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The Lafayette advertiser. [volume] (Vermilionville [i.e. Lafayette], La.) 1865-19??, 1906-07-25

Good ice-cream, delightful re-
freshments and a good time at
the l.. A. to B. of r. T. social to-
night oyer the Bank of LAFAYETTE.
H. G. Allen, of Franklin. visited
J. G.. Clausen during the week.
The commercial. (Union City, Tenn.) 190?-193?, 1906-07-27
A SPICY WITNESS.

The most spicy deposition was
that of a negro woman named Hat
tie Morgan. who claimed to have
cooked for Mrs. Cullen at two diff
ferent times. Lola told ker that
she was going away. She didn't
think Lola was there when she
cooked last for Mrs. Cullen. Said
Lola told her that she had been on
the stage once; said Lola "could
shore kick high like show folks, and
IContinnaa an tifth nann
The commercial. (Union City, Tenn.) 190?-193?, 1906-07-27
MEMPHIS is sUcHA oU1ETNEss.

What with church disturbances,
summer sales and patent medi-
cine shows would ordinarily make
enough for a complete chapter in
q municipality of the dimensions
Of Union City has been totally
eclipsed, if not entirely obscured,
by $4,000 sensational damage
suits. A village newspaper is en-
tirely too small for this sort of
living. The developments of the
hour are far beyond our scope.
One day lady is insulted. Knots
gather on the streets and talk
about dreadful things, and before
many hours have elapsed a $780,
600 damage suit has been entered
against the city corporation for
the accidental killing of a citizen
who lost his life by coming in con-
tact with a live wire, a $4,000
suit for caustic criticism is with
drawn, 100000 suit is in process
of incubation, a small embezz!e-
ment case is seeking notoriety,
and all this is transporting with
in few days only during which
the court sits on another and
entirely different sensational suit
for $4,000 now in progress. And
yet that is not enough. The court
has trouble with an importunate
spectator who wants to sit near
the client and her attorney. The
sheriff interferes, the man resents
with strong right handler, the
client faints, the other ladies rush |
to the judges stand, the court is
thrown into commotion and the
wheels of justice are clogged for
The day. Verify the day of peace
and quiet is lapsing into history |
and the patent outside can no
longer do execution.
The commercial. (Union City, Tenn.) 190?-193?, 1906-07-27

Russell Sage is dead and very
brief is the tribute to his memory.
Perhaps the tribute has been alto
gether forgotten. Well, come to
think Of it; somebody has to do
the financiering, and when man
financiers we presume there isn't
much room for poetry and flow
ers. He paid his debts and there
are lots of those criticising his Ca
reer who are delinquents when there
was no just cause for it. They
were delinquents in many ways
which could not be charged against
Sage. However, we would pre-
fer retirement on half million
like Sage intended to do when
he quit the grocery business. We
might have cultivated flowers and
poetry and gewgaws then to our
hearts content.
The commercial. (Union City, Tenn.) 190?-193?, 1906-07-27

Russia is in state of ebulition
and all the horrors of the French
Revolution appear like spectre
lowering over the empire. Pro
clamation announcing the death
sentence has been imposed upon
the Emperor and several Of his
ministers and deputies. The signs
are ominous.
The commercial. (Union City, Tenn.) 190?-193?, 1906-07-27

VIM. j. Bryan thinks Nicholas
made mistake in dissolving the
Russian parliament. The Gar may
have to pay with his life.
The commercial. (Union City, Tenn.) 190?-193?, 1906-07-27
s. n. BRArTov.

We are authorized to announce s X. Bratton
a candidate for Justice OF the Peace for the
Thirteenth Civil District Of 0bion County.
Election Thursday, August 2, 1906.
The commercial. (Union City, Tenn.) 190?-193?, 1906-07-27

