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The Madison journal. (Tallulah, Madison Parish, La.) 1888-current, 1914-10-31
LAST BARRIER IS
NOW OUT Of WAY
NOTHING TO PREVENT PROBE
COMMISSION FROM PROCEED
ING WITH ITS WORK.
Western Newspaper Union News Service.

Western Newspaper Union News Service.
Shreveport.-lt is probable that the
work of the legislative investigating
commission, interrupted by an injunc.
ton suit at Rayville in September,
will be resumed shortly. Attorney
General Pleasant. who is here to at
tend the Shreveport rate hearing and
Barrett on pending pardon applica-
tiOns, stated that it is his purpose to
address communication to Hon. Dun
can Buie. OF Rayville. president of
the commission. advising him that
there is now nothing in the way Of
that body beginning it's inquiries.
The last legal barrier. Colonel
Pleasant said, was removed when
Judge Brunot, of Baton Rouge, de-
clined TO issue the injunction sought
by the attorneys for J. S. Sutton, the
supreme court having previously de-
clined to Issue a writ of mandamus
compelling Judge r. Y. Ransdell TO
issue suspensive appeal in the SUIT
ton case, filed in Rayville.
The interests opposing an investi-
cation of the Tensas levee land deal
and other matters appear. therefore
to have lost in both the state and fed
eral courts. President Buie is ex-
pected to call a meeting of the CON-
mission shortly, and it probably will
be held in New Orleans.
The Madison journal. (Tallulah, Madison Parish, La.) 1888-current, 1914-10-31
AGRICULTURAL EXHIBITS
instructions to Farmers Preparing for
the Great State Fair.

Baton Rouge.-State Agent Mason
Snowden of the farm demonstration
work. United States Department of
Agriculture, is sending the following
communication to all Louisiana
agents of the department in every
portion of the state:
ITO the Louisiana Agents: am
very anxious to have the farm demon
stration booth at the State Fair the
biggest and best collection of agricul-
tural exhibits ever seen in the state.
The success or failure will depend en-
tirely on the parish agent. Please do
your best to have your territory ade-
quately represented.
Pack all exhibits carefully and Sc
curely, but avoid undue weight in
crates, etc. Securely fasten to each
exhibit its owners name and address
and name of product exhibited. Get
sufficient tags from Secretary Brueg-
gerhoff to tag every shipment. Write
at once to Sec. Brueggerhoff for corn
cartons needed. Ask only for the ex-
act number needed. Ship all exhibits
by express, collect, and try to have
them in Shreveport by November 2.
when We unpack the shipment at
Shreveport we want to be able to
identify the exhibit. the owner of it.
and the agent that sent it. Then we
can intelligently enter the exhibit in
the proper class, etc.
THE exhibits from the demonstra-
tion booth will go to the Louisiana
exhibit at the Panama exposition. Do
your best for your parish and your
state. Yours very truly,
Mason Snowden,
"State Apent -
The Madison journal. (Tallulah, Madison Parish, La.) 1888-current, 1914-10-31
Events in Louisiana
MONROE MAYOR
STOPS GAMBLING
ALL GAMBLING HOUSES ORDER
ED TO CLOSE UP ON NO.
VEMBER I.
'e.trrn Newsnsn-r Union News Service.

