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The Montgomery tribune. (Montgomery City, Mo.) 1892-1910, 1907-12-06

Mrs. Hoyle-Did you read about
che poor man who was crushed in
to a shapeless mass?
Mrs. Doyle-Yes; and it served
him right. He was a leader in the
crusade against csrsets.-Judge.
The Montgomery tribune. (Montgomery City, Mo.) 1892-1910, 1907-12-06

81 understand Old Snarlye's on
tire family suffers from dyspep-
oia."
eyes"
"Queer that the entire family
should have it, isn't it?"
"They haven't; only Old Snar-
lye's got t."-Houston Post.
The national prohibitionist. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1907-1911, 1907-12-26

more and drinking the vilest stuff
passed over the bars about the posts
he doing this probably with a view to
getting even with his Uncle Samuel.
An advocate of the canteen wants
to know why, if partizan sentiment
can deprive the soldier of his beer,
vegetarians may not force him to quit
meat, why Christian Scientists cannot
order all doctors dismissed from the
service, and why the thick-and- thin
advocates of peace may not order the
soldiers to lay down their arms and
quit fighting.
Such interrogatories do not 60 to
the main issue except for the merit of
analogy they may have, but they do
indicate that the old fight is on with
greater intensity and that those re-
viving it will leave no stone unturned.
And with anti-liquor sentiment
hardening in every part of the coun-
try and with Prohibition spreading
over new territory like wildfre, and
with the canteen advocates supplied
The national prohibitionist. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1907-1911, 1907-12-26

the soldiers. There will be approx
mately the usual number of army Off
GERS to say that the operation of the
law now in force is most pernicious,
the normal number also holding it
largely responsible for the unprece-
dented number of assertions and the
difficulty found in securing new enlist
ments.
The general has statistics
all ready showing a great increase in
alcoholism and vicious diseases. A
man high in the service is quoted as
saying that no pressure on earth can
make an American army of the moral
fiber of Cromwells "Ironsides" or
make it content with such "restric-
tions" as are now in force-the said
restrictions being found in the fact
that Uncle Sam declines to go into
the saloon business. The very fact
that Uncle Sam does decline to go
into the saloon business is testified to
as making the soldier aggressively re-
bel1ious. He is reported as drinking
The national prohibitionist. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1907-1911, 1907-12-26
THE RECONNAISSANCE
Critical Review Current

forcing a prohibitory law does not
apply to the manufacture of liquor A
brewery or distillery cannot we'll be
hid or winked at. If the interstate
shipments of liquor into a prohibitory
state are successfully prevented by the
federal government, the enforcement
of prohibitory law becomes matter
of comparative ease in a state where
the sentiment is even fairly strong.
This movement upon Washington is
therefore very important part of the
anti-liquor program, and promises to
bring the subject into the realm of
national as we'll as state and local
politics.
The Prohibition party has never
had much of foothold in the South,
and the movement there, as we'll as
in the North, is on non-partizan lines.
For thirty-hve years that party has
taken part in national elections and
persisted without having carried
state or elected Congressman. "The
hope of republics said De Tocque-
The national prohibitionist. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1907-1911, 1907-12-26
VIEWS OF A PAST MASTER

current Literature, periodical which
turing the last year or two has assumed
considerable Importance and attained
much prominence, devotes more than a
page OF space in its December number
% discussion of the Prohibition move
nent. What it has to say is the more
interesting from the fact, not generally
snown, probably, to readers of The
Vsfsonal Prohibitionist, that Mr.. Ed
Ward ]. WHEELER, for several years the
EDITOR of The Voice, is now the editor
u Current Literature. This fact gives
foecial interest to what Current Liteya-
are says upon the subject as repre-
'ented by the following paragraphs:
An off-year in politics usually brings
INTO notice tendencies not needed in
other years. This year the progress
Of Prohibition sentiment, especially in
the South, has been discovered by
magazine and newspaper writers, and
It has become topic of almost sensa-
1onal proportions.
This lin shipments of liquorl is the
rock on which state Prohibition has
been wrecked wherever it has suffered
wreck. The supposed difficulty in en-
The national prohibitionist. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1907-1911, 1907-12-26
PROHIBITION IN WASH
INGTON >.

