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The comet. (Johnson City, Tenn.) 1884-1916, 1910-09-22

Robt. Mitchell has returned to Rich
mond to continue his studies in med
ical college after visit to homefolks
in this city.
The comet. (Johnson City, Tenn.) 1884-1916, 1910-09-22

"The Music Hall Girl" Company
gave two performances in Memorial
Hall last Friday afternoon and night.
Some few say it was the best ever,
while others avow it was the worst
play ever produced on our stage. The
midget" Tommy Burns, says it is
the best show he ever saw, and along
comes "Shorty" Mclaughlin and says
that The emusic Hall Girln herself was
very good but poorly supported and
that any woman poorly supported had
a right TO get drunk. 1t certainly is
hard undertaking, this thing of pleas
ing all the old boys. AT any rate she
told "Shorty" she would write him
and let him know how the goose
hangs.
The comet. (Johnson City, Tenn.) 1884-1916, 1910-09-22
Rome J(otes

Onr old friend, Captain Wolfe, has
returned to his first love and is domi-
ciled in Company +. The captain has
q peanut farm in Florida and also a
frog farm, and has just been down in
the crocodile atate, where the sun
beams dance on the cabin floor, look
ing over his crops. The report that the
captain blew in here with the Wal
lace and Hagenbeck Shows and was
the skinny man" in the side-show is
not true. Anyone that knows the cap
tain know that he is as stroug as a
mule, gentle as a jack, and will ac-
cept any easy position where the sal
airy is big and the most arduous duty
is talking.
St. Landry clarion. (Opelousas, La.) 1890-1921, 1910-05-21

there were three births ii that par
ish during those three months, an
average Of one for each month.
Other parishes make returns similarly
surprising though the figures are d
little higher. Concordia parish re-
ports seven births ia those three
months; Red River, eight; Webster,
twelve, and Lincoln, fourteen.
These figures Indicate that those
parishes have suddenly become almost
depopulated, chat race suicide is sui
fciently prevalent to excite the admit
ration Of the disciples Of the late Col.
Nautilus OF that the physicians ID
those parishes are deliberately aont-
ing and setting at naught the laws Of
Louisiana. Il the latter is the case,
it might be well for the Legislature
to abate some Of the protection ii.
throws about the medical profession.
Those who habitually defy the law
have no right to look to- the law TO-
protect their profession, especially,
when all the law requires dc them is
TO fill out an occasional blank and
turn It ovor TO the Board Of Health.
Lake Charles American.
St. Landry clarion. (Opelousas, La.) 1890-1921, 1910-05-21
DECISION INTER.
ESTING TO PEOPLE
OF ACADIA
The Selling Of Booze by the
Wholesale Does Not Strike
District Attorney FaY0rabIy
Crowley SIGNAL.

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St. Landry clarion. (Opelousas, La.) 1890-1921, 1910-05-21

Application for Pardon
lam al applicant To the hoard of Par
ions for a pardon.
NAV u, 1910 JULIUS FARRAULT.
St. Landry clarion. (Opelousas, La.) 1890-1921, 1910-05-21
Melville board Of Aldermen.

FOR sALE.-A first class new
mercantile business IN d splendid
locality, reason for selling can not
give business ny personal attention.
Address: Box 81. Pawnee, Ia. midi
St. Landry clarion. (Opelousas, La.) 1890-1921, 1910-05-21
new ORLEANS AND SAN
FRANCISCO IN The
FINISH
Congress Will Hear CLAIMS of
the Two Contestants on May
26---NeW Orleans the
Logical Point

New Orleans, May I7.-On May rs
Congressional Committees will hear
the several reasons New Orleans and
San Francisco have to advance in
support Of their rival claims to recog
milton as the official Panama EXPOSE
ton city. Both have SIS 100000 in
sight. Both claim the canal will
make them greater cities and greater
ports. New Orleans will advance
the further claim that it is the logi-
cal point, IN that it is the practical
North American sea port center Of
North and South American Bopula-
tion, and that it can be reached with
less difficulty and less travel BY seven
times more people than San Francisco.
Further that It is the logical sea port
for nearly all Of the Mississippi Val
ley states. In proof Of the claim the
New Orleans delegation, which will
be q strong one, will exhibit q large
map so cireled as to show the popu.
lation il the territory within reach
Of the two cities. This map will
play a big part in the discussions.
It indicates that by the census Of
l900-the last figures available
there are 100000 people living ii
North and Central America within
800 miles Of New Orleans, 100000
within 1000 miles, and 100000
within 1900 miles, as against 2,0OO.-
600, 100000 and 100000
respectively within similar distances
of San Francisco, and that while the
of Mexico, Central and South
America can reach New Orleans
easily, many Of these people, to reach
San Francisco, at all, must pass
through New Orleans and then make
the long trip across the continent.
The New Orleans delegation is re-
eeiving the endorsement and backing
of the Mississippi Valley, many states
in the East. and several Central
American Republics, and expects To-
profit b. this support when it appears
before Congress on May rs.
St. Landry clarion. (Opelousas, La.) 1890-1921, 1910-05-21

