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St. Landry clarion. (Opelousas, La.) 1890-1921, 1914-11-07
Vets Pleased With Little
Tots Speech.

The Confederate Veterans of
this city who attended the re-
union at Lafayette last week
were so pleased with the address
of welcome by little Henry De.
clout, who was raised and edu-
Gated by the good and charitable
Carmalite sisters, of Lafayette,
tn t they brought a copy of the
address to be printed in the Of
fetal organ of st. Landry parish.
General Shaffer; Confederate
Veterans; Daughters of the Con-
federacy; and Sons Of Veterans:
The good sisters in charge of
this old and renowned education
al Institution, and also all the
children having the advantage of
attending their classes, many of
whom are descendants of Con-
federate Veterans, desire through
my feeble, but earnest voice, to
join the good people of our parish
in extending to all of you a most
hearty welcome to our town.
We are proud to have you here
and we hope that your stay
among us will be SO pleasant that
you will soon be tempted to come
back.
At this time when those un-
fortunate people across the seas
are going through the misery,
the suffering, and the immense
sacrifices of a terrible war, we
may we'll be thankful to God that
this great and splendid country
of ours is enjoying the blessings
of the most profound peace, and
is in a state of great prosperity.
But this has not always been
the case; nations as we'll as in
dividuals have to bear their share
of advarsity, of tribulation, and
of sorrow.
We, also, have had our cruel
wars, during which we had to go
through what those poor people
in Europe are undergoing to-day.
These old Veterans now with
us are the reminders of those
eventful days in the sixties when
history was being written with
the points of swords and of bayo-
nets. They are the remnants of
those young soldiers furnished
by Louisiana to those brave and
illustrious armies of the south.
These men had the courage to
go out to the fighting line tooffer
their blood and their lives in de-
of a cause they deemed
just. To them it was no war Of
no war to satisfy the
ambition of despotic rulers; it'll
was a defensive war. During
four long and terrible years they
suffered, they fought, and they
pled to repel the invasion of their
country and to defend the homes
If their mothers, Of their sisters,
St. Landry clarion. (Opelousas, La.) 1890-1921, 1914-11-07

Ia STRAYED or STOLEN $500
reward. On the night of Oct.
AOOs 9th, 1914, one dark-bay horse
shod all around, five years old, very
fat foret cut close, / inch name, sway
backed, no brand. Five Dollars reward
will be paid for return of the animal.
oct 31-2t EMILE JOSEPH, Crowley, La
St. Landry clarion. (Opelousas, La.) 1890-1921, 1914-11-07
Important Notice.

To insure your subscription be-
ing promptly enrolled on the
Clarion list and getting your pa
per promptly, address all SUBJ
scriptions to the Contest Mana
ger, Opelousas, La.
H.. T. KINGSBURY.
St. Landry clarion. (Opelousas, La.) 1890-1921, 1914-11-07

Miss D. Whitley left Wednes-
day to attend the Shreveport
fair.
St. Landry clarion. (Opelousas, La.) 1890-1921, 1914-11-07
Only One "BRoMo oulNlNE"

To get the genuine, call for full name, LAXA-
TIVE BROMO QUININE. Look for signature of
e. w. GROVE. Cures a Cold in One Day. Stops
cough and headache, and works off cold. Csc.
St. Landry clarion. (Opelousas, La.) 1890-1921, 1914-11-07

No hunting or ~trespassing allowed on
our place. Smith Bros, per 3. I;
Smith. OCT ~ y
St. Landry clarion. (Opelousas, La.) 1890-1921, 1914-11-07

LiV YER LAX is guaranteed to relieve
troubles resulting from a disordered
Liver. Pleasant to take and perfectly
harmless, at Shute's Drugstore.
St. Landry clarion. (Opelousas, La.) 1890-1921, 1914-11-07
Whenever You Need q General Tonic
Take Groves

