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St. Landry clarion. (Opelousas, La.) 1890-1921, 1913-02-22
FARM, HOME and FIRE-SIDE
From the PROGRESSIVE FARMER

in the South who refuse to use
their own heads in selecting
their reading matter, but let
some slick-tongued agent palm
off on them whatever cheap,
spoiled, unwholesome, unhelp-
full bran-and-chaff mixture of in
tellectual food he chooses to
throw in with some fake pre-
MUM that, in most cases, isn't
much better than the paper it
goes with.
Here is what we need to say
to farmers all over the South:
You are not a pauper in dealing
with your body; don't be a
pauper in dealing with your
mind. You don't buy the cheap
est stuff you can find to feed
your body with; then don't buy
the cheapest stuff you can find
to feed your mind with. If you
are buying mind-food for your
self, you Insult your own brain
by intimating that it deserves no
better food; while in the case of
ones boys and girls, doesn't a
man deserve prison stripes just
as much if he deliberately
starVes his children's minds as
he would if he deliberately
starved their bodies?
The season of bad roads is on
US again. What have the farm
ers in your community done
about dragging the roads?
What have they done about sub
shutting wide tires for narrow
tires? We know one county
where it is now proposed to levy
a tax on all lumber wagons or
livery stable wagons that use
narrow tires. The idea is a
good one.
By starting our plants in hot
beds we have early vegetables
for the market at a time when
the demand is greatest, and
when We can dispose of them at
the highest price. On the other
hand, those waiting until later
in the season, when the ground
becomhs warm and the weather
mild, find that. they will have
more vegetables than are needed
for their own table use. They
are able to sell this surplus at a
a very small, or more probably
at no profit at all, if labor is
figured at it's just value. There
is almost an unlimited demand
for early vegetables, while there
is only a duh market, If any at
all, for summer vegetables.
St. Landry clarion. (Opelousas, La.) 1890-1921, 1913-02-22
.Maccabees Active.

Port Barre, La, Feb. 16, 1913.
The black, red and white ban.
ner of the Knights of the Mac
cabees of the World was I'm.
furled here today by the initia-
ton of Protection Tent No. 143,
with sixty-two of the represent
alive citizens of Port Barre and
vicinity for its charter members.
State Commander, M. J. Bulger,
of New Orleans, instituted the
tent and installed the following
officers who were elected after a
spirited but friendly contest:
Past Commander, Chas. O.
Dejean; Commander, Dr.. David
A. Berwick; Lieut.. Commander,
j. E. Carter; Chaplain, Chas. B.
Fisher; Record and Finance
Keeper, John A. Burleigh; Phys
ician, DR.. D. "A. Berwick; Ser
geant, John Savant; Master at
Arms, T. G. Devillier; First
Master of Guards, R. j. Cor
mier; Second Master Of Guards,
S. Micili; Sentinel, j. H. O'NeiIl;
Pickett, Valley Meyers; Trus-
tees, Robert Lee Hawkins, Chas.
O. Dejean, Luke Dupis.
The second and fourth Tues
day nights were selected for
regular reviews. A vote Of
thanks was rendered to the
Woodmen of the World, who
generously donated the use of
their hall for their first review.
Under the head of Good of the
State Commander Bull
ger spoke at length upon the
merits of Maccabeism, and his
remarks were well received.
was followed by Port Barre's
popular physician, DIR. Berwick,
who was elected commander
he couldn't help him
self. Past Commander, Charlie
Dejean,v and Record Keeper
were also heard from.
With a rising vote of thanks to
Deputy State Commander Law
renee, the review closed, to meet
in special session, Sunday, Feb
ruary q, at / o'clock p. m.
watch-word is Watch Us
St. Landry clarion. (Opelousas, La.) 1890-1921, 1913-02-22
seeking the important place in
the Child Labor Bureau.

