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The Opelousas courier., 1905-12-16

OF the best. She remembered their
quarrels. All! The last time she had
ever seen him they had Quarreled.
1t was about q pair OF stubby red
mittens that she had knit with skilifuI
girlish fingers. She had meant them
for his Christmas present, but he had
found it out beforehand, and, boy
fashion, had leased her about them.
sPll never give them to you now.
she had declared. angrily. And then
her John, little true lover as he was,
had melted.
ssOh, please give them to me- he
had begged. You know ] would give
you everything ! have, Annabel. II
you love me-. you viii give them to
me-
But it was sweet to hear him plead.
and the little maioen was DESTROYS OF
prolonging the pleasure.
III ver ! love yen again, 1 win give
aheL you was I'll she would say.
inst hen q neighhor's boy had hurried
Ap afsaithless with importance.
aJeftls John. Your mother has sent
snz you to go home right away. She's
got . telegram from your grandfather.
He's dead
e was the last time she had ever
sen John Warren. Within ia hour
M was speeding on the. train to tie
hotas that deeth AAd entered III aud.
The Opelousas courier., 1905-12-16
An Old Maids
Christmas
By BERTHA E. BUSH

Aunt Annabel," said Juanita, with
a merry jingling of skates accompany.
ing her speech, won't you please tie
up my Christmas packages for me!
You know where they CO."
Aunt Annabel assented with a little
Sigh, for. her hands were already full
OF Christmas errands for the family.
Juanita did not notice the sigh. Her
laughing eyes were filled with the
vision of the boy whom she knew to
be waiting just around the corner,
ready to carry those skates and buckle
up the straps. But her girl companion,
less absorbed. did notice it.
." don't believe you ought to have
asked her to do that, Nita. Every
body is so busy at Christmas"
ooh, Aunt Annabel is always busy.
But she isn't any buster at Christmas
than at any other time. What does an
old maids Christmas amount to-"
Aunt Annabel heard the careless
words and the little wrinkles on her
forehead deepened with pain. "An old
maids Christmas" The red mounted
slowly to her thin cheeks. 1t was not
the quick blushing of girlhood which
is deemed SO beautiful, but a burning,
painful flushing that seemed to leave
her wan face more hollow ari whittier
than before.
"An old maids Christmas!" How
hateful it was to be an old maid! She
had never dreamed of 1t when she was
as young as Juanita. When she was
as young as Juanita-oh, much young
er-John Warren had said: "Annabel
is my little wife, and we are going to
be married next Christmas" How far
away the next Christmas had seemed
then-farther than the next century
nowi
The years slipped before her eyes
like a dream. There had been other
lovers, but lone so dear as this little
John Of her childish years. How de-
voted they had been to each other.
and how constant through all their
boy and girl ups and downs! The cid
ers had smiled at their frank affection
and half believed that what John said
would come to pass at some future
Christmas. She and John had wholly
believed it. She remembered how they
played together, how he drew her on
his sled, how he always chose her first
at spelling matches, although she was
not a good speller, and John was one
The Opelousas courier., 1905-12-16

Really, sir, you surprise me SONS.
what. You u up a bill of a ma,ter
of $40 and more-a thing entirelv
against my rules and a special favor
to yourself. And then you come hera
on Christmas eve and talk about :
big check, and ask me to lend Won
SIS or 500! It's a bit 'ot, sir!-a hi,
'ot!"
But I have $4,000 in my pocket"
Then pay my BILL II
II can't tonight"
Not out of S.. SCOOP"
Not till Friday, you wooden headed
IDIOT" said Jack, losing his temper.
Thank you, sir" said Jorkins, bow.
ing low; and then proceeding with
deadly calm: 'I1l wait till Friday At
noon, and If you haven't settled I'M
by then I'll put you in the court; and
you may put that in your pipe and
smoke it! Good night
Again Jack passed into the snow.
clad street, where a boy who had been
playfully lurking behind a lamp post
flung a SNOWFALL at him with such dex.
terity that it knocked his hat off. The
happy child ran away, and Jack in A
fury ran after him, and fell over.
Cad" he muttered to himself. al
he picked himself up and went back
for the hat, cts a fine thing to have
$4,000, but I'm blessed if it seems to
make much difference"
The prospects of his Christmas were
beginning to be a little gloomy. AHA,
the ~tobacconist! He'll do it,"
Off he started again, looking dingier
than ever, for his hat was denied, and
the snow and dust had stained his
coat.
Good evening, Dibbs. How's bust.
Business would be excellent. sir, If
people would pay the bills they owe"
said Mr.. Dibbs. curtly, as he replaced
n it's box a cracked Havana which a
customer had just refused.
Jack Redeemed. He had forgotten
hat he owed Dibbs s4.25, and that he
The Opelousas courier., 1905-12-16

