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The Opelousas courier., 1903-06-20
HARD TO BEAR.

When the back aches
and pains SO badly,
can't work, can't rest,
sloan can't eat.
The Opelousas courier., 1903-06-20

5 Robert R. Roberts, NJ. D., Wash
; ington, d. c., writes:
; 3''ThrOugh my Ow experience
) as aveU as III at of many of my
tfrtends and acquatrtances acho
! haze been csred or relieved of "a
: tGrrh by the Nse OF HGrtnsan's
; PertSna.- can confidently rec
: ommSnd IL - those suffering
; from such dtsorders, and have no
3 hesitation tn prescribing tt to nay !
: patients. O--R0bert Il. Roberts.
Tonopah bonanza. [volume] (Butler City [i.e. Butler], Nev.) 1901-1909, 1903-07-11

and the return game soon 10 be
played at Hawthorne will decide the
supremacy Of the two mines.
FlREMES S RACE.
This contest, between the Tonopah
No. | and the Belle Butler No. 2
Volunteer Fire Department, marked
the close of the greatest Fourth of
July celebration witnessed in Nevada
for many years, and was won by a
neck by the Tonopahs. The race
was run up Main street and was ex-
citing from start to finish Forty
dollars was the prize awarded.
Tonopah bonanza. [volume] (Butler City [i.e. Butler], Nev.) 1901-1909, 1903-07-11

We will buy or seal for you Tonopah Stocks at
prevailing mark prices at regular rate of com
mission las fixed by the Exchanged at actual
cash value Of stock.
We want your business and will carefully
guard your interest.
If you viii! send US your order, for any stock
you wish to purchase, we will secure it for you
at the lowest price possible
All certificates ordered will be transferred in
your name for any other name you may desirel
on books of respective Company and New Certi
hcate so issued, Send for prospectus or reliable
information which will be furnished on any
Company Offering stocks for sale in this vicinity;
we will investigate and report on any stocks
mines or prospects in this district.
We report on all kinds of mining ventures
Address
n. FLETCHER CO.
Tonopah bonanza. [volume] (Butler City [i.e. Butler], Nev.) 1901-1909, 1903-07-11

4
make another try for the record, but
this also resulted in an accident, and
debarred them from the contest.
The judges announced the winners as
follows: Pascoe and Cundy, first
prize, which with the outside awards,
amounted approximately to $3.50;
Parham and Crawford, second prize,
s115.
Closely following the drilling con-
test came the other sports. These
were interesting and attracted much
attention. The winners of them
were as follows:
Ladies Nail Driving Contest
Mrs. L. Griggs, % nails, prize $40;
Mrs. Wylie and Mrs. OH tied on the
second prize with 10 nails and divided
the purse of $3.50.
Mems Race, 100 yards - C. F.
Hayes, SIS; |. Hales, $3.50; L.
Platt, 50 50
Fat Mems Race-Pat Lavelle, $40;
John Cummings, S..
Burro Race-Clarence Ahern, So;
Lester Stevens, 50. so.
Ladies Race, 30 yards-Miss S
Cuddeback, SO; Miss l.. Pepper,
$3.50; Mrs. ]. H. Wylie, So; Mrs.
James McQuillan, 81. 80.
The squaw's race was interesting,
and was participated in by five of
the dusky maidens, but for obvious
reasons their names were not re-
corded.
Wheelborrow Race-Robert Pohl,
so; w. H. Young, So; A. Holman,
So 80.
Three-Legged Race-Markis and
N Ish, $40; Platt and Crossin, S..
Coons Race" Black Sam" Poe,
81; ]. w. Hamilton, 50.
The tug of war between the mar
ried and single mems teams was
turned into contest between the
firemen and the miners, and was won
by the former, who captured the
prize of $50.
The boys and girls race was a
regular bedlam, and to salty all con-
testants each received a small gift
of money.
THE HORSE RACE.
For this event, which was held on
Sunday, there were nine entries. 1t
was q single dash, 440 yards, and
was run at the lower end of town.
The horses entered and their hackers
were Dexter, by Claude Lemon;
Gray Rocket, by McGary; Gypsy,
by Marsh; Seldom Fed, by Sandy
Mcdonald; Indian Patsy, German
Club, McAllister and Babe. The
race was exciting and good time was
made but no record was kept. Dex-
ter won the first prize of $62 so and
Gray Rocket got second, a purse of
500.
THE BASEBALL GAME,
The baseball game between Soda
vile and Tonopah for purse of $3.50
was billed for Sunday at 2 p. m. and
At that hour the bast ball grounds
were lined up with crowd number
ng fully 5000 people. The game
was called at 2:30 p. m. by Umpire
Norris, and for the first few innings
close playing and considerable ex.
element marked its progress. In
he seventh inning, however. when
he score was about even, Johnson.
he Indian pitcher for the Sodavile
cam, received broken finger
While at the bat, which incapacitated
i'm from pitching almost as soon as
is nine went into the field. A sub
titute was put in his place in the box.
ut he was played with by the Tono.
an club in such a manner, and so
lany hits and runs were made be.
ause of his delivery and inertia that
ne manager of the team fearing an
glorious defeat threw up the game.
UP to the time of Johnson's acct
'nt 1t was anybody's game, and bets
ere being waged, swift and fast.
1t his accident dispelled all hope of
)daville winning Houavor both
The Lexington intelligencer. [volume] (Lexington, Mo.) 1901-1949, 1903-11-07
A POOL OF
Big Fish Placed on Exhibition IN
New York Aquarium.

