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N ew I beria
enterprise
>1 W. KISIIKK, KiIKor ami Proprietor.
VOLUME Will.
AIND IINDEPEINDEINT OBSERVER.—Consolidated Warcli 1st, 1902.
DEVOTED "TO"THE ADVANCEMENT OF HOME INTERESTS.
NEW IBERIA, LA., SATURDAY, JUNE 14, 1902.
Subscription, $ 1.50 prr Annum.
NUMBER Hi
QAAR, SCOTT & CO., New IbeH., La.
Tractio n and
Portable En
gines, Saw Mills
Clo ver Hullers
v I I KESHING MACH IN K r Y
"QUEEIN of the RICE PIEUD" Thresher
and CORLISS TRACTIOIN EINOIINES
" W herever R ipe 13 K ing, the G aar. S cott E ngine and T hresher is Q ueen."
HeudquiirLerH: MAKION W AUKHUUSË,
OppoHlte K. IV. Depot.
T. A. HUTCHES, Salesman.
Menser- Busch
BREWING ASSOCIATION
st. louis
LAGER BEER.
£ >>
ERATH
In & Bottling Co.,
LIMITED,
* sole agents
—AT—
NEW IBERIA.
Keg and Bottled Beer.
Photographs
-CALL AT THE
mil
And Look Pleasant—We Do the Rest.
We nre I.»rated on the comer of Main Street and
Bank Avenue. We make the latest finish and
keep strictly up-to date. We will give a MEDAL
LION with each dozen Cabinet« for the month of
March. Perfect satisfaction guaranteed or money
refunded. SPENCER PHOTO CO.
OUIvE
COKKIKCIA I,
COUMI,
N«w Orleans, u.
renowned aa a lead
eamafle.
actlccd
rex Med
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and a
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toatlons.
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loan and KnroMau
ons. Commercial
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and
and
any otEerln (be
illad Faculty.
lea and «Boa routine
id wholesale ofltaaa.
r positions all otoi the
J personal.
I traslnaas connections and
Uy and repotably known, we
Ivantafes fn aiding students to
ja.
VA atora la connected with Soul* OoUaf e
ia wbleh «indents do actual bnalneaa with
real roads and actual money, and statists
keep the books In the latest labor saving forms.
Students enter at any tluie. Knallsh, Aca
demic, Shorthand and Bnslnees schools. All
separate faculties. Bend (or Catalog«»..
Bnalneaa Man anpplled with competent
bookkeeper« and ahorthand writer».
Addreaa 0»0. SOU1.B * BO»»
f. N. BRIAN, M. D.
PHYSICIAN AND SURGEON.
"Obstetrics and Gynecology a Specialty.
Office, Emner Building. Residence, corner
Charles and Center streets
Calls promptly answered Day or Night
Cumberland 'Phone, Res,,286; OfBce. 160.
J. M. PERRY,
PAPER HANGER.
FIMSNIW III HMO OIL « SPECIALTY.
Shop in Millard Block, Rail
road Avenue, .
NEW IBERIA, LA.
A.S.AULD
NEW IBERIA, LA.,
'radical Engineer
AND Machinist.
Rice Irrigating Machinery, Siw Mill, Sugar
House, Grist Mill, Cotton Gins, etc.
Work guaranteed first-class in every re
»pect.
SÛT Would be pleased to get your work.*
Look Box 368.
SHERIFF SALE.
STATE liANK OF NEW IBERIA, K. A.
PHAKK, SUBROGEE,
VS.
JULES OliSOT, ET ALS.
State of Louisiana, Parish of Iberia, 1'Jth
Judicial District Court.
Notice is hereby given that by virtue of
n writ of fiern facias issued out of the
above entitled and numbered matter, I,
Ueorge Henderson, Sheriff, through F. J.
Mestayer, Deputy Sheriff, have seized and
will offer for sale and will sell FOB CASH
to the last and highest bidder, at the
front door of the Court House in the town
of New Iberia, Parish of Iberia, between
legal sale hours, on
SATURDAY, JUNE 21 ST, 1902,
the following described property, to-wit :
All the rights, titles and interest of Jules
Orsot, in and to a certain lease recorded
in lien and Privilege Book No. 6, Folio
108, entry 1950; and all of his interest in
said crop under said lease.
To pay and satisfy half the sum of Two
Hundred and Forty-Five Dollars debt,
with interest at 8 per cent per annum in
terest from December 20th, 1899 and 10
per cent attorneys fees on said principal
and interest, and all costs of suit to be
taxed.
