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The Opelousas courier., 1899-04-08
Maine Gum Gatherers.

Some of the druggists in eastern
Maine have made contracts for spruce
gum a%ggregating several thousands OF
dollars, and some have QUILTED gum
hunters and sent them away into the
woods, as hackers send men into the
Klondike. Year by year the gum pick
ers are obliged to go further into the
woods. The quality of the gum must
be kept up. Most Of the Maine gum
is sent away to the city market that
demands for consumption by the
society girls in their boudoirs the
round red lumpsthat CLEAN with inner
fires like the bloodstone. This sort
of gum is sold readily by the Maine
wholesalers at 81. so per pound. Be-
tween you and me, the metropolitan
prices for this tip-top gum are SO allur-
ing to the Maine sellers that the pro-
vincials do not get it unless we go out
into the wildwoods and dig it for our
selves. The only peculiarly favored
mortals in this respect are the Maine
girls who have best fellows in the
woods.
Compared with his expenses, the
wages of the gum pickers are almost
Klondike prices. A few bushels of
beans and some -four furnish him his
winters food. Frequently he gets
gum in one day that will net him $40
in the market. But the gum picker
isn't apt to be a very energetic chap.
He makes short days and goes fishing
and cunning about half the time. He
doesn't leave the side of his cozy
campfire when a storm is on. And at
the end Of the season, when he comes
out in the spring with his pack of gum
on his back, it will be found that he
has made but little more than days
wages.-Lewiston Me-. Journal.
The Opelousas courier., 1899-04-08
Patents for the Abused Hen.

A peculiar patent issued to a vest
ern farmer is called a hen pusher."
It is intended to prevent hens from
scratching and monkeying around in
garden patches. Hooks of peculiar
construction are attached to the hen
feet, so that when the hen digs into
the ground she is inyoIuntarlly pushed
forward by the hook and spring appar-
atus. Just what occurs in case the
hen happens to be headed for the gar.
den patch is not told by the patentee
in his application, but it is to be sup
posed that the farmer employs a small
boy to keep the hens headed the right
way by means Of a prodding pole.
Another patent that is devised for
the bewilderment of the abused hen
is a patent hens nest. The thing was
got up to prevent weasels, dogs and
such from raiding hens nests and
sucking tie eggs. There is a small
hole, concealed by a natural looking
flap, in the centre and bottom of the
nest, and through this secret orltice
the egg, as soon as the hen lays it, is
dropped to a padded cell below. The
patentee does not, of course, dwell upon
the CONSERVATION, not to say the in
dignation, Of the ordinary hen when
she turns around, after her effort, and
finds her egg missing from the nest
Washington Star.
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crains little Cresnawaya Revived.

Very little girls from TWO to aGhs,
nave heeu seen more oftsn In the old
line low-neck frock this summer than
sor many years past. The prettiest ones
ire cut square and have shoulder rr1!!s
and open lace or embroidered yokeS'
4 r-1mor ia afoat in babyland thas
ne wee tots are going to part company
with he ong-used short dress reach
to the knees, and ara to return
q again TO the quaint Greenaway drsasea,
which make the little ones iook like
little Some Of these Green
away frocks hang in futlness from tins
while others hang rom square
or round yokes or have very short oa-
Nv waists with an inch-wtfe waist
hand that comes but little below ths
aru-pits. The sleeves are usually a
short, full puff, and the necks are u
low to be vorn with a -u1mpe. A
Greenaway skirt should never be ruf-
fed. bu, should be quite full sad No.
,sbed either with a plain wide hem
or q narrow hem headed with several
rows OF lace or embroidery insertion
sat Iu.-Augus: Woman's Home Com"
nanion4
me standard attained by the per
Torrance Of modern pumping engine
is pretty high, as was illustrated by I'll
incident which occurred not long aga
in New York. where some large pump
ing engines that had recently been SCI
10 and were working at rather high
speed and almost absolutely wtthou!
noise. were inspected by an expert In
such matters who hailed from an In
terror city. He remarked: well those
engines work very nicely now. but wal.
until you get to pumping water at that
speed, and then you will hear some,
thing from them probably" His aston
ishment may perhaps be imagined
when it was demonstrated to him tha'
they were at that moment pumping
water, and had been continuously do
ing 40 for forty-eight hours
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THE SPANISH COLONIES,
Spain Could Learn No Lesson from the
Loss Of Her poss0satonS.

