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The Donaldsonville chief. [volume] (Donaldsonville, La.) 1871-current, 1904-12-17
FIXING HIGH NOON At SEA
Wireless Telegraphy Expected Soon TO
Overcome Difficulty of Many
Years Standing.

The n est momentous Improvement in
navigation since the invention of the
chronometer. more than lao years ago,
has Just been foreshadoWed in a modest
paragraph in the report Of the chief Of
the bureau of equipment Of the United
States navy. 1T is believed, says ChIel
Nancy, that the development Of wire
less telegraphy will enable (time) sig
mails to be distributed over water as well
as over land, and that before long every
ship at sea, in addition to every land
station, will receive daily noon signals
from the standard observatory clock.
What does that mean? Nothing less
than the elimination Of the last element
of uncertainty from the problem Of find
ing the position of ship at sea. Hlth-
erto the one weak point in navigation
has been the difficulty of carrying stand
ard time on a voyage. Observations Tor
local time as we'll as for latitude have
been exact. but the comparison OF local
standard time for obtaining the longi-
guesswork The best chronometer is
not quite infalllble, and some allowance,
which may not be precisely right, has al
ways to be made for errors But with
time signals from national obserYa-
tory every day at noon the mariner will
know his way over any part of the wide
ocean as accurately as if he were thread
ing buoyed channel. The chronometer
viii join the cross-staff and the asfro-
lahe on the junk heap of discarded make
shifts. And Of course ship that can
communicate with the shore for enc
purpose IS equally in touch with the
world for any other communication it
needs to make.
The Donaldsonville chief. [volume] (Donaldsonville, La.) 1871-current, 1904-12-17
DRUGS USED FOR HEADACHE
Injurious Habit Unconsciously Ac-
CURED by Many Sufferers
from the Affection.

In a previous article a warning was
uttered against the danger of a resort
to headache powders" and other
powerful drugs fer the relief of head
ache. It was shown, says Youths
Companion, that the remedy eventual
" would prove worse than the dis
ease, and that the wisest course for a
sufferer from periodical attacks OF
pain in the head was to search for
the cause of the trouble and remove
it, or. if that was not possible, to use
such palliative measures as would
soften the pain and perhaps shorten
the attack, even if they could not
cure.
There is another unfortunately large
class of sufferers for whom this warn
ing comes too late The headaches
have existed for SO many years that
they have become inVeterate and re-
cur again and again, until seemingly
the only possible mitigation of the
suffering is in drugs. The headache
habit is fully established, and the
drug habit has followed as an almost
necessary consequence. The problem
is now the cure of the drug habit,
which must be attacked by the re-
moval of the cause.-The headache
habit.
Severe periodical headaches, of the
kind which almost force the sufferer
to drugs, are almost always either
ocular or equity. They can be pre-
vented only by the accurate fitting of
glasses or the remedying of other de-
feets, or by overcoming the equity con-
dition. Neither Of these tasks is easy,
] even to the most skillful of physicians,
after the headaches have persisted so
long that habit of the system has
been formed, yet persistence in treat
ment will always bring an ameliora-
ton, and sometimes a cure.
The sufferer from equity or uric-aeid
headache has usually for the time be-
ing the choice of three evils-to en-
dufe the pain, to take some more or
less poisonous drug, with its evil con-
Enlistment of a habit, or to take
aclds Win the design OF transferring
the pain from the head to the joints.
Permanent relief can be got only, in
general, from dieting-either alone or
combined with appropriate treatment
at some mineral spring.
Such grave condition should of
course be treated by the trained physi-
clan, and it is possible here to indi-
cate only the general outline of die
tary called for. 1t is the rigid ex-
clusion for time, at least, Of all
meat, fish, poultry, eggs, tea and cot
fee, as well as peas and beans. One
need not fear starvation even under
this radical regimen, for there re-
mains choice Of milk, cheese, bread
and butter, fruits, nuts, potatoes and
nearly all the vegetables.
The Donaldsonville chief. [volume] (Donaldsonville, La.) 1871-current, 1904-12-17

