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The Donaldsonville chief. [volume] (Donaldsonville, La.) 1871-current, 1905-02-25
SPEAKERS pREDlcAMENT T.
Couldn't Shake with HIS Right Hand
Because It Was Performing
Irnnartanf Servica.
One Of the big New York magazines re

One Of the big New fork magazines re-
Gently seat a representative to Washing
ton TO induce Speaker Cannon to write
a series of articles on congressional af-
fairs, says Washington letter to the
New York American. As the speaker LETT
his seat for his eloakroom, where the
magazine man was waiting, one Of The
ends of his saspenders broke IN TWAIN.
He gave his left hand to his caller, while
holding up his trousers with the other,
and asked dryIy and seriously:
Say, you don't happen to be toting an
extra pair of galluses around in your
pockets, be youss
The magazine man didn't. and be said
SO. Then they both sat down and the
speaker was told what was wanted OF
him.
No, sir he said. IT haven't the time
and if did have it am neither litter.
attatorium nor journalisticunl- Sorry, .
and the interview came to close. Then
the speaker borrowed a PIN and. resum
ing his chair, raped softly with his gave
and said: The house viii please be in
order
The Donaldsonville chief. [volume] (Donaldsonville, La.) 1871-current, 1905-02-25

thugs in the camp put every obstacle in
her way, but the very grave in which her
father had been buried had not been
marked, and the daughter was forced
to undergo the ordeal of having the eof-
fin opened in order to identify the body
Michael Ahern, employed as a gang
foreman in the construction of the gov
WadsWorth, was last seen alive July 49,
1904, at Derby. At that time he cashed
$500 worth of pay checks at Buckman's
store, but retained uncashed additional
checks to the value OF $95. Two days
later his body was found in the Truckee
river at Peterson's ranch, deep cash
on his body showing where he had been
felled before his body was thrown into
the water. The uncashed checks were
still upon his person, but the currency
was gone. The remains were taken to
Wadsworth and buried there.
The family of the murdered man was
at loss to know what to do. No eff
fectiFe steps being taken by the Nevada
authorities to run the criminals down,
Miss Annie Ahern, one Of the three
daughters, resolved to take matters into
her own hands She is a determined
young woman of four and twenty and
Goes net know what fear is. She
went to Derby. There, procuring a pony
and a rifle, she has spent three months
in the. canal camps, and she believes thai
sheh as unmistakab1e cleWs to the iden-
thy Of the murderers.
The Donaldsonville chief. [volume] (Donaldsonville, La.) 1871-current, 1905-02-25
ElEIENEAR-OLD
Girl IS DIVORCED
- : : GELD WIFE RECEIVES
Decree OF SEPARATION.
MARRIED TWO YEARS AGO.
aashand Over Seven Times Her own
Is Once More Enjoying
Life With Dolls and Young
PIaymates
FIaymat@.

11shEon, Ia.-Gertrude Trustv Leep-
"a ll-year-oId girl, of this village.
.as .9ose 9een granted a decree Of di-
wee from John Leeper, C5 years Of
1 sss, 20 whom she WAS married two
Years ago.
ne enid who became a wife when
sue was only nine years old and has be-
j 100 { alEoTsee at II, still is in skirts
t1lde TAI scarce to her knees. and wears
Z laef la1urlant brown hair in pig tails,
aoWa hef back, and she is as fond of
VOLS and takes as Keen delight in play
- with them as any other child Of her
lehaef years. despite the fact that she
STOOD up a the altar AID solemnly took
me VOWS which made her the lawful
welded wife Of d man seven times
her own age.
when two years ago ..Gertie' Trusty
E promised TO love, honor. cherish and
opes the man who was old enough to
oe hef grandfather, a man gray-beard-
60, gray-haired and bent with the
storms OF Well-nigh three score years
and ten, she presented an odd sight to
those who witnessed the. ceremony
The bridegroom looked his age, and
fhe bride looked hers as. she stood by
MN with her head scarcely coming up
TO his elbow.
Gertrude IS an orphan, and had no
brothers or sisters to look after her
She had friends, for everybody in
Brighton loved the sweet, sunny tenn
pered, winsome child, but those friends
We're passive rather than active, and
when Leeper made the shocking pro-
posal that she marry him, none Of them
did aught to save her from SO unnatu-
raj fate.
Never Lad man more trustful
obedient, diiigent wife than had John
Leeper. She accompanied him from
Brighten to Arkansas soon after the
marriage, and there, in little village.
she assisted him to establish and main
The Donaldsonville chief. [volume] (Donaldsonville, La.) 1871-current, 1905-02-25
WAS CURED RAPIDLY.
RHBTM ATTsM NTWO SEVERE GASES
MASTERED IN FEW WEEKS.

