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St. Landry clarion. (Opelousas, La.) 1890-1921, 1916-12-23


He ate and drank his share with
assurance full and complete that
he would feel like a tWo-year-old
the next day.
Eighty-three years is a long
time to exist in these times o.
hustle and hurry Imagine tn
changes that have taken placs
within this space of time! Th
Judges native parish, st. Landry,
extending originally from tns
Atehafalaya ON the east to tn,
Sabine on the west has been Gu
up into seven parishes which nov
constitute the seventh congress
.sional district of Louisiana
These United States hafe ex
panded from east to- west into the
Pacific ocean forty EIGHT states
and not territory left, and all
teeming with wealth, activity anu
restlessness and asking more
worlds to conquer.
The telegraph, the telephone,
the various inventions and dis
coveries, are startling indeed. He
has seen the old-time plan
tations turned into farms; educa-
ton and knowledge greatly diff
fused; the spirit Of caste obllter-
ated pedig1 ee has ceased to ex-
ist; a man with a level head up
on his shoulders and an homes,
Eheart in his bosom constitutes the
pedigree the American people are
now in search of. The poor boy
Of today may be the man of
the future.
He has beheld these and many
other events and is now observ-
ing the nations at war, involving
the lives of millions of people.
Forty thousand deaths in one en-
counter. Fighting from trench
es, clutehing at each other s
throats amid the cold and snow
of Siberian winter. Never again,
let us pray, will the world stand
aghast amid the horrors Of suen
strife as the present one.
The Clarion INDUCES the hope
that its old friend will live long
enough to witness the termlna-
ton of this war and see the dove
OF peace perohed upon every
household in Europe, now clad IN
mourning over the loss of some
beloved one--a sacrifice of man +
inhumanity to man whereby
countless thousands mourn.
i ! = Z 6.
St. Landry clarion. (Opelousas, La.) 1890-1921, 1916-12-23
Attorneys Visit New Iberia

District Attorney Lee Garland
and John w. Lewis went to- New
Iberia last Wednesday by auto
mobile. Mr.. Lewis is a candidate
for the position Of naval officer OF
the port Of New Orleans, the posi-
ton now held by ex-Gov. Sanders
and which is soon to become vac
ant when Mr.. Sanders takes his
seat as a member of congress
from the sixth district. The Ope-
lousean has received the strong
est endorsements, both from peo-
pie here at home and from prom
inent democrats all over Louisi-
naa. He and Mr.. Garland's s trip
to New iberia was in connection
with the appointment soon to be
made.
St. Landry clarion. (Opelousas, La.) 1890-1921, 1916-12-23
NEW REGISTRATION
SUON TO BEGIN
Legislative Act Of 1916 Calls
for Listing of Voters Every
Four Years
BIG TASK ASSIGNED re
ER-OFFICIO REGISTRARS
Permanent List Under Section
81 Will Not be Affected
Otherwise Educational and
Property Qualifications

There will be complete and
new registration of voters
throughout the state, beginning
shortly after the new year. This
is in accordance with an act
passed by the last session OF the
present legislature, which act
goes into effect ON January Inext
According to the terms Of this
act it will be mandatory upon the
part of the court clerks, who are
ex-officio registrars of voters, to
begin new registration and to
make a new one each four years,
unless some other session of the
legislative body changes, amends
or -repeals the act.
1t is understood that the new
act does not contemplate the dis
turbance of the voters listed url-
der the famous section 5 = and
that these voters will be able to
qualify as voters again without
being required to conform to the
educational and property quali-
.fication clause of the constitution.
Other voters, however, who are
not listed under this famous sec
tion will have to either make out
and sign their application blanks
or, il unable so to do, produce
their tax receipts showing that
they possess the reanisite amount
Of property to entitle them to be
registered.
1t has not yet ben announced
when this new registration will
begin, but is assumed that ample
time will be given by the regis
trars AS to the exact date when
they will begin this important
work. There are approximately
1000 voters in st. Landrythat
is, men Of voting agebut
whether under the terms of the
new legislative act the entire
number can register is q matter
yet to be determined.
St. Landry clarion. (Opelousas, La.) 1890-1921, 1916-12-23
In Memory of L. F. sibille