seeking the important place in
the Child Labor Bureau.
The members of the Era Club
are avowed suffragettes, and no
doubt, if the women were able to
vote in this State they would be
the very first ones to attempt
getting an office through the
political pull' channel. There
is no doubt, however, that they
are correct about the fitness por-
ton of their resolution, but they
have not inquired into the par
ticular fitness of this young lady
in question. Perhaps they are
not aware that she is one OF the
energetic a n q
S martest w m e n t h q t
Louisiana can afford, and is fully
as capable Of holding the posi-
ton as any other lady in the
land.
Women, however, have the
faculty Of being envious of one
another, and it does seem that
the Era Club is simply jealous
that some of their distinguished
members are not among the num-
Der applying for the place. To
the good of this state, neVerthe-
less, it is thankful that the club
is not the entire state, and their
opinion does not voice the sentl-
ment Of the wide-aWake and
progressive people of Louisiana,
and if Mrs. Wickliffe does not
land this place it will surely not
be the fault Of the thousands of
Louisianians, who have been
watching her fight since the first
day that she declared herself a
contender for the chief Of the
Child Labor Bureau.
Every paper in this state
should make a fight to show the
people up in Washington that
she is fully capable of holding
the position, and that the scrup-
ulous views of the Era Club does
not express the will of the State
of Louisiana, and this state Of
ours is anxious to see Mrs. Wick
life secure the position she SO
richly deserves.
St. Landry clarion. (Opelousas, La.) 1890-1921, 1913-02-22
BY UMP

foot work of the Gang atsWall
and Broad and he as simulated
about sixteen lambastings before
he Wised to the fact that he
was not attending a Pink Tea.
Here the feet and freckles got
in their work and he began to
head up with the Bunch.
About this time the call of
Back to Nature got in its
work and he hunted a Sylvan
Spot with the Restaurant set in
Palm Garden.
Here he met a running mate
for the woman from Troy, and
she had the advantage over
Helen by being modern and over
his Sadie by being set.
This Queen was born to the
Purple Tn Kansas tones that
had once been angular were
modulated to the N. Y. standard
and between Madame Flynn on
9TH Ave, her own ability, chrop-
odists, manieurists. corsetierres,
hairdressers, etc, etc., he was
not over touting her when he
said. "She was the most Beauti-
full Thing on Earth"
He numbered his bank roll
and bought her everything a
man could buy a Queen from
Kansas, met in a Restaurant Set
in Moo York.
OF course he forgot about
Sadie in his new Training quar-
tiers, but had he known it, Half
the roll would have fitted Sadie
so that she could have shut this
r NJ OF OF T outside
the money.
But taking the Hurdles at
night, through a crimp in his
speed in the day and it was not
long till he took a copper to the
tune of a million and the color
scheme went from Rose to Blue.
About this time, Sadie, whose
foot work had improved with
more Mature wisdom, decided
she had been shunted into a sid
ing long enough, and by simply
releasing the brakes, she glided
out on the Main Drag, and head
ed for The Village Of Visible
Supply.
St. Landry clarion. (Opelousas, La.) 1890-1921, 1913-02-22

Grand Coteau, La, Feb. 10 -
AFTER camping here for ten days
the Louisiana Traction & Power
Company serYeyors moved satur-
day to Washington.
Miss Marie Smith came in
Friday from New Orleans where
she had been visiting relatives
for a few weeks.
Very Rev. Father Moynihan,
S. J. Provincial of the Jesuits Of
of the South and Rev. Father
De Potter, S. J. Of New Orleans
were visitors this week at St.
Charles College.
Mrs. ]. j. Barry returned
home Friday after several weeks
spent with relatives at Beaumont
and Port Arthur, Texas
Messrs. Ashby Trahan, Eugene
Petetin and Lowell Barry of La
fayette were visitors here Sum
day.
Mr.. Jules Petetin was a Satur-
day visitor to Lafayette.
Mr.. Charles Geain of New
Orleans representing I. L. Lyons
and Co. was a business visitor
here Saturday.
Miss Rosa Smith of Covington
is here visiting relatives.
Messrs. F. S. Barry and Saul
Guilbeau were visitors to Cecilia
Sunday.
Judge j. A. Smith was a Tues
day visitor to Opelousas.
Mr. Eaton Guilbeau of CeceIiu
is here visiting relatiues.
Among the Sunday visitors
here were; DR.. and Mrs. 1. B.
Arceneaux and Mr.. Lloyd Fran
ques of Church Point, Judge and
Mrs. O.. G. Mouton and daughter
Ruth of Lafayette, and Miss
Louise Sicily of Carencro.
MI. Lucieus Guilbeau of Mar
eel, La. visited relatives here
this week.
Mrs. John Smith and children
Mercedes and Gussie left We'd
nesday for New Orleans where
they will reside.
Mrs C. w. McNaspy Of La
fayette is visitingr elatives here.
St. Landry clarion. (Opelousas, La.) 1890-1921, 1913-02-22
Stock Holders Meeting

