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The Opelousas courier., 1900-07-28
POPULAR SCIENCE.

POPULAR SCIENCE.
The brilliant sunsets due to the
dust from the great volcanic explo
sion at Krakotoa are still d vivid
memory. Mr.. Horace Darwin sug
gests that dust from the Leonid met.
eors may lave bsen q cause of recent
striking sunsets.
The lung differs from all other
structures in having two separate cir
culations, the nutritive, supplied by
tho left side of the heart through the
bronchial arteries; and the functional,
supplied by the right side Of the heart
through the pulmonary artery. This
double circulation underlies all the
phenomena of pneumonia, and must
be recognized in any definition of the
disease, as without it the disease it,.
self cannot exist.
Sir James Sawyer, M. D., writes in
the Lancet that he has studied cancer
for a third Of a century, and has come
to the conclusion that one of the pre-
disposing factors is the excessive con-
sumption of meat. He thinks sit is
among the men of the masses in Eng
land and Wales, that the progressive
increase in cancer in the period under
consideration is mainly to be found.
Steam appears to have brought us
cheap food, and cheap food has mul.
tiplied our cases of cancer by two."
The twentieth century will have
about $50 eclipses, according to Mr..
B. F. Yannery, the solar being to the
lunar in about the ratio of four to
three. For the first time in any cal
endar year since 1928, the year 1885
will have seven eclipses, the largest
possible number. The total solar
eclipses visible in tho United States
will occur in 1918, 1923, 1926, 1916,
1864, 1879. 1884 and 1894. There
will be twelve transits of Mercury,
the first in 1907, but the more impor-
tant transit of Venus will not occur,
its next date being June 8, 1904.
The early history of appendicitis
cannot be traced, but DR.. George NJ.
Edebohle believes the first reference
to it to have been in 1912. The first
recorded operation on the appendix
was performed August 9th, 1888. The
first successful removal of the appen-
dix was carried out on May 9Th, 1886,
and since that time the percentage OF
successful operations has been slowly
increasing. The ob~strueting bodies
found include a great variety Of arti.
cles, pins being very common. About
four per cent. of all women are said to
have appendicitis, the male victims
being fewer.
What life in other worlds may be is
m eve fascinating theme for ~specula-
ton. Two English biologists, Geof-
Trey Martin and DR.. T. J. Allen, have
been considering the matter, and
agree in the conclusion that vital pro.
,esses depend on the existence of IN
whose compounds are in q
condition Of critical equilibrium at life
temperatures. Mr.. Martin, however,
ooks. upon carbon al the fundamental
life element, while DR.. Allen finds
the essential substance. Mr..
thinks that in the high tenn
'eratures OF ''some celestial bodies O
cries of complex and Unstable silicon
may be formed and that in
warmer worlds than ours silicon life
nay be possible. Possibly our silicon
.ecreting diatoms and sponges are a
ink connecting us with a silicon fauna
q hotter age on earth.
The Opelousas courier., 1900-07-28

The value Of q newspaper a. an
Advertising medium consists in
It's circulation.
When you can secure the com.
nined circulation of two papers
for the price Of one, it is money
sayedI
"TThe st. Landry Democrat"
was consolidated on the Sd OF
March, 1894, with The OpeIou.
gas Courier" The advertising
rates have not been increased
while the price of subscription
has been reduced to 90 q year.
! TIE COURIER being By odds
the best paper In the empire Par.
lsh Of St. Landry 10 ther ore the
sheaDegEs
The Opelousas courier., 1900-07-28

The brilliant sunsets due to the
dust from the great volcanic explo.
sion at Krakotoa are still d vivid
memory. Mr.. Horace Darwin sug-
gests that dust from the Leonid met
eors may lave bsen a cause of recent
striking sunsets.
The Opelousas courier., 1900-07-28

Opel0usas Courier
u the advocate Of Democratic
principles and the friend OF the
people.
Their welfare In its welfare, and
1t will ever be found defendins
their rights with all OF IA
ability. =.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1900-04-12

probation of her fine qualities by leav-
ing her and her children an income of
$4,000 year.
For few years she lived in London
in a charming little house Of her own,
Sc Cadogan place There, while es-
chewing the frivolity of the smart
SET she enjoyed the society of the
men and women best worth knowing.
But later years brought a longing
for home, and the colnpanionshIp OF
her widowed mother. And so the
daughter of the nation returned, with
her children and all that belonged to
her, determined never again to know
any other allegiance. She applied to
congress for the restoration Of her
citizenship; and although the course
was an unusual one, a bill was passed
in favor of Gen. Grants daughter.
And so it happens that Vivian May
Sartoris, is an American girl after all.
She made her debut in Washington
four years ago, and no young woman
at the capital has more admirers than
she. But without hesitation she left
the gayeties of the capital to sit at her
mothers bedside.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1900-04-12
AN ISLAND OF SULPHUR.

