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The Donaldsonville chief. [volume] (Donaldsonville, La.) 1871-current, 1908-11-28

The New Orleans Times Democrat
announces that its thirteenth yearly
distribution OF dolls and toys to the
poor children of that city will take
place on the day before Christmas,
and the paper il soliciting subserip
tions to the fund which is essential to
the successful aeee mplishment OF this
worthy purpose. The Chief will take
much pleasure In receiving and for
Warding any contributions TO the doll
and toy fund which may be entrusted
to its care. Many hundreds of desti-
tute aud friendless boys and girls who
would otherwise have no token of the
spirit and cheer of the .'gift. giving
season" are annually made happy BY
the Times Democrats beautiful char
ity, and We can conceive of no better
use 10 which a few dimes or few dol
lars can be put than adding them to
this doll and toy fund.
The Donaldsonville chief. [volume] (Donaldsonville, La.) 1871-current, 1908-11-28

Smoke from forest fires obscuring
train signals caused q wreck ON the
Rock Island Railroad near Brinkley,
Ark, in which one person was killed
and four others injured.
The Donaldsonville chief. [volume] (Donaldsonville, La.) 1871-current, 1908-11-28

Lava from the volcano of Savali in
the Samoan Islands, which has been
in constant eruption for over three
years, has formed a river eight miles
wide. flowing into the ocean.
The Donaldsonville chief. [volume] (Donaldsonville, La.) 1871-current, 1908-11-28

Governor Haskell says it was over
confidence that cut down the Demo-
cratic majority in Oklahoma. If he
meant oyer-confdence in Haskell his
hind.sight is as astigmatic as Norman
Mack's foresight. Crowley Signal.
The Donaldsonville chief. [volume] (Donaldsonville, La.) 1871-current, 1908-11-28

The Socialists, too we're, much dis
appointed over their showing in the
recent election. They confidently ex
pected TO poll at least million votes,
but only mustered half that number.
The Donaldsonville chief. [volume] (Donaldsonville, La.) 1871-current, 1908-11-28

An electric lighting plant will be In
stalled at Pass Christian, Miss, and
the electric car line from that place
to Gulfport will be extended at an
expenditure of $500. 900.
The Donaldsonville chief. [volume] (Donaldsonville, La.) 1871-current, 1908-11-28

The Plaquemfne Daily Champion
acknowledges receipt of letter from
brother editor eriticizing the Cham
pion editor for his political course
and calling him an ass. The critic
then appropriately closes his letter
with 1.Yours fraternallY. J,
The Donaldsonville chief. [volume] (Donaldsonville, La.) 1871-current, 1908-11-28

Better blow into town and pay that
poll tax before you forget about it.
The Donaldsonville chief. [volume] (Donaldsonville, La.) 1871-current, 1908-11-28

TITS easy enough to be pleasant
When life flows along like song.
But the man worth while is the man with Q
smile
When everything goes dead wrong.n
The Donaldsonville chief. [volume] (Donaldsonville, La.) 1871-current, 1908-11-28

It Is announced that the Louisiana
delegation in congress will urge the
selection of one of their number. Hon.
Robert f. Broussard OF the third dis.
trict, for appointments as a member OF
the ways and means committee to sue
coed Hon. Bourke Cochran of New
York, who is to refine. Louisiana
formerly had representative on this
important committee in the person of
Hon. Samuel NJ. Robertson, and it is
TO be hoped the attempt to regain the
advantage will meet with success.
There is no state in the Union with a
greater comparative interest than
Lonisiana's 10 the matters that come
within the purvieW of the ways and
means foremost among
which is the adjustment OF tariff
schedules and this consideration.
coupled with Mr.. Broussard Is aeknowl- |
edged ability, experience and worth. |
ought TO commend his candid acy very |
strongly to the membership and
speaker of the house.
The Donaldsonville chief. [volume] (Donaldsonville, La.) 1871-current, 1908-11-28
How the Thing is Done in LouIsiana.

