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The true Democrat. [volume] (Bayou Sara [La.]) 1892-1928, 1913-10-18
GOOD ROADS AND RURAL
SCHOOLS.

Mansfield Enterprise:
The problem of checking the grow
ing tendency of the farmers to move
to the towns and cities, Is being dis
cussed in every quarter, and many
remedies have been suggested. How
ever, the fact remains that the better
class of farmers will not contentedly
remain where they have not the facil-
tiles to give their children, at least, a
common school education, and the
only policy that will remedy the evil,
is to improve the rural schools. This
fact is demonstrated in every commu-
nifty in this parish, for where there
are good schools, there you will find
a contented and prosperous set of
farmers, and lands in the vicinity of a
good school are always in demand,
and readily command double the price
of like farm where no such advan-
tages exist. Of course, the high cost
of living is caused by the increase of
the population of the towns and the
cities, and the relative decrease of
the people on the farms. In other
words, there are two many consumers
and too few producers. Therefore it
| is clearly evident that the greatest
beneficiaries of the rural schools, are
| the residents of the towns and cities,
whose cost of living is increased, be-
cause the farmers are unwilling to re-
main where their children must grow
up in ignorance, and who can blame
them? Build rural schools and make
good roads, and the tendency to aban-
don the farm and flock to town will
subside. The most profitable invest
ment that city dweller can make, is
to pay taxes to support rural schools,
for good roads and good country
schools will do more to reduce the
cost of living than anything else, and
the city taxpayer should be the first
to realize this fact, and simply as a
matter of self interest, he should
stand ready to do all he possibly can,
to extend and improve them. With
these two things, and rural mail
routes, and telephones, the farms
would become so attractive, that con-
ditions would be reversed, and we
would soon hear the cry, Back to
the towns" for we all might want to
go to the country.
The true Democrat. [volume] (Bayou Sara [La.]) 1892-1928, 1913-10-18
DoN'Ts FOR HIGH SCHOOL GIRLS

Emporia Gazette:
Mfnerva-don't. You are just lit
tie girl, only in high school. You
should be kept in simple girlish
clothes; you should have your head
full ofyour books. You should be in
terested in girlish things. So don't
dress that way; if your mother hasn't
enough sense to keep you a little girl
in simple frocks, the blessed Lord
knows you should have enough sense
for the two of you.
Do you know, child, you are horri-
bly, over-dressed? The idea of you
wearing those clothes that bring out
every line and curve of your girlish
figure for men to leer at; Minerva,
don't; don't put up your hat like a
woman of 30; you are so much more
beautiful and attractive as you are
a child.
You will be woman soon enough;
be girl-simple, genuine, frank-eyed
girl just as long as you can. Don't
frowse yourself up with all those
dowdy dry goods. Don't stir up your
hair like taffy kettle. Don't show
your lank little legs through sheath
skirt; don't go gadding to school in
white shoes; don't wear a hat that
looks old enough for a mother of five.
Get into some quiet, girlish toys,
forget about your social position, put
your mind on your books, chase the
boys out of your head, and be nice
girl-a nice, candid, open-hearted,
fresh-eyed, clean-hearted little girl.
The true Democrat. [volume] (Bayou Sara [La.]) 1892-1928, 1913-10-18
LATEST VIEW OF THE MISSION
OF THE PRESS.

Baton Rouge Advocate:
Lord Northcliffe, owner of 100 pub
| locations, including the Times, Mail,
Globe and Mirror of London, made a
speech recently before the Press Club
| of Chicago, in which he declared that
the newspapers are the greatest forces
working against war and for the sup
preston of all kinds of crime. He
criticized the policy of suppression
preceding the English Boer war and
the Balkan trouble contrasting it with
the publicity given in America to the
Mexican situation. He expressed the
belief that both the Boer and Balkan
wars might have been averted had
there been proper publicity in advance
of hostilities. In discussing the sup.
preston of crimes he gave concrete
illustrations of where detectives would
have failed utterly without the aid of
the press.
But the singular thing about Lord
Northcliffe's speech was that he did
not discuss editorial policies. He
distressed the news columns. The gath.
Iering and dissemination of news on
which people base their own eonclu-
sions are the greatest work of the
newspaper. Lord Northcliffe as plain
Alfred Harmsworth was a cub report
er in Fleet street and he has never
forgotten the experience. He declares
that his greatest ambition is to be a
"fair publisher and a good reporter"
The great mission of the press is to
Igather and present uncolored news.
The papers that really exert influence
are those that best perform this func-
ton. The tendency to feature rhetor-
ical fancies by the "hob squad Is
falling into disuse among shrewd pub.
fishers. They are learning that the
public has become impatient at hav-
/ ing prose fiction palmed off on 1t as
news.
The true Democrat. [volume] (Bayou Sara [La.]) 1892-1928, 1913-10-18
NOTICE.

