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The Opelousas courier., 1901-03-09

At Sakai, about half a dozen miles
from Osaka, and some other towns In
Japan, where carpets, rugs and fabrics
of the same class are manufactured,
there are no large carpet factories,
but hand looms may be seen in nearly
every house.
The weaving is set to music. The
children are taught to sing a sort of
nsens verse to a certain tune, the
superintendent or head worker lead
ing, and that air means a certain pat
tern, the deft fingers of the little
workers ~rhythmically following the
notes.
At the right moment, says a writer
In Pearson's. the woman In charge Of
a loom nums a new tune, and the little
ones instantly take 1t up and as quick
ly change the pattern to suit the
music. 1t is consequently quite cor
rect to speak of these productions as
a zone tune" two tune" or -four
tune" carpet, and SO on, as the case
may be.
The children kneel at their work
upon a plank at the end of the loom,
and each of them slides backward and
forward along it, according to the
space occupied by their allotted por-
ton Of the pattern.
The actual workers are, for the
most part, children of from seven
years of age upward. and from two to
four, five, or even six, work at a single
loom under the direction of an adult,
generally a woman.
Some 5000 boys and over 1900 girls
are thus employed. The children
work twelve hours a day, and each
earns about a penny in that time.
Three Of them can, II expert hands,
complete an ordinary rug, say six by
three feet, and made Of coIored hemp
WOODEN yarns, In a day.
A silk rug of the same dimensions,
however, would occupy the same
workers for from 80 to 100 hours.
The Opelousas courier., 1901-03-09

A Massachusetts leather man pre-
diets an easing down of the price OF
sole leather very soon. on account Of
the invention of a New England
genius. Sole leather grows on beasts
in very limited quantities, and it ia
hard to get enough of 1t. The invention
is to use leather scraps of all sorts for
the manufacture Of good, serviceable
sole leather. The scraps are worth.
less for all practical purposes, and
generally rot In the streets and alleys.
But a machine has been devised that
tears them into shreds and makes
them into pulp, which is run out under
great pressure in continuous sheets
of good sole leather. A fall In the
price Of sole leather is predicted as
the result of this discovery Of a way
to use the SCRAPS.
The Opelousas courier., 1901-03-09
A Prophetic Cat,

In a neat little villa at GENTLY. near
Paris, there has lived for several
years a widow named Nine. Richard.
whose sole companion is a splendid
Angora cat. Alone the two lived in
the comfortable house. and very rare
ly did eitheg go far away from home.
A short time ago. however. the lady
felt very lonesome. and so she decid-
ed to invite a few of her neighbors to
dinner. They came. and after dinner
the cat entered the room. and on ac.
count Of its beauty at once attracted
general attention.
The guests petted it fondly, and
finally one of them. an elderly spin
ster, took it up in her arms and asked
it a curious question.
"Tell me. pussy" she said. which
OF us who are now in the room will
die hrst?"
Straighway the cat leaped from her
arms. and. with tail erect and loud
purrs, went straight to an old lady
who sat at The other end of the room.
Not being superstitious the entire com,
pany burst out laughing, and the
hostess was warmly congratulated on
possessing such q wonderful eat.
A few days later. however. the old
lady who hal been selected by the
cat IS deaths next victim actually
died, and then the storm arose. Some
persons insisted that Nine. Richard
was a %sorcersss and that her cat was
an evil spirit, while others maintained
that the cat alone was to blame and
ought to be promptly killed. the
clamor at last became SO loud that six
OF the ladies who had been Nine.
Richards guests on the eventful even
ing decided to take definite action, and
SO they laid a formal complaint be-
fore the police authorities. in which
they urged that the offending cat.
whose eyes they described as super
natural and diabolical." should be
killed without delay. What action. If
any, the police have taken is not yet
known.
The Opelousas courier., 1901-03-09
" Sandwfch-Men.n

