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The Opelousas courier., 1889-06-29
BURGLAR INSURANCE.
The Startling Suggestion Made by q Wide
Awake st. Louis Physician.

The Startling Suggestion Made by a Wide
Awake st. Louis Physician.
Why not have a burglar insurance
company? We have life, fire, acct
dent and other insurance companies;
and yet The risk of loss of life, health
or property by burglary is as great as
that from any other cause. In u
present high state of civilized life it is
an accident most likely to happen, and
is a constant and unavoidable risk. In
the West End thirty-eight burglaries
were committed within the last two
months. Any responsible company
which would undertake to indemnify
it's subscribers for such loss could
command a high premium, and an
immense patronage. Not only the
wealthy would join, but any body
who had any thing, especial
ly the large middle class, ISho
a little afford to lose what
they have. / am of the lat
ter class. l have lost by burglary
within the last four years more than
five hundred dollars worth of clothing
alone. II | had a wife and jeWelry
my loss would, of course, have been
proportionately greater. l am a care
full man, too; | pay my nightwatchman
regularly as he comes round every
month; I use political influence to have
a double police force in my part OF the
town, and / keep a dog in the back
yard so nobody a come in that way.
/ lie awake at night listening for sus-
piGious sounds, and came near shoot
ing ono of the other boarders who
came in rather 1ate the other night. l
Sit on my trunk for hours during the
day with a navy revolver in my hand.
But sometimes l have other things to
attend to, and it is always when least
expected that the burglars come to
make their collections. Sometimes
they come again the following night,
but only when they have forgotten
something. Seldom is any thing re-
covered, and when something is re-
turned IBIS generally by the burglars
generosity, which prompts them to re-
turn heirlooms, or. perhaps, their lack
of sentiment does not allow them to
appreciate heirlooms. If we overlook
the shortcomings of a burglar we can
see that he serves a good purpose as
well as every thing else in creation.
He serves indirectly to secure work for
the locksmith. the tailor, the jeweler,
profit to the secondhand clothing
dealer and support to a numerous and
stately police force. A company has
been formed which offers to put tele-
graph facilities into every house for
$12 a year, by which n a ca. q
mounted police officer every time a
burglar is in the hous,N. 1t is hoped
that the horse will frigh on tho burg
lar. But this company does not in
demnify the housekeeper when the
burglar has packed up and gone with
the goods. Therefore a burglar insur-
ance company is a pressing necessity.
st. Louis Globe-Democrat.
The Opelousas courier., 1889-06-29
FADs in PHOTOGRAPHY.
The Feminine Craze of Having the Hand
and Arms Pictur ed.

The Feminine Craze of Having the Hands
and Arms Pictur led.
THE craze for having the hands and
arms photographed" says a local
lis rapidly growing. People
seem suddenly to have awakened to
the fact that there are almost as many
meanings in the different poses of the
hand as there are in the face. The
study of palmistry in it's general
features is no more than the study of
dramatic expression. Every one knows,
if he thinks a moment, that the hands
in~voluntarily assume expressions that
guitesemotions just as the face does
when it is given full play; but this
idea with nei"er hands, nor faces has
yet been half worked Ip by photog-
raphers. 1t can be done only as
rapidly as the popular notsSn of beauty
approaches nearer true beauty. 7The
usual idea of the girl who wants her
hands or arms taken o is to find the
pose suited to the sweetest possible re-
pose. 1t is intended to picture the
beauty of dreamy thoughtfulness. And
they are ty~rannical, you know. They
look at their arms or hands in the mir
ror by the hour, studying every curve,
the position of every finger, how far to
bend each knuckle, and when they
have gotten the arm and hand where
they want them the result is a picture
of studied vacancy of thought.
"A lady came in the other day with
two very original and captivating no.
tions which we proceeded to carry out.
Her arm was dressed for the picture so
that just the bud OF a sleeve vas to be
seen at th1 shoulder. After it was
done we fixed the broad shoulder of a
heroic-looking dummy man in view of
the camera and on his coat placed a
conspicuous little piece of white cot
Ton thread. I took the picture just as
she was in the act of plucking the
string d~elicately and tenderly from the
coat-just the instant before the poised
Gshumb and finger closed upon it. Thus
you see she has the picture of a great
and universal dramatic situation. Her
arm and fingers, instead Of being found
In the pose of supreme vanity and USE
lessness are seen in the pose that be-
speaks an act of poetic usefulness.
The other idea was Numerically op.
posed to that one. We placed the
dummy man across the room toward
the door outside of the cameras range.
The lady stood so that the full length
of her extended arm would take.
Pointing her finger at the poor dummy
sutton she said "go!" with all the en-
phasis at q naughty, indignant maid
ems command, and just where the
emotional impulse reached a climax in
the force of the gesture / caught the
picture Of the baud and arm. Now,
you 9 the lady has two pictures that
are brimful of meaning.
well, this idea can be applied to
the taking of hands and arms in a
thousand different poses representing
whatever is tile highest thought in the
iady's mind.
THE gesture Of the hand. AS it would
The Opelousas courier., 1889-06-29
!. PRACTICAL EDUCATION.
How to Satisfy the ver-Growing Demand
for Hard Facts.

