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motlonless water Of the pool.

II have been disappointed" he n.
piled.
The woman dug her heel in the soft
earth. a faint flush spread slowly over
her face and her lips parted, once or
twice, before she spoke. Finally she
said:
And you do not believe I love your"
Il do not believe you love me" the
man repeated. "At least. l do not be-
lieve you love me as you once did"
For an instant the woman raised
her eyes to those of the man. There
were the twin glimmers Of defiance
and denial in them. But the man.
blind with passion. saw only the
, 1902-03-24
MONDAY, MARCH "a, 1902.

There il nothing small about Denver!
Mr.. Carnegie's offer OF two hundred
thousand dollars for a library is receiv-
ed with the assurance that he will at
once be struck for four hundred thou
sand,
, 1902-03-24
tat RESI-

What Do You Think o. rhisf-
The railroad e1nploye who is obliged
to live in Laramie should not be
ashamed. It If his misfortune, not his
fault.-Cheyenne Tribune.
Arizona republican., 1902-09-04
CONGRESS AND VICINITY
Aoizona State Telephone O. Heading
 fer Phoenix.

Eli Stauffer of the Arizona State Tel ephone company's exchange at Con- gress- is in town. He reports revived ac- tivity in mining in the Congress and Fools Gulch districts and says that the telephone company k building it's line on to the south. Ii has now full connections down as far as Wicken- burg and intends before many months to have an exchange, with the latest equipment, working in Phoenix The Arizona State Telephone company will then be fully connected between Phoe- nix, Wickenburg, Congress. Prescott, Jerome and the many intervening smaller towns and mines.
 Mir. Stauffer says that a number of the prospects that have been located for many years are now being devel- oped.
 The Senate geld mine. under the su- perirtendency of John Graham, he says, is being developed as rapidly as possible, and the ore showing is very satisfactory. They are down about 300 feet and are working twenty men ia the drifts and shafts.
 A large force oi men was put to work this week in the old well known Fools Gulch mine. A rich eastern company has recently secured owner ship, and will remove the old machin- cry, replacing it with new, and will build a new forty stamp mill. They will work the mine for all there is in it,
Arizona republican., 1902-09-04

It is not probable that the silver ques- ton will ever become a political issue in this country again. The supply of gcld promises to continue to be great enough to keep the silverites from ad- vCcating the free and unlimited coinage of silver at 16 to 1, or any other ratio. Savannah News.
Arizona republican., 1902-09-04
SCHOOL NOTICE.

Examinations fer entrance into the city schools will be held as follows: High school, Monday, September s, at 9 a. m. Grammar and Primary schools. Thursday, September 11th, a. m. All pupils who for any reason wish exam ination will please present themselves at the time stated.
 R. L. McDONNOLD, Supt
Arizona republican., 1902-09-04
A GOOD REASON.

Miss Ann Teek wants some of our exchanges with which to fix her frizzes," said the assistant editor, and she only wishes Chicago papers. Why those?" asked the managing ed itor. Because she says the Chicago pa pers are full of things that make your hair curl these days. ys."-Philadel- phia Record
Arizona republican., 1902-09-04

A writer in the Nineteenth Century gives an example of the camp gossip that is considered seriously by some, and even serves as material for pro-
 found historians. After complete in
 action for six weeks at Modder river, two men were overheard talking as they were taking an after dinner smoke
Arizona republican., 1902-09-04

We are so mean that when we hear any one trying to be funny over tele- phore we are glad when the lines don't work, and he has to scream it.
Arizona republican., 1902-09-04

Terrible plaques, those itching, pes tering diseases of the skin. Put an end to misery Doan's Ointment cures. At any drug store.
Arizona republican., 1902-09-04

in the sun. "'Ave you written 'one. Bill?" Bill had written 'ome. An ave you told 'em the truth, Bill? Ave you told em that we're up to our knees in blood 9" Bill had.
Arizona republican., 1902-09-04

and the old time miners in that dis trict agree that the prospects are good for big mine.
Arizona republican., 1902-09-04

If you are always quarreling with people about what you said on a pre- vious occasion, it is a sign you talk too freely.
Arizona republican., 1902-09-04

Ruby flour will keep your cook in a good humor.
Arizona republican., 1902-09-04

There is not much enjoyment in love during August.
Smyrna times., 1902-09-24
"a PunctuaI Bird.

