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The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1891-01-07
Tow Mice Distasteful to CANNES.

Among the novelties offered for sale
by the horde of fakirs who infest the
downtown thoroughfares is an innocent
looking educated mouse" One of these
imitation rodents has brought the keen
est pangs of sorrow to a Staten Island
household. A we'll known member of
the Acorn Athletic club purchased one
of the artificial mice the other day and
introduced it into his family. The
creature was made Of plaster of Paris,
with rubber ears and tail, and was
painted an ideal mouse color. After
nearly driving his employer typewriter
into Mysteries, the young athlete proceed
ed to have some fun with Box, his valu-
able bull pup.
Box was asleep at the fireside, and the
mouse was deity placed on his back.
Whether the dog was under the impress
sion that real mouse had the temerity
to show such familiarity, or whether he
felt the claws in his back, is unknown,
but to the CONSERVATION Of the happy
fireside gathering the mouse disappeared
within Box's capacious jowls with a
single gulp. That night an emetic was
administered, which had the effect of
bringing forth the rubber tail only, and
Box was very much disguised dog
New York Telegram.
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1891-01-07
American OnininP.

Adolph Sutro is trying the experiment
of Rising cinchona trees at his grounds
above the Cliff house. 1t is from the
lark of about dozen varieties Of this
tree that uuinine is extracted. and if
they will thrive in this climate the trees
will become very valuable.
Moreover, the chiEchona is very
snowy tree and highly ornamental, some
of them growing to height Of eighty
feet. The enormous medicinal consump-
ton of the bark of the cinchona has
caused the tree to be extensively cult
waited in India and Java. 1t grows in
high attitudes in New Grenada, Ecuador,
Peru AMI Bolivia, where there is a great
deal of moisture. Il has been tried with
success in Australia. near the seacoast,
and Mr.. Sutro thinks some of the varie-
ties will grow here, where there is a
moisture in the atmosphere all the year
round francisco Examiner.
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1891-01-07
No Need of "Beauty sleep"

1t is all nonsense about beauty sleep"
coming in the hours before midnight.
and that the rosy cheek on the country
lass is the reward for retiring at the
time when the proverbially pale faced
city girls evening commences. The late
hours Of fashionable life would not neces-
sarily scatter the roses from the cheek if
the late hour for retiring could be the
same every night without variation 1t
Is irregular hours and meals that cause
pale and haggard faces. The handsom-
est couple l ever saw retired regularly
at 1870, and always INDUCED in light
lunch inst before retiring They were
both pictures Of health.
The lady did not look over %, though
she never heSitated to say that she was
80 years old, and the husband looked at
least ten years younger than he really
was. They were both devotees 70 the
laws Of health. For years they had al
lowed nothing 20 interfere with the reg
ularity Of sleeping and eating hours.
Almost the midnight hour was chosen
for retiring, because Il allowed them
evenings at the theatre and an hour or
so at even the most fashionable recep-
tions. When alone in their home they
never INDUCED in an earlier hour.-Chi-
cago Herald
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1891-01-07
Old Times.

Host-Now, old boy, make yourself
comfortable. aud lets talk over old
times. Haven't seen each other since
we were Schoolhoys together. I told
Won | had married. Well, this Is my
house. and my wife VIII be in presently.
BY the way, you once lived in Melville,
didn't you:
Returned Traveller lived there
some years.
Then you may have met Miss Fir
ie:'
Met her? was engaged 10 her. But
80 were all the other fellows, one at a
inc. What has become Of herr
"Why-er-I was 1ust going TO tell
rou that she IS the one I married. New
ork Weekly.
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1891-01-07
Njlf agile
IDEAL.

Somewhere out in the great wide world
NY love is waiting for me;
And search through the endless throb OF Life
For the face at last shall see.
BY heart whispers low, Il shall find her"
And feel no inward strife,
But calmly wait for my own TO come,
For the fate of my strange tense Lie
/ shall know her, my bonnie darling,
By the soul like light in her eyes,
BY the nobleness thrJned on the pure white brow
Where the grace Of her beauty lies.
There will be no need OF questions,
Nor Of answers soft and low,
Eor we both have bided the weary time,
And the secret we both shall know.
shall hold her hand in lrm strong clasp,
shall press her close TO my heart;
For all the long years Of waiting are DER,
And we wander no more apart.
ida Estelle Crouch in Brooklyn Eagle
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1891-01-07

