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The Opelousas courier., 1892-05-21
For Patty and Polly.

When Washington returned to Phila-
delphia after his trip to the East, in
1889, he stopped at Ukbridge, Mass,
and was entertained at the home OF Sam
uel Taft. The old homestead, with the
great oak before the door, remains yet in
possession of the family, preserved in
commernoration of the distinguished Wis
itor.
Washington was SO well pleased with
his reception and entertainment at Tx
bridge that he wrote the following letter
to Mr.. Taft, which is carefully preserved
in the family.
"HARTFoRD, Nov. 6, 1899.
'.SIR: Being informed that you have
given my nane TO one of your sons, and
called another after Mrs. Washington's fam
lily (Dandridge), and being, moreover, very
much pleased with the modest and innocent
looks of your two daughters, Patty and
Polly, / do for these reasons send each of
these girls a piece of chintz; ana TO Patty,
who bears the name of Mrs. Washington,
and who waited upon us more than Polly
did, I send five guineas, with which she 4
buy herself any little ornaments she may
want, o she may dispose of them in any
other way more agreeable to herself,
las I do not give these things with a view
&c have it talked of, or even OF its being
known. the less there is said about the mat
ter the better you will please me; but that |
may be sure the chintz and money have got
safe to hand. let Patty, who, / dare say, is
equal to it, write me a line, informing me
thereof, directed To the President OF the
United States, at New York / wish You
and your family well, and am, your humble
servant, @. WAsHINGToN.n
The Opelousas courier., 1892-05-21
Bic Figures About Brooklyn Bridge.

No doubt many people have wondered
what becomes of the millions of tickets
sold and collected annually by the New
York and Brooklyn Bridge Company.
One who has given some thought to the
subject tells what might be done with
them, and incidentally gives other figures
showing the magnitude of the traffic on
the Bridge. Here they are just as he
gave them:
cover forty-one million of people
crossed the bridge in 1891 on the bridge
cars and promenade. Could all the hands
which have purchased tickets be joined
together at the end of the year, a circle
could be formed IA, 112 miles in di-
ameter, or AZ, 1886 miles in circumference;
a distance equal to one and one-half
times around the earth. If the grand
chain were suggested, and the fastest
trains and ships employed. it would be
nearly three months before one could
make the bow and return to ! Splace be-
side his partner.
ga solid square of 20, 634 columns Of
1000 men each, covering over three
square miles, or 1000 acres, could be
formed of the ticket purchasers.
'It would take 6S7,806 passenger
coaches, allowing sixty persons to the
coach, or As, 853 trains of fifteen coaches
each to carry this crowd away. If a
hundred a minute could be counted
without stopping during the twenty
four hours, it would require over eight
months to count them. II hollow squares
of 300 feet square can be conceived to
be placed one upon the other, the enor-
NOUS height of nine miles would would
be reached. By forming a triangular
pyramid with a base of 20,46O square
inches, a pyramid could be had t1uch
higher than that of "Cheops" in Egypt.
If stretched out in a line, so that the
head of one person would touch the feet
of another, they would reach a distance
Of SO, 179 miles.
"The carriages, wagons, ETC., that
cross in one year would, if strung out,
reach rs, 1872 miles,. or more than once
around the earth.
at would take a train of 4 Pass box
cars, with 1923 engines, to haul the
people away, and would, if coupled to-
gether, cover 322 miles, or reach from
New York to Richmond.
"The tickets, if joined together on
tinuously, would reach from New York
to St. Paul, a distance Of over thirteen
hundred miles, and would weigh very
nearly a ton. There would be enough
tickets to cover the bridge promenade
to the depth of an eighth of an inch. If
spread out they would cover 573, III
square feet, or thirteen acres of ground.
There would be enough tickets to cover
the walls, ceiling mo floor Of the Fifth
Avenue Hotel corridor ffty-seven times.
More than a thousand ordinary-sized
rooms could be papered, and if piieGup
under pressure, one on top Of the other,
they would reach "a, $50 feet, or over
six miles high.
sit would require sixty cars, five feet
high, ten feet broad and forty feet long,
to store all the tickets used in one year
New York Advertiser.
The Opelousas courier., 1892-05-21

