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Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1903-01-13
Turned Farce Into Tragedy.

Arthur Sharply, member of an
English theatrical company, stood In
the wings waiting for his cue to enter
a farcical scene Il think | will make
1t tragedy" he remarked and swal-
lowed some poison. Trouble in his
family made him wish to die, but a
physician compelled him to live, and
magistrate put him under bonds not
to attempt suicide again.
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1903-01-13
Royal Friends of Salvation Army

The Salvation Army has no firmer
friend taan Sophia. queen of Norway
and Sweden, who inherited great
wealth and therefore has been able
to give the movement much substan-
ual aid. While she and her husband
were in England few years ago they
devoted some time to investigation
Of the social work being done by Gen.
Booth and his aids
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1903-01-13
Lives ErtireIy on MIX.

Feur quarts of milk daily. or there.
shoats. 1nr tWe"ty years has hecu the
soil diet Of Thomas +. Faubach. OF
Iiazieton, Pa. Two decades ago Mr
Iaubaeh. bcing then II years old. was
in very Rad health. and his physician
saye ~ his case. Then he decided to
doctor himself and has done so ever
since. absolutely continuing his diet te
milk. Now he is one ol the healtbieat
and sountest mon in town.
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1903-01-13
The Latest Swell Fad.

Transplanted eyelashes and eye,
brows are said to be the latest things
in the way of personal adornment.
Only the brave and rich can patron
ize the new method at present. for,
besides being painful and costly, It
takes q long time to accomplish It
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1903-01-13
Least American City.

There is larger proportion OF for.
eign residents in Fall River than in
any other city in the country, 4S PEI,
cent of the population being of alier
birth. montgomery. Ala, with 50 per
rent OF her population native borr
comes nearest to being an au-Ameri
can city.
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1903-01-13
Umbrellas Denote Power.

In Siam a magnate's dignity and
power are reckoned according to the
number of umbrellas he possesses.
One OF these ,ngnates is proud to be-
gin his titles with Lord Of Thirty
seven Umbrellas" Among certain
African triles the grandeur of the in
diyidual increases with the size and
not with the number OF umbrellas ba
possesses.
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1903-01-13
Antitrust Agitation
And Trust EMPLOYEES

BY Hon. HENRY c. LODGE. Senator From Ma.sachuset.
ILIE too apt when speak of the trusts think only
of the few great capitalists in New York who engaged
9ekz=Y in forming these combinations.
WE FORGET THE THOUSANDS OF MEN WHO ARE
EMPLOYED AND AT WORK FOR THESE TRUSTS, WHO
ARE GETTING THEIR LABOR OUT OF THEM AND
THAT WHEN YOU WRECK THEM YOU THROW THAT
u tBOR OUT
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1903-01-13
Threat, from Vesuvius.

1t has been known for some time
that Nesurius again threatens erup.
ton. The latest phase of it's ACTIVITY
is consta t emission of smoke of
great dens.-y and an intolerahly
nauseous odor There is no flame
or lava.
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1903-01-13
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~@ . o"rI 1s' TO pass % assss S25 T@'n the a. ,
Fl educational system of the country. prepared
S 2HWi prove It's usefulness if it would expect contiuu
\--- of public support
~ THINK THREE DISTINCT WAYS IN
(WHICH EDUCATION HELPS THE COMMUNITY AND BY
WHICH IT PROVES FIRST, MAKES
OUR PEOPLE BETTER THEIR SEVERAL occuPA
7oNs; SECOND, IT MAKES THEM
BODY PoLiTc; THIRD, IT MAKES
ALLY AND SPIRITUALLY
And also believe that good results of higher education
which least obvious and least easily dollars
the very which fundamental Importance
to the nation as a whole.
The student who of school of the modern typs
for the less we'll equipped than his
studied III office in old fashioned school of the strictly tech
nical character
lie does not know the daily routine the business
turn his hand and his from thing another
quckness which the technically educated possesses But as
time goes this disadvantage ceases the balance shows
itself the other
But TILE CHANCE OF GAIN TO TIE INDIVIDUAL
IS NOT THE ONLY THING TO BE CONSIDERED IN
ESTIMATING THE RELATIVE VALUE OF SCIENTIFIC
TRAINING As COMPARED WITH THAT WHICH IS
PURELY TECHNICAL.
It's advantage the whole nestmalv larger for
is upon this higher scientific training that national progress is
largely DEPENDENT
EDUCATED TO BE A CREATURE
OF ROUTINE GENERALLY eL'Nes METHODS; MAN
WHO UNDERSTANDS THE THEORY OF
vEIoP NEW ONES THE GAIN TO THE NATION HAVING ITS
INDUSTRY PROGRESSIVELY DIRECTED AND CONDUCTED
SOMETHING WHICH CANNOT MEASURED IN DOLLARS AND
If there is characteristic which DISTINGUISHES the literally
educated man from his fellows is that which
prevents him from being absorbed his pursuits to the excu
sion of the wider range of human interests
A COLLEGE COURSE, II PROPERLY DIRECTED
MUST ALSO TRAIN ITS STUDENTS IN THE OBIIGA-
T1oNs OF CITIZENSHIP THIS FUNCTION is MORE
IMPORTANT IN AMERICA THAN ANYWHERE ELSE
NAN AMERICAN DOES NOT FULFILL. HIS WHOLE DUTY
IF He is ONLY A SKILIFUL SPECIALIST OR EVEN
IF HE is A GOOD BUSINESS MAN AND NOTHING
MORE HE HAS BROADER DUTY AS PART OF 4
SOVEREIGN PEOPLE.
The higher education will do little making efficient
citizens unless it makes the men
1t inspire those who under that they
shall apply the conduct the
those principles Of morals which recognized upon
in relation families and neiehbors.
All intelligent study OF science whether be biology
psychology history should RESPECT FOR
LAW WHICH is THE BEST ANTIDOTE TO CAPRICIOJJS
SELF WILL ON THE PART OF TIE INDIVIDUAL
The Opelousas courier., 1903-03-07
The Vulgar Voice,

