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burners know and practise the art, but they do not seem to be any too commit ncative That it comes not from the body of the coal itself, but from the gases evolved and their subsequent decomposi- tion is fairly well known, but Just what the conditions are which determine this deposition are not well known. if known at all
 This deposited carbon, as 1t Is called, Is generally seen to better advantage on the arch of the recovery oven and, on ac- count of its purity has been in demand by the manufacturers of carbon rods for electric lighting and for electrodes in elec- tric furnaces and chemical works. Until the International Acheson Graphite com pany, Niagara Falls, began the manu- facture of artificial graphite from an- thracite coal this deposited carbon was about the best material that could be obtained for these purposes But when Acheson found that a hard carbon rod was not necessary for electrolytic work the demand for deposited carbon fell off a little.
 When a piece of this deposited carbon is mounted and examined with the micro scope it illustrates in a striking man. ner the exquisite beauty that is often to be found in the most unlikely and prosaic things. Illuminating the mount ing by a ray of sunshine in a darkened
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Goals which are of similar composition exhibit considerable differences in their behavior in a coke oven. This Is so well known to coke burners that 1t Is almost a waste of time to state the fact.
 Similarity in chemical composition, in so far as this is ordinarily ascertained (by proximate analyss) does not necessar- fly imply similarity of behaviour in the oven.
 We do not yet know what 1t Is In a coal that causes 1t to coke, nor do we know why coals of but slightly differing composition should show such wide diff ferences in the oven. It Is not to be held that there Is any single ingredient In given coal that determines Its coking qualities. It is rather a certain ratio be- tween several ingredients which for a given coal may vary considerably. It Is not a fixed quantity. The compost ton of what is ordinarily known as volatile and combustib;e matter, in the proximate analysis of coal, varies not only for each coal but In the same coal at different periods. A good coking coal may and often does lost it's coking quail ties upon long exposure to the air at cur rent temperatures and may lose them within a short time at q temperature ap- preaching that of boiling water. The amount and nature of the gases evolved from coal depends to some extent upon
The Birmingham age-herald., 1907-03-31
EASTER PREMoNITIoNs.

By M. A. Stock. Lovely and lilly-like flowers and faces, Spring born, of delicate hue, Sparxles of dewdrops and jewelled sug-
 gestions,
 Sheen of soft silk gleaming through; Large shapes and small shapes Bewildering in beauty, Fated to blind
 Many bright eyes to duty. Now while the March winds In tempest are blowing, Here. there, all over
 Are Easter hats growing. If you should know by report Of your
 mirror
 You were deliciously fair. If vou had heard Maude and Mabel and
 Myra
 Each a new hat was to wear. Then don't you think
 You'd be wanting one, too? Now don't say No
 For I'm sure that you d1. Why. 'tis part of the joy of the season When our tall lilies we bring Till the deep chancel is fragrant as Eden' While from the choir anthems rlhs' That the days sunlight.
 Through stained windows streaming Should find fresh garden
 To welcome it's beaming; That rich gay huee dresses, And hats like spring flowers Should blend in the harmony
 Rung by the hours. Joy is the keynote: 'tis well It should
 sound Through sermon and anthem glad' VI
 brant, profound. Jov is the %"motif," then let 1t be seen In beauty of color, in softness of sheen. But oh, we will hope
 Would 1t be wrong to pray? That tho Easter come early
 Twill be fine day. For if 1t should rain, On, if 1t should rain-l ll1
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force of gravity. would be perhaps the most striking phenomenon. The force of gravity on the surface of a planet is measured by two things-frst, the total mass of the planet; second, its radius Thus iu is easy to calculate the force of gravity on any planet as compared with it's force on the earth.
 Take Jupiter, for instance. The mass of Jupiter is BIT times that of the earth, and if 1t were no larger than' the earth, bodies on its surface would be 317 times heavier than the same bodies on the earth But the diameter and the radius of Jupiter are about eleven times greater
The Birmingham age-herald., 1907-03-31
THE VOICE.

