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The Opelousas courier., 1889-11-02

Mrs. Leyland was born i'll Cleveland
and is t~wenty-four years of age. Her
father is of English descent, but his
father and grandfather were born in
Brattleboro, vt. The bride is described
as m%arvelously handsome, and it has
been frequently asserted that her pictures
do not give an adequate idea of her
beauty, much of which consists in her
splendid complexion and wonderful
eyes. The cut which heads this article
is from a splendid photograph, by Men
delseohn, of London. The brides friends
say that even this picture did not reflect
the charms of color or the animated eA-
preston of countenance which wonder
fully enhance her attractiyeness.
Her complexion has been ecstatically
described to be a translucent blending of
pink and white. Her eyes are liquid
blue, shaded by dark lashes, dreamy in
repose, sparkling in conversation. Her
hair is lighter than brown, with a de-
cided suggestion of gold in the wealth of
~tresses, which forms a contrast with the
eyes and delicately marked eyebrows.
Her features are of classic Greoian cast.
In stature she is above the medium height,
and connoisseurs have said that her figure
is faultless, neither spare nor stout, but
symmetrically rounded.
The bride inherits her good looks and
gentle manners from a father who is a
man of culture, and a mother of hand
some countenance, which is stamped with
tokens of amiable disposition and intel
lectual force. The Chamberlains have
resided off and on in England for nearly
o dozen years. The American beauty, as
Miss Chamberlain was well known, and
her people have been frequent guests at
Sandringham, the home of the heir to the
English throne. Her portrait has been
hung in the Grosvenor Gallery, and an
exquisite bust in marble by the sculptor
D'Epigny has been exhibited in Rome as
a companion piece to the bust of the EN-
press of Russia.
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In answer to the lady who asked Tor
recipes for "Old-fashioned. Cake" mace
without baking powder or drugs Of any
kind, I would say, writes the household
editor of the New York Observer, that L
never use anything of the kind, never
fail with my cakes which I make as my
mother did before me. For pound cake
[ take three-quarters of a pound best but
ter, work till soft with a broad-bladed
knife, then add three-quarters Of apound
of %granulated sugar, beat to a cream seven
eggs, beat separately, add the yolks to
the butter and sugar, then the whites,
then stir in gradually three-quarters OF a
pound of sifted flour, flavor with a tea
spoonful of essence of vanilla, beat all to-
gether one way for twenty or twenty-five
minutes. Bake in a well buttered Turks
head in a moderate oven n hour, test!
with a straw. A half-pound of currents,
well washed and dried, will make a fine
currant cake, and will keep fora week or
two in stone covered pot. If this is liked
will send others.
The Opelousas courier., 1889-11-02

Company after company was organ
lied in Russia for the purpose OF hunting
over these new grounds as soon as the
discovery was made known. No re-
striction was placed upon their slaughter,
with the result that In less than twenty
years the seal was well nigh exterminated
from the Commander Islands. In 1886 the
| Pribylov Islands were discovered. Their
d~iscoyerer, Gehrman Pribylov, was the
commander of a small sloop named the
St. George, in which he had searched for
these islands for three weary years. He
named one of them st. George, after his
vessel. and the other st. Paul, after his
patron saint. Here he found the great
| breeding place of the seal.
The slaughter went on for nearly q
century until, in 1868, the Pribylov
Islands became part of the United States
| by virtue of the purchase Of Alaska from
Russia. During this period there had
been spasmodie attempts at restriction
both at the Commander and at the Prlby-
Low Islands, but it was not until the
| Alaska Commercial Company was formed
in 1870, that a system was adopted which
seems to have proved successful for the
protection of the seal during breeding
time. It is to protect this system that
the United States maintains that Behring
| Sea is q closed sea.
In 1870 Congress passed q law for the
protection Of the seal, and in accordance
with its provisions placed the islands ull-
der the control Of the Alaska Commercial
Company, the highest bidder for the
privilege. BY the provisions of the law
the Alaska Commercial Company are for
hidden to kill more than 100 1000 seals
annually. These must be killed in June,
duly and September. For this privilege
the Alaska Company pays q tax Of $2.62aa
! on each skin, and an additional $50, 00o
per annum as rental, Their leases was
for twenty years and viii expire p May,
1890.
The Opelousas courier., 1889-11-02

