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tireIy destitute, and OF these Govern
ment is taking care Of 6,5O0,0OO on re-
1fof WORKS upd In noon borcoo

tireIy destitute, and Of these Govern
ment is taking are Of $780, 900 on re-
lief works and In poor-houses.
"As for the mortality-more famine
deaths daily than the total American
losses in the Spanish-American war;
more deaths weekly than the Boer and
British losses to date in their pres
emit war, and a grand total of famine
deaths, since January !, equal to
twice the figure at which is placed
the losses on both sides from all
causes In the Civil War. In actual
figures the death list amounts to
more than 5000 daily, 100000 each
month, 100000 this year.
"Up-country crawled the train, pas
gengers SO few that each OF, us had a
carriage to himself. twenty-five
niles from Bombay vegetation ceased.
Eyes searched the miles vainly for a
Jingle green sEeck. We had passed
byen the last cactus. Blasts Of hot
hir, OF from millions of furnaces, al
most suffocated us, and yet the trees
the 'jackal Jungle bordering the
arms were shorn Of leaves. as In q
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camp, where they would arrive too
late, so weak, so wasted, that the first
stomachful Of curry would be like a
mortal wound. At stations nearest
these camps the train paused for
! water, which was brought by gaunt,
half-dead coolies in buckets from the
nearest cholera-infected well.
"Two hundred miles and two days
from Bombay the train wriggled into
the big station at Ahmedabad, the city
In the heart Of the desert. Ordinary
population, 100000; famine popula-
lation, $50, 000-the 100000 living in
stone houses. normally, and the 10000
In straw tents on the relief works out
side the city walls. These were the
people I had come to see. This camp
was the Mecca for all famine victims
within a radius of thirty miles. None
within that area need starve. ALI
were welcome. Here they could earn
two annas -four cents q day, which
would buy grain enough to sustain
life. The camp was divided into three
sections; in the first, 10000 people
were digging a reservoir half as big
as Central Park; in the second, 1000
were building a narrow-guage rail-
road; In the third, 5000 were breaking
stone for roadbed. Two-thirds Of the
workers were women. On the tank
works the men dug the colossal pit,
the women carried away the sand in
baskets on their heads. The great
reservoir was for the reserve storage
Of water, thus providing against the
recurrence of famine in the future. In
the stone-breaking section both men
and women broke stone, but women
only were the burden-bearers, carry
ing away the broken stone in baskets
on their heads, each lettering under
her load for a distance of from one to
miles, till she came to the pile
to which she must add her share, day
by day. Among the stone-breakers
were nursing mothers, old crones,
young girls. One mother broke stone
with one hand while with the other
she held an infant on her lap. Death
claimed the child even while I looked
on, and the native in charge of the
gang Of thirty to which the mother be-
came and TOOK the little body
away. She followed It awhile with
animal eyes, then, after pulling her
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the cattle, Indeed, have died, for want
Of fodder, and farmers are tied hand
and foot till Government supplies new
live stock to replace the old, whose
bones lie scattered over the whole
country.
Therefore desperate distress still ex-
lists. Utter desolation is still the lot
Of millions. If the Government were
now to withdraw it's aid, shut up the
relief works and poor-houses, seven
million homeless. helpless people
would be in imminent danger Of ssarv-
Ing to death. Moreover, since the rain
has come scores of thousands who
have been saved from death by star
walton are threatened with death by
exposure. Blankets and clothing are
scare; only n person in every thou
sand possessing more than a loin
cloth. Never since the world began
have ten million people, at one time,
been absolutely without a crumb Of
their own to eat.
ellison Willets, the special CORE
spondent Of Golfers Weekly, writes
as follows about what he saw In In
dia:
t"The breadless area covers $50, 900
square miles, one-third Of all India,
big as all u New England, Middle
and Southern States. In this area are
100000 people, one-sixth the entire
Of India, a number equal
to u whole, well-fed family east of
the Mississippi. Ten millions are en-
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According to the London Law Jour-
nal 1t ia not safe for an English or
American woman to marry even a dis
tinguished Frenchman without MAX
ing proper inquiries and taking legal
advice. A marriage valid under the
laws Of another country will not be
recognized under the laws of France
unless the husband has complied with
all the formalities required by the per-
sonal law. The result is too many
English and American women find
themselves In the eQuivocal position
Of being wives in their own country,
but not in that of their husbands.
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Extenuating circumstances.

