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The San Francisco call., 1910-11-01
Effect on Industrial Conditions

% Money the wheels go round and prosperity
to the merchant greater marketable output
facurer and producer and steader and profitable
ployment to Dear money sitting of all
activities negative results. Under the amendment
money would be dear.
O The money necessary for the development our
eating electrical systems reclamation irrigation projects
farm lands would not be readily Forthcoming.
60 industry ags the labor
SUFFERS both in steadness of employment and the
therefor.
The San Francisco call., 1910-11-01
Effect on Economic Conditions

CD Aboshes old principle of equal taxation and substitutes fixed
rates for certain classes of tax payers.
CD VIII throw the tax system of the State into confusion and into
the courts for number of years. attorneys
doubt the validity of the provisions which the amendment
seeks to enact
(a Inaezbty of fixed rates will result in the growth an
tou system of license supplement taxes acquired from
corporations evidenced by history of State adopting
similar laws
N According of amendment it would be almost impossible
rates public service corporations should be found
necessary to do 80.
90 Inaccuracies in the report show that insufficient will be
expenses of State and that
course to former ad Vaorem tax when seeks 70 AVOID
will be necessary.
The San Francisco call., 1910-11-01

sMUGGLED OPIUM sEIZED-Another attempt
to smuggle in opium was thwarted YESTERDAY
by Customs Inspectors Huffaker and Benninge er
when they seized fye tae1 tins, found In
the crews quarters Of the steamer Korea
The San Francisco call., 1910-11-01
The Other Side of
the Question
Why Senate Constitutional Amend
ment No. | Should Not Be
Passed on Nov. 9Th

The law States that every Constitutional Amendment
Of the State Of California should be presented to the
voter with favorng and negative argument attached
to it. THE NEGATIVE ARGUMENT WAS
OMITTED IN THE CASE OF CONSTTTU-
TIONAL AMENDMENT No. |.
Here are some Of the IMPORTANT REASONS
ON THE OTHER SIDE-the negative side:
The San Francisco call., 1910-11-01

Every merchant, every manufac-
turer and every wage Garner in the
State of California should ponder
well before he votes on this momen-
tous question.
The San Francisco call., 1910-11-01

Mr.. and Mrs. Jam es
jenkins. with their lit
tie daughter, will be IN
town for a brief visit
during the early part
of this month, but will
return TO Mil Valley
for the holidays.
The San Francisco call., 1910-11-01

Mrs. j. d. Peters and
her daughter, Miss Anna
Peters, will remain at
the Fairmont for the
greater part of the win
ter, and Miss Peters
will be in evidence at
the gayeties in town
this season.
The Donaldsonville chief. [volume] (Donaldsonville, La.) 1871-current, 1910-05-28
Lays Egg in Nest of Lace

tering no opposition she strolled
around until she spotted a nice, white
bed She hoped on the bed. It
looked a whole lot better to her than
a hen roost. On the bed were vari-
Gus articles of feminine attire. The
articles included lace and various
soft, fuzzy, altogether delightful gar
ments women get out and examine
critically about this time Of the year
A hen is of the feminine gender,
too. The hen liked the display. She
scratched it together until she had a
nice little nest. Then, with con-
tented cackle she settled herself in
the nest and laid an egg. She stayed
right on the spot, too, until an in
dignant woman appeared in answer
to her satisfied cackles and firmly es-
corted the bantam over the fence
again.
The Donaldsonville chief. [volume] (Donaldsonville, La.) 1871-current, 1910-05-28
Arlstocratic Little Bantam DlsIikes
PIebeian Home, So She Goes
Wandering.

Everett, Wash.-Seattle may have
1t all over Everett in population, and
expositions, and aviation stunts and
little things like that, but when 1t
comes to bantam hens who have such
aristocratic leanings that they prefer
to lay eggs in a nest composed OF
rare old lace attached to costly fem
mime garments, and enter strange
houses to do it, then must Seattle &C
knowledge that 1t cannot hope to equal
this young and growing metropolis.
Police Captain Charles Knapp, who
lives on Norton avenue. is something
of a chicken fancfer, when he is not
sleuthing around town in the perform
ance of his duty. Among the fancy
chickens he owns is bantam hen,
nameless up to date, but just as close
to the captains heart now as If she
had dozen names.
The hen had a bunch that she
might lay an egg providing she could
get away from the plebeian atmo-
sphere of hen-hOuse. where chickens
make regular practise of laying
eggs. The little bantam, therefore,
cackled a few times, spread her
wings and went over the fence, land
ing in the yard of a neighbor of Cap
tain Knapp.
A door in the neighbor's house was
open. The hen walked in. Encoun-
The Donaldsonville chief. [volume] (Donaldsonville, La.) 1871-current, 1910-05-28


