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The Lafayette advertiser. [volume] (Vermilionville [i.e. Lafayette], La.) 1865-19??, 1895-06-15
m. G.. q. u. Column.
"THE LIQUOR IS GIGANTIC CRIME. /"

"THE LIQUOR IS A GIGANTIC CRIME"
By H. c.
1t is destroying intruder. We need
the store, the school, the mill, the church
These are all uplifting forces, and we all
bid them hearty welcome.
But when under the shining sun is
there any need of brewery, distilery
or dram shop. What want does that
supply? What want does that alleviate?
What home does that make happy?
Does it add thrift to your farms, skill
to your mechanism, brilliancy to your
brains, nobility to your character? There
is absolutely no need of single saloon
in all this broad land. 1t is fatal temp
tation and a snare. 1t is man-trap and
death-trap.
1t multiples its Establishments and
lures its unwary victims to death and
damnation.
No wonder that Lord Chesterfield. in
words as eloquent as they were burning,
should say: ''Let US crush out these
artists in human slaughter, who have re-
counciled their countrymen to sickness
and ruin, and spread over the pitfalls of
debauchery such bats as men cannot
resist"
1t is commercial fraud 1t is full of
shame, hollow pretenses, and false claims.
1t takes blessing and gives back a curse.
1t takes your money, but fails to give
back fair equivalent.
Bar-room bargains are essentially want
ing in the principle of commercial hon
esty. Otherwise saloonists would dis
play their goods in their front windows,
and put the drunkards they manufacture
on exhibition instead of skulking behind
painted panes, and screened doors.
The tears that this monster cause to
flow. soon swell to rivers of agony.
With his heart encurved in stone, he
piles his Infamous trade and hordes his
unhallowed wealth regardless alike of
the claims of God and the cries of his
murdered victims.
For heartless cruelty and desolating re-
suits the highway rot5er is not to be
compared with the vender of alcoholic
beverages. The former says, "Your
money or your life?" The latter. with
more exacting demands, says to his un-
resisting victim: Your money and your
life.'
1t is prolific crime breeder and dom-
ineering oligarchy. The half million
men who are engaged in making and
selling liquor, seem determined to rule
the other sixty millions with worse than
a rod of iron.
| They are insolent and defiant to the
last degree. Already they sit supreme
in our national Congress and they walk
our legislative hall with swing of con-
scious triumph.
With face of triple plated brass, they
demand all classes to bow in base servility
at their feet
Alas that they succeed so we'll in brib
ing lawmakers, bulldozing officers, muz
zling ministers, handicapping editors,
and controlling business men of our great
but imperiled nation.
The Lafayette advertiser. [volume] (Vermilionville [i.e. Lafayette], La.) 1865-19??, 1895-06-15
Notice.

Notice is hereby given to the tax pay
ers Of the parish of Lafayette that the
listing of property for the assessment of
the year 1895 has been completed and the
estimate valuation thereof is therein
made according to the law, and the said
list will be exposed in my office in the
court house Of said parish for inspection
and correction for term of twenty DAYS
beginning on Thursday. June Goth. 1895
NORBERT REAux,
State Tax Assessor,
The Lafayette advertiser. [volume] (Vermilionville [i.e. Lafayette], La.) 1865-19??, 1895-06-15
-FOR THE
PROTECTION
Oh
POULTRY and GATE.

The undersigned will pay Fifty ESQ.,
q liars bounty to the persons making the
highest number Of points, by killing pre-
datory animals and birds Of prey in the
parish OF Lafayette. before the 1st. Of
January 1896. as follows:
US % 70 the one making greatest No Of Points
" Is Is 90 % !. s next
Value Of different heads are to be
counted by points. as follows:
Large Hawk, rx points. Wild cat Il points.
Owl, "a OnnSsum
Mink. re-" WeaseL rs /"
Skunk, rs Fnx. 1s
Head Of birds Of prey and scalps Of ami
mails to be delivered to VIM. Clcgg,
Who will keep the count and give receipts
91or points; no bounty to be paid for less
tnan aye 500 hundred points:
r. +. MYLEs.
The Lafayette advertiser. [volume] (Vermilionville [i.e. Lafayette], La.) 1865-19??, 1895-06-15
CLUB DRINKING.

