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The Lafayette gazette. [volume] (Lafayette, La.) 1893-1921, 1902-08-16
Thought and Action.

New ! ork treSs.
Some men think once before
they speak, some twice, others
not at all. Some think once
before they act, some twice,
some not at all. Many will take
no action until they have had Il
short horizontal view" of u
question, which is the essence of
wisdom. Il will sleep on it, -
says the puzzled man of judg-
ment, and on the morrow, with
brain clear, he is resolved.
Henry Watterson writes an edi-
torial to-day, lays it away in his
desk over night, rewrites it to-
morrow and has it put in type,
reviSes it in proof and reads the
corrected proof, making more
corrections, additions, subtrac
tons, &c, then puts it in the
Courier-Jou and finds that il
is not what he wanted to say al
all. Richard Grant White
Americans leading philologist
often told me that his bes
articles were rushed, sheet b!
sheet, to the composing room
before the ink from his pen hat
time to dry and when there
was no possibility of revision
Many writer's do their best wOrl
, under high pressure.
The Lafayette gazette. [volume] (Lafayette, La.) 1893-1921, 1902-08-16
Look Pleasant. Please.

Photographer &. G. Harlan, of Eaton, o.,
can do SO now, though for years he couldn't,
because he suffered untold agony from the
worst form of indigestion. All physicians
and medicines failed to help him till he
tried Electric Bitters which worked such
wonders for him that he declares they are a
godsend to sufferers from dyspepsia and
stomach troubles. Unrivaled for diseases
of the Stomach, Liver and Kidneys, they
build up and give new life to the whole sys-
tenn. Try them. Only soc. Guaranteed
by VIM. Clegg druggist.
The Lafayette gazette. [volume] (Lafayette, La.) 1893-1921, 1902-08-16
CONG 3Is4iI-IlO ION
Notice to Voters.

The office If the rcsst ar for and i'll the
parish OF Lafayette. for supplementary
registration according to Act us of 1909 for
the election to be held Nov. i, 1909, will be
open ON the following dates:
\, court house, Monday, Aug. 4, to
Saturday. Aug. 9.
At Moutoa'S Switch, Monday. Aug. IL.
At liuidroys' Hall, lSt ward, Tuesday,
Aug. IL.
1t Mrs. Ford Huftpauirs, I'D ward,
Thursday, Aug. H.
Mil. rhealrs store. 4th ward, Satur-
day, Aug. 10.
At Farmers Alliances hall, 5th ward,
Monday. Aug. IS.
\, A. G. Gu'lheau's hall, 9th ward,
Wednesday, Aug. 20.
A,H. Simoncau>'S 9th ward, Thursday,
Aug. 81.
At pile,le school-house, 9TH ward, Friday,
Aug. %.
At J. Wh,ttington'S store. Sth ward. Hatur-
day, Aug. IS.
And at court house from Aug. IS TO sept.
60, 1902.
A. NJ. MAETI$,
Aug. = 1902. Registrar.
The Lafayette gazette. [volume] (Lafayette, La.) 1893-1921, 1902-08-16
Skaters all Records.

Twice in hospital, +. n. Gullejge, Yer
bena, Ala, paid vast sum to doctors TO
cure a severe of piles, causing "a tu-
mors. When all failed, Bucklen's Arnica
Salve soon cured him. Subdues Inflamma-
ton, conquers Aches, kills Pains. Best
salve in the world. CSC at VIM. Clegg' s
tugslorc.
The Lafayette gazette. [volume] (Lafayette, La.) 1893-1921, 1902-08-16
Hope Lodge No. 145.
F. G. A. NJ.
Aug. :, 1902

Meets at 1880 p. IN. in the Ma
sonic hall, Lafayette, every
Thursday on or before full moon,
as follows:
Thursday, March 20.
Thursday, April II.
Thursday, May %.
Thursday, June 10.
Thursday, July II.
Thursday, August IA.
Thursday, September II.
Thursday, October 16.
Thursday, November ID.
Thursday, December IL.
CHAS. D. CAFFERY, w. M.
F.. E. GIRARD. Secretary.
The Lafayette gazette. [volume] (Lafayette, La.) 1893-1921, 1902-08-16
Notice for Publication.

