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The Donaldsonville chief. [volume] (Donaldsonville, La.) 1871-current, 1905-01-07
WINTER STRAWBERRY BEDS.
The Covering Which Should Be Pro-
vided for Their Protection Dur
ing Cold Weather.

Strawberries are the only small
fruits am growing. These I cover
nicely from sight toward winter, with
straw or barnyard manure, says 3. L.
Collar, in Orange Judd Farmer. The
latter I find more satisfactory, as it
furnishes plant food as well as cover
ing, and is not blown off by the wind.
l practice cultivation and covering
only the first season after planting.
AfterWard, when the picking season
is over, the fields are moved close to
the ground. The after-growth Of
plants and weeds furnishes all the
winter protection necessary. With a
dressing of stable manure, a field of
WarfeId and Wood will last five and
six years. yielding from 1000 to 5000
quarts per acre each season.
In the spring, when plants begin to
start, the field is well narrowed to get
the weeds and grass packed on the
ground so the plants can grow through
them. II the covering is too heavy
for this, it is raked off.
The Donaldsonville chief. [volume] (Donaldsonville, La.) 1871-current, 1905-01-07
HAD FINE EYE FOR HAIRS.
Professor Of Natural History Was Too
Keen for Mischievous
Students.

An eminent naturalist who ho1ds-and
fills, as well-a chair in a university, an
nouneed to the members Of his class one
morning that he had something of I'M
usual interest to show them, relates
Youths Companion.
L have here, gentlemen" he said
some hairs from the skin of a young
crested seal, and we viii proceed TO study
their reculiarities."
Unfelding the small piece of paper that
contained them, he spread the hairs GU:
on sheet of white cardboard and turned
to get bis microscope, which was on a
desk behind him.
While his back was turned a roguish
student quickly swept the hairs off the
desk into his hand, and substituted others
very closely resembling them,
Young gentlemen" said the professor,
severely, moment later, as he glanced
at the sheet of cardboard, there has
been sopae underground work here. These
are mole hairs"
They never attempted to fool the pro-
fessor again.
The Donaldsonville chief. [volume] (Donaldsonville, La.) 1871-current, 1905-01-07
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vAeclNATE AGAINST RABIES
Fasfeur's Latest Method for the Pre-.
Venfion of Hydrophobia in Peo-
pie Bitten by Mad Dogs.

EasReur- vaccination method for the
prevention of hydrophobia in people
oieeen by mad. dogs is employed at the
institute for infectious diseases at Ber-
N, The 'tcuItus" ministry has lust
poollshed statement with reference
~ tue cases Of persons bitten by mad
0oss which have come to the knowI-
sase OF the authorities during 1903, ana
! Waicn permit a judgment on the inertia
~ sdcn vaccination based upon authen-
tic facts.
10 the year 1908, 3o7 persons were bit
esh py l94 mad dogs, or dogs suspected
VI madness; in 140 Of these dogs hydro
phoola Nas afterward proved beyond a
aoaDt, while IL were Sound 60 be
healthy' the rest could noe BE exam
med. The 307 persons lived in eight
inherent pfoVinees-226 of them in east
ED Pfussia, western East Prussia, and
saiesla- which are close to Russia.
lhas fsdssia is again shown to be the
breeding place Of this plague. Of those
1itten, ~ proceeded to the institute
tof infectious diseases ana were vac
mated. -Four Of them died Of hydro
phobia and one recovered after a slight
attack. Deaths took place On the thir-
ly-eighth, fiftS-sixtb, one hundred and
tenth, AND one hundred and thirty-fifth
day, respectively, after the bite.
vaccination las not proved an abso-
iate1y certain Rmedy, even when az
phed right after the bite. says Scientific
American. The statistics show, how
ever, that of ISL persons vaccinated only
Tour died, that iso one and one-halg per
CENT @fhile Of those not vaccinated but
treated medically six per cent. died. and
OF those neither vaccinated nor treated
II per cent. died.
IN view Of these figures" the state
ment proceeds, 1T is earnestly to be
recommended that all persons having
sae misfortune 10 be bitten by dogs
either mad Or suspected of madness at
once submit to vaccination. The value
OF such vaccination is being more and
more recognized. DuRing the last six
years the percentages Of persons bitten
VINO submitted to vaccination were %.
80, 81, Is, 80 and 80. respectively. and
It is to be hoped chat in the future every
nltten person will avail ones self of it. Z,
The Donaldsonville chief. [volume] (Donaldsonville, La.) 1871-current, 1905-01-07
LAnneNM

