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The Opelousas courier., 1908-02-15
FOR DELEGATE TO DENVER

We understand that our distinguished
fellow-townsman, Hon. Thos. H. Lewis,
lisa candidate for delegate to the National
Democratic Convention to be held next
summer in Denver for the purpose of
5nelecting the candidates of the part.y for
resident and Vice-President, each con-
Eressionai district being entitleaIo two
delegates in that great assembly, upon
whose wisdom viii largely depend the
success Of the party in the nation in the
coming campaign.
No ADLER, wiser ornmore experienced
man could be found II the district than
MFR. Lewis, none NOR sincerely devoted
TO the best interestrrof the party, none
Iwho has labored fer its success for many
years more zealously or more unselfshly
than he. Never a candidate for any
Office of profit, but always toaking a deep
interest in matters political, which is tan
tamount to saying that he was always in
terested in good government, this is the
first time in his long and honorable career
that the Courier has had the privilege Of
recommending him for an Office that he
cared to accept, and we here and now
most earnestly do SO. His selection
should be made unanimous.
The Opelousas courier., 1908-02-15

The forthcoming legislature will be
expected to do some work for the people
during its session next April. Only a
few items on the list can b rredited to
the people, and it is high time that they
shall be given full measure this time.
The property owner is burdened to
death with taxes. The state and parish
levy, the drainage and produce taxes,
the assaults of the levee boards and other
demands have about confiscated the
earnings of the toiler. For instance,
more money is required for the mainten-
c of the levees than is necessary fol
their construction, and still we get nc
benefit superior to that handed forth in
former years. Now and then we see
that this OF that levee board has issued a
section of bonds. but none tell us what
they do with the cash.
We have to pay for dignity and it is
q rather expensive investment with no
returns. The legislature should demand
one hundred cents in value for every dol
lar Of public money spent, or demand the
designations of the members or boot them
out.-Franklin Watehman.
The Opelousas courier., 1908-02-15

An interesting rain-making experiment
is reported from North Otago, New Zea-
land, where there had been a long drought.
The places chosen were Raki's Table,
1850 feet above the sea level, and To-
tard, 500 feet above the sea. The first
attack on the skies was made with three
explosions, in the last and most powerful
forty pounds of dynamite and twenty
five pounds of powder being used. No
immediate effects were observed, but q
slight shower fell at a place a little dis
lance away. Further explosions with
larger charges followed, the strongest
being produced by fifty pounds of gum
cotton and one hundred pounds of dyna-
mite. These were followed by wide
spread and heavy rains which continued
for two days. A third series of explo-
sions involving charges of two hundred
pounds were also successful.
The Opelousas courier., 1908-02-15

refer to but the principle of the thing.
Patronize home industry and build up
your home town. When a man spends
money in his home town some of it is
sure to find its way back to the man who
put it in circulation.
The local papers spend their money
with the merchants here. Then is it fair
for the merchant to send out of town for
a thing that his local printing offices
could supply?
The principle is the same for a merchant
or any business man to send away after
his printing as it is for people to send
away fortheir dry goods, etc.
With this being done by some 1--WE are
glad OF say not alb of u merchants
what encouragement has the local papers
to appeal to the people to keep theil
money at home and build up home en-
terpfises by patronizing the home mer:
chants?-Morehouse Clarion
The Opelousas courier., 1908-02-15
FEB. Is, 1908
TO OUR

1t seems that Uncle Sam is going to
force the newspapers to a cash basis. New
postal regulations have been adopted by
the Department, which permits news
papers to use the mails under the second
class rates only to subscribers Ccho have
paid their subscriptions casb3l advance.
This new, regulation wiz 60 into effect
the LIST of April next, and if it is strictly
enforced, it will force the newspapers to
q strictly cash paid in advance system
for all subscribers, as the papers could
not afford to mail papers and pay a
high rate of postage. There is very lit
tie, If any, profit in subscriptions at the
present high prices of printing material
and there would be an actual loss under
higher rate of postage.
We invite the attention of0our sub
scribers to this regulation and say to
them that if they wish to continue to re-
eeive the paper. they should see to it that
the subscription is paid in advance. We
must conform to the postal regulations.
We may be willing to credit our subsc5b-
era, but we must do as Uncle Sam directs.
The Opelousas courier., 1908-02-15