The Old Standard Groves Tasteless
chill Tonic is equally valuable as a
General Tonic because it contains the
well known tonic properties ofQUININE
and IRON. It acts on the Liver, Drives
out Malaria, Enriches the Blood and
Builds up the Whole System. so cents.
St. Landry clarion. (Opelousas, La.) 1890-1921, 1914-11-07
SUCCESSION SALE
ESTATE uF DIoMRL DuRIo

| No. SIP, Probate Docket. 18th judicial Dis.
trict Court, Parish of st. LANDRY, La.
BY virtue of all order of the Hon. B.. FL.
Pavy. u ge of the 18th Judicial District
G urt In and for the Parish OF It. Landry,
Louisiana, there will he sold, for cash, at
public auction, to the last and highest bid
der, by the undersigned administrator
or any duly qualified auctioneer, on the
premises in Opelousas. La, on
Saturday, Nov. 18th, 1914,
at II O'Clock a, M. the following described
property, to-Wit:
lst. A cer'atn half lot of ground with
buildings and improvements thereon, SIT
uated In Gariand'S Addition tn the Town
OF Op%elousas, being the west half Of lot No.
81 of said addition. which half lot is
bounded north by lot A, south by contfnu-
alton ~ Bellevue St, east by Henry Il.
Reed and west by lot go; said half lot meas
uring 80 Ieet front IN Bellevue Street by
the fun depth of lot FL; being same prop
erty &C uired by decedent from Alcide
Foatenot Nov. Is, 1904 as appears by act
No. $3.50 duly recorded IN Conveyance
Book '-Y' s IA page 24l of the clerks
{ flee ofth parish OF st. Landry.
I'd. Three beds, one desk, two rockers,
stove and Kitchen utensils, one dresser,
one rifle, one pistol.
Terms: Cash.
FRANK j. DIETS Elm,
oct u 81 Administrator.
St. Landry clarion. (Opelousas, La.) 1890-1921, 1914-11-07
Opelousas, La, Sept. 18th, 1914.
To the Honorable President and
Members of the Police Jury
of the Parish of st. Landry.

meeLlng OF QaCe, DepJ. dCn, 1914,
to frame a budget of expenses
require for the parish of st.
Landry for the year 1915, beg
leave to submit the following
budget which we recommend
for adoption, to-Wit:
BUDGET PARISH OF ST.
LANDRY, YEAR 1915.
Officers and members 5 3,40O 90
Assessors commission 1000 90
District Attorneys sal
airy 1000 90
Sheriff's criminal sal
airy 1900 90
Sheriff's contingent
criminal salary 1000 90
Maintenance of prison
ers --. 1000 90
Coroner and parish
physician $500 800 90
Magistrates and Con-
stables $500 4,579 IS
Grand and Petit Jurors 1,500 90
Witnesses in criminal
cases l,5O0 w
President Board of
Health .....-.--.~.-.. 200 90
Tax Collectors COM
mission .-~.-,--,- 1000 90
Fiscal Agency fund. $500 90
Public School fund "a, 900 90
Int. Imp. road and
bridge fund IL, 900 90
Contingent expense
fund 7,243 Is
4th installment and int.
to parish of Evange-
line... 1913 90
ICertif. of Indebtedness
Bayou Rouge bridge,
due 7-12-15.-. 1,576 IS
Acct. bond Issue ..... 5, 1000 90
Acct. street paving 687 So
Election fund, 1914 5000 90
Existing debt, .1914.... 1000 90
Total SS5, 900 90
Respectfully submitted,
F. OCTAVE PAVY,
W. G. BEALL,
JOS. T. ST. CYR,
Committee on Budget.
Adopted Oct. 5th, 1914.
FRANK M President.
St. Landry clarion. (Opelousas, La.) 1890-1921, 1914-11-07

IIV- YER LAX tones up the system, stimu-
lates the Liver to work in harmony
with the other organs, at Shute's Drug
store.
St. Landry clarion. (Opelousas, La.) 1890-1921, 1914-11-07

Do away with constipation by using
LIv YER LAX at Shute's Drug Store.
St. Landry clarion. (Opelousas, La.) 1890-1921, 1914-11-07

Inyigorating to the Pale and Sickly
The Old Standard general Strengthening tonic.
GROVES TASTELESS chill TONIC, drives OUT
Malaria .enriches the blood and builds upthesys-
St. Landry clarion. (Opelousas, La.) 1890-1921, 1914-11-07
PARTITION SALE.
JOSEPH LIVER, ct ais
VS.,
ROSE OLIVIER, Minor.

