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The Lafayette advertiser. [volume] (Vermilionville [i.e. Lafayette], La.) 1865-19??, 1909-07-02
CrOuchet

Crouchet.
Caroline Curamie, ............ ..
....,...M Miss Ethel Broussard
Nine LeCOmte
........M Miss Aimee Broussard
Nine. La Comtesse de Bellenot..
............ Jeanne Crouchet
Nannette, s~ervante Miss Helen Dupuis
Gertrude, la bonne... go.
..........M Miss Laure Prejean
On the Race Course. Piano Duet;
Misses Lydie and Laure Prejean
The Cherry Drill Seniors.
TabIeau.
Monday morning another interest
ing exercise took place and this was
the awarding of prizes and medals to
pupils who had acquitted themselves
with credit during the session.. Rev.
Father Grimaud conferred the medals
and honors won, and encouraged each
to %persevere in the effort to excel.
The children were delighted with the
tokens of approval awarded by the
Mother in charge and no doubt in af-
ter years will long cherish the mem
DRY of these happy school days under
the kindly care of the good Sisters
of Mount Carmel.
The following are the prizes and
awards:
CHRISTIAN DOCTRINE-Silver Med
al awarded by the school and mer-
tied by Misses Cecilia Richard,
Jeanne Crouchet, Ethel Broussard,
CarmeIite Breaux, Edith Mouton,
and Masters Theodule Arceneaux,
AIcee Breaux and Valentin BreauX
Won in draw by Alcee Breaux.
GOOD CONDUCT.-Gold Medal given
by Miss F. Grimaud and awarded to
Miss Ethel Broussard.
GOOD CONDUCT. division for the
small pupils)-Silver Medal given
by the Institution and merited by
Misses Julienne Comeaux, Beatrice
Breaux, and Edmea Melancon. Won
by Miss Edmea Melancon.
APPLICATION.-Silve medal given
by the Institution and merited by
Misses Cecilia Richard, Jeanne
Crouchet, Ethel Broussard, Carme-
lite Breaux, Antonio Salizoni and
Helene Dupuis. Won by Miss Car
melite Breaux.
FRENCH COURSE.-Gold medal Civ
en- by Rev. Father Grimaud, merited
by Master Theodule Arceneaux and
Misses Carmelite Breaux, Jeanne
Crouchet, Helene Dupuis and Mas.
ter Raoul Stemmanns. Won by
Theodule A%rceneaux.
HONORABLE MENTION. = Aimee
i. Broussard, Lydie Prejean, Laure
Prejean Laurence C%rouchet, Antonia
Salizoni and Ethel Broussard.
ARITHMETIC-Silver medal given by
the Institution and merited by
Misses Cecilia Richard Jeanne Crou
Cuel, AHLOLId odIdLOul, anu
lite Breaux. Won by Antonio Sail
zoni.
EXACTITUDE- Medai1le d'argenf
donnee par institution, meritee pal
Miles Cecilia Richard, Antonis
Salizoni, Carmelite Breaux. Jeanne
Crouchet, Edith Mouton, Liona Ar
ceneaux, Laurence Crouchet, Lii;
Breaux, and Master Alcee Breaux.
Won by Alec Breaux.
EXACTITUDE, Division for small
pupils-Silver medal given by tn
Institution and merited by Misse
Palmire Breaux, Ethel Hernandez
May Prejean, Lydie Prejean, Lau
renee Dupuis, Armide Guidry, The
reese Martin, Edna Hebert, Francoi
|, Adams, Anna Benoit and Master
Rosemond Benoit, and Eddy Stem
, MAINS. Won by Laurence Dupuis
COMPLAISANCE-Silver medal give
by the Institution and merfted b
Misses Aimee Broussard, Antoni'
Salizoni, Carmelite Breaux, Lydi
Prejean, Laure Prejean, Louis
Guidry, Helene Dupuis, Jeann
Il Crouchet, Ethel Broussard, Leon'
. Arceneaux, Estelle Benoit, Julienn'
The Lafayette advertiser. [volume] (Vermilionville [i.e. Lafayette], La.) 1865-19??, 1909-07-02
For Sale.