How the Thing is Done In Louisiana.
The manner in which elections are
conducted and the will of a free and
independent people is registered
through the medium of the ballot box
at many of the polling places OF
Louisiana may be Inferred from the
following extract from letter written
by weliknowa citizen of a country
parish to personal friend In New Or
leans:
''Fhe election here yesterday was
held under Democratic management
All The commissioners were Demo
Gratis, the clerk was Democrat. the
watchers were Democrats and The dep.
uty sheriff was Democrat. The
plan OF the present system of voting
IS the secret ballot, but the commits.
sloners put their heads through he
voting window, watch what ticket The
voter marks, and make record of il.
Ihls conduct and the fact that only
one party had representation ought TO
be sufficient TO set this box aside,
Several here are rejoicing over the re-
suit OF the national election. u
The Donaldsonville chief. [volume] (Donaldsonville, La.) 1871-current, 1908-11-28

The Guilty atisn af ri.a 1.
siderably increased navt s.aso.s s..
parish Of It,ervi 81. aooo,9,;.s.. s., S..
formation CLEANED 81 ,ha E1aa,..: -.
Daily ChannIoa
The Donaldsonville chief. [volume] (Donaldsonville, La.) 1871-current, 1908-11-28

SATURDAY. NOV. 26 1908.
The Donaldsonville chief. [volume] (Donaldsonville, La.) 1871-current, 1908-11-28

ii, D. BENTLEY, Managing Editor
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1908-07-17
A TRANSPARENT SCHEME

With a considerable flourish of
trumpets the Republicans have sell
ected George R. Sheldon as treasurer
of the national committee AS Mr.
Sheldon will have his headquarters in
New York, where campaign publicity
is the law, the inference is left that
all contributions to the campaign
fund this time will be divulged.
1t is we'll pointed out by the New
Orleans States that only for campaign
contributions received from New
York corporations would an account
ing have to be made AS many of
the largest of the trusts have a
domicile in New Jersey, there is no
difficulty in receiving rather large
sums from the victims
Incidentally it might be remarked
that Mr.. Sheldon is a director in
dozens Of big corporations, includ-
ing banks and the Rogers Locomo-
tive Company. This did not of course
lessen his usefulness as treasurer of
the Republicans, who always look to
the big corporations for the dough"
The States says:
While the Republican leaders are
known to be very smart men it must
be admitted that this is such a flimSy
buncO game as to be unworthy of
them and one which is sure to fail
in deceiving the voters, because Mr..
Sheldon will be under no cOmpulsion
to report the contributions received
from the corporations and trusts in
New Jersey, Pennsylvania and all the
other States from which money may
be sent to the Republican national
committee, hence the corporations
having their headquarters in the State
of New York will see that their con-
tributions are mailed from and made
payable at points outside the State.
Therefore the appointment of Mr..
Sheldon and the establishment of the
Republican headquarters in New York
will not deceive anybody nor will it
serve as an answer to Mr.. Bryan's
charge The truth is Mr. Sheldon
owes his appointment to the fact
that the usefulness of Mr.. Cornelius
Bliss as an eminent fat fryer" was
destroyed by the insurance investiga-
ton, and it was necessary to re-
place him with a man who was close
to the trusts and the captains of
finance. Mr.. Sheldon filled the bill
in every particular as he is an officer
or director of twenty large corpora
tons, many of them robust trusts
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1908-07-17
Panama Canal
New York Times.)

The Panama Canal is passing into
the practical stage faster than is
appreciated by those whose interests
are not directly affected by the open
ing of this new line of communica-
ton. The work of construction itself
is concentrating upon the isthmus
network of foreign steamship lines
which will be in possession of the
field when American lines attempt to
utilize the facilities created by their
Government expenditures. Unless
precautions are taken the United
States viii be in a situation as ano-
malous as England's with reference
to the Suez Canal England, as a
Government, has made a great profit
upon her investment in Suez shares,
but her profits are measured by the
burden upon her commerce, which
mainly pays the tolls. With us it is
not question of profits from tolls,
but of giving away to competitors the
advantages which we have bound
ourselves shall be available to all
equally.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1908-07-17
Animals as Criminal
New York Evening Post.)

