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bays, tributary to this railway, will be
about four thousand miles. Chicout
imi, on the Saguenay, can be reached
by vessels of any draught, and Quebec
has magnificent docks. which have
cost the government millions of dol.
lars, with deep water berth and ele
vator facilities for steamers of any
draught. The new bridge now build
ing owe the st. Lawrence at Quebec
will cradle the Trans-Canada road te
make use of st. John and Halifax fol
winter ports if ever those of Quebec
and Chiccutimi should be blocked by
ICE. D. Chambers, in the Ameri
can Monthly Review Of Reviews,
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ISLANDER.

If there's One thing we all must hate
That thing is surely SANDER.
These ibels on the good and great
). Unto base minds must pander.
And that is why it makes US mad
We loathe, abhor, and fear it;
But, be the SANDER ne'er SO bad,
T We somehow like to hear it.
The slanderer we all despise;
Contempt is still his portion.
We count it nothing more than wise
To hear his tales with caution:
That they are false we know full well,
That malice he's displaying;
But if he's bound those tales to tell,
Why not hear what he's saying?
It's really hard to comprehend
How people can be made SO:
And yet attentive ears we lend,
Most Of us-Pm afraid 80.
OF course they do no end Of harm,
They all deserve a beating.
But then their stories have a charm
And some are worth repeating.
Chicago News.
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canada's New Ocean Ports.

It Is admitted on every hand that the
terminal seaports of the Trans Canada
leave nothing to be desired. The har-
Dor Of Port Simpson is said to be the
finest on the Pacific coast north of
San Francisco. It has the additional
advantage Of being much nearer to
Yokohama than either Vancouver or
San Francisco. Nottaway, on James
Bay. which is to be reached by. 9
branch of the main line, is the only
deep water harbor on the bay, and
with some dredging might be used by.
vessels drawing thirty feet of water.
The coast Line Of James and Hudson
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oPELoUsAs.
Fire Signals.

Az u meeting. Of Hope Hook and
Ladder Co. No. /, held on July Q,
1901, the town was divided into Fire
Districts and O Code of Signals was
adopted in order to facilitate tbs loca-
tion Of Ares In the future. The town
was divided a. follows:
District No. ALI that portion Of
txwn bounded north by Bellevue
street. west by Union street, south
and east by corporation line.
District No. ALI that portion Of
town bounded by Bellevue street on
the south, Union street on the; west,
and corporation line on the north and
eat. IN Il
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.
Diary.
District No. 1The portionSof town
bounded on the south by Bellevue,
east by Union, north and west by cor.
poration line.
The Signals adopted were short taps
10 indicate the district in which the
FIRE is located, followed by q rapid
alarm, same to be repeated until gen.
eral alarm is given.
To illustrate, should an alarm DO
sounded for District No. g., first three
taps, one, two, three, followed by rap.
id alarm, and repeat.
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Town Residences For Sale

Iii : desirable neighborhuod IN ops
lousas, with al entire square Of land,
well shaded with live oaks, magnolias,
esdnra. pecans, etc, about . squares
from thu Courthouse, 5 squares from
High School, 2 squares from Casholio
Church aad convent. House i two
STORY. brisk basement, 8 rooms. iour
assplacaa: ouE-bnildlngs, sto.. ell ~
der good fspos. win be sold shsap Tor
eash. ux paz sash and haIamesea aae
A III hha III
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The Cannon Car.

Military journals express interest In
an invention by which it is proposed to
arm o self-moving car, driven by a
sixteen horsepower engine, with two
rapid-6re cannon. mounted on pivots
so as TO sweep In all directions. Hav-
ing four broad-tired wheels, it is
claimed that the a can run across a
level country Daring fences, OF coursel
at the rate of forty-1ye miles an hour.
Terrible pictures are drawn Of the
havoc that such cars could make on d
battlefield. Only one as is needed t6
operate the car and its cannon. and he
II protected by strong steel Shields
YoutNa Companion
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FOR sale.