The British soldier is a irst-class
fighting man, but his mental attri-
butes are not always very high. Nu-
merous anecdotes are told of the SIM
plicity of his ideas. and the following
is, perhaps, one of the best:
A gunner in one of the campaigns
In Egypt was serving his piece, when.
he was surrounded SO closely by
Arabs that he had to use his rammer
as a club. He repulsed the enemy
and saved his gun at the expense Of a
broken rammer, and for his bravery
he was selected for the Victoria Cross.
When summoned before the board
Of officers, the soldier thought i. was
for the breach of discipline in having
broken the hammer, and, before q
word could be said, he spoke up and
volunteered a plea of guilty, with ex-
tenuating circumstances"
There was a broad smile on the face
Of the board but the soldier got the
Cross
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It is evident from articles lately
published in the Pail Mall Gazette
and other London newspapers that a
great many Englishmen are haunted
with the belief that the French win
attempt to invade their island at no
distant date. The theory Of the
alarmists is THAI. after the Paris Elk.
position ID closed. the Waldeck-Rou
seau Ministry win be succeeded by a
Cabinet representing the so-called Ma.
tionalists, who are bitter haters OF
their neighbors acros the Channel
and who are convinced that theil
country's prestige can be best re
trieyed at England's expense.
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1t has been noted that the me- VIII,
are demonstrating that a man can liv,
well on fifteen cents a day are gener
ally the men who can afford to. Tha,
Is to say, they have leisure and money
to experiment. They can afford Il
hire a good cook and to pay a buyel
for time spent In securing the neigh
borhood searching for places wher
the prices Of provisions can be scalet
down q fraction OF an inch. TO re
duce anything to d science-eyen thu
question cf eating-requires time ami
study. The poor man cannot aTsn
this. He must buy where it Is hand
and cook HOY he ca. And it cost
him more than fifteen cents d day.Th
workman who win not spend MOI,
than fifteen cents d day on his fool
VIII moi 40 this country much Good
TIE less We hego of them tao better
u emscks toe chlueaa,
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THE GREAT FAMINE In INDIA,


That the monsoon has broken and
that rain Is falling throughout the
stricken district Of India does not
mean that the famine is at an end.
The aus of the famine was lack Of
rain. The present fall is the first the
country has known In twenty-four
months with the exception of the one
hours rain which fell on the Goth Of
July last year. Hence rain must now
fall for many weeks before the parched
surface will become softened to a
sufficient depth to assure the raising
Of a crop. Moreover, millions Of head
Of cattle, ninety-five per cent. Of all
The Opelousas courier., 1900-11-24

OF the graduates of Yale University
from 1895 to 1899 only twenty-nine
per cent. were from New England,
while thirty-eight per cent. were from
the Middle Atlantic States, twenty
two per cent. from the North Central
States and seven per cent. from the
South. 1t Is also a striking fact that
a large proportion of the graduates
adopt business careers. At the begin
ming of the century a mer handful
became business men, while now the
percentage is one-third. another third
entering the law.
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pace with the train. Huge, almost
Apostle, they were, and dust-colored,
too.
"Rivers, streams, lakes, pools had
disappeared, leaving beds, like the
fields, parched wastes of earth. Water,
except in the few remaining wells,
had vanished from the earth's sur
face. We were j~ourneying through d
depopulated Hades. Were all the alb
sent ones at work In the relief camps?
After all, besides the monkeys, we did
occasionally see a stray brown man,
a stray brown group Of families,
trudging, probably bound for a relief
The Opelousas courier., 1900-11-24
A RUSTIC CLOCK.
Keeps Accurate Time Although All
Working Parts Are of Wood.

Keeps Accurate Time Although All
Working Parts Are of Wood.
The rustic clock shown herewith,
according to Revue Chronometrique,
was constructed by M. Boullat, a
clockmaker of Coutances, France, as
n curious piece of horology, yet not
withstanding it's rusticity it seems to
conduct itself with much regularity,
and reflects credit on the mechanical
skill Of it's author. 1t possesses all the
necessary organs, although they are
exceedingly simple. Two small logs
of firewood, fastened crosswise, con-
stitute the base, and two upright
sticks, solidly connected at top and
bottom, fervc for the reception of the
arbors. The mechanism consists Of a
motor weight, a fout-armed wheel and
escapement rack, a pendulum and two
pulleys, one of which has a crank and
handle for winding. A dial and hands,
with the dial work, complete the en-
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man skulls and bones dotting the sun.
baked fields told awful stories.
Zone hundred miles up the train
craWled into Gujarat, once the garden,
now the Sahara, Of India. The whole
world, level as a prairie. barren as a
desert, was dust-colored. The only
thing OF another color was the train.
Even the naked trees were coated
with the dust of the desert. The train
zizagged In and out between farms
and deserted villages, where there
was no living thing anywhere, not
even a jackal. Yes, a few scampering
monkeys seemed to find fun keeping
The Opelousas courier., 1900-11-24

