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The Opelousas courier., 1897-03-06
Then Ate Up the Church.

Bishop Williams of Marquette was
recently invited to serve his alma
mater, Cornell University, as univer-
sity preacher. He did SO, coming
straight from the synod of the Canu;
dian Church at Winnipeg and bring
ing this story with him: "There was q
missionary bishop there" said Bishop
Williams, "who had been six weeks in
coming, most of the way by canoe
He rose and began by saying that be
would speak for himself and for a
brother bishop. who, unfortunately,
could not be present. He was sorry
to say that his brothers diocese had
gone to the dogs! A general gloom
followed these words. He went on to
say that the bishop had found SO
many inquirers after religion among
the Esquimaux north of Hudson bay
that lie Lad to build q church. As
there was no wood he used the whales
ribs for r~afters, covering them with
tanned walrus hide, and so made q
church to hold eighty persons. All
went merry IS o marriage bell' For a
time, uusi.--the dogs grew furnished
and ats the church. Troy IN. ~
Times.
The Opelousas courier., 1897-03-06
Our Lost.

They never quite leave us, our frjends who
have passed
Through the shadows Of death to the sum
light above;
; A thousand sweet memories are holding
them fast
To the places they blessed with their pres.
ence and love.
The work which they left and the books
which they read
Speak muteiy, though still with an elo-
quence rare,
Aud The songs that they sung, and dear
words that they said,
Yet linger and sigh on the Gesol.te air.
And oft when alone, and as oft in the
throng,
Or when evil aiiures US or sir draweth
nigh,
A whisper gently, NAY, DO not the
wrong"
and we feel that our weakness is pitied
on high.
In the dew-threaded morn and the opaline
eve,
When the children are merry or cri:n-
soIed with sleep,
We are comforted. even as lonely we grieve,
For the thought OF their rapture forbids
US to weep.
We toll o. our tasks In the burden and
heat
or Hfe's passionate neon, They are folded
10 peace.
It Is well. We rejoice that their heaven is
sweet,
And one day for us viii eli bitterness
cease.
We. too, will go home Ger the river OF rest,
As the strong and he lovely before us
have gone;
Our sun viii go down In the beautiful
west,
To rise in the glory that circles the
throne.
Until then we are bound by our love and cur
faith
To the saints who are walking in Paradise
fair.
They have passed beyond sight, at the touch
ing OF death,
But theylive, Ike ourselves,tn Gods intin
tie care.
Margaret Z. Sengster.
The Opelousas courier., 1897-03-06
Il Street C1,0icd.

The easiest thing on the face Of the
earth to entertain is a street crowd.
Everything but curiosity in such q
motley jam is forgotten. Rich and
poor, ignorant and learned, stand ell
bow to elbow with craned necks and
open mouths. Just such a crowd as
this blocked the way on fremont
street recently at frequently recur.
ring intervals. Every time a very
so!emn-looking man appeared in the
show window there was u scramble to
sec whose nose would he fattened on
the plate glass first. All the solemn
looking man Saia was TO open O couch
and proceed to male it into q bed by
turning the plush coves>ymattress side
up and pr,ting on a pair .rqf pillows.
When the pillows we're 81 dared up the
crowd was SO great thataa policeman
had to compel the outer layer Of spec
tatofs TO moVe on. They did SO
grumblingly.
Then the bed was unmade, and a
parlor couch greeted the peopIa, who
smiled and departed. In a few min
utes this scene was again enacted.
The bed-making man never once re-
Taxed his c~suntenance or fastened his
laborious movements. Boston Adver-
tiser.
The Opelousas courier., 1897-03-06
A Toulcat on the Boost.

