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The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1900-05-02

SR5-CC9ost $3.50 OO-An extra beautfeu,
is st Muster Diamond Ring; the shanb
monds, an azure turquois in center rite g ulq-
t tIa , by white brilliant diamonds.
me tbg mounting is of the very finest iS.l5
n aIS ring IS something out of the ordi,
HaIy ana is exquisite. Al IvtIe,1
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1900-05-02

GiE-Would be cheap at S75.00-Gentle-
VIZ mans diamond locket AK. Ola.
mond weighs q carat; brilliant white
stone.
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1900-05-02

COTE be bought for less than
VUIO $600.0 0-A pair of Diamond Ear
screws; diamonds weigh 4 carats; alb
T,VtIe'S
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1900-05-02

$75mwQrth $14oOO-Diamond ear-screws
iOIbE TWO diamonds weigh IL carats
RIuc-white perfect, brilliant: nicely cut
= and perfectly matched
Another pair for 5000 Of the same
quality that are worth 5000. Al
I,ytle'S
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1900-05-02

S1nEWould be cheap at 25Oo-.2-stor,o
rich o diamond na ring. The diamonds are
In color and fawless x ,jt' NJ ~ peIfect
IA carat. At LytIes. nus 'Nelsh
The Opelousas courier., 1900-12-08

The hot sunfowers by the glarfng pike
Lift shields of sultry brass; the teasel-
P~ink-thorned, advance with bristling
spike on spike
Against the furious sunlight. Field and
copse
Are sick with summer; now, with
breathless stops,
The locusts cymbal; now g~rasshoppers
beat
Their c~astanets; and rolled in dust. a
Like some mean life lost in its sorry
dream
An empty wagon rattles through the heat.
Where now the blue-streaked flags? the
flowers whose mouths
Are moist and musky? where the sweet
breathed mint,
That made the brook-bank herby? where
the South's
Wild morning-glories, rich in hues, that
hint
AT coming showers that the rainbows
tint?
Where all the blossoms that the wildwood
knows?- q.
The frail oxalis hidden in it's ~leaves;
The Indian-pipe, pale as a soul that
The freeEiedi toueh.me-not. and forest
rose.
The Opelousas courier., 1900-12-08
winter Than q shirt.

Inventors have a power of aDstrac-
ton which serves them a good turn
on some occasions, and is liable to be.
tray them into strange statements on
others.
80 you think you have perfected
your little machine at last, do you? ~
asked the lawyer of his dreamy-eyed
client.
Eyes, it's all right now; there is not
a flaw In it," said the inventor. ."But
/ can assure you. sir, that when it
anne to making the final test / Wits
frightened. / happened to see my face
in the mirror when the thing was
safely over, and it was MS white as
your shirt, sir. In fact" he added,
bending an Impartial gaze On the law
yer's shirt front, 1T was whiter-con-
~siderably whittier, / should say"
The Opelousas courier., 1900-12-08
On the Edge of an Ahzsc.

In the second concluding chapter OF
MS notes on the Hartman expedition
A Summer Holiday in Bering Sea-
John Burroughs describes in the
Century a more or less thrilling expert
ence ON the island OF st. Matthew.
The highest point of the island was
enVeioped most of the time in fog and
cloud. While cropping his way upon
one OF these level SUBMITS, probably
fifteen hundred feet above the sea
which flowed at it's base, I came sud-
denly upon a deep cleft, or chasm,
which opened in the moss and flow
ers at my feet and led down between
crumbling rocky walls at a fearful
Incline to the beach. It gave n a
sense Of peril that made him pause
quickly. The wraiths of fog and mist
whirling through and over it en-
HANGED its dreadful mystery and
depth. Yet Il lowered about it. re.
treating and returning, quite fasci-
mated by the contrast between. the
smooth. fowery carpet. upon which I
stood and the terrible yawning chasm.
When the fog lifted a little and the
sun cleaned out, I looked down this
groove into the ocean, and Tennyson's
line in 1.-THE Eagle" came to mind as
accurG ssely descriptive of the scene.
The Wrfnkled e beneath him crawls.
Another curious effect was the bottom
OF the sea visible a long way out from
shore. The water seemed suddenly
to become shallow; or else to take on
q strange transparency; the color and
conformation of the rocky floor were
surprisingly distinct.
The Opelousas courier., 1900-12-08