Goodbye father, dear husband
true!
You We left us for home more
fair;
We know you re with His chosen
few,
Still our grief SENS greater
than we can bear
You We helped us Ger our
toughest ways
And made our trouble small
Your words of hope and love
and praise
Have ever befriended all.
No burden was ever too heavy
for you,
None too small to miss your
care;
You shouldered them all so brave
and true
And helped the cross to bear.
And now you We gone to your
rich reward,
For God has claimed His Own !;
He wanted you in His home be-
yond,
As His will has clearly shown.
And if we follow in your steps
The path you so firmly trod;
Well meet you in your home
above,
For of such is the Kingdom Of
God
A FRIEND, Greenville, Tex.
St. Landry clarion. (Opelousas, La.) 1890-1921, 1916-12-23
Union Banks Beautiful Calendars

With the compliments OF the
Union Bank and Trust Company,
we received this week the beauti-
full 1917 calendars issued by that
up-to-date and thriving financial
institution. The calendar in
question is work of art and ex-
pensive. Without being gaudE,
it depicts a beautiful young wo-
man and under the picture are
the words "The Sweetest Girl. 2
The Union Bank is one. of the
thriving banks of this city and its
past record is full guarantee
for the future. We thank it for
its remembrance, SO fitting just
as the new year is about to be
Ishered in.
St. Landry clarion. (Opelousas, La.) 1890-1921, 1916-12-23
JUDGE E. D. ESTILETTE
CELEBRATES BIRTHDAY
NOTED OPELOUSEAN PASSES
SD MILESTONE OF LIFE
Still Hale and Hearty, He Bids
Fair to Abide With Us for
Many Years to Come

Our venerable friend, Judge E.
D. Estilette, celebrated his eighty
third birthday on the 19 instant,
at the home of his daughter, Mrs.
G. L. Dupre, with his grandchil-
dren and greet grandsons. There
was a genuine Creole dinner serv-
ed to the assembled family duck
gum DO with oysters and roast
duck with all the trimming.
The judge, we are informed,
held his own at the festal board
St. Landry clarion. (Opelousas, La.) 1890-1921, 1916-12-23
Court in Vile Platte

Judge B. Fl. Pavy, District At
torney Garland and other mem
bers of the Opelousas bar left last
Thursday morning for Vile
Platte to open civil term Of the
sixteenth judicial district court
in the Evangeline capital.
St. Landry clarion. (Opelousas, La.) 1890-1921, 1916-12-23
Southern Pacific Lines Calendar

We received an early morning
call Wednesday from Mr.. ]. b.
Carter, travelling freight and
passenger agent of the great
Southern Pacific Railway system,
with Headquarters in New Iberia,
La. Mr.. Carter left with us one
of his roads 1917 calendars,
wish carries at the top the 8.
P.'s trade mark or medallion, the
months and dates being In large
type on the lower part. It is a
useful ACQUISITION to anv Office on
account of its legibility.
St. Landry clarion. (Opelousas, La.) 1890-1921, 1916-12-23
TIMELY RAINS BENEFIT
THE ENTIRE COUNTRY
LONG DROUTH BROKEN AND
WATER REPLENISHED
Flowing Has Started and Will be
the General Order Following
the Holidays

