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The Opelousas courier., 1896-12-05

There are in Europe, says the West
minister Review, five great powers
England, France, Germany, Russia
and Austria-who all hate esSh other
cordially, although they msy55alliances
between themselves Whenever expedi-
ency suggests agreement. England
hates France because they are rivals
for the supremacy of the world; Eng
land hates Germany because she is
irritated by her presumption and her
trade competition; England hates
Russia because of the distant East;
England hates Austria because she is
not England. France hates England
because it has been the duty of Eng
land to put a perilqefo the glory Of
all her great hJglarchs; France
hates Germany sitk 3 racial hate;
France hltes Rabia because the two
peoples are so essfEtially made to
disagree; Fl,.sasiie hates Austria be-
cause she always has hated her. Ger
many hates England because England
was great before she existed, and will
be great when she in her present form
shall have ceased to exist; Germany
hates France because she fears her;
Germany hates Russia because fate de-
crees that these two nations shall cut
each others throats; Germany hates
Austria because she knows Austria
does not los Sher. Russia hates Eng
land becauseS Of the future; Russia
hates France Ygcause Of the past;
Russia hates fer1isay because Of the
present; Russia hates Austria for
every conceivable reason. Austria
hates England because a debilitated
nation always hates q healthy one;
Austria hates France. for France has
robbed her Austria hates Germany
Is Esau hated Jacob; Austria hates
Russia through sheer force Of circum-
stances
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band when pappy's dead" was the
child's immediate answer.
AN ANALYTICAL HUSBAND.

81 was very near to Mrs. Dinwiddie
when she fell from her Wheel" said
Mrs. Snaggs, who was telling her hus-
band at the tea table of a minor acci-
dent. "We were twice as near to each
other as you are to me now"
"Let's see," replied Mr.. Snaggs,
who possesses a critical and analytical
mind. "You and / are now about six
feet apart. Twice six is twelve. So
you and Mrs. Dinwiddie were twelve
feet apart. Is that right?"
Then Mrs. Snaggs said her hu sband
was real mean, and she fur thermore
promised never to tell him anything
any more as long as she lived; no,
never?-Pittsburg Chronicle-Tele-
graph.
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THE ROSE OF STARS.
When Love, our great immortal,
Put on mortality,

When Love, our great Immortal,
Put on mortality,
And down from Eden's portal
Brought this sweet world to be,
At the sublime archangel
He laughed with yelled eyes,
For he bore within his bosom
The seed of Paradise
He hid it in his bosom,
And there such warmth it found,
It brake in bud and blossom,
And the rose fell on the ground;
AS the green light on the prairie,
AS the red light on the sea,
Though fragrant belts OF summer
Came this sweet world to be.
And the grave archangel, seeing,
Spread his mighty vans for flight,
But a glow hung round him fleeing
Like the rose of an Arctic night;
Aud sadly moving heavenward
By Venus and by Mars,
He heard the joyful planets
Hail Earth, the Rose of Stars.
&C. E. Woodbury., in the Century.
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How AllSDice Grows.

The pimento or allspice tree is Gull
tivated in the West Indies and Jamai-
CO. This beautiful tree usually grows
to a height of about thirty feet; it
has a straight trunk, much branched
above, and covered with a very smooth
brown bark. The leaves vary in size
and shape, but r always of a shining
green color. During the months OF
July and August the tree is in full
bloom, the blossoms consisting of very
fragrant, small white flowers.
When a new plantation of pimento
trees is to be formed, no regular SOW
ing or planting takes place, because it
is next to impossible to propagate the
young plants, or to raise them from
seeds in different parts of the country
where they are not found growing
spontaneously. Usually a piece OF
land is selected either, close to a plan
tation already formed, or in a part OF
the woodland where pimento trees are
growing in a native state. The chosen
piece of land ia then cleared of all
wood except these trees, and the felled
timber is allowed to remain on the
ground for the purpose of protecting
the very young pimento plants.
At the end of two yeprs the land is
thoroughly cleared, and only the most
vigorous pimento trees and plants are
left standing. The plants come to
maturity in about sever years.
In favorable seasons the pimento
crop is enormous, a single tree often
yielding a hundred or more pound, of
the dried spice. The berries are
picked while green, because if left on
the tree till ripe they lose their pun.
gent taste and are valueless. The
green berries are exposed to the sun
for a week or ten days, when they lose
their green color and turn a reddish
brown. When perfectly dry they are
put in bags and casks for expectation.
The odor and the taste OF the pi-
mento berries are thought to resemble
a combination of those of cinnamon,
nutmeg and cloves-hence the famil-
lar name "allspice. "-Philadelphia
Times,
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Biggest School in the World.