No.. 20l67, Civil Docket, 18th Judicial Dis
trict Court, Parish of st. Landry, La.
The Washington herald., 1914-04-19

feet that Williams and the blacksmith
stole the hams. and that the latter was
the only one 10 profit by the theft The
two confessions implicated men who had
always been considered upright, and the
justice felt it his duty to say:
John, this is serious business. You
know you have only three days TO live
Yes. 1 know" replied John. but we
have hardly begun yet. I've got to gel
whole carload of things off my mind
before l go. Get ready to take down
number three"
Number three dated back eleven years
horse had beer stolen from a nearby
farmer. and about the same date a viii
lsge painter named Swayne had painted
the town fools boots a bright red by
way of a joke. The confession solemnly
confessed that the painter and Williams
had stolen the horse and turned him over
to a stranger to he run out of town and
sold. Many little details were put down
and as il was sOlemnly sworn to the JUS
tice heaved a sigh over the deceit and
"4ShtohSSS Vi mar VINO had always
been looked up 10 as full of integrity
There can be no mistake about this.
Billy he queried. as he laid the paper
beside the Others
straight as a string replied the town
TOOL / stole the saddle and Swayne
stole the horse. and if | wasn't going to
die l should ask you TO send me TO state
prison.
Confession number four went back ten
years. A church edifce belonging to the
Methodists had N set On fire and
partly destroyed. II had been pretty
well settled that it was the work of
tramps who had broken in. but no one
had been arrested. Williams, now con-
fessed that the Widow Davidson, who was
known to be an ardent Baptist had hired
nj for s. to set the fire
But it can't be. Billv-It- can't ber'
exclaimed justice and witness in chorus
as the dying man made the charge.
Put il right down and let me swear
to it," replied Billy; you want To re-
IN -mber that I'm on my dying bed. and
you don't suppose Id talk through nv
hat. do yOu?
Confession number five was only a LIT,
tie one. and was made simply To keen ths
list without break. That-also went
back ten years. Some one had yanked
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the village aldermen had offered him 8
ia murder the editor cI tho weekly news
paper. but he had declined with thanks.
Murder was right in his line. but he had
a reverence for editors and never dab
bled in their gore. Confession number ten
was masterpiece and closed the per
formanCc. The dying man had been saw
ing himself for the last According to
this story. the principal OF the Union
School was an cN-pIratc and an PN-con-
viCt. The two together had stolen COWS
and horses and hogs, They had sought
to rob the pu>ufiiCc. planned to plumber
the bank, and had marked down twenty
two different mon for assasSinatI. n. In
addition to this they intended to poison
about score Of wells. burn most OF
the town. ana finally blow up the dam
across the river and star for South
Seas The justice h"-itHtod. qU"sti ned
and protested. hut the town fool was
firm. He insisted that everything should
go down and be sworn TO. ard when it
was Gown h" lay back on his pillow and
said tha: he had been forgiven ard wOuiG
go straight to a better land He died
dccIari1s that he had signed nothing hut
VIVA; was true. and the Justice felt that
hn had move in the matter. The whole
town WAS by the ears at once Those ten
confessions included everybody who had
ever cracked joke at the town fools
expense. and that meant seven-e;ghths
q: the population. Although the doctors
certificate that Rilly's mind was clear t.
the lat. il was too big 4 bi,n Tor the
law. After ;hT"C OF four Warrants Lad
been iss.i"d the whole affair was dropped
-tE2i Is. was legally dSmiSF.] h;'t It
wasn't the end o: it by any means
Every body swOTe 20 his own mn, Ccnce
and declared hiS belief in the %uiIt of
everybody else. and in one year there
were a score 4 damage suits Inside of
two. a dozen of tho best families had
been driven out. business was airncst at
stands:ill. and witt from Tin plague
could not have hurt tho town worEr. Il
was five years before the ansIr finally
sunk out of sight. The town had u heap
OF fun at the expense OF tn" WIS '""'
but in dying he had more fun than
squared the account
The Washington herald., 1914-04-19

