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The Lafayette gazette. [volume] (Lafayette, La.) 1893-1921, 1903-01-17

Sheriff BrouSSard returned
Sunday after spending several
days in New Orleans.
The Lafayette gazette. [volume] (Lafayette, La.) 1893-1921, 1903-01-17

j. Ovey Herpin has returned
home after an absence Of several
MONTHS He was employed in a
refinery at Jeanerette. He in
tends remaining in Lafayette a
week or two.
The Lafayette gazette. [volume] (Lafayette, La.) 1893-1921, 1903-01-17

Our stock of drugs and chemi-
Gals is very complete, and our
system of compromising perfect.
The Lafayette gazette. [volume] (Lafayette, La.) 1893-1921, 1903-01-17

Only one up-to-date Photog
rapher. That's Clark.
The Lafayette gazette. [volume] (Lafayette, La.) 1893-1921, 1903-01-17

Ii you want something right
in photography, try
Clark.
The Lafayette gazette. [volume] (Lafayette, La.) 1893-1921, 1903-01-17

Miss Rita Trahan gave a
euchre party Wednesday evening
at which many of her friends
were Hospitality entertained.
Pretty prizes were given the
winners of the card game. The
following guests were present:
Misses n. DeBlanc. of New Ibe
ria, M. Lindsay, Sadie Mouton,
Irma Mouton, Philomene Doucet,
Lizzie Bailey, May Bailey,
Laurence Campbell, Cora Des-
brest, Mabel Dautrive, Mrs.
Albert Clark, Messrs A. Court
ney, Albert Clark, Fernand
Mouton, Leo Judice, Geo. Har-
ris, e. Morgan, A. MOuton, F.. e.
Broussard. II. Lindsay, G. De-
baillon, Geo. Debaillon, Sam j.
Leblanc, B. Dautrive. Drs.
Mayer and Beeler, and Jerome
MOutOn.
The Lafayette gazette. [volume] (Lafayette, La.) 1893-1921, 1903-01-17

The new presiding elder of the
Crowley District, DR.. S. S. Kee-
ner, will preach tomorrow morn
ing and evening at the Methodist
church. Everybody is invited to
attend
The Lafayette gazette. [volume] (Lafayette, La.) 1893-1921, 1903-01-17
MOSS PHARMACY

Our prcscrip.
ton trade shows
a steady growth
each month. 1t is
Mf important part
The Lafayette gazette. [volume] (Lafayette, La.) 1893-1921, 1903-01-17

Ask your merchant for White
Dove Patent Flour. Sure to
please.
The Lafayette gazette. [volume] (Lafayette, La.) 1893-1921, 1903-01-17

WE 10 ALL KINDS OF JOB
GET OUR PRICES.
Williston graphic., 1903-10-15
A TALE OF REVENGE.
ch.nlafn,. Joke on Union Soldier and
the Latter's Way of Getting
Square with Him.

For some days before the siege Ct
Spanish Fort, Ala, the union army was
camped on Dauphin's Island, Mobile
bay. We enjoyed the privilege OF the
island, as oysters were quite plentiful
along the inland shore, and could be had
by wading out into the water, writes
an old soldier in American Tribune.
l had made a number of trips, bring
ing back about a pailful each time,
when one day, while was in my tent
writing home to my best girl, the chap
lain of my regiment called on me and
proposed that we go cahOots in a cof-
fee sack of oysters. When COM
menced to remove my outer garments,
preparatory to wading out into the wa
ter, he said the water caused his legs
to cramp, and he would remain on shore
and watch the oysters, while I fished
them out. 1t took number OF trips to
fill the coffee sack, and when there were
as many in it as I thought could carry,
he proposed that I make one more trip
and fill the pail. When my pail was
about half full, I happened to look In
his direction. and saw the old fellow
trudging of for camp with the sack of
oysters on his back. forgot all about
the pail or the oysters in it. was mad.
His mess was the field and mine the
line officers, and knew that my oysters
were gone if I could not intercept him
before he reached camp. When / ar
Williston graphic., 1903-10-15
DRAFTED A DONKEY.
Officers by a Southern Farm
er's Daughter.