What constitutes the vulgar voice?
In an article in the London Spectator
Il writer concludes that this evidence
OF yulgarity Springs, like almost all
%vuisarity, however displayed. chiefly
frem two causes-an undue love of
conspicuousness and an undue fear of
the same" The person whose chief
aim is to keep himself or herself in
the eye of the world rarely makes a
remark without desiring that it shall
reach the ears of others besides the
n directly addressed: and here the
popularity OF false sound Of the voice
is attributed to the absence of SINGLE
ness Of motive.
On the OTHER hand, the wavering
tene and affected accent of the timid
vulgar are ascribed to another form
Of insfncerity, namely, the wish to mi
tate others with whom one happens to
be, when they are of a supposedly
higher social standing. The attempt
is sure to fail, and 20 result only in
the suppression of all evidence of the
speakers own personality-in the
yotce as well as in the manner. Thus
sincerity, paramount in all art, is has
ie in breeding as we'll, which is the
ayt OF life.
The Opelousas courier., 1903-03-07

Lieutenant Durey had returned to
the bridge from attending the wounds
ed. Though pain gnawed at him he
gave no heed to it. Sense of the re-
sponsibilities now. lying on his shout
ders had revived his self-respect and
induced an obliviotisness to suffering
hitherto foreign to him. He was
streaming with salt water, and his
eyes and nostrils were stung with
brine and the salty northeast wind
that roared and eddied about, smell
ing of the deep, gray Atlantic surges
and storm-flled weather. Its sharp
tang permeated his brain. 1t revlV-
flied the dominant instinct Of his
stock.
Durey was TRANSPORTED by its mag
ical influence. His face settled in stub
born lines; a grim joy lightened it;
his weak, lips became hard
as iron bars. He had the omnipotent
look of the man who goes forth To
death knswing it is the best fight Of
all.
Crash went q heavy projectile
through the cap of the port smoke
stack, and smoke and fame poured in
a lurid cloud to windward.
AS Durey threw a. defiant look at tho
cruiser again spoutihg fire, the second
artifcer reported water rising fast
in the after stokehold. The p%rojectile
which had wrecked the after-part of
the boat must have started some plates.
D'trey how had no hesitation. He
bent over the bridge rail. "On deck,
there. The gunner to the bridge.
)" Calmly and incisiyely he is
sued his orders. Then tip helm
electrified the gun crews, yet their
hoarse cheering brought no change to
their officers iron-clad expression; his
voice but rang the harder and more
desrotic as he gave the sighting
ranges to torpedo and gun. For his
line had claimed him heart and soul.
Who can tell how many force
hearted ]forebears' blood sang joyous
ly in his pulsing body at he thrust his
weak vessel against the enemy, now
opening a terrific cannonading? And
What thoughts thrOnged his clutterin5
senses AS the four great, laundering
cruisers doomed large upon his bows.
Who of his ~forebears claimed him
then?
It was not till the war was over
that the Speedy's fate was Known
The Criterion.
The Opelousas courier., 1903-03-07
Fire Signals.