A house and lot in the town Oh
Washington. La, in the square bound.
ed by Carriere, Wilkins, Ewes and
Dupre. Frame building made Of
choice cypress. ceiled inside, weather.
boarded outside, 2Ox3O feet. Will be
sold cheap for cash, or part cash and
balance on time to suit. For particue
lars apply. at the Courier Office. Ope-
Iousas, La. II
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The Courier,

When ron visit Crowley stop ct She
HOTEL,
Opposite the Court House.
Board and Lodging by the Day,
Week and Month.
Psioea Moderate
AIRS. DARDQNgE. Mapageyl
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to insure the destruction of the weeds. Mr. amppehs, pMh ,"55 ~ = IT,
very deem and b. means of specially constructed Implements, pck the po'om
If the furrow The tor he kept well cultivated, approaching as closely as
1posible to making fine dust ovr the entire field. Even when tnde were
mo weeds showing, the Utilization "a continued, the object peng 10 JIM
Ia blanket of fine soil above the seedbed an so retain to the enc OF the season
La greater portion than usual of the rainfall, somewhat limited IN nat lonnggr
1tude The theory was simple NJ the practice easy. 1t "a galned d "!e
Following and is becoming one of the accepted principles Of the arnLng OIL lne
new West. 1t means, when carried to perfection, that the naaME ram wa wau ts
will b. absorbed readily into the ground, that they will be held there ~ ,tth I'M
packing of the bottom of tn. furrow slice, n that UNDUE Vdpold|"n VAL w
prevented by the stratum of dust above. .,-.. -hu.
Over the semtarid region, where the rainfall is only about Twelve 1n mnes
la wear little or 10 moisture falls aHer the middle Of untla utun neh
lit is that the corn withers, the wheat shrives, and tn rut trees ose tner
strength, But 1t is noticed that if a quantity of coarse AM be scattered oWe
La bit of soil, n 20 matter how dry the summer, there will always be oeneatn IL
moist earth. So IT vas argued that If the bottom of the plowed surface could
be packed to retain the spring rains, and the top OF the field could oy 1reaueenMS
narrowing be kept IN a sandHke state of fneness, the full value OF the ralnra
misht be utilized. The flood of muddy waters that formerly rushed away
toward III sea after every rain ceases, for the rains have one inoth n ground
where they fell. It s a new condition, and one that appeals to the farmer with
great force-From Pushing Back the Arid Line" in the American Monthly
lReYicW of Reviews.
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sOmethng fOred q unnatural IN te uTeCL ODSeTVdIIUH OF Ue WHueIHess %
an idle person. Man was intended to take a part hmselftn the struggle for
existence to be a mere spectator of the struggle. But MI. Lowell seems seems
to 90 further than this. 1t hurts ones feelings to have him speak SO dis
respectfully Of nature-and he a poet, too; Well zen enough fr a mood no 3D. o. "a a "a a.
lcation!' I think that q man might account himself fortunate II the habit
of his life" legfimatey brought him into the wilderness He would learn
"fr a person living or a heath to be vulgar" and a a heath is but a tIeenss
even more {, perhaps 1t vas an acute observation nI ao by ooeridge NV when ;a tn
witaerness. "other things being equal is toward refinement thoug yh t
beautiful. inarimate world, which has lot yet been solved; men &c to 1t fol
place" said Thoreau; Let ANYBODY wander alone upon some mountatn.sde
and it viii be strange if the vague consciousness Of some presence other than
Ihs W does lot ininuae itself in his mind He will begin to Understand
how it vas that the ancents peoped every busha stream with nynphs or
denes-From Books About Nature" in Scibners.
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OF YMR-
IMMACULATE CONCEPTION,
OPELOUsA4. Ia

