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The Washington herald., 1913-01-11
TAFT MAY NOMINATE
COMMISSIONERS TO-DAY
Appointment of Judge De Lacy to Sue
eeed Himself Also Expected to
Be Sent to the Senate.

Nominations OF two District Commits
sioners and a judge of the Juvenile Court
are to be sent to the Senate by Presi-
dent Taft either to-day or in the very
near future, according to reports current
yesterday.
Commissioner Rudolph, it was said.
would be nominated to succeed himself.
and a Democrat. probably ID. J. Gala
han or James +. Oyster, would be Sc
Iected as his associate In facing the
Senate for confirmation. Judge William
II. De Lacy, it is understood, is to have
the nomination for judge of the Juvenile
Court.
Nominations for all three offices. 1t is
said. probably will be denied confirmation
by the Senate.
protest against the appointment of
Judge De Lacy to succeed himself as
judge of the juvenile Court has been
filed with the Department of Justice by
the Daughters of America, an auNil-
iary of the Junior order of American
Mechanics. it was stated last night by
officials of the daughters. A copy Of the
protest was filed also with the Senate
Committee on the Judiciary. to which
the nomination Of Judge De Lacy, If
made by President Taft, will be re-
ferred
1t is alleged IN the protest that Judge
De I.acy's conduct of the office has not
given an ''uplift' to the young persons
brought into his court. officials OF the
Daughters OF America stated last night.
The Washington herald., 1913-01-11
ELECTORS TO MEET MONDAY.
Voters Representatives Will Name
Wilson Next President.

Though the election OF Woodrow Will
son s considered to he a thing of the
past by most people. the halOtinE which
will actually make him President OF the
United States will take place next Mon
day. when the electors chosen meet in
the various State capitals and vote as
instructed.
The results Of the voting will he sent
TO Washington by special messengers and
will be CauvasSed by the two Houses Of
Congress, sitting in joint session. This.
the final chapter in the election Of the
President and Vice President, will begin
at l p. m. February L.
The election Of Presidents and Vice
Presidents through the means OF the
electoral college has ceased to he con-
sider5d by the public at large as OF any
great consequence, since ii is almost in
conceivable that this ballotinG should fail
To follow the popular vote in November
The formality must he gone through
with. however. as prescribed by the Con-
stitutiOn
The Washington herald., 1913-01-11
GET PORTO RICAN RECORDS.
President Transmits to Congress
Report OF Secretary of War.

President Taft transmitted TO Congress
yesterday a report OF the Secretary OF
War enumerating the franchises granted
during the past year by the executive
council. OF Porto Rico. The franchises
embrace concessions granted by the eN-
ecUtive council to various street railroads
and telephone and telegraph lines. EN-
isting law requires the submission of re-
ports annually Of the record OF the Porto
RiCan executive council.
The Porto Rican reports shows. among
other items. that the executive council
granted a permit TO the Porto Rican Cen
eral Telephone Company to operate a
telephone system In San Juan, MaygueZ.
and the eastern end Of the island. and
that the authority given to the Robbins
I.ipIcy. Company to construct and operate
a pier on the harbor line OF San Juan.
has been repealed.
The Washington herald., 1913-01-11
THE SPECIAL AWARD
IS BRINGING THE VOTES

The Advocates latest special award a
SO Conover Baby Grand Piano. is the
goal toward which thousands have set
their faces.
This superb instrument has been pur-
chased from Percy Foster. the piano
merchant. 1890 & Street Northwest, and
will be given TO the person casting the
most votes in The Hersld's Merchants
and Manufa ctUrers' S2j.1NO Contest be
tween the dates of December ~, 1872, and
January l.. 1913.
The extra competition is open to every
body. You do not have to he a contest
ant 10 win. The only conditions are that
all votes shall be cast for registered
contestant. and must he turned N not
later than p. m. January Is
The ConOvcr Baby Grand is on exhibi-
ton at contest headquarters. ia Thir-
teenth Street Northwest. Everybody
knows the supreme position Of this piano
in the musical world. II ranks among
the finest small instrument produced
Contestants and their friends are making
things hum, and tho race gets closer
every day. Remember il is open to
everybody, and that votes cast for this
special award also go to swell the
standing OF contestants in the regular
contest
The Washington herald., 1913-01-11
WEATHER CONDITIONS.
U. S. Dcpt. o, Agriculture. Weather Bureau