Furniture as good as new for la
rooms. This is an excellent opportl-
nifty for any. one wishing to open q
boarding house, as the house contain
ing furniture can be had for a very
reasonable rent. VIII seillfor cash OF
trade for real estate.
M. A. HARGRODER...
The Lafayette advertiser. [volume] (Vermilionville [i.e. Lafayette], La.) 1865-19??, 1909-07-02
OVERRIDING II a Little.

Speaking of economy. says a
character in one of Life's Stories.
"Gillett says that he is saving up for a
rainy day.""H'm!" came the response.
His wife thinks" he must be saving I'D
for another flood"
The Lafayette advertiser. [volume] (Vermilionville [i.e. Lafayette], La.) 1865-19??, 1909-07-02

For corn, oats. nutriline, chicken
feed, Alfalfa and all kinds of feed
stuffs, ring up Upton, phone 1872.
The Lafayette advertiser. [volume] (Vermilionville [i.e. Lafayette], La.) 1865-19??, 1909-07-02
Misses Cecilia Richard and LO-
rena Guidry.

Misses Cecilia Richard and Lo-
rena Guidry.
SCHOOL CHILDREN.
Alice -. Miss Madeline Hernandez
Grace ........ Miss Mabel Richard
Nettie ............ Miss Inez Dugas
Annie ........ Miss Rachel Martin
Gertrude %. Miss Laurence CrOuchet
Lulu ........ Miss Laurence Dupuis
A Grammatical course-DiaIogue.
Teacher .........Mis Helen Dupuis
Pupil 49,. Miss Laurence Dupuis
st. Gobineau (Saynette In One Act.)
CHARACTERS
Commissioner ..Theodule Arceneaux
Peasant ........ Alice Breaux
Domestic ............ Eddy Breaux
Tripping Over the Lawn, Piano
Duet. Misses Lydia and Laure
Prejean.
FIorinda, or The Rose and Pearl,
(Cantata.)
CHARACTERS.
Fairy Queen =. Miss Jeanne Crouchet
Florinda .......M Miss Rachel Martin
Vala -. 49,. Miss Cecilia Richard
Yoringal $500. Miss Lucille Guidry
Choruses of FAIRIES and Witches.
fNTERMIsSION.
PART II.
Jingle Bells, Piano Duet........
Misses Helen and Laurence Du-
puts.
The Train to Mauro. Comedy
CHARACTERS.
! Mrs. Buttermilk, an elderly lady from
the country Miss Jeanne Crou-
Chef.
| Mr.. Bright, a clerk at the railway
station. .... Miss Mabel Richard
Johnny, a terrible child .......
.......M Miss Armide Guidry
La Beguille, a Grand Papa, song
.......... Miss Lucille Guidry
La visite de Nine. de BeIIenot.
(comedie en- IN Acte.)
CHARACTERS.
Marthe, Alice land Berthe, Les....
Trois S0eurs. ... Misses Carmelite
Breaux, Lydie Prejean, Laurence
The Lafayette advertiser. [volume] (Vermilionville [i.e. Lafayette], La.) 1865-19??, 1909-07-02
For Rent.

A newly built house. for rent; -four
rooms with hall, bath room and pan
try. 80 Clinton street.-Ophelia Rob
erts.
The Lafayette advertiser. [volume] (Vermilionville [i.e. Lafayette], La.) 1865-19??, 1909-07-02
For Rent.

A new five room residence, cheap
IS per month. apply to,
LACOSTE HARDWARE CO., Ltd.
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ST. ANNs CONVENT

