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THE CLARION RAYMOND BREAUX. - Editor AARON JACOBS, - Business Manager. THfE ILARION CO., LTD., PROPS. BOARD OF DIRECTORS. RAYMOND BREAUX, President, 1. G. LAWLER, Vice-President, AARON JACOBS, Secre. and Treas. H. BODEMULLER, JNO. W. LEWIS. Official Journal of the Parish of St. Landry. Ofliclal Jou: of the Parish School Board Official Jou .i of the City of Opelousas REL . OF SUBSCRIPTION. One Year ......................... . $1.00 Six M ontL .. ... ............. ...... .75 INVARL' :LY CASH IN ADVANCE. ALL POSTOFFICE, EXPRESS AND BA'K MONEY ORDERS, CHECKS, DRAFTS, ETC., FOR SUBSCRIPTIONS AND AD VERTISEMENTS MUST BE MADE PAY ABLE TO THE ORDER OF THE ST. LANDRY CLARION, OR TO THE BUSI 1lESS MANAGER. 'utered at the Post Office at Opelousas, La., as second-class matter. LOUISIAANA FOR HOGS. 'An agricultural mass meeting held yesterday at Ruston, in this State, largely through the exertion of Con gressman Ransdell, who has arranged a series of such assemblages, one of the' speakers declared that Louisiana is above all the country for raising hogs, says the Picayune. Never was a more timely and re liable declaration uttered to a body of Louisiana farmers. There has never been any question about the ability of Louisiana to fur nish subsistence in prodigal abun dance for swine, the only difficulty was there was no certainty that there would be at the proper time weather suitable for slaughtering. No such difficulty exists to-day, and we will do well to learn a lesson Irom Chicago, which has set so many distinguished examples of enterprise. Forty years ago St. Louis led in slaughtering and packing hogs. The .business was carried on only in the winter season, while the extensive es tablishments stood empty and idle during the warm time of the year. When Chicago took up the slaughter iag industry the great disadvantage of keeping plants and people idle for more than half the year was imme diately remarked upon, and it was proposed to make the business an all the-year operation by the use of ice in cooling the packing and storerooms. This was tried with such success that summer packing was as much a cer tainty as was the winter business. To-day cold storage by artificial means does away with ice and is more advantageous. We have got cold storage and the practicability of conducting a slaugh tering and packing industry is com plete. Then for the hogs. Louisi ana can make all of the corn that is wanted, but, in addition, there is an endless variety and boundless supply of wild nuts, fruits and roots upon which the hogs can feast until the time when it becomes necessary to solidify the fat and muscle with a few weeks feeding of corn. Never was there a more practical remark than the suggestion at the Ruston farmers' meeting about hogs. Let the matter be taken up at once if our people have the enterprise. The money can be got. SThe Folly of Prohibition. Editor Clarion.-Will you please p~blish the following article, taken from the Chicago American? It is one of the strongest arguments against the folly of prohibition that I bs'e ever seen. ANTI-PROHIB. "Against the evil of excessive drink this newspaper has worked system atically for years. Every one of our readers knows that we have over and Qver warned against strong drink, de- 1 nounced the dangerous results of drinking whiskey and other vile, in toxicating, poisonous, highly alcoholic concoctions. "It is because we realize the harm done by drunkenness, the danger of 4 wbhiakey drinking that we deplore the .arest, sincere, well-meant, but -harmful, efforts of the prohibitionist. "Temperance will never come from ~tpsiition, from the attempts of a mit.irity to coerce a majority of the 1 "The truly temperate man is the I mant who controls himself, not the 3 an.n who is controlled by somebody 1 el-e, not the man compelled by a law- a making minority to do what he ought a to-do. I "For many years the world has a rown gradually more temperate, i drunkenness has gradually diminished. i Les~s than two hundred years ago, a ,drakenntses was not only tolerated, I t rather admired as the great tsinisa the directora of tovernmentsa.a ?Iuw t isttra tierted nowhere, and oly S "With this wonderful change for the better prohibition has had nothing whatever to do. Maine, the prohibi tion State, suffers from drunkenness, from the effects of poisonous drink, highly charged with alcohol, more perhaps than any State in the Union. Maine, the prohibition State, is cursed with a great body of secret drunk ards, because temperate, open drink ing of mild beverages is prevented by law, and whiskey drinking is made compulsive and encouraged. Prohibi tion must have that effect every where. "It is painful to say anything that might offend or discourage the earnest prohibitionist. There are no better men or women living than those sincerely trying to help their fellow creatures and to discourage excessive drink. "But if the man who now tries to encourage temperance by force and prohibition is sincere, so was the man sincere who once tried to make peo ple religious by the rack and thumb screw and other violent measures. "It is necessary to talk frankly on the question of prohibition. The temperate nations are the nations that drink the mild beverages, the light natural wines and beers. The intemperate nations are the nations that drink the fiery spirituous liquors -whiskey, gin, brandy, vodka. "Prohibition