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The Hope pioneer., 1897-08-26
Horses, Cattle, Sheep and Hogs,

Can be bought or sold to US, and We
always stand ready to give right close TO
st. Paul prices less the commission,
freight, etc. We have left just few Of
those heavy, sound, young draft horses,
and will close out the lot at low figures
for cash or on time.
A: T. WARD g. Co.
p. S. We want 500 head of one, two
or three year old steers to put on grass.
The Hope pioneer., 1897-08-26

ITEMS.
Wheat so cents.
Get our cut prices in job printing.
SODA Waterfall the drug store.
Smokeless powder at Luce, Warner &
Loney's.
T. N. Gilmore is painting his resi-
dence.
For horse millinery of all kinds see +.
E. Mayes.
Shells! Shells!! Loaded shells!M at
Luce, Warner & Loney's.
Editor Stewart was over from May.
vile last week and called
Have you plowed that fire break?
Look out for prairie fires.
Cassell Bros. will commence threshing
on their bonanza farm tomorrow.
Atty ]. p. Mcmahon arrived from St.
Paul Monday and will remain this week.
Watch The Pioneer for Mrs. Warmers 8
new stock of fall hats and millinery.
Contractor Officer is rushing along
that Beidler & Robinson lumber shed.
F. D. Woodwork, the realestate man,
called in Saturday for some nice station.
cry.
Chattel mortgages, long and short
forms, blank notes, seed liens, stallion
and bull liens and justice blanks, at The
Pioneer Office.
All the latest styles in ladies' and
caildren's fall street hats, and full stock
OF fall millinery, will arrive at Mrs. Eva
Warmers next week.
The Laundry Basket will go first and
third Mondays of each month
Agency at the barber shop.
| M. e. PREssLY.
Don't send away for your letter heads
and envelopes-nor any job printing
until you have seen our stock and got
our cut prices.
Cashier Brown, Att'ys Jim. and Tom
McMahon and Bob. Mclean, composed
a jolly hunting party Tuesday afternoon
meeting with good luck.
Dr. Featherstore's next visit to
Hope will be all day Friday, Sept
II. IS, 10 and till noon of the 20. Office
at Hope House. He will also be at Page
Sept. Is and 1G.
The Hope pioneer., 1897-08-26
carbOnettsl

You can get them at Hanson's Photo
Car until Sept. ., only. Please call and
inspect samples. All work guaranteed.
The Hope pioneer., 1897-08-26

The ''EarIy Break
fast" six-hoIe high
shelf, Steel Rangeis
the best on earth for
the money"--$45.OO
only, and fully war;
ranted, at Luce.
Warner e. Loney's.
The Opelousas courier., 1897-09-18
The W0rldes Rlind

It is stated that there are 1000, 600
blind people in the world, or one to
every 1900 inhabitants. --latest reports
show %, 900 blind persons in England,
or $40 for each million inhabitants.
Blind infants of less than five years,
166 for each million; between five and
fifteen, 28S; between twenty and TWEEN
ty-fVe, 1872; between forty-fve and
sixty, 1926, and above sixty-ive years,
1000 for each million. Russia and
Egypt are the countries where the
blind constitute the fastest proportion
ate number of the total population, in
Russia on account of the lack of ex-
%perienced medical attention, and in
Egypt because of ophthalmia due to
irritation caused by movement of the
sand by the wind. There are nearly
200, 900 blind persons in European
Russia, the larger number being in
Finland and the northern provinces.
This is ascribed to the fiat country and
imperfect ventilation in huts of the
peasantry. Though more than half of
the blind population of Europe is
found in Russia, there are only twen-
asylums for the blind in the
empire, one-tenth of the total number
in Europe.-London Mail.
The Opelousas courier., 1897-09-18

In the years 1889 and 1892 a society
in Portland, Oregon, introduced four
hundred pairs of song birds from Ger
many into the state, at an expense of
little than $4,000. OF these the
plain and black-headed nightingal@
have probably become extinct, because
few Of them survived the long trip,
and none have since been seen, but
the other species have multiplied with
great rapidity, especially the skylarks,
which rear from two to four broods
every year, SO that the whole William
cite valley, from Portland to Rose
burg, is full of them. Besides these.
there are black starlings, wood larks,
song thrushes, black thrushes, gold
fnches, chafinches, ziskins, green
inches, bullinches, crossbeaks, robin
>edbreasts, ~linnets, singing quails,
gofdhammers and forest fnches.
When it lis remembered that the in
sects ~aAafangus diseases most danger
u to our vegetation are those which
have been imported into this country
from abroad, and that animals and
birds which are held in check by some
balance of forces in their native land
often become %nuisances in a foreign
country, just q rabbits have been in
Australia and the English sparrow in
this country, il is possible that some
OF thesesongsters may prove injurious
to crops. T~hschanees are. however,
that they will do nor to-h lp the
farmers by keeping insects in check ]
than they will to injure him.
The Opelousas courier., 1897-09-18
COMMON SENSE,

