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In addition, there are numerous
"amusement palaces and beer gar
dens, which are outside the pale of
what is called the Legitimate"
The Pace That Kills.
No census can tell the worst of
Shanghai's shame. The evil that sur
passes the widespread gambling and
drinking is the maintenance of Chi
nese concubines by white men. It
is freely asserted that all the un-
married foreigners in the east follow
this practice. Of course this sweep
ing statement is untrue; and the
wholesale generalization upon Shang.
hais wickedness indulged in by mis-
sionaries here, and by missionary au.
thorities and supporters at home, is
more than uncharitable, it is cruel,
and false. This city holds many
upright, clean-lived, honorable men of
spotless character; the fact that they
are in a minority does not justify
their being so indiscriminately Ii.
belled. The gross and scandalous
charges, which ignorant or evil-dispos-
ed persons make concerning mission.
aries, are not whit worse than the
general animadversions of some mis-
sionaries upon all foreigners engaged
in secular pursuits in the orient.
The best statement of the situation
is bad enough. Careful inquiry
among conservative and Informed per-
sons elicits the opinion athat probably
the larger number of unmarried for
eigners in Shanghai maintain native
women. The Eurasian offspring who
are the fruit of these, and more hon.
orable unions, are one of the tragic
characteristics of this city.
Right here arises perplexity for
the missionary. Shall he receive into
his home, and give his social approval
to, young men who are known thus
to have contravened fundamental
Anglo-Saxon conception of decency?
Shall all the accepted traditions of
respectable society be abandoned in
order to win the approval of these
young men away from home? Ordi-
narily, the missionaries decide in the
negative. Thus there is a gulf fixed
between the two classes of white men
IN Asia; and so mutual criticism is
oegotten. In the society which has
dominated Shanghai the missionary,
Whatever his standing at home or his
personal qualities, has been persona
non grata.' Whether this state of
aHalrs will alter with the newly
changed conditions remains to be
seen.
When "Reform" Struck shanahai.
One further explanatory point should
be noted before describing Judge
Wilfey's sensational reforms. Gam
bling has always been a Shanghai
vice. During, race week. in spring
and fall, it. has been rampant. All
kinds Of gambling have been open
and unashamed. There is nothing in
the western world to which this can
be Hkened; foreign gentlemen, for
eign riff.raff, Chinese gentlemen, Chi
nese riff-ratf (not to mention women
OF any nationality met in gamblers
The Virginia enterprise., 1907-11-22

run down from 1870 to 125 pounds.
was having terrible pain in the kid
neys, and the secretions passed almost
involuntarily. My left leg swelled un-
til it was "a inches around, and the
doctor tapped it night and morning
until I could no longer stand it, and
then he advised amputation. re-
fused, and began using Doan's Kidney
Pills. The swelling subsided gradu-
ally, the urine became natural, and all
my pains and aches disappeared. I
have keen well now for nine years
since <aing Doan's Kidney Pills."
For sale by all dealers. so cents a
box. Foster -Milburn Co.. Buffalo, N. Y.
The Virginia enterprise., 1907-11-22
SURELY HAD PRIZE FLY.
Money Invested In Incubator Was Not
All Lost.

Poultney Bigelow, the brilliant au.
thor and journalist, said the other
day of the chicken farm that he is
about to set up at Maiden:
II hope to succeed with this farm.
hope our experiences won't too closely
resemble that of my old friend Hora-
ito Rogers. Rash Rogers lived in the
suburbs. On the suburban train one
morning he said to me with a sour
laugh:
1--WE got something nobody else has
got, Mr.. Bigelow.'
"'Have you, Rash?' said I. What
is it?'
"'Well,' said Rogers, Z bought a
$50 incubator last month, put SIS
worth of eggs in it, and hatched out
a blubottle fly
HE frowned, then sighed.
"'Yes,' he said, I've got the only
$65 bluebottle fly in the world.'"
The Virginia enterprise., 1907-11-22

