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and the interests of the controlling nation
dictated. On the contrary. Japan was left
to work out her own salvation, and although
an oriental island and occupying vantage
point for oriental commerce, no nation
seized the island. During the fifty years
since Commodore Ferry opened the ports of
Japan and made Il treaty with the Japanese,
the people of Japan have made progress un-
paralleled in the history of the world. To-
day Japan is world power. Her people
classcd among the intelligent and pro-
gressivc peoples of the earth. Autocratic
and arbitrary power is fading away before
ntellige nee, and trade and commerce flour
sh without the bullet and the bayonet.
For three hundred years the Philippines
have been peopled by Christians. The Fill
pinos have builded schools and universities.
The people have sent representatives to the
leading universities of Europe. They have
worshiped the true God, erected homes,
founded cities and struggled for freedom.
Vet Christian nation sezes the islands I'M
der the specious plea of acting under
Divine providence, drenches the islands
with blood, lays waste towns and cities,
devastates fields and makes sport Of yearn-
ings for liberty and freedom and self
government. Peace marked the dealings
with the heather Japanese; slaughter and
sword mark the dealings with the Christian
Filpinos. No one sought to interfere with
the government of Japan by the Japanese,
although they were ignorant of Christianity
and knew nothing of civil liberty. But {
people yearning for liberty. worshipping
God, and eager to take place among the
nations of the earth. coldly told tina
they must submit to arbitrary government
relinqush the dream of centuries and be
shot if they oppose their conquerors.
Which is the better way, the one pursu &C
| in Japan or the one being pursued If
| the Philippines?
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Things You Need Not Try.

Il oU H~SS$t A\ol
Philadelphia Bulletin.
To have your own sweet way
in all the things of life.
To make man trust you by
boasting of excessive honesty.
To force a parsimonious man
into doing generous act.
TO make a man believe that
smoking affects his nervous
system.
To secure Il woman'S good will
when there is another woman in
the case.
TO convince a woman how
foolish she appears when she
becomes mannish in her ways.
TO induce a woman to go to
church when her gown has an
out date appearance.
TO convince a public place
holder that rotation in office is a
good thing to encourage.
To get one woman to cOmpli
ment another woman on her
judgement in the selection of
hats.
The Lafayette gazette. [volume] (Lafayette, La.) 1893-1921, 1902-07-26
THE BALLOT

The Farmerville Gazette says:
Let the ballot be cleared of
all impediments. Let the edu-
catiOnal test be made the door
way to the right to register. If
a voter be able to comply with
reasonable registration require
ments, let all other obstacles to
his right to vote for whom
soever he pleases be removed
The Farmerville Gazette ar
CUES with reason that the voters
way from the registration to the
ballot should be free from all
impedimentS. The franchise
should be exercised with the
utmost freedom.
To-day in Louisiana there are
men who have the necessary
qualifications to register, but
who are unable to vote indepen-
IDENTIFY of the emblems. The
inability to prepare his ballot
does not affect the man who
desires to vote straight ticket,
because he can Indicate his
FL SIC1Sl1SS ny SUdln ping dn
EN- blem. But it is different
with the person who does not
want to vote a straight ballot
and who is not competent to
ARRANGE his ticket without the
help of the emblems. The man
so situated finds himself in the
predicament of being qualified
to register but unable to vote.
We believe that the suffrage
law, which was adopted by the
constitutional convention of 1898,
affords ample protection against
an ignorant and corrupt electo-
rate, and the election law should
be framed with the sole object
of obtaining free and fair
expression of the popular will,
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Sheriff'S Sale.

Marie Selma Roy, widow, vs.. Lillian Parccu,
minor; G. II. Mouton, curator ad hoe.
Parish of Lafayette, 18th Judicial Dis
trct, State of Louisiana. No. ASIA.
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Reflections of Il Bachelor.

lSHeStIonS OF Il 1SacnSlOr.
New York Press.
The man who has no enemies
isn't worth having friends.
Many Il wOman'S dream that
began with a coach and four has
ended with a washtub.
No matter how low down some
people begin they always seem
to be able to get lower.
It is just as easy to make a
whistle out of a pigs tail as it is
to make a pigs tail out of a
whistle.
Somehow it is discOuraging
how feminine instinct can dis
lance masculine reason in the way
of doing things right.
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BENEVOLENT ASSOCIATIONS