One Of the perils for young men. es-
pecially at the present time, is club
drinking Many young men who would
be ashamed to be seen drinking in the
ordinary saloon are tempted to this in
diligence in the select and aesthetic en-
vironment of the club. An old New
York club man is quoted as saying, THE
bar-room makes drunkards. wish If
could say that the purpose of the club
was to make men sober, but as cannot
do so with truth, might as we'll confess
among other things that the tendency Of
the modern club is to intensity the drink
habit till it degenerates, particularly with
young men, into the disease of inebriety.
| know of scores of promising lives
and SO does every club man OF experience
that have been wrecked by the oppor-
tunities for convivialtY afforded by clubs.
If the stewards of the leading clubs in
any of our cities would confess to the
number of members they know to be
babitual drinkers, or rather habitual
drunkards, the report would startle the
uninitiated.' Friends of temperance,
while laboring for the legal suppression
of the saloon, should also exert all pos
sible moral power for the restraint and
abolition of club drinking.
The whisky saloon has so long been
the source of the woes of the little towns
that many shadow gathers on many a
mothers face as she passes by it. Don't
blame them if they pray and work
against the evil, that has ruined their
boys and broken their own hearts.
If resolutions were ballots there would
soon be an end to the liquor traffic.
The number Of ''hard drinkers in our
country to-day is estimated to be $780,
600. And an average of four other per-
sons are affected by each ones debauch-
cry and shame,
The Lafayette advertiser. [volume] (Vermilionville [i.e. Lafayette], La.) 1865-19??, 1895-06-15
DR.. J. L. DUHART.

For years practitioner Of the State and II yeasS
an he Parish. calls particular attention his new
Sri treatment of diseases Of the respirn.
Coy organs. Medical nhalatons combined with rsa-
ss'ntiona treatment ahcsding cure in consumptives
r the FIRST and second period il they follow exactly
shc treatment and relief in the third period
deafness and chronic diseases in general specially.
Alma record. (Alma, Mich.) 1878-1928, 1895-03-15
WE OFFER

Fine Granulated Sugar per ID. -. &C
any quantity you want
4 lbs of Dates ................ 25c
Pail Syrup per pl............. 45c
Cottoline per ID. .............s SC
Ground Pepper per ID. .........l2c
Maple Sugar per 10 ............l0c
Canned Corn per can. .........5 sc
Canned Tomatoes per can. $500 &c
6 lbs Prunes for. ..............2 5c
Choice Trout Fish per lb.......6c
6 lbs Washed Currants. .......2 5c
Teadust per Id. NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS.. sc
Alma record. (Alma, Mich.) 1878-1928, 1895-03-15

ALL GOODS
MARKED DOWN
The Athena press. [volume] (Athena, Umatilla County, Or.) 18??-1942, 1895-03-08
FREE.

The Northern Pacific Farmer,
Published at Portland Oregon, now
in its twenty-first year, is the best
and in fact the only truly weekly
agricultural paper published In the
Northwest. 1t is edited by Frank
Lee, the granger editor, assisted by
scores of correspondents, and con-
tains from 16 to so pages weekly,
of agricultural, horticultural, stock,
poultry, Western market reports,
childrens, household, and other
TENS of interest that no one who
has any interest in the farm or the
Northwest can afford to be with
out. At 81 cash in advance per
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the best and cheapest paper in the
United States. To all new sub
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subscription to THE Press in adj
vance. and all old subscribers who
will pay their back subscription
and one years subscription in adj
vance to THE Press will receive
this great Northwest journal free
for one year. No one can afford to
be without it.
The Athena press. [volume] (Athena, Umatilla County, Or.) 18??-1942, 1895-03-08

lifetime getting these rec1ncnsos to-
gcther. The ssatc could we'll s.--,ord to
have bought the collection and set
apart fund for its prcscrvsiv.s
The house, says the Chicago .',,bunc,
is open to the pablo now IN is vir-
tually just as Mr.. Lincoln Lett i. Some
repapcring and repairing has been done,
but the proportions in the house are in
no way changed. A year or so ago the
state officials had the house photo
graphed and had accurate measure
ments made of the cdificc that it raight
be rebuilt in case of fire.
Hundreds of thousands of people have
visited this house, men and women
representing every civilized nation Of
the earth, and some of the barbarols
ones, too, for that matter. sjo9lo years
ago John Philip Sousa, then t.lc leader
of the Marine band, gave q matinee in
Springfield. At the conclusion of the
performance he took his band, sixty
five pieces in all, over to the Lincoln
mansion. After appropriate music every
member of this famous body Of lu-
sicians made his signature on the reg
lister book. The occasion attracted an
immense crowd, and numerous and
prominent speeches were made by oiti-
zens of note. Sousa held q special
train two hours to accomplish this, he
and his men regarding it slight testi-
monial of the respect in which they
held Mr.. Lincoln's memory.
The Athena press. [volume] (Athena, Umatilla County, Or.) 18??-1942, 1895-03-08

