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The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-03-02
AN APPEAL TO
RURAL RESIDENTS

| A we'll known and thoughtful cit
izen of Birmingham. who is modest
and scarcely Jumps" into the newspa-
pers suggested last week a most prac-
tical and timely duty which should be
taken home by those who desire good
roads and especially those who live
| in the country.
| W. II. Hassinger, who travels over
the roads of this county, said that in
places ruts had been made and road
/ spaces washed which could have been
saved If those residing nearby had
donated 10 minutes to the county and
nothing more. He pointed out that a
drain was stopped up with a little
wood or brush of some kind which
was allowed to remain in that condi-
ton. The rains came and the drain
being stopped up caused the road to
| be washed away costing perhaps s25
to be replaced. Mr.. Hassinger suggest
ed that If farmer living nearby had
noticed that condition it would not
have required more than 10 minutes
! of time to fix the drain and thus
would have saved the county and the
community money. Only a little prod
dlng OF the drain would have saved
that loss. 1t was suggested that if
the farmers who are more deeply con-
cerned about roads than any other
class would only look after those lit
tie matters from time to time that an
immense amount of good would there
by be accomplished. 1t was asserted
by a member of the board of revenue
thac the farmers would not do any
thing to help keep the roads in shape.
That member pointed out that the
farmers would drive to the courthouse
TO report tree across the road rather
than to spend 10 minutes to remove
the obstruction. To the ordinary friend
Oh the farmer that is held to be some
what oyerdrawn as it is difficult Ito
conceive how any taxpayer could be
so indifferent to the general welfare
of the community.
If the farmers would cooperate in
the work of keeping the roads that
are In good shape in their good con-
dition 1t is believed a great saving
to the county would result and the
bettered condition would be difficult to
| estimate
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-03-02
MANIACS AND
FIENDS ATTENTION

That j. Leo Sauer of the Federation
of American Motorcyclists intends to
"knocl" reckless riders is indicated in
statement sent out in reference to
the lecture here next Thursday of that
official.
The notice says:
Speed maniacs. tank riders and
openmuffler 'fiends' will find no COM
fort in the remarks of ]. Leo Sauer
when he arrives here from New York
to give. his address on The Motorcycle
and the f. "A. M Thursday, March g.
IN. Sauer comes here at the request
of the Federation of American Motor
cyclists and this organization of which
Mr.. Sauer Is prominent member is
as active in opposing motorcycle abuses
as it is in promoting the proper use
of motorcycles
"This phase of motorcycling will be
touched upon by Mr. Sauer in his ad-
dress here, and he will handle the sub
ject without gloves. He is assisting in
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-03-02
MOTOR DELIVERY
SERVICE COST LOW

Lee whitehead of the Highland gar
age, agents for the Alec truck, nae
figures on delivery costs which indi-
cate that merchants find great re-
lief of excess delivery charges by us
ing motor trucks.
He gave the following figures yes
terday, showing the low cost of de-
liyeries by motor conveyances:
Gasoline, $2S3.44; 1ubricating oil
$49.20; tank recharges, $12; speedom-
eter, chains, other articles and Incl
dentals lost or broken, $500; tires
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-03-02
A Southern Night School

In Houston. Tex, night school for
negroes a grandmother and her grand
son sit side by side on the front seat.
A photograph of the school in session
shows that 1t is patronized by every kind
Of negro, from the smartly dressed maid
and the modern, effective and well paid
household servants and cook. to the "old
nanny and the washerwoman of plain
fiat pieces.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-03-02

you learn what won them? Make
your own comparisons. No-Rim-
Cut tires will certainly not cost you
more per mile than others.
If they do for you what they
have done for legions, it means
an enormous economy.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-03-02
NO-Ri111-Cut Tires
1O% OverSiZ
Mark What the
Meter Says

On the tire question, let your meter talk.
Look at tire bills only.
Thirty makers say, "Our Tire is Best"
But the verdict of meters, after ID years,
has given Goodyear tires the largest sale in
the world. And that sale doubles yearly.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-03-02
Reason Says This