How to Satisfy the Ever-Growing Demand
for Hard Facts.
While we have never insisted that
work-benches will be introduced into
every district school in our land. we
do insist, and have insisted for years,
on the introduction of sense-exercises
and sensible expressions of ense-ex
ercises in every school, high and low,
rich and poor. We are living in an
age of realism. Theories are at a dis
count. Hard facts are in demand.
The education that touches the life
that is, is highly valued. In this ma
terial age of ours we must not lose
sight of the spiritual. but we must also
not lose sight of the fact that the
spiritual of the present la~rgelr2comes
through the material, and that
by the material the true
spiritual life of an individual
becomes practical, earnest and useful.
We believe in God, but we also believe
in man. We believe in the Kingdom
of God, but we believe also that to the
kingdom of man He has committed the
care of this lower world. Here In the
midst of things we fight the battle OF
life, and it is by e of things thai
we handle, see, feel, taste and smell;
and so become lifted above the ma
teriality of the world, into higher.
spiritual, earnest, practical. CT Amon.
sense religion. The great heart of the
world throbs in unison with the work.
ing men in it. The time for lazy, Dig
niied do-nothings has passed away,
and the time of active, earnest labor
ers in the shops, OF the farms, among
the mountains, and in the rooms where
the thinking is done, has fully come.
We r going to say, over and ov r
again many more times, life is real.
Let us make it so in all our schools
School journal.
The Opelousas courier., 1889-06-29
a1ER ENGAGEMENT RING.
First the Bashful Fiancee Tries to Hide
It, But She Soon Grows Bold.

First the Bashful Fiancee Tries to Hide
1t, But IN Soon Grows Bold.
Did you eve have q chance to OBJ
serve. ~unobserved, a young woman's
conduct toward her newly-acquired en-
gagement ring? It seems so strange
upon her hand that she can not refrain
examining it a dozen times an hour,
always, however, on the sly. On the
first night she sits up an hour later
than usual to admire it boldly in the
seclusion Of her own apartment. A
frequent kiss is administered to the
shining band and its ~glittering gem,
and during the night she dreams that
it has fallen into a stream, and awakes.
clutching the finger to assure herself
that the precious pledge is still secure.
Then, on the following day, she
wears it only In secret, taking care to
transfer it to her pocket at table and
when in the company OF init
mates, but place her among strangers
Or among casual acquaintance who
can not be inquisitive, and how brave
ly will she faunt the token before
their eyes as n who should say:
81 may not be the lovliest creature
in the world, but you will observe that
/ get there all the same"
Gradually it assumes it's place in
her daily life, and her bushes grow
less violent with each Lcceeding ex-
plauation of its insignificance and each
extravagant description of its donors
attributes. But I9fore it finally be-
comes a part of herself, as it were, she
must, of course, leave it a dozen times
at least upon the washstand. and suf-
fer in consequence of a dozen violent
attacks of palpatation of the heart TN
til it is recovered Post
The Opelousas courier., 1889-06-29
MOTHER.

