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The Lafayette advertiser. [volume] (Vermilionville [i.e. Lafayette], La.) 1865-19??, 1901-06-01

- Parkerson, OF New
orleans, is spending a week at the
home of his parents, Judge and
Mrs. ]. G. Parkerson.
The Lafayette advertiser. [volume] (Vermilionville [i.e. Lafayette], La.) 1865-19??, 1901-06-01
Or the People
For the People
BY
Peoples Cotton Oil CO.
Ut No. !, At Oil Mill,
Depot No. ), At John Bunt's,
!. Den0f No. s 1T a Prndhnfnnnes

t On the first week Of June our New Ice Plan
Will be In operation, and We vii II deliver Ice
At 40 cents per hundred or cent per pound
Ia small quantities.. we guarantee Pure.
lassc1ear and ho1esome Ice and pr ompt delivery.
If our driver fails to give perfect salts
4 Faction kindly report direct to our office.
The Lafayette advertiser. [volume] (Vermilionville [i.e. Lafayette], La.) 1865-19??, 1901-06-01

services at Methodist
Church every Sunday at II a. M,
and s p. m. c. c. WEIR,
Pastor.
The Lafayette advertiser. [volume] (Vermilionville [i.e. Lafayette], La.) 1865-19??, 1901-06-01

This is fly time. Why not get
you some wire screen doors and
make yourself comfortable? We
have all sizes now on hand, E. H.
Vordenoaumen.
The Lafayette advertiser. [volume] (Vermilionville [i.e. Lafayette], La.) 1865-19??, 1901-06-01

Mr.. Valery Martin OF New Or
leans visited his nephew DR.. G. A.
Martin this week, and while here
combined business with pleasure.
Mr.. Martin had not been in Lafa-
yette since twenty years and ex-
pressed surprise at the growth and
progress OF our town.
The Lafayette advertiser. [volume] (Vermilionville [i.e. Lafayette], La.) 1865-19??, 1901-06-01
DON'T TAKE CALOMEL,

Aor+oi The new liver medicine.
SlePeoa' Takes the place Of calomel
without the evil effects. Acts
mildly, and efectually. Pleasant
to take as lemonade. Cures, all
liver diseases, biliousness, con-
stipation, indigestion, sick head
ache, prevents malarial poison,
and clears the complexion Price
35cts., per bottle, Sold and guar
anteed by, The Moss Pharmacy.
The Lafayette advertiser. [volume] (Vermilionville [i.e. Lafayette], La.) 1865-19??, 1901-06-01

E. Dorsey Anderson spent
d few days here in the interest of
the New Orleans Times Democrat.
The Lafayette advertiser. [volume] (Vermilionville [i.e. Lafayette], La.) 1865-19??, 1901-06-01

hrMr w. E. Dixon, of the S. w.
Oil Co. Houston, Texas, was in
town this week.
The Lafayette advertiser. [volume] (Vermilionville [i.e. Lafayette], La.) 1865-19??, 1901-06-01

Insurance in Fire, Life or Acct
dent by ]. r. Domengeaux.
The Lafayette advertiser. [volume] (Vermilionville [i.e. Lafayette], La.) 1865-19??, 1901-06-01

Reasonable profits. reliable
goods, right treatment. are the
three RS Of the Racket Store.
The Lafayette advertiser. [volume] (Vermilionville [i.e. Lafayette], La.) 1865-19??, 1901-06-01

We sell the famous, "An>hor"
Vehicle. Every one guaranteed. E.
H. Vordenbaumen.
The Lafayette advertiser. [volume] (Vermilionville [i.e. Lafayette], La.) 1865-19??, 1901-06-01

