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The true Democrat. [volume] (Bayou Sara [La.]) 1892-1928, 1914-03-21
CONGRESS SHOULD HEED
PROTEST.

Chicago Public:
A strong protest against expenditure
of $56,000,000 for four battleships has
been sent to Congress- The protest
| calls attention to the selfish motive of
the naval officers who urge such ex-
Ipenditures, to the fact that the rea-
sons they offer are only fantastic pos
sibilities not reasonable probabilities,
| to the fact that we have never asked
any nation to arbitrate and been re-
fused, that our only war in 100 years
with other than an American power
has been the Spanish war which we
ourselves started, and to the further
fact that we were never attacked when
we had a/small navy, and we maintain
ed the Monroe doctrine, in 1895, never
theless. 1t is shown that Japan, which
| Is usually portrayed as the greatest
menace, knows that war with us
would be national suicide. Strongest
and most impressive of the reasons
given is the following:
One can never tell what the case
may be year hence said one of the
admirals. Alas, we can surely tell
that a year hence another long roll of
victims, numbering about as many as
persisted in four years of the Civil War,
will have died because of our folly in
putting our greatest defense where it
is least needed, leaving our greatest
needs unremedied. The yearly cost of
our national Children's Bureau, which
is trying to prevent our awful infant
mortality, is less than the annual re-
pairs on two torpedo boat destroyers.
Let us indeed be prepared; but let us
prepare for our certain, definite foes
and call halt on the increase of de-
Tense against the bugaboos conjured
up by timid visionaries."
The true Democrat. [volume] (Bayou Sara [La.]) 1892-1928, 1914-03-21
SOUTH FOR RAISING CATTLE.

mo section of the country can raise
cattle as cheaply as the South, and the
variety and prices of feeds are such
that the animals can be economically
finished for the market" declared the
department of agriculture in a state.
ment issued Saturday night.
The department experts figure that
the Piedmont section of Virginia, West
Virginia, western North Carolina, Ten
nessee and northern Alabama are es.
pecially we'll adapted to cattle raising
because of the fine grazing. Likewise
the Black prairie of Alabama, Missis-
sippi and Texas and the delta lands of
Mississippi and Louisiana are favor
able-experiments showing a cost of
three or four cents a pound for raising
cattle in this locality.
Because of the high prices for meat,
1t is figured that cattle raising is likely
to be profitable to Southern farmers,
particularly on certain "cut-over' lands.
The greatest drawback is the cattle
tick, but the department declared it is
rapidly being eradicated and it is only
a question Of time until the South is
freed Of the pest.
The true Democrat. [volume] (Bayou Sara [La.]) 1892-1928, 1914-03-21
DOGS, THEREFORE DOG TAX.

A planter in upper West Feliciana
writes us at the weekend Continue
to hammer away on good roads and
the dog tax" And hammer" it Is,
we shall not say on wooden heads but
hard hearts. For what more can we
say, citizens, than to you we have said?
You are at least making an attempt to
have good roads. That is, your police
jury has bought road engine and
has derived a system, of possible prac-
ticality in working the roads, but on
the matter of dogs and dog tax, you
are absolutely obdurate!
What more is needed to arouse you
to action? The hundreds of cattle bit
ten in the last few years by mad dogs,
the nests of game birds, not to men
ton those of domestic fowls, destroyed
by vagrant ours; the several persons
bitten by dogs, and forced 70 take ex-
pensive treatment: all of these facts
should open the eyes of the most un-
observant to the immense losses Incl
dent to having a number of dogs run
ming at large.
A dog tax is not an ideal way Of
meeting the difficulty. It does not
eliminate the pet dog or the hunting
dog, but when man pays a license
for keeping such animals, and is pro-
hibited from letting them run at large,
land no tax would be effective without
this provision) the dangers arising
from them would be reduced to min
imum, the owner would at least incur
all the responsibility for keeping a
nuisance and could be held to account
ability.
We trust that the people of this par
ish will require no further unhappy
and disastrous experience to prove to
them that in the immunity given the
dog, they are at terrific expense and
danger to themselves and others. With
restrictions upon the liberty of the dog,
this could be great sheep country
Yet in the entire parish there are not
more than five hundred. A census of
the dogs would explain why sheep rails
ing is not an attractive industry, de-
spite the fallow fields that might be
fortified and kept clean by the sheep,
besides the profits in mutton and wool
How is it that dogs are more desira-
BILE?
The true Democrat. [volume] (Bayou Sara [La.]) 1892-1928, 1914-03-21
MERCHANTS ON DRESS PARADE

