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----.~7s man at uue mead OF the interior
department. He is Il great-grandson of
Colonel Ethan Allen of Revolutionary
fame, the hero who commanded the
Green Mountain boys. and who cap
ture1 Fort Ticonderoga in he name
of the great Jehovah and of the Con-
tineutal congress" Lucy Allen. daugh-
ter of the Vermont hero. married Judge
Samuel Hitchcock. one of the foremost
men of New England in his day, and
their son Henry moved from New Eng
land to Alabama, where he practieed
law and rose to the position of chief
justice of the supreme bench of the
state. lie was the father of the pres
ent secretary of the interior. who was
born in Mobile in 1880. He has been
described us IAN Anglo-Saxon Of Yer
mont %parentage and Alabama birth, Il
Yankee and Il southerner. born Of a
northern father and a southern mother,
Il business man of Missouri who be-
lieyed in Lincoln. Grant and Sher-
man"
During his boyhood Secretary Hitch
cock lived in Alabama, Louisiana,
Tennessee and Missouri and in 1860
went to China to engage in business,
remaining there twelve years. On his
return to Missouri he became i!enti-
fled with large manufacturing enter
prises and amassed Il considerable for
tune. President Mckinley appointed
him minister to Russia, and, as the le-
CATION at st. Petersburg vas raised to
the status of an embassy shortly after
he arrived at his post. he became the
first American ambassador to the court
of the ear. Mr.. Mckinley invited him
in 1899 to take Il seat in his cabinet
as head Of the interior department, and
President Roosevelt has continued him
in office and gives him hearty support
in the war against the land grabbers.
When Secretary Hitchcock assumed
his present post he found ut the head
of the land office. an important branch
of his department, Binger Hermann of
Oregon. Mr.. Hermann was born in
Maryland in 1913 and removed f. Ore
gon as IA young nan and took up the
practice of law. He served in the Ore
gon legislature and was elected to con-
gress and was serving his sixth term
when Mr.. Mckinley. in 1897, appointed
him commissioner general of the land
office. His policy ard acts were not
satisfactory t. Secretary Hitchcock,
who in 1903 requested his resignation
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JUDGING SILKS.
How to Tell Whether the Material Is
substantial or Not.


Substantial or Not.
Silk may be judged by its thickness,
il one is purchasing it for Il street cos
tune. 1t must have body" to it.
Avoid tlimsy silk as you would the
plague. 1t will drag from the seams.
hang Imply against the figure and be
altogether disappointing. Many wo-
men foolishly imagine that Il thin silk
imparts the d%iaphanous, clinging
beauty of chiffon. There was never a
more laughable mistake. Besides,
clinging silks are very expensive and
designed for house wear, not for
the street. Another way to judge
silk is by the thread. Pull the
threads from the ends, as in judging
cotton and wool. If the thread is well
rounded and firm and does not split
apart ut the touch it is safe to conclude
that 1t will give satisfactory service.
Still another good test of silk is to make
a crease with the finger nail. If the
crease dents deeply and does not SOON
come out the silk is substantial and
worth a good price. If, on the con
trary, the crease disappears lmmedi-
ately and leaves a torn or cut thread in
its place it is an inferior silk, and n
should never purchase from that bolt.
Men and Women Magazine.
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Sam the leader of the combat from first
to last has beer the aggressive and
fearless secretary of the interior, Ethan
Allen Hitchcock of Missouri. a battle
of this kind is very hard to fight be-
cause those under suspicion always
have influential friends who seek to ex-
ert political pressure against a full and
free examination into the subject. 1t
is charged that the people of the Unit
ed States have been cheated out of
thousands of acres of land, valued at
millions of dollars, by the crooked
schemes c%oncocted by men organized
to perpetrate wholesale frauds.
These frauds have been going on for
years, but they at last reached a pass
where herculean efforts were plainly
necessary to stop them, and Secretary
Hitchcock proved the man for the task.
Stealing government land had become
such a common and apparently respect
able offense that there was danger lest
the public become entirely oblivious
of the immortality of the act. As a re-
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THERE has sell
4 dom arisen in
the history of
the United States a
scandal that has in
volyed SO many poll
ticians as that of the
western land frauds.
In the battle against
thieves and grafters
who sought to enrich
themselves at the
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WHERE BIG GUNS FOR THE NAVY ARE MADE.

