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The Opelousas courier., 1898-10-29
THE SILENT r

When the march begins in the morning
And the heart and the foot are light,
When the flags are all a-fiitter
And the world is gay and bright,
When the bugles lead the column
And the drums are proud in the van,
It's shoulder to shoulder, forward march!
All! let him lag who can!
For it's easy to march to music
With your comrades ali in line,
And you don't get tired. you feel inspired,
And life is a draught divine.
When the march drags on at evening
And the color-bearer's gone,
When the merry strains are silent
That piped SO brave in the dawn,
When you miss the dear old fellows
Who started out with you,
When it's stubborn and sturdy forward
march!
Though the ragged lines are few.
Then it's hard to march in silence,
And the road has lonesome grown,
And life is a bitter cup to drink;
But the soldier must not moan.
And this is the task before us.
A task we may never shirk,
In the gay time and the sorrowful tins
We must march and do our work.
We must march when the music cheers us,
March when the strains are dumb,
Plucky and valiant, forward. march!
And smile, whatever may come.
For, whether life's hard or easy,
Inc stronger man keeps the pace,
For the desolate march and the silent
The strong soul Ind the grace.
Margaret Z. Sangster.
The Opelousas courier., 1898-10-29

MRS. Peck-If l had my life to &C
over again, wouldn't marry the best
man alive. Mr.. II. Peck this chance al
last-You bet you wouldn't. | wouldn't
ask you to.-Philldelphia Moth Amer
lean.
The butler-IIanl hevery night at
the hour of midnight the ghost hap
pears and grOaaS and WringS its hands.
American tourist-Ah, Must have died
In the cucumber seiSOn.-Clncinnat
Enquirer.
Old lady-This must be a very
healthy place. Now, what may the
death rate be? Observation-Disclosures
full steady, mum-Wonderful steady.
Just Il death to each person right
along.-Sketch.
Customcr-You remember you sold
lno this coat yesterday! You said you
would return the money if it wasn't
satisfactory. Clothing merchant-But,
my dear sir, it yoS quite satisfactory; |
ncfer had peter money as dot i'll all my
life.-Puck.
Dcctor-If you must know, ma'am,
your husband won't live ftWcnty-four
hours longer. "Gooln"As gracious..'
circulated the broke h-hearted but
economical woman, ind here you've
gone and prescribed Ecdicine enough
for five days.'-Tit-I'I}s.
Fairly fresh: May from the hotcD-
SO you're staying at Il farmhouse!
Everything fresh, and all that, l sup
pose? Maude-Oh, yes, indeed. Why,
after he got through milking last night
the farmers son came around and pro
po&cl to Me.-Brooklyn Life.
The new public library at Great Bar
1ington, Mass, las admirably equip
ped with Il exception-it had no Bi-
bic. An eminent jurist discovered this
omission and sent a volume Of the
Scriptures to the librarian with a
slightly sarcastic note. But didn't all
the trouble arise from the fact that
there was no demand for the precious
volume? Wasn't the fault the patrons
than the librarians?
The Opelousas courier., 1898-10-29

The persistency with which men de-
Glare that they have seen sea serpent
Is equaled only by the persistency
with which they are disbelieved by
men who have never seen one, observes
the New York Times. Now the ques-
ton is this, how are we ever going to
know whether there is a sea serpent
Q: not? The people who have never
seen one all declare that there is 10
such thing, and those who say they
have seen one are promptly called IN
mitigated %fabricators. And there the
case seems likely to rest through all
time.
The Opelousas courier., 1898-10-29
An Elephant Race in CeyIon.

An elephant is a heavy looking ami.
NAL but can be very quick in his
movements. There was an elephant
race recently at Nuwara Eliya, Cey-
Ion, in which nine elephants took part,
and III which an elephant belonging
to the Buddhist high priest of Handy
won easily. A local paper says: "The
race was won in heats and was most
interestingly watch, the animals SEEM
ing quite to understand what they had
to 40, and moving regularly under the
guidance of their respective mahout or
rider"
The Opelousas courier., 1898-10-29

The Times of India declares that
tea-drinking is the curse of Thibet.
"The people," it says, shave such an
Unsuitable craving for the beverage
that they will sell their houses, their
focks, their very children, to procure
It. If ever an apostle appears in
Thibet to regenerate the Nation, he
will have to preach a crusade in favor
Of whisky-drinking in order to wean
the inhabitants from the national vice."
The Opelousas courier., 1898-10-29
Molecules in Gao

