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St. Landry clarion. (Opelousas, La.) 1890-1921, 1912-02-24

0pelousas, La, Feb, 18th, 1912.
To the Members of the Board of
Aldermen of the City of
Opelousas, La.
Gentlemen: You are hereby
notified that there will be a
meeting of your Honorable
Board, this Wednesday, Feb. Ia.
at 1000 o'clock a. M, for the
purpose of receiving report of
the City Board of Health on the
plans and specifications submit
ted to the Board Of Aldermen
with reference to the proposed
lease of a jail, meeting-room,
etc; to reconsider the vote by
which saidl resolution Of lease
was adopted, and to reconsider
the entire subject matter re-
lating to said lease; and for the
further purpose of making ar
appropriation for the payment Of
commissioners and clerks serv-
ing at the Primary election held
Jan. 23d, 1912.
M. HALPHEN, Mayor.
Attest: j. B. Al. STAGE, City
Clerk.
Received the above notice on
the 18th day of Feb. 1912, and
notified all the members of the
Board of Aldermen in person.
G. L. HAYES, Marshal.
Opelousas, La, Feb. IA, 1912.
The Board of Aldermen met
pursuant to the above call. Pres
ent, Ne. Halphen, Mayor, pre-
s i d in g; Aldermen Blacksher,
Daniel, Diet1ein, Loeb. and Lar
cade. Al the members being
present, the meeting was called
to order.
Motion by Mr.. Loeb
That action be postponed on
this matter until 400 o'clock
this afternoon to receive re-
port of the Board of Health and
the president of the Board OF
Health be notified accordingly.
Seconded by Mr.. Larcade-
Yeas: Loeb and Larcade.
Nays: Danel Dietiein, Black
sher.
Motion lost.
Motion by Mr.. Loeb
That the sum of $50. 90 be ap-
propriated out of any available
funds to pay the commissioners
and clerks serving in the pri-
mary election held Jan. %, 1912.
Motion duly seconded and car
ried.
On motion duly seconded and
carried, the meeting of the BoarG
of Aldermen was adjourned sub.
sIiaee to call.
M. HALPHEN, Mayor.
Attest: j. B. A. STAGE, City
Clerk.
St. Landry clarion. (Opelousas, La.) 1890-1921, 1912-02-24
Council Proceedings.

Opelousas, La. Feb, 18th, 1912.
To the Members of the Board of
Aldermen of the City of
The evening world., 1912-01-16

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The evening world., 1912-01-16

4 big reception was held last night
a; the home of Abraham Levy, No. 900
West One Hundred and rhlrt$~s'%tl
street. to mark the admission II the BAR
and to partnership with his father Of
Newman Levy, twenty-thgco years old,
born, reared and educated In Scw York
City. To-day there is a new name on
the door of Mr.. Leyy's Offices IN the
Pulitzer Building, which lie has occu-
pied for many years.
Young M. Levy, aftor being gradn-
ated from the public schools, decided TO
follow the professional footsteps OF his
father. He took the degree OF a. Is. n
the collegiate course OF the University
OF tho City of New York ana OF IL" h.
in the New York Law School. les,er-
day he took his oath as a lawyer.
The new partner In tnr Levy organiza-
ton will devote himself entirely to civil
practice. Abraham Levy will continue
the criminal practice wA!cl has made
his ONCE famous.
The evening world., 1912-01-16
MERCHANT LEFT
HIS DAUGHTER OUT
CT BIG ESTATE
Henry Batternian's VIII Fails
to Mention Name of Mrs.
Adelaide Nichols.

