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The Opelousas courier., 1903-03-28
Fire Signals,

AT q meeting Of Hope Hook and
Ladder Go. No. /, held on July 0,
1901, the town was divided into Fire
Districts and o Code of Signals was
adopted in order to facilitate the loca.
ton of fires In the future. The town
was divided as follows:
District No. ALI that portion OF
tewn bounded north by Bellevue
street. west by Union street, south
and east by corporation line.
District No. 2-All that portion Of
town bounded by Bellevue street ON
the south, Union street on tho west,
and corporation line on the north and
east.
District No. 3-The portion of town
lying west of Union street, and south
of Bellevue street, with the corpora
ton line as the south and west boun.
dairy.
District No. 4-TLe portion of town
bounded on the south by Bellevue,
east by Union, north and west by COZ
poration line.
The Signals adopted were short taps
10 indicate the district in which the
fire is located, followed by a rapid
alarm, same to be repeated until gen.
eral alarm is given.
To illustrate, should an alarm be
sounded for District No. 8, first three
taps, one, two, three, followed by rap
i'd alarm, and repeat.
The Opelousas courier., 1903-03-28

Much uneasiness is felt in Berlin at
the increasing number of suicides. Not
q day passes without its CHASTITY rec
ord. Among those reported in n day,
recently, were four cases of suicide by
poisoning. The first was that of a girl
Of twenty-five years, who was disap-
pointed in love, and the others were
those of a young married woman of
twenty-seven, after quarreling with her
husband, a bookseller, aged ffty-fve,
for p~ecuniary reasons, and a chemist,
aged twenty-six, the reason being IN
known.
The Opelousas courier., 1903-03-28
A Ranso,n Cabs canacitu.

The exact capacity Of a hanson cab
has long been a mystery, but it was in
a fair way of being solved on election
night when eight men, eight horns.
eight jays and a dog got out Of n and
injected themselves into a chophouse
near Thirty-fourth street. A good pilot.
ograph of the horse, as he gazed after
them, even to the last man, would be
worth many dollars in the the way of
first prize in any magazine. photograph
composition. But It was too dark 10,
the camera.-New York Sun.
The Opelousas courier., 1903-03-28

Foster Fraser, who is writing a Sc
fies Of letter for the Glasgow Herald
about Americans, tells the readers Of
that esteemed paper that America
processes to have no time or inclina-
ton for sentiment. Dollars absorb
the attention of. its citizens. Men be-
come p~rematurely aged in the race for
riches" The Indictment is familiar,
but it occasions little distress on this
size Of the water, for the excellent
reason that 1t is framed on the same
lines as that brought by Spencer, Car
lyle, Ruskin and Matthew Arnold
against the English.
The Opelousas courier., 1903-03-28

What is sauce for the goose is sauce
Tor the gander. Judge Templeton, OF
Ohio, in deciding a ease involving an
assault on a friend of a young woman
by the man she was engaged to said.
"An engaged woman has the right to
30 with others. The fance may have
an action against her for breach OF
promise, but he can have no action
against the third party. After mar
xiage q third party may be sued fol-
aIienating the Wife's affections, but ar
engagement II merely a promise to en-,
TER into the marriage contract. The
engagement, Of course, should be held
sacred, but just the same the lady has
the right to accept the attentions OF
other men" It follows, OF course, thai
the engaged man has the right to pay
attentions to other women. Otherwise
the situation would be Illogical, anc
there would be no equality Of obliga
tion. But in the majority of cases ii
would be simpler to can the engage
ment oG and leave both parties free Il
follow their Owl devices, That simple
plan would opYlate all sorts Of complI
cationA. !
The Opelousas courier., 1903-03-28
Town Residences For Sale

In q desirable neighborhood in ope.
lousas, with an entire square Of land.
well shaded with live oaks, magnoliss.
cedars, peeans, etc., about 9 squares
from the Courthouse. 5 squares from
High School, 2 squares from Catholic
Church and convent. House is two
story, brick basement, 8 rooms, four
fr4pIaces, out-buildings, etc., all up-
der good fence. VIII be sold Cheap for
cash, o. part cash and balance On tlms
p WA AvD)v % Mia sAse. Il
The Opelousas courier., 1903-03-28
FACTS ABOUT THE DEAD SEA.
The Only Outlet Consists in Evapora.
ton.

