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The Lafayette advertiser. [volume] (Vermilionville [i.e. Lafayette], La.) 1865-19??, 1908-04-17
S. P. e RATES..

On account of United States Battle
Ships at Los Angeles, San Diego, and
San Francisco California, tickets on
sale April Is and 26, final return limit
reads that original starting point
must be reached sixty days after date
of sale ten days transient limit allow
ed on going or outward trip, returning
stop-overs are allowed at any point
within the sixty day limit. Fare from
Lafayette $ 6.25.
On account OF the Laymen's Mis-
sionary Movement of the M. E
Church South, Chattanooga Tenn.
April 21-23, inclusive, round trip
tickets will be on sale Lafayette to
Chattanooga April IS, 10 and 20, final
return limit April "a. Fare from La
fayette S24.5O.
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Friday. April II, 1908.


E. T. Wisner Of Sloan
Springs, Arkansas, has return
ed to his home after spending a
few days visiting the Larrabee
family.
The Falk Mercantile Co. are
prepared to take charge OF
funerals and attend to all grave
yard work. A fine rubber-tired
hearse in stock.
Take your prescriptions to the
Lafayette Drug Store and they
will be filed correctly and with
pure medicine.
Miss Amenth Dupre, of Ope-
lousas, is the guest OF her cou-
sin. Miss Paola Delahoussaye.
The regular use of a tooth
brush keeps the teeth clean and
white and assists in preserving
them,-we sell a good tooth
brush for Is cents. Moss Phar-
macy.
A Is cent box of International
Poultry Food contains 100 aver
age feeds.for IL fowls.-Moss
Pharmacy.
Miss Daisy Louaillier, of Jen
nings, after spending a few
weeks at the home of her aunt,
Mrs. F. E. Moss, returned home
yesterday.
Tobacco dust is one of the best
and cheapest insect destroyers
known. It will destroy the fly
and worm in young plants.
Get you a supply at the Moss
Pharmacy
When you want groceries
phone up 245 and tell me you-
wauts.-F, @. Broussard.
One 8 horse power gasoline
engine and q corn mill, cost $3.50
for 1915. Apply to Octave Ber'
trand.
96 sheets of paper and 70 en-
yelopes for IS cents at the Moss
Pharmacy.
Miss Daisy Davis. associate
secretary of the Woman's BOARD
of Foreign Missions. will speak
At the Methodist church in this
place on Sunday, April 10. at 8 p
M. All are cordially invited te
come, especially the young PEG
pie, for whom she brings q spec
ial message.
Orders for feed OF al hlnus
filed promptly-D. p. Uptol
phone 1872.
M. A. Hargroder's barber
shop in the new Levy Bros.
building is modern in all rartlc
MARS. Call and see him.
Bernard 4 Meaux will nj
your orders for groceries
promptly. Phone 1873.
FOR ENT.-Cottage witt
four rooms and hall near Water
Pierce Oil Co. oil house. Phon'
rs.
10 prevent disease in Poultry
B use International Poultry Food
Moss Pharmacy.
Whnyop rant any kind Q
nfs6inst ring mp 3 Guidr'
The Lafayette advertiser. [volume] (Vermilionville [i.e. Lafayette], La.) 1865-19??, 1908-04-17
Gburcb Services.
Methodist Church..

Sunday school every Sunday
at 10 d. m. Preaching at II a.
and at 7:3O p. m. Everybody
welcome. Free seats. Strangers
in the city are cordially invited
to attend the services.
G.. G.. MILLER,
Pastor
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Cured Of Rheumatism.

Mr. VIM. Henry of Chattanooga,
Tenn, had rheumatism in his left arm.
1.-The strength seemed to have gone
out of the muscles SO that it a use
less for work." he says: ~ applied
Chamberlain's Pain Balm and wrap
ped the arm in flannel at night, and
to my relief l found that the pain grad
ually left me and the strength return
ed" In three weeks the rheumatism
had disappeared and has not since re-
turned" If troubled with rheuma.
tism try a few applications of Pain
Balm. You are certain to be pleased
with the relief which it affords. Fol-
sale by all druggists.
The Lafayette advertiser. [volume] (Vermilionville [i.e. Lafayette], La.) 1865-19??, 1908-04-17
Greatly Relieved.

Greatly Relieved.
Tho old farmer imagined himself to
be q sick man.
II feel terrible, doc" he sighed a.
he glanced at his tongue in the mirror.
"Oh, you are only suffering from
.ennui,' said the doctor, briskly. Cut
1t out"
Thank you, doc"
"FOr what!"
For telling me to cut the ennui U
thought you would cut it out your
self and send me in a bill for five hum
dred."
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Church..