The unprecedented drouth has
at last been broken. Timely
rains have fallen throughout this
entire section of the state and biz
result of the precipitation the
supply of stock water is in no
danger of being exhausted during
the balance Of the winter.
In a few scattered instances
farmers have begun blowing for
the next crop, though this inn
portant work will not begin in
full swing until after the holi-
days though one farmer informed
MS this week that he had already
begun and would continue in
spasmodic way until Christmas
and just as soon as that was over
he would begin IN earnest and
nrerare his soil for the early
planting Of the next crop.
St. Landry clarion. (Opelousas, La.) 1890-1921, 1916-12-23
JEFFERSON HIGHWAY
lHRUUGH The PARISH
Contest Decided This Week and
Big Road VIII be Construct
ed in This Parish
EAST BANK OF MISSISSIPPI
CHOSEN IN HOT CONTEST
Link Through Here Will Pass
Morrow, Rosa, Palmetto and
Melville, Crossing Great
River at Latter Point

Highway, from Colfax, Grant
parish, to New Orleans, has been
finally decided on. It was hot
contest down the line and the east
bank of the Mississippi river,
from Baton Rouge south, has
been decided as the best location
of the road. The west bank Of
the great river put up a hot fight
but lost out In the final round
and now that section proposes to
build another highway on It's
side of the liver to the metropolis.
A feature of the contest Of
more than passing and local note
was the location of the route
from Bunkie south. The pro
position to build by way of SIM
mesport and New Roads lost out
and the route has been establish
ed through from Bunkie to Nor
row, Rosa, Palmetto and Melville,
through this parish. At the lat
| ter named point the road will
cross the Atehafalaya river by
ferry and enter Fordoche. Thence
lit runs to Port Allen in West
Baton Rouge, where it crosses by
ferry into the city of Baton Rouge
on the east bank Of the great
! stream.
| The victory of the people OF
the four st. Landry towns is a
remarkable one and they are to
be congratulated on the result of
the contest which they Waged for
the location of the route leading
from Winnipeg, Canada, to New
Orleans. A tax and bond issue
for the building of the st. Landry
part of the road has already been
voted by the progressive citizens
of the fourth police jury ward OF
the parish and the bonds have
been converted into cash and
within short time the contract
for the road S building will be let.
The successful location Of the
jefferson Highway through q
portion of st. Landry calls to
mind the Importance of the peo-
pie Of the fifth, first and second
wards to get busy and vote the
| tax to construct the Evanyeline
Highway, the proposed connect.
| ing link between the Jefferson
and the Spanish Trail Highways
| The association to build the
/ Evangeline route has already
been formed and within a brie1
time the committee appointed al
! the big meeting held in this city
! last week will appear before the
police jury and ask for the call
| ing Of an election in the three
wards to pass on the question Of
voting a tax to build the road
!, The Importance of this Evange
line Highway is not to minimized
j Tn fact. it is. not second to either
! the big Jtfferson or the Spanish
! Trail routes for it will not only
connect the two but be as mueh
of a main line as either Of those
| two and without doubt bear as
mr1ch traffic if rot more than 2
similar stretch of the two trunk
lines.
Louisiana perhaps leads thu
rest on the union in the matter
of either building good roads OF
talking Of same. The fever fo'
ibetter highways has taken hrm
hold on the people of the state
and the construction of the three
highways will be further IN
centive to the people to extend
| the system until it covers the en-
tire commonwealth.
St. Landry clarion. (Opelousas, La.) 1890-1921, 1916-12-23
Runaway Horse Creates Furore

Thursday about noon a roam
horse, hitched to a top buggy,
went tearing along Landry street
going east. There was no driver
and the mad animal sped through
the crowded thoroughfare with
out injury to self or vehicle,
lodging in and out and only
slightly grazing the fender of an
automobile standing in front of
the Landau building. The runa-
way turned north at the corner OF
Walnut and that was the last
seen Of him.
St. Landry clarion. (Opelousas, La.) 1890-1921, 1916-12-23
OPELOUSAS LA, SATURDAY, DECEMBER 23 1916
CHRISTMAS 1916
Written for the st. Landry Clarion

