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The Opelousas courier., 1884-02-16
Nice Poa, GOa.aa.

AS the cold winter evenings come
on, young people q try the following
experiments in ~crystalizing pop corn,
nuts, etc.: Put into an iron kettle one
table spoonful Of butter, three table
spoonsfu1 Of water, and one cup Of
white sugar; boil until ready to candy,
then throw in three quarts nicely
popped corn; stir vigorously until the
sugar is evenly distributed over the
corn; take the kettle from the fire and
stir until il cools 4 little, and Id this
way you may have each kernel sepa.
rate and III coated with the sugar.
OF course It must hsveyonr undivided
attention from the first To prevent
searching. Almonds English walnuss,
d Ii fact any nuts ara delicious pre-
pared In this way.
The Opelousas courier., 1884-02-16
Ees0 Forests on the Esraf,.ies.


An article in the american Journal
Of Forestry, from the pen of the late
Leonard B. Hodges. OF st. Paul, Min
nesota, states that nothing had been
moro thoroughly disproyed than the
assertion that timber trees would not
grow on the Western prairies. Within
the past ten years, hundreds of groves,
containing millions of healthy, yigor-
Gus young forest trees, have been
planted and are now growing far out
in the t~reeless region; and groves OF
young forest trees are successfully
grown on the line of the Northern Pa
ciic railroad, away out and beyond
the Tooth meridian. Where weeds and
grass will grow, there forest trees can
be raised. But thorough preparation
Of the soil and thorough cultivation
r of the first Importance. These
statements Of Mr.. Hodges are strongly
endorsed in q subsequent number of
the journal, by G. Z. Myers, of ELS
worth, Kansas, who says that .sthor-
ough cultivation here, away out West
Of the plains. will keep forest trees
growing thriftily through weeks of hot
winds when nothingelse will He has
raised honey locust, yellow locust, a
talpa, box elder, soft maple, Kentucky
coffee trees and green and white ash,
for four years, from the seed, on high,
sandy uplands, and on bottom lands,
without their losing a leaf. exposed to
all the Kansas winds in late summer
and early fall months, when trees in
the same locality not cultivated, were
nearly all burned up. He asserts that
Il this advice we're needed BY every
tree planter, il would Be worth millions
Of dollars to the people Of Kansas ii
twenty years.
The Opelousas courier., 1884-02-16
Good Mother Woodcock.

My friend the Woodcock has an ex-
cellent wife and an excellent mother
that is, a N excellent mother to his
children. He may have had an excel
lent mother himself; probably he did,
for of all birds the woodcock mother is
the kindest and most affeetionate to
her little ones. But what I wish to
state, though I'll confess that, like
Brother Boreas, I'm a little long-wind-
ed this time. is that the offspring of
my friend Woodcock actually are
carried about by their mother when
they are too young to escape from dan.
ger unaided. She does not carry them
by her bill (no, ven the catbird would
not attempt that), but she closes her
little feet upon them, and so holds
them as safely as your mother holds
the baby in her careful arms.
In numbers of cases hunters have
9 9 the great-eyed birds rise and fly
away heavily and low, seemingly hold
ing something between their feet. Mr..
G. r. Holder, one of the st. Nicholas
writers, tells me that a Western
sportsman recently had curiosity
enough to follow such a bird, and a
good chase she led him, through a hay
field, over brambles, bushes and stones.
but he finally gained upon her, and
saw that in her feet she carried a tiny.
downy Woodcock, that seemed not the
least alarmed by such a strange mode
of travelling. The old bird carried it
several hundred yards before alighting
with it, and then quickly disappeared
in the tall, thick grass.
My little Mrs. Woodcock is the
proudest mother / ever knew. She
thinks her children are perfection. 70
me they Q to have rather large
mouths, but she scouts the idea Of that
being anything against their beauty.
70 her way of thinking a large mouth
gives an openness Of expression to the
young that is simply charming. Alb,
Woodcock is a happy fellowi-st.
Nicholas,
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liars, and had be not solemnly sworn

