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CHRISTMAS IN PROVENCE.
HOW 1T DIFFERS FROM THE
AMERICAN ARTICLE.
Gay Street Shows and Finely Deco
rated Oyster Stands for the De-
light of the Urchins on Christ
mas Eve in the Great Seaport
of France.

We have a proper appreciation o.
the Fetes de Noel here in Provence
but our ways of celebrating them are
not like your ways in America You
have such strange customs over there!
You come here and seem to be shocked
because we go to the bullfight or the
opera on Sunday (after going to early
mass as we ought, mind you), and yet
you will write letters or sew or attenJ
to your business on the Fete de Noel.
What would our Bonne Mere think OF
us if she saw us doing worldly things
on Noel or any other fete day? In
deed, we would not offer her such an
INSULT. Our good Saint Nicholas, SEE
how kind he is. Little American boys
and girls spending their Noel in Prov
ence write letters to him in that funny
language of yours, and put them III
the fireplace, and he gets them and
reads them and brings what they ask
for, just as if they were written II
French. All, he is very good! But
how can he ever read them? When
say at night, "Donnenous aujourd hui
notre pain quotidien," often think how
should like to hear some American
boy say it in your strange words, "Give
us this day our daily bread" But it is
wrong to let my thoughts wander So
and then cross myself and begin all
over again.
Even in the arbre de Noel your ways
are different from ours. A christmas
tree" believe you call it. How funny!
I have been told that in your country
you use very great trees, so tall that
they will hardly stand in a room. Now
that I think is sinful waste, when the
mistral blows so cold and the poor peo-
pie suffer So We do not waste the tai
trees here. Our Government is so good
TO us it does not allow people to GU;
down their forest oftener than once ir
twenty Or. thirty years. So We use the
dearest little pine trees, about two Feet
high, and stick the ends in pots o:
earth, just as if they were growing
there. Have you been down the Rue
Paradis or the Rue Saint Ferreol to see
the Noel trees? Yes? All, then yor
know how beautiful they are! It is
the confectioners of course, who sell
them. Who else should sell the Noe
trees? They decorate them with six
eight, ten pretty little colored candles
have seen them sometimes even with
twenty candles on single tree, and
glass globes and gilt ribbons and dolls
and little crosses.
1 have heard that in your country you
roast your own Noel turkeys. each fam
lily in it's own house. How very
strange: and what waste of Goals it
must be. Why, have you no bake shops
in America? Here we have no ovens
in our houses. We send the turkey out
to the bakers and he roasts it for Us
5n his great oven. You could bake
bread, then, if you have ovens in your
houses? How funny that would be.
never k1ew of any one baking bread
in his own house. The baker comes ev-
cry morning, and on Noel morning he
brings every customer a big Noel cake
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accordance with a general outline of
what the men they are writing for
want them to say. If the fatfoot is
writing to a sweetheart, says he to the
ships writer who does his correspond
ence for him, Just slap a lot o. duff
sauce into it, like a gal likes t git, +"
and the ships writer writes according
ly. He indites fervid phrases that
must convince the girl who receives
such a letter that her especial Jack
could never have been equal to the job
of handling by word of mouth, much
less of getting them down on paper
The ships writer patches UP epis-
tolary quarrels between married blue
jackets and their far-away wives over
Jacks failure to send enough of his
monthly money, and he learns to be a
veritable diplomat of the sea. The
money that ships writer's derive in this
way makes comfortable addition to
their payday" at the end of three
year cyuise.-Washingt Post.
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Explained and illustrated.

Mr.. Erastus Pinkley was very much
out of breath. He sat down on the
rickety front doorstep and let his head
fall back against the panel behind him
with bump which brought large and
sable woman around from the side en-
trance to see what the matter was.
Was dat you rappin' on de do'?' she
asked.
II warn't rapp'n ai-purpose," he an
swered. "I didn't mean ter come WIS.,
itin', case I amt got no calm kyards
wifi me-"
Den 'spose you jest moves long"
'Lemme ketch my BRET"
II ain nebber heard much bout yoh
bein' in hurry. 1t mus be somefin'
mos partic'lar."
"Oh. jes' been walkin' little fas', !
ain showed my speed yet"
"Whut you been runnin' way frum?"
"One-er-huh-one er desc hyuh i'm
munes."
"You'se been runnin' way frum a
p'liceman; dat's whut you been runnin'
way fum."
Miss Ann Matilda, does you know
whut an immune is?"
81 dunnos I could expressly it wifi
exactness."
"Well, an immune is one err desc hyuh
people dat ain lible to ketch muffin.
An dat whua dis p'liceman is."-Wash-
ington Star.
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CITY OFFICIAL ADVERTISING.