FOR SALE.-A good business props
erty on Landry street now occupied.
Write TO, George Abdalla, 0pelousas,
La. m7-4t
St. Landry clarion. (Opelousas, La.) 1890-1921, 1910-05-21

NoElce Is aeFeslg glYen tint application
VIII ne made ut tie General Assemf4y CT
the state 81 LsD iisfaIaa II us ensuing sess
sion, bsRtrtntltR 1lle2 aaA Monday ut STAR
1911, ~ efeate ttut ~ The PIE emf terrlfels
0f6t sansitN parish a new parish u he
known as i1le parish ( Eyangettt II, the
sHld parish ot kvalE9sllnH lie HE composed
of al that teFrffary Of the parish of st.
Landry lying Wesf of a. Hue beginning ara
point OH the line between the parishes Of
Acadia aud st. j RnfFg on fItateVvnstHp1fn e
we range and range : east Louisiana
Meridian. following said lire dae north 20
q point WHERE he same igteresetS BAYOU
Grand Louis thence following said bayou
10 IFS Julfctlot with BaSOn Petit HaSse,
thence fnnnfng due north fflA p0tnT sta.
Bayon Coco rie. thence folIoWifg sata Bay
GU G9e0dFle fa Doint on tIle Il wIisiffp1}ne
between ran ges ard I east. thence due
north q salt GpsTnsistp line 70 g point on.
the line between tie parishes of Avoyelles
and ST. Landry, and to distribute The e1+
1stfng representation allowed 81. Landry
parish between said new parish of Evange-
ltae and the parish of st, Landry, and to
oFganfze f4se said parish of Bvangeiine and.
fix It's parish seat.
RI. DEE0UEN.
St. Landry clarion. (Opelousas, La.) 1890-1921, 1910-05-21
300 Wren and WhaEley

9O0 Wren ann WhaIIey
100 44-IO0 acres, neM sec Is tp 3 sr6e
val $500; state TAX 81, parish 81 20, levee
So. acreage IS, int ST 0s, total SIS 2
0oo - NnAs9
40 acres eb ofswL sec 81 and neL al
nwL sec rs To IsrI ". val $500: state
tax So, parish SIS 40, 6 W road ST so. mi
35e. total $40 %.
906 Herman WilKerson
n.o s
! lot q MelYlIles bIk 4g q 4 9 g R
sIl0 II IsiAs ~ Ply, stasS saA
%, PARISH ~ NV 0oy, sosal 9l4 o9.
9I2 Frank Willis
: lots ii Iewishnrr. OTIS h1k
20, val $50; state tax l5S, parish zig. total
Az.
913 w b WiInant
~ 90 ststa' ga1i5a narish 30 Is Is -
total 57c.
a19 81 4, Wolf
IN
val IA sso0. STATE tar Al parish n 5a Iauss
ss. acreage IS. int Sc o8. total s2s b.
7e1 r. qos5oan
= ooiieaa
~ acres liaproVea north 6y
west same TaI saio. sfafa fag 81 ne nar.
ish 81 SO, Ieyee 81 10, acreage ST so, int
26g, total IS 80.
$40 Ernest GuilIory
6 acres woods, bounded north bvW av.
south same, $ -. west Dozat.
10 acres improved north by
gnilloIy, z same, east sames west
"a an,as IN nrorad born aoa ,a.4L
nfer. south GuiIIoTv, east same. vest
Scott.
q acres improved, bounded north nv
Gufllory, south Maher, east GuilIory,
Mes1 y ! ane e. va 8a5Vi stase tax % 90,
p@iish Pf - ~ %o2' eota1 = ~.
237 j Evans
100 acres, n% OF sWL. swk Of swI. and
nWN of seN sec 81 tip 5sr1 !, val $3.50:
state tax w 40, parish ~ 30, int 69, total
up W.
236 j Evans
go acres, 81 Of neI sec % tip 5s re- w,
val S40O state tax S2,parish sS go, int 20e,
Total 20 o0.
239 ] Evans
l69 acres, SELF sec ~ TIP 8 s i s e, val
SS00; state tax W, parish 81 20, levee IS,
acreage ", lntIO8e, total SIS q.
sSs1l3
S26 Unknown Owner
1io+ a. E,nsoa ~ Il hi. ~ a,oa.
stata ~ fa1 ~ 1850 a. 81 N \ - va 49,
50q, int Se, total 81 g8.
oaz rY. n
+ q IL Ennica lot4 b1t- 90 al eton.
state tax SOC. parish ono. Eunica snhooi
SOC, int So. total ST IS.
828 Unknown owner
I1nf i Il Eunfoa lat5 hlL % ,.l e4no.
stafa to- ~ aar.SI a. 20 9Auoi
y = 8 " e o9gs paal " aup, hAhlee scnooI
ou@, LII ~ boeal P1 ~.
829 Unknown Owner
p.-
IIoG EunIee lo6 y DIX 29, val 500:
state TAX Dug, parish 90p, Eunice school
50p. int 8g, total ST So.
aaa Tnrnawn aw.a
Y
lot at Euniee lot 10 blk %, val 500:
state taxi 800. parish 500. Ennice sehnaI
SOC. int sd. total 81 ia.
81 49, 60.
oS- Ty.tm-4&-.
St. Landry clarion. (Opelousas, La.) 1890-1921, 1910-05-21

