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The silver state. [volume] (Unionville, Nev.) 1870-1903, 1903-02-05
MISS MAY MARKELL,
A Society Belle of London, Canada.

flow IN a healthy and nat
ur:. manner. Msnstruati0n
started right is very easy TO
keep regular through the
years Of mature womanhood.
Then tho change Of life"
need not be feared. Thus
Wine Of Cardui is woman's
best relief from youth to
old age. A million women
have secured blessed relief
from their suffsrinus bY tax
The silver state. [volume] (Unionville, Nev.) 1870-1903, 1903-02-05

TIa1ISS MAY
N Of London, Ontario,
III Canada, is q beauti-
full girl who knows what
suffering 10 and Wine of
Cardui has brought her back
to health. She is one of the
social favorites of her home
and her recovery TO health
has permitted her to enjoy
the company Of her many
friends instead of lying on
The Opelousas courier., 1903-06-27
A Pathetic Excuse.

Teachers in the public schools often
find laughter and tears close together
In their experiences with pupils. In
one of the West Side schools a teacher
in the primary grades had had great
difficulty in impressing on her pupils
the necessity of bringing written ex-
cuses when, for good reasons, they
were absent or tardy. She even went
so far as to call on the parents of some
of the pupils and explain the matter to
them personally. One of the families
on which she had the hardest work to
impress the necessity of sending ex-
cuses was that of a little boy named
Isadore. His parents had been in this
country but a short time, and did not
understand the American customs, but
finally the teacher, after several calls,
succeeded in impressing on them the
Importance of what she asked.
Two or three weeks later Isadore was
absent for three days. The teacher
made up in her mind that something
serious must be the matter. The boy
was a bright and willing pupil, and she
had become much interested in him.
Finally, on the morning of the fourth
day, another pupil, whose parents lived
in the same block with Isadore, came
up to the teachers desk when he
reached school in the morning and
handed up a tearstained and dirty lit
tie piece of paper.
Dear teacher" 1t said, in painfully
laborious letters, "please excuse little
Isadore for being absent. He is dead"
-chicAgo Tribune.
The Opelousas courier., 1903-06-27
His Luck.

William Black, a citizen of the
Bronx, suddenly disappeared last Au.
gust. Some weeks after a body was
found In the East River and identified
as Blacks by his grief-stricken rela-
tives. His widow obtained papers as
administrators of his estate. A short
time afterward a frightened looking
little man applied to the Surrogate's
Office and asked for a copy of the let
tiers of administration OF the estate of
William Black, deceased.
what is your name?" asked the
Surrogate's clerk.
s'Oh, I'm William Black himself ex.
planned the little man tfmidly. The
Surrogate's clerk pushed back his
chair hastily.
1.-THE deceasedg' he asked ~nervously.
Eyes," replied Black, Il suppose SO,
but you see the man found in the river
wasn't me at all. / have been on a
little tear, and when I got back | found
! had been dead and buried.
The clerk became interested. lis
your wife married again yetg he
asked loosely.
aNo such luck" replied "the de.
ceased" Id a most respondent man
ner.-New York sun.
The Opelousas courier., 1903-06-27
GREATEST OIL sPoUTER.
It Pours Out 2,OOO. OGO Gallons of Petro-
leum Before 1t Outlets Down

GU" bCAoAO - &usOtS DO"h'
The Russians assert that they struck
the biggest oil spouter in the Baku
petroleum fields last fall that was ever
tapped. They sank a new well in the
Bibi- Eibat district about three miles
southwest of Baku and reached a
depth of 1900 feet before they struck
Oil. Then it went to spouting and is
said to have been the largest producer
for the first two or three days that was
ever struck. 1t is accredited with
10000 barrels a day for nearly three
days and then the flow diminished a
little; but 1t continued flowing until
1t had produced over 100000 barrels.
This happened in November last.
Before the well stopped flowing an
other hg one h!as struck in the Ro-
mani district about ten miles northeast
of Baku. This spouter Nodslced near
ly 1,000,0 600 barrels and was still flow
ing at the rate of about $4,000 barrels
a day on January 31st last. These
were the two great spouters Of the
Russian oil fields last year.
Remarkable as it may appear, it is
said that the Of the big well
which produced more than 100000
barrels in a Little over thirty days lost
money by this extraordinary outpour-
ing This would seem impossible with
out explanation, but the sad reason
for it is clearly set forth in Consul
Chambers's report that has just been
published In Washington.
In the first place, the well could not
be controlled. High winds were blow
ing nearly all the time, and every
house near the well, as well as all the
buildings in the village, more than a
mile away, was deluged. 1t is said
that the owners of the well must pay
for repainting all the houses in the
village. The owners had to pay the
Government a royalty Of two and a
half cents for every five gallons OF
oil, and they could not sell the oil they
saved at a profit of more than about
a quarter of a cent per five gallons
above the royalty and their expenses.
It Is said that this neager profit did
not even pay the heavy damages that
had to be disbursed to the a~ggrieved
property owners.
This is not the first time that the
village mentioned has been damaged
by a flowing well. Some years ago a
well In the same district sent a spray
of oil to this village and the owner of
the well had to pay damages amount
ing to $4,000, al he was compelled
to repaint the entire village, inclld-
ing q fine Russian Church.
The Opelousas courier., 1903-06-27
New Poem bx Dickens.

