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The Opelousas courier., 1897-08-07

to look up. For one instant he gazed
at us, with dropped jaw and eyes
almost starting from their sockets,
then, with a yell which might have
been heard half a mile off he let fall
the silver he was holding and with
one bonnd was out Of the open win
dow.
His companion, startled by his out
cry, rushed out Of the cupboard i'll
alarm. Pen could not describe his
abject terror as his eyes fell on rs,
and his yell as he sprang toward the
window was even louder than that
which had been given by his compan-
ion.
For a moment I was at a loss to ac-
count for their strange terror; but a
glance at Kate made it clear.
In our long, white nightdresses and
white masks we certainly looked like
veritable ghosts.
We spent the rest Of the night in a
state of nervous terror, which made us
heartily glad when, at s o'clock We
heard the sound of wheels and Say
our parents drive up to the door.
Owing to the washing away of q
bridge they hal been unable to get
home the previous night and had ac-
cepted the hospitality Of a farmer near
W-who had provided them with
supper and a bed.
Then, with shuddcring and tears,we
told our story, and were alternately
kissed and cried over by mother, who
declared that never, never would she
leave us alone again.
AS to that "complexion varnish,"
one application showed no favorable
results, and we never felt like trying
it again.-LondOn News.
The Opelousas courier., 1897-08-07

Turkeys war indemnity, whether it
be $15, 600, 900 or $25, 600, 900, or I'M
other sum which her vanquished
antagonist is able to pay, will not ease
her finances, maintains the New York
Tribune. 1t is her declaration, and is
the belief Of the Powers, that it has
cost her as much to whip Greece as
she gets out Of Greece for Whipping
her, and that there is not even a living
profit in the transaction. Meantime
she owes the European countries
$500, 600, 900, and, backed up by the
prestige of her recent victories. will
now try to W them some more. She
can have no surer guarantee of their
support and c~ountenance than in owing
them a Lot of money.
The Opelousas courier., 1897-08-07

DR.. Carl Peters, the German cx-
plorer Of AFRICA, whose cruelty SO
shocked theii1yorld when it was revealed
a year or t%o ago., has been tried on
those charges and dismissed from the
Imperial service. It speaks we'll for
the humanity and integrity Of the Ger
nan courts that even the influential
friends of this man could not cave him
from just punishment.
The Opelousas courier., 1897-08-07
SUMMER.

-
And now size alights on the earth
To play with her children, the flowers
She touches the stems, and the buds have
birth,
And gently she trains them in bowers.
And the bees and the birds are glad,
And the wind catches warmth from her
breath,
And around her is nothing sad
Nor any traces of death.
See how she lays her down
With roses for her CROWN,
With iessamine and myrtle
Forming her fragrant kirtle.
Conquered by softest slumbers,
No more the hours she numbers
Hhe hours that intervene
Ere she may wing her flight
Ear from this smiling scene
With all her love and light,
And leave the flowers and the summer bow
TO winter in autumn and winter hours.
And must they wither then?
Theic life and their perfume
Sinking 50 soon again
Into their earthly tomb.
Let us bind her as she lis
Ere the 1ieating moment flies,
Hand and foot and arm and bosom,
With a chain Of bud and blossom
Irvine red roses round her hands
Round her feet Irvine myrtle bands.
Heap up flowers, higher, higher
Tulips like q glowing fire,
Clemati5 of milky whitenesS.
Sweet geraniums. varied brightness,
Ioneysuckle. commeline.
Roses, myrtles. j%cssamine
Heap them higher, bloom on bloom,
Bury hor as in a tomb.
But alas they are withcred all,
And how can dead flowers bind her?
She pushes away her pail,
And she leaves the dead behind her:
And she flies across the seas,
To gladden. for q time
The blossom and the bees
Of some far-distant cline.
-Christina Rnssatti |
The Opelousas courier., 1897-08-07

