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Entered as second class mail mat
ter at the Postoffice of Morgan City,
TO ONE WHO ROASTED
By Amelia Josephine Burr of the
Vigilante*.
You think it is an alms, all that we
Give?
You talk of Belgium, France and
Liberty
A* if they were our pensioners? Oh
blind!
We missed our chance of magnani
mity.
Father say humbly that we fight wi;h
France
And liberty. The time is long since
past
When we could say we fought
them alone.
There is too real an enemy of our
for
Against whose armoured breast we
bend our lance.
Say that we see at last
Our danger, that we are at last
afraid,
But dare not claim as ours the mar
tyr's palm
That ruined Belgium on God's altar
laid.
We have been wise in time. No
other balm
For what we bear have we a right
to claim.
Save us, O God, from pride—lest we
remind
The nations of our shame.
PRESBYTERIAIf CHURCH
Sunday School at 10 A. M.
Morning Services at 11 A. M.
Christian Endeavor at 6:45 P. M.
Evening Service at 7:45 P. M.
CARD OF THANKS
I take this means of thanking the
Odd Fellows, W. O. W. and the
many friends who so kindly assisted
me during the illness and death of
my late husband, R. E. Todd.
Mrs. R. E. Todd.
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ARCADE TONIGHT
Wilfred Lucas appears as James
Barclay, the governor, and Elda Mil'
lar ia Sylvia Marlowe in the new
Triangle play "Her Excellency the
Governor."
Barclay ia very much in love with
Sylvia, an attractive young lawyer,
and he asks her to marry him. He is
i#fused, not because she does not
care for him, but because she senses
that his political aspirations and life
are changing his character and de
stroying his ideals. Keller, a crook
ed politician, to whose influence
Barclay owes his success, wants him
to veto a child labor law. Against
Sylvia's wishes he yields to Keller
and vetoes the bill.
Sylvia breaks with Barclay and is
elected lieutenant governor on the
suffrage ticket. After a short time
in the office war becomes imminent,
and the president asks for appropria
tions of men and |unds from each
state. A big appropriation bill is
drawn up, and Keller is instructed to
see that Barclay vetoes the measure.
The play comes to a surprising cli
max when Sylvia plays her trump
card and brings the man she loves
to his senses.
CONVENT SCHOOL OPENS
WEDNESDAY, SEPT. 5, 1917
The classes in the Academy of the
Sacred Heart of Jesus, will be re
sumed on Wednesday, Sept. 5th.
The cirriculum includes all branch
es of useful knowledge that are
taught in any modern commercial
chool. Bookkeeping and mathe
are given special emphasis,
following are also taught
wheiT^Mfcjjuested; Music, shorthand,
typewrf
The SisterS hope that the boys
and (juris of Morgan City will show
up nicely swelling the ranks of their
Convent School, thus showing their
love for Religion and Sisterhood
which has done much for them in the
*st.
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Dr. Wilson has been on the sick
list for a day or so, not able to at
tend to his business.
The Parish Teachers will .hold an
institute at Franklin on September
3rd and 4th.
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TRIPPING UP IT
Job Is Done to Entire Satisfac
tion of His Hearers.
Splnner of Yams, Always More R»
markable Than Those Told by
Others, Is Beaten at
His Own Game.
Sour John Marvin glanced out of the
window of the shop where he was mak
ing an afternoon call. "Cy Pelton la
headed this way," he announced, "and
I will make a prediction. If anyone
here present ventures to speak of any
thing ont of the ordinary that be has
beard or read about, Cy will follow
with something In the same line, only
a little more remarkable, that be ha*
been an eyewitness of, end bell be
sure to place It In some place pretty
far from this town. But Cy Pelton
needn't flatter himself that he ever
fools me. I have sense enough to
know that he always makes np his
story as he goes along, and I live In
hopes of seeing him tripped np some
day."
At that momeat the door opened and
the reputed spinner' of "yarns" walked
In. At his heels came Unde Noah
Briggs, the acknowledged oldest In
habitant.
'Tve Just been reading an inter
esting piece about Abraham Lincoln."
Unde Nonh began, as he accepted the
easiest chair.
