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Commissioners of said drainage dis
trict may be deemed necessary and
proper, pledging said five go mill
tax to the redemption of said indebt-
edness in principal and interest OF
the said series Of bonds amounting
to the sum of twenty thousand
($2O,00O.00) dollars.
TO create an Indebtedness or sew
enty thousand ($70,0o0) dollars and
authorize a bond issue of like
amount said bonds to bear interest
at the rate of five t5) per centum
per annuln and payable within TWEEN
ty-five years, and to be secured by
a special forced contribution Or acre
age tax of twenty-five cents per acre
on all the lands situated within the
limits of the Bayou Conway drainage
district of the parish of Ascension,
and subject to said special forced
contribution and special acreage tax,
for the following purposes, to wit:
Of paying the expenses of organlza-
ton and the running and operating
expenses of the said Board of Com
missioners of the said Bayou Con-
way Drainage District of the parish
Of Ascension; of operating drainage
canals, bitches or machinery owned
and operated or controlled by said
drainage district; to open, enlarge:
cut and extend such canals and
streams situated within the limits of
said drainage district and such other
work OF drainage as in the judgment
Of said Board of Commissioners may
be deemed necessary and proper,
economically, to drain the property
included within the limits thereof.
To levy, assess and collect a spe-
cial forced contribution or special
acreage tax of twenty-five cents per
acre on all lands situated and lying
within the limits of said drainage dis
trict for a period of twenty-five
years, beginning with the year 1913,
for the following purposes, to wit:
For the payment in principal and
interest of the series of bonds to the
amount of seventy thousand (S70,000.-
00) dollars, aforementioned; of pay
ing the expenses of organization and
the running and operating expenses
Of the said Board of Commissioners
of the Bayou Conway Drainage Dis
trict of the parish Of Ascension; of
operating drainage canals, bitches. or
machinery owned and operated or con.
troiled by said drainage district; to
open. enlarge, cut and extend such
canals and streams situated within
the limits of said drainage district
and such other works of drafnage as
in the judgment of said Board of
Commissioners may be deemed neces-
sary and proper, economically, to
drain the property included within
the limits thereof; of specially pledg-
ing such forced contribution or
acreage tax to the redemption of
said Indebtedness in principal and
interest, of said series of bonds
amounting to the sum OF. seventy
thousand (s7Q. 100000 dollars, the ag-
gregate amount to be raised by said
annual forced contribution during the
time which same Is levied.
For the purposes Of said election,
and in accordance with said resolu-
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ton, the polling places are hereby
designated at Carencro and DarroW,
the polling booth at Carencro to be
at Gaudin Brothers store, and the
polling booth at Darrrow to be at the
warehouse of l.. w Armitage; and
Messrs. Louis Gaudin, Joseph Rich
ardson and w W. Hodgeson have
been appointed commissioners, and
G. H. Gauthreau clerk of election to
serve at Gaudin Brothers store; and
Messrs. L.. w Armitage, sRosemond
Braud and John c. Klos have been
appointed commissioners, and Leo
Melancon clerk of election to serve
at the warehouse of L. w. Armitage.
And all of said commissioners and
clerks of election shall serve with
out compensation.
do further proclaim and give no
tice that at three (3) o'clock pm, on
Thursday, October 80, 1913, the said
Board of Commissioners Of the Ba-
you Conway Drainage District of the
parish of Ascension, will meet at
barrow, in the parish of Ascension,
La; and in open session proceed to
open the ballot boxes, examine and
count the ballots in number and
amount, examine and canvass the re-
turns and declare the result Of said
election, which result they shall
thereafter promulgate by publication
in one issue Of the official journal OF
the parish.
Done and signed, at Darrow, In
the parish of Ascension, state of Lou
isiana, on this 18th day Of septem-
Der, in the year of our Lord, 1913.
Signed: JOHN. T. MANY,
Vice President Board Of Commission
ers, Bayou Conway Drainage Dis
trict, Parish Of Ascension.
Attest: B. j. VEGA,
eeFetary-Traasurer
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ELECTION PRDcLAnAT ION.
Office of Board of Commissioners Of
Bayou Conway Drainage District
of the Parish of Ascension.
Darrow, La, Sept. 10, 1913.


