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The Opelousas courier., 1895-01-05

Les avocats trouveront utile a CONSUL
ter la liste ci-dessons DIES jours OIL sont
appelables (retournables) a la Cour Su-
pr6me, les affaires DIES diverses parois.
ses de IEtat:
Acadie, les seconds lundis de janvier,
d'avrilet de novembre.
Avoyelles, les seconds lundis de jan
vier, d'avril ct de novembre.
Calcasieu, le seconds lundis de jan
vier, d'avril ct de novembre.
Iberie, les quatriemes lundis de mars
eide novembre.
Lafayette, seconds lundis de janvier,
d'avril ct de ~novembre.
St Landry, les seconds lundis de jan
vier, d'avril ct de novembre.
St Martin, les quatriemes lundis de
mars ct de novembre.
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LIE soieil s'est leve samedi pass6 a 6
heures So minutes ct sc levera aujour-
d'hni a 6 heures SIS minutes. ii s'est
couche samedi dernier a 5 heures 5
minutes ct Sc couchera ce soir a heu-
res 10 minutes.
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Les pers0nnes en- retard pour le paie-
ment de hours subscriptions on CoUR-
RIER, sont instrument pries dc r6gler
larrier6.
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Si vo6s y0nlex faire entrer nne terIe,
e~dEosseE-vOus D NJ. Ben Bloomfield,
commissaire dies Etats-U nis d Opelon-
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Marriage Licenses.

Marriage Licenses.
! Issued for the week ending Jan. 8, 1895.
Richard Howard to Betsy johnson.
John B. Gnillory to Marie c. Pitre.
Eugene Ardoin to Cora G.. F0ntenot.
Clemon Godean to Lorin Dupuset.
VIM. Savoit to Zeleda Caruthers.
VIM. Pipkins to Armide FOntenOt.
Reuben Hardy to Adelaine Ford.
S0sthene Joubert to Azile Jean Baptiste.
The Shreveport Times truly remarks:
1.-THE methods adopted by the manu-
factnrers in shutting down their plants,
discharging employees, decreasing wages
and similar means to influence legisla-
ton, is nothing less than a conspiracy
OF the money power to Cypress the pe0-
pie. These insidions schemes of the
~plutocrats to control legislation in sup-
port of their robbery of the people, will
end in revolution and will make q cy-
clone of fury and passion that il preci-
pitafed will carry ruin to the land. The
people will not consent to be made the
slaves of the money power and are all
ready tired OF being mastered by its
d0spotic Methods
~ 800
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Miseres de la vie d'artiste:
-Ponrquoi ne mettez vous plus des
boutons a mes chemises? demande un
jeune peintre, plus richie d'aveDir que
d'ecus, a sa blanchisseuse.
-Helas. monsieur, Ill faudrait bieD
plut6t METRE des chemises a vos bou-
tons
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Tn incendie a detruit toutes les -ba-
tisses dams Ia partie commercante de
Napoleonville pendant la mutt du 10 au
20 decembre. Six flets enters ont etc
consumes ct les pertes ne s'6levent pas
a moins de 5000, 900. L'imprimerie du
'.Pionnier," tous les magasins, les ho-
tells, les ecuries ct les cafes Sc trouvai-
ent dams la partie incendiee. Beaucoup
de families Sc SON trouvees depOurvues
de vetements ct de logement apres le
sinistre, mais un comite de secours a
etc organise immediatement pour leur
porter assistance. Des incendies moins
considerables quoique tres grands y
ayaient Gu lieu EN- 1874 ct en- 1884.
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On Went de compiler les
qui %entourent lie tombeau de Tempe
reur Alexandra III. II y en- a 657, par
mi lesquelles deux en- or ct AS en- ar
gent.
Atres les six moiDs r6yolus de la mort
de Fempereur, pressure toutes ces cou-
ronDes seront transportees al musee de
pErt'itage.
Rapineau, un aware fefe, s'etait de-
eide a faire a sa femme I'M cadeau pour
lie Jour de Pan.
-Voyons, lui avait-il dit, que veux-
tn que je te dome?
-Je ne sails pas, moi, mon cheri.
Eth bien s'empressa de s'ecrier Pa
ware, je te donne...-un IN pour ref6-
CHR!
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81 vous desirez vendre on acheter
quelque chose dams lie COUR-
RIER,
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OF all mean actions an attempt to
take advantage of other peoples ne
cessities is about the most contempt
ible.
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43atest designs in fancy cards, enyel
qquee etc, inst received at this Office.
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The COURIER and Constitution one
rear MISREPRESENTATION alone $1.O0.
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R!ayyOnr subscription.
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The attention of school teachers and
all friends OF education is invited to
the following law enacted at the last
session of the legislature.
The Opelousas courier., 1895-01-05