CATHOLIC KNIGHTS OF AMERICA,
BRANCH NO. 1872 meets Ist and sd Sun
days after high mass, at Home Fire Co. hail.
Address Eobt. II. Broussard, Secretary,
Lafayette, La.
UNITED CONFEDERATE VETERANS
meets Ist Saturday of each month, at court
house. a..
The Lafayette gazette. [volume] (Lafayette, La.) 1893-1921, 1902-07-26
LIFTING TIE VEIL or
Ri CT

This business going on be-
tween Uncle Sam and the Pope
seems trifie funny TO the plain
American citizen who has not
yet become accustomed to the
ways of the imperialjStS. Your
blunt old uncle with the inevit;,-
bic chinwhishers and cutaway
must feel out of his elements at
the vatican, negotiating for the
radiance to the Philippines Of
several thousand worthy but
troublesome friars
If anything We're needed to
show how far this country has
drifted from the original plan of
the fathers the present diploma
tic song and dance taking place
in the shadow of St. Peter would
surely furnish it. A singular
proceeding this is for the re-
public Of Jefferson to be engaged
in, but we are rapidly learning
the ways of mOnarchical Europe
When this country was governed
by constitution, through re-
representatives. sworn to uphold
that instrument, it was not ne
cessary to bother about the
friars. All men, friars included,
who lived on American soil, were
amenable to the same laws,
which knew no class and mo-
Tested no one in the enjoyment
of a liberty founded upon the
great principle of religious free
dom. But, they tell us, it is the
manifest destiny Of the United
States to civilize the FilipinOs,
to show them the way to happi-
ness and good government.
May be so. But in the mean
time are we not paying a high
price for the blessed privilege of
lifting the yellow race? While
practicing the exalted virtues of
the humanitarian, are we not
cutting some tremendously
funny caperS. wholly incOm-
patible with our traditional char
acteristic Of rugged simplicity.
With Taft at the vatican trying
to get rid of the friars, and
Whitelaw Ried at the court of
ST. James sporting knee brooches
and hobnobbing with princes
and princesses, is it not time to
invoke the spirits of Jefferson
T
tect US against the perialists?
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Which the Better Way.


Fifty years ago Japan was a heather coun-
try, without trade or commerce. Her peo-
pie were unacquain,ed with the outside
world, and utterly ignorant of Christian
civilization. Without the firing of shot
or the she iding of drop of blood. Japan
was rescued from her isolation, her people
made acquainted with the world at large
and helped on the road of liberty. No ma
ton presumed to teach the Japanese self
government. No nation assumed to control
them under the specious plea of benehtting
them. No nation declared it's purpose to
govern the Japanese and grant them as
much freedom is their condition warranted
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REAL ESTATE AGENCY.
Property Listed.

GOOD BUSINESS OPENNGeeA large a
town of
q
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Pointed Paragraphs.

chicago News
It's easier to make records and
wills than it is to break them
An amateur is a person who
has entered the first stage of
ignorance.
If a man finds that marriage
is Il failure he puts it all in his
wife's name.
The wings of riches enable
them to fly up and roost on the
highest branches.
Exceptions prove the rule:
that's why the golden rule is so
firmly tablished.
An IriShman says a woman
always takes the cork out of a
bottle by pushing it in.
Gold brick purchasers are
born often enough to keep the
manufactures from going out of
business.
A man talks knowingly Of the
Inconsistency of women, and then
proceeds to get mad if one of them
proves he is right.
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Low Rates on NorsanS Louisiana
and Texas Railroad and Steam
ship CO.-Sunsct Route.

Biennial Meeting Knights of Pythias--
Lafayette to San rancisco and Los Angeles
and return Aug. TO s; limit, Sept. 80;
rate, SAT. 50 with stopovers.
rrennial Convention International Sunday
School Observation-Disclosures TO Denver,
Colorado Springs, Pueblo, COL, and return
June 22 and %; limit, July 90; one fare
plus 81.
For additional information apply 20 local
agent or to &. b. Ellis, ID. p. A.
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Constable Sale.
Ozeme Despanet vs.. Unknown
OWnerS-3rdW Ward Justices
COurt-NO. II.

