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President. J. ]. Cumming. t IS.
Vice President, Daniel Dorap.
Recording Secretary, E. ]. Donahne. d
Financial and Insurance Secretary. 4.
H. Murphy. eE :#l
Treasurer, Felix Graham. sss
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BLUE EARTH COUNTY.
County President, d. p. Hayes, MANI
kato.
Division No. 1, Mankato-President
G. o. Daley. .,5
Vice President, w. T. Hayes. N
Recording Secretary, ]. p. Cuddy.
Financial Secretary, Hugh McLough-
lin
Treasurer. T. R. Coughlan. 4 = - II
Insurance Secretary, J. c. Morris.
Meets second and fourth Monday even
ings of month at A. o. U. W.. hall.
Division No. 2, Madison Lake-Presi-
dent, T. B. Murtaugh.
Vice President, John White. i
Recording Secretary, Charles Doran.
Financial Secretary, M. Gilbride.
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Treasurer, John Neary.
Meet second and fourth Sundays Of
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GRACEVILLE, BIG STONE COUNTY.
County President, M. j. Mcdonnell.
President, H. w. Grove.
Vice President, Hugh Heily.
Recording Secretary, Robert Brennan.
Financial Secretary, P. Heily.
Treasurer, P. Mcnamara.
Insurance Secretary. Joseph Brennan.
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Constable sale.
]. Eugene Trahan VS.. The0bald
Duhon-No. 4o3-Couxt of the
Justice of the Peace, grid
ward, Lafayette Parish,
Louisiana.

by virtue Of writ of fieri facias issued
by the Hon. r. A. McFaddin, Justice OF
Peace in and for the grid ward Of Lafayette
in the cause entitled J. Eugene Ira.
han VS.. Theobald Duhon, No. 4o3, of his
docket and to me directed, I. the undersigned
constable of the 3rd ward in said parish,
have seized and taken into my possession,
and will offer for sale and sell for cash to
to last and highest bidder at the front door
of the court house in the town of Lafayette,
between legal sale hours, on
Saturday, September 4, 1897,
the following described property to-wit:
One portion being the southern part there
of of certain lot of ground situated in Mou-
tons addition of the town of Lafayette, La,
said lot of ground being numbered one hun
dred and sixty-fi five, having sixty-four feet
front on main street by eighty-seven feet on
back line; one hundred and twenty five feet
on east line and one hundred and twenty
two and seventy-fve-hundredths feet on
west line; bounded north by Main street;
south by lots Nos. 1888 and 1874; east by
Gordon street. and west by lot No. 100:
The property herein mortgaged is described
as follows: Thirty feet front on Gordon
street by the depth of eighty-seven feet and
is bounded north by other portion of lot:
south by lots 1888 and 81; east by Gordon
Street and west by lot I66, acquired by said
Duhon from Ambrose v. JUDGE, act No.
1885, clerks office.
Terms of sale-Cash.
Constable's Office, grid ward, Lafayette
Parish.
A. H1RsH, Constable.
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lican measure. Which of these Senators
is Democrat and how7-Baton Rouge
Truth, Dem.
McEnery voting with the Republican
party on the tariff bill and McEnery travel
ing home with Curley Duson is surely a
startling exemplihcation of the t'eternal fit
ness of BATON Rouge Truth, Dem.
Mr.. ID. N. Thompson, as editor of the
Catahoula News, writes in vigorous and
graceful style and his editorials on leading
subjects of interest to the State are strong
and to the point. He has done much to
place his paper in the front rank of the
country press.-.Tensas Gazette, Dem.
The press should urge one thing especial
~ upon the proposed constitutional conven-
ton, and that is, to do away with the
Board of Pardons, and give the Governor of
the State exclusive privilege of granting
pardons to persons convic ted of crime. For
years past the Board of Pardons has been
clearing out the penitentiary nearly as fast
rs convictions are made. The relatives of
convicted persons worry the trial judge un
I'll, to save himself annoyance, he signs a
recommendation, and the balance of the
Board usually acquiese to the trial judges
recommendation Town Talk,
Dem.
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Private School!