! The New York Sun is of the opinion
that the law that prohibits the landing of
certain kinds Of undesirable immigrants
at our ports is apt to work harshly at
times in New York. For example, a few
days ago two Arabs were found atCastle
Garden, n Of them named Ben Josef
and the other Mohammed Ben Abdel
Hirnir, who had come here to seek en-
ployment as camel drivers. The PENN
less Arabs were In despair when told that
we have no such industry as camel driv-
ing in New York, and thatthe" were un-
welcome guests in the land of the star,
.spangled banner. The Collector gave or
ders that they should be sent back across
the ocean in the ship which brought them
here. Surely this was hard upon tht
Arab camel drivers.
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BY a recent act Of Congress the new
lease must be made at the rate of S.. 50
per skin, the annual rental to be fixed by
competition among the bidders for the
lease. The present arrangements has been
a profitable one for both the Government
and the ~lessees. The Government has
received during the period covered by
the lease over 81, 000, 900 in taxes and
rentals, while the Alaska Company has
made fortunes for all of its mem
bers. The effect ON the seal has been
beneficial in the extreme, there being
three or four times as many on
the Pribylov Islands now as there were
then. The natives, too, have prohted
by it. There are less than 40O people
on both islands, their only means OF sup
port beng the fisheries. They are paid
forty cents for each ski and their aver
age wage is about $500 per annum, not
bad when it is remembered that they are
idle nine months in the year. The Alaska
Commercial Company has also bought
from the Russian Government the sole
right to kill seals in the Commander ISL
anus. FROM LIS SOuICU tuCy SdUASA
about 45, 900 skins annually. Add to
this number the 100, 600 killed in the
Pribylov group and you have practically
the whole number of skins collected each
year.
1t must not be supposed that the seals
are Eat the Pribylov Islands during the
entire year. They only come during the
breeding season, which lasts from early
in May until late in September. Where
they come from no man knows. The
first to make their appearance ON the
breeding grounds are the bulls, who come
both singly and In droves from about
May 1 until the end Of the season. They
land with perfect confidence and without
a show of fear. Upon their arrival the
bulls, which are then as fat as butter,
take up their position as near the waters
edge as possible. If they prove strong
enough to withstand the attacks of those
of their fellows who come after
them, they stay where they are; If not
they must move back-'take a back seat
as it were.
The Opelousas courier., 1889-11-02


The South must have the best of
everything that will lend to its economic
industrial development, and there is
no one thing that can lend more to this
economic development than electricity.
This marvellous force is the most mobile,
convenient and economical agency for
for the distribution of energy in the In
dustrial world. It has all the virtues of
both steam and water, without the ae-
eompanying bulkiness, smoke, dust CT
noise, and there is nothing in it to ex-
plode or give way. It can be used on
the spot where it is generated, or it can
BE transported twenty miles or moro.
Most important of all to a busy commu-
nifty, with its numerous small industries,
it costs much less than an equal capac-
ity Of steam. An Important factor IN
his economy is that electricity, unlike
steam, can be used over and over, so to
speak, the same as water q in q noun
tain stream.-Manufactugess' Record.
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as it were.