In all the ~world-go where you will
Youth never find another
Who'll stick to you through good or i'll
And love you like-a mother.
In all the world-where e'er you roam @
With sister, wife or brother,
You'll never know so sweet o home
AS that one made by-mother.
In all the world-though wealth commando
For you the work of others
You'll never find a pair of banda
To toll for you like-mother's.
In all the world-although you should
In riches nearly smother
You'll taste no cooking half so good
AS that prepared by-mothH
In all the world-though friends sincere
And more to you than brothers
You'll never for a moment hear
A voice so kind as-mother's.
In all the world-although you break
The tender he 'rts OF others,
There is no heart can ever ache
For you as much as-mother's.
In all the world-though you create
A pleasure for another,
You can give none a joy SO great,
AS you can give to-mother.
In all the world-although a wife
May you in goodpass smother,
There's none who'll Acrihce o life
For you as quick as-mother.
In all the world-where you in bliss,
May soon forget another,
There is no one whom you will miss,
When she is gone, like-mother.
H. c. Dodge, in Detroit Free Press.
The Opelousas courier., 1889-06-29
A BEARS VISIT.
He Hunts for Eatables In q Kentucky
School-House.

He Hunts for Eatables In o Kentucky
School-House.
Miss Sarah Jarvis teaches the Mount
Welcome school in the northwestern
part of the county, twelve miles from
here, says a letter from Barboursville,
Ky. That region is mountainous and
wild and the school building is pitched
at the foot of a high mill covered with
den Sc forest. The old-fashioned SPELL
ing bee is still popular in this part of
the State, and it is also a practice at
the school Friday evening to divide the
pupils into two classes and allow them
to spell against each other. Miss JAR
Wis has adhered religiously to this
custom. One Friday evening there
was the usual spelling match at Miss
Jarvis school. The building in which
she teaches is of logs, with several
windows coming down within two
feet of the ground. The match
had been Of more than usual
interest, the strength of the two
sides being pretty nearly equal. One
of the pupils had just spelled such a
long and difficult word that the others
had applauded. AS the noise ceased
there vas a scratching sound at one of
the windows in the e Of the house.
go drive that dog away" said Miss
Jarvis to one of the boys. The boy
walked back to the window, showed up
the sash, and leaned out to strike at
the animal. When he tfrsust his head
out he gave a yell and rushed back to
the middle of the room.
Startled by the boys action Miss
Jarvis herself ran toward the window
to see what was the matter. Before
she reached it a black, hairy head was
thrust into the aperture. and she plain
~ recognized a black bear. Toe
pupils. too, saw the animal. There
vas a stampede at once. ALI rushed
for the door, and in a moment were ont
of the room and the s~chool-houss.
Miss Jarvis is a cool woman, AID
she retained her GOODNESS. she
took care of the younger children and
kept the crowd together. When che
saw that they were not followed by the
bear the alarm subsidized.
Jake Woodson, a farmer, lives abJa,t
a mile from the Mount Welcome schsol
building, and Miss Jarvis informed
him of the raid of the bear. Jake
shouldered his rife and, followed ov
his nineteen-year-old son Henry, who
had a double-barreled shotgun, went
to the school-house. He found the
door open and the bear on his launches
in the middle of the room placi6ly
chewing several spelling books and
first readers. A single shot from
Jake's rife dispatched him. The bear
was not a large one and was also very
thin, evidently having been on short
rations for some time. Woodson, who
is an old woodsman, says that the boar
had been forced by hunger to CONE
down from the thick forests on The
hill.-Louisyille Courier-Journal.
The Opelousas courier., 1889-06-29
H HUMAN BODY.
Chemical Elements and Compounds OF
Which 1t Is Made Up.


