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The Opelousas courier., 1896-02-22
1890 IN PRIZES ON OATS AND COR

!s4oO IN PRIZES ON OATS AND CORN
Last year we offered 5000 for the big
:sest yield of oats. 200 bushels Silver
Nine Oats was the highest. This year
Ne offer 5000 more on oats, 500 on Sill
yer King Barley, a barley yielding i'll
1895 1I6 bushels per acre, and 500 on
Golden Triumph Yellow Dent Corn, the
corn of your dreams!
What's Tcosinte and Sand Netch and
Sacaiine and Lathyrus and Giant
t;purry and Giant Incarnate Glover and
lots of such things? They'll make you
rich if you plant a plenty. Catalogue
tells you!
If YoU WILL CUT THIS OUT AND SEND
it with 10c. postage to the John A. Sal
::er Seed Co., Lacrosse, Wis, you will get
free 10 grasses and grains, above oats.
barley, corn and their catalogue. Cat
alogue alone, sc. (K)
The Opelousas courier., 1896-02-22
TIPS o PEOPLE.

A monument to the late Bishop Way
man (colored) will be erected in Balti-
more. q
It is o GENERALLY known that the
wife of Sir Philip Currie, the British
ambassador In Constantinopie, is the
lady known to the world as Violet
Fame.
Capt. Thomas Morley, a survivor of
the charge Of the Light brigade, Libby
prison and Ford's theater disaster, is
living in Washington and is in good
health.
Mrs. Mary Rochester (colored) died
in Newcastle, Del, county almshouse a
few days ago at the reputed age of 1o4
years. She had lived in that vicinity
during most of her life.
Mrs. Samuel Craft, living near Nc
Gees, Simson county, Miss, is just II
years old, and has had 20 children, IA
of whom are living. This is considered
of o record in that section.
Sandow, the strong man, has a big
brain rs well as a big body. He is quite
IN ingenious fellow, and among his in
ventions are u improvement on the
bicycle and a combination trunk and
bathtub for travellers.
DR.. Thalburg, the physical director,
and Miss Ballentine, the gymnasium
director, at Vassar college, have for
biddesq the students there from engage
shg in long distance running matches.
They say such contests are more likely
to be hurtful than helpful.
Barring Gould, the novelist, lecturer
md historian, is a keen antiquary. One
who knows him writes that she wal
in it. You should see him on Dart
with his shovels and wheeIbar-
rows, unearthing III forgotten domi-
cile, and then you would see the real
man. Give him an sid church register,
and he'll spin you yarns ABOUT it by
the hour"
The Opelousas courier., 1896-02-22

could tell from a distance of that it
was one OF these old clay pipes what
you read about, and not right new and
fresh by a whole tremendous big lot.
"Aunt Nancy Newton, by the twelve
epistles," says l to myself, and then
presently when I returned back to the
house bless gracious Aunt Nancy she
was there,
The Opelousas courier., 1896-02-22

behold l heard
a very familious
fuss and cacklin
goin on at the
house. And in
the midst of the
general confu-
sionment like
wise $50 caught
the smell Of a
pi pc s t r o n g
and clear and
S Q in. l
The Opelousas courier., 1896-02-22
HI Everybody.

Notorious Spendthrift Ito waiter at
q Recommendations much do / owe?
Waiter-That's more than l can tell.
Texas Siftipgs.
The Opelousas courier., 1896-02-22
scbastapoI Was Not Impregnable,

For it was taken by assault, but a physique
built up, a constitution fortified by Hostel
ter's Stomach Bitters, may bid defiance to
the assaults of malarious disease even in To-
calitics where it is most prevalent and ma
sections Of the West should bear this in
mind, and start with a supply. The Bitters
promptly subdues dyspepsia. rheumatic
and kidney complaints, nervousness, con
stipation and b~iliousness.
The Opelousas courier., 1896-02-22
HOW's This 2