OF all the gifts this side OF heaven
That ever were to mortals given,
TIT best to have. the worst to miss,
Ihe truest, sweetest source of bliss
The one rail left of Eden's fence
Stands the pure charm Of common sense,
To earn our right to 'daily bread"
To not regret when time is fed,
To wisely speak and act and think.
To keep life's boat from ruins brink,
To balance every hours expense
We need the aid Of common sense.
sometimes, no doubt, we need to view.
Ihe lightning bolts some genius threw:
But now we need, we'll mixed and sti--ed.
With silent thought or spoken word
A sort Of human FOOLS defense
The wholesome aid Of common sense.
where mighty minds their power in
wrought;
But how to guard the priceless wealth
or peace and love, of youthful health,
And how to keep our own few pence,
Is taught alone by common sense.
We pray for faith, and light, and peace
For sins remove, and loves increase,
For strength to meet the tempter's power.
For dying race, for dying hour
But now, right in the present tense.
Give us, OLord! good common sense.
49,
TO keep from useless jar and strife,
And bless the changing path of life
10 make zach fountain purer still,
10 take from loss its fatal chill.
ana bring thy own sweet recompense.
We bow to thee, blest common sense.
u. .. Rice, in Boston Transcript.
The Opelousas courier., 1897-09-18
SCIENTIFIC AND INDUSTRIAL,

{ A new speaking tube for steamers
has the pipe insulated by a waterproof
textile covering which makes it easy to
hear speech in the engine room from a
distance of 800 feet.
One Of the most curious results OF
the Investigations made by doctors in
the Russian jails is the statement that
each group of criminals has it's own
peculiar color of the eye.
Anthropologists have ascertained
that the Andaman Islanders, the small
est race of people in the world, average
less than four feet in height, while few
Of them weigh more than seventy-fve
pounds.
Evidence of the complexity of
cathode rays is found by NJ. II. Des-
landres in the fact that when a ray is
turned aside by a neighboring body it
is divided into several unequally dew
lated rays.
"Growing pains" are a myth, says
DIR. Irving s. Haines. The pain means
Potts disease of the spine, and the
ignorant OF lazy doctor does not find
it out until the limp or the hump on
the back appears.
Paris and Marseilles are now con
nected by telegraph lines entirely un-
der ground. They are placed in iron
pipes, and buried four feet beneath
the surface with manholes 5000 feet
apart. 1t cost $4,000, 600 to bury the
wires.
Chelsea district in London Utilities
its street refuse by separating the rags
and paper, which are converted into
brown wrapping paper, while the rest
of the refuse is burned in the furnaces
of the reducing works and the residuum
is used in brickmaking.
The Illinois Central Pailroad g
about to experiment with electricity as
a motive power, with a view to It's
adoption on all the suburban lines of
Chicago. It is said that both the third
rail and overhead trolley systems will
be tried exclusively before a decision
is come to on equipment.
From records extending back to
1859, m. Camille Flsmmarion finds
that the rainfall OF Paris has gradually
increased about three inches, being
now a little more than twenty-five
inches a year. The amount CT differ
ence seems to indicate tkattie increase
is real and not due to greater accuracy
of observation.
The director CT the gas works at
Aix-les-B ains, France, has perfected a
simple system Of automatically light
ing and extinguishing gas jets from
any distance. The burner is closed
by a steel plate, which is magnetized
and drawn aside while an electric cur
rent is passing through it, the escap-
ing gas being ignited either by a spark
from the plate or the incandescence of
a suitable material. The plate falls
back over the burner on being demag-
netized.
The Opelousas courier., 1897-09-18

