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The Opelousas courier., 1894-10-20
WHEN "soME1lME" COMES.

When sometime" comes then we shall taste
the joys for which we long;
The shadows will be sunbeams then and every
sigh o song.
The sweet, dead hopes we cherish and within
our breasts intomb
VIII oil come back to life again and I'LL our
hearts with bloom.
The dreary waste Of desert sand will blossom
as the rose,
And every brook will babble sweetest music as
it flows;
Our hungry souls that now exist on Just the
meager crumbs
VIII then sit down to prfncely feasts Of love,
when sometime comes
When sometime" comes then all the year
will be n glad, sweet June.
And all the music of our lives will be in perfect
tune.
The paths we tread will lead us on through
/. ~blossom-scented dells
Where we shall ever listen to the chimes OF
fairy bells.
The thornless roses all the day with dewdrops
- will be wet.
And Joy will come untangled in the meshes OF
regret,
And time will fit as gladly as the wild bee
Wnen II huns
Its drowSy song from honeyed flower to flower,
when sometime comes.
When sometime" comes then all OF life will
be O dream of truth,
And we shall feel again the charms and limo
cence of youth,
And sing the glad sweet songs we sung in those
y bright summers when
We played in careless Joy nor knew the weary
thoughts of men.
And all the friends we held 80 dear. the ones
who loved US so,
Will all come back to greet US from the happy
long ago.
The girls with dolls and dishes and the boys
with flags and drums.
Well see them all together once again when
sometime comes.
Nixon Waterman. In Chicago Journal.
The Opelousas courier., 1894-10-20

and the master-mechanic measures, the
inside diameter of the jacket at its UP
per end. This must agree with the
calculated expansion of the cylinder
before the operation of assembling is
attempted. When all is ready the great
traveling-crane is brought over the
furnace, the cover is removed, and in a
moment the enormous mass of steel is
suspended in the air. Now its interior
is carefully wiped out, in order that
the minutest particle Of foreign matter
shall be removed. and the inside diam.
eter is measured throughout the
length of the >jacket. Meantime,
by means Of bars of fusible metal,
the temperature is determined at
various points. The giant crane,
directed by a motion of the
hand of the master-mechanic, now
swings the suspended mass over the
tube, where it is accurately aligned
and plumbed. When it is realized that
the inside diameter of the expanded
Jacket is less than one-tenth of an inch
greater than the exterior diameter OF
the tube. and therefore that the clear
ance between the two is only about
four one-hundredths of an inch, and
that the jacket must be lowered over
fifteen feet of the tube without coming
in contact with it. Or if it does come in
contact that the touch must be light
and of the briefest duration, it is easy
to see that this adjustment is of su-
preme Importance. Finally the signal
is given. and, slowly at first. and then
more swiftly, the jacket is then low
cred to its place. The anxious express
sion which has marked the countenance
of the officer in charge gives place to
II of content, the appreciation of the
spectators is manifested by smiles and
applause, and the operation is over.
The jacketing of a large gun is the
single process of the whole m%anufact-
urc which causes great concern to the
experimenting ordnance officer. The
lathe work, the boring and turning of
guns. are questions of accurate meas
urement and careful workmanship, to
which as much time may be devoted as
is necessary. But from the moment
that the hea ted jacket is taken from
the furnace it is losing heat, and as a
consequence is contracting. The loss
of heat is, of course, very slow, but any
reduction in the diameter of the Jacket,
where the allowed clearance is already
small, is of moment, and hence the
work must be done with CELEBRITY. The
time required to put On a thirteen-inch
jacket, when all goes well, is less than
fifteen minutes. Theodore +. Jewell,
U. 5. N, in Harper's Magazine.
The Opelousas courier., 1894-10-20
OF TREES.
Going on Constantly at the Rate Of Eigh
Million Acres Annual1y.