The present Amer OF Afghanlstan,
while he was an exile, affected a stupid
ity that deceived q good many people;
bit since he has held his present place,
NO one has had occasion to complain of
lack of shrewdness. On one occasion
not long since, the Russian conamandant
in Turkestan sent him word that it was
proposed to take 500 artillerymen and
cavalry out for exercise on the Afghan
frontier, and expressed a hope that it
would not give rise to a~pprehensions on
the part of il highness. Abdurrahman
replied that he had no objection, because,
as it happened, he was about to exercise
5000 cavalry, artillery and infantry on
his side of the frontier at the same place,
and there vas plenty of 10 for both.
The hint was enough. The Russians
wrote thanking the Ameer, but intimat-
ing that they had found another site for
their
The Opelousas courier., 1892-05-21

Says the San Francisco Chronicle:
That the German Emperor has a tender
aeart under all his martial sternness is
Ihown by the pardon he granted to a de-
erter from the German army who was
captured on his return to the Father
and. The application that touched him
ZANE from the little daughter Of the
prisoner, who appealed to him on her
iather's birthday. For an autocrat who
has retained his warm sympath:es there
b always hope. Napoleon or the great
Frederick would have tossed this Little
girls letter into the waste basket.
The Opelousas courier., 1892-05-21

Imagine a melon farm of 500 acres,
exclaims the New York Post. 1t doei
not exist, the largest planting Of the
kind being 400 acres; but a company re-
Gently formed proposes to raise water.
melons on a scale lever attempted before
at Adams Park, about eighteen miles
ont on the East Tennessee Road from
Macon, Ga. In this section the melon
reaches a perfection of lusciousness. The
company intends to do its W distrib.
uting, having made arrangements il
Northern cities for the acceptance of SC
many carloads each day during the sea-
son., which should result in moderate
prices for the fruit. Taking al average
crop as a basis of estimate, the yield
should be about 1900 carloads.
The Opelousas courier., 1892-05-21

The little island of Navassa, which
les in the Caribbean Sea, about thirty
miles from Hayti, is of small account in
itself and geographically considered;
which is probably the reason why its
acquisition as part of the United States
territory by the mere act of Presidential
recognition, as very briefly aanounced in
one of President Hayes's messages, at
tracted little public attention at the
time, Latterly the island has been chiefly
notable as the scene of a riotous out.
break by 4aborers in 1889. Commercially
its only value is in its rich phosphate de-
post. In a diplomatic sense, however,
Its acquisition may easily prove to have
been an event of utmost Importance,
since it has given the United States {
foothold in the West indies most de
sirable section Of the globe, at times, ii
which to have q stopping place.
The Opelousas courier., 1892-05-21

both steamers two astonished women
met each other.
"Why9 Observation-Disclosures IL
You don't mean to say you were on board
that unfortunate Vulcan"
'For the lands sake, Mrs. Assistant
Browning. Is that really you2 Will
wonders never cease? Unfortunate, did
you say2 Mighty fortunate for you, I
think. Why weren't you just fright
ened to death?"
81 was, but l had no idea any one I
knew was on board"
"Well, you were o. board yourself.
That would have been enough to have
killed me-"
"On board myself. Why, what do
you mean? | wasn't on board the Vul-
can. Did you get any sleep at all after
you knew you might 60 down at any mo-
meut?"
"My sakes, Jane, what are you talking
about2 Down at any moment? 1t was you
that might have gone down at any mo-
ment, or, worse still, have been burnt to
death if the fire had got ahead of them.
You don't mean to say you didn't know
the Adamant was on fire most of the way
across2"
"Mrs. - Gerald - Weller!i There's
some horrible mistake. 1t was the Vul-
n Everything depended on her bulk
heads, the captain said. There was a
hole as big as q barn door in the Yul-
can. Tbs pumps were going night and
day."
Mrs. General looked at Mrs. Assistant
as the light began to dawn on both of
them.
"Then it wasn't the engines, but the
pumps" she said.
"And it wasn't the steam, but the
fire." screamed Mrs. Assistant. "Oh,
dear, how that captain lied. I thought
him such a nice man, too. Oh, | shall
go into Mysteries, I know I SHALL"
sI wouldn't if I were you," said the
sensible Mrs. General, who was a strong
minded woman; "besides, it is too late.
We're all safe now. I thing both cap
tains were pretty sensible men. Evidently
married, both of EN-"
Which was quite rue.-Detroit Free
Press.
The Opelousas courier., 1892-05-21
ODE TO SPRING.