Mrs Rowser was watching from back
windows, and after about trve minutes
she saw him making a note 1t probably
| read.
| No particular effect as vet"
| At intervals Of ten minutes for the next
| hour he jotted down memOrandas and
was viEilant and solicitous. Then she
looked out after little to find that book
and pencil had dropped from his hand and
| that he was leaning back against the
fence and sound asleep. She saw no
more. 4 tomcat whose curiosity had
been aroused showed up on the fence and
then jumped softly down to investigate
! lie had scratched up about half the bed
when he was Joined by a second. and in
quick succession came Erimalkins Nos
? 4. and s. They rolled over and over
in the fresh earth-thry raked that bed
fore and aft with their Claws-they
scratched and dug and devastated. and
yet Mr.. Bowser slept on. 1t was an
armed truce between the cats until the
destruction was complete. Then they
called each other horse thieves and liars
and went in for a battle royal OF course
the fight had TO begin right at Mr.. Bow
ser's feet The first mad grapple aroused
him from his agricultural dreams, and as
he sprang up h, stepped on a bundle of
cats as big as A barrel and pitched for
ward and rolled over There was = long
and arms and a bald head and five cats
all mixed up and rolling over the grass.
and then some thing struggled up with a
whoop and dashed for the back door.
with the cats in pursuit. II was Mr.
BOwsCr. He entered the kitchen with a
crash, closed the door Dehind him with A
bang. and Mrs. RUwseT got down from
her room just AS he tumbIed up the
basement stairs. II was a licked man.
He was an eN-sayant. lie was a played
out aSriculturalist and a busted expert
menter. She estimated the number of
scratches in sight at IN and the cats
hadn't been sparing of their bites.
''Nell. the moon got in its influence. !
see she remarked as she wondered
where she could find rags and sweet oil
lie looked around in a dazed way, but
did not answer
is IT Savant Bowser or who"''
scared expression came into his eyes
and he shuddered and she led him up
stairs to go into hospital for treatment.
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the town pump out by the roots one
night and carried il off. The act was
laid to the young men of the village. but
the dying man now confessed the truth
The leading merchant of the town had
shared the guilt with him. There had
been a great deal OF ill-feeling over the
pump. and it was stolen to settle the
question of Pump or no pump The
justice stood up to get a better look at
Billy. The merchant was truth. honor.
and respeCtability combined. and the idea
that he would do such a thing was ap-
palling.
Put 1t right down in black and
white" said the town fool. as he was
warned of the seriousness of such a
charge. Lots of things have been
going on in this town to surprise
folks and want 10 unburden my con-
;cience while am at it."
Confession Number six was a brief
one. The town fool had been hired by
the leading phJ sician of the village t..
poison a COW which had DESTROYED his
garden. Billy mad taken fifty cents.
administered he dose and hoped 1t
would not be laid up against him il
heaven.
Confession number seven was
C0rker. Some seven years previous
lIere nad bSen local election in
W Mich party feelings ran high. lust
before the election came on one of
the candidates for mayor had been
bluly shocked ~ a bolt of lightning
which struck the house. Nobody had
ever questioned the fact that il was a
case Gf thunder and lightning,
but now the dy.rg man wanted 10 wash
his conscience He named four prsm-
incnt men in the village who were IN
a conspiracy. L murder OF the candi-
date They hadn let him in on the
ground floor [. any other floor. but
lie had been abroad the night of the
storm and had seen one OF the con-
spiraiors strike the candidate with a
bluGgenn and then leap out of the win
dow The wouId-be murderer believed
he had accomplished his purpose. and
there was ET-at rejoicing as he re-
joined his felICw-conspirators.
Good lands! Billy. but your mind
The Washington herald., 1914-04-19

The robins had come to stay.
So had the dandeliors.
There had been warm rains. and the
frost was out of the ground.
Mrs. Bowser looked out into the back
: yard where a bit of snowdrift was hang
| ing on by its teeth on the shady side OF
the fence and sighed and said to herself:
Il will be just like Mr.. Bowser to go to
| ripping up the yard to make a garden
She had hardly ceased speaking when
he arrived.
der and closely following him was boy
with several pots of plants and a package
of seeds. Before Mrs. Bowser could ask
for an explanation she was informed:
You were saying the other day that
you wished We had a bit of a garden
I'm going to make one. I've got 1t all
planned out. and I'll fix up something to
be proud Of
But our backyard Is no place for a
garden" she protested Its mostly in
the shade. you know. and the soil must
be very poor I wish you had spoken
about II before you bought these things"
Don't You worry about the shade or
the poor soil. my dear woman. l shall
grow only such things as love the shade,
and a little guano will make the soil get
up and hump in a way TO astonish you.
l will now get into an old suit and pre-
pare the various beds. Digging and rak-
ing and smelling the fresh earth will
carry me back to the old farm days
again"
When he had changed his clothes he
laid or a plot in the back yard and be-
gan work. The brickbats. old bottles,
| states. and broken kettles had remained
undisturbed Ior years. but Farmer Bow
ser persisted until at the end of three
hours he had prepared a bed 10 feet long
by feet wide. During his laLbors he
burst his suspenders. broke his spade.
pulled the handle out of the rake. and
lost an eye out of his spectacles. but
he won out in the end. When the bed
was ready he called Mrs. Bowser out
and said:
This. you understand. is only prelim-
mary. I have prepared this for an ex-
perimental bed. Later on l will lay the
whole yard cut into circles, crescents.
crosses. etc"
What sort Of experiment." she asked.
Il will inform you later on this even
ing. I shall rather mix things up in
this bed. ! Ehall set out onions, tOma-
toes, and flowers. and I shall plant the
seeds of cucumbcrs and melons and po-
tatoes and add few hills of corn
Il should think that a few apple trees
grape arbor. and an artificial lake
The Washington herald., 1914-04-19

