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The Lafayette advertiser. [volume] (Vermilionville [i.e. Lafayette], La.) 1865-19??, 1904-12-07
New Orleans States.

New Orleans States.
Yesterday the great exposition
convened to celebrate the centen-
NAL of the acquisition from
France of the Louisiana territory
came to a close after a successful
career of six months. The clos
ing day of the greatest exposi-
ton which the world has ever
seen was made the occasion for
a brilliant civic display, and amid
pOmp and stately ceremony the
curtain fell upon a historic epoch
in the progress of our national
life.
In spite Of all the dire predic-
tons of failure, and of the hercu-
lean task which President Fran
els and cOadjutOrs had under
The Lafayette advertiser. [volume] (Vermilionville [i.e. Lafayette], La.) 1865-19??, 1904-12-07
GOV. VARDAMAN'S SARCASTIC
REPLY

Gov. Vardaman OF MISSISSIPPI
is receiving a great deal of cen
sure for having replied in a very
sarcastic manner to a courteous
note from President Francis OF
the Worlds Fair. informing him
of some remarks of Presiden,
Roosevelt in appreciation of the
Mississippi building, We believe
that Gov. Vardaman is justly
censured, for whether he or the
people of Mississippi appreciated
the Presidents words of praise
or not, or whether President
Francis displayed poor taste in
. the matter, the fact remains that
the message was sent with
kindly and courteous intent and
therefore merited a courteous
response.
Considering President Roose-
velt's attitude towards the
South in the past, it could not be
expected that the people of
Mississippi or of any other
Southern State, would appre-
ciate very highly any praise
from him, yet Notwithstanding
this feeling, courtesy should be
met with courtesy, let it be as
formal as it may, still let it be
courtesy.
And that seems to be the
general view that is being taken
of the incident. In Natchez, a
few days ago, a number of prom
inent citizens met and sent a
letter of apology to President
France. Also the utterance of
a.number of leading Mississippi
papers have condemned Gov.
Vardaman, as have a number of
leading Southern newspapers.
And as q further evidence of
disapproval of his sarcastic
reply, it is being urged that the
invitation extended to Gov.
Nardaman to preside over the
Boil Weevil convention at Shreve-
port be revoked.
The Lafayette advertiser. [volume] (Vermilionville [i.e. Lafayette], La.) 1865-19??, 1904-12-07
War In the East

During the week the japanese
made a distinct gain in the cap
ture of 203 Metre Hill, an emf
hence commanding a part of the
town of Port Arthur and the
harbor, and it is predicted that
the fall Of Port Arthur is now
only . matter of a short time.
However, the capture of that
stronghold viii not be of any de-
cisive benefit. The Baltic feet
has passed ont Of the Red Sea
and is now in the Arabian sea
well on is way to the seat of
per< .1kenrmies are still facing
Ialass; e
The Lafayette advertiser. [volume] (Vermilionville [i.e. Lafayette], La.) 1865-19??, 1904-12-07

A welcome cold wave arrived
Sunday and relieved the un-
pleasantly warm weather. 1t
was ushered in by a steady driz-
fling rain that made it decidedly
comfortable to remain indoors
and sit by the fire.
The Lafayette advertiser. [volume] (Vermilionville [i.e. Lafayette], La.) 1865-19??, 1904-12-07

The insurance companies have
almost doubled rates in some in
stances here. 1t looks like they
are trying to make US pay the
whole salary of the State Fire
Marshal.
The Lafayette advertiser. [volume] (Vermilionville [i.e. Lafayette], La.) 1865-19??, 1904-12-07
The South Not Without Friends.