oIGau s5AJA Learn NO Lesson kfDm SR&
Loss of Her Possessions.
Theodore s.. Woolssy, professor OF
International law at Yale University,
has an article in tho September Can
Jury on Spain and Her American
Colonies" Prof. Woolsey says:
1t has already been said that Eng
land learned a lesson OF the American
revolution, while Spain has never heed
Ell it nor the loss Of her own colonies.
1T It really was not until fifty years
ago that their methods sEarply d.
Ferged. AS early as 1878 Spain had
begun to open her dependencies to
foreign trade, and early in this CEN
fury they were allowed 10 trade with
one another. So. likewise. although
81 t cAanges had been earlier made
: he English colonies. the spirit OF
monopoly and OF a restrictive policy
VAS N force until about 1915. So FAR
as relates to we evils Of the colonial
SE&tsna then, the two were not very
unlike, Bu. into the field Of admins
tTatiVe reform and the grant Of auton-
nous powers to her colonies, Spain
never had en- cred. The abuses Of TIE
early part Of the century characterize
also It's later years. Discrimination
against the na~tiye-born. even of the
pHfest Spanish stock; officials who re-
card the colony as a mine TO be work.
ed, nc a trust to be administered;
forced dependence upon the mother
country for manufactures, even for
produce, SO far as duties can effect it.;
Heif-goVernment stifled; representation
n the cOrres denied or a nulllty: .
civil service unprogressive, ignorant,
sometimes corrupt-compare these
handfcaEs with the growth. the pros
peT1ty, the independence. above all, the
decent and orderly administration, of
the colonies Of England. One Of the
wonderful things in this half-century
IS that army Of British youth, with but
little special training r. genius, or
even, perhaps, conscious sympathy for
the work, learning to administer the
great and growing Indian and colonial
empire honestly and wisely and well,
VITA courage and judgment equal to
emergencies, animated by an every
day working sense Of duty and honor,
but not very often making any fuss or
phrases about it. It is not that Span
tsh colonial government Is worse than
formerly, which is costing It now go
dear, but that 1t Is no better, while
the worlds standard has advanced and
condemns It. Never yet has Spain
looked at her colonies with their own
welfare uppernost in her mind. She
has never outgrown the old mistaken
theories. Her fault ID m~edievalism,
alias ignorance,
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VALUE OF THE EVENING PAPER
News Comes When Business Men Have
Time to Enjoy 1t.

Time to Enjoy 1t.
The value of the evening newspaper
Is not exhausted when it has gwen the
news Of the hour, or has helped the
business man over the tedium of travel
from his office to his home, says the
Boston Transcript. Copies are seldom
found ltttering the seats Of steam or
electric cars, as it is taken to the
household for perusal by the whole
family. OF course the evening Is the
time when 1t can be most thoroughly
read and discussed. Moreover, SO rapid
has become every medium Of intell1-
n from worlds end to worlds end
that the evening paper is more favor,
ably circumstanced than It's morning
contemporaries for keeping pace with
the genuine news Of each day. The
facilities for extracting the best es-
sence Of the worlds history for the
day and the worlds thought upon pass
events have been brought to such
a high state Of development that 1t is
enabled to keep even pace with daily
events, furnishing a brief resume Of
such morning news as may have been
expanded by other sheets beyond real
value and keeping the record clear and
unbr0ken. When it takes Its readers
into it's confidence 1t Is at a time when
the cares and worries OF business
have been put aside for the day, or If
not it helps to put them aside and
orahlps the reader tn keen In lpisNreIy
touch, not only with the current news,
but with art and literature and those
other larger and deeper interests OF
life for which most busy people have
small inclination as they are about to
plunge into the work of the day.
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A FOX HUNT SPOILED,
Did Josh Parkens Knocked Reyaard Own
! with Fla axun.

