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The Opelousas courier., 1889-05-11
THE RUSSIAN POLICE.
According to Mr.. Kennen ITS Chief Char
acteristic Is Dishonesty.

According to Mr.. Kennen Its CHIEF Char
acteristic Is Dishonesty.
In slrecent lecture in Boston, Mr..
George Kennen referred as follows to
the Russian p~ice: THE police of
Russia control, by means IT passports,
the movements of all the inhabitants
of the Empire, keep thousaRas of 'sus-
poets constantly under control, and
certify to the courts the liabilities of
bankrupts. They conduct pawnbrok-
er's sales of unredeemed pledges, SUI
p~erintend the repairs of roads and
bridges, collect statistics aud enforce
sanitary regulations, make searches in
private houses, read the correspond
ence of suspects give certificates to
identify pensioners, admonish church
members who neglect too long
to partake of the holy COM
munion, and enforce obedience to
thousands of m~ultifarious orders and
regulations. 1t is hardly an exagger-
alton to say that in the peasant vii
lagos of Siberia, away from the cen
tiers of enlightenment and education,
the police are the o~mnipresent and ON
nipotent regulators of every thing-a
sort of bureaucratic substitute for Di-
vine Providence. The police of Rus
STA are divided into four classes: The
rural police, the common metropolitan
police of the cities, the detective and
secret police, and the gendGrnaes. The
strongest class numerically is that of
the rural police, who enforce the Or
dJrs of tho Government in the peasant
villages. According to arCcently-pub-
lished statement, there + in the
forty-seven provinces of European
Russia 269, LOO towns and villages
where Intoxicating liquors are sold at
retail. If we suppose that for every
such village there are two police off
GERS, which, perhaps, is not an over
estimate, we have an army of over
500, 600 men in this one class, without
including Siberia or any part of Asiatie
Russia. The rural police are divided
into stGus, or stations. They wear 8
uniform, and are armed with a sabel
and revolver. Their salaries are from
SIS to 800 per year for q private AND
$500 for the chief of a district. The
natural result is that the rural police
represent the worst elements of the
whole population. A large proportion
OF them are ignorant and stupid. Those
who have brains are generally dishon
est. and use-the orders of the Minister
of the Interior in innumerable in
to extort money from the peas
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EAST AFRICAN MISSIONS.

Tho Comprehensive Work Carried On by
the Protestant and Catholic Churches.
Missionary interests have become
very extensive in East Africa. The
Church Missionary Society and the
Universities Mission, Of the Church of
England; the Established and the Free
| Church, of Scotland; the London Mis-
sionary Society, the United Methodist
Free Churches and the Church of Rome,
all have missions ON the coast or in the
interior.
The Church Missionary Society has
two distinct lines of missions-one with
it's basis at Mombasa, in the English
Sphere of influence, with eight sta
tons, some of which are on or near
the coast and some in the interior.
One is in the neighborhood of Mount
Kilimaniaro. The second line of sta
lions III lat which stretches from Fan
zibar to Uganda There are nine sta
lions in this line, beginning with Mann
boia and Mpwapwa, nearly due west
; "om Zanzibar, and including Usam-
bro, Msalala and Nasa, south OF the
Victoria Nyanza, and Rubaga, in Ugan-
da, at the north of the great lake.
The Universities Mission has twelve
stations-one at Zanzibar, four in she
Usambara country north of ZanzibaH
four on or near the River Rovuma, and
three on the east shore OF Lake Nyassa.
The two Scottish churSes have
the Free Church five stations on Lake
Nyassa, the Established Church one
on Lake Shirwa, at the south of Lake
Nyassa. The route to this region is
by the Zambesi and Shire rivers.
The London Society goes further
west than any of the other societies,
and plants two stations on Lake
Tanganyika and one at'Urambo in the
Unyamwezi country, south of the Vic
toria Nyanza, and a the stations OF
the Church Missionary Society. The
route was formerly from Zanzibar
through Mpwapwa to Ujiji; now there
is another route by the Zambesi and
Shire, Lake Nyassa and a road thence
to the southern end of Lake flanagan
yika.
The United Methodist Free Churches
have two missions in the Mombasa
region and one in Gallaland.
Three German Protestant societies
have five stations-three in Gallaland,
one in Zanzibar and one in Dar-es'
Salam, where one of the massacr took
place. It is the Berlin Society which
maintains the last two stations.
These are all the Protestant missions
between Vito and the Rovuma river
but there are German and French
Roman Catholic stations. There are
three French stations m or lear Lake
Victoria, the most important of which
is the one in Urganda, under the con
troll of Pere Lourdel; two or Lake
Tanganyika; n at Bagamoyo, neal
Zanzibar, and one or two others. The
Jesuits have also a few stations, an6
the German Catholics have at Oar
es-Salam.
In all, there are thirteen missions
six British, four German and three
French. One society, the Church Mis-
sionary, alone has spent five hundred
thousand dollars in the last thirty years
in East African. Y. Independents
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Female Farmers.