AZ y meeting Of Hope Hook and
Ladder Co. No. l, held on July Q,
1901. the town was divided into Fire
Districts and @ Code of Signals was
adopted in order to facilitate the loca-
ton of Ares In the future. The town
was divided as follows:
District No. ALL that portion OF
sswn 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 Oh
the south, Union street on the west,
and corporation line on the north and
eat.
District No. 3-The portion of town
lying west of Union street, and south
of Bellevue street, with the corpora
t;oa line as the south and w.st boun.
dairy.
District No. 4-TLe portion of town
bounded on the south by Bellevue,
east by Union, nor'h and west by oor'
poratiou line.
The Signals adopted were short taps
10 indicate the district in which the
fire is ~loca'e1, followed by q rapid
alarm, same to be repeated until gem
erai alarm is given.
To illustrate, should an alarm be
sounded for District No. s, first three
taps, one, two, three, followed by rap
id alarm, and receat.
The Opelousas courier., 1903-03-07
Town Residences For Sale

In a desirable neig4orhood in ops-
%lousas, with an enti"e square Of land,
we'll shaded with live oaks, magnolias,
cedars, pecans, etc.s about 0 squares
from the Courthouse, 8 squares from
High School, 2 squares from Catholic
Church and convent. House is two
story, brick basement, 8 rooms, four
freplaces, out-buildtngs, etc., all ur.-
der good fence. VIII be sold cheap for
cash, or part cash ind balance on time
10 vsA Aup'~ Oh ibis o4ass. tt
The Opelousas courier., 1903-03-07
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 cyproes, ceiled inside, weather
boarded outside, 2Ox3O feet. Will be
sold cheap for cash, or part cash and
balance on time to suit. For particE.
lars apply at the Courier office, Ope-
Iousas, La. tt
The Opelousas courier., 1903-03-07
ACADEM Y
or 9HE-
IMMACULATE CONCEPTION,

OFELOUaAS, Ia.
Czssr the Direction Of the Sisters Nsxia1ita
Of Holy Cross.
onera to young ladies every t~sotl'ty
Tor acquiring a thorough christian ed
ucation. Constant attention Is paid to
home and social culture. Lessons are
given in music. painting and Other
ueeful arts. The sisters also have
charge of the boys school. The course
.. instruction is two-fold-PreparasoE!
snd Commercial. French 10 taught IN
the two COURSES. Fer particulars. %.
dsass 6IsTNR SUPERIOR
The Opelousas courier., 1903-03-07

Upon Block Island it is now repor> .
there Is no Jail and only arsingle con-
stable TH6ho has 9 %sinecure. No peni-
tertiary, ne workhouse, no poorhouse,
and no pauper c4eiS be found upon the
salty uplands of that ocean outpost
which excursion steamboats, from
Providence Plantations make a port OF
call in the summer months. Life on
Block Island is one long idyl.
The Opelousas courier., 1903-03-07
oPRLoUsAs. LOUISIANA

With Mr.. Carnegte's libraries spring
Ing up everywhere and daily news
papers at a cost to fit the most humble
purse, there is no excuse for anybody's
not being well read.
The Opelousas courier., 1903-03-07

A something white came up last night,
1t was the mist, I wist, or rain.
1t wheeled about, flashed In and out,
And beckoned 'gainst the window pane,
And will not come again.
And something beat with slow repeat,
Ana heavy swell, the old sea-wall,
And shrilI and clear and piercing sweet,
Thought l heard the b~oatsWain's call.
The sails were set and yet, and yet.
1t may have been no boat at oil. e
--'
The Opelousas courier., 1903-03-07
A SAILORS SUMMONS.

But if tonight a sail should leap,
From out the dark and driving rain,
You must not hold me back nor weep,
For | must sail a trackless main,
To find and have, to hold and keep,
il. What l have sought so long in vain.
I need no chart of sea nor sand,
Nor any blazing beacon star,
My PROV against wild waves shall stand
Until 1t cuts the blessed bar,
And l run up the shining strand
Where my lost youth and Mary are.
-Flavia Rosser, in The Criterion.
The Opelousas courier., 1903-03-07

The Fraunces tavern, Broad street,
New York, the scene of the parting OF
Washington and his generals at the
close of the Revolutionary war, is to
be preserved for posterity as a historic
relic. A number of lots in the ne1g J.
borhood are to be converted to give t
the proper setting. y
The Opelousas courier., 1903-03-07

A sublime spectacle was witnessed a
few weeks ago in a Tyrolean valley
near Tannheim. A violent storm arose
rolled owe the surface of the lake.
Then a column Of water, 80 feet higl,
rose from the middle Of the lake, and
from its top small flashes darted. The
spectacle lasted three minutes.
The Opelousas courier., 1903-03-07
QUAINT AND CURIOUS.