Given officially, this 17th day of May,
A. D. 1902.
GEO. HENDERSON, Sheriff,
Per Frank J. Mestayer, Deputy Sheriff.
LOW RATES ON
5outhern Pacific
SUNSET ROUTE.
Morgan's Louisiana & Texas Railroad
and Steamship Company will sell tickets
from New Iboria to Chicago and return
June 15, 10, 20 and 23d, 1902., with return
limit Sept. 17th, 1902, at a rate of $27.95
on account of Summer Institute Meeting.
Morgan's Louisiana & Texas Railroad
and Steamship Company will sell tickets
from New Iberia to Salt Lake City, Utah,
and return Aug. C, 7 and 8th, 1902, with
return limit Oct. 3d, 1902, at a rate of
$46.85 on account of annual meeting
Grand Lodge Benevolent and protective
order of Elks. Stop overs allowed in
Colorado.
Morgan's Louisiana & Texas Railroad
and Steamship Company will sell tickets
from New Iberia to Minneapolis, Minn.,
and roturn, July 4 and 5th, 1902, with
return limit July 17th, 1902, at a rate of
$37.45, on account of annual meeting
National Educational Association.
Morgan's Louisiana and Texas Railroad
and Steamship Company will sell tickets
from New Iberia to Knoxville, Tenn., and
return June 27, 28 and 29th, July 10, 11
and 12th, 1902, with return limit Aug. 18,
1902, at a rate of $21.85 on account of
Summer School.
Morgan's Louisiana * Texas Railioad
and Steamship Company will sell tickets
from New Iberia to Alexandria, La., and
return June 22d, 1902, with return limit
June 26, 1902, at a late of $4.15, on ac
count of La. State Sunday School Con
vention, Natchitoches, Ln.
Morgan's Louisiana & Texns Railroad
and Steamship Company will sell tickets
from New Iberia to Chattanooga, Tenn.,
and return June 25, 26 and 27th, 1902, at
a rate of $20.50 011 account of annual
meeting Southern Educational Associa
tion.
For further particulars, apply to
C. B. ELLIS, D. P. A.
JNO. T. WHITE
REAL ESTATE
NOTARY and
FIRE INSURANCE
HAS THE FOLLOWING LIST OF
PROPERTIES FOR SALE
100 acre farm, improved, in fine condition,
near town.
35 acre farm, improved, good for dairy or
truck farm, one mile from town.
4 acre tract on Main street, with good
house, all under fence, nice for poultry
and berries.
5 acres with good buildings, dwelling and
store at Hubertville, one mile from
Jeanerette.
Lot on Lee street, East End, 104 feet
front, 198 in depth, good six room house
and outbuildings.
Lot on Main street, 50x150 feet.
Lot on Bank Aveuue, near Main street,
100x207 feet.
Lot on Madison street, near Weeks street,
50x150 feet.
Lot on Iberia street, 80x131 feet.
Lot on Providence street, 80x126 feet.
$400.
2500 acres, Parish of St. Martin, partly
cleared with improvement, balance hard
wood and cypress timber. $5.00 per
acre.
7 acres near town, fronting Bayou and
Public road.
Lot on Lluperier Avenue, East Side, 1 1 4
aipents. $600.
1.
DENTIST,
OPPICB, CLUB BUIUNNO,
jtmw iberia, zjl
CITY ORDINANCE.
! It 1
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limits of the town
Mr. (Juillet and
Cousin, seconded
that tlw same be
: adopted by the fol
wit: Yea, Messrs.
hupre and Murray.
by Mr. Kenoudet and carried
adopted. Said ordinance was
lowing yea aud nay vote, to
(oiiillot, Cousin, Kenoudet,
Nay, none.
Said Ordinance was the
Mayor for examination ai
the" same was returned l»y him approved and
signed with the seal of the corporation thereto
affixed.
Said ordinance reads as follows, to-wit:
Be it ordained by the Mayor and Board of
Trustees of the town of New Iberia that the lim
its of the town of New Iberia be extended so as
to incluue within its limits the following de
scribed territory, to-wit: First, a tract of land
just below the corporate limits of the town of
New Iberia lying between the bayou Teche and
the right of way of the Morgan's Louisiana and
Texas liai I road* Company and which land is
bounded above on the North side by the present
lower limits of the town of New Iberia, 011 the
South side by property of Joseph Jefferson, on
the East side by Bayoii Teche, and on the West
side by the right of way of the Morgan's Louisi
ana and Texas Railroad Company. Second, a cer
tain strip <»f land South or Bank Avenue and
being bounded on the North side by Bank Ave
nue, on the South side by the continuation of
Ann street, on the Rast side by Madison street,
and on the West side by continuation of Dale
street.
