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The Opelousas courier., 1904-06-25

A handsome prize Is offered to
the young lady who will sell the
greatest number of tickets to the,
auto and bicycle races on July A.
For particulars see j. Morgan
Sandoz, Chairman of Committee.
The Opelousas courier., 1904-06-25

The Novelty Shop, two blocks
east Of j.. X. Sandoz & Brothers
store. All kinds of repairs. job
work and plumbing a specially.
J. A. DRUMMoND.
The Opelousas courier., 1904-06-25

In putting down a deep well on
Mr.. Yves Andrepont's plantation
in Plaisance this week. a tree was
struck at ITO feet from the sur
face.
The Opelousas courier., 1904-06-25

Fred. L. Sandoz has just re-
celved a carload of buggies and
other vehicles which he is offering
cheap. See advertisement in an
other column.
The Opelousas courier., 1904-06-25
An Appeal to the Legislature.

If you cannot give us elective
assessors and school bss, and
do the other things the Reople
asked you to do, please refrain
from doing what you have not
been asked to do and what you
have no business to do.
Do not waste the people 8
money by increasing salaries and
creating new Offices, thereby re-
moving all hope for the tighten
ing of the peoples burdens.
The people ask you for bread; !;
do not give them a stone.
Kill the bills increasing the sal
aries of the Superintendent of
Public Education and Attorney
General to 1000 and $4,000 re-
spectively. Those sofficers we're
glad to get the offices at $4,000
and So, 900. Put the other 81, 900
in the school fund and hire eight
or ten more teachers annually.
We need lots more of them.
Kill the Terriberry militia bill
1t creates lot of new Offices and
calls for large sums to buy gold
lace and pamper in idleness scores
of political tin soldiers who never
smelt powder.
Kill the Circuit Court bill. Oul
Judiciary system already costs too
much, and this bill largely in.
creases its cost.
Kill all bills creating more
legal holidays. We have toe
many of them already.
Kill all bills creating more Of
fees. We have too many o.
them already. Educate the peo'
pie and qualify more of them tt
fill acceptably the Offices we now
have.
Give US the Mississippi primar.
election law.
Do more for the old soldiers
They are dropping off rapidly
The State. owes them Il debt o
gratitute it can never repay, bu
it should at least, in some small
| degree, smoothe their rugge'
pathway to the grave.
Do these things aud the peopls
may forgive you for not restoring
to them all their rights at on
aud the same time.
The Opelousas courier., 1904-06-25

One of the best business stands
in town can be rented for SIS
month. Apply at this Office.
The Opelousas courier., 1904-06-25

The New Royal sewing machine
advertised by Fred L. Sandoz, in
another column, is the very latest
III improved sewing machines and
il q marvel of mechanism. Don't
Buy D sewing machine until you
have seen the New Royal, which
Il sold on remarkably easy terms
and low nricas.
The Opelousas courier., 1904-06-25

We had a pleasant visit last
Thursday from Rev. P. Ph Briol,
Presbyterian Synodical Evange-
list to the French in Louisiana.
Rev. Briol is visiting different
sections in Louisiana with view
of establishing seminary where
the instruction of French will be
one of the leading features. He
is very fayorably impressed with
Opelousas as a suitable location,
and we think that with proper in
ducements Opelousas could secure
this college. Other localities have
offered to donate 100 acres OF land
and q cash bonus to secure the
college. We learn that from $685.
900 to $4,000 are available to be-
gin the buildings, ETC., and further
sums will be added later. Rev
Briol's address is 2901 Camp ST.,
New Orleans, La.
The Opelousas courier., 1904-06-25

That splendid business stand
under Sandoz Opera, on Main
street, is for rent. Apply at this
office.
The Opelousas courier., 1904-06-25

"A bouncing baby boy (ten lbs. }
arrived Sunday at the home Of
Mr. and Mrs. John Ogden Cappef.
The Opelousas courier., 1904-06-25

The rules under which the DEM
oeratic primary election of July
3Oth is to be held will be found
on our 4th page.
The Opelousas courier., 1904-06-25

The campaign COURIER eight
months for s1.0O. Send in your
dollar and keep posted.
The Opelousas courier., 1904-06-25

For Rent-A residence in Opel
ousas, with large yard and garden
Apply at this Office.
The Opelousas courier., 1904-06-25

Visitors to the Worlds Fair at
St. Louis from St. Landry will
find the COURIER on file at the
Louisiana Building during the
continuance of the Exposition.
The Opelousas courier., 1904-06-25

Money to loan. Apply to P.
Mestric, Leonville, La.
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NOTICE

All persons having claims against the estate
of Joseph d. Guillory, deceased. are hereby
requested to present them to Ma1eo Guillory'
administrator, Mamou, La, or to the under
signed. within fifteen days from date.
L. A. FONTENOT,
June H. 1a04-2t Attorney.
The Opelousas courier., 1904-06-25

Ring up 10. Cumberland, for
any kind of printing. Well do
the rest.
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FOR SALE.

