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The Donaldsonville chief. [volume] (Donaldsonville, La.) 1871-current, 1911-05-27
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ovarcI,arae Small Matter, buf s,is'I
toner Did Hate 70 See eaooa
MaterfaI Hurt.

Every nail-keg In the store iiau -
.ncnrnant. the checker-bo was Wof Sc.
ing overtime, and nittens anu = -
f1ers were stuffed in bulgy pocR elss g
their owners drew closer 4rouIla LIZ
big, rusty stove. 8.
The door opened noisily letting g s.
hast Of the storm raging outside, anu
in its wake followed Rufe B 4e7s' =
giant wood-chopper, whose goou 70
ture and ready wit made him WEI
come addition to the store circle
The loafers Moved little closer 70
gether to make room for HuIe " 4
soap-box. but he marched past Ihe
friendly circle. pumped an empty 8
molasses-keg down on the counter
and drew stained bill from MS
pocket, which he held out to the pro
prietor of the store.
+ An expectant grin went round Ine
Circle for storekeeper Jones nad @the#
reputation of never Wronging niInseil#
by overWeighing or underchEtaa mar Fl
The merchant adjusted his glasses.
and looked expectantly from the Dill o
to the Wood-chopper.
Notice you charged me for five gal
Ions O molasses last time had TINS
four-gallon keg filled" sdraWled. Rufe-#
It don't mind payin' for the extra gal
Ion, Mr.. Jones, but / do kinder hate
to have a good key strained TO pieces.
Youths Companion,
The Donaldsonville chief. [volume] (Donaldsonville, La.) 1871-current, 1911-05-27
CUPID BUSY AT BRYN MAWR
Girls Deny New York cIergyman's AS.
sertion They Are "Puffed Up'-
Forty Per Cent. Marry.

Philadelphia.-Th New York clergy
man who recently declared that only
an infinitesimal percentage OF the
graduates of the big women's colleges
were able to find husbands is refuted
by the statistics issued by Bryn Mawr
college, it is asserted here.
Figures In the annual register of
?lumnae and former students show
that 2s.4 per cent of the entire grad
uate body, numbering 2,724, have mar
ried, while Of three classes graduating
since 1889 more than so per cent are
married, and of seven other classes,
also since 1889, nearly 40 per cent.
have been welded, a general average
Of about 40 per cent.
The New York clergyman declared
that graduates Of women's colleges
were incompetent in the domestic
arts, pulled up with little super
fetal knowledge and entirely too ex-
pensive luxury for the average man
to undertake to support" This asser-
ton the Bryn Mawr girls Indignantly
deny and point to the statistics to
bear them out.
The Donaldsonville chief. [volume] (Donaldsonville, La.) 1871-current, 1911-05-27
MEDITERRANEAN PLANT WINS
Flower Expert Refuses to chanas
Name of Species at Request OF
Boston Equal suffragIsts.

Boston.-Ch Chester I. Campbell, super.
intendent in charge of the national
flower show. was besieged by mem.
bers of the Equal Suffrage association
and asked to have the ordinary or gar,
den name removed from the adefen.
hochia plant
The common name for this remark.
able plant is "the mother-in-law plant
1t is SO called because, 1t IS said, II
one were to chew up one of the leaves
all power of speech would be de
stroyed for at least month.
William Robertson Smith, superin.
tendent of the United States botanical
gardens at Washington, is authority
for this statement He said that the
one small plant on exhibition contained
enough poison to kill a bufralo, If he
ate 1t. in ten minutes. Ths name
tmother-in-laW plant will not be re
moved
The Donaldsonville chief. [volume] (Donaldsonville, La.) 1871-current, 1911-05-27
COURTESY TO BOYS MOTHER
Parent Should Be Treated as His Most
Valuable Observation-Disclosures
Also to Sister.

