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The true Democrat. [volume] (Bayou Sara [La.]) 1892-1928, 1913-02-15
IN SPITE OF BOIL WEEVILs.

Mr.. A. Muller sends us the follow
ing from his town paper at Midlo-
THAN, Tex, showing the crop made,
though he says they "have plenty
of boil weevils." We reproduce it
for encouragement, as it says:
ELLIS county, the banner county
of the world, will break all previous
records in the yield of cotton from
the crop of 1912. In fact, the ma
tiOnal ginners' report up to and in
Guiding December 10, 1912, has al
ready broken the record. The num-
Der of bales which had been ginned
up to that date is shown by bull
letin issued by the bureau of the GEN.
sus department of commerce and Ia
Dor, to be 159,3O7 bales. The final
ginners' report, which will be made
in March, is expected to show TO-
tai production of between 10000 and
10000 bales from the crop of 1912"
But Mr.. Muller says significantly:
"The people ALL work"
The true Democrat. [volume] (Bayou Sara [La.]) 1892-1928, 1913-02-15
SOUTH POLE DISASTER.

Captain Robert F. Scott and party
were overwhelmed by a blizzard on
their return journey from the south
pole, and the entire party persisted.
They reached the south pole on jan.
uary Is, 1912.
The news of the appalling disas-
ter which befell Captain Scott and
companions was brought to New Zea-
land by a signalled message from
the Terra Nova, the vessel which
had carried the explorer and his ex.
petition to the Antarctic.
Captain SCOTS party reached the
exact point where Ronald Amunsend
planted the Norwegian flag at the
south pole. They found the hut con-
structed by Amundsen's party. These
facts were recorded in the dOcu-
ments found on the bodies of the
dead explorers.
The closing words of Captain
SCOTS epic were:
Had we lived | should have had
a tale to tell of the hardihood, the
endurance and the courage of my
companions which would have stir.
red every Englishman.
"These rough notes and our dead
bodies must tell the tale. But surely,
surely, a great and rich country like
ours will see that those who are de-
pendent upon us are properly pro,
yided for"
Steps are ON foot to respond to
his appeal to the nation by assuring
comfortable future for those de,
pendent upon the men who, while
awaiting certain death, could write
that they did not regret their jour
uey.
Captain SCOTS interest in the wei
fare of his men was emphasized by
practically the last business he trans
acted before he left to join the ex,
petition in New Zealand. This was
the sale of his story.
He declined to make any private
profit from the transaction and decid
ed that the total receipts should &c
to increase the financial reward of
the men who had undertaken to share
with him the dangers of the Antarc
tic region.
1t, was therefore arranged that all
funds realized from the story of the
adventure should be distributed among
The members of the crew as Sur
prise bonus on their return to Eng
land.
Mrs. Scott is assured of gooo
pension from the British government
A memorial service for Captain
Scott and his companions was hello
in st. Paul's cathedral, London, or
Friday.
The true Democrat. [volume] (Bayou Sara [La.]) 1892-1928, 1913-02-15

Jones for coroner. Indications were
that there would be a deadlock in
the convention to nominate state
senator, district Judge and district at
tornay.
Rev. Mr.. Moreno had returned
from Pensacola to resume his work
at Grace Church missions.
Little Anna Barrow was very ill.,
Miss Katie Davidson returned from
visit to Plaquemine.
The anti-lottery meeting was call
ed to order by Mr.. J. B McGehee,
who called Judge Lawrason to the
chair. Both made good speeches.
Messrs. E. B. Fort and Edward
Butler were in New Orleans.
The True Democrat referred to
New Orleans as the City of Camel
las.
Mrs. Morris Wolf was visiting
friends in New Orleans.
The true Democrat. [volume] (Bayou Sara [La.]) 1892-1928, 1913-02-15
KIND WORDS ABOUT
THE TRUE DEMOCRAT
A TRIED AND TRUE DEMOCRAT.

The st. Francisville True Demo
crat, one of the ablest and best of
Louisiana's so-called country newspa-
pers, reached its majority with the
last issue in January and began its
twenty-second year of uninterrupted
publication on the LIST instant. Not
withstanding that the past six years,
following the appearance of the boil
Weevil, have comprised a period of
hard times" in West Feliciaua,
scarcely exceeded by the years inn
mediately succeeding the civil war,
The True Democrat has drawn such
liberal support from other parts of
the state that it has been enabled
not only to keep the pot a-bilin',' .
but to build up a prosperous business
and provide itself with an equipment
of up-to-date type-setting and print
ing machinery that probably has no
superior in as small a town anywhere
in the country. Erie Robinson and
his accomplished associate, Mrs. May
E. Robinson, constitute the matrimo-
NAL, editorial and propriet0rial part
nership in control of The True Dem
ocrat's destinies, and they are to be
heartily congratulated On their we'll
earned success.-Donaldsonville Chief.
The true Democrat. [volume] (Bayou Sara [La.]) 1892-1928, 1913-02-15
FINDS THAT LITTLE ADS" PAY.

