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NEW IBERIA
ENTERPRISE
AIND IINDEPEINDEINT OBSERVER. rConsolidated March 1st, 19Q2.
M. W. FISHER, Editor und Proprietor.
VOLUME XVIII. ~
DEVOTED TO THE ADVANCEMENT OF HOME INTERESTS.
NEW IBERIA, LA., SATURDAY, MARCH 29, 1902.
Subscription, ftl.fiO per Anmim.
NTJMBEB 5
TT IS the RENT PATER'S CHANCE.
There are hundreds of people in New Iberia paying rent. Are you one of them? Think of the many years you have paid rent to a landlord
to make him rich and you poor. Why can you not own a slice of the soil of Uncle Sam, and point with pride to the home you have to pro
tect, and where no man can question your right to being a full-fledged citizen and tax-payer of the community you live m. Think of yourself
in old age. Think of your wife and family who look to you for protection--you can own a home to cover them if you will try. Hei e is your
chance to climb the first round of the ladder on
TUESDAY, APRIL 8th , 1902, AT 9:30 O'CLOCK A. M.
Those 25 valuable lots on the southeast side of Bank Avenue, 22 lots on southwest side of Park Avenue, 23 lots on the northeast side of Park
Avenue, 24 lots on the southwest side of Jockey Road, 10 lots running through from Jockey Road to Mallain Sti eet in Mallain Addition, 10
lots on northeast side of Mallain Street in Mallain Addition, 8 lots in Robertson Addition, 3 lots on Charles Street in block 4 of Smith s Addi
tion, all owned by the Iberia Park Association, will be sold without reserjve at
AUCTION
ON EASY TERIV.3.
Only one-fourth cash, balance in 6,12,18 and 24 months,
ments draw interest at the rate of 8 per cent pgr annum.
Deferred pay
! ONE LOT AND $50 IN GOLD. GIVEN AWAY FREE!
Everybody that attends sale is entitled to a chance on both prizes FREE,
Whether you BID, BUY or NOT.
will leave Eureka Hotel at 9 A. M. Sharp, TUESDAY, APRIL 8th.
Everybody is invited to come out and take lunch with Us.
■pelican state band will furnish musics
For Further Particulars, See A. HARRIS, EUREKA HOTEL, NEW IBERIA, LA.
The Enterprise.
AND OBSERVER—OomiUJDA TED.
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OFFICIAL JOURNAL OF IBERIA PARISH
AND TOWN OF NEW IBERIA.
CONdRESSIONAL RECORD.
As an all round newspaper it is
to be feared that The Congressional
Record will never succeed, says the
Portland (Me.) Advertiser. Its
hopeless conservation is seen from
its reports of the Tillnian-McLanrin
encounter.
After setting down the words
which led up to this lamentable
boxing, match—how Tillman ac
cused his colleague of having been
bribed by patronage to vote for the
Spanish-American treaty and how
McLaurin replied, denouncing the
statement as "a willful, malicious
and deliberate lie"—The Record
disposes of the most interesting
part in this manner :
"At this point Mr. Tillmau ad
vanced to Mr. McLaurin of South
Carolina, and the two senators met
iu a personal encounter, when they
were separated by Mr. Layton, the
acting assistant doorkeeper, as
sisted by several senators sitting
near."
That is all—uot a word about
Tillman leaping Jover chairs "with
tiger-like ferocity," sweeping the
venerable Senator Teller aside like
chaff; nothing about McLaurin
springing to meet him half way ;
nothing about Tillman landing
wickedly with his right just above
his colleague's left optic; nothing
about McLaurin's partial parry and
his countering on Tillmau's nose,
causing that useful organ to spout
gore ; nothing about their clinohiug
catch as catch can and having a
rough and tumble ; nothing about
the sergeant at arms and senators
tearing the combatants apart by
main force, still striking wildly at
each other.
In short, The Record reporters
appear either to have missed all of
the spectaoular part of the affair or
to have suppressed it deliberately.
This is the time of the year to put
yonr system in good shape. If you
nave had fever or any land of ill
□ess, you need a god# tonic; one
that will make you eat. Tono
Tonique will build you op, make
you strong, and give yon a good
stite. Get a bottle from the
Drag Co.
BILLION DOLLAR WAR.