What tempts the little humming
bird that we see in our gardens to
travel every spring from near the
equator to as far north as the arctic
circle, leaving behind him, as he does,
for a season, many tropical delights?
He is the only one of many humming
birds that pluckily leaves the land of
gayly colored birds to go into volun-
tary exile in the north, east of the Mis-
sissippi. How it stirs the Imagination
to picture the solitary, tiny migrant, a
mere atom of bird life, moving above
the range of human sight through the
vast dome of the sky! Borne swiftly
onward by rapidly vibrating little
wings, he covers the thousands of
miles between his winter home and his
summer one by easy stages and ar
rives at his chosen destination, wealth
er permitting, at approximately the
same date year after year.-COuntry
Life In America.
Smyrna times., 1902-09-24
Queer Fish.

Which fish have the power of float
mig and swimming back downward?
This peculiar property is possessed
only by the diodon and the tetrodon,
two allied families of tropical fishes
which are popularity known as globe
fish. The tetrodon is also found off the
coasts of Cornwall and Ireland. The
faculty is due to the fact that the skin
on the abdomen of these fishes is much
looser than it is on the back, and they
have the power to initiate this loose
skin by swallowing air through the
gullet. This of course enables them
to turn over at will, and, although the
great French naturalist Cuvier did not
believe that when i'm this position they
could swim as they pleased, Darwin
corrected him and proved that they
could swim both forward and back
ward in this position.
1t is Of course well known that the
shark and the dogfish, owing to the
peculiar position of the underjaw, are
Obliged to turn on their backs before
they can seize their prey, and while in
this position they are able to swim for
a very considerable distance. This,
however, is done by the muscular force
OF the fins and tail and not through
any special apparatus, such as the
globefsh possesses.-London Answers.
Smyrna times., 1902-09-24
White Men In Slavery.

Slavery is so connected in the popu-
lar mind with the dusky hue of the
African that it seems hard to believe
that only about 100 years ago white
men could be sold into slavery in New
York. 1t arose through applying the
redemption idea to poor immigrants
and obtained equally in all the coun-
tries of the United Kingdom. A man
in England, wishing to come to Amer
lea, would go to the correspondent of
some American house and for a GER
tain sum of money sell himself for a
period of from one to three years. as
the case might be. Taking the money
so raised. he would pay his passage and
that of his family to this country. I'm
mediately upon his arrival in New
York his time would be put up at
auction and himself sold to work for
the stipulated period before he could
be considered a free man. Many men
who afterward rose to great promi-
nence came to this country under these
distressing conditions.
Smyrna times., 1902-09-24
FREAK ADORNMENTS.
Strange Household Ornaments That
May De Seen In England.

Strange Household Ornaments That
May De Seen In England.
Many are the strange household and
garden adornments scattered up and
down the English countryside. In a
Sussex village is part of a garden pal
ing made wholly out of the swords of
swordfshes. The lady who owns the
garden got the strange paling from her
brother, who had originally sported it
in the tropics.
Near Leeds is summer house made
wholly of buttons of every imaginable
kind, and in the same county is
room the walls of which are adorned
entirely by the ribbons of cigars, near
ly 10000 Of these being represented.
From garnet to basement in the large
house of Leeds mineral water manu-
facturer is a gigantic scrapbOOk, ev-
cry notable theatrical poster of the last
twenty years being pasted ON the
walls.
A north country banker living near
Wakefield has great dining room the
whole of the walls of which are the
wooden and iron doors of eminent cas-
ties and historic buildings, and at Lis
card, in Cheshire, is a room that con-
tains hundreds of picture frames made
of every imaginable substance, from
leather to tigers bones, one frame be-
ing placed within another according to
size so that the whole surface is Gov
cred with frames.
In Liverpool is a rOOm-that of a
dentist whose grandfather occupied
the same premises-that contains many
mirrors and pictures the frames OF
which are made entirely of sharks
teeth. Near Birmingham a manufac
turer has a study that is lined, even tC
the roof, with nothing but chains OF
various thicknesses and padlocks OF
different sizes.-Pearson's
Smyrna times., 1902-09-24
To Match His Match.

