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The Opelousas courier., 1903-01-10
Qualifications of a Successful Public
BY Col. Curtis Guild, jr,

v- HERE is n phase of the problem that seems nearer o or day and
time. That u.s. the realization of Ponce de Icons Questo of prolonged
4 youth. Arrest OF growth, the sunted plant, the deormed or unde
Feloped child, thu idiot. the cripple, the permaturey senle-are
these not too familiar to u daily view? Yet why should the mechanism of
nature, SO seeming sure, turning out a thousand perfect specimens, slip 10 sadly
with the thousandand-frst? We know in part, and car in part control An
Impoverished soi,c onsumptfve Dr. otherwise diseased tissue, lack OF sunlight
n alr-tnese are the producers of the physically, mentally, morally
maimed With narcotics and poisons W e may stop development, whether
1t be that of plant or a child.
49, But what may be arrested may perchance be Influenced in other ways
We w seen how the who'll drift of resentday physiology is to reduce life
o m connected and concerted play of the ferments. The identity If the
W processes holds in most unexpected ways. Heat and cold, chloroform, the
poisons, the toxins serted by the vfrulent microbes even, act upon the test
tuD lamentations of the laboratory in precisely the same way as upon the
living organism. Even the curious fermentHke solutions of fine platinum
n gold may be poisoned" "chloroformed" or KILLED" as if they we're alive.
What is disease, malaction, and death for the nj is the same for the other.
1t seems to be clear, too, that the condition of growth, whether If a grain
OF wheat O the germ of a man, is the production, or appearance, of dis
met. enzymes-fermenters-at each stage. Cessation of growth must mean
Inc disappearance or lapse @in activity of these special engines. What We
call growing old seems merely a series of destructive lamentations. 1t is
probable that these are present from the begfnning-thas throughout all life
there is a struggle, so to speak, between the two; that in some sense, as Pro-
f@sor Loeb once remarked, death is a physical agent, the material antthesis OF
life.
If the action of the malt engine upon starch is reversible, so Is that of the
tiveiy dead fatty, or connective. or cartilage, Dr. bone tissue-the characteristic,
tn discovery OF the constructive ferments gave all last a clw to a complete
followed tn development of biochemissry the discovery of reversibinty of the
life process; the more concrete phrase, the arrest of death, the prevention Of
odl age, the preservation Of youth-Harpers
The Opelousas courier., 1903-01-10
To Europe by Land.

In Harper's, Harry de Windt tells
interestingly Of his expedition from
Paris to New York by land. The only
difficulty which he found insurmount-
able was the actual crossing Of Boring
Strait on the ice. OF this Mr.. de
Windt writes:
"The wintry aspect of nature around
Boring Strait seemed to predict a
late summer, and 1t Looked as If
months must elapse before the re-
venue-cutter ~courteously placed at our
disposal by the United States Govern
ment could come to our rescue. My
original idea was to try and cross
over the frozen strait at Cape Prince
of Wales "a feat never yet attempted
by a white mani, but I found on ar
rival at East Cape, that the passage
is never attempted by the Tchuktchis,
and only very rarely by the Eskimos.
During the past decade perhaps a
dozen Of the latter have started from
the American side, but only a third
of the number have landed in Siberia.
The distance from shore to shore is
about forty-fve miles. the Diomede
Islands being situated about midway.
The strait Is never completely closed,
for even In midwinter foes are ever
on the move, which, with broad and
shifting leads of open water; render
a trip by dog-sled extremely hazard
GUS. My experiences on the FIVE miles
of drifting ice across which we were
eventually compelled to walk in order
to land on American soil inspired me
with no desire to undertake the en-
tire passage between the two con-
tinents."
The Opelousas courier., 1903-01-10
Atehison,s Prize Exhibit.

The wonder of. the age is an Atchi-
son woman who knows everything
about other people. She was never
known to rubber: she seldom leaves
her home, but she knows what you
paid for that carpet in your parlor
and If you still owe anything on your
stove. She knows when engagements
are made and why they are broken;
she knows the color of the wedding
dress before the bfide-to-he has told
her mother. She knows it all, and
every n who knows her is in mortal
terror that she tells more than she
knows. People are first amused at
what she knows, and then alarmed.
Her means of attaining this wide un-
Outstanding of the towns secrets are
past comprehension, and almost mar
Reconsideration Globe.
The Opelousas courier., 1903-01-10
Not All Are JubiIant.

