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The Opelousas courier., 1904-02-13
The Hygiene Of Perfumes.

Perfumes are not selected for their
hygienie value, but such they have.
Doctors tell us that a handkerchief
may be made antiseptic by the use Of
perfume. The action Of the spirit Of
the scent and the essential oils can de-
stroy the germs. Lavender is sup
posed to soothe the nerves, that is why
the bed linen is lavender scented. Jas
mine induces nerve exhaustion and de-
preston. Don't use strong scent; use
delicate, eleaa perfumes only.
The Opelousas courier., 1904-02-13
The Telephone On che Farm
Half D Million Installed in the Last
Five Years.
Rapid Development Of Independent Telephony
Since the Basic Patent Expired---Ways in
Which the 'Phone Saves the Farmer Money
and Abuses His Wife.

of business coming through the greater
ease Of transmitting orders, and thu
reduction in his staff OF order men
he can well afford to throw in the
telephone service, which Furthermore
becomes a splendid advertisement fol
his store.
In the early days of the rural tele
phone the farmers were content tt
utilize their fence wires for inter
communication, and in many districts
particularly in the Western States
this method so reduced the cost Of in,
stallation as to enable many communi.
ties to have a tolerably effective serv.
ice, which otherwise would have had to
go without any. But the farmers are
becoming more fastidious. They now
want good service, and they are get:
ting 1t,
The systems employed range from
q single line, with from three or four
to a dozen instruments connected, to
comprehensive systems covering en-.
tire counties and having hundreds of
patrons. For instance, in Geauga
County, Ohio, near Cleveland, where
there is a population of about $4,000:
there are over 1000 patrons, the mum.
Der in each township ranging from
fifty to nearly 400. Great attention is
paid to- toll service, and the best con
struction and apparatus are insisted
on, as being in the long run the most
economical.
An example of the village and rural
exchange is New Augusta, Ind, with
~seventy-fte subscribers, fifty of whom
are farmers, the most distant being
about seven miles. When a single
neighborhood line with a few instru-
ments attached is desired, a switch.
board is not necessary. The sub.
scribers signal each other direct by
giving different combination of rings.
SO easy has the organization of rural
telephone systems become that it is
safe to predict that within a very few
years the majority of the 100000
farmers said to be yet %uDproyided with
telephone service will have followed
the example of their more enterpris-
ing brethren and brought themselves
within touch of civilization. If n
community wishes to install a system.
no matter how limited. it has only to
communicate with a reputable install.
lat1on firm to receive the fullest and
1.-THE clearest instructions as to how
70 go about it. 6
M favorite method of organizing is
I'm the farmers to form partnerships
ofueo-operative (mutuaD companies for
thl furnishing Of service only to the
loct fty in which the subscribers live,
som4times the service is furnished BY
nearly telephone exchanges running
lines UNTO the rural districts.
In 4pme places service cannot be
given ~ city companies. In such case.
the fafaers a form themselves into
a compalpy, subscribe for the stock on
pro rata{pr other basis, and install the
system, Ifunning a direct line from
their switchboard to that of the nearest
town or city exchange. This is called
the community system, the heart of
which is the small switchboard. from
which radiate in different directions
the lines to which the various sub.
scribers' telephones are attached.-Srn.
The Opelousas courier., 1904-02-13
Fire Signals.

Az . meeting Of Hope Hook snd
ladder Co. No. i, held ON July 0,
1901, the town was divided into Fire
Districts and . Code Of Signals was
adopted in order to facilitate the loca.
tion Of fires In she future. The town
was divided as follows:
District No. ALI that portion of
Aewn bounded north by Bellevue
street. west by Urion street, south
And east by corporation line.
District No. 2-All that portion OF
town bounded by Bellevue street ON
the aouth, Union street on the west,
and corporation line ON the north and
east.
DISTRICT No. 3-Fhe portion of town
lying west OF Union street, and south
Of Bellevue street, with the corpora
ton line as the south and west boun-
dairy.
District No. 2-The portion OF town
bounded on the south by Bellevue,
east by Union, north and west by COR
poration line.
The Signals adopted were short taps
TO indicate the district in which the
fire 10 located, followed by a rapid
alarm, same to be repeated until gem
eral alarm is given.
To illustrate, should an alarm be
sounded for District No. s, first three
taps, ONE. two, three, followed by rap
i'd alarm. and repeat.
The Opelousas courier., 1904-02-13

Atlantic steamships are becoming
longer and longer. In a few years they
nay possibly be stretched out to sucn
an extent as to provide courses on
deck for automobile races.
The Opelousas courier., 1904-02-13
FOR SALE.

