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The Lafayette advertiser. [volume] (Vermilionville [i.e. Lafayette], La.) 1865-19??, 1907-09-17
State Board of Equalizers.


! Mr.. A. M. Martin, member OF
the State Board of Equalizers,
has returned home, the Board
having adjourned. In spea2a
ing of the work of the Board he
stated the average assessment
for horses in this parish was re-
duced from $3O.23 to $25. This.
however, did not mean that all
horses would be assessed at $25.
On the contrary horses would be
assessed in proportion to their
value, but in making the assess
ment the average must not be
over S25.
On mules the average was re-
duced from $50 to $40 and on
cattle from $40 to 81. The land
average was reduced from SSH
to So.
But $500 acres in the Girouard
basin, which was subject to over
flow was reduced to $4.OO an
acre.
Bank steck which was assessed
at 20 per cent of the value was re.
duced to So per cent.
The Lafayette advertiser. [volume] (Vermilionville [i.e. Lafayette], La.) 1865-19??, 1907-09-17
The Cane Crop.
Louisiana Planter.

lIOulSldud ldutcF.
The cane crop is now ap
preaching the time of it's harvest
and some of our reports from
the country indicate determi-
nation on the part of a few
foctories to begin operations
the first week in October. The
crop is making satisfactory
progress, except in those places
where rain has been lacking, and
these places are fortunately
not numerous.
"A good crop practically al along
the line is in evidence and there
is still time for further improve
ment in it as there are yet from
80 to As days before the cam
paign will be generally COM
The Lafayette advertiser. [volume] (Vermilionville [i.e. Lafayette], La.) 1865-19??, 1907-09-17
TEACHERS MEET
Saturday Forenoon i'm Music Hall
and Organize for Session
IOO7-IOOS.

The teachers who are to com.
pose the faculties of the schools
in Lafayette, BrOussard, Youngs
vile, CarencrO and Scott for the
session 1907-190S, met in Music
Hall here last Saturday forenoon
for the purpose of organizing for
work. They were extended a
welcome in behalf of the School
Board by the president, DR.. n.
z. Moss, who also gave the
teachers information and instruc-
tions regarding their duties.
Mr.. Avery, acting parish super
intendent, talked to the teachers
in very helpful way upon the
subject of their work for the cur
rent session, and distributed
among them school registers and
reports, and printed rules bear
ing upon their duties.
The young men and women
composing the above faculties are
a splendid body of teachers, and
they all seemed to be eager to
enter upon their duties and de-
termined to make the new ses-
sion an interesting and success
full one.
The Lafayette advertiser. [volume] (Vermilionville [i.e. Lafayette], La.) 1865-19??, 1907-09-17
rlrs. David Schwartz.

The sad news was received
here yesterday of the death of
Mrs. David Schwartz, at the
Touro Intirmary in New Or.
leans at midnight Sunday night.
Mrs. Schwartz had been sick a
long time and was taken to New
Orleans in hopes that she
might be benefited. But human
skill could not avail, and she
passed away. She was thirty-five
years of age at the time of
her death. Her maiden name
was Miss Augusta Schmalinski
and she was born and raised in
Alexandria. Mrs. Schwartz was a
most estimable lady and pos
sessed many admirable qualities
that won for her during her res
idence in this city the esteem
and regard of a host of friends
who will learn of her death with
sincere regret. and whose deep
sympathy goes out to the be-
reaved ones.
She leaves husband and two
small children, Jeanette and
Donald. her parents, three
brothers, Ben, Of this city,
Sidney and Emil Schmalinski, of
Alexandria, and one sister, Mrs.
Achille Bauer, of Alexandria, to
mourn her loss. The remains
were taken to Alexandria yes
terday and the funeral will take
place there to-day at 10 a. m.
The Lafayette advertiser. [volume] (Vermilionville [i.e. Lafayette], La.) 1865-19??, 1907-09-17

The Industrial Institute opens
tomorrow and President Ste
phens states that everything is in
readiness for the opening
Prof. and Mrs. Agate. Misses
Annie E. Miller, Charlotte Gil
bert and Mabel Leftwich of the
faculty have arrived and all the
teachers will be present to NOR
row, with the exception of draw
ing teacher who is still to be
supplied.
A number of pupils have al
ready come in and a large mum :
Der are expected today.
The Lafayette advertiser. [volume] (Vermilionville [i.e. Lafayette], La.) 1865-19??, 1907-09-17
Board r1et Yesterday.