oAh NAeA AA-SSA VI 6AAAbANANA
New York Aquarium.
People with a fancy for big fish
will be interested in the drumfsh
now on exhibition in one of the
pools at the New York aquarium.
There are seven of them here,
ranging in length from 81 to 4 feet
and in weight from so to 60
pounds.
The drumfsh attain a weight of
100 pounds, but 80 and GO pound
ers are big fish, nevertheless, and
these specimens seen close at
hand, as they are, look their size
and weight. These drumfsh were
taken in Sandy Hook bay and
brought to the city in a fish car in
tow of a tug.
There have been placed in the
pool with the drumfsh, says the
New York Sun, a lot of small
sharks, including nine sand sharks
and one little blue shark which
previously had been installed in
the great central pool. The sand
sharks are of about the same
length as the drumfish, but with
their more slender bodies they
look much smaller.
The little blue shark here, which
is something of a rarity in these
waters, is about two feet long.
The blue shark, which fishermen
hereabOuts callthe Spanish shark.
is common in tropical waters.
where it grows to be from II to Il
feet in length and to weigh from
600 to 800 pounds. The blue shark
has saw-shaped teeth, instead OF
teeth like horseshoe nails turned
inward, such as the sand shark
has.
Only occasionally does a little
blue shark get as far north as this
and but rarely a big one. This lit
tie fellow was taken where the
sandsharks in the pool were OBJ
tanned, in Gravesend bay.
The Lexington intelligencer. [volume] (Lexington, Mo.) 1901-1949, 1903-11-07
PRISONER AND HIS MOTHER.
Young Convict Comes to Help of Com
rade in Stripes.

A young man was serving a 20
years term in prison, writes Mrs.
Booth, in Leslie's Monthly. Only
a wear more stood between him
and liberty. The old mother, over
40 years of age, who had stood by
her boy all through these weary
years, was very sick and reduced
to direst poverty. Her husband
had died and she had reached the
point where sickness made earn
ing impossible and eviction was
imminent. In this hour of distress
she appealed to her boy for help.
He was able to make a little
money by overtime work. 1t was
very little. Only a cent and half
a day or five dolli S in a whole
year. He had four on referring
to the warden that had already
sent on he poss sed to his
mother. The thought Of her need
and possible death from want
drove him nearly to distraction,
and yet he felt himself utterly
p~oWerless to help her. In the same
prison was another man, also
serving 20 years. When he learned
Of bis fellow prisoners anxiety he
took an his own earnings, 500,
which REPRESENTED the hard toll of
four Years, and sent them to the
old mother, though it meant de-
privipg himself of the little extra
comfort he might have purchased,
There is a sequel to this story.
Both meE came home to us. They
bec0me earnest Christians and
have good positions to-day where
they have proved themselves alb
soluteiy worthy Of our confidence
They are earning good wages and
are trusted by their employers.
The Lexington intelligencer. [volume] (Lexington, Mo.) 1901-1949, 1903-11-07
Animals As sailors.

A French scientist has made
some interesting observations as
to the love of different wild ami.
mails for the sea. The polar bear,
he says, is the only one that takes
to the sea, and is quite jolly when
aboard ship. All others violently
resent a trip on the water, and vo
ciferously give vent to their feel.
ings until seasickness brings 81.
lence. The tiger suffers most of all.
The mere sight Of a ship makes
him uncomfortable, and when on
board he whines pitifully, his eyes
water continually, and he rubs his
stomach with his terrible paws.
Horses are very bad sailors, and
often perish on a sea voyage.
Oxen are heroic in their attempts
not to give way to sickness. Ele
plants do not like the sea, but
they are amenable to medical
treatment.
The Lexington intelligencer. [volume] (Lexington, Mo.) 1901-1949, 1903-11-07
DECLINED.
Maj. Pond Was a Hard Man to Turn
Down--His Persistency.