Every time the trees rustic" said
a patrolman, you think there is q
leak ahead. Every heavy drone of the
insects startles with Its suddenness.
You start out in the morning with the
fear of disaster and if twig cracks
under your feet you get the jumps. II
a break would come along once in
awhile it would not be so bad.
often the loneliness that gets into
your bones inspires one almost to the
point of stealthy going out with an ak
and smashing section of pipe so as
to break the monotony. The thing not
only gets on your mind, but it stays
there. The perpetual introspection
grows oppressive.
Finally you begin pinching yourself
to see if you are alive. Then you
begin talking to yourself so that you
can hear. That is the point where you
must hike to the telegraph Office and
wire in your resignation or prepare
to have the insanity commission give
you a free ticket up state"
The Standard Oil company, as well
as other producing concerns, has not
employed pipe patrolmen for number
of years in America. A scientific de-
vice, made on the same principle as
the device by which cable companies
are able to ascertain where break is
located in an ocean cable, makes them
unnecessary. The. gas companies can
not utilize the device because of the
volatile nature of their product and
the ease with which it can get away,
and must pay the heavy expense for
Matchmen.
The Donaldsonville chief. [volume] (Donaldsonville, La.) 1871-current, 1910-05-28
HAS LONESOME JOB

see, waking and sleeping, only that
same blur of trees and land, land and
trees, and then more land and trees
until he begins to forget the rest of
the world and the people and the
things he has known. Some of the pa
trolmen almost reach the point of for
getting their own names, but usually
they quit before they get to that point
Several former regulars in the United
States army, men familiar with the
dreary routine of western frontier
posts, have tried it and thrown up the
job after a few weeks. One Of them
said: when | go bughouse am go
ing by the regular route"
The fact that the ear is kept con-
stantly strained for leaks that betray
their presence through a kissing sound
is another feature of the work that
adds to the uncanniness of it. The
men are employed for just one pur-
pose, to look for breaks in the pipe line,
and when one has but one thing to
do and the accident he is always ex-
pecting seldom happens, it gets on
the nerves. The nervous anticipation
is what breaks them down.
Every time a grasshopper in the
fields or a cricket in the creek bot
toms or locust in the trees starts his
machinery at full speed the fear that
the line has gone to smash seizes
one
The Donaldsonville chief. [volume] (Donaldsonville, La.) 1871-current, 1910-05-28
Being Where the Ball
Is Hit, 0'Leary's
Plan
Detroit Star Says He Studies the
Opposing Batters and Baserunners
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
Copyright. 1910. by Joseph B. Bowles.)

49, 49, 1"@ut ~ 1SSSkA4 ~ DOh1SSst
learned how to win from Jennings.
Now, before he came to Detroit the
team was as fat as Aunt Jemima's
pancake, but he threw about a quart
of Fleishman's yeast into us, and we
rose.
The recipe for winning is to mix
ginger, yeast. pepper and horse radish
with horse sense, and keep stirring
all the time. Thinking and hustling,
figuring on every point, watching all
the time for an opening and taking all
sorts of chances Is what wins. One
man can't win-unless he happens to
be the fellow who can stir up dozen
others and keep them fighting all the
time and never giving up. Without
a leader the best team will slack up
the pace once in a while and maybe
get discouraged.
All the success have had has come
from studying batters while | was in
the infield, and studying base runners
when they got on the bases. A player
almost can tell from the way the bat
ter and the base runner act what they
are trying to do, or going to try to do.
If he only keeps his eyes open. | never
The Donaldsonville chief. [volume] (Donaldsonville, La.) 1871-current, 1910-05-28

try to catch the signs, but can tell by
the actions and the situation what is
coming off Then | want a second
baseman alongside of me who under
stands me and whom I understand, so
we can work together There are
some men who prevent each other
from doing their best work.
make a study of where batters hit,
and every day I get the fullest ac-
counts possible of all the games
played and study out where balls were
hit to. Batters change rapidly.
Sometimes a player hits to left field
for weeks, and the next time we meet
him in a series, he is hitting to right
field. | find it important to know all
the time, for sometimes it is five or
six weeks from the time we see a
player until We play against him
again, and in that time he may have
changed completely. keep talking to
pitchers who have worked against Ger
tain men and reading about them to
see how they are batting. Then, too
lots of times, a weak batter will have
The Donaldsonville chief. [volume] (Donaldsonville, La.) 1871-current, 1910-05-28
is THE BASEBALL FAN
A NORMAL HUMAN BEING?
jim MCALEER DOUBTS

