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The Opelousas courier., 1895-07-13
ouT-oF-THE.wAY PLACES.

GREECE stands lowest in point Of
wealth of all the countries in Europe.
A MADAGASCAR correspondent tells
Of four hundred pineapples being
bought and delivered for a school picnic
there for one dollar-four shillings.
In the Loo Choo islands, though
there are neither vehicles nor public
lighting, the Inhabitants have letter
boxes and telephones.
HABIruAL topers are to be photo
graphed in New Zealand towns. Each
saloon is to have a gallery Of them, and
the proprietors who supply liquor to
them are to be fined.
In some parts Of Japan at . wedding
the bride, as a sign of her subsection,
kneeIs and washes the feet OF the
bridegroom after he has trodden upon
raw eggs.
A PARsRE sacred fire, which is burn
ing in a temple at Leiguie, Persia, is
known to have not been extinguished
since the days of R~apiboreth. who lived
twelve centuries ago.
g. ZEF
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1.-THE Most stranrcst Death y,

q nave seen and heard tell of manv
aoad many a strange and pecurioe,s
,"atn, you understand. but I am bound
10 tell you that the most strangest
death have ever saw or heard tell of
come to pass in the case OF little Jim
Dargin.
1t was along in the last days gf
March, If | don't remember wrong and
n mornin the wfdder Dargin put lit.
tie Jim on a horse and started him off
down in the Flat Woods to look after a
yoke OF oxen which had strayed and
struggled off with the dry cattle. On
their way back home the horse got
skeered, or Jest naturally took up a fool
notion, and run away. He throwed lit
tie jim where the ground was mon
strous hard, and when the neighbors
got there the boy was dead.
reckon it was plum natural for the
horse to git skeered and run away, and
1t want to say no ways
strange for him to throw the boy, you
understand. But it was strange and
marvelsome past all understandin for
the boy to git killed. Maybe 10 dou BITS
such wonders have come to pass some
where's in the world before, but so far
back as the records run the case of lit
tie Jim Dargin is the first and o~nlyest
one that ever took place in the Rocky
Creek country.
The boys down here in this strip of
GODS OWL country are about like the
common run of boys, and | reckon lit
tie Jim must of been a right smart kin
to all the rest. They all play marbles
and go in swimmin and swap knives
and ride horses, and the like of that.
If had brought on a second class flu.
neral every time a horse has run away
with me, or fell down with me and
throwed me off, or turned a wagon or a
buggy over with me, bless goodness
there wouldn't be Don enough in the
Cool Springs church grounds to hold
the graves. But / have always helt to
the doctrine, and l maintain till yet,
that whensomever a yearlin boy gifts a
bad fall the good Lord spreads down
what you nought call His or seen feath-
er bed right under the boy to catch him
and to save him from all harm and dan
ger. To be certainly of course it stands
TO reason that there must of been a
slippunce and the machinery jumped a
cog somewheres in the case of little
Jim Dargin. But at any rates to me it
was about the saddest as well us the
most strangest death that has ever
come to pass in all the regions around
Rocky Creek.
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The Schedule for the Season.

"Hum!"
The sea-serpent looked perplexed.
with such f1attering offers from
every ~seaside-resort proprietor on the
Atlantic coast, l hardly know where
to open the season. / can't
He shook out the coils in his tail
BE at all of them at once. And
yet
He emitted a happy hiss
whats the matter with getting a
hustle on myself and swinging round
the circle?"
And at last accounts he was working
his way up from Florida, accompanied
by affidavits from hundreds of repu'
table ye-witnesses."-N- Y. World.
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The Feather Bed Was There.

