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The Lafayette advertiser. [volume] (Vermilionville [i.e. Lafayette], La.) 1865-19??, 1908-04-14
The Poll Tax.
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Shreveport Caucasian:
The agitation for the repeal of
the poll tax is becoming mani.
fest. and therefore the citizens
who favor the payment of poll
tax as a prerequisite to voting
should evince some activity in
their determination to resist its
repeal.
The authority to repeal or
modify this requirement is left
to the General Assembly OF
Louisiana as provided in the Con-
stitution of 1893. After a test of
ten years the wisdom of it's enact
ment has been demonstrated
practically and effectively. Had
the Constitutional Convention of
1898 enacted only this one clause
and had then adjourned. this &C.
complishment would have been
to their lasting credit. 1t has
not only operated in safeguard.
ing the electorate, but it has been
the medium Of providing sub.
stantial and needed financial con-
tribution in aid of the public
schools.
To repeal the poll tax would be
viewed as q public calamity, but
il may be strengthened in a po-
1itical sense by limiting it's issue
directly to the person paying the
tax and not by proxy as is now
permitted, through which is
given opportunity to a few men,
Ia localities, to control those for
whom the poll tax has been paid.
In other respects the law should
stand.
1t IS simple and effective.
Before one can vote he must
have paid. on or before Decem.
Der 81 Of each year, for two
years preceding the year in
which be offers to vote, q poll tax
Of $1.00 for each year. which is
applied for the benefit of the
public schools. This applies to
Ill citizens between the ages of
twenty-one and sixty years. At
sixty years the exemption fol
lows.
The strength of the law, it's
potency in the elimination OF the
undertakes, lies in the require
ment Of the payment of the poll
tax on or before December 81 of
each year for two years proceed
inR the year in which the citizen,
otherwise qualified may offer to
vote.
The Lafayette advertiser. [volume] (Vermilionville [i.e. Lafayette], La.) 1865-19??, 1908-04-14

cidence that this socialist visit
has apparently been seen also by
Secretary Taft. for, in speech to
an Ohio board of trade last week
he advocated a larger army on
the ground that it might be nee
essary to use it for the suppress
sion of the rising forces of social
ism and anarchy.
Here we have Secretary Taft
agreeing with the forecast of
Jack London of a possible in
crease of the militia forces of the
country in order to put down the
social revolution which he and
socialists predict. At any rate
the fact can not be questioned
that the policy which Mr.. Taft
favors is in line with the forecast
MI. London has made. THAT
policy, remarks the Washington
Herald, "contemplates a consi6-
cradle addition to the regular
army and the development of
the militia forces to a state of
efficiency as high as that of the
regulars, all for the purpose of
not only repelling foreign attack.
but also of depressing domestic
disorder. Thus the social revo-
luton which Mr.. London fore
casts Mr.. Taft believes we
should prepare for by charging
our military forces. 1t is GER
tainly an interesting coincidence
that the Vaccinations of a social
ist writer and the apprehensions
of our War Secretary should be
IN substantial accord.
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But the important question is
how nearly right are Secretary
Taft and Mr.. London in their
vision of the impending social
revolt. It is evident that both
Of them, looking into the future.
have seen the same thing as
others have before them whose
visions were ridiculed, and if the
revolt does come, will the power
of the army and the militia be
sufficient to crush the masses of
the people into submission to
the will of an oligarchy of wealth
which will then represent the
government? 1t may well be
doubted when the fact is cOnsid-
cred that the great middle
class. which was once proudly
proclaimed as the "bulwark of
the nation in time of danger"
has practically disappeared in it's
merging with the working class
to which conditions have caused
it to gravitate rapidly in the last
two decades. Indeed. there is
much reason to think that if the
revolt which our Secretary of
War and our ablest socialist
writer foresee should occur, the
people and not the oligarchy
would emerge triumphant from
the friQhtful cataclySm.
The Lafayette advertiser. [volume] (Vermilionville [i.e. Lafayette], La.) 1865-19??, 1908-04-14
GREAT SUMMER TERM

