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Miss Bonnie Barton, of Riverside,
has returned from delightful visit to
friends in New Orleans.
The Donaldsonville chief. [volume] (Donaldsonville, La.) 1871-current, 1907-05-11

D. D. Dalferes visited Napoleon
willie Monday to attend the funeral OF
the late lamented DIR. Fulton Rogers.
The Donaldsonville chief. [volume] (Donaldsonville, La.) 1871-current, 1907-05-11

Owing to the inclement weather. the
police jury failed to muster quorum
last Wednesday and the regular
monthly meeting was necessarily pre-
termltted. President Reuss has issued
a call for a meeting to be held next
Wednesday, the 18th inst, and full
attend ance of members is anticipated.
The Donaldsonville chief. [volume] (Donaldsonville, La.) 1871-current, 1907-05-11

Mr.. and Mrs. M. Tobias returned
Yesterday from a pleasant visit of
several days to relatives and friends
in New Orleans.
The Donaldsonville chief. [volume] (Donaldsonville, La.) 1871-current, 1907-05-11

Miss Alice Melancon, of jennings
is the attractive guest of Mrs and Mrs
w, d. Park.
The Donaldsonville chief. [volume] (Donaldsonville, La.) 1871-current, 1907-05-11

Don't forget that the Donaldson
Vile Outing Clubs excursion to New
Orleans will take place next Sunday,
the 18th. Fare for round trip, one
simaianp
The Donaldsonville chief. [volume] (Donaldsonville, La.) 1871-current, 1907-05-11

Henry Rodriguez, . progressive
young farmer and influential citizen
Of Acy, was in town on business yester-
day and favored The Chief with an
appreciated visit.
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The town council will meet in regn-
lar monthly session next Wednesday.
The Donaldsonville chief. [volume] (Donaldsonville, La.) 1871-current, 1907-05-11

Meyer Meter visited New Orleans
on business yesterday.
The Donaldsonville chief. [volume] (Donaldsonville, La.) 1871-current, 1907-05-11

L. w. Armitage, of Darrew, has on
hand from twelve TO fifteen tons OF
fine COTTON seed, suitable for planting
purposes, which he will sell in large
or small lots ct moderate prices. See
his nd. elsewhere IN toda5's Chief.
The Donaldsonville chief. [volume] (Donaldsonville, La.) 1871-current, 1907-05-11

OF course, you're going to New Or
leans on the 10Th?
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SATURDAY. MAY II. 1907
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Veterans Elect Delegates to Reunion.

Fred. N. Ogden Camp No. PAT, u.
saes a n saturday, ng for s the purpose a. 0o Of
eleeting delegates to the annual re-
is to be held at Richmond, Va. dur
Lieutenant-C Commander Sylvanie Gau-
treau presided over the assemblage in
the absence of Comm ander P. T. ST.
Amant, and twenty-five members an
swered to their names at roll-call
Thos. II. Dyer, Sylvanie Gautreau
and Louis Guedry we're elected dele
gates to the reunion, with D. B. Miller,
A. j. Bruce and Anderson McCrory
as alternates.
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cathoIic Pair Scores success.

The fair given in the old Catholic
church building last Saturday, Sun
day and Monday, May 4, and 6, for
the purpose of raising funds with
which to construct new presbytery,
resulted in a gratifying success, both
from an artistic and financial point of
view, the net receipts totalling Sl194. 81.
Had the weather conditions been more
favorable, the entertainment would
undoubtedly have proven one of the
most notable of its kind ever given in
this community, but as it is, the result
achieved is satisfactory to all con-
cerned and reflects the utmost credit
upon Manager l.. A. Landry, Jr., and
the various ladies and gentlemen who
assisted him in perfecting the arrange
ments for the festival and carrying
/ them through to SO successful terrni
| nation. Following is a statement of
| the net amount realized by each de-
partment of the big entertainment, to-
gether with the names of those who
were in charge thereof:
Restaurant, Mrs. D. GentiI. .ssss $245 90
] Flying horses, Paul Braud ............... 81 95
Wheel of Fortune, Misses Webre and
Cake table, Mrs. J. e. Babin. ........ -. n 80
Register, Misses Comeaux and Fortier... 81 90
| Guessing contest, Miss Amanda Landry. % 50
F. Terrio. 49, - 141 rs
| Ice cream table, Mrs j. F. Fernandez. 81 Is
| Fish pond, Miss Loretta Ferrier.. % 90
Mrs, Moebius 30
Bazaar, Misses Gaudin ....,... 10 90
| Candy wheel John Schaff and P. Camel 1926 rs
and Laura Landry ,....4.:..........; 27n
| Bar and roulette, 7. A. Leblanc and
L. J. Brnn. ......................... 80 96
nj. T. Massardier. ......s............. 90 30
Total. ....-.,..................... S11s4 81
| The handsome gold bracelet offered
as prize in the guessing contest was
won by Miss Amanda Landry, who
! guessed chat the net receipts of the fair
'-o,,13 - 011a7 ~
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At j. A. DALFEREs' Stores
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FIrsmen,s AnnIversary Calculation.