Going OH Constantly at the Rate Of Eight
Million Acres Annually.
1t is estimated that 5000, 600 acres of
forest land are cleared every year,
and that in ten years previous to 1876,
1000, 900 acres were burned over simply
to clear the land. Ten years ago it
York was disappearing at the rate of
$50, 600 acres a year. Since then laws
have been passed which have restrained
to some extent the woodman's AK, but
it is still welded far too freely.
The forests are the natural friends
and protectors of the earth and of man.
They not only minister to the aesthetic
part of mans nature by stimulating
and feeding his sense of beauty, but
they also have practical uses and
values which may not safely be ig-
nored. Some Of the direst calamities
that have befallen the countries of the
old world may be traced to the de-
struction of forests, and many diseases
that swept away great multitudes of
human beings, and that were account
ed ''divine visitations,' may doubtless
be traced to the same cause.
The warning given this country by
George P. Marsh many years ago, in
his work entitled 'Man and Nature"
and by others who have given careful
study to this subject, has not been
wholly in vain. A reactionary move
ment has already begun, and it's good
results are visible in many quarters.
Perhaps it is not too much tt hope that
u friends and protectors. the trees of
the forest, which have for us so many
precious housekeeping full the streams
and rivers, %lessening the heat of
summer and the cold of winter, guard
ing the fields against ruinous floods
and freshets, offering a shelter and a
pleasure ground to the well and a per-
feet s%anitarium to the sick-will be
preserved from further ruthless de-
struction for the joy and blessing of
this and future OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES
Transcript.
The Opelousas courier., 1894-10-20
SHRINKING a GUN JACKET.
A Process That Requires the Creates
Precision.

A Process That Requires the Greatest
Precision.
1t is at the shrinking-pit that some
of the most striking of the details of
manufacture of a gun are to be OBJ
served, and the shrinking on of a thir-
teen-inch jacket is always the occasion
of a crowd of interested spectators. In
a corner of the pit is the tube, a cylin-
der OF steel two feet in diameter and
forty feet long, standing upright and
clamped in position. It's upper end for
a distance of some fifteen feet is bright
and smooth, having been turned to ex-
act dimensions. Inside of the tube cold
water is circulating, to prevent it's x
pansion by the heat radiated from the
furnaces, and to keep it cool while the
jacket is going on. In the heating
furnace the jacket, another cylinder OF
steel, seventeen feet in length and
weighing some twenty-three or twenty
four tons, has been slowly heating
since the day previous, carefully
watched both day and night by the at
tendants, who 70 regulate the supply
OF air that no excessive temperature is
obtained. From time to time the cover
Of the furnace il lifted for a moment,
The Opelousas courier., 1894-10-20

of my captors. 1 played the trick tor
all there was in 1t through the day.and
when we camped that night in a fringe
of timber on the bank OF a prairie
stream, they didn't tie my feet so tight
together. My hands were left free,
and I was told by signs to cook my
own supper Of venison on the fire, af-
ter which my wrists were again bound,
though fancied that the hands that
tied EN- were none too steady.
when all had stretched themselves
on the ground, with me in the center
and nearest the fire. ] set my wits to
work, plaunin' a way to escape. l
tugged at the rawhide thongs that
held my wrists as | lay with EN- under
my back, but. couldn't slip 'em off or
break EN-. The best LIQUID do was to
get my wrists an inch or SO apart. My
feet l managed to separate a little
wider without attractin' attention.
The young chief who'd appropriatedmy
rife, and who slept nearest me Oil n
side, had leaned it ag'in a saplin' and
hung the pouch and horn over the
muzzle. I'd been careful to notice this
before | lay down. and made up my
mind that If could get my hands and
feet loose and get hold of that old
d~ouble-barrel nee more, I'd make a
break for liberty before mornin'. I
tried for some time to pull his knife
out of the belt of a brave next to me,
but the least touch woke him every
time.
Then another thought struck me. I
turned over as If to ease my position,
while with the toe of my m%occasin I
raked a big live coal out of the fire and
wriggled my feet about till I got it be-
tween EN-, and then pressed the thongs
that held EN- down on the coal. It
took nerve to do it, Bob, but I knew
the blisterin' wasn't a patchin' to what
was waitin' for me at the end of the
journey. | was sure the Sioux would
smell the burnin' rawhide, but there
was lots bones and meat scattered
about the fire, and l suppose they
thought it vas that. The thongs be-
gan to snap and give way when1 pulled
on 'em, and / knew a smart jerk would
set my feet free. With my hands 1t
was not 81 easy. Coal after coal I
worked out of the fire with my feet,
The Opelousas courier., 1894-10-20
OH= MISTAKE.
Ne Took the Wrong Travelling BAG ana
Didn't Find 1t Out Until Too Late.

