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The Opelousas courier., 1899-09-02
Mrs. Col. Richardson
SAVED BY MRS. PlNKHAM.
IIz1rEa TO MRS. NO. 71,so6l

lLEIEES TO MRS. P1SkHAM NO. ZZ,S9Sl
"You have saved my life, snatched
me from the brink Of the grave almost.
and l wish to thank you. About eigh-
teen months ago | was Il total wreck,
physically. had been troubled with
leucorrhpa for sometime, but had given
hardly any attention to the trouble.
AT last inflammation of the womb
and ovaries resulted and then | suf-
fered agonies, had to give up my pro-
fession musician and piano player),
was confined to my bed and life became
a terrible cross. My husband sum
moned the best physicians, but their
benefit was but temporary at best. 1
believe l should have contracted tho
morphine habit under their care, if my
common sense had not interviewed.
Zone daymy husband noticed the adj
vertisement Of your remedies and inn
mediately bought me a full trial. Soon
the pain in my ovcries vas gone. am
now well. strong and robust, walk,
ride a wheel, and feel like a girl in her
teens. 1 would not be without Lydia
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RKINELANDER, WIS.
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POPULAR SCIENCE.

A mechanical device recently pat
nted pastes paper labels on 100, 900
ms in ten hours.
The city Of Santa Fe, New. Mexico,
8 without rats, mice and cats, as the
Ir is too rarefied for those animals,
It is estimated that greater %ouanti.
lies OF gold and silver have been sunk
n the sea than are now in circulation
IN the whole world.
DIR. B. Kossmann, of Charlotten-
berg, Germany, has secured a patent
rom the Imperial Government covering
! rust preventing paint composed Of
The peroxides Of earths of the cerium
group.
The tanners, of Newark, N. j., are
said to get more money out of q hide
than anywhere else. Three, and some
times four, splits are made and fin
ished. 1t is estimated that SIG is
realized per hide and the yearly bust
ness done amounts to $40, 600, 900.
1t has been calculated that the hair
ohS OC1iu S1OWS III buo idto Oh II
aud a half lines q week. This will
give q length Of g. inches in the course
Of a year. For a ma, eighty years of
age no less than twel,ty-seven feet of
beard must have faller before the edge
Of the razor. ]
Through the gift 4 Mrs. Charles
Pratt, the Pratt Institute, of Brook
Ign, N. Y, has come''into possession
of lOoO examples of textiles, ranging
over several centuries of European aud
Oriental manufacture. The collection
was purchased from Signor Salvador,
of Florence, Italy, by whom it was
collected, and, it is said, cannot be
duplicated.
At Lynn, Mass, there is now in
practical operation a new cotton gin
which is attracting much attention.
This is a roll gin, no revolving saws
being used which cut the fibre, the
seed being forced ont by a scrapins
blade close to the roller. In a recent
trial a long staple lint run through
this machine was declared to be worth
153 cents a pound against six cents a
pound when u through the old style
gin.
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CALIFORNIA FIG SYRUP co.
san FRANCISCO, Gal.
1~NCIsvILIE Ky. NEW YORK. n. Y.

In the hurry of our feVerish age u
ears full Of the din that wearies us
and makes us old, do we not more than
cver need this calm and strength of
God? Where else than in the thought
CT the eternal shall we find it? "The
depth saith, 1t is not in me; and the
sea saith, 1t is not in me-" Only in
the name that is changeiess, the Fa-
therhood, the Faithfulness, the Love
that ages have not wearied is ade>
quate refuge. To some it may seem
weakness, but there was one Son of
Man who was not weak, and who vas
the strength of every one who leaned
IN Him, who has taught the world the
sublimest powers that dwell in human
souls. And He used to 60, night after
night, to mountain sides and lonely
glens, to be lifted there into the in
finite calm of the eternal spaces, and
the ~unspeakable peace of God. 1t was
the thought of God that made that life
Of power; that clothed Him with maj
esty as He went to make His last flu
tile appeal to slumbering souls in Je-
rusalcm; that made the victory OF Geth-
semane and the grandeur of Calvary.
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SeaweeU and Amber.

