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The Opelousas courier., 1901-08-24

American owners, trainers, jockeys
and horses are getting many honora
and prizes in England, France, Aus
ira, Germany and elsewhere. James
Il. Keene, William @. Whitney, Pierre
Lorillard and William x. Vanderbilt
are conspicuous among American
owners of thoroughbreds who have
seen their colors borne in triumph on
the turf outside of their own country.
And there are others, observes the
New York Tribune. Yankee dash and
spirit and enterprise In racing, as in
many other things. know no ocean
barriers, no obstacles Of time or dis.
lance. Few turfmen of any other land
have been bold and adventurous
enough to send great stables oversee
and to challenge the foremost foreign
breeders and owners on their own
grounds-in their own preserves. so tc
speak.
The Opelousas courier., 1901-08-24

witch hazel or something on the back
of my neck? It's smarting just awful
and it won't let me go to Sleep"
Mrs. Curtis, strange to say, was also
called upoh to battle and anoint Gil
roy's smarting neck and shoulders be"
fore morning, and it was several days
before either of the ''Tattooed Part
ners'' found it convenient to turn their
heads suddenly or to lean back in their
chairs. 2
"But, deaflme! 1 don't mind the old
blisters, Charlie told his father a
couple of days later. "They don't hurt
so awful much, anyway, and MI. Cur
tbs gave US a whole dollar for the
Fresh-Air Fund jast on account Of the
Tattooed PARTNERSHIP said it was
the best turn of the kind Mrs. Curtis
had ever seen-and you gave us anoth-
err dollar because Of 1t, and Sister An
ia fifty cents. So We had $3.50 ex-
ira to send in, anyway, and that's
worth a few sun blisters, isn't it, Gil
roy"
"Well, I should think So" answered
Gilroy, feeling the sore spots on the
back Of his neck. Ethel III. Colson,
III the Chicago Record.
The Opelousas courier., 1901-08-24
The Diet of the Phoebe.

Among the early spring arrivals at
the North none I more welcome
than the phoebe. Though naturally
building its nest under an overhang-
ing cliff of rock or earth, or in the
mouth of a cave, it's preference for
the vicinity of farm buildings is SO
marked that in the more thickly set
tied parts of the country the bird is
seldom seen at any great distance
from a farmhouse, except where a
bridge spans some stream, afording
a secure spot for a nest. Its confiding
disposition has rendered it a great ia
yorite, and consequently it is seldom
disturbed. It breeds throughout the
United States east of the Great Plains
and winters from the South Atlantic
and Gulf States southwark.
The phoebe subsists almost entirely
upon insects, most of which are caught
on the wing. These species are most
~ harmful. Small wild fruits and
berries comprise the vegetable food.
No cultivated fruits are disturbed by
the phoebe. It is evident that a pair
of phoebes must materially reduce the
number of insects near a garden or
field, S the birds often, IL not always,
raise two broods a year, and each
brood numbers from four. to six young.
Los Angeles Times.
The Opelousas courier., 1901-08-24
Medical Mascot.

A member of the senior class Of Mill
waukee Medical College found a mas
cot the last day Of examination in the
shape of a tiny black kitten, which
followed him on the street as he was
ON bis way to the college. Not know
ing what else to do, with it, he put the
kitten in his oyercoat pocket, where it
slept contentedly all day. When he
went to the Turkish bath late in the
afternoon the kitten went, too, and
after eating a bowl of cream, curled
up on the cot by his protector and
slept as If he belonged there. When
the senior gets his sheepskin next
week and opens an Office Ole little
pledge Of success will havYp& AmRe
there,-Milwankee Sentinel.
The Opelousas courier., 1901-08-24

