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The Opelousas courier., 1889-08-31

forthcoming. The men who in Gallo
exaltation, when the picture was put on
sale the second time, SUBSIDIZED Hundreds
of thousands of francs, were not to Er
found.
Challonier then sent for Mr.. Sutton, of
the American Art Association, and asked
him to take the picture at his bid OF
$11O, 400. Sutton had advertised his
willingness to give $4,000 to the poor
of Paris if allowed to take the "Ange-
lus" at the figure at which it was bid OH
for the Louvre, and his delight knew nc
bounds when told of the new turn OF al
fairs. Before he could get to Challonler
with o certified cheek high officers of the
Government had induced the a~uctloneer
to wait until 9 o'clock.A. M. OF July 4,
and in the meantime Baron Rothschlld
had been induced to give his check for
the entire amount on behalf of the Cow
eminent. Believing he had no further
show to buy the picture, MIR. Sutton de-
cided to apply to the French Government
for permission to exhibit the picture N
New York next autumn, and, as an in
ducement intended to offer to make over
half the proceeds to Millet's widow, who
is now living in extreme poverty In Bar.
bizon. However, the cables
that M. Proust had written a letter IN
which he announced the withdrawal OF
the request of the Chamber of Dope
for a credit for the purchase of the paint
ing. The cable also announced that MIR.
Sutton had secured the famous painting,
which will be exhibited in the American
Art Gallery in New York after it has been
shown in Paris for the benefit of the
painters widow.
Jean Francois Mile, the 'painter Of
peasants" was born G #tober IA, 1914, in
the village of Gruchy commune of Gre
vile, canton of Beaumont (Manche),
France. With the exception OF his last
years, when ~his~genius had been recogg-
nized and he received many orders for
paintings, his life was n long struggle
with sickness, disappointment and sor-
row. He died January 20, 1875.
So little were Millet's works esteemed
during his lifetime that for the s'Ange-
lus," his greatest production, he received
only GOOD francs, or s4oo. Of this mas
terpiece the artist, Richard Heath, writ
ing in 1882, said: ''The religious senti-
ment which pervaded Millet's paintings
from the time he first began to follow
his true vocation attains its highest ex-
spressions in the :Angelus.' It is that
moment of the day when the whole Gre
alton is one in alteration. The sun has
just passed away, and the purple after.
glow ~suffuses all things. 4 man and 8
woman have been digging up potatoes;
the sound Of the angelus floating through
the air has just reached them; they have
risen and are repeating the traditional
words: sAngelus domini muntiavit ma
riaj The man stands solemn and mo-
g6nless; the woman, her head bent, is
wrapt in prayer. This painting, to our
conception, exeeeds in@eeling anything
the medieval artists produced"
The Opelousas courier., 1889-08-31
Il Ross

Every night the hotel piazzas are the
centre of life until about half-past ten
, o'clock, when the music ceases and the
mothers and younger children go to bed.
The older children then get a chance to
watch the sea from the summer houses
and whisper away as If they had not seen
each other for years. Papa, alasl quite
| frequently strolls around to study the
Abits of that unconquerable animal, the
tiger.
The nightly display of dress in the ho'
tel parlors at Long Branch is magnificent.
There are more fn~ly formed, beautiful
and exquisitely adorned women here now
than ever before. No wonder the young
men are losing their heads, and the first
crop of engageF ents is announced, The
average young lady here, while a far
more shapely being than a cheap wood
cut artist design, and as lively a maiden
as one would wish to see, is a modest,
well behaved girl in the water and out of
it. The girls love the waves. They
ssgo in" by the hundreds, and the bath
ing masters tell me they learn to swim
l6aSler anu DetbRF Titan HieH.
/ One of the sights of the Branch during
bathing hours is the s'boss bather," as
| ths children disrepectfully term her. II
she is not fair and forty, she is certainly
the other thing, for a ninety inch belt
could not make both ends meet around
her waist. Every chance she gets to take
a roll In the SET .she improves, so thai In
all respects she is a great bather.
While watching this feshy nymph of
che sea tumbling about in the water, I
noticed that several ladies in as-Aing
wore their diamond earrings. They
gaid they felt that the jewels were safer
in their ears than anywhere else, but it is
o queer combinatEE, q bathing suit and
diamonds.
After her bath the Long Branch girl
takes a drive. So does everybody else
if they can afford it. There are a num-
Der of carriages cut In the morning be-
fore the day grows hot, but the sspassing
| show" as seen from the West End piazza
in the cool Of the afternoon, is one of the
features ofLong Branch life. The dull
clatter of the L0rses, many of THIN
thoroughbreds, Ape gingling of their
chains, the glitter of their trappings, the
roll of the carriages, filed with elegantly
attired women, makes pleasant music as
the panorama moves along the bluff. 1t
is indeed a pretty picture, this daily dis
play of beauty on wheels. The moving
line is fanked by beautiful lawns; it runs
between imposing hotels and Cottages.
All is color and animation in the fore
ground. while behind lies the oeesn, calm
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LONG BRANCH.
LIFE ALONG NEW JERSEYS
NAVE-WASHED SHORE.
Happy Summer Days for Young ana
Old Who Love to Dance.
to Drive, to Battle or Do
q Little Flirting.