Is baseball fan a normal human
being? We doubt it sometimes and
SO do others, especially when fan
is at game. Jimmy McAleer, the
Washington manager, tells a good
story Of how baseball turns the heads
of some people. Says he:
Just as 1t looked as if the st. Louis
Browns were going to win the pen
nant in 1908, they took a sudden slump
and the beginning of that slump was
marked by my coaching a man to his
doom at third base on one of those
plays when you have a chance and
must take it despite the risk. The ST
Louis park was crowded and the home
rooters were insane. There is no
doubt about it, they were off their
heads. AS | was walking back to the
bench feeling as blithe and happy as
If ] had fallen in a sewer, every man,
woman and child in the park made re-
marks about me, but the only aston
ishing feature to that was the con-
duct of an old gentleman who had oc-
cup1ed a seat game after game right
behind the st. Louis players bench.
He was sweet-faced old party
with the mildest OF eyes, a fringe of
pure white whiskers and an air OF
amiable contentment that had not de
serted him all season. But on this
particular occasion he was absolutely
transformed.
And what cusser he was! He ex-
hausted the known list of adjectives
descriptive of paranoiacs, he traced
my ancestry back to the stone age and
showed each generation was the worst
in the list, used terms that would be
barred at drinking party and wound
up falling exhausted. After the game
l met him near the gate fully ex.
pected to see him produce brick or a
knife and show other signs of violent
insanity, but instead he came up with
his hand extended, and for five min
utes did the most abiect piece Of apoY-
ogizing the English language had ever
produced. He actually cried in his
modification, and never felt sorrier
for man who had done me an injury.
l assured him / understood he had
acted that way in the heat of passion
which was true, and then and there
we became fast friends
The Donaldsonville chief. [volume] (Donaldsonville, La.) 1871-current, 1910-05-28
Jennings Likes Catcher Casey

Charley Schmidt won't be first or
even second catcher Of the Detroit III
gers this year. Oscar Stanage will be
first receiver, with Joe Casey second
on the list; then will come Schmidt
and Beckendorf. Casey, a youngster.
is regarded as a future top-notcher by
Manager Jennings. According to
Hughey, Casey hasn't made mis-
move so far. stanage is given the
first job on account of his experience
The Donaldsonville chief. [volume] (Donaldsonville, La.) 1871-current, 1910-05-28

batting. streak and a pitcher or in
fielder ought to know this before
starting a series against him. The best
part of my success, / think, has been
in being where the ball was hit, and
whole lot of this has come from
studying batters and knowing their
hitting direction.
used to think fighting umpires
helped win. but want to say that is
mistake. Playing square with the
umpires and treating them decently
and playing fair with opponents is the
only way to win. Fair play ought to
be the foundation of the game. / play
as hard and fight as hard for a game
as anyone, but would rather lose than
hurt another player, or to try to make
an umpire look bad to a crowd.
The Donaldsonville chief. [volume] (Donaldsonville, La.) 1871-current, 1910-05-28
Men Who Watch Tubes Convey.
ing Natural Gas Disguised.
Task at First Appears Pleasing, But
Soon Becomes Monotonous in Ex
IRENE and Loneliness Often
Leads to Insanity.

Lincoln, Neb.-The most monot-
onous existence in the world is that
led by the pipe line walkers of Kan
sas, Oklahoma and Missouri. For a
great many years the army picket, the
sheep herder and the railroad track
Inspector have debated the question of
which led the loneliest existence, but
iheir life is gay compared with that OF
me pipe line walker.
The pipe lines carry natural gas to
the cities. where it is utilized in
aghtlng homes, heating them and sup
plying industries with cheap fuel. The
pipe lines radiate in all directions
from the gas centers. 1t is absolute
" necessary that the pressure be
maintained. The greatest menace of
tne maintenance of proper pressure is
Inc possibility of leaks in the pipes
ana to see that there are no breaks
several hundred men are employed.
anelr business is to get up at day
.sat and walk till darkness comes,
aunting trouble.
me lines are divided up into sec
aons OF Il and Is miles, and a man is
uelaiieu to watch each one. He must
aaik from one end of his section to
.le other and then back again during
sas Gay The jobs pay from $50 to
s1VV month, and there is nothing to
20 but walk and listen.
Most OF the patrolmen are young fell
vows, who think they have fallen into
Sudp. A good many of them are
eOaege boys, who come west to the
nafles for recreation or to regain
sAsli Meath. They get both, but after
i. months of it the loneliness and
they depart -i anu
IS nothing to do but walk,
salA, walk, except when a break is
eaaa. Then 1t is a hike to the near
- telephone and a hurry up call for
~ repair gang. If nothing happens
- ~ an the pipe line walker need to
I = % I'LL out blank report with
M doing on it and mail it.
III l sheep herder has his dogs and
ons, saeep, the army sentry his fire.
bas sss Feiiefs and the track walker
mss companionable sounds and gets
h. snmpses of life. Sometimes he
scr.s wreck to prevent or to help to
ltsla up. but the pipe patrolmen have
n = nfeak the monotony.
Il esss ; man first tackles the Job ne
trsna ,suanted. Just to take a brisk
IL asross the country in the fresh
nd a4sillng of the good, green earth
IS as g be paid two or three dollars ar. - .
sIta. = seems too good to be true.
GA { 1sW weeks it begins to pail.
sss g dreaming about it, gets to
The Donaldsonville chief. [volume] (Donaldsonville, La.) 1871-current, 1910-05-28