A BARGAIN-One 3glass milk shake. one
large ice shaver, good as new. Cost 5000. Will
cell for $500. ED. CONKLlN,
lee Cream Parlor, Washington, La.
June 25 1T
The Opelousas courier., 1904-06-25

Field peas for sale by Fred I
Sandoz.
The Opelousas courier., 1904-06-25

Mixed peas for sale by Fred l..
Sandoz.
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subscribers 10 arrears please
call and settle up the score.
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Enr District Ataorney

We are authorized to announce W. J SAN
my. ESQ, as candidate for District Attorney
- tha 1sfIi Judicial District, subject to the &C.
II sion of the Democratic primary election to be
Maid on the 80th of July, 1904.
The Opelousas courier., 1904-06-25
LEARN TO WALTZ In AN HOUR

By the simple Waltz Diagram Instructions
to dance Virginia Reel. Lancers, Quadrtlle and
German. is cents each. 1904 r. street. Wash
inQton. d. C.. jim 25-1m
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DUBLEC SALE.
ESTATE OF S. Y: sCHooLER.

DISTRICT COURT, PARISH OF ST. Ian
DRY, STATE OF LOUISIANA.
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w DEFUE % W
AZ . New York
PSI B Sandoz sells our paint
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seal with such device or inscription as it may

seal with such device or inscription as it may
deem proper, and the same to alter or amend
at pleasure. 1t may make cont tracts, purchase
or receive grants of land or personal property.
or rights Of way, may acquire, own, hold and
convey personal and real property, aud pledge,
mortgage or hypothecate the same. 1t may
name and appoint such officers. managers and
directors as their interest OF convenience may
require, and may make and establish such by
laws for the management of the affairs of the
corporation as may be necessary and proper,
not inconsistent with this act of incorporation,
aud generally shall possess all the power and
privileges which such corporations are and
may hereafter be authorized to possess under
the constitution and laws OF this State.
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All citations and other legal process shall be
served on the president of the company, or in
his absence, upon tie vice-president, secretary
or treasurer OF said corporation. or upon sucl
other person as may be designated by the
company.
The San Francisco call., 1904-10-09