will open private school September l.,
with accommodation and apPurtenances nee
essary for thorough and systematic instruction
in English branches. Tuition reasonable
Special terms on application. See caro-.
r. c.. GREIG.
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Notice.
Notice is hereby given that hereafter the
corpora ton pound will be at Veazey's
stable. D. J. VEAzEY, Marshal.
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A true and correct list of jurors drawn to
serve at the regular jury term of the 18TH
Judicial District Court of Lafayette, La,
beginning Monday September E, 1897.
Attest:
ED G. VOORHEES,, Clerk of Court.
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List of Jurors.
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serve at the September regular jury term of
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for the parish of Lafayette. La, said term
of court commencing on Monday September
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FIRST WEEK.
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Mr.. CARL PEARSON. Professor of Applied
Mathematics In University College. London. who
is doubtless known to some American readers as
the author of tho "Ethic of Free Thought, has
published IN two volumes Edward Arnold a
dozen essays. most OF which originally appeared
In tho form of lectures or of contributions TO the
FortRi0htiv Rerier. Tt0y deserve attention
both from the interesting nature Of their sub
jects and from the originality OF the authors
mode oftreatment- A mere enumeration OF the
titles would arouse curiosity. Among these may
bespccifed The Chances of Death, The Scien-
tihc Aspects Of Monte Carlo Roulette. Woman
as Witch" and "Mother-Age Civilization"
OF moro than ordinary value, also. Is Q paper on
tho relation of socialism to natural selection,
and we would further point the reader to a
trenchant criticism on Mr.. Balfour's attack on
Rationalism. There are two other essays In
which Prof. Pearson undertakes to defend mod
ern science from recent assaults upon the part
OF pseudo-scientihc, political. and theoretical
writer's. Tho remaining essays deal with
evolution from either the statistical or the
historical view point. The fundamental
note OF the authors thought, the note
which runs through both volumes, is the en-.
deavor to soc all phenomena. physical and So
cial, as a connected growth and to describe them
as such in the briefcst formula possible. He
does not assert that evolution can explain every.
thing. but accepting 1t as Q most serviceAble
formula for describing the sequences Of phonom-
ena as We have experience Of them. he contends
that tho nationalist has. at present. q quite i'm
pregnable stronghold against the reactionaries
OF every type.
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III.

In Woman as Witch" an attempt 10 made to
prove that. in the folklore dealing with witch
craft, we find evidence OF woman's primitive
ascendancy In human society. Especially is
walpurg, the goddess who figures conspicuously
in German legend, considered AT length as quail.
flied to bring before us clearly all the strong
and weak points OF the ancient woman's civil
~ization, fossils OF which 1t is the authors aim 10
detect In the folklore OF witchcraft. II was a civ
~ilization based rather on the useful arts Of
agriculture and domestic economy than on
the arts OF war and OF the chase II was
one IN which the earliest rud!mcnts OF medicine.
the domestication OF the smaller animals. the
cultivation OF vegetables and OF fax and grain,
the use OF the dIstaff, the spindle, tho broom, tho
hre-rakc. and the pitchfork are, In no hesitatinR
language. claimed In the folklore OF witchcraft
as the inventions and discoveries of woman.
Those discoveries are the real basis of our civil.
zat!on to-day. and not only the basis, but a
good part OF the superstructure. Prof. Pearson,
for his part, feels assured that these origins OF
civilization were not the discoveries OF the man,
but OF the woman. We are reminded that the
primitive savage knows nothing OF agriculture,
OF spinning, OF herbs, and Of medicinal springs,
but his wife does. 1t is not he. but she. who
could have made them symbols OF a female deity,
and in the power OF u superior knowledge. have
forced the worship OF that deity upon the whole
group or elan. II we ask how 1t came about, our
author replies that tho fertility. resource. and
inventive power OF early woman arose from tho
harder struggle she had to make for tho
preservation OF her child and herself In tho
battle Of life. 1t was undoubtedly the struggle
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It 10 an extensive series of mathematical cal.
culations whereof We have tho outcome in the
paper called Tho Chances of DEATH Tho
authors Investigations on the mortality stalls
tics furnished by tho Registrar-General have led
him to some very definite conclusions with re.
gard to tho chances OF death at different ages.
