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New Iberia enterprise and independent observer. (New Iberia, La.) 1902-1944, 1903-09-19
15th ANNIVERSARY.

The "Societe de Renaissance, ct
d'Assstance Mutuelle d'Iberie, y held
its 25th anniversary last Monday
night. The occasion was celebrated
by fine banquet at Moss restaurant
This Society was formed twenty five
years ago by our citizens of French
descent, though all nationalities are
represented in the membership. The
proceedings of the organization is al
ways carried on in the French Ian
guage. The only charter member now
on the rolls is it's honored president
Mr. Pierre Jubin, the rest having
Joined the "silent majority on the
other shore. Mr. Jubin has been in
his present position for % years, to
which place he was again unanimous
~ chosen. The secretary is our popu-
lar cashier of the Peoples National
antecedents. The membership COM
prises many of our most substantial
citizens and for twenty five years the
Society has dispensed its benevolences
and good will to large number of de-
serving people. The banquet was
opened by an address in French by
the president Mr. Jubin, who felici-
tated the members upon the flourish
ing condition Of the Society and a re-
sumo Of the operations during the
year. Speeches in French by Hon
Walter j. Burke, Judge l.. 0. Hacker,
Judge Felix VOORHEES,, A. J. Maumus,
E. Vuillemot and others. The menu
was discussed with high appreciation,
as iC was most elaborate and reflected
great credit on that we'll known chef
Mr. Sam Points to whom vote of
thanks was unanimously and vOcifer-
ously given. The company was IA
vored by the "Marseillaise by Mr..
\. J. Maumus, whose sonorous but
musical voice rendered the famous bat
tie hymn to the great satisfaction of
all present, the company joining in
the chorus Dr. julius Koch and Mr.
Emile Ribbeck favored the company
with song in German, which was
very acceptable The affair was emf
nently enjoyable and satisfactory in
all respects, and the Society adjourned
feeling they had spent most pleasant
evening. The following gentlemen
were present: Pierre Jubin. E. E.
Delhommer, J. P. Suberbiele, W. J.
Burke, E. Vuillemot, J. B. Courage,
DR.. J. Koch, L. Lassale, Leon Lozes,
Jean Courage, l.. O. Hacker, NJ Fred
ley, A. Cousin, J. E. Dupuy, L. Louis,
Paul Darby, Jules Blanchet, Y. Sou
athe, J. Fridley, Jules Mestayer, A. Ber-
gerie, O. Jacob, Felix Mestayer, A. Ber-
nard, A. Chargois, L E. Marion, Sam
Points, Victor Erath, Norbert Blan-
chet, OCTAVE Darby, Leopold DeBlanc,
NJ. W. Fisher and r. d. Southwell.
of the Enterprise.
Huitres sur la coquille.
1Ors u OeuVfeS, IfOlQ.
Olives, cornichens, celery, raids.
Soup-a la tortue.
Poisson-Red snapper au Gratin.
Entree
Vol au vent la fnanciere.
Poulet saute aux champignons.
Cotelettes d'agneau aux petits pois.
Roti.
Dinde farcie aux huitre ct olives.
Lagumes
Asparagus a la vinaigrette.
salade.
De chevrette mayonaise de volatile.
Desert.
Creme Ia glace. Gateaux assortis.
Fruits. Frontage.
Cafe noir
Vim Blanc. Haul Sauterne.
Vim Rouge. st. Julien.
Cigars de Ia havane.
New Iberia enterprise and independent observer. (New Iberia, La.) 1902-1944, 1903-09-19

Mr.. Norbert Blanchet has announced
himself as candidate for Police Juror
of the 9th Ward, before the primaries
October Dist, 1903. This is a laudable
ambition, and as Mr. Blanchet is wor-
thy, a good business man, and qualified
in every respect to become one Of our
PaBechial solons, we trust the voters
will nominate him for the responsible
position.
New Iberia enterprise and independent observer. (New Iberia, La.) 1902-1944, 1903-09-19
MOTHERS
FRIEND

oiminishes the pain accompanying matern.
ity.. With fts aid mothers can bring eaIthv
babies. sweet dfspositioned babies and ideal
babies into the world. Take away the pain
% childbirth and you have bliss and ecstacy.
Aorning sickness, sore breasts and excru.
eating pains caused by the gradually ex.
Panoing organs, are relieved by this r..
narkable soothing balm.
Among the manifold aids to childbirth
1oenoe,o FrAs0d has grown in popular
~ ana gained prestige among rich women
IS well ~ poor; 1t is found and Welcomed
n the mansion as well as the cabin
children, strong intellectually and physic-
society.
~ lessening the mothers agony of mind
snd diminishing pain beautifulinHuenc0ie
sSroug ut upon the child, and instead Of peev-
sssns li-tempered and sickiy forms you have
imagining humanity that remains 8 bIesaina
ever after to you and its country
u. Try q bottle Druggists everywhezs
Write rs for our Aroo book Motherhood"
Tue bRADelELD REGULATOR co,
AGon1G& - .
New Iberia enterprise and independent observer. (New Iberia, La.) 1902-1944, 1903-09-19

