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New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1898-10-30
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New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1898-10-30
THEY ~DAycED" WITH GEy. smarter.

From The Chicago Record
General Shafter was decidedly the belle Of the
hall He received mon" attention than anybody tx
cent the President and Mrs. Palmer. ana accepted
the adorat lion Of the multitude with becoming mod
estV Early In the evening his box became sur
rounded by n crowd Of admirers, aud the General
was In a state OF siege during the r"st Of The night
some pretty girl had a brilliant idea and asked HE
General TO write his name upon her engagement
card.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1898-10-30

Tho Chcms:-Thcsc plnlrs viii. thipk cure
siddiness. t. thoy don't make you f,ol better IL
give YOU ching else.
NJ Yorng-Oh they're not for ne ! want some
nirg :or my poor husband lie comes homo night
afel nigh hardly able 70 stand or speak. lie says
everything goes round him, and hc thinks -
Indigestion Pick Mc-Cp.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1898-10-30

An took We across my lap an gave We tho
ali-frcdist spankin " eyer had he concluded
II didn't question his memory any further.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1898-10-30

crowd from the brick works released the mpris-
oncd philanthropist who learned that the shed
had been used for hog killing and the begSar hld
merely utilized ii to set rid of him ana ms III
LnstiCi tiOnG
The L'Anse sentinel. (L'Anse, L.S., Mich.) 18??-current, 1898-03-19
"k,NE TO EvRYBUDDIE."
The Odd Inscription on n Kentucky
Tombstone.

II saw a rude, roughly hewn stone
above a grave on an eastern Kentucky
hillside few weeks since" said state
insurance solicitor to a reporter for the
Louisville Evening Post, that was
placed there before monument makera
fiourished in that part Of Kentucky.
There were but two graves in the little,
unfenced spot, and they were in tn.
center OF sassafras thicket. This OH
stone. over which the ivy had crept, wei.
nigh blotting out the inscription, bort
these words, which seemed to have been
chiseled by trembling fingered novice.
Jane Laler, ded Agus, 1S49. She wu2
ollus kline TO evrybuddie.' thought az
stood there by the weed-crested mound
of what world of meaning there was
In those few simple words: She wuz
allus kline to evrybuddie.' When shall!
have composed my weary limbs for the
last sleep | would ask no greater boon
than that such q compliment might
truthfully be placed on the tomb above
my silent form. 1t was no different
from any of the chiseled platitudes one
sees in large cemeteries. | wondered
what loving heart could have inspired
it, and stopped TO ask about the woman
whose gentle life could merit SO tender
a tribute. Nobody on either side OF
the mountains knew much of the Law.
Ter family, but one old mountaineer
said he had been fold the woman was
the wife of an old woodsInan who lived
and hunted on Mount Elkhorn in the
first half of the present century. The
polsied hand of the loving husband
doubtless traced the last testimonial Of
reverence"
The L'Anse sentinel. (L'Anse, L.S., Mich.) 18??-current, 1898-03-19
Production of Ozone.

The progress infhe construction and
working of ozone generators has late
ly been such that ozone can now be pro-
duced in large quantities continuously.
and the industrial application of ozone
can. therefore, be carried on now at
relatively low cost and on a large
scale. Impure water can be rendered
wholesome and drinkable by means of
ozone, which in the presence OF water
acts as very powerful bactericide.
The L'Anse sentinel. (L'Anse, L.S., Mich.) 18??-current, 1898-03-19
Continued from page four,

Afterwards ] got Il fine picture OF "a
Mexican who, seeing me aim my
kodak at him, at once lost his grace
full ease, rose and politely stood for
me to ''take him.
do wish you could see the street
cars-the little mule with its tink-
ling bell and the driver with his
The L'Anse sentinel. (L'Anse, L.S., Mich.) 18??-current, 1898-03-19
LETTER FROM TEXAS.

CONTINUED next week.
The Opelousas courier., 1898-04-09

Both the method and results when
Syrupof Figs is taken; it is pleasant
and refreshing to the taste. and acts
gently yet promptly on the Kidneys,
Liver and Bowels, clcanses the sys.
TEN e~ffectually, dispels colds, head
aches and fevers and cures habitual
constipation. Syrup of Figs is the
only remedy of its kind ever pro-
duced, pleasing to the taste and &C
ceptable to the stomach, prompt in
its action and truly beneficial in its
effects, prepared only from the most
healthy and agreeable substances, its
many excellent qualities commend it
to all ard have made it the most
popular remedy known.
Syrup of Figs is for sale in so
cent bottles by all leading drug
gists. Any reliable druggist who
may not have it on hand will pro.
cure it promptly for any 4 who
wishes to try it. Do not acceptan any
substitute.
CALIFORNIA re syrup co.
SAW FRANCISCO. CAL.
LOUISVILLE. m. NEW YORK. nv
The Opelousas courier., 1898-04-09
They Shot His Pets.

