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Meade County news., 1914-12-10
CHAPTER V-contInued.

Outside the palace courtyard stood
Rajah. the howdah securely attached
once more. Kathlyn was hidden to
mount. A water bottle and some cakes
were placed in the howdah beside her.
Then a drunken mahout mounted be-
hind Rajahs ears. The elephant did
not like the feel of the mans legs, and
he began to sway ominously. Never
theless, he permitted the mahout to
direct him to one Of the city gates, the
soldiers trooping alongside.
1t appeared that there was a much
shorter route to Alfalfa. Time being
essential, Bruce had had to make for
the frontier blindly, as 1t were. The
regular highway was moderately de-
cent road which led along the banks
OF one Of these streams which eventu-
ally join the sacred Jumna. This, Of
course, was also sacred. Many Hindus
were bathing in the CHATS. They
passed by these and presently came
upon a funeral pyre.
Sometimes one sleeps with ones
eye open, and thus 1t was with Kath-
Iyn. Out of that funeral pyre her
feverish thoughts builded a frightful
dream.
The drunken mahout slid off Rajah;
the soldiers turned aside Hired fe-
male mourners were kneeling about,
wailing and beating their breasts,
while behind them stood the high caste
widow, her face as tragic as Dido's at
the pyre of Eneas. Suddenly she
threw up her arms high above her
head.
Il am suttee!"
Suttee! 1t was against the law Of
the British raj. The soldiers began
arguing with the widow, but only half
heartedly. It was pious rite,
worthy of the high caste Hindu's wife,
Better death on the pyre than future
life like that Of pariah dog. For a
wife who preferred to live after her
husband was gone was a social out
cast permitted not to wed again, to
exist only as a drudge, menial, the
scoff and contempt Of all who had
known her in her days Of prosperity.
The widow, having drunk from a cup
. which contained opium, climbed to the
top Of the pyre where her husband lay,
swathed In white. She gazed about
wildly, and her courage and resolve
Meade County news., 1914-12-10

took wings. She stumbled down. A
low kissing ran about.
Make the white woman suttee in
her place!" cried the drunken mahout
The cry was taken up by the specta-
tors. Kathlyn felt herself dragged
from the elephant, bound, and finally
laid beside the swathed figure. There
could be no horror in the wide world
like 1t. Smoke began to curl up from
the underbrush. 1t choked and stifled
her Sparks rose and dropped upon
her arms and face. And through the
smoke and flame came Rajah. He lifted
her with his powerful trunk and car
ried her off, for hours and hours. back
into the trackless Jungle.
Kathlyn found herself, all at once,
sitting against the roots of an aged
banyan tree. A few yards away an
ape sat on his launches and eyed her
curiously A little farther off Rajah
browsed in clump of weeds, the how
dah at rakish angle, like the cooked
hat Of bully. Kathlyn stared at her
hands. There we're no burns there
She passed hand over her face;
there was no smart or sting. A dream:
she had dreamed it; fantasy due to
her light headed state of mind. A
dream! She cried and laughed, and
the ape gibbered at her uneasily.
In reality, Rajah, freed of his un,
welcome mahout. had legged it down
the road without so much as trumpet
ing his farewell, and the soldiers had
not been able to stop him.
How she managed to get down would
Meade County news., 1914-12-10
SYNOPSIS.

Kathlyn Hare, believing her father, Col.
Hare. in peril, has summoned her. leaves
her home in California to go to him In
Allaha. India. Umballa, pretender to the
throne. has imprisoned the colonel, named
by the late king as his heir. Arriving In
Allaha Kathlyn is informed by Umballa
that her father being dead she is to be
queen, and must marry him. She refuses
and is informed by the priests that no
seven days to think 1t over. She still re-
fuses. and is told that she must undergo
two ordeals with wild beasts. II she sur
wives she will be permitted to rule. John
Bruce. an American, saves her life. The
elephant which carries her from the
ecene of her trials runs away. separating
her from Bruce and the rest of the party.
Meade County news., 1914-12-10

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Meade County news., 1914-12-10
Gulf Streams Giant Flow.