the young lady of build hopeiessly
slScletonesque may procure complete
stuffed jacket which fills out her form
at every point to the extent requisite
for counterfeiting desirable embon-
point
If one is so unfortunate as to lack a
nose he can obtain false one of papier
machc. artfully enamelcd to initiate
the skin. One kind of imitation pro-
boscis is attached to spectacle frame,
so that the owner puts on his counter
felt nasal organ in adjusting his
glasses.
Masculine vanity is concerned in the
genesis of about eighty patents for
various kinds of mustachc guards. One
such is gold plate with a spring,
which may be fastened to any drink
ing vessel ut a moments motive.
Another is especially designed for
beer glasses A tube connecting with
it goes down deep into the beer, SO that
the mustached drinker is able to avoid
the foam.
Other guards are destined to be worn
like spectacles somewhat, with wires
to pass to the back of the ears of the
wearer, and hold them on. The shield
for the mustache is of gold or silver, or
Of fine gold wire net.
The Athena press. [volume] (Athena, Umatilla County, Or.) 18??-1942, 1895-03-08
MAKING THE BEST OF 1T.
An Invalided Flsherman's Ingenious De
vice for Continuing His Sport.

An Invalided Flsherman's Ingenious De-
vice for Continuing His Sport.
A cheerful example Of ingenuity in
making the best of it" is to be seen at
an apartment house on Spruce street.
1t takes the form of a long, light fish
ing rod fixed TO one of the window
frames of room on the third story in
such way that the line depending
from it bangles over the sidewalk q
triilc less than seven feet from the
ground, says Che New York Sun.
At the hook end of the line there is
fixed Il light wire basket and at the
butt end Of the pole there sits an in
valid, chained to his chair by paralysis
of the legs. In his active days the in
valid was q great fisherman, and, as his
wife is old and feeble, too, it has been
the old fishcrman's fancy to rig up this
pole and set it for bites. They como in
the shape of the morning and evening
papers, his mail, messages from old
crorics who know his whim, and small
parcels from the neighboring trades
men, who also know his fancy.
When the old Waltonian is wheeled
in hi3 chair TO the window in the morn
ing his first glance is down at the
basket to sec if there is any bite.
There nearly always is, and then the
window is opened, no matter what the
weather may be, the line is wound in
on the rcl until it reaches the end ring
on the pole, and then the fish" is dex-
tcrously Landed.
Sometimes, SO the neighbors say, the
old fisherman makes believe to "play"
with the catch; and when, one day, n
friend loaded down the basket with
a sh0l tl:.55 really required good deal
of skill to haul in the invalid fisherman
was so oTcrioycd when he did land il
that he could do nothing but smile for
the rest of the day. The cold spell has
bothered him u little, but when last
seen, during thcrcccnt high cold winds,
he had Il heavy fur cap pulled down over
his ears, . woolen comforter wound
around his neck, fur gauntlets on his
hands, and was hauling in n package of
tobacco and u letter with all the con-
contracted interest of u true angler hav-
ing 1t out with n gamy fish,
The Athena press. [volume] (Athena, Umatilla County, Or.) 18??-1942, 1895-03-08
The nlghton Wrltlng Rock.

AT Dighton, Mass, lying well out
in the tide water of Taunton river, is a
rock of great antiquarian interest. 1t
is u granite bowlder about eleven feet
long and five feet in greatest height,
and is known throughout Now England
us the "Dighton Writing Rock" One
side OF the bowlder is almost perfectly
smooth, as though worn by glacial ac-
tion, On this nat surface, in clear-cut
outlines, are dozens of characters,
hieroglyphics and pictures, chiseled by
some prehistoric engraver. The
archmologists have never been able to
decipher these characters, but they are
of undoubted antiquity.
The Athena press. [volume] (Athena, Umatilla County, Or.) 18??-1942, 1895-03-08
THE ITALIAN PEOPLE.
A View OF Their Present Condition and
Prospects for tho Future.


