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The Meridian times. (Meridian, Idaho) 1909-1938, 1913-04-25
Woman Finally Receivers
From Nervous Breakdown

Impoverished nerves destroy many
people before their time. Often be-
lore sufferer realizes what the
trouble Is, he is on the verge Of q
complete nervous breakdown. II
Is Of the utmost importance 10 keep
your nervous system IN good con
dition, as the nerves are the source
OF all bodily power. Mrs. Anna
Kounz, I'll Mechanic 81, Pueblo,
Colo, says:
"For many years suffered from
nervous prostraiion; ! was unable
10 do any house work and doctors
failed 10 help me. Remedies !
tried from druggists did not do
me particle Of good. A neighbor
told nv husband about
St. Landry clarion. (Opelousas, La.) 1890-1921, 1913-07-19
CLE4N-U Up TINE.

DR.. B. A. Littell has issued
orders to the public to have all
yards, outhouses, etc, thorough
" cleaned. There should be no
reason, in the first place, why
the Health Officer should in duty
be bound to issue such orders.
The public should take enough
pride in the welfare and interest
of Opelousas, without abiding
to the general health of the COM
munity, to have the premises as
clean as pin heads.
Despite the fact that DR.. Lit
tell stated that he would impose
a fine on the people in this city
who did not clean their premises
there are some who are slow in
complying with the Fl e t h
Officers orders. There is no
way to go around his orders and
the sooner one will cleanup his
place the better for him and the
community.
It should be the aim of every
citizen of Opelousas to have the
city the cleanest in the state.
It can be done and with a little
more energy on the part Of some
Opelousas would be almost i'm
maculately clean.
St. Landry clarion. (Opelousas, La.) 1890-1921, 1913-07-19

CYRUS w. FIELD

AT fifteen, Field became a clerk in the
store of A. T. Stewart. When twenty-one,
in 1910. he became a merchant himself
and in fifteen years was one OF the
wealthy men of New York, then he re-
tired from business with the purpose OF
spending the balance of his days in rest
and travel, but he found no rest. The
great energy he possessed demanded
greater activity. His real mission IN life
had not yet begun.
One day while conversing with his
brother Matthew about the construction
of a telegraph line across Newfoundland
the idea of a telegraph line under the
ocean flashed across his mind, n from
that very hour he had no tire for rest
until finally. after years of toll and anx-
iety, the Atlantic Gable was laid.
This one thought fairly took possession
of him, and he crossed the ocean over
forty times before he succeeded in raising
the required capital to accomplish the
task. Then, when the cable was being
laid, it broke twice in mid-ocean, not be-
ing strong enough to Withstand the ocean
pressure; whereupon all of his hackers
forsook him except Peter Cooper, but with
his assistance, on the third attempt, sue
cess crowned his efforts amid the plaudits
of the whole civilized world.
St. Landry clarion. (Opelousas, La.) 1890-1921, 1913-07-19

Let the progressive leagues,
banks and newspapers of every
town in Southwest Louisiana
lend their efforts to the bureau
and it will not be long before it
will flourish, and, we who as
sisted it in it's infancy will point
to it with pride and glory at the
work which it has done for our
state. We all want to see our
section prosperous and ~ich, but
do we all want to exert our
selves to lettering conditions?
If you are too lazy to help the
bureau, why are you so active
and energetic in deriding it?
We hope that the citizens Of
Opelousas will join with those of
Lafayette and other cities of
Southwest Louisiana in perma-
nently organizing the South
western Development Bureau;
we need it; we must have it and
this is our chance. It will have
enough money to live, but it
needs the cooperation of the
people of Southwest Louisiana;
give it a good word If you can
do nothing better.
The Opelousas Progressive
League, with such a man as Mr..
Lorenzo Mornhinveg at its head,
who is one of the most pro-
gressive men in this section, will,
hope, do all in its power to
St. Landry clarion. (Opelousas, La.) 1890-1921, 1913-07-19
LOUISIANA AND IT'S ILLII-
CRATES.