A meeting of the Board OF
Directors of the Eunice Lafa
yette- Abbeville Railroad was
held at the Gordon hotel yester.
day afternoon and some impor.
tant business vas transacted.
Owing to the lateness of the
closing of the meeting we will
have to defer a full report until
our next issue Friday.
The Lafayette advertiser. [volume] (Vermilionville [i.e. Lafayette], La.) 1865-19??, 1907-09-17
Tanner & Landry's Rink.

Sunday night a big crowd was
in attendance at Tanner & Ian.
Gry's Rink. AS usual 5000 feet
of films were shown and greatly
enjoyed. New films are shown
every night. Ticket No. 1922
won the S. last Sunday and the
holder is requested to call and
get it.
A ball will be given next Sun.
day night and S. in gold will
again be given away.
The Lafayette advertiser. [volume] (Vermilionville [i.e. Lafayette], La.) 1865-19??, 1907-09-17

Success 10 the most badly abused
word in the world. The railway mag.
note who, by manipulating stock mar.
kets gains possession Of great prop.
critics. regards himself as a successful
man. The burglar who blows open a
safe and escapes With the money he
was after considss0 himself success
full The bucca1ser who filed his
ships hold w1tA booty felt that he
had won success. and the man who.
for the eradication Of his own selfish
desires, destroys the home Of another.
feels, we may be sure. that Ae, too,
has been successful.
The Lafayette advertiser. [volume] (Vermilionville [i.e. Lafayette], La.) 1865-19??, 1907-09-17
Two STAGES Of the Game.

A well-known Lowell man recently
invited dozen friends to his house on
the occasion of his sixtieth birthday
anniversary. and here is the way he In.
formed them relative to the event:
"Bawled. September 3, 1S46. Bald. Sep.
tember 3, OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES Press.
The Lafayette advertiser. [volume] (Vermilionville [i.e. Lafayette], La.) 1865-19??, 1907-09-17

The city schools opened yester-
day with an enrolment of 567.
OF this number 223 enrolled at
the Primary, 118 at the Kinder
garten and 226 at the High
School.
The Lafayette advertiser. [volume] (Vermilionville [i.e. Lafayette], La.) 1865-19??, 1907-09-17
Charged With Striking With
Intent to XIII

A. X. Lamulle was arrested
yesterday on a charge of strik-
ing with intent to kill and mur.
der, preferred by r. A. ConnOr
as a result of an alleged assault
at CarencrO Saturday.
The Lafayette advertiser. [volume] (Vermilionville [i.e. Lafayette], La.) 1865-19??, 1907-09-17
Every Citizen Should.

Every citizen of Lafayette
should belong to the Progressive
League. The dues are $40 a year
payable cash or in installments.
Put your shoulder to the wheel
and help Lafayette get the
Eunice Railroad, The Jesuit
College, The Normal School, The
State and Parish Fair, and our
population will double in less
than five years. Mail your ap
plication for membership to
f. V. MOUTON, Sect'y.
The Lafayette advertiser. [volume] (Vermilionville [i.e. Lafayette], La.) 1865-19??, 1907-09-17
1euA Aim In iuina

Not the making of fine career, but
the simple doing of Gods will, is the
one true aim in living. Thus only can
we achieve real success. II we do this
though we fail in the earthly race we
shall not fail in Gods sight-Rev. J.
r. Miller. DID.
The Lafayette advertiser. [volume] (Vermilionville [i.e. Lafayette], La.) 1865-19??, 1907-09-17
How. II Happaned.