U. s. DcTt- OF Agriculture. Weather Bureau
Washington. Friday. January 10. 1913 p m.
Therr has ben a general ard considerable rise in
temperature from TcNaS eastward and nrtheaSt-
wand. aud an equally decided fall To the north
ward and westward. except in the Coast States.
In the Northwestern States temperatures range
frnm zero to L degrees below zero
The Middle West depression will move eastward
attended by general rains SATURDAY east II the
Mississippi River. and in the West Gulf States
and by IN the UTTer Mississippi and Lower
MissOUn valleys. the Central Rocky Mountain 70
EOn. and the Southwest. On Sunday the weather
will be generally fair OF the Mississippi River
while 10 the eastward therr will b. and
rains over the Northern and rains the South
sections.
1t will BE- warmer Saturday from the Ohio Val
ley and Lower Lake Region eastward and south
ward. followed by falling temperature Sunday over
interior districts II will be colder Saturday be
tween the Mississippi River and the Rocky Noun
tAins. and colder Sunday in the Upper Lake Re
gion and the West Gulf States
The Washington herald., 1913-01-11
ARRAIGNS "COAL BARONS."
'.Mothrr" Jones Makes Bitter Talk
Before Large Labor Audience.

Mother" Jones. white-haired minister.
arraigned the coal barons' of West
Virginia in a bitter talk to a large
labor audience at National Rifles Armory
last night.
Mother Jones came TO Washington di-
rect from the seat of trouble in the West
Virginia mines. She came to bring ths
case Of the miners before Congress and
make arrangements for Federal inves-
tiGatiOn OF conditions. which she de-
scribed as ':appalling in their bru-
tality."
Representative w. E. Wilson presided
at the meeting He was introduced by
John 3. ColpOys. secretary of the Gen.
trail Labor Union. Mr.. Wilson stated
that Federal examination of the charges
had been requested from the House. and
a hearing is expected to he granted next
week
The Washington herald., 1913-01-11
HYATTSVILLE SPEED
LAWS co BY BOARD
TRAP" for Autoists Thing Of Past and
Bailiff Is "Fired"-New Regu-
lations Planned.

The town council OF Hyattsville. Md.
does not like the unsavory nOtoriety
II has experienced in enforcing its pres
ent automobile laws. As a result, the
council met last night and repealed the
whole automobile law and fired" the
bailiff The council is going to get up
a new set of laws, which the members
say will not be so hard on Washington
autoists who wish to pass through the
little town.
One thing they are going to do is
to omit the fee system. which. accord
ing to o. A. Greager, a member OF the
council. has caused much persecution,
because OF the reward in case OF convic-
ton. Charles a. Barr, the bailin. has
been overactive. in the councils opinion.
and as a consequence they are going
to get an official who will not be so
unreasonable with the law.
Hyattsville Is going TO provide for a
policeman with a motorcycle to arrest
speeders from the Capital under the new
law which the city attorney has been
instructed to draw up. Between now
and then, Washington autoists can go
through the little Maryland town as fast
as they like. There won't be anybody
to arrest them. and there won't be any
speed law to violate.
This action Of the council was brought
about by ii. Ralph Burton. a Washing
ton attorney. who appeared and made
complaint against his arrest on January
by the town bailif. After hearing II
speech lasting one hour. the council de-
cided against their bailiT and remitted
the sl5 fine which had been assessed
against Mr. Burton by the local justice
of the peace.
This is the first victory obtained over
the Maryland automobile law by Capt.
tai autOists. and IL is believed 10 be
a good omen for the future. In draw
ing up the new law an attempt will be
made TO permit a higher speed limit in
outlying districts. Hyattsvine citizens
believe. according TO O. A. Greager, that
more latitude should be allowed autOmo-
bilists.
The Washington herald., 1913-01-11
NOT FOR MRS. SCOTT.
Her Friends Say Kisses Were In
tended for Some One Else.