1t has been calculated that the mum.
Der OF moles in a cubic inch of any
gas is 100, 900, 600, 900, 900, 900, 600, 600
and in each of these molecules there
are several atoms moving among
themselves at the rate of 20 miles q
minute.
The Opelousas courier., 1898-10-29

The baronets of England are about
10 hold ameeting in London to protect
their rights and seek redress for their
grievances, in view of the recent de-
cision according children, during the
legal life Of peers, the title of honor
able and giving them precedent after
the younger children Of barons and
ahead of baronets,
The Opelousas courier., 1898-10-29
OPELOUSAs, LOUISIANA

A report just made public by the
Department Of Agriculture shows that
Austria-Hungary not only began i'm
porting American wheat in August,
but that Austria Hungary, as to all
cereals except barley, is changing per-
manently from an exporting to an i'm.
porting country.
The Opelousas courier., 1898-10-29

1t is shown by the report of one of
the largest mining companiesi in Color
ado that since the organizing of the
company the average cost Of repro.
dueing 81 In gold has been 81 cents,
The Opelousas courier., 1898-10-29
Accented.

Cholly-Would you like to OWL a
little donkey, Miss Geraldine?
Miss Geraldine oh! Cholly, this is
SO unexpected, Yes! - Philadelphia
The Opelousas courier., 1898-10-29
MONEY TO LOAN.
ACADEMY
OF He
IMMACULATE : CONCEPTION,

Under the Direction Of the Sisters Msrianitea
of Holy Cross.
Offers to young ladies every facility
for acquiring a thorough christian cd
ucatlon. Constant attention is paid to
home and social culture. Lessons are
given in music, painting and other
useful arts. The sisters also have
charge of the boys school. The course
0. instruction is two-fold-Preparatory
and Commercial. French is taught in
the two courses. For particulars. adj
dress SISTER SUPERIOR.
The Opelousas courier., 1898-10-29

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
March, 1894. with The Opelou-
sas 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 thu
eheapAst.
Tazewell Republican. [volume] (Tazewell, Va.) 1892-1919, 1898-04-21

should be terminated, and an independ-
ent, stable government given to the peo-
pie of the island. But there are numbers
who doubt the wisdom of rushing reck-
lessly into war before every possible diplo.
matte effort has been employed to bring
about peaceful solution of the trouble.
Have those people who have been so
anxious for war counted or estimated the
cost? Do they realize that it is not the
rich and the powerful who will suffer but
the poor and comparatively obscure ?
Have they thought of the thousands OF
widows and orphans that will be made. o.
the great destruction of public and private
property that will follow in the wake of
war? And when the war is over, what
will they think of the enormous pension
rolls and the burdensome taxation which
will necessarily be imposed? Millions of
dollars have already been expended in
preparation, but it may take billions to
carry on and conclude the war.
If war is forced upon the country the
harvest will be fearful one.
Tazewell Republican. [volume] (Tazewell, Va.) 1892-1919, 1898-04-21
Why Not Recognition ?
Philadelphia Press. ]

Philadelphia Press.
In one of three conditions the United
States must find Cuba when its military
and land forces land there. Cuba must
either be under Spanish sovereignty, in
which case the United States proposes to
wrest in from Spain, or it must be the
territory of the Cuban Republic, in which
case our forces, like those Of France dur
ing our Revolution, must be under Cuban
orders while in Cuban territory, as Roch-
ambeau was under Washington's orders,
and General Miles would now be under
Gomez's orders, or Cuba must be under
the third condition, which President Nc
Kinley lays down, territory in which
Spanish sovereignty has ceased to be eff
cacious and no other authority has taken
its place, so that some power must inter-
fere to organize stable government.
Under one of these three conditions the
United States must act. Recognition
selects and creates the condition most en-
barrassing for us from start to finish.
Under it the United States enters the ter
ritory of Republic whose laws and officers
its military forces must regard, respect
and obey. With its constitution we must
comply. With its courts, civil or military,
we cannot interfere. If it enters on
bloody Spanish reprisals or on contiscstion
and exile, with its independent action the
United States cannot interfere because by
its own act it has recognized the Republic
as de facto and de jure sovereign in Cuba,
and this fiat sovereignty has its natural
and legitimate defender and advocate in
BRYAN, the defender and advocate of
fiat dollars.
Not satisfied with the difficulty of recog-
milton, the Senate resolution adds the
absurdity of accepting Spanish govern
ment and authority as in existence by
ordering the President to end it, and yet
demanding the withdrawal of Spanish
troops from country which, in the same
breath, we declare Spanish. At the
proper stage, when Spanish troops prove
in the way of establishing order, the
United States would have right to expel
or disarm them, but it has right to do
this only in the course Of the proper work
to which it is called by the anarchy of the
island.
Anarchy or loss of order, the third con-
dition, in which the island is, in fact, and
which a score of precedents recognize as
good reason in law for interference, offers
all the advantage and none of the obstacles
presented by the other two. Assert that
condition and recognize it and Spain's
sovereignty is at an end, as far as our
action is concerned no other sovereignty
is in the way, the military forces act to
preserve order-a course and work for
which We have precedents and on which
Tazewell Republican. [volume] (Tazewell, Va.) 1892-1919, 1898-04-21
A GLANCE ABROAD.