Be it further ordained: That the boundaries
of the town of New Iberia be so enlarged as to in
clude within said boundaries the above described
two tracts of land so that the entire boundaries
of the said town of New Iberia shall be as herein
after described.
Be it further ordained, etc., That all citizens
of the United States residing within the follow
ing limits, to-wit: Beginning at a point opposite
the Northern boundary line of the property of
Mrs. Leopold DeBlanc, starting on the West side
of the Bayou Teche at tide mark: thence west
ward ami following said Northern line of said pro
perty of Mrs. Leopold DeBlanc to the intersec
tion of North and Jane streets; thence still west
ward following the Northern line of North street
(011 which street the Episcopal Cemetery is lo
cated) to a point 2768 feet from the said Bayou
Teche thence in a Southern direction to the near
est point of the Morgan. s Louisiana and Texas
Railroad; thence down said Western boundary of
the Morgan's Louisiana and Texas Railroad to
Anderson street; thence out Anderson street on
the Northwest side to a point opposite and inter
secting Robertson street on the northwest side of
Hopkins street to a point Six Hundred and Fifty
feet beyond the southwest side of Dale street;
thence in an easterly direction to a row of four
live oak trees in the yard of Mrs. Hart well Hart,
the first of which stands ninety feet from the
northwest side of Iberia street said row of trees
being just Six Hundred and Fifty feet from the
southwest side of Dale street and taking in the
residence of said Mrs. Hartwell Hart; from said
line of oak trees running in a southeast side of
.Bank Avenue, at a point Six Hundred and Fifty
feet beyond the southwest side of Dale street;
thence down the southwest side of Bank Avenue
to the southwest side of Dale street; thence down
the west side of the continuation of Dale street
to the southeast side of continuation of Ann
street; thence to the southwest, side of railroad
track, thence down the west side of the railroad
track to the upper or northern line of the pro
perties of Joseph Jefferson thence along the up
per line of the property of Joseph Jefferson to
ihe Bayou Teche; the nee up the West side of the
Bayou Teche to the lower limits of the property
of John M. Hensliaw; from thence across said
Bayou running to a point ten acres Irom the
Bayou on the lower limits of Bank Avenue if ex
tended on the east side of Bayou Teche, starting
from said Bayou at tide mark; thence from a
point ten acres from the Bayou following the
course of the Bayou to a point ten acres from the
Bayou Teche opposite the Northeast side of Hop
kins street if extended 011 the east side of said
Bayou; thence in a Westerly direction following
the Northen line of Hopkins street if extended on
the East side of the Bayou to the Bayou Teche;
thence up the West Bank at tide water to the
starting point, as first designated, shall be and
they are hereby created and made a body politic
and corporate under the style and name of "the
Mayor and Board of Trustees of the town of New
Iberia" and by arid in that name it shall have
perpetual succession, the power to sue and be
sued, to plead and be impleaded, to have an
official seal, which may br changed at the will of
the Board. It shall be capable of purchasing,
receiving by donation, or holding, selling and con
veying any and all kinds of property, real, per
sonal and mixed, movable or immovable for the
use and benefit of said town; and the Board of
Trustees shall have the right to grant, give, do
nate, sell, or convey franchises and grants for any
and all purposes, except for lights and water
works, to any person or persons, partnersnip,
association of persons or corporation for a term
not to • xceed twenty-five years from the date of
the grant, at the expiration of thirty days publi
cation, provided, that in case one fifth in uumhei
and value of the property taxpayers of the corpo
ration, should sign a petition asking that the
giving, granting, donating, selling or conveying of
the franchise or grant be submitted to a vote of
the taxpayers for the purpose of ascertaining
whether it shall or shall not be given, donated or
sold to the person or persons, partnership, asso
ciation of persons or corporation seeking to ob
tain saine, before the expiration of the thirty
days publication, as aforesaid, then it shall be
the duty of the Board of Trustees to submit the
I same to a vote of the taxpayers, which shall re
quire a majority vote both in number and prop
I crty value, for the granting of the franchise,
within sixty days from the date the petition is
submitted to the Board of Trustees, otherwise
the franchise or grant shall be null aud void; it
I shall have the power and right of raising money
by imposing and levying taxes and licenses upon
all kinds of property, movable and immovable,
and all persons, association of persons and cor
porations pursuing any trade, profession, busi
ness or caning, except such as may be exempt
from taxation and license nnder the Constitution
of the State, which money so raised shall be
applied to the improvements of the town, to
maintain the police thereof, and an efficient fire
department, to making, opening and repairing
streets in and around the town, and to cause to
be constructed and maintained sidewalks, deter
mine the material, plans and specifications and
grades of the same, and levy and collect taxes by
special assessment, for the payment or the same,
aud to provide for the prevention and extinguish
ment of fires and to organize, establish, and main
tain a fire department and to regulate the same;
to establish fire limits; to regulate, restrain and
prohibit the erection of wooden buildings within
such limits as may be prescribed by ordinance,
and to provide for the removal of the same at the
expense of the owners theref when erected con
trary to the ordinances of the Municipality, and
to making and repairing every other improvement
which said corporation may deem necessary and
proper and to all other purposes to which the
Board may be authorized to en^ly them by the
Corporation Charter. Provide d, no license
greater than that imposed by the Legislature and
collected for the State shall be imposed and col
lected; but "this restriction shall not apply to
dealers in distilled, alcoholic or malt liquors."
