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The Opelousas courier., 1894-10-06
The Court 4 Plain Opinions.

It was then about the time of year for
the court to talk out in meetin, and
Judge Milligan give in his opinions of
the law and the facts in the case in
plain United States.
AFTER hearin the witnesses and
countin tip the costs it seems to the
court like there is a considerable con-
fusionment of the facts in this case.
But, nevertheless, Notwithstanding,
~henceforth and forever, from the gen.
eral appointments of the snrroundin cir
dlmstances, it is plan that the said
SPOTTED steer by the name of Bright,
which the same is now in the posses
81 n of the said Dave Bracken, don't be-
long to anybody in particlar. What
belongs to nobody in particlar is bound
to belong to everybody in general.
Whereas the court w II hold that the
slid spotted steer is public property,
p ,strin and foragin around promiscus
ii the settlement, and he is hereby SEN
t need to be shot and killed right away
i'm nediately. And whereas moreover,
bein as the said spotted steer is too durn
poor for beef and tallow and too terri
ole tough to skin. the court will k
wise also make out a fine of six bits,
each and separate, agin Jerry Scrog-
gins, Tommy Plckens, Drury Grlhn
and Dave Bracken, maxim three dollars
in full. to pay off the papers of detain-
ment in this case. The court must run
aud the constitution is bound to be
maintained. Law means ~jestice, and
~jestice mean right"
And SO it come to pass that the Brack-
en- steer case was brought up and set
tied and turned over to history. The
--.--- =. ~-lsol %lo 1~,,~ l~o,,1h$ fhSp0pc
to a focus and made the settlement was
plum satisfactory to all hands in the
case, whilst the genoa al settlement was
more than pleased. But for years to
come the mainest wonder in the set
Element was why Judge Milligan didn't
run for Governor or President n let
else run the court If they
could
RUFUS SANDERS.
The Opelousas courier., 1894-10-06
A PEACEFUL CITY.

-
We enter it In silence. for there's nought but
silence there,
Unhsralded our coming within that province
fair,
And no one comes to greet US, with proner of q
chair.
We walk about unheeded, for none are there to
see,
o, all in peaceful city is quiet as can be,
Except for Joyous trilling of bird in bush or
tree.
There's many q house Of marble, with splendid
polished floor.
The roses in a tsnsie about each owners
door,
Within are easher'd families, that no'er will
wander more.
And Q. the wealth of flowers and shrubs that
borders every street,
Their beauty ne'er imperilled by the tread of
careless feet,
While every shaded walk and drive the lovely
scenes repeat.
No childish voices answer the CAV songs OF the
birds,
There are no smiles and bushes. and tender
spoken words
No groanings of the dying, that life still feebly
girds.
But all is peace, peace only, with nought Of
good or Ill.
No tide Of JOY or sorrow can any bosom I'LL:
This lovely peaceful city is the graveyard on
the hill.
Mrs, Findley Braden, In N. Y. Observer.
The Opelousas courier., 1894-10-06
NAPOLEON,
He Was vanquished, but His Fame Will b.
Immortal.

He Was Vanquished, but His Fame Will h
immortal.
Napoleon, no less than Shakespeare,
was a 'myriad-minded man. With the
pen he indited thoughts which would
grace the stage-created intellectually
of a Hamlet; with the sword he carved
passageways to glory which will BAT.
fe the comprehension of the last NOR.
tai on the final day; in council, in
field, in boudoir. in study, he was the
same master-the same great I'm.
matched: He said himself that the
siege of Toulon was the first achieve.
ment, which gave his name to history.
1t cannot be denied, however, that the
world was not fully cognizant of the
greatness of the nan until he
spoke those inspiring words ir
the shadow of the pyramids.
Then did audacity and genius,
fused into an immortal sentence, write
his name on the scroll which forgetful-
ness blots- When he wrote to
Louis: To return to France you must
trample ove 100, COO dead bodies,' he
sounded the note OF the superiority of
emancipated man over oligarchy, and
the nation which was described at the
time as "a Colossus with feet of clay
turned to him as from slavery to free.
dom and bestowed upon him the pres
tige of Imperialism.
"If you seek for consistency, it is not
to be found in the career of Napoleon.
Professedly the opponent of the mo-
narchical system, he accepted the
crown; a thorough democrat by prin.
ciple, he became, in all respects, a king;
he cast the pope who crowned him into
prison; he shattered Prussia; he sup
pressed the tribunate; he established a
censorship of the press; but he courted
favor from none, and flashed the full
spirit of independence.
"It must be said that his treatment
of Josephine is the black chapter in
this book OF soul-stirrin events. No
excuse can be offered for the heartless-
ness which he displayed in this battle
with the forces of love. Ambition and
affection commended for the mastery;
ambition won; and on that December
day, 1909, Nemesis looked down on the
man of destiny-looked down, and
fate's finger pointed deathward! His
downfall commenced with the hour of
that second marriage.
SIN the long files of time four DAYS
stand forth from their fellows-the
day when Christ was born, the dav
when Columbus landed. the day when
the declaration of independence was
signed and the day when Waterloo was
won and lost. This last belongs to our
century. It was the elimination of
the life of a man who will never be
matched in great achievements. in au-
dacity of genius. Whether we look
upon him eating horse flesh at Tore
di Capitello or receiving the iron crown
of the Lombards at Milan, there is a
glamour Of heroism about him. He
was vanquished, but the James of the
victors are fast fading away; Napoleon
is immortal, Chicago Herald.
The Opelousas courier., 1894-10-06
Tho Bracken Steer Case.