Montclair's new ordinance against
barking dogs has some resemblance
to a singular feature of the juris-
prudence of the middle ages, when
animals were indicted for injuries in
fiicted on human beings The custom
was not abolished in France until the
middle of the eighteenth century, and
the Fretch court records show that
at least 80 such trials took place be-
tween 1920 and 1741.
An early instance of the custom
was in 1874 when a bull escaped from
a farmyard in a village of Noisy
in the Duchy of Valois and gored a
man to death. The Count of Valois
being informed of the case, directed
that the bull be captured and formal
ly prosecuted for homicide. This
was done, and evidence was given
by persons who had seen the man at
tackled and killed. The bull was
thereupOn sentenced to suffer DEATH
which was inflicted by strangulatiOn
after which the carcass was suspend
ed from tree by the hind legs.
In 1886 a sow was executed in the
square of Falaise for having caused
the death of a child, and 8 years later
a horse was condemned to death at
Dion for having killed man. In
1457 a SOW and her six young ones
were tried at Lavegny, on the charge
of having killed and partially eaten a
child The SOW was convicted and
condemned to death. but the little
ones were acquitted on the ground
of their extreme youth and inexper-
fence, the bad example of their mo-
Their, and the absence of direct evil
dence of their having partaken of
the atrocious feast.
One of the most grotesque of these
trials took place in Basic, when
farmyard COX was tried on the alb
surd charge of having laid an egg.
1t was cOntended in support of the
prosecution that eggs laid by cocks
were of inestimable worth for use in
certain preparations; that a sOrcerer
would rather possess a cocks egg
than the elixir Of life, and that Satan
employed witches to hatch such
eggs, from which proceeded winged
serpents most dangerous to mankind.
The prisoners advocate admitted
the facts of the case, but cOntended
hat no evil intention had been proven
and that no evil result had taken
place. Besides, the laying Of an egg
was an involuntary act, and as such
was not punishable by law. Also
there was no record of the devil hay
ing made a compact with an animal.
The public prosecutor stated in re-
ply that the evil one sometimes en-
tered into animals, as in the case of
the swine which drowned themsel-
yes in the Sea of Galilee.
So the poor creature was convict
ed, not as a cock, but as a sOrcerer,
or perhaps the devil in the form of
cock; whereupon the bird and the
egg that was attributed to it were
solemn1y burned at the stake.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1908-07-17
INSURANCE
FOR POOR is OBJECT
(New York Times)

DR.. L. X. Frankel, now connected
with the Sage Foundation, has gone to
Europe to study industrial insurance
He was expected to land yesterday
and will remain abroad three months
at least, spending much of this pc
riOd in Germany.
DR.. Frankel, for nearly ten years
Manager of the United Hebrew Char
tiles. went to the Sage Foundation
last spring for the purpose of making
a special study of industrial insur-
ance. with the view OF discovering
some form of insurance cheaper than
the present benefits extended to the
small wage earners. Up to this time
he has been studying the various sys-
TENS of industrial insurance in this
country, including the systems OF the
MANY fraternal organizations and the
cheaper straight life companies.
After completing the investigation
of the best systems in practice in the
Old World DR.. Frankel expects to re-
port system which embodies the
best features of all. 1t is the hope OF
the MANAGERS of the Sage foundation
to put insurance within the reach OF
the poorest on sustaining basis
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1908-07-17
1 WINTER LEGISLATURE.

Legislators who are favoring the
movement to change the time of
holding the annual sessions from
midsummer to early in the year will
have the sympathy of all who try
to imagine the conditions under which
the lawmakers must work
Its hot enough in the country and
small towns, but to spend the heat
ed term in Atlanta must be a species
of torture. No man can develop the
highest thoughts under such circum-
stances 1t would be unreasonable
to expect so much.
Nothing should be done which af-
fected Gov Smiths term of office
without his full approval. The change
could be made effective a year from
indorse a bill of the kind. even if it
is stated that Gov. Smith would
indorse a bill of the kind, should it
cut off several months of his term
In any event to postpone its opera
ton a year will answer all purposes.
This is the season of the year when
those pent up i'll walls of brick and
marooned in stifinf offices dream
longingly of the purling stream and
the shady nook How much more
onerous is a stay in a city to one
who has been accustomed to the de-
lights of country or small city during
the heated season! AS the great ma
jority Of the legislators come from
such enviable environments, the
burden is so much heavier for them
than for their city brother who has
known naught else
1t is true that the midsummer sea-
son is a time for more leisure for
many than in the winter, but this
would be largely balanced by the fact
that business can be more speedily
disposed of in cooler weather, when
the irritants of heat and home-sick-
ness are absent
Even if some of our statesmen
should be too busy during January
to visit Atlanta, others can be found,
and the state will get the best work
from those who are sent to frame
laws for the rest of the people
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1908-07-17
He Hung On.
New York Times.)