We offer One Hundred Dollars Reward
for any case of Catarrh hat can not be
cured by Halls Catarrh Cure.
+. j. CHENEY & Co., Props, Toledo, O..
We, the undersigned, have known F. j.
transactions and financially able to carry
out any obligations made by their firm.
VEST g. TRUAx, Wholesale Druggists, To-
ledo, Q.
WALDlNG, K1NNAN & MARVIN, Wholesale
Druggists, Toledo, Ohio.
Halls Catarrh Cure is taken internally,
acting directly upon the blood and mucous
surfaces of the system. Price 75c. per bot
tie. Sold by all Druggists. Testimonials
free.
The Opelousas courier., 1896-02-22

MISS GusH-''O, captain, were you ever
boarded by a pirate9" Capt. Storms-'Yes.
He charged me $1i a day for a hall room on
the fourth hoor."-lndianapolis Journal.
The Opelousas courier., 1896-02-22

II like a book to combine amusement
with instruction."
"Yes-with the instruction in an ap-
pendiX."-Bay City Chat.
The Opelousas courier., 1896-02-22
Halls Family Pills are the best.

Nor AT HoME.-"Unlcss he discovers
me-" she whispered. as she shrank behind
the curtains of her window, ''he'll find me
out" With beating heart she listened,
while the hired girl went to the door and
made the talk.-Uetroit Tribune.
The Opelousas courier., 1896-02-22

HIT makes no difference how hard he
may try, l doant beliebe dat a red-nosed
man can look coldly intellectual.
The Opelousas courier., 1896-02-22

He Feeling his way to a knowledge CT
her accomplishments Can you darn
stockings, Arabella!" She with distant
trigidity) Il don't expect to marry a man
who needs to wear darned stochings.'-
Illustrated Bits.
The Opelousas courier., 1896-02-22

PLEASANT, Wholesome, speedy, for coughs
is Hale's Honey of Horellound and Tar.
Pike'sToothache Drops Curein one minute.
The Opelousas courier., 1896-02-22

DUzBY "What's in that bottle-poison?"
Dooby-"I guess there must be; there isn't
any label on it~."-Roxbury Gazette.
The Opelousas courier., 1896-02-22

Sore Eyes Cured.
Jackson's Indian Eye Salve never fails to
do this; Csc at all drug stores.
The Opelousas courier., 1896-02-22

P1so's Cure for Consumption has saved
me many a doctors Bills. +. HARDYr1
Hopkins Pc, Baltimore, Md, Dec. 2, '94.
The Opelousas courier., 1896-02-22

CONSIDERABLE Father-"Why did you
permit young Mashman to kiss you in the
parlor last night!" Daughter-''BecauseI
was afraid he'd catch cold in the hall. "a,
Brooklyn Life. 4
The Opelousas courier., 1896-02-22
A Sorrows crown of Sorrow,

A Sorrow's Crown Of Sorrow.
Eyes, her married life was very I'M
happy. She suffered untold misery"
City Chat.
The Opelousas courier., 1896-02-22

A BRIGHT boy in a Boston school was
asked to name six animals of the Arctic
zone. With the confidence Of a college pro-
fessor, he promptly answered: "Three po-
lar bears and three seals"
The Opelousas courier., 1896-02-22
DOWN ON PANTHER.
. Mighty "Confusionment" Over
One Lost Man.
Aunt Nancy Newton "Spreadin of the
Ncws'-Lige tunnels Drunk and Down
for Cbrlstmas-The watkins Boys
Made Doll Rags and Gun Patchin
Out Of His Breeches-New
Year Resolutions.
Downright, 1867

Copyright, 1867
On the third day Of January, some.
where's along in the shank Of the ~evsnin,
/ was down to the lot iddlin and fDo,in
around amongst the stock, when ID and
The Opelousas courier., 1896-02-22
The Consultations Of Matrimony.