ID URsUANT to a resolution adopt
J. ed by the Board of Commission
ers of the Bayou Conway Drainage
District of the parish Of Ascension,
at special meeting held On satur-
day, Sept. 10, 1913, /, John 7. Many,
vice president of the Board of Com
missioners Of the Bayou Conway
Drainage District Of the parish OF
Ascension, La, by virtue OF the au-
thority in me vested and in obedience
and compliance with said resolution,
do hereby proclaim that special
election will be held of the property
taxpayers, qualified under the consti-
isiana to vote at said election, in
the Bayou Conway Drainage Dis
trict Of the parish of Ascension, Lou
isiana, ON Wednesday, October 20,
1918, between the hours Of seven
O'Clock a. m. and five O'Clock p. NJ,
for the purpose Of obtaining the
sense of the property taxpayers en-
titled to vote, on the following propo-
sitions. to-Wit:
10 create an Indebtedness of TWEEN
ty thousand ($20,00G.00) dollars. and
authorize a bond issue Of like
amount, said bonds to bear interest
at the rate OF five per centum per
annum and payable within twenty
five $3.50 years, and to be secured by
q tax Of five 80 mills on the dollar
on the assessed valuation of the
erit I,o of
said drainage district, subject to tax
alton, for the following purposes, to-
wit: OF paying the expenses. Of Or
ganization and the running and oper-
ating expenses of the Board of Com
missioners of the Bayou Conway
Drainage District; of operating drain
age canals, bitches or machinery
owned and operated or controlled
by said drainage district; to open,
enlarge, cut and extend such canals
and streams situated within, the linn
its of said drainage district and such
ether works of drainage as in the
judgment of said Board of Commits
sioners Of said drainage district may
be deemed necessary and proper,
economically, to drain the property
included within the limits thereof.
To levy. assess and collect, annual
ly, special tax of five (5) mills on
the dollar on the assessed valuation
of all the property situated within
the limits OF the Bayou Conway
Drainage District OF the parish Of
Ascension. for a period Of twenty
five years, beginning with the year
1913, for the following purposes, to-
wit: For the payment in principal
and interest of the series OF bonds
OF twenty thousand CSC, 100000 dol
lars, aforementioned; of paying the
expenses OF organization and the
running and operating expenses of
the said Board Of Commissioners of
the Bayou Conway Drainage District
of the parish of Ascension; Of oper-
ating drainage canals, bitches or
machinery owned and operated or
controlled by said drainage district;
to open, enlarge, cut and extend such
canals and streams situated within
the limits of said drainage district
and such other work Of drainage as
in the judgment Of said Board Of,
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CAUSES OF SHORT CROPS.
Continued from page one.)

the row in a V-shape, and when the
cane is put in it is often one STALK
on top Of the other. When covered
with a disc cultivator that frequently
touches the cane on the side, some or
the stalks are raised up near the sur
face. which means that the dirt does
not lay close to all the cane ana
leaves air holes all through the rows
that have been planted to cane ana
which / think is often the cause OF
bad stands.
wv. used to have regular cane
planting 'fEuke TO pass in the rows
after blowing, that left the bottom
of the rows flat and six or eight IN
ched wide Then We would have
men TO go ahead of the planting gang
to take out all clods that might fall
in the rows, and also to open the
ends of rows so that the cane would
be planted the same depth on the
ends as the balance of the row. But
now we depend on the planters to DO
that and it is not done, so the cane
is planted only half way, and then
tlLEIS 10 oAl "a LItlS PSSA N~--"@O
result. Though saving the expense
of two or three men day in the
planting, in doing this planters run
the risk of having half a stand.
Which method pays would seem OBJ
Vious.
AS for the cultivation, believe, in
deep and thorough breaking Of the
land, and as to details of working
the crop, that is OF minor conse-
quence SO long as the ground is kept
well pulverized and free of grass.
1t would seem it can be said with
out hesitancy that for given place
worked say for ten years as above
outlined, more tons Of cane, more
money and more feed can be obtained
than when worked for the same
length of time as worked at present.
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GOSPEL Of G0OD ROADS.
Continued from page one.)

others come to. When they do this
there viii be a permanent road from
Baton Rouge to New Orleans ana
from Thibodaux to New Orleans, for
The West Baton Rouge people are
now talking of organizing a road dis
triet to gravel that stretch from the
IberviIle line to Port Allen, just OPP
posite Baton Rouge. 1t can scarcely
be thought that the progressive and
intelligent citizenship OF West Baton
Rouge will hesitate much longer to
take such action as has been taken
in Ascension, Assumption, Lafourcfle,
st. James and Iberville. Nor does 1t
seem likely that St. John and st.