The Remedy Used by hir. Schroeppel and
by Captain Ba1four in Great Demand in
Vicinity of Their Homes.
In the winter Of 19o2-3 Mr.. Schroeppe1
was confined to his bed by a severe at
tack of rheumatism. His doctor s treat
ment proved unsuccessful, but he SUISSE
euently regained his health by means
which he describes with great enthu-
sias,n.
ssAfter five or six weeks Of helpless
ness and pain, y said he, !" during which
I was receiving regular visits from the
doctor, I felt as bad as ever. just then
my mother, q woman eighty years Of
age, paid me a visit. She had received
great benefit from DR.. Williams Pink
Pills, and she was confident they would
help me. At her solicitation I gave mp
the DOCTORS treatment and took the pills
in its place
And were you cured as the result Of
taking her advice?''
Yes, quickly and thoroughly. Be.
fore the seeond box was finished ! felt
very manifest improvement and within
two weeks was ableto leave my bed and
take up my neglected farm work. con-
tinued to use the pills, however, until
eight boxes had been taken, although
long before that felt that every YES
tige Of the disease had been eradieated,
care there no traces left?''
Absolutely none. For a year and
three months there has never been the
slightest return Of the old trouble. For
this happy result I and my family freely
praise DIR. Williams Pink Pills
Within the bounds Of China township,
St. Clair county, Mich, there is no bet
| ter known farmer than Mr.. Henry
schroeppel. His cure has therefore nat
urally attracted a great dealof attention.
| One Of Mr. sehroeppel's neighbors, Cap
tain George Balfour, after hearing OF the
salutary results in Mr.. Schroeppel' s case,
decided to try DR.. Williams Pink Pills
for an attack of rheumatism from WIaleh
he was himself suffering. He took eight
| or ten boxes and now declares himself
free from the painful aiiment.
Its little wonder that DR.. Williams
Pink Pills are much in favor IN the com
anunity where Mr.. schroeppel and Gap
tain Balfour are SO well and fayorably
known. They are sold by all druggists
and are equally successful II eurlne
neuralgia. seiatiea and partia. paralysis
The Donaldsonville chief. [volume] (Donaldsonville, La.) 1871-current, 1905-02-25

ARE, came. to New York to avoid the
Texan law that permits a wife by VIII
to dispose Of half her husband prop
ertF His will. made in 1885, lett tae
greater paet of his fortune to found the
Rice institute in Houston. Tex. There
were a few small requests to relatives.
Rice lived in New York lonely life,
dependent uncn the service of his valet,
Jones. On the day he died two checks
signed by him were presented BY Albert
T. Patrick for payment at a bank. a
Slight irresularity in one OF them caused
the teller to call Rice up by telephopa.
Jones answered the call and, after some
hesitation. told the bank officers that
Rice had just died. There were found
in the old mans effects a new will dated
1900. 1t gave only $3.50, 900 OF his five
millions TO the Rice institute, Increased
the requests to relatives and made Pa
rick. a former Texas lawyer, residuary
legatee. Patrick also held an assign
ment Of Riee's estate. and checks for
s250,0oo.
The amazing part of this story came
out On the trial which followed. If Valet
Jones told the truth On the stand as
witness for the state. Patrick could have
had but slight acquaintance with Rice,
The 1900 will was a forgery; that much
has been established in .surrogate's
court. and the original will of 1896
stands. So the old man S money is like
~ to do some good by making a sort
of Cooper Union in Texas. Meanwhile
Patrick is in state prison.
The Donaldsonville chief. [volume] (Donaldsonville, La.) 1871-current, 1905-02-25
IT'S TIE TERROR
OF ALL WOMEN.
gackache Quickly Cured by Doad's
kidney PilIs-Mrs. w. H. Ambrose
Tells How Her Pains Vanished
Never to Return When She
Used the Great American
kidney Remedy.