at Twenty-first and r, Tenth and r, and
Front and r, the points specified in Sec
ton of this ordinance, until they shall
nave complied with the requirements Of
said Section of this ordinance
Section s. Any person, firm or corpora
tion violating any of the provisions of this
misdemeanor, and upon conviction there
of, shall be punished by a fine not exceed
ing $500, and in case said fine be not paid,
of the City of Sacramento, at the rate
of one day for every two dollars of said
fine remaining unpaid.
Section 6. All ordinances and parts of
ordinances in conflict herewith are here
by repealed.
Section Z. This ordinance shall take eff
feet and be in force sixty days from and
after its passage.
Passed February IL, 1896.
CHARLES K. LEONARD,
President of the Board of Trustees.
Approved February 20, 1896
c. II. HUBBARD Mayor
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Regulars Easily Distinguished.

Most of the wounded are regulars,
toughened, brawny fellows, and you can
easily distinguish them from the vol
unteers by the matter-offact way in
which they accept their fate and the
little tricks by which the trained SOL
dier is accustomed to make himself
comfortable. The volunteers lack the
experience their comrades have gained
on the frontier, and in the deserts of
the Southwest, and do not fit into the
field hospital with the same faculty.
Another and more accurate test is the
color of the flesh. The breast and legs
of the regulars are bronzed by expo
sure to the sun and winds OF the plains
and mountains, while the skin of the
volunteer is stiil pink and tender
Washington correspondence Of the Chi
cago Record.
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She Wanted to Know.

Mrs. Blinks-I've just been reading
about the work of that dreadful Vesu-
vius, George. and there was some
thing l wanted to ask you.
Mr.. bah right, make it as easy as
possible.
Mrs. B.-Why, it's just this. It's fired
by compressed air, isn't it?
Mr.. B-Eh? Oh, yes.
Mrs. B.-Well, what 1 wanted to know
was where do they get it?
Mr.. Beet what?
Mrs. B.-The compressed air.
Mr.. Bon, that's what you want to
know, is it?
Mrs. B.-Yes. It's imported isn't it?
Mr.. B.-Eh? oh, yes, of course. They
import it i'm bottles, and there's blue
label on 'enl, and it isn't good until it's
been in the cellar seven years, and the
custom house stamp must be carefully
affixed, and it must lie on this side with
care, and you have to be extra particu
lar not to shake it before corkscrewing
il, ! and the froth must be carefully
blown off with one blow, and but
there, I'm late for my club engagement.
Cleveland Plain Dealer.
An English Judge has ruled that BIZ
oil f-
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ORDINANCE NO. 42s.