The Springfield Republican argues
moderately for submission in the Dis
trict of Columbia to popular local vote
the proposition to put in force Pro
hibition law. 1t says:
To force Prohibition upon the dis
trict by an arbitrary decree of legis-
lature that represents the whole coun
try would be entirely legal. The dis
trict has no self-government and it
must look to Congress for all its laws
Yet the great bulk of the population
lives there the year around, and Pro-
hibition has local phase whose i'm
portance cannot be ignored by legis-
lators whose homes are hundreds and
thousands of miles away. If the local
option principle is to be respected
and under local option the saloon has
been outlawed in half the United
States-the inhabitants of the District
of Columbia would surely be allowed
referendum on the question
1t is simply because, from its import
ance as the national capital, Washington
can have no local interests that are not
also national interests, that the govern
ment of the district has been placed I'm
der the control of Congress. 1t is just as
proper for the people of the United
States, through their Representatives. in
Congress, to say that drink selling shsSs
not take place in the District of Colum-
bia, as it is for the nation to make any
other legislation concerning the district
By far the greater part of the people of
the city of Washington live in that city
because it offers advantages of which
they desire to avail Observation-Disclosures
tages which are due to the fact that it is
The national prohibitionist. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1907-1911, 1907-12-26
THE CANTEEN'S
PROSPECTS

The Detroit Free Press discusses the
attempt of certain interests headed by
Congressman R. WAYNE PARKER to Sc
cure the restoration of the canteen in
the United States army. The editorial
is rich in quiet, sarcastic humor that
makes it extremely interesting reading.
The Free Press says:
The Congressman has armed him
self with the usual proof" that the
canteen should again be established
for the moral and physical welfare of
The national prohibitionist. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1907-1911, 1907-12-26
HEARST PAPER AGAINST THE
PARTY

PARTY
The Chicago Examiner, which, it may
De well to remember is owned by Mr..
WILLIAM RANDOLPH HEARST who,
little more than year ago, was turned
down cold in his effort to secure the
nomination of the Prohibition party
tor governor of the state of New York,
again tries to argue against the Prohibi-
tion party theory in this way:
Indeed, there can be no doubt that
The wave of anti-liquor sentiment is
steadily gathering height and force.
The movement is all the more power
iui because it is not mere party cam
paign. Prohibition legislation is be-
ing secured, not through the Prohibi-
ion party as an organization, but
through Republican and Democratic
legislatures indifferently. The poll
acians of the old parties are willing to
conciliate Prohibition sentiment so
long as it does not involve the ascen-
dency of the Prohibition organization.
In other words, the Prohibition move
ment is dangerous to the liquor in
!!erests because Prohibition is not be-
ing made a party issue. If it ever got
into politics" it would be easier to
6ght.
This is another case in which the En-
.'s'mer would do we'll to listen to the
exhortation that oft has been adj
dressed to it and think little before if
writes much. The statement that the
politicians are willing to conciliate
Srohibition sentiment, so long as it does
aot involve the ascendency of the Pro-
aibition organization, is true, but if is
only Cancellation that the politicians
purpose to grant, and that Cancellation
aas been forced by the fear of the as
:endency of the Prohibition organiza-
aon. lake the Prohibition party out of
business today and the Prohibition
movement suffers an immediate eclipse.
Prohibition is dangerous to the LIQUOR
interests, simply because it is party
ssue which the politicians of the corrupt
Did parties fear If it could be got
s~t of politics we should hear very little
s0out it in the future.
The national prohibitionist. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1907-1911, 1907-12-26
GIFT SUBSCRIPTIONS