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For summer comfort, al a pair
of our celebrated Eclipse shoes-tnfF
, wear well and look well!-Schmuen'sA
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came from the illustrious Scottish family of Comyn, whether they spell 1t with a ''y'''so or not. The junior Senator from Iowa came from the Scotch-Irish settle ment of Pennsylvania, but he is descend ed from the Red" or the "Blaek" Com yn of Scotland of six centuries ago.
 Albert B. Cummins was born in 1850, the year Champ Clark and Henry Cabot Lodge first saw the light. After receiving a liberal education young Cummins studied law, was called to the bar and! began the practice of his profession at Chicago. Whether it was that he did not succeed or whether he preferred a rural tmosphere-whatever the moving cause, Cumrnins left Chicago and went to Iowa and began the practice of law with poli- tics as a by-vocaton, and he became a powerful factor in the affairs of that state. But he was an incipient mugwump before he was 46, and occasionally the outside world heard of him and moss back democrats down in Kentucky, 20 and more years ago, were wont to wish him well and expect great things of him; but however much of reformer Cummins might have been, he was no martyr. He stuck to the republican party, from which all may gather that the Hon. Cummins knows which side of his bread has got the butter on it. Nevertheless, all Ken
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that the erucifxion of Christ was the greatest event that ever took place. or ever can taSe place, upon this earth. Consistency" did not seem to be much of a "jeweri to any of these famous writers.
 John Hay was very able and thought ful mana great Secretary of State, and a highly distinguished minister to Eng land. What could he have been think ing about, or rather let us say, what had he forgotten, when he said that Abra- ham Lincoln was the greatest character that had lived since Christ? It is said that Hay in his later years became a 5 Christian, and that he expressed his re- gret for having written certain of his productions. There was plenty of room for such regret. Jim Bludsoe' is bad and Little Brooches" not much bet ter but what can be said for that enor- nous mass of partisan trash, which, under the title of the Life of Abra- ham Lincoln" Hike a wounded snake, dragged it's slow length along" through countless numbers of the Century Maga- zine. and then got itself published in some 10 volumes, almost as large as those of the American Cyclopedia? It is a pity if he did not regret that
 Brooks Lawrence, the famous leader
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pipe after dinner in New Orleans, when a meddlesome travelling evangelist, who was holding a revival in the city, thus aecosted him: "Dr. Broaddus if you can tell me any good that your smoking does you. or any one else. I'll agree that you may smoke; but if not, then I insist that you abandon it." Broaddus replied: "Wel1. my smoking may not do me any good, but it may be of signal service to you" How" said the meddler. By ex- orcising you in the very important Chris than virtue of attending to your own bus mess"
 One of the most intimate and most highly valued friends that this scribe ever had was that admirable educator John Hart. I taught with him in the Albemarle Female institute. and we lived in the same house. ate at the same table, hunted partridges on the hills of Albemarle, and fished in the Rapidan.
 He had to resign himself to good many of my sermons; for I preached frequently in Charlottesville in those days.
 "But these things are neither here nor there" as MT. Brook would say; so to the point.
 John Hart once said: We don't
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with the prevailing anaesthetio form of leprosy. ana as I stood watching them one of them unconcernedly pulled on the third Joint of his llttle finger on his left hand and with a grin showed 1t to his companion. The operation cost him not bit of pain, nor did he lose a drop of blood When the highly sensitive mem bers of the Caucasian races contract this disease 90 per cent of the victims suicide, but it is not so with the Oriental. They seem to be so mentally constructed that they can readily adapt themselves to most any condition of life and with the utmost indifference resign themselves to whatever destiny fate may assign them
 This Is especially true among the Chin ese. After the Boxer uprising in China I saw seven men executed outside the walls of Pekin. With their hands tied behind them in order to draw back their shoulders as they bent forward they cheerfully kneeled and with the utmost indifference allowed the eXecutioner to loop off their heads. Under the Spanish regime not much attention was paid to lepers as in some towns they were allowed to beg on the streets, but since Uncle Sam has taken charge the lepers are rapidly being rounded up and sent to the colony. Stand ard authorities maintain that this dis ease cannot be contracted except by moe ulation through mucous from the nose or saliva from the mouth. The leper does not perspire. The outer skin becomes dry and covered with scales and their blood slowly becomes so thin and diluted with water (the leper always has an nn- quenchable thirs) as to refuse It's func- tion of carrying nutrition and oxygen to the tissues. Then death. As the blood becomes thin and weak the secretions from the mucous membranes of the nose, as well as from the salivary glands in the mouth are very profuse. The ema- ciated slobbering leper, in the last stages of the horrible disease, presents a sight that Is truly disgusting. The first indi- cations of leprosy are always seen in the dissolution of the muscular tissue, beginning almost invariably between the lower joints of the fingers and thumb; then the calves of the legs and the biceps of the arms become attenuated. The groins are in turn attacked, after which comes a gradual decay, toes and fingers dropping off the ears and nose disap- pearng-smply slow progressive dry rot, gradual dissolution, for In leprosy
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of the Anti-Saloon league of Alabama, is, or was, very moderate smoker. He carefully selected his cigars and always took small ones. Some wild fanatic once poured hot shot into him for his 'in- consistency" and affirmed that tobacco was "a greater scourge than whisky" The habit of smoking is sometimes pub liely and. violently denounced as low, coarse, vile and filthy" I am not de- lending the habit and yet 1t is a fact that some of the nobest spirits that have lived in this world since Sir Walter Raleigh introduced the Indian weed into England, have been smokers. Milton was one. Robert Hall greatly enjoyed his pipe, though he did not defend it. Spur geon loved a good cigar and did defend it vigorously. Tennyson was d famous smoker, and if any human being. male or. female, ever had a more delicately organ ized mind than his, l do not know who it was. John Hart greatly enjoyed cigar. A. B. Brown smoked his pipe with great gusto and with distinguished awkwardness; and C. T. Toy never looks so natural, nor so thoroughly satisfied as he does when smoking a Powhatan pipe with a long stem.
 William F. Broaddus was once filling his
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9each Baptist arithmetic. nor Baptist chemistry. nor Baptist natural philoso- phy in our school, but we do teach a Baptist Greek Testament for there is no other sort to teach"
 Now, whether there is any such thing as Baptist arithmetic" I shall not now undertake to decide but that there is a science which may fairly be dubbed "ecclesiastica1 arithmetic" is painfully manifest and. in these latter days. it is vigorously forging to the front in what are coming to be called revival meetings"
 Let Us note some rather conspicuous examples
 My friend and brother. the late W. Pope Yeaman, was pastor of a promi- nent Baptist church in St. Louis. He decided to hold a protraeted meeting with his church and he called to his aid one of the most widely known of our modern Baptist evangelists.
 One morning during the meeting a daily paper of the city publish ed a glowing and highly colored account of the glorious meeting of the previous night, recounting the number of con verts and of inquirers. Yeaman had been present; had witnessed all the pro-
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and on top of this a layer of corpses. The funeral pyre is constructed in the form of a pyramid a layer of highly inflammable wood and layer of corpses until the apex is reached. The entire structure when complete Is saturated with naptha and crude petroleum. Later: Have just returned from the big plaza (parl) where I went to see corporal fire the large pyre. A trail of gun powder was laid from the huge pile of poison death, about 75 feet to wndward and fired by slow match.
 This was done because last evening, when the pyre was fired several curious officers and men were standing too close and got their hair singed. As I write sniff of the atmosphere reminds me of the big barbecues we used to attend at home. This locality has lost about 5000 natives to date. Not any eases have de- veloped among the troops so far. The boys will keep the fire going tonight un- til all the bodies and what few charred bones were left over from last nights roast are consumed The natives do not take kindly to this method of disposng of the dead, as they seem to think that it is sacreigious. The major Ohe officer In
 