All along the New Jersey coast, from
Sandy Hook to Point Pleasant, pleasure
reigns supreme. Every day the beach IS
dotted with bathers, the cottage and ho-
tel lawns swarm with tennis players and
the roads are marked by lines of dust
kicked up by horses worth all the way
from fifty to thousands of dollars. There
are far more of the latter, however, than
of the former, for the wealthy summer
visitor generally brings his turnout
with him, but it is an open question
whether he enjoys the glorious drivA
along the shore any more than the occa-
sional Jersey farmer who comes in with
his corn fed team and "democrat wagon
to see stthem stylish rigs"
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WISE WORDS.

Faint, praise is disparagement.
Call me cousin, but cozen me not. "
Ask thy purse what thou shouldst buy.
Be a friend to yourself, and others
will.
A white glove often conceals a dirty
hand.
Be not a baker, if your hes made
iof butter.
Go into the country to hear the news
of the town.
The remedy for injuries is not to re-
member them.
1t costs us more to be miserable than
would make us perfectly happy.
The wild oats of youth are sure to
grow into the briars of manhood.
Luck seeks success, fails and regrets
it, Pluck fails, but tries gain and gets
it.
il some men died and others did not,
death indeed would be a Host mortify-
ing evil.
Despise not advice, though even the
meanest. Cabling geese once preserved
the Roman State.
When a great man stoops and trips,
the small men around him appear larger
than they really are.
Calumny is often the homage of our
contemporaries, as some savage tribes
spit on those they honor.
If we had no defects ourselves we
would not take SO M oh pleasure in dis
covering those of others.
Nothing sharpens the arrow of sarcasm
SO keenly as the courtesy that polishes it.
No reproach is like that we elothe with a
smile and present with a boy
A weapon is anything tha- can serve to
wound and sentiments re4perhaps the
most cruel weapons man crh employ to
iniure and wound his fellor-man.
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The Board OF Visitors to the Annapolis
(Ed.) Naval AcadeRE. recommends tbs
Che academic course be reduced from six
to four years, and that at the end of -four
years the cadets be COM 2iissioned as en-
signa. It also recommePS shat the aH mas,
innum limit Of age be nineteen instead
Of twenty years. The board thinks it
would be desirable for the Government to
find occupation for more graduate cadets
chan are nov taken annually into the
naval service, and suggests that Congress
put these young me- into the marine ser
sr;cn
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REPAIRING THE BLUFF.

and dull under a eloudless summer sky
stretcheRg away as far as the eye can
reach and dotted here and there by
white wings that seem to have been painted
on canvas. so well defined but motioniess
do they appear.
The Ocean Drive, the glory of the
Branch, was badly damaged last winter
by the sea. It hardly seems possible
that the water could get over the bluff,
which is fully thirty feet high, but it did,
and in places took the bluff away with It.
The roadway ran close TO the edge, SO
that In spotsit was ruined.
Al United States engineer says he will
nut down bulkheads every 200 feet from
Che Iron Pier to Elberon and guarantee
that the beach will make instead OF lose.
That win cost a great deal of money, but
IL seems to be the Last chance TO have the
valuable hotel property facing on the
ocean, TO say nothing of the driveway and
the bathing facilities, without which the
hotels would not be able to compete with
Eastern summer resorts.
The big break begins at the east end
of the Rowland House. tt is about 500
feet long. TO get around it the stages
have to run about 800 feet inland on q
poor road, which is unpleasant and des
laws one. There is 4 force Of men at
work with a pile driver, building up the
| bluff again, and their labors are watched
daily by hundreds Of people. e i one
| Of the sights Of the beach.
This hole in Ocean avenue ia q sore
trial to the hundreds to whom Long
Branch was d delightful place to bring
their horses. It is still, however, an
agreeable drive from Seabright to Elbe-
ron, and even further up and down the
coast.
The Long Branch stage is one of the
most i~nconvenient vehicles on earth, but
It is cheap and therefore popular with
the masses. There are hundreds Of these
stages runIsng back and forth from the
Iron Pier TO the Vest End all day and
nearly all night The fire ii only ten
cents for The whole distanee, but Ike tho
New York III reads, i short ride costs
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The Moods OF q River.