Notice is hereby given to all per.
sons, firms and corporations, other
than depositors, who have claims
against the Feliciana Bank C Trust
Company, of st. Francisville, Louisi.
ana, that they must file their claims
with the State Examiner of State
Banks, or with his duly appointed
Special Agent, Oliver B. Steele, and
make legal proof as to the justice
thereof, on or before the eighth day
of December, 1913, at the Office Of
said Bank at st. Francisville, Louisi.
ana, in accordance with Section 4
of Act 800 of 1910.
w. L. YOUNG,
State Examiner Of State Banks.
OLIVER B. STEELE,
Special Agent.
Sept 6.3 mo.
The true Democrat. [volume] (Bayou Sara [La.]) 1892-1928, 1913-10-18
And For Three Summers Mrs. Vim
cent Was lJnabIe to Attend TO
Any Of Her Homework.

Pleasant Hill, N. CO suffered for
three summers" writes Mrs. Walter
Vincent, Of this town, "and the third and
last time, was my worst.
had dreadful nervous headaches and
pross:sdon, and was scarcely able to
walk about. Could not do any Of my
houseworA.
also had 6eadft! pains in my back
and sides and when one Of those weak,
sinking spells would come on me,
would have to give UP and lie down,
until Il wore off.
was certainly in a dreadful state o.
health, when | finally decided to try
CardM, the woman's TOMS, and firmly
The true Democrat. [volume] (Bayou Sara [La.]) 1892-1928, 1913-10-18

Herbert hated the dark and his
mother decided she must cure him of
his fear. She had told him often that
he was not alone, that God was always
with him. One night, as she tucked
him up, he seemed particularly loath
to let her go.
why, Herbert" she said, reproach-
fully, "you know who is always with
you even in the dark"
Yes" answered the boy, "but, moth
er, l don't want man, want wo-
man"
The true Democrat. [volume] (Bayou Sara [La.]) 1892-1928, 1913-10-18
TWO SUGGESTIONS FROM
HEALTH BULLETIN.

In October the mornings are crisp
and the evenings cool. Don't shut
doors and windows Make little
fire.
If cool enough for a wrap, see that
it Is not heavy. To bundle the child
too much means cold.
The rule to send home at once ey.
cry child showing signs of illness
would head off many epidemics of
the common maladies.
The true Democrat. [volume] (Bayou Sara [La.]) 1892-1928, 1913-10-18
BRAND CLAIMED.

We claim hat brand on either II
side. We will esteem 1t favor -L.
If any one having cattle with this brand
on their premises, will notify US at
Wilcox, La.
BELLEVUE FARMS CO., Ltd,
BY A. s. Bowman. Pres.
The true Democrat. [volume] (Bayou Sara [La.]) 1892-1928, 1913-10-18

My brand is a spade. The public is
warned against buying cattle with this
brand, without my consent.
]. C. MAGEARL.
The true Democrat. [volume] (Bayou Sara [La.]) 1892-1928, 1913-10-18

From and after this date all hunting of
any kind on the Greenwood plantation Is
positively prohibited under penalty of tres
passing. Any one found on this place
without permission viii be considered
trespassing and prosecuted to the full ex-
tent of the law.
MRS. J. A. VENTRESS.
The true Democrat. [volume] (Bayou Sara [La.]) 1892-1928, 1913-10-18
MRS. c. R. BARROW.

From and after this date all hunting Of
any kind on Ambrosia and Independence
plantation is positively prohibited under
penalty of trespassing. Any one found on
these places without permission will be
considered trespassing. and prosecuted to
the full extent of the law.
MRS. s. H. BARROW.
The true Democrat. [volume] (Bayou Sara [La.]) 1892-1928, 1913-10-18
TREsPAss NOTICES.