The naval gun factory in the Washington navy yard, where all the big
and little guns for Uncle Sans navy are made employs nearly 1000 mn and
is a very busy and interesting place Gunnakfng i. a II exceedingly slow and
expensive process, and the factory produces less than 300 cannon, ranging from
thirteen inches % three inches in calber, N a year.
St. Landry clarion. (Opelousas, La.) 1890-1921, 1906-10-27

Landry parish can we'll claim the
laurels for the fastest horses in Louis
lana, a claim that owners Of horses
here have set and have never had the
chip knocked off their shoulders
yet.
At the reces at the Parish Fair at
Marksville last week, Opelousas
horses seem to have been 1T" all the
way through.
From the report Of the races in
one day we take the following:
First Race One-quarter mile dash.
Annie Moore, WHINE; 3. x. Wallior,
owner. Time: 0:24. Red Fox, second;
Arthur Berdelin, owner.
Second Race Trot or pac, free
for one mile. Daniel j., winner; E. K.
Wallior, owner. Time: 2::111a. Frank
Hugo, second; 0. K. Dupuy, owner.
Time 2:22. Alexandra Queen, D. P.
Holcombe, owner, withdrawn after
second heat.
Half mile, Pace, Tennessee Hall,
winner; Remey Wallior, owner. Time:
4 20. Nell Mathews, secotd; saucier
Brothers. owners.
One Mile Exhibition Dead heat
between Tennessee Hall and Dan j.
Time: 2:19 Is.
All the winners are Opelousas
horses. Daniel ]. in third heat Of
the second race (which he won) made
the mile in 2:11A breaking the.
State record.
Thus, in two weeks, the pacing rec
ord of two States were broken by
Opelousas horses, Mona Audubon
having hung up a new record for
Texas on the 9th, making the mile
in 2:1O.
Mona Audobon, 2:10, Champion Of
Texas.
Daniel j., 2:1lA Champion Of
Louisiana.
Both Opelousas horses.
Which will be the Champion of
two States, did you say?
St. Landry clarion. (Opelousas, La.) 1890-1921, 1906-10-27

resolution was adopted and sent to
| the Board of Aldermen demanding
that the Cumberland Telephone Co.
/ be Immediately notified to provide
better service or forfeit its franchise.
The seven men accused of gambling
who were arrested in Crowley last
week in the raid on the Welcome
Saloon, were discharged by City JUS
tice Hayes Saturday last. City At
torney Percy 7. Ogden abandoned the
prosecution after hearing the testi-
mony.
Five hundred cases of spoiled CON
ldensed milk were discovered by Pure
Food Inspectors in New Orleans, and
confscated. The grocers are de-
manding pay for the destroyed goods,
but the health officers have refused
the demand, and the matter will go
into court.
The authorities of New Iberia have
notified the contractor for the build
ing of the drainage and irrigation
canal from New Iberia to the Gulf
that he must expedite the work. At
the present rate he will not finish it.
within contract time, which the
authorities are anxious he should do.
Henry L. Gueydan thinks the bond
required Of Freilson & Co., the firm
which is contesting the McEnery
scrip lands in Louisiana, is ridiculously
small, considering the interests in
volved and the great damage being
wrought by the injunction suit now
pending and brought on by that firm.
The bond is $1,000.
The report Of the State Board Of
Appraisers for 1906 shows the assess
ment on railroads in the State for
the year to be S36, ,298 an in
crease over 1905 Of s1,593, TAG. This
increase is made up as follows: Rail
way property s1,12o,63o; telegraph
property s5o,o30, telephone property
S423,O8 No change was made in
either the sleeping car or express
property.
St. Landry clarion. (Opelousas, La.) 1890-1921, 1906-10-27
Henry {. Ratcliffe Dead.