Probably the strangest home ever
chosen by human beings is little ISL
and just off the coast of New Zealand,
known as White Island In this
rocky isolation where it is impossible
to escape from the fumes Of practically
unintermittent sulphuric eruptions, one
hundred New Zealanders recently
made their home. The one delight of
this spot is, it is said, a wonderfully
beautiful panoramic view embracing
the Bay of Plenty. But SO great is the
preponderance of sulphur that the ISL
and is known by some as Sulphur ISL
and" In the center of the rock is d
great crater whose cavity is in con-
slant state of ebullition. In addition,
the entire surface Of the island is dot
ted with from three to four hundred
miniature craters, which emit during
both day and night dangerously hot
vapors and su1phurous fumes.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1900-04-12

neither cOQuetishly nor dirtily dressed
They are generally middle-aged, for
licences to drag costers' handcarts are
only granted to poor people of good
character and well on in years Of dis
cretion. The coster-woman is hale,
hearty, buxom. Hardship sours Eng
glish women. It's acts as a flip on
French women, and stimulates their
pluck and spirit Their bodies seem
to gain strength under the stress of
hard work in all sorts Of weather.
Beautiful the costerwoman is not-at
any rate an artist in love with the
silly sort of prettiness would not think
so. But she has the beauty of the
sound mind in sound body, and her
Weather-beaten face lights up with
shTeWd and cheerful expression. She
is in good training for drudgery, and
does not mind it, provided it fills the
big pockets of her coarse blue apron
with copper and silver coins. In the
Easter glut of flower lies chance
for quick returns. Easter is to her
as it is to most Wage-earners in Paris,
a blessed time. One sees long lines OF
coster womens' carts laden with flow
ers drawn up at certain hours of the
day in certain streets. All who sell
at them have family likeness. No
trace of drink can be detected on
their faces, or of sluttishness in their
clothes. They are tidy, clean, com
Portable, and look purposeful and
good. Your drunkard is always chilly
Those coster flower dealers go about
in rain, hail, sunshine, without shaw
or mantle; a thick, easy-titting jacket
or jersey is the favorite over garment
They rise at four in the morning to Sc
cure good places at the flower auction
in the central market. A number OF
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1900-04-12
ANIMALS AS DISASTER.

Animals are exceedingly sensitive
to disturbances of earth and air, and
seem to possess a sixth sense" which
warns them of impending danger.
Just before the great earthquake on
the Riviera in 1897 horses, dogs, mon
keys and even ducks were in a panic
for several days. At Nice many of the
horses were timid and weak, unable to
draw their burdens while a monkey
and some other household pets that
were usually anxious to stay indoors
could not be induced to enter the
house.
Even the COWS were terrified and
there was an appreciate falling off
in their milk before the earthquake
Some people, specially women, seem
to have this premonition of coming
disaster. A lady residing in the hotel
at Amalfi left the day before the land
slide, declaring that she would not Oh
any account remain in that section an
other night
This sensitiveness to the earths
people living in the earthquake zone
People who have been in one earth
quake are particularly alive to the
slight earth shudders that precede the
real shock After the disturbance in
the Riviera the inhabitants acquired a
peculiar persistence which warned
them of the succeeding ones
Earthquakes have a terrifying eff
feet on all kinds of domestic animals.
During the earthquakes at Agram each
shock was heralded by the Growing
of cocks, barking of dogs and bowling
of cats
The animals of the west are alive to
the approach of the cyclone and seem
to feel the electric tension before the
human beings notice it. Domestic ami
mails are more susceptible than wild
ones.
The terror which some dogs mani
fest during a thunderstorm is proof OF
their constituencies to the electricity
in the air, and they seem also to be
frightened at the vibrations Following
thunder.
In the Alps the Swiss cattle on the
upper pastures come running in ter
ror to the milking ground just before
a severe thunderstorm, and even the
goats and sheep join them.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1900-04-12
EASTER IN PARIS.