One Of the devices adopted in Eng
land to make club championships in
teresting and at the same time speedy
is the sealed handicap, whereby all
the starters, although starting to-
gether, ostensibly for the club cham
pionship, are in reality contesting a
handicap in which their starts are
unknown to them. The sealed handi-
cap In a measure prevents loafing.
The Opelousas courier., 1900-11-24

British fish dealers as well as British
anglers have become alarmed at the
rapid diminution Of the catch Of sal
mon in British rivers. They have pc
titloned the Board of Trade to inves-
tigate the causes Of the decrease of
the salmon and to find some method
for increasing the supply, and a royal
commission has been appointed to
look after the whole matter.
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ashes of a thousand other victims lay

ashes Of a thousand other victims lay
in white, smoking heaps. On top Of
these ash-heaps low-caste men piled
such piles. Atop the logs
were thrown the sixty-five bodies, the
mornings harvest. On the bodies
more logs were thrown, till only q foot
here, q head there, protruded. Then
the four piles were set afire, and the
flames of the funeral pyres leaped far
above the tops of the surrounding
trees. Thus is the trace Of famine
obliterated from the face of India"
The Opelousas courier., 1900-11-24

The Rev. Abraham iris, Of Howard,
Kan, expostulates with the Kansas
City Star for reporting some rainmak-
ing experiments on the ground that
such experiments are contrary to the
Bible, which declares that "He send
eth rain on the just and on the un-
just" He says that for man to usurp
one of the prerogatiVes Of God is
blasphemy.
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motion work is operated with the aid
Of a pinion Of three leaves acting on a
cannon pinion Of seventy-two teeth,
which reVolVes once an hour. This
is on the arbor Of the escape
ment rack, SO that the latter makes
t~Wenty-four revolutions an hour; as It
has 100 teeth the virtual length Of the
is about 30.6 centimeters.
The wheel reYolyes once in four hours.
The Opelousas courier., 1900-11-24

People who have been hammerlng
the cliff dwellings Of Arizona to pieces
to show little pieces Of stone to their
afflicted friends when they return to
their homes must refrain from that
amusement hereafter. The region is
to become a public park, and our most
important ruins are to be preserved
from vandals by force of arms.
The Opelousas courier., 1900-11-24

OF the millions that MIR. Fayer-
weather left to hospitals and educa-
tional institutions 1t is stated that
about $4,000 has been expended for
lawyers fees and costs of court, and
yet the litigation is not at an end.
This looks very much like another
case of Jarndyce and Jarndyce.
The Opelousas courier., 1900-11-24

The question Il success comes up
with the death Of every very rich
man.. President Patton, of Princeton,
has said that no man who Is raising q
family properly can be accounted o
failure.
The Opelousas courier., 1900-11-24

The police of large cities are. at any
rate, very firm In their theory of shot
weather crime" During the course Of
a particularly trying heated term they
count with certainty upon a notable
increase Of murders, suicides and at
saults deadly In intent. They are nG~
often mistaken in their calculations.
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ACADEMY
OF THE
IMMACULATE CONCEPTION,

Ia.

OPELOUaAS, La.
Ga&sr tho Direction Of the Sisters Raraansaas
Of Holy Cross.
Offers to young ladies every facility
for acquiring . thorough christian cd.
ucation. Constant attention is paid 10
home and social culture. Lessons are
given in music. painting and other
useful arts. The sieters also have
charge Of the boys' school. The course
o. instruction ia tWo-fold-PSeparatosy
and Commercial. French is taught In
the two C0uEssa. For particulars, I'D
dEess SISTER SUPERIOR
The Opelousas courier., 1900-11-24