Notice is hereby given to the
Stockholders of the st. Landry
Clarion that a meeting will be
called on the 10th. of March at
10 O'Clock am, Monday, for the
purpose Of electing five members
of the Board of Directors, and
transacting other business that
may come before the Board.
YVES ANDREPONT,
feb 22-3t Secretary
St. Landry clarion. (Opelousas, La.) 1890-1921, 1913-02-22
IT'S
Landry AND IT'S
SCHOOLS. ~

$3.50 1871 F.# SUI 1DLpCs x q
There is perhaps no parish in
the State better equipped in ed
ucational standpoint than ST.
Landry. Her schools are equal
to the very best in Louisiana
and some wise thinkers would
say that it has the best.
Il. With her high schools this
parish has done more towards
the development of this country
than anything that has come
here. These schools which num-
Der about seven or eight, in
which hundreds of our children,
who are destined to take the
lead of this community, are
trained both morally a m
physically, are sources of good
to st. Landry. They are inferior
to none of the country schools in
Louisiana, and the good work
that has been done by these
institutions can easily be seen
when its graduates go to college
where, they take the lead Of
their classes with ease and are
the pride of their FELLOWSHIP
dents. The Opelousas and
Grand Prairie schools, espe-
cially, have done a world of good
to this parish in the rearing of
the little tots.
Again, st. Landry can boast
of having one Of the very best
colleges in the entire South. A
college in which some of the
leading men, both political and
otherwise, have been taught
their first principles Of manhood
where Governors and Lieute-
nant- Governors have been in
structed: where some of the best
people, not only of st. Landry
but also of the entire State, as
well as MANY other states, have
been educated. In st. Charles
College this parish has an insti-
tuition in which it has cause to
be proud. The Jesuit Fathers
are at the head Of this great
college and these eminent pro-
fessors are known and recog-
nized to be the most famous in
structors in the world.
Every effort should be made
to give the sons and daughters
Of st. Landry a splendid .educa-
ton, since it can be secured so
cheaply. 1t is not like it was
some years ago, when one had
to walk four or five miles to go
to school, and then had very
poor teachers as their professors.
There is no need for the long
drives to schools. The high
schools are in easy access to the
most popHlous portions of st.
Landry. and St. Charles College
offers one of the best courses in
the A. B. degree that can be OBJ
tanned in any college in the.
United States. Care should be
taken by parents that can afford
to send their children off to col
lege, to send them to a very
good one, and their is no neces-
sity to go out of st. Landry to
find one, and at the same time
have their children close at hand
in case of sickness, which is the
cause of considerable worry to-
the parents of sons and daugh-
tiers who are attending schools
in distant states.
st. Landry can also brag on
its splendid schools for girls in
such eminent and prominent
as the Sacred Heart at
GRIND Coteau, the Immaculate
Conception at Opelousas, the
Carmel at Washington and
one in Euniee, where the daugh-
ters of st. Landry are educated
and brought up to beautiful
Womanhood.
How many parishes in the
State can boast of such good and
reputable, schools as these?
There is no need to look up for
distant schools; you can find
none better than ours.
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St. Landry clarion. (Opelousas, La.) 1890-1921, 1913-02-22

FOR sALE.-one registered
Jersey bull; one yearling Jersey
bull, pure-bred andIregistered;
Hereford cattle, andl extra fine,
pure-bred and registered Poland
China hogs. Cali on or address
DIR. INTERMEDIARY,
eb | / mo. Opelousas, La.
!.
St. Landry clarion. (Opelousas, La.) 1890-1921, 1913-02-22
TWO LITTLE TOTS.