New Orleans States.
While some of the Republican
papers of the North are attack
ing the South quite bitterly
because of it's political solidarity,
there are others, and quite a
number of them. who. appreciat.
ing the conditions with which,
this section of the coutry has To
deal, are manifesting their
friendliness and sympathy while
exerting the Influences they pos
sess 20 bring about a better
understanding between Presi-
dent Roosevelt and the South
ern people. For example the
Hartford COurant, Senator
Hawley'S paper, comments
encouragingly on the fact that
"the principal journals of the
South have taken the peoples
decision in the election philusO-
phically and in good temper"
and it believes there is a DISPOSE
ton in this part of the country
to take President Roosevelt at
his word and to accept in good
faith the sentiments expressed
by him in his recent letter to
Col. John S. MOsby. The COur-
ant also heartily commendS the
speech which Secretary Taft
delivered in this city a few days
ago, in which. speaking t. the
Southern people of the President.
he said: Il ask you to listen to
him as he talks to you face to
face, and I ask you when he has
talked to yOu face to face
to say whether you think he is
a sectional man or has any
sectional feeling or animosity."
The Courant expresses the hope
that the Presidents forthcoming
visit to the South will result in
far better feeling than now exists
between him and people of the
South. It says:
"MeannesS and malice have as
little part in the makeup of
Theodore Roosevelt as cowardice
has, and we confidently expect
that the intelligent South will
presently be wondering that it
should have so grieyOusly misun-
derstOOd him. That, we hope,
will be but the beginning of a gen.
eral revision of misjudgments a
better understanding and better
feeling all around. North and
South, we are one people one in
dissoluble country, with one flag,
one capital, one navy, one army,
one splendid and illimitable
future. There are no custom
houses strung along the Potomac
and Ohio, South and North re-
now that all this is so. AS
regards sectional injustices born
of imperfect knowledge and
imputations of unworthy
motives, neither is in a position
harshly to rebuke the other, for
neither is without blame and
without sin in the matter. But
let the time past suffice for
bitterness and evil speaking.
This is the twentieth century in
the United States of America.
If there were ever valid reasons
for the South isolating itself
politically in a back eddy while
the great stream of national life
by, they exist no longer"
This is a patriotic view which
the COurant takes of the rela-
lions which should exist between
the North and the South, and
we are quite sure that it will be
and warmly approved
The Lafayette advertiser. [volume] (Vermilionville [i.e. Lafayette], La.) 1865-19??, 1904-12-07
No man is wise at all times.

There is something in a name
after all. A man undertook to
roll across Lake Michigan in a
huge spherical ballon which he
called Fool Killer No. 3. The
man is dead.
The Lafayette advertiser. [volume] (Vermilionville [i.e. Lafayette], La.) 1865-19??, 1904-12-07

Congress met for the short
session Monday.
The Lafayette advertiser. [volume] (Vermilionville [i.e. Lafayette], La.) 1865-19??, 1904-12-07

Is what | am selling and l make it
a point to have the best and the
freshest. and sell at the closest
price. Let me fill a trial order for
you. and | am sure YOU will be
pleased.
also carry a small selected
stock OF dry goods and notions.
If you need anything | have in
stock. my prices will suit you.
RObt. DumeSnil,
Free Delivery. Phone So
The bee. (Earlington, Ky.) 1889-19??, 1904-10-27
A TH0UGHT FOR THE WEEK.
Does Advertising Pay.

"Once when / was publishing
a paper in Seattle convinced a
man in the most emphatic way
that it paid to ADVERTISE" says
an old journalist in Golfers
Weekly.
she was a fairly prosperous
merchant, and 1 had tried for a
long time to get him to insert an
advertisement in my paper:
sob, its no use!' he would
say. never read the advertise
ments in paper and no one else
does. | believe in advertising,
but in a way that will force itself
upon the public. Then it pays.
But in a newspaper pshaw! Ev-
body who reads a newspaper
lodges the advertising pages as
if they were poison. ~
"Well, said 1, if l can convince
you that people do read the ad-
'yertlsing pages of my paper, will
you advertiser"
y 'NOf course l will, | advertise
wherever l think it Will dc any
good"
"The next davI had the fol-
lowing line struck in the most
obscure corner of the paper, be-
tween two patent medicine ad-
vertisements:
"What is Cohen going to do
about it?"
"The next day so many people
annoyed him by asking him what
that line meant that he begged
me to explain the matter in my
next issue l promised to do so
if he would let me write the ex-
PLANTATION and stand for it. He
agreed and | wrote: He is going
to advertise, of course. And he
did,
The bee. (Earlington, Ky.) 1889-19??, 1904-10-27

THE local officials are doing a
good work for the boys and for
the good morals of the commu7
nifty In endeavoring to run down
the crap game. Liquor drinking
is the natural accompaniment of
the gambling habit and boys will
be drawn into both who follow
the crap shooter or the gambler
at cards. 1t is to be deeply re-
GREETED also that any man should
risk his surplus earnings, large
or small, upon a blind game of
chance. The earnings should go
to the support Of the family, as
all will agree, and any action of
the officers or any punishment
under the law that will protect
the boy from temptation and the
family from being deprived of
ITS dues will be applauded by the
community at large and will in
ure to the general public good.
MIS- s.- n ESTahs lis
The bee. (Earlington, Ky.) 1889-19??, 1904-10-27
PoII9fERi9f0FRFs

whiM tbejp4ieftesndidgtyF @e
makin@ theSslwbiEIWtitAIsog EsfRr.e
swallY s4Yp!& gtprt3 5 abYet5sp9qf
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The bee. (Earlington, Ky.) 1889-19??, 1904-10-27
CONFEDERATE REUNION.
Annual Gathering at Pewee Valley An
nounced by Commander Young.