An Ordinance to Amend Section of
Ordinance Number One Hundred and
Seventy-eight Q7S, entitled, I'm Rela-
ton to Dogs" passed June 10, 1882.
The Board of Trustees of the City of
Sacramento ordain as follows:
Section l. Section 5 of Ordinance Num-
Der One Hundred and Seventy-eight Q9
entitled, I'm Relation to DogS," is
amended so as to read as follows:
of the Pound-keeper to take up and inn
pound all dogs found within the city
limits without a tag, as provided in Sec
tion 2 of this ordinance, and to keep suck
provide all such dogs with sufficient food
and water for not less than forty-eight
hours Unless such dog be redeemed by
the payment of $1.00 pound fees, together
and license after the expiration of rhe
above mentioned period of time, all dogs
which have not been redeemed, shall be
taken by the Pound-keeper, or his depu-
buried or otherwise disposed of so IS
not to become offensive or detrimental to
health. If said dogs are buried they must
be buried at least one foot under the sur
keeper SHALL on the first Monday In each
month, make under oath, TO the Board of
Trustees an account OF his TRANSACTIONS
of the previous month of al dogs that
have been redeemed and killed. All re-
demption money received by the Pound
keeper under the provisions OF this ord1-
nance shall be retained by him for his
Section 2. This ordinance shall take eff
feet and be in force from and after its
Passed March 16. 1896.
CHARLES r. LEONARD,
President of the Board of Trustees.
Approved March g. 1895.
c. H. HUBBARD, Mayor.
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The Board of Trustees of the City of
Sacramento do ordaih as. follows:
Section l. All persons, firms or corpora
tions owning, operating or. controlling
any steam railways upon B street of the
Cify of Sacramento are hereby required
to Station fiagman, and keep said flag
man so stationed at the crossing of
Twelfth and B streets, in said city, be-
tween the hours of a. m and S b. IN,
of each day that. said railway is in opera
Section 2. No person, firm or corpora
ton owning, operating or controlling any
railway engine upon b street, in the City
of Sacramento, shall cause or permit the
said engine to. pass the point specified in
Section l of this ordinance, between the
said hours of Z a. m. and p. M, until
the fagman there stationed shall signal
them so to do.
Section g. All persons, firms or corpora
tions owning, operating or controlling
railway steam engines upon r street of
Sacramento, are hereby required to erect
and maintain at its own expense, sys-
tenn of electric bells at the crossings of
Twenty-frst and r, Tenth and r. and
Front and RI Streets in the City of Sacr a.
mento; said system of electric bells to De
so constructed as to sound warning TO
persons crossing upon said streets of all
approaching trains.
Section f., No person, firm or corpora
ton owning. operating or controlling -any
railway engine upon the streets in the
City of Sacramento, shall cause or per-
NIT the said engine to pass the crossing
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AT present this portfolio is held by the
Duke of Almodovar, who has been one
OF the most active Of the statesmen in
urging peace. He is a man of judg-
ment and foresight, and in his efforts
to obtain peace he has been success
fui In conquering a great deal of oppo-
sition, though there are still many lead
ing men Of his country who oppose
peace with the United States on any
terms and are not at all satisfied with
the present adjustment.
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ORDINANCE NO. 422.

An Ordinance to Amend Section /. OF
Ordinance No. $40, Entitled AN Ordl-
nance Providing for the Payment OF a
Salary to the Pound-keeper, in Add
ton to Fees Heretofore Allowed, and
Increasing His Duties and Providing
for the Supervision Over the Perform
ance of the Same" Approved April 8,
1894
The Board of Trustees of the City of
Sacramento ordain as follows.
Section /; Section l of Ordinance No.
$40. entitled ''An ordinance providing Tor
keeper, in addition 10 the fees heretofore
allowed, and increasing his duties and
providing for the supervision over the
performance of the same" approved
April 9, 1894, is amended so as to read as
follows:
Section /. The office of Pound-keeper
heretofore created by ordinance, shall be
filled by the appointment by the Mayor,
by and with the consent of the Board of
Trustees. The said Pound-keeper shall.
receive a salary of S75 per month, and he
shall receive no other fee or compensa-
ton as such Pound-keeper except as pro-
vided for in Section eight (S) of Chapter
TX. of Ordinance Number Seventeen QD
and Section Five (5) of Ordinance Num-
ber One Hundred and Seventy -eight Q70
Of this city. Said salary shall be paid
out of the general fund. ft
Section 2. This ordinance shall take ef-
feet from and after its approval
Passed March is. 1896. as
CHARLES E. LEONARD. a
President xof the Board of Trustees.
Approved March %, 1896.
q RI HIIRRARD Movor
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DUKE OF ALMODovAR.
The Minister Of Foreign Affairs OF
Spain.

The present. is a critical period in
Spain, and every officer of the Govern
ment, as well as all the leading citizens,
will have their hands full in reducing
the excited condition to one of peace
full struggles for the betterment of the
country. No one will have more to do
in bringing out a happy solution to the
present difficulty than the Minister of
Foreign Affairs
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ORDINANCE NO. 42o.

An Ordinance Requiring Railroad Com
panies to Station Flagman at Ger
tain Street Crossings, and to Maintain
Electric Bells at Certain Other Street
crossings i'm the City of Sacramento.
The record-union., 1898-08-22

An Ordinance to Amend Section of
Ordinance Number One Hundred and
Seventy-eight Q7S, entitled. I'm Rela-
ton to Dogs" passed June 10, 1882.
The record-union., 1898-08-22

An English Judge has ruled that a BIZ
cycle Is a necessity.
The record-union., 1898-08-22

A Northern woman writing to the
Springfield (Mass.) Republican" from
Savannah, Ca, says
The Opelousas courier., 1898-08-13
Children,s CASTOR Clothing.