Issued for the week ending Jan. 8, 1895
The herald., 1895-10-06
THE HUNTING
PARADISES OF
~
The Great MiIliOnaireS Are
Now Ready for
Occupancy
$l,0OO,OOO,0OO IN ONE CLUB
II Is on JekyI Island, on the Georgia
Coast--.Austin Corbin's Droves
OF Buffalo, Elk and Moose.
GOuld's Log Cabin.
$1,000, 100000 in ONE CLUB

This is the time of year when the mill
ionaire sportsman gets his hunting traps
in shape and prepares for month or
two of sport in some Wild section of the
country, where he can doff the habili-
ments of conventionaltty and roam at
will in the wild woods, searching for the
kind Of game he fancies most.
The American hunter has a big advan-
tage over his English cousin, notwith-
standing the boasted game preserves and
hunting estates OF the latter, which have
been handed down for many generations.
1t costs a mint of money to support
one of these estates, and endless bother,
shooting as result.
For very moderate sam the sportam an
here can belong to a fine hunting club
and have the use of tens OF thousands OF
gcres of land; a finely appointed club
house to lodge in at night and many con-
genial spirits always on hano to while
away the indoor hours. There are other
clubs to which only millionaire can
afford mem bership, but the sport is
hardly bit better than that to be had
from the more moderate affairs.
There are hundreds of fine shooting pre-
serves in the country today and the num-
Der Is constantly being added to. Mill.
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an imm ense arsenal of hunting weapons
always on hand for the convenience OF
his guests and Iurge kennels stocked
with all varieties of dogs for .he chase.
With the wealth of the Vanderbilts at
his disposal, he conducts everything on
lavish scale, and the rough guides OF
the Adirondacks are kept in a perp etual
state of astonishment at the amount OF
money the New York swels spend to
shoot deer, whose market value may
be $12.
George Gould has also a fine hunting
place IN the Catskills called Furlough
Lodge. The house is log affair, and
while the exterior is rough the interior
is marvel of luxury and ease. Mr.. Gould
is a clever sportsman, having hunted all
of the big game OF the west. uut he
claims there is more excitement In bring
| ing to earth a brace of lively paitridges
| than mailing a grizzly at long range. He
| has never met the latter beast at close
| quarters and says that he doesn't care to,
! as he is not anxious to match his life
against the empty glory of killing bear.
| While Austin Corhin is a member of
| many hunting clubs, he spends most of
| his shooting season at his own estate,
| called Blue Mountain Forest park, near
| Newport, N. II. The estate consists of
| 26. 900 acres, and the owner has spent tens
| OF thousands of dollars in stocking it
| with large variety of animals. 1t is
| one OF Mr.. Corbin's hobbies to perpetuate
| the buffalo. and he has more than fifty
OF the species rosming through his
The herald., 1895-10-06
Two Clipper Octogenari-
ans Meet at the
Players Club
Mr.. HOWE AND Mr.. .COUL DOCK
Have Each Seen Almost Sixty Years OF
Stage Life, and Howe Is Still at
lt.--They Talked of Mac.
ready and Kean