Will tie coming young woman be q
farmer?
Scattered over all the broad prairies of
the Northwest are hundreds of self-reliant,
true blue young heroines, living in small,
isolated cabins called shacks, proving Up
claims, entering homesteads and making
money.
It is lonesome, dreary business this liv-
ing alone ON a wild, unsettled prairie, with
out a face or human form to welcome one or
~cheer-ne's solitude, but there seems to be
a good many young m who have the
grit to hang to this solitary life long
enough to prove up a claim at least.
Four young ladies in Dakota last year put
their heads together and hit upon an ingen-
ious plan, whereby they could each secure q
claim and yet all live comfortably together
in one house and each be upon herown land.
Instead of building four shacks with one
room each, they constructed one shack with
four rooms, but SO nicely planned that each
room of the square building was on a differ
ent quarter section. Each had her own bed
in her own room and in that way each claim
ant at might slept upon her oyn land.
Society ladies of the city VIII wonder, not
so much how these young lady settlers got
along without social privileges, as how they
dared live SO far away from the doctors.
Why, bless you'll they never thought of be-
ing sick. Doctors are not half SO much of a
household necessity as citypeople are inthe
habit of thinking.
For ali the ordinary ills of life, the old
fashioned roots and herbs remedies are
more effective, and much safer in results,
than modern doctors pills and potions.
These latter are SO radical in tttir effects
that, while they may better meet the
modern desire for quick results, they
frequently permanently injure the system,
nature rebelling against the unnatural
methods employed.
1t is always safest to follow natural
methods in treating disease. The old time
roots and herbs remedies, which our good
old iog-cabln grandmothers knew so wei
how to prepare, were the best medicines
the world ever knew, because they were
natures remedies.
The modern world needs t l5m. In War
ncr's Log Cabin Remedies, and especial!
such as Warmers Log Cabin S~arsaparills
and Warmers Log CABIN Cough and Con
sumption Remedy, tE people of to-day
have an opportunity to secure the health,
medicines which our rugged ancestors uset
with such splendid results.
The Opelousas courier., 1889-05-11
a. 2. MCNEIL.
II, j, FISHER.

L. D. EASI40IN,
Carpenter and Builder,
WILL undertake all work in his line In town
w or country. The building of stores and
private re idences a so' cia.ty. Estimstes and
bans furtishcd If desired. Or 'ers left with
Mr.. Jos. Ducharmc, corner Court AMI Belle
yue StrccIs. will nave prompt attention.
Oh e!ou as, o u, 1893.
The Opelousas courier., 1889-05-11

BuS1.AY, the newly-crowned King Of An
nam, is only ten years Of age,
The Opelousas courier., 1889-05-11

AN American quack doctor sold
some liquid on the streets of Paris
which he warranted to relieve pain in
one minute. Some of those who were
not relieved made complaint and be
up for a year.
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IL. D. r


Bellevue Street, near the Bridge,
OPELOUSAS, La.
A LII Kinds of Tin. Copper and Sheet Iron
n work dine on short notice and at reason
able prices. Guttering and ri a ring a spe
cialty. Makes and repairs evaporator Syrup
BANS. A.
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Fifty deaf mutes participated at 0
ball at Cincinnati lately, and it is re-
ported that they danced and enjoyed
themselves as though they heard every
strain of the music,
The Opelousas courier., 1889-05-11
C. D. STEWART,

Contractor, Carpenter and Builder,
WILL contract Cor the erection of buildings
w of all kinds. furnishing all material If
desired. Work don promptly and a reason
able rates. Orders through the ~postofics
given prompt attention. Est mates and plans
furnished. Having special facilities for OBJ.
tanning LUMBER AT REDUCED RATES, / will
give my patrons the benefit of the same.
sep3ST
The evening world., 1889-07-02