LAND OFFICE AZ NEW ORLEANS, La. !
August ., 1902.
Notice is herebv given that The following
named settler has fled notice of his nten-
ton to make final proof in support of his
claim, and that said proof will be made be
fore the Register and Receiver 1T New Or
leans. La. on Sept. is. 1902. viz: Walter
S. Toran, Jr. ii. +. No. 1902 for the =
+. i Of =. 10, Up. II, :. *. 4 T. La Mer.
He names the following witnesses TO
prove his continuous residence upon and
cultivation Of said land, viz: Sidney W.
McEaCdin Robert $. SALESMAN. Lee sails
man, Roman Franccz, all of Lafayette
parish. La.
WALTER IT, CouE%, Register.
The Lafayette gazette. [volume] (Lafayette, La.) 1893-1921, 1902-08-16
The Sultan and the Beans.

Cleveland Plain Dealer.
If the report can be believed,
the new Sultan of Zanzibar is
fond of Boston baked beans, but
whether this indicates esthetic
longings or merely low grade
of simianlike imitation, it is
impossible at this distance to say.
Probably there are Boston
scientists who will study the
developments of the Sultan $
character as a rest assured that
the bean pot will receive full
credit.
The noble Sultan of Zanzibar
is calling again for his beans. His
clamor is echOing near and far
With terrible rumble and
rumpus and jar. AS back on
his throne he leans.
The noble Sultan of Zanzibar
is calling again for them hot.
The silence of night gets ter
rible scar, His howl rises up to
Il shuddering star-And down
goes the entire lot!
The Lafayette gazette. [volume] (Lafayette, La.) 1893-1921, 1902-08-16
BENEVOLENT ASSOCIATIONS.

CATHOLIC KNIGHTS OF AMERICA,
BRANCH NO. 7o2 meets Ist and Sd Sun
DAYS after high mass, at Home Fire Co. hall.
Address Robt. II. Broussard, Secretary,
Lafayette, La.
UNITED CONFEDERATE VETERANS
meets Ist Saturday of each month, at court
house, a. m.
The Lafayette gazette. [volume] (Lafayette, La.) 1893-1921, 1902-08-16
Bows and Girls and Slang

Baltimore Sun.
The latest defender of slang
is Prof G.. S. Hall, president Of
Clark University. In an adj
dress to "a gathering of teachers
at Chicago on Tuesday he is
reported to have made the fol
lowing statements: boys and
girls need slang. It's good for
them. Let them use it. 1t
keeps them from becoming
tongue bound. If Il youngster
tells you of a 'hunch,' or Il
straight tip or Il pipe, don't
correct him and give him a stiff
substitute. He has found the
right wOrd.''
This is very bad advice. The
teachers are said to have 'gasped
with astOnishment' when Prof.
Hall defended the use OF slang.
The English language is not so
poor as the Clark University
professor seems to think. 1t
dDouISlo III WI W S'oSA VI = Ill
which express accurately, geo
graphically, and SenSibly any
idea which Il man may desire
to clOthe in decent garb. If
Prof. Halls advice were accepted
by teachers generally, children
would never learn how to speak
with any degree of elegance.
"Slang,' says the professor,
aids the young man on young
woman to acquire huency." 1t
would be far better for them
never to be ''tluent' than that
they should clOthe their ideas in
vulgar garb.
An Enterprising Editress.
Though quite a heavy sufferer
from the recent fire at Washing
ton: the Enterprise came out On
the 18th instant looking none the
worse after it's fight with the
flames. 1t is said that nothing
in the world will prevent q
woman from having her say, but
if this be true imagine, dean
reader, what potent force is re
quired to render speechlesS the
fair one who has a press and
type! The printing plant of the
Enterprise was almost com
pleteIy wrecked, but with {
dauntlesS courage, characters
tic of her sex, the energetic
editress succeeded in sending
out a most creditable paper or
the publication day of the follow
ing week
The Lafayette gazette. [volume] (Lafayette, La.) 1893-1921, 1902-08-16
Sherif'S Sale.

