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The Donaldsonville chief. [volume] (Donaldsonville, La.) 1871-current, 1908-10-10

Judge and Mrs. A. D. Lafargue, of
Marksville, passed through Donald
sonvilie Tuesday forenoon en- route
home from Asheyille, N. c., where they.
enjoyed stay Of several months.
While here, Judge Lafargue compli-
mented The Chief with a pleasant call.
The Donaldsonville chief. [volume] (Donaldsonville, La.) 1871-current, 1908-10-10

Miss Lillian Munson returned 70 her
home on Glenvood plantation Wee
nesday evening after spending q couple
III days here as the guest of Mrs.
Walter Barton.
The Donaldsonville chief. [volume] (Donaldsonville, La.) 1871-current, 1908-10-10

Col a 2. Vega left Wednesday for
New York, where he goes to purchase
a big stock of fall and winter goods
{or his popular establishment.
The Donaldsonville chief. [volume] (Donaldsonville, La.) 1871-current, 1908-10-10

Miss May Bradford returned Wed
nesdag from New Orleans, where she
spent a couple of weeks as the guest OF
her brother siu-law and sister, Mr.. and
Mrs. John Dell.
The Donaldsonville chief. [volume] (Donaldsonville, La.) 1871-current, 1908-10-10

Hon. r.. n. Sims and Capt. Fl. G.
Whiteman visited Plaquemine Tuesd ay
Oh business.
The Donaldsonville chief. [volume] (Donaldsonville, La.) 1871-current, 1908-10-10
Notice TO Hunters.

NOTICE is hereby given that hunting on Ger
~ mania and Elise plantations is strictly pro-
hibited. Friends will please not ask for per-
mission to hunt on these places.
GEO. B. REUSS.
The Donaldsonville chief. [volume] (Donaldsonville, La.) 1871-current, 1908-10-10

After spending a month here very
pleasansly as the attractive guest OF
her sister, Mrs. J. Rumsey Duke,
Miss Nellie Badon left today for her
heme In CoVing6on.
The Donaldsonville chief. [volume] (Donaldsonville, La.) 1871-current, 1908-10-10

Anong the prominent visitors to
9anaiaa 9nvIlle dUriag the weel were
Hon Y III. IeEeovre OF West Ba-
ID Isoage. and Aiessrs. Francis kno.
bloch AID Adrien tgaillouet Of Thibo-
dalx.
The Donaldsonville chief. [volume] (Donaldsonville, La.) 1871-current, 1908-10-10

Centlnned on Page Fcar.
Lincoln County leader. [volume] (Toledo, Lincoln County, Or.) 1893-1987, 1908-08-28
CHICAGO'S GREAT COLISEUM.

Such was her natural cleverless and
Ingenuity, however, that she usually
escaped from serious embarrassment !;
and she always so vehemently scorned
ear trumpets and devices of mechanical
nature that her friends no longer dared
to suggest them to her. But on one
occasion things went not according to
schedule.
"She came In to borrow some mag
azlnes yesterday" said Mrs. Russell,
who lived next door, "just after the
piano tuner had gone, He'd been here
all the morning, making such an out
rageous racket that / felt sure even
Miss Bugbee would be annoyed. But
she hadn't been, not mite
II said to her, Miss Bugbee, l wish
you could hear my daughter Sarah play
Lincoln County leader. [volume] (Toledo, Lincoln County, Or.) 1893-1987, 1908-08-28

of study divided into three groups.
would make n scientific, literary and
practical group and assign pupils to
them as their talents suggest"
Hadley is one of the foremost edu
Gators of the country. He is not OF
the general type of college presidents
He is a small, bearded man, and has
the smile Of the good fellow and the
handshake Of the politician. When
Hadley begins to talk things education
al you see Mt once why and through
what he achieved distinction. He gets
away from beaten paths. He has ideas
of his own, and he is neither afraid tC
express them nor put them to work.
Lincoln County leader. [volume] (Toledo, Lincoln County, Or.) 1893-1987, 1908-08-28