Rev. w. H. Price, of Crowley.
will preach at the Presbyterian
Sunday at II a. m. and 8 p, m.
Everybody invited.
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Experienced lady clerk
who can speak French and
English. Liberal salary to
the right party. One with
out experience need not ap-
ply.
MOSE LEVY.
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FIELD DAY
For Southwest Louisiana Satur
day, April z5.-The Orators
and Athletes from
Eight Parishes Will Contest i'm
Lafayette for Championship.
The Event of the Year.

LIE Hull dBiludl ilclu Lay Va
the Interscholastic Athletic and
Oratorical Association of South
west Louisiana will be held in
on next Saturday,
April 25. Nine schools will be
represented, as follows: Lees
vile, Lake Charles, Jennings,
Crowley, Marksville, St. Martin
vile, Abbeville, New Iberia and
Lafayette. Those in the athletic
events will be: Leesville, Lake
Charles, Jennings, Crowley,
Marksville, Abbeville and Lafa-
yette. Those in the oratorical
contest will be: Lake Charles,
Jennings, Crowley, Marksville,
St. Martinville, New Iberia and
Lafayette. In the o%ratorical con,
test the judges on thought and
composition are Hon. H. l.. Guey-
dan. Gueydan, La, Hon. E. B.
Dubuisson, Opelousas, La. and
Supt. G. G. Henson, Alexandria,
La. The officers of the athletic
contest who have already accept
ed are as follows; Coach E. r.
Wingard, Of Louisiana State Uni
versity, Referee; J. G. Menefee,
Tulane University, Track Judge;
Philip Werlein, Elk President
Southern Athletic Club, New Or
leans, Timekeeper; Prof. r. L.
Hines, L. S. u, Field Judge;
Physical Director p. Roehm. Y.
M. G.. A., New Orleans. TRACK
Judge; John R. Commit, EXPIRES
ident S. A. c., New Orleans
Track Judge. All athletic OH
Gals are to be disinterested pro
fessiOnal men not connected witt
any of the schools participating
The Industrial Institute gives
liberal handicap to all the othe'
schools participating. The de
sire is to put all teams on an ab
solute equality. If there shoult
be dissatisfaction with the handi
caps proposed an adjustment will
be- made through the election o
an Official Handicapped by tn
schools participating, and hi
decision on handicaps will be &C
cepted as final. The trophy O
the athletic contest will be tn
magnificent silver Championshi
,lCup No. 2 donated by Mr.. T.. N
Biossat, of Lafayette. A Walt
able prize for the best orator wi
be given by the principals of tn
schools contesting. A one far
rate for a round trip from a
points has been allowed by tn
Southern Pacific railroad, and e1
. cursiOn trains to take everybOd
home at the end of the OratOric;
contest Saturday night are no
being applied for, with prospect
of success. A lunch counter wi
be conducted on the athletic fel
and ample hotel accommodation
have been secured. The rui
ming track on the campus OF tt
Industrial Institute has bee
widened to 100 feet for the Il
yards dash. in order to run G
that event in only one heat. 1t
gate receipts of Field Day La
year were over $500. This yes
not less than $1,000 is expecte'
Over 200 people will come ire
Crowley alone, as they have
rafting good team and expect
win. Lake Charles will prob
bly, bring 100 rOoters. Lars
. numbers of people will con
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We can interest you on sum
mer clothing. Call and see.-
Schmulen'S.
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Catholic Church..

Masses on Sunday at Z, 8 and
10 p. m. Free seats at s o'clock
mass. English sermons on the
fourth Sunday of each month at
10 a. m, all other Sundays at 8
a.. m. REV. w. j. TEURLINGS.
Rector.
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LOST-LOcket and chain. mi.
tials J. J. on lOcket. Return to
Nine. c.. Jeanmard and receive
reward.
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Episcopal Church..

Services on the first and third
Sundays of each month at 7:3O p.
m, Rev. G.. G.. Kramer, Rector.
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MoutOn Sisters have received
a great many new shapes from
Chicago, the very latest tn ing
for Easter.
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Baptist Church.

