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The Roswell daily record. [volume] (Roswell, N.M.) 1903-current, 1907-05-10
Harness & Saddlery.

J.. F. PATTERSON Manufactures
the finest line of leather goods in
the Pecos Valley.
The Lafayette advertiser. [volume] (Vermilionville [i.e. Lafayette], La.) 1865-19??, 1907-06-19

haps two whom the god of chance
gave a lot with more hollow than
hill and which he was glad to pay
somebody to take off his hands,
still it was pro bono pubiico, and
any way he came out even in other
ways and was perfectly willing
to take another try on the same
kind Of a deal.
Pinceton was a little town Of
some 5000 souls when the South
ern railroad passed that way,
now it has over 10000 and is still
grOwing--:because it has the
kind Of people in it that know
how and are hunting %opportuni-
ties to make it grow.
Lafayette has 5000. the rail
roads are heading this way and
well. we might take a lesson
from the Princetonites.
The Lafayette advertiser. [volume] (Vermilionville [i.e. Lafayette], La.) 1865-19??, 1907-06-19
Every Man His Own Doctor.

The average man cannot afford to
employ a physician for every slight
ailment or injury that may occur in
his family, nor can he afford to neg
lect them. as so slight an injury as a
scratch of a pin has been known to
cause the loss of a limb. Hence every
mar must from necessity be his own
doctor for this class Of ailments.
Success often depends upon prompt
treatment. which can only be had
when suitable medicines are kept at
hand. Chamberlain's Remedies have
been in the market for many years
and enjoy a good reputation.
Chamberlain's Collie, Cholera and
Diarrhoea Remedy for bowel COM
plants.
Chamberlain's Cough Remedy for
coughs, colds, Group and whooping
cough.
Chamberlain's Pain Balm ian anti
septic liniment) for cuts, bruises,
burns, ~sprains, ~swellings, lame back
and rheumatic pains.
Chamberlain's Stomach and Liver
Tablets for constipation, biliousness
and stomach troubles.
Chamberlain's Salve for diseases of
the skin.
One bottle of each of these five
preparations costs but M.25. For
sale by all druggists.
The Lafayette advertiser. [volume] (Vermilionville [i.e. Lafayette], La.) 1865-19??, 1907-06-19
Attempted Burglary.

Some one attempted to enter the
home of Councilman o. B. Hopkins
Monday night about half past one.
Mr.. Hopkins is having his house re-
modelled and the burglar seeing a part
of the bath not fully weather
boarded tried to enter the house that
way, not knowing that the bath room
was shut off from the bed room by
screen doors which were temporarily
nailed up. The noise awOke Mr.. Hop
kins. VINO turned on the electric
lights and ran to the screen door. but
was not in time to get a fair shot at
the intruder. who made a quick es-
cape. but nevertheless shot twice
through the screen. The officers were
at once called up and responded
promptly, but no trace of the burglar
could be found.
The Lafayette advertiser. [volume] (Vermilionville [i.e. Lafayette], La.) 1865-19??, 1907-06-19
Cheap Rates.

Account Annual Meeting, Benevo-
lent and Protective Order of Elks
Philadelphia, Pa, July Is to 20, round
trip tickets will be sold at S37.85 for
the trip, tickets will be on sale July IL
II and Ii, final return limit July 26.
The M. L. & T. and La. Western r
r. will run a special cheap rate ex-
cursion from New Iberia and Wash
ington to Lake Charles and return
Sunday June o. Trains will leave
Lafayette at $50 and $40 a. M, re-
turning will leave Lake Charles at
100 and 40 p. m: Fare for round
trip from Lafayette $1.0O.
Account Emancipation Day Celebra-
ton at Alexandria,: La, June 10,
round trip tickets will be on sale June
Is and 10, final return limit June q,
at $40 for the trip.
A Special Low Rate Excursion will
be operated from New Iberia and
Jennings to Alexandria on June 10 &C
count Emancipation Day Celebration;
fare from Lafayette S1.OO, train will
leave Lafayette at $50 4. m. returning
will leave Alexandria at 100 D.. m.
The Lafayette advertiser. [volume] (Vermilionville [i.e. Lafayette], La.) 1865-19??, 1907-06-19

