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The Carlisle independent., 1909-08-05

part of the westerner, who proposed to make some one else pay his expenses if he could Cleland already had found the drummer telephone number and invited him to dine and join them in another little friendly game.
 Again Solomon won, but his win nings were small. The salesman, also, was allowed to carry away a few dol lars for his evenings work. Floyd, however, made heavy winning and Cleland lost $2,0O0. playing with the feverish recklessness that comes to the average loser at cards. The game broke up when the salesman an- nounced that he would have to quit and get a few hours sleep before ap- bearing at his place of business. Gle land went off to his room with a grouch, refusing even to take a "night-cap" drink Solomon, however, readily accepted Floyd's invitation to take in some of the all-night restaur- ants.
 T wonder if our friend has left town without saying good-by," remarked Solomon to Doc Floyd two days after the poker game in which Cleland had lost his money to Floyd. He had not appeared since that time.
 T wonder" replied Floyd. Let's inquire of the clerk at the desk and see if he's gone" Acting upon this sug- gestion they learned that MT. "McCle- land the name under which Cle- land was known to them, was still in town, and in fact was in his room at that moment
 Lets go up and see what ails him
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SURPRISED HIM Doctors Test of Food.

A doctor in Kansas experimented with his boy in test of food and gives the particulars. He says:
 T naturally watch the effect of diff. ferent foods on patients. My own lit tie son, lad of four, had been i'll with pneumonia and during his conva- lescence did not seem to care for any kind of food.
 T knew something of Grape-Nuts and its rather fascinating flavor. and particularly of it's nourishing and nerve-building powers, so started the boy on Grape-Nuts and found from the first dish that he liked it.
 His mother gave it to him steadily and he began to improve at once In less than a month he had gained about eight pounds and soon became so well and strong we had no further anxiety about him.
 An old patient of mine, 73 years old, came down with serious stomach trouble and before I was called had got so weak he could eat almost notha> ing, and was in a serious conditi0A He had tried almost every kind ~ food for the sick without avail.
 T immediately put him on Grape Nuts with good, rich milk and just a little pinch of sugar. He exclaimed when l came next day Why doctor I never ate anything so good or that made me feel so much stronger
 T am pleased to say that he got we'll on Grape-Nuts, but he had to stick to it for two or three weeks, then he began to branch out a little with rice or an egg or two He got entirely well in spite of his almost hopeless condition. He gained p pounds in two months which at his age is remarkable.
 T could quote list of cases where Grape-Nuts has worked wonders"
 There's a Reason" Read "The Road to Melville" in pkgs.
 Ever read the above letter. A new one appears from time to time. They are genuine, true, and full of human interest.
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were divided into three packages of equal amounts and tied up into neat paper-bound parcels on the roll-top desk
 Just at that moment there was a knock on the locked door of the of flee and Cleland slammed down the top of the desk and kicked the waste paper underneath before he went to answer the summons
 Tt was only a customer looking for my friend" he remarked, as he re- turned and raised the top of the desk, disclosing the three neatly tied par cels. You fellows had better take your bundles and separate. We will all meet at the hotel for dinner
 Solomon and Floyd, acting like two conspirators, agreed to take separate conveyances uptown to their hotel and to meet there later and drink to their good luck.
 Two hours later, when Floyd had not put in appearance, Solomon began to feel nervous. He was afraid some. thing had happened to Floyd and Gle land but for another half hour he did not suspicion anything further, and then he suddenly decided to go to his room and investigate his newly acquired wealth.
 "Stung," yelled Solomon when he undid the parcel and found Q tightly bound package of tissue paper with dollar bill on each outer side. Ard l never once thought of the old greep goods gamei"
 Copyright, by w. c. ChapmanQ
 Copyright in Great Britain.)
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Neatly Put.