BY virtue of judgment rendered by
Judge ii. l.. Monner, and me directed
l, the undersigned have taken possession Of
and will sell, for cash, the last and
highest bidder, in front of Judge II. l..
Monnier's office in the town of Lafayette.
between legal sale hours,
Saturday, August 2, 1902,
the following described property to- wit:
One bay horse.
THOMAS NIOUTON,
Constable 3rd Ward.
July 20, 1902.
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BY virtue of Il writ of execution issued by
the Honorable 18th Judicial District court
and TO me directed, |, the undersigned. will
sell for cash to the last and highest bidder
without pprascmcnt at the cuul t. house in
the town Of Lafayette, La, between legal
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Saturday Aug 30. 1902.

the following described property to-wit:
\ certain lot of ground situated in the
town of Royville. I.afayett parish, Louis
lana, containing and measuring ninety 81 y
feet front by hundred and ninety -tw o
feet in depth, together with all buildings
and improvements thereon, bounded north
by street, south by land of 4\luiska Thibo-
olaux. east by pu bile school lots and west by
street. l. \. BRoU s>ARD
Sheriff l. lafayette Parish, La.
Inl
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Doctor. |
Post.
DR.. Biggs, the public
of New York City,
is convinced by his autopsies
in the hospitals there that,
though 60 per cent. of the sub
jects examined, have had
tuberculosis at some time, only
Il little more than half this group (,
have died of it. The point he
endeavors toimpress is that, if so
large Il proportion of humankind |
are attacked by the disease and |
get over it, many who die might |
have been saved if put under
treatment in time. For neglect
of this precaution he is disposed
to hold physicians responsible
who refrain from telling their
patients the truth for fear of
exciting unnecessary alarm.
If these deductions be we'll
founded, a heavy bility
rests upon the medical world.
evil is on the increase or the
reverse, but what DR.. Biggs
says suggests some serious
reflections. Medical practice is
becoming so closely specialized
and the ambition Of a physician
in our day to rank among the
great professional lights can be
so much better satisfied by
devoting his energies wholly to a
single and somewhat narrow field
that the medical scientist has to
Il large extent replaced the old
fashioned family doctor We
are far from sure that the change
has been for the better, taking
in view the general interests Of
the community.
Fifty years ago there were
specialists, but their number was
comparatively small. They were
called in for consultation now
and then in a case which the or
binary physician found baffiing,
technical feature, he was re-
luctant to deal alone. Now the
specialist might almost be said to
be the rule and the universal
practitioner the exception. II
this is not already the case, it is
rapidly becoming so. The patient
first passes Judgment on his own
ailment. If he believes the seat
of his trouble to be in the ear,
he cOnSultS an aurist: if in the
eyes, he goes to an Oculist: ii in
some other organ. he finds his
way to the physician or surgeon
who makes a speciality of that.
But the medical man who for
merely played the part of gene raj
adviser is almost a stranger to
him.
It stands to reason that there
can never be quite the same
relation of intimate personal con-
tidence between the specialist
and his patient that used to exist
who ministered to Il whole
household, bringing the children
into the world, smoothing the
pillow of the dying, and en-
cOuraging all to come to
him with their troubles of
every sort. 1t waS he who
uttered the tactful warming
where he felt even suspicion,
and who could do it without
exciting fear, 50 sure were the
patient and his friends that,
whatever the disease, he could
be trusted to stay it's ravageS.
The specialist could hardly do
this, for the very fact of his
forgetting etiquette so far as to
invade a field not peculiarly his
own would Of itself be alarming.
Nor does he make a lifelong
study of any patients cOnstitu-
tional traits, which often tells
their story to the trained mind.
1t is questionable. therefore,
whether, in view Of the human
tendency to overdO an attractive
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tape.
The poll-tax qualification and
all other obstacles in the way
of the voter should be removed.
These things harass the suffra-
gan, disgust him with politics
and cause him to lose interest
in the elections.
The simpler the election law
the better it is. Simplicity in
it's operation lessons the oppor-
tunity for the employment
of legerdemain methods, and
inspires the voter with belief
in it's fairness.
ABU.SE IS NOT ARGUMENT.
The Times-DemOcrat and
other papers which are advoca-
ting the primary methods to
nominate Democratic candidates
are concededly exercising an
indisputable right. A free and
honest expression of editorial
opinions on the part of the
press is always wholesome. 1t
conduces to an intelligent cleo
torate 1t stitfens the popular
backbone. 1t causes the people
to think, and in republic, it is
in the interest of good govern
ment that the people sh ould
think.
But while it is the right of the
press to express its opinions on
public questions and it's duty to
enlighten the people, it should
at all times speak the truth.
The advocate of a direct
primary will do no good to their
cause by attempting to misre-
present conditions in Louisiana.
1t is admitted that there are
abuses which should be rectitied.
Like all man made things the
government of Louisiana is not
the pink of perfection. No one
but an unreasoning enthusiast
will claim that for it. But we
believe the facts will prove that
the administration of govern
mental affairs in Louisiana has
been and is now honest and
efficient. Nothing has been
shown to prove the incOmpe
tency and corruption which are
alleged to exist. Not scintella
of proof has been produced to
support the charge of political
decentralization which exists only
in the minds of the Times
Democrat and a few Of its fellow
shriekers.
The Gazette advocated the
primary method before the last
State election. 1t is still of the
opinion that the best means to
nominate a State ticket is a
direct primary, but as a Demo
cratic journal it refuses to join
in the abuse being heaped upon
an administration which has
been free from corrupting in
iuences and which has guarded
the interests of the State in a
manner highly creditable to
itself and satisfactory to the
people.
1t is undeniably true that the
people throughout the State are
enjoying to-day a large measure
of prosperity, due principally to
their own intelligent exertions,
but helped no doubt by an honest
administration of their official
business. Those communities
which are denied good govern
ment have themselves to blame.
If they are ruled by dishonesty
and incOmpetency, it is because
they have themselves failed to
attend to their civic duties
The State administration is
clearly not responsible for their
troubles, and all the whining in
the world will not make it so.
The es-Democrat has
drawn a very dark picture of
conditions in Louisiana, but it has
failed signally to show where
any department of the State
government has been corrupt or
inefficient.
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DIR. Mayer Praises the LesIsla
fure.

