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certain newspapers and journalists and also the acquaintance of various capi- talists He called on them to aid him in the purchase of the company, guar anteeing handsome profits in return. Two days after the option had been given him he had s10,000,000 subscribed and purchased the company; on the third day he sold 1t to his associates for s20,C00000, and pocketed $10,000,00O as his profit.
 In the transaction, 1t is stated, Hoo ley was not called upon to put his hand in his pocket for single shilling.
 London was staggered at the ease with which Hooley manipulated the Dunlop deal. Everybody wanted tire stock The most sober minded Eng lishman saw all the world on bicycles equipped with Dunlop tires. Hooley said it must be so, and Hooley was the new Midas come to turn all things con- monplace into gold.
 The next move of the magician was to convince investing Englishmen that every man, woman and child in cred- tion was hungry for Bovril. The stuff is beef extract which had been enor- mously advertised abroad for years, and for which there was healthy de- rnand. Hooley obtained a three-day option on the company at $2, 800 00e. The next morning he sold the company out right to his friends and the gulls for s5, 900, coo Aladdin never did more won- derful things than this. Dunlop and Bovril stock went sky high on the stock exchange. Clerks. small tradesmen. little fellows that never had a penny, but wise enough to follow Hooley, speculated In these stocks and became rich in a night. Old f1nanciers who shook their heads and would not follow him were ruined in a day. He was financial master of Capel court and England Reporters dogged his heels to note every doing. Dukes and lords hobnobbed with him. Apparently he played with them as if they were pup pets.
 Bicycle manufacturers in England just about this time QS96) were at standstilI in their work because of lack of tubes. The manufacturers of tubes could not keep up with the de- mand. Hooley announced that he was prepared to float the stock of com pany which would furnish England and
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and 1897 Hooley, in one form or an other and with a capital of less than S250, 000 to begin with made $50, 000.O0O That sober staid England should not have appreciated that this sort of thing is a human impossibility, save that one is a born scoundrel, passes comprehen- sion. The memories of the South Sea bubble of Law, of Louisiana and the Mississippi ventures of Argentina and the nitrate beds were valueless.
 Hooley first tried his speculative hand at home. He had been working at his factory siXtee1. hours day. He was so close a business man that he would not drink nor smoke during working hours, which, after all is a big loss of decent pleasure. He always went to bed at 10 o'clock and rose early in the morning, just to be in front of every body else" as he puts it. His income was large enough to make his life a comfortable one for all his days.
 It would not do. He tried the Not tingham stock market for a few months and cleared s100.000. Then he said au revoir to his laces and went to London, unknown. but surcharged with nerve. He came into Capel court, the Wall street of England one morning and engaged offices He was ready then to paralyze every financier in the king dom, and he did it.
 The pneumatic tire craze is much stronger in England than in this coun- try. One of the great tire companies of the countr.- has been the Dunlop Pneumatic Tire Company. The f1nan- cial standing of the instit- tion was fair and it's business good. Hooley called upon it's officers and said that he was prepared to purchase the entire com pany-what was the price?
 The answer was-s10.O 900, 900. Rooley asked for weeks option at that price and it was given to him. Tn the mean time he had secured the friendship of
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all the world with any quantity of tubes. He called the concern the SWe- dish Tube Company and located it's works at Coventry He placed the capital stock at SS,000,O0O. and in a weeks time had subscriptions for three times that amount. The company be- gan operations and paid fair profits for time.
 Had Hooley stopped here, already worth s30, ,000, ,000. 1t is possible that his enterprises Dunlop, Bovril and the Swedish works) would have gone on decently well and that he would have kept for himself an honored name. But he either completely lost his head, as did Barney Barnato, or he could not control the yellow streak of cheap dis play in his nature. He had English stock buyers by the throat, but seemed una ble, now that he was on top, to keep the grip tight.
 Public curiosity could not satisfy it. self as to where he gained his power. In business he was associated with the Earl of DelaWarr, with Winchelsea, Lord Deerhurst, Warwick and other famous men of the nobility. They in troduced him right and left and their simple recognition of him gave him a tremendous prestige with the common people Of the land. With all the growth of radicalism in England your Johnny Bull still thinks the seat of all virtue is to be found in that decaying bulwark known as the House of Lords. Englishmen still revere nobility even If there is nothing in it but shell. Hoo ley's adroit companionship with men of blood and name helped him tremen- dously But how did he do it?
 He continued to float new business schemes. and the simple attachment of his name to their kites made investors far and wide believe in their security. He was travelling the path of Barney Barnato and the Kaffir shares, but no
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his financial troubles had not come upon him at this time.
 Hooley has always said that he be- lieved he would yet be one of the Cab fnet Ministers of England. To help that belief along he sought the Parlla- mentary seat. First he gave up his offices in Capel Court, discharged his clerks, and took rooms at the Midland Hotel, which cost him $500 per week. There three secretaries were in attend ance on him from in the morning till 10 at night. He transacted almost as much business in bed as out of it.
 He sent for the London reporters and gave them this interview, announcing his candidacy:
 You sec my position is a little bet ter than it was in my early days. and naturally I want to do everything can for the poor of my old home. (Not- tingham is in Derbyshire) l should like to represent my old friends in Par iiament, and being a resident of likes ton, and not of Birmingham as Sir Walter is, I have some advantage over him. He has said that in a contest he could beat me by 2000 votes.