Lord Charles Beresford, NJ. P, was
summoned before police court lately fol-
not muzzling his dog. He pleaded that
he was sorry and that the dog had died
sine but was fined 10 shillings.
When the Gordan Highlanders went
into action at Dargalit appears from the
confession of one of the wounded pipers
that each of the six pipers sent ahead
played a different tune. In spite of this
the Gordons followed them.
Gaust is the smallest republic in the
world. 1t has an area of one mile and q
population of 14O. 1t has existed since
1913 and is recognized by both Spain and
France. 1t is situated on the fiat top of a
mountain in the Pyrennees, and has a
President, who is elected by the council
of II.
Mrs. James Payn, the wife of the we'll
known English author whose death oc-
Cured not long ago, has received so many
expressions of sympathy from so many
different people, many of them entire
strangers both to her and her husband,
that she has found it impossible to reply
to them separately and has inserted card
of thanks in the London papers.
Tazewell Republican. [volume] (Tazewell, Va.) 1892-1919, 1898-04-21
BUSINESS AND WAR.
Volume is Two Per Cent. Larger Than in
1897 Despite StagnatiOn.

R. G. Dun & Company's Weekly Re-
view Of Trade last week said:
The meaning of Congress regarding Spain
is not i'll doubt. but the form of declara-
ton at this hour is in question. The Pres
ident's message has been accepted as a
strong statement of the situation and the
question in Congress is whether it will
without change adopt his proposal. Prep
arations for war continue as if it were in
evitable. There is some hindrance in
business and yet the volume of payments
through the clearing house are larger than
last year and outside New York about 2
per cent. larger than in 1897, though spec
ulative stagnation here makes the aggre-
gate lower.
The industries are doing well, because
they have enormous orders taken in
February or March or earlier, which in
sure operations for periods varying from a
fortnight to several months.
In the iron trade there are orders for
about 10000 tons for structural work held
up by questions of law, While new bust
ness offered in this line is still very heavy,
the production is so large that it may easily
be dsastrously checked by a persistent re-
striction of the current demand. With
prices for print cloths still at the lowest
point ever touched, buying Of cotton goods
is more hindered than many are willing to
admit by the idea that other goods, not
equally over produced may likewise de-
cline in price. The stagnation in wool is
something remarkable, the total sales at
the three chief markets having been only
lisp, IA pounds against 9,6O6,6OO last
year.
Wheat rose 5! and held .! cents Of the
week, although Atlantic exports for the
week have been $685. OBJ bushels, flour in
Guided, against &c., l9 last year, and Pa
cifc exports S27, 1868 bushels against 2l2,-
O56 last year. The total from both coasts
for the two weeks of April has been7 1919,
1876 bushels against 3,057 ,4S2 last year.
The receipts from western farms show some
decrease for the week, but for two weeks
are only about six hundred thousand BUSH
els smaller than year ago.
Meanwhile it is astonishing that receipts
of corn continue remarkably heavy, for the
week more than a million bushels larger
than last year and for two weeks more than
100000 bushels, and the exports for the
week have been 4 1858, 031 bushels against
., 7OS, 73S last year and for half of April Sth,
146, 6Sl bushels against 6,O92, Ol5 last year.
Such extraordinary exports of corn 90
far to show that the outward movement Of
wheat is by no means ola speculative char
acter, nor likely to diminish speedily.
The volume Of legitimate business is
enormous, and meanwhile failures are re-
markabIy small; for the week they have
been 254 in the United States, against 207
last year, and is in Canada, against 30 last
year.
Tazewell Republican. [volume] (Tazewell, Va.) 1892-1919, 1898-04-21

