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The Opelousas courier., 1898-11-19

The English speaking races are all
right. The charge of the Twenty
first Lancers through a body of 1000
ambushed fanatical Dervishes is an
English contribution to the lesson
which American troops taught at
Caney aud San Juan. 1t is a great
year this 1898.
The Opelousas courier., 1898-11-19

The brutal murder of the Empress
Elizabeth adds another family calam :
ity to the many that have afflicted the
unfortunate Franz Josef, of Austria.
He has lost by violent deaths his
~favorite brother, the Emperor Maxi
milan, and his only son, the Grown
Prince Rudolph, while it is hardly a
year ago that his wife's sister, the
Duchesse d'Alencon, was burned to
death in the charity bazaar fire in
Paris. A fate as relentless as any in
Greek tragedy seems to pursue him.
The murderer is said to be an Anarch-
list. What political wrong could be
avenged or advantage to the cause
gained by the killing of this inofen-
siye woman it must be difficult for
even a militant Anarchist to demon
strate. OF all crowned heads in Eu-.
rope the Austrian Empress was pre-
eminent for her efforts to put aside the
trammels of her rank and had notori-
ously never interfered with the poll
tics of even her own country. At the
time of her death she was an invalid
seeking for health and travelling as a
private person. The crime committed
against her cannot be digniied into a
political assassination it is the unpro-
voked murder Of a helpless woman,
proclaims the New York Sun.
The Opelousas courier., 1898-11-19

The next census of the United States
will undoubtedly exceed all of its pre-
decessors in interest and variety, es-
pecially if it shall include a census of
the picturesque and diversified inhabi-
tants of the Philippine islands.
The Opelousas courier., 1898-11-19
Suicide in Africa.

A faForite mode of suicide among
the African tribes who dwell near
Lake Nyassa is for a native to wade
into the lake and calmly wait fer Il
crocodile tn oDen its mouth and swa!-
low him.
The Opelousas courier., 1898-11-19

New York is to have a permanent
exposition, with a capitalization of
$40, 900, 600, for the display Of manu-
featured products of the United States.
1t is proposed to erect immense build
ings, and house each line of products
in a separate building. London, Paris,
Berlin and other European cities now
have such permanant axnositions
The Opelousas courier., 1898-11-19

The value Of a newspaper as an
advertising medium consists in
It's 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 This Opelou-
sas Courier" The advertising
rates have not been increased
while the price Of subscription
has been reduced to So a year.
THE COURIER being by odds
the best paper in the empire Par.
ish Of st. Landry is therefore the
ehaaDast.
The Opelousas courier., 1898-11-19
oPELoUsAs. LOUISIANA.

More woe for the downtrodden
farmer. An English professor an
nounces that the wheat crop will be a
total failure in 1881.
The Opelousas courier., 1898-11-19

Subscribe and nay now.
The Opelousas courier., 1898-11-19


me.
l could hear the creak and crunch
Of his snow-shoes, and did not need
the moonlight to identify my treach-
erous guest.
] might easily have shot him as l
lay, but l could not bring myself TO
draw trigger on him in cold blood. NV
plan was to halt him and make him
surrender. He approached closer,
looking hard at the point where l had
stood, and holding his gun ready for
action. till he stood almost directly
beneath the little overhanging bluff.
Here he paused, evidently looking
for a way to climb to the top, when
suddenly an immense mass of snow,
well-nigh as large as my little shanty,
was detached and slid downward like
an avalanche, carrying me with it.
Full upon the hapless redskin we
fell, and he was, buried instantly out
of sight, while. l myself was lightly
covered with the snow: but I quickly
scrambled free, and looked for any
trace of my would-be murderer.
There was none; he had been com
pletelt. engulfed, and l set myself to
dig him put with a snow-shoe which
L took off for the purpose. In about
five minutes l encountered a wriggling
hand. with arm attached. l grasped
this and pulled vigorously. and my
Indian was at length brought to light.
He seemed half stunned and wholly
bewildered, and stared wildly and I'M
comprehendingly at me-.
l was somewhat at a loss to know
The Opelousas courier., 1898-11-19

Then youth get out of this shantyr'
I exclaimed. s"Va-t-en! Understand?
Gitt'
He made one jump for his gun, but
The Worcester spy. [volume] (Worcester, Mass.) 1898-1904, 1898-10-23
UNIVERSAL PEACE.