we got an old lace curtain from Gil
roy's mamma and wrapped pieces of
it around us. Then we sat out in the
sun 9til the pattern was burned on.
My neck looks Just as though a lot of
little snakes had been painted on it,
and Girloy's arms are all flowers. We
thought we'd have two tattooed per-
formers instead of one; every old cir
Gus has one. We must have looked
fine as, the .Tattooed Partners"
you did," said Emma, heartily,
but, my! how your arms and necks
must hurt, and how they'll hurt to-
morrow. Mine were just awful until
Aunt Sarah put some cold cream on
them and bathed them with witch
hazel. You'd better get mamma or
sister Anna to do it for you right Off"
"oh, rubbish" cried both boys,
laughing, as they rushed away to get
some of the ice cream Mis-. Sum-
mers was serving on the side lawn
the audience bought the cream for the
benefit Of the Fresh-Air Fund, but the
circus performers were to have all
they wanted for nothing. =" guess
we can stand it without coddling, kid
die; we've been In bathing often
enough to know how sun blisters feel.
We're not tender like girls"
But the sun blisters proved a little
more severe than the boys had antici-
pated, and that evening Mrs. Sum-
ners, going upstairs for the night, was
surprised to hear her presence request
ed BY Charlie, who had gone to bed
several hours before.
Say, namma." he called, softly,
"Won's ven put some cold cream on
The Opelousas courier., 1901-08-24
A WONDERFUL LENS.
It Will Show o Light For Thirty Miles
and VIII Cost S2A,5OO.

1t Will Show o Light For Thirty Miles
and VIII Cost @2A,5OO.
The first order lens for a lighthouse
which is mounted in the United States
Treasury Departments exhibit in the
Government Building at the Pan
American Exposition is the strongest
in the world. It is n new device, and
is not yet used by the United States
Government. One or two may be
bought for dangerous points peculiar
ly situated, but the lens is so expen-
sive that its general S is not ex-
pected. At a proper elevation, 1t Is
warranted to show a light for thirty
miles. The cost of the lens, without
any of the fittings, is $24,5OO. The
lens is a hollow circular structure,
with a cone-like top. It Is eight feet
ten and a half inches high, and has
a diameter of six feet four inches.
The structure consists of a brass
framework into which pieces of glass
are set. The lower part of the struc-
ture is encircled by eight parallel belts
of glass, each belt being divided into
t~wenty-four sections. Above these,
and forming the middle Of the lens,
are sixteen belts of glass, divided into
the same number of sections. The
cone-like top is encircled by eighteen
belts divided in the same way. Each
piece Of glass is cut so that it radiates
toward a common centre, thus con-
oentrating the rays on a certain point.
There are 1908 pieces Of glass in the
lens. No piece is less than an inch
thick, and all except those near the
top are five or six inches long. The
whole makes a dazzling array in the
daylight. With a powerful lamp in
side the lens, there will be few who
will care to try to look at it at night
from any point within the Government
building. It is mounted on a revolv-
ing platform, which stands on q base
twelve feet high.
The lamp which is to burn inside the
lens is three feet high. 1t consists Of
a brass can, sixteen inches high and
fourteen inches in diameter, with a
burner six inches in diameter, and a
globe one foot high. In the burner
arc six circular wicks one inside the
other, and each CONTROLLED by a sep
arate lever. The largest wick could
be slipped over a four-inch gun pro-
and the smallest has a diameter
of about one inch. The glass of which
the globe is made is a quarter Of al
inch thick.
The mechanism operating the lens
is so arranged that the light is flashed
every twenty-four seconds.
The Opelousas courier., 1901-08-24

the afternoon, and it was decidedly
~inconvenient having the manager. the
ticket-taker and two of the star per-
formers absent all morning, but the
final rehearsals were gone through
with somehow without them, and the
two boys turned up all right In time
for dinner. The only thing which
worried Mrs. Summers-Gilroy took
dinner with Charlie that day-Was the
fact that neither boy seemed to care
very much about leaning back In his
chair, and that both OF them shrunk
from being touched or handled, how
ever gently.
"Ouch!" cried Charlie. sharply, when
his older sister laid her hand on his
shoulder, while Gilroy's romp with
the baby wasn't half SO lively as usu-
al. The little fingers seemed to hurt
him whenever they touched his arms
Or shoulders.
But # worked beautifully they
presently confided in Mrs. Summers:
.leoks fine"
"Isn't it painful?" asked Mrs. Sum-
mers. !.
"Not very" said both boys together.
4And we can fix mp with vaseline or
something after the shows over If
It hurts too much they explained, as
they went out into the yard again,
with Mrs. Summers between them.
"My-lo0ks like snakes" Jessie Cur
tbs heard Charlie saying as she ran
down the back steps just behind him,
but she couldn't quite catch what it
was that looked like snakes.
And mine like flowers" whispered
Gilrev, while AIRS. Summers smiled
The Opelousas courier., 1901-08-24

The absolute necessity of verifying
theories by the observation Of facts is
beautifully illustrated again. A re-
cent issue of Science shows that the
sea lions, which have fallen into dis.
repute with California fishermen be.
cause Of their supposed fish devouring
habits, do not, as a matter Of fact,
endanger the fishing industry at all.
A critical examination of the stom-
Rchs OF twenty-five slaughtered sea
lions shows that they eschew fish al
together and live mostly on squids and
similar food.
The Opelousas courier., 1901-08-24
why they Went smoothly.

