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The Opelousas courier., 1895-12-14
VOL. XLIlI.
PUBLISHERS, CARD.


The undersigned publishers of the Opelousas
Courier, st. Landry Clarion and Washington
Post hereby agree to abide by the following
rnles in all matters of business concerning
their respective publications:
l. We agree on a uniform rate of advertising
to be strictly adhered to in every instance.
O. To charge for all publications of politi-
cal nature, including proceedings, resolutions,
etc, at the rate of so cents per square of 100
words and to exact pay in advance.
8. To charge for all obituary notices, cards
OF thanks, communications or cards of a per-
sonal nature at the rate of so cents per 100
words.
4. To do no work for nothing, except for a
charitable or benevolent object
s. To charge for all judicial advertising at
the rates fixed by law.
g. To keep at all times convenient for in
spection tariff of rates which is to form the
basis Of this agreement.
LEONCE & l.. A. SANDOZ,
Publishers Courier.
RAYMOND BREAUX.
Publisher Clarion.
JOS AID. GIL.
Publisher Post,
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District Court, civil term. Judge Per-
rault presiding, which convened on
Monday, Dec. I'd, will adjourn to-day.
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Ceiling and cypress Notwithstanding
at $40 per 1000 feet at B. r. Whites
new lumber yard.
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B. r. White will take corn in ex-
change for lumber at his new lumber
yard near the depot.
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Go to DR.. F. j. Pulford for first class
dental work. Office on Landry street
next to Dietlein's jewelry store.
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Call around at Dietlein's, the leading
jeweler, and see his line of Christmas
presents. Prices lower than the lowest.
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Drugs, medicines, chemicals. patent
medicines, fine cigars, tooth brushes,
combs. &c, at Houston's drugstore.
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DIR. Irion's Office hours are from 10 a.
m. to b. m. and from 8 y. N. to p. M.
On Saturdays, from a. ID. to p. M.
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Call at Bloch's il you want to buy
!. good shoes at panic prices. Fresh and
new stock.
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Go to B. r. Whites new lumber yard
for anything in the line of building ma
terials. His prices are the lowest.
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NOTICE OF TABLEAU.
INsoLyENT ESTATE oFwILsoN NJ PRICE
No. -.

INSOLVENT ESTATE OFtW1LSON NJ. PRICE
No. -.
PROBATE DOCKET, DISTRICT COURT, PAR
ISH OF ST. LANDRY.
Whereas, Wilson M. Price, of the parish of ST.
Landry, syndic of the lnsOlvent estate of Wilson
M. Price, has filed a tabieau of classification Of
debts, distribution of funds and final account
of administration of said estate, accompanied
by his petition praying for the homologation
Of the same;
And whereas, the prayer of said petition has
been granted by an order Of court bearing date
Dec. 9, 1895
Now, therefore, notice is hereby gwen to all
pei sons interested to make opposition to said
tabl, ,au, to file same in writing i'll my office Iii
the town of Opelousas, within the time required
by law, why the said tableau should hot be
CHAS. NJ. THOMPSON,
nac R95 Clerk
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Bay Caleaby Crate Coal from J. +.
Cottingham-Yard with Crawford u
Hopkins, Opelousas.
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For District Judge.

We are authorized t. announce W. s..
FRAZEE, ESQ, as a candidate for the office of
District Judge subject to the nomination of the
Democratic party.
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1SGo to III. Joseph's. Main street. ii you
want goods at low prices. See ad.
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GoNsTABLE's SALE.
STATE OF LOUISIANA, PARISH OF ST.
LANDRY.
SIXTEENTH JUSTICES COURT.

JOSEPH BLOCH VS.. DENIS VICTORIAN.
BY virtue of a writ of fl. ia. issued out
of the Hon. Sixteenth Justices Court in and for
the parish of st. Landry, in the above entitled
and numbered suit and to me directed. have
seized and will proceed to sell at public auc-
ton to the last and highest bidder, at the office
of Hon. Robert Tate, at Grand Louis, parish of
st. Landry, at 12 O'Clock NJ, on
Saturday, Dec. 14th, 1898,
the following described property, to-wit
A certain tract of land in upper Prairie Ma
mou, containing SO and 3210O arpents Ufty nine
arpents and 32Il00). bounded north by Simon
Victorian, south by Feicien GuillOry. east by
Jean Pierre FOntenOt and west by Curley Vic
torian.
Terms-Cash on the spot.
SEBASTlEN FONTENOT,
Nov. 9, 1896. Constable, 10th Ward.
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The largest line of gold watches ever
brought to this city at prices in the reach
Of all at Dietlein's, the leading JeWeler
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Fancy paper and envelopes, albums,
toilet articles, soaps, perfnmeries, etc.,
at HoustOn's drugstore.
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CANDIDATES. =.
For District Attorney.