Opens April q. 1908. A great
opportunity is offered you. 500
will make you a bookkeeper or
stenographer. 1t pays board.
tuition and stationery.
WAL0EN'S BUSINESS COLLEGE,
Lake Charles. La. Only a linn
tied number of Scholarships to
be sold at Reduced Rates. Write
To-Day. L. r. WALDEN,
Lake Charles.
Write for our Great Special
Offer.
The Lafayette advertiser. [volume] (Vermilionville [i.e. Lafayette], La.) 1865-19??, 1908-04-14
Tha s,ine and the Flower

oh me! I saw a huge and loathsome sty,
Wherein a drove of wallowing swine
were barred, /.
Whose banoue' ,nocked the nostri1 and
the eye
Then 500 "a voice, eBehold the source
of l,-fd!"
I fed. and saw a field that seemed at first
One glistening mass of roses pure and
white,
With dewy buds mid dark green foliage
nursed;
And, as / fingered DER the lovely sight,
The summer breeze, that cooled that
Southern scene,
Whispered, " Behold the source OF
COTTOLENE!"
The Lafayette advertiser. [volume] (Vermilionville [i.e. Lafayette], La.) 1865-19??, 1908-04-14
Taken Up

On my place in the second ward OF
Lafayette parish about 3 months ago,
one bay horse about 8 years old and
blind in one eye. Owner can have
same by proving ownership and pay
ing costs. URSIN HOFFPAUIR,
Ridge, La.
The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1908-08-16
YOU WILL. NOT

be deceived. That there arc cheats
and frauds in plenty everybody
knows; but it is seldom or never
that any large business house is
guilty Of them, no matter what
line of tSade it follows. There
can be 10 permanent success of
a1y kind based on dishonesty or
deception. There never was, and
never will be. The men who try
that are simply fools and soon
come to grief, as they deserve.
Now many persons are, neverthe-
less, afraid to buy certain adver-
tised articles lest they be hum
bugged and deluded; especially
are they slow to place confidence
in published statements OF the
merits of medicines. The effec-
tive modern remedy known as
WAMPOLE'S PREPARATION
is as safe and genuine an article
to purchase as flour, silk or cot
ton goods from the mills of
manufacturers with a worldwide
reputation. We could not afford
to exaggerate its qualities or mis-
represent it in the least; and it
is not necessary. It is palatable
as honey and contains the nu-
tritive and curative properties of
Pure Ced Liver Oil, extracted
by US from fresh cod livers, com
bined with the Compound Syrup
of Hypophosphites and the Ex-
tracts of Malt and Wild Cherry;
and how valuable such blend
ing of these important medicinal
agents must be is plain to every
body. 1t ID beyond price in In
pomnia, Anemia, Weakness and
lack of Nervous Tone, Poor
Digestion, Lung Troubles and
Blood Impurities. Science can
furnish nothing better-perhaps
nothing so good. D.. ". II.
DaRfe, of Canada, says: 81 have
used it in my practice and take
pleasure in recommending it as
valuable tonic and reconstrne.
tive" 1t is a remedy that can
ford to appeal to its record
and represents the science ane
knowledge of brig ht and aggres-
sive medical vestfgation. ssOrs
bottle ccnvincea. At chemists.
The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1908-08-16
Copyright, 1908, by John Elfreth
Watkins,)

The great goal for which Mr. Taft
and his Democratic opponent will soon
begin to battle has certain appurten-
ances which, aside from the glory and
honor, responsibility and power of the
position, are not unattractive at any
time, and since Theodore Roosevelt be-
came President some of them are more
desirable than ever For instance, the
President s salary is 100000 for the
term, $l37 day, $50 an hour, AZ IL
cents minute. But Mr.. Roosevelt has
fixed 1T so that his successor will enjoy
much more comforta bic, dignified and
decent manner of living than that
which confronted him when he moved
into the crowded fat which Uncle Sam
then held in reserve for Presidents
over his little museum at 10th street
and Pennsylvania avenue. The next
President will not have to be beholden
to the shrewd generosity of the rail
roads whenever he wishes to comply
with popular demands for his presence
here and there. There will always be
on hand in the Treasury $20S3 month
to defray the travelling expenses of
the President and his invited guests, -
as the law puts it.
And the victor in this campaign will
find the White House much more tempt
ing as home than did Mr. Roosevelt
when he first had his trunk carried into
it. What he then found Uncle Sam to
have in store~~for him was indeed
fiat over a museum, and one end of the
fiat was given over to offices. State
dinners were being held in a drafty,
upstairs hallway. reception guests were
making their exits out of front win
dow, and the President himself
couldn t take bath in his own con.
gested suite of living rooms without
fear of some intruder's peeping at him
over a half partition separating his
tub stall from part Of the lavat0ry
space frequented by officeseekers. Mr..
Roosevelt told the leaders in Congress
that the President of respectable ma
tion should live respectfully, and he got
an appropriation which he used to clear
his sleeping floor of its workshop an
mex He moved the latter to new
wing. added bedrooms and baths, had
the building restored to its original
archtec tural grandeur, had its bizarre
and rocco furnishings sold at auctioN
and had it redecorated and refurnished
in simple but classic good taste.
PRESIDENCY A SAFER OFFICE.
Thanks to Congress also the presi-
dency is a safer Office than when Mr..
Roosevelt assumed it. Attacks upon
the life of the Chief Magistrate are
now federal offences, and an unsuccess-
full attempt to kill him is punishable
by death, while mere threat to assas-
sinate him, or even the advising of
another to do so, is punishable by ten
years Imprisonment. To prevent
repetition of the Garfield tragedy,
separate wing of the new union station
now being completed in Washington is
being furnished and appointed for the
private use of Presidents, who hereaf
The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1908-08-16