"When he was a young man clerk
ing In a store, someone stumped him
one day to pick np a barrel of mm
off the floor and hold It np to his
mouth and drink out of the bunghole;
and he did It. But after he laid the
barrel down again, he spit every drop
of the liquor out of his mouth. That
goes to show how strong Mr. Lincoln
was in his arms nnd. also how strong
temperance he was."
Uncle Noah would have continued,
but he made a fatal pause, and Cyrus
Pelton got the floor.
"I had an uncle, on my mother's
side," he said, "that I guess was full
as strong In his arms as ever Mr. Lin
coln was, and even stronger In tem
perance. He was a blacksmith in the
town of Industry.
"One time, when I was a small boy,
Hiram Quint, one of Uncle Life's near
neighbors, was building a big barn, and
he had asked a lot of men to the rais
ing.
"In those days almost everyone j
drank hard cider, and thonght nothing
of It, but Uncle Life was dead set
against it. When he came along that
day and saw the big barrel of elder
that Mr. Quint bad provided for re
freshment, he says. 'Hiram, your rais
ing would come on fall as well, and
some chaps here would be better off,
If you would carry that elder down to
the brook and dump It.'
T saw Hlrnm wink at the bystand
ers, and says he, Tn hardly strong
enough. But If yon are,' says he,
•you're at liberty to do It.*
"All right,' says Uncle Life, and he
made for hla blacksmith shop. In
few minutes back he came, bringing a
horseshoe that he had hammered ont
in such a way that he could make the
heel calks fit into the bnnghole of the
barrel as It lay there on the gronnd.
Then, with the horseshoe as a handle,
he lifted that barrel of cider as If It
had been a carpetbag and carried it
to the brook and emptied It"
Now, if yon will give me a chance
I should like to put In a word," said
Uncle Noah, with a show of lmpa
tience. "It so happened that I was at
the raising of Hiram Qnlnt'a barn.'
T didn't know that you were ac
quainted In the town of Industry," said
Cyrus In evident surprise.
John Marvin's eyes sparkled. "So
there was such a raising," he said.
Well, that bears out Cy*s story, so
far. 1 suppose the rest of It was
equally correct, Uncle Noah?'
"No, It wasn't,' replied the old man
emphatically; whereupon one of John
Marvin's rare smiles lighted up his
grim features.
Now, I always try to be accurate,
said Cyrus, hitching uneasily In his
chair. "but I was only a little shaver
at the time, and mebbe my recollection
Is a little at fault."
"No. you were wrong, Cy," said
Uncle Noah firmly. "When yon broke
In on me, I was about to tell the story,
and tell It as 'twns. It wasn't a barrel
of cider that your uncle carried down
nnd dumped In the brook in the way
and manner that you described it. It
was two barrels of elder—one in each
hand."—Youth's Companion.
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The Alamo.
The Alamo Is a mission church at
San Antonio, In what Is now Bexar
county, Texas. In 1836 it was occu
pied by about 150 of the revolutionists
In the Mexican war. Though attacked
by 4,000 Mexicans under Santa Ana,
the Texans held It from February 23
to March 6, when Santa Ana took it by
storm. All but seven of the garrison
perished, six of these being murdered
after their surrender, and one man
escaping to report the affair. In this
garrison were the celebrated David
Crockett and Col. James Bowie, In
ventor of the bowie knife. The mem
ory of this massacre became an in
citement to the Texans in subsequent
encounters, and "Remember the Ala
mo !" became a war cry In their strug
gle for freedom.
Efficiency.
Willis—Bump has a very up-to-date
office.
Gillls—-Yes. He has one of these
office systems where you can find Just
what you want whan you don't, want
it by looking where it wouldn't be if
you did want it—Life.
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IViSUDSANI) NOTICES
FOR SALE—5 room residence on
lot 50x100 on North Front Street,
opposite Drackett's Shipyard. Has
been rented constantly for past four
years. Price $1,500, part cash, bal
ance or. good notes. Address B. F.
BEADLE, 1741 Elm St., Lake
Charles, La. lm.
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SEE I. W.
SURANCE.