1t is no uncommon thing to be told
that such and such an evening blouse
or bodice copied from the Paris
model will cost 40 guineas. I'VE
might possibly do it for S5," says the
costumer meditatively, studying with
we'll assumed gravity the small, fiimsy
object he is thus pricing, trifle made
up of chiffon, ribbon and tinsel gew-
gaws. knowing all the while that
everything of which 1t is composed
could be purchased for much less than
flo. Twenty-Five guineas. As guineas.
65 guineas are quite common prices
for gowns at any of the fashionable
shops to-day. One cannot, of course,
blame the modiStes and outftting
firms for asking these absurd fancy
prices If they can get them. II wom-
en- are mad it is perhaps wise, just
and reasonable to take financial ad-
vantage of their madness while it
lasts. Certainly no woman of well
balanced brain would give unlimited
prices for gowns without most care
full inquiry as to the correct value of
the material and trimming used for
them, and the feminine creature who
runs into the elaborate showrooms OF
Madame Zoe or Berenice or Faustina
and orders frocks by the dozen, saying
chirpingly: "Ob, yes! You know how
they ought to be made! Your taste
is always perfect! Make them very
pretty, won't you? Much prettier than
those you made for Lady Claribeli
Yes, thanks! I'll leave it all in your
hands," is a mere lunatic, gibbering
nonsense, who could not, if she were
asked, tell where twice two making
four might possibly lead her in the
sum total of a banking account
Not very long ago there was held a
wonderful symposium" of dress at the
establishment of a certain modiste 1t
was intensely diverting, entertaining
and instructive. A stage was erected at
one end of long room, and on that
stage, with effective flashes of lime
light played from the wings at inter
walls and the accompaniment of a Hun
garian band, young ladies wearing
creations" in costume stood. sat.
turned. twisted and twirled, and finally
walked down the room between rows of
spectators to show themselves and the
gowns they carried to the best possible
advantage. The whole thing was much
better than stage comedy. Nothing
could surpass the quaint peacock-like
vanity of the girl ''nannequins, who
strutted up and down, moving their
arms about to exhibit their sleeves and
swaying their hips to accentuate the
fall and flow of flounces and draperies
1t was marvellous sight to behold. and
1t irresistibly reminded one of a party
of impudent children trying on for finn
all their mothers and elder sisters hest
long dresses while the unsuspeotinr
owners were out of the way. There was
a programme of the performance
fearfully and wonderfully worded. the
composition, so we were afterWard
with bated breath" Informed. of
Madame la Modiste's sister, a lady.
who by virtue Of having written two
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small and rather clever sAits on the
manners. customs and modes OF society,
is in some obliging quarters Of the
press called a novelist"
1t is quite easy to dress well and
tastefully without spending a very
great deal of money. 1t certainly re-
quires brain, thought. foresight. taste
and comprehension OF the harmony Of
colors. But the blind following Of q
fashion because Madame This or That
says ii is chic or '1e dernier cri'' Of
some parrot-like recommendation Of the
sort, is mere stupidity on the part OF
the followers. To run up long credit
for dresses without the least idea how
the account is ever going to be paid Is
nothing less than criminal act. 1t Is
simply fraud. And such fraud reacts
on the whole community. Extravagant
taste in dress is infectious. Most Of US
are impressed by the Kings sensible
and earnest desire that the press
should use its influence for good in fos-
terinS amity and good will between
ourselves and foreign countries. II the
press would equally use its efforts to
discourage f1orid descriptions Of dress
in their columns much of the wild and
willful extravaganza which is frequent
'ly the ruin Of otherwise happy homes
might be avoided. When Lady A sees
her loathed rival Lady BIS dress de-
scribed in half column OF newspaper
''gush" she straightway yearns and
schemes for a whole column OF the
same kind. When simple country girls
read the amazing items Of the toilettes
worn by some notorious demi- i-mon-
daine they begin TO wonder how II Is she
has such things and to speculate as to
whether they will ever be able to OBJ
tain similar glorifed apparel for them
selves. And so the evil grows, till by
and by ii becomes a pernicious disease
and women look superciliOusly at one
another, not for what they are, but
merely to estimate the quality and
style OF what they put on their backs
Virtue goes to the wall IL II does not
wear a fashionable frock Vice is well
coined everywhere II II Is clothed in
Paris creation" Nevertheless, Ben
Jonson's lines still hold good:
"stin to be neat. still to be drest.
As you were going 70 a feast:
Lady II Is to be presumed.
Though arts hid causes are not found
All is not sweet. all Is not sound
All is not sweet, all is not sound
when women think little OF nothing Of
ordering extravagant costumes which
they well know they will never be able
to pay for unless through some dishon-
orable means, such as gambling at
bridge, for example. Madame Modiste
is quite prepared for such an exigency
for she does not forget to show "crea-
tions" in clothes which, she softly
purrs, are suitable foP bridge par
ties" They may possibly be called THE
Tricky Trump" or The Dazzling of a
Glance Too Long or The Deft I'm
press Of a Finger Nail" One never
knowsi
Copyright. 1904. by Central News
and Press Exchange.)
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mr. Inc drama supports
" her. The press en-
courages her Whole
columns in seemingly sane journals are
devoted to the description of her at
tire. Very little space is given to the
actual criticism Of a new play as a
play, but any amount of room is
awarded to glorifed "gushers' con-
cerning the actresses gowns. OF course
it has to be borne in mind that the
writing up" of actresses gowns serves
a double purpose. Firstly, the "crea-
tors" of the gowns are advertised and
may in their turn advertise-which, in
these days of multitudinous rival news
papers, is a point not to be lost sight
of. Secondly, the actresses themselves
are advertised and certain gentlemen
with big noses, who move behind the
scenes and are the lineal descendants
of Moses and Aaron, may be thereby
encouraged to speculate in theatrical
shares" Whereas criticism of the
play itself does no good to anybody
nowadays, not even to the dramatic
author. For If such criticism be un-
favorable, the public says it is written
by spiteful enemy-if eulogistic by a
friend at court" and they accent
neither verdict. They go to see the
thing for themselves and If they like 1t
lney keep on going. IL not, they stay
away, and there's an end.
But to the gowns there is no end.
The gowns, even in an unsuccessful
play, are continuously talked of. con-
tinuously written about, continuously
sketched in every sort of pictorial small
and great, fashionable or merely pro-
vincial. And the fiorid language-or
shall We say the fine writing ?"-used
to describe clothes generally, on and
off the stage, is so ravIngly sentiment
tai, so bewilderingly turgid. that 1t can
only compare with the fervid verbosity
of the early eighteenth-century roman
cists, or the biting sarcasm of Thack-
eray's Book of Snobs,'' from which
the following passage. descriptive of
Miss Snobky's" presentation gown
may be aptly quoted:
Habit de cour composed of a yellow
nankeen illusion dress, over a Slip Of
rich pea-green corduroy. trimmed en-
tablier with boquets of brussels
sprouts, the body and sleeves hand
somely trimmed with calimanco and
festooned with a pink train and white
radishes. Headdress, carrots and lap
pets"
BY way of a modern pendant to the
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tion is of white liberty with
tulle oyerdress on which are
four founces of Chantilly lace ar
ranged in zig Gags, connected to-
gether with shaded pink gloria rib
hons arranged in waves and Wreaths.
This is repeated on the low corsage
and on the long, dropping sleeves of
the high bodice.
"A rich toilet is of white liberty silk,
with a flounce of magnificent Brussels
lace festooned by leaves of the chest
nut. formed of white satin wrought in
iris beads and silver on white tulle.
The whole gown is strewn with like
leaves of graduating sizes, and the low
corSage has q bertha of Brussels lace
ornamented with smaller chestnut
leaves, as are also the sleeves" And
so on, in unlimited bursts of enthusi-
asm.
I cannot say 1 am in the least sorry
when "modistes'' who create" cos
tunes at forty, fifty and even one hun
dred and two hundred guineas per
gown, are mulcted of some of their un-
lawful profits by defaulting creditors.
In nine cases out of ten they richly
deserve it. They are rightly punished
when they accept with fulsome fiat
terry and servile obsequiousness a
title" as sufficient guarantee for
her Grace the Duchess or Miladi the
Countess are perhaps more wickedly
reckless and unprincipled than any
plain Miss or Mrs. ever born, and that
these grandes DANES frequently make
use of both rank and position to sys-
tematically cheat their tradespeople.
The tradespeople are directly to
blame for trusting them, and this is
daily and continuously proved. But
ha in hi -
mere social rank still remains an in
gredient of the mercantile nature-it
is inborn and racial-a kind of
microbe in the blood generated there
in old feudal times, when all over the
world peddlers humbly sought the pa
trcnage and favor of robber chief
tains, and unloaded their packs in the
castle halP' for the pleasure of the
fair ladies who were kept at home in
''durance vile" by their rough, un-
washed lords. And so perhaps 1t has
chanced through long custom and
heritage that at this present day there
Is nothing quite so servile in all crea-
ton as the spectacle of "modiste" In
attendance on Duchess, or ladies
tailor" bending himself double while
6eferentially presuming to measure
the hips of a Princess. 1t is quaint
1t is pitiful-it is intensely, deliciously
comic. And when the price OF the
garment Is never clearly stated and
the bill never sent in for years lest
offense is given to her Grace" or her
Highness''-by firms that will, never
theless, have no scruples in sending
dunning letters and legal threats to un-
titled ladies. who may possibly keep
them waiting little for their money,
but whose position and credit are
more firmly established than those of
any great personages with handles to
their names, it is not without a GER
tain secret satisfaction that one hears
of such fawning fiunkeys of trade get
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ting we'll burned in
the fires of loss
and disaster. For,
in any case, it may
be taken for grant
ed that they always
charge a double,
sometimes treble,
price for a gar
ment or costume,
over and above
what that garment
or costume is really
worth, and one
may safely pre-
sumo they base all
their calculations
OO nOSSihia loss
The Newtown bee., 1904-09-16
THE WEEKLY RECORD.