watching the point where he had last
seen me. Just as l reached the pistol
beneath the log he moved quickly, but /
fired, and knocked the gun from his
hands.
l instantly sprang up, crying, can
other move and will kill you"
He turned and attempted to gain the
protection of the nearest ledge. AS
he whirled around 1 fired again and
he fell. 1 rushed upon him, but
he was on his feet at once and
caught the rife. l fired once more,
breaking his wounded arm and causing
him to let fall the gun. l exclaimed,
''Stop, before I kill your
Instead of complying he answered
fiercely, Il will cut your heart out, "
and sprang toward me with a bowie
knife in his right hand. By this time
he was within reach, and made savage
thrust at me with the knife.
l sprang aside in time to avoid the
blow, and once more pulled the trigger
No shot replied-the pistol was empty!
Ny only chance was at close quarters,
and catching my revolver by the muz-
zle l struck him blow on the head, at
the same time receiving a slight cut in
the shoulder. He fell at my feet, and
before he could move I sprang upon
him, kicked the knife from his hand,
and caught up the ride he had dropped
in the fight.
He cried, "Hold! I give up; don't
murder me-"
"Lie still, them" 1 said, ''and don't
move"
l now ran to my dead animal, pulled
the holsters from the saddle, pushed the
empty revolver into them, and took out
the loaded one. Then I said, Get up,
now"
He was pitiable looking object, and
weak from the loss Of blood. He had
been twice wounded--once in the hand
and again in the arm-while my blow
on his head had cut an ugly cash from
which the blood triclIled down over his
face. took my handkerchief and made
a bandage for his arm, and by twisting
it tightly with a stick managed to stop
the blood.
l now babe the fellow go ahead, and,
taking my holsters in one hand and the
loaded pistol in the other, obliged him
to walk in front of me back to the inn
where we had stopped the night before.
OF the excitement there caused by our
appearance l need not speak. The near
est justice of the peace was sent for, a
coroners jury impaneled, and the state
ment of myself and the wounded robber
taken down. l was exonerated from all
blame, the body of the man l killed was
buried, and in the course of few weeks
his wounded companion was sentenced
to long term in prisons. S. BoyntOn
in Overland.
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1891-01-07
How NTonev Increases.

The natural accumulation Of money is
a great deal more rapid than the average
person imagine. The legal rate Of in
terest IN New York state is 6 per cent
per annum. Ii $4,000 were put at 8
per cent. interest, and If the interest
were compounded semi-annually, the
accumulation at the end Of twenty-five
years would BE- $500. Many Of the
fortunes IN America are the result Of in
vestments IN lands and enterprises. The
country Is growing very rapidly, and
the increase IN the value Of land keeps
pace with the growtb.-New York
World.
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1891-01-07

It was wise man who said on the
subject Of vomsn's dress: i have found
invariably that those women who really
understand tie at Ct dress, who know
what to wear and when 70 wear II, have
taste and intelligence Of . more refined
order than those who regard costumes
IN the hight Of mere clothes, and who not
only reveal no appreciation Of WON
ans obligations 70 look her Oest AZ AZ
times, bu- affect 70 treat dress altogether
a. a sub5ect only for tire attention Of
frivolous minds
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1891-01-07
The Worlds Paper Mills.

The production of paper in the entire
world is estimated to be 1900. 600. 900
pounds per year. There are sSf paper
mills and 1.106 paper machines in this
country. Germany has 500 mills and
S91 machines; France, 400 mills and 52J
machines; England, 361 mills and 541
machines; Scotland, 90 mills and 95 ma-
chimes; Ireland, II mills and 10 ma
chimes; Russia, 1}3 mills and 137 ma
chimes, and Austria 220 mills and 30
chines.-Philadelphia Record.
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1891-01-07
TROUBLE.

There is sorrow that causes the world TO repine:
There is grief in the world little man,
It will not grow too happy in your time or mine
If we make some one glad when we can.
There are tears-far more plenty than spring.
early flowers
We may find them wherever we go;
Let us heed that no look, word or action of
ours
Will cause even one more TO flow.
There is trouble enough in the world. little
maid,
There is trouble enough and 10 spare;
Let's keep ours to ourselves, we need not be
afraid
That the others will not have share
Ruth Day in Housekeepers' Weekly.
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1891-01-07

Indignant Citizen-Don't you see those
two boys down there smoking cigarettes:
Why don't you arrest them:
Pohcemsn-Fsct is. Mr. Taxpay, one
Of them is my son, and the other Is your
son.
Citizen - Um-e- very pleasant
geatner were haviu9.-tIood Newa
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1891-01-07

Well" remarked the man who had
list been convicted and sentenced, this
my second experience in court, and II
vas heap easier than the first, lean tell
,ou.'
What was your first one?'
Il was examined for service on jury
IN capital case. w ashington Post
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1891-01-07
Nnecr Thinrs.