The main source OF the amber sup
ply is the seacoast of the Baltic Ocean.
1t is a fossil gum, originally the ex-
udation of a species of confer now ex-
tinct. This grew in luxuriant profu-
sion hundreds of thousands of years
ago on the marshy coasts of Northern
Europe, when the climate was much
warmer than it is to-day. The natural
history of amber is thus explained:
The immense forests Of amber pine
underwent their natural downfall and
decay. The resin of the woods ac-
cumulated in large quantities in boys
and ponds, and in the soil of the for
ests. Where the coast was slowly
sinking, the sea by and by covered
the land, and the amber, which had
been gradually hardening, was at last
deposited at the ocean bottom. But
in the higher regions the pine contin-
ued to flourish, and so amber would
still continue to be washed down to
the shore and deposited in the later
formed green sand, and the still later
formed stratum OF Ignite OF brown
coal.
The gum became fossilized by its
long burial under ground. More than
200 specimens Of extinct life, animal
and vegetable, have been found i'm
bedded in amber specimens, including
insects, reptiles, plants, leaves, shells,
fruit, etc., which had been caught in
the liquid gum and entombed there
for all time. Some of these specimens
are so %curiously beautiful as to be al
most priceless, and one English col
lector has a cabinet of them which is
valued at $780, 600. One piece en-
balms a lizard about eight inches
long, a little jeweled monster, perfect
in its form and coloring, which, has no
like in anything existing now. In
deed, in many instances science is
able solely through this medium to
study details of animal life which per-
ished from the earth many hundred
thousands of years ago. There are
flies preserved with wings poised as if
for flight, where the prismatic sheen
glowing through the yellow sepuloher
is as brilliant as if they were floating
alive in the sunshine.
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Rabbits Frozen While Afoot.

Ever since the late cold snap in
Nevada the Indians there have been
selling jack rabbits in great numbers
and at low prices. It turns out that
they have not shot them, but that the
animals have been frozen to death.
The Indians prod around in the snow
for them and pick them up by the
score frozen hard as stone. A hunter
avs that he saw hundreds of the little
fellows huddled together in Kings
Canyon just after the blizzard, and
was surprised that they should allow
him to approach without stirring. He
hlased awsy into the bunch, but the
rabbits did net ran, asd when be cana
up 10 them he found that they were oil
tssass ft.A
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Fruit Cures.

"Fruit cures,". just now q fad in
Continental Europe with people hav-
ing real or imaginary diseases, is by
no means a new thing. In the tenth
century an Investigator has discovered,
many medical authorities became en-
thusiastic in their writings over the
remarkable curative virtues of grapes,
while a certain Van Swieten of a more
modern date is said to have ''recom-
mended in special cases the eating of
twenty pounds of strawberries o day. !"
The same gentleman also reports q
cast of phthisis healed by strawber-
ries, and cites cases in which maniacs
have regained their reason by the ex-
elusive use of cherries as food. These
instances rather SAVIOR of the miracu-
lous, but there is no doubt that the
so-called grape cure for indigestion
and other evils, is carried on in many
places on the Continent, and that peo-
pie betake themselves to Meran, We
way, Bingen, or to Italy and the South
of France with the intention of de-
voting six weeks to the cure, during
which time they are expected to have
gradually accomplished the feat Of
consuming from three to eight pounds
of grapes daily, as the case may be.
Grapes are said to exercise a salutary
action on the nervous system, and to
favor the formation of fat; that is to
say, when fruit of good quality is en-
ployed; if the grapes are not sufficient
ly,'ripe and are watery and sour the pa
tient may lose rather than gains in
weight. The.valuable results obtained
by a fruit diet in cases [of biliousness
are due to the fact that noxious germs
habitually present in the alimentary
canal do not thrive in fruit juices.
The Opelousas courier., 1899-09-02

Now. wholly apart from its religious
or from its ethical value, the Bible Is
the one book that no intelligent per-
son who desires to come into contact
with the world Of thought and to share
the ideas Of the great minds Of the
Christian era can afford to be ignorant
of. All modern literature and all art
are permeated with it. There is scarce
ly a great work in the language that
can be fully understood and enjoyed
without this knowledge, SO full is It
of illusions and illustrations from the
Bible. This is true Of fiction. of poe
try, Of economic and of philosophfo
works, and also Of the scientific and
even agnostic treatises. It is not OF
Ill a question of religion, or theology.
or of dogma; it is a question of general
intelligence.-C. D. Warner.
The Opelousas courier., 1899-09-02
Hospitality is Christ in the home.

Life lies deeper than It's leaves.
Enthusiasm Is the fountain OF per-
petual youth.
Ii you are certain that you are I'M
certain, how great is your uncertainty.
The doubt that is an Interrogation
may be a blessing, but If it is a de-
termination, 1t is a curse.
Adversely is the grlndstone or
which We lose enough to put AZ edge
of usefulness on our lives.
The present needs patriots as well
as the past
A creed works better as an engine.
than as a track.
The man VINO says the Bible is too
o~therworldly Is afraid to use it in his
Office in this world.
Christ Is the centre OF the circle o.
our lives.
The upright character needs down
right sense.
Mud-slingS --,NNsually scrape it Off
themselves "N
1t IS i history alone that has room
Cor tte heroic.
ME for imp 'ovement Is u.s.
Lily a spacious one.
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living Close tG C.lrisb.