Dec. 80, 1883, l went fishing on the Hudson,
near Albany through the ice, and in thirty
minutes had caught thirty fish, all rock fish
except one, a large shad. While getting
hooks from my pocket 1 laid my ~penknife
and 20 cents in silver on the ice. The snow was
falling and was II inch deep when left.
When near shore l discovered ! had left be-
hind knife, money and shad. On April 80,
1889, while In q Bowerv restaurant, a nan
ordered broiled shad. On returning to tell
the mar there was only cod and hallbut left
the waiter tried to draw a glass of wa er from
the large cooler, but no water would flow.
On examining inside he found instead of a
big cake of ice he had put in that morning,
my knife, 70 cents and the shad, its tail lying
up against the faucet. | claimed the whole
lot, but got only my knife back, as it had my
name on. The man got his broiled shad, the
restaurant keeper kept the 70 cents.
DopRy
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others ear, at which they both laughed.
Hurriedly placing the glasses TO his eyes, and
after a minutes careful scrutiny, old Doolittle
exclaimed:
by Joe ~ and they both fell to laughing
so heartily that they were obliged to stand
back TO back to brace each other up.
-Four days passed. The night had shut out
the twilight, the window curtains We're drawn.
A little tableau might greet our eyes. Deacon
Snow, i'll n large armchair, sits quietly read
ing the evening news. Little by little Nellie.
Who had been silently building fairy castles
in the air bv the chimney corner, had drawn
near her grand ,ather, and finally touched his
arm so lightly that he might well have
thought that a wee sparrow had just lighted
upon it. and in her sweet, melodious VOICE,
said
Quickly turning his head, the sudden mo-
tiCn caused his eyeglasses to drop of his
chubby little nose.
Well, my little bird, what can grandpa
do 2"
Grandpa" she whispered, and sank on
her knees by his side and laid her curly heal
upon his knee, will you please tell me
Cousin Jim's story 2"
"Ahl / wonder if ! were to try very hard
If / could not guess your great interest In
this Cousin Jim. A tall young man 1--WE will
mention no name)'-and he gave her blush
TO-DAY and spoke of a great love, his great
love for a little lady flower, as he called her,
that grows on my property. Now, whom do
You suppose he could mean 1t ouldn
be Mrs. Pee,ie, the housekeeper," and he
smiled cheerily, =" for she looks more like q
g~ood-nAtured housewife than a flower nor
Could'lt be your Aunt Jane, for, bless me,
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Why Not
From Time

heart and trembling of the hand told him he
had met his fate at last. He had known tho
small IN figure well, by sight. He had
even dreamed of the innocent child face Of
the girl, but love had never entered his
strong breast until now The %throbhing Of
his heart revealed at last its secret to him.
He often met her after this and had IA beat
ing of the heart we'll known. Many are the
remedies for such atfii ct on. A touch Of the
sigh. are excellent cures, but from oyness
Nellie gave him no encouragement.
Under man prete1ts Jim sought admit
lance at the DeRcon's homestead, and was
often seen wandering around the grounds,
looking for flowers anything that he could
possibly think of to keep him on that blessed
ground. Nobody thought his actions strange,
he was only Cousin jim, and came and went
at will. An honest, good fellow they knew
him 10 be, aud nobody troubled himself about
him further.
dim was homely-yes. decidedly homely (;
his features were nl-shaptd, but his eyes re-
deemed them large, dark and bright as
sparkling dewdTops. Straight as a young
tree. tall and strong as an oak was his stature.
His early educ ation he had received at the
village school already spoken of, and he had
manhRed to study alone, after his daily work
was done, so, although quiet and reserved
before people, his mind was active and we'll
stored. :
He had reached his twentv-fourt year and
had by dint of neutrality-suspicious. saved enough
to build a little home for himself, which VAS
near the Echool-house ON the bluff aud which
commanded n fine view. He had designed
and built ii W tn the assistance of o brother
carpenter. II had six rooms we'll finished,
cosy and neatly furnished. His happiness
had been unalloyed until his first meeting
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Seeing the girl hesitate, Jim. who had
oned to her to come with the others aud made
room for her on the front seat by his side.
With his gentle aid she climbed up ~bashfully
to the offered seat. With a Get up !
Fanny" from Jim. the little white mare
pricked up her ears and started of at q brisk
trot, jumping and jolting the wagon with its
merry freight,
Like dozen magpies in a cornReld was the
noise they made. The little dogs in the
ing foe, gave chase and barked till they were
quite tired. Even the pigs grunted louder
as they passed by, while childish screams of
delight rang out afresh and the bright Sum-
mer breeze carried the echoes away out to
the ships at sea-.
One by one the children jumped of the
wagon as they reached their homes, never
stopping to thank the driver in their haste.
Why should theyl He was only COUSIN Jim!
last two but herself of the party get of, Nellie
shyly addressed Jim, looking no at him
nskapce with her pretty blue eyes. saying: II
tn NIX you for this pleasant little ride :"
Cant l drive you to your home ?" an
swered Jim. Don't you live at Deacon
"N nv, yes" aho said. brightly. her shy
ness, passing away. am his granddauGh-
He asked her many questions to make her
speak. she had such a low musical little voice
and such a.pretty way Of talking.
He drove her up TO the old stone farm
house, which hAd been built many many
long years before. and bad stood the gales
like gtanch ship in mid-ocean.
He helped her down, and Ak he looked into
heE deep blue eyes q sudden beating Of the
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ONLY U S JIM.
Original Story aVjth an DID, Fashioned
Endi1g.
BY AUGUSTA ROTTB0L.