Ne Took the Wrong Travelling Bag and
Didn't Find 1t Out Until Too Late.
The small travelling bag is used for q
good many purposes nowadays.
Office girls carry them, typewriter
girls use them and women who sell
books disguise their real business with
chem. The latest use to which they
have been put is for marketing.
The idea is said to have been origi-
mated by a young married woman who
wanted to go to market, but who
wouldn't he seen coming therefrom
with her arms full of packages or a
basket in her hand.
At last she hit upon the idea of the
travelling bag. That would do first
rate. 1t looked business-like. 1t was
far better than a clumsy basket. The
idea was approved by other young
wives. and low when young women are
seen in the street in the evening carry
ing travelling bags they are probably
headed for the market.
One of these neat. prudish young
the right kind of a woman, for she
helps her husband by driving close
bargains on meat, vegetables and pro-
visions generally. She enjoys market
ing, and has one of the popular leather
bags in which to carry home her pur-
chase.
This little woman has a brother who
us "a commercial traveller, and most OF
Gss time is spent on the road. The
. i+l~. ,,,,;,r 4La x-n11rr xgIfa 1af11.nPd
Som a marketing trip and placed her
~{taveling bag on the dining-room table
Ihile she went to remove her hat and
gloves.
Suddenly here was a sound OF steps
outside the door, and a moment later a
strong shake was given it and a hearty
voice outside said:
Let me in, Lou: I've got just three
minutes to spare"
1t wa her brother. She hadn't seen
him for months. She threw the door
open. The brother rushed in, put his
travelling bag down on the table and
wrapped his sister in his arms.
II leave for Buffalo tonight, Lou
he said. Il was going by on my way
to the train, and l thought I'd drop in
to get a look at you"
Three minutes were spent in lively
conversation, then with a "Good-by,
Lou. Give my regards to the old man."
the travelling brother picked up trav-
cling bag and ran downstairs.
He reached Buffalo that night, and
when he went to his o. to retire he
opened the travelling bag to get a night
shirt. Buthe didn't find it. What he
did find were three tomatoes, a small
head of cabbage, an egg plant, a box
of baking powder, two boiled crabs, a
bunch of celery, lettuce, four lamb
chops and a small package in which
were samples of dress goods. The tray
cling bag belonged to his sister.-N. Y.
Herald.
The Opelousas courier., 1894-10-20
THE LAND OF iNFlDELS.
Observations of an english Explorer In the
Country Of the Kafirs.

Observations of an English Explorer In the
Country of The Kafirs.
At a recent meeting of the Royal
Geographical society DR.. G. S. Robert
son read a paper on 'kafristan"-a
country which up to a few years ago
was entirely unknown and unexplored,
and still remains one of these few in
habited regions of the world which are
only partially understood. The whole
district, he said, was known by the
name of Kairistan, which literally
meant "the land of the infidel," just as
Hindoostan meant the land of the
Hindoo" and Afghanistan 1.-The land of
the Afghan" Before his own visit to
Kafiristan, with n single exception,
no European had ever penetrated into
those remote valleys. The exception
was Lockhart's mission, which in Sep
TENDER, 1885, crossed from Ohitral into
the upper part of the Bashgul valley,
remained tn ere a few days, and then
withdrew into Chitral by another road.
The actual amount of country DIR.
Robertson was able to explore was not
of any great extent. Tribal jealousies
were S % great and his position was
oftentimes SO difficult that it was fre-
quently a question, not of his being
able to get on, but of his being able to
maintain himself in the Kafir country
at all. Kafiristan consisted of an ir-
regular series of main valleys, for the
most part deep, narrow and tortuous,
into which a varying number of still
more difficult, narrower, and deeper
valleys, ravines, and glens poured their
torrent water.
The physique of the Kafrs was mag
nificent of its kind. They were light
built men, who almost always seemed
to be in hard training. The most strik-
ing mental peculiarities of Kafrs were
their extreme cupidity, their extraor-
binary jealousy of one another, and the
intensity of their intertribal hatred.
They were by no means simple in char
acter; they could intrigue, concoct
secret plots, and then carry them out
with the secrecy and subtlety of the
average oriental. The religion of the
Kairs was idolatry, with traces also
of aneestor-worship. There was moth
ing in the shape of prayers; the sub
stitutes were religious dances, sacred
songs and sacrifices. The kafrs were
a brave. independent people, who had
maintained themselves for centuries
against hordes of enemies, not only
by a of the extraordinary difficult
ties their country presented. but by
valor and magnificent fighting powers.
They were entitled to the respect
everyone must feel for real men, who
would fight to the death before they
accepted the yoke of the stranger
London Times.
The Opelousas courier., 1894-10-20