NuAy' Vhu WAC q hoAu MaH ~ AuAh
DOwn--His Persistsncy.
Maj. Pond, who was response
BILE for introducing to the public
some of the greater and lesser
lights of the lecture platform, had
many an experience full of eccen.
trio humor. Sometimes his
charges met him with the greatest
good humor. Often those whom he
approached felt compelled to beat
back his p%ersuGsions almost atthe
point of the bayonet; for nobody
was so persuasive as Maj. Pond,
says the Youths Companion. Mr..
Kipling replied to tempting propo-
sition:
81 might do it as soon as / had
two mortgages on my house, a lien
on the horses, a bill of sale on the
furniture, and writer's cramp in
both hands; but at present l am
busy, and contented to 60 on with
the regular writing business"
The great preacher, Charles
Spurgeon, repulsed him in an
ascending scale of denial. The
first reply ran:
at will only be a waste of time
for you to see me, as | am not at
all in your line"
The second said:
"Your gOod-natured pertinacity
is so admirable that / trust you
will not waste it upon an impossi.
bic object. The whole United
States in bullion would not tempt
me to deliver one such lecture"
The third reply was conclusive
~ have, in as plain a manner as
possible, declined to make your
acquaintance, and l beg, with al,
courtesy and decision, to do the
same again. / know your bust
ness, and / have no wish to enter
upon it further"
The Lexington intelligencer. [volume] (Lexington, Mo.) 1901-1949, 1903-11-07
NOT A WONDERFUL YEAR.
Popular Superstition Not Supported
by History.

by History.
Is 1903 an "annus mirabilis?'
"A correspondent insists that it is,
and offres in proof of his state
ment unreasonable weather every
month, unprecedented drouth, the
bottom falling out of the stock
market, the Servian a~ssassina-
tons, the death of the pope and
"the gloomy record of crimes of
violence, lynchings, murders, sui
cides, to say nothing of the fight
70 a finish in which labor and cap
Eal are now engaged" says the
Chicago Tribune. In conclusion,
the correspondent wonders
whether the events of the "wOn-
derful year, could have occurred
in any year the digits composing
which did not form the fateful
humber 49,"
If the matter depended upon
"the fateful number 10" this cor
respondent might we'll set his
mind at rest. The last year
whose digits compose 10 was 1910,
and it was about the dullest, most
uneyentful year Of the century.
There was nothing wonderful
about it. Queen Victoria got mar
ried, penny postage was intro.
duced in England, President Har-
RsOn was elected, the Mormons
founded Nauvoo, the opium war
with China was brought to an end
and William l., of Holland, abdi.
Gated. Nearly every other year in
the nineteenth century was more
an "annus mirabilis" than 1910
And 1904, the preceding "13'
year in the list, was not as won
derful as 1910.
But what is there specially
Wonderful" about 1903 that
should make this correspondent
so pessimistic? Do we not have
unreasonable weather every
year? Surprising the bottom Of
Vie stock market has fallen out
Has there not been marked actiy
ity In all lines of legitimate bust
ness? Have the mishaps of spec
ulation been reflected in trade in
dustry? Has the assassination il
Servia created ripple in the pOlit
ical or diplomatic world of Eu
rope? The Roman pOtiff is dead
He was old and he was mortal
Was not his death significant
however, in its revelation of thu
unity of Christian sentiment anC
sympathy? AS to crime, it is M
more rampant this year than i
WAS last year, only certain un
usual circumstances in certain
unusual places have called specia
attention to it. In the long fiigh
of time one year averages up yer,
like another year. The "wOndeT
full years. are extremely rare.
The Lexington intelligencer. [volume] (Lexington, Mo.) 1901-1949, 1903-11-07
Defined.

said little Willie, looking
Iom his arithmetic, whats a
linsaf foot~
-er-a linear foot" re.
plies alf Dumley, "why, it's one
hA Inherited. Didn't you never
sel| of q linear descendant"
delphia Ledger.
The Lexington intelligencer. [volume] (Lexington, Mo.) 1901-1949, 1903-11-07
Figures

Figures may not lie, but a skill
full mathematician may be able to
juggle them to some purpose
Chicago Daily News.
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1903-04-01
The Plumbers Gain.

