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The Donaldsonville chief., 1913-01-04
Still a Long Distance Away.

It will be unwelcome news to those
who have been pressing their claims
against the government for reimburse
ment for cotton eonfiscated in a war
fifty years ago, to know that another
long wait is yet ahead of them. The
house passed the bill defining the
character of evidence necessary to
establish a legal claim for reimburse
ment. The bill will yet have to run
the gauntlet of the senate and the
presidential approval. Should that
stage of the progress be passed sue
eessfuIly it will be necessary for the
claimant to establish his case before
the court of claims, and should he
succeed in doing that bill appro-
priating the money will have to pass
the house, the senate, and secure
the executive approval before the
funds with which to pay the claim
will be available. It will be hazardings
little to assert that no original claim
ant will live to collect his claim
Country Review.
The Donaldsonville chief., 1913-01-04
TWO THOUSAND STUDENTS,

We have just been informed that
the slogan of the Tyler Commercial
College of Tyler, Texas, for 1918 is
two thousand students. It's record
for 1912 SO far passed the fifteen
hundred mark, that it is now deter
mined to make record of two thou
sand enrollments In 1913.
Young people could not do better
than to spend from $50 to 500 for
board, tuition and books, completing
a course of shorthand, bookkeeping
or telegraphy in this famous institu-
ton. Or, better still, spend about
SITS for two Of these courses. What
young person can place a hundred or
two hundred dollars and three to five
months time to q better advantage
than to invest 1t In a thorough busi-
ness training that will bless the re-
naming years of business life? Young
people in this community, who few
years ago borrowed the money to at
tend this institution, are today out
OF debt and on the read to success
and determination to make an effort
as a result. of having the courage
to do something, to be somebody,
and add further proof to the old say
ing, Where there is will there is
a way There is plenty doing for
those who are prepared. BE amai-
tious. Be one Of the two thousand
to enter this famous Institution dur
ing 1913, that you may SO into a
good salaried position or into q busi-
ness of your own with some assur-
anee of success.
No institution could attain such a
wonderful enrolment and lead all
other American misunderstanding
schools, unless it merited 1t. It
costs no more to attend the best
school, with a nationwide reputation.
than 1t does the next best.
Write today for free catalog. They
will gladly send you one.
The Donaldsonville chief., 1913-01-04
lNT|-sALO0H CONVENTION.
Big Gathering OF Temperance Advo-
Gates Proposed for Coming Spring
Active Fight for Statewide
Prohibition to be Waued.

James A. Christian, superintendent
of the Louisiana Anti-Saloon League
has issued the following notice of
state convention to be held in ths
early spring in the interest of ths
work of that organization:
have Travelled pretty well ovel
this state and have talked 20 leaders
of all churches and parties, and fee
sure we are going to be able to gel
together so1idly Our cause insis
tentIy demands this, and / think the
friends will be heroic enough to put
the cause above all else. We have
not been able to muster into real
service more than sone in five hun
dred who are sentimentally and
theoretically on our side. BY the
phrase muster into service, I don t
mean enrolment as subscribers to
League work. ] mean that approx
mately 400 people out Of every 500
who are in favor OF no liquor in this
state are doing next to nothing, any
where, in any way, to advance the
cause. My hope is we will be able
to have a state convention in the
early spring with every part of the
state and every moral and social-wel-
fare organization represented. The
League has a program to submit to
the temperance people Of this state,
and it is a stiff, practical program.
Business men will not support any
other sort. There are men and
women in Louisiana who have the
money, and they are willing for us to
use some of it in this fight when
they are convinced We know the lay
of the land and nlean to do some
thing
Neither is it question OF doing
everything at once. The business peo-
pie of this state who support us are
well aware this victory will not come
right away. When they subscribe they
do not demand that we win in a week
and never ask them for another ceIt.
But they do want cIear-cut pro-
gram, a definite plan of action. They
expect us to show them a road that
looks like IL was & d PC some here
Ill aIs
imp bic It's zation and
plan Of advance are modelled upon
the best known rules OF business. It
is the finest fighting machine ever.
turned loose on the liquor traffic. It
has knocked EN- to pieces in many
quarters and scared 'em to death
everywhere. 1t can be made a bless
ing to this state II we care to do it.
And whether we care to stop or go
on in big way ought to be decided
at the spring convention.
Think it over, talk it over with
your neighbor, and watch for the
date and place.
JAMES A. CHRISTIAN,
Superintendent.
The Donaldsonville chief., 1913-01-04
PARCELS POST STAMP s.
New Series Attractive in Design and
coIorina-Picture Phases OF Mod
ern Industrial and Business Life.