A house and lot in the town Of
Washington, La, in the square bound.
cd by Carriere. Wilkins. Ewes and
Dupre. Frame building made Of
choice cypress. ceiled inside. weather.
boarded outside, 20x30 feet. Will be
sold cheap for cash, or part cash and
balance on time to suit. For PARTON.
lars apply at the Courier office, Ope-
l0uaas. La. II
The Opelousas courier., 1904-02-13

From visible solar disturbances q
meteorological predicts 10 years of bad
weather. Let US hope that the sun
will yet change his spots.
The Opelousas courier., 1904-02-13

Mark Twain Is the most popular
humcrist and LongfelloW the most
popular poet in England.
The Opelousas courier., 1904-02-13

HOfEL UD
Carondelet and PoTdido Streets.
NEW ORLEANS.
American Plan. 81. co and up per Day
European Plan ST.. 90 and MP per Day
DENECHAUD 6 SIEWERD.
August is, 1909.
The Opelousas courier., 1904-02-13

Mrs. Stuyvesant Fish is quoted as
saying that society in tina country
hasn't enough solid interests to make
it anything but frivolous" Well, too
much liquid should not be taken on
any empty stomach.
The Opelousas courier., 1904-02-13

William Van Note of New Brunswick,
cid not speak to a woman for IS years
because he had nothing to say. Then
he asked Mrs. Hendrack to marry him
and to have corned beef and cabbage
for dinner. Mr.. Van Note does not
waste words. ~au
The Opelousas courier., 1904-02-13

When you visit Crowley stop at the
B HOTEL
Opposite the Court House.
Board and Lodging by the Day,
Week and Month.
p1aoes Moderate
Mas. DABBoMNB NaaAsss
The Opelousas courier., 1904-02-13
ACADEMY
-QR IKE
IMMACULATE : CONCEPTION,
O~PELoUsAs, La.

OPEL0UsAs, La.
Saaer the Direction Of the Sisters xsElsatVa
Of Koly 0ross.
o6srs to young ladies every facility
Tor acquiring . thorough christian 3D.
ucation. Constant attention Is paid to
dorae and social culture. Lessons arc
given In music. painting and othss
useful srfs. The sisters also bavd
charge Of the boys school. The couzse
OF s~nstruction il two-fold-Prsparasos!
md Commercial. French Is taught u
me swo eoRrsss. Ter particulars, 80
areas @IGTMR bUPERLDR
The Opelousas courier., 1904-02-13

Anent the Dexter assassination
Golfers Weekly observes: For strict
ly preserving game private shooting
seems a drastic penalty. The man
who shows his ~<displeasure SO in
clemently deserves a covering Of sod.
Lack Of tact has doubtless character
lied some millionaire landowners in
the Adirondacks, but importantly ia
not punishable by law with death. 1t
is probably rather hard for some of
these owners to draw the line. II
they gave permission to all who wish
ed to hunt, the game would hardly
be preserved. From the impersonal.
public point Of view, the ownership
of large tracts Of forest lands by
wealthy pleasure-seekers is, as far al
It gees, a welcome protection against
the lumber cutters. The principle Of
private property, necessary as 1t Is,
has little grace when It stands out
sharply as selfish exclusion. A man
buys a point of land, jutting into the
sea, where hundreds have stroIled, and
made love, and talked, and been happy.
He builds a beautiful house and pro.
ceeds to live in private on the spot
which he has chosen. People walking
through his grounds and past his
house anneg him. destroying privacy.
He shuts t.ktNl out. To them It Is the
sea that It'd have lost, the universal
beauty whfy they once had freely.
accept calmlg the baking Of their de-
sires and habits by a novel object
lesson II private right.
The Opelousas courier., 1904-02-13

Eupatorium rebandium Is the name
ef the new plant that is to supersede
sugar cane and the sugar beet, being
20 or 80 times as sweet as either.
When used in connection with tabloid
coffee and condensed milk it ought to
be a great thing for picnics.
The Opelousas courier., 1904-02-13