The result is that nowhere in decent
circles in the east are the terms
American lady" ever employed, for
they have only one significance. An
American father dare not speak of his
daughter as an American girl"
When first I came to this city it need
ed few pointed and Illuminating
words from friend to explain to me
the large proportion Of richly clad and
artificially bedizened women, mani
festly my compatriots, who rolled
along Bubbling Well road in sumptu-
GUS equipages.
So open and shameless has been
this corruption of Shanghai society,
ramifying into the most extraordinary
and unexpected places, that gradually
brazen vice has crowded virtue to
the rear, and, as most eminent resi-
dent assures me, the demi-monde of
Shanghai has held the center of the
social stage. I have it on credible au-
thority that leading business men,
married men with elegant homes in
Shanghai, have been in the habit of
dropping in of afternoons to take tea
with the american girls" A short
time ago a prominent British noble
man found, after spending an evening
in the American colony" that his
watch had disappeared. Now this
particular watch bore autograph evil
dence that it was personal gift from
King Edward, in recognition of high
pubic services, so every effort was
put forth to recover it-without pub.
licity, of course-but in vain. There
is no absolute evidence that it was
taken to the states by one of the score
of american girls" who left on a
single steamer few weeks ago, but
nobody would be surprised should it
turn up in San Francisco.
Despite an occasional misadventure
of this sort, the Britishers and other
foreigners here have been very we'll
content with the situation prior to
Judge Wilf1ey's advent. The disgrace
and legal responsibility were borne by
America, SO from their standpoint the
matter was quite satisfactory. AS
one vexed Englishman said to me:
Really, this Judge Wilfey is making
a deuce of bother for the rest of
US. He is doing. a good thing for
America, of course, but think of the
trouble that is bound to come to 9TH
er nationalities if they have to handle
this thing In a word, the nations
were quite willing to let America
bare the blame for all their misbe-
havior.
How Missionaries Won UnpopuIarity.
Against this infamy missionaries
have for years protested and labored
in vain. Shanghai, like all other
treaty ports in China, is an interna.
tional extra-territorial settlement;
each resident is under no law except
that Of his own country, as admins
tered by hts consul. The very fact
OF American 1axity has caused dis
reputable characters, even of other ma
tionalities, to seek the protection of
that flag for their evil doing. .r~
A few of the official figures from
The Virginia enterprise., 1907-11-22
sleep BROKEN RYlTcHiNG.
Eczema Covered Whole Body for ;
Year-No Relief Until Cuticura
Remedies Prove a Success.

For a year I have had what they
call eczema. I had an itching all over
my body, and when I would retire for
the night it would keep me awake half
the night, and the more I would scratch,
the more it would itch. I tried all
kinds of remedies, but could get no re-
lief.
II used one cake of Cuticura Soap,
one box of Cuticura, and two walls of
Cuticura Resolvent Pills, which cost
me dollar and twenty-five cents in
all, and am very glad tried them, for
I was completely cured. Walter w.
Paglusch, 207 N. Robey st., Chicago,
ILL.,, Oct. and 16, 1906"
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Sea Trout Fattened.

A sea trout was caught at Aberdeen
recently, which swan 120 miles in 40
days, and doubled it's weight on the
way. It was marked and put into the
Coquet in Northumberland, and when
recaught at Aberdeen, it's length was
not increased, its rapid gain in weight
being due to corpulence.
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AL Explained.

There is little story going round
the house of commons about a certain
member who abstained from voting
on the deceased wife's sister bill.
Questioned by one of his friends as to
the reason for his abstention, he re-
piled: "Well, my dear fellow, it's just
like this-my wife has a sister,
John Bull.
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says: II had been
showing symptoms of
kidney trouble from
the time I was mus
tered out Of the army,
but In all my life ]
never suffered as in
1897. Headaches, diz-
ziness and sleepless.
ness, first, and then
dropsy. I was weak
and helpless. having
The Virginia enterprise., 1907-11-22

Size that up with
what you and your
neighbors have been
getting on SIS and
500 land, and you'll
see where you get off.
The Pan Handle
farmer of Northern
Texas, Western Ok
lahoma and East
ern New Mexico
has got you skinned
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flows This?