/ Weakened to the singing of a bird;
I heard the bird of spring.
And 10!
At his sweet note
The flowers began to grow.
Grass, leaves, and everything,
As if the green world heard
The trumpeto of his tiny throat
From end to end, and winter and despair
Fled at his melody, and passed in air.
[ heard at dawn the music of a voice.
O my beloved, then said, the spring
Can visit only once the waiting year;
The bird can bring
Only the seasons song. nor his the choice
To waken smiles or the remembering teari
But thou dost bring
Springtime to every day. and at thy call
he flowers of life unfold, though leaves of
autumn fall.
Annie Fields, in the Century.
The Opelousas courier., 1892-05-21

a trade journal protests against the
threatened ~acclimating in this country
OF . very unsouad business practice, tho
paying Of ssbacksheesh,' or in other
words blackmail, to customers. The con-
sideration of the subject arose out of d
recent English lawsuit in which a former
employe Of q firm, who had been dis
charged, sought To recover and did re-
cover damages from his former en-
ployer for statements made to a subse-
quent employer. The employee had made
certain disbursements which were not
approved of By his employer, and had
applied certain amounts he had collected
to these disbursements and declined to
pay over to employer said amounts.
During the suit it transpirad that it was
customary for the traveller to make out
every week the list Of tips he had given.
AT Christmas he had TO make oaE a list
Of presents that ought to be given to
customers. In some eases it was a gift
Of noney; but it was understood that nd
traveller had q right to give customers
money without the consent Of the firm.
It is this demanding Of tips and presents
which constitutes bIackmailing pure aud
simple, and which is 50 aagrantly abused
in England that isnow protested against,
and the introduction Of which into this
country is SO strongly deprecated. e Is
pointed out that we have not Jet, and
we do not want anything like the
ssbean feast Of England, where clerks
AND Others IN subordinate positions aoliois
the customers Of the firln for coatribu-
tions 70 she feast, under 4 taclt though
nnexpFessed threat thatif such contraba-
tiona are not Forthcoming, certain ind
ences will DO exerted to divert HE Gus.
tom hitherto gfven 70 the person Who -
fuses the contribution.
MAEN
The Opelousas courier., 1892-05-21
The riches of India cannot be est

The riches of India cannot be esti-
mated and scarcely imagined. The
wealth of decoration lavished upon
tombs, temples, etc., testIfes to the
fact that for hundreds of years the &C.
emulation of treasure has been going
on until at the present it is stated that
the gold and other ornaments now lying
idle in that country are estimated to be
worth 81, $50, 600, 900.
The Opelousas courier., 1892-05-21

~ Act o. JUyH2 81 1890 Pensions soldiers aud sailors of the var of the
rebellion who served go days AMI were hon~ably discharged from the servf@and
.dren, dependent parents, fathers and mothers All pensions under this Act will
commence from the date of Hing the formal application (after the passage OF the
good unless fled in the Pension Bureau or or after June ~ 1890, CGe OF the
|AD OF ifnoti in the form, substantially, prescribed by the Secretary. The rates:
For dependent father or mother sf2; the widow, $s and 50 additional for each
child Of soldier under sixteen years; and it tbs widow dies, the child or children
can draw such pension. The soldier Is entitled to any rate from $6 to S2 per
month, according to inability to carr a support. A pensoner under existing laws
may apply under this one or a pend oner under this ne may apply under other
laws, but can draw only one pension at the same time. This law requires in a sol
|dhrs OF sailors ease:
~ An honorable discharge.
f0 That he served at least ninety days.
GO A permanent physical Or mental inability to earn a support, but not due
to vicious habits. Git need not have orginsted in the servceo
~ That the salor or soldier served at least ninety days.
G0 That he was honoraby discharged.
C0 Proof of death, but it need MT have been the results of his Army
Naval service.
W That the widow is without other means of support than her daily
GO That she married soldier prior to June 81. 1890, the date of the Act.
DEPENDENT PARENTS CASE.
~ That the soldier IT sailor died of wound, injury or disease, which, un
der prior law, would have given him a pension.
G0 That he left ne wife OF minor child.
70 nav e Mna VI iNnu Is hpfeens 6peenuont ia Hl u - -.
manual labor; being without other present meanso of support than their " man. man.
|ul labor, or the contributions of others not legally bound for their support
The benefits Of the first section of the Act of June q, 1890, are lot confined 70
the parents OF those III serVedl In thu al OF thu rebellion, nut are extenooeu -
all parents where pensionable dependence has arisen IN account of the death Of
son who served, since said wal, in behalf of the United States, as well as for dis
abilities contracts before or since discharged.
4D That tim case a minor child is insane, idiofic II. otherwise permanently
helpless, the pension shall continue during the period of such disability, and TN d
under this or IN former statute. and such pensions shall commence from the date
of application therefor after passage of this Act.
The rules and regulations of the Department will govern all applicants an
attorneys.
"a Under Act Of June27, $780, pensions are granted to Soldiers and saaNs
disabled from old a6 hfrmag etc
W-NOTICE-Dr. w. r. Lastrapes having recently been appointed !. -
Examining Surgeon fer Pensions at Opelousas, La, is is now of special intersWI
Claimants Of Persons to CON to me and make out their applications, g
New Orleans for medical examination, at which place they have heretofore been
directed to go. ISL
HART r. SANDoZ,
The Opelousas courier., 1892-05-21
4 famous Sllca.

