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RI Contagious Blood Diseases.

Ulcers, sores, pimples, itch, salt rheum,
etc., are evidences of contagious blood dis
ease. It is manifestly aduty to eradicate
blood poison from the system by a use Of B.
B.. B. botanic Blood Balm), thus enabling
the sore places to heal, and thereby remov-
ing all possibility of other members of the
family becoming likewise afflicted: Send to
Blood Balm Co., Atlanta, Ga, for book that
will convince.
J. q. Outlaw, Mt. Olive, N. c., writes: u
haE3 running sores on my shoulders and
arms. One bottle B. B. B. cured me en-
tirelv."
L. johnson, Belmont Station, Miss, writes
RIB. B. B. has worked on me like a charm.
MY head AND body was covered with sores,
and my hair came out, but B. B. B. healed
me quickly"
WI. Kinnin, Hutchens. Texas, writes:"B.
B. B. has cured my wife of a large ulcer on
her leg that doctors and all other medicine
could not cure"
NJ j. Rossman, a prominent merchant Of
Greensboro, Ga, writes: Il know OF
several cases of blood disease speedily
cured by B. B. B. Two bottles cured a lsdyy
Of ugly scrofulous skin sores."
W. G. Birchmore & Co, Maxey. Ga,
write: "B. B. B. in curing Mr.. Rober,
Ward of blood poison effected n Of most
wonderful cures that ever came to our
knowledge.h
The Opelousas courier., 1889-08-24
Celluiose Armor for Ships.

Cellulose arrnor for ships is m ofthe
most interesting inventions Of the day.
Il Is q fbrous substance produced in
France By q secret mechanical process
from cocoanut husk. When CONF
pressed its specific gravity is far less
than that of cork. IL Is the lightest
solid known, and therefore invaluable
fer Life belts and life mattresses, while
u large quantities its buoyancy will
make q ship unsuitable. It is used to
hll Compartments in ships side and
serves to prevent water entering the
ship through a hole made by . pro-
lectile or rock, because the instant the
water enters the cellulose is expanded
by It to an impenetrable thickness. It
does not decay or emit any odor. and
has been packed in ships compart-
nents without undergoing any change.
Y q mass of cellulose be penetrated BY
= projectile it will not be ignited BY
the friction. If the neck OF q bottle
full Of water be filed with cellulose it
will e~hectually cork the bottle. It Is
coming largely into use in the French
nayy.-London Court Journal
The Opelousas courier., 1889-08-24
THE COFFIN U
One OF the Oldest and Most AutOcratic oi
American C~ombInatiOnS.

One Of the Oldest and Most Autocratic OF
American Combinations.
The coffin trust is one of the oldest
CT the obnoxious combinations OF cap-
italists for the advancement of prices
In their wares. and is also one of the
strongest. In fact, every attempt DUR
ing the past few years to get into the
business without first knucl1ling down
to the trust has proven q failure. The
only undertaken in Chicago who has
succeeded in continuing in the bust
ness without paying tribute to tho
trust is one who does his own manu-
featuring and finishing. When tho
trust was first formed it consisted only
of a combinati on of firms manufacture
ing and dealing in the bent wood
only used in manufacturing collins.
Year after year the trust has
been gradually enlarged until
it now includes the hardware,
cloth, metallic and in fact every thing,
and the manufacturers refuse to sell
any unfinished collins. The combina-
ton is now so strong that any firm at
tempting to engage in the business
without first depositing a forfeit and
signing the iron-clad agreement of the
trust is at one %boycOtted, and manu-
facturers of the various articles used
in making and finishing a coffin are
prohibited from selling goods to tlo
outside firm on pain of being included
in the Boycott. From year to year, at
the annual meeting of the trust, the
price of the various articles used has
been increased until at the present
time a coffin, when completed, costs
fifty per cent. more than it did eight
years ago, and there seems to be no
remedy for the evil. At least a num-
Der of the undertakers in Chicago who
were talked with by q reporter claim
this to be a fact. One of them said:
"If 1 should buy a single article man
ufactured outside of the trust. and the
fact became known, the trust would in
the future refuse to sell me any goods.
Experiences of the past have proven
SO conclusiyely that the trust has
every thing so completely in its ,~n
| hands it wouldn't be safe for me to in-
cur it's ~displeasure by encouraging q
| new outside enterprise. Not long ago
a company was organized in Indiana
/ to 70 into the coffin manufacturing
business, and a member of the firm
came to Chicago to look we the field.
They agreed to furnish collins nearly
fifty per cent. cheaper than we are at
present paying for them, but failed to
| get sufficient encouragement to go on
with the enterprise, as every one APP
peared afraid to deal with them, and
the enterprise was abandoned. We
hear a good deal about the Whisky
Trust and other combinations, but
none of them are as strong and arbi-
trary as the Coffin ust.-Chicago
| Globe.
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The Opelousas courier., 1889-08-24
GARDEN ~GLEANlNGS.