Ninety billion tons of water are car
ried hourly through the Florida straits
by the gulf stream. according to Rear
Admiral John e. Pillsbury, U. s. NJ.
retired, formerly chief Of the bureau OF
navigation and the greatest authority
on the gulf stream, in a letter to the
National Geographic society. The gulf
stream, he said, is probably the grand
est and most mighty of the terrestrial
phenomena.
Meade County news., 1914-12-10

thing as a watch or clock: sunset
and sunrise. Perhaps the man of the
family may sit awhile at dusk on his
mud doorsill, with his bubbling water
pipe (if he has one), and watch the
stars slowly swing across the arch.
consumed; then he enters the hut,
filings himself upon his mating (per-
haps cotton rug, more likely a bum
die of woven water reeds), and sleeps
No one wakes him; habit rouses him
at dawn. He scrubs his teeth with a
fibrous stick. 1t is part Of his re-
ligious belief to keep his teeth clean.
The East Indian (Hindu of Mohamme-
dam has the whitest, soundest teeth
in the world If the betelnut is but tenn
perately used.
Beyond this village lay ruined city,
now inhabited by cobras and Sinking
jackals.
Dawn. A few dung fires smoldered.
From the doorway of one Of the mud
huts came lean man, his naked torso
streaked with wet ashes, his matted
hair hanging in knots and tangles on
his emaciated shoulders. His aspect
was exceedingly filthy; he was holy
man, which in this mad country signi-
fies physical debasement, patience,
and fortitude such as would have
adorned any other use. A human
lamprey, sticking himself always at
the thin and meager board Of the poor.
vile parasite, but holy!
The holy man directed his steps to
the narrow, beaten pathway which led
to the temple, where, every morning,
he performed certain rites which the
poor, benighted ryots believed would
some day restore the ruined city and
the prosperity which attends fat
harvests. The holy man had solemn
ly declared that it would take no less
than ten years to bring about this
miracle. And the villagers fell down
with their foreheads in the dust. He
was Brahmin; the caste string hung
about his neck; he was indeed holy,
he who could have dwelt on the fat Of
the land, in maharajahs' courts. The
least that can be said is that he per
formed his duties scrupulously.
So, then, the red rim of the March
sun shouldered up above the rolling
jungle as he came into the beaten
clay court which fronted the temple.
The lion stalked only at night, rarely
appearing in the daytime. Once a
month he was given bullock, for he
kept tiger and leopard away, and the
villagers dwelt In peace. The lion had
escaped from Allaha, where the spe-
cies were kept as an additional sport.
Since he had taken up his abode In
the temple there had been fewer
thefts from the cattle sheds.
The holy man was about to assume
his suuatting posture In the center of
the court, as usual, when from out of
the sarcophagus rose languidly q
form, shrouded in white. The form
stretched its lovely arms, white as
alabaster, and presently the hands
rubbed a pair of sleepy eyes. Then
the form sat down within the sarco-
phagus, laid its arms on the rim and
wearily hid its face in them.
The watcher was the most dunn
founded holy man in all India For
the first time in his hypocritical life
he found faith in himself. in his
puerile rites. He had conjured ur
yonder spirit, unaided, alone. He
rose, turned, and never holy man
ran faster. When he arrived. painting
and voiceless. at the village well
where natives were coming and going
with water in goatskins and Jars and
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DJ pdlIb lilo Nllld6OAo dAbCOb anu
soon none remained save her self-ap-
pointed guardians, the two holy men.
Kathlyn felt desire to explore this
wonderful temple. She discovered
what must have been the inner shrine.
The chamber was filled with idols;
here and there bit of gold leaf, CEN
turies old, glistened upon the bronze.
the clay, the wood. The caste mark
on the largest idols head was a pol
ished ruby, overlooked doubtless dur
ing the loot. She swept the dust from
the jewel with the tip of her finger.
and the dull fire sent a shiver Of de-
light over her. She was still woman.
AS she wandered farther in her foot
touched something and she looked
down. It was bone; in fact, the floor
was strewn with bones. She quickly
discerned, much to her relief, that
none of these bones were human. This
was, or had been. the den Of the lion
There was an acrid, unpleasant odor
so she hurried back to the brazier
Vaguely she comprehended that she
must keep the fire replenished from
time to time in order to pacify the
two holy men. At night it would fend
off any approach Of the lion.
Where was Bruce? Would he evel
find her? That philosophy which she
had inherited from her father, thai
quiet acceptance of the inevitable
was the one thing which carried hel
through her trials sanely. An ordi
nary woman would have died from
mere exhaustion.
Bruce. indeed! At that very mo
ment he was rushing out al Kumar'i
Meade County news., 1914-12-10
lows of companIonshlp.

