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INHALING RADIUM.
Newly Discovered Metal TO he Uset
I'm the Cure of Con-
sumption.

Radium has wrought such curative 81.
fects in so many diseases that a new
promise nowadays is not regarded with
the wonder that attended the early ap
plication of this medicinal metal, say,
the Boston Advertiser. But in the sue.
cess of the most recent experiments IN
inhaling the emanations Of radium int
the lungs as a cure for phthisis (com-
monty known as consumption there liet
the prediction of even more astounding
results to the medical world. While ra
dunn, with the X-ray and the Finser
violet ray, has been used in cases of tn.
berculosis of the skin, the most sanguins
physicians have not hoped to extend it,
application to consumption of the lungs
This fall Boston physician, who is Oh
the staff of the Boothby hospital. viii
bring to Boston from abroad a few
grains of radium, and as his work ha,
been in treating cases of skin tubercu
losis, he will experiment with radium a.
a cure for consumption.
It Is known that a bit of this metal
placed in dark room, will make dia
mond shine, SO powerful is its radio OF
ray activity, and accordingly the emap
atoms of the metal, when absorbed int
the lungs, in the few cases already tried
accomplish greater results in five min
utes than the ordinary consumption
treatment would in five years. Thu
destruction of the lung cells and tissues
is stopped, the surfaces heal over, ant
breathing becomes natural. OF course
the radium emanations are tempered b,
passage through some metal, which re
duces their intensity, but the healing ef
feet is not lost. After the metal Ia,
been well tested at our consumptive hos
pitals. we shall know its full value.
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LENGTH OF HUMAN LIFE.
Some Eminent Physicians Think
Their Art Wards on Death
for Too Long q Time.

A new and rather startling idea is
being promulgated by certain eminent
physicians 1t is that modern medical
science and its allied science of santa
ton is injuring the human race by pre-
serving too many lives, says the New
York Press. 1t is the ''better dead"
theory reduced to purely physiologic-
al basis and viewed in the cold, white
light of medical science. A short time
ago DR.. Chaplin, superintendent of health
of Providence, R. l., read paper before
a medical convention in Boston, in
which he called attention to the effect
likely to be produced upon future gen.
erations by the saving by medical skill
Of the lives Of weaklings who. instead OF
dying as they would have done in the
natural course of events few years
ago, now have their lives prolonged un-
til they are married and perpetuate
their own infirmities and weak vitality
In their children. He seriously ques-
toned whether medical skill was not
doing altogether too much for the gen.
sral good of the human race.
Now DR.. Ernest w. White, president
IF the London Medico-Psychologic as
ISOLATION, declares that one of the
principal causes of the alarming in
crease of insanity in England Is the
tact that "the old, rough law of the sur
vival of the fittest is not so forcible as
formerly. Weaklings who would have
died in infancy in olden days are now
brought up to marry and perpetuate the
fo,,Itv ctonly Tho oourco Of actiO
for the medical practitioner which
might logically be deduced from such
teachings as these Is one from which
both DR.. Chaplin and DR.. White would
undoubtedly shrink. When the med
ical profession ceases to believe that its
first duty is to save life, let the conse-
quences be what they may, the medical
profession will have ceased to be Of
value to mankind.
The idea of improving the race by the
elimination of its weaklings is older
than civilization and was practiced be-
fore Esculapius. 1t Is to-day custom
among many savage tribes. yet neither
In the past nor in the present has 1t re-
suited in the production of an ideal race.
Sparta is become name, attached to a
short-lived experiment. and the race 1t
produced has utterly vanished away.
A stringently enforced law against the
marriage of those manifestly unfit to
perpetuate the race would, however, be
of benefit to humanity and is probably
as far as the advocates of the "better
dead" theory would go in the practical
application of their ideas.
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Play Wa. Amended.

A line in the second act of a current
burlesque, which has almost made a
record in New York, never fails to amuse
the manager of the performance, al
though the general public probably sees
very little IN 1t. It's humor, even for the
manager, does not lie in the words so
much as in the fact that it is the only
speech written by the author that re-
mains in the text. One by one the au-
thor's lines were eliminated Clever
speeches by the comedians were put in
their place, and other jokes suggested
by the company supplanted the original
text. The result was a libretto that
lasted a long time. and as the author
continued to draw his royalties, he made
20 objection.-N. Y. Sun.
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odd Engineering Problem.

