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The Lafayette gazette. [volume] (Lafayette, La.) 1893-1921, 1895-03-02

= That Old Reaper.
Father Time who 'sreaps the bearded grain
at q breath, and the flowers that grow be-
tween. - spares for q green and hale old age
those who counterfeit the tndrmtties Incl
dent to increasing ye0rs with Hostetter'S
Stomach Bittcr9. For rheumatism, lum b0go
poverty Of the blood, dyspepsia, neuralgia
tonic and health preserver methodically.
DEsrERApo lfrom Colorado) -..Your
money or your life.'' Yraveler-''Hcre.
take this purse OF gold!' Desperate with
feeling(- ''Keep it, stranger. I'm q thief,
but amt no goldbug. Life.
Great Rock leland Route Playing Cards.
II you send Is cents in stamps or coin to
JOHN SEBASTIAN, Gent Pass. Agent, c., r.
I. &c p. Ry. Chicago, you will receive post
paid the shckest pack OF playing cards
you ever handled. Beautiful steel engraved
Whist Rules accompany them free.
HE-.I think you love me. Am right %
She-.No; you are left.'-P. & s. s. Co.'S
Bulletin.
LIKE Oil Upon Troubled Waters Is Hale's
Honey Of Horehound and Tar upon q cold.
He who is careful to speak a word in SEQ
son should be just as careful to speak o
seasoned word.-Young Mems Era.
I BELIEVE Piso's Cure for CONSUMPTION
saved my boys life last summer.-birs.
ALLIE DOUGLASS, Leroy, Mich, Oct. 20, '94.
Mo1HEn-"You are at the foot of the
spelling :, class ,, again ~: are Xous" Boy.
too many Us in scissors.''-Good News.
The Lafayette gazette. [volume] (Lafayette, La.) 1893-1921, 1895-03-02

:. Mrs. scRAPLE1an (angrilyl-.'Just look At
playing poker", Mr.. 6crnpleigh Calmly
YES and just look at the money you lose
every Monday NOTHING buying bargains. rs
The Lafayette gazette. [volume] (Lafayette, La.) 1893-1921, 1895-03-02

=. TELL U.S." cried the group Of nnaSdens,
tive ssThat s. easv,s' fepiied the sage,
without even raising hfseyes from his book
Get . fortune and stay single.'-lndianap
ola Journal. 49, - - ..s-.-.--'--
The Lafayette gazette. [volume] (Lafayette, La.) 1893-1921, 1895-03-02

The hookah, or oriental state pipe,
is deemed of such importance that in
the courts of princes a special function
airy has no other duty than TO keep L.
h order.
The Lafayette gazette. [volume] (Lafayette, La.) 1893-1921, 1895-03-02

What did you do to get here?'' In
CURED the visitor at the yvorlshouse.
Nothing" replied the sad-eyed in
mate. II am doing time for vagrancy."
st. Louis Republic,
The Lafayette gazette. [volume] (Lafayette, La.) 1893-1921, 1895-03-02

II can not live without you"
The love-lorn Suitcr sighed:
And could not live with 70, =
Tho wealthy maid replied.
The Lafayette gazette. [volume] (Lafayette, La.) 1893-1921, 1895-03-02

What do the men do at the club,
John?''
We'll. Maria, they pass most of the
time praising their wives
Yes, and should judge from you1
breath when You come home that they
use very strong language in doing so.
Boston Gazette.
The Lafayette gazette. [volume] (Lafayette, La.) 1893-1921, 1895-03-02
Adds Nothlne TO It.

Tho telephone Is like = woman; il
tells everything st hears. ?
Yes. that's so. And it's unlike q
syyoman; IL tells : thing just IS IL hears
it.r-Lifc.
The Lafayette gazette. [volume] (Lafayette, La.) 1893-1921, 1895-03-02
Luck Is No Name for n.