The following story is told by a
traveller about one of the local rail
ways in Ireland:
We were bounding along, he said, at
the rate of about eve miles an hour
and the whole train was shaking ter
ribly. / expected every moment to see
my bones protruding through my skin.
Passengers were rolling from one end
Of the carriage to the other. l held on
firmly to the arms Of the seat. Pres
emily we settled down a bit quieter-
at least, I could keep my hat on and
my teeth didn't chatter.
There was a quiet-looking man op-
posite me. I looked up with q CHASTITY
smile. wishing to appear cheerful and
said:
1--WE are going a little smoother. I
see."
"Yes," he said; ''we're off the line
now."-London Spare Moments.
The Opelousas courier., 1901-08-24

/ and nodded. But when Jessie asked
for an explanation the boys only
laughed and told her to wait until the
circus opened. So Jessie and the other
| girls We're just as curious as could be,
and they were decidedly disappointed,
as the circus went on, by and by, to
discover nothing at all that looked like
snakes or flowers. And they couldn't
understand it one bit when Mrs. Sum-
mers. as manager in the temporary
absence Of Charlie, who took part in
about every third ''turn," announced
presently that the next number would
be an acrobatic performance by the
'"Tattooed Partners" They didn't see
where the "Tattooed Partners" were
to come from.
The, band, which was made up of
Charles grown-up sister Anna, who
played the mandolin, a couple Of her
friends with guitar and banjo, and two
Of the boys with mouth harp and a
shepherds whistle, blared out beauti-
fully and out into the ring tumbled
Charlie and Gilroy, in bathing trunks,
striped stockings and tennis slippers.
And, sure enough, their arms and
shoulders were 'tattooed" in curious
patterns and in a shade of vivid red.
why! They look just as l did after
that day OIL the beach at South Hav-
en-" cried little Emma Summers
when the applause was beginning to
die away, and no sooner was the per-
Torrance over than she caught hold Of
Charlie and insisted upon knowing
how he got those funny marks on his
arms and shoulders. Charlie looked
at Gilroy, Gilroy nodded, and the boys
owned up.
I'VE got the idea from you," ex-
planned Charlie. "You showed me your
wrists where. the pattern Of your
waist had been burned on them, and
The Opelousas courier., 1901-08-24
THE LOST GARDEN.
BY ELLA WHEELER WILCOX.

There was a fair green garden sloping
From the southeast side of the mountain
ledge;
And the earliest tint of the dawn came
Sgroping
Down through its paths, from the days
edim edge. &
The bluest skies and the reddest roses
Arched and varied its velvet sod;
And the glad birds sang, as the soul sup
poses
The angels sing on the hills of God.
I wandered there when my veins seemed
bursting
With life's rare rapture, and keen delight;
And yet in my heart was a constant thirst
ing
! wanted to stan8(in the blaze of glory
That turned to Crimson the peaks of snow,
And the winds from the west all breathed,
a story
Of realms and regions 1 longed to know.
I saw on the gardens south side growing
The brightest blossoms that breathe of
1 saw in the east how the sun was glow
And the gold air shook with a wild birds
tune;
I heard the drip of a silver fountain,
And the pulse of a young laugh throbbed
with glee;
But still | looked out over the mountain
Where unnamed wonders awaited me.
The Opelousas courier., 1901-08-24

Now Professor Pickering has ~.scov.
cred, or thinks he has, that there liz
snow on the moon. That writer of en-
tertaining fiction, Mr.. H. G. Wells,
long ago assured US of this, and no one
who has read his story Of the Falling
Angel win doubt him to be a gentle
man Of yeraeity. Our romancists in
variably beat our slower science. Jules
Verne knew all about submarine boat
building long before the Hollands
first plans. AS to snow on, the moon,
there is no reason why there should
not be some; 1t is far easier to believe
than green cheese.
The Opelousas courier., 1901-08-24