Henry E. Ratcliffe, for a number Of
years resident Of Opelousas, died in
New Orleans last Saturday, aged 81
years. He was Inferred in Alexan-
dria Sunday.
Mr.. Ratclif was native OF Ken
lucky, but had lived in Louisiana the
greater portion Of his life. He went
to Alexandra when he left here, and
there engaged in the drug business,
and it is said prospered in business.
He leaves mother, Mrs. G. T. Rat
cllffe, of New Orleans: three sisters
and one brother Mrs. A. Z. Simmons
of New Orleans, Mrs. Mary Gerger
and Miss Jennie Ratcliffe Of Alexan-
dria, and Mr.. Geo. NJ. Ratcliffe Of
Natchitoches. The latter gentleman
was the purchaser Of the Elk Saloon
corner in Opelousas last year, but has
since sold his interest to MI. 2. M.
Welch.
St. Landry clarion. (Opelousas, La.) 1890-1921, 1906-10-27
Don't Want Rates Lowered.

The Cumberland Telegraph & Tele-
Iphone Company is agin' the Railroad
Commission reducing their toll rates
on long distance messages.
It is a matter of life and death
with that struggling concern, the
petition asserts.
If the rates are lowered, why it
just means that they will have to go
out Of business, and it is an infant
industry" it is mooted that perhaps
the steel-hearted Commission will not
deliver the death blow.
Then the Commission must remem-
Der that by lowering the rates of
the Cumberland Telegraph & Tele-
phone Company, and thus putting it
out of business, a lot of overpaid
girls would have to go, who now earn
a salary and support their widowed
mothers in Incidence just by saying
sNnmberg "Waiting?s NUMBER"
S'Waitingw and serving as a target
for every fellow who happens to be
in a bad humor.
The tale is told in a dispatch from
Baton Rouge to the Picayune:
The Cumberland Telephone and
Telegraph Company filed a bill of
complaint against the Railroad Com
mission of Louisiana for injunction to
restrain the Commission from putting
into effect certain orders reducing
the plaintiffs tariff on long distance
messages between points in Louisiana.
The complainant represents that it
had a tariff in force which was ap-
proved and promulgated by the Rail
road Commission, but that on the 9Th
of August, 1906, the Commission
issued an order reducing the rates on
long distance messages, and such
reduction was unjust and arbitrary,
and was tantamount to taking away
the property of the plaintiff. It is
alleged that application was made to
the Commission to grant rehearing,
but it was refused, and as, under the
law of the State, the Company may
be subjected to a multiplicity Of suits
from parties not satisfied with the
telephone service or with the rates
of the Company, unless approved by
the Commission, the complainant
seeks remedy in this application for
Injunction to prevent the Commission
not only from enforcing the rates
adopted on the 9th of August, but
also restraining the Commission from
advising the Institution of suits by.
any person or persons for alleged
violation Of the order"
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St. Landry clarion. (Opelousas, La.) 1890-1921, 1906-10-27

to town and buy one bale Of hay.
ONE BALE OF HAY, to feed his
stock through the winter, for this is
about all the hay they will get, for,
had he made hay, he would not have
bought this bale, and had he intended
to buy more, he would have done so
when he had the wagon here and had
the money realized from his cotton.
St. Landry clarion. (Opelousas, La.) 1890-1921, 1906-10-27
OPELOUSAS HORSES chan
PIONs OF TWO STATES.

Opelousas' fast horses are giving a
good account Of themselves wherever
they 90. In fact, 0pelousas and St.
St. Landry clarion. (Opelousas, La.) 1890-1921, 1906-10-27
The Story Of A ST. Landry Farmer and
One Bale of Hay---lther
Shots.

