points Of difference, and at length the inter-
loper wound up by saying, "Well, doctor,
you will st least allow that it was COM
manded topresch heGospel to every critter?"
"True," replied the doctor-'true enough.
But / never heard 1t was commanded to
every 'crltter' to preach the Gospel"
The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1882-04-19
Grit

President Eliot, of Harvard, recently
gave an instance of what firm will and
mother-wit can do in enabling poor young
man to surmount difficulties in the way of
getting thorough education: 1.-TWO years
and half ago there appeared in Cam.
bridge, just before the examination for ad-
mission, a young man of rough exterior who
came from small village in New York,
where his father earned scanty living as q
stone-mason. He came to see me before
the examination, and stated, among other
things, that he never had any teacher in
Greek, Latin or German; that he had be-
gun to learn these three languages only
sixteen months before; that out of these six
teen months he had worked ten at his trade
as stone-mason, and that his entire
capital was ten dollars. To my astonish-
ment he passed an excellent examination,
succeeded in, every subject except Greek
composition, which he had never tried to
learn. He was taken care of at Cambridge,
as many an other has been, and in the first
year won scholarship"
The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1882-04-19

No lady who has passed through the di
vorce Court can, at the present time appear
at Court, says the London Truth, however
blamcless her conduct may have been. Re-
Gently the Queen has been disposed to relax
the stringency of this regulation in special
cases, where no fault of any kind has been
attributed to the lady. The matter, how
ever, was submitted to the Lord Chancellor
and other officials, and their opinion was
not in favor of this proposal.
The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1882-04-19
EVERYONE PRAISES.

Sick headache, nervous headache. neuralgia.
nervousness, paralysis. dyspepsia, sleeplessness
and brain diseases. positively cured by DIR. C. w.
BensOn's Celery and Chamomile PIllt. They con-
tain no opium quinine, or other harmful drug.
Sold by all druggists Price. 30 cents per box; 81
for two; 81 so for six-pOstage free. DIR. C. w.
York, is Wholesale Agent for DR.. c. w. Benson's
remedies
The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1882-04-19
Ways to Make Money.

''The Wise Blackbird" in Wide Awake
gives the following hints to boys and girls:
"You want the promise kept OF telling boys
and girls how to make an honest penny.
Very we'll. 1 shall tell you of the bas ket
business, which many boys of good family
around Boston have taken up A basket is
stocked with needles, thread, tapes and
findings for the work. table in general, and
the boys 60 from deer to door selling them
Saturdays out of school. don't think it is
fair for boys who have fathers able to sup
port them and give them ali they need, to
go into any such business, 70 the injury of
regular dealers and merchants who have
families to care for and who give employ
ment to other persons; but there is a chance
to supply little nice things not kept at the
shops, which people are glad to get, and
which will not interfere with any other
business. 1t is great thing to feel that
nobody has a smaller slice of the cake be-
cause you have had yours. Nice sewing silk,
nice Providence yarn, curtain cord and tss-
sells, good cheap toilet soap, extra-good pins
and needles, milllner's needles, fine darners.
very coarse tape-needles, carpet thread Of
the best quality, heel and knee protectors
for children, to save the wear of trousers
and stockings, are things not found at shops
in general, and which meet ready sale at
good profits.
To children in the country the "Black-
bird" suggests: mice lengths of wild grape
vine and roots trimmed for rustic work. or
bundles of small straight cedar branches
for mailing on the outside of plant-stands
are salsble. And hope you know how to
knit, all of you, boys and girls, beginning
with wristlets in wool or cotton, to finish eff
the wrists and ankles of flannel under gar
ments, and going on to socks and mittens,
spreads and blankets Laura B. asks
how can girl of ten who goes to school
earn money! II she has good parents to
supply her with what little girl needs,
and studies out of school, as most children
do nowadays, and helps her mother, as all
girls ought, she will not have much time to
earn or think of money. She should not
attempt any work which will keep her sit
ting in the house, for she will need all the
fresh air and exercise she can get out of
school. Raising plants and fowls is the
best pursuit for you, beginning with some
carnations and geranium slips in the win
dow, and half a dozen hens in the back
yard. But remember, to succeed in any.
thing, you must give it steady care, feed
and water the chickens when you had rather
be reading new story, or watering or tend
ing the plants when you want to play with
other girls. You will need to study and
read about plants and fowls to learn how
to raise them, and the best part of the bust
ness will not be the trifle of money you will
earn, but the experience and knowledge Of
things you will gain"
The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1882-04-19
AnAWar This.

