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The Opelousas courier., 1896-09-12
HE RATHER LIKED 1T.

II am afraid I'm crowding you" said
q fat man on a Dallas street car, as he
wedged a smaller passenger into a cor
ner.
ooh, [ d-don't m-mind b-being c.
crowded" he gasped, I'm used to it.
l Lived flor several years in a N
New York iat.'-Texas Sitter.
JUST WHAT HE WANTED.
Hell wish it were true that all the
world loves q lover.
She-Why?
He-Because you're all the world to
me.-Chicago Record.
THE COLD COMMERCIAL VIEW.
The old hen flew from her nest and
cackled loud and long.
"When eggs are nine cents a Dozen"
said the old rooster, cycling the per-
Torrance with languid disapproval, at
is a ridiculous exhibition of vanity to
make all that fuss over one egg
Chicago Tribune.
PERHAPS.
Buzkins-Jazkins, what makes your
Office look so dirty?
Jazkins-Can't say, guess the office
boy must have just swept it.-Roxbury
Gazette.
"While in Geneva some months ago."
said Colonel j. r. Reynolds, Il visited
the principal watch works there, and as
"a matter Of curiosity asked the a
ager what was the highest price watch
that was made in Geneva. He said
that the most expensive watch turned
out in Switzerland was worth 500.
This watch had a split second hand and
struck the hours if needed. 1t also had
in tia tiny musical box, which played
three distinct tunes. This watch, he
said, was the finest that could be made,
but that ornaments, diamonds, etc,
could be worked into the cases, which
would u the price up into as many
thousands as the purchaser desired.
He said there had been one watch made
in his establishment the cases of which
had been studded with diamonds, and
which cost $1,000, but Is far as the
watch itself was concerned it was a
$500 watch.
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off cleanliness IS next to Goodness,
then a soap book must rank next to the
Bible" said the cyclist.
What is a soap book?" inquired a
Journal reporter.
The cyclist took from his pocket a
small volume the leaves Of which look
ed like waxed paper. Tearing enc Of
the leaves from the book, he pluE.ed it
and his hands into a basin of water,
whence they emerged covered with a
profuse lather. The leaf had disap-
pearcd, having been transformed into
the alther. The leaf was pure soap.
Its the most convenient form for
soap for the traveller" said the cyclist,
land it's a regular up-to-date invention.
All the wheel men and women are be-
ginning to carry it.
is my belief" he continued alb
stractedly, that the newspaper of the
future will be made of soap"
"Soap?"
Eyes, soap. and printed with soap ink
in different @brs. 1t would then be
easy to trace the life Of a paper. At 8
a. m. you read it over your coffee; at
9:33o you pass it to your wife; at 10 she
gives it to the cook, and at II it is wash
ing the family linen.
There will be other uses for the
soap newspaper" went on the cyclist,
his imagination expanding. IF left
in the street and eaten by a chance goat
the goat might fatten on it and he
might not. If he did he would be a soap
fat goat, but at any rate, if be died he
would die clean. Those papers that
the goats spared in the streets would
at the first shower turn into soapsuds
and wash the city clean. Wood pulp
would become a drug in the market
md ACKNOWLEDGEMENT be worth it's
weight in gold. Morally"
The cyclist addressed the air.
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=. BLO.,MTIUIa0.

51M5easf u. S. Circuit Court fDf tie WEST
@@ sfn District sf L6uisians.
1tone4 q. 8. Court OF Claims throughout
the United BtAteS.
ku1l1o In and for the Parish Of et. Ian.
1y. Omss with Hon. john u. Ogden.
5&sae4lay ettentiop given - Land Cases and
1ealzy I'd Acadia pronSntiy sttsnGed to.
&9e DeaFEed; HstAHts, Caveats, Trade
N4 UIocured without ASlAy.
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PersOuaf.

ANY N who has been benefited by the
use of DR.. Williams Pink Pills, will receive
information of much value and interest by
writing to Pink Pills, 2. o. Box 1892, Phila., Pa.
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FITS stopped free by DR.. KL1NE's GREAT
NERVE REsToRER. No fits after first days use.
Marvellous cures. Treatise and $40 0 trial bot
tie free. DR.. Kline. 53l Arch St., Phila., Pa,
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W. H. Griffin. Jackson. Michigan, writes:
Suffered with Catarrh for fifteen years.
Halls Cstarrh Cure cured me-" Sold by Drug
giStS. 11r.
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Mrs. Winslow's Soothing Syrup for children
teething. softenst the gums, reduces infamma-
ton, allays pain, cures wind collie. Csc. a bottle.
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A DRUGGISTS Experience.