Many boy fails to rise from his
chair when his mother enters the room,
while he would get up at once if a
stranger entered, and one would sup
pose that his mother, who is more to
him than all the rest of the women
kind put together, should, to say the
least, have from him the same marks
Of courtesy as strangers. In fact, you
can tell boys character pretty &C
curately by the way in which he treats
his mother, for as mother has prob
ably done and will do more for her son
than any other woman perhaps
one exception ever do. he ought,
in return, to treat her as his most val
liable possession. His courtesy, his
chiyalrous and knightIy bearing toward
her, are never thrown away.
She sees it all and thinks more OF It
than does any one else, and he need
never fear that his thoughtfulness is
thrown away. Perhaps, occasionally,
such conduct may to certain ex lent,
go unnoticed by some other W>men,
but by his mother, never.
In the same way ones conduct to
ones sister is a test OF good breeding.
Sisters are not mothers. by any means;
but still they demand courtesy from
their brothers. Perhaps sister can
be pretty hard to get on with at times,
but nevertheless she Is woman, and
she can do certain things without any
fear of retaliation, because the nobility
of the man in the boy Is bound to re-
spect the woman In his sister.
Let her tease and tantaIize, but re.
member the best way to cure her is to
treat her so like lady who could
never descend to such methods that
she will soon be forced to stop, in or
der to live up to the character you
have given her. Mothers come first,
therefore, over all the world, and sis
tiers next. Treat them as carefully as
you do anything else In your life, and
with even more care. and then we can
discuss the rest Of Womankind. -Har.
per's Round Table
The Donaldsonville chief. [volume] (Donaldsonville, La.) 1871-current, 1911-05-27
Chemical Prints In Darkness

Here is the way to take a picture in
the dark: Draw a picture on a piece
of paper, using sulphate of qutnine in
making the outlines. Expose the paper
to the sun for few minutes: then
place the paper face down on a piece
of sensitive paper, like that used by
photographers, and place the two
sheets between the leaves OF d book. If
the sheets are removed from the book
a few hours later you viii find that an
exact reproduction Of the drawing will
have been impressed on the sensitive
paper. Designs of any sort can be
copied in this way, or you may trace
over printed picture or design with
sulphate of quinine and by the same
process produce a faithful copy of the
print Try It.
The Donaldsonville chief. [volume] (Donaldsonville, La.) 1871-current, 1911-05-27
A Household.

shown in the second cut. II one can
buy an old f1at-bottomed scow, well
and good. # not, he Will doubtless be
able to hire one for a couple of weeks,
and on this he can erect a tent, nail
ing and bracing the frame to the deck.
A cloth awning can be put up over
the unoccupied part of the deck, as in
d1cated by the dotted lines, when the
tmprovised houseboat, or rather, tent
boat, will be complete. It may not be
very handsome, but lots of comfort
and very jolly time can be had, and
all at small expense.
Such boat can be moved from
point to point by towing with a row
The Donaldsonville chief. [volume] (Donaldsonville, La.) 1871-current, 1911-05-27
FARM LANDS

In 1910 the value of the farm land
alone constituted SO per cent. of the
total value of land and buildings, as
compared with SO per cent. in 1900.
The reported, value of farm imple-
ments and machinery was s48,244,000
in 1910, as against s29, 491 900 in 1900,
gain of s1s.753,o 900, or "a per cent.
The total acreage reported in 1910
was 1921 900 acres, as compared
with 41,663 900 in 1900, an increase of
100000 acres, or per cent.
The improved acreage was returned
in 1910 as amounting to 1858, 900
acres, as against 25,041, 900 in 1900, an
increase of 4,S17,0OO acres, or 10 per
cent
The improved acreage formed 60
per cent. of the total acreage in 1910
and so per cent. in 1900.
The average acres per farm report
ed in 1910 were 244, as against 241
In 1900, an increase of three acres, or
per cent.
The average value per acre of farm
land and buildings in 1910 is stated
as S4007, as against $15.45 in 1900,
rise of $24,62, or 159 per cent.
The average value per acre of farm
land alone in 1910, was reported as
$35.47, while In 1900 it was $12.77, the
amount Of gain being s22.7o, or 17s
per cent.
OF the whole number, 1929, of
farms reported in 1910. there were
1858, or 80 per cent, opera
ted by white farmers and 1881, or
per cent, by negro and other non
white farmers, as compared with a
The Donaldsonville chief. [volume] (Donaldsonville, La.) 1871-current, 1911-05-27