Mr.. Whitman Wilcox, who is a
steady user of our Little Ads" col
umn, states that he gets good returns
from their use. There has never yet
been a time when he advertised any
thing that the ads did not create
greater demand than he could supply
He uses the Little Ads" to dispose
of variety of farm products and
finds they pay in every instance.
The price of these little business
getters is one cent per word fol
each insertion, cash with copy. II
you have anything to dispose of OF
are in need of anything that your
neighbor would be likely to have, try
a Little Ad."
The true Democrat. [volume] (Bayou Sara [La.]) 1892-1928, 1913-02-15

George Meredith, according to the
London Chronicle, employs that
abominable contraction alright. 1t
can't be a printers error, for it oc-
ours more than once. And he uses
il as early as 1868, so that the abuS-
ers of our language may now claim
Meredith, of all men, as their pro-
pnet. This is one of those things
that BATTLE explanation, particularly
from a writer whose use of words
was meticulous and who always re-
fused to delete the first e in 'judg-
ment,' always spelling it judgement
in his novels. Some of us, however,
will fight alright to the bitter end"
N. 0. States
The true Democrat. [volume] (Bayou Sara [La.]) 1892-1928, 1913-02-15
Pictures of the Past.
Extracts from the files of The True Democrat,
published twenty-one years ago.
ished twenty-one years ago.

FEB. II, 1892.
President Cleveland had spent a
pleasant visit in Louisiana.
The Judicial and Senatorial Con
VentiOn was to meet in Jackson on
the 25th.
Chas. ROsen, then of this town,
was editor-in of The Tulane
Collegian.
"Tinkle, tinkle bells
Happy wedding bells,
Wednesday, Feb. oath. Guess?'
DR.. Feltus Barrow and sisters, Miss
es Olivia and Maggie, were visit
ing in New Orleans.
The Merchants Mercantile Agency
established a branch here with A.
T. Gastrell, president, and 0. d.
Brooks, vice-president.
Chas. Kilbourne was nominated for
the legislature in East Feliciana; T.
L. East for clerk, and DR.. Geo. H.
The true Democrat. [volume] (Bayou Sara [La.]) 1892-1928, 1913-02-15

Mr.. l.. T. Ventress, president of
the defunct Citizens Bank of Wilkin-
son County, has notified the commit
tee which is associated with Mr.. j..
NJ. Sessions, vice-president, in liqui-
dating the affairs of the bank, that
he will donate his deposits of $4,000
to the depositors of the bank. He
has also agreed to take $4,000 worth
CT stock in the proposed new bank.
The true Democrat. [volume] (Bayou Sara [La.]) 1892-1928, 1913-02-15
REVIEW OF PUBLIC EDUCATION.

Chicago Public:
Everybody is agreed-farmer, finan-
cier and craftsman, teacher, parent
and pupil-that our American public
school system prepares for the pro-
LESSONS, including engineering, and
for the fine arts, while it fails to
prepare for commercial, industrial
and agricultural life. The mere state
ment of this criticism draws atten-
ton, however, to one important point
of difference.
Never before in all it's growth has
the American public school been call
ed upon to prepare its pupils def
nitely to begin their life-work at six
teen, nor to urge choice of that life
work upon them at fourteen. To be
sure, many have chosen young.
Many, very many, it is true, have
gone to work" in early youth. But
their fellow pupils and society at
large have always looked upon these
as pressed by poverty, possessed of
| unusual talent, or urged by mere
waywardness, never as either ideal
ly or normally circumstanced.
Has society been seeing the mat
ter wrongly? ought our children to
begin work at sixteen and to choose
| their vocation two years earlier?
Or, has public opinion been all
along in the right in viewing the
ordinary youths early entrance into
the industrial world as a misfortune,
as one of those evils which power
ty compels or poor judgment allows
still an evil, however many times
multiplied?
Banker and merchant and manufac-
turer, persuading to their view many
another also, content themselves with
one answer: 1t makes no difference
whether they ought Or ought not to
go to work. They do go, by the hun
dreds of thousands; and America
must get them better ready or bow
| down before a nation wiser in her
day. 1t is, alas, perfectly true:
They do 90 to work; 81 per cent Of
the pupils in the Chicago schools
leave before finishing eighth grade
to enter the blind alleys of industry
and travel the ragged road of inef-
ficiency Yet it makes a vast diff
ference whether we look at ii and
Is year old children as rightfully or
wrongfully at work. They do go to
| work; but whether in each mans
judgment they go rightfully or wrong
fully, is the determining factor in his
decision about what sort of steps shall
be taken toward public industrial IN
struction in his community. If right
fully they are at work, then is the
school very wrong that sends them
out half ready. If wrongfully they
are at work, then is the society
wrong that lets them, and the school
full right that tries to keep them.
To return, however, to the state,
ment of the lack in Americas edu.
cation.
Our public school system does moi
offer so adequate a preparation MOI
so free a choice for the industrial
and commercial world as for the pro
fessional and artistic. The criticism
is valid and the public school must
meet it by reform. For each child
of the democracy, whatever his life
work is to be, has the right to full
exploration before choice and to fu!
preparation after choice.
The true Democrat. [volume] (Bayou Sara [La.]) 1892-1928, 1913-02-15
TRUCK GROWERS HOLD
INTERESTING MEETING