School was over and the boys and girls
came trooping forth in couples and groups,
ranging in age from five to sixteen years.
The sc~hool-house was situated on a bluff
overlooking the sea, near the small village Of
c.. The foundation of the building had
once been the remains of an old fort. Seeing
the necessity of a good school the village
folks, sensible people, had contributed from
meagre savings for the erection of 1t; and
now their honest hearts filled with pride as
they rode by, each exclaiming, ~ helped
build that school. It's been like Q blessing
20 us and our children"
The boys ran down the o shouting,
dancing around aud pushing of the girls
fiowery sunhats, bobbing up at them from
behind stone walls as they passed by aud
teasing them in sundry other ways as only
boys can.
The girls, the older ones, trudged on, gig
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she's as tall and gaunt as a mile-post, and
not quite like a posy. Now, there is only
one left, aud it -
"Oh, grandpa. please don't" and she
buried her head in her wee white hands.
why, | never thought Cousin dim good
looking before, but he was positively hand
some to-day and SO brave and manly" said
her grand ather. that can tell you, my
own pet, 1 was proud of him " andhe slapped
his nand hard on the arm of his chair. And
did say yes? Well, I'll leave him to tell
Thoughtfplly shading his eyes with n
hand. he added:
You spoke of his story-aye aye! The
poor lad has one. ~Twenty-fOuF years agn,
next month. Yes. it was October the 18th.
The ra and sleet beat down that day and
night. and when darkness set in few folks
went TO bed to rest. At midnight. after u lull
in the storm, u gun was heard OF land very
family. almost like a knell. 1t was repeated
twice and then oil was still.
The brave souls who heard it, willing
and ready. eft their homes to vrestle withthe
wind aud mighty tide. to succor those In peril
at sea, and two brave mel were lost that
morning from the Village-my. own poor
father and old Peter Jones, and he wiped his
tear dimmed eyes.
After many efforts the great life boat was
launched but before they could reach the ship
it sank out of sight. The wild shrieks and
cries of the drowning crew were heard and
rang for many day IN our ears. SnuRly tied
10 a floating spar was a tiny baby boy and just
beyond il on a broken mast a woman lay,
white and still. In reaching over the life
boats side to rescue the floating bodies M
father and old Peter were drawn into the
angry sea.
(7O be ~COHtinued.)
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with Nellie. his lady-fower, his pet name
for her, and now his love cried out within
him and gave him no rest,
Thus matters stood until the next harvest
moon. The honest harvest moon rose calm
and bright one September evening, and
merry, very merry were the hRymakers.
Their autumn songs and light laughter rang
out sweet aud clear over tn fields and hedges
of green. Lovers there were many with their
rakes and forks scattering hay IN the mellow
light.
Two stood side by side. Jim took possess
sion OF one dimpled hand at last, and, bend
ing his head, gaZed long and earnestly into
Nellie's pure blue eyes. No word of love his
lips need speak she knew it all. His dark
eyes talked so well for him.
" have a scunt home 10 offer you, dar-
ling, but my love is strong: BE MY wife,
Nellie, and ! promise you will never regret it
AS long rs we live"
She was such a shy little thing she an
understood the little COY movement of her
head resting near his shoulder. STOPPING
down he kissed those lips SO sacred TO him.
The moon moved down the sky, seeing the
harvest was complete.
Who is that tall fellow yonder2 ?" SAID
Farmer Dean.
why" answered his neighbor, that's
only Cousin Jim with his arms full Of hay"
Full of hay =, and he gave Neighbor
clapped his hands 20 ms sides, and laughed
and laughed. Hay ~ he screamed out.
"Well, bless my Old eyes, that's the fun
niest bundle Of hay | ever saw.
Here, old peighbor, I'll lend you my
glasses; I guess they'll help Your weak
sight" and giving him another vigorous poke
in the side, he whispered something III the
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Rendy TO Enrnish Proof.