Preaching every Sunday at
Masonic Hall at II a. m. and 7:3O
D. m.-Rev. Jas. /. Kendrick,
pastor.
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We are showing a particularly
nice line of dress goods and have
a large assortment of trimmings
to match.
The Lafayette advertiser. [volume] (Vermilionville [i.e. Lafayette], La.) 1865-19??, 1908-04-17

Three and Four dollar hats re-
duced to $500 and $2.5 at Mou-
ton Sisters.
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GUIDR0z & gAcQUE,

BldcksmithS G. Wbee1WrightS.
Can do ANYTHING in their line. The widest
and meancst horses shod without hurting
them. Rubber tires put on. =: ::
Main St. near Court House.
Marble Hill press. (Marbel [sic] Hill, Mo.) 1881-1923, 1908-12-31

lighted, the lamps being of expensive
character and great brilliancy. Guns
and fishing tackle and hunting tog-
gerry of every kind gave the cabin the
atmosphere of sportsman's club.
'The men talked freely of everything
but themselves. They spoke of many
cities, but never of their homes. They
told me they were college chums who
had always made it a custom to spend
a few months together each fall in the
woods. They were clever men and
readily passed for the lawyer, the doc
tor and the merchant, the characters
they respectively pretended to be. The
one to whom the other two deferred in
everything was large, powerful man
with clean-shaven face and jaw like
a bulldog. His face was too Shrewd to
be pleasant. He watched me furtively,
a sinister, amused smile playing about
the corners of his mobile mouth. That
smile spoke volumes. 1t made me lie
awake all night. 1t seemed to say that
he knew my real character, and there
fore l thought it best to keep on the
watch. The man seemed capable of
offering me personal violence. But
the night passed away without incl
dent. After breakfast, l repaired the
leak in my canoe and padded slowly
upstream, trying to figure out where
had seen the big man with the square
jaw before.
while | was smoking a last cigar
before retiring that evening, it came
to me where l had seen him. 1t was
on a street car in st. Louis, on one &C.
casion when | was shadowing the
shanty at the cave. He had been on
the same car and had kept his seat
when l alighted near the hut. He had
looked at me then as if he wanted to
know me the next time he saw me.
was assured that he was one of the
counterfeiters, and made up my mind
to arrest the three of them the first
thing next morning.
Here learned a lesson in procras-
tination. While l hastily gobbled down
my breakfast the next day, trapper,
who camped near by and who had gone
to the village the night before for sup
plies, happened along and told me a
most disconcerting bit of news. The
three men had taken French leave.
They had caught a through freight
about midnight, taking little or no
baggage with them. I fastened to the
village, and although l worked the
single telegraph wire to it's utmost
capacity, the three men succeeded in
making their escape.
Sending full cipher report to
Washington, repaired to the cabin in
the swamps and made careful search
Of it. Everything within was in the
Marble Hill press. (Marbel [sic] Hill, Mo.) 1881-1923, 1908-12-31
HAVE a RIGHT TO KNOW.
People Justified in Demand for Light
on Panama Deal.

indianapolis News: Mr.. Cromwell
denies with great positiVeness some
thing that has never been charged,
when he says that he is positive that
not man in public life in America, in
or out of congress, ever had the least
pecuniary interest in the Panama
canal" That charge has been made
by no one. He is, however, less strong,
when he says that he does mot know
and never has known of any Amer
lean citizen who has ever dealt in any
shares of the new Panama canal COM
pany or the shares or bonds of the
old company" To say that one does
not know of a thing is hardly the
same as denying it. The question is,
as it always has been, who got the
money? The answer 10 that will show
whether any Americans got any of it
by reason of their investment in canal
securities for the purpose of unload
ing them on the government at fancy
prices, prices far in excess of what
was paid for them, or of their worth
This phase of the case does not seem
to interest either the president or Mr..
Cromwell The latter gentleman re-
minds US that he said to the senate
committee that he did mot know what
distribution Of the fund had been
made and that he was "in no way
concerned or interested therein" 1t
was, he said further, none of his "buSi-
ness, personally or professionally. who
were the stockholders or bondholders
of the company" While the president
says that the United States govern
| ment has not the slightest knowledge
as to the particular individuals among
whom the French government dis
tributed the sum-" and that this was
the business of the French govern
ment." We think the American people
have right to know whether or not
the canal property cost them millions
more than it ought to cost, and wheth-
| er, If there was any such loot, any
American citizens shared In it.
Marble Hill press. (Marbel [sic] Hill, Mo.) 1881-1923, 1908-12-31
Blush Should Become Historic.

