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AIND IINOERHINDEINT OBSERVER. Consolidated March last, 1QQ2.
M \V. KISIIKK, Editor.
VOU'MK XVIII.
DEVOTED TO THE ADVANCEMENT OF HOME INTERESTS.
NEW IBERIA, LA., SATURDAY, JULY 5, 1902.
II. I). SOUTII \VEI,I/, Associate Editor.
NUMBER ID
G A A R, SCOTT & CO., New '^ia, La.
Traction and
Portable En
gine s JS aw Mills
Clover Bullers
r I I l\ ICSI I IN( î M ACH IN K K Y
"QUEEN of the RICE RIEL.D" Thresher
mid CORLISS TRACTIOIN EINOIINES
"Wherever Rioe is King, the Gaar. Scott Engine and Thresher is Queen."
MAISON WAMIÎHOUSI!,
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T. A. HUTCHES, Salesman.
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BREWING ASSOCIATION
ST. LOtJ IS
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Ice & Battling; Co.,
LIMITED,
^ SOLE AGENTS
—AT—
NEW IBERIA.
Xog and Bottled Beer,
pi i « )to ^raphs
call AT THE
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And Look Pleasant--We Do the Rest.
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liwik \vc tiu<\ \V,. tunke thn latent flnlfli and
kf: j> striftly up to date. We will Rive a MKDALi
MON* with eiwh do/., n Cabinet» for the month of
M m reli Perfect L,It i .faction guaranteed or money
refunded. SPENCER PHOTO 00.
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havo superior advantage» In atdtcg students to
seenre sHottlons. , . ^ „
Kf A «tore la connected with SouMCoUgge
In which »indent» do actual business
separate faculties. Send for Catttlogaa.
Business Men supplied with competent
F. N. BRIAN, M. D.
PHYSICIAN AND SURGEON.
Tjbst »«tries and Gynecology a Specialty.
• Offlce, Ktn mer Hutldlng. Roaldonce, corner
1, Charles ami Center streets
Calif« promptly answered Day or Night
Cumberland 'Phone, Re*., 286; Office, 160.
. M. PERRY,
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PAPER HANGER.
FINISHIN6 III HARD Oil A SPECIALTY.
Shop in Millard Block, Rail
road A vernit»,
NEW IBERIA, LA.
A.S.AULD
NEW IBERIA, LA.,
tactical Engineer
and Machinist.
Rice Irrigating Machinery, S nv Mill, Sugar
Hotisii, tiiisi Mill, Cotton «»ins, etc.
Work guaranteed first-class in every re
s|>ect.
■ ftetf Would be pleased to get voui work.
Lock Box
OF LOUISIANA.
NEW ORLEANS.
EDWIN A. ALDERMAN, LL. D., President
V
Pull l'ourse in Languages, Sciences, En
gineering, Law, Medicine, Pharmacy,
Art. Seven Separate Departments.
Sixteen Buildings. Extensive Libraries
Laboratories and Workshops. Splon
did Department for Women in New
comb College.
Tülau« makes leaders in all vocations.
Its facilities for instruction are unsur
passed in the South. 80 instructors and
1223 students last session. Many schol
arships in the academic department open
to Louisiana boys. Expenses of scholar
ship student, $175 for session. Hoard and
lodging iu dormitories at low rates. Op
portunities afforded academic students for
self-help. In the Academic Colleges no
tioy, if properly prepared for college work,
will be turned away from inability to pay
tuition. Next, session begins October 1st.
Send for catalogue. Address,
R. K. BRUFF, Secretary.
A It A It
F OH SALE AT
GAIN.
A fine young blaék mare, large and
heavy, suitable for family driving, togeth
er with a set of harness and two-seat sur
rey. Apply lit this otlice.
FOR SALE.
A young Brahma Jersey cow with young
Holstein heifer, cmt, tie had at a bargain.
Apply to L. IJEMAIRR,
330 St. Peter St., Box 147,
New Iberia, La.
Notice of Homologation.
SUCCESSION OF ALBERT J. DECUIR.
State of Louisiana, I'aristi of Iberia, 19th
Judicial District Court.
Whereas J. Gabriel LeBlanc, of the par
ish of Iberia, administrator of the succes
sion of Albert J. Decuir, deceasod, has
filed in this Honorable Court his final ac
count and tableau of said estate and also
his petition prajing that same be homolo
gated and approved.