Mrs. Robert ]. Brudette, wife of
the humorist, has been appointed a
special police officer at Pasadena, Ca!
and has been adorned with police
badge No. So. She is the first woman
to receive such an appointment in that
State. She is 4 member of the newly
organized Pasadena Society of the
Prevention Of Cruelty to Animals.
New Iberia enterprise and independent observer. (New Iberia, La.) 1902-1944, 1903-09-19
Sold by all druggists.
POLITICAL.

AS will be seen by reference to his
card in another column, Sheriff Hen
derson announces himself as candi
date for Sheriff at the primary cleo
tion, October 31st, 1903 Mr.. Hender-
son has filled the Office of Sheriff, and
is now its incumbent, to the entire
satisfaction of this Parish. His I'M
doubted courage, his indomitable will
coupled with splendid physique"
and all the manly qualities we admire,
make him the ideal Sheriff. The thor
ough manner in which his duties
have been discharged, has met with
the commentator of his fellow citi-
zens, his ability to size up a man
has enabled him to surround himself
with capable and efficient deputies,
his chief being Mr.. Frank j. Mestay-
er. The records of the Office have
been efficiently and legally kept, and
the tax collections satisfactorially per-
formed, in fact all branches of the
Office have been carefully and intelli-
gently administered. His name is
terror to evil doors. With such a rec
ord, and such an officer it would be
the part Of wisdom to retain him in
the position he has SO signaily filled,
thus encouraging faithful servant
and subscribing the interests of the
people.
Clerk of Court ]. G. Leblanc an
nounces himself as a candidate, be-
fore the the primaries, to succeed him.
self. Mr.. Leblanc has long and faith
fully served this people with signal |
ability and efficiency, the business Of !
the office as administered by himself |
and courteous deputies, Messrs. A. J.
Maumus and Charles L. Provost, has
always given satisfaction. The Office
Of Clerk of Court is one that perhaps
is more near the people than most any
other. Scarcely any citizen but at
some time must transact business with
him, thus intimate contact and bust
ness information makes the Clerk of
Court particularly valuable to the
people, and the longer lie serves the
more valuable he is-as he becomes
IN official encyclopedia as it were,
! mass Of information very necessary,
ind which it has taken years to &C
- u
New Iberia enterprise and independent observer. (New Iberia, La.) 1902-1944, 1903-09-19

for re election to the Office of Sheriff for
Iberia Parish. at the Democratic prima-
ries to be held on the 3lst day of October.
New Iberia enterprise and independent observer. (New Iberia, La.) 1902-1944, 1903-09-19

City Judge Robert Brown announces
himself a. candidate for Judge before
the primaries Judge Brown has long
served our people III several capacities,
that of Assessor, Justice of the Peace,
and his present position, in all of
which he has given satisfaction. We
commend him TO the people.
New Iberia enterprise and independent observer. (New Iberia, La.) 1902-1944, 1903-09-19

worthy Clerk of Court. We heartily
commend him to the voters and trust
the interests of the Parish will be pro-
tected by his reelection.
New Iberia enterprise and independent observer. (New Iberia, La.) 1902-1944, 1903-09-19
AND OBSERTER-CONSOLID4
FOR SHERIFF.
GEORGE HENDERSON,

We are authorized to announce the can
didacy of
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1903-05-19
A THOUGHT FOR THE WEEK.