Half the difficulty Of fighting any
severe battle or accomplishing any
hard task vanishes when a man feels
that he has comrades at his side fight
ing in the same cause, or that the
eyes of those he loves are upon him,
and their hearts praying for his vic-
tory.-C. J. Perry.
Meade County news., 1914-12-10
Advance in Formosa.

People of Formosa want education.
The English Presbyterian mission is
founding a high school in Tainan
which will cost $4,000. Toward this
sum no less than $4,000 has been
contributed by non-Christisn Chinese
The true Democrat. [volume] (Bayou Sara [La.]) 1892-1928, 1914-11-21
Noted Veterinarian Issues Article Describing and
Explaining Foot and Mouth Disease

but we would emphasize the warning
issued by the State Live Stock Sanitary
Board to stock owners of the state, to
delay purchases of cattle, sheep, other
ruminants, and swine, from sections of
the country contiguous to the quaran-
tined states; and that everybody deal
ing in, or importing hay, straw, fodder,
animal products, as hides, ETC., should
exercise the utmost care in such i'm
portations, until such time as the
Federal authorities have declared the
infection eradicated from the country.
And further, we would emphasize
the Importance of having any sus-
picious cases of the disease reported
at once to the State Live Stock SAM
tary Board at Baton Rouge"
Since the writing of this article by
DR.. Dalrymple, the cases reported from
Mississippi have proved to be some
thing else, and in no way connected
with the foot-and-mauth disease. 1t
was merely false alarm.
The true Democrat. [volume] (Bayou Sara [La.]) 1892-1928, 1914-11-21
THE LOGIC OF HOME BUYING.

Buying at home is not duty, but
just good, plain, ordinary common.
sense. 1t means when you pay out
money that money is pretty likely to
be employed at home in new stocks
new buildings and enlarged enterprises
1t means that eventually some of that
money is likely to get back into your
own pocket. For you have something
to sell as we'll as the merchant-crops
or labor or services or something. The
more money that is in circulation
among your neighbors, the more likely
are they to be able to buy what you
have to sell.
The mail order house is not going to
buy your products, whatever they may
be. The idea Of commerce Is the ex'
change of commodities, the buying and
selling to each other, which makes
each man in the community necessity
and furnishes each commodity with a
demand. Keep the money at home
where is can be a circulating medium
bringing employment and market
and helping the town to grow and to
prosper.
The true Democrat. [volume] (Bayou Sara [La.]) 1892-1928, 1914-11-21
HOG CHOLERA.

Hog cholera kills 80 per cent of all
hogs that die from disease. For more
than thirty years this disease has been
the greatest menace to hog raising in
the United States. 1t caused a loss
during the year 1913 estimated at g..
3O4,5OO hogs, worth at least $685.
800. Figuring the average live weight
of hog at $50 pounds, the loss
amounts to about 945,675,000 pounds,
which means that about 100000
pounds of meat and lard were destroy
ed by hog cholera, or enough to supply
every family in the United States with
about 81 pounds.
This enormous loss can be prevented
if you will exercise reasonable care. If
there is cholera in the community, OBJ
serve the following precautions:
Stay away from the infested prem
Uses. Do not allow persons suspected
Va AofAu5 lOSCut1y flolLCu iAACoICu
premises to enter your hog lots. Burn
to ashes the carcasses of all hogs that
die. Do not keep pigeons. Quarantine
Irewly purchased stock for thirty days.
Confine your dog. Keep your hogs away
from streams. Abolish wallow holes.
Provide cement feeding floors, clean
food, clean drinking water and clean,
dry quarters for your hogs. Use fresh
ly slaked lime and liquid disinfectants
freely in the hog quarters. Immunize
your hogs when disease appears in
your herd or in close proximity to it.
Cholera serum may be obtained from
the State Live Stock Sanitary Board,
Baton Rouge. Do not wait until they
are sick, as the treatment Is more ef-
ficacious as preventive than as a
cure. Ask your neighbors what they
are doing to prevent the disease. Get
them interested and organize a hog
cholera club in your community to
fight the disease.
The true Democrat. [volume] (Bayou Sara [La.]) 1892-1928, 1914-11-21
THE OLD MAN.

