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The Opelousas courier. [volume] (Opelousas, La.) 1852-1910, 1907-08-17

Tor Sale-Two lots in Boagni
Subdivision. Apply at this Office.
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The Republican stand-patters
are fighting in the last ditch, hut
the lawful heresy" of tariff revi-
sion may again be beaten back by
the aid Of The money of the tariff
protected monopolists, if the plum
dered people are not up and
doing.
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Old newspapers for sale at thi
Office.
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The soda. water season has ar
rived, and Haas Littell drug store
has all the latest and best kinds.
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FOR SALE.
On long terms of cret

To witt, 2, 8, 4, 5, 6, Z, s. ar1O years
per yearly interest from day of saeand interest pay
able annually. :
desirable lots in the heart OF tho town OF
Opeousas Railroad Depotclose to Court House ana
center of town. d. l. dAhLAND.
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sn contemplating your fish
picnics or for the ban
BIZ 81 try q case of Milier's
3llaled BY few and ex-
u uone. For sale by Allen
|' Qx Y Bro, Opelousas, La.
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For Clerk of Ceurf.

We are authorized to announce MFR. YVES
sANDREPONr, the present incumbent, as q
ssndidate for Clerk Of the District Court for
the parlsn OF 81. Landry. subject to the action
of the Democratic primary
We are authorized TO announce Mr.. CHAS.
LAFLEUR as a candidate for Clerk OF the Dis
fsiet Court for the parish of at. Landry subject
10 the action OF the Democratic primary.
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Opelousas d,uuritr.
CANDIDATES..


FOF HeRAt0r.
We are authorized to announce DR.. T.. Ia.
FARO "a candidate for the State Senate from
fke Twelfth Senatorial District, composed Of
6t Landry and Acadia. subject to the action
/ of the Democratic primary.
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To the Democratic Voters of the Paris
of st. Landry.
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The OpELOUSAS NATIONAL BANK

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Fer Coroner,

We are authorized to annOsnce Dr. W. r.
sIARTRAPES as candidate for Coroner of
sbe Parish OF st, Landry. subject to the action
~ NE Democratic primary.
d We are authorized to announce DR.. r, M.
lLTTTELL as candidate for Coroner Of the
psrish OF st. Landry, subject to the action of
tSe Democratic primary.
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Subscribe for the Courier.
The Opelousas courier. [volume] (Opelousas, La.) 1852-1910, 1907-08-17
TRusTRE,s SALE
IN THE MATTER OF WILLIAM G. SUFFER-,
RANKRuPT-[n Bankruptcy, No. 34A.

In the District Court of the United States for
the Western District of Louisiana.
The Brandon news. (Brandon, Miss.) 1892-1961, 1907-07-25
Artificial Conner.

DR.. Ira Remsen, president of Johns
Hopkins University, according to
newspaper reports, is authority for
the statement that Sir William RAM
say has discovered a method of max
ing art scial copper, and that the
great discovery will be made known
to science when Sir William will read
a paper on the subject before the
Royal Chemical Society of Great
Britain.
Professor Remsen has private
letter from the famous Englishman,
stating that Sir William has succeed
ed in accomplishing what no other
chemist has ever been able to do
the segregation of one element from
another and the production of copper
by the synthetic or combining pro-
cess from the elements sodium, lith-
ium and potassium. A combination
of these elements when treated with
radium vapor gives as product cop
per sulphate, which is readily "broken
down" into copper. Such is the
substance of his experiments. The
discovery, If true, is of so startling
a nature that we must withhold judg-
ment until the publication of Sir
William Ramsay's paper. This brief
preliminary note is published merely
for what it is worth, and not as
verifcation. Scientific American.
The Brandon news. (Brandon, Miss.) 1892-1961, 1907-07-25
NoCleW to Infants Death.


What was considered premedltated
cases Of murder was unearthed about
two miles north Of Bond Mr.. Stead.
man, Of the firm Of Steadman & Went
worth discovered the remains of 4
matured white child which had evid.
emily been murdered and place in the
stump Of an old tree. It had been
dragged out by the dogs and almost en-
tirely devoured when discovered. Mr..
6teadman Immediately notified Drs.
Cowart and Culpepper, Of Bond, and
the Sheriffs Of Harrison and Perry
Counties, and the mater will be in
yestigated. Drs. Cowart and Culpepper
made an examination Of what was left
OF the remains, and are convicted
that tho child was Of white birth, and
fully matured, and that it came to its
death by foul play. The body was
found within short distance of the
main road between Bond and Make,
buggy tracks were visible leading up
to the stump where the remains were
hidden. Sheriff Magruder and Depu.
ty McGilvray accompanied the Sheriff
as far as Brooklyn and then return to
the city, and could say nothing as to
the case or its surroundings.
The Brandon news. (Brandon, Miss.) 1892-1961, 1907-07-25