Louisville, KY, Oct. 22.'-Col.
Bennett II. Young, Commander
of the Kentucky Confederate
Veterans, has issued an order for
the annual reunion to be held
November IL at Pewee Valley.
The call is later this year than
usual, being delayed by the de-
sire to have the new buildings at
the home completed in order that
the members of the reunion
might have an opportunity to in.
spect them. The infirmary and
other buildings will be dedicated
formally at the reunion and Gov.
Beckham will be present.
A commander for the State
division and also four command
ers for the four brigades which
exist under the State organiza-
tion will be elected. The State
is entitled to 1853 votes and the
camps are requested by the COM
mander to select delegates.
The bee. (Earlington, Ky.) 1889-19??, 1904-10-27

CHRISTIAN CHURCH. = Sunday
school at $3.50 q. m. Preaching every
Lords day at 10:49 q. m. and 1880 p
m. Prayer meeting every Wednes-
day at 1880 p. m.
M. E. CHURoH.-Regular services
third Sunday at IL q. m. and Z 80 p. m.
Prayer meeting Wednesday evening
at 7:30. Sunday-school at $3.50 p. m,
Glass meetings, second and fourth
Sundays at :s0p. m. e. B. Timmons,
pastor. ,4,,
Nj. e. CHURCH, SoUTH.-C. w.
Hesson, pastor. Services first and
fifth Sundays at IL q. m. and
7:30 p. m. Sunday school at $50
q. m. Prayer meeting, Thursday
evenings at 7:30 o'clock. Ep-
worth League, every Sunday evening
at $3.50. Also one Literary meeting
each month with some member. The
Woman's Missionary Society Satur-
dav afternoon before first Sunday
MISSIONARY BAPTIST CHURCH
Preaching the second Sunday after
noon at $3.50 o'clock and the preced.
ing Saturday night. Church meeting
Saturday night before the third Sun
day. Sunday school at $3.50 a. m.
Prayer meeting every Monday night
at 1880. PRICE E. GATLIN, Pastor.
CATHOLIC CHURCH.-Rev. A. M.
Coenen, pastor. First Mass, Sunday
morning at O'Clock; Second Mass,
$3.50 o'clock. Afternoon service at
$3.50 everv Sunday.
GENERAL BAPTIST CHURCH.
Services Saturday night before the
third Sunday in each month at 1880
p. m. Sunday school p. m. Prayer
meeting Thursday evening at 1880
p. m. N. F. GABERT, Pastor.
PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH = HEC-
LA. = Regular services second Sab
bath in each month, and Saturday
nights before; prayer meeting
Wednesday nights; Sunday school
each Sunday morning at $50 o'clock.
REV. G. Z. THOMPSON Pastor.
The bee. (Earlington, Ky.) 1889-19??, 1904-10-27
Poor Old Rooster.

Poor Old Rooster.
The Democratic rooster
Signs, with a mournful glance;
II would-crow like 1 useter,
But I don't get the chance"
The bee. (Earlington, Ky.) 1889-19??, 1904-10-27

"YopSfe the first Parker man I've
seen, 'Ngaid Illinois man to a New
York Observation-Disclosures
away fEorh Fi1e city and traveled
west fota ehRngeT ~tfs q m 4
"Weli," said the New York mani
1--WE don'ts expect t6i elect Parker,
but weyare gathering the pieces TOT
gethepllto srsconstruct the regulaS
DemocFntis bartE.zlaasSlng~ont-st6s
wild-eysd spsndsrs.-ea Nszaass4ss0.
In aboEheightS9earsz@ MahertasY
for bu tsSSsssyss'GSSSSSssSs1 v SSllsSSsss
The bee. (Earlington, Ky.) 1889-19??, 1904-10-27

NOTWITHSTANDING the occasion
al gains made by Gen. Kuropat-
kin and the consequent rise of
Russian spirits, the Russian navy
is still in state of panic. The
Baltic squadron has probably
learned by this time the differ
ence between an English fishing
fleet and squadron of japanese
torpedo boats. There is a differ
ence which may become more
apparent as the Russian vessels
get into Oriental waters.
The bee. (Earlington, Ky.) 1889-19??, 1904-10-27
SOUTH BOUND,
I. C. r. r. TIME CARD.