All hunting with dog or gun, or driving
through or off of any cattle, ON the
Resale" plantation without special per-
mission, is positively prohibited. All such
acts will be regarded as trespassing and
prosecuted as such.
MRS C. r. BARROW
The true Democrat. [volume] (Bayou Sara [La.]) 1892-1928, 1913-10-18
CATTLE BRANDS.
The following are my cattle brands:
Circle p
Circle F

The public is hereby warned against
buying or trading for cattle bearing these
brands from irresponsible people.
F. S. PERCY.
The true Democrat. [volume] (Bayou Sara [La.]) 1892-1928, 1913-10-18

The public is hereby warned against
buying wood, posts and timber of any
description from tenants on the Oakley,
Ogden and Downs plantations. All hunt /.
ing, cattle driving and fence-cutting is
positively prohibited and these places are
closed against agents of al kinds.
LUCY L. MATTHEWS.
The true Democrat. [volume] (Bayou Sara [La.]) 1892-1928, 1913-10-18

The Flower and Magnolia places are
hereby posted against all hunting, under
penalty of trespass. No exceptions
w. ]. FORT.
The true Democrat. [volume] (Bayou Sara [La.]) 1892-1928, 1913-10-18

Get the Little Ad" habit.
The true Democrat. [volume] (Bayou Sara [La.]) 1892-1928, 1913-10-18

Hunting and fishing are strictly prohib
tied, under penalty Of trespass. on the
following named places: Alton Villa, Oak
Grove, Layson, Maxwell, Flower Hill and
Shirley.
The Bellevue Farms Co., Ltd,
A. 8. BOWMAN, President.
The true Democrat. [volume] (Bayou Sara [La.]) 1892-1928, 1913-10-18

l am applying for Communication o
sentence.
ESSEX MOORE,
The true Democrat. [volume] (Bayou Sara [La.]) 1892-1928, 1913-10-18

Get the 'Little Ad" habit.
The true Democrat. [volume] (Bayou Sara [La.]) 1892-1928, 1913-10-18

The public is hereby notified that hunt
ing on, crossing over. or any. other form
Of trespass is prohibited on a piece OF
ground west OF the Y. G NJ. v. Railroad
beginning at the north boundary of r. II
Stirling and extending to Whitman plat
form, on the property of Mrs. s. T. Al
lain. Also on all property Of Mrs. C. H.
Lewis Mrs. j. A. Mhoon, and r. H. Stir
ling.
D II STIRT INC Agent
Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1913-09-29

newspaper filed with sympathy for the late Stanford
White asks the following question:
lis Thaw hero in New Hampshire he was in Canada
notorious he rich because there
genuine popular sympathy for him. his popularity due
the that he and his money making joke of law
and justice?'
Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1913-09-29
Sorrows Will Come Until
You Learn Sympathy
and COMPASSION.

Just as the scholar who has not
learned his lessons at school is
given the same lessons over and
over again, so will you be given
sorrow after sorrow and trouble
after trouble, until you learn the
great lesson of sympathy and COM
passion.
First Of all in thinking of your
misfortunes, remember you have
brought them on yourself Not in
this life, perhaps, but in former
lives. We have all lived many
lives; and by our thoughts and
deeds and desires we have fash
Toned our bodies and our circum-
stances.
If in other lives you were
wasteful and selfish and IMPROVE
dent and idle, you come into this
life poor and without friends or
influence.
1t is simply your life lesson of
self-development given you again
to learn. Industry, self-control,
economy, are the next lessons.
BY patient persistence you will
learn them all; and then indie
pendence and usefulness and hap
piness will be yours.
If you did not appreciate love
and affection in your last incarna-
ton you will be deprived of these
blessings for time in this life;
but if you give freely, even
though you do not receive, and if
you develop every loving impulse,
and ask for no return, and if you
refuse to think of your misfor-
tunes, and persist in thinking of
your great privilege in being al
lowed to do for others, then love
Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1913-09-29
DIR. Parkhurst Writes on Immortality
Many Hope Death End Of ALL but Deep Thinkers Believe This
Is Only the Beginning of a Future and Better Life