Boys, when you speak of your father
don't call him the "old man." OF
course you are older now than when
you were taught to call him father"
You are much smarter than you were
then, you are much more manly look
ing, your clothes fit you better, your
hat has modern shape and your hair
is combed differently. In short, you
are flyer" than you were then. Your
father has last years coat, a two
year old hat and a vest of still older
pattern. He can't write such an ele-
giant note as you can and all that, but
don't call him "old man." Call him
father" For years he has been
hustling around to get things together,
he has been held to the thorny path
of uphill industry, and the brightest
half of life has gone from him forever.
He loves you, though he goes along
without saying much about it, there
fore be not so ungrateful. Exchange.
The true Democrat. [volume] (Bayou Sara [La.]) 1892-1928, 1914-11-21
HOW TO ACCUMULATE A
COMPETENCE IN FIVE YEARS
louisville Courier-Journal.)

One of the effects of the European
war will be the further defamation of
the worlds livestock supply Already
there is shortage of meat animals in
the United States, and for some months
agricultural authorities have been urg-
ing farmers to greater efforts in the
production of livestock.
The arguments that have been ad-
yanced are given tenfold strength by
the remarkable conditions that have
arisen in Europe. The N. Y. CONNER.
cial, in discussing the war situation,
expresses the belief that Europe will
have exhausted its horses and meat
animals before the fighting ceases, and
that "dearth of supplies of food will
probably have as much to do with the
making of peace as the loss of battles
on land and sea-" The Commercial
continues:
"The waste of this war must be re-
paired after 1t is over, and it will be
in this work that neutral countries will
make their greatest profit. Farmers
must prepare to take advantage Of the
opportunity that is sure to come. The
easiest way to accumulate a compe-
tence in the next five years lies in the
increase of the herds. The golden days
of the cattle boom in the West will be
nothing when compared with the profit
of restocking the desolated farms of
Europe. The many always wonder how
the few get rich. Every intelligent
farmer should be in comfortable cir
cumstances within five years, if he will
build for a future that is not far dis
tant. Raising livestock cannot be
over-done within that space of time,
and 1t goes we'll with other agricultural
pursuits"
There Is an opportunity here for the
farmers of Kentucky and the South in
general. The South should become the
great cattle-raising section of the Unit
ed States. Every section of the coun-
try should profit by the expansion of
the livestock industry, but the South
should profit most of all.
The true Democrat. [volume] (Bayou Sara [La.]) 1892-1928, 1914-11-21
THE CAUSE OF PELLAGRA.
New Orleans Daily States.)

After long and patient investiga-
ton the Federal Public Health Service
Commission has reached the conclu-
sion that well-fed persons do not have
.pellagra. This discovery will cause
more qualification than surprise. 1t
supports the growing belief that a
majority of maladies find their first
victims among the inadeQuately nour-
ished.
We are told that neither serum, anti
toxin nor the mysterious culture" of
research work can be relied upon as a
substitute for good food, fresh air and
leisure. A diet containing more legumi-
nous protein matter is recommended
as shield against pellagra and those
seeking to be cured of 1t. The report
of the commission holds that the
disease Is not communicable.
In certain sections of the South
where the diet Of thousands is limited
to neighborhood products, are found
the largest number of cases of pella-
gra. The advice of the commission
itself is that more varied diet be
observed by the people of the pellagra
belt.
The true Democrat. [volume] (Bayou Sara [La.]) 1892-1928, 1914-11-21
EXECUTIVE DEPARTMENT,
State of 1 oI,isiana

