Lake Charles commercial., June 12, 1897, Image 1

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LIKE CHARLES, CALCASIEU PARISH, LA., SATURDAY, JUNE 12, 1897.
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TBE
DDY BROS.
CALLS YOUR
ATTENTION THIS WEEK TO.
ad ies' 7 V\usli nUnderwear,
Choicest Liqe tt]e Ever Handled in Lake Charles,
I wish to price a few things :
Ladies' Knit Vesta, worth 10c, st 4 cents.
Ladies' Knit Vests, worth 20c, at 10 cents.
Ladies' Knit Vesta, worth 25c, at 15 cents.
Ladies' Knit Vests, worth 30c, at 20 cents.
_e*' Silk-Plaited Vesta, worth 90c, at 50 cents,
ansnts of Bleached Table Linen. 2!, 3 and 31 yards in each piece,
worth 85e, at 50 cents,
ne as shore, worth 91.10, at 75 cents.
>K It will pay you to trade at
Die Eddy Bros. Dry Goods Co., Lt d.
Id Furniture!*
Bought, Sold
^ AND Repaired !
•ond
mded
krtielea
ide New!
J .-Sfcr* Mas« sad Sold. !
See My Block Rudy for Sale !
C. ELLIS, ^ '
Painting arjo
Varnishing
□one on
Short Notice
Prices to Sait the Times !
o-**■(• Mrtct,- «
Cut of (.'»lcssleu Hunk, lake i lmi le».
goring* Opening!
* LADIKH ARE CORDIALLY INVITED TO EX
AMINE MY
NEW ❖ STOCK
OF PATTERN If ATS AND BONNETS, ANI) NOV
ELTIES IN HIOII ART MILLINERY.
T WCTS S xz. ©O ^XJUETST
Advertise in the Commercial !
I Hare You Tried Our Silver Leaf Lard and Hold Leaf Hour
Elstner * Kretz,
INSURANCE
AGENTS and
LAKE CMAKt-Wi LA* w-tePHONc tc.
9k Handle tie Beet Poods! U'e Represent the Best Companies!
♦In^Your^Favor.
Jf you want to know all tigere is
w^rth knowing about the
[toigb Qufftity
<3*the Prices ?
0H4A*C.« HEBERT.
Men and Boys
Cents' Furnishing Goods. Hats, Elf.
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0- o P P' & Rof^9 er Dß P ot
PAViS, t^Pfopri tor
iîâars. *
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professional cards.
. Q. FOURNfT,
Font & Fournet,
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Will practice In Calcasieu and adjoining
LAWYERS,
LAKE CHARLES, : : LOUISIANA.
Office : Rooms 1,2* :i, Rock Building, l*ujo 8t.
A. R. Mitchell. Chas. McCoy.
Mitchell & McCoy,
ATTORNEYS AT LAW,
LAKE CHARLES, t : : LA
Office In Court House.
PrsMpl AllcsUss fl« «II Bsilscit.
R. H. ODOM,
literary nf i'euMler at Law
LAKE CHARLES, LA.
IXTILL practice in the Courts of Calcasieu
VV Vernon and Cameron parishes, the 8u
»rente Court of the State, and the Federa
courts at Opelousas. [Jan. *5, *90.-tf
D. A nowas.
Attorney and Counsellor at Law
LAKE CHARLES, LA.
W ll.I. practice In the pnrlajiea of Calculeu
rameron and Verrion, and In the su
preme and U. B. Court* at opelouia*.
I once— Calcasieu Bank Building— i
I Booms, e and hi—Second Story. i
(•Judge) 8. D. READ,
ATTORNEY AT LAW,
Kuufiuttti Itlock,
LakeChai Iph.Lä.
I liar and on the District Bench.
U. CLINK. c * CLINK.
CLINE & CLINE,
Attorneys at Laut,
And Notary Publie.
LAKE CHAULES, LOUISIANA.
Item Mum at.
Win. Meyer Building, Cor. Ilynn A I'ujo sis.
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L'.P. MUMMY, U. D.
DRS. MONDAY * MONDAY,
Urner Kearney's Building.
Hoiks u to 11;'J to 4.
LAKE CHABLEB, : LOUISIANA.
A. h. moms, m. n. !.. h. Moan, m. n.
'Phone ns, 'Phone tu,
At Uesldence. At Besldence.
DRS. MOSS & MOSS,
OSm, Ins 7, Oaltuita Bask BaiMiag,
LAKE CHAULES, LA.,
Pujo Sreet Entrance. OSIce 'Phone 7».
JAMES WARE,
PHYSICIAN AND SURGEON,
LAKE CHAULES, LA.
O PPICE on Broad street,between Byaii and
Bilbo streets. Uesldence, Plthon'e Alley.