"And I thought all the time it was
Mary" murmurs the old man.
II don't know any Mary" says Her,
bert.
MI. Tinsley rises and walks toward
the door. As he passes Herbert he
taps him lightly on the shoulder. A
smile breaks across his face.
"Not a word about the $40, OOO," he
whispered.
"Come in, DEAR" he calls at the
doorway.
And Helen enters with much u.s.
thing of skirts and d charming blush.
She mods shyly to Herbert and puts
her arm around her fathers neck.
"You know now the price you have
to pay?' she murmurs.
eyes, my dear"
"And II can have what I want?:"
"Yes, my dear"
She kisses him gently and he
stretches out his disengaged hand to
the young man.
"You and Herbert must be very
good friends" laughed Helen. "He
has some excellent qualities. He saved
my life last summer"
"You didn't tell me that, Essays the
older man as he looks r%eproachfully at
Herbert.
"I'ad something much more impor-
tant N my mind" murmurs the latter.
there, there" cries Helen, "that
wasn't a bit pretty" Then she adds:
chow you must all come to the win
dow. Somebody is out there who
knows about Herbert and who is just
dying to hear the news"
They follow her to the window. In
a carriage drawn up at the curb a gen
tle-faced girl is sitting. To her Helen
smiles and pantomimes, and points to
Herbert and to her father with many
mods. And the gentle-faced
girl smiles and mods back again.
The older man nudges the younger.
"That's Mary" he Whispers
Cleveland Plain Dealer.
The Opelousas courier., 1897-09-18

A loyal Briton proposes in the Lon
don Daily Mail an unique method of
honoring the Queen. He would have
the year divided into thirteen lunar
months, twelve of them to bear the
present names of the months and the
thirteenth to be called Victoria. The
latter month would consist of twenty
nine days, and would take in the
period from June Is to July 16.
The Opelousas courier., 1897-09-18

The retirement of Arson from the
profession of base ball at the age of
forty-seven years is a reminder to
young men, observes the Washington
Star, that while athletic training is an
excellent thing, it is desirable to
acquire an education in other branches
to fall back on in later life.
The Opelousas courier., 1897-09-18

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!
"The St. Landry Democrat"
was consolidated on the Sd of
Mar.t, 1894, with "The Opelou-
fas Courier" The advertising
rates have not been increased
while the price Of subscription
has been reduced to 50 a year.
THE COURIER being by odds
the best paper In the empire Par.
lsh OF St. Landry is therefore tho
cheapest
The Opelousas courier., 1897-09-18

According to an eminent Italian
hygienic expert, official medical returns
show that in Italy 200, 900 persons die
every year of infectious-that is, from
Observation-Disclosures, most of them
being young, 'sthe hope Of families"
The Opelousas courier., 1897-09-18

Kansas City is planning to borrow
from the fuel supply Of Leavenworth,
Kan, and operate a sort of an electric
trunk line between the two cities to
supply motive power to the5Kansas
City manufactures and street rail
ways. Arrangements have been made
to build 81, 500, 900 plant at Leaven-
worth. Western capitalists are said
to be associated with Leavenworth's
richest men in the project.
The Opelousas courier., 1897-09-18
Commander Botlin Of the Kansas

Commander Botlin of the Kansas
G. A. R. did well in issuing an order
making July 10 "Mother Bickerdyke
day." that being the eightieth ami
versary Of thebirth of a celebrated old
army nurse. Some of the best of the
heroism Of the Civil War days was
that displayed by the army nurses.
It is entirely fitting that their bravery
of endurance and tender ministration
should be lovingly recognized.
The Opelousas courier., 1897-09-18

The author of ''The Fall of the
Congo-Arabs," declares that in spite
of the Belgian successes, civilization
on the Congo has scarcely made the
faintest beginning. In the Congo
Territories c%annibaiism is prevalent
to an extent unimagined in civilized
countries.
The Opelousas courier., 1897-09-18

The twenty-four hour system of re-
cording time u stintroduced in Belgium
is working well. The postofice, tele-
graphs and railways have abolished
the distinctions of a. m. and p. M, land
reckon straight away from midnight
round the twenty-fourhours, 1 o'clock
in the afternoon becoming IS, and SO
on. It will be some time before the
Innovation is generally adopted, as all
the clocks must be altered.
The Opelousas courier., 1897-09-18
A New Military Bicycle.

A military bicycle recently patented
is fitted with an extension arm pro-
jecting in the rear, with a piece of
canvas rolled oyer the handlebar,
which can be unrolled and strung
from the handles to the end of the arm
for use as q stretcher.
The Opelousas courier., 1897-09-18

A Topeka Kan paper in writing
up" a recent wedding supplemented
the list of the wedding presents with a
list of the young men who had been
rejected by the bride, and now there
is no end of trouble in the town, with
the reporter as the storm centre.
The Opelousas courier., 1897-09-18
Writing for Over Sixty Years.

