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The Donaldsonville chief. [volume] (Donaldsonville, La.) 1871-current, 1911-01-21
MUCH SKILL OF HOME-MAKER
AS Much Science Required as in Any
Profession to Take Advantage of
Many Chances Offered.
Ry PROF.. G. i. puNroN.


The work of home making is becom-
Ing more and more complicated.
Transportation has developed so the
housewife has now the foods from all
over the world brought to her door, as
well as its fabrics. To be able te
choose her food wisely and economi-
cally from such a variety and to pre-
pare them in the best way is no sim
pie natter likewise to buy cloth from
such variety and to make 1t into gar
ments in these days of endless styles
is an accomplishment.
When the farm and garden supplied
the table and the cloth came from the
hand loom, housekeeping could be
learned at home. But at the present
time with the ever widening variety
of foods, Of fabrics, of utensils, Of APP
planes, and ever increasing fund of
knowledge as to food values, as to
nutrition, as to sanitation, as to nurs-
ing and care of children, as to con-
veniences and appliances for the.
home; the home maker to make the
most of her home can make use Of as
wide range Of skill and information
as any profession requires. Today
three million people are sick who
should not be sick and half million
die every year who should not die SO
soon. Our home makers, If trained in
the knowledge now available, can pre-
vent much Of this as well as an almost
endless amount of waste in foods, in
clothes, and in misery and suffering.
The home is the most vital thing in
our rapidly developing country. And
we all come from homes and live in
homes. Why not have them the best?
The Donaldsonville chief. [volume] (Donaldsonville, La.) 1871-current, 1911-01-21
DRAMA MADE TO ORDER

A startling scene was witnessed the
other day by a crowd at the bathing
pond at Whips Cross in Epping For
est, Eng. A nurse who was carrying
a baby was stopped by a lady, who
appeared to lay claim to the child. A
fierce alteration which ensued was
suddenly ended by the nurse taking
the baby In her arms and leaping into
the deepest part Of the pond The
other woman screamed and ran away,
pursued by a policeman, who brought
her back in custody Meanwhile by
stander had courageously jumped into
the water and rescued the nurse; and
a fine bulldog, which suddenly ap-
peared from nowhere In particular,
saved the baby. BY a strange coin
cidence a cinematograph man was on
the spot and secured film Of the en-
tire incident-after which the drenched
actors, including the property baby, all
went home in a cab.
The Donaldsonville chief. [volume] (Donaldsonville, La.) 1871-current, 1911-01-21
CALAIS AND ITS LIGHTHOUSE

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Calais is rather an untidy place for
a French town. The Place d'Armes.
where the tower of the Hotel de Vile
has remained since the fifteenth cen
fury, is the center spot. Here Calais
meets its friends and has its cafe nofr
In. the square, towering out of the
roofs of surrounding houses and
dWarfing them, is the old watch tower.
Since 184s it has been superseded as
a lighthouse by the magnificent one
at present in use. Never shall for
get the effect Of this lighthouse as I
stood under it that night The reyoly-
ing spokes of light cast away into
.f1lmy space in all directions looked
like the ribs of huge umbrella being
turned by the white handle, which was
the lighthouse tower. So tall is this
that its revolving light can be seen
from a distance of twenty miles at
sea.-Wide World Magazine
The Donaldsonville chief. [volume] (Donaldsonville, La.) 1871-current, 1911-01-21
MADE HIS APOLOGY AMPLE.
Irish Legislator Even Withdrew the
Words The He Was About
TO Utter.

There is in congress a western rep
resentatiVe of Celtic origin who has
more than once stirred up the ami
mails. by his propensity to bait the
opposition.
On one occasion he rose to de
nounce the statements made in 8
speech that had been delivered by a
member Of the other party. His i'm.
petuosity led him to phrase his re-
marks rather strongly.
Order. order!' exclaimed the
speaker, pounding with his gavel.
Again, in a minute or two, did the
son Of Erin return to his charge Of
Wilful misstatement. Again was he
called to order
1t was critical moment. His col
leagues, for motives Of policy, did not
wish him to be put out Of the debate,
#ous1y at his coat tails.
Now, it's a very dangerous matter
to trife with the tails of an Irishman' S
coat, save in the cause of friendship.
Nevertheless, the Indignant yet good
natured member recognized the COM
mand Of his party and sat doWn after
delivering this Parthian dart:
Il obey the ruling of the house, and
I beg to retract what j was about to
observer
That one touch of Irish oratory took
the whole house by storm -Lippin-
colts.
The Donaldsonville chief. [volume] (Donaldsonville, La.) 1871-current, 1911-01-21
ADDS TO FARMERS PROFITS
Spirit OF Cooperation and Mutual
HeIpfuIness Beginning to Mani
fest Itself Among Truckers.