Patient and long-sufferin reader, have
you ever been in a clost place, when
you felt the savin grace of that unseen
feather bed 2
Irecollect oncst upon a time-it was
the next year after l got married and
settled up and then settled down-me
and Mother took the baby and lit out
for the Panther Creek settlement to see
| the old folks. I had hooked up a pair
Of mustang ponies, which for speed and
bottom could hold their with any
thing that ever flung a shadow or left
a track for forty miles around. ] had
pat out to male the long drive in one
day, and 1 was feelin my oats and keep
in a whole tremendous big lot about
that time anyhow. So give the horses
all the slack in the ribbons and told 'em
to earn their corr and fodder. Way
down there nearly to the ten mile
branch I got busy playin sweethearts
with mother and praisin up the baby.
In the main time you understand, them
ponies was fairly burnin the wind,
whilst the buggy was hittin the high
places only, when all OF a student the
team SHE'D off to one side of the ROAD
and hung a front wheel on a stump.
And right then and there the whole
shootin match come to a dead stop
quicker than a flash. Me and mother
both fell in a pile as far as the DASH
board. and when ! looked around there
was the baby right down there under
the traces and swingletrees and
smongst the horses heels. The horses
thew was dancin and tremblin all over
and lookin like rs if they didn't know
whether to run away or pitch in and
kick the whole shebang into doll rags
and kindlin wood. And mind you now,
we hadn't been married but a little the
rise of n year and that was the only
est baby we had OF our own.
Well. about that time | lost my mind
lest naturally went blind stavin era
s,y-and till yet / can't remember any
thing for certain about what come 7
. IS in the space Of two or three min
nits. When at last l come back to my
senses mother she had jumped out OF
the buggy and tainted, and ! was STAND,
IN there holdin the baby with one name
md the horses with the other. Mother
saws I went right out over the dash.
board and right down under the horses
and brought the baby out, but as ] am
= honest man | don't recollect a blame
thing about that.
In the general smashup and confu.
l knocked two fingers u OF
lint and mother she sprained her ankle.
but there want a scratch on the paoy
from head to foot.
Now maybe you mought think It was
strange that the baby didn't
yit killed on the spot. But it looks
plum natural and right to me. Ihc
unseen feather bed was there.
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IN AMERICA

BOHEMIA has furnished us with 49,.
600 people.
POLAND has furnished us with 147, 900
immigrants.
The Germans number 5000, 900 of our
population.
CHINA has given us 106, 900 men, most
ly laundrymen.
AUSTRIA has sent to our shores 1873, 900
of her population.
In 1890 the adult males of foreign
birth numbered 4,34S, 459.
DETROIT has 81 per cent. of native
born children of American parentage.
The Italians lead the foreign element
In only n city, New Orleans.
ITALY and Russia have each furnished
about 1872, 600 immigrants to America.
A LITTLE over one-sixth Of the whole
population OF Boston is Of Irish birth.
OVER 10 per cent. Of the foreign pop
ulation in the Atlantic states is Tilt
crate.
The Irish lead the foreign popula-
ton in six cities and are second in if
teen.
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A sPECTRosCoPE %detector by which
one part of blood in a solution of $780,
600 parts can be discovered has been in
vented by NJ. de Thierry. 1t will be Of
value in murder cases where the stains
are very minute.
BILLIARD balls Of cast steel have
been made and used successfully at
Stockholm. They are hollow and weigh
about as much as the ordinary ivory
balls. A lathe is used to turn them to
perfect smoothness.
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Chnn8e of LifA.

when a woman approaches the change Of
ne she is liable to a q return of ali the
menstrual d~erangements, aud other ailments
rsct action Of McElree's Wine Of Cardui on
,se organs afflicted, mako it the best remedy
sor ,;se during this period.
Mrs, D. Pennington, West Plains, Mo-.
.sys. rI had been suffering from change OF
liz and it took the form Of dropsy. The
doctors told my husband it was useless to
nrescribe for NE any more. About that
ment OF female diseases and decided to try
Tho Wine of Cardui Treatment. After us.
inc nine bottles, 1 am WELL"
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You Don't Have to swear On

saws It'd st. Louis Journal Of agriculture in
m editerial about No-To-Bac, the famous
,obacco habit cure. 1--WE know of many
eases cured by No-To-Bac, one, a prominent
St. Louis architect, smoked and chewed for
twenty years; two boxes cured him SO that
even thG smell of tobacco makes him sick.r
eistseevervwhere. No cure no pay. Book
free. Sterling Remedy Co., New York OF
Chicago.
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I'm All Unstrune,

Is the remarl|v--any a individ-
usJ. He or she will Don cease to talk that
way alter beginning and persisting in a
course of HostetterI{ Stoma. h Bitters.
Nothing like it to renew strength and an
petito and good digestion. It checksthe in
road, Of malaria, and remedies liver com
plant, constipation, dyspepsia, rheumatism
and kidney disorder. IL is in every sense a
great household remedy.
The Opelousas courier., 1895-07-13
.t,ood WHISKY or None"

