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The true Democrat. [volume] (Bayou Sara [La.]) 1892-1928, 1908-04-11

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The true Democrat. [volume] (Bayou Sara [La.]) 1892-1928, 1908-04-11
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The true Democrat. [volume] (Bayou Sara [La.]) 1892-1928, 1908-04-11

The fact that over a million
tons of Virginia Carolina
Fertilizer we're sold last year
proves them to be without
equal. Every fruit farmer,
no matter what method he
now uses, should get the Viz
The true Democrat. [volume] (Bayou Sara [La.]) 1892-1928, 1908-04-11

when the returns therefrom
show an increase of $4,000 to
$4,000 per acre'
The big Magnolia Fruit
Farms at Durant, Miss, tested
the well-known Virginia-Car-
Franklin's paper the statesman., 1908-10-10
Population and Industrial Activity.


Nautilus, in his famous treatise
upon principles Of population, de-
clared that the natural tendency
toward increase is checked by made
quacy Of means of subsistence; but in
our time this statement should be
modified; new industries, the develop
ment of mines and extension of COM
merce, directly or indirectly, furnish
means Of support for increasing num-
bers and seem to create a demand for
human beings-causing what may be
termed a population vacuum. The
population of England and Wales, for
example, in 17O1, was 6,121,525; in
1751 the total number of inhabitants
had increased but 214,315, or 3.5 per
cent. in so years. After the middle
of the eighteenth century, however.
continuous increase occurred, amount
ing to 100000 in 1901, 100000 in
1851, and 14,5O0,OOO in 1901. This
change was coincident with the crea-
ton Of British industry and trade.
But if 1t be true, declares w. S. Rossi-
ter in Atlantic, that the quickening of
industrial life has tended to increase
population, the present stationary con-
dition of population in parts OF Eu-
rope, previously pointed out, and the
diminishing increase of population in
the United States, suggest the posi-
bility that what may be termed the
drawing power of satural and indus
trial resources upon population has
eliminated. We are justified at least
in asking what influences upon in
crease of population, If any, are being
exsrted by the marvellous economic
changes now in progress.
Franklin's paper the statesman., 1908-10-10

The name of Metchnikoff has been
attached to a number of interesting
scientific discoveries. 1t hasn't reached
the status OF household word, but is
sufficiently well known to give it q
familiar look Metchnikoff is con-
nected with the Pasteur institute in
Paris and is also student Of the hu-
man organism Metchinkoffs latest
discovery Is macrophagoytosis the
disease Of old age-a disease that
Metchnikoff asserts is durable. He
even goes SO far as to say that a
hundred years hence the disease of
old age will be treated like bronchitis
and diphtheria are treated, and cured.
At the present time, says the Cleve-
land Plain Dealer. our knowledge Of
the ailment-no doubt the Oldest and
most fatal the world has known-is
not sufficiently acute to enable us to
attack 1t directly 1t must be fought
through the diet, by careful and ab-
stemious hygiene, by moderate exer-
else, by sufficient sleep, by vege-
tartan diet, by abstinence from the
popular liquids and by close atten-
ton to number Of minor details that
60 to the making up Of the sum Of
continuous health.
Franklin's paper the statesman., 1908-10-10

Within the last few weeks The
Statesman has sent notices to many
Of its out-of-town subscribers Of their
Indebtedness. A recent order Of the
Post Office Department, regulating the
matter admissible to second-class mail
privileges, compels all newspapers to
keep its subscription lists paid up.
Many have responded to our letters,
and the few who have not done SO
will please do SO at once. 1t Is es-
sential that we conform to the postal
regulations and We can easily do SO
with the cooperation OF our patrons.
Let each one who received a letter
from us make acknowledgment OF 1t
today. DO 1T NOW LEST YOU FOR
We are In receipt Of unsigned no
tIees from time to time which are
omitted for lack Of signature. Other
contributors get economical and write
their news on such small pieces Of pa
per that they become lost among the
larger sheets on which such matter 10
usually written. II 10 not often that
matter 10 Intentionally omitted whore
some good reason does not exist.
Therefore persons will do we'll to con.
form to the easy reouIatIons which
govern matter for newspapers. Don't
euss the editor. just look and So II
you are not q fault
Franklin's paper the statesman., 1908-10-10
The Easy Chair.
Only the Englishman knows the sci.

