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=. S. Parker, Fredonia, y. Y, says: "Shal
not cali on you for the 800 reward, for / be.
lieve Halls Catarrh Cure will cure any case Of
catarrh. Was very bad" Write him for par
~ficuIars. Sold by Druggists, 75c.S
The Opelousas courier., 1893-08-12
EXACTLY.

al think it impossible that marriage
is the only state that is conducive to
real happiness"
care you married?"
"Er-no, but | I'M engaged"
eyes; l thought so."-LChlcago
Record.
The Opelousas courier., 1893-08-12

Ladies needing a tonic. or children who
want building up, shoall take Browns Iron
Bitters. II is pleasant to take, cures Malari q
Indigestion. Bfliousness and Liver Complaints,
makes the Blood rich and pure.
The Opelousas courier., 1893-08-12
''MOTHERS'
FRIEND''
Makes Child BIRTH EASY,

Colyin, La, Dec. 2, 1sss.-My wife used
MOTHERS FRIEND before her third
confinement, and says she would not be
without it for hundreds OF dollars.
DOCK MILLS.
Sent by express on receipt OF price. $50 per bot
lie. Book To Mothers" mailed Tree.
RRaOrYELD REGULATOR CO.,
or GALE ~ AL ssuea,srs. ATLAEjy9s GRs
The Opelousas courier., 1893-08-12

A brass band furnishes the music for
d Methodist church in Lainsbu-g,
Mich. Both the minister and his wife
paIy iii the band.
The Opelousas courier., 1893-08-12

The favurite flower of the Trincess OF
Wales is / le lily of the valley.
The Opelousas courier., 1893-08-12

Many persons are broken down from over
work or household cares. Browns iron Bit
ters rebuilds the system. aid dlgestlon' ~.
splendid tonic for women and children.
The Opelousas courier., 1893-08-12

The highest volcano is Popocatapetl'
Mexico-17,7 48 feet, with q crater o
mile in diameter and 1000 feet deep.
The Opelousas courier., 1893-08-12
We Cure R.unfura.

70 matter of how long standing. Write
1or free treatise, testimonials, etc., to 8. J.
holiensworth 81 Co, Owego, Tioga Co., N. Y.
Frice 81; by mail, $1.15.
The Opelousas courier., 1893-08-12

Al wonderful stomach corrector-Beecham's
pills. B~eecham's-no others. rs cents q box.
The Opelousas courier., 1893-08-12

: cordially recommed Hoods Sarsaparilla
~ all suffering with indigestion, impure blood,
n%arnoTs, loss OF appetite, or run down, or out
DossI Ii there ID any help for Won. T nave found
y D very great benefit for malaria. chflls and
lever, rheumatism. kidney complaint and CO.
Iafrh, eresR srLep 4 c~Oaas1de1.ea sssDsSFJ
4tacsf9.Rbsess HENRY 8. FOSTER. SeaTeor-
oagh. y. Y. N. B.-Be sure to get HOODS.
Hoods Pills act easily, yet promptly and EN-
clensly, ON the liver and bowels. Is cents.
The Opelousas courier., 1893-08-12

Gas costs the Boston trust thirty"
three cents 1000.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1893-11-23
WORD HISTORY.

TEA is a Chinese word.
UKAsE is of Russian origin
GIN was first made in Geneva.
ACRE formerly meant any field.
VILLAIN was formerly farmer.
PILLOW lace is made on pillow,
CANrY was first made in Gambia.
GUINEA fowls came from Guinea.
FRIKzE first came from Friesland.
PECK was once only poke or bag.
LEMONS originally came from Lima
FLoRINs were first made in Florence.
HUzzY is a corruption of house wife.
APocRYPHA means hidden or spuri-
BUS.
MAGNETS wore discovered at Mag
nesia.
TULLE was invented at Tulle, In
France.
CANARIEs came from the Canary
Islands.
GmLYFLowER is corruption of July
dover.
TABOO and tattoo are of Polynesian
origin.
sARsANEr was first made by the
Saracens.
FAREWELL means, may you fare or
travel well.
BRoADcLorH took its name from its
Unusual width.
FETISH and zebra are from a dialect
Of South Africa.
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How Pepper Pot" Is Made.