western Newsnaner Union News Service
Misunderstanding and gamblers
must 90 from Monroe That was the
edlct issued by Mayor c. A. Downey.
that struck terror to Monroe's gamb-
ing colony. which numbers, perhaps.
seventy-five men.
In order not to take "snap iudg.
hleht on the gamblers who have been
plying their vocation in Monroe for
many years unmolested, Mayor Dow
hey detailed two members of the no.
lice force to notify the owners and
operators of every gambling house in
monroe to close his place of business
on or before the first day of Novem.
per ana to keep it closed thereafter
Inc order states that the CITY gamb-
ing ordinances will be rigorously on.
forced IN the future and that no "up-
stars or back alley" places will be
permitted. The police force will be
given positive instructions to see that
the present wide-open gambling houses
are closed and no new places are
opened.
Inc city ordinances against gamb-
ing are clear as well as the ordi-
nance covering vagrancy. With a CITY
Judge in accord with the MAYORS or
derS, the enforcement of the ordi
nances covering these subjects will he
easy and Monroe will be free from a
vice that has brought the CITY into
more or less disrepVte because of the
poidness and activity of some of the
ioIloWers of the gambling game.
IL has been even charged that
runners for some of the gambling
houses met the trains and that the
bridge was guarded" and that farm
ers bringing cotton to town were
spotted and in many cases sepa-
rated from the money that should
nave gone to the support of needy
children and sacrificing wives.
IL Is an absolute fact that gambling
Is wide open" in Monroe and that
the houses are being conducted and
the gamblers are operating in direct
violation OF the city ordinances
Mayor Downey's order will put a stop
to these conditions after the first day
of November. The gambling features
will be eliminated from the pool
rooms and the ordinances prohibiting
minors from entering these places
will be enforced.
The Madison journal. (Tallulah, Madison Parish, La.) 1888-current, 1914-10-31

1t came to her not as toll but as play. She lived
In land Of fairies and giants and gnomes
In explaining her system, Mrs. Stoner starts
out with the assumption that every child Is born
with distinctive tendency or talent and that this
will always bear fruit, If discovered and cuti-
waited in babyhood. It is the mothers part to dis
cover this in infancy and to try to develop 1t just
as much as to keep its body clean and see that
1t has the proper food. The mothers obligation
begins before birth and imposes upon her the
duty Of keeping herself so healthy and serene.
both mentally and physically. that the baby will
not have to start out with handicaps its very
first day.
Not being able to sing, Mrs. Stoner chanted
the lines from Virgil's Aeneid to put the baby to
sleep and taught the child's negro nurse to do
the same. She declares that the meter is very
soothing and that she has seen many another
child yield to the somnolent influence of "Arma
virumque cano, Troae qui primus alb ors."
When Winifred was six weeks old her mother
began recitng selections from the English poets.
The babys favorites seemed to be Tennysons
Crossing the Bar" and Macaulays "Horatius at
the Bridge" By the time Winifred was a year
old she could repeat Crossing the Bar" and
scan the first ten lines Of the Aeneid. The mother
invented game in which she would roll a ball
to the baby and say "Arma." Winifred would
roll 1t back and say "virumque" and In this way
the Latin words and meter were fixed in the
babys memory.
From the very beginning the mother would
carry her baby about the house, point out chairs,
tables. ETC.. and pronounce their names carefully
She found 1t was just easy to teach the baby to
say train as to say "choo-choo car" and just as
easy to teach her to say "dog" as to say "doggie"
She surrounded the baby with colored pictures
To teach her colors Mrs. Stoner would take a box
OF varfously tinted yarns. She would play she
was Mother Red" and baby would be Mother
Green. and they would look into the yarn for
their children, those of green tints of course, be-
Ing the babies Of Mother Green"
Winffred's first toy was red balloon. which
was tied to her wrist where she could admire It.
Each day thereafter for several weeks there
would be balloon Of different color and shape.
until the child speedily came to know whether a
balloon was light. round. red. green and would 90
up and come down. She was never permitted tn
hear anything but the best English, although the
mother was not fnicky about vigorous expressive
slang.
AS soon as the child had learned to speak Eng.
fish reasonably well her mother began teaching
her Spanish. BY the time she was FIVE she had
learned to express herself in eight languages
Mrs. Stoner declares however, IL she had II to do
over again she would teach Esperanto first
The Madison journal. (Tallulah, Madison Parish, La.) 1888-current, 1914-10-31

mus. 1 repeat. war resembles the
steak and potato pie which furnished
the Sunday dinner Of two brother
boarders In Tioga.
The two brothers, Tom and Sam,
boarded with q mean-minded couple
who made their steak and potato pie
with all the steak on one side and the
potatoes all on the other. This couple
sat, Of course. on the steak side Of the
table; the brothers sat on the potato
side; and 90 II came about that every
Sunday the hosts got all the meat.
while the guests got the potatoes only.
The Madison journal. (Tallulah, Madison Parish, La.) 1888-current, 1914-10-31