Instead OF seven he would reckon Eve ages OF
man, corresponding to the periods OF In
fancy, Of childhood. Of youth. OF matu.
rity or middle age. and OF sentlity or
old age. In tho case Of each OF these
periods, no finds u perfectly regular chance dis
tributlon c~entring at n given age. and failing
off on either side. according 20 a perfectly clear
mathematical law. The bulk of infaptilo NOR.
tality lies, 1t seems, In the first dim stages OF
life, and the centre of deaths aim Is tho begin
ming of the last ante-natal month. The marks
man combines intense concentration with ex-
treme deadliness. He Is very close TO infantile
life and unremitting in his destruotiveness A
popularity Of his blows 10 that they are dealt
alike Mt ante-natal and post-natal life. The
sources, therefore. OF this mortality must DO
sought for In causes common TO both periods.
These causes must be inevitably associated with
parentAge. Bad parentAge is largely the source
OF this great i~ntantile mortality; bad parentage.
showing itself not only physically, but mentally,
In tho want Of proper care Of the young life, is
the one possible cause of death continuous from
tho ante-nAtal to tho post-natal period. The
marksman. Death. strikes down the young
life with the bones OF Its ancestors.
Tho maximum deadliness OF the marksman
who aims at children 10 nearly three and q half
times as great as that OF him who aims at youth.
His weapon Is moro like tho Maxim gun than
the bow. and It 10 only the concentrated charac-
ter Of his attack which enables usto pass rapidly
through the sphers Of his destructive powers
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regards the power Of projecting missiles;
its archers and slingers were not only
more numerous than the Roman. but much
better; the Baleario sllneers had no equals; tho
towor on the elephant was not unlike a battery;
indeed, the effect produced by elephants In the
Carthaginian service may DO compared with that
OF a combination Of artillery and heavy cavalry.
Carthage. likewise, had learned fertilization and
the art of sieges from tho Greeks, who were
better versed than tho Romans In the knowledge
OF the engineer. The Notifications Of Carthage
were the wonder Of the world; tho citadel was
Of enormous extent; the ramparts and walls
were Of great strength; they seem to have
been furnished with all obtainablo appliances
for defence, and to have been constructed
with admirable skill. In one other respect a
Carthaginian army had an advantage over q
Roman force. A command In chief was usually
given to n Carthaginian General for O consider
able length of time: Hannibal. for instance. and
his chief lieutenants, commanded during many
years tho army that invaded Italy. This
single circumstance. contracted as 1t was with
the short and divided commands intrustod to
Roman Generals, told strongly in favor OF a
Carthaginian army; in fact. Hannibal would
scarcely have won his most decisive victories
had he been opposed by q single General. even
Of inferior powers, but of long experience.
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HI.

He had a successor greater than himself. ono
OF the gigantic figures that wax large only with
the lapse OF time. Hanniba! had served under
his father and under Hasdrubal from his teens;
he had come to hold the chief command Of the
cavalry in Spain. and. like most great soldiers.
he had made his mark, even in earlier years. for
conspicuous doeds of yalor. He was as yet,
indeed, known only as q brilliant officer and
as exceliing in the duties and tho pastimes OF
the camp; but no was a Barca and the eldest
son OF Hamilcar; the army unanimously elected
him Goncral-in-Chie The choice was ratified
by the Government at home. and. though only
In his Goth year, Hannibal succeeded to all
his fathers authority, and was intrusJcd with
the supreme direction OF tho forces OF Carthage
on land and at sea. Mr.. Morris points out that
We do not possess q letter or a despatch OF this
extraordinary man. or OF the lieutenants who
made him their idol. We have no CarthAginlan
records to tell us what he was; we know OF him
only from the reports Of enemies, who. whiie
they could mot deny his powers, feared and
hated him through n succession OF centuries.
