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St. Landry clarion. (Opelousas, La.) 1890-1921, 1909-07-17
DON'T g TOO GOOD.

Editor Bodine, one among the best
writer's in Missouri, is the author OF
the following lines which, remarks
the Versailles (Mo.) Leader, hit about
every fellow on this earth in the year
1909: !.
Whatever You do brother, don't
oct too good. There is a pietY that
IS depressed, and which Immediately
breeds suspicion and distrust. Most
every man has his faults if our secret
acts and thoughts, or even those
things people know about US, but
which we think they don't know
about us, we're held up to the public,
We would shrink, cut TO the quick,
I. aud fee to hide our moral and spirit
ual ~nakedness. Some of US get drunk
and that's bad; some of us are adul-
terers, and that's bad; some of US lie
like dogs, and that's worse; and some
Of Us love money better than we do
truth, honor and goodness, and that's
worse; but some Of of US cheat, steal
and dodge our taxes, and that's
aworser" still, though among the
elect it is sometimes considered a
virtue. But the browning sin Of all
this is a hard unloving heart and a
soul without charity for the frailties
of others, which rejoices when others
are crucifed and which attempts to
hide its secret joy with shifting and
pious depreciation. Men dislike such
people, and God despises them. No
whatever you do, don't get too good.
Heaven Is going to be a big surprise
party to most Of US.
St. Landry clarion. (Opelousas, La.) 1890-1921, 1909-07-17
Y IN MT8gOURL.

During the recent session of the
Missouri Legislature, State Assembly
men Coran and Lylas introduced a
bill to create a Board Of Control for
pocker players. The bill, as for
warded by Thomas Alfred Till, poll
ticaI correspondent al Jefferson City
for the Kansas City Journal, was as
follows:
Section /. A Board Of Control Of
AL poker players in this State is
hereby created and established to
consist Of four members, to be known
AS The Board Of control Of poker
players.
Sec. 2. The Governor shall, by
s6d With the consent Of the Senate,
Immediately after the taking effect
of this act appoint four electors Of
this State. not more than one of
whom shall belong to the same party.
Said members shall be expert in the
game Of poker and shall at the time
of their appointment be actively en-
gagged in poker playing, and shall
hold Office as long as they q stay
in Che game. The chairman shall re-
ceite i salary Of 10 per cent Of
every jackpot and the other members
shall receive S per cent Of said jack
bot and one-half Of the remainder
shall be turned over to the Good
Roads fund Of the State by said
Board.
Sec. 3. Each member Of said
Board shall take the oath Of Office,
and must devote his whole time to
the duties Of his Office. No member
Of said Board shall hold any other
Office during his membership Of said
Board, ard shall take no part in pub
lc affairs, except to lecture on the
National game at Chautauqua meet
ings,
Sec. 4. IN addition 10 the rakeoff
allowed to said Board they shall be
allowed and furnished all the neces-
saly chips. tables and paraphernalia
necessary to hold examinations and
schools Of instruction.
Sec. S. Said Board is empowered
By this act TO amend, suspend, re-
peal or modify any rules heretofore
made by Hoyle, and without appeal.
Sec. 6. Any citizen of the State
over Is years Of age Of sound and
disposing mind and good financial
standing may present himself to said
Board for examination, and if after
9 continuous session of two days and
nights he shall have won Is per
cent of the pots he shall be declared
BY Che Board to be entitled to a State
license. and upon payment Of what
moneys be may have left in his pos
session he shall receive said license
IL Autograph form with his photo
thereon; and he is also authorized to
print or engrave On his stationery,
A licensed poker player"
St. Landry clarion. (Opelousas, La.) 1890-1921, 1909-07-17
NOTICE 70 ROAD TAX
PAYERS.
SIXTH POLICE JURY WARD.