ghostly shrift The Catholic church
requires that its members communi-
cate at least once a year That once
is at Easter or PIaques-a word de
rived from the Hebrew Passover. De
vout-minded persons obey. Busy peo-
pie do not, and do not look on them
selves as sinners for not conforming to
the rule. When they feel at deaths
door they will ask for the final sacra-
ments of the church. which will be
cAaritably administered and no re-
proachful word uttered. Irreligious
cially pleasant. also ask for the last
consultations. They 10 so for the sake
OF those whom they are about TO leave
behind, and because it is most con-
venient for friends to gather round a
coffin in a church. Provincial ladies
gather to Paris to confess to priests
who do not know them. AMI TO con-
suit spiritual directors of broad and
tolerant minds, who do not regard
rites as lamentations, and who see that
symbols are only important so far as
they raise the soul to a perception Of
eternal truths. The French branch Of
the Catholic church is not superstiti-
Gus.
4 deeply religious spirit is shown in
the churches at the Lenten cere-
monies and on Easter Sunday Holy
Thursday is IN memory of the in
iQuitous trial at Golgotha and the
bearing of the cross to Calvary, Good
Friday of the Crucifxion, Holy Satur-
day of the stiffness of the tomb in
Joseph on Arimathea's garden, and
Easter Sunday of the resurrection.
The crown after the cross apotheosis
after voluntary self-debasement.
Holy Saturday is the day of shrift.
services begin on Sun
day at six in the morning. The earlf-
est is the best attended, but all the
draw large congregations.
Gladness of heart, of soul and mind
reigns. All tragical symbolism of
Passion Week is out of sight. The
music is jubilant; the priests vest
ments are of brilliant and many
colored brocades. The perfume of
flowers vies with the incense. Ser
mons are kept for the afternoon, and
will be short. Some of them will in
sist on the Real Presence in the Com
some will dwell on the mysti-I
cal nature of the Last Supper,-all will
enjoin self-sacrifice and humility in
order to possess the virtues of faith,
hope and charity
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1900-04-12
CHAPTER XVII.
An Evil Omen.

~AAA AAf II CuIeI
The morning dawned bright and
fair; the dew lay shining on the grass
and flowers; the wood pigeons were
eooing, the polver crying among the
corn, when Ethel Gordon quietly left
the house on her fatal errand The
morning was not fresher or fairer than
she Her face had the delicate, ex-
quisite bloom of the wild rose; her
eyes were bright as stars with the
golden light deepening in them. She
looked round on the scene encircling
her; she raised her eyes to the blue
heavens, and thought to herself how
fair all nature was bathed in the morn
ing light
A great cluster of passion flowers
stood near the gate which led from
the lawn to the coppice. The copies
led to the woods, and Laurie was wait
ing there for her, she knew full well.
She stopped to gather some of the
sad, grand, mystical flowers They
were all wet with dew, which she fiune
from the leaves, looking into the flow.
ers' depths and admiring the swee
symbols. Roses were growing there
too, and large white lilies, and Ions
sprays of blue convolvulus; but she
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1900-04-12

fresh fragrance and subtle warmth, il
is fitting season for the chief festi-
val OF the Christian year. The Bright
Day in the East" is the bright day in
the west, and wherever the sun shines
the ancient rites of the Saxon goddess.
Easter, born in paganism, have been
assimilated and given a new meaning
IN the Christian civilization of this
later day
The gaudy decorations of the
heather races, which were the tangible
expression Of their festival delights,
have an ample suggestion in the per-
sonal display that is now one of the
attributes Of the Paschal feast. No
pagan goddess could address herself
more directly to the preparation of
her Easter raiment than the woman of
today 10 the selection of her Easter
costume But no idle variety mars
the delights of the present custom.
BY most desirable consensus this day
IS reserved for the first appearance in
the garments of spring, and as if
swayed by magic Christian wand the
dark and heavy attire of winter falls
away and there stand revealed the be-
wildering beauties of new life.
From the rising of the sun, the first
symbolic event of the day, there is a
series Of events that compliment each
other in testifying to the more serious
import. No memory is more lively in
after years than that furnished by the
various egg customs of Easter handed
down from ages gone by. and no Gus
tom is more directly suggestive of the
new life it typifies. But through them
all, says the Chicago Tribune, runs
the central idea of JOY and reverent
happiness, a day to rejoice in, a day
for light hearts. a day for the renewal
Of all the forces that contribute to the
better life of the world, in fact, Easter
day.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1900-04-12
RAILROADS IN ASIA MINOR.