One Of the most promising tenden
cies Of the day is the spirit Of coop
Grafton and mutual helpfulness which
Is beginning to manifest itself among
the producers of truck crops, says the
1909 report of the secretary of agricuL
ture. The successful organization and
working Of cooperative marketing
companies or exchanges by farmers
have proved the possibility as well as
the desirability of a system of market
ing which shall have headquarters at
the point Of production Products can
be distributed more economically and
more satisfactorily to the consumer
from the point of production than from
a city distributing center. The work
of one Of these cooperative organizar
lions has come under the notice of the
department during the past year. OF
an aggregate business of 81, 100000,
this organization was able to handle
80 per cent. of its work from central
office in the growing district on a f.
o. b. shipping point basis. The prices
received were equal to New York and
Philadelphia prices in all cases. The
net results Of these operations were
the elimination Of losses which inevi-
tably result from consignment, practi-
cally cash transactions for all sales,
and the saving Of transp ortation from
the field to the center Of distribution
in one Of the large cities. which in,
this case added $150,000 to the farm
ers profits on the years business.
The Donaldsonville chief. [volume] (Donaldsonville, La.) 1871-current, 1911-01-21
An Exc;tinn TOWN

Los Angeles is a truly exciting town
to live il. To say nothing of It's
heavenly climate and its bombs, there
Is always something stimulating IN
the occult line going on. Just the
other day a widow Of the angelic city
began to long for a sight of one Of
her schoolmates whom she had not
seen for As years. The longing brought
It's fulfillment. A spirit told her to
look for him in Brooklyn She obeyed,
met him on the street a few hours
after she arrived, and promptly mar
ried him. It is worth while to live
Ia u city where things like this hap
pen, even at the risk Of being blown
up now and then
The Donaldsonville chief. [volume] (Donaldsonville, La.) 1871-current, 1911-01-21
MYSTERY or WoNAN's HAIR /

The British Medical Journal quotes
an interesting account by Mr. Frances
Trollope of a hair market ID Brit
tany. He states that in various parts
Of the motley crowd there were three
or four different purchasers of this
commodity, who travel the country for
the purpose of attending the fairs and
buying the tresses of the peasant
girls.
They have particularly fine hair,
and frequently in the greatest album
dance. There seemed to be no diff.
Guilty in finding possessors of beauti-
full heads Of hair perfectly willing to
sell. We saw several girls sheared
one after the other, like sheep, and
as many more standing ready for the
shears, with their caps in their hands
and their long hair combed out and
hanging down to their waists. No
doubt the reason of the Indifference to
their tresses on the part of the fair
Bretonnes to be found In the inyari-
able mode which covers every head
from childhood upward with close
caps, which entirely prevents any part
Of the hair from being seen, and, Of
course, as totally concea1s the want
Of 1T. The money given for the hair
is about 90 sous, or else a gaudy cot
ton handkerchief-they net immense
profits by their trip through the coun-
try"
The Donaldsonville chief. [volume] (Donaldsonville, La.) 1871-current, 1911-01-21
COFFIN FOR A PET MONKEY

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The wife of Cardiff (Wales) sea
faring man has had coffin made for
her pet Java monkey, which died a
lew years ago. 1t bears a plate beau
TRULY engraved as follows: IN mem
DRY OF my dear Jenny, who died Sep
TEMPER, 1910 Mrs. Mitchell, the lady
referred to. has had the monkey ten
years; it was brought home from the
tropics by her husband. An elabor-
altely printed mourning card was pro-
duced by Mrs. Mitchell recording the
death OF the monkey, as if it had been
a child. She was really as fond of it
as II it had been human. The monkey
was duly inferred, with all honors. in
garden, and before the funeral it lay
In It's coffin on couch in the front
room, with the blinds down.
The Donaldsonville chief. [volume] (Donaldsonville, La.) 1871-current, 1911-01-21