Considerable comment has been caueds
at the Capital by the size Of the bids that
some of the banks have made for the de-
posts of the parish school boards. Ac-
cording to the new law, passed by the
special session of the Genera, Assembly,
which became operative on Feb. LIST, the
school boards were given the handling of
the parish school funds, and were re-
quired by the law to place it in the parish
hank paying the highest rate of interest.
Practically all of the boards received the
bids this and last week, and some of the
parish banks bid five, six and seven per
cent interest, which is an unusually high
rate of interest to pay ON a checking ac-
count. In addition, the banks have to
give a bond for the security of the money
which is placed with them by the School
Board.-New Orleans Picayune.
The Opelousas courier., 1908-02-15

wood are consumed both in the construc-
ton and in the finish, though in the latter
form, metal is taking the place OF Wood
to a very large extent. The amount OF
lumber given above does not take into
consideration this item at all.
While this percentage is representative
of the building industry in the l. nlted
States, dealers point out that it does not
include the large quantities OF LUMBER
used for the construction of dwellings,
stores and other buildings in the thousand
of small cities and towns scattered OVer
the country and not included in the toEty-
nine cities on which a reckoning was made
In towns and small cities wood is usually
the predominating building material and
it is safe to say that if the statistics had
included figures for all places of whatever
| size, the percentage of wooden construc-
ton would have been much greater.
These figures, as a rule, are only for the
corporate limits, and the suburbs OF
these cities have each very large amounts
to be added. The cost, also, is relatively
| higher in these cities than in towns nearer
the base of the supply.
In wooden buildings, New York City
is at the bottom of the list, though 1t
leads with $18,075 as the average cost OF
buildings. Except at San Francisco,
where abnormal conditions have pre-
vailed since the fire, Boston shows the
greatest increase of any of the cities in
the total cost of building operations.
The average cost of buildings is constant
ly increasing, having risen over three
hundred dollars during the last three
years. The average value of a building
is given in the report as $2,035.
Lumber is by far the greatest drain on
the forests, and the wonderful develop
ment of the country during the past de-
cade has called for the use of nearly forty
! billion boa1 feet a year. The largest
quantity ever reported for a single year
was for 1906, when thirty-seven and one
half billion feet, with a mill value of 1921,
ISL 1853 was used. Including the value
of the lath and shingles used with this
amount, the total value of the wood used
for buildings is brought UP to 1856, 1876,
513.
The increasing price of lumber and
the rapidly increasing use of perfected
freproof systems of construction should
have much to do in holding down the
amount which the forests are called upon
to yield each year, but so far these more
substantial materials have not decreased
the lumber cut of the nation.
The Opelousas courier., 1908-02-15
SAVE THE BIRDS

The value of the native wild birds to
the farmer and others should be well
known, and every one should combine fol
their protection. The recent report Of
the Federal Biological Bureau, which has
been investigating the relative value oil
various birds to field and forest, is thus
summed up by the New York World:
Contrary to the old-fashioned beliefs
the biological survey states that, with the
exception of three species of %bird-eatine
hawks, not another American bird is
wholly luxurious. The great bulk of 'oul
birds do so much more good than harm
that they are of substantial benefit to
agriculture:
"Forty-three species, for instance, par
ticularly swallows, orioles and night
hawks, eat the boil weevil. Half the food
of cuckoos and orioles has been proven to
be caterpillars, the stomach of a single
cuckoo revealing $50 caterpillars. Fifty.
seven species of birds have been found
feeding on the Colorado potato beetle,
ssale insects and other destructive forms
ie robin is a very valuable insect de
sF-oyer. Through cooperation with 10.
caIs-GE.-a;ties its sale as a food has been
stopped from markets north of the Ohio
and Potomac, and restricted from the
Southern States. ,
SON the other hand, the English spar
row, which was introduced in 1850, isl
pest of which the exterminaton is imprac.
ticable because of the cost. The
woodpeckers, by digging into trees fol-
eggs and larvae of wood borers, make
themselves most Trustworthy agents in
protecting the forestssThhe serviees'of ou1
native sparroWs in destroying weeds, it is
estimated, are Forth at least $35, 000, O0C
annually. A single individual of one spe-
cies, the tree sparrow, eats a quarter Of
an ounce of weed seed daily, on which
basis the tree sparrows alone in the State
of Iowa destroy annually 875 tons of
weed seed. Bob white are really worth
81 apiece alive, instead of 10 cents dead.
Every bob white eats on the average an
ounce of food a day, fifty per cent OF
which is weed seeds and fifteen per cent
insects. A conservative estimate of the
number of quail in Virginia in 1903 was
169,8 800, which consumed that year 9,60s
tons of weed seed and I'll tons Of insects y
Beaumont Enterprise.
The Opelousas courier., 1908-02-15