• London, March 6. —The state
ment made by Mr. Brodrick, secre
tary of state of war, in the house
of commons in connection with the
army estimates, together with nu
merous articles in the March Re
view, illustrates how deeply the
Boer war has affected the finances,
military policy,general politi
cal philosophy of the empire. The
minister of war's figures show that
the cost of the struggle now ap
proaches $1,000,000. Unofficial
authorities estimate that twice that
sum will be required to finish the
conquest of the republics. The
outlook has driven a number of the
greatest intellects in the country
to prescribe free trade and despect
ers. Every new phase of continen
tal policy is construed into a threat
against England. Politicians and
journalists shout for alliances and
urge the most exclusive measures
of political and economic imperial
ism. It is trne that a large number
of speakers and writers are comba
ting the movement against the
cherished syatem that superseded
tha corn laws. But many observers
assert that it ia only a question of
time as to whether or not the Brit
ish empire will resort to an offen
sive and defensiv^ scheme of inter
imperial protection.^
For The Com*
The complexion alw«
OM.
(offer* from
bilioneneae " or constipation. Unless the
bowels are kept open tbe\ impurities tram
the body appear in the foirm of uneightly
eruption*. De Witt' s Little Risers keep
the lirer and bowel« ia healthy condition
and remove the eauee of ; eueh troubles.
C. E. Hooper, Albany, U a.; says : "I took
DeWitt's little Early Biiqra (or bilious
neu. They were just what I needed. 1 sm
feeling better now than ia years." Never
Çripe ordistrees. Safe thorcBgh and gentle
he very beet pill*. John B. Taylor.
We hope that all ovfr agricultural
passengers will read this item
and paste it iu their —heada. Plan
to get your crops in at the earliest
possible moment, and resolve that
you will not let the ground bake
hard after a single shower, but
that you will keep it atirred, weed
leas and aoft even if the duat
ahould become knee deep in your
fields. D* tkia and you can hard
ly fail to make aerop.
Head «ehe often reealte from a disorder
ed oondftion ot the etomaeh sad constipa
tion of tie bowele. A deee or two of Cham
ber! sin'« Stomach aad liver Tablets wil
correct theee disorders aad eue the head
ache. (old by Jassee A. Lee, Druggist.
Don't tie tho top or your
lellv and preserve Jars In
the old fashioned way. Seat
tlicni I>y tho new, quick,
absolutely euro way—by
. a tlilu coating; of Pure
k ileiincd Faratfmo. Has
H no taste or odor. Is
H air tight and acid
air wgni ana ocia
proof. Easily applied.
Useful in a dozen other
ways about the house.
Full directions with
ach cake.
Bold everywhere. Hade by
STANDARD OIL CO.
m
FREE PULP AND PAPER.
The newspaper publishers' com
mittee of New York on free pulp
and paper writés to The Fourth
Estate :
A dftmmittee of newspaper pub
lishers has been orgauized to urge
upon congress the advisability of
placing upon the free list wood pulp
(mechanical ground wood) and
futher reduce the duty upon paper.
(The matter is one above politics.
Our forests are threatened, and
knowledge is taxed. Hearty co
operatiou in this work is solicited.
Will every editor promptly write
to bis senator and representative
in congress and ascertain their
viewsf Immediate action is neces
sary. Suggestions that will pro
mote the work of the committee
will be appreciated. Copies of ar
ticles favoring free pulp and paper
ahould be sent to committee. The
text of the act under consideration
by the waya and means committee
will be sent on application."
Gould Not Breathe.
Coughs, colds, croup, grip, bronchitis,
other throat and lung troubles are quickly
cured by One Minute Cough Cure. One
Minute Cough Cure is not a mere expeetor
ant, which gives only temporary relief. It
eoftens and liquifies the mucous, draws
out thetetamation and remove* the cauae
of the^aÇedse. Absolutely safe. Acts at
atonee. -"One Minute Cough Cure will
do all that is claimed for it," says Justice
of the' Peaee, J. Q. Hood, Crosby, Miss.
My wife eoald not' get her breath and waa
relieved by the first dose. It has been a
benefit to all my family." John R. Taylor.
A damphool in New York bet all
the money he could rake and scrape
together that Prince Henry would
be aaaaaainated before ne left the
United States. He loat the bet, of
course, and then tried to kill him
«•If.
BENEFITS OF IMMIGRATION.
The Rayne Tribune, published in
Acadia parish Louisiana, is urgiog
its readers to increase the value of
their lauds by diversifying their
products. It points to thousands
of bales of cotton, hundreds of
thousands of sacks of rice and
the sugar cane products of the
country, with long lines of cotton
ladea wagons, as proofs of the fer
tility of the soil, and a recent $21,
000 laud deal near Rayne, Illinois
farmers being the purchasers, as an
incentive to greater exertions on
the part of resident farmers. The
increasing drift of Northern and
Northwestern farmers to the South
is largely due to the cheapness of
the South's fertile lands. The
newcomers are conferring enor
mous benefits upon the communi
ties where they settle, one of the
most notable iucideuts being the
development of rice cultivation in
Acadia and Calcasieu parishes, Lou
isiana, which has meant the addi
tion in ten years of 25,000 thrifty
population from elsewhere and the
almost incalculable increase of that
section's wealth, what the new
comers are doing the old inhabi
tauts may do, and the friendly ri
valry of the two elements in the
population of the South ought to
go a long way toward solving many
Southern problems. — Southern
Farm Magazine.