I %AO as tAttOQuCCu 10 tue Oluc
members Of the party After
wards they all adjourned to tn,
wine room, where three quart bot
ties of intoxicauts were consumed
While in the dining room the cele
brated tallyho party for the follow
ing day was formed. On this rid,
witness told of how the party was
separated as to seats, Miss Walker
sitting on the rear seat between
himself and Edwards. Drinks hac
been carried along they had had
beer, and he took up bottle Of
cocktail, and Miss Walker held the
glass out of which they had been
drinking beer, aud he was waiting
for her to tell him when to STOP
emptying the fluid into it. but as
she did not, he poured it full, and
she drank it. What he had poured
out was more than a drink for an
ordinary person, and he didn't think
she would drink it, but she did.
Witness told of the horses get
ting sick and of the party pairing
off tor a walk, and when he re-
turned with Mrs. Cullen he found
the plaintiff quite sick a d Ed
wards holding her head on his lap,
that she was assisted in the tallyho,
and then they drove to their respec-
tive homes or boarding places. Said
that Edwards had no more to do
with the procurement Of the drink
than any other of he pleasure
makers; that each paid his part of
the expenses.
Witness stated that he as we'll as
Col. Edwards kissed and Rugged
Miss Walker, and that she made
no objections to such attentions.
AS to what witness thought of the
actions OF the plaintiff on the trip,
objections we're m a d e by Judge
Moore. for plaintiff, and sustained.
Mrs. Cullen and Miss Neff, who
were also members of the party,
also acted in a free and easy way.
Witness didn't think young lady
named Miss Edith or Laura Fyles
was on that trip. Several ques-
tons were objected to by counsel
for plaintiff and sustained. Judge
Moore contended that the actions
Of Mrs. Cullen could not be brought
into the case, as she was only a
witness, which objection was sus-
tanned. Witness had been to Ashe.
Vile several times for pleasure, the
asst time being in 1908 Had gone
with Edwards to the photogra-
oher's to see the fencing picture of
Miss Walker that had been made |
~ Ray. Knew no one in Asheville
,ut Weaver at the time OF his Aug
list visit who was acquainted with
he plaintiff. Since August, 1908,
lad heard no one speak of the repu-
alton of Mrs. Cullen or plaintiff.
Witness was at Mrs. Cullens only
,nce, and that was the day after
he tallyho ride. He saw nothing
IN this visit that he considered
detrimental to their character The
allyho party started from Viewers
,arn drove to Lynn Oak after Mrs.
julien and the others, and got back
hat night about twelve 0 clock. He
eft Asheville two or three days at
err the tallyho ride. In answer to
question stated that Weaver pro-
ured the beverages for the trip by
riders from the gentlemen mem
'ers of the party.
r. D EvANC
The commercial. (Union City, Tenn.) 190?-193?, 1906-07-27
ZOE sHERIFF

We are authorized TO announce r ] Drewry
Of District Ii, SIS an independent candidate for
Sheriff, subject to the August election, 1906.
The commercial. (Union City, Tenn.) 190?-193?, 1906-07-27
FOR REGISTER.
MaRNIN cHApEL

We are authorized to announce Marvin Chap
ell as q candidate for Register of Obion County
subject to the will Of the Democratic party.
The commercial. (Union City, Tenn.) 190?-193?, 1906-07-27
FOR MAGISTRATE.
VI. IA. nALL

We are authorised TO announce W W Hall
a candidate for Justice of the Peace for the
Thirteenth Civil District of Oblon County
Election Thursday. August 2. 1905.
The commercial. (Union City, Tenn.) 190?-193?, 1906-07-27
R. P. EVANS.

The deposition of r. p. Evans, a
travelling salesman for Philadel-
phia firm, was then taken up. Wit
ness is acquainted with Edwards,
Mrs. Cullen and Miss Walker. He
formerly lived in Union City and is
son of a preacher who resides at
Greenfield. He had heard guests
of the Battery Park Hotel in Ashe-
Vile speak of Miss Walker and her
aunt, and that their reputation was
bad. He had understood this only
from Roy Martin, Dick Edwards
and Will Howard, neither of whom
we're residents OF Asheville. This
testimony was overruled by the
Judge.
Evans told of meeting Col. Ed
wards, Mrs. Cullen and several 9TH
ers at the Battery Park Hotel, and
that several rounds of drinks we're
disposed of. Claimed that there
were no soft drinks. He told of the
arrangement of the party on a ride.
Edwards ard Miss Walkar sat on
middle seat. A bottle of cocktail
was taken along, and they drank
on the way to Kenilvorth Inn. The
wine room of the hotel was closed,
but the bartender or clerk was in
duced to open up. The room had
been closed early because of the i'm
clemency of the weather. More
drinks were taken. Col. Edwards
kissed and Rugged Lola, and as he,
the witness, did not like the woman
he was with, he reached over and
kissed an Rugged her himself.
Plaintiff m d e no objections to
these attentions. and fiat several
The commercial. (Union City, Tenn.) 190?-193?, 1906-07-27
FOR FLoATER

We-are authorized to announce J W Burney
OfUnion City as a candidate for Pictorial Rep
resentatiye from the counties Of Lake, Obion
and Dyer, subject to the action Of the Demo-
cratic party
The commercial. (Union City, Tenn.) 190?-193?, 1906-07-27
WALEER-EDWARDS

icontinued from first mage }
The commercial. (Union City, Tenn.) 190?-193?, 1906-07-27
T. G. GORDON.

