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Evening journal., 1900-09-22
street Car Tramc DELAYED

BY the upsetting Of one OF the
Wilmington Transfer C0mpany's wag-
ems yesterday, Front street car traffic
wac delayed about fifteen minutes
Evening journal., 1900-09-22
Cleaning un Grounds

A. s. Reed and Brother Company
have force of men cleaning up the
grounds about the new High Schcol
building.
Evening journal., 1900-09-22
clnsn nr Colnrcd Cnmn

After continued and successful ser
vices the A. U. NJ. p. camp meeting, in
south Wilmington, VIII cease to-mor-
row
Evening journal., 1900-09-22

Alexander NJ. DAILY. Of Dover, the
Democratic candidate for Congress,
was in Wilmington to-day.
Evening journal., 1900-09-22
Poncador Rcpubllcans Meet

Colorcd Republicans of Poncader
hundred held q meeting In Iron Hin
last night.
Evening journal., 1900-09-22

Second ward Republicans Meet
Second ward Republicans held a IN et-
ing yesterday in South Wilmington. at
which several addresses were made.
Evening journal., 1900-09-22
Personal

LADIES-Chlchester'f.-Inglish Penny.
royal pills, Diamond Brandy are the
best. Slfo reliable. Take no other. Send
&c.. stamps for particulars. "Ncicf for
Ladies'" ia letter by return mail Al
druggists. Chichester Chemical Co,
Philadelphia. Pa
Evening journal., 1900-09-22
HELP WANTED

WANTED drlu runners. s28
per day 90 men of experiences. JOHN J.
Front street wharf
s22-lt
WANrEp-Breht boy TO learn print
Ing. Give age and good references. Ad
dress PRINTER. Journal Onice. sat.
WANTED.-An apprentice at No. 200
King street s22-i
WANTED. Man. upright character TO
manage business of old-cstahlished house.
Salary fiS per week and expenses, pay
phlo each week direct from headquarters.
.Txnenrc money advanced. Position per-
mnnont Reference Standard House. 3u
.CaxtOn Building, Chicago.
al5.fl.1 .1 3i2g-oi,66.
WANTED Young man OF experience
os clerk desires position. Address O.. this
enice. alo-u
Evening journal., 1900-09-22
Monday, September 24th,
THE Distinguished Artistic,
Mrs. Sarah CoweIl LeMoy ne

IIER FAMOUS COMPANY.
The hirhest-aaiarlod mnp0rdns company
now on the American stage.
It includes wilton Lnckaye. the creatQi
of Svonpuu, On "rulhy,' Reb nhemnel IN
"Chidron of the Ghetto etc, etc hoh-
eva riaeon. tho ORIGINAL "litfle Minis
ter" with Maude Adams. John olendin-
ming. the Laird in lhe famous itiip3
production: Walter Thomas, the MT
of Hsccret Service with William ON
lette. FLORENCE Rockwell. late leading We
nnu with Stuart Rohsoni Adelaide
Thurston. lately q star in the hmpire
Theatre succcascs Charles Stanley, haf-
rlett sterling. Edward James and twenty
other popular metropolitan players r,
Presenting "a new play hy Harriet f"i"
md nnnIrlnn nnMMn lnullol
Evening journal., 1900-09-22
BOARD AND ROOMS.

wANTED.-Lodgcrs. No. $40 Washing
ton street n39-lm
Evening journal., 1900-09-22
FoR RENT.

FOR RENT.-Brick stable with three
stalls and carriage house, centrally To
Gated, rent So per month Apply LaWtoi
Optical Company $40 Market street.
The Opelousas courier., 1900-02-10
Oriental Birds Are Wise.