The True Democrat touches a vital
spot in it's conclusions relative to q
town rejecting its progressiveness
through its home paper. The majority
of Ponchatoula merchants are on dress
parade every week in The Democrat
and they appreciate, boost and pull fol
their home town. Concentration of eff
forts will make any town prosperous
This is why Ponchatoula is so pros.
porous and happy, and why ell eyes
are focused upon this community
Ponchatoula Democrat.
The above is respectfully referred
to the merchants of those towns, who
are not on dress parade little or any
of the time, in fact are decidedly in
dishabille.
The true Democrat. [volume] (Bayou Sara [La.]) 1892-1928, 1914-03-21
BY THE Way

Most of the banks just don't know
what to do about those statements.
Walt Mason rhymes about the gam
boiling youth" This is much better
than the gambling youth.
Miss La Toilette, though married, de
clines to take her husbands name
She might with equal justice refuse
to take her fathers name, as the one
hides her individuality" as much as
the other.
Do you kill every fly that you see!
If not, then you are not DOING your
duty to yourself and others.
Cold weather never kills the early
candidate, but hot air will.
The true Democrat. [volume] (Bayou Sara [La.]) 1892-1928, 1914-03-21

1t remained for Senator Borah OF
Idaho to advance the plea that the
fifteenth amendment was the insuper.
able obstacle in the way of woman
suffrage. He has formerly shown HIM
self so far from being a friend of the
South, that it's women will be disposed
to receive his statement with much
more than grain of salt. They can
also make the retort that If the men
of the South could eliminate the negro
voter as factor, the negro woman
would not be likely to give trouble at
the polls.
The true Democrat. [volume] (Bayou Sara [La.]) 1892-1928, 1914-03-21
THE EVER ASCENDING SCALE.
Lake Charles Ameri, an Press:

Lake Charles Ameri, an Press:
Just about this tine each ear, we
Ianxiously watch the news from Eaton
Rouge to find out how our old friend
Sol. .Bloodworth and the Louisiana Fire
Prevention bureau weathered the
storms of the preceding year. A re-
port issued last week by Secretary of
State Hebert supplies the required in
formation. We more or less regret to
report that Sol. and his associates had
a comparatively rotten year.
For every hundred dollars paid by
citizens of Louisiana during 1913 for
| fire insurance premiums, the insurance
companies were obliged to pay back
losses amounting to $47.13 While to
an amateur it might look like good
business to take in two dollars for
every one you pay out, the companies
did better in 1912. For every $1O0
taken in they gave back only $45.50.
Of course, this did not apply to all
the companies. Some of them did
much better, as shown by the publish
ed reports. The German-American of
New York, for instance, received SILL
006.54 in premiums and paid $4S,641.05
in losses; the Hartford took in $685.
1888 and gave back S9S, 1852; the
Phoenix received s51,92767 and paid
$17,583.33, which makes for exceeding
great joy in Connecticut
Some of the companies with smaller
Louisiana business made better av-
erage. The Rhode Island received $12,-
433.43 and paid $3,1S0.50; the Common
wealth received $11,092.91 and paid
$2,758,57; the North British received
$6,467.71 and paid $1,51S.21; the Bos-
ton received $3,OO9.54 and was mulcted
of $460.56, and the Commercial Union
of New York took in $4,95358 and es-
capped with all of it but $66.S7 We
trust that this agent who spoiled
possible 1000 per cent record was
duly fired.
Summing it up altogether during the
past four years Mr.. Bloodworth's
clients have received approximately
$16,000,OO0 for premiums and have paid
out $S,00O,0OO, making a nifty little
balance of trade in their favor of So
100000. During the same time, ap-
proximately 1873 towns in Louisiana
asked for lower insurance rates, but if
even one town got them the fact es-
capped our observation. Now, if any
one inquiries, Why is Sol. Bloodworth
and the Louisiana Fire Prevention bu-
reau, you have the answer.
The true Democrat. [volume] (Bayou Sara [La.]) 1892-1928, 1914-03-21