-Vordenbaumen received big
shipment OF wire screen doors this
week.
Gloucester County Democrat. (Woodbury, N.J.) 1878-1932, 1901-06-20

creek down to its mouth and there
made the strangest of finds. Three
years previously, while on a voyage
from Bombay to Liverpool, the bark
Sunshine had been dismasted at sea
and deserted by her crew for a wreck
She was laden with wool. hides, dye
woods and minerals, and her cargo
was appraised at nearly a million dol
lars. Her crew had been picked up at
sea, the vessel listed as lost and the in
surance paid, and yet as Joey reached
the little harbor there was the hull of
the Sunshine with her nose on the
beach. Wind, wave and current had
drifted her all of 700 miles and finally
whirled her into that spot. Her hull
was sound and her matches on. and her
cargo had not been damaged to the
amount of hundred dollars.
Three weeks later the boys signal
smoke on the beach brought vessel
to his rescue, and he said not word
of his find till he reached Bombay and
found men in whom he could trust.
Then an expedition was fitted out. the
hull and cargo were got to Bombay in
safety, and the courts allowed the boy
salvage enough to make him rich to
the end of his days. In marooning
poor stowaway lad whose only crime
was wanting to return to his native
land Captain Joyce had as good as
thrown 100000 at him and raised him
up a thousand friends.
Gloucester County Democrat. (Woodbury, N.J.) 1878-1932, 1901-06-20
A RARE VOLUME BY PENN.


Only Known Copy Is Owned by
Quakers In Philadelphia.
The only known copy of PENIS issue
Of Magma Charta," published in 1857
by the Bradford Press, is the property
of the Meeting For Sufferings, a repre-
sentative body of the Friends yearly
meeting in Philadelphia. Its title is
''The Excellent Privilege of Liberty
and Propriety; Being the Birthright of
the Freeborn Subjects of England"
The copy is not generally open to the
public.
The peculiar significance of this book
is that half dozen years after Penn
founded his colony he wished to have
the colonists keenly realize that they
would have to stand for their rights in
the new country as well as the old,
where they had been so cruelty perse-
cuted. He wrote this book in order that
they might be informed on the consti-
tuition of their local government and
know what were the legal bases of
their rights as citizens.
Curiously enough the only proof
there is that this work was William
Penn's is the statement made by Chief
Justice David Lloyd in 1923, great
Quaker leader who was Pcnn's attor-
ney general at the time the book was
issued. Chief Justice Lloyd was also
at that time an intimate friend of Will
liam Penn and consequently knew
whereof he spoke.
The volume was reproduced in fac
simile by the Philobiblon club in 1897
for a limited number of subscribers.
The original volume, however, must al
ways remain the rare thing that it is,
one of the best expressions of liberty
under law that the mind of the great
founder could Philadelphia
Press.
Gloucester County Democrat. (Woodbury, N.J.) 1878-1932, 1901-06-20
After a Struggle.

"Georgie," said fond mother to a
little 4-year-old, you must take the
umbrella to school with you. or you
will get wet. 1t rains hard"
81 want the little one" he said.
meaning the parasol.
mo. my dear. That is for dry wealth
er. You must take this and go like a
good boy
George did as he was bid and got to
school comfortably.
After school hours it had stopped
raining, and George trudged home
with the remnants of the umbrella I'M
der his arm.
"Oh, George, what have you been
doing with my umbrella?' said his
mother when she saw the state it was
in.
"You should have let me had the lit
tie one," said he. This was such a
great one it took four Of us to pull It
through the door," "-Leslie's Weekly.
Gloucester County Democrat. (Woodbury, N.J.) 1878-1932, 1901-06-20
S5S1ScStSJ~JS5S
NARROWING
A BOY. ....
BY Nj. QUAD.
Copyright, 1901. by C. B. Lewis.
s6s,s1a1s;,1ss5asls,;:aI1,:s.1s.:s.as1s

