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The Lafayette gazette. [volume] (Lafayette, La.) 1893-1921, 1901-05-04
REAL ESTATE AGENCY.
Property Listed.

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plantation consisting
house and
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with sheds
beautiful containing
all double
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blocks
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feet New
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residence Lincoln
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cabin back of building. For o o rent
complete in frstcla
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Store for Veriio 25x4o
For
a month.
For lot 100 month.
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$40
Re" safe ev1rss SWAMP s'""t" Bra"x bridge
The age-herald., 1901-12-13
Street Car Companies.

James Kaufman, an attorney of New York city, who has been counsel for sew eral street car companies for the past ten or twelve years, says that not more than 10 per cent of these companies out side of the large cities ever make a cent.
 There is no reason in the world why street car companies should not operate successfully in every city in the United States with a population of 50,0oO inhabi- tants," says MT. Kaufman, yet the number of them which make money is remarkably small. The cause of this fall ure Is in almost every instance due to too much manipulation of the stock.
 Tt is not to be expected that a syndi- cate can build line which cost $2O0Oo, bond it for $50,00O and stock 1t for $50OOO more and expect to keep up expenses and declare dividends. Still this is what every company which builds a system ex- poets to do. The result is bankruptcy, re- ceivers and worthless securities.
 There is no better legitimate field for invest ment Tn. the country than street car systems. No company organized and operated under favorable conditions, that IS, bujine ss-like mar cement anl good patronage, has ever failed. A street car as a loaf of bread, and it has been dem ons trated beyond a question of doubt that well and honestly-operated line is bound to return a good percentage of ri oft on the investment
The age-herald., 1901-12-13
APPROVES cHiLPs COURSE.
Mass Meeting of Gillian Workmen En-
 dorse Government.


 London, December 12-The Times. in it's second edition today, publishes dis patch from Valparaiso, under today's date. which saysi
 '"rhe first symptom at the present june ture of possible awakening of like excitement among the Chillan public is the announcement that d mass meeting of working people is to be hold a. San tiago, December 13 to express approval of the action of the government in deal ing with the Argentine question. Even this, apparently, is merely an offset to an other meeting. promoted by the advocates of peace at any price.
 ''Fhe buying of ships to take the place of vessels of questionable efficiency, the mobilization of the fleet for fnanoeuvers, and the strengthening of relations with friendly neighbors. Colombia and Ecua- dor, are not regarded here as signs of aggressive intentions on Chili1s part, but only as natural precautions evoked by the unexpected threatening demeanor of Argentine. F
The age-herald., 1901-12-13

en route to Gadsden. where he will ad- dress a meeting of farmers today.
 W. C. Harrison of openka Is at the Morris.
 A. J. Riddle of Mobile is at the Morris. Daniel A. Farrell of AnnIston Is at the Morris.
 Mir and Mrs. c R. LeBland of Jasper are at the Morris.
 George P. 1de of Jackso4viile Is at the Morris.
 IT. E. Pearce of Wetumpka is at the Metropolitan.
 J. E, Baker and Dan Roman of Tusca- loose are at the Metropolitan.
 Jas T. McTeer, a prominent merchant of Knoxville, is at the Metropolitan.
 W. B. Reynolds of Montevalio Is at the Metropolitan.
 P NJ. Greene of Fort Payne Is at the Metropolitan.
The age-herald., 1901-12-13

of an United States Circuit Judge In Indiana. Judge John H. Baker is a district judge Tn that State, and 1t was he who at the instance of Philander Knox assalled with injunctions Typo graphical Union men in the Conkey strike which occurred at Hammond. Frances E. Baker, who has been ap- pointed a federal circuit judge is a son of Judge John H. Baker. But this father-and-son feature of the case is not important. Frances E. Baker was supported for the place by Senator Bevereidge, and he was bitterly op- posed by Senator Fairbanks and by nine members of the Indiana delega- tion. Senator Beveridge won readily, and the Fairbanks machine is panic stricken.
 A Roosevelt and Beveridge ticket in 1904 is freely predicted Senator For aker openly announces an intention to support MT. Roosevelt next time, and beyond doubt Senator Beveridge will leave no stone unturned in his effort to send from Indiana a solid Roosevelt delegation. The old ma chimes are to be smashed, and every blow that is reported falls on them. It is said, however, there are no Hanna men in the South, so rapid has been their conversion, but if there are any they may as well get ready for the axe. So far as the Presidency is con cerned Messrs. Hanna and Fairbanks are both back numbers/ and the Roosevelt star is in the ascendant within the Republican party.
The age-herald., 1901-12-13
MAY TUNNEL UNDER RIVER.

