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The Lafayette gazette. [volume] (Lafayette, La.) 1893-1921, 1895-03-09
Giving the News.

Publishers and editors are a much
abused class, and their principal ac-
cusers and condemners are those
who never advertise, who never sub
scribe for the paper, who never give
a single news item, and who are al
ways ranting about howgood u news
paper is somewhere else.
That is all bosh, and there are
just as good newspapers in one place
as in another, with this. provis O.,
however, that the people of the
community in which the newspaper
is published, will patronize it, adj
vertise in it. and when asked for an
item of news, give it instead of shut
ting right up like turtle it it's shell.
If you know anything that inter
ests you, why, tell the newspaper
reporter about it and he will fiX it
up so it will interest many besides
yourself. Then, in that m amer, the
paper contains local news. But it's
no use thinking local news can be
cleaned when everybody remains
and to the query.
tsWhat's the news?" reply, "Noth-
ing" There is moral to all this.
Lake Charles Echo.
The Lafayette gazette. [volume] (Lafayette, La.) 1893-1921, 1895-03-09
An Accomplish.

Last Monday Deputies Billaud
and Veazey arrested a negro named
Andre Gary and lodged him in Jail.
Cary is charged with being an ac
complete in the waylaying of Jor
don Benton some tine ago. He
was arrested upon information fur
nished the officers by Navarro who
was charged with the crime at the
time it was committed.
The Lafayette gazette. [volume] (Lafayette, La.) 1893-1921, 1895-03-09
A Strange Freak,

Gus Lacoste is always doing
some funny things. He is given to
telling incredible fish and bird
stories. This time it is yellow
partridge that he has killed, and
though it may seem strange he has
brought the bird to town to back
his story. 1t is a yellow partridge
sure enough and Gus has sent to
New Orleans to have it stuffed.
The Lafayette gazette. [volume] (Lafayette, La.) 1893-1921, 1895-03-09
ODelO,,sas hoe 8 Daily.

Our bright young friend. Ray
mond Breaux, has started daily
paper in Opelousas. The modest
little daily is styled the Evening
Call and is newsy and well-edited
and deserves success. Raymond is
one of the most promising young
newspaper men in the State and we
believe, under his management, the
Call will prosper.
The Lafayette gazette. [volume] (Lafayette, La.) 1893-1921, 1895-03-09

Mr.. Eloi Mouton, an old and
highly respected citizen of this par
ish, died last Saturday at 80 years
of age. Mr.. Mouton had always
lived in this parish and leaves a
large number of descendants. Mrs.
Felix Begnaud, of this town is a
granddaughter Of the deceased,
The Lafayette gazette. [volume] (Lafayette, La.) 1893-1921, 1895-03-09
Eclipse of the Moon.

There will be total eclipse of
the moon on Sunday night, March
10. The eclipse will begin a few
moments before 8 O'Clock and will
be total from few minutes before
10 O'Clock until few minutes be-
fore 1890 O'Clock.
The Lafayette gazette. [volume] (Lafayette, La.) 1893-1921, 1895-03-09
The DusOn School.

The Gazette congratulates the
people of Duson upon their new
public school teacher, Robt Cum
bingham, who reopened the school
at that place last Monday. Mr..
Cunningham is very competent
young gentleman and we believe he
will give entire satisfaction to the
patrons of the school
The Lafayette gazette. [volume] (Lafayette, La.) 1893-1921, 1895-03-09

John Bernard Vandergritf, he of
French manners and tonsorial at
tainments, requests us to state that
the hard times do not affect his
abilities as barber and coiffeur of
the highest order, and that he is al
ways ready to serve the public.
The Lafayette gazette. [volume] (Lafayette, La.) 1893-1921, 1895-03-09

Mr. Edmond Mouton was in town
this week and in conversation with
a Gazette reporter stated that the
payment of t;le bounty would prove
a godsend 70 the canegrowers in
his neighborhood. Over $500 tons
of cane were shipped from Mouton's
Switch last year.
The Lafayette gazette. [volume] (Lafayette, La.) 1893-1921, 1895-03-09
big Engines

Two Louisiana Western engines
just from the Schenectady I.ocomo-
tive Works steamed through Lafa-
.yette Thursday. These locomo-
tives weigh each 100 tons and the
wheels measure S feet by nine in
ches, AMI the cylinder 10 by "a
inches.
The Lafayette gazette. [volume] (Lafayette, La.) 1893-1921, 1895-03-09