A Virginia negro threatened to Kill a
man who had been his friend. He boz
rowed a gun, hid it under log and
waited for an opportunity. Meanwhile
the other found the gun, and in carrying
it home he fell down and it was dis
charged ana blew the topof his head of.
Detroit Free Press.
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1891-01-07

An electric target is made by an En-
glish company. When bullet strikes
the target, which is built mp IN sections,
the particular section hit IL pushed
against the spring Of lever, closing an
electric circuit and causing the section
to be indicated on the registering sppa-
ratus at the firing end Of the range. An
electric bell Is simultaneously runS. p
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The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1891-01-07
COT IEhat Iher Mantea.

Sunday school Teacher-Why were
only Noah ana his family saved in the
ark.
Small Boy Cause Noah was good and
didn't ask nc-h.r. The rest wanted the
earth Az .----- .. -7 News.
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1891-01-07

SorTowinE Psrent-And did my own
little hoy really tel IL.
Charlie-N-no. papa: not 'zactly. I
jes' opened nv iips and the bad lie told
itself-PittsnUr- Bulletin.
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1891-01-07
ARE YOU TROUBLED

With an old sore, ulcer, or
gun shot wound that refuses
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1891-01-07
II MANI
[hiC2nn. Rock Island & Pacific RI.

Including Lines East and West 81 the Missouri
River. Tho Direct Route % snd from CHICAGO.
ROCK ISEAND, DAVENPORT. DIES hOIEE3,
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FALLS. MINNEAPOLIS, 81. PAUL. ST. JOS
EPH, ATCHfeOE, LEAVFNWOHTH. KANSAS
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and PUEBLO. Free Hocitulug Chair Cars % ant
nom CHICAGO. CALDWELL. HUTCHINSON
and DODdE cry. and Palace Sleeping Cars be-
tween CHICAGO WICHITA and HUTCHfNBOG.
Daily Trains 20 and from KIEGFIsHKg in tha
Indian Territory
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SOLID vESTIRULE EXPRESS TRAINS

OF Through Coaches slospeTs and Dining Cars
daily between CHICAGO. DES MOINEs. COUN-
GIL BLUFFS and OMAHA and Free heclirirR
Chair Cars between CHICAGO and DENVHh,
COLORA Do SPRINGS and PUEBLO. via St jos
eph. or Heasar City aud Topeka EECursicns
anilv with Choice Of Routes 70 and nom Salt
Lake. Portland Lon Angeles and San Francisco
The Dire Line 90 and fror1 Pke's Peak. Mani
tJu. Gnrcen 70 tan Gods. the EanitafiuIns, and
SCen4a G-aulett.s Of Colorado,
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Wa Tfl1 ABBOTT Lea Kouto.
Solid Txpr~ra tfti1g daily between Chicago ard
MiuueapofIt end Be- Paul with THROUGH Re-
cIining Chair CBrr tfHEEi 20 sud rom those
rointE ard Kansas City. Through Chair Car and
EIerper between Peoria, Bririt Lake ana sioux
TllIa via HocE Island, The fzvorits Line -
Vv.ta-toyvu Sioux r ais. tss summer Resorts ana
Hunting and Fiahlrg Grounds Of the Northwest
The short Line via seneca and Eankakee oaers
facilities 20 travel 90 ard from Indianapolis. Gin
cfnuati and other Eoutnfln points.
For Tickets. Mapg Eoldrra or desired inforfne
ton nupIy az any Cour1r Ticket C4hcs. or sadfcH
e. ST. JOHN. JOHN SEBASTIAN
ganT MANAGE C~aT Tiki q Pass. AT
CHICAGO ILL.,.
The Opelousas courier., 1891-01-24
The liquor License.

