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The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1914-10-27

Butter Aid Eggs.
FURNISHED by The Continental Creamery
Co.. Topeka. Kan.1
Topeka. Kan. Oct. q.
CHICAGO EGGS-23h@24hc.
NEW YORK EGGs-N@zSc.
STORAGE EGGSt24k@Sc
CREAMERY BUTTER-Chicago. 3Oskc:
N. Y. 3214@33c; Elgin. s11xc: Topeka whole
Topeka Grain Market.
'f'1rnisnsd ~ ,. \ p,ll.ra. corner Kas
Topeka. Kan. Oct. n.
OATSt36@40c.
WFEAT-S5Q90c.
Topeka Butter, Eggs and Poultrv.
FURNISHED by the Topeka Packing "a
Corner Laurent and Madisonl
Topeka. Kan, Oct. n
,bs Ioc: broiiers, i lbs s sps'n s.. over
turkeys. nc: ducks. &c: geese. Sc: old
sITksys. iss: ducks. 7c: geese. 60
BUTTER-1Sc.
Topeka Hay Market
Furnished " .. A Beck a,.-.l. e. s,n.
Topeka. Kan, Oct. 81.
NEW PRAIRIE hAY-SloU. -
Topeka Fruit and Produce Bfarkes
(Sellins- prices ty SAM T.. Luz who,.
sale Fruit and Produce1
Topeka. Kan. Oct. ~
ITALIAN PRUNES-Per CRAZE a. -.
BURREL GEM CANTALOUPEIp
HoNEY-Per q rack case. sax
VALENCIA oHANGES-Per oox. q. nm
rs. W
CALIFORNIA LENONs-Per bo~
TOKAY GRAPEs.Per basket. Si.9 -"
W. oer bu-. Sis: white. per BIZ q z xes-
GRAPES-Per basket, c0c
MANGO PEPPERS-Per basket =.
EGd PLANT-Large. Der do: A.
NEW CARROTs-Per bu.. &c.
GREEN BEANs-Per basket. m.
CUCUMBERS-Per dog 6Oc
KAw VALLEY POTArOEsp.. 49,
SWEET RoTAToEs-Per su.. o.
COLORADO CABBA0E-Per m H.
CHEESE-17h01S14c.
TEXAS TOMATOES-2o h. climax ~
BANANAsLPer h.. Be.
CRANBERRIEs-Per Dbl. soe.
Dbl. %: per h.. 61kc. INK
GRIMES GOLDEN APFLEs1F;.{ -;
A.75 ooI'
PACKAGE F1Gs-Per box, soc
QUINCEs-Per box, 600
COLORADO CELERY - Jumbo. ~
DiAMOND BASKETS bu
and pecks per dog. sc. On
ROOT DISQUALIFICATION n.r ~,
&c Beete. per bu.. &c. Carrota nec 49,
Sc. parsnips per bu.. Sc. oo's
HoRsERADisH-Psrd os.. bo iii -S e
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BURIED IN A Mine.

Continued from page one.I
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1914-10-27
New York Sugar Market.

New York, Oct. N.-SUAR-Raw, easy
molasses, S.24; centrifugal, 3.S9. Refined
quiet.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1914-10-27

-Fur0lSh0u % : Beck pIo-cll N 6,n
Topeka. Kan, Oct. n.
NEW PRAIRIE HAY-yl0un
NEW A1.FALFA-SI0N
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1914-10-27

Chicago. Oct q.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1914-10-27

Topeka Frutt and Produce Dfarkes
(Sellin- prices ty SAM T.. Lux. who,.-
sale Fruit and Produce,1
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1914-10-27

Wichita live Stock Market.
Wichita, Oct 7.-HOGS-Receipts 1900.
Market weak Top, SIPS; bulk Of sales,
$7.O0@72o.
Native steers 36.OO@e.O0; cows and heifers.
S. O0Q1775; stockers and feeders. $5.0O@70O
stock cows and heifers. A.5OQ6.50; bulls.
$46@575; calves, $7.OO@10.00.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1914-10-27

New York Money Market.
New York. Oct. ACKNOWLEDGMENT
paper. 6@6k per cent. Sterling exchange.
ga sier: 60 day bills, 1850; for cables.
49O@D4 $3.50; for demand. s9.5004.S9.5. Bar
silves 4SNc.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1914-10-27

st. .so-rpl, 1--we >ns''s MARKET
st. Joseph, Oct N.-HOGS-Receipts
$500 Market steady to SC lower. Top,
81 IS; bulk Of sales, $715@7.30.
CATTLE-Receipts 1900 Market steady
to strong Steers, $6.50@10.O0: cows and
heifers, A25@9.Oo; calves, 36.00@1060
SHEEP-Receipts 800 Market 1602oc
higher. Lambs, $7.O0G7.75.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1914-10-27
Topeka Grain Market