Two Quakers were having an ar gument and one considered the other was speaking falsely This is how he reproyed him:
 Friend Thomas, will not call thee by any bad name. but if the mayor were to ask me who was the greatest liar in the town I would hasten to thee and say Thomas, l think the mayor greatly desireth to speak with tbee.'"
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caused a WSakQeSS and broken down condition of the system. 1 read so much whatLydia E. Pinkham's Veg etable Compound had done for other suffering women l felt sure it would help me, andImust say it did help me wonderfully. My pains all left me. I
The Carlisle independent., 1909-08-05

4 Chicago man broke his leg while eating a piece of pie He shouldn't have made such vigorous kick against the pastry.
The Carlisle independent., 1909-08-05

Asks the Los Angeles Express: What is a cold storage egg" This is a bald attempt to make us wish We were in California.
The Carlisle independent., 1909-08-05

Turkeys new sultan, who says the outrages in the provinces must cease, possibly does not like the smell of Flu ropean gunpowder.
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oe beaten out of that amount on the ancient gold brick" game. The din- her end of the bet was merely pal try side issue for the big ex-alderman had also wagered $5,000 and lost that, too
 Doc Floyd had asserted that even in the twentieth century the time worn green goods game" could be worked
 Have you got the nerve to tell me that you can put over the old green goods thing" was the amazed demand of Alderman Mehanty. 'I'll bet just one more bundle of $5,000 and again dinner for the crowd that it cant be done. Why the biggest sucker in the country would take your flash bank roll away from you if you tried to work that"
 Well, maybe he would" returned Floyd, but I'll just bet you it can be done and will let Cleland do the rough work and I'll just go along to oversee 1t. may have to find the man, but I'll let Jack do the trimming"
 And I'll take half of F1oyd's end of the bet that they put it over" broke in Col. Powley once more. Is it a bet?"
 Tt is. I'm game for another try" replied the alderman.
 How about it. Jack? Can we do it?' quired Floyd of a tall, cold eyed dy- speptic looking person who had sat silent, sipping his wine and pufing a big cigar throughout the bantering con- versation.
 Jack Cleland merely grunted his as- sent He was the one pessimist of the party, but always dependable and a handy man to nave in any deal.
The Carlisle independent., 1909-08-05

Mothers would enjoy their congress more if they could get chance at the domestic appropriation bills.
The Carlisle independent., 1909-08-05

The fake fisherman story is at last outclassed. They are catching white whales at Atlantic City.
The Carlisle independent., 1909-08-05

The inventor of the roller coaster has had his own breath taken away tbis time for good
The Carlisle independent., 1909-08-05

Teaching the young idea how to shoot is not a circumstance to teach ing it how to ayiate.
The Carlisle independent., 1909-08-05

Russias cabinet will continue to be graced by the aristocratic whiskers of Premier Stolypin.
The Carlisle independent., 1909-08-05

4 Milwaukee woman was touched by burglar, but not in sympathetic sense. He decamped with her purse.
The Carlisle independent., 1909-08-05

And not spring poem written this year. Nothing but ragtime meter would have done.
The Carlisle independent., 1909-08-05

A woman has secured the Carne gie hero medal But then the sex is fashioned on a heroic mold
The Carlisle independent., 1909-08-05

Women are now advised to try flat tery on men to gain the ballot Well, the men will not object
The Carlisle independent., 1909-08-05

Great Britain is facing a defiGt of s78.o00o0O, as we'll as demand for more Dreadnoughts.
The Carlisle independent., 1909-08-05

About as good time as any to stand from under will be when the aeroplane gets out of control.
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Young Turks cannot promote human liberty merely by encouraging the hemp industry.
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WANTS HER
 LETTER
 PUBLISHED
For Benefit of Women who Suffer from Female Ills

Minneapolis, Minn.-"I I was a great sufferer from female troubles which
The Carlisle independent., 1909-08-05