The will Of the late Henry Batterman.
millionaire merchant and banker of
Williamsburg. filed for probate in tho
ourrogate's Court. Brooklyn, to-day, not
only makes no mention of his sole sur
wing daughter. Mrs. Adelaide b. Mich
els. but takes extraordinary precautions
- exclude her from any control Of the
estate. The chief lesatees are the Wild
~ and son. Henry Lewis Batterman.
Mr.. Batterman died on. Jan. 10 last at
NJ age Of sixty-four. The will was
made Oct. 3. 1910. and is witnessed by
Oljnton ID. Burdick and Martin Joost OK
Brooklyn. II. l.. Battcrman Is made
executor and trustee, or. In case OF his
death, the Brooklyn Trust Company.
Mr.. Rattermun's attorney. Henry a.
InSraham. OF No. l6 Court street. re-
fused to discuss Mrs. Nichols exclusion,
or TO comment on the fact that In
strange contrast Mr.. Batterman in 1898
gave the Bushw!ck and East Brooklyn
Dt pensary $500 In memory oil his other
daughter. Laura $. Francis
The will leaves 5000 to the Ave chill
dren Of q dead brother. John 5. Batter
nan IT., and $1,000 to the three dauSh'
tsrs of another brother, william Batter
man. Brooklyn charities and institu-
uons Of which Mr.. Batterman was q
director or was much interested In arc
remembered literally. The art collec'
ton fund OF the Institute OF Arts and
Sciences Is left $2o,00. and the Bushwick
and East Brooklyn Dispensary sS.~'
Five thousand dollars each ~ LETT TO the
Home for Consumptives, the ASSOCIATION
for Improving the Condition OF the Poor'
the German Hospital Society ana ths
BROOKLYN Hospital, and S,bo edch t'
the Society for the Prevention OF Cruelty
IN Children, the Children's Aid society
the Society for the Aid OF Frlcndles'
Women and Children, the TrainlAi
school and Home for Young Girls, the
Hebrew Orphan Asylum. the Home fo'
tho Aged OF the Little sisters or tN'
Poor. the German Evangelical Assocla
,ion Home for the Aged. the Methods
Episcopal Hospital and the Me'l'oo's
Episcopal Church Home.
Contingent clauses fn'tner eNciua'
Mrs. Si-hols. n the son should die DC
fore the father the sons saare IL 10 -
to his children. 1, the wife diei h'st nc
share I. to 20 to the sons caiidE.,n' or
II none. to the Orphan Asylum Societ.
of Brooklyn for a Batterman budding
lsSovision IL also mad that IL both IN
ION and wife die before Mr.. B'tterna;
tn. waole ~rcsiduary estate shou,l he IT.
vidcd between the Brooklyn Hosp,ta
and the or ran Asylum ASsociI atom.
Mrs. Nichols lives at No. 4G Clinton
avenue next door TO the son. The TIVE
houses wer., given to the children year.
ago. Mrs. Battcrman lives at the TIote
Bossert.
The evening world., 1912-01-16
Gimbels Pure
Better Liked Every Day

Gimbel Candies are as delicious and tempting as they are pure
preferred by discriminating, thinking people because they ART
made absolutely pithout glucose or any substitutes or cheapenint
ingredients whatsoever.
That more people may become acquainted with the Gimbe
Pure Candies we offer
The evening world., 1912-01-16
GAYNOR ASSAlLANT FAILING.
Gallagher 10 he Transferred From
Prison 10 Hospital.

TRENTON, y. j., Jan. l6-Ihe Mer-
cer County C1ug. has ordered the trans
fer from tho New Jersey state prison
10 the state Hospital for the Insane IN
this tsy OF James Gallagher, h Is
serving a twclvs-yoar sentence for his
attempt to Kill MAYOR Gaynor last
year
The application 10Y G~allagher's trans
fer was made By Assistant Attorney
0snsral Gask!ll. representing the prison
suthorities. Nj, Gask!n presented a
report Of two pays!c!ans that Gallagher
y IN an advanced state OF pares's and
shat he 10 not likely TO I'VE long.
The evening world., 1912-01-16
Dainty Dress Fabrics in
The January White Goods Sale