CHILDREN
~ a II -
@-N s. re -
HoUsEBoAT is INEXPENSIVE
Whole Family May Be Given Cruise
Of Couple Weeks in Summer
Around Some Lake or River.

But few people can afford the house
boats one sees illustrated in the maya
zines, yet many would greatly like the
chance to take the whole family and
spend couple of weeks, or more,
cruising about some lake or river. &
houseboat is figured in the accompany
ing illustration that is comparatively
inexpensive, and still large enough and
convenient enough to make a family
outing very pleasant In many places
a fat-bottomed "scoW" can be found,
hauled up on shore in idleness, which
can be purchased for trifing sum- A
plain little house and awning can be
built upon this, of a single thickness
of sheathing, similar to that shown in
the illustration, writes Dwight Wood
bridge in the Hearthstone This little
house has two rooms, one for a cook
ing room and one for living" room,
which can also be used for a sleeping
room at night, though the men folks
will very likely make their beds out
on deck under the awning
A more inexpensive plan still is
The Donaldsonville chief. [volume] (Donaldsonville, La.) 1871-current, 1911-05-27
BANTAM BEsTs HAWK IN DUEL
Comes VaiantIy to Defense of Sweet
heart Hen Like Feathered Knight
Gives Crow of Victory.

Middleton, N. "a mite of ban
tam rooster, which flew to the defense
of his favorite hen, attacked by large
hawk, won out in a great battle at
Twin Lake. l.. B. Watson heard some
excited cackling In the bushes near
his home and found the little hen ~
ing crushed and bleeding on the ground
while the rooster was sinking his
spurs into an unusually large hawk in
a battle that made feathers fly. Wat
son went to the house for his gun and
on his return saw the hawk flying
away with difficulty The bantam set
tied back and gave the crow of victory.
The Donaldsonville chief. [volume] (Donaldsonville, La.) 1871-current, 1911-05-27
a Tent Boat.

boat, or a little mast and sail can be
erected that will prove serviceable. A
very small sail will move even large
boat ovsr the quiet waters of a lake,
and on summer outing rapidity of
movement Is not called for.
The cuts are offered as suggestions
merely. II these plans are still too
expensive for anyone, or out Of reach
because no fat-bottomed scow Is at
hand, there is still another plan.
Make a pontoon by flooring over a
little raft Of logs. making the floor
1cra- reA.;sa, M y,
The Donaldsonville chief. [volume] (Donaldsonville, La.) 1871-current, 1911-05-27
~crl. .s--ss.1.:s .s,.eat -.
-ss''r = Is4sis..s 's'stht.e ! :
Pontoon Scow.

sufficiently elevated and level by the
plan shown in the third cut, and on
this pontoon erect a tent. Inexpensive
pleasures are best, after all, and very
likely as much pleasure viii be had
upon pontoon houseboat as the mil
lionaire experiences upon his palatial
craft
The Donaldsonville chief. [volume] (Donaldsonville, La.) 1871-current, 1911-05-27

A health lecturer advises people
rtl1o wish to live long to eat sauer-
kraut, as 1t contains the longevity
germ. But perhaps the desire to live
long might be somewhat checked by
a steady diet Of sauerkraut.
The Donaldsonville chief. [volume] (Donaldsonville, La.) 1871-current, 1911-05-27
a Joke on Father

JonnniePapa, you'll let me cut a
lock of your hair, won't you?
Father-Certainly, my boy. am de.
lighted to see that you have SO much
affection for your parents as tosask for
lock of hair by way Of remembrance.
JohnnieYou see, papa, my rocking
horse has lost It's TAIL and wanted tc
make it new one-The Continent
The Donaldsonville chief. [volume] (Donaldsonville, La.) 1871-current, 1911-05-27