A woman had plumber mending a
broken pipe in her cellar the other day.
After he had been there about half an
hour her butler came up in great dis
tress. "Oh. Mrs. -, some coal have
come, an the plumber an the coal
man are eussin' an swearin' at each
other, an the plum Der he says the
coal man eayn't put in the coal, cos
he's got pipe cut an the coal will
get down the pipe, an the coal man
he says he won't come back, nohow."
And julius face was study.
"Tell the plumber to sit down and
wait, and let the coal be put in," said
Mrs. -, decidedly.
plumbers bills are costly, but coal
is more So" thought the lady, so the
plumber sat down, and the coal was put
in. Soon Julius came up again. "Oh,
Mrs. -, more trouble, more trouble;
the Goals in the cellar, an that plumb
er an coal man fought an .cussed at
each other every minute, an the plumb
er says the Goals down the pipe, an
now, when I took the check to sign for
it, the coal is for next doah!"-N. Y.
Herald.
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1903-04-01
profound scholar, an orator man o,

profound scholar, an orator, a man OF
absolute fearlessness in the utteranct
of his views, well versed in the laws OF
nations, as well as the constitution anc
laws of our own land; a well-roundeC
statesman without superior in this
or any other country. So long as such
man is sent to and retained in the
senate there is no need for signing
about the good old days. and intimat.
ing thereby that craftsmanship is de.
teriorating. or becoming thing of the
remote past. There were giants in
those days, and there are giants in
these days also"
BY these reflections the writer was
reminded of story told not long ago
to the narrator, by Senator Clark, of
wyoming. He said: 81 visited Senator
Davis, of Minnesota, one morning in
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1903-04-01
A Toast to Teaching.

This story I had from a man who
was present: A wealthy woman who
affects patronage of education drove
up one morning to the school of
which she is trustee and invited
the teachers to spend the evening
at her, home. When the refresh
ments were served that nights one
little cake, which by mistake had
escaped the vigilance of the over
seer, came into the hands of one Of
the guests and proved to have a
curved commission as if something
had been bitten out. The discovery
was made in coy corner where
some of the irreverent young women
of the teaching staff were making
merry, says a writer in the Worlds
Work. Annabel, who is a musical
accompanist, whispered to the girls
that this was the second successive
evening she had attended reception
in this house, once as hired enter
tainer and once as guest. She sug-
gested that the things to eat were
what were left over by the society
people" of the night before. At this
revelation there were indignant
looks, but the teachers inviolable
safeguard, the sense of humor, came
to the rescue, and the holder of the
telltale wafer lifted it up and pro-
posed, soto voce: Here's health to
us: the rag-tag and bobtail of the
learned professions; beloved by chill
dren; tolerated by youth; forgot
ten by maturity; considered munich
pally, financially and socially as good
enough for what is left"
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1903-04-01
TOURISTS TO HAWAII.
Travel to the Islands Has Greatly
Diminished and Is Being
Encouraged.

Hawaii wants tourists, and her COM
mercial bodies are taking active steps
to secure them. 1t is proposed to open
headquarters in Honolulu, in San Fran
cisco and in Los Angeles, Cal, and to
carry on an energetic campaign
throughout the country to bring the
attractions of the islands to the at
tention of the travelling public. With
this end in view all sorts of advertising
schemes are being considered, and it is
likely that a good Geal will be done
in the next few months to attract tour
lists.
The desire for tourists is one of
Hawaii's reasons for opposition to the
idea of national leprosaria, as set
forth in the Mitchell senate commits
sion's report. If the leper settlement
is made national one, Hawaii will in
evitably get the name of "leper coun-
try" The universal dread of leprosy
is such that reputation of this sort
would keep people away from the is
lands. The average person does not
know that there are 80 miles of ocean
between Honolulu and the island on
which the leper settlement is located,
and that there are thousands of resi-
dents of Honolulu who have never seen
a leper in their lives and never will.
The average person has in his mind a
picture of the islands all punched to-
gether and all the same, and if the ma
tional leper settlement is in Hawaii
the islands will naturally be leper
country.
Years ago Hawaii had tourist trade
that was quite large. Then there was
the monarchy and it's court to attract
monarchy. The court was easily ap-
proachable and the brilliant scenes it
supported naturally attracted the
sightseer. The steps of travellers in
city mean lively business, for no trav-
eler fails to spend some money in any
city in which he stops. Hawaii has al
most wholly lost this trade. It began
falling off when the native govern
ment was finally superseded by an
American government, and it was
forced to an utter stop when the plague
was reported in Honolulu and the
Hawaiian board of health began rigid
quarantine. Some tourists feared the
plague, bat all of them feared the quar-
antine, for it was impossible for sew
eral months to leave the country with
out submitting to zine days confine-
ment under medical supervision, and
taking an injection of the Haffkine
prophylactic, which is decidedly un-
pleasant in it's effects. The trade has
never revived.
Honolulu associations discussing the
tourist business refer to the city of
Los Angeles, which has more summer
visitors every year by large margin
than the $4,000 population of Honolulu.
1t is the intention to try to divert some
of this travel to the Hawaiian islands,
where there certainly are many strong
attractions.
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1903-04-01
THE GOOD OLD DAYS.
Lovers of Their Country Need Not
Gong for Their Return.
Nor. Intellectual Giants I'm United
States Senate To-Day Than Ever
Before The Case
Proved.
Especial Washington Letter.