Many birds suspend their nests from
the branches of trees, m of the most
curious nests of that kind being that
of the baya bird of India. It is hung
from the branch with its opening at
the bottom and hangs like an inverted
bottle, as to be secure from the ap-
proach of tree snakes and other rep
tiles. The most curious thing about the
baya bird is that it is said to light up
it's net by sticking fire flies on Its sides
with clay or soft mud. There seems to
be little doubt Of the fact. DR.. Buch-
anan says: eat night each of the habi-
tations is lighted up by a fire fly stuck
in the top with a piece of clay. The
nest consists of two rooms; sometimes
there are three or four fire flies, and
their blaze in the little cells dazzles the
eyes Of the bats, which often destroy
the young of the bird" Perhaps other
animals are scared of by the baya
birds electric light, since a writer In
| Nature records this curious oservationa
r-nsRye been informed on safe author
ity that the Indian bottle bird protects
his nest at night by sticking several OF
these glow beetles around the entrance
by means OF clay; and only a few days
back an intimate friend Of my own was
watching three rats on a roof rafter OF
his bungalow, when a glowfy lodged
! very close to them; the rats immedi-
ately scampered off."-Our Animal
Friends.
The Opelousas courier., 1900-02-10

mine? If so, you can appreciate some
of the dangers of mining. A coal mine
is like a great catacomb. It is q city
underground, the walls of which in
many cases are upheld by timbers.
Now and then you come to room out
of which the coal has been cut. The
coal is taken down with blasting pow
der, ard there is danger of the wall
falling and Of the miners being
crushed.
There is also danger from fire damp,
or the union of the gases of the mine
brought together By the light from q
lamp or candle. This causes a great
explosion. It comes like q stroke of
lightning, and with q clap of thunder.
As the explosion occurs g roaring
whirlwind of fame goes through the
tunnels, pulling down the timbers and
caving in the walls. It burns every
thing within reach. Miners are
blinded, scorched and sometimes
burned to cinders. Hundreds have
often been killed at a time by such
explosions. and by the food of cur
bonic acid aud gas which follows them.
The statistics show that ven in the
United States n miner is killed for
every hundred thousand tons of coal
mined, and those who are injured
number many times this proportion.
The Opelousas courier., 1900-02-10
A Cemetery Of Prehistoric Midyets,

Workmen terracing King hill, an old
landmark of Northwestern Missouri,
which is to be converted into a resi-
dence suburb of st. Joseph, have I'M
earthed a prehistoric cemetery. The re-
mains Of q race of dwarfs, not allied
with any tribe known to have inhablt-
ed this territory and u~naccounted for
by Indian legendary, repose on the
summit Of King hill. A feature re-
markable III itself and especially
marked In connection with the dwarf
ish remnants of prehistoric man found
in this summit is the discovery of hui
man bones, evidently those of a giant,
probably more than seven feet tall,
and big boned.
Low, fiat heads, with small inteli-
gence and marked animal p~ropensities'
characterized this people. Heavy jaws
and strong, we'll preserved teeth carry
the record of their lives forward
Brutes, human, but inhumane, self re
liant, they are savages of a lower order
than any we know today. Yet they
honored their dead. Shells such as are
found on the banks of many inland
streams, plentiful on the sandbars OF
the Missouri, overlooked by King hill,
and stones Of unusual hues, worthless
in the commercial marts Of today, the
playthings of children, were reposited
in the grayes.-Correpondence OF the
Chicago Record.
The Opelousas courier., 1900-02-10
Farmer Armour's Acorn Deal,

T. D. Armour, late in his life, has
returned to his first love, and is now
living on a farm near Oconomowoc, on
account Of his health. Any day he can
be seer directing the work Of the
"hired hands," experimenting the
building of corn cribs and generally
showing the influence of his early
training. The people Of the neighbor-
hood say he is a shrewd horse trader.
and is feeding the latest hogs that
have been seen in that section for
twenty years.
Long ago, before Mr.. Armour en-
barked on his career as a financier, he
entertained the theory that the best
feed for pigs is acorns. Accordingly, as
soon as he took up farming again, he
sent out word that he would pay q
cents q bushel for acorns delivered In
the farmyard. He got enough in q
week to feed all the pig around Ocono'
mowoc, but he also got a note from the
district school teacher, which read az
follows:
Dear Sir: When you offered to pay
25 cents for acorns there were sixty
scholars In my school. Now the regu
lar attendance Is about ten. In the
interest of education, I wish you would
suspend your operations for a more IA
yorable season."
Farmer Armour saw the point ant
acted Observation-Disclosures Enquir
or
The Opelousas courier., 1900-02-10
Camel Saddles.