J. Vance Lewis (colored), who will
be graduated from the Chicago College
CLAW this year, is q remarkable
lingsyanSiP years ago he could
barely read. Isince then, according to
,>@ChicagAecoh he has acquired a
reahing and speaking knowledge of
German, French and Spanish, and is
also accounted q good English scholar.
He takes up the study Of languages as
a divession, and proposes to study the
Hungarian and Russian tongues this
year In connection with q course in in
ternational law. He also hopes to get
a knowledge Of several Oriental Ian
guages in the next few years.
The Opelousas courier., 1897-08-07

1t may be news to many, yet it is a
fact that there are in densely popu-
lated Germany vast tracts of unculti-
waited, yet fertile land. This is the
case not alone in the less-civilized and
more thinly peopled eastern provinces
Of Prussia, but even in westEn and
southwestern Germany. iaany of
the latter have been lying Allow since
the thirty years war Of 1616-4S, owing
to all sorts of reasons, sometimes
political, sometimes economic. In
view Of the unhealthy condition of
German agriculture since a generation
past, nobody has felt like purchasing
or leasing such uncultivated lands and
putting them under systematic culture.
Now, however, the agricultural So
cieties OF Germany are taking hold Of
the matter. The Westphalian Pro-
vincial Diet, owing TO the agitation on
the subject, has unanimously adopted
resolutions by ghi;h qPcommittee has
been empowee GU & Iuy up the i'm
mense tracts oaraoor and heath in tbe
northern parts of the province, for the
purpose OF bringing about thorough
cultivation of them. Room for q farm
ing population Of at least 100. 900
would be gained by the thorough carry.
ing out of this plan. 1t is estimated
that there is in the whole of Germany
suitable arabic land now u~ncuItiyated
to the tune Of several million acres.
capable of giving sustenance to as
many human beings, and with q nos.
sible productS2n in cereals more than
outweighing tn Igresent imports in
that line. lnciAIntally the agrarian
Party hope, pa-dally, at least, to check
the immigration OF rural laborers and
small farmers, which at present.
especially in the eastern provinces.
already has led to such unsound
as the importation or hiring
BY the season of many thousands Of
cheap Russian, Polish and, Austrian
held hands, who are considered
national and economic detriment.
The Opelousas courier., 1897-08-07
A Widows Double Grief.

A clergyman who recently called
upon a young widow to condole with
her upon the loss of her husband
placed considerable emphasis upon the
proposition that the separation was
merely temporal and painted in vivid
colors the happiness of friends re-
united after death. When he stopped
for breath, the sorrowing one heaved a
deepsighand quietlyrema1kel ".Nel',
[ suppose his first wife has got hi1a
again, hen."-Chicago-Times Herald.
The Opelousas courier., 1897-08-07
A Marquis Repartee.

The Duke Of Leeds, who, it is said,
will succeed Lord Aberdeen as gov
ernor-general of Canada, when he was
in parliament as the Marquis of Car
marthen was the youngest member in
the Commons, and the youngest-look-
ing until he grew a beard. It is told
of him that on the day of his election
some n asked him: tsay, boy, does
your mother know your out?" eyes"
promptly replied the youthful politi-
clan, "and when the votes are counted
tonight she will know I am in."
The Opelousas courier., 1897-08-07

: Arkansas had eleven Governors I'M
der French rule, nine under Spanish
rule, four while it was q Territory, and
twenty-three since it was admitted as
q State into the Union, besides eleven
acting Governors. From 1903 to 1919
it was part Of Louisiana, and there is
no roster Of it's Governors.
The Opelousas courier., 1897-08-07
An INCENTIVE to Bravery.

Two armies stood facing each other
on the field of battle. One Of the
commanding officers spoke:
Men," he said, "this is a trying
moment. 1t is time for brave deeds
and fearless acts. For, men, the
eyes OF 40 future generations will
look back upon you. Forty kineto-
scopes are now in position, Charged"
New York Journal,
The Opelousas courier., 1897-08-07
A Depilel AIYantana

Charley Addlepate lin Cable Powe,
Building)-Ah-th' wattle Of the ma.
chimes browns ones conversations!
May Cutting (who is bored)-Yes;
isn't it grand!-Puck.
The Opelousas courier., 1897-08-07

A subscriber asked "Can electricity
be s~tolen?" and the Chicago Times
Herald in replMI aepines that it can, and
that it would be a shocking crime.
The Opelousas courier., 1897-08-07

