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POLICE BOARD'S MEETING.
Matter of Appointing Another Sergeant
 Indefinitely Postponed.

EnGenn1teIy PostpOhsu. The board of police commissioners last night held a meeting and among other business transacted voted to di- rect that the detective bureau be kept open hereafter from 8. m. until mid night. The finance committee reported on the petition of Mrs. Catherine Me Guinness widow of the late Patrolman McGuinneSs for pension of $2 GOO un- der the provisions of section 72 of the charter and on recommendation of the committee the board voted that the pe- tition be not granted.
 The following grade increases were granted to patrolmen as follows: From grade s to grade A, Fl. J. Lewis; from grade F to grade D, w. F. Tiernan, Carton Clay Stevens, Prior, and Ryan. It was voted to allow Detective Ser goant Dennehy to accept $3250 and De- tective Daly $30 reward granted by the United States government for the cap- tufe of deserters. A petition from Veteran Reserve Officer Jackson for pay for twenty eight days lost by req son of injuries received by being beat en by a prisoner in the lookup was re- ferred to the finance committee to in- qUire and report.
 The monthly report of Chief Wrinn was submitted and in it he highly com mended Patrolman Cooney for rescuing woman from the fire at 79 Oak street few days ago. One recommenda- ton of the civil service commission John Ruff, Alphonso Acunto and Frank Mosca were appointed special consta- bles.
 The board voted that the matter of filling the vacancy in the list of ser geants be indefinitely postponed This vote was passed without discussion
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QUESTION OF cUBANREcIPRo0I1I
Republicans Hold Conference With tho
 President.

Washington. Feb 4.-RepresentatiVes Babcock and Long, republican members of the ways and means committee, call ed on President Roosevelt to-day and discussed with him Cuban reciprocity. It was stated to-day by republican member of the ways and means com mittee that there was little furtehr doubt that the committee would report some measure of Cuban reciprocity. Another member of the committee eX- pressed the conviction that the rate of reduction would be about twenty or twenty five per cent. Chairman Payne says there is no material change in the status of the subject, as the hearings recently held have not yet been printed and these are regarded as quite import ant in assisting toward a solution of the question.
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Senate Passes Bill for a Twenty-five
 Per Cent. Increase.

Washington, Feb. 4.--After brief dis cussion to-day the senate passed the bill providing for a twenty-five per cent. increase in the salaries of United States judges All amendments were voted down. including one to increase the salaries of cabinet officers from $S, ,- 900 to $12,500 year. During the re- mainder of the days session tie urgent deficiency appropriation bill was under consideration, the Philippine tariff measure being laid aside for the pres
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ous Possibilities of Intrigue.

l London, Feb. 5.-The morning papers are unanimous in applauding Lord Lansdowne's digntfied and courteous re- jection of what is regarded as a rather ingenious attempt on the part of the Dutch government to draw Great Brit ain into making peace overtures to the Boers. The editorials are politely satir- ical that Dr. Kuyper should expect any result from such proposal, which, the Daily Mail declares, would have placed Great Britain in the position of a sup pliant to the Boer delegates in Europe The Times in an editorial says that Lord Lansdowne has given the only possible answer to the curious Dutch proposal which the paper declares to be probably without precedent in the an- nals of diplomacy. "yrhe decision of the government says the Times, shuts the doors to dangerous possibilities of intrigue, and reduces the Boer emissa- ries who fled their country to their proper level of insignifioance."
 The Chronicle believes that the gov- ernment's non-vindictive refusal will command the respect of foreign na- tions.
 The Standard says that Lord Lans- doWne's words are unmistakably dis tinet and will be understood in other capitals besides The Hague.
 The Daily Telegraph dubs the action of Dr. Kuyper as ''grotesque nursery extravaganza.
 The Daily News representing the pro- Boers while regretting that the offer of the Netherlands government was re- jected is fain to admit that the reply of Lord Lansdowne is irreproachable in
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Rejected by Mine Operators.

Indianapolis, Ind, Feb 1.-The mine operators and mine workers in the sec- ret session of their joint scale commit tee to-day disagreed upon every one of the seven proposition submitted by the miners and the whole matter was referred for discussion to the open joint conference held this afternoon There, the operators voted unanimous ly against the scale proposition offered by the miners and the whole matter was finally referred back to the joint committee.
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 RESOL UTIONS ON M'kINEEY.
Those of Congress Will be n Model of
 Artistic Engrossing.

Washington, Feb. 4,-Pres1dent Roosevelt soon will receive the sumptu- ously engrossed and bound resolutions of congress on the death of President Mckinley, to be forwarded to Mrs. Nc Kinley. The resolutions are engrossed on heavy parchment and are bound in heavy black morocco, bearing in gold letters: Memorial resolutions of the congress of the United States on the death of William Mckinley" The in ner facing of the volume is in gross grain satin and heavy purple ribbons bind the parchment sheets together It is the work of the government printing office and is said to be model of artis- tic expressing and binding.
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No CNndiutor Nhnsen.