The saddle was of wood throughout,
with broad fans, the splay of which
could be altered to suit a camel's back
without much trouble by the native
saddler attached to each company; the
pad was removable-leather outside,
soft felt inside, the stufing being OF
hair, and, by a system of pockets. this
hair stufing could be removed and
shifted at viii, so as to alter the pres
sure and prevent it hardening and
forming into Jumps, the men being
taught to constantly remove and pull
the stufIing out of their saddles.
Each saddle was fitted with one large
leather "khorg," or bag, containing si1
days forage, and with two smaller
ones containing the riders food ant
spare clothing; besides which each maj
was provided with two waterskins II
be filled according to requirements
Thus equipped, a seven days deser
trip could be undertaken, II there wer'
wells containing sufficient to water tn
camels about every third day.-Corn
hill Magazine.
The Opelousas courier., 1900-02-10

The first coal found in America was
near Ottawa. Illinois. It is mentioned
by Father Hennepin, a French ex-
plorer, who visited there in 1879.
The first mines worked yer about
Richmond, Va. This coal was dis
covered by a boy while out fishing.
he was hunting for crabs for bait
in q small creek, and thus stumbled
upon the outcroppings Of the James
River coal bed. Our anthracite coal
fields have perhaps paid better than
any other coal fields OF the world.
They were discovered by a hunter
named Nicho Allen, when George
Washington was President. Aller
encamped one night in the Schuylkil
regions, kindling his fire upon somt
The Opelousas courier., 1900-02-10

how to use it, and 1t was very unpop-
ular. Some of it was shipped to Phil
adelphia by a Colonel Shoemaker and
sold there. It was not at ell satisfac-
tory, and a writ was gotten out from
the city authorities, d%enouncing the
colonel as o knaye and scoundrel for
trying to impose rocks upon them as
coal. Still Philadelphia has largely
been built up by anthracite coal, and
so, 600, 600 tons of this coal were taken
out Of the Pennsylvania fields in 1896.
Since then SO ne ofthese coal lands
have been sold as high as $1,000 an
acre, and the Philadelphia and Read
ing Company, in 1871, paid $40, OO0,.
900 for 100, 900 acres of coal land in
this region.
It is hard to estimate the enormous
amount of money the United States
makes out of its coal. We get more
than three times as much ont of our
coal mines as out of our gold mines,
and the silver metal is not in it with
Che black diamonds. There is a little
region in eastern Pennsylvania, about
a hundred and twenty-five miles from
Philadelphia, and not more than two
hundred miles from New York. which
produces every year coal to a greater
| value than all the gold mines of the
The Opelousas courier., 1900-02-10
Few il any industries could now be

Few if any industries could now be
conducted protitabay without the aid
of chemistry, observes the San Fran
cisco Chronicle. It reveals to the
farmer the value o. the soil he tills
and the crops to which it is best
adapted; to the miner the contents Of
the rock he rends from the earth's
formations and the value of the min
erals it contains; to the manufacturer
the nature of the elements with which
he must deal to obtain the best re-
suits. Other sciences bring the nat
ural enemies of man under his con-
troll and enable him to distinguish
friend from foe in both animate and
inanimate creation. They help him
to unfold the secret forces of nature
and teach him how to direct them to
do his bidding in the struggle for ex-
istence SO that he may derive from
life the greatest degree of happiness
and comfort.
The Opelousas courier., 1900-02-10
Swiss Schools Of Agriculture.