The "sandwich-men" are among the
EAST London Types" described by
Sir Walter Besant in the Century.
They walk between the boards all
day long for a shilling. It is work
which makes nc demand upon them.
They slowly and mechanically plod
along, each following the mar before
him. If you watch the sandwich-man
you may observe that he looks neither
to the right nor to the left. His face
expresses no emotion of any kind; he
feels no interest in anything. He is
like the hermit or the ~recluse, or the
MISUNDERSTANDING. He is dead to the
world; a nan without friends, with
out money, without hope, without re-
sources, without the power of work,
without strength of mind to resolve,
without will to urge him and to sus-
tain him or to lead him out, has no
further concern with the world. It is
a moving panorama, a series of pic
lures on which he looks without in
terest; his W figure, which ought to
be there, is not there. Newsboys shout
their evening. papers; the shops light
up their wares till the whole street is
a fairyland of treasures; the we'll
dressed people pa him in long pro-
cession; the carriages go up and down
the road. To all the life around him,
to all the sights around hin, to the
meaning of the show, and to the
dance of life and death that fills the
street, the sandwich-man is indiffer-
emit. He has no ambition; he has no
future to hope for, no past that he
cares to remember; he lives only for
the day.
The Opelousas courier., 1901-03-09
PEARLS OF THOUGHT.

It is worse to %apprehend than to
sufer.-Bruyere.
No man was ever so much deceived
by another, as by himself.-Greville.
OF all the evil spirits abroad in the
world i~nsincerity is the most danger
ous.-Froude.
Doing good Is the only certainly
happy action Of q mans life.-Sir
Philip Sidney.
The more we do. the more VIC can
do; the busy we are the more
leisure we have.-Hazlitt.
Where there is much pretension,
much has been borrowed; nature
never pretends.-Lavater.
There Is no outward sign of rue
courtesy that does not rest on a deep
moral foundation.-Goethe.
He who is not contented with what
he has. would not be contented with
what he would like to have.-Socrates.
1t is a wise man who knows his own
business; and 1t is a Wiser man who
thoroughly attends to It'll. L. Way
land.
The cheerful live longest in years,
and afterwards In our regards. Cheer
fulness is the offshoot of goodness
BoVee.
The Opelousas courier., 1901-03-09

The Ameer Of Afghanistan has is
sued al order that all the young men
throughout the country, who are not
permanently employed at some occu-
patton, are to join the army. He has
also caused 1t to be proclaimed that a
vision he had when he came to the
throne In which he was instructed to
build a wall around the country has
been fulfilled. The reference Is to the
boundary treaties with the British
and Russian Governments which have
fixed the frontiers Of Afghanistan.
This wall, he says, the people must
be ready to defend with their lives,
and they must cease quarreling among
themselves.
The Opelousas courier., 1901-03-09
Mountain Range in the Pacific.

From q scientific standpoint one OF
the most interesting discoveries made
by the government survey in the Pa
ciic was that of a submarine noun
tain range about 500 miles from Guam,
which apparently connects with one
which extends from the coast OF Ja-
pan to the BONN Islands. In this
range was found a single peak which
came to within 498 feet of the surface.
and a careful survey OF 1t developed
the fact that 1t closely resembles In
outliTeS the famous volcano Fujiyama.
near Yokohama, Japan. To the north
of this range. according to the report.
the bed of the ocean slopes gradually
to the eastward into the great Japan
ese Deep, which for years, held the
record for ocean Observation-Disclosures
Public Ledger.
The Opelousas courier., 1901-03-09

Here ia what one of the big men OF
the New York Stock Exchange has to
say of the changes in the financial
world that are taking place: MARX
this as a prediction. BY 1910. aud pos
sibly within less time, members Of the
New York Stock Exchange viii be
trading in London securities. just al
American securities are now being
traded in In London. The money cen
tire Of the world viii surely be on THU
side Of the Atlantic. for never In his.
tory were fortunes being piled up &c
rapidly or to such enormous proper
tions as they now are here. Already
we have more money than our rick
men know how to invest to advantage.
and the small percentages they are
willing to accept are ample proof OF
II. We are sure to be supreme in mat.
tiers OF finance, and my belief il tha,
the change win come in i've rather
than ten years. That 1t win come ii
the belief In Paris and in Berlin. as j
learned from men who handle enor
NOUS amounts of capital in those cen
tres, though they do not believe the
change win come as soon as / have
predicted. But come. they admit. Il
surely wiI."
The Opelousas courier., 1901-03-09
A Dogs FiItal AfYection.