We were loading the Liverpool brig
Memo for London at Bombay and
had been shipped as second mate of her
when one day boy about 16 years of
age came down to the craft and en-
deayored to ship as cabin boy, assist
ant to the cook or as an apprentice
He was an English lad who had run
away from home and wanted to get
back. He was frank spoken, had an
honest, innocent face, and was glad
to help him to an interview with the
captain. 1t did him no good, however.
Captain Joyce was selfish, hard heart
ed man, and he not only refused the
lad the place he could easily have made
for him, but cursed him roundly for
having dared to come aboard l felt
sorry for the boy and slipped him a
crown, and when he went over the
side l advised him to try other vessels
and not get discouraged.
l did not know that the boy returned
and worked on the sympathies of some
of our crew and was slowed away
by them in the forehold, but that
was what happened. Had l or any
other officer of the ship got an in
king Of his presence the stowaway
would have been hauled out Of his hid.
ing place very quickly. but he was
smuggled aboard so adroitly that only
two or three sailors knew of his pres
Gloucester County Democrat. (Woodbury, N.J.) 1878-1932, 1901-06-20

THERE WAS THE HULL OF THE SUNSHINE.
eDce until we were three days at sea.
Then by their advice he showed him
self and offered to do anything he was
set at to pay his way. Some shipmas-
ters would have put him to work and
said no more about it, as he could have
been made very useful, but Captain
Joyce was pleased to look upon 1t as
heinous offense not to be overlooked.
After abusing the lad for ten minutes
by word of mouth he picked up q
ropes end and fogged him till some Of
the men cried out against it. That
stopped the fogging for the time be-
ing but the lad was set at the dirtiest
of work. given only food enough to
keep soul and body together and was
cursed at and struck whenever the
captain could reach him. The first
mate Joined his superior in this. while
stood as neutral as l could. Had
openly sympathized with the lad
should have had row with the cap
tain, but could and did show him de-
cent treatment and encourage the men
to do likewise.
We had run as far south as the Lack
adivh islands and owing to a strong
gale had been set in much nearer than
our course lay when one day, as the
brig was becalmed under the lee of one
of the smaller Islands, | was ordered
to take crew and row the boy ashore
and leave him. was at first for refus-
In inf 10 MI q
thing to do, but | saw that the captain
was in liquor and would have the af-
fair carried out at any cost. Any re-
fusal to obey orders would result in my
being disrated and clapped in irons.
realized also that could help the wan
derer more by going than by refusing.
While the boat was being made ready
slipped down to my stateroom after
matches, a knife, some fishhooks and
other things and upon returning to the
deck found that the captain had pro.
vided the lad with about ten pounds of
hard bread, the same of pork aud an
old kettle. He refused him matches,
however, and it was lucky thing that
/ had brought three or four dozen
ulUuS. 1u0 ldU IudQG 10 luSS ABOUT 60
| ing, although he knew that he was to
be set ashore on lonely island l
know he was in deadly fear Of the cap
| tain and mate and to escape them in
any manner was relief. On the way
| to shore advised him as best l could,
and the men at the oars were not back
ward in expressing their sympathy,
and when we left Joey on the beach
be was feeling quite stout hearted.
| What happened to that lad after we
sailed away reads like a romance. He
had been marooned on one of the most
easternmost of the group, and perhaps
the island had never been explored by
white men. 1t was three miles long
| by two broad, with ridge running ih
| length. Indeed. there were two ridges,
and, between them was creek rum
ming to the north. At its mouth this
creek widened into a little harbor.
The boy had been on the island for a
week before he climbed the ridges and
found them full of living springs
which fed the creek. He followed the
Gloucester County Democrat. (Woodbury, N.J.) 1878-1932, 1901-06-20
ON THEIR SEA LEGS.

Cattle and Horses Do Not Get Fright
ened In Rough Weather.
"Do the horses and cattle get fright
ened and make much disturbance in
rough weather. asked the writer of
a New York dealer who ships cattle
abroad.
''Bless you, no. They've got sea legs
that would put an old salt to shame.
Occasionally a horse will lose his bal
lance, but bullock is the greatest bal
ancer you ever saw. They are knowing
brutes too. You know, we put them
four in a pen. Well, you'll never find
all four standing up or lying down at
one time. They figure the thing out
and decide how they'll get the most
room and most comfort. So two of
them stand UP while two lie down.
When they get tired, they shift the
watch.
''The horses like to be talked to when
there's big sea on and things are
pretty lively. They always like GER
tain men better than Others So do
the cattle. We have one man who can
lock and horse on the boat knows him
by the time we've been out two days.
He comes in handy when there's an
accident.
''It's mighty seldom that serious
accident happens nowadays, but once
in awhile horse or a bullock does
get thrown and breaks leg or does
some bad damage We don't carry
veterinary. The men know as much
about ordinary cattle and horse all
ments as any vet, and if one Of the
brutes breaks his leg there's nothing
for it but to kill him. A veterinary
couldn't do anything for him.
.'The company charges from Sc to
$50 head for carrying cattle and
from $27 to $3.50 head for horses.
When the government inspectors stop
ped overcrowding, they cut down the
carrying capacity of some boats 75
head. That made pretty big hole in
the ships profits in the course of
year. Exchange.
Gloucester County Democrat. (Woodbury, N.J.) 1878-1932, 1901-06-20
Only Sunburned.