The road tax for the sixth police Jury
yard is now due and coilectibIe, and i
would urge upon the peopieof my ward TIE
imperative necessity of paying same
promptly.
By paying same promptly. The x-paver
not only avoids cost. but he aids the of1cers
IN the execution OF their duties; he makes
time.
The tax has to be paid, and the sooner
paid the better for all concerned.
III. H. SINGLETON,
dulylQ-4t Police Juror.
St. Landry clarion. (Opelousas, La.) 1890-1921, 1909-07-17
Proceedings Board Of Aldermen
OpeIousas, La, July I3. 1909.

0pelousas, La, July IL, 1909.
To the Honorable Members of the
Board of Aldermen:
Gentlemen:-There will be a meet
ing of your Board at the council room
at s o'clock p. M, for the purpose Of
transacting the unfinished business of
the regular meeting held July 6,
1909
St. Landry clarion. (Opelousas, La.) 1890-1921, 1909-07-17
Notice for Bids.

Notice Is hereby given that the under
committee, appointed by the Police
Jury Of St. Landry parish. win sell, to the
owest responsible bidder, the contract for
building the bridge over Bayou Mallet at
Swords crossing, on Wednesday, July list,
1908, at II O'Clock 81. m, at the bridge site.
Specifications can be had by applying to
the undersigned committee.
ALLEN MCCOY,
ARTHUR BELLAIR,
ORILICE MlREAU.
Committee.
St. Landry clarion. (Opelousas, La.) 1890-1921, 1909-07-17
M. HALPHEN, Mayor.
Attest: G. F. BAILEY, Clerk.
DnnnnI i n 49, Il

@ANsVNVs INAlALIIs W4SIAs
Received the above notice on the
18th day Of July, 1909, and on the
same day and date / notified Messrs.
j. w. Lewis, ]. j. Healey, F. j. Diet
lein and E. L. Daniel in person, | did
not notify Mr.. /. Roos as he was abb
sent from home.
St. Landry clarion. (Opelousas, La.) 1890-1921, 1909-07-17

mittee.
Moved by Mr.. Lewis, duly seconded
and carried, That the city council APP
propriate 500 out of any available
funds to be placed in hands of COM
mittee just appointed to be used as
they deem best in the matter of en-
pertaining of and facilitating in seeur-
ing the needed accommodations for
the visitors on the above mentioned
occasions. Also to receive and en-
terrain j.. F. ScheH and his associates
on the occasion Of their visit from
Pennsylvania.
Opelousas, La, June l, 1909.
To the Honorable Mayor and Mem
bers Of the Board Of Aldermen:
Gentlemen:
/ herewith tender you my report of
collections for the month ending July
9Th, 1909, as follows:
Corporation Tax 1908, S IS OF
Interest 213
Licenses 1909, 81 5O
Market dues, 100 90
Fines, 81 30
Stock fines, 3 90
Is dog tags q 50 5000
Respectfully submitted, S 328 20
G. &. HAYES, City Tax Collector.
Motion, duly seconded carried, the
report as read was accepted and re-
ferred to the finance committe.
C. F. Bailey, collector Water Works
and Electric Light Plant, makes his
report of collections for water and
light dues, month ending July 6,
1909, amounting to S786.16 and
on motion, duly seconded and car
ried, the report was received as read
and referred to the finance commit
tee.
Statement furnished to the City Of
Opelousas, La, by j. ]. Perrodin, City
Treasurer, month ending July 9Th,
1909:
~
St. Landry clarion. (Opelousas, La.) 1890-1921, 1909-07-17
cHERIFF's SALE.
--@--
OPELoUsAs NATIONAL BANK
MRS. ELIZABETH ii. FAHEY, ct al.