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The Baltimore County union. [volume] (Towsontown, Md.) 1865-1909, 1908-02-29
THE WOMAN WITH THE BROOM.
BY ADA RuRY auLLIcKsoN.

We're rather tired of hearing Of the man behind
the gun,
We've heard his praises shouted from Lexing-
We know he did his duty and performed it no.
And we We thank God for the peace that falls upon
But while we sing his praises, just give little
room
For that poorly honored person, the woman
And admit she sometimes spends too much
upon her hats;
She loves the bargain counter, with it's alluring
And suppose that some of them let's 'hubby"
go in rags
OF ali the facts, then ask yourself, what better
could you do?
She's supposed. in most cases, to be hostess.
She's expected to wage warfare 'gainst the dirt
She must broil the steak and fry the chops and
Concoct the buildings, bake the cake, on the
children keep an eye;
There's fruit to can, preserves to make and jelly
She's all to blame, of course, if any of it happens
to be spoiled.
There are clothes to wash and beds to make and
ironing to be done,
me pariOT must De uodtly AePts thoro ohO 0H-
The flower beds free from grass must be, the
garden weeded too,
The lawn moved nicely and, of course, not hav-
ing much to do
She's ample time to milk the COW and give the
chickens feed,
For, being just woman, she, of course, doesn't
care to read.
She does take the time, (who blames her y to
gossip just bit
Across the backyard gateway, before the lamps
are lit;
day,
She, too enjoys little call on the neighbor DER
the way.
And though her voice be not SO clear, her hands
lost much of skill,
She yet may love the Old-time songs whose
chords our hearts ere thrill.
Who said good bye" so bravely to the loved
ones long ago
When shot and Shell were whistling and Duty
bade them go,
Who helped them pack their knapsacks, with
breaking heart the while,
Yet spoke the hopeful words of love and gave
the cherry smile
Who, mid suspense, with tear -dimmed eyes, the
list of missing read,
And trembled lest their names be found among
the MANNED or dead?
She stay yed at home and bravely faced the warfare
of her heart,
The conflict, that tho bloodless, still played so
great part;
And il the heroes who upon the battle fields did
Are honored with the Nations tears, remember
twas not all
Through them our dear land was preserved, and
= !, give little thought
To the women, who, in lonely homes, their own
Word and Works.
The Baltimore County union. [volume] (Towsontown, Md.) 1865-1909, 1908-02-29
SUPERSTITION AND oPALs.

The world is full of superstition,
and one of the worst is that the opal
is unlucky. This superstition arose
when the "black death" swept Eu-
rope. At that time the opal was very
popular, and some noticed that when
a victim of the disease was dying the
opal on the finger frightened and
when he was dead it became dull. OF
course, this took the popular fancy
and at once opals became "unlucky, !"
and have remained so ever since.
Very likely they DO not change at all
on the fingers of dying person, and
the whole matter is like the question
which once caused so much discus
sion in the scientific world, i. e., why
is it that when you put fish in a
bowl of water the weight of the bowl
Of water is not increased! Many
learned answers were given, but f.
nally one duffer weighed bowl of wa
ter with and without the fish in it,
and thus settled the matter.
The Baltimore County union. [volume] (Towsontown, Md.) 1865-1909, 1908-02-29
STAY ON THE FARM.