An unpublished poem from the pen
of Charles Dickens was read by Mrs.
Alice MeyneIl, Of London, to the men,
bers of the Contemporary Club and
their friends during her address on
''Charles Dickens as a Man Of Letters"
This verse, the manuscript of which
is years old, is here printed for the first
time:
II put in a book once, by hook Or by
crook,
The whole race, as I thought, OF a
Teller,
Who happily pleased the towns taste,
much diseased,
And the name of this person was
Weller.
But / found to my cost that one Weller
I'd lost,
Cruel destiny so to arrange it;
I love her dear name, which has won
me some fame,
But great heavens; now gladly I'd
change itT'
The poem was written shortly after
Dickens had been presented to the
young woman mentioned by him il
the lines, and was read by Mrs. Mey-
nell with the permission of the woman
herself.-Philadelphia Press.
The Opelousas courier., 1903-06-27

DR.. J. A. Mitchell, professor of geol,
ogy at Mount st. Mary's College,
claims to have found a slab of red
sandstone near Emmittsburg, Md,
which contains footprints of a dino
saur. The exact species Is thought to
be the tfespesius, or herbivorous dino.
saur. This animal may have attained
a maximum size Of twenty five feet in
length and twelve feet high. The
footprints date back to a period mil.
lions of years ago.
The Opelousas courier., 1903-06-27
Rris,nnted Names.

The union of the given name with
the often makes an amusing
combination. Sometimes it is acct
dental, but more often designed. The
story that went the rounds of the
newspapers some time ago that Gov
ernor Hogg, of Texas, had named his
two daughters IRA Hogg and Ina
Hogg. it is gratifying to know, has
been denied. "A case In the east end
of Columbus has come to the notice
of the Observer. a gentleman who
bears the common name of Case has
named his little daughter "Ura" Case.
III. Al. Bridge, the Well-knoWn chief
clerk in the Office Of the State Dairy
and Food Commissioner. has named a
son Brooklyn" Brooklyn is not an
uncommon name in itself, but Brook
Ign Bridge III somewhat startling
Columbus Dispatch.
The Opelousas courier., 1903-06-27

In England the marrying age il
steadily advancing. Mothers now ad.
wise their daughters not to think Of
marrying until they are twenty-five al
least; whereas in the old days it wa.
regarded as a matrimonial achieve,
ment II the girls were all married of
before they were twenty. The age oi
t~hirty-two Is not now an unusual one
for q woman to marry; but some ff
teen Or twenty years since she would
at that age. have been regarded al
hopelessly in old maid, and would
probably have been wearing a cap!
The Opelousas courier., 1903-06-27

At o meeting Of Hope Hook and
Ladder Go. No. /, held on July 8,
1901, the town was divided into Fire
Districts and a 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. ALL that portion OF
ssvn bounded north by Bellevue
street, west by Urion 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
eat.
District No. 3-Theportion of town
lying west of Union street, and south
of Bellevue street, with the corpora
tioa line as the south and west boun-
Diary.
District No. 4-TLe portion of town
bounded on the south by Bellevue,
east by Union, north and west by COZ.
~poratiou line.
The Signals adopted were short taps
TO indicate the district in which the
ire 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
Id alarm. and ranaat.
The Opelousas courier., 1903-06-27

'Tha original may made by George
Washington in 1875 of the lands on the
Great Kanawha River, West Virginia,
granted to him by the British Govern.
rnent Ii 1763 for bis services in the
Braddock expedition. is nov in the pos.
session Of the Library Of Congress-
says the National Geographic Maya
zine. tThe map il about two by five
feet. and is entirely in the handwrit.
ing Of Washington. The margin 4
lIied with notes. also III Washington
handwriting. describing the boundary
marks set BY Washington and different
features or the tract
The Opelousas courier., 1903-06-27
what overwork Meant.