During the last two years of the wal,
when the draft was being enforced, the
provost marshal was not a very popu-
lar person anywhere, but more partic-
ularly obnoxious in the border states
CT Maryland and Kentucky, where many
of the people were in sympathy with the
south and had near relatives in the con-
federate army. One of these civil or
semi-military officers, in making up q
list of men liable to draft, called at q
farmers door in Anne Arundel county.
Maryland, and young lady gave him
very prompt answers to the usual set
of questions, relates the American Trib-
une. Then came the last query: "Will
you make oath that you have given the
names of all males between 20 and As
residing here?' There is one more, -
she answered very demurely-'Billy
Button; he is ~, but he sleeps in the
barn."
The name was enrolled. Tbs omcef
passed on. On the day Of the drawing
William Button was drawn a. a con-
script, and, not reporting for sn,ster,
a detail was sent to the farmers place
to arrest him. The young lady, on
learning their errand, escorted them
to the barn and pointed to the venera-
BILE donkey whose name was Billy Butt
ton.
That squad did not wait for orders.
but retreated double-quick, their steps
hastened by shouts Of laughter from
the innocent and demure guide.
Williston graphic., 1903-10-15
LONGING FOR YOU.

The yellow winged butterfly dips to the
The cannas flare red, the blue glories up-
close
Z on the vines by the porch. all asparkle With
dew, ... ~
But my heart 10 all sad. for it's longing
for you!
I know where white marguerites stretcn
Ger the lea,
And their perfume is borne on the breezes
to me. .,.....1
And the meadow-lark's wings are aglint
with the dew.
But his song is a torture! I'm longing for
you! gN
Still the warm shadows blend DER the road
that We took. -
And the path wends around by the side OF
the brook,
And the wide water smiles back the
heavens own blue:
But my heart knows it not: 1t 10 longing
for you!
Where the sycamore bends, where the bub-
" bles float down.
Where the trout seems asleep In the pools
umber brown,
And the gold of the sunlight is filtering
through.
There was Joy ere knew this wild longing
for you!
Night falls like benson on the old vale;
There's a tinke Of cowbells along the old
trail;
But far, far wend my ways. and all bor-
dered with dew:
And no promise of peace lights my longing
for you!
j M. Lewis, in Houston Post.
Williston graphic., 1903-10-15
A WELL-BU1LT FENCE.
Story That Shows THAT a Se1f-Respect-
ing Man Cannot Afford to Slight
Task.

Said a man to a carpenter, II want
fence built in the rear of my barn.
The place is where it won't show, and
I wish it done cheaply. You can use
any old stuff for it, and I will pay
you" and he named small sum.
"Well," replied the carpenter, II am
not very busy now and I will do it,"
When the fence was done the two
went out to look at it. In surprise the
man said to the carpenter: Didn't
tell you that I didn't want first
class fence? I agreed to pay you only
so much for it, and will not pay you
a cent more" II understand you per-
fectly," was the reply, "and you need
pay me only what you agreed. I
didn't put up the fence you ordered,
for l never can do anything but .
first-class job"
The story got out and the carpenter
who would not do anything but
f1rst-class job on back fence was the
man people wanted when they were
building houses. The moral OF this
incident is not that underpaid Jobs
done well secure jobs that will be well
paid for, though that is usually true.
but that one should never lower his
self-respect by sighting a task sim
ply because it is not sumciently 70
OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES.
Williston graphic., 1903-10-15
THEY WERE EXTRAVAGANT.
Wasted Too Much Ammunition Il
Accomplish an Object That
Was Easy.

"There will never be war without fly
ing artillery" said an ex-member Of the
famous Loomis battery of this state, re-
lates the Detroit Free Press, "but you
can take my word for it that the moral
effect is a heap greater than the prac-
tical. I have seen grape and canister
used with terrible effect, but as an Offset
let me tell you a little story. In one
of the fights preceding the battle OF
Murfresboro we were ordered to shell
a force of confederates out of certain
piece of woods. I don't know who dis
covered them there, but our six pieces
went into action and made things hot.
We fired 20 rounds to piece, and the
shells burst beautifully. When it was
apparent that we had slaughtered a regi-
ment or two, the infantry advanced to
hold the position. They expected to
come across hundreds of dead men, but
they didn't find one. A hundred trees
had been rent and riven, and hundred
tons of soil had been thrown sky-high,
but there was not even wounded man.
They did find one living one, however.
He had been left behind to keep watch
of us, and he had not deserted his post.
AS our infantry came up he crawled out
from a hole under the roots OF stump
and asked:
"'Now, then, what do you'uns want?'
"sWe want to make you prisoner, re-
piled an officer.
"Ts that what all the shootin' has bin
fur?'
eyes
"'Then let me tell yo' that yo' pesky
Yankees ar so mighty extravagant that
vo' won't have drafted cent left when
this we're wah is half over"
Williston graphic., 1903-10-15