A farmer living neal here, OWES a
hen concerning which he tells the fol-
loving interesting fact:
About u year and q half ago the
hen went to setting, stealing her nest
in the corner of the carriage house.
Not Wishing to encourage a migratory
propensity among the poultry, Hem
derson told one of his children, a
bright little boy named Tom, to
break the hen up and coax her back
to the fowl house. Tom made re-
| peuted efforts to carry out his fathers
instructions, but it is easier said than
done, TO break mp a setting hen. Day
after day the hen went back to her
nest in the carriage house till Tom
was in despair, and he hit upon the
following novel plan to oust her from
her chosen abode:
There CHANGED to be q litter OF kit
tens on the place that needed disDoslng
of, and Tom thought TO combine bust
ness with pleasure by putting L Of
the meHiug young kittens in the old
hens nest. This would secm to lie n
very eff ctual way, not only OF break
ing up the hens housekeeping, but Of
getting rid Of the kitten as we'll, as
she would no doubt turn upon the
disturber Of her peace and destroy it.
This was Toms idea, at least, but the
plan did not work.
Instead, the old hen, il lieu Of
something better, lowered over tie
kitten until it passed beyond the stage
Of adolescence, thereafter caring for it
as dutiiully as if it had been the most
loving OF chicks. In turn the kitten
seemed we'll pleased with its new
quarters and its strange foster mother,
and would follow at her heels, answer
ings her ciucks with a dutlful NEW.
picking up crumbs and stray bits OF
meat that found their way into the
chicken food. That strange affection
thus ~cngendered between tue hen and
the kitten continues undated, though
the latter is now a full grown cat, and
Henderson says it is worth its weight
in gold in keeping rats out OF the
fowl house. OF course the rodents are
not prepared to find a ca perched
upon the pole among the fowls, and
when he pounces down he bags his
game every time. - Philadelphia
Times.
The Opelousas courier., 1897-03-06
4 Prairie Drama.

In emigrant wagon was passing
through the streets OF u prairie town
the other day. In it sat q womalf and
in her arms were two children. Alloy
walked along behind 1 tue wagon ed a
girl Of 10 was in tn rear of the veg
Gle. X
Eyes, we are going iack east" said
the woman in an answer u s4Tssstion.
ave couldn't make it."
SIS you. husband with you?"
"No. Jim is not here" with n little
hitch in the words. ''You see, We had
to hustle pretty hard up in the west
ern part of the state and Jim was too
generous. He went day after day
With too little to eat so that me and
the children might have enough
which We never did. He said he got
Ills meals down to the store, but I
found out that he didn't do it at all.
AOu Will IiSftI AnoN "Udl 4OikS Gull ~
through until you try it, young man"
But the listener was unsatisfied. He
was a newspaper worker, and tho fac
ulty Of inquisitiveness was developed
to an unusual extent. Ibid Jim leave
you?'
leave me? Jim?" we're the star.
tied words. "Did I talk as if he had
LETT me? No; Jim is with NE in ny
heart. f. died of it all out there in
the little prairie cabin, and I packed
up all the few things we had and with
the babies started east to my folks,
though they don't care much about
seeing ne, I guess. But one must 60
somewhere" with O piteous tremble
il her voice. The wagon went on and
a soon out Of sight.-Chicago
Times-Hcrald.
The Opelousas courier., 1897-03-06

A returned colonist says that the
trouble with the TopolSossraeJMexico)
scheme of c~o-peres4-on was tl"at it
lacked governme2at. "Everybaty was
q shareholder and everybody felt him
self q boss" The result was a Denny.
brook fair. to Suppress which there
was no one clothed with enough au-
thority. In future cooperative coll
onies, if there T any, will have to be
carried on with ships discipline. men
tions the San Francisco Chronicle.
Otherwise the individualism to which
human nature is prone will be sure to
get the better of them.
The Opelousas courier., 1897-03-06
TO Aid the HOrse.