TIC COHsoEHtIOi5 OF NiatriHIoHy'
She-1 suppose you would have been
happier if you had not married me?
He-Yes, darling, but l wouldn't
have known it.-Bay City Chat.
The Opelousas courier., 1896-02-22
STABLE MADE A PRISON.

North Carolina Attorney Sent to Jail for
Mule.
81 was imprisoned in a stable once,''
said a well-known attorney to a Star
writer. II had been retained to recover
n mule in a mountain county in North
Carolina. The mule had been taken
from my client and I obtained a writ of
replevin, under which the sheriff turned
the animal over to me. He was placed
in a log stable until the Ease could be
tried the next morning. Court con-
vened about sunrise, under a big oak
tree, and the mule was sent for, but the
brute had escaped and could not be
found.
Scout will come to order" said the
Justice, AN es the critter is gone, the
red-headed lawyer'n take his place, be-
in as he was the las one tibet he'd i'm
in charge
"The trial progressed and Judgment
was rendered in favor of my client for
the mule, but in the absence of the
property the justice said:
"'The mule was with a hundred dol
lars, an as the lawyer let i'm git away,
I'll render judgment agin i'm for a hun
dred dollars an costs, an the sherif'n
imprison i'm till the costs are paid
"Of course, the proceedings were lille
gal, but as I did not have enough money
in my pockets to pay the costs, I was
locked up in the log stable until I could
send 80 miles over the mountains and
get the cash. All day long I staid in the
impromptu Jail, and as it grew dark my
thoughts were not of a pleasant nature.
Suddenly a o struck through the
chinks. 1t was the lost mule, and !
have never been sc glad to see any living
creature as / was to greet that long
cared representative of the equine race.
] succeeded in making the owner of the
stable hear me, and in a few minutes the
mule had taken my place in the stable"
washington Star.
The Opelousas courier., 1896-02-22
Dinner Linen.

y The tablecloth for dinner should be
spotlessly white. Color in the way OF
scarfs or other millinery-like decora-
ton is now considered in the worst
taste. Old~-fashioned, gilt-edged china
is taking the place of more deliberately
decorated ware and no one who has a
neat set Of this porcelain need fear
to use it because it is o~ld-fashioned.
Clear soup never shows its perfection of
quality and color SO well as in a white
soup plate merely decorated on the bor-
der with gold or color. The advantage
Of this kind of dinner ware is that it
ran always be matched If any piece is
accidentally broken. A low glass plat
ter piled with growing ferns, the earth
concealed in moss, always looks well
on the center Of the table and is o
desirable than flowers, the fragrance of
which mingled with the odor Of viands
is d~isagreeable to many persons. A
medium-sized dinner napkin three
quarters of q yard square is to be pre-
ferred to the excessively large dinner
napkins sometimes used. One advan-
tage is that this size is always easily
found in all patterns in which cloths are
sold. While it is not essential that the
napkins match the cloth in pattern and
quality, refined women like to have at
least two, or three sets in which the
cloth, nsrkirs, carving tray and doilies
Al match. It costs nc more to select
them in this way than to buy them
"hsphaxard.n-N. Y. Tribune.
The Opelousas courier., 1896-02-22

SUFFERERS FROM CoUGHs, SORE THROAT,
ETC., should be constantly supplied with
'BrOrn's Bronchial Troches."
The Opelousas courier., 1896-02-22
when the Lost Was Found.