The Pennsylvania railroad may con struct a tunnel under the Hudson River in place of the bridge which that com pany intended to build in conjunction with the other railroads which enter Jersey City. A statement to this effect was made today by a member of the firm of Kuhn, Loeb and Co.,, who are finance agents for the Pennsylvania rail- road in this city.
 After calculations had been completed demonstrating that the use by one rail- road alone woud not suffice to pay even a part of the interest on the capital re- uuired to build bridge an attempt was made to get the Erie, the Lackawanna, the Lehigh Valley and the Jersey Cen tral to join in the use of the bridge These roads, however, could not be brought into harmonious agreement, and the firm of Jacobs & Davies, civil engineers, were requested to draw plans for the construction of tunnel under the Hudson River to be used only by the Pennsylvania railroad and it's connections and to estimate the cost of such tun- nel. These plans are nearly completed
The age-herald., 1901-12-13
Millions for Education.

The gifts on one day of $40,000, ,000 by Andrew Carnegie and Mrs. Jane L. Stanford have carried the educational bequests of the calendar year up to $S1,415,00O These figures are the footings of the Chicago Tribune, which keeps a careful account of such donations.
 This magnificent aggregate is a rec ord-breaker. Last years aggregate was $47,5O0,OO0. In 1899 such gifts. ran up to $62, 2,75O,000, and this was the best record down to the present year. It is believed the grand and final to- tai of this year will be $1Oo,00O,OOO The world presents no parallel to this-no approach even to it.
 Mrs. Stanford's gift is the greatest recorded in the whole history of edu- cational institutions, but as it goes to Stanford University, situated in far away California, it will prove less na- tional and -ess conspicuous than MT. Carnegies gift for the endowment of a national university. But in one way or another the richly endowed Cali fornia institution will be felt in the national life, and MT. Carnegies gift will in fact but supplement Mrs. Stan lords wonderful donation.
 MT. Carnegie's donation will go to establish an institution that will at tract from all colleges specialists who desire to equip themselves with the profoundest learning or who desire to prosecute original research. The plan that has been outlined aims to cap all other institutions of learning with training school of the highest rank in which every conceivable op- portunity for original work will be afforded. It is to be the finishing school of complex conditions, and original research is to be its corner stone.
The age-herald., 1901-12-13
KNOX scoREp.

Washington Correspondent of the Chicago
 Record Herald. sssfs
 An ugly fight Is being made on Attor' ney-Genefal Knox in the Senate. and his confrihation is sielayed-for further inves- tigation. There is little doubt that he will be confirmed in the end, but mean while he must stand under d hot fire from the Antitrust League. local organiza- tion, which Is looking for the scalp of the head of the department or justice. Two charges are preferred against Mr. Knox by this organization The first is that he was not only the attorney of the great biIlion-doilar steel trust. but that he ad- vised the trust how to protect it's organ ization in such way as to escape pun ishment under the Sherman antitrust law, It Is clalnied that even q lawyer has not the right to advise his clients to break the law.
 This charge led to the remark hy Sem ator Hoer, chairman of the judiciary committee. that once in his professional career he defended a counterfeiter. Tn doing so l was, of course, within the scope of my proper duties as a lawyer said the Massachusetts Senator "but if previous to the commission of the crime l had advised my client how to commit that crime I should and probably would have been disbarred."
 The other charge against MT. Knox is that he refused to give the Antitrust League chance to appear before him after the election last fall and present ar gument in favor of the trusts. Mir. Knox in his defense told the Judiciary commit tee of the Senate that he had promised such hearing, but that the leagues of ficers failed to appear. Now they are try ing to make out that the attorney gen erals stories do not agree with the facts. Although the nomination of Mi. Knox was today fayorably reported by the committee on judiciary, by common con sent confirmation was withheld and an onslaught is to be made upon him in ex- ecutive session by those Democrats who support the contention of the Antitrust League.
The age-herald., 1901-12-13
lrr ONLY DAILY NEWSPAPER IN ALABAMA
Who shall go about To cozen fortune and be honorable Without the stamp of merit?
 Merchant of Venice.
Passing of the Locomotive.