One who takes interest in the
welfare of Louisiana cannot re,
frain from blushing with shame
when he learns that more than
one person out Of every ten in
this state are unable to read and
write. The grand old state,
] which we natives love so much,
is tagging behind in educating
its sons and daughters. To
think that in some states one
person out of a hundred is sell
dom seen, who cannot read and
write. Why can't our people
strive to do the same in our
state?
The illiteracy of Louisiana ex-
lists chiefly in the rural districts,
but in the last eight years the
public schools in our state have
nade wonderful strides in ad.
vancing school facilities. Each
farmer is but a stones throw
from the school house, and every
man in this state should be COM
PEELED to send his children to
school. When this is done Lou
isiana will be able to take its
stand where it ought to beat
the head of the other states.
This state has produced some of
the greatest and most eminent
men in the Union; it still has the
material to give this nation
saendid educators, lawyers and
other professional men, but this
material has to be developed.
The farmers sons as a rule are
more susceptible to learning than
the dissipated city youths, who
are out every night at shows,
dances and parties.
Let every man in this state
make up his mind to do his duty
towards the uplifting of our peo-
pie; let us endeavor to educate
ali the sons and daughters of
our noble Louisiana. We do not
want to be numbered among the
last states in the Union in educa-
tional advancement; let us go a
peg or two higher and see what
results will be derived.
St. Landry clarion. (Opelousas, La.) 1890-1921, 1913-07-19
THE OUTH WESTERLY DE.
VEIOPMENT BUREA r..

The citizens of Lafayette, Jen-
nings, Lake Charles and other
towns and cities in Southwest
louisiana, c~hampioned by Mr..
6Witzer, h ave been working
.strenuously to organize a South
western Development Bureau,
which will have as its object to-
boost the fertile lands of the
thirteen parishes, which com
prise Southwest Louisian a
proper, and to draw the atten-
ton of the Northern and West
eSn farmers to the wonderful
resources of this country.
We are of the opinion that
this is the best manner to tell
the outsiders what a farmer
can do in Southwest Louisiana,
and though some people are of
the opinion that the bureau will
not succeed, the Clarion feels
confident that with the co-opera-
tion which is due it, the bureau
will do untold and unbelievable
good to this section of Louisiana,
which so badly needs it.
We have the finest, richest and
best soil in America, without
the least doubt, but still we gaze
wonderingly at the prosperity of
the other states, which have no
lands to compare with the South
western Louisiana lands, and
the men who are endeayoring to
launch this boosters bureau in
this section, deserve great praise
for their ~unselfsh actions, in
trying to better the existing con-
ditions of this section of our
state.
St. Landry clarion. (Opelousas, La.) 1890-1921, 1913-07-19
BETTER FARM BUILDINGS
NEEDED.

The arrangements Of farm
buildings both within them
selves and their relation to each
other may mean the saving OF
many dollars each year in need
less labor.
The health of people and ami
mails housed should be taken in
to consideration. Yet how many
barns, houses, etc., on our farms
have been built without even
one thought given to this most
vital requirement. Better sanl-
tation on Southern farms could
easily increase the health of the
rural population beyond belief;
and that would cause land val
ues to increase. There is no
reason why the South should not
be as healthy, or even healthier,
than any other section OF the
country. Better farm buildings
will help a whole lot.
The comfort of all concerned
should be taken into account in
building. For instance, take the
hog: you want to house him so
that he will be comfortable at
all times. Yes, make it a pleas
ure for him to live. Why? Be
caus8 he is a being that turns
corn into lard, bacon, ham, etc.
A being that isn't comfortable
is not going to put on fat; and it
he stays out in the rain, sleeps
in q cold mud-hole, or is uncom-
Portable in some other way,
some of the corn is going to
try to make him comfortable in
stead of making him fat. So it
will cost more to fatten the hog
and hence you get less profit.
If it is essential that hogs,
horses, and cows should be made
comfortable, how much more is
it essential that the farmers
family should be made comforta-
BILE. The doing of the house
work should be made SO easy
that it becomes a pleasure in
stead of drudgery. The arrange
ment Of farm buildings should
be such as to allow the chores to
be done with the least amount of
labor. Instead Of the boys want
ing to go to the city, they should
have so many conveniences and
pleasures at the farm home that
the city would lose its charm.
St. Landry clarion. (Opelousas, La.) 1890-1921, 1913-07-19
SHARE-CROPPING MEANS
POOR NJ