trouble during the past severe winter.
and the water is SO cold coming from
the ram that it will often freeze while
the ram is working With this style
of protection you have an advantage
over any other method, as by setting
lamp under the box you can thaW
the worst kind of a freeze out in a
very short time.
The heat gets direct at the pipe,
and very quickly lets the ice loose,
and there is no possible danger Of fire,
because the iron pipes are protection.
Before putting up the pipes it is best
to paint them with white lead and oil,
which will keep them from rusting for
many years. A lamp set in this box
on the severest night in the coolest
climates will absolutely prevent freez-
ing. The chimney of the lamp should
be made of tin, and should. be eight
through a hole in a piece Of tin under
the box. Brush the wick every day,
and put in a. new wick every month
A lamp with a one-half-inch wick is
large enough.
You will only need the lamp during
extremely cold nights. In diagram A
is water pipe and W are wires to hold
pipe in center; circle is galvanized
iron pipe four inches diameter. Rest
are one-inch boards carefully trued.
Paper should be put under every joint,
and two thicknesses would be better.
It acts as an alright washer. Nu-
merous Xxx represent the several dead
air spaces; Y is inner dead-air space,
which can be warmed when necessary.
The Donaldsonville chief. [volume] (Donaldsonville, La.) 1871-current, 1905-01-07
Effects Of Electric Currents.

The physiological effects Of electric
currents nave been investigated by
Prof. Nernst, at Bonn. The safety OF
the human body when exposed to a pow
erfut high-frequency electric current
has been explained as due to passage
of the current over the surface of the
body only, but Prof. Nernst finds the
reason of the currents harmlessness to
be probably that it does not have time
to effect a change in the cellular tissue
before the reversal Of the current takes
place. Experiments on frogs have con
firmed the new theory.
The Donaldsonville chief. [volume] (Donaldsonville, La.) 1871-current, 1905-01-07

each morning IN order to get to his own
business on time each day.
It will be seen that this clock differs
in some respect from the familiar time
niece. The method Of adjusting the
alarm is entirely from the face Of the
tinepiece, and is accomplished by the
movement of a secondary dial in the
center of the clock face, In the smaller
dial the figures Of the larger one are
duplicated and the smaller disk is turned
until the hour at which it is desired to
be called is covered by an auxiliary
pointer attached to the hour hand. lit
is desired that the call be for one morn
ing, it can be arranged in that manner
hut il the signal bell is wanted at the
same hour each morning the clock can
be adjusted so as to perform this func
fion.
The Donaldsonville chief. [volume] (Donaldsonville, La.) 1871-current, 1905-01-07
Brushes as an Advertisement.

An English manufacturer Of nail and
hair brushes has novel scheme for ad-
vertising his brushes. He supplies them
to. hotels for about the cost Of manu-
facture. the brushes containing his adj
vertisement on the handle, At the end
of each week he takes away the brushes
which have been in use and gives them
a thorough sanitary cleaning, leaving
another set ii their place. Sometimes
the advertisements of other manufac-
turers are placed on the handle, such as
hair restoTatives, etc
The Donaldsonville chief. [volume] (Donaldsonville, La.) 1871-current, 1905-01-07
Change Radish into Potato.

Experts of the Pasteur insti-
tute, at Paris, have Just accomplished
the seeming miracle of transmitting a
radish into potato. Their report,
which has just been made to the
Academy of Sciences, says this was
done by eultivatins the humble rad
isa ia . special solution Of glucose, a
quasi radish at first fourishing, and
then later when submitted to chem
zeal tests was found to be distin-
gRishable II no way from a potato.
Just what use can be made of this
roundabout method of potato culture
10 not set forth.
The Donaldsonville chief. [volume] (Donaldsonville, La.) 1871-current, 1905-01-07
Doing Great Work.

Horisant. Mo-, Dec. 1eth.-(special.)-
That Dodd's Kidney Pills are doing. q
great work in curing the more terrible
forms of Kidney Disease, such as Bright
Disease, Deopsy and Diabetes, everybody
knows. But it must also be noted that
they are doing still greater work in wip-
ing out thousands of cases OF the earlier
stages Of Kidney Disease. Take for in
stance Mrs. Peter Barteau, of this place.
She says
T have been subject to pains in my
back and knees for about three years, but
SINCE I have, been taking Dodd,s Kidney
Pills have been entirely cured. .
Others here tell similar stories. In fact,
in this part Of Missouri there are scores
of people who have cured the early symp-
toms Of Kidney Disease with Dodd'a Kid
ney Pills. The use of the great American
Kidney Remedy thus saved not only the
lives of Kidney Disease victims, but thou
sands of other Americana from years Of
suferings.
That American heiress who refused to
pay $4,000 for a count may have rea-
soned that this was an overcharge of $685.
B99 70.-Chicago Daily News.
The Donaldsonville chief. [volume] (Donaldsonville, La.) 1871-current, 1905-01-07
AN ElGHY-oAY ALARM eLecg
Inventor overeosnes the 1nconven-
fence Of Daily Adjustment
of the 9imepieee.