KEEP an eye to the future shape OF the
tree, and timely remove small, needless
crossing or crooked limbs. This vii OBJ
yiate heavy pruning in after years.
TEXT CATERPILLARs spread their webs,
and thus put out a sign that they are doing
mischief. When this is first seen, pull OH
the tent and stamp it under foot. Various
washes are used, but the hand, gloved on
NOT, (the caterpillar q neither bite nor
sting is sure.
ANNALS, especially asters, zinnias, ETC.,
mav be started in hot-beds OR d
boxes. to be set out in settled weather.
Sow abundantly the seeds OF mignonette,
eandytuft, ETC., in a place from which all
the family are free to cut. Also plant
sweet peas early and provide with sticks.
1r YOUR garden Is not alre rdy stocked
with grapevines, currast bushess raspber-
riegsand strawberries, make your list at
once and send to some reliable dealer. Or
der onlv the old and well-tried varieties.
As a rule the high-prieed novelties are
profitable only to the mar who sells them.
EARLY beets should be sown as early as
the soil becomes warm and dry enough to
work well. The young plants are not IN
iured very much by May 1rosts. line
early turnip beet Is considere9 y noJ
to be OF the best wellestabllshed early
varieties. AS soon as the plants are wen
above ground the little black fly should
be looked after; a little wood ashes sifted
on the plants will protect them from this
enemy. .
TIE location of a garden for early veg
etables should be on a southern slope
sheltered from the northerly winds, with
warm, loamy soil. A garden thus located
with proper care, will mature crops seVera
weeks earlier thar II the location be an un'
favorable one; but earliness is usually a.
the expense of quantity, therefore the prin
| c,pal garden to furnish products for home
use should be on a strong, moist SOIL 10
Gated on q gentle slope to the north.
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HERE NJ {

Now is good time to pillow up q
patch of ground for fall turnips and
rutabagas. and If it is intended to SOW
ever a small patch it will pay to do
this much now.
I'm setting out trees of all kinds it
should be kept in mind that they will
grow; and allowance should be made
for the o they will occupy as they
get bigger.
when the strawberries are done
bearing it will be found a good plan to
remove the mulch and give as thor
ough cultivation as possible; il plants
are not wanted keep down the runners.
When the earlier crops have ma
tured, remove and plant something
else in their place. Keep the soil oc-
cupied all during the growing season.
This plan will prove of material aid in
keeping down the weeds.
Trim back the wood of u%nprofita-
BILE pear trees, and apply a good dress
ing of wood ashes, taking pains to
work well into the soil. and then give
s1he trunk a good washing with soap
suds.
1t would undoubtedly help materi-
ally in keeping down insect pests of all
kinds in the garden, the orchard and
grain crops if a o concerted effort
could be made against them in each
neighborhood.
So far as possible no fruit should
be allowed to go to waste. What is not
l9ed or can not be marketed to gadvan'
tages hould be dried, evaporated, canned
or put up in such a shape that it can
be kept for use during the winter.
When there is a good scrop and
prices are low does not always in
dictate that no profit is realized, for
with q fair crop fruits of nearly all
kinds can be raised for market at a
very small cost. and can be sold cheap
and yet be profitable.
Fall pigs. If given the run Of a
good clover field and then fed all the
corn they will eat. will fatten very
rapidly, and it will in many cases be
| better to fatten and market now than
to Deed alb summer and then fatten in
the fall.
If the pigs are allowed the OF
the pastures it will be found a good
plan to provide a covered trough with
| salt and ashes arranged SO that they
can help themselves to what they want.
A little copperas will add to the value
as a health p%reserver.
Properly managed a good brood
| sow can be made one of the most
profitable animals on the farm. says a
contemporary. Two good filters Of
pigs can easily be secured. aud with
GOOD feed and care some increase al
least can be secured in a short time.
The Illinois Experiment Station
has determined by actual count the
humber of seeds per pound for fifteen
varieties of grasses. In one pound
aedtop there are 4, 136. 900 seeds; blue
grass, 2,1S5, 900; timothy, 1.421, 900
orchard grass, 457. 900; tall meadow
grass,.155. 900; white clover, 1868, 600
crimson trefoil, 152, 600; mammoth red
clover, 1864. 900; common red clover,
$685. 5 900; alsike, 677. DOC. and alfalfa.
243. 600.
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-A
Marvellous Feat of Memory.