Written for the st. Landry Clarion
REV c. j. oU1RK S. j.,
st. Charles College.
The Worlds at war this Christmas night.
(But oh, come all and see,
Ye men who seek each others DEATH
Your God on Mary's knee.)
Christ comes again to bring ye peace.
%, listen unto Him!
@, fling aside your swords and guns;
O kneel in Bethlehem.)
He'll make you soldiers of His Cross;
He'll e'er your Captain be;
For He wants all His sons to fight;
To win HIS Victory!
St. Landry clarion. (Opelousas, La.) 1890-1921, 1916-12-23

Charles Duckworth Of Upper
Waxia was in 0pelosuas last Sat
urday.
St. Landry clarion. (Opelousas, La.) 1890-1921, 1916-12-23

DIR. f. s. Barry of Grand
coteau was q business visitor
mere last Tuesday.
St. Landry clarion. (Opelousas, La.) 1890-1921, 1916-12-23

Miss Nita Veltin has been
snendiDe some time IN Crowley.
visiting relatives and friends
St. Landry clarion. (Opelousas, La.) 1890-1921, 1916-12-23
St. Charles College Publication

\ The editor of The Clarion ac-
knowledges receipt of the holiday
edition of aThe Borromean, .
the publication issued by the
students Of the ST. Charles Col
lege, Grand Coteau, La, of which
institution Rev. Father NJ. A.
Grace, S. j., is the honored and
efficient president. The publica-
tion is work of the printer s
art and its literary features are
strictly in keeping with the best
of It's class. It's advertising
pages are filed with advertising
matter and, all in all, the entire
number is a credit to the faculty
and students of this famous in
stitution, which is fast regaining
Its former prestige and bids fair
to be one of the leading education
al centers of Louisiana and the
south.
Mrs. Fl. G Edwards and lit
f'e son Of Abbeville. arrived
here last Monday and will snend
he holidavs with her mother,
Mrs W. G PerrauIl. sister and
h~o4hers III Fawar1s hor hns-
4 hard will arrive raar rl,r;s+n,as
and Join his wife in this city.
Manchester Democrat. [volume] (Manchester, Iowa) 1875-1930, 1916-02-02
CHAPTER ".
A Strataoem.

When the maitre d'hotel had shown
him all over the establishment-inno
Gently enough, en- route, furnishing
him with complete list of his other
guests md their rooms, memoranda
readily registered by a retentive mem
ory-Lanyard chose the bedchambe1
next that occupied by Roddy, in the
second story.
The consideration influencing this
selection was, of course, that so stu
ated he would be in a position not only
20 keep an eye on the man from Scot
land Yard, but also to determine
whether or not Roddy were disposed
to keep an eye on him.
In those days Lanyard's faith in
himself was a beautiful thing. He
could not have enjoyed the immunity
ascribed to the Lone Wolf so long as
he had without gaining a power Of
sturdy self-confidence in addition to
certain degree Of temperate con-
tempt for the spies Of the law and all
their ways.
Reviewing the scene in the restau-
rant, Lanyard felt measurahly var
Manchester Democrat. [volume] (Manchester, Iowa) 1875-1930, 1916-02-02