Fighting duels by proxy Is the latest
pastime in Paris. Possibly the game
was invented by man with q sense
of huInor who feared that personal
participation In duel might cause
hfsn ID laugh himself TO death
The Donaldsonville chief. [volume] (Donaldsonville, La.) 1871-current, 1911-05-27

A church about to disband in New
York has a membership worth about
$3.50 ,o00, 000 The task of getting that
treasure laid up In heaven seeras to
be difficult one.
The Donaldsonville chief. [volume] (Donaldsonville, La.) 1871-current, 1911-05-27

A Pennsylvania Judge has decided
hat 1t is no part Of woman's house
hold work to milk COWS. But whers
was his consistency when he also de-
cided that she might collect the eggs
and feed the chickens?
The Donaldsonville chief. [volume] (Donaldsonville, La.) 1871-current, 1911-05-27

Daisy Cornucopia Pauline" Ia the
name OF the cow that has established
o new worlds record by producing
84% pounds OF butter In seven days.
The COW with the crumpled horn OF
plenty, as 1t were.
The Donaldsonville chief. [volume] (Donaldsonville, La.) 1871-current, 1911-05-27

total of It's, 09s in 1900, of which Ill.,
232, or 50 per cent, were conducted
by white farmers, and 1866, or 1 per
cent, by negro and other nonWhite.
The increase in the number of farms
of white farmers during the decade
amounted to 1886; and the decrease
in the number of farms of negro and
other nonwhite farmers to 1856.
The Donaldsonville chief. [volume] (Donaldsonville, La.) 1871-current, 1911-05-27

A transatlantic liner which recently
arrived in New York with big sargo
OF Paris finery would have filled dog
enes with surprise and delight, for
everybody on board was honest
The Donaldsonville chief. [volume] (Donaldsonville, La.) 1871-current, 1911-05-27

We move that the New Yorker
who is running an agency to dispose
Of titled foreigners to American heir
esses be thrown into jail for peddling
gold bricks.
The Donaldsonville chief. [volume] (Donaldsonville, La.) 1871-current, 1911-05-27

A Philadelphia public man thinks
1t seems to have more the tendency
TO upset 1t. as far as practical results
can be relied on for Judgment
The Donaldsonville chief. [volume] (Donaldsonville, La.) 1871-current, 1911-05-27
AMUSING TOY EASILY MADE
Fish Made Out Of Paper Will Swim In
Water II Little Machine Oil
is Applied.

Anyone can make paper fish that
will swim. First of all, draw on paper
the picture OF a fish, as shown below.
Then cut channel from the tail near
1y to the head (B), where a round
opening should be made {Al. Place
the fish in a tub or pail Of water side
down, and drop into the head of the
channel ca a few drops of sewing.
The Donaldsonville chief. [volume] (Donaldsonville, La.) 1871-current, 1911-05-27
{ a Paper Fish.

machine oil. At once the fish will be
gin to swim in the most remarkable
way, the motion being caused by the
spreading of the oil through the chan
mel lB). If the channel be slightly bent
#(C), the fish viii swim In circle
The Donaldsonville chief. [volume] (Donaldsonville, La.) 1871-current, 1911-05-27

New York authorities threaten to
place ban on "cuss words on the
stage. This will be a heavy blow to
the deep dyed vi1lyun. Can you i'm
agine respectable villyun muttering
fudge" or "fiddlesticks ?"
The Donaldsonville chief. [volume] (Donaldsonville, La.) 1871-current, 1911-05-27

One woman, unmarried, is of the
opinion that II women were allowed
to do the counting and proposing
there would be more happy marriages.
1t might be worth while to try it, any
way.
The Donaldsonville chief. [volume] (Donaldsonville, La.) 1871-current, 1911-05-27

Two dinosaur footprints won the
finders way through college, and he
has sold another pair for fancy
price. II it turns out that he has
struck the trail made by dinosaur
after hard night there will be new
millionaire in Colorado
The Donaldsonville chief. [volume] (Donaldsonville, La.) 1871-current, 1911-05-27
Father Was the Animal.