So popular has been the oppor-
tunity given to subscribers renew
ing their subscriptions to secure
GIFT SUBSCRIPTIONS
at reduced rate, that it has been
decided to continue the offer which
was originally made with the idea
of it's withdrawal at Christmas. A
limit is now fixed at January Is.
Amy subscriber, whether former
ly taking The Defender, The Home
Defender or The New Voice, i'm
mediately renewing his subscrip-
ton to The National Prohibitionist
and sending $1.00 in payment of the
same, may, by the addition of $1.OO
more, have
TWO GIFT SUBSCRIPTIONS,
which he may have sent to any
friends not now subscribers for this
paper.
This is to say, in resubscribing
for The National Prohibitionist
send us $500 in all and the name
OF two friends not now subscribers,
to whom you wish to give the pa
per, and each of them will receive
one full annual subscription.
This applies only to Gift SupA
scriptions and this offer will be-
withdrawn on January Is.
THE NATIONAL PROHIBI-
ZIONIST,
81 Washington st
Chicago.
The national prohibitionist. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1907-1911, 1907-12-26

vile, lies in stubborn minorities."
No such exhibition has ever before
been given in this country of stub
born minority. Its vote in the Presi-
Dental election three years ago was
less than it was fifteen years ago, but
it lives on, confident and unabashed.
The national prohibitionist. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1907-1911, 1907-12-26

with not one argument in addition to
those on which they have repeatedly
been beaten in the past, Congress will
of course in the first hours of its
session pass the PARKER bill with prac-
teal unanimity.
The Lafayette advertiser. [volume] (Vermilionville [i.e. Lafayette], La.) 1865-19??, 1907-03-13

Prof. James Ralph Jewell, of
the Industrial Institute Faculty,
has received notification from DR..
Elmer E. Brown. United States
Commissioner of Education. that
the Bureau of Education will Of
ficially publish and distribute DR..
JEWELS monograph on School
Gardens, prepared by him last
year while in attendance at Clark
University, Worcester, Mass.
DR.. Jewell will go to Washington
to revise his manuscripts for
publication.
The Lafayette advertiser. [volume] (Vermilionville [i.e. Lafayette], La.) 1865-19??, 1907-03-13
Base Ball News.

A meeting of the Base Ball AS
sOciatiOn was held last WedneS-
day at the Gordon Hotel and the
following officers elected: DR.. L
o. Clark. president: Manuel Pei
lerin, vice president; J. G. Clau-
sen. secretary; S. r. Parkerson,
treasurer; Frank Shows, mana
ger.
During the past week Manager
Shows visited New Orleans and
signed several good players.
The work of getting the bal
grounds in readiness for the
coming season has been begun.
All the towns in the league are
organizing good teams and lovers
of the national game may expect
some very entertaining ball play
ing this summer.
The Lafayette advertiser. [volume] (Vermilionville [i.e. Lafayette], La.) 1865-19??, 1907-03-13
CONTRACT LET
For the Two School Buildings
TO w. 6. Whitney of Beau.
mont for $4,000.

At an adjoined meeting Thurs
day night the City Council accep-
ted the recommendation of the
building committee to contract
with w. G. Whitney of Beaumont.
Texas, to construct the two
school buildings, with heating,
plumbing and wiring included.
for SIS, 300. a $4,000 bond to be
neutrality-suspicious.. Contrac.
tor Whitney states that he will
begin work rs soon as the mater
ial can be secured, and has
promised to deliver the buildings
by Sept. 1.
The Lafayette advertiser. [volume] (Vermilionville [i.e. Lafayette], La.) 1865-19??, 1907-03-13
ElmhurSt Auction Sale.