Dover, KY, Feb. l3th.-(special)-so
long has Backaehe been the terror Of the
women of America that the numerous re-
ports of the complete and permanent cures
Of this ailment now being made by Dodd,s
Kidney Pills are causing wide. satisfac-
ton, and not the least remarkable Of
these cures is that of Mrs. W. Il. Am
brose, of this, place. Mrs. Ambrose says:
Il had such pains in my back at times
l could hardly move and other symptoms
showed that my kidneys were affected
One box of Dodd's Kidney Pills drove
away all the pains and I have never been
troubled since
Backaehe is the kidneys first notice
that they are out of order and need help.
If they get that help IN the form Of
Dodd,s Kidney Pills all will be well If
they are neglected the. disease may de-
velop into Diabetes, Bright's Disease or
Rheumatism.
They are always talking about lambs in
Wall street, but cur experience is that the
lamb there is mighty tough.-Indianapolis
Sentinel
The Donaldsonville chief. [volume] (Donaldsonville, La.) 1871-current, 1905-02-25
new YORK LETTER.
goME EXTRAORDINARY THINGS
THAT HAPPEN IN GOTHAM.
THE PATRICK MURDER CASE
It Has Many Peculiar Features
Many Poisoning Gases That At
tract Attention-society An
nual Flight 8 the South.

aW YORK. The
most extraordinary
hin SIS that happen
IN all the world
ind their match
III New York.
Take, for instance,
The Patrick murder
case, which will
saon claim the at
t.enrion Of the
court of appeals.
William NJ. Rice,
=H~ax-a- ~oiIfi@n.
The Donaldsonville chief. [volume] (Donaldsonville, La.) 1871-current, 1905-02-25
The Amazing Poison Plot.

| E N ID S 1 + o m
hades itself could
not have framed
a more amazing
murder plot than
that in which Pat
rick was the lead
ing spirit and
Jones, according
to his own story,
til e aeeomplice.
Day by day the old
man, absolutely
Eannn6ant unpn
The Donaldsonville chief. [volume] (Donaldsonville, La.) 1871-current, 1905-02-25

ments for poisoning his girl wife, Helen
Potts. But he had the folly to boast
10 a fellow student Of his skill in such
matters. He bought from a druggist
certain harmless powders in capsules.
into one Of these he put deadly poi
son; two he retained. The other four,
Including the poisonous one, he gave
his wife. His idea in retaining two
The Donaldsonville chief. [volume] (Donaldsonville, La.) 1871-current, 1905-02-25
FACE LIKE RAW BEEF.
Burning Up with q Terrible Itching
Eezema-speedily Cured by
Cuticura.

seThe Cuticura Remedies cured me of q
terrible eczema from which I had suffered
egony and pain for eight long years, be
ing unable to obtain any help from the
hest doctors, and trying many remedies
without success. Ny scalp was covered
with scabs and my face was like piece
falling out, and / felt as if burning up
from the terrible itching and pain. Cuti-
cura gave me relief the very first day, and
made a complete cure in short time. To
my very great joy, my head and face are
row clear and well-Nlisss Mary NJ. Fay,
IS West Main St.. Westboro, Mass
The Donaldsonville chief. [volume] (Donaldsonville, La.) 1871-current, 1905-02-25
New York's Poisoning Gases.

