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CHAPTER xvIl.-continued.
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"Maurice loves you, too''-she hoped
60 conciliate him; "he says you are
she brightest kid in town."
'Kid.' was the scornful echo,
"'cause he's so big and tall, he's got
TO call me kid Well. he'd jes
a-wastin' hfself loyin' me: l don't
luke him an amt a-goin' to never like
him, an soon's put on long pants
hes got to get bout the worses' ltckin
De ever did see. 5a
''Say, does you kiss him like you
does me?" he asked presently, look
ang up at her with serious. unsmtlina
face. u@
She hid her embarrassment in q
laugh.
Don't be foolish. Billy" she replied
"1'll bet he's kissed you more'n
fifty hundred times"
There's Jimmy whfstling for you,
said Miss Cecilia. "How do you two
boys make that peculiar whistle?
would recognize it anywhere"
els he ever kiss you yet?' asked the
Child.
II heard that you and Jimmy
whipped Ed Brown because he trni.
tated your own particular whistle.
Did your"
How many times is he kiss your
asked Billy.
The young girl put her arm around
hiIn and tried to nestle his little body
against her own.
I'm too big, anyway, for your real
sweetheart" she said. why, by the
time you are large enough to marry
should be an old maid. You must have
Frances or Lima for your sweetheart
An let you have Maurice!" he
sneered
She stopped to lay her flushed
cheek against his own.
Honey" she softly said, Maurice
and | are going to be married soon
i love him very much and I want you
ito love him too"
He pushed her roughly from him.
AN you jes' ceived me all the
time he cried, "an' me a-lovin' you
DetteTn anybody i ever see sence
born? An you Sunday-school teach
er? amt never a-goin' to trus' no
body no mo- Good-by, Miss Cecilia
She caught his hand and held II
fast. T want you and Jimmy to be my
little pages at the wedding. and veal
dear little white satin suits al
trimmed with gold braid she tried
TO be enthusiastic and arouse his. Ia.
terest; and Lima and Frances can be
little fower-girls and we'n have such
q beautiful wedding"
Jimmy an Lima an Frances can be
all the pages an foWer-girls an
brides an grooms they wants to, but
you can't rope me in" he scornfully
replied. .Ps done with you an l Amt
never goin' to have me mo- sweet
heart long g I live"
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If think he S beautiful little ooy,-
championed Lima. Call him over
here, Jimmy"
Nav, l don't want to. You all II
| like him heap better over there; he's
one O. these-here kids what the fur
der you get way from 'em, the better
you like EN-
"He sho' do look lonesome" said
| Billy; "vite him over, Jimmy
"Leon!" screamed his cousin, "you
can come over here if you Wantta.'
The lonesome-look little boy
promptly accepted the invitation, and
came primly through the two gates.
He walked proudly to the swing and
stood, cap in hand, waiting for an in
| PRODUCTION.
why did MT you clan'the fence,
| stead Of coming th'oo the gates?'
i groWled Jimmy "You bout the prissi-
est boy they is. Well, why don't you
set DOWN."
Introduce me, please" said the
| elegant little city boy
'Interduce your grandn1a's pussy
| CATS" Knocked Jimmy. "Set down, I
tell you"
Frances and Lima made room for
him between them and soon gave him
their undivided attention, to the in
| tense envy and disgust of the other
two little boys.
Il am Lima Hamilton" said the lit
| tie girl on his right.
"And I m Frances Black, and Jim
my ought to be 'shamed to treat you
| like he does"
| Il knows turrible skeery tale" re-
marked malicious Billy, looking at
Lima and Frances. IF y all want
girls / ID tell it to YOU"
Eve are MT any more scared n you,
| William HILL cried Frances, her in
terest at once aroused: Il already
know bout raw meat and bloody
bones and nothing IS scarier n that"
and l know sFe, Fl, Fo, FUN, I
smell the blood of an Englishman. Be
he alive or be he dead, I'll ground his
| bones to make me Bread" said Lima.
"This-here tale,' continued Billy,
glueing his big eyes to those of the
| little stranger, is one Tabernicle
! learnt fer speech at school. 1t s all
! bout oman what was buriet in a
graveyard with a diamant ring on her
| finger, an rebber come in the
| night" The child's tones were gut
tural, thrilling and hair-raising as he
glared into the eyes of the effeminate
Leon, IAN robber come in the night
an try to cut 1t off, an ha'nts was
groanin' am the win moan oo-oo'
AM
Leon could stand it NO longer.
Il am going right back" he cried
| rising with round, frightened eyes, Il
am not going to sit here and listen to
you, soaring little girls to death. You
! are bad boy to scare Lima and Fran
ces and / am not going to associate
with you and this champion Of the
| fair sex stalked with dignity across
the yard to the gate.
| Il IN no more scared u nothing, 8
and indignant Frances hurled at his
back. on re Inst scared yourself t.. Is
jimmy gIggIeu ma ppiIy hat d j
tell you all. = he cried, gIeefully. Lima
and Frances got to all time set little
'fraid cats tween EN-" he snorted.
cit Is just like tell you, he S the
sissyest boy they is; and he don't
care who Kiss him neither; he'll let
any woman kiss him what wants to-.
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suffered
Everything
For Fourteen Years. Restored
To Health by Lydia E. Pink.
ha1zl's Vegetable
Compound.
Elgin, Ill.-"After fourteen years d
suffering everything from female com.

