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The Opelousas courier., 1904-01-16
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Whisky and Tobacco Held RESPONSE
BILE for Defect.

Whisky and Tobacco Held RESPONSE
bic for Defect.
The crusade which the railroads OF
the country are carrying on against
the use of intoxicating liquors and
tobacco by employees engaged in oper-
ating trains is partly due to the fact,
not generally known, that the poisons
contained in the prescribed articles
produce color blindness, which is a
fatal defect in enginemen, iremen and
trainmen. For more than 20 years
the diseases of tobacco endlyopia and
alcohol endlyopia, as they are called,
have been recognized by the oculists
as the most insidious and difficult
with which they have to deal. Through
the employment Of official occulists
the existence, growing prevaiency and
terrible results of these diseases have
become familiar to the arrangements
of many large railway systems.
According to n of the railroad
specialists endlyopia was rarely found
in this country Is years ago, but was
quite prevalent in European and south
ern countries prior to that. Now oc-
culists of good practice in this
try have to deal with quite a large
number Of cases yearly. the increase
being due to the increase in nico-
tine and alcohol infection. Endlyopia
in it's first stages produces slightly fail
ing vision, often a smarting of the
eyes, but it is not marked in effect.
The disease does progress far, how
yer, before scotoma, or color blind
ness makes it's appearance. Certain
portions of the eye are unable to rec
ognize the colors green and red, which
are used in ~railroading as danger and
c%autionary signals. To certain por-
lions of the eye these colors will ap-
pear drab, yellow, black or some other
color. AS the victim cannot recog-
nize this defect himself, an engineer OF
fireman might possess it for months
and not Know that he was misinter-
preting signals unless an accident oc-
Cured.
Unless taken il time endlyopia pro-
duces total blindness by killing the
optic nerve. If a cure is effected and
the patient continues the use of to-
bacco or liquor, as the case may be,
the disease is very likely to recur,
when it is still more difficult to cure.
Eye specialists unite in declaring that
if endlyopia maintains its present ratio
of increase it will not be more than
a quarter of a century before it will
be one of the common eyep troubles.
Scotoma is one of the most dreaded
enemies to the safety in train opera
ton, and railroad officials rightly rec
ognize that they must wage unceasing
wal against anything which produces
it.-Chicago Record-Herald.
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subtle suggestion that her case inter
ests him particularly and profoundly.
His waiting room ia carpeted WIN
Oriental rugs, draped walls and cell
ings, with East Indian stuffs. adorned
with quantity hideous images
Daylight is excluded, and the place
Is lit with one softly shaded Oriental
lamp; and & hint of some ~languorous
Eastern odor hangs about the place.
The properties can all be obtained at
small cost within a few blocks OF the
studio, but they are skilfully arranged
and impart a sense Of the unusual.
Fortune tellers sometimes employ
impressive mind reading apparatus.
There is one, for instance, whom the
sitter finds sitting behind a machine
something like a telegraph instru-
ment.
He tells the sitter to write on q
slip of paper the question she wants
answered. This slip she rolls into a
little ball and holds III her hand.
The fortune teller places n OF ais
hands Or hers and the other on the
machine. The machine Immediately
begins to click, though his hand re-
mains quiet, and sends out a little
strip of paper like a ticker tape. On
this strip will be found the answer to
the question.
A sitter in pursuit of knowledge
tried this three times recently, and
in each case the answer was peril
nent, though not true. That is, it was
a reasonable answer to the ~unreVealed
question, but in no case was it a true
answer.
For instance, the sitter, placing the
paper on her lap under the table.
wrote: will Mary Gomez Mary be-
ing q relative, a visit from whom was
impending, but not certain. The ma
chine instantly licked out the re-
spouse, Eyes, Mary will come" This
was certainly curious, but after all,
Mary did not come.
This is a good example of the start
ling things revealed by the high class
seers. All the remarkable revelations
are things which the sitter knows,
though he may not have told them.
AS soon as he asks something which
he does not know himself, the answers
are wild.
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RUSSIAN EXPANSION.
Methods That Suggest the Fable Of
the Humble Camel,

