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The Lafayette gazette. [volume] (Lafayette, La.) 1893-1921, 1902-09-13
THE PRESENT NEEDS or
IHE ZO1rN SCHOOLS


upon the necessity of levying a
special tax for the establish
ment, equipment and mainte-
nance of a public school system
commensurate with the needs of
this community. While we be-
lieve that this tax should be
levied at once, it would not re-
lieve tho present congested con
ditiOn of the public schools of
this town. During the last
scholastic term the schools in
this town became so over
crowded that it was necessary
to compel pupils to bring their
own seats to school, or to refuse
! to admit them. The result was
that about thirty five pupils were
deprived of the opportunity of
attending school.
From the very first day of this
session the attendance has over
taxed the capacity of both school
buildings. Every available seat
and every available foot of floor
space has been taken and still
the applicants come. The School
Board has furnished an ample
corps of teachers and it now de-
wolves upon the town to do it's
share.
The citizens of BrOuSSard have
just sent in an order for modern
desks Mouton Switch is raising
funds for the same purpose and
few days ago the citizen and
Town Council of CarencrO con-
tributed S1O4 80 to supply their
school with new furniture If
these communities with no re-
venues can do so much for their
schools, what should we expect
of the town of Lafayette
which has an assessment of nearly
one million dollars:
Instead of having standard
desks three of the schOOlrOOmS $
in this town are equipped with
cum berSOme wooden desks OF
the vintage of 1776. These desks
would not have been used by a
! progressive back-woOds com
munity so years ago.
Despite these disadvantages
the able and painstaking teachers
are dong good work, and it is
safe to say that with suitable
| furniture and adequate room La
! fayette will boast of a public
: school system equal to any in
! the State.
The Gazette doubts not that in
+ due time the people of this town
will provide handsomely for the
/ local schools by levying a special
tax, but present conditions must
'pe met Immediately. It will
take some time before Il tax can
be levied, and until then the
needs of the children must be
| looked after. Another child
must not be turned out of the
public schools.
The present City Council has
never failed to help every de-
serving cause when it was able
to do so. In the present in
stance we hope it will come to
the rescue of the town schools
and we hope it will do that with
out delay.
For good work and reaSOnab BILE
prices go to Carter 5 studio oven
Moss & Co.'S.
The Gazette is requested tC
state that MeSsrs. Chas. d. CAT.
ferry, I. A. Broussard and Paul
Demanade will serve as trustees
of the funds of the ColOred Edu-
cational Association of Lafayette.
The purpose of this association
is to build school for colOred
children on the lots donated by
the Southern Development Com
pany.
Clark, the photographer, has {
good run because he does salts
actory work. Visit his studio
Al
The Lafayette gazette. [volume] (Lafayette, La.) 1893-1921, 1902-09-13

Louis Prejean and Zack Fran
cez, two medical studentss from
this parish, who have been at
for about a year, were in town
this week. These young men
will leave in a few days for Nash
vile where they expect to COM
plete their studies at the Univer-
sity of Tennessee.
J. G.. Nickerson, the real es-
tate agent, has sold Rene Del
hOmme's property in Lincoln
avenue to M. ROsenfeld for
50. 300. The lot measures 5Ox125.
The Lafayette gazette. [volume] (Lafayette, La.) 1893-1921, 1902-09-13
RELIGIOUS SERVICES

Services will be held at the
EpiscopOl church tomorrow
(Sunday) at $50 p. m.
Baptist Services
At the Presbyterian Church
at II a. m. and 7:3O p. m. each
second and fourth Sunday. All
are invited.
E. H. ROBINSON, Pastor.
The Lafayette Building Asso-
citation will hold a regular meet
ing on the 18th of this month.
DR.. H. p. Beeler returned from
Kentucky Sunday, after spend
ing a month with relatives and
friends.
The Lafayette gazette. [volume] (Lafayette, La.) 1893-1921, 1902-09-13

Picture making is an art and it
is the man who knows his buSi-
ness who gives satisfaction. See
the display at Clark'S Art
Studio.
The Lafayette gazette. [volume] (Lafayette, La.) 1893-1921, 1902-09-13
SAFE BLOWN OPEN
And Two Hundred and
Fifty Dollars Stolen at
Scott Thursday
Night.