A bell changed. a gate slammed and the conductor and belated passenger climbed aboard the Twentieth Century Limited train which was leaving the La Sale street station, Chicago for it's 1S-hour spin to New York. The big engine throbbed and the long train of rolling palaces slid out of the shed without a jerk or tremor, as easily as a trim sail boat propelled by a gentle breeze. At the forward end of the train, the buffet car, a comfortable small club on wheels, already was more than half filled with passengers.
 Seated on one side of the car Doc Floyd was contentedly pufing a cigar cite while on the opposite side of the aisle, Jack Cleland pulled at a strong cigar, and neither man glanced at or seemed to know of the presence of the other. All was quiet save for the businesslike conversation of two showmen. The vestibule door opened and into the car came Solomon Rosen- berg, wise man of the west in which section he had imbibed the air of free dom in speech and manner
 Acquaintances are almost as easily made in the smoking car of a train as on shipbOard and here was Floyd not 20 miles out of Chicago drinking with a person whose natural propensities for "butting in" with strangers could not be overcome. Within ten minutes after they had met, Solomon Rosen- berg was narrating the story of the most recent happenings of his life and riding to a swift and certain fall.
 Oh yes, Solomon was wise one. He knew it and was proud of it. Floyd had listened to his talk and wondered the while, whether there was a chance to take some of Solomon's easily got ten wealth and also lower his stock of conceit He concluded that it might be well worth while to cultivate his new acquaintance. It was at least worth trying, so he ordered another bottle which further mellowed the talkative one. whose tones by this time had dis turbed a commercial traveller who sat near him running over columns of fig ures in his sales book.
 The travelling man appeared slightly annoyed as he glanced toward the wine drinkers. Suddenly he seemed to think of something and placing his memoranda in his pocket he turned to Floyd and his companion and asked if they cared to kill the time with small game until the call came for dinner in the dining car.
 Sure was the reply of Solomon, answering for Floyd as well as him. self. My friend and I will play if you'll dig up some one else"
 A telepathic thought seemed to travel from Floyd to Jack Cleland who was looking at the party from the op- posite side of the car. The others also seemed to notice his presence at the same time and it appeared mere chance that he was invited to make the fourth man in the game.
 The play was not resumed after din ner, Cleland saying that he had lost about all he could afford, but the party stuck together and when it came time to retire for the night, Solomon, Floyd and Cleland had all agreed to make their headquarters at the Hotel Astor during their stay in New York and see more of each other. The drummer had told them that his home was in the city but that he hoped to look them up during their stay.
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ERE'S hoping that you get even, alderman" Doc Floyd raised a goblet of sparkling burgundy, across the brim of which he glanced and
 smiled at the member of the High Rollers club who was host at a dinner he was giving in part pay ment of a bet that there was not a man in the coun- try with 5000 who could
The true Democrat. [volume] (Bayou Sara [La.]) 1892-1928, 1909-07-31
roo SWEEPING.

There is a feeling growing in
the State to abolish the game
commission. This finds express
ion in the country press and in
formal resolutions of Police Ju-
ries and other public bodies.
This is, in our opinion, too
sweeping. 1t is like discarding
the use of plOws because the
brown mare ran away with one
and created havoc in the corn
field. A commission, or other
special officer, to look after the
protection and conservation of
game, is necessary, and in line
with modern progress. AIDE
quate salaries should be paid for
real service. The commission
ers should be elective and the
parish game wardens also. With
these provisions, the game com.
mission would cease to be a part
of the political machine with the
button under the Governors
thumb, and would become a use.
full instrument of service. The
people will, after reflection, see
their way clear to make these
changes rather than to actually
abolish the Commission.
The true Democrat. [volume] (Bayou Sara [La.]) 1892-1928, 1909-07-31
SENATOR McENERY As ROAST
ED AND ROASTER.

LOuisiana's senior senator is,
we greatly fear, making a sad
exhibition of himself. Senator
McEnery, as well as the other
Congressman from Louisiana,
have been roasted by Golfers
for their votes on the tariff, al
though McEnery has Jared worst
of all. The climax comes this
week when the Saturday Evening
Post in one of Samuel G. Blythe S
inimitable humorous sarcastic
skits holds the mirror up to the
aged senator. Any one with a
particle of humor in his compost.
ton must enjoy it even though
sympathizing with the senator's
course. Mr.. McEnery evidently
has no sense of humOr. What
the devil does any body care
what those Id yellow papers
say about me anyhow? | have
always been a Democrat pro
lection Democrat. | am respOn'
sible to the people of this section
for my actions alone. AS fol
these Internal yellow journals
| it is none of their Id bust
ness what | do"
All of which shows the Sena
tor in a sad state of temper. In
cidentally he betrays that he
cares very much what the yellow
journals say, and also that he ha:
a very narrow idea of his posi-
ton and duties. He does repre-
sent Louisiana, it is true, an(
should befaithful tOher interests
but he is also an integral part o
the United States Senate,
branch of legislation for the en-
tire Union, and as such is al
much a subject for criticism O.
praise by Golfers or the Post
as he is of the Times. Democra
and Picayune. We should like t.
have seen the Senator take hi
medicine with more dignity. l
he is right he can we'll afford to
If he is wrong
The true Democrat. [volume] (Bayou Sara [La.]) 1892-1928, 1909-07-31
BIRDS as TENANTS.