First Tourist-There goes an Ameri.
can heiress who snubbed an English
duke.
Second Tourists it possible!
First Tourist-Yes; the duke was al.
ready married.-Chicago Daily NewA
The Lafayette advertiser. [volume] (Vermilionville [i.e. Lafayette], La.) 1865-19??, 1907-09-17

LOST-A Jersey bull about
four years old, black and brown,
has tip on one horn. Finder
please notify F. C. Triay.
The Lafayette advertiser. [volume] (Vermilionville [i.e. Lafayette], La.) 1865-19??, 1907-09-17
Some.

"You ought to have been more tact
full; you should have fattered him"
Il did flatter him!"
"Flattered him? Why, you told
him he was half a fool"
We'll, wasn't that fattering him?'
Houston Post.
The Lafayette advertiser. [volume] (Vermilionville [i.e. Lafayette], La.) 1865-19??, 1907-09-17

Died at Touro Infirmary,
New Orleans, Monday, Sept. 9,
at $50 a. M, Tophile RAMON, of
Boeuf. La. aged SO years, father
of Mrs. J. B. Miller, of Algiers,
La.
The Lafayette advertiser. [volume] (Vermilionville [i.e. Lafayette], La.) 1865-19??, 1907-09-17
Yom Kippur Services.

Yom Kippur services will be
held at the synagogue tonight at
7:3O and tomorrow at 10 a. m.
The Lafayette advertiser. [volume] (Vermilionville [i.e. Lafayette], La.) 1865-19??, 1907-09-17

Rain and Snowfall.
An inch of rain equals II 1.3 lpcAU
e sDow.
The Lafayette advertiser. [volume] (Vermilionville [i.e. Lafayette], La.) 1865-19??, 1907-09-17

:1e-OcrOfO w0 v~.s~ ~-o~-- -
told me your hair was turning gray.
What stopped it?
She-Your proposal-Detroit Free
Press.
The Spanish Fork press. [volume] (Spanish Fork, Utah) 1902-current, 1907-06-13
FIRST STATE TO START COUNTY
AGRICULTURAL SCHOOLS.
Movement for Improvement OF Rural
School System by Which Special
Needs of Farming communl.
ties viii BE Served.

Every state In the union has its ag-
ricultural college where the student of
agriculture may at himself for scien.
tific farming. but little has been done
in providing elemental studies In agri-
culture for rural schools. The subject
has been discussed much of recent
years. and there is no doubt that in the
near future provision will be made In
most rural districts for instruction in
agricultural topics along practical lines
which will specially interest and pre-
pare the boys and girls for the bust
ness OF farming.
Wisconsin Is the first state to crys.
tallize this thought of elementary ag.
ricultural instruction by the establish
ment OF the first county schools of az
riculture and domestic economy In
America. The legislature as far back
as 1900 appointed Hon. ID. l.. Harvey,
then acting as state superintendent of
public instruction, a commissioner to
investigate the conditions of the rural
school systems of other states and for
eign countries and to report to the leg
islature of 1901 the needs of the rural
schools of Wisconsin. Upon the rec
ommendatlon of the commissioner, two
of these schools were authorized by
the legislature of 1901, and that of
Marathon county was the first to open.
on Oct. 6, 1902. The citizens OF Mara
than county have heretofore been
largely engaged in the lumber indus.
try, but they are now turning their at
tention mainly to agriculture.
The courses taught in the schools
are as follows; First year for boys
The soil, manual training, carpentry,
English. business arithmetic, fertil-
izers, library reading, plant life, veg
etables, flower and fruit gardening.
poultry. Second year for boys-Plant
life. manual training, blacksmithing,
United States history, economics, H.
brary reading, animal husbandry, rural
architecture, civil government, vegeta-
BILE, flower and fruit gardening. and
economics of agriculture. First year
for girls-Cooking. sewing. domestic
hygiene, English. business arithmetic,
home economy, library reading, veg.
etable, flower and fruit gardening
Second year for girls--Cooking, sew
ing, laundry, United States history, H.
brary reading, chemistry of foods, civil
government, millinery, home nur sing
poultry, vegetable, flower and fruit gar
dening.
To any student outside of the regu-
lar courses, who may have the time. a
brief course in the theory of farm
The Spanish Fork press. [volume] (Spanish Fork, Utah) 1902-current, 1907-06-13
TO BURN.