With the advent of the cows is pre-
sented q strong contrast between the males
and females, not only in size and shape,
buJ IN disposition. The cow is as dove
like and amiable as the bull is saturnine
and ferocious. The cow seal is much
smaller and much more shapely in its
proportions than is the bull. They are
not more than one-fourth as large nor de
they show any of that terrible emancia-
ton in the latter part of the season dis
played by the bulls. The reason for this
lies In their going to sea every few days,
leaving their young to take care OF them
| selves while they are gone for several
DAYS at a time in search of food. Their
| coat is much more beautiful than that OF
the bull, being of a rich steel and maltese
gray luster on tie back of the head and
neck and along the spine, blending into
| almost a snow white on the chest and abb
domen. The head and eye of the female
are exceedingly beautiful. Her express
| sion is really attractive, gentle and intel
| ligent, and as she perches upon a rock
she is the perfect picture of benignity and
satisfaction.
The seal pup, when born is q little
mite of a thing, but within a few minutes
| after its birth finds that it has a powerful
voice which it uses in giving vent to q
most pathetic and never ending bleat.
They receive but little attention from
the mother seal, who only approaches
her offspring at twenty-four hour inter-
walls. She cares but little for it allowing
it to be removed or even killed under her
very nose without a protest. The pups,
left to themselves, get together like a
great swarm of bees and spread out on
J the ground, in what the sealers call
stpods," keeping well away from the
water at first, for a pup can swim no
better than can a bar of lead.
The killing completed, the task of skin
ming begins. The labor here involved is
very severe demanding long practice be-
fore the muscles of the back are SO de-
veloped rs to permit a man to bend down
to and finish well a fair days work. The
body Of the seal preparatory to skinning
is rolled over and balanced aquarely on
its back. The native then makes q sin.
gle swift cut from the lower jaw to the
root of the tail. A circular ~incision is
then made around the fippers. Selling
a flap of the skin on one side of the alb
domen the workman cuts the skin free
from the body, lifting it as he goes,
rolling the body out of the skin on the
sand as the operation proceeds.
A good hand can strip q seal in les
than a minute. No skin is left on the
carcass save a small patch at the muzzle
and tail. The skins all gathered, the.
are taken from the field to the salt house
where they are laid out one upon th'
other chair to fat" with salt p~rofusely
spread upon the feshy sides. Thus theI
lie for two OF three weeks, when the.
become picked and are ready for ship
ment. This. however. docs not usually
begin until the last week Of the season
when the skins are corded into package
of two each with the hair outside. These
packages are in turn packed into hogs
heads containing twenty to forty skins
in which shape they are sent to Londol
to be dyed.
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The Opelousas courier., 1889-11-02
THE SEAL FISHERS.
HOW THE ALASKA SEAL IS
HUNTED AND KILLED.
The Right to Catch Seals-The Breed
ing G~rounds-The Time for
Killing Seals-Value
of the Skins.

Great Britain is quite as much inter
ested in the preservation of the seal fish
cries Of Alaska as is the United States.
Russia's interest is equal to that Of either
of them. All three of these nations de-
rive a handsome revenue from the catch
of the seal, that of the United States and
Russia lying in a tax on the catch itself,
while England gets hers through the
preparation of the skins for market.
The Pribylov Islands belonging to the
United States and the Commander
Islands belonging to Russia are p%racti-
cally the only seal fisheries in the world.
They are all under the control of an
American company, and supply more
than ninety-flve per cent. of the annual
seal catch. All Of these skins, the only valu-
The Opelousas courier., 1889-11-02
A. Ten-year-old Bull.
3. Full grown Cow.
G. Three-year-old Bachelor"
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A. Ten-year-old Bull.
3. Full grown Cow.
G. Three-year-old Bachelor"
D. A Pup.
able part of the seal, are shipped to
London, where a very large percentage
of them, virtually indeed the entire pro-
duct, are first sold in the raw state and
then dyed. This dyeing of seal skins is
purely an English industry, and Eng
lands government always protects Eng
lands industries. She realizes only too
clearly that seal poaching can never be-
come a source of profit to more than a
handful of her citizens, and will there
fore interpose NO objections to its sup
preston.
The animal about whose preservation
so much has recently been said is properly
more widely and at the same time less
intimately known than any other Of
natures creatures. Every woman who
wears a sealskin coat knows in a gen.
eral way that the skins of which it is
made are scarce and hard to procure.
Her husband OF father knows in q specific
way that they are expensive. But how
many of them know just why they are
scarce and expensive? How many OF
them know, for instance, that there are
two kinds of seal, the hair seal and the
fur scala That the skin of the hair seal
is absolutely worthless when compared
with that of the fur seal, and is never
made into cioaks. It is coarse and
rough, and is generally tanned and used
for the manufacture of pocket-books,
satchels, handbags, gloves and coach
mans capes. The hair seal is found
everywhere, while the fur seal are prac-
tically confined to the Behring Sea.
Hundreds of thousands of hair seals arc
captured every year in the Northern At
lantic Ocean, while 80 far as is known
the fur seal has never been seen there.
There was a time, however, when the fur
seal was found almost everywhere else.
Seals formerly abounded in the South
ern seas. Ships were laden to the waters
edge with the skins only to bring noml-
nal prices in the glutted markets Of the
world, but for all that the butchery never
stopped until the victims were virtually
extermiuated, so far as the Southern seas
are concerned. Whether those perse-
cuted, helpless creatures were all killed
off, or whether they took refuge in Beh-
ring Sea, is not known. Certain it is,
however, that Vitus Behring and his
yenturesome crew, having been ship.
wrecked in 1741 on the then unknown
Commander Islands, found there millions
upon millions of seals.
The Opelousas courier., 1889-11-02