We are authorized to announce HON. E. B
DIJBUISSON as d candidate for reelection tO
the office of District Attorney, subject to the
nomination OF the Democratic party.
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OOT1CE OF FADmINlsTRATIoN.

ESTATES OF ARMANTINE VICTORIANNE
RAMOS AND AGLAE CHRETIEN.
No 1914.
PROBATE DOCKET. DISTRICT COURT,
PARISH OF ST. LANDRY.
Whereas, Louis Honore Gradenigo, of the
parish of 1T. Landry, has applied by his petit
tiop to be appointed administrator of the cs-
tates of Armantine Victorianne Ramos and
Agla6 Chretien, late OF the parish Of st. Ian
dry;
Now therefore notice is hereby given to all
parties interested to make opposition to said
appointment, to file the same in writing in my
Office in the town of Ope1ousas, i'll ten days
from the present notice.
CHARLES u. THOMPSON,
Toe IL 1aas Clerk.
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Remember

That Houston's Drug Store is the place
where none but a competent and regis
tered pharmacist compounds prescrip-
tiOns.
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so to Bloch's for a stylish hat at hard
time prices. Mems, youths and boys.
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DAVIS WILD CHERRY AND TAR will
cure your Cough or Cold. SOC. and $1.O0.
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For Clerk Of Court,

We are authorized to announce Mr.. ROBERT
CHACHERE as candidate for the office OF
Clerk of the District Court, subject to the nom
nation of the Democratic party.
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Preaching at the Preshyte Church
tomorrow at II am, by Rev. .A.Griffes.
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Solid gold rings at F. j. Dietlein's
from SOC. up.
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Get your machinery fittings at j.
Meyers & Co.
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Pay your subscription.
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eating popcorn are unrivaled. If you
are tired and really need rest you
can test your strength on several diff
feront machines which are there for
that purpose. The opportunities for
finding out how much you weigh are
numerous, and II you try two of them
you viii be surprised at how many
pounds you can gain or lose in few
minutes. There is not much fishing,
but there is no end of game One
called the she'll game seems TO be the
most popular
And yet on hot Sunday more than
fifty thousand people viii visit Coney
Island, which goes 10 show what sort
of a summer resort New York is when
tic mercury gets up among the nine
ties.
There are five or six different rontes
by which Concy Island can be reached
from New York. The most pleasant
way TO get there is to go by steamboat.
If you don't miss the boat IL viii take
an hour One advantage Of going by
boat is that you can Faithfully say tG
your friend, whom you have not seen
in some tir2c, that YOU have been across
the water, which win leave the i'm
preston on his mind that you have just
returned from Europe. The only ob.
lection TO the water route is that you
are liable To be disturbed every once in
awhile 10y "A beetle-browcd bandit of
an Italian musician going around with
an inverted hat.
II you like to participate In railroad
accidents, the trolley ears, which run
from brooklyn, afford unrivnled fa-
cilitics. Or you can go part Of the way
by land and part by water. The short.
est route is via Long Island City.
There you take the Long Island rail-
road, which runs through Hunters
Point, where the fat rendering cstab.
lishmcnts create AN nroma which re-
minds one not so much of the perfumes
of "Araby the blcst" as they do of the
individual Arab II would be useless
10 attempt to describe the Hunters
Point smells That they battle de-
scriptionn is no figure of speech. They
are simply indcscribablc.
ALEX L. SWEET.
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PASSED MANY MILEsToNEs.

RALPH SwISBURy. said TO have been
the oldest locomotive engineer in the
world, died at West Virginio recently,
aged ninety-oue years.
Mr.. AMOS s. BRACKETT, OF Saco, Me-,
has lust started life afrcsh, when near
ing the age of three score and ten He
has been a night vatchman for forty
four years and has just retired. The
world will look different 10 him.
ABRAHAM II. CAvEyDER. of st. Paul,
now nearly eighty years Of age, is liv-
ing on the exact spot where he settled
fortv-seven years ago. when there were
only FIVE American families in the
place.
MOTHER MARY GoSEAGA, who Is said
10 be the oldest Sister of Charity in the
United States, celebrated the sixty
ninth anniversary OF her initiation into
the order at Philadelphia recently.
She is eighty-five years of age.
IS the Russian government of Sa-
mara, Laurenti Efimoff died recently
at the age of one hundred and fifty.
Under Catherine II. he belonged to
Ponyatcheff's band Of brigands, was
captured and spent thirty years as a
prisoner in Siberia. A few years ago
he became blind.
The Beaver herald. [volume] (Beaver, O.T. [Okla.]) 1895-1923, 1895-08-01
A Dull Day for stree, Berp.r.