There are many people who pass
through exposures to contagion OF ty-
phoid fever and kindred diseases with
ont suffering the least harm. This often
leads them to deny the existence of
the dangers on which physicians insist
SO strenuously. Professor Virchow of
the University OF Berlin, has pub
lished an article in which he accounts
for the immunity Of the many who
Withstand exposure by saying that
9 person in perfect health has no cause
to fear microbes.
The Opelousas courier., 1900-12-08
Thackeray and the sugar nraples,

Apropos of the lapses Of writers
there is one by Thackeray, to which
| have never seen any allusion. In
the ~ffty-second chapter of the "Vir'
ginians." George Warrington. in tell
ing of his escape from Fort Duquesne,
says: Nov, the leaves were Eegin.
ming to be tinted with the magnificent
hues of u autumn. = = . AT this
time of year the hunters who live in
the mountains get their sugar from
the naples. We came upon more than
such family camping near their
trees by the mountain streams ]
was born In Vermont. and when, In
my early youth, ! struck the passage.
my head gaeled Tor q good long time,
= 9oatoa T~gsuscript.
The Opelousas courier., 1900-12-08
DRouTH.

Dead! deadi all dead beside The drouth
burnt brook,
shrouded in moss or in che shriveled
grass;
Where waved their b~ells,-from which the
wild-bee shook
The dew-drop ~once,-gaunt, in a night
mare mass,
The rank weeds crowd; through which
the cattle pass,
Thirsty and lean, seeking some meagre
spring,
Closed in with thorns on which stray
bits of wool
The painting sheep have left, that sought
the cool,
From morn to evening dearly wandering.
No bird is heard; no throat to whistle
awake
The sleepy hush; to let it's music leak,
Fresh, bubblelike, through bloom-roofs Of
the brake;
Only the gray-blue heron, famine-weak,
Searching the stale pools of the min
nowless creek
Utter it's call; and then the rain-crow,
too,
False prophet now, croaks to the stag.
nant air;
While overhead,-still as if painted
A buzzard hangs, black on the burning
blue.
Madison Cawein, in Harper's Magazine.
The Opelousas courier., 1900-12-08

Il is 9 fact that many young men
to-day desire to reach the goal of sue
cess at once, and success, as they un-
derstand It, means the acquisition Of
great wealth. That such young men
should rail at the modern methods Of
business is entirely natural. for, ex-
cept In rare instances, great fortunes
are made only by exceptionally able
men. who are ready il need be to work
Ike . galley slave twelve or fourteen
hours q day for the best part OF their
hVes, observes the New York Tribune.
The Opelousas courier., 1900-12-08

President Charles +. Thwing, of
Western Reserve University, Cleve-
land, recently delivered an address be-
fore the University OF West Virginia
o. AThe American University and Pa
triotisn." He said. in brief: .The
higher the larger. the finer the motive.
the greater Is the appeal which it
makes to the heart of the college man.
The universities have ever been the
nurse OF the widest spirit of humanity.
~ feudai times they were q protest
against feudaIism, and in modern
times and over the modern world thew
have embodied the aggressive shirt.
Liberty ana humanity have been ana
are the rallying cries Of the college
man. The universities were on the
side OF the people in the struggle Of
democracy IN France. The uniyersi-
ties fought FOR national unity il Ttalv.
e Russia the universities Represents
enc wisesr ard most serious endeavor
9 national enlightenment. n Ger
many The universities are tho least til.
eEant O. oil rapFesslya measures which
supals Ehs freedom 81 ssthps taachina
af learains,g
The Opelousas courier., 1900-12-08

