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The Donaldsonville chief., 1914-03-28
State Normal School Notes.
BY Rosina A. Singer.

The Normal art teacher, Miss a.
Evelyn Sheen, graduate of New
comb and a member of the Art Stu
dents League of New York, has just
4 been awarded medal in New 0rle-
ans for prize exhibits of her work
"A Ira w. Sylvester, civil engineer
q OF Alexandria, has completed plans
for supplying the Normal with
separate supply of pure, fresh soft
water, and material has been ordered
for transmission Of the water from
the wells to the Normal grounds.
ii The work done by the boys in the
agricultural short course planned by
President " L. Roy and conducted
e at the Normal by Supt. Hudson and
profs. Bateman and Williamson, as
sisted by Prof Kidder and Mr.. Balls
of the State University, was highly
e &commended by Supt T. FL. Harris in
a circular he has just issued.
President Roy delivered a French
address In Mamou, La, on Friday of
last week in behalf Of the school
tax, and also addressed a teachers
institute in AbbeVille.
The first lyceum number of the
Term was presented last Saturday
night, when Mrs. Bertha kunz Ba-
Ger entertained the student body and
a large number Of toWnspeople with
"a reading and Interpretation OF
'ChanticIer' Mrs. Baker is an ex,
eellent reader, and her limitations OF
'artuit, the dog, Chanticler, the
eOek, and the other fowls were spIen-
did and greatly enjoyed by the large
crowd present. These lyceum num-
bers are specialties in which every
one is interested, and we are all
clad to know there will be another
next Friday night.
~ Spring has come, as we can see il
I'VE will take peep into the Normal
ardens, wherein the rural course
students and the eleventh-termers
may be seen working their plots with
70 vim and carefully tending the first
green shoots as they appear, as
farmer protects his budding crop
from the frost. There are quite a
lumber of people studying garden
ing this term, and their enthusiasm
##ls shown in the work they set forth
and the pretty results of their Ia
Dor. A great deal of credit is due
ar. Bateman, head of the rural train
Ing department.
II. G. Staples, of the Department
animal Industry, visited the Nor
hal last Saturday for the purpose of
Inspecting the dairy, and was very
eH pleased with everything connect
ed with 1t.
The Donaldsonville chief., 1914-03-28

Now, ON the other hand, there are
thousands Of American citizens still
in that country and there were more
than $4,000 when the American gov
ernment practically withdrew its
protection by cravenIy advising its
citizens to leave the country. Our
Investments now total close TO a
billion dollars, while those of other
foreign countries amount to fully half
as much more.
Shall We continue this policy" OF
"watchfu1 waiting" until all Of these
investments are swept away and the
death roll OF foreign citizens reaches
into the thousands, and that of the
Mexicans into the hundreds Of thou
sands, or shall We rise to our re-
sponsibilities and adopt a truly
American and humanitarian policy,
such as glorified our deIiyerance of
Cuba, and carry peace to Mexico at
any price? Not until we teach the
| Mexieans, as we have taught the
Cubans, that this government will
no+ tolerate the violent overthrow
Iof constitutional government, can
there be hope of permanent peace
in Mexico and In the other coun-
tries of Latin-Ameriea
The Donaldsonville chief., 1914-03-28
TOW 70 Beat Them at Their Own
Game,

Gan1s.
IL Is all right to have honest goods
IN your shelves for people to buy,
~ they are likely to remain there
mess people are Informed you have
ae goods. That can best be done
advertising in your local paper,
ns principal way in which mail or
er houses often get the better Of
osae merchants is through tha ma
SGlum OF large illustrated catalogues
8Eaat find their way into almost eyery
aoae two or three times a wear It
- a small fortune to print and
- - THESE catalogues, but the fact
at tney exist is the surest proof
- 1t pays 10 have them.
az. ~ course, no local merchant can
a % get out such a catalogue
- IL t necessary. He can seeura
- - same results in his home paper,
= 70 90 it he must advertise gen
sasis and attraetiveIy, and then
. good IN the quality and price
us goods. In So doing he can
IN game. .ss7s at tn9lf
= e sure. there are in every
~ saafy people who will always
= os mail order house even II
6a,r set fooled by so doing. as
- aos because it is a mania with,
= ~. = bat the great majority Of
assFs would rather trade II horna
g assalea they can get what taey
s. So and 1t is up to the local bt,si-
sss,. az men to meet that want-NeW
psfla Enterprise. sss@
The Donaldsonville chief., 1914-03-28
VOLUME KILL
TuF LOCKS MUST
BE BUILT
EXTRACTS FROM ACT NO 9 PASSED BY THE
GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF LOUISIANA IN
1000. AND ACT NO. "a PASSED IN 1902:
(Sec. l Of Act No. 81