xne neXG Jay was christmas a
and to be certainly everybody vas toe
monstrous busy havin a good, time te
hear the news concernin Lige Runnels,
But on the followin day after that il
leaked out, and on the third day the old
man was still missin, and the settle.
ment by that time had got powerful bad
stirred up on the question. All the
men folks turned out and put in to burn
the woods and sift the ashes till they
found old man Lige. Bless goodness.
they went on horseback and afoot-in
squads and droves-lookin for that
which Yas lost, whilst all the women
folks got together at the Runnels place
to comfort and console with the wilder
and the orpaants, and wait for the news.
1.-THE sn hit was swingin tolerable
low down towards the western hills, so
to speak, when the men come back after
the mule and wagin. They bad found
old man Lige hid out in a pine thicket
in the old fields down there on this side
of Wolf Creek, but from what they said
they couldn't bring him on home with
out . wagin to haul him in. I took it
on myself to 60 out amongst the men
folks and ask Ben Chris Weaver If Lige
was vel. or sick, crippled or dead. Ben
Chris responded back to me that be was
we'll, and neither sick nor crippled nor
dead. But at the same time they
couldn't bring him home without the
wagin. So they hooked up the mule to
the wagin and pulled out. leavin me
and the rest of the women folks in outer
darkness as to what was what and who
was who.
ut was jest about shutdown when
they ON back and old man Lige was
settin up there in the wagin as big az
life and cussin more terrible than .
stage driver-cuss;n somebody we
couldn't tell who, for everything he
could lay his tongya to. The women
folks then hid ouH on the back porch
till the men could4Sring him in and put
him to bed. This leadin facts in the
case didn't leak out till the next day,
but when the news did git started it
spread like a fire in the piney woods
before . high wind in March.
The naked, unwashed truth is mighty
and bound to leak out, Rufus, and I
never could see wherein it ought to
hurt anybody" says Aunt Nancy as she
went down into her thanky bag and
forth with another pipe load Of
smokin tobacco. 'The plain truth is
two Of the Watkins boys had like
wiao also went to town the day before
Christmas and aaleagst other things
The Opelousas courier., 1896-02-22
,.Spreadin of the News

II am now about the most idlest
woman in the round created world per-
haps," says Aunt Nancy to me and
mother that night after supper.
l had built on a roarin big fire-a reg
lar s~hin-roaster, you Understandable
with her pipe runnin on full time the
dear old lady warmed up to the subject
powerful.
"The hogs are killed and the lard
fried out and the sausengers stuffed and
tho meat hung up. Christmas is owe
with and it's most toe soon for gardenin,
so 1 took my pipe and thanky bag and
put on my bonnet and lit out. Whereas
l am now jest naturally on the pad,
Rufus-visitin around and spreadin of
the news. I amt no tell tale t~attler, and
you will lev remember the day when
Nancy Newton went trapsin through
the country peddlin out s~candalations.
But l am a man plain female
woman-and in all OF your born days
you never saw one Of them sort that
didn't love to hear the news and toll it.
1.-THE mainest thing in the way Of
e " that has took place in the Panther
Creek settlement in durin the Christ
mas so far as / know was tho scandlous
scrape which old man Lige Runnels
backed his fool self into. 1t can't do US
no harm for me to give out the facts up
here l reckon, cause everybody down
there has heard about It, and even to
the children they are spreadin Of the
news. 81
Anyhow, old man Lige he went to
town the day before Christmas, and
naturally of course he waded right in
and got drunk. That night he come up
missin, and he remained missin for
three whole days and nights hand run
min. Now as to old man Lige, you all
know him, and / don't have to come all
the way up here to tell you that he
amt worth his room in this world nor
in the future hereafter. But his folks
can't help that, and the people in the
settlement got sorry for them in their
great trouble and worriment on account
of the old man turnin up lost. Nobody
didn't know what had went with him.
People in town saw hinfwhen he started
off towards home, which he had then
climbed up around more busthead whis-
ky than be could tote without wobblin
considerable. Ben Chris Weaver met
him over there at the Wolf Creek bridge,
at that writin it took his level
best to stay on his mule, and about first
dusk the mule racked up to the lot gate
with the saddle and bride on. But old
Llge he had fell off s~omewheres by
the wayside and come up missin."
The Opelousas courier., 1896-02-22