He looked at her surprised and eager
"Do you really think she might have
cared for me?"
ooh, you ought to have told her
ought to have asked her." she repeated
"Well-now you know why I went
away"
"Yes."
"When I heard Of her-her-her
death'-he could not bring himself to
say her s~uicide-"there was nothing
else for me to do. It was SO hideous,
so unutterable. To go on with my old
life, In the old place, among the old
people, was quite impossible. I want.
ed to follow her, to do what she had
done. The only alternative was to fly
as far from England, as far from my.
self, as I could"
"Sometimes,' Mrs. Kempton con-
fessed by-and-by, sometimes Won
dered whether, possibly, your disap-
pearance could have had any such on
nection with Mary's death-it followed
it so Immediately. / wondered some
times whether, perhaps, you had cured
for her. But I couldn't believe tit
was only because the two things hap
pened one upon the other. Oh, why
didn't you tell her? 1t is dreadful,
| DREADFUL"
When he left her she still sat for
a little while before the fire.
"Life Is a chance to make mistakes
a chance to make mistakes. Life is a
chance to make mistakes"
1t was a phrase she had met in a
book she was reading the other day.
Then she had smiled at it; now it rang
in her ears like the voice of O mock.
ing demon.
"Yes, a chance to make Mistakes"
she said, half aloud.
She rose and went to her desk, un-
locked a drawer, and turned over it's
contents, and took out a letter-an old
letter, for the paper was yellow and
the ink was faded. She came back to
the fireside, unfolded the letter, and
read 1t. 1t covered six pages Of note
paper, in a small feminine hand. It
was a letter Mary Isona had written to
her, Margaret Kempton, the night be-
fore b died, more than thirty years
ago. The writer reeounted the many
harsh circumstances of her life, but
they would all have been Dearable, she
said, save for n great and terrible
secret. She had fallen in love with
a man who was scarcely conscious Of
her existence; she, a little obscure Ital-
ian music teacher, had fallen in love
with Theodore Vellan. 1t was as If
she had fallen in love with an inhabit-
ant of another planet; the worlds they
respectively belonged to were far
apart. She loved him-she loved him
and she knew her love was hopeless
ana n could not bear 1t. Oh, yes! she
met him sometimes here and there, at
houses where she went to play, and to
give lessons. He was civil to her. he
was more than civii-he was kind; he
talked to her about literature and
music.
He is so gentle, SO strong, SO wise:
but he never thought of me as a wom-
ana woman who could love, who
could be loved. Why should he? If
the moth falls in love with the star, |
the moth must suffer I am /!
coWardly: / am weak; I am what you
viii; but I have more than I can bear.
Life is too hard-too hard. Tomorrow
l shall be dead. You will be the only
person to know why I died, and you
will keep my secret"
"Oh, the pity of 1.-THE pity of ftw
murmured Mrs. Kempton. 81 wonder
whether I ought to have shown him
Mary's letterT'-Waverley Magazine.
The Opelousas courier., 1900-12-08

From the list of peddlers have come
some Of the greatest captains of
finance. Jay Gould began business as
q peddler of rat traps. while Coils P.
Huntington's first business venture
was as a peddler Of clocks. They sold
excellent rat traps and clocks, and
thus laid the foundation OF their man.
moth fortunes.
The Opelousas courier., 1900-12-08

The San Francisco Call takes occa-
sion to throw this light on the eharac-
ter of a newspaper: 1T is a member
Of the social state with no lower func-
ton In morals than the pulpit itself,
and. through its superior command
Of publicity, with a greater power for
usefulness. provided it be controlled
by purity and courage"
The Opelousas courier., 1900-12-08

There is unusual activity among in
vento.s at present in the effort to
produce machines for mathematical
purposes. and perhaps the largest
number Of applications received st
the patent Office for any one line OF
inventions these days arc patents for
The Opelousas courier., 1900-12-08

According to the st. Paul Globe a
man who spent a couple of hours the
other day waiting for his wife at a
bargain sale was asked by his better
half after they had escaped what he
thought was the cheapest thing he
saw, and he was not far from right
In saying that he was.
The Opelousas courier., 1900-12-08

President McKinley's invitation to
former Presidents Harrison and Cleve-
land to accept places upon the Perma-
nent International Record of Arbitra-
ton Is a peculiarly happy answer to
the question, What shall we do with
our former Presidents?
The Opelousas courier., 1900-12-08