Baron Rothschild maintains as his
pet charity the largest school in the
world. 1t is in the East End of Lon
don, and has $500 scholars, recruited
from the poorest class Of Russian Jews,
with 100 teaches to instruct them.
Breakfasts are provided each morning
for the pupils, each dressed exactly
alike. The other guests found it i'm
possible to distinguish one from the
other
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A Royal Priest.

Prince Max, the nephew of King
Albert of Saxony, who was recently
c~onsecrated to the Roman Catholic
priesthood, after officially renoun ing
theJght to the succession as Il Peiuce
of the royal house, will begin his
ecclesiastical career in England.
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THE RIGHT NAME.

81 wish you'd stop calling that boy
Willie" he said irritably, as he
looked up from his paper.
est does seem rather odd to call a
college boy Willie" she admitted.
81 suppose I ought to call him will
ism,' but a mother ought to be excusa-
BILE for holding to the diminutiva IS
long"
"tWiIl' wouldn't suit me any better
than willie" he answered. 81 heard
from some moreof the Harvard trades
men to day, and I want something APP
propriate. Suppose you call him PLAIN
'p;h '"-Chicago Post.
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OPELoUsAs, LOUISIANA
In proportion to its size, England
has eight times as many miles of rail-
way as the United States.

The London General Omnibus Com.
pany has entered into a contract with
an American firm for the supply of
5000 horses for bus work in the
metropolis, which does not seem as
though they were. much afraid of the
new motor car,
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BRUTAL.

she-"There! How do you like my
singing?
He-"There is certainly a great
deal of feeling ii it."
"Thank YOU"
"As l was about to remark, it gave
me an impression that you were teel-
ing around for the notes without
being sure of finding them."-Indian-
apolis Journal.
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INFORMATION oHEERFULrY 1MPARr.

1t was after dinner and they CHANGED
to be talking of insurance.
"Papa's life's insured" said his
favorite little daughter, aetat 5.
"Indeed!" said one of the guests,
interested at the child's intelligence.
1'Yes," said the child proudly, con-
scious that every one was regarding
her with admiration, her father and
mother in particular.
Eyes," she went on, stit's insured
for G500O."
"What has he done that for?" said
another of the guests. >
$50 that mother can buy q new hua-
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JUST BEFORE THE FIGHT.

'This here sixteen to one," said the
grocer, sis too much for me. / don't
understand IT,"
"Of course. you DON'T" said the
man who owed SO much that he
could afford to be saucy. "Of course,
you don't. 1t means that a pound of
sugar shall weigh sixteen o~unces."-
indianapolis Journal.
The Opelousas courier., 1896-12-05
The Rest Dairy in Vermont

The best dairy farm in Vermont is
owned and run by d woman, Mrs.
Carrie Nielsen, a widow, who has
managed her farm and educated her
four children since her husband died
thirteen years ago. She lives at
Ryegate. She has been again aud
again awarded valuable prizes i9r her
products.
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FIT FOR TIE CABINET.

"The idea of making women our
political equals!" exclaimed the man
with the hat anchored to his coat by a
half-inch cable "there is not a posi-
ton which one OF them could fill
sob, yes, there is" broke in Mr..
Henry Peck; ''there is one job my
wife could hold up to perfection"
"Name it'll" exclaimed the excited
orator.
Secretary of War buffalo Ex-
pless.
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DECEIVED HER.

"Reginald," said the dear girl, tyou
have deceived me-"
81 have, said Reginald, waiting like
a cautious man, for particulars.
"You told me my eyes were brighter
than the stars"
eyes, Marie"
"AndI believed you"
"You did?"
81 did. And I thought there would
be no need of having a lamp on my
wheel, Ead I came near getting ar.
rested Cincinnati Enquirer.
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A sIyTEEN-To-oNE LOVER.

"Charlie is a sixteen-to-one man,"
said Ethel to Mabel, speaking Of her
fance.
ST don't take any interest in poll
TICS" replied Mabel.
"Oh, this is isn't politics."
"What is it?"
"He is willing to give MI sixteen
kisses for every one I give him.
Harper's Bazaar.
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TCO MANY POETS.

