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The Opelousas courier., 1894-06-02
TURNED BACK BY A FLY.
Little Insects Cause Lobensula's Army
to Retreat.

Probably never before the Matabela
war has 1t happened that the retreat OF
an army and a king was stopped by a
fly, and its very strangeness gives the
fact q peculiar interest. When Loben-
gula was lately defeated by the English
he r%etreated, intending to cross the
Zambesi river and take refuge in the
swampy country thereabout. All went
we'll until he reached the "tsetse fly
country" when he was forced to turn
back and again face his enemies. The
fly in this country stings, and although
1t Is harmless to men, mules and goats,
yet horses and cattle always perish
under its attacks. Lobengula and his
followers could not penetrate the fly
country without leaving their cattle
behind, and If this were done they
would starve for lack Of food.
The formidable tsetse is a trifie
larger than u house fly and is striped
yellow and black. Through q horny
proboscis 1t ~injects a poison into its vic
Tins. The tsetse's sting produces no
immediate effect, but in a few days
there appears an emulation for about
half an inch around the puncture.
The eyes and nose begin to run. The
skin quivers as if with cold, and swell
ing under the jaw occurs. The animal
grows thin and weak, until it is but
little more than a skeleton. 1t may
live In that condition for months, but
death always III eventually. 1t is
q peculiar fact that the stronger and
healthier the bitten animal is the
sooner its death will result from the
tsetse's sting. The very strong animals
are also afflicted usually with stagger-
ing and blindness. Sometimes swarms
of these flies attack a horse. The
horse usually dies within a week, and
If the body is opened his blood is found
much reduced in quantity and there
liver.
No remedy for the t~setse's poison
has q been found, although the ma
tives have tried all sorts of decoctions
Of herbs and roots,
The Opelousas courier., 1894-06-02
KNOWLEDGE

Brings comfort and improvement and
tends to personal enjoyment when
rightly used. The many, who live bet
ter than others and enjoy life more, with
less expenditure, by more promptly
adapting the worlds best products to
the needs of physical being, will attest
the value to health of the pure liquid
laxative principles embraced in the
remedy, Syrup Of Figs.
Its excellence is due to its presenting
n the form most acceptable and pleas
ant to the taste, the refreshing and truly
beneficial properties of a perfect lax
alive effectually cleansing the system,
dispelling colds, headaches and levers
and permanently curing constipation;
It has given satisfaction to millions ana
met with the approval Of the medical
profession, because it acts on n kld-
news, Liver and Bowels without weak
ening them and it is perfectly free from
every Objectionable substance.
Syrup Of Figs is for sale by all drug
pists in Soc and 81 bottles, but it is man
nfactured by the California Fig Syrup
Co. only, whose name is printed on every
package, also the name, Syrup OF Figs,
and being well informed, you, will not
accept any substitute if offered
The Opelousas courier., 1894-06-02
IN A MEXICAN r
where Sleep Is Like the Death OF the
Very Wicked.

There is no denying that it is in the
hotels that fate does her worst for you
IN Mexico, says a writer in a current
magazine. A bedroom in one of them
always suggests the expression a spa
eious mausoleum." It is SO large, so
aim. SO bare; and sleep there Stimulates
death 1.-THE death of the very wicked)
more nearly than it does in other
places. Twenty-Five by twenty feet in
size, the brown rafters showing far
above ones head, with one window,
huge, i~ron-grated, opening flush upon
the sidewalk, such was the typical no
tel bedroom in which the writer found
himself one night in San Luis Potosi.
Beggars, fruit sellers, and those merely
interested in u personal---very. per-
sonal-affairs stood on the sidewalk and
watched us until we closed the solid
wooden shutters, and left ourselves in a
black, unventilated box. The stone
floor was covered here and here with
an ill-smelling carpet, and two narrow
iron beds stood in remote corners, pure
white, laced and frilled, and piled up
with holsters of uncompromising hard
ness. A marvellous combination affair
of Vienna bentwocd held our hats,
clothes, the inevitable cut-glass water
bottles and highly Illuminated tin ba-
sin; and in the middle of the room was
a black expanse of table. The feeblest
of tallow candles in a quaint brass
holder furnished u only light; but
who could complain OF alack OF modern
conyeniences when from the blue dis
lance of the kalsomined wall there
cleaned impertinently the white but
ton of an electric bell? A needless
luxury it seemed when the 'tmozo"
who would, possibly, have answered it
had we rung, was snoring on his palm
mat in the patio, amid the ~iower-pots,
water-jars and donkeys, within kick
ing distance of our door.
The Opelousas courier., 1894-06-02
At II THROTTLE.
The Engineer Whose Steady Hand
Controls Locomotives.