About two hundred and fifty
people attended the auction sale
of lots in Elmhurst Park Thurs
day. The sale was made by the
J. G. NickersOn Real Estate
Agency. and it was conducted by
A. Harris, the well-known auc-
tioneer. Ninety-twO lots were
sold, realizing 5000. Mr.. M.
ROsenfeld was the lucky winner
of the $50 in gold which was
given away.
The Lafayette advertiser. [volume] (Vermilionville [i.e. Lafayette], La.) 1865-19??, 1907-03-13
HOME MISSION SOCIETY
Annual Convention to Convene in
Lafayette rlar. Al. at Meth.
OdiSt Church

The fifteenth annual meeting
of the Home Mission Society of
the Louisiana Conference will
convene in the Methodist Church
at this place on Thursday.
March 81. at nine o'clock.
Three sessions a day will be held,
and the convention will last
through Sunday. The annual SER
mon will be preached Sun
day by Reverend Joyner,
Secretary of Missions. Sunday
night Rev. Carre of Vanderbilt
University will delivera sermon.
Several visiting ministers will be
present. among the number
Revs. J. M. Henry. Presiding
Elder of the Crowley District,
Drake, Coburn, and G. G. Weir.
The public is corduly invited tc
attend.
The Lafayette advertiser. [volume] (Vermilionville [i.e. Lafayette], La.) 1865-19??, 1907-03-13
NUMBER %.
A Female Otheilo.

An elegantly dressed lady IN hurry
made a sign to a cab. The driver
came up. but when he heard the ad-
dress drove off at canter, leaving the
lady stupetied with surprise. Asked
by a fellow cabman why he had re-
fused to take her he replied why,
she wanted to go to a house in my
street, and if my wife had seen her
she would have skinned me. she is
that jealous. IL Monde UmoristicO.
The Lafayette advertiser. [volume] (Vermilionville [i.e. Lafayette], La.) 1865-19??, 1907-03-13
The Ruling Passion.

Wild-Eyed Lover-This is your last
chance, Cold Beauty. Speak quickly.
Do you see that can? It's full of dyna-
mite. Promise to marry me, or l will
touch it off.
Cold Beauty-Will you promise to
keep me in better style than that
horrid Miss Pert is going to live in
when she marries Mr.. De Rich?
impossible"
Touch it Off"-N. Y. Weekly.
The Lafayette advertiser. [volume] (Vermilionville [i.e. Lafayette], La.) 1865-19??, 1907-03-13

Noah Webster was compiling his
spelling book.
Il want to get spelling reform on
the market" he said, before Andy
Karnaygy and Brandy Matthews get
to monkeying with the language
Whereupon he began with feverish
haste to scratch the III" out OF
favour honour" and other words
of like orthography, thereby achieving
a clean scoop on the authors of the
800 amended spellings.-Chicago Trib-
une
The Lafayette advertiser. [volume] (Vermilionville [i.e. Lafayette], La.) 1865-19??, 1907-03-13
After the honeYmoon.

Dear me-" exclaimed the bride OF
4 month as she glanced out of the
parlor window. There goes the old
locksmith. We haven't paid him for
mending our bell"
"Oh. what's the use?" chuckled her
husband.
Whats the use?"
Yes: you know love laughs at
kocksmiths Chicago Daily News.
The Lafayette advertiser. [volume] (Vermilionville [i.e. Lafayette], La.) 1865-19??, 1907-03-13
LAFAYETTE PARISH COTTON
CROP
Number of Bales Grown in This
Parish During the Past
Eight Years.

The following statistics on the
cotton crop for Lafayette parish
were kindly furnished us by Mr..
B. n. Coronna, President of the
Lafayette Compress & Storage
Co. The crops for the years
given are given in equivalent 500
The Lafayette advertiser. [volume] (Vermilionville [i.e. Lafayette], La.) 1865-19??, 1907-03-13
Thrift.

Manager-How many of these H.
cent ladies' hose have we in stock?
Salesman-Four pairs. sir.
Manager-Then advertise a special
8: lie on them at five cents a pair. and
when we run out we'll offer the hur-
cry mob our 12-cent hose at 19 cents
a pair. The hose-buying public must
be accommodated at any cost.-Judge.
The Lafayette advertiser. [volume] (Vermilionville [i.e. Lafayette], La.) 1865-19??, 1907-03-13
One Cent Stamps in Books.