Chairman Payne is said to have
been "visibly embarrassed" and Hon.
John Dalzell to have biushed when 1t
was discovered that the ways and
means committee was using towels
made in Great Britain" and chairs
made in Vienna. Good heavens! Why
shouldn't My Payne have fidgeted and
John Dalzell have turned red? Towels
are made in this country, and so are
chairs, and a tariff wall properly built
and cemented should keep the alien
products out. If Mr.. Payne and Mr..
Dalzell had been equal to the occa-
sion they would have declared offhand
that the rates on towels and chairs
should be revised upward. What pa
triotic American would dry himself
with an English towel or sit in an
Austrian chair?
But what a sight it were to see
Hon. John DalZell blush!
Marble Hill press. (Marbel [sic] Hill, Mo.) 1881-1923, 1908-12-31
Righteous Inclination.

Congressional resentment of one
passage in the presidents message is
justified. In most unguarded Ian
guage he spoke of the chief argu-
ment" for one law enacted by con-
gress as being a desire to prevent
Investigating terminals" in ''the legis-
Iative branch" The act in question
was one regulating the use of secret
service agents. In line with many
other similar enactments it merely
sought to limit the executive depart
ments in the spending of public mon
ey and the detail of public employees.
President Roosevelt signed the law
and made no protest at the time. He
has since discovered, apparently, that
it has the effect of putting a legal
hedge about his benevolent activities,
and breaks out in abusive and insult
ing words, for which congress, it is
confidently stated, is going to rebuke
him, while asserting ats own dignity,
by some form of joint resolution or
protest. But the president will have
a ready answer. He will merely need
to assert that this is another attack
upon him by Wall street. Then all
will be clear, and the western huzzas
will be heard once more.-New York
Evening Post.
Marble Hill press. (Marbel [sic] Hill, Mo.) 1881-1923, 1908-12-31
MUST REMAIN FIRM
ONLY BULWARk OF THE SOUTH
IS DEMOCRATIC PARTY.
Section Can Not Afford to Abandon
Its Solidarity and Throw Itself
Upon the Mercy of the
Republicans.

Mr. Taft is the first of Republican
presidents, or presidents-elect, who
has had the courage and the candor
to admit that the south has been right
in placing lawful qualifications upon
the suffrage in order to save states,
counties and municipalities from dom
ination by ignorant and debased cleo
torates.
In the face of many threats of fed
eral interference and of reduced rep
resentation in congress, the south has
persevered in this policy because it
knew 1t was right, and because it was
confident that the entire country
would in time, concede that it was
right.
Mr.. Taft is the first Republican pres
ident, or president-elect, formally to
concede that the country needs, in its
legislation and administration, the ac
tive participation of that element of
the southern people which has persist
emily adhered to the Democratic par
ty. President Mckinley, it is true,
cordially invited the military patriot
ism of the south to his aid in the
Spanish war and gave it liberal recog
milton, but there he stopped.
In the reform policy to which he
is pledged, and which he proposes to
carry out in his administration, Mr..
Taft will need the support of all the
best wisdom and patriotism of the
country, in whatever section it may be
found But in the appeal for southern
support which he has made before the
i1tr ~f OWL
the coming president vaults lightly
| over many obstacles that will not be
so easily overcome in the concrete.
In the presence of conditions that
are not fully understood anywhere
else in the country, the south will
hesitate long before abandoning its
solidarity to throw itself upon the ten
der mercy of the Republican party.
There is the negro vote, without which
| in an election that is at all debatable,
| the Republican party cannot carry
| New Jersey and the states north of
| the Ohio river. In order to propftiate
| this vote the Republican party, in
every national election, makes boast
| full promises of what it is going to do
| for the negro, and the fear is ever
present in the south that a Republican
| administration may interfere, through
| it's interstate powers, to disturb con-
| ditions there by trying to make these
| promises good.
It may be confidently predicted that
southern Democrats, and Democrats
| from other parts of the country, will
| support President Taft in all bene-
| fetal measure that consist with DEM
ocratic principles. But the south is
| not going to break ranks and aban-
don the flag of the party which has
been, and is, it's only bulwark of de-
| fense.--St. Louis Republic.
Marble Hill press. (Marbel [sic] Hill, Mo.) 1881-1923, 1908-12-31
that I follow up the clew of