plants, | am at last
restored to health.
. I employed the
b es t doctors and
even went 70 the
hospital for treat
ment and was told
there was no h.elpfor
me. But while tak
ing Lydia 8. Pink.
hams Vegetable.
Compound / begin
to in1urnya and II
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co'set. r al gotta go right to y ais
mamas an Miss Minerva dis very min
ute. l low dey II settle yo' hashes.
Don't y all know dat Larroes ketch
meddlers ?"
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cnInr Contrasts,

She ttartly) congratulate
yourself that everything is going to
be lovely when you reform.
He (startled why not?
she-Because rosy futures don't 50
with purple pasts
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Confederate Stamps.

Confederate stamps are valuable | pay
from SOC to IS each for the Confederate
Stamps issued by the different towns
during the war pay &c to 25c each for
the regular issue Of the Confederate
Stamps pay 81 to $50 each for the stamps
issued by the various towns in lS45-lS4I.
Send description of stamps and color
[ pay lc to sc each. for Confederate
money $l.40 to SLIGO for Gold dollars
leave al stamps on envelope l buy old
books send date books issued and pub
fishers name.
CLATO RILEY.
Alexandria, La.
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All kinds of tools needed.
Baby's Weight.

Average weight at birth, 81 to a
pounds.
Average weight at two months,
81 to 1Ot pounds.
Average weight at four months,
121 to IL pounds.
Average weight at six months,
IA to IL pounds.
Average weight at eight months,
II to Is pounds.
Average weight at ten months,
10 to 20 pounds.
Average weight at twelve months
q to % pounds.
After the first year increase in
weight is slower. The weight ut
tho end Of tho first year 10 not
doubled until about the end OF the
fifth year.
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NOTICE..

The 81 ckllolders Of the Bank Of st.
Martin,ills are notified that the annual
meeting Uf the Stockholders Of said
Bank will 10 held ut the Banking rOems,
on Tuesday January 9Th at q y. H., to
elect "A board Uf directors.
st. MAI tluyille. La, Dec. 2utb, 1911.
ALBERT BIENvENU. Cashier.
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SATURDAY, JAN. 6, 1912
Good Roads and Prosperity