While contemplating that the text
books in the common schools lead away
from the farm, DR.. John Graham
Brooks said: Look with me into an
average Massachusetts schoolhouse.
It's arithmetic. its geography, its pen.
manship, it's bookkeeping and its read
ing book, which appeal to the imagina-
ton Of the farmers child, are still
dominated by clerk and trading point
Of view. AS one listens to the teach
ing, it Is as If the one object were to
create discomfort with the country
life, to make every bright child hate
his surroundings. The instruction
seems to assume the failure Of the
farm life. 9The inexhaustible charm
and esource of the country have no
part in this teaching"
The Opelousas courier., 1904-02-13

An agricultural fair has been held
IN Alaska, and the Yukon Horticultural
society points with pride to its garden
products. Alaska can never rival
southern California or Florida In
tho production Of semi-tropical fruits,
but it bids fair to become s~elf-sustain-
ing of a large population.
A church in Cleveland has proved 1ta
up-to-dateness by engaging a press
agent to see that the church and its
pastor and the Ladies' Aid Society and
the Christian Endeavor Society and all
the other agencies of the organization
shall get a proper degree Of publicity.
The next thing we may expect to see is
the covering Of the walls with church
advertising and persons entering cities
by rail may pass by huge wooden signs
commencing the excellencies Of the va
rious places Of worship and setting
forth the attractions of the pulpit
orators.
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The daily morning journal and courier., 1904-09-10
THE WAR CORRESPONDENT IN
 THE FAR EAST.

have myself acted in the sublime capacity of a war correspondent, and I have been up against the real thing in what the war correspondents call "the front" am free to confess that when I go to the front arm myself with a pistol-not for defence (the army that
 accompanies me is sufficient defence),
 but for business. It has frequently
 been my good fortune. and the misfor-
 tune of the enemy, to meet the latter
 at close quarters, and it was of course
 necessary that should kill all antago- nists within range of my gun. I have l Ithirty-eight notches and two hundred hicks on the stock of the pistol car Tried through my last campaign. The notches are for those who died for their country at my hands, and the hicks are the wounded now drawing pensions from grateful government for the per
 manent injuries they now thank me for iinfiicting.
 You will believe me when tell you that have killed nobody in this Rus so-Jappo war. Neither the Russians nor the Japanese have given me an op- lportunity to murder them, although I
 have been on both sides of the combat.
 Neither will the correspondents who started for the Japanese front at Dal- | ny yesterday be permitted to use their Iforty-dollar, nickel-plated many-cali-
 bred Rossky killers, either in self-de-
 fence or murderous offence Moreover, they will never reach the Japanese front, which is like the Irishman's flea
 as that objective may concern the war
 correspondent. The Japanese front Is a
 movable qua ntity-like the king in the layout of a three-card monte dealers. When the war correspondent is sent to
 the front in this war he inevitable finds
 himself at the rear. That sounds like
 an Irish bull, but the war correspon-
 dents at Pingyang know, to their dis
 gust, that 1t is a Japanese and a Roos-
 ky steer. San Francisco Town Talk.
The daily morning journal and courier., 1904-09-10
rHn SIMPLE. QUIET TIMES.

The inventions of printing, the tele- lgraph, telephone. and even the rail- road, while of benefit to man in many
 ways bring distinct perils to intelli- gence and character. When there were
 none of these things, little country town in New Hampshire could produce such men as Ezekial and Daniel Web | ster, General John A. Dix, William
 Pitt Fessenden, Moody Currier, and
 Moses G. Farmer. They had leisure to study and to think. Their minds were not overburdened with the details of the daily news. They did not hustle to keep In touch with public affairs. Matters that were important enough to Iclaim attention when they were no longer new literature of permanent value and examples of human excel fence which had made their mark upon the centuries, were presented to their minds in something like due propor- ton. They had time to study history, law, and the masterpieces of literature: and they did study them. Now the linen and women who would create for
 IllCileCiNeS d SlIfllidl lIlISlleCCuals at-
 mosphere must study the art of exclus-
 ion. They must consider the railroad,
 the telegraph, the telephone, and the
 printing press as inventions full of
 danger unless and until they are put in their proper places and held in strict
 subjection. Like live wires, new ex- plosives, and freshly discovered eIe-
 ments of matter, they are dangerous,
 if carelessly used. The loss of the pow. CT of attention in college classes (to
 which Professor Shaler testifies, and
 which is a fact of common observation)
 may, in part, be explained by the dis
 play of intellect caused by the dis
 covery of new ways in which it may be
 frittered away upon trifles.- Christian
 Register. ....s
The daily morning journal and courier., 1904-09-10