In constructing the power transmits
sion line from the Cauvery falls to the
Kolar gold mines in Mysore. India, which
was recently completed, the American
engineer employed to do the work had
to deal with some uncommon problems.
The line. 90 miles long, is carried on lofty
poles through the jungle. Here the dep
relations Of white ants and wild ele-
plants had to be prevented. The ants
attacked the poles and the elephants
pulled at the wires. Iron sockets seven
feet high were found to be effective
against the ants, and after careful meas
urements of the highest reach Of the ele-
nhants' trunks. the wires were struck at
q safe elevation.
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SIOuuu
.iuuated overhead trolley and cable sys-
TENS are the rule all over the city.
From one o'clock until morning even
these lines are dispensed with and
horse cars substituted on such through
lines as are operated. The belated in
1ividual who is caught downtown af-
ter one o'clock at night has no other
choice than to ride in a stuffy little
horse car If ne lives anywhere near
the end of the line it is close to morn
ing when he gets home.
The majority of the cars operated are
of antiquated pattern, and in these
even standing room is at premium
during the rush hours of the morning
and evening. For the past five years
the policy of all the companies seems
to have been to await franchise devel-
opments before making improvements
The companies claim that large prof
its are not possible from the operation
of street cars in Chicago. This may,
in part, be true The city is expanding
in territory at so rapid rate that the
operation of lines in the sparsely set
tied outskirts may be at loss, though
even that is hardly probable as the
tines can be run at but small cost.
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People have found way to get to
State street, but they have not found
a way to reach places nearer home.
The South Side elevated road has
been the greatest gamer by the strike.
Like the street car lines it has been
supposedly carrying all the passengers
it could. Before the strike its trains
were packed with $4,000 passengers
daily. That was supposed to be the
limit of its capacity, but since the
strike began 1T has in some way man
aged to rake in 250,000 nickles daily.
thus more than doubling it's supposed
capacity
What will be the result when the
strike is settled? Will it be possible
for the elevated to again raise the cry
of inability" when it's patrons demand
better accommodation and seat for ev-
cry fare?
The fact is the public have learned
something about transportation posi-
bilities, and it is not likely to take ex-
cuses for action from the railroad COM
panies if their representatives in the
city council can force action. More
than ever before has it served to bring
the transportation issue forth as loca'
campaign issue. Municipal ownership
will find many a new friend in the
ranks of the strap hangers unless the
service is materially improved. The
public now know what is possible.
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daily, and it was not hard matter to
increase the carrying capacity-of this
road to nearly double that number.
The Pittsburg & Fl. Wayne. the Chi
cago & Western Indiana, the Chicago
& Eastern Illinois, the MOnOn, the
Grand Trunk, the Lake Shore & Michi-
gan Southern. the Rock Island and the
Chicago Terminal all run suburban
trains. The normal capacity of these
roads is about 200, 900 passengers daily,
but inside "a hours after the strike had
been called this capacity had been more
than doubled.
1t has been 4 profitable season fol
these steam roads. Communication
tickets are sold on all of them at about
one-half regular rates of fare, but the
enforced patrons have not taken to the
Communication ticket idea. They buy
trip tickets and watch the newspapers
for signs of peace on the street railway
lines. Because of this the income from
suburban traffic on the steam roads has
tripled on many of the roads.
The North and West sides of the city
are not so we'll covered by steam roads
and strike on the street railway lines
of either of these sections would be E
much more serious matter for the pub
lie than is the present trouble on The
South side.
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NdlueQ at SlAl,o1'
and the city pays the yearly premium
on a $65,000 policy. On her schoo
buildings, her magnificent public Ii
brary, city hall and other buildings
she carries the fire risk herself, ant
thereby saves premiums which wonlt
aggregate million and quarter o
dollars
A conservative estimate of the valu'
of Chicago's public buildings give u;
SAC, O00, 900, which amount is exclusiv,
of the realty upon which they stand
The public library with it's equipmen
is valued at S2,442. S54, the aggregate O
school buildings and equipment at 49,
570,921, and the city hall at something
less thar 100000.
Upon all this valuable property tht
city pays not one cent of insurance.
is presumed that if the city wished Il
obtain insurance it could do SO at fou.
per cent for five year periods. 1t woult
be necessary, according to the term;
of insurance, to insure for 80 per cent
of the value of the buildings and con
tents. This on the estimate of $40.
900. 600 value, would demand a yearl,
premium of 81 100000.
Years ago many buildings Of til,
city We're kept insured, but ten year.
ago, or thereabouts, the last of thes.
policies was allowed to lapse, and tn
only one now carried is upon the iso
lation hospital. The buildings of tn,
city are sc scattered about that tn
comparative risk Is small, and the his
tory of the city's carrying its own in
surance has been more than justified il
its savings
WRIGHT PATTERGON
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aung the street
railway lines on the
South side of the
city, is the biggest
thing of the kind
the city has had
to deal with since
the historic days of
1894 when the
Pullman car trou-
bles brought Fed
eral troops into he
city by the order
of President Cleve-
land.
Mere figures can
give no adequate
idea of what such
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iSh and probably
disastrous to thu
private citizen wht
is possessed of /:
residence or othe,
buildings. Chica
go carries no in
Surance on he
many expensive
buildings, S a v
with one exception
namely, the isola.
ton hospital which
stands on a ten
acre tract of Ian,
at Thirty-fifth ant
Lawndale avenue
This building i
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than any other sec
ton of the city
because of the
number of steam
roads it has to fall
back upon.
Railroads from
both the east and
south reach the
center of the city
through this sec
ton, and nearly all
of them maintain
a suburban train.
service. At ordi-
nary times the Illi-
nois Central alone
carries $4,000 SUI
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Children,. Di.ea.e..