We are authorized to announce Gordon
as q candidate for Floater to represent Weak
ley, Lake and Obion Counties In the General
Assembly of Tennessee, subject 10 the action
OF the Democratic party.
New-York tribune., 1906-11-14
rIcroBy FOR SANITATION.

The decision of the United States Supreme
Court In the Moeschen case is a final and
decisive victory for the De Forest Tenement
House law and n vindication of the Low admin
istration which earned much unpopularity, but,
nevertheless, did great good by enforcing IT.
The case turned on the question Of the states
power TO condemn and force the abandonment
of sanitary appliances constructed in absolute
conformity TO the law as it stood at the time
of building and maintained in a condition fully
up to the standards Of that time. The fault
found with the Moeschen plumbing was not
that it had deteriorated. but that sanitary
science and with it the communitys standards
of health and decency. had advanced. The stato
assumed the right to compel property owners
TO live up to the new knowledge, and the prop
erty owners took their stand on the assump
ton that, while they might not reconstruct
plumbing contrary to the new law, they had
right to maintain existing conditions unless
they were shown TO be a positive nuisance and
public danger in the ordinary significance OF
those terms The New York courts sustained
the law, and the highest authority takes
the same view.
The chief Importance Of the decision is its
establishment Of the right of the community to
be progressive and enjoy the benefits of scien-
tio discovery and sanitary invention, notwith-
standing the conservatism of vested rights"
New-York tribune., 1906-11-14
HEBREW ORPHAN HOMES.
Sheltering Guardian Society Takes
$50 ACres tn PLeasantrille.

The Hebrew Sheltering Guardian Society. Of New
York which supports 15O children IN its building. at
Broadway and 15oth street will take title to $50
N Y. tomorrow. On the farm at Pleasantvtlle
will be erected cottages. which collectively will
cost about 81 100000 With the occupancy OF these
cottages the whole system OF the society IN caring
for dependent Hebrew children will be changed
The plan OF taking the society's wards cut Of one
large dornitory building IN the city and placing
them IN little groups IN country cottages where
they can grow up II they were members OF In
dlvdual families, has been advocated by Samuel D.
Levy former president OF the society and now a
director and vice-president. since he inspected
the Bernardo Homes. which the late DIR. Bernardo
maintained on his estate IN England Adolph Levi
sohn now president OF the society, has shown his
appreciation OF the plan by contributing $4,000 TO
the cottage building fund The children OF the late
Leonard Lewisohn have contributed S25.O0o. and
the family OF Jacob H Schiff has added $4,000 more
TO the fund. while among other contributors are
Felix NJ Warburg. $4,000. and Guggenhein's Sons.
$4,000
The fund now has reached s325.0Oo and Is increas-
ing rapidly The society expects to get about
$3.50 600 from a gale OF it's property at Broadway
and 15oth street The building OF the cottage colony
at PleasantyilIs will begin next April. Before the
end of next summer all the wards OF the society
probably will be in their new quarters
Each cottags will be constructed 20 accommodate
about ten children and two grown persons.
who will make up a family group. The colony will
have it's school. gymnasium and Fairgrounds
New-York tribune., 1906-11-14