The value Of q Newspaper % On
advertising medium consists In
Its circulation.
When You can secure the com
btned circulation Of two papers
tor the price Of one, 1t is money
gavedl
"TThe st. Landry Democrat
was consolidated on the 3D. OF
March, 1894, with The Opel0u.
sas 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
l.h Of St. Landry ID thsgafars The
6aaDss
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The best chance ever offered of Sc
curing stock in o legitimate copper
mining enterprise.
Send for prospectus.
Organized company on q plan to
give q chance to all-big and little,
rich and poor, great and small, none
need be excluded. If quick you Q
own 6 % shares for $1.O0, or 6 %
shares for every dollar you remit.
DAVID b. RUSSELL, President,
Ell P~rogresso Copper Mining Co.,
If So Wall Street. New York.
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torn saree closer about her face, re-
sumed her task. grasping the hammer
now with both hands.
fNaxt morning at sunrise we Sol.
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DEAD BODIES or THE STARVED ON FUNERAL pYREs READY FOR BURNING

Canadian winter. Jackals could be
seen proWling. trying to hide behind
tres trunks. and we shuddered at the
hougAt vt shalr daily bread Hu-
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173 PER CENT. ANNUALLY.
That's the POrilt-COpper the Article
Mexico the Country.

."ED 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 IL per cent.
copper, IL %. silver, @ 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
ST per cent. quicksilver Or mercury.
about $1O5 a ton.
The great Lake Superior copper
mines Calumet and Hecla, Wolver-
inc, Tamerack, Quincy, etc.--thst
annually return millions, run only
from So to Is ton.
Boston and Montana 6 years ago
sold for $15 a share. today 1915, pay.
ing 240 per cent. on investment.
United Verde sold for 300 q share,
today stock not in the market and pays
1866 per cent. on investment.
Calumet and Hacla sold for OIL o
share, today worth $500 and pays on
investment 10, 900 per cent.
Entire capital stock of the United
Verde was offered for $3.50, 900 and
refused Senator CLARK, later, paid
$3.50, 900, and today he has an annual
income from this property of ovez
e13, 600, 00O.
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.
yestors, to first sto ,kholders, who CON.
tribute the money to start the ''ball
rolling" who are on the ground
Hoor?"
Am experienced, know tbs country,
the people, the language, lived there
Is years, and know the mines of this
sect on of Mexico, aad unhesltatingly
state FL 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 plsnt-smelting only the SAS
Ore-will return $40O, 900 per annum;
$43, $40 for treatment, equals
s33 K 10 tons equals 81, 800 n day, for
300 days equals 1886, 900. This will
day 26 per cent. ON 81, SOC, 900 total
capitalization. Par value of shares
s1.00. 900, 900 shares are treasury
stock, and 400, 600 of this is to be sold
very low to raise money TO start things
when price will be greatly advanced
100, 900 at 12c (all sold,) 10O,.
700 at 15c, 100, 900 at Zoe, 100, 0eO at
.5c,
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WIN JOEL SAND0Z.
Attorney i-LaW and Notary Public.
OPELOUSAg, La

WIN pTactiSs in all Oourts, State
and Federal, and before the Patent and
Pension Offices at Washington, 9. @.
Shorthand and Typewriting promptly
and carefully doaa. oGes OVER a.
Landry Stats Rsnk. Main gsssaA
Daily inter mountain., 1900-07-21
TRIAL Of POWERS.
ROBERT NoAKs CONCLUDES HIS
TESTIMONY REGARDING THE
.''' KILLING OF GoEBEL.

Georgetown, KY, July 21.-Robert
Noaks. whose testimony in the Powers
case began yesterday, was cross-exam-
ined by Judge Tinsley today. He said
he was deceived into talk with Cel-
onel Campbell at Big Stone Camp, Va,
prior to his arrest, where the latter met
him, as Mr.. Kramer, interested in min
ing. The conversation led into politics.
and then to the Goebel assassination.
Lateru he found he was talking to the
attorney for the prosecution. He said
Campbell did not promise him anything
for his testimony.
Witness said that he had an idea that
Goebel was to be killed, but he thought
it would be in fight and not by assas-
sination. When told by John Powers to
keeps out OF range, as some fellows in
the LIBBY We're going to do the work for
Goebe1 when he came in. he hurried off
to prevent the assassination.
Noaks was re-examined regarding the
trip Of himself and his men to Frank
fort at the time of the meeting of the
election commissioners in December:
He repeated that Powers had instructed
him to have his men crowd into the
state house, SO the governor would have
an excuse to call out the militia. When
they got there, however, Governor Brad
ley refused them admittance. Witness
reiterated that the object of Powers and
others was to intimidate the commits
sioners.
Witness was still on the stand when
the court took recess until afternoon.
Daily inter mountain., 1900-07-21
BIC BATTLE ON.
BOERS UNDER PRESIDENT KRU-
GER AND BRITISH UNDER
LORD ROBERTS ARE
r. FIGHTING.