 of sulphurous vapor roll about the sta- ton or shoot for a thousand feet into the air.
 All sorts of delicate scientific instru- ments for recording the temperature the force and direction of the wind, the condition of the atmosphere and other things which meteorologists desire to know, are collected in this dreary. de- solate place. and here they work with out a human being coming near them except in three months. when an ob- server makes a perilous trip ID from the observatory situated lower down. to take the records and wind up the clock which keeps the instruments going.
 Some of the scientists in the Arequipa observatory, which isalso run by Har- ward, and is itself 7,750 feet above the level of the sea cannot make the trip at all, and some of those who do make it have to give up the job after a while because the "soroche," or mountain sickness, overcomes them. But month after month, and year after year, the click of the instruments goes on in the deserted observatory, while the sul- phurous clouds roll about it. the vol cano growls and threatens destruction and far below the earth, where men live, spreads out like map with the ''wrinkled sea- crawling to the eoast.- Washington Post Ind.
The daily morning journal and courier., 1904-09-10

in these eoneentrfc circles of green wa ter and flashing surf is composed who'll ly of disintegrated coral; and if it were not for the blackish, Undiscovered hil- locks which relieve, to some extent, its glaring whiteness, it would suggest a long, undulating drift of Siberian snow transported in some miraculous way to the tropics, and set afloat in smooth, green, reef-encircled lagoon under the burning sun Of the equator. The high i est part of the island is only forty-three feet above the level of the ocean, and if it were not inclosed and protected by the rocky circle of the barrier-reef, the great seas raised by tempests in this part of the Pacific would go entirely over it. ......s....
 The life of the cable operators on this remote, verdureless sand-dune in mid ocean is perhaps more lonely and drea- " than that of any other telegraphers in the world. They are off the regular routes of both steamers and sailing vessels; they are visited by government transports or supply ships only at long and uncertain intervals; and for many months at a time they see nothing but sand and water. and hear nothing but the cries of sea birds and the eternal crashing of the surf on the great circle of the barrier-reef. They are almost as completely isolated from the world as if they were so many ship-wrecked Cru soes: and yet all the news of the world passes daily through their hands.
 It seems to me that Midway Island should be provided with light. It Is so low and so nearly invisible at night that captain who has not had an ob- servation in two or three days may cas- I fly make mistake as to his position and run his vessel on the barrier-reef | in the darkness. No prudent captain, of course. would run for such an island in the night if he believed himself to be anywhere near it, but the determina- tion of ones position by astronomical observation Is not always possible, dead reckoning is untrustworthy, and more than one American ship has been wrecked in the night on such low-lying atolls as Ocean Island and Midway. A second-class light on a skeleton frame would not cost much, and it might pay for itself over and over again by being Instrumental in saving a first-class transport with hundreds of soldiers on board.
The daily morning journal and courier., 1904-09-10
Local Weather Report.
New Haven. Sept. g,
BRIEF MENTION.

High water to-day at 11:29 p. m
 The Popular Magazine for October and the Illustrated Sporting News to- day at the Pease-Lewis Co.'S.
 Calls were yesterday issued for the republican senatorial delegates of the Twelfth senatorial district to assemble at the Branford Point hotel, at Bran ford, .on Saturday, September F, at Il o'clock in the morning, when a candi- date for senator from the district will be chosen.
 The total enrolment of pupils in the New Haven public schools this year shows large increase over the attend ance last year. However, it was not found necessary to turn away any of the applicants for seats that were over the school age. The total number of pupils in the schools up to date is 18,- 069, an increase of 2S5 over the attend anee last year.
 A gang of boiler makers employed in the new gas houses on the New Haven Gas Light company on East Chapel street went out on strike yesterday noon because they were refused the eight hour day and an increase in wages. The men are employed by the Hellman Boiler company of Newton, Pa, and seven of them were brought here from New York to work, while the eighth man is a resident of this city, and member of the local union of boiler makers.
The daily morning journal and courier., 1904-09-10