Good Roads and Prosperity.
There are 90 many things to be
considered in the making and bull.
ding up Of a town and country,
that often it 10 very difficult for
even the most thorough, wide
awake public spirited citizen to
determine what to do and the
means to 10 employed to accom-
plish a desired result.
1t 10 just as difficult some times
TO know what to do first in order
to subssrve tho interest OF tho
greatest number Of people; how.
ever. there 10 one thing on which
oil classes Of su obssrvant people
can or should agree, and that 10
good roads, % they are moro gen.
erallv used by the entire people
than any other public utility.
The public highways are un-
qusstionably the great Industrial
and commercial arteries to which
both the city aud country must
look for permanent prosperity as
we'll % convenience and pleasure.
Az the country supplies the cities
with tho life sustaining products
of tho farm. the city in return sup
plies the country with their ne
cssssry articlss of commerce that
are not grown aud can not 10 had
on the farm. which makes it essen
TALLY necessary from q business
standpoint if no other, that there
be easy - we'll - convenient ac-
feasibility between the two, since
there 10 . community interest that
10 inssparabls.
Whenever you find . good. we'll
maintained highway system, you
will find prosperity and content
msnt, for aside from commercial
purposes good roads are produc.
tive comfort and pleasure % we'll.
From the moment you build q
good road from the city into the
country or from the center Of po-
pulation to another, land values
along aud in close proximity to
the road at once increase in pro.
portion to the benefits derived
while the whole people become
the bsneficiaries. When you hsvs
q prospective purchaser for city
or suburban property, it be DO ths
kind OF man that makes . dssira.
bic acquisition to q community,
his frat acquires - to the schools,
churches, taxable rate, a. we'll "a
the road systsm, and should be
find either inefficient the chances
are he will drive on to commu.
nifty that can supply bis wants,
and business demands. y
Lake Charles Times.
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Two Historic Relics.

(Haip er's Weekly
The two most precious documents
in the possession of the United
States Government are the Decla-
ration of Independence and the
Constitution. These were recent
~ brought to the light OF day for
the first time in many years. and
upon being subjected to examina-
ton by the secretary OF state. we're
found to be in as good condition
a. when they were placed in their
present abiding place, steel safe
especially made for their custody.
The four pages Of the constitu.
ton and the resolution submitting
the instrument to the states for
ratification are in excellent condi-
ton, the ink being as black aud
legib'e as when it was used, cen.
tury and a quarter ago. The INK
is of a quality that will outlast any
ink OF the present day.
DO you know that fully nine out 0f
every ten cases Of rheumatism are sini-
ply rheumatism OF the muscles due TO
cold or damp. or chronic rheumatism.
and Impulse 10 internal treatment what
ever? Apply Chsmberlains Liuiment
freely and see how quickly it gives re-
lief. For sale by all druggists.
If in need OF OATS and CORN
get it from Laizsirs Bienvenu, ht
10 supplying the public in feed
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LOCAL NEWS.

There was ice Friday morning.
Miss Stella Grsig spent few
days in Arnaudvills this week.
Mrs. Salvador Savariss Of New
Orleans 10 here visiting relatives.
Mr.. aud Mrs. Lucas Barras of
Now Orleans spent few days here
this week.
-Mrs. +. z. Power spent a few
days with relatives in Lafayette
this week.
VIM. Bourdisr and Don Peller-
in of Brsaux Bridge were visiting
here this week.
Miss Clara Tertrou OF Lafayette
spent several days here this week
with relatives.
Mr.. and Mrs. George Bienvenu
Of Csde were with relatives here
on Now Years day.
Mrs. Adolphe Cuny and chill
drsn of BrOussard spent several
days with relatives hero this week.
We have . full line of hosiery
for Ladies' aud Misses aud invits
you to come aud see our line.
h. Schwaraz.
--Msssrs Reynald VOORHEES, and
Ramsey Bisnvsnu Of Broussard
visited their parents here on Now
Years day.
-Mrs. Theobald Duchamp of
Vills-platts spent several days
here with her mother Mrs. Z. A.
Duchamp this week.
The Nigro and Loos Street Fair
10 announced to be here Tuesday,
to play under the auspices Of the
Woodmsn of tho World.
Read in this issue, the official
statement Of the Bank of St. Mar.
tinvills, it shows the splendid con.
dition of this strong institution.
Mrs. Paul Gusrln returned to
her home in Hattissburg, Miss,
after spending several days at the
home of MIR. and Mrs. j. A. Cue
rim.
Meme and Youths Suits and
Over. coats of all qualities at sps-
cially Low Prices. on account OF
an over stock at K. Schwartz.
MIR. Frank Foti has bought the
property and jewslry stock Of Mr..
Il. E. Lacsze on Bridge street and
has taken possession of the bust
uess.
Boys Blue Serge Suits at redu-
cod prices are offered by Schwartz
at his New Store -Duchamp bull
ding.
MIR. and Mrs. j. f. Hitter and
Mr.. and Mrs. Alphonse Hitter OF
New Iberia spent Now Years day
with their parents, MIR. aud Mrs.
J. A. Hitter.
We will make special prices on
all Mems Suits such rs Fancy
shades aud Serges at X. Schwartz
The Woodmen of the World
will instali their newly elected OF.
ticsrs on Thursday the 18th inst,
and are making preparations FOL
this occasion.
BOYS SUITs of ALL KINDS arr
offered at Special lnducemsn'
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Germany has introduced an auto
plow for digging military trenches
during actual engagement, aud it
promises to play an important part
hereafter in army circles. The new
machine can do the work three
times a. speedily as men, besides
saving unreasonable energy to an
army. 1t requires but one opera
tor and travels ct about six miles
an hour when going at top speed.
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A Girls Wild Midnight Ride.

