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The times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1890-1903, 1897-02-27

NORFOLK. VA. Feb. 26,-Ex-state
senator A. f. Herbert teh dead Whsle
,n This city tonight. He was forty-eisht
yearg old
The times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1890-1903, 1897-02-27
A WONDERFUL MEDICINE.

BEECUAl;'S PILLS, taken as directed,
will quickly restore Females toccmplete health.
They promptly remove distractions or irEos1-
laritles OF the system. Fora
The times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1890-1903, 1897-02-27
WITHOUT A Rival,

Annual Sales more than 100000 Boxes
CSC. at Drug Stores. or will be sent by u.s.
Agents B. T. ALLEN CO., 3s5 Cana. st.. New
FORK, post paid. upon receipt Of price. Book
free upon application.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1897-03-28
COLONEL ALBERT A. POPE.

A y
n world of wheels. and the subject OF
our character sketch OF page 5, was born
in Boston, MAY 2o ISl5 He began life
poor boy. working for a farmer. AT the
age OF IS lie was employed as porter by
firm of dealers in shoe findings at 500
week When the war broke out he was
scarcely IS. but he went to the front III
1862. and STAYED there until ii Was over.
By faithful and gallant service he rose to
the rank of I.icutenant-C Olonel He served
with Burnside in Tennessee. with Grant al
Wick sbury. and under Sherman III Jackson,
Miss. He commanded Fort He'll ut Peters
burg. and in the last attack led his regi-
mcnt into the city, being then only ri
years OF age.
After the war Colonel Pope went into
business for himself, At first i'll the line OF
shoe manufacturers supplies He first saw
bicvcleS at the Centennial Exposition III
1876 He soon became deeply interested
in the new machines. and early i'll 1877 he
organized the Pope Manufacturing Com
panv, whose BICYCLES are now celebrated
the world over. He founded the Wheelnan,
which 81 exists under the name OF Outing.
He took the lead in securing the legisla-
ton that placed bicycles on All equal foot
ING with other carriages i'll the matter of
road rights He has done grand pioneer
work also in the good roads movement,
and is Justly called the father OF the national
and State legislation i'll furthcrance thereof.
Starting i'll 1873 with an output of fifty
machines. the Pope factories have been
from time to time extended, until now they
employ a capital of over $50, ooo, 900, cover
ten acres of floorage III Hartford, Conn.
and employing an army Of skilled mechan-
les, besides over 1000 selling agents.
Colonel Pope is director i'll many large
financial enterprises besides the bicycle
company that bears his maine. He is a
prominent figure i'll Grand Army circles.
and in many of the lcadii social clubs of
the Hub. Moreover, he is an able and
gracefrl public speaker, and is always
ready to come forward i'll behalf OF any
worthy cause He has so far steadily de-
clncd political honors, but the people of
Massachusetts undoubtedly have him i'll
mind rs a man we'll fitted To serve them i'll
any post of public duty. Governor Pope "
i, not an improbable prophecy.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1897-03-28
BELLS NOT KNOWN TO POE.

LEAR the trolley with It's bells
II Changing bells,
What world of villalny
Their racketing foretells
How they jingle, jingle, jingle,
ON the still air of the night,
While the sparks that oversprnklc
All the wires, seem To- twinkle,
With hcndish delight,
Keeping clAng, clang, clang,
In sort OF rattlcy-bang,
rom the bells, bells, bell, bells, bells,
From the changing OF the horIld trolley
bells.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1897-03-28

TRAMP: Kind lady, can YOU afford to
give a poor fellow something to get
meal with?'
Kind Lady: Well, my good man, YOU
don't look like a tramp why don't YOU go
To work ?"
Tramp: You see, gave my heart to a
lady like You one time, and now haven't
the heart to work"
MRS. MULDOoN - They do say, Mrs.
WI Mullgan. that there's a new baby born
iv'rv tonne tn clock ticks"
Mrs Mulligan Then bad luck To the
haythcn thot invintcd clocks"
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1897-03-28

The award OF 3 gold piece Tor the cor
rect answer to each OF the four riddles pro.
u,,,d above will Zoe paid to that pof''"
AL hose answer. beside, being correct. !
,h..,,,i,,st received al the office ot TWINS
IL, Each answer sent IN will oe ME" B"
order according 10 the time of is ie'''i'
TN, names of the successful comps
,,ll hc announced IN an ca'N ISSUE ~
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New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1897-03-28

CoI.. BROWN: Il see by the Memphis
v papers that there is water famine
there"
Col. GRAY: We'll, for Cod; sake, man,
don't spread the report. Every loyal ken-
tuckian in Louisville will move to Men-
phis.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1897-03-28
v,,. Dollar. IN Gold viii he

paid for the correct answer 10 '"'' ''""
I'm, tf,t received
The Opelousas courier., 1897-10-16
Prentt 400 to 500 Per Giant.