Professor Huxley gave his opinion in
1898 that what is called overWork
means, In a large proportion of cases,
under-oxygenation, and consequent ae-
emulation of waste matter, which OPP
crates as a poison. Sir ]. Sawyer Bir-
mingham, in corroboration Of this
opinion. urges that much chronic in
validism is chronic subo1idation, and
one Of the worst of wrong conditions is
work in stale air. Whenever we doubt
about our vitality, we should doubt
about our ventilation. DR.. Chsadle re-
minds US that one-third of our lives
are spent in our bedrooms, of which
the air is poisoned beyond what would
be tolerated ii a s~itting-room. It il
well conceded that many Of the cases
of nervous disease, and especially the
various forms Of neurasthania, depend
largely upon want Of open-air exar-
cfse.-BfedicRl Record.
The Opelousas courier., 1903-06-27


Not satisfied with the munif1cence
of his gifts to Pittsburg, Andrew Car
negie has decided, it is said, to es-
tablish a new philanthropfc record in
his favorite city by moving the West
ern University of Pennsylvania from
Allegheny City to Pittsburg and re-
building it adjacent to the new Car.
negie Polytechnic Institute, the Ii.
brary, art gallery and museum, max
ing it one of the centers of learning
in the United States. Mr.. Carnegie
has given an outline of what he in
tends to do to Acting Chancellor
Brashaer of the university, and the
details will soon be made public. The
moving of the university will involve
the expenditure of several millions
of dollars, it is said.
The Opelousas courier., 1903-06-27

A number Of cases Of relics, toys,
musical instruments, models OF houses,
and facial masks were recently de
livered to the American Museum OF
Natural History in Washington. They
were collected by the Jessup expedl.
ton in Northeastern Siberia. Among
the boxes was one which contained
several dozen photograph cylinders on
which the natives had been induced
to record their speech and songs. That
Is certainly exploration up to date.
The Opelousas courier., 1903-06-27

"A woman's paper in Vienna, edited
by a woman, recently asked a number
Of artists, physicians and art critics.
for their opinions on the subject of re.
form in woman's dress. Professor
Roller, President of the Society OF
Artists OF that city. said, among other
things that he would like to see more
s'truthfulness'' in woman's dress. He
objects to buttons that do not button.
clasps that do not clasp, bows that fas.
ten nothing. and sham waistcoats and
sleeves.
The Opelousas courier., 1903-06-27
A Point on Carpentry.

Senator PIatt, Of Connecticut. was
building b house. He had occasion
to hire j carpenter, who was d plain,
u~nvarnished son of New England.
You know all about carpenter
work. n asked Senator Plat.
YES, sir was the reply.
you can make windows, doors and
blindssn
s0h, yes. sir"
How would you make i Venetian
hindgs
The man thought steadily FOR several
minutes & think. lie remarked
finally tia would punch him III the
ae Washington Post.
The Opelousas courier., 1903-06-27
Town Residences For Sale

In a desirable ~neighborhood in Ope-
lousas, with an entire square Of land.
we'll shaded with live oaks, magnolias,
cedars, pecans, etc., about 8 squares
from the Courthouse, 5 squares from
Hi.h School, Q squares from Catholic
Church and convent. House is two
story, brick basement, 8 rooms, four
fir places, out-buildings, etc., oil ur.-
der good fence. VIII be sold cheap for
cash, or part cash and balance ON time
10 suit. Apply as thia ofase. "
The Opelousas courier., 1903-06-27

One of Lord Kelvin's favorite ex.
periments while teaching natural phil
osophy at the University of Glasgow
was to spin an egg which was sus-
pended in the air. If the egg were
hard boiled it would spin a long
time; otherwise, owing to the friction
between it's contents and the shell,
it's motion would soon cease. Lord
Kelvin inferred from this that the in
terror of the earth cannot be a fluid,
or the globes rate of rotation would
have been checked long ago. Once
the students substituted raw eggs for
the hard boiled ones provided for the
experiment. Not N would spin prop
ery, but Lord Kelvin was not to be
fooled. "None of them boiled" was
his only comment.
The Opelousas courier., 1903-06-27

The beautiful symbolism Of the
wedding ring, which has been &C,
cepted as meaning fidelity without
end, has been declared by a West
ern professor to be a representa-.
tive of the manacle by which in earlier
ages the master led away the slave.
The professor calls it " a barbaric
tradition that fills no function what
ever In this modern twentieth CEN
fury"
The Opelousas courier., 1903-06-27
FOR SALE.