The clouds that for us mortHls haunt
the land of righteousness upA, truth
may long hang so thick and low that
living close to Christ the soul may
still fail to see Him; but ONE day
certainly the fog shall rise, the cloud
shall scatter, and. in the perfect en-
iightenment of the outer if, the soul
shall see it's Lord and be Thankful for
every darkest step that it took towards
Him here.-Phillipps Brooks.
The Opelousas courier., 1899-09-02
WAR DEPARTMENT GROCERIES. y
b They Are and How They Ara
Purchased. !

h They Are and How They Are
Purchased.
The War Department maintains a
number of grocery shops in various
parts ct the country. There is one in
New York City, another in Chicago,
another in Boston, another in St.
Louis, another in San Francisco and
SO on oil over the United States. They
are kept up for the purpose of fur
nishing supplies to officers and enlist
ed men in different sections. In this
way much expense for transportation
is avoided. At every army post there
IS such a grocery store, as a rule under
charge of a commissary. All the COM
m1ssaries are finder the direction Of
the Commissary General of the army.
The army grocery store furnishes
groceries to any officers and soldiers
who wish to take advantage of the
cheap rates at which goods of this
kind are offered by the Government.
Everything is sold at the lowest rates,
the goods being purchased by the
Government, not in open market,
wholesale, but under contract from the
lowest bidders. Flour, for example,
worth S. a barrel, comes ut So. 20.
There are no bad debts, officers being
obliged to square up monthly, while
enlisted men 1 nst pay cash.
In the wars o. the future far more
attention will be paid to the material
comforts Of the soldiers than has been
the case in past conflicts. They will
have such surgical care, with improved
instruments and germ-killing proce
SEES, as to make the percentage of
deaths from wounds a little above one
half what it has been hitherto. Health
full conditions Of living for the troops
will be deemed of prime importance
from the military point of view; and
whatever a be accomplished toward
making the diet of the fighting men
more palatable, more varied and more
digestible, will be done, regardless of
expense. Science has taken hold of
warfare and though war itself is q con-
fessed survival of barbarism, it is to
be conducted in the future according
to enlightened and humane methods.
st. Louis Globe Democrat.
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A Religious life at Homo.

Dews and showers and sunlight ac4
complish in the natural world what
the grace OF God does In the religious
life Of the family and home. 1t is a
great blessing In favor OF a child. when
the Lord plants 1t in the bosom Of a
pious household. A religious family is
4 blessing to itself and all its mem
bers, and Its reflex influence reaches
far abroad. The world and the church
is benefited when the power Of the
Christian religion rules in the home
lie Of the family.
The Opelousas courier., 1899-09-02
Sympathy.

God rit!es the poor sinner. Pity 10
what is given by the superior to the
inferior. This is what comes from a
lofty plane to the mar on the low
plane. 1t was not so with Jesus Christ.
He did not simply pity the poor sim
Ter while he remained in heaven, but
he came down to earth and gave the
sinner sympathy. Sympathy is what
we give when We place ourselves in the
place occupied by the one with whom
we sympathize.-Rey. W. w. Landrum.
The Opelousas courier., 1899-09-02
Facing to-morrow's trials Il turning
our back on to-day's duties.
Duty of Church Membership.

The duty of church membership Is
plain, and is an obligation Of gratitude
and love and life service. The Joy of
1t is the Joy Of pardon and peace and
hope of glory; the Joy Of salvation and
loving devotion. To confess Christ be-
fore men in His church should be the
very first desire of a new disciple. The
church is His spiritual home and
Christians are its brethres, and it's
work is Christ service. vn
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Practical nnnecfionh.

II we love Christ We will love to 40
His will.
Our hearts may become temples Of
God.
Jesus has committed His work to
the Holy Spirit.
The Holy Spirit is the worlds
greatest need.
To give peace of heart cost Jesus
bitter anguish.
Taste OF strychine-
The taste Of strychnine can be de-
tected when one grain is diluted with
GOO. 900 parts Of water.
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Clear Conscience and Brayery.

How bravely a man can walk the
earth, bear the heaviest burdens, per-
form the severest duties, and look all
men in the face If he only bears within
his breast a clear conscience, void of
cffense. There is no spring, no in
spiration like this-to feel that we have
omitted 10 task and left no obligation
undischargcd. This fills the heart with
satisfaction and the soul with strength.
The Opelousas courier., 1899-09-02
n-..a,..,,.nt Of Sponge Feeders.