Der returning from that country to the
United States was only 3S.317
When he became secretary Of labor
Mr.. Wilson ordered that departmental
bulletins giving facts as to the prod
ucts. resources and physical character
istics of all the states be sent to Amer
lean residents of Canada.
For the IL months ending May 81.
1914, it is stated at the department,
6S,396 citizens of this country went
over into the dominion. while 44.127
Americans returned to the United
StatsS
The Madison journal. (Tallulah, Madison Parish, La.) 1888-current, 1914-10-31
REV. VALLERY TOLITTLE ROCK
Monroe Minister Will Engage in Evan.
qeIistic Work in Arkansas.

Monroe.-Rev. A. J. Vallery and
family left Friday for Little Rock,
Ark, where in future they will reside.
Rev. Vallery will engage in evange.
listic work during the next few
months. but expects later to re-enter
the rescue work and to locate at some
point in Arkansas, possibly at Little
Rock. The Home of the Good So.
marian has been very successful un-
der the direction of Rev. Vallery.
The Madison journal. (Tallulah, Madison Parish, La.) 1888-current, 1914-10-31
ventress Is Acquitted.

Baton Rouge.-"Not guilty" said the
Jury impanelled to pass upon the
aharge of embezzlement lodged
against ]. Posey Ventress by the
grand jury as result of State Audi
tor McFarland's audit of the state
land Office. This ended a trial that
has aroused much personal interest,
and has been closely followed by both
the friends of Ven,ress and his for
mer employer, Fred ]. Grace, regis
trar of the land office. The verdict
was applauded by the large crowd.
The Madison journal. (Tallulah, Madison Parish, La.) 1888-current, 1914-10-31

AT last Tom said to Sam one Sun
day morning:
Look here. Sam. no matter what
say to you at dinner today, don't take
offense, will your
No. Tom. Of course not
Well. dinner time came; the Die,
steaming hot, was set as usual on the
table; the willy host and hostess took
their places on the steak side, and the
hungry boarders fell as usual into
chairs opposite the potatoes.
But, then, Just as the boarding
mistress was about to thrust carving
The Madison journal. (Tallulah, Madison Parish, La.) 1888-current, 1914-10-31
v. S. Chamber of Commerce.

New Orleans.-The date of the mex.
annual meeting of the United States
Chamber OF Commerce was fixed at
February 3, 4 and 5 by directors of
the organization here this week. The
meeting will be held in Washington.
Members of the board of directors
who are touring the South for the pur-
pose of obtaining first hand informa-
ton on which to base relief for the
cotton producers, left here for Orange.
Beaumont and Houston, Texas. and
Little Rock, Ark.
The Madison journal. (Tallulah, Madison Parish, La.) 1888-current, 1914-10-31
PAYING Ten Cents For Cotton.

Galbraith, La.-John Abraham me''
chant and planter on Cane River y
joining the hold movement ano .
the same time is assisting his GU.
toners and poor farmers IN the ~
cotton market by paying them loc y
pound for their cotton. His mou'e :
paying this price for cotton is 70 81
as much of 1t in his possession %.
of the market as he can. in order tns'
he may hold it over for good prlce.
He will have the support Oh man.
other business men OF the parish
The Madison journal. (Tallulah, Madison Parish, La.) 1888-current, 1914-10-31
Judgment Not Set Aside,

Shreveport-Judge John R. Land,
at a hearing Tuesday morning, refus-
ed to set aside the forfeiture of the
bonds of Z. A. Renfro, former local
druggist, charged in five counts with
violation Of the prohibition law and
the court also refused to grant Renfro
a new trial.
The Madison journal. (Tallulah, Madison Parish, La.) 1888-current, 1914-10-31
tuberculosis SanItarjun