1OpCk0 UE0lm 019fKCt.
FURNISHED ny J. Il. Billiard. cornsr -
cas- ave and Curt1o ST.
Topeka. Kan, Oct. n.
CORNING 80
OATS36@40c.
WFEAT-S5@90c.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1914-10-27

Ch1CAGO Grain AaRk0e
lie ..in.- oi prices Tor gram futur>D on
the Chicago Buard OF Trade A. reported
by Thos- J. Myers. Broker C0lunsb. an
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1914-10-27

Topeka. Kan, Oct. a.
CHICAGO EGGS-23h@24Kc.
NEW YORK EGGSLN@19c
STORAGE EGGS24k6Sc
CREAMERY BUTTER-Chicago. SOskc:
N. Y. 32A@33c; Elgin. 311kc: Topeka whole
sale, sec.
The true Democrat. [volume] (Bayou Sara [La.]) 1892-1928, 1914-09-26
WORKS FOR DECENCY IN
ELECTIONS.

Woman suffrage as a decent, moral
force was patiently illustrated during
the August registration. Chicago, since
1t gave the ballot to the women, has
the largest registration of any city of
the world. New York steps back to a
secondary place on the record. About
100000 voters registered in Chicago.
Husbands escorted their wives to the
polls, and sons accompanied their
mothers. The river wards had the
quietest time in their existence. In
stead of the rear of basement pool
hall in the First District, the assembly
room of the city hall was used In the
Second District, in place of the accus-
toned barber shop or bucket shop, the
polling place was transformed to the
Art Institute All told, the registra.
ton conditions are summed up as
great civic reform due to the presence
of women voters.
The true Democrat. [volume] (Bayou Sara [La.]) 1892-1928, 1914-09-26
TOWN COMFORTS ON YOUR FARM
(The Progressive Farmer.l

Why is it that SO many farmers, es-
pecially older ones, who are abundant
ly able to paint and screen their houses
and install telephones, waterworks,
lighting systems, ETC., think that they
must move to town in order to get
these Notwithstanding loafers
and parasites on the streets instead Of
remaining active and happy at home
among old friends and old scenes,
while at the same time helping make
their home neighborhoods better and
more attractive?
Don't leave the farm to get town
comforts; just move town comforts to
your farm.
And another big fact to remember is
that if you consider the town taxes and
the high town prices for everything
you eat and the ruinously expensive
town fashions in everything you wear,
it will cost you infinitely less to get
these comforts on the farm than it will
cost to move to town to get them.
The true Democrat. [volume] (Bayou Sara [La.]) 1892-1928, 1914-09-26
USELESS FEARS.

Senator John Sharp Williams, him
self q planter, tells the gospel truth
about cotton, in our opinion, when he
says, Our people have been stricken
with a perfectly useless panic" He
goes on to say: 81 have a notion that
the British cotton factories will not
only be working, but that they will be
working double time, thereby enabling
the English to capture many of the
markets which the Germans and Aus
TRANS and perhaps the French have
hitherto had" A letter we have just
received from a friend in London gives
support to Senator Williams theory.
Let our people once recognize that we
are ten times worse scared than hurt
so far as cotton consumption is con-
cerned, and that present prices are
artificial, and then feed the market
slowly till it steadies itself and We'll
be all right. And the banks have only
to advance money enough to support
a holding movement in order to insure
this result. But first of all the farmers
must meet in every county and make
plans for warehousing, financing, and
cooperative marketing.-The Progress
sive Farmer.
The true Democrat. [volume] (Bayou Sara [La.]) 1892-1928, 1914-09-26

Postmaster General Burleson has
recommended the supplanting of horses
On rural routes by automobiles. Along
with the recommendation goes sug-
gestion for an increase in the length
of standard routes to fifty miles. The
present length is twenty-four miles.
The house committee on post offices
and post roads incorporated these rec
concentrations in bill which it report
ed to the house, proposing to pay rural
carriers with automobile routes of fifty
miles in length $1,000 per year for
their work. The present pay is $1,000
with no allowance for horse or equip
ment. The additional $500 is put in
the bill for the purchase and mainte-
nance of automobiles of the cheaper
grade.
The true Democrat. [volume] (Bayou Sara [La.]) 1892-1928, 1914-09-26
THE GREATEST WORK OF PEACE.
(The Youths Companion.)