/ IS said that poi
soning is. of all
forms Of murder.
the hardest to
detect and con
Wet upon. Yet
the city Of New
) York has had pref
ty fair luck in ex-
ecuting poisoners.
Carlyle Harris was
a medical student
and very skillfuliy
made his arrang
The Donaldsonville chief. [volume] (Donaldsonville, La.) 1871-current, 1905-02-25

Solomon declared that there was moth
ing new under the sun, but Nahum, the
E1Soshite, evidently foresaw the auto
mobile when he wrote: "Chariots shall
rage in the streets; they shall jostle one
against another in the broad ways; they
shall seem like torches; they shall run
like the lghtnings. Boston Globe.
The Donaldsonville chief. [volume] (Donaldsonville, La.) 1871-current, 1905-02-25
The nazetr Of EaIf soc5atv.

He half of society
that remains is
gay as ever. It
represents perhaps
the soberer ele-
ment, the elder
element. The So
ciety ball is its
public farewell to
brilliance before
the coming of
Lent. But about
that time-honoreG
f q 6 fiyitv r.
The Donaldsonville chief. [volume] (Donaldsonville, La.) 1871-current, 1905-02-25
fs.,n Dresses as a Woman.

paris.An amusing story is related
about an eccentric count llvlng a th das
eitr On modest income Of 10000
ssss. s year, and whose only fad is
q . @srass Is a lady. Not content with
a,,r,aarina in mis- dashing carriage IN
~ ~ Strange costume IN public. he has
s.,se even ball. the guests being
j only.' and numbering some Ct
-. - ,,ast distinguished names. The
count received and invited ~ . rose
.ss 1880 satin dress, trimmed with rich
.ss.1s,. aud oraamented with bouquets
e savers. Equally interesting IS tne
Us 1ss s he IL always yelled, to hlde
- lie mo slstache. as he has ~ e.
r;re "a part Vsttla s.
The Donaldsonville chief. [volume] (Donaldsonville, La.) 1871-current, 1905-02-25
ONLY q. Guess.

Bacon-Where do you suppose that 2o3
Meter Hill got its name?
Egbert-Oh, I guess that's where the
Port Arthur gas works are located
Yonkers Statesman.
The Donaldsonville chief. [volume] (Donaldsonville, La.) 1871-current, 1905-02-25

S0LEMNL4 TOOK The vows.
tain a home. It must have been dull
lonesome life for the childWife, but
never did she complain Of her lot,
never did she meet her husband when
he came home at night with other than
bright. smiling face; never did she
fail to have his meals cooked, and on
the table promptly at the appointed
hour; never did she fail to keep her
house clean and tidy: never did she
fail to darn the holes in his socks, sew
buttons on his clothing when that was
necessary, or to discharge any OF the
other wifely duties it fell to her lot to
do
Other children passed by her door
"a their way to school or on childish
Measure bent, but Gertrude never
thought Of going with them or having
aught to do with them or their sports,
for she was a wife.
1eeDer renamed IN the southwest for
something more than a year. when, in
company with his wife, he returned to
town. He went to Washington, in this
state and there Gertrude made friends
Who persuaded her to file petition for
divorce.
The child did not fall in readily with
4he proposal. It is true that she bore
MIN none of that love which wives
commonly bear their husbands. She had
NOT loved him when she became his
wife. and he had not inspired her with
1--we but he had not been cruel to her;
II, n Given her a home and she felt
in duty bound to stand by him Her
friends insisted, however, and finally
she WELDED to their opportunities and
did SO.
re did not take the Judge long to de-
eide what he should do. When he
learned from the evidence offered by
t,e nlafntiff the circumstances under
which Xtae marriage had been sol
annIzed, he quickly signed q decree of
divorce Leeper offered no defense.
rims. Gertrude Trusty, after being
Two wears a wife, has become child
again.
.a heen granted the decree of d.
roree was serious question But It
x.,ae soon settled by a kind family IN
Tsr;abfon. The divorce is now in the
home of q. IL Davis, of this village,
s,a there she will be cared for till she
ettains her womanhood. Mr.. and Mrs.
naris have NOT legally adopted her,
Is,t they have practically done so, and
sha will be treated by them as their
avn child.
The Donaldsonville chief. [volume] (Donaldsonville, La.) 1871-current, 1905-02-25
The Year in Florida.