fortunate eight who had time-limit
tickets?' he asked.
Yes; she is" snapped the eonduc-
tor viciously.
That is what she is crying Tor,
then!''
Is she crying?" asked the eondue-
tor, and Boyden thought he detected
exultance in his tone.
YES; it may have embarrassed her
to pay her fare"
She hasn't paid it, She says she
hasn't got the money to pay 1t, and
am going to put her off at the next
station, /" he declared emphatically.
What! You'd put her off-a woman
alone and unfortunate?" exclaimed
Bayden, Indignantly. She bought her
ticket in good faith-as did,
The conductor made no reply.
do you mean" persisted Boyden,
wrathfullg, that you are tg the habit
o. putting women off the train if they
can't pay?"
Il never put one of before. fiji
fact, only yesterday I lent woman
who had lost her purse, the money to
get home with
why have YOU got it in for this
woman"
Because I think she could get
home, or wherever she may be going,
all right. il she wanted to-
Now, see here!a argued Boyden.
ssYou know q woman like her wouldn't
be put off # she could possibly pay
Il don't know as to that, and
don't care. I do know that L am going
10 obey orders.
Boyden returned to the Pullman.
The young woman was still crying.
He took the seat beside her
Pardon me, he said respectfully.
'sb,t hinR that you, like myself,
have been the unfortunate victim q
I'm crupul us scalper.
She looked up and said. eagerly:
sob. did you have one of thos0
time gl sekets, to cid the
cen etons mske you pay full fare?s'
Yes. Of course. He had to do that,
you knoW thought perhaps The I'M
expected emergency might have EN-
bararssed YOU financially. know
that when ladies are away from home
they are quite apt to keep their e1-
peases up to the limit Of their cash on
had
she turned brown, appealing eyes
to MS.
Really" she said impulslvely, and
with little hysterica1 giggle. 4 had
money enough to buy legitimate
ticket, aud leave a good little margin
for incfdsntaIs. but I did see such a.
lovely bargain in lace collar! I
bought il and then just had one dollar
The Donaldsonville chief. [volume] (Donaldsonville, La.) 1871-current, 1904-12-17
Tomato jelly Salad.

To one-haH can of tomatoes add one
bay leaf, four cloves, a blade of mace.
one-half teaspooLful of salt, one-lourth
teaspoonful of papri3Sa, a stalk of eel
cry and one-haf teaspoonful Of finely
minced onion; simmer for ten minutes.
then rub through a sieve; add one-thIrd
Of a boxfuI of gelatin. which has been
soaked in cold water, one-half cupful
OF broken walnut meats and two table
spoonfuls of tarragon vinegar, pour into
Wetted mods and setin a cold place IN
I'll dru; turn out carefully when re-
CURED to serve. and serve on crisp let
tuce Ieaxes-Good Literature.
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He HAD THE LocK-sTEP.
Benevolent Brown Makes Bad Blundeg
in Displaying His
Goodness.

The three met in the park one re-
cent Sunday morning, ard, lighting
weeds, seated themselves on a handy
came fluent, relates the New York
Sun, or until one of the trio mem
tLoned casually:
THAT fellow over there leaning
against cham post bears the prison
mark, If ever man does
s Il fail to see anything remarkable
about him other than that he il
.seedy-
mo, it is not that. / mean he
glanees at passers from the corner OF
his eye. There. he moves to the next
post. Notice that wa1k?''
Nonsense! Walks with a sliehe
hitch, that's all. What do you think
about it, Brown ?''
But Brown didn't think, and if he
did he said nothing He was strange
~ silent all at once, though until the
ugly subject came up he had been the
busiest talker of the trio.
II say, Brown, do you think that
poor fellow over there is a prison
bird?'
7 hope not, for his sake. II he has
been one, pity him. He will run afoul
of the hard old past wherever he goes
even here in the quiet park of a brighs
Sunday morning. Poor devil. / am CO..
ing over the way to speak to him, offer
him little help if the needs it,
Brown crossed the drive and touched
the seedy man on the arm. The seedy
one turned with a frightened look. bur a
smile came upon his face, ard he started
to say something; but Brown uttered
quickly in an undertone:
Hush, not here! Move along and i
will follow. IWant to help you if cam
And before Brown knew Wf,aT he we
doing he had both hands upon the others
shoulders, and was housekeeping with
him away from the drive toward a SCI
questered spot of the park.
The Donaldsonville chief. [volume] (Donaldsonville, La.) 1871-current, 1904-12-17
Baked seal1ons