I Aug. ll.'m.-ly,_
School of
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B. C. MILLS,
Lakb Csabi.km, La
Crown ami Bridge Work a Specialty
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Pythian Establish a Site Rraaeb!
With the Festive Cut.
If you see a man wearing a white
button with a big Z prominently
displayed in the center, and the
letters H. T. B. in smaller type
j„ Bt abovB< it | B R .f e to Bay that be
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baa been againat the goat, eaya
the St. Louis Republic, and if yoo
want to make the picture more
realistic jnat add that it was a
Knights of Pytbiaa goat, the moat
notorioualy trolicsome animal in
the whole catalogne of mytholigi.
cal realitiea.
The order of the big Z is a aide
degree of the Knlghta of Pythias,
to which only members of that or
ganization in good standing are
eligible. Unlike some other side
features in the leading order, it
bus a ritual which may not bo de
parted from by lodges at their
pleasure, and candidates for initia
tion are at least reasonably certain
that after the ceremony their
bodies can be identified.
But in apite of this aaaurance
it is said that the goat ia simply a
wonder. There ia a provision in
the by-laws that for a period of
not less than ten days prior to the
initiation of candidates into the
myeteriea of the order no food
shall be administered to the ani
mal except empty oyster cans, with
a bucketful of water once a day.
The big Z's were organized by a
member of a lodge in Waco, Tex.,
for the purpose of attracting a
large percentage of the member
ship to the lodgo meetings. It waa
found to be a popular thing, and
Mr. McCormick, the .author of the
ritual, decided to put it on aa a
aide degree in Knight of Pyibiaa
lodges all over the country. It has
been a great success wherever a
lodge baa been iuatitnled.
Although the degree ia com
paratively new, there ure ninety
lodges in Texas alone, aud others
are being established in every
large city in the country. St. Louia
has eight or ten lodges and more
will be iuatituted as soon as the
organizers eon lind lime to return
to this city. The lodges were in
stitnted here by Mr. McCormick,
founder of the degree, and Arthur
Lore, one of the best kuown se
cret society men in Hie United
States.
It has heeu decided to make St.
Louia the headquarters of the or
der, and organizers will be sent
ont from here in every direction
as fast aa they ean ba taught the
secret work and become capable
of instituting new lodges.
As Editor's "Karin**."
One day last week while aad
and dreary, aa we wended, weak
aud weary, across the unswept
Boor, we heard at first a gentle
tapping, then it became an earnest
rapping, at our aanetnui door.
"Come in," we said, while we yet
wondejred what far us could be
iu store. Then the knob gently
turning, in be walked—our ebeeka
ware burning as we thought of
erimaon gore. "Are you the man
who does the writing f" Then we
thought tbere'a eign of figbtin', as
wa looked him o'er ond o'er. "Sir,
we are," we meekly eaid, and mo
tioned for tho boy to bold him, if
be tried to heat us sore. "Then
you'll givo me credit opposite
that little debt of a—or morst I
liko your paper aud will take it «•
long aa yon fry to moka it as good
ae it waa bnfore." Wo jompod—
bo dodged > TUne we mieend him,
or we sorely would bur# kleeed
him, no mutter if tbs boys did
roar. Too seldom treated in that
manner, wo oro inoliood to boo
anna I Only Ibis and nothing
_ar>t-we
"Tbero's no oge in talking," mb
I bo. work, After totting
Cftfmk
medieioee nf m» owu preiwwtlen
nnd those of ethers' I took n
•fOhomborloJn's ond it
idnno norod mo,
mtinmig I non i
ttokpM Iking I
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Fade Sam's Flghtlag Strcagtb.
The United States government
has jnst completed a grand een
sna in order to ascertain jnst how
it would stand in the event that
war ahonld be declared against
this country by some nnfriendiy
power. The new figures collected
by officers connected with the.
War Department show thut iu ad
dition to 25,000 regular soldiers
there are 112,000 uniformed State
troops ready to take the Held at a
day's Notice, which alone would
make a very considerable army.
The data further shows, however,
that in case of aérions hoatility
this country ean draft into. aer>
vice 10,400,000 men between 18
and 45 years old—the limit of mil
itary liability in this country—not
to mention millions more of youths
and men under 18 and over 45
years of age who would rally to
the defense of the government
ahonld their services be needed.
This is a greater number of'men
than any other country, with the
exception of Russia, who ia able to
draft an army of 13,000,000, can
put in the field. There is one
thing, however, that is canaing
the War Department much con
cern and it ia the fact that the
State troops are armed with aa
many ns seven different rifles,
differing in ralibefl'from 38 to 50,
thus the tuilitiea of the several
States conld not he depended
upon to supply one another with
ammunition for small arma nor
the regulars, as not one cartridge
used by the militia will fit the uew
army rifle. It is the purpose of
the government to better this
condition aa soon as possible by
furnishing the State troops,' in
fantry and cavalry, with the same
small arms used by the regnlara,
and to have the arsenals add each
year to the reserve supply of
rifles so that in the event of war
hastily organized bodies of volon
teer troops can be armed at ones
and sent to the front.—States.