 Hooley's financial crash cut short his political career before the election.
 The courts examination into the af- fairs of MT. Hooley commenced. His assets were shown to be s1,S48,S15, and his liabilities S7,745, ,355. lie was made witness in court, and his testimony has thrown a bombshell into London newspaper anu nobility circles such as was never hurled there before. Cleve- land House scandals pale before the testimony of this man, which 1T true makes him none the less ignoble; if false, brands him as the most gigantic fraud of the age.
 On July 27, on the stand in his own behalf, Hooley said: '"The chief reason for my failure is that my partner (Rucker) drew s2,5O0,00O out of my en-
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every man has his price, and purchased the nobility right and left.
 One can hardly think other than that Hooley and his noble and ignoble as- sociates must be men of the same stamp, and regret neither the exposure nor the downfall.
 The capitalization of the various Hoo- lev enterprises during the thrty-siX mr 1ths he was figure in London was $6J 000 GOO. In value they first fell off 40 Ter cent after their Notation To the pr sent writing their value decrease has be >n 60 per cent. Something valuable Wi.I be found in the Wreckage, but not msch.
 .Snd this was all done by a man who in .1895 was a Nottingham lacemaker. ans obscure fellow with an income of Sl5ssGGO or S20,000 year and tremendous dreams. Nottingham has a population of 100, 000. Formerly the Workingmen toGk their labor to their homes. Then ca%ne great buildings, in which they were lodged during working hours HGoley at 21 owned one of these build inGs devoted to lacework. That was seventeen years ago.
 He was not conspicuous in the com mercial life of the town. He paid his debts, made reasonable profit on his lace, mingled little in the political or social life of the place, but dreamed.
 In ordinary conversation your Amer ican will class the French or the Span ish as the greatest gambling nations of Europe. This is absolutely wrong. The greatest gambling nation of Europe and for that matter of the world, Is Mother England. The disease in Eng land largely takes the form of stock speculation. The greater the iridescent stock rainbow that can be projected in England the more certain the rich re- ward for the protector. Hooley himself knew this when in 1895 he made the first move which brought him to where he is to-day.
 To Julian Ralph he said: T have aI- ways gone In for big things If you go halfway up the ladder you will find it crowded with competitors. If you go to the top you practically have the field to yourself There are plenty of men ready to deal in thousands, but they get frightened when you talk of mill
 He went to the top. and from his dizzy eminence beckoned to the mad throng of peers, financiers. merchants, clerks, bookkeepers, half-craZy women and working people beneath to follow him They saw him perched in the sun light of gold and tried to climb, throw inei their wealth ahead of them at his feet But the foundation was bad; the fatal overbalance came, and then the tumble.
 HocIey's name was added to that of Jabez Balfour, Baron Grant. Colonel North and the late Davenport Dunn. gentleman.
 Fifty million dollars is the interest for one year at per cent or s1,000, oo0,- 900. In the three years Of 1895. 1896
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is now in the insOlvent's court
 trying to explain how he made his colossal fortune, how it was lost and wTera his creditors had best look for remnants.
 In less than three years by daring speculatfons he transformed his few thousand dollars into s50,000.0O0. The methods of ordinary spectators are dwarfed to those of petty per cent -sharpers when compared to the mag nificent ways in which Hooiey raked in millions of pounds sterling. London, the home of glittering speculation. has raised countless promoters of financial iiIgl1ers but she never saw the like of Hoole.v. His chief success was due to bribery. over-capitaliZation ana un- .bridled gambling in chances. But the most sensational part of his glltterlhS' skyrocHet career is now at the close wbere in court he announces to the world how he bribed prominent British peers and financial papers with large sunis of money. These two features wi5l sufficiently illustrate the degener- acy of English company promoting They are the purchase of show dlrec- tors and press bribery and blackmah 1lGSe two sources OI e8peIlSS NahN prUtitr are what made and also ruined .HColey
 Imagine paying two noble lords $125,- 000 each in cash for the use of their names as directors of a single com pany! Think of paying $50, 900 for sin gle article inFa venal newspaper, and $f2500 to another simply to prevent it's attacking an honest enterprise. But these are things which Hooley swears he did in the ordinary course of busi- ness..
 Hooley himself is nobody By all ac- counts what he was able to accom- plish. was due more to the people he had. to deal with, the peculiar condition of speculation in England during the last: three years, than to any extraor- .dlnary powers of his own.
 Willard was a genius. He made the Nofthern Pacific a certainty when so1hers doubted. De Lesseps was an engineer of acknowledged reputation. Colonel North, the nitrate king, was diamond in the rough. But ransack the life doings of Hooley from begin- ming to end and his performances are pyr0technical, smack of the vaudeville end iH financial distrust and financial dishonOr.
 He found the lust of money in Eng land. stronger among cultured peers than among the working poor. He needed Walpole's dishonest sheer that
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Tel.
 He announced that he would become a candidate for Parliament, seeking the seat of Ilkeston Division of Derby shire. This seat is now occupied by Sir Walter Foster. The latter is radical, and the district is supposed to be safe for that party by 300 votes. Sir Walter and his friends laughed with scorn when they learned that the par venu would fight them, but their rail- lery changed to fear when they felt his mode of attack. Hooley would have been chosen fQ Fosters seat if
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SOME OF THE COMPANIES HoOLEY FORMED