George Pytzel, a burglar serving q
twenty-year sentence in the New Jer-
sey state prison at Trenton, sat in his
cell recently weeping because his pet
rats were killed by the keepers.
For years Burglar Pytzel and his
pet rats had been an attraction to
visitors to the prison. He found the
old cookhouse infested with the pests
when he was sent to work there, but
soon he had become complete master
of them. He taught them tricks, and
called them forth from every crevice
and hole by a peculiar whistle. They
would crawl up his trouser legs, march
in single file ever his outstretched
arms and over his head, and return to
their hiding places under the floor OF
his word.
Recently the old cookhouso was de-
molished, and Head Keeper Moore
was convinced hat to permit the rats
to live meant that they would infest
the new building, for he knew they
would follow Pytzel. So he decided
they should be shot. And the maj
who loved them was commanded to
call them forth for the slaughter. He
begged that his especial favorite,
whom he named Kitty, might be
spared.
''She is a great comfort to me- he
pleaded. "Indeed, sir, as much a
pet to me as is your pet dog. Please
do not kill her, even if you have to
kill all the others"
But Kitty and the others we're shot
at sunrise. New York World.
The Opelousas courier., 1898-04-09
PEARLS OF

The secret of success is c%onstancy
of purpose. -Disraeli.
Next to excellence is the apprecia-
ton of it. -Thackeray.
The best teachers of humanity are
the lives of great men.-Fowler.
Poverty wants some things, luxury
many, avarice all things.
Life is not so short but there is
always time for courtesy. Emerson.
The future destiny of the child is
always the work of the mother. Bona,
parte.
The secret of making ones self tire,
some is, not to know when to stop. -
Voltaire.
The readiest and surest way to get
rid of censure is to correct ourselves.
-Demosthenes.
No man can be provident ofhis time,
who is not prudent in the choice OF his
company.-Jeremy Taylor.
All false practices and Alterations
are more odious than any want or de-
feet or knowledge can be.-Sprat.
A sound discretion is not SO much
indicated by never making mistake
as by new er repeating it.-Bovee.
You have not fulfilled every duty
unless you have fulfilled that of being
cheerful and pleasant. &C. Buxton.
No soul is desolate as long as there
is a human being for whom it can feel
trust and veren George Eliot.
I know of no manner of speaking
so offensive as that of giving praise
and closing it with an exception
Steele.
Common sense is the knack of see
ing things as they are, and doing
things as they ought to be done.-C,
e. Stowe.
Consider how much more you often
suffer from your anger and grief than
from those very things for which you
are angry and griesed.
What are the aims which are at the
same time duties? They are the per
fecting of ourselves and the happi
ness of others.-Kant.
Choose always the way that seems
the best, however rough it may be
custom will soon render it easy and
agreeable. -Pythagoras.
Contentment is a pearl of great
price, and whoever procures it at the
expense of ten thousand desires makes
a wise and happy purchase .-Balguy
The Opelousas courier., 1898-04-09

These agents generally visit the United
States, but some have Of late years
turned their attention to the Argen'
tine Republic with Indifferent success.
The complaint generally heard con.
corning the horses of the United
States does not refer to their breed,
size or price, but to the refusal OF
neglect Of our stock-growers to IRE.
pare for the demands. Generally they
make no effort to secure the trade, and
this Indifference has diverted the
agents OF times to other h~orse-raising
countries. The Secretary believes that
when our breeders understand. the
foreign demand and are instructed
how the markets can be best reached
and controlled the large profits will
induce them to compete for the t. Ade.
Chicago Record.
The Opelousas courier., 1898-04-09
A Heautienl Girls Amtctiou.