Two weeks ago last Sunday a friend and
myself were fishing for blackfsh at Huckle-
berry Island. Our luck was good. Every
time that we caught a fish we would string it
on a line that we had tied to the oarlock.
About A O'Clock P. NJ. we got tired of fishing,
and in untying the line it slipped from my
hand and sank to the bottom, fish and all.
Last Sunday my friend and myself were fish
ing at the East Chester own dock. We hadn't
been fishing ten minutes before l had a ire
mendous bite and hauled up the sslf-same
string of black6sh that I had caught two
weeks before at H~uckleberry Island. Every
fish was alive, and strange to say every fish
weighed double what 1t did before. and in
stead OF having forty-two pounds had nine
ty-seven pounds of nice, living fish. This
string OF fish must have trave led about ten
miles. There il no mistake about the string
that l used. because it was a piece of window
cord that l took with me from home. This
story can be vouched for by the crew of the
yacht Sara, who saw me lose the fish two
weeks ago. w. A. s.,
432 East Seventy fifth street,
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We started out from Cedar Keys, Fla. n
afternoon for a few hours fishing. We took
a piece of wire on which TO string the fish, 80
that we could let them down in the water to
keep them alive. We had caught fourteen
or fifteen trout and reddish, when something
gave the boat q tremendous jerk, and the
channel out towards the open Gulf. Look
ing over the bow of the boat we saw that o
shark ten or twelve feet long had snapped
up our fish, and on account of the wire could
not get loose. We did not have anything
with which to shoot him. and we couldn't
get the wire loose, so had to let him drag us,
which he did for nearly three-quarters of
a mile, and then. luckily, the staple in the
boat broke and we were free. g. II. H.,
Bushwick avenue, Brooklyn.
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OVER THE PATHLESs OCEAN,

Athwart vast continents traversed ~ mighty lion
thoroughfares, mAny.srmed like the tabled Briareus.
myriads set forth daily to encounter the vicissitudes Of
travel, change Of climate. unAccustomed food. and an
atmosphere, possibly miasmatic, yet with a calm conf
dence that their health will be preserved. When this
con h ienee is based upon the possession of the supreme
medicinal defense. Hostetter'sS Stomach Htters, it is in
deed well founded otherwise not. BTAckish water, bad
food. the weAryinE and other bad effects of railroad Jolt
ing, sea-sickness and nervousness, aggravated by a
journey and its attendant d~iscomforts, are shorn Of their
pernicious influence by this sterling Alternative. pAciher
and compromising medicine, invaluable for dyspepsia,
feeblenes,. nervousness, 20 l%stipstion, mAlarAl disorders,
rheumatism and kidney complaints.
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Answers to correspondents.

Oar Or iper. The company has no right to
withhold any part Of your wages for damages
done to the car while you are driving it.
John Beekmdn. Apply to one of the Police
Commissioners at Headquarters, 900 Mulberry
street.
Charles S.-The fare to Catskill is So. 10 and
the time by rail from Jersey City about four
hours.
Wilbur P.-You may legally dramatize a pub
lished novel without the authors consent.
II. Paul. Enquire at the College Of the City
of New York.
N. ID. Lyon need not move until the court
has granted the disp0sses order.
r. s. APPLY to the curator, Cooper
Union.
Constant ReddPr-If you want to be natural
lied you must manage to be at the Superior
Court some day when the court il in session be-
tween IL A.. NJ. and 4 p. N; Can't You afford to
take half a day of to become an American
citizen.
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A friend Of mine living on Lake Champlain
Is the owner of a Maltese cat which often
goes fishing for herself. She runs along the
bank of the lake following some small
fish until it stops, when she will dive in the
river and catch it. making o good meal for
herself and kittens. Last year l witnessed q
very curious marine battle between the cat
and a large ,muscalongs. The cat had just
tackled the cat, catching her tail in its mouth.
The cat dropped her prey and turning on the
muscalopge sunk her claws several times in
It's body, but the fish would not let go and
when my friend and rowed silently up and
caught the muscalonge in o large net. II
measured nearly four feet In length and
weighed thirty-two pounds, while the cat
only weighed ten pounds. @. Q. E. D.,
256 East Broadway.