In one of the old families of
Charleston, South Carolina, writes
Mrs. Ravene1, there was an important
parsonage, Jack, the butler Jack
disputed with another old man,
Harry, the butler of Mrs. Henry.
lizard, the reputation of being the
best and most thoroughly trained
servant in the town. From the
judging of the wines to the arrange
ment of a salt-spoon there was moth
ing which these withered brown po-
tentates did not decide and MAIN
tain. Nothing would have aston
ished either more than that master
or mistress should dissent from his
verdict.
which he considered breach of the
etiquette of the table. Nothing could
have induced him to serve a gentle.
man before lady, or younger be.
fore an elder brother. To place fruit
and wine on a tablecloth instead OF
upon the mahogany was to him a
falling from grace. On one occasion
he was much annoyed when a Sena-
tor from the up-country twice asked
for rice with his fish. To the first
request he simply remained deaf;
at the second he bent down and whis-
pered into the Senatorial ear. The
genial gentleman nodded, and sup
pressed laugh; but when the SER
wants had left the room he burst into
a roar, and cried: Judge, you have
a treasure! Jack has saved me from
disgrace, from exposing my ignor-
Rnce. He whispered, That wouldn't
do, sir; we never eats rice with
fish,"
The Brandon news. (Brandon, Miss.) 1892-1961, 1907-07-25
The White Plague.

DR.. G. E. B., we'll known, but
hmid about publicity, said to me the
other day: Tell your friends An.
drew G. and John D. to invest little
OF their superfiuous wealth in estab
fishing sanatoriums for consumptives,
SO that some Of Gods poor creatures
can have a chance for their lives,
We have a number of hospitals in
New York for consumptives, but they
are only places for victims of the
white plague to die in. Our wealthy
friends seem to have a craze for the
higher education. The Lord knows
that education is high enough al
ready without making 1t any higher.
Victor Smith. in the New York
Press.
The Brandon news. (Brandon, Miss.) 1892-1961, 1907-07-25
DE SOTO OAK DOOMED.
Parasite Has Attacked Giant Tree,
Which is Over 800 Years Old.

Parasite Has Attacked Giant Tree,
Which is Over 800 Years Old.
The famous great oak in the beau
tiful park surrounding the Tampa
Bay (FIa.) Hotel, and which IL
known as the De Soto oak, for the
reason that De Soto camped under
1t when first he landed on this coast,
is doomed to death. 1t has been at
tackled by parasite which has killed
whole forests In Florida.
The parasite is In sort Of moss
which blows of other trees with the
wind. Whatever tree it lands on,
there Is sticks. The parasite burrows
into the tree. 1t breeds very fast,
and the moss 1t makes grows just
as rapidly. Whenever it lands on
tree, the beginning of the end for
the life Of that tree is settled fact.
Strangely enough, too, 1t produces a
plant In the branches of the tree
very much like water lily In ap-
pearance. 1t blooms and produces
remarkable effect when the flowers
are on. In time the moss hangs
down in great confusion from every
branch of the tree, and all over It's
trunk. The sap is sucked from the
tree, and its death is but question
of time.
The De Soto oak is going by the
boards the same way. And it seems
a great pity. 1t is a giant among
all the great oaks of the universe.
1t is over thirty feet around at its
base and well up its height, rears it's
head several hundred feet, and has
gigantic branches reaching out, as
straight as a chalkline, for a distance
of over fifty feet. 1t is known to be
over 800 years old. But it is an i'll
wind that blows nobody good. The
stringy moss, not much wider than
several strands of hair from a horse 8
name or tail, is put through clean
ing process in Florida and is shipped
North to factories, where it is used
as a substitute for hair in the stuff
ing of sofas and mattresses for beds.
The Brandon news. (Brandon, Miss.) 1892-1961, 1907-07-25