Speaking of animals, there used to
be a dog in South birmingham who
lived on a place of about go acres, and
was accustomed, on a certain day each
week, to leave home at a particular
hour. He went a mile or so from the
house to a place where the highway
from Worcester crossed the road.
There he would patiently await the
arrival Of his sire, who was owned by
a cattle dealer and passed that way
regularly on his journey to the Brigh-
ton cattle market. The two dogs al
ways met one another with every
mark of affection, and once in awhile
the son would bring his parent home
to dinner. IL there were nothing on
his special plate, he would straight
away make it manifest that the guest
should be fed, and also receive the
welcome Of the household. This was
kept up until the old dog died, leaving
the other almost heart broken. Fflial
affection is an old story, but in a case
Of this kind, It is. perhaps, somewhat
unusual.--Boston Transcript.
The Opelousas courier., 1901-03-09

Paris has a municipal debt of $780,
100000, nearly half that of all the
cities Of France, twice as great as that
Of London, and one-third Of the local
debts Of all England. Every Partisan
owes 500 more than every Londoner.
In Paris government costs $25 a head,
the highest rate In any city In the
world. AS an offset, it claims to be the
best governed, and, while the conten-
ton may be disputed, 1t is certainly
second to none affording an example
of administrative efficiency never sur
passed in the urban history Of any
period. But Berlin is not far behind,
and government there only costs Sc a
head. while In st. Petersburg the job
Is done In tolerable fashion at $3.50 a
head.
The Opelousas courier., 1901-03-09

The value OF q Newspaper o. an
advertising medium consists in
It's circulation.
When you can secure tho com.
bined circulation of two papers
for the price Of one, it is money
savedl
"The st. Landry Democrat
was consolidated on the 3D. of
March, 1894, with /" The Opelou.
cas- Courier" The advertising
rates have not been increased
while the price of subscription
has been reduced to 90 q year,
TIE COURIER being by odda
the best paper In the empire Par,
lah OF St. Landry 10 therefore the
ahAanNga
The Opelousas courier., 1901-03-09

The census returns of Texas present
some curious facts. For instance, Bal
ley County has but four residents.
Cochran has twenty-five; Andrews has
t~hirty-seven; Lynn has seventeen. and
dawson has t~hirty-six. twenty-five
other counties have populations of less
than 500 each. Some counties have no
running stream within their borders,
some are hundreds Of miles from a
railroad, and others are almost wholly
inhabited by prairie dogs, jack rab-
bits and r~attlesnakes. Tom Green
County, the largest in the State. Is
larger than the whole State Of Ohio,
and has but 6so4 inhabitants.
The Opelousas courier., 1901-03-09

An interesting contribution to edu-
cational research Is furnished in the
annual report Of the President of the
st. Louis Board Of Education. This
educator takes issue with those who
believe that poverty is the main cause
Of children leaving school before the
completion of the course. Inquiry has
shown him, he reports, that the losses
in attendance occur almost entirely
among the older and the backward pu-
pills, who have lost interest, or have
grown discontinued because of the con.
trast In point OF progress between
them and younger children. For these
the excus of poverty is regarded as
only a cloak. Added to the influence
of the children in the matter is the
parents lack Of appreciation of the
value Of In education.
The Opelousas courier., 1901-03-09
Courtesy from Elevated Road Guards.