An Englishman was in a smoking
compartment of a city train a little
while back, and at certain station
a German entered the carriage and
took his seat opposite him. When the
train had started, the foreigner. MOTTO
ing the others cigar, inquired if he
could give him one.
The Englishman, astOnished at the
request, reluctantly pulled out his case
and saw with disgust the other select
the best he could find and take match
from his pocket and light it. After
taking a few puffs with evident enjoy
ment, the German, beaming at his
companion through his spectacles, af-
fably continued:
II would not hat droubled you, but l
had a match in mein boggit und l did
not know vat to do NIT it."-Chums.
Smyrna times., 1902-09-24
Tbe woman and Her Face.

Once upon a time a woman had a
quarrel with her features because they
made ugly faces at her when she
looked in the glass. She scolded and
scolded, but it all did no good.
Finally she sat in front of her mir
ror, and with rouge, powder and black
pencil went deliberately to work to
show her face how wrong it was and
succeeded.
After a time she smiled a smile of
intense satisfaction, and her face
smiled pleasantly back at her.
Moral.-It is better to make up than
to continue differences.-New York
Herald,
Smyrna times., 1902-09-24
A WOMAN DEPOSITOR.
She Got Her Money, and Got 1t, Too,
the Way She Wanted 1t.

SAe UOt her money, ana Got IL, VOOS
the Way She Wanted 1t.
Zone day during the busy season,
when every moment was precious"
said a bank teller, "a woman present
ed her passbOOk and asked to have
her money, which amounted to 5000.
Il always endeavor to save needless
work, and, thinking that she intended
making a payment to some one who
would only redeposit the money, l
asked her if she intended handing all
the money over to one person; if so
check marked good would answer her
purpose as well as the cash, besides
saving labor.
Crushing me with one disdainful
look, she replied:
81 wish the money
"The money was duly handed out in
ten dollar bills. After spending some
fifteen anxious minutes in her efforts
to count the money, all the while lick
ing her fingers regularly, she handed
it back to me, all mixed up, with the
remark:
"I wish to leave this with you
again; l just wanted to see if it was
all here
The following year the operation was
repeated, but l was ready for her.
The next time l handed her six one
hundred dollar bills. Much to my con-
fusion and complete discontinue, she
returned them, saying, 4 want those
tens l left you
"She got them. philadelphia Times
Smyrna times., 1902-09-24
How the Ancients Moved Stone.


An unfinished Obelisk found in a
quarry at Syene showed how the an
clients separated these immense mono
liths from the native rock. A groove
marking the boundary of the stone
contained a number of holes into which
wooden wedges were firmly driven.
The groove was then filled with water,
and the swelled wedges cracked the
granite the whole length of the groove.
The detached block was then pushed
forward upon rollers made from palm
trees to a large timber raft ON the edge
Of the Nile, where it remained until
the next inundatiOn floated the raft to
the city where the Obelisk was to be
set up.
Thousands of hands then pushed it
on rollers up an inclined plane to the
front of the temple, where it was to
stand. The pedestal had previously
been placed in position, and a firm
causeway of sand covered with planks
led to the top of it, Then by means of
rollers, levers and ropes made of date
palm the obelisk was gradually hoisted
into an upright position. In no case
has an obelisk been found to be out of
the true perpendicular.
Smyrna times., 1902-09-24
DON'T GET TOO FULL.
A Lesson That May BE Learned From
the Habits of the Bees.

the haDlIs OF the bees.
"Don't stir up a beehive unless you
know it is a rich one" said an apiarist
to visitor at his bee farm.
81 think that l would leave them
alone altogether" was the reply. "They
have too angry a buzz about them to
win my confidence"
You are not used to them, that's
ALL" said the beeman. For example,
these hives are full of honey, and if
puff a little smoke into the doors so as
to sort of suffocate the sentries l can
topple a hive over, handle the bees
like so many beans, clean the honey
combs and carry them off. The bees
won't harm me-" And, to prove his
words, the speaker performed his ex-
pertinent and came back to his friend
with a smile and several heavy combs
of honey.
"If those hives had been nearly
empty" said the apiarist, 81 would
have been lucky to have escaped with
my life. The tenants of a poor hive
sting to kill"
That's strange" said the visitor
81 should think that they would de.
fend their boards with especial jeal
ousy, and the more they have the hot
ter they would fight"
''The reason is" said the beeman
that when alarmed the bees fly tC
their storehouse and gorge themselves
When full of honey, bee can't bend
its body and sting"
(Which should be a lesson to us,
said the other. Don't get too full
New York Tribune.
Smyrna times., 1902-09-24
A Severe Critic.