News dispatches relates the
death of two little girls, the only
children of the parents, which
occurred in Nevada the other
day.
The younger one, aged five,
fell into a pond, used to water
stock.
The elder, aged Ii years,
jumped into the water to save
St. Landry clarion. (Opelousas, La.) 1890-1921, 1913-02-22
AND TIE FLY

Pursuing our review of DR..
Morris admirable bulletin on
Charlton, let us see something Of
the relation of the fly to
C h bon. DR.. Dalrymple
and DR.. Mayer, in their ad-
dress to Farmers Institutes and
Sanitary Conventions, always
taught that there was no thing
as a Charlton fly, that is to say, a
special variety Of fly, that alone
could convey the disease, but
that all flies We're dangerous con-
veyers of the disease, after feed
ing on charbonous carcasses, the
common house fly included; that
the conveyance occurred by the
feet, hairy body and mouth parts
and through the excreta.
DR.. Morris in his experiments
has recently shown that the ex-
creta exhibits abundant colonies
of the germs, both in files from
thefieIds andfrom the laboratory.
A common house fly was confined
in a sterlized glass bottle and
allowed to feed on a mass of
Charlton spores; the specks made
by the fly in walking over the
inner side Of the bottle were
scraped off with a sterilized
platinum needle and cultures
made from the scrapings which
exhibited the deadly germs Of
Charlton in all their virulence
and potentiality for evil.
DR.. Morris in his bulletin ex-
four plates. No. |, being
a photo of a dish Of Charlton
germs developed from a single
speck, slightly enlarged.
Fig. 2: photo of Charlton germs
natural size obtained by inocu-
the dish with a fly that
had walked over a Charlton car
cass, in other words, Stimulating
the Identical conditions where
the farmer has the carcass Of
charbonous beef or mule in his
pasture and his dining room
and kitchen unscreened.
DR.. Morris in his summary
and conclusions urges a stricter
enforcement Of the regulations
If the Louisiana State Live
Stock Sanitary Board with re-
gard to the obstruction Of char
oonaus carcasses; that neglect
# these precautions in the past
S responsible for TIM spreading
lrea of chnrbonous infection.
The attention of the Parish and
authorities, not only
he health authorities but the
legislative authorities, is serious
y called to the facts recited in
Dr.. Morris bullentin and his re-
ume wherein he relates:
list Anthrax (charbon)
vas not found in the feces of the
,uzzard after eating anthrax
pores.
End Anthrax was obtained
rom the feet and beaks of buzz
ards kept in a cage AZ hours
fter feeding upon an anthrax
arcass.
3rd.- Anthrax was obtained
rom the buzzards' yomit 2 hours
fter eating anthrax flesh.
4th.- Anthrax spores are not
estroyed in the digestive tract
f the dog; they were found in
ne feces six days after
nthrax had been fed.
5th.- The feces of the hog con-
lined anthrax for a period Of
We days after eating anthrax. I
6th.- Anthrax was found in the !
ices of the cat for a period of I
days after eating anthrax {
)ores.
7th.- Anthrax is not destroyed i
the digestive tract of the s
possum Ia carrion FEEDER
8th.- Rabbits and guinea pigs j
St. Landry clarion. (Opelousas, La.) 1890-1921, 1913-02-22

FOR SALE-Selected Calhorn
Red Cob Seed Corn, shelled, at
$500 per bushel.
G. HERAIST,
Sunset, La.
St. Landry clarion. (Opelousas, La.) 1890-1921, 1913-02-22
Grand Coteau Notes

Grand Coteau, La, Feb. 10 ~
After camping here for ten days
the Louisiana Traction & Power
Company seryeyors moved satur-
day to Washington.
The Wisconsin tobacco reporter. (Edgerton, Wis.) 1877-1950, 1913-12-12
ASSESSMENT HALTED
Special Tax Is Stopped in Manitowoc
BY Court Injunction.

