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The Lafayette advertiser. [volume] (Vermilionville [i.e. Lafayette], La.) 1865-19??, 1907-11-01
Bio Mans Long Row in Small Boat

Join Carmody of Washington re,
Gently made a trip from that city to
Colonial Beach, a distance of more
fi.an 10 sniles, in "a small rowbgat
eight feet long, foor and a half feet
vide and seven inches deep, and as
MT. Carmody tips the beam at 241
pounds the trip is a remarkable one.
Mr.. Carnpdy left Washington June
26, and with nc other motive power
than a pair of oars snd a big UNI
bre1la, like those used on wagons.
which he used as a sail, he made
the trip in 4S hours and arrived in
safety st the beach Friday, June IS.
On the trip Mr.. Carmody made sew
eral stops along the shore to make
himself some coffee and to cook
something to eat. But in order to
make the time he did he had to keep
going steadily, with but little time
for sleep.
The Lafayette advertiser. [volume] (Vermilionville [i.e. Lafayette], La.) 1865-19??, 1907-11-01
Her DnnOWN"
TsNY'S REVENGE ON HOT TEN
PERED ACTRESS.
.)id-Time Theatrical Manager Recalls
Amusing Experience hat Came
Near Breaking Up the Show
Quick Resu3citation.

I'm the wild and woody days of Chey-
enne, when the men of the town were
so much occupied at night that it was
q rare sight TO see one Of them on the
street before noon, | vas the manager
OF a theater there called the Gold
Room, in which we employed a small
dramatic stock company and a few
specially performers. Tony, who was
a clever Irish comedian and singer,
was a member of the stock and a very
useful man, except when he was
rubbed the wrong way.
The leading woman, known as
Monte Verde, was of Spanish descent
and had the quick temper so often
found in members of that race. There
was no love lost between her and
Tony at best, but they never really
Guarreled until one evening. when she
was coming up a fight of rather dark
stairs and he was going down, he
Glanced to step squarely upon her
fCOt. 1t was an accident, of course,
but | suppose it hurt no less on that
account. At any rate, she gave Tony
such a tongue lashing as II seldom
Gets from a woman When she mad
finished her TRADE he answered,
quietly:
Fer that lasht remark In goin'
to let We dhrown in the PAIGE tonight
Il overheard this, but thought moth
ing of it, and went away laughing.
ssuTh~ -;.a, ~, yraYA ,1nx~,yn 4i,nf
week was called A Woman of the
World The second scene Of the first
act is the deck of a Hudson river
steamboat; time, night. The only deck
passenger is an Irish glaZier (Ben-
toni. The heroine of the piece Monte
Earde} has been deserted by her
lover, who has gone to New York, and
she is following him my this boat.
Humiliation, however, at last over.
comes her. and she resolves upon sui
eide. Coming upon deck, she makes a
long speech, closing with: 'C0od-by,
father; soOd-by, moeher; forgive ne
for this rash act and jumps over
board. The glaZier jumps after and
rescues her; and as he lift her over
the rail the curtain falls on the frs!
act.
THAT particular night she made hel
speech and jumped, but Benton made
no nov to rescue her. / happened tf
be standing in the entrance, and
called TO him in a loud stage whisper:
TONY! Tony!'
He calmly turned around toward
me and said:
"'Phwat is it?'
Jump overheard and get that WON
Al. Quick!'
Jaw said he, with supreme indif
ference, let 'er dhrown.
I'VE were compelled to ring the cur
tain down without rescuing her. Che
was drowned all right enough, but We
had to resuseitate her before the piece
could go on"
The Lafayette advertiser. [volume] (Vermilionville [i.e. Lafayette], La.) 1865-19??, 1907-11-01