General Manager Eruttschnitt,
General Superintendent Van Week
and other Southern Pacific officials
passed through Lafayette Tuesday
on their way to Houston.
The Lafayette gazette. [volume] (Lafayette, La.) 1893-1921, 1895-03-09

The Gazette regrets to learn that
yound Armand Leblanc IS still
seriously i'll at the home of his
grandfather, Mr.. Ozeme Leblanc.
The young gentleman is very low
and it is not thought that he will
recover
The Lafayette gazette. [volume] (Lafayette, La.) 1893-1921, 1895-03-09

Judge Jas. T.. Mouton. of St.
Martinviile, was called to Lafayette
last Friday by the death Of his
mother. The Judge returned home
Sunday.
The Lafayette gazette. [volume] (Lafayette, La.) 1893-1921, 1895-03-09

r. V. Mouton, agent of the Texas
and Pacific Company, at Placque
mines, was summoned to Lafa-
yette last Saturday on account of
Edmond Mouton.
The Lafayette gazette. [volume] (Lafayette, La.) 1893-1921, 1895-03-09
Stub Ends of Thought.

Detroit Free Press.
1t is really pathetic TO hear an
old bachelor say that he is peri. CT
ly happy, and try to prove it:
1t isn't every rich man who earns
ar honest living.
The Lafayette gazette. [volume] (Lafayette, La.) 1893-1921, 1895-03-09

DR.. Eugene J. Chachere, we'll
known in Lafayette where he lived
last Sunday. He was 80 years Of
age.
The Lafayette gazette. [volume] (Lafayette, La.) 1893-1921, 1895-03-09

George Pelfcrkorn win deliver
FISH at domiclc every Wednesday
and Friday. Give him your or
ders.
The Lafayette gazette. [volume] (Lafayette, La.) 1893-1921, 1895-03-09

b. Falk and l.. Levy made shor
visit to relatives in Lake Charlie
las Saturday.
The Lafayette gazette. [volume] (Lafayette, La.) 1893-1921, 1895-03-09

Judge Sidney Greig was in town
Wednesday, being summoned to
appear as a witness before the dis
trict court.
The Lafayette gazette. [volume] (Lafayette, La.) 1893-1921, 1895-03-09

Simonet Leblanc, of Abbevillc,
was in Lafayette Wednesday. His
many friends here where glad to meet
him.
The Lafayette gazette. [volume] (Lafayette, La.) 1893-1921, 1895-03-09

Louise rapis sier, the popular
druggist from Carencro, paid The
Gazette visit Monday in compa-
ny with his friend, Louis Livet.
The Lafayette gazette. [volume] (Lafayette, La.) 1893-1921, 1895-03-09

Mr. A. Labe visited Jeanerette
Wednesday, returning home Thurs
day.
The Lafayette gazette. [volume] (Lafayette, La.) 1893-1921, 1895-03-09
For Sale.

Horses and mules for sale at E.
H. Vordenbaumen's lumber yard.
Cash or for good notes.
The Lafayette gazette. [volume] (Lafayette, La.) 1893-1921, 1895-03-09

Judge Simon, of St. Martinvifle,
was in Lafayette this week attending
to some legal business.
The Lafayette gazette. [volume] (Lafayette, La.) 1893-1921, 1895-03-09

A. G. Guilbeau, of Carencro,
and his friend, Mr. Lemaire, of
New Iberia, were in Lafayette
Thursday.
The Lafayette gazette. [volume] (Lafayette, La.) 1893-1921, 1895-03-09

Felix Mouton, who is employed
by the Texas and Pacific Company
at Alexandria, was i'll town Satur-
day.
The Lafayette gazette. [volume] (Lafayette, La.) 1893-1921, 1895-03-09

Mrs. B. Fa1k was a visitor in
Lake Charles Friday and Saturday.
The Lafayette gazette. [volume] (Lafayette, La.) 1893-1921, 1895-03-09

= Constable Montague, of Yer
million parish, was here Monday
and arrested a negro wanted in that
parish for larceny.
The Lafayette gazette. [volume] (Lafayette, La.) 1893-1921, 1895-03-09

Mrs c. H. VOORHEES,, of ST. Mar
tinville, was the guest of Mr.. Alfred
VOORHEES, family this week.
The Lafayette gazette. [volume] (Lafayette, La.) 1893-1921, 1895-03-09

Pierre Doucet and Roaul Gentil
visited friends in New Orleans last
Saturday.
The Lafayette gazette. [volume] (Lafayette, La.) 1893-1921, 1895-03-09

Fresh Dove Ham as we'll as large
variety Of fresh groceries on hand
at Mouton & Sales.
The Lafayette gazette. [volume] (Lafayette, La.) 1893-1921, 1895-03-09
Alexis VOORHEES,, the drummer
was in Lafayette Wednesday.