The fountain Of content must
spring up in the mind; and he who has
20 little knowledge of human nature
as TO seek happiness by changing any
thing but his oarn disposition, win
waste his life In fruitless efforts and
multiply the griefs which be purposes
n ssmoyA--Johason.
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1896-01-16
Hard
Work

wear and tear, and hurry-up,
will in time wear out the best
human engine. The weakest
link in life'S chain is the meas
ure by which human capacity
must be restricted. A Backache
may indicate that the weak link
is found. When the back aches,
it's a sign of internal disorder
tired Kidneys.
Buker's Kidney Pills
will right the wrong-cure the
Backache by removing the Kid
ney trouble-curing the cause.
These pills are not pain killers,
but, pain removers-they con-
tain no narcotics or alcohol, be-
ing made of selected vegetable
drugs. Druggists sell the pills
for SO cents. Book about Kid
ney trouble and Backache, free.
6a&ey PHI Co., Bangor, NE.
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1896-01-16

Several secondhand Cooking Stoves Ranges Heating
Stoves among them being small Quincy price S. No
Phoenix cook stove price SIo Dunes coal heater price So
American coal heater price ST. No. SO Calumet cook price
SS small Triumph stove price ST. Also quantity OF second
hand stoveppe
Hs SSaY p"ns At TIL y3 5 GSn ter in p P This d
Di nSs psF annum nS whole
m 4 5 Ha G ab STH of d MSp Fsts s S
s ] Nil s Bs a %9d that ss b6 9 @ Wods
g; Sa s'''s Saas ess9 % '' in Hyde Park
acres w sr aaSi s1 R I'D Eden 5 a S @ S Su 2
w the Utensils VIII se the e a8n
Ss 5 nS 95 So pe ans utensils for paid down or secured
One Tusstosy Double Tenement Dwelling
~oE Ss @ BS1 as'' richly
n G7s @ s Feet s 4s yg pn s Rs
@
or secured balance per year. O0' ''
oS as 5 LII. @ in s 1 ? F lana s 9s 5 VII R Psss
@ vi pame e 9 bg % om tOs
ta ass acres as the purchaser desires Price fro" ~ $500 according to land
One timber in
7s go 5 S1s'f @ $50 Sasfs pS S
cOHdn the lures best
tools down
on s aas to SS ' F S H e4S Hs f g" 3
buckets metal holders
goes Will sell
all utensils for 3O paid down secured
and balance
One Buggy upholstery good shape
although secondhand,
practically al sour $ viii sell for 90
Ono nearly Buggy side lamps pole Never has
800 miles all told. Win sell for $S5
Wagon Leys make in good condition. fitted
Will sell onehorse
Lumber Wagon, Ley make Worth $45OO will sell for $4,000
Mills called and known
mechanic who knowledge OF mill,
worthy consideration consists ml
several of land The yards
noade into the mill pond and the mill
with wheels TO mill
than
three times 1t must be CLOSED out and will be sold for about
TwoIorse Wagon with box and haybod nearly
Kendall make; cost, new, 500; will take So
One Buckeye Moving Machine, will sell for So
IorseDu W
1-IIorse Dump Cart, will sell for S15
Plow nearly will sell
Chicago will
A few thousand cedar shingles, price ST.
by Of
that is cheaper than commercial fertilizer Sales
ply Scotia parties purchasing dirty salt at
Ob which less than first to-day
when sold separately.
G. S. PAGE, Hyde Park, VT.
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1896-01-16

Below we give description of some of the property
above mentioned, all of which will be sold at low price
and on liberal terms of payment
II you note therein anything that you are in want Of
don't fail to call and examine, because the property will be
sod to the first who is willing pay anything like
reasonable figures for it. Some parts of the real estate as
we'll as of the personal property belong the of R.
S. Page, and very anxious close it out SO the
estate may be settled.
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1896-01-16
PAGES COLUMN!