Meantime, what is the engineer OF
the fastest train in the word doing
for the passenger? In the first place,
the New York Central's Chicago flyer
is not driven by one but by many en-
gineers. In order to cover the 1854
miles between the two cities in twenty
hours, including nine stops, there are
required seven huge engines in relays,
driven by seven grimy heroes. Arun
of less than $50 miles is the limit per
day for each engine, while three hours
of the plunging rush wears out the
strongest engineer.
Sixty, seventy, eighty miles an
hour-what does this mean to the
man at the throttle? 1t means that
the six and q half feet drivers turn
five times every second and advance
100 feet. Tic-tic-tic and the train
has run the length of New York's
highest steeple.
The engineer turns his head for
five seconds to look at the gauges, and
in that time the terrible iron creature
putting forth the strength of 1000
horses, may have shot past a red sig
nal with its danger warning 500 feet
away. Ten seconds and 10 90 feet
are left behind-one-fifth of a mile.
Who knows what horrors may lie
within hat thousand feet! There
may be death lurking round a curve,
death spreading it's arms in a tunnel,
and the engineer must see and be re-
sponsible for everything. Not only
must he note instantly all that is be-
fore him-the signals, switches,
bridges, passing trains and the con-
dition Of the rails, but he must act at
the same moment, working throttle,
air brakes or reversing lever, not as
quick as thought, but quicker, for
there is no time to think. His mus
cles must do the right thing auto
matically under circumstances where
a second is an age.
In the three hours of his vigil
there are 1O,S0O seconds during each
one of which he must watch with the
mental alertness of an athlete spring
ing for a flying trapeze from the roof
of an ampitheatre; with the cour-
ageous self-possession of q matador
awaiting the deadly rush Of a mad
dened bull. And far more depends
upon the engineers watching well,
because if he fails by a hairs breadth
in GOODNESS or precision of judgment
there may come destruction, not only
to himself, but to hundreds of pas
sengers who while he stands guard
are perhaps grumbling at the waiter
in the dining a or telling funny
stories in the smoker. Atlanta Con-
StitutiOn.
The Opelousas courier., 1894-06-02
Stray Leaves.

Il understand" said Mrs. Connois-
seur, as she swept into her seat at
the academy of music, that Herr
Sopolisbie is to play to night"
"Ain't that nice?" responded Mrs.
Parvenue. Hes a regular-master.
piece on the fiddle, l understand"
"Ahem! yes; had you heard that
he has a Stradivarius??"
"No! is it p~ossible?:"
Il heard So"
"Where did the poor fellow get it?"
"They say he got it a year or two
ago on the continent"
swell, that's awful. Can't nothing
be done for him? It seems as if the
cholera and all them dreadful diseases
comes from those dirty foreign
places"
Mrs. Connoisseur's face is a noe
turne in black and yellow.
The Opelousas courier., 1894-06-02
Hard and Soft Wood.

One who knocks about among
Maine men often hears interesting
points brought up in queer ways.
One of these presented itself recently
in a transaction which involved the
question: "Where is the legal line
to be drawn between hard and soft
wood?' A very sharp Penobscot
County man made a contract to de.
liver to the other party some hun.
dreds of cords Of "hard'' wood, and
then proceeded to deliver white birch
and poplar wood to the required
amount. To this the purchaser, who
expected to receive either maple,
beech or yellow birch, demurred,
claiming it was not according to con.
tract. A high judicial authority is
quoted as ruling that white birch and
poplar are ahard" wood, because they
bear a leaf, the line being drawn be-
tween the evergreen and leaf-bearine
trees.-[Lewiston Journal.
The Opelousas courier., 1894-06-02
Ants Bigger Than Foxes.