The alarm clock is generally a "a
hour instrument, therefore it is a mat
ter of some Inconvenience to arrange
the thing every night SO that it a.ill
get busy the next morning at the de-
sired hour. . recens improvement il
timepieees is shat which is wound and
seton1y once week. and yet which will
ring out its monotonous message ct the
same hour every morning. This will
be a great convenience 70 Ghe person
who sleeps so soundly that he must re-
sort to the assistance OF the alarm clock
The Donaldsonville chief. [volume] (Donaldsonville, La.) 1871-current, 1905-01-07
Dtlution Extraordinary

IA member OF the French Academy re
ported that % experiments on animals
! showed each time that poisoned blood
Il active even after diIutjon one trillion
me million times. The strength Of the
average homeopathic dose is from about
fha third to the sixth decimal. This
demonstrates that those who say that
there il no medicine In a homeopathic
dose betray ignorance.
The Donaldsonville chief. [volume] (Donaldsonville, La.) 1871-current, 1905-01-07
Rabbit PITS in Orchard.

Every orchard should have what is
called rabbit pits. Dig a small well in
the middle of your orchard about five
feet deep, either square or round, then
cover the top with boards with man
hole left so the boys can get down into
the pitsZthen make six-ineh square
box about IL feet long; leave an open
space in the floor of your box over the
pit with the open space just over the
we'll, and when the rabbits run into the
box they drop into the well, This an
swers two purposes: it destroys the rab-
bits and keeps the table in meat.
The Donaldsonville chief. [volume] (Donaldsonville, La.) 1871-current, 1905-01-07
scURvY BARK LOUISE.
Pest Which Destroys Orchards ana
Methods of Combating
the Evil.

A correspondent at Altoona, Pa.
writes the Country Gentleman: please
tell me if the Enclosed tWigs are in
tested with San Jose scale. My entire
orchard looks like that, and last sum
mer many trees turned yellow and
died"
The twigs are badly infested with the
common pest, seurfy bark louise, Chic
naspis furfurus Fitch, a species which
is sometimes quite abundant upon trees,
The Donaldsonville chief. [volume] (Donaldsonville, La.) 1871-current, 1905-01-07
TWO YEARS OF AGONY.
One Cake of Cuticura Soap and One
Box OF Cuticura Cured BaDy's
Awful HunRor.

When my sister was eighteen months
cid humor broke out on her shoulders,
extending clear across the back. For two
years it caused her intense suffering. 1t
would scab over and then crack open and
a Watery matter ooze from it, Then the
seabs would fall off and it would be raw
for a time. We had several different doe
tors and tried everything we could think
we got one cake of Cuticura Soap and one
box of Cuticura Ointment, which cured
her completely and without scar or blem-
lsh. {signedl Lille Chase Walker, S
fremont St.. Woodfords. Me"
The Donaldsonville chief. [volume] (Donaldsonville, La.) 1871-current, 1905-01-07
Gathers Bee stings.

Among those who ara gathering bees
.4ings for medicinal purposes is William
saIser. of Jenkintown. Pa. To collect
s,aa stings by letting an indignant bee
Sling your arm seems q painful, if not
bareic. method, but Mr.. selser declares
+bat it is not very uncomfortable
~ n. Herald
The Donaldsonville chief. [volume] (Donaldsonville, La.) 1871-current, 1905-01-07
Cultivation of the Orchard.

When the orchard is set is the time
to begin the treatment that is to be
continued from year to year. If the
cultivation of the orchard is begun
early the roots will seek the depths of
the soil from the first. and the cultt-
Tator can run over them year after
year without doing them injury. If the
land IS not cultivated at all the surfaces
soil becomes filled with roots and in
the course of years and the ground will
be then pIowed with difficulty
Farmers, Review.
The Donaldsonville chief. [volume] (Donaldsonville, La.) 1871-current, 1905-01-07
Economical.

Mr.. Brown-shaI we have to buy new
WOODEN underwear for all Of the boys this
year?
Mrs. Browne, dear. Yours have
shrunk 50 they just fit John; Johns
shrunk to fit Willie and Willie's are just
snug on the baby. You are the only one
that needg new onest-Detroit Free Press.
The Donaldsonville chief. [volume] (Donaldsonville, La.) 1871-current, 1905-01-07
arr Smallest Coin.