P. J. Kent was operated On in a Chi
cago hospital the other day, and from
his brain was taken a knife blade one
and one-quarter inches long. The
blade had been in lis skull for %
years, and since that time he had been
subject to what were supposed to be
epileptic seizures.
The Opelousas courier., 1903-03-07

Irrigation enterprises in Egyp and
III Western areas in the Uaitd states
hare already brought abous marvellous
results. With water enogah, almost
any desert may be made an Eden.
The Opelousas courier., 1903-03-07

The question of the employment OF
women in the government service is
receiving a large share Of attention on
the part of the officers in the United
States service. 1t has been noticed by
them that the proportion of women in
the public employ is gradually increas-
ing. There are usually more women
than men who are able to pass the civil
service examinations, but the ratio of
appointments is about the same. 1t
has been stated that the reason why
the aggregate number of women is in
creasing in the department service is
that they do not leave their places to
go into private occupations as men do.
The Opelousas courier., 1903-03-07

The insurance of @workmen against
unemployment is attracting attention
in this country, and a report on the
subject was recently made by an Of
fetal Of the department Of labor at
Washington. The first attempt In that
direction was made by the city Of
Berne, in Switzerland, in 1898, by es-
tablishing a municipal Office for vol
untary insurance. The members are
charged about ten cents a month as
dues, and when they lose employment
il by no fault of their own-during
the winter months they are paid thir-
ty cents a day for a period not exceed
Ing sixty days. Funds of the same kind
have been established at Basic, Cologne
and Bologna.
The Opelousas courier., 1903-03-07

Electric lamps cannot only be made
sound by placing the arc in the circuit
of a telephone instead of the ordinary
receiver or instead of the ordinary
transmittcr. In either of these posi-
lions it will pronounce words, which
can be heard distinctly at a considera~
Bile distance. 1t naturally follows, also,
that the electric car can be utilized as
the receiver and also as the transmitter
Of the telephone.
The Opelousas courier., 1903-03-07

The greatest egg-laying COMPETE
ton on record has just been concluded
inNew South Wales, under the manage
ment of the state government. Forty
II pens-there were six pullets Of
one breed in a pen-competed and the
competition lasted for a period of six
months. Black Orpingtons showed in
eomparably the best results all
through. The New South Wales poul-
try breeders have now sen a chal-
lengo to the United States, inviting
breeders Of laying strains to forward
three pens to compete with three local
pens under the same conditions,
The Opelousas courier., 1903-03-07

"Now there is a Beacon HID
Just coming into recognition, in our
own state, and east of Boston," says
Professor William Marshall Warren,
in Bostonia. Its present nam is rath-
er prosaic, and it's contour is not i'm
pressive, but before many years have
passed it will be crowned with a mag
nifcent monument and known over
the round earth. This new beacon
place Is High Pole Hill, in Province
town, on the tip of Cape Cod" The
Pilgrims, it is asserted, did not make
their first landing at Plymouth, as it
is supposed, but on the shores of Cape
Cod, and it is to commemorate "the
place where they first trod" that this
new monument is proposed. 1t is in
tended by those at the head Of the
movement that the monument shall
surpass Bartholdi's Statue of Liberty.
People who like to hear stories OF
success achieved after mighty effort
and many discouragements will be in
terested in a certain young woman OF
st. Louis. The school at Port Royal,
Franklin county, Mo-, had no teacher,
and this young woman wanted to teach
in it. The trustees, who had known
her during a summer visit, were agree
able to the plan. In fact, there was
but. one obstacle. Miss Wood, for this
was her name, was not licensed to
teach; that is, in technical language,
had no certificate. But was she de-
tered by this? "Who issues the certi-
ficate?" was her first line of inquiry.
County Superintendent Steinbeck,"
she was told. County Superintendent
Steinbeck was at that time engaged in
a hot campaign for reelection, was fly
ing about over the face Of the county.
and making no one knows how many
political speeches a day. She followed
the superintendent to st. Louis, then
to Washington (Mo., not d. c., and
then to Union, varying the monotony
OF the chase by frequent attempts to
call up the quarry on the long-distanca
telephone. At last she caught him in
his private Office, he handed her a list
of examination questions at once, and
she answered them all correctly, it ap-
pears in an incredibly short time. The
school at Port Royal is nc longer With
out a teacher.
AS q result OF the recent naval mas
aeusres at Cherbourg, the French ma
sal commanders recommend that the
entrances of harbors which may be
threatened by submarine boats be pro-
tected by laying electric wires unda
she surface from shore to shore, con-
tact with which will betray the ap-
Noach of the unseen enemv.
a man with a microscope ean ind
bacteria In anything. Society my a.
well make up its mind to put up with
them and be thankful they ase not
as large as mosquitoes.
The Opelousas courier., 1903-03-07