Il have lost q good round pile this
season. said the novelty man. so
WHEY won't get the sealskin that had
been promised and daughter will have
to wait another year for the red auto
mobile.
you see, I went Lin for coal strike
novelties. Yes. and / went IN heavily.
Have you noticed that bon-non box-
q biz lump Of coal with q miner, with
his lamp and tools standing on 1t?
The candy was to be put In the lump
&c coal. which was hollow and had q
Id. | got 10000 of those boxes, but
who viii buy them, nov the strike Is
over
u got out $4,000 miniature scuttlas
The Opelousas courier., 1903-01-10
Culture Class is a New One
BY John GiIber Speed.

w HOUGH they cannot safely do more than on thing at a time, the rich
give themselves as many varieties of qualification IS possible
They have horses and carriages, and I'M of them racing stables;
49, they I've country places and hunting lodges and seaside villas:
they ave camps lin hi mountains n game preserves IN the remote places
where dene population does lot crowd wild ami too closely; they have yachts
TO Tce and other yachts in which to SAIL Or, rather, steam to whatever sea
their fancy inelines; they have automobiles: they have dog kennels; their
women folks have jewels which the old time chromclers would have spoken of
a. worth kings ransom. and, wherever they are at home o abroad, on land
heir Jewels TO enjoy all these things. even casually, requires leisure. and
never till now were there many men in America who had time for enjoyment.
Il is only with this generation that q leisurs class has been developed in this
country. In the past, the fortunes possible to accumulate were not large
enough when divided to make all the members o. a family rich, and it used 70
be that in America, 1t was only three generations from shirtsleeves to shirt
4 man made a fortune, his children lived IN it. his grandchildren we're
snaDbny genteH or ~ scant remains, and his great grandchildren were ohipad
to begin all oera again at the bottom, and, with coats off labor ahomISar ~
shoulder with the humblest, regardless of their anmcedentg.
The Opelousas courier., 1903-01-10
The Obligations of Wealth.

v HERE is n oongadon upon IL persons, rich and poor. We are
required to d our utmost to use wisely the gifts which Coo has
granted u.s. We are expected to live for others rather than FOR r
selves. The possession of wealth is an undoubted lid in brinsina
about the happiness of unfortunate ones and the po8essor m aasonabIv :.
expected to carry on a larger work than a person with very limited go
1t is also rue however. that spending money is only n wv of mastr9
our obligations. | hav known many consecrhed lei nd women aInoos7
penniless. who carried q a great work for the Master the ccoyyonMab@S
more real good than those whose labor ended with M distrHnIJon -
wealth. They used the talents which had been given Thorn and .hasa 49, 49,
interest was in what they did. As
1t is not enough that We should distribute aims. We should bo ooroe,, =,
see that our gifts reach the proper persons and are not placed where thew will
accomplish more harm than good. Many wellmeanine neonIe eYnand' a,
money WnereN Tealy isn't needed, while they ignore the urgent cases which
they might discover before their very eyes. They are not true ia their obrsa
1ons. Iney aTe LOT commanded to distribute money, but to do good to otbers
and their POSSESSION of wealth should enable them to do good ~s
It requires time and attention to use ones gifts to the best effect and oo,
parauvely few are willing to give the necessary time. 1t M rpb+ +otm M
should give to unknown charities without investigation, and vet IL INVESTIGATE
will require many hours, perhaps. That is the hard mart RI isy nnasansa
the beginning to refrain from calling on ones friends in order hat wa nav Lob
into some appeal for aid which has been made Yet If WI make those Social coll
and neglect the call Of dhy " re- are not true to the Obligations to consider o.ha
before ourselves. We are failing to make use of the gifts which o5 has
granted MS, of our capacity for doing good. But after u time when We hnss
become thoroughly accustomed to thinking of others before ourrotro. 49,
greatest pleasure will be found in actsof charity. oM
The Opelousas courier., 1903-01-10
Fire Signals,

A. q meeting Of Hope Hook and
Ladder Go. No. !, held on July 9,
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 che future. The town
was divided as follows:
District No. ALI that portion Of
Aswn bounded north by Bellevue
street. west by Union street, south
and east by corporation line.
District No. All that portion Of
town bounded by Bellevue street on
the south, Union street on the 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 corpors-
tioa line as the south and west boun-
dairy.
District No. 4-TLe portion of town
bounded ON the south by Bellevue,
east by Union, nor'h 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
ii alarm on6 ranaak.
The Opelousas courier., 1903-01-10
Town Residences For Sale

