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The true Democrat. [volume] (Bayou Sara [La.]) 1892-1928, 1913-12-13
REFORM. OF HIGH SCHOOL
ENGLISH SUGGESTED.

Lake Charles American.Press:
At the meeting of the national coun-
ell OF Teachers oof English in Chicago,
a few days ago, Prof. Scott said that 1t
was useless to decry the influence of
the newspaper. Not even the Bible,
he mournfully said, could compete
with it "as the most powerful and
pervasive influence of our day and ma.
ton" Therefore, the professor said,
the Teachers of English must address
themselves to the task of reforming it,
pointing out it's faults and leading it
back to the use of correct language.
He suggested that in the Junior and
senior grades in every high school a
definite time, say a week should be
set apart for instruction regarding the
newspaper. We favor some form OF
instruction for high school pupils, but
would suggest that the best method oil
reforming newspaper English would be
to teach the high school pupils Eng
Ilish The editor of the American
Press has spent 80 much of his time
trying to impart the rudiments of thu
language to high school graduate
that he has sometimes felt that tn
school board should pay him salary
The true Democrat. [volume] (Bayou Sara [La.]) 1892-1928, 1913-12-13
HAVE SPENT $4,000 A YEAR.


An average of almost $4,000 a year
has been spent for a decade by the
government fighting the cotton boil
weevil, according to report made by
Secretary of Agriculture Houston to
the house agriculture committee. He
asked larger future appropriations.
Early planting and harvesting of cot
ton crops, with incubation Of fields
and rotation of crops, are the surest
method of fighting the weevils, Hous,
ton asserted The department doubts
the material efficacy of the use of ar.
senate of lead, sulphur and Paris green
in eradicating the pests.
The true Democrat. [volume] (Bayou Sara [La.]) 1892-1928, 1913-12-13
Where Red Gross
Seals Are Sold

With the exception of Florida and
Nevada, Red Cross seals are on sale
in one or more cities Of every state in
the Union, and also in Hawaii and the
Canal Zone. In most of the states the
sale has been organized in every city,
village and hamlet Every conceivable
method Of conveyance is being EN-.
ployed in shipping the seals from the
various state headquarters to local
agents, from the ox-team in Alabama
and Mississippi, and the pack-burro in
Colorado, to the express train and the
automobile in New York These holt
day seals are even being sold in noun
tain hamlets, where the snow will pre-
vent the receipt of returns for months
after the first of the year The Red
Cross seals, as every one knows, are
to help increase the fund needed by
the National Association for the Study
and Prevention of tuberculosis, the
dread disease which claims hundreds
of victims daily. So devastating is
this enemy of the human race that
every effort now is being made TO ar
rest and to prevent the ravsges of one
of the most insidious diseases known.
You can help to fight tuberculosis with
the Red Cross seal. Do your share
now.
The true Democrat. [volume] (Bayou Sara [La.]) 1892-1928, 1913-12-13
CHRISTMAS COMMANDMENTS.

Don't do up parcel in such poor
wrapping paper that the wrapper may
be easily torn and separated from the
contents.
Don't fall to put your name and ad-
dress, preceded by the word from" on
the upper left-hand corner of every
h piece of mail.
Don't fail to give full address-street
and number Tor box), town, city, coun-
ty and state or destination
Don't mail parcel without previous.
lily weighing 1t to ascertain the amount
of postage required; printed matter,
one cent per two ounces, merchandise,
1 cent per pound.
Don't place handkerchiefs, neckties,
or other articles or merchandise in
packages of printed matter, unless you
prefer to pay higher rates of postage
on the whole.
Don't seal or wrap parcels in such a
manner that their contents may not be
easily examined, unless you desire to
pay letter rates of postage.
Don't use cent and 2 cent stamps
and postage on heavy packages. Use
the large denominations 1t saves you
trouble affixing them and saves time
and work in the post Office
Don't fail to register valuable letters
and packages. The government in
sures their safe delivery, and the extra
cost is eight cents.
Don't mail sealed packages of mer-
chandise to Canada and Mexico The
rates for unsealed packages to these
countries are the same as in the Unit.
ed States. namely, cent per ounce.
Don't mail parcels of merchandise to
other countries without making spec
ial inquiry regarding the regulations
governing parcel post
Don't mail jewelry and coins to
foreign countries. They are positive.
ly prohibited from the mails.
Don't forget to mail parcels early.
Don't expect the post Office to trans
nit and deliver Christmas parcels
within the same number of days and
hours as the other times. Allowance
of from one to three days extra should
be made.
The true Democrat. [volume] (Bayou Sara [La.]) 1892-1928, 1913-12-13
A QUESTIONABLE EXHIBITION.