Everything is in readiness for the
anniversary parade and celebration OF
the Donaldsonville fire department to-
morrow afternoon, and if Dame Rumor
can be credited This years demonstra-
ton is likely to eclipse that of any
previous year, both as regards the
character and quality of the decora-
tions and the number and appearance
of the men in line. Members of the
various companies have been busily
engaged during the past week in adorn-
ing AMI beautifying their respective
apparatus, and each of the organiza-
tions is assiduously claiming that it
will make the best display.
c. Kline, president of Ascension
Hook and Ladder Company No. l,
has been selected to offciate as grand
marshal of the parade, and the follow
ing representatives of the several COM
panies will constitute his staff of aides:
W. A. Dill, Phoenix Steam Fire Com
pany No. /: DR.. r. Fl. Hanson, Volun-
teer Hose Company No. 2, and Meyer
Meter, Vigilant Hose Company No. 3.
The company marshals and aides
are as follows:
Phoenix Fire Company-Dr. Clar-
epce Goette, marshall; Ned Leche and
Dominique Casso, aides.
Ascension Hook and Ladder Com
pany-Dr. E. K. Sims, marshal; H.
C. Whiteman and Klebert Gu hre, aides.
Volunteer Hose Company-E. c..
Hanson, marshal; Alphonse Oubre, E.
A. Thibodeaux, Abe Bloomensteil, Joe
Eris, Stark L. Davis and Arthur Le-
mann, aides.
Vigilant Hose Company asmin
Tobias, marshal; Louis Dehon, Paul
Gisclard, Edmund Maurin and Jos. N.
Gisclard, aides.
The parade will form in Louisiana
Square between 4:30 and O'Clock,
and will traverse the following route:
Up Houmas street to Iberville,
out Iberville to Chetimaches, down
Chetimaches to Conway, out Con-
way to Railroad avenue, down Rail-
road avenue to Division, up Rail-
road avenue to Mississippi, out Mis-
sissippi to St. Vincent, down ST.
Vincent to Iberyille, out Iberville to
ST. Patrick, down st. Patrick to Clai-
borne, out Claiborne to Lessard, up
Lessard to Mississippi, out Missis-
sippi to Houmas, down Houmas 30
Louisiana Square.
The celebr alton will conclude. with
elaborate banquets at the Nichols
Hotel and ST. Martin House, the
Hooks and Volunteers being scheduled
to dine at the former hosiery and the
Phoenix and Vigilants at the latter.
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Succession Sale.


State of ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS judicial
District Court-Parish of Ascension.
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To have the time OF your life take
In the Donaldsonyille Outing Clubs
excursion to New Orleans on Sunday,
May 10. Train leaves at s a. m. Fare
for round trip, one dollar.
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Clothes They chang" right!
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The handsome gold bracelet offered
as prize in the guessing contest was
won by Miss Amanda Landry, who
guessed chat the net receipts of the fair
would be Sll97, IS.
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are found ia the Kirschbaum
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Qualities looked for by all men
Los Angeles herald., 1907-02-10

the hands Of men ard women Of shallow
brains. who seek only the qualification
OF their own whims. So an appeal must
be made to law to right the wrong.
Several states, notably Wisconsin and
New York, have put such statutes on
their books, with excellent results, and
Missouri has Just adopted such bill
after hooting It down only two years
ago. And the laws, which fix a penalty
upon both giver and taker of tips, have
proved a boon to the persons-who con-
stitute the immensely great majority
who like decency I'm servants, without
having to buy each individual servitor.
California entertalns many thousands
of visitors every year, who complain
loudly at the extent to which this gouge
is carried here, and go away advertis-
ing the state thus, to its disadvantage.
1t has become notorious that the sim
plest want cannot be supplied I'm Los
Angeles caravansaries without n per-
uuisite for the person employed to rem
ders the service. Why not at once re-
deem the state and do away with this
un-American and degrading custom, by
law enacted for the purpose?
Los Angeles herald., 1907-02-10