The walking stick with which Prince
George Of Greece rescued the Czafowitz
Of Russia from his japanese assailatt has
been magnifcently mounted with gold
aud precious stones, aud Inscribed TO.
Prince George, for Valor,a b. order Of
the Car. Vho has SEM it with his eom-
plinents Cd its owner ii Athens.-pica.
yuns.
The Opelousas courier., 1892-05-21
IGNORANCE is BLISS"
BY LUKE SHARP.

HE splendid steam
ship Adamant, Of
the celebrated Cross
Bow Line, left New
York on her Febru.
airy trip under favor
able auspices. There
had just been a
rtoru1 an +hn nooa1
The Opelousas courier., 1892-05-21

A tarantu;a at freedom dispersed the
people in 4 Cincinnati tOaio1 restaurant
recently.
The Opelousas courier., 1892-05-21
~OPELOUSAS
Female Institute
opELousAs, ST. LANDRY PARISH, La

This Institution is undenorninationai, prac,
tical and progressive. Discipline firm and
based on sound PRINCIPLES ennohling, and de.
veloptng character. Honor and self respecs
promoted. Methods of training and culture
thorough. Toe curriculum prepares the
pupil for University or practical iife. Ger
EiGcate, and Diplomas conf. rred. Killings
comfortable and comm odi ns Patronage
solicited. For sfurrher parth- Jars apply to
MRS. NJ. NJ. HAYES. PRINCIPAL.
The Opelousas courier., 1892-05-21
HART II. sANDoZ,

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The Londonderry sifter. (South Londonderry, Vt.) 1883-19??, 1892-06-03

ice, and had myself been unusually
prayerful, and we had Pentecostai
blessing while | was preaching It,
That Gfi 'ynoanl ok 4 ,r "a foy 4
great outdosr a0tir8 in ohio SAT-
to myself, This sermon vas blessed to
day aud it is fresh IN my mind, and |
will preach it tomorrow in Ohio" And
| did preach it, Int not in US prayerful a
spirit, and think no one else had been
praying about it, and it turned into the
most inano and proftless discourse that
| ever delivered, 1t was practically the
same sermon, but ON "Wednesday il had
on it power that comes from the secret
place of thunder, and on Thursday it
had on it no such power Mt all,
Oh, pray for usl Poor sermons in the
pulpit are the curse of God ON II prayer
less parish, People say: "What is the
matter with the ministers in our time;
So many of them seem dissatisfied with
the Bible and they are trying to help
Moses and Paul and Christ out of in
consistencies and contradictions by fix
ing up the Bible As well let the mu-
sicians so to work to iiy MP Hadyn'a
"Creation," or Jandol's Israel in
Egypt" or let the painters go to fixing
mp HaphaeS TRANSPORTATION, orarchi-
tects so TO Using up Christopher Wrens
St Paul's. But will tell you what is
the matter There nre too many uncon-
vorted ministers. Their hearts have
never been changed by the grace of
God,
a mere intellectual ministry is the
deadest failure this side of peldition,
Alas for the Gospel of icicles! From
apoldgetics aud hermeneutics and dog
MATES, good Lord deliver us, They are
| trying to get from transccndental the
| ology, or from profound eXegesia, on
| from the art of splitting hairs between
| north and northwest side instead of get
ting their power from the secret place
of thunder. We want the power man
gets when he is alone, the door locked;
on his knees; at midnight; with such d
burden of souls upon him that makes
| him cry out, fast in lamentation and
then in raptures.
Let all the Sabbath school teachers
and Bible class instructors and all re-
| formers and all evangelists and all min
listers know that diplomas and diction-
aries and encyclopedias and treatises
and libraries are not the source OF
moral and spiritual achievement, but
that the room of prayer, where no one
but God is present and no one but God
hears, is the secret place of thunder.
Secret: All, yesl So secret that com
paratively few ever find il.
At Boscobel, England, we visited a
house where a king was once hid. Nc
one, unless it was pointed ont to him.
could find the door in the floor through
which the king entered his hiding place
When there hidden the armed pursuers
looked in vain for him, and afterward
through an underground passage, fal
out in the fields, he came out in the open
air. So this imperial power of spiritual
influence has hiding place, secret
place which few know, and it comes
forth sometimes in strange and mys-
FERROUS ways and far from the place
where it was hidden you can find it only
by diligent searching. But you may
find it, and some of you will find it, and
| wish you might all find 1.-THE secret
place of thunder.
DR.. TALMAGE GOING ABROAD.
The Londonderry sifter. (South Londonderry, Vt.) 1883-19??, 1892-06-03
FRIDAY MORNING, JUNE 3, 1892.