"A$A AA1 ShaA
When the swell riding club from the
city went away up Into Galoon town
ship 10 ride to hounds. and incidentally
follow the course Of the fox, 1t arranged
with old Josh Parkens to provide the
fox, says the Detroit Free Press. He
Vas offered liberal pay for attending
10 this preliminary, but he declared
That ne was something OF q fox chaser
himself, and would call It square 4
they'd let him ''jine' in the sport.
here was no good reason to offer for
barring him, and the committee salts
tied lis conscience by telling him 10 be
On hand half an hour later than the
time really f1ed for making the cross
country dash. Sure en0lgN, the HOUNDS
were giving toT,stIe. and The ladies an!
gentlemen IN their gay attire were jus
beginning to form a procession VIII! !
grows from the tlnch in which teev
start, when old Josh hurst via a
WhDop from a thtcket on theW :. tia
was on a r~awboniad mount that had 4
wonderful gift Of shutting oVer the
ground, and he carried a sly-fOOt rifle
Of the olden times. He went after the
fox at al angle that compelled It 10
V about two rods to his one. and
before the riders could prevent he na
ended the sport by putting an ounce
Of Lead through the game. There were
some vigorous protests against mis-
mode Of fox hunting, which put a stOU
to the fun just as It commenced. but
John only said: what was them city
swells huntin' a fox fur if it warn't to
git i'm. I knocked him over cold afo,a
all them women folks, and the oth2f
feIlers was jealous. Every one Of EN-
mad gone huntin' without his gun. /
never see nuthin' like 1t since l was
horn"
The Opelousas courier., 1899-04-08
The Rise Of Humble Families.

In a recent issue of the Genealogi-
cal Magazine there is a suggestive
article about the history Of families,
in which the writer shows that nearly
all great families rise from humble
origin. marry into the aristocracy, and
then either end with an helress or die
out. In any case there are not fifty
male pedigrees today that go back to
the conquest. An instance Of this
curious fact occurs in the ancient fam.
ity of the Lucys of C~larlecote, War
wickshire, which is represented now
only by an heiress. MissChristine Lucy,
on her marriage, kept her own name
and her husband tooh~ hers in orde,
that the family cogn men might no.
disappear. It was Lucy who dealt
with Shakespeare for deer stealing.
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WORSE THAN TOBACCO.
Some Deadly Substitutes Which Ar
Smoked In EuruI Eunlnn3