We offer Ono Hundred Dollars Reward for any
case Of Catarrh that cannot be cured by Hsn's.
F.J. CHENEY d co., Toledo, o.
We, tho undersigned, have known F. J. Cheney
for tho last years and believe him perfectly hon
orsbie in all business transactions and financially
able to carry out any obligations mado by his nrm.
WALDINa, KlNNAN b MARv1N,
wholesale Druggists, Toledo, q.
Hslrs Catarrh Cure 10 taken Internally, acting
directly upon the blood and surfaces Of the
system. Testimonias sent free. Price Is cents pes
bottle. Sold by oil Druggists.
Take HAIRS Family Pills for constipation.
The Virginia enterprise., 1907-11-22

Defiance Starch-Good, hot or cold
the best for all kinds of laundry
work, 16 OF. for 1Oc.
The Virginia enterprise., 1907-11-22
Stop and Then Rush

Where will woman stop?" asks the
-.oauoAe "orlo. wherever there ap.
pears an ad reading, WAS 81; now
$6.99."-Washington Herald. !.
The Virginia enterprise., 1907-11-22

Keep thy heart, and then it will be
easy for thee to keep thy tongue
Leighton.
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INSIGHT Not Appreciated.

It's so strange that man never ap.
preciates the wonderful insight of a
woman's mind when she refuses to
believe that the street cars were
blocked.
The Virginia enterprise., 1907-11-22

We Want Your Cream.
Write to-day for tags and prices. North
Star Creamery Co.. Minneapolis, MINI.
The Virginia enterprise., 1907-11-22

A man who likes work is never at a
loss. If he falls, he will rise again;
we need never despair Of him.-P. J.
Stahl.
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A TERRIBLE EXPERIENCE.
How q Veteran Was Saved tho Ampu.
tation Of a Limb.

b. Frank Doremus,.~ veteran, of
Roosevelt avenue. Indiananolis. Ind
The Virginia enterprise., 1907-11-22
Cream and Poultry.

Top prices, quick returns, square deal.
Ship to us to-day. Write for tags T. prices.
r. E. COBB, St. Paul, MINI.
The Virginia enterprise., 1907-11-22

The whole duty Of man is embraced
in the two principles of abstinence
and patience. Seneca.
The Virginia enterprise., 1907-11-22

Even when man pays cash for an
electric battery he wants it charged.
The Virginia enterprise., 1907-11-22

Guns, Traps, Decoys, Etc.
Lowest prices. Write for free catalog No.l
N. w. Hide & Fur Co.. Minneapolis. MINI.
The Virginia enterprise., 1907-11-22

McMurray's Vanilla
Worth dollar a drop, sold by all Gro
GERS at a low price.
The Virginia enterprise., 1907-11-22
Hiqh Cream Prices

Write us to-day for particulars and taps.
MILTON DAIRY CO., St. Paul, MINI.
The Virginia enterprise., 1907-11-22

We Pay Top Price for Cream.
Cash every day. Write for prices and
tags. Miller & Holmes. St. Paul. MINI.
The Virginia enterprise., 1907-11-22

Wisdom is the sunlight of the soul.
German.
The Virginia enterprise., 1907-11-22

Important 60 Mothers.
Examine carefully every bottle OF CASTORIA.
safe and sure remedy for infants and children.
and see that it
The Virginia enterprise., 1907-11-22

German,
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SMALL PILL. SMALL DOSE. SMALL PRICE,
WESTERN
CANADA

Some Of the choicest
lands in the grain grow
ing belts of Saskatche-
wan and Alberta have
recently been opened
for settlement under
the Revised Homestead
Regulations of Canada.
Thousa sand s Of home
The Virginia enterprise., 1907-11-22

f:s$:: fSSss; s;: 5S:
The Donaldsonville chief. [volume] (Donaldsonville, La.) 1871-current, 1907-11-02
viii Not Ask Uncle Sam for Loan,