A tire that can't rim-cut must
save all that rim-cutting wastes.
And statistics show that rim
cutting ruins % per cent of all
old-type tires.
An oversize tire, of equal
quality. must outwear skimpy
tires.
Our 10 per cent oversize, un-
der average conditions, adds Is
per cent to the tire mileage.
Reason also says that tire
which has come to outsell all
rivals must in some way excel
them.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-03-02

SuCcI iuCiilS udo
become the sem
sation of Tire.
dom.
Men have used
two million of
them on per-
h aps 500, 900
cars. So many
men could not
wellbedeceived.
VIII y don't
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, nitiou switch was closed and the en-
CINE started without being eranked,
the charge of gas having been retained
| In the cylinder from the time the car
left the factory
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-03-02

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The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-03-02
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We deserve this test.

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Year by year they have made
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them a dozen strong features
found in no other tire.
They have saved motor car
owners many millions of dol
lars. They have won over an
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-03-02
KEROSENE FOR
AUTOMOBILES

| That gasoline which is now a great
| factor in the high cost of living or
| at least the cost of high living is to
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-03-02

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The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-03-02
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Here is a tire which, through
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The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-03-02

Judge Dan Greene, who has beer
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-03-02

LNNERY state is preparing to prevent
the sale of spurious stock. Ala
- bama, in the next regular session
The true Democrat. [volume] (Bayou Sara [La.]) 1892-1928, 1913-07-19
TEACH THE GIRLS HoME-MAklNG.

A girl who cannot cook the food she
eats, who cannot make even her sim
plest garments, who cannot wash and
iron them, and who does not know any
thing about what to do in a sick room,
should not consider herself a candi-
date for matrimony. She is cheating
the man she marries and laying up
heartaches for herself.
God intended women to be home
makers and we are robbing the girls
when we do not provide suitable train
ing for their life work.
Give the girl literary education,
and add accomplishments il you like,
but should these be allowed to crowd
out the really necessary training for
her life work?
Domestic science can be made as in
teresting and attractive to girls as the
practical studies and shop work are to
boys, in their schools. Why is not the
science of bread-making as interesting
to girl as memorizing the distance of
the heavenly bodies from the sun?
Would not the members of her family
enjoy eating one of her fragrant loayes
quite as much as they would seeing
her Edo a sum" in algebra? Would she
be any less lady because she knew
how to take sick child's tempera-
ture?-Mrs. James Fl. Henley, in The
Progressive Farmer.
The true Democrat. [volume] (Bayou Sara [La.]) 1892-1928, 1913-07-19
AS TO cHARBoN.

Dr. W. H. Dalrymple in Country Review:
Press dispatches indicate that out
breaks of Charlton have occurred in
different sections of the State the
present season, and the remark is fire.
quently made that unless steps are
taken at once to check the disease, a
general epizootic is feared, or some
thing to that effect. The State law
and the regulations of the Live Stock
Sanitary Board are perfectly plain,
and if we are not mistaken every po-
lice jury or district attorney in the
State has copy of them, One great
trouble is, that great many of our
people do not even yet know of the
existence of such a State Board, al
though it was established by the Leg
islature as far back as 1908, with the
result that the help the Board is able
to afford is not taken advantage of,
and disease is permitted to spread that
would most probably be checked if re-
ported properly to the authorities,
Among the chief things to do in all
Charlton sections are, first of all, to
vaccinate the stock regularly every
season, whether Charlton has broken
out or not; second, the burning up, or
carefully burying deep with lime, all
animals that die aat this season of the
year; and, third, the destruction of all
agents that are capable of carrying
the infection, of which the buzzard is
about the most guilty There need not
now be any conjunction about de-
stroying the buzzard. The State Con-
servation Commission has already
passed a resolution requiring it's de-
struction, as it is menace to the live
stock interests of the State.
1t is thought that fewer outbreaks of
Charlton have been reported to the au-
thorities this season, which may be &C.
counted for by closer observance of
the sanitary regulations of the Live
Stock Sanitary Board. However, in
order to obtain the most satisfactory
results, these regulations should be
strictly observed by everybody all over
the State, as it is only in this way that
we are ever going to get rid dof this
fatal infection.
The true Democrat. [volume] (Bayou Sara [La.]) 1892-1928, 1913-07-19
WHooPlNe COUGH.