liars, and had be not solemnly sworn
to keep silence?
Harvey never forgot the terri
bic hour that followed. He heard
the family retire, and waited fearfully
for any sound outside. At last he
knelt and prayed earnestly that God
should show him some way out of his
trouble. Then he went to the window
and looked out at the great barn.
Suddenly a thought flashed to his
mind. He stole softly down stairs,
seized the tin horn which Mrs, Adams
used to call her husband to dinner,
and letting himself out ran swiftly
across the moonlit space between the
house and the barn.
He stopped a moment to think, and
then climbed over the mows and hid
himself in a nook under the rafters.
One hour passed! Two! Harvey's
courage seemed to ooze out at his fin
ger tips. If they came they would
kill him, and then. Ali What
was that? A stealthy tread outside,
and the great door creaked Softly as
they were showed apart, then a Whis-
| per which seemed to freeze Harvey's
blood:
"Here, pour on plenty of lie. and
Tooti foot! t~o-o-ot!
"It's that brati" exclaimed n of
the men with a furious oath.
"Help me to find him quick, Or we
shall have the neighbors on u.s."
Tootl foot! toot! went the old horn.
Bowl wowl WOW! came from the dog
in the kennel, and the chickens on
their roosts lea by, set up a tremen-
dous cackle.
loot! tootl tootl The two rufians
seeing that their game was up, rushed
for the door, but were met by Mr..
Adams and a crowd of n~eighbors, who
half-dressed had rushed out to discov-
er the cause of the connection.
Well, kitty" and "Jess' were
saved, the men sent to prison, and
to-day Harvey writes his name Harvey
Adams, with a flourish, and calls the
farmer and his wife father and moth
er. He goes to school, and his teacher
assures his proud parents that he is a
fine scholar, and viii be sure to make
his mark nj of these days.
The Opelousas courier., 1884-02-16
PEARLS OF THOUGHT.

If you wish to reach the highest,
begin at tho lowest.
Nothing helps the memory so much
as order and classes.
Choose such pleasures as %recreate
much and cost little.
1t is living twice to be able to enjoy
the past portion of life.
Be a lamp in the chamber if you
cannot be a star in the sky.
There are natures which blossom
and ripen amidst trials, which would
only wither and decay in an atmos-
phere of ease ard comfort.
The blessing of a house is goodness.
The honor of a house is hospitality.
The ornament of ahouseis cleanliness.
The happiness of a house is content
ment.
A man or woman may be highly If
ritable, and yet be sweet, tender. gen.
tie, loving, sociable, genial, kind, char
liable, thoughtful for others, unseIfsh,
generous.
The law of harvest is to reap more
than you sow. Sow an act, and you
reap a habit; sow a habit and you reap
a character; sow a character, and you
reap a destiny.
Health is the bed-plate on which the
whole mental machinery may rest and
work. If this be displaced o cracked,
all the mechanism that stands on it
will be Jared and disturbed, and made
ineffective.
A politician thinks of the next cleo
ton; a statesman of the next genera
ton; a politician looks for the success
of his party; a statesman for that of
his country. The statesman wishes to-
steer while the politician is satisfied to
drift.
The Opelousas courier., 1884-02-16

Their Conversations interrupted.
She-You do not seem so active as
usual, MI. Montrasse1. Not been i'll,
I hope?
He-aNo, not i'll, I assure you.
Nothing, but-aw the tennis elbow,
you know. Makes a fellow feel very
stiff and cramped. you know"
How strangei'
aNot at al. Not at all. Common
complaint. Most Of the young fellows
in my set have i. We play SO much,
y know !
you seemed all right when | saw
yon day before yesterday. But | sup
pose you played . good deal yesterday
oh, yesl great deal, a great deal;
why we played nearly all day
Infant Terrible from under the
sofa)-aoh, you big story tellerl You
worked all day yesterday carrying
ashes out of your clearinghouse
cellar to the carts, and the boarding
house keeper told the neighbors you
had to work out your back board bill
that way Of lose your trunk. I heard
her.-PhiIGdeEphiG Call
The Opelousas courier., 1884-02-16
MoMEyTOUs MATTERS.