Philadelphia, Feb. 1.-The Protestnt Episcopal conference of the diocese of Pennsylvania met here to-day for the purpose of electlng a bishop coadjutor to take up the work of Bishop o. w. Whitaker, who has been given year S leave of absence on account of illness. Two ballots Were taken without result.
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WO ULD LEGALIZE POOL,
Ell Making Changes in the Interstate
 CommorcB Law

Washington, Feb 4.--Senator Elkins, chairman of the interstate commerce commission, to-day introduced bill ter-state commerce law, the most inn portant of which are the following: Giving the interstate commerce com mission authority under certain condi- tions to fix railroad rates, legalizing pooling and abolishing imprisonment as a method of punishing offenses against the law.
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,I. 4. Hentirtek Defeated

New York, Feb. Apr. l.. L. Mail ot this city defeated c. F. Conklin of Chicago, the winner of the A, A. U. class A, billiard tourney of last year, tonight in the tournament which is now in progress at the Knickerbocker Athletic club by a score of 400 to 935. Charles S Norris of New York beat J, A. Hendrick, formerly of New Haven, 400 to 199.
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To Increase Presidents Salary.

Washington. Feb. 4,-Delegate Wilcox of Hawaii to-day introduced a bill in- creasing annual salaries as follows; President, $100000; vice president $12,- 900; cabinet officers. $15,000 each; mem- bers of congress, $10,000. Another bill by MT. Wilcox fixes the salary of the governor of Hawaii at $SO00, with Q schedule of salaries for various other Hawaiian officers.
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TO ACT AGAINST ANARCHY
CALL FOR TNTERNATIONAL CON- PENIL0N OF POLICE CHIEFS.
To be Issued for May z, Lasting Four Over 200 Messages Delivered Through the State Department to Chiefs in the Leading Cities of the World-M. Ber- ttlIon to Attend.
tiiion to Attend.

Cincinnati, Feb. 1.-The International Police Journal, the organ of the Ma tional Associa tion of Chiefs of Police of the United States and Canada will, in its next number, issue an official call for an international convention at Louisville, May T. lasting four days. The call states that over 200 messages have been forwarded by the department of state for delivery by United States con- suls to the chiefs of police in the lead ing cities of the world, inviting them to the Louisville convention. The meeting is to take decisive action against an- archy, and for this reason representa- tives of the police departments from all parts of the world are expected to par ticipate.
 The International Police Journal also publishes the call for an international convention of Bertilon operators of the world at the same time and place. This will include the operators in prisons as well as in police service. The move ment for foreign police officials to meet with the American officers was started last fall, after the assassination of President Mckinley. It is proposed to consider the various plans for the de- scription of criminals, with a view of getting up a system of Identification that would be uniform in all countries.
 Major Richard Sylvester, president of the American association, and chief of police at Washington, D. C., writes to the International Police Journal that there will be many police officials pres ent from Europe, including M. Bertillon of Paris. Colonel Philip Deitsch, chief of police of Cincinnati and president of the American Bertillon Bureau of Iden- tification, expects the work of the American consuls to be the means of having representatives present from all nations.
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Patrick sJNror's Illness,
New Haven

New York Feb, Awhile Juror Campbell of the Patrick jury was some what better tonight, his physicians an- nounced that the sick man would not be able to resume his place on the jury for at least a. week.
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75C Silks for 39c.

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BRITISH THINK IT A TRICK
THE DUTCH ATTEMPT TO OPEN
 PEACE NEGOTIATIONS.

Proposition Unanimously AppIauded by London Papers-Dutch Method of Diplomacy Charlottesville Times Says the Reply shuts the Door to Danger-
The Opelousas courier., 1902-09-20
Way of the Shad.

Shad fishing is hard and precarious
work. The fisherman must count ON
having his clothes always soaked with
icy April water. Often, too, the nets
come in empty, and then there is moth
ing to do but to make another cast and
hope for better luck.
A remarkable fact noticed by fisher
men is that the identical shad appar-
emily frequent the same streams year
after year. To prove this, they point
out that those taken in Florida waters
are smaller than shad caught in the
north, while in different streams the
fish differ in form, thickness and shape.
After entering the rivers the shad
take little if any food previous to
spawning, but afterward they will bite
at flies or any shining object floating in
the water. They have even been
known to snap at artificial bait. The
toothless mouth of the adult is unfit
for feeding upon anything except mi
mute animal matter found in the water.
Food is rarely found in their stomachs,
the only substance commonly seer
there being something closely resem-
bling black mud. From this it is sup
posed that the shad swim with mouths
extended, swallowing the animal life
that swarms in the water and on thi'
growing plump and sWeet.-Outing.
The Opelousas courier., 1902-09-20
Canada's Game Fields,