I reckon no doubts by this time you
have heard some tell of Boady HaW-
thorne. He is enc Of the best and big
rest men that the Rocky Creek country
has ever brung up and turned out to
preach the gospel to q lost and ruint
world. He went on from good to bet
ter end still more Of It till finally OF last
The Opelousas courier., 1895-07-13

WHEN a person needs a remedy he wants
reliable one, and Tor dysentery and sum
berry Elixir stands ~deservedly high. The
proprietors have many testimonials Of the
strongest character. 1t is a good thing to
nave in the house, and is sold by all wide
swake druggists,
The Opelousas courier., 1895-07-13

E~fectually, yet gently, when costive or bill
ious or when the blood is impure or slug
gish, to permanently cure habitual consti
patton, to awaken the kidneys andliver to q
healthy activity without irritating or weak
ening them, to dispel headaches, colds or fe.
yers. use Syrup of Figs.
The Opelousas courier., 1895-07-13
A Sur.

II never borrow trouble" said Bill.
ton.
WELL" replied the man who had
once lent him money, there's neve,
any telling how bad a mans credit will
get to bA"-Washington Star,
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Ill
round a b o u t
promiscns. Lit.
tie Jim Dargin,
which got killed
IN a runaway
scrape this last,
spring, lies but
ried There. One
day last week /
come along by
Cool Springs on
my return back
home o n a
trip over in the
hill country and
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4 HAD FIGURED TT OUT.-Teacher-"Fo,
what wise purpose was the goose created
with a web foot2A Dick Hicks-..Soze he
could stand Oh Il leg."-Puck.
The Opelousas courier., 1895-07-13

AS A rule, when a man has greatness
thrust upon him, it doesn't take him very
long to get rid of it.-Puck.
The Opelousas courier., 1895-07-13

Foa THE SuMMER.-"Where are you 60
Ing this summer!" He (hard up)-"No
place" She-''Ah" He-"Yes, no place
like home, you know."-Detroit Free Press.
The Opelousas courier., 1895-07-13
To Cleanse tho System

SHERIFF's advice to an erchant-Don't ad.
y~ertise, and I'll do the rest.-Christian Ad-
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ERRING.-S Student translating)-"And-
- r-anu-cr."
Professor-"Don't laugh, gentlemen, to err
is human. Life.
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FROM OLD ROCKY
tsutus Sanders Once Mora 11n+o
the Breach.
Gu" ana Marte!soms Death ~ t,t,,.
"" 'arsan--"Ths Onseon Fe,,h..
'ea "as Internationally Hsv.
thorne and squire Villain.
Copyright 1851,

over there at old Cool Springs church
mere Is a little new grave, with tho
hog weeds and the daisias r,u.:.
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Hoods SarsapariHa

To purify and enrich your blood. A few
bottles Of this great medicine will give
you strength and vitality because 1t will
make pure blood. Get Hoods.
The Opelousas courier., 1895-07-13

TROUBLES. spring from idleness, and
grievous tolls from needless ease.-Frank-
The Opelousas courier., 1895-07-13

blood depends for its richness and purity.
If digestion stops, poisonous matter &C
cunlulates and is forced into the blood
there is no place else for it to go.
The bad breath is a danger signal.
Look out for it! If you have it, or
any other symptom of indigestion,
take a bottle or two of DR.. Pierce's
Golden Medical Discovery. 1t will
straighten out the trouble, make your
blood pure and healthy and full of nu-
triment for the tissues.
The Opelousas courier., 1895-07-13

TEDDIE-"What are women's rights, pa q"
Pa-"Everything they want, my boy; al,
ways remember that. "-Boston Courier.
The Opelousas courier., 1895-07-13

EVERY difficulty slurred over will be
ghost to disturb your repose later on
Chopin.
The Opelousas courier., 1895-07-13

A GOAT is a good mixer, but succeeds bet
ter as a butter.
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"Sayin Sukey' Mixed Up.