/ Postmaster J. j.. Iafargue has re
ceiyed a large supply of stamps for
/ use in the parcels post service, which
was inaugurated Jan. /. The stamps
are obIong, similar IN shape to the
special delivery stamps now in use
and are very attractive in design and
coloring. They are in denominations
ranging from i cent to rs cents, and
are red in color.
The designs show various phases
| of our modern industrial and bust
ness life, and some denominations
are devoted to a pictorial exposition
of the wonderful postal service which
Uncle Sam has built up and which
enables the expeditions transaction of
the vast volume of business done by
the American people.
The 75-cent stamp bears the picture
OF harvesting machine, typlfying
the vast agricultural resources of the
country, the modern methods used to
till the soil and harvest the crops,
and presumably the great advantage
which the parcels post service will
bring particularly to the rural popu-
lation Of the nation.
| hO GV-CSiiI EDSdI lie plCGut e
of big manufacturing plant and
shows how. the wheels of industrial
activity revolye.
The .20-cent stamp bears the pictor-
lal representation of an aeroplane
carrying Uncle Sans mail
The 15-cent stamp shows the auto
mobile mail service.
The tWo-cent stamp bears a repre-
sentation of city carrier. and the
four-eent stamps shows a rural carrier.
The fiVe-cent stamps shows a fast
mail train. The ten-cent stamp shows
the steamship and mail tender, and
the one-cent stamp shows a clerk
distributing mail in a postoffice.
It will be noticed that ALI branches
of the great postal service of the
country are typified by the designs
Of the new issue of stamps to be
used in a service which will greatly
facilitate the handling of the eoun-
try's business.
No doubt the oIIiIae of the postal
bushes g.s1rs d
tic ss par6a1s post salssiee will be 50
much greater that large number of
extra clerks will have to be employed
in the postal serVice-in fact, il the
predictions of the officials of the
postoffice department are fulfilled,
the employees will have to be almost
doubled during the next year.
The Donaldsonville chief., 1913-01-04
Gaining in Popularity.


The people of Lake Charles adopt
ed the commission form of govern,
ment for that city by what could
be termed almost a unanimous vote,
as there were only fifty-six votes
against. The Lake Charles people
had studied the question from the
foundation up, and became firmly
convinced it was the move to make
that it was the modern way of a
city governing itself, and they acted
accordingly.
The commission form is daily gain
ing in popularity, and it will not be
long before every municipality Of
any note or standing will be work
ing under the excellent plan,-Alexan-
dria Town Talk.
The Donaldsonville chief., 1913-01-04

Remaining in tho postoffice at Don
aldsonvil1e for week ending Jan, 4:
Marselete Alexander, Azelie Bras
set, Worm Baker, James Barbour
Millie Brown, Luyerta Chil1is, Annie
Evans, Lydia Gaudin, Odile Gaudin.
Cammille Gonzales, Nancy Goodwin
silas Green (21, Roburtha Green
George Guess, NJ. Hampton, Sissy
Martin, N. NJ. Melancon, Francis
Richard, Rachel seoggins.a Mary
Schofie1d, Virginia Sims, Lucy Web,
ster l2), RoWena Winding, Hester
Williams, Victoria Williams, Chester
Williams, Rev. 3. d. Williams, John
II. Wooden, Bertha Zeno.
When calling for these letters say
advertised. II not called for in two
weeks they will be sent to the Dead
Letter office at Washington. D. c.
J. ]. LAFARGUE. Postmaster
The Donaldsonville chief., 1913-01-04
NUMBER %
PROGRESSIVE PREDICTIONS.
Pearl Wisht's Forecast OF the Polit-
ical Future In Louisiana and The
Nation.