Ma ie Selma Roy, widow, VS.. Lillian PARCEL,
minor: G. II. Mouton. curator adj hoe.
Parish of Lafayette, 18th Judicial Dis
trict, State of Louisiana, No. ASIA.
The Lafayette gazette. [volume] (Lafayette, La.) 1893-1921, 1902-08-16
Notice to Teachers.

Teachers holding summer school ceri-
fcates will please send them I" the under
signed as soon convenient.
l.. !. AIIEAlAS.
Superintendent
Aug. ,, 1902.
The Lafayette gazette. [volume] (Lafayette, La.) 1893-1921, 1902-08-16

BY virtue of n wri, of execution issued by
the Honorable 18th Judicial District court
and to me directed, l, the undcrsigned will
sell for cash to the last and highest bidder
without appra isement at the Coui / house in
the town of Lafayette, La, between legal
ale hours
The Lafayette gazette. [volume] (Lafayette, La.) 1893-1921, 1902-08-16
Saturday Aug 30, 1902,

the following described property to-wit:
\ certain lot of ground situated in the
town of Royville. Lafayette parish, Louis
lana, containing and measuring ninety six
feet front by hundred and nlnety-two
fee; in depth. together with all buildings
and improvements thereon, bounded north
by street, south 10y land of Alois!sa Thibo-
daux. east by pu bic school lots and west by
street. l. a. BROUSSARD,
Sheriff Lafayette Parish, La.
July 90, 1902.
The Lafayette gazette. [volume] (Lafayette, La.) 1893-1921, 1902-08-16

The entrance into politics of
the United Mine Workers in
backing the campaign Of con-
GressiOnal aSpirantS in Iowa and
Indiana is by no means an
innovation, says the New York
World. Indeed, it is remarka BILE
that no man sits in our Congress
to-day as the direct representa-
tive of labOring men. MOnarchic
England is in this respect very
different. Joseph Arch, the
farm labOrer; Burt and Abra
hams, the miners: Burns, the
dock hand; Mawdsley, the cotton
spinner, and others of their kind,
have usefully sat in parliament.
d. E. SchackeltOn, a member of
the Labor party, was on Friday
elected to the House of Com
mons without opposition, to fill
the vacancy in the seat for the
ClitherOe Division of Lancashire
caused by the elevation to the
peefaSe OF the SlUulnS mem per
These men have been salaried by
their respective unions to enable
them to live as unpaid mem bers
in London, and for the most
part have added high mental
and moral qualities to the special
knowledge that makes them
valuable as legislators. OF
course, a far greater proportion
of our congressman than of
British Parlamentarians have in
the past worked with their
hands for day wages. A man
like Horace Greeley was as
truly representative of labor as
if elected in it's name. But
there is probably justice in the
complaint that too many of our
legislators are lawyers by
present profession, and that a
larger infusion of men direct
from the soil, the sea, the
counting room and the work
bench would, if well chosen, add
special qualities and special
means of information of value
in Legislative work.
The Lafayette gazette. [volume] (Lafayette, La.) 1893-1921, 1902-08-16

That strikes the sight,
but it's their merit that
wins them to the eXacting
purchaser. The new styl-
ish designs, together with
exceptionally easy riding
and long wearing qualities,
make them favOriteS in all
localities. Shall we quote
you prices?
The Lafayette gazette. [volume] (Lafayette, La.) 1893-1921, 1902-08-16
REAL ESTATE AGENCY.
Property Listed.