From TIE Rspu5!tc1n, Versailles. Ind.
The fuckers OF Versailles, Ind, like all
fond parents, are completely wrapped up
In their children. Their daughter Lucy, In
particular, has given them much concern.
She is fifteen, and from a strong, healthy
girl, three years ago. had become weak and
kept falling Off in flesh, until she became a
mere skeleton. She seemed to have 40 life
at all. Her blood became impure and finally
she became the victim Of nervous prostra-
ton. Doctors did not help her. Most OF
the time she was confined to bed, was very
nervous and irritable, and seemed on the
verge OF st. Vitus' dance.
"One morning." said Mrs. Tucker, "the
doctor told usto give herDr. Williams Pink
Pills for Pale People, which he brought with
him. He said be was treating a similar case
with these pills and they we're curing the
patient. We began giving the pills andthe
next day could see a change for the better.
The Opelousas courier., 1898-04-09
Best Shelter From Lightning.

Campbell Swinton says lightning is
most apt to strike projecting objects
for example, a tree. On that prin'
ciple you ought to keep clear of trees.
just as you would keep clear of O hay.
rick. Similarly, if you are in a fiat
space-take a farmers feld-you
should make yourself as little an OBJ
iect as possible. If everything is
level, you yourself become the pro-
~jective point which may attract the
lightning. Therefore, lie down fiat on
the ground, or, Eel better, get into
ahole.
"a person who took shelter in a
hole" Campbell Swinton continued,
"would be absolutely safe, I should
think. Even if lightning were to strike
the ground near by, its power would
scatter so much that he would hardly
be likely to come to harm. Then, il
you are in a house while a thunder
storm is raging, the safest shelter
would be in the cellar-that is, far
away from the objective parts of the
building. For myself, I am rather
skeptical how many folks would care
to crawl into q hole or plunge into a
cellar. You see, the risk to life and
limb in England from lightning is very
small indeed--so small that the aver
age man would run it rather than dis
turb himself"
ST suppose the idea which you have
indicated to me explains the damage
that factory chimneys and the chin
neys of dwelling houses occasionally
sustain from lightning?"
"Just so. They are q point of at
traction. Not only that, but there
must be an additional attraction in the
column of warm air which arises from
q chimney when a fire is burning be-
meath it. I once saw a chimney
struck by lightning, and smoke had
been issuing from it. There were
various neighboring chimneys, but, so
far as Icould make out, none of them
was active. The incident occurred
while I was sitting in the Wellington
Club, and the damaged chimney
belonged to a house on the other side
of Grosvenor Crescent. London
Chronicle.
The Opelousas courier., 1898-04-09
Good Temper and Health.

One of the signs of mental health is
equanimity of temper, and the ability
to bear with indifference or eve pleas.
ure the little trials of life, and espe'
cially those which comefrom scolding,
petulant, cross, irritable persons. To
this end the art Of not hearing toe
much should be learned. There are
so many things which, it is so painful
to hear, very many of which, if heard.
will disturb the temper, corrupt sim
plicity and modesty, and detract from
health and happiness. If u person
falls into a violent passion and calls
one all manne of names, and we car
shut our cars and not hear it, or if We
can laugh at the words instead of be
coming excited, it is a sign of {
healthy nervous system The Ledger
The Opelousas courier., 1898-04-09
MOST WHOLESOME MEALS.
Mrs, Rorer Tells the Best Foods For DIFF
ferent Times of Day..

ferent Times of day.
In the Ladies' Home Journal Mrs.
S. T. Rorer writes at length to show
that Americans eat too much meat, but
says she does not want to be under
stood as condemning meat entirely.
Individually, she uses call with the
exception of pork ndveal in modera'
ton, and toward the close of the day.
From long experience" she says, Il
have found that's heavy mornings work
can best be accomplished on a break
fast composed Of a w~ell-cooked cereal
and fruit, with, perhaps, a cup OF
French coffee, or cereal coffee, and a
piece of well-toasted whole wheat bread.
The MONDAY meal, especially if work
is to be continued in the afternoon,
should be composed of a cream soup,
with whole wheat bread, an omelet,
some of the lighter forms of nitrogen
Gus food, in the proportion Of one
third to two-thirds carbonaceous food.
Fruits, again, may be taken, if they
agree-a baked banana, a baked apple.
peaches, pears, or any of the very ripe,
sub-acid fruits.
CATER the days work is over, and
one can take time forest and thorough
ly digest a meal. dinner should be
served. A warm beef soup, stimula.
ting rather than heterogeneous, should
form the beginning of the meal. This
may be followed by some light entree,
either of fish or vegetable, then the
red meat, either boiled, broiled OF
roasted never fried), with its accom-
panying vegetable. With beef serve
potatoes or macaroni as the starchy
food; with mutton or chicken, rice. A
green vegetable should be added for
its salts, and this may be onions OF
young peas, beans, cauliaower or
spinach. The salad should follow, and
with it a tiny bit of cheese. with q
piece of whole wheat bread, a bread
stick or a water biscuit. Then a sim
pie, light dessert may be served"
The Opelousas courier., 1898-04-09
Adulterations of the Products of Flour