Our line of dress goods this
season is especially attractive.
The designs are all of the latest
and the quality and price will
both please yOu.--Schmulen.
The Lafayette advertiser. [volume] (Vermilionville [i.e. Lafayette], La.) 1865-19??, 1907-06-19

WANTED--BOard and lodging
by man and wife, private family
preferred. Address G. M. care
of this Office.
The Lafayette advertiser. [volume] (Vermilionville [i.e. Lafayette], La.) 1865-19??, 1907-06-19

We lave quite a tasteful line of
cut glass at very reasonable
Drug Store.
The Lafayette advertiser. [volume] (Vermilionville [i.e. Lafayette], La.) 1865-19??, 1907-06-19

If you want a summer suit
don't buy until you see our
stock. We will please you in
price, quality, pattern and 1T
Schmulen.
The Lafayette advertiser. [volume] (Vermilionville [i.e. Lafayette], La.) 1865-19??, 1907-06-19
HOW AN INDIANA TOWN
DOES THINGS,

ana spoke very entertalnlngiy OF
the way the people Of Princeton.
Indiana. his home town, helped
the car of progress TO roll. Sew
eral years ago, he said. a prOpO-
sitiOn to secure the Southern
Railroad was up to the Princeton
ties and they promptly offered q
bonus of 5000 and forty acres
of land to get the railroad. bar
gaining, however. for a shop at
tachment with it. The deal was
made and the railroad built in.
When taxing time came round,
only the forty acres of land do
mated by the citizens was found
to be exempt, and the Princeton
ties discovered that they had al
So annexed. premeditated Of
course. a large slice of railroad
property for taxable purposes.
The town on doing a little sum in
arithmetic. which had been no
doubt calculated before, arrived
at the satisfactory conclusion
that it was getting back in taxes
considerably the better of what
they had put out, which was a
four mill tax to run until the
sum promised should be paid.
for the railroad property was
there to be taxed some time
after the four mill tax would run
out, and was yearly yielding a
net sum to help pay town and
county expenses.
A hardwood factory to manu-
facture axe handles, and other
kinds of handles and things that
the farmers and others of Glib
son county and Princeton town
used and which they had been
sending their money off for. to
help circulate to the advantage
and profit of other towns, came
along and said they liked the
town and would like to start
business there. The town met
them with the glad hand and
told them to come on, they
wouldn't tax them. And they
liked the hearty reception and
fancied the tax exemption and
located-that made the town
somewhat bigger and put some
more dollars to work doing busi-
ness to the satisfaction of all
concerned.
Some enterprising people
came along later and viewed
Princeton favorably as a site for
a glass factory, and told its citi.
zens that the little metropolis of
Gibson county looked awfully
good to them and that they
might be persuaded to locate. A
consultation was held and it was
decided that a good thing
couldn't be let pass by. A tax
would have been the usual thing
to offer and no doubt would have
been accepted with alacrity; but
there are other ways of doing
things and sometimes to a double
advantage, and the resourceful
Princetonites soon figured out a
way that would fetch the glass
factory and the wherewith with
out loss or cost to anybody, and
everybody be smiling. The
glass factory wanted a bonus
and a five acre site. The com.
mittee doing the negotiating said
it was all right, come right along
and the goods would be delivered
on time. And this is how they
did it. They secured a fifteen
acre tract in a suitable and con-
venient spot, laid off five acres
for the glass factory, then d.
The Lafayette advertiser. [volume] (Vermilionville [i.e. Lafayette], La.) 1865-19??, 1907-06-19
For Rent.