Kisses heard at the convention of the
Womans National Democratic League
Thursday night were not for Mrs Mat
thew T. Scott, president general of the
Daughters of the American Revolution
who nominated Mrs. Steven B. Ayres
for the presidency, it was stated last
night by Mrs. Scott and several of her
friends.
Mrs. Scott and her friends claimed
that the Kisses were intended to be a
rebuke 10 members of the league, said
to have treated Mrs. Scott with discour-
tesy when she took the floor to nomi-
nate Mrs. Ayres.
Most of the delegates from other cit
les have returned to their homes. The
executive board of the league, which
met at the New Willard Thursday night
and organized, will hold another meet
ing at 10 o'clock on Saturday morning,
January Is, at the New Willard and
perfect plans for the work of the
league.
Clara Butt and kennerley Rumford.
The Washington herald., 1913-01-11
MARRIAGE LICENSES.

John V. Matheny, a. of Kansas City Mo. and
Julia r. Evans. .. of Arlington, Va Rev, James
$, Montgomery.
and Joserha 7. Shiflett. 10. Of HsTisonburg Va
Rev. r. L. Fultz
Harris L. Williamham, q. and Lynn Lewis Jones'
IL, both q Richmond Va. Rev. J. j. Muir
Louis Brannan. . and Maude Hobbs "a Rev
James NJ McCauley.
The Washington herald., 1913-01-11
DE ATH RECORD.
WHITE

WHITE
Patrick !. Donnclly. Is years Govt. HosIt. Insane
Alvin Newton. q Govt Hospt. Insane.
Dora Rowers o. 2sle VI st.
Henrietta Mason >. lC4 jefferson ST. NV.
Samuel J. Thomas. e. tuberculosis Hospital
Russell Alvey S. Chidren's HnSTatal.
Charles VI. Marthinson. g. 1919 Clifton st.
Natalie Monder. ~ > + 81.
Infant Of Jacob and Annie Levin. days. Fruri-
dencp Hospital.
COLORED
John Butler 90 years. Frpc,imcns Hospital.
Robert Harris n Tuberculosis Hospital.
Mary Williams Sc. l4f5 CorCuran St NV.
Amelia Williams = Washington Asylum Hospital.
Nellie Coles. "a Government Hospital Insane.
Francis Adams a. 4s5 Fla. Ave.
Sarah Stocks, ; ,Children's Hospital.
John Sutton 10. National Training School for Boys
Dorothy Bailey. months, glS 9th ST. NV.
The Washington herald., 1913-01-11
BIRTHS REPORTED.
WHITE

WurrE
Clifford and Margaret Weston. girl.
Frank and EOise SUtsr. bpy.
IarOh and Annie ITTin. hOy
Louis p and Elunrp !. Kirby. hov.
Hugh = and ReTth1 l. Griffin. hnv
Charles l.. and Edna Castcrlin. hoy.
Joseph ]. and Margaret =. COlter. girl.
JOSEPH :. and Catherine J. CaSlow. hoy.
Wuotnn w and Ella & Crawford. bny
GioTanni and Durata Brirna. girl.
John r and Annie L. ByDi. hoy
Harry = and Jennie J. Bell. huy.
William F. and Marie G. Koran, boy.
COLORED
Ernest X. and Blanche &. Frstt. hoy
William and Martha Hawkins. hoy
William F. and Lulu J. Everett. h1v.
The Washington herald., 1913-01-11