Flint River, Ga, like q human being,
appears to have its moods. Now II will
be all brightness and sunshine, its placid
waters scarce seem to be moving, but in
Its quiet, crystal depths the lordly mag
nolias along its banks are reflected, and
tile wild fowl plume their feathers over
It's mirror like surface. Again, it looks
dark and angry. The water, of . vel
lowish red color, resembles the complex
ion of q choIeric man with his bile all
stirred up. On it dashes, resistlessly bear
ing along great waves Of foam, where it
has fretted over the rocks. or the limbs
of forest monarchs which it has angrily
uprooted and torn away, as worried by
up-country rains it has overlooked its
banks and swept all before it.-itzGata
Consultation,
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A Painting That Cost $4,000 Cora.
ing to America.

The American public, says the Chicago
Herald, will soon have the pleasure of
seeing a masterpiece of modern art. Jean
Francois Millet's wonderful painting,
''The Angelus," for the possession of
which much desperate effort was made on
behalf of the Rrench Government, has
been secured by tliAoAmerican Art AS
socfation, and will be exhibited through
out this country. At the Sect sale in
Paris, Monday, July l., NJ. Proust, who
bid the Government, offered $11O, 600 for
the painting, and it was knocked down
to him as the representative of the Louvre.
The fact appeared that Mr.. Proust did
not have anything like the amount he of
fercd, and when Challonier, the auc-
t%ioneer, asked for the money it was not
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MI. Griffin, the English statistician,
has concluded an exhaustive report on
the progress Of the sugar trade. Be-
tween 1880 and 1867 the production
III cane sugar increased from 1,23S, 900
tons to 2 ,7754, GOO tons annually, beet SUI
gar increasing during the same period
from 1850, 900 TO ,4s3 900 tons. The
total increase Of al kinds during the
period named svaa 3 ,764,0o0 tons. OF
this vast quantity The United States takes
1000, 900 tons. Of 90 per cent. and the
United Kingdom I,10o, 900 tons, ! 21
per cent. These two countries commune
hall The worlds production. All the
European continental countries take but
per cent. of the whole the rest Of THE
world, exelusiysof England and America,
Ike bat IA per cent. The consump-
onof Great Britain and Ireland ii 7s
pounds bead u lie population. the
largest sE eapisa ii the world. The
y laW sa sns fallen ENORMOUSLY
The Opelousas courier., 1889-08-31

just as much as a long n e I overheard
a young man arguing with a hackman the
other day about his bill. The price
seemed a little steep until the hackmap
explained why he charged SO much.
"My carriages all come from New
York. said he, 'sand before I can run
them have to pay $17 for a license for
each one. This is the tax paid to the
town for three months business. In New
York we can get a license for a year for
81. Besides this I have to pay the hotel
I serve $2750 a season for the privilege
of answering its calls. | tell you there
is very little money in hacking in Long
Branch" The hackman depends largely
on the custom of transient visitors. Near
ly all of the permanent guests at the
hotels and the cottages bring their own
equipages. I noticed the other day on
the avenue quite o number of well-known
people behind their own horses.
Not to men<~~the Baroness Blanc
when writing about the driving on the
avenue would be leaving out u of the
best known whips at the Branch. The
Baroness is an expert in managing horses
either from the box orin the saddle. For
years hers has been q familiar figure,
mounted on a spirited steed and whining
along at a rate that would make almost
any other woman faint to think of. This
season, however, the Baroness does not
appear on horseback. She drives q span
of sorrels to a stylish victoria in the after
noon, but it is in the morning that she
appears in the little yellow blackboard
that is so familiar to people at the
Branch.
While the wealthy are enjoying them
selves in their carriages the less fortunate
find plenty of amusement at the hotels
and cottages. Long Branch will never
be a second Coney Island. It is too far
from New York, and the necessarily high
rates of transportation keep away to a
great extent the crowds that make West
Brighton so lively. Yet the building Of
the iron pier has encouraged the Sunday
pleasure-seeker to come, and has made
that end of the Branch d little like the
popular Long Island resort. The sausage
man can DO seen now and then near the
pier, the carrousel is there, and wHpAe it
is quiet enough week days it is the l"S;i-
est spot for miles about at night and y
Sundays.
It is a remarkable thing that one sell
dom sees q drunken man. This is true of
the whole region. The policemen tell me
that the crowds are remarkably well be-
hayed and that arrests are seldom made.
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Just as soon as the evening falls visit
ors from all along the beach flock to the
West End Hotel to join in the dancing or
to watch the children dance. This is q
pretty sight. The picture of the brlli'
iantly lighted room with happy little tots
c~ircling about to the music is a familiar
one to any one who has spent an evening
at the Branch. The broad piazza outside
is crowded with onlookers in evening
dress, while proud fathers and mothera
gaze fondly al the merry little ones.
It is On ssAe piazza, wbRe the soft
music floats out from the Veaalor, that
Cupid binds his victims. 1t isteersaEha
the Young men, gathering courage per
hans in the uncertain light, talk their
sweetest, and the firls, who are there for
that purpose, LOOK their prettlest and
listen. So far thSfe have been only three
engagements whispered to confidential
friends, but from the prospects the net r.
suit of the season viii be many times threes
No such nonsense as loyenaklng
bothers the children, who seem never
theless to have the best time at the sea-
side. They romp from morning to
night. The beach is their favorite spot,
and high times they have there. Not Q
few lads and quite a number 0 sjels OF
tender years are good Swimmers and
frighten their nurses twenty times q day
!. by darling away from the life lines. lust
now baseball is enjoying the attention OF
the boys, noticed a youngster hardly
as high as the table playing billiards one
day, and he made runs Of eight and ten
quite frequently. Another little fellow
spends his time in the Ocean House
bowling alley. He disdains a small ball,
and always picks out the largest he can
ind TO roll at the pins.
The Opelousas courier., 1889-08-31