In these days of new stars dazzling
the theatrical armament it becomes a
matter OF interest TO take a backward
glance at the stars of long ago. Some of
them are still shining with faded bril-
liancy, one or two are booming along
amid unmitisated splendor, but most of
them are passing gently by this last few
milestones OF life, away from the flashing
of the footlights.
At the Players club the other day two
fins-looking white haired old men met.
They greeted each other with dignifed
courtliness and then sat down in large
armchairs and began talking. Their eyes
twinkleu with keen interest and Joy;
they made little gestures which to the
onlookers were as plain as words; they
laughed melodiously now and then; they
nudged each other playfully, and one
smoked long Misunderstanding stogies
while the other slipped Scotch whisky
and water.
What did they talk of? 1t is not diff
cult to answer this question when you
The herald., 1895-10-06

grounds. They are in fine healthy shape
and are increasing rapidly. In five years
Mr.. Corbin says that he will have q
couple of hundred of them.
He also has 500 deer on the place and
100 wild boars. There are ninety moose
and 450 elk besides vast numbers of Ger
man hares. Chinese pheasants and the
game native to the region. The animals
have such a vast area of country to roam
over that they are wild and tlmid and
afford splendid sport in the chase. None
of the buffalo are hunted, as they are
such easy marks with the long range
rifles of today that it would be pure
slaughter to kill them, besides Mr.. Cor
bins sole purpose is 10 increase their
numb Der.
George Vanderbilt is rapidly gettin
his vast estate near Asheville, N. c.. into
fine hunting order, although personally
he is not much of sportsman. The
country there abounds with game, but he
has supplemented nature by aduing large
numbers of varieties of foreign birds.
Tuxedo park is we'll stocked with Eng
lish pheasants and wild turkeys, and the
sport there promises to be very fine this
year. Owing to its nearness to New Y ork,
it is pretty well shot over by the end of
the season.
The herald., 1895-10-06

ions OF acres are under the control of able
game guardians. In the Adirondack re-
gion alone. the hunting grounds of the
New York millionaires, there are ], 000 600
acres controlled and owned by shooting
clubs.
The finest thing of the kind in the land
Is located at Jekyl island, on the Georgia
coast, near Brunswick. IT has been esti-
mated that the combined wealth of the
mem bers of this club reaches the stupen-
dous sum of one thousand millions. The
island is crescent-shaped, about twelve
miles in length and two in width and
holds the best game to be found any
where on the coast. In colonial days 1t
was the home of Gen. James Oglethorpe.
A channel more than two miles wide sep
arates it from the mainland. affording q
fine harbor for the yachts of the mem bers.
This is the place where hunting ia done
BY such men as ]. Pierpont Morgan,
William III. Vanderbilt Pierre Lorillard,
Robert and Ogden Goelet. William Rock
efeller. Cornelius N. Bliss, Calvin s.
Brice, John Clahin, w. Bayard Cutting,
ali of New York: Walter X. Furness OF
Philadelphia and the Chicago million
aires. N. X. Fairbank, Marshall Field
and Cyrus Mccormack, whose son is hort
ly 70 marry a daughter of John D. Rock
efesleT, the Standard Oil king
The herald., 1895-10-06