By Clenton Scollard A sound rose out of the south
 (Sweeter was never heardD Like the rain song after drouth
 From the mouth of bird. Over the hill it came
 With all the haste of hope, And the glint of an amber flame Touched every slope. "I am the vernal voice"
 These were the words 1t said, And l cry to the world: Rejoice Der the winter dead! Then the ancient mother of all,
 The fond earth mother, she Threw off the iron thrall
 And stepped forth free. Oh, the celestial glow
 Again in her veins astir-- Come, my heart. let us go
 And be glad witr her!
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tan those of The earth, and since the for of gravitation of a planet varies inversely as the square of the radius, it follows that bodies on the surface of Jupiter will, as far as distance rom the center of attraction affects their weight, be eleven times eleven, or 12l times less heavy than upon the earth But, owing to Jupiters inferior mass, this would be 317 times heavier. To get the actual weight we divide 317 by 121. the quotient. .,2, representing the ratio of the weight ot . body on Jupiter to that which 1t would have on the earth.
 In other words, a pound weight re-
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HENCE, LoATHED MELANCHOLY.

By Horace Seymour Keller. Would you write a song for me? Make it full of rollity. Make 1t thrill with fancy free,
 Youth and gay frivolity. Let no tears creep into the strain Life is too short for weeping. Time that was will never again
 Come with the same glad leaping. Would you paint a picture grand
 For my walls adorning? Paint it full of flowers and
 Sunshine of the morning. Let no clouds of sombre hue
 Come with darkling, shadows To steal away the summer blue
 4,bove my gladsome meadows. Would you write book to fill
 My heart with lifes treasures? Write it full of throb and thrill
 Of love, of youth, of pleasure. Let no tears creep Into the string Of pages you are doing. Life is a book-once, passed. again Twill bear no reviewing.
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room 1t assumes the form of a silver sphere, with caverns, arches, preclplces, canyons and streams of brightest silver.
 The cells of the coke become irregular cavities lined with silver, each project ing point is crowned with silver gleaming with an unearthly and refulgent spen- dor.
 There are sermons in stones and heaven in a piece of coke. if only be know how to look aright. It Is so with life itself, it all depends on how we look at 1t.
 If beauty resides In a piece of coke ir must be In many other things that we constantly overlook.
 But this Is Aggression to be tolerated, perhaps. during the spring months but not necessarily included in talk about coke.
 Chemical analysis does not give us much valuable information about coke, aside from the determination of the ash and sulphur. We cannot tell how much bur- den the coke will carry in the blast furnace or how 1t will behave in the eu- poa. Nor do such physical tests as are now in use add materially to our knowl- edge of the qualities of coke. Chemically the coke may be uniform but in phy- slcal qualities it nearly always shows wide variations.
 The apparent and true specific gravity, the percentage of cells and their rela-
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Copyright, 1907. by n-Journal-Ex-

Copyright, 1907. by American-Journal-Ex aminer.
 "HE question of the weight. size,
 strength, etc., of man if removed ! to the other planets has lately at- tracted much attention, and 1t is always Interesting in it's bearing on the greater problem of the habtability of that other world. It may, therefore. be worth while to discuss briefly certain considerations affecting the conditions in which one of us would find himself on the moon. or Mars, or even on the sun.
 The change of weight, or, what is vir- tualy the same thing, the change in the
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WHAT IS PsYCHoMETRY?
Copyright, 1906, by American Journal

By Ella Wheeler Wilcox.
 Copyright, 1906, by American-Journal-
 Examiner.
 NVER here in Paris there Is large
 interest in the subject of oc- O cultism.
 s,,ch men as Dr. Charles Richet, Paul Adam. Lauret Tailhade, Jules Bois, Sar- lou, Flammarion, Jean Korraine, Major Darget all men known in the literary or scientific world, are investigators and be- ueyesr that there is a law which no known science can explain.
 At No. 42 Rue St. Jacques the Psycholo- rical Research society has a little rendez- vous. where students of the occult meet pnce each week to discuss and relate lvents connected with investigations. was invited to meet this circle one morning, and found the menSers all in- nIlectual and cultured men and women. Curiously enough I found, too, that all rere looking toward America for guid- lnce and direction in these studies.
 Some of the men and women l met wore firm believers in the communication If the departed spirits with dwellers on larth: others still questioned whether 1t night not be the sub-conscious mind or he memory of a former incarnation which produced phhenomena.
 Others believed it could be explained V psychometry.
 Whenever I have asked for an explana- son of that much used word no one has Ieemed able to give it. But just before eavlng America obtained from the most samarkable psychometric I have meta soman who has been able to tell me all prts of true things relative to my past Ind present and to forese many events n my future-an explanation of psychom- try.
 This woman does not for an instant &C., ept the idea that she IS controhed py nirits from the other side.
 If is her belief that spirits have better vork to do than to come back to earth m pry into the affairs of us mortals. This is what she said of the law of rychometry when I asked for a key to
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Very Wise.