The Mayor's salary shall not exceed 8ix Hundred
Dollars per annum and shall be fixed by the
Board or Trustees, who shall at their first meet
ing after having been elected and qualified elect a
Mayor pro tem. from among their own number
to act m case of the absence or inability of the
Mayor to do so.
Be it further ordained that this ordinance be
published in the official journal of the town of
Kew Iberia for the space of thirty days and be
posted in three conspicuous places within the
corporate limits of the town of New Iberia as is
required by Act No. 130 of the General Assembly
of the State of Louisiana of 180$.
Be it further ordained that all ordinances or
parts ofoidinances in connflict with this ordi
nance be and the same are hereby repealed as
soon as this ordinance shall become an ordinance
with full force and effect.
TUus «lone, rend, adopted, signed and teal
tffiied In open *e«Rion at New Ibert
7th day of May, A. L». 1W2.
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ionx F ishes , Mayer.
T he E nterprise
a xi) o hsf.rver—cox soi. i pa ted.
official journal of iberia parish
and town of new iberia.
TRUST POWER IS A SMALI. THING
AS YET-BUT THE PEOPLE SHOULD
REALIZE ITS MEANING, AND IN
ALL POSSIBLE WAYS PRE
PARE FOR THE STORM
THAT IS COMING.
If you (ire willing to assume your
responsibilities as an American cit
izen von should study seriously the
quest ion of the t rusts.
Already trust organization has
sinned very real and very threat
ening proportions.
Every family in the United
States knows the existence of the
.Meat Trust, which cuts down the
food supply of the people to add
to its bank account.
Every merchant feels keenly the
existence of half a dozen trusts on
which he is absolutely dependent
and from which there is no es
cape.
We all see the Coal Trust keep
ing ready armed men to shoot
working citizens whenever it shall
give the order. We notice that
this Coal Trust, in a calm, matter
of-fact way, boasts that it will, if
necessary, "call out the United
States Government troops" to
shoot the miners. Here is one
trust already talking as though it
controlled the army and all the
other forces of Government. The
trusts believe themselvrs already
in control, and their national power
is very great.
The crisis of trust development,
has not been reached. The present
power of concentrated, organized
money is very great, but it is noth
ing to the power which money will
exert in the future.
This future development of the
trust force should be discussed and
studied calmly, rationally and dis
passionately by all Americans..
There is 110 use in denouncing or
in hating the trusts. It is true that
they are entirely selfish ; it is not
true that they represent evil pure
and simple.
The trust is a necessay develop
ment of humanity's tendency tow
ard organizaton, concentration and
the simplyfying of industry.
The first locomotive ever built
was a trust. It performed the
work of a thousand four-horse
teams, deprived four thousand
horses and a thousand drivers of a
livelihood.
The railroad trust is simply an
extension of the concentration
of labor, the simplifying of indus
trial operation, represented in the
building of the first locomotive.
The trusts in the end will do in
finite good.
They will destroy the mean com
petition which for centuries has
made liars, swindlers and slave
drivers of men.
They will practically elimininate
the great number of large private
fortunes, aud thus compel men to
devote their energies to pursuits
nobler than the accumulation of
money.
At first a few enormous fortunes
will dominate the nation—the
beginning of these great fortunes
you may see already.
Then will come the owning of
the trusts—that is to say, of all the
great national industries—by the
nation itself.