How to drive o horse q mile in fifty.
nine seconds is a proposition which Il.
5. Woodbury., President OF the Great
Falls lMontana) Iron Works is conf.
dent OF solving. He proposes to cor.
struct a horse cycle The vehicle vii!
be bnilt with four wheels, but the
horse will be placed between them
and operate q sort Of treadmill.
Should the vehicle offer too much re-
sistance to the air, the entire outfit
will be encased in q torpedo or whale
back shaped shell. The seat of tie
driver will be directly bshinaor above
the horse.
The Opelousas courier., 1897-03-06

E. L. Goa,,an believes that the hu.
man a is ns4etsipGa and in an
article in the Asslssntlssa Monthly he
gives thsse treasons toEdS Selisg: 81
do not rely en- any particular legal
plan or any teoiitica! system, but on
my faith in human nature, and on my
knowledge of the human race since
the dawn of civilization. When I com.
pare the modern with the ancient
world, I am assured as to the future Of
man. I am far from denying that
legislation and political changes have
been the direct means of great good,
but every good change in legislation
or in Government has been preceded
OF brought about by an increase of
intelligence, of reasonableness, or Of
brotherly kindness on the part of the
people at large. The new regime has
got into the air before it got into the
laws. Why do we not now burn
heret;cs? Why do We not burn
witches? Why do we not hang a msn
for stealing o sheep? Why do we not
teach people to be content with their
condition, however lowly? Why do
we condemn ignorance as q curse?
Nearly every step in what we call the
growth of civilization has been the re-
sult of the springing up in brains Of
individuals of new views Of the nature
and ends OF human society,""
The Opelousas courier., 1897-03-06

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!
"gghe St. Landry Democrat"
was consolidated ON the Sd of
March, 1894, with "Tlle Opelou.
sas Courier" The advertising
rates have not been increased
while the price of subscription
has been reduced to 50 O. year.
TILE COURIER being by odds
the best paperin the empire Par,
Esli OF st. Landry is therefore the
cheapest.
The Opelousas courier., 1897-03-06

A Princeton professor. Mr.. Hinton,
relates Harper's Weekly, has invented
and patented agun that pitches a hasa.
ball which curves in It's flight accord.
ing to the intentions OF the marks
man. Mr. Hinton is an Englishman,
. graduate Of Oxford, who cane to
Princeton from Yokohama, where he
had o boys school. He was q constant
cricketer in England. and long before
he came to this country had developed
IN interest in the American practice
Of pitching baseballs in curves. When
he got to Princeton he learned how to
do it himself. Then he determined
that the Princeton batsmen needed
much more practice than the pitchers
they had could give them, for pitching
curved balls is very hard work and
uses men mp. So he sc: to work to
make . machine that would pitNg4nd
after q great deal of study and tsFpl.ri.
ment he seems to have sunaeedfa lis
machine is q gun, thee,owelais pjw.
der, and it is said to work we'll, so that
ut promises to be as useisaRit to the
Princeton nine as the tackling machine
which is kept in the Princeton gym.
nasium has been to the eleven. Thus
again has intellect despatched q Frank.
enstein to compete with human thews
and perhaps cheapen labor. To have
invented q pitcher is great, though
thu human element in pitchers is in.
teresting, and it is likely to be some
time before the machine wholly super
9 the man. The spo.h where the
human element might be Ezninated
to advantage is in the umpiref4place.
Y, while his mind is still1on sport,
MI. Hinton can invent an umpire who
shall prove accurate and reliable, and
be adaptable to baseball, football and
prize fights. he will not only do q
great service to the cause of sport, bat
make his own fortune in the process.
All that is wanted OF an umpire is ac.
cnracy and prompt action. One with
4 dial face and works in him, in-
rapable ~ pxsi1dice or error, would
be IDEAL.
The Opelousas courier., 1897-03-06
a Natural Solvent.

