The Opelousas courier., 1899-03-11

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| bushes lit up the car with a lurid
light, and then amid Unsurpassed tit
tiers she arose and got out without a
word, followed by her giggling com
rade.-Cleveland Plain Dealer.
Conquer the Earth.
Those Europeans never will under
stand American institutions. Her
they have gone and prohibited poke
In Vienna on the ground that 1t is
game Of chance. OF course hat is tn
dictionary definition, says the Broot
Ign Eagle, but any man who has eve
kept his feet warm with three fi%'
spots and bluffed out a man with thre'
kings knows that It is a game OF cour
age and that the race Is not to tn
swift, but to the nan who believes i
himself. AS an indication of characte'
poker beats phrenology hands down
1t is the nations of great poker play
ers who conquer the earth. Shafter
who will send more prisoners home
from Cuba than he ever had soldier
there, understands the philosophy O.
1ackpots, while when poor Toral gam
bled he took chances at roulette and
faro, games admirably adapted to the
genius of the superstitious Spaniard
because fate, a rank outsider, controls
the result. In poker every man is his
oWn fate. That is why Americans play
1T and why Gen. Schenck, who taught
1t to the British, was a more popular
minister than many a better diplomat.
Gen. Miles, who, when 1t became evil
dent that Gen. Skaters force was not
large enough II the Spaniards really
chose to fight, and things were look
Ing pretty blue at Washington, advised
the demand for the unconditional sur
render at Santiago, Is probably a bad
man to meet in a. quiet after-dinner
game. His bluff and its wonderful re-
suits indicate a f1rst-class poker play
er, with an unimpaired circulation. AS
for the Rough Riders, poker was the
common ground on which the western
and eastern contingents met and fused.
These two branches have many COM
plimentary things to say Of each 9th
er's courage in the charge through the
Cuban underbrush, but they knew all
about each others good qualities long
before the first transport cast anchor.
That is why they fought side by side
with such absolute confidence. They
knew no mar in the band would draw
out while he had a ghost Of a show.
Instead Of prohibiting poker, the Aus
TRANS ought to learn to play it. Then
they wouldn't play second fiddle to
Germany so much as they do now. AS
a training ground for courage and
Judgment it Is worth all the gambling
games of Monte Carlo and the rest OF
the continent put together. Good
poker players and good fighters are
pretty nearly synonymous.
If you want to pick a flaw in human
ity begin at home: If a woman dresses
with taste she ought to look good
enough to eat. If poetry runs in the
veins some poets should be run in by
the police. II a man makes a fool OF
himself owe a woman she is usually
satisfied. If a woman Is fair that
doesn't prevent her from being unfair
at times. II a man lacks enthusiasm
It takes him twice as long to accom-
plish a task. II half the world worked
less the other half wouldn't be worked
so often. II q man doesn't use his head
in his business he is sure to put his
foot in it. II 1t wasn't for an occa-
sional funeral lots Of men would never
see the inside Of q church. II women
were satisfied with natures handiwork
there would be fewer toilet prepare
lions on the market.
His Sorrow.
Jones-Hello, Robinson, why are
you looking so glum? Robinson-You
know my rich uncle, the one whose
heir I an to be? yes" well, he
has been travelling in the Alps, and
last week he slipped and fell down a
crevasse." and was killed, eh?"
NO. ha got off all right"
Piso's Cure for Consumption 10 an A MOL
Asthma medicfne.-W. r. WILLIAMS. Anti.
och. III. April IL 1884.
Cloth is now being successfully made from
wood.
California has a club of left-handed per-
sons with over 1900 members.