MT and Mrs s. D. Baker of New York, MT and Mrs Charles Chatfield of New Haven, were guests at D. M. Mitchell's over Sunday.
 Miss Lila Judson and Miss Edith Allen of Stratford are the guests of Mrs A. D. Munson.
 Miss Ruth Mitchell is spending the week with New Haven friends.
 The Center school commenced, on Monday, Miss Dora Pierce as teacher, and Miss Lucy Garfield is teaching the Pierce Hollow school.
 <: Mrs A. D. MunsOn entertained tn q Whist club on Thursday of last week.
 The Ladies' Whist club, with a number of friends. held picnic on
 John Mitchell, Edwin Pierce and Eddie Platt, started for the Worlds fair, Monday. MT Mitchell was enroute for a position in some of the oil regions. His wife will visit with her parents while he is looking for place to locate.
 Taking those who have gone to St Louis and those who have returned to their school duties and some new ones who have gone away to school, the old town is quite thinned of young folks.
 Irwin Platt is attending a business college m WaCerDury.
 LOttie Hamlin is attending school in Bridgeport. Quite a num- Der expect to enter the High school in Woodbury, the first of October.
 The heat was intense, Monday, till about o'clock, when it commenced to thunder and the copper colored clouds made us dread the shower we saw com ing. At 5 o'clock, the wind was vio- lent, followed by hail and rain, which fell in torrents, doing quite 8 little ly and shaking of so many apples 1t
The Newtown bee., 1904-09-16
HUNTINGTON.
THE SCHOOLS BEGIN.