Burglars entered the store of
A. Judice & Son, at Scott, Thurs
day night, opened the safe with
the use of powder or some other
explosive and got away with
about $3.50 in cash
A hc1e drilled through from
the top of the safe, the instrume ent
used to do the work having been
stolen from the blacksmith shop
of Mr.. Baquet. 1t is believed
powder was applied through
this hole and the door was burst
open.
Fortunately before closing the
store Thursday evening Mr.
Judice removed $1,000 from the
safe and deposited the amount
elsewhere.
Sheriff BrOussard went to
Scott yesterday morning to in
vestigate the burglary. He ar
rested a negro, John Washing
ton, on suspicion.
It appears that several thefts
have been committed at Scott re-
Gently.
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1902-03-04
TMMtS0L|.. 0L|..DIIER'S RETURN
[Originai.l

tOrISln2i
"Where an /? Who are YOU? What's
all this about:'
The speaker, q young man in q hos
pital, sat up in bed and stared at The
doctors and nurses who surrounded
him.
"That's a question for you to an
swer," said a surgeon who had 70
moved a piece of bone whicl! had been
pressing upon the patients hlain
"When we took you to the operating
table, you didn't know who you We're
Do you know now:'
"Know who ! am? OF course Go
I'm Tom AnSleside of the -th United
States infantry. Did we drive 'em OF
the hill:''
"What hill?"
"San JUAN
The surgeon took off his rubber
apron, saying: The operation has
been successful. The patient was
doubtless wounded in Cuba three
years ago, and the faculty of memory
removal Of the pressure has restored
it,"
Tom .ingleside, who was in perfec,
health excepting the wound on his
head. which had needed to be opened,
after Il fe" days disappeared from the
hospital without being discharged and
started hCmeward. lie we'll remcm-
bered the day when he had marched
past the house and his young wife had
held their baby, little Dick. up at the
window. telling him to say by-by to
papa; how the little one had caught
sight of him in the ranks when he
waved his handkerchief and smiled,
&so lastly the tears coursing down
Agnes cheeks just as he turned a cor
nef and could see them no longer,
1hree years q blank. What had be.
come Of tie wife and boy?
lie had no money and was obliged to
work his way as best he could to his
nome, several hundred miles distant.
lie reached the town at evening and
hurried to his house. At the gate he
paused. lie dreaded to know what
was III store for him. His heart was
beating wildly, and his wound was
.hfobblng Going to window, he
looked through the Stats of the shut
Ter. In the sitting room. the same
room where he had been so happy. sat
agnes beside her man whom Tom
nau known we'll. much older and well
70 DO in this worlds goods, Morgan
harnett \ boy of four years was
with them, and Agnes and Barnett
were trying to induce the child to say
papa"
lie is not papa" said the boy. "Pa-
"a was Il soldier. He went up San
Juan hill. I'm going to- be a soldier
too' It's not polite for YOU to love
mammal"
lom Angleside groaned. Then, put
jug his hand to his wound. he sank
aoWh beneath the window.
II was midsummer. and, the sash
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1902-03-04
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being "t;.se;;. Agnes heard the sound OF
the falling body. Every sound had
for three years been associated with
the possible return of her husband,
Though he had been reported killed,
none of his comrades could vouch for
his death. There was evidence Of his
having been taken to a hospital, but
there all trace of him was lost
Il heard something at the window" ]"
she said, paling and rising.
sit down, sweetheart" said Bar
nett, looking troubled. you're always
imagining something.'
But Agnes went to the window and
threw open the shutters. Leaning for
ward, there. on the ground below, she
saw an indistinct mass. From the me-
ment she espied it she knew that il
was her husband.
S'Tom. Oh, Tom" she exclaimed.
"Agnes," said Barnett mournfully,
"Tom will haunt you so long as you
live"
He caught her about the waist and
drew her back into the room. At the
same moment Tom Angleside, recover
ing, got up Oh his feet. and his white
face and great black eyes appeared at
the open window.
Agnes sprang forward and threw her
arms about his neck Barnett stood
back in astonshment. He was 4 prac-
teal man, but for q moment the belief
rushed uron him that be was looking
at Toiu Auolesidc's ghost The! both
Barnett and Agnes hurried out and
brought 1'cm in.
agnes" said Tom 'let me kiss our
boy once, only once; then III go away
you shaii eever 60" cried Agnes
clinging to him.
care you not married!" said Tom,
catching at a hope.
"No. but was to have been next
to us, and
She would have added that her
neans were exhausted. but checked
nerscIT.
Tom put out his arms. and husband
and wife were locked in a long, silent
embrace.
"Agncs." said Barnett. "while this is
n blow to NE. rejoice for you Fare
well. And. little Dick, kiss me. You
will not now have to call me papa.
Your own soldier papa has come back
to you"
Before word could be spoken in re-
ply he had gone out into the night.
Agnes told her husband how she had
always felt that he would some day
return to her; how her friends had per-
suaded her that he was dead; how Bar
nett had prevailed on her to accept
him for husband. that he might the
more readily assist her. And Tom
told of the three years blank, the sur
gical operation and the return Of his
memory.
The next day Tom Angleside receiv-
ed notice from savings bank that his
son. Richard AnGleside. was credited
with $1,000. The amount being intended
for his education and donated by Nor
can Rarne1t. When Barnett died. he
left al! his property to Agnes.
ROSAMOND ALICIA BUDD.
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1902-03-04
"A Cynic on Marriage.