That farm life is the independent
life is only to be realized by short
season of transplanting to the city.
The cramped conditions of the ordi-
nary dweller in flats will soon con-
vince country bred man or woman
that the country is the place. To be
obliged to have the ready cash for
every egg or bit of greens becomes
exasperating. And one trial of
boarding house life is enough to send
the country boy who has ambitions
for the city back to his quiet and
peaceful and innocent surroundings.
As for a girl, it is impossible to think
how one who has a home to stay at
should ever dream of giving it up for
a pitiful clerkship or Office. Stay on
the farm and make the life there ideals.
In the state of Illinois movement
is said to have been inaugurated with
the view of making farm life more at
tractive to the boys. The idea seems
to be to hold farmer boys conventions
and encampments; to have process
sions and prizes; to have addresses
by prominent men and social clubs
and lectures showing that the safest
and surest way to life of independ-
ence and competence lies in tilling
the soil.
Anything that tends to keep boys
on the farm is a wise movement, and
the suggestion is one which the faith
ers might do we'll to study. Make
the farm interesting and worth while
to the boy. Farming is noble bus
mess, and it is mistake whenever a
youth deserts it for cheap job in
town. There are so many things
now which make farming more to be
desired as calling than ever before.
Educate and organize the boys and
keep them on the farm.
The Baltimore County union. [volume] (Towsontown, Md.) 1865-1909, 1908-02-29
FULL FAITH IN THE DOCTOR.

A young farm laborer called one
market day at the registers Office to
record his father death. The regis
trar asked the date of death.
"Well, father amt dead yet, !" was
the reply, "but he will be dead be-
fore morning, and l thought it would
save me another journey If you would
put it down now"
"Ob, that won't do at ALL" said
the registrar. "Why, your father
may take turn before morning and
recover"
"Ah, no, he won't" said the
young laborer. doctor says he
won't, and he knows what he's giving
father" !"
The Baltimore County union. [volume] (Towsontown, Md.) 1865-1909, 1908-02-29
A MEMORY OF A LOST DELIGHT.

A fireplace anyone may have, and
to me the wonder is that our civiliza-
ton has abolished the very soul from
our northern homes. Fire is no lon-
ger the Joy of the household, but the
slave, imprisoned in the cellar. All,
but it was delicious when the old
fashioned family sat together in the
great kitchen around the huge fire.
place. All the evening we told sto-
ries, ate doughnuts, drank cider, all
the time pairing apples and hanging
the long festoons of quarters from the
beams. But the dear little mother,
she it was who told the best stories
while she was knitting muff1ers and
socks or mending our we'll worn cloth
ing. There were no parlors at all in
those days, and as for thrummed pia-
nos, we had not yet heard OF them.
At o o'clock, honest and drowsy, we
knelt and thanked God for life and
love and home. Our hunks and beds
and trundle beds were all in close
proximity, and from every one OF
them we could see the flames, still
jumping up the chimney while the
big frelog was slowly eaten through:
There was not one millionaire in all
the world, and, indeed, we were not
worried over the affair.-E. p. P0w-
ell in Outing Magazine.
EpH GREEN-"Ah desires to pur-
chase a raZzer."
Clerk-"Safety"
Eph Green-"No, sab; dis am TO
social usage"
TAKE a rest; field that has rest
ed gives hountiful crop.
The Baltimore County union. [volume] (Towsontown, Md.) 1865-1909, 1908-02-29

AT A political meeting an Irishman
watched closely the trombone player
in the band. Presently the man laid
down his instrument and went out for
a beer. Paddy investigated an d
promptly pulled the horn to pieces.
The player returned. who's med
died NIT my drombone he roared.
"Oi did," said Paddy. "Here
we've been for two hours tryin' to
pull it apart, an Oh did it in wan
minut!'
The Baltimore County union. [volume] (Towsontown, Md.) 1865-1909, 1908-02-29

DR.. FITZPATRICK, who is some
thing of humorist, was running
down the steps Of St. Paul's Hospital
when he met fellow doctor.
"Hello, Fitzpatrick l'' cried the
latter, noticing that his friend looked
pleased. you're in hurry. What's
the matter-any good cases ]"
"I should think so /" cried Fitz-
patrick. We've got woman in the
ward upstairs who is SO cross-eyed
that the tears run down her back.
"Bless me - said his friend. "You
can't do anything for her, can you 7"
81 should think we can-in fact, we
have" cried Fitzpatrick; we've
treated her for bacteria !"
The Baltimore County union. [volume] (Towsontown, Md.) 1865-1909, 1908-02-29