Ambitious ladies who write for the
newspapers and professionally take
their sex quite seriously often point
with pride to the lady promoter. There
is a career, we are told, for which the
innate optimism and winning ways of
her sex admirably fit her. The stern
repositories of funds seeking invest
ment have an instructive prejudice in
favor of the promoter in petticoats.
The romance which she distills helps
to kindle the imagination into taking
a kindly view of prospective profits.
She, If any one, can extract the sun
shine from cucumbers. The road to
mans pocket is through his heart, and
it is beaten path to her. The least
susceptible would buy his way into
blind pool" in the moon for the gra-
ciousness of her smile; indeed, for in
ducing a man to invest heavily in a
blind pool she has the priceless heri-
tage of her sexs accumulated expert
ence of a thousand generations.
This eulogistic picture of her pow
ers-looking a bit like a prospectus
falls short of the reality, If we may
trust the limning of real lady pro-
moter by a generating hand. The world
melted before her smiles. Princes and
potentates, not content to possess the
great schemes" of her brain, wanted
to possess themselves of the brain IT.
self. Millionaires could not see the
promotion for promOter-the only risk,
indeed, that we can discern in trust
ing a "flotation" to a vision of lowell
ness They all wanted to marry her.
but she could not be interested in that
ancient and banal form of promotion.
When she did wed she contracted no
vulgar alliance" with mere real
wealth. She chose a congenial partner
twin soul who, like herself, subsist-
ed on the future, and they settled down
to love in an air castle. True help
meets, they elaborated their great
/ schemes" together-New York Tribune.
Los Angeles herald., 1907-02-10
SHOOTERS FROM THEIR CRADLES

The best shots in the world are the
Kentucky mountaineers. The west has
nothing to compare with them. When
it comes to pulling a gun" quickly and
shooting accurately the most expert of
frontier bad men would appear slow
and clumsy by the side of many of
these mountain outlaws. They learn
to shoot almost as soon as they grad
uate from the cradle. Many of their
sports relate to shooting. The proprie-
tor of the crossroads store has a shoot
ing gallery in his establishment. where
in other localities you might find a
slot machine. In one store I saw a
wheel about half the size of spinning
wheel with pieces of cardboard contain
ing numbers on the different spokes.
The charge was "nipence" (ten cents)
shot, and the participant picked his
number. The prizes ranged all the
way from box of cartridges to a bag
of corn meal or a side of ''sow bosow,"
according to the size of the piece of
cardboard selected The wheel was
given a swift whirl by the storekeeper,
but judging from the shooting 1 saw
could not find out wherein he derived
any profit from the CONFERENCE.-The
Outing Magazine.
Los Angeles herald., 1907-02-10
STOP THE TIPPING

Why not an anti-tipping bill for Cali
forna? Other states are putting them
into effect with excellent results; why
rot this state, where the evil has run
riot and debauched the entire class of
serving people?
There is something debasing in this
tip custom, anyhow. 1t S an importa-
tion from Europe, where the "noblesse
oblige' has set it up as a custom, and
where it is universal. over there they
have serving classes and a member of
such class seldom rises out of it. There
may be some eXcus in such a case, for
the superior rank to bestow largess
upon the inferior" as a matter of
courtesy.
But in this country, theoretically we
are all equals; there is no 'lOWer"
class and no upper class. In earlier
days, when this was better emphasized,
before the era of ,reat wealth set up a
monetary standard Of parsonage, a gift
to a servant would have been looked
upon as an insult by the expected re-
cipient, and would have been cause for
trouble. Then, the serving men and
women esteemed themselves as good as
their temporary employers, and decried
any effort to make them cut an inferior
people.
But with the growth of this tipping
system, the serving class--and it is by
this very means made a class-has be-
come calloused and thick skinned; it
takes largess now, not only without
resentment, but as its right, and insults
when gratuities are not Forthcoming
after the most trivial service. A waiter
in a cafe will sometimes not serve de-
Gently "a guest unless seen; some
BARRIERS will not adequately attend to
,he duties for which they are amply
paid unless feed; a train porter is noto-
lious for his holdup methods, and it is
rapidly becoming impt sble to secure
the simplest attention in any public
place, such as a hotel, without a con-
tHbutiou Of "A small ,oin. This is en-
couraged alike by he proprietors, who
thus avoid paying CeCeut wages i'm some
instances, and by the servitors, who put
into vogue their system Of petty BAN
diJage that they may profit from both
sides i'm their work
The direct result has been that we
have debased the freeborn and self
respecting American servant and have
made of him a Inning sncaking syco
phaut; while at he same time we
have enabled the mgsters TO gouge theh
guests i'm an unconscionable fashion
without amy adequate return. We are
subject to insult If We do not tip, ant
to sncers as an "casy mark If we do
Public opinion may be the legitimate
means TO end this sordd graft bui
public opinion is weak when confronted
| with The power Of easily got wealth ii
Los Angeles herald., 1907-02-10
ENeLIsHMAN A POOR IMMIGRANT