Here are great, snowy piles of the delightful white
washable cottons, that women are so gladly buying at
the low January prices for the pretty blouses, dresses
and skirts that they will need later:
Former Price Clearance
Price
French Novelty White Fabrics; 39in, charming de-
signs and new in weaves 49,. ............ SIS and $l65 81
Japanese sefstrEed crepe, 30inch; does not requ re
ironing 1870, Acc 26c
English Repp Cloth, 2Sinch Observation-Disclosures. 2c 16c
Imported Fancy Sheer White Goods, 27inch ....... 4c zoe
Flaxon, Queen Of the White Goods in checks and
stripes; also plan. ...... ................ 2e and soc 1c
Mecerized Lingerie Baiste, a. inch ....... 3c 2c
English LF ''0'A' % inches "'d'' pieces Of l. yards ST.. % MMso
White Waist and Dress Linen ..........,,.,... 4c SOC
39inch White Wolfe, fine and sheer. OF, .,.... 4c 30c
Second Floor
The Hattiesburg news. (Hattiesburg, Miss.) 1908-1917, 1912-04-05
WORK SOON begins
ON REDUCTION PLANT

J.. H. Castona of the Hattiesburg
Wood Reduction Company has return
ed to the city and will be here con-
tinuously until the completion Of the
plant. All material for the plant has
been bought and large amount of it
has been placed on the grounds, where
work will commence within the next
few days. The machinery for the plant
has been ordered and will be shipped
out as soon as possible. The plant is
expected to be in full operation by
July the first.
The Hattiesburg news. (Hattiesburg, Miss.) 1908-1917, 1912-04-05
NeUs From the Tripod

must be limited by fundamental law
that is, by a Constitution intended to
protect the individual and the minority
of the electorate and the non-voting
majority of the people against the I'M
just or arbitrary action of the majority
of the electorate"
1t is incredible that any man with a
true sense of honor, after the facts of
the case had been repeatedly pointed
out to him, should continue to give to
Mr., Tafts words the false meaning
Mr.. Roosevelt gives to them.
Mr.. Roosevelt's statement of Mr.
Taft's position is not only purposely
unfair, it is dishonest. 1t is false in
form, false in spirit and false in in
tent.-New York World.
The Hattiesburg news. (Hattiesburg, Miss.) 1908-1917, 1912-04-05

is to see to it that the record itself be
not misrepresented. This he is doing
and doing we'll. 1t remains only for
the Republican party to decide wheth-
er President Taft's performance has
been so wretched as to make it neces-
sary to assume the tremendous risk of
smashing a party custom which hith-
erto has been considered inviolable.
The outcome, of course, is certain.
Mr. Taft will be renominated easily
and promptly, and, standing upon the
platform outlined in his masterful To
ledo speech, will become a formidable
candidate.
This does not mean that the Demo
Gratis have been or are likely to be
deprived of the opportunity which last
year seemed so fair. 1t simply en-
phasizes the need of hardening to the
dictates of wisdom and of prudence.
At the present writing, it is gratifying
to observe, they are needing most ad
vantageously our thoughtful admoni-
ton to let the other fellow do the
squabbling. The various candidates
are as polite to one another as Demo
Gratis can be expected to be, Mr.. Un-
derwood is guiding the House majority
safely between the rocks, the various
Governors, as a whole, are attending
to their business, and even Brother
Bryan is beginning to radiate the glow
of a conciliatory spirit.
Everybody will get mad, of course,
after a while. They wouldn't be Dem
ocrats if they didn't. But things look
pretty good now. So our advice to the
Democrats of the various States is to
send to Baltimore uninstructed dele
cations comprising their strongest and
The Hattiesburg news. (Hattiesburg, Miss.) 1908-1917, 1912-04-05
THE OLD WASH PLACE.
(By Judd Mortimer Lewis, of The
Houston Post.)