II have never known it to fail when used AS
directed. T~ETTERINE has quickly and per-
manently cured several VERY STUBBORN cases
of letter that came under my personal
knowledge. One case Of ttftcen years stande
skillful physician for several years, was per-
manentiy cured by the use of q little more
than one box" E.. A. KENNEDY,
Brooklyn, Fla
box by mail for SOC. tn STAMPS.
J. I. S~HUPTRINE. Savannah, Ga.
eighteen American women bear the title Of
princess in Italy, and Russia and other con-
tinental countries.
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We think Piso's Cure for Consumption 10
the only medicine for Coughs.-JENNIE PlNCK-
ARD Springfield, His, Oct. l. 1894.
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A pound of feath ors contains sixteen
ounces, or 1000 grains; a pound of gold con-
tains twelve ounces, or $3.50 grains.
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Buy 81. 90 worth Dobbtns Foatinr-Borax Soap Of
your grocer, send wrappers to Rohbins Soap Mfg
Co., Philadelphia, Pa. They viii send you free
of charge, postage paid, a Worcester Pocket Die
tionary, 296 pages, bound in cloth, profusely II.
Illustrated. Offer good until August LIST only.
The astronomical difference in time between
London and New York is four hours, fifty
six minues, DC seconds.
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INDISPENSABLE.

II don't think l want 4 encyclopaedia"
said the woman Of the house, but If
you have got any nice book for chill
dren-"
Great Scott, madam! exclaimed the
unblushing book agent, eve use this
%c.Tclopedia for a children's book at our
house altogether. They sit on it at the
table"-ChAago Tribune.
CURIOUS MAN.
Jyzbo-I hear that Gazmore has be-
come the father Of twins.
Brazlin-You don't say SO! How
many?-Roxbury Gazette.
SEEING THE OPPORTUNITY.
C1ub1eigh-I understand you are
going to marry your typewriter.
Brekerly-That's right. She's the
only woman l ever found that l could
dictate tot-Town Topics.
A COURAGEOUS WOMAN.
isn't that just wonderful how Mrs.
Smith fought that burglar last night?
He got a terrible thrashing."
Eyes; but I understand it happened
by mistake. She thought it was Smith,
for whom she had been sitting up all
night."-Harper's Weekly.
A Veil Of Mist
Rising at morning or evening from some low
lands often carries in its tolds the seedsO ma
laria. Where malariai fever prevail no one is
safe, unless protected By some Efficient meui-
cinal safeguard. Hosletter's stomach Bltters
is both a protection and a remedy. NO per-
son who iu!!ah Is, or sOjourns in u miasmatic
region or country. should omit to procure
this fortlfyinG agent. which is also the finest
known remedy :or dyspepsia, constipation,
kidney trouble and rheumatism.
The animal nonsion of s5 O0o prantad nv
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The tpmDles of India are to he lis

The temples of India are to be lighted
with electricity, the example having
been set by the great shrine Of silva, at
Kochicaddie, neal Mutwai, in Ceylon,
and is to be speedily followed by the
equally vast and ancient foundation
of the Natukotto, in the same island.
In no long time others will adopt the
same improvement, till all the hQy
places Of the peninsula are so equipped
that by pressing a button they can be
instantly illuminated, like a modern
hotel or theatre. The innovation is
enough to make silva and Vishnu, and
even the great Brahma himself, gasp
and stare.
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A Veil Of Mist

The annual pension of $4,000 granted by
the French government to Iasteur, is to be
continued to his widow.
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Reginald Montague MahOney,a truck
driver in Chicago, is an object of inter-
est to physicians in that city. Although
his hearing is perfectly good he cannot
distinguish the difference between the
sound of a trombone and a violin. He
has absolutely no conception of tunes,
and says that the noise of q boiler shop
= the playing of a band are e1pctly
Collarettes and fronts of greU tat
feta are much admired, and will be
worn with dresses of almost all sum-
mer materials.
Skirts of lawn and dimity and organ-
die are made up with %ruffles, trimmed
with narrow Valenciennes lace, with
a scalloped edge.
Heliotrope and orange is a new COM
bination. It is just tolerable if the
proper shades are placed together. If
not, it is atrocious.
All kinds Of fancy collars are ex-
tremely fashionable for the neck. EN-
broidered chiffon bands can be charm
ingly utilized for this purpose.
The high combs are usually of round
ed shell. When the hair is worn high
and arranged in a stiff standing loop,
this is very essential to keep it in place.
A girls hat has a wide brim, peaked
over the front and faced with velvet.
The Tam O'Shanter crown is of velvet,
and there are loops and quill feathers
at the side.
The courier. (Lincoln, Neb.) 1894-1903, 1896-05-02