{ An official statement as to the growth.
of our new navy shows that since March,
1885, twenty-six vessels have been pro-
gided for by Congress, exclusive of the!
Eve dou~ble-turreted monitors that were.
already building. Of these twenty-sixi
ships the Yorktown alone is in commits
sion; the Charleston, the Baltimore, the
Petrol, and the Vesuvius have been
launched, and all except the Baltimore
have had their steam trials. When these
ships are all completed-say three years
hence-we shall have q navy about as
powerful as that of Germany at the present
time. Considering the fact that we had
40 s~hip-hnilding plant and 10 gun-foun-
dry capable Of building and arming these
ships five years ago, the progress made.
says .FFask Les1se's Newspaper, is not un-
satisfactory.
The Opelousas courier., 1889-11-02
HOW TO ROAST MEATS.

Good beef should have a bright red
color not too dark, dry and tender to the
touch, fat, and with a smooth, open
grain. ,
In roasting meats one of the principal
points is to have it as juicy as possible. :
Wash the meat in cold water, wipe
dry, SINCE with a hot iron, then place in
a dripping pan; the top with a
layer of suet one-half inch thick; add
drippings to the pan until n inch deep;
the pan should be at least four inches
deep; place in a hot oven and slightly in
crease the heat until done; allow thirty
minutes for first pound and fifteen min
utes for each additional pound. When
done remove to a hot plate. Add coup
Of hot water to the pan, after draining
off the drippings let boil two or three
minutes; then thicken with one table
spoonful of butter, mixed with flour;
add white pepper and salt to taste. Mush-
rooms, oysters, chopped pickles or any
flavor can be added to this gravy. Another
way is to wash, place in pan, add one
cup of hot water and place at once in a
hot oven, turn over until nicely Drowned
on all sides; remove to a hot platter, pour
the drippings off, add Il cup of sweet
milk, let boil one minute, thicken with
one t%easpoonful of flour and n Of but
ter, let boil one or two minutes and then
add salt, white pepper and cinnamon. It
is then ready to serve. A French way of
roasting beef is to take a sirloin roast,
mix salt, pepper, cinnamon and cloves
together, then, with a narrow bladed
knife, make missions about one inch deep
on all sides of the meat; put a little of
the spice in each with a small slice of gar
lie, and then roast as directed above
Detroit Free Press.
The Opelousas courier., 1889-11-02

dvelne them is tedious and expensive, re-
curing a great amount Of skill and ex"
perience. The dye, too, is in the main
a secret which is possessed almost entirely
by English houses, although there are
two or three American concerns who 90
splendid work. Their output, however,
is so insignificant, that London may be
said to have a virtual monopoly of the
trade. All sales of raw skins are now
made in that city, which fact may have
a great deal to do with London's monop-
oily. The average price of a raw skin in
London is $40. After they are dressed
they will readily bring $25 each.-Aa@
aud Express.
The Opelousas courier., 1889-11-02
Peculiar Names for Railroad Cars.