The Only Outlet Consists in Evapora.
ton.
Scientific observation justifes the
estimate that a daily average of g.
500, 900 tons of water is received into
the Dead Sea from the Jordan and
other sources during the year. During
the rainy season, says the Chicago
Record-He rald, the amount is very
much greater; during the dry season
it is, of course, very much less, but
this average will be maintained year
after-year. There is no outlet, and the
level is kept down by evaporation
only, which is very rapid because OF
the intense heat, the dry atmosphere
and the dry winds which are constant.
ly blowing down the gorges between
the mountains.
This evaporation causes a haze or
mist to hang over the lake at all
times, and, when it is more rapid than
usual, heavy clouds form and thunder
storms sometimes rage with great
violence in the pocket between the
cliffs, even in the dry season. flood
Of rain often falls upon the surface of
the sea when the sun is shining, and
the atmosphere is dry as a bone half
a mile from the shore. The noun.
tains around the Dead Sea are rarely
seen with distinctness because of this
haze.
The waters of the Jordan, when
they reach the sea, are as brown as
the earth through which they fow-a
thick solution of mud-but the instant
they mingle with the salt water of the
lake the particles of soil are precipi-
tated and they become as crystal, with
an intensely green tint. Carrying so
much soil and having SO swift a cur
rent, n would suppose that the sea
would be d%iscolored for \ considerable
distance, but it is not so. The Jordan
has quite a delta at it's mouth, break
ing into a number of streams and fire.
quently changing its course because
of the distractions brought down by
its own current.
The Opelousas courier., 1903-03-28
For Value Received.

A woman whose husband had los
his life in a railway accident in Bel
GUM received from the company 10,
600 francs by way of compensation
Shortly afterward she heard that a
traveller who had lost a leg had been
paid 10000. The widow at once put on
her bonnet and shawl and went to the
office of the company.
Gentlemen, how is this ??'"she asked.
"You give 10000 francs for a leg,
and you allowed me only 10000 for
the loss of my husband"
Madam was the reply, "the reason
is plain. Twenty thousand francs
won't provide him with a leg, but for
10000 you can get a husband"
The Opelousas courier., 1903-03-28
FOR SALE.

A house and lot in the town Of
Washington, La, in the square bound.
ed by Carrieres, Wilkins, Ewes and
Dupre. Frame building made OF
choice cypress, ceiled inside, weather.
boarded outside, 2O13O feet. Will be
sold cheap for cash, OF part cash and
balance on time to suit. For particE.
lars apply at the Courier Office, Ope-
La. If
The Opelousas courier., 1903-03-28

Fresno, Cal, claims the biggest big
tree in the world. This monarch of
the forest measures, six feet from the
ground, 154 feet and eight inches in
gfrth, making it about 80 feet in diam
eter. As it stands on Government land
1t ought to be made the cenee Of a
public park. n
The Opelousas courier., 1903-03-28
ACADEMY
OF TIL
IMMACULATE CONCEPTION.
O~PELOUsAs. IA.

ORELUUSAS, La.
'aaSr the Direction Of tho Sisters Hazsassss
OF Hsly Gross.
oners TO- young ladies every lacllis,
'of acquiring o thorough christian ed.
acafion. Constant attention Is paid 10,
nome and social culture. Lessons ara
sven In music. painting and. other
useful arta. The aisters also hsys
onafge OF the boys school. The courss
o. instruction 10 two-fold-PranaraAor,
ana Commercial. French ID taught in
sas two eesrssa. yfag p~artiouIsra. "A.
sssss esTE8 kuPNRI0a
The Opelousas courier., 1903-03-28
CAPTAIN TITUS's
EEL STORY.
A Narrative which Easily Makes
him the Greatest P~iscatoriaI
Rcmancer EAant.

FROM "Cap'n 1stus,"6 by clan En-
cry. Copyright, 1902, by Doubieduv.
Page d Company.]
The Opelousas courier., 1903-03-28
oPELoUsAs. LOUISIANA

The irrigated area Of the United
States is 7,510,5 98 acres, of which Col
orado contains 1,611,271, and Califor-
MIA LAG, 119.
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WHAT SCIENTISTS TELL US.