(By Judd Mortimer Lewis, of The
Houston Post.)
She was such little mother, so abb
surdly young, that while
Tears are trembling on my lashes at
her memory smile
At the very youngness of her; just
little girl she seems.
Smiling at me from the distance, sing
ing to me in my dreams
Lullabies we all remember; but most
ly see her face
Smiling through the clouds of steam
that almost hide the old wash
place.
So a. S.TH>\7">T-VN7 '"N> 7
Sometimes in my dreams a dogwood
blossom glimmers in her hair,
And l hear a redbird whistle, and the
dream is free from care -
Then man comes in the picture like
a dream, and goes away,
Waving to the little mother from the
ranks of men in gray;
And from then the dogwood blossoms
never glimmer any more,
And the redbird sings no longer round
the wash place as of yore.
Three of us-and just the little bit O.
mother to the brood!
Singing while her heart was breaking
in the woodland solitude
With the homely tubs and kettle and
the soap gourd and the stick
The old battling stick! The memory
catches at my throat so quick
That I scarce can choke the sob back,
at the picture of the face
Smiling bravely from the distance
through the steam of the wash
place.
Yes, l carried water for her, while the
baby went to sleep
With the songs that sister sung her
where the wash lay in a heap,
And l sought dry sticks and piled them
meath the kettle-all my Joy
The Hattiesburg news. (Hattiesburg, Miss.) 1908-1917, 1912-04-05
JAMES M. GILLESPIE,

The following tribute appeared in
the Aberdeen Examiner of recent date
upon the death of Mr.. Jas. M. Gillespie,
father of Mr.. w. G. Gillespie, of this
city:
'The many friends of our esteemed
fellow-citizen, Mr.. James M. GILES.
pie, were greatly shocked Monday af-
ternoon by the announcement of his
sudden death from heart failure, for
he had been on the street few hours
earlier, apparently in his usual health.
most exemplary in all the characters
tics that command respect; and in the
closer relations of life was loved and
honored. AS a soldier in the war be-
tween the states he served in the
Eleventh Mississippi, and every men,
Der of that old command bears witness
to the fact that he was among the
bravest Of the brave, and one of the
very best soldiers a state noted for
the heroism and devotion her sons
gave to the Confederacy. There new
er was truer man than Jim Gillespie.
wherever placed by calls of duty, devo-
ton, citizenship or affection. He new.
er had the enmity of a good man; he
never cherished i'll will towards any
man who merited his friendship or
respect. Peace to the ashes of the
grand old soldier whose record demon.
strated that he had no fear of death
come when or how it would.
The Hattiesburg news. (Hattiesburg, Miss.) 1908-1917, 1912-04-05

first or enacting clause of section 1,
and both the exceptions thereto in
the same section, the question of con-
struction arises, and looking to- the
general rules, stated above, for the
Interpretation of statutes, as well as
the decisions of the Courts, we find,
that a Court is justified in striking out
certain words in endeavoring to ar
rive at the true intent of the lawmak-
ers as determined from the text of
the Act, if by so doing the provisions
of the Act cannot otherwise be har-
monized, as it is the presumption
that the Legislature never intended to
enact an absurdity incapable of being
intelligently enforced. 1t appears to
the writer that by striking out the
words town and village" in the first
or enacting clause of section 1 of the
Act, that all the provisions within the
true intent of the legislative body can
be given force and effect, and every
single part of the Act be made to har-
monte with every other portion there
of, and the Act thereby rendered valid.
1t is perfectly manifest from the
provisos or exceptions within section
1 of the Act, that it was not the leg
islative intent to work any change in
the pre-existing law relative to all
classes of municipalities, but to one
class only, namely, those of $4,000 or
more inhabitants. Indeed, it was not
within the legislative power to force
upon those municipalities operating
under a special charter the provisions
contained in the first clause of said
section l, of the Act, and this limita-
ton on it's authority is clearly recog-
nized and confessed in the last or
third clause of the same section,
wherein provision is made for permit
ting the municipalities of this class
to CONT in under the terms of the first
clause, if so they are minded to do.
1t is to be borne in mind, that the
saving clauses or exceptions to the en-
acting clause, are both contained in
and form a portion of the same Sec
ton with the latter. Were it other
wise, it is perhaps true, that differ
ent rule of construction might be ap-
plicable.
If we assume however,or if it can be
made to appear that, the Act as pass
ed, was SO amended in the passage of
the bill through either house of the
legislature, as to change its original
purpose, which is the subject-matter
of the prohibitation contained in Sec
ton go of the state constitution, what
then? Does 1t not logically follow
that the entire Act-and not the pro-
visos only-is void? Is it not in con.
f1ict with and repugnant to the consti-
tutional prohibition, and if so, is it
not true that, Section 3435 of the Code
of 1906, is the present law of this
state on the subject of the terms of
Municipal officers to be elected by the
people?
WANTED-A Daniel Come to Judg-
ment at the next Hillary Term.
W. A. shipman.
The Hattiesburg news. (Hattiesburg, Miss.) 1908-1917, 1912-04-05
MANY IMPROVEMENTS
At LUMBER PLANT