No, 1854. Sixteenth Judicial District
Court st. Landry Parish. La.
By virtue .of 2 writ OF seizure and sale
issued out 0f the Honorable Sixteenth Judi.
ciaI District Court. Iii and for the Parish Of
ST. Landry. In this above entitled and num-
bered suit. and to me directed, Ihave seized
and will oRer for sale, for cash. at public
auction to the last n highest bidder, at
the front door of the courthouse ofst. Lam
dry Parish, at 0~peIousas. La on
Saturday, Jnly 81, eos
at II O'Clock q. m, the following described
property toWit:
Acertain tract or parcel afIand together.
with all the buildings anag3EnprovementS
thereon. containing nine hundred tsO0l
acres more or less n being situated on
Bayou Waxia IN the Parish of St. Landry ],
bounded on the north BY the property Of
one Thistlethwafte formerly heirs Of DIR.
vincent B0Rgni, on the south by the lands
Of John Henderson, Carl Wolff and Denis
Doyle, on the east ny theIand I Mrs. Car
rett Young. and on tire west by the land
formerly belonging 10 Jonas wv. bailey, sr.
Terms-CaSh.
jnne26-6t NJ. L. SWORDS. Sheriff.
St. Landry clarion. (Opelousas, La.) 1890-1921, 1909-07-17
CHERRIES SALE.
PIERRE MIsTRIC
VS..
ADoLPHE II. SHELLEY. Tutor Ad. Hoo.

VS..
ADOLPHE +. SHELLEY. Tutor Ad. Hoe.
No. 1880. 10Th Judicial District Court, st.
Landry PARISH Las
BY virtue OF a writ of seizure and sale Is
sued out of the Hon. 18th Judicial District
Court, in and for the parish Of ST.
Landry, in the above entitled and numbered
suit, hi to me directed. / have seized
and will offer for sale, at public auc-
ton, for cash, TO the last and high-
est bidder, at the front door of the
Court House of ST. Landry parish, at Opel
onsas, La. on
Saturday, July IL, 1908,
at II O'Clock a. M, the following described
property, to-wit:
Acertain tract Of land with all the build-
ings and Improvements thereon, situated
in Prairie des Femmes, st. Landry parish.
and measuring about seventy arpents. and
Is boundsd north BY Muillons, south By Du-
preVille Meehe, east by Bernard Sicily and
others, and west by Elina Miller wife OF
Alexander Bernard, being same property
acquired by m-ortgagress in the partition
with her sister Eltna Miller, wife of Alexan-
DIRE Bernard, made on the 24th day of Jau
airy, 1903, as appears by Act No. 50SS2 of the
files of the Recorders ONCE, st. Landry
parish.
Terms-Cash.
JuneI2.6t NIL. SWORDS, Sheriff.
St. Landry clarion. (Opelousas, La.) 1890-1921, 1909-07-17

10. 1874. 18th Judicial District Court
Parish Of st. Landry, La.
St. Landry clarion. (Opelousas, La.) 1890-1921, 1909-07-17

10. 1880, 18th Judicial District Court, st.
Landry Parish, La.
St. Landry clarion. (Opelousas, La.) 1890-1921, 1909-07-17
sale OF Public Roads.

opelousas. La, July 3, 1903.
St. Landry clarion. (Opelousas, La.) 1890-1921, 1909-07-17
By sundry warrants paid since
last report and hereto
annexed as per list
Respectfully submitted,
i AZ PERR0DTN City Treasl1r


j. .. PERR0DIN, City Treasurer.
On motion duly seconded and car
ried, the report was received as read
and referred to the Finance Com
mittee. The Finance Committee after
examining the said report, report It's
correctness and ordered that the
Treasurer be credited with the sum
of $2639.40 and voucher for same
orderee cancelled.
Motion of Dietlein, duly seconded
and carried, That the application of j.
B. Sandoz be referred to the City
Engineer, he to report at next meet
ing of the Board.
Moved BY Dietlein, That the Supt.
be and he is hereby authorized to
make purchase Of oil and on such
terms as he thinks proper.
Moved by Lewis, duly seconded and
carried, That the Mayor be authorized
to issue notes to The. Anderson Coup
ling Co, to meet the deferred pay
ments on Hook & Ladder truck.
BILLS REAL AND APPROVED.
St. Landry clarion. (Opelousas, La.) 1890-1921, 1909-07-17