firm believer in the great invisible
world and in the God who is en-
throned in it, as is evidenced by
the two subjoined quotations from
his superb address:
TT is my function to remind you
and myself that our studies do not
exhaust the universe, and that If
we dogmatize in a negative direc-
ton, and say that we can reduce
everything to physics and chem
istry, we gibbet, ourselves as ludi-
crously narrow pedants,' and are
falling far short of the richness
and fullness of our human birth
right.
How far preferable is the rev.
erent attitude of the Eastern poet:
The world with eyes bent upon
Thy feet stands in awe with all its
silent stars
I'VE are deaf and blind, there
fore, to the imminent grandeur
around us unless we have insight
enough to appreciate the whole,
and to recognize in the woven
fabric of existence, flowing steadi-
ly from the loom in an infinite
progress toward perfection, the
ever-growing garment of a tran
scendent God"
Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1913-09-29
Written for The Atlanta Georgian
By Ella Wheeler Wilcox
Copyright, 1879

XIoU who complain bitterly of
I your troubles and sorrows
turn your gaze inward for
time and see what these expe-
riences have done for you.
Are you not stronger in soul,
drawer in mind, and more self
reliant because of your misfor-
tunes?
Have you not a deeper under
standing of human nature, and
larger sympathy for your fellow
men through having known trou-
BILE?
If you ask yourself these ques-
tions, and if you answer in the
negative then rest assured more
trouble will be sent you.
Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1913-09-29

HOWEVER occupied people
may be with the affairs of
this life. there are few, if
any who do not sometimes throw
their thoughts forward toward a
possible life to come. 1t is safe to
say that there is more of this fore
casting of another world than has
outward expression given to it.
A few are hoping that there is
nothing more for them after death,
being more than satisfied with
what they have had already. Some
simply brood over the possibili-
ties of Immortality wonderingly.
The most, by far the most are
trusting that the few years we pass
here are nothing more than the
beginning of life, its vestibule,
feeling that conditions, as they ex-
list now require something addi-
tional in order to their explana-
lions and Justification
1t is probable that there is less
general belief in Immortality than
there was fifty years ago. When a
boy, as | remember il. a man who
expressed doubt. in the doctrine
was regarded as queer, as mental
and moral defective. Nothing, so
far as appears, has in the mean
time been discovered to invahdate
the doctrine, and the change that
has transpired in mems opinions is
considerably due to the attitude of
the scientists.
Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1913-09-29
:: The Wall of the Freaks
By JAMES J. MONTAGUE.

A" erpessiO" opinion Secretary of state
BRIAN being fur
nshed By the -
THE Armess Wonder CRASHED his
I'm through with quit asa
used to headline of nights
Spelt out above the theater in big electric lights
The Yodling Goat the Thinking Pig the
And the Eight Legged all fol
look this 1 pit me fairly /
This week the Old Docs Talking
IS cried
~ When told date killed to
I've been the hit show Coney % Lee
Not the ThreeEIeaded Man had anything N
But that you're strong
And spend then
I the but lie put me
To best bet in this perfesh advertise"
SPOSE" said the ContortOnst with despairing
Its all because the President has this a
Them Socialists has got right; it's competition
For freaks against a Cabinet position
still this faults
wonder o throwing somersaults
he has got in
And has quick DOUBLE
the hammer sones
~ An let that's the goods he
When o ne landhi stall
But in this circus midway he's n us
him bright
sit in with at nigh
1 Kipling on is bet the he'd fling
In wrfn' out song like this that ought 0 sing:
the Doc! Doc!D
D he
But so pa oRri in hock.
All he does is stands boilers.
But gathers
&c are, is the Doc"
Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1913-09-29
Address Is Practically
a Rebuke to His
Colleagues.

The address is practically re-
buke to some of his colleagues for
falling to realize that mind is not
matter, and that so essential is the
difference between them that the
pursuit of scientific methods Of in
quiry will not carry them into the
region of mind, and that for them
to deny the existence of a world
above matter, because they have
been able to achieve so much in
the world that is within matter
without discovering in it a soul
or God, is a bare presumption
and the exercise of intellectual ar
rogance.
Such a deliverance from so
great an authority is a serious
matter, and | wish the readers of
this newspaper would give earnest
attention to the contents of this
article, for it has been written
with a view to rebuking and cor
recting the careless and thought
less thinking, of which there is so
much, even among intelligent peo-
pie. and that, too, in regard to
questions that are of the utmost
moment.
1t would not be fair to the truth
nor to Sir Oliver Lodge to close
this article without adding that
while he has not arrived at his con-
victions, regarding things which
eye hath not seen, by the pursuit
of scientific methods. he is never
theless, and ON other grounds, a
Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1913-09-29