Switzerland was the home of the
philauthropist and educator Fellen-
burg. His school, established in Ho-
pyl in 1906, was a philanthropy in aid
of the peasantry, concerning whom
he said that, possessing nothing but
bodies and minds, the cultivation of
these was the only antidote for their
poverty. At least three thousand pu-
pills received their education in agri-
culture here. The Federal Polytech-
mic School at Zurich is the nations
pride. Out of six courses of superior
training which it provides for its one
thousand students, forestry and agri-
culture count as two. Five universe
ties and numerous special schools
furnish aid to agricultural education.
w. E. De Riemer, in Appletons'
Popular Science Monthly.
The Opelousas courier., 1900-02-10
A Marriage Made in Heaven.

At q recent wedding all went mer.
rily until the bridegroom was called
upon to produce the wedding-ring.
In vain no felt in his newly-cre ased
trousers packet for tie indispensable
trife. Nothing could be found Except
a hole through which the riyg had
evidently fallen. What E2BJo do?
Suddenly a happy thought struck the
parson.
stake your shoe off," he said.
The suspense and silence vas pain.
full. The organist, at the c~lergyman's
bidding, struck up q voluntary.
The young man removed his shoe.
The ring was found, also a hole in his
stocking, and the worthy minister re-
marked, evidently with more than the
delay of the ceremony on his mind:
young man, it's high time you
were married"
The Opelousas courier., 1900-02-10

he life is not an alluring one. The
SAY is small, the work hard and the
hangers still many. The only really
,leasant way TO be connected with o
loal mine is as the owner of one.
Our Appalachian coal fields alone
sould supply the world with fuel for
senturies. They are the largest and
:ichest known, and they r SO stu
lied that the coal can be shipped from
hem long distances by water. From
Pittsburg coal can be carried for
eighteen thousand miles on navigable
.treams, and the CRATE fires OF eIe
South blaze with the rays from the
slack diamonds from Pennsylvania.
The Ohio River is the great coal chute
sor the Mississippi valley. The coal
b carried down it in great barges,
pushed by little steamers, and 80 fast
med together that a single steamer
viii push acres of coal. Loads of
twenty thousand tons are taken. A
vast amount of coal is carried on the
canals and the great lakes from one of
he chief highways of the coal traffic.
The amount of coal carried on the
railroads is almost beyond conception.
The Philadelphia and Reading has
more than Fifty thousand coal cars,
Hhich are dragged by nine hundred
goal locomotives. These cars are kept
busy in carrying anthracite coal. The
Pennsylvania Railroad employs more
han seventy thousand I for the
novement Of its coal and coke trade,
and the Central Railroad Of New Jer.
sey carries about Ave million tons o.
anthracite coal every year. More Goa
b handled at New York than at any
sther place in the world except Lon
don, more than fifteen million sstoni
being used or transshipped at tina
point annually.
The coal miners lire a. poorly 81
Any other class of workmen in thu
The Opelousas courier., 1900-02-10

Inst ct this season, when the worla
Ls full of brides, aud sunbursts and
stars end other dazzling gifts Of the
krsom'' seem as common as plain gold
wedding rings, a hint on how to clean
diamonds artfully may not come amiss'
The stones should arst be washed In
warm water ana yellow soapsuds, with
q small but not too hard brush. Rinss
and dry them carefully with q soft
cloth or silk handkerchief, and put
them into a box containing lockwood
dust. Move them about in this for
some time until they seem perfectly
dry, free them from the powder and
nofish with tissue paDeF:
The Opelousas courier., 1900-02-10
HFan,s 1nhu,naniry to Aran.

Are the men as considerate OF the
men a. women are Of women? When
an engagement is announced the girls
friends give her doilies, linen, lats
things, teacups, etc., but does an9
one give the man anything? On the
contrary, his creditors become par
ticularly active, knowing that his ex-
penses will soon be larger. when it
will be harder to collect from him.
No engaged man was ever called upon
by other men and presented with
socks tied with light blue ribbon or 9
pair OF new suspenders with pink
bows on. All the attention he gets
from the men consists of guYing.--
Atchison GlChe.
The Opelousas courier., 1900-02-10