From the Brooklyn Eagle.
 Mrs Sage has won golden opinions from all sorts of people of late. She Is not the first woman to attract regard and admiration by great benefactions, but she has shown such veritable statesmanship and such notable forecast. Her late hus- band was very wise to select her to be the best interpreter of his life.
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BY GARRETT P. SERVES

worlds, like the moon and Mars. the man would gain in strength. because his mus cles would be larger in proportion to his weight.
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. URING the last two and half
 ' years the United States geological survey has maintained a coke test
The Donaldsonville chief. [volume] (Donaldsonville, La.) 1871-current, 1907-08-31
PralrieyilIe Notes.

Joe Gonzales and Lueien Gautreau,
of Gonzales, were here Wednesday on
business.
Clerk of Court James S. Barman, of
Donaldsonville, spent several days
here this week as the guest of friends.
John G. Klos, of Belle Helene, eandi-
date for the Democratic shrieyalty
nomination, spent Friday here with
friends and acduaintances.
in. Delaune visited Donaldsonyille
Sunday on business.
Mrs. E. D. Adler, of New Orleans,
spent the week here as the guest of her
sister, Mrs. VIM, Delaune.
A Methodist protracted meeting as
been going on for the past several
days, and although there have been no
accessions to the church, large congre-
cations have attended the various
services.
A wind and electrical storm swept
over this locality last Sunday night.
Four mules and COW were struck by
lightning and killed, and several barns
and other outbuildings were blown
from their found ations
VIM. Delaune visited friends at the
lake on Wednesday last.
The Donaldsonville chief. [volume] (Donaldsonville, La.) 1871-current, 1907-08-31
Weather and Crop Notes.

The following paragraphs are bor-
rowed from this weeks Ascension let
ter to the Louisiana Planter:
''To make use of slang phrase,
the past week. weather has been all
to the good, and there is general
rejoicing among the sugar. cotton and
rice planters in consequence of the
improved meteorological conditions.
Clouds gathered on numerous occa-
sions during the week and at times
rain seemed imminent, but only on
Sunday evening, when light shower
fell, did the threatened precipitation
materialize.
1.-THE work of harvesting the rice
crop has been progressing satisfac-
torily since the cessation of the rains,
and a fine yield is being obtained.
From present indications the rice
planters of this section will experience
most profitable season, since they,
enjoyed the benefits of high water for
much longer period than usual-and
consequently were enabled to irrigate
their fields at very little cost-and in
addition are promised excellent prices
for their product.
while two bales of cotton have
already been ginned in this parish,
picking will not become general until
the latter part of September, the crop
being from two to three weeks late as
compared with an average season. A
shortage of from 25 to 30 per cent is
anticipated, but the creased prices
at which the staple is selling will more
than compensate for the shrinkage in
the output.
"Reports from Ed. c. Wathen's
Pelico planta.,ou in upper Ascension
are to the effect that the cane crop on
that place is one of the finest in this
vicinity. A sample stalk shows nine
teen red joints and weighs about eight
pounds, which is far and away better
than anything exhibited hereabout so
far this season. Chas. E. Landry is
managing Pelico for Mr.. W athen, and
more efficient field general would be
hard to find in any section of the
sugar belt. -
The Donaldsonville chief. [volume] (Donaldsonville, La.) 1871-current, 1907-08-31
Good Roads In Louisiana.

Jules Godchaux, a leading business
man of New Orleans, returned to that
city on Tuesday from an extended trip
to the north and east, the main feature
of which was a jaunb of over 1000 miles
in a Locomobile touring car from New
York city to Chicago, taking in Nj
agara Falls, Buffalo, Erie, Cleveland,
Toledo and South Bend, and includ-
ing many side trips in the country
from these respective cities.
MIR. Godchaux states that he was
greatly disappointed in the roads,
which were very sandy after three
weeks of dry weather and not to be
compared with roads in Louisiana
and Mississippi under similar CON
ditions. "The roads between New Or
leans and Donaldsonville, on both
sides of the river" he said, fare, in
my opinion, fully equal to the best
roads in. New York and Pennsy lvania,
and better than the roads in Ohio and
Indiana
The Donaldsonville chief. [volume] (Donaldsonville, La.) 1871-current, 1907-08-31
Cane Crop In Fine Shape.