He came up smillin'-used to say
He made his fortune hathaway;
He had hard luck a-plenty, too,
But settled down an fought hel
through;
An every time he got a jolt
He jist took on a tighter holt,
Slipped back some when he tried tC
climb
But came up smilin every time
He came up smilin'-used to git
His share O knocks, but he had grit
An if they hurt he didn't set
Around tn grocery store an fret,
He jist grabbed Fortune by tn hair
An hung on till he got his share,
He had tn grit in him to stay
An come up smiIin' every day.
He jist gripped hard an all alone
Like set bull-pup with a bone,
An if he got shook loose, why then
He got up an grabbed holt again;
He didn't have no time, he'd say,
To bother about yesterday,
An when there was prize to win
He came up smilin' an pitched in
He came up smilin good fer him!
He had tn grit an pluck an vim,
SO he's on Easy Street, an burned
Ii | don't think his luck is earned.
No matter if he lost sometimes,
He's got tn stuff in him that climbs
An when his chance was mighty slim
He came up smilin'-goOd fer him!
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1908-07-17
MARRIAGE MARKETS
AMONG MANY NATIONS
tPearson's Weekly.)

The marriage market Tor fair
which was held recently at Ecaus-
sines, in Belgium, has many counter
parts elsewhere.
In several of the more remote Swiss
cantons, for example, there is held
what is known as the feast of the
garlands. The manageable maid
ems assemble at sunset, sing, dance,
and make merry Each wears a
chaplet OF flowers on her forehead,
and carries nosegay. tied with
bright-colored ribbon, in her hands.
If lad is attracted by maid he
plucks flower from her bunch. She
pretends not to notice, but when
the merry-making breaks up at dawn
she will, if she reciprocates his feel
ings, tie the entire bouquet by the
ribbon to the handle Of the door
of the cabin wherein he resides, or
alternately fling it through the
open easement Of his bed chamber.
The famous Tunis marriage mart,
of which so much has been written,
is held twice year, in the spring
and the autumn. The Tunisian girls
attend in their hundreds. each with
her dowery. in coin and jewelry, dis
posed about her person The gold
en- girdle of maidenhood" encircles her
waist and in it is an unsheathed dag
ger When this is gently removed by
a passing gallant and presently re
turned, it means that proposal has
been made.
A prettier custom prevails among
the Ooraon maidens, who, at stated
intervals, assemble in the market
place. In front of each is a lighted
lamp, emblem Of conjugal fidelity. A
young man feels attracted? He
gently bows upon the flame, extin-
gushing it. The girl relights it; it
is rejection. If she leaves it alone,
the implied offer is acceptable
Even in England these curious
markets are not unknown, although
they are not openly acknowledged as
such. One has been held on st.
Martha's hill, Surrey, on each recur-
ring Good Fridya, during some cen
turtles. And the statute and mop
fairs that are still celebrated in var
ious rural localities are marriage
marts in all but name.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1908-07-17
Reforming Food Mixtures
(New York Times.)

Since he discharged his poison
squad of Government clerks DR..
Wiley has devoted his attention to
the baby foods" He has decided
that, inasmuch as infants find it
difficult or impossible to digest starch
that substance must be rigidly ex-
cluded from all compounds labeled
food for babies" From this de-
cision the recourse, we presume,
would be another appeal to Presi-
dent Roosevelt the assembling of a
baby poison squad, and the appoint
ment of a board of college profess
sors to take their temperatures as
the infants sample the foods. A
Nation which has consumed self
raising buckWheat," in the form of
griddle cakes will be surprised to
learn that it is neither buckwheat nor
self-raising The buckwheat is
mixed with wheat flour, and, of
course, it cannot rise to the right
gEiddle-cake fluffiness without fur
Their admiXture with phosphate, soda,
and salt Makers of cattle and
poultry foods are on notice that it is
not enough to purge their product of
the poisonous corn cookie and jimsom
weed; if spiced with condiments,
which are not possessed of nourishing
properties, it must not be called food.
Such decisions cannot be altogether
infallible Undoubtedly the manufac-
turers will wrangle, and with some
success, to get them changed. They
are made, however, on the principle
hat the label should tell the consum-
er what he is getting. When the
trademarks of the manufacturers be-
come accurately descriptive they will
have to undergo no more costly al
teratiOnS
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1908-07-17
How The Stars Are Counted
popular Mechanisc.)