Rockies, Canada and Alaska. It is
our anthracite coal fields which turn
out between so, 0OO, 900 and 60, 900, 600
tons of anthracite every year. We
have in addition to this a hundred and
thirty odd million tons of bituminous
coal annually. We have, in short, the
biggest and best coal measures on the
globe. It is estimated that our coal
east of the Rocky Mountains covers
192, 600 square miles, and within the
past few years coal has heen found in
many parts of the Far West. Colo
RADIO will eventually be a great manu-
featuring State on account of it's coal.
The Opelousas courier., 1900-02-10

BY local applications, as they cannot reach the
diseased portion of the ear, There is only one
tionel remedies. b afneas Is caused By an n
aamsd condition of the mucous lining of the
gustachian Tube. WheR this tube gets in
fecG hearing, and when IL Is Q SArely closed
Deafness | the result, and unless the ipfam-
nation can be taken out and this tube re-
stored to It's normal condition, hearing will be
destroyed forever. Nine cases out Of ten are
Maeed by catarrh, which is nothing batan in-
famed tenditioA Of the mucous snYfacea.
We viii give One Hupdted Dollars foe any
case Of Deafness. (eeused by catarrh) that can.
aok be cured by Halls Catarrh ure. Send
for circulars, free,
r. J. OaRNpY q Co, Toledo. O.
Sold by Druggists, &c.
Halls Family Pills are the hest,
The Opelousas courier., 1900-02-10
.rananesa Women pixers.

Over one hundred Japanese women,
following the hazardous profession Of
divers, are found along the coast of
the peninsula. They are divided into
four patches, and their ages range
from seventeen to thirty. They come
almost exclusively from Shima, Mi
We ken, a noted fishery centre in ia
bar Their earnings are, OF course,
not uniform, as they are paid accord
ing to the amount of their work, which
consists in diving for agar-agar sea,
weed, sea-ear, sea-cucumber and SO
forth.-Japanese Weekly News.
The Opelousas courier., 1900-02-10
Annual Catch of Holsters.

Fifteen years ago the annual catch
Of Holsters along the New England
coast exceeded 1o0,000,O00, and over
$4,000 men were employed In the in.
dustry. Of this business Maine fur
nished more than one-half, but to-day
over 90 per cent. of the canned lobs-
ters are brought frors the British prov
inces.
The Opelousas courier., 1900-02-10

When two handsome, smooth-facea,
smiling young bluejackets jumped into
a hanson for q little spin, they set
tied back into the cushions with EVIL
dent enjoyment Of sitting thus in the
stern sheets instead Of laboring at the
BAR, The cabman let down the win
dowg en- both sides to give the boys
pleuty OF air. Then he mounted to his
seat. and away they went, rounding
the FIRST corner they came to close
hauled on the s~tarboard tack, and sail
ing down Broadway at forty knots an
hnrr
The Opelousas courier., 1900-02-10

This is q question that should interest every
one. It Is a blot upon our fair lahd-a symP..
ON Of governmental i'll. health. The right
laws would ao' as speedily upon it as Hostel
ter's stomach Bitters noes upon constipation,
or dyspepsia. They would quickly clear II
just what the Bitters does for the human con-
sti usion. II make tkJ stomach strong by
curing indigestion, b|iliousness and liver
trouble,
The Opelousas courier., 1900-02-10
nretrnod Of strengthenlng the Lungs.

Strengthening the lungs, especially
the apexes, may be done by blowing
through a small pipestem or tube that
will allow the breath to pass out Slow
". FirSt fill the lungs with good air.
then blow with steady force vigorous
" but not violently. A few times
daily will be suficient-Ladies Home
Journal.
The Opelousas courier., 1900-02-10
IN A COAL MINE.
How Our Black. Diamonds Are Dug
From the Earths
7 HE Illustrations
give q fair idea of the method
of living and working in @