The success of Governor Hughes
ment of statutes under which betting
within race track Enclosures was an
act without criminal penalties in New
York State probably means the end of
the tracing game" as it has been here
tofore played in the United States.
An end has been put to real and
strong effort to make the sport of
horse racing socially respectable-to
ameliorate the known evils connected
with ito make it a decent amuse-
ment for those who felt that they
could afford to indulge in it. Very
large property values have been affect
eo. K Is estimated that horseflesh
which for the purposes of the game
was worth $20,000,000 may now be
worth from one-ffth to one-tenth of
that amount. Other uses will have to
be found for lands occupied by tracks
and for buildings on them valued for
their recent uses at $27,000,000 and
very much less. The owners of this
property have, Of course, no right to
complain. This was a chance they took
when they put their money into it. 1t
is well established principle of
American law that when the sovereign
people become Of the opinion that an
occupation or amusement is dangerous
to public health or morals they may
by due process Of law put an end to it.
The people Of the State of New York
would seem to have become Of that
| opinion with respect to form Of sport
which, its advocates have contended,
cannot exist unless people are permit
ted to make wagers over it. The ap-
peal was made directly to them by
Governor Hughes. Whether or not the
law should be changed was made the
issue in district where a special cleo
ton was necessary. And every men,
ber Of the Legislature was virtually
forced to inquire and decide how his
constituents wished him to vote. The
was no referendum" In legal form,
but there was one in moral fact. Horse
men all over the United States have
received a heavy blow in the New
York law. Kentucky, for example, has
millions of dollars invested in breed
ing farms for the production and train
ing Of thoroughbreds. The New York
law strikes this industry directly, and
owners and breeders estimate that they
citation Of their holdings. For with no
racing in New York their principal
market Is abolished. The same situa-
tion obtains wherever race horses are
bred
Lincoln County leader. [volume] (Toledo, Lincoln County, Or.) 1893-1987, 1908-08-28
Poet, Not Farmer.

The FAIRFIELD Grange was holding its
midwinter meeting, the topic for dis
cussion being poultry. The president
of the society had prided himself on
having arranged for large variety of
papers, which, taken together, would
completely exhaust the information of
the community regarding hens Ques-
tions Of food, of portable houses, of
packing eggs and of ipcubators had all
been adequately treated. At last the
president announced, "Mr. Ethan Noble
Will read paper entitled, An Even
ing in the Poultry Yard"
lie was slight young man, ana
there was little stir of amusement
among the farmers as he rose, for
Ethan's trials with chickens were fast
becoming village tradition.
There is no place in the world" be.
gan the reader, more poetic. and I
may say inspiring, to thoughts that a
poultry yard in the evening. 1t is after
the sun has set and the ROSTERS and
hens are all sitting on their nests. The
evening air is deeply scented with dew.
From the river winding in silvery
curves adown the lea comes the sug-
gestion of repose, of quiet, of the in
finite restlessness Of the universe. Now
and then are heard the squeaking of
the chicks in their nests or the scratch
ing Of some little one trying to break
forth from her shell. AS lean on the
parapet l reflect on the young, fresh
life about me"
When the reading was over, a sturdy
citizen leaned forward in his seat.
Ethan he said, confidentially, but
loud enough for all to hear, "I never
knew before why you bought eggs, but
l do now-'
Lincoln County leader. [volume] (Toledo, Lincoln County, Or.) 1893-1987, 1908-08-28