The new thremo-element of DR.. S. P.
Drossbach is claimed to be an impor-
tant advance in the production of cleo
tricity by such batteries. Theelectrodes
are made up of an alloy of elements of
the cerium and zinconium groups, CIV
ing, with copper, etc., increased electro
motive force and conductivity.
Since the great volcanic disturb
ances in the Windward islands it has
been impossible to maintain unbroken
cable connections between the islands
of Martinique and Guadalupe and the
French government has established a
wireless telegraph service between the
two. The distance exceeds 100 miles.
Easily fusible alloys for casts of
leaves, fruits, insects, ETC., must con-
tain cadmium, according to German
authority, to preserve the article from
injury. Such an alloy is Woods metal,
which consists of two parts of tin, four
of lead, seven to eight of bismuth, and
one to two of cadmium, and which
fuses between sc degrees and Y degrees
G. Lipowitz's metal, which softens at
55 degrees c., and becomes perfectly
liquid at 66 degrees, consists of four
parts of tin, eight parts of lead, fifteen
of bismuth and three Of cadmium.
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PLANT LIFE ELEMENTS.
Nitrogen Is the Most Important and
Shows Its Effect in "a Variety
of Ways.

Each element used by plant life helps
in the building of certain parts of the
plant, and likewise, doubtless, each has
some one or more special functions.
What some of these are, says late
Vermont station bulletin, is not we'll I'M
derStood, but some are known. Nitro
gen is known to show it's effects on plant
life in three ways. 1t promotes stem and
leaf growth, and, if in excess, delays
seed and fruit formation. 1t deepens
the green coloration of the leaves. It's
abundance may increase and its def
cheney may lessen the relative amount
of nitrogen in the plant. This means
variation in food value. If nitrogen is
freely applied in fertilizers, or is pres
ent in plentiful quantities in the soil, its
effect is generally shown-unless it's
effect be negatived by phosphoric acid
Dy a vigorous, dark-green leaf growth,
and by a somewhat retarded flower and
seed formation. If available nitrogen is
relatively lacking, either in the soil or in
the added fertilizer, a somewhat more
scanty foliage than occurs under bet
ter conditions-one of a rather lighter
GREEN'S grown. The seed, moreover, is
apt to mature rather earlier than usual.
The farmer may, by careful observation,
Judge somewhat as to the crop needs in
this manner. It should be remembered
in this connection that nitrogen is essen
tial to plant growth, that available nito-
gen is in small quantity and easily ex-
hausted from soils, and that consequent
1y it is and always has been the most
costly form of plant food.
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little rocking chair with her gray fan
mel dressing-gown wrapped costly
about her, and her eyes fixed upon the
glowing Goals. Suddenly she felt that
she was no longer alone and turning
with little apprehensive SILVER she
saw the door from the hall slowly
swing inward. A tall person. complete
~ enveloped in some dark wrap,
entered and paused as though expect
ing a greeting.
do not needlessly alarm yourself
dear madam; [ have not come to harm
you, but simply to visityou as friend;
one, in fact, bent upon the most deli
cate embassy"
''Why, you're a mani" gasped Miss
Neelie, recovering from her semi-par-
alysis with a conversational jerk, de-
lighted at the possibilities of the oc-
casion.
81 have that honor, madam re-
sponded the apparition with a Ches-
terfieldian bow, ''but do not mistake
me for one in the flesh. This is my
astral body and even now my Karma
fingers without yon doorway"
The significance of this address,
couched as it was, failed to penetrate
Miss Neeie's perceptions.
''Oh, do call your Karma right in. 1t
is dreadful cold in the entry 1t can
lie right here on the rug; Phineas
won't mind, he's real peaceable for a
cat"
The spirit looked slightly panied and
replied with an air of wounded dig
nifty:
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A pOStllVHrnouS
Lover
By FRANCES MARION EDDY
Copyright, 1908, by Daily Story Pub. Co.,

M ISIS NEELIE'S golden youth had
wi long ago merged into the silver
path until she had long passed life's
of middle age. In fact, it had never
held the bloom and sunshine of most
maidens, so she had trod an unloved
meridian.
When the Widow Hoban married for
the third time, Miss Neelfe reflected
at length upon the unjust distribution
of marital felcities and soliloquized
audibly concerning the forwardness of
some women. "Not that I'd care about
changin' my way of livin' now" she
assured Phineas, the black cat, who re-
ceived all her communications with
feline reserve,-"but I really would
like to know for once in my life how it
would seem to have some man say
soothfn' things to me with intentions"
She was in this receptive frame of
mind one winter evening as she sat
toasting her feet preparatory to re-
firing. The clock was wound, the doors
were locked and the soapstone was
warming itself at the fender. Miss
Neelie sat swinging to and fro in her
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NO DANGER IN APPLES.
After Cattle or Horse Have Become
Accustomed to Them They Can
Be Fed Safely.