1t hardly seems necessary to give
statistics to prove what a serious and
fatal disease whooping-cough is and
to show that, instead of being a trifiing
affair as it is usually considered TO be
by the laity, it is a condition of the ut
most gravity. "Any disease which kills
ten thousand children per annum is .
as Rucker says, "a serious one. If bu-
bonic plague were to kill that many
children in the United States in one
year, the whole world would quaran-
tine against our country. A child dead
of whooping-cough-is just as dead as a
child dead of plague"
What is being done in this country
to limit the spread and diminish the
death-rate from this dread disease,
asks Dr. John L. Morse of Boston, in
a recent issue of The Journal Of the
American Medical Association. Sur
prisingly little. 1t is notifable dis
ease in only twenty-nine states. The
health officers of many of these states
say, moreover, that very little atten-
ton is paid by physicians to the law
requiring notification. Whooping-
cough should be made everywhere a
lreportable disease as in the case of
smallpox, scarlet fever and diphtheria.
The house should be placarded and the
inmates instructed by the health au-
thorities as to the seriousness of the
disease in infancy and the methods to
be employed to prevent contagion.
The patients should be separated
from the other children in the family,
if they are under 5 years of age, or the
patients should be removed to special
hospitals, constructed ON the shack
plan in order to give the children the
maximum amount of fresh air.
The true Democrat. [volume] (Bayou Sara [La.]) 1892-1928, 1913-07-19
MORE TIME FOR CONTEST.

Owing to the fact that many rural
schools were closed at the time when
the prize maintenance essay was an.
nounced by Director Logan Waller
Page of the Office of Public Roads, it
has been decided to extend the limit
for receiving the essays to October 10,
1913. In addition to the gold medal
given as first prize, two silver medals
will be given as second and third prizes.
If child who has submitted one es-
say previous to the issue Of this notice
should care to try again, he is at liber-
ty to do SO, but he must be pupil of
rural school. There is some misunder.
standing in regard to the subject of the
essay. The idea is to set the children
thinking how to better their earth
roads with the material they have at
hand.
The true Democrat. [volume] (Bayou Sara [La.]) 1892-1928, 1913-07-19
SUGGESTION ON RoAD-MAklNe.

Mr.. John A. White writes The Clin-
ton Waterman making a suggestion,
good in itself, as regards woodworking
but not practicable for one all-impor-
tant reason, and that is that not one
man in twenty knows anything about
making a road, certainly those that
can be found having such knowledge
cannot be hired at one dollar the day.
But this is what Mr.. White says:
After consultation with a. number of
the farmers, Taxpayers and road over
seers of the parish recently, am fully
convinced that the public roads can
be worked cheaper and kept in good
condition, by what will call the hired
system, viz:
Let the road overseers call out the
hands on their sections of the roads
once year, say in August and Sep
TENDER, pay each good hand rs cents
"a day, pay rs cents for each team and
pillow per day, and pay the road over
seers one dollar per day. This will be
flor a road with ten hands, two teams
and one overseer, ten dollars per day.
This force can work almos tany Sec
ton of the public roads in two days,
making twenty dollars for working
from three to four miles of road. Then
have it understood that the overseer is
expected to call out the necessary
number of hands any time of the year
he may have a bad hole or place in his
road and pay them at the rate of Is
cents per day.
With this system am confident the
public roads can be worked at a cost
of ten or fifteen dollars per mile year
and have better roads than we have
had, or ever will have, with the con-
templated system of letting out the
roads by contract. The hands, farm
ers and overseers will take more pains
| in working and keeping the roads in
good condition than they ever have, as
they are paid fair price for their
labor.
To work the roads by thi system
the amount that can be raised, with
the per capita tax, vehicle tax and one
and one-half mills will give every dol
lar needed and perhaps more, and in
two or three years we will have the
best public roads we have had in the
parish for the past twenty years OF
more,
The true Democrat. [volume] (Bayou Sara [La.]) 1892-1928, 1913-07-19
ARE YOU RAISING MOSQUITOES

