St. Landry clarion. (Opelousas, La.) 1890-1921, 1910-08-13
was often. whenever thev liked.

was often. whenever they liked.
I have ! phone at my house 81
that whenever an rang up at night
! Immediately awake and answer.
The gentle intimation that | should
sleep il The Office won't work with
your Uncle Samuel. # / didn't want
to stay at homo / wouIdn't have
gotten married.
The other phone Is il the Jail. II
fire, Instruction, jail breaking, 81
some constable coming in in the mid
die Of che night, we can be posted
quickly, bat this don't amount to that
six hundred-dollar rake Of.
Custom has caused the different
Police Juries to adopt and pay for
phone and telegraph system and
charges, knowing that it causes many
more prisoners to be caught before
leaving the parish than those that
escape. They adopted and naid il
before because it was right, and the
public does not expect the sheriff
carry all burdens outsideofsgse SSH.
We collect all the special school taxes
for nothing and it requires q good
deal 81 expense and bookkeeping. IL
The Police Jury don't want tie phones
and t~elegraphs. / don't, but that they.
could take six hundred dollars and.
go i long way IS to Jour Uncle sam
ueTs thinking,
The distinguished Police Jury ad-.
vocats profFers the information that
the rule By which the instincts Of 4
gentleman are measured IS not the
same in zlluland as it is in Englaad.
4 viii simply say that when / struck
the parties who turned down o. adj
Fisad the turning down of tie Judges
signature would naturally think 1
bad struck : Zuln. ! don't know
much difference between tie east
side or the vest side Of New York.
Il what I read ii correct there IL
plenty Of race suicide, suicide ana di-
yorce on both sides. but il / can just
get the Police Jury and the distin-
guished counsellor divorced On that
six hundred dollar proposition / think
your Uncle Samuel would receive the
plaudits Of . long suffering people.
As te my dropping politics. / be-
lieye the counsellor is right, but /
amt aeoin to drop like he did 10 Lee
Garland and leave ny friends, be-
cause / won't be disturbed ID the even
tenor Of my ways / don't drop out
and leave my friends. I would rather
be With ny friends in a ditch than
without them ID a mansion.
It seems to me that the dropping
process left Cousin Laurent out for
treasurer, and elected Cousin Charley
Thibodeau. Now this is my political
impression.
No, ! won't open a school for The
training Of gentlemen they are born,
You cant make them. and am afraid
the distinguished Chesterfield from
the classic stream Of the Bauf might
take The case and there would Be
nothing doing for Bright Eyes, and
I'D be left to the mercy of the noble
Six Hundred.
Cannon to the right Of them,
Cannon to the left Ct them.
Vollied and Numbered,
On, onsand on Dnby went,
And got the Six Hundred
Ii conclusion win say that the
Doctors have told me that there Il 4
nerve running from the toe to the
head, and as he advises the gentle
public to heed the warning and not
stump your toe for fear the good
and kind sheriff will net take you to
the Charity hospital / win say IN allI
gentleness that If ron get youf heaas
knocked. ] Will take The other end of
/ he road I'd Pineville.
Yours truly,