The scarcity of cars is a serious matter, and so Is the scarcity of yard and switch room, but all are coming to see that the most serious trouble now is a scarcity of locomotives. In the long depression that lasted from 1892 to 1899 the railroads did not in. crease their motive power. In many cases it was actually decreased, for worn-out locomotives were not re- placed. Population kept on increas- ing, however, and when prosperity re- turned there were not locomotives enough to move the business offered, and the locomotive shops were un- equal to the orders thrown at them, and they are still unequal to the task, and they long will be.
 This condition of affairs is leading some railroad managers and students of transportation to conclude that the days of trains are nearly ended in populous localities where double or quadruple tracks are needed. By sub stituting continuous electric currents for steam it is possible to maintain an almost continuous train service, there by largely increasing the capacity of the line until all demands upon 1t are met. The train system has been out grown, in other words, and the trolley system must take it's place.
 This theory is not particularly adapted at present to the South, but there will soon be sections in the South where the trolley system will be preferable to the train system, and this district of coal and iron will be one of the first to cal for it. The loco motive may hold it's own few years longer, but long before the century is well advanced it will go to the trash pile, and electric traction will afford an almost continuous train service in- stead.
The age-herald., 1901-12-13
IRON AND STEEL NEXT YEAR.
From the Iron Age:

From the Iron Age.
 Not only are more Iron and steel now being made and consumed in the United States than any any previous time in the history of this or any other country, but members of the trade are beginning to prophecy still larger business the conn ing year. The full capacity of the blast furnaces and steel works completed and in process of erection seems to be inn peratively needed to meet the require ments of the country for the greater part of the first six months of 1902. This is as far as ordinary human foresight can carry prognostications as to busi- ness. It is seldom that indications for an approaching year point so strongly to heavy trade as at the present time. Many branches of business report an unusual number of inquiries now com ing up relative to material for projected improvements Ii might be assumed, in view of the occurrences of the past two years, that the expansion in the Ameri- can iron trade had reached its culmina- ton, but so far no evidence can be seen pointing to such a conclusion
The age-herald., 1901-12-13
County Board of Registration.

Fourteen county boards of regis trars have been appointed by the State Board, of which Governor Jelks is chairman, and if the other thirteen are made up of men like those named for the Jefferson County Board, no uneasiness need be felt over the op- eration of the temporary suffrage clause of the new constitution. Messrs. Hewitt, Lewis and Bondurant are not professional politicians. They are good citizens, taking deep interest in public affairs and in the general welfare of the community of which they are a part, but they are not parts of any political machine. Not one of them is any mans man. Each will do his duty. One is a farmer, one a real estate agent and one a lawyer. They Wal register the voters of this great county impartially, lawfully and cor rect1y. Few or no mistakes will be made by such men.
 It is fair to presume that the men named for the other thirteen counties are equally capable and trustworthy These boards can scarcely be said to afford places of profit, for the pay will be no more than meet the expenses that the registrars will incur as they go from beat to beat in their respect i've counties, but they are made up emphatically of places of trust. These men and men like them are to create an electorate that will be all-powerful in this State twenty-five years, and very influential twenty-five years longer. They are to name an almost permanent electorate. In one way or another their work will be felt to the end of the present century.
 The Age-Herald urges upon them the utmost faithfulness to the new duties and the utmost study of these duties, for upon their action depends to very great extent the operation without undue friction of the new con stitution. The men who go about predicting all sorts of evil from it's operation can readily be confounded and upset by wise action on the part of the county registrars.
The age-herald., 1901-12-13
IN HOTEL LOBBIES
 AND ELSEWHERE
Use paoer BIlIs.


