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The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1900-01-14
Folly of Extravaganza.

Before l agreed to undertake your de-
Tense" said the eminent lawyer who had
been called in according TO the Chicago
Tribune you will have to be perfectly
frank with me and tell me the whole
truth. Did you embezzle the $4,000 you
are accused of having taken?'
Yes, sir replied the accused man. "I'll
MOI attempt TO conceal the fact from you
l stole every cent of it,
It's all gone but about $40.
young man." said the eminent lawyer,
buttoning his overcoat about him and put
ting on his gloves. you'd better plead
guilty and throw yourself on the mercy OF
the court.
'I'll do it if you say so, sir What are
you going to charge me for the advce?"
Ten dollars"
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1900-01-14

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The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1900-01-14
Natural.

Heard about the discovery made in Bos-
ton?" asked Scicntifcus of a friend yes
terday. according to the Detroit Free
Press.
NO, what was it?"
yellow down there giving a lecture on
liquid air"
yes"
He passed a lot around to the people
you know it's about million times cold
er'n ice, and still liquid"
Yes"
Wei, strangest thing in the world hap
pened-"
What"
Fellow spilled dipperful on a Boston
grl-"
"Yes-what then?"
ut froze soNd.''
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1900-01-14


comedian in Paris theaIer recently
made a great hit out of painful incident.
says Golfers Weekly. While INDUCING in
a bit of horseplay on the stage he struck
his head accidentally against one of the
pillars of the scene upon the stage. The
thud caused a flutier Of sympathy to pass
through the audience.
mo great harm done" said the come
dian. Just hand me napkin, glass of
water and a salt-cellar."
These were brought, and he sat down.
folded the napkin in the form of a band
age, dipped it in the glass. and emptied the
salt-cellar on the wet part.
Having thus prepared a compress ac-
cording TO prescription, and when every
one expected he would apply it to his fore
pillar.
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1900-01-14
Personal

Mrs. Kruger is. to the daughters of
her countrywomen, the ideal Boer wo-
man, and there is scarcely a young girl $
room in the Transvaal but has a picture
of the Presidents wife by way of a con-
tlnually present example.
$. r. Crockett, the author, shows in
his person much of the aptitude for good
fighting which he loves in his heroes He
stands six feet high with breadth of
shoulders to match, and with his rudy
cheek, his red beard and keen blue eyes
looks more like a man of action than of
letters.
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1900-01-14
bright BITS.

ustifable.-She-"Don you think it
is better to marry for love than for
money!" "Certainly-if the contract
ing parties are both wealthy" Chicago
News.
Yes. George, you very distinctly said
in your sleep, is it my ante? Now, what
did you mean by that?' Mean? Why
that's simple. l was dreaming l was a
boy again, waiting for Christmas. And
when another boy asked me if l didn't
know who Santa Claus was, l said ques-
tioningly, Is it my auntie? The dear OH
lady brought me up, you know" oh
you darling, big-hearted boy."-Clevelan1
Plain-Dealer
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1900-01-14
CURRENT COMMENT.

