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The Opelousas courier., 1902-08-16

A municipal lodging house opened
In Chicago contains new single iron
beds 10 accommodate 225 men. Lodg-
erB are required to register, TO give a
concise account OF themselves with a
statement Of occupation, where and
whanlast employed. with references.
They are given supper and breakfast
of bread and coffee, but no dinner ID
served and they are not allowed to re-
main 1t the lodging house during the
day. The mems statements are inves-
tigated as far as practicable, and the
man who convinces the management
thas he 10 honestly endeavoring to Sc
cure employment may remain at the
lodging house four nights, after which
he cannot be admitted again for a
month. An employment bureau will
be conducted at the lodging house.
The Opelousas courier., 1902-08-16

The oyercrowding Of the professions
In given as one DC the reasons for the
decrease of marriages In France. 1t Is
said that there Is Il tendency toward q
sinaIlar decrease III our own country,
and that the rush to professions Is a
reason Tor the tendency here as it il
Tor the actuaI condition abroad. In
thp opinion OF the Boston Journal,
sthe widespread desire among young.
men 40 become members Of one OF the
so.eallea Ofesa 4. IN many cases,
y apscisa of vanlW Ii has nothing to
DID native aptitude. Sons Of
pusehers and bakers and candiestick
makers leap madly upon one another's
shoulders d get the coveted prize-a
revolving chair and s desk for the
feet Every honorable ambition is to
NJ applaiaded, and, generally. 50 pow
srful force as aknbitien, rightly
guides. carries the DAY. The YOUNG
wllo suffer ana who cause the
ns-such, for example. Is law
nedicine-to be degraded arc
those whose vanity sweeps them
ioHs as me tide sweeps chips.
They may pc sons DESTROYS Of doing
better than their fathers did 81 81 in
heriting their fathers celebrity; but
desire without reason il like D boat
without ! rudaer. Consequently, ths
iozk aad tedious courses Of tbe PROBES.
siOns ara marked with the stranded
and the wrecked. Probably q afth Of
sAosa Who leave our law and medicine
sshpeia ~ \ laying outside De heil
erisinal preaeAaona.n The exact sta
alRtlsa weAla b interesting,
The Montgomery advertiser., 1902-06-12
Getting Notoriety.

Birmingham News.
 Representative Irwin of Kentucky, who introduced bill to create d commission to inquire into the condition of the col Ored people of the United States evidently belongs to that class of Congressman who aware that their limitations deny them fame, seek by clap-trap methods to achieve notoriety. Representative Irwin might have been, if 1t had not been for this inspiration. merely a scrawl on the payroll of his country. whereas by this device he gets his narle in all the news papers, an achievement very gratifying to a politician of his caiibre. The at temps of Irwin and all of his ilk, wheth- CT inspired by malice or moved by igno- rance. cannot change the condition of the negro race in the United States In d few words. so far as the south is con- cserned, that condition may he stated
 The negro is working out his own des- tiny, supported and sustained by the aid and sympathy of the white race
 He ia protected in his property.
 He is assured justice in the courts.
 The trades and avocatiohs for which he is fitted he follows, employed and pa- trcnized hy the white man.
 The selfrespccting negro is respected in turn. He is happy and progressive negro and the sensible members of the race do not desire or expect it. lie is Circumscribed in his political rights un- til he shows his qualifications to dis charge them intellgeutly. The South in common with all civilization will not be ruled by the ignorant.
 The negro has no better nor more sym pathetic friends than the Southern white man and the great kindness that can be done him Is to suppress Irwin and All of his kind who attempt to stir m hitter ness and strife
The Montgomery advertiser., 1902-06-12
LIQUOR INDUSTRY.
1850 Establishments With a Capital
 of S457 STA OS7