Marcus tells us, and had the states
ment solemnly0 attested by four We
netian noblehen of undoubted honor,
how in Padua he met a young Corsican
who had gone thither to pursue his
studies at the university. Having
heard that the young man was gifted
with an extraordinary memory, SO that
he could retain and repeat as many as
36, 600 words, read over by him once
only, Marcus and some distinguished
friends asked if he would allow them
to test the accuracy of what report had
stated. He willingly consented, and
there was read owe an almost inter=
minable list of words, strung together
without any consecutive meaning, in
every varsity of language, even many
OF them mere gibberish. The young
Corsican stood all the while with his
attention deeply fixed and his eyes cast
down upon the ground. When it was
time he looked up cheerfully and re.
peated the whole uninteresting eata-
Iogue of words without a single fault,
Then to show how carefully he re.
tanned every word, he went through
the list backward, then taking every
alternate word. first, third, fifth, etc. i,
till he quite tired out and perfectly
satisfied Marcus that he was the most
extraordinary man he had met in al
h~istravels. London Public Opinion.
During the pasttWenty years there
have been granted in the United State:
The Opelousas courier., 1889-08-24

lul and cot!on-seed meal


alone.
Seven years ago Mr.. A. j. Wick, 8
Texan, turned some cattle into q LOS
Tor the night. On the ground were
some cotton-seed hulls, thrown there
to fertilize the land. as they we're
thought to be fit for nothing else. The
cattle ate the hulls and seemed to en-
JOY them. They were given more,
mixed with cotton-seed meal, and they
waxed fat. In a few months they were
sold for 6 cents on foot, and Mr.. Wick.
who had bought them poor, made a
profit of $18 a head.
He has been feeding cattle on cotton
seed meal and hulls aver since, and has
been making money every year. Last
year the firm of A. j. Wick 6 Co., in-
Guiding the two divers and Mr.. Tomp-
kins, of the Southern Cotton Oil Com
pany, fed at Houston, New Orleans,
Memphis and Little Rock $500 cattle
and made about 500. GOO profit.
Cotton-seed meal and bulls are Or
d1narily supposed to be better for fer
tlllzers than for any other purpose;
but by feeding them to cattle the fer
tilizing qualities are not dimished, and
the steer puts On $50 to 200 pounds OF
flesh during the operation.
MI. Oliver remarked that from the
l,400 cattle he had sold so twenty-ton
carloads of fertilizer at $1.25 o ton-a
small matter of 81, 800, which doubt.
less paid all the expense of labor in
handling and feeding. Mr.. Wick said
that he had been giving away the fer
tilizer of 1000 cattle at Little Rock,
but would sell it next year, and the
party who had been hauling it away
wanted to pay s. 1000 for it next year
and haul 1t himself.
A good many farmers. heretofore,
have been using cotton-seed meal and
hulls as fertilizers, but the additional
profit gotten by feeding them first is q
new thing. The farmer is in better
position to realize it than any one else,
because he can realize the full value
of the fertilizer while this cattle firm
has to sell it for little OR nothing, Or
give it away, to get it out of the way.
The relation of the new Battlefield
ing system to the dressed-beef industry
is interesting.
They are naturally and almost in.
evitably competitors. Dressed beef
has been unusually low this year., and
has about driven out the demand fol
local beef. There were some who said
that they would do this and put W
prices when the local cattle interest
had died out.
By the new system Mr.. Oliver says
he a compete with the Western beef,
and furnish as good an article. They
fattened 1,400 cattle this past winte,
and have sold off about 800. Some Of
them were sold to MIR. Tye, and some
shipped to Savannah and other part:
of the State.
MI. Oliver says the meat is the ideal
pale pink or white meat that tbs
butchers clamor for, and the flesh is
tender and juicy.
There is no telling what will come
out of the cotton plant. Edward At
kinson said that If the New England
people had it they would get rich on
of the stalk and the seed if they had te
throw away the lint. VIZ seem jus
beginning to learn the value of the
crop.-Atlanta Constitution.
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Dishonored Drafta.