A house and lot in the town OF
Washington, La, in the square bound
ed by C~arriere, Wilkins, Eyes and
Dupre. Frame building made OF
choice cypress, ceiled inside, weather
boarded outside, 20x3O feet. Will be
sold cheap for cash, or part cash and
balance on time to suit. For psrticu-
lars apply at the Courier Office, Ope-
~lousas, La. tt
The Opelousas courier., 1903-06-27
ACADEMY
-oF Tnn- 9
IMMACULATE CONCEPTION,
~OPELOUsAS, La.

OPELOUSAS, LA.
saEsr the Direction Of the Sisters AaziAHssA
Of Holy Cross.
Ohers 70 young ladies every facility
Tor acquiring q thorough christian o.
ucation. Constant attention is paid 70
home and social culture. Lessons are
given in music. painting and other
useful arts. The siztera also have
charge OF the boys school. The course
Of instruction is two-fold-Pssparstog!
and Commercial. French il taught y
khs two courses. Fer particulars, 3D.
dress SISTER SUPERIOR
The Opelousas courier., 1903-06-27


Salt Lake City Is about to lose one
Of Its landmarks. The old schoolhouse
where the children or Brigham Young
were educated Is To be torn down Il
make room for some modern structure,
The schoolhouse was built ii 1860, and
the pupils who attended II the first
I'VE years Of its existence were exclu.
sively the children Of the Mormon
prophet. Later the children of d few
of the leading Mormons were per.
mttted to attend. also, but practically
the school was conducted for the in,
straction of the little Youngs. There
we're about TWENTY-FIVE cf them il
the school. and It is recorded that they
SIT On benches and did their sums
IA their states quite like children of 1
less prolific parentage The first school.
masser employed for this Institution
N still alive. though ven along IN hls
elgiatie
The Opelousas courier., 1903-06-27

The musket used by Major John
Buttrick at the North Bridgeein Con-
cord, on April 10, 1775, has been pre-
scented by his two great-grandchildren
the only remaining members Of the
family, to the State of Massachusetts.
and it is to be deposited In the State
House in Boston for permanent preser.
walton.
The Opelousas courier., 1903-06-27
oPE1oUsAs, LoU1srASA

After all his library buildings are up
Mr. Carnegie can find a home in nearly
every city of 10000 inhabitants in the
country.
The Opelousas courier., 1903-06-27

OF the twenty-four members elected
to the Senate of the Cuban Republic,
thirteen are lawyers, four doctors,
O. government employee, n a journal
list and the rest land owners Three
of the last class were chosen because
they were prominent in the revolt
ton.
The Opelousas courier., 1903-06-27

The blow has fallen. New York
society has been forced to give up ping
pong because it is within reach of the
middle classes. Pity the sorrows of the
rioh
The Opelousas courier., 1903-06-27

Byron wrote that mans CONTROL of
the ocean stops with the shore. In his
most poetic visions /ne7er foresaw
a community of interests intsteamship
lines.
The Opelousas courier., 1903-06-27

The value Of o newspaper 90 an
advertising medium consists In
Its circulation.
When you can secure the com.
bined circulation Of two papers
for the price Of ONE, it ID money
Bayedl
"gIhe st. Landry Democrat
was consolidated ON the 3D. of
March, 1894, with +" The Opelou.
Sas Courier The advertising
rates have not been increased
while the price of subscription
has been reduced to % o year.
THE r being BY odds
The best paper In the empire Par
esh Of ST. Landry 10 therefore the
lAeeaasA
The Opelousas courier., 1903-06-27

Close friends are seldom the ones
who spend their money on you,
The Opelousas courier., 1903-06-27
ABsINTHE AND ITS ORIGIN.
French Physician Said to Be the Invent
or OF the Stuff.