The Census Bureau has issued a report of the manufacture of alcoholic liquors during the census year ended May 3l. 1900, which shows q capital of S4o7 61f 0S1. invested in the 2.S50 establishments re- porting. This sum represents tho value of land buildings. machinery, tools and implements and the live capital utilized but does not take in capital stock of any of the manufacturing corporations, The value of the products is returned at $40 Glo, 466. to produce which involved an out lay of $l430l GA for salaries of officials, IB for miscellaneous expenses. including rents. taxes, internal revenue etc, and %O3l2,0B for materials used. mill sup plies, freight and fuel.
 From the reports of breweries. distill cries and wineries. representing the three classes of alcoholic liquors, 1t appears that 1l9S, ,612.1 .104 gallons of malt liquors 56I gallons of wine were manufactured during the year. total fuY all classes of 1895 .35S,0 09i gallons. The total cStimat- ed consumption for the census year was 1,522 6s5 gallons. or l13 gallons per capita
 The malting industry showed 1iS estah- lishments with $'9 2SS, 10e capital. 1,990 wage earners, s14.Sl6,74l for cost of materials and products valued at Sl9.3I36o0; the bot tling industry 206f establishments, with S1e,690 l52 capital. 1880 wage earners $aS. . nS1.Ss3 for cost of materials and products valued at SIt 62o 673. and the manufacture of mineral and soda waters 2Sl6 estab- lshments. s20.5lS.70S capital S9@ wage carncrs. & Snl. 467 for cost of materials and products valued al S22,S1i 429
 The report shows that there were man ufdCtured during the year s,hbt 9e4 bar rels of malt liquors, valued at $334, 2i5. 2a5o or an average of $6.O6 barrel, and that
The Montgomery advertiser., 1902-06-12
BURIED WITH HIS DIPLOMA.
John Vandam Killed Himself to Win
 HonorS
New York Herald.

NeW 1oTk Herald.
 With the selected valedictorian of the graduating class of the Hoboken High School will be buried his diploma today. John Vandam, who died from overStudy in obtaining first honors in his class, was bright boy of Is years. and was one of the best students that ever attended the Hoboken schools. his teachers say.
 More than a month ago he became ;Il, but did not give up school until after he had taken his examination, which closed last week. The day he finished his last test he went home mental wreck. Heart trouble set in and he was obliged to take to bed.
 During his illness his one thought was of getting his diploma. for 1t was known that he had taken first honors and would be the valedictorian. Superintendent of Schools A. J. Demarest heard of the boy S illness Monday and of his then delirious cries for his diploma. Going at once to the meeting of the Board of Education the Superintendent stated the circum- stances and suggested that the diploma in this case be awarded at once, fearing that death would come before the com mencement exercises next week.
 The Board voted unanimously to award the diploma, and Tuesday morning the Superintendent called at the house to de- liver it to the overstudious lad When he arrived at the house, however, it was to find that young Vandam had died only few minutes before. The diploma was left at the house and placed in the casket with the dead lad. the funeral services being held at the First Methodist Epis- ccpal Church last night All the mem bers of the class were present.
 When the commencement exercises are held next week in Lyric Theatre there will be no valedictorian. The place on the program will be left vacant. though the remainder of the program will be carried out as arranged.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1902-06-12
MONTGOMERY TAGGING OUTSIDE POINTS AHEAD ON GOV. TAYLOR LECTURE. Territorial Restriction in the Sale of Tickets Has Been Removed.
 Large Crowds Antici-
 pated.

The Committee in charge of the can vass of the city of Montgomery for the sale of tickets to Governor Bob Taylor $ | lecture at the Auditorium Saturday night | next for the benefit of the ex-Confederate soldiers home at Mountain Creek met at the rooms of the Commercial and h. dustrial Association last night. The va ri"us subcommittee made report While quite d number of tickets have been sold, the result is not nearly as encouraging as far as this city is concerned, as the Committee had anticipated.
 A number of Chdirmen of sub-commit tees. in charge of the different districts, complained that their territory had been invaded by other sub-committees. thus causing conflict in the sale of tickets. If was. therefore. decided that from now on till the night of the lecture, all re- striction as to districts is removed and that any one having tickets for sale is privileged to sell them where and to whom they can
 The sale of tickets in other cities. as Mobile. Birmingham, Opelika, Greenville. Evergreen and a number of others, is very encouraging. It certainly behooves Montgomery to patronize this cause as fully as other towns do. The founder of the home is citizen of Montgomery and it is hoped that the sale of tickets here will be such as this worthy cause deserves
 So let every one who has not already helped the cause. do so by purchasing a ticket. They will thereby be enabled to enjoy a dollar entertainment for 50 cents and at the same time be giving 50 cents to help the old veterans who need 1t.
 No complime tickets will be is- sued. but ladies who are aiding the sale of tickets and who have paid ticket of admission will be furnished reserved seats on application to the Secretary of the General Committee.
 All members of the various committees will meet at the rooms of the Conner cial and Industrial Association on Friday night next at 8 p. m. and it is hoped they will he prepared to make fuil and encour- aging reports at that time. Such Com mittees as failed to report at last night s meeting are expected to report during the day to Secretary Teasley who will rem der them any additional assistance nee essary to make their canvass a positive success. Funds can he turned over to Treaurer Grci at Friday nights meet ing who will be present and prepared to give proper receipts therefor.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1902-06-12
THEY WILL NOT UNDERsTAND
 The Russell Register recently said:

| |. af ! 4 l We do not know who holds the bonds of The Advertiser, or anything about its
 business affairs but it is fact that that paper editorially opposes a primary for the nomination of United States Senators. while 1t is pulling for a primary for the nomination of State officers. which sshows that there Is after all some little differ ence between twedledee and twedledufn.
 Just what this difference Is. however. we
 have been unable to determine
 Promising that 1t Is none of the busl-
 ness of any other newspaper or the
 public at large who holds The Adyer-
 tiser's bonds we will waste no time on that point. The company and the holders
 of the bonds are the only ones interested in that matter. and others who are in-
 teresting themselves about it are only im- pertinent. But let that pass.
 We must admit that we are surprised
 to find Intelligent newspapers apparently primary for State officers and a primary
 for United States Senator. for the cases
 are not at all analogous. If we vote
 for and nominate State officers in a pri-
 mary they are practically elected, for
 they will be the candidates of the Party
 and will be voted for in November. If
 we vote for Senators, who can only be
 elected by the Legislature. as the Con
 stitution of the United States imperative Fly demands, we only express perfer-
 ence which the Legislature can endorse
 or not, as it chooses. Even if members
 of the two Houses were elected solely on
 account of their preference for any man
 or men who are candidates for the Senate
 the members would still not be bound to elect the men designated. They would
 be morally bound. of course. but if they chose to disobey the voice of the people for it.
 If the Federal Constitution should be
 so amended that the Senators could be
 elected by a direct vote of the people all
 difficulty in the way of selecting them
 would be removed. and we should certain ly favor their selection by a Democratic primary, just as the other candidates would be selected. Without discussing the pros and cons of popular election of Senators we must insist that we fail to see the propriety of including them among the officers to be selected at the pri- mary. If, however. the State Commit tee should order a Democratic primary, and include in the rules and regulations one requiring the people to express their choice for Senator The Advertiser would raise no objection nor make any argu- ment about it. It would then become part of the Democratic policy for the time being and we should uphold it and favor giving the people a fair chance to express their choice. We might not think it the proper plan, but should cer- tainly fall in with the Committees re- quirements and endeavor to make it a success for the one time. If fair trial should or should not be found satisfac- tory it need not be repeated. Doth The Register now understand our position?
The Montgomery advertiser., 1902-06-12

For wonderful reasoning commend us to The Mobile Item. In a recent para graph 1t asserted that "the latest plat from defines Democracy" meaning that all Democrats must adhere to the last or latest national platform until a new one was made. Then The Advertiser asked fl to explain why our State Convention in 1886 adopted a platform which utterly re- pudiated the National one of 1892, and ''asserted doctrines that had never been in 8 Democratic National platform ?'' The Item replies by saying:
 For the simple reason that 'the tail can't wag the dog"-the national plat from is superior to any State platform.
 It would require a Socrates to detect any explanation or answer to our ques- tion. or any relevancy in The Items statement A State Convention is not bound or required to endorse and re-af- firm any platfrom of any national con- Yention which has preceded it.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1902-06-12
THE ADVERTISERS
 DAILY SHORT STORY