The New Orleans Picayune last
Week printed the following interest
Ing reportorial account of an inter-
view with a foremost leader of the
Progressive party in this state:
On Jan. 2, when the new registrar
ton opens, our people will begin to
register as members Of the Progress
slve party asserted Hon. Pearl
Wight, national committeeman OF the
Bull Moose party in Louisiana. "We
VIII then carry ON a systematic cam
palgn to secure q full and complete
registration of our people. I believe
there will be 10000 Progressives reg
istered in New Orleans and 5000
In the state outside of this city, MAX
Ing a total of 5000 for Louisiana. .
incidentally Mr. Wight believes the
future of the Progressive party in
Louisiana may largely depend upon
what the Democrats do, now that
they are in power. If they revise
the tariff SO as to iniure or destroy
sugar, he believes the state will large
ly swing to the Progressive ideas.
From what have read OF Mr..
Wilson's life and his speeches during
the campaign" said Mr.. Wight, ''I
believe he will certainly try to make
q very able president. The only fear
Is that the Democratic party, as a
party, is pledged on the tariff ques-
ton for tariff for revenue only,
and the country has prospered Sc
greatly on a tariff levied on the
lines Of protection that such a sweep
ing change, I fear, may have unfor-
tunate results.
Personally believe there are
many inIustices In the present tariff
which should be corrected, but should
always be corrected In the line of
maintaining and protecting our own
Industries. There will be a strong ef.
fort made, however, to carry out the
pledge of tariff for revenue only,
which, / think, Is a great danger.
THE Progressive party is In favor
Of a fair read justment OF the tariff. g
but readIusted on the lines of protec-
ton, and If ! were going to predict Il
should say that long before the pres.
ent four years are passed the coun-
Try Will turn to them for fair ad-
Justmenl, both OF the tariff and the
trust eombina ations.
AMI, indeed, glad to see that
we've got :. eeQ. Geo women registered
lEl q be ess TT
81
favor Of the interests ii the hole
people.
The Donaldsonville chief., 1913-01-04
FREE SUGAR FEARED.
Senator Thornton Not Optimistic
About the Outlook.

The following Is clipped from the
New Orleans Picayune of Tuesday,
December 81.
cratic congressman to enact a free
sugar bills, the measure will go
through this congress, is the opinion
OF United States Senator John r.
Thornton. who arrived in New Orle-
ans last evening en- route back to
Washington. Senator Thornton has
been spending the Christmas holidays
at his home at Alexandria, and is
now returning to the national capital
to take up his duties in the senate
when that body reeonvenes.
Free sugar will be utterly ruinous
to the principal industry Of Louisi-
ana, and | will fight the proposition
to materially reduce or to remove the
duty, y declared the gentleman from
Louisiana. Il have been opposed to
a reduction all along and I shall con-
tinue to oppose It. z,
The Democrats IN congress, how
ever, seem bent upon passing free
sugar bill, and 1t is certain their
every effort will be directed that
" eay .5s5 \ ASSt 5oul q d. 1IdtCIIdl @IEuNG@
tion In the tariff on sugar will be
ruinous to Louisiana's best interests"
Senator Thornton declared that his
opinions on tariff revision have not
changed, and that he is of the same
opinion as when he gave out a state
ment to the New Orleans papers a
month ago. declaring he stood for
protection ON sugar.
The Donaldsonville chief., 1913-01-04
Soil Survey Report Ready.