Smoked in Rural England.
Tobacco is not the onlv weed that
Ii smoked in B~rltaln-not by a long
way-says a writer in the English
weekly, Answers. There is no need
TO go to the far East to ferret ont
weird and poisonous smoking habits;
they lie all around us.
In Somerset and the southwest
counties a great many persons smoke
a connection called '~'sundew.' It il
not a new fad, but has been in use for
oOO years there. Sundew is a mixture
OF sun-drled beet leaves, parsley and
pepperm1nt-a very little Of the latter.
1t is not a very harmful mixture,
though 1t conduces to-, considerable
d~rowslness, and is anything but good
for the teeth. Iou may notice in the
western counties d good many per-
sons with brown or ~blackensd teeth; il
IS the result Of sundew smoking.
The stuff is not pleasant to a stranger,
for 1t IS very hot and chokv and takes
a great deal OF getting used to.
Sundew = often homemade, and
most Of the country people are ex-
perts at mako g it. They set apart >
week IN Jdlv Spr the sunelew harvest.
and it is alway ) dried and mixed by
women. However, there are three
regular sundes factories in Somerset,
where bushels of the mixture are
turned out. It can be bought for
from twopence to ~threepence per
ounce, according to quality.
Going a little further north-to
Gloucestershire and mid Wales-you
will strike a much worse habit. The
people there-tovn and country alike
are much given to smoking
''glissop.' Glissop is a sort of dry
mash of hemlock leaves she young
shoots that grow in sprlng-burdock
and ground chick beans. This can
also be bought at some shops, though
most of it is homemade. When
bought it fetches fourpence an ounce.
This stuff is smoked III short wooden
pipes with very small bowls, and is
really disastrous in its effects. Like
sundew, it e practice to get used
W, oAb 10 i1ttn piSdSiutcl ~ ZIG
palate than that compound. Its first
effect on a smoker is loss Of memory.
and this increases till the smoker,
after six months of the habit, is quite
united for any profession that re-
quires much thought. The evesight
soon becomes affected by constant and
excessive indulgence in the habit,
which takes hold of a man like NOR
phomania and is almost incurabIe.
Even small children may be seen
smoking glissop, though but for the
shape Of the pipe employed a stranger
would not know that they were not
smoking tobacco, unless he were very
close. The smell OF the smoke, how
ever, induces a tickling in the n~ostriIs
and a sort Of giddiness which is quite
unmistakable.
Tobacco is far less injurious, even
when INDUCED in to excess, than this
poisonous compound. Although it is
dearer than ordinary "shag" tobacco,
the poorest people who are addicted te
it always get it instead. They say
they cannot taste or smell even the
strongest tobacco any mor than If it
were mist.
The Opelousas courier., 1899-04-08
Another I yzsssOs'
Remover 10y
Lydia L. 25zsk-
hams Eegeka-
bic COMPOUND

me no good, and 1 thought l would
have to resort to morphine.
1.-The doctor said that all that could
help me was to have an operation and
have the womb removed, but I had
heard of Mrs. Pinkham's medicine and
decided to try it, and wrote for her
sdvice, and after taking her Vegetable
Compound the tumors were expelled
and I began to get stronger right
along, and am as well as ever before.
Can truly say that I would never had
gotten well had it not been for Lydia E.
Pinkham,s Conpound."- MARY A.
STAHL, WArsoETowN, PA.
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Pretty Underwear,

The variety Of pretty six and WOODEN I'M
rerwear 70 be had at ~'l"tl r~aasonabl4 prices
is very tempting 10 dainty women, vet MANY
refrain rom purchasing such on account u
their i:"ii1ty to IN lure in Iaundrying. II the
WORK T. properly lone this trouble NAV be
avoided. when ready I" begin fill q tub half
iHll OF warm water, in Which Hiss Dive a
fourth OF a bar OF Ivory Soap. and wash the
articles through it with Tie hands, rinse in
warn "at'5r, and squeeze, but 10 not wiring.
hang on the line and press white -tlll damp.
ELIZA r. PARKER.
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=. c,nr.,p rorrorrsnr

The President and Congress have
been prompt and p~rofuse in extending
thanks to officers Of the army and
navy for deeds Of conspicuous bravery
in action. No mention, however, has
been made thus far Of the magnetic act
of Captain Sigsbee after the wreck
ing of his beautiful battleship. A man
who went through the ordeal that so
suddenly faced him without losing his
head or his Judgment, is a hero Of the
first water. His injunction, Suspend
judgment till facts are known" was
most potent as calming the outburst
OF popular Indignation. It accomplish
ed more than a presidential proelama-
ton or an act Of congress. This single
sentence halted and held for many
days the criticism of the enlightened
world. Are there no thanks left for
this remarkably cool-headed officer?
He was exonerated from blame for the
loss of his ship, and this constitutes
his sole recognition.
The Opelousas courier., 1899-04-08

We offer One Hundred Dollars Reward
anv ca g of Catarrh that cannot Dc cufea =
'"l' F. J. CHENEY s. Co, Pops, Tolsdo.o
We. the undersigned, have known -. ne
ney or the last IS years. and believe nm Pc
tes tly honor bic n all business 1Ssnsat - :"
aud financially able to carry out any opi-s"-
ton N de by their firm. ro,o1,
WEsr 8 TRuAx, Wholesale Druggists ioledo'
wilma. K1ssAN 8 MARVIN, Wholesair
Druggists. Toledo, Ohio. u-
Hall ; Catarrh Cure is aiken internally ~
ing directly upon the blood and mucous s. s"T :
nv ali nrugrisJs. Testimonials free.
Halls Family Pills are the best.
The Opelousas courier., 1899-04-08
QUEER WORK FOR AN ARMY.
Experiment. In Prussia o Estimate this
Skill and Speed of Soldiers.