One Of the amusing features of a
popular farce comedy il the stealing
of a hot kitchen stove, but it remained
for some enterprising Montana thieves
to get away with $4,000 worth of gold
amalgam red hot from the retort. It
would be interesting to. know how
they suddenly reduced the tempera-
ture OF this loot.
The Opelousas courier., 1900-12-08

When Peter was kept in prison prayer
was made earnestly of the church for
him. We trust there is similar inter-
cession at family affairs and at church
gatherings today in behalf Of our mis-
scenarios shut up in China OF fleeing for
their lives.
The Opelousas courier., 1900-12-08

G

HEODORE VEL
Ian had been
out Of England
for more than
thirty Y e a $.
Thirty odd years
ago the set he
lived in had been
startled and myS-
The Opelousas courier., 1900-12-08

or THE
IMMACULATE : CONCEPTION.
oPELoUsAs,

OPELOUaAS, La.
6nder tho Direction Of the Sisters KaziaAlaal
Of Holy Cross.
Offers to young ladies every facility
for acquiring . thorough christian cd.
ucation. Constant attention is paid "a
home and social culture. Lessons ore
given in music, painting and Other
useful arts. The siEters also have
charge OF the boys school. The course
o. instruction ia two fold-pgaparasosy
and Commercial. French Ii taught 10
The two ooususa. Tos pastloulars..aa.
dress SISTER hUpERToR.
The Opelousas courier., 1900-12-08

1t is funny that China should have
discovered that the earth is a globe
1000 years before the so-called civil
lied nations eve suspected 1t.
The Opelousas courier., 1900-12-08

The modern pirate operates on a
steam launch and his booty is valuable
machinery. How extremely matter of
fact and commonplace!
The Opelousas courier., 1900-12-08

In arithmetic the Chinese were first
to invent the decimal systematic way
Of counting by tens, which has been
adopted by all nations except the Eng
fish
The Opelousas courier., 1900-12-08

The best chance ever offered of Sc
euring stock in a legitimate copper
mining enterprise.
Send for prospectus.
Organized company on q plan to
give a chance to all-big and little,
rich and poor, great and small, none
need be excluded. If quick you can
own 6 % shares for S1.0O, or 8 %
shares for every dollar you remit.
DAVID B. RUSSELL, President,
El P~rogresso Copper Mining Co.,
If So Wall Street. New York.
The Opelousas courier., 1900-12-08
178 PER CENT. ANNUALLY.
That's The POrft-Cepper tho Article
Mexico the Country.

Mexico the Country.
SCI Progreso" in it's group of six
mines has some Of the richest copper
ores III the richest mining country in
the world. Ore runs II rer cent
copper, II or. silver, a trace of gold,
total value about $43 a ton, and in two
of the mines, in addition to copper
and silver, ore contains 8 per cent. to
81 per cent. quicksilver or mercury,
about $105 a ton.
The great Lake Superior copper
mines Calumet and Hecla, Wolver.
inc, Tamerack, Quincy, etc..-that
annually return millions, run only
from So to IS a ton.
Boston and Montana 6 years ago
sold for $l5 a share. today 1915, pay.
ing 240 per cent. on Investment.
United Verde sold for 800 a share,
today stock not in the market and pays
1866 per cent. on investment.
! Calumet and Hacla sold for 81 q
share, today worth $500 and pays On
investment 10000 per cent.
Entire capital stock of the United
Verde was offered for $3.50, 900 and
refused Senator Clark, later, paid
$3.50, 600, and today he has an annual
income from this property of over
S13, 900, 900.
II this is possible here with labor
six times higher than in Mexico, with
ore five times less valuable, with fuel
five times dearer, and everything else
in proportion, do you doubt that FL
Progreso will return the l73 per cent.
and more, annually, to original IN
y~estors, to first sto ,kholders, who con.
tribute the money to start the ''bsH
rolling" who are on the ground
door?"
Am experienced, know tie country,
the people, the language, lived theirs
Is years, and know the mines of this
sect OIL Of Mexico, aad unhesItatingly
state Ell Progreso is the best; have
been worked for generations in a Mex
lean way, and supplied the copper for
the surrounding country. No attempt
ever made to extract the gold, silver
or quicksilver.
A modern 40 ton concentrating and
smelling plant-smelting only the $43
ore-will return 94O0, 600 per annum;
sbus $43, $40 for treatment, equals
e33 K 40 tons equals 81, 800 q day, for
300 days equals $685., 900. This will
day rs per cent. ON 81, 500, 900 total
capitalization. Par value of shares
s1.00. 900, 900 shares are treasury
stock, and 400, 600 of this is to bo sold
very low to raise money to start things
when price will be greatly advanced
100, 600 at 12c (all SOLO, 10O,-
900 - Ice, 1e9, zee At 200ts lee, 666 at
25c.
Dividend multiplied
II Stock by No of shares fog
Dnrchad No shares Annual sI. 90 show animal
The Opelousas courier., 1900-12-08