Clean food, clean beds, pure water,
are absolutely necessary to the COM
fort and life of beast as we'll as man.
St. Landry clarion. (Opelousas, La.) 1890-1921, 1906-10-27
Campaign Against Consumption by The State
Board Of Health.
NEGRO WOMAN browns HER CHILDREN
Roller Skating On Sidewalks Prohibited In
Many Towns in The State.-SpoiIed
Condensed MIX Destroyed.


Twenty-nine thousand children are
attending public school in New Or
leans.
Ike Bergman, negro, was hanged
in Shreveport last Friday for wife
murder.
Tangipahoa grand jury has recon-
mended that that parish join the high
license ranks.
The waterworks bonds for the town
of Bunkie were not sold by bids, and
have been offered at private sale.
The total assessment Of the city Of
Baton Rouge is $4,l76,070, an in
crease of $482, 800 over last year.
The Board Of Trustees of New
Iberia has adopted an ordinance pro-
hibiting roller skating on the side
walks.
The Rock Island, Louisiana & Ar
kansas is instituting appropriation
suits for rights-of-way in Rapides
parish.
The Lafayette Steam Laundry was
burned last Saturday, the fire being
caused by the explosion Of gasoline
motor.
Mr.. J. L. Chambers and Miss Maggie
Burgess were married in Alexandria
on the 18th. Miss Burgess is we'll
known in Opelousas.
Nine. Begue, the famous French.
cook, who won fame as the chef of
the celebrated Begue Restaurant, died
at New Orlerns last Friday.
Prof. w. S. Lafargue has been ap-
pointed Superintendent of Public
Schools of Lafourche parish, vice
Thomas A. Badaux, resigned by re-
quest.
The State Superintendent of Public
Education has rendered an opinion
that the public school funds can not
be used in schools where tuition is
charged.
The officials of the Louisiana &
Northwestern Railroad Co. were fined
for not providing separate accom-
mediation for whites and blacks at
Bienville.
Henry Chachere, of Opelousas, was
here Wednesday taking the ginned
cotton report, and finds the output
greatly reduced from last year at this
time. Eunice Gall.
A. v. Johnson, better known as
Sonny" Johnson, parish jailer Of
Acadia, has resigned to accept posi-
tion as special officer with the South
ern Pacific at Lafayette.
Bossier parish wants to decrease
the whiskey license in an effort to
capture the trade of Caddo parish,
which went up into the prohibitiye
figures for country places.
Philip Frank, Of Alexandra, has a
household pet in the shape of peli-
can he caught on Catahoula Lake.
The wings of the bird measure seven
and a half feet from tip to tip.
The State Board af Health is pre-
pairing to inaugurate an extensive
campaign against consumption in the
near future, and as a preliminary to
the movement is now getting statis-
tics from every physician in the State.
The Masonic Hall, owned by neg
roes, and small cottage also owned
and occupied by negroes, were des-
troyed by fire in Morrow, St. Landry
parish, last week, both supposed to
have resulted from ineendiary origin.
Emma Williams, negress, is
charged with numbering by drowning
two Of her children, aged 4 and 6
years, at Lake Charles. She took
them out into the lake and held their
heads under water until life was ex-
tinct.
At meeting of a number Of tele-
phone subscribers of Jeanerette, a
St. Landry clarion. (Opelousas, La.) 1890-1921, 1906-10-27

The waste Of stable and barnyard
manure on the farm is one of the
most objectionable of the mistakes
of our farmers.
St. Landry clarion. (Opelousas, La.) 1890-1921, 1906-10-27

Your cotton is YOURS. Why
should you permit people who never
saw a cotton stalk tell you what he is
willing to give you for it?
St. Landry clarion. (Opelousas, La.) 1890-1921, 1906-10-27