Lord Marlborough's composure rested partly
indeed on a pride which could not stoop to bare
the real self within to the eyes of meaner men.
In the bitter moments before his fall he babe
Godolphin burn some querulous letters which the
persecution of his opponents had wrung from
him. "My desire is that the world may continue
in the error of thinking me a happy man, for l
think it better to be envied than pitied." x \ \
Of honor or the finer sentiments of mankind he
knew nothing; and he turned without a shock
from guiding Europe and winning great victO-
ries to heap up a matchless fortune by peculation
and greed. He is perhaps the only instance of a
man of real greatness who loved money for
moneys sake.-FrOm J. r. Green's "Short His
tory of the English People"
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1903-05-19

ministration have I been DESTROYS of CARRYING +ho
Democratic banner for the fourth time in q pnaS
idential canvass"
This is a wordy specimen of the political v,
nacular quite worthy of a place beside the Iaoa1
phrase quoted in the second paragraph Of t5j,
department. But when stripped of its externals
it seems to be nothing else but a statesman1Eo
way of saying that "Barkis is willin'."
But Mr.. Cleveland has nothing to gain by 49,
cepting a third nomination ,even if he should bo
elected; he has much to lose, if he should he d.
feated. For this reason therefore it seems FkoIr
that Mr.. Bryan is correct in guessing that Mr.
Cleveland's purpose is to positively refuse to he
a candidate after awhile and then allow bs
friends to say that he would have been nominated
and elected had he not refused to run" The pm-
ular demand for his candidacy would atone some
what for his former humiliation.
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1903-05-19

moves the Springfield Republican, one of the
great Northern dailies, to say: Congress is
~powerless in the matter, and if all attempts to
bring about an official determination of the ques-
ton are to be put down on various technical
grounds, as in the present case, then the Fifteenth
Amendment will have to be considered as having
been hung up in the National museum for people
to look at as one of the curiosities of the Recon
s~truction age"
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1903-05-19
CURRENT EVENTS THE DRIFT OF THINGS AS
WE SEE IT
WE SEE IT.

Very little news of importance has developed
since our last issue. The Postofice Department
scandal continue to hold a fair share of public
attention; the President is still on his Western
vacation, and the Irish Land Bill, several times
explained in The Progressive Farmer, has passed
it's second reading in the House of Commons by
the overwhelming vote of 43 to 26.
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1903-05-19
The Alabama Registration Case Again.

We suspected, even before the last number of
The Progressive Farmer went to press, that we
had underestimate the Importance of the SUI
preme Courts decision in the Alabama registra-
ton case-as we really did. Lawyers are so prone
to use language to conceal thought, rather than
to express it, that it is difficult for the lay mind
to grasp the ideas in these painfully elaborated
legal decisions. Some one was saying the other
day that if an ordinary mortal wished to announce
that two and two make four, he would blurt it out
in five One-syllable words, whereas a lawyer would
make the statement in some such fashion as this:
eff, by that particular arithmetical rule known
AS addition, we desired to arrive at the sum of
two integers added to two integers, we should find
and [ assert this boldly, sir, and without fear
of successful contradiction-we, [ repeat, should
find by the particular arithmetical formula before
newfoundland, sir, I hold myself perfectly re-
sponsible for the assertion [ am about to make
that the sum of the two given integers added to
the other two integers would be four"
At any rate, the leading newspapers of the
country seem to have construed the Alabama deci-
sion to mean that the Supreme Court will not
interfere in the suffrage laws of the various
States, and that it shifts the whole responsibility
to Congress. As the New York Outlook says:
"The decision indicates, if it does not definitely
and finally decide, that the remedy for any injus-
tice to the negro race involved in the amended
Constitutions of the Southern States must be
sought by political action, not by appeals to the
courts" The exact language of the Court is as
follows: "Unless we are prepared to supervise the
voting in that State by officers of the court, it
seems to us that all that the plaintiff could get
from equity would be an empty form. Apart
from damages to the Individual, relief from a
great political wrong, if done as alleged by the
people of a State and the State itself, must be
given by them or by the legislative and political
department of the Government OF the United
States"
But what can Congress do? 1t has no right to
declare a law unconstitutional and this fact
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1903-05-19
Northern Disapproval of Negro Suffrage.

This decision, we take it, is an illustration of
one of the favorite sayings of it's author, Judge
Oliver Wendell Holmes: "The life of the law is
not logic; it is experience" It is experience I'M
doubtedly that has so nodded the sentiment of
the Supreme Court as to bring about this Ala
bama opinion. And it is experience that has
wrought the amazing change in Northern feeling
that we see illustrated in the quiet general &C
ceptance of the decision. Thus We find in Harp
er's Weekly, of May 10th: "That in the present
state of popular sentiment the Fifteenth Amend
ment could not now be passed is certain" On the
contrary, Editor Harvey thinks it "~probable that
even now a majority of the States would favor it's
repeaH-though, of course, not the required three
fourths majority.
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1903-05-19
The Lesson for the South.