Universal peace is a dream of the
student and the scholar. That amiable
person, Albert, the prince consort, be-
lieved in peace. AT the opening of the
Crystal Palace exhibition, nearly half a
century ago, he told the world that this
exhibition heralded the dawn of peace;
that thereafter the dogs of war would
never be let loose. This was in 1851 Yet
in 1854 England waged war against
Russia; in 1856 she waged war against
China; in 1856 she waged war against
Persia; in 1857 she made blood run like
water in India, crushing the mutiny
there; in 1859 France, Italy and Austria
became engaged in war; in 1861 the
United States entered upon the bloodi-
est civil war ever known to the world :
in 1866 Prussia vanquished Austria; in
1867 England began her war against
Abyssinia; in 1870 France and Germany
engaged in their bloody struggle; in 1874
England waged war against the Asian
tees; in 1877 Russia and Turkey went to
war: in 1879 England began her Zulu
war: in 1882 England bombarded Alex
andria and invaded. Egypt; in 1883 Chile
and Peru were at war: in 1883 the
French We're at war in Tonking; in 1894
China and Japan went to war; in 1896
Greece and Turkey were at war; in
1898 the United States went to war with
Spain.-Chicago Daily News.
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up as the conductors on our first trip,
but they were more approachable and
more attentive to the comfort Of their
passengers than the other men had
time to be. 1t is surprising how at
tached to a conductor you can get in
an hours jaunt through the Old Col
ony.
The most characteristic feature of the
country seemed to be the superb elm
trees which glorify even the least of
those south shore villages. They lent
an air of unforgetable dignity TO the
quiet streets, waving grandly over the
serious houses. and quaint gardens in
Taunton, and again in New Bedford
elegance and aristocratic charm be-
yond the power of bricks and mortar.
And not only did their stately beauty
rebuke the short-sighted policy of those
cities which, while lavishing money on
their sidewalks and sewage systems,
neither save what trees they have nor
plant new ones, but 1t pointed the fin
ger of scorn at the selfishness Of the
generation which cannot take time to
plant the trees which it will not itself
be able to enjoy. ia'
1t was $50 o'clock when we reached
Fall River, and feeling the need of din
ner, inquired of the conductor for a
suitable place. If he answered us out
of his experience, that conductor is not
an epicure. We made the sull1y wait
ress furious by calling for few of
the things on the bill of fare she gave
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passengers and picking up others, most
ly in little parties of twos and threes
and fours, with jackets over their arms
and lunch baskets in their hands, which
showed that we were not the only ex-
cursionists that day. At Neponset
bridge, we ran into a great crowd of
picnickers who followed our car, hol-
lering, and struggled aboard almost be-
fore the passengers had a chance to
slip out; but these noisy holiday-mak-
ers were all en- route for Nantasket and
bingham, and they soon turned off and
left us alone with the placid river and
the marshes, fragrant with new-mown
hay.
Our road lay through Quincy, that
'brainy place which has produced two
presidents of the United States, the
first signer of the Declaration of In
dependence, and a minister to England,
beside long roll of soldiers, patriots.
orators and teachers. We thought of
the Adamses who lie buried under the
old First Unitarian Church, and of
Mrs. Abigail who lies there, too, and
whose piquant, gossipY letters make
even now such good reading. We should
have liked to stop over to see the old
Adams house, the birthplace of John
Adams, which was restored by the Ad-
ans chapter, d. r., and opened to the
public in 1897; also the birthplace of
sweet Dorothy c., and the mammoth
granite quarries. But in place of per-
sonal observation we We're satisfied to
read about them.
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us, until in evaporation she exclaimed,
L told youse onct that we hadn't got
none of the dishes on that meenoo,''
whereupon she thumped the ice water
down on the table and began to ill
treat the old pewter caster. Poor thing!
She was probably longing to take a
trolley ride with her young man.
With New Bedford and the Parker
House, our trolleyings came to an end
for the summer. They had been pleas
ant, those leisurely, light-hearted pill
grimages; they had taken us where we
would go and when we would go, at
moderate expense and under conditions
that were entirely satisfactory. They
had enabled us to extend our geograph-
ical knowledge without taxing our men,
tai powers, and they had afforded us
glimpses of human nature which, be-
tween covers, we should have had to
pay for. We were satisfied with our
expenditure of time and money, and
that very night in New Bedford, as we
strolled about under the beautiful elms
of the old whaling town, we promised
ourselves that again next summer we
would a-trolleying go.
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other somewhere after that. But the
writer cannot now recall a single in
stance, either going to Marblehead and
Salem or to New Bedford, where the
transfer was more than a matter of
stepping from one car into another.
In one respect, however, travelling by
trolley calls for reform. The odious sys-
tenn of payments, which demands the
handing out a nickel every three or
four miles. is AN affliction to the tour
list in direct ratioyto the distance tray
eled9 ms a fact the fare between Wor
cester and Boston is only So cents, but
long before we had reached the Hub
we had put our hands in our pockets
so many times that we felt poor. 1t
was not so bad going to Marblehead-
the distance from Boston is only 16
miles-but the trip from Boston to
New Bedford by trolley is one of 711S
miles, and by the time we reached
Taunton, a little over half the distance,
we felt actually pauperized.
1T does not appear that the new con-
ductors who so frequently boarded our
cars, and who swung themselves along
on the running board so jauntily, coll
lected more fares than We're due them,
but when we got along to, paying our
twenty fourth fare (by this time Polly
had seen the foolishness of returning
her purse to her pocket after each re-
lay, and sat with it in her lap) the
awful suspicion would cross our minds
that we were being swindled. 1t was
a relief when we found we could pay
forselr passage from Fail River to
New Bedford Git. cost % cents) all at
one time. Why the, conductor on the
Neponset car could not have given us
a through ticket in exchange for a
through fare as the ticket agent would
have done if we had been going to New
Bedford by rail, we did not and do not
understand.
Circumstances conspired to make our
trip from Boston to New Bedford-the
last long trolley ride we were able to
take-a particularly happy one. 1t
was Sunday, delicious day of mingled
sunshine and shadow, with a cool
breeze blowing out Of the blue, wind
swept heavens. We had feared that
the day would prove as seductive to
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the size of West Bridgewater, Taunton
and Fall River. A Sabbath peace
clothed the softly undulating valleys
and fertile farmlands and seemed to
breathe from the earnest faces of the
old farmhouses as they peeped from
under the avenues of noble elrns and
the woods and pastures, lying patiently
under the tremulous haze of the July
heat. Charming perspectives of leafy
wood roads opened, then closed sudden
ly, before our eyes. There were few
stops. We bowled along gayly, buoy
antly, while the smiling country spread
it's ever changing panorama in careless
opulence on every hand, and the sweet
fern and bayberry sent forth their aro-
7natic scents and the cicala called per-
sistently to his mate. We became al
most well acquainted with our conduc-
tors on these long stretches. Pleasant,
genial men were they. who cheerfully
identified for us the little villages
through which we fiirted. and impaired
much useful Information of local
character. They were not SO well set
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CURIOUS DRINKS.
What Some Of the Ancient
Liquors Were Like.
N,(From the London Mail.)