ST HAVEN'T got any case, !" said the
client "but 1 have money" How
much?" asked the lawyer. "Ten
thousand pounds" was the reply.
"Phew you have the best case ever
heard of. I'll see that you never go
to prison with that sum, F" said the law
yer, cheerfully. And he didn't-he
went there, broke"
The Baltimore County union. [volume] (Towsontown, Md.) 1865-1909, 1908-02-29

"BUr," asked the absolutely bald
old party, "can be assured that this
horse is quite gentle!"
"My dear sir" replied the foxy
horse dealer, "he wouldn't harm a
hair of your head"
The Baltimore County union. [volume] (Towsontown, Md.) 1865-1909, 1908-02-29

BoBBY-"Sister must be able to
see in the dark.
Mother-"H How SO 7"
Bobby because last night, when
she was sitting with Mr.. Staylate in
the parlor, 1 heard her say, why
Tom, you haven't shaved. 30
The Baltimore County union. [volume] (Towsontown, Md.) 1865-1909, 1908-02-29

We have no right to carry about in
our faces and bearing the black ban
ner of anarchy. We have no right
to faunt gloomy picture in the faces
of those who are struggling to rise
above their troubles and trials.
Every man owes it to his fellow
men to go about with bright, cheer
full, hopeful, optimistic face, radiating
sunshine. joy, gladness, hope instead
of blackness and despair. The human
face ought to be splendid picture,
attractive, radient with beauty, JOY
and hope. 1t is every mans duty to
radiate encouragement.
Think what it would mean if every
body were to go about with bright,
cheerful face, and regarded it as al
most criminal to be seen with dis
couraged, gloomy, sour, melancholy
expression. What mighty current
of uplifting, encouraging power would
come to all of US if everybody regard
ed this sublime radiation as sacred
duty
You have no more right 70 poison
my thought by projecting discouraged,
gloomy thoughts into my mind than
you have to scatter thistle seeds in
my garden.
The Baltimore County union. [volume] (Towsontown, Md.) 1865-1909, 1908-02-29
A SUNNY DISPOSITION.

A very charming old lady says that
if she had the power to choose the
best from all the good things in life,
she would not ask for wealth, because
of its responsibilities she would not
ask for beauty, because of its strain
upon character; she would not ask
for health, glorious as the treasure is,
nor for genious but she would pray
for sunny disposition, as the boon
which confers more happiness upon its
owner, and more happiness upon those
with whom one comes in contact, than
any other which falls to the lot of any
human creature
The Baltimore County union. [volume] (Towsontown, Md.) 1865-1909, 1908-02-29

Most people would see nothing
worth while in this poor woman's life ;
would even give UP to despair were
they situated as she is yet she manages
to find something beautiful, some
thing worth treasuring up in the mem
ory even in her darkest days of sor-
row.
Her experience ought to shame
those of US who complain of our inf
nitely better lot in life.
If children were properly trained to
see the uncommon in the common, to
find beauty where other people see
only ugliness if they are trained to
find their enjoyment in the little ex-
periences of life, we should not have
the great seething unrest and discon-
tent which we now find among all
classes.
The trouble is, we emphasize the
wrong things. If we were little
better of, if we had what our neigh
bors have, we think we should be hap
py. Yet we know perfectly we'll that
maEy of the most miserable people in
the world are rich.
The Baltimore County union. [volume] (Towsontown, Md.) 1865-1909, 1908-02-29

TAKE a rest; field that has rest
ed gives bountiful crop.
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1908-01-21
Nevada Sheriff Victim
of creeks Bullet
Band of Assassins Makes Es-
cape to Hills, Pursued by
Maddened Posse
SPECIAL DISPATCH TO THE CALL

McGILL, New. Jan. se0.-when Sherif
Sam Davis went into the Greek quarter
near the smelter here this afternoon TO
arrest a Greek he was shot. and now
lies at the point of death.
Friends of the Greek threat the
officers approach to the quarters. and
just which one of them fired the shot is
not known definitely. The fugitives
took to the hills in the direction OF
Ely. A posse formed quickly and
started in pursuit
yard engine switching in the
smelter yards. was boarded by the pur-
suers. and the engineer put on full
head of steam down the track in the
direction taken by the murderers. The
pursuers hoped by this move to cut OF
the hight toward Ely, but the fugi-
tives are not yet IN custody
The shooting Of the sheriff by the
Greeks has maddened the people here.