In these times of great drains on
the timber supply, caused by the heavy
demand for forest products of all kinds,
Americans may see in Japan an exam
pie of what can be done in growing
wood on small plots. That country con-
tains twenty-one million wood lots,
about three-fourths OF which belong to
private persons and one fourth to COM
munes. The average size of the plots
is less than nine-tenths of an acre
They usually occupy the steepest,
toughest. poorest ground. In this way
land Is put to use which would other
wise go to waste, and If unwooded
would lose its soil by the wash Of the
dashing rains. From Japan's wood lots.
the yearly yield of lumber is about
eghty-eight feet, board measure, per
acre and three-fourths of cord of fire
wood. In many cases the yield is much
higher. More than half billion trees
are planted yearly to make up what Is
cut for lumber and fuel. Assessment
for taxation is low, averaging for the
twenty-one million lots less than a dol.
lar ali acre. With all the care In
Lincoln County leader. [volume] (Toledo, Lincoln County, Or.) 1893-1987, 1908-08-28

tened. While the entire force of men
were at work at 4 o'clock in the after
noon the most northerly girder fell to-
ward the south. 1t carried the next
one, and all IL went down with a crash
that was heard throughout the central
business section of the city.
No adequate reason for the fall Of
the girders and its consequent loss Of
life was given further than the the
DRY that travelling crane used for
lifting iron beams had become loosen
ed and allowed to pull against the
first girder After the accident the
girders were replaced and the building
was completed as rapidly as possible.
After the Iroquois Theater disaster,
that cost 600 lives, in January, 1904,
had aroused the Chicago building ofil-
cials to unwonted activity, Building
Lincoln County leader. [volume] (Toledo, Lincoln County, Or.) 1893-1987, 1908-08-28

cutting, and the industry in repla1ting
it is by no means certain that Japan's
forests are holding their own. If the
preservation of the forests is doubtful
there, it is evident that depletion must
be alarmingly rapid in other countries
which cut ulsparingly and plant very
little. On the other hand, it is encour-
aging to see what can be done with
rough, steep and poor land. The United
States has enough of that kind, with
out touching the rich agricultural acres,
to grow billions Of feet Of lumber.
Lincoln County leader. [volume] (Toledo, Lincoln County, Or.) 1893-1987, 1908-08-28

some time. We all think she's improv-
ing
Il just meant l hoped she'd drop iIl
some time when there were folks here,
and we were having music. But she
took it that l meant l was sorry she
couldn't hear. Did you ever?
''Well, she up and remarked, vers
loftily indeed, I think she's improving,
too Mrs. Russell. l was going by this
morning, and heard her playing way
out on the sidewalk, and she seemed to
have real touch-real touchr"
Lincoln County leader. [volume] (Toledo, Lincoln County, Or.) 1893-1987, 1908-08-28

The progress of international peace
In Central America Is marked Guate-
mala and Honduras are now trying to
adjudicate land dispute that n few
years ago would have been certain
cause for war. If they fail to agree
on a settlement the matter is to be re-
ferred to the joint court of the re-
public recently established. Nicaragua
is preparing to beat her swords into
plow- shares and her spears into prun-
ing hooks. Three out of the five ships
In her navy are to be disarmed and
leased to commercial company for
the transfer of passengers and freight.
If the problems of international peace
can be thus worked out by these ma
tions, why not by the larger peoples of
'he world?
Lincoln County leader. [volume] (Toledo, Lincoln County, Or.) 1893-1987, 1908-08-28

Commissioner Williams ordered the
Coliseum closed on the theory that it
was, at least technically, unsafe. 1t did
not have frontage on three streets or
alleys, as provided for buildings of
that class. This objection was over
come and the building reopened. Since
that time it has been used as the Madi-
son Square Garden Of Chicago.
Three years before the collapse of
the present Coliseum high wind blew
down the framework of one that was
being built in 63d street to serve the
same purpose. When this first Coli
loss of life.
Lincoln County leader. [volume] (Toledo, Lincoln County, Or.) 1893-1987, 1908-08-28
EDUCATIONAL SYSTEM FAULTY