A Port Jervis investigator has learned
that Erie men have a nomenclature for all
kinds of cars and engines, and that these
names extend over the entire road and
branches. "Black Marias" are Pennsyl-
yania coal cars, which are painted q jet
black. The Wotten engines with the
double cabs are called 'sCamel Backs OF
Hog Scalders." The various classes of
coal cars are named as follows: Long
Johns, Exclusives, Standard, Black
1Iarias and Jimmies. The "Long Johns"
are the gondola-shaped cars with sides,
ssBlack Marias'' are mentioned above,
Exclusive are the twenty-ton cars and
are used exclusively for the Delaware and
Hudson coal, siStandards' are twenty
five ton cars and are the present Erie
standard coal cars, and sSJimmies" are
the foar-wheeled dumps, of which there
are but few in use.-1owanda Penn
EecieD.
The Opelousas courier., 1889-11-02

The British Government is in receipt
of an official communication from the
State Department at Washington, invit-
Ing the cooperation of England in talk
Ing measures to prevent the spread of in
fictitious diseases. The same communities
tion, it is understood, has been sent to
the other European powers, and con-
tains q proposal that well known plague
c~enters, liable from their commercial re-,
lations with the world - diffuse the
germs of cholera, yellow fever and
similar pests, shall be declared obnoxious
10 humanity, and the Governments into
whose territory they are situated shall be
called upon to cleanse them TO the satis-
factien-ef an international commission
appointsd to aPeaaaalG inspect. Losd
Salisbury says that England win do
everything in her power for the further
ance of such an object. .4>.
The Opelousas courier., 1889-11-02
Chief Matches and the aRgn Language.

Although there are s~eSSMssahree dit.
ferent languages and about 500 dialects
spoken by the American Indians, the
sign language is equally understood by all
the tribes. Chief Matches of the Pluto
tribe is an adept in the "sign language"
In Washington city, some years ago, he
held a consultation by signs with the best
experts, in which he gave an account of
the troubles existing at that time with
some bands of renegade Indians up near
the Oregon line, describing a trip he
made to the camp of the hostiles. Matches
enjoys the almost solitary honor of hav-
ing had his talk published in the Govern
ment reports on these matters, with full
explanation of every sign he used in o n
veying the intelligence sought from him.
He was highly spoken of by the Govern.
ment experts for his great knowledge OF
and readiness in the Indian sign Ian.
guage.-N Virginia (Nee.) Enterprise.
The Opelousas courier., 1889-11-02

q There il something suggestive, AYERS
The Leavenworth (Kan.) Times, In the de-
alterations with which the several In
dian tribes are considering propositions
b. open their reservations to white set
tiers. The savages begin to see their Ina
bility to stay the mighty waves Of civil
ization which are rolling westward as the
Star Of Empire leads the way Of progress
En that direction, and rather than be
overwhelmed by the rush Of thousands
seeking homes there, and involved In
bloody conflicts against unequal numbers,
kheg are ready to sell their lands and
yield ID the inevitable sur to follow in
The absorption Of the Q Whenever
counsel can be gwen to influence the In
SLAMS to adopt this course the admonition
will be in the interest Of peace and the
safety Of person on the prairie. The red
man must now be absorbed, not exter-
minated He must be accepted and
treated - . fsllow-citizen and . brother,
and gradually be made to understand his
business rights and how to maintain
fheEn. Under such d policy oil Indian
Territory will BE- made 10 inure TO the
highest possible benefits for the Indians.
The wamen among the tribes see this,
and their counsels are winning their
brethren 70 the adoption 81 ! course that
viii bring them nearer Id business rela-
Lions and social intercourse to white mel
than they ever we're since the discovery
If khs country BIZ the bold Norseman
mnsa.
The Opelousas courier., 1889-11-02
An American Beauty WEEDS an Eng
1ishman,

Miss Jennie S. Chamberlain, second
daughter of Mr.. Chamberlain, of Cleve-
land, Ohio, was married recently in St.
Georges Church, London, to Captain
Herbert Naylor Leland. The bride wore
white satin, with silver and pearl orna-
ments. Her sister Josephine was brides
maid. The presents included a brooch IN
the shape of a horseshoe studded with
diamonds and pearls, to the bride, and q
diamond ruby pin to the groom from the
princa of Wales. Hy