Mrs. Ed Schulz visited relatives
in New Orleans Tuesday.
The Lafayette gazette. [volume] (Lafayette, La.) 1893-1921, 1895-03-09

Simonet Breaux was among tn
visitors from Carencro Monday
The Lafayette gazette. [volume] (Lafayette, La.) 1893-1921, 1895-03-09

Olivier Couvillon, of Carencro,
was in town Monday on business.
The Lafayette gazette. [volume] (Lafayette, La.) 1893-1921, 1895-03-09

What are our faults TO some are
our virtues to others.
The Lafayette gazette. [volume] (Lafayette, La.) 1893-1921, 1895-03-09

Mrs. w. Bernard has been visit
ing relatives at Lafourche Crossing.
The Lafayette gazette. [volume] (Lafayette, La.) 1893-1921, 1895-03-09
THE GAZETTE.

.Sx6se,ipfsos Price, ST. Per Yea,
-s%>~ree.~@>~-~~->>>---> ~ q 49,
Sheriff Broussard made a flying
trip to New Orleans this week.
sOvey Savoy, the hustling young
planter. was in town Tuesday.
The Lafayette gazette. [volume] (Lafayette, La.) 1893-1921, 1895-03-09

MIR. Z. II. Knight, at one time
assistant agent at the Southern Pa
cific depot, has returned to Caren-
GRO for few days, relieving
OneratOr IhibodauN.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1895-05-09
FROM FOREIGN LANDS.

Arton, the intermediary in the
Panama scandals, is reported to be
residing in London.
The report of the illness of Prince
Joaquin sixth son of Emperor Will
liam, is officially confirmed. The
young prince is suffering from infiam-
nation of the bowels.
A German has invented a small
house, capable of holding four or five
persons, to be used in diving and
working in sunken ships or valuable
wreckage of other character.
Electric heat has been applied with
I success to the thawing out of frozen
water pipes in England. A wire is
run into the pipe until it meets the
obstruction and then the current Is
turned on.
DR.. Charles Waldstein, director of
the American school at Athens, has
just been elected Slade professor of
fine arts for three years at Cambridge
university. The Slade professor must
give not less than twelve public lee
lures a year, for which he receives
$1,75O.
Dangers of ballooning are to be
mitigated by the invention Of a French
man which provides for the equipment
of a cylinder of membrane to the car,
so arranged that by the pressure of
button it may be automatically in
fated with air in the event of the
balloon falling into the sea.
The Textile Workers association,
representing Lancashire, Yorkshire,
Derbyshire and Cheshire, have decided
that two candidates for parliamentary
+ seats should be elected and that each
should be paid $1,000 a year. David
Holmes and James Mawdley were Sc
lected, but the latter is unable to ac-
cept the invitation and a meeting Is
to be held toward the end Of the month
to decide on a new nomination.
An interesting movement has been
initiated by a few of the Hebrew
leaders in London to secure the bet
ter physical training of Hebrew lads
and young men in the more cOngeSted
districts Of Jewish population. The in
tention is to establish something more
than an East End gymnasium. A
weekly drill and parade are spoken of,
as well as an annual summer camp on
some great open space like Dartmoor
and Salisbury Plain.
The sirdar Of Egypt, who has just re-
turned to Cairo from the maneuvres on
the frontier, says that the troops
acquitted themselves most creditably.
Their powers of endurance were sub
jected to a severe and successful test
by a remarkable march of $50 miles in
the desert, averaging twenty-seven
miles a day. A flying column of 200
men marched in eight days from Wady
Halfa to Murat Wells and back to
Korosko Only one man and one
camel were sick.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1895-05-09