Get buck pot Those made by the
Buck Indians in Demerara are the
best find put into it one quart of cold
water, three tablespoonfuls cassareep,
salt to suit taste, and handful bird"
peppers. Your meat must be well
cooked. and after cutting it into small
pieces, throw it into the liquor in the
pot and let it boil for three-quarters of
an hour. The pepper pot is now ready
for use, but it is better when many
DAVIS old. Any bits of cooked meats,
whether fresh or sailed. may be added
from day to day, emitting always fish
of any sort; the greater the variety the
sweeter the pot. Pork and oxtail are
the best to start the pot. The cas-
sareep is a West Indian sauce made
from the concentrated juice of the
roots of the bitter cassara, favored
wi. h ,aromatics and deprived of its
poisonous qualities Nv boiling. The
PIT itself comes to the table with a
napkin neatly folded around il, and is
served with boiled rice Y. Times.
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sUPERSTITlous RAILRoADERs.
The Effect which Accidents Have on En-
gineers and Firemen.


gineers and Firemen.
of the superstition of sailors, fisher
folk and others we have all heard. but
that such a distinguishing character
istic should have attached itself to
railway men does not appear TO be gen.
orally known. II savors somewhat of
the anomalous that such a pre-eminent-
ly practical class of men should be the
victims of credulity regarding the SUI
pernatural. Such. however. is the case.
] recently had occasion to interview
prominent railway official, and in the
course of the conversation that ensued
that gentleman incidentally alluded to
two collisions which had lately oc-
Cured in the neigh borhood, following
up his remarks with the announcement
that the local men would be in state
of subdued excitement and furry"
until third mishsp took place. Such
is the superstition of the railway men.
Upon expressing considerable astonish-
ment | was assured that this kind of
thing was notorious among railway
men in general. and in this particular
instance it was known that the circum-
stances of the two previous accidents
were the chief topics among the work
men in all departments. who were also
counting on the possibilities of a third
disaster.
Curiously enough touch of realism
was lent to the information just i'm
parted by the explanation that the sec
ond of the two collisions referred to-
was due TO the driver of one of the en-
gines, a reliable servant. noted for his
alertnesS and precision, with an hon
orable record of some forty years serv-
ice, who was. it was believed. SO dis
turbed over the "Omens'' of the first oc-
currence and SO engrossed with what
he felt would be two other catastro-
Plies that he committed the slight err
ror of judgment which caused his loco
motive to crash into another coming in
an opposite direction. The statement
is given as the conviction of one who
has spent upward of quarter of a cen
fury among railroad men of all classes,
and who has known the driver alluded
to for long period of years. So came
about second collision. Surely super
stition could go no further than this.
But here is tragic sequel-a sequel
NhiSh ui'oi HaeoAf, VIII AZ aAA PioDa-
bility do much to strengthen the rep
rehensible beliefs of these men. Two
days after the interview above men,
toned. within fifteen minutes drive
from the scene of the second collision,
an express mail failed to take the
points. a portion of the train with the
tender of the engine was violently
thrown across the rails and one poor
stoker killed. This is what the rail
way men will term their third mis-
hap" There's the third" they say;
and now perhaps they will breathe
freely for a seasOn.-London Tid-Bits
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of the aStonished looks that were III
rectei toward him. but the sermon
that shall preach tomorrow will be
better, more eloquent, more full of the
spirit of praise and thanksgiving. than
any 10 which y0u or I ever listened
The meek. child-like old man W ; 50
little given To boastIug. and the field in
which ne proposed 20 engage was 50
foreign To his habits and occupations.
that his listeners looked one to another
IN amazement. with the exception Of
mother whose serene face reflected
back the loving smile in the eyes that
met her own.
Into how many heads is your dis
course To be divided, uncle2 inquired
his Nephew Charles, who. having been
at college. considered himself qualified
20 discuss most any subject
Let me see. said the deacon. count
ing his fingers There's the Widow
Jones. who lives on the HILL that's one;
there's the Widow Barker, down by
the canal. that's two; there's joe
Blaclxmer. who's laid up with the ru-
matiz. that's three: there's old Mrs.
blanchard. that.s four: there's the
crippled soldiers family, that's five;
and there's ii Smiti. who las more
mouths than bread 20 put in 'em. that's
six. Is that all. Iuother2 You helped
me make them ont. Won know"
Il think 50. was the smiling re
Spouse.
My sermon will have six heads,
Nephew Charles II not more. resumed
the deacon: heads that cannot only
think and feel. hut discourse most elo-
quently. as soon You will ind
John the oliest son. glanced smil-
inglv across the table At his wife.
whose ewes were fixed wonaeringly
Epon him
What Is your text. father
lie that hath pity on the poor
lendeth 10 the Lord. responded the
deacon. in low and reverent tones,
which hushed. momentarily, the ripple
Of laughter ..hich ran round
You seem 10 have a good deal of
confidence in that kind of security,
father said Thomas. the second son:
Ito nv certain knowledge. you've in
vested more in that bank than in any
other"
I've abundant reason for my conf
dence, my son. The rest OF my text
contains a promise, that which he
hath given viii He pay him again
What better Paymaster can a man have
than the Author aud Giver OF all gOod2
AnC ] can truly say that I have been
doublv repsi1-in my heart. in my
home, in my children. as well a. in the
more enduring riches that are laid up
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THEY WE'RE SKILLED MEN,
sengers Returning from the Fair.