The advance sheets of consular re-
ports for February % give interest
ing details of the German concession
for an extension of the Anatolia rali-
way from Konieh via Marash and
Bagdad to Bassorah. A French COM
PAW owning the Smyrna-Rassaba
road opposed the concession, but was
placated by being given 40 per cent
of the shares in the extension. Inc
1000 miles of this new trunk line con-
Meeting the Persian gulf with Europe
are expected to open up rich agrl-
cultural country and pave the way Tor
German commercial supremacy IN
Asia Minor and Mesoqotamia." Con-
sui Jewet, of Sivas, expresses the
opinion that German trade will obtain
control of the chief markets or ASIA
bv means of preferential rates given
to German goods on the new ran
wav Goods can be carried across the
Bosphorus in cars without change,
making the trip from Berlin to the
Persian gulf at minimum cost. A
branch line connects Smyrna also
with the trunk line American goods
will have to be transshipped at Con-
stantinople or Smyrna. The on1F
way to obviate this disadvantage, 81
Consul Jewett, is to build comepting
line from Sinope, on the Black sea, to
Bagdad. This route is through bet
ter country and will pay better than
the German route.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1900-04-12

them club to buy lots, which they
afterwards divide, and then all are
off on their different circuits. The
rests-all regulated by the police
are short They must not stop, unless
a would-be buyer asks them, near a
flower shop. They ply their trade
until shutdown, and then hasten home
ward, not stopping moment either to
draw breath or sell. These women are
religious in their way. They observe
Easter, and often send flowers to
churches and to hospitals.
An article about Easter in Paris
would be incomplete if it left out the
Easter egg. The Easter egg is not an
egg laid by fowl, but is a fancy
article Taste and fancy are lavished
on Easter eggs. Some of these eggs
have taken the inventor nearly a year
to hatch, and they are amazingly
clever nd beautifully elaborated.
Sometimes they have no intrinsic
value, and only charm because taste
full. Straw hats trimmed ready to be
worn may be filled with eggs that are
really trinket or needle cases, or filed
with tiny knick-knacks-toys for
grown-up ladies. The most costly
may be bought by theatrical stars to
serve as nest eggs good for fetching
other and expensive trifes. The de-
wise may or. may not be seen through.
But it is almost sure TO be so. None
the less it will answer it's purpose.
Man liveth in a vain show, and woman
| too, but the vain shows of Paris sell
| dom take Parisians.
Easter is the time in France for
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1900-04-12

In Paris, Easter IS d time of general
gladness. The trees in the parks and
the gardens are in full LEAKAGE, but the
leaves are still of the most fresh and
tender green. The sky is bright: a vi
JaliZing force permeates things ma
teTial and ethereal. The morning sun
smiles in the rooms that look south
ward, and its reflected beams fit over
the ceilings like Ariels released from
winter bondage. There being no more
need for fires. freplaces are covered
over with screens. The freestone Par
islam houses almost glare in the sun.
which discovers all the hues and tints
Of blooming fiower-beds in the public
gardens. Passion week is a period Of
conventional mourning, religious cere-
monies, and flowers. Goods trains
laden with flowers and greenery for
Palm Sunday began to pour in as that
festival approached. The supply of
flowers goes on increasing until Easter
week. when the whole town seems a
flower show. The markets being
glutted, the poor can gladden. their
abodes with. fresh and fragrant
bouquets. Spring is the time. Of ALI
others, for sweet-scented flowers. The
air of the churches is redolent of their
incense. Everyone who has lived in
Paris must associate Easter with flow.
ers. The fiower-markets seem to be-
suddenly extended into the streets
Costermongers have there become It'll
inrant flower dealers. The women who
deal are neither young nor pretty
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1900-04-12
EASTER DATE.