In the bill that will be introduced
in congress at the forthcoming ses-
sion appropriating 81, TT, 1000 for the
United States government participa-
ton at the Alaska ukon- Pacific Ex-
position il 1909 there will be q sec
ton pledging the management not to
ask for loan from Uncle Sam to
carry on the work Of creating the fair.
The people behind the exposition
believe they are fully capable of hold
ing a successful worlds fair without
asking the government for any dona-
ton or any loan. All the management
desires is that Uncle Sam participate
in the same manner as the states and
foreign nations will do by erecting
buildings and installing therein rep
resentative displays.
Since the United States government
began to patronize expositions to the
present time congress has appropri-
ated s28, 752, 251 for it's representation.
Only 1886. 900 of this money has been
spent west of the Rocky Mountains,
the Lewis and Clark exposition at
Portland, one of the most successful
worlds fairs ever held, receiving the
benefit OF this amount.
The Donaldsonville chief. [volume] (Donaldsonville, La.) 1871-current, 1907-11-02
Farmers Urged 10 Stand Pat.

Hon. Paul NJ. potts, president OF
the Louisiana division OF the South
ern Cotton Association, has issued
the following address to the people
and the friendly press OF the south:
"As was to be expected, the cotton
change crowds with their infamous
system of future gambling have ham
mered the price OF cotton down two
cents lsss than the actual cost OF pro.
duction. Thirty.five days ego cotton
was selling at all interior points 10
the state Of Texas at LAT cents Per
pound, basis middling. Today there
is no reason why cotton should not be
worth as much as it was then bring
ing, but there is every reason why it
should be worth more than it was
worth at that time because we have
more positive proof Of the shortness
| Of the crop.
"The spinners of the world admit
that they can pay Is cents for our
cotton and make profit son present
values of cotton goods, but they say
that they are not going to pay US that
price unless we make them do it,.
Will we sacrifice our cotton to the
spectators with their infamous sys-
tenn of cotton future gambling or will
we make them pay us for it? Your
cotton is going to bring just what you
!
make them pay you for it and no law
of reasoning will prove to the con-
trary. Bacon, -four, sugar, coffee,
dry goods, feedstnffs, mules, imple-
ments, and especially farm labor are
higher or as high as they were in
1873 and the lowest price that mid
ding cotton touched in that year at
New York was 191 cents per pound.
Fifteen cents per pound for this crop
is not high and the man who says it is
is an enemy to the cotton producer
and q traitor to the south.
'sLet the friends to cotton stand by
their guns and fight to finish the
infamous system of robbery that the
cotton gamblers propose to practice
upon the people who grow cotton.
Pay no attention to the lies that are
being circulated to the effect that the
farmers in this or that state are sell
| ing their cotton for less than Is cents.
It is trick of our enemies to food
the south with such lies in order 30
break our ranks If they can. Run
these gamblers out by legislation.
Turn a deaf ear to their smooth
tongue pleadings. We have been
under their system for years and We
know how we have Jared.
Encourage your friends to hold
their cotton and make this fight to a
! finish, The decline is artificial and
temporary and cotton is sure to GO
sky high before next March,
The Donaldsonville chief. [volume] (Donaldsonville, La.) 1871-current, 1907-11-02
What isaW Waltz