sands upon thousands Of gold and
silver pieces. Silently he and Bruno
heaped the treasure upon a handbar-
! row, covered it with q blouse and
wheeled it TO farm through the livid
half light Of the evening.
{ Nothing was said of the dead miser,
but the thoughts Of all turned to him
a little more lovingly.
Their wealth was great enough for
: them to have enjoyed 10 years of
luxurious life in the great cities far
away: out Michel and Justine. in spite
of their opulence, determined to live on
the farm, to change nothing in their
way of life-in the peace of their
hearts and in the joy of their love and
in the delight of dreaming of amassing
great fortune for their children.
Who shall say what constitutes the
summum bonum of human happiness
From the French. in the Strand
Magazine.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1895-05-09
DRIVING PILES.
Dynamite is Now Used to Force the
Piles Downward.

Engraving by dynamite, by which
such exquisite tracings of delicate
leaves, grasses and ferns are made on
metal surfaces through the explosive
force of material, was discovered
accidentally. Some officers at the naval
station at Newport were testing a new
fuse. In some way a small dried leaf
had slipped in between the dynamite
cartridge and the iron block on which
the charge was fired. and perfect i'm
print of the leaf was left inthe metal.
The discovery was afterwards ui-
Ilized in decorative work. and the pro-
cess is found so accurate in operation
that even the veins in the petals of
flowers can be reproduced in metal.
\ writer in an engineering journal
calls to mind another service of I'M
usual character into which dynamite
has been drifted, namely, the driving
of piles. Some years ago the founda-
lions were being prepared for a public
building in BUDAPEST. and the pre-
liminary work of pile-driving had been
finished. 1t was. however. discovered
| that a change in the construction
of the building would be necessary,
which would add considerably to it's
pressure on the foundations. The piles,
| therefore. had to be driven in further
The expence of bringing a pile-driver
to bear on each pile for a small an
amount of work would have been very
great, and it was decided to try dyna-
mite The piles were cut square and
capped with wrought iron plate about
fifteen inches in diameter and four and
one-half inches thick. In the centre
of this plate was placed a cake of
dynamite, six inches in diameter and
about three-quarters of an inch thick.
1t was wrapped in parchment paper,
covered with clay and ignited. The
effect of the explosion was equal to
that of five blows from a 1,500-pound
monkey falling from a height of about
ten feet. The iron plates resisted from
twenty to twenty-four explosions.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1895-05-09
AUTOMATIC LICKER.
Account of a Somewhat Remarkable
Invention.

New York Sun: The most curious
labor-saving device l ever heard of, -
said Col. Calliper, was an automatic
Ticker that was invented by a school
teacher named Socrates JilkinS, who
was we'll known at one time some
years ago in Storkville Center, Yer
mont, and that vicinity. Mr.. J1kinS
was as gentle-hearted a man as ever
lived, but he believed in whipping,
and he never failed to whip the boys
when he thought they deserved it; in
fact, I'm not sure but what he whipped
them rather oftener than that. in or
der to keep himself square with his
conscience.
at was a pretty big school and a
pretty lively lot of boys, and lickin'
! 'em took up a good deal of SOcra teS'
time. So he invented this automatic
Ticker. 1t was very ingenious con-
trivance and at the same time eX-
tremely simple. 1t was a wooden post
with clockwork inside of it near the
top to turn a horizontal spindle which
projected out beyond the side of the
post. To the outer end of this spindle
was attached, at right angles, a ruler
or rattan, which, when the clockwork
vertical plane; it was something like a
small-armed windmill.
"Mr Jinkins set this post up on one
corner of the platform, and when a
fn ~
him, wind up the Ticker, stand the boy
at such a distance that at every revO-
luton it made the ruler would come
down on the boys extended hand, and
when he had got it nicely started Mr..
Jilkins would go back to the other
side of the platform and go on with
his teaching. You can easily see what
a saving of time this was.
"But Mr.. Jilkins, ingenious as he
was, had overlooked one thing; he had
failed to provide the machine with an
adequate governor. He had figured
out that the resistance offered at reg
ularly recurring intervals by the hand
Of the boy would be sufficient to keep
the machine from running too fast,
and so it was as long as the machine
was a novelty; but after that, when
Mr.. Jilkins had gone over to the other
side of the platform, the boy being
whipped would as likely as not take
his hand out of line, and then the
Ticker would race, as a screw propeller
sometimes does when it is lifted out
of water, and it wasn't long before the
Ticker had racked itself out of work
ing order. Mr.. Jilkins fixed it once,
but it soon got out of repair again, and
then he went back to the old way.
''But for years after that the post Of
the automatic Ticker still stood on the
platform; its arm was removed, but l
remember we'll one day tearing my
jacket upon the still projecting
spindle"
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1895-05-09
JUSTINE AND Her LOVER