/ Which 1t Is Made Up.
One of the most interesting cOllec-
lions in the National Museum at WASH
ington is that composed of specimens
and charts illustrating the composition
of our bodies and OF the foods which
nourish them. These specimens and
charts were explained recently in a
lecture by Prof. W. 0. Atwater. Upon
the platform were arranged a large
number of bottles. These, the lectur-
err explained, contained specimens of
the chemical elements and compounds
of which bodies are made upsx Oxygen
| forms one-fifth of the air and about
sixty-two per cent of the body, so that
the body of an average man, say a man
weighing one hundred and forty-eight
pounds, contains about ninety-two and
one-half pounds of oxygen.
The quantity of hydrogen in the
| body of such a man is about fourteen
| and one-half pounds. and in the form
| of gas would fill about twenty-six hun
dred cubic feet; in other words, the
hydrogen in a mans body, if set free
In the form of gas, would fill q room
esenty feet long, thirteen feet wide
and ten feet rgh. The same body
contains about thirty-one pounds of
carbon. These two elements, there
fore, together make up about n hum
dred and th~1rty-eight of the one hum
1red and forty-eight pounds
The principal compound is water.
More than one-half the weight of our
bones, three-quarters of the weight of
our muscles and seven-eighths of our
blood, or about three-fifths theNweight
of the whole body, are water. :
Besides water. muscle, bones and
skin contain what chemists call ''pro-
teine" compounds. These consist
mainly of four chemical clements:
carbon, oxygen, hydrogen and nitro
gen. The albumen, or white of egg,
the caseine-curd-of milk, and myo-
sin, the basis of muscle, L proteine
compounds.
When country boys chew wheat, and
get what they call "wheat-gum," they
make a sort of chemical analysis in
their mouths, separating out the starch
and sugar, and some of the other IN
gradients of wheat. The residue,
which they call wheat-gum. consists
chiefly of gluten, a proteine substance.
A bottle containing about twenty
bounds ~ fo1lor xror c1onwn IN il111G-
trate the fat in the average mans
body. Fat forms about fifteen per
cent. of the whole weight of the aver
age adult. The bodies of stout people
have more fat, and those Of lean peo-
pie less.
Our foods, like our bodies, contain
water, proteine and fats, and also tive
other classes of compounds: carbon.
drates and mineral matters. Starch
and sugar are carbohydrates. Vege-
table foods. such as wheat, corn and
potatoes, contain a large proportion
of carbohydrates. In meats the pro-
portion of carbohydrates is small.
There are small quantities of carbo-
hydrotes in the hum N body. Thus
~inosite, sometimes allied muscle
sugar'-a substance (bmewhat similar
to ordinary SUGARS found in the
muscles and other parts of the body.
Our bones and Peeeth contain a great
deal of phosphate of lime and other
mineral substances. There are min
eral matters in all parts of the body
and in all our foods. -Youth's Com
The Opelousas courier., 1889-06-29
RELIC OF CROMWELL.

A Cup to E~Dgland's Only PrEsis
dent to Be Sold by Auction.
One of the links that connect the
present with the Cromwellian era in
England will soon be sold by auction
in London. 1t is a massive silver eup
covered with handsome engraving,
and belongs to Mrs. Riscom, of Billion.
Rugby. The curio has been the bone
of contention in several legal suits in
stituted to gain possession of it, and
its history is an interesting one, bring
ing, as it does. prominent actors on
the stage of the seventeenth century
before the footlights OF the present
age.
It was originally presented by Oliver
Cromwell to his son-in-law, Henry
Ireton. who in 1916 gave it to Dame
Ursula Whorewood. 1t then descend
ed al a family heirloom to the late DR..
Whorewood, of Willoughby, Rugby.
He died about five years ago, 0nd by
his will the cup was to have gone to
the then Lord Sherborne, but his lord
ship had ~predeceased the doctor. Mr..
Riscom, a great friend of the doctor,
came into possession OF the household
effects and claimed the cup, opposing
the claim asserted by the heir of the
Lord Sherborne mentioned in the will.
The courts decided. after several
trials, IN favor of MIR. Riscom, who
having since died, his widow is the
present owner. it is expected to bring
several thousand pounds, and has just
been put on view in London. london
Globe.
The Opelousas courier., 1889-06-29
T N POINT.

