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The San Francisco call., 1906-06-26
BAHAMA NEGROES CLAIM
AMERICA WITHHELD PAY
Report Upon Reaching Their Homes
That They Were Not Compensated
for Canal Work.

NEW YORK, June 25.-Passengers
arriving here today from Nassau on
board the steamer Niagara brought in
formation to the effect that the Cover
nor of the Bahamas had left Nassau to
Investigate reported complaints of
negro laborers who have been en-
ployed on the Panama canal The Ia
borers upon returning home said that
they had not been paid for their work
on the isthmus. The passengers said II
is generally believed at Nassau that
the negroes were paid but that they
sauandered their earnings at the 18TH
mus and on returning home hatched
UP the complaints in question to ac-
count for their lack of funds.
The San Francisco call., 1906-06-26
OCEAN TRAVEL.

AMERICAN LINE.
Observation-Disclosures
Philadelphia July New YORK ...... July IS
ct. Paul July ii St. Louis. Aug.
Philadelphia-Qu Queenstown-LiverpOOl.
Friesland July 14MerOn ..-...-- July IS
WesternIand July 2I Nordlsnd Aug.
ATLANTIC TRANSPORT LINES.
NEW YORK-LONDON DIRECT.
Minnetonka July minneapolis July q
Mesaba 1900. July 14Minnehsha July IS
HOLLAND-AMERICA LINE.
NEW YORK. ROTTERDAM. via BOULOGNE
Sailings Wednesdays. per Sailing List.
N.AmstrIm, July {. am Potsdam Aug l. noon
Statendam, July IL ,10am Noordam Aug s. a n
Ryndam July 1s. noon y. Amstdm, Aug 10. 10am
RED STAR LINE.
y. Y. DOVER, ANTWERP. LONDON, PARIS.
Kroonland July 7IVadeTland .... July 2S
Iceland July 14lFinland Aug. 4
WHITE STAR LINE.
NEW ENSTOWN-LIVERPOOL-
Baltic July 4Ioceanic .--..-.. July is
Majestic July IL Tedtonic July 25
Celtic ..-....... July 13Cedric .-..-... July 81
DISQUALIFICATION
Arabic July 5sCymric .-....... July 10
Republic July 12IArabic Aug. .
The TG MEDITERRANEAN AzoRhs. SRA
FROM NEW YORK
Cretic Aug. 4. 10 a m: Sept %, Nov. 3
FROM BOSTON.
Romantic July q, IL a. m; Sept 10. Oct. %
Canopic. Aug IL, $3.50 p. M; Oct. 6. Nov II
G. ID. TAYLOR, Passenger Agent Pacific Coast
534 Fourteenth St, Woman's Exchange building
Oakland
The San Francisco call., 1906-06-26

Mrs. j. Gunzburger, 1907 sutter St, has trim
med hats this week.
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1906-09-22

paupers or insane. Nearly every
northern state has made some pro-
vision for this class and the number
in institutions has doubled since 1898.
There are now 33 institutions sup
ported by the states for this class and
the next year will add three or four
to the list. This is not only work of
humanity but is a protection to So
ciety and such an important matter
should not be longer neglected by the
state. A search through the records
of poor houses, prisons and asylums
should reveal enough to show beyond
any doubt the great necessity of an
institution of this kind.
One family in this state, the mother
Of which is feeble minded, is repre-
sented in the reform school, the asy-
lum and the penitentiary of Oregon,
while another son is said to be in the
Walla Walla penitentiary.
Citizens in the vicinity Of Salem
will probably aid the enterprise of the
state authorities and offer sites for
the new institution. The state is per-
fectly willing to pay fair prices for
land but, of course, will object to pay
ing anything like an excessive sum. A
failure to get land at reasonable fig
ures would delay the establishment of
the institution and might call for an
amendment to the constitution which
would enable the authorities to go
elsewhere for a location.
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1906-09-22
ORECON'S HOME FOR FEEBLE MINDED