UPELOUBAB, LA.
0adsr the Direction Of the Sisters Ksxtanasa
Of Holy Cross.
oRsrs to young ladies every fscaiisy
for acquiring q thorough christian 81
ucstion. Constant attention is psid =
home and social culture. Lessons sfs
given in masic. painting and othes
useful arts. The sisters also hsys
charge OF the boys school. The cousss
Of instruction is swo-fold-PrsparaeoIs
and Commercial. French is taught y
the two eoaraaa. For particulars, 90
dress ayag,DR SUPERId&
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|HkXNSHN 1t is said that method is like packing miss j." "'
R&&&& good hacker will get n half as much again as oo o" - 4o Nv,
= Enow woman who teaches school all the morning, hs oe VI wv w, ~ pn
voo rmnnna in he Afternoon. and who keeps up her music sees ~ w. o no1
ILeonine1 end III her social duties is to pc seen frequently
lectures evenings during the week. u,oh sba renred. "Each
r,,n+oo ~ nv dv is planned and accounted for ron M mhut l V pIa n ~
. aa, IN te mornine utnI close them at night, and While oomns me , nms O.
tbGoSeb event hos hat bear directly upon the Worko O nan IRE eh"n""u
from my mind. ..n a4 ,ann, VIC snccess The
II 10 This In consideration of the vaue of tme hat brings US success Ae
story oft the industrious farmer goes to show 10 true IL Il. ona osled thu
hmt the en- of the term h farmer called % pay hLs rem, aWu aeheot 0
owner whether he would sell the farm.
"WYl % buy n" asked the surprised owner.
Eyes if we can agree about the price" u, ..u -
"TSat js orcoedinelv strange observed the gentleman; "tl me how II
happens that while I could not live upon vice Is much aha LOT Willy 1 81 p "Jl
n rent Won are regularly paying me two hundred a year for your farm anu
are able. in a few years, to buy it" ,u4 49,,
"Ths roaeon is nlain )" vas the reply; "you sat still and said go; got up
and said come! laid in bed and enjoyed your estate; l rose in the morn
ing and minded my business" 49,, 90 ~. nc
I think it was al Italian philosopher who always spoke Of time Inn as h MS u.s.
toto. an estate whicho produces nothing If value without cultivation, but duly
tmnroved never fails to recompense the labors Oft the diigent worker:
If We economic u time we ire sure of securing leisure ma we wiz 10
enabled Ito get through business and carry it forward instead OF being drHen
,n ~ hbt n ~. have M method We are involved in perpetual hurry, confusion
and difficulties. eu ~. hor,,r,rs
II is an EASY as we'll as a important matter to start from ne beginning
to train children to be methodcal and therefore, economical OF ther me- "A
few months pasa and it becomes a habit which II begun eary enough VIZ GILL
to hem LII their lves-New York American.
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Is nothing in the financial world to compare with the resources and power II
the treasury of the United States Government. The s50OOOO 900 needed 1T the
outset to Ia the French and the Coombtans will be paid by Uncle Sam out
o q surplus cash o. hand. The s150000O0O, more or lss, that will be needed
to finish the canal, provide it's terminals, and meet all other charges connected
with the enterprise will be provided by the sale of 2 per cent. bonds at par
ours. Thus, English consols, which are henceforth to draw 2s per cent,
having previously been at q higher rate, were selling, last month, at a little
above go The actual capital therefore, for the Panama Canal will be fur
nished by private investors who are satisfied to have Uncle Sans guarantee
of 2 per cent interest o their money-From "The Progress Of the World"
In the American Monthly Review of Reviews.
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Financing the
Panama Canal.
BY w. r. stead.

TERY remarkable thing is the fact that nobody has expressed the
least concern about the vast sum Of money that the United States
Government is going to expend for digging the Panama canal.
We have entered upon a century of huge enterprises and Of un-
precedented resources. Wall Street sets afoat undertakings
whose capitalization is in the hundreds of millions. But power
FIJI nowadays. as are the allied forces of private finance there
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Sentimentalism
SIM
About Nature.
BY Henry Chi1ds Merwin.

m his essay on Thoreau, James Russell Lowell says: Il look upon
a great deal Of the modern sentimentalism about nature as a
mark of disease. . . : To a man of wholesome constitution,
the wilderness Is well enough for a mood or a vacation, but not
fer q habit of life" An idle life in the wilderness would no
doubt be depraving, as such a life would be anywhere. More
over IT ia agreed on all sides, as we have seen, that there is
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The Importance Of
Being Methodical.
BY Stowe.

Is essential and enables Q larger amount u "oiA" No
got through with satisfaction. Liza +ho+ is brought
W II is the great economier of time. A child tna i Is - mere
WI un - he motbodical in his studies and his duties Will ave ""0
time left for his play. -. .h;,oa in q NJ a
IT ia SAIL that method is like packing thss ia " IVA
~ oood hacker will get in half a much again s a bad one. .,
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e ~ ~
in Semi
Arid ReSionC.