NOTES OF SOCIETY IN WASHINGTON

From The Tribune BIreau1
Washington Nov. 13-The Secretary OF State will
leave Washington this week for his Western tour
Miss Root is still in New York. the guest Of rela-
tves. and Mrs Root VIII remain IN washington
during Mr.. Roots absence
Mr.. and Mrs. Thomas r. Walsh and their daugh-
ter. Miss Evelyn Walsh, arrived in Washington
Sunday for a brief stay. Last riEht they we're
hosts at box party AT the National Theatre with
Judge Page and Robert Bacon. Assistant secre-
tary OF State. th Dir guests. They eft Washing
ton tonight for New York. where they will re-
main until tho first of December. when they Will
return and open their house. in Massachusetts, ave-
nue.. for the season.
Mrs Letter. who IS expected to arrive in New
York on THURSDAY evening the Baltic from
England will directly to her washington
home. which has been put in order for her Mrs
Letter is accompanied by her daughter. the Coun-
tess of Suffolk and her son-in-law, Lord Curzon.
formerly viceroy of India During the summer
Mrs Letter occupied TulIoch Castle In the north
Of Scotland with all her children and grandcht-
dren
Mrs Postlethwaite widow OF the late Chaplain
William Postlethwaits U. s. A, stationed for many
years at West Point. has returned TO her nome.
In New Hampshire avenue, after an absence or
some time in New York. where she went TO bid
goodby to her son-in-law and daughter. Mr.. and
Mrs. Henry Ives Cobb. jr.. who have called Tor
their temporary home in Paris.
Mrs. a. e. Bates. wife OF General Bates. returned
weeks in New York.
Mrs. William H Taft. wife OF the Secretary or
War. entertained party OF friends in a box at
the National Theatre last night Her guests were
Mr.. and Mrs. James r. Garfield. Miss Mabel Board
man. Mr.. Ricardo and T. W. Carpenter.
Mr.. and Mrs. William Phelps Emo. who are now
at their country place. in Saugatuc. Conn., are ex-
pected at their Washington home about the first Of
December.
Mr.. and Mrs. Henry Cleveland Perkins and the
Misses Perkins will arrive in New York Saturday
from Europe. where they spent the summer They
are expected at their Washington hons. No. 17o1
Connecticut avenue by Monday.
Howard Gould and W. H Hall. OF New York.
here for few days. on the way to New York
from hunting trip In Virginia
Mrs Victor Clement will be at horns on Fri
days throughout November and until her mar
riage. December Is. at her apartment IN the Con-
neotiout. Mrs. Oliver will entertain at dinner In
honor OF Mrs. Clement and Captain Cloulan on
Thursday, November q. Miss Eleanor Kerfoot
6owers, daughter OF Dr. and Mrs. z. r. Sewers
whose wedding to Major Samson Lane Faison
U. s. A. has been announced to take place at
noon. December 10. will be the guest OF honor at
a dinner Thursday evening with Mrs Clement
hostess At her wedding Miss Sewers will be at
tended by Mrs. Charles Carroll. OF Baltimore.
matron OF honor.
New-York tribune., 1906-11-14
JEWISH MEMORIAL TO SECRETARY HAY

Washington Nov. 13-Secretary Root has accept
ed an invitation TO attend the dedication of a
window TO the late John Hay in the synagogue OF
the Keneseth Israel Congregation. Philadelphia on
December ? Oscar : Straus who is To succeed Secre
tary Metcdf the head OF the Department or
Commerce and Labor. also will attend the dedi
catory ceremonies. Dr. hrauskopf said to-day that
the perpetuation OF the memory OF the late Secre-
tary Hay by the installation OF a window In u
Jewish church is decided innovation. and will
he the first instance where a uon-Jew has been
honored by the installation OF any sort OF memorial
In Jewish house OF worship This exception ia
made because OF Mr.. HAYS service IN behalf "
the unfortunate Jews at Kishinen Russia. and in
recognition OF his efforts 20 prevent Jews being
Disseminated against In any way.
New-York tribune., 1906-11-14
FISHERY ABUSES.