Teacher-John, OF what are your
shoes made
Boy--Of leather, sir.
Where docs the leather
come from?
Boy-From the hide of the OK
Teacher-What animal, then, sup
plies you with shoes and gives you
meat to eat?
Boy-My father
The Donaldsonville chief. [volume] (Donaldsonville, La.) 1871-current, 1911-05-27

were very painful. E
was so stiff | could
hardly move. Ms back
ached terribly. [ had
nervous and dizzy
spells, my limbs were
swollen and mornings
on arising. I felt weary
and depressed. I doc
The Donaldsonville chief. [volume] (Donaldsonville, La.) 1871-current, 1911-05-27

A new aviator whose name Is Mars
has dawned on the world. For once
O bfrdman has been found who has o.
name that fits his calling.
The Donaldsonville chief. [volume] (Donaldsonville, La.) 1871-current, 1911-05-27

A Chicago minister says that some
marriages are planned by Satan, and
we thought they were all made in
heaven.
The Donaldsonville chief. [volume] (Donaldsonville, La.) 1871-current, 1911-05-27

An aeroplane carried thirteen men
In flight in France the other day.
but the average citizen still prefers
10 cling to mother earth.
The Donaldsonville chief. [volume] (Donaldsonville, La.) 1871-current, 1911-05-27

Prof. Perrier. French astronomer.
tells us emphatically that there is no
life on Venus or Mars. When astrono-
mers disagree, etc.
The Donaldsonville chief. [volume] (Donaldsonville, La.) 1871-current, 1911-05-27

A Boston clergyman says women
have lost the art OF blushing, and this
may be why some are wearing the
hobble and some the harem skirt
The Donaldsonville chief. [volume] (Donaldsonville, La.) 1871-current, 1911-05-27

Wherever it has appeared the har-
en- skirt seems to have caused riot
It is going to be hard on the umfd to
be fashionable this spring.
The Donaldsonville chief. [volume] (Donaldsonville, La.) 1871-current, 1911-05-27

The harem skirt Is being taken sc"
dously in Rome. One father has com.
mitted suicide because his daughtera
wore them.
The Donaldsonville chief. [volume] (Donaldsonville, La.) 1871-current, 1911-05-27

Pride goeth before fall. When an
automobile tries to knock freight
train OF the track the pedestrian Is
tempted to chortle within his sleeve.
The Donaldsonville chief. [volume] (Donaldsonville, La.) 1871-current, 1911-05-27
$40 Cremations In England

London.-Eight hundred and forty
cremations took place In England last
year--a decline of fifteen from the to-
tai for 1909.
The Donaldsonville chief. [volume] (Donaldsonville, La.) 1871-current, 1911-05-27

The population Of India is $4,000,
900, an increase of 2O,500.O00 since
1901. No race suicide there.
The Donaldsonville chief. [volume] (Donaldsonville, La.) 1871-current, 1911-05-27

tored and tried numerous remedies
but steadily grew worse until almost
helpless. began to improve under
the use Of Doan's Kidney Pills and II
was only a short time before was
entirely WE'LL
Remember the name-Doan
For sale By all dealers. SO cents
box. Foster-Milburn Co., Buffalo, N. X.
The Donaldsonville chief. [volume] (Donaldsonville, La.) 1871-current, 1911-05-27

Sandow, the strong, man, is trying
to build King George up to his own
standard as against coronation week.
The Donaldsonville chief. [volume] (Donaldsonville, La.) 1871-current, 1911-05-27

1t was Queen Elizabeth who said q
lie Is an Intellectual method OF meet
Ing difficulty.
The Donaldsonville chief. [volume] (Donaldsonville, La.) 1871-current, 1911-05-27