Last summer two little girls in a
College avenue family were repeatedly
demonstrated with by their indulgent
mother for playing bareheaded in the
sun. "You will be burned so badly"
said she to them finally, that people
will think you are black children" Her
warning had little effect. however, and
she gave up trying to keep their hats
on.
One day she sent them to neighbor
block or so distant to make some in
quiries concerning a washwoman. Mrs.
s., the neighbor in question. nlistook
them for the children of Mrs. Black
who lived in another. street nearby.
you are the little Black children,
are you not?" she asked.
"Oh, no." came the prompt response
from the elder. "Only sunburned." -
indianapolis News.
Gloucester County Democrat. (Woodbury, N.J.) 1878-1932, 1901-06-20
VANITY OF sAvAGEs.
Red Men Love to Pose In Grotesque
Attire Before the Camera

as evidence of the extent to which
the ornamental precedes the useful Ex-
plorer Humboldt noted the fact that
the Orinoco Indians in fair weather
strutted about attired in all the fnery
they were able to procure, their faces
painted gaudily, their heads decked
with feathers, their whole aim being to
strike astonishment to the beholder
and no regard whatever had for COM
fort
When the weather was bad, Hum
boldt found that the same men would
doff their clothing and carry it about to
save. it for display on future sunny
days.
The same traits are seen today in the
North American Indians, little modified
by many years of intermingling with
civilization.
That part of Pennsylvania avenue,
Washington, running from Second to
Sixth street is the favorite promenade
of visiting Indians. Portions of Sec
ond and Third streets, running off the
avenue, are filled with boarding houses
especially patronized by the redskins
and especially avoided by the whites in
consequence.
A number of photographers in the vi
cinity are the chief attractions of this
neighborhood for the aborigines. Moth
ing so delights them as to strut gravely
from their boarding houses to these art
galleries to sit for solemn pictures at
Uncle Sans expense, the bill being
charged in with necessaries incidental
to visit to the great father.
To deprive the visiting Indian Of the
privilege to sit for his photograph in
full paint and feathers and grotesque
mixture of cheap ready made garments
with blankets and bear claws would be
the greatest hardship possible to the
chieftains.
Showing the same disposition Hum
boldt noted. the visitors get themselves
up more barbarously the closer they
get to civilization.-St Lcuis Republic.
Gloucester County Democrat. (Woodbury, N.J.) 1878-1932, 1901-06-20
MILTON RELICS AT HARVARD


Signature In an Autograph Album
and the Poets Copy of "Pindar."
The Harvard library numbers among
It's treasures an autograph of Milton
and copy of "Pindar" annotated in
Milton's own handwriting, with mar
ginal notes in Greek and Latin. Both
of these rarities were bequeathed to
the university by Charles Sumner.
The "Pindar' is dated 1920 and was
doubtless used by Milton during his
stay at Cambridge university. At the
end he has added an alphabetical index
in manuscript, occupying two closely
written pages of all the authors cited
in his notes, with references to the
pages in which their names occur.
Milton's autograph is found in the
pages of an autograph album or visit
ors' book kept, according to custom
common in the sixteenth century, by q
Neapolitan noblenan, Camillus Car
doyn by name, who resided in Geneva
from 1908 to 1640, where Milton, ap-
parently, visited him. Another auto
graph in this same album among the
hundreds which it contains is that of
Thomas Wentworth, the unfortunate
Earl of Stafford. Millions signature is
dated Jan. 10, 1899, and is appended
| to Latin motto-s'Trave1 changes ones
sky, but not ones mind" it may be
freely rendered and a quotation from
his own "Comus:"
Gloucester County Democrat. (Woodbury, N.J.) 1878-1932, 1901-06-20
- - - $50
THE OLD CHURCH BELLS.
Ring out merrily,