While great quantities of mems Sec
ond-hand clothing are sold, there is
proportionately but very little chill
dren's secondhand clothing. The
small boy is likely to wear his clothes
more than a man does his clothes to
begin with. It would not, for exam
pie, pay a dealer to buy, to sell again
a clothing, a pair of boys trousers
that had to be. patched. New trous-
ers can now be bought so cheap that
the price that could be got for the
patched secondhand ones wouldn't
pay for the handling and the work of
repairing. 1t does pay, however, to
repair mems trousers that need patch
ing, for there are always to be found
for these purchasers at prices that
yield some profit.
But while children's second. hand
clothing is rare y seen hanging about
with the mems clothing in second
hand stores, all dealers will buy it
when it is in good or fair condition,
and there are some dealers that make
specially of it, and seek fine clothing
that has been cast off when but little
worn. There are customers for the
comparatively limited supply of chill
dren's secondhand clothing hal is
offered.--New York Sun.
The Opelousas courier., 1898-08-13
Matrimonial Coincidence.

MI. s. D. Mcmillan, who has re-
Gently moved to Charlotte from South
Carolina, gives an interesting account
of a matrimonial coincidence that &C.
Cured in his family last year.
About the first of last July Mr..
Mcmillan received a letter from his
brother, in Lake End, La, saying:
II will be married on the Sth of this
month. Meet US at Nashville, Tenn,
and join us for a trip to Colorado
City"
At the time he received this letter
Mr.. Mcmillan was making arrange
ments for his w wedding, which was
dated for July 8, and at this time he
says he was living in the sand hills of
South Carolina, the soil there having
become proverbial for its poverty.
On about the 10th of July he re-
ceived a letter from another brother,
J. D. Mcmillan of Catalina Island, off
the west coast of California, saying:
81 was married on the Sth of this
month to Miss -" In contrast
with the sand hills of South Carolina,
Cataline Island is one of The most
fertile districts in the world.
All three brothers married on the
8th of July and it is impossible for
them to have had any preconcerted
plans about the date, as they had not
heard from each other in months
Charlotte IN. CO. Democrat.
The Opelousas courier., 1898-08-13
An Absent Brothers Presentiment.

William Ratleth, an engineer i'll one
of the coal mines of Mauch Chunk,
Penn, arrived at the home of his
niece, Mrs. David Geehie, Hamilton
street, Millbury, recently, and said he
had come ali the distance to visit his
sister, Mrs. Hannah McGraw, whom
he had not seen since his childhood,
over thirty years ago. When his
niece told him that his sister died i'll
Whitinsville q dayor two previous and
was buried, he fell to the floor in a
faint, and it was some time before he
recovered FRONT the shock. MI. Ratleth
said that when he left home he felt a
o premonition of some impending
trouble, and hat he hurried over to
Massachusetts as fast as possible. Had
the relatives known where the brother
was living they would have informed
him of his sisters death, but he left
home when a young man, and nothing
had been heard from him until he APP
peared in Millbury. Mr.. Ratleth WIS.,
tied the grave of his sister in Pine
Grove cemetery, Whitinsville, and left
there to visit a school friend in Bos-
ton, whom he had not seen for many
~years.-Worcester (Mass.) Telegram.
The Opelousas courier., 1898-08-13
Monster Railway Station

Among the monster railway stations
Of the world that of st. Louis Is the
largest. 1t has an area of 424,2OO feet,
thirty-one tracks, and twenty-four
roads running into It. Its capacity is
almost double that Of the Boston and
Maine Station, at Boston, the second
largest in the world. Two hundred
ono sixty trains pass in and out of the
Union Station every day, 1870 each way.
They average 100 passengers to n train.
This means that q total of 10000 pas
sengers pass through the station every
day. Taking the daily average of &c.
900 passengers as the basis Of this cal
culation, 100000 travellers pass through
Union Station in a month, which Is
more than the entire population Of
West Virginia. The yearly average is
100000, and this sum Is equal to the
combined population Of the States Of
New York and Illinois.
The Opelousas courier., 1898-08-13
5 GOOD ROADS NOTES,
An Eyenly-Distributed Burden.