regular legislative session and
still other months for the sub
mission and ratification of
amendments. By Legislative en-
actment next month and SubmiS-
sion at the regular election in
April, we not only make sure Of
the reforms, out also save tens
of thousands of the taxpayers
money.
To the clearviSioned voter.
the obstructionist's plea for de
lay, and the argument that the
Governor is seeking applause,
will seem quite absurd. In the
attainment of these reforms
there is glory enough for US ali
and there is 10 citizen of Louis
Jana too poor, or too mean, to
share liz the spoil. Here, in
the larger aud ulster view, is no
room for partisan feeling or in
dividgal aggrandizement. The
reform itself is the thing. We
are within reaching distance.
Shall we neglect the opportun-
ity, from d desire to help the
political fortunes of one man, or
to hurt those of another? The
query answers itself.
Ehe Governor can pot secure
the reforms; he can only
give US the chance to secure
thea, and let as make the decis-
lion. The rest depends upen the
Legislature aud the people. II
there be need for the "whiB and
spur it is the people them
selves who must use the goads.
This is not the moment for pet
tiness or intrigue. Public men
who were sincere in their advo-
cacy of these reforms last week,
when they seemed far away, viii
be for them now that they are
near. 1t is only the hEpocrite
49,
and the demagogpe who will
hinder the movement. 1t is
certainly high time to separate.
the sheep from the goats. that.
The voters may brand each breed.
for what they really are. Car
didates WHO have the public wesi
at heart Will JON III the effort to
strike while she iron is hoi.
Forty-eight hoses ago the de
mand for reforms was unanimous.
We shall s0au SCI how much OF
it was base. and bow much was
true metal. He that is not for
reform when it is abtainable is
againsti it for ali time, however
specious the plea he may seek
to interpose. The issue is
clear and Mss % faced without
fiinching
The Lafayette advertiser. [volume] (Vermilionville [i.e. Lafayette], La.) 1865-19??, 1907-11-01
Their Place The Bastile.
n. Q. States.

n. O. States.
In It's comments on tie panic
precipitated in New York by the
reckless and unscrupUlouS stock
gamblers who happened to be at
the head OF several banking IN
situations the London Times
says: The pity is that in Pres
ident Roosevelt's zeal for reform
and purity in financial methods
the few responsible for f~OulneSs
in various directions can not be
given a place inside the four
walls of a jail"
This sentiment will meet with
an appreciative response front
the masses of the American peo-
pie who have a thorough under
standing OF the fact that as a r.
suit Of the methods of a small
cOterie of financial brigands IL
New York honest and Legitimate
business has been made to suffer
heavily, and that something
should be done TO prevent if ever
again being at the mercy IF such
men. The MOrSpS. Hpinos and
ThOmaseS of New York have vi0-
lated Federal and State laws by
using the money of their dep0s.-
tors To finance their gambling
schemes and they ought to be in
Jail, and no doubt would be ii the
public officials in Washington
and New York whose duty it is
to~enforce The law would enforce
it.
But nothing Of the kind has
been done. and 1t is not likely
that it will be done, yet the New
York Sun declares that lin three
days honest business has beer
called upon to pay an appalling
penalty for the offense Of such
men as these. Fines aggregat
ling millions upon millions have
been imposed upon the innocen
and HELPLESS"
IF it really be the desire of thu
Washington administration t.
jail some 'maIefactOr of wealth
it seems that a good Opportunit.
will be found in the recent doing.
of the gambling president of tn
New York banks. These mel
have violated the laws of tn
United States and for the en-
forcement of these laws Presi
dent Roosevelt is responsible
For the enforcement of the law
of New York Governor Hughe
is responsible. Ii some decisiv
action is not taken legitimat
business will continue to be til
plaything of the men whose dis
regard of the law brought on til
present panic.
The Lafayette advertiser. [volume] (Vermilionville [i.e. Lafayette], La.) 1865-19??, 1907-11-01
Still chasm Between Nations.

There is little love lost between the
Chinese students who are fiocking in
crowds to Toxic to learn western
civilization at second and their Japan.
csc fellows. The Chinese students
i've their wv life apart from the Jap
anese, with whom they mix as little
as they car. This Chinese mode of
a.4 . aIz~4l3 4~p-sAe.-t "a Japanese
fes,lng. The Chinese students refuse
9 sm3ts Japanese cigarettes, which
.s no names stamped on the paper
n Chinese characters. since they look
ueo it as a Proclamation TO burn their
sacred letters.
The Lafayette advertiser. [volume] (Vermilionville [i.e. Lafayette], La.) 1865-19??, 1907-11-01
''Beating The Long Roll"
mes-Democrat.