The Memphis Commercial-Appeal Dem.)
says: "The cry for reduction in the
acreage of cotton has been going on for
years, and in spite of it the acreage has
been increased every year, and is very
likely to continue to be increased for
many years to come. This increase is in
evitable because a very large part of the
cotton-rasing land is not yet in cultiva-
ton. The wiser and more rational way
of dealing with this ma tier would be TO
permit me acreage to enjoy normal
growth and turn attention to the secur-
ing of additional markets, so that no mat
ter how large the crop might be, there
would be found sale for it all. In open
ing up a trade in cotton goods in the
East we are coming in contact with 7OO,-
100000 of people, nearly all of whom wear
cotton goods. To reach these people and
build up a trade with them is much less
difficult and certainly much more rational
than futile attempts at reducing the acre
age. The South wants all the cotton she
can raise, providing she gets a market
for it,"
The Springfield Republican Ond) says:
Looking ahead into the twentieth CEN
fury Justice Brewer of the United States
Supreme Court Is confident that a mar
Vicious unity among religious denomina~
tons will be developed. 1t is noteworthy
he thinks that the ancient enemies, Ca
tholicism and Professionalism, are drawing
closer together. The prelates and members
of the two churches do not hesitate to az
1liate in thousand forms of labor The
time is past when Catholics should look
back % Protestant crueltes or when
Protes tants should harp upon the horrors
of the inquisition The distinguished
jurist is justified in his optimism. The
twentieth century will probably see great
changes for the better along religious
lines"
The Pittsburg Post Dem) says: cal
most every aspiring politician has a rem
edy for trusts that generally involves a
long and costly course of legal proceed
ings. Putting trust articles on the free
y tet IS ...s lh0l---- Harp and decisive. It
doesn't fool away any time. Il accords
with the principles OF some of Inc best
men of the Republican party. John Sher-
man said long ago that trusts should be
deprived of every scrap of protection. Do
that and we win be in a fair way OF
terminating the regime of the trusts and
reforming the worst abuses of trust and
monopoly protection"
The Philadelphia Ledger Gnd) COM
ments: Mr. Bryan now says he favors
expansion on a plan that would take IN
countries wherever there is a people in
telligent enough to form part of this re.
public Contraction on the same princi-
pie would throw out some pretentions
communities in the United States
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1900-01-14

That the American negro believes him
self to be superior being to all others
except the English-speaking white man
was Illustrated in Pittsburg, Pa, the 9TH
er day. where a number of negroes re-
fused to ride on the trolley cars with
Italian and other foreign workingmen.
The negroes alleged that they were afraid
Of contracting illness from association
with the foreigners
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1900-01-14

We are probably booked for a revival Of
japanese art fads and fancies next spring
it is announced that the heir to the Mi
kado's throne, who will be married about
May, win Immediately after that Interest,"
ing event come with his bride for a visit
to che United States. The coming of this
royal pair from the Far East viii be
quite sufficient to turn the attention Of the
fashionables to sandals. riee-paper fans
aud loose robes
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1900-01-14

That Mexican idea of collecting gate
money at the execution of criminals, the
fund to go to the family of the chief ac-
tor in the tragedy, is not without its good
points. The grief of many a widow of an
executed murderer would be much soften
ed by thesj ingfe' of neat little sum from
the gate receipts of the hanging
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1900-01-14

Senators and REPRESENTATIVES in Congress
are discussing the Instability of sending
a joint commission to the Philippine
Islands to investigate them and report to
the Senate and the House. Since our
statesmen do not often neglect to make
the most of any opportunity for junket
at the exps1se Of the government, the
probabilities are that the commission will
be provided for. The trip would be cost
ly one, and would require the better part
of year Of time, But these are small
matters when the government can be
made to pay the bill
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1900-01-14

The Beers are not known as inventors
but they are evidently first rate buyers
of the inventions of others. Their army
is said to be supplied with every up- TO-
date appliance of war
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1900-01-14

Allen of Nebraska, Populist accused
Senator Tillman of South Carolina, in the
course OF Senate proceedings the other
day, of being friend of the trusts This
is what the pitchfork senator from the
Palmetto state will be apt to call vile cal
umny 1t is true that he is the father of
a whisky ring which monopolizes the
liquor traffic of a whole state, and that
the aforesaid whisky ring is one of the
most Ubiquitous despots ever forced upon
a free and enlightened people; neverthe-
less Tillman insists that it is a great
moral institution" and in no sense a
trust
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1900-01-14

If there is any way to do it, Mr.. Sulzer
of New York is going to climb into noto-
riety upon the shoulders of Mr.. Secretary
Gage If the secretary cannot stand the
pressure, why that is his misfortune, and
not Suffers fault
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1900-01-14

A heavy shower of hams and sausage
fell at Lock Haven, Pa, a few days ago.
There was no miracle about the incident,
however, since minute before the show
er there was an explosion of a large guam
tity of dynamite under a packing house.
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1900-01-14
The Gather.