Instructions have been given how and
when to feed apples; the quantity, from
four quarts to half bushel, cut and I'M
cut, in one instance the wormy ones
thrown out (perhaps for cider?). From
all these opinions one might infer that
apples are somewhat dangerous food to
handle, and after all it might be the
wiser course to let them decay in the or
chard rather than run the risk of a dried
up or choked COW. After associating
stock and apples together for 20 years
almost wonder how it is that ever had
any of the desired Tactical fluid or in fact
a living animal left. My practice has
been something like this: After secur-
ing all | wish of the culled fruit and
feeding the stock for week a few
quarts twice a day, turn them all in the
orchard to help themselves. Some years
they will have several thousand bushels
to start with My experience is that a
cow will seldom or never choke in the
orchard. The danger lies in their first
greedy introduction to the fruit; in the
orchard they will pick up and eat one at
a time and are in no particular hurry
since the supply is unlimited. These
apples will furnish them forage until
they freeze up, then the fruit put in
store will come in play. If the orchard
is handy to the barnyard colts and
horses not kept for use can run out and
pick up apples to their advantage. I
know of no kind of stock that will hurt
themselves on apples after they have
become accustomed to eating them
Rural New Yorker
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One Railroads. Method.

Now that the different railroads are an
nouncing low rates to the Pacific coast it is
interesting to note the different styles of
advertising and the arguments adopted by
the various lines to attract the attention
of the public. The Great Northern rail-
way has announced a round trip rate to Sc
attic and other Puget Sound points of
$4,000 from Chicago and $500 from St.
Paul, the passenger being granted liberal
stop-over privileges and diverse routes re-
turning. These tickets will be on sale Aug.
! to IA inclusive, with Oct. Is as the final
return limit. An additional charge of
$11. 90 is made for return through Califor-
mia.
No other railroad offers more induce
ments to the sightseer or is favored with
more sceinc attractions than the Great
Northern railway. Nevertheless, while
all the other lines are exploiting their
health resorts and scenic attractions, the
newspaper advertisements and very
handsome leafet published by the Great
Northern treat wholly on the industrial
conditions and opportunities offered by the
state of Washington. This advertising of
of the Great Northern certainly bespeaks
the policy of that company, and if other
western railways would follow Mr.. Hills
campaign of industrial education it would
be far better for the West and undoubtedly
be an indirect and lasting benefit to the
railroad companies. -Milwaukee Wis,
Sentinel, July 81, 1903
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Keeping Butter in Summer.

To keep butter in the summer sea-
son, pack it in we'll soaked tubs or
firkins, put little damp salt in the
bottom and place it in cool, dry cellar
on a bench of wood about Is inches
from the cellar bottom, and the same
from the wall. Stone or earthenware
does not keep butter well, as the mois-
ture from the surrounding atmosphere
in warm weather condenses on such
vessels and soon effects the butter.
Put no salt on or between the layers.
Fill to within half an inch of the top,
and place a clean wet cloth over the
butter, ana pack the edges down with
a knife, and then spread thinly wet
salt over the top of cloth. The above
mode of packing and keeping butter
will be useful to many, and cause a
smile of delight to the buyer-EIla
M. Hess, in Epitomist.
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what Was ItY

Frairpoint, Miss, Aug. 3rd.-One of the
strangest cases ever reported occurred here
recently. The son of Mr.. G. L. Butler was
very i'll. The doctor said he had some dis
ease of the spinal cord, and treated him for
two months, but he grew worse all the time,
and finally the doctor told Mr.. Butler that
he did not know what was the trouble.
The boy would wake up in the night and
say that he was dying. He would be nerv-
Gus and trembling and want to run out of
the house, saying he saw ugly things which
frightened him.
His father was very much discouraged till
one day he saw new remedy called Dodd' s
Kidney Pills advertised, and he at once
bought some and began to give them to his
boy.
He used altogether eight boxes before he
was entirely cured. He has not been
troubled since. Mr.. Butler says:
81 feel it my duty to tell what Dodd's Kid
ney Pills have done for my boy. All this
remedy needs is fair chance and it will
speak for itself"
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IN STORY Z = sTElEfS
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HOME