When the stomach dishonors the drafts
made upon it by the rest of the system, it is
necessarily because its fund Of strength is
very low. Toned with Hostetter's Stomach
Bitters, it soon begins to pay out vigor in
the shape of pure, rich blood, containing
the elements OF muscle, bone and brain.
AS asequence of the new vigor afforded the
stomach, the bowels perform their func-
tons regularly, and the liver works like
clock work. Malaria has no effect upon a
system thus reinforced. n i
The Opelousas courier., 1889-08-24

PERIODIC Headache and Neuralgia: cold
hands and feet, and a general arrangement
of the system, including impaired digestion,
with torpor of the liver, &c, are, in certain
localities, Invariably caused by Malaria in
the system In quantity too small to produce
regular cnllls. Many persons suffer in this
way and take purgatives and other medicines
to their injury, when afew doses of Shall
lenberger's Antidote for Malaria would cure
them at once. Sold by Druggists.
The Opelousas courier., 1889-08-24

WHEN you suffer from dyspepsia, hear.
burn, malarlal affections, kidney disease,
liver complaint and other wasting diseases,
When you wish to enrich the blood and
purify the system generally. When you
wish to remove all feeling of weakness,
WEAKNESS, lack of energy, try a bottle OF
Browns Iron Bitters, and see how greatly
it will benefit you. 1t surpasses all known
remedies as an enricher of the blood, and a
perfect regulator of the various bodily
functions. Ask your druggist.
The Opelousas courier., 1889-08-24
Standing on Her Dignity.

Husband (alarmed)-Emily. there
seems to be d smoke coming up
through the door. Bun and tell the
lady on the fat below. Something's
aare ID her part Of this building!
Quiekl Quick
Vile (cold and stately)-Cyrns, IHl
nsxer do It III the world. We've Lived
three months IN this fat and she La
never called 81 M. -Chicago Tribune.
The Opelousas courier., 1889-08-24

TIE offensive habit Of splitting tobacco
juice has received recognition as an illegal
oRense by q grand jury Of Philadelphia.
That body has found true bills against one
john F. Berg for malicious mischief In
splitting on the front doorsteps Of several
houses in the northern part of the city.
The Opelousas courier., 1889-08-24
Happy Homes

Here's q health to the wives and the mothers
Who sit in our households to-day;
Who are glad when they brighten for others
The hours that go drifting away.
May their eyes keep the light OF the gladness.
Their hearts hold the fulIness of bliss
That banishes shadows and sadness,
And what need We ask more than this7
But-how can this happiness be kept?
who make a Heaven-of the Home,-fromt the
rayages of disease hat is often worse than
death,-that is, in act, 9 lingering death!
The question is easilynnswered DR.. Pierce's
Favorite Prescription, the standard remedy
for all of those pechnar diseases to which
women are subjects what must be relied
on to preserve the health of wives and moth
ers. It preuents those diseases, and 1t cures
them. It is a blessing to women and there
fore a National blessing, because it gives
health to those about whom the happiness OF
home c%enters, and the strength Of Nation
is in its happy homes.
The Opelousas courier., 1889-08-24

A CHICK or a partridge uns around look
ing for its meat as soon as 1t has shaken
itself loose from its living prison, but an
oWlet does not for a month or more know
which foot to put out first.
The Opelousas courier., 1889-08-24

Do og~suffer from sick headache a moment
lorger. 1t is not necessary. Carter's Little
Liver Pills will cure you. Dose one little
pill. Small price. Small dose. Small pill.
The Opelousas courier., 1889-08-24