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!
"Ghe st. Landry Democrat"
was consolidated on the Sd Of
March, 1894, with Tho Opelon.
sas Courier" The adyertisino
rates have not been increased
while the price of subscription
has been reduced to 80 a year.
TIE COURIER being by odds
the best paper in the empire Par.
Ish OF St. Landry is therefore ths
cheapest
The Opelousas courier., 1897-08-07
COURIER.
cry SATURDAY.
LOUISIANA,

Mghtor Of New Orleans has
that the city must support all
- firm, sick, and disabled paupers
in it's limits.
The Opelousas courier., 1897-08-07

More than one-fourth of the sdult
male population of the United Statee
belongs to some secret order.
The San Francisco call., 1897-05-16
PSEUDO-MEMORY.

Its Manifestations and Its Causes.
Curious illustrations.
An Irishman once referred to what has
been called pseudo memory as the mem
ory that he had of things that never hap
pened to him; but more exact definition
tells US that it consists in the belief that q
new state has been previously experie need,
so that when the state is produced for the
first time it seems familiar.
Or, as Wendell Holmes says, 'all at
once a conviction flashes upon US that we
have been in the same precise circum-
stances as at the present instant once or
many times before"-a sort of feeling that
makes some people think they are ghosts.
He added jocularly that the feeling can
not be the memory Of a previous state Of
existence, for he gives the case of stu
dent, who, when blacking his shoes. had
the conviction that he had often done so
before, and he m en- .ions as an explanation
the fact OF the brain being double organ.
One side OF the brain receives the i'm pres
sion before the other, and in the second
case there Is the memory OF the
first impression. But to this view it
may be objected that there is convic-
ton that the former state was experienced
q long time before, sometimes, too, with
the belief that it occurred in remote and
otherwise forgotten past. Sometimes no
doubt there IS an actual memory of cir
cumstances nearly resem bling the present,
at other times there is a memory OF dreams.
The latter is most often the case when
some incident during the day recalls a
dream of the previous night that had been
forgotten on awaking IN the morning.
Another explanation, founded on the
theory OF hereditary memory, is not i'm
possible. This would include the case or
the student who blacked his shoes. From
a scientific point of view this explanation
is perfectly rational.
A memory of things that our ancestors
have done is consistent with strict reason
ing, and we have something almost
amounting to memory of this kind in the
case of animals. Darwin tells Of dogs
that were taken TO Central America and
taught to hunt deer in particular way
and the progeny of these dogs, when they
were taken out without their parents,
hunted at once according to the particular
method without being trained.
This kind of memory occurs in different
forms A sudden turn of the road in a
strange country brings us face to face with
a landscape that seems familiar. Meeting
a person for the first time, we feel as il we
had already seen him. Reading book
that we have never seen before, the
thoughts or the language or both seem as
If they had already been presented to the
mind. Again, when we are witnessing
some ceremony, funeral service, a pro-
cAssion or some pageant, all at once the
whole scene seems familiar.
Many remarkable cases OF this kind of
memory are told. An inhabitant of New
England, when on a visit TO England,
went 10 see the home of his ancestors.
He thought he recognized the village
church and the landscape, but he believed
he must have seen a picture of them be-
The San Francisco call., 1897-05-16
BELIEFS ABOUT WALNUTS.

Wanuts are supposed 70 cure rheuma-
tism and toothache and for this purpo Sc
should be carried in the pocket.
In some European countries there is a
firm belief among the peasantry that a
dream of walnuts will be followed by mis-
fortune.
In Italy the walnut tree has q bad name.
The country people call it the witches
tree" and are afraid to sleep under its
branches.
The Romans looked upon the walnut
as a symbol of fruitfulness. 1t was con-
secrated to Venus and Roman weddings
we're often celebrated under walnut trees.
Nuts were handed to the bride ana groom
and afterward to the guests.
In Bavaria each family on Easter SUM-
day brings to the churchyard fire a walnut
branch, which, after being partially
burned, ''is carried home to he laid on the
hearth during tempests as protection
against lightning"
In Lithuanian folklore walnut shell
plays the part of Noah's ark. Once the
great god Pramzimas. while eating wal
nuts, looked down from his castle in the
sky and the two giants. Wind and Water
were having high Old time. Pramzimas
saw that if the floods continued the peo-
pie would be drowned, so he was kind
enough to throw the half Of walnut she'll,
which he had in his hand, into the flood,
and it fioated to the mountain peak where
the people had gathered for refuge. Now,
this walnut she'll was large enough to hold
all the people and 10 float them safely till
the deluge had subsided.
The San Francisco call., 1897-05-16
Gingerbread Fete Managers
Surprised by a Gen
erous Donation.
On Behalf of Mrs. Spreckels
$4,000 Is Contributed for the
Children's Sake.
To. Day Rosenth;rs F-mous Picture,
The CARDINAL" Will Be- On View
at the Crocker Residence.