The state of Oregon is to have an
institution for the feeble minded. It
is now advertising for tract Of land,
within 10 miles of Salem to be used
for site for this institution.
The hoIIe, or school as one pleases
to call it, will be built on the colony
plan, and when complete will be COM
posed of large number Of separate
and distinct buildings
The experience of other states
shows that this class of the public's
helpless wards, can be given better
care at less expense, this way, than
In any other.
The feeble minded boys are especial
ly adapted to gardening, dairying and
farming, and of coursd are much hap
pier and contented when occupied in
these pursuits than confined in idle
ness.
The number of feeble minded is
quite large, being almost as many as
the insane, and their care will require
a very large institution. 1t is estimated
that there are two feeble minded
persons to each 1000 of the popula-
ton.
Every community has one or two
such persons and 1t has been demon
strated that 1t is best for the state to
take them out of contact with the rest
OF the population as the children born
to them usually become criminals,
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1906-09-22

When you have q cold It is we'll to
be very careful about using anything
that will cause constipation. Be par
ticularly careful about preparations
containing opiates. Use Kennedy's
Laxative Honey and Tar. which stops
the cough and moves the bowels.
Sold by Tallman q Co.
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1906-09-22

A farmer must not touch a deer,
no matter how much It may be tram
piing and devouring his crops. He
may, however. drive It out Of his fields
if he can do so without hurting It's
feelings-Boston Transcript.
The Lafayette advertiser. [volume] (Vermilionville [i.e. Lafayette], La.) 1865-19??, 1906-04-04

MADE TO ORDER
in 9 no
Made in Lafayette.
PREA GER, The Tailor.

and this branch are to be con-
structed at the same time, and
both of the works will be carried
on with Mr.. Vaughn as chief en-
gineer.
During the delay in receiving
the bids for the Lafayette Baton
Rouge branch the work is being
carried on by the Railroad Com
pany itself on a small scale. Res
ident engineers are out on the
line and much surveying work is
being done.
The Southern Pacific has made
one effort to secure desirable bids
for the work between this city
and Lafayette, but the character
of the work, which is very diff
cult, owing to the low country,
and bridges that must be built,
coupled with the fact that a ma
jority of the contractors have all
that they can attend to. has made
1t difficult for the Company to get
satisfactory bids.
The Lafayette advertiser. [volume] (Vermilionville [i.e. Lafayette], La.) 1865-19??, 1906-04-04
Free Scholarship.

We will teach anyone with an ordi-
nary common school education, who
will do good average work, to write
$50 words Of shorthand to the
minute, unfamiliar matter, court re-
porting, in three months, or make no
charge for the course. We will make
anyone a present of a scholarship who
will find any other school using any
other system of shorthand that will do
this. We offer a free scholarship to
anyone who will find a single student
who ever finished the Byrne Simpli-
fed Shorthand, then laid it aside and
became a successful writer of any
other system in preference to the
Byrne.
We control the exclusive right to
teach the Famous Byrne Simplified
Shorthand and Practical Bookkeeping
in the Southwest. More than 1000
students from 20 different States were
with us during the past year to get
the advantage of these modern sys-
tens. Many of these students are now
earning from SIS to $3.50 per month.
If interested in a course of Short
hand, Bookkeeping or T~elegraphy,
write for our large illustrated free cat
alogue. Tyler COm'l College, Tyler,
Texas.
The Lafayette advertiser. [volume] (Vermilionville [i.e. Lafayette], La.) 1865-19??, 1906-04-04
Lafayette-B Baton Rouge Cut OF

New Orleans Picayune.
Baton Rouge. La, March 81
G. G.. Vaughn, Chief Engineer in
charge of tho construction of the
Southern Pacific's Lafayette
Baton Rouge branch, was in the
city yesterday afternoon and
held a conference with contrac-
tors in regard to bids that are to
be received for the construction
of the road between this city and
Lafayette.
Mr. Vaughn states that the
Company is still receiving bids
for the proposed work, and ex-
poets to get in several new bids
within the next few day. They
now anticipate opening the bids
on April l in New Orleans, and if
any one of them is satisfactory
the contract will be let and con-
structiOn work begun in earnest
Bids are also being received, Mr..
Vaughn states, for the Arnaud-
vile branch of the Southern Pa.
citic. which is to run from Ar
naudville north. The Lafayette
The Lafayette advertiser. [volume] (Vermilionville [i.e. Lafayette], La.) 1865-19??, 1906-04-04
A handsome line of note paper
at the Lafayette Drug Store.
Scott Notes.