sardlnes are delicacy tit for any
epicufe, but the other fish was thus
summed up by an epsrammatic Cor
mshman: "Pilchards." he sad ARE
"Ae wives. When they're a,,i they're
a"lal' and when they're Aood ,hey'r'.
ou'y middliEy."- "-~Ia!, Mall Gazr..r.
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1902-03-04
A Real Nice Bull.

In a Dublin paper some time since
was biographical notice of Robes
pierre which concluded as follows
..This extraordinary man left no chill
dren behind him except one brother,
who was killed at the same time
The Canton times., 1902-11-28
HAPPY COMBINATION.
verse Orchards and Cotton
Fields at Night.

The well-known habits of moths and
beetles to fly toward light has been
taken advantage of by Martin B. Goo
ing, of Vicksburg, Miss, in construct
ing his combined road cart and insect
catcher, an illustration of the vehicle
being presented herewith. The special
purpose of the arrangement is to rid
corn and cotton fields and other tracts
of land of the insect pests which dam
age the crops and foliage. The vehi-
Gle made use of in this instance is a
cart, constructed especial
The Canton times., 1902-11-28
DRAINAGE in ORCHARDS.
Lack Of 1t Is Responsible for the
Wasting Away of Thousands
of Apple Trees.

Apple orchards generally do best
on clay soils, and clay soils are the
ones that need most to be drained,
says an exchange. This lack Of
drainage is doubtless largely respon-
sible for the failure of thousands of
orchards. The clay soil, even on
hillsides, holds too much water for
the good OF the tree-roots during
wet times, whether those times be in
fall, winter or spring. 1t not infre-
quently happens that tree is set
out on clayey hillside. 1t leaves
out well, but after that the leaves
dwindle in size and become sickly
in appearance. Finally the tree dies.
We have seen this caused apparently
by heavy rains saturating the clay
soil and, keeping it full of moisture
during the time when the tree was
attempting to form new rootlets and
root hairs. Examples of this have
come to the attention of the writer
this year in localities that have had
rains every day for about two
months. Poor drainage is appar-
entity the cause
Summer droughts are given as the
cause of the death of some fruit
trees. Yet if the soil had been thor
oughly drained to a depth of three
feet the roots of the trees would
have struck so deep that drouth
would affect them but little. When
drainage is bad, the roots remain
nearer the surface of the ground,
and SO are more injured in the case
of lack of moisture in the surface
soil. Droughts are seldom so severe
as to dry out the ground to depth
of several feet. A hard pan just be-
low the trees is given as the cause
for the failure of some, but in this
case it seems to us that it is really
a question of drainage. If the drains
had been put in at the right depth
and the soil broken up under the
trees, no hard pan of any conse-
quence could have existed. Also the
work of the frost on such drained
soh is more complete and way made
for the deeper penetration of the
roots.
The Canton times., 1902-11-28
Nmokd
vsot1 Drum
HOUSE HEATED WITH LAMPS.

carried off. The lamps were made to
order by the tinsmith, and are fitted
/ with common fat-wick burners; four
/ Of them can be placed under each
boiler. Thus in the severest weather
! there are eight lamps burning, and
| they may burn 25 cents worth of oil
/ in day. The plant-house walls
|were built with care to make them
warm, and l have a system of screens
| |(made by stretching cotton cloth on
wooden frames) which put up every
cold night under the glass and take
down in the morning this operation
taking not over five or six minutes
each day. Under these circum-
stances my heating System has
worked admirably, and has never
Hailed. At four o'clock in the after
moon | can light as many lamps as
\ think necessary, and leave them
with the most perfect assurance that
4 shall find everything right next
morning OF the middle of the fore
noon if I am so late as that. If l
were to build another house, or two
or three small ones / think 1 should
use this same system of heating
Rural New Yorker.
The Canton times., 1902-11-28

ly for passing between rows of plants
without damaging them, and the sad
die of the harness maintains the cart
in an upright position. Upon the thills
of the cart is mounted metallic frame,
with lamps of any desired pattern
placed at the top and bottom and
central screen of wire or cloth strung
between the rows of lamps. This
screen is coated with some adhesive
substance, and when the vehicle is
driven between the rows of plants at
night the lights attract the insects,
which, in their attempt to fly about
the flame, strike against the net and
are trapped in The sticky coating.
With a good horse large field can be
gone over in very short time, and
there is little doubt of the saving of
many times the cost of the vehicle
in the course of a single season.
Louisville Courier-Journal.
The Canton times., 1902-11-28
GOOD COUNTRY ROADS.