During the fiscal year 1912 the Bu-
reau of Soils, Department of Agr1-
culture, performed 454 square miles OF
detailed soil survey work in Louisi-
ana, bringing the total sol survey
work done by the bureau in the state
to 9210 square miles.
The work was done with a view to
enabling the owners of the soil to
know what crops would thrive best
and what would have to be done to
bring every part of a given thact of
land up to its maximum of bearing
efficiency.
Any land owner may procure a
copy of the bulletin pertaining to his
section by writing to the Secretary
of Agriculture.
It is officially announced that the
New Orleans CarnfYaI organizations
will not permit at their balls the
{ turkey trot, 2 .'tae bear, the bun
ny hug, or similar fances. Special
committees will eseeuse from the floor
guests who i fringe upon this deei-
sion.
The Donaldsonville chief., 1913-01-04
Royaline Liver Regulator.

For headache. indigestion, eonsti-
patton, biiiousness Best and cheap
est. Tin box to last about one
month, Is cents Money back if
not satisfactory.
The Donaldsonville chief., 1913-01-04
PHYSICIANS

n X. SINS, PHYSICIAN AND SURGEON.
IL. Office in Houmas street. between
Iheryille street and Crescent Place. Tele-
phone 80.
The Donaldsonville chief., 1913-01-04
ATTORNEYS AND NoTARIEs

p j. VEGA, ATTORNEY AT LAW AND
ID. Notary PUBLIC Office, S13 Nichols
avenues. Telephone 81.
The Donaldsonville chief., 1913-01-04

TsDMUND MAURIN, ATTORNEY AT Law,
L. NOTARY PUBLIC AND JUSTICE OF PEACE.
Office, 3OS 0pelousas street, opposite the
Donaldsonville High School. The office OF
Justice of the peace will in no way inter-
fere with my practice in district courts or
Justice courts other than the one over
which preside Telephone So.
The Donaldsonville chief., 1913-01-04
PROFESSIONAL AND BUSINESS
DRY GOODS, GROCERIES, ETC.

~ KLINE. corner Crescent Place and
j. Houmas street, dealer in dry goods,
oottons. boots and shoes, groceries, pro-
y;sions. corn, oats and bran. Phone 152
The Donaldsonville chief., 1913-01-04
ocuLisTs

TAR. 4. J. DIMITRY, OcyLlsr. Of
~ flee on Sundays at Hotel Dom
aIdson, II a. M. to p. m. New
Orleans Office. 7f4-71S Audubon Building.
4 to p. n.
The Donaldsonville chief., 1913-01-04

nR, j. D. HANSON, PHYSICIAN. Of
IL fee and residence: Lessard street,
between Nichols avenue and Ibervilie
street. Telephone 54.
The Donaldsonville chief., 1913-01-04

lAR. n. H. HANSON, PHYSICIAN Of
~ fee: Lessard street, between Nichols
avenue and 0pelousas streets. Phone 240.
The Donaldsonville chief., 1913-01-04

. fsALEB C. WEBER, ATTORNEY AT Law
AND NOTARY PUBLIC. Office in Rail-
road avenue, opposite the Donaldsonville
High School, Telephone 1892.
The Donaldsonville chief., 1913-01-04
Stops Pain-Heals Wounds.

ROYALINE OIL is 3. GOOD PAIN
MEDICINE as well as a GOOD AN
TISEPTIC. It's greater strength gives
it GREATER POWER to ease pain,
inside or outside, man OF beast; also
makes it go further, and therefore
give LARGER VALUE FOR THE
MONEY. Pleasant, clean, safe, 10e,
25c, SOC. Money back If not salts
factory.
The Chief is the best advertising
Medium In fFais sectinr.
The Donaldsonville chief., 1913-01-04