it is vegetable and nothing else. This is
the "aweto' or vegetable caterpillar.
called by the naturalists Hipialis vire-
seems. 1t is perfect caterpillar in every
respect, and remarkably fine one, too.
growing to length, in the largest speci-
men, of 81 inches and the thickness Of
a finger, but more commonly to about
half or two-thirds of that size Until
it is full-grown it appears to conduct
itself very much like any other cater
pillar, except that it is never found any
where but in the neighborhood of the
rata" tree, gigantic scarlet Towering
myrtle, and that it habitually buries
itself in the ground few inches below
the surface. Then, when full-grown, it
undergoes miraculous change. For
some inexplicable reason, the spore of
a vegetable fungus, Sphaeria Robertsii,
fixes itself on it's neck, or between the
head and the first ring of the cater
pillar, takes root and grows vigorously.
The plant is exactly like diminutive
bulrush, from six to ten inches high,
without leaves and consisting solely of a
single stem, with dark-brown felt-like
head, so familiar in the bulrushes. This
stem penetrates the earth over the cater
pillar and stands up few inches above
the ground. The root simultaneously
grows into the body of the caterpillar,
which it exactly fills in every part, with
out altering it's form in the slightest de-
gree, but simply substituting a vegetable
substance for an animal substance. AS
soon as this process is complete, both
the caterpillar and the fungus die and
become dry and hard, but without shriv-
cling at all. The thing, then, is wood
en- caterpillar, 50 to speak, with wood
en- bulrush standing up from it's neck.
Papier mache, perhaps, would better de-
scribe it than wood. It can be taken out
of the ground entire, without any diff
Guilty, and preserved for any length of
time. Where the "aweto" is found at all
always at the foot Of the "rata"-it is
often found in great numbers, SO that
dozens of specimens may be obtained at
once. The Maoris eat it, in it's soft state,
when it is much like marrow in consis-
tency and flavor; and, when it is dry,
they powder it and use it for fresh dye
in tattoo.
Williston graphic., 1903-10-15
First Gun at Fort Sumter.

A son of the late Maj. Wade Hamp-
ton Gibbes, of Columbia, S. c., assures
the Charleston News and Courier that it
was his father, who, as lieutenant,
fired the first gun, signal gun, at the
attack on Fort Sumter, Charleston har-
Dor, on the morning of April II, 1861.
He writes: AT Lieut.. Gibbes' battery
the signal gun was aimed to burst a
shell high in the air; another gun was
carefully aimed at the fort, and the
wires we're laid ready to explode mine
near the old house in the way. AS near
ly as possible these things we're done ST.
multaneously. Now, which of the shots
fired at the fort from the three separate
mortar batteries by Capt. James, Mr..
Rafin or Lieut.. Gibbes' battery was the
second shot, no man may certainly
say"
Williston graphic., 1903-10-15
OLDEST OF INSECTS.
The Vegetable Caterpillar Of New
Zealand and Some Of It's Strike
ing Peculiarltles.

L. T.. Chambers. Of Melbourne, Aus
tralia, forwards us some of the extra6r-
binary. vegetable caterpillars" of New
Zealand. Many insects, including some
grasshoppers and the common house fly.
are subject to fungus diseases that cause
death and greatly distort the form, but
none takes so strange development as
the subject of the illustration. The fol-
lowing description is from "New Zear
land After Fifty Years." by Wakefield.
Any notice, however brief, of the in
sects of New Zealand, would be imper.
feet, without some account of the odd
est insect in existence. It is not easy to
decide whether it ought to ne described
under the fauna or the fora of New Zea-
land, for it is at least as much vegetable
as animal, and, indeed, in its final stage,
Williston graphic., 1903-10-15
IFISHED THEM OUT,