The indications for to-day are for fair
weather in Georgia and Eastern Florida.
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1900-01-14

1t may be that we shall have to call
Germany to account, after all We have
stood a good many things from Emperor
"Biil' and Admiral Won Diederich during
the last few years without becoming real
angry but now comes a report that con-
signment of'American apples intended for
Ambassador Andrew d. White, a Berlin,
has been seized on the alleged ground that
the fruit is affected with the San Jose
scale. That is an affront that is not to be
lightly overlooked. We may put sand into
our sugar, and the biggest strawberries on
the top of the basket but the suggestion
that we feed our ambassadors on worm
eaten or bug-ridden apples is a wanton in
suit that calls for blood.
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1900-01-14

Registered at the POstOmee in Savannah.
The Opelousas courier., 1900-02-10

II appears thseessaople qes1r5ally are
greatly mistaken in their notiIn that
their 10 an enormous surplus of IN
married women ia this country, thinks
she Cincinnati Enquirer. The truth
is chat no such excess of spinsters ex-
lists in fact, 1t 10 quite the other way,
the bachelors outnumbering the mai
dens. At the present moment there
= in the United States 1900, 900
o unattached males than females
similarly situated, the exact figures
being 5,427, 767 bachelors against s.
ga, 49A spinsters of ages from twenty
years MP. Thus it Is obvious that if
girls do not find husbands, it is not
for lack of q plentiful supply Of the
article. What is required. seemingly,
ID . general migration Of spinsters
from the North aud East to the great
and growing West. in parts of which
there are ten available males for every
maid.
The Opelousas courier., 1900-02-10
yEwELRY OF POLISHED WOOD.

Nearly $4,000 o Worth Of It Sold at the
Worlds Fair.
The polishing works of this city are
now engaged ON the stupendous job
Of getting out 81, 600, 900 worth Of
polished chalcedony, or petriied wood,
to be taken to the Paris exposition.
This petrified wood is hauled from its
native heath in Arizona, a distance OF
sixty-ive miles, to a railroad and then
shipped to this city to Ee cut and
polished, this being the only place in
the world having such facilities for
treating the petrifcation, which is
seven-tenths as hard as diamond. 1t
is shipped here in great logs and
stumps, weighing many tons each, just
as they have laid for n1any ages dur
ing the process required by nature to
turn the wood into beautiful and var
iegated colors of stone. The process
of saving the stone up in shape for
polishing is most tedious, the huge
machinery used for the purpose being
able to saw only from an inch to three
inches a day into it. After being cut
and polished the stone is worked up
into every conceivable shape, from
cuff buttons t, tops Of centre. tables,
and great columns which, cost o small
fortune. All kinds of jewelry are
made from it as we'll as trinkets and
handsome articles suitable for SOU
venirs.
One of the chief attractions at the
Worlds fair was the exhibit of chal-
cedony, which had been polished and
prepared in this city. It is stated
that during the fair sales of this stuff
were more than $50, 600 a month.
The great exhibit which is to be
made in Paris will be a wonderful ad-
~vertisement for Sioux Falls, for the
reason that nowhere else on earth is
there machinery, mammoth, yet deli
cate enough to saw, polish and put
into shape the variety of articles that
will be on exhibition .-Sioux Falls
journal.
The Opelousas courier., 1900-02-10
''Tne Sabbath" interrupted Msrthy

'"The sabbathr' interrupted Marthy
Ann. This amt no Sabbath Didn't
I wash on q Monday last week. Landy
me, deacon, I didn't! I washed q Sat-
urday, thinking Sarah Briggs would
be over. She didn't come, so I went on
regular like; and SO this is the holy
Sabbath, and me profsuing it like
that!'
And ''down she went all in q heap"
as the deacon expressed it afterward.
Just then Silas came up the road,
his hat pushed down over his eyes.
There was no barrett his cart, and the
bundle for Widow jonas still lay be-
side him on the seat. AS he came up
the path he halted in front Of the
washing which hung dazzlingly white
before his eyes. Yes, anyone could
see hat wash a mile of, a fact of
which he was wont to be very proud,
but today he wished it was black, no,
green, any color than white; he put
out his hands to remove the offending
sheets, but habit was strong, and
glancing hastily at the house. he re-
placed the clothespins and walked on.
Marthy Ann never looked mp as he
came in, but sat still with her head
between her hands. For the first time
in many years Silas felt himself grow
ing bigger, more self-assured, digni-
fed. It was an awful temptation to
tell Marthy Ann that it was all her
fault, and that she was the one who
had made him turn a Saturday into O
Sunday, and a Sunday into a Monday,
but he didn't. He only walked over
to where she sat and stopping down,
kissed her, while the deacon slipped
ont the back door.
There now hangs in the Higgins
parlor, right where the light falls
we'll on it, a highly decorated but
very useful calendar. Good House.
keeping.
The Opelousas courier., 1900-02-10