the small table and spent the rest OF the
day there. They had no wish to go any
81 got letter of introduction to Mr..
Burton. who was second old man at Sad :
iler's Wells theater. and by taking ten
pounds' worth of tickets l secured per-
mission to perpetrate Othello at his ben
eft. OF course. it was at the dull season
of the year. and the majority of the au-
dience came in with my tickets. Almost
all of the warehouse men OF the city were
there, and they applauoed everything l
did,
After many years of hard WORK he
Joined the Edinburgh theater in 1874, the
season that Lester Wallack and William
Davidge became mem bers of the COM
paDy. In the late forties he played in
Liverpool and birmingham with Mac.
ready, Vanderhoff. Charles kean, Nine.
Vestris and Charlotte Cushman.
OF Macready Mr.. Co,lldock says:
HE used TO do most remarkabl
different sort Of sword in the duel scene
than that which he carried during the
play. He insisted upon swords with no
guards, which left the wrist absolutely
unprotected. He used to handle his
sword like fiend. He gave me num-
Der of scratches. One night hit him on
the wrist. | saw no blood, so | thought
| must have struck him with the side of
the sword. and the wound was OF no ac-
count. AS was leaving the theater
saw that there was light in his Dress
ing room. One of the attaches said that
he had sent in hurry for hot water.
went to him at cnce. The wound was
bleeding copiously. I expressed my SIM
cere regrets. Mr.. CouldocK, he said,
grandiloquently, ''if you ever get cut,
always bathe the wounded portion in hot
The herald., 1895-10-06

| water. 1t is exceedingly efficacious.
! Afterwards he was more than ever in
favor of Macbeth ana Macduff fighting
with swords without guards"
Macready wanted him to go to London
and act with him at the Processes. but
| Charlotte Cushman made him an offer to
accompany her to America. which he ac-
! cepted. This was in 1S49, ana for more
! than forty years he was figure in Amer
| lean theatricals. Now he seldom goes to
the theater. He lives with his children
and grandchildren. and every fair after
noon goes to the Players club to smok
stogies and talk over old times with an
congenial spirit.
Thomas Howe was born March 81, 1872
a half hour before midnight. He say
that If he had delayed his FIRST appear
ance for half an hour he would have beer
that if it were not for the Scotch and
water he would not be here today. As it
is, he looks as if he would live score OF
years more. He is agile ana energetic
and gay. Life is as pleasant to him as
to the youth of 20.
He was Quaker by birth and raising
and his father and mother strenuously
opposed his desire to become an actor.
But he had seen Edmund Kean play
Richard III. end his mind was made up.
The Quakers disowned him, but that did
not phase him. He managed to obtain
an interview with Kean and the latter
tried to discourage him. Later he played
in an amateur production and doing
fairly we'll was engaged at the Victoria
theater. II his fiftysix years of stage
life he has been under only seven man
agsIs. He was in the original cast of the
Lady of Lyons" and in "Rich elieu
when they we're brought out in England.
Another old-timer is w. ]. LIE Moyne,
who is still trodding the boards as ener-
getically as he did forty years ago. He
mas been player for nearly foryy-four
years, and although Ga years OF age, does
mt look so.
He does not consider himself an old
timer and rarely talks in a reminiscent
vein. He prefers to converse on today.
But when ne does speak of the long ago
it is to applaud the old resident stock
company regime. In those days the elder
Booth, Forrest Fechter, the elder Wal
lack, George Vandenhoff and host of
other celebrities toured the country with
out taking with them large company,
Costumes and scenery. They walked into
a theater knowing that the manager had
everything ready for them, a well-drIlled
company, schooled assistants to handle
the costumes and scenery and every
needed convenience at immediate com.
mand.
To tell of the others or of the women
of the stage of generation or two ago
would take too much space. There are
scores of them. celebrities in their day,
and now almost forgotten. and many OF
them fighting with the feeble despera-
tion of OLD age, that terrible monster
Poverty.
The herald., 1895-10-06
High and Low Barometric Pressure