MANITOWOC, WIS. The city
of Manitowoc lost the first round in
the court fight to uphold 80 cent per
foot charge against property owners
for extension of water mains for the
municipal water plant. Judge Kir-
wan in circuit court issued an injunc-
ton restraining the city clerk from
placing in the tax roll special as
sessment of 500 against Fred Veith,
q west side man.
The tax is attacked on the ground
of unconstitutionality and that the
city does the work instead of award
ing it under contract and that no
schedule has ever been filed with the
rate commission. The decision may
affect Milwaukee, where a similar tax
is levied for extensions. There is
some $4,000 in special tax affected
here.
The Wisconsin tobacco reporter. (Edgerton, Wis.) 1877-1950, 1913-12-12
Insects That Walk on Water

Insects that walk OH the water by
means of pneumatic floats are the ia
miliar water and the pond skater spi-
der Not many people know why they
can walk on the water. The pend
skater really walks on pneumatic
floats. There are tiny hairs oil the
feet of this insect, SO fine that they
cannot be seen, that are arranged to
collect air. The amount collected in
and about these hairs is sufficient to
allow the insect to float or walk upon
the surface of the water. AS each foot
is put down it forms a cuplike depres-
sion or tiny pit in the water. The foot
does not sink because the air bubble
that has been formed is too light to let
it. A fine covering of hair protects the
water spider, too, and even if it is sub.
merged in the water it is never really
wet. The hair keeps layer of air be-
tween its body and the water. 1t looks
like a white pearl when below the sur
face. The scientific name of this curl
Gus insect is the Velia currens.-Chi-
cago Tribune.
The Wisconsin tobacco reporter. (Edgerton, Wis.) 1877-1950, 1913-12-12
Farmers Cheer Mceovern.

LA CROSSE, WIS.-Firmly support
ing his plan for the creation of a
market commission in forceful style,
Governor Francis e. McGovern in an
address to the state convention of the
Society of Equity, fired what was re.
garded by many as the initial gun in
campaign for United States sena-
tor.
The governor was given an ovation
by the farmers, who filled the hall.
Shouts of approval of his ideas on
marketing were frequently made. If
the governor was making a bid for the
farmer vote he made a ten strike be-
fore this convention, in the opinion
of many politicians present.
The Wisconsin tobacco reporter. (Edgerton, Wis.) 1877-1950, 1913-12-12
U. S. Furnishes BANK
Equity Society Speaker Tells Result of
Financing Cooperative Plan.

LA CROSSE, WIS. That the
United States government recently
punished bank that had aided a
farmers cooperative association was
charged at the convention of the So
ciety Of Equity by J. M. Anderson.
The Minneapolis grain interests, he
said, fought the Equity Society's ex-
change at every turn, the most Grip
ping blow being to prevent it from
getting credit at the banks. Finally
a bank was found to finance the farm
ers' operations, but it was punished
for this action when $50,0O00OO was
distributed among the banks to assist
in moving the crops. The bank that
had helped the farmers, the speaker
said, was the only one in the Twin
Cities which was refused a share of
the government deposits.
The Wisconsin tobacco reporter. (Edgerton, Wis.) 1877-1950, 1913-12-12
Offer $4,000 to End Suit.