Midnight %: . a m. .: a m. Is; a. m
-; a. m, 81; 10 a. m. Is: Il noon. IS; , D. IN.
AZ; y. M. q: p. m. ~; p. m. q; 10 p. m.
u Highest. Is; lowest. D Relative humidity 8
a. m. 81 2 p. m. 60; p. IN. Il; Rainfall IS II.
m TO p. M. T: hours Of sunshine. o; per cent
Of possible sunshine o.
Temperature same date last yrar-Highest, j
lowest, 6.
The Washington herald., 1913-01-11

What's become O tn ole-time
housekeeper that allus had Jeru-
salem cherry tree in a t'mater can
settin' on tn window sill?
It's hardly worth while t take
a basket t market any more I'M
less you're out o turnipS.
The Washington herald., 1913-01-11
The Oldest Remedy Know.

Is seidlitz powder. All physicians pre-
scribe 1t for all troubles of the stomach
liver, and bowels. You can now buy n
good-tasting seidlitz powder. 1t u called
Hod's Lemon Seidlit4
The Washington herald., 1913-01-11
SPECIAL NOTICES.
DIED.

Enthusiastically. on Friday, January
TO- 1918, at 7:l5 p. M, CHARLES Ed
WIN ADAMS tKeeter). only son of
of Halvor Nelson and Addie Florence
Adams (nee Speiden), aged seven
years and thirteen days.
Funeral (private) from his late resi-
dence 30 South Carolina Avenue
Southeast, Saturday, January IL, at
D. M.
Asleep in Jesus, blessed sleep
SwORDS-On Wednesday. January s,
1913, in New York City, CHARLES
LEE SWORDS.
Funeral services will be held at the
George P. Zurhorst funeral parlors.
3Ol East Capitol Street, on Sunday.
January l2, at p. m. Relatives and
friends invited to attend.
The Washington herald., 1913-01-11

Temperatures in other cities. together with the
Of rainfall for the twcntyfour hours ended At
0 p N yesterday follows:
The Washington herald., 1913-01-11

Clara Butt and KennerIey Rumford.
Tomorrow night, S:15, National Theatcr
The true Democrat. [volume] (Bayou Sara [La.]) 1892-1928, 1913-05-31
CAUSE AND EFFECT.

The powder lay in heaps--a threat
OF death-where powder should not
lie;
Some fool threw down a cigarette
And flaming ruin dent the sky.
Whereat, a solemn jury met
And laid the blame, In wisdom rare,
On him that threw the cigarette,
Not them that left the powder there.
Upon the heaps of Want and Shame
Whereon men build, one evil day
Some fool will fling word Of flame
And what will follow, who shall say2
But should all earth be overset,
Wen lay the blame, in dull despair,
On him that threw the cigarette,
Not them that put the powder there.
Arthur Guiterman, in Life.
The true Democrat. [volume] (Bayou Sara [La.]) 1892-1928, 1913-05-31
THE ART OF RECEIVING FAvoRs.

Anybody can give, few only can re-
ceive. To receive a favor gracefully
that is the supreme test of the gentle
man or the gentlewoman. The reason
of this is that accepting favor In the
right way calls for the rarest and last
flower of good breeding -humility. We
are born proud, self-seeking and sensi-
tive; we share these traits with the
brutes. The task of culture is to
change these attributes into humility,
service and self-effacement.
We exalt the man whose aim Is to
help people, to do something for some
body. But the very finest quality of
service consists in allowing others to
do something for us.
To make child feel that you need
him; friend, that he is indispensa.
BILE; a wife, that she is leaned upon; a
husband, that life is not worth while
without him; the poor, that they have
power to serve; the rich, that their
personality means more to you than
their money, the learned, that they
teach you, and the ignorant, that they
inspire you, this is the subtlest and
highest form of spiritual service. 1t
is the surest hallmark of the gentle
man or the gentlewoman.
The true Democrat. [volume] (Bayou Sara [La.]) 1892-1928, 1913-05-31
OUR ovER.ZEALoUs SENATORS.