Courtesy from E~Ievafed-ROad Guards
''This is worth noting" said a tray
eler on the city railways. There is
much courtesy among the e1e-
waited guards at present than l have
eve seen before. Last night some la
dies were changing cars at One Hun
dred and Twenty-ninth street and
Third avenue. The guard not only
showed them the way, but, having a
spare moment, actually carried their
bags down n flight of stairs and up
another and put them in their train.
"The other instance occurred in q
downtown train this morning. One
of the passengers was leaning against
the door, when the guard had occasion
to open 1t, and the guard said: T beg
your pardon; | didn't see you were
leaning there; excuse me- Now are
not these two cases signifcant?"-
New York Post
The Opelousas courier., 1901-03-09

"A Chicago embezzler who expects to
be released on bail shortly proposes to
lecture "in the Of Justice and
the humane enforcement Of the laws"
a Missouri "firebug'' is to take the
platform, doubtless for the purpose Of
expressing his animosity to the fire in
iran companies. Perhaps aRogues'
Lyceum will yet be founded. =.
The Opelousas courier., 1901-03-09

It is said that the only words which
will transliterate yankee Doodle" In
to Chinese are the words, Yankee
~too-te-lee," which mean," The flag Of
the ocean, sovereign people Of the
world"
The Opelousas courier., 1901-03-09
A Realfst.

$50 you let your leading man goas
Il had to-" answered Mr.. Storming-
ton Barnes. HE was too realistic In
his IDEAS"
sInterfered with your work on the
stage?"
Mo, not on the stage. In the boz
office. He wanted real money
Washington Star.
The Opelousas courier., 1901-03-09

Controller Coler's latest analysis of
New York City's expenses shows that
the park system OF the metropolis costs
each inhabitant a trihe less than half
O cent per annum. Cheap enough.
considering the benefits they get there.
The Opelousas courier., 1901-03-09
M. c. PERRAULNs
(Late Judge 18th Judicial Distl
ATTLRNEY-AT-LAW,
oPELoUsAs, LA
Office over Dc. Landry State Bank.
WIN JOEL SANDOz.
Attorney at-LaW and Notary Public
~OPRLOUsAs. LA.

0PRLOUsAs, La
VIII practice In ali Courts, stats
and Federal, and before the Patent ana
Pension Offices at Washington, d. Y.
Shorthand and Typewriting promptly
and carefully done. Office over D.
Landry State Bank. Main StresA
The Opelousas courier., 1901-03-09

OF THE
IMMACULATE : CONCEPTION,

OPELOUSAS, La.
VAd0r tho Direction Of the Sisters kerian2tas
Of Holy Cross.
0 tiers to young ladies every facility
for acquiring 8 thorough christian cd.
ucs ton. Constant attention is paid 10
HON g and social culture. Lessons are
given in music, painting and Other
useful arts. The ~gisters also have
charge of the boys school. The course
of ;nstrr ction is two-fold-Pseparstory
and Con .mercial. French is taught In
she two courses. For particulars ad-
dreaa SISTER SUPERIOR.
The Opelousas courier., 1901-03-09

Opel0usas Courier
IL the advocate of Democratic
principles and the friend Of the
people.
Their welfare Is its welfare, and
it will ever be found defending
their rights with ell Of its
ability.
The Opelousas courier., 1901-03-09
Two Hundred Complete Stories
BY Popular Authors.

This mammoth collection Of amusing and entertain
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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1901-02-08
Alaskan Precedents.

In annexing and governing Alaska the
United States had to solve similar prob
lens TO those which are found so trouble
ser1e In the case of the Philippines. But
the republic easily disposed of the Alaskan
task on the lines suggested by national well
rare. with only secondary consideration for
the Aiaskans and their interests; and the
colonial policy pursued seems neither to
have disturbed the national conscience nor
Jared the Constitution
In the case of Alaska the precedent was
est ID for the annexation OF non-contipu.
Gus territory; (2) for the annexation of ter
rttory in some degree unsuited In its climate
for habitation by the people Of the temper
ats zone; 60 for the annexation of land not
intended to be carved into states of the
Union and apparently unfit ever to become
states; "a for the annexation of a territory
whose people. whether few or many, are
In the main uncivilixed and UNIT for Ameri-
can citizenship: and % for the annexation
of land bordering the Pacific and Of Pacific
Islands Tor the avowed purpose Of protect
sag snd increasing our Asiatic trade and of
eontroiling and Americanizing the great
ocean which Is to be the scene Of the fu-
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1901-02-08