Only the Englishman knows the SCI.
ence Of sitting down. He alone
has evolved the chair which RECEIVERS
for its students all the comfort that
has been lost in the day, all the hope
that the morning may so inhospitably
have barred, says the Saturday Re-
view. Watch, say, Frenchman in
an English easy chair and you will
find him no worthy apprentice of the
science. He is Ill at ease and out Of
sympathy with the chair. But the
Englishman has no such quarrel with
comfort He does not, as the French
man, sit at attention. There needs
not, in fact, be any doubt that Eng
lands position as optimist among the
nations is due largely to the appre-
citation of the easy chair. Had Scho-
penhauer lived in England and been
instructed in the art of sitting down
he would have written dainty testimo-
malls Of the charm of human nature.
Pope had no optimism, and it is not
surprising that he complained Of the
rack of too easy chair for only
an optimist can be comfortable.
Whistler refused to have an easy
chair in his house, and quite inev-
itably wrote book on the art of max
ing enemies. Carlyle lived among
the hard angles Of uncomfortable fur
niture and wrote irritably. A mans
literary taste, 1t may as we'll be said,
Is not formed so much by his educa-
ton or his early life, or his friends,
as by his chairs. A man without an
easy chair would develop an austere
taste. He would read Bacon, Hume,
Macaulay. A man with an uncom-
Portable easy chair would read Hazlitt,
Carlyle. Schopenhauer, Nietzsche. Ib-
sen. A man with a chair which he
had nodded to all the whims of his
body would read Dickens, Lamb,
Shakespeare, Meredith, Flaubert, Ten
nyson. No one, fortunately, has a
finer instinct for comfort than the
Englishman, and so long as this is so
there should be no danger of the de-
cline Of good books and poetry and
optimism. Only the man who has an
easy chair can read the right books.
Franklin's paper the statesman., 1908-10-10

Greater New York has started out
to stop the noises of civilization, and
at the very outset OF the crusade puz-
zled Brooklyn policemen are wanting
to know II mothers putting her
baby to sleep with lullaby comes
under the prescribed sounds There
is nothing in ancient history to rank
in weird effect with modern reform
Franklin's paper the statesman., 1908-10-10

Turkish women are unveiling. Fool.
ish girls! They are discarding the
mystery wherein. in all probability,
their chiefest attraction lay.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1908-12-17
4 &@S:sI S
SI&gS@gElgIs FE
TWO DINNERS FOR CHRISTMAS.
Menus In Which Roast Beef and Goose
Are the Leading Entrees.

For the Christmas feast roast beef
or roast young goose are the prime ia
%vorites, taking the precedence of tur-
key, which very SOC after the first
of December begins to lose its delicacy
of flavor. The English dinner of roast
beef and plum pudding Is historic, and
in recent years Americans have gen
orally followed the custom of serving
an English dinner on Christmas, i'm
proving on the old country menus by
the addition of dainty entrees and
salads.
Here are some suggestions for
menus for Christmas home dinners.
MENU NC. l..
Grape Fruit with Sherry.
olives. Radishes.
Small Oysters, Roasted in Shell.
Cream of Chicken.
Roast Sirloin of Beef.
Macaroni au Gratin.
Bermuda Potatoes. New String Beam,
Endive Salad.
Toasted Waters and Edam Cheese.
Plum Pudding.
Fruit. Coffee.
MENU NO. 2.
oysters on the Half Shell.
Cream of Celery. Stuffed olives.
Fried Smells, Sauce Tartare.
Hothouse Cucumbers.
Roast Young Goose.
Apple Sauce.
Mashed Potatoes. Boiled White Onions.
Stuffed Green Peppers.
Romano Salad and Toasted Waters.
Roquefort Cheese.
Plum Pudding or Mince Pie.
Coffee. Fruit.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1908-12-17
Long q Temperance Worker.