In q desirable neighborhood in Ope-
lousas, with an entire square Of land.
well shaded with live oaks, magnoliss,
cedars, pecans, etc., about 8 squares
from the Courthouse. 8 squares from
High School, q squares from Catholic
Church and convent. House is two
story, brick basement, 9 rooms, four
ar' places, out-buildings, etc., all an
der good fence. Will be sold cheap for
cash, or part cash and balans 90 ON time
70 svsA App'v d tbs- oasss. u
The Opelousas courier., 1903-01-10
Photography ON the Farm
BY E.. l.. Vincent.

VI A A E are only just coming % understand the value of photography on
AAE the farm. For the young folks it has the highest interest, afford
Nm them a way of passing the time when other means Of recreation
fai. 1t is by 10 means wasted time n money to develop the arts
tic talent OF the boys and girls in this way. Then, too, they area able to get
representations O the farm buildings, the stock and the scenery about the old
home which will prove OF marked value in days to come.
But photography has still another form of worth to the farmer. A man
near III home asked through the telephone the other day If w could snare one
OF our boys long enough ITO get the picture of some choice pigs he had for sale
A man in a distant part of the State wanted to buy n of them but desired
to see the markings before he decided whether to buy IF not The owner
to tent suh a picture. Her is opened up a new value fr the amera.
LII we hav a Gov or a horse Or a calf or a lamb 10 sell, provided 1t be of
some desirable stock, W may advertise it in the farm paper and follow the nd.
verdsement up with pictures of the animal w e wish to dispose Of Such a
picture might even be the means O. selling still other stock than that parHcu-
lar1y offered, for sue a, 1rtfsements pass through man hands Inc grow IN
value the further they go. Good outfits may now be rocurr at reasonabl
figures, and we look for a constantly increasing use of them al N adjunct to
the farm equipment.
The Opelousas courier., 1903-01-10
aThers Is a Hannx Land.n

Money flowing in all directions
everybody is happy and paying off his
debts, u merchants are all smiles
and their clerks polite as a Chester
field; the married ladies look ten years
younger; the old men are out of the
grunts; the little kids as frisky as
jay; the cooks prepare meals on time
without a frown, and you borrow
money without any explanation OF
your financial standing.-Atlanta Con.
stitution.
The Opelousas courier., 1903-01-10
FOR SALE.

A house and lot in the town Of
Washington, La, in the square bound.
ed by Carriere, Wilkins, Ewes and
Dupre. Frame building made Of
choice cypress, ceiled inside, weather.
boarded outside, 2Ox30 feet. Will be
sold cheap for cash, or part cash and
balance on time to suit. For particu.
lars apply at the Courier Office, Ope-
lousas, La. tt
The Opelousas courier., 1903-01-10
Horace Greeley and Coffee.

On one occasion, when DR.. cuyiei
was pastor Of a church In Trenton.
y. ]. he had as guest at table Horace
Greeley, who had come yer to make
q speech at a political convention. T.
the course of the meal Mrs. Cuylel
asked the editor If he would take CO...
fee. His droll reply was: Il hope t.
drink coffee, madam. in heaven, but /
cannot stand it In this ,Wogld.n
The Opelousas courier., 1903-01-10

The Argentine Republic is taking
energetic measures to develop its agri-
cultural wealth. Arrangements were
recently made to ship its cereals to
Europe by government transports, and
now the minister. of agriculture has
determined to send a steamer with
cargo to South Africa once a month,
for six months, as an experiment. On
the, return voyage, passage will be CIV
en- at low rates to Boer families that
may wish to settle in Argentina.
The Opelousas courier., 1903-01-10
ACADEMY
OF THE
IMMACULATE : CONCEPTION,
OPELOUSAs, LA.

OPELoUSAs, LA.
OAasF TO Direction Of the Sisters MassanSts
Of Holy Croas.
oners to young ladies every facility
Iof acquiring . thorough christian ed.
1cation. Constant attention Is paid 10
home ana social culture. Lessons ara
given In music, painting and other
useful arts. The sigters also hays
charge Of the boys school. The course
o. instruction ID two-fold-Pgeparasory
nc Commercial. French 10 Taught in
mo two courses. Fer particulars, al.
Qfess sJSTER SUPERIOR
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Reading For Girls. X
BY w. D. Aowells.