Ed. Lehman Johnson, the cotton
seed expert, in letter in the Conn
mercial Appeal Of Memphis, places a
good share Of the blame for the low
price Of cotton seed on the ginner,
who is careless in the ginning of
cotton and the preserving of the seed.
In my judgement two things must be
done" says Mr.. johnson. First, the
planters and the oil mills must unite
their influence and compel the GIN
ners both to keep the seed clean and
to take better care of them after gin
ming than has ever been done before.
Second, both planters and oil mills
should unite and call upon the bank
ers for assistance in marketing the
cotton oil crop more slowly and con-
servatively, as has been done with
cotton these past two years, and not
permit the domestic and foreign buy
ers to buy in the bulk of the oil crop
in the fall and early winter months so
much below the price Of other fats
and oils as they have been doing for
two years past. The price Of oil
must be raised so as to enable the oil
mills to pay more for seed and still
make a fair profit in manufacturing.
St. Landry clarion. (Opelousas, La.) 1890-1921, 1906-10-27

uWV yC11o paots uC p11CG VI VI
must be raised so as to enable the oi
mills to pay more for seed and still
make a fair profit in manufacturing
President Walter Clark, of the
Mississippi Division Of the Southern
Cotton Association, issued a card last
Friday that is timely and worthy Of
consideration. He calls attention to
the present price Of seed, which is
from $l2 to Sl3 per ton, and then
compares it to the value Of the seed
| to the farmer as a fertilizer and feed.
He says che mills have lost money the
past two years, on account Of the low
lprice of oil and the comparatively
high price Of seed, and that they are
now, like sensible men, trying to
catch up the losses, the price Of oil
having risen SO as to justify the pay
ing Of SIS to SIG per ton for seed.
Speaking of the value Of cotton seed
as a fertilizer and feed, Mr.. Clark
says:
The chemical analysis Of cotton
seed shows fertilizer value of S12.-
20 per ton. This does not take into
consideration the vegetable matter
contained in the seed, which is worth
from So to So per ton Of seed, max
ing the seed easily worth as ferti-
lizer SIS to SIT per ton, and yet
thousands of our farmers are selling
their seed robbing the soil of it's
fertility and decreasing it's productive
capacity each and every year by this
process of robbery. The soils Of
Mississippi are growing less produc-
tive, and our children will inherit a
barren waste unless we stop this in
sane policy.
Again, one pound Of cotton seed
judiciously fed to cattle, is worth as
much as one and quarter pounds of
corn. One ton Of corn at Soc per.
bushel when fed to cattle is worth
$17.85. One ton OF cotton seed fed
to cattle is worth 1928 Again,
after the cattle have been fed on
cotton seed, if the manure is properly
saved and returned to the land, it has
a fertilizer value Of $18 per ton cot
ton seed, thus making a combined
feeding and fertilizer value Of $4,000
per ton, as compared to corn, which
has no fertilizer value, and a food
value of only s17.85. And yet our
farmers viii sell this valuable pro-
duct for from SIS to $13 per ton.
The price Of seed would be easily
solved if our farmers would pursue d
rational course and sell one half Of
the seed at $50 per ton and return
the other half to the land. Can We
by organization bring about this re-
snlt9
St. Landry clarion. (Opelousas, La.) 1890-1921, 1906-10-27
FOR FARMERS AS
WELL AS OTHERS.
The Value Of Cotton Seed As 4 Fertilizer
and Feed.
OUR FARMERS WILL PLANT HAY