A German sayant named Grusel
bach, Professor of Chemical Science in
the University Of Upsala, has been de-
voting a considerable time to perfect
an apparatus to freeze living people.
and keep them in a torpid condition
for a year or two. In any case, he
announces that he will undertake by
his process to freeze up any lady or
gentleman willing to submit to the ex-
pertinent, and Abnumb them, deprive
them to all appearances of vitality,
pledging his word to bring them round
again at the expiration of a couple of
years, with no prejudicial effects to
mind or body. AS no adventurous
person has come forward to supply
the savant with the desired opportuni-
ty, he has submitted his invention to
the Swedish government, with a re.
quest that a criminal condemned to
death shall be provided to enable
him to demonstrate the efficacy of his
discovery.
The Opelousas courier., 1884-02-16
"A GOeaaa1a.OaaaiaR.

Mrs. McVapid, of Austin, is consid-
cred very obtuse by those intimately
acquainted with her. One morning
She called to her little boy, who was
playing in the front yard:
Tommy, gosdown to the grocery
store and bring me d pound of starch. Z !,
= haven't got time to go down to
the grocery and get a pound Of starch.
It's most school time now"
rs that sop said Mrs. McVapid.
with 9 troubled look; then, brighten
ing up she added: .Iyen. then, run
down and get only half 8 pound"
Tommy complied with the compro-
mise, was late to school, and the teach
er took the starch out Of him with 3
shingle-Svt5ngs.
The Opelousas courier., 1884-02-16
GETTING FASHIONABLE.
What Ladies' Now Turn Their Lily white
Hands to for Pay.

What Ladies' Now Turn Their Lily "hite
Hands to for Pay.
"There are hundreds of ladies in the
city of Albany, far removed from ne
cessity, who turn their skSA, ingenuity
and energy TO account in these esthetlc
times, of whose handiwork little IS
known except to themselves, but the
profit on which is a very handsome
penny" said a gentleman, whose rela-
tions with an enterprise in this city
makes a large amount of information
available to him. 81 have means OF
informing myself regarding the extent
of this thing, and | ave been surprised
to find it SO general a practice. len
years ago a lady who worked with her
hands would be frowned down in socl-
ETY.. Now, many ladies cultivate some
of the fine arts for no other purpose in
the world than to replenish their
purses by the employment of leisure
time. Painting and embroidery are
the most popular forms of art work.
chiefly, perhaps, because anything in
these lines, particularly that created
by the needle, finds ready sale at good
round prices. The decoration of menu
cards and china is also a remuneratiye
occupation, yielding excellent pay for
the work. The art rooms of Boston,
New York, Philadelphia and u W
city accept these products on commits
sion. / understand that a young lady
living in Albany yields M of the
daintiest brushes in applying colors to
menu cards. She disposes of all her
work in New York by means of the
decorative art rooms. Several ladies
not only do embroidery for sale, but
two of the deftest give lessons in the
art, and get a nice return for teaching
others what they know. 1t sounds
odd, but some of the incest people in
Albany sell their handiwork. They do
it occasionally as a qualification of
their pride. to convince themselves
that if put to it they could earn their
own living. These are what are call
ed in polite circles aristocratic arts"
"Is not the prevalence of the custom
fatal to it's probable continuance"
ut is very apt to be, that is true,
but within a year a new art has been
developed calculated to relieve the
pressure on the embroidery and paint
ing business. High art has been intro
duced into the preservation of fruits
and the baking of cakes and sweet
meats. This, too, has become a popu-
lar employment with people who are
able to acquire the skill necessary. At
the various art rooms, now, you will
find canned fruit and fancy bakestufs
on exhibition, made by ladies for the
most part. who do it to employ their
leisure time. These goods command
the highest prices, being bought at
rates which dealers in the stores would
not dare to ask. The i'll success of SO
many people in making their preserves
makes this business supply something
of a Want.--Atbany Journal
-
The Opelousas courier., 1884-02-16
Ghsld-Misery iss London