" COULD not insist foo much upon the only principle viii should
actuate a girl in her reading; or for that matter a man IN ais. IL
should be a generous curiosity to know the thing and the manner
of it. and not a selfish greed for information; it should be ducatVe
ratner ina instructive. For this reason / would urge the maid whom l am
Ill thst time imagining as fair IS she is good, and eager as she is innocent
10 shu Lists of Hundred Best Books and the like. These are Otter the
inventions of vulgar and mediocre minds-at the best of academic minds. They
n tacity pledge them to it on pain of being found persons of bad taste
~: 10 one should read any book as proof of good taste. To do that is to devil
f faze the hk wn mole affair, and render it mechanical 1t is better to read al In
T~Tpook with zeta and joy, than a superior book without either. Indeed,
not ~ 10 to- Tar in a "a where danger lies, may recognize the fact
HAL Weror autnor minister to interiors readers, and that this is probably one
svaatast n ~ both eaIoe eamt in such great numbers Besides a vast deal that is
Ras into 70 lists SITS Of rt h Hundred Teif Best 1t is tosbe found in the Thousand Second
Of 1uguv pieces, the halfconscous beauty of artists who have known how
70 40 m of W things, and have exhausted their creative impulse in these
HarpeTs Bazaar.
The Opelousas courier., 1903-01-10

A Norwegian inventor, Captain
DoenV1g, haa .nycnteu d rev lifeboat
which the Norwes1an ~life-saving socie.
ty has proved a success. 1t is a globe
that can carry sixteen persons, four
huHdred Kilograms of provisions, and
four hundred Kilograms of water. II
has an air pump and water pump, and
is equipped with sail and rudder. Its
diameter is eight feet.
The Opelousas courier., 1903-01-10

Of brass. to be filed with black licor.
ICE candy. cut coai-like. in irregular
Jumps. These scuttles were to se.l
at 10 cents each. But they won't sell
at all.
got out some scarfpins with
Jumps Of real anthracite SET In their
heads, and some rings. with bits Of coal
set ia q Tiffany setting.
They're al on my hands-all ON
ny hands.a-philadelphla Record.
The Opelousas courier., 1903-01-10
opRLousAs. LoU1s1ANA
Did the ancfents smoke? Some PEG.

Did the ancients smoke? Some peo-
pie think they did. Several ancient au-
thors relate facts which seem to
indicate the use of pipes, II not
ure, at least for inhalipg pipes, il Mt
for pleasure, at least For inhaling the
vapor Of medicinal herbs. Roman and
Greek ~geographers tell of tribes which
threw plants Oh herbs upon fires and
inhaled the smoke. g.
The Opelousas courier., 1903-01-10

Decatur, a prosperous village, 70
miles west of Kalamazoo, Mich, is the
scene of an interesting experiment
with a plan to solve the problem OF
economical living and do away with
the servant problem. Briefly stated,
the idea is the maintenance Of a COM
mon table by some rs Of the leading
families of the town, about 100 per.
sons being served in this way. A
place for the experiment was found
in a vacant shop building, which has
been fitted up for the purpose.
The Opelousas courier., 1903-01-10

A German inventor has produced an
instrument to assist people to swal-
low pills. A small apparatus is placed
in the mouth so that the open tuLe
goes close to the throat, the end is
pressed and the pill is on its travels be-
fore the taker Is aware Of the fact.
The Opelousas courier., 1903-01-10
CURIOUS FACTS.

DR.. James B. Thornton. Of Boston,
who has the finest collection Of small
arms owned by a private individual
in the United States, has just secured
a knife fully 5000 years old from the
mining lands of the Central West.
The Opelousas courier., 1903-01-10

Several men were killed last year
by bullets from high power rifles which
had missed the animals shot at, the
shooter and the victim being so far
apart that neither saw the other. The
high power rife is unfit for forest
shooting, and no judicious woodsman
has any use for it, but the amateur
thinks he must have one because 1t
Is the latest thing out, remarks the
Philadelphia North American. It
should be excluded from the woods,
and legislation to that end is all that
can be expected as a first step toward
protection of hunters from each other.
The Opelousas courier., 1903-01-10

A chicken recently Matched in Wads-
worth, London, was well provided for
in the way Of different members Of
the body, Notwithstanding, or perhaps
of which it soon died. 1t had two
beaks, three eyes, five claws on the left
foot and four on the right, and three
sets Of brains.
The Opelousas courier., 1903-01-10