There is no doubt that our
short-tenure rental system and
share-cropping do not tend to
good farming and the maintain
ing and increasing of soil fer
tility, and we are convinced that
better farming would be done if
those who own more land than
they can cultivate would cult
vate it by hard labor. That it
cannot be cultivated successfully
by wage hands / y many of those
who now own the land may be
true, but that some such system
is a necessity before much prog
ress will be made is equally true.
Lack Of capital and inexperi-
ence are probably the greatest
real obstacles to the general
adoption of such a method, if we
except the general failure of
large land owners to give their
personal attention to the man
agement of their farms. Any
one familiar with such sections
as the Yazoo Delta and the
Black Beltof Alabama and Missis-
sippi cannot fail to recognize the
fact, that crop rotation and soil
Improvement are practically i'm
possible under the present meth
DDS and that some plan which
will permit of more intelligent
and direct control Of the land is
rapidly becoming a necessity.
II cotton cannot be m a d e
p%roftably by paying wages for
the labor that produces it, then
in some wa Y the share-cropping
system now used must give the
an unfair adyan-
But this is not the real reason
the cultivation of cotton and
St. Landry clarion. (Opelousas, La.) 1890-1921, 1913-07-19

join with the Lafayette Cham
Der of Commerce in making this
bureau a success in every way.
The Caldwell watchman. (Columbia, La.) 1885-1946, 1913-11-21
"jUST AS GOOD AS
BONDS PILLS?"

Don't you believe it. No such a Liver
remedy is made. But do not abuse the
dealer who tells you so. He does not
intend 10 injure you or US; he only
likes to make a larger profit than
Bonds Pills afford him.
Just laugh at him and insist on
BONDS LIVER PILLS, the gentle.
safe and effective liver stimulant. that
are honestly made from the best
known ingredients and without regard
to cost n trouble.
They are expressly intended to cure
Biliousness, Headaches, Constipation,
Indigestion, Malaria and all the all
ments due to an inactive liver or bow
els.
ASK YOUR NEIGHBOR,"
Take just ONE pill at bedtime and
wake up we'll, without any unpleasant
feeling. They are guaranteed to give
satisfaction.
If the Pills cannot be obtained in
your town, send 25c to us and get them
by return mail.
Sold by leading druggists, Csc. Send
to us for free sample.
BONDS PHARMACY CO.. LITTLE
ROCK, ARK.
The Caldwell watchman. (Columbia, La.) 1885-1946, 1913-11-21

ing over to the capitol. Shall I tell
Mullins to let the bill come to a
vote?"
Yes" answered Blake, without stir
ring or SO much as looking up.
Yes" he said again, and his voice
was dead. "Yes-I'm-T'm licked"
AS Van Dyke opened the dor, Wan
da made as though to follow him.
If you don't need me any further.
Mr.. Blake" she said gently, I'll go"
Blake lifted a palsied hand in mega.
ton.
In there" he muttered, pointing to-
ward the door that led to the inner
rooms. Il must speak to you-after-
ward"
When the old mar raised his eyes,
Mark and Grace alone were left in the
room with him. Robertson was stand.
ing moyeless unseeing. Grace's sobs
broke the tense silence, as she fought
weakly for self-centrol. Blake crossed
I'VE to her. She rose at his approach.
Daughter" said Blake, almost tim.
idly, they've all gone. None of them
will tell But there's one thing we've
get to know. I'm with you, no matter
what you've done. But-but-tell me
-that--that this was all over and
The Caldwell watchman. (Columbia, La.) 1885-1946, 1913-11-21