Last weeks opening of the cunning season
IN New Jersey was auspciously effected with
a vast amount Of wasted time. imbibed refresh
ments and burned powder, and. we believe
some rabbits killed and dogs wounded. We
may perhaps regard it with equanimity as
concession to the desire OF man to "go out and
kill something" But 1t will also serve a use
full purpose as reminder of the comparative
strictness and efficiency of the game laws on
land and their wretched laxity and ineficlency
on the water, where they are of equal II not
greater Importance.
During the season Just past there was an
omlnOus scarcity of fish in the coast waters OF
New Jersey. That was as every observer must
realize, largely because of the manner in which
pound nets, purse nets, seines, fykes and SINH
lar devices for the wholesale capture of fish OF
all sorts and sizes are used in most of tbe
waters of the state. Barnegat and Little Ego
Harbor bays are nominally excepted. but tha
menhaden trust sends its steamers with their
huge nets right to the entrances of those bays
and scoops up food fish by the million. Rari-
tan Bay, which should be an ideal fishing
ground, has been almost ruined by the miles
of nets, and so has the Shrewsbury River which
has had nets stretched across its mouth from
bank to bank. In such ways thousands or
small bass and other food fish are caught mpcb
below the legal limit of size. and are sent TO
markets outside OF that state The resul+ IA
that the fishing grounds are being ruined and
some varieties Of food fish are being extermi-
mated Note for example, the kingtish. which
was plentiful ten years ago. but which is now
almost unknown.
An exasperating but not unnatural feature
or the case is that with all this wholesale
capture OF fish its price in the New York mar
ket IS steadily increasing, until what sbouI1
be one of the cheapest OF foods is becoming
costly luxury. The men who sweep the waters
with their huge nets are typical monopolists.
Ihey destroy all competition, and then HAVING
secured all the fish for themselves they extort
whatever prices they please for it. and If thew
cannot get those prices, rather than sell tba
nsh at reasonable figures they throw it bacl,
into the sea or grind food fish up into fertilizer
IL Is most discreditable state of affairs IN
which Now York is no less interested than Nev,
jersey Under proper legislation and enforce
Ihent or laws the fisheries of the New Jerser
coast should he profitable TO the fishermen az
That state, and should afford to New York an
ample supply of sea food at half the.-present
prices.
New-York tribune., 1906-11-14
SOUTH AMERICAS GREATNESS.

Figures just come to hand emphasize the
needIessness OF a European invasion of South
America and the futility of inviting it. 1t Is
not necessary to fill that continent with Ger
mans or other Europeans to cultivate IT, be-
cause it is already being cultivated without
them by its own people. Thus Argentina In
the first six months of this year. with a popu-
lation Of only 100000 had imports of $117-
5OS,3 ,3S1 and exports Of $164, ,766, 110. The total
foreign commerce for half a year was $685.
274, ,491, or, for a whole year. $50 head of
the population.
Brazil, too. in the year 1905 had imports of
S14S, $4,000 and exports of S214,2S6000. q
total foreign trade Of S357, 100000. AS for Chill
her imports in 1905 were $67,SSS, 900 and her
exports $95,475,0O0. Il total of S163. OO0
Other states on that continent make compara-
bly, creditable showings. 1t would be folly to
pretend that such countries were being aban-
doned TO barbarism. The fact Is that they
compare favorably In cultivation and produc-
tiveness with the world at large.
But If it were necessary to coloniZe South
America with Germans in order to cultivate ii.
how could that work be done? There were in
vitations and Inducements enough, surely, long
before Professor Burgess ever Ieotured at Ber-
lin. The government Of Argentina, for exam
pie has been spending large sums Of money
induce Europeans to settle in that eminently
desirable country. 1t has been moderately sue
cessful. so far as Spain and Italy are con-
cerned. In the first six months of 1905 it Sc
cured nearly 24.000 Spaniards and more than
$4,000 Italians. Also, there were more than
900 Russians, fleeing from the intoierable
conditions at home. But OF the total Of 81, 900
| immigrants only $50. or the barest fraction
more than per cent were from Germany.
Doubtless a considerable immigration of
Germans would add a valuable element TO
the Argentine nation, as it has to the United
States. But since the Germans will not go
thither Argentina VIII probably have TO rub
| along somehow without them. We can scarcely
expect the Kaiser TO issue q decree compulso-
rily expatriating a million or two Of his sub
jects Nor, as we have said is it necessary
South America has already attained greatness
chiefly through her own efforts, and we have
no doubt she will continue in the same way to
increase her greatness
New-York tribune., 1906-11-14
ADMIRAL BRowNsoN's NEW POST
It Is Expected That He Will Be Made Chief
of Bureau of Navigation.

Washington. Nov. 13-Rear Admiral Willard H
Brownson. who has Just taken command OF tns
American naval forces in the East, Will IL Is under
stood be recalled to take what has oome to be
regarded as tho most important post in the navy
namely, chief OF this Bureau Of Navigation. 10 sue
ceed Rear Admiral Converse when the latter retires
from that Office. which, it Is expected. will occur
about the time that Secretary Bonaparts becomes
Attorney General Admiral Brownson would IN the
usual course be placed the retired list next year.
on account OF age. and give way as chief OF the ou-
reau to another officer But. in view OF the fact
that he is in perfect physical condition and at the
height OF his powers mentally IT Is understood that
he will be continued at the head OF the navigation
bureau at least during the present administration