There is no question that bad
roads cost nearly or quite as much
as their improvement would amount
'o' Probably there is no locality
"nich has been to the trouble and ex-
pense OF improving it's own roads,
mat would not testify that the i'm
Provement is worth all that it cost.
Inc market value of Ohio farms has
Increased but three-tenths of one per
eeht. IN the last decade. Doubtless a
Fafge part of this retrograde move
nent is due to inaccessibility during
iarge part of the year. 1t has been
sumated that Kansas farmers lost
more than $5O,oO0,00O in one year
through bad roads. The plan of
puiiulng specimen sections as object
f.ssons to communities in which they
II, is perhaps the most persuasive
nu convincing argument that can be
rranged to educate taxpayers to the
noWledge that road improvement
[neans money in their pockets even
ua,iy' and will be good investment.
nu when taxpayers get generally
'oused to the equal Importance of
tOod roads to good water or rail
tiansportation, then we shall have
Pur congressional committees har-
nguing and 'scheming for road i'm
PloVement appropriations with the
Eanne zeal now displayed in asking
II bpr river and harbor appropriations.
nere really is no more reason for
POnging the local communities to
ear all the expense of road build
s IN their vicinities than for re-
uiilng the vesselmen to make all
% 'relr river and harbor improvements.
nc former is just as much a. public
wee and public improvement of
|. ..'uespread influence as the latter.
therefore becomes the govern
,.ents business to foster the i'm
'.osement of its land as well as its
''er highways.-Ohio Farmer.
The Canton times., 1902-11-28
THOUSANDS PROFIT BY THE FREE
OFFER OF DOAN'S KIDNEY PILLS
AND GET CURED.

Aching backs are eased. Hip, back, and
loin pains overcome Swelling of the
limbs and dropsy signs vanish. :.
They correct urine with brick dust sedi-
ment. high colored, excessive, pain in
passing, dribbling, frequency. Doan,s
kidney Pills dissolve and remove calculi
and gravel. Relieve heart palpitation,
sleepfessness, headache, nervousness.
TELL CRY, IND.-I received the free
trial of Doans Kidney Pills. They are
splendid. Ihad an awful pain in my back !;
on taking the pills the pain left me right
away and feel like a new man.-Stephen
Schaefer.
Mrs. App1E ANDREWS, R F. d. No. 1,
BRopHRAD, WIS. writes 1 received the
free trial of Doan's Kidney Pills with much
benefit. Ny little nephew was suffering
terribly with kidney trouble from scarlet
fever. Two doctors failed to help him and
he finally went into spasma His father
gave him Doans Kidney Pills and from
the second dose the pain was less. He
began to gain and Is to-day well boy,
his life saved by Doan's Kidney Pulls.
The Canton times., 1902-11-28
The Chestnut Is Going.

The former millions of wild pigeons
of Ashtabula county, o., says the JEFF
ferson Sentinel, are only known to the
"oldest inhabitant," and now the
chestnut, the king of all nuts for boys,
will soon only be known as a culti-
waited nut. Parties at Hartman,
Tenn, are preparing to locate a mill
for grinding chestnut timber into
pulp for tanning purposes. 1t is pro-
posed to consume 100 cords per day.
AZ this rate, and with the destruc-
ton the hard-headed borer is doing.
chestnuts to eat will soon be thing
of the past. In the early settlement
chestnuts, it is said by early settlers
in Tennessee, were so abundant that
the Indians. after burning the leaves
of the ground, would pick them up
roasted and sell them at the stores for
six and one-quarter cents per bushel.
The Canton times., 1902-11-28
IMPROVED ON NATURE.
The Case of Crooked Leg Which
Was Successfully Handled by
William Mckinley.