o oSNse sNVSSSs
Mr.. Editor: We will be glad
if you can answer a few ques-
tons for US.
1. Is there a society in Caren-
Gro called Lazy People,? and is
the president the LATEST of all
you know? We hear that some
children in Carencro School
joined this society. Is that the
fact? Do you think this society
is good enough to be organized
in Great Scott
2. Is it the sure enough"
fact that the ugliest teachers
and pupils belong to Broussard-
vile school?
3. We beard that the school
building in Royville is finished
just like Great Scott. Is it true
that the rude boys there play
base ball thru their fine glass
doors?
4. When Father Paroli made
a discussion ON the mosquito
theory in the Lafayette Opera
House he always looked at MI
L. j. Alleman. Is he the super
intendent that knows the Italian
language. or is he an Italian by
descent? Is it SO that Lafayette
School will challenge against
Duson School on a mosquito de-
bate? If it is, please let the boys
and girls of Great Scott know if
it is a public meeting as some
would like to be present.
5. Great Scott heard that the
Burke School Is overcrowded
The Lafayette advertiser. [volume] (Vermilionville [i.e. Lafayette], La.) 1865-19??, 1906-04-04

with children, who have no
benches and are compelled to sit
on the floor. Is it so? Great
Scott has a new supply OF the
very best desks in the world.
therefore wehave quite a number
of soap and tobacco boxes to dis
pose of at their service.
6. Is it a fact that when a boy
is born in Pilette that his parents
call him Patterson Baily Till
man Teddy-"?
Now, please say if you don't
think Great Scott is the cham
pion of the parish schools.
Mrs. Willie Butcher and chill
dren. of Lafayette. are visiting
relatives in Scott.
Mr.. and Mrs. H. j. Lasserre
returned to Scott Wednesday
from New Iberia.
We still have frogs coming in
Scott by the wagon load.
Messrs. l.. J. Alleman, A. Ju-
dice and Bell we're visitors at
Scott School Friday.
Mrs. Mabel Bedell and little
Bernice and Miss Abel Del
hOmme were also visitors here
Friday.
We are having the new desks
put up this morning.
Mr.. and Mrs. P. Broussard
and little daughter, Grace, are
visiting relatives in Great Scott.
You can read the dimmest
print all over the country by the
light from the bull-frog hunters.
Mr.. Chas. BOudreaux visited
his son in Mermentau Sunday.
Mr.. JUDGE and Mr.. Hoffpauir
were visitors at Great Scott
School Monday.
Mr.. and Mrs. J. G.. NickersOn
and little Lucille were visitors in
Scott Sunday.
Great Scott always has a host
of visitors.
Mr.. E. O.. Payne visited Lafa-
yette Saturday.
GREAT SCOTT SCHOOL.
The Lafayette advertiser. [volume] (Vermilionville [i.e. Lafayette], La.) 1865-19??, 1906-04-04
BrOuSsard Notes.

Prof. 1. P. Foote, of Lafayette.
visited Mr.. Faulk Saturday.
Prof. J. A. Thoms, of Sulphur
City, visited Mr.. Faulk Sunday
between trains.
Rep. J. Gilbert st. Julien was
shaking hands with friends in
our town Sunday.
Misses Olive Mather, Annie
and Catherine Terrell, of Iberia
were in town Saturday and Sun
day, guests of the lady teachers.
Mr.. Estanville Landry went to
New iberia Sunday.
Mr.. Holleman and family re-
turned Sunday from a weeks
stay on their plantation where
they had gone IS recuperate.
Mrs. Chestnut and children of
Deridder, are moving to this
place, where Mrs. Chestnut ex-
poets to open a millinery store.
The Lafayette advertiser. [volume] (Vermilionville [i.e. Lafayette], La.) 1865-19??, 1906-04-04
SONTAG CONCERT BAND.
Meeting to be Held Saturday
Night to Consider Taking up
Active Practice and Civ
ing Weekly Concerts.