tx DNEiilchE IN PRUSSIA q EaCskGALS En@
skill and Speed of oldiers
An interesting experiment has just
been made by the Prussian war de-
paTtment, with a view to discover the
speed with which artisans can work
in a given time in the ranks of the
German army, says the London Tele-
graph. Twelve hundred bootmakers,
selected from the eighteen army corps
scattered about the empire, were sum
noDed just over a month ago to Ber-
lin. to go through a curse OF four
weeks work. Eighteen colonies, lieu-
tenant-coiCnels and captains, with a
corresponding number of noncOmris-
stoned officers, were ordered to come
% the capital to superintend the men.
The men were Quartered In the bar
racks Of the 1st field artillery regiment
Of the Prussian guards and performed
their daily work there. About forty
!ocksmitls were told off to repair
heir machines when necessary. The
Ien worked in two divisions continu-
ously day and night, n division re-
ieving the other. One division WOrkets
from 2 2. n. till 2 a. n, whereupo1
hey we're relieved by the other party,
which in Its turn worked from ? a. N.
till 2 p. n. Two pauses Of half an
each were made IN sach twelve
a0urs' work. The men got their din
ner in the barracks-the one section
Immediately before settling down to
work, the other section Immediately
after their work. The wages given
conceded with the wages given in time
Of warts for ten days, Including
bread money. The 1900 men made
$500 pairs Of boots per day-that IS to
a V infantry and cavalry boots and
ace shoes.
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The Conductor Misunderstood.

ssThere is a sort Of audacity," says
a woman in the Chicago Inter Ocean,
(Which is almost admirable. I really
felt provoked when the conductor on
a North Side car persistently carried
me two blocks beyond my destination,
especially as I had been theoretically
signalling him for several minutes.
why did you not stop when you saw
me waving my hand?' [ demanded.
The conductor he was young, good
looking and IRISH bowed low in con
trit on. slut upon me honor, ma'am,
IT ou-hs We was throwing me . ks,
D saul"
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would form
in h wombs
| had four
tn mor In
two years. l
went through
ire a t N e n t
with doctors,
but they did
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What Mrs. Pfnkham,s Letter Did.

"DEAR Mrs. PINKHAM-After follow
ing the directions given in your kind
letter for the treatment Of leucorrhoa,
I can say that I have been entirely
cured by the use Of Lydia E. Pinkham's
remedies, and will gladly recommend
them to my friends.
Thanking you for your kindness, l
In gratefully yours, A. B. DAv1Ds,
RrNaHANPToN. N. Y"
The Opelousas courier., 1899-04-08

~ AcA ~ a 1"%~S ~ q &NNs
A Chance TO Make Money
Mrs. Peck-"Henry, I've been talk
ing to you for twenty minutes, and
I'll bet you dent know a word I've
said"
Mr.. Peck-"Say, 80 and try to get
somebody outside Of tie family to
take that bet will you?"
Bessie" said a north side mother
to her four-year-old daughter, here's
three cents; I'll down to the drug
store on the corner and get me a
stamped envelope" A few minutes
later Bessie entered the store and the
proprietor asked: Well, little girl,
what can l do for you?" "If you please,
sir" she replied, my mamma wants
free cents wort OF stamped antelope"
The Opelousas courier., 1899-04-08

Clean blood means a clean skin. Nc
beauty without it. Cascarets. Candy Cathar
stirring up the lazy liver and driving all i'm
purities from the body. Begin to-day &c
Danish pimples, boils, blotches, ~blackheads
and that sickly bilious complexion by taking
Cascarets,-beauty for ten cents. All drug
gists, satisfaction guaranteed, Zoe, Csc, SOC.
There's a pleasure in being cranky that
MY a crank can Know.
The Opelousas courier., 1899-04-08

