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THE ADVERTISIR.
LeROSEN & ALPHA, Publishers.
Subscription, $1.00 a year, pay
able in advance.
Entered at the Post-office at Lafayei.. L . as
second class mail matter.
WEDNESDAY, OCT. 10. 1906.
DEMOCRATIC NOMINEES.
For Congress:
ROBT. F. BROUSSARD.
For Member State Board of
Equalization.
A. M. MARTIN.
A Northern Outrage.
N. 0. States.
The newspapers have recently
been full of an outrage perpetrat
ed against "the brother in
black," but this time the diaboli
cal deed was committed in the
North, yea even in the sacred
city of New York where almost
daily mobs find exciting sport in
chasing negroes through the
streets without much being said
about it. The particular out
rage to which we have referred
has to do with Ota Benga, the
African pigmy, who for a num
ber of weeks had been the most
important exhibit at the New
York Zoological gardens. It ap
pears that Director Hornaday
had given Ota Benga the freedom
of the Primate House, commonly
called the monkey cage. The
monkeys received Ota on terms
of perfect equality and the small
savage enjoyed his quarters
hugely, no doupt feeling that he
had been thrown with some dis
tant but kindly relatives.
It happens that Ota is of a low 1
order of intellect, very much of
a savage in fact, and sternly op
posed to wearing cutaway coats,
striped trousers and spats. The
other day the keepers had much 1
difficulty in persuading him to
keep his clothes on while they i
soaked him with a garden hose, 4
and preventing him, after he had
been persuaded by force, from I
slashing one of them with a
knife.
This treatment a'f Ota when
the negro preachers discovered
that he was one of their own i
people, resilted in a protest and
a demand that he be taken out of
the monkey cage and sent to a
school for colored boys. This
has been done and it is proposed
to educate Ota and give him a job
in Africa as a missionary which
is good and proper. However, it is
not difficult to imagine what a
hullabaloo would have been rais
ed had a benighted human being
from "Africa's sunny fountains"
been exhibited anywhere in the
South in a cage of monkeys. We
may be sure of it that President
Roosevelt, whose heart is beating
strongly for the colored man as
the congressional elections ap
proach, would have ordered the
federal district attorney to pros
ecute and imprison for violation
of the laws against peonage every
person implicated in the outrage.
But for more than a month Ota
Benga, late of Africa, was the
star attraction in the monkey
cage of the New York Zoo and
there was no thundering from
Oyster Bay against the outrage
and no orders to prosecute any
body. From all accounts the
monkeys were pleasad, the
people who visited the Zoo were
pleased and so was Ota until they
tried to make him wear clothes
and get him in trim to be an en
thusiastic Republican voter.
Ramsey & Upton have a fresh
stock of corn, oats, alfalfa,
wbopped corn, chicken feed and
other feed stauf. Ring them up.
The Question of Good Roads.
New Iberia Enterpise L-adt-r.
By reference to another
column it will be found that it is
possible to construct fine roads
in this part of the country for
the small sum of $1478.40 per
mile. Under the direction of the
United States governmnut the
experiment was made with just
such soil as prevails lore, and
the results have been satisfac
tory.
Some tine ago it was pointed
out that macadamized roads
could be made for a minimum of
$2uU0 per mile if the material
was near :t hand. It is possible
that in this country freight rates
might increase the cost to a cer
tain extent, but with the new
plan the material is right on the
ground and the actual cost is
figured out to a nicety. It
might perhaps be lowered by
good management, but it need
not be exceeded.
The question is would it not
pay the parish authorities to ex
pend this amount of money in
making good roads? According
to the statistics there are about
one hundred miles of main
thoroughfares in this parish that
are used daily when in condition
by the thirty-odd thousand per
sons in the territory. The total
cost of making these perfect in
all kinds of weather under the
new plan would be $147.480.
Under the present plan of keep
ing up dirt roads that are unu
sable in wet weather and useless
for a large portion of the year
the cost is about $15,000 per
year. In ten years at this rate
$150,000 is expended and the
roads are in no better conition at
the end of that time than at the
beginning. In the last thirty
years enough money has been
thrown away on repairing bad
roads to have constructed per
haps as much as 250 miles of
good roads. There is absolutely
nothing to show for the money
expended. This winter the
roads will be as useless as if
nothing had been done to them,
and yet hundreds of thousands
of hard-earned money has been
poured into them.
Does it not stand to reason
that it would be better to expend
$150.000 at once and provide
good roads instead of continuing
to throw good money after
wasted funds?
Cane Crop.
Louisiana Planter.
Later reports, following the
storm of last week, confirm the
statements made in the Planter
of Sept. 29 to the effect that no
serious damage has been done to
the cane crop by the tempest; in
fact it bas been, according to sev
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REAL ESTATE
In the Matter of Adolph Dejean.
By order of court I will offer for sale at the front
door of the court house in Lafayette, La., between legal
sale hours, on....
SATU DAY, OCT. 27, 19069
the following described real estate:
Lots 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, in block 6 in the Davis
addition to the town of Duson, Lafayette Parish, La. Also
lots 3 and 4 in block 36, lots 6 and 7 in block 24, all of the
above lots being located in the town of Duson, Lafayette
parish, L
To be sold subject to all legal liens and costs.
Terms cash.
W. C. CULLUMBER, Trustee.
etal of our corresp)ofndents, bh ne
titted by the shaking up it has
received. The most interesting
feature of the high wind was tie
breaking off in numerous in
stances of the D. 74 cane and this
matter is of considerable 1io1r
tance, aud we treat of it edito
rially elsewhere. Since the
storm the weather has been pre
dominately wet and rainy. The
crop outlook, of course, presents
the same dissappointing features
that we have recently chronicled
and a somewhat short cam paigr
is probable throughout practi
cally the whole sugar belt.
A Pair of Country Kids
"A Pair of Country Kids" is
not a Si. Hi or Josh play with a
farmer hand or a threshing
machine, but is a distinct novelty
and departure from the well
worn } ath of the regulation
farmer play. The kids are live
lier than any ten of Uncle Josh's
you have ever seen and they are
too bright to be worked by a
bunco man or a lightning rod
agent: in fact, they are two up
to-date rustlers for fun that will
give you the bestevening's am use
ment you have had in years. The
kids will be assisted by a first
class company of ladies and gen
tlemen,who in addition to the play,
will introduce ten musical num
bers and specialties. The en
gagement is for one night only
at the Jefferson Theatre Sunday,
Oct. 14.
Children will save money, if they
buy their Shool Supplies at the
Moss Pharmacy.
JEFFERSON
...THEATER...
ONE NIGHT ONLY
Sunday, Oct. 14.
The Hilarious Rural Comedy
SA. Pair of*
Country Kids.
SEE The Realistic Eiplosion
The Warf Scene
Rescue from the Wades
The Couatry Dance
The Lisely Kids SE
The Fuanny Old Folks
A Scenic Production Complete
10 Great Specialties and
Musical Numbers
A Guaranteed New and
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PRICES, 25-50-75 CENTS
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OF LAFAYETTE, LA.
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