our courts have passr,l- ti:c Urlted States
is committed to nclling and mas no per-
picking Issues Of debt to decide. lis forces
are there not as tenants but as policemen
and fremrn. They give peace and create
order untrammeled by any sovereignty
and when this work is done Cuba creates
its own sovereignty and deals itself with
whatever debt and liabilities may exist on
the territory concerned.
In short, by recognizing in Cuba only
facts and no fctione, the United States
enters Cuba with free hands to restore or
der, neither waging war on Spain nor as an
ally of the Republic" and is free to dc
its proper wolk and incur no obligations
whatever, past, present or to come, save
those Of civilization and humanity.
Tazewell Republican. [volume] (Tazewell, Va.) 1892-1919, 1898-04-21
THE HARVEST.

Are we to have war with Spain? Some
of the politicians and a number of the jim
goes have SO decreed. The masses of the
people, those who will suffer most if an
armed conflict comes, have not been eager
for the fray. Civilization is not anxious
to look upon terrible scene of carnage
and blood. The American people have
been in complete sympathy with Presi-
dent Mckinley in his patriotic efforts to
settle the Cuban question without war.
His motives have been questioned and his
methods impugned by designing politi'
clans, but the body of the people have
confidence in his integrity and applaud his
action.
There is no one who does not think that
the abhorent conditions that exist in Cuba
Tazewell Republican. [volume] (Tazewell, Va.) 1892-1919, 1898-04-21
More Politics Than Patriotism.
Richmond Times. ]

Richmond Times
During the discussion Of the Cuban
resolution in the House the other day one
member called another a liar, and the
member SO addressed responded by throw
ing a book at the head of his antagonist.
As if this were not enough, when the
Cuban resolutions we're being discussed in
the Senate, one Senator gave another the
lie in his teeth, and it was only by much
forbearance that the belligerent scene In
the House was not repeated.
1t may be argued that, this shows the
war-like feeling that exists IN Congress
We reply that that is not the spirit IL
which dignifed nation goes to war. Ii
is with feeling almost of humiliation
that we chronicle these things, and it is
with humiliation also that we confess tc
ourselves that this Cuban question has
not been discussed in the Congress of the
United States with that calmness and con
seryatism and deliberation and dignity
that such a Inomentous subject demands
There has been too much display Of re
vengeful feeling, and too much DISPOSE
ton on the part of individual members tC
exploit their own belligerency for the APP
plause of the galleries and for the advance
menr Of their political interests. We say
il with sorrow, but we have the distinct
impression that throughout the entire dis
cussion there has been displayed more O.
politics than of patriotism.
Tazewell Republican. [volume] (Tazewell, Va.) 1892-1919, 1898-04-21
The Nation Will Support the President

New York Times" (Ind. Dem)l
In the conclusion reached by the Presi-
dent, in the purposes he defies, in the
meas ures he proposes, he unquestlonably
will have the deliberate and conscientious
approval of the American people. Not
will that approval be withheld from the
most momentous feature of his policy
'the use of the military and naval forces
as necessary" to attain the end he an
nounces During the trying period since
the situation has become acute, and pend
ing the final formulation of his policy by
the President, the people have been study
ing day by day the real character OF that
situation. Their study has prepared them
for the Presidents conclusion that AN IN
dependent government in Cubais the only
''tull and finalH solution Of the veXed
problem and that the use of force to estab-
lish such a government is Justlhable
Even those with the most aversion to war;
and those who have been unable to under
stand that war might become the only
means to permanent and just peace, VIII
Weld to the evidence the President sup
plies of the failure of "every effort to re-
lieve the intolerable condition" by other
methods. The President, therefore, as
he proceeds to pursue the ends and en-
ploy the means for which he has asked
authority from Congress, may rely on firm,
loyal, ungrudging support from the peo-
| pie.
Tazewell Republican. [volume] (Tazewell, Va.) 1892-1919, 1898-04-21
Haymaking in India.

At Allahabad eight cuttings of grass are
taken during the season, which begins
early in the monsoons, and lasts, say, from
the middle of June to the middle Of March.
From MANFRED land the total weight
varies from fifteen to forty tons per acre,
according to the quality Of the soil and the
number of years which have elapsed since
the manure was applied. The jhabau, a
native hook which resembles scyth blade,
is preferred to the grass mower drawn by
bullocks as the clean cut OF the former is
less injurious to the grass stubbe than the
clipping action of the latter, which reduces
the number of cuttings from eight to two.
On poor unmanured land only one crop can
be cut for hay in October.
The haymaking season begins in the
middle of September. 1t is impossible to
Tazewell Republican. [volume] (Tazewell, Va.) 1892-1919, 1898-04-21
ODDS AND ENDS.