Tas moisture OF the eye is q genuine
solvent Many persons have gone 10
bed troubled with q foreign substance
IN the eye, and havs walked up in the
morning and found it gone. In many
cases of this kind the foreign matte,
has been dissolved by the moisture Of
the sya.-Ansgera
The Opelousas courier., 1897-03-06

Electricity cannotfoe stolen in Ger.
many, according to a decision OF the
Superior Court. A man who had
tapped the current of an electric COM
pany to run his W motors was &C.
quilted On the ground thas only a
material movable obieo6can be stolen,
and The judgment hasfust been affirmed
en- appeal. y
The Opelousas courier., 1897-03-06
DECEIT OF DEVOTION.

A good deal Of water has flowed
under the bridge since then. l was a
novice at the Ecole DIES Beaux-Arts,
where l had arrived from my native
village, and rs I necessarily received a
very meagre allowance from my
parents I boarded at a modest open
SION in d quiet little street on the
outskirts Of Paris, at M~ontrouge. The
meal hours were at noon and six
o'clock, and I soon remarked that
when those hours came around q big
bell, like a bell that announces the
suspension Of work in q factory, was
set ringing. This puzzled me greatly,
for there was not a factory, or even a
workshop of any importance, in the
neighborhood. At length I discovered
that the ringing came from a little
miserable dwelling-house opposite,
whence I had occasionally seen IN
itinerant cutler issue and start on his
rounds, leading a sedate old horse that
was harnessed to a small pedler's cart,
very much the worse for wear. My
c~usiosity Was aroused, and ono morn
ing at luncheon, when the bell rang, I
questioned the clearinghouse keeper
about il.
She gazed at me with indulgent
pity. and said: "Why, it announces
the dinner hour Of Rizel's workmen, of
course"
kizel sas the name printed on the
cart of the itinsrant cutler. I con-
cludod that she was poking fun at me.
"Rizel's wcrkmenr I re.echoed,
with d~epreciating incredulity.
II am not joking" she went on
seriously; II said that it announces
the dinner hon. Of Rizel's workmen.
and SO it doea Hasn't anybody told
you about its"
"Of course not" I demonstrated
otherwise ! should not have ques-
toned YOU"
"Well, J. will enlighte,l you," she
selei. "About twenty years ago the
Mzels were master cutters. Besides
a shop in tne centre of Paris they had
q factory and carried or good whole-
sale trade. When their parents died
the two sons, John and Edward, as
sumed control Of the business. Edward.
the younger, managed the shop, aud
John who was far cleverer, managed
the factory. He was a very skilfful
workman, and used 10 toll at the trade
as hard as any of his men, With whom
he lived on terms OF the most cordial
camaradarie.
1.-THE brothers weNf9' devotedly at
tached to each other. There was
never the slightest cloud between
,hem. What John decided upon Ed
ward ratified without question. They
would have died for each other. Oae
day when the question of marriage
was brought up by John, Edward OBJ
served:
IF we both marry, our wiyes may
quarrel and cause trouble between Us;
whereas, il only one takes to himself
q wife there can be neither jealousy
nor dispute. and nothing car come
between MS. You are my senior, marry
il you wish to ! shall remain a bach
elor.'
John would not at first entertain
such an argument, and asserted that
would remain q bachelor. Shortly
after the above conversation be fell
msd3y IN love with . daughter OF q
Of hia customers, and married her,
after vainly en~deavoriug to persuade
he brother to follow his example.
1T would, however, be impossible
imagine a more united family.
Johns wife vas a good, affectionate
woman, who adored her husband
and Edward loved her hike ! eissss.
The Opelousas courier., 1897-03-06
"Good roads are the farmers shor
cut to MARKET" says the League OF
American Wheelman.

There is such a deep-rooted dislike
among the parpers of Ireland to en-
ter the warehouses that in the county
Of Antrim, for instance, there are
only 1000 persons in six w~orkhonses
that have room for 5, 200.
The Opelousas courier., 1897-03-06

me New lUrh LonImo-e4aI A1V6r-
tiser suggests it would be we'll for all
venturous, impulsive young Americans
to remember that enlistment in the
Cuban army makes them liable to q
fine OF $1,000 and three years impris.
comment for violation e. the neutrality
The Opelousas courier., 1897-03-06
MONEY TO LOAF.