Enough remains, however,. TO enable US to as
s'E. that hs MAS = mighty genius in the camp
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without appalling loss. AZ II n, in England
about n quarter and In France nearer q third OF
all persons born die as infants. A comparatively
small reduction In the number of infants who
die would DO n reader means of checking the
decline In the French population than any plan
for fostering q higher birth rate. Prof. Pearson
tries to translate the results Of his m~athemati-
cal investigations into a pictorial conception
which may be substituted for the old medieval
notion Of tho Dance OF Death. Our ancestors
wero correct in supposinR the frequency Of
death to DO a chance distribution, but we
now know that such q distribution fol-
lows regular laws, and our author would
have us picture to ourselves this regularity
BY thinking Of death as q marksman with a
certain skewness of aim and a certain pre-
cision of weapon. Suppose we imagine" he
says. "a thousand babes to start together along
the bridge or causeway Of life. Tho length Of
that bridge shall represent the maximum dura-
ton OF llfo, and our cohort shall march slowly
across 1t, completing the journey in something.
perhaps, over a hundred years. No, the cohort
will not complete the journey. but only the
verlcst remnant Of the thousand who started
together. At each step, Death. the m~arksman,
takes his aim, and, ono by one, individuals
fall out OF the ranks; terribly many In
early Infancy. many in childhood, fewer In
youth, more again In middle age, but many moro
still in old age. At every step forward the tar
get alters; those who fall at 20 cannot, OF
course. DO aimed at forty years later, and tho
long limo OF life which serves Death as a target
is reduced almost to nothing at the extreme end
Of the bridge OF lifo." A-tisticaliy. we can no
longer think of death az striking chaotically;
We have to regard his aim as perfectly regular
in the mass, II unpredictable in the individual
instances. 1t 10 no longer tho Dance OF Death
which pictures for us the Great Despoiler car
ryinR of unfortunately the old and young, the
rich and the poor. the toiler and the idler, tho
babe and It's grandsire. We see something quite
different; the cohort of a thousand tiny mites
starting across the bridge Of life and growing in
stature as they advance, till, at the far end of
tho bridge, we see only the graybeard and tho
lean and slippered pantaloon." AS they pass
along the causeway the throng is moro and more
thinned; Ave Deaths are posted at different
stages OF the route by the side OF the bridge,
and with different skewness OF aim and different
weapons Of precision they fye at the human
targets till none remains to reach the end Of the
causeway. the limit Of life.
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The SUN. SUNDAY. july Ii, 1882.

recent yoke or would take part with . conqueror
who otherwise would not spare them; Rome.
In o word. would be bogirt by q circle Of IRE
sistiblo foes, and whatever her might and pride,
would necessarily succumb. 80 Hannibal rca-
soned. and not vainly; tho chances after Gamma
seemed all in his favor, should he persistently
carry out his original scheme Of invasion. Yet,
even this doepthinkinR genius could not
understand how puslllanlmous and feeble
was tho Government Of his native coun-
try; how untrustworthy was the coalition on
which he had staked his fortunes; above all, how
indomitablo was tho energy Of tho heroic nation
which no had not even scotchod, still less
slain; and how we'll contacted and mighty
was that power which. as Mommse has said.
could DO only broken up like Cyclop@an walls,
stone by stone" 1t is not true that, after Gamma.
Hannibal might have cast his shoe over Italy
and trampled her down II she dared to resist.
We can now sec that, on the contrary, even
dftor Gamma, his success was, in a high degree.
improbable; should Rome continue to DO true to
herself, Hannibal could not. In tho long run.
Bubdue her. The comment on tho situation
mado by Arnold in his fragmentary Second
Punio War" runs thus: Tho torrent had
swolled into Q wido flood. overwhelming the
whole valley; but tho one rock islandod amidst
tho waters. on which they dashed furiously from
every side. remains unshaken."
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OF tribe against tribe IN actual warfare which
quickened the intellect of tho man. But that. In
Prof. Pearson's opinion. was q later struggle; the
first struggle was for food and for shelter
against natural forces, and that was the contest
from which the civilization Of woman arose. II
carried mankind n long way, a way the length
of which VIC are only just beginning to realize.