Farm, Village Residences, Pas
lures, Timber Lots, Saw Mill
Sugar Orchards, and a large
quantity Of miscellaneous
personal property, consist
ing in part of Lumber Wagons,
Second Hand Stoves, Sec
ond Hand Moving Machine,
Hay Tedder, Dump Cart,
Plow, Harrow, Road Scraper, Piano
and last but not least,
100 Tons of Fertilizing Salt
Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1896-08-21
They viii Not Disgrace It.

The farmers of Vermont, which is above
all an agricultural state, hold the political
post of honor this year. They have the
first chance TO reply to the libel that the
farmers of the United States are in favor of
debasing the currency.-St. Louis Globe
Democrat.
There is small doubt, fortunately, as to
what the reply of the farmers of Vermont
will be. When the free silver craze was
first launched at Chicago it was taken for
granted that the prospect of paying farm
mortgages and other debts, with j3-cent
dollars, and of having the prices of farm
products doubled in fictitious value, would
be so seductive that the farmers would be
swept off their feet by it. But the event
has proved, in the first place, that farmers,
like all other honest folk, have no wish to
pay their debts with dishonest dollars. 1t
has proved in yhe next place, that the
farmers are shrewdly asking themselves
where and how they are to get hold of any
more of the 53-cent dollars than of the
present 100-cent ones, since the silver
mine owners have no apparent intention of
making a free distribution of their silver
bullion. In the third place it has proved
that the farmers are asking themselves the
very serious question, What would it profit
us in the end to have our debts paid in
this easy way and the prices of our pro-
ducts doubled if it were done by means
that would surely throw the country into
panic, paralyze our industries, and bring
disaster to legitimate business?
We believe it will be reasoning like this
which will decide and control the action of
Vermont farmers-those who are in debt
and those who are not-when they 20 to
the polls the first day of September. They
will not disgrace either the past record of
the state or the ''post of honor" which
they hold.
Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1896-08-21
%, FRIDAY, AUGUST 2I, 1896.

ment to put its stamp of one dollar on ten
cents worth of copper and make it legal
tender If the government can by its stamp
make fifty cents pass for one dollar, it can do
the same with dime; the difference is only
in degree. One of the best points made by
Col. Fellows in his admirable speech Tues
day night was when he said, in speaking of
the free silver talk about the "dollar of the
fathers" that the only metal mentioned by
name by the fathers in their first coinage
act was when they said that the smallest
coin made should be the copper half cent,
and 200 of these should be equal to one dol
lar. "Why not raise howl now," he said,
"because that dollar of our daddes' has
been demonetized?"
Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1896-08-21

Eugene Euvrard, 32, srofessor of French
in Detroit school was struck by train
between Blackinton and Williamstown,
Mass, Wednesday night and beheaded.
He was riding between the tracks on a BIZ
cycle.
Foreman Peter Ryan, John Manning
and John Campbell were killed in the St.
Lawrence mine at Butte, Montana, Tues
day, by the failure of a clutch on the hoist
ing engine to work, which permitted the
cage to drop to the bottom of the shaft, a
distance of 1850 feet.
Josiah Dwight Whitney, LII. D., Stur-
gis Hooper, professor of geology at Har-
ward, Oldest instructor of the university on
the basis of length of service, and one of
the most famous geologists of the country,
died Wednesday at Lake Sunapee, near
New London, N. H. Professor Whitney
was born at Northampton, Nov. 23, 1919,
and graduated at Yale in 1880.
Thomas Devany, the Irish dynamiter,
who was sentenced to prison in Edinburg
in 1888, has just been released. His state
ment that he knew nothing of an event so
important to him as the death of Charles
Stewart Parnell until his release from
prison gives us more vivid impression of
the utter silence and isolation of an Eng
lish jail than a volume of description.
Though surrounded by his fellows and in
the midst of crowded population, the
convict is utterly dead to the world and it
to him. The discipline is so severe and
the espionage SO strict that English prison.
ers are unable to use the secret means of
communication that are employed in the
prisons of almost all other countries, and
so man is shut up to death in life, No
wonder Devany found it 'awful."