Pliny, that art old gossiper, tells
among his other extraordinary stories
that of the Bactrian method of OBJ
tanning gold. The sandy deserts of
Bactria in the days of that historian
were, SO the old mar says, literally
swarming with ants Slightly bigger
than foxes" These gigantic repre-
sentatives of the genus homenoptera
burrowed deeply into the sandy
wastes, their tunnels and galleries
often being hundreds of feet in ex-
tent.
The earth removed from these bur-
rows was always carried to the out
side and thrown up in hills (remem-
Der Pliny says this) ''of a bigness
exceeding that of a palace" This
debris-sand, earth, etc.-was soon
found to be wonderfully rich in small
nuggets of gold. The danger from
the ants was greater, however, than
that from the Indians in the early
days of gold digging in the Western
United States, and many stories are
told of men who were literally de-
voured in a few moments by the
fierce owners of some disturbed bur-
row.
Some observing old hunter at last
discovered that the giant ants slept
during the hottest hours of the day.
After that the seekers after the vel
low metal only made their incursions
at the proper time, and even then
they only stayed long enough in the
deserts to fill their sacks with the
golden sand, which they took home to
sift at leisure. With all this precau-
ton the ants often "swiftly pursued
the f1eetest horses, and it was only
by using various stratagems that the
invaders managed to escape alive
[Chicago Times.
The Opelousas courier., 1894-06-02
GIG Rus, : Lbs. Oats From One Bus. Seed

GIG Bus. = Lbs. Oats From One Bus. Seed.
This remarkable, almost unheard-of. yield
was reported to the john A. Salzer Seed Co.,
La Crosse, Wis, by Frank Winter, of Mon
tana, who planted one bushel Of Great North.
ern Oats, carefully titled and irrigated same,
and believes tina in 1891 he can grow from one
busllel Of Great Northern Oats three hundred
bushels. It's a wonderful oat. IF you WILL
CUT THIS our AND E II with Sc postage to
the above firm you will receive sample package
Of above oats and their mammoth farm seed
catalogue. A
The Opelousas courier., 1894-06-02
How's This!

We offer One Hundred Dollars Reward for
my case of Catarrh that cannot be cured by
Halls Catarrh Cure.
#. j. CHENEY & Co., Props, Toledo, O.
We, the undersigned, nave known f. j. Che
ney for the last 15 years. and believe him per-
fectly honorable In all business transactions
and financially able to carry out any obliga-
ton made by their firm.
West g. TRUAx, Wholesale Druggists, Toledo,
Ohio.
WALpING, KrNSAN & MARVIN, Wholesale
Druggists, Toledo, OHIO.
Halls Catarrh Cure is taken internally, act
Ing directly upon the blood and mucous sur
faces of the system. Price, 75c. per bottle. Sold
by all Druggists. estimonialS free.
The Opelousas courier., 1894-06-02

SUDDEN CHANGES OF WEATHER cause
Throat Diseases. There lis no more effectual
remedy for Coughs, Colds, etc, than "B1g1uass
The Opelousas courier., 1894-06-02

Browns Iron Bitters cures Dyspepsia, Ma1a.
ria, Biliousness and General Debilitv. Gives
strength. aids Digestion, tone; the n,tves-
creates appetite. The best tonic for Nursing
Mothers, weak women and children.
The Opelousas courier., 1894-06-02

Many persons are broken down from over.
work or household cares. BroWn's Iron Bit
tiers rebuilt Is the system, aids digestion, re-
moves excess OF bile, and cures malaria. a
splendid tonic for women and children.
The Opelousas courier., 1894-06-02

Liberality consists less in giving uch
than in giving at the right moment.
The Opelousas courier., 1894-06-02

Artificial limbs are usually made OF
willow wood on account Of its lightness.
The Opelousas courier., 1894-06-02

One seldom repents of having said too Lit
tie, often having said too much.
The Opelousas courier., 1894-06-02

The blue heaven is larger than all the
clouds in it, and much more lasting.
The Opelousas courier., 1894-06-02

1t is laziness of mind which takes away
the taste for good books.
The Opelousas courier., 1894-06-02

Al wonderful stomach corrector-Beecham,a
Pills. Beecham's-no others. 70 cents q box.
The Opelousas courier., 1894-06-02

eWISS LOZENGEs, for curing Coughs, Sore
D Throat, Hoarseness Asthma, Catarrh, Bronchitis.
&c. Price, 2sc. a box. by mall. H. Edward Wen
del, s. E. Cor. Sd & George SITS, Philadelphia, Penn.
The evening world. [volume] (New York, N.Y.) 1887-1931, 1894-07-24
BEATEN BY TOUCHS.
Policemen Have a Desperate
Struggle with a Harlem Trio
One Stole Mrs. CartonneIIi's Dog and
Then Kicked Her.
when Arrested He Was Rescued by
His Companions.