f([V BAD only been here two days,
wnen it became very apparent
to me that the statehood bill
would cot be passed." said Mr.. Frank
H Gree l., of Guthrie, Okla.
ICu cannot imagine the feyerish
Expectation with which all of our peo-
pie been reading the press dis
patches CONCERNING the legislative Sit
uation IN that mattersof statehood. 1t
has been talked of in church and Sum
day school, as we'll as in public schools
and all public places. Our little chill
dren know that our people are anxious
Tor their rights Of citizenship, and are
taught what it all means to US.
- have been greatly impressed with
ISe United States senate" continued
Ills observant business man of the
southwest. The more L have Seen of
that body the more of an optinnst l
nave become, and l do not long for
the good old days. of which so many
modern pessimists speak; and speak
thoughtlessly as we'll as imperiously
and dogmatically.
Ever since the organization of the
federal government the senate has
oeen composed of great men. Of every
decade we may emphatically say:
There were giants in those days. But
that should not carry with it the i'm
pllcation that there are not giants in
these days also. Glance over them with
nasty memory, and take up the men
whose names stand out like promon-
tories. John Quincy Adams, in the
house of representatives, hammering
away continuously and diligently until
he secured recognition of the right of
petition.
John c. Calhoun was the brightest
intellect of his day on one thing, the
right of secession; the extreme con-
clusion of the doctrine of state SOW
erelgnty. He was specialist. Daniel
Webster is eminent both as an orator
and constitutional! lawyer, another
specialist. Henry Clay you think of
as the great compromises, another
specialist. Justin S. Morrill,, the pro-
moter of the tariff act of the civil war,
specialist. John A. Logan, the
mouthpiece of the veterans of the
union armies, another specialist. SEN
ator Doolittle, of Wisconsin, famous
as opponent of reconstruction, another
specialist.
There are scores of others, all great
men, but these names come up first in
memory. Now look at our modern
senate. Where are the specialists? |
cannot see even one. They are all big,
broad-minded men; scholars, orators,
lawyers, constitutional lawyers, inter
national lawyers. Listen to them in
debate, and their range of knowledge
covers every field of investigation and
research. Specialists are not broad
men, however great they may be in
their particular fields.
II do not believe there ever was in
the senate greater orator than
SpOoner, of Wisconsin, nor a better
reasoner. Senator Depew, of New
York, is one of the most pleasing speak
ers ever seen in the senate or on any
platform or in any forum. These men
speak readily on all subjects, and their
audiences are not only entertained, but
instructed.
Our statehood bill has been defeat
ed by Senator Beveridge, of Indiana;
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1903-04-01

but must give him the need of praise
due him when great men in the senate
are mentioned. He is an orator of
great power, and one of the most ready
debaters the senate has ever known.
He is learned, and yet always learn
ing. He is a hard worker, and his lit
erary efforts bring him in more than
$4,000 every year. This work is all
done, somehow, without interfering
with his senatorial work. Prejudice
against him for defeating the state
hood bill cannot blind ones eyes to his
great intellectual gifts.
Senator Hoar is as great as Web
ster was, if not greater, because he is
not specialist. He is oneof the Aost
polished gentlemen in public life. q
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1903-04-01
1t All Depend..

after ALL" remarked the old
bachelor, "there is no place like
home"
Right you are" rejoined the
bald-headed man who had loved and
won, land there are times when I
am glad of t."-Cincinnati Enquirer,
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1903-04-01
Easier.

Capt. Braveman-I'll lead the van.
You will bring up the rear.
Private Hooigan-Say, cap, what's
the matter wild me bringin' up the rear
an gettin' In the van wild it?-N. Y.
Herald.
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1903-04-01
RecuueratfnR.

One day little four-year-old Cora was
trying to stand on her head. Her
mother asked her what she was doing.
She answered:
''I's standing on my head to rest my
Boston Herald.