the distillation OF the alcohol for the
family use and perhaps to sell few
barrels to the village grocer
The region offering the greatest in
ducement to the manufacture of the
alcohol is probably the great wheat
producing lands of the Dakot85, where
there Is an entire absence of timber,
a scarcity Of coal and insufficiency of
transportation To aid the new indus.
try in this region the department of
agriculture has introduced q large,
rough potato, which has been grown
for long time In Germany and Rus.
STA, where Industrial alcohol has been
used to a considerable extent for many
years. This potato has been bred with
the idea OF developing it's starch pro-
ducing qualities and the yield to the
acre. So productive has II become
that yields of Is tons to the acre have
been recorded The alcohol potato
will produce from 25 to 80 gallons OF
alcohol to ton. and quarter OF an
acre will yield enough to supply the
farmer with fuel, illumination and
power for the running of all the farm
machinery.
Cassava is another root plant with a
high percentage of starch and yield to
the acre. II has been introduced from
the West Indies into the southern
states, coming originally from Brazil.
where 1t has been used for centuries
as food for the natives, producing,
when pulverized, a palatable and nu.
tfitious -four. 1t thirves particularly
in the moist lands of the south and
has been known to yield as great
crop as 80 tons to the acre. The per
centage OF starch is unusually high, it
yielding S5 gallons of alcohol to the
ton.
Probably the greatest and most
widely diversified starch producer as
to the possibility of growth is, how
ever. the yautia This is plant orig
mating In tropical America. II is sim
liar in appearance to the ordinary or
namental plant known as the ele-
plants ear, 1t has root which pro
duces a tuber as does the potato, and
is planted as the potato, from cutting
up the tubers and planting the eyes
The crop that may be harvested
ranges from seven to IS tons to the
acre, and the yield OF starch is little
less than that OF the cassava IL has
been cultivated in the United States
extensively for the manufacture OF
starch and has been used to Ger
tain extent as food in the way the
potato has been used There are many
varieties, and some of these may be
grown as far north as Canada Be
cause OF its hardness and the wide
latitude in which Il may be grown II
offers opportunities of cultivation as
an alcohol producer that are probably
greater than any other plant now un
der the consideration OF the depart
n snt of agriculture
The Spanish Fork press. [volume] (Spanish Fork, Utah) 1902-current, 1907-06-13
IN HARNESS AT 100.
Amazing Energy Displayed by an Eng
lish Clergyman.

In days when a man is considered
obsolete at GO, one learns with amaze.
ment that Rev. Thomas Lord, the
doyen of Congregational ministers, is
still able to conduct divine service. al
though to-day he celebrates his hun
dredth birthday. This remarkable old
gentleman, who was Graded the year
after Pitt and Fox died, and was a
full'grown man while George ". was
still on the throne. has been preaching
for more than three-quarters of a cen
fury. Mr. Lord has, however, a
formidable rival in Rev. Richard
Rymer, who has been a Methodist
minister for 81 years. and is now
within three years of his century.
Only few weeks ago Rev. Hugh
Pritchard, of Anglesey, completed his
hundred years, and until recently was
keen sportsman-fishing, hunting
and shooting being his favorite pas
times. Mr.. Pritchard was ordained
n years ago. when Queen Victoria
was playing with her dolls.-West,
minister Gazette. etr,
The Spanish Fork press. [volume] (Spanish Fork, Utah) 1902-current, 1907-06-13