The Brookhaven Lumber Manufac-
turing Co., which lost its band mill by
fire few weeks ago, are making many
improvements on the plant.
The main saw-mill building is prac-
tically completed and ready for the
machinery that is now in transit. TWO
new boilers and an engine are being
installed in the planning mill, and plans
for the charging and improving the
whole plant under way.
When all additions that are being
made and contemplated are completed
it will give this concern one of the
most modern plants in this section.
The Hattiesburg news. (Hattiesburg, Miss.) 1908-1917, 1912-04-05
UP TO DATE.

Readers of this journal are aware
that from the beginning of the year We
have held fast to the opinion that
Roosevelt would unwittingly solidify
the great body of Republicans behind
Taft, AMI so make the President a
formidable candidate at the polls.
Democrats who were disposed to make
light of our warning to that effect
uttered months ago will hardly deny
that this anticipation is now being
realized. Roosevelt's extreme propos-
ais have served only to draw atten-
ton to the good rather than the i'll of
the Taft administration, and to make
for a contrast in Republican minds
which has Injured greatly to the Presi-
dents benefit.
Roosevelt has done. what Taft him
self was powerless to do. He has
scotched the insurgent movement by
discrediting it. He has driven back
into the ranks fully million of dissat-
isfied Republicans who had nearly, If
not quite, reached the conclusion that
a party defeat would have a salutary
effect. By snatching the progressive"
banner from La Toilette and bearing
it far into the camp of the rankest
populism he has rendered nugatory
the efforts of men like Cummins to
upset the old order and re-establish
the Republican party upon a broader
and fairer basis. The lines are al.
ready being drawn as tightly as ever
they were around the great body OF
Republican voters, and the party will
enter the campaign with old-time de-
termination to win upon the princi
pies, backed by potent financial aid
which so many times have been con
demned in June. only to be approved
in November.
That Roosevelt will continue to dc
I'll in his power to revive the old
break within the party or to make 9
new ruction must be taken for grant
!. ed Indeed, it is more than possible
that, as time goes on and his efforts
to regain the assistance of former
friends prove unavailing, leaving al
J his corporars guard only the new dis
. gruntled and mainly discredited poll
tlcians who now surround him, he viii
| resort IN rnaacuras yat mana dacDarato
if such he can imagine. His sol,
purpose, as we have pointed out per
sistently, and as people now, we sur
mise, are beginning to believe, is no
to engage himself in a losing battle
but to beat Taft-that. and nothini
/, else. Already his mouthpieces ar.
beginning to dwell significantly upo1
the irreconcilability of the Taft ant
= Roosevelt forces, and to hint at tn,
desirability of selecting a "compro
mise" candidate, upon whom all cal
unite.
But they reckon without their host
President Taft is fully cognizant o
, both the scheming and the intent, an,
cannot be frightened into the doing o
; an act of self-repudiation. He hal
J made It perfectly clear, moreover, tina
J this is not his fight. Not he personal
: ly, but the established usage of hi
party in according President sec
ond term, is under guerrilla fire. Hi
own record must stand for what it, is
J and his sole obligation in the premises