In the eisctrieal world one heara and
reads great deal about awatts. !
The current is measured by watts; the
machinery is rated by watts; lamps
burn by watts. To the ordinary lay
man all this talk of watts is as mys-
tifying as the death of the late Akhood
OF Swat.
The man TO whom we owe the idea
of the horsepower was a Scottish in
vantor, James Watt, and when the
electric unitinvolving the idea OF work
Ing capacity came TO be formulated
the mans of Watt vas chosen to indi.
cate this unit, just as that of Volta
has given US the term volt and Fara.
day the farad.
Watt considered that taking the av-
erage, a London dray horse was ca
pable of doing the work of lifting 49,
900 pounds through one foot of dis
tance in one minute of time, against
gravity. The Introduction of this time
limit, the minute, gave the unit of
power or the rate of performing work.
This or it's equivalent has ever since
been called horsepower.
The electrical unit called the watt is
capableof being represented interms OF
the horsepower, and in that form it
is perhaps more Ineligible to those
who are familiar with mechanical
rather than with electrical expressions.
The electrical watt is the product Of
volts multiplied by amperes, where the
volt is the unit of electrical pressure
and the ampere is the unit measur-
ing the density or volume of an elee-
tEical current.
Careful experiments have demon
strated that 746 watts per second, are
equal to $50 foot-pounds per second,
or, to state the equation in its usual
form, 746 watts equal one horsepower.
| The form in which electrical power
| is generally sold is computed on the
basis of kilowatt hours. The prefix
| kilo comes from the Greek Chilioi,
one thousand. A kilowatt, written
also K. w., is therefore 1000 watts.
The kiloWatt hour is the performance
or work at such rate that 1000 watts
per second shall be delivered contin-
uously for one hour. The kilowatt-
hour has special interest for the
man who has his office or house lighted
by electric lamps, because the kiloWatt
hour is the unit upon which the power
and light companies base their
charges.
The Donaldsonville chief. [volume] (Donaldsonville, La.) 1871-current, 1907-11-02
The Conlpanion as A chrIstnag (ffft.

Nobody is too young, nobody too
old, to enjoy reading The Youths
Companion. For that reason it
makes one of the most appropriate
of Christmas gifts-one of the few
whose actual worth far outWeighs the
cost. Welcome as the paper may be
to the casual reader on the train, at
the Office, in the public library, it is,
after all, the paper of the home. The
regularity and frequency OF it's visits,
the cordial sincerity OF its tone, make
for it soon the place OF familiar
friend in the house. Like good
friend, too, it stands always for those
traits and qualities which are typi6ed
In the ideal home, and are the sources
OF nations health and true prosper
ity Is there another Christmas pres
ent costing so little that equals it?
On receipt of SITS, the yearly
subscription price, the publishers
send to the new subscriber all the re-
naming issues OF the Companion
for 1907 and the four leaf hanging
calendar for 1908 in full color. Ad-
dress the Youths Companion. IA
Berkeley street, Boston, Mass.
The Donaldsonville chief. [volume] (Donaldsonville, La.) 1871-current, 1907-11-02
Took First Premium at The
Ind Annual State Fair
Of Arkansas, Held
at Hot SPRINGS.

The big school Of bookkeeping.
shorthand, typeWriting and biography,
the Tyler Commercial College of
Tyler, Texas, carried OFF first honors.
The entire south should feel proud of
this institution, as it is now enrolling
more students for daily personal In
struction than any other business col
lege IN America, and through It's well
equipped and extensive employment
bureau it's placing every graduate Ia
q good position.
Miss Frierson, who has been demone
strating their method OF touch type
writing. won 6rst premium as the fast
est typewriter operator. Hot Springs
Daily News. October IL
The Donaldsonville chief. [volume] (Donaldsonville, La.) 1871-current, 1907-11-02
Kenneth Lodge No. Al
Knights of Pythiass

sNaNyENEs In Masonic Temple the second
~ and fourth Thursday evenings OF each
1zenth at o'clock Visiting brethren cordially
welcomed. Sick benefits, funeral tax and all the
fraterral features Members have option OF
joining endowment or insurance rank Chan
collor Commander. E. Langbecker; Vice Chan
callor Commander, Jules Leumas; Master OF
work DR.. d. c. Brun1field; Prelate Fred Lam
dry; Keeper Of Records and Seal, ]. E. Blum |;
Master OF Finance, VIM. Pforzheimer; Master
OF Exchequer, Jacob Blum.
The Donaldsonville chief. [volume] (Donaldsonville, La.) 1871-current, 1907-11-02
Lodge Directory.
DonaidsonvIIle Lodge No. 263o
Knights of Honor