the Humble Camel.
Privileges are obtained for her mer-
chants and caravans to pass into or
through the coveted country for trade;
to open stores and banks; to trade at
ports and navigate rivers; to establish
post routes with their various stations
for exchange of drivers and horses,
and to install consuls at various places.
Concessions are secured for cutting
timber or operating mines on certain
tracts OF land, and rights are produced
whereby Russia and her subjects may
buy land ana build consulates, stores
and factories, and also dwellings for
those who are connected with the yari-
u enterprises.
Rights are also obtained, or taken,
10 protect consulates and other Rus
sian property, and to protect the
government. Army accommodating ex-
petitions are sent into the country
with goods, disguised as merchants. or
accompanied by a detachment of Cos
sacks and claiming to be purely
scientific expeditions. Out of pure
generosity concessions, which when
asked for are represented as unim-
portant. assume great significance af-
ter they are granted, and are rigor-
ously enforced and greatly expanded.
What may pose a a legitimate and
perfectly harmless business arrange
ment is extended, as later construed
by Russia, to privileges for be-
yond anything the victim ever
dreamed Of. The concessions which
Russia exacts from others are rarely
accompanied with equivalent or adc-
Quate returns. and more often nothing
II granted IN axchange-Charles w.
BaFaaby, Ii Wsfld's Work.
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SECOND NtTusE.

81 fear" said his lost next mofning'
you didn't sleep well last night. ~.
cry time I woke up l could hear yop
thrashing around In your bed"
II ought to have told you" apok
togized the. guest, q man from Kansas
City. "I've got so used to floods Snea
I tread water in my sleep."-Chicags
Tribune. -
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tolerable and to make political life
freer and cleaner.
"These men who frown upon oul
efforts to make conditions better, seek
to hide behind the great names OF
Nichols and McEnery and their fel-
lows-those men who wrought SC
splendidly under the conditions and
circumstances by which they were
surrounded, who used the tools then
at hand, and whose lives and SER
vices a grateful people have enshined
in their hearts. But another time has
come. New conditions have arisen
and new duties present themselves.
We deamnd that the right to choose
their servants shall be restored their
servants shall be restored to the peo-
pie; we demand that there shall be
cut off the sinccures and graft-jobs
that haX been created and-that the
salarieF and emoluments that go to
these purely ornamental Offices shall
be devoted to the public schools.
cit is vain for M. Blanchard and
his stand paters' to say nothing is
the matter with Louisiana, when
thousands upon thousands of dollars,
which are taken by taxation from the
people are squandered upon useless
offices, while the barefooted boy is
turned away from the schoolhouse be-
cause there is no room for him. The
actual figures on this subject are ap-
palling. 1t is vain for Mr.. Blanch-
ard to say that everything is well
with Louisiana, when we can see a
corporation capitalized at eighty mil
lion dollars and seeking by the ex-
~ploitation of labor to pay the divi-
dends on fifty millions, while it pays
taxes on less than twelve millions;
while on the other hand a man who is
possessed Of a little home, worth one
thousand dollars, may be compelled to
pay taxes on an assessment Of twelve
hundred dollars.
cit is vain for Blanchard and his
friends to say that 1t is we'll with
Louisiana when the highest public
officers seek to perpetuate and accen-
tuate such conditions. So when he
denies the existence Of these evils, he
denies himself the right to ask the
people to vote for him. If he can
not see these evils he is certainly not
called on to remedy them.
"On the other hand, Gen. Jastrem-
ski, believing that time was op-
perfume, has pointed out these condi-
tons, has demanded that they be dis
eussed before the people and has
pledged himself, if elected, to advo-
cate and to bring about these reforms.
Other and better speakers will discuss
these issues mor fully before you.
~ would close, as began, with con-
gratulations to you upon the promise
of the future. That we will win in
this campaign I do not doubt, but
whether we win or lose, we have
struck a blow for the right. But, I'M
derstand this, that the election of
Gen. Jastremski will not mean the
completion Of your duty. As electors,
as citizens, as lovers of Louisiana, du-
ty will be ever present with you, and
you must be prepared for the con-
tinuance Of the work and be content
to SOW the seed, though others reap
the harvest"
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pROFIT WITH THE BRUSH.

"Do you think it possible for q man
who is clever with the brush to make
a living these days?" asked the dir
couraged artist.
EYES," responded the cruel cynic, III
he is q Observation-Disclosures Re
cord.
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ONE WAY OF PuTTING II.