The Cycle 8 ronotion  9 sgrosspr n
  A GOO pofton
  s prom S TheSi
  A gross n Gladiateur and Humber France Limited nominal capital  5 ion  5 gross sproAt on
  3 n 5 Traford 
 
  Eumbe & able to He has credit
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bribing the press. This expenditure in with bringing out the Dun lop Company amounted to no less than
 s317 900! Not one penny of this was for legitimate advertising, the latter ex- penditure forming a separate item. MT.
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  n"n and newspapers the extent of mill
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ERNEST TERAH
 HOOLEY has just completed his meteoric career in London, and
 is now in the insolvent's court trying to explain how he made
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LIST OF HooLEYs OPERATIONS.

 He lost al of
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RRIBES THAT HOOLEY CLAIMS HE PAID.

q To the @
 q Earl of Deiawarr .S135, 900 s % Earl of Winchflsea.... 60.000 6 2 Earl of Albemarle. 62.500 6 q Earl of Warwick. 10000 g
 9 Earl of Norbury. 10000 6
 6 Lord Deerhurst ............100O 10 0O0 6
 @ Lord Ashburton ............... 10000 6 6 Further fees he alleges to have paid: 6 Q Lord March for joining the $ 6 Schweppes board. ............ 5000 6
 q To same a further sum per Q q year of ....................... 5000 6 6 Adolphus Drucker, M. F., ex- 9 . cess price of shares.........- 12,50o s q Sir Blundell Maple, for 6 6 similar service ....-......... 5000 6 g Lord Walter Lennox. for an 6 Q introduction to Lord March 5000 6 6 Lord Templeton for services. 3,500 6 q To one financial editor Pall 6 @ Mall Gazette ..........-..-... 15,000 6 6 To Harry Marks, Financial 6 @ News 5000 6 $ To other newspapers for pro- 3 $ lection .................-...... 5000 q Q ! Grand total of hush" money 6 Q alleged to have been paid. .$717 800 6 Q How much more Hooley disbursed 6 c only he himself can tell. 6
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 on the ... Tire Company for 20N000 oUrp deal
 
 sovrr on this deal Foated the Swedish Coupa
 
 to Engis 100000 in Fn hlarded ; Inv fn andsh 
 O nfrm of England by 2 : to float a of g protection for a seat in Paid his hoteI week.. : Wentn a sIaldu unkn So no alace
  He The church 2 creditors
The Lafayette gazette. [volume] (Lafayette, La.) 1893-1921, 1898-06-18