Alexandria.-Dr. Oscar Bowling.
president of the State Board of Health,
will recommend the purchase of a
tract Of land comprising about one
thousand acres, at James Bluff, on the
north side of Red river, a few miles
below Alexandria. as site for the
hospital to be established by the state
tuberculosis commission.
The Madison journal. (Tallulah, Madison Parish, La.) 1888-current, 1914-10-31

knife and fork into the crisp crust,
Tom struck the table a laundering
blow with his fist, glared ferociously
at Sam, and reared:
Look-a-here. Sam. IL ever you dare
speak to me as you done this mornin'
while was talkin' to a young lady,
I'll screw your neck round, by crinus,
the same as I'm screwin' round this
blasted pie"
The Madison journal. (Tallulah, Madison Parish, La.) 1888-current, 1914-10-31
RUSH TO CANADA DECREASES
e8,396 Citizens Of United States Cross
Border, but ART Return
Home.

Washington.-Secret Wilson Of
the department Of labor is pleased at
reports he Is receiving which indicate
that the number of American citizens
emigrating to Canada is decreasing.
During 1919 S7.951 American citi-
sans went to Canada, while the num-
The Madison journal. (Tallulah, Madison Parish, La.) 1888-current, 1914-10-31
To Issue Half Million Bonds

Alexandria.-At a meeting OF 'n'
Red River, Atachafayala and bayos
Bouef levee board, the president wa.
authorized to have the s5OO,Ooo o.
bonds engraved and as soon as nnisp
ed the bonds will be placed on tn'
market and sold when the work on inc
levees and drainage will be begun
The Madison journal. (Tallulah, Madison Parish, La.) 1888-current, 1914-10-31
Henry
Change in the Land Office

Baton Rouge.-E. D. Gianelloni of
Assumption. = parish was installed as
registrar of the United State land Of
flee, succeeding ]. F. INITIALS, who has
held office since the establishment of
the United States land office in Baton
Rouge three years ago.
The Madison journal. (Tallulah, Madison Parish, La.) 1888-current, 1914-10-31
Court Calendar Contested

Notwithstanding to state
ments from the Alexandria Bar Asso-
citation, the court calendar in the
Rapides-Grant district is so badly con-
gested that it is absolutely impossible
for one judge to dispose of the bust
ness
The Madison journal. (Tallulah, Madison Parish, La.) 1888-current, 1914-10-31
STRATEGY At DINNER TABLE,


WAR; said Major Jansen, war 10
Ike the steak and potatos pie"
'-Ths steak and potato pie?" muir.
aured Z mystined LADY.
war" saId fajpr Janssa. goes on
.eor avhile n = eae VuSty's favor;
IN CONS = Gctoke q brilliant
The Madison journal. (Tallulah, Madison Parish, La.) 1888-current, 1914-10-31
comoare. Manhattan to He'll.

New York.-Eyangelist BOD ''. -,
declares that New Workers =,
dancing the tango in cabarets Oh -,
brink OF hell" He says that thSs
difference between Manhattan an
is that Manhattan is surroundt
water.
The Madison journal. (Tallulah, Madison Parish, La.) 1888-current, 1914-10-31

Blanchard.-A band OF yeggmen
blew the safe OF f. l.. Mccain ~
Blanchard, early Wednesday mornins'
demolishing the safe and part Oh tne
store building.
The Madison journal. (Tallulah, Madison Parish, La.) 1888-current, 1914-10-31

Undertaken Commits Suicide
New York.-After asserting
business was poor, William W. p
on. fifty-fve. an undertaken. co"''
ed suicide by inhaiing gas
The Madison journal. (Tallulah, Madison Parish, La.) 1888-current, 1914-10-31

In the past ten years the Carnegie
Hero Fund commission has made
awards to "a women for heroism.
The Madison journal. (Tallulah, Madison Parish, La.) 1888-current, 1914-10-31

o AMAZING have been the intellectual
achievements of Winifred Sackville
Stoner, Jr., a ten-year-old Pittsburgh
girl. that investigators persuaded her
mother and chief teacher, Mrs. Wini-
fred Sackville Stoner, to write the
whole story Of the child's education
In a book.
This unusual little girl is already
The Fairmont West Virginian. (Fairmont, W. Va.) 1904-1914, 1914-05-11