suggested that follow up the clew of
the empty envelope.
With as cumbersome and complete
an outfit as every city sportsman
carries into the woods with him, / left
the train one day at the wayside sta
ton which bore the name of the post
mark. Securing guide and cook, in
the person of lanky native, I had my
truck hauled out to the St. Francis
river, only two miles distant, where
pitched camp and made preparations
for an indefinite stay
by making inquiry of my visitors, l
learned that about five miles down the
river were camped, in a snug cabin
built by themselves, three gentlemen
from parts unknown. They maintained
the place as a sort of club and had
spent the spring season there. They
left about March and were gone until
October, when they returned one night
and again took possession of their
cabin. Our raid on the cave had been
made on the 18th of October, and this
caused me to think that perhaps the
empty envelope was making good
LAS the three gentlemen did not
deign to visit my camp, I decided to
make a call upon them.
Il started out in a folding canvas
canoe, late in the afternoon, and ar
rived in the vicinity of their camp just
at nightfall. With a sharp cypress
tree, aided by a jagged cut from my
hunting knife, I succeeded in punching
a bad hole in the bottom of the canoe,
and with the boat rapidly filling with
water, landed just after sunset at the
very door of their cabin. The three
men were at home and they welcomed
me with the open hos. 'itality of camp
ers, insisting that | spend the night
with them. This was just what I had
been playing for.
1T was easy to see that the men
were crooks. There is always some
thing to disclose the counterfeiter, if
the observer is only sufficiently versed
in their ways and mannerisms to rec
ognize the telltale signs. | was pretty
sure, before the evening was over,
that these were the men who had done
the job in st. Louis.
Nothing about the cabin was the
least bit suspicious. A large iron pot
dubbed invitingly over the open fire,
the fragrant odor of boiling meat is
suing from under it's lid when the
steam pushed it up on one side. A
steaming hauneh of vension, cooking
with some vegetables and dumplings,
was produced from the pot for our
supper, which was served soon after
my arrival. In the center of the room
was big table, crudely constructed of
heavy oak timbers. The cabin was we'll
Marble Hill press. (Marbel [sic] Hill, Mo.) 1881-1923, 1908-12-31
PENETRATING Questions,

What the people want to know, and
have right to know, is who bought
the old obligations and divided up the
25,000,000 paid for them. Who were
the new Panama Canal Company
which divided up $15,000,000? Who
participated in the 100000 syndicate
and furnished the cash to buy up the
old obligations, finance the manufac-
tured Panama revolution and put
through the canal job?-New Haven
Union.
Marble Hill press. (Marbel [sic] Hill, Mo.) 1881-1923, 1908-12-31


heard of the original matter. Such
was the case which l have come to
remember as that of The Iron Pot
1t was vessel of this humble charac-
ter that finally cleared up a great mys-
terry and brought the guilty to justice.
"a st. Louis gang had their plant
In a cleverly constructed cave in q
suburban district. 1t was an artificial
cave, dug back in the face of clay
and gravel bluff The entrance was
through the shanty of a poor Irish
family, circumstance that diverted
suspicion from it and one to which is
partly due the long immunity the
gang enjoyed.
There was no scrap OF metal, no
coins, chemicals, or other thing used
in the art. Only the machine and a
few wrenches and similar tools. The
gang had skipped out. The Irishman
was half-witted, and his wife was too
clever to be caught in the traps we
laid for her. We had made a water
haul, except for the machine, which
was destroyed. The cave was filled
UP. Acting under orders from Wash
ington we maintained secrecy about
the entire matter and nothing of it
got into the newspapers.
II found one thing in the shanty
which might or might not offer a clew
to the counterfeiters. 1t was an empty
envelope bearing the postmark of an
obscure railroad station in the sunk
land district of northeastern Arkansas
had long ago learned that it is the
seemingly insignificant things that
lead to the discovery of criminals, and
while this envelope might mean moth
ing, on the other hand, it might be of
the gravest Importance. 1t had been
found beneath the sheet of metal on
which the cook stove stood, the tip of
one corner, discolored and grimy, at
tracing my attention. 1 had secured
it and pocketed it witsout attracting
attention.
eff the gang had never existed it
could not have disappeared more effec,
tually. We were face to face with a
blank wall. This made us the more
Y anxious to capture the counterfeiters
AS nothing better offered, the cf' #
Marble Hill press. (Marbel [sic] Hill, Mo.) 1881-1923, 1908-12-31

There were several occasions when
it was necessary for the treasury de-
partment to come to the relief of the
money market.-President Roosevelt's
message.
Excepting possibly the case of the
1907 panic, the action of the treasury
department on every one of these oc-
casions was positively harmful, and
stimulated not business but the stock
gambling that was inimical to bust
ness.
Marble Hill press. (Marbel [sic] Hill, Mo.) 1881-1923, 1908-12-31

"The people are partners in all great
fortunes" says Andrew Carnegie.
Very silent partners.-New York
American.