lhS
ture.
In the course of his account
of the farmers institute held at
New Iberia the correspondent of
the New Orleans States says:
The speech of the day was delivered by
DR.. Fred J. Mayer of Lafayette. His subject
hygiene and sanitation. 1t will be
remembered that through this gentleman 5
patriotic efforts a bill! providing for A
commissioner of hygiene passed both houses
of the Legislature during that body's last
two sessions and that that bill was vetoed
each time by the states chief executive.
DR.. Mayer, during the course OF his remarks,
took occasion to pay a compliment to the
legislature. He said: .'From a personal
knowledge of the body, intellectually, and
a whole, it the finest that has
assembled in the past 20 years. Taking the
New Orleans delegation example, l.,
represented by some Of the brightest
young lawyers and orator: in the state, by
young insurance and other business men.
The laboring element represented
by sober, thoughtful representatives.
SO far as its being improperly dominated
by the executive he knew of sevreal instances
notably, IN the matter or house Dill NO. u,
where they acted in a way entirely at
variance with the executive wish and on two
seperate occasions in 1900 and in 1902, in
the latter instance by the decisive ma ority
Of g to II, and by 80 to in the senate,
with half dozen of the friends of the bill
absent. ''Surely this does not show the savish
obedience to executive will that the Legisla-
ture has been accused off, said DR.. Mayer.
''Like any public assembIage, it had its
men, and its mice, its sins Of omission and
commission, but taken whole it was an
who in the main, acted for what they con-
ceved to be the best interest of their
constituents, and in saying this it is entirely
irrespective of the wisdom or unwisCiom of
the acts which they passed.
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office.

Notice.
LAFAYETTE, La, June 7, I9o2.-Che al
nual meeting of the stock holders of the
Bank of Lafayette, will be held at their Of
flee on Tuesday, July s, 1902, at o'clock
a. M
J. J. DAVIDSON, Cashier
The Lewiston teller. (Lewiston, Idaho) 1900-1905, 1902-04-10
What may prove to be fatal shoot

What may prove to be fatal shoot
ing occurred recently at Spanish, in
the lower Madison region. when Mel
son ]. Sheldon twice shot John Belless
during a quarrel about the pasturage
of cattle.
The Canadian government has ap-
propriated $4,000 to build a barbei
wire fence along the boundary between
Montana and the Dominion, extending
from st. Mary's lake to the Sweet
Grass hills.
Clinton Dotson was hanged at the
penitentiary last Friday at 1920 a. m.
for his participation in the murder of
his father. Dotson went to the scat
fold without fear or trembling. Just
before the trap was sprung he con-
fessed to the crime. He slept to with
in half hour. before he was led out
to the scaffold. His neck was broken
by the drop.
The Lewiston teller. (Lewiston, Idaho) 1900-1905, 1902-04-10
BRITISH COLUMBIA.