Whereas, William Holly Taylor,
resident OF the Parish of West Felic-
lana, Louisiana, has applied to me for
the cancellation of Seven Bonds, drawn
and subscribed by himself as principal,
as follows:
One for 100000, recorded May 20,
1884, in Mortgage Record M folio 81,
with the following sureties: Robert c.
Wickliffe for $4,000, o. d. Brooks for
$4,000, S. G. Stirling for $4,000, and
d. Stocking for $4,000; One for
100000, recorded June %, 1888, in
Mortgage Record N folio 20, with the
following sureties: Thos. Raynham,
Ernest Newman, T. T. Lawson, and
l.. P. Kilbourne, each for $4,000; One
Tor 100000, recorded June "a, 1892,
in Mortgage Record N folio $50, with
the following sureties: l.. P. Kilbourne,
Ernest Newman, Henry Tempel, and
August Muller, each for $5OOU0; One
for 100000, recorded July 3, 1896, In
Mortgage Record o folio $40, with the
following sureties: Edward L. New
sham for $l,000.OO, and Aaron Schles-
singer and Joseph D. Smith for $4,000
each; One for 100000, recorded jan
uary 20, 1901, in Mortgage Record P
folio 208, with the following sureties:
T.. l.. Newsham for 81, 10000 and Ernest
Newman and Aaron SchlessInger for
$4,000 each; One for $2,OUO.UU, record
ed July 2, 1904, in Mortgage Record q
folio 22S, with Thomas W. Raynham
and e. l.. NeWsham as suretles for
81 100000 each; and one for $2,000.00l
recorded June q, 1908, in Mortgage
Record r folio 286, with Charles Wey-
dert as surety for 100000, dated re-
spectiyely May rs, 1884; June 16, 1888;
June s, 1892; July 3, 1896; December
81, 1900; June %, 1904; and June %,
1908; and conditioned for the faithful
performance and discharge by said
William Holly Taylor of his duties as
Coroner OF the Parish of West Felic-
lana, State of Louisiana.
Now, therefore, l, Luther e. Hall,
Governor of the State of Louisiana,
have thought proper to issue this my
proclamation with the view of giving
public notice to all persons herein in
terested and concerned to show cause
in writing, at the Office of the Secre-
tary of State at the City Of Baton
Rouge, La, within ninety days from
and after the last publication hereof
why said Bond and the mortgage re-
sulting therefrom should not be can
celled and annulled and the above
named securities discharged from any
further liabilities in the premises.
Given under my signature and TIA
Seal of the State of Louisiana at the
City of Baton Rouge, this Goth day Of
October A. d. 1914.
L. e. HALL.
By the Governor:
ALVIN e. HEBERT,
Secretary of State.
The true Democrat. [volume] (Bayou Sara [La.]) 1892-1928, 1914-11-21
THE SIXTH ANNUAL FARMERS
DEMONSTRATION CONFERENCE
TO BE HELD JAN. 10 TO 29, 1915

January 10 to 20, 1915, is the date OF
the sixth annual Farmers Demonstra.
ton Conference to be held at the Lou.
isiana State University The exercises
will consist of lectures and demonstra'
tons in subjects related to agricultural
practice. Ample time will be allowed
for discussions of general nature.
Eight hours during the day will be de-
voted to the work, and at night there
will be lectures illustrated by slides
and moving pictures. The University
is constantly adding to it's supply of
slides and pictures.
The facilities of the college are
ample to make demonstration and prac-
tIce work very helpful indeed The
Horticultural Department furnishes
material for the construction of hot
beds and coldframes and illustrative
material for use in transplanting early
truck crops. The Veterinary Depart
ment has ample models and charts,
and sufficient live stock are furnished
for demonstration of the topics dis
cussed. The new dairy, with modern
equipment in every particular, will be
used for the work in this course. For
exercises in stock-judging, animals of
the Experiment Station are available,
consisting of some of the leading
breeds of cattle, dairy cattle, hogs, and
sheep. For the corn work, samples of
a sufficient number of the leading va
rieties of corn are available for study
ing and Judging, and the same is true
of rice and forage crops. Ample facili-
ties are offered for the application of
insecticides and fungicides to truck
and fruit crops. The Soil Laboratory
offers ample facilities for studying the
practical problems which are discussed
In this course. The farm implements
of the Experiment Station and exhibits
of the manufacturers are placed at the
disposal of the college for the use of
farmers attending the conference.
The true Democrat. [volume] (Bayou Sara [La.]) 1892-1928, 1914-11-21
FARM FACTS.
(By Peter Radford, Lecturer, National
Farmers Union.)

(By Peter Radford, Lecturer, National
Farmers Union.)
Agriculture needs all the great men
it can get.
In union there is strength and in CO
operation there is profit.
The farmer can neither help himself
nor be helped by others until he
organizes.
The economic distribution of farm
products is today the worlds greatest
problem.
Our transportation systems are the
dray carts Of agriculture and can be
made capable peddlers of farm
products.
The middleman Is nothing more than
a farm hand but he Is able to fix his
own wages and to collect them and to
multiply his transactions as he pleases.
Bumper crops without market facil-
tiles have sent more farmers stagger-
ing down the back alleys of agriculture
than all the pests and droughts that
ever cursed the nation.