The Atlant0 Constitution says: s'Can
dor compels the sorrowfnl admission that
Georgia leads the procession Of illiterates.
I'D 1880 Georgia returned . greater num-
Der Of persons ten years old and up
ward as unable to write than any
State Id the Union. In b total popula-
Dion, ten years old and upward, Of
a,048, $40, there were whites 128, 934,
and coIored 391, 4s2, total 52o,416, who
could NOT sign their names. Alabama
shows j tota.rpf 49,, Az unable to
wrie-whites, III, 767; colorsd, 32t,-
$50. In white illiteracy Tennessee leads
with ZIG ,227, with Kentucky close by
with 2l4 4995.
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FHrs ONE DOES.

"Great scottl Where do all these
folks come from in such hot weather.
Been on the dead jump to wait on them
ever since dinner and still they come.
Do I ADVERTISED Well, I should say SO.
That's what brings these people to my
store, Costs money! Yes, Of course, but
ono dollars worth Of advertising brings
me twenty of trade, SO I don't kick.
Haven't time to talk now. But don't
forget that the live man advertises right
along and makes money by it. Good
dav. '-PittafsM (N. HI Anazseta.
The Opelousas courier., 1889-08-31

Mr.. G. heriwether, Of South Carolina,
graduate student of John Hopkins Uni
yersity, has entered the educational ser
rice Of The japanese Government as in
structor Of the English language and
literature in the second higher middle
school OF Japan at sendaI, in the northern
part Of the main island. The appoint
ment was made through the japanese
Minister in Washington and the engage
ment lasts for three years.
The Opelousas courier., 1889-08-31

1t is the mmsmorial prlvilege OF an
alien domiciled in England, if he be ar
ranged for 4 criminal offence, to demand
that he shall be tried by a jury, one-half
of which shall consist of foreigners. In
the jury which tried such a man a few
weeks ago, it was discovered near the end
of the trial that one of the members. q
Frenchman. could not really understand
English at all, and the proceeding went
for naught. a-z.-
The Opelousas courier., 1889-08-31

The United States is the wealthicst
nation in the. world, estimated per capita.
There is $3.50 of r1ealth per capita in the
United States, and 1926 per capita in
Trance. According to the area, France
is Of course much wcalthier than the
United States.
The Opelousas courier., 1889-08-31
TOM RoPERrY TOE SIZE 4

A CENTRALLY 10, ated and desirable
business stand on Main street, Opelousas.
consisting of building suitable for residence
and small store, belag the property next to
the postoffice. This property will be sold
very cheap for cash, or half cash and balance
on terms to quit purchaser. Apply to Mrs.
Edmund g. DupTe.
The Opelousas courier., 1889-08-31

When the Seminole indians Of Florida
elect a chief, they choose the biggestfght-
er and most successful hunter of the tribe.
If there happens to be a tie between two
candidates, their method of deciding it
is to have each candidate place a live coal
on his wrist. The one who finches first
loses the office.
The Opelousas courier., 1889-08-31