During last week the CRANKY smelt-
er treated 1912 tons of ore. The grand
total treated to date amounts to $751;
637 tons.
a company has been organized in
Minneapolis to work the Pedro group
of claims on Canyon creek. in the
Lardeau-Duncan division of West
Kootenay.
The English syndicate, owning the
Estella group in the Fort Steel dis
trict, has purchased the Thunder Hill
concentrating plant, which has a ca
pacity of 100 tons daily, and will in
stall it upon its property.
Owing to the increased output of the
CRANKY mine 100 men are being added
to the force at Phoenix. Fifty addi-
tional miners are still required. The
officials state that muckers, shovelers
and few machine men can find en-
ployment at Phoenix. There seems to
he a great scarcity of labor in the
Boundary.
Saturday. April -. promises to be a
red letter day in the history of Grand
Forks and Republic. The occasion
will be the formal opening of the ket-
tie Valley lines. A special train will
leave Grand Forks in the morning and
return the same day. The invited
guests. about 400 in number, will in
clude citizens of Grand Forks, as well
as visitors from the coast, Spokane,
all points in the Kootenays and promi-
nent capitalists from eastern Canada.
A special from New Denver states
that an important strike has been
made on the Monitor. 1t was made in
the lowest or No. 4 level. where the
main shoot has been developed hori-
zontally for 275 feet. The pay streak
Dthe drift shows three feet of solid
Gre of high grade and gives every
indication of opening into larger
body. In raise on the ore shoot from
No. 4 to No. 8 tunnel, distance of 1872
feet. the ore was found to be continu-
Gus. and from eight inches to three
feet wide. The find is regarded as
very important.
The Lewiston teller. (Lewiston, Idaho) 1900-1905, 1902-04-10
IDAHO GLEANINGS.

| Grangeville freighters will establish
| regular pack train service to Thun-
| der Mountain.
The Idaho First National Bank of
| Lewiston has increased capital stock
to $4,000
A new lumber company has acquired
site for a sawmill near the Fort
Sherman grounds at Occur d'Alene.
The Washington Irrigation and Col
onization Company is planning to re-
claim 100 900 acres OF land north of
the Snake river near Mindoka
While digging a well on Mrs. Nc
Clouds property, near Payette. mas
todon's tooth measuring four feet, was
discovered two feet below ground.
The enrolment at Lewiston state
normal school has reached a total of
23z, which is much the largest number
connected with the institution during
any year since it's establishment.
The dead body of E. X. Never was
found in his bed in Lewiston recently,
the supposition being that death had
resulted from dose of choral, to the
use of which Meyer was known to be
addicted
A mass delegate convention of mem
bers OF the farmers clubs of Moscow
and vicinity has been called to meet
at that place June 3. when it is expect
ed that federation of farmers clubs
will be formed.
Frank Eberly has been offered $4,000
cash for his four acres of vineyard at
Juliaetta. but has refused the offer.
Mr.. Eberly, who is an old and success.
ful winemaker. regarded his vineyard
as the finest on the coast for it's size.
The Lewiston land Office has re-
ceived notification that the interior de.
partment had ordered survey made of
the north boundary line of Nez Perce
Indian reservation to determine the
rights of homesteaders on public lands
along the reservation boundary.
The debate of the University of Ida
no VS.. the University of Washington
occurred last week at Moscow. and
was won by Washington. The uues-
ton debated was. Resolved. That the
adoption of the 18th amendment to the
constitution has been Justified" Idaho
representing the Affirmative and Wash.
ington the negative.
n. A. Trimble last week sold 700
head of cattle to Frye & Bruhn of Sc
attic for $4,000. Mr.. Trimble saws
that at the price paid the cattle netted
him as profitable return as If he had
shipped east and sold on good market
Mr.. Trimble has just returned from
st. Paul, where he sold 272 fat steers
at 6 cents a pound on foot.