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TROUBLES OF THE TECKERS.
The Wife. Gen. I.ogan's Daushter. VIII
Fight Husbands Retirement With Pay,

WI"
CHICAGO, Feb. is-Propared to combat
to the last the efforts OF her husband,
Col William F. Tucker. to secure retire
ment with pay from active service in the
army, Mrs Mary Logan Tucker daughter
Of Gen. John A. Logan. reached Chicago
to-day from Washington to appear before
the retiring board, which convenes on
Monday,
She Immediately conferred with her
counsel. and II is their intention TO show
that the illness Of the paymaster OF the
Department OF the Lakes was caused by
dissipation and not from service to the
Government. II her case is made out
Col. Tucker will be retired without pay.
Capt. Logan Tucker, the son OF the
estranged couple. will reach Chicago to-
morrow and will aid his mother.
Another woman who will figure in the
hearing. is Mrs. Myrtle Platt, who, il is
assorted. was responsible for much OF the
marital troubles in the Tucker family.
Col. Tucker left Hot Springs to-day and
Will reach Chicago some time tomorrow
He appeared to be in good health, but
would give out no statement,
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BIG DEMONSTRATION FOR Dr.z.
$4,000 Men In Picturesque Rig TO Psr.d.
In Mexico City In HIs IIoper

MEXICO CITY, Feb. i3,-The popular
demonstration that is to be given in this
city on April in favor Of the reelection
OF President Diaz promises To be the
greatest and most spectacular sFsir
OF Its kind ever held in Mexico. Ths
committee in charge Of the arrangements
will send an invitation TO every ranch
owner in the country TO send ten picked
men fully mounted and arrayed in chdrro
costume.
Each mine. manufacturing establish.
ment and plantation and all other lines
OF industry will contribute delegations
OF marching clubs. II is expected that
at least rs, 900 men will be In the parade
that will march over the principal street,
Of the city and TO the national Palacn
TO salute President Diaz and urge hin
to accept another term.
The sun., 1909-02-14
Esperanto for Socialists Letters.

John II. Work. an Iowa member Of the
national executive committee OF the
Socialist party. notified the New York
section Of the party yesterday that he
has presented a request backed up by
arguments to the national committee
to issue an order making Esperanto the
international correspondence language
Of Sooitlists. The national committee
has already voted down a proposition
to make Esperanto the international
spoken language at congresses of the So
oialists, but Work contends that a uni
venssl correspondence language is now
necessary.
The sun., 1909-02-14
Reported steel Company Sale for
$1,000, 900.

PIrrsRCRo. Feb, 13.-It is reported that
the Republic Iron and Steel Company
has purchased the Midland Steel Company
for 81 OOO, 600 The Midland Steel Compan
plant is in Beaver county. Pennsylvania, a,
at Midland, a new town on the Ohio River
". G. Fownes is president and he is in
the Sourh with his brother, W. G. Fownes.
An official of the Midland Steel Company
denied the reported sale, but admitted
that negotiations might be on without
his knowledge.
The sun., 1909-02-14
Policy Shop Raid In Dey Street.

Detectives Donovan. Knowles and
Brennan Of the Central Office, rsided
yesterday afternoon an alleged p oicy
street. taking four prisoners. John Brady.
81 years old, q clerk. living at 2s2 Hudson
street, vas charged with running the place,
John Graham OF 252 Fulton street, Robert
Br;nkley Of 2,s West Sixty-fourth stree,
and Isaac Baker Of 337 West Fifty ninth
street were charged with being oom mon
gamblers.
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NE WAS KID kRtMER.
Wan killed ny Arkansas Train Identified
by HIS brooklyn Father.

A man was killed on an Iron Mountain
train at Little Rock. Ark. on January
20 while riding on the platform Of bag
gage car. Last night Frank Kramer
of 1887 Dehalb avenue. Brooklyn. identi-
fed the man as his son Max, pugilist,
known in Boston as Kid Kramer.
The father said that he had seen in
newspaper a picture Of the man who
had been killed He ssdd he had no money
10 have the body shipped here and asked
that burial be given IL in Little Rock.
Kramer runs carpenter shop at III
West Eleventh street. Manhattan.
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Barker Must Pay Actress Doctors BilI.