losin' my scalp more'n once" said Old
Thad. as he smoked his pipe by our
campfire. About as close a call as l
ever had was one time when I was
camped not more'n a mile up this
creek. That was forty years ago and
this was a different country then, /
can tell you-as wild as wild could be,
and no settlements nearer than the
Big Woods along the Minnesota.
"It was along in August. too early
for trappin', and l was takin' it easy,
KILN just enough game for camp
meat. and locatin' the colonies of
beaver and otter, as it was my custom
to do, long before the trappin' season
began. I'd made a prime lot OF maple
sugar that spring, and it made mighty
good sass for the -blackberrles the
woods vas full OF them days.
"You know that big patch in the
holler just east of where we killed
hat buck to-day? Well, one evenin'
about shutdown took my water
bucket and went over there to fill it
with berries. / never left camp with
out my rife nohow, and was particu-
lar to see that 1t was freshly primed
and capped this time, for there was
lots of bars about the berry patches.
and l needed one in camp for the tai
low. / had a big brindle deerhound
then, the best dog ] eve owned. He
could wind a bar or a redskin before
he got within gunshot. We'd hardly
left camp before old Tige began to
sniff the air and bristle up. .Ha, ha,'
said I, as / patted his head, it's bars,
is it, old fellow? Well, just keep
quiet and we'll have one before we get
back to camp You see / had q way
of talking to that dog just as / would
to q human, and he understood 1t
about as well, too. Somehow, though,
the old fellow wouldn't keep quiet,
but shifted and snarled as / walked
along with my rife cooked. expectin'
every minute to see a bar bounce ont
of the bushes.
I'D seen 30 much bar sign lately
that I didn't think OF it's bein' any
thing else, and reachin' the berry
patch. / walked out in the middle and
commenced pickin'.
I'D got my bucket most full, when
q slight noise In the bushes and q sharp
bark from Tige made me drop the
The Opelousas courier., 1894-10-20

Peach stones find a ready market in
New York. Perfumes, flavoricg ex-
tracts. and prussic acid are distilled
from them
The Opelousas courier., 1894-10-20

xEwFousDIAyp is without reptiles.
N~ossntle. frog. toad or lizard has ever
been = there
The Opelousas courier., 1894-10-20

"A Seotchman was blowing the
trumpet, or bagpipe, for his native
land, asserting that the inhabitants
thereof were immeasurably SUPERIOR to
Englishmen, when a disguised South
ron broke in with: Look here. there S
no use in you Seotchmen trying to
make yourselves out SO much cleverer
than E~nglishmen; for. if Darwin is cor
rect, both have descended from non
keys Mac replied: That's where
you're wrong. Englishnnen have de-
scended ron monkeys right enou RI,
but ScotehEen have assembled from
monkers.-
The Opelousas courier., 1894-10-20
FIRST AID TO THE DROWNED.

Rhythmical Pulling of the Tongue Has
Proved Marvelously Useful.
A young Italian doctor has published
a pamphlet recommending the opera
ton of firmly holding the tongue of
persons taken with syncope as a sure
means of restoring life. The tongue
can be held fast by means of wrapping
a cloth around it., and then must be
drawn backward and forward with a
rhythmical monion. The doctor de-
scribes a ease in which he thus sue
ceeded in restoring life:
A young man, while bathing. was
surprised by a wave and drowned.
After a quarter of an hour he was
taken from the water, and every effort
made to revive him. Two doctors for
more than an hour used all their re-
sources in vain. The young man
seemed to be dead. Then the doctor ar
rived who reports these facts; and, ask
ing for a spoon, thrust it into the back
of the mouth. seized the tongue and
worked it violently. Shortly after the
patient gave a deep breath, and a little
later vomited water. The operation
VOC COAGIkluCos GuC UICdUuS U0CdTuG
gradually frequent. Meanwhile,
cloths dipped in almost boiling water
had been placed over the chest of the
patient, and the extremities were
rubbed vigorously. After half an hour
thus employed the heart began to beat,
the face gained a little color and the
patient frightened. But the patient
still needed careful attention four
hours o to completely recover from
his long syncope.
The doctor hopes that this simple
mode of restoring life will be adopted
at all places on the sea where life saw
ing apparatus is used. But even when
no such arrangements are ready, any
one can try the tongue-pulling process
and procure hot water for tn. APP
plication of heat.-London News.
The Opelousas courier., 1894-10-20

" E B E E N
caughtnappin'
by the Sioux,
and came with
The Opelousas courier., 1894-10-20