not come to sea- practical illustra
ton of what the school is teaching
TO do this the faculty has held in all
during the last three years, So meet
ings in town halls, schoolhouses and
village halls throughout the county.
During 1906 81 were held In all cases
were attended mostly by the farming
people and their families.
One thousand Ave hundred poundi
of literature of the United States de
partment of agriculture and the differ
ent state experiment stations were dis
tributed to the farmers OF Marathon
county during the last year by the pro,
fessors. II would seem that this work
done gratutiously by the faculty, is
some of the most important done by
the school. IL puts the patrons of the
school In close touch with the mem
bers OF the faculty and gives the teach
ers an opportunity to understand the
actual conditions that surround the
farm home and also affords them a
means of giving practical instruction
to the adult farmers Of the county.
1t is only question of time when
the schools of agriculture and domes
tic economy will be the leading insti
tutions OF every state in the union.
The Spanish Fork press. [volume] (Spanish Fork, Utah) 1902-current, 1907-06-13
THEY FORMED A FLY TRUST.
canny Kids Worked the Bounty Prop
A ositIon for All II Was Worth.

Once in Hartford the flies were SO
numerous for a time, and so trouble
some, that Mrs. Clemens conceived the
idea of paying George bounty on all
the flies he might 'y''l The children
saw an opportunr here for the &C
QUESTION of sudden wealth. They sup
posed that their mother merely want
ed to accumulate dead flies. for some
aesthetic or scientific reason or other
and they judged that the more flies
she could get the happier she would
be; so they went into business with
George on commission. Straightway
the dead flies began TO arrive in such
quantities that Mrs Clemens was
pleased beyond words with the sue.
cess of her idea. Next, she was aston,
ished that one house could furnish so
many. She was paying an extrava.
gantly high bounty, and 1t presently
began to look as If by this addition to
our expenses we were now probably
living beyond our income.
After a few days there was peace
and comfort; not fly was discovera-
BILE in the house; there wasn't strag
gler left. Still, to Mrs. Clemens sur
prise. the dead flies continued to ar
rive by the plateful, and the bounty
expense was as crushing as ever.
Then she made inquiry, and found
that our innocent little rascals had
The Spanish Fork press. [volume] (Spanish Fork, Utah) 1902-current, 1907-06-13
FARMER s.

dairying is offered. There are studied
in the course buttermakinR. the differ.
ent steps In the process, cheese
making. method of making American
chedder cheese, testing milk and its
products, and the Babcock test for
butter fat
1t is the aim of the school of agri
culture and domestic economy to make
good farmers and good citiAnns. The
training received by students of this
school Is calculated to broaden the in.
ttests and quicken the powers OF oh
servation, in that the farmer In tae
competition and struggle of his profes.
sion. may obtain results which com
pare faNorably with the results oh
tanned in other avocatlons on SINH
lar footing
The faculty of this school has en-.
deavored to take to the farmer OF
Marathon county, what the farmer can
The Spanish Fork press. [volume] (Spanish Fork, Utah) 1902-current, 1907-06-13
Yautia Root, Prolific Producer of Al
cohoI. II will grow is Tons Of
Roots to the Acre.

siye. That plants yielding. large guam
titles of alcohol producing starches
may be introduced generally in the
United States and grown inexpensive
ly is being shown by careful expert
ment on the part OF that department.
That each farmer may be taught to
raise small patch of the special alco-
hol producers and from that make
alcohol for his own use. not only as an
illuminant, but for heating, cooking
and the running of machinery, is the
ideal condition which the farsighted
ones believe they see in the future.
The idea of Secretary Wilson and
the department of agriculture is not to
develop an industry that will be profit
able TO few manufacturers. hut to
show how each individual farmer with
a little still of his own. may utilize his
waste products and on rainy days
when other work is delayed keep the
hired man or the boys busy at home In
The Spanish Fork press. [volume] (Spanish Fork, Utah) 1902-current, 1907-06-13
Breath Revives Bees.