In England, while the number Of case
of scarlet fever per annum has remainee
practically stationary for the last n
years, the death rate Is only about one
eighth of what 1t was in theformer Pc
riod. Tables also show that diphtheris
has increased, and that it nov canses
nearly twice as many deaths as scarie
fever, while measles and whoopinSceu9l
cause more than twice as guany.
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many people at
home, and it has
served to illustrate
po S s i b / / t i e S
in transportation.
State street mer-
chants have suffer
ed but little from
the effects of the
strike, though the
small merchants o.
the outlying dis
trict have beer
less fortunate. All
roads lead to-State
street, but the To-
cal merchantsS of
the resident dis
tricts must depend
upon practically
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franchise condi-
tons have tended
to make the SER
vice on all lines
" ors e than it
would otherwise
have been. The I'M
certainty of fran
chise renewals, or
at least the basis
of such renewals,
have been the ex-
cuse of the COM
pdny TOT poor SER
vice.
This city has
practically not a
mile of under
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statn. of the Mummy.

An Egyptian mummy that passed
through. a Swiss custom house recent
ly was ciasscd as dried meat" As
everybody knows. says the Chicago
Record Herald, the average custom
house official is "an amoosin' cuss."
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Verx Cru.ty.

She-The cook baked that bread es
pecially for you. dear.
He-It's just like her, isn't it?
"How do you mean. just like her?"
Very crusty "-Yonkers Statesman
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A Long Suffering Public.

Patrons of the Chicago street car
lines have been long suffering. Local
The Kinsley graphic. [volume] (Kinsley, Kan.) 1890-1940, 1903-11-27

Most people would succeed In small
things II they were not troubled with
great NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS..
The Kinsley graphic. [volume] (Kinsley, Kan.) 1890-1940, 1903-11-27

Cat caught Cock, and resolved to make of him.
He what defense he had What
you give said h for your screaming at night SO? No
the service of tell him when
his labor what you talk said the Cat You
taken think such that will do of
breakfast"
a a
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Got There Just the Same.

Inconvenient as it is to do without
street cars the strike has not kept
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The steam Roads.

The South side is better equipped to
stand q protracted street car strike
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STREET CAR STRIKE.
,hicago in the Midst of a Big Labor
Difficulty.
TRANSPORTATION PROBLEMS
The Public Has Not Been Inconven-
fenced as Much as Might Be Ex-
pected-The Steam Roads
to the Rescue.

Chicago.-The present strike on the
ines of the Chicago City railway, oper-
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one line to bring him business. aside
from that living near enough to walk.
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saves Insurnnce Premiums.