A well attended meeting of the
West Feliciana Truck Growers AS
ISOLATION was held last Saturday, and
q movement to plant so acres OF
beans was started More than 30
per cent of that acreage was pledged
by those present and heard from
that day, and it is now believed that
the entire so acres will be pledged
in short. Mr.. Geo. l.. Plettinger,
one of the most progressive truckers
we have, made a canvass of the two
towns among those interested in he
upbuilding of the trucking business
here, and met with the cordial sup
port of all our merchants and lots
of other progressive people who sub
scribed a fund of about $4,000. This
money will be used to buy bean
seed, and a member of the truck
growers association who wants 70
plant beans, may now get half the
bean seed he wants to plant free,
the association will give a person
as many seed as he will buy to en-
courage him to plant beans. A men,
Der wishing to plant one acre of
beans, can buy one peck and the as
sociation will give him one peck, and
that will plant an acre. If the plant
eI makes money in his bean crop, he
is expected to pay the association
for the peck of beans they gave him.
If he does not make any money on
beans he will not have to pay for the
peck which was given him. The sup
port given the association by our pub
lic-spirited citizens is very enc0urag-
ing to those who are endeavoring
to build up a trucking business in
this parish, and if the beans, cab.
bage, and Irish potatoes turn out as
expected, this association will ship
out the biggest lot of truck ever
shipped out Of this section.
Those who want to plant beans
must call on secretary S. G., Cobb or
Mr.. Geo. l.. Plettinger and say how
many they wish to plant, and the
beans will be gotten for them. These
beans must all be planted in the
week of March 1915. Everybody
must get their land ready and plant
in that week, so they will all come
up and be matured about the same
time, so that they can all be ship
ped in the same week, in car lots.
Here is a splendid chance now to
try beans here, and as they are one
of the staple crops, they can be sold
at big prices. They will mature in
As days from the day they are plant
ed.
The association has made arrange
ments to have a regular manager
who will take charge of all shipping,
and also will have expert packers to
teach every one how to pack his
goods. 1t is not generally known
that there are great many toma-
toes planted by the people in the 5th
ward of this parish. These tomatoes
will be shipped out of Norwood, La.
We understand that the tomatoes are
now in cold frames and are looking
well. Tomatoes last season made
Norwood Centreville and Gloster rich
towns, and if our people will only
bestir themselves and try, there is
no reason why this entire parish
should not make plenty of money ev-
cry year in the trucking business.
Get line on Mr.. S. c. Cobb, mana
ger of the association, or Mr. Geo.
Plettinger and get the data neces'
sary, and let's see if We can't make
our parish ship big lot of truck this
spring.
The true Democrat. [volume] (Bayou Sara [La.]) 1892-1928, 1913-02-15

To remove rust stains make paste
Of cream of tartar and little water
and spread over the spot, laying it
in the sunshine; wet the spot every
time it gets dry and the stain will
disappear. Another way that is re
commended is to boil the stained
goods in water containing cream Of
tartar; it is claimed that the rust
will disappear without any injury TO
the fabric.
The true Democrat. [volume] (Bayou Sara [La.]) 1892-1928, 1913-02-15

Don't kick because you have to but
ton your wife's waist. Be glad your
wife has a waist and doubly glad you
have a wife to button a waist for.
Some mems wives have no waists
to button. Some mems wives waists
who have buttons on to button don't
care a continental whether they are
buttoned or not. Some men don't
have any wives with buttons on to
button, any more than a rabbit.
The true Democrat. [volume] (Bayou Sara [La.]) 1892-1928, 1913-02-15

When a good man goes wrong ev-
cry rogue feels that it is in some
way a vindication of himself.-Chic-
ago Record-Herald.
The true Democrat. [volume] (Bayou Sara [La.]) 1892-1928, 1913-02-15
TWENTY-sEcoND ANNIVERSARY.