LETTER TO MRS. NKHAN no. zo,6os1
1.-TWO years ago [ was a great
sufferer from womb trouble and pro-
fuse flowing each month, and tumors
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To quit tobacco easily and forever. be mag
netic, full OF life. nerve and vigor, take MOTTO
BAG. the wonder-worker, that makes weak men
strong. All druggists, SOC or 81. Cure guaran
teed. Booklet and sample free. Address
Sterling Remedy Co. Chicago or New York
The Opelousas courier., 1899-04-08
"'EvI Dispositions
Are Early Shoqvn. "

Just so evA in the blood
CORES oot in shape Of scrof.
rLa, pirnpies, etc., in children
ana yourJ people. Taken in
TIM It can be eradicated bv
using Hoods Sacsaparna.
In Older people, the aftermath
Of mevalar AUlng shows It.
self In bilious conditions. a
hsavY head, a foul mouth,
a general bad feeling.
1t IS the blood, the impure blood
friends, which is the real cause. Purify
that with Hoods sarsaparilla and
happiness will reign in your family.
Blood pcsson-"I lived in a bed OF fire
for Yeas owing to blood poisoning that fol-
lowed small pos. It broke out all over nv
body, itching Intensely. Tried doctors and
hospitals IN vain. I tried Hoods sarsapa-
rilla, It helped. I kept at it and was en-.
tirely cared. I could go on the housetons
and shout about it," MIS-. J.. T. WILLIAMS
srartOndale, Pa.
ScrofuIa Sores My baby at two
months Lad s~grU.liR sores on cheek and
arm. LEGAL applications and ,Dhysicians'
medicine did ittt:" or no good. Hoods Sar-
s~aparllil cured him permanently. He is
now four, with smooth fair skin" Mrs.
s. S. WRorEN, Pennington. Del.
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To Cure a Cold in One Dav.

One idea of a chump is d man who asks an
other man whore he bought his umbrella,
The Opelousas courier., 1899-04-08

Mrs. Wfnslow'ss Soothing Syrup forchtldrea
teething,~ softens the gums. Observation-Disclosures
tion ,aIlays pain. cures wind collie. &c. n oottla
The Opelousas courier., 1899-04-08
alias ignorance.
Our Policy of Territorial Expansion.

Our Policy of Territorial Expansion.
Extreme arnexasonlsts are advocating the
addition OF Canada to this country, and think
1t an be accom- plishsd in a peaceful manner
vi hout exciting a quarrel with EngIhnar
such grave Questions raIl for the wtsest states
Enanshlp. Just as dyspepsia, constipation. liver
and kidney diseases and malaria call Tor q
thoroughly reliable remedy ike hostett~f
~ronach birters. No experimenting should
ue done with untrted medicines waen an oiu
established preparation is 20 be had.
The Opelousas courier., 1899-04-08

A black eye indicates a revengeful nature
1n the part of the other fellow
The Opelousas courier., 1899-04-08

To Cure Constipation Forever.
Take Cascarets Candy Cathartic. 1oc or %
II C. C. C. fail to cure, druggists refund moac
The Opelousas courier., 1899-04-08

Seeing isn't always believing. We see lots
of people we can't believe.
The Opelousas courier., 1899-04-08

The man who snoars in a sleeping car is
to wake and find himself famous.
The Opelousas courier., 1899-04-08

Greal riches are hard to lose as q good
name-and just as easy.
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-To-B SAC for Fifty Cents.
Guaranteed tobacco habit cure, makes weak
men strong, blood pure. SOC, 81. All druggists
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Manners carry the world for a moment,
characterfo for all time.
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Beauty Ia Blood Deep.

Men will do almost anything for money
some will even work.
The Opelousas courier., 1899-04-08

An hour-glass is the kind some men pre-