On the first of March the Post
Office Department began issuing
one cent stamps in book form
similar to the twO-cent books, but
only in one size, twenty.four one
cent stamps for twenty five
cents. Postmaster DOmengeaux
has filed a requisitiOn for a
supply of the new books.
The Lafayette advertiser. [volume] (Vermilionville [i.e. Lafayette], La.) 1865-19??, 1907-03-13

Robert X. Nabours. q student
in the University of Chicago for
the past five years and assistant
instructor in the school Of Educa-
ton in the same University. spent
Saturday and Sunday as the
guest of Mr.. and Mrs. w. j.
Avery.
The Lafayette advertiser. [volume] (Vermilionville [i.e. Lafayette], La.) 1865-19??, 1907-03-13
To Enqrave Eecshelis.

Make the drawing OF any figure or
design you please upon the egg, in
melted tallow or any thick oil. Then
immerse the egg in strong vinegar.
some time in the vinegar il will be
found that the parts untouched by
the tallow have been eaten away,
leaving the design in relief.
The Lafayette advertiser. [volume] (Vermilionville [i.e. Lafayette], La.) 1865-19??, 1907-03-13
To All Whom 1t rlay Concern.

To All Whom 1t rlay Concern.
In the Democrat of March 9
we the undersigned find that
some one who is taking a very
large interest in the town and
who would like to control the
people in it, if he could, and
whose name does not appear, has
taken the liberty to say that two
Autos were racing on the
streets, knowing that we, the
undersigned, were the only two
Autos that were on the streets
that day mentioned. We wish
to contradict that statement.
The one that wrote the article
should have told in the paper who
the Autos belonged to, but we
will tell the people for him, as
we are not afraid of him or any
of his kind, and if he is jealous
that we have Autos, why we
might give him one, as we know
he is not progressive enough to
buy one. Regarding the speed
ing of Autos the party that
wrote the article has always
been so slow. that since the
Autos come to town. he thinks
they are going too fast, and he
has not sense enough to know
what speed means. and we are
only sorry that the party who
wrote the aforesaid article did
not happen to get in front of one
of the Autos while we were do
| ing the so called racing, and
what we would not have done to
him would have been plenty.
Enough said.
] PREAGER AND HIGGINBOTHAM.
The Lafayette advertiser. [volume] (Vermilionville [i.e. Lafayette], La.) 1865-19??, 1907-03-13
pound bales.

The number of bales for 1906
is an approximate estimate. the
yield is moro than double that of
1905 and is the largest in the
history of the parish.
The Lafayette advertiser. [volume] (Vermilionville [i.e. Lafayette], La.) 1865-19??, 1907-03-13
In QreamIsnd.

A French barrister. whose client
had the misfortune to be found guilty.
appealed on the ground that during
TIE trial a juryman was asleep. The
court of Cessation has held that the
'Iryman. being asleep. was technical
ly not present during the hearing. and
has quashed the verdict and ordered
4 new trial.
The Lafayette advertiser. [volume] (Vermilionville [i.e. Lafayette], La.) 1865-19??, 1907-03-13
Woman's Idea Of Them.

Here's a clever thing in OIL" said
rhe, at the art exhibition: Its called
When the Cats Away but don't see
the artists name. l wonder who
rainted it." Evidently a woman" re-
nlied her escort; "see what fero-
c!ous expression she has given the
mice"
The Lafayette advertiser. [volume] (Vermilionville [i.e. Lafayette], La.) 1865-19??, 1907-03-13
Score One for the Motorist.

Score One tor the MotoF1St.
We hold no brief for the motorist,
but honor where honor is due" On a
country road the other day we saw
motorist deliberately avoid running
over an animal On the highway! To
be exact, it was . circus elephant
The Bystander.
The Lafayette advertiser. [volume] (Vermilionville [i.e. Lafayette], La.) 1865-19??, 1907-03-13

Perhaps He Sang to Her.
While a farmer at Piddington, En-.
gland, was milking COW the cow
went to sleep, fell on him and seri-
ously injured him.
The Lafayette advertiser. [volume] (Vermilionville [i.e. Lafayette], La.) 1865-19??, 1907-03-13
Never.