Evan J. Mccall, of Evan Hall plan
tation, spent several days in New Or
leans this week attending to business
duties, and was interviewed by an Item
reporter concerning the crop outlook
in this section OF the state. Discussing
the local situation, Mr.. Mccall said:
''We need little rain in Ascension,
but the cane is coming out nicely
and we expect to make full crop
OF course, it is impossible to say just
what the yield will be, as this is not
to be determined from the appearance
of the cane SO early in the year, but
the tonnage per acre promises to be
very good, much better than last year.
1.-THE cane suffered a good deal dur
ing the early part of the season, when
the weather was severe on this crop,
but the damage has been largely over
come, and would not hesitate much
to make guess that Evan Hall will
turn out at least six million pounds of
sugar. OF course, you understand,
this is only a guess. We may make
seven million, maybe only five and
quarter, but the indications are that
it will be a normal crop, a good crop. y
The Donaldsonville chief. [volume] (Donaldsonville, La.) 1871-current, 1907-08-31
Political Organization Formed.
INOmnlHhiCdteu,

LAKE School, La, Aug, q. 1907.
EDITOR CHIEF:
Ten qualified voters of the eighth
ward of Ascension parish met at the
Lake schoolhouse on the above date
and formed a permanent organization,
endorsing E. G. Hanson for sheriff
and James S. Barman for clerk of
court. The assemblage was called to
order by P. L. Moran, w. I. Smiley
being chosen temporary chairman and
Alex. Brignac temporary secretary.
MIR. Moran explained the object of
the meeting, after which the regular
order of business was taken up and
several Interesting addresses were de-
livered. Those present were w. I.
Smiley, Alex. Brignae. p L. Moran,
Emile Kellar, G. w. Henderson, Rich
ard Moran, Nicholas Kellar, Jr., L.
B. Smiley, c. NJ Henderson and c..
Mayors.
Another meeting will be held at the
same place on Saturday, Aug. 81, at 5
O'Clock p. NJ, and all Democratic can
didates for paroehial offices are invited
to be present.
The Donaldsonville chief. [volume] (Donaldsonville, La.) 1871-current, 1907-08-31
New Paper to be Established.

A new paper, to be known as the
Donaldsonville Progress, will make
its appearance here next Saturd ay in
the interest of the Reuss- Ktos- Braud-
Gondran faction of the Democratic
party. A. j. Reynolds, of Plaque
mine. presently editor of the White
castilian, will be editor and publisher
of the new journal, and W. Fl. Fowler,
who returned to Donaldsonville last
week from New Roads. will be in
charge of the job department. The
Progress will be seven-column folio,
published weekly, and will have its
Offices in the Kline building at the
corner of Houmas street and Crescent
place, opposite C. Kline's Old Re
liable store. The Chief takes pleas
ure in extending the glad hand of fell
loWship to the new conner in the local
journ alistic field, and wishes the
Progress and its promoters liberal
measure of success and prosperity.
The Donaldsonville chief. [volume] (Donaldsonville, La.) 1871-current, 1907-08-31
"BIucher or Night"

Wellington, when Napoleon was
hammering him at Waterloo, despair
ingly cried as death was moving down
his wavering lines: "Blacher or
night!'
Blucher came, and but for him there
would have been a Waterloo for
Wellington instead of Napoleon.
1t amuses US in this Democratic
campaign 10 see how the erstwhile
hero of the ring Democracy is calling
j astremski pet ames. Every Sanders
organ, even the New Orleans States,
is prating about the gallant generals
great strength. Some of them, like
the Lake Charles Press, are declar-
ing Jastremski will be surely in the
second primary, and they are all soft
soaping him.
Timeo Danaos dona ferentes 1--WE
fear the Greeks bearing gifts) was
said In warning to the Trojans when
they were Juggling the great wooden
horse through the gates OF Troy.
Would Mr.. Sanders cry to Gen. las.
Jastremskt "Help, Cassius or sink !"
would he try to go to log-rolling, If
tNot Passed Wilkinson" did not have
him groggy and going?
If Mr.. Sanders and his organs think
SO highly of General Jastremski why
do they not fall in line for him? Then
we Republicans would see some fun.
Until they do so, any fervid adulation
Of the general is a questionable COM
pliment on their part, as it evidently
shows they believe he is too weak to
fear his candidacy, and yet he is
strong enough for them to jolly him
to get his votes if there be a second
primary.
AS the campaign now stands we
Republicans are having jolly time
listening to state secrets: of the eight
years banquet on state deposits the
banks have been having; of how the
secretary of state, the sheritfs and
other officers have been getting sal
aries undreamed of by even the black
est Republican sealawag of recon-
struction days; of how each side
claims the other is composed of ex-
Republicans; of gambling and graft
and corporations and trusts that have
held high revel under the Grand Old
Democratic party; and we think the
primary is good thing, awful good,
and that with one or two more pri-
maries like this the state will fly from
the ills it has to those it knows not of,
even if it lands thereby squarely in
the Republican party.
The Donaldsonville chief. [volume] (Donaldsonville, La.) 1871-current, 1907-08-31
Demoeracy's Dubious Outlook.