i, her again. It seemed like meetln long | lost child the mornin' I ketched sight oi her standin' on the curb as we run out l of the barns. When she seen me she smiled an come and got into the front I seat. By jinks, she was prettier than ever.
 you for long time
 :" No. she says I don't go down town | much now. I'm married. O I says, an then old Bill give me the hell an don't say anything more didn't asked who the man was. tDut knowed all right. The next time l se,n them they was together. They took their old seat in watchfui or her. sneaked a look at her out of the corner of my eyes as often as I could from watchin' the track ahead an someway her face was sort qi but she seemed soberer Seemed shed all at .once growed up from girl to wo- man. They got off part way down town Before we got out of sight I could see l they walked very slow an he held her arm.
 '.The next thing that happened was can't just tell how long after. Might have been two or three or four months We was whang1n away towards the barns barns five minutes an gettin' home to grub when I seen hearse comin' out of Blatchford Avenue. Of course a funeral
 gets the right of way an I give he her brakes an stops on the street line. The hearse crossed an I was 'leanin on the levers waitin for the procession to pass lookin' laZy-like at the horses. Old Bill Waldo had just took up a fare in the grip an he was standin' beside me. think 1t was in the first or second car riage after the hearse that I seen him. He looked like a dead man. He was lookin' down at his feet an never winkin' an eye.
 "oid Bill seen him. too. Look there, Dad he says to me. 'Ain't that the
 lad that used to ride down town with
 the girl so much?'
 That's him. I says Well, sir. I just
 felt plumb sick all that day. I felt in
 my bones that that black-eyed girl was
 dead an 1t seemed like I'd lost one of
 own family.
 after that when one warm day who steps
 up on the grip but him, an what do
 you think he has. Nothin' more nor less
 than baby. He got into his old seat
 an tucked .tne clothes around that mite
 an sort of rocked it in his arms. He
 looked at me an nodded kind of sad
 smile on his face. was dyin' to say somethng-sort of tell him how mighty sorry I was-but | couldn't find no words
 I guess he seen the question in my face for look of pain came into his eyes an he said
 '' She died the day after the baby was born' Then he drawed back the little fleecy thing from the baby's face an held the youngster up so I could see. Mister that baby looked me straight in the eye an smiled an give q little gurgle like she'd knowed me for long time-sort of like I was an old friend. There was her ma. all right, same snappy black eyes and same pretty mouth. I stuck my finger, foolish like. down at her an sir. she reached out an grabbed hold of it an gurgled again like she was tryin to say, Glad to see you.
 The gripman stared up into the tree
 tops and smiled-smiled as if he saw something among the green leaves that pleased him. Just then a clock in the
 barns struck and he pushed himself up
 from the bench.
 Time to take the old boat out" he said.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1902-06-12

36.3S5. 365 bushels of malt, 11,233.599 bush els of barley 37.6e4,067 pounds of hops and 9s4 pounds of corn were the prin- clpal materials used in the production.
 During the fiscal year ending June 3o 19oO. 5,49S.131 gallons were exported, and during the same period 3.310.320 gallons were imported. of which I,S41 gallons were exported. leaving 3.302. 479 gallons imported for domestic consumption. an excess of exports over net imports of 2.193.652 gal total production leaves 1,196, 40S 452 gal lans for annual consumption in the Uni- ted States. or 157 gallons per capita.
 Illinois. with an output of, g, sos, 435 gal Ions of spirits. was thehleading producer in 1900. Kentucky ranked second, with 21.7o9,s73 gallons. and Indiana, Ohio, Penn sylvania and Maryland followed in the order named with 1749i.779, 9,5tS,S50. 7,1S9,- 655 and 3.Si2.Si6 gallons respectively North Carolina, with the very small out put of 599.540 gallons of spirits. was the leading State in number of establish ments,
The Montgomery advertiser., 1902-06-12
BEARING FRUIT.
Evidences of Good Work of Con-
 gressmen's Visit to the South.