Al Jennings, reformed bandit and
train robber, now respectable attor-
ney at law, will be candidate for the
Democratic nomination for governor
of Oklahoma next year.
His object is to keep certain parties
who helped defeat him for prosecuting
attorney from getting the plum. A
spectacular speaking tour, accompa.
MED by moving picture operators, is
being planned by Jennings supporters
and at the same time the film operat.
ors will make reels showing the OK
bandits history.
The true Democrat. [volume] (Bayou Sara [La.]) 1892-1928, 1913-12-13
Gov. Hall
Analyses
Bond Issue

The governor was disinclined to dis.
cuss either the effect of the baby
bonds or the merits of Lieut.. Gov. Bar.
rets preference that bids for short
term paper be asked and compared
with the price offered for bonds. He
spoke briefly for publication and con-
fined himself strictly to an analysis OF
the merits of the present bond issue
and that proposed originally by the
Sanders legislature for the issuance
of 50-year per cents.
"The bonds have been Sold" said
Governor Hall after the sale, "and the
state will meet its obligations prompt.
ly at maturity. The fight has been a
long and difficult one, but notwith.
standing predictions to the contrary,
we have not failed. The state will not
suffer the humiliation and injury of q
default.
"The debt to be paid is $10,567,470
If 50year bonds bearing per cent per
annum interest had been issued and
sold at par the annual interest would
have amounted to $422,698.SO, and az
gregated in so years $21, 134,940.
Under the present plan the debt to-
gether with the bonded discount, ia
$10,991,522. The annual interest on
this at Az per cent will be $498, 618.49
The average maturity of the bonds Is
So years. So the aggregate interest
to be paid will be $17,211,547.15. Let
us add to this the bonded discount oil
$424,O52, making the aggregate amount
of interest $17,635,595,
$50 the state, Notwithstanding the
discount and the payment of AZ pei
cent interest, will pay $3,499,341 less
than it would have had to pay on the
debt if a per cent f1fty-year bonds had
been issued and sold at par. In other
words, we will pay this much less than
we would have paid on the old bonds
bearing per cent.
This comparative statement as
sumes that no bonds will be retired
except at maturity. OF course, the
surplus which will accumulate Is used
to retire bonds before maturity; the
interest account will be smaller ant
the difference much greater than the
amount above stated.
81 will not discuss at this time the
question as to the wisdom of selling
the long-term bonds rather than re
sorting to the temporary refundins
plan. This can be absolutely demon
strated by figures Besides, it is worth
great deal to the state to have thu
matter settled and the disturbing ele
ment of uncertainty removed from ouI
fiscal affairs,
"The plan leaves nothing open in thu
| future to annoy US, providing, as i
does, automatically for the paymen
of the principal and interest of thu
debt"
The true Democrat. [volume] (Bayou Sara [La.]) 1892-1928, 1913-12-13
POPE WON'T ABANDON POWER.