He exodus to Tlpris
da is the spring
sensation in Sc
ciety, as it has
been Go7 SONS
years. At ths
end Of the Lenteis
season q hundred
private cars. most
ly rented ones
are grouped about
the stations in
Florida, waiting
~ 1,o ho1ylcd nart ri
The Donaldsonville chief. [volume] (Donaldsonville, La.) 1871-current, 1905-02-25

When q footpad approaches you seize
him by the center of the arm and press
your thumb violently against a nerve in
the hsn 1rabsby 6oah FIVE 6Pae
you while he shrieks with pain. This is
iiu itsu.-St. Louis Globe-Demecrat.
The Donaldsonville chief. [volume] (Donaldsonville, La.) 1871-current, 1905-02-25

a Guaranteed Cure for Piles.
itching, Blind, Bleeding or Protruding Piles.
Your druggist will refund money If PAzo
OINTMENT fails to cure in to Ia days. Soc.
The Donaldsonville chief. [volume] (Donaldsonville, La.) 1871-current, 1905-02-25

There are men who finally consent to go
to work when they can't make living
in any other way.-Philadelphia Record.
The Donaldsonville chief. [volume] (Donaldsonville, La.) 1871-current, 1905-02-25

Girls will be girls, all right, but the
trouble is SO few of them ever realize an
age hnait.-Chicago Chronicle.
The Donaldsonville chief. [volume] (Donaldsonville, La.) 1871-current, 1905-02-25

lydia Pkhas Vegetable Compound Succeeds Where eers Fall
The Greenville times. [volume] (Greenville, Miss.) 1868-1917, 1905-03-18
WHY THE JAPANESE WIN

The ST. Petersburg correspondent of the Petit
Journal says that the Mukden disaster surpasses in
horror all that could be imagined The miserable
P lssian soldiers, seized with madness, fired upon
one another. Others charged trees with their bayo-
nets, taking them for Japanese. Many of the troops
threw themselves the ground, weeping and max
ing the sign of the cross.
This is like driving cattle to the slaughter The
Russian private soldier is mere animal man
with gun instead of hoe but in spite of his weap-
on and uniform, is merely an incarnation of Mlet's
famous picture. Against army of intelligent
units, like that of Mikados soldiers like the above
described have chance to win than the
animals in a Suansh bull ring.
The Greenville times. [volume] (Greenville, Miss.) 1868-1917, 1905-03-18
THE BATTLE OF HOT BISCUITS
nAmLt

Newspapers, North and South, have been SO full
of presidential pageanuy, Russian demorazaton
Japanese gorfcation and FIVE cent cotton that there
little room for anything else; but an amusing
little aside has been going in which hot biscuits
and Southern warmheartedness have been contrasted
with bakers bread and Northern frigidity with
siderable spirit and some acrimony Thus the legend
runneth:
A short time ago Georgia lady went to New
York to reside She was not from Atlanta or Savan-
nah but from Gainesville She was distressed by
the unneighborlness of the people None of the la
dies Of New York called her. One lady, especial
ly, who lived few doors away attracted the favor
able attention of the lady from Georgia. She liked
the appearance of this neghbor much that she de-
cided to cultivate her She made up a pan of hot
biscuits and sent them with the compliments OF
Mrs. ---- of Georgia. In few
mirsItes her messenger back, bringing the bis
cults, which had grown preternaturaly cold and a
message from the New Yorker saying, 81 never re
ceve presents from strangers"
TIL lady from Gainesville was so hurt and morti-
fed by this rebuff that she wrote to leading New
York paper telling the story and bemoaning the un-
friendly GOODNESS that had turned down and frozen
her biscuits. AS may be imagined what the New
York papers did to her was plenty But Georgia
chivary came the rescue; and the editors of he1
native State have laid lance in rest open in hand)
in defense of the hot biscuits and eectually damned
New York as a God-forsaken Nineveh which knows
not either neighbory kindness, hospitality ch:v
airy and is fit place for Southerners to dwell in
The Greenville times. [volume] (Greenville, Miss.) 1868-1917, 1905-03-18
Of character equaled only once before in the worlds,
The first i. by Senator Hill, of Georgia:

OF character equAIcd 0ny once DeIoTe IN the WOrQ
history.
The first is by Senator Hill of Georgia:
when the future historian comes to survey the
character of Lee, he viii find it rising like huge
mountain above the undulating plain of humanity.
and he must lift his eyes high towards heaven to
catch its summit. He possessed every virtue of
other great commanders without their faults. He
foe without hate, friend without treachery,
soldier wthdut cruelty, victor without oppression
and a victim without murmurng. He was pub
lie officer without vices, private citizen without
wrong; neighbor without reproach, a Christian
was a Caesar without his ambition Frederick with
out his tyranny Napoleon without his selfishness,
and Washington without his reward. He obedi-
ent to authority servant, and regal In authority
as true king He gentle woman in life
modest and pure virgin in thought, watchful as
Roman Vestal in duty, submissive to the law as
Socrates, and grand in battle as Achilles"
The second is taken from the English writer, Sill
| Thomas Mallory, and is used in Lords history a:
the most fitting description of General Lee:
"Ah, Sir Launcelot, thou vert head of all Chris
| tan Knights. Thou matched of earthly
that bore shield: and thou vert the kindes
that strake with sword; and thou the good
Hest person that came among press of Knights
and thou vert the meekest man, and the gentlies
that ate in hall among ladies'; and thou wer
the sternest Knight to thy mortal foe that pu
spear in rest
The Greenville times. [volume] (Greenville, Miss.) 1868-1917, 1905-03-18
Bridge Notice

State OF Mississippi, Washington Co.
BY virtue of an order of the Board
Of Supervisors of said County, made
this day, sealed bids are invited to be
filed with the undersigned, on or be-
fore II O'Clock, noon, on the Ist Mon
day in April, 1905, for the construc-
ton of bridge across Bogue Phalia.
at the end of Black Dog Railroad, in
said County, the bridge to be built
in accordance with the plans and spe-
cihcations now on file in the office OF
the Chancery Clerk The Board re-
serves the right to reject any and all
bids. Given under my hand and Off
cial seal this 9th day of March, 1905
3 ia H HOOD, Clerk.
The Greenville times. [volume] (Greenville, Miss.) 1868-1917, 1905-03-18
EXPANDS BUSINESS va

Mr.. E. B. Beulah has added to his
blacksmith shop, at the foot of Wash
ington avenue, large paint shop, and
has secured the services of Philip
Campbell, the former carriage paint
er OF Mr.. A. DIN, to look after this
line of work
Mr.. Beulah has also Let the contract
to repaint and overhaul his large
blacksmith shop and when completed
will be one of the most commodious
and convenient in the city.
His business the past year has al
most doubled any previous year and
the new one IS showing even an in
crease over that Mr. Beulah is not
a Jack-of-al1-T Trades, but is a black
smith and woodworker, and has fully
demonstrated to the trade of the city
his ability in that line.
One thing that has proved to him
a trade bringer is, what he does, he
does right or he will make It 50 be-
fore receiving your money. With the
addition of his paint shop he is now
prepared to do any kind of work in
the vehicle line and will appreciate a