words are bitter mockery. for whom
no changing seasons bring cessation
from toll and WEAKNESS. What of
them in these days of summer sun
shine and joy?
There should be none such, ex-
cept the vicious. And Christianity
cannot rest while such mortals live,
disfranchised OF their right to rest
and happiness. The unaccomplished
mission of our faith is the redress of
every economic inequality. There is
no gospel which is not gospel Of So
cial service. We live to bring al;
| mankind into the family of God. But
meanwhile, while such poverty re-
mains, while such evil conditions sad
den and appall us, what right have
we to our holidays, to our happiness?
Can we sit at our feast blindfold, or
dare we open our eyes? What right
| have we to any feast while our broth
ers starve in the midst of plenty?
None, if our lives are wrong. If we
are living for ourselves, thinking,
planning, accommodating for ourselves,
| none. But if all life to us is sacred
trust, If happiness is only so much
stored up energy to be expended in
divine redemptive toll, then go. keep
the feast, charge your blood and
brain with health and food your soul
with Joy.
ssFor the present go away and for
get! 1t is a counsel Of perfection
and you would not follow it, else
should say to you, go where you can
! have no letters, no newspapers, no
kilograms, where the ring of the tele-
| phone bell is never heard, and where
even the Marconi cannot come. But
| at least do your best to forget For
get your business. Forget your
debts. Forget your debtors. Forget
that In this world there is suffering,
sickness or sin. Only remember that
the sun shines for you, the moonlight
| and the starbeams are for you, the
tides ebb and flow for you, the gorse
, upon the hillside, the purple heather
and the fields dressed in living green
are for you"
DR.. Aked said he had no patience
with the attitude which makes sad
and doleful thing out of the practice
and forms of Christian worship.
ssLet us have done with these sol
emn hypocrisies of conventional wor-
ship" he said. s.Let us frankly
claim our heritage of happiness in a
world whose maker and builder is
God. One day Paxton Hood had to
preach in a Yorkshire church. 1t
was a glorious summer morning. A
good brother gave out:
My thoughts on awful subjects roll,
Damnation and the dead
"But Paxton Hood leaped to his
feet and said, oh, no., they don't.
MY thoaght8Rlo not roll Oh anything
SO dreadful. Let us sing:
| Come let us join our cheerful songs,
With angels round the throne.
I'VE pray God to forgive our sins,
we ought to pray to be forgiven our
sadness. There is no virtue in mis-
cry. The melancholy person is not
necessarily a superior person; and II
he were the superior person Is gener-
ally detestable. A face as long as a
fiddle and voice like crows will
| not be imputed to US for righteous
ness. We shall not go to heaven for
our tears or to hell for our smiles.
Humor is gift of God as well as pa
thos."
The best way to spend Sunday or
any other holiday, said DR.. Aked, was
! to follow Christ's advice to His diei-
pies: Come We yourselves apart into
! a desert place and rest awhile =
The Brandon news. (Brandon, Miss.) 1892-1961, 1907-07-25
JOHN D. ROCKEFELLER'S PASTOR SAYS
WORKERS NEED A SUMMER VACATION
The Only Medicine That Will Rest the Body and Clear the Brain to Be
Found in the Quiet Places Of the Country.
usY AND TOO CROWDED FOR RIGHT LYING and RIGHT THINKING

New York Citv.t- The Rev. DR..
Charles F. Aked, the high S; 'aried
pastor brought from England by
John D. Rockefeller. preached his
last sermon for the summer at the
Fifth Avenue Baptist Church, and
advised the members of his congre-
cation to get out of town, rest, for
get troubles, debts, newspapers, tele-
phones and business. City life of to-
day, especially in such cities as New
York, is almost enough to drive men
crazy, said DR.. Aked, and the only
medicine that will rest the body and
clear the brain is to be found in the
quiet places of the country.
'There has been no day in the his
tory of the world when such counsel
was more needed than to-day" he
said. '"There are no people on the
face of the whole earth who have
more cause to heed it and profit by it
than we. Our cities are too vast and
too crowded.
MAN, like the other animals, was
fields, for the storms, the SHOWS and
the sunshine. But he claps a stone
box down over his head, sets it in the
midst Of a hundred thousand other
stone boxes as ugly as his own,
stretching away in bewildering
squares and para1lelograms, shutting
out Gods air and light, until he is
ready to faint on a warm day and
-
monia-or terror-if the east wind
blows upon him.
This crowded, rushing, pushing,
crushing city life gets on our nerves.
We live too fast. We live faster than
men ever lived before. We live more
than twenty-four hours in the day
and more than seven days in the
week. We burn the candle at both
ends, and then, for fear that our
neighbor will get ahead of us, we
light it in the middle, too. We are
consumed by the fever of living. We
exhaust our vital energies in unend-
Ing stress and strain.
1--WE have no time to think. It is
as much as we can be expected to do
IL we earn bread and cheese and lay
by pound or two against a rainy
day. The great majority of us are
just as capable of flying as we are of
thinking. Leisure for quiet contem-
plation of the world which we live in
is denied us. There is no grass be-
meath our feet, no blue sky over our
head. The world of trees and flow
ers and singing birds is not for us.
Art and poetry and gentle culture ex-
ist only in world of dreams. While
If we once gave ourselves pause to
mediate upon the deep things of
God and the soul, on time and its
meaning. life and its mysteries, heav-
en- and The glories which I'VE thrust
away, why-we might miss the next
car!
1.-THE injunction which insults me
every time travel in the subway is:
step lively, now! Hurry up, there!
Hurry by all means, for we could not
live if we did not kill ourselves to
get somewhere else"
DR.. Aked repeated Lewis Morris
s'Evensong," and said: There is one
consideration which we cannot es-
cape. What of the myriads of our
brethren pent up in mean streets,
prisoners of the counting house and
the shops, slaves Of the mill and the
mine, of the poor and heavy laden Of
every nameless class, to whom these
The Brandon news. (Brandon, Miss.) 1892-1961, 1907-07-25
Seeking a Gulf Outlet.