OFFICE OF Sr. LANDRY HOMESTEAD ANDY
LOAN ASSOCIATIONS,
O~PELoUsA5, sept. 18th, 1888. }
The undersigned Is authorized By tho
Board OF Directors OF the ST. Landry
Homestead and Loan Association to
offer to it's members loans at eight per
centum. For particulars apply TO
Z. d EsTILETTE,
President st. Landry Ii. G. l.. Assn.
The Opelousas courier., 1897-03-06

With CalTe, Eames, Melba and other
sweet songsters trilliRg~this coun.
Try again, it brings to mind the fact
that Henry E. Abbey, who paid them
from $4,000 to $4,000 each per night,
left an estate worth only $500 when
he died.
Kansas City journal. [volume] (Kansas City, Mo.) 1897-1928, 1897-07-12
THE INSURGENTS ARE ACTIVE.
mand of the Forces I'm Pinar
Del Rio Province.

New York. July IA dispatch to the
Herald from Havana SAYS:
Major General Pedro Diaz has assumed
command of the insurgent forces in Pinar
Del Rio province. The rebel army of the
province is being thoroughly reorganized
and put in good trim 10 cooperate with
the Eastern army. If the latter succeeds
ir reaching Havana province. The Span
iards have destroyed a number of small
forts because they cannot spare men to
garrison them. An engagement took place
this week near Artemisa. in which the
Spaniards lost heavily. Over 400 sick and
wounded men have been sent on to Ha-
vana. In MatanZas town. there are over
5000 concentrates. Of which over ffty die
every day. The Spanish troops have beea
ordered not to eat manKos. but they dis
obey the order because they have nothing
else for food. Mango diet aggravates fe-
yer. During the last ten days over SO
soldiers were taken TO the hospital there.
The Spanish mail steamer leaving Ha-
vans yesterday carried 1000 sick soldiers
ny of whom will ole on the way home.
Eleven thousand sick soldiers have been
sent 10 Spain since January l. Another
American citizen has filed a claim for
false imprisonment and damages with the
consul general.
Jose Gonzales for thirty years a resident
of Philadelphia. claims $4,000 for being
kept I'm prison for five months and $4,000
for damages to property.
A local paper published chiefly in the in
terest Of the merchants in Havana makes
a savage attack upon DR.. Brunn-- the
acting sanitary inspector appointed by the
United States government, because he has
reported that the importation of sugar
from certain warehouses here might be re-
sponsible for an outbreak of yellow fever
or smallpox In the United States In an in
terview had with him, DIR. Brunner stated
that his reason for making the report was
that the sugar was shipped from ware
houses that had been used as hospitals for
fever and smallpox patients. The soldiers
In many instances, utilized the sugar sacks
for bedding, and he considered II unsafe
TO have sugar sacked and shipped in these
same sacks.
Kansas City journal. [volume] (Kansas City, Mo.) 1897-1928, 1897-07-12
WEYLER CoMPLlMENTED.
SHncti Spritus AutOnOmists Call on
Him and Commend His Course
in Conducting the War

Havana, July 11.-RepOrts presented TO
the authorities by Enrique Gomez. governor
of Trinidad, say that the rebels there are
in a serious position, owing to the great
scarcity Of supplies of all kinds.
A committee of the local autonomists of
Sarcti Spiritus recently visited Captain
General Weyler and presented 20 him an
address, in which they declared that the
aUtOnOmists always have supported, and
VIII In the future support the government
and its representatives. The address con-
graduates the captain general upon his
maintaining a position Of neutrality with
regard TO political parties, and declares
mat more than any other governor. has
he maintained this position. The address
ADDS that not one OF the local autonomists
has Joined the revOlutionists. General
Wcyler thanked the committed and prom
lsed That ne would not abandon his policy
Of neutrality.
News received in Havana from a private
source says II is believed that the insur-
on Monday last.
Kansas City journal. [volume] (Kansas City, Mo.) 1897-1928, 1897-07-12
SULTAN STILL OBSTINATE.
ments to Crete to Quiet Its
PeoDIe.