Frank c. Hollister. a physician. has
obtained verdict of 81, ,02i in the Supreme
Court in his action against Charles Bell
Barker, whose child by Gertrude Stringer
would have been legtimatized if Gov.
Higgins had not vetoed a bill 10 that
effect The present verdict represents
DR.. HOLSTERS feo for attending Edna B.
an actress who suffered injuries
in an automobile accident. Barker guar
anteed the payment OF the bill
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Costs Assessed on Gas Company =.

The decree of the United States Circuit
Court pursuant TO the mandate OF the Su-
preme Court at Washington in the 80 cent
gas case fixes the costs payable by the
Consolidated Gas Company in the United
able to the State; $3l 90 payable to the
Public Service Commission. and 81, ,e7s. 20
to the city. together with the costs in the
Circuit Court.
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More Freight Car. In use Again.

The fortnightly bulletin Of the American
Railway Association issued yesterday re-
cords decrease since January of idle
rolling stock on the railways of tho United
States and Canada. Yesterdays figures
show that there are now only 3ol,5 un-
used cars In the territory covered. On
January there we're 3s3 ,5ls. as against
22i ,05s next previously reported on De-
cember 2s, 1908. and on january 20 there
& were Sio, Ioe' d The surplus sih however, 1--WE, stil
lNDS
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zo,u Owed $3.50, Isl to Q. 900 Creditor.

Schedules in bankruptcy OF Frank
Zotti. who did business as Frank Zotti a
Co.. banker and steamship ticket agency at
ios Greenwich street, show liabilities OF
s8s8, ,lsi; nominal assets are s2,oss. .s7I. Of
which the largest item is shares OF stock
in the Frank Zotti Steamship Company.
g.. .t81. .97S. and In the Frank Zotd Co.,
t2So,ooo There were oyer 1000 creditor.
them In Croatia
The sun., 1909-02-14
ROGERS SENTENCED IN BOSTON.
known In This City In Connection With
Silverware PriZo Scheme.

BosroS, Feb. is.-George NJ. Rogers
was sentenced by Judge Dodge in the
United States District Court to-day to
one year in the House of Correction for
using the mails in a scheme to defraud
An indictment which was placed on
file last October was brought up agains
Rogers when Post Office inspectors
learned that he was In New York con.
Quoting a business similar TO the one on
which he was tried here. His counsel
asked that arrest Of Judgment be allowed
for a few days, but the court agreed with
United States District Attorney French
that there was no need OF further delay,
and sentence followed.
Rogers operated the Rogers Silver
ware Company In this city, The con-
Germ offered silverware as prizes ir various
fake competitions, che cost Of entering
these competitions going to Rogers
No one ever won, OF course, although
Rogers advertised the winners extern
sively. The Post Office authorities took
up the matter here and Rogers disap-
peared.
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Slater. Extrsdited. Sail. Tor Scotland.

The warrant for tho extradition Of
Oscar Slater. who is wanted In Glasgow,
Scotland, on the charge OF numbering
Marion Gilchrist, reached here yesterday
and the accused man sailed for Scotland
at noon on the steamship Columbia Of the
Anchor Line In the custody Of the Scotch
detectives, 80
The sun., 1909-02-14
MEXICO'S NATIONAL HYMN.
Original Manuscript Il in Buffalo Gov.
ernment VIII Secure II.

MEXICO CRY. Feb. 13.-The commission
appointed by the Federal Government
several months ago to search for the
original manuscript Of the national hymn
Of Mexico has reported that the manu-
script is held by the relatives of the late
Jaime Nuho. the composer Of the hymn,
who reside In Buffalo. N. Y.
Steps will be taken to recover the manu.
script and place II in the National Museum
here,
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Wall FOR Returning BattIeship,.

CHARLESTON, S. C.. Feb lS--The United
States scout cruiser Salem left this port
to-day 20 meet the battleship feet In
midocesn, carrying a large amount OF
ms:i for the returning armada.
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DIED..