do not fare as well as this, few there
are who are entirely forgotten.
A certain big department store in
one of the eastern cities has given
each of it's 1000 odd employees five dol
lars apiece for several years past. The
amount is not graded according to the
employees position and Importance.
The members of the firm take the
ground that they give the fve-dollar
bills simply as a reminder of the good
will they bear their workers, and so
the head of the silk department is not
entitled to a gift one 1.-THE bigger than
that received by the humblest package
wrapper in the store.
For some reason or other, five dol
lars has come to be looked on, out
side of banking and financial circles,
as about the right sum to be given
to employees. Inquiry among Office
workers In the sky-serapers and the
sales-people in the retail and whole
sale stores has substantiated this
statement.
But many a firm does not limit it's
Christmas box contributions to those
who work for it directly. This is par
ticularly true of concerns with Of
fees in the skyscrapers. The eleva-
tor men, the superintendent, the win
dow cleaners, the scrub women, ali are
taken care of. And the amount of
money they get is a caution. In one
of }ho loccor cLvcoroporc IF Nyou, vorl~
the three elevator men, when they
counted up their gifts on last Christ
mas eve, found that they had received
a little over 500 apiece. These men
had put up a box, artistically painted
with holly designs, in each elevator.
Quite a lot of small change was
dropped into them, but more was
given them direct by the tenants, in
sums varying from 81 to $25.
The Christmas pickings Of this trio
are small, though, when compared
with that of the men who run eleva-
torsii in the great Office buildings that
have several thousand tenants instead
of several hundred, as in the trio's
case.
=EA Ee- E nZE&
Another class of men which reaps
q harvest during Christmas week is
the walters. In the downtown res
t%aurants of New York, Philadelphia
and Chicago, where only lunch is
served, the waiter who does moi clear
SIS over and above his usual per-
quisites feels sure that there is no
good will toward men" on earth. Yet
his holiday tips would be regarded
a mere pittanee by the dignifed
who attends to the stom-
wants in the swell hotels up
town. Five and ten-dollar bills come
MS way In a seemingly never-ending
stream. For your millionaire at din
ner around the mellow season infsl
the chief aid to good digestion in max
ing happy those who wait on him.
Walters who ought to know, declare
that it is not uncommon for a waiter
such a place as the Waldorf-Astoria
g come out $500 and $400 and even
300 ahead during holiday week.
Merely In New forks ffrst-ciass
hotels and restaurants there are over
The Opelousas courier., 1905-12-16
he WANTED TO KNOW MUCH
An Inquisitive Youngsters Efforts to
Obtain Information About
Christmas Day.