An Evenly-Distributed Burden.
In the States in which q system of
State-aid has been inaugurated the ur-
ban resident bears his share of the ex-
pense of improving and maintaining
the highways, instead Of leaving them,
as heretofore, to be cared for by the
rural population. Under the old theory
that the maintenance and care of the
roads should depend wholly on the dis
tricts through which they passed, great
injustice was done many persons whose
interest in the roads was less than that
Of others who bore the expense. To re-
move this injustice, and provide an
equable system is the purpose of State
aid.
Speaking on this subject recently,
General Stone said that the farmers of
Maine own one-ffth of the prop
erty Of the State, and that one
fifth of the property has paid
the entire expense of building and
maintaining the roads of the State,
which are just as necessary to the peo-
pie who live in towns, and the people
of other occupations than farming, as
they are to the farmer. Concerning
New York, he said hat there the farm
crs W only one-fourteenth of the
property of the State, and that every
farher has been making roads for thir-
teen other men to travel on, and he is
getting tired of doing it. He is now
about to stop it, and he finds the peo-
pie Of the cities and large towns, the
manufacturing people and the COM
mercial people, ready to bear their
share of the expense of improving the
country roads. The only drawback is
that the farmers themselves have been
afraid to let any change be made in the
road laws of the country, for they have
imagined that people of the cities de-
sign to impose heavier burdens on
them, instead of being ready to help
them carry existing ones.
By degrees all classes Of the people
will begin to better understand each
other on the subject and will get closer
together. It was not strange, at first,
that country people should be sus-
picious of city people who took the
trouble to tell them how much they
would be benefited by better roads
it was natural for them to think that
such philanthropy was not wholly dis
interested. But as it becomes daily
more evident that all classes, trades
and occupations will reap the advan-
tages resulting from improving the
highways, that the ultimate burden
will not be increased and that oil are
ready to share it, the movement will
acquire an impetus that will ensure it's
future 81. A. W. Bulletin.
The Opelousas courier., 1898-08-13
Protecting the SilkwOriDs

The worlds silk. production now
amounts to over 28, OOO, 900 kilos, &C
cording to a lecture by DR.. Erlenbach
before the Society of German Chemists.
Europe participates with one-fifth,
China furnishes 10, 500, 900, Japan
G,O00, 900, Italy 1000, 900, France
900, 900, Austria Hungary, $50 200,
European Turkey 200, 900, Spain S0,-
900, Greece IS, 900, European Russia
1000, Germany 500 and England 200
kilos. Acting On Pasteur's advice,
steps are now taken against the sick
nesses of the silkworm by having each
butterfly deposit its eggs in a separate
pasteboard box. 1t is then affixed to
this box and microscopically examined.
If fungi arefound on it, it is destroyed
with its brood.
The Opelousas courier., 1898-08-13
An Odd Fish.

An amusing episode in a recent
work, "Audubon and his Journals"
published by John G. Nimmo, de-
scribes how an odd-looking fellow one
day handed the great naturalist a let
ter without anyremark. "1broke the
SEAL" says Audubon, land read as
follows: My dear Audubon, I send
you an odd fish, which you may prove
to be undescribed, and hope you will
do so in your next letter. Believe me
always your friend, B. With all the
simplicity of a woodsman. l asked the
bearer where the odd fish was, when
NJ. de T.~for, kind reader, the indi-
vidual in my presence vas III else
than thatrenowned naturalist-smiled,
rubbed his hands, and, with the great
est good humor, said I am that odd
fish, I presume, Mr. Audnbon.'"-
household Words,
The Opelousas courier., 1898-08-13
Carried Hose Up Sixteen Stories.


Several thousand people watched
Carl Eldfeldt and Patrick Hickey,
members of Truck No. 1, carry q lead
of hose from o chemical engine up six
teen stories on the fire escape of the
Monadnock Building in Chicago re-
Gently. AS the two fremen nearedthe
top of their perilous ascent up the
slender iron ladder the crowd cheered.
Most of the spectators thought it was
an exhibition drill, but the arrival Of
more fire apparatus and the appear
ance at all the upper windows of
notwithstanding tenants soon unde-
ceived them. The enthusiasm of the
crowd again demonstrated itself when
the last platform at the sixteenth
story window was reached and the two
truckmen disappeared into the build
ing. The $50 feet of hose had been
carried up to the top of the building
in less than two minutes. The fire
occurred in the storerooms of an cleo
trio switch manufacturing concern on
the seventeenth floor. Many of the
tenants of the building, however,
knew nothing of the fire for some time
after. On each floor of the building
leads of hose are connected directly
with the house pumps. The fire was
practically out when Truckmen Ed
feldt and Hickey appeared with their
line from the chemical, and they fin
ished the job in short order. It took
every inch of the $50 feet of hose the
chemical carried to reach the blaze,
and this was done only by getting it
up on q straight line by the fire es-
cape.-Chicago Inter-Ocean.