The child misery that one sees is the
most h~eartrending and appalling ele-
ment in these discoveries and of this
nobethe least is the misery inherited
from the vice of drunken and dissolute
parents, and manifest in the stunted,
misshappen, and often loathsome OBJ
jects that we constantly meet in these
localities. Here is one of three years
old picking up some dirty pieces of
bread and eating them. We go in at
the doorway where it is standing, and
find a little girl twelve years old.
Where is your mother 7" I'm the
madhouse.' .How long has she been
thereg" Fifteen months" .Who
looks after you?" The child, who is
sitting at an old table making match
boxes, replies, 81 look after my little
brothers and sisters as well as / can"
where is your father?" HE has
been out of work three weeks, but he
has gone to a job of two days this
morning" Another house visited con-
tanned nine motherless children. The
mothers death was caused by witness
ing one of her children being run oves
The eldest was only fourteen years old.
All lived in one small room, and there
was one bed for five. Here is a poor
woman deserted by her husband. and
left with three little children. One
met with.an accident q few days ago
and broke his arm. He is lying on a
shake-doWn in one corner of the room,
with an old sack round him. And
here, in a cellar kitchen, are nine little
ones without food and scarcely any
clothing.
The Opelousas courier., 1884-02-16
Answered Prayers.

lprayed for riches and achieved success.
All that ] touched turned into gold. Alas!
MY cares we're greater and my peace was less
When that wish cum to pass.
prayed for glory, and l heard my name
Sung by sweet children and by hoary men.
But ah, the hurts, the hurts that come with
fame.
was not happy then.
Ifrayed for love, and had my souls desire;
Through quivering heart and body and
through brain
There swept the flame OF Its devouring fire;
And there the scars remain.
Iprayed for a contented mind. At length
Great light upon my darkened spirit burst,
Great peace fell on me, also, and great strength.
Oil had that prayer been first.
Ella Wheeler.
The Opelousas courier., 1884-02-16

The United States public service
includes a few veteran officials. In
the Post Office Department, for
example, the chief clerk in the office
of the First Assistant Postmaster
general is the venerable James Fl.
Mari. Congress has provided that so
long IS he holds this office he shall
receive s. $500 a year, $500 more than
the regular compensation. Another
clerk in the same Department has been
in the postal service more than half a
century. In the Interior Department
a clerk recently died who had been
employed in one Of the bureaus nearly
sixty years. In the War Department
is a grandniece of Kosciusko, who has
held her place for years. In the
Interior Department is employed a
great granddaughter of Thomas Jeffer-
son, whose salary supports her aged
and invalid mother, who is the last
surviving grandchild of the dis
tinguished Virginia patriot.
The Opelousas courier., 1884-02-16

Speaking of some conspicuous
figures in the late war, the Boston
Advertisers Washington correspondent
says: SHERMAN is "a, and looks
older but the family is hardy, and he
is likely to see 1900. Sheridan is only
81 he was a Major-General at 80.
Mcclellan, now a rotund man with
bending shoulders, has not changed
much of late. He is rich, and enter
tains well in his New York city home.
Rosecrans and his wife live, almost
unnoticed, on Capitol Hill while fe is
here as a member of Congress from
California. His complexion $ like a
youths and his hair as white as snow
Hawley and Logan are the other two
most distinguished Generals in Con-
gress. Both are So years old, but
neither has gay hair. Rosecrans has
been reinforced this winter by an old
companion insthe Western armies,
Gen. slocum Of Brooklyn. Gen.
Sickles is practising law in New York,
and Stoneman is Governor of Califor-
mia. Fremont Is no longerrich. He
and his wife, Jessie Benton Fremont
are forgotten in crowded New York
Don Carlos Buell. runs an iron furnace
in Kentucky; Banks is asUnited States
Marshal. Terry. the youngest of the
Brigadiers who won fame in the war,
viii succeed Sheridan in the command
Of the army"
The Opelousas courier., 1884-02-16

The total force Of police and con
lstabulary in England and Wales ii, a
cording to the recently published .Ju-
dicial Statistics 1918. being alarger
number by 1141 than in l880.,8l.
The Opelousas courier., 1884-02-16

Life in the Arctic regions, as
described by one of Professor Norden-
skjold's companions in his late expedi-
tion, presents somewhat different
experiences from the usual picture of
existence in these ATTITUDES. Some of
the expedition stopped at Waigatz
Island, and DR.. Natkorst tells how
they walked about in their shirt sleeves
on the slopes, covered with plants and
shrubs. with butterflies and bees
swarming around. sometimes the
heat was so great that n would have
been satisfied with less in many a
summer at home. We richly enjoyed
a bath in the spring. The mosquitoes
were very annoying, SO that we had to
use both netting and gloves. Every
day brought us a rich harvest of
petrifactions of tropical plants, such
as figs. p%lantains, magnolias, ETC., and
while at work on the slopes we could
feast our eyes on the innumerable ice
bergs around US of every variety of
shape"
The Opelousas courier., 1884-02-16