To warn people of a fearful forest IRE
in the Catskills a young girl rode horse.
back at midnight aud saved many lives.
Her deed was glorious but lives are Of
ten saved by DR.. Kings New Discovery
Ia curing lung troubling. coughs anu
colds. which might have ended IN con-
sumption Or phsumonia. 1T cured me
Of dreadful cough aud lung disease,
writes W. r. Patterson 4WelliDgtoD. Tex
latter four in our family had died with
consumption. and | gained 81 pouds.
Nothing % sure and safe for all throat
and lung troubles. Price SOC aud $l!OO.
Trial bottles free. Guaranteed by all
druggists.
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All the schools which-wsrs clO-
sed for the holidays were reopen
cd Wednesday Of this week with
full attendances..
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If in need OF OATS and CORN
yet it from Laizairs Bienvenu, he
10 supplying the public in feed.
The Hawaiian star. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu]) 1893-1912, 1912-01-06
COMMUNISTIC COLONY UP NORTH
is REGARDED AS ANARCHISTIC

TACOMA, Wash, December 23.--
Asserting that there are two warning
factions in Home Colony and that
strife mas reached a point where there
is grave danger of an open outbreak,
Lewis Haiman, secretary Of the Mu-
tual Home Association and selfstyled
member Of the "anarchistic faction,
today appealed to the prosecuting at
.torney's Office and later gave an ex-
PLANTATION seeking to justify the indif-
ference of the Home colonists to re-
ported visits of David Kaplan NJ, A.
Schmidt and one Of the McNamaras.
Il don't pretend to deny that the
Los Angeles Times dynamiters were at
Home Colony" said Haiman, nor do
l say that | believe they we're there.
i simply don't know, and furthermore,
wouldn't have gone one bit out of my
way to find out. I'll be frank about
that.
Mind Our Business, Is Motto
That's their business, not mine.
Each of us has his two acres at Home.
What goes on outside of my two acres
is none of my business. Our town and
our colony may be small, but these
men could have come and gone with
out my knowing anything about it, any
more than a Tacoman would have
known had they passed through here.
81 wouldn't have even asked about
these strangers if l had seen them.
pay no attention to another mans af-
fairs so long as he does not bother
me-"
That the prospect of trouble be-
tween what he termed the anarchists"
and the "law and order element was
his business, however, Haiman in
sisted
"All we want to do is live and let
live" he said. IF the world will just
leave us alone we will lTaye it alone.
We claim the right to cranky thoughts,
claim the right to be cranks if we
want to, and the one thing we have
leaIned is to mind our own business.
Real Wealth Materiallzes.
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Boys Spoil a Proposal

stinct, discovered us and crawled I'M
der the sofa. Fearful she might give
us away, We took turns rubbing her
head to keep her content to remain
with us and not divulge our hiding
place.
CAS- luck would have it, James and
Kate sat down on the very sofa under
which we were hidden and James be-
gan his declaration of love. Kate was
somewhat inclined to keep him guess
ing and we were enjoying the scene,
by it's reflection in the pier glass, when
Kate suddenly announced that she had
made a vow never to accept any man
unless he proposed to her on his bend
ed knees.
This seemed to stagger James for i
moment, but as he was thoroughly in
love, he was game and, carefully pull
ing up his trousers, he got down on
one knee and grabbing Hates hand
began his proposal all over again.
Now Comes the Catastrophe.
This tickled Bill so that in his en-
deaVor to conceal his merriment he
rolled over right on to the cats tail,
which gave an awful howl and jumped
from under the sofa almost into the
face of the kneeIng lover, causing him
to lose his balance and topple over
Bill, afriad lest We be discovered and
punished again, made an effort to
crawl out and in his scramble upset
the sofa, and Kate, losing her balance,
fell on top of James and the sofa on
them both. With one accord we fled,
staying only long enough to see James
pulling his half fainting lady love from
under the sofa and swearing ven
geance on us.
"Of course, we both got a whaling
from father, and even mother was so
mad that she wouldn't let us have des-
sert for a week Further, as l have
said, we We're both locked up during
the wedding AS for Aunt Kate and
James, well, I guess they've forgiven
us. Anyway, We both got to see their
daughter married"
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SOME NOTABLE CURRENT EVENTS
IN THE RELIGIOUS ARENA