Col. Henry w atterson of the Louis
willie Courier Journal recently an
nouneed that he could name man
whose nomination would reunite the
Democratic party and give it chance
for victory in the next presidential
election, and there was considerable
speculation 40 to the identity of the
mysterious candidate. The colonel
has now let the Gator rather the
man-out of the bag, and he proves
To be Gov. John A. johnson of Mime.
sofa, who has twice been elected chief
executive of that strong Republican
state notwithstanding he is a Demo-
crat. There are two serious obstacles in
the way of Gov. Johnson 8 nomination,
however, aud one of these is freely
admitted by his Kentucky sponsor,
Jo-wit: that Col. VIM. Jennings Bryan
holds the Democratic situation in the
hollow Of his hand and no one but
himself can be named as the candidate
unless he declines to make the race
again. The other reason, which has
just come to light, is that. the Mime
sofa governor declares most emphatic
ally that under no circumstances will
he become a candidate or accept a
nomination.
It looks like case of Bryan or
nothing for the Democracy in the next
campaign, with a decided prospect of
Bryan and nothing after the election.
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Candidate Jared Sanders made a
triumphal sour through st. Landry
few weeks ago and swept the platter
clean, according to reports, leaving
scarcely crumb OF comfort for. the
opposition Candidate Wilkinson
has since made whirlwind canvass
of the same parish and left train OF
enthusiasm in his wake that presages
his overwhelming success in the COM
ing primary. It now remains for
Candidate Jastremski to jump in and
carry St. Landry oEer both his com.
petitors.
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sumner Diarrbma in Childrep.

During the hot weather of the summer months
the first unnatural looseness of child's bowels
should have immediate attention SO as to check
the disease before it becomes serious. All that
is necessary is few doses of Chamberlain's
Collie. Cholera and Diarrhoea Remedy, followed
by a dose of castor oil to cleanse the system
Rev. NJ. o. Stockland, pastor of the first NJ. E.
Church, Little Falls, Mimi, writes: We have
used Chamberlain's Collie Cholera and DiarrhRa
Remedy for several years and find it very valu-
able remedy, especially for summer disorders in
Children" Sold by all druggists.
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There was hot time in the old town
of Monroe during the recent ice
famine, and another one in Baton
Rouge when that Guys ice factory
was partly DESTROYED by fire.
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Another DefauIting Tax Collector.

Another Louisi ana tax atherer has
gone wrong. This time it is Thos. j.
Foster, collector of state taxes for the
fifth district of Orleans parish, which
comprises the suburb of New Orleans
known as Algiers. The amount of the
defalcation is officially announced by
State Auditor Capdevielle to be
S4497.S 81, and the state is said to be
amply protected from loss by bond
OF $4,000 issued by the National
Surety Company. Mr.. Foster was
placed under arrest, but furnished
bail and was released. He became
tax collector as Mayor Martin Behr-
mans successor when the latter
stepped into the state auditors Office,
to which he was elected three years
ago. 1t Is alleged that Mr.. Foster
was short in his accounts about $500
last year, and that the amount was
made good by his brother. His down
fall, like that of the absconding
Dadenhefer. is attributed to 'tslow
horses and fast women, com bina-
tion that can be relied on to put out of
business the best Democratic tax
gatherer-or any other man-who plays
it in preference to the 'honesty's the
best policy game.