Y 1894 q year of widespread drought, a South Dakota FARMER, n
". Campbell. who had been experimenting in filling his claim,
surprised his neighbors by harvesting a crop OF potatoes INA NJ
averaged one hundred and forty-two bushels an acre o n thirty
two acres, while those on adjoining farms were nearly a lallul
He gave as his guide in conquering the seml-arld conoltlons q "a
alton from the usual method of tilage. Ordinarily, d laIm Ir
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. 3 The
Frazer Millions.
BY G. b. BURGIN.

~MPUDENCE, I call it." said
the fair young widow Mar
ston, when you know I
start for London to-mor.
row. Marry you, Sim Par
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Apples 25c. Per Box.

Well, thereby hangs tale. An apple
buyer came by and saw that sign. lie never
came in to see these cheap apples but moved
on down the valley and called on an Ola
gentleman who has a small orchard with
about 1000 boxes of apples for sale Inc
buyer offered the old man very small
price for his apples but the grower declined
and said that the price was too low Inc
reply was, "Waden has sign out oftering
his apples at IS cts. per box" He told the
truth and at the same time told the worst
kind of lie. The same buyer reported
that there is an enormous crop OF apples east
and that apples were selling for IS cts; per
barrel in Michigan. Some apples may have
been sold in Michigan at that figure Just as
had sold apples for IS cts. per box. Along
comes the Chicago Packer the same week
that apples were reported as seA!ng in Men
igan for Is cts per barrel and gives quite an
account Of how the Chicago apple buyers
were rushing into the state OF New YORK
and buying large quantities of apples at
$500 per barrel. What set OF fools those
Chicago buyers must be to rush right past
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Horticultural Notes
BY F. Walden

One of the commission men OF Seattle
recently called my attention to the fact that
many fruit growers do not mark the name
of the kind of apple or other fruit on their
boxes He says that frequently they re-
ceive consignment of forty or fifty boxes
of apples containing several kinds without
anything to indicate the variety. In order
to sell such fruit properly they have to open
each box and mark the variety. This is
sometimes difficult to do. In their rush OF
business this marking may not be done
A buyer comes in and inquiries tor certain
kind of apple when the work of opening and
inspection must be done. While this is
being done the buyer walks off with dis
gust for he too is in hurry. The commits
sion man referred to above said that he
would rather buy rubber stamps and give
them to his customers than be bothered IN
this Way These rubber stamps can be
had for ten cents each. But if the grower
has not rubber stamps let him write the
name on each box Besides the name Of
the fruit the grade should be plainly marked
on the box By grade is whether the
apples in that box are four tier or five
The other day friend Of mine called
me into his place of business and showed
me some very nice eating apples and asked
me to name the variety. MS Coulu nol
do with certainty. This was disappoint-
ment to my friend for he wanted to plant
some of that kind of fruit for his own use
l inquired where he obtained the apples
and he informed me that they came from
some one in Wenatchee and were sent to
a commission house in Seattle. Now We
natchee has some very enterprlslng fruit
growers and they raise very fine fruit:
But evidently the shipper OF that box OF
apples is behind the procession
We have Gull apples on our ranch in the
Yakima valley We cannot ship them SO
we sell them very low to the Indians and
Others We have sign stuck up near our
front gate which reads:
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ity, 1t resembles the Rambo in quality but
is larger and better colored. The tree is
perfectly hardy, never splits and very rare
ly does limb break though loaded to the
utmost. 1t is an early and an annual bearer.
From one tree set eight years ago we picked
20 boxes of fine apples this fall. This is
an exception but many of the trees yielded
from ten to fifteen boxes each. In lot OF
100 boxes l noticed that there were just
two fves. Nearly all were three and half
and tours and few were four and halt.
If I were asked to name the six apples that
bear the best with me | should say: The
Ben Davis, the Rome Beauty, the Mo. Pip
pin the Jonathan the Arkansas Black and
the Winesap. These are of course winter
apples For fall apples I would grow the
Snow and the Mcintosh Red For summer
nothing excells the Yellow Transcript and
the Duchess of O1denburg.
The Seattle Daily Times of October "a
contains an item with the heading: "Codl-
ing Moth Doomed" Under this startling
heading appeared the following:
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COOLING MOTH DOOMED.
Resident of California Discovers Insect Enemy
of the Pest.