The people of the land will own
aud operate their own necessities.
These necessities, instead of mak
ing a few men enormously rich at
the expense of many, will con
tribute to the comfort of many
without injustice to the few—ex
cept, perhaps through confiscation,
which will affect only one gener
ation, and be no more serious than
an ordinary war.
The development of trusts must
run its course, like every other
great feature of human history.
Its beginning—in corrupt legis
lation, watered stocks, human self
ishness—was inevitable.
Its ending—in national owner
ship, competition eliminated, and
industrial life vastly improved—is
also inevitable.
But thousands of struggles,
thousands of economical battles,
thousands of ruined men, will
mark the evolution of human in
dustry from the control of individ
ual selfishness to the service of the
nation.
The duty of the people is to
stndy and, as far as possible, to
foresee and regulate this enormous
and inevitable development of the
trusts.
The trusts cannot be dedroyed,
and they shonld not be destroyed.
Bat they can be regulated, and
with proper vigilance they can be
kept from commanding aud con
trolling absolultely this uation,
which sees the birth of their great
developement. We believe that
the most pressing public duty at
present is the reorganization of the
Senate of the United States on the
basis of popular election.
It has been said truthfully :
"Yon cannot indict an entire peo
ple," and, fortunately for us, it
may be truthfully said, "You can
not purchase an entire people."
The trusts of the United States
base their hopes of continued aud
growing power upon the United
States Senate.
The trusts own many United
States Senators. Of those Sena
tors whom the trusts do not own,
many are deeply interested in the
trusts, which is the same thing as
though the trusts did own them.
Under the present system, the
public elects State Legislatures,
and these Legislatures choose the
United States Senators.
If a trust can buy the Legislat
ure—which, as we all know, it.
usually can—the trust can control
the Senatorial representatives of
the State.
Look at the United States Sena
tors from the State of New York :
One of them, Mr. Dcpew, repre
sents the Railroad Trust, lie left
the desk of a hired man in the em
ploy of the Railroad Trust to sit at
Iiis desk 111 the National Senate,
and there liif vote can overrule the
votes of seventeen New York State
Representatives in the national
lower House.
The other Senator fronitlie Slate
of New York is Mr. IMatt, presi
dent of an express company, in
terested in the trust recently
formed by the express companies
lie is an astute man, a man of in
telligcnce, who has made himself.
But lie is at least, a trust sympa
thizer, ami hir- vote will go willi
this trusts in the inakingof national
laws.
Therefore, the State of New
York in the National Congress at
Washington is represented by
thirty-four Congressmen ami two
Senators, The thirty-four Con
gressmen are elected by the people,
and two Senators are chosen by the
trusts. And with these two Sena
tors the trusts can absolutely veto
every bill passed by the thirty-four
Representatives elected bv the peo
ple.
Does anybody believe that Mr.
Depew and Mr. Piatt could possi
bly have been elected to the United
States Senate by the people of tIn
state of New York ?
Does anybody question the ont
rageonsness of a system which
forces upon the people as repre
sentatives two Senators whom they
would not have chosen and whom
they actually believe to be inimical
to their interests!
This condition prevails practi
cally throughout the Union.
The upper House of our National
Legislature is the real ruling power
in the United States.
It controls all of the President's
appointment.
According to the Constitution,
he is compelled to appoint "by and
with the consent of the Senate."
The trusts buy the Legislatures,
they own the Senators, and there
fore the Constitution of tha United
States now reads practically as fol
lows :
"The President appoints natonal
offîcèrs by and with the advice and
cousent of the trusts."
As an American voter, you have
no more important duty than to
work for the election of Senators
by the people.
You should ttot^tolerate the se
lection of JudgerOf the Supreme
Court, United Stat«« Ambassadors,
Federal Judges through the coun
try and all the great executive
forces subject to the approval of
the trusts that notoriously make,
and destroy laws.
A small trust can buy the Legis
lature of the State of New York.
But the biggest trust cau scarcely
buy New York's six million inhab
itan. And, thanks to our secret
voting system, we are protected
even agaiust ourselves and out
own selfishness.
If a trust buys the ordinary
voter it cannot be sure that it gets
what it buys.
But if a trust buys the legisla
tors it can count votes and secure
delivery of the goods purchased.
Use your influence to curb the
power of the trusts by taking away
from venal legislators the power
to sell to trust managers the Sen
ate of the United States.
This subject yon shonld discuss
with your neighbors. Y011 should
urge it upon all of those voters
with whom you coiue in contact.