Times-Democrat.
Gov. Blanchard's summons to
the Legislature has caused Il pro
found stir in political circles.
Naturally. the pl~acehunterS and
spoilsmenwhoSe hands have been
forced by the call, seek to dis
credit the movement by imput-
ing unworthy motives to the Gov
ernOr. Timid souls there are,
too,--fond of g~eneralities and
fearful of decisive action-whO
.denounce the suddenness with
which this matter has been
passed as unseemly and shock
ing. Such opposition was to be
expected, for no good cause runs
its way without friction.
The subject is, however, sim
pie enough and the mass of the
voters viii need the services of no
professional interpreter. A rare
opportunity has been offered to
secure reforms of very great
value to the State. For the
present all candidates and all
factions speak fair. Mosteof the
candidates have placed them
selves on record, and none, SO
far as we know, has dared lift
his voice against the change.
After election, the story will be
different The people of Louis
lana have been laughed to scern
by politicians secure in Office,
and safely past challenge, for a
term. Experience has shown
how easy it is to balk or emas-
culate reforms at regular legis-
lative sessions when past mas
ters of the art political, assisted
by strong Hobbies, SO desire.
: Measures of positive worth may
be killed in a sitting. shelved in
an hour, fated to eternal burial
In a pigeonhole. by an apparent
II innocent bit of routine. There
are years in which to explain or
befog the matter. and the public
memory Is n0Uoriouslg short.
Ever sane man who has noted
the &sift OF affairs knows that
the chance Of securing these re-
forms at the extra session is in
I tinitelg greater than the chance
of secastng them in the regular
term of 1sie General Assembly.
Even granting. for sake of ar
gument. that the professional
politician may change his nature
Nor the nonce. and even couced-
ing that the reforms urged
Knight find easy sailing after the
~cr'a's opportunity had gone,
bNp rid the extra session justi-
fled by the saving of revenues.
I6ome of the Offices which il is
hoped to abolish are emD~lded
R}n the Constitution. A porsienI
Ebf the spoils system is thu. riy-
|eted upon US bythat instrument
ITO effect a change, it will be i
(l:eS Sagy &c submit senstitG 81.
amendments to be ratir q -
bopnlar vote. All this reql =
me. Meanwhile, the drain up
the public purse continues
must wait months for the
The Lafayette advertiser. [volume] (Vermilionville [i.e. Lafayette], La.) 1865-19??, 1907-11-01
A Reliable Remedy for Group.

Mrs. S. Rosinthal, of Turner, Mich
igan. says; 1--WE have used Cham
berlain's Cough Medicine for ourselves
and childred for several years and
like it very much. [ think it is the
only remedy for Group and can highly
recommend it," For sale by all drug
gists.
The Lafayette advertiser. [volume] (Vermilionville [i.e. Lafayette], La.) 1865-19??, 1907-11-01

II X
YOU see moth

A you see moth
ing buteXpensive work III the
show windGw that you can't
get cheaper work at nay
studio. In fact you can get
anything from two dozen
for a quarter" on mp. While
prices have not been cut or.
account of increased cost of
material / am prepared to
give you BETTER values than
ever, since | have better IA
cilities for turning out finer
work than ever before.
Save your orders for Holiday
art goods urtii you see my
line to arrive about Nov. Is.
The Lafayette advertiser. [volume] (Vermilionville [i.e. Lafayette], La.) 1865-19??, 1907-11-01
There's a WAY

To defeat the mail order mans cut
throat methods in this community.
The way is publicity for your business
it's the same way he uses. Dun
columns will give your business the
publicity you need.
The Lafayette advertiser. [volume] (Vermilionville [i.e. Lafayette], La.) 1865-19??, 1907-11-01
Nosice.

Notics.
/ have TAX up one stray blue or
white cfeole mare about eight or nine
years old. Owaer can have same bv
proving property ana paying COSTS.
,erwise will be sold according to
.turday, November 2, 1907, at
~. j. Holmes store.
ARTHUR fIoFFPAUIR,
Constable End Ward,
Lafayette Parish.
The Lafayette advertiser. [volume] (Vermilionville [i.e. Lafayette], La.) 1865-19??, 1907-11-01
SOUTHWESTERN LOUISIANA IDJSlRM Institute
LAFAYETTE, La, E. L.. STEPHENS, President.