! He Saw Not Roddy, but a Woman.
least sound disturbing the Stiffness
Lanyard himself grew little impa-
tient when his sight didn't become &C.
customed to the darkness because It
was too absolute-it pressed against
his staring eyeballs like a black fluid,
impenetrably Opaque, as unbroken as
the hush within that room.
Still he waited Surely Roddy
wouldn't be able much longer to en-
dure such suspense.
And, surely enough, the silence was
abruptly broken by strange and
moving sound, hushed cry Of alarm
that was half moan and half a sob.
Lanyard himself was startled, for
that was never Roddy's voice!
There was a noise Of muffled and
confused footsteps, as though some
one had started in panic for the door,
then stopped in terror.
Words foilowed-the strangest he
could have imagined-words spoken
in gentle and tremulous voice:
"In PHYS name! who are you and
what do you want?"
Thurderstruck, Lanyard switched
on the lights.
At distance of some six PAGES he
saw net Roddy but a woman. and not
a woman merely, but the girl he had
met in the restaurant.
(TO BE CONTINr"ED)
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friends in the prison Of the Sante. But
now we must adjourn. One is sorry.
It has been so very pleasant"
A waiter conjured the bill from
some recess of his waistcoat and
served it on clean plate to the Amer
lean. Another ran bawling for the
cloakroom attendant. Roddy glued
his gaze afresh to the Daily Mail The
party rose.
+ Lanyard noticed that the American
signed the bill instead Of settling it
with cash, indicating that he resided
/ at Troyon's as we'll as dined there.
And the adventurer found time to re-
feet that it was odd for such a one
to seek that particular establishment
in preference to the palatial modern
hostelries of the Rive Droite-before
De Morbihan, ostensibly for the first
time espying Lanyard, plunged across
the room with both hands outstretched
and cry of joyous surprise not really
justified by their rather slight &C.
auaintanceship.
"Ah! Ali" he c1amored vivacious-
~. 1T is M. Lanyard, who knows all
about paintings! But this is delight
ful-a grand pleasure! You must
know my friends. But comet"
And selling Lanyard's hands, when
that one somewhat reluctantly rose in
response to this surprisingly overexu-
berant greeting, he dragged him willy
n1lly from behind his table.
"And you are American, too. Ger
tainly you must know one another.
Mile. Bannon-with your permission
my friend, M. Lanyard. And M. Ban.
non-an old, dear friend, with whom
you will share a passion for the beau.
ties of art
The hand of the American, when
Lanyard clasped it, was cold, as cold
AS ice; and as their eyes met that
Rbominatle cough laid hold Of the
man, as it were by the nape of
his neck, and shook him viciously.
Before it had finished witch him his
sensitively colored face was purple
and he was gasping, breathless-and
infuriated.
NJ, Bannon," De Morbihan ex-
planned disconnected1y- 1T is most
Distressing tell him he should not
step in Paris at this season."
Manchester Democrat. [volume] (Manchester, Iowa) 1875-1930, 1916-02-02
HONEY CREEK.

Henry Heyer returned home from
his Chicago trip.
M. ]. Fitzpatrick went to Chicago
Tuesday to attend the wedding of
his brother, Atty. Thomas Fitzpat--
rick.
Mrs. Florence Ryan was a busi--
ness caller in Manchester Tuesday,
! H. E. Wendell, the assessor, was
going his rounds here Thursday.
John Moser was business caller
in Manchester Tuesday.
Mrs. John White and Mrs VIM
Rudy were shopping in Manchester,
Tuesday.
Mrs. Jas. Barr visited at the par
entail Martin home in Edgewood,
Thursday.
Mrs Adelbert Clark entertained
several relatives at dinner Sunday.
Ernest Heyer was a Thorpe call
err Friday.
John Billhorn was business call
err in Manchester, Tuesday
Conrad Wendell visited his sister,
Mrs. Minnie Hilsenbeck in Greeley,
Wednesday.
James c. Barnes was born in Erie,
Pa, January l, 1887, and passed
away at his home in Strawberry
Point. Iowa, January Goth, 1916. At
an early age Mr.. Barnes came west
with his parents and settled in Wis
consin. Some years later he engaged
in the banking business with his
two brothers. At Manitowcc, Wis,
in 1868, he heard his country's call
and enlisted at Milwaukee. Wis. as
a private in Co. l. End Wisconsin
cavalry. from which arm of the
"a, 1868, to be re-mustered into the
service as Captain of Co. 1, 9th
Wisconsin Infantry. On Jan. 23rd,
1864, at Little Rock. Arkansas, he
was appointed acting assistant in
spector general, CT the 2nd Brigade,
First Division. FIe was honorably
from the service, August
22nd, 1856, at St. Louis, Mo-, after
serving nearly four years and return
ed to Strawberry Point. and engag
ed in the mercantile business. with
his two brothers. He was also agent
for the Western Union Telegraph
Co., which office was located in the
st ore. On Nov. 18th, 1870. Mr.. Bar
mes was united in marriage to Miss
Emma Nome To this union six chill
dren were born; five survive, enc
dying in infancy. He leaves to mourn
his loss his wife, five children, one
sister and a host of relatives and
Friends Funeral services were con-
Quoted at the residence Friday. Jan.
%. the Rev. G. H. True officiating.
Mr. Barnes was stricken with paraly- /
sis in 1914, and again Jan. Is. 1915.
rom which attack he never recover
ed. Mr.. Barnes was highly respect
ad citizen, and our sympathy is ex. .
tended to the bereaved ones.
Mrs. Lucinda Stcne who has been
very i'll for some time is getting
better at this writing, which we are ,
glad to report.
Miss Esther Lehman is i'll with
he mumpS.
Mrs. Sherman Smith spent Tues
lay at the Louis Fry home.
Mrs. B. T. Weeks visited at the
hrs. Lydia Ludy home at the Point
asst week.
Several friends and neighbors
gathered at the Will Kremmel home
asst Tuesday evening, where pleas
Int evening was spent, the occasion
,eing a farewell party. Mr.. and
Mrs. Kremnel and family expect
O move to Illinois soon.
Mrs. N. Lehman is entertaining
lister from Elgin, Ia.
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SYNOPSIS.