or any special qualification or
equipment for investigating.
A man who knows one thing with
considerable thoroughness is liable
to imagine that large value there
fore attaches to his opinion upon
other matters. however distinct
they may be from the particular
subject upon which he is specially
informed.
That states the precise condition
of mind of certain investigators
b who have accomplished distin-
guished results in their study of
matter, and who therefore consider
that they are authorities upon
questions of mind, spirit and i'm
mortality. Which is as unreason-
ing as for a mathematical genius
to claim that because he is an
adept in questions of quantity his
opinion should therefore carry in
problems of art.
What has just been said is
stated, only in different words, by
one of the most distinguished
scientists of our generation, Sir
Oliver Lodge, man of such emf
nence as to have been elected to
the presidency of the BIZ .sh Asso-
citation. body which may be de-
fined as the organized scientific
intelligence of the British Empire.
Sir Oliver, whose accomplish
ments in physics and chemistry
have won for him such preferment,
is sufficiently broad in his appre-
Citations to realize that however
far he may have carried his chem
ical researches, he has not thereby
been brought across the frontier
of the territory of mind and con-
seriousness; that the principles and
methods applicable to the study of
matter do not apply TO questions
of soul and religion, so that the
negative attitude which a scientist,
as such, may occupy as toward
soul, God and Immortality has no
Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1913-09-29
Stars and Stripes

Some wives are getting finicky.
One sues because her husband
wanted to bring his "soulmate"
into the family.
Least said is best mended," is
not applicable when money is the
topic.
Huerta's self ILLUMINATION needs
to be backed by a little trunk
packing
What's the use of slit gowns if
the women are going to wear
boots?
Daniels is becoming a gallant
scout cruiser for a big navy.
Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1913-09-29
Scientists Have Failed
to Prove We Are
Immortal.

The scientists have not discover
ed that we are NOT immortal, but
have simply failed TO discover that
we ARE immortal: and there is
no reason why they should not
have failed, for the mind, the i'm
mortal part of us, if there be any
immortal part, is not matter that
scientists have any concern with,
Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1913-09-29

We all seem to feel resentment
that we are not ministered unto
continually.
And how few of us minister as
we might to others.
THREE FRIENDS.
of all the blessings tehich my life
has knoton.
I UGIue most, and most praise God
for three
Want, Loneliness and Pain, those
comrades true.
Who mdsquerdded in the 1arb Of
foes
For mGhy gear, and filled my
heart i0ith dread.
Yet tickle joys, like false, preten-
tious friends,
HaUe proUed less toorthy than this
trio. First,
Want taught me labor, led me up
the steep
And toilsOme paths to hills of pure
delight
Trod only By the feet that knoto
fatigue,
And pet press on until the heights
appear.
Then Loneliness and hunger of the
heart
Sent me Wpreaching to the realms
of space,
TIN all the siIences grea0 eloquent,
And all their IoUing forces hailed
me friend.
Last, Pain taught prayer; placed
in my hand the staff
of close communion soith the over
soul,
That might lean upon it to the
end,
And find myself made strong for
any strife.
And then these three Ioho had pWr-
sued my steps
Like stern, relentless foes, year
after gear,
Unmdsked, and turned their faces
fall on. me,
And 10! they I0ere diUinely beau
tifuI,
For through them shOne the Ius-
trOUs eyes of Lore.
Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1913-09-29
BY DR.. c. H. PARKHURST

bearing pro or contra upon the
question of the existence of the
soul, of God and of immortality.
All of this the president of the
British Association has recently
stated frankly and developed in de-
tail in his presidential address de-
livered before that body.
Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1913-09-29

and affection shall come to you
eventually.
Remember the words Of the
great Master, Christ:
Il came not to be ministered
unto but to minister"
Of all His sayings, this is one
of the greatest and one least
quoted by His followers.
Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1913-09-29
why Is ThaW Made a Hero in
New HampShire===as He
Was in Canada?

The Answer Simple People Do Not Like White Savers and
Vile Debauches of the Stanford White Type And They Do
Not Like the Friends Of Stanford White That Are Now
Hounding Thaw.