Bastrop Enterprise:
1t appears that the ardor shown by
Messrs. Ransdell and Thornton, the
two United States Senators of Louisi-
ana, in fighting the Underwood tariff
and advocating protection, even to the
point of openly joining with the Re-
publicans, is reacting on the popular
sentiment.
Many of our contemporaries are voic-
ing their disapproval of the position
assumed by the senators whereby they
are not only repudiating the party plat.
form but are reading themselves out
| of the party.
Mr.. Ransdell's action in putting on
record SO violent and bitter document
as the letter of the Original Wilson
Man." has already damaged his repu-
tation, as we'll as the cause of the south
Louisiana protectionists.
Let us be Democrats and let us be
reasonable, too.
The true Democrat. [volume] (Bayou Sara [La.]) 1892-1928, 1913-05-31
PROGRESSIVE WOMEN TAKE
NOTICE.

The Woman Suffrage Party, the re.
cent movement originating in New Or.
leans for the winning of the State of
Louisiana for the cause of equal rights,
is initiating a vigorous campaign for
members. Blanks are being circulated
all over the State bearing the platform
of the new party, with the pledge for
members in the statement, I'VE believe
that women as well as men should
VOTE"
1t is the desire of the organizers to
procure Immediately many more mem
bers than the 800 required before aux
iliaryship can be accepted by the Ma
tional American Woman Suffrage AS
ISOLATION, and to have these members
representative of every section of the
State.
The true Democrat. [volume] (Bayou Sara [La.]) 1892-1928, 1913-05-31
FURNISH ROPE TO
HANG THEMSELVES WITH.

Mr.. ]. q. Green, one, of the best
known Farmers Union organizers in
the South, points out in a recent arti-
Gle how our farmer furnish rope to
hang themselves with. Here is the pro-
cess as he gives it:
1T is a well-known fact that large
per cent of our farmers do not know
what to do with surplus money when
they happen to get little ahead. So
they deposit it in the banks at 4 per
cent. The banks in turn lend it to the
time merchants, and the time mer-
chants, being law-abiding citizens, re-
fuse to lend it to less fortunate farm
ers in violation of the 6-per-cent-inter-
est law, but invest it in groceries and
then lend the groceries to the needy
customer at the moderate rate of from
80 to so per cent interest. Beautiful
system, isn't it?-for the time mer-
chant Under this system the few
farmers who, by denying their families
of many comforts and conveniences of
life, manage to acquire a little cash
surplus, Immediately turn it over to
the time merchant to capitalize his pri-
vate money-making business
The remedy, of course, is not for
farmers to stop getting 4 per cent to
the hurt of their neighbors, but to be-
gin getting per cent to the help of
their neighbors. Without adopting the
unlimited liability" feature of the
Raiffeissin system of Europe, farmers
can form cooperative societies along
the simple lines heretofore suggested:
l. Ten or more farmers can take
stock with shares at $25 each-say
$500 or $1,000 or $4,000 in all.
2. Let the money be lent to mem
bers at legal interest rates for produc.
tive purposes only-the judicious pur-
chases of stock, fertilizers, or machin.
cry, for example, or some other useful
purpose.
3. Require the borrower to give Sc
curity worth twice the loan, or to be
endorsed by two members with salts
factory property-or both.
4. Limit the amount that can be lent
to any one farmer to $50, 500, or 5000,
as may seem best.
The true Democrat. [volume] (Bayou Sara [La.]) 1892-1928, 1913-05-31
EDUCATIONAL ADVANCE IN
LINCOLN PARISH.