The highest barometer pressure ever
recorded is believed to have been noted
at Irkutsk. Sioera, on January IA, 1898.
the reading being 31.S. This phenome-
non was attended with very low tenn
perature, the mercury dropping from Sc
to 81 degrees below zero in two and one
half hours. On the same day there were
observations made in North Sweden
which showed reading OF more than 70
degrees below zero. The lowest pressure
ever recorded by skilled m meteoroloigsts
was 27.9 inches. This reading was taken
on board British ship during the pre-
valence of a severe storm on the bay of
Bengal in 1885, The area of this amazing
low pressure was found by observation to
be less than 5000 feet in diameter.
The herald., 1895-10-06

know who these old men were. What
could they talk of but old times the
days of the great Macready. of Booth the
eluer and the younger. of Edmund Kean.
of all the wonderful players of the last
sixty years.
One of the old men was Henry Howe,
So years of age and a player for nearly
six decades. More than that. he is still
playing, peing member of Sir Henry
Irving's company. The other old man
was Charles W. Couldock, so years old.
He made his debut ffty-nine years ago.
Both Of these old men are English born,
hut Mr.. Couldock has spent much of his
his days here. Mr.. Howe was a protege
OF both Kean and Macready, and Mr..
Couldock regarded Macready as his pa
tron saint.
What bonds of unity tied these men to-
gether! And meeting in the Play ers'
club hallowed By the declining years
and death of Edwin Booth, the grandest
of all Hamlets, what emotions must have
thrilled the frames OF these old men!
With fine pride one of these octogenarians
piloted the other octogenarian through
the beautiful home of the players.
When they came to the suite of rooms
which were the home of Booth they
spoke softly. In Booths sitting room,
with everything arranged exactly as it
was on the day the owner died. they sat
down in the arm chairs on either side OF
The herald., 1895-10-06

where else. 1t would have been almost
sacrilege for actors of the young gener-
! alton to sit there and talk and handle
the books, pictures and trinkets which
Booth loved SO well, hut il the owner had
been living how he would have welcomed
these old fellows to bis home!
Mr.. Couldock told Mr.. Howe it was
pity that another fine old fellow, Joe
Jefferson. was not in town, because MIR.
Jefferson is to the Players club now
what Mr.. Booth used to be. But Jeffer-
son was school boy when the other
two were actors with established reputa-
tions. Jefferson has not reached the
seventh milestone of life yet So he is
regarded as quite boy by the other two.
1t would require volumes to adequately
give the history of these two men. Mr..
Couldock tells OF his first satge appear
ance in this way:
Il was born on April 90, 1915, at Long
Acre. London. My father died when I
was years old. leaving me an orphan,
and my grandmother undertook my rear
ing. Now, as to my going on the stage,
that is quite story. mad an uncle. the
possessor of an agreeable speaking voice.
who used to contribute his part to Christ
mas and Twelfth Night entertainments
by reciting.
'Twice year. generally during the
holidays, my uncle took me to see per.
formances at the Surrey theater. until L
was about IL years old. l saw Macready
at different times play Hotspur, Cassus,
King. John, Jaques, Cardinal Wolsey,
Hamlet, Macbeth. Richelieu, Othello.
Claude Melnotte, Evelyn in Money,
Brutus and other characters. He was
fine in everything he did. l have no
doubt that Edmund Keane could play
certain parts better than Maoready
Richard III. Othello, Sir Giles Overreach
and Shylock, but he could not have ap-
preached him as Cassus and Hotspur.
when | was Is hao quite a reputa-
tion among warehouse men for reciia-
tions, and Joined the Aldersgate insti-
tnte for the sake of becoming a member
of its elocution class, and there, as was
the custom. used to recte before my fell
low students two and three times q
month. l was successful in class and one
day happened to say to my grand mother
that | shonld like to become an actor.
Il found that very remark distressed
her exceedingly. | said no moro about 1t. !
On my 21st birthday my dear grand
mother died. and as l had no one else
to consider determined to try myself IN
one part at the theaters.
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suit was a return of respiration, very
strong at first, but with continued appli-
cation of the ice becoming very regular,
quiet and deep. The ice used in this
way is said to have, moreover, a general
sedative affect and the author has EN-
ployeu this quieting action with success
in the treatment of cerebral troubles. Dr..
Foges of Vienna has obtained equally
favorable results with mis- treatment in
two cases of asphyxla. In all cases 1t is
method that may be employed for sew
eral hours at time. as it is harmless for
the patient and easy for the physician.
1t also offers other advantages owing to
its sedatiYe action.
The herald., 1895-10-06