French Physician Said TO BE tho ""
or of the Stuff.
Temperance people in Europe were
recently much surprised at the dlscoV-
erv that the deadly absinthe was or
l.iginally an extremely harmless meo-
ical remedy.
# was a French physician who nrst
used it. His name was Ordlnalre' anu
he was living as a refugee at CouVet'
in Switzerland, at the close OF TIE
eighteenth century. Like many other
country doctors at that time, ne was
a druggist and his favorite remedy was
a certain elixir of absinthe, OF WHICH
he alone had the secret.
At his death he bequeathed the 10TH
ula to his housekeeper, Mile. Grand
pierre, and she sold 1t to the daughters
of Lieutenant Henroid. They Guilt
waited in their little garden the herbs
necessary for concocting it, and AFTER
they had distilled a certain quantlIy
of the Huuid they sold it on commls-
sion to itinerant peddlers, who quickly
dismissed of it in the adjacent towns
and villages.
Finally, during the first decade OF
the nineteenth century, a wealthy dis
| tiller purchased the formula, and very
soon afterward he placed on the mar
ket the modern absinthe, which differs
greatly from the old medical remedy,
since the latter contains no alcoho'
and very little absinthe.
-- -~~-
The Juvenile son of an army of1cef
made a strange mixture of the history
Of George Washington the other day.
A visitor called during the absence of
| his parents, and to entertain the chill
dren and instill a lesson of manly hon
or and patriotism told them the ia
nous stories of the liberty bell and the
cherry tree. The scion of the soldier
vas much interested, but the details
got badly twisted in his head. When
his father returned home he was told
of the fine story the visitor had told
about the father Of his country.
"Washington must have been a won
derful man" said the boy. He
Asnlashed the liberty bell with his little
Ratchet and his father whipped him
With q cherry tree for telling a lie"
t took p~atcTfaulii.as some time to
-troichte1 things ont.
The Opelousas courier., 1903-06-27

When you visit Crowley stop at the
HOTEL.
Opposite Tho Court House.
Board and Lodging by the Day,
Week and Month.
Prices Moderate
MRS. DARBONNE, Manager.
The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1903-04-10
RYAN LODGED IN JAIL.
Denies That He Was an Accessory
to the Murder of Amos Dysart.

Newport News, Va, April S.-Williams
Shelby, alias "Lanky Bob" Ryan, was
lodged in Hampton jail today by In
spector Charles Evans and Police Ser
geant Joseph Evans, of the Washing
ton. D. c., police department, who ar
rested the man in Washington yester-
day on the charge Of being an acces-
sorry to the murder of Almost Dysart an
artiIleryman. over a year for the
purpose of robbery.
Shelby, known here as Ryan and VINO
is a member of the Washington police
force, was formerly a soldier at Fort
Monroe and a comrade of the murdered
a He denies that he aided Pritch-
ard, the Phoebus saloon keeper, IN
whose place the crime was committed
and Sylvester Hirkle, the third man
accused, in doing away with Dysart.
Sergeant Carter says: Il was never
so much surprised as when 1 learned
that charges had been made against
Shelby. 1 consider him the very best
man under me. He is an A No. 1 po-
The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1903-04-10

Honduran GunbOat Tatumbea Com
PEELED the Merchantmen to Put
Into Utiun

New Orleans, April S.-Captain War
necke, of the Norwegian steamer
David arrived here from Ceiba, Span
ish Honduras, reports an exciting eX-
p%erience with the Honduras gu:lboat
TatuTnbla.
The David was off the north coast of
Honduras when the Tatumbla hove in
sight and commanded the merchant
man to put into Utilla against the or
ders of the captain on the David. The
Tatumbla was in command of Colonel
Villarde, who put a half dozen Hondu-
ran soldiers on board the David to in
sure the proper carrying u of his or
ders. Captain Warnecke of the David
objected, saying hat he had no bust
ness in the harbor of Utilla n pro-
tested going so far out of his course.
The commander of the Tatumbll was
determined and insisted that the David
proceed where he ordered her to so.
Capt. Warnecke argued thai he was
off the coast of Honduras looking for a
native pilot to take the ship to Ceiba,
Which was his objective port, but he
had to submit to the humiliation of
changing his course and steam for
Utilla. The captain of the David fear
Ell that Colonel Villarde meant to seize
his ship to transport government troops
from that place to the mainland or that
the Tatumbla was short of coal and
wanted a full supply from the David.
The David anchored off Utilla. which
is a small island off the northeast coas
of Honduras for the night and left the
following day without being boarded by
any troops.
Captain Warnecke proceeded to Puer-
to COrtez harbor and Informed Admiral
Coghlan of what. had happened: two
United States war vessels went al
once in search of the Tatumbla but
from last account. they had not located
the troublesome craft. The day the
David sailed from Ceibar everything
was quiet there with the revolUtionists
still in control. The David brought
but half a cargo of fruit.