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The true Democrat. [volume] (Bayou Sara [La.]) 1892-1928, 1914-04-18
ORDINANCE.

Section L. Be it enacted by the Police
Jury of the Parish of West Feliciana,
That all roads in the Parish now used as
public roads, and on which overseers
have heretofore been or may hereafter be
appointed are hereby declared public
roads in the meaning of this ordinance
Section 2 Be it enacted, ETC., That
the Parish of West Feliciana be. and it
is hereby declared to be, divided into
....... road districts each of said dis
tricts to conform geographically with the
several wards of said Parish.
Section 3. Be it enacted, etc., That in
order to raise funds for the purpose of
constructing, maintaining and repairing
the public roads and bridges of the Par
ish, per capita tax of One Dollar per
annum is hereby imposed upon each able
bodied male inhabitant of the Parish of
West Feliciana between the ages of egh-
teen and fifty-fve years, provided that
the provisions of this section shall not be
operative in Incorporated towns in the
Parish that maintain their own streets.
Section 4. Be it further enacted, etc.,
That, in order to carry into effect the
provisions of the preceding section, the
assessor of the Parish shall make list
of all persons subject to the per capita
tax, which list shall be kept by him in q
special book or upon extension of his
regular tax rolls.
Section 5. Be it further enacted, ETC.,
That the per capita tax herein imposed
shall be collected by the Sheriff of the
Parish in the same manner as other
taxes, and that the assessor shall re-
ceive for listing, and the Sheriff for col
Letting said tax, the same rate of COM
missions as in other taxes assessed and
collected by them
Section 6. Be it further enacted, etc.,
That the said per capita tax shall become
due on or before the 91st day of October
1914, and each succeeding year thereafter,
and any person liable therefor who shall
have failed to pay said tax on or before
the 31st day of December, 1914, and each
succeeding year thereafter, will be Deem
ed delinquent
Section z. Be it further enacted, etc.,
That, in order to enforce the payment of
said tax, any person liable therefor who
may be delinquent in the payment thereof
shall be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor
and upon conviction thereof shall be fined
in an amount not exceeding One Hundred
Dollars, or in default of paying said fine
to imprisonment in the Parish Jail for a
period not exceeding thirty days.
Section 8. Be it further enacted, ETC..
That all fines and penalties imposed on
persons for infringement of this ordinance
shall CO. when collected, into the road and
bridge fund of the Parish
Section 8. Be it further enacted, etc.,
That this ordinance shall take effect from
and after it's passage and that all ordi-
nances or parts of ordinances in conflict
herewith are hereby repealed.
c. F. HOWELL, Pres. Police Jury
R. M. LEAKE, Sec. Police Jury.
The true Democrat. [volume] (Bayou Sara [La.]) 1892-1928, 1914-04-18

Rudyard Kipling told the members
of the Royal Geographical Society re-
Gently that the world is about to en-.
ter upon a new era in travel-when the
sea shall give place to the air as the
highway of the nations. He added that
the routes of trade will be utterly diff
ferent. Then" said Mr.. Kipling, 1--WE
shall hear the lost ports of New York
and Bombay bowling like Tarshish and
Tyre The men of the nresent
have begun the discovery of the new
world with the same devoutly careless
passion that their predecessors showed
in completing the discovery of the old"
The true Democrat. [volume] (Bayou Sara [La.]) 1892-1928, 1914-04-18
NOTICE.

st. Francisville, La, April 16, 1914
This is to notify all property owners
of this town to place their sidewalks
in good repair within thirty days from
this date, according to resolution pass
ed by the Town Council.
The town will furnish, free of charge,
all sand necessary for use in repairing
said walks.
If this regulation is not complied
with | will take charge of the walks
and have them repaired at the expense
of the property holder
G.. S. DAVIDSON, Marshal.
The true Democrat. [volume] (Bayou Sara [La.]) 1892-1928, 1914-04-18

A bridegroom is a person who spends
lot of money buying himself we'd
ding suit that nobody notices. Dallas
News.
Except in the rural press, which
usually reports, "the groom wore a
suit of conventional black"
The true Democrat. [volume] (Bayou Sara [La.]) 1892-1928, 1914-04-18

Latest popular sheet music Zoe pei
copy, at the Royal Pharmacy.
The true Democrat. [volume] (Bayou Sara [La.]) 1892-1928, 1914-04-18