MEETS first and third Tuesdays Of each
Bailroad avenue. Life Insurance. of 5000 at
actual cost. Lodge dues only 81 per quarter.
Dr. Paul T. Thibodaux, sitting past dictator
JOHN H. SchRf, dictator; James Fortler, vice
dictator; r. L. TrepaEnier, assistant dictator
Drs. II. II. Hanson and P. T. Thibodauxs medi-
cal examiners; Jacob Blum. treasurer; J. 4.
Blum, financial reporter; Fred Landry, reporter.
Address. ponRldaonyille. La.
The Donaldsonville chief. [volume] (Donaldsonville, La.) 1871-current, 1907-11-02

A mule hitched to a wagon and
driven by negro on a plantation
near Napoleonyille, took fright and
ran away, and the man, falling be-
tween the traces, was dragged and
kicked to death.
The Donaldsonville chief. [volume] (Donaldsonville, La.) 1871-current, 1907-11-02

j. G. Barnett, OF Washington, rep
resenting the bureau of plant indus
try, department of agriculture, Wis
it'd Lake Providence for the pur-
pose Of making arrangements for the
establishment, In 3 number OF par
ishes in the state. of experimental
cotton crops to torestall the boil
v~ma~4t
The Donaldsonville chief. [volume] (Donaldsonville, La.) 1871-current, 1907-11-02

Willie D. Harrison, a seventeen
year-old boy OF Shreveport, accident
ally shot and killed his sister, Mar
garet Frances, aged IA, while on a
midnight chase for burglar.
The Donaldsonville chief. [volume] (Donaldsonville, La.) 1871-current, 1907-11-02

Gen. Maximsotfsky, director of the
department OF prisons of the ministry
OF the interior, Was killed in St. Peters
burg, Russia, by woman revolu-
ktaniak
The Donaldsonville chief. [volume] (Donaldsonville, La.) 1871-current, 1907-11-02

Richiand Willis, q negro from Le-
compte, was struck in the eye and
painfully injured by the explosion OF
. torpedo which had been carelessly
thrown on the track near Alexandria.
The Donaldsonville chief. [volume] (Donaldsonville, La.) 1871-current, 1907-11-02

Catholics In China sent petition to
Washington asking the appointment
OF more conservative federal judge
at Shanghai than Wiley, the pres
emit incumbent.
The Donaldsonville chief. [volume] (Donaldsonville, La.) 1871-current, 1907-11-02

CLARK Caskey, vice president of the
Arcadia Cotton Gin and Mill Com
pany, OF Arcadia, was caught In one
OF the gin saws and had the calf of
one Of his legs seriously lacerated.
The Donaldsonville chief. [volume] (Donaldsonville, La.) 1871-current, 1907-11-02
Don't Paw AlImony

to be divorced from your appendix. There win
BE- no occasion for 1t II you keep your bowels reg
ular with DIR. Kings New Life Pills Their &C
tion is so gentle that the appendix never has
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The Donaldsonville chief. [volume] (Donaldsonville, La.) 1871-current, 1907-11-02

The ocean-going tug Charles Clarke,
OF Galveston, with the barge Rey-
mond, arrived at Morgan City and
had the distinction Of being the first
deep draft vessel to come in through
the new channel just completed by the
Bowers Dredging Company for the
Atchafalaya Bay Ship Channel Com
pRny.
The Donaldsonville chief. [volume] (Donaldsonville, La.) 1871-current, 1907-11-02

The police jury of Natchitoches
parish passed an ordinance fixing the
annual license for wholesale liquor
dealers at $4,000.
The Donaldsonville chief. [volume] (Donaldsonville, La.) 1871-current, 1907-11-02

A disastrous earthquake occurred
at Calabrat, Italy. and the loss Of
life was reported as very heavy.
The Donaldsonville chief. [volume] (Donaldsonville, La.) 1871-current, 1907-11-02
A Narrow Hsca ne.

G. w. Cloyd. merchant. OF PUNK, Mo-, had q
narrow escape four years ago, when he ran a
Unison bur into his thumb. He says: The doc
tor wanted to amputate it, but would not con-
sent ] bought box of Buckien's Arnica Salve
and that cured the dangerous wound" 25c at J..
j. Leche's drug store.