That the general educational system
in use in the United States is faulty
Hadley Of Yale University. His posi-
tion is that the idea of giving all stu
dents the same kind of instruction Is
altogether wrong.
different men need different meth
DDS of instruction." says Presiden
Hadley. 81 would like to see course.
Lincoln County leader. [volume] (Toledo, Lincoln County, Or.) 1893-1987, 1908-08-28

are harmful though my inherited and acquired ideas
both lead to fear the too much more than fear the
too little.
1t is often hard to draw the line between useful regu
lation and harmful meddling, and harder still to have
that line respected when politics unfortunately becomes
involved with questions relating to business public
feeling is aroused. great many things the
less home affairs because they may be or become re-
moely related to among the States the regu
ation Of which granted exclusively to Congress. If
the federal authority should be extended all Of
these the States would become regions.
The pretext for such extension Of power is that rail
roads, teegraphs, etc. have brought about the
cia unity of the States But this is at ALL
because such commercial unity the very object in
Lincoln County leader. [volume] (Toledo, Lincoln County, Or.) 1893-1987, 1908-08-28

To an audience of women Miss Ida
Tarbell spoke Of "our common enemy
man." Now, that Is the sort Of reason
ableness that puts the matter on high
plane and is sure to convert the "com-
mo1 enemy"
Lincoln County leader. [volume] (Toledo, Lincoln County, Or.) 1893-1987, 1908-08-28
CHICAGo'S COLISEUM.
UnIucky Building in Which Taft
Was Nominated.

Was Nominated.
ChicagOs Coliseum, at Wabash ave-
nue. and 10Th street, the building in
which the Republican national con-
vention was held, has been an i'll
fated structure.
On Aug. 2S, 1899, two days after
The last of the enormous arched grid
ers of iron had been put into place,
all of them, u in number, fell like a
row Of 10 pins, crushing out the lives
of nine workmen and causing property
damage of $4,000. The girders,
which reach from one side of the build
ing to the other and which constitute
the sole support of the vaulted roof,
had been placed, but not securely fas-
Lincoln County leader. [volume] (Toledo, Lincoln County, Or.) 1893-1987, 1908-08-28

They have way OF looking on the
bright side Of things in Oklahoma.
When citizen in the arid district lost
valuable colt by drowning while
ago, the local newspaper commented
that it was "a fine thing to have water
enough out on the Staked Plain to
drown horse"
Lincoln County leader. [volume] (Toledo, Lincoln County, Or.) 1893-1987, 1908-08-28

problem. A London financial magazine
asserts that sit costs more to transport
pound of butter to London from Ire
land than from Victoria, Australia, and
meat reaches us from Argentina at a
lower rate than from the Scottish
uighlnndS"
Lincoln County leader. [volume] (Toledo, Lincoln County, Or.) 1893-1987, 1908-08-28

1t must sometimes seem strange to
David Bennett Hill that absolutely no
body is endeavorlng to drag him back
into the political arena.
Lincoln County leader. [volume] (Toledo, Lincoln County, Or.) 1893-1987, 1908-08-28
AMERICA NEVER BETTER OFF THAN NOW.
By Former Gov. OdeH of New York.

Our government. which has ex-
listed for over a century and quar-
ter, is just as good to-day Ms it
was in the beginning. Our people
are as patriotic and as capable Of
government as ever in cur history,
but we have a germ which induces
men not to commit murder exactly.
but to wallow in trough of blasted
regulations.
Too much credence is given rumors
and too little to facts. 1t required
great courage to build railroads
through an unpeopled country; it
Lincoln County leader. [volume] (Toledo, Lincoln County, Or.) 1893-1987, 1908-08-28

One hundred and sixty out of 200
seniors at Princeton admit that they
have kissed girls. The other forty are
probably giving evasive answers.
Lincoln County leader. [volume] (Toledo, Lincoln County, Or.) 1893-1987, 1908-08-28

The explosion Of al automobile tire
resulted in knocking the owner down.
1t is treacherCGs machine that smites
the hand that feeds it gasoline.
Lincoln County leader. [volume] (Toledo, Lincoln County, Or.) 1893-1987, 1908-08-28
Anatomy,