Although Toby Rosenthars celebrated
picture THE Cardinal will be on view
to-day from 10 A. NJ, to 10 P. M, the brill
liant gingerbread fete at the Clark
Crocker residence virtually closed last
night.
The management could congra tulate
itself on its decided social success, but was
somewhat doubtful as to what the fnan-
cial outcome would be.
But yesterday this element of doubt
was practically removed by a generous
donation received by the ladies from Claus
Spreckels. 1t was in the form of check
for $4,000 and was accompanied by a note
stating that the money was intended for
the benefit of the Children's Hospital and
Training School for Nurses and that it was
sent with the "besr wishes of Mr. and
Mrs. Claus Spreckels."
Cheered by this gift, which at once put
the balance of the fete on the right side,
the management proceeded to see that the
afternoon and evening entertainments
were fully up to the standard. Certainly
the society crowds seemed fully to enioy
the "cbildren's afternoon" with its shows
and songs. In the evening the Stanford
Glee and Mandolin Club and soloists were
appreciated.
To-day the "The Carnival" will be on
view, as stated. and it is expected that
many people who had no opportunity of
seeing the famous picture during the week
will avail themselves of this opportunity.
The San Francisco call., 1897-05-16

fore. However, on passing through the
churchyard his attention was especially
attracted by q tombstone on which the
name in scribed seemed familiar. On in
auiry he discovered that the young girl
who was buried there had been engaged
to one of his ancestors, who, according to
an account given in book written on the
family, used often to pay visits to the
tomb of his loved one. Hereditary men,
ory Is the only clew in this case if we ex-
cept a vivid imagination.
A similar story is told OF Yorkshire
man who went on a visit to Somerset, and
there recognized and remem bered we'll
hunting the red deer. He had never done
so himself before, but his father had
hunted the red deer in Somerset for sew
eral wears IN The early part of his life.
A celebrated artist tells story of how,
when he was playing with pencil and
paper he suddenly began to draw por.
trait of face that he seemed to remem-
Der. But he never discovered the original
until when, on visit to country house,
he discovered the face among the por-
traits of the ancestors of the family. On
inquiry he found that MS grandfather had
once been engaged to 5e married to the
girl, but he'd been obliged to give her up
on the pressure of her relatives. OF diff
ferent kind is the story told OF the late Dr.
Butcher of Dublin, the eminent surgeon.
HIS fellow students used to say that when
he commenced work in the dissecting-
room he seemed TO show memory of
similar processes used by an ancestor
New York Evening Post.
The San Francisco call., 1897-05-16

The Judge" Won the Bet.

A driver of truck was in great distress
in front of the Judge building Friday be-
cause his horse baked crosswise of the
street and caused not only loss of his
time, but also blocked traffic. ALI the
usual devices to get the stubborn amin Il
to move were unavailing, and crowd
had gathered of considerable size to
watch the proceedings. w. J. Arkell.
proprietor of judge, was attracted to the
scene, and he said to his brother Bartlett
who sat in the office: Il will bet $100 to
10 cents tina. can go out and start that
horse in two minutes" Bartlett imme-
diately took the bet, the money was placed
in the hands of the private secretary, w.
J. Merrill, and the two Arkells started
for the street. W. J. Arkell picked up two
handfuls Of sand and asked the driver to
hold the horses head still. Then he
packed each of the horses ncstrils full OF
the sand, and almost instantly the horse
began 10 sneeze and start with rush, to
the great delight OF the driver. amid the
shouts of the bystanders. Mr.. ArkeIl
the winner, says he doesn't read the Lon
don Lancet for nothing. York
Tribune.
The San Francisco call., 1897-05-16