~ London, July PA special dispatch
from Capetown, dated today, says:
Lord Roberts has attacked Middle
burg in force, and big battle is in
progress President Kruger lis with the
burghers, directing the defense
London, July 21.--The war office has
received the following from Lord Rob-
erts:
Pretoria, July 21.-Little, tempo. arily
commanding the Third brigade, reports
ON July 10 that he came in contact, near
Lindley, with Dewet's force, which broke
through Hunters Gordon. The fight last
ed until dusk, when Dewet's force, be-
sing repulsed. broke into two parties. Lat
ties casualties We're slight. He buried
five Beers.
Hamilton and Mahon continued thei.
eastward march, yesterday, and should
join with Pole Carew today near Ersten
Fabriken station.
"A body of the enemy wrecked a train
carrying sick between Krugersdorp and
Potche fst1om, July 49,"
Daily inter mountain., 1900-07-21
PERSONALS.

John F.. Cowan, who is operating group
of gold properties in Madison county, came
In from Pony this afternoon.
Mrs; 3. D. Aiken returned from Spokane
last Monday and is the guest of Mrs. P. w.
Sheehy at 9O5 West Copper street.
Alderman AL Siebenaler returned yester-
day from the east. He ACCOMPANIED the
Clark delegation to Kansas City and later
visited his old home in Illinois.
Ed Sherman returned yesterday from a
business trip to the east. He visited New
York, Chicago and Kansas City and swell
tered under the heat Of those cities for a
few days. La. "a
Carl Davis, mining engineer and brother
OF SeWell Davis, returned to Butte this
afternoon from Cape Nome. Mr.. Davis
confirms the reports of the other Montana
men about the unhealthy condition Of
Nome Nearly all of the Butte boys were
preparing to pull out when Mr.. Davis left.
Justice 2. A. Nichols, Frank L. Riley and
Roy s. Alley will leave at daybreak tomor-
row r Tor wise river to do little fishing.
They endeavored today to get c. p. Con-
molly, the county attorney. to agree to ac-
company them, but Mr.. Connolly refused,
saying that the last time he had fished he
caught hve and three of them were granted
new trials.
Daily inter mountain., 1900-07-21
SOLDIERS TO LEAVE THE PARK

The Unated States cavalry in the yell
lowstone park have been ordered to
China hut this fact will net lessen the
enjoyment or safety of a trip through
wonde land: in fact, the absence of the
soldiers will lend a flavor of wildness to
the experience of those who have come
to look upon Uncle Sam's bluecoats as
protectors. The nine young ladies who
are to journey Through the park as the
guests of the Inter Mountain may rest
assured that the bears will not eat them
up and the elk will not become too fa
miliar The contest among the states
most popular damsels goes on apace. In
Butte the leader has passed the 4,5O0
mark. In Anaconda Miss Bertha Vet
ters has taken the lead with over 1,7O0
to her credit. Miss Lucy Grannis, by
gain of 312, has taken the leadership in
Dillon, and. by surprising gain of 712.
Miss Della Tate has gone to the front in
Bozeman and has total of 1,413 All the
ballots received today were not counted,
owing to the necessity of preparing the
editorial page upon which the table ap-
pears at an earlier hour than usual for
the printers. However, all of these votes
will be duly credited ON Monday and will
show large gains for some of the Butte
contestants.
Daily inter mountain., 1900-07-21
TROUBLE OF FUSI0NlsTs.
IDAHO POPULISTS AND DEMO
Gratis HAVE NOT AGREED.
Populists Demand More Offices Than
the Democrats are Willing
to Give.

Pocatello, Idaho, July 21.-The indica
tions now are that the proposed fusion
between the three silver PARTIES will be
effected. The populists, after an exciting
session this morning, instructed their
conference committee to meet again with
the others, though the ultimatum was
not rescinded.
its conference committee the apportion-
ment of offices which the populists re-
jected. The convention instructed the
committee to stand pat. The populists
demand two more places but have
abandoned THE plan to secure control of
the state boards.