Trim the seallops wei, after taking
from the shells, wash the shells thor
oughly, dry them and fill each with
the scallops, cut in rather small
Pieces. Over each sprinkle salt If
needed. a few drops of lemon juice,
some chopped parsley. and lastly some
fire bread crumbs. moistened vita
melted butter The scallops should
hake Ior about % minutes and be
served on the shells.-Boston Budget
The Donaldsonville chief. [volume] (Donaldsonville, La.) 1871-current, 1904-12-17
Copyright, 1904, By Dali, Story Pub. Co.,

r HE blue-coated ticket taker walked
dorm the aisle of the rapidly
moving train, with the ease peculiar
to train officials He had an exceed
ingly bored air. from the fact that al
ready seven tickets, purchased from
sealpers and exceeding the date OF ex-
Piration by one day, had been ten
dered him.
why IS it." he asked, as he en-
countered the Pullman conductor IN
the vestibule, that people hate 20
cough up the price of q railroad tick
ct? / don't know Of anyone who gets
money given SO grudgingly as a con-
ductor"
Unless it is a dentist" suggested
the Pullman conductor.
The train conductor pursued his
way into the diner. From well
grocmed, well-garbed man, who
looked as iQ he might live at the ex-
pense of the government. the conduc-
tor fully expected pass. Instead, he
got one of the bogus tickets.
"You, tool" he exclaimed, grinly.
Whats the matter9' asked the
passenger, pausing in his perusal of
the menu card.
.tYou got this at a sealper's, didn't
you9"
Yes: what of it?'
..Iss n. G. a time limit ticket
This Is the eighth I've had offered me
already You'll have to pay your
fare
The passenger didn't seem to be par
tieularly disturbed by this intelli,
gence. He paid his fare and resumed
his study of the menu card with COM
p1acent interest After a most salts
factory dinner he returned to the
coach where he had left his luggage,
intending to read, but Immediately
his attention was diverted from the
magazine to the handsome young
woman who occupied the section OPP
posite his. He had noticed her when
he boarded the train, and, after a
mental analysis, had classified her as
a girl one would like to know. but
would not dare approach
To his surprise and distress she was
now quietly weeping. A sudden
thought came to him. He hunted up
the conductor.
Isn't that young woman who has
the seat opposite mine one of the IN.
The Donaldsonville chief. [volume] (Donaldsonville, La.) 1871-current, 1904-12-17
Bed Curtains.

Curtains round ehiIdren's beds Should
be eseheWed They are injurious to
health, as they prevent the. access of
fresh air 10 the sleeper. All bedcloth-
ing, too, should be warm and light;
entirely Of wool. if possible. A baby's
pillow should not be too large and soft,
or the head will sink into it and free
ventilation be interfered with. Small
feather pillows are the most convent
mt to use, but those OF eurled hair are
1so recommended as being especially
1ealthy. These latter pillows are much
frmer-C Chicago Daily News.
The Donaldsonville chief. [volume] (Donaldsonville, La.) 1871-current, 1904-12-17
CaulidoEer sa1ad

Cold eaulihower mates an excellent
saIao, either with ma3onnaise or a
flshea dressing. Sprinkle the flower
eyes WIN salt, Pepper ard minced
parsley before pouring on the eresSf1so
- ffeneh dressing is used ii had better
be mixed before pouring on as tRa fia,v
sIss1es are Liable to break If they ara
Lossed u the usual manner.-N.
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BroiIed Ml1siaroar,aa

are delicious and quite easy to pre-
Fare. Pare the mushrooms, wash ana
dry thoroughly Sprinkle them with
Pepper, salt and tablespooz fu1 Of oil
race a wire broiler and ,aok over =
Clear fame for four minutgs "a ) side
ssrss on toast With naitre d,bots,
bslstsr-N. T. Post : Aseoa
The Donaldsonville chief. [volume] (Donaldsonville, La.) 1871-current, 1904-12-17
Coar tssY in Children

z parents Vase their llttIe ongs to be-
come courteous men and women they
must rractlce courtesy before them and
.ooWard them The mother who brings
up neF boys to save steps for her, 10 raw
her little attentions in the Way Of VIZ.
ing upon her, is laying stones Of gold
Lol lle slfls who one day may become
Rer daasaters-in-law Chicago Daily
The Donaldsonville chief. [volume] (Donaldsonville, La.) 1871-current, 1904-12-17
Actresses, Baths