For Kent.
A four room Cottage near Lafayette
Brick & Tile Factory. Apply to
DR.. T. B. HOPKINS.
The Lafayette advertiser. [volume] (Vermilionville [i.e. Lafayette], La.) 1865-19??, 1907-06-19
Constable Sale.
Lafayette Sugar Refining Co.,
Ltd. VS.. Armand F'rancOi -
State of Louisiana, Par
ish of Lafayette, 3rd.
Justice Court,
No. $50.

Notice is hereby given that by vir-
tue of IA writ of tieri facias issued by
the Hon. f. G. Arceneaux. Justice of
the Peace of the Third Ward of the
Parish of Lafayette Louisiana. in
favor of the Lafayette Sugar Refining
Co., Ltd. and against Armand Fran
col. and to me directed. | Will sell be-
tween legal sale hours at the Office of
said Justice on
The Lafayette advertiser. [volume] (Vermilionville [i.e. Lafayette], La.) 1865-19??, 1907-06-19
Saturday, July 20, 1907.

The following described property.
to-wit: One certain tract of land in
said parish containing nineteen 49,
arpents, more or less. with all i'm
provements thereon. bounded north
by \ n pine D m i n g u e
or ass gns. south b y
Carencro public road. east by
Maurice Dominique. west by success
ion of ArceneauX Alexander.
JOHN CONSTANTIN.
Constable 3rd Ward.
Manchester Democrat. [volume] (Manchester, Iowa) 1875-1930, 1907-02-13
The Redou,n Of socotr.,

The Bedouin is decidedly hand
some individual, 1.-THE Of limb like his
goats and with cafe au lait colored
skin. He has sharp profile, excellent
teeth. He often wears n stubby black
beard and has beautifully penciled eye
brows, and, though differing entirely
in language. in physique and type, he
closely resembles the Bedouin found In
the Mahri and Cara mountains. Fur
thermore, the mode of life is the same
dwelling in caves when necessary,
but having permanent abodes on the
lower lands-and they have several
other striking points in common. Greet
ings take place between the Arabian
Bedouins and the Socotran Bedouins
in similar fashion-by touching each
cheek and then rubbing the nose.
We found the Bedouin Of Mount
Haghier fond of dancing and playing
his teherane, and also peculiarly lax
In his religious observances, and,
though ostensibly conforming to Mo-
hammedan practice, he observes next
to none of their precepts, and it Is pre-
cisely the same with the Bedouins
whom we met in the Cara mountains.
There is certainly nothing African
about the Socotran Bedouin. There
fore am inclined to consider him as
branch of that aboriginal race which
inhabited Arabia, with a language of
Its own.--,Nineteenth Century.
Manchester Democrat. [volume] (Manchester, Iowa) 1875-1930, 1907-02-13
Petroleum.

The first mention of petroleum in
America was made by Father De la
Roche d'Allien, franciscan, in 1929.
1t may be surprise to many people to
know that both the product itself and
the names petrol and petroleum were
familiar at least as far back as the
middle of the fourteenth century. In the
Sloane manuscript fifteenth century,
mention is made both of rock oil and
of the correct derivation of the name,
which is medieval Latin and of
course has nothing to do with Peter:
Petroleum, oleum est factum de petra
Gallice), petroille." c'Petroleum is an
oil made from rock-in French, pc
troille.D The property of drawing
fire had struck the Imagination long
before the work quoted in Mature"
was published. In 1896 Lodge used 1t
In a metaphor: "As the clay petrol
draweth fire, so the looks do gather
affection" The word petrol Tor petreoD
disappeared from English and did not
return until the days of the motor car
industry, when 1t was relntroduced
from the French In the sense of refined
petroleum,
Manchester Democrat. [volume] (Manchester, Iowa) 1875-1930, 1907-02-13
Mo.quitoless cities.