Mrs. C. E. VanDeusen,.Qf Kilbourn
Wis., was afflicted with stomach trouble
and constipation for a long time. She
gtys,"I have tried many preparations but
none have done me the good that Cham
berlain's Stomach and Liver Tablets have."
These Tablets are foT sale at Lee's drug
sfore. Price, 25 cents. Samples free.
Williamstown, W. Va., March
23.— The little daughter of Captain
W. E. Roc, of the sterner Kanawha,
who snuffed a grain of corn into
her right lung, and which after
ward sprouted and grew, died last
night.
The Best Prescript!«« for Malaria,
Chills and Fever ia a bottle of Grove's
Tasteleas Chill Tonic. It i* «imply iron
and quinine in a tasteless form. No cure
—no pay. Prioe 60c.
Speakibgof swearing off, the suc
cess of Mr. George W. Vanderbilt
in thia direction will do. He secured
the redaction of his personal tax
assessment from $2,000,000 to $10,
000.
! A RIDICULOUS DEFENSE.
About the only defender of the
poll-tax law lerft. in the state is the
New, Orleans Picayune. In endea
voring to stem the.tide against it,
that paper recently made the follow
ing astounding assertion :
Should the clamor against the
law go to the extreme of securing
its repeal, that fact would soon ope
rate to re-establish the danger of
negro supremacy iu polities. It is
well known that the negroes are
making haste to learn to read and
write, while there is a very consid
erable body of the whites who are
illiterate, and wlio do not take the
trouble to educate their children,
and ihe blot of white illiteracy pro
mises to remain long upon the
state.
It was understood when the con
stitution of 1898 was being framed
that the illiteracy prohibition would
soonifail to disfranchise any great
numbers of negroes, who would, by
being able to read and write, render
that clause abortive and powerless
to keep them from the frauehise.
In anticipation of such a condition,
the poll-tax provision was enacted.
The Picayune's assumption that
the uegroes who acquire an educa
tion for the purpose of obtaining a
right to vote will be deterred from
their aim by the imposition of a
one dollar poll tax is no less re
markable than its statement that
the negroes of Louisiana have a
greater interest in education and a
greater desire to obtain it than the
white people have. The Picayune
seems to be driveu to dire straits
to discover an excuse to retain
upon the statute books an undemo
cratic and uqjust method of sup
pressing votes that even the narrow
minded New England states have
made all haste to discard -American.
Ncj tj»ne enjoys a meal unless he
has an appetite ; to have an appetite
is a ; blessing of health. Now, if
your appetite is lost you can get it
back< |)y taking a bottle of Tono
Toniqiie, the new appetizer and tis
sue-builder. The Estorge Drag Co.
have jhst received a shipment of
Tono-Tonique. Get a bottle to-day.
—j •
General Otis in testifying before
Senaté Committee on Philippines
Tuesday stated that the war, as war,
had ceaaed. The statement is en
tirely correct, my dear sir, ia it not
hatchery.
Protty
Is an adjective which scenes to have be
come monopolized by the young lady at
the typewriter. It is astonishing what
an array of beautiful women are found
in stores and offi
ces. In fact, the
typical American
beauty will be
found sitting at
the typewriter
rather than lolling
in a carriage in the
park.
Ana yet this
pretty young girl
needs always to be
reminded that
" beauty is only
skin deep," unless
it roots in health.
When the health
is undermined by
womanly diseases,
the luster soon
passes from the
eyes, the cheeks
grow thin, the
body loses its
plumpness.
Dr. Pierce's Fa
vorite Prescription
cures diseases which weaken women
and which destroy their strength and
beauty. It establishes regularity, stops
weakening drains, heals inflammation
and ulceration and cures female weak
ness.
"Several years ago 1 suffered severely from
female weakness, projbpsus and Menorrhagia,
and used Dr. Pierce's
splendid
I effect,"
ington, Iowa,
few y
worite Prescription with
et," writes Faunle Shelton, of Wash
. "Gttd I have not needed it for a
». years past, bat if I should ever have any re
turn of the old trouble would surely try ' Favor
ite Prescription.' 1 haV« recommended it to a
number of my lady friends. I always tell them
to try a bottle, ana if they are not benefited by
it I will ray for thé medicine. In every case
they have spoken in praise of it"
Or. Pierce's Pleasant Pellets cure sick
headache.
IDEAL EDITOR.