Have you ever made it a rule
that in your house-yard or the
near outlying grounds, no hre
arm or catapult shall ever be.
discharged or any birds nest
disturbed? If you have, then
YOU know already, that by the
quick freemasonry among the
birds that the word has passed
along from nest to nest, from
bird to bird awning, and they has
ten with delight to this neutral
ground where they are safe.
You already know then that
they repay you with the exquls'
tie Law of the mocking-bird, the
tWitter of robins and bee-mar-
tins, the saucy note of the pop
the shrill call of the blue jay
Mine is such a place though
small, but the rental paid in bird
song is more than compensatory
My written words are set to Vo'
cal music, which is sung from nc
printed score but which the hrs,
bird learnt when creation was
new. The tenants of my trees
have grown so familiar and Sc
well.acquainted that they hol
about among the chickens at the
kitchen door, picking up crumbs
so assured, so unafraid, that Il
makes one half.ashamed, before
such perfect trust to kill a chick
en- for culinary purposes, les
these tiny creatures learn that
am a horrid, blOod-thirsty, meat
eating being, in spite of seeming
generosity to them.
The true Democrat. [volume] (Bayou Sara [La.]) 1892-1928, 1909-07-31
Judge Lewis Scores Political Conditions


Hon. Thos. H. Lewis of Ope,
lousas at a Farmers Union meet
ing, this week, so severely scor,
ed the state administration, that
it is said that the Governor will
make a reply in defense.
Mr.. Lewis attacked first the
protective tariff system and then
what he termed the obnoxious
laws which have been passed
during the last Legislature. In
vigorous language he denounced
the legislation which created the
Game Commission, the Civil Code
Commission and the other com.
missions and Offices created by
the last General Assembly, and
argued for their repeal.
He said that the last session OF
the Legislature, in it's short SEES.
sion OF two months, had added to
The true Democrat. [volume] (Bayou Sara [La.]) 1892-1928, 1909-07-31
Another noted Confederate is

Another noted Confederate IS
gone oyer the river to rest in the
shade of the trees. Col. Jos. A.
Chalaron, custodian of Memorial
Hall, and chairman of the State
Pension Board, died Saturday
night at his home in New Or
leans. A fighter in forty battles
of the Confederacy, his later lie
was dedicated to the interests OF
it's history and of his comrades
in arms. Even as Queen Mary
avowed that Calais" her LOST
citadel, was engraved on hel
heart, we fancy, &c. S. A." was
written on his, and this without
disloyalty to the Union.
The true Democrat. [volume] (Bayou Sara [La.]) 1892-1928, 1909-07-31
WAITING At THE CHURCH.