a GOOD BUSINESS OPENING-A large with residence
situate,
side track sale 20
The Lafayette gazette. [volume] (Lafayette, La.) 1893-1921, 1902-08-16

The citizens of our city are
deeply grateful to the FIRE lad
dies of OpelOuSas and Lafayette
in response to our call on Tues
day last: the Opelousas boys
were in the hottest of it, and
with our people had about given
up all hope of saving the town
when the train brought the fire
men of Lafayette. numbering
some $50, splendidly equipped
and well disciplined, assisting
materially in bringing the fire to
a close. A friend in need is a
friend indeed,-gentlemen we
thank Washington Enter
prise.
The Lafayette gazette. [volume] (Lafayette, La.) 1893-1921, 1902-08-16

Aug. ,, 1902.
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1902-12-02
REVOLUTION

A sure sign of approaching revolt
and serious trouble in your system
is nervousness, sleeplessness, or
stomach upsets. Electric Bitters
will quickly dismember the trouble
some causes. It never fails to tone
the stomach, regulate the Kidneys
and Bowels, stimulate the Liver, and
clarity the blood. Rundown systems
benefit particularly and all the usual
attending aches vanish under its
searching and thorough effectiveness.
Electric Bitters is only SOC, and that
is returned if it don't give perfect
satisfaction. Guaranteed by all
Druggists.
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1902-12-02
FIGHT WILL BE T T

Those who will persist in closing
their ears against the continual rec
ommendation of DR.. Kings New Dis
covery for Consumption, will have
a long and bitter fight with their
troubles, if not ended earlier by ia
tai termination. Read what T. r.
Beall of Beall, Miss, has to say:
"Last fall my wife had every symp-
tom of consumption. She took DR..
Kings New Discovery after every
thing else had failed. Improvement
came at once and four bottles en-
tirely cured her. Guaranteed by all
Druggists: Price 5Oc., and $1.OO.
Trial bottles free.
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1902-12-02

climate, much of the most astonish-
ing husbandry goes on in regions
wholly unblessed by any unusual adj
vantages, as in Vosges and in parts
of Flemish Belgium. The Swiss,
upon a poor soil, have quadrupled
the hay tonnage.
Let me give a single quotation
from a man Of science about this
work near Paris: "Fifty years ago
the culture maraichere' was quite
primitive. But now the Paris gar
dener not only defes the soil-he
would grow the same crops on an
asphalt pavement-he defes climate.
His walls, which are built to reflect
light and to protect the wall-trees
from the northern winds, his wall
tree shades and glass protectors, his
frames and pepinieres have made a
real garden, a rich southern garden,
out of the suburbs of Paris. He has
given to Paris the two degrees less
of latitude after which a French
scientific writer was longing; he sup
plies his city with mountains of
grapes and fruit at any season, and
in the early spring he mandates and
perfumes it with flowers. The Gull
ture of plain vegetables on a large
scale is spreading every year, and
the results are so good that there are
now practical maraichers who ven
ture to maintain that if all the food,
animal and vegetable, necessary for
the 100000 inhabitants of the de-
partments of Seine and Seine-et-
Disc had to be grown on their own
territory, it could be grown without
~resorting to any methods of culture
than those already in use."
THE SITUATION THAT COMFORTS Us.
The great educational lesson of the
new century will be to show~u the
range and application of this prin-
ciple of the Intensive culture" To
learn and to teach all that this means
of economic and political independ-
ence is a need almost as pressing
at the North as at the South.
Wherever the first surface richness
of the soil has ben wasted there is
neither real freedom nor progress
for you or for us apart from this
new culture. It's beginnings are in
such splendid evidence in your midst
that a troop of Northern educators
are constantly coming hither, not
first to teach but first to learn. It
is not the old cry, "Back to the land"
but Forward to SCIENCE"
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1902-12-02
Type For Sale.
A BIG BARGAIN.