Thefold farmer was telling a stor5l
that &as very hard to believe. Ths
neighbor, who had been in several
horse trades with him. listened In 9.
lence for a while. Then be spoke;
"Look-a-here!' he said. "Are yoy
talkin' horse or truth ?"-Chicago Post
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WITHIN LIMITS

"Why, 1 understand they were simply
rolling in wealth"
"Well, I believe they have to be rafh
e. careful not to roll too far."-Phila.
delphia Press.
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Engineers expect to be able to burn
gas in such a continuous stream that
it will be useful in the turbine form
of engine. Already gas has been burn
ed under mechanical conditions in lab.
o~ratories which would indicate uc.
cess in this direction. The gas engine
operates by a series of explosions, one
for each two revolutions Of the flying
wheel. It is, as a file. ! single-Dal
ancing machine, not4souble-acting like
the steam engine, Inshich has steam
pressing alternateAioE9n each side oi
the piston. When Iexplosion which
gives motion to itsEasRrts a be ar
ra~nged~as in the t~sld'Iane-to act upor
3 piston which mig always in the
same direction, a Ieat increase Of
power Is curious
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WHY THEY DIDN'T.

"Hazel came owe tonight to study
with me-" explained Dorothy.
"And did you do much studying?"
swell, we would have If there hadn't
been so much to talk about."-Chicagc
Post.
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FAIR PLAY.

Edmonia-"Have you any rules In
your married life?"
Eustacia-"Yes; Eustace insists that
the one who begins the quarrel must
begin the making up."-Detroit Fres
Press.
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no HOLDING THEN BACK.

Mr.. Bownan-"I remember atten0.
ng a birthday party of Miss Passay1
several years ago that was quite an
elaborate affair."
Miss Sharpe-"Yes9
Mr.. Bowman-"Yes; she doesn't keeR
her birthdays now as she used to-"
Miss Sharpe-"No; she would like g
keep them, nc doubt. but they coHaa
and go with alarming frequency
Philadelphia Press.
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BUSINESS TRUTH.

1.-THE P. X. & Y. is the most enter.
prising railroad in the country"
Jumppe-"Why"
"They now run excursions and OBJ
~servation trains to the scenes OF al
their Important wrecks."-Life.
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HEsITATED AND DIDN'T LOSE.

hSIIAIE w UIDNI AU0Ns
Never was glad for this impeachment
In my speech but once" said the mas
from the country.
when was that?"
"Fe-fe-fellow asked me h-h-noW
much I would take for a-a horse, anc
while LII was trying to ~ nin
f-forty pounds he offered me fifty.
Tit Bits.
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HOMEMADE.

Mrs. Gaddie-"I see you're going n
for society. Has your daughter made
her debut YETI"
Mrs. Nuritch-"Well. I should s&y
not. She got all them things made -
order in Paris."-Philadelphia Press.
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FEMININE

"My motto" said Miss Elderleigh, ~
Never say die"
"And, of course" rejoined Misa
Youngerton, II don't blame you feg
living up to it."-Chicago News.
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JANE Had HRg RaIaos

"Jane, why don't you wNsh thos,
windows? 1 can't look outs
well, if 1 wash 'em the Ieighbor,
will look in.''-Cleveland PL6n Dealer
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Frank-"What success did you hayt
on your hunting trip in Mainey'
Arthur-"Bully. 1 shot two guide
and wounded a lumberman."-Cheisss
Mass.) Gazette.
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HIS WIFE,

Wife-"I have been thinking I ought
to give you a birthday present, Hae.
old" D.
Husband-"Oh, well, just write down
what it shall be and Til buy it on my
way uptown."-Town Topics.
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The hottest place on earth i Bob.
REIN, on an island IN fhe Persian Gun
watch has 9 mean annual tsuperatuss
ps ntnsty.n3ns degrees.
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A TRAMPs