Nit. Pleasant UoWa) Free Press.
 It was brilliant coneeption of Repre- sentative Charles Winston Thompson of the Fifth Alabama District, to invite d party of representative Republicans from the House of representatives,, the Senate and the Cabinet to visit the South as his guests in sections where the negro popu- lation out numbered the white two to one, and were given unlimited facilities for in- vestigating the condition and environ- ments Of tEe negro.
 They came back to Washington after seeing the negro under many different conditions and greatly altered views about the desirab.lity of Federal legisla- tion in his behalf They saw the negro and villages and in the great manufac- turing city of Birmingham, where the principal plant of the Tennessee Coal and Iron Company Is located.
 Mir. Darragh affrms that the negro la borers of this corporation are better housed and better Jared for than the white laborers of the coal regions of PennsyIvania. They visited the Booker Washington Institute at Tuskegee, where they saw several hundred young negroes of both sexes being prepared to go out among their race to educate them in use full trades.
 Representative Littlefield delivered a speech at Tuskegee which was a revela- ton to his Southern auditors as well as to his colleagues. He practically said that from what he had seen from the con ditions surrounding the negro he believed that the people of the South were solving the race problem in way that is bound to be satisfactory not only to the negro, but to the country at large.
 Our Western Representative says: "The negro is not badly treated. He is entire ly satisfied with his lot. I am at liberty 10 say that the gentlemen who accom- panied MT. Thompson to Alabama have returned to Washington with new and unexpected ideas about the Southern race problem. They are convinced as an orig inal proposition that the South Is solving that problem.
 y'We did not hear q word of complaint from anybody or from any source. and I sons. black and white The South is prosperous. there is an abundance of work, money is plentifubl. The negro is getting his share. l do not think there is a happier race of people on the face of the earth
 "We took the fullest advantage of the opportunity offered us by our Southern friends for a complete and searching in- vestigation. We talked with all kinds and all classes of people. We talked with merchants, with manufacturers, with plantaticn negroes. with negro laborers with negro merchants and negro profess sonal men. We heard but one story from these and that was that they were satis- fled.
 ''We talked with white Republicans and soute unanimity that the only persons who are ohjecting to existing conditions in the South are the politicians. As near ly as we can understand it. these fellows are making a living by Ike ping up the agitation"
The Montgomery advertiser., 1902-06-12
GEN. GRANT QUOTED.
Heartily Favored Movement to Es-
 tablish Home for Confederates.
Washington Post.

Washington Post.
 Editor Post: Having read the eloquent remarks of the Southern soldier, Judge Jones. at the tomb of General Grant on Decoration Day, and some other Decora- ton Day addresses where the drift seem ed to be defense of our army's honor by means of leveling down the record of Grant. Lee. Sherman and Johnston to that of Hughes. Bell, Smith and Funston, have been impelled to look back through my shorthand notes for dicta- ton which l remembered having taken long ago. which might throw some light on the spirit which served to cement the sections into one firm union. I have now found these notes, and. as you will ob- serve. they have reference to the original movement to build home for disabled ex-Confederate soldiers. The notes, trans cribed. read as follows. and my recollec- ton is that check accompanied the letter:
 Washington. D. C.. April 13, 1884.
 General J. B. Gordon. Chairman Central
 Committee etc:
 Dear Sir-Your letter of March S1, in- forming me that I had been chosen to preside at a meeting of the different posts of the Grand Army of the Republic and ex-Confederates in the city of New York on the 9th instant. was duly received The object Of the meeting is to inaugu- rate under the auspices of soldiers of both armies movement in behalf of d fund to build home for disabled ex-Con- federate soldiers. l am in hearty sym pathv with the movement, and would be glad to accept the position of presiding officer if l was able to do so. You may rely on me, however for rendering al! the aid l can in carrying out the designs of the meeting.
 T am here under treatment for the in- jury I received on Christmas Eve last and will not be able to leave here until later than the 9th instant and I cannot tell now how soon or when l will proba- ply be able to go. l have received this morning your dispatch of last evening, urging that l must be there to preside but l have to respond that it will be i'm possible for me to be there on the 9th and l cannot now fix day when I could certainly be present.
 Hoping that your meeting will insure success and promising my support finan- ciallv and otherwise. l am very truly, yours. U. &. Grant,
 N. F.. DAWSON.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1902-06-12
THURSDAY, JUNE 1s, 1902.
DOUBLE GOLDEN SYMBOL.

The American Newspaper Directory uses cer. tain signs to denote the relative standing and merit of the whole field of newspaperdom which comes under its notice. and one of these signs is the mystic symbol t01 denoting golden" which stands for high quality. and is thus explained:
 sAdvertisers value this paper more for the class and quality of it's circulation than for the mere number of copies printed"
 Such papers are credited with a single sym bcl; but there is a higher grade. according to this standard authority. which have BOTH QUALITY AND QUANTITY, and require tho DOUBLE GOLDEN SYMBOL 1 00l to describe adequately their standing.
 The Advertiser has been accorded this double golden symbol L00] and Is the only paper, so distinguished in this section of the South.