When they put a man in jail,
be cauuot follow bis natural incli
nations. He cannot eat what be
wants to—he is limited to a very
frugal diet. Is it uot equally true
of a dyspeptic t For all of the real
enjoyment he gets out of life, be
might as well be in jail, lie cau
not eat what he likes, nor euougb.
Ha suffers mach, gels little eyrn
pathy. At first, perhaps a little
heaviness iu the stomach, a little
sourness, wiudy belcbinga and
heartburn; beadaohea and billions
ness and a foul taste in the month
in the morning. Obronio consti
pation is almost inevitable, and
meane that the body is holding
poisonous, impure matter that
ahonld be gotten rid of. The
poison is being reabsorbed into
the blood and the whole body.
Impurity in the blood may lead to
almost any disease. Constipation
is the start of it all. Dr. Fieroe's
Pleasant Pelleta cure constipa
tion, cure it so it etnya epred. No
other remedy in the world will do
that.
Bend 21 cents in one-ceut stamps
to World's Dlepeneary Medical As
sociation, Buffalo, N. Y-, and re
ceive Dr. Piered's 1008 page com
mon SHNBH MBWOAL ADVIURB,
ilinet rated- ___
"Tbs complaint against tbe re
publican party," aaid the Omaha
Bee. "beeadee there has not al
ready base a genaral aud oom.
plots restoration of prosperity t*
unreasonable." Uudoabtedly so.
The complaint that tbs republican
party has y«t to bagio "a general
and oomplala raatoralion of pros
perity" may no» bo reasonable
also, bat it ia navarthalaaa g fact
|f tha gold ataodard ia to briag
proaporfty wo should bava bad ii
long bafora this. Aad it ia esrtaio
tint tka paopla wa not be taiad
into good Urnes- Ko wbon tho
altaatiAR ia deed ap it appeava
that tbe repablieao party has not
only not began to do anything,
hit) tint in nil likelihood it will
not do nnytking,- if capital ia la
TMtod It will bo bowaw capital
ME flkil that ton i
I* frtaadiy to tkaitl
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From tbe drooght Motions coma
the charge that tba boanty aa
generoaaly bestowed by tbe state
and the charitable pablie baa, ia
many omcs, bean badly abased^
and in tbeuu eharges, tha dispan»
era and the recipients of tho
bounty ore intricately mixed apu
No doabt, these eeeaaations are
io many cuea as badly exagger
ated ae were some of the reports
of distress which colled forth tho
contributions. There ia nothing
now or atortling in this situation.
It always happens where publia
charity ia bestowed, end it oogbt,
bnt probably will not impraM
upon na the troth that publie
charity ahonld be tbe lest resort
of on nnfortnnote people. Han
drads of people in tbe drought,
stricken region refnsed to leave
tbefr homes even when transpor
tation and work were offered
them, but preferred to stay ot
home end eat tbe bread of ebar*
ity. Some of them drew charity
provisions and saved their money
to bny whisky. Many and prob»
bly a great majority wbo received
aid were genninely worthy and
would bave suffered for food bad
not charity been given, but at tbe
same time bave received irrepara
ble damage from a loss of sturdy
independence, wbicb ia the baais
of that thrift which foresees and
provides against the rainy day
and tbe day it doesn't rain. Tba
writer has made diligent inquiry
and he cannot learn that condi
tions in North Loniaiana and
■outbern Arkansas were materi
ally different. Yet north Louisi
ana was advertised to tbe world
as a desert—aa a place wberapro
vision conld not be made against
a single season of disaster. No
each report went out from south
ern Arkansas, and very little out
side aid waa received there. Yet
no reporta of death by starvation
in Arkansas have reaohed na, and
we do not believe any such oases
would have occurred in north
Louisiana had eaeh locality shoul
dered the burden of taking oars
of ita own. On the east of us the
government has been feeding tbe
overflowed vietims. Now as a
matter of fact the damage done
by overflow ia vastly leas than
reported,, especially where the
water recedes in time to make a
crop. This year in mauy casaa it
amounted to a suspension of work
and some damage to feneea and
buildings. Very little stock was
lost and that through tbe oareleea
nesa of tbe owners. There were
very few omos where indoatriona
and well disposed people of either
race oonld not get fed without
help from tbe government. The
great m^iority of tbe labor is eon
trolled by planters who. expected
to nee them as soon as tbe water
went down, and wbo were able to
provide for them daring tbe few
weeks of enforced idleness. There
are cmss where men ef undoubted
wealth bave bad their laborers
kept at publie expense. There
•re numerous eases, some of which
bave come under the eye of the
writer, where work wbioh ought
to have been done nnd for wbieb
liberal pay was offered baa gone
unperformed because tbe negroes
woold uot work so long as govern
ment ration« held out. Tbe dis
position to call upon tbe govern
ment for aid whenever unusual
disaster overtakes ns, has baen
too moeb encouraged. It ia tima
to atop. In every country and
among all paopla eowa times when
produotiou ceases and against
wbieb a atora must be provided.