MILWAUKEE, WIS.-Mrs. Ada Nc
Nab, a rooming house owner, whose
marriage to J. S. Kinney, a Siam
baugh, Mich, millionaire iron mill
owner, was prevented, she alleges, by
the kidnapping of the groom by his
children, has been offered, her friends
assert, $4,000 to withdraw from her
100000 suit for breach of promise.
1t is said that she has refused this
offer but expressed a willingness to
drop the case for $4,000, and that
she says she will accept no less, as she
has signed agreement by which Kin
ney promised to deed her a half in
terest in his mining properties.
The Wisconsin tobacco reporter. (Edgerton, Wis.) 1877-1950, 1913-12-12
PROSECUTE U...JzIl
AN old STATUTE
Revival Of Gossip Law" As
Business Protection.

MILWAUKEE - Wisconsin's law
against "gossips" may be applied
against people who are attacking the
credit of various business concerns
in Milwaukee, according to District
Attorney Edward Jockey, who has
been appealed to for an application of
the new state law by affected business
men.
There have been many reports cir
culated here lately of the financial
difficulties of various business con-
Germs, some being among the best
known in the city. One merchant, in
complaining to Yockey, said thess
false reports had been directly re-
sponsible for a falling off of $4,000
in hisvolume of trate in a month.
The gossip law makes it possible to
punish criminally any person circu-
lating false reports about another, and
the law is to be applied, according to
Yockey, if these reports are contin-
uped. Any person circulating such
stories is liable, whether moved by
malice or transformation. Yockey
has not as yet granted the plea OF
merchants for warrants, saying that
he, before taking this radical step,
would warn the people publicly that
such gossip made them liable to the
law. His public warning, if not eff
fectual, however, will be followed by
court action.
The Wisconsin tobacco reporter. (Edgerton, Wis.) 1877-1950, 1913-12-12
Given Up by Bondsmen.

MILWAU KEE, WIS.-Wm. Houli-
han, said to make his home at 2O13
Hastings street, Chicago, is to be
tried in the federal court here soon
and if he escapes a charge of com
plicity in the Kewaskum, Wis, post
office robbery, he will still face indict-
ments for passing counterfeit Canadi-
an money and for robbery of Canadian
banks.
He was brought here because a Chi
cago man, who acted as his bondsman,
furnishing $4,000 cash bail, refused
to be responsible any longer for his
appearance here.
The Wisconsin tobacco reporter. (Edgerton, Wis.) 1877-1950, 1913-12-12
School for the Poor,

GAINESVILLE, WIS.-The children
of the poorer class and of laboring pa
rents in the city of GAINESVILLE will be
given the advantages of a kindergar-
ten trair ing, the GAINESVILLE school
board ha wing voted to rent a room for
this purpose in Monterey, one of. the
poorest residence districts of this
city. Miss Mary Buckmaster, one of
the ablest teachers on the GAINESVILLE
school force, will be placed in charge
of the room when it is opened after
the holidays.
The Wisconsin tobacco reporter. (Edgerton, Wis.) 1877-1950, 1913-12-12

Grain Growers TO r.ieet.

MADISON. WIS. A very large
number of the pure bred seed gram
growers of the state will attend the
twelfth annual meeting Of the Wiscon.
sin Agricultural Experiment associa-
ton to be held in Madison on Jan. 8
and 10. Prizes amounting to $1,000
in value will be awarded at this con-
vention to exhibitors of the best sam
pies of sheaf and seed grain and for
age plants. Instead of limiting the
competition as in former years to the
members of the Wisconsin Agricultur-
al Experiment association, the off,
Gals have made new ruling where
by any farmer in the state may enter
samples of his grain in the competi-
ton.
The Wisconsin tobacco reporter. (Edgerton, Wis.) 1877-1950, 1913-12-12
Files $4,000 SANDER Suit.

GREEN BAY, WIS. - An action
for $4,000, alleging defamation of char
acter, has been instituted here by
Phil Schaus, Jr., against the Metropol-
itan Life Insurance company, and the
company's general agent, J. F. Boyle.
Schaus was arrested recently on a
warrant charging him with embez-
cling funds of the insurance company,
and the case was dismissed by Judge
N. J. Monohan.