The total Increase in the value Of
the farm animals Of the United States
in the last three years was $570.o00.-
OOO.
The Opelousas courier., 1900-12-08
WIN JOEL SANDOZ.
Attorney at-laW and Notary Public
OPELOUsAs, Ia.

VIII practice in ell Oourts, State
and Federal, and before the Patent and
Pension Offices Cd Washington, q. g.
Shorthand snd Typewriting promptly
and carefully done. Once ovas &c
Lsadsy State .Rank. Naia. Street,
The Opelousas courier., 1900-12-08

=IHAI
The value Of newspaper as an
Advertising medium consists In
Its circulation.
When you can secure tho COM
bined circulation Of two papers
for the price Of one, it is money
saved!
"TThe st. Landry Democrat
was consolidated on the 3D. OF
March, 1894, with THE Opelou.
sas Courier" The advertising
rates have not been increased
while the price of subscription
has been reduced to 80 q year.
TILE COURIER being By odds
the best paper In the empire Par
l.h Of 81. Landry u tharasors tha
dAaDasa
The Opelousas courier., 1900-12-08
Opelousas Courier

u the advocate Of Democratic
principles and the friend oRths
people.
Their welfare ID its welfare, and
IL will ever be found defending
their rights with ell Of it9
ability.
Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1900-09-22

which ICES on our desk ls q very come
plete essay ON the advantages which the
institution offers
Alberto Jonas. who for the past four
years has been the professor Of piano
DO the Ann Arbor school Is the director
of Che new venture while his wife is as
s1g.ata director The aim % the Mi'hi-
gan conservatory win be- the attain
ment Of oxceIlenoy and perfection in
every branch, to promote and cultivate
healthy love for and understanding
of tha study of music. To- Keep before
the pupil. though the example oi tul-
ugut teachers. and by every means no
lbs command the principles of cons0Ien-
fi0usness. OF honesty and enthusiasm no
ones work to encourage those qualities
of moral courage. Of eltnestncss 100 iuI-
nIllng ones purpose, OF endurance ana
VIII power Of adherence Co lofty IDEALS
without which none win reach the dee
sired ends. TO develop the moral self
while acquiring knowledge, SKIN ana
proficiency. and Cos motto is. 'Ihe
greatest good 90 the pupil
The CORDS Of teachers numbers thirty
six. among them being soNcial masters
off national reputation. such as Alberto
JOINS Elsa won Grave Jonas Maurice
De Nilce Mrs luu2 parmater, iuil
Ern n j. Corey j. l.. Abel Jean Van
der Velpcn and Sayina G.. Eudherg
Instruction IN theory of music, hAr'
mny both written and practical
Counterpart composition urchestratiln.
analysis Musical form history of mu-
Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1900-09-22