1ne Lesson TOT the SOuCn.
Everything now indicates that the South is to
be left to work out it's own salvation and go it's
way unhindered by Northern interference if only
and here's the rub-if only it can keep it's more
violent element within bounds. IF we ignore the
fine old principle of noblesse oblige; if we forget
that only a coward strikes a man when he is down;
if we turn aside from the doctrine that while cit
is true that a superior race cannot submit to the
rule of a weaker race without injury, it is also
true in the long years of God that the strong can
not Cypress the weak without destruction"-if we
fOrsake these chivalrous ideals of Justice and fair
play, then the Nation will be justly aroused, and
we shall eat of the fruit of our own way and be
filled with our own devices.
Here, for instance, is a candidate for Governor
of Mississippi who is conducting a campaign in
behalf of the plan to apply white taxes exclusively
to white schools and give the negro schools only
the school taxes paid by the blacks. If this were
neither unjust nor unconstitutional it would new
ertheless be inexpedient, as we have before pointed
out, because it would bring about a hostile North
ern attitude toward the South's general treatment
of the negro, and it would largely give over negro
education to impractical fanatics.
Moreover, a band of rufians held up a Gallatin,
Tenn, negro mail carrier a few days ago and
UOlQ MIN IndJ nolTI0f ne nor MS negro substitute
nor any other colored man would be allowed to
carry mail on that route. The negro seems to
have borne a good character, and he obtained his
position, not by politics, but by merit shown in a
civil service examination. And his work was
humble; he was not set in authority over white
people. In the face of these facts, it is gratify-
ing to see that public opinion in the Gallatin Sec
ton strongly condemns the action of the mob.
and it is believed that the negro will be protected
in the discharge of his duties. The white man
hood of the South cannot allow itself to be mis-
represented by a mob of sneaking DULLES.
Cleveland Again.
Since our last weeks editorial was written, Mr..
Cleveland has sent this reply to an Athens, Ca.
man who asked him if he could accept the Dem
ocratic nomination next year:
I'm answer to the question with which you con-
clude your letter, I can say no more than to assure
you that at no time since the close of my last adj
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1903-05-19

anu CICCCCu a III liz = uoCN W IuI. he OOO-
ular demand for his candidacy would atone some
what for his former humiliation.
The Cotton Market and the Cotton Spinuers.
The cotton market was wild last week, and
prices went upward by leaps and bounds, but it
was almost entirely a spectators battle. and
theirs is the gore and the glory. Prices in New
York Monday covered a range of a dollar a bale.
and in New Orleans $3.50 to 50 a bale. May cot
ton futures advanced from 1910 Monday morning
to 11.3O Wednesday; June from 1915 to Ills, and
October from 8.71 to 500. The article from the
Charlotte Observer, printed on page y of this is
sue, is a pretty accurate tatement of the situa-
ton, we believe. The advance in price probably
comes too late to have any material influence on
this years crop area.
But to the cotton spinners the increase in price
of raw material is a serious matter, and their
alarm was openly manifestedE the meeting of
the American Cotton Manufacturers Associa-
ton held in Charlotte last week. In his annual
address President Hiss recommended the general
curtailment of cloth production, and his
views found substantial approval in the unani-
nous adoption of the following report of the
special committee:
"The cotton manufacturing world, using Amer
lean short staple cotton, is facing conditions that
are likely to continue so long as present artificial
influences dominate the market for the raw ma
terial, and these conditions are so serious that
action by the Southern Cotton Spinners' Assoca-
ton is deemed imperative; and your committee,
to whom this subject has been referred, would
recommend that the whole influence of the As8o-
citation be used to (1st) bring about an entire ce-
sation of night work; (2nd) operation of mills
not over four days per week; (3d) these recon-
mendations to take effect not later than June LIST
to 18th, 1903"
One other quotation from the address OF Mr.
Hiss, will, we are sure, prove interesting to our
cotton farmers: During the past two years
manufacturers using American-grOwn cotton nave
failed to secure a proper margin of profit, ana 1t
has been during these last two years that cotton
'manipulators' have held their greatest sway. II
is estimated that between 100000 end 1OO,0VO'
900 bales of cotton are bought and sold annually
in this country while we actually produce an aver
age of but 100000 bales annually. If the col,
ton manufacturer could arrange to buy his year,
supply of raw stock by making his purchase uuI
ing the period covered from September ISL "
December LIST of each year Gas is largely the c"I
with our foreign competitor) there would De U'
slight opportunity for the Cotton market m"mP
ulator' to juggle a profit out of the few hJnu''
thousand bales not taken up by these purchase"
This reform would undoubtedly prove accepa
bic to the farmer, for he shares but meagel4 -
the profits made on advancing prices after az al
uary LIST, while more spirited buying dT lns 10
tall months would work directly to his o'"H'7
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1903-03-21