Ought one 20 give money to a hand.
Organist who is manifestly making
himself nuisance before the door of
some one else? have asked myself
this when ! have been tempted, and |
am not yet quite clear about it, At
present, therefore, | give only to the
inaudible street minstrcls, who earn
an honest living, and make no noise
about II. can not think that bal.
lad singer on Sixth avenue, who pours
forth his artless lay amid the roar
and rattle of the elevated trains,
the jangle and clatter of toe horse.
cars, the clang OF the grocers' carts,
and the thunder OF the express wa
gons is practically molesting any body;
and believe that one can reward his
innocent efforts without wronging his
neighbors. Ii is always amusing to
have him stop in his most effective
phrase To say: Thank you, thank you.
sir" and then to go on again. The
other day, as ] dropped my contribu.
tion into the extended hat, / asked:
"liow is business?" and the singer in.
terrupted himself to answer: Nothing.
to- o-brag -of-sir-thanlk you. and resumed
with continuous tenderness the "ditty
OF no tone" that he was piping TO the
inattentive uprosr OF the street. wv.
ID. howells, in Century.
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not been there more than two hours"
when bang went u saX-pcnce.' would
have u Ct at Manhattan beach. A
hungry man might possibly subduc his
appetite at the expense Of six or eight
dollars, IL he were only moderately
hungry.
A short distance from Manhattan
beach Is the Oriental hotel, which Is q
nice place for plumbers and other mil
liunaircs. You can't steal side glance
at waiter without paying a dollar,
and, II you stump your toe Il Is two dol.
lars and half There they sell you
cigar for forty cents and charge you
ten cents for match, so | have been
told. For reasons too painful to elabor.
ate, have never had any personal ex-
perience at that particular hostclry.
Manhattan beach is, To all appear
ances, aristocratic and highly respecta.
BILE. You do not see much of the bill
ing and cooing so noticeable at some
seaside resorts. Most OF the billing Is
done by the hotel proprictors. At the
same time have observed. while gaz.
Ing at the bGthers, that quite n number
of family skeletons were on exhibition
have been told, moreover, that some
Of the ladies go out into the water TO
catch the swells, but this may be o
SANDER. Here the summer girl Is very
much I'm evidence. She must go 70 the
seaside, and, very likely, while she Is
breasting the waves, her poor mother
is at home stemming the currants.
The great attraction of MaDhattan
beach is, and always hes been, the
music. Until his death, the great
bandmaster, Gilmore, supplied the
music. lie was fairly idolized, not only
ON account Of the entertainment, but
also because OF his great personal pop.
ularity. Everybody liked him. Now
his place is filled by Sousa, aud he Is
quite as popular. Ttmpora mufdnfur,
q nos mntahpr IN Ills People crowd
into the Pavilion. and are just as well
pleased with the way sousa hits at the
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He uill Not Droun Himself