And Knew Better Than to Hold up Pas
sengers Returning from the Fair.
"Oh, yes" said the sad-visaged man
COR the twentieth time; ''oh, yes, / was
one of the passengers on that Lake
Shore train the gang held up at Ken
dallville the other night"
"Were you in the sleeper" asked the
reporter.
''Yes. had two dollars left when
reached the station in Chicago"
"Ah, you had been at the Worlds
fair, then?''
YES; what else would take man to
Chicago?"
"Were all the sleepers full?"
"Yes"
"All returning from the fair, sup
pose?"
"Of course"
"Did any of you hear the disturbance
going on outsider"
II guess we ali did; il was like a
battle"
''Were the passengers frightened?"
mot bit; at least ! wasn't"
Didn't you expect the robbers to go
through the train?'
The sad-visaged mans face showed a
cloud of compassion for the reporter.
Young man." he said, 'do you sup
pose them robbers stopped that train
tor fun?"
"Of course not"
''Then why do you ask that kind of a
question? Don't you know they knowed
the passengers were coming home from
the fair, and that they might as well
have gone through the poorhouse look
ing for gold bricks. Detroit Free
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Trousers appear to have been intro
luced into Rome at a comparatively
ate period, and as a part of the mill
tary uniform. They are worn by the
Roman soldiers represented on Trojan's
column, as well as by barbarians. The
Greeks had never adopted them. With
their instructive sense of beauty they
1ad recognized that these are the only
garments that can not possibly be
made graceful. sleeve may become
part of the drapery of a figure; a
trouser leg is more obstinate in its
ngliness. If tight it bags on the knees
wearing. Yet this is perhaps its least
Objectionable shape. If somewhat loose
It takes petty and meaningless folds.
some Oriental nations have tried to
Disguise it as a skirt, but the result is
not entirely satisfactory. If the
trousers do not appear to give freedom
to the leg they have lost their princi-
pal merit. Compromise, which is the
life of politics, is the death of art,
which should always struggle for an
ideal. So thought the Greeks when
they entirely renowned for themselves
the barbarous pantaloons. = Once a
Week
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B-WHITE.
Unsportsmsnlike Enemies OF Our National
Game-Bird.

Unsportsmanlike Enemies of Our National
Game-Bird.
The most dreary season of the year
comes for bob-white in midwinter,
when there may happen to be heavy
SHOWS. II thick icy crust form every
covey in the region will sometimes be
caught huddled up beneath it, and be
frozen to death. At this time the flesh
is dark and lean and bitter with feed
ing on laurel shrubs and evergreens.
The birds become very tame again in
their season of want, and will in very
heavy weather visit the farmhouses
and barnyards in search of food. No
true sportsman kills them in such con-
dition; but the local darby, who rarely
attempts to shoot them on the wing, is
too apt to get out his old musket and
deal slaughter among the defenseless
little creatures. If he finds them
in their favorite position, huddled
up. heads together, in a small
excavation they have made in the
snow, single well-or rather
ill-directed shot from the old queens
arm will kill and main dozens of them,
leaving the remainder to scatter and be
frozen to death.
In the sportsman's code there is no
crime so heinous as shooting a quail
before he has taken wing. You may
claim that every bird your companion
shoots has fallen to your gun, thereby
making yourself very unpleasant, and
still be an honorable man, with the
chance of living it down. You may
even take the shot when a single bird
has been flushed and has flown across
another mans territory. and be reluc-
family excused on the score of excite
ment and inadvertence. But the sport
ing reputation of the man who
will fire an ounce of shot at a bird
sitting on the ground, where FIVE
year-old could hit it, is irretrievably
and deservedly blasted, and buried
without benefit of clergy.-Charles ID.
Lanier, in Harper's Magazine.
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THE BAT.
Nocturnal Habits of a Remote Relation
OF Ours.