o tuInor caused by rupture. | wrote
to you for advice and you told me not
to get discouraged but to take Lydia
E. Pinkham's Vegetable Compound.
| did take it and soon the lump IN my
side broke and passed away Mrs.
R. R. HUEY, 713 Mineral Ave, Galena,
Kans.
Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable Com
pound, made from roots and herbs,
has proved to be the most successful
remedy for curing the worst forms of
female ills, including displacements,
Inflammation, fibroid tumors, irregu-
larities, periodic pains, backaehe, bear
ing-down feeling, fatulency, indiges-
ton, and nervous prostration. 1t costs
but a trife to try it, and the result
has been worth millions to many
suffering women.
Ifyou want special advice write
fOrit to Mrs. Pinkham, Lynn, Mass
tits free and always helpful.
The Donaldsonville chief. [volume] (Donaldsonville, La.) 1871-current, 1910-05-28
Experience Of Bush League Umpire.


The veteran umpire and second
baseman, Dan Crotty, says that UNI.
piTing in the minors is a Joy that
no self-respecting gentleman should
tackle, unless the poorhouse is his
only alternative. He was holding the
Indicator at Newport, Kan, in the first
game of professional baseball ever
played in that city. The manager was
a rowdy Dan ordered him off the
grounds. He didn't bulge. He called
for an officer and there was no re.
Spouse. It was up to him to show
something, and he undertook the job
personally The manager put long
gun in front of his face and backed
him all over the field and he was ar.
rested and thrown into jail over
night, on charge of melting a riot
Next morning he was released and
was thankful that he had been ar.
rested
The Donaldsonville chief. [volume] (Donaldsonville, La.) 1871-current, 1910-05-28
White Frog Reveals Spring.

Vale, Ore.-While workmen were
trying to locate trouble in the pump
at the plant of the Vale Electric com
pany a white frog hoped out. The
frog died soon after getting into tho
air.
The presence of the frog indicates
a subterranean stream or spring of
water.
The electric light company may now
drill deeper in the hope of reaching
a greater supply. 1t is said this is
one of several frogs which have been
found in the pump.
The Donaldsonville chief. [volume] (Donaldsonville, La.) 1871-current, 1910-05-28
a Renrimand.
er resign.

Mrs. Brown was on her way to
prayer meeting, and as she passed the
Jones home she saw Bobby sitting on
the porch.
Aren't you afraid out here alone,
Bobby?"
I'm not alone was Bobby's an
sWer.
who is with your" asked Mrs.
Brown
Now, Mrs. Brown said Bobby, i'm
pressively, '.if you was a good woman.
you would know who was with me-"
The Donaldsonville chief. [volume] (Donaldsonville, La.) 1871-current, 1910-05-28

not sleep. It kept
growing larger and
by fall it was as
large as a hens egg.
I could not go to
bed without a hot
water bottle applied
to that side. | had
one of the best doe
tors in Kansas and
he told my husband
thatI would have to
be operated on as it
was something like
The Donaldsonville chief. [volume] (Donaldsonville, La.) 1871-current, 1910-05-28
Latham in Moraan,s Class.

Artie Latham is the only rival OF
Edward Payson Weston and j. Pier.
pont Morgan for giving age the laugh.
On his fftieth birthday in Marlin, the
former great third baseman stole soc.
ond and third
The Donaldsonville chief. [volume] (Donaldsonville, La.) 1871-current, 1910-05-28
DOCTOR
ADVISED
OPERATION
Curedb LydiaE. Pinkham's
Vegetable Compound

Galena, Kans. ga year ago last
March [ fell, and a few days after
there was soreness in my right side.
In a short time bunch came and it
bothered me so much at night / could
The Donaldsonville chief. [volume] (Donaldsonville, La.) 1871-current, 1910-05-28
lis Last.