 q notice the further go east the less silver money l sec said a southerner yesterday All through the north ana east I find the people using small paper bills. This Is especially true in Wash ington where l don't believe l ever dia see q silver dollar. In the west sach a thing as a one-dollar bill is not more than once a year and they are prized very highly In the south I notice more small bills than ever before, but at that they are very scarce. I cannot account for this unless it Is due to the fact that there are numbers of government employees in the east, and they are paid in paper money. At Washington the paper money is issued by the bureau of printing and engraving and this may account for the large number of one-dollar bills there. There seems to be q general impression that the government has a mint in Wash ington, but this is a mistake as no coins are made there
 "A habit of westerners and southerners in paying for drinks, ice cream, etc., is very amusing and strangeto northerners. For instance a man from the west and south carries a pocket full of silver money, seldom. ever using purse. When he orders a drink he reaches down in his trousers pocket and pulls out a handful of coins, laying them on the counter. From this the bartender or clerk selects what he wants As rule the eastern and northern man hands the clerk the exact change or a one-dollar bill if the amount is not more than that,o
The age-herald., 1901-12-13
HEADS USUALLY WIN.

From the Cleveland Leader,
 An unnumbered multitude of boys and young men who think that the lot of a professional athlete is one of the finest possible to attain ought not to overlook the object lesson furnished by the pres ent employment of Amos Rusie, long one of the most popular and best-paid base ball players in the United States. Rusie used to be given anywhere from $2500 to $5OOo year for playing ball. He had at least three months free every winter. His expenses were paid at hotels and on rail- roads. when he was away from the city where his club was located. Now he is still young man, full of strength and vigor. and he Is digging trenches in the streets of an Indiana town at sl5O a day.
 How different everything Is now, and how empty the very brief season of this ball players good fortune seems He has neither capital for business, skill in any lucrative calling which will last into old age, nor any other advantage over an ordinary laborer. It is even probable that his free and easy life as a baseball player has left him with less than the usual stock of vitality and ability to take good care of himself and any who may be dependent on him. as age comes on. All of which teaches the old but ever in- teresting and always vitally important lesson that heads win. It is good to have strong and dextrous arms and legs, but brains beat them out of sight in the long competition of life Let no youth glory ing in his bodily powers forget that fact. It is the rule of existence and the key to the worlds adjustment of human for tunes.
The age-herald., 1901-12-13
SHORT STORIES
 OF THE DAY
Poetry Risky in an oil Town.

Poetry Risky in an oil Town.
 Mark Twain and few friends of early days had a little sitting the other even ing, says writer in the New York Times and after conversation had vacil- lated about topics of general public in- terest the humorist lapsed Into the re- miniscent. "I don't suppose any of you boys remember Bill Arden" he began, but there was man who surprised even those few close friends of his who had inside information regarding his inherent merit I first met Bill when he was living in fiourishing mill town on the banks of the Ohio river Some folk said Bill wasn't quite sharp. but his friends knew that Bills light was burn ing brightly, though somewhat obscured by his retiring disposition. Bill was a mill hand until some Eastern people put up an oil refinery down by the river, when he got job in the refinery tend ing one of the pumps
 Now, Bill had literary aspirations. He contributed poem to the Leader. There were some beautiful thoughts in Bills verse, but a clumsy printer spoiled the meter and destroyed the rhythm; the thoughts were there, though, and all you had to do was to reach in and drag them out
 That was Bill's first attempt-but Bill was a plodder. Notwithstanding his plod- ding, everybody, even his friends, said Bill may get to be a bright sort of cuss but he'll never set the Ohio on fire
 Bill had habit of staying down in the office after hours writing poems and sonnets. One night Bill got the divine inspiration, and got down to work with both arms and both feet. As he was about welding on the bottom plates of the first or second canto of his epic he had to dash in a bit of white fire. He did this with a tremendous flourish, Sparks flew from his pen. One partic- ularly big and hot spark flew through the door leading into the main room of the refinery and dropped into barrel of naphtha. Inside of half an hour the Ohio was ablaze with burning oil and the entire town was wiped out. Bill cer- tainly surprised even his friends
The age-herald., 1901-12-13
- f--- NOT GOING THERE.