She Ito yonng poet)-"How much
do you get for your poems, Charlie?"
Charlie with pride)-"From So to
S."
swell, isn't that very little? I see
that Sir Walter Scott got $40, 600 for
one of his"
"Yes; but you see writing poetry
isn't the business it used to be. There's
too much competition. Texas Sitter.
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MORE DESIRABLE,

Client-"Good morning, Mr.. Swell.
plead; I've just received your bill for
getting re off in they assault and bat
terry case he other<aay."
Mr.. Swalplea2-"Ah yes, to be
sure. Any fhI4{er information I can
give y%S1Aabout IL"
Client p"Yeat} I'd like to know if
can chanG-y mind and go to jail
instead. "-acuth.
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BREAKING THE SPELL.

"This won't do" exclaimed Mrs.
Box excitedly, ''there's thirteen at
table,"
"Never mind, maw," shouted little
Johnnie, 81 kan eat fur wo."-Detroit
Free Press.
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AT THE SEANCE.

The Medium-"I am in communion
ton with the spirit of the deceased
Mr.. Soandso. Does any one wish to
ask him a question:"
A Voice-''Is it hot enough for
you?'-Puck.
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HE had

Bobby-"Ma, you said that
shouldn't eat that piece of cake in the
pantry-that it would make me sick"
Mother-"Yes, Bobby"
Bobby (convincingly)-"But, ma,
it hasn't made me sick. PUCK.
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IN THE WAY.

"He was very much embarrassed
when he proposed to me-"
eyes, [ can fancy how hard up he
must have been."-Chicago Journal.
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in the evening, with Burdock ct his
knee-sat q woman. A better judge
OF femininity than lobe could not
have told whether she was young or
old. her huge sunbonnet concealing
her face. and her limp gown any
youthfuluess of figure. as she sat with
her hands in her lap and her head
dropping, the picture of detection.
Burdock walked straight to her side.
Another dog might have fawned on
her, but this piece of canine dignity
stopped directly in front of her and
sat down, gazing on her with much
calm and friendly satisfaction. lobe
sat still for a moment in astonishment.
/ then, springing to the ground he
came toward her and queried kindly:
SIS there anything I kin do for you,
ma'am?"
At the sound Of his voice the girl,
for such she was, as soon as she raised
her eyes, burst out crying.
"Yes, sir, oh, yes. if you only will,
she sobbed. "Father's been sick in
the wagon for a week, but yesterday
he went out of his head, and I've got
to stop, for I can't drive and hold him
in the wagon. He's asleep now, but
he's been sc bad that I'm afraid to be
on the road alone with him. We
haven't any money. but if you'll let us
stop here till he's well, we'll both
work afterwards to pay you"
Burdock listened to the girls appeal
with apparent interest and when her
voice died away in sobs he raised a
sympathetic paw for a hanashake, and
seemed quite hurt when his offer went
unnoticed.
"Why, yes, MISS" answered lobe,
kindly. "Of course you kin stay.
You'll find it o rocky place, but Bur-
dock an NELL do the best we kin by
you. We'd better move the old gen
tleman into the house as soon as we
kin, an If you're not afraid to stay
here alone with Burdock I'll ride over
to Cordwood an bring Doc Salter out,
for maybe it's typhoid"
"Afraid?" answered the girl. eff
I can get under q roof once, I'll not
be afraid of anything. We've been
six weeks comm down from Dakota,
an it was awful lonesome at the best,
but since fathers been sick the nights
out on the prairie have been just dread.
full. Ii you'll only help me I'll work
my fingers to the bone to pay you"
"Don't talk about pay" answered
lobe, who was noiselessly u%nharness.
ing the tired horses, SIN the days
before I made my stake at cattle raisin'
I've knew what it was to be poor and
lonesome, an what I do fer you an
your pap amt goin' to hurt me. I'll
let you take my bunk fer your father,
an fix up a ~shakedown fer you where
You kin watch him, an I'll sleep out
here with Burdock, as I've done many
q night"
It was into the night when he re-
turned from Cordwood with the doc
tor. The lamp burned dimly, but
there was light enough for the men to
see the interior eff the dug-out. The
Oldham turned and muttered so weakly
that he did not disturb his daughter,
who, sitting on a box beside the bed,
with her head laid on his feet, slept
of exhaustion, the long braid OF her
light, sunburned hair dropping past
her thin, tanned cheek to the floor.
Before and facing her sat Burdock,
blinking at her along his nose, in
drowsy content.
The Opelousas courier., 1896-12-05