Mr.. Twitter-Didn.t tell Won. Maria.
that the Nevvcds werc the luclSiest
people in the yvorld2
Mrs. Twitter-Yes, dear; but what
puts them into your head just now?
Mr.. Twitter-I met Newcd to-day.
and he told me that their last baby had
been born Brooklyn Life.
The Lafayette gazette. [volume] (Lafayette, La.) 1893-1921, 1895-03-02
Be independent /! :: En- ~: -, a ss

WHEN WRITING To AOVERTIe En0 PLEASu
state that you saw the AAvertIseu.ese n ehs,
D0DeH.
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of mile, But nothing serious occurred. When the explosion took place. the proiectlle went straight as a bullet to the mark, exploded as he planned that 1t should, and tore most of the target to pieces. Thus successful was the first rihed cannon ball ever fired in thls or any other country, A second discharge with the same precautions was not so successful 1t striking the target asllew for it took later experience to teach that this was the fault of the projectile. and that to secure the straight passage through the air 1t must be of even thick ness and evenly balanced, Later, after many experiments, it was adopted by the War department as an improvement of great value.
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Where He Drew the Line.

The man who sold windmills adjust ed his chair at new angle, crossed his feet on the railing of the balcony, locked his hands over the top of his head, and began:
 Curious fellows, those Wayback farmers are; droll chaps to deal with, too; cute and sharp at a bargain. Most of them know a good thing when they see it, so I took a good many orders; but once in a while I come across a conservative old hayseed whose eyes are closed to anything modern. One of that sort helped me to a good laugh the other day, and I might as well pass it on.
 ''He was genial, white-headed old fellow, who owned several fine farms, with prime orchards and meadows, barns and fences in apple-pie ordsr, and dwellings serene in comfort.
 He listened closely while I expatia- ted on the excellence of our make of our machines; then taking a fresh sup ply of Cavendish, he squared himself in his chair, with his hands in his pock cts, and held forth in this fashion:
 "'Waal, Stranger he said, your ma- chine may be all right; but now see here. I settled here in the airly fifties, broke the trail for the last few miles,
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COESYDFRATE.

"Ah," he sighed as his wife went to onfer with the delegation of her constit- uents, "this is no such campaign as mother used to make. ."-Detroit Trib- une.
 Magistrate-If you were there for no dishonest purpose, why were you in your stockinged feet? Burglar-I heard there was sickness in the family, your worship.-Tit-Bits
 'He is goodJnatured, is he?'' Good natured? Why, I have known that man to wear smiling face when he was speaking of taking off a porous plasterr'-Boston Courier.
 q wonder" unused Rivers, "what Colonel Trotter, the sporting man, is going to Africa for" Perhaps" sug- gested Banks, Che wants to make a book on the black race. Chicago Trib- une.
 He-The colors along the country roads this fall seem more beautiful and variegated than ever. She-Oh, indeed You've noticed some of the loud bicy- cle boomers, have you?-Yonkers oldLGSIleliH
 Something Wrong.-It was a very cold morning, and Robbie came rushing into the house very much excited. '.Mom- mer," he cried, there's something the matter with me. Please send for the doctor. Pm breathing fogr'-Harper' s Round Table.
 Jinks-To-day pleased a pretty wo- man by telling her that a certain red faced, snub-nosed, bald-headed mortal looked like her. Winks-Get out! Jfnks-The red-faced, snub-nosed, bald headed mortal was her first baby.-New York Weekly.
 The Benefit of the Doubt.-Matron- Now. is this novel a fit one for my daughter to read? Bookseller-Hm m. Well, candidly, madam, I think it a book of doubtful morality. Matron- We'll, I'll take it. Most of those I've read lately have been of undoubted im- moraIitY.-Life.
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ANOrHER RLESSTNG.

Free wool has done SO much for this country that it is now announced that the woolen mills will have to shut down on account of dull business, The treas urer of the great Harris Woolen com- pany of Woonsoclset makes the state ment that only 120 of 15O looms have been running lately, and that he has not had orders to keep the mill running at it's full capacity for some time, If this concern with it's celebrated cloths Is obliged to have one-flfth. or twenty per cent, of its machinery idle on ac- count of lack of demand, what must be the situation in mills whose products are less known and not in constant de- mand?
 Meanwhile the woolen industry in England seems to be all right. This country has been greatly blessed in be- ing the humble instrument by which the prosperity of the woolen and shoddy mills of England has been increased, and the theorists who have made it the humble instrument are entitled to full credit for the glorious achievement.
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WoMEN,s WoEK AND pAY.