Posek. Bohemia, is probably the only
''dogless' town in the world. In conse'
quence of death from hydrophobia the
authorities ordered every dog in the place
killed.
In Hawaii, it is stated, there are 1928
Protestants, 26, 1868 Catholics, 1865 Nor
mons polygamy is forbidden), 44,SO6 OF
Eastern creedsIand 2O,SO6 who declined
to state their faith or possessed none.
A Canadian traveller who has spent a
couple of years in the far Northwest, part
of the time along the Peace River, says
that there are in that country at least four
herds of wild buffalo, numbering alto
gether not less than 20O0.
The old dollhouse on the Boston post
road, at the Connecticut line, near Green
wich, is to be removed. Washington and
his army were permitted to pass through
free, and were given two barrels of ale by
the keepers wife besides.
The bicycle as letter carriers vehicle
has been abandoned in Louisville, KY,
after three years trial. The carriers say
that very often instead of being help
the wheel is actually hlndrance to
quick delivery, on account Of bad weather,
muddy streets, crowded thoroughfares and
breakdowns.
A bill for the determination of rabbit
dogs was introduced in the Florida Leg
islature and was defeated by a Represen-
tative from Polk County, who said that for
his part he had the best rabbit dog in
Florida, and any man-if it was the Cover
nor himself-who tried to kill his rabbit
dog would find he had the biggest fight on
his hands that he had ever got into.
Tazewell Republican. [volume] (Tazewell, Va.) 1892-1919, 1898-04-21

make good hay before this time, for, even
in periods when there is no rain the
ground is SO wet that moisture is drawn
up by the hay, which, quite independents
of this circumstance, does not dry proper
~ the hnmid atmosphere. There are
forty-eight good species of natural grasses,
some of which are as valuable as any
British grass, and frequently cutting de-
velopes a fine quality fproduce.-'3lack'
wells Magazine"
Tazewell Republican. [volume] (Tazewell, Va.) 1892-1919, 1898-04-21
PERSONAL MENTION.

The late Mrs Julia w. James, of Bos-
ton, left nearly all her estate, valued at
S542, O69, to the Museum Of Fine Arts and
the Institute of Technology.
While DR.. Nansen, the Arctic explorer,
was travelling in England recently Lis
locked compartment caught fire from an
over-heated axle and he had narrow
escape.
Elaborate preparations are under way
in New York to make the coming silver
jubilee of Archbishop Corrigan on May 4
celebration which will be memorable in
the history Of the Church.
Thomas Sergeant Perry has accepted
for three years the prolessorship of English
language and literature in the College
Kelogijuku, in Toxic, and will SION leave
Boston for Japan.
Augustus st. Gaudens, the famous sculp-
tor, has written to friend in New York
that there is no truth in the rumor that
he will not return to America. He in
tends to visit Greece before he comes back
to this country.
Mrs. Chase.Deppen, who is widely
known in tie South for her Poems and
short stories, is a niece of Salmon 2. Chase
and the daughter Of Charles Hiram Chase,
one of the orginators Of the famous New
Orleans Mardi Gras.
Professor Benjamin Howard is the only
American who has thus far been able to
reach the Siberian Island of Saghalien,
where the worst Russian criminals are
sent. He asserts that the commonly ac-
copied tales of the horrors of this prison
are eXaggerations.
The recent death of Horatio Waldo re-
called story of Thackerays first visit to
America. Some of the Manhattan Clubs
jokers bet Waldo that he would not slap
Thackeray on the back and exclaim, 81
do love a man with bald head" Waldo
won the bet and the authors friendship at
the same time.
DR.. George Ernest Morrison, the alert
correspondent of the London Times at
Pekin, is young Australian, whose book,
San Australian in China" attracted much
notice in London about three years ago.
When he was not much more than u boy
he was the leader of the Melbourne cage
exploring EXPEDITION into New Guinea.
Tazewell Republican. [volume] (Tazewell, Va.) 1892-1919, 1898-04-21

A Northern paper says "the growing SUI
icide habit cannot be too strongly con-
demned." Certainly not; it gives other
people great deal of trouble, and fire.
quently ends in death,-Richmond Times
Precisely the kind of suicide a good
many of the partizan politicians are now
committing.