PADDOCK FOR 1N
Nice Furnished Rooms and Board
$1.00 per day or $7.00 per week—
Mrs. C. B. Lawrence, So. R. R. Ave.
BOY WANTED—White or color
ed to serve as yard boy. Must know
how to milk and work in garden. Ajs
ply at Review office.
For electric»! work of any kind,
especially house wiring. Apply to
Chas. E. Delas. Phone 141. 3wks.
100 Bedsteads from $2.50 to $15.
Dressers, Washstands and Armoirs
for half their value.—All at the
Funny Window—DO NOT FORGET
we buy anything—Ah, YES the bar
ber shop is there also.
PEOPLES SUPPLY CO.
Dalton Building.
FOR RENT
Double House—six rooms on side,
with bath. Remodeled and painted
through—like new house . Would
also answer for rooming or board
ing house. Apply to
JOHN DALTON, SR.
Our A. D. S. line is complete.
Peoples Drug Store. Phone 6.
! MONEY TO LEND ON REAL ES
TATE SECURITY—ST. MARY
BUILDING ASSOCIATION. lmo.
FOR RENT: Rooms for 1 or 2
men. Modern. $10 per month for
one; $14.00 for two roomers. Phone]
278. tf
ROOMS FOR RENT Nicely fur- j
cool, close-in, modern. $10
month. Two person can use and di
vide expense. Phone 45. lm.
FOR SALE—4 Cylinder Eagle j
Gas Engine. About 24 H. P. Good
Condition. C.hapman-Storm Lumber
Co. lmo
WANTED—A chance to preve to
the housownroa of Morgan City that
wa can supply them with the finaat
freak grovaciea at attractive prices.
Wa also soil kltchoa waro and earth
Phono 17. Jno. Dolton Co.
If yon have • house or rooms for
light housekeeping try a little want
ad. in THE REVIEW. If you do
not want your name advertised
THE REVIEW will take care of the
home,
JITNEY
Day and Night Serve#
WALLACE DITCH
Office Phone 31. Res. Phone 66
CARPENTERS TOOLS FOR
SALE: Every article as good as
new. Finest brands and in fine
chest. Tools and chest worth $50.00.
Will sell quick for cash at $30.00.
Following tools and implements; 2
No. 12 Spring Steel Diston Cross
cut saws; 1 rip, same quality; 1
Stanley steel jack plane; 1 Stanley
wood jack plane; 1 draw knife; 4
screw drivers; 1 Yankee rächet
driver; 1 tri-square; 1 bevel square;
l spirit level; 2 chisels; 2 rächet
braces; 4 auger bits; 2 cabinet
rasps; 2 rules; 2 50-ft. tapes; 1 com
pass saw; 2 hammers; 1 hatchet;
1 "scout" axe; 2 adjustable alliga
tors; 1 "S" wrench; 1 small Stilson;
3 prs. pliers; 1 set 6-inch blocks; 4
imlet bits; 1 fine tool chest. See
C. E. King at The Review Office or
telephone 278. tf.
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Dr. J. ClaroncR Berwick
Physician and Surgeon
Office hours 9-1 a. m.; 4-6 p
Office at the Peoples Drug Co
posité New Depot. Calls answerec
iav or night. Office phone No. .'
Residence 321, Morgan City, La
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HIS CREED OF LIFE
By MYRTLE CRAIG.
Stephen was not a woman hater, al
though of late he was supposed to
have little use for the fair sex. Per
haps Eleanor Davidson had something
to do with it.
This idea was not a little re
enforced when he gave up his well
furnished bachelor apartments in town
and retired to the solitude of the coun
try, where the family farm had lain in
idleness for many years. He sent for
Viola Fillister, his little niece, whose
mother was dead and whose father
was an officer in the army. Viola was
for company; also e salve to con
science.
So he took Viola, and Jake and Sal
ly, the servants, and went to Rose*
boro, bought a dozen gray flannel
shirts, a tractor and some other things
and went to work.
His plowing and sowing done, he
tnrned his attention to the vegetable
garden. Spring was advancing—and
after all this was the part of the work
be liked. He laid out fonr acres
planting beans of every variety, peas
early and late, lettuce, radishes, on
ions, cucumbers, tomatoes, corn, ev
erything a self-respecting garden could
wish.