Never.
A woman never underestimates her
husbands ability when she names the
amount of alimony she thinks she
ought to have.
The Lafayette advertiser. [volume] (Vermilionville [i.e. Lafayette], La.) 1865-19??, 1907-03-13
Fame.

Fame.
Some men are born great, some
achieve greatness, and some leap at
once into fame while making a "one-
handed stab" at batted ball.
The Lafayette advertiser. [volume] (Vermilionville [i.e. Lafayette], La.) 1865-19??, 1907-03-13
SCHOOL BOARD ASSOCIATION.
Annual Meeting to Be Held in
Shreveport, April 40. Sub.
iects to Be Discussed.

DR.. N. P. Moss. Supt. l.. J.
Alleman, and Pres. e. l.. Ste
phens of the Industrial Institute.
acting as program committee OF
the Louisiana School Board AS
sOciatiOn, met here yesterday to
arrange the program for the Sec
Ond annual meeting OF that body,
which is to be held in Shreveport
April AS. and 6, in connection
with the state Teachers ASSOci-
alton. Among the subjects that
will be discussed on the program
are the following: ]. How Shall
School Boards Protect Them
selves against Breach of Contract
on the Part of the Teachers: =.
What Shall be the Basis of Uni
fOrmity in the AppUrtiOnment OF
of School Funds to the Various
Wards of the Parish! 3. The
Functions Of the School Board.
4. Moral Responsibility of the
School Board Members. 5.
Our Part in the Present Educa-
tional Movementin in Louisiana. 6.
The Best Methods of Electing
School Boards. Z. The Best
Means of Developing School
Board Consciousness" Among
sthe speakers that have been in
vited to present these subjects
before the School Board AssOcia-
ton are the following: Supt. v.
L Roy, of Avoyelles; Hon. Leon
r. Smith, President Of the School
Board of Caddo Parish: Hon. T..
j. Liable, President of the School
Board of st. Martin Parish; Hon.
J. E. Keeny, State Institute Con.
ductor; Prof. James H. billiard .
Of Tulane University; Prof. David
Felmley, of the Northern Illinois
State Normal School, at DeKalb,
ILL.,: and President w. U. Thomp-
son, of the University of Ohio.
The Louisiana School Board
Association was organized last
summer in Baton Rouge, with
the purpose of helping to bring
about a greater degree OF uni
formity in school administration
among the several parishes in the
State and to promote a greater
degree of efficiency through CO.
operation. Pres. Moss of the
LAFAYETTE Parish School Board
was elected to be the first Presi
dent of the organization. with
Supt. L. J. Alleman as Secretary
The control of the organization
rests in an executive COMMITTEES
of seven members, one from eact
congressional district.
Mr.. r. X. Nabours, an Assist
ant Instructor in Chicago Univer
sity, spent the day here yester
day, visiting the Industrial Insti
tute and the Lafayette public
SCHOOLS with Principal w. }
Avery. Mr.. Nabours was form
erly of Sabine Parish, La, ant
was Q student at the State Nor
NAL School sbefore going &
Chicago to attend the Universit.
where he is now employed. III
is preparing study OF seduca
tional conditions in Louisiana
his native State, and says that
during the past two months 0
his work in the. State in Parisl
Teachers Institutes, he has beel
aratified to find marvellous I'd
yancement and improvement Il
In educational matters durinl
the past ten years or more. II
returns today to his work j,
Chicago.
The Lafayette advertiser. [volume] (Vermilionville [i.e. Lafayette], La.) 1865-19??, 1907-03-13
Warning to Alcohol Drinkers.

Warning to Alcohol Drinkers.
The maximum amount of alcohol,
says Parkes, that a man can take
daily without injury to his health is
that contained in two ounces Of
brandy, one-half pint of sherry, one
half pint of claret and one pint of
beer.
The Lafayette advertiser. [volume] (Vermilionville [i.e. Lafayette], La.) 1865-19??, 1907-03-13

ONCE Boy-What can / do to get
raise in salary, sir?
The Boss-Earn what you're getting
now.-Detroit Free PresA