A View OF Their Present Condition and
Prospects for tho Future.
What are the prospects of the people?
That depends in the present case large
ly upon the people themselves. A peo-
pie that are not united will never bear
taxation patiently, because disunited
people cannot be commercially pros
porous, and, therefore, cannot afford to
pay the taxes. The difference between
north and south Italy, or between Pied
mont and Sicily, are not, indeed, like
those between Ireland and England,
largely religious, but they are certain
ly radical, and the gulf between the
easygoing, but passionate, children of
the two Sicilies and the hardy noun
taineer and stalwart cultivator of the
Piedmont plains is almost as wide as
the chasm between the Teuton and the
Cclt. Victor Emanuel's favorite unifer
of Italy was the army. but. saws the
Fortnightly Review, it has turned in the
hands. of his successor into disin-
tegrator. 1t was all very well to move
the army up and down Italy when the
army was symbol of common liberia
ton from which so much was expected;
but now the tyrants are gone there is
no longer halo of romance about the
army, nothing but army bills. The
tyrant now is the tax collector.
Undoubtedly the people have a griev-
ance. The taxes have been not only
cruelty but unjustly exacted. The col
lector has entered Sicilian cottages,
backed by the police, and, seeing the
pot-a-feu smoking, argued that those
who could afford to eat could afford to
pay supplement" or excess tax, and
if it turned out there was no money,
the officers Of the law have been known
to seize the dinner and throw it out the
window, under the noses of the poor
peasant and his hungry family. There
was no redress for the subjects of Hum
bert any more than for those of Bomba,
when his police, under the brutal
Manisalco at Palermo, dragged the
wives and daughters of the Palermitans
out of bed, stole their jewelry and ar
rested their husbands aud brothers on
fictitious charges. People will always
rise against misgovernment and oppres-
sion, whether the government calls it.
self republican, monarchial or any
other,
The Athena press. [volume] (Athena, Umatilla County, Or.) 18??-1942, 1895-03-08

to make it palatable; it needs no dilu-
tion. The natives drink it without
water, and its strength is indicated to
the eye or the tastc only in the sizc OF
the glass, which is the ordinary glass
of a country barroom-smaller in size.
The tcaberry drinker is expected TO I'LL
his glass, close both eyes and gulp it
down.
The season for teaberry jack is the
hog-lIilling time in the winter, when
all the outdoor work is done on the
farm and the hogs are fat. Old tea
berry is valued most, but it is hard to
keep it year after year-its taste is so
good, and the inhabitants require SO
much of it during the winter.
Tcabcrry jack affects man cumu-
lativcly. 1t begins with his toes, which,
If he has had eight or ten drinks, begin
TO be lively and somewhat intoxicated.
lie feels as if the toes belong to some
other human being, and he is some
what surprised at the exhilarated con-
dition in which he notices they are.
The teaberry jack gives him the mental
power to disassociate himself from his
toes, and to be spectator of the way
in which the effects of the tipplc start
from his toes to his feet, then up to his
knees. This is the danger signal, and
should not be disregarded. The native
Jerscyman is accustomed to the effects
of this drink, but to visitor they are
fascinating and insidious. The effect,
as it gradually extends upward, is
cumulative and sudden. The last thing
to be affected is the brain, which re-
mains entirely sober after the throat
and tongue have started ON mad
career of inebriety. The tongue may
be running on at great rate, while
the brain, in sorry sobriety, stands off
in mental attitude by itself, wondering
what is the matter with the tongue
that it is carrying on and making ali
kinds OF speeches. The legs may be
dancing, while the rest of the body is
sober and amused at the antics of the
| intoxicated legs.
The Athena press. [volume] (Athena, Umatilla County, Or.) 18??-1942, 1895-03-08
TO IMPROVE YOUR LOOKS.
Devices for Making the Complexion Bet
ter ami Adding TO Phyaical Iscauty.

Devices for Making the Complexion Bet
ter AMI Adding to Physical beauty.
Vanity furnishes the inspiration for
many of the inventions of the patent
Office. One of these is mask of very
thin rubber, designed to be worn on
the face at night. 1t causes profusc
perspiration, which washes impurities
out of the skin and makes tho complex
ion clearer. Sun tan is quickly re-
moved, so it is claimed
Another. device for producing dim
pies, according TO the Cincinnati Conn
mercial Gazette, is womans idea. 1t
is a wire mask, likewise to put on when
going to bed. liy an arrangement of
screws, pencils Of wood, very blunt, are
made to press upon the cheeks and
chin at the points where dimplcs are
desired. Uncomfortableg Why, Of
course. But. as the French say, it is
worth while to suffer for beauty's sake.
False busts, hips and calves are made
of rubber, to be blown out like bal
looms, and in many other styles, while
The Athena press. [volume] (Athena, Umatilla County, Or.) 18??-1942, 1895-03-08
TEABERRY JACK.
New Jersey brink That Enllvens the
Hog KILLING Time.