Milk. wine. OK blood, eau de cologne
Strawberries, violets and rose leaves
are among the things used by we'll.
known European actresses to medi-.
cate and perfume their baths.
The Donaldsonville chief. [volume] (Donaldsonville, La.) 1871-current, 1904-12-17
Army Struck for Pay

The Moroccan army, on the march the
other day against the rebel Riffs, struck
for overdue pay, and the general in com
mand had to get money from the war
minister before the march to the front
was resumed.
The Donaldsonville chief. [volume] (Donaldsonville, La.) 1871-current, 1904-12-17
The IdeuI Amgucun Girl
By REV. AUSTIN K. DeBLOIS,
Pastor First Baptist Church, Chicago.

II young who in soealled best society,
the society of dollars and democracy shining mark
for the tongues and pens OF European critics who denounee
them artificial, superficial unnotherly ambitious loud
and vain Many of the daughters Of wealthy parents
certainly Of this type
But the criticism does not apply to the great host Of
American girls who occupy humber station but lovely
indeed in the gentle grace and dignity of their loyal Woanl
But in ardent life with its 1sidous temptations
The Donaldsonville chief. [volume] (Donaldsonville, La.) 1871-current, 1904-12-17

the souls must be their guard and need remind
girls and then that the old time virtues
The literary the business the club the
ciety all right their way but the mans human
iy highest IDEAL the worlds best creation the tender blessed
little who teaches the Of the divine
word home and beWces that forever and forever keep
spelling that word with six letters and calling heaven And the
who will make home heaven for best beloved by and by
the who most intensely loyal the members of her
family circle and especially thoughtful of her mother.
how girl her mother and you will know what Of
4 wife she will make
The Birmingham age-herald., 1904-12-12
BELGRAVIA HAS A
 STORMY PASSAGE
STRUCK BY A HURRICANE AND 1900 STEERAGE PASSENGERS ARE THROWN INTO A PANIC. VESSEL WAS DAMAGED.

New York, December 11.-With her bow stove in, the marine telegraph disabled, and forward windlass twisted, the Bel gravia of the Hamburg American line arrived from Cuxhayen today with tales of six-hour experience in hurricane that threw 12OO of her 1870 steerage pas sengers into a panic today. I he 120O were polish and Russian refugees sent to this country by London societies.
 According to Captain Magln on Tues day afternoon the Belgravia ran into a hurricane, the force of which could not be measured by the wind registering guage. Captain Magin estimated that at it's height there was wind velocity of 12O miles an hour.
 A great wave swept over the bow of the vessel at midnight of the 9th, tearing out the shield, disabling the marine tele- graph, tearing away the starboard haw- ser port, forward, and smashing the windlass. It was then that the fear be- low decks, which had been continuous, arose to a panic. It was necessary to send all the officers not on duty to quiet them, and these were compelled to remain there several hours trying to reassure the frightened persons that there was no danger.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1904-12-12
sevastopoI Attacked.

London, December 12.-An unofficial re- port from Port Arthur, according to a Tokio dispatch in the Daily Mail, says that Japanese torpedo boat destroyers att tackled the Russian battleship Sevastopol at the mouth of the harbor the night of December ?, but what result is not known
 The Daily Telegraph's correspondent before Port Arthur, reports under date of December that there were desperate encounters last week.. The belligerents, the correspondent adds, mutually recog- nize the Red Cross and collect the dead pension of fighting.
 The Daily Telegraph's Tien Tsin cor respondent learns from official Japanese sources that the casualties at Port Ar thur the latter part of October were 5000 killed and 10000 wounded. The losses in more recent attacks the correspondent adds, were much heavier.
 The same correspondent has heard that continual fighting is proceeding south of Mukden.
 The correspondent at Shanghai of the Daily Telegraph in a dispatch. dated De- cember II, says that according to Pekin reports the Russians have retreated to the south bank of the Hun river, after seventy-two hours fighting, with heavy losses. On the fourth day of the fight ing, the correspondent says, the Japa- nese assumed the offensive. The Muk- den station Is reported to be in a wild state of confusion. The Daily Telegraph thinks the authenticity of the foregoing reports from Chinese sources of heavy fighting Is very doubtful.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1904-12-12
VESSEL STRANDED
 OFF CAPE HATTERAS
THREE WASTED SCHOONER MoN- TANA IS TOTAL LOSS AND ONE MAN IS FROZEN TO DEATH IN THE RIGGING.