FIJI his pipe and-allow d broad smile to
crack up into little squares the
wrinkles of his weather-beaten face,
give me a good birch bark and a
keen, wide blade for a journey every
time.
1T didn't take mi long togetenough
of that sort of ride; but, to throw EN-
off their guard, / dug my knees into
the pony's ribs and scurried along in
the middle of the band, laughin' as
they did. fit to kill myself whenever a
pony put his foot in . gopher hole aud
sent his rider flynn over his head, and
maxim ont as If / was hayin as big a
picnic as any of EN-.
This didn't seem to please 'erl
much. In fact, it soon stopped their
fun altogether and set 'em to eyein'
me in q way that gave me just the cue
/ needed.
ITO make sure ] wasn't mistaken /
crowded my pony close up to the near
est braves He SHE'D off in q minute as
If he wasn't anxious to have me get
too near. / tried ii on one after an
other and all acted the same. "a
French and Injun half-breed trader
who dealt with the Sioux 9 great deal
had often told me that many Of these
injuns. especially the younger braves,
called me Heap Big Medicine. by which
they meant that ! was q sort of wizard.
who could call the spirits to my aid
| needed EN-. You see. I'd
escaped EN- 80 many times and in ways
that seemed to 'em miraculous that
they'd come 10 think there was some
thin supernatural about me. I'd taken,
particular pains I make it looksthat
whenever + Ind q brush with sen,
and could : now that the way /.
Epsarted and .anghed IN the face Of
what seemed certain death had woke
Mp that old superstition III the breasts
The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1894-02-14
THE HAWAIIAN INVESTIGATION.

WASHINGTON, Feb. IA, 1S94.-The Senate
Committee on Foreign Relations held its
regular meeting this morning, but ira nsacted
no business beyond ordering reports on nom
nations that had been referred. The mat
ter of making public the testimony
taken by the sub committee which has
had charge of the investigation of Hawaiian
affairs was discussed, but it was
decided that this should not be done until
the report of the subcommittee was ready to
be submitted to the full committee. The
subcommittee will meet again Saturday, at
which time Mr.. Morgan expects to have his
report ready to submit to his colleagues.
In the event that it is adopted, the
testimony will be released from the
injunction of secrecy. Should the
Republican members of the subcommittee
be unable to agree with the conclusions of
Mr. Morgan, they will submit a separate re
port upon the points of difference. Upon
certain phases of the case it is known that
they will agree, but the anticipated criti-
cisln of the acts of Minister Stevens will
not be concurred in by Senator'S Sherman
and Frye.
The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1894-02-14
TO BE ooURT-MARTIALED.
Paymaster Smith of the Concord al
Has Old Tricks.

WASHINGTON, Feb. IA, 1894. = Private
letters from Yokohama bring the news that
General Paymaster H. R. Smith of the
United States ship Concord was to be tried
by court-martial January %, for alb
sence without leave and conduct un-
becoming an officer and gentleman
when his ship was at Hong Kong several
weeks earlier. Smith created considerable
excitement five years ago on his arrival
from China on the Essex when he disap-
peared for nearly month. The police
looked high and low for him, without finding
the slightest clue to his movements, after he
first went ashore It was finally agreed that
he had been the victim of foul play, and the
search for him was abandoned.
AT length he reappeared, and refusing to
give any account Of himself, he was sus-
pended for one year.
Assistant Engineer Arnin Hartrath was
also under arrest for conduct unbecoming
an officer and gentleman, and court was
ordered for his trial. No casualties were
reported in the Asiatic squadron.
The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1894-02-14
EXCITING BURGLAR CHASE
Two Dangerous Men Run Down by
a Posse of Citizens.

LITTLE FALLS, N. Y, Feb. IA, 1894.-As
exciting chase after burglars as has oc-
CURED in this part of the State in recent
years was that which was had in Ingham's
Mills this morning, when posse of twelve
citizens, led by Dan Hooley and Constable
J. B. Sadler, ran down four Albany burg
lars The prisoners gave their names as
Michael Wood, J ohm Baker, Michael O'Donnell
and Robert Mclean: The latter is known as
s'Slim Bob" and, with O'Donnell, divides his
time between Albany and Troy. They were
chased four miles through snow banks from
four to ten feet deep, and had the pursuing
party been without shotguns
and revolvers they would have
had a hand to hand encounter with
the thieves The four. burglars are the same
men who broke into Meril Cullen's store in
Inghams Mills last Friday and stole 5000.
When they were discovered this morning
they were about to blow open the front
door of Guiles's place with powder.
They are. typical looking professional bur
glars, and it is believed they are wanted in
other cities for burglaries. They were ar
raigned before Justice May, and held for the
action of the Grand Jury.