Did you ever know any person TO be i'll
without inaction of the stomach, liver or
kidneys, or did you ever know one who was
we'll when either was INSTRUCTED or inactive?
and did you ever know or hear of any case
of the kind that Hop Btters would not
cure? Ask your neighbor this same ques-
tion.-Times.
The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1882-04-19

Moving springs of action are deeply inter
fused with principles subject to certain laws.
The nervous man finds his life blasted, but
he can be restored to vigorous health by DR..
Bsnsons Celery and Chamomile Pills. They
are simple, harmless and.efficacious.
The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1882-04-19

Aliens Brain Food positively cures nerv-
BUSINESS, nervous debility and all weakness
of generative organs; 81; six for SIS. All
druggists. Send for circular to Aliens Phar-
macy, 315 First avenue, New York. Sold in
Indianapolis by Browning & Sloan.
The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1882-04-19

boo canes ought not to be sold to fathers
any more than poison.
i was going to tell why should like TO
be an animal; but as it is getting late, 1
must close.
The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1882-04-19

"Then stay at home, my heart, and ress.
he bird IL safest In Its nest;
Der al thet 1utter their wings and ny
a hawk Il lowering in the sky"
-Longfsllov.
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THE HOME.

is - not dvubted that men have home IN that
ssus whore each has established his hearth and
- sum OF his possessions aId fortunes; whence he
oil 10 depart, II nothing calls him away; whence II
q nas departed he seems to be vandorer and III he
ssoras he ceases 20 vander.-Dshnition from OWL
The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1882-04-19

81 don't know" says Brother Gardner of
the Limekiln Club, meditatively, 'jist how
wicked Sodom was, nor what deviltry dey
was up to in Gomorrah, but if either town
had mo- vanity, wickedness, frivolity an
deceipt dan Detroit, Chicago, Buffalo, or
any oder city in this kentry, rents must
have been awful high"
The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1882-04-19

cradle, often leading 10 insanity and death. II
strengthens the Nerves. Brain, (memory) Blood,
Muscles, Digestion and Recuperative Organs III
restores 10 ell the organic functions their former
ylgor and vitality, making life cheerful and en-
ioyable. Price. So bottle, or four times the
quantity for $40. Sent by express, secure from
observation, to any address on receipt of price
No G. o. D. sent, except receipt of al as guar
antee. Letters requesting answers must incIose
stamp. ENGLISH MEDICAL INSTITUTE.
us Olive ST.. st. IOuis No
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d IN (hDn per day at home Sample worth s5fre-.
% lU 0Lu Address stinson & Co., Portland, Me,
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THE GREAT ENGLISH REMEI

Never fails 20 cure Nen
Gus Debility, Vital Ell
Emissions
seminal Weakness, LOST
MANHOOD, and all the
evil effects of youthfr
follies and excuses.
stops permanently q
weakening, involunta1
losses and drains upo
the system. the inevitabf
result of these evil pIss
tees. (which are so de
structive to mind ane
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4 OCTS. for the Star Spangled Banner for me
III Nothing like 1t; Goth yr. SPACES, illus. Spel
mems FREE. Address Banner. Hinsdale. NJ
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Ncc a week IN your own town. Terms and $50
0O0 fit free. Address II. Hallett Co., Portla
Maine.