The principal poiufs of the Liquor
License which went into effect on the
LIST of January are as follows Section
2 provides for a license of 5000 where
gross annual receipts arc less than
$4,000, and 500 where they are less
than $1,000. This applies to bar.
ooins cabarets. coffee-houses, cafes,
beer saleous, gros shops, beer gardens
or other places where anything is drunk
or eaten on the premises.
In the retail merchants line the fol-
lowing will be OF interest to retail mer-
chants, groeers, and those keeping
restaurants, oyster houses, confection-
cries or drug stores: provided, that if
any distilled, y@inoas, malt or other
kind of mixed liquors be sold in con-
n~ection With the business of retail
merchant, grocer, restaurant, oyster
house, confectionery Or druggist, in less
quantities than five gallons, the license
for such additional business shall be
as hereinafter provided for in section 2
of this act-quoted aboye-provided
further, no license shall issue to sell
liquors III less quantities than five gal
Ions. for less than one hundred dol
lars
The Opelousas courier., 1891-01-24
Correspondence.
HAAsyILLE, La, Jan. goth 1891

HAAsvILLE, La, Jan. goth 1891.
EDITOR COURIER:
Owing to the bad weather that has
prevailed for some days past, business
and work of most all sorts, except that
of chopping wood and building fires to
warm by, has been somewhat on a
stand.
The ground is toe wet to plough, so
the farmers have to hold up and wait
for the lands to dry off some.
We have had far more ice, frost, rain
and cold North winds to date, than ex-
perienced through the whole of last
January a year past.
Some people think the freezing is q
benefit to the land. No doubt the cold
kills a great many bugs and insects
that prey on and injure growing crops.
Pretty much everyone in this locality
is preparing to plant largely to cotton
this year. Maybe they believe it will
pay to do SO. A big crop of the feecy
staple was grown last year, and not
near enough of corn-at least, | am
told corn is worth rs cents per barrel,
| which il not so very cheap for those
VINO nave ~ EfatShdSo gran w iCCu on'
The sugar planters of this parish
have finished up with very marked
success. The yield in tonnage has been
remarkable, consequently a heavy yield
in sugar.
There is some talk here and there of
building central sugar factories; but
whether any action that is real active
will be taken in regard to building cen
trail factories at present is hard to say.
The factories are needed bad enough,
not only sugar factories, but Louisiana
should have more cotton factories than
to-day in operation. Opelousas needs
her rice mill, wool and cotton factories,
and a railroad reaching out northwest
to Palestine, Texas, which would open
up a fine section of country to the farm
er, and some of the finest pine lands in
the State would be brought into mar
ket, making your city IA central dis
tributing point for lumber of all kinds,
not only SO, but an excellent location
for wood working factories; but fol
fear of trespassing on your space we
must close for to-day. Yours,
ILLINOIS.
The Opelousas courier., 1891-01-24
Proceedings of the Board of Pos
lice Offhe Town of
OpelOusas.
OPELoUsAs, La, Jan. 10Th. 1891.
CALL MEETING.

Members present: Robt. Chachere, President
presiding; e. Latreyte, j.. b. SandoZ, Geo.
Pulford e. j. Clements and j. T. Stewart.
Quorum present.
The following report was read and adopted
as follows:
To the Hon. Mayor and Council Of the town
of Opelousas, La:
Your committee appointed by your Hon.
body under resolution dated January 18th,
1891, beg leave respectfully to report
Thab they, as directed, waited on the Police
Jury of the parish Of ST. Landry at its last
regular meeting and after representing that
matter, the said Police Jury
lst.-sGranted to the town of Opelsusas the
right to sink an Artesian well upon tine Court
House square in the town aforesaid
2nd.-And the Police Jury as aforesaid fur
Their appropriated a certain sum to pay one
third of the cost of sinking said well-limiting
the amount to be paid by the parish to $1,000;
3rd.-And the said Jury further appointed
e, NJ. Boagni, G. NJ. Thompson and E.. T.
Lewis as a committee to act with a like com
mittee from this Body granting their commit
tee full power to contract and in all manner
to act In the matter.
RoBT. CHAcHERE,
Il. LATREYTE,
e.. j. CLEMENTS.
On motion, duly seconded. the committee
was discharged.
On motion Of Mr.. Sandoz, duly seconded by
n. LARRY tcs uc ErcViNCus 2 ehO eoWA u
Opelousas do hereby appropriate l$2075.00)
Thousand and Se~venty-fve Dollars, or as
much thereof as may be necessary. TO pay for
the sinking of an Artesian well in the said
town of Opelousas, La, and that the said
amount be paid in three installments as fol-
lows First payment TO be made on the ON
pletion Of the work, and same accepted by
the COMMITTEES second payment one year
from date of first payment, and the third, two
years from said date or first payment.
On motion oil Mr.. Palford. duly seconded,
be ii resolved, That this Board organize itself
as a committee of the whole to confer with
committee appointed BIZ the Police Jury rela-
tive to Artesian well, and that they have full
power TO contract and act as such.
There being no further business, the Board
adjourned.
President.
IN. Il. COCHRAN, Clerk.
The Opelousas courier., 1891-01-24
Money for the Boys.