When the question of the moment is
how to allay our thirst, the beverages OF
history are of more than ordinary inter-
est. The Egyptians, who have been un-
gallant enough to leave behind them deli
neations of the fair sex in a state OF in
toxication, had several kinds of wine
more than 5000 years ago, in addition to
a beer called hega, made from barley.
The ancient Assyrians, too, loved their
wine. The earliest mention of wine in
the Bible is reference, to Noah planting
a vineyard and getting drunk with the
wine. The drinks of antiquity We're some
times, to say the least, peculiar. The
Greeks and Romans, whose customary
drink was wine, often mixed it with sea
water. Other ancient beverages were
honey and rain water; honey, salt water
and vinegar; and a mixture of honey and
myrtle seed
Homer speaks of a wine to which 20
times as much water could be added.
The Roman lover when drinking to his
lady, often drank as many cups of wine
as there were letters in her name. Warm
water was sometimes regarded by the
Romans as an agreeable drink at the
conclusion of the chief meal. 1t is safe
to assume that this was not in summer
time.
Famous among drinkers were the vik-
lnSs, whose liquors were ale, beer, wine
and mead. Quaffing ale from the skulls
of their enemies formed one of the chief
attractions of the promised Valhalla.
All through our history we find a love
for drinking prevalent among the people.
A drink much in demand in the time of
Chaucer was bracket, made of the wort
of ale, honey and spices. BY the time of
Edward ~ drinking had become so pro-
ductive of crime that few places were
allowed mere than two taVerns London
had to be content with 40. Under the
StuartS drunkenness was at it's height
Thirst .provokers were. largely taken, and
mans claim to distinction was largely
due to his bottle capacity, while ladies
of the court thought it no shame to be-
come inebriated. The three or five-bottle
man was an object of envy to his fell
lows. Indeed. the scenes of Hogarth are
but a sidelight on the times. Signs We're
hung outside tavernS informing the
thirsty wayfarer that he coud get ''drunk
for penny, and dead drunk for two
pence" Such notices often ended with
the. significant words, "Clean straw for
nothing" With the reign of George "
disappeared fashionable intemperance,
and drunk as a lord" was no longer a
correct smile. The aerated waters now
so largely used were first made on a large
scale by Schweppe of Geneva in 1887, and
10 years later a factory was established in
England. There is still fortune await
ing the. man who can invent a summer
drink devoid of the shortcomings pos
sessed by those at present in the market
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others as to us, and indeed the Ne
nansettqar,. as it slowed up for US to
get ON. did look more than doubtful.
BOT what difference does II make now
one rides through the Philistine south
end Of Boston, the cheap streets OF
Dorchester and thenondescript ugllness
of Neponset? / a freight car would al
ford Il sufficient prospect. What on
earth should anybody want to live here
for?" we asked Of each other; as peer ss r,
ing around the corners OF me large men s,,.
ewes took in the vista of new, unfin-
ished streets struggling away into fields 5;tt1s
and marshes with the pinchbeck little
i,n,,sss d,,nnped desultoriIy among the
ash dumps and Respondent yards Not
single stray note Of grace or P poetry :,
,oroI,s 2nrose Of a cheap American SUI
burb' f'How can any one live among
such surroundings and keep his Ideals!
o1eried one. But there are people VINO
perform that miracle every day
All the way along we kept dropping
The Worcester spy. [volume] (Worcester, Mass.) 1898-1904, 1898-10-23
NEWPORT CAKES