The st. Francisville bank sent in pay
ment check on the Whitney-Central
bank of New Orleans, which was dis
honored. In the meantime. the st. Fran
cisville bank failed. The Louisiana
National Bank was not allowed to re-
cover the amount of the loss from the
customer who deposited the paper,
and was held to have been negligent
in forwarding the paper to the drawee
bank direct.
The true Democrat. [volume] (Bayou Sara [La.]) 1892-1928, 1914-03-21

Postmaster-General Burleson Tues
day signed an order permitting the
attaching of letter to package when
both bear their respective rates of
postage and are addressed to the same
person. The letter of communication,
however, is not to be enclosed in the
package, but is to be tied or otherwise
securely fastened to the outside in
such manner as to prevent it's sepa-
ration from the package.
The true Democrat. [volume] (Bayou Sara [La.]) 1892-1928, 1914-03-21

Henry S. Palfrey of Franklin, La,
was offered the position of state ex-
aminer of state banks, but he declined,
on the ground that it required him to
travel the greater part of the time.
Subsequently, Thomas ]. Clay, presi-
dent OF the Bank of Whitecastle was
rendered the position.
The true Democrat. [volume] (Bayou Sara [La.]) 1892-1928, 1914-03-21

On motion of the attorneys for the
state, Judge H. F. Brunot postponed
the hearing of the case of William l..
Young, state bank examiner, versus
L. E. Hall, governor, until Tuesday,
March 81, ON account of the absence
of the Attorney-Gene from the state.
The true Democrat. [volume] (Bayou Sara [La.]) 1892-1928, 1914-03-21

William ]. Burns, the great Ameri.
can detective, is attempting to clear
away the mystery surrounding the muir
der of Mary Phagan, for which crime
Leo M. Frank of Atlanta, Ca, is sen.
fenced to hang on April II.
The true Democrat. [volume] (Bayou Sara [La.]) 1892-1928, 1914-03-21

Typical of how things too often go in
Louisiana, the interurban line from
New Orleans to Kenner is about to be
opened, after hard-won fight that
would have been warrantable for a
much greater achievement.
The true Democrat. [volume] (Bayou Sara [La.]) 1892-1928, 1914-03-21

A divorce was granted Mrs. Ada
Sanders, wife of Jared Y. Sanders, at
Texarkana, Ark. She was granted $40
per week alimony. Desertion on the
part of her husband, who formerly
was governor of Louisiana, was charg-
ed.
The true Democrat. [volume] (Bayou Sara [La.]) 1892-1928, 1914-03-21

The House has passed as part of the
agricultural appropriation bill $780,
900 clause providing for establishment
of a stock arising experiment station
on the cane sugar and cotton lands
near New Iberia, La.
The true Democrat. [volume] (Bayou Sara [La.]) 1892-1928, 1914-03-21
BY ALL MEANS.

The shipment of cotton seed from
Egypt for planting in Arizona was re-
fused admission at Boston because it
was infected with the pink boil worm.
The true Democrat. [volume] (Bayou Sara [La.]) 1892-1928, 1914-03-21

The United States is said to be be-
hind Russia in child labor legislation.
The true Democrat. [volume] (Bayou Sara [La.]) 1892-1928, 1914-03-21

A mans pen and a woman's pistol,
the one following the other, has put
France in a turmoil.
The true Democrat. [volume] (Bayou Sara [La.]) 1892-1928, 1914-03-21

LOST-At Julius Freyhan school
house, a gold fountain pen, monogram
"A. L." The public is requested to be
on lookout for such a pen. Suitable
reward for it's return to this Office,
and no questions asked.
The true Democrat. [volume] (Bayou Sara [La.]) 1892-1928, 1914-03-21
COLDS & LaGRIPPE

8 or 6 doses 666 will break
any case Of Chills & Fever, Colds
& LaGrippe: it acts on the liver
better than Calomel and does not
grippe or eicken. Price 25c.
The true Democrat. [volume] (Bayou Sara [La.]) 1892-1928, 1914-03-21

Cattle Mark-Brand on hip w M.
Tag in one ear. Public is hereby
warned not to buy or drive off any
cattle so marked.
LUCY L. MATTHEWS.
(2.28-4)
Forest City press. (Forest City, Potter County, D.T. [S.D.]) 1883-19??, 1914-03-20
Farmer Found Advertising paya.
From the Hopkinsville New Era.