DIR. James Martineau, who the other
day celebrated his ninety-second birth
day, is one of the very few remaining
authors whose literary activity dates
from the beginning of the Victorian
reign. DR.. Martineau published his
first book, "The Rationale of Religious
Inquiry" in 1887.
The Opelousas courier., 1897-09-18

Ex-Postmaster General Horatio King
who died in Washington recently was
the originator of the ~"return penalty"
envelope, a device used by all depart
ments of the government for franking
official mail matter. This device has
saved the government almost $100, 900
every year since its introduction.
The Opelousas courier., 1897-09-18
ACADEMY
OF THE
IMMACULATE CONCEPTION,

LA.
Under the Direction of the Sisters Marianitei
of Holy Cross.
Offers to young ladies every facility
for acquiring a thorough christian ed
ucation. Constant attention is paid to
home and social culture. Lessons are
given in music, painting and other
useful arta. The sisters also have
charge of he boys school. The course
of instruo 4on is two-fold-Preparatory
and Com %lercial. French is taught in
the two C urses. For particulars, ad-
dress SISTER SUPERIOR,
The Opelousas courier., 1897-09-18

Many of the farms in northern New
England, which had been abandoned
by American farmers, have been taken
up of late and reclaimed by French
Canadians.
The Opelousas courier., 1897-09-18
MONEY TO LOAN.

OFFICE OF ST. LANDRY HOMESTEAD AND }
LOAN ASSOCIATION, 7
O~PELoUsAS, Sept. 10th, 1898. }
The undersigned Is authorized by the
Board OF Directors OF the st. Landry
Homestead and Loan Association to
offer to Its members loans at eight per
oentun. For particulars apply to
e. D E%sTILETTE,
President St. Landry II. & L. Assn.
The Opelousas courier., 1897-09-18
LITTLE COMEDY,
BY W. R. ROSE.

OGER Tinsley, Helen,
his daughter, Herbert
Torrance and Mary,who
is only suggested.
The gray haired man
at the desk looks up
from the mass of papers
The Opelousas courier., 1897-09-18

England is dependent for seventy
per cent. of her food andraw materials
upon foreign lands.
The Opelousas courier., 1897-09-18

Opel0usas Courier
e the advocate of Democratic
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 San Francisco call., 1897-01-28

Der of copies of bills printed from 500 to
1000, was adopted.
Powers resolution to favor the passage
of the Southwick bill in Congress, which
is intended to confine the sale of prison
made goods to the State in which they
are Manufactured, was referred to the Com
mittee on Federal Relations.
The Assembly concurred in the Senate
amendment increasing the appropriation
for the State Printing Office from $4,000
to $75, 600.
Bills No. 452, relating to game; 451, re-
lating to fish; Chynoweth's temporary
attache bill and the bill increasing the
number of Judges in Santa Clara County
were passed.
Clarke introduced bill reorganIzing
the State Highway Bureau and making it
permanent.
Leave of absence for trip to Southern
California was granted to two members oi
the Ways and Means Committee, three
mem bers of the Public Buildings Com
mittee and two members of the State Hos
pitai Committee.
The San Francisco call., 1897-01-28
placed on the temporary roll, as testified
to-day.
STATE PROPhRTY MISSING.

Furniture Taken From. the Rooms of
Legislative Committees.
SACRAMENTO, CAL, Jan. 81. = The
bills for furnishing COMMITTEES rooms of
the Senate we're presented to-day. The
aggregate exceeds $500. The chairman OF
the committee which passed on the &C
counts-Senator Holloway-said the high
est re tail prices had been charged. 1t was
developed in the discussion that $641
worth of furniture purchased two years
ago had been appropriated by various
offices in the Capitol. the Governors office
taking good share. Senator Smith was
vigorous in his condemnation of this plan
of grabbing desks and chairs from COM
mittee-rooms. He insisted that State
officers should furnish their own offices,
paying for the furniture with money
allowed them for that purpose.
1t was not fair that the Legislature
should be made the scapegoat for all the
wrongdoing about the Capitol.
The upshot of the discussion was the
appointment of com mmirtee, consisting OF
Senators Smith, Gillette and Dickinson,
to ascertain what had become of the fur
niture purchased by the Senate two years
ago, and to ascertain further if the expen-
sive desks and chairs recently bought
ought not to be returned, with proper
compensation for their temporary use.
Leave of absence for sixteen Senators to
visit public institutions was granted to-
day. The delegation will go to Stockton,
Santa Clara, Los Angeles, San Ber-
nardino and San Diego.
The San Francisco call., 1897-01-28