Over in Europe there are many hap
py towns where the note of the mos
quito is never heard and the inhabi-
tants don't care snap about the pen
nyroyal market. But in America the
cities which can claim to be mosqui-
toless would not run up to dozen.
Denver Is one of them, and, strange to
say, Grand Rapids, Mich. only short
way seom the gnat Gehennas Of Lake
Superior, ls another. The explanation
is that the city is built on hillocks Of
drift sand SO deep and SO finely pull
verized that they absorb moisture like
tissue paper. Stagnant water does not
get ghost of a chance to accumulate
and mosquitoes have carried their car
go Of microbes to more corgenial mar
kets.-Health Culture.
Manchester Democrat. [volume] (Manchester, Iowa) 1875-1930, 1907-02-13
DalryNotes,

If daring isn't profitable why are
dairy COWS so scarce.
Butter-bred Holsteins provide both
the bread and the butter.
It's time to quit talking about aver
age cows and the average dairymen.
The square, blocky animal may be
an easy keeper, but if you want a
good dairy COW keep shy of her.
1t is unreasonable to pay the same
price for round steak as for soirloin,
yet people kick when you talk about
grading cream.
Thirty years ago agriculture.in Den
mark was at a low ebb, and the
people were coming to America in
swarms. Now, since their dairying
industry has been built up, very few
are leaving home, and the Danish
farmers appear to be the most in
telligent and the most prosperous in
all Europe.
Beef men are not talking about
dual-purpose COWS very much now.
A herd Of l2O Jerseys are reported
as averaging $l2O per head yearly.
How's that for money?
The man who gets money for his
calves is the man who takes best
care of the mature herd.
Some people salt the COWS as they
make good resolutions-only occas-
ionally. Do it regularly and do it
we'll.
Do not give the COWS strong or
dusty feed while milking. The barn
will be shut up and the odor and
dust will be sure to get into the
pals.
Expensive barns and stables are
not necessary for the production of
sanitary milk. Common sense, clean
illness. and quick cooling are the
three main points. -Kimball's Dairy
Farmer.
Manchester Democrat. [volume] (Manchester, Iowa) 1875-1930, 1907-02-13
Duel. with Pistols.

Discussing pistols as dueling weap-
ons, the Paris Figaro sought the views
of man who had the reputation of an
expert on the field of honor. He at
once began to rail at duels with pistols.
He could not bear even to speak of
them. The fact was that he had once
himself at an encounter of that kind
received ball in the shoulder.
Then you disapprove of them simply
because you were defeated?"
why, I was not defeated"
'What!"
mo; was u second. You may we'll
believe that promised myself never
to mix again in affairs Of that sort.
However, one day had to accompany
a friend on the field. He had asked it
Of me as personal favor. 1 could not
refuse. But I insisted upon one con-
dition."
What was that?"
"That should climb tree during
the firing"
"a good scheme.:'
"You think SO? Well, was wounded
again. My friend fired in the air"
Manchester Democrat. [volume] (Manchester, Iowa) 1875-1930, 1907-02-13
Too Low and Too High.

AO0
DO employers hire men and then
pay them what they think them worth
or do they fix salaries and then get
such men as they can to fit them?"
asked a young man who had been 60
ing through the experience of changing
his work. 81 won't try to answer my
question, but will tell you story.
called upon a manager to talk with
him about place of responsibility
which l knew he had to offer. He
seemed taken with me and l think had
his mind made up to employ me. Final.
ly he asked me how much salary
would expect.
~ should say about $3.50 month";
answered.
Immediately his face fell. I'm sor-
ry,' lie said, but expect to pay $500
Il year, and want n $4,000 man.
Good morning.
"From there went to inquire about
another place. Again l seemed to suit,
and we got to the question of wages.
knew the firm was not In the habit
of spending much money. If l was to
get the position must bid low, and
SO suggested $125 month.
"I'm sorry was the reply, but we
can't pay more than 500. know
you're worth more and the work is
worth more, but we haven't got the
money to spend, that's all. Good
morning New York Post.
Manchester Democrat. [volume] (Manchester, Iowa) 1875-1930, 1907-02-13
Soldiers In Battle.