a mission of this kind, and when he had
told his business asked what the fee
would be. II do not make any regular
charge" said the parson. "Pay me what
ever you like "No, / want you to say, !"
said his customer. ION, well." said the
parson, pleasantly, lust pay me accord
ing to the kind OF girl you're getting"
The fellow leered toward the parson, and,
with an odious expression on his counte-
nance, said in confidential tone, "Well,
FL tell you, Mr.. Richey, she amt much. !"
Parson RIchey did not earn any fee IN
that case, for he refused to tie helpless
woman TO scoundrel like that.
Almost as mean was the fellow who
went into saloon and called for a half
pint of whisky, at the same time laying
down dollar. When he got the bottle in
mis- hands he asked, whats it worih?'
"Twenty-five cents was the answer.
"Ain't you got anv 15-cent whisky 2"
YES" said the barkeeper, "but it isn't
good" "It'll do. said the mean man !;
''gi' me that. It's just for my wife. She's
sick k,''-Owensboro Press.
The San Francisco call., 1897-05-16
SIR WALTER AND THE POTATO.
Historic Myrtle Grove and Its Literary
Associations.

Even in this prosaic end of the nine
teenth century, when it is difficult to
arouse much enthusiasm over celebrations
and anniversaries, says London Sketch,
good deal Of attention was attracted to an
announcement made some months ago
that the tercentenary of the potato was
about to be celebrated in Ireland, country
in whose history, particularly during the
last century, this well-known esculent has
played no inconsidera be part.
The idea, which originated with the
Irish Gardeners Association, was ad
mirably carried out in Dublin last week,
when an exhibition of potatoes, with a
conference presided over by Viscount
POwerscOurt, was opened In the Ro-
tunda, and attracted large crowds OF
visitors, who were not slow to express
their amazement at the numerous and
magnificent specimens which science and
cultivation had developed from the origi.
nal small, waxy, and, if history speaks
truly, somewhat tasteless tuber which
Sir Walter Raleigh brougat from Amer
lea and caused to be planted in the gar
dens of Myrtle Grove just 300 years
ago. Tradition says that his servants
gathered the apple off the plants, cooked
them and pronounced them failure, and
only discovered the veritable pommes de
terre when tilllng the ground later on;
but apparen tlv Sir Walter was better ac-
quainted with the vegetable, as quaint
old etching on the staircase at Myrtle
Grove represents him instructing two
Irish peasant women how to cook pota-
of the Spanish term batata. by which the
tuber was known in tue New World.
En- passant it may be mentioned that
Myrtle Grove has other claims TO reeog-
milton. The house, the most perfect ex-
ample of Elizbethan architecture extant
in Ireland, was erected by Sir Walter
about 1885, close to the town of Youghal,
on some property that had been contlsca-
ted from the celebrated Earl of Desmond,
whom the English general defeated q
few years previously.
Here it was that Edmund Spenser
joined his friend, and in this peaceful,
picturesque retreat wrote most Of his
masterpiece, "The Faery Queen" a first
copy Of which is preserved in the drawing
room, where it lies, in company with one
of Sir Walters literary efforts. on his old
carved table. Indeed. it is the desire of
the present owner, Sir Henry Blake. Gov
ernor of Jamaica, to preserve as far as
possible the historic associations OF the
house, in which he hopes to place an in
teresting collection of relics. Careful in
vestigation has discovered that the house
is lined with beautiful OAK paneling, which
for many years has been concealed be-
meath a coating of plaster and wallpaper,
evidently an effort on the part of some
Philis.ine inhabitants to bring the man.
sion "up to date" Tobacco as we'll as
potatoes found the soil and climate of the
County Cork congenial and the big yew
tree still f1ourishes, under whose branches
Sir Walter used to SIT and enjoy the frag-
rant weed which he cultivated so success
fully.