With flowers. The plan is to have the
girls and their friends among the men
pay ten cents a month into flower mis-
sion fund, to the end that flowers may
be sent to friends who are ill, the patients
at the sanitarium, inmates Of hospitals.
etc. All of the Pleasant Hour girls
have been asked to join the flower mis-
sion club, and it is going to be the swell
thing to belong to it. Miss Nettie Sher-
wood left Wednesday for her home in
Connecticut. Miss Sherwood mas spent
several weeks in Nebraska visiting
friends in Omaha and her sister. Mrs. G.
M. Lambertson, in this city.
One Of the daily newspapers here did
an awfully mean thing the other day. 1t
printed joke on university professor.
Now jokes and university professors are
all right taken separately, but. so the
university professors say. they. should
never be combined. Their dignity must
be protected, you know. So many stu
dents to take up anything that looks
like zone on the professor" The story
was that the professor in question hap
pened to be in Omaha when number of
society ladies there has charge OF a soda
fountain for sweet charity's sake. The
professor didn't know anything about
this arrangement. He passed the drug
store and looking in saw at the fountain
mixing drinks a young lady who had not
many weeks before visited in Lincoln.
The young lady had taken him to leap
year party. and he had taken her for
drives, etc. The young lady was guest
OF Miss Mae Burr. 1t dawned on the
The courier. (Lincoln, Neb.) 1894-1903, 1896-05-02

young man that he had not properly.
gagged the young lady's social position
He surely had not thought that she was
soda fountain girl. He went in and
spent his nickel, still unenlightened, so
the story runs. Now don't you think it
was too bad to print sucf story as
that? OF course the paper did not give
the professors name, but everybody at
once knew that it was the Man Who
Never Wears An. Overcoat.
Yours lovingly,
ELEANOR.
Friday. May 1.
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CLOTHES, HATS
ELEANOR'S LETTER

eS0So<O<0<
Ny dear Slack came back the other
day, and. somehow. he is more Of swell
than ever. He says contact with the
outside world rubs of the rust and he
had. 80 he says. a good deal to be rubbed
of. 1t had been almost two years since
he has been farther away than Omaha
or Beatrice, and as / remember now he
had somewhat wilted appearance. Now
he is spick and span, and with no end
OF new things and styles. Jack has had
a habit OF devoting himself to the girls
that have visited here, and there are
girls ia as many as twenty different
places that he has had an ''affair" of
varying intensity with. While he was
away he saw a number OF these girls,
and while he doesn't have much to say
on the subject, l am pretty sure he had
good time. There's one thing about
Jackie always does have good time.
ard I'm sorry to say that he seems to
have just as good time with any other
girl as with me. Jack says he
is impressed with one fact since his re-
turn. Society here is in a demoralized
condition He says there is nobody to
lead it. and il goes struggling around in
a desultory manner like flock Of sheep
without shepherd. There is nobody
to set the pace. and 20 society is aim
less and slow. He may be right. but ]
can't see that it makes much difference
What is the use OF having leader if
nobody can follow. If We had. leader
j am sure he would take us to bitches
that we couldn't leap, and he would
be on one side while we would be on the
other. As it is now we don't stray very
far, or attempt anything we can't do.
just now we. and ] mean the younger
crowd, are having a pretty good time
in a quiet. unambitious way. Friday
we we're entertained by Ernest Hough-
ton. and on Sunday favored few en-
joyed dinner at the Lindell, the guests
OF Joe Mallalieu and Mr. Clough. Mon
day night we were at Miss Grace Oak
ley's. and tonight we have q card party
at Mics Slsughter's. And by the way,
some OF his brother broilers are having
considerable fun at Ernie Houghton's
expense. 1t seems that he was calling
the other night on a young lady who
lives some distance from the centre OF
the city. He was having a very pleas
ant time and wasn't particularly mind
full OF the time. 1t got pretty late before
he knew it, and then it began to rain
He simply couldn't go out
in it, and he Didn't. Papa invited him
to stay all night, and he stayed. Nov
when he calls the girls ask him il he
intends to stay to breakfast.
But to return to the parties. Really
that dinner party Sunday was fine
affair. The table was set in the large
Inning room Of the Lindell hotel. and
vas beautifully observation-disclosures on
the table and girls around it. Mr.. Clough
vat at one end and Mr.. Mallalieu at
he other. Each girl had an immense
American Beauty rose. Around the
The courier. (Lincoln, Neb.) 1894-1903, 1896-05-02