Two cupfuls of milk, three eggs, one
tablespoonful of sugar one tablespoon
full Of butter, one teaspoonful Of cream
of tartar one-half teaspoonful of soda.
Make thin batter.
Parents handicap or place a hinder
ance in the way of their childs becoming
a natural man or woman to the extent
that they fail to provide natural food.
The New Era Cooking School teaches
what natural foods are and how to pre-
pare them.
Send your name and address for the
Vital Question, illustrated in natural
colors and containing over $50 recipes.
Free. Please mention Good Cookery in
this paper.
The New Era Cooking School
Worcester, Mass.
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amount of these variations-small, it Is
ed away from us are disclosed They are
placed, unhappily In the situation best
calculated to defeat curiosity. We are
permitted to take just a glimpse of ''ths
other side but to bring away only the
minimum of information as to its conds-
ton. Perhaps it is rash TO say we shall
never know more OF the ''other side" Of
the moon, so marvellous have been the re-
cent advances in astronomy. Some day,
perhaps, new discoveries after the manner
of Roentgen rays, may enable us to get
photograph through the moon. Short of
that. we must needs wait for some stray
visitor from outer space to come Into coll
lision with the moon and turn it round. in
order to enable us to satisfy our curiosi-
ty: and patience may well be stimulated
by the knowledge that the results of such
collision, should it ever occur, would in
all probability be not less disastrous to
the earth than to the moon itself.
The Worcester spy. [volume] (Worcester, Mass.) 1898-1904, 1898-10-23
BISMARCK AND GLADSTONE CON-
TRASTED.
(From Review Of Reviews. }