Notice is hereby given that tho
undersigned State Board of Contro
Of West Virginia will, until noon or
the 9TH day of June. 1914 receive al
lis Office in Charleston, West Virginia
sealed bids for furnishing all mate,
rails and labor necessary to erec,
and complete at the West Virginia
Colored. Institute, Institute, Yves;
Virginia, two story and basement
dormitory and dining, hall building
Said building will be constructed Of
bick and reinforced concrete.
Plans and specifications will be on
file at the following places on and
after May Is, 1915:
Office Of the State Beard OF Con.
troll, Charleston, W. Va.
Office of the Herald Disnatch
Huntington, w. Va.
Office of the Dispatch News, Park.
ersbGrg, Viva.
Office of the Fairmont West Wiz.
sinian, Fairmont; w. Va.
Office Of the Wheeling lnteliigen;
Ger. Wheeling, Viva.
All bids must be scaled, plainly ad.
dressed to the State, Board Of Con.
troll, Charleston. w. ya.., and mark
ed in a conspicuous place on. the. en-;
velope-"Bid for Work at Insti-
ente." The bid must be accompanied
by certified check for Five Hun.
bred ts5oO.00) Dollars. Checks 81
unsuccessful bidders will be returned
when, contract Is awarded and check
Of successful bidder will be held un-
til proper contract and bond have
been. executed, upon failure OF. bid.
der to execute which, his check will
be retained blythe State Board OF
Control to cover expenses of read.
|vettising and re-letting.
Immediately after contract ssis
awarded the successful bidder viii
be required to execute a proper con:
tract with guaranty company bone
in a penalty equal to the amount o.
the contract price, said bond to be
conditioned for the construction and
completion % the work as set fprtJ
In the plans and specificat lions.
All bids must be made on forms
filed with the specifications. and
which viii, on request, betmailed te
sny bidder Tie State Board of Con.
trol reserves the right to reject any
and all bids.
STATE BoARD. OF CONTROL.
BY j. s. llAKIN. President.
May II. ~. 15I IS. 20. ".
The Fairmont West Virginian. (Fairmont, W. Va.) 1904-1914, 1914-05-11
|FIRS!IAAEfsp
(29fEle
.s1 ssss5ass SssssisS
Here for Funeral.

Among those from a distance whc
were here yesterday for the, funeral
ct Mrs. Jeanette Gwynn Malone were
Mr.. and Mrs. William Malone, Mr
]. H. Smallwood; colfax; Mrs. l.. A,
Malone, Miss Leah Malone, MIR. and
Mrs. Denzil Malone, shinnston: Mr..
and Mrs. James Glenn and children,
Louise and William of Fetterman.
Mr.. VIM. .Gwynn, Mrs. Jennie JACOBS
and SOM Mr.. Moses Jacobs, Triune,
MIR. Ellsworth Gwynn, White Day;
Mis-. Clarke Buckalew and son, Mr.,
Arthur Buckalew. Independence; Mr..
Jesse Gwynn, Triunc; Mr.. and Mrs.
George Galliher, of Eldora; Mr.. and
Mrs. W. N. Malone and daughter,
Lucille, Grafton.
The Fairmont West Virginian. (Fairmont, W. Va.) 1904-1914, 1914-05-11
MARIAN GETS THE WORST q. ] Sl OF Il /


On Monday morning at ten Marian
entered Inc theater, lleping a oinst
liopelessnsss that there would be d
Part for her In the drama scheduled
for rehearsal that week. Ranking
memory % the scene the previous Sat
prday night with Ratgcnhaner, the
MANAGER sun tapped its black wings
In the chambers OF llergminl.
Another worry was on her mind.
She had lost the check she had re-
ceiyedEi ntpayment for her services the
previous week. She recalled looking
at A. on the street car on her way
iiomeson Saturday night. When she
had reached her room IT was nowhere
toSbes found Early this morning she
lad stetephoned tile bank on which 1t
was drawn 70! stop payment on It,
having been advised tot do so by her
landlady, whom sliesllad told Of tho
inishap 81 u 4,
Milttee the star, nodded pleasant
" az Marian as she entered tile the
alter at the hour OF rehearsal. Rat
fenhauer, who was talking to wiz
tree. saw her, but paid no attention
10 her When heitwo separated Ma
rian crossed to Ratgenhauer.
VIII you be able to give me a
partgisssll 9 inquired.
No.. he answered shortly. .I'm
surprised TO hear you ask for one.
Aren't YOU "a little too swell to be do
ingEany work around here?"
y don't understand YOU. she an
s@ered stnng by the cool rebuke.
give y IA guess, why don't you,'
lie dded turning on hislieel. ~
Just ia moment, MIR. Ratgen-
haner. she continued, following him.
yellgg,s , Pr
The Fairmont West Virginian. (Fairmont, W. Va.) 1904-1914, 1914-05-11
Divorced .hfel
gxa Helen Hessons Euesie \.