Authorizations of the Products OF Flour.
With the products of flour, such as
bread, buns, cake, macaroni, verml-
celli, ETC., the adulteration, while
more frequent, is likewise not very
pronounced. Bread is said to be adul-
terated with alum, sulphate Of copper,
| ammonia, fours other than wheat, and
inferior grade of -four. 1t is ques-
tionable if these authorizations are
| practiced to any extent in the United
States. In England and on the Cont
in which the above authorizations were
found, and the offenders prosecuted.
Where coloring principles are a de-
sideratum, the adulteration of bread,
cake, etc., while not frequent has been
very marked. Possibly all Of my
hearers may remember the fragrant
adulteration of buns and noodles with
chrome yellow, which was brought so
prominently to the notice of the Phil
adelphia community several years ago.
DR.. Henry Lehman at that time found
eight grains of lead chromate in a
pound of a sample of soup noodles,
placed there to give an imitation egg
color, and two grains of the same poi
| son in each of the tea buns tested by
him. Seventy-eight cases Of lead poi
soning were reported by DR.. Stewart
from eating chrome yellow pound buns,
sixty-four of which were directly
traced to the use of chrome yellow by
two bakers, in the family of n of
whom six deaths occurred. and he
himself was made seriously i'll. Be-
sides this coloring, macaroni has been
found to contain saffron, turmenic
(which is considered injurious to
health, and Martins pipe clay and
kaolin have been found as adulterat-
ing constituents.-The Sanitarian.
The Opelousas courier., 1898-04-09
"Since coming to the United States"

"Since coming to the United States, "
said Mr.. Hugh Annesley, of Melbourne,
to a Washington Post nan 81 have
heard some queer phrases that were
such %curiosities in English J didn't I'M
derstand them till they were explained
to me. OF, I know that every country
has its vocabulary Of slang talk, but this
of yours is so weird and grotesque that
lis origin is a mystery. 1t would take a
stranger to the country ayear to fathom
the meaning of one-half of the express
sions in common use in New York. But
of courses some of our provincialisms of
speech would be puzzling to an Ameri-
can. l asked a pleasant, young fellow,
a clerk in n of the big hotels, what
screw be got, and he looked at me in
amaZement. He did not know that the
word was the Australian equivalent of
wages or salary. A little later l was
mystifed to hear him tell some one to
stop talking through his hat. Then
it was his turn to enlighten me-"
Historic Indian Head, on the Phi
sades, in the Hudson river, 15oth
street, will be disintegrated by stimuli
taneous blasts of q number of dyna-
mite mines, containing in all 1900
pounds of the terrible explosive. The
amount of rock that will be loosened
by the explosion is estimated at &c.,
600 tons, which is the biggest blast on
record. Ninety feet from the top Of
Indian Head a tunnel has been con
structed, running back 100 feet. Ia
this, at intervals Of 25 feet, are four
shafts, each 25 feet deep. Each shaft
will be loaded with $500 pounds OF
dynamite, and on the top of the Pail
sades there are to be 100 machine holes,
% feet deep, in each of which will be
10 pounds of dynamite, The entire
blast will be set off simultaneously By
electricity.
Unnecessary: Applicant ito matri-
monial agent)-"Can't you show me
the photograph of that lady with
800, 900 who wants to get married?"
Agent-"Ob, now, with such q dowry
as that you can imagine how she looks,
without a Observation-Disclosures
Batter.
Where Uncertainty We're Better
'Your husband is certain to die before
morning." "Oh, doctor! Wouldn't
You better have a consultations
"What would it avail?" ooh, nothing
then would be certain. "-Detroi
Journal.
The Opelousas courier., 1898-04-09
A Barnyard Compost Heap.