A comfortable California trip can be
taken every Thursday at 1890 a. m. in
through tourist sleeping car, Lincoln to
Los Angeles without change via the
Burlington. Remember this when ar.
ranging for your winter trip. Depot
ticket Office, 18th street between p and
Q streets. City Office. corner Tenth and
o streets.
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Well Dressed Men.

There are many hobby suits seen on
our streets this spring. They come
from the shop Of Paine, Warfel & Bum
stead. who have the largest and finest as
sortment Of woolens ever seen in Lincoln.
The courier. (Lincoln, Neb.) 1894-1903, 1896-05-02

For a cooling, refreshing drink drop
nto Frank NJ. Rector's. 1211 o street
New fountain, the latest drinks.
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JERRY
PRESENTED
CARRIELOUISERAY,

auspices ladies the
served Dunns Drug Store Wednesday, May 9th
Prices: and rs cents. Matinee: IS and so cents
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the eDR68Cmcut Vi 6Oulc VI Tue cOuplce
present. and there was lot of talk of
this sort. to the embarrassment Of MIR.
and Miss and Mr..
and Miss especially. After the
dinner was over the party sought the
parlor upstairs, and as they walked down
the hall somebody played a wedding
march. 1t was ali very funny. The
dinner was a great success. The next
night, Monday, at Miss Oakley's, we had
a jolly time listening to the photograph,
telling stories and singing. On this &C.
casion the guests we're: Mr.. Houghton.
Mr.. Mallalieu, Mr.. Fred White, Mr..
Harry Re ese. Mr. Baldwin. Mr.. Lansing.
Mr.. Dixon, Mr.. Clough, Mr. C.Y. Smith,
Mr.. Hurlbut, Miss Slaughter, Miss Mae
Moore, Miss Hollowbush, Miss Griffith,
Miss Latta, Miss Rinehart, Miss Burr,
and Mr. and Mrs. Lew Marshall.
Tonight besides the party at Slaugh-
ter's there is fraternity reception at
Dr. and Mrs. G. F. Ladd Mr.. and
Mrs. Robinson have returned from
Chicago, and this week Mrs. Beman
Dawes left for Marietta, O., intending
to be gone part OF the summer. Miss
Maud Oakley has been visiting in
OMAHA think she is still there,-the
guest Of Miss Margaret Cook. Mr.. Rob-
inson, Of Chicago, was at the Wright's
for few days. Mrs. G. G. Burr was ex-
pected back from Colorado this week.
Frank has been living alone, keeping
veritable bachelor quarters. He can
cook fit to kill'' as the saying is, and he
has probably had griddle cakes three
times a day. Last week DIR. Madden
packed up and left the city. He will
probably not return DR.. Madden was
a quiet man, but he was a mighty nice
fellow. and it's too bad he has gone. 1
think he is going to do hospital work
somewhere in the east.
Gossip that l hear is to the effect that
the engagement OF Elmer Merrill and
Miss Fannie Rector is announced, also
that Miss Adele Simons is soon to wed a
gentleman living in New York. Mrs. ID.
E. Thompson expects soon to visit st.
Louis and Cairo. the latter place being
her former home. Miss Ethel Hooper
has planned to spend the summer in
MIMI, the guest of
Miss Seba Case. who is pleasantly re-
membered as q Lincoln visitor. The
girls have new scheme. Jack says it
is the cleverest thing we have ever
thought Of. He insists that we are work
ing in the interest OF some florist. He
says there is one objection to it-every
man who contributes will promptly be
indisposed and notify the girls to call
The courier. (Lincoln, Neb.) 1894-1903, 1896-05-02

table were: Mr.. Clough and Miss Marie
Marshall. Mr.. Joyce and Miss Grace
Oakley, Mr.. Howell and Miss Mae Burr,
Mr.. Morrison and Miss Lucy Griffith,
Mr.. Baldwin and Mics Latta, and Mr..
and Mrs. Lew Marshall. Somebody in
quired whether the dinner was for the
purpose Of making an announcement Of
the engagement Of some Of the couples
present. and there was lot Of talk of
this sort. to the embarrassment OF MIR.
and Miss and Mr..
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.UNKE OPERZ
o AND 18TH 8TRGGTo.