In the common run of forty odd years,
naturally, of course, there was many a
famous and funny case brought up be-
fore Judge Milligan. The Bracken
steer case, with the rugged opinions of
the court on the law and the facts, will
60 down into the history of the Pam
Their Creek settlement as one of the
most stTangest and pecurious cases on
the records of the country.
In them days, Dave Bracken had an
old slab-sided, wobbledlegged spotted
steer by the rsame of Bright. One time
along in the spring Dave turned old
Bright out to run the range with the
dry cattle. But it soon eome to pass
that old Bright wouldn't run on the
range nor keep company together with
the Ky cattle if he could help it. In
std OF that. he got to jumpin fences
and breakin into the fields around about
the settlement. Old nan Jerry Scrog-
gins had planted three-quarters of an
acre in corn, which the same he had
manured the land till it was as rich as
rich could be. and that was his brag
patch. But one night, when the corn
was solnethin like knee-high and grow
in 80 fast till you could hear the joints
crackin, Dave Bracken'S old spotted
steer Bright tore down the fence and
broke in and moved that corn down
till it looks like it had been run over
with q forty horsepower chawin ma
chine. When old man Jerry got UP
next morning and found out what had
ON to pass durin the night, he was
madden than seven hens settin in the
same wool basket in the summer time.
The steer was too full to run off. SO old
man Jerry rounded him up in the lot
and then lit out and went over to see
Judge Milligan as to what must be done
in the case.
Count up your damages, Jerry, and
put in your account. says the Judge,
Then the Court will issue papers of
detainme1t agin the steer, which the
same yon can hold as guardeen vicy
versary, or words to that extent. When
Dave Bracken pays the damages and
six bits for court cost in givin out the
papers of detainmant, he can drive old
Bright home. But If in case Dave don't
show down with the damages and the
cost inside Of fifteen days. the court has
done her duty free gratis for nothin at
all, whilst the steer belongs to Jerry
Scroggins. his heirs and their children
henceforwards and fo.avermore.''
Old Jerry put in for damages to the
extent of seven dollars, and the cost in
the case run the pile up to seven dol
lars and six bits.
When Dave Bracken got the news as
to where his old spotted steer was and
the amount of deviIment he had got
into. he went over to the Scroggins
place tc git the facts in the case And
when he found out that 1t would cost
him seren dollars and six bits to open
Oil iaan Jerry's lot gate and drive
Brignt honls. he made his mule swan
The Opelousas courier., 1894-10-06
"a LITTLE NONSENSE"

-creditor-"Can't you meet your
bills?" Hard-up-"You bet. I meet
'em everywhere."-N. Y. Morning
Journal.
why do you call it a charity cen
cert?s why? Great Scott, man. Don't
you see how patient the audience ise.'
Buffalo Courier.
-Waiter-.We are not allowed to
accept a tip of less than a quarter,
sab" Van Peltfpocketing the changee
why don't You strike?'-N.Y. World.
lid just as soon ask a man to mar.
ry me-" said Mabel, s'but, gracious,
think of his refusing!'' II know it,
retorted Belle, ''but, laundering ages.
think of his accepting"-Adams Free
mar
-Binks-sMy wife asked me this
morning to engage a e wasawoman.
Where does yours 1iyea9, Wiywar--I
don't know where she lives. bat she
mngs out in our backyard .-phila.
jeiphia Record.
The Opelousas courier., 1894-10-06