taxation and the purpose thereof
snail nave been submitted to the
/, property taxpayers of said ward or
parish entitled to vote under the
election laws Of the State, and a
majority in numbers and value. Of
those voting at said election shall
nave voted in favor thereof.
Art. 29e. When any parish shall
avail itself Of the provisions Of this
article, the judge, in passing sen.
tchcc on persons convicted of any Of
tense, when the punishment imp osed
oy law is imprisonment in the parish
jan IN the first instance,
or IN default Of payment Of fine.
may sentence such persons to work |
on the public roads and bridges and |
any other public works Of the par
ISM; and when the punishment pre-
scribcd by law is Imprisonment in
inc Pen'tentiary, he may sentence
the persons so convicted to work
on shc public roads and bridges and
other public works Of the parish
where the crime was committed, if
me sentence actually imposed does .
not exceed SIN months. All fines {
ana penalties imposed on persons
Tor infringement Of the any ordi-
nance relative to roads and bridges. {
shall go. when collected, into the |
road and bridge fund Of the parish.
Art. eoS. The police jury shall
Fe!'evc from compulsory road duty
III persons who have paid the road y
ma bridge tax license levied against
hem.
AIT. co+. The State Board of
Engineers, whenever called on so
40, shall furnish the different
oad districts with plans and speci- II
'calons for public roads. and such
ss'S;ance and advice as will tend
efe',e uniform system Of pub
c roads throughout the State. it
The Lafayette gazette. [volume] (Lafayette, La.) 1893-1921, 1898-06-18

Speaking Of the mss:ins Of the
>'asS Sanitary Association recently
f'sid IN cpeloU<aS sl.s Courier saws,
nS. Mayer has been ;uS1ts,ics-
bly, Industrious and sosrcsr;,. !,
setting up ,hS convsncion Of the
louisiana STATE Sanitary As<cc;,-
t'on. A. this place. ana in prspsr-
lux >oSS FrHSrSul>> as have made
'oS event :CUly ulsccrabls. rns
SainHseu' MAS splendid through
o''' aga We tSilSisS,s our people for
*, we SINCERELY hope thar Dr..
MAYER and has ssiusuiShed CO.
NJ 0CoeS IN shs great work thus hap
pay inSssura'sd may speedily see
'"S 'H'tS>s ocnSurli,nacicn ot il. in
BLESSINGS
The Lafayette gazette. [volume] (Lafayette, La.) 1893-1921, 1898-06-18

READ THIS.
opcl""sas. january 81. 1905.
ms is to certify that have. used HALLS
,,''. s"' discovery, OF Waco, Texas, for kid
ncv and bladder troubles and can truth
i"''y say that it gave good satisfaction.
w. X. COCHRAN, City Clerk
The Lafayette gazette. [volume] (Lafayette, La.) 1893-1921, 1898-06-18

Buy your family meal, hominy,
chicken feed and shelled corn at th,.
Pelican Grist Mill, near the depot.
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A TEXAS WONDER.
Halls Great Discovery.

Ono small bottle of Halls Great 1,;s
e"very cures all kidney and bladder trou
Dies removes gravel, cures diabetes. seminal
en'ss'on' weak and lame back, rheumaIisn,
IN" an Irregularities of the kidneys and
bladder in both men and women p.,"
'''cs trouble in children. If not sold bv
your druggist, will be sent by mail on re-
ce'Pt or 81 One small bottle is two months,
treatment, and will cure any case ,I,,..
mentioned. f. w H,i, '''e
Sole Manufacturers, T.. o. Box ,1S.
For sale Ivy VIM. Clecc.
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CIR HCBOE.S.

eeh 'hcsc many years an object
mercilcss censurc. No one wo,
have darci to raise his voice in ,
renee OF this unfortunate product
american civilization. He had
friends, no sympathy and vc,y lit,
TO cat. lie was Kicked about
autocratic brakcmen and clubl,
by hcartlcss policemen. Even II
most cowardly canine would TAKE.
savage delight in prosecuting hin
lie was the enemy Of man an
Beast and had no one in the wild
world that he could call Il fr,cnc
fr'endlcss, and pcnnilcss he war
eicred through field and forest +;
search of some hospitablc spot VI
ON which to rest his weary head.
But the hobo has ceased to be =,
object OF public charity. He is n,
more the contemplate creature =
whom your kid-slovc gentry wa.
pleased to snccr. He is no, tn,
priceless hcsgar that he used to be.
out he is now the proud and patri
otto defender Of our national honor.
willing to shed his blood for his conn
Try and die. If need be, for principle.
And those who doubt his Cour,,..
ana don't believe in his stayin.
qualities will be greatly disap
pointed. for he is no gutter. and
"ark our prediction, he will fcht
I" the last and give up his life like
hero.
Has 1t appeared to those who
speak disparasinsly OF the hob,
Nhat II 1t were not for him their
chances fer 4 little fighting would
be far Srratrr
Many of those who have been de-
slGna;rN by this rather un,,,nrli-
ment'fr 'prvllA;irn have >olun-
'ccrrd ihSit services to their coun-
srE ant thcy can be fuun,i side, bx
SIDE with the nrwcr Of Southern
youth. and. in most CASES. ,,,;m,
&c" ny the same pa,rlotic impulse ,
an" urged on by the same Ssn,i.
mSnt, giving; i Brilliant S<vurlitir,
''"n OF the trut!. OF the slrr:,us
OF equality upon which
'"r republic is f>unuci :,
Ei'i;LLt SOAPS =,
Now tina, the roads in s,,r,,, s,.,, Il
IONS or the parish are in i pretty II
AL condition. it will doubtless be- y
'tS'SS'lnS 10 know wha, the LAST t
Constitutional convention has ,,,>,,, ii
The Lafayette gazette. [volume] (Lafayette, La.) 1893-1921, 1898-06-18
Educate your Bowels with Cas-
carrots.