Constantinople. July 11.-Queen Victoria,
Emperor William. Emperor Nicholas. Pres
ident Faure and King Humbert have re-
piled to the telegram received by them
from the sultan. and all give advice sim
liar to that sent by Emperor Francis Jo-
seph.
Emperor William says in substance that
he regrets his inability to disassociate him
self from the views held by the other
powers.
Replies TO the circular of the Turkish
government to the powers relative TO the
frontier question have also been received
by the ambassadors. They all decline TO
admit the Turkish pretensions.
The porte has sent another circular to
the powers. proposing that. in view OF
the disturbed conditions existing in Crete
Turkey send reinforcements TO the island
To this the powers have also replied. en-
deavoring to dissuade the porte from such
a step.
This latest proposal on the part OF the
Turkish government is held to indicate
that the sultan does not intend to Yield in
regard to the frontier question.
Kansas City journal. [volume] (Kansas City, Mo.) 1897-1928, 1897-07-12
TENNESSEE MINERS DESTITUTE.
Out of Employment for Near
Iy Two Years

Chattanooga. Tenn. July IA special
TO the Times from Jellico., Tenn. says that
there Is great destitution among the min
ers In that region. many of them having
large families and not knowing where the
next meal il coming from. Some of the
miners have gardens and they have been
able to make the truck raised on these
do them for the absolute necessities The
relief committee recently sent abroad 10
get help has returned and reported that
thty had met with poor success. Commit
tees are to be sent TO the Fast Tennessee
districts in the hope that aid may be had
while II - SOrely needed. The miners and
operators have had no meetings since Man
and there does not seem to be the slightest
prospect for an amicable adjustment of
the wage question.
The men at these mines have had little
work for nearly two years. and as a cOnse-
quence they have nothing laid up for a
rainy day.
Kansas City journal. [volume] (Kansas City, Mo.) 1897-1928, 1897-07-12

BUDAPEST. July 1l.-Riotous demonstra-
tiOns led by several members of the cham
ber Of deputies have occurred at Eyer The
trouble was caused by the refusal OF the
municipal authorities TO allow public
meeting TO be held in the town hall. The
gendarmes were jeervd a and insulted bv
the crowds which gathered ,~snd the mob
assumed so threatening an attitude that
II was found necessary 10 summon troops
20 disperse them Many arrests were made
The meeting which was prohibited was
to be German demonstration against the
decree making the Czech language the Of
fetal language in Bohemia. Admission TO
the hall was demanded in the name OF
seventy-three German deputies to the
reichsratb
Kansas City journal. [volume] (Kansas City, Mo.) 1897-1928, 1897-07-12
ACQUIRING WISDOM
Webb McSaIl Has Quit writIn
Letters Since His Knockout /
the Federal Courf.

Topeka, Kas.. July n.-(Special)
NcNall, since the recent knockout
received by him at the hands of the
eral court. has abandoned the pastiml
writing silly letters to various insura
companies, and has turned the office of
surance commissioner into recruiting gu
tiers for the so-called Republican silv
party, of which he is state chairman. M
Nall is masquerading as a silver Republid
an. when he is in fact the rankest Popu<
list with which the state has ever beeTI
inflicted. He is now endeavoring 20 pay i'm
part for. the Office to which he was appoint
ed, by forming a coalition of the few silver
Republicans who did not approve of their
Ole partys stand on the financial ques-
ton. with the Pops, and 'for-revenue-only
Democrats" to the end that the Pops may
capture a few county Offices at the fall
election The willy McNall will undoubt-
edly inveigle number of the susceptible
into his movement despite the fact that
the silver question has nothing to do with
the election of county officials.