Canada naturally has strong English
sentiment, but the actual leaders in af-
fairs in the Canadian Northwest admit
that the English immigrant neither
made a past nor assured a future for
their new empire. First came the typi-
cal English remittance man." who
lived on money from home and subsist-
ed chiefly on whisky. He was a cum
berer of the earth and spelled no prog
ress whatever. Then came the English
colonistS from the cities, poor folk for
the most part and eager to better them
selves; willing to work, but in fitness
generations behind the men who fought
their course across the continent by
way of the Appalachians and the Mis-
souri, and the Rockies. Later there ar
rived numbers of the agricultural
classes of England, peaceable, hard
working and frugal, admirable settlers,
albeit somewhat ignorant of the condi-
tions of life in a new country. All
these We're welcomed in Canada; but,
although the English immigration in
numbers equals that of many other ma
tions combined, it does not equal the
American immigration alone in strik-
ing power, in footpound terms of po-
tential civilization.-The Outing Maga-
zine.
Los Angeles herald., 1907-02-10

~ NE OF the privilc which the
| sovereign is still allowed to retain
I'm democratic England is the APP
pointment Of his own chef When there
Is change Of ministry King Edward,
at the dictation of he prime minister,
has to take on a new lord chamberlain
who is nominally the boss of the up
stairs department of the royal house
hold and a new lord steward, who is
supposed to have supreme control of the
culinary department, but tn real mon
arch of the palace Kitchen. the "chief
cook" as he is officially styled i'm good
old Anglo-Saxon, is not subject to the
vicissitudes of politics. Whatever party
is i'm power he continues to hold his job
at his majesty's pleasure, which is just
as long as be contrlves to satisfy his
majesty's highly cultivated epicurean
tastes. And this is a matter which
really affects the king more closely than
change of administration, for whether
the Liberals or the Conservatives are
in majority. he can exercise very lit
tie control over the government.
The Cook Gets $4,000 Year
The august functionary who minis
ters to the royal appetite is NJ. Juste
Menager native of the land of good
cooks, and something over 40 years of
age. He gets $4,000 a year, which Is
$500 more than is paid the first sea lord
of the admiralty the famous Sir
Jackie Fisher, who practically runs
the British navy. Nj. Menager owes his
enviable position to hard work and
genius, for good cooks, like poets. are
born, not made. But like nearly all
truly great men, he is a iodest one.
He shuns publicity.
He has an easy billet. He is paid
big salary not so much for what he
actually does as for knowing how to do
1t. So great culinary artist is not
expected to produce three masterpieces
in one day. with the breakfas. of the
king, which is always modest meal, he
does not concern himself. He is not
required to sleep under his masters
roof. like most of the royal menials,
but lives in a private residence a short
distance from BuCkingh~ III palace. He
always drives to the palace, arriving
there shortly after II o'clock In his
own private office. a sunny apartment
adjoining the kitchen and overlooking
lawns, he receives the luncheon carte
drawn UP by Lord Farquhar, the mas
ter of the kings household, and begins
his days work,
Dishing Up the Meal
At his command for this work are
four master cooks and retinue of we'll
trained attendants, all clad in immacu-
late linen. Perfect discipline prevails
among them. Clock work regularity is
the rule. Each dish is begun and fin
ished to within minute of the APP
pointed time. Few words are spoken
The culinary autocrat walks around
and superintends, offering a suggestion
here and there for the perfection OF
some particular dainty, but so wei
drilled and skilled are his attendants
that he seldom needs to give an order
The masterpiece of the repast-the disf
which may tickle the most luxurious
of aristocratic palates and stimulate
the most jaundiced appetites-he makes
Los Angeles herald., 1907-02-10
POWER OF REGENERATION