1 AT nine o'clock Wednesday morning,
June IS next, ON the steamer City Of
New York, expect to sail for Liverpool,
I,y gone until SeT'.Wher, Iii in ac'
L. ,ance Of many ia jCua th"t | an
going ON 3 preachirs ; "N expect 10
devote my time TO IfHachil, She Gospel
in England, Scot 4, lrC land and
Sweden, want TO see how many souls
| can gather for the Kingdom of God,
Those countries have for many years be-
longed to my parish, and | go to speak
to tho!A a4d shake halids wi h thesl. |
want TO visit moro thoroughly than be-
fore those regions frc.n waich my an
ccs Tors came, Wales and Scotland.
Bat who is sufficient FOR the work |
undertaken ! call upon you who have
long been my coadjutors to go into the
secret Place Of the Almig,':Y, and every
day from now until my work is done on
the other side OF t. sea, to have me in
your prayers, In proportion to the in
teusity AID continuance and faith of the
prayers, yours and mine, will be the re-
suits. If you remember me in the de-
votional circle, that will be well, but
what most want is your importuning,
your wrestling supplication in the secret
place of thunder,
God and you alone may make me the
humble fundamentally in the redemp-
ton Of thousands of souls | shall
preach in churches, in chapels and in
the fields. | will make it n campaign
for God and eternity, and hope to get
during this absence u baptism of power
that V,ill make me of moro service to
you - N return than ever yet have
been. For, brethren and sisters in
Christ, our opportunity for usefulness
will soon he gone, and We shall have
our faces uplifted to the throne Of judg-
ment, before which we must give ac-
count. That day. there viii be no secret
place of thunder, for all the thunders
will be out, There viii be the thunder
of the tumbling rocks. There will be
the thunder of the bursting wav' =
There will be the thunder of the de-
Scending chariots. There will be the
thunder of the parting heavens. Boom,
Boom!
But all that din and uproar and crash
will find us malfrighted, and will leave
us undismayed. if we have made Christ
our confidence, and as after an August
shower, when the whole heavens have
been an numbered Iattery cannonad-
ing the earth, the fields are more green,
and the sunrise is the more radiant, and
the waters are the more opaline, so the
thuuders of the last day will make the
trees Of life appear more emerald, and
the Carbuncle of the wall more crimson,
and the sapphire seas the more simmer
ing, and the sunrise of eternal gladness
the more empurpled. The thunders of
dissolving nature will be followed by a
celestial psalmody the sound of which
st. John on Patmos described, when he
said, Il heard voice like the voice of
mighty thunderings!' Amen!
The Londonderry sifter. (South Londonderry, Vt.) 1883-19??, 1892-06-03

Slight arrangements of the stomach and
bowels may often be corrected by taking
only one of Ayers Pills. Through not
having the Pills at hand, your disorder
increases, and regular fit of sickness
follows. For the wanr of nail the
shoe was lost" etc.
The Londonderry sifter. (South Londonderry, Vt.) 1883-19??, 1892-06-03
TO PROVE sSE M HA5EH H.

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