apl2s-6t.
St. Landry clarion. (Opelousas, La.) 1890-1921, 1910-05-21
5. Land once al new Orleans. la.

April d. 1916.
Notfeets hereby given thatThonag Thornp.
son, Of st. Landry parish. who. on July i.
1883, made Homestead entry faTnended3 No.
20296, serial No. 02gI3, for lot 4 and sEIA Of
nWl4 section 30, township B south, range q
east. Louisiana Meridian, has fled notice of
Intention to make Final Five Year Proof, To
establish claim fothe land above descrfb-
ed, before Clerk of Court at o%pelousas,
La, ON the fourth day OF June, 1910.
Claimant names as witnesses JDsfefl
Nidrtne, Iucius nrtegn, Benjamin Andrews,
Louis Andrews all Of near Bayou Et4eOt La.
WALTER IL. COHEN.
apl2s-6t Regfsfer.
St. Landry clarion. (Opelousas, La.) 1890-1921, 1910-05-21
LOUISIANA PRESS
OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES

Canada spent two million dollars in
advertising and got something like
half a million of our best farmers.
By the expenditure of the proceeds
of D small tax we could get a large
percentage Of the best farmers Of
this country to visit Louisiana and
see our Worlds Fair and incidentally
to get acquainted with our cheap
lands and big opportunities for men
with q little money. The Panama
Exposition would give as the cheap
est possible chance TO advertise our
lands.-CroWleY Signal.
St. Landry clarion. (Opelousas, La.) 1890-1921, 1910-05-21
II b

t~tpeioasas. 1fay 9th, 1920.
Notice y Hereby given that an act Will
De introduced III the tex session OF the
LEGISLATURE beginning Monday, May 9th.
1910, IAN act'' to Incorporate The city at
0pel0usase In. said art of Incorporation to
include the same territory now comprising
said city of Upelo4sas.
i + LOEB.
St. Landry clarion. (Opelousas, La.) 1890-1921, 1910-05-21
Grant Parish viii Build 200.
Miles Of Roads In Five
Years.

Colfax, La, May 1.-THE results
from fifteen precincts N Grant Parish
for the special road tax election
shows 400 votes we're polled-253
votes IN favor Of the tax, 237 against
it; S296,523 in favor Of the tax,
Sl77,793 il property against the tax;
sixteen popular majority. S118,830,
property majority. The town Of Col
fax, and ward ], am the town Of Pol
lock. ward 2, voted almost anani-
mously n favor of the tax. while
Montgomery and Verda and some
country precincts opposed the tax.
Golfax and Pollock voted 158 ii favor
Of the tax and 3 against It.
Everybody il highly elated over
The results, Grant Parish, with its
100000 special road tax fund.
handled hy i progressive police jury,
viii build 200 miles If Governor San
ders model roads within the next FIVE
years.
St. Landry clarion. (Opelousas, La.) 1890-1921, 1910-05-21