"One of these new-fangled preachers
has been down through the Panther
Creek settlement here lately preachin
some mighty strange and pecurious
doctrines amongst the people, said
Aunt Nancy Newton to me the last
time she was up to our house. Then
the dear delightful old soul kept on
talkin:
THE mainest pint hat the new-fan-
gled preacher makes is that Saturday
and not Sunday is the seventh day in
the week-the day we ought to remem-
Der and keep it holy as Che Sabbath.
1t ruther seems to me like he is jest a
leetle bit late in spreadin the ne VS..
The folks down there are too dead sot
in their ways to spile out and start over
now. The men folks still go to town
and swap horses and drink whisky on
Saturday. and most everybody takes a
day off and rigs up and goes to meetin
Sunday. We have been turnin the wa
ter on that way SCI long till I reckon
the old mill wouldn't grind marry lick
if we was to pitch in and change things
now.
But the new-fangled preacher has
got Sukey Sellers-Savin Sukey, as we
all call her powerful bad mixed and
muddled up in regards to her Sunday.
She won't say he is right and she won't
say he is wrong. l rally don't think she
knows anything for certain about it.
But she is so skeered that the new-fan-
gled preacher is right and other people
wrong, or that other people are right
and the preacher is wrong, till bless
gracious she now keeps two Sabbath
days holy instid of one. She puts in
soon Saturday mornin and runs her
Sunday slap through till Monday nor
in. Everybody to their wi notion, as
one old said when she kissed a
cow, and if it suits Savin Sukey it is
perfectly all right with me-"
RUFUS SANDERS.
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WE enjoy much when VIC are thankful fol
little Rams Horn.
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ATHEISM is rather in the lite than 10 The
heart Of Ean,-Bacon,
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the sight OF thatgrave put me to think
II about little Jim and the marvelsome
way IN which he come to the final forks
of the road.
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THE man who can impartially Judge him
self is tit to govern the World.-Milwaukco
journal.
The Opelousas courier., 1895-07-13

THE eternal stars shine out as soon as it is
lark enough.-Carlyle.
The Opelousas courier., 1895-07-13

VISITOR Gin museum)-'Nhy don't you
get a giraffe" Manager-Can't afford it.;
they come too high."-Brooklyn Life.
The Opelousas courier., 1895-07-13

FRESHNESS and purity are impaired to thu
complexion by Glenn's Sulphur Soap.
Hills Hair and Whisker Dye, Soc.
The Opelousas courier., 1895-07-13

WHY is a chicken like a farmer? Be.
cause both delight in a full crop.
The Opelousas courier., 1895-07-13

SILENCE is golden, especially when yoN
cannot think of a good answer on the spur
of the moment.-Judy.
The Opelousas courier., 1895-07-13
If You are Tired

All the time, without special exertion, as
tired in the morning as when you retire at
night, you may depend upon it, your blood
is impure and is lacking in vitality. That's
why it does not supply strength to nerves
and muscles. You need
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ne got t. b. AZ big as the e,ss.st in III.