A self conscious and egotistical
young clergyman was supplying" the
pulpit of a country church. After the
service. says the New York Evening
Post. he asked one of the deacons,
grizzled, plain spoken man, what he
thought of this mornings effort"
'Waal," answered the old man slow
ly, "I'll tell ye; I'll tell ye in kind O.
parable. 1t reminded me of Sim Peck's
fust deer hunt, when he was green
He follered the deer's tracks all right
but he follered 'em all day in the
wrong direction"
Smyrna times., 1902-09-24
His EarIY Promise.

Does my boy" inquired the parent,
'seem to have a natural bent in any
one directiOnY
"Yes, sir" said the teacher; ''he gives
every indication of being a captain of
industry some day. He gets the other
boys to do all his work for him" Chi
cago Tribune.
Smyrna times., 1902-09-24
WTITH CUPID
W A@ACHAPLAIN A@
By EPEs w. SARGENT
Copyright, 1901. by E. w. Sargent

Twice the bugler had warned those
going ashore that their time was short.
and the crowd on the upper deck of
the Kaiser Wilhelm had thinned per-
ceptibly. The port rail was lined with
passengers provided with flags and gay
hued handkerchiefs for waving fare
well to their friends who thronged the
end of the pier.
Yet amidships, at the head of the
companiOnway, a group of men still
clustered round Enid Ashburton and
her aunt Miss Winter. Miss Ashbur-
ton had come up from the southland
eight months previous and had taken
the northern city by storm. Attentions
Smyrna times., 1902-09-24
UurPfurned.

Mrs. Meekins-What nice lady Mrs.
Selden isl
Mrs. Pratt-Is she? 1 never met her.
Mrs. Meekins-Perfectl l told her
today l was ashamed of myself be-
cause l never had returned her call,
and she said. very politely, you know,
that l needn't worry myself; that !
could keep it as long as l pleased
Boston Transcript.
Smyrna times., 1902-09-24
nIohnmmed,s vaentIon.

Mohammed. when asked where he
would spend his vacation, replied, Mo
hammed will go to the mountain"
Upon counting his change, however,
he found that he was short, so was
compelled to stay his two weeks va
cation in the city. Later on he made
capital out Of the saying and was also
enabled to take a trip to the seashore.
New York Times.
Smyrna times., 1902-09-24
Remorinr Termination.

Mother--Gracious! Stop that noise
up there. Willie, didn't l tell you not
TO pull that cats tail again?
Willie-I amt pullin' it, ma.
Mother-You must be, or the cat
wouldn't scream so.
Willie-No, l amt. I'm jest cuttin'
its tail off short. so l can't pull it any
more Philadelphia Press.
Smyrna times., 1902-09-24
No RenI Gricxnnce.

Young Wife with a pout)-So l am
a ''bird." am I? You used to say
was an angel.
Young Husband-Well, l still give
you credit for having wings, don't r.
Chicago Tribune.
Smyrna times., 1902-09-24
Versatile,

Mrs. BjOnes-YOur husband. hear,
is quite versatile.
Mrs. Observation-Disclosures is no
name for it. Why, he can actually
stay out late every night in the week
and not give the same excuse twice
Philadelphia Record.
Smyrna times., 1902-09-24
Lucky.

''NO use O talkin'," said Mr.. Erastus
Pinkley, dat brother O. mine is
mighty lucky man. He allus has mon
ey."
"But you must remember that he is
much more industrious than you are.
He isn't at all afraid of work"
"Dat's jes' de point. He were lucky
in bein' born industrious. "-Washing.
ton Star.
Smyrna times., 1902-09-24
Asked and Answered.

Female Lawyer--How old are you?
Female Witness-You know as well
as l do that I'm just a week younger
than you are; but, If necessary
Female Lawyer (hastily)-Never mind;
It isn't accessory Chicago News.
Smyrna times., 1902-09-24
Got Away clear.