hotel was sent for. It was thought that owing to his friendship for the little fighter he might be the means of cheering Dixon. When he looked into the room he ran out, with the remark that he could not stand to see the sor- rowful sight. --.
 Frank Erne Wept like a child when Terry McGoyern knocked him out at Madison Square Garden. He was an artist with the gloves, and it was thought he would easily defeat the Brooklyn boy, but was like a novice before the rushes of his antagonist
 When Terry McGovern was knocked out at Hartford by Young Corbett, he, too, cried, but it was anger that brought the tears. Terry cursed his luck, and, claiming that the victory of the Denver boy was a chance one, would not listen to the comforting words of his friends. He chased Cor bett from city to city and frequently roundly abused his conqueror. Finally he got the return match which he sought, and that Corbett won again is well known.
 | s BOIh flJ1I IhIlO OEA1E(s
 Little Danny Dougherty, the bantam weight, who is the only Philadelphian who ever held a fistic championship, took his defeat by Harry Forbes very lmueh to heart. When the Chicago boy knocked Dougherty out, the latter cried piteously, and even Forbes was moved to tears at the sight of his late foe. Forbes shortly after gaining the championship lost it to Frankie Neil at San Francisco, but took his defeat good naturedly, claiming that 1t was a chance blow and that he was the vic ! tim of dishonest referee. He sought a return match, got it, and was again easily vanquished by the present ban ttam-weight champion.
 A strange thing about pugilism is that few men who lose a championship ever amount to much in the fighting line following their defeat. With the possi- ble exception of Fitzsimmons, none of the others have done anything of mos ment after their first defeat.
 Jim Corbett has lost several battles since Fitzsimmons knocked him out. He has scored but one victory since the battle at Carson, and that was a ques- tionabla one over Mccoy.
 Tommy Ryan was defeated by Mo Coy and, although recognized as the champion of the middle we ghts, a title (which Fitzsirnmons disputes, he has not defeated any men of note save Kid Garter.
 Dixon has frequently met defeat at the hands of second-rate fighters, while Dougherty and Forbes, while still in the prime of life, are not fighting in iold-time form.
 McGoyern, who moved down man af- ter man while he was champion, has fought several battles since his defeat lat the hands of Corbett. but he has moi displayed the old form.
 As a child dreads the fire, so with c Lighter once knocked out, they always Hear the dangerous knockout blow Philadelphia North American.
The daily morning journal and courier., 1904-09-10
 GARDENS WITH 5000 PLANTS.

Baltimore Man Has Made a Bare Yard
 Mass of Blooms.
 From veritable wilderness Charles H. s. Grammar has succeeded in trans forming the yard about his home, No. 3,66O Falls Road, near Fourth ave-, Hampden, int cone huge flower bed. Though his lot is just 150 feet square, MT. Brannan asserts that it contains something like three thousand plants and twenty-six fruit trees, each plant and tree arranged so as to show to ad- vantage from the street.
 In the side yard is a big running rose bush-a crimson rambler which, un- til few weeks ago, was covered with blossoms. But there are now other roses to take it's place. In one of the beds is a large Paul Neyron bush, which Mr. Grammar declares produces the largest rose that grows, and he proudly asserts that last summer he plucked one from the bush that meas ured seven inches across. A bed of coleus, with canr1as for a centerpiece, is conspicuous in the side yard, and they never want for water, there being a fountain in the centre of the bed. Until this summer MT Brannan had an old sailboat near the bed, in which were planted flowers of various kinds, and vines formed the sails. This, however, gradually routed away, and it was in such dilapidated state at the end of winter that it was decided not to use it another season.
 On either side of the walk around the house and extending down through the rear yard are plants of all kinds-yucca hydrangas, nasturtiums, phlox Japan csc lilies, tuberose, crape, myrtle tree, gladiolus yara weed, pinks, dahlias, sunfiowers and hundreds of others. The rose bushes number alone over two hundred, and the fruit trees include plums, peaches, pears, apples and cher ries. MT. Brannan's pear crop this year will be unusually large, but the pears are of a late variety. In the rear of the yard is huge grape arbor, and this, together with some huge hydrangea bushes and the rosebushes and other plants, helps to screen the rear portion of the yard, thereby deceiving the pass ersby as to the real extent of the garden.-Baltiore News.