This from Superintendent T. A.
Green: "Our parish board met recent
ly to canvass the returns of two spec
ial school tax elections. One carried
unanimously, and one, the Dubach Dis
trict, had but two votes against it. The
Dubach District now carries special
school tax of twenty-five and one-half
mills. Four years ago we had three
or four teacher school taught in a rath-
er poor building at Dubach. We hope
to open this fall in nine or ten-room
brick building with at least ten teach
|ers. Our agricultural and domestic
science departments are popular fea-
lures. A Farmers Short Course will
be held at Dubach soon. Three other
special tax elections were also author.
lied recently, one of them for fifteen
mills. Practically the entire parish is
now covered with special school tax,
and will average about ten mills on the
assessed valuation Of the parish. 1t
will be more before September. We
have $500 available for the promotion
of our industrial club work during the
canning season. One of our progress.
sive citizens Is giving 500 to the pro-
motion Of the Girls Tomato Club work
In the parish. Two or three commune
ties are putting in small factories for
canning the fruit and vegetables, and
our collaboration has sold for fall de-
livery to one Of our large saw mills a
car load of canned goods"
The true Democrat. [volume] (Bayou Sara [La.]) 1892-1928, 1913-05-31
FOR ONE OUT OF 1870.
Colfax Chronicle.

Colfax Chronicle.
Only one pupil in thirty in the pub
lie schools usually graduates, and of
the high school graduates scarcely one
in four will so through college. Thus,
we see that only about one pupil out of
100 attending the public schools ever
goes to college, and the other 1923 have
all been forced to go through course
OF study that our college professors
and school authorities all tell us has
been especially prepared to fit all for
college. It seems to us the thing is so
absurd that it should not be allowed to
continue for another twenty.four hours.
The true Democrat. [volume] (Bayou Sara [La.]) 1892-1928, 1913-05-31
REFoREsTATIoN.

Country Review:
The State Conservation Commission
is considering proposition made by
H. E. Hardtner for the reforestation of
vast tract of yellow pine lands from
which the timber has been cut.
The process involves the caring OF
the preserve for forty years upon con-
ditions to be agreed upon subject to
the laws of the State, at the end OF
which time it is believed the land will
have been reforested and Of greater
value than before Its primeval forests
were removed.
The true Democrat. [volume] (Bayou Sara [La.]) 1892-1928, 1913-05-31
MAY RUN FOR COMMISSIONER.

The names of the following persons
have been mentioned in connection
with the Office Of railroad commission.
er, in opposition to Shelby Taylor, in.
cumbent commissioner of the second
district: Representatives. Caulheld OF
East Feliciana and Dupuy of Iberia,
James Bailey of East Baton Rouge and
Assistant Encouragement Gondran of
Ascension.
The true Democrat. [volume] (Bayou Sara [La.]) 1892-1928, 1913-05-31
Pictures of the Past.
Extracts from the files of The True Democrat,
published twenty-one years ago.

Co. were thanked by the Baptists of
Clinton for assistance in repairing their
church.
Cards were out announcing the mar
riage of Miss Hettie Schlesinger of
Woodville, to Mr.. Max Mann, of New
Iberia, to take place on June 6.
A man was killed at Smithland while
trying to cut the levee. Several at
tempts had been made to cut the Nor
ganza levee, but fortunately the guards
frightened the culprits away in each
instance.
The true Democrat. [volume] (Bayou Sara [La.]) 1892-1928, 1913-05-31
The scHooLMAsTER's lPsE DIxlT
Assumption Pioneer:

Assumption Pioneer:
No matter what is being done for or
against the Newlands Bill or the Rams
|dell-Humphreys Bill, the matter will
be brought before Congress through
President Wilson at the next regular
session of Congress, and his recon-
mendations in the matter will no doubt
be the course that Congress will pur-
sue.
The true Democrat. [volume] (Bayou Sara [La.]) 1892-1928, 1913-05-31
JUNE q, 1892.

JUNE q, 1892.
A meeting of the property owners of
Bayou Sara was held and the Drainage
and Levee Protective Association form
ed.
The Parish Executive Committee was
called to meet on June s.
Mrs. A. Muller and children were
painfully bruised by the buggy in which
they were driving colliding with wag-
on.
J. F. Irvine G Son and Freyhan &