"she says she won't marry because
she's never yet seen her ideal"
"Maybe it's because her Ideal saw
her frst."-New York World
Smyrna times., 1902-09-24

Every man should profit by his own
mistakes, but most of us would prefer
to profit by the mistakes Of others
Philadelphia Record.
Smyrna times., 1902-09-24

The first European city TO reach the
million in population was Rome first
century A. d.; then came London
Qs01), then Paris Os51.
Smyrna times., 1902-09-24

tonville, Jefferson Co, Kansas. After trying
medicines labeled Sure Cure almost without
number, was led TO try DR.. Pierce's Golden
Medical Discovery. I took two bottles and was
cured, and have stayed cured. When l think of
the great pain had to endure, and the terrible
cough had, it seems almost miracle that
was so soon relieved. That God may spare you
many years and abundantly bless you is the
prayer of your grateful friend.7
If you ask your dealer for "Golden
Medical Discovery" because you have
confidence in its cures, do not allow
yourself to be switched off to a medi-
cine claimed to be viust as good" but
which you did not ask for and of which
you know nothing.
DR.. Pierce's Pleasant Pellets cure diz-
illness and sick headache.
The Opelousas courier., 1902-02-01
School Funds.

The apportionment of the school
funds for the fourth quarter of 1901.
comprising the collections for the
month OF October, November and
December, was made by the State
authorities last Monday, Jan. 9th.
This is a week or two earlier than
usual land the resolution referring to
these apportionments and adopted
by our Parish School Board last
October together with the COM
ments of this paper on the subject),
appears to have been not entirely
barren of results. The amount
which st. Landry will receive is
something oveh $S35O, which is al
increase of about $1,000 over the
usual fourth quarterly apportion-
ment, always much the largest of
the year. If the State authorities
are equally or more prompt in max
ing the April apportionment, for
the first quarter of 1902, and if the
Police jury pays over the last of its
$4,000 appropriation by the middle
of March, the local board will not
be compelled to pay much interest
OH money borrowed to pay the
teachers.
The Opelousas courier., 1902-02-01
The cumberland.

The Cumberland Telephone Co
has been busy here several months
erecting their poles and wire fol
both the local and long distance
lines. Mr.. J.. j. Sullivan, the COM
petent superintendent of the con-
struction squad Composed of an
efficient and active body of young
men, who have faithfully worked
through all the trying weather we
have experienced for the past six
or eight weeks), informs lis that
he will soon have the local plant
finished ready for business. The
through line is completed to Alex
andria, and you can now call up
nearly all the principal cities and
towns in the Union. The com
pany's office is in the St. Landry
Bank Building-up stairs, and Mr.
2. FL. Gallois is the gentlemanly
manager. Everything appertain-
ing to this company is tirst.class,
substantial and durable.
The Opelousas courier., 1902-02-01
Washington, ID. C., News.
Fro,n eur Regular Correspondent

FrGm our Regular Correspondent.
WASHINGTON, Jan. 27, 1902.
The democrats of the House
of Representatives held their long
deferred caucus on Friday evening
and, under the skilfull guidance
OF Mr.. Richardson and other dem
ocratic leaders, determined upon
policy which it is believed will
prove most effective, not alone in
furthering the interests of the
party but also in steniming the
tide of plutocratic legislation
which it is expected the repub-
lican majority will attempt to i'm
pose upon the country. Some of
the members did not consider it
within the province of the caucus
to reverse any of the decisions of
the last national convention but
apart from their contention it was
determined that there was no
necessity at that 1 lime for so doing.
It was further decided that it
would be wiser for the members
of the party to devote their whole
attention to checkmating raids of
the opposition on the Treasury
and endeavoring to protect the
whole people from legislation in
spired by the great vested inter-
ests whose liberal campaign con-
tributions secure for them such
extensive influence in the councils
of the opposition.
The Ways and Means Commit
tee is still giving hearings to the
representatives Of the beet sugar
and tobacco industries in this
country and in Cuba. The beet
sugar lobby is growing desperate
and is contemplating coalition
of forces with the democrats in an
effort to reduce the protection on
refined sugar. The beet sugar men
are, of course, inspired by amin
osity to the Sugar Trust, but they
frankly admit that they would be
in better position to develop
4 their industry if the Trust were
destroyed, even if reciprocal priv
|ileges were granted to Cuba. The
democrats are naturally and con-
sistently opposed to a duty which
puts immense profits into the
Hands of the trust at the expense
! of the vast body of consumers
Representative Mccall, Republi.
can member from Massachusetts.
tells me that he will vote fol
reciprocity, as he does not con
! slider that a moderate concession
would injure American interests
| and he believes the United States
owes it to Cuba to at least star
her on the road to prosperity.
4 Apropos of the beet sugar ques
! ton there is u story going th1
rounds in inner circles of /. yer,