The haIf-cent piece was coin Of the
e,na1lest denomination ever made by
4bis country. t enjoys the distinction
sIsa af being the first coin issued ana
he first whose denomination was dis
continued.
The Donaldsonville chief. [volume] (Donaldsonville, La.) 1871-current, 1905-01-07
A assistance Needed.

The reaE-estate man was doing his best
to sell an undesirable lot.
T guess you're good deal like the
man who caught the bear said his pros
pective victim, who was pretty foxy.
What do you mean?"
you want some one TO help you let
Cincinnati Commercial Tribune.
The Donaldsonville chief. [volume] (Donaldsonville, La.) 1871-current, 1905-01-07

A Guaranteed Cure for Piles.
itching, Blind Bleeding or Protruding Piles.
Your druggist wild refund money Il PAzo
OINTMENT fails to cure in 6 to Il DAYS. SOC.
The Donaldsonville chief. [volume] (Donaldsonville, La.) 1871-current, 1905-01-07

Whether it is misfortune to go to the
grave unsung depends somewhat on the
qualifications of the sin9er.-Smart Set.
The Donaldsonville chief. [volume] (Donaldsonville, La.) 1871-current, 1905-01-07

Piso's Cure cannot be too highly spoken of
Ave, N, Minneapolis, Mimi, Jan. 6, 1900
The Donaldsonville chief. [volume] (Donaldsonville, La.) 1871-current, 1905-01-07
Ra Did Transit.

It takes about three seconds for
message 10 go from one end Of the At.
Iantie to the other.
The Donaldsonville chief. [volume] (Donaldsonville, La.) 1871-current, 1905-01-07

About the most terrific combination
that has developed up to date is an in
to1icated chauffeur and an automobile
Boston Transcript.
The Donaldsonville chief. [volume] (Donaldsonville, La.) 1871-current, 1905-01-07
PIG Investment

The capital invested IN the mineral
water industry in Great Britain is near
" So. ooa, 600.
The Donaldsonville chief. [volume] (Donaldsonville, La.) 1871-current, 1905-01-07

A small cottage here on earth is bet.
ter than q castle in the Rir.-Chicago
Daily News.
The Donaldsonville chief. [volume] (Donaldsonville, La.) 1871-current, 1905-01-07
To Cure a Cold IN One Day

Take Laxative Bromo Quinine Tablets. All
druggists refund the money if it fails TO cure.
E. W. Groves signature is on each bog. Csc.
The Donaldsonville chief. [volume] (Donaldsonville, La.) 1871-current, 1905-01-07

The cynic gets his opinions before the
mirror.-Chicago Tribune.
The Donaldsonville chief. [volume] (Donaldsonville, La.) 1871-current, 1905-01-07

In Manchuria they blow up magazines.
In this happy land Of peace and plenty
they simply blow up the wrlters-Cin
einnati Commercial Tribune.
The Donaldsonville chief. [volume] (Donaldsonville, La.) 1871-current, 1905-01-07

a. n. K-F
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1905-04-20
OPEN THE RESERVATION.

Umatilla county sheepmen should
bring the question of road across
the Umatllla reservation to an issue
at once.
Let the sheepmen get together and
agree upon a band of sheep to be
driven across the reservation. Let
this band be seized by the Indian
agent and a sufficient bond be fur
nished by some responsible source,
guaranteeing the care and safekeeping
Of this herd of seized sheep, and then
bring the matter to issue in the feder-
al court at Portland at once.
This will get decision, at least, and
is the only logical way to settle the
matter, without going to congress
with a plea for modification Of the
hard and fast rule and praying for a
bill of relief for the sheep industry
of this county, by the opening of 8
broad highway through the heart oi
the reservation.
The agent or the government will bt
made responsible for the keeping OF
the sheep until the trial is over anc
It will bring the matter to an imme
diate issue. The road is needed thii
spring, not next year.
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1905-04-20

What a travesty upon Justice the
legal machinery of the great city of
New York must be, when the Nan
Patterson trial has been made to cost
the people over $4,000 and yet no
conclusion is reached. 1t is said that
there are from 1000 to 10000 cases
in equity upon the dockets of New
York civil courts, all the time, clients
dying long before their cases are call
ed. Because of this awful delay in
the courts, certain classes of disrepu-
table small merchants and shopkeep-
ers live and get rich from the large
commission houses which trust these
vampires The rascals secure a stock
of goods on credit, sell 1t and move
away. Suits are brought against them
to recover, but long before the case
can be forced to trial the thief has
Skinned" some other firm and yet
no action is taken. Attorneys are
kept in the employ of these vampires
for the purpose of delaying and de-
ferring such cases.
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1905-04-20
GOOD BYE, JOE JEFFERSON.