On motion duly seconded and car
ried, the Board adjourned subject to
call.
N. HALPHEN, Mayor.
Attest: G. q BAILEY, Clerk.
St. Landry clarion. (Opelousas, La.) 1890-1921, 1909-07-17

No. 1854, sixteenth Judicial District
Count st. Landry Parish, La.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1909-06-09

The Houston Post brings out the har-
rowing fact that SO crowded are the
insane hospitals Of that state that a
number of unfortunate people so af-
flicted are today incarcarated in vari-
GUS jails for the lack of better facilities
for their care. Among the people SO
confined is the widow of a former
treasurer of the Texas Press Associa-
ton. Being too poor to secure ac-
commodations in a private sanitarium
and unable to secure admission to the
state institutions at Austin. San An
tonic and Terrell, she is now confined
in Jail cell, where. unless something
is done to relieve her, she will have to
remain during the sweltering heat of
Texas summer. The Post very
strongly urges the taking up of her
case by the newspapers of Texas, in
the hope that "the enornity of the
brutal official Indifference which in
ficts upon the generous and enlight-
encd people of Texas this foul disgrace"
may be done away with and the dark
blot of such a condition of affairs be
"eradicated from the states escutch-
con-" We have no doubt that this ap-
peal, SO vigorously made, and for a
cause so worthy, will meet with a
prompt and vigorous response from the
people of the Lone Star State.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1909-06-09
Tn. Cape Cod Canal.

The indications are that the long
talked-of canal across Cape Cod, the
plans for which were some time ago
presented at length in Journal edi-
torial, Is soon to become an accom-
plished fact. The contract for the con-
struction of this great waterway has
already been placed with Baltimore
firm, and it is said that work is to be
commenced in the immediate future.
This canal will call for about eight
miles of excavation and depth and
width sufficient to permit of the pas
sage of ships having a 25-foot draft.
But more important, perhaps, than the
actual work Of digging the canal will
be the necessity of constructing great
breakwater which will be necessary to
protect the northern entrance of this
waterway and FOR which it Will be
necessary to bring stone from Maine
The canal will be a sea level one and
it is expected that it will be open TO
navigation in about four years. It's
total cost is estimated at between
5000, 900 and 100000. The con-
struction of this important waterway
will make a much shorter route be-
tween New York and Boston and will
also afford the vessels using it very
large measure of protection from the
dangers they now encounter. 1t is to
be regretted that this great enterprise
should be carried out and maintained
by private capital. 1t would seem as If
the proposed waterway were so impor-
tant as to justify the national govern
ment in carrying through the project
and controlling it for all time in the in
terest of the general public, and it is
to be hoped that ultimately such a de-
sirable control of the canal may be
brought about.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1909-06-09
The Sheriff. Report.

We jest went out git him. and we did
We trailed him from the sagebrush to
the pine;
We seen the long-dead ashes where he'd
hid
And where he'd cooked his bit Of bacon
rine,
We found the boss, where it had fell and
died,
But he'd gone on-a tough nut, yes,
tha.S true
We seen the blood where he had stopped
and tied
His coat sleeve round his worn and
busted shoe.
We heard his lead. a-singin' past our ears,
Where he stood pat, way up a lonely
draw;
We smelt his powder. yet It brung no
fears,
Cause wasn't we the Majesty of Law?
We seen his face. his black eyes blazin'
hate,
We heard him fall, and in plain view he
slid;
The worlds some better of, I calkilate-
We jest went out to git him. and we did
denver Republican.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1909-06-09

Booker Washington is still a fire.
quent visitor at the White House, and,
strange to relate. our southern con-
temporaries have nothing to say about
it. They are evidently satisfied to have
him come and go there at his own
pleasure so long as he does not stay to
dinner. Here in the North, most any
family would feel honored in enter
tanning this truly great man, a fact
that seems quite incomprehensibe to
views upon the so-called social re-
cogntion" of the colored race
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1909-06-09