"Say, boss, have you got q QuarteaR
"No, l haven't"
"You look it."-Brooklyn Lie,
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Many men and women underesti.
mate the value OF expression; they
take too many things for granted;
they assume that their affections, OF
their gratitude, or their sense of OBJ
legation, is understood without words.
comments a writer in the Outlook
Such people are often surrounded by
those who are craving some word OF
approval, some kind of recognition.
The best work is sometimes done with
shut teeth and a fixed purpose, in dead
silence, SO far as the world is concern.
ed, without a murmur of applause OF
a word OF thanks; but this is not this
way in which work ought to be done
among intelligent men and women. and
this is not the way in which, as a
rule, the best work is evoked from the
greatest number of people. The ma
jority of men and women get the best
out of themselves when they are in q
congenial atmosphere. This is par
ticularly true of those finer kinds OF
work which express Individuality,
quality and personal gift.
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We seem to be in a cycle of wrecks
explosions and fires that are heart.
breaking in their immediate effect, bu'
surely we shall learn lessons from
them that will make life safer and
more comfortable in the future, de.
elares the Indianapolis News. 1t il
hard for us to realize the def.
cfencies of some of our systems of en-
terprise, and in our heller SHELTER
existence we r blind to dangers that
should be plain to US. It takes a Sc.
we're blow to impress on us the neces.
sity of reforming our ways, but when
the blow falls, and it inevitably fails.
we do searn and do improve. The
grief of the present means Che bet.
torment of the future. This is cold
comfort to the stricken, Of course, but
It prevents hope from dying, and helps
US TO bear up under burdens that
would otherwise be crushing.
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Ole Fanny
.(ide OF
L0es
PAVING THE WAy

Tx 4ANN AA4g WAIT.
though love, they say, will And the way..
There's one thing may delay it;
The lovers mind is taxed to had
The wherewithal to pay it.
Catholic Standard and 1iass
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Fair Customer only wear numbas
twos, but these don't fit me-"
The Clerk-"No; they're too large.fA
get you a smaller pair" CTo the stock
boy)-"Get me a pair Of hves."
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casts OF the future. They conf1n6
themselves in the main to good char
acter reading.
They are generally palnists, and the
palm, Ike handwriting, tells some-
thing to the student. But they study
the face and the play of expression, as
much as they do the palm, and more.
they study the whole personality Of
their visitors.
They become experts In a rapid and
correct sizing UP Of the sitter. They
can place a business woman, an ac-
tress, q domestic woman. each in her
proper class at a glance. They can
tell whether a woman has come out
of curiosity, for fun, or because she
has trouble on her mind.
They can read a great deal Of her
charcter and disposition also. They
can tell very quickly if SIZE Ia impul-
sive and quick tempered, sr cool and
calculating.
They have TO do this with less aid
than the downtown lady of cards, for
a woman who starts in to part with SIS
for a glimpse at the future, does SO
with a firm determination to keep her
mouth shut and not give away her
story. When she begins to hear things
that she knows are true, however, she
generally grows more or less c6Sh-
dental. Words dropped here. AM
there and plays of facial expression.
give the fortune teller a hint that he
is on the right track.
Many of the highest priced fortune
tellers uptown are men, and many Of
their customers are men also. Men
sitters usually want business tips, the
masculine sex apparently having en-
tire confidence In itself In its love az
fairs.
One T4l1e fortune teller who Ii hav-
ing CON RderabIe vogue at present is In
a side @treet just OF Fifth avenue,
near TIL shipping district. He is q
Hindoo, Snd exceedingly handsome
and pictJesque in his East Indian COS
tune. II Us evidently well educated,
for he specs the best Of English with
a most entIcing accent. Rurnor has It
that he WIS educated at Oxford uni
yersity.
His manAer is perfection: syinpa.
thetic and sadly without familiar
AMI cs lEAylng 70 eactr sitter the
EMw
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1904-06-27