Why do women get less pay than men for the same kind of work? The Mas sachusetts Bureau of Statistics has tried to find out, and though it has not wholly succeeded it has made some progress toward success. The inquiry was directed to those engaged in pur- suits chiefly professional, technical, and mercantile, and they were invited to give not only facts but opinions.
 Though the returns are not very con- prehensive, they cover 8. considerable range of employment and are well dis tributed over the country. On the question of immediate interest, 15O of the 2S1 employed on the same work as men report that men receive more pay than women, 95 report the same pay for both, and that men receive less than women. The reasons often advanced for different rates of pay. that men have to support others than
 themselves, and are more constant in
 their avocations than are women, are weakened somewhat by the results of the inquiry. It appears that 8. large
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Similar,-Mr, Wlckwire-I wonder what are the feelings of a deposed sov- ereign2 Mrs, Wickwire--I imagine the contrast is something similar to that felt when one has bought all one wants, and is merely sitting around in the way waiting for her change,-Indian- apolis Journal
 You certainly have selected the love Hest spot in the cemetery for your hus- bands grave" said the clergyman con- solingly I'm sure he would be grati- lied The widow shook her head. John wasn't that kind" she said doubtfully, "He was one that never was contented with his lot, "-Harper's Bazaar.
 The Arctic Excursionist.--Far from the frigid North he had returned de- teated, dismayed, discouraged, And so,' his interviewer asked, you were again bafiled in your quest for the Pole?" The Explorer sighed sadly. "Yes," he said; 'the expedition was a frost and our provisions gave out; but even then"-his tones were as sad as ever-'we lived upon the fat of the land" And at the recollection he broke down and blubbered again,-Puck,
 Their First Quarrel.--She-Str how married people can quarrel isn't it, dear? Here we've been married two whole weeks, and not an unkind word has passed between us.
 He-We shall never quarrel, darling, until you begin it. never shall.
 She-That's just like man. I know youll be the first to quarrel.
 He--Now don't be unreasonable, dear. You.
 She-You never used to think me un- reasonable. Why didn't you find that out before you married me? Etc, etc., etc. Tears and door slam.-Boston Transcript.
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chean power From the Coal Fields.