ffforn ~ Ir5u. ". r., ItWcs.
r. W. Edwards. Of Lansingburg, was
prostrated by sunstroke during the war,
and IL has eDtailed on him peculiar and So.
r1ous consequence Al present writing
Mr.. z. IL a prominent officer Of Post Lyon
@. A r, Cohocs and past aide de camp 8
the staff Of the commander-in-chief OF Al
bang Co. In the interview with a reporter
be said.
II was wounded and sent 10 the hospital
at Winchester They sent me together with
others TO washington-a ride Of about 100
miles. Having no room in the box cars we
were placed face up on the bottom OF fiat
cars. The sun beat down upon our unpro-
tected heads. When reached Washington
! was inseusible and was unconscious for
ten days while in the hospital. An abscess
gathered Ia my ear and broke; II has been
gathering and breaking ever since. The
result Of this lOO-mile ride aud sunstroke
was heart disease nervous prOstratiOn, in
sOmnia and rheumatism. A completely
shattered system which gave me no rest
night or day. As a last resort / took some
Pink Pills and they helpedme TO wonder
ful degree. Ny rheumatism is gone, my
heart failure, dyspepsia and constipation
are about gone, and the abscess in my ear
has stopped discharging and my head feels
az clear as a bell when before it felt az
though Il would burst, and my once shat.
tered nervous system is now nearl y sound
Look at those fingers" Mr. Edwards said,
do they LOOK as IL there was any rheuma-
tism therer' He moved his fingers rapidly
and freely and strobe about the room ike q
young boy. "a year ago those fingers were
gnarled at the joints and so stiff that could
not hold peu. Ny knees would swell up
and could not straighten my leg out. Ny
Joints would squeak when / moved them
That is the living truth.
When / came 70 think that was going &c
be crippled with rheumatism, together with
the rest OF my ailments, ] tell you life
seemed not worth living. ] suffered from
dependency. / cannot begin 70 tell you, >
said Mr.. Edwards, as he drew long breath,
what my feeling Is at present ! think if
you lifted ten years right of my life and
left me prime and vigorous at forty-seven, J.,
could feel no better. ! was an old man
and could only drag myself painfully about
the house. Now | can walk Of without any
trouble That in itself,m continued Mr..
Edwards, would be sufficient To give me
cause for rejoicing, but ,iEcn you come TO
consider that / am no longer what you
might call nervous and that my heart is ap-
parently nearly healthy, and that / can
sleep nights, you may realize why NAV ap-
pear 70 speak la extrava9ant praise Of Pink
Pills. These pills quiet my nerves, take
that awful pressure from my head, and al
the same time enrich my blood. There
seemed TO be no circulation In my lower
limbs a year ago, my legs being cold and
clammy at times. Now the circulation
there's as full and as brisk az at any other
part Of my body. I used 10 be so light
headed and dizzy from my nervous dis
order that frequently fell while crossing
the hoor Of my house Spring Is coming
and never felt better in my life, and am
looking Forward 10 busy season Of WORK.
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THE LATEST NOVELTIES.

ALUMINIUM pens possess all the ccsir-
able qualities Of steel pens, with the
additional advantage that they do not
corrode.
TIE latest use for tin foil is 90 pat it
down on gas fixtures in bsrrooms. IL
looks shiny and pretty when Il is fresh,
and It keeps of the flies.
WHITE BLAcKBERRfEs were Curl
osity brought into Americus, Ga, by a
farmer. They were identical with the
ordinary blackberry in form and flavor.
A sreS put in the Philadelphia troll
ley cars a few-,iays ago requests pas
sengers 10 'remain seated until the
car stops, and then got of in the direc-
tion the car is moving"
A NEWSPAPER has just been started
in London. which Is printed on a postal
card. The first number has four Illus
trations, comic tragedy, few jokes
and puzzles and some advertisements.
A TOPEKA newspaper alleges that
preparations are making In that town
for wedding at which the bride will
wear boomers. She is said 10 be an
exceedingly emancipated type Of the
new woman.
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GATHERED FROM THE RAILS.

TIE avs-sSs stfe .. locomotive is
- years. and its earning capacity $780,
coo.
THK Baltimore 4 Ohio Is the oldest
chartered railroasl IN America. and the
oldest passenger railroad IN the wn-ld.
FTvE saloons in Chicago. near :fe
Nickel Plate shops. have gone out Of
business since the order went into ef-
feet forbidding employees 70 visit such
places.
IT is reported that two members Of
the Colorado Legislature have been de-
tected in renting their ANIMAL passes
over the Denver a Rio Grande railway
at els month.
A DIVIDEND Of i5if per cent was
paid last year By the French Nord rail.
road. probably the most profitable rail-
road In Europe Its net revenue for
1894 was $3.50 .os5 on an outlay Of
capital Of sS62. 500. SO. IL works 2,3liZ
miles Of road
REFERRING 10 the restaurant plan on
dining cars in place Of the method Of
charging a sxed price for meal. Gen
eral Passenger Agent u. g. Edwards,
Of the Cincinnati. Hatniiton & Dayton,
Is quoted as saying that the change is
saving that road and the Monon $500
month
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Foreign MILITARY NOTES.