II was two o'clock in the morning,
and Higgins was as sleepy as the aver
age man is at that hour, but the little
lad OF four in his little bed near by
was just as wide awake as some chill.
dren are apt to be at any hour of the
night, relates the Detroit Free Press.
What is it?" asks papa.
"When's Christmas?" .
"Oi, before long"
When is before longe'"
Well, it's O You go to Steep
Il don't want to-. I'm all walked up.
How soon is Christmas?"
Next week" >
Monday"
"No-you go to Sleep"
THE day after Monday"
"No-not until Saturday. Now, you
shut up your peppers right away. 1
want to go to Sleep
Il cont. Say, papa!"
What do you want?"
What you going to buy me?"
II can't tell yet"
Il wouldn't want you to, T. you
could, papa"
why not?"
I'D rather be s'prised.'
We'll. supposing you 's'prise me by
going to Sleep"
That wouldn't be any s'prise, cause
you'd know / was going to do 1t. Say,
papa. papa!"
What now?"
Sammy Smithers says th srs aint
Ia such thing as a Sanity Claus. There
is, isn't .aere?"
"oh, l suppose So"
Sammy he said you and my NAM
ma was al the Sanity Claus there'd. be
in this house. He was a big old liar,
wasn't he?"
There! there! Don't you ever call
anyone a liar"
Not even when they are one?"
Not at ALL"
@YoI can, If they're littler'n you are,
can't you?"
mo; you must neve call anyone a
liar
Well, he is one, all the same, isn't
he 2"
You so to sleep"
You're not Sanity Claus, are you,
papa. II Sammy Smithers says SO
again, Ill-well, I guess I'll break his
jaw"
Don't you yer let me hear you say
such a thing again. Now you go to
sleep. or maybe you'll not find any
thing at all in your stocking Christ
mas morning"
What you s,pose I'd find there If
I'm geod::p
"Oh, / don't know"
Then you're not Sanity Claus, and |
Sammy Smithers is a big, old liar.
goody, govt! / s'pect me an
fight about it, and"
mo, you'll not. But you'll go to
sleep right now, because"
do you s'pose I'd get a bike in my
mo, I do not"
Why"
Because you're not big enough to
have one"
But I'm getting bigger an bigger
all the time. an my legs is getting
an longer, an"
New, that will do. You shut right
lip, orr
Sammy he thinks he'll get a til
sycle, but I'll bet he don't. / wouldn't
want enc. They're only fit for girls.
Glad | amt a girl, because-you
pose I'll get a railroad train with
zeal smoke an steam coming out OF
mo, / do not, but
I'D rather have q steamboat to Hoa.
n the bathtub, or q real gun to shoot
/ know a boy I'd kill il I had
gun. Won't you buy me a gun?o
No, and I'll not buy you anything,
{ you don't go right to sleep.
We'll. I guess I will. / don't want
q know. anyhow. I'm asleep now,
,apa. My eyes are shut just as tight
IN all asleep. Are you, papa?
SO am I.
He is at least still, and Higgins il
thankful that he does not hear any,
hing more from him that night.
No Credit for Dad.
The Opelousas courier., 1905-12-16
Big Candles Costly.

The largest Christmas candies made
are nearly six feet high. weigh about
40 pounds. are Of pure white heeswax
and cost .s25 apiece.
Belding banner. (Belding, Mich.) 1889-1918, 1905-05-04
THEY ARE NAMED
Council Elected City Officers for
Ensuing Year.
Pumping station and stand Pipe Lo-
Gated In Park-Test Well Also.

At the regular annual meeting of
the common council held Monday
evening, the officers that hold place
by appointment and confirmation
were elected.
Dwight G.. Sheldon was reelected
city attorney with an increase in
salary to $3.50 a year, being a raise of
$50.
w w. Mitchell was elected mar
shall and also street commissioner,
poor commissioner and water com
missioner, the vote standing for
Mitchell and one for j. b. Essex.
The matter Of electing city physi-
clan a nd health officer was tabled for
a week.
Edwin Riker was appointed by the
mayor as night watch which the
council confirmed.
There were two applications for
city teamster, Robert Wells and Art
Bradish. Mr.. Wells was elected by a
vote OF to 2 in his favor.
Romano Robinson was made a
member of the auditing committee by
appointment of Mayor Bricker for 3
years.
The Banner was made the official
paper of the city.
The question of loo ating the pump
ing station for the waterworks sys-
tenn was discussed and it was decided
to locate it in the park and a test
well was ordered to be placed there.
Mayor Bricker and city attorney
-Sheldon submitted their report of an
Interview with the Pere Marquette
officials relative to foot bridge
crossing the river at the company's
bridge. The report stated that the
company were about to move the
south end of the bridge and tracks
several rods to the north of where it
is now and the matter would be in
vestigated by the officials as soon as
possible.
Belding banner. (Belding, Mich.) 1889-1918, 1905-05-04