the door. In another instant he will DO
gone.
Can ! let him 20 like that? No, o
thousand times no.
Watt" and / turn impulsively;
"you-you have forgotten something"
Have /? And what?'
"Yonr ring. ] have no right to IL
now. as you say.
Il never said SO. but he checkeo
himself. Give it to me. them
Come and take it."
mo. dear, / don't want it IL It is
to come of at all, You must take 1T
off,
1t seems almost q pity, doesn't it?''
! say softly. and my voice is scarcely
as steady as It might be. He makes
no reply, but passes his arm around
my waist, and his hold on my hand
tightens.
I've got used 70 1t, you see, and |
should miss 1t. May / keep it, Jack?'.
@ one condition.
And that is
THAT you keep me, too
oh, Jack. how gladly"
He is my Jack once more ind / tell
him all, my head on his shoulder.
Our quarrel is over; and we both de-
test Celia. She can never come be-
us any observation-disclosures.
The Opelousas courier., 1894-10-06

According to some Of -ra
scientists, the human race is gradual
ly growing smaller. Strange. isn't itt22 '.
Danks- dunno. People have got to
aGiast themselves to the modern fat
some ways'Buffalo Gonrier.
The Opelousas courier., 1894-10-06
F SANDERS.
Reports a Famous Steer Case
From Down on Panther Creek,
"Law and Justice" as they Were Spoke In
the Plain Old Pioneer D~ays-Judge
Mllligan's Powerful Opinions
in the Court
~tCoPYRIGHT, 1894. |

In this pres
ent day and
generation of
peon@ there is
too Internal
much law and
too blaine little
justice goin on
in The country
and amongst
men. There is
o law. ard
cor different
sorts of law in
the books than
The Opelousas courier., 1894-10-06

eI,AupE LORRAINE. the Landscape
painter when = boy was an apprentices
tn \ psstIy eoVk.
The Opelousas courier., 1894-10-06

Vnen the court come TO OrlcT the
next mornin there was present Judge
Millgan. old man Jerry Scroggins, Dru-
ry Griffin, old man Tommy Pickeas and
Dave Bracken. and several of tho neigh
bors that had co;ne in to see the case
settled. Judge Milligan put first one
man and then another on the stand till
all of the witnesses had give in their
testimony.
Dave Bracken he swore that the steer
want his cause the court had issued pa
pers of detainment in favor of old man
Jerry ~Scroggins in orderment to bring
forth the damages and the cost, which
the same he Dave never had paid off.
Whereas at last accounts and so far as
he knowed old Bright belonged to a
man by the name of scroggins.
Old man Jerry swore the steer didn't
belong to him. He had held the animal
and fed him two weeks in the hopes of
gittin damages for the develInent that
was done to his brag corn patch. But
Dave Rracken wouldn't show down
with the damages and he give up the
steer and turned him out @ 90 home.
he knowed durn well that he was enti-
tied to the damages. but as to that old
spotted steer, he wouldn't have him
eve steven for nothin and four bits to
boot.
Old man Tommy Pickens swore that
1t want his steer. He had held him
two weeks for the damage done to his
corn crop. but the owner couldn't be
found and there was nobody to como
forth with damages so he turned the
animal loose and let him go. That was
all he kuoWea about the case. exceptin
he wisht he never had of seed the durn-
cd old steer.
nrury Griffin give in about the same
sort OF a story and said in conclusion
that all he wanted was honest damages
for the devilment done, and all he
knowed about the blamed old steer wal
that he could bite a forty-acre corn
field in two at one lick and swallow the
big end Of it before breakfast
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1894-06-12
ITEMS OF