My ideal barnyard, and one which
L lave used for several years, adioins
the cattle and horse barns, and is two
rect deeper in the centre than on the
sides, writes R. Bingham, of New Jer-
sey. The depression is large enough
to hold the liquid excrement and the
water after a rainfall without over
flowing. In this I place cuttings of
weeds, grass, tender shrubs and
briars from the roadside, along fences,
bitches and waste places, leaves and
shsde trees, potato, tomato, bean and
pea vines, corn stubs, old papers, rags,
cuttings Of fruit and vegetables, dead
poultry, dead dogs. Useless and dead
horses and cattle IRE worth more than
Fertilizer manufacturers pay for them.
When buried in the heap and covered
with horse manure or soil, offensive
odors are absorbed, Sweepings from
macadam OF Telford roads, the pull
verified rock from the new magnet
iron process, may add to our fertiliz-
ing material.
When vines, stubs, ETC., or crops
sown for the purpose are piowed in
where they grew, the poor spots in
the field get the least benefit and the
rich places the most, but when put
ting on compost we reverse the order.
To offset the cost of transportation to
and from the compost heap, we have
better blowing and working. Weed
seeds and insect pests which would
live over in the field are drowned,
crushed Or terminated to die in the
compost. The vegetable matter is
worth, at fertilizer prices, about five
to eight dollars per dry ton, and clean
roadsides and farm as much more, so
that it doubly pays to keep acompost
heap.
The ground should first be plowed
and the compost spread on and mixed
with the surface soil. In taking out
compost, I commence ct the highest
corner and throw back all coarse ma
terial for a new heap. Working the
fine compost in the surface soil gives
to the rootlets the food as the rain dis
solves it. It also serves as a mulch in
conserving moisture by preventing
rapid evaporation; but coarse material
plowed in deeply prevents the rise of
capillary moisture during dry weather
and increases the injury from drouth.
The general practice in market garden
ing is to open burrows and place the
manure in, and plant seeds OF set
plants on or above the n Be-
lieving this to be wrong, I planted
peas and potatoes in the burrows and
set plants in the soil, with the manure
above the seed and rootlets, and had
from ten to thirty per cent. more
product with the manure above. The
dryer the season, the greater the diff
terence. By this method I have
cleaner and more fertile farms, better
crops, fewer weeds and insect pests, a
better reputation and peaceful home.
The Opelousas courier., 1898-04-09
Pushing Our Horses.

Secretary of Agriculture Wilson
has inaugurated an inquiry to ascer-
lain the demand for horses in foreign
countries, especially with reference to
The requirements of European Govern
nents for horses for their armies, and
has appointed Mr.. Charles E. Stubs,
If Denver, as a special commissioner
10 visit Europe and assist in collecting
data for a bulletin on the subject.
Secretary Wilson takes the position
shat with our cheap grasses and
grains the United States should sup
oily horses, as we'll as cattle, for the
rest of the world, and that we'll
directed efforts, as soon as the foreign
demand is known, will enable our
farmers and stockmen to control the
foreign markets. While our diplo-
matte and consular representatives
have been instructed to cooperate
With Secretary Wilson in an investi-
cation of the worlds markets for agri-
cultural products, and although the
Secretary of Agriculture has enlisted
the assistance of scientific societies
and commercial organizations as we'll
as individuals IN foreign countries
with a view to obtaining the latest
and fullest information available con-
corning agricultural subjects, the re-
suits up to date have not been entirely
satisfactory. It has been found nee
essary, whenever a thorough investi-
cation is to be made along any par
ocular line, to select an expert for
that purpose and send him abroad.
The dependence of the agricultural in
dustries upon voluntary assistance
for important information concerning
foreign markets, and the inability of
the Secretary to direct the honorary
agents of his department in an inves-
tigation- of any particular industry,
has caused him to recommend that
graduates of agricultural colleges and
other experts who are competent to
conduct scientific as well as com
mercial inquiries in agricultural sub
iects be sent abroad as attaches at our
legations, especially those in Europe.
These attaches would not only keep
the department informed of agrlcul-
tural developments and progress IN
their respective countries, but would
report upon the demands OF the mar
kets and would be available for imme'
diate service in any Investigation
which the Secretary of Agriculture
should daem of value to our agricul-
tural interests. The proposition has
received the Endorsement of the House
Committee on Agriculture, and may
be embodied in the Agricultural Ap'
preparation bill.
Secretary Wilson has employed Mr.
stubbs to collect all available infor,
nation concerning the peculiarities o.
the different foreign horse markets,
especially the requirements and regu.
lations controlling the purchase O
horses for European armies, those
that are most in demand, the present
source of supply and the prevailing
prices. It is his purpose to make the
INQUIRY thorough in every particular
and present such information TO oul
breeders and farmers generally as vii
enable them to determine inteillgenfly
where it will be to their advantage K
compete for a foreign market. Eu
ronean Governments send agents
abroad every year to purchase horses
ior their cavalry and artillery service