means well, but it drives out by law the bulky light, harmless drinks of temperate people, wines and beers. It compels men who will drink to take the whiskies and gin, the concentrated poisonous stimulants easily hidden and of which a small amount produces drunkenness. "In Maine, per capita, there is ten times more drunkenness than there is in France. In Maine, prohibition rules and the law says that no man shall buy anything to drink. In France, there exists temperance, and no prohibition. The French govern ment in public placards, and by edu cation at government expense, de nounces the use of highly alcoholic drinks. And it encourages and even subsidizes the production and the sale of light natural wines. "If to-morrow you should establish prohibition in France, if you forbade the pnblic selling of light, harmless stimulants that the people have always taken, and always will take, you would drive out the use of the light wines that produce a temperate race, and you would compel the use of whiskies, gin and other poisons that produce drunkenness. "So it is in Germany, where all the I people, from time immemorial, have been temperate drinkers of light wholesome beers, with a very small percentage of alcohol. There is in finitely less drunkenness in Germany, where prohibition is never heard of, than in Maine or in Kansas, our two most distinguished prohibition States. There is infinitely less drunkenness, less crime, and disorder due to drink in Germany, France or Italy, where the people are temperate and where everybody drinks the really temperate drinks, than in any one of our South ern States recently devoted to prohi bition. "Prohihition in Germany would mean driving out harmless beers which do not lead to intoxication. But prohibition would not stop men from drinking. It - would compel them to give up the beer, which can not well be hidden, and replace it with schnapps, the German substitute for our health destroying and mind destroying whiskey. "We invite our readers all over the country to think over this question of prohibition in the light of common sense. We advise every man who can do so, to work and live without drinking. There is no doubt, what ever, that individual teetotalism leads to good results in business, to a more prosperous career. But history proves that teetotalism is fatal to a race. Examples, India and Turkey. While a man is temperate himself, and if he chooses leading the life of a teetotaler, he ought to realize that he has no right to force his will upon another. He ought to read history intelligently, to study other countries intelligently, and know that there is no such thing as real temperance based upon prohibition. TMLawmakers in the United States ad, pnubic opinion in the United State: Awuld condemn' the use of the atrong. ;onioUs highly alcoholic I=OR SALE THE CELEBRATED STALLION '"WM. R. JR." Sire of More and Faster Colts than Any Sire. In the State of Louisiana. His Colts have brought more money than any Colts in St. Landry. He holds the St. Landry record (for stallion) on half mile track, jogging under the wire in 2:19, driven by an amateur driver. He has a trial record of 2:14, and. has paced halves in 1:03. . He is the slre of such celebrated celts as Edna Mack, 2:131; Wm. McKinley, 2:17, Mamie R., 2:17A. There is no more popular stallion in the State than "Wmin. R. Jr." Reason for selling: Have two young colts now in the stud. Will sell outright, or sell half-interest to good man. Apply to sept s t. E. K. WALLIOR, Opelousas, La. Promulgation of Returns. Police Jury Room, St. Landry Parish, La., September, 7th, 1909. Pursuant to authority in me vested by an ordinance adopted by the Police Jury of this Parish on June 8th. 1909, and of the law in such cases made and provid ed, I do hereby announce and publicly proclaim that at a special election held in School District Number Three (3) of the Seventh (7th) Police Jury Ward of the Parish of St. Landry, bounded and described as follows, to-wit: Beginning at a point on the Louisiana Meridian at the one-half mile point between Section 27, T. 4 S., R. 1 W, and Section 33, T. 4 ., R. 1 E., running West one section; thence North, on section line, four sec tions to the one-half mile post between sections One and Two, T. 4 S., R. 1 W.; thence East along j section line five sections; thence South on a line paral lel to and four miles East of the Louis iana Meridian to the South-east corner of Section 30, T. 4 S, R. 1 E.; thence West, along section line, four (4) sec tions to the South-west cornor of Sec tion 83, T. 4 S., R.1 E., on the Meridian; thence North along Meridian line 3 sec tion to the point of beginning, contain ing Twenty-two (22) square miles; said election having been held on July 19th, 1909, to take the sense of the property tax payers of said district entitled to vote under the Constitution and laws of this State, on the question of levying on all of the taxable property situated in said district a special tax ofThree (3) mills on the dollar per annum for a period of Ten (10) years beginning with the year 1909, for the purpose of acquir ing school grounds if necessary, of con structing school buildings, and of doing any and all other things necessary in school development, the title to all property for which such tax may be ex pended to be vested In the public, and on the question of the funding into bonds of the proceeds of said special tax in ac cordance with Act No. 84 of the Acts of the General Assembly of the State of Louisiana for the year 1906, in pursu ance to law in such cases made and pro vided, the vote stood as follows: Number of property tax payers voting for levy of said tax.. 42 Assessed valuation of those vot ing for the levy of said tax.