To one who knows what the vast
soIitudes of Northern Canada really
mean the dread of game determination
seems rather unealled for. The latest
census of Labrador gives it a popula-
ton Of n man to every thirty-fve
square miles! This can hardly be
called an inconve1ient erowding. There
are almost as many persons in a single
East Side New York block as there are
in the whole of Labrador. Why should
game become extinct in this region?
I must confess I can see no reason
why the caribou and the, bear and the
other animals should not live out their
lives just as they have always done.
The numbers killed by man must sure
1y be quite insignificant. The same
conditions obtain in Northern Ontario,
the greater part of the British Terri
tories, and a very large part of British
Columbia. The date is far distant
when there will not be sufficient game
and to spare for the sportsman who
is content to take the bitter with the
sweet and to leave behind the lux
uriousness of the fashionable resort
Outing.
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Deadly Snakes I'm Dutch (suiana,

"But for each variety of harmless
snake in Dutch Guinea there are five Of
the most venomous type" said a min
ing engineer. These are known by
their fat, triangular heads. A poison
ous snake rarely moves out of the way
Of an intruder. He waits to strike,
and if he strikes, recovery depends on
what antidotes may be at hand. For
this reason every white miner and ev-
cry foreman over a gang Of men car
ries in his hunting bag a bottle Of con
centrated ammonia and a tOurniquet.
The precaution taken by white men in
that jungle is to wear thick wooden
socks and high laced boots. Others,
in preference to wearing heavy boots,
use leggings made of canvas lined with
strips of whalebone. Through these
projections it is impossible for a snake
to strike deep enough into the flesh
to insert venom. Many IN old pair of
boots SCARED with snake bites is treas
ured as a memento by its owner. But
it is when men grow careless and dis
card their projections that they are
dangerously bitten.
when a man has been struck no
time is taken to suck the poison out Of
the wound. Nine times out Of ten the
wound is in the leg below the knee.
The tourniquet is slung about the leg
above the wound, and, after being
drawn tight, without waiting to suck
the poison from the wound, ammonia
is applied. From time to time the
tourniquet is loosened to allow part
Of the poison to work into the system,
but no more than the system car take
care Of at n time. In this way the
entire poison is gradually worn out
by the system instead Of getting in its
full deadly force at once"
The Opelousas courier., 1902-09-20
EnoIand,s Genteel Burglar.

The story of the Glasgow burglar,
Goodfellow, who has just been sent to
prison for six years, is very remark
able. Goodfellow did his p~lundering
quite in the ~genteelest ann He
dressed and spoke like a gentleman and
owned a beautiful yacht, in which he
would drop gracefully down to some
coast watering place and plumber it on
the quiet. After the burglaries he
sailed away, no one for a moment sus-
pecting the aristocratic visitor. He
also had a carriage and pair of dash
ing gray horses that assisted him
equally as a blind and as q means of
escape. A favorite trick was to accom-
pany his predestined victims to church,
slip out before them and go through
the house while the owner and his
family were at worship.-Chicago
News.
The Opelousas courier., 1902-09-20
The island of Sa1nar.

The Island of Samar is the third ISL
and in size in the Philippine Archi-
pelago, being 1856 miles from northwest
to southeast, and seventy-fye miles
from east to west, with an area Of
mainland 5198 square miles, and de-
pendent islands of 900 square miles, or
a total of 548S square miles. 1t is 49S
square miles larger than Connecticut,
twice the size of Delaware, and over
four and a half times as large as Rhode
Island.
The island is almost a continuation
of the southeastern peninsula of Luzon,
being separated from it by the Strait
of San Bernardino, only ten and one
half miles wide. A mountain chain
of moderate height, scarcely exceeding
100 to 1900 feet, trends from north
to south, with lower hills toward the
coast. The extensive valleys between
these ranges are watered by a number
of rivers. There are also four large
lakes, one of which, Calibga. is a nat
uraI curiosity on account of the enar-
nous boulders which line its shores.
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where the Muskrat is Found.

The muskrdt Is peculiar to North
America, and is found in all suitable To-
calities from the Atlantic to the Pa
ciic, and from the Gulf of Mexico to
the northern timber limit In Canada,
tenanting the shores Of countless lakes,
the banks of the many river, and the
oozy swamps and muddy, stagnant
pools. 1t is probably most abundant
in the Chesapeake region, and in Mis-.
souri,, Minnesota and Manitoba. II
thrives even in thickly populated localf
ties and the vicinity of large cities. a
well-known instance of this is its
abundance in the Hackensack mead
ows, which separate Newark and Jer.
sey City, N. j., where the dome-shaped
houses form one of the interesting
sights from the railway trains. In
some of the lakes of Missouri and the
marshes of the Chesapeake region
these houses are so numerous as to re-
semble a prairie dog town on the West.
erl plains. New York Times.
The Opelousas courier., 1902-09-20
SAKABULA PLuMES.
Feathers from a Rare South African Bir
Recently Introduced Here.