VI rum IeGNlSW VI leeNitWS.J
The grand old man of England (Mr.
Gladstone) has sometimes been COM
pared to Bismarck, the grand old man
Of Germany. But there is no comparl-
son between the two. Gladstone had
his spells of office and iis intervals OF
rest, but Bismarck was in continuous
harness of the most gallant kind for
nearly 80 years, and moreover, he
never led the careful, self-cosseting
kind of life which was ever affected by
the grand old man of England. Glad
stone, for one thing, never tried his
stomach to anything like the extent
that had always been done by Bis
marck, who was one of the greatest
and most indiscriminate eaters, drink
ers and smokers of his time-a Colossus
from every point of view. 81 have al
ways lived hard and Fast" he once
said by hard, mean that l always
did what had to do with all my might,
whatever really succeeded l paid for
with my health and strength. II I We're
only to do half my duty | should have
to work from 10 to Is hours day, and
did so. too. for hong time. But
The Worcester spy. [volume] (Worcester, Mass.) 1898-1904, 1898-10-23
POTTFD MTAT

Take half a pound of runp steak and
veal a blade of mace. few whole all
spices. six peppercorns. a little salt and
r small piece of onion, with whole Gloves
stuck into it. Place all in jar with a
gill of water, tie over 1t a creased paper,
put the jar in kettel half full of water
and stew until the meat is tender. When
done minoe it and pound it In a mortar
with two ounces of butter, little an
chovy sauce, pepper and salt. Press into
small Jars and pour clarified butter on
the top. This will keep for a week In
cool weather.
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rnr1n rRI1Ir pIrnn1N1a.

Butter thin slices of bread on both
sides. Stew together raspberries. black
berries. blueberries and currants. and
sweeten to taste. Fill the pudding dish
with layer of bread and layer of fruit
alternately, and cover the top with 9
frosting made of the whites Of eggs and
sugar beaten together. Set in the oven
long enough to brown the frosting. Pre-
pare the day before it Is to be eaten.
Serve with cream.
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there is a limit to the strength of the
strongest"
IF the state expects good work out
of me" he once remarked lit must feed
me we'll" But better work, it must be
owned was never got out of any man
than out of Bismarck during the 30
years of his being harnessed. as he
phrased it. to the car Of Prussia and
the empire, his so years war with the
elements of chaos, disunion, disruption
and democracy.
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pREsERvE DrTMpT,INGs.

Preserved peaches, pIums. ounces or
cherries are used for these. Make a light
crust and roll small piece to moderate
thickness. Fiji with preserves, tie each
one in a dumpling cloth well Toured in
side. drop them into hot water and boil
half an hour. When done remove the
cloth, send to the table hot and serve
with cream.
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cANNnn p1NnAppr.E

Pare the pineapple and carefully re
move the eyes with a sharp pointed sill
yer knife. Either chop or CRATE the pine
apple or shred it with fork, rejecting
the core. Weigh and to every pound Of
fruit allow half pound Of sugaFj put
into preserving kettle. bring quickly
to boiling, skim and remove at once. Pat
into jars and seal
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CHEAP MINcnMEAr

Peel and core one pound of apples,
stone one-half pound of raisins. clean
one-half pound of currsnts. chop one
fourth pound of mixed peel, stone and
skin one7half pound Of grapes; add one-
fourth pound of brown sugar, one-fourtf1
teaspoonful Of cassia, a pinch Of salt,
and grated lemon rind and juice. mix
we'll; put into jar and cover closely.
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PICKLEp APPLBs.

) One quart of vinegar. six cupfuls Of
brown sugar, one tablespoonful each Of
cloves, cinnamon and allspice; boil vine
gar and sugar together, skim 1t. then
add the spices. Boil In the syrup. sweet
apples cat in halves and not pared.
Cook till soft but not till they break.
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ArpTu .JHT,Iy

Peel and core the apples, cover with
water and cook until tender. then strain
(do not squeeze) through a cloth. Add
TO the juice an equal quantity, by meas
ure, of sugar, and boil fifteen minutes.
1t is well to heat the sugar before add
ing it to the juice.