The sewing machine, one of the-great-
est blessings in the way of machines
ever offered to the public, sold for years
at sixty dollars in the United States.
The same machine, however, to be
shipped to a foreign land, could be
purchased below twenty dollars. After
the patents ran out the price fell
rapidly until now sewing machines are
sold for twenty-five dollars and often
below twenty dollars. The sewing
machine manufacturers became i'm
snensely rich from their profits of
several hundred per cent. It has
been estimated that typewriting ma
chimes cost less than twenty dollars to
build, while they sell for from fifty
dollars to one hundred dollars each.
It is generally understood that an
agreement exists whereby these high
prices are maintained. Business men
are compelled to pay from three hun
dred to FIVE hundred per cent. profit
or 60 without the machines.
Are there any other machines which
yield such profits rs the sewing ma
chimes did for years, and the type
writing machine has and does; except
it be the bicycle?
The Opelousas courier., 1897-10-16
Deforlned Fingers in Criminals.

"The fingers of criminals" says a
medical man who has studied them,
ARE in nine cases out of ten, in some
way IL other deformed.
"People who are continually being
convicted of theft are found to have
long, thin fingers, a wide space separ-
ating the first and second, and thelittle
finger crooked. In murderers the fin
gers are short and thick; the thumb is
long and the hand altogether power
full. In cases where excessive brute
force has been used, the little fingers
on both hands have been found to be
weak and deformed.
"Knotty fingers are prominent
where craftiness is exhibited. Among
habitual criminals, especially burglars,
the fingers are found to be thicker at
the tops than near the knuckles. Out
of 5000 criminals recently examined, 80
per cent. were found to have deformed
fingers"
The Opelousas courier., 1897-10-16
TRADES THAT KILL.
Occupations That Destroy the Lives OF
Men Engaged in Them.

~
People are afraid to travel by land
or sea, and take out all sorts Of acct
dent policies, but there are many le-
gltimate occupations o. trades that kill
as certainly and steadily as the most
ill-regulated steam engine. An old
cheapest thing on earth. Strange to
say, says an English trade journal, you
cannot frighten the workmen who
know how dangerous is their trade,
and not even higher wages will tempt
them from such death traps. Lead,
in the form of bullets and shot, is a
deadly, dangerous thing, but it is also
death-deaiing to all who use it i their
work, as house-painters, gilders, calico
printers, tyre-founders, potters aai
braziers.
Mercury is a foe to life. Those who
make mirrors, barometers or thermom-
eters, who etch OF color wool or felt,
will soon feel the effect of the nitrate
of mercury in teeth, gums and the It's
sue of the body. Silver kills those
who handle it, aud photographers,
makers Of hair-dyes and ink and other
preparations ere long turn gray, while
a deadly weakness suhfsres them, aud
soon they succumb .V CoPf~~ enters
into the compos:'abn of many articles
of everyday Ji1, and too soon those
vrer1York. pin bronzing and similar
decoraaru processes lose teeth and
eyesight and finally life. 1Aakcrs of
wallpaper grow pale and sick from the
arsenic in its coloring, and match
makers lose strength and vitality from
the excess of phosphorus useu in their
business.
Nitric acid is used by engravers, by
etchers in copper, by makers ,f gun
cotton and those who supply u
homes with lovely picture frames. It's
fumes are poison to the human lungs
and soon destroy them completely.
Ammonia kills the soap-makers; work
ers in guano grow deaf; hydrocyanic
acid deals death to gilders, photogra-
pliers and picture-tinishers, while zinc
is a fatal foe TO calico-printers, makers
of optical glasses and meerschaum
pipes.
Mankind is by nature brave, and
very few are deferred from action be-
cause of supposed danger. If the
great builders and engineers of the
world would stop and ask, Glow
many lives will this undertaking cost?'
it is probable that the world would be
without some Of the greatest triumphs
of modern thought. Everyday life
and ommon occupations are full of
silent courage, and all around are
workers who die in the harness and
are true heroes without knowing it.
The Opelousas courier., 1897-10-16