One day Viola, who was watching]
him, remarked : "Why don't you put in
some flowers, Uncle Steve?"
"They take too much time, dear. Be
sides, they aren't useful like vege
tables."
"You could sell them and get just
as much money for them, couldn't j
youT'
"Perhaps. But it isn't money I
want, little girl. I like to have the!
feeling that I'm producing something 1
that will help the world along. Do;
you know what I'm going to do with
all this stuff? I'm going to send it all ;
to one of the training camps. Won't j
It be wonderful to think we're helping
to feed the army?''
"Oh, yes, Uncle Steve," she cried,
fired by his enthusiasm. "I wish there
was something I could do. You said
the other day that everybody In the
world should be useful."
He was thoughtful a minute, then:
"How would you like me to buy you a
pony and a little cart, dear—all your
own, you know? We'll have a red
cross on the side, and when this stuff
j grows up you can take the best of the
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things and sell them to the bouses
near town every day and get money to
send away. Wouldn't you feel useful
then?"
"Oh, Uncle Steve, I'd love it. That'»
a lot better than wasting time on
flowers, isn't It?" a bit wistfully.
"I think so, dear. You and I shall
be what they call 'producers.' It's
what the world needs."
Summer came. The garden began
to bear and the day came when Viola,
full of Importance, was to make her
first trip. Prince, the Shetland pony,
and the little wicker cart were
adorned with Red Cross flags, and she
proudly helped Steve to lift tn the bas
kets of fresh, crisp greens.
The little cavalcade returned at
twelve, waving Its banners trium
phantly, with empty baskets and over
$6 in the purse.
"Oh, Uncle Steve, it's jnst grand,
and they paid me more than I asked,
and I'm to go every day. I'll have
thirty dollars, or maybe forty dollars
to send this week. Why, I feel like a
queen 1"
"It's better than flowers, isn't It,
Viola 7"
"Y—yes I I guess it is. But oh.
Uncle Steve, I was in the most beau
tiful garden today, and there was the
most beautiful lady digging in it She
said she knew you, too. I think her
name was Miss Eleanor Davidson."
"You were at the Davidsons', then 1"
quickly.
"Yes, I was at the Davidsons', and I
wish you could see the flowers—roses
and marguerites and poppies and peo
nies, and everything! I just thought
I could never come away. And see
the armful she gave me! She's the
nicest person I ever knew—and the
prettiest I"
The rest. of the day Stephen was
preoccupied and restless. He had
thought that he had successfully
killed the growing passion for the girl
he liad accused of being frivolous.
A week passed—days of glory for
Viola. And then she was hurt. It
wasn't much. Prince upset the cart
and threw the little girl out. A pass
ing limousine picked her up and took
her to the hospital in town, and they
sent for Stephen.
"Darling, It's all my fault," he said.
"I shouldn't have let you go."
"But it's all right, Uncle Steve.
Prince didn't mean to do it, and I'll
be better tomorrow. Do you see all
the pretty flowers? Who do you sup
pose brought them? Miss Eleanor!
And. do you know, she comes every
day with whole bushels for the little
children In the wards, and you'd think
she was an angel the way they love
her, the nurse says. I was Just think
ing, Uncle Steve, wouldn't you call
that being useful?"
"Yes, dear, very!" huskily.
And then Eleanor herself came in.
"You're lucky to have her, Stephen,"
she said. "She's a dear child."
"I am lucky." he assented. "But—
we were just thinking we'd like to
have another person in the firm. Could
you consider it, Eleanor, do you
think?"
Eleanor flushed consciously. 'Td
love to come," she said, "if you're sure
you want me." And Viola wondered
what they were talking about.
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X5he Evangeline Theatre
Cool and Roomy House, Comfortable Chairs and Good Maà
Tonight
Bluebird P
Harris An*
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■en ve
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Mary Keep Your Feel Süll
With Dainty Elia. Haii As Mary in
"Her Souls Inspiration"
The Story of a $*irl born with music in her feet The moet hum
natural, and inspiring photoplay over presented to the public
In addition One Good Comedy Six Reels in All Price 5 and IQ ch
Tomorrow Night
JESSIEIL. lasky
Presents
LOUISE HUFF and JACK P1CKF0RD
IN
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From the book by Gene Stratton Porter
a lasky;paramount
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Amber Lights for Beauty.