rived at headquarters he was standing
In front of his tent, looking as innocent
as spring lamb. In the blandest man
ner possible he said:
Lieutenant, the next time you 60 for
oysters, take one Of your own mess.
think it is the best joke ever played
on anyone. How nicely you did bite!
Try one on me some time"
l could not see the joke, but I an
swered him I would follow his advice
If the opportunity ever presented itself.
eyes," said he, II got the oysters and
you got the cahoots.'''
The nine days siege of Spanish Fort
was over, Fort Blakeley had fallen;
peace once more reigned, and the fol-
lowing July found us in camp in one OF
the most beautiful villages in central
Alabama.
One Sunday, while passing the chap
lain's door, I saw him lying on the
floor. He was intoxicated, almost stu
pid. Lieut.. was with me, and I
turned and asked him if we had not
better put the chaplain on his bed.
"No,' said he, "the old cuss turned
me out of his staterom while we were
going up the Tennessee river, when
was yet sergeant, and just because
would not steal horse for him. Let's
chuck him through the window"
thought of my oysters, and the old
man went out of his window.
He had more life in him than we had
looked for. He raised partly to his
feet, then fell full length into mud
hole. We jumped through the window,
pulled him out, got him into the build
Ing and put him into his bed, mud and
all.
When we reached Madison, Wis, and
were being paid off, he came to me for
a favor. After I had complied with his
request he took me by the hand and
said:
IT had hardly expected this of you.
supposed you had never forgiven me
for taking those oysters"
Then for the first time he learned
how he came to fall in the mud hole
and why I owed him no i'll will.
Williston graphic., 1903-10-15
Odd Corporation.

One of the corporations lately organ
lied under the laws of Maine is known
as the Conscience Law corporation,
and it's purpose is to provide trans
portation medium for conscience money
or conscience property, real or personal.
Its letter-head bears the balance scale
of justice, with conscience law" in
the lower balance and Legal Law" in
the upper. Along the side of the sheet
are these mottos: "The foundation of
true success in life is revealed in the
Holy Bible and in no other book" DO
unto others as you wish them to do unto
you,'" and CAS- you sow, so shall you
also reap"
Williston graphic., 1903-10-15

asking him to write on it the name
of the animal that he would like to
have appear to the person in the other
room.
When this has been done and the
paper has been given back to you
hold it up so that everybody can see
what is written on it-and be sure
you see it yourself-then fold it up,
set fire to it at the gas jet or with q
match, and throw the charred remains
into a china or earthenware bowl
which you have ready on nearby
table. The bowl will represent a NOR
tar, and a piece of wood eight inches
long and one inch thick will do for q
pestle.
Having thrown the ashes of the pa
per into the bowl add powder of
some kind, no matter what, saying that
it has certain magical properties. Then
you begin to stir the ashes and powder
with the stick, and while doing that
you make the raps on the bowl that
will give the necessary information to
your confederate in the other room.
Let us suppose that the word "dcg''
is written on the paper. You must
manage to make first, four raps on the
bowl to represent the letter D; then
fifteen raps for the letter o, and seven
raps for the letter G. The raps must
be made while you are moving the
stick around in the bowl, pretending
% stir the ashes and powder, and you
must make them in a way as little no.
ticeable as possible. Your confederate
will detect them, because he is expect
ing them, but the company will not, II
you make them in the right way.
When you have made all the raps
continue stirring little while, to de-
ceive the company, and then call out
to your confederate, asking him what
animal has appeared to him. It would
be better for him not to answer you at
once; q little delay on his part helps
the tri:k. Finally he tells you that it
n q dog he sees.
A little practice will enable you to
perform this trick with great success.
and you might have the same confed-
crate at different places. Two brothers
might become 50 skillful In it that M
one could possibly detect how it II
deoA-Brooklyn Liza
Williston graphic., 1903-10-15
LOYAL TO LOST CAUSE.
Sample Teachings in Country schools
in the south Just After
the War.

"The country school-teacher in tho
south at the close Of the civil war was
still loyal to the lost cause" said pro-
fessor in one Of the leading universities
of the south who was q guest in this
city, says the New York Sun. 1T is
little wonder that the sectional lines
disappeared so slowly when one remem-
bers some of the instructions given in
the backwoods schoolhouses the first
year after the war. .s....r..
I'm one of the border states such in
struclions as these were given by tho
teacher orally, for there were no school
books for quite awhile after the war.
"'VVho was the first president? II
the pupil answered George Washing
ton,' the teacher replied rather sadly:
Yes; he was the first president at the
time you speak of, but the first president
of the south was Jefferson Davis
"Then he would ask: Who was tho
greatest soldier in the world?' and he
would answer himself: Gen. Lee
when the class In geography was
called and the question was asked:
Name the greatest cities in the coun-
try the class was instructed to say:
New Orleans, Richmond and Charles
tom The longest river in the United
States was given as the Lower Missis-
sippi,' t,nd the class was further instruct
ed that the capital Of the country was
Richmond.
''The greatest product Of the country
was, so the class was instructed, cotton,
and the teacher that knew always add
ed that sugar and New Orleans molasses
came next.
"The teacher in those days set tho
texts in the old copy books for his pu-
pills. All had some connection with
some event in the south,
I'm all these instructions there was
never any reference to the north. No
harsh words were spoken Of Lincoln, or
Grant, or Sherman, or of any Of the
great events in which they participated.
They were simply ignored. If at that
time some one had come along with a
proposition to build a Chinese wall along
Mason and Dixon's line, think the
people in some parts of the south would
readily have given their time and labor
to the work free.
ut is not strange, repeat, that Sec
tional feeling in some regions died out
SLOWLY"
Williston graphic., 1903-10-15
PARLOR MAGIC FOR BOYS.
Astonish the Old A. Well Al
the Young.