can families. The delicate health Of
Mrs. Mckinley will not prevent hel
from undertaking the social duties de-
voiving upon the mistress Of the White
House, yet every possible additional!
social duty will be performed by those
nearest to the wife of the President,
and much, therefore, will devofve upon
Mrs. Porter, who Is we'll fitted to meet
these requirements.
The first social function at which
Mrs. Porter appeared was the recep
ton at the White House given by Mrs,
Diplomatic Corps, and the manner In
which the wife of the Presidents sec.
rotary assisted In the pleasant task OF
according a gracious and cordial wei
come to callers won for her the regard
of all present. Mrs. Porter is the
daughter OF Col. Belts, Of New York,
who Is a son of Judge Belts, the IA
nous lawyer. She was sent at an early
age to Miss Porter's school at Farm
ington. Conn, where she remained un-
til she went to France to attend a fin
ishing school. After her marriage in
1884 to j. Addison Porter her home
was for some time In Washington. She
speaks French fluently and is fond OF
the study Of languages. Mr.. and Mrs.
Porter have two children. Their names
are Agnes and Josephine and they are
just about to enter kindergarten. The
Pcrters reside In a pretty, attractive
house, formerly occupied by ex-Secre-
tary Of the Interior Hoke Smith and
his family.
The Opelousas courier., 1897-10-16
The Latest Fish Story.

The latest fish story from
Philadelphia and is youched for by the
Record. The tale runs that off the
Virginia coast the schooner NJ. A. Bos-
ton ran into an immense school of
bluefish. The crew lowered eight
small boats and scattered among the
fish. The men used hook and line
and harrington bait, and the voracious
bluefish swallowed the hooks as fast
as they were thrown among.them. For
miles the school followed the schooner
and the boats, and the work of haul
ing the fish in only ceased when the
vessels hold would contain no more
of its glistening cargo. Nearly 5000 of
the fish were taken, and their average
weight was nearly seven pounds. The
vessel was Immediately headed for
Philadelphia and the catch disposed
~
The Opelousas courier., 1897-10-16
Never Closed.

Night traffic in New York is no
longer confined to the druggist and
the dealer in solid and liquid refresh
ments. The 'dental parlor" is now
among the recognized''open all night
places. So is the dress suit parlor,
though of recent origin. "Our Gus
toners belong to all classes of soci-
ety." said the proprietor of one of
these establishments, land Il dress
suits are worn by walters and by men
whom they serve. Men whose bag
gage has miscarried and who are in
town for the purpose of attending q
function come to us in a hating, hes
itating way for garments. Directly
after such a customer there may be
O. person who is ambitious to win glory
and a prize at the cakewalk. It is de-
sirable to have some people re-
turn the garments as soon as possible,
and we make it an object to them by
charging less if returned that night
thanthe nextmorning, keepingtheplace
open all night to accommodate them.
There are places where one may have
the services of a ste%nographer and
typewriter at any hour of the night.
The business done by these places is
growing constantly. There are also
night Photographic establishments,
where n may sit for a picture at any
hour. Among the best customers Of
these places of business are the young
men and women who go to fancy dress
parties and want pictures of their
costumes. One of the most recent re-
cruits to the all night ranks is the
never closed lawyer, who sees and
advises clients at any time between
six in the evening and six in the
morning. His office practice is large
and varied. People go to him for adj
vice on every imaginable subject; he
keeps blanks for all sorts of business,
and is called upon to write deeds,
draw afidavits, take dispositions and
draw wills.
The Opelousas courier., 1897-10-16
Added a Superb Country to England.

Quietly and without flourish of
trumpets has the return to England of
Sir George Goldie taken place, al
though within the space of a few weeks
he has conquered a superb country, with
a population of some 10, 900, 600 of the
most warlike African natives. The
victory was achieved by few hundred
of black troops, led by a handful of
British officers, and military experts,
both at home and abroad, are unani-
nous in declaring that for solid and
well-planned progress, achieved with
the most limited and pro-
ductiye of results that can only be
described as imperial, there has been
nothing like the Niger campaign since
the days of Give in India.
Sir George, who is the chairman
and managing director of the Chartered
Niger company, during the last six
months has added more to the area,
aud particularly to the prestige Of the
British empire, thar has Cecil Rhodes
or any other British general Or adj
ministrator in modern times. Yet
three short lines ON an inside page of
the London Times constituted all the
news which his co%untrymen received
of his return home. He himself, how
ever, is the last person to complain
thereof, for he is far too able a states
man to desire to attact undue atten-
ton to the extraordinary progress of
Great Britain in the western portion
of the dark continent.-Chicago Rec
ord =
The Opelousas courier., 1897-10-16
He RAISES ELK,
Captain Cool Tells How He is Making
Success of His Venture.