What are the greatest works of peace:
War is enormously wasteful. 1t wastes
lives, it destroys and eats up proper
| ~, 1t checks industry, it upsets all or.
ganization and settled habits. When
peace comes back, industry begins
again, The earth repays, the furnace
fires are alight, the whir of the facto.
Iries goes on again. Waste is gradual
ly repaired mouths are fed, children
are born, wealth accumulates once
more, and presently, when the urgent
home needs have been met, it strikes
out into new fields.
After while industry will seem to
have replaced all the material damage
done by war There will be blighted
lives, children will grow up fatherless,
families will be scattered because
their breadWinner is dead. But the
material things that come with peace
will come again, probably, in as great
a store as ever. There will be more
commodities than ever, more buildings,
more railways, more bathtubs, more of
what people call civilization.
But is the multiplication of commod-
tiles the greatest work of peace? Is
the recovery of population the greatest
work? Is the REORGANIZATION of wealth
the greatest work? All these things
make life more comfortable; all con-
tribute in a way to civilization. But
how much of rampant do they consti-
tute against further war?
No rampant at all! They do not pro-
tect us against war. We have been
assured that the nations were so inter-
twined in their business relations that
they could not afford to fight; that the
bankers had such control of means
that governments could not fight I'M
less the bankers let them, and that the
bankers would not let them. And now
look at them! Bind me with green
withes," said Samson, land | shall be
weak" Where are the green withes
with which the bankers bound the
nations?
No increase of wealth, no diffusion
of commodities will stop war. The
greatest work of peace is righteous
ness. There is no continuing peace
without justice. AS long as nations
believe that what would be wrong in
a man is justifable in a government,
they will quarrel and fight from time
to time. The great work of peace is
to train men to love justice and abide
by it. Nothing can keep down an up
right nation that is willing to work and
it's neighbors' rights. But so
long as nations follow the maxim that
might makes right, there will be wars.
The true Democrat. [volume] (Bayou Sara [La.]) 1892-1928, 1914-09-26

The prospects of good price for sugar
this year has had a cheering effect
throughout this section of the state.
The complete withdrawal of the Euro
pean beet sugar crop from England has
made that country look to Cuba for it's
sugar. This will cause a scarcity in
the sugar market which kept this coun-
try supplied, and a high price is bound
to come. Will the cane growers who
sell their cane according to the New
Orleans market on yellow clarified get
their share of the high price, remains
TO be seen. If the prices are depressed
in order to swindle him out of his
share Of profits those responsible for
such scheme should be exposed and
punished Assumption Pioneer.
The true Democrat. [volume] (Bayou Sara [La.]) 1892-1928, 1914-09-26
VALUE OF PIGS.
(Grand Cane Newsboy.)

Farmer friend, get our your pencil
and let's figure on the revenue to be
derived from the investment in SOW
and seven pigs. We are not familiar
with what the purchase price will be,
that depending upon the quality Of
hogs, and your ability to trade. In one
year the seven pigs, properly cared
for, will be large enough for meat hogs
and the old SOW in the meantime will
be bringing along seven more,or four
teen in twelve months altogether. The
seven you will kill, estimating that you
make them weigh 159 pounds each, and
estimating the value at 10 cents gross
"a very low price-you have sos
worth of meat and a SOW and seven
rigs" left. The second year you have
double the amount, and so on. Of
course little expense and trouble will
have to be invested-but many mer-
chants rent their business houses and
devote their time to the care and sale
OF their goods, adding advertising, in.
surance, ETC., to the expense account.
We all need to figure" more and com.
plain less in the matter of high cost
OF living" and get on the high" side.
The true Democrat. [volume] (Bayou Sara [La.]) 1892-1928, 1914-09-26
NOTICE.

Notice is hereby given to all persons,
firms and corporations whose names
appear as depositors on the books of
the Farmers and Merchants Bank, of
st. Francisville, Louisiana, calling upon
them to present their claims for such
deposits, for adjustment, to the State
Examiner of State Banks, or his duly
appointed Special Agent, L. w. Rogers,
at the Office of said Bank at st. Fran
cisville, Louisiana, on or before the
eighth day of October, 1914. This notice
is given in accordance with the pro-
visions of Act 300 of 1910.
w. L. YOUNG,
State Examiner of State Banks.
l.. w. ROGERS,
Special Agent.
(Sept. 5, Dec. 81
The true Democrat. [volume] (Bayou Sara [La.]) 1892-1928, 1914-09-26
LIFE's COMPENSATION.