Work without heart in 1t will wear
out the best Of us In time.
Clothes do not make the gentleman
but clean ones increase a mans self
respect.
Learn the difference between spend.
ing money and investing it. Try and
invest some.
Cheer guarantees confidence. Conf,
dence insures success, and men who
succeed are cheerful beings.
Good intentions are said to make ex-
cellent pavements, but they do little
towards making roads to market.
With only a little money to invest,
you can get only few things, there
fore be sure and get the things you
most need and desire.
The first step for southern people,
especially farmers, Is to learn to keep
their money at home and learn conf
dence in themselves.
We must not forget that once we
were boys Just like our own young
sters with hope and ambition and love
OF amusement and wanting to know
things.
The boy who is taught by kindness
and sympathy to love the farm and
to regard it as the only home worth
having will never be a clerk in the
city.
It pays big dividends to be honest.
Life is too short to cheat our neigh
bors; our neighbor may forgive US, but
our minds will be forever punished by.
neyer-forgotten thought of the
wrong done.
Between oyerworking the hired man
and being too easy with him there is
the celebrated golden mean no
doubt, but it takes the right kind of
an employer and the right kind Of a
hired man to work it out properly and
we very rarely find this combination.
The Donaldsonville chief. [volume] (Donaldsonville, La.) 1871-current, 1911-01-21
SUPPER TABLE OF DEATH

a somewhat CHASTITY occurrence is
reported from township in West
Prussia where an alderman, Herr
Arndt, asphyxiated himself and family,
because he was suspected of misap-
propriating some philanthropic funds
70 ms care. The affair seems to have
peen mutually agreed upon, for the
family OF suicides, consisting of the
alderman and his wife, his adult son
and daughter, was discovered by a
servant girl early in the morning,
sitting around the supper table as if
asleep. After the meal they had
turned on the gas and calmly awaited
their. end. The father and daughter
were dead; and the wife and son
We're removed in a critical state to a
hospital
The Donaldsonville chief. [volume] (Donaldsonville, La.) 1871-current, 1911-01-21
RAILWAY CAR FOR SHOOTING

The, novel type of railway vehicle
seen here has recently been built in
England for his Eighnes the Rao of
Clutch, in India, and is really a railway
locomotive and coach combined in
tended for use as a shooting car The
engines consist Of four-cylinder gaso-
line motor, while three speeds in either
direction are provided for. The body
Of the car lis divided into three COM
partments with two end platforms for
5the driver when travelling in either di-
rection. The central section comprises
the engine room and an upper COM
uartment for the carriage of guns and
stores.
The Donaldsonville chief. [volume] (Donaldsonville, La.) 1871-current, 1911-01-21
BOIL WEEvIL CAUSES STIR
People Of Louisiana Awaken to Fact
They Have an Agricultural
country-Raising Grain.

Governor Sanders of Louisiana paid
eloquent tribute to the Mexican cotton
pest in recent Chicago address. Be
fore the advent of the boil weevil in
Louisiana, a few years ago. said Gov
ernor Sanders, we raised cotton so
cheaply that while we clothed the ma
ked we ourselves were hungry. This
condition maintained until the boil
Reevil taught the people Of our state
more than anything else could.
1t taught US the lesson that we had
an agricultural country; that we could
raise grain every month of the year.
As a result Of this lesson on January
1, 1910, we awoke to the fact that we
had more money on deposit in our
banks than ever before in the history
of the. state.
Last year Louisiana for the first
time shipped millions Of bushels of
corn that graded No. I. We have be-
come great corn producing state; we
have become a great truck producing
state Louisiana has a conjunction of
climate and soil that enables us to
harvest crop every month of the
year.
Cotton is a thing Of the past. We
used to raise from a million to mil
hon and a half bales of cotton. Now
we raise between 100000 and 25o.ooo
bales, and we just raise that to let the
rest Of the country know that there
isn't anything that we can't raise il
Louisiana"
The Donaldsonville chief. [volume] (Donaldsonville, La.) 1871-current, 1911-01-21

Among the most extraordinary head.
dresses to be found in the continent Of
Africa are those worn by the women of
the oasis Of Agram Their hair,
though very kinky, is plentiful and is
carefully arranged in coiffures that ex-
cite the wonder of the traveller. Some
of these, like the one illustrated, have
much the effect. OF a Roman helmet.
The women Of Agram are as proud of
their coiffures as are their sisters of
the civilized world of the almost equal
ly remarkable ones they wear.
The Donaldsonville chief. [volume] (Donaldsonville, La.) 1871-current, 1911-01-21
MAN BADLY TORN BY DoGFIsH