Thursday night the SOntag
Concert Band will hold a meet
ing with a view of taking more
systematic practice. 1t is also
the purpose to give weekly con-
certs during the summer and
that matter will be discussed at
the meeting. Lafayette has been
very fortunate in having such a
splendid band, and the announce
ment that the band is again to
take up active work will be
received with pleasure by every
music lover in the town and GER
tainly there must be few indeed
who do not like, the delightful
harmonies that the band has al
ways entertained their audiences
with. The prospects of evening
concerts this summer is certainly
and particularly so as
the band hopes to arrange so
that the concerts may be free,
and we all heartily join the hope.
The Lafayette advertiser. [volume] (Vermilionville [i.e. Lafayette], La.) 1865-19??, 1906-04-04
Grand Chancellor Here Thursday

Albert Harris, State Grand
Chancellor of the Knights of Ply
thias, arrived here Thursday and
met with the local lodge that
night to give them instruction.
After the meeting was over a
supper prepared in honor of his
visit at Domengeaux' restaurant
received full attention. The oc-
casjon was a most pleasant one
and both the Grand Chancellor
and the lodge and their guests
had a most enjoyable. time.
The Lafayette advertiser. [volume] (Vermilionville [i.e. Lafayette], La.) 1865-19??, 1906-04-04
Chimney Burned Out.


A little excitement was caused
yesterday by the burnig out of a
chimney of small house across
the railroad, belonging to Mr..
JnO. o. Mouton. The fire was
promptly extinguished by Lulu
Hebert.
Try one gallon of our coal oil,
you will burn no other. Lacoste
Hardware Co., Ltd,
PRIVATE DEMONSTRATORS, one
man, one woman for this District.
Same route once a year. Salary and
bonus. Address for interview.
G. G. GROVES,
Crowley, La.
The Lafayette advertiser. [volume] (Vermilionville [i.e. Lafayette], La.) 1865-19??, 1906-04-04

Steel ranges, asbestos finish,
with or without reservoirs at
cost at Rene Delhomme's.
The Florida agriculturist. [volume] (DeLand, Fla.) 1878-1911, 1906-11-21

tracts from the report Of their pro-
ceedings, and believe that you will find
them interesting and valuable. We
have also copied from it a paper read
by Prof. Hume on Pecan Growing in
the South.
We have an original article on Pal
mettoes and Paper, which Contains
much information which is new. If
company of paper makers can afford
to import palmetto fiber from Mexico,
we should think that Floridians might
find it profitable to underbid the Mexi-
cans. The leaves are SO abundant in
most parts of the state, that they cost
very little more than the expense Of
gathering them.
You will find the article on the Greai
Possibilities for Our Farmers in Sugar,
an exceedingly clear presentation Of
the prospects for growing sugar cane
in this state.
If you have any large trees that you
would like to move, you will find some
valuable hints on the subject, in Mr..
SIMPSONS article.
The Educational article contains
much food for thought, possibly some
one among our readers is going to
college, but has not decided to take
the agricultural course for the reasons
given in Our introduction If there are
any such, we hope that they will read
the article very carefully. If any of
you are connected with Boards of Edit
cation, we commend the second part
Of that article to them.
The Florida agriculturist. [volume] (DeLand, Fla.) 1878-1911, 1906-11-21
WEDNESDAY, NOV. 81, 1906.
Sugar or Syrup in Florida.

There is no doubt that the people Of
this country ought to raise all the
sugar which is needed to supply our
own citizens That we do not show
a serious lack Of enterprise on our
part. We have no doubt, that in time
it will be done.
There are large crops of sugar cane
now grown, none Of which is made
into sugar The crops from hundreds
Of acres, in the northern part of the
state, is cut and sold in Jacksonville,
part Of it for local consumption, but
more Of it for shipment North.
Many find it very profitable to make
the crop into syrup, and while still
boiling hot, seal it up in bottles or
cans which find a ready market. The
demand for this syrup is increasing
and there does not seem to be any
danger Of an over supply.
Sugar cane is not difficult crop to
grow, but it does require rich soil.
Those who have been most successful
in this state have usually been the
owners Of herds Of cattle who could
apply large amounts OF stable or COW
pen manure to the ground. We do not
mean that it cannot be grown without
such manure, for we have known good
crops raised by means Of commercial
fertilizers. But the use OF manure is
much cheaper
For the purpose of making syrup, it
IS probable that the Japanese sugar
cane will be found the most profitable
If you are trying to induce North
ern friends to come to this state, to
settle permanently, we think that the
paper on the possibilities OF sugar cane
growing would be a good advertising
circular
The Florida agriculturist. [volume] (DeLand, Fla.) 1878-1911, 1906-11-21
Southern States Association, Etc.