Mother" Stewart, who died recently, was 90
wears old. She devoted her life to the temperance
canse. Mrs. Stewart established the first w.. G. T.
u. in Ohio at Osborn in 1873. In 1875 she visited
England and organized the first W. G. 7. .. in that
country. Following the civil war she lectured ex-
tensively in the southern states on behalf of the
war sufferers.
Five years ago Mother Stewart became inter
ested in the teaching of Alexander Dowie ana
visited Zion City where she remained one year.
since which time she lived with friends at Hicks
vile. Until five years ago she resided in Spring
field, o., where she led in many temperance cru
sades. Scarcely a woman in America could boast
of the praise from pulpit and press like Mother"
SteWart. ~ "N
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1908-12-17

is taken into consideration by some persons. The
young man, probably, was sorry for the abrupt
termination of his friendship with the young lady,
but perhaps it, was for the best. That was his
version Of it, anyhow.
Most English speaking nations celebrate Christ
mastide just as We Americans do, but each has its
little selfmade variation. In Italy they celebrate
with a grand dance, as a rule, and they take great
pains to be attired in gaudy raiment. The Danish
are very deliberate about their Christmas festivi-
ties and great fetes and gifts are the order OF the
day. The Swiss are fervent in their worship OF
the Saviour on that day and the little children
dressed for gala affairs parade the streets in or
der that their parents may look at them and COM
pare them with the kids next door"
Many persons who have read much history and
who have been able to persuade themselves that
the present century is all wrong as to the date
of the birth of Christ, are %skeptical as to whether
we should observe the sacred day when we do.
Estimates as to when Christ was born extend
clear from June to January rs.
Prior to the fourth century Christmas was not
observed on December rs, for there was no period
of uniformity in observing the day among the
early churches. The ~skeptical persons who have
studied the thing from end to end say that on
December rs it rained in Judea and then attention
is called to the Biblical statement that shepherds
were watching their focks when Christ was born.
Now how could they watch their fiocks when 1t
was raining? is the argument of the unbellevers
that December rs is the correct day of feast.
One person who is not ~skeptical declared that
perhaps they didn't have sense enough to come in
out of the rain in those days. But of course that
is no argument. The chances are the calendars
have been changed so much that the original
December 25, il hunted down, would be found
flirting with May 1. OF course the correct day
upon which to worship has much to do with the
feeling of Christians in the matter, but at the
same time, If the event is properly observed the
time of observance is but a detail.
Many good churchmen who seldom attend
church on Sundays find Christmas an excellent
day to attend church because it only falls on Sun
day once in seven years and 1t doesn't break in
on their weekly holiday morning nap.
Millions Of dollars are spent every year in every
country of the globe for presents. 1t is declared
in mercantile circles that the United States II
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1908-12-17

Christmastide axioms of that kind which are USED
and misused toward the end OF the year. mat
first saying has been cleverly shiIted aoout ~
tbis manner: at Is not the gift, but the price
which the giver putteth into the gift"
The proper Christmas spirit as told from the
mint ia far from that which many follow out In
selecting presents. Mother countries exhibit less
interest in costly gifts than does America. TraVei-
es in countries of the old world have been sur
prised at the great number of Christmas presents
which are home-manufactured. Several weeks De-
fore the glad event, the families SIT themselves
down in their rooms and start, secretly, work upon
the Christmas gifts. In the country districts of GER
tain parts Of America this custom is still retained.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1908-12-17
500 Reward. 500.