A special to the N. o. Picayune says:
Commenting on press reports from
Rome that the pope contemplated re.
nouncing his temporal power in favor
of the Italian sovereign, Archbishop
Glennon, in sermon, declared he was
sure the holy father would remain in.
dependent and not become the subject
of ruler. This is one of the many
reasons why, he said, the great inter
national peace tribunal should be
transferred from The Hague to the
holy see"
The true Democrat. [volume] (Bayou Sara [La.]) 1892-1928, 1913-12-13
Barrett and
Pleasant are
in Minority

AS Lieut.. Gov. Barrett and Attorney
general Pleasant were in the minority
at the Board of Liquidation meeting
on the question of accepting the syn
dicate bid, the statement given out by
the former expressing the views Of
both will be read with interest. In
part it follows:
Lieut.. Gov. Barrett moved that the
bids be referred to the subcommittee
authorized by the last meeting of the
board, charged with the duty of seeing
what was the highest and best offer
that could be gotten from the short.
term bonds or certificates, this with
the view of ascertaining whether it
was to the interest of the people that
a discount of Sd24,OOo should be made
upon the lohgterm bonds. No one
was prepared to say at what the tenn.
porary short-term bonds could be sold.
1.-THE Lieutenant Governor stated
that 1t had been his effort and that Of
the Encouragement at the last meet
ing to provide against this very con-
tingency; that the short-term loan had
been the first reason discussed for the
Constitutional Convention that the fact
that there was bad market for bonds
just now was the very reason that
suggested the short-term bonds or
notes; that, of course, it was to the in
terest of the people to get rid of this
matter and to refund this bonded debt,
but to what extent was the best for
the people could only be learned from
ascertaining the price at which the
lshort-term loan could be obtained;
! that our banker friends had said in
| the summer, when they had suggested
the Constitutional Convention that a
short-term note, bearing per cent,
could be fioated at par; that all re-
membered that within three or four
years after the panic of 1893 money
was plentiful and almost drug on
the market, and that it was pretty
heavy discount to pay s424,000 FOR
floating the bonds and adding half
of per cent more to the annual inter
est on the States bonded debt, and
that we had right to show in the
record of the State Board of Liqlida.
ton absolute proof of which was to
the best interest of the people, and the
record did not show that as it stood.
"And in view of the fact that they
were not given an opportunity to test
! the value of the short.term loans, the
lieutenant Governor, Attorney-gener'
al and Speaker of the House voted nc
on the acceptance of the bid"
The true Democrat. [volume] (Bayou Sara [La.]) 1892-1928, 1913-12-13
COTTON GINNEp TO DATE.

Cotton ginned prior to December /
is 12,91O,0OO bales, including $3.50
round bales, and $1,000 sea island.
Last year there was ginned to Deem
Der list, 11,S54,541 bales.
BY states-Alabama, 1,965,00o; Geor.
gia, 100000; South Carolina, 1,l61,'
900; Texas, 3,571 900; Arkansas, 1885,
OOO Florida, $4,000; Louisiana, $40,
900; Mississippi, $4,000; North Caro-
lima, $4,000; Oklahoma, $4,000; Ten
nessee, 100000, and all other states
$4,000.
Louisiana is next lowest, Tennessee
having the latter distinction.
The true Democrat. [volume] (Bayou Sara [La.]) 1892-1928, 1913-12-13
SHE. NEEDS TEETH.

When photograph of a couple who
have been married for twenty-five or
fifty years is published, why does the
famale part of the sketch always look
as though she could bite nails in two?
Is it her object to knock the gamer
Lake Charles Americana Press
Nay, nay. 1t shows that when false
teeth were needed in the family. she
didn't get them. Hence the union OF
nose and chin.
The true Democrat. [volume] (Bayou Sara [La.]) 1892-1928, 1913-12-13
NOW OBSERVE, IF. THEY OBEY

The Louisiana Railroad Commission
has ordered the Illinois Central, the
Yazoo & Mississippi Valley and the
Texas & Pacific railroads to install
improved block signal systems on
their main lines at the rate Of not less
than twenty miles of installation per
year.
The true Democrat. [volume] (Bayou Sara [La.]) 1892-1928, 1913-12-13
BY MUTUAL AGREEMENT.