Your bees are doing well this
spring. Here are a couple of dead
ones. though, said the visitor.
Give EN- to me and watch me blow
on en-" said the bee man.
He laid the inanimate bees on a
fence rail and breathed softly upon
them, They stirred feebly, they kick
ed out their tiny legs, in moment
they flew away.
'Nohtin' revives bees like human
BREATH" said the bee man, chuckling
It's better'n cordial to EN-"
They like it. do they?"
Like it? No. They hate it--hate
it like p'ison That's why it is, wher
a bee lights on We. so long as we hole
yer breath 'twon't sting"
The Spanish Fork press. [volume] (Spanish Fork, Utah) 1902-current, 1907-06-13

1888. The increase since the annexa.
ton of Rome TO the italian kingdom in
1871 has been very considerable At
that time the aggregate population
amounted to only S36,704, so that with
in the comparatively short period of
30 years the inhabitants of the prov
ince have increased by fully S05,S22.
According to the above census the
number of foreigners in Rome in 1901
was 1855, the Germans numbering
1874 the British 1873, and the French
1856. The population of Rome is stat
ed to be 520,196.-Westminster Ga
Zette
The Spanish Fork press. [volume] (Spanish Fork, Utah) 1902-current, 1907-06-13
Secretary of War Notifies Governors
of the Dick Military Act.

Neutrality-suspicious. Secretary OF
war oliver has addressed a letter no
trying governors of states and TERRI
tories that on January 2l next uhuei
the terms of the Dick military act tue
military organization must conform 70
that of the regular and volunteer
armies of the United States. he sus'
gests that the governors take lne
necessary steps TO secure 'ucn WI"
formity.
The Spanish Fork press. [volume] (Spanish Fork, Utah) 1902-current, 1907-06-13
||I|HARD STICKS
4 TO HIS STORY.
limits Eighteen Murders and
|Story is Not Shaken by
Cross Examination.
wbo Admits Long Series Of
.,,,.., Including Murder, Hisamy
IA Arson, one of the Coolest
persons in Court Room.

leo Tdaho.-The cross-examina.
!, Harry Orchard by the attor.
,or the defendant, William D.
,ood who is being tried for his
4 for conspiracy in the murder of
roveruor Steunenberg, has proven
,elfconfessed assassin to be one
~ coolest men in the court room.
1svvoods attorneys have taken
lard through rigid cross-ques-
me in an endeavor to break
!, MS story, but so far he has per-
emily chung to his original state
bis.
hiring the time Orchard was on
stand for the state, making his
|,ssion. with which the attorneys
the state hope to convict Hay
N the self.admitted assassin of
Governor Steunenberg admitted
during his life time he had COM
he'd eighteen murders; that he
a wife deserter and a bigamist;
admitted that he was guilty of
ming down a building in order to
hire the insurance money.
He declared that he had committed
nervous crimes at the instigation of
ker, Haywood and Pettibone. and
kred that Haywood suggested that
ought to get Ex-Governor Steun-
jerg."
orchard told how he came to Idaho
planned the assassination, and
he carried his plans to a sue
Eful end-told this story of long
&es Of horrible crimes in cool
! easy manner. and under cross
3mnation has reiterated his state
ke even adding little details
4th we're omitted in the first state
d
be question: asked Orchard by the
bmeys for the defense would indi-
beyond doubt that the defense
knds to prove. if possible, that Or
I'D was in the employ of the Mine
hers' association and conspired to
ke trouble for members, particu-
b officials of the Western Fedora
Of Miners; also that Orchard had
PERSONAL grudge against Governor
nnenberg.
uring the cross-examination Attor-
Richardson, for the defense. at
pted to draw from Orchard an ad-
ION that Jack Simpkins had filed
mind with hatred for Governor
llnehberg by telling him of the in
plties he (Simpkins) had suffered
fhe bullpen of north Idaho after
arrest and retention by the sol
+ whom Governor Steunenberg
brought into the district. He
fd Orchard II Simpkins had ever
sn his wounds-the wounds he
received at the hands of colored
lers Orchard had never seen the
mos, but he admitted Simpkins
'oid him about them and about
treatment he had received in the
1pen
PcAardson wanted to know if
pains had not dwelt upon the in
Zee Orchard himself had suffered
fase OF Governor Steunenberg's
Els II Simpkins had not men
y Inc fact that Orchards former
aeFs IN the Hercules mine had be-