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Enterprise
AIND IINDBPEIND EINT OBSERVER.—Consolidated March 1st, 1Q02.
M W. F1S1IEU. Editor.
VOLUME XVIII.
I)p:VOTED TO THE ADVANCEMENT OF HOME INTERESTS.
NEW IBERIA, LA., SATURDAY, JULY 19, 1902.
R. I). SOUTHWELL, Associate Editor.
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G AAR, 5COTT & CO., New lberia ' La -
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Traction and
Portable En
gines, Sa w M ills
Glover Hullers
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"QUEEIN of the RICE FIELD" Thresher
and CORLISS TRACTIOIN EINOIINES
"W herever R ice is K ing, the Q aar, S cott E ngine and T hresher is Q ueen.
Hciidqunrtcrs: MARION WAklihOUSE,
Opposite k. k. Depot.
T. A. HUTCHES, Salesman.
Messer-Busch
BREWING ASSOCIATION
ST. LOUIS
LAGER BEER.
ERATH
lei & Bottling Co.,
LIMITED,
^ sole agents
—AT—
NEW IBERIA.
Keg and Bottled Beer,
p hotographs
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And Look Pleasant--We Do ttie Rest.
Wo nro located on the comer of Main Street and
Hnnk Avenu«». We make tho latest, finish and
keep strictly up-to-date. We will give a MEDAL
LION with each dozen Cabinets for the month of
March. Perfect satisfaction guaranteed or money
refunded. SPENCER PHOTO CO.
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PHYSICIAN AND SURGEON.
bstotrics and Gynecology a Specialty.
Offler, Kmraer Uuildlng. Residence, corner
Charte« anil Center streets
Calls promptly answered Day or Night
Cumberland 'Phone, Re*.,286; Offlee. 160.
J. M. PERRY,
PAPER HANGER.
FIHISHIN6 IN HARD OIL » SPECIALTY.
Shop in Millar«! Block, Kail
road Avenue,
NEW IBERIA, LA.
A.S.AULD
NEW IBERIA, LA.,
Tactical Engineer
and Machinist.
Rice Irrigating Machinery, 8»w Mill, Sugar
Ilonse, Grist Mill, Cotton Gins. etc.
Work guaranteed first-class in every re
«pect.
•»"Would be pleased to get your work.
Lock Box 368,
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OF LOUISIANA.
NEW ORLEANS.
EDWIN A. ALDERMAN, LL. D., President
Full Course in Languages, Sciences, En
gineering, Law, Medicine, Pharmacy,
Art. Seven Separate Departments.
Sixteen Buildings. Extensive Libraries
Laboratories and Workshops. Splen
did Department for Women in New
comb College.
Tulane makes leaders in all vocations.
Its facilities for instruction are unsur
passed in tho South. 8G instructors and
11*23 students last session. Many schol
arships in the academic department open
to Louisiana boys. Expenses of scholar
ship student, $175 for session. Board and
lodging in dormitories at low rates. Op
portunities afforded academic students for
self-help. In the Acadomic Colleges no
boy, 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.
FOR SALE AT A BAR
GAIN.
A fine young black mare, large and
heavy, suitable for family driving, togeth
er with a set of harness and two-seat sur
rey. Apply at this office.
FOR SALE.
A young Brahma-Jersey cow with young
Holstein heifer, can be had at a bargain.
Apply to L. LEMAIRE,
330 St. Peter St., Box 147,
New Iberia, La.
JNO. T. WHITE
REAL ESTATE
NOTARY and
FIRE INSURANCE
HAS THE FOLLOWING LIST OF
PROPERTIES FOR SALE
112 acres ; well improved farm; all in cul
tivation; good buildings; garden; or
chard; pecan trees; 5 miles south of
town.
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 J-iee 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, 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 Duperier Avenue, East Side, IV4
aipents, $600.
If.
DENTIST,
OFPICI5, CI.UB BUILDINQ,
SF.W IHEKIA, I.A.
V. P. Guilfoux,
Civil Engineer and Surveyor,
K<*>m 3 Cage Hnllding. NKW IBKKIA, LA.
FOR RENtT^
The Lasalle residence on Main street,
East End. $25.00 per month. This prop
erty has just been thoroughly repaired
and painted. Apply at this office.
Oil Gusher
AT SORREL, LA.
The public is invited to call ana in
spect. This well can be bought outright
01 leased Address ot phone to
R. BATTLE.
Adeline, La.
LOW RATES ON
.Southern Pacific
SUNSET ROUTE.
Morgan's Louisiana & Texas Railroad
and Steamship Company will sell tickets
from New Iberia to Chicago and return
June 15, 16, 20 and 23d, 1902., with return
limit Sept. 17th, 1902, at a rate of $27.95
on acconnt of Summer Institute Meeting.
Morgan's Louisiana & Texas ltailroad
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
$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
j 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 &c Texas Railroad
and Steamship Company will sell tickets
from New Iberia to Cloud Craft, 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,
with average temperature at noon durin
June of 65.
Moigan's Louisiana & Texas Railroad
and Steamship Company will sell tickets
from New Iberia to Salt Lake City and re
tum, with return limit Oct. 3d, 1902, at l
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 Nashville, Tenn., July
3d, 4th and 5th, rate $21.85, limit July
31st, privilege of extension 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.
Succession Sale.
SUCCESSION OF WILLIAM JONES.
State of Louisiana, Parish of Iberia, 19th
Judicial District Court.
By virtue of an order of the Honorable
the 19th Judicial District Court of the
State of Louisiana in and for tho 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, 111 and to one certain tract of
land containing 37 2 3 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 assigns, 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 LeBlanc 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,
Administrator.
DR. KING'S
try NEW DISCOVERY
FOR THAT COLD.
take no substitute.
Cures Consumption,Coughs»
Colds, Bronchitis, Asthma,
Pneumonia,Hay Fever,Pleu
risy, LaGrippe, Hoarseness,
Sore Throat, Croup and
Whooping Cough.
no cure. no pay.
Prie» 60c. and $1. TRIAL BOTTLES FREE
Times-Democrat delivered to any
part of city at $1.10 per month.—
Enterprise News Store.
When J. Pierpont Morgau bays
np Europe it can be annexed.
T he E nterprise.
AM) OBSERVER— COXSOLIDA TED.
OFFICIAL JOURNAL OF IBERIA PARISH
AND TOWN OF NEW IBERIA.
Subscription, $1.50 per Annum
SOUTHERN OIL FIELDS.
Tho opeuing of an oil field at
Tho opeuing of an oil field at
Jennings, Louisiana, whose wells,
according to unprejudiced opinion,
ate equal in pressure to Beaumont's
best spouters in their best days,
has attracted wide-spread attention
to the new field and to various
localities in Louisiana where indi
cations point almost convincingly
to the existence of extensive de
posits of oil which await only the
penetration of a drill to prove their
presence.
It is becoming a popular belief
with oil men and others who have
observed development in the new
Southwestern oil fields closely,
that a clearly defined oil belt, of
greater magnitude than has here
tofore been thought of, extends
from the South Texas const east
wardly to and beyond the Missis
sippi river, including Southeast
Texas and Southern and Western
Louisiana. Already this belt has
been tapped in a dozen different
places, and while gushers have not
always been the result, it has been
demonstrated to the satisfaction of
many persons that oil in quantities
sufficient to supply the needs of the
world will be found in course of
time in this Southern and South
western region.
Prospecting and development
has been stimulated by the bring
ing in of the Jennings gushers,
and today the people of Southern
Louisiana have the quest for oil
uppermost in their minds. It is
believed that the Jennings fields
will show a larger area than
Spiudletop; such surmises being
based on the finding of oil in pump
ing quantities at a distance of a
mile or more from the gushers.
At Vinton, La., 35 miles east of
Beaumont, and between that city
and Jennings, oil has been found
at a depth of 280 feet and for more
than a year persistent attempts
have been made to drill a well to a
depth sufficient to thoroughly test
the territory. At Welch, La., 12
miles west of Jennings, a well will
shortly be sunk to a depth of 2,000
feet.
Beyond Jennings, to the east
ward, indications of oil and gas
are preseut in abuudauce. This is
true to an extraordinary degree at
Anse la Butte aud Bayou Boulliou,
and also prevails at Belle Isle and
Terrebonne. At the first two
places the gas seepage is so general
and in such quantities that it has
caused experts and practical oil
men to predict for these localities
a rich future as oil producing dis
tricts. Captain Lucas picked Anse
la Butte for an oil and gas field be
fore he started operations at Beau
mont. Even while he was boring
on Spindletop he was giving a part
of his time to Anse la Butte.
When the Gnffey Company ab
sorbed Captain Lucas' leases and
began extensive operations in the
new Southwestern fields, itsageuts
were careful to obtain all the hold
ings to be had at Anse la Butte,
and these holdings the company
regards as being exceedingly
valuable. Recently the Hey wood
Brothers, who were eminently suc
cessful iu the Beaumont field and
who later opened up the Jennings
field, have secured a firm foot hold
iu the Anse la Butte field, and
they will begin at once the develop
ment of the property by drilling a
well. They are operating through
the Heywood Bros. Oil Corpora
tion, a million dollar company
which they organized for the
special purpose of prosecuting an
extension of development in the
Jennings field and the development
of other Louisiana fields.
At Bayou Bouillion also the Hey
woods will sink a well immediate
ly. Here Messrs. Maxwell and
Sherwood of the Acme Supply Go.,
of which "Golden Rule" Jones of
Toledo is president, already have
installed a complete drilling outfit
and are at work. The Maxwell
and Sherwood rig is on the west
side of the Atchafalaya River and
the Heywood rig on the east side,
between the Bayou Bouillion and
the river.
A representative of the Oil In
vestors Journal last week visited
Ansa la Butte and Bayou Bouillion
to note the extent aud nature of
gaa and oil indications at these
places. The railroad journey from
Beanmont to Lafayette, La., the
nearest railroad point to Ansb la
Bntte, consumed four hours. From
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Mother?
Are You Expectant?
MOTHER'S FRIEND
makes childbirth easy and almost painless, by
preparing tlie system for parturition, thus assist
ing Nature, and shortening labor. The painful
ordeal of childbirthls robbed ««fits terrors, and the
danger thereof greatly lessened, to both mother
and child. The period of confinement is also
çreatl V shortened, the mother rested, and the child
fully developed, strong and healthy.
Morning sickness, or nausea arising from preg
nancy is prevented by relieving the stomach from
the pressure brought to bear on it by the expand
ing or«nn, and by which it is influenced through
sympathy.
As pregnant y advances, the breasts enlarge,
become swollen, hard and tight. Long before the
child is born, they are preparing for the secretion
of milk. It is i.nportant to successful child rear
ing that these glands receive early consideration.
Mother's Friend softens the skin, relieves the
pressiire, and facilitates the secretion of Life
Fluid. Undt.i loped and occluded ducts, aod
breasts hard caked shortly after delivery, are ine
result of non-treatment and likely toculminato in
fers excrucir.t iig p tin and is left with these
functional org., ns permanently impaired.
Mother's Friend is always applied externally
ana rubbed int < the flesh over the region of pain.
Softness, pliability and expansion are given to
the muscles, tissues, fibres and sinews, allowing
the elasticity necessary to bring comfort while
with heavy burden, and cause easy issue of the
child. 'I ry it. ( >f all druggists $1 00. (Jut book
"Motherhood" free.
T he bradfield regulator C o
ATLANTA, GA.
Lafayette it is a five mile drive to
the fields, a little less than the dis
tance from the city of Jennings to
the Jenniugs oil field. The road
to Anse la Butte takes one through
a fertile couutry, green and beauti
ful, with a hill now and then, and
a vale, whose great trees form a
cooling shade from the warm sun.
Anse la Butte has all the charac
teristics, so far as external appear
ances go, of an oil field. There
are elevations and depressions
such as oue finds at Jennings, and
which are supposed to have resulted
from upheavals proceeding from
the earth's interior. The gas
seepage prevails here over a wide
area, aud may be seen wherever a
pool of water is found, or where
there is no water, by punching a
shallow hole in the ground and ap
plying a match. The gas bubbles
up through the water and ignites
readily, causiug little explosions
which souud like the bursting of a
toy balloon. At two or three
places where there are depressions
in the ground in which small pools
of water are standing, the constant
bubbling of the gas makes a noise
like rippling water. On the slope
of one of the elevations is a hole
about seven feet square and four or
five feet deep, the sides of which
was used as a slnice hole when
Capt. Lucas was drilling at Anse
la Butte. Here the odor of gas is
quite perceptible. A piece of paper
was tied to the end of a pole, ig
nited and lowered into this hole
with the result that the gas, seep
ing through the moist earth, ignited
and burned a steady flame more
than a foot in height, just such a
flauie as one may obtain by remov
ing the nipple from an ordinary
domestic gas jet. A two-inch pipe
was thrust into the earth aud a
match applied to the free end.
Immediately the gas iguited. At
several places iu the locality similar
tests were made, proving the
presence of gas iu large quantities.
On one occasion a photograph was
made at night of a group of men
and boys, the light for the picture
beiug furnished by the natural gas
flame from the ends of two pipes
thrust into the ground.
At one poiut there is a water
well and here the oil seepage is
quite noticeable. The petroleum
appears in small, dark globules,
which spread upon the water's sur
face, making a showing similar to
that which appears on the sluice
pool when the drill has penetrated
the oil sand at Spindletop.
The location selected by the
Heywoods for the first well is in
the heart of the tract of land on
which the indications prevail.
This territory was thoroughly ex
perted in 1901 by C. F. Z. Car
acristi, an expert whose work is
entirely along scientific lines. At
the request of the Anse la Butte
Oil and Mineral Company be made
an exhaustive investigation, and iu
his report laid great stress upon
the value of the immense salt de
posits which underlie the Anse la
Butte locality. This salt bed is
from 300 to 400 feet in thickness.
The following quotation from
the report indicates Mr. Caracristi's
estimate of the value of the
property :
"I feel justified in stating that
by the drilling of six wells, as
hereinafter provided for, you would
be enabled to have a minimum sup
ply of natural gas of 5,000,000
cubic feet each 24 hours, equnl to
10(i tous of best coal. This will
be more than sufficient for all the
purposes of operating your plant,
and leave, approximately, 2,000,000
feet of pas for sale; valued for fuel
and other purposes at Lafayette, at
38 cents per | ,000 cubic feet, or
$."»00 per day. The cost of piping
the gas into the town through a
4-inch pipe should be about $15,
000, not counting the gasometer in
the town proper.
"While I am discussing the cer
tainty of the existence of natural
gas, if you should dig your wells
in the lower segment of the cylin
drical, in place of gas you will en
counter petroleum. The continui
ty of gas and petroleum seepage to
the east of the Lucas well, which
lias been going on for many years
and the existence in the clay of
petroleum residuums as well as the
defined geographical structure, con
vince me that petroleum and gas
do exist m large quantities, and
that the large salt deposits also
found on your Anse la Butte lands
will create a market for these ele
ments of fuel on your property."
The proximity of the Anse la
Butte field to tho main line of the
Southern Pacifie railroad at Lafay
ette, five miles distant,, makes the
location an excellent one, so far as
transportation is concerned.—Oil j
Investors Journal.
THE PICAYUNE'S THREAT.
We do not know enough about
the much-talked-of Merger bill to
express an opinion one way or the
other, but we are confident that the
usually sober-minded editor of the
New Orleans Picayune is just a
little bit off. The fretful old lady
sees in the passage of the Merger
bill forebodiugs of disaster to the
Democratic party, "not only in
the city, but iu the State." We
believe the Picayune is unneces
sarily alarmed. Conceding for the
sake of argument that the Merger
bill represents a wicked attempt of
the politicians of New Orleans to
get their hand into the sewerage
aud drainage funds, is it not un
reasonable to suppose that the
people of the parishes will turn the
State government over to the Re
publicans to show their disappro
bation of the act of the Legisla
ture! The Picayune has surely
mistaken the temper of the people
of tho State. , »
The Merger bill recived the ac
tive support of the New Orleans
delegation, without which, it is
safe to say, it would not have
passed the Legislature. The New
Orleaus delegation was elected by
an overwhelming majority thongh
opposed by the Times-Democrat
aud an almost unanimous press.
If that delegation does not represent
it, who does! It unquestionably
has better credentials to speak for
New Orleans than the editor of the
Times-Democrat, or the editor of
the Picayune, or Mr. Richardson,
or Mr. Farrar, or any one else.
If the people of New Orleans
send to the Legislature men who
fail to represent them whose fault
is it!
We submit in all seriousness
that this threat of the Picayune to
turn the State over to Republican
ism is childish, to say the least
of it.
The merger bill had the solid
support of the New Orleaus dele
gation with a few exceptions. If
it is the infamous measure that it
is said to be, New Orleans has
made a big mistake in electing its
representatives, but we fail to see
how the people of the State are
going to rectify that mistake by
joing the Republican party.
The people of Louisiana have
quite enough with a Federal Repub
lican administration and they are
not likely to double the dose be
cause some people in New Orleans
are dissatisfied with their repre
sentatives in the legislature.— La
fayette Gazette.
DOCTORS
say "Consomption can be cured."
Natnrealonewon'tdolt. Itneeds
help. Doctors say
"Scott's Emulsion
is the best help." Bnt you must
continue its use even in hot
weather.
If you have not tried it, send for free sample.
SCOTT & BOWNE, Chemists,
409-415 I'earl Street, New York.
50c. and $1 .00; all druggist.
Agninaldo probably doesn't
know enough about the English
language to lecture in the United
States.
Repulsive Features.
Blackheads, pimple«, greasy faces and
muddy complexions, which are so com
mon among woman, especially git Is at a
certain age, destroying beauty, disfiguring
and making repulsive, features which
would otherwise appear attractive and
refined, indicate that the liver is out of
order. An occasional dose of Herbine
will cleanse the bowels, regulate the liver,
and so establish a clear, healthy complex
ion. 50c at Estorge Drug Co.
to
at
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CONSUMPTION
Is like the constrictor which drops its
coils around its victim and slowly tight
ens them until life is extinguished
Otiec the coils are
drawn tight there
, - is little cliance of
escape. The one
hope of safety is
to break loose at
the t>eginning of
the attack
Those who are
showing symp
toms of lung dis
ease should in
stantly begin the
use of I)r. Pierce's
Golden Medical
Discovery. It will
cure obstinate
coughs, bronchitis
and bleeding of
the lungs. It in
creases the nutri
tion of the body,
and so restores the
emaciated fortn
to health and
strength.
There is 110 al
cohol in "Golden
Medical Discov
ery," and it is entirely free from opium,
cocaine, and all other narcotics.
"I feel it my duty to give my testimonial in
behalf of your great medicine," writes Mr.
John T. Reed, of Jefferson, Jefferson Co.. Ark.
\Vh>,n i commenced taking Doctor Pierce s
Iden Medical f *
a cough, and wou!
Golden Medical Discovery I was very low with
a cough, and would at times spit blo< " "
not able to do any work at all. wns
dizzy.
me so muchjrooa that I had fait
tinued until ihad taken twelve boittes. Now
I wai
ak and
my head was dizry. The first bottle I took did
n it flndcou
do not look like nor feel like the saraç man as
ast<
ild
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ease from which had it not been lor your won
was a year ago. People were aston
said they did not think that I could II'
thankfully say that I am entirely cyred of a dis
hed aud
I can
derful ' Discovery ' I would have died
Dr. Pierce's Common Sense Medical
Adviser, paper covers, sent fri
receipt of 21 one-cent stamps to pay
expense of mailing only. Address Dr.
R. V. Pierce, Buffalo, N. Y.
MANUFACTURING CRIMINALS.
But there can be no doubt that
an institution having for its object
the saving of the youth of the
State and the segregation of juve
nile offenders from tho hardened
criminals is most desperately
needed.
We are unconsciously training
and educating a large criminal ele
ment among our citizenship. It is
a shame and a disgrace that un
fortunate boys and girls, too, for
that matter, whom the cruelty of
fate has deprived.of healthful, mor
al home restraints aud influences,
and who possibly have been set
adrift without father or mother, in
a sea of crime, should be permitted
to live and mature into manhood
and womanhood in the very atmos
phere of wickedness and sin.
It is criminal, too, on the part of
the State to assign a wayward
youth who has made his first step
in crime to a life of association
with hardened criminals. It is a
stout heart and a strong individual
ity that can don the stripes of in
famy and be associated with mur
derers, burglars and vilians of all
classes in a penal colony and
emerge with a ray of future hope.
Such an unfortunate must, after
serving his term, whether it be
long or short, return to the world
hardened aud more sinful, broken
in spirit and callous to the gibes
and criticisms of his fellows.
After all, it is frequently the
case that environment makes saint
or sinner of us. A poor devil who
has never known truth and who
has been taught that virtue is a
pretty sentiment for picture books
and fairy stories, is entitled to our
most sincere commisseration, pity
and sympathy. He may be a youth
in his teens who never knew a
mother's prayers or a father's
benedictions, yet he is lined up
with murderers and cut-throats,
striped with infamy and placed in
the|chain-gang.
It is horrible to contemplate.
We do not believe in feather-beds
and table delicacies for criminals.
We are opposed to every form of
maudlin sentiment for felons.
But there ought to be intelligent
and just discrimination, and there
ought to be supreme effort to save
the youth of the laud from dis
grace and ruin.
There are today about 300 youths
in the State prison. Of these
twenty-five or thirty are white boys.
We regard these 300 as lost beyond
recall. But there are scores and
hundreds of both colors whose in
evitable destiny is the penitentiary,
who may be saved from disgrace
and made worthy good citizens.
A graded reformatory institution
by whatever name it may be called,
where proper restraints are en
forced and wholesome instruction
given and useful trades taught,
wonld do more to save souls, spare
suffering and prevent crime than
anything we could suggest, just
now.—The Monroe (La.) Star.
OASfPoniA.
Bean th* /f I' m Kind You Ha« Alwajs Bought
of
El Paso, Tex., July 15.—A
Mexican woman in this city has
given birth to two healthy children,
the second oue born six weeks
•fter the first. The case has caused
considerable comment among phy
sicians.
HOW HE
Men have ad*
RUTTED IN.
opted unique meth
ods of breaking into society, but
none was ever more original than
that which helped one who is soon
to be married to a young woman of
great wealth. The young man
went to Newport, lie naturally
went to the ( usino, and knowing
few persons at Newport was much
of tho time alone. It happened
that groups of persons well known
111 society were frequently photo
graphed 011 the grounds, aud it
was not difficult for one standing
near these persons to he included
in any picture that was taken.
The practical value of this ar
rangement appealed to tho visitor
with social ambitions. Ho was
found by accident in many photo
graphs made during the summer,
aud he selected his associates with
such discretion that his face be
came nearly as well known as
theirs. That was the beginning of
a social progress which has been
admittedly successful.— Xtw York
Sun:
As a preliminary to the exhibit
of Louisiana at the World's Fair it
is proposed to celebrate the centen
nial of the admission of this State
into the Union. The date is De
cember 23, 190^5. The celebration
will bo held in New Orleans.
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xnakefl a poor looking har
ness like new. Mude of
pure, heavy bodied oil, es
pecially prepared to with
stand the weather.
Bold everywhere
In cans—all sizes.
Mtde by STANDARD OIL CO.
J. Henry Shepherd, the well
known Shreveport man, who lias
just returned from a tour of the
Pacific northwest, is discouraged to
see how tho northwestern real es
tate agents are roping them in :
"Those people are advertising their
country," continued Mr. Shepherd,
"and they are not doing it as we
do in the south. They advertise
only the best features and leave
any other unsaid. They told mo
that the south was constantly bring
ing out the negro problem, the
lynching problem and such notori
ous internal troubles that do not
serve to invite strangers." Mr.
Shepherd is right. We need less
talk about politics and lynchiugs
aud more about climate and good
crops. —.1 merican.
The Same Old Story.
J. A. Kelly relates an experience simi
lar to that which has happened in almost
every neighborhood iu the United States
and has been told and re-told by thou
sands of others. lie says: "Last sum
mer I had an attack of dysentery and
purchased a bottle of Chamberlain's Colic,
Cholera and Diarrhoea Uemedy, which 1
according to directions and with entiroly
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.
A comparatively unknown and
retired merchant of New York, Mr.
John M. Bnrke, has given $4,000,
000 for the benefit of the poor. The
sum is to be used for worthy men
and women unable to support
themselves by reason of sickness or
misfortune. This is au example of
practical philanthropy. It applies
its bounties where it is most needed
and where it will accomplish more
direct good. We recommend to
Mr. Carnegie and others who spend
millions in public libraries to Mr.
Burke's example.— Memphis News.
Summer complaint is unsually prevalent
among children this season. A well de
veloped case in tho writer's family was
cured last week by the timely use of
Chamberlain's Colic, Cholera and Diarr
hoea Kcmedy—one of the best patant
medicines manufactured and which is al
ways kept on hand at tho home of ye
scribe. This is not intended as free 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 be without a
bottle of this medicine in the house, es
pecially in summer-time. Lansing, Iowa,
Journal. For sale by Jas. A. Lee.
President Roosevelt has issued a
proclamation officially announcing
the postponement of the World's
Fair to 1904.
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