Of general The first among our core
liglonists 10 receive this high, distinc.
ton was Dr. Elias Cohen. who has the
rank OF yice-admiraL Following the
example Of his predecessors, the sultan
has attached a Jewish doctor TO his per-
son. This position is held by Dr.. Elias
Cohen Pasha AT present there are i've
Jewish doctors possessing the title OF
pasha who are in the service of the
army and navy. They are: Or. Elias
Cohen Pasha. physician OF the naval
hospital: Dr. Isaac MQlho Pasha, i'm
spector- general 0f the imperial fleet.
Dr. Jacques Nissim Pasha, chief sur
geon Of military hospital AT Salonica,
Or. Isaac Had1cz Pasha. physician Of
the medical hospital az smyrna, and Dr.
Fano Pasha. member Of the sanitary
council OF the prefecture OF CONSTANT
nople. In the civil service no Jew had
before the time Of Abdul Hamid II. OBJ
talned the rank of Bala, which Is equiv
alent to the grade OF general OF division
IN the army. At present two Jews hold
this rank. viz. his eXcellency Da0ut
Emendi M0lho. first dragoman Of tho
imperial diyIn. and Aaron Enena, Ip
Leon the principal jewcller 10 the pal-
ace. Licut-Col. Noise Bey Dalmedic1
Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1900-09-22
The SULTAN AND The JEWS.
numnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnn nnnnnnnnnrI ulnnnnnnluIb

I descendant Of the celebrated mathema-
| tician OF Candial Is nrst dragoman Of
! the minister OF marine. There are also
| a colonel two lieutenant -cOl0nels. seven
| or eight majors, and some fifteen cap
| tains. all OF them doctors In the service
Of both branches Of the imperial forces.
In 1855 riot against the Jews was
committed by Greeks and Armenians
at Kadi-keuy. one OF the most import
ant faubOrgs Of COnstantnople His
majesty ordered that rigorous proceed
lngs should be taken against the ring
leaders. and on this occasion he ex-
pressed 10 DR. Elias Cohen Pasha bis
friendly feelings towards oppressed
Jews.
The present sultan was the first
Turkish sovereign o. grant regular
salaries 10 chief rabbis of Turkey.
thereby giving them the status of Of
Meals OF the state Every year az
Passover his imperial majesty sends
5000 francs % the chief rabbi for dis
trlbution among the poor Jews In this
city who have not the means where
with 10 buy matzoth
About ten years ago Abdul Hamid
conceived the idea OF giving his jew
ish subjects a proof OF his confidence
and Of his belief In their loyalty by
admitting them into the actual service
OF the army. His majesty sent for the
chief rabbi In order 20 ask him whether
the Jewish religion forbade Jews 10
serve I'm the army. Naturally the chief
rabbi replied that Judaism required its
followers 90 pay every tribute % the
state, including the tribute OF blood
Al this audience the sultan informed
the chief rabbi that he would be very
glad " the number OF Jewish func.
tionaries In the employ Of the state
could be increased. The project was
not put into execution No reason was
given, but It can easily be guessed
only MOhammedans are allowed 10
serve In the army. and II the sultan
had admitted the Jews a demand might
have been made that he should SINH.
larry treat other Mohammedan
subjects In whom. perhaps, be has not
the same confidence.
During the Turko-Greek war the Jews
In the empire gave striking proofs OF
their patriotism a large number of
young men enrolled themselves as vol.
untecrs. and large sums were sub
scrIbed by Jewish not8blcs for the ar
my His imperial majesty gave cN-
~ 'NTAHi ~ MS Nlfat NdlNlh'INN Nf dN-
dressing an imperial resCHpt 10 NJ
Noise Levy the chief rabbi Of Tur-
key
Today. thanks TO the good win Of the
sultan. the access OF Jews 90 the dif-
fereut departments Of the state is less
difficult than was formerly the case. The
council OF state has "a jewish member.
his eXcellenCy Bohor Enend Eskenasy.
The number of Jews iu the diplomatic
service has largely increased. There
are about fifteen chancell1rs. consuls.
and vice-consuls representing Turkey
abroad and at home few Jews art az
the head OF provincial governments.
notably Joseph Enendi Krioger.
During the last few months the sui |
tan has given one more proof Of his
lively sympathy with our prosecuted /
brethren IN Roumania boy sanctionmg
their settlement IN Asis Minor and
granting them land and relief In money. /
Jewish Messenger.