The Fnkbine Lumber Company OF
Virgins, on the Gulf and Ship Island
road has let contracts for twenty
mile extension Of their present log
ging road, the building Of which pro
mises to give another important rail-
road outlet from this part Of the
interior to the Gulf coast. The exten-
sion will carry the Finkbine road 70
Daisy postoface, in Jackson county,
whore it will make connections with q
tram road already built up from
Ocean Springs, across the bay from
Biloxi, though it is not known to be
the intention Of the management. to
operate these roads in conjunction
with each other.
The Brandon news. (Brandon, Miss.) 1892-1961, 1907-07-25
Corner Stone to be Laid.

Monday the corner stone Of the new
SIC, 900 school at Moss was solemnizel
by Grand Master Henry G. Yawn, A.
+. and A. M, under the auspices OF
the Pascagoula Lodge No. 2O2. Some
few months before the death of Mr..
L. N. Dantzler he donated $4,000 to
be put in modern and up-to-data
school building. Since then this city
has issued bonds to the amount OF
$4,000, which makes total Of $780,
900 for the school. This building
when completed will be cone of the
finest Of it's kind in South Mississip.
Di.
The Brandon news. (Brandon, Miss.) 1892-1961, 1907-07-25
Won Medal.

President w. B. Murrah, of Millsaps
has received notice that Mr.. G. H.
kirkland representative of Millsaps
at the oratorical contest before the
Gulf Coast. Chautauqua Assembly in
Hattiesburg, easily won the medal for
oratory. Mr.. Kirkland's subject was
The Passing Of the Middle Class in
the South. -
The Brandon news. (Brandon, Miss.) 1892-1961, 1907-07-25
White Man Lynched.

Dock Posey, middle-aged white
man. who had confessed to assaulting
his nine-year-old step-daughter, was
taken from the Whitfield County jail,
at Dalton, Ca. and hanged to rail-
road yiaduct in the middle of the city.
The Brandon news. (Brandon, Miss.) 1892-1961, 1907-07-25

st. Petersburg The newspaper Retch
has been confscated for printing an
article from its war correspondent.
predicting war between Russia and
China. He wrote that the relations
between the Russians and Chinese in
Manchuria were extremely hostile
that China was organizing an army
and . navy, and improving the roads
ii PREPARATION for war. He added that
China would soon b a. strong as
Japan.
The Brandon news. (Brandon, Miss.) 1892-1961, 1907-07-25
Big Fire at Norfolk.

Norfolk, Va.,-Fire destroyed the
K;ren Hall building, corner Of Higl,
and Middle streets, Portsmouth. Loss
probably will reach $3.50, 900.
The Brandon news. (Brandon, Miss.) 1892-1961, 1907-07-25

Vice President Fairbanks wife, two
sons and daughter-in-law were shaken
up in an auto accident while on the
way from Indianapolis to Boston.
The Brandon news. (Brandon, Miss.) 1892-1961, 1907-07-25
MRS. BIRDSONG
GRANTED PARDON
IN UNFOLDING THE UNWRIT.
TEN Law.
BITTER FEEuNG EIISTs
The Sentence was Bitterly Contest
cd by Oitixens Of Lawrence County.
Testimony Ruled ont Of Trial
Brought to Light.