To keep posted on local current
news topics, subscribe to The Chief.
The Donaldsonville chief., 1913-01-04
SPECIALS STS

mr. A.. w. MARTIN, EYE. EAR. NosE
~ AND THROAT SPECIALIST. Eyeglasses
1o5p. m. Office, No. 121 Railroad ave-
nue.. Donaldsonville, La. Telephone, soS.
The Cairo bulletin. (Cairo, Ill.) 1???-1928, 1913-07-02
Copyright 1912 by George Mathew Adams }

recaptured we hope the police Will
lock him up in the county jail.
The most startling feature in
connection with the escape is the
fact that Noise managed to silent
ly' chop his way through the
bricks without arousing the neigh
borhood How he finished the job
without disturbing the sleep OF
neighbors and causing them to file
formal complaint against him is
more than the average mind can
comprehend
We do not like to pass snap iudS
ment upon Noises motives. It is
possible that his escape was actuat-
ed by desire to borrow an electric
tan for his cell, so that his comfort
would be positively and absolutely
complete. II this should be the
case we stand ready to retract every
unkind thing we have written about
him.
The Cairo bulletin. (Cairo, Ill.) 1???-1928, 1913-07-02
1rnerateful Prisone.

Berries Noise, Negro murder aus-
pect. dug his way to liberty through
a solid brick wall at the city jail
Saturday night Noise had been
living a life of ease in the cleanest
of iails. His three meals per were
served to him with regularity on a
platter. All he had to do was TO
eat three meals per. He was safe
from collectors, heat and other nuis-
anees: in fact, he had no present
worries.
Noise proved himself All migrate
full person when he escaped from
the kind attentions of the police aa-
thorities. We are shocked and SUR
prised at him. III he had been a
prisoner in the Alexander County
iaiI we might be able to find some
justification in his act, but that he
actually dug his way through per-
fectly good brick wall and ran away
from nothing to do and three square
feeds day brands him as "a
karat, simon-pure migrate II he Is
The Cairo bulletin. (Cairo, Ill.) 1???-1928, 1913-07-02
JULY 2 IN HISTORY.


1913 Battle of Aes, Hungarian up
rising.
1898 Spaniards attempt to retakC
San Juan Hill, but after Sc.
we're lighting were repulsed
and GEN. Lawton extended
the lines northward.
190S-Cuba ceded to the United
States two naval stations
and government of the Isle Of
Pines settled.
1so3--Janitz, Germany, won the
Bennett cup at the lnterna-
tional Automobile races, Ire
land,
1904 Russia reported to by trying
to purchase new battleships
through American agents.
Cornerstone of the Pulitzer
School of journalism laid a.
Columbia University New
York.
The Cairo bulletin. (Cairo, Ill.) 1???-1928, 1913-07-02
ODD TYPE Of MEMORY
BIRDS AND ANIMALS SEEM LACK.
ING IN DIRECT SENSE.
Difference In This Respect Between
Man and the Lower Creation Is
Misunderstanding Cases IN
der Observation.

Let us suppose that a man. In the
full possession OF all his senses, is ae
customed to find his favorite chair
placed in a certain spot, near win
dow, and suppose that on one occasion
the chair Is taken away. 1t would be
very odd indeed if the man came into
the room in broad daylight, and made
repeated and obstinate efforts TO sit
! down In the empty space where the
chair usually stood. For our memory
is chiefly a memory of things that
we see, rather than a memory of our
own movements But many animals
have the odd type of memory that the
man would display il he insisted on
going through his habitual movements
In the absence of the chair.
Professor Watson of Johns Hopkins
university has for several summers
studied the habits of the sea birds
that nest on the Tortugas islands.
Among other experiments he raised
or lowered their nests, which are
built near the ground, while the bird
was away. The returning bird would
always hover about and attempt to
alight in the empty air at the former
height of the nest.
When honey bees are carried a
long distance from their hives and
are set free. they first fly far up into
the air, as if to look for a familiar
1o,jr,orly V.har fbnx- drap hsnly mud
have been observed to hover in the
air at exactly the height of the en-
trance to their home hive
A stlll more striking case of this
kind has been observed i'm 4 chip
munk by r. r. Rockwell, who des-
cribes it in the Journal of Animal
Behavior. The little creature had
made her nest IN q mattress on a
spring cot The young were discov-
cred. mistaken for mice and destroy
ed The cot was removed altogether.
The mother. returning. ran TO the
spot where she had been accustomed
to climb up the frame of the cot to
her nest
Here she stood on her hind legs
and paved the air frantically in the
effort to find the missing frames.
Several times she jumped high into
the air from this position, and flnd-
ing no frame to catch, fell backward.
Another observer reports that a
bat, whose actions he was studying
was accustomed on entering its cave
to fly up to a piece of lite cloth
that hung on the opposite wall The
cage was turned completely round
so that the door through which the
bat entered was on the opposite side
The piece Of cloth was still attached
to the wall, but, although It was in
plain sight, the bet flew to the posi-
ton in space, now over the door that
the cloth had occupied when the cage
was in its former position Such a
memory Of place in and for itself.
quite apart from the objects that are
10 be seen there. Is almost unknown
to human beings Evidently these
animals do not depend upon the
sense Of sight completely as we do
Youths Companion.
The Cairo bulletin. (Cairo, Ill.) 1???-1928, 1913-07-02
Exclusive Oxford.