Wanted to buy some second hand
lumber in good order. Apply at this
office. If.
The true Democrat. [volume] (Bayou Sara [La.]) 1892-1928, 1914-04-18
LITTLE ADS"

Hats remodeled and trimmed. Nice
line of flowers, milliner's findings, ETC.,
on hand. Mrs. S. L. Riggs, at Storm S
store. (4-1S-4
The true Democrat. [volume] (Bayou Sara [La.]) 1892-1928, 1914-04-18

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 its return to this office,
and no questions asked.
The true Democrat. [volume] (Bayou Sara [La.]) 1892-1928, 1914-04-18

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.. MATTHEW'S.
(411-4)
The true Democrat. [volume] (Bayou Sara [La.]) 1892-1928, 1914-04-18


For sale at cost, one sanitary couch
full bed size, $780, Excellent for sum-
mer use, or as hall lounge. Only
used few times Reason for selling,
too long for the space planned for it to
stand in. These couches usually sell
for $4.75 in New Orleans, plus freight,
but this one was purchased at sale.
Apply at True Democrat Office.
FOR SALE-About $50 bbls. damag-
ed corn. JAS. P. BOWMAN. (tf.
FOR SALE-Grade Hereford Cattle.
Lespedeza Hay and Seed.
EDWARD BUTLER,
st. Francisville, La
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1914-11-01

"" American scandinavian Su,i,i.
lNf'' "h"sc auspices a Programme uf
interesting music 10y scandinavian coa-
N'.S VAS presented last year. Is agt.u
=. arrangements for another cnu.r.
'r''s." Han, 20 take place "a.Iy mo
'e '.W N,t'.
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1914-11-01

Blanche Go dc. pianist. will make her
81 appearance at Aeol.an Han on the
.'"Fr'on ~ November I. when she will
pay me following programme Schubert
"'a't opus li3 Brahms, ,pus ll9,
..I,e h'"rmelz, rhap- ode; Chopin. six
nnla'. opus 10. Nos, 3, s, :; opus %,
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1914-11-01

Mia milan Pilacr, viol,nlst. VIII be
n recital In Aeoiian Han Suudiy
SEEMING, DecI mbcr 6.
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1914-11-01

-" " IiDnus, barltuuc. Wll. vc re-
songs by American composer az
. Han "a Friday evening
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1914-11-01
CONCERTS.

Armour" cment j. made by the Board OF
EDUCATION that free public organ recltdls
on SUNDAY afternoons will be resumed
h'St Sunday, when GOttfried II. FEEDER
lein VIII give a recital at the Ethical Cul-
're School, Central Park West ana SIX
u-'ourth street This will be the first
o' a series Of r"yitals which MI Fedcylein
VII give 70. the school. They viii begin
az O'Clock Later IN the season a num-
ner y the high schools which arc eau pped
WIN or-au. WlI De used 10. such pee
'"'s. ard an added feature VIII he
%'eS = re'it,is upon the melodies Of
stephen Collins Foster. which vim DE
s.''n 'y 'h" Harm ny Glec club Of
h'oody0 These rectals viii be part
OF me system Of adult education con-
nu'ted by the Board OF Education each
The Catholic bulletin. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1911-1995, 1914-01-17
THE CHURCH OF THE POOR.

A non-Catholic contributor to the
Manchester Guardian bears testimony
as follows to the exceptionally strong
ground upon which the Church can
claim the title of being "The Church
of the Poor"
"Of the Church of Rome would say
at once that no one who has worked
in a Roman Catholic neighborhood, or
who has visited regularly in hospital,
can deny that she has kept her poor
faithful to her teaching and practice
to an extent not equalled by any other
communion. She has never for a mo-
ment fallen into the heresy of regard
ing the first duty of the Church to be
the improvement of conditions in this
world. The Church of Rome has
never been backward in taking the
part of the poor. From India to Peru,
she has withstood kings, princes, and
governors on behalf of the poor, the
oppressed, and the slave. But she
always made it clear that her priests
are, first of all, ministers of Christ
and stewards of the mysteries of God.
And she has refused to compromise
as to her message. This is the truth;
take it or leave it, has always been
her attitude"
The Catholic bulletin. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1911-1995, 1914-01-17
THE CRY FOR cATHoLIcITY.