Reading the clever skit in a recent
issue, concerning the man who found
compensation for many troubles be-
cause he had good road to town, a
bright contributor at Jackson sends
the following continuation of "Life's
Compensation" We append it and
hope that it will inspire some one else
to add stanza:
Did he moan and sigh, did he weep and cry,
Did he cuss the hurricane passing by?
Did he grieve that his old friends failed
to call
When the earthquake came and swaI-
lowed them all?
Not word of blame he said, with all these
Troubles heaped on his head,
Not he, he climbed to the top of the hill,
Where standing room was left him STILL
Where bowling his head. this is what he
said:
Lord, l amt had appendicitis yeti"
The true Democrat. [volume] (Bayou Sara [La.]) 1892-1928, 1914-09-26
STOP GROWING WEEDS.
(Lake Charles American-Pres J


Weeds are not only unsightly, but
they are unhealthy. They afford refuge
for venemous reptiles and breeding
places for annoying insects. The flies
and mosquitoes and even the meek and
iowiy chigger would be homeless were
1t not for the weeds and long grass in
Lake Charles yards and life would be
CORRESPONDENCE more comfortable. 1t
is somehow hard to bring this fact
home to our people-if they realized
its truth they would not allow their
premises to be overrun with vegeta-
tion-but it is literally and absolutely
true as any one will find who keeps
the weeds down. Close cut grass.
elimination of weeds and the draining
of every bit of stagnant water will
practically destroy the insect pests.
Just at this time when the weeds are
going to seed is the time to destroy
them. If the seeds are allowed to
ripen and scatter, there will be ten
weeds next year where one grew this
year. Why not stop growing weeds,
which are obnoxious and useless?
Ground that will grow weeds will grow
vegetables, too. Clear out the weed
patch and put in something that will
cut your cost of living, even if it is
only "a bed of onions. If meat keeps
on going up, we may yet be obliged to
use onions as substitute for meat as
the vegetarians do, and it will be very
convenient and economical to grow
ones own supply.
The true Democrat. [volume] (Bayou Sara [La.]) 1892-1928, 1914-09-26
THE REPRooF VALIANT.


An artisan and his assistant came to
house to do some repairing. AS he
entered, says the Berliner Illustrierte
Zeitung, the lady of the house said, in
loud tones:
Anna, before you do anything else,
lock all the silverware in the Vault"
The man heard this, and after he
had put on his overalls, he called to his
assistant, so that the mistress of the
house should hear him. "Fritzie,
think you had better run over to the
shop with my watch and purse; evil
IDENTIFY they are not safe here!"
The true Democrat. [volume] (Bayou Sara [La.]) 1892-1928, 1914-09-26
Minutes of the meeting of the Executive
Committee of the School Board of
West FeIicIana Parish, Sept. 10. 1914.

The Executive Committee of the School
Board of West Feliciana Parish met
Sept 10, 1914 Members present were
j. P. Bowman, President o. D. Brooks,
Chairman, and R. e. Crump, who acted
as proxy for Mr.. Chas H. Argue.
The Executive Committee passed the
following resolution:
Be it resolved by the Executive Com
mittee of the School Board of West
Feliciana Parish, That Mr.. Chas. II.
Argue, member of the Finance Committee
and Vice President of the School Board,
be authorized to borrow the sum of two
thousand dollars ($2, 00000) to pay the
teachers salaries and the current school
expenses for the month of September,
1914, and also to borrow sufficient funds
for succeeding months as needed Also,
we hereby authorize Mr.. Argue to execute
notes in the name of the School Board of
West Feiciana Parish as security for
said loans, said notes to run for a period
of ninety 900 days
(Signed)
JAS. p. BOWMAN,
President of School Board, West Feliciana
Parish.
o. d. BROOKS,
Chairman of Executive and Finance Com
mittee of the School Board of West
Feliciana Parish.
The Committee further authorized Supt
Crump to order fifty school desks for the
schools of the parish and to give Mr..
Frank Bacot an order for twenty dollars
$4,000 for Manual Training supplies.
Several topics relative to the schools
of the parish were discussed, but no
formal action taken.
The Committee then adjourned.
JAS. P. BOWMAN. President.
o. D. BROOKS, Chairman
R. E. CRUMP, Sec Treas.
The true Democrat. [volume] (Bayou Sara [La.]) 1892-1928, 1914-09-26
STATE FARM PRODUCTS
DECREASING.
Uake Charles American-Press.)