You should influence legislators
in your State to vote for a Consti
tutional amendment causing popu
lar election of Senators—and no
legislator will reseut your sugges
tion if he be an honest man.
We invite newspaper editors and
others to give this matter earnest
attention.
Everybody knows that the Uni
ted States Senate to-day does not
represent the people. There are
exceptions among the Senators,
but they are in the minority.
Every {year the Senate is less and
less representative of the nation,
more and more representative of
organized capital. Good Ameri
cans, irrespective of party, will
strive to work for this change in
the uational machiuery. Take
away from the trusts uow the
power to tamper with uational laws
through the Senate.
In Chicago a crowd surrounded
and cheered two negroes who
fought with knives until one fell
dead. Southern lynching belt
papers please copy.
Stops the Cough and Works off the Cold.
Laxative Bromo-Quinine Tablets cure a
cold in one day. No Cure, No Pay. Pi ice
25 cents.
im cuba
who« it b hot all the year round
fScott's Emulsion!
fdbbetter than any whereebe
in the world. So don't stop taking
it in summer, or you will lose 1
what you have gained.
Send for a free sample.
I SCOTT & DOWNS, Chemist'«,
409-415 Peart Street, New York.
50c and Ji.oo^U druggists.
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id sltkly.
«>t influence to I«
>reath >»f the b.il>e is sug
v and health. Some chil
nl delicate as the modest
ron^and bright, some are
»ing for children is insep
<>i the beautiful, and it
»man tobring the sweet -
;ir on the subject of her
sy that period when life là
Mothers Friend
to try
friend 1
pularly used. It is a liniment, easily
nlstered ami for external use only.
risk, no experiment, merely a pain
er and harmless.
tenant women are earnestly entreated
nedy, it being undeniably a
during nature's term of sus
pense, tears and anticipation.
Mother's Friend, If used diligently
throughout gestation, will soften thebreasts,
thereby preventing cracked ami sore nipples.
All tissues, muscles and tendons straining
with the burden will soften, relax, become
soothed, supple and elastic from itscontin
ued application.
All fibres in the abdominal region will re
s pond readily to the expanding Co ver contain
ing the embryo if Mother's Friend is ad
ministered externally all during pregnancy.
All reliable druggists seil this remedy for
$1 per bottle.
A really valuable treatise on motherhood
will be sent free, if you write us.
IMF BK40I II I D REGULATOR CO.,
Atlanta, tin. 0
The South's Wonderful Progress.
The industrial advance of the
South during the last two decades
is told in the figures below, taken
from the census reports of the
United States. These figures tell a
story which is without parallel in
the history of the world's progress.
Not many years ago tlie South
was looked upon as a vast agricul
tural region devoted chiefly to the
raising of one staple cotton. The
outside world had not realized that
here nature had deposited in lavish
abundance, coal, iron, ore and all
other minerals, necessary in the
manufacture of every product use
ful to man. The diversity and fer
tility of soil, suitable for the re
munerative cultivation of all the
cereals, fruits and vegetables had
not been recognized. Our im
mense domains of virgin forest
had scarcely been touched by the
woodman's ax.
Some twenty years ago Southern
brain aud brawn set to work, aud
to-day the South is recoguized and
figured with as an important in
dustrial factor. In that short
space of time her railway mileage
has been nearly tripled; her pro
duction of cotton doubled ; the
whirl of over 40,000,000 spindles
is heard where there were but 500,
000 in 1880. Her cotton mills con
sumed in 1880, iu round figures,
but 188,000 bales, as against 1,
482,000 bales in 1900. The value
of the South's mineral products
has in twenty years, increased
sevenfold ; the production of coal
ninefold. Louisiana produced in
1880 less than 200,000,000 pounds
of sugar ; her crop last year was
over 000,000,000 pounds. In 1880
we mined 6 million tons of coal as
against 51 millions tons in 1900.
The value of the products of the
forest was in 1880 39 millions, and
iu 1900—188 millions. When the
diminishing resources of the North
are exhausted, when her fast dis
appearing forests are deuuded, and
her mines abandoned, the inex
haustible resources of the South,
as yet hardly touched, will make
her the workshop of the Western
Hemisphere. From her indus
trial centers the world's commerce
will be be dominated and from her
great ports will be carried the fin
ished products to every part of the
globe.
lirait it in Hi * Sewnpnper .
Ceorge Schaub, a well known (iernian
citizen of New Lebanon, Ohio, is a con
stant reader of the Dayton Volk * zeiUtn <j.