Notice is hereby given to all whom it
may or doth concern, to show cause, if
any they have, within ten days from date
hereof, why the prayjCC tf said petitioner
should not be granted.
Witness the Hon. T. Don Foster, Judge
of our said Court this 14th day of June,
1902. A. J. MAUMUS,
Deputy Clerk of Court.
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 ou 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 Leo street, East End, 104 feet
front, 198 in depth, good'six room house
and outbuildings.
Lot on Main street, 50x150 feet.
Lot on Bank Avenue, «ear Main street,
100x207 feet.
IrfOt on Madison street, near Weeks street,
50x150 feet.
Lot on Iberia street, 80x181 feet.
Lot on Providence street, 80x126 feet.
$400.
2500 acres, Parish of St. Mat tin, partly
cleared with improvement, balance bard
wood and cypress timber. $5.00 per
acre.
7 acres near town, fronting Bayou and
Public road.
Lot on Duperier Avenue, East Side, 1' 4
ai petits, $600.
I. IMS L Mod.
DENTIST,
Ot-I-ICB, CLUB BUILDINO.
XKH IBERIA. LA.
V. P. Guilfoux,
M Engineer end Swveynr,
Room 3 Ca«« Bnild.n« kkw IBKKIA, LA.
LOW RATES ON
«Southern Pacific
SUNSET ROUTE.
Morgan's Louisiana it Texas Railroad
and Steamship Company will sell tickets
from Now Iberia to Chicago and return
June 15, 16, 20 and 23d, 1902., with return
limit Sepfc. 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 lbeiia to Salt Lake City, Utah,
and return Aug. 6, 7 and 8th, 1902, with
return limit Oct. 3d, 1902, at a rate of
$40.85 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 return, 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 it Texas Railroad
and Steamship Company will sell tickets
from New Iberia to Cloud Ciaft, N. M. and
return until Sept. 30, with return limit
Oct. 31, at a rate of $36.75 via the Cloud
Climbing route 9000 feet above sea level,
wit h average temperature at noon during
June of 65.
Moigan's Louisiana & Texas Railroad
and Steamship Company will sell tickets
from New Iberia to Salt Lake City and re
turn, with return limit Oct. 3d, 1902, at a
rate of $46.85, on account of Annual
Meeting Order of Elks.
New Iberia to San Francisco, Calif., and
return, Aug. 2d to 10th, limit Sept. 30th,
rate, $47.50, account K. of P.
Round trip to Denver, Col., $38.00 ; Col
orado Springs, $36.95, until Sept. 30th, lim
it, Oct. 31st.
New Iberia to Mermantau, on account
Camp Meeting (Lake Arthur), June 25th
to 26th, limit July 10th, rate $2.20.
Now Iberia to Nashville, Tenn., July
3d, 4th and 5th, rate $21.85, limit July
31st, privilego of extonsion until Sept. 30.
New Iberia to Atlanta, Ga., Aug. 1st
and 3d, rate $20.10, limit 18 days.
New Iberia to Patterson, La., July 7th,
8th and 9th, rate $1.55, limit, July 14th.
New Iberia to all Texas resorts, sixty
days limit at reduced rates.
For further particulars, apply to
C. B. ELLIS, D. P. A.
S n rccss io n Sale.
SUCCESSION OF WILLIAM JONES.
State of Louisiana, Parish of Iberia, 19th
Judicial District Court.
By virtue of an order of tbo Honorable
the 19th Judicial District Court of the
State of Ijouisiana in and for the Parish of
Iberia, dated June 13th, 1902, and also of
a commission addressed to me, the under
signed, administrator of the succession of
William Jones, deceased, I .will offer for
sale, and sell to the last and highest bid
der FOR CASH, at the Court House door,
in the town of New Iberia, on
SATURDAY. JULY 19th, A. I)., 1902,
between legal sale hours, the following de
scribed property, to-wit :
The one-half undivided community in
terest of the succession of William Jones,
deceased, in and to one certain tract of
land containing 37 2 : , arpents in superficial
measurement, bounded north by the pub
lic road donated by Zenon Simon, south
by H. Pellet, east by public road, and
west by Jules Grivat or assigus, together
with all the buildings thereon and there
unto belonging.