Sponge pedlers, travelling on foot and
covered front, flank and rear with
~auttering stringsof sponges, are doing
sections of Maine. They present 8
~arotesaue appearances, and are q good
marx for ali rural CANNES. They gel
an very we'll in fair weather, but whes
sl..ini hey htys 10 hustle Tor cove1
xitA ~ 90 apsta wv Gag aslasa'.
The Opelousas courier., 1899-09-02

The Christian, Of all men, should be
in earnest as to a properly enlightened
conscience. He who accepts the rev.
citation Of Gods will confesses that his
conscience is no safe guide until it has
been trained and instructed in that
word, and that his W will is a thing
of uncertain and spasmodic energy,
wilfulness rather than will, until it has
been regenerated by the Holy Ghost.
He cannot, If he be in earnest at all,
be satisfied that he is doing Gods will
unless he has taken as much pains to
know it, understand 1t, resolve it into
rules of action, as he has the calling
which he follows for his bodily support
or social standing, in a word, he will
not only be conscientious, but in a
Huch s~trieter sense he will be con-
scientious about his conscience.
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patients who are starving to death. They
have money to buy food, but their stomach
has not the strength to digest 1t. 1t lies there
a heavy fermented mass, the sole cause Of
nervousness and bilioueness. The
eurest remedy to cure a weak stomach is
Hostetter's stomach Bitters. 1t will restore
vigor to the digestive organs. Nothing is
Just as good" See that a private Revenue
Stamp covers the neck OF the bottle.
A man seldom does anythin G the way a wo-
nan thinks it should be done,
The Opelousas courier., 1899-09-02

Clean blood means a clean skin. No
beauty without it. Cascarets, Candy. Cathar'
tic clean your blood and keep it clean, by
stirring up the lazy liver and driving all i'm.
PP@u1itises n from the so; hody y;ot Begin h, to;dHy to
and that sickly bilious complexion by taking
Cascarets beauty for ten cents. All drug.
gists, satisfaction guaranteed. lOc. Csc. SOC.
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Gratitude.

1t is a pleasant sight to see any
body thanking God, for the air Is
heavy with the hum of murmsring and
the roads are dusty with complaints
and lamentations.-C. II. Sturgeon.
The Opelousas courier., 1899-09-02

Fits permanently cured. No fits or nervous
ness q ftcr frstday's use of Dr.. Kline's Great
NerveR estorer S2trial bottle and treatise free
DIX. r. II. KLINE, Ltd. Gl Arch St., Phlla, Pa
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Chiiiren's Eyes

Get watery, sore and 1nnamed; Leonardi's
Golden Eye Lotion cures them without pain in
one day. 1t strengthens weak, overworkcd
ayes. Cooling, healing, 1nvigorattng. Insist
IN having "Ieonardis;" 1t IN axes strong eyes.
Guaranteed or money refunded. Druggists sell
1t ct Is cts. or forwarded prepaid on receipt Of
pr:..e by S. u. Leonardo & Co.. Tampa, Fla.
The Opelousas courier., 1899-09-02

Mrs. Winslow's Soothing Syrup for children
teething, ~softens the gums, reducing inllanma
ton, allays pain, cures wind collie. 25c a bottle
The Opelousas courier., 1899-09-02

Paradoxical though it may seem. the word
trust" excites a good deal of suspicion.
The Opelousas courier., 1899-09-02

Candy Cathartic. cure constipation forever.
aoc, CSC. II G. C. G. fail. druggists refund money.
It's hard to be grateful to those who fight
your battles for you and get licked,
The Opelousas courier., 1899-09-02

A w0man's thoughts of matrimony before
and after taking are seldom the same.
The Opelousas courier., 1899-09-02

Rev. NOW Bishop Joseph s. Key,
Wrote: "We gave your TEETHINA (Teething
Powders) to our little grandchild with the
happiest results. Tho effects wero almost
magical and certainly more satisfactory than
from anything we ever used"
The Opelousas courier., 1899-09-02

Rev. H. P. Carson, Scotland, Oak. says:
1.-Two bottles of Halls catarrh cure complete
ly cured my little girl" Sold by druggists, 75c.
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Two slender persons may be great frie nds,
though but slight al quaintances,
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Have been cured quickly by Tetterine. 1t cures
any form of skin disease. Mrs. NJ. E. Latimer,
Biloxi, Miss, had al itchy breaking out on her
skin. She sends 81 for two boxes postpaid to the
manufacturer or, j. 7. shuptrine, savannah, Ga.
and writes. "Tetter1ne is the only thing that
Gives me relief" Send fifty cents In stamp
Tor a box If your druggist doesn't keep 1t.
Many handkerchiefs are moistened by ex'
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Piso's Curc for Consumption has saved me
many O doctors bills. +. HARDY, Hopkins
Place. baltimore. Md. Dec. 2. 1884.
The Opelousas courier., 1899-09-02