Up to the present time substantially all the transmissions of any magnitude have been from water powers, and it is singular to note how their success has stimulated their production. Water powers have been discovered dn un- heard-of hooks, and even where they were hardly suspected. But there is an end to such discoveries, and sooner or later, beginning in the very near fu- next largest amount of unused energy remaining This is to be found in the huge store of fuel that is our legacy from the carboniferous age. How great it is we can only guess, for we have perhaps hardly begun to take ac- count of it. Yet this is no reason why we should play the spendthrift with that which we now have. Huge piles of waste coal are landmarks in every mining region, and below ground are enormous masses, untouched as yet be- cause of poor quality.
 The transportation of coal is really a special case of the transmission of en- ergy, and we may with perfect fairness compare it with electrical transmission. If it be cheaper and easier to ship coal from the mine ito the point of consump- tion than 1t is to burn the coal at the mine and transmit the resulting ener- gy, then the latter course must show cause for its existence. Goals, we i, while the cost of mining and transpor- tation is fairly uniform Hence, any examination of the question just raised must take this difference into account. While coal is plentiful and water pow CTS still remain unutilized, of course the temptation to work in the direction of colossal transmissions from cheap coal is partially removed. Yet 1t should not be forgotten that coal ought never to be cheap enough to throw away, and water powers are often of deceptive value. It often happens that the expense of developing them makes the investor sad, and wherever cheap coal Is available it deserves to be thor oughly investigated with reference to the possibility of electrical transmits sion.
 The present state of the case is that on a large scale the transmission of power from the culm pile, or the now unworl0ed coal mine, over even consid- erable distances stands a good chance of commercial success. The larger the plant and the steadier the service, the greater the distance over which power can be sent to compete with that gene rated on the spot.--Dr. Louis Bell ;n Cassier's Magazine.
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shells as the fish were consumed by the Indians. At every depth of this forma- ton l have found a fireplace in which fish were cooked, When the aecumula- ton of shells left these fireplaees in a hollow, these hollows were filled up and another fireplace was started above the old one, or in another place.
 An interesting fact has been proven by the surroundings of these flreplaces, and that is the inevitable conclusion that the original Florida Indian was a cannlbal, I have found together about these feeding places the bones of the wild turkey, the bones of a deer cracked open to get at the marrow, and the bones of human beings, charred and showing the result of cooking, If I had seen but one instance of this I should not make this assertion, but it has been proven by repeated discoveries, and the conclusion that I have reached is that the Indian of centuries ago in this state was in the habit of eating his kind,
 'The sand mounds were formed in a different manner. They are conical in shape, and were evidently built with great care. They were used as the bur ial places of the dead, and we have found evidences of their having also been used as places of residence. They were formed in strata or layers, which were built one above the other at wide- ly separated periods of time. l am also satisfied that they were constructed, at least many of them, in pre-Columbian periods, but how long before the discov- cry of America by Columbus l am not able to determine. We have been able to trace to a certain extent the relation of these Indians with the other tribes in other parts of the country. We have found many pieces of copper of the kind called lake copper, or that which is found in the northern peninsula of Michigan, and in the Lake Superior re- zion, from which the peculiar kind takes its name. These Indians did not have the knowledge of the alloys of the metals, and the lake copper is pure metal, while that which was known in Europe was alloyed, or was not taken from deposits of the Rure metal l have proven this fact by careful analysis of the metal that have found in these mounds, and my theories have been ac- cepted by the scientific world as bear ing on the antiquity of the Indian in this state.
 "An interesting fact has been also de- veloped in the study of anthropology ty the study of these mounds. It is in re gard to the stature of the ancient tribes as compared with the present western Indians. The measure of the length of mans thigh always bears a certain proportion to his height. With this as guide, I may say that have never found the bones of a man six feet tall in Florida sand mounds"
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THE DEYrL AND THE CRoW.