A novel mining enterprise is that at
Cook Inlet, Alaska, where some ex-
perienced operators are developing
the bed of Indian river for two miles.
This river is one Of the principal trib-
utaries Of Turnagain Arm. Three
thousand feet from the mouth of the
river q dam $50 feet has been built.
Thissdam has two gates, n sixteen
fest wide, and the other ten feet, which
ii be operated to allow Of the rush
OF the accumulated water. A great
force in thus set free. At an expert
mental opening Of the larger gate, the
water tore through the dry river bed
below the dam, hurting trees. stumps,
and boulders two miles ont into Turn
again Arm. In thirty days work
next season the operators hope to wash
the three-ffths of i mile OF river bot
tom to bedrock. when will begin
the interesting operation Of taking
out the gold. Pam ngs Of dirt showed
from twenty-five cents to 81 worth of
gold per cubic YARD, and even at the
lower figure IL ID estimated that there
are several fortunes in the two miles
Of river bed which constitutes the
claim OF the enterp}psing operators.
The Opelousas courier., 1900-02-10

With the greatest supplies of fuel
and materials, the most economical
methods Of production, and the most
efficient labor in the world, the time
is close at hand when the United
States will be recognized as the great
est manufacturing nation, and in
spite Of the imcaense home consump-
ton, it must speedily thereafter be-
come the greSssst Of exporters, says
Harper's Weeklbl
The Opelousas courier., 1900-02-10

The amiable gentleman who aban-
dons the practice of the law because
no does not believe in coercion and
shat the efficiency of the law rests
upon the power Of executing it does
not assume v g a novel position.
Lots of men before him have been in
favor Of a law, but against its en-
forcamant.
The Opelousas courier., 1900-02-10

The increasing difficulty experi-
enoed by Englisb9 FARMERS in making
: living and the5 persistent tendency
Of tho uraEpspulation to migrate to
She cities have prompted the organiza-
tion Of the Women's Agricultural as.
sociation By thu Countess CT Warwick
end other prominent persons. Lady
Warwick presided recently over a large
anddnauential meeting held in Stat
ford HOUSE, London, TO consider the
mattens She explained that 5 q land
owner Essex, . county which has
suffered more than any other from ag-
ricultnr depression. she desires to
do whatshe . 10 help persons living
III IN %nntry to make as much money
q they an By the sale of their poul-
try, frg, dairy produce, honey, and
all agricultural products. For this
purpose she has established a hostel
As Reading, and another is called Tor.
Har idea j. that ladies' should them
selves learn to do practical agricul.
tural work. and then encourage Others
By their example 10 do the best 10,
themselves. The work Ii 81 ID inter-
nstional character, and Mr. Cecil
Rhodes il ou the committee. Lady
Warwick has the support Of Sir John
Lubbock and other men Of science. aa
veil as leading aericnlturista. Who are
grsafly interested ii any suggestion
likely TO makscountry lite moro pro-.
fable and ~attfAcsiveA
The Opelousas courier., 1900-02-10

An industrious California wood
pecker stored 1860 acorns in a section
Of tree measuring four feet in length
and thirty.four inches in diameter.
The tree grew in a vineyard In Oak
vile, Nara county, and each acorn
fitted so neatly in the hole that the
farmer who found them wondered
whether the bird made the holes to at
the acorns or selected the latter to fl
the holes.
The Opelousas courier., 1900-02-10

II is not an encouraging fact that
out OF aclittle over three thousand i'm
migrants to the United States during
the year ending june 80, 1899, about
ons-ifth Of them were unable to read
or write.
The Opelousas courier., 1900-02-10

The French minister Of public
works has issued o circular to the rail-
way companies of France, informing
them that unless their trains shall
keep better time the government will
enforce the full penalties ordained by
Law for reimbursement
The Opelousas courier., 1900-02-10
QUAINT AND CURIOUS.