SENEGAL, French Soudan, French
Guinea and the Ivory Coast are To be
united for political and military pur-
poses under the governor general of
West Africa.
CALAIS has dedicated a monument,
by Rodin, to Eustache de St. Pierre and
the five other burghers who defended
the town against Edward III. of Eng
land, and gave themselves up to be
hanged to save their townsmen when IL
surrendered.
TEIALs with an aluminium torpedo
tube on board the British torpedo boat
Scourge have proved very successful.
and the tubes are To be tried now on
one Of the destroyers. They require
far lecs attention than the steel tubes,
and are, of course, much Lighter.
FRAscE is going to build at once two
large cruisers OF great power and speed,
capable Of competing with the British
Terrible and our Columbia, and Of over
taking the fast Atlantic liners They
will have q minimum contract speed of
twcnty-thrcc knots, and must steam
800 knots at twelve knots an hour
without recoaling.
CHAsoEs in the system OF supplying
ammunition 10 the French infantry
have been made. Each man may carry
100 rounds, instead of lO2. ON his per-
son, and just before action Is supplied
with 65 rounds from the company carts.
90 more rounds being kept In reserve.
The corps park wagons provide 303
rounds per man instead OF s5i: these
are distributed to the company wagons
as fast as they are emptied.
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ole. When It Is hot u Is very hot.
some time, between March and Octo-
DER, there Is continuous spell Of hot
Weather that causes an increase in
profanity. Then IL Is hot. hotter, hot
est, Hottentot, Hottentotter. Hottetot-
.st. hot as one oven, hot as two ovens,
rot as - blazcs. In the dog days the
New York weather Is beastly.
We have TO contend with three dis-
sinct brands OF heat, and, consequently,
the mean temperature is very mean in
Iced. First of all there Is the direct
heat that comes straight from the
bright orb that hangs resplendent in
the blue vault above. This is rein
forced by the reflected heat from the
paved streets and the rock and, brick
houses. But the Most insidious and
diabolical heat Of all crawls up from
the kitchens under the sidewalks. IL
is aromatic with the flavor Of fried on
ions and other tempting viands. When
all these different heats are saturated
with eighty-five per cent. OF humidity.
you feel as II breaths OF fresh air were
being sold at auction, and everybody
was outbidding you.
The next thing To be done is To get
ont of town as suddenly as possible.
Those who do not keep their elbows
perfectly straight are apt 10 get sun
struck, hence there Is an old-fashioned
exodus whenever IL Is sultry.
There Is any namber of inland re-
sorts in the vicinity Of New York, but
the fact Is that while they are destitute
OF the comforts and convenicnces of a
large city, the temperature is not much
lower, so the average Gothamite makes
bee line for the Atlantic ocean, where
II Is always cool and refreshing. In
other words, he goes 20 Coney Island,
in which term are included the resorts
Of Manhattan beach, Brighton and
Coney Island proper, or rather improper,
judging by the number Of arrests that
are made for violating the excise law
and some other laws.
Manhattan beach consists of large
hotel, a splendid music pavilion, a bath
house, n bicycle track, and that is about
all. Everything, except the low, sad
moan of the sea is very high. The
Scotchman who complained that Lon
dow was dreadful place, for he had
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IMPERSONALITIes.

A scIooL-TEAcHER in Worth county,
Ca, keeps his pupils in order by threat
eningly displaying pistol.
A HORSESHOE hung over the door for
COOL luck fell from its nail onto the
head Of an Atchison CKan.) girl few
days ago, injuring her seriously.
A TRAVELLING hypnctist has been
sued in Ohio by his confederate, who
demands the sum Of fifteen dollars for
pretending TO be hypnotized when he
wasn't. His hypnotic influence was
merely arranged on promissory basis,
the same as political influence.
"WELL, the brazen thing; and III
bet she's got on three pair of stock
ings," one woman was heard 10 remark
TO another in a spiteful tone on a
crowded Lewiston (Me) street the
other day as third woman, evidently
an acquaintance, went flying by on a
bicycle attired in stunning bloomer
suit.
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WHlRR or THE WHEEL.

Tm female bicyclists In France are
far more numerous than those OF the
other sex.
ANY person In France who is injured
by an accident resulting from u
structural defect In u bicycle, can re.
cover damages from the manufacturer.
Prince CANTACUzHSE started the
bicycle craze among the members OF
the diplomatic corps In Washington.
The prince, who Is the Russian min.
lister. astonished the capital when he
began to take out his daughter ON o
wheel.
BIsuoP CLEVELAND COKE has bitter
dislike to the riding Of bicycles by
women. Some one began n speak Ia
him lately OF "a lady on bicycle, ("
but he said impatiently: "Sir. you
never saw lady on bicycle, and never
will"