~ Now Jersey Drink That Enllvens the
Iog-killlng Time.
just at this season of the year the in
habitants of Burlington county, N. j.,
are winding up their big hog and tea :
berry season, and it is the most ioyous
OF the year. Next TO the prize hog.
"teaberry jack" fills n long-felt want,
says an eastern exchange. 1t is bey-
erage indigenous to this part of the
state, and rarely, If ever, found else
where. 1t is combination of native
ingredients, all of which are raised on
the soil where the jack is made. The
formula is not furnished with each
bottle, but, judged from its effects, Il
must have a proof as high as brandy
and be a near relative TO the alcohol Of
commerce. "Teabery iacls" is made
out OF apple jack, which is kept in a
secluded spot until 1t becomes q brown
ish amber and has the odor of age.
In the distillation and afterward the
apple jack is mixed with crushed tea
berries, sometimes called wintcrgrcen
piums, or checkerberries. They have
the same flavor as wintergrcen chew.
ing gum. The odor Is combination ~
apple blossoms and mountain tea-
berries, which is so fascinating that
Tue amount OF alcohol in the drink is
forgotten. There is no burning or
harsh taste while the tcaberry iaclx /,
tricixling down the throat; there &
none 81 the rasping which whisky often
causes when 1t Is unmixed with water
Water Is not needed with eaberry lack
The Athena press. [volume] (Athena, Umatilla County, Or.) 18??-1942, 1895-03-08
Effect of fashion.

How quickly fashion makes the
wheels Of trade go roundl In a Phila.
delphia trolley car discussion the other
day man said: "Yes, my brothers
mill is busy. He has orders for one
thousand five hundred pieces ahead,
and he makes three thousand three
hundred and fifty yards a day! He
makes crinoline-hair CLOTH Now, a
year ago this would scarcely have been
an item, but the enormous amount of
cloth used now in stiffening out the
hens of women's dresses and for lining
the entire back of the skirt of gowns
causes this demand. 1t is com
promise, of course, between classic
folds and hoops that the crinoline
comes in to I'LL,
The Athena press. [volume] (Athena, Umatilla County, Or.) 18??-1942, 1895-03-08
AousE IN WHICH LINcoLM LIvgp
For Many Wears shrine Visited BY Thou
sands of patrtots.

sands of Patriots.
The Lincoln homestead stands on the
northeast corner of Eighth and jack
son streets in Springfield, III. Mr..
Lincoln bought it in 1916. 1t was then
story and half house but subse-
qucntly raised to two stories 1t is a
plain frame structure and contains
twelve rooms. Mr.. Lincoln lived there
fifteen years; in fact, until he departed
for Washington on the 18th of Febru-
ary, 1851, to take the presidential chair.
4 family by the name of Tilton oeeu-
pied the house during the war, and in
those four years sixty-five thousand
people called to sec the home of the
president. For eighteen years after
the war closed the house passed through
different hands and il was closed to the
public. For long time it was unoc-
cupicd. In November. 1888, Capt. o.
IL. oldroyd rented the house and threw
itsdoors open to visitors. In 1857 Rob-
crt Lincoln decided the house TO the
state Capt. Oldroyd was the eGstotlian
for 4 long time, but was removed by
the democratic administration. his sue
cessor being Herman lioif1g ssslnp.
Capt. Qldsoytl is now the Gus lll4a of
the house in which Mr.. I..acok. Ns;ed in
Washington and has taken wisi him
the grandest collection cf !..-coln
relics IN the world. 0ldsoyd spent .
The Athena press. [volume] (Athena, Umatilla County, Or.) 18??-1942, 1895-03-08

A woman living In one Of the fashion.
able avenues had a bit of statuary bear
ing the inscription: "Kismct." The
houscmaid was dusting the room one
day when the mistress appeared.
"Shure. mann, what's the manin' of the
'ritin' on the bottom Of this9" asked the
maid, referring to the inscription on
the statuary. "'Kismet means Fate, I"
replied the mistress. Bridget was
limping painfully when she was walk
ing with Pat not long afterwarsl, and
he asked. .'Phwat's the matter, Brid-
get?S Faith, was her answer, II
have the most terrible pains on me lses-
metlp