Jackson, Miss. UNFOLDING the I'M
written law and saying that he be-
Geved it should govern such cases III
Mississippi, Gov. James x. Vardanan
granted an unconditional pardon to
Mrs. Angie iBrdson, Of Monticello,
slayer Of DR.. Thomas Butler, her
childhood friend and family physi-
clan, who was sentenced to FIVE years
in the penitentiary for manslaughter.
The petition for pardon was pre-
sented and argued by Hon R. N.
Miller, Mrs. Birdsong's attorney.
The counter petitioners were very
bitter, were headed by Hon. A C.
McNair, chief counsel for the prose-
cution at the trial, and Hon. Joseph
Dale, Of Monticello, who was backed
by large delegation of Lawrence
county citizens.
Attorneys for both prosecution and
defense admitted that intimate rela-
tions had existed between DIR. Butler
and Mrs. B1rdSOng.
On this point Gov. Vardaman held
that The tragedy would not have oc-
CURED had not this been the ease
DIR. Butler had publicly talked about
these Illicit relations and had shown
to one person love letter he had re-
ceived from Mrs. Birdsong; that had
1t been male mmber of the Birdsony
family who had taken the matter into
his own hands and shot DR.. Butler for
his indiscretion the jury would never
have returned verdict Of guilty.
Attorneys for the prosecution sought
TO show that the intimacy was forced
on DR.. Butler, but the governor de-
clared that this did not alter the casa,
that the strong man should protect 4
weak woman, and DR.. Butler was GER
tainly strong enough to resist wo-
mans Establishments; at least, hv
have refrained from making the pub
lie acquainted with the intimacy.
The evidence showed that DR.. But
Ter was drinking heavily on the night
prior to the tragedy and boasted Of
an appointment with Mrs. Birdsong
that he expected to keep.
This is the testimony that was ruled
out Of the record at the lower oour;
trial It was further shown that
knowledge Of these boasts was con-
veyed to Mrs. Birdsong, and this was
the direct provoking cause Of the
tragedy.
Over a year ago Mrs. Birdsong
killed DR.. Butler at Monticello. She
went to his Office and began firing
with revolver. The physician rushed
from the Office and was followed by
the woman and shot down by the side
entrance.
The trial was contested bitterly, the
"unwritten law" being pleaded by
the defense. Mrs. Birdsong became i'll
during the hearing and received her
sentence Of five years on verdict
Of guilty Of manslaughter while lying
on q cot In the court room. She was
released on bond pending an appeal.
Recently the supreme court denied
the appeal stating that there was no
error in the records. The supreme
judges expressed sympathy for the wo-
man and referred to the fact that
the pardoning power rested with the
governor. Governor Vardaman i'm.
mediately granted the woman res.
pite Of thirty days to give time for
pardon petition to be prepared.
The Brandon news. (Brandon, Miss.) 1892-1961, 1907-07-25
Statue For Bayard.

Tributes to the memory Of Thomas
r. Bayard were paid by Grover Cleve>
land. Judge George Gray and others.
at the unwilling Of the Bayard statue
in Wilmington Del.
The Brandon news. (Brandon, Miss.) 1892-1961, 1907-07-25

Vessel and Crew Lost Near Iceland.
The French schooner Violette,
with nine hands, has sunk OF the
coast of Iceland.
The Brandon news. (Brandon, Miss.) 1892-1961, 1907-07-25

It was reported that dirigible bal
looms would be supplied every fort
on the eastern frontier Of France. !
The Brandon news. (Brandon, Miss.) 1892-1961, 1907-07-25
Hurricane Killed 200.

IA hurricane, accompanied by inn
menss waves, swept the Caroline
group. At least zoo perished.
The Brandon news. (Brandon, Miss.) 1892-1961, 1907-07-25

A college Of foreign languages has
been opened In Canton, China, the
port from which emigrants sail ia
Instant parss Of the globe.
The Brandon news. (Brandon, Miss.) 1892-1961, 1907-07-25

The tenth victim Of the battleship
Georgia explosion died.
The Brandon news. (Brandon, Miss.) 1892-1961, 1907-07-25

The Emperor Of Corea signed the
decree Of abdication naming the Crown
Prince his successor.
The Brandon news. (Brandon, Miss.) 1892-1961, 1907-07-25

The final session Of the Elk's con
vention was held at Philadelphia.
The Brandon news. (Brandon, Miss.) 1892-1961, 1907-07-25

It was announced that argument
in the 6ealey case at New Iberia
would begin to-day.