MANY statisticians believed that in
general the official returns for drunk
enness are very much below the
reality, for it can create in the indivi-
dual a morbid condition predisposing
to crime, suicide and insanity. This
condition is often latent and so
ESCAPES notice. Another reason is the
Indulgence of authorities and refusal
of witnesses to testify.
In the United States according to
the latest Census reports, the per cent.
of prisoners committed for drunken
ness, in the registration area, was
23.2. The North Atlantic and North
Central States have the highest per
cents of commitments for drunken
ness 1923 and 21.6); and the South
Central (3S per cent? and the South
Atlantic 60 per cent? the lowest The
Western States have 63 per cent. The
small percentages for commitments
for the Southern and Western States
may be due to more leniency and also
to the fact that fines, instead Of i'm
prisonment for drunkenness, are mora
frequent there.
The per cent of foreign-bor among
prisoners committed for drunkenness
is 36.2, that Of natives, 29.7, showing a
difference of 6 per cent. Ireland (49.S
per cent?, Canada (49.8 per cent?,
Scotland (42.s per cent? and England
(385 per cent? furnish the highest per
cents. of drunkenness in order men,
toned. The lowest are Mexico (2.7
per cent? and Italy (7.3 per cent?,
illustrating the general superiority Of
the Latin race in resisting intemper-
ance.
In 1907 the number of deaths from
alcoholism in the United States for
every 100000 of the population was
rural districts A; that is, more than
twice as much in the cities. These
are the highest per cents within the
last seven years in our country.
Earlier census statistics show tbs
death rate from alcoholism to b.
highest in Rhode Island (1O.5) ant
lowest in New Hampshire and Maine
(2.2) per 100000 population.
The greatest proportion of death:
1
occur in persons from IS to 80 year.
of age. The deaths Of men largely ex.
coed those of women.
| The per cent of arrests for drunken
ness is for all registration cities IS
and 81 for cities of 100000 or NOR,
population.
There is no doubt among Stats
ticians of the close relation between
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1909-06-09

The Mexican Herald asserts that
Thomas A. Edison, the great American
inventor. is a Mexican and not an
American by birth. 1t asserts upon the
alleged authority of a prominent Mex
lean official that Edison's real name is
Thomas A. Olson, that he was born
in Zacatecas in 1S47 and that his par
ents shortly after his birth moved to
Ohio. 1t is too bad to spoil so in
teresting story and we fully appre-
ciate the desire of the Herald to claim
this great man. The American people
arc very proud of him themselves.
AS matter of fact. however, Mr..
Edison was born of American parents
at Milan. Ohio, February II. 1S47. and
so far as known. was never in Mexico
in his life.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1909-06-09
Statistics Of Alcoholism.