1t is only the unlucky who think
fortune blind.
Dignity is expensive, and, without
other good qualities, is not particular
ly profitable.
Every thing is smooth sailing with
us when we have no difficulty in rails
ing the wind.
Character like porcelain-ware,
must be painted before it is glazed.
There can be no changes OF color after
it is burned in.
Because a man sleeps well Is no
sign that he has an easy conscience.
He may have got tired out committing
sin.-Somerville Journal.
Pay your bill twice rather than go
to law. There are as many lawyers
clamoring for the wrong as there are
lawyers clamoring for the right
Atchison Globe.
1t is only natural that the man who
never has time to do any thing never
seems to get any thing done.-Mer-
chant Traveller.
1t amt true dat sorrow 'velops all
de good p'ints O. Ell man, fur de pusson
dat grows up in sorrow is like de stalk
O. con dat grows up in de shade. He
mout be jest ez tall, but he won't be
nigh so healthy Traveller.
Some men will not shave on Sab
bath, and yet they spend all the week
in shaving their fellow-men; and many
think it very wicked to black their
boots on Sabbath morning, yet they
do not hesitate to black their neigh
boris reputation on week days
Beecher.
When Drexilius was asked by a
friend how he could do so much as he
had done he answered: The year has
three hundred and sixty-five days, or
eight thousand four hundred and sixty
hours; in so many hours great things
may be done; the slow tortoise made a
long journey by losing no time
Bishop Horne.
"A life without suffering would be
like a picture without shade. The
pets of Nature, who do not know what
suffering is can not realize it, have al
ways a certain rawness. like foolish
landsmen who laugh at the terrors OF
the oceau because they have neither
experience enough to know what those
terrrors are, nor brain enough to
imagine them.-Hamerton.
"A difference between honorable
and dishorable competition Is the con-
duct of the victor to the vanquished.
Some men rise above others only to
crush them-others to lift and exalt
them. Some boast with noisy triumph
and scorn those who r left behind;
others have "a way Of making people
fesl comfortable" One artist who has
risen high in public favor uses his in
fluence to %depreciate the works of his
brother artists; another takes them
by the hand and gives them cour-
age for fresh endeavors.
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say: 'Yot are welcomed IS it would
repel d d~isagreeable advance; as 1t
would dash O. tennis racket; as it would
take q teacup and pour tea; as it would
hold out food to a canary bird-there
are tens of thousands of poses that
will be used by ladies with beautiful
arms and hands In the new craze. ~
PHILADELPHIA Inquirer.
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-.Rell. Well.n unused the lovelorn

well, welI.n unused the lovelorn
youth. I'm in a fix. II / marry
Mabel. people will say that / married
her for her money; and If / suddenly
give her up, from conscientious mo
tives, people will say that she Tilted
me because ] am poor. I guess I'll
brave opinion and pronosa Mt op3en
Harper's Bazaar.
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my idea of q moral hero" said
Whackby, sis a mar who speaks what
he thinks" '.No," said Cooler, 'lt's
a man who speaks what you think w.
Lewiston journal
The Opelousas courier., 1889-06-29
PROPERTY FOR SALE

A CENTRALLY located and desirable CON cor.
IN ness stand on Main street, opeioodasnce and
small store. being the property next ext 10 ye ery
postofice. This property will pc sqsI on
cheap for cash, or half cash ana Hrs' I'd
terms to suit purchaser. Apply .U,oh.slN
mond q. Dupre. -"
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what more vicious buck.
sour attention was SO fully taken
up with the little brute that we did
not appreciate how rapidly our enc
mics were gaining upon us until they
were actually around us. The scout
had dropped his rifle, and the first
Comanche to arrive grabbed mine, and
as the others arrived they grouped
themselves about us, and gave express
sion to their evident enjoyment of the
scene in low chuckles and a~ppreciative
grunts. Had the situation been less
serious I should have laughed myself,
for we must have presented a truly
ludicrous appearance.
s.Sly Fox gave a sudden leap off OF
the pony. but before he had gone two
steps was seized, and his knife wrested
from his hand. The Indians led us
captiyes back to their camp, and
gathering in the now scattered ponies,
started with us toward their village.
I was allowed to ride my horse, but
Sly Fox had to foot it, his right hand
tied to the saddle of one of our cap
tors.
.About noon the next day we neared
the village. Groups of bucks and
squaws came out to meet us. and vel
coined us most warmly, the former
with brutal congratulations for our
captors. and the latter with graphic
descriptions OF the pleasure that they
would have In tortrring us.
Sour hands and feet we're tied, and
the thong made fast to q wooden post
planted in the ground, and here we
were compelled to lie in the hot sun,