 The Center school began September F, with 35 scholars in each grade. Children are transported from Walnut Tree Hill by Frank Laborie, from Lower White Hills by F. N. Potter and from Isinglass by George Northrop. Miss Helen Booth of Stratford teaches in the higher grade and Miss Clara Theurer of Seymour in the lower. Miss Booth will make her home with Mrs K. w. Wooster and Miss Theurer with Mrs Meth Williams.
 The Misses Marguerite and Florence Holden, Ina Nichols, Mary and Annie Nc Donald united ;with the Congre- gational church on profession, Septem- Der 4.
 Misses Ina Nichols, Fanny Cook. El- ma Buckingham, Roy Wooster, Nathan Nc Donald and Edward Jarley are at- tending school in Shelton; also the Holden and Rehnberg children.
 Monday evening, September 19, there will be Missionary social in the church parlors. An interesting program is in the hands of competent committees and cake and ice cream will be served. Admission, 15c, will include cake and cream.
 Miss Louise Nichols will entertain the Aid society on Thursday of this week.
 Mrs Eleanor Judson has entertained her two grandsons from Bridgeport.
The Newtown bee., 1904-09-16
LONG HILL.
A SOCIAL EVENT.

On Wednesday of last week. the La dies Whist:.club of this place joined the c. B. L. club of Bridgeport in a days outing at the French cottage, Pine Creek, Fairfield. On arriving at the cottage they were heartily vel comed by MT French, MT and Mrs George Clark, Mrs F. Turney, Miss Jen- nie Turney and Mrs Stephen Burroughs who were staying at the cottage. The fine bathing was enjoyed by number of the ladies, after which they sat down to dinner "tit for a king" " Twenty-two ladies, three gentlemen Then the party adjourned to the ve- randa and several games of whist were played. Miss Mildred Watson of Bridgeport captured the first prize and George Clark the second. Mrs Henry Viet of Bridgeport kindly furnished the prizes for the occasion. Before starting for home luncheon was served, and the ladies all declared that the day had been perfect in it's enjoy ment.
 MT and Mrs Noble and Miss Annie Penoyer of Bridgeport have been board ing at Miss Lena Beers for two weeks.
 Mrs Wallace Smith and Miss Agnes Beardsley of Monroe have been recent guests of Mrs E. M. Beardsley.
 MT and Mrs George Clark have gone to Philadelphia for weeks stay.
 The Ladies' Whist club met with Mrs E. M. Beardsley, on Saturday af- ternOOn.
 Mrs Amelia Angevine and Miss Flor ence Angevine are visiting friends in Bridgeport.
 Miss Amy Coles has taken a school
The Newtown bee., 1904-09-16
BRIDGEPORT.
A SHELTON REUNION.

Daniel Shelton. emigrating from England before 1887, bought land In that part of Stratford which is now Huntington, and married Elizabeth Welles, daughter of Samuel Welles and Elizabeth Hollister. Now the rest of his acts, are they not written in the book of the Chronicles of the Sheltons? Some thirty of his descendants, in the fifth, sixth and seventh generations, gathered September 5, at the home or MT and Mrs William B. Beers, 836 Fair field avenue, Bridgeport, for their an- nuai reunion; and, as they always do, had thoroughly good time. The time was, when nearly all the immediate descendants of Judson Curtiss Shelton lived in Huntington or nearby towns; but now third of them are living in the West, the Wheelers in Kansas and the Hunters and FlemmingS in Cali fornia. Among the Connecticut rep resentatives present at the reunion were Miles l.. Shelton and family Of Oxford; H. N. Buckingham, Dr G. A. Shelton, Mrs E. A. Bissell and family. William T. Beard and family, MT and Mrs E. J. Buckingham, Lewis J: Shel- ton and family, of Huntington; Lester M. Shelton and family of Trumbull; Mir and Mrs w. F. Rose, Mrs Sarah Beardsley, Lorrin Follett, MT and Mrs
 w. E. Beers and V. c. Peck of Bridge port.