BLOSSoM-on January o. 1900. az PaSacen',
Cal. Minnie Pettgrew Cole, beloved Sie "
benjamin blossom.
Funeral services will be held at the chspel "
the Fifth Avenue Presbyterian Church, 40
West 55th ST.. on Tuesday afternoon feo,.
aTy 10. at o'clock. 1ntermeni prl'eW
Boston. Philadelphia and Chicago pSpe"
please copy.
DAVEY.-On Saturday, February 10 ."
residence. 3il Boulevard. Jersey Wv
Edmund II. Davey. in his tist year $780,,
Funeral service Monday at =. NJ fe"S
omit flowers
ENGLE,-On February Is. 1909. al Roosevet ho,
ritsl. from injuries received In an so''''"-
Edward II. Engle. In his ceth year -,
Funeral services at $50 West 6th st. Iuesas, Is,,
February 10. at 4 p, N; Intermenl a. wv
ter. Pa. At convenience OF family
HIGGINSoN.-on Friday, February l.: ""
Pine Point. Orange Lake. y y, heoD
Higginson.
Funeral private.
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1sQa a."ra el,ra oiaAnloa AL .smNs,
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Importation Of Words,

When a language takes to import
ing words from abroad, and proceeds
to use them without altering the spell
ing or inclosing them in quotation
marks, a real entente-one of the said
words, by the way!-may be said to
be established. The English tourist
has grown accustomed to see the
words like '1e SPORT" lie touring
club" incorporated as part of the
French language, to say nothing OF
"five-o-clo-quer," as an ingenious rem
dering of the verb ito make tea" But
international labor congresses and mu-
nicipal visits have now given a politi-
cal flavor to the loans; and it is be-
coming doubtful whether it is a good
thing to borrow words for which a sat
isfactory equivalent already exists.
Why refer to "un meeting" as French
papers now do, when they have a
charming word like reunion" ready to
their hands? We are no less g~uiltless
as long as we talk glibly of solidarity,
mentality, feminism, etc. If this goes
on, let us put a tariff On words.-Lon-
don Chronicle.
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Clusters Old Guide.

The guide rode often at the head Of
of information about the country. We
began also to listen for a new domes-
tic disclosure every time we ap-
preached an Indian village. He was
the most married of any mai l ever
saw, for in every tribe he had a wife,"
This was the reference made by Mrs.
Elizabeth Custer, widow of Gen.
George A. Custer, in her book, Boots
and Saddles" to Felicien Falls, who
died a few days ago, and who was one
of the first settlers of the vast region
now embracing the states of North
and South Dakota. In the spring of
1873, when Gen. Custer and the Sew
enth cavalry arrived at Yankton Falls
he acted as guide for the command
until it reached the upper country,
and made its headquarters at Fort
Abraham Lincoln. Falls was one of
the conspicuous early-day characters
OF Dakota. While acting as guide for
the Custer expedition he became init
mately acquainted with Gen. Custer.
At this time Falls had been living in
the Indian country owe twenty years.
Yet he was fond of saying that Gen.
Clusters knowledge of Indians. outside
of speaking their language, was bet
ter than his.-Sioux Falls IS. d. Let
ter in Omaha Bee.
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Swinburne's Idea of "Cieopatra."

Cleopatra" which is to be sold
with other Swinburne rarities at
Sotheby's, was described by the poet
in a letter to T. J. Wise, as a trump
cry ~ephemeral," and he added,
George Meredith, | remember, strong
ly land no doubt JUSTLY demonstrated
with me for producing such a farrago
OF the most obvious commonplaces of
my ordinary style-as it was in '66, or
thereabouts. The verses were never
intended for reproduction or for pres
eryation, but simply scrubbed off as
fast as might be to oblige a friend
whose work | admired" Mr.. Wise,
was quite content to pay Is
guineas for a coup of the poem, on
which Swinburne remarked: II | were
not a bit Of a bibliomaniac myself, l
should be shocked to think of your
wasting good money on it."-Londoh
Chronicle.
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and beef. and we must have a COM
mercial metropolis, but it is hard to
believe that anyone would willingly
live in New York unless possessed
Of an income of a million or SO a
year.
In this city we live with comfort
and a due sense of proportion. There
are a few fats in the city, and there
are enough people who don't need
homes to fill them, but the average
Philadelphia is welded to his hearth
stone. He owns his house and lives
In it with pride and comfort, without
ostentation.
Our advice to people in Chicago and
New York is to ONE to Philadelphia
to live, where babies may be born
without the fear of the landlord, and
where they may be nurtured in COM
Portable homes and brought up to be
respected citizens. - Philadelphia In
ouirer.
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ochOoI Board Meeting.

The Parish School Board will
meet tomorrow to consider the
general situation as to the pro-
position for a five mill school
tax and to take measures to
further the cause. Supt. Wright
reports fully a third of the s
natures of the qualified
already secured to the p( 16ns.
The Police Jury will meet Mon.
day, Aug. Is, to Ronsider the
petitions and if properly signed
will order the election to take
the sense of the voters.
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Does Not Irritate.