A petition, signed by 5000 persons,
says the Naples correspondent Of the
London Express, has been presented
to the Italian government, asking for
a pension of G72 per annum to be
conferred on a Wamon named NADIA
lena Granetta, who has given birth to
62 children-59 boys and three girls
during her married life. In nine years
she presented her husband with II
sets Of triplets, three groups of quad
rup1ets, one group Of six, and the
other IL children came singly. She is
now 81 years old and incapable of
work.
The Opelousas courier., 1903-03-07

Piles Of the rather Unusual length
Of ITO feet were recently used in con-
structing the fender piers for the
Thames river swing bridge, at New
London, Conn. This length was Sc
cured by splicing North Carolina piles
from SO to 65 feet long with spruce
piles from IS to 40 feet. Some of these
piles wer driven in so feet Of water.
They were all used to replace piles
driven in 1889, which had been almost
entirely eaten away by the teredo.
The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 18??-19??, 1903-11-10
C0tt0n W8nt 10 E|ev8n Gents on Saturday,
From The ews and Observer, November 8.

New York advanced yesterday about 20
points and the future market showed only
one month, November, at less than II
cents, November closing at 1892 and the
market closing strong
Messrs. Charles E. Johnson & Company
yesterday received the following wire from
Norden & Co, Of New York: Our Liver
pool friends cable spinners hold small.
stocks and making large sales of goods
ahead at fullsprces" This shows that de-
spite the high price Of cotton the mills are
selling cotton goods and will be compelled
10 buy at any price to fill contracts.
Mr.. Charles T.. Johnson, a prominent
cotton buyer here, said yesterday that he
was receiving volunteer offers from Liv-
erpool and the continent for cotton, some
thing unusua, at this season. as ordinarily
the buyers there got more offers than they
know what to do with This shows that
Europe needs cotton and the need viii
push up the price.
The government splnners report, isAed
The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 18??-19??, 1903-11-10
Work for the Month.

Ihe work OF preparing the land TOR
the wheat crop could not have been car
red on under better conditions than
October has provided The land h..
been in fine working order and the wea:h
er has been such as to allow OF the VERY
bt5t progress being made Whilst IL has
been too warm TO SOW wheat without
fear OF injury from fy, yet the the pre2-
aratlon of the land which has been possi
bic will ensure such quick termination
CT the seed when sown as to make posi-
bic ample growth before the colo
becomes severe enough 10 cneck II. We
would urge again the Importance of rrr-
fect preparation of the seed bed before
sowing. Better be week later in SOW
Ing even at this time or the year thar
SOW on badly prepared land. The late
Sir ]. b. Lawes in his more than fstv
years experiments in wheat growing dem
onstrated how capable is the wheat plant
Of seeking and finding food sufficient Ter
its growth even in land which presum
ably is lacking in fertility He gree.
! wheat on one piece of land every year
continuously for over fifty years without
! the application of any manure or fertil-
izer for the whole time and yet sue
ceeded IN getting each year fair cror
II bushels TO the acre, IN the last year
OF the fifty. He attributed hts succcy.
entirely to the fact that each year {
made a perfect preparation of the a.
The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 18??-19??, 1903-11-10

College ID Australia an account OF their
underground >IlOs, which cost $1O pz'
ton capacity and the account closes
with the statement that while these pits
are strong and lasting they have proved
not 10 be the best, although the most cx-
Tepslve. This reminds Us of our experl-
ence with underground silos We had
three. each 16x32X24 feet deep. OF the
depth OF p feet s. feet were above
ground, and the pits were walled WITH
Portland cement grouting and brick
above ground, brick building being
built over all three. IN which the cutting
machinery stood the silage being stored
through hatchways IN the floor, and tue
cutting machine moved over each by
lcngthenlng or shortening the belt from
the driving shaft 1t was rapid filling
these pits But Of al the SLOW ana
tedious and exasperating jobs he hoist
ing OF 1T out was the worst These siIoS
1--WE hasten to say that We had nothing
to do with the building of them) cost
fully as much as the Australian one
and were poorer for the1 purpose thar
the modern round silos above GROUND
costing dollar or less per ton capacity
But like ali new processes, the making
| OF ensllage had to pass through the eyo
luuonary process. Pits We're the ruis
in the first days of silage storing. W.
! knew one man who lowered q mule into
his pit to tramp the sllage ,ght, ant
+! the mule had TO keep trampIng until nt