- sAS ~
That farmers can use advertising TO
just as good advantage as the store
keeper has been proved. by at least one
wide awake farmer. This farmer re-
Gently had some corr to sell. 1t was
good corn and the price right, but
the farmer didn't have the time to go
from place to place trying to sell it,
so he called the newspaper office over
the telephone n gave a short reading
notice for three insertions. The night
that the first issue OF the paper came
out with the advertisement he received
several calls n before the third adj
vertisement had appeared HI had sold
his entire supply, about 14V barrels.
From time to time during the year
he has advertised various things he
had to sell. a COW, some hogs, etc. and
every time people have besieged him to
buy. He says that during 1913 he had
sold at least 1000 worth of products
Of his farm solely through advertising.
and the entire expense of the ADVERTISE
ments had not been more than SO or
81. But he declared that he saving
in time and energy and worry by hav-
Ing the buyer hunt him up instead OF
him having to hunt the buyer, meant
many more dollars in his pocket
Forest City press. (Forest City, Potter County, D.T. [S.D.]) 1883-19??, 1914-03-20
MUSKRATs STILL FOUND
THROUGHOUT AMERICA
From the Indianapolis News.

From the indianapolis News.
oI all the Wild animals that once made
their home in the middle west only one
species remains i'm any considerable num-
oers. though s~dulouslv sought by trap
pers from the days OF the earliest settle
ments. who took up the hunt where the
Indians had left it. That animal is the
muskrat, a native American rodent. also
called the musk beaver. and by the Indian
name, musQuash. This rat is Vet aught
IN the Very edge of the city of I~ndianapo-
lis. The other day Il hoy WAS Seen climb
ing a bank OF Pleasant ruN. in l~rvington.
holding some furry object in his hand. 1T
was u muskrat. full grown. thst be had
trapped, and a proud boy WAS he.
The body OF the muskrat is from IL 10 u
inches long, and the tail, which is some
to 10 inches long. 1t is as graceful in the
water as an otter, though awkward on
land. The color is ruddy brown above.
darker on the back and grayish below. Its
fur is fine, close and silky, with coarse
hairs interminsled. These are pulled out
by fur makers.
The entrance to the muskrats home is
under water and the burrows extend 70
or even 30 feet, at the end OF which may
be found the family nests lined with dry
leaves and grasses, above the reach OF the
water. This burrow connects with other
burrows leading to the air. Muskrats
bring fourth young as often AS three times
a year, with four to six at a birth. The
muskrat is considered edible and Is some-
times found on sale in the Baltimore and
Detroit markets.
Forest City press. (Forest City, Potter County, D.T. [S.D.]) 1883-19??, 1914-03-20
SHOULD
FLIGHT" THE HOME

e power Of . newspaper to carry
.e~aorts and c~Onveniences Of modern
NE into he homes Of the people is
sa10nd calculation. Being the only
nseolum through which a merchant or
manufacturer can do intensive, con-
"satrated advertising, it is naturally the
srSatest educator Of the people regard
Tag the things that inventive genius
from time to time to save
!aeor and to tighten the burdens Of
housekeeping.
Advertising saw woman bowed down
with the work Of the ages, carrying
a4son her shoulders the double burden
~ bearing children and doing the work
Of the household. Advertising saw her
sweeping the carpet with a bunch Of
tied to the n OF a stick,
u crude and clumsy contrivance CALL
nag for much wearisome and tiresome
expenditure of muscular effort-and so
wes born the carpet sweeper-and after
IL came the vacuum cleaner. Invent
I've genius supplied these utensils and
advertising had to create a desire to
possess them. Advertising had to edu-
case women away from broo1ns n
ceapet sweepers.
Perhaps the greatest monument to
educational advertising is the growth
Ut the breakfast cereal habit in this
unit The parent of the breakfast
cereal habit was the oatmeal porridge
habit which was brought over by the
Scotch Presbyterians. and on his as a
foundation advertising has built the
almost universal Anglo-Saxon habit of
eating some kind of a cereal every
morning for breakfast.
Electricity threatens to completely
revOlutionize not only modern manu-
featuring methods, but all the activi-
ties of household management. Teach
itsg the people the coming uses of cleo
trscity in all departments of domestic
service presents one Of the greatest
fields Of educational work for newspa-
per advertising. The reason that the
use OF electrical devices has not be-
come more universal in the homes of
the people is because the manufacture
ers have not made the proper use OF
newspaper advertising to spread the
Forest City press. (Forest City, Potter County, D.T. [S.D.]) 1883-19??, 1914-03-20
A New Thrill at Palm Beach.