The census of 1890 shows that there
are nearly l 1000, 900 native-born Can
adams living is the United States.
audit is belixTea that from 100000 to
500, 600 morsypend at least one-half
of the year on our side OF the border,
working in the factories of New Eng
land and otbS6s E:s--pstates, while
the entizsSopulation of tie Dominion,
from Halifax to Vancouver, is only
1885, 39. The number of native
Englishmen living in Canada is only
1913, 1852 while the natives of the
United States number 1857. In the
Province Of Quebec there are 21,16O
natives of England and 49, 24 natives
of the United States. In New Bruins
wick there are 51OS natives of the
United States and only 1886 natives
of England, while in Ontario, the
most loyal and the most British OF all
CT Provinces, there are but 151,1O3
NATIVE Hglishmen and 45,454 Yam
KEGS. ~
The Opelousas courier., 1896-12-05
POSITIVE PROOF.

She--"Then you really love me?"
He-"Don't I allow you to ride my
bicycle?"
The Opelousas courier., 1896-12-05

0That Russia isgandergoing a pro-
cess>sf inQRHssrSltS transformation is
illustrated by evidence to be found at
the National exposition which is being
held at the ancient city of Mini, at
the junction of those two great water
arteries of the empire, the Volga and
the Okla. This is historically M of
the most important trading centers of
the country. From time immemorial
the Russians have exchanged at this
point their native products for those
OF the Tartars, the Chinese, the Per-
slams, the Bukharans, the Turks, the
Arabs and the Hindus. The regular
fair of Mini is held every year, and
the transactions of which it is the oc-
casion are said to amount to about a
billion roubles in the space of two
months. It is not surprising, there
fore, that the Gear chose Mini for the
location Of the grand exposition. But
there is yet another reason. Mini was
the cradle of Russian independence.
It was there that the first Romanof
was elevated to the seat of power,
Michael, founder of the imperial dy-
nasty. The ordinary population of
the city is about Is, 900, but during
the time of the annual fair it attains
to nearly q million and a quarter. It
may be imagined, then, how great is
the present of people in the
old CITY.
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BUDGET OF FUN.
HUMOROUS SKETCHES FROM
VARIOUS SOURCES.
Notice Next 1ime-Positive Proof
Breaking the Spell-1n the FL
nancial Way-At the
Seance, Etc.

What's foremost in an old maids mind
She shows plain in her glee;
For. listen when one laughs, you'll find
It's naught but she! he! be-"
Puck,
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Standing squarely and uncompromisins'
ly upon the Democratic
Platform the
OpelOusas Courier

OpClUuSdS NUuilVi
Is the advocate of Democrats
principles and the friend OF the
people.
Their welfare is its welfare, and
it will ever be found defending
their rights with all OF Its
ability.
The value of a newspaper as an
advertising medium consists IN
its circulation.
When you can secure the COM
bined circulation Of two papers
for the price Of one, it is money
saved!
"mhe st. Landry Democrat.
was consolidated on the I'D o.
March, 1894, with "The Opelou.
sas Courier" The advertising
rates have not been increased
while the price OF subscription
has been reduced to 81 o year:
TIE COURIER being by ODDS
the best paper in the empire sr
Ish OF st, Landry is therefore tvs
cheapest
The Opelousas courier., 1896-12-05
STRIKE OF BURDOCK,
BY MAY BELLEvILLE BROWN.

0 you've struck, have
you, Burdock?
Tobe Howser, wip-
ing his greasy fingers
on his jeans trousers,
already %plentifully
smeared with grease
and batter, stood
The Opelousas courier., 1896-12-05