More people have died from colds
than were ever killed in battle.
When the vote of a jury in Germany
stands six to six the prisoner is &C.
quilted.
Sandwiches made by machinery are
the result of a labor saving device just
invented.
Five thousand words are daily sent
over the cable connecting Australia
and Europe.
The Oldest clergyman in England is
Rev. Sir John Warren Hays, who was
born in 1899.
Stag from blast furnaces is pulverized
and used for fertiljzing farming lands
in Germany.
The total number of electors in this
country, including women entitled to
vote, is 10, 500, 900.
Temperance education and manual
training are strong levers for lifting
the submerged classes.
California has a railroad in Sonoma
county graded through a forest, the
ties being laid On stumps.
The tongue of the toad is attached
to the front of it's jaws and hangs back
ward instead of forward.
The Maine State Liquor Commits
sioner reports aggregate sales of liquors
to "a towns and cities for 1898 Of $3.50,
812. 30.
The applications to the Boston asso
ciated charities last year show that q
per cent of the causes for illness were
intemperance.
There wer- 4, O3O criminals convicted
in Canada last year, of the whole
number, only 1872 were total abstainers
from the use of intoxicants as a bev'
erage.
The Manchester Times publishes
under the head of 1.-THE Roll of Honor
a list of 80 towns in New Hampshire
which are free from the sale of intoxi
eating beverages.
Baltimore has recently organized
and Incorporated an AMI Treat Club
the members of which are pledged
neither to treat anyone o allow
themselves to be treated.
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1894-06-12
GEOMETRY.

Almost 100 years ago two men set
out from Virginia to visit the Ssioto
valley, of the beauty and fertility of
which they had heard alluring reports.
On the third night they reached
Clarksburg, where they put up with a
man who appeared to be honest, but
old fashioned and i~lliterate.
"Can you tell us how far it is to
Marietta and what sort of a road we
shall ind9" asked one of the travellers.
YES" answered the host; shat is
exactly what I can do, for I was ap
pointed one of the viewers to lay ou5
the road and have just returned from
the performance of that duty"
THAT is fortunate. What doyou call
the distance9"
"Well, the distance on a straight
line, which we first ran, was 70 miles,
but on our way back we discovered
and marked another line which was
much nearer"
The two travellers had each spent
some years in the study or surveying
and were more or less amused at the
idea of a line shorter than a straight
line between two given points.
However, the next morning they
took the route which their informant
had pronounced the shorter, and true
enough they found his statement cor
rect, for the crooked road went round
the hills, while the straight n went
over them, and the distance round was
less than the distance over. YOUTH
| COnD1niOn.
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1894-06-12
NOBODY.
BE CONTINUED I

A Kentucky Office seeker in Wash
ington who had an idea that he was a
distinguished and prominent citizen
when he first came, had hung around
and been disappointed until he was in
the last stages. Then he thought of
home and how to get there, and away
he WENT to Colonel -, passengers agent
of the - railroad.
II say, colonel" he said, persuas-
lively, Il want to go h1me."
"Why don't you goa"
"Got no money. Can't you give me
a psss9"
The colonel s~tiffened his spine.
1--WE give passes to nobody" he re-
piled firmly.
The face of the despairing disap-
pointee showed a faint smile of hui
mility.
"WeI colonel" he pleaded, "give
me one; I'm nobody"
And the colonel loaned him a special
for a week.-Detroit Free Press.
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1894-06-12
THAT'S WHAT 1T WAS.

Prince Peter, of Oldenburg, is chief
of the imperial colleges for girls, and
exercises the duties of his Office with
diligence. Lately he decided to investi.
gate for himself whether there were
grounds for the numerous complaints
which had reached him of the food at
the Sominig convent, where something
like eight hundred girls were educated.
Going to the institution just before
the dinner hour. he met soldiers carry
ing a huge steaming caldron. "Haltl'
he cried out; put that kettle down."
The soldiers obeyed. Bring me q
spoon" added the prince.
The spoon was produced; but one Of
the soldiers began to venture a STAN
mered remonstrance.
Hold your tongue, sirl" cried the
prince. Take off the lid, I insist on
tasting it."
No further objection was raised, and
His Highness took a large spoonful Of
the liquid.
You call this soup9'' he exclaimed.
"Why it is dirty water"
1T is, your Highness," replied the
soldier. I'VE have just been cleaning
out the laundry"
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1894-06-12
A TRYING BUSINESS.

Stranger Tin train)-''A man in your
business can't get home very often, 1
presumed"
Commercial-"HomeG I should say
not. Why, sir, / get home so seldom
that I can't remember half the time
where l live. Have to telegraph to
the firm to send me my address"
Stranger-'.You don't say sol"
Commercial That's straight. Why,
one time I was away So long that I for,
got I'd ever been married, and I took
such a fancy to a pretty woman in a
strange town that I eloped with her"
Stranger-"My, my!'
Commentaries, it would have
been a terrible thing; but when I called
on the firm during my honeymoon
and introduced her, the old man told
me she was my wife before. "-Agent's
Herald.