Shreveport Journal:
Governor Eugene Foss of Massachu-
sets says that he is done with the
democratic party" And it might be
remarked in order to make it unani-
nous that the Democratic party is
done with Governor Foss of Massa-
chusetts.
The true Democrat. [volume] (Bayou Sara [La.]) 1892-1928, 1913-12-13

The wood Of persimmon and dog
wood is valued for making shuttles.
These woods are becoming scarce.
More of these trees should be planted
The true Democrat. [volume] (Bayou Sara [La.]) 1892-1928, 1913-12-13
LUCKY WHEN THE GHOST WALKS

Saturday takes its name from Saeter,
the Roman Saturnus, and for long
time it was looked upon as the un-
luckiest day of the entire week
The true Democrat. [volume] (Bayou Sara [La.]) 1892-1928, 1913-12-13

Continued On page two.)
The Washington herald., 1913-04-11
SAVING III. Legs.

From the Philadelphia Ledger.
Doctors may err, even In the stiffness
Of the sickroom. How much more, then,
are they likely to make mistakes In the
uproar of the battlefield! That this 10
80 is shown by the experience OF the
famous Russian general. Dragomiron,
who once narrowly escaped losing both
his legs. He commanded division dur
ing the Russo Turkish war, and fell in
the fighting at the Shipka Pass, wounded
In several places. He was carried. IN
conscious. to field hospital, and came
to himself just as the doctors were about
to amputate both legs.
Drogomiron said he would rather take
his chance of dying but they persisted.
Then he drew q revolver and swore he
would blow out the brains Of the first
man who tried to use lancet on him.
He had his way, but for over a week he
held that revolver tightly clenched in his
hand, fearing that the surgeons would
yet play a trick on him. At night he
made his servant stand on guard, armed
with a rife He recovered after few
weeks illness, and the only permanent
i'll effect was a slight limp. Needless to
say, he afterward regarded the army sur
geon as one Of the soldiers worst foes.
The Washington herald., 1913-04-11
Airships and Warfare.

From the Buffalo Express.
The successful operation of q machine
gun mounted on the upper deck of a
Zeppelin airship induces speculation as
to the future of aircraft in warfare. 1t
does not appear probable that the ex-
pertinent at Friedrichshafen, Germany,
have demonstrated that aerial battle
ships are practical. In fact, the imper-
fections in the construction and operation
OF airships are important limitations to
their effective use in offensive and de-
fensve warfare. However, the expert
ments revealed a portentious trend in the
development of aviation. Whether the
day when the fearful aerial battles of
fiction will be possible is near or distant,
Germany and other countries are trying
to hasten that time.
Possibility of the transfer of the car
mage of battle to the air has aroused
opposition to the equipment of aerial
fleets. To some extent this opposition is
organized II found expression at the
last peace congress at Geneva, Switzer-
land. The delegates from the various
countries favored a convention of the
powers to eliminate the use OF air craft
in actual offensive and defensive tactics
While the congress- of course, is opposed
TO war, yet the use of airships for scout
ing and accommodating service was not
so abhorred.
The Washington herald., 1913-04-11
BRITISH PRISON HOTELS.
Veterans in Crime Have URiase
Old-age scheme.


Correspondent New York Tribune.
Prison hotels, where habitual criminals
are housed. are being made so comfort
able in England nowadays that offenders
who have spent their lives in criminal
pursuits and have reached the retiring
age are now adopting thescustom of COM
hitting serious crimes when they arrive
at the age OF sixty or whereabouts in or
der that they may pass their remaining
years In the peaceful precincts OF the
prison hotel
course of building at Parkhurst Isle of
Wight and soon will be occupied by
some seventy or eighty aged convicts
who nave become privileged prisoners
under the scheme originated by Winston
Churchill few years ago.
The "Old Brigade" have mostly very
light indoor or outdoor work in associa-
ton. They are permitted to talk to each
other. They are allowed an armchair and
a bedstead in their cells, as well as re-
ligious and other periodicals, and where
chewing is difficult. owing to loss of
teeth, minced meat and beef tea are in
cluded in the dietary.
THE conditions Of these worn-out vet
Grams of crime have been very consid-
erably ameliorated and the vast majority
of them are keenly alive to the fact
says the prison chaplain In his last re-
port. They are grumblers. as a matter
of course. but grumbling, after all, hurts
no one, snd is, moreover. a safety valve
of some value.
so satisfied are the greater number
that / am afraid many Of them will re-
turn to penal servitude on purpose to
end their days in comfort and cleanli-
ness. One man more than eighty years
old told me on his discharge that he
could not earn living. he would not go
to the union, and he intended to come
back here. He was set at liberty on
January / and was reconvicted within a
few days.
Another man who had served a long
sentence returned quite recently
The Washington herald., 1913-04-11
Passing Of the Picturesque.