 command of the garrison) gave the padre to understand that he should either sprinkle holy water gratis, or languish in the local military prison.
 The kind and benevolent priest has, up to date, grudgingly performed this ser- vice. I'd be willing to wager my ears that this is the first time the old hypo- crite ever performed a spiritual service for a native without being well pa[ therefor Getting holy water for nothing seems to reconcile the natives to allowing their relatives to be cremated."
 Leprosy is another disease that helps in no small measure to fill the cemeteries Several types of this most awful of all horrible diseases are frequently seen In the Philippines. The most common type is anaesthetic leprosy. A victim of this malady must watch himself slowly de- compose and endure the offensive smell of his own rotting flesh, sometimes for years before death claims him. The leper suffering from tho anaesthetio type or the disease suffers not a particle of pain. Shortly after my arrival in the island l saw two Chinamen on the Manila docks who were lepers, awaiting transportation to one of the southern islands that the United States government had selected as leper colony. Both were afflicted
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lucky democrats got a heap of comfort out of the man, and more or less aid. But that Is what beggared us. If the south had stood by Cleveland as Cum mins stood by the G. O. P, it would have mattered little what Cummins, LaFol- lette, Jerry Simpson, Bryan, and states men of that illz thought or said or did. We would have kept the country in the basket we put it in In 1892.
 By and by Cummins got to be governor and served two or more terms. We con tinued to hear of him, and like good Catholics in the age of Savonarola, there were democrats who thought there might be the making of a political Pope Angel ica out of him to bring joy to all our hearts, office to all our ambitions, and consequent and resultant salary and per quisite.
 And now the octopus chase began. Bry an had made the democratic party a pop ulist; had eashiered Cleveland and en- listed Weaver; had traded the electoral vote of New York for that of Nevada; had solidihed the north and broken the. south. But they chased the octopus, and on the other side of the hedge Cummins, LaFollette, Clapp, Wisconsin Cooper and that set Joined in and ran the varmint to J. Pierpont Morgan's Wall street lair. Theodore Roosevelt was the chief hunts
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HEART TO HEART TALKS-By Edwin A. Nye