The electrician of a New York hotel
has discovered the secret of making
the homely woman look attractive and
j the pretty woman look like a dream,
j The trick is amber lights. The roof
! garden of the hotel is decorated with
i these lights, and they make everybody
! look like peaches and cream. "My
j dear, you look simply wonderful to
j night," exclaimed a tall, slender, blonde
; woman dressed in filmy white. "And
j you were never more beautiful," re
I sponded the other, a brunette, as they
I passed each other on their way to the
tables. "How does she manage It?"
continued the first, .venting herself with
an escort, who was attired in immacu
late evening clothes. "She really looks
quite charming. And she isn't, you
know." "Amber lights." explained the
man ns he scanned the menu. "It's a
trick of the decorators, and it is a pity \
more places don't npply It, for the !
sake of ns men. at least Roof gar
dens would be overcrowded if all the
women could be transformed into beau
ties by the use of the amber lights."
Napoleon as a Cadet
When Napoleon was a young cadet
he went On one occasion to witness the
ascent of a balloon In the Champ de
Mare. He entered, nnperceived, the
lndosore which contained the balloon,
which wa* then very nearly fall and
about to ascend, and requested the
aeronaut to allow him to enter the
car. The request however, was re
fused, the reason given being that the
feelings of the boy might embarrass
the aeronaut "Though I am young, I
fear neither the powers of earth nor
of the air !" Bonaparte I« reported to
have exclalme^. On being requested
to retire, the little cadet enraged at
the refusal, drew his sword, and, slit
ting the balloon in several places, de
stroyed the apparatus which had been
constructed with Infinite labor and In
genuity. Such was Napoleon's first and
last attempt to ascend In a balloon.
Tin Cans Were Valuable Then.
It Is within the memory of many
people on the farms that there was a
time when tin cans were not too plen
tiful. Now and then canned goods
were bought, and for the empty cans
plenty of uses were found. For in
stance, tomato plants were started In
them, standing In the sunny kitchen
window long before the garden was
clear of snow ; they were convenient
GOOD PROVIDER S FAMILY
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Jack's Store
for holding paint when a small jot
had to be done, nnd the small boys
treasured them for holding their b&i:
for those adventurous and ever-tobe
remembered fishing excursions of
early summer. About all the tin cans
»hat came to n farmhouse twenty-five
or thirty years ago were put to good
use.
price of copper is now so high, mon
than 50 cents a pound, that a snbsö
tute is needed In decorative metal
Humanity's Lengthened Ufa
Fifty years ago the averag* kaffl
of human life in the United iWd
was In the neighborhood of tHrtp
four yearn. Today the average A nib
can citizen lives to be forty-live pm
of age. And fifty years from **
the average human life will law
lengthened to almost sixty yean.
All of this gain In lengthened 111*
is due to the practice of disease |*e
ventlon. And If the world would pd
Into practice all that Is known of dir
ease prevention today, the life of ensj
the present generation might N.
lengthened by a dozen years or so.
A Question.
"The Hindoos have some queer cur
toms. The women wear strings of
gold coins and many bangles. One fe
male will frequently carry all the fsm
ily wealth." .
"Are we so very different?" Inquired
Flubdub, indicating a display of
payment diamond* that was going W'
Substitute for Copper.
The use of soft steel and iron u
a partial substitute for copper in the
manufacture of decorative metals il
being experimented with in the depart
ment of manual arts at the University
of Wisconsin.
For years it has been traditional for
decorative metal products to be made
wholly or In large part of copper, brae
or some other alloy of copper. The
The kind of steel and Iron required
In this kind of work costs at praat
14 cents a pound. In many respect
this steel Is as good, if not better, toll
copper. It works easily, wean *
well, is not discolored or oxidised if
quickly, and for many uses la (Ml
stronger than copper. R laeka ill
red-gold luster, but can be given •
stiver-hned burnish, or can be decent
ed with paints.—University of Wtocca
sin Bulletin.
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