And still the wonder is how it has conre
to pass that in spite of the large expan-
sion Of the so-called dry" territory in the
United States, there has been a large in
crease in the consumption of drinkables.
The consumption of distilled spirits in
1905 was LIE, 1894, 857 gallons; in 1906,
122, 647, 049; in 1907, 1874, OBJ, O66. The
consumption Of fermented liquors last
year was LOTS, ATS $50 gallons, or about
125, 000, 900 more than in 1906 and about
200, 000, 900 gallons more than 1905,
There must be a tremendous amount of
illicit. dealing going ON somewhere
New Orleans Daily States.
The Opelousas courier., 1908-02-15
ST.. LANDRY,s DUTY

- 49, I. ~ ~
On the 18th instant the second primary
Tor the selection Q State officers from
among the candidates who failed % re-
celve q majority Of tne votes cast Or
their respective offices At the primary
election on Jan: 18th, Will be held.
st: Landry's interest IN q coming n
test Is far above the ordinary: st
a faet fhRts heEs stlsAngsIshed sgOudg
citizen. Hon. James j. Bailey, is running
for the Ieutenant-Go vernorship.
st. Landry owes 1t TO herself to have
representation In the State administra-
ton, and an exceptional opportunity to
attain this end is now presented. 1t
would be ill-becoming In the people of q
parish as large In area, population and
wealth as st. Landry to sit supinely by
and permit election day to dawn without
having exerted every effort to bring out a
full vote for her candidate. It is, there
fore, incumbent upon the voters to turn
out at the polls on the occasion Of the
next primary and cast their votes as q
unit for MIR. Bailey.
Personal prejudice, pique or antipathy
have no place in the consideration Of this
question; the plain dutyn tSt. Landrians
TO st. Landry is first and foremost to
safeguard her interests and promote her
welfare. And 1t in the doing of this per-
sonal considerations must be subordin-
z 70 the pupi1c veal, there should be
The Opelousas courier., 1908-02-15
PRESSDAY JOYS

There's trouble in the print shop
No language can express
For Fridays rolled around again,
The day we go to press.
The compositors are hustling fast,
Each has a dirty proof.
The makeup mar is cussin'
In a way to raise the roof.
The "devil's" pied a galley full
Of solid nonpariel.
The foreman'sa Saying 2hings to him
That makes the birthstone smell.
The stenographer is jawin' bout
An ink-spot on her dress,
And any goldurned fool can tell
We're trying to get to press.
Everything is all "balled up"
The forms are in a mess,
And now The Old Mans asking:
When we're going to press?
Through the room there rings aloud
A piercing hell-born vail
The office dog is yelpin', cause
They've stepped upon his tail.
The pressman now is ready-but
The id old forms WON'T lift"
So he whites out a "dutchman,"
And gives his quid a shift.
The forms are on the press at last,
The press is running great
But we've got to take 'em off again
Forgot to change the date!!'
They're on again; the motors down;
We're running swift and slick,
But a papers on the roller now,
And you bet its there to stick.
The whole d-m bunch is mad as sin,
And cussin' more or less,
For hell breaks loose on Friday, when
Tks paper goes to press.
CAPTAIN JACK MILLS, in the Ada
To- Democrat.
The Opelousas courier., 1908-02-15
POOR

What encouragement has the local
papers In their efforts to build up the
business of q town when the very people
reap the greatest benefit from the papers
feeble undertakings ignore them and
send all their business to out OF town
concerns.
Only q few days ago a certain mer-
chant of this town sent out OF town and
had q lot OF posters printed that could
have been done in his home town
just as good and just as cheap. It's not
the matter Of dollars and cents that we
The Opelousas courier., 1908-02-15
NO DICTATlON By A CAUCUS

A caucu Of politicians was held yes
terday to consider the claims of the can
didates for State and local Offices who
are to come before the second primary,
and it wa given out that a slate was fixed
up and the people called on to vote for it.
Such caucus action is absolutely con-
trary to the spirit of the Primary Law,
which was intended to do away with all
cooked-up tickets, and to give the voters
an opportunity to exercise their free
choice.
Let the voters remember this and pay
no attention to any attempts at dictation
as to how they shall vote.-Picayune.
The Opelousas courier., 1908-02-15
WONDER IF HE O i?