The one-half undivided interest in and
to the following claims : A claim against
II. Spencer for the sum of $35.00; a claim
against Gustave Jones for the sum of $30 ;
a claim against Constance Clark fot the
sum of $16 ; a promissory note executed
by Alexandre IjeBlanc for the sum of $15
payable February 1st, 1902. A certain
promissory note made and executed by
Dorsey Jones, payable December 1, 1902,
for the sum of $9.30.
ADRIEN GONSOULIN,
Ad iiinistrator.
Notice of Homologation.
SUCCESSION OF THOMAS SIMON,
DECEASED.
State of Louisiana, Parish of Iberia, 19th
Judicial District Court.
Whereas, Maurice Simon, a résident of
the paiish of Iberia, administrator of the
above entitled and numbered succession,
has filed in this Honorable Court bis final
tableau and account of said above estate,
and a.so his petition praying that same be
homologated and approved.
Notice is hereby given to whom it may
or doth concern, to show cause, if any
they have, within ten daya from date hare
of. why prayer of said petitioner should
not be granted.
Witness the Honorable T. Don Foater,
Judge of our said Court, this 14th day of
June, A. D. 1902. A. J. MAUMUS,
Deputy Clerk of Court
T he E nterprise
AW OHSE RVFIÎ —CO\SOLlI>.\ TED.
OFFICIAL JOURNAL OF IBERIA PARISH
AND TOWN OF NEW IBERIA
Subscription, ipi.SO |»»;r Annum
CANALS.
The following list of canals draw
ing water from Bayou Teche will
In- a revelation to most of our citi
zens, the list and acreage has been
compiled liy Mr. L. Waggoner,
who is identified with the rice in
dustry of the parish and is one of
the efficient assistants of the New
Iberia Milling & Development Co.
of this city. The list of course
does not include the acreage by
wells which will swell the aggre
gate considerably, the condition of
this crop is very flattering showing
that our supply of water is sweet,
fresh, and reliable, and notwith
standing the long spell of dry
weather which is destroying the
crop in other sections, the per cent
of depreciation is very small :
St. Martinsville In. Co waters 1200 Acres
Fournet Irr. Co " 1100 "
Delahoussayc I it . Co. .. " 1200 "
Nie Muller. " 200 "
A. Conrad & Son " 500 "
tiainnier & Bernard... " 250 "
Charles Conrad ... .. " 425 "
O. Daspit " 175 "
Daspit & Boiel . ... . " 150 "
J. N. Warrick " 50 "
Bonin Canal " 1600 "
R. F. Delahoussaye .... " 400 "
R. F. Delahoussaye & Co " 500 "
Dallas & Broughton . " 250 "
R.H.Terry " 200 "
Summorell & Hülse . . " 175 "
Pecot & Sigtir " 250 "
A. Conrad & Son (Matil
da Plantation) ... " 500 "
A. Conrad & Son (Lo
reauville) " 600 "
JamesConrad ... " 600 "
O. Durand " 300 "
A. Fournet ... . . " 600 "
—. —. Gainnier . . . . " 250 "
E. Marin " 125 "
Teche Canal Co .. " 600 "
C. Labit " 150 "
I). Gabavini " 150 "
Biles & Ratcliff '• 150 "
J. C. Acres " 150 "
Geo. Labauve " 250 "
Dryer & Poirson " 225 "
Sam Jones " 350 "
L. B. Delahoussayo. . " 100
Dautrieve Brothers.. . . " 250 "
A. Broussard & Brothers " 350
Gonsoulin & Son. .. . " 225 "
R.E.Marin " 400 "
F. Dautrieve " 250 "
Decuir & Gonsoulin .... " 175 "
Jones & Cormier " 250 "
Jefferson Irrigation Co. . " 1500 "
B. L. Fournet. ...... " 250 "
A texajTwonder.
Hall's Great Discovery.
One small bottle of Hall's great dis
covery cures all kidney and bladder
troubles, removes gravel, oures diabetes,
seminal emissions, weak and lame backs,
rhematism and all irregularities of the
kidneys and bladder iu both men and
women, regulates bladder troubles in child
ren. If not sold by your druggist, will be
sont by mail on receipt of $1. One small
bottle is two months' treatment, and will
cure any case above mentioned. Dr. E.
W. Hall, sole manufacturer, P. O. Box
629, St. Louis, Mo. Send for testimonials.
Sold by druggists, and Estorge Drng Co.
Read This.
New Iberia, La., August 25, 1901.
Dr. E. W. Hall, St. Louis, Mo. :
Dear Sir—Your Texas Wonder, Hall's
Great Discovery, has done me more good
for Kidney, Bladder and Rheumatism than
anything I ever used. Yours truly,
T. A. DEROUEN.
president mitchell's appeal.
President Mitchell, the head of
the striking miners, is following
the coal operators doggedly, and
issuing appeals to the American
people based on the faets of the
situation.
He declares that the anthracite
miners, numbering 147,500 men,
are employed not over 200 days in
any ono year and receive an aver
age of $1.42 a day for ten hours'
service.
No man will say that this is too
much for the decent support of a
family, especially at this time when
the cost of living has been advanced
over 32 percent.
The operators say that they can
not afford to advauce wages with
out taxing the public in the price
of coal. Yet these men who are
so anxious for the public weal have
already raised the price of coal $1
a ton since the strike began with
out giving any part of this increase
to the mine workers.
In thus making his appeal to the
public President Michell knows
where the winning is ultimately
located. Should a universal strike
of coal miners be the last resort on
July 17, the people will not be un
informed as to the points at issue.
Let reason prevail !— Boston Globe.
ij Teething
Then the baby is most like»
; jy nervous, and fretful, and
:j doesn't gain in weight.
Scott's Emulsion
is the best food and medicine
for teething babies. They
gain from the start.
Wi Scad for a free sample,
ji SCOTT & BOW NE, Chemists,
jl 400-415 Peart Street, New York.
t 50c. and $1.00; all droRists.
There are in this country about
200,000 miles of railway, or about
40 per cent of the world's mileage.
Sh
HERE 'S A BABY
ITS JVIOTIIKK IS WELL.
The baLy Is healthy l»ecause during gestation
its mother used the purely vegetable liniment.
Mother's Friend.
Mother's Friend is a soothing, .oftening, relax
ing oil, a muscle maker, invigorator and treshen
er. It puts new power Into your back and hips.
a coming mother rubs it in from the outside,
with her own pretty fingers,—no dosing and
swallowing of nasty drugs—no inside treatment
i no
at
Tne itate of the mother during gestation may
influence the disposition nnU whole future of the
child: that is why mothers should watch their
condition and free themselves from pain, lier
health, that of the child and their lives, depend
on keeping free from torture, worry and melan
choly. Be of good cheer, strong of heart and
peaceful mind Mother's Friend can and \v ill
make you so. Bearing down nains, morning
âickness, soreness of breast, and insomnia îire
all relieved and diminished by this wonderful
remedy backed by two score years of success.
Of druggists $i.<>0
Senti for our book—Motherhood- fr««».
THE BRADFIELD REGULATOR CO.
A tlant «, G a.
PRESIDENT PALMA AND THE NEGRO
President Palma of Cuba lias
come out very plainly in dealing
with the "race question," which
seems to be in Cuba as well as with
ourselves. Colored men must not
look for political preferment at his
hands until they demonstrate their
capabilities. Under Spanish rule
the education of the blacks was
wholly neglected and the race in
the islands today is overwhelmed
in dense ignorance. President
Palma is wise enough to see that
no matter how altruistic or senti
mental ho may be that his duty as
president of the island compels
him to adopt such measures as will
redound to the best interests of the
people.
In this President Palma will
arouse the anger of the long-range
philanthropists of the East, who
are strong on theory and short on
political knowledge. They will
quote the Declaration of Independ
ence and remind him that all men
are created free and equal. All to
no purpose. President Palma
knows what is best and wisest.
That distinguished soldier of
fortune, Ceu. Gomez, will not ob
ject, in spite of the fact that the
negroes are his chief supporters
and followers. He is comfortably
provided for and he cares little
what becomes of the rest.
When we reflect that the negroes
of the island have been nominally
free for many years and that they
are not so very far below the
whites in intelligence, President
Palma's course will appear the
more strange; but it will be en
dorsed by all who have the knowl
edge of conditions which will en
able them to see things in their
true light. And iu this light the
monstrous folly the stupendous
crime committed by the Republican
party in enfranchising slaves who
knew nothing of freedom, and in
disfranchising their former mas
ters, will appear in all the greater
hideousness.
Time is a great teacher as well
as a great healer, and those who
sought to submerge a superior race
under an inferior race will discover
their error whether they will be
honest enough to admit it. or not.
$100 Steward $100.
The readers of this paper will be pleas
ed to learn that there is at least one dread
ed disease that science has been able to
cure in all its stages, and that is Catarrh.
Hall's Catarrh Cure is the only positive
cure known to the medical fraternity. Ca
tarrh being a constitutional disease, re
quires a constitutional treatment. Hall's
Catarrh Cure is taken internally, acting
directly upon the blood and mucous sur
faces of the system, thereby destroying
the foundation of the disease, and giving
the patient strength by building up the
constitution and assisting nature in doing
its work. The proprietors have so much
faith in it* curative powers, that they
offer One Hundred Dollars for any case
that it fails to cure. Send for list of tes
timonials. Address,
F. J. C heney & Co., Toledo, o.
Sold by Druggists, 75c.
Hall's Family Pills are the best.
Hill and Clevelaud are a pretty
pair of blossoms. They now come
out of the brush, where they have
been skulking and hiding from the
enemy during the battle, and say :
"Let us lead the democratic hosts.
If military law governed political
parties, they would both be shot
for desertion.
6?
Ma ilpatnr» Is «a every lias ol tke
lixative Bromo-QririM *»*•*•
WATTERSON TELLS WHY.
The Courier-Journal might say
of Mr. Cleveland's tree trade ut
terances generally, "The voice is
.Jacob's voice, but the hands are
the hands of Esau," because from
first to last Mr. Cleveland used the
tariff issue as a means of deceiving
Democrats and riding into power.
When he got there he either would
not or else he did not know how.
In either case we want no more.
Assuredly he wrecked us; and.
having wrecked us, why should
we listen to him again? His very
commonplaces grow ghastly in the
light of the lost opportunities he
made for us.
Mr. Watterson did his best to
warn his parly associates away
from Mr. Clevelaud in lie
sounds the same warning again
because lie knows only too well
what .Mr. Cleveland means, and
what those immediately about him
mean, when he puts himself to the
trouble of making a public deliver
ance and they put themselves to
the expense of organizing a club.
It means the very reverse of party
unification. In due season the
public will begin to feel the press
ure. In due season the mugwump
machinery will begin to move. In
due season the poison will begin
insidiously to percolate through
the nether veins of the party cor
porate.
Mr. Watterson has but two ends
in view, to scotch a movement
wholly dangerous in character and
to vindicate the truth of history.
He has never had the slightest pri
vate quarrel with Mr. Cleveland.
His opposition to Mr. Cleveland
rests upon the specific statemeuts
lit; has made, that Mr. Cleveland is
an ill-tempered, self-willed man,
having neither the intellectual
training nor the moral and politi
cal inspiration for Democratic fel
lowship, or leadership; that he
knows little and cares less about
tariff reform; that such sympa
thies as I10 has are not on the side
of the plain, common people, aud
still less with the lowly and the
poor, but 011 the side of the strong,
the mighty and the great; that he
is personally an ingrate and a glut
ton ; that, because of his selfishness
and his brutishness, he alienated
every Democrat of conseqneuce in
Congress who would uot serve him
blindly; that, in short, he fouud
the party a noble unit and left it a
wreck. Where ho is best known
he is most detested.
Seeing thus these things, some
times at long range and sometimes
at short range, Mr. Watterson
stood aghast and appalled. The
Edgar Apgar tragedy ; the Man
ning tragedy; the shameless turn
ing down of friends; the assidu
ous cultivation of enemies; the
revolting self-assertion sometimes
of exclusive virtue and sometimes
of exclusive courage; in a word,
the perpetual wearing of the self
made halo, the great, noble, con
fiding Democratic party going to
destruction the while, first af
frighted and then disgusted him.
And, finally, as nobody seemed to
be willing to speak out, he did;
he did it in 1S92, and he is doing
it now, and never did man speak
more unselfishly or in greater dis
regard to any and all consequences
to himself.
Mr. Cleveland derives a great
advantage from the dignity which
doth hedge an ex-president. We
should be disloyal to a trust if we
respected this. His proposed ac
tivity now bodes no good to auy
body except himself, and at best
but ministers to his quenchless lust
for the flesh-pots of place and
power. Republicans may have him
an' they want him. The Demo
crats want none of him. They
know that when he comes in at the
door harmony flies out of the win
dow.
Heartburn.
When the quantity of food taken is too
large or the quality too rich, heartburn is
likely to follow, and especially so if the
digestion has been weakened by constipa
tion. Eat slowly and not too freely of
easily digested food. Masticate the food
throughly. Let six hours elapse between
meals and when you feel a fullness and
weight in the region of the stomach after
eating, indicating that you have eaten too
much, take one of Chamberlain's Stomach
and Liver Tablets and the heartburn may
be avoided. For sale by Jas. A. Lee's
drug stçre. _
Rathbone has abandoned any
hope of getting a vindication in
the wny of a verdict of "not guilty
in Cuba, and has sailed for home.
He lives in Ohio arid he can there,
if he his the money, soon reinstate
himself in the graces of his party,
if it is in a tight place. And that
would be vindication enough. If
a man in Ohio is vindicated by his
party he cares for nothing else.
RliRAL ELECTRIC LINES
The correspondent of the Daily
States at Baton Rouge writes the
following to his paper :
"Congressman Broussard, at
the request of the parochial affairs
committee, has drawn a substitute
for the Marren» bill looking to the
granting of authority to police
juries to give street railways the
privilege of running over the pub
lic roads. It will be remembered
that General F F. M vies ami
friends, having projected an elec
tric road in the Teche section and
having scoured grants over the
public roads of the parishes they
desire to operate iu, were preparing
to carry their enterprise into effect
when the Supreme Court intervened
and declared that police juries were
incompetent to grant such fran
chises.
"Mr. Btoussard has taken those
sections of the city charter of New
Orleans which refer to the sale of
franchises for street railroads as
the basis of his substitute.
passed it will not only clear the
It it is
way for the building of the Monte-1
gut electric line and the New Iberia
Morgan City line, but it. will pro
vide a means for the disposal of
similar franchises such as will
enable tho various parishes to
share in the prosperity of electric j
railway enterprises. The bill
gives the right to the police juries
to dispose of the franchises at
public auction for a percentage of
the gross receipts of tho lines
which acquire them. When an
enterprise is projected the abutting
property-holders will address a
petition to the police jury setting
forth their desire for tho sale of
the franchise, the length of time it
shall run, the advertising, tho
point of sale, ote. Provision is
made for the sale at one time of
tho roads that are to be run through
several parishes. All theoxpenses
of getting up petitions, the cost of
advertising, etc., are, as iu the
city, to bo borne by the parties to
whom the franchise may be dedi
cated. Provision is also made for
the inspection of the books of com
panies or corporations which se
oure franchises.
"While the legislation is espec
ially desired at this session to
facilitate the carrying out of two
large enterprises projected for
southwestern Louisiana, the act
has an interest for the whole
State, since with the present de
mand for the development of
transportation lines into rural
communities there will doubtless
be many similar projects launched
in different parts of Louisiana in
the next ten or fifteen years.
The bill will be submitted to
tho parochial affairs committee at
its next meeting. It will probably
be introduced in both houses early
this week.
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Harness Oil «»
not only make* tho barn«« and tb« I *
hors« look better, but makes tha '
leather soft and pliable, puts., In con
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The democratic organization in
Iudiana has in its State platform
sounded a clear call to the political
battle of 1902. The democratic
party and a majority of American
people will fall in line at that call,
arrayed for conflict with the tariff
bred trusts and the party of the
trusts and the tariff. They must
win the fight if the country is to
be rescued from oppressive mo
nopoly St. Louis Republic.
The Name Old Story.
J. A. Kelly relates an experience simi
lar to that which has happened in almost
every neighborhood iu the I nited States
and has been told and re told by thou
sands of others. He says: "Last sum
mer I had an attack of dysentery and
purchased a bottle of Chamberlain's Colic,
Cholera and Diarrhoea Remedy, which I
according to directions and with entirely
satisfactory results. The trouble was con
trolled much quicker than former attacks
when I used other remedies." Mr. Kelly
is a well known citizen of Henderson, N.
C. For sale by Jas. A. Lee, Druggist.
The superstition that London
tailors and London men combine
to produce the best dressed men in
the wor*ld, says Town Topics, die«
hard.
DR. DAVIS'
Compound Syrup
Wild Cherry and Tar
It is the
Union of the
Cherry and the Pine
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At ilriiirKiHts ami jnwlicine dealers.
LAST SNUFI TAKER.
On either side of the t inted
States senate chamber is an ancient
snuff box -one for republicans and
one for democrats. The boxes are
a survival of the old time habit of
snuff taking, which was almost
universal in the Eighteenth cen
tury among persons of fashion and
public men. The habit persisted
well through the first half of the
Nineteenth century, but during the
past fifty years sniitT has gone out
0 f style. The senate boxes, how
<>ver, remain, and it appears that
they are kept filled. Are they
used by any of the senators? A
Washington paper recently noted
that Senator Vest of Missouri and
Senator Harris of Kansas, who
formetly used the boxes occasion
ally, have broken off the habit, and
that the venerable Senator Pettus
of Alabama is now their solitary
patron. lie is the last of the
snuff-takers in that historic body.
"Every now and thou he goes to
one of the black ebony boxes * * *
aud, taking a pinch, snuffs it.
Then an expansive smile spreads
over his face, and with a look of
thorough enjoyment, ho sneezes."
Senator Pettus, being well over 80
years of age, came honestly by tho
snuff habit, since I10 was taught
the grand manners of tho old
school of the Southern statesmen
iu vogue sixty yeas ago. Doubt loss
ho and tho antique snuff boxes go
well together, for they make the
past live again. Tho rise and fall
of the snuff habit would make in
teresting material for a study in
social manners the past .'500 or 400
years. In i^ueeii Auno's time
every gentleman had his snuff box,
which was often a beautiful pieco
of workmanship. Among tho
high-born ladies, too, snuff was
much in uso. In the older diplo
macy the stuff played a great role,
Talleyrand finding it quite indis
pensable, siuce he could ulways
make a pause in a conversation and
gain time for thought by offering
his snuff box to his caller or his
antagonist. In our own time tho
snuff habit has been largely loft to
old men or women in humble
walks of life, and its gradual dis
use seems accomplished.
Summer complaint is unsually prevalent
among children this season. A well de
veloped case in the writer's family was
cured last week by tho timely use of
Chamberlain's Colic, Cholera and Diarr
hoea Remedy—ono of the best patent
medicines manufactured and which is al
ways kept on hand at the home of ye
scribe. This is not intended as froe puff
for the company, who do not advertise
with us, but to benefit little sufferers who
may not be within easy access of a phy
sician. No family should bo without a
bottle of this medicine in the house, es
pecially in summer time. Lansing, Iowa,
Journal. For sale by Jas. A. Lee.
batson will get a new trial.
Batson, the man accused of mur
dering the Earl family, near Welch
in Calcasieu parish has got a new
lease of life by the Supreme Court
of Louisiana granting him a new
trial. He was tried at Lake Charles
and found guilty of murder and
sentenced to be hung. The prin
cipal bill of exceptions taken by
his attorneys at the trial before the
lower Court was that the indict
ment charged Batson with murder
ing ail the family at a specified
time and place, whereas it was
brought out in the evidence that
the Earls were murdered at differ
ent times and places. The Supreme
Court ruled that the indictments
should have been separated.
I oration Ihifjx.
Vacation time is here and tho children
are fairly living out of doors. There could
be no healthier place for them. You need
only to guard against tho accidents in
cidental to most open air sports. No rem
edy equals DeWitt's Witch Hazel Salvo
for quickly stopping pain or iemoving
danger of serious consequences. For
cuts, scalds and wounds. "I used De
Witt's Witch Hazel Salve for sores, cuts
and bruises," says L. B. Johnson, Swift,
Tex. "It is the best remedy on the mar
ket." Sure cure for piles and skin disease.
Beware of counterfeits. Sold by Jno. R.
Taylor, Druggist.
Thus far the United States have
bnilt 850 school houses in Porto
Rica.