| - ~' ~ VSL III tnR
whole discovered country In +h.
h man 'ime' you understand, he has
oroke out of the woods for good and
a. n the last news 1 got from him
ne was prearhin in some tremendous
o'g city back there in Georpy.
fut when Boady started out on h;s
nrst legs he use to come around now
n then and preach to the PEOPLE over
az Old Bark Log church. Old Squire
wilson was liviR in the settlement then
n Boady soon made an almighty big
mash on the Squire.
now II Squire Wilson ever had any
particlar weak pint in the flesh it was
with regards to whisky. And at tina.
Vl'n boady Hawthorne was about the
strongest and most terriblest temper
ance epistle, you understand, that I had
ever or saw. He fought the wills.
Ky devil with coat and gloves of-com-
IN n gwine-from the woodp;le to
the clear1n. He jumped on the whisky
soaks with both feet in mighty nigh
every sermont he preached and telit-
orally mopped up the ground with the
dlrty damnable traffic" He use to
nit Squire Wilson enter shots reglar
n constant. but the old man never
Whensomever Boady Haw-
thorne held forth any where's around
IN forty miles Of Rocky Creek you could
bet your side whiskers and your Sum
Gay boots that Squire Wilson was there
every clatter-right up in the dress
CIRCLE OF the Amen corner-and seems
l.fe he enjoyed every performance
th%fhss!yand through.
A gr}at word with Boady Hawthorne
at thaf time was mean Ticker" Any
thingRand everything in the way of
s~piritrwas mean Kicker with him,
you understand. Looks like as if he
nevT had seen anything but sorry
gooAs in the whisky line, and every
time he would jump on 'mean licks:"
Squire Wilson would pod his head ayd
smile and say Amen
But what pestered me and the whole
settlement was hat Squire Wilson had
got SO dead stuck on Boady Hawthorne
as a preacher, and yet he went right on
with his hard drinlin, comm up drunk
steady and constant as ever.
By-and-by it come to pass that Boldly
Hawthorne had to play quits with The
old settlement and move his washin off
to some great city. He was in town
one day shakin the partin hand with
his friends and tellin everybody good
bye. Squire Wilson come along-about
three sheets in the wind and the other
n futterin-and took him off to one
side for a private talk.
$50 you are goin to leave us are you,
Boady o. says the Squire.
Yes, my deal brother. and my heart
is sad and heavy in the thought" says
Rcadv.
We'll, I couldn't let you go away
without holdin a little confabulation
with you" says the Squire" I want to
tell you how | have enjoyed your brave
fight agin mean Ticker. And I want %
thank you in particlar, Boady, for the
good you have done me, a pore weak
and hayward sinner. May the Lord
bless you for the good you have done
IF the Lord has blessed my labors
in this settlement" says Boady. Il am
than glad and thankful. SUIT
/ want you to tell me how and
wherein I have ever done you any
well, Boady, says the Squire, II have
sot my mind that 7 will never drink an.
other drop of mean Ticker as long as Z
live, so help me. Henceforwards, here
after and forevermore hang my cats if
I don't drink good whisky or none."
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Foul breath is a
~discourager of af-
fiction. 1t is al
ways all indication
of poor health -
. bad digestion. To
bad digestion is
traceable almost all
!! human ills. 1t is
starting point
of many e r ser
ious nj aladies.
Upon the healthy
action of the diges-
tive organs, the
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a Oh piece Of crockcry-the cup thai
che RS.
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A BARREN rock-When the Graded baby
refuses to go to sleep.
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Halls Catarrh Cure
Is a Constitutional Cure. Price 75c.
The Opelousas courier., 1895-07-13

A LAZY man always hurries to dinner.
The Opelousas courier., 1895-07-13

A G~OoD-NATUEED spinster boasts that slo
always has two reliable beauX at hauu-el-
bows.
The Opelousas courier., 1895-07-13

THE world was born blind.-Ram's Il
The Opelousas courier., 1895-07-13

A wELL-DREssED dog wears a collar and
pants in the summer time.
Alma record. (Alma, Mich.) 1878-1928, 1895-03-08

Railway Union men by the General Man
ayers Association during the Dcbs strike
last summer will be lifted on April and
all of the old employees who have been
under the ban since then Will have IL re-
moved. There are.thousands Of these men
all over the country. many Of whom are
hrst-class railroaders bat who nave not
been employed since participating in the
strike. The general managers, il is
stated, have already decided on remov-
ing the boycott
An excursion train on the Inter Oceanic
Railroad twenty-eight miles from the
city of Mexico met w.tn az accident.
While rounding curve ON the side OF a
mountain live coache, jumped the track
and went down the canon. The relief
train sent out took l04 dead bodies and
eighty-hve wounded persons out OF the
ruins of the train. The doctors worked
for five hours 70 get the injured into con-
dition to make the Journey Everyone
oi the eighty-l live was spattcred with
blood from some open wound. Three
men had lost half of their ,calps. Four
had fractured skulls. six women were
20 badly injured IN the back and alb
domon that II was feared they would die
before reaching the city. All the doc
,ors agree tuat the scenes al the wreck
Noro nc most ,err. bic in their eXpc-
4icl..s.
Alma record. (Alma, Mich.) 1878-1928, 1895-03-08
ST LOUIS.

WHEAT-Cssh. 53i4c; May, $3.50.
CoRS-Cash, 4lc; May. 4l34c.
OATs-Cash, 2954c; May, 2955c.
PRovIsIoNs-Pork,t lO25. Lard, t6. 40.
Alma record. (Alma, Mich.) 1878-1928, 1895-03-08
COPYRIGHT LAW AMENDED.

An important measure Of great inter-
est to newspapers throughout the coun-
try was enacted into law during the clos
ing hours OF congress. 1t amends the
copyright laws SO as TO correct unduly
harsh and oppressive provisions Of the
law as heretofore enacted. Under the
law any newspaper reproducing a copy
righted photograph forfeited the plates
OF the copy and was Liable to 4 penalty
of 81 for every copy found in its posses
sion. The measure "a passed limits the
amount recoverable 10 s.. 600