$18,290.00 Number of property tax payers voting anainst levy of tax.. 29 Assessed valuation of those vot ing against levy of tax .....$10,150.00 Majority in number of those voting for levy of said tax.. 13 Majority in value of those vot ing for levy of tax.........$ 8,140.00 Number of property tax payers voting to bond proceeds of tax ... .................... 36 Number of property tax payers voting, against bonding pro ceeds .................... 28 Majority in number of those vot ing to bond proceeds of tax 8 And I do further announce, proclaim and promulgate that inasmuch as a ma jority in number and in value of the property tax payers of said district voted in favor of both questions sub mitted, the resultof said election is fa vorable to the funding into bonds of the proceeds thereof. W. F. CLOPTON, President Police Jury of St. Landry Parish, La. drinks, penalizing with high license or otherwise, the use of such drinks. And public opinion, common sense, and the law should not only permit but encourage the sale, in decent resorts under decent conditions, of the natural light wines and beers that mean real temperance. "This is the lesson that history teches, with no ception whatever. Asd this wili be Itimately t solu on of tho e f dwik problem i. this -Have You Read All the other advertisrnent in this issue? ___ _ NO?_ _ THESE ADVERTISEMIENTS CONTAIN "INSIDE" INFORIATION. FOR INSTANCE: - OPELOUSAS is the TOWN to TRADE IN HAAS LITTELL DRUG, Co Ltd. THE PLACETO TADE AT. 3 m DID YOU KNOW THAT? PRACTICAL Fruit Growers and Farmers Wanted. COTE BLANCHE'E ISLAND Is 100 miles West of New Orleans, and rises out of the low Louisiana marshes, on the borders of the Gulf of Mexico, from a height of 20 to 50 feet. The soil is remarkably fertile. It has been cul tivated for years in sugar cane. The owners are now, planting it out inm garden truck, and in peaches, orange, grape fruit, .figs, pecans, alfalfa, etc. Markets are good, there being both rail and water transportation. Land 'ill be leased to farmers in tracts to suit. They must have some capital, but owners are willing to become partners in their operations for as much as one-half. Address, Island Orchard Co., Franklin, Louisiana. sept 1s s.mo Ut,. Leaus "UI f*ilr . oRsM s . au .sana. o3aL A o; a44s~ ~.I~a~i~~;·? Tne Young and "0 Many go through child hood without them, to their - detriment. Indolent school child ren, frequent headaches, irritability; nausea, [and some times insomnia), running together of lines, a watering, burning or itching of the eyes, are symptoms that parents must watch for. Our examinations are free and carried out on scientific princlples--no gnues are graduate opticians. 9 ,'°, Our optical stock is very complete, both in regn less, the best of new ideas in eye glass guards we coa; out for. LET US EXAIlNE YOUR EYES AND SAVE TI t R. MORNHINVEG & Main Street Jewelers--Engra Watch Makers and Opticians. Highest prices paid fto. ; Cotton and Cotton Se4d. A. S. SIMPSON, Manager. Notice Rice P1a I will store your Rice and Buy your Rice. 8. making other arrangements. Warehouse op Its F. A. VOORHIES. OPELOUSAS, - - " FOi SA EITHER FOR CASH OR GOOD PA~ One First Class Saddle Horse, young and .. a saddler in every sense of the word, goe al One large combination horse--Fast on the: good saddle horse. One Dr. Ray horse. Well Gaited and a god driving horse. Apply to, John P. Bo P. O. BOX 52. OPFLOUS Reason for Selling; Oýv Bank of Arnaud Located at Arnandville, Parish of St Landry,1 the State Examiner of State Banks by the above B.k ness on Sept. 1, 1909. . RESOURCES: Loans secured by mortgage.....................i OtherLoane and Discounts.................. ... 4 Overdrafts secured and unsecured............... . Banking house, furniture and fixtures...........;.:. Other real estate owned ................... ... o.i Due from banks and bankers................. Cheeks and other cash items..................i, Gold Coin .......................................... National bank notes and all issues U. S. Governmet Silver, nickel and copper coin...... ..... ....;. Total... ......... . .............. . ... .................. LIABILITIES: Capital Stock paid in............................ : Surplus ................................................. Undivided profbit less expenses and taxes paid....i ~ Individual deposits subject to check...............; Time certificates of deposits............... . Bills payable....... . ...... i: Total. ............................................. state of Lo I, G.I Greig, President, and I, J. M. O1 named Bank, do solemnly swear that the abote best of my knowledge and belief. ' Subecribed and sworn to before me, this itBh See H. W. Per For Watches, Hand Painted Cut Glass, Jewelry, Silverwas WFine Watch Repairingi Corner Main and North Streets, Telephone Ta Frequently when making a line is reported '"busy." o this as a refusal to give co called is reallyinuse. It is opi.rater to give you connectioD nly a simple motion of the it is for her to answer "line :more frequently on party line o aid.antage in many line service.. . The manager COiMRERS.AN TELEPHORS (INQO