The feat herein described must be
performed with the aid of q confederate,
and as everything depends on his thor
0ugh understanding of what you are
going to do, some little preparation Is
necessary, without the knowledge OF
the spectators.
The success OF the feat rests on your
own and your confederate's readiness
in reading the letters of the alphabet
by a certain number of raps or blows.
and it Is essential therefore that you
both memorize ne numbers or have
list within your sight, but not where
the spectators can see it. It is much
the numbers, if you have time to do
It, before performing the trick. In
this private signaling one rap or blow
on any object that makes sound
means A; two raps means B; three
raps c, and so forth. If you and your
helper will get those numbers in your
head 40 that you know at once what a
certain number of raps stands for the
feat will go through finely.
When you are ready to perform the
feat you say to the company that you
will send one of them into the adjoin-
ing room and have the door locked on
him, you will cause to appear to him
in that room any animal thatth COM
pany may name. You must contrive,
in one way or another, to have your
confederate 20 into the room, for the
success of the feat depends on that, as
you can see. There are several ways
in which that can be accomplished, as
you will find out when you undertake
It.
When he has entered the other room
and you have locked the door, hand a
piece of paper to one of the company,
Williston graphic., 1903-10-15
~ WON'T. I WILL, ! DID,"

know little lad
With his mother and his dad,
He lives within rose embowered haunt,
And this little lad at times
Makes the Queerest little rhymes.
Singing frowningly:
II won't, L won't, I won't"
But again his eyes Of blue
Glisten as he looks at you,
And he tries your empty heart with love
to fill.
As he laughs in rosy glee,
Xcur surprise and Joy to see.
%Aen he merry shouts:
II will, will. will
But like this rogue the best,
When the sun is in the west,
And to bed he goes, the tired little kid.
And he holds himself awake.
The glorious news to break,
AS sleepily he sings:
"1 did. did, did,
Mary A. Denison. in Washington Star.
Williston graphic., 1903-10-15
The Lost Continent Again.

It is reported from London that Mr..
Scharff, of the Royal Irish academy,
has revived the hypothesis of lost
continent in the Atlantic, which at one
time Joined America to Europe. He be-
lieves that Portugal was connected to
the Azores and Madeira until the Mio-
Gene age of geology. Morocco was then
united to South America, through the
Canaries, by q land link which took
in st. Helena. According to Mr.. Scharff
it was only at the beginning of the
tertiary epoch that Europe was en-
croached upon by the sea.
Williston graphic., 1903-10-15
Twas Ever Thus.

Singleton-I say, old chap, what have
you that string around your finger for?
Wedderly-To remind me of some
thing l am to get for my wife.
what are you to get?"
'Why-er-blamed II I haven't for
gotten what it Was."-Chicago Daily
NeWA
Williston graphic., 1903-10-15

King Edward Is the only English
monarch who has visited St. Paul's
publicly for any purpose but that Of
thanksgiving. Only one sovereign has
exceeded the number of visits made by
Edward VII. to the present structure,
Queen Anne paying no fewer than seven
to commemorate victories over TraRce
and Spain.
Williston graphic., 1903-10-15
King Edwards Ancestry

The king of England is direct de-
scendant Of King Alfred. being the
thirty-third great-grandson. Thus the
English throne has remained In the
same family for over 1000 yean
Williston graphic., 1903-10-15
Claciers in the AlDD.

A survey established the number OF
glaciers in the Alps at 1,155, of which
249 had a length Of more than four
and three-quarter miles. The French
Alps contained IA glaciers, those OF
Italy 7S, Switzerland All, and Austria
AS2
Williston graphic., 1903-10-15
Dy Our Daily Deeds,

All through life we write our own cpl
taphs.-Milwauke0 Sentinel