Il have found Simmons Liver Puri-
her h mildest and most pleasant in
action, yet the surest remedy for con-
stfpation, torpid liver and all kindred
troubles, l have ever used. It does
not irritate or grippe" Very truly, S.
P. Cleary. Jackson, Tenn. Put up in
tin boxes only. Price Csc.
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WANTED TO BE LED ACROSS.
Elderly Lady Mistook Outstretched
Hand of Unfortunate for Prof
ferred Assistance.

There is a story of an elderly lady
standing on the curb by a crowded
crossing in the height of the season,
too nervous to venture off the pave
ment. She was anxious to get to her
destination on the other side of the
thoroughfare, but hesitated to risk the
journey. Presently, she perceived a
stranger offering his hand. She seized
it and they both plunged into the
traffic. A motor bus all but ran Over
them; a taxicab whizzed past so close
hat the lady fancied her last moment
had come. She chung tighter to her
guide, who never finched, but went
madly o. under the heads of the
horses. Then they all but collided
with a bicycle, and the wheels of a
hanson twisted the feathers of the
lady's toque. A tram car at that mo-
ment passed an inch from their toes
and a butchers cart knocked her
handbag yards away. A motor horn
at her a nearly frightened her out
OF her wits, and the pole of a bus,
catching her in the back, pushed her
on to the pavement. BY this time,
she had found voice to upbraid the
man to whom she had been clinging.
"Oh, dear! Oh, dear! It's a won
der I'm alive?! What do you mean.
man? / might have been killed a
dozen times over. Are you blind?"
That's just what I am, marm,' re-
piled the poor fellow: $50 | held out
my hand for some one to lead me
across.'-Harry Furniss, in Strand.
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Match Facts.

John Walker, an English chemist,
was experimenting in 1927 with an
innammable mixture for use on ship
board.
One day MI. Walker happened to
rub q stick dipped in this mixture
across a table. There was a report
the stick took fire, and. because John
Walker was no fool, the match was
born.
John Walker, the match's inventor,
put his wonderful invention on the
market in April, 1927. The Walker
match was as big as a lead pencil,
and it cost a shilling a box Because
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INVENTIVE GENIUS MISUNDER.
STOOD AND UNREWARDED.
Nr. CLASSIFY Had Idea for Scheme
That Might Have RevoIutionized
Present Scheme Of Motive
Power, but Alas!

Eyes, my name is Cluppins," said
the head of the manufacturing firm,
turning around in his revolving chair;
what can l do for your"
my name is Glasspy," said the
caller, a tall, slender man in a suit of
faded black. Possibly you have
heard of me. l am the inventor of
Glasspy's footpad discourager, an In
genious device by which the bOldest
hold-up man can be reduced to submits
sion in the twinkling of an eye, and
mo, sir, l never heard of you"
We'll, l worked it one night with
signal success on a footpad myself,
but l never sold any. Let it pass. 1
also invented a mechanical arrange
ment by the use of which a timid
woman, merely by pressing a spring,
car repulse any tramp or suspicious
character who may try to enter the
door of a dining or kitchen"
Il never heard of it. Look here,
Mr."
"Glasspy. l will detain you only a
few minutes. / am the discover, Mr..
pins, of an entirely new motive
but l lack the capital to de-
1t and bring it before the pub
have no money to lend on
schemes of that sort, sir"
Il IN not trying to borrow any
money, sir. I am simply proposing an
arrangement by which both of us can
make money. l furnish the idea. You
furnish the capital to exploit it if the
IDEA commends itself favorably to you.
The human heart, Mr.. Cluppins, for
the size of it, and considering its limi-
t~ations, is the most powerful motor in
the world. 1t never stops. 1t works
day and night, with t~ireless energy.
over the other allowing your foot to
hang free. Then note how, with every
pulsation of the heart, the foot will vi
brate up and down, describing an arc
Of perhaps a quarter of an inch.
1.-THE late Abraham Lincoln once no
ticed this peculiar vibration of the
crossed leg and made a whimsical re-
mark about it. Imagine 10000 or 10O,
900 human beings, Mr.. Cluppins, sit
ting with their legs crossed, not neces-
sarily in company, but connected by
electrical currents converging to a
common center, and tell me, if yon
can, what limit can be placed to the
tremendous energy Illus developed by
the simple motion of 100000 human
feet, moving through an arc"
Excuse me a moment, Mr.. Glass
by" hurriedly interrupted the other
rising to his feet and stepping into
the next room, closing the door behind
him.
Half a minute later an agitated
voice was talking through the tele-
phone:
Hello. Is that the Central police
station? This is the Cluppins Manu-
featuring Company. Send a couple OF
strong policemen here at once. There's
a raving maniac loose in my Office
Chicago Tribune.
The Lafayette advertiser. [volume] (Vermilionville [i.e. Lafayette], La.) 1865-19??, 1909-08-13
Fine Samples of Corn.