Good old jester, Joe jefferson, is
nearing the end of his journey, and
If when this is read he has not pass
ed TO the great beyond. he will be lin
gering near the gates, as his life is
fast ebbng away.
The world is better for Joe Jeffer-
son. He has not amassed a fortune
to be made the prey of avaricious
relatives but he has left a legacy of
laughter and good nheer along his
pathway of life, He has not written
books on philosophy nor ethics, but
he laughed the world into a good hu-
NOR, which is the best philosophy.
His profession has been to make
merry, his life has been devoted to
mirth.
Rip Van Wrinkle and Joe jefferson
will go in history together as the best
essence of American comedy Pure.
, ,elevating, humorous, laugh -provok-
ing without a suggestion of the vau-
deville or the coarse, they have been
upon the stage with recurring fresh
ness and sparkling good cheer for
half a century.
Let him lay aside the TESTERS cap
and bells. Gently draw the curtain
upon his lovable. laughing face and
remember the merry ring of his
quaint voice. for not another like him
shall come to bless humanity with its
sparkling wit and mimicry.
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1905-04-20

pine legislature, which the law directs
shall convene two years after the pub
lication Of the reports of the census
The principal object of the census
was stated in the act of congress to
be to obtain statistics of population
and general knowledge of social
conditions as basis for the formation
of this legislature. Some gleanings
from it will be of much interest to
those who have not time to look over
the whole work. The first volume is
devoted to the history and geography
of the archipelago.
1t will be of great historical value
as covering the ground just up to the
beginning of a new era in the islands,
and which is no doubt the starting
point of what will be their really inn
portant history. The census contains
some items which will surprise (and
many which will please) Americans
who are patriotically interested in
these islanders for whom we have be-
come sponsors.
The population is 76S5.426, and of
this number almost 10000 600 are more
or less civilized; indeed, the nom
Christian peoples are stated to be only
647740. The Christians are practi-
cally all adherents of the Catholic
church. The wild tribes are only
about 9 per cent of the population.
The Moros are Mohammedans. The
Visayans form nearly one-half of the
civilized population; next come the
Tagalos and third the nocanos. AL
most all the inhabitants are native
born. Exclusive of the army. there
are only S135 Americans. Persons of
mixed blood are reported to be only
two-tenths of one per cent. The IL
literacy is terrible; only one-fifth can
both read and write. and only 1.5 per
! cent have received a superior edu-
cation. This will rapidly be remedied,
however, for now S7,5 per cent of the
children of school age are attending
school The Pampa ugan is the most
Tolerate tribe. nearly half of the males
being able to read and write.
! Under the head of occupations of
the people the item of female industry
is remarkable. Twice as many of the
women, in proportion, are wage earn
ers as in the United States. Most of
these are classed as manufacturers, as
they work at home during the inter-
walls of household duties, weaving
hats, mats and cloths. Pauperism is
practically unknown in the Philip
pines, except i'm times of pestience or
destruction of crops,
only one in 10000 is a public
charge, and i'm the United States pau
perism is ~ times that The reports
are an exhibit of what American oc-
cupation has done for the advance in
prosperity education and order. The
information I'm them will be of great
value to those who wish to study the
welfare and material prosperity of the
Filipinos.
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1905-04-20
TAKE THE MEDICINE, TAXPAYER

a decrepit old man, suffering with
an affection of his legs, was given
$22 by a sheepman at Echo, for whom
the old man had been working, and
was sent to Pendleton to enter st. An
thongs hospital, for few days.
Arriving at Pendleton, the old man
was met on the street by the "capper''
for one of the hundred gambling
games running wide open here, and
thinking he had found a friend to
whom he could confide his troubles,
told this parasite, the "capper," his
circumstances. Playing the role of a
friend, the "capper" advised him to
try his luck just once and double his
money, so he could stay in the hos
pital double the length of time and
become permanently cured. Accord
ingly, the "capper" took him to a
game where it required just five min
utes to rob the old man of his s22 and
send him out of the place a candi-
date for the county poor farm.
Being in need, he applied to the
county court and was sent to the
county hospital where he is burden
on the taxpayers who are submitting
to this open-handed robbery, by IL
censing it in the midst of the city. The
taxpayers are to blame for submitting
so they must AXE the medi-
cine This is but one case that could
be cited.
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1905-04-20
PHILIPPINE CENSUS.

Filipinos have for the first time had
their census taken in a complete way.
It is contained in four volumes just
published by the census bureau Of the
United States This is the first step
toward establishment of the Philip