Captain Cook Tells How He lis Making q
Success of His Venture.
One of the strangest enterprises in
this country is an elk farm in Colo
RADIO. The man who.took it into his
head to start this oldest of all odd
farms is Captain Marcus Cook, who
says:
II own an elk farm. As far as I
know, there is not another such farm
in the world. My farm is in one of the
most picturesque parts of Colorado, in
a valley sixteen miles east of Meeker.
It is 1853 acres in extent, and through
the length Of it runs a splendid trout
stream. Some idea of the extent to
which I work my farm may be gained
from the fact that each year I raise for
my elk alone enough hay to bale up $50
tons and garner from 800 to 500
bushels of grain. On this farm, which
is 600 feet above the level of the sea,
the elk roam through the timber land
just as though they were not captive.
But they are safe enough, neverthe-
less, for I have them fenced in with a
fye-strand barbed wire fence. It has
been four years now since / first took
the notion of tanning the elk and raise
them just as other people raise cattle.
It took me a year to get the farm in
order and to capture the six animals
with which I started. Up to that
time I did not know whether the idea
was feasible; I was afraid that I should
have 9 great deal Of trouble
in DEMONSTRATING them. To be sure,
The Opelousas courier., 1897-10-16
NEARING DEATH.
fho Serious Condition of the Empress
OF Austria.

Empress Elizabeth Of Austria has
been so seriously Ill at Cape Martin
that her husband, who proposed to re
main at Vienna until the trouble in
connection with Crete was at an end
fastened his departure, and proceed.
ed with all haste to the South OF
France, where the Empress ia being
attended by her youngest an favor.
lite daughter, the Archduchess Valerie.
The Empress was unable to meet her
husband on his arrival, and has been
forced to abandon all those long walks
to which she has been given ever since
the doctors conpel'rd her to give up
riding.
1t seems that the imperial lady, in.
stead OF being benefited by her sojourn
at Eiarrit2 in December and January,
on the contrary was harmed thereby.
Painting fits, insomnia, neuralgia and
rheumatism, complicated With othel
painful nervous disorders, cnsued, and
the principal court physician, DR.. Won
kerzi, having been urgently summon.
ed from Vienna, Immediately gave or,
ders that she should leave Biarritz for
the south Of France.
AT present the Empress Ia an invalid
In every sense Of the word, almost en-.
tirely infrm, and it is doubtful if she
ever will be able to resume" the violen,
exercise to which she has been devoted
until now. Indeed, it may be ques,
toned whether it is noareally the over
doing of exercise, first M the form OF
riding, and later on In the way Of
walking, that is responsible for hen
present condition. AS long as she was
able to ride Elizabeth used to spend
her whole day in the saddle, begin.
ming at 8 or 6 o'clock in the morning,
and frequently changing horses foul
and five times during the course of a
single morning. When she took te
walking she would not be satisfied
with constitutionals Of less than thirty
and even forty miles a day.
1t was always asserted that 1t was
by means Of this violent exercise that
she was able to maintain unimpaired
the balance of her mind, instead Of sue.
cumbing to the insanity which is one
of the hereditary curses Of the roya!
house Of Bavaria, to which she belongs
by birth. Some Apprehension, there
fore, Is felt at Vienna as to the possible
result Of the inaction to which she Is
now constrained ~ reason Of Re,
health.-Vienna Letter.
The Opelousas courier., 1897-10-16
Finding Water in the Desert.

The Western man who got water In
the desert By the aid of q reed and q
sponge evidently got the idea from the
bushmen Of the kalahari desert In AT.
RIGA. These people often live scores OF
miles from places where water comes
to the surface. During certain times
Of the year sharp storms pass ever the
Ka!ahari, covering the apparently arid
region with the brightest Of verdure
and filling for a few short days the
water courses with. roaring torrents.
The bushmen find water by digging in
the bottoms of these dried up river
beds. They dig a hole three or rou,
feet deep and then tie n sponge to a
hollow reed. The sponge absorbs this
moisture at the bottom of the hole, and
the natives draw it up into their
mouths through the reed.
The Opelousas courier., 1897-10-16
QUAINT AND CURIOUS.