According to an authority who re.
Gently studied the subject, there art
no less than 5000 persons in England
writing annually for the stage. o.
course not all Of these are trained
dramatists. Among the 5000 are includ.
ed the beginners who are making theil
first attempt to supply the plays fol
which there is SO much demand. The
cohort produces annually 10000
dramas. Most Of the writer's are very
young men and women. Not one-quar.
ter OF their plays are read. Most Of the
manuscripts are sent back without be-
ing opened.
The Opelousas courier., 1903-01-10

n ner search for the ideal ma q
gixs often overlooks q lot of real onea
The Opelousas courier., 1903-01-10

The people who are hardest to cure
are generally those who Aave nothing
the matter with them.
The Opelousas courier., 1903-01-10

Emerson in n OF his graphn
phrases described coal as "a portable
climate The original meaning of the
word is nre. With the last breath o.
winter in the air the people of oui
northern ATTITUDES, hailing the pros
pectiye end Of the long strike, lool
for the customary storage of a sum.
mer climate in their coal-bins. Coal i,
light as well as heat. The gas-1et get.
ts brilliance from the stored SUNSHINE
hi the .biack diamonds Coal i.
power. exelaims the New York World
The illimitable energy confined in tho
bitumen and the carbon Of the coal de
pcsits turns the wheels Of eli fh,
worlds industries and hauls the in
compatible loads Of the worlds com
merca and traffic. Coal, the blacl
giant, Il indeed the chief Of the genii
created from ire and possessed )
s~upershunan powers for doing th.
worlds work. 4 ays months cessa
slon of anthracite mining has broueh
freshly and keenly to the publis
knowledge and imagination the i'm
portanf place held IN the econosay D
slgslIsaslon NJ Coal
The Opelousas courier., 1903-01-10

An attack was made on Baron
Tauchnitz, the London publisher, for
allowing to authors terms which are
obviously poor when compared with
the reputed sales of books. This led the
publisher to show figures which re.
veal sales smaller than the people think
they are. Thus a sale of 5000 copies OF
q book is coed: 5000 copies is very
good; while a sale Of 10000 copies has
been recorded only in six cut Of 500
cases in the past ten years. Does it fol.
low that the same is true of American
sales, which are often advertised al
the sixteenth and then the twentieth
thousand, and occasionally more? Pro
badly not. Whether the advertise.
ments be truthful OF not, it is certain
that . copies of q popular Eng.
lish book are bought here than there
In England there is a more general de,
dependence on the circulating libraries
and the book clubs. In our country
people like to own copies of the books
they admire.
The Opelousas courier., 1903-01-10

A company of half a hundred Phila-
delphians have had the novel expert
ence Of eating luncheon at the top Of
q brick smokestaek 275 feet high. The
smokestack, which is the largest Of its
kind in the United States, has been
built for the Southern Electric Light
and Power Company, at Christian
street and the SchuylkiIl. The inside
diameter Of the stack at the top is
eighteen feet. About five feet below
the rim a platform was built, and on
this along table laden with good things
to eat was placed. There was chicken
higher than 1t ever few before-in
the delectable form Of salad, and there
were sandwiches which had gone up in
an unprecedented way. and coffee, and
olives, and such things.
The Opelousas courier., 1903-01-10

Glass houses of a very substantial
kind can now be built. Silesian glass
makers are turning out glass bricks
for all sorts of building purposes,
claiming for them such advantages as
7ariety Of shape, free transmission of
light, strength, cheapness and general
ldaptability. When complete diffusion
If light is needed, as in factories, con
servatories, %courtyards, etc., they are
specially suitable.
The Opelousas courier., 1903-01-10

One Of the most curious lawsuits on
record is reported from San Diego, Cal.
The plaintiff is a Yuma Indian named
Aqua His, and the defendant is one J.
5. Spear, an Indian agent. He asserts
that while held a prisoner by Spear.
the latter cut his hair off, thereby de-
priving him Of his proper standing in
the Yuma tribe, Of which he was a
chief, because the Yuma Indians. 1t
seems, set great store by their hair.
He wants $4,000 damages.
The Opelousas courier., 1903-01-10

HERE is one phase of the problem that seems nearer to our day and
time. That: is, the realization of Ponce de Icons quest Of prolonged
youth Arrest Of growth, the stunted plant, the deformed or undo.