In the great days of Catholicism
one of the minor, but by no means
negligible advantages enjoyed by the
ignorant many was constant access to
higher and broader point of view, y
writes DR.. Charles ]. Whitby, a non
Catholic, in the London Academy"
Continuing this line of thought, he
says:
THE point l wish to make and to
emphasize is that over and above it's
purely religious function as consider
and inspirer of the souls of individual
men and women, Catholicism exercised
an enormous influence upon life as a
means of bringing to bear upon every
day problems the point of view of a
profound and wonderfully consistent
philosophy In the Middle Ages poets,
artists, scholars and thinkers were at
tracted to the Church by an inevitable
affinity. The Church assimilated the
work of such men, wrought it up into
a coherent and more or less harmoni-
Gus whole, and thus became the organ
and the mouthpiece of every form of
culture
In place of the Church we have the
churches, with their innumerable con-
fiicting aims and sympathies, their mu-
tual chickering's and determinations,
their half-empty pews and half-heart-
ed minister's Catholicity!
Catholicity! that is what we need, but
where shall we find it,"
The Catholic bulletin. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1911-1995, 1914-01-17

man was ever created equal to one
special man is older than the Declare
ton of equal rights and rank" said
Father Moore. Run along, my dear
little girl, my dear, good, sweet, little
Jennie! I'm so fond of you, little one
that couldn't possibly better prove
my opinion of Jack than by telling you
to follow into his keeping these roses
that l shall give him."
1t all happened exactly as Father
Moore had promised it would. 1t was
an unspeakable surprise to Jennie, full
as she was of the miracle of a great
first love, so soon to find Helena read
ing letter from Mr.. Harding in
which he asked her to marry him
She could not understand that he
willingly had substituted the elder
for the younger sister, on Father
Moore's advice, and on being told that
Jennie would never be for him. A
marriage of cool judgment, of expedi
ency, of Unconditional wisdom was en-.
tirely beyond Jennie's present range
of vision. Nor could she any better
Observation-Disclosures she saw it CRATE
fully-Helena's uplifted expression OF
serene, profound satisfaction.
Jennie, little sister, it is that Mr.
Harding wishes to marry" Helena
said, laying down the letter with this
look on her face.
'Then he is far more sensible than
we thought him!" cried Jennie. you'll
make perfect great lady! And Il
could never have made one at all!
Not that kind, though I'd like to be
another sort. Helena, then you won't
mind if marry Jack? There's really
no one else for me, you know!"
''There would be plenty of time and
I could introduce you to society, if
were Mrs. William Harding" sale
Helena thoughtfully. "But if you love
Jack-I suppose Mr.. Harding car
further him in business"
Jennie almost laughed at this rapid
assumption of influence with Mr.
Harding and of Mr.. Harding's influ
ence in the collateral part of the fam
| ily's fortunes. She kissed Helena anC
ran away. She ran almost into Jacl
on the porch.
II am looking for house will
crimson roses climbing on it's piazza
and for little girl living under those
roses and loving me. Father Moore
sent me-" he said. "Do these roses
match?"
He held up the bunch he carried to
ward the ramblers on the trellis.
They're exactly the same!" Jacl
cried, pretending to be surprised
where is the little girl, Jennie?"
Here" said Jennie in a tiny voice
Marion Ames Td0gdTt,
in Catholic Home Annual
The Catholic bulletin. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1911-1995, 1914-01-17

teachers and catechists, would be
able to do more work. Until now my
work has been confined mostly to the
town of Nellore itself. But I want
also to go to the villages. I feel sure
that in many of them I could estab-
fish our religion. Villages where ]
can keep a catechist are practically
gained for our religion. Though his
salary is low (about So month";, he
does a great work. In so many places
the Protestants have already estab-
lished schools and if we don't hurry
nothing may be left to us. Is it any
wonder that these Pariahs cannot
make out at once which is the true
Church of Christ when they hear from
different sides: 10, here is Christ!
Lo, He is there!' They simply follow
him who comes first. He who can
do most for them, who can give them
school with a teacher will have
them"
The Catholic bulletin. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1911-1995, 1914-01-17
THE FUTURE OF THE CHURCH