1t wat a month later. The corn had
commenced to turn brown and NAM
moth stacks of hay were built here and
there on the farms and ranches. lobe
sat in the soft moonlight in his seat
beside the door, Burdock beside him.
The two carried on an interested con.
versaticn, lobe talking in an under
tone, Burdock replying by turning his
head sideways and pricking up his
ears, and occasionally scraping his tail
back and forth over the ground. With
in a bright lamp shone on an improved
interior and on the form Of the young
woman, as she moved quietly about
the room, putting it to rights. Her
low song, a snatch of a hymn that he
had heard at campmeeting when he
was a boy, foated to Tobe's ears.
"There is a fountain filed with b!ool,
Drawn from %Immanuel's veins"
And the room had changed, beyond
the mere presence Of a neat.handed
woman. There were new chairs, a ia
BILE, a chest of drawers, a bed, a stove,
gaudy dishes behind the glass doors of
a cupboard-all of a crude newness,
but still very splendid in a country
where the only freight, express and
mail lines were wagon trains that
branched out from the Santa Fe trail
to the outlying places where people
we're trying to build homes and COM
munities. New bedding, gay print
curtains at the small windows,
a few highly colored Autographs on
the walls and punches of tissue paper
flowers evidenced the woman's hand,
as did the neatness and the spray of
prairie flowers in a medicine bottle on
the window sill. The invalid, thin and
white-haired, lay on his pillow in weak
content.
"Yes, Burdock," said lobe, II call
it next to miraculous that, the very
day you struck, these folks should
drive up an that she should be such a
good cook. Why, old boy, you're
fatter than you've ever been in your
life, an as fer me, why I neve
dfss~~"ed how comfortable like my
money could make me till she showed
me how a. might be spent. Here we
were, as mlaEable as we'd ever been,
the poorest ssh Of punchin' I'd eve
had, an me1the richest ranchman in
the countrt, never KNOWN tibet l
might haveSclean towels, an pie, an
picters on the wallstill she came"
He glanced through the open door.
s'She" sto.d - he table mixing the
bread. He watched her deftly NOV
ing hands and comely face. To him
she was the most beautiful, the most
sacred thing in the world. Awkward
and ~uneducated she might have seemed
to some, but in his eyes she was wo.
manhood ap%otheosized, gloriied.
"She shan't do that sort of thing
long," said he. est amt but two
weeks till the day-you know, Bur-
dock, when the circuit rider breaches
at Sadlers-thet Is, if her pap's able to
be about then, an the carpenters
come from Cordwood in two weeks
more, an we'll have a new house, with
room for all of us, an fer flowers in
the window, an a bird cage. She's
going to have it just like those folks
had where she worked up IN Mime
soty, an then it's her turn to have
hired girls, if I have to ship 'em out
from back East. An to think, Bur
dock, if they hadn't come on the day
yon struck you'd never let EN- come
on the place. You'ke been second
with ME now, for some time, but LII
never forget what ! owe you, Bur-
dock, all the same"
The star. (Reynoldsville, Pa.) 1892-1946, 1896-10-14
THE LOVELY GILLIAN WOMEN.

The most striking features of the
Chilia cities Valparaiso aud Santiago
are those of its women. Certainly
nowhere else in South America, il on
all the western hemisphere, is there
to be found so large a proportion of
pretty women in large population.
The Spaniards say that the very air
there conduces to perfect develop
ment of form and feature.
However that may be, il is fact
that the proportion of beautiful wom-
en- to be seen in the cities mentioned
is remarkable. The pure blood of the
German, French and English has
mingled with the Indo.Spanish and
the result is a race with the graces and
beauties of each, beside which the
far-famed beauty OF the Indo-Spanish
women seems tame and insipid.
With their beauty they have much
ease and grace of movement, and walk
with the long, swinging, virile stride
OF the English girl.
Strange to say the modern Chilian
beauty has little love for the Spaniards
and resents the imputation that she is
an do-Espanol." But they are
pleased immensely, any and all of
them, when referred to as the "Yan-
KEGS of South America"
On the promenades or when shop
ping, riding and attending to ordinary
social duties, they are attired quite as
fashionably as any of their sisters fur
ther north.
While attending chur ch services,
however, they invariably dress in black
and discard the latest French fashions
in millinery for mantua, which has
bewitching effect when worn by one
of these glorious senoritas. The
mantua is the common head-dress Of
the poorer classes.
The brunette is the more common
type of beauty, though magnificent
type of blonde is not uncomm on. The
brunettes have clear, olive skins, their
eyes, big and black, are lovely beyond
description.
In both Valparaiso and Santiago
women act as conductors on the street
cars. The cars are double decked
aud the conductor, who wears smart,
uniform. has a seat on the rear plat
form. There sue sits and collects the
fares OF passengers as they get on, and
she rings the register with which all
the cars are fitted, without leaving her
seat. She is affable, polite, even-tem-
pered and accommodating to every
one but the male firt.-New York
World.