OUR FARMERS WILL PLANT HAT
The Story Of A ST. Landry Farmer and
One Bale of Hay--0ther
Shots.
Clean food, clean beds, pure water,
are absolutely necessary to the COM
fort and life of beast as we'll as man.
The waste of stable and barnyard
manure on the farm is one of the
most objectionable of the mistakes
of our farmers.
Your cotton is YOURS. Why
should you permit people who never
saw cotton stalk tell you what he is
willing to give you for it?
Cotton seed meal, when fed to hogs,
should be mixed with corn chops, or
similar starchy feed, at the ratio Of
one pound to three or four pounds.
A bale of long staple cotton re-
Gently sold in Texas for 1910 cents.
Rich, black land, selected long staple
seed, careful picking and special gin
ming obtained this result.
The Clarion learns Of many farm
ers who intend devoting more atten-
tion to hay the coming season. A
crib full of corn will last several
times longer, when helped out with a
liberal supply of well-saved hay.
When is the best time to SOW bar
ley| was question put at the peri
odical examination held in an agricul-
tural college. S'Three days before a
gentle rain, sirp a sharp youth
promptly replied. The Australasian.
Plant your sugar cane for seed.
You will regret not having done so,
when you see your neighbors pre-
pared to plant cane crop and you
will have to start planting your seed
cane when he is ready to market his
crop.
The vitality Of seed corn and seed
wheat have much to do with the total
yield Of crops resulting. Pure bred
seed inherit strong vitality are pre-
potent, says Farm and Ranch. No in
telligent farmer will plant poor seed
Willingly or otherwise.
Governor Folk and organizations
faVoring better highways will press
upon the Missouri Legislature, which
meets in january, the creation Of a
State Highway Commission, the ap-
pointment Of a State Highway Engi-
neer to act with the Board Of Agri-
culture, and the addition Of a school
of highway engineering to the State
University. Steps along this line
Is
would not be at all amiss in Louis
lana.
The Post-Item, of Huntsville, Texas,
advises the planting Of peanuts for
hay. 1t says that some of the farm
ers in that section have learned the
value Of peanut hay as feed crop.
In Walker county this plant is sue
cess and gives better returns per
acre, time spent in growing and hous-
ing considered, than most any other
crop. AS a food crop for horses and
cattle it is success in every parti-
cular, and when cured with the nuts
on the vine is not surpassed by alfalfa.
The poorest land viii produce peanuts
while corn would hardly tassel.
A farmer was seen going from
town one day last week with bale
of bnx, ~, 4bn maerar xub;ob ha bad |
St. Landry clarion. (Opelousas, La.) 1890-1921, 1906-10-27

A farmer was seen going from
town one day last week with bale
of hay in the wagon, which he had
brought to the 0pelousas market a
bale of cotton! No wonder he made
but one lonely bale Of cotton. How
can more be expected of a farmer
who will SO neglect his work stock as
not to make hay for them, but come
St. Landry clarion. (Opelousas, La.) 1890-1921, 1906-10-27

A bale of long staple cotton re-
Gently sold in Texas for 1910 cents.
Rich, black land, selected long staple
seed, careful picking and special gin
ming obtained this result.
St. Landry clarion. (Opelousas, La.) 1890-1921, 1906-10-27

Cotton seed meal, when fed to hogs,
should be mixed with corn chops, or
similar starchy feed, at the ratio Of
one pound to three or four pounds.
St. Landry clarion. (Opelousas, La.) 1890-1921, 1906-10-27

The Clarion learns Of many farm
ers who intend devoting more atten-
tion to hay the coming season. A
crib full of corn will last several
times longer, when helped out with a
liberal supply of well-saved hay.
St. Landry clarion. (Opelousas, La.) 1890-1921, 1906-10-27

when is the best time to SOW bar
ley% was question put at the peri
odical examination held in an agrieul-
tural college. F'Three days before a
gentle rain, sirw a sharp youth
promptly replied. The Australasian.
St. Landry clarion. (Opelousas, La.) 1890-1921, 1906-10-27

Plant your sugar cane for seed.
You will regret not having done so,
when you see your neighbors pre-
pared to plant a cane crop and you
will have to start planting your seed
cane when he is ready to market his
crop.
St. Landry clarion. (Opelousas, La.) 1890-1921, 1906-10-27

The vitality Of seed corn and seed
wheat have much to do with the total
yield Of crops resulting. Pure bred
seed inherit strong vitality are pre-
potent, says Farm and Ranch. No in
telligent farmer will plant poor seed
Willingly or otherwise.