I've lost the check | received on
Saturday. I've ordered payment
stopped on It at the bank. Can I5get
aSduplicate check? e ~ ,5.s. K.
S..'We.ye paid You once, Miss Win
,tlirop,sg said the manager. s,You can't
expect me to keep on handing you
one check after another. Who do you
thinksI am? Rockefeller?r +
"I'm merely asking for what's due
ne" retorted Marian iangriIy.
Il raid you, didn't l2a demanded
the manager testify.
sYou paid me s-but--"
We'll, what's; the matter with vol,
then?she interrupted
.ktell you, that check is lost. I've
stopped payment on it, My, salary
isn't paid until I've got the money!
III have the matter looked up.
I'm busy now... !. .i Z
He started to walk away. Marian.
with tears Of wrath rushing to her
eyes, remained al, his side, saying:
Busy NOW or not busy, i want that
money. I've earned it. i've stood for
yorr impudence as long as could,
and I'm not going to be bluffed like
this"
Far be IT from me TO bluff you.
Miss Winthrop smiled the other
archly. You seem to forget that
you signed a receipt for your last
weeks pay. We're no charitable or
ganization, you know" &.
The futility of further argument
was obvious to Marian. She turned
on her heel and left the thcater, NOR.
titled and Inundated at her inabil-
lily to cope with this man.. She hated
herself for the patience with which
she had submitted to some of his ear
Tier attentions. She 1oathed Him.
2
The Fairmont West Virginian. (Fairmont, W. Va.) 1904-1914, 1914-05-11
That is my idea Of n true surfragist,.
and she will be permitted to so her
way. She did mot employ a hunger
strike, setting aSturther example"
NOTICE TO WATER CONSUMERS

1t is very important that. al con-
sumers of city water follow strictly
the Rules and Regulations of the City
Ordinances and Bylaws of 1909,
which have to. do with regulating the
use Of water for all purposes, and
which are as follows:
Part.sec. IS: "City water for pur-
poses Of sprinkling streets or yards
shall be used only for such purposes
between, the hours Of s 100 o'clock and
500 O'Clock, a. M, and 500 O'Clock
and 900 o'clock p. M: NO HOSE
SHALL BE USED FOR MORE THAN
TWO HOURS IN ANY DAY.
in case Of any violations Of the
above ordinance, the following regu-
lations Of the. water, ordinances will
be promptly enforced:
Part Sec IL: Meters may be at
tached to any premises whatsoever
when, in the opinion Of the Water
Commissioner, the same for any rea.
son be deemed necessary, and the re.
fusal of any person or persons to at
tach meters to their premises when
ordered to do so shall be sufficient
cause for the. Water Department to
shut off water from any Of such
premises 4
There is no water famine at pres
ent; but to avoid one there shall be
from now on a strict enforcement OF
the aboye'water ordinances. 1t is en-
tirely proper and absolutely! neces-
sary to- make every effort fair and
reasonable to stop the reckless waste
of water which is costing fraction
ever 4 cents per thousand gallons TO
pump.
The city authorizes propose TO re-
serve and exercise every right they
have in regulating the proper use Of
the city water at all times. q
Trusting that we may have the
cheerful cooperation of all water
consumers in our honest endeayors to
cave water, we are,
Respectfully,
IRA L. SMITH,
Water Commissioner.
d-24-t, a. W.-5-20 ~ is.'