From the Springfield Republican. ir,
 Ambassador Choate is quoted as telling in Washington a new story about his old law partner, the late Senator Evarts. In his declining years he was full of spec ulation as to heaven. what 1t might be, and also as to hell, which, however. he did not believe the All-Wise would send him to. One day MT. Choate try ing to divert his mind from this line of thought, asked him what he thought of the Philippines. At first MT. Evarts wonderingly asked what he meant, and MT. Choate recalled the facts. MT. Evarts was silent for a moment, and then, his face brightening, he said Yes, I re member to have heard of the. Philippines, Choate; but I am not intereAed in them, as I am sure not to go thdre."
The age-herald., 1901-12-13
Another Machine Smashed.

When Senator Fairbanks and the labor unions are turned down at the White House, and a junior Senator Is turned up, we are justified in saying that something at least is up" That something is the smashing of another machine. The Fairbanks machine in Indiana was an ally of the Hanna ma chine in Ohio and the Sunny South, and it has been discredited, if not smashed.
 This came about oymEthe. selection
The age-herald., 1901-12-13
CATO ON THE IMMORTALITY OF
 THE SOUL.

By Joseph Addison. It must be so; Plato, thou reason'st well. Else whence this pleasing hope, this fond
 desire, This longing after immortality? <, Or whence this secret dread and inward
 horror Of falling Into naught? Why shrinks the Back on herself, and startles at destruc-
 tion? Iris the Divinity that stirs within us, Iris heaven itself that points out an
 hereafter And intimates Eternity to man. Eternity! = thou pleasing dreadful
 thought! Through what variety of untried being Through what new scenes and changes
 must we pass! The wide, tn unbounded prospect lies be-
 fore me; But shadows, clouds, and darkness rest
 upon it. Here will I hold:-If there's . Power
 above us (And that there is all Nature cries aloud Through all her works), he must delight
 in Virtue; And that which he delights in must be
 happy: But-when Tor where This world was
 made for Caesar. I'm weary of conjectures: This must end
 them
 Gaying his hand upon his sword.) Thus I am doubly armed; my death and
 life. My bane and antidote are both before me. This in a moment brings me to an end, But this informs me I shall never die. The soul, secured in her existence smiles At the drawn dagger. and defies its point. The stars shall fade away. the sun her
 self Grow dim with age, and nature sink In
 years, But thou shalt flourish in inn ortaI youth, Unhurt amid the war of clements. The wreck of matter, and the crush of
 wnrlds-
The age-herald., 1901-12-13
Mr, CarnegieIs Offer of
 Ten Millions for University

Washington.-Th so-cailed National University" for the endowment of which Andrew Carnegie has offered to con tribute sl0.OOoOOO is not a university in the ordinary sense of the word. '"rhe ob- ject of the institution" according to one who has been interested In the project lis to utilize the scientific and other re- sources of the government in Washing ton for advanced study and research and to cooperate to that end with universi- a general way it follows the lines upon which several college presidents-Hadley of Yale, Harper of Chicago, Gilman Of Johns Hopkins, Prichett of the Massachu- setts Institute of Technology and other educators. Nicholas Murray Butler con spicuous in the mum ber-have been work ing for some time,
 It is not proposed to erect extensive buildings or establish an institution coin peting with Harvard, Yale Columbia, Princeton and other universities or even post graduate institution like Johns Hopkins. The scheme rather involves correspondence and cooperation among leading educators throughout the United States.
 In 1892 Congress adopted a joint reso- luton providing that the government col lections Illustrative of arts and sciences, with Its facilities for scientific and liter ary research, should be held accessible to investigators and students in the Dis trict of Columbia. Tn the generai de- ficiency bill passed at the last session of the last Congress was a provision that those privileges should be extended to scientific investigators and duly quali- fled individuals, students and graduates of institution of learning in the several States and Territories, as well as in the District of Columbia, under such rules and restrictions as the heads of the de- partments and bureaus mentioned may prescribe
 It is understood that MT. Carnegie's benefaction is intended to help carry into object of that law.