We saw in an exchange the other
day V hat is said to be splendid thing
to run away the mosquitoes, and came
near copying the recipe, but on sec
ond thought we said to ourselves,
that is not what we need" We want
to educate the people on the necessity
of getting rid of the breeding places of
the mosquitoes. One family that has
fortified itself with this said excellent
remedy of preventing mosquito bites,
may have half a dozen or more old tin
can, iron pot breeding places in the
alley or back yard that will produce
enough mosquitoes to run the neigh
bors crazy.
Go around your place now and empty
all receptacles of water from the re-
cent rains. 1t takes only about three
days after rain for the water to get
stagnant and begin to send out mil
lions of the pesky things. Not only
will your health be better if you get
rid of mosquitoes, but the getting rid
of the annoyance of being bitten is
worth the trouble that it takes. If you
have cistern in the yard pour tea
cup of coal oil on the top of the water,
and this will be a dead shot against
any mosquitoes coming from that els
tern for many day. OF course, the
law says that every cistern should be
screened, but then there are few of
them that are really screened right.
The smallest hole in screen will be
sufficient to let the hoard loose ON the
neighborhood.- Signal.
The true Democrat. [volume] (Bayou Sara [La.]) 1892-1928, 1913-07-19

the front half of the log. The road
drag should move forward SO that it
slants across the road in such a way
that small amount Of earth will slide
past the smooth face of the log toward
the center of the road, thus forming
the crown. The edges of the logs will
smooth out the ruts. The best way to
drag is to begin at the side ditch and
go up one side of the road, and then
down the other. In the next trip the
drag should be started a little nearer
the center and the last trip over the
road the ORA gmay work close to the
center itself. Small ridges of earth will
be thrown in the horse track and
smeared by the round side of the log
smoothly over the road. The smearing
of the earth by the drag is called "pud-
ding" and it tends to make the sur
face of the road smooth and water
tight after the sun comes out. The
road is always dragged after it has
rained and not when it is dry. A good
strong pair of horses with a well-built
drag can drag about 3 or miles in a
day, and it is the best way to maintain
good roads. In every county some
farmer along each 4 miles of road
should own a drag and drag the road
when it rains. He would always find
the road in good condition when he
goa4 to market.
The true Democrat. [volume] (Bayou Sara [La.]) 1892-1928, 1913-07-19
THE MORTGAGE.

Judge:
81 Jenkins bought a house and lot
On easy terms, one day;
A little down in cash was all
He was required to pay.
The smiling agent gladly took
A mortgage for the rest.
ITS fine" said 81, Gin real estate
Your savings to inyest!"
He saved and shaved from year to
year
The interest to meet;
He hadn't clothes upon his back,
Nor shoes upon his feet.
And when an earthquake came a
last,
And, like a hungry bear,
just gobbled up the house and lot,
The mortgage still was there!
The true Democrat. [volume] (Bayou Sara [La.]) 1892-1928, 1913-07-19

The great Ruston demonstration
would be more impressive if it had not
been dominated SO markedly by some
of Senator Ransdell's known political
enemies, who, unless they are unus
ually broad-minded, are not likely to
approve what he does. The North
Louisianians may mean all that they
say, but it would be more convincing
had they chosen other spokesman.
The true Democrat. [volume] (Bayou Sara [La.]) 1892-1928, 1913-07-19
JULY %, 1892.