The gigantic task of counting all
the stars in the heavens and assigning
to each its proper magnitude is one
that demands the quality of almost
infinite patience, and without the
art of photography the task would be
almost impossible.
Photographic plates covering the
whole of the southern hemisphere
have already been secured, and these
with the series dealing, with the
northern hemisphere will number
more than 200. Each plate, which is
Is in, square, records from 10000 to
100000 starry images, and on rough
calculation the total number Of stars
photographed win be about 23,000,-
600.
The task of counting the stars on
the plates has already been common
ced. and this work together with the
cataloging will take at least 10
years.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1908-07-17

A Federal judge has held that a
contract between Munsey's Maya
zine and certain railroads TO rtrans-
portation cannot be enforced, as
such contract would be in violation of
the rulings of the interstate COM
merce commission. One point is
taken that advertising space cannot
be measured accurately in value. On
the same hypothesis lawyers SER
vices cannot be measured, nor a
physicians.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1908-07-17

King Carlos managed to misappro-
pirate eleven million dollars of Por-
tugals money before retribution over
took him in the shape of an assas-
sins bullet In this country his
punishment would be considered a
trihe drastic manner of dealing with
public robbers.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1908-07-17

Automobiles must be fierce dis
ease. A Connecticut woman, aged
So, was injured in a collision with a
street car, and though suffering pain
insisted that her chief regret was
that the ride was spoiled.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1908-07-17

Bryan will beard the lion by de-
ginning his fight in New York city
where he will make a dozen speeches.
Though handicapped by the lack OF
a New Yorker as running mate, Mr..
Bryan believes he has a good chance
of carrying the Empire state
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1908-07-17

Georgia editors, who have been
in session at Gainesville, enjoyed an
outing at Brunswick yesterday. Long
jaunts are not so popular with the
brethren as they used to be. Any
how, the editors can learn the merits
of their own states more thoroughly.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1908-07-17

Much hope is derived by the So
cialist Labor party from the fact
that Bryan was nominated on a Fri
day and Taft was named after the
thirteenth stroke of the gavel. 1t
might be an omen of i'll luck against
the Socialists that their candidate is
a convict, and liable to be in durance
for many years. All this of course
eliminates three candidates from the
running.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1908-07-17

The Savannah Law and Order
League is handing back some warm
ones to its detractors. Rev. w. L.
Pickard is one of the wheel horses
of the fight for the enforcement of
the law against selling liquor in
Georgia.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1908-07-17

Commenting on Mayor Hepburn's
suit against the Philadelphia North
American for alleged malicious at
tacks, the Atlanta Journal says:
The Philadelphia North American is
very rude to keep on coming out af-
ter the mayor has entered a libel
suit against it.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1908-07-17

Tennessee Democrats did not take
any backward step on the prohibition
question, but declared in favor of
the present law by which liquor has
been driven from all but four coun-
could be reformed, the situation in
Georgia would be improved.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1908-07-17

Mr. Butts, of Fannin, has explain
ed to the house that he did not speak
of an Atlanta paper as being a Yam
kee newspaper" This thing of get
ting misquoted is a serious matter
with Mr. Butts.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1908-07-17

It's a safe bet that the proposed
investigation of the convict system
and its workings will make some per
son or persons writhe though the
lash will not be one of the rawhides
used by the deputies
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1908-07-17

The charge that lobbyists are at
work in the senate to influence mem
bers was made by two senators We'd
nesday. 1t is gratifying to know that
the presence of such men is resented
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1908-07-17

Reports continue to the effect that
Gov Johnson has an eye on the De
mocratic nomination in 1912 The
Savannah Press says: Mr.. Bryan
is very much pleased at the promise
of Gov. Johnson to support him in
this campaign Gov. Johnson seems
to have his eye on 1912 all right -
But perhaps Bryan will demand a
second term.