cies. AS a step toward the latter aim,
the same commission report proposes
to magnify greatly the Offices of sec
rotary of the national council
So marked is the change that the
secretary, If on the foundation now
suggested, virtually will be at the head
of the denomination in even larger de-
gree, and with more powers, than the
presiding bishop in the Episcopal
church, or the moderator of the gen
eral assembly in the Presbyterian.
Step Toward Church Union.
A first step toward union between
the Presbyterian and reformed
churches, the latter the Dutch and not
the German branch, was taken in New
York last week The promoter, the
Rev. DR.. Henry Sloane Coffin, young
Presbyterian pastor who comes from
the famous Sloane family of New
York, said there has been much talk
about unity and he thought it time
somebody made a start toward it.
Action proposed thus far does not
contemplate organic union, nor does II
mention federation. 1t simply pro
poses cooperative work, with the
thought that it may lead to actual and
complete union some day. The work
is church extension in New York SUI
burbs, united adjustment Of existing
fields in Manhattan, and possibly COM
mon work in public institutions.
Only one presbytery and one Chassis
lare involved. Members of these bod
les have just held union meeting, the
first in their long histories. The SEN
timent was cordial, and plans Of work
as outlined were unanimously agreed
upon
Baptists Exertins Strength.
( The Rev DR.. Robert S, Macarthur
of New York has sailed tor Russia on
mission unlike any on which an
American citizen, certainly an Ameri-
can divine, ever entered He is the
new president of the Baptist World
Alliance, and in a real sense repre-
Isents Christian people by the hundreds
of thousands. even millions. as might
be possible in no other religious body.
His mission is first to Russian, but
it is broader than that. He goes bear
ing letters to world rulers from Presi-
dent Taft, and letters from Secretary
of state Knox to ambassadors in all
countries in Europe and Asia which he
expects to visit
DR.. MacArthurs mission to Russia is
to ask the car and the Russian gov
CONTINUED on page sixteen)
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HALElwA FOR MINE.

Hundreds of persons went away for
the weekend and enjoyed themselves
and many more went to Haleiwa and
had a time that will occupy a place
among the pleasant events stored in
the memory with the events of 1911.
Good weather, a better dance and a
dinner such as is served back East
were among the featres of Saturday
and Sunday, and Monday follows with
'repast," AS a place for the week
end Haleiwa has won more advocates
and during the year 1919 it is to be
the choice of persons who want good
times near at home. The climate Is
pleasant and the beach the best in the
islands. The same is to be said of the
golf links. Since the establishment of
the post at Leilekua the dances at
Haleiwa partake of service functions
and are the centers of fashionable
people.
The Hawaiian star. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu]) 1893-1912, 1912-01-06
THERE ARE OTHERS

That Honolulu is not peculiar in it's
dereliction of duty toward the juven-
lie element of the submerged tenth"
is apparent from the following edit
orial in the Portland Oregonian:
A Delegated Duty.
A scathing arraignment of parents
not of mothers alone, but of fathers
as well-was that of the committee of
the Social Hygiene Society, which
urged the appointment of three spe-
cial policemen whose duty it will be,
among other things, to keep young
girls off the streets at night and en-
force the curfew ordinance. Though
parental duty and obligation was not
mentioned in connection with this
petition, it is clear that if parents
were responsible, or could be made
and held responsible, for the care of
their minor children and the welfare
of their young daughters, there would
be no call for special policemen to
clear the streets of children in the
evenings and of young girls at night.