The composition and press work OF The
Progressive Farmer is now being done under
contract with the Mutual Publishing Com
pany, hence we a. dispose Of our entire out
fit of body type, which we offer at q bargain.
These type nave been in use only two years,
are properly distributed in cases, which will
be sold with the type If desired. A sample
cop of the last issue printed from these type
will be mailed to any one wishing to pur-
chase. If interested, address
PROGRESSIVE FARMER,
Raleigh, N. C..
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1902-12-02
A CHANGE NEEDED IN COUNTRY
SCHOOL METHODS.

Address by DR.. John Graham Brooks, of
Cambridge, Mass, Before the Recent
Conference for Education in the South.
Look with me into an average
school-house. It's arithmetic, its
geography, its penmanship, its book
keeping, its reading-book appeals to
the imagination of the farmers
child, are still dominated by clerk
and trading point of view.
Discomfort WITH COUNTRY LIFE.
As n listens to the teaching, it
is as if the one object were to create
discomfort with the country life; to
make every bright boy and girl hate
their surroundings. The instruction
seems to assume the failure of the
farm life. The inexhaustible charm
and of the country has no
part in this teaching. It is the more
surprising because a body of the
richest material for object lessons
has now been gathered. Methods of
instruction have been perfected and
populated 50 that no excuse is at
hand. Forestry, horticulture, the
physiology of plant life, chemistry
ms applied to the Intensive culture"
carry with them an interest and IN
thusiasm that applied science rarely
fails to inspire. This is no longer
doctrinaire speculation; the proofs
are before us in many places, that
these things may be taught with tell
ing effect to youth of average parts.
Grasses, flowers, trees, fertilizers,
soils, the preparation of foods, open
up a world of enchantment that
might transfgure country life.
COUNTRY SCHOOL METHODS OUT OF
DATE.
What can be said for a copy-book
schooling which gives the rustic no
filter ideal than the spruce clerk of
the city store, that gives him neither
mastery nor JOY in his work, that
shuts out every delight which easy
and now accessible science may lend
to life upon the farm9 Education
the great remedy" Yes, but that
kind of education that trains to eff
f~ectiveness and pride in the tasks one
has to perform; otherwise, it is not
education, but baked and disfgured
life. The truth about instruction in
the rural districts is that it is as
much out of date as the spinning
wheel or the whale-oil lamp. The
conditions of vigorous growth in
transportation and large industries
are now known. The machine is
torn out and cast aside three and
even four times in a single genera
ton. To keep old machinery is to
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1902-12-02

~ $1,000
of the readjustment of ways and
means in education is at least as
great, but the teaching of the coun-
try school numbers on as absurdly
out of relation to the new needs
there as the coach of other days to
the exigencies of modern travel.
THE DIGNITY OF SCIENTIFIC FARMING.
IF I had some magic gift to bestow
it would be to make our country
youth see n truth, namely: that
science as applied to the farm, the
garden and the forest has as SPLEEN
did a dignity as astronomy; that it
may work just as many marvels and
claim as high an order of talent.
People are still incredulous when
they hear for the first time what
scientific training may mean as ap-
piled to the commonest and poorest
lands.
I saw two years since among the
sands of the Ardennes waste places
that had ben turned into luxuriant
gardens, heavy with dainty fruits.
The prodigy has been made easy by
science. The development of farm
ing stations, the travelling instruc-
tor, a dozen years of experimenting,
popularized by private associations
and by the State, have brought both
theory and practice within the reach
of all. That the subtle processes of
chemistry can turn the waste of the
tannery, the saw-mill, the hemp fac
tory and the abattoir into the rich
est dyes and fertilizers, delights the
mind, as it does to hear that a mod
ern Prospero, like Lord Kelvin,
should transmute the smut and re-
fuse of Shoreditch alleys into cheap
and pleasant light for the surround
ing dwellings of the workingmen.
THE PRoFIT OF AGRICULTURE.
There is, perhaps, no story more
fascinating to the imagination than
hat which in recent years tells the
rise of Intensive culture" as used
in the gardens and upon the farm.
The exploits of scientific tillage in
Belgium, the Jersey Islands, about
Paris, and in our own country, read
like a s%orcerer's book. Who would
believe that eight splendid crops
could be taken from the same piece
of land in the same year? We are
told hal seventeen square miles are
used to support a single Indian if
he lives by hunting. This is one ex-
IRENE. The other extreme shows the
possibilities of science and educa-
ton. In the fields of one of the
Jersey Isles, a population of thir-
teen hundred to the square mile is
now well nourished. In one case,
seventeen square miles is necessary
for a single life-in the other, a
single square mile maintaining thir-
teen hundred, or twenty-one thou
sand times as many, in far greater
luxury.
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1902-12-02
Newspaper Job Office Bargain.