The readers OF this paper will be pleased to learn
that there is at least one dreaded disease that science
has been able to cure in all its stages, and that is
Catarrh. Halls Catarrh Cure is the only positive
cure now known to She medical fraternity. Catarrh
being a constitutional disease, requires a constitu-
tional treatment. Halls Catarrh Cure Is taken in
ternally, acting directly upon the blood and mucous
surfaces Of the system, thereby destroying the
foundation of the disease, and giving the patient
strength by building up the constitution and assist
Ing nature in doing its work. The proprletors have
so much faith in its curative powers that they offer
One Hundred Dollars for any case that it fails to
cure. Send for list OF testimonials.
Address F. ]. CHENEY & Co, Toledo, o.
Sold by all Druggists, 75c,
Take Halls Family Pills for constipation.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1908-12-17
Not Fair,

Look here, Abraham" said tho
Judge, tits been proved right here in
court that instead of doing something
to help support your wife and children
yau spend your whole time hunting
'possum!"
The old negro hung his head.
Now, Abe, you love your wife, don't
your"
"Ah suttinly does!"
"And your children?"
"Yas, subj"
"And you love them both better"
Better ev'ry day, jedge!" Abe
broke in.
better than a thousand pos
sums?"
Look hyah, jedge." exclaimed Abe,
with widening eyes, "dat's takin' a
coon at a pow'ful disadvantage!"-Bo-
hemian Magazine.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1908-12-17
INvALID's SAD G
After InfIammatory Rheumatism, Hair
Came Out, Skin Peeled, and Bed
Sores Developed-only cuti-
cura Proved Successful.

about four years ago had a very
severe attack of inflammatory rheuma-
tism. My skin peeled, and the high
fever played havoc with my hair.
which came out in lunches. I also
had three large bed sores on my back.
l did not gain very rapidly, and my
appetite was very poor. l tried many
sure cures but they were of little
help, and until 1 tried Cuticura Re
solvent l had had no real relief. Then
my complexion cleared and SOC l felt
better. The bed sores went very soon
after a few applications of Cuticura
Ointment, and when | used Cuti-
cura Soap and Ointment for my hair
it began to regain its former glossy APP
pearance. Mrs. Lavina ]. Henderson,
1873 Broad ST., Stamford, Conn, March
6 and -, 1907"
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1908-12-17

HERE were individuals who re-
1ected ideal virtues in other
periods, but were unable to null
tiply themselves, dying like Beatrice,
who took her beauty, as they carried
their moral excellences away with
them. The first Christmas dawned on
a world of selishness and sin, and
dark with folly and cruelty. There
was beauty for the few, slavery, pow
erty and starvation for the many,
death for the unwelcome child and
degradation for woman. There were
$4,000 paupers in a population OF
1000, 900 in Rome. 1t was a period of
intellectual chaos, moral and social
%desolation, and individual hopeless
ness. Into this gloom came the star
of Bethlehem, beaming light, hope and
sympathy. The contrast between the
manager birth and the Christmas morn
that will dawn this week with its
carols, songs, gifts, JOY and gladness,
is the most striking contrast earth's
history holds.
With that first Christmas childhood
became sweet and sacred, woman was
crowned queen of the heart and home,
the slave made free, the ignorant, poor
and w%retched found education, shelter
and sympathy, and the joy of gener-
osity became contagious. AS the sun
rises earlier and fingers longer than
yesterday SO the spirit Of Christmas
will usher in the golden age of happi-
ness and good will. In the great pic
tura Of Coreggio the light or the face
Of the babe lends a glow to shepherd
and wise men. The Christmas spirit
lends a glow to all the instruments
and forces of society.
WY HILE humanity falls below the
wv ideal, the effort to practice it
is not wholly ~nugatory. The
drift of the world is upward" The
| people are climbing. Interest in chill
dren is increasing. Woman is coming
to her own. Labor is entering the
reward of work. War is becoming
unpopular. Racial prejudice will hide
in shame. The Christ spirit is vic
torious. Gods good will becomes tri-
umphant in home, street and legis-
lative hall. The triumphs Of the past
dictate new struggles for the future.
When Pericles gave his Grafton over
the Athenian dead, pointing to the
graves, the great orator said: Their
silence is eloquent! These heroes ask
us to go and live for the city for which
they died" Thus past achievements
pledge us to fresh fidelity. Christ
mas asks us to lend the impulse of a
new love to home, school, street and
city; to be a friend of the friendless.
a benefactor to some dumb beast or
deserted child, to be voice for the
dumb, eyes for the blind, springs Of
water for the thirsty, trees of shade
for the weary, food for the hungry
refuge for the smitten.
Be an angel of mercy, bringing
peace on earth and good will toward
men," and thus hasten a Christmas
which will not simply come to-mor
row, but will stay all the year.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1908-12-17