A cartoon appeared in a late
daily paper, bearing the above
heading, "Waitingat the Church"
and representing a minister
standing at the portals of his
church in a beseechting attitude,
watching the crowds go BY
some in automobiles, some in
light carts, others on foot carry
ing picnic baskets, others still
running to catch the street cars,
but all passing by, eager and
intent to spend their time in the
open. The cartoon is pregnant
with meaning and should bear a
lesson for the class, whose pro
fessed mission it is to benefit
their fellOW-men. If these were
not, as a rule, the most unprac'
tical of all men, they would long
ago have seen that there is some,
thing at fault in their methods
that leaves empty the churches,
which have been piOusly erected
for the worship of God. 1t is not
that men care less for God and
the things of the spirit. Under
all the unrest and rush of these
modern days, the soul of man
still yearns for something higher
than himself and his everyday
aims, but the very exactiOns OF
his hurried existence require
reIaxatiOns more reStful thar
worship.
The obvious remedy is to pur
sue a less exacting career, bu'
who can apply it? Every one is
running a Marathon which car
only be stopped, it seems, by
sheer physical inability. There
fore some other means must bt
tried to lead men, while they res
from the days occupations, tt
seek higher things than mere
recreation.
If good people were only more
practical, they would find the
means and the way. Jesus, WhC
loved to call himself the Son O
Mao, rarely sought temple o.
synagogue. He led the multi
tude into the wilderness, HI
taught them on the Mount o
Olives, he walked with them be
side the Sea of Ga!ilee. And tn
people of those days, no doubt a
tired as we are now of w0rldl
affairs, were brought out to Ma
lures great places, and Their
were taught by q natural st
quence to look up to Nature
God,
The true Democrat. [volume] (Bayou Sara [La.]) 1892-1928, 1909-07-31
EPIDEMICS or CRIME.

Wonder is sometimes express
ed that crime seems to run along
certain lines, as if it were cpl
demic like a disease. At one
time, it is murder, another sui,
eide; yet again it is bank defal,
cations. Now, it is notarial EN-.
bezzlementS, as if an itch to is.
sue false paper descended on all
nOtaries. The explanation is sim.
pie. Much crime, particularly
murder and suicide, follows by
imitation or suggestion. One in
cipient criminal reads of what
another did, and follows suit
Defalcations become public one
after another because a single
happening of the kind causes
easy going people, previously
negligent, to turn a searchlighr
on similar transactions, and the
frauds are discovered. The
crooked man might we'll long moi
only to escape detection himself
but for others like himself, to es
cape also. Their safety increases
his chances of immunity.
The true Democrat. [volume] (Bayou Sara [La.]) 1892-1928, 1909-07-31
disloyalty to the Union.

The death of Mrs. Betty lay
lor cambridge, the last surviving
daughter of President Zachary
TAYLOR reminds FelicianianS that
in the cherished graveyard at
Locust Grove plantation in West
Feliciana parish lies another
daughter of the great general
and president, Sarah Knox Tay
lor, bride for three months OF
Jefferson Davis, Inflated chieftalr
of the i'll, fated COnfederacy.
The true Democrat. [volume] (Bayou Sara [La.]) 1892-1928, 1909-07-31

Some genius has discovered
that due to reflex action, no man
can tell a lie without wiggling his
big toe. Will the custom ever
prevail of removing the shoes be.
fore entering the witness box?
The true Democrat. [volume] (Bayou Sara [La.]) 1892-1928, 1909-07-31

In New Orleans, the other day,
we saw a well-dressed Chinaman
out for a promenade, with a rath.
er pretty American girl. And
this so soon after the Elsie Sigel
affair. But the girl had a sullen,
lowering look as if to say, 81
dare to do this
The true Democrat. [volume] (Bayou Sara [La.]) 1892-1928, 1909-07-31

Harlequin writes strongly
against encouraging Chinese
laundries and restaurants, that
these people by their very thrift
and industry, their economy and
saving are a menace to Ameri.
cans, and that by patronizing
them we encourage their immi.
grafton. How they grow and
prosper may be Illustrated by one
Chinese restaurant in New Or.
leans that a few years ago was q
mere hole in the wall with soiled
linen and tin cutlery. Now it is
three times as large, clean, be-
silvered and begilt with the best
The true Democrat. [volume] (Bayou Sara [La.]) 1892-1928, 1909-07-31

If the boil weevil teaches farm.
ers to farm, rather than plant
and leave the cultivation wholly
to the mule and the negro, it
will have been of inestimable
service to Louisiana.
The true Democrat. [volume] (Bayou Sara [La.]) 1892-1928, 1909-07-31

Marion Swords OF st. Landry
has announced his candidacy
thus early for Secretary of State
In addition to Mr.. Swords, Fred
Grace, register Of the State land
Office; Chas. K. Fuqua, private
secretary to Governor Sanders,
and Bob Landry, clerk of the
House of Representatives, are al
mentioned as probable candi
dates,