At his home in Ellsworth April 2s,
1905, age % years and seven months.
He was born in Massachusetts, in 1912,
and was one of the Of the earliest pio-
neers Of Ionia county, Mich.
Coming with his wife and one child
in June 1888 to make his home in the
then new west. The journey in those
days was somewhat more arduous than
the travel of today. Coming around
the lake to Chicago, then across to
Grand Haven and by boat to Grand
Rapids, and moving his goods across
the country in a wagon to his future
home on the banks of Flat river, now
known as Whites Bridge in Otisco.
He lived in Ionia county forty one
years. He then moved to Lake county
where he resided at the time of his
death. lie was an energetic hard
working man, having cleared the for
ests and broken the land on four diff
erent farms.
he was DoIH plohccI, lONluB Iue
forest and streams and the rural sim
plicity of frontier life. He was of a
social disposition, genial and hospi-
table. lie said his nearest neighbors
in S3s were the red men Of the forest,
and they were friendly and kind. He
lived TO see great changes and inven-
tions. His earliest recollection of We
hieles were ox-carts and he lived to
have the pleasure of ride in the
horseless carriage of today. lie was
twice married, his first wife having
died'in 1s47, and the second in 1895,
eight children surviving.
He was laid to rest in the cemetery
in the village of Luther
Belding banner. (Belding, Mich.) 1889-1918, 1905-05-04

The Senate of the United States has
lost this year, one by the turn of the
political wheel of fortune and one by
death, two of its greatest members,
Francis Marion Cockrell, democrat of
Missouri, and Orville Hitchcock Platt.
Republican of Connecticut. These
statesmen-they were far more than
politicians-stood for all that was de-
sirable in member of the federal Con-
gress. With one voice anyone familiar
with the upper house of Congress would
have suggested their names if asked
which were two of the most honest
men in the Senate. Both staunch par
tisans, both were broad patriots. A
measure obviously right commanded
the support of both, irrespective of its
author or the political utilization of its
promoters. Neither man attracted
wide attention because neither played
to the galleries, but both were regard
ed as invaluable to the senate by those
who knew them.
Belding banner. (Belding, Mich.) 1889-1918, 1905-05-04

The Equitable's ugly row in New
York, over the undivided dividend of
so million dollars, is somewhat similar
TO purging undergone by the great
New York Life some 12 years ago. The
trouble is more than the mere personal
quarrel between two figure heads in
the case, it has back of it the desire to
control, for investment and manipula-
ton purposes, at least this vast surplus
of so million dollars of undivided pro-
fits. The Equitable policies provide
that the profits earned by each policy
shall not be divided or apportioned un-
til the end of the policies life, ten, if
teen, or twenty years as the case may
be. During all that period the officers
controlling the company have the abso-
lutte handling of the profits and are
required to make no accounting or di-
vision of them. Naturally Wall Street
interests would like to continue the
present plan of robbery in force.
Belding banner. (Belding, Mich.) 1889-1918, 1905-05-04
Epworth League Notice.

All young people and others who
have signed cards for the purpose of
becoming members of the Epworth
League will please take notice that
the reception will take place at the
church on Tuesday evening, May 9,
in connection with the social to be
held there. The date was set for
Sunday evening but it has been
changed and it is important that all
be present.
Belding banner. (Belding, Mich.) 1889-1918, 1905-05-04
Gas pipe Arriving.