Chicago is economical, and wisely so
in a direction which would prove fool
The Lafayette gazette. [volume] (Lafayette, La.) 1893-1921, 1903-11-14

Parish Of Lafayette We the
Democrats of La
fayette, regardless of local fac
tions and endorsing the platform
of principals and the candidacy
of General Leon Jastremski for
Governor of Louisiana, Respect
fully request the Democratic
electorate of the Parish of La
fayette to assemble at the Court
House Saturday November 14th
at II O'Clock A. M.
Moyse Brasseux, Numas Breaux, A. L.
Guilbeau, l.. J. France. Nj. d., J. 2.
Francez, Nj. D.. Ernest Franccz, Edward
Miller, Simon Latour, Maurice France,
Albert Guidry, +. w. Courtney, NJ. d., G.
ii. Gulbeau, Aymar Comeaux. William
Hawkins, ]. $. Broussard. Charles Landry,
Homer Barber, Ed. St. Julien. J. o. Brous
sard, Francois Comeaux, Falsin Benoit,
Dominique Guidry. Alcee Guidry, Albert
A. Meaux, Drosn Mcaux, X. c. Landry,
c. Doucet, Joachim Broussard, James
Walsh, Charles Burke, Eloi Duhon. Ben
Dros,n Duhon, J. A. Liable, Simeon Beg
neaux, Sosthene Breaux, Desire IL. Brous
sard. Alfred Peck, Jean Bite. Simon, Pau
Duhon, Eloi Vincent, Formin Duhon, Nj
Biileaud, Jr., ]. T.. Bordeaux, Simon Br"us
sard, II. II. Savoy, Dolphin Boudoin, De
sire Savoy, Jean Simon. Ursin Mouton
! Iohn Landry, L. A. Leblanc, y. \. Liable
n. Reaux, q. X. DeLaureal, Ophe Gil
rouard, J. Gilbert ST. Julien, r.. U. Bernard
The Lafayette gazette. [volume] (Lafayette, La.) 1893-1921, 1903-11-14

Public notice is hereby 6 ven that in ac-
cordance wit h judgment rendered in the
above entitled cause of Jack X. Davis vs..
Birdie Foreman, minor, X. w. Elliott, cura-
tor ad hoe. No. 4S7l of the docket of the
18th District Court for Lafayette Parish,
and by virtue of 4 commission issued to III:
hereunder, the undersigned, Sheriff of La
favette Parish, La, will offer for sale and
sell for cash TO the last and highest bidder,
between legal hours at the front door Of the
courthouse in the town of Lafayette, Louis
lana, on
SATURDAY, NOVEMBER FL, 1905,
the following described property to-wit:
One certain tract parcel of land lying
and being situated in the parish of Lafa
yette, La, near Duson station, and meas
urino thirteen acres, bounded north by
Abra ham Morgan, south by Louisiana
Western Railroad. east by public road and
west by Mrs. Castor Servat.
l. A. BROUSSARD,
Sheriff of Lafayette Parish La.
Oct. II, Nov. 2I. 1908.
The Lafayette gazette. [volume] (Lafayette, La.) 1893-1921, 1903-11-14
The BlIe-Back Speller.

The Atlanta Constitution de-
tends the old blue back speller in
this earnest plea:
THE cornerstone of the edu
cation of the older generations
of Americans now living was the
old-time ,blue-back speller of
Webster. Drilled and hickoried
through that inspired lexicon of
the American language as it
should be spelled and written
the sure foundation was laid in
in the minds of the pupils for
any breadth Of after education.
Nowadays our children are
shut off from the ten-cent blue
back speller and forced by the
faddistic educators of the day to
paw from 40 to 60 cents for fancy
pictured and phoneticized Ian
guage books that are delights to
the artistic eye and daffy deal
ing to the child rem, who are set
to studying them. Some Of the
specimens we have lately seen
would be good reference and
guide books to postgraduate
student of scientific philology,
but for learning a seven-year-old
child to go with understanding
precision from a-b-ab to in
comprehensibility' they are the
veriest gold bricks ever sold to
Reubens come to town..
The Lafayette gazette. [volume] (Lafayette, La.) 1893-1921, 1903-11-14

Coach j. Ovey Herpin of the
Institute foot ball team has
favored The Gazette with the
line up of the elevens which will
contest for the pigskin on the
Institute campus this afternoon.
The Delcambre Academy boys
are L. E., l.. BreauN; L. F., "A.
Miguel; L. c., G. Moss; c., A.
Baudoin; r. G., G. Gary; r. t.,
Rene Breaux; r. E.. G. COrmier;
@. B. and captain. A. Delcambre
F. B., A. Fricke; L. H., F. NJ,
nez; r. H., II. Trahan. In the
same order the home boys are
A. Deville, Joe Artamon, Gran
ger, Geo. Martin, Bienvenue, L.
Artamon, F. Siadous, Harry
Smedes, McMaspy, Il. BreauX
captain, and L. ChiaSsOn.
All size picture frames cheat
at Carter's new studio.
The Lafayette gazette. [volume] (Lafayette, La.) 1893-1921, 1903-11-14
Notice of Registrations.