Resident of California Discovers an Insect Enemy
of the Pest
SAN FRANCISCO, Saturday, Oct. 24-It is an
nounced that Horticultural Commissioner Cooper
has strong hope that the day of the cooling moth
in California will soon come to an end 49,
An enemy for the cooling moth has been ais
covered in Southern Europe. The discoverer is
George Comperd, of Los Angeles. In southern
Europe it is stated, there is no need to spray
for protection against the cooling moth It's IN
sect enemy keeps it down so that at least ~ per
cent of the apples are not disturbed
Commissioner Cooper has opened correspond
ence with the government of West Australia.
which may share the expense with Cahlorhla VI
bringing the remedy from abroad
Allow me to say of this announcement
that it is not best to accept it except Gum
orano Sails Wait and see what this
amounts to before throwing away your
spraying outfit Some good may come OF
this but the codling moth army Will go
marching for years to come.
The Seattle Daily Times in its market re-
MORT for October "a has this to say OF the
apple market in this city, and as l am here
on the ground know it to be fairly cor
rect representation
Large stocks of apples are now in the posses posses
sion If nearly all of the commission men dealing
in green fruits and the demand for the mis- quite
large The apples offered in the local MARKS.
Xarv so greatly in quality and condition that II
is next to impossible to prepare set OF quota
lions on them which will prove at all satlsiac
tory. A fair quality of Puget Sound apple e eus
improperly sorted and packed, can be secured iof
rs cents box good Puget Sound apples orlng %
or more. while good Central Washington appies
bring from 81 10 to $1.25 and the fancy grades
from $1.25 to $3.50.
It will be seen from the foregoing that
fancy apples" are rated high BY such are
meant fine high colored, four tier Spitzen-
burg, Jonathan, Snow and Mcintosh. The ne
man that can raise this fancy stock ana VIII
fortune awaiting him. Daniel Webster
put it into this market in tip top shape has
once being asked if the legal profession was
not crowded, replied: There is always
room at the top" Just so in grow ing
fruit. The common stock may be abundant
and selling low, sometimes at ruinous prices
but the fancy" stock will always find room
L
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Michigan into New York and pay $2.oo
per barrel for apples when they could have
secured them much nearer home for less
than half that price. The fact is perfectly
apparent that if any apples sold in Michigan
as low as reported, they were inferior stock.
To make use of that kind of sale to secure
our fine apples at a corresponding price is
dishonest trick. Such a man should be let
severely alone.
Some of our apple shippers are using card
board between each layer of apples. The
dwell Bros. of Oregon recommend this for
foreign shipments. The advantage claimed
for this use of card board is that the apples
keep much better than where they come in
contact with each other. If one rots it does
not communicate the decay to others above
and below. For near by markets it is doubt
full if this method of packing is to be COM
mended The Seattle commission men de-
cidedly object to this method of packing,
and rightly so unless the apples are to be
held long time.
I am asked to give something in these
columns on strawberry culture. Here it is:
Four years ago last spring l wanted to set
a new patch of strawberries. l sent to an
siastc strawberry grower and keeps up
with the procession in that line of business,
and asked him to send me so each of the
seven best, thoroughly tested, up to date
strawberry plants. He sent the Bissel,
Brandywine, Beder, Wood, Clyde, Parker
Earle Junior, Warfeld No. 2 and the Lovett
From these after testing them on our own
grounds, we have set other beds. But do
not grow all of them | consider the War
field and the Wood the best out of the
seven. The Brandywine and the Bissel
have discarded altogether. The Clyde is
large berry but not so prolific as the two
lust named The Parker Earle Jr. is enor-
mously productive under very favorable
conditions but these conditions do not often
occur. 1t kills very easily with frost. The
Lovett is nice small berry but not very
profitable with me- In addition to these
grow the Magoon and the Hood River
often called Clark's Seedlings. They are
both good but I would not grow the Hood
River for home use. 1t is very solid
berry and stands up exceedingly well for
shipping long distances, but | do not like it
nearly so we'll as do the Wood tor home
use.
WI, :. 49,. - ~,;ea oaocbec2 That de-
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I want in these notes to call especial at
tention to the Rome Beauty apple. 1t is
one of the finest apples that grows. 1t is
large and snowy and of most excellent quail