On the eve of the late lamented Demo-
cratic primary, the Baton Rouge Truth
uttered this luminous prediction:
When Wilkinson is beaten and little
Donnie Gallery goes back home and hears
the cannon booming and the bands play
ing, he is going to feel like a yard of blood
pudding stuffed with saur kraut."
Will MIR. Gallery kindly condescend to
satisfy our burning curiosity to know
whether he really feels that way, and how
it feels to feel so?-Donaldsonville Chief.
The Opelousas courier., 1908-02-15
N6ghborlpod Favorite

Mrs, j. D. Charles, of Harbor,
Maine, $ !,eaking Of Electric Bitters
says: Kit is a neighborhood ia
vorite kEee with U.S." It deserves
to be sifavorite everywhere. It
gives quick relief i'm dyspepsia,
liver complaint, kidney derange-
ment, malnutrition, nervousness,
weakness and general debility.
Its action on the blood, as a
thorough purifier makes it es-
pecially useful as a spring medi-
cine. This grand Alternative tonic
is sold under guarantee at all
druggists. Soc.
The Opelousas courier., 1908-02-15

Columbus, Mo-, Feb. 3.-Taxation of
bachelors over 80 years old as a means
of offsetting the loss Of revenue due ts
closing the saloons here is one plan pro
posed by the finance committee of the
city council.
The suggestion has been embodied in
a report that will be submitted to the
council szgprtly and as all of the city aid
ermen arr benedilts, it is expected the
idea will X favorsbly received.
The Opelousas courier., 1908-02-15

We are glad the campaign is over for
several reasons, not the least of which is
that we are tired of reading the cam
paign matter in our exchanges. News
paper readers if we are not badly mis-
taken, will welcome the change which
the close of the campaign will bring about
in the character of reading matter ap-
pearing in most of the weekly and daily
papers.-Thibodaux Sentinel.
The Opelousas courier., 1908-02-15
Town Residence Tor sale

In q desirable neighbnrhOod In Opelousas,
with an entire SQUARE OF land, well shaded with
about 9 squares from the Courthouse, S squares
from High School, 2 squares from Catholic
Church and convent. House is two story,
brick basement. 8 rooms, four freplaces, out
buildings, etc., all under good fence. viii be
sold cheap for cash. or part cash and balance
on time to suit. Apply at this Office.
The Opelousas courier., 1908-02-15
Suffering & Dollars Saved

Suffering & Dollars Saved
E. S. Lopez, of Marilla, N. Y,
says: II am a carpenter and have
had many severe cuts healed by
Bucklen's Arnica Salve. It has
saved me suffering and dollars,
It is by far the best healing salve
| have ever found" Heals burns,
sores, ulcers, fever sores, eczema
and piles. Csc at all druggists.
The Opelousas courier., 1908-02-15
WILLIAM J. SANDOZ.
Atl'y'at-Law and Notary Public,
OpeloasaL, La

VIII practice in all Courts, State and Fede-
raj, and before the Patent and Pension Offices
at Washington, L. G. Special attention given
to collections. Office on Landry Street, op-
p0site courthouse.
Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1908-11-19
ira township.