An Oswego On. y man, Ephrain
Latulip, is the latest n to claim that
he has r~e-discovered the lost art Of
hardening ceppe-. He says he eau
make it as tough as steel, so that it
will hold and carry an edge as keen as
q razor. His brother is the man who
made a canno Of rawhide.
The Opelousas courier., 1900-02-10

A fine specimen of Albino deer was
shot by Oliver Whyte of Boston,
while on a trip With three companions
in the Schoodic region of lakes about
one hundred miles from Bangor. The
animal was almost entirely white,
weighed about two hundred pounds
and the antiers were the largest of any
seen in that region by the local guides.
The Opelousas courier., 1900-02-10

The inhabitants Of Kimberly sen,
New Years greetings to Queen victo
ria, which returned by her maj.
esty.
The Opelousas courier., 1900-02-10

Eighty automobile companies, with
. capitol of $3.50, 600. ooo, have already
been FL uned. This ought to give the
publT cheap horseless vehicles.
The Opelousas courier., 1900-02-10
ACADEMY
-oF TIKI
IMMACULATE : CONCEPTION.

OPELOUSAB, LA.
Under the Direction Of tbs Sisters EaxisaIsa
Of Holy Cross.
oners to young ladies every facility
for acquiring q thorough christian Cd.
ucation. Constant attention Is paid 30
home and social culture. Lessons are
given in music. painting and othss
useful arts. The sisters also have
charge of the boys school. The course
OF instruction is two-fold-PreparstoEy
and Commercial. French is taught In
the two courses. For particulars, ad.
dress SISTER SUPERIOR.
The Opelousas courier., 1900-02-10

The unmarked providences Of God
IRE the nest remarkable.
The Opelousas courier., 1900-02-10

Two churches possess trees growing
within their walls. One is at Ross,
the other at Kempsey, in Worcester,
England. The latter tree is well deg
veloped, and grows from the oil
Sir Edmund Wilde, which stands on
the left side of the chancel. Another
strange growth is to be seer at Clym-
nog. a small village in Carnaryonshire.
On the north side Of the New Inn,
the gatehouse attached to Plas-y-bryn,
the summer home of a member of Par
lament, a large tree grows, having no
visible connection with the earth. II
springs out Of the wall above the
kitchen door, its roots being firmly
embedded in the building.
The Opelousas courier., 1900-02-10

The native inhabitants OF the Malay
peninsula and several of the Indian
tribes of u own country never per-
NIT their hair to be cut The hair OF
chiefs of the Grow tribes grew to q
length of ten feet. The men of the
Latookas, one of the African tribes.
never cut their hair, but allowing il
to grow, weave it into most wonder.
full shapes. The thick, crisp wool is
woven with fine Irvine made from the
bark of q tree until il represents o
network of felt. AS the hair grows il
is subjected to the same process and
trained into the shape of a helmet.
A rim about two inches deepis formed.
and the front part OF this hair helmet
is protected by q piece Of polished
copper, while a piece of the same
metal, shaped ike the half of a bish.
ops mitre, and about one foot in
length, forms the crest. The helmet
is then adorned with numerous yari.
eolored beads.
The Opelousas courier., 1900-02-10

81
The value Of q newspaper as an
advertising medium consists in
Its circulation.
When you can secure the COM
bined circulation Of two papers
for the price Of one, it is money
gavedl
"gT'he st. Landry Democrat
was consolidated ON the Rd Of
March, 1894, with " The Opelou-
gag Courier" The advertising
rates have not been increased
while the price Of subscription
has been reduced to 90 q year.
THE COURIER being By odds
the best paper In the empire Par.
lsh OF St. Landry Ia therefore the
aheanests