The Professor-Some of you gentle
men are not giving me your closest at.
tention. Mr. Biggs, what do you find
under the kidneys?
Future M. D.-Toast, sir.-Puck.
Lincoln County leader. [volume] (Toledo, Lincoln County, Or.) 1893-1987, 1908-08-28

Some of these secrets Of long life
would be more popular If they did1't
begin with the advice to cut out nine
tenths Of the pleasures.
Lincoln County leader. [volume] (Toledo, Lincoln County, Or.) 1893-1987, 1908-08-28

Wu Tlng-fang visited the Guinness
farm at Laporte. Probably some Of the
mandarns at home wished pointers on
how to dispose of troublesome indivld-
uas who have been relieved of their
money.
Lincoln County leader. [volume] (Toledo, Lincoln County, Or.) 1893-1987, 1908-08-28

and personally familiar with the conditions of that
tion.
The Secretary Of Agriculture, a resident of Iowa.
who has most to do with the country west of the Mis-
sssippi river, should continue to be resident thereof
Then the Secretary of War the Secretary Of the
Treasury the Postmaster General should also be
resident Of the trans Mississippi country One cabinet
officer should be taken from Southern State
This, instead Of making the Presidents cabinet large
ly group of gentlemen whose homes have been since
youth along the Atlantic coast and whose deepest in
erests are there would give in that cabinet practical
men with a thorough knowledge of the conditions and
necessities of the West and South Such cabinet would
carry with 1t the very influence that need before the
national Congress, and would enable to stand on
level with the rich and powerful in obtaining these
things that make for real prosperity and advancement
Lincoln County leader. [volume] (Toledo, Lincoln County, Or.) 1893-1987, 1908-08-28

An Ohio man claims to have Invented
an arship that Twill stay up for
months" 1t will doubtless make hit
with men who occasionally find it neces-
sary to dodge their creditors.
Lincoln County leader. [volume] (Toledo, Lincoln County, Or.) 1893-1987, 1908-08-28

One Russian citizen accused Of being
a revolutionist was acquitted in st. Pet
ersburg yesterday. But we know one
Judge who is going to lose his job when
the Car hears of 1t.
Lincoln County leader. [volume] (Toledo, Lincoln County, Or.) 1893-1987, 1908-08-28

view in framing the clause which gives to Congress the
exclusive power to regulate the Staes
and as the clause accompshes the purpose intended why
should anybody seek to twist it out Of shape by forced
construction?
Lincoln County leader. [volume] (Toledo, Lincoln County, Or.) 1893-1987, 1908-08-28
FEDERAL REGULATION NOT NEEDED.
By Ex-Atforney General Harmon

Two excuses are advanced for federal intru-
sion into State affairs. One is that the States
do too little and the other is that some of them
do too much in the way of railroad and cor
porate regulation and other corrective meas
ures. These are not contradictory, as they
might at first appear, because there may be
both too little and too much public interfer-
ence with the conduct of business and both
Lincoln County leader. [volume] (Toledo, Lincoln County, Or.) 1893-1987, 1908-08-28

In order to simplify matters and save
time will those portions of the country
II which Mrs. Guinness has not been
seen please place themselves on rec
ord?
Lincoln County leader. [volume] (Toledo, Lincoln County, Or.) 1893-1987, 1908-08-28

German wants to borrow $250,O00,O ,OOU,
but neglects to state whether it wants
1t in bills or small change.
Lincoln County leader. [volume] (Toledo, Lincoln County, Or.) 1893-1987, 1908-08-28

A new play is called stubborn Gin
derella." Probably like most women,
she declared she could wear the glass
slipper, although 1t was three sizes too
small.
Lincoln County leader. [volume] (Toledo, Lincoln County, Or.) 1893-1987, 1908-08-28

devise laws for the encouragement of INDUSTRIES it re-
qured liberal interpretations Of our constitution to make
country great and nothing has been accomplished
without abuse and criticism; aud yet history makes
heroes of foreathers, will the future give to our
capable captains Of industry other titles than "robber
barons."
Lincoln County leader. [volume] (Toledo, Lincoln County, Or.) 1893-1987, 1908-08-28