New England people say that the
rage for antique furniture which has
been rampant during the past ten
years seems now to be dying out and
people are beginning to be willing to
look at furniture of modern convenient
styles. But the supply Of genuine old
furniture possible to be obtained by
purchase from descendants of the
early settlers must have been pretty
well exhausted.
The Opelousas courier., 1901-08-24

The value Of o newspaper Is On
advertising medium consists ia
Its circulation.
When You can secure the com.
lbined circulation Of two papers
for the price Of enc, it is money
gayedI
"The st. Landry Democrat
was consolidated on the Sd Of
March, 1894, with " The Opelou.
gag Courier" The advertising
rates have not been increased
while the price of subscription
has been reduced to % O year.
TIE COURIER being By odds
the best paper In the empire Par
aah Of 81 Landry ID therefore the
0AanagG
The Opelousas courier., 1901-08-24

Here's another weapon that WILL
likely serve to deter other nations
from going to war. 1t is a revolver re.
sembling in shape a small carbir e.
1t was invented by a Swiss army off.
Ger, and will o be issu,d to the
troops OF that country. The weapon
has a bore Of 7.95 min, and fires forty.
eight shots In twenty-eight seconds,
which are warranted to kill at 1000
wards.
The Opelousas courier., 1901-08-24

It is well, when somebody chatters
about the successful business men
who never went to college, to ask the
chatterer what those men are now
doing with their own son Do they
send the boys into the shop or factory
or counting house at the age of ten or
twelve, or do they keep them in school,
and later in college, till they are well
grown up?
The Opelousas courier., 1901-08-24

I came at last to the western gateway
= That led to the path / longed to climb;
But a shadow fell ON my spirit straight
way, .
For close at my side stood greybeard Time.
| paused, with feet that were fain to linger
Hard by that gardens golden gate;
But Timaspoke, pointing with one stern
"Pass on. he said, "for the day grows
late"
And now on the chill gray cliffs I wander;
The heights recede which l thought to
And the light seems dim on the mountain
yonder, =
When think of the garden I left behind.
Should | stand at last on its SUBMITS
I know full we'll it would not repay
For the fair lost tints of the dawn SO ten
That crept up over the edge o day.
I would go back, but the ways are wind
ing,
If ways there are to that land, in sooth,
For what man succeeds in ever finding
A path to the garden of his lost youth?
But. l think sometimes, when the June
stars ~glisten,
That a rose-scent drifts from far away
And l know, when 1 lean from the cliffs
and listen,
That a young laugh breaks on the air like
spray.
New York journal.
The Opelousas courier., 1901-08-24

In most Northern States the rush IL
fron country to town. In the South
ern States the country population has
increased slxty-fve per cent; cities,
thirty-fve per cent, In ten years.
The Opelousas courier., 1901-08-24

A California community recently
iynched at one seance five men accused
Of horse stealing. This reads like the
good old ~dime-novel days.
The Opelousas courier., 1901-08-24
RLIE SUMMERS and Gil

~ HARLlE SUMAERS ana Gu-
I roy Curtis were getting up a
~ circus in the Summers's back
yard. The price of admission
was to be one penny, and the money
raised was to go to the Fresh-Air
Fund. The shelter tent ii which
Mrs. Summers sat out with the baby
when the weather was very hot, had
been given over to them for the week,
and Charles grown-up sister Anna
had promised to get some of her
grown-up friends to help with the
music. A beautiful circus programme
and menagerie had been arranged,
with the cat for a tiger and Gilroy's
big dog for a bear, and the only thing
which the boys particularly wanted
was a tattooed boy. Somehow or
other Gilroy had set his heart upon
having this particular feature" which
seemed impossible to secure.
Then Charles little sister Emma
went across the lake for a day, and
when she came back she was full Of
the funny experience which had hap
pened to her. She had passed most of
the day in Michigan upon the lake
shore in the blazing sunshine, and
when she took off her dress at night
the pattern of her embroidered shirt
waist had been sunburned all over her
arm and neck. When Charlie saw the
marks on her wrists he shouted and
rushed off to tell Gilroy.
The next day the two boys, despite
the amused warnings of Mrs. Sum
mers, who had been let into the plot,
an old lace curtain from Gil
mother, and went off to a spot
behind the Curtis barn, a spot where
the sun shone uninterruptedly most
Of the day, and where nobody was
likely to interfere with or come upon
them. The circus was to come off in
The Opelousas courier., 1901-08-24