Fred H. Malloy Of New York is I'm.
der treatment at Bangor, Me-, for Sc,
we're lacerated wounds received in an
attack by "a dogfsh. Ma1loy and John
Wallace, also Of New York, had been
cruising in their motor boat along the
Maine coast. Diving off the boat while
two miles off Islesboro, Malloy was
surrounded by dogish. His cries at.
tracted Wallace, who put after him,
and brought him ashore, bleeding bad.
ly and nearly exhausted from his bat.
tie.
The Donaldsonville chief. [volume] (Donaldsonville, La.) 1871-current, 1911-01-21
EVERY FARMER A UNION MAN
Many Benefits Organization Has Ac,
eomplis1ed in Past and Bright
Prospects in Future.

think that every farmer ought to
|. pc true blue union man and long
/ TO see the time when every farmer
/ Will be q member of our union.
nave heard some men say that when
the union had done any good that they
would join II they would go to read.
ing and studying more they could see
that the union has already accom-
pllshed a great deal. | will give few
figures to show what the union has
done since Newt Gresham met and
organized the first local in Raines
county, Texas, which has been nearly
eight years ago, writes D. S. Claninger
OF Marmaduke, Ark, in the Co-opera-
tor.
We will take the south's greatest
crop, which is cotton. We have gotSon
an average of $4,000 per bale for the.
past eight years and for the eight
years before that we got on an aver
age OF $36.67, which makes a differ
ence OF 1888 per bale since the union
mas been organized, and during this
time we have marketed about S. 000,-
600 bales and at $13.33 would make an
increase of $1,1s3,050, 900, and think
Tat this is enough to prove to any
man that the union has accomplished
"a great deal, and it has also raised the
price of other products that we have
to sell and it has already been worth
to the farmers of the south many times
what it has cost u.s. The union has
taught the farmers to use economy
and diversity their crops and raise a
living at home instead of sending to
the north and other countries after it.
1t has also taught us scientific farm
ing, to study our soil and plant the
crops best adapted and to prepare our
lands better before planting.
The legislature of Arkansas has
given US four agricultural schools, and
now, brethren, what are these schools
for? Are they to teach us to be law
yers, doctors, merchants, bankers,
spectators and gamblers? No, they
are not for that purpose at all, but
just the reverse, to teach us how to
be farmers and study the soil more
and to raise more to the acre. AS we
asked for those schools, just SO we
must patronize them. I was glad to
read in your paper that the Texas
union had voted to stay with the
union. We are just now getting into
shape to accomplish anything that we
set out for, so, brothers, let's all shoul-
der our obligation and ever keep it
in mind and live up to it, and when
ever our union passes anything let's
stay with II, and, brethren, this is what
we have got to do.
Now, if we were to go on for the
next thirty years as we have been
for the past thirty, what condition
would our lands be in and what would |
be here for. the rising generation?
The time has come when we must go
on improving our lands and we must
improve them by planting crops that
will draw nitrogen from the air and
enrich our lands. So, brethren, let's
all attend every meeting that we pos
sibly can and when it becomes our
duty to do anything get up and do it /
and falter not, and the victory will |
sure be ours.
The Donaldsonville chief. [volume] (Donaldsonville, La.) 1871-current, 1911-01-21
~ Touch OF Family life.

When the country youth proposed
to the city girl, he received the con.
ventional assurance that she would be
his sister. It happened that this youth
had sisters at home and knew exactly
his privileges. So he kissed her. AT
this juncture she awaited herself Of
the sisterly right to call out to father
chat brother was teasing her Father
responded in good. muscular earnest
Then the new brother-and- sister rela-
ton was dissolved by mutual consent.
Judge.
The Donaldsonville chief. [volume] (Donaldsonville, La.) 1871-current, 1911-01-21
Protecting Against Sun scald.