They We're married at a Congregational
church in Chicago on Dec. 16, 1901,
while the groom was u student at Rush
Medical College, and where they lived
for 4; time, later moving to Trenton,
land then to Mount Pleasant. The wife's
petition alleges many most outrageous
things, and ii the case should come to
trial it would develop one of the most
affairs ever witnessed in
Lee county court. Among the many
points made in the petition, the wife
lalleges that when their differences COM
menced the husband told her that he
had merely taken her on trial; that
he had induced her to take or steal
property, thru his misrepresentation
she not knowing that she was commit
ting a theft at the time. The petition
reads thruout like a stGly of Serpent
Sim" and covers four .,ages of closely
typewriter paper. The wife asks for
$500 temporary alimony, and $500 per-
manent alimony.
ON the heels of this suit comes an
other against the defendant. brought by
Mrs. S. b. Sidebotham the mother Of
the plaintiff in the divorce suit. in an
endeavor to recover the sum of $162 al
legged to be due her Tor board and
Hedging
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1903-03-21
NEW BANK ORGANIZED.
First National Bank to be Established
at Farraqut.

at Farragut.
Special to Times Republican.
Farragut, March 21.-The First Ma
tional bank of Farragut is a new bank
ing institution, or rather a reorganiza-
ton of the old Farragut bank with
some new men in the directorate at it's
head. The new directors and officers
are II. H. Read, of Shenandoah, pres
ident; Fl. Rogers, of t'arragut, cashier:
William Rogers, of the same place, as
sistant cashier and in addition to the
officers, the following gentlemen are
directors: ii. Rogers, S. A. Cox, S.
Crosser, r. Whistler. C. Anderson, w.
b. Cox, Peter Fell. all of F'arragut. and
T.. A. Read, of Shenandoah. The Reads
are the president and cash
Ter of the First National bank of Shen-
andoah, and this makes the third
bank with which they are
connected and with which their Shen-
bank affiliates. The First Ma
tional OF Shenandoah is the strongest
bank in the two counties.
Its stock is considerably above $50 and
none Of it has been sold for some time
Its affiliated banks are the CONNER
cial National at Essex, Reads bank, at
Coin, and now the First National bank
at Farragut.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1903-03-21
GRADERS AT WORK.
Warm Weather Has Started Things to
Moving on New C. 6. w. Line.

MOVING on new ". u. w. Line.
Special to Times Republican.
Council Bluffs, March 21.-The recen,
warm weather has resulted in the re-
sumption of work along the line of the
Chicago Great Western road where the
grading was left off last fall. From
Council Bluffs to Harlan gangs of grad
ers can be found working, and in al
most every case the sub-contractors
have teams and men on their partic-
ular jobs in order to complete them
early in the spring.
Ed Wickham, of the firm of Wickham
Brothers, stated yesterday that they
have four gangs now working on the
grades of the Great Western. He says
that but little work remains to be COM
pleted before the right of way will be
in condition for the laying of the track
The Wickhams have about $4,000 yards
of dirt to move under their contracts.
The Hall Construction Company,
which has camps WITHIN the city linz
its last fall, has moved its outfit to
Glenwood, where it has secured con-
tract for the completion of the double
track which the Burlington has been
building thru Iowa.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1903-03-21
Rockford News.

Special to Times Republican.
Rockford. March 21.--l'he S. p. Ire
land Company have sold out to the
Chapman Lumber Company, of Water
loo. Iowa. The father, S. z. Ireland,
will remain here with his family. while
Guy and Roy will engage elsewhere in
the lumber business.
The basement to the opera house will
be completed by the frs. of April.
Miss Lillian Waller who has been
Ill for the past two weeks with pneumo-
MIA, is convalescent. She will resume
her work in the public hool on Mon
day.
The republican caucus nominated the
following gentlemen for the three
councilmen: j. w. Jeffrey. s. p. Ire
land and T. j. Merritt. the mast named
for one year and the other two for the
full period of three years. No other
ticket has been placed in the field and
il is hoped there will be no contest.
Ducks and geese are very plentiful
here on account of the cold snap for the
past few days.