Henry j. Leonard has received sew
eral carloads of gas pipe for the new
gas plant to be installed this summer
and 1t has been distributed at con-
venient places along the streets for
laying. The work of construction
will progress rapidly and excavating
will soon be commenced.
Belding banner. (Belding, Mich.) 1889-1918, 1905-05-04

Governor Warmers assistance that to
whatever extent the degree of primary
reform to be adopted by the present
legislature shall apply to the office Che
holds, must become effective while he
holds it, shows spirit and willing
ness that will be noted to his credit by
the people of Michigan. Governor
Warner need have no fear to submit
the matter of his denomination To a
vote of the full membership of his par
ty-and he evidently has none.
Belding banner. (Belding, Mich.) 1889-1918, 1905-05-04

The action of the common council in
granting the request of petitioners to
have the power house of the water
works system located in the city park
has caused considerable comment and
dissatisfaction. Many citizens are OPP
posed to having the park used for that
purpose and petition is being circu-
lated which will be presented to the
council to have the action rescinded.
1t is said that some of those whose
names appear on the petition, after a
closer investigation and consideration
of the matter, are convinced that they
were hasty in signing it. 1t is impor-
tant that no mistake shall be made in
this initial step toward installing the
system, as 1T might lead to complica-
tions which would be detrimental to
the best interests of the city.
AS stated IN an article on another
page the property purchased for
waterworks purposes on the flats and
for the payment of which bonds were
issued and sold, required a guarantee of
City Clerk Moulton and Attorney Shell
don, who negotiated them that
the property was to be used for the
system before the $4,000 was paid
over.
Let the council look carefully into
the matter before unwise action is
taken
Belding banner. (Belding, Mich.) 1889-1918, 1905-05-04
Brilliant SURGEONS Not Wanted.

Genius is some sort of neurosis, an
uncalculated nervous disease. The
lew men of genius | have met were
exceedingly impossible persons They
are certainly entirely out of place in
the medical profession, where even
cleverness is not to be encouraged in
deed, of all desperately dangerous per-
sons the brilliant surgeon is the most
lamentable.-Si Frederick Treves in
the Young Man.
Belding banner. (Belding, Mich.) 1889-1918, 1905-05-04
THE TROUT CATCHERS
May First Was UnfavorabIe For the
Fishermen-It was Cold.


Monday was raw day for the
sportsmen to get out and whip the
streams for trout but the willy fish are
usually hungry on the first day where
in their legal slaughter begins and
unless the streams are swollen and
muddy they snap at bait with zest.
Some fellows seem to be able TO catch
trout where it would look as though
there was not one in forty rods of the
place.
DR.. Ferguson, quite fisherman
himself, says he knows of two men
who went up and down the creek
Monday with equal opportunities for
catching trout, one of them hauled in
l6 while the other got one, he de-
clares however that he was not one of
the two.
Several catches have been reported,
Thos Doyle landed IL, Art Foss 5, Ed.
Sutphin III, Chas. Madden /, DR. Fer
guson 4, and NJ +. Tuck 10. w. p.
Hetherington went to Manistee for
few days fishing with his friend Rev.
j. j. Staley, arriving home today and
reported having had fine time and
excellent success, their catch was
over one hundred and forty.
b. f. Hall went to the streams in
the vicinity of Grayling and the
bunch got all they wanted to eat and
a whole lot to divide among their
friends.
|. l.. Hubbell and Il. M. Smell Of
Saginaw cast their hooks into the
streams near Garfield, returning this
morning with 104.
Belding banner. (Belding, Mich.) 1889-1918, 1905-05-04
Lohengrin Popular opera in Grand
Rapids.