4FAS "SAAAA6 Az %
& Pennsylvania coal mine,
thousand of feet from pure air and
sunshine. The human workers at
least got a small share of both these
requisites, but the mine mules have
40 such breathing spells. The ami.
NAL shown in one Of the illustrations
has not been in the open air for five
years, and he has not been o prisoner
nearly SO long as many of his fellows.
The life of q coal miner has improved
sastly of recent years. Many of the
features that used to shorten his life
and make ii one of extreme hazard
aave been eliminated, or atleast greatly
:educed in danger. The air is purer,
ihe danger of that greatest of terrors
fire damp-has been reduced to a
minimum through more intelligent
methods than those of former days
and the Introduction of improved ma
,hinery, the greatest factor in the
Rorkman's safety being the non-ex-
plosive Davy lamp, with which a miner
may fe~arlessly enter . pocket full oil
explosive gas.
But with all these new safeguards
The Opelousas courier., 1900-02-10

they are out of money they are given
orders to leave. Many of the houses
have nothing more than two rooms
and a kitchen, and in some places the
only stores at which the miners can
trade are the company's stores. With
all this the American miners are far
better off than the miners of other
countries.
Have you ever been down in a coal
The Opelousas courier., 1900-02-10

When Rudyard Kipling rubbed us
down with his "'White Mans Burden"
he did not include in his mental
vision the Beers Of South Africa, who
are as white as we are, and who want
to divide the burden with the people
of Great Britain.
The Opelousas courier., 1900-02-10

black stones. He awoke to and him-
self almost roasted. The stones were
on Hre, and anthracite was burning
for ihe first time. Shortly after this
& company was organized to sell an
thracife coal. It was taken around to
We blacksmithss but they didn't know
The Opelousas courier., 1900-02-10

Clean blood means q clean skir- N
beauty without it. Cascarets, Candy CathaE
tic clean your blood and keep it clean, b!
stirring up the Jay, liver and driving all in
Danish pimples, boiIs, biotchss, blackheada
and thai sickly bilious complexion by takinI
Cascarets beauty for ten cents. All drug
gists, satisfaction guaranteed. l0c. Csc. SOC.
The Opelousas courier., 1900-02-10

The Chicago physiological school
has been incorporated by President
Harper, of the University of Chicago.
The children, at present limited to
fifteen in number, will be boarded in
the school and kept under close sur
" ~illance. 1t is hoped by keeping
records of such study to reach some
logical conclusions to determine what
environment will do for the children
who fail to develop normally. #
The Opelousas courier., 1900-02-10

A pointer for the handling of horses
may be taken from the fact that Rus
STA has no %runaways. Every driver
there prepares O thin cord in the shape
of q running moose round the horses
neck. When the animal bolts the
cord is pulled and all desire to run
is soon choked out of hlm.
The Opelousas courier., 1900-02-10

It is estimated on good authority
that the grand total circulation OF
American newspapers and publica-
tions is {, $500, OOO,O 900 copies. They
contain 200, 900 advertisements in
each collective issue, and cast the ad-
vertisers each year $3.50, 900, 600.
The Opelousas courier., 1900-02-10

Economy is the cardinal principle
Of success, but then it's easier to
economic when you have something
upon which to economize.
The Opelousas courier., 1900-02-10

FROM the Kansas City Journal: AZ
Rellevil.e there were two sick little
boys who were eating their hearts out
because they could not see the circus
parade. Mr.. Sells, the circus proprie"
tor. came to heAr oR these boys, and he
asked the mayor OF the town to show
him where the lads lived. It was not
on one of the principal streets, but
~regaruIess ct that Mr.. Sells had the
whole parade pass along that way, and
the two l.stle invalids sat IN a window
and viewed 1t. 1t wasn't much. bat II
Ia calculated to Auuce uneasiness
among tnose who have been cocksuro
that no circus man can enter the king
dom of heaven =
Stranger have heard that you
have a good many queer people in SSis
town. Citizen-As odd a lot as yoI ID
find in a years travel. They are a
queer set, the whole OF 'em, outside my
family. And my wife Is almost as bad
as the others; but then, you know, she
wasn't originally Of nay famiy.-Boston
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