The True Democrat, published at
St. Francisville, celebrated its TWEEN
ty-second anniversary on Saturday
last. The Democrat is ably edited
by Elrie Robinson and wife.
We congratulate our talented con-
freres on having reached such an
age in the journalistic affairs of Lou
isiana. The paper has never missed
an issue, although it has been serl-
ously handicapped. 1t sails today on
the sea of success, with its banner
of advancement, and its independ-
ence in politics, social and financial
affairs proudly unfurled to the breeze.
-PlaQuemine Champion.
The true Democrat. [volume] (Bayou Sara [La.]) 1892-1928, 1913-02-15

With its last issue The True Dem.
0crat, of St. FrancisVille, La, cele-
brated its twenty-first birthday, on
which We extend congratulations. 1t
is unquestionably a fact that this
paper is the best weekly published
in the Pelican State, and it has not
peer in the South. It's equipment
is a model of excellency. We have
always taken pleasure in noting the
steady improvement in this paper
and wish for our esteemed confrere
long period of that success which
its excellence entities it.-Woodville
Republican.
The true Democrat. [volume] (Bayou Sara [La.]) 1892-1928, 1913-02-15

The trouble with the family ske!e-
ton is that it is never as dead as
il seems.
The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 18??-19??, 1913-02-04

441
tonic replies IN he most naughty
and imperious spirit:
Il am az like TO cali thee 30 again.
To spit on thee again, and spurn
thee too,
II thou wilt lend thfs money, lend il
not
As to thy friend
But lend it Ta<hef TO thy enemy:
Who. II he break, thou rnayrs with
better face
Exact the penalty"
Antonio secures his loan. New
what do We fnd him doAn&. How
deporting himself toward tho mzu
who, without charge. haa relieved ~.
necessity? Il x net nnixed up Ia e
conspiracy to reb @ayjock. not Of hte
ducats and diamonds afane, hat ~
Aie a<0ghfr end uAly cfd3A N Welis
What d. the occasion al tA3s -
qnes In the home ef Ra@~aie?- ~
whose fosnr is It Grer? Yes Shy
The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 18??-19??, 1913-02-04

piAchei face and bare foot OF not one
orphan could he point as the iroit
Of his eneny's greed. And It ceF-
tainiy docs not Nnhance the n
nor add iuster 10 the virtue OF An
tonic thai he himself negotiates a
loan with the man ne daily prOclainls
"a cut-throat dog and thief"
ShylOck possessed by nature gen
erous impulses and was tar removed
from the
The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1913-03-18
MUNSON HAS NOT
SIGNED CONTRACT
But Is Expected to Manage
Bristol Team, and Has
Promising Material.

Bristol. Va. March l7.-ciarence CRed)
Munson the Bristol baseball manager who
is in Cincinnati with his family this week
TO attend the marriage OF ii sister, has not
yet signed the contract TO manage the Bris-
tol team OF the Appalachian League. but
Will do SO within the next ten days mem
bers OF the board of directors say. Munson
has been busy with the preliminary work.
and already has n large number OF promis-
ing players signed. These include: Pitch
ers-Wiliam Colina. John Van. II. ID. Scheel.
]. NJ. Waldron. Quincy Swain. +. NJ. Drake,
G. II. Harding. Thomas Tuggle. J. b. Bar
nett and 1.eRue Lawbaugh. who represent
several different States. Infelders-Garrett
Bethel. Moegling: krause. Carey. Hawk and
ZelminskL. Outfe}ders-Hicks.J John Adams
George Granville f. "a. Davenport and Will
liam Conroy. conroy is also catcher.
Munson expects 10 begin the training sea
about April 10. The season will open
May S. The league directors will hold n
meeting at Knoxville next Saturday night, at
which timo II Is expected the schedule for
the season VIII be made public. 1t will also
be determined whether Gadsden and An
niston, Ala. are 10 be considered In their
desire to enter the Appalachian League.
Should these teams he given berths the APP
palachian circuit would include eight towns.
as follows: Gadsden and Admission, Ala:
Rome, Ga; Middlesboro Ky. and Bristol.
Johnson City. Knoxville and Cleveland.
Tenn.
The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1913-03-18
j AMES E. SULLIV AN
WILL ARRANGE GAMES
Leaves for San Francisco to Take Up Work as Ath
letc Director of Panama Exposition Athletes
From All Over World Expected
to Compete.
[special DO The Times.Dlsnntch