Time of departure of Illinois Cen.
trail trains from Nortonville, Ky.
NORTH BOUND.
The bee. (Earlington, Ky.) 1889-19??, 1904-10-27

The advice to the young man,
to planta tree, with the admo.
milton that it would grow while
he slept, was good. And this is
the time of year to do the plant
ing, be it fruit, shade or orna-
mental in nature. Everybody
should have fruit and some
shade. 1t costs little money-or
effort to plant a few good trees
and, besides the pleasure de-
rived, nothing improves or en-;
hances the value Of property
more. Plant trees now.
The bee. (Earlington, Ky.) 1889-19??, 1904-10-27

IT is reliably reported that the
race for Democratic county nom-
nations will not heat up right
good until after the November
election. There will certainly
be hot times in the party ranks
and the roads kept mighty dusty
if the many candidates go a
much livelier pace then than
now. There ought to be a plen-
ty in the offices sought to justify
such scramble for the nomina-
tions.
The bee. (Earlington, Ky.) 1889-19??, 1904-10-27
THURSDAY. OCT. II, 1904.

PRESIDENT ROOSEVELT has sent
out to the signatory powers of
the original Hague treaty an IN
vitation to come together again
for the purpose of perfecting
plans to further ameliorate the
horrors and frequency of wars
and to protect commerce of neu-
trail powers on the high seas.
The President is for peace with
honor wherever possible, not
withstanding the campaign slush
that paints him bloodthirstv.
The bee. (Earlington, Ky.) 1889-19??, 1904-10-27
church Directory.

CHRISTIAN CHURCH. = Sunday
school at $3.50 q. m. Preaching every
Lords day at 10:45 q. m. and 1880 p.
m. Prayer meeting every Wednes-
day at 1880 p. m.
The bee. (Earlington, Ky.) 1889-19??, 1904-10-27
A Prominent Trainman.

The many friends of G. II. Hausan,
engineer l.. f.. & w. r. R., at present
living in Lima, o., will be pleased
to know of his recovery from threat
ened kidney disease. He says: II
was cured by using Foley's Kidney
Cure, which 1 recommend to all es-
pecially to trainmen, who are usual
ly similarly afflicted"
Sold bv Jno. Y. Taylor.
The bee. (Earlington, Ky.) 1889-19??, 1904-10-27

The Railway Employees Twentieth
Century Club of Illinois adopted a
resolution indorsing PresId n t
and denouncing the Dem
ocratIc national platform as devoid
of sincerity"
The bee. (Earlington, Ky.) 1889-19??, 1904-10-27

Men who are carrying tomorrow's
burdens are not counting today's
blessings.
The bee. (Earlington, Ky.) 1889-19??, 1904-10-27

The best way to silence conscience
is to obey it.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1904-01-31
Street Beeaars.

'There seems to be marked diminu- ton in the number of Birmingham beg gars," said a man about town. T sup pose some of them are hibernating dur ing cold weather and others have sought warmer climes further south, for sev- eral familiar faces of the past summer are to be seen no more.
 'I must say that this town has few really picturesque mendicants. Nearly all of them are hopelessly commonplace so much that 1t is impossible to get an interesting story out of them or feel much sympathy for their troubles. They will spin you out yarn fast enough, but 1t lacks originality and Is hackneyed. Women beggars are conspicuously absent. They are very seldom seen on the streets of Birmingham, although there are a few to be found.
 There is an art in begars' make up just as there Is on the stage, and in larger cities these people take great pains to attract attention by the wretchedness of their appearance or, strange as it may sem, their airs of responsibility and gen. tility"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1904-01-31
One More Day Only.

Fully 4,O00 registered votes in this county have not paid their poll taxes, and cannot vote as things stand either in the April primary or in the Novem- Der election. But one more day re- mains in which disfranchisement can be warded off by the contribution Of $1.50 to the public school fund. Poll taxes may be paid tomorrow to Col lector Francis at the court house. If payment be deferred beyond tomor- row the delinquent ceases to be qualified elector, and his participation in public matters must be confined to his mouth and his jack-knife. He may continue to whittle and discuss af- fairs at the corner store, but he must stay away from the polls. He stands outlawed in that respect. He is no longer full citizen. He will have no voice in the selection of the next pres ident, or, what comes nearer noIne, ID the selection of the constable in his beat.
 The Age-Herald asks the 4,000 in this county who have not paid the poll taxes assessed against them, what they are going to do about 1t? Will you march 4,00O strong up to the col lector's office tomorrow and settle? That is what you should do, but that is just about what you will not do. But surely twenty per cent of you will have enough manliness and patriotism to induce you to retain your full polit- ical rights. Go then to the court house tomorrow and settle the score as it stands chalked up against you.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1904-01-31