ut Is important to be cool and self
possessed at the beginning of fight"
writes one who has commanded men
in battle. "As soon as the first shot is
fired men become serious and go into
action with calmness which Is most
impressive. High explosive shells,
with their deafening noise, make the
most impression on young and unsea-
soned soldiers, while shrapnel affects
the old soldiers the most. Those who
Imagine that 1t is possible to see u
heroic look on mems faces at de-
eisive moment are completely mistak-
en-. Their faces are pa!e and have a
hard look about them. The struggle
which Is going on within them betrays
itself by the nervous haste Of their
firing"
Manchester Democrat. [volume] (Manchester, Iowa) 1875-1930, 1907-02-13
Pink Eye.

The Farmer gives the following
as cure for pink eye in cattle: "In
case the eyes are badly affected it is
advisable to keep the calves in the
dark as much as possible. Apply a
salve made as follows to the eyes
once day: Two parts by weight
of boracic acid, two parts by weight
of burnt alum. Use sufficient
quantity of vasaline to make a med
ium thick salve. Turn the lids over
and rub little of the salve on them.
In cases where the eyes are not
badly effected take equal parts by
weight of iodoform and boracic acid
and by means of an insect powder
gun, blow a little of the mixed pow
der into the eyes once a day. For
this treatment it is also advisable to
turn the lids back so as to get the
powder under them in every case" "
Manchester Democrat. [volume] (Manchester, Iowa) 1875-1930, 1907-02-13
The Power of Intuition.

"The power Of intuition usually spoli-
en- of as being so mysterious Is really
not 80 at ALL" said woman recently.
ut is merely the ordinary method of
reasoning from observation intensified.
The so called lntuitional person differs
from the one of more commonplace
powers in possessing keener sensi-
tiveness to facts. She or he, for it is
absurd to assert that this power is eX-
clusively feminine, observes thou
sand things that persons OF lnllery sense
fall to see and that are beyo,ia the con
troll of the most skillful act6EsANew
York Tribune.
Manchester Democrat. [volume] (Manchester, Iowa) 1875-1930, 1907-02-13
Bulldogs of the ssnate.
By William F. Kirk.

III want to know" said Cicero.
That good old Roman barker.
While on his classic Latin brow
The frowns grew dark and darker.
How long this fellow Catiline
VIII keep us in disgrcce.
He's due for these few Kind remarks
That trickle from my face:
OTempora! o Mores.
oGrafter! Well you know
That the hand within your toga
Is the hand that gets the dough!"
THIS is q loose translation of
The cutting words and cold
Which Romans threw at Romans In
The gallant days OF old.
urgenial friend Demosthenes
Was also full Of spleen.
And kept the GrecIan Senate on
An edge extreemly keen.
He gave the boss Of Macedon
A terrible berating.
And what he didn't do to Phil
Is hardly worth relating
He smote that schemlng monarch and
He brought him to his knees
With eighty-seven metaphors
And sixty SMILES.
Which shows us that invectlve
From Senatorial tongue
Was practiced back in an clent Greece,
Where Sappo loved and sung.
But Cicero was harmless and
Demosthenes joke
10 US who watch from day to day
: That Tillman persons smoke.
Their bitterest words impress us
Like the clucking OF a hen.
Compared with what comes kissing
From the mouth of Pitchfork Ben.
Lashing his luckless foemen
Until their eyes grow dim,
His oratory sizzles forth
With vitrolic vim. +.
Demosthenes and Cicero
Have gone to other spheres,
But the gentle art Of knocking is
Improving with the years.
Chicago Examiner
Manchester Democrat. [volume] (Manchester, Iowa) 1875-1930, 1907-02-13


By raising the dead line" or age
limit, to entrance into its employ
ment from 35 to 10 the Pennsylvania
railroad does mighty sensible and
encouraging thing. The infant
phenomenons, marvellous boys and
young captains Of industry have
become weariness. fife is grow
ing longer it is the more foolish to
put men on the blacklist Just as they
have really shed their milk teeth.
e men are "old" at 35 what is to be
done with large part of the race?
Should it be eaten, in the ancient
New Zealand fashion. or supported
by the younger? Veal is excellent,
but it is possible to have too much
Of it.-New York Sun.
Manchester Democrat. [volume] (Manchester, Iowa) 1875-1930, 1907-02-13
Difference in Type in Breeds of Hogs.