It is now generally known that the
 devil is not as black as he has been painted, and that the prince and the principle of evil are necessary and, on the whole, rather respectable features of the universe. This being so, nobody need be surprised by the discovery that the crow is' a bird to whom the farmer owes gratitude rather than poisoned corn, terror-breeding scarecrows and deadly buckshot. The blackness of the crows exterior cannot of course, be
 mitigated, but the blackness of his char acter can be. Those who have had 9 field of corn devastated in its early
 youth by the crow will be glad to know that he did not really mean it, and that he would not have done it had he
 known that the corn was valued by the
 growers thereof. And those who have
 had field so devastated twice in one season will be doubly glad to know that the crow did not really deserve the
 "cussing' he got.
 The crows interior department has been studied by the department of az
 riculture and the result of the study is as cheering as the news that criminals are not bad, but are only sick. It is a great relief to find that the crow is not a devil, and that if he has stolen young corn he has not done it with malice aforethought. Nearly thousand sto- machs of the bird were examined and it appeared that corn formed only twen- ty-five per cent. of the food of adult crows and that most Of this was waste
 grain of no commercial value. In the case of cultivated fruits the loss from crows is trivial. On the other hand, in- ! furious insects such as grasshoppers, May beetles and cut-worms form over | twenty-six per cent of the entire food ! of crows. After the May beetle season has passed grasshoppers constitute the greater part of the insect food of crows l to the end of the fall. Crows also de- stroy mice. rabbits and other injurious rodents.
 Good enough. Now let the farmers l treat the crow with the confidence and 1 respect he merits. Let TO more strings or scarecrows be put up around or in the | cornfields. Let the crow be encouraged 1 to come into the cornfields, and if in l his hunt for injurious insects he hap pens to pull up the corn let it be re- ! membered that corn forms only twenty I five per cent. of the food of adult crows. l There has been too little confidence in l and too little respect for the devil and 1 for the crow. That modern investiga- ton has shown both to be worthy of more esteem than they have had indi- cates the tendency of modern investiga- tion,
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blazin' the trees as we came along. l had fair start. good health, a yoke O cattle, a COW, an axe, with one bit an three coppers in my pocket. l built log house with a shake ruff an a pun cheon floor, an a cow-shed of popple poles ruffed with sod. I worked hard, up airly an down late, clearin' up land by degrees, an diggin' a livin' out O the sile by main strength, an no fa- vors except the blessin' O the Almigh- ty. The Lords been good to me. He's gin me housen an barns; He's gin me horses an cattle; He's gin me sheep an swine, an feathered fowl O many kinds. An now, stranger, after all that, I'll be everlastingly durned if I'll be so mean as to ask Him to pump wa ter for 'em.'
 And then" continued the story-tell- CT, The brought his hand down on his knee with a whack that fairly echoed through the house. Of course I couldn't urge him to purchase after that expression of his sentiments, and I left him. Independent, wasn't he?"
 Then the windmill man cluckled, as if he enjoyed the memory of the scene he had just described; and his hearers enjoyed his story so much that when he left he was richer by three or four orders.--From the Editors Drawer J in Harper's Magazine for November.
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percentage of the women of whom in- quiries were made-4l,42 per cent contributed to the support of others, and that the great majority of them have followed only one employment, To the direct question as to why they do not receive as much compensation as the men, the women give various ans wers. Among the point brought out is that women lower their pay because so many of them can and will work for pocket money" This harmonlzes, to an extent, with the answer given by the majority of employers ques- toned, that the lower rate of compen- sation paid to women is due to com petition. Another point, emphasized by the women, is the temperatures of work in the woman's view. Although no woman actually says it, many hint that the actual work from day to day is not so well done as it might be, be- cause the woman is thinking constantly of what she is to do in the direction of avoiding the necessity of working. All, employers and employed, are agreed that women should receive the same pay as men for the same work, and all ask earnestly for better preparation in fields where women are capable of good work.
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of silk and stiffened in the plain godet skirt. The fitted bodice extends a little below the waist line and has three pleats in the back and front that reach from neck to waist, besides three more of graduated lengths placed on top of the first and trimmed With groups of tiny steel buttons. The collar is of folded mohair, and even the toque is made of the dress stuff and trimmed with an accordeon pleated peasant bow of 1t.
 If the example set by women of ex- act taste and a. model of the simple beauty of this one be not enough to at tract toward mohair dress to be made as soon as possible or sooner, then it will be safe enough to defer the mo- hair gown till spring, or to keep it for the house. No other material in so pretty for little morning dresses, and it is now shown in china blues, rose pinks and butter yellows. Little dresses made up with lace and ribbon crisp and dainty as only mofair can be, will keep fresh and pretty longer than anything else that does not de- pend on starch. While the heroine of the gushing novelist lounges in a soft neglige all day long in her boudoire- and in a boudoire with an ''e'' mind you-the average woman wants a gown that will be pretty and at the same time take wear and shed dust. The latter quality is above all things that of mohair, and in such 2. dress you can spell boudotre 'sitting-room."
 FLORETTE.
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Sylvanus Sawyer, the inventor of the rifled cannon, has just died in Temple ten, Massachusetts, at the age of sev- enty-tfree. From his early boyhood, says the Springfield Republican,h he show ed a strong mechanical bent. In 1850 he invented a machine for splitting rat tan. In 1854 he tested the model of his rif1sd cannon. The test is thus describ- ed by c. H. Kelton, the owner of the shop in Templeton where he finished the model: The trial took place in a meadow a short distance from his home. He had rigged up a pair of wheels taken from his fathers hay-cart and thus had drawn it down to the meadow. About 8 third of mile away he had also rigged up a target composed of heavy oak blanks from four to six Inches thick and about ten feet square
 He got us all down about the gun and then loaded it with about a pound of powder; and though confident of his own invention he did not dare trust himself in it's immediate neighborhood
 but attached a fuse several feet long, lighted it-anG then the whole crowd , of us ran like deer for about a quarter