majority vote in the convention, for large states can cast their votes solid by a majority vote in the delegation rooms, and in that way a nomination might be made that did not even rep resent a majority in the convention, although such a result is improbable. If the twothirds rule is to be retained, delegations should be forbidden to use majority votes in order to render delegation solid"
 No doubt the two-thirds rule will be retained at St. Louis, and this renders the naming of he winner additionally difficult. In republican conventions majority nominates, but vote of two-thirds is required in democratic conventions. If, in other words, there are 900 delegates, the winner must se- cure 500 votes, instead of 450. The two-thirds rule calls, in short, either for remarkable popularity in a leader, or failing that, for dark horse of the Franklin Pierce sort.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1904-01-31

and the like al the same time. Tn other words, a wishy-washy play is stale, fiat and unprofitable, while play that affords culture may be entertaining, and 1t is the latter that the play-goer should seek, while he avoids the former. We cannot dispense with the stage as an entirety, but we can abol- ish f1imsy plays by not going to see them. The play-goer knows where to draw the line. He knoks the difference between Richard Mansfield and the Roger Brothers. The gulf between them is too deep for utterance.
 The modern commercial theatre is very sensitive to the box office. If the patrons of our theatres would assert themselves at the box office the trash and froth of the stage would disap- pear, and instead we would have en- tertaining plays that would be the means of general culture. It is to the box office we must look for reform. rather than to converted actors.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1904-01-31
Cotton in Warehouses.

The special committee appointed by the New York cotton exchange to in- vestigate the plan for extending the system of certifcating cotton in south ern warehouses, has presented it's re- port. It openly says the plan is one to enable New York to regain it's hold upon the cotton business, which has slipped away to New Orleans. New Orleans is now able to finance the business, and it can readily guarantee, says the committee, the grades.
 The committee frankly admits that New York is not natural cotton port that it is expensive to send cotton to New York-that it should be housed in the south, and the plan of certificat- ing cotton in southern warehouses is the only plan open to New York if it desires to retain hold upon the cot ton business.
 "The chief objection" adds the com mittee, fused against this plan, how ever, is the fear that 1t will work al- most wholly in the interest of the bears. That it will enable the bears to deluge the market with notices of heavy delivery and break prices when ever they please" This gives away the New York plan. When New York controlled the cotton business, bear raid was made whenever the buying interest wanted one, and the change to New Orleans control has been sig na1ized by a remarkable lack of such raids. The bulls now hold the fort. True, the situation may have been changed-true, there may not be cot ton enough to go round-but 1t is equally true that cotton would not be selling at fifteen cents if New York had retained it's control of cotton. No friend of the farmers of the south should aid in any manner the scheme of New York for regaining control of the cotton business. Manipulation is New York's strong point, and manip- ulation is almost invariably employed against the southern producer. The best way to defeat the New York plan is to refuse to put cotton In it's ware houses to be there certi1cated, and afterwards manipulated in manner wholly outside of and against south ern interests. Cut New York out, in other words, and let a southern product be handled in and from the south, by the south, for the south.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1904-01-31
Our Cotton Milling Center.

The determination of the Merrimac company to build another large cotton mill at Huntsville-one containing well nigh 100000 spindles--determines where our Fall River is to be founds It is at Huntsville, and to Tracy w. Pratt is that town largely indebted for it's manufacturing development. Every mill in that busy and prosperous town Is a monument to MT. Pratt, and when one million spindles are installed there his work should be celebrated in a general holiday.
 Every town in Alabama needs Tracy W. Pratt to energize local capi- tai as neuclus for the attraction of foreign capital. Talladega has such man, and hundred more such men in as many Alabama towns would lift the small towns of Alabama out of the rut into which many of them have fallen
 The present year is an excellent year in which to build cotton mills, be- cause machinery and materials have been reduced in price, and orders can be promptly and satisfactorily filled. From ten to twenty per cent can be cut from the prices of 1902, or of the previous boom years. The fact that the cotton-millin3 industry is not pros porous this year depresses prices of cotton milling machinery, and this is the time to build mills. There will be no trouble about cotton milling after the mills are built for then the prices of finished goods will have been ad- justed to the prices of the raw ma terial.
 Let every town look itself over, and see if 1t has not Tracy w. Pratt with in it's bounds. When found he should be spurred on to the work of upbuild- ing his town by causing cotton mills to be built in it. Cotton milling Is the natural industry of Alabama. There is not county in this state that does not need cotton mill--sey- eral of them, for that matter. Cotton is grown in every county, and cotton mills should be built in every couny, and yet there are over thirty counties in this state that have not mill.