Yon hear talk of the "ideal
newspaper." It is like the flower
that never withers, the bird that
uever alights, the land where the
sunlight never fades—it exists only
in the sucker whom we are told the
elements consume. Writing from
the standpoint of a country editor,
if you have never been in his shoes,
you know that he is a repository of
the secrets of the community, none
of which he must ever divulge.
He must publish a paper chock full
of local news, whether anything
happened or not. His judicial
mind must be far superior to the
district judge, and give him point
ers on instructing a jury. He
must discourse with equal fluency
upon the silver question and Far
mer Jone's calf, China painting
and Poland-China pigs, preserve
peaches and perseverance of the
saints, foreign wars and local
strikes, justification by faith and
justification of type, the doctrine of
election and the election returns,
the doings of the last synod and
the details of all prize fights. The
receipts of the church social, and
tho squabbles iu tho town council
must be equally familiar to his ver
satile mind.
With all tbi^r he must wait on
the delinquent subscriber, discouut
the bill of patent medicine fakes,
stand off his wash bills, always go
well dressed, pay his printers on
Saturday night whether a cent has
come in or not; write free puffs,
100 lines for every one he gets pay
for ; boom the local statesman who
owes him three years subscription
in short, be all things to all men,
make no enemies, never have a
name misspelled nor a mistake
in dates, take the cussings of the
community and never cuss back.
This is the ideal country editor and
his paper is a daisy. We never
saw one.— A Irin Nun.
Strikes A Rich Find.
'I was troubled for several years
with chrouic indigestion and ner
vous debility," writes F. 1. Green,
of Lancaster. N. II. "No remedy
helped me until I began using
Electric Bitters, which did me mort
good then all the medicines I ever
used. They have also kept my
wife in excellent health for years.
She says Electric Bitters are just
splendid for female troubles ; that
they are a grand tonic and invigora
tor for weak, run down women.
No other medicine can take its
place iu our family." Try them.
Only 50c. Satisfaction guarnteed
by Estorge Drug Co. drug store.
With pardonable pride the Cen
sus Bureau announces that the hens
of the United States laid $144,286,
158 worth of eggs in 1900. But
what do the hens get for all this re
venue t Sooner or later they get it
iu the neck and are sold ou the
markets for spring chickens.
Surgeon'» Knife Sot Seeded.
Surgery is no longer necessary to cure
piles. DeWitt 's Witch Hazel Salve cures
such cages at once, removing tbe necessity
for dangerous, painful and expensive
operations. For scalds, cuts, burns,
wounds, bruises, sores and skin diseases
it is unequalled. Beware of counterfeits.
John R. Taylor.
By this time the Miss Stone ban
dits have no donbt safely deposited
their swag and are ready fo* t. oth
er business transaction in missi
onoarie*.
TRUST PRINCIPLE.
New York, March 24.—John D.
liockfeller, Jr., in an address to
his Bible class in the Fifth Aveuue
Baptist Church on "Why Should
We Join the Church?" spoke in
part as follows :
"To fight the battle alone is to
be lost. Association with others is
an absolute necessity. It would be
successful. It would be like see
ing a soldier fighting singly for
his country as to see the Christiau
fightittgJM God from without the
chnreteSjP?
"Iu nnfOn there is strength and
success. We can see this illustrated
every day in the business world.
The busiuess man, with a small
capital,'finds it to his benefit to
unite his money and interests with
those of his neighbor. The benefits
that derive from their combined
capital and labor are proportionat
ely greater than those that would
accrue if both worked singly. And
these partners iu turn find it bene
ficial to join their partnership with
other partnerships and so on until
the great corporation is founded,
each uuiou extending the benefits
and possibilities of all concerned
without the loss so common in
single effort."
Working 24 Hours a Day.
There's no rest for those tireless
little workers—Dr. King's New
Life Pills. Millionsare always busy,
curing Torpid Liver,Jaundice, Bili
ousness, Fever and Ague. They
banish Sick Headache, drive out
Malaria. Never gripe or weaken. .
Small, taste nice, work wonders.
Try them. 25c at Estorge Drug Co.
drug store.
A young man in Tangipahoa par
ish recently got even with a girl
who jilted him by sending her a re
quest to go driving, and when she
bad joyfully accepted and rigged
herself out in her best, he cruelly
sent her a hammer and a pound of
ten penny nails with the informa
tion that she could drive as much
as she pleased.
Chronic lHarrhoea.
Mr. C. B. Wingfield, of Fair Play, Mo.,
who suffered from chronic dysentery for
thirty-five years, says Chamberlain's Colic,
Cholera and Diarrhoea Kemedy did him
more good than any other medicine he had
ever used. For sale by James A.
Druggist. >■ t