railroad camps, and down in the mines.
And you find 1t up here on the jobs
in the skies.
Believe it?' said an old foreman.
you bet, they believe It,"
do YOUR asked.
"Well," he said, "all / car say is
this: II may be a spell Or it may be
because Of the way the whole e is
expecting 1t. But anyhow, when two
accidents come close together, you
can be sure that the third isn't very
far off."--Ernest Poole, in Every
body's.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1908-12-17
Sees Great Future For Siberia.

More than 500, 900 persons emigrated from Eu-
ropean Russia to Siberia in 1907. Vice-Consul Chan
Ter of Dalny reports, and of this record-breaking
number fewer than ever before returned to their
homes. Every colonist arriving in Siberia receives
81 acres of land free, paying no taxes the first
three years and only half the regular taxes the next
three.
Siberia imports $4,000, 900 worth of goods by
caravan from China annually, almost entirely tea.
while Siberia exports to China only $750,000 worth
of articles annually, and many of these originate in
European Russia.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1908-12-17

proportion to population is the biggest
national distributor of gifts.
There are many concerns in Ger
many, England and France which con-
fine themselves exclusively to the manu-
facture of gifts such as are exchanged
only during the celebration of the
birth of Christ. Besides being a holt
day which should be devoted to worship
of Jesus Christ, it is a day which is
looked forward to by merchants as a
big source of profit.
In other countries, as in America,
there are many small Christmas TRACE
dies enacted because of the dislike
which some folks take to gifts and be-
cause of the thoughtlessness of others
in emitting some of their friends. Some
make it a rule, and advertise 1T well,
that they have decided to contine gifts
to the immediate family circle, so that
none will take offense if they receive
no gifts from their hitherto cherished
friends. Of course the ones who are
notified of the change in the routine
are careful to scratch off the names OF
the friends who have eliminated them
so that when Christmas comes there Is
no needless embarrassment.
The poets once sang: at is not the
gift, but the spirit of the giver," and
also Don't look a gift horse in the
Mouth There are dozens of little
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1908-12-17
Home Lovs for Johnnie.

Johnnie" said my husband the 9TH
err evening upon his return from work,
to our three-year-old, have you been
a good boy to-day?"
yes, father" came the prompt re-
ply.
VERY WELL" said his fond parent.
"You may go upstairs and bring down
my slippers"
When Johnnie had delightedly per-
formed this act of devotion, his ia
Their said: Nov, if you will prom
Use to be good tomorrow, you may
carry my shoes upstairs and put them
away."-Harper's Bazaar. J
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1908-12-17
Hoodooed.

A poor devil asked for aims. The
inquisitive man questioned him. After
a few interrogations he said to his
companions: Boys, don't give him a
cent; he's a fraud" The beggar re-
piled: Gents, I am under a hoodoo.
I'm an unlucky man. I do believe II
1 were to seize time by the forelock 1t
would come right out and leave me as
bare as a BARRIERS pole" Then they
all Clipped in.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1908-12-17
EMPER

In all its forms among all ages Of
horses, as well as dogs, cured and others
in same stable prevented from having the
CURE. Every bottle guaranteed. Over
100000 bottles sold last year. $50 and
$l.6O. Any good druggist, or send to manu-.
facturers. Agents wanted. Spohn Medical
Co., Spec. Contagious Diseases. Goshen, Ind.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1908-12-17
rla Racks FOR Men.

A present that will be greatly ap-
preciated by a man is a tie rack. This
may be mounted embroidered linen,
burnt wood, decorated leather or
painted cardboard. The only thing to
be guarded against is not to make
them too elaborate. The more simple
the pattern is the more sure to please.