I In a paper read Monday afternoon
before the American Medical Associa-
ton at its annual meeting in Atlantic
City, Arthur Macdonald of Washing
ton. d. c., gave the most recent statis-
tics of alcoholism, before the Section
devoted to that subject. In his intro
ductory remarks, he said that 1t Il
generally admitted, that If you give
whisky to the American Indians, they
soon act like crazy men. They are
new soil and unaccustomed to alcohol
Just as they are to measles, Which Is
quite fatal to them. On the other
hand the Latin races have become SO
accustomed to the use Of alcohol tina:
drunkenness among them is at a
minimum. Now the American people
seem to stand about midway between
the maximum susceptibility of the
Indian and the minimum susceptibility
of the Latins. The American is in a
dangerous position if he uses alcohol,
for experience seems to show that he
is more liable to lean towards the
maximum rather than the minimum
susceptibility. Thus the so-called
moderate drinker is more or less a
myth, for he drinks immoderately al
together too often
Americans need stimulants less per-
haps than any civilized people; for
the climate and life with its change
ableness, uncertainty and haste are
stimulants enough, without adding
more artificial ones. The safest
course for the American is to abstain
entirely from alcoholic drinks. 1t is
sometimes said there is much in
temperance in drinking tea and coffee
for instance. Doubtless there is, but
such intemperance does not cause a
man to beat his wife or maltreat his
children. There are many evils, but
when they become so enormous as
alcoholic intemperance, heroic mea-
sures are justifiable.
In discussing the strictly statistical
part of his paper, Mr.. Macdonald
presented the following table and
said: In this general table are given
the per cents of insanity, crime, sui
eide and deaths due to drunkenness in
different countries Of the world. There
seems to be more uniformity in the
figures for insanity and suicide, where
the percentages are somewhat similar
(from 10 to IA per cent. in England,
Ireland, France, Italy, Austria, Dem
mark. Prussia; that is, drunkenness
causes about as much insanity as it
does suicide, except in Russia, where it
causes SO per cent. Of suicides, and IN
Norway, 20 per cent of insanity, as a
cause of deaths and crime drunken
ness is more than twice as potent as
in insanity and suicide
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1909-06-09
REFLECTIONS OF A BACHELOR.

The reason a man might as well
make love to a girl is she thinks he is
doing it, anyhow.
A man couldn't be good-humored at
breakfast if he could make a lot OF
money that way.
One of the things that frets a man
most is how hard it is for him to edu-
cate his wife in things he doesn't I'M
derstand himself
The thing that appeals to a woman
about neighborhood scandal is how she
can believe it's true when she knows
it isn't.
The first thing q man who gets some
money tries to do is to show how
smart he is at something in which he
will lose it.-New York Press.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1909-06-09

The newspaper Washington reports
are full of the bitter squabbling and re-
examination Of Senators over the tariff
and 1t is to be noted that this dissen-
sion Is mainly confined to the Repub-
lican ranks.-Eastern Argus.
This would be interesting if true; but
we suspect that it would bother the es-
teemed Argus not little to name any
two schedules in the tariff bill upor
which the Democratic members of the
Senate have been united. The Argus
also overlooks the scalping which Sena,
tor Bailey of Texas administered to its
favorite. Governor johnson of Mime.
sofa.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1909-06-09
Maine Gossip
The Fishing Fever.

When tender leaves are budding out
And skys are blue and sunny,
And birds begin to look for sticks
And bumblebees for honey,
I shut my eyes and seem to hear
The water gently swishing
Above the pebbles. smooth and round
I want to go a-fishing
I long to smell the warm, new earth,
And see the sunlight glancing
On sreckled sides and silver fins
And merry minnows dancing.
On leaden feet l walk the street,
For rod and basket wishing.
And shady hooks by running brooks
l want to 60 a-ishing
-Leslie's Weekly.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1909-06-09
On Cape Cod.
cortland Advertiser.)

(POrtland AdvertiSer.)
Did you know that quite slice of
the grand old State of Maine is to be
cut up into chunks and removed to
Cape Cod? Such is the fact. After
three centuries devoted to talking
about the canal which is to pierce
the sandy promontory. the work of
construc. ion is about to begin and
they need many tons Of granite for
breakwaters and other works in con-
nection with the new channel. All this
granite will come from Maine and
some of it has already been forwarded.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1909-06-09
Annual Excursion Of tho JosseIyn
Society.
Bangor Commercially

(BangOr COmmerciaI.)
An error has appeared in several of
the newspapers regarding the date of
the annual excursion and outing of the
Josselyn Society of Maine. The Com
mercial has been informed by Prof. Ora
w. Knight of this city, president of
the society, that the correct date of
the meeting is June 20, to July g. The
reunion Of the society will have its
headquarters at Peaks Island, Casco
bay, while excursions will be made to
Falmouth Foreside and other points
of interest. The locality chosen for the
meeting is one rich in the more rare
Maine plants, which will afford an in
teresting botanical story.