deserted husband who is the mining magnate of the village and worth a quarter of a million dollars.
 Stone will not shoot Martin
 He will pay $250O to find his wife.
 He will forgive her and take her back.
 More than all that, Mir Stone says he will give his wife a divorce if she wants 1t and will set up her husband in bus mess if she marries again.
 In order to find his wife Stone has pub lished reward of $500 If she is found in the company of Martin that will make no difference.
 Mrs Stone had no apparent good req son for going away. She was well pro- vided for, had her own automobile, her books and music. her children and an old mother The poor grandma was so grieved and mortified over her daughter s conduct that she committed suicide
 Mrs Stones husband was worth 10000 Martins. so far as manhood goes. but 1t is quite plain the latter took advantage of her romantic disposition. And, like many other woman, she idealized very vulgar man.
 Sitting in his desolated home, MT. Stone said: My wife Is not bad woman. She was i'll and nervous. She was an affectlonate wife and an ideal mother to my little ones. I do not judge her by a harsh standard I promised her mother I would not rest until I found her.
 With his home all in ruins about him, Stone offers full forgiveness. Surely such self-sacrlfice will bring back the errant wife.
 Doubtless she has already discovered her tremendous mistake. few weeks of comparison will clearly reveal the in- finite worth of the father of her chil- dren. And the cry of those children will be in her ears.
 The man who 1ured her will soon grow tired of Mrs. Stone That Is the usual history of such affairs
 Some day, if she lives, the woman Wlli he glad to grovel at the feet of the hus- band she deserted.
 And the husband?
 Few men are so strong and forgving. It goes against the human grain to for give so great Q wrong
 It is Christlike-but 1t is unusual.
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RACTONAL CURRENCY DENONNAHONS-B C. Hden

ceedings, and had not heard of a con vert. nor of an inquirer. Upon this. he interviewed the editor; expressed his surprise at the erroneous statements, and asked: What made you publish such stuff? I was there. and nothing of the sort occurred" Well, Doctor" said the editor. T supposed 1t was all right; for the evangelist himself gave us the account"
 This is no rumor; Yeaman himself told me the story in my own home, wh ere he was an honored guest.
 Another case: An evangelist of great notoriety l do not say reputation, preached In a "revivar' in city in which I was serving as pastor. His coming was heralded with a great flourish of trumpets and I have never known any travelling show to be advertised so ex- tenslvely nor so long as were his dis courses, both before and after delivery.
 Of course he advertised sermons ito men only" He did not publicly announce a sermon on "A Man Up a Tree" and then preach on the conversion of Zac- cheus; but he preferred to announce a discourse on "Chickeus Come Home to Roost,n and then discourse upon "Retri- blition." His ecclesiastical arithmetic reckoned "a thousand converts" in that
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meeting. I learned that only about a hundred of them Joined the church in which the revival" was held"
 I heard this "revivalist" several times. He exhorted during the singing; walked up and down the aisles urging people to come to the altar" mounted a chair and pressed the sinners to .come up and be saved at this calm. qgiet service"
 He left our town for fresh fields and pastures new. in a city of one of the Gulf states. I happene dto be sub scriber to daily paper published in that city. and day after day there was col umn after column about the great evan gelist under whose preaching there had been a thousand converts at the great revival fn-a
 Some 52 of his "inquirers" were on list given to me. l visited, or wrote to every one that was accessible, and some that were not. Two Of them said they did not know whether they wanted to be Christians or not" One was as dumb as an oyster to my questions Divers were already church members. I wrote 34 let ters and got answers to two.
 But enough. I am not strong on ec- clesiasticaI arithmetic, and as Carlyle would say: T would rather weigh than count"