Ring out merrily,
Lonely, cheerily,
Blithe Old bells from the steeple tower;
Hopefully, tearfully,
Joyfully fearfuly
Moveth the bride from the maiden bower.
Cloud there is none in the fair summer sky;
Sunshine filings benison down from on high;
Children sing loud as the train moves along,
"Happy the bride the sun shines on
Knell out drearily,
Measured and wearily,
Sad old bells from the steeple gray;
Priests chanting lowly,
Solemnly, slowly,
Passeth the corpse from the portal today.
Drops from the leaden clouds heavily fall,
Dripping over the plume and the pail;
Murmur old folks as the train moves along,
Happy the dead that the rain raineth on.''
Toll at the hour of prime,
Matin and vesper chime,
Loving old bells from the steeple high;
Rolling like holy waves
Over the lowly graves
Floating up, prayer fraught, into the sky.
Solemn the lesson your lightest notes teach;
Stern is the preaching your iron tongues preach
Ringing in life from the bud to the bloom.
Ringing the dead to their rest in the tomb.
Peal out evermore,
Peal as ye pealed Sabbath day,
Brave old bells, on each Sabbath day;
In sunshine and gladness,
Through clouds and through sadness,
Bridal and burial have passed away.
Tell us life's pleasures with death still rife;
Tell us that death ever leadest to life.
Life is our labor, and death is our rest;
If happy the living, the dead are the blest.
Dublin University Magazine.
Gloucester County Democrat. (Woodbury, N.J.) 1878-1932, 1901-06-20
Muzz1ing the OK.

One morning our washwoman, a lady
of color-very dark color-came hastily
in and, without any preliminares, ex-
claimed: 'Sparatualsm. What is spar
atualism, Miss Cora?"
My sister explained as well as she
could and asked why she wished to
know.
well. you see" she went on excited
ly. "Sarah-she's my daughter. you
know. and she went last week to live
with lady what says she is a sparatu-
alist. and she says if Sarah takes any
thing she'll know it. sarah's going to
eavew-Harpers Magazine.
Gloucester County Democrat. (Woodbury, N.J.) 1878-1932, 1901-06-20
Wonderful stones.

The brain of the tortoise was suppos-
ed to contain a wonderful stone which
was effieacious in extinguishing fire
and when placed under the tongue
would produce prophetic inspiration.
Another stone possessing the latter
property was to be found in the eye of
the hyena. The head of the cat, how
ever, was thought to contain what
would undoubtedly have been the most
wonderful and most desirable treasure
OF all could 1t have only had real in
stead of an imaginary existence, for
that man who was so fortunate as to
possess this precious stone would have
all his wishes granted. = Chambers
journal.
Gloucester County Democrat. (Woodbury, N.J.) 1878-1932, 1901-06-20
COULDN'T CALL HIM CRAZY.
just Newspaper Headliner Num-
bling From Force of Habit.