At the risk Of starting something
as We did once before with our tem-
porarily indignant brother Of the As
sumption Pioneer, the American.Press
would suggest that i commission or
something is needed to investigate
the apparent race suicide III some Of
the parishes as indicated By the
quarteIg report af the State Board Of
Health during the last three months
of 1903.
We have always understood that
East Batan Rouge parish containing
the capital of the State, II fairly well
populated and lis parish seat in point
of nnpnlation compares very favor
ably with some Of the minor towns of
CaIcasieu. According to the report
St. Landry clarion. (Opelousas, La.) 1890-1921, 1910-05-21


a town often suffers severely from
personal spite among its own people,
sometimes more than from any other
cause and It is hard to build up the
town that IS in such an unfortunate
condition. This school boy method
of hitting back, at the sacrifice Of
the public good, every time some one
steps on ones toes, is not at all com
mendable and nearly always rebounds
TO the injury Of innocent people and
retards prosperity. The history Of
Mansfield shows that this thing has
been done TOO often already here, and
Ii is high time to call a halt. The
true patriot will sacrifice personal
grievance for the public good. This
is hard TO do, because OF the comba-
tive instinct that Is implanted within
Us all, but ii can be done, and il il
often done ID the interest of che pub
lie veal. Let us all line up ike men
and see If we can't make Mansfield q
bigger and better town than any IN
land place ID the State.-Mansfeld
Journal.
Omaha daily bee., 1910-04-21
Those New Insurgents.

The insurgent movement in the
woman suffrage camp does very we'll
as a temporary expedient for centering
attention upon the crusaders, but as
an innovation 1t is a flat failure.
Neither insurgency in general or in
the ranks Of this militant organization
is new and If Czarina Shaw thinks she
has cause for grief, let her look over
to the capitol and behold that discon-
solate figure in the house of repre-
sentatives, Gar Cannon. And for in.
surgency in it's specific relation to
woman suffrage one need but bark
back to the days OF Belva Ann Lock.
woods leadership of that great body
Of women to know that the right to
bolt the convention on any occasion
and at any time has always been the
one precious p%rerogative Of each and
every delegate.
1t may not be the province of mere
man 10 discuss the merits OF the issu,
that provoked the storm in this con
vention and led three OF the oldest ex
ecutive officers to break away from
the Rev. DR.. Anna shaw's administra
ton. but we may at least observe tina
Miss Shaw simply holds to the belle
that the welfare OF the organization
may be better subserved by having SO
ciety and wealthy women in the from
ranks. while her opponents believe Il
the power Of the proletariat as
means OF salvation for this cause
sort Of plebean and patrician anaii
democracy versus a~utoeracy. 1t /
highly doubtful n Miss shaw's theor
would ever have occurred to a practI
Omaha daily bee., 1910-04-21
Water Tests.
In poetry

The city council is still hesitating
over it's ordinance prescribing a water
test and imposing penalties upon the
water company for failing to meet its
requirements. Now, everybody favors
pure water, or as pure as we can get
II, but it looks as If the council were
storing up grief in trying to establish
a standard of water purity after the
trouble has all vanished, when every
one knows that the water test varies
greatly from city to city and from day
to day in the same city. If the city
council prescribes a standard and un-
dertakes to hold the water company to
1t, how can the city, when it gets on
troll Of the water plant, avoid respon-
sibility for keeping the water, at least,
up to this standard? If it is impossi-
Bile for the water company to maintain
the same standard all the year around,
how is the city, when it succeeds to
the ownership of the plant, going to do
any better?
But aside from this, where does the
city council come in on the regulation
of water? 1t is the general impress
sion, and was surely the intent of the
lawmakers, that the city council was
completely Invested Of all authority
over the water supply and water
works, and the Water board was made
paramount and supreme. Suppose
the Water board should establish a
different water test, what would be-
come of that prescribed by the city
council? Suppose the city some day
gets possession of the water works
will the Water board pay any attention
to the edicts Of the council? Are we
not up to our ears now in the water
works mess without getting in any
deeper?
Omaha daily bee., 1910-04-21
Decline of Some Prices.

Experts profess to see in the pres
ent downward tendency of some food
prices encouragement for the belief
that a final readjustment of the cost
Of living is on the way and that by
autumn the general level of prices will
be materially lower. If they are cor
rect in their deductions there is rea-
son to believe that the systematic in
quiry into the why's and wherefores of
high prices instituted by the govern
ment as a result Of popular protest is
bearing early fruit.
The great trouble in getting at this
problem Of the cost of living has been
that artificial causes play too large a
part. 1t would be an easier matter to
deal with If the natural laws of sup
ply and demand had unrestricted
sway, but with the power OF specula-
ton and the illegitimate use OF the
cold storage system as a means of
weakening confidence and controlling
the market these natural laws have
not governed the situation. Just now
as prices are beginning to fall there
Is a heavy slump for the year IN ex-
ports and a corresponding increase in
imports and they are pointed to as
elements bearing upon domestic
prices. but they. too. at least exports,
are as much subject 10 the influences
Of these artificial means as are do
nestle prices. II is not possible, there
fore. to fix any hard and fast rule BY
which we may determine the relation
OF exports to home costs.
But whatever the cause may be the
man who has to buy will welcome any
additional decline in the price OF food
stuffs. He will also welcome the fact, 4
such It be. that popular clamor. work
ing out through the channels Of gov
eminent influence is working to brinl
the cost Of living back a little neare.
the old basis. 1t is not reasonable 4
suppose. however, as some have ven
tured to assert. that people will hop
for a return TO that old basis. sucl
a reaction would be just as unreason
Omaha daily bee., 1910-04-21
A Congressional By-Election.