For long time ROch had lived alone
with his son. in his house, built of
reeds and stones, by the roadside, I'M
der the hill overlooking The far-off lit
tie town. He was the owner OF rich
lands planted with vines, both on the
hillside and in the plain Only Oh rare
occasions he Quilted his own paths to
climb into the mountain woods to shoot
the hare or gather mushrooms and
salads.
Persons sometimes came to see him,
mostly on the eve Of vintage, to treat
for the purchase of the fruit, which he
sold on the vines for ready money. and
on no other terms. At these times
after business. he would invite the
dealers or his comrades to drink q
bottle of wine. over which he would
gravely talk about the doingS of his
youth. his health. all the while laugh
ing the laugh of the master. sitting at
his door in the sun. his fowls picking
and scratching in the straw and dust
around him.
His son Michel reSembled him
IClosely-blOnde. squares houldered with
beard and hair tufted like the BRAN
bleS in ravine.
The old man was becoming gray
and bushy eyebrows protected his keen
little eyes, which took dreamy eN-
preston when. at the close of the day
he sat upon his stone bench and saw
the trembling sea and darkness over
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1895-05-09
CALLS THE SOCIETY A SHAM.
New York Minister Bitterly Assails
the Charity Society.

Rev. John \. 3. Wilson, of the
Eighteenth Street NJ. E. church, New
York, who recently spent all night Cd
the city streets. made the following
statement: There are 100000 men.
hungry. ill-clad and shelterless. walk
ing the streets of New York every
night. They are not tramps or Grim
inalS. and should not be treated as
such. They are willing to work. but
cannot find anything to do. Yet, if
one of these applies at police station
for lodging" he continued. she is sent
to the island as a vagrant The same
fate probably awaits him if he goes
to the Charity Organization Society.
the greatest fraud on charity in this
city. Certainly he does not get relief
from that society. Shelter is not given
or food provided. At the best. he is
only given a promise of relief in the
indefinite future, and in the meantime
may perish of hunger and cold. 1t
makes my blood boil to think of that
society parading under the cloak of
charity. 1t levies tribute upon the rich
who pay it for protecting them from
the opportunities of the poor. The
Charity Organization Society is found
ed not on the principles laid down by
Jesus, but on the practice of barbara
ans. 1t is time that men should learn
that the work of charity cannot be
delegated. If each person should con
tribute his own aims less would be
given to the undeserving and more
good would be done the poor than
under this system of so-called or
ganiZed charity"
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1895-05-09
LITTLE ALCOHOL IN CHAM
PAGNE.
The Wine Exhilarates Rapidly Be
cause of Carbonic Acid Cas-

There are two peculiaritieS about
BILE of explanation. The one is the
rapidity with which the wine ex-
hilarates, Notwithstanding the small
proportion of alcohol it contains.
This is due, says the New York Com
mercial, to the carbOnic acid gas
evolved which is inhaled when drink
ing, for it is the property of this gas
to expedite the action of anything
with which it is associated. It is es-
timated that one glass Of champagne
is equal in effect to two glasses of
still wine of the same strength, and
is more rapid in action. The other
peculiarly is the sort Of lethargy or
champagne drinking. This is anal
Ogous to the stupOr produced by car
bonic acid gas; but it is assisted and
intensified by the excess of sugar de-
ranging the stomach. The undgested
sugar turns into acid, and thus it is
that too much champagne is apt to
produce dyspepsia. Herein we find
both the blessing and the bane of this
popular liquor. Sweetness is often
confused with richness in wine, but,
as a matter of fact, sweetness is often
produced by the addition of sugar,
especially in champagne. It has been
compared to charity, in that it covers
a multitude Of sins. The richness pro-
ceeding from natural sacchrine is pro-
duced by natural arrest Of the pro-
cess of fermentation, leaving an excess
of saccharine in the liquor. 1t occurs
mostly in the hot climates, but in port
making a richness is produced by the
artificial arrest of fermentation. AS a
medicine, however, champagne is best
dry" and its tendency then is to thin
the blood