bling From Force of Habit.
look sat in the rear car of an elevated
train, staring and staring at one of the
advertisements.
English beauty Shoes" he mumbled
to his companion. 'That's what he
says"
"Yes," said the other, "but that's too
short"
"Hm, HIM." the haggard man replied.
Beautiful shoes from England
"That won't fit: It's long," was the
curt reply.
"Well, then, Beautiful English
shoes >
''That's only three words. You've got
to have four, you know"
"That's so, that's so. All, 1 have ity'
he cried so loud that all the other pas
Bengers in the car gave jump. Eng
lish shoes of beauty % letters and
spaces at last"
A compassionate old man looked up
from his newspaper.
"What's the matter with your
ffiendT" he asked. rs the chap Suf-
fering from delirium tremens"
"Oh, no." the man addressed replied
assuringly. you see, he's just through
with his nights work on morning
newspaper. He's headline writer,
you know, and after fellow has scrib-
bled off headlines of % letters and
spaces for about eight hours steady he
contracts that habit and can't get over
1t. Every advertisement, every scrap
of paper he sees for several hours aft
erward until his mind gets rested
well, he begins to count the letters and
spaces and turn the wording into a
headline that will fit. 1t isn't exactly
delirium tremens. It's something worse.
The headlines of % letters and spaces
go wriggling around in that poor over
worked brain much worse than
snakes" s."-Chicago Chronicle.
Gloucester County Democrat. (Woodbury, N.J.) 1878-1932, 1901-06-20

REVEALM ENT.

Let me tell how rhythm with its rhyme should
flow:
AS the laugh of leaves when soft zephyrs blow;
AS the waves with gracile hand
Write their names upon the sand.
Let me tell how music with its verse should mate:
As the dark with dawn, rapt, inyiolate;
AS the soil and sun disclose
Sweet communion in a rose.
Let me tell how fancy from the heart should
leap:
As the cloud full fraught rises from the deep;
As the spring at Gods behest
Wakes. and, 10, the world is blesti
Clarence Urmy in Independent
Gloucester County Democrat. (Woodbury, N.J.) 1878-1932, 1901-06-20
why AIbinos Do Not See wen,


According to DR.. A. D. Williams. the
white, flaxen hair of albinos shows
that there is a deficiency Of coloring
materials in their bodies. Further
proof of this fact is found in the alb
sence of the necessary amount of pig
ment in their eyes. Such persons have
pink eyes because there is not pig
ment enough in the iris and upon it's
posterior surface to prevent the red re-
f1ex of the fundus from shining through
the iris. Albinos are always greatly
annoyed by strong light because there
is not suficieRt coloring to prevent the
ingress of food of it, the bright glare
entering not only through the pupil,
but through the substance of the iris
as well.
The choroid being likewise deficient
in pigment. the excessive amount of
light dazzles and greatly confuses the
vision. Furthermore, the deficiency of
pigments in the choroid prevents the
light after it has acted on the retina
from being absorbed, that being the
main function of the choroidal pigment.
Albinism is an unfortunate condition,
as there Is no way to supply the def
cient pigment to the iris and choroid.
Gloucester County Democrat. (Woodbury, N.J.) 1878-1932, 1901-06-20
Buttons.

Towne-Tor goodness sake. what are
you so cranky about?
Browne-Oh asked my wife to sew
button on my coat.
Towne- And wouldn't she do It?
Browne Yes. but I've just discover
coat she cut from my vest. Exchange.
Gloucester County Democrat. (Woodbury, N.J.) 1878-1932, 1901-06-20
Nhut Wns Needed.

Henry Ward Reecher used TO tell a
story about a priest in the oIden time
who was called 10 bless the field of 2
poor farmer prior to the planting. He
came and after surveying the soil re-
marked TO the agriculturist. Praying
won't do here; what you want is ma
nure."
Gloucester County Democrat. (Woodbury, N.J.) 1878-1932, 1901-06-20
Lons Onrsnrtunitx.

"And you didn't hear of it?" inquired
Mrs. Gabbie.
"Not one word.''
sWhy, I've known it for a week, so I
supposed everybody heard of it."-Phil-
adelphia Times.
Gloucester County Democrat. (Woodbury, N.J.) 1878-1932, 1901-06-20
ST yeitue feeble were,
Heaven itselfe would stoone

The most notable Milton manuscript
known to exist is little book now
owned by Trinity college, Cambridge,
England, which contains the poets
copies of his so called minor poems, in
cluding "L'Allegro" and "Il Pensero-
so." In this country, however. it is
said that the only original memorials
of the great author Of Paradise Lost"
are to be found in these two time stain
ed volumes in the possession of the
Harvard library.