The ignorance Of the scholar con-
corning what is going on in the world
around him is proyerbial, But story
OF Thackeray's own telling points to
surprising possibilities OF the cloister-
ed life at Oxford, at least in the last
century.
Thackeray. 1t seems. was to lecture
at Oxford, and. according to custom,
had first to get the yice-chancellor's
license to do SO. This Is the CONVEX
sation that occurred, as the novelist
reported it:
Nice-Chancellor--Pray, sir, what can
do for you?
Thackeray--My name Is Thackeray.
Vice.ChanceIlor-So I see by this
The Cairo bulletin. (Cairo, Ill.) 1???-1928, 1913-07-02

card.
Thackeray-f seek permission to lee
ture within your precincts.
Vioe-Chancellor-Ah. You are a lee
turer. What subjects do you under
take. religious or POLITICAL?
Thackeray-Neither. l am a lit
erary man.
Vice-Chanoellor-Have you written
anything?
Thackeray-Yes. / am the author of
Vanity Fair"
Vice CHANCELLOR presume. a dis.
senter. Has that anything to do with
John Bunyan's book?
Thackeray-Not exactly. have also
written "Pendennis"
Observation-Disclosures heard Of
these works. But no doubt they ara
proper books.
Thackeray-I have also contributed
to Punch.
Northumberland? have
heard of that Is it not humorous
publication?-London TitBits.
The Cairo bulletin. (Cairo, Ill.) 1???-1928, 1913-07-02
Advocates the Corn Muffin.

A sociologist of practical temper
thinks that educational and social re.
form can be helped greatly by corn
mullins. Those who like corn mullins
will instantly agree that he Ia right
whatever form his suggestions may
take. 1t seems THAI he knows of a
school teacher who wrought wonders
in the blue grass region Of Kentucky
b. teaching school children how to be
clean and their parents how to cook
corn mullins. In other words, the in
habitants had to be raised to the corn
muffin stage. VIII 1t be so easy TO
make those who believe themselves
above 1t conform to its Spartan sim
plicity and unfrenchified palatability?
Springfield Republican.
The Cairo bulletin. (Cairo, Ill.) 1???-1928, 1913-07-02

There is no such reformer as an ex-
acting duty Note the asceticism OF
athletes and scouts. The ravages OF
drink are abated as machinery, with
its demand for a clear brain and
steady nerves is multiplied on every
hand. Each new stress of business
and professional rivalry puts a fresh
premium on sohriety and wise re-
straint.
The Cairo bulletin. (Cairo, Ill.) 1???-1928, 1913-07-02
Where Wnmsn Run Cars.

The suggestion that women may be
employed as street car conductors in
Philadelphia has brought out the fact
that the women of Latin America,
usually thought Of as sheltered. retir-
ing and unprogressive, have been do
ing this kind of work for years. Dur
ing the war between Chilli and Peru,
when all the men of Chill were need
ed at the front, women took their
places on the street cars, and San
lingo. Valparaiso and several other
cities have had women conductors
ever since.