have for sale an up-to date Newspa-
per and Job Office outfit, including one
Liberty Hand Press, one foot power Job
Press, one Acme Mailing Machine, full
set of type. forms, el ctTos, ETC., neces-
.sary for a weekly newspaper and job
Office. ALI the type is in good condition,
nearly new. Will be glad to, correspond
with any one interested
A. ]. McKINNON,
Maxtop, N. c.
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1902-12-02
WHEN IT'S UP, IT'S up

Tor a long time, and you dom have to repair Pare
Fence for years to come, That quite a SAVING.
PAGE WOVEN WIRE FENCE CO., ADRIAN, MICH.
Anadarko daily democrat. [volume] (Anadarko, Oklahoma) 1901-190?, 1902-03-04
Where Little Dorrit Played.

A proposal has been brought before
the London county council to call a
new open space in Southwark Little
Dorrit's Playground" This should
crafty lovers of Dickens the world
over, and they will he interested to
know the spot is quite close to the
old Marshalsea prison, which figures
so conspicuously in Little Dorrit."
year it is also st. Georges church.
where Little Dorrit used to sleep on
the cushions, ana where, afterward she
and Clenham were married. This par
ticular corner of Southwark is alive
with memories of Dickens. Over in
Liant street is where Bob Sawyer lived.
Close by is Quilp street, which recalls
the old Curiosity shop, while in the
H'gh street adjoining used to stand
TIE White Hart that gave sam Weller
TO the world,
Anadarko daily democrat. [volume] (Anadarko, Oklahoma) 1901-190?, 1902-03-04

The Etiuscans did not work precious
stones n the same way as the Greeks;
but. like the Phoenlcians. working
them in the form OF small scarabees,
carrying on their nat surface an en-
craving in intaglio, they preferred to
mount these stones in collars rather
than enchase them in rings.
From the beginning of the middle
ages all kings wore on their finger "A
craven ring, which served the pur-
poses Of a seal The doges of Ven
ice, who regarded themselves as mas
Among the Greeks the wearing of
canoes developed itself at the court
of the Selencides and the Ptolemles: on
the other hard. it showed brilliant
results among the Romans, especially
in the century of Augustus. The ma
iority of the intaglios and the canoes
which have come down to us could
only have been preserved from de-
struction by the fact that at certain
epoch they We're used to ornament rel
Anadarko daily democrat. [volume] (Anadarko, Oklahoma) 1901-190?, 1902-03-04

The slgnet Of these rings was usu-
ally provided with costly stones, usu-
ally intaglios. For this purpose the
makers chose. among gems properly
so-called the amethyst, the hyacinth
and the Opaque emerald; among hard
stones were used the cornelian and the
chalcedony. more rarely the jasper,
lapislazuli the wavy agathe and the
nicolo onyx, with superposed layers
OF blue and black. The sardonyx. OBJ
tanned from India and the deserts of
Nubia, was chiefly employed for cam
eos in relief, in which alternating
shades produced the happiest effects.
ly engraved in intaglio as the hardest
material. and carrying the impression
of the seal. These engraved rings were
much liked by the Greeks. but it was
among the Etruscans that the fash
ion of their manufacture and use was
developed