ira township.
J p Lair, justice of the peace, Extra
township.
w ] Hartzell. justice of the peace,
Greeley township.
q Minerman, justice of the peace,
Greeley township.
G V Christensen, justice of the peace,
Hamlin township.
Chris N Christensen, justice of the
peace, Hamlin township.
Frank Mclaughlin, justice ofthe peace
Lincoln township.
G H Newell, justice of the peace, Lin
coin township. NV.
Joe Fl Ross, justice of the peace, Lee
roy township.
Chas S White, justice of the peace,
Leroy township.
w w Weston, justice of the peace,
Melville township.
e 81 Maurer, justice of the peace. Mel
Vile township.
Fl M Bartlett, justice of the peace,
Oakfield township.
M Nelson, justice of the peace, Oak
field township.
C A Jorgensen, justice of the peace,
Sharon township.
Fred ChristofIersen, justice of the
peace, Sharon township.
S L milford, justice of the peace, vi
ola township.
ID d Sampson, justice of the peace,
Viola township.
L Hochstrasser, constable of Gamer
on township.
Chas Pardee, constable of Cameron
township.
H zinke, constable of Douglas town
ship.
T L Anderson, constable of Douglas
township.
M o Smith, constable of Extra town.
ship.
CO Hunt, constable of Extra township.
Delbert Rowland, constable of Gree
ley township.
Theodore zinke, constable of Greeley
township.
Peter juel, constable of Hamlin
township.
Frank Rogers, constable of Lincoln
township.
Fred Hepp, constable of Lincoln town
ship.
L M Anderson, constable OF Leroy
township
ID w Fullerton, constable OF Leroy
township
E E Clark, constable of Melville town
ship.
William oliver, constable of Melville
township
Ole Petersen, constable of Oakfield
township
John G Larsen, constable of Oakfield
township
G T Christensen, constable Of Sharon
township
N Fl Nielsen, constable of Sharon
township
G M Beck, constable of Viola town
ship.
Frank Olsen, constable of Viola town
ship.
This being the day set for hearing
In the matter of condemning road in
section 81, Viola township, and no one
appearing and no claims filed for
damages and the board being satisfied
that the law has been complied with,
it is therefore ordered that said road
be established and the auditor is au-
thorized to issue warrant for 800 on
road fund in payment of damages oc-
casioned by the condemning OF said
road.
On motion board adjourned to meet
again at p. m.
Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1908-11-19
CURRENT CAMPAIGNING

In discussing modern methods OF
campaigning Leslie's Weekly agrees
with the New York Tribune that the
popular tastehas outgrown the Spell
binder" method; because more people
can be reached at less expense by pre-
senting the issues and personalities of
the canvass through the cartoons and
newspapers. We do not believe with
those newspapers that the" Spellbind.
err" has had his day and that his oc-
cupation is going; but we heartily
agree with the statement that If cam
paign committees would spend less
money on Spellbinders, Autographs
and long winded documents and speech
es that no one ever reads and more in
the circulation of wide awake Repub-
lican publications, especially weekly
papere in rural districts, they would
realize the most satisfactory results. I"
Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1908-11-19
THE SOLID SOUTH BREAKING

1t has been an open secret for many
years that many leaders in the south
have been in sympathy with the re-
publican party and republican princi-
pies, especially in regard to finance
and the tariff, but have been prevent
ed from voting that way because OF
local socialconditions. To break away
from the democratic party 10 the south
is in many cases to invite and receive
social ostracism because of the negro
question, which is still the bugbear
and hoodo in that section. But
changes have been taking place gradu-
ally to better such conditions. Men
and money from the north are work
ing wonders down there. Young men
OF ability and business are growing
up and taking charge of public affairs.
Much of the prejudice is being buried
with the bodies Of the men who lived
and ruled "Befo' de wah." Prospect
ty is taking the place of poverty and
the outlook is very promising. The
Atlanta Constitution, edited by Clark
Howell, the Democratic National Com
mitteeman from Georgia, wrote as fol-
lows the day after the election:
" In Tuesdays election the south
err states began the writing of their
political history of independence. The
result means that the time has passed
when a resident of one of these states
must buy his social security, often per-
haps at the price of his political con-
victions. Many business men the south
over, most of them adherents of the
democracy alltheir lives, dared to sup
port hopefully and openly the candi-
dates of the republican party because
their convictions led them that way.
The Constitution is indorsing their
action only to the extent of saying they
were right in giving material express
Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1908-11-19
THE LEGISLATU RE MEETS

Next Monday, November 23, 1908,
the Iowa Legislature will meet in adj
journed session to express the will of
the republican party in the election Of
Governor Cummins as United States
Senator from the State of Iowa. All
the members will be present, Every
republican vote will be cast for the
nominee of the primary held Novem-
Der Third, giving Governor Cummins
a majority of about forty thousand
The governor will accept the election,
resign his place as chief executive and
Senator Garst, the lieutenant-gover-
nor, will take the oath of office in the
presence of the general assembly, and
serve until Mr.. Carroll shall be inaug-
urated in January. Senator Cum
Minis will leave at once for Washing
ton to be present at the opening Of
the next session of Congress, the first
Monday in December