Good night. I'll stay with father until
you can decide just what you want TO
do and on what basis we're to sepa.
rate. II it would do any good to ask
your forgiveness I'd ask it. That's
all. Good night, Mark"
She held out her hand with a shy
W%istfulness. He was staring straight
into her tortured eyes and did not see
the gesture. The hand dropped back
Imply to her side. and she moved to
rejoin Blake.
But at the first step, Mark barred
her way. She looked at him in tired
wonder. His face was set and hard.
He made no move to touch her. His
voice, when he spoke, grated like a
file, as he forced it between his un.
willing lips.
Grace" he began, 1--WE told you my
love is dead. And I lied when l said
MsI planned to put you out of my
I'D, even while l planned.
knew couldn't do it. 1t doesn't mat.
ter what | want to do or what | ought
to do. Out of all this hideous tangle.
blazes forth just one thing that | must
do whether I want to or not. I must
go on loving you with all my strength
and life"
do you mean," she painted wildly.
do you mean that you can-that you
will"
Il mean," he cried brokenly, his self
control smashing to atoms under the
hammer blows Of his heart, II mean
there is nothing in all this world for
me, dear love, away from you! love
you. And | can't go on without you.
You are earth and heaven and hell to
me. love you. And I have forgotten
everything but that. Girl Of my heart,
will you let me make you forget. too?
On, love you! love you!"
The Caldwell watchman. (Columbia, La.) 1885-1946, 1913-11-21
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~grotesquely. He took an involuntary
step toward Van Dyke. The latter
raised a protesting hand.
Mark" he said, finching not at all
before the bloodshot fury in the hus.
bands little eyes, we are here as law
yers, making an investigation. At last
We have struck the right trail. I am
sorry it leads where it does. /"
He got no further. At a stride Rob-
ertson was beside his wife.
You hear what this man insinu-
ates?" he cried thickly. Il don't ask
you to foul your lips by denying it.
III attend to him later. But give me
the right to do that by telling the
Woman's name at once"
"Grace!" croaked Blake, his throat
sanded with a horror that he would
not confess, don't you hear what
they're saying. girl?"
In his harsh eagerness, Mark forci-
lily lifted his wife's bent head and
forced her eyes to meet MS.
What's the natter" he demanded
sharply. why don't you speak? Tell
Van Dyke he lies. Tells him he lies, l
say! OH"
His fierce appeal broke of in a cry
Of pain. He had at last raised her
face and had read it. For the briefest
moment he stood stupehed. expression
less.
why, Grace" expostulated Blake,
in pitiful bravado. You're crazy!
You don't know what you're implying
what you're letting them think. |
won't believe it. Not a word Of it.
It's a trick TOTO"
She caught his shaking hand and
murmured a broken incoherent sylla-
BILE or two amid the passion Of her
sobs.
Almighty"
Blake's legs gave way and he
sprawled inert into a chair, his head
OF his breast. He had all at once
grown old-very, very old. Meantime.
Robertson had forced his own dazed
brain back into a semblance of its
former strong control.
Van Dyke" he said as calmly as il
he were giving 4 routine order, you
will have every trace Of this story de-
stroyed tonight. 1t must never get
beyond this room. | can count on
you?"
Certainly" agreed Van Dyke with
equal GOODNESS,
There was no hint in his voice or
in his manner that Marks command
entailed the defeat Of a bill, the col
lapse of millions of dollars worth Of
stocks, a probably panic on Wall
street and the money interests total
if temporary loss OF power in con-
gress. For the moment, the great
corporation lawyer CHANGED to be also
a man.
On his way from the room. Van
Dyke paused beside Blake's chair.
jim" he said hesitatingiy, I'm 60
The Caldwell watchman. (Columbia, La.) 1885-1946, 1913-11-21

and done with-before you marl!eu
Mark"
Father"
The Woman faced him in d:y-eyeu
horror. Every trace Of weeping "a'
scared away BY the flame OF suouen
Indignation. And, at the slght' jill.
Blake gave a great wordless cry anu
gathered her into his arms as thousn
she were a baby.
"Oh. my little girl" he chokeo'
Dads own. own little girl! We've
been tearing your poor heart to pieces
and your old father was the bltteres'
against you. It's all right, tell YOU
girl. It's all right. Dadll see you
through. You shan't be bothereu'
There, there. Oh, don't cry ike tna''
darling. DON'T"
His voice grew husky. Leaving her
abruptly, he crossed to Robertson.
Mark" he faltered, avoiding MS
son-in-law's eye, you promised to pro-
tect her. This is the time to do it. IL
was for better, for worse II that
VOW is any good at all. it's a gooo
for worse as for better Mark-De
gentle with her, boy"
Slowly, with bent shoulders ana
dragging step Blake made his way 10
the big rooms farthest end. There, IN
the windows %embrasure, out OF ear
shot, his back to the others. he halted.
Drawing aside the curtains ne
glanced out into the night. The gloom
Of the sleeping city was below ana
around him. But. in one black mass
tiers upon tiers of garish lights
glowed. There, In the capitol, the
Mullins bill was coming to a vote.
There, Matthew Standish. freed by a
miracle from the tolls that craftier
men had woven about him, was WIN
ming the victory which was to clear
for him the pathway to the very sum
nit Of political power.
But he found his subc0nscious self
straying from the picture he was SO
ruthlessly drawing. His mind would
not fix itself on the lighted capitol and
the wreck Of his life-work; but crept
over back into the dim room behind
him. Even his tongue tricked him.
For when he would have made 1t re-
cite further the tale of his losses. 1t
muttered %brOkenly:
MY little girl! Dads own,
own little girl"
The Caldwell watchman. (Columbia, La.) 1885-1946, 1913-11-21
SYNOPSIS.