The Detroit Free Press wants to Sc
cure a lively boy in this locality to sell
their famous weekly. The Free Press
lis the most popular and one of the best
selling papers in the United States. 1t
is supplied to dealers on very liberal
terms, the Company taking back all
unsold copies and requiring payment
only for such papers as are sold.
Only one boy is appointed in a town,
so the boy that writes first, giving good
business references, will probably get
the agency. State how many papers
you think you can sell at five cents
each, and they will at once be forward
ed, reaching you in time for Saturday
sales. Address The Free Press Co.,
Detroit, Mich. Anyone on writing for
it can get a sample copy of The Free
Press free.
The Opelousas courier., 1891-01-24
La Veritahle Democratic.

A lsocsasion dun banquet donne en-
naemOire de Jackson d fAcademie de
Musique de PhiladelphieHar la soci6te
institu6e sous lie nom de Young MEMS
DeaaooYasie association, rexpresident
Cleveland q resume en- ces termes ce
Qu'il regarde CONNIE les principles de la
democratic:
Egale ct exacte justice pour tons les
hommes; paix, commerce ct loyale
amiei4 avec toutes les nations nj al
lance compromettante avec aucune /;
defense des gouvernements d'Etat dams
eOns lears droits; conservation dn
R-ouvernement general dams toute Ia
yiunenr c0nstitntionnelle protection
ialOnss did droit detection par 10 peu
Bile; adhesion absolute u decisions de
sa naaiorit6; snprematie de Paut0rite
eivilo eur l'autofite militaire ; econo-
mic dams les depenses pnbiiqnes; hon
n6so pavement dc nos dettes, ct ohser-
walton sarr6e de Ia fol p~ublique en-
enlargement d Horticulture ct an com
merce CONNIE son anxiliare libert4 de
To- presse, ct libert6 pe~rsonnelle.
Applicant ees principles d Ia situa-
Eion actuelle, M. Cleveland a d6montr6
Msils 6taIant outrageusement violes
sssauand les fonctions du gouvernement
cont employees d enricher IN petit
ncmbre aux d6pens de 10 multitude
Quand OH volt en- Bavre IN tariff injuste
qui bannitdu foyer des humbles le con
fort de la vie, aim one IL luxe s'6tale 81
False dams les palnis aUmptneux ; anand
on volt les agrlcnlteg1rs u NAL retribues
The Opelousas courier., 1891-01-24
A Democratic Leader.
New York Sun.

new I0pk Suu.
David Bennett Hill has been recog-
nized for the last five years as the most
popular, the ablest, and the most sue
cessful leader of the Democracy of
New York. In that time the Demo-
Gratis of the South and West, in spite
of the suspicious and ~jealousies which
certain journals have tried to instil
into their minds, have come to appre-
eiate and admire him. His straight
forward and unfaltering Democracy,
his unselish service to his party, and
his unrivalled strength in his own state
are known to the country. He has
never stood SO high in the esteem OF
the national Democratic party as he
stands to-day. The election of a
Democratic Assembly is a personal
triumph for him, but the defeat of the
Anti Democratic ticket in this city was
a greater triumph for him and a greater
benefit to his party.
The Opelousas courier., 1891-01-24
Epoch

The transition from long, lingering and pain
full sickness to robust health marks an epoch
in the life of the individual. Such a remarka-
BILE event is treasured in the memory and the
agency whereby the good health has been at
tanned is gratefully blessed. Hence it is that
so much is heard in praise of Electric Bitters.
So many feel they owe their restoration to
health, to the use Of the Great Alternative and
Tonic. IF you are troubled with any disease
of Kidneys, Liver or Stomach, of long or short
standing you will surely find relief by use of
Electric Bitters. Sold at SOC. and 81 per bot
tie at F. e. Bailey Drugstore 3
The Opelousas courier., 1891-01-24
The PuIpit and tI,e stage

Rev. F, M, Shrout, Pastor United Brethren
Church, Blue Mound, Kan, says: II feel it
my duty to tell what wonders DR.. Kings New
Discovery has done for me. My Lungs were
badly diseased, and my parishioners thought |
could live only a few weeks. | took five bot:
ties of DR. KING New Discovery and am sound
and well. gaining 26 lbs. in weight
Arthur Love, Manager Loves Funny Folks
Combination, writes AFTER a thorough trial
and convincing evidence, / am confident DR..
EN- all and cures when everything else fails.
The greatest kindness l can do my thousand
friends is to urge them to try it, Free trial
bottle. at F. Bailey,s Drug Store. Regular
sizes SOC. and 81 90 5