H. G. Wells, who far exceeds Jules
Verne in his romances forecasting new
fairy tales of science" has new
book, "Anticipations," with this fore
cast for religion:
There will be a steady decay in the
various Protestant congregations. The
rich as class, and the people of the
abyss, so far as they move towards
any existing religious body, will be at
tracted by the moral kindness, pic
turesque organization and venerable
tradition of the Roman Catholic
Church. We are only in the very be-
ginning of a great Roman Catholic re-
vival The country side Of the com
ing time will show many a splendid
Cathedral, many an elaborate mon.
astic palace, towering amidst the
Astounding colleges and technical
schools. Along the moving platforms
of the urban centres-amid the shin
ing advertisements that will adorn
them-will go the ceremonial process
sion, all glorious with banners and
censers-bearers. Countless ecstatic
nuns will shelter from the world in
simple refugees of refined austerity.
Except for few queer people, nour-
ished on Maria Monk" and such like
anti-Papal pornography, I doubt if
there will be any Protestants among
the rich. But of course there will be
much outspoken atheism and anti-re
ligion.
The Catholic bulletin. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1911-1995, 1914-01-17
INTERESTING FACTS ABOUT
LIBERIA.

Liberia is the only part of the black
mans continent that is governed by
the black man himself All Africa is
European except Abyssinia, Tripoli,
Morocco and Liberia, and the people
of the first three are not negroes.
Monrovia, the capital, bears the title
of president of the United States.
All along Liberals $50 miles of coast
and up and down the rivers the story
is the same, for the settlements bear
such names as Virginia, New Georgia,
New York, Louisiana, etc., and the
American spirit is strong in the
country.
Liberia is one of the most inter
esting colonial experiments of modern
times. Under the auspices Of the
American Colonization Society negroes
from our South went to Africa in 1847
to establish themselves in free gov
eminent To this day they act, look
and dress very much like the negroes
of our own South. Through heavy
financial loans the English have OBJ
tanned a strong hold on this free state
The Lyons African Missionaries are
entrusted with it's evangelization.
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| have been impossible then even tt
enter the house of person belonging
to the castles. In order to avoid Civ
ing scandal, they followed all the rules
and customs of the country, and the
result was that their first converts
were people belonging to the castles
The missionaries allowed them to live
according to their customs as far as
they were not connected with religion
In one word, the caste system was
considered to be a social system
separated from religion.
Things have changed. At present
all of us are considered Pariahs, or
outcasts. 1 think that the Protestant
religion that came afterwards has a
great deal to do with it. When the
different Protestant sects appeared in
this country their principle was that
caste had to be renowned if one want
ed to become Christian. No one of
the higher castles would be accepted if
he refused to live and associate with
the lower castles. The result was, of
course, that they got no converts ex-
cept from the Pariahs, and the result
was also that the ordinary heather,
who could not see any difference be-
tween all these Christian sects, con-
sidered them all to be the same and
equal with Pariahs.
"For us, too, it is at present ex-
tremely difficult to make converts
among the higher castles. We, too,
have to draw our Christians from the
Pariahs. However, though they are
the lowest of the social ladder, they
give this advantage, that they are
most eager to come over, and that we
can get as many as we like and can
look after. 1t seems that these out
casts are tired of the regime under
their masters, the Brahmins. For cen
turtles they have been downtrodden.
They were not allowed to erect their
huts in the villages, because the caste
people might be polluted by their pres
ence. The use of the common water
we'll was then denied, and in some
places it was the custom that they
must go out of the way if they met
PO40OA VI IhO AA3ACL SdSlSs lucy
now know that the missionary is their
helper and protector, and often they
come to us to help them against their
oppressors. Moreover, they make
good Christians. They may be rude
and they may have difficulty in learn
ing prayers and catechism, but once
they have been baptized they will
never go back.
"a few years ago this mission in
the town of Nellore, of $4,000 inhabit.
ants, was erected with the special pur.
pose of gathering as many of these
Pariahs as possible into the true fold.
AS one priest alone could not do much,
a convent of European Sisters was
also erected. The Sisters have a dis
pensary, schools, orphanages, etc., and
do their utmost to draw the people.
God has blessed our work. We
have already baptized more than $50
Pariahs, and daily we get applications
for instruction. Oh! if I could erect
more schools, If could support more
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bly, make the other wholly and per.
manently wretched. There's no say.
ing what Helena might do If you held
out for Jack, but I'll marry her to Mr.
Harding and there will not be a
shadow! She'll be devoted to her
husband-she's the sort that is-and
she'll be unspeakably happy in fine
house, administering great revenues
And Mr.. Harding is worthy man
So run along and say your little pray.
ers to st. Joseph in the church, and
worry no more about it! By the way,
expect to see Jack tonight. Leave
that bunch of red roses with me"
Jennie looked up into the beloved
face, so humorous, SO wise, SO nobly
good; the priest and she had risen.
What for, Father Moore?" she
asked, loosening the ramblers and Civ
ing the bunch to him as she spoke.
I'm going to tell him that there is
a heart just this color, beating some.
where under just such roses, and to
take this bunch that has lain over that
heart and journey till he finds the
house where the crimson ramblers
bloom and to gather the loving red
heart and the crimson roses into his
keeping without delay" said the
priest. 'By the Fourth, Jennie, you
shall have made your declaration OF
dependence, and acknowledged the
king"
such an un-American way to keep
the day!" said Jennie, smiling trem'
ulously.
The old priest laid his hand on the
soft brown hair in blessing which he
did not utter. eden is older than
Philadelphia; the belief that no other
The Catholic bulletin. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1911-1995, 1914-01-17
MISSION WORK IN INDIA.
Father AeIen Gives a Most Interesting
Description of Manners and Gus
toms in India.