Feathers from q Rare South African Bird
Recently Introduced Here.
An echo of the late war In South
Africa is to be found in New York in
the form of ornaments made from the
sakabula plumes. They are very beau
tiful. They are made by a widow of
a Boer officer, who is now trying to
support herself in this way. The saka-
bula is as rare a bird in South Africa
as the impeyan is in the Himalayas.
It belongs to the pheasant family and
bears some resemblance to the ban
kiva in the Philippines. The tail feath-
ers are curved, slender, and of a Won
derful chestnut color, which shades
from the lightest hue into a red brown,
almost maroon.@ At the tip OF each
feather is a white eye, which throws
the surrounding tint into very high
relief. The other feathers are small
and brilliant, some of them having
a semi-metallic lustre ON the edge.
They were used by the Zulu and
Matabele warriors as an ornament of
the highest value, and are said to have
man superstitions attaching to them.
They are a part of the head.dressing
Of the chiefs and Of the professional
uniform Of the witch-finders. These
medicine mert manufactured a head
dressing Of tie plumage, combined
with small, dried bladders, skewers,
and ornaments, fashioned out Of tusks
and lions teeth. The tail-feathers
stood up and produced an effect that
was both picturesque and CHASTITY.
The Opelousas courier., 1902-09-20
MODERN WAR CONDITIONS.
in a Country That is APPARENT.
Peaceful Tries the Nerves.

Fighting in a Country That is Apparently
Peaceful Tries the Nerves.
To-day a nan may die as soon as the
anemy's long guns, hidden away in the
distant, cloud-topped mountains seven
miles away, begin to talk. And over
hat seven miles he must walk with
caution, with a wide interval between
him and his pals on either hand; he
must lie down at every short halt and
scratch the ground hurriedly with his
little spade at every long one, for the
great shells are sailing toward him,
and he sees by his officers eye and
hears by his commands that it is con-
sidered that he may perish at any me-
ment, and that precautions are neces-
Sdry to preserve him. He sees, more.
over, how futile those precautions must
be if n of those monsters bowling
overhead should land as near to him
as the last n did to that blasted tree,
for instance, with its scorched, dang
ling limbs and the huge charred assure
in it's stout trunk, or as the one before
did to the team of mules in the ambu-
lance wagon, now a screaming, strug.
Cling tumble of harness and bloody
flesh.
All this is dispiriting and appears
unnecessary. The~country on all sides
is as peaceful as his native dale, not
a sign Of an enemy. Even the great
blue hill ahead, on which he is told the
2nemy's long guns are posted, looks as
quiet as the mountain ON a Christmas
card. Yet for two miles he walks
through death, thinking only Of it be-
cause there is nothing else to think
of, and then, as twilight falls, bivouacs
in extended line, sees his friends u
for their tea between the fall Of the
shells, notices Il Of them time his
run back badly and meet a p~rojectile
in full career, to part from it an awful
and disgusting o~ffense, and then lies
down IN the darkness with shaking
nerve and the thought th1t five worse
miles still intervene between him and
the guns he knows he is intended to
take.
Next morning he is awakened by a
shell, is marched with infinite caution
for two more miles, shelled the whole
way, is shelled even in his bivouac by
the light of the moon, and as he
watches the projectiles bursting like
waterspouts Of fire along his hillside is
glad when he is told that tomorrow
will be the battle, after which if he
wins and if he lives he may be able to
walk and sleep in peace for a space
BY "A Lineman."
The Opelousas courier., 1902-09-20
A Story on the Kaiser.

An amusing story is going the POUNDS
IN artistic circles in Berlin about the
German emperor. A certain portrait
painter had executed a remarkably
good portrait of his little son, repre-
senting the latter as sitting ON his
mothers lap, very much the same as
the child in the painting Of Rubens.
Everyone admired the portrait i'm.
mensely; not SO the little boy, how.
eve who was leased so much by his
schoolfellows for being painted with
nothing on" that the poor little char
came crying to his father, and be-
sought him with many sobs, to "any
way, paint a shirt onto him." The
painter was SO tickled at this that he
told the story to the emperor n day
while his majesty was paying a visit
to his studio. The kaiser was ex
tremely amused, and when giving in
structions before leaving about a por.
trait of himself which he desired the
painter to execute for him, added, with
q laugh, .s'but not in your little
sons costume Berlin Correspond
ence London Sketch.