There seems to. be great rivalry BE-
tween the north and south po'es as 20
which will be discovered this sum
ner.
The Opelousas courier., 1901-08-24

At present France is far and away
ahead of the rest of the world in the
manufacture and use Of electric veh-
icleS.
The Opelousas courier., 1901-08-24

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The Opelousas courier., 1901-08-24

The United States, according to the
~Churchman, has lot social settle
meatss The rest Of the world has 90.
The Opelousas courier., 1901-08-24
WIN JOEL sANDoz,
Attorney at-LaW and Notary Pasls

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Opelousas Courier
10 the advocate Of Democratic
principles and the friend of the
people.
Their welfare is its welfare, and
! 1t will ever be found defending
their rights with ell Of its
ability.
Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1901-06-03
POPULAR FEELING

Regarding the Proposed Appeal from
the Decision of Judge Hervey Be-
ing strongly Manifested.
The announcement that the remnants
of the late Republican ring proposed to
carry the case lately and justly decided
against them by Judge Hervey to the
Supreme Court, has created quite an
amount of adverse criticism about the
city, outside of party lines. and there
is a decided disposition to retaliate
upon Mr.. Schmulbach, who Is under
stood to be the head and front of the
opposition to the judgment OF a fair
and impartial tribunal. Popular senti-
ment Is that the "kickers' ought 10
yield with what grace they may be able
to command, and among the saloon
element and the patrons OF such places
there has not only been manifested a
decided disposition to abstain from
asking for Mr.. Schmulbach's goods. but
the matter will be brought up at a meet
ing of saloon keepers to be held Tues
day night, at which time action of a
definite character will probably be
taken, II current rumor be correct.
Incidentally. 1t may be stated that the
police, in view OF the recent ~"hold-up'
by the Republicans in the First Branch
OF Council, may be inclined to strictly
enforce the ordinance relative to Sun
day closing. The subject has been
discussed seriously, and a tip in that
direction may be worthy OF thought.
The decision OF the Circuit Court Is
generally accepted as not only
righteous, but that 1t should close the
question for all time to come. Further
litigation can result In no good, and the
public business as administered by
Council and its officers and a%ppointees,
should be allowed to 90 on. The public
is heartily sick OF the dog-in-the-
mango policy pursued up TO this time,
and will resent any further obstruction
OF the public business.
Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1901-06-03
AT THE HOTELS.

4 List of the Visitors From Nearby
Towns and NeiEhborinE States,
Who Are Guests of the Local
Hotels.
Park-C. J.. Grimm, Salem; w. F.
Krone and wife, Pittsburg.
Stamm-G. B. Martin, Wyatt: N. Og-
din, ST. Mary's, NJ. B. Hickey, Glen
Easton.
Brunswick-Wm. Doak, Denton: ].
NJ. Templeton, Salem: J.. VI. Sullivan,
Pittsburg.
St. Charles-C. l. Poe. wife and son,
Grafton; John Wilson and wife. Pitts
burg; Jos. P. Jones, GAINESVILLE.
Grand Central-F. Bohman, Man
hinton; Thomas Fletcher. ST. Glars
vile: Charles r. Updegraf, Martins
Ferry; W. C. Bisart. GAINESVILLE; n.
Stadfeld, Pfttsburg.
McLure-J. 3. Banner and T. Fftx-
gerald, Jr., Fairmont; A. C. Tree, Man
nington. Us Pople and II. Ham. Fair.
mont; ]. B. HeEg. Pittsburg; b. w
Cunningham. Charleston; n. Il Smith
and Roy Carnahan. Smithaeld: 6 4
Fooce. PittsbufE
Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1901-06-03
DECIDEDLY WARMER.
Yesterday Morning and
Evening Were Both Rather Cool.

yesterday was noticeably warmer than
previous days, the maximum temperature
belng 80 degrees. cut both the morning
and evening were cool, with a like prom
Use for this morning. The barometer was
low during the major portion of the day,
pelng but a few points above t~wenty-nine.
and as a result there was a high wind at
times, with a little dash of rain about
three O'Clock in the afternoon, but only
a passing shower, and some subsequent
hunde without rain. At ten O'Clock last
night the sky was beautifully clear. with
the barometer at 90 y and the thermome-
ter at &C .
The regular reports follow: