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rfi i I fcbe Ctmcs-gnnnrrat: unoan, janiuur. 24, 13UU. 1 Let the new boar.1 take a steD further I Let the new board take a step further and aliolish from the curriculum of our i ii' mj JUST ARRIVED New Queen Quality Styles FOR SPRIXG me People OXFORDS, in Ooze Calf, 2-eye ribbon tie, welt soles. These in Elephant Gray also Price 1 Some ifieufs on "If the ocean were MAN-A-CEA and the world knew of its virtues, there would not be standing1 room on the beach." WHY? Because you can eat anything you like, if while eating you sip a glass or two Of MAN-A-CEA WATER. (Not a Purgative) FOR SALE BY YOUR DRUGGIST, OR Wliite-Wilscm-Drew Co.

Phone Main 3299 NEW ORLEANS Distributors of the Celebrated Mountain Valley Water Also. OXFORDS, 4-button, black and tan. Ooze tops, welt soles. Very attractive styles Price Letters on subjects of public Interest will, if they be available for publication, be printed In this column of Tbe Tiines-leuifKTaL If not available, they will be returned to tiie contributor, provided Mump le Kent for that purpose. The Tiiue-1 democrat Is not responsible for views expressed In this column.

All persona wrttinp letters for publication la these columns must pive their correct uacien and addresses. Where this is not done communications will receive no consideration. Communication for publication In these columns must not exceed 600 words In length, eicept where the subject dealt with Is one of great public Interest, when not more than 800 words will be accepted. of Patent Kid. 1 All si7es S3.

50 College was the first to open it -doors to women, but that J.ncy who was a particularly brilliant grid uate. while asked to write an essav graduation, was denied the right to" ren-r Mrs. Park said she vas nlnavs impressed with the inconsistem of men hi inviting women to mUe an' bit Test in pulute affairs, and then deriving the right to express their opinion in tne ballot. Mrs. Park said that opponents to wo man's huh" rage have two stock arguments' ne was that women are n-t tit for politics.

1111,1 t'ie other that polities are not tit for wouieQ. Tiie first ol.jce;i,?,. Mrs I'ark said. Is losing jrtvnml in the 1 i of women's a 1 liie eiueuts In the tieids which once were occupied entirely lJ men. The charge that polities are si corrupt is put uu argument against wiv man's suffrage, she thinks, but rather, one in favoj- of it.

since the bad cud! I one iu iair or it. since ttie "aa rnuit'l Algiers, forty-. fears of age. died Friday mornlur. Tb.

funeral took place yesterday fternoua from hi. 1st. borne, til Verret tret. Thre fuDerals ef well-known rrsldeots of Algiers took place Friday afternoon. Lra F.

8tfle. afd seventy-five years, was burled from hi lste bom, Vrret stul Evelina streets, at o'rlock. At o'clock the funeral of Henry A. Osr. sixty -nine years cf age took place from his late residence.

719 EUdell avenue. William kcenan. a well-known member of the Knlirhts of I'ythlss. was Imiied from bis late resxirBce, Opeionsas and Eimlra avenue, at 80 o'clock. The rmornln ef MrDonogli School No.

4 are to be beautified by tb. planting of several Mamiolla trees. This was decided on at a of the Co-operative Club of the school, held Thursday evening-After lying In tbe railroad yards at Gretna for many weeks, the new bell for the We-weo Catholic Chnrrh has been taken from tbe cars and hauled to tbe enarch oa tbe banks of Company Something of a surprise was given In Gretna Thursday nleht. when Father Stenmens was called npoa to bless the marriage of May Law-lence and Jultue Ianenbaner. The marrtag took place last November, but has been ki-nt 5 ia k-y ae ils er er Ie i lit 14 I tions are due to the undivided control I I nieu have had for nil these long years.

ifcv- Iu answer to the argument that thifrV 1 1 ....1.. 1, 1. "'in -HI- snl(1 tu tl, especially against the Immigrant class- Now. in this class, she said, the women wer to be iu the minority, am those who do come are so controlled 1 their husbands that thev would nor dar exercise tne nreviiure of voting if thev i arn sain uie excess ot 5 OVPr is in-4 ana insi niiieracv among women is Ue creasing. rne tneu read a comparison tne criminal per cent age among men am showing thi additional "TV in politics, while the interests of women, the questions which center a roun; the home, are being neg.ected Mrs.

Park went on to show that OTHER STYLES, 23 in all, and all widths Prices S2.50 to the Long Bell Lnmber company. 1 no party will inspect the lumber intersts Lake Charles. ADDRESSES EIU CLUB MRS. MUD WOOD PARK. TALUS OX WOMAX SUFFRAGE.

Attacks Arguments Agalaat Ballot for NVoraen and Explains the College Woman'a Lrignr, an Auxiliary to National American Woman's Suffrage Association. Thm. Vra Plnh hM aeuaion last nlirht .1,.. I luc the feature of which was the address by Mrs. Maud Wood --i'urk, organizer and rte the Womsn'B x- 1 league.

iu iuc auii- lean vtomans Minrage Association, airs, 1'ark proved a very rapid speaker, with a low. sweet voice. Those who heard her fk.f Art ive a a rT aH olt 1 I I r.11 ocoucu "j'-j out Dana or music in the nail overhead, and the noise of the street cars on the outside, prevented her voice carrying dis. tinctly to everyone present. Mrs.

Iark is the guest of the Misses Gordon, 1-Hut) Prytania street, and will remain In the city until Wednesday. At 1 o'clock Monday she will address the Newcomb alum nae In the Newcomb Hull. The attendance last several hundred men and women, consisted largely of strangers. Preceding the address of Mrs. Park, some of the regular business of the club was transacted.

Including the election of six new members, Mrs. A. N. Cummings, Mrs. Fred O.

Howe, Mrs. H. G. Patterson, Mrs. Ellse Gwynne, Mrs.

Adolphe Mossy and Miss Annabel WU tier t. Miss Kate Gordon reported frorn the meeting which was to have been held Friday night with a committee from the Tulane Board, that a quorum of the Tu-lane men did not materialize, which prevented a hearing. Tbe Era Club's committee was on hand, consisting of Miss Kate M. Gordon, Mrs. O.

W. Chamberlain, Dr. Sara T. Mayo. Dr.

Edith Loeber and Miss Florence Loeber. Miss (Gordon said It is now up to the Era Club to say whether it will attempt to assert Its legal rights In the matter of making the doors of the Tulane medical school open to women. Miss Jean M. Gordon sent in her repott on the progress of the Jessica Coleman Komain memorial fund. Mrs.

O. W. Chamberlain called attention to the danger which threatens the child labor law iu the attack which It was said will lie made on Its constitutionality. She urged the members of the club to attend the hearing of this case In Judge Aucoiu'a court. Wednesday week.

Miss Kate Gordon explained the petition, for which one million signatures of men and women are sought, asking Congress to recommend to the State Legislatures an amendment to the national Constitution enabling women to vote. She said she does not expect such a petition to do any good, but women at least have the right to petition. The petition reads as follows: "We. the undersigned citizens of the I'nlted States, over twenty-one years of age. hereby petition your honor hie body to snbmit to the Legislatures of the several States, for ratification, an amendment to the national Constitution, which shall enable women to vote." Mrs.

Mand Wood Park was then introduced. Mrs. Park began bv explaining the advance women have made ia the last seventy-five year in the respect which men have for them. Up to thit time, she said, ther had been considered only in regard to their relations to some man, father, husband, brother or son. Now they are beginning to be considered as Individuals, she said.

Mrs. Park said AL1 ERICAS it. 1 1 i 1 I family is not represented by the ballot oj the men. Every man and every hiumv she said, has Influence, but the inrlueiij Is greater when there Is the ballot l( hind it. Mrs.

Park continued by reading repllfj. from women leaders In Wyoming Ctah with retard to the value of smTrai. de-t to the women of those States, and cir eluded bv exvdaining the organization a ib7 the College League for Woman's Suffrage which, she said, was organized tn with the hope It will be an especial a I' fed towards the ballot for women. public school system all educatiouai luv- uries or studies of an ornamental character. In our last primary election a candidate i for memoer oi the Schm1 Board from Ninth Wcrd a thorough and active coiupaign advocating the foilo-wing ure: 1.

I believe the public school steni was instituted for tbe purpose nf- foriling the people iu or and moderate circumstances tLe means of giving tlieir hi Wren an education, and should be couuued to a sound and practical education, without any frills aud fancies of the present day methods. Tbe pla-e for such should be sought for in col.ees, gcniiiKiries and private institutions, and ia a puUic school supported by tue people. 2. 1 would advocate the discontinuance ail useless and impracticable studies. sU'-li as music, drawing, tic.

l'hese studies are an expense to parents and waste of time fur a pupil, su per cent whom will derive no benefit from them alter life. Although defeated at the polls, his defeat can in no way be attributed to principles he advocated, but rather the lack of interest taken by the parents for the educational welfare of tlieir children, strong political combination, and the diiitruorial tactics of the ward bosses. 1 am glad that oue of his pnn- I cipal measures, so beneficial for the proper education of the chiidren of the pubiic schools. Is to be partly realized. The School Board as servants of the people should see that their children receive a sound and practical education without any unnecessary loss or waste of time to the pupil.

In these days of low wagea, large families aud child labor It necessary that the foundation of an education be laid earlier in life, and this can not be accomplished in the short time that is now being devoted to school without a strict application to the three Ks. Kvery hour taken up with such educational luxuries as music, drawing, botany, physiology, is at the expense and neglect of the more useful. Let our educators stop aud think if it would not be better to turn out each year a set of scholars thoroughly equipped take np the burdens of life than a set with a sprinkle of knowledge of the whole curriculum and thorough in none. OBSEKVEK. OTTO 31 CChTl'RB I TEXAS.

Bodney, Mias Jan. IS, 1009. To the Editor of The Times-Democrat: Below 1 give yon the method of cultivating cotton by Mr. C. G.

Wood of Hearne. Robertson county. Tex. Mr. Wood is one of.

if not the most suecess- fuU planter in Texas. He owns three plantations and pays $39uo rent for an other. For one of these plantations he Daid ffinxXi cash, is estimated to be worth With he com menced planting cotton eleven years ago, and with this amount of capital, in tne face of the boll weevil, right in the heart the boll weevil country, only a few milea from the Brazos Bottom, has acca mulated nhis fortune. He recommendt planting an early variety of cotton and getting your planting seed from Georgia or the Carolina. On the 8th Instant he wrore me as follows: "I have raised cotton everv year, weevil or no weevil, I raised 2iJ00 bales this vear and the weevils were pretty bad.

During the past two years I have tried several varieties of cotton. I found the Simpkins of Kaleigh. N. the earnest. next the King improved, loole.

uramin, come next tr Wnoda' letter follows: "I tried all the methods against boll weevils the eovernment advocated. tried your paris green remedy. All failed. concluded planting early an early variety of cotton, even in the face of frost dwarfing the cotton, and rapid and shallow cultivation was tbe only road to success In the winter of VXH I told my hands. Hands, we can make cotton, follow me.

broke my land with a two-mule Briuly plow, light. I left the beds as light a could get them, so the young top root would reach the nam pan quickly. i knew that would dwarf the cotton and would not fcrow so fast. I chopped my cotton to one stalk about 18 inches from the start. I threw away the one-horse sweep and took up the wheel cultivator, and woe to the hand who got closer than to Inches of that cotton during cul tivation.

I wanted the ground right next to the root undisturbed aud to remain hard. I knew the cotton would take on fruit and not grow so fast. Instead of cultivating cotton four times I cul tivated it eight times. I extended switches over my cultivator to shake the cotton and knock boll weevils on the ground, and tried to cover them uu as I swept. only used two sweeps on cultivator and then run a 24 or ttMnch sweep ri'ht down the middle pulled by two mules had to hoe one more time than usual In cultivating cotton, but It paid.

This Is my method and I have succeeded at it. It seems that boll weevils do less dam age after the third year, why I do not know, but It Is a fact. TAX FOR ROOMING ER9. HOISEKEEP New Orleans, Jan. 22, 19.

To the Editor of The Times-Democrat: Why is it boarding-house keepers, par ticularly rooming-nouse proprietors are exempt from licenses? llie poor peddlers and nearly everyone engaged in business of any sort are forced to pay a license to the city. The boarding aud rooming house keepers make good money and are immune. In the North and West these people are not exempt, and even have to pay on chattels, furniture, etc. If the State is in debt, whv not collect from them. Their charges for permanent rooms wiiuoui puoue, ice wnier.

nun iahiii manv conveniences, are from to per week, and- then the roomers are muile to feel as if they were Indebted to the landlord. SL'FFKKING KOOMEBS. SAWMILLS TO RESIME. Two rianta Start Work Check Lw Ipheld. Special to The Times-Democrat Lake Charles.

Jan. 23. News has reached the city that the big sawmill at Elizabeth, weat of Oakdale, on the Santa Fe, will resume sawing after a long period or Idleness, on leu, 1. The mill gives employment to sev eral hundred men and lis resumption will spell prosperity te many people iu North Calcasieu. 1 he Conrad Hetns lorn pan mill a Pawnee will also start tfie saws to work on the 1st of February.

The Helua mill also employs many men and has a good-sued payroll. Mrs. Catherine Murray, who has been a resident of Lake Charles for the past quarter of a century, died at her home in Kyan street to-night after a long illness, aged about alxvy years. Mrs. Murray was a native of England, but came to this country in early youth.

She was the widow of Charles D. Murray, who was one of the pioneer mill men In this district, and wbo died about fifteen years ago. She has been ill for many mouths, and for Vie past few days her friends have realized that death was not far away. The following were arraigned in the District Court to-day and their cases were disposed of as shown: Ophelia Thomas, assault with a dangerous weapon, nxed for trial Jan. 30; Mary Boody.

carrying concealed weapons, not guilty; Mary Boody, boodlumism, pleaded guilty and sentenced to pay a Cue of $-V and costs or seventy days In the parish Jail; igeue Weston, hoodluiiiism, same sentence; Mary Jones, assault with a dangerous weapon, nolle prossed; Mary Boody, carrying concealed weapons, nolle prossed. Miss Addie Helbilng. aged sixteen years, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. J.

A. Helbilng, died at the family residence. No. 412 Lawrence street, at 8 o'clock this morning after a two weeks illness from fever. Funeral services will be held at the Church of the Immaculate Conception, with interment at the Catholic Cen.eterj, at 2 o'clock Sunday afternoon1.

Key. Father H. Cramers delating. Judge Overton has handed down his decision in the case of the People's Supply Company of Iteltldder vs. the Hudson River Lumber Company, a suit in which the constitutionality of Act No.

22fJ of the session of 19" was the Issue. The court sustained the constitutionality of the act and rendered a judgment In favor of plaintiff. The aT In question Is kuowu ss the Shattuck bill, ami provides that checks issued by manufacturing or commercial concerns to their employees in payment for labor and which checks ar luarte pavr.lde In merchandise, shall be on demand of the holder redeemable in cash. A special train bearing a party of prominent lumbermen from (Vnada arrived here to-night in charge of H. C.

Sweet of 55. i Take jcur S25.C3 Zni ta Grunewiid Cr, tii-y aKcw $23.03 for it en a new piar.i. of I i FREIGHT RATE DlfCBIMISATIOS. New Orleans, Jan. 23, 1P03.

To tbe Editor of The Tlines-Democrat: It is with a good deal of interest I have been reading the controversy between Mr. Fay of the Southern 1'acitic and Mr. Thorn psou, president of the New Orleans Wholesale Grocers' Association, concerning uujimt discrimination against New Orleans shippers. To prove that Mr. Thompson Is absolutely correct about the discrimination against New Orleans, and that It is not a recent thing or confined to sonp and vinegar, and is not brought about by a rate war, go back as far as the time before the Southern Taclflc ran Its ateain-ers to Galveston.

They made a rate on chicory from New York to Galveston of 40 cents, to Houston of 43 cents, although thev held New Orleans up for Bo cents-ana remember all goods had to come by steamer from New York to New Orleans, here to be transferred to the cars ana hauled by rail 3X) to 400 miles, yet Galveston and Houston got a rate nearly or quite 2 per cent below New Orleans. Wliile the local office here denied this discrimination, when I presented the facts to them they admitted It. nut saia cnicory was put nnder the Western classification, which accounted for it- Now. does anyone believe the Southern Pacific sincled out the one item of chicory from among 11 the commodities they nandie to give lower rate to Galveston and Houston than they give to New Orleans, and espe cially as New urieans receives j't our- rels to Honston or tiaiveston one nuu remember this occurred when there was no rate war. The rate is still cents to New Orleans, but only cenrs to Galveston.

So mnch for discrimination. Now as to the Just and courteous treatment Mr. Fav savs thev give shippers. I hive a claim asralnst them for some since November, and while thev turned It down once, their own records show thev were wrone and they disposed of the goods to a local concern, and after going over It with me acsin requested me to rtnrn all papers, wmcn nm some two months ago. Now their excuse is thev Xave lost the papers, wmcn i imn, nnon inauirv among the merchants, is not an uncommon thing, but a very con venient way of holding np claims, lnis is courtesy and fair treatment with a veneeance.

These little and petty Tdelcerings over inc ii(mi bar done as much ss anv one other thing to render the Southern Pacific unpopular amonz onr lonl PROSECTTIOX OF SMITH. Gulfport, Jan. 21, 1909. To the Dditor of The Times-Democrat: I notice in your issue of to-day the statement is made that "the T. P.

of which Laurent was a member, nas sun- scribed $5(KA to prosecute Smith." Now, I would like to put my empnatic proiesi against any such course, I lelieve in the punishment of murder as much as any man, but when It comes to subscribing money to prosecute a father for taking revenge on the man who has destroyed the purity of his daughter and forever destroyed the happiness of his home, it is a different proposition. When the Legislature of the State of Mississippi had up the subject of raising the age of consent to eignteen years a peuuou was handed me to sign advocating the raise. I shocked my friend who presented the petition by refusing to sign it for the reason that from Its earliest settlement the South has had another way of protecting Its girls and women, regardless of age. We have no age limit. Whenever it comes to the pass that we have to depend on the law to protect the most sacred heritage we have that is the highest type of pure womanhood the world has ever known then we will drop down and out of that proud distinction.

The shotgun quarantine la the only safe and sure protection of the terrible pollution. And I would Uke to know what right any one has to subscribe money that has been accumulated for the protection of our families In case of accidental disability to prosecute a man for doing what anv true Southern gentleman would do under similar circumstances, and If the T. P. A. is to spend our money for the purpose of advocating libertine practices then I will cast to the winds the button that I have always morn with a good deal of pride.

Of course this Is all written on the presumption that the matter as indicated In vonr paper was correct. I sympathize with the friends of the young man whose body now lies In the silent tomb, but If he "was guilty of the crime charged by Mr. Smith, no doubt if he could speak be would sav. "Let him alone; he only did his duty." A MEMBER OF POST B. New Orleans.

ANOTHER MAGAZINE PLAINT. LINE COM- New Orleans, Jan. 19, 1909. To the Editor of The Times-Democrat: In reply to my letter in your valuable paper yesterdav, Mr. Dressel, superintendent of the street railroad company, intimates that I am not a regular patron of the Magazine line.

That depends on what he calis "regular patron." I use the Magazine line never less than four times, and often six times, daily. I challenge him to get the names of "regular patrons" of the line ipassholders excepted) who will speak favorably of the service on the Magazine line. I said nothing about acts of Providence, carts stuck in the mud, or such other causes of delay. I spoke of cars sent out of the barn not repaired. Mr.

Dressel practically admits that his company does not repair the cars of the Magazine line when he says "the company experiences delavs that are beyond its control." Again. I ask whv are two l'rytania cars operated to one Magazine car? He faiis to answer it oecause ine people on the Magazine line suffer the company to rlo as it pleases. They ought to get behind the company. Tbey can not operate a broken-down car on the l'rytania line. But it is good enough for the Magazine line provided the cash register Is working.

Bv iisina the curve at Camp and Canal streets, which was to be a temporary turnln until the switches at Franklin and Canal streets were completed, the com-panv manaees to do with about three ears less" on this line. They have no right to this track now. Regular patrons, write and tell how yon like the service on the Magazine line. T. E.

F. "PISTOL TOTING." Jublic Questions these words: other peoule. Punish people for killing When puuishment meets crime in this country with the certainty and prorupt-uess which characterizes English Jurisprudence, for example, the concealed weapon evil shall become aa UtUe prevalent here as it ia In England, aud there is uttie proapect or lta anatemeut wnn-out going to the root of the evil, to wit, nonenforcement the criminal laws. The disease Is a deep-seated and constitutional one, which pervades our entire body politic, and It ia not au easy problem to point out where the attack should bein aud by what agenciea, to accomplish eflectlve results. I'aliaue measurea, la tbe form of laws Intended to curb the "piatul-toting" habit could be made much more effective If directed toward the source of supply of the weapons, extending not only to tie merchants who sell them, but also to the manufacturers who make them.

It would seem entirely logical that the Federal government should place the manufacture and sale of deadly weapons (those designed solely for the taking of human life in the same category as that of the manufacture and sale of intoxicating drinks, and even with better reason. The imposition of a heavy revenue license upon the making and selling of these wares, for tbe existence of which Industry there la no logical excuse under the theory of our government and social laws, should at once act as a powerful restraint upon this nefarious traffic, and prove a fruitful source of revenue for the Federal Treasury. PRACTICO. FIGHTIVti THE WAR OVER. New Orleans, Jan.

21, 1909. To the Editor of The Times-Democrat: As a reply to "Nine," I desire to say that I do not wish to be understood as defending all of the acta of men, nor as coudemuing all women. Man, though, is the noblest work of God, aud as examples I will mention Hubert E. Lee, Joseph EL Johnston, "Stonewall" Jackson and thou sands of others. As to woman.

I believe her to be the purest, sweetest and best of all God's creation. I will not mention, though, any special names as an illustration, as every right-thinklug man knows aa a positive fact that his own mother ia the one who should hold lirst place. Now, I am perfectly willing to admit that where men become "money mad" that they will misbehave, just as the woman suffragettes do, and that they will also, when they have no argument to present, resort to denunciation and "mud-slinglng," but all thi does not show any reason as to why the woman should have the ballot. If politics is made no cleaner nor better in any way, what good could come of making a "clean sweep?" It is folly to sweep the floor clean and then throw the same dirt back upon it. Everyone in the South is willing to "let the dead past bury Its dead." but for one.

am unwilling to see our Southern people contribute money to help build a monument to a disagreeable part of that "dead past." I think that the best deed that was ever done by Susan B. Anthony (and all her kind) was to die. Let her remain dead. "Nine" knows that I did not say that Susan B. Anthony aioue Drougnt on tne civn war, rut everyone knows that she, Harriet B.

Stowe, Elizabeth Cady Stanton and their kind did all they could by a lying distortment of facta to bring it about. The freeing of the negroes Is a curse both to the negro and the white irrtn. and the "freeing" of onr women I did not know, though, that they were slaves, will produce a like result. About the only noble Christian negroes in the world to-day are the ex-slaves. You will admit that, will yon not? It Is well that "Nine" did not take bue with me In regard to woman sufTrasrettes wresting the scriptures, as every one of them do, either by word or deed, as it was for the "queen of the home" the Almighty made her.

and not as leaders of men, either In politics or religion. ANTI-SUFFRAGETTBS. TAKES ISSIE WITH LIBERTY. New Orleans, Jan. 10, 1909.

To the Editor of The Times-Democrat: Evidently the letter from "Liberty" of Jan. lit, was from a large taxpayer, but In my mind "Liberty" must be one of those who speak loud and do little. "Lib erty" says uie prosperity of the city does not rest on the shoulders of any saloon or race track, but if I understand his appeal the bulk of the revenue comes from the churches. Liberty says the saloon man should take a fool's advice and keep quiet. Evidently he must be a smart fool to give advice.

An old, but true saying that joes, "Fools rush In where angels fear to tread." This is keeping him in his own class, but not for once does it class the liquor man or race track as angeis. If some other wise guinea in our Legislature were to make a law to remove all churches or schools 3tH feet from a saloon Liberty would say he was a hypocrite or a fanatic, and that he was discriminating, but take the opposite. It is all right to mak a saloon man wbo has been conducting a respectable business for years move away or go out of business altogether; that's all right, but Liberty must remember that for every saloon you put out of business that means STOO taxes. Is Liberty going to pay this difference? Is he going to pay enough inspectors, each $100 per month to measure the feet? Are such wise people going to pay the frits that It would take to inspect these permits? Liberty makes the sarcastic remark that the business people of this city amount to nothing, and if we have open saloons aud races the city might as well be in the swamps. Is not the wholesale liquor man's business legitimate and as good as any other business? Does it not employ more people, give bread to more homes.

than your soda water companies, or your soft drink places? Has our city progressed in the last ten years? lias not the saloons been open all that time? Tell me what Is the meaning of your tale of woe? If all you want is Statewide prohibition you. could have said so without using up so much valuable space In the paper. L. GREEXWALD, 1124 Baronne Street. ADVOCATES THREE RS.

New Orleans, Jan. 20, 1P09. To the Editor of The Times-Democrat: The parents of public school children are to be congratulated on having such a great molder of public opinion as The Timos-Democrat voicing the true sentiments of the people editorially, as in jour last Sunday's issue on a question of such vital importance as the proper education of the children attending our public schools. The of the committee on elementary schools for a reduction of the time devoted to studies i an ornamental character, such as music and drawing, and the time thus saved he given to the more substantial. Is certainly a step in the right direction.

This concession would never have been grant ed under the old appointive system of the School Board, whose members were so wrapped up in their own self-lmporu ance that they never thought or had any Idea of eons'ultipg the wishes of tbe people, but catered to one class of pupils to Ue detriment or tne masse. The elective system so far has proven with the icfusioa of new blood on the board that the are to have some ccnsideraflon at the hands of their pub lic servants, end their wishes are to have some consideration rather than anv pet fad of any individual member of the The general public has always looked upon these unnecessary stuaies with aud disapproval, but what could It do? In your able editorial of Sun- d.iv, Jan. correctly say that very 1 few children will ever need to sin or vLherens there Is no child frown not of a of in the to Is to of I i I it 4 I I SHOW YOUR COLOR Rex and Uncle Sam PIRPLE, GREEN AM) GOLD; REE; WHITE AND BLUE. 1 WAR fr.s-e- Fart Marshal of the Empire." Carnlvel Palace, Capital City BY ORDER OF THE KING: To All Iyn-1 Subject of the Capital CI Greetlu The Carnival of 190 Is approach lng. and his Majesty, the King, will arri'i-at hU Capital City on MONDAY, the TWEr TT SKCOM" DAY OF FEBRUARY; fbe nival will on the err of Tl'ESDA.

FEUKl'AllY THE TWENTY THIRD. 1909l0 Now, Id order to givi evidence of the that prerails In anticipation of all the pl'Tf-ores bestowed through the benefleeut reio ri of his most blessed Majesty Rx, Klnr of Carnival. It Is ordered', 1. That all cltlin requested to Dl' PLAY THE IloYAL COLORS UK Pt RI'Ll (I RE EN AND OOI.D. and also t'ie PATUb Tl COLORS OK RED.

WHITE AND BL E. fro. all public buildings, stores and reldenc throughout the Capital City. That the loyal subjects of his extend to ttie visitors wbo will thron tj avenues of the Capital City during the tiItrI fr.eHn and hi ni en! 1 1 NEWS FKOM NICARAGUA MILITARY BALL FOR GEJf. TRAD A AT BLIEFTELDS.

F.8- Horle. Trpi Be in mt fra tbe laterl.r Toward H.dra Are Dealed-Cood Hetr fren Cold Mlaet- lteratloal Cls Closes It. Door. Special Correspondence of Tb. Time-Ieinocrat.

Bluecelds, Xlc, Jan. 19D9. This bus been a very gay week socially, XiUi the military ball given Gen. Juan K-airada on Jan. 15 and the ball game on Jan.

17, with the Dubuque! The ball was largely attended by the foreigner and mi one of the best managed affairs ever g.rea here. It as held In the Coleglo de Nenoritas, which was tastefully decorated fur the occasion, the music being furbished by the military baud. On Jan. 9 a dinner was given at the Hotel Tropical for Seoor Ilodolfo Epinoxa newly apiointed minister to Washington. Senor Espinoaa left here on the steamship Wuetields for New Orleans, where be will Jola Mrs.

Espinoaa, she having arrived from I'ort Limon oa the The r. S. S. Imbuqu will change her anchorage to-morrow to Corn Island. It lias t-ti found too rough lying outside the bluff, and aa the men require target rractice and shore leave Corn Island will be a fine location for them.

The Dubuque is equipped with wireless, and will be In commnnlcatkm each day with the Vnlted Fruit Company's station here. She will probably come to Blufflelds once a week for ber mail. A vessel drawing to twelve feet can cross Jbe bar here, tint as the Dubuque drawe about thlr-, Wn feet six Inches it is Impossible for ber to get in. While there are many minora in circulation as to the reason for the presence the Dubuque, it is not known why she was ordered here. The decision of the Oertago court In favor of Salvador and fnatemala.

it waa thought, would cans some reeling against those countries by Nicaragua and Honduras, bat that la not credited. Things are quiet here and in the Interior, and the stones that troops re being sent from the Interior towards Honduras are untrue. Tbe ball game to-day waa largely attended and certainly waa a good clean tame and well played. Most the American colony were in attendance, and proved that all they require la a good tame to show that they belong to the Hooters' class. Tbe Blueflelda team consisted of the following player: Simmons, pitcher; Dlck-on, catcher; Conn, first base; Trimmer, econil base; Deverall.

third base; Mal- ninison, shorttnp; Lampton. center field; tilelds. left field; Jessup, right field. The weather conditions were better hia last week, when the Blueflelda team on by one run, the score being 4 to 5, nt as the game was played in a down. jKiur.

the reril merits of the players could -t le shown. Tbe score wns Dubuque 12. Blueflelda 4. The IrnhnqneV team was: Brown, ritcher: tlarvlu and Oriffin, catchers eors. first bae: Scully, second base; shortstop; Pmitb, third base; Ranacb- left field; Garvin and Brownskouski, enter field; Buechler, right field.

Mr. S. H. Baker, general manager of 'ie minefields Steamship Company of New cleans, arrived on the Dictator yester 'r and will remain In town for about wo weeks. i The Bonanza mine, owned by Mr.

Jo--e; I Pierre, is shipping 2.V0 ounces -f cold this week. whi Is a large shlp- ent for one mine. The Mount Ormelo will make its first shipment next wck. This property is owned by Jose Arambnru and is said to be very rich. Tbe Margarlte mine.

In e.lgt!t days, with ne five-fivit Huntington mill, produced ounces This mine Is located in the "contras disflct. The gold goe forward this ship. The mine Is owned by Leo-s id" Aramburu. son of Jose Arsmburu. Mr.

Caldwell, and cyanide ex-'-t for the La Lni Los Angeles mine the I'is Vis district, arrived In tlifs week from the mine, and Mr. "n.phleft. the manager of the same mine. et timed to the property, having Fpent a dsn in New Orleans. Mr.

C. Horter. vice president and gen- rl manager of the Horter Culture Coat-inny. is leaving to-day on the Dictator New Orleans. Mr.

Dousias Dickson, who Is planting rnMer at San MienelUo, on tbe shore of I.nke Nicararna. last week from Yylon. where he been to study con-iVtions. He returns to Nicaragua and Increase his planting. Mr.

J. A. Belancer. who has been seriously i'l et his home here, is very much Improved and Is expected will lie able to otit in a day or two. The International Club, one of the oldest social Institutions Jn Bluetields, close! ils loor at the end of the year.

Organised in 14 by a body of Americans and foreigners, it prospered for ei-jfct or nine years and enjoyed a very good membership. For the past two years members have been droppst out, and the few retraining members have not been able to s-istaln It. Mr. A. V.

Beer, local manager of the New Orleans and Central American Trad-Ire Company, returned on the steamship In. per tor. having spent Christmas with is people In New Orleans. Mr. H.

C. Trimmer, assistant treasurer of tie BlueficMs STearr.ship Company, arrived last week from the States, where he has been for nearly three months. ALGIERS A It GRETNA. Oflcers of tne Precinct Station are i. lighted wl'h the pwperts ef p.

nice one of no: patrr-ls which the "rn'tiw-lorr-, is pH-rhnse tw of th Kighth niton: jii'I-n d-w-u te cnt t'r is no csr th- of ix-h an equipment Is at enee appar-ert. i rack Klelnkemper. a well-known resident of a quiet nntll the announcement was made dnxjic me REDITED RATE. ton Shipper Caaisinti oa Ac tios Moriran-Mallory Lines. Houston Post, Jan.

20. "I understand that the Mallory and Morgan steamship lines. In order, I suppose, to put the Texaa City Steamship Company out of existence, have reduced prices on certain commodities more than one-talf and are operating at an actual loss," paid prominent Houston ahlpper to a Foet representative yesterday. "In my estimation. It Is neither In the Interest of the shipper nor the transportation company to handle freight at less than it cost haul 1L Shippers In Houston and at other points, I am sure, are perfectly wiring to pay a stable rate, but they do not want the fluctuations caused by a rate It Is decidedly not to their Interests.

I hope the Texaa City Steamship Company will maintain Ita present scheduls of rates. When this company entered the field, water rates to New Tork were exorbitant The Texas City Steamship Company lowered them and placed them on a sane basis, and one In every war satisfactory to the shipper, and I believe feel with the other shipper that even if they maintain their present schedule aa against the reduced achedule of rival lines, the shippers will stand by them. I have talked with a good many shippers on this subject and they are most em' phatlcally all of the same mind." It is understood the cut In rates re ferred to on the Mallory and Morgan line Is on two kinds of Iron articles, and that the rata baa been slashed to 6 cents per 100 pounds by the carload. It la also nn deratood that less than carload rates are the same aa ever, and that these com paniea, in making the cut that loses them money on carloads, are figuring on many hurried orders being; placed for smaller amounts at the old rates, on which the profit win be enough to offset the loss. Tbe fact that the Texaa City Steamship Company, so far aa known, baa not met the Mallory-Morgan rates, seems to have met with the favor of Houston shippers in general.

It la stated yn some quarters that the rate upon the Iron commodities which are now reduced before the Texas City Steam ship Company entered the field was 42 cents per 100 pounds. This la a reduction of 37 cents per 100 pounds on the rate of a leading commodity. Some go so far as to say that If competing lines can afford to pay 37 cents per hundred to drive out this competition, the shippers can afford to pay 7 cents per hundred to keep It In business. At the outset the Texas Steamship Company named 12 cents as the rate on Iron articles aa a remunerative rate, and this was satisfactory to the shippers. It waa a reduction of 30 cents per hundrel.

As ivuijjtuuwu, iu. ruiper con ten as, mere is iittie danger oi excessive rates. GROCERY 19 ROBBED. Gas Dl Giovanni, proprietor of a grocery store at Thalia and Clara street, cotrplatned to the police yeaterdty that thieves robbed his place of one tub of batter valued at $21 45. two esses of superior condensed valued at (770, and IS in fnlted States currency.

Patrolman Robert C. Fischer of the Twelfth Precinct, while parmllng his beat, discovered two negroes aolng down Sooth Robertson street, near Howard avenue, carrying two boxes and a rah. Ppon the approach of tbe orfl--er they dropped their burdens and ran off through the woodpile along the Jtew F-asln Cantl. The offWr pnrsoed them for several blrvks and fired two Ineffective shots at tbem, but they succeeded in eluding captore. Ppon examination of the boxes and the tub It proved to be the condensed mflk and batter stolen from Dl Giovanni's grocery.

He identified his property, which was turned ever to him after he had given a receipt for It. Rates OF. Carriage Hire. On and after FEB. 1, IP09.

the prices of carriages, In the city of New Orleans will le as follows, and all hiring of carriages letween carriage owners will be done strictly on a cash basis: Fnneral loads 55.00 Wedding loads up to 9 p. m. 5.fM Wedding load after 9 p. 6.K) Reception loads up to 9 p. 5.011 Reception loads after 9 p.

6.00 Race loads con Theatre loads 5.00 Theatre loads, with supper after 6 00 Railroad loads, not less than "..) Rnll loads, other than Carnival balls. 6.00 Visiting, pleasure drives and shop- rtn? 500 The above rates will sonlv to all t- hiele drawn by two horses, and for vehicles drawn by one horse, such as single coupes, landanlettes and Victorias, shall l-e 1 les than above rates applying to double vehicles. Kares for Carnival balls and parades: Momus luill and parade, not less than J1000 Proteus ball and parade, not less ihnu Comus bail and parade, not less than, Rex jut parade, not 1ms than Sfti Kex bfell at nibt, not less than U.U0 1 Tl talnmeirt. That the arrival and sojourn of his ao-'-sr-l tli-len rrei: bet belli rai nakt an. eoi tn.

th. a ii. tt, f. ln on. i and II me r.

arv -tiM ear I' 1 boat n. SO III ulir oi: 1 a I f-lurt! a It wl -is j-t brig ll.lt shall be set apart as days of sreat et ance and state, and all itijectn nlinll gi obedience to the decrees of the Roj-i Hou: hold of bis MaJty. TVRWI'Tv, Official: Earl Marshal. KEAl'MONT. A.

D. C. In Waiting. 3REV.fsS''GQ, I'd BOTTLE BREW'RY 120 $1.50 POCKET PURE MALT BEER KEG AND BOTTLING PERT. PHOpESMAN 81.00, Si.25 and KlIIVWR REDUCED FOR 1MH LiC) THIS WEEK with three and four blades, perfectly tempered, perfectly finished, of the best German make.

We have been sellinc-th 1 nn 1 on oi ar wi a fpn a-ikjk. tuiu. li iey re worm it. At bOc each we are selling them far below cost this week only. SIXPEMNG KIPAJK1NG honing KERFARTH BROS.

326 ST. CHARLES STREET r-', 4. .1 V-'-'- 'M'll New Orleans, Jan. 22, 1909. To the Editor of The Times-Democrat: The "pistol-totinc" evil in this country has for a loug time engaged the attention of lawmakers, the press and tbe reformers: but Instead of abatement the evil seema to be growing.

It is generally to discern the relations of cause and effect in politico-economic qnesttons of complex character, and mnch futile legislation exhausts itself in making at-tfeks upon the evil fruit of the evil tree, while leaving the tree itself untouched to produce its perennial crop of evil fruit. The widely prevailing custom rfmor.g onr citizens of carrying concenled weapons Is but the outward manifestation of a much deeper social malady. This underlying H-nladT is well illustrated toy some obser-va'ion's thrt are strrlbnted to an English tourist wh-i traveled through the Southern States. When questioned about his Impressions of the Pouih. he said it was a fine country, and he was very favorably impressed bv the Southern people, au'l liked them.

about the security of life?" he was asked. "Oh, as to that, a mnn lives In the South onlv because r.clody wishes to kill him." llere. one stroke" of the brush portrays the evil tree tbnt bears the conoeiiled weapon habit. Tbe tensely, while obvious enough, presents an appalling difficulty to Its application. It may be briefly expressed in I i Corrugated Galvanized STEEL LelS QlJl IT fite-l I- QlllltT national reputation for rmlit and thetn -I durability Th.tr Late tbw Cr uiTi-Tii nave a are ci- ti.i .11 .1 la ztil.

Taey are fnnwr thm .,.1 i I I 1 T-i- 1 ef Tr.ee wlfhfctanrt imate. are Braetlcillr Ull'J T-1 I .1 1 I I .1 I leu I.aa vrrTrrrr-a I n.i aa iTQ. A in pa.M i i i r. I fejjV -eV i I to manhood or womanhood who will notil have to write and spell nd frequently. I ajj mm II n.

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