Major p. L. DeClOuet a veteran
farmer as well as soldier
brought to The Advertiser Office
yesterday, several fine ears of
corn grown on his plantation.
The corn measures up to the
standard fully and what is
strange, has been grown from
nubbins or inferior seed. Ma
Tor DeClouet contends that the
pig depends upon the corn and
the corn upon the soil and work.
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School Tax Meeting.

Supt. Wright has arranged
for a fine meeting at Sibille's
Hall, Carencro, next Monday
evening at eight o'clock in favor
of the proposition for a special
five mill school tax. DR.. G. "A.
Martin, MI. G 0. MoutOn, At
torney John Kennedy and Supt.
Wright will speak and a brass
band will furnish music for the
occasion.
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it could only be lighted by drawing it
through a piece of sand paper folded
in two, the Holden match supr'-hted
it in 1888. The Holden was a lucifer;
it ignited more easily than the Walk
er; SO it put the Walker out of busi-
ness.
Sweden is to-day the home Of the
match industry. Sweden exports an
nually about 1000, 00O, 900 boxes of in
comparable matches.
But there was no statue to John
Walker.
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City Council fleets.

The City Council met last
night and ordered a special
election for Sept. % to take the
sense of the taxpayers on the
proposition to levy a five mill tax
for ten years, or $4,000 per year
in favor of the Eunice. Lafayette
and Abbeville railroad. Assess
ments were levied against
property owners for all cement
walks completed.
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The Trouble a loafed in his door,
way, ~contentedly smoking a pipe. Now
and then people rushed up to the door
and entered. In a little while they
went away carrying great burdens.
borrowers" the Trouble man ex-
planned. I'm the old days l used to
have to go On the road and simply
force my goods on people, but every
body to me nowadays and all I
have to do is sit here and tend SHOP"
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He Passed.

Judge-YOu are a freeholder?
>Talesman-Yes, sir: | am.
Married or single?"
Married three years last June"
Have you formed or expressed an
opinion?"
Not for three years, your honor
Success Magazine.
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illustrator of the aforesaid estate.

Illustrator of the aforesaid estate.
Now, therefore, all persons are here
by warned and notified to file their OPP
position to the application in writing
with the clerk of court at his office in
the town of Lafayette, within ten days
after the first notice hereof, otherwise
appointed Is such administrator as
required by law and in accordance
with law.
Witness my hand this End day Of
August, 1909.
F. X. HOPKINS,
Deputy Clerk of the District Court.
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British Naval Supremacy.

British naval supremacy is said 70
date from the time OF Alfred the
Great, who claimed and enforced for
English ships OF war the right to be
saluted first. Through the following
centuries this claim was continuously
disputed and objected to until 1913.
when the Dutch agreed to strike thelr
.colors to the English In Brush wa
ters. Though the same honor mad
long been exacted from French YES
sells, France formally agreed to the
same recognition in 1704.
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Economy Of Air.

The English had persisted in the
Black Hole of Calcutta.
Poor fellows" we cried, evidently
they never roomed In q summer ho-
TEL"
Here was seen the advantage Of
practice.
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Monarchs at Home,

The king was in his counting room
counting out his money, the queen
was in the kitchen eating bread and
honey.
I'VE are trying to make the neigh
bors think we have gone to the coun-
try" she cried.
Thus we see life was the same In
Olden times.
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Took Her at Her Word.

It'll never tell another man I'd
rather dance than eat" why not?"
"He kept me Waiting until all the
restaurants were closed."-Louisville
COurier-JOurnal.
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Ar ronrjate Pace.

First Chauffeur-"What do you do
when you kill anybody while speed
ing?" Second Chauffeur-"Start off
on the dead rum"
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Looking Where He Was Going.
$50 the mule kicked you, Sam"
Vas, sab; good an hard, sah."
But why did you turn your back to
the animal. Sam?"
Il wanted t. see where he was send
- ne. boss!"