Tobolisk, Russia, is the oldest in
habited place in the world.
Football was a crime in England
during the reign of Henry VIII.
The first printing-press in America
was established at Cambridge, Mass,
in 1859.
A man in a balloon four miles above
the earth can plainly hear the barking
of a dog.
There are two business men in an
English town named [. Game and II.
E. Went.
C. A. Barber of Salem, Ohio, claims
to have a violin that vas made in 1414.
and believes it to be the oldest in the
world.
The latest project in Switzerland is
that of a mountain railway to the sum-
NIT of the Breithorn, next to the Mat
terhorn.
Teapots were the invention of either
the Indians or the Chinese, and are of
uncertain antiquity. They came to
Europe with tea in 1910.
An inhab,tant of Arendskerke, in
Holland, has notified to the municipal
registrar the birth Of his twenty-firs
son, all the others being alive and in
the enjoyment of good health.
About ten million cattle are now to
be found in the Argentine Republic.
They are said to be all descendants Of
eight COWS and one bull, which were
brought to Brazil in the middle of the
sixteenth century.
Small diamonds have been discov-
cred in the sand taken from a lake
formed by the crater of an extinct
volcano in the Whites Hook mountains
of Natal, which are beyond the hitherto
known diamond fields.
In Germany the bridal wreath is
usually formed of myrtle branches ; in
Switzerland and Italy of white roses !;
in Spain of red roses md pinks /; in
the United States, France and Eng
land, of orange blossoms.
The French minister of war lately
offered q prize Tor the sWl1test blrd In
a flight from Periguoux to Paris-310
miles. There were 2746 entries and
the winner did the distance in eve
hours and thirty-four minutes.
The first public library in England
was founded by the corporation of
London some 800 years before the Brit
ish Museum was established. Crom-
well borrowed books from this institu-
ton and "forgot to return them"
While praying in church at Tirzah,
S. c., on a recent Sunday, Jonah
Crosby, colored, found a big pistol in
his hip pocket uncomfortable. In re-
moving it the weapon was discharged,
wounding him seriously and causing .
stampede of the congregation.
The Opelousas courier., 1897-10-16
A Method of Measurement.

s'There is such a thing as becoming
too much devoted to the bicycle" said
the young woman, thoughtfully. 81
was riding with a friend of mine who
demonstrated that fact"
ibid she talk constantly about the
wheel?"
ssNo. She didn't talk about any
thing until I asked her if she knew
what the hour was. She looked down
at her eyclometer and said we'd better
hurry home, as it was two miles and a
quarter past dinner time. "-Washing-
ton Star.
The Opelousas courier., 1897-10-16
MRS. j. ADDISON PORTER.

fhe Wife of the Secretary to the
President and Her Official Duties.
The wife of the recently appointed
official whose card reads u. Addison
Porter, Secretary to the President"
naturally takes a central place in the
life Of the most Interesting of Ameri-
The Opelousas courier., 1897-10-16
GAINED IN STRENGTH

Was Confined to the Bed Most of the
Tirne-The Remedy.
81 was much run down in health and had
to keep my bed he greater part Of the
time. had no appetite and did not rest
well nights. I began taking Hoods sarsa-
pariila and my appetite returned and l
gained strength rapidly, and % felt like
q new man. ! attribute my escape from
fitness OF any kind the past winter to tax
Ing Hoods sarsapariIla." ABEL MYEns,
Arthur, New York. Get Hoods.
The Opelousas courier., 1897-10-16
the worst worry of nv life began from

the worst worry OF my life began from
the moment I caught the first elk for
the herd. 1t was not that they We're
wild and unruly on the contrary, they
were too tame. Although the farm is
large enough, the animals seemed to
know by instinct that they were pris-
oners. They have to be petted like
children. Inthe matter offeedins, too,
| have to use the utmost care. IN the
summer it is easy enough for they may
wander at will and pick up suitable
food fromstubble field andtimber land.
But during the winter their food must
be especially prepared-chopped and
sometimes sweetened when they do
not readily take to it. But from the
first year everything seemed to favor
my project. The numbers in
creased rapidly, and were augmented
from the neighboring forests from
time to time, as my men were
able to secure the. finer specl-
mems. While wandering at will on
their native tracts the elk Of all sizes
and ages seem to be perfectly able to
take care Of themselves and their
horns. But when once they get on a
farm they seem to forget all this. The
young steers especially get into no
end of trouble and break their ?aorns
in the most distressing manner. AS
these broken horns and badly spread
ing prongs %injure the general appeir-
ance of the herd, I have contriveapa
means of regulating and controlling
the horns growth. This is done by
of q box-like wooden f~ralle,
light and easily carried by the elk.
The horns are guided in their growth
by this frame, and it keeps the ami
mails from getting into bad places in
the timber belt"