\A1ohC SiollCO u
For full year, the newspapers of
Louisiana have devoted a large por.
ton OF their space to a campaign for
more farming and diversified farming.
The state has had a special depart
ment to encourage and aid the farm.
ers, and from time to time special ef-
forts have been made to call the atten-
ton of homeseekers to our agricultural
resources. Yet all this propaganda for
farming seems to be barren of tangible
results.
The crop estimates issued Tuesday
by the government figure the Louisiana
corn production for 1914 at 3S million
bushels, decrease of $500, 900 bushels
from 1913; it's potato production at
100000 bushels, a decrease of $4,000
bushels; it's sweet potato crop at five
million bushels, a decrease of 100000
bushels; its rice crop at 11,60O000
bushels, falling off of 100000 bushels.
The only visible increases are $4,000
tons on the hay crop and 1000 bushels
on the oats crop.
If all the agricultural advices, scold-
ing and coaxing done by the represen-
tatives of the federal department of
agriculture, the state department of
agriculture, the Louisiana statesmen,
school authorities and newspapers, has
had only the result of adding $4,000
tons to the Louisiana hay crop, which
makes itself and requires no attention,
a heap of labor seems to have been
lost
This is the first of a series of years
of plenty for the farmers of the United
States; but the Louisiana farmers can
not share in the harvest unless they
have something to sell. 1t is, of course,
possible that the federal figures
for Louisiana were overestimated for
1914 1t does not seem possible that
all the agricultural campaigning of the
past II months should have resulted
in an actual decrease in nearly all of
its products. However, the crops are
all pitifully small in bulk for a state
the size of Louisiana. We should pro-
duce and market 100 million bushels
of corn, for instance, and our potato
crop should be ten fold what it is.
The true Democrat. [volume] (Bayou Sara [La.]) 1892-1928, 1914-09-26

There appears to be danger of farm
ers, cattle-raisers, gardeners, poultry
ers and other producers misunder-
standing the fight now being waged
against war prices for food. This or
ganized effort to keep prices from soar.
ing is not, in any sense, conspiracy
against the producing class. 1t is mere
ly serious movement to prevent in
justice being done to millions of wage
workers and hundreds of thousands of
salaried men and women with fixed
incomes. The rights of these ultimate
consumers are not antagonistic to the
rights of the ultimate producers. AS a
matter of fact, both of these classes
lose under the prevailing system. The
unnecessary middleman, and his blood
brother, the Spectator, take toll from
both impartially, in season and out Of
season.-Monroe News.Star
The true Democrat. [volume] (Bayou Sara [La.]) 1892-1928, 1914-09-26

Throw hen out of laying condition
in hot weather. either by improper
care and feeding, broodiness or illness
and she is prone to mott. On the
other hand, keep her in full laying
condition and her appetite is strong,
she remains well nourished and her
feathers will not dry up. Consequently
melting is deferred until autumn. This
means a greater profit, for it should be
remembered that August eggs bring
about the same price as January eggs.
The true Democrat. [volume] (Bayou Sara [La.]) 1892-1928, 1914-09-26

The Louisiana State Fair Catalog
and Premium List is now ready for
distribution, and any one desiring to
exhibit Livestock, Poultry, Fancy work,
Agricultural products, ETC., may secure
a copy of same FREE of charge by
mailing request to
Louis N. Brueggerhoff, Sect'y.,
Box HOO, Shreveport, La.
The true Democrat. [volume] (Bayou Sara [La.]) 1892-1928, 1914-09-26
(Sept. 5, Dec. s.
NOTICE..

Notice is hereby given to all persons,
firms and corporations, other than de-
positOrs, who have claims against the
Farmers and Merchants Bank, of ST.
Francisville, Louisiana, that they must
file their claims with the State Ex-
aminer of State Banks, or with his
duly appointed agent, L. w. Rogers,
and make legal proof as to the justice
thereof, on or before the eighth day of
December, 1914, at the Office of said
Bank at st. Francisville, Louisiana, in
accordance with Section 4 of Act 800
OF 1910.
w. L. YOUNG,
State Examiner of State Banks.
L. W. ROGERS,
Special Agent.
(Sept. 5, 4t)