Charles will fail to convince them
selves Of the merits and the real in
yestment value Of permanent road
construction. Jefferson, be it re-
membered, has already voted $780,
900 for permanent roads.
When we look back and realize that
all this has been accomplished since
last April, when We realize that in
addition to the parishes above named
East Baton Rouge and Jefferson par
ishes will make the total permanent
road mileage foot up to about two
hundred and fifty, according to what
these latter parishes have already pro
vided for, it cannot be said that the
last seven months have not seen
great forward steps taken in this
splendid and valuable movement
The people Of this section of Lou
isiana will soon be the unrivalled
beneficiaries of their own wisdom
and good judgment and their quick
and ready action is thorough man
Hesitation of their superior keenness
of perception. Let the splendid work
go on unhindered and with that unity
of purpose wherein the peoples very
best interests will be most carefully
considered, protected and subserved.
The gospel Of permanent roads de-
serves to be spread and preached,
and those who might place a value
on what they have seen accomplished
should express that appreciation by
giving their neighbors the benefit OF
their experience and knowledge.
You of Ascension, Assumption, and
ST. James who might have visited
IberviIle, and others who have come
and seen and acted, should carry the
work on into the territory of your
neighbors, giving to them whatever
of information and assistance you
might possess That is the spirit
that helps to build up a country or a
section, and to express ones thanks
by the cultivation Of suchs~a spirit
shows real appreciation GJany as
sistance that might have been Of
fered, rendered, or attempted to
be rendered. IT there are any among
those who might have learned any
thing of value Or benefit relative to
the matter of permanent road con-
struction through any action of mine
or through the action or by the as
sistance and information Of others
here in Iberville or elsewhere, and
who wish to express their thanks
and appreciation for the assistance
and information that has been will
ingly and gladly given them, express
it, by all means, by going among
your neighbors and pointing out the
advantages that caused you to take
action. Even as we have done, may
I request, Go thou and do likewise. !"
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Why Medical Advertising is Gener.
ally Fraudulent.

At different times, says the Jour-
nal Of the American Medical Associa-
ton, we have been asked the ques-
ton: Why is medical advertising
usually fraudulent? This question
has been answered to the best of our
ability, but we have never answered
it any better than does Standard Adj
vertising in it's issue of September,
1913. This magazine is carrying on
campaign for clean advertising.
Here is its explanation:
.In the orderly working out of our
campaign in favor of clean publica-
lions some criticism has come to
light because, according to our notion,
medical advertising is not legitimate.
The contention that a doctor, or
the owner Of a proprietary remedy,
may be as honest as a regular medi-
cal practitioner is true. He may be.
But he would make no advertising
profit
''No advertising doctor possesses
any secret which the profession does
not possess. He must make believe
some unusual advantage or his adj
vertising will not pull
Again, sick people are, as a rule,
gullible. They are discouraged, dis
heartened, and in no condition to
analyze. They grab at straWs, and
the main thing which medical adyer-
tisers do is to make the patient feel
better regardless of the permanent
effect on the system.
This brings about the dope which
is SO much in evidence in advertised
remedies and treatments.
Standard Advertising has no crit
icism to make of any doctor simply
because he adVertises, but the facts
stand out clearly that if he makes
his offer in keeping with the truth he
will not attract business, and for that
reason medical advertising is at
least 80 per cent fake advertising"
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List Of Letters
Remaining in the postoffice at Dor

Remaining in the postoffice at Don
aldsonyille for week ending Oct. 49,:
Joseph Ballatin, Sadie Bernard,
Mrs. E. j. Bell, Helen Brooks, ophe-
liza BucRner, Laura Dupree, Elda
Giroir, Lefty Jones, Josephine John
son, Col. Johnson, Mary Lemon, c.
IL Montero. Mary McNary, J. H.
Nichols, Maggie Norman, Buddy
Pinel, Laura Roins, Robt RIcard.
Lorena Smith, VIM. Turner, Sam
Thompson, Jane Thomas, Louise
Wright, Hanna Williams, R. H. Yale.
IN calling for these letters say
Advertised. If not called for In
two weeks, they vail be sent to the
dead letter office at Washington,
d. G.
