The Lafayette advertiser. [volume] (Vermilionville [i.e. Lafayette], La.) 1865-19??, 1905-04-12
Dress Paragraphs.

Happiness Is Q kitten. and a very
playful one at that. Chase it, and it
eludes your most earnest efforts. But
sit down to your work, forget the
chase, and the elusive pet will like as
not come purring to you and leap into
your lap.-Baton Rouge Times.
Christopher Columbus is response
BILE for the troubles in Santo Dom
lingo, for he discovered it.-Birming-
ham Age-Herald.
II came, l saw, l conquered" said
General ]. Caesar, 81 came, l saw, 1
went" is the way General Kuropat-
kin would have put it.-Houston
Chronicle.
Strange how many big new trusts
are being formed, with the menace of
humiliation by q trust-busting ad-
ministration hanging over their guilty
heads .-Atlanta Constitution.
A member of the Oklahoma legisla-
ture has filed q petition in bankruptcy.
This could never have occurred in
Observation-Disclosures Constitution.
Bachelor girls holding down claims
in South Dakota, being unable to
obtain hired men, offer the induce
ment of matrimOny to able-bodled
male workers. This is getting even
with the man who marries to get q
cook.-Atlanta Constitution.
The announcement that the Rookie
TELLER candidate for town trustee in
TarrytOwn, N. Y, was defeated by q
butcher at . recent election ought not
to cause any surprise. The Butcher
is an important parsonage these days.
The kaiser's visit to Morocco may
may be as claimed, in the interest of
commerce, but France appears to be
afraid that it was not in the interest of
French commerce.-Houston Post.
1t has almost reached the point in
Chicago where no digniied citizen
can wend his way hOmeward with a
beefsteak under his arm without being
Swallowed by the detectives.-Dallas
News.
The man who can keep the face of
the woman he loves in smiles achieves
q great deal more than the man who
can keep the body of the woman he
loyes in silks and velvets and furs
and laces.
Alas! what are We to believe, any,
how? Uncle Andy Carnegie, after all
this time, denies that he ever said ito
die rich is to die ~disgraced" Maybe
the old iron-master has begun to fear
that he he will meyer be able to die
pOOr.-Atlsnta Constitution.
It seems Is though, If the church
people intend to take Mr.. Rookie
feller's money, they should stop scold-
ing him about the way he got it.
Lake Charles American.
Don't be discouraged If you happen
to play the fool. You're wiser than
the average If you do it only occa-
sionslly.-Bston Rouge Times.
The Baltimore Sun is authority for
the statement that Senator Elkins'
committee has arranged to cur q
vast deal Of information on how not
to frame . bill regulating railroad
rates.-Atlants Constitution.
While many Of the States of the
Union r casting about to find q way
Of improving their jury systems, they
might learn something from Mexico,
where nine men constitute q jury, .
majority giving the verdict. If the
jury is unanimous there is no appeal.
Atlanta Constitution.
The imaginary ice supplied to re-
~frigerstor GERS BY the beef trust might
be plsced in the ''intsngible asset
class.-Dallss Farm and Ranch.
When R~ojestvensky butts into
vladivostok there will be . mighty
explosion Of polysyllabic unpro-
n0unceability.-St. Louis Republic.
Wu-Tfng.Fsng, our M and only
WI, IL under . cloud In his native
China, charged with oficisl grating.
Wv vas ever quick to adapt himself
to Americanisms.- Atlsnta Constitu-
ton.
The sugar trust has marked up the
price Of sugar again. Maybe this
federal opposition is making the
trusts hot and they're taking it out on
the c0nsumer.-Atlanta Constellation