having seen party of Rio l5ranoe sur
VeyOrs on White river above Durdys
This Is taken 70 mean that the fsPof
that the Uintah branch would oe eA-
tended beyond Camp Gulch had Fo-n.
foundation after an. Should the roa 2
be extended on 10 Fernal and the res
ervafou there is no question but tnaI
C would build up very lucrative tai-
fic within the next few years.
Crops in this section Of the state
never looked better Tor years IMAM tit-5
40 now. With the prospect or pteA-s
Of feed on the winter range II iooks
very muck as IL hay would De q very
cheap commodity this fan and winter
EX-Beprese George BiIing5,
who represented Uintah county ore
term in the state legislature. is again
being mentioned for the place ana
seems no have considerable baeSliis-
There are many who profess 10 believe
that had Billings been nominated Two
wears ago he would have been e&suy
elected As ii was, Dan i. Cotton, 5h
Republican nominee, Won ont and had
the satisfaction of knowing that be was
the first Republican representative
ever sent from this county. E'ormei
Commissioner JOHN G.. Davis. who went
down to defeat on the Democratic tick
&c TWO years ago, IS again oe-L5
doomed for the nomination Naples
ward has three candidates for COM
missioner. James ". Shaffer, George
A. SlaugIe and John Chivers- I'm some
quarters there IS talk Of forcing the
nomination FOR representative upon Pc
ter Hanson. the present county clerk,
but he has persistently refused to be
come d candidate for that place. He is
now serving his fifth term as county
clerk and there are a great many who
strongly favor his election again ar.
Hanson has made a splendid record
and is strongly indoTsed by Democrats
and Republicans alike.
The Untah creamery closed down
yesterday and viii probably remain
closed for a month. The cause of the
shutdown was lack Of market FOR
cheese in the face of an unprecedented
amount of milk received. An effort
VIII be made TO get the creamery pro-
ducts into the Colorado markets over
the Uintah railroad when il is COM
pleted 10 Camp GUlch.
C.. b. Atwood & sons are fitting up
one Of the new rooms in the COltharp
block for a fTst-class meat market,
which win give NgTnaI three shops of
rIig class
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FINALLY GIVES
UP SWEETHEART
Edward Peterson Decides TO
Stop Waiting for Bride.
SELLS FURNITURE He BOUGHT
GIRL rs KEPT IN sECLUsIoN By
RELATIVES.

Edward Petersen, the street car man.
has given up au-hope OF ever being able
to marry. Miss Mary BOraaze. the
pretty young italian girl, to whom he
was engaged to have been married
June s. The day OF the proposed we'd
ding the father Of the girl. it is said,
spirited her away, and has since abso-
lutely refused 10 permit the young
man to either see his daughter or con
verse with her.
AT one time Mr.. Petersen thought
seriously of securing an interview with
Miss BOraaze by habeas corpus pro-
ceedings, but was finally persuaded
from his purpose by friends.
As a result of the stubborn resistance
on the part of the parents of the girl
TO her marrying Mr.. Petersen, his
newly furnished home has been broken
up Mr.. Petersen is still at his home
while the Wherea bouts of Miss Boraaze
are unknown. Tt was stated vester-
day that Inc last heard Of her she was
on ranch a few miles below the Utah
state penitentary.
Girl Kept in Confinement.
The romance began many months
ago The young couple met, went to-
gether and fell fin love. Mr.. Petersen
proposed marriage, and was accepted
by the girl About that time the par
ents became aware of the attachment
between the couple and save il their
stamp Of disapprOvBl
Matters progressed rather smoothly
with the young man and woman until
about six months before Miss BOraaEe
became Of age. it WIS then that she
was given to understand that under
no circumstances would she be per
mitted TO marry Mr. Petersen To
prevent the young couple from seeing
one another the girl was kept i'm close
confinement in her home which was
close to the home OF MI. Petersen.
SO closely was the girl watched that
only two or three times was she able
TO write a note to her lover and throw
IL over the fence into his yard where
they were picked up by Mr.. Petersen s
brothers and sisters, and given to him.
Communicate Through Friends.
Through friends the young man sent
his sweetheart tender messages, as
surfing her of his undying love and af-
lection. BY those same means ne told
her of the home he was preparing for
her, when she would have reached her
majority and became his bride.
To provide the home Mr.. Petersen
went to work for the street car COM
pauy and saved his money. The day
. the wedding was to have taken place,
the little cottage in the southwestern
part Of the city was furnished through
out even 20 provisions for the evening
meal, the intention Of Mr.. Petersen be-
ing TO get married IN the afternoon.
and take his bride home and begin
housekeeping without delay.
But that morning Miss B0raaze was
spirited away by her parents. and since
then Mr. Petersen has never heard
from her. His efforts to see her were
ruthless. Hoping that perhaps she
might make her escape from her par
ents, Mr.. Petersen waited about two
weeks for her, and then becoming con-
WINGED that she was never coming to
him. Mr.. Petersen disposed of his
household goods, turning the house
} over TO its owner.