In accordance with a bull issued by
the council Of Nicaea, in 325 A. D..
Easter cannot occur later than April
%. This canon sets forth that Easter
must be celebrated On the first Sunday
after the first full moon of the spring.
The earliest date for the full moon is
March 81, and the cyclical month, or
the period of time within which the
Easter full moon can occur comprises
80 days. Therefore, Easter could come
as late as April 20, for the last win
ter full moon may happen as late as
March 81. Add to this % days, and
one has so days, or April 10 as the day
of the spring full moon. Should this
date fall upon Sunday, Easter must
be celebrated seven days later, or on
the 26th of April.
In his Astronomical Lexicon, DR..
Gretschel gives April rs as the latest
possible Easter date. This book was
published in 1882 and the year 1886 is
named as the anomaly that brings
Easter as late as April 26. AS a matter
of fact, however, Easter occurred in
that year on April 5, and it is rather
interesting to explain this departure
! from what seems to correct computa-
! ton.
An ecclesiastical canon excludes
April 26 from becoming an Easter day.
LittroW, in his Astronomy declares
| that April 10 must be substituted. Mes
selmann's theory is that the earliest
date should be chosen, or March %. In
| his compilation of date Nesselmann
| designates the year 2076 as the one in
which Easter occurs on the latest pos
sible date, April &c, and in his chronol-
mula brings Easter Sunday as late as
April Is in the year 1881. The year
1909 was the last in which Easter oc.
cured on April 26.
It happens rarely that Easter Sun
day occurs on April 25. It SO happened
in 1884, as in 1886, and will not agar
occur until the year 1913.
The Easter full moon may fall with
in period of 80 days. Despite thi!
space of time, it can only occur on /!
different dates within a span of 10'
years. These 10 different dates occu
4 five or six times as Easter full moor
} dates in a century. The other 1:
!, dates are entirely excluded. Ever.
century this line Of - Easter full
; moon dates undergoes a change. Al
| absolutely correct ratio, however, can
: not be established, even for the spac
of 1000 years, because the Easte
j, dates do not occur periodically in I'm
: broken succession. The greatest dis
: lance between the two days which
} limit the Easter period-March % an
April 25-is "a days, nearly five weeks
5 AS the weather is even more uncertail
2 than the Easter date, and the season o
l one year may be ahead, as in this in
stance, or behind that of another, I'll
/ greatest possible contrast may exis
5 between the Easter festival of two o
r three years. Easter may be a da,
7 filled with the splendor Of til
!. awakening nature, with sunshine an
c balmy breezes, spring bonnets an
: summer clothes. On the other hand
2 snow and sleet may cover the grount
2 and furs may be as welcome as il
/ December
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1900-04-12
NOT A CASE OF SUICIDE.

''Plunk a man straight through the
heart every time!' exclaimed the ap-
parent tenderfoot, leaning easily
against the bar. why, there amt
one in this crowd O. lazy loafers can
do it,"
The bartender instantly ducked, and
two seconds later twenty-six bullets
pierced the strangers coat. But ne
never turned hair.
Gents he said, smiling pleasantly,
as he began to unbutton his coat, i
apologize. l am selling the Acme
Eureka Excelsior Woyen-Wire Under
garment. Weight only two pounds,
and warranted bullet proof. Now,
let's all Ticker up and talk business"
Puck
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LABOR.

"A war is a great hindrance to the
of a country" said one
boer
Yes" answered the other IF this
promiscuous shooting continues it will
take long, hard labor to get the bull
lets cleared out of the soil so that we
can go ahead raising crops Wash
ington Star.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1900-04-12
a DAY TO REJOICE IN.

The observance of Easter Sunday
throughout Christendom is not only a
memorial of the central fact in the
Christian religion, but gives occasion
for a variety of beautiful customs
With the earth bursting forth in its
glories of budding plant life, and the
heavens glowing with warmer sun
and all nature smiling through the
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1900-04-12
CHAPTER XVIII.
At the Altar.

At the Altar.
Ethel Gordon never forgot that old
church Of st. Ann's-a gray old build
ing with a tapering spire AS she en-
tered she seemed to bring with er the
fragrance of the lines and the wild
flowers.
At first it seemed as though the
church were filled with gray, soft
gloom; and then, Ethel saw great
stained-glass window, very marvel of