The protection given to guard
against sun scald will perform dual
purpose of guarding against rabbits
or in case this has not been done, as
in the case Of forest trees, where the
number of trees is so large that it is
not convenient to tie up each tree,
then it is well to remember that the
rabbit has a sensitive nose and can
be kept away by applying with swab
a combination Of blood, soap and to
bacco.
The Donaldsonville chief. [volume] (Donaldsonville, La.) 1871-current, 1911-01-21
AN EXTRAORDINARY ACCIDENT

This story is from Winsted, Conn.
The man responsible for the tale is d
farmer named Albert Koeg1e. He says
that one Of his hogs escaped from the
pen, and, while roofing around, swal-
lowed a stick Of dynamite, left by a
state road worker. Soon the hog went
nosing around thes heels of a mule.
The mule kicked and the dynamite
exploded. So did the hog. The re-
mains have been pronounced an I'M
usually fine quality Of sausage meat.
The Donaldsonville chief. [volume] (Donaldsonville, La.) 1871-current, 1911-01-21
TURTLE CHEWs A SWIMMER

:Iohn Moscavige, fifteen years old.
while swimming in Kohinoor colliery
reservoir, near Shenandoah, Pa, was
attacked and bitten by large snap
,,ins turtle. which took q piece Of flesh
the size of silver dollar out of his
,ast arm. The boy went into Mysteries
and collapsed, thinking he was bitten
- water snake. He was revived and
bis wound cauterized. Companions saw
the turtle escaping.
The Donaldsonville chief. [volume] (Donaldsonville, La.) 1871-current, 1911-01-21
Not Even Mother.

Little Bob was much distressed be-
cause the birthdays Of his sister Ade-
Iaide and his baby brother were going
to arrive before his did.
All the burfdays before mine = he
mourned. Couldn't You make mine
come first, muYVer %.
No" interposed Adelaide, decisive
", nobody can change your birth
day-not even mother!,'
The Donaldsonville chief. [volume] (Donaldsonville, La.) 1871-current, 1911-01-21
REALISM ON THE STAGE

the other week while horse racing
,,,av called THE Whip was being per.
forned at stratford, England. one Of
the horses kicked an actor into the
arch estra. The wires Of the footlights
were injured and fused, and panic
was narrowly averted.
The Donaldsonville chief. [volume] (Donaldsonville, La.) 1871-current, 1911-01-21
Fruit Raising.

. II your neighbours fruit Is better
than your own don't be. too proud to
discuss il with him and find out why,
il possible. Then strive 70 raise better
fruit.
The Donaldsonville chief. [volume] (Donaldsonville, La.) 1871-current, 1911-01-21
His Speciality.

7 hear that author friend of yours
Is making a fine living by his pen"
Yes. He's stopped writing and
gone to raising pigs"
The Donaldsonville chief. [volume] (Donaldsonville, La.) 1871-current, 1911-01-21

The Number.
= hear your new auto made a good
record on its trip
Yes; ran over in about an hour"
.How many ?r
The Donaldsonville chief. [volume] (Donaldsonville, La.) 1871-current, 1911-01-21

Winans
especial
OF masters
OF England " 80
The Richmond Virginian. (Richmond, Va.) 1910-1920, 1911-06-24
ne.tsajriup sfiItiopaires,

There is weeping and wailing and crashing
of teeth among despairing miliiouarres and trust
maenates 1t Is not for themselves they grleVe,
but for the poor country and the feeble minded
Supreme Court Concerning their state OF mind
the New York Evening Post says;
If it were for the coronation, It is difi-
cult to think what ruined and discouraged
speeulators would do to take their minds on
OF the ravages made by the Supreme Court g
trust decisions. AS James A. Patten lamented
yesterday just before he sought the shelter of
the Mauretania: There is no business to-day.
The people are buying nothing but necessities
No one Is investing" And the cause of this
dreadful condition? prosecution OF the trusts
has brought this condition about II man
does we'll in business, the government prose-
cutes him IF fellow makes more than two
dollars a day, the muck rakera get after him.
don't know when where II Will all end"
Between the government and the muck rakers
It IL enough to make one Sigh for the good old
DAYS of Croesus. Bu. all il not yet lost. After
the coronation comes the nurbar, with its
brave attempt at spending money FOR some
thing besides necessities. Surely, sight of
the gaily decorated elephants the train of off,
Gals CARRIED in Oriental magniheence and the
costly thrones for the Emperor and the En-
press WIN be enough TO send our despairing
mllionaires back TO us In better humor, per-
haps even ready for a try at another corner"
l-Nirgjniau- Pilot.