H'"ay Cathartic, cure constipation for
ever. 10, s. cents IfC.c f,;, ,,,.
gsts refund money. s
The Lafayette gazette. [volume] (Lafayette, La.) 1893-1921, 1898-06-18
CLH CE.LEZ'ER/E.S

1t is humilating fact that tie
people of Lafayette, with the e<-
ception Of the Jewish population.
display most objectionable in
"Iterencc toward their cemeteries
Both the Catholic and Protestant
sraveyards are in 4 deplorable CON
Hit'on- All sorts of weeds are al
lowed to grow in them to such pro
portions that the elevations which
mark the burial places are con-
>ealed from view and can be found
only with great difficulty.
IT Is lncomprchensible that town
winch boasts Of population of
900 souls should fail to take bs.t.r
arc of its dead. Our pcoDls al |
'3|S respond libcralv when it is
''NoSsd to promote any enterprise
I 4 public nature. Thousands ~.
''ed tor public improvements,
undrSHS are donated for churches
~ NOT 4 cent is subscribed
" the resting places Of oar dead.
The Lafayette gazette. [volume] (Lafayette, La.) 1893-1921, 1898-06-18

Ex-senator John !. Ingalls,, OF
KANSAS whose fame as 4 bri!iian;
"r''Sr' man OF remarkable scholar
snip And literary attachments. is
even greater than that Of the ,iis,in-
S"i>hSd senator. announces 4 new
BOOK on the subject OF the .An,sri
can Spanish Cuban War. l, is en-
tailed ''-Asnsrica'S War For Humane
Ky IN Picture and Storv." L, is
published by the \. ID. Ihompson
t"oNShinS Co.. OF St. Louis. No..
Shi IS IN exhaustive discussion
f the causes % the war, and
an equally e>hauStivs history Of its
incidents. and i brilliant ANALYSIS
'' the famous characters Conduc-
''A- IT, 1t promises TO be the one
great ana popular work called forth .
oH thlS wonderfully interesting ma
,i>HAl splSods. Whatever Senator
'NSAttS tooc@S> he adornS: ana
E'> oooS shines aud SrarSlSS in the
.SN' 90 his genius. The prsSsntI
'rIS IS worthy Of his seniuS, and
vii be monument ,S his f,nr>
AK S"NlSS' now 50 snStr>>s< thS
'HPuIaT mlnG As - forecast tor this
'rrS 4 sale thar Will DC universal
VIII Dc sold by substitution only. {
nj Ihs SaNraSSinS Samples are now
S1dE for agents. We advertise !,
: Another Crluulo
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face a fOOtpad than be caught advocat-
ing POpulist ism. In the meantime In
telligent men know that hundreds of
cities In the United States where Popu-
lism hasn't fifty votes own and operate
their water and light plants.
The Smith Center Pioneer (Rep.) offers
a years subscription to any person who
will produce an insurance agent who
does not base his ire premiums on the
Clarkson rating. This is McNall's home
county and he comes back with the
promise to revoke the license Of any
company whose agent does business that
way. 4F1
The story that Bill Street was turned
down by the Decatur county Populist
convention for representative does the
eX.speaker an injustice. He refused to
be a candidate for reelection as his du-
ties as a member of the board OF char
tiles, together with the duties Of the
legislative place, would take too much
time from his private affairs.
Crawford county Populists have nom
mated the following ticket: Represen-
tatives, Il, Loomis and F. b. Wheeler;
County Attorney, T. j. Wildly; District
Clerk, F. o. Riley; Probate Judge, H. H..
Radley; superintendent, H. G. Kaylor.
County Attroney Wildly, with whom At
torney General Boyle has been associ-
ated in the prosecution of the scrip and
screen cases, was renOminated by a
unanimous vote.
Abraham Lincoln did his full duty to
the nation. The people honor him for