The man who seems to have made the
most out of the Oklahoma boom is ex-
Governor Crawford, of Kansas, who re-
ceived ten per cent. of the amount paid
to the Creek Ansdians for the lands, q
account Of his services as an attorI :
in negotiating the sale. +
The Opelousas courier., 1889-08-31

Says the Washington Star: elbow
anany girl graduates of the season have
Sritten their commencement essays on
She Coming Man, and how few will find
Sim like his portrait when he comesl".
The Opelousas courier., 1889-08-31

A Captain in the Russian Army has
been cashiered for saving the life of q
peasant woman, s'and thereby lowering
his standard as a gentleman" In this
country such an act would have raised q
soldiers ststandardn as q gentleman.
The Opelousas courier., 1889-08-31

Since the phyiloxera has SO ravaged
France, Turkey is looming up as a wine
producing country. Some of the south
ern provinces are said to be excellent as
wine growing districts, both for climate
and soil. dl
The Opelousas courier., 1889-08-31
NEW SHAVING SALOON

HAVING recently built and refurnished
IL throughout, my Barber Shop, I an
now prepared, with increased facilities, to
serve the public in irst-class style in my
new quarters between Brand and Moriarity,s i.
Shaving, Hair Cutting, Shampooing, &C.,
done in the highest style of the art. Give
me o call. E.. A BODEMULLER.
The Opelousas courier., 1889-08-31

An eminent English surgeon says that
D kiss on the lips ought to be lelt for at
least twenty minutes afterward, and
that kissing produces a sensation which
The system requires to keep it in ahealthy
a4ata
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C. D. STEWART.

CONTRACTOR, CARPENTER N BUILDER
Viii contract for the erection of buildina.
of all kinds, furnishing alimaterisi il desired
Work done promptly and at reasonable rates.
Orders through the pos5oftice given prompt
attention. Estimates and plans furnished.
Having special facilities for obtaining LBg.
BFR AT REDUCED RATES, | will give mn
patrons the benefit of the same.
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!. A. BLACK. J. 7, Moppro
BLACK g. MORRIS

General Fire Insurance and Real Po....
Agents, 's
Office: Cor. Market and Landry Sks,
VI LA.
The following Cd ana reliable comnan;,.
represented: Liverpool and London ana
Globe Insurance Company, of Englansl
Home and Niagara Insurance Companias =
New York; Fire Association, of FkiiadeInS;aa
aud Home, Is uand Mechanics and Tradea,'
Insura rec C~ofnpanies, OF New Orleans. ~
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Which Looks the Happieps
~~
I4Ft
~
TINS ONE DOESN'T ADVERTISE.

"No, | don't think it pays to advertise.
It costs money and I have none to throw
away. Besides, ] have been in business
here SO long that everybody knows me.
Gracious, how sleepy ] anil Say,
Johnny TO the boy, ! am going to take
q nap. If any customers come IN, wake
me up
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A. ?. Mcneil.
ARCHITECT AND RulkpER

UFELUUSASJ LOUISIANA,
Plans, Specifications and Estimates fur.
nished for all name of buildings, on tba
most reasonable ter1-s. Contracts taken for
all kids of work. in brick, iron, stal. and
wood. NJ ateria! furnished for repairs anS
construction if desired. Plantation and
country work attended to with dispatch. Ali
work first class and sat ~sfaction guaranteed
Orders directed to P. Q. Boy e. will receive
prompt attention. ia5tf
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Welcome Wells and his wife, of Man
haitian, Kan, have just celebrated their
pearl wedding, having been marriedin
Troy, Il. Y, sixty years ago.
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~OPELOUSAS
Female Insttiittute
OPELOUSAs, ST. LANDRY PARISH

This institution undenomiuatiop.l
tical and progressive. Discipline frn, prae.
based on sound pr,ncinlas enn1bljnp and ~ ana
ve'oping character. Honor and sslf Gnu r0a ae.
promoted. Methods Of training and cu I Pug
thorough; Tee curriculum prepares '' ths
pupil TO- University or practical fife. en- sas
sIllcaset sha Diplomas conf, rred. Bull iins.
COMFORTABLE and comr odiaus. Pstronas
solicited. For further particulars ano o1
MRS. NJ. NJ. HAYES, Prin1i;pp,ayg TO
Or Rev. +. w. LEWIS First Assistapta
Feb . I'M
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M, CARMELCONVEN

Washington, La.
U2aLa ana 1u,S,on Per month, $500
Mus. and singing ger month, M
Drawing end painting per month. y
For further information ad .ress w
THE MOTHER SUPERIOR
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Even the most demure would give more
than her old gloves just to see the inside
of n of those wicked placcs.-Ne~ Z0rs
Herald.