From the Pittsburg Gazette.
A returning feminine globe trotter has
been lamentiug at New York over the
passing of the picturesque. Moderniza-
ton Of the aboriginal peoples is growing
so fast. she complains. that the world is
becoming commonplace. The Chinese
and Japanese are taking to store
clothes" the women of the Fiji Islands
are longing for high heels and hobbies,
and very soon the comic opera producers
will have nowhere to go for costumes.
1t was in a similar vein that Pierre
Lott, the French author. sorrowed over
the Balkan victories against the Turks.
The Moslems We're so infinitely more pic
turesoue. True, they might massacre a
few hundred Armenians. but they were
so kind to their dogs! Their cities might
be pestilential, but they were so Orien-
tai, Their farming might be primitive.
but it was so artistic. Really, he felt
like weeping at the thought of Constan-
tinople being civilized. 1t was one splotch
of color in drab world.
All of which recalls the romantic drivel
about love in a cottage. life on the farm.
and the rest. Usually this cottage In
lacking in the most elementary coNforts
and conveniences. Is damp and dismal:
the farm infested with more varieties
of discomforts than you ever imagined
existed, and the romantic figure in the
bizarre garb proves on closer acquaint-
ance to be a barbarian or a beggar. just
as the city Of the Golden Horn develops
into plague spot of evil odors and
sights on landing.
The world can well afford to let the
picturesque peoples go without regrets.
Modern Japan is vast Improvement on
the samurai, and WI Ting Fang on ku-
blai Khan. Even our own aboriginal il
a more inspiring and profitable figure
on the diamond or the gridiron than on
the warpath. And many of the greatest
cities of the world would be vastly bet
ter If the picturesque" poverty OF the
slums were abolished.
The Washington herald., 1913-04-11
Ar THE OPENING GAME.

Among the 1900 baseball fans at the
Nationals-New York game yesterday the
following were seen:
w. HI. Pollen, Johnny Hoffman.
Richard Miller, Ernest Sutton, John
T. Sullivan, Jessie c.. Fayet. Meyer u.
Faust, Charlie Blet, Doth {. walters
Ralph Smithson. John c. Kenidy, William
McWilliamson, Ernest Luscombe, isdof
Hanline, Richard Coleman, Thomas
Regain, Charles Oliver. Compton Far
mer, Lee Matin, Joseph Licarnora, Fat
rick Patterson, and Johnny Rabbington'
James Sinclair, K. ". Shipley. Wayne
Hart. Milton Turner, Niva Bombreasti,
Bernard Mcdonnell, William Thompson.
Joseph Oliveri, Henry Gill, Paul NC
Sweeney, Johnnie Roberts. William Fry
George Hutchingson, William Vogelson'
Urban Hubbard, Rowland James, sam
uel Bates, Willis Harlan, Joseph Holland
John b. Smith. Frank Mccormick, Fat
rick Cannon, George Taylor. Ray Toense'
Jack Dodge, Magnrs Wood, c. p. Ed
wards. f. NJ Smith. Fred Mckay, Phil
Ransome, Henry Hopper, III. T. wilson,
Paul White, M. y. Phillips, E. r. Phil
lips, John Mcdonald, Cy Mcdonald
Charley Clarke, Chief Greene. Sam john
son, William Hunt, George Hunt. JACK
Hegarty, Harry Costello, Jim Dunn, Ray
Brown, Henry Cusick, Phillip Marun
John Langdon, George McDevitt, Jack
Reynolds, John Kendall, George Mason,
Bill Williamson and Henry Agnew.
Frank J. Wagner, chief of the Fire
Department; p. w. Nicholson. fire mar
shall: William E. Ambrose, Miss Amy
Ackman, Victor ]. Evans. J. s. Garland.
Gus Lay. w. G. McMorris, T. B. Bus
caren. John f. Archer. Fritz Crafts, c.
w. Stanton, Fred B. Campbell, George
Ackman, Sammy Wood, William e.
Stewart, Turner Corder, Frank Turton.
Frank Samuels, Miss Lenore Ackmar.
Charles w. Fague, Glenn Wilsonhohn.
B. J. Stein, w. NJ. Gardner. A. M. Mar
tin, Harry Glasgow, G. c. Burch, Ernest
Howard Miss Julia Berg, Hugh OFT, and
George Wright.
The Washington herald., 1913-04-11