Next to possessing there is nothing hat {
woman likes better than being possessed.
The Opelousas courier., 1899-09-02

You can nearly always Judge a mans char
acter by what he thinks laughahle.
The Opelousas courier., 1899-09-02

To Cure Constipation Forever.
Take Cascarets Candy Cathartic. Toe or CSC.
Il c.. c. C. fail to cure. druggists refund money.
The Opelousas courier., 1899-09-02
The Christian.

A dogs pants may indicate warm weather,
but they don't bag at the knees.
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Don't Tobacco Spit and Smoke Your Life Awsy,

To quit tobacco easily and forever, be mag
netic, full Of life, nerve and vigor, take No-To
Bac, the wonder-wcrker, 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
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Ask Your Dealer for Aliens Foot Ease,

A powder to shake into your shoes; rests
the feet. Cures Corns, Bunions, Swollen,
Sore. Hot, Callous, Aching, Sweating Feet
and Ingrowing Nails. Aliens Foot-Ease
makes new or tight shoes easy. At all drug
gists and shoe stores, rs cts. Sample mailed
FREE. Adr's Allen S. Olmsted, LeRoy.N, Y
The Opelousas courier., 1899-09-02

The unbridled passion sometimes leads tx
the halter,
The Opelousas courier., 1899-09-02

When a man gets too lazy to work he be
comes q lofty idealist.
The Opelousas courier., 1899-09-02
RIch-Yet Starving,

The average man who tries heroic measures
.ets O Inisfit.
The Opelousas courier., 1899-09-02

TW OHC1CTEH1
South America. "Mata Mosquito" Famous
any address on receipt Of the retail prlce.
Two sizes 10 and 25 cts. Address Arthur Peter
& Co, Louisville. KY. A few drops rubbed on
hands,, face and arms keeps mosquitoes away.
Beauty is the only thing chat consoles some
women for being women.
The Opelousas courier., 1899-09-02

Perhaps more young women would MARI
If the girls father could afford it.
The Opelousas courier., 1899-09-02
Deauty Is Blood Deep.

The candidates put UP their money and the
)vrers make their choice.
The Opelousas courier., 1899-09-02
Th,uaan6s IF itchy PeOplo

Perhaps a little publication by fire will be
! good thing for Coney island.
The Opelousas courier., 1899-09-02

rusaIcm, That made me V1ctCry OF Geln-
semane and the grandeur Of Calvary.
Morning appeal. [volume] (Carson City, Nev.) 1877-1906, 1899-05-11
Notice to, Creditors

Notice is hereby given that the un-
dersigned has been duly appointed and
qualified by the District Court, First
judicial District of the State of Ne
vada, in and for Ormsby county, as
Ad ministratrix of the estate of Ann
McEwen, late of said county, deceased,
that such appointment was made on
the 9th day of February, 1899.
All creditors having claims against
said estate are required to file the same
with proper vouchers attached, with
the Clerk OF said above entitled Court,
within three months after first publi-
cation of this notice.
Dated Caraon, New, Elizabeth NJ.
Chandler,
March ~, 1879. Admins tratrix
of estate of Anu
McEwen, de-
ceased.
Morning appeal. [volume] (Carson City, Nev.) 1877-1906, 1899-05-11
AT THE BARGAIN COUNTER.
An Incident which Illustrates One OF
the Things That marks the
Woman shopper.

January sales in the State street
stores are sometimes the occasion Of
small bargain-COunter riots. AS soon
as one woman sees another looking at a
four-yard remnant she decides imme-
dlately that she wants that particular
piece herself. Two women were pricing
a piece of percale in one of the Gig es-
adjustments, says Chicago exchange.
Up came two other women, evidently
much perturbed
There, she's got it in her hand;
shes going to take it," walled one Il
told you it would be gone before we got
back"
But you surely didn't think I'd 90
off and leave those nicessuede gloves at
40 cents?" retorted the other. in self
defense, at the same time gazing hun
grily at the little piece of percale. The
shopper who was lingering the goods
turned to the two women and said, po-
itely:
Il hadn't ordered it. You may have
it." and walked away.
Left in possession Of the field the
would-be purchaser cast a careless
glance at the remnant and turned
sweetly to the clerk. II think. after
all, l don't care for this percals," she
said
Aud the clerk was mean enough te
mutter: Just like a woman"