Norfolk, Va, December 1.-The three- masted schooner Montana, Captain Boyce, New York for Charleston, with a cargo of salt Cor probably coaD stranded at Il O. clock last night at Pea Island, fifty miles off north of Cape Hatteras, during heavy northerly gale Within twenty min- utes after the vessel stranded she was so full of water that the crew, consisting of Captain Boyce and six men. were forced to take to the rigging, where they remained until D. m. today. when six of the seven men were rescued by crews of Pea Island New Inlet and Bodies Island live-saving station. One man. Henry Ed wards was frozen to death. and was lashed to the rigging in such a manner that he could not be reached, and his body Is still aboard the ship. hanging in the rigging, head downward.
 The rescued crew are now at the Pea Island live-saving station; Great difficulty was experienced in landing the crew owing to the fact that the vessel had sunk and a heavy sea was running at the time. The freezing weather hampered the work of rescue, and the seamen were so over come by exposure that only two of the men in the rigging were able to assist in hauling the whip line aboard the vessel. Again and Again the line was shot out, and one by one the men were taken off the ship in the brooches buoy, after most narrowing experience of more than thirteen hours spent In the rigging of the sinking vessel, in a temperature much below freezing. Their clothing was coated with ice. An attempt will be made later to bring ashore the body of Edwards, the sailor who was frozen to death in the rigging
 The vessel will be a total loss. It is un- derstood that the Montana is owned in Summers Point, N. J.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1904-12-12

ing a lock canal. with central lake such aR sat I devised in 1892. and which was $ ed by the isthmian canal commits q Q in 1901.
 ' The construction of such a canal would , i've experimental da.a about the nec- essary cross section of the canal, about the slopes of the deep cut at Culebra, and about the sediments of the Chagres, all of which are ess 5.-t tial for building sea level passage successfully.
 As to changing from the lock to the sea level form, l gave in 1887 so- lution which I communicated recently to Admiral Walker. It Is an easy, practical and cheap method of gradually trans forming the lock canal into a sea level canal, without stopping navigation five minutes. It utilizeS for the sea level canals all the work done for the lock canal, except the natural dams and locks. This section entirely covers the question. In one word, I think it would be a great error to begin with the sea level plan at once. It would cost S1O0,O0OO0O more, and require twice as much time. The lock plan will be sufficient until the traffic reaches forty million tons that is to say seven times the probable traffic in the first years operation, and will lead by experimental and securer ways, to an ideal solution of C level passage"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1904-12-12
TREATY SEEMS DEAD
No Hope of Revival of French-Amerl-
 can Compact.

Washington, December u.-No hope is held out in administration circles of a re- vival of the French-American reciprocity treaty, efforts to encourage which are being made by the American chamber of commerce of Paris. according to an in- terview with President Cachard of that body, cabled by the Associated Press yes terday.
 The French treaty and a number of others have been pigeon-holed in the senate for some time, and there is no expectation that they will be seriously considered at this session of congress. Particular disappointment is felt over the failure of the senate to act on the French treaty as that was regarded as decidedly favorable.
 In the present temper of the senate 1t is known that the President will not make any decided efforts to negotiate any reciprocity treaty as he does not believe there is any chance of their ratification in the senate.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1904-12-12

H ARIS, December u.-Phillip Bunau-
 Varilla, who before being minister of Panama to Washington was the principal engineer of the Panama canal gives an authorized interview relative tS the building of the canal at sea level. ~ cording to M. Bunau-Yarilla the . z struction of the canal at sea level sSS. only possible but 1t must ultima 0 9 De so constructed, as other connee 3 Q be- tween oceans. like the Strait Pos phorus. between the Black ses. Id the Aegean sea- Asked if the Panama canal ought to be constructed at once at sea level. M. Bunau-varilla replied:
 Not at all. To be a perfect sea level the canal must be free from any artificial work; and there is perhaps no engineer who would be willing to accept the re- sponsibility of building it immediately without dams on the upper chagres. to regulate the floods, and without side locks at Panama to counteraet in the. ca nal the currents due to the ten-foot tide in the Pacific. The motion of a free dis charge from the Chagres in a lockless sea level canal. must result from experi- ence which would be acquired by work