District of Columbia, City of Washington, IS:
A. B. RUFF Cashier Of the above named
bank do solemnlv swear that the abyoe statement
is true to the best of my knowledge and belief.
A. b. RUFF Cashier.
Subscribed and sworn to before me this 9Th day
of April 1913
FRANK B. GILMORE. Notary Public.
Couect-Attest:
DANIEL FRASER.
GEO l.. STARKEY
CLARENCE +. NORMENT,
ODEIL s. SMITH,
CHAS T. WHITE.
EDWIN c. BRANDENBURG.
CHARLES f. WHITE,
JAS LANSBURGH.
MAURICE f. FLYNN
WHARTON r. LESTER,
j. WILLIAM LEE.
Directors.
The Washington herald., 1913-04-11
PIau Hospital improvements.

Plans for the remodeling of the Alex
andria Hospital were discussed by the
board Of trustees of that institution at a
meeting yesterday at the banking house
OF Burke & Herbert, and the matter
was referred to a special committee for a
report
The trustees accepted the resignation
of Col. Arthur Herbert, its president, who
served as a member of the board for the
past forty-one years. Worth Hultish
was unanimously elected president OF the
board, and Arthur Herbert, jr.. was
chosen a member of the board of trus-
tees to fill the vacancy caused by the res
ignation of Col Herbert Robert S. Jones
was also elected member of the board
of trustees to fill the vacancy caused
by the death of Hubert Snowden
Worth Hulfish, Arthur Herbert, jr.,
and w. A. Moore, jr.. were named as an
executive committee.
Regret was expressed by the board
at the resignation of Col. Herbert ana
n committee consisting of James r. Ca
ton, Gardner L. Boothe, and Worth HUI
fish was named to draft fitting resolu-
lions.
Mrs. William A. Smoot will entertain
the Daughters of the American Revolu-
ton and Alexandria Circle of Colonial
Danes tomorrow afternoon at 4:90 o'clock
in honor Of Mrs. William Cumming Story,
candidate for president general of the
%. A. r. She will be assisted by Mrs. ].
Stewart Jameson, regent of Mount Yer
non Chapter, of this CITY, and by Miss
Rose NJ Macdonald, president of the Alex
andria Circle of Colonial Danes.
The congregation of Trinity NJ. E.
Church tonight rendered Rev. G. A. Lutt-
rell, pastor of that church, a reception.
The Washington herald., 1913-04-11
CUBS ARE WORRIED.

Smallpox Threatens Minneapolis
Camp After Using Rooms.
Chicago. April 10.-Members Of the
Chicago Nationals were very much dis
turbed today when told that an cpl
demic of smallpox was threatening the
Minneapolis team of the American AS
ISOLATION. The latter played an exhi-
bition game here Thursday, during which
they used the Cubs dressing rooms.
ComstOck. who is now i'll, was not
with the team, but Infielder Killifer,
who is threatened with smallpox, was,
and President Murphy will take imme-
date steps to prevent contagion.
The Washington herald., 1913-04-11

A steel frame. fabric-covered hanger
that can be taken down, moved to q
new site and erected again in two days,
has been invented in Italy.