Rapids.
The approaching Opera Festival to
be given in Grand Rapids by the
Henry w. Savage English Grand
Opera Co. will be made the more aus
picious by magnificent production
of Richard Wagner's most popular
masterpiece, "Lohengrin," on Satur-
day afternoon, May 9Th, and the oc
casion will undoubtedly prove as bril-
liant society as well as musical
event.
The overture will be played prompt
ly at o'clock and not one measure of
the beautiful score will be ignored,
the famous Wedding March being
sung, as well as Lohengrin's poetic
"Swan Song" "Elsa's Dream" the
mastery orchestral prelude in the
third act, and all the other sonorous
harmonies. This is only one of three
masterpieces to be given during the
Grand Rapids Festival. Verdi's most
tuneful work, 81 Trovatore.' being
sung in its entirety on Saturday aft
ernoon and Verdi's masterpiece,
"Othello,' being given Friday night
Out-of-town opera parties are being
organized by enthusiasts and all the
railroads are offering excursion rates
for this extraordinary event.
Belding banner. (Belding, Mich.) 1889-1918, 1905-05-04

Mr.. Carnegie has offered to donate
S24 100000 to the fund for superannuat-
ed Methodist Ministers, if others will
contribute like sum. Now is the
time for some of those metropolitan
ministers who receive salaries of $l0,-
900 year and upwards to afford the
world an example in true Christian
charity.
Belding banner. (Belding, Mich.) 1889-1918, 1905-05-04
BR0THERLY LOVE
Toledo Maccabees Render Assistance
to Mrs. Frank Mason.

Toledo Maccabees Render Assistance
to Mrs. Frank Mason.
The Maccabee order of which the
late Frank Mason was a member in
structed brother j. b. Essex to notify
the Maccabees of Toledo that his body
would arrive there on Monday and
asked that assistance be rendered
Mrs. Mason in making the transfer
from one depot to another which was
about two miles distant.
On arrival there a delegation of
four Maccabees from Lannon Tent
No. 1859 with an undertaken were
there to meet it and as the train was
a half hour late, it gave only p min
utes to make the transfer, it was ac-
complished however and Mrs. Mason
reached her destination on time.
j. b, Arnwine who accompanied her
as far as Toledo says had it not been
for the brother Maccabees assistance
she would have been delayed five
hours. This is indeed the true spirit
of fraternal obligations and brother
ly love, The names of the Macca-
bees were S. NJ. Jones, G.. w. Brown,
J. A. Lannon and James Feese.
Belding banner. (Belding, Mich.) 1889-1918, 1905-05-04

John Paul Jones, the first American
Admiral, was allowed to die in penury
and neglect in Paris tenement house.
Now that he has been dead over one
hundred years half the leading cities
in the Union are seeking to 10 him
honor
Belding banner. (Belding, Mich.) 1889-1918, 1905-05-04

Susan Il. Anthony says that Grover
Cleveland is not fit to talk about wo-
mems questions. Perhaps he knows as
much about women as Miss Anthony
does about husbands and divorces.
Belding banner. (Belding, Mich.) 1889-1918, 1905-05-04
Leads Race in Distinction.

Thomas Pearsons is the name Of
the first negro admitted 10 practice
in the United States District Court
at San Francisco. He was admitted
Jan. IS and is said to be a man of
education and ability.
Belding banner. (Belding, Mich.) 1889-1918, 1905-05-04

Major William w. Armstrong, the in
ventor of the rooster as the Democratic
emblem, has died without having in
vented anything for the bird to crow
about,
Belding banner. (Belding, Mich.) 1889-1918, 1905-05-04
Salt CONSUMPTION.

The annual consumption Of salt IN
England is forty pounds a head.
France consumes thirty pounds, Rus.
STA eighteen pounds, Austria sixteen
pounds. Prussia fourteen pounds,
Spain twelve pounds and Switzerland
eight rounds.
Belding banner. (Belding, Mich.) 1889-1918, 1905-05-04

The suggestion given through some
adjournment resolutions which have
been presented, that the legislature
will probably disband within the third
or fourth week of the present month,
is quite acceptable if no important
legislation shall be neglected. With
Belding banner. (Belding, Mich.) 1889-1918, 1905-05-04

The method employed by the cap.
tains Of the Nile boats TO keep the
natives away on landing is to turn
the hose on them.