Beside the gate the Gamma lilies bloom;
Along the walk, all weighted down with
dew,
Red and white roses give up their perfume,
And vari-colored balsams peeping
through
Give beauty to the door yard; and the trees
Weighted with foliage arch graceful
down
And softly scatter far, stirred by the breeze,
Green shadows deep ming slowly into
brown
And in shaded nook ferns wave their
fronds,
And coxcombs flare out like an ambient
fame;
And glory vines despising trellieed bends,
Wave cup-shaped blooms, and cast an
azure glame
Low overhead, till one must needs bow low
In passing underneath to scape a crown
OF blossoms that weave slowly to and fro,
And droop a Iargess Of rare beauty down.
That is my home-a cottage home and
small;
1t has no fretting spires or angles deep;
But mock birds build a-near it; and they
call
And call each night until fall asleep.
It matters not no pillared porticos
DO girdle it around on ev'ry side;
Man wants but what he wants. Content
ment flows
sometimes down lowly ways; I'm salts
fed.
Right well 1 am! no crowds shout loud ac-
claim
When pursue through city thoroughfare
nay humble way; few are who know my
name
And they'll forget it soon nor give a care;
But in my cottage home my wife doth wait,
And nights my baby girl runs to her dad
With flying footsteps from the opened gate,
Bounds in my arms! and l am more than
glad!
u NJ. Lewis, in Houston Post.
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GARDEN AND ORCHARD.
can out the strawberry bed, unless

Clean out the strawberry bed, unless
you are going to plow it under.
Cultivate often in the garden and or
chard, weeds or no weeds, and thus keep
the surface in condition to receive the
rainfall or to retain soil moisture.
An old SOW with litter of vigorous
pigs will root recognition out of the
garden in about Is minutes. Pigs and a
garden cannot be raised on the same lot
When the lettuce are too old to use
on the table clear the garden of them
unless you have some little chicks that
will relish them; in this case let them
remain as chicken feed.
The value of good stock was shown at
New York recently when strawberries
were selling all the way from two to ten
cents per box. There were only about
60, 900 crates received on that particular
daV
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FEEDING DAIRY cows.
Interesting summary of EXPERIMENT.
Conducted by Prof. May at the
Kentucky station.

Prof. D. W. May, of the Kentucky
experiment station, is the author of
a recent bulletin on the feeding of
dairy cows, which may be summarized
as follows:
/. Select cows of dairy type While
pure-bred animals will bring a higher
price, they will also tend more to re-
produce the dairy type, and are there
fore recommended.
2. Take strict account of the cost Of
milk and butter from each ind gidual
cow of the herd, so that the 4hprotit-
able one may be culisd out.
3. Exercise and pure ali are very
essential to the best results from
mich COWS, but exposure to severe
weather, especially cold rains, should
be avoided.
4. Feed to get the largest amount OF
milk with profit. The yield of milk,
and thereby the yield of butter, is
greatly influenced by the amount and
character of the feed, the percentage
of fat remaining fairly constant.
5. Increase the amount and the
length of the season of pastures, for
they represent profitable gains in
dairying.
g. Good roughness is essential in
dairying, and the more palatable these
foods may be, the more of the higher
priced grain feeds they will replace.
OF our coarse feeds grass, corn silage,
alfalfa and clover hay rank high.
z Study the profits in grain feeding
in order to avoid giving more grain
than the value of the resulting in
creased yield, Our leading grain ra-
ton is a combination of ground corn
and bran. This ration may, under
some circumstances, be bettered or
cheapened by the addition of certain
by-products of cereal and oil mills.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1903-08-06
Successful War on Ants.

Large numbers of ants can be de-
stroyed by a liberal use of boiling water,
kerosene emulsion or strong soap suds
poured over the nests at night when the
insects are all at home, but the more
effective is substance known as carbon
bisulphide, which may be used in the
following manner: Make some holes
some inches apart and several
inches deep with broomstick
or bar in the nests, and pour
in each about teaspoonful of carbon
bisulphide, and cover the nests with a
wet blanket, and after few minutes ex-
plode the fumes collected underneath
with match or other light on the end
of a short stick. This treatment, if re-
peated one or two times, should de-
stroy all the occupants of nest.-Coun-
try Gentleman.