ice to repair damages they were threat
ening all sorts IF law suits Mr.. Rasher.
the agent, came up and had an inter-
view with each. What he said 1 don't
know. but he finally got them together
and they shook hands. Next day Mr..
WassOn called me up to his door to say:
Sammis, nave you any objections to
resuming our fraternal relations?"
No. sir"
Then 1 think We had better resume,
and here's a dollar on that mortgage.
However, let us have a clearer under
standing than before. 1 will be your
father for three months from date. We
may renew or We may not. 1t will be
as We can agree. AS o that little affair
OF Yesterday
Wen forget it. sir
Wen try TO. Sammis. and hope 1t
wont happen again. Run along. now.
and see that YOU have your fathers in
terests at heart until our contract ex-
pires.''
II was only an hour later when Mr..
Parker sent for me. He patted me on
the head in the same old way and kindly
said:
The Washington herald., 1914-04-19

ii in your favor. What theory have yor
got as to why seeds grow"
1t doesn't need any theory. Nature
intended everything to reproduce itself
II a seed is planted IN fertile soil. Il
will produce again
But there must he favorable infu'
ences."
"of course. 1t needs sun and rain
Anything else. Mrs. Bowser?"
Nothing special. l guess
What about the moon"
Why, / believe that some old gran.
MES contend that the moon has some
sort of influence on vegetation. but
don't think that any el-headed farmer
believes il"
That vas the point Mr.. Bowser had
been leading up to. and there was the
light OF triumph in his eyes as he walked
back and forth and said:
But IL the moon does influence vegeta-
tion-if 1t exercises the greatest influence
over the planting and growing-if it would
make a difference of 500 per year 10
what"
Why, II would he a good thing for
the world at large to know" she re-
Piled
Exactly. and the man who proved it
to the world would become famous and
renowned. wouldn't he?''
Certainly. But what has all this to
do with your planting a dozen different
things in one bed
Just this: i am going 10 prove the
truth or falsity OF this moon business 90
But how can YOU prove or disprove
such thing asked Mrs Bowser
BY experiment. OF course. Tonight is
moonlight night. l shall take seat
beside those tomato plants and onion
sprouts for an hour or two and observe
what influence the moon has on them |
will continue the experiment for week.
and by the end Of that time l shall
know one way or the other"
Mr.. Bowser decided TO do his watching
from . to II o'clock or later and he
carried out a chair and got notebook and
pencil ready before the hour. When he
finally passed cut. he expected the cook
who had been watching proceedings
would say something. and she did Toss
ing her head and giving her words a
tinge of contempt she said:
The Washington herald., 1914-04-19

and I took the dawg out into the woods.
tied him up, md let myself loose. l
reckon 1 got of about forty cuss words
a mint fur half an hour. At fust the
dawg howled and tried to git away, but
bimeby he lay down and shivered and
moaned and seemed TO be sick clear
down to the toenails. / was still blazin'
away when the old woman comes along.
She listens to me fur a minnit or two
and then solemnJy says:
''Zeb White, lemme tell ye sunthin'.
Yo' ar harrowin up that dawg's soul by
yo'r cussin and If yo' keep it up yon
take the grit out O. him. Besides, the
Lawd will find way to punish yo''
Il let up the critter." said Zeb. but it
was only fur that time. / made up my
mind I'd tougher him to It or break his
neck. He was sort O. skeert o. me after
that, and now and then I'd catch him
lookin' at me with reproof in his eyes.
was biddin' my time to git him out by
hisself agin when a bar came down OF
the mountin' one mawnin' while we was
eatin' breakfast. 1 grabbed my gun and
got out and set the dawg on him. The
dawg was sort O. faint-hearted bout
takin' hold, and begun to sw'ar at him.
hadn't ripped six hot words befo' he
made a sneak. l was SO powerful mad
over his goin' away that ! sent bullet
after him, while the bar walked of as
cool as you please. I made up my mind
to kill that dawg when he comes creepin'
back. and the old woman was wise nun
to lemme alone till l cooled off. Then
she said:
'Zeb. it amt no use talkin.' When
Cawg's bin brung up in a Christian fam
lily and never even heard the folks say:
BY gum yo' can't make him abide sich