FRIDAY. SATURDAY AND SATURDAY MATINEE.
MAY 9TH AND 9TH.
Alexander Blacks Famous Picture Play
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Saturday l heard much COMPLAINT
among the younger mem bers of the Re-
publican party over the time selected for
holding eauouses. The cause of the fault
finding was stated thusly by one active
worker: "The reason for holding the
cauouses at an earlier date than usual
(while the old linars will tell you it was
for another cause), was simply to shut
out material acquisition to the strength
of the young element Heretofore the
time selected has been on the evening of
the first day OF registration, so that the
young Republicans who arc to cast their
maiden votes may have their names put
on the voting lists and thus be qualified
to participate in the selection of can di.
dntes. Now there is an unusually large
number of these embryo voters this
spring, and they have been count ed upon
to help nominate the young men who are
aspiraBts for places ON the tickets in all
the wards But the old tricksters have
prevented this by having the caucuses
called earlier than is observation-disclosures
Mana bout Town.
This is certainly tliabolical plot, and
the 'old tricksters' that devised it must
p ossess the ingenuity of Satan himself.
But did 1T not occur to the Man-About-
Town that inasmuch rs the Demo cratic
oaucuses are only one day later than the
Republican thar the old Democratic
tricksters were in shis diabolical plot too.
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every catarrh snuff contains more or less
OF it. 1t. Is found even in chewing gums,
in stomach and nerve remedies of divers
kinds. etc. Never as now was the duty
so imperative to investigate Into the al
legged remedies offered to suffering hu.
manity.
do protest that granting there may be
virtue in cocaine, the abuse of it is a
shame to the age in which we live. When
it is considered that the entire pathology
of diseases has had to be revolutionized
within the last ten years, medical science
should be very modest in Its claims and
very slow indeed in perpetuating upon
this civilization drug which is 50 dead
ly in it's effects. 1t has been my lot to
experience or to witness every possible
form of suffering that the habitual use of
toxics 1nfiicts upon humanity. One who
has not tasted the bitterness of this death
can form no just estimate of its terrors.
/ have seen loving mother and deyot-
ed wife made imbeoile within a twelve
month by cocaine. have witnessed the,
collapse of lawyers, physicians, teachers
preachers, and merchants as the result of
this habit. Every day and almost every
hour tears are brought to my eyes be-
cause OF the sorrow that Is observable In
others The worst evil of all is that, for
the greater part, 1t is not the sin of these
people nor of their parents that they
suffer, but 1t Is the heinous fault of some
Gnoughtless or Ignorant physician, who
will not inform himself concerning the
danger of the abuse of toxic drugs. The
pity of it all is too, that it behooves
every man or woman to take heed lest
he fall. The snares of the fowler are
thick on every hand. The patent nos
trums offer the drug under alluring
names and with legions of certificates
from victims in the first stages Of the
habit. The doctors prescribe it gener-
ously where it ia not needed, and the
druggist sells it in one form or another
to whomsoevsr will buy. Chicago is
city of ntense activity on every hand
there Is nervous exhaustion. Cocaine is
resortsd to for the restoration Of energy
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and vigor. They who appeal to it too
often become abject, cringing slaves.
Cocaine is lover of the rich, the infiu-
entail, the educated, and the refined. It's
victims multiply yearly. There be many
who depict in glowing colors the horrors
of whisky, but silence obtains concerning
that drug whose effects are to be dreaded
a thousand times more than the product
of the still.
Now and then one hears OF a spasm of
virtuous indignation which manifests
itself in the arrest of druggist .or two
for violating the laws in relation to the
sale of poisons. Why is it that popular
Indignation and State statutes fail TO
reach the real oulprits, the physicians,
the surgeons, and dentists, who fasten
the habit upon the poor wretohes that
must afterward obtain the drug from the
apotheeary or go mad from lack of it? In
the name OF humanity that suffers too
much / enter a solemn protest agalnt
the free and indisoriminate use Of this
modern hell-drug.
WILLIAM ROSSER COBBE.