Judge Brame revived the good old
custom Of swearing on the Bible, in
stead of merely raising the right hand,
as had obtained for some time past.
There may have been some consterna-
ton when the Bible was called for. as
there was none in the parish archives,
but a pious family across the street
soon supplied one.
S. L. Lavergne raised fifty barrels of
potatoes from planting of only three,
The true Democrat. [volume] (Bayou Sara [La.]) 1892-1928, 1913-07-19
CLARION VACCINE TO EAST
FELlClANA.,

WASHINGTON, July 15.-Represen-
tative Morgan to-day obtained an or
der from the Bureau of Animal Indus
try to send $50 doses of anticharbon
vaccine to be distributed to planters
in East Feliciana Parish, where char
bon is present among the cattle.
The true Democrat. [volume] (Bayou Sara [La.]) 1892-1928, 1913-07-19

1t is stated in all seriousness that in
New Orleans the other day, the hos
pital ambulance could not get within
block of the residence of a dying
man because the street was so bad.
Such city streets vie with some coun-
try roads in that respect.
The true Democrat. [volume] (Bayou Sara [La.]) 1892-1928, 1913-07-19

Fifty dead flies will admit a child to
a Birmingham picture show, which is
a very good way to reduce flies, If pre-
cautions are taken to see that the
young fy-catchers are not engaged in
breeding flies, as has been done.
The true Democrat. [volume] (Bayou Sara [La.]) 1892-1928, 1913-07-19
Pictures of the Past.
Extracts from the files of The True Democrat,
published twenty-one years ago.

J. Freyhan & Co. filled an order OF
10000 pounds of meat, shipping same
to North Louisiana by boat.
T. w. Butler was visiting at Yellow
Sulphur Springs, Va.
Mrs. L. Marks was visiting in Ger.
many.
There was talk of bringing the at
tention of the grand jury to violations
of the Sunday law.
Mrs. Golsan entertained the Musical
Club.
The Washington herald., 1913-01-18
THE OPEN FORUM
The Rockefeller Foundation.

To the Editor: have read with great
Interest the discussion in the daily pa
psrs of the bill to incorporate the Rookie
feller Foundation. Through the work
which has been done in Virginia by the
Rockefeller sanitary commission. I have
had an excellent opportunity TO Judge
tine wonderful possibilities for good
which lie in the setting apart Of this
vast sum of money for benevolent and
philanthropic purposes.
have examined the bill, and while I
think that the measure is excellently
drawn i'll many respects and that the
purposes of the foundation are secured
for all time, have single objection to
offer.
II the money which Mr.. Rockefeller
is TO give Is to be used In philanthropy
why should that amount he limited to
800. 900 900? Any one who is acquainted
with the needs of this country in sani-
tation and in social service in general
must realize that $4,000, 900 is but a drop
in the bucket. and that ten or one hun
dred times that amount could be used
to advantage. Why should this arbitrary
limit be put upon so laudable a purpose?
ENSION C. WILLIAMS.
Commissioner.
The Washington herald., 1913-01-18
How to Ride a bull Moose.
NV Cnrrr.nnrde,,cr New Ynrk MorId.

Albany Correspondence New Yrrk World.
Warwick Stevens Carpenter. who
dropped into town recently to visit David
n. Watkins, general passenger agent OF
the Hudson Navigation Company. said
that he had discovered that riding wild
bull moose is a sport popular among
Canadian Indians and lumberjaCks. He
has just returned from the Canadian
wiIds. where he says he learned that a
moose. although a formidable animal.
may he ridden with little danger To a
person who knows how 10 swim.
And when I got hack TO the States
he said. II found that Teddy Roosevelt
had started the Bull Moose party. With
a. guide I was crossing Sturgeon Lake.
& biE bull moose was swimming ahead
Of us, and the guide padded the canoe
alongside the animal He handed me
the paddle and | was surprised TO sec
him step out OF the canoe on TO the
moose's hack. Deity grabbing tho
antlers. he straddled the animals hack.
and before I knew il was fast pulling
away from the canoe. The moose at first
merely swan faster. then IL tried to
shake OF it rider by diving. but was un-
successful. Finally the guide swan back
to the canoe"