Policeman George Reggie, OF the East
One Hundred and Fourth street station.
Is living =. his homo 5uceoIins from
three broken ribs. broken arm and
colar-bonc, and Policeman O'Brien, OF
the same station. was bitten in the hand
while, with Reigle. he was trying to ar
rest three tough-looking men at One
Hundred and Smith street and First ave
nue. at o'clock last night.
The prisoners are James Heany, TWEEN
ty-two years old. of 23c East One Hun
dred and Twent second street, James
Dempsey, twenty-three years old, or 33l
East one Hundred and Fourteenth street,
and John Reilly, twenty-four years old,
of al East one Hundred and Ninth
street.
Last evening while Mrs. Mary Corton-
neni was walking along One Hun
dred and Ninth street. near First
avenue. with her pet dog Heany
caught the dog and started to
walk away. Mrs. Cortonnelli naturally
became excited, and tried to take her
pet from Heany,
In the struggle that followed the
woman was either knocked down or fell.
At any rate she said thdt WINE lying
on the sidewalk Heany kicked her sew
eral times. Policeman O'Brien ran after
Heany and arrested him.
Just then Reilly and Dempsey came
along and tore Heany from the police
mans grasp. Heany ran into saloon
near the river and hid In the cellar
Policeman OBrien followed, however
and brought his prisoner out again.
Dempsey and Reilly again interfered.
At this juncture Policeman Reigle APP
peGred on the scene and was greeted
with n shower of bricks. Heany, hav-
ing broken loose a second time, picked
up heavy club and used it on the sec
ond officer. 1t was at this time that
Reigle was injured and O'Brien bitten
in the hand. Policeman Solomon was
attracted by the crowd that had gath
cred and came to their rescue and the
three men were finally taken to the
tation-house.
BY the time they reached the station.
house Heanys head was so badly cut
he had TO be taken to the hospital. It
court this morning he was held In $0(
bail for assault on Mrs. Cortonnelli. and
81 800 for assault on Policeman Reigle
Reilly was also held in $500 bail fol
trial. and Dempsey. who only interfered
with the arrest of Heany was sent &c
the island for one month.
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NO PANIC IN THIS Tenement.
Forty Families Make Orderly Exit
from q Burning House.
About $4,000 Damage by Fire Ii,
the Produce District.

There was a fire at l clock this morn
ing in the Washington Tenement House,
at the northwest corner OF Grand and
Attorney streets. 1t Is big six-story
double-decker. in which there are forty
families.
The names started in Solomon Selig-
mans grocery store. in the basement
on the Attorney street side. Policeman
Kelly, OF the Eldridge street station, saw
a light shining through the grccer's win
dow and blew his whistle, to which Po-
liceman Moran responded
Kelly turned in the alarm. while the
other policeman woke UP Selisman and
his family, who slept in two little rooms
back OF butcher shop, in the next base
ment to the grocery.
The smoke went UP through the house,
and when Seligman, his wife and four
children were safely out Moran awoke
the families upstairs.
They all came out quietly enough.
There was a Are In this house a year ago.
and many of the inmates were injured
In the halls and on the stairs by the
panic which ensued. They profited by
that lesson. The only time any OF them
got excited was when a man carried q
big trunk down the stairs on his back
and blocked up the doorway for a few
moments.
The tiremen made short work OF the
flames. Only $3.50 damage was done.
The cause OF the fire Is supposed to
have been rats gnawing matches.
Flames started in some unknown man.
ner at o'clock this morning in the
four-story brick building a23 Washington
street The fire was discovered on the
third floor by a private Waterman, who
turned in an alarm. The floor Is &C.
cupied by Pinkney & Thompson, produce
merchants. Before the fire could be
checked il had extended TO the fourth
floor. occupied by John Meyers, a COM
mission merchant.
estimated at s., 900. Meyerss loss will
be $1,000 while $1,000 will cover the loss
on the building.
The evening world. [volume] (New York, N.Y.) 1887-1931, 1894-07-24
THE RErLLx ACTION OF REVENGE.

Revenge Is sweet. So they say. Pat
rick Byrnes thought so. tried II and found
that it was everything William Shakes
peare and some other folks have cracked
it up TO be. But he has discovered also
that like the cup that cheers II ha. an
aftermath which is not all rosy and
joyous
Patrick and his wife. Catherine. sepa =
rated thirteen Years ago. She went TO
keeping boardevs; ne went about his
business and saved little money. HAY
ing som athing like 81. 800 in his wallet
he determined to take a "trip 20 ireland /.
but before going he thought he would
make Mrs. Byrnss feel bad. So he
visited her and showed her what a 81. 600
bill looked like. also what several 500
bills looked like. Then he folded them
up, laughed ghoulishly and said good
day.
Later he was before the bar q, the
Jefferson Market Police Court, and the
Justice deCreed that he had to pay Mrs
Byrnes s. 80 a week FOR her support
Then Mrs. Byrnes laughed. She, too
thinks that revenge IL sweet. and she
can afford &c keep on thinking so. Pa,
rick, though. has changed his mind
After a while he will be changing his
| 81, 900 bill TO pay Mrs. Byrnes her ali,
mony. He is not laughing nov.
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EneIish vs.. American.