BÔ long as the government steps
in to balp ne through n pinoh we
nee not likely to make provision
for ourselves. No ope ought to
be allowed to starve, bnt public
sentiment ought to eiyatallae and
giro warning to the improvident
tint in the future public charity
will bo giMn only where U to ■«
eveittebto.-:
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The eieetion in'the laut ff pls te t
of Missouri, eaaaed by the dMtb
ef Representative Gitas. Dorn.,
wbieb took pine« an Tuesday leal,
wm an earnest of mneb pre mies
for Démocratie aneenoa later in
tbe year. In raferanca to tMe
eieetion, Champ Clerk at toe mom
State, one of the very ebleet ef
tka young Democrats in CongraM,
Mys:
"I fool jobilent over tbe remit,
ond ovary Democrat in Amortie
ahonld rejoice, for it shows that
we have tbe Bepublieeae on the
run. They explained away all ear
victories ia Htohpiai
innieipel elec
tions thin spring by deetartag that
wa won on local iesnee. No aeoh
claim ean bn set npute tha oloe
tion in the First MiMonri District.
It wm a square, knockdown flglt
on tbe Hum of the Chicago plat
form. The Democrats sleeted
their man by a plurality otMSWf
bnt the most eneoangtag feature
of tbe victery ia that the Demo,
emtio candidate at tha special
•lection Tuesday won by » plural
ity larger by 705 rotes then tbot
of the Démocratie nomibee at tbe
regular élection last fair.
"Nor wm tbe Démocratie gain
conttned to tba rural precincts. Iu
Hannibal, a place of 20,000 inhabi
tants, tbe largest eity in the dis
trict, the Democratic vote woe in
creased by 306. CongNMmen
Bland, Bailey, Dockery, De Ar
mood, Benton, and myself all took
a band, aa well aa Gov. Stone,
Senator Ball, and all the stumps»
in the district. We ell preached
free silver at 16 to 1 straight front
the shoulder, and we won.
"Tbe Repoblieans were sullen,
disheartened, end either stayed at
home in large numbers or voted
for tbe Democratic nominee. It
was a famous victory."
In immediate connection with
this Missouri election, it is in or
der to mention tbe reoent notion
of tbe Kentucky Democrats wbo
gave not only a hearty but a un
animous indorsement to tbe Chi
cago platform, and especially to
tbe silver plank of that platform.
Tbe Virginia Demoeraoy have fol
lowed the une course; they bave
pledged themselves to the na
tional leaders in Washington that
their candidate for Governor and
tbeir platform will be silver
through sod through, and tbare ia
not one ebance in a hundred of
tbeir not beiug able to fulfill tbeir
pledge.
Iu Ohio, where tbe flight of tbe
year ia to take place, the issues
are dean-cut and definite. The
Republican party ia divided into
tbe two foetiooa of Hanna-MeKin
leyitea and Foraker-Boahnellitee,
both gold moDQiuetallisU; and the
Democratic party, with John R.
McLean of Cineinuatl aa prota
gonist, will be a unit for gold and
silver uiouey at 16 to l. Kx-Seu
ator Brice, gold monometailiet,
thought that, with hie money
bags, there might be room for
him, a gold Deinoorat, to repre
sent Ohio in the United States
Senate again; but, after a thorough
survey -of the field, he has come
to tbe oonoloaioo that, in the not
improbable event of the eleetiou
of a Democratic Legialatuie in
Ohio this fall, U will bo a bime
tallist and uot a gold mouometall
iat wbo will be elected to Ail tbe
Sberman-Hanna seat. Brice baa
determined wisely, therefore, to
retire before the etrongly-pro
uonuoed McLean enthusiasm of
the Demooraoy of the State.
It ie pretty wall a fowgona cos
oiusiou alto tbot bimetallism will
bo tba Imbs in tba coming elec
tion of » »tajrw of Greater Mew
York, Tamrncny and «U tka k«A*
iag politician» having dcobtrcd
tbemaetvec Mi lever « I InjcaUag
the menen »eene etmight Into to*
election and ef ctonding pat agon
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