WILFRED GUIGoU. Postmaster.
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Train No. / connects at Belle Helene
Junction with Yazoo and Mississippi
Valley passenger train No. 50, going
south, Train No. 80 connects with
Yazoo and Mississippi Valley passenger
train No. "a, going north.
Special Sunday excursion trip. leaving
st. Elmo 9 a. M, and returning leaving
New River at 10 a. m. Connects with
Yazoo and Mississippi Valley regular
Sunday excursion from New Orleans to
Baton Rouge.
For further information address.
GEORGE w. REESE. Pres.
Audubon Bldg, New Orleans.
j. ROBERT BEAUVAIS. Supt.,
st, Elmo, via Darrow. La.
Telephone 311.4.
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TO be the landmark Of time. Hence
forth all events would be reckoned
from this, Before the surrender" or
"after the surrender"
These trampling soldiers looked
worn and dispirited. Their shoulders
stopped; they were dirty and hungry.
They had answered those awful COM
mands to charge without murmur,
and then, rolled back upon a sea OF
blood. they charged again over the
dead bodies of their comrades. When
repulsed the second time and the mad
cry for a third charge from some des-
perate commander had rung over the
field, still without word they pulled
their old ragged hats down close over
their eyes as though to shut out the
hail of bullets. and, through level
sheets of binding fame, walked into
the jaws of hell. This had been easy.
Now their feet seemed to falter as
though they we're not sure of the
road
The group of ragged country boys
whose fortunes we are to follow were
marching toward the little village Of
Hambright that nestled in the foot
hills of the Blue Ridge under the
shadows of Kings mountain. They
were the sons of the men who had
FIRST declared their independence of
Great Britain in America and had
made their country hornets nest for
| lord CORVALLIS in the darkest days
IF the cause Of liberty. What tongue
can tell the tragic story of their hum
Bile home coming?
! Nature did not seem to know of sor
row and death. Birds were singing
their love songs from the hedgerows,
the fields were clothed in gorgeous
robes of wild flowers. beneath which
forget-me-nots spread their contrast
Ing hues of blue, while life was busy
In bud and starting leaf, reclothing the
bloodstained earth in radiant beauty.
AS the sun was setting behind the
peaks of the Blue Ridge, giant negro
entered the village of Hambright. He
walked rapidly down one of the prin-
cipa streets. passed the courthouse
| square unobserved in the gathering
! twilight. and three blocks farther
along paused before law Office that
| stood in the corner Of a beautiful lawn
| dlled with shrubbery and flowers.
Oars de ole home, praise the Lawd!
En- now rs erfeard ter see my missy,
en- tell her Marse Charles's daid.
i Hlt'n kill her. Lawd hab mussy on
my po' black soul! How can I?''
| He walked softly mp the alley that
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The window was raj, 1. and the ole
doctor thrust his head mt. calling:
what on earth's t natter? Who
Is that?"
Its me, Charlie on-my man.
mas sick-she's awful sick. I'm afraid
she's dying-you must come Quick!'
Cali right, sonny: I'll be ready in Q
minute"
The boy waited and waited. Il
feemed to him hours. days, weeks,
years! To every Impatient call the
doctor would answer:
I'm a minute, sonny. in a minute"
At last he emerged with his lantern,
to catch his horse. The doctor seemed
so slow. -Ye fumbled over the har.
ness.
"Oh, doctor, you're so slow! I tell
you my ma mma's Sick
"Well, we'll, my boy, we'll soon be
there" the old man kindly replied.
When the boy saw the doctors
horse jogging quickly toward his home
he turned the mares head aside as he
reached the courthouse square, reused
he preacher, and between his sobs
-old the story Of his mothers illness.
Mrs. Durham had lost her only boy
two years before. 500 harlie was
>obbing in her arms.
You poor little darlin. by your.
self so late at night; were you not
scared?" she asked as she kissed the
tears from his eyes.
"Yessum, was scared, but had to
20 for the doctor. l want you and DR..
Durham to come as quick as you can.
I'm afraid to go home. I'm afraid
hes dead, or I'll hear her laugh that
:wful way heard tonight"
"Of course we will come dear, right
way. We will be there almost as
Don as you can get to the house"
He rode slowly along the silent
treet, looking back now and then for
ne preacher and his wife
When Charlie was in bed, he lay
hour with wide, staring eyes. hold
ng his breath now and then to catch
he faintest sound from his mothers
Dom. All was quiet at last and he
ell asleep. But he was no longer a
mild. The shadow of a great sorrow
had enveloped his soul and clothed
him with the dignity and fellowship
IT the mystery Of pain.