The democratic organs are natur-
ally giving u~tterance to Joy over the
democratic victory in the by-election
to fill a vacancy in the Rochester,
New York, district, and even repub-
licans will have to admit that the re-
versaf BY a majority of 5000 there is
by no means encouraging. At the same
time 1t is hardly 80 bad as it looks on
the surface, although 1t sends a demo-
crat to represent the district in con-
gress for the first time in twenty
years, for the reason that local and
personal factors played a great and
probably a deciding part.
In this case the republican nominee,
George W.. Aldridge, was not a freshly
converted democrat, as in the Four,
teenth Massachusetts,, but he was the
recognized head of the machine. who
had become involved in a bitter fac.
tional fight. He had strength enough
to force his W nomination, but az
often happens failed to develop mo.
mentum enough to win victory at the
election. Incidentally, his affiliations
with the scorched crowd in the New
York legislature did not help him any
but on the contrary alienated supporI
which another republican running OF
a straight-out republican platform
would have been able to retain.
Still, the loss of this by-electior
must be taken. and ought to be taken
by the party leaders in Washington a
a straw indicating the unrest and dis
content within republican ranks
which must be harmonized and solidi
fed IL we are Il have republican sue
cess at the polls next fall.
Omaha daily bee., 1910-04-21
PERSONAL NOTES.

Mr.. Roosevelt characterizes Abruzzi as a
trump, Nevertheless, the duke was turned
down in an American game.
An American woman who had paid $780,
900 for paintings was quite happy until some
kill-joy critic had to go and tell her they
were bogus.
An Oklahoma jury not only acquitted the
teacher who had been arrested for thrash
ing a pupil, but recommended that the boy
be readmitted TO school and thrashed again.
d. K. Pearson of Chicago, who has given
away so much money to schools and
charity that he has lost all account of 1t,
has decided, on his ninetieth birthday, to
give his pockethQok a Yell-earned rest.
He will be 90 on April IA, and says that
he is a hale, hearty, happy old man.
The richest man in the house OF repre-
sentatives is Mr.. Mckinley Of Illinois,
whose wealth is estimated at sS5, 600, 900,
Among the humorists at the capitol he is
known as the Human Christmas Tree
because of his generosity in financing rail
and river junkets for brother members.
John Burroughs. the naturalist, celebrated
his seventy-third birthday April 3, having
been born in Roxbury, N. Y, in 1887. He
was a school teacher, but since 1874 has
lived on a farm, d~evoting his time to writ
ing and fruit culture. Every spring he
makes his own garden. He was a great
friend of Walt Whitman and Jay Gould.
Omaha daily bee., 1910-04-21

Imaginative writers on. the Trail of
Roosevelt.
Cleveland Plain Dealer.


Cleveland Plain Dealer.
1t appears to be one of the penalties Of
prominence to be misrepresented. Careless
or malicious writer's exercise their ingenuity
by inventing absurdities and crediting them
to the object of their attention. And pub
fishers too often clinch the wrong by print
ing unreservedly the products of their cor
respondents imagination.
Theodore Roosevelt, travelling in Europe
as the guest Of kings and the idol OF the
populace, meets by appointment a political
friend from the United States. The meet
ing is, of course secret; 1t is stated before
hand that no public announcement win
follow it's close.
Yet one correspondent had the temerity
to send a dispatch TO the effect tina the
former president had told Mr.. Pinchot that
he might use his name as a candidate for
president. No one viii criticise Mr.. Roose-
welt for his resentment at such a manifest
Misrepresentation
Why cannot a man Of prominence be free
from this ~annoyance2 Why must he be
ever alert to deny the preposterous words
and actions credited to him by Imaginative
observers?
It Is by such irresponsible acts that news
paper writing as a profession is sometimes
diseredited. Let Mr.. Roosevelt tour the
world and exhibit to rulers and people one
Of the chief products of the United States
which is men. He not only deserves this
fair treatment because he is a private
citizen, but because he is giving this nation
some of the best advertising It ever re-
oeiyed.