=: CHAPTER lat Troyon's. a Paris. inn.
be known as Michael Lanyard, Is caught
stealing by Burke. an expert thief. who
takes the boy with him to America anG
makes of him finished craftsman.
CHAPTER II-After stealing the Ombe:
Jewels and the Huysman war plans in
the first time in many years because he
thinks Roddy. Scotland Yard man, is
on his trail. On arrival he finds Roddy al
ready installed as a guest.
CHAPTER III-At dinner conversa-
ton between Comte de Morbihan. M. Ban
WOLF celebrated cracksman who works
alone. puzzles and alarms him as to
whether his identity is only guessed o.
known.
wasn't strange in his hearing, at least
he found this news about her most
surprising. He was staring openly,
with a slackened jaw and stupefaction
in his blank, blue eyes,
Lanyard gently pinched the small
end of cigar, dipped it into his demi
tasse, and lighted it with not so much
as a suspicion of tremor His brain,
however, was working rapidly in the
effort to determine whether De Nor.
bihan meant this for warning or was
simply narrating an amusing yarn
founded on advance information and
amplified by an ingenious imagina
ton. For by now the news of the
Omber affair must have thrilled many
a continental telegraph WIRE
Mime. Omber-of course!" the
American agreed thoughtfully. CIV.
eryone has heard of her wonderful
diamonds. The real marvel is that the
Lone Wolf neglected so shining mark
as long as he did,
But truly so, monsieur!'
And they caught him at it, eh?"
mot precisely; but he left clue
and London as well-with such haste
as would seem to indicate he knew his
cunning hand had for once slipped"
Then they'll nab him soon?''
"Ah, monsieur, one must say no
more" De Morbihan protested. "Rest
assured that the chief of the surete
has laid his plans-his web is spun.
and so artfully that I think our un
sociable outlaw will soon be making
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Rallying his wits quickly, he made q
brave show of accepting this amazing
accident as a commonplace.
Il beg your pardon, Miss Bannon-''
he began with formal bow.
She interrupted with gasp of won
deriIg recognition. "Mr. Lanyard"
He inclined his head second time:
SORRY to disturb YOU"
But don't understand"
Unfortunately" he proceeded
smoothly, Il forgot something when I
went out and had to come back for 1t. /"
"But-but-"
"Yes?"
Suddenly her gaze for the first time
broke from his and swept the room
with glance Of wild dismay.
This ROOM" she breathed-"I don't
know it"
1T is mine''
Yours! But"
THAT is how I happened to-irter-
rupt you"
The girl shrank back a pace-two
paces-uttering in low-toned mono
syllable of understanding, an "Oh!"
abruptly gasped. simultaneously her