A year or two after William Mckinley
had begun the practice Of law at Canton,
O., he distinguished himself in humorous
fashion in one of his first successful cases.
As often happens in court, the humor was
not merely for the sake of the joke, but for
serious purpose Mr.. Edward T. Roe, in
''The Life Work of William Mckinley"
tells the story:
The case was a suit against a surgeon,
whom the plaintiff charged with having
set his leg so badly that it was bowed. Nc
Kinley defended the surgeon, and found
himself pitted against John McSweeney,
one Of the most brilliant lawyers of the
Ohio bar.
McSweeney brought his client into court,
and had him expose the injured limb to the
jury. 1t was very crooked, and the case
looked bad for the surgeon. But Mckinley
had both his eyes open, as usual, and fixed
them keenly on the mans other leg.
As soon as the plaintiff was turned over
to him, he asked that the other leg should
also be barred. The plaintiff and Nc
Sweeney objected vigorously, but the judge
ordered it done. Then it appeared that his
second leg was still more crooked than that
which the surgeon had set.
my client seems to have done better by
this man than nature itself did," said Nc
Kinley, "and | move that the suit be dis
missed. with recommendation to the
plaintiff that he have the other leg broken
and then. set by the surgeon who set the
first one"
The Canton times., 1902-11-28
SMALL PLANT HOUSE.
m of Heating Which Is Cutie
rsectiye and Costs But Guar
ter a Day.

have had nearly ten years ex-
..isnce in heating plant house
a.snring about Sx17 feet, and can
,anadently recommend my method.
!, $50 hot water circulation in iron
.,aos and the heating is done by
t,s tsrosene lamps under two tin boil
- - The boilers are bell-shaped and
!, m with mouth down. The hot
..ir i. after having done it's work of
heating the water, is controlled by
. fin drum at the top of which is a
smoke pipe, by which all fumes are
The Canton times., 1902-11-28
Get-Rich-Qufck Scheme.

Jones-Green sent dollar to man Who
advertised plan for making a quarter
yield 300 per cent. profit in less than two
minutes.
Brown--So? And did he get the desired
information?
"He certainly did The man wrote and
told him to take quarter and cut it in two.
then he would have two halves Chicago
Daily News.
The Canton times., 1902-11-28

"Who were those two women who just
registered" inquired the hotel proprietor.
Mrs. Mary McGinnis and her daughter,
Miss Mayme Machines" replied the clerk.
philadelphia Press.
The Canton times., 1902-11-28

Inc man who has ever tried plow-
-Ag under fruit trees knows that the
eue way to trim such trees is to cut
ic"er limbs of so as to give the
soenes an upward turn. The time
10 this il when the tree is young
us shape not yet fully determined.
Farm Journal
The Canton times., 1902-11-28

Fond Mother-"I do wish you would
look over some of my little boys sketches,
and give me your candid opinion of them.
They strike me as perfectly marvellous for
one so young. The other day he drew
horse and cart, and, | can assure you, you
could scarcely tell the ditferencen Punch.
The Canton times., 1902-11-28

Piso's Cure cannot be too highly spoken of
Ave, N, Minneapolis, Mimi, Jan. 6, 1900.
The Canton times., 1902-11-28

Tommy Backbay-"Mother, is It a sin to
say Rubber neck?'" Madam Backbay-
1T is worse tnan a sin, Thomas; it is vul-
gar r"-Harvarl Lampoon
The Canton times., 1902-11-28

Dropsy treated free by DR.. II. H. Green's
Sons, of Atlanta, Ga The greatest dropsy
specialists in the world. Read their adver-
tisement in another column of this paper
The Canton times., 1902-11-28

The ills of life are sufficiently hard to
bear, without adding to them the wear
and tear of discomfort and rebellion
Elizabeth Cady Stanton.
The Canton times., 1902-11-28

Now, let us have Little
Drops of Water again, and do, please, put
little spirit into it."-Glasgow Evening
Times.
The Canton times., 1902-11-28

Pleasant, Wholesome, Speedy, for coughs
is Hale's Honey of Horehound and Tar
Pixies Toothache Drops Cure in one minute.
The Canton times., 1902-11-28
Straight to the Spot
WONDERFUL RESULTS FROM A
FREE TRIAL OF THE WORLDS
GREATEST KIDNEY MEDICINE.

RIDDLES Mills, KY-Ireceiyed the free
trial of pills. They done me great good.
had bladder trouble, compelling me to
get up often during night. Now sleep
well no pain in neck of bladder pain ia
back is gone, also headachc.-Jno l.. Hill.
The Canton times., 1902-11-28

To Cure a Cold in One Day
Take Laxative Bromo Quinine Tablets. All
druggists refund money if lit fails to cure. 25c.
The Canton times., 1902-11-28

Putnam Fadeless Dyes cost but 10 cents
per package.
The Canton times., 1902-11-28

The faster a man is the slower he i
about paying his debts.-Chicago Daily
News.
The Canton times., 1902-11-28

Girls who would buy titled husbands
must have legal tender hearts.-Chicago
Daily News.