He knows that this paper aims to adver
tise only the best in its columns, and when
he saw Chamberlain's Pain Balm adver
tised therein for lame back, he did not
hesitate in buying a bottle of it for bis
wife, who for eight weeks had suffered
with the most terrible pains in her back
and could get no relief. He say»: "After
using the Pain Balm for a few days my
wife said to me, 'I feel as though born
anew', aud before using the entire eon
tents of the bottle the unbearable pains
had entirely vanished and she could ngain
take up her household duties." He is
very thankful and hopes that all suffering
likewise will hear of her wonderful re
covery. This valuable liniment is for
sale by Jas. A. Lee Druggist.
The bill to make Jefferson
Davis' birthday, June 3, Confeder
ate Decoration day passed the
house last week unanimously and
will probably become a law with
out opposition.
The Best Prescripts« for Malaria,
Chills and Fever is a bottle of Qrove's
Tasteless Chill Tonic. It is simply iron
and quinine in a tasteless form. No «are
—no pay. Price 60c.
THE SLAUGHTER OF SONG BIKbS
The New Orleans newspapers are
doing a commendable act 111 urg
ing the passage of a bill prohibit
ing tin killing ami trapping of
Louisiana's song birds. No state
has been so generously endowed by
nature with the feathered choristers
and no state has been su far be
hind in passing laws foi their pro
tection. Kverv newspaper in New
Orleans has joined in the move
ment to prohibit their destruction,
and every newspaper in the state
outside ought to lend its efforts to
obtain legislative act ion
The following from the New <>r
leans Picayune gives one of the
many arguments that are being
brought to bear in the case
"The destruction of song birds
for their plumage has been some
'
tiling enormous of late years. In
localities where thousands were to
be seen a few years ago, scarcely
one i.î to be found to day; iu fact,
so general had the destruction been
in some states that the number h a -
been reduced as much as 05 per
cent. When it is considered that
nearly every species of song-bird
feeds exclusively un insects, it can
easily be seen that even if the
aesthetic side of the question were
absent, there is a serious economic
problem involved, and which strikes
directly at every farmer and fruit
grower in the couutry. The des
truction to crops in this country
through the ravages of noxious in
sects amounts to hundreds of mil
ions of dollars yearly. Every bud
of grain, every basket of fruit or
ree killed by insects is so much
wealth lost to the community.
Thus any measures for their re
duction—and this of preserving
insectiverous birds is one—should
have the support of every citizen.
A bill has beeu introduced in the
Louisiana legislature having the
same aims as the law now 011 the
statute books of Illinois and other
states. In the passage of such a
law there is no political ax to
grind ; it is simply an economic
measure, and one of prime, im
portance to the whole state. But
prohibiting the killing of the birds
will not alone check the wholesale
destruction which is going on
within the limits of our state.
There should be a clause putting a
stop to trapping birds. Thousands
of our song birds are sent yearly
out of the state. As far as Louisi
ana is considered, and for any
benefit the state might have de
rived through their destruction of
insects, these birds might just as
well have been killed outright as
exported. The mocking-bird is
fast disappearing; in some districts
its song is never heard, while that
blaze of beauty in the sunlight—the
cardinal—is almost a tradition in
some districts where it was once as
common as the sparrows is now in
the streets of New Orleans."
Another point of equal, if not
greater, force, that might be made
is in the brutalizing effect that
wanton slaughter of harmless birds
has upon men aud boys who shoot
them for no other purpose than to
display their marksmanship. The
greatest curse of Louisiana, it must
be admitted, is the reckless disre
gard of the sanctity of human life
that its court records show ; and we
submit that the slaughter of pretty,
innocent creatures like these pro
motes the lust for blood-letting the
reflection of which is found in the
taking of human life on the slight
est excuse or provocation. By
punishing all forms of animal
murder, the state will throw au ad
ditional safeguard around the lives
of its citizens.
Yon Know What Yon Are Taking
When yon take Grove 's Tasteless Chill
Tonie because the formula Is plainly print
ed on ever j bottle showing that it Is limply
Iron and Quinine in a tasteless form. Mo
Cure, No Pay. 6O0.
Farmers institutes will be held
at Jennings July 24 and at Lake
Charles July 28, according to a bul
letin recently issued by the state
agricultural department.
Some Reasons
~ hy You Should Insist on Having
UREM HARNESS OIL
• a ■ j ualed by any other.
'eniiers hard leather soft.
; socially prepared.
î eeps out water.