Albuquerque (Albukerky), the
metropolis of New Mexico, is one of
the most phenomenal cities in the
United States, so far as rapidity of
growth is concerned. In April, 1880,
the first train of cars reached the
present town site, which was then a
body of farming land. The town was
laid out the following summer, and the
marvellous building boom began which
has resulted in a substantial town Of
fine business blocks and pleasant
residences, many of which would be a
credit to cities of 100000 inhabitants.
A large proportion of its business
houses are of brick. The old Mexican
Town of AlbuquerG1g IS a mile OR
more distant and at the time of the
establishment of the new town con-
tanned $500 inhabitants. 1t is esti-
mated that the two taken together
now number in the neighborhood of
10000 people. No town in the West,
with the exception of Leadville, has
ever experienced SO rapid a growth.
The Opelousas courier., 1884-02-16

G1GsS Ml6 uOy4 IT. lUUAS H1 W AFOpl
What is the matter, child?,
Nothing. sobbed Harvey, aud
bursting into tears he rushed away
from them All, and up TO his own
little room under the caves.
Pretty soon Mrs, Adams hustled up
with a cup Of nice tea and some nicely
buttered toast, and when she found
that he could not eat, she bathed his
aching head, tucked him into bed, and
even left a motherly kiss on his cheek,
The kiss made Harvey feel ten
times mores miserable than before.
How kind they were to himi How
could lie let them be wronged out of
SO much Of their hara-earned property?
Then the horsesl ali, that was the Bit
terest Of al. Kitty and jess. whom
hB had loved and petted, and who also
knew him. and would whinnY with
delight whenever lis entered the barn.
lie had taught them how to bow their
heads when be gave them an apple. Or
anything especially nice and now he
was going to let them suffer i horrible
death. Great beads Of sweat started
on his forehead, and be sprang from
his bed intending TO rush down stairs
and reveal che whole wicked plot. but
he stopped before ] picture q Christ
blessing little children, which good
Mrs. Adams hung II his room. The
moonlight fell broadly upon /. Had
| not Nh. Adams said that Christ hated
Staunton spectator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1849-1896, 1884-12-31
What an Honest Man Thinks Of Us.

We take great pleasure in copying from
the Burlington, N. j.. EUening Reporter,
the following paragraph which gives the
opinion of an honest Northern man, who
does not live by politics, concerning the
Southern people. Mr.. Farmer is the gen
tleman who lately purchased the magnif-
cent estate in Chesterfield county, known
a, s.Ellerslie.' Men like Mr.. Farmer will al
ways receive a cordial welcome in the
south. no matt where they come from.
We are in receipt of a. letter from Mr..
Charles Farmer, who is at present at Pc
ttrsburg, Va, and who, after giving us au
account of heavy real estate purchases re-
Gently made, comments as follows on a
large Democratic demonstration held in
Richmond in honor of their victory: ut
was grand affair ard every one was in
the best of humor. Nothing obnoxious, or
nothing to hurt the feelings Of any ii,,ii.llI HAL;
no quarrellng nor fgtAttifng; never saw peo-
pie eaJ55yy themselves more. tel! you hon
estly and candidly, the Southern people have
been misrepresented. You never found
better-hearted people anywhere. While
there may be some bad men the same as in
the North. and some fanatics the mass of
of the intelligent people are all right, and
don't you forget it; and as soon as the
Northern people underetand them they
will find ou- they hive been mistaken.
L don't want to live among a better set of
people. They welcome man who comes
here with goot, honest intentions, and
treat him as man; and if any Of my
friends come down here az, associate
among them, if they don't fora, the same
opinion of them, l will pay all expenses.
have eonversed with plenty of them, and
they honor, a man with having an honest
opinion, but they don't like men who try
to array the colored man against them. l
arm satisfied that there is no danger in Vjr-
ginia, of their not using the colored man well;
it is their Interest to do SO, as they have to
depend on him to do the labor ''-Peters-
burg Tnder-Appeal.