IL could not, however, carry mankind to that
family organization from which 90 much was
afterward to develop. 1t was based upon tho
mother rs head Of the group and upon a form Of
group marriage, OF which IL is hard now to
Judge impartially. II ono Of tho worst abusea Of
tho father-age or pdtrfo potcstas regime be really
onlya degenerate form Of the older Rroup-mnr.
riage, and is not the pure outcome OF male domi.
nation; II there be for 1t a direct line of descent
from the old licentious worship OF tho mother
goddess TO the extravaganccs OF witchcraft, to
the spinning loom, and to the legallzed vice Of
to-day, wo have still TO remember that the per-
petuation by ono civilization of the weak points
OF an earlier one, and these, possibly, in exae-
gerated forms, Is no reason for the Wholesale
condemnation of the earlier stage. The ~ciyilira-
tion of woman handed down a mass Of uaeful
custom and knowledge; II was for after genera.
lions to accept that and eradicate tho rest.
when" says the author, II watch TODAY
the peasant woman of southern Germany or
OF Norway toilinR In the house or fields.
whilo the male looks on, / do not think the
former q downtrodden slave Of the latter. She
appears to me tho transmitter OF a civilization
to which he has not yet attained. She may b q
fossil Of the mother-age. but he ia a fossil Of
still lower stratum, barbarism pure and simple
When We have once fully recognized the real
magnitude Of what women achieved In tho dim.
cult task Of civilization in the older times We
shall be the less apt to think her status IN.
changeable. to assume that she IL hopelossly
handicapped by her function Of child bearing,
and that tho hard work Of the world must b
left TO men,"
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Hannibal. indeed. 10 known to US only from
the outside. and even this knowledge is, as wo
have said. far from perfect. A few lines on
a monument. a short treatise, some pithy say
ings, marked with a commanders curtness linn
peratortd breVitash are the only genuine express
sions OF his mind that remain. OF all those who
have described his achievements Polybius alone
clearly recognized his genius. and even that
historian was under the influence OF pro- Roman
Sympathies. Yet even through the haze OF Ro-
man legend Hannibal'S awful figure stands out
supreme in the whole era OF the stupendous and
protracted Second Punic War; he scars high
over all the mon of his time; every competent
observer who has followed his career has placed
him In the FIRST rank OF the worlds great Captains
and On q level with ststeSRSsn M patriots OF
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soNH VIEW BooKA.
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y BY far tho most interesting volume a. yet con-
tributed to tho Heroes Of the Nations" series,
now In course of publication by the Putnams, Ia
that devoted TO Hannibal, the author Of which
n WILLIAM o'CoNNoR MORRIS. Aside from the
ancient authorities, Polybius and hvy, with
such further light as 10 thrown upon the sub
3ect in the writings OF Appian, Plutarch, Cor
helius Nopos, salIust, and others who have
c~nrsorily dealt with II, Mr.. Morris relies
chiefly upon Mommsen. though ho acknowl-
edges considerable Indebtedness to tho An
. nibsl" Of Col. Hennebert the Hannibal" OF
Col. Dodge, u. 8. A., and MacDougall's Cam.
paiens Of Hannibal" Arnold's "Socond Punio
War" 10 but q p%osthumous fragment, but Bos-
worth Smiths Carthage and the Carthsgin-
fans" has proved useful. Almost every limo
devoted by Nayoleon to Hannibal is repro
duced either In tho text or in the foot notes OF
this volume. although Napolcon's criticisms
indicate. q defective knowledge of the facts.
On the whole, the book before us may be &C
ceptod as tho most compact, readable, and
Trustworthy account Of the great Carthnginian
General. perhaps we ought to say the greatest
General that ever lived. For, although, like
Alexander, he inherited an army and q plan Of
campaign, he was III supported by his country,
whereas the son OF Philip was absolute master
of the resources OF Macedon. 1t is also true of
Napoleon, that he, from the moment he became
First Consul, had France, unrosorvedly, behind
him. and there Is nothing In Napoleon's career.
considered as a proof Of individual ability and
fortltude. that can be compared with Hannibal's
maintenance Of his ground in Italy FOR half a
generation. 1t is true that at last Hannibal was
beaten by an inferior General at Zama, rs Ma
poleon was at Lcipsic and later at Waterloo.
Had Hannibal become a prisoner OF Rome, his
fate would have conceded with Napolcon's; as
It was. he continued for some years to be recog-
mixed as Rome's most formidable enemy.