Washington Correspondence rh,lud.lnma pro


The need Oh a puphc buiIu.ng IN TINS CITY
ior municipal Purposes ~ auniiIteu uy ey-
efypouy WAC hnu"s anything uI Inc si,ua-
tion here. ror years the U.s,rlc. govern
hienL has been Ien,ing a Dunuing Tor cav
purposes "hich IL ranisuacn4e al
lar anu disgrace 10 the cap..a. Of Inc
Hotioh Inc government paying apolL
sZvo,VtV year IN rents IN THIS ci,y WINE
~ nsts ample money 10 construct lne neces-
sary OuliuinSS, anu II WouiU De great ecun-
cny To Use tne money Ior ina. purpose
WHiie puDnc DuiIoInSS nave been cons ,rucL-
eo III various sIna,i towns over me coun-
Try, no great effort has ever been maze 10
provide tniS city with a municipal building
"A Diii Tor lnaL purpose mas now been
reported to the House. ana il IS the PURPOSE
TO nave The DuiiuIng instructed ON the
soutn side Of pennsylvania avenue when
Is the best site the Guy for a pupuc
Duliulng. The House committee on pupuc
DuiiulhsS anu grounuS mas also reported a
biil Tor The conStruc ION oil building to ac-
commOOate the Supreme Court ana Inc De-
parimenC of Justice, both of when are
greatIy in need of a suitable structure
congress neeus the rooms nov .ccupied for
SUPP enc Court purposes In H. capitol. An
appropriation for new buIiuing for the
Departme of Justice was made two years
anu more ago. but as the amount proved
wholly insuincient to erect a suitable
structure, one has not been built. Un0er
the bill reported 10 the House 1t is now
proposed to combine that appropriation
with another one and construct a handsome
building to accommodate both the courts
ana the Department of Justice. That ap-
pears to be a wise move, but 1t is so late
In the session that 1t seems doubtful if
either one of these measures for necessary
pubic buildings In this city can or will
be passed before the 4th of March. Real
estate dealers who are now getting some
$20O.OOO year in rents exert a powerful
influence in preventing Congress from au-
thorizing the construction OF needed build
ings in Washington.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1901-02-08

All pessimists who doubt the capacity of
the United States to successfully manage
the affairs of the new possessions should
give heed to the conditions In Porto Rico.
American control has existed but little
over two years. We found squalor and
want and ignorance in every part OF the
island. The people today are busy and con-
tented. and the system OF schools now in
operation Is superior to any ever before
known there. These are not idle assertions
The facts are OF record. and have just been
certified to by the governor American GUS
toms of every kind are rapidly supplanting
those of Spanish origin, and are found to be
we'll suited to the tastes as to the welfare
of the inhabitants. A fair promise is that
In a score of years Porto Rico will be one
of the richest islands of its size In the
world, and It's people among the happiest
living anywhere under the stars and
stripes
We have had a fair chance there. The
people made no resistance to the change of
sovereignty. But Is there any good reason
to suppose that with an equal chance in
Cuba and the Philippines we should not
have done quite as well in those islands?
We have done well in Cuba. Complete
pacificaton has followed control the
principal cities are in better health than
they ever experienced under Spanish rule,
business and planting are both profitable
and only the uncertainty as to the form and
fate Of Independent government for the
island has prevented a positive boom in all
lines of business activity.
In the Philippines we have been con-
fronted from the outset with a revolt
against Our authority, instgated and con-
Quoted by an advcnturer who had no just
cause of action. Our purposes were
friendly and had our welcome been on the
order Of that given us in Porto Rico our
line Of procedure would have been similar
TO that which has been directed from San
Juan. A governor would have made head
quarters at Manila. and throughout all the
archipelago undisputed American control
would have signified thrift, progress edu
cation and safety to life and property.
Ever.a matters have been. we have shown
to those who have submitted a kindlier face
than ever they saw in office before, and the
stars and stripes have been the symbol of
liberation and guarantee of liberty under
the law.
And can that country be called incompe
tent and should it be discouraged from
proceeding with such tasks. when 1t has
men of the type of Allen and Wood and
Otis and Macarthur and Taft at its COM
mand. ready and willing to serve it in
offices of difficulty and responsibility?