State institution of learning for both sexes. Three story brick school
building containing 20 classrooms, auditorium. library. gymnasium. Two
brick dormitories. Complete courses ofs study in all regular academic sub
jects, and also manual training, domestic art and science. instrumental and
vocal music, stenogrGphY, commerce agriculture. Fourteen in faculty.
Military discipline and drill. Gymnasium drill for voung Indies TnalbfuI
location. 80 acres. Sixth Annual Session Opens Sept. 10, 1000. Write
for cataog.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1907-05-04

varies between % per cent and 80 per
cent
:. A celebrated doctor of the assistance pub
Iique has declared to the Academy of
Medicine that In Paris infant mortality
varies between and 80 per cent, accord
Ing to the mode of feeding and the care
given the infant.
Convinced Of the startling truths Of the
Nancy experiment, the founders of the
Abatement Maternal are demanding
money to do for all the poor or working
mothers of Paris what my shirt factory is
Smile" is doing for the mothers Of Nancy
giving cash for babies!
In the French senate there is g. man who
already forced the general government to
begin handing good money to families of
five children. This is Senator Edme Plot,
a highly remarkable personality.
Son OF Burgundian family SO poor that
he was kept from school to work in the
fields, he broke stone on the highways and
worked over all France as a navy, but
as early as 1854 he was taking small con-
tracts on his own account, and he finally
became the greatest Of all French rail-
way contractors.
Becoming very rich, Senator Plot has
made himself famous throughout all Bur-
gundy by special kind of liberality-the
financial helping Of poor parents.
Actually he is the great authority on de-
population, president Of the senate COM
mittee relative to subsidies which the law
already permits to be granted to COM
LiuueS LUZ ulStTlDutlOu 10 1amll1eS OF nVe
and more, and author and untiring pusher
OF bill for the subventioning Of every
untiring mother of a newborn child.
You ask working mothers to suckle
their babes for a full year-to give you
population! he says. What have they
the right to ask of you? Cash, cash! Give
cash for babies!"
France will do it-if only on the evidence
Of the "Baby's Smile" of Nancy
why did I stipulate for first delay
Of six weeks?" explained Prof Herrgott
the other day to a rich and influential
Paris audience. "And why is the work
called the "Baby's Smile?" First, because
infant mortality is most frequent between
the ages Of one day and six weeks And,
secondly, because it is during the sixth
week that the first smile appears on baby's
lips.
do you not know that? Well, when a
mother has fed baby at her breast until
the epoch when she sees that smile ap-
pear, baby Is saved. No bottle for him
He will not be abandoned either by mother
or breast!"
ION condition that the mother has the
means to keep her baby with her." inter-
rupted one of the vice presidents.
What are $50 bills for7" snorted the
professor. Senator Plot is right Every
mother is creditor Of the state Pay
your creditors-it Is always a good Invest
ment. Yes. pay cash for babiesv'
STERLING HELLO.
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! lion dollars to hear sleigh bells"
Inc next well was plainly to be his
last He gave up Humble and went to a
new field, at Sloper's x-Roads, where salt
water had not broken in to corrupt the
few wells that had been found. He ex-
hausted every resource for funds. The
bankers, when he called, regretfully re-
ferred him to a little stack Of notes un-
paid. Most Of his friends were as near
gone as himself. He wheedied out Of
them small sum after small sum. He be-
ban to pawn, but soon ran out Of pawn
ables. He owed his crew two weeks
wages. and it was increasingly embar-
RAISING for him to go near the derrick, es-
pecially as the drill had struck a stratum
only make two or three inches a day. The
slowness Of the work got on the nerves of
the men. 1t made them thirsty, and it
made them surly TO have to borrow the
wages were owing to them.
Alice had refused to stay at the hotel in
Houston any longer and run up bills
After a bitter quarrel in which altruism
clashed with altruism, she forced Seth to
allow her to come out to the field town
and take room in a pine shack, which
even the tame title Of boarding house
Mrs. Bunnell. Her sister Jane was the
belle Of the f1eld-which was not saying
much.
warm and sultry day in which everything
seemed as far as possible from the normal
Christmas conditions. Late one afternoon
Seth came in and threw himself on a
chair in AFFECT collapse.
'The rotary table has just snapped in
two I can't raise money for another. The
work has shut down. The men are
grouchy and I'm, all in,' he explained
The men haven't struck, have they?"
Alice asked.
"Oh, they're as faithful and patient as
you'd expect angels to be-" said Seth,
land they promised not to knock off till
the last hope was gone, but this has fin
ished them"
'They mustn't stop yet" said Alice.
awhile
Il guess that's about all I'm good for"
Seth groaned, too deeply detected to note
that she had slipped on her hat and hur-
He sat chewing the bitter cud of baff1ed
hopes and mechanically picking up the
toys as the baby threw them overheard
1t was then that, after the eleventh con-
the clink of the money shocked his ear and
opened his mind to temptation.
He put 1t away. and vowed to die first.
But the bank fascinated him. and as the
baby continued to tell over his toes, Seth,
sr., found himself half-unconsciously work
ing at the lock. when Alice burst in.
1.-THE men have promised they'll stay on
she said. Tom Dominick said he'd work
till somewhere or other froze ova, If I
asked him tew. So l asked him. All he
needed. he said. was money enough to get a
new rotary something or other. Do you
reckon we could scrape up a few dollars
some placer"
| At that moment the little tin bank came
suddenly open in Setb's band, and there
was local cloldbGfst Of pennies dimes,
quarters, bii,s and gold pisces.
, ed the baby with the whole idea, and was
on her knees threatening to nip off all the
| pink toes at once.
I'D rather die than rob the baby's bank"
| said Seth.
We'll. thank goodness. I haven't such
| principles cried Alice. TN be the bur-
| glar. Besides, he's very anxious for US to
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The Little Tin Bank RUPERT p HUGHES