Especial to The Times DispatchJ
New York, March 17-James E. Sui
livan, secretary Of tho "a a. u and
American commissioner to the Olympic
games VIII leave on Saturday for San
Francisco to perfect plans for the ath-
letic games. which are to be made n
feature OF the Panama Exposition in
1916.
Mr.. Sullivan will sail for New Or
leans on the steamer Momus. and after
several days stop In that city, during
which time he will be tho guest OF
the Southern Association OF the A. A.
u. Will proceed on to San Francisco.
where he will take up the work of the
games with President Charles c. Moore
and Director-in- Chief Frederick ]. ".
Gin, OF the exposition committee.
1t having been decided by the exposi-
ton management to make feature Of
the sports, Mr.. Sullivan has been an
pointed director of athletics and will
make every effort t. nave the gamcs
equal in choice the Olympic games. At
the last meeting of the American Attn
ietic Union it was voted to award the
national track and fiNid championships
TO San Francisco for -315. and in ad
oltion tho international Olympic com
mittee at Its congress at Paris in
1910. voted gold medal TO be com
peted for in the modern pentathlon
and the exposition managers have also
oHered PLAGUE. the most expensive
The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1913-03-18
STRICT SECRECY |
ABOUT STATEMENT
President Wilson Will Mako
Public To-Day Ideas Con-
corning China.

Washington. March 17-Presldent
Wilson will present for consideration
of the Cabinet tomorrow a statement
concerning China. which is intended
to be made public from tho White
House later I'm the day. White House
ana state Department officials tonight
observed the stricteSt secrecy about
the statement, and no one would VEN
ture nm intimation as to its probable
dent and Secretary of State Bryan have
had several conferences on the subject
OF China. and a particularly long one
in the executive offices just before the
secretary's departure for the West was
largely TO Chinese questions.
There are two phases OF the Chinese
situation in which the United States
Is peculiarly nterested-recognition OF
the republican government. now nearly
power loan.
The Chinese republic has continually
sought recognition. but the policy OF
president Taft and his Secretary Of
recognition until the new government
mad demonstrated to the world its abil-
ity to maintain itself as II real re-
public administering popular gov
eminent. The proposed Chinese loan
by financial Interests of the great pow
China refusing TO agree to the terms
proposed. Banking houses of the
United States. aided by the influence
of the State Department. obtained the
lean participation In the proposed loan.
SO far there has been no suggestion
from President Wilson Secretary
Bryan az to what the policy of the
recognition of the republic or the loan
DrOtect
The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1913-03-18

and most unique prize ever given for
any amateur contest. which will go
to the winner.
The modern pentathlon. which was
the feature event OF the Olympic
games at Stockholm. consists of horse
riding, cross-country running. swim
ming, fencing and shooting, and as
this event will be part of the program
at tho Olympic games in Berlin in 1916,
1t is hoped to get the best men of the
armies and nayies of the world to en-
ter.
Efforts also will be made to have
foreign teams enter IN the other sports
and for this reason Mr.. Sullivan is
making early plans to- complete the
list of events so that other countries
may plan for enough in advance to
send teams. 1t is hoped that the SPLEEN
did example Of the United States In
sending large teams to foreign coun-
tries will result In large. represen-
tation from the other side of the At
lantic.
Mr.. Sullivan will be away from New
York for more than Il month. and will
visit all Of the Western associations
OF the A. a. U. for the purpose Of stir
ring UP interest in the exposition
games. 1t is also assured that the East
Will send Its best men TO the games, as
the winners of events will undoubtedly
he selected for the Berlin trip the fol-
lowing year.
The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1913-03-18
LEWIS WINS BOUT
IN THIRD ROUND
Lspecial cable to The mines. pispateh ]

London. March Hilary Lewis. of Phila-
delphiu knocked out Jack Harrison. Eng
lands champion middicweisht pugilist. In
the third round of their scheduled twenty
round bout at the National Sporting club
tonight.
Lewis started In landing heavy left swings
tho moment the fight started. The first
round took away most of Harrison's ginger.
and he was content TO keep on the dcfen-
sive in the second period. The Knockout in
the third round was crashing left that
followed right fcint. Harrison tried To
rise at the count OF ten but couldn't get
to his knees
Lewis's iino exhibition tonight was watch
ed by officer of taxicab company which
recently ordered 10 pay Lewis $3.50 for
injuries received in taXicab accident In
his action Lewis complained OF damage done
TO his nerve, vitality and ability fight