Nocturnal Habits of a Remote Relation
OF Ours.
Most curious in origin of all nocturnal
insect hunters are the leathery-winged
bats, which may be regarded, practical
ly speaking, as very tiny monkeys,
highly specialized for the task of catch
ing nocturnal flies and midges. Few
people know how nearly they are re-
lated to us. They belong to the self
same division of the higher mammals
as man and the apes; their skeleton
answers to ours, bone for bone and
Joint for joint, in an extraordinary
manner; only the unessential fact that
they have very long fingers with a
web between as an organ of fight pre-
vents us from instantly and instructive
ly recognizing them as remote cousins.
once removed from the gorilla.
The female bat in particular is alb
surdly human. Most of them feed off
insects alone; but a few, like the ia
nous vampire bats of South American,
take a mean advantage of sleeping ami
mails. and suck their blood after the
fashion of mosquitoes, as they lie de-
fenseless in the forest or on the open
pampas Others. like the flying foxes
of the Malay Archipelago, make a
frugal meal off fruits and vegetables;
but even these are persistent night
fiiers. They hang head downward
from the boughs of trees during the
hot tropical daytime. but sally forth
at night. with Millions sons of Belial.
to rob the banana patches and invade
the plantain grounds of the industri-
Gus native. The bat is lemur, com
peeled by dire need 20 become hying
night bird.-Cornhill Magazine
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ORIGIN OF WALL PAPER.
King William III. the One who Probably
introduced II into England.

King william III. the One Who Probably
Introduced IL into England.
In answer to a query as to the origin
of wall papers an English authority
states that the art of making paper
hangings was copied from the Chinese,
among whom IL has been practiced
from time immemorial. Wall papers
did not come into common use in Eu-
rope till the eighteenth century, but
stamped papers for the purpose appear
to have been made in Spain and Hol-
land about 1855. The first allusion to
wall papers known to exist is in the
examination of Herman Schlnkel, a
printer of Delft, who was accused, in
1868. of printing books which were for
hidden by the then prevailing laws.
Being Intercepted as TO certain bal
lads, he said they had been printed by
his servant in his absence, and that
when he came home and found they
were not delivered he refused to deliver
them, and threw them into a corner,
intending to print roses and stripes on
the back to paper attics.
1t is probably to King William III.
that England owes the introduction of
wallpapers into that country. Paper
hangings of a sort, it is true, were in
use in England before the time of Will
liam of Orange, but they usually con-
sisted merely of maps of the world,
as it was then known, with fantastic
borders of Indians, negroes and ele-
plants, and other natives of far-off
regions. The art of paper hanging, in
imitation of the old velvet flock, was
new when William came to England.
1t was on the walls of the drawing
room at Kensington palace that these
new hangings were first seen in
Britain. They took the fancy of the
fashionables of the day, and their
cheapness being an additional recon-
mendation, they speedily came into
general use.-Iiarpers Young People.
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Are You Going south rhls win1err