southern generals were too gentlemanly
to fight any longer with ngger-stealers.
Before he had left Galveston, he had
partly persuaded Alice to forgive him for
being born in the odious north. At Beau
mont he had dreamed Of her, Of her south
ern graces, her southern subtleties of tact
and beauty. Her every mannerism was an
angels trait He endured the mud, the
grease, the fatigue, the fever. because he
hoped 1t would some day bring him the
wealth that she ought to have.
And now he had $4,000 Of his own and
more pouring in. He wrote her and said:
My Darling:
II can't live without you any longer. Can
you love me? Will you marry me?
He haunted the post-offlce shack for her
answer. But it came by wire. Just Yes,
yes, yes"-only three words, and all the
other seven left unused! But he forgave the
extravagance-being rich. AS he turned to
go back to his tent. he walked SO large
that he touched only the high spots. He
looked at the sky A moment before 1t had
been lit with stars: now they were all
white magnolia blossoms filling the wind
with scented whisper of Eyes, yes, yes"
They took their honeymoon in New York
at the Waldorf-Astoria. There was some
thing appallingly blissful about the bills.
When Alice was afraid to buy something
gorgeous. Seth would say:
Listen, honey: can you hear the gluggle-
observation-disclosures the oil coming out
of the ground-every four Diuggles means
dollar Don't be afraid"
They decided to run across to Europe.
Seth said that his right-hand man, Tom
Dominick would take care Of everything.
He bought state room on a steamer sail
ing the next'day Just as they were leav-
ing their suite at the hotel. page brought
Seth a telegram:
THE oil has quit gushing: got to get air
compressors. TOM"
1T ought to be on the spot" groaned
Seth would 1t break your heart. dearie,
to give UP the Europe idea for while? Or
could you take your mother and let me
come over later. when 1 can?"
DO you reckon 1 mated you to get rid
of your said Alice.
A week later the newspaper at Batson
Prairie announced in It's society column:
1.-THE popular oil-producer Mr.. Seth Rad
ford, and his charming bride, nee Miss Alice
Payton, OF Galveston. have returned from
New York. and will make their sojourn
among our elite Welcome to Batsons
Prairie Seth!'
Now, gashers are free and vivacious.
Pumping machinery costs money and brings
less Oil. The pumps worked harder and
harder, but the flow grew slowef-slower-
slower: and the price of oil went down
downtown. The spirits Of the Radfords
followed the price.
IT don't exactly admiah the oil business -
said Alice.
Gradually Batsons' Prairie lost prestige.
| Seth bought more ground and dug more
wells. Sometimes he struck pocket OF
| oil that only fiattery could call a gusher.
| He was glad IL 1t managed to pay itssSwn
| cost before it petered out. Sometimes. after
weary work and the encountering of good
| omen after good omen till hope grew fran
| tic there came time when 1t was plainly
useless to drill furtheg-and several thou