The Lafayette gazette. [volume] (Lafayette, La.) 1893-1921, 1894-01-06
GOOD ADVICE.

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of the ST. Martin Reveille we came
across the following article written
by an intelligent and highly esteemed
young lady, who was the victim of
the most dastardly murder ever COM
mitted. in the State. The writer,
"a Looker-on in Vienna, is the un-
fortunate Miss Belle Robertson, who,
on q certain night, was strangled to
death by a black brute, near the
bed of her mother, whose throat
was cut. For this crime, the negro
Louis Michel was hung, and Boyd
Chambers is serving a life-sentence
in the penitentiary. The good sense
and Christian sentiments contained
in the article and the high consider
alton we entertain for the memory
of the deceased, have prompted us
to reproduce it: .
"A tiny stone cast into the calm, still waters
Of some tranquil lake will cause the ripples
to extend far and wide, and the unnssaS
commotion thrills with anxiety the inhabi-
tnnts thereof.
Just so the mighty stone of Progress roll
ing Into our midst creates a mighty ripping
indeed, and the waves beat against the sane
tuary itself, causing many hearts to throb as
though we were threatened with inundation,
bringing ruin and destruction instead of new
hopes, and a wider margin for the Faith,
older thar the everlasting hills themselves
the faith that teaches that one of the two
great laws is this Glove thy brother as thy
SELF ssThe greatest good to the
greatest number and by add
ing to our numbers add to our influence
for good; by educating the many we bring
our brothers more readily to the understand
ing of the Right, and by charging their
views we make them more nearly the chill
dren of that father whose love watches over
both, Jew and GENTLE. and with Whom
there is varying. Enlarge ye your
borders is a command from on high; we
are taught by the parable of the good Sama-
ritan who it was that loved his neighboI
best.
Surely in this fair region, stHeaven's
border-land," we who love it have named it,
their should be space for everything but dis
sension. The motto of our country teaches
us thut strength exists only in union. Why
not then put aside all ideas of meum and
eeu~; let us all work together for the COM
mon veal, not supposing that only one way
can we attain wishes-that there is but
one way and that it is possible for all to view
matters in the same light.
IF we are told that more shade was re-
quired to make our town more attractive tc
strangers, to increase our population, and ouI
power for good in the land, it would be oul
imperative duty to plant trees, to cultivate
shrubs, to invent new ways of providing
against overpowering and Objectionable
heat. And if we are told that we require
: more light, mental or otherwise, is it not oul
duty, still thriving for wider influence. te
all the efforts of those who may bring no
better and purer, but stronger, brighter
rays with greater range of focus No fea
chose whose efforts opened the way to this
may loose their moral weight; religion Rns
education cannot conflict but rather mus
the one be always strengthened by the other
and the soft, pure radiance eu,anating from
the one source will purify and elevate tn
other.
Only let the opportunity for obtaining
Hspah be U6ASaed and each will in its owl
epherwfi1d material for the exercise of it
functions.
The whole country is watchin,
Florida. II it shall permit the fgh
20 take D lace it will be held in perpet
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