Absolute independence consists,
says one writer, In eating onions and
DOT giving a-darn who knows 1t.
The Donaldsonville chief. [volume] (Donaldsonville, La.) 1871-current, 1911-05-27

says Chicago preacher Still. there
are lot of good men out Of prison.
The Donaldsonville chief. [volume] (Donaldsonville, La.) 1871-current, 1911-05-27

Men have more temptations than
women, because they know where. to-
look for them.
The Donaldsonville chief. [volume] (Donaldsonville, La.) 1871-current, 1911-05-27

You are not responsible for the dis
position you were born with, but you
are responsible for the one you die
With-Babcock
The Donaldsonville chief. [volume] (Donaldsonville, La.) 1871-current, 1911-05-27

The bungalow" hat Is the latest for
women. Can it be bought on the in
gtallment plan?
The Donaldsonville chief. [volume] (Donaldsonville, La.) 1871-current, 1911-05-27
SUFFERED TERRIBLY,
Kidney Trouble and Rheumatic Pains
Made Life Miserable.

M. R. Wilson, Humboldt, Nebr, says Il
II had kidney disease in a very agra
waited form. Kidney secretions con
tanned a dark sediment and passages
The Donaldsonville chief. [volume] (Donaldsonville, La.) 1871-current, 1911-05-27

1t wouldn't seem fair to tax bach.
elors and let the young widoWers es'
cape.
The Donaldsonville chief. [volume] (Donaldsonville, La.) 1871-current, 1911-05-27
Her Way.

Mrs. Woggsso you keep your hus
band home evenings suppose you
put his slippers where he can find
EN-?
Mrs. Boggs put his over
shoes where he can't.--Puck
The Donaldsonville chief. [volume] (Donaldsonville, La.) 1871-current, 1911-05-27

The price of Holsters has gone up.
but this is no excuse for being one.
The Donaldsonville chief. [volume] (Donaldsonville, La.) 1871-current, 1911-05-27

The trouser skirt is the only one
that needs police protection.
The Donaldsonville chief. [volume] (Donaldsonville, La.) 1871-current, 1911-05-27

And here comes the four-slit skirt.
The Hawaiian star. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu]) 1893-1912, 1911-12-08

LISBON, November 17.-It is re-
ported that two warships purchased
by the Royalists will leave a German
port under the Austrian flag for Por-
tugal to take part in a new attempt
to overthrow the republic. The yes
sells are said to be manned chiefly by
men from North America and Brazil
The Royalists state that this time
they will either succeed or perish in
the attempt to restore the monarchy.
In addition to small arms and artil-
lery they are supplied with dynamite
bombs
The press is agitated by reports
that the Franco-German accord in
Africa secretly provided that a part
of Angola, the Portuguese possessions
in Western Africa, which are bound
ed by the Belgian Congo, British Fam
besia, and German Southwest Africa
on the north, east and south, should
go to Germany. The papers demand
that Great Britain protect Portuguese
rights
The Hawaiian star. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu]) 1893-1912, 1911-12-08

SPRINGFIELD, Mass. November
25.-"Guilty OF murder in the first
degree" was the verdi pronounced
here at three o'clock this morning
against Bertram G. Spencer. After
being out for five hours, the jury con-
victed him of the death of Miss
Martha b. Blackstone, and he will be
sentenced in accordance with the law,
to death in the electric chair.
The courtroom was crowded when
the jury filed in for the first time, and
crowds were outside unable to gain
adrnittance. Neither Spencer's wife
nor mother was with him when the
verdict was brought in.
The murder of Miss Blackstone was
sensational in the extreme 1t came
as climax of a series of thrilling
robberies, to all of which Spencer
later confessed.
Miss Blackstone was visiting at the
home of Miss Harriet Dow, a friend,
on March 8, 1910. With Miss Dow
and two other women, she was sitting
in the drawing-room when masked