To the Editor:
The many letters which have appeared Ia your
paper for the last month, making many bitter
comparisons between the two countries, TO the
Of England. have caused me to
wonder at the Acrimonious display Of feeling
and I. with many others who have discussed the
matter, have come 10 the conclusion that either
the parties signing themselves American
Uncle Sam" &C. have not mad the advantage
Of travelling TO see the country and its institu-
tions they condemn. are hybrid Enslishmsn
who have committed some criminal set in their
own country. and have been compelled TO cross
the ocean for &" the good OF their health" and
dare not return to 1t. and therefore, show their
mean spite to ease their conscience and show
their Independence against . country which will
have nothing 10 do with criminals. These are
the only solutions any man who has travelled
can possibly hnd for % bitter jealousy against
a country where 5s7 saloon passengers on the
Paris sailing yesterday. have some TO enjoy the
comforts OF English society and scenery.
sCOTICUs
The evening world. [volume] (New York, N.Y.) 1887-1931, 1894-07-24

Every dish used in a public restaurant
In Paris, either in the kitchen or for the
table; every pot, pan and utensil In the
bakeries and every beer faucet In the
wine shop-in short, everything used in
preparing or serving foods. Is under the
care OF the inspector. The law forbids
the use OF lead, zinc and galvanized
iron in the manufacture Of cooking YES
sells. 1t orders that all copper vessels
be timed and kept in good condition. 1t
directs that pottery which is covered
with q glaze containing enough oxide of
lead to yield to q feeble acid be seized.
1t orders that tin cans never be soldered
on the inside, and that the materials
used In their manufacture be conformed
to certain standard. 1t is the in
spector's business to look after these
things.
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THE TARIFF CRISIS.

Senator German labors under a dis
advantage in the assault he has thought
proper to make on President Cleveland.
The people know that the President is
right. and that all he says Is truth. They
know that Senator German IN wrong,
that mis- action and that OF his few
associates cannot l.. justified. tnai II is
in direct conflict with the principles OF
Democracy, the rules OF political or
Eanization ard the interests OF the
country.
Senator Germans speech, while
masked in personal denunciation OF the
President for some supposed duplicity
practised towards the Senators in regard
to Mr.. Clevelsnd's opinion OF com
promise. Is In reality an attempt to
excuse or to Justify the obstructive
course of those Democratic Senators
who have stood out In stubborn and
seif-interested opposition to the Demo-
cratic Administration, the Democratic
House OF Representatives. the Demo-
cratic majority In the Senate and the
Democratic party on the tariff question.
Taking advantage OF the Democratic
necessity. three Senat ors combine 10 pro-
tect their own special interests. To ac-
complish this they reverse the principle
OF tariff reform TO which the Democracy
Is pledged, change the character OF the
Tariff bill as 1t came from the House
and then declare that the bill as they
have transformed IT must be accepted
as Democratic Tariff bill or the coun-
try must remain under Mckinley pro-
lection for corporations, trusts and
monopolics.
Three Democratic Senators stand up
in opposition to forty Of their Demo
cratic associates. TO the Overwhelming
Democratic majority OF the House OF
Representatives, to the Democratic
President and the Democratic Secretary
Of the Treasury. and say: we will con
fer, but you must yield what we demand
or we will defeat your Tariff bill"
This is In plain truth the position
occupied by Senator German and his
associates. The Maryland Senator,
under the influences OF past disappoint-
ments and present jealousies. may rail
at President Cleveland as savagely as
he pleases. but the people know the
facts to be as we have stated them, and
all Mr.. Germans special pleadings can
not deceive or mislead them. 1t Is plain
to see on whom the censure OF the party
and the country will fall.
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4 Cooling Wash.

A cooling wash for the sick room Is
made in the following way: Take of
rosemary. wormwood. rue. sage, laven-
der and milt. each large handful.
Place In a stone jar and pour into it one
gallon OF strong cider vinegar. Cover
closely and keep near the fire for four
days. Then strain and add one ounce
of powdered camphcr gum. Bottle and
keep u tightly corked. 1t Is very aro-
matte and refreshing in the sick room,
and another method Of using 1t is to
wash the face and hands with 1t before
exposing ones self to any infection.