\ heavy bodied oil.
1arne8s
! excellent preservative.
; educes cost of your harness.
fever burns the leather ; its
efficiency is increased.
Secures best service.
Stitches kept from breaking.
Oil
|s sold io all
Localities
TEARfllL,
Trembling, frightened, lu know-,
why. Between liei sol";
husband of lier misers
enough for tile husband t<
wife i:i this con
dition, she needs
help In t Ii ose
early days when
the shadow of
maternity lirst
begins to fall
upon the woman
she is often nerv
ous, sleepless,
without appetite,
and full of vague
fears.
The help need
ed l>v women at
this crisis is fully
furnished 1>v Dr.
Pierce's Favorite
Prescription. II
nourishes the
nerves and so
quiets them. It
restores the appe
tite aud induces
refreshing sleep.
It gives physical
strength and mental buoyancy to meet
the trial of motherhood, and makes the
baby's advent practically painless.
"1 will be very «lad to sny a few wor.ls lor
nr. l'uni 's I'.i voi il.- Prescript ion," writes Mis.
I' S I »ourlas of Mansoiivillc, llron
" During the hrst lour months win
to becoming a mother I suffered
from nnnsea ami vomiting, .nul I felt
sick I roiilil scarcely eat -»r «lritilc n
hated all kinds ot food. Atthlstim
l>r. Pierce and he told me to tfrt h
Prescription' and a bottle ot '('.old
Discovery.' I ffot a bottle ot each ti
had taken them a few days I lelt m
and when I had taken hardly three parts of
each bottle I felt well and could eat as well as
anv one and could do mv work without any
anything before). I feel
erce for his medicine, and
tliev are sick to get these
Dr. l'ierce."
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not
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miort t!i
ti*
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1 I looked
t ry much
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ythifig. 1
I wrote to
'Favorite
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mid 1
trouble ( I <
vet v thankful to Dr.
I tell all who tell 1
medicines or write
Dr. l'ierce's P
the bowels.
THE RICI: MARkF.T.
The market displayed nothing
of especial interest during the four
days which constituted the present,
week, unless per chance, the fact
that the abbreviated period the
sales footed up equal the preced
ing full week. It, might be argued
by this, that the demand is 011 the
increase, and yet another view
from those of less optimistic tem
perament, might make out that it
meant simply prevision regarding
requirements, simply ordering
ahead so as to avoid possiblo de
lays because of interrupting holi
days. The demand in the main,
holds to Japan and as a result,
prices have been fractionally ad
vanced with tendency further up
ward. Carolina and Honduras
sorts except in the fancy grades as
previously noted are quite out of
range in comparison with Japan,
but being in more limited supply
likely to be maintained about at
present figures.
Larger buyers exhibit more
lively interest by liberal purchases,
but taking the Trade as an entirety,
there is manifest conservatism;
even though orders be smaller, this
feature is not without its compen
sations, as it contains an ussurance
of steady demand throughout the
weeks to come.
Advices from the South note
steady demand at all points. The
movement for the month fell short
of the preceding one; still, was of
phenominal proportions. The
home product now controls the sit
uation primal points are assured of
largo and continuous business.
In no previous season has Now
Orleans and the Southwest been so
well equipped in the matter of
stock ; heretofore the crop by this
time has been milled out, but this
year many of the mills which sus
pended operations at an earlier
period, are now starting up and
giving to the market a desirable
assortment of fresh milled offer
ings.
Cables and correspondence from
abroad indicate a little better feel
ing because of enlarged movement
in the far East. Bnrmah, in spite
of an ever increasing production,
finds its way into consumption at
steadily appreciating average in
values.
Talmage, New Orleans, tele
graphs Louisiana Crop Movement
to date: Receipts, rough, 1,397,
460 sacks; last year, 1,025,295
sacks. Sales, cleaned (est) 1,195,
510 pockets; last year, 871,875,
pockets. Steady demand at full
former values.
Talmago, Charleston, telegraphs
Carolina Crop Movement to date:
Receipts, 43,080 barrels. Sales,
42,850 barrels. Good enquiry
within former range.
oamtozlzai
Bears ths >«TtlS Kind Yoï Hi* J
Bgastn
of
NEWSPAPERS PREVENT JOBS.
Congressman Charles E. Little
field of Maine is reported as say
ing: "If it were not for the news
papers, the jobs which would go
through congress are terrible to
contemplate. If there were no
newspapers at all, I don't believe I
would be willing to trust myself
alone iu the house of representa
tives for fifteen minutes."