Poets Wife-My husband read this
poem at a public celebration before
thousands of people. Alas! it was the
last poem he ever wrote.
Publisher see Did they lynch him
or shoot him ?-Leslies Weekly.
The Donaldsonville chief. [volume] (Donaldsonville, La.) 1871-current, 1910-05-28
Louisville GETS Hank Weave,

President Murphy of the Chicago
Cubs let Pitcher Hank Weaver gn to
the Louisville club. Murphy still has
a string on Weaver and may call him
back if be is needed.
The Donaldsonville chief. [volume] (Donaldsonville, La.) 1871-current, 1910-05-28
An Enterprising Age.

what are you affixing to theee park
benches ?"
I'VE have the opera glass privilege.
Drop in nickel and see the comet. -
Kansas City Journal.
The Hawaiian gazette., 1910-03-01
Meat Packers Caught Conspiring
to Keep Up the Prices by
Limiting the Supply.
BIG MEN ARE IMPLICATED
Armour; Swift, Hammond and
All the Great Concerns Are
Now Charged.

NEW YORK, February 26.-Six of
the largest packing companies in the
country and twenty-one individuals
connected with them, were yesterday
indicted, charged with conspiracy to
limit the meat supply of the country
and to control the supply of pouhry,
for the purpose of holding up the prices
through the medium of the cold storage
companies
The companies indicted include the
National Packing Company. Armours.
Swift, Morris, Hammond Packing Com
pany and the G. H. Hammond Com.
pany.
The prevailing high prices of meats
and poultry, which led to the forma-
ton of anti-meat boycott clubs through
out the country, was declared by the
graziers and poultry raisers to be due
altogether to the packers, who con-
trolled the cold storage plants and who
would not put the new meats upon the
market until after the cold storage
meats and poultry had been disposed of
at their own price.
An investigation led to the disclosure
of number of startling things in con-
nection with the packer and cold stor-
age combine, in one instance it being
shown that meat held in cold storage
for seven years was still held for sale.
The Hawaiian gazette., 1910-03-01

be at Washington are turning over in
their minds the advisability of extend
ing the drydock to a suitable length to
take in dreadnoughts and superdread-
noughts.
General Manager Dillingham; feels
certain that congress will authorize
the 20foot dock and that the secretary
of the navy's recommendations will be
endorsed fully.
Mr.. Dillingham; also feels that Pres.
ident Taft's recent statements with re-
gard to the necessity for making Pearl
Harbor the material base for all opera.
tions in the Pacific, will receive ample
| endorsement by congress, SO that there
will be little difficulty in securing ap'
propriations TO push the work to com
pletion.
As to the dredging of the channel
and harbor that is going ahead satis-
factorily. There is an emergency ap'
preparation of 100000 for dredging,
in addition To the million dollar con.
tract ON which the company based its
| first dredging operations. Some Of the
most important dredging has yet 10 be
done, however. These operations will
be eentered on sections 10, IL, ~ and
10. This involves the cutting oil Of
Maipio point aud the removal of 4
vast amount Of coral from small
island about opposite the drydoek en-
trance, This material may be dumped
into q small bay on the eastern side oi
the haIboL permitting the Oahu Ran
roud and lri Company to change u
route across the newmade land. u.
} so doing tho company viii cut out
curve ana sryeral Nindllsls ehle
take the form of giant hofseshne
The neAl appropriation from eop
B Rfra Wlll De- ai30uhn0 for dfedg|n
= opffaii0ns ln ihe channel aud hafbal
The Hawaiian gazette., 1910-03-01
WANTED SOMETHING
WITH FIRST BREATH

Although no one at Quarantine Is
land can speak his language, it is not
the lack of an interpreter which both
cred the immigration and quarantine
officials yesterday in the case of the
newest arrival in the Territory. This
is baby, who, being born yesterday,
demanded something Immediately. The
question of wages, the prvations of
quarantine and the absence of black
rye bread was no pilikia, so far as the
newcomer was concerned, but he yell
ed himself black in the face neverthe-
less. His nurse knew what he wanted,
but she could not tell the doctors.
Finally it was discovered that what
the baby and the baby's mother want
ed was to have it christened and to
have it done right away, before any
thing happened that might happenin this
far country, where no one could even
talk Slav. AS is the case every time
when what is wanted can be found out
the difficulty was settled as soon as a
telephone message could be phoned to
Bishop Libert and priest be ferried
across to the detention camp.
The baby is the first citizen among
the newcomers.