If so, make your arran genents TO go via
the Big Four Route Whether in pursuit of
health or pleasure. no portion of the country
offers so many and varied attractions at
this season as the Sunny South. The Orange
Groves Of Florida, redolent with the per-
fume of sweet blossoms, wave their branch
es in hearty welcome to the tourist from
the Snow-clad Northland and the mellow
breezes of the Southern Sea WOO the invalid
from the Billiards Of the Frozen North.
There is one line to Florida, .'rhe Bic -Four
Route" which on account of is excellent
train service, perfect connections in Union
Depots and absence of transfers, forms the
Tourists Ideal Line 10 Florida y From all
points north of the Ohio RIVER the Big Four
Route. in connection with the Through Car
Lines from Cincinnati, viii be found TO offer
the Best Tine, Best Service and Best
Equipment to all Southern Points. and if
YOU desire to travel with comfort and ease
be sure your tickets read via The Big Four
Route
E. o. MCCORMICK. d 5. MARTIN.
Pass'r Traffic Mgr. Genl Pass r Agt.,
Cincinnati, O.
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was the simple Salutation OF the good
old man at each house ne entered.
And to all the faltered thanks and
blessings of the amazed and delighted
recipients he had only one response:
offer your thankSgivings to the
Lord: give Him the praise.
Reader. you whom the Lord has
blessed with abundant means. is there
no thanksgiving sermon for YOU to
preach2 Are there no poor in your
midst for whom you can make day of
real thanksgiving and praise?
There Is n day of mortal pain and
weakness that must come to all. Hap
py will it be for YOU, then. If You can
lay hold of this gracious promise:
blessed Is he that considereth the
poor: the Lord will make all his bed in
sickness Mary Grace Halpine, in n.
Y Weekly
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REiNCARNATED .noIANS.
ideas of the Alaskans Concerning a Future
Existence.

The Alaska Indians believe in rein
carnation. the person at each succeed
ing birth being of the same sex and
characteristics. 1t is affirmed that
Harsha, a great chief of the Wrangels
who died some two hundred years ago
and at whose death twenty slaves
were sacrificed, has since been rein
carnated five times, and at each birth
he has been recognized by the mark of
a stab or a cut in the right groin. At
one time, during one of these later in
carnations. while yet lad, in order 70
prove his memory of a previous exist
ence, he took friends TO cave and
found for them certain articles of
clothing hidden there and which had
belonged to Harsha. These he identi-
fed and separated from the clothing
belonging to others.
Sakunda has been reincarnated three
times and recognized by peculiar lock
of gray hair. The AUX chief. Ko-wee,
always claimed that he had lived once
before on this earth. A legend is told
of Chilcat Indian who was shot and
his body lay all day upon the ground
and at night his spirit returned, took
possession of it and continued its earth
life for several years. He said that he
did not feel freed from earth, though
he assembled upon the ladder to the
high Heaven, but all the time there
was a longing to return, and he looked
down through the opening and saw far
beneath him the earth, with its tall
trees like so many needles sticking up.
He was afraid to jump, but the longing
to return was so intense that he sum
moned all his courage and leaped to
the earth. when he landed on a bed of
soft moss near where his body was
lying. He crept back into it and awolke
again to earth life.
Almost countless are the tales the
Indians win tell you of the life beyond,
OF the messages which have come back
to them, of the visits they have made
there in dreams, and though often their
stories are contradictory in details, yet
through them all there is a firm belief
in future existence, into which they
pass with all life's experience; an inn
mortal life whose joys and sorrows are
the result of the remembrance or for
getfulness of friends. Juneau (Alaska)
journal.
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THE FRYING PAN.
Really Fastidious Preparation of Food the
Banishment of This Article.


There is an old rhyme that tells us
that THE frying-pan came before the
grill, and the fork Jagged after the
spoon" Certainly the habit of the
frying-pan is very difficult one to
eradicate. People are so conventional
in their ways of cooking that when
once they have acquired the habit of
dipping everything in grease it is diff
ficult to change their ways. Old house
Keepers do not easily learn new tricks.
1t is the younger generation that is to
be depended on to introduce new ways.
There is no objection to the frying
pot, that is, the deep kettle of fat in
which the article to be fried is COM
pletely immersed in the heated sub
stance, Nor is there any objection to
the griddle, on which articles are
cooked in just enough butter to pre-
vent their burning, like pancakes. But
the frying-pan in which enough fat is
used to soak into the articles cooked
and make them greasy and sodden, al
though they are Drowned, belongs to
the barbarous cooking of the past. 1t
should be as much out of use to-day as
are the pies of the porpoises and the
lamprey cells which tickled the coarse
palate of the epicures of Henry lis
time. but would not be acceptable on
the table of the poorest workingman
of to-day. Great as has been the gem
eral cultivation in the matters of taste
in food, there has been no correspond
ing improvement in the matters of
cookery that is at all commensurate
with il.
We have become almost unnecessary
~ dainty in our choice of what is best
for food, and in our demand for the
very finest cuts and qualities. Moth
ing but the very best will suit us, vet
we are in no way as fastidious in the
preparation of the food. Or else the
frying-pan, the coarsest method
cooking known, would have been ban.
ished long ago.-N. Y. Tribune.