lone must be accustomed to the
teeming millions of India to under
stand how it is possible that a single
missionary can have mission OF
about three-quarter of million souls.
However, such is the case. The Mel
lore district has a population of about
one and one-half million Inhabitants,
and is divided between a native priest
and myself. This district, situated on
the Bay of Bengal, is one of the poor
est of the Madras Presidency. 1t has
a very poor rainfall, one of the great
requisites in India, and, moreover, its
soil is very stony. The people are
kind and peaceful, as can be said of
the greater part of India. The greater
part of them live and support them
selves by cultivating the soil, though
the smaller industries, like weaving,
are not unknown in the villages.
'It is a proved fact that perhaps
even two hundred years ago there
were Catholic priests in this district.
Some forty miles from this town there
is in the midst of the fields a grave
of masonry, on which is still legible an
inscription, 'Krupananda swami which
means Clement, the priest The ex-
preston is just the same as we use at
present for a priest. Moreover, though
there are no Catholics in the neigh
borhood, the heathens there tell that
they always heard that this was the
grave of a priest, and from time i'm
memorial they have honored the grave
and kept it in repair.
mot very much is left of the work
of these old missionaries. Here and
there in the villages are still to be
found some Catholics. In all there
may be about thousand. No doubt
few as they are, they are the consola-
ton and glory of a missionary. When
one arrives in such village where
there are a handful of Catholics who
have had the faith for generations,
one forgets all the difficulties and
hardships of drive of fifty or sixty
miles in a iolting bullock cart. It
seems that the converts of these old
missionaries were all of the better
castles. The reader will know that
there exists in India a system of castles
or classes, far more rigorous than in
older years among the Hebrews or the
Egyptians. These old missionaries did
not get converts of the highest caste
the Brahmins, but neither are the Pa
riahs their converts. They draw them
from the intermediate classes. The
Catholic Church can adapt itself to all
peoples and countries. These. old mis-
sionaries understood that if they lived
according to their European ways, if
they did not adopt the customs of the
country with regard to food and other
things by which they could be pol
luted they would be considered equal
to the Pariahs, or outcasts. It would
The Catholic bulletin. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1911-1995, 1914-01-17

AS rises Teneriffe above
The restless oceans moan,
So looms above earth's chance ant
change
The ancient Church of Rome
Majestic 'gainst the sunset sky
The Titan mountain stands,
BROWNING while ocean giants die
Upon it's foaming sands.
So bold against the lurid past,
Yet stands the Church of Rome;
Unchanged when all is changing fast
The storm-tossed pilgrims home.
Overwhelmed by the barbarian hosts,
The Eternal City fell:
But laid on her rude conquerors
The magic of her spell.
Thus facing countless future years,
And ages yet unborn,
Rome rises DER all haunting fears,
And breads no coming storm.
The Catholic bulletin. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1911-1995, 1914-01-17
THE ANCIENT CHURCH OF ROME

(By Rev. C. E. Stowe, Congregational
clergyman, son of Harriet Beecher
Stowe)