In ancient days when people grew
Old as, say, the Assyrians the Egyp-
tians, Acadians, Sumerians, Hittites
Phenicians, Trojans, Greeks, Romans,
they wasted away in u hopeless senil-
ity. They had no power of recupera-
ton, or else they had no hope, no in
spiration, could gain no resolution from
despair. Some of them We're sub
merged by sturdier or more numerous
stocks, but most of the great peoples
wore and wasted away
But i'll the modern world a people,
ike an individual. takes another grip
on itself and lives on. fighting its way
back to health and vigor and a new life.
1t is so with Japan. 1t is so with China,
that long sleeping titan. just now feel
ing the flow of warm life-blood in his
veins, stretching himself like a giant
refreshed with new wine. and reioiceth
as strong man to run a race. 1t is
so with Persia, which, instead of dying
centuries ago, when she was overrun
by Greek phalanx and Roman legion,
let the legions thunder past and
plunged in thought again"-thought of
a Ire that was ineXtinguishable. In
stead of dying when she was harried
Dy the Parthians, she absorbed the wild
rough riders" of that day and civilized
ana enlightened them, and poured their
tresh, vigorous blood through her de-
pleted veins. Instead of succumbing
10 the sword of Mohammed, she turned
that sword into plowshare and soon
ruled by force of intellect her furious
aespoliers A dozen conquerors have
harrieu ana plundered and wounded
her, her realm has been the highway of
conquest for 5000 years. her mighty
nosts have shrunk to beggarly 10, 900, :
QUO people of jarring sects and faiths Of
warning bloods and of diverse barbar-
isms ms opposing her thin and flickerjne
light of civilization. But she decided 70
1Ve'-Columbia Is. c. State.
Los Angeles herald., 1907-02-10
RESPONSIBILITY OF MOTHERS

One thing stands out very plain in
the disgusting Thaw casc-one lesson
to which every one should pay heed.
That is the responsibility of a mother
Of young daughter who turns her
adrift in the city to make her own way
without the safeguards which should
hedge about and protect her in a de-
cent homo.
Had Evelyn Nesbit's mother sought
first her daughters moral and spiritual
welfare, not her financial gain and no.
toriety, she might never have fallen a
victim to a mans debasing passions and
the Thaw tragedy might not have hap
pened. A pretty girl of scarcely 16
she was practically-though of course,
not knowingly-turned over to be the
plaything of a human beast by her
own mother, and. naturally, the eX
pected consequences followed.
OF course, no one entirely exoneratcs
Evelyn Nesbt from her disgrace; it
should have been the girls business
never to have come in contact with a
man who was notorious even in stage
circles for his running of girls. But
Evelyn Nesbit was only 16, was easily
dazzled by wealth and fine clothes and
luxury; she had not seen much of the
world, and her associates belittled the
consequences of such an alliance.
However, her mother was mature
woman, albeit not of any particular
stamina; creature of whims and easy
going methods; she knew that her
daughters greatest prize was her beau
ty, and she seems deliberately to have
set about to capitalize that beauty. So
far as has been shown the little
one never had a parental warning
against such deeds as she admits-soll.
tary dinners with a roue; visits to his
alleged studio; frolics of a question
able sort; posings in scant attire with
no other woman present, and the like
She seems never to have been told
that these could mean but one thing
that they We're only insidious method:
to undermine her natural virtue anC
her inherent morality. She was allowed
by her own mother TO walk INTO the
trap deliberately spread for her feet
and no one could have been more sur,
prised than her own mother when the
result ensued which blasted her life.
Evelyn Nesbit was not blameless fol
her actions; no girl ever is. I3It I
candid and calmly discerning public
must perforce put the major portion o
it's responsibility not upon the weak
ill-trained and untutored girl, out upo1
her mother who should have been he
strongest shield and greatest protector
| Had this mother done even her nat
ural duty she would have schooled he
pretty daughter against any such go
| ings on as she seems rather to have en-
couraged; she would have closed tn
gates of the primrose path and woul,
have seen her child clad in rags ant
eating the crusts of honest povert,
rather than accepting a single favo
from a man whose character she mus
have penetrated as through glass.