Anthony Comstock has put his foot
expect to, hear something rip presently.
Lincoln County leader. [volume] (Toledo, Lincoln County, Or.) 1893-1987, 1908-08-28

A Delicate Touch.
Old Miss Burbee was very deaf, and
very sensitive about her infirmity.
Lincoln County leader. [volume] (Toledo, Lincoln County, Or.) 1893-1987, 1908-08-28

Some men make both ends meet by
dining on oxtail soup and beef tongue
Lincoln County leader. [volume] (Toledo, Lincoln County, Or.) 1893-1987, 1908-08-28
WEST WANTS MORE CABINET MEMBERS
By j. B. Case,

There are certain big things to which l be-
lieve the great Mississippi section is
justly entitled, regardless of party or partisan
politics 1t should have either the President
or the Vice President of the United States.
The Secretary Of the Interior, whose pur-
pose is to deal with the States lying almost
wholly west Of the Mississippi river, should
be q resident there md thus be practically
Lincoln County leader. [volume] (Toledo, Lincoln County, Or.) 1893-1987, 1908-08-28
PROBLEM FOR THE BOYS FATHER.
BY John A. Rowland.

That father who at the present time looks
about the prospective fields of specialization
III behalf of his young son confronts situa-
ton which is perplexing. Long ago the world
began to prepare for specializing in human
occupations AS the sum of human knowledge
grew the fact obtruded that for one man TO
learn and execute a one mans work to the
best advantage he should master q SPECIALITY
Lincoln County leader. [volume] (Toledo, Lincoln County, Or.) 1893-1987, 1908-08-28

which would be linking part in whole structure IN
which many specialists each had a builders place
Whatever that arbitrary subdviding may be- how
ever, it will be accepted economic law. To-day no
farmer within reach Of markets would depend upon the
old general farming for profit matter how his father
may have scorned the introduction Of the agricultural
school twenty In the manner the doctor
who to-day specalizes in diseases Of the eye ear and
throat may live to the mpossbility of his young
sons embracing half much profession. Nor can
this specialist say with certainty that In the next
twenty years such disease groups may not disappear
altogether. These suggestions only. They have
rghtful bearing upon the family and community life as
subjects for thought
Carolina watchman. [volume] (Salisbury, N.C.) 1871-1937, 1908-03-25
SALISBURY, N. c., Mar. 25th, 1908.

G. B. Watson, of Winston-Sa.
lem, a very able lawyer and pol
ished gentleman, on the 18th of
March wrote a letter to A. II.
Royden, of this city, in which he
gives various and sundry reasons
why he opposes ''the ratification
by the people of the prohibition
bill passed by the late extra ses
sion of the General Assembly,"
Under ordinary conditions it is
entirely safe to commit the settle.
ment of important public ques-
tions- to the people. There is no
higher nor wiser tribunal, how
ever, it is more cumbersome and
expensive, and, it might be best
to use it sparingly. The recent
session of the General Assembly,
1t seems to us, could have, with as
much proplety as was exercised
IN tho passage Of the Watts and
Ward bills, passed an act prohibi-
ting the manufacture and sale Of
Intoxicating liquors within the
State. Under present conditions
1t would not have affected as many
citizens or as much territory, nor
could it have been considered 80
revolutionary, because the Demo-
cratic party has since been COM
united to temperance, is in power
and such a step was to be reason
ably expected. Mr.. Watson sure
ly does notmean that the great and
good people of North Carolina
should be denied the right to rati-
fy this measure, or any other
measure they may likewise petit
zion for. He says:
sit is not difficult for the dill
llgent student of history to trace
our people back through the CEN
turtles to the early days of their
progenltors on the banks of the,
Euphrates and the Tigris.
all this sweep of ages,
has been a race that has in.
.ulged, to a greater or less extent.