Word comes from Palm Beach, pleas
ant place for those of us who have to
remain in these attitudes to think about
that a distinguished and stout New York
Jurist has created a sensation by appear
ing in a bathing suit and heavy golf
stockings. The tlirong along the smiling
stretch of sand instantly broke into a
babel Of conjecture; Newspaper cores
pondents hastily mobiiized. Was this the
latest fashion in mems wear for surf
plun1ging or the promenade? Or. was a
golf course about to be laid out on the
beach? Some laid bets. Life down there
IS SO languid that the impulse to wager
Is as sharp and undiscriminating az on
an ocean liner. The judge, having laid
himself out on the FACILITATING sand, sub
mitted to an examination from eager in
Quirers. No. he had not intended to cre-
ate a new fashion. much less excitement.
He had put on the stockings because he
was afraid OF sand crabs. =
The. crowd melted away. resuming its
accustomed ~recreations. and from thou
sands of little holes the mischievous I'D
der crab. peeped out to have q look at
those golf stockings. Fame. the tricky
jade. Will not fail to bestow her tribute IL
only we Will do something merely differ
Out.
Forest City press. (Forest City, Potter County, D.T. [S.D.]) 1883-19??, 1914-03-20
Adjusting Business to Seasons.
From the Chicago Tribune

from the Chicago Tribune.
The federal industrial relations commits
sion; now investigating the subject of I'M
employment, will inquire into the seasons
of Industry with a view of eliminating.
one hand and Overtime work on the other.
according to Mrs. j. Borden Hartman.
one of the commissions members.
Mrs. Hartman points out that certain
classes Of employers are even now adher-
ing to a policy Of all the year around en-
ployment. Coal dealers, for instance, are
able to keep their help at work in the
summer by establishing an ice business
in connection with the coal trade. Not
every business adapts itself to such ex-
%ceedingly happy seasonal regulation as
the coal and ice business. But. 1t is
pointed out. many AN Industry could with
some planning distribute its work
throughout the year more evenly than it
is now distributed. AS for such Industries
as agriculture, where seasons are not only
MAJ made out natural. efficient employ
ment bureaus will do much 10 reduce an
employment to a minimum.
In making the regulation and, wherever
possible, the abolition of seasons for la
Bon the first step in its campaign against
unemployment, the federal industrial COM
mission is certainly showing an authori-
tative grasp of the situation. Much good
is to be expected from its work.
Forest City press. (Forest City, Potter County, D.T. [S.D.]) 1883-19??, 1914-03-20
Worlds Most Famous Dancing School
Havelock ICliis, in the Atlantic.

Havelock Ellis. in the Atlantic.
There can scarcely be u doubt that
Egypt has been for many thousands Of
years. as indeed it still remains. a
great dancing centre. the most in
fluential dancing school the world has
ever seen, %radiating it's influence to
south and cas- and north. We may
perhaps even agree with the historian
OF the dance, who terms it the mother
country of all civilized dancing" We
arc not entirely dependent on the
ancient all-pictures of Egypt for u
knowledge Of Egyptian skill in the art.
Sacred mysteries. it is known were
danced in the temples, and queen and
princess took part in h orchestra
that accompanied them. 1t is signifi-
cant that the musical instruments
Still peculiarly associated with the
dance We're originated or developed in
Egypt; the guitar is al Egyptian in
stru1nent, and it's name was a hierog-
lyphic already used when the pyra-
mid were being built; the cymbal. the
tambourine, triangles, and castanets,
in n form or another, were all
familiar to the ancient Egyptians, and
must have spread all round the shores
Of the Mediterranean, the great focus
of our civilization, at a very early date.
Even beyond the Mediterranean, at
CadiZ, dancing that was essentially
Egyptian in character was established,
and Cadiz became the dancing school
of Spain. The Nile and Cadiz were
thus the two great centers Of ancient
dancing, and Martial mentions them
both together, for each supplied it's
dancers to Rome.