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and wounu>t: on the ground that
night. Company F from Campbell
county charged with ninety-one men
and lost every man. killed and
wounded. Fourteen times their colors
were shot down, and fourteen times
raised again. The last time they fell
from the hands of gallant Colonel
Harry Burgwyn, twenty-one years
old. commander of the regiment, who
seized them and was holding them
aloft when instantly killed.
The last act of the tragedy had
closed. Johnston surrendered to Sher-
man at Greensboro on April 26, 1865,
and the civil war ended-the bloodiest.
most destructive war the world ever
|Saw.
The ragged troops were Struggling
home from Greensboro and Apo
mattox along the country roads. The
men were telling the story Of the sur
render. White faced women dressed
lin coarse homespun met them at their
doors and with quivering lips heard
the news.
surrender!
A new word in the vocabulary or
the south-a word SO terrible in its
meaning that the date of it's birth was
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Le0pard's
Spots
By THOMAS DIXON
Copyright, 1y02, by Doubleday, Page
By THOMAS DIXON
CONTINUED next week.
Copyright, 1y02, by Doubleday, Page
& Co.

row AIout It?
II may also be true that the roll
ing moss gathers no rocks 49,
Great Meeting In Ohio.
At one meeting in Ohio upon the
farm Of Joseph e. Wing, near Mechan.
icsburg, nearly 1000 people gathered
from all parts of Ohio and adjoining
states to learn more about alfalfa. AT
this great meeting the Ohio State AL
falfa Growers association was organ.
lied. sOver 800 automobiles made up
the alfalfa train. 1t is recorded as
the greatest agricultural assemblage
in the history of Ohio. Other Ohio
counties where the work has been
taken up report success on every
hand.
Sangamon and Kane co.Aties, Illi.
nois, have both conducted great cam.
paigns. At one meeting in Williams.
Vile, ILL.,, over 1900 farmers came to
hear the alfalfa lecturers.
In all of these campaigns which
were conducted within a period of
about two months nearly $4,000 farm
ers have been reached with the gos-
pei of alfalfa.
AS a result also Of the campaign
work it is conservatively estimated
that 100000 acres of alfalfa will be
seeded during this and the coming
season.
Such is the result of tn initial work
of campaigning for alfalfa, but vastly
more than this tangible result has
been accomplished. Every farmer
throughout the region where the work
was conducted is talking about al
falfa. The cooperation of the schools
in the territory is q very important
and effective feature. School officials,
from the highest to the lowest, have
never failed to appreciate the oppor-
tunity.
Professor Holden has expressed
himself as considering it the most
wonderful experience and the most
beneficial trip from the farm stand
point that he has ever taken.
But this is not aH-wherever the
farmers of any community are inter
ested in the growing Of alfalfa. when
possible follow-up man. thorough in
his knowledge of alfalfa culture, will
be sent out to assist them in getting
a start. He will live with the
farmers and aid them in solving
the problems at home. HeG uil
go from farm to farm upon re-
quest and study success and failure
Before the coming of 1914 caza-
paigns will have been conducted in
every part Of the United States and
Canada. Interest il growing 80 rap
dly that many counties have organized
campaigns and undertaken the work
without assistance from the outside.
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CHAP tx ].
@N the field of Appomattox
General Lee was waiting tin the the
~ return Of courier. his face
clouded by the deepening
shadows of defeat. Ramors of sur
render had spread like wildfire, and
the ranks Of his once invincible army
were breaking into chaos.
Suddenly the measured tread OF
brigade was heard marching into &C.
ton, every movement quick with the
perfect discipline. the fire, and the
passion of the first days Of the trl'
umphant Confederacy.
"What brigade is that?" he sharply
asked.
Cooks North Carolina" an aid re-
piled.
AS the troops swept steadily past
the General, his eyes filed with tears,
he lifted his hat. and exclaimed:
God bless old North Carolina!
The display Of matchless discipline
perhaps recalled to the great COM
mander that awful day Of Gettysburg
when the Twenty-sixth North Caro-
lima infantry had charged with $40
men rank and file and left 704 dead