Oregons the Paradise of Farmers.
d, equable climate, certe --undant
CT .Bestfruit, grain, glass, stock country
in - Nvorld. FulIinformation free. Address
Ore lmmigration Board, Portland, Oregon
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FRESHNESS and purity are impaired to the
complexion by Glenn's Sulphur Soap.
Hills Hair and Whisker Dye, SO cents.
The Opelousas courier., 1889-08-24

A BOSTON young lady defines love as
ian inexpressibility accompanied with out
gard a~llovecishness,''
The Opelousas courier., 1889-08-24

THOSE things which engage US merely by
their novelty can not attract Us for any
length Of time.
The Opelousas courier., 1889-08-24

THE leading New York hote-keepers have
combined to set up a printing Office which
is to furnish the printing and stationery
needed for the hotels Of that and ether
The Opelousas courier., 1889-08-24

EVERY ma has q natural right to do
whatsoever he wills, provided that in the
toing thereof he infringes not on b equal
>yhts Of any other man.
The Opelousas courier., 1889-08-24

Al rMBER of ladies in Boston are leading
. crus .de against the practice OF docking
horses tails.
The Opelousas courier., 1889-08-24

THa lover spends more on the engage
ment ring tNsn he spends on his wife In
year.
The Opelousas courier., 1889-08-24

DIR. Pierce's Pellets, or Ambitious Gran
ules in walls, 25 cents n eadose. Druggists
The Opelousas courier., 1889-08-24

70 t help liking them, they are SO very
sn~s~@eir action is so perfect. One pill
dc yer's Little Liver Fills. Try them.
The Opelousas courier., 1889-08-24
What's in q Cotton Sess

AZ Atlanta concern made $40. 600 last
vsar by fatteuing $500 beeVes on cot
The Opelousas courier., 1889-08-24

II ~4EAK q looking-glass Is q sign Of
death in the family before the year closes.
The Opelousas courier., 1889-08-24

During the pasttwenty years there
have been granted In the United States
328, TIC divorces
The Opelousas courier., 1889-08-24
DET ECT IVES

waatea in every county. shrewd men to act under Instruction.
in our Secret Service. Experience not necessary. Send &c. stamp
GFannanDetectiyeBufeauCc .44Arcaae, cincinnaal,0s
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1889-08-14
TROTTING AT ROCHESTER,.
The Circuit Meeting Opens There In Yer.
Successful Manner.

The Circuit Meeting Opens There In a Very
Successful Manner.
ROCHESTER,. N. Y. August l3-The August
meeting Of the circuit races opened here this
afternoon. There were 5000 people on the
grounds and betting and pool selling were
lively. The track was In fairly good condition,
but little heavy. The weather was cool and
cloudy, with strong breeze blowing. On the
whole the conditions were rather against fast
time and none was made. Time was called at
2 o'clock, but only IL heats were trotted before
darkness, and only one race was decided.
Contrary to custom, the great event. the
Flower City. $4,000 guarantee stake race for
the ESQ class. was called on the first day.
favorte before the first heat, pools selling 500
on Veritas to $50 on Chefeld. He took the first
heat, but lost the second, still remaining the
favorite. Six heats were trotted and at that
time star Lily and Sprague Gold Dust had two
heats each. The will be finished to-mor-
row.
The pacing race for the 2:27 class, 81 900 purse,
divided among four horses making the best
record. was the only one finished. There were
ten starters. Hal Pointer was a decided
favorite, pools selling $50 Pointer to the field
$50. The horse seemedlto 60 little lame and
failed to WIN heat. Five heats finished the
race. The winners were Chapman, Elva
Medium, Red Bell and American Girl.
One heat of the 222 trotting race came off,
Sensation and Lady Bullion are the favorites
The first heat was won by Globe.
During the 2:30 trotting race Reference col
lided with another horse, tipped over the
sulky and threw his driver Stanley, out Ref
erence broke away and ran around the track
without interfering with the other trotters.
Stanley was but slightly injured. Late in the
same race Veritas and Star Lily went into the
air together and Veritas came down on Lily's
sulky. Both were stopped and no one was
hurt.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1889-08-14
River Dispatches

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