Gage had been the real president of the
bank for severa! years.
at the inception of the Worlds Fair
enterprise, Mr.. Gage showed his faith in
the financial outcome, guaranteeing, with
three other gentlemen. that Chicago would
carry out her part of the contract and
raise $40, 600, 900, which was largely In
strumentaI in securing the fair for Chi
cago.
Mr.. Gage was the first president of the
Worlds Fair directory but on his eleva-
ton to the presidency of the bank, he was
obliged to retire from the presidency of
that board. He refused to accept any of
the princely salary the directors had set
aside for the president of the directory.
Mr.. Gage has been married twice-hrst
in 1864 to Miss Sarah Etheridge, daughter
OF DR.. Francis B. Etheridge of Little Falls,
n. Y, who died in 1874, and in 1887 to
Cornelia Gage of Denver, Colo. he is a
lover OF art and literature, being director
of the Art Institute. and spends many of
his evenings in his library, although be-
ing considerable of club man and a fire.
quent figure at banquets.
The San Francisco call., 1897-01-28
ASSEMBLY ROUTINE.
Proposed Enuctments Passed Upon 1
the Lotcer House

Proposed Endctments Passed Upon In
the LotCer House.
SACRAMENTO, CAL, Jan. 27.-A
warm discussion between Assem- blymen
Leavitt and Caminetti over the motion to
reconsider the vote by which the $75, 900
appropriation for the State Printing
Office was passed was the only interest
ing feature OF to-day's proceedings in the
lower house. Mr.. Caminetti stated that
New York State paid out less for State
printing than did California. This fact,
he said, was not due to heavy orders from
California State officials, as alleged by the
Ways and Means Committee, but to
gross extravaganza in the State Printing
Office.
Alter the rollcall this morning the Com
mittee on Claims reported in favor of a
bill to REIN burse Marin County for the ex-
pense in connection with the trials for
crimes committed in San Quentin Prison.
The Committee on Military Affairs re-
ported for passage two bills relating to
rife practice in the National Guard; also
a bill to prohibit the wearing by unau-
thorized persons the insignia of the Loyal
Legion.
The Cuban resolutions reported by the
Federal Relations Committee were
adopted.
North's resolution, increasing the num-
The San Francisco call., 1897-01-28
GIVEN
THEIR INNING
Attorney Frank Pleads
Their Cause at Sacra-
mento.
Discrimination Against Small
shipowners Charged by
Hugh Craig.
Senator Gillette Suggests a Compro.
mise-Furthor Hearing Deferred
to Next Wednesday.

SACRAMENTO, CAL, Jan. 27-Tne
Com mittee on Commerce and Navigation
held late session IN the Senate tonight
and was addressed by Lawyer Frank of
San Franc cisco, attorney for the pilots,
who said that to-day sixty disengaged
ships were lying In San Francisco harbor
waiting for freight. Captain Barber spoke
also, and said that only one-ninth of all
the vessels entering San Francisco harbor
were American, the others being foreign.
He said that Captain Plummer remarked
that he didn't care how much pilotage
was charged foreign vessels so long as his
own vessels were not charged so much.
Captain Plummer argued that a COM
petitive system OF piIotage would send
boats fifty or sixty miles outside the
Farallones picking up vessels. Pilots
would then seek business in nstead of busi-
ness seeking them. He was asked whether
he knew of any port in the world that did
not have compulsory pilotage, and he re-
piled that he did not and had not studied
the matter.
Hugh Craig of San Francisco remarked
that the worm had turned to kick. He
charged that big shipowners were sal
lowed rebate which they were not required
to pay" while the small owners were the
sufferers, No association or company had
a right to monopolize the business of
pilotage and to pay rebates to certain
shlpowners which it did not allow to
others.
The speaker poohpoohed the idea that
the occu patton of pilot was dangerous.
Pilot-boats were the most seaworthy of
all craft, and he had never heard of pilot
being drowned. He suggested that the
whole receipts of pilotage should go into
the State treasury. No foreign man-of
war required a pilot to take it into the
harbor of San Francisco, because they
that they could come in in the dark or in
fog.
Craig asked how it was possible that the
State should allow pilots to charge SO
much in excess of the value of their SER
vices that they could afford to rebate
thousands of dollars. The fees shoulu be
paid into the State treasury, and then the
pilots could be paid handsomely for their
services.
Senator Gillette. through Senator Braun
hart, suggested compromise to the effect
that the pilot fees should be reduced and
paid into the public treasury; that the
boats be maintained out of the treasury
and the pilots paid liberal salary. Lawyer
Frank asked for more time to consider the
proposition.
At 11:30 P. NJ. the com mmittee adjourned
until next Wednesday night at s O. CLOCK.