Jekyl island is really sportsman's
paradise. The club house has the ap-
pearance OF huge castle, and is main
talned with princely splendor. 1t is
iour-story structure of brick. with
tower extending twenty-five feet above
the roof. From TINS tower view can be
had of the whole island, the main land
and tie ocean. There are seventy-eight
rooms In the house. They are all gor-
geously furnished, and the general
rooms are models of comfort and conven-
ience. There are numberless roads on
the island all paved with crushed oyster
snelis, forming fine surface for riding
and cylcing.
The island is full of wild turkeys.
snipe, woodcocK ana quail and there are
large nUm bers of deer and Wild hogs
nhe duck shooting there is also fine.
flshlng in the surrounding waters is the
easiest kind of sport. Recently many
foreign varieties of birds have been placed
on the island and when they become
more Plentiful will add to the variety of
sport.
The easterly end of Long Island,
aDounds with shooting preserves and the
hrst shooting club TO be organized in the
country was stablished there. 1t was
called the South Side Sportsmen's club
and lc0o acres near the now fashionable
town of lslip were purchased. A num-
Der OF sportsmen, famous a generation
ago. where the organizers including old
timers like Shepard F. Knapp, john e.
Develin, Bradjsh Johnson. Charles E.
Tiffany, J. X. Hackett and William C.
Barrett. The club today is in a most
hourishing condition, including among
its mem bers oliver p. H. Belmont. Aus
tin Corbin, H. Mex. Twombley, George
Work. Abram S. Hewitt, 4. S. Knapp.
Chester Griswold, f. W. Vanderbilt,
Charles H. Tiffany, f. W. Rhinelander
and Robert c. Livingston. 1t includes
more mem bers of the ole Knicker booker
families, perhaps, than any other club in
the country.
OF recent years Long Island has almost
| been done to death in hunting sense,
! but there are still deer to be found in the
thick woodlands, while the duck and
| quail shooting is only fair. A we'll.
| equipped fish hatchery is located near
the large club house and the streams are
Kept abundaDtly stocked. The trout fish
ing to be had there ranks with the best,
and this is the favorite sport of the men,
bers, for the possibility of returning with
an empty bag when other game is scare he'd
for is unpleasantly great
Of the individual hunting grounds
those of W. Seward Webb in the Adiron-
dack region, com prising 76,UO0 acres. are
/, about the finest in the country. Or. Webb
calls his estate Ne-Ha-Sa-Ne park, and
during the season bis fine house there is
always filled to oyerfowing. He keeps
The herald., 1895-10-06

The Comte d'Haussonville, who has
just written his recolIections of the Comte
de Paris. has perpetuated an epigram
which is believed by those who know to
fit the comte to T. OF the pretender to
the French throne D. 'Haussonville speaks
with affection. but says of him that " lille
he would have been an admirable king
to hold throne to which he had sue
ceeded under normal conditions, he was
in all respects unfit to recover lost
crown,
The herald., 1895-10-06
How TO Induce Respiration

A method of inducing respiration by
means of ice applied to the lips has been
discovered by DIR. BeIthold Beer, Ger
man physician. The mucous mem 5rane
of the lips and of the mouth is rubbed
slowly with piece of ice. the rhythm of
the motion corresp sponding as much as
possible to that of normal respiration.
In the case observed by DR.. Beer the re-
The herald., 1895-10-06

DR.. Guzman, the Nicaraguan minister
at Washington, seems to be a tavorite
with all the various administrations that
his country Is given to as a result of its
many revolutions. Even if new presi-
dent recalls him one day he Is raappoint-
ed the next Mr.. Guzman is in the
prime of life. clever and resourceful. an