Congressman Standish and Zee Woman.
believing themselves in love, spend a
IRA! week as man and wife in a hotel
IN northern New York under assumed
names. The Woman awakens 10 the fact
tnat she does not love Standish and calls
undying devotion. Wanda Kelly, tele.
phone girl at the Hotel keswick. Wash
ington, Is loved by Tom Blake, son of the
pohtlcal boss Of the house. He PROPOSES
marriage and Is refused. She gives as
one OF her reasons her determination to
Iather, Congressman Frank E. Kelly.
congressman Standish, turned insurgent.
IS fghting the Mullins bill. a measure in
me interests OF the railroads. The ma
chlne IS seeking means to discredlt Stand
mn IN the hope Of pushing the bill!
BAKE, and the latter's candidate for
speaker or the house. tries TO win Stand
isn over. and falling. threatens to dig
INTO his past Jim Blake fnds out about
the episode of five years back at the
northern New York hotel. He secures all
ana proposes to use the story as a club
to force Standish to allow the Mullins bill
10 pass. Jim Blake lays a trap 10 secure
me name Of the Woman. He tells Miss
helly thai he is going to have a talk with
Standlsh: and that at its conclusion the
latter will call up a number on the tele-
pnone to warn the Woman. He offers
MISS Kelly 800 for that number. At the
conclusion OF the interview with Blake.
Standish gets a New York wire and calls
Flaza 1901. A few minutes later Robert
son tells Miss Kelly to call Plaza 1901 and
get his wife or one Of the servants on the
phone. Miss Kelly refuses to give Jim
Biake the number called by Standish.
blake has a story Of the Standish episode
prepared ready to send out as soon as the
Woman's name Is learned. Blake's daugh-
ter Grace arrives with her husband. Gov
ernOr Robertson. Miss Kelly calls on
Grace to warn her that her good name Ia
threatened by impending exposure of
grace appeals to Standish to give UP the
ngnt in order to protect her name. He
refuses. Grace sends for Miss Kelly.
apologies for her rudeness and begs
Wanda's assistance. Wanda declares she
WI never betrav the Woman. The ma
chine attempts again TO force Standish
out or the fight. without success. Blake
calls up the Associated Press to order the
publication Of the story. hut ia cut Off and
communication lS restored too late to get
the story into the morning papers. Rob
erts0n attempts to force Miss Kelly to
reveal the Woman's name. She Is threat
ened with imprisonment for cutting off
Blake's conversation with the Associated
Press because Of her refusal TO give the
number called by Standish. Grace admits
That she knows the name Of the Woman
and her husband demands that she tell 1t.
The Caldwell watchman. (Columbia, La.) 1885-1946, 1913-11-21
his l knew you. | gave you every

thing. saw oa ee
III IRVING to make it easy. We've
nI'er mad a real quarrel, you and /.
NaFk. SO don't let us wind I'D our
nl"ll'ed life with one, now. You are
49, .ne right, am hopelessly in the
wong: | have cheated you. I admit
~ ano I'll accept the consequences. 1t
III the blood. There Is much in
ns.eol'y. My father is a-politician.
. Know who my grandfather was.
anu II he had been worth knowing
"'out' Ia know. There is a bad strain
lunnihg through the family. 1t cropped
ou' IN me. Yes, | have cheated you.
LOU MAD the right to demand in our
o"'saln the hard-and-fast terms the
"oflu has decreed: All Of a wife's life
III exchange for a frayed and battered
remnant of her husbands. | can't
.'eet those terms, though | tried to
lool you into believing | could. So I
h'ust meekly give up the love whose
p'ice can't pay. Don't let's make It
haroer by having a scene over it..
The Caldwell watchman. (Columbia, La.) 1885-1946, 1913-11-21
PRAISED WORK OF CANNIBALS
Henry N. Stanley Found Them Faith
fui Followers, Intelligent and
Trustworthy.

Henry M. Stanley was among the
first to negative the prevailing idea
that c%annibalism was the mark OF a
special allotment of original sin
among aborigines. In fact he pre-
ferred cannibals because Of their
greater intelligence and greater fldel-
ity. Now we have the opinion of MIR.
To-day, who has just returned from
the neighborhood of Lake Tehad IN
equatorial Africa. He says that he
was virtually unarmed, and unescort-
ed except by one friend and twenty
Bimbalaland porters who were all can
nibals. He says they were the most
devoted and reliable companions |
could ever wish to have in a tight cor.
ner.' The practice of cannibalism
was originally confined to the bodies
OF relatives and was intended as a
mark OF respect. Enemies we're eaten
in order to absorb their yalor. Prob
ably the most degraded form of can
nibailsm is to be found in Thibet,