1t has been rather favorite
theory with us for good many
years that there are really but two
types of hogs, the lard hog and the
bacon hog; that the lard hog, what
ever the breed may be, is the result
OF the environment of the corn belt;
and that no matter what type of hog
is introduced into the corn belt, i
fed as corn belt farmers usually
feed their hogs, it will assume this
shape. The rapidity with which it
will assme it will depend upon the
extent to which the ordinary corn
belt feed is changed for the purpose
of developing surplus bone and
muscle.
On the other hand, we notice that
when the breeds Of hogs peculiar to
the corn belt are moved either north,
south or west of that belt, they i'm
mediately begin to assume a different
type and become. more or less COM
pletely, bacon hogs. Thus the
Poland China in the cut-over timber
section Of Minnesota is a very DIFF
ferent hog from the Poland China
in the center OF the corn belt. Moved
into the southern states it either dis
appears or takes on more or less Of
the characteristics of the race horse.
The same may be said of the Berk-
shire; and some Of the meanest look
ing Duroc Jerseys we have ever
seen were some that had been taken
from Iowa to Texas.
The other day we were listening
to a discussion among the Duroc
Jersey swine breeders on the i'm
propriety of appointing Poland
China breeders to Judge Durocs at
the state fair. 1t was insisted that
it was impossible for auy Poland
China breeder, however honest he
might be, to Judge Durocs correctly,
because he would unconsciously have
the Poland China ideal in his mind.
This led us to ask Mr.. Roberts,
who has succeeded his father in the
management of one of the best Duroc
Jersey herds in the United States,
what he considered to be the differ
sence between the Duroc Jersey ideal
and the Poland China. He went on
to tell the association that his father
had been breeding Poland Chinas
before he established his Duroc Jer-
sew herd, and that in consultation as
to the type of Duruc desired they
studied carefully very valuable
Poland China sow and determined
to develop a breed of red hog just
just like that particular Poland
China.
This, we think, does much to ex-
plain why it is that the very best
breeds for the corn belt are SO much
alike that if their ears were taken off
and the hair was all one color it
would be very difficult for the breed
ers themselves to know their own
breeds. If a hog be first class in
size and form and bone and muscle
and vitality. it does not make much
difference what the color of the hair
is or what the name of the breed.
So far as the name of the breed is
concerned, the breed that a man
likes best is usually the best breed
for him.-Wallace's Farmer.
Manchester Democrat. [volume] (Manchester, Iowa) 1875-1930, 1907-02-13
Western Lands.

What eastern people thought of
western lands in lS47 was expressed
in verse as follows:
Great western waste of bottom
land,
Flat as pancake. rich as grease,
Where gnats are full as big as toads
And skeeters are as big as geese,
0, lonesome, windy, grassy place,
Where buffalo and snakes prevail
The first with dreadful looking face
The last with dreadful sounding
tail,
I'd rather live on camel rump,
And be Yankee double beggar,
Than where they never see a stump
And shake to death with fever'n
'ager."
That was sixty years ago. Today
land on those same prairies is sell,
ing at $l25 and $3.50 an acre, with
every prospect Of commanding 5000
in the relatively near future. Dur.
ing that time population has great.
ly increased, the craze for chear
land in the sub b-arid west and south.
west and the bleak northwest has
subsidized, and home seekers are
glad to avail themselves of the rich
land in this vicinity and cast theil
lot among what the Carthage Re
publican properly denominates the
most comfortable, most intelligent
and happiest class Of people il
America" The great western
waste of bottom land,' aboundine
in gnats, "skeeters," buffalo, snakes
and "feyer'n ager" has become in
little over half a century the mos
- y