To the voters of the parish of Lafayette.
Take notice that on Monday November 2,
the Registration Office Of the parish of La
fayette, La, will be opened for the purpose
of making supplemental registration and
will be kept open at the courthouse of this
parish until Saturday Nov. 2S, 1908, for
the purpose of registering all those persons
who are not already registered nnder the
old registration Of 1900, and also for the
purpose of transferring those who have re-
moved from different wards or precincts.
Witness my official signature, this SePtem-
Der FL, 1908. "A. M. MARTIN
Assessor and Registrar.
The Lafayette gazette. [volume] (Lafayette, La.) 1893-1921, 1903-11-14
Demand of ton.
Succession of Thomas Nelson
Blake, 18th Judicial District
of Louisiana, Parish of
Lafayette.

Whereas Maud Wlrn, willow of I. N.
Blake. residing in the parish of Lafayette,
has made application /" be appointed: all
minis tratrix of the aforesaid estate.
Now, therefore, all persons are hereby
warned and notified to his their opp 'siton
to the application in writing with the clerk
of court at his office in the town of Lafa-
yette ten days after the first notice hereof,
otherwise the said applicant will b. named
and appointed such administrators as re-
u,iireti by law and in accordance with law.
Witness my hand this 9th day of Novem-
ber 1908, 4. q. VOORHEES,,
Clerk of the Dis: riot Cour t.
The Lafayette gazette. [volume] (Lafayette, La.) 1893-1921, 1903-11-14
Home Destroyed.

Serves Dequeterre' home in
Prairie SorreI was completely de-
stroyed by fire last Wednesday
night. The residence, kitchen
and Out-hOuSeS We're RACED
to the ground, and not even the
household effects could be saved.
Many friends of the unfortu-
nate man in his eighbOrhOod
and throughout other parts Of
the parish have assisted him by
practical financial aid
The Lafayette gazette. [volume] (Lafayette, La.) 1893-1921, 1903-11-14

Mr.. Francois Rageur of Roy
vile, has returned home after
spending several months with
his relatives in Italy. Although
q resident of Lafayette parish
since ante bellum years, and
thoroughly identified with the
business and prosperity of the
parish, Mr.. Rageur still retains
love for his motherland, and
yearly pays her the tribute of a
visit.
The Lafayette gazette. [volume] (Lafayette, La.) 1893-1921, 1903-11-14
Politics Warming Up.

Lafayette has been honored by
visits from politicians of State
wide fame in the past few days.
Judge Barksdale, Judge Walter
Guion, Hon. Jared Y. Sanders,
Hon. o. B. Steele, John A. Nell
benny, Joseph A. Provost have
all been looking at their forces in
this parish. and the announced
visit of Gen. Jastemski at Caren-
Gro tomorrow will add further
interest to the campaign.
The Lafayette gazette. [volume] (Lafayette, La.) 1893-1921, 1903-11-14
a Startling Surprise.

Very few could believe in looking at a.
T. Hoadley, a healthy, robust blacksmith
of Tilden, Ind, that for ten years he suf-
fered such fortunes from rheumatism as
few could endure and live. But a wonder
full change followed his taking Electric
Bitters. 1.-Two bottles wholly cured me, -
he writes, ssand l have not felt twinge IN
over a year. They regulate the Kidneys,
purify the olood and cure Rheumatism,
Neuralgia, Nervousness, improve digestion
and give perfect health. Fry them. Only
so cts. al all druggists.
The Lafayette gazette. [volume] (Lafayette, La.) 1893-1921, 1903-11-14
Notice to Tax Payers.

The assessment rolls Of the town for 1903
are now in my Office. Tax payers are hereby
notified that taxes on movable property are
due and collectibe, and will become de-
linquent Nov. I, 1908, and taxes on inn
movable property are also due and collect
ible, and will become delinquent Dec. 81,
1908 All are hereby notified to come and
settle and thereby avoid costs.
CHARLES DEBAILLON,
City Tax Collector.
Lafayette, La, Oct. 20, 1908. Office,
City Hall 9 to IL.