Continued from page 74O)
the birth rate is the same, though there
is a steady decrease Of the rate for both
races each succeeding decade. Negroes
Of Southern birth living in the North
have increased twice as fast as the
negro population of the country. In
consequence, while about one-thirteen-
tn of the Southern negroes were living
in the North in 1890, in 1900 nearly
one-twenty-fou were living in the
North-an increase of 1919 per cent
in ten years, 1S9o-19OO) against six
per cent increase of whites from the
South residing in the North. One
fifth of the natives of the South living
in the North in 1890 were negroes; in
1900 they comprised more than one
fourth, or 26 per cent.
Now for a moment only | wish to
direct your attention to the South's
real condition in the matter of farm
labor. In recently compiling the
figures showing the number of negro
farm 1aborers, both male and female,
| was astonished to find that in nv
state we had only 1.16 of a negro to
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The Florida agriculturist. [volume] (DeLand, Fla.) 1878-1911, 1906-11-21
Southern States Association O
Agricultural Commissioners.

We publish, this week, letter from
Capt. Rose, in regard to the coming
meeting Of this association, in Jackson
Vile, on November 10, 20 and e. We
supplement the letter with extracts
from the report of last years meeting
at Richmond Va There were many
other papers in that report which
might have been equally interesting,
if our space would have allowed of
their use.
We have no doubt that the meeting
next week will be interesting and valu-
able to all farmers who can make it
convenient to attend In the list Of
farmers, we include every one who cul-
tivates the soil for any purpose. We
trust that many Of you will find it
convenient to be present.
The Florida agriculturist. [volume] (DeLand, Fla.) 1878-1911, 1906-11-21
This Weeks Paper.

Most OF our space, this week, is
devoted to Letter from Capt. Rose,
about the meeting of the Southern
States Association of Agricultural
Commissioners. We made liberal ex-
The Florida agriculturist. [volume] (DeLand, Fla.) 1878-1911, 1906-11-21

a better condition than any other
Southern state, for on the 962 ,225
farms in the South Atlantic states there
in now only go of negro to the farm;
and in the South Central states each
farm is worked by A of negro labor
er. In Virginia you have only 81 of
negro; in Maryland Al; in North
Carolina .46; in Georgia 81; in Ten
nessee "a; in Alabama 81; in Missis-
sippi 80; in Louisiana 100; in Texas
%; in Arkansas >.38, and in Florida
1.O2. We are struggling to operate our
farms without labor, and there is no
wonder the demand for white labor is
rising from every fence-corner
In my state today the people are
awakening to the necessities of the
hour and Of the possibilities of the flu
ture. They know that we must have
small farms and farm labor. They
want a good type of men, going slow
to get them, but they are realizing the
advantages Of the material increase of
the white citizenship, and what that
increase means to the industrial, COM
mercial and agricultural development
of the state.
The situation in the South today in
the light of our great resources, in the
light Of our lack of working men, in
the lack of capital that would gladly
come to us, is one that makes it no
longer time for resolutions and
theories and theorists It is one that
calls for action immediate action-in-
telligent action-ac action by men imbued
with a patriotic spirit and equipped for
the work upon practical lines-men
using at all times calm Judgment and
having in view only the good of their
Irrespective communities without regard
to politics or politicians. In my state
we are getting at this matter, notwith-
standing it is in the hands Of the State
Department Of the government in a
way that eliminates the very sugges-
ton of politics. We have pitched our
department upon a business basis, ap-
plying business principles and running
the department for the good of all
classes of our citizens without fear or
favor. Upon such basis alone can
we hope to succeed
Though the very foundations of the
work of locating immigrants in the
South rests upon the class of immi-
grants secured and largely upon
whence they come, I shall not venture
to discuss that feature, for throughout
the South we are improving in this re-
spect as we become better acquainted
with immigration matters.
immigration to the South, as we
have known it in the past, has been
simply that here and there spasmodic
efforts have been made by people total
ly unacquainted with immigration prob
lens to get squads of immigrants
Orders are sent to labor agencies at
the ports. These fellows collect SO
many men as so many cattle and ship
them as such without regard to their
fitness for the purpose for which they
are desired, and with no account of the
lack of experience of the emD1Overs in