(Sec. l Of Act No. 81 e q
Whereas the necessity Of closing Bayou La
fourche by locks is recognized by the engineers
f,otb of the state and of the national government
and has had the sanction and appreciation Of
congress which has made appropriations for sur
veys locking to that end.
Be it enacted by the general assembly Of the
state of Louisiana, that the boards of commission
ers of the Atchafalaya Basin and Lafourche Basin
locks at the head Of Bayou Lafourche; and for
said purpose are authorized to appropriate lands
enter into contracts and exercise all other pow
ers proper useful, Or expedent, for carrying out
the purposes Of this act
(secs. I and 2 of Act No. 84)
Be it enacted by the general assembly of the
state of Louisiana, that the boards of commission
ers of the Atchafalaya Basin Leyee District and
the Iafourche Levee District hereby
thorized to place temporary dam at the head
of Bayou Lafourche, pending the construction of
locks as is provided for in Act No. 8 of the gen
eraI assembly Of the state of Louisiana for the
wear 1900 and an act Of the fiftyseVenth congress
of the United States; provided, that the dam
shall not be placed begun before January 1,
1903.
Be it further enacted, etc, that before the be-
ginning of the construction of said dam, said
levee boards shall enter into an agreement with
the proper officers of the United States, with
good and sufficient security for the removal of
said temporary dam at Or before the expiration OF
the period set by said act of congress-
The Donaldsonville chief., 1914-03-28

The locks in Bayou Lafourche at
.DonaIdsonvi1le is not q dead issue"
by a long ways. The question will
be kept alive until the Ievee boards
are made to get out Of the way and
the national government permit
ted to take hold of the matter
How an intelligent people can calm
Iy submit to the bottling up of one
of the most important streams in the
country. is past understanding. Locks
in Bayou Lafourehe would mean pro-
gress and more prosperity for the en-
tire Lafourche and Teche country
Assumpt ption Pioneer.
The Donaldsonville chief., 1914-03-28
Mrs. j. Y. Sanders Gets Divorce

O.
Dispatches from Texarkana, Ark,
under date of March 10. state that
Mrs. Ada Sanders, wife OF J. Y. San
ders, former governor Of LOUISIANA,
has been granted an absolute divorce
from her husband by the Miller
county chancery court, and alimony
in the sum of SO per week during
her life. The ground for the divorce,
as given in the decree OF the court
and set out at length in the petition
OF the plaintiff, is desertion.
Mrs. Sanders is the daughter Of
Rev. ]. F. Shaw, Seventh Day
Baptist minister, who resides at
Foulke, twenty-five miles south Of
Texarkana. She has been making
her home with her father since
separating from her husband more
than year ago.
The Donaldsonville chief., 1914-03-28

A California firm is selling euca-
lyptus charcoal at s24 a ton, as
against 500 a ton for oak charcoal.
Since most of the California grown
eucalypts do not make good lumber,
uses for other products OF the tree
are being sought
The Donaldsonville chief., 1914-03-28
For Sale.

Yard eggs, guaranteed fresh. Any
found deficient in quality will be
replaced.
Also thoroughbred White Wyan-
dotte and S. C. White Leghorn eggs
for setting. MRS. G. D. BENTLEY.
Telephone 154.
The Donaldsonville chief., 1914-03-28

After a legal fight of nearly three
years to avoid incarceration, VIM.
s. Cummings, former head of the de-
funct Carnegie Trust Company, has
been taken to Sing Sing prison to
serve an indeterminate term OF not
less than four years for larceny Of
SIG, 600.
The Donaldsonville chief., 1914-03-28

We win send you the daily Times
Democrat or Picayune and The Chief,
both one year, for the price of the
city paper alone, $3.50. This is an
unusual offer, and one that should
prove attractive to many OF cur
readers. at.
The Donaldsonville chief., 1914-03-28

It Is likely that Mississippi VII
soon place statues Of Jefferson Davis
and former United States Senator
James q. George in statuary Hall at
the national capitol.
The Donaldsonville chief., 1914-03-28
His Baby.


She is my mother, said the young
man, but I call her my baby. She Is
so years old. Old people are very
like babies, and we ought to love
them, for of such is the kingdom
of heaveY.
I have an idea life evens up things.
When I Vas young and helpless she
took caresof me; now I take care OF
her. I am paying my debt.
She never left me alone when |
was an infant. Now / do not leave
her alone
/. She was patient with me then;
now l am patient with her.
She fed me; now I feed her. 4
clothe and keep her.
She sacrificed her young life to
me; I am glad of every chance
have to sacrifice for her.
She loved me when was ignorant,
awkward, needing constant care, and
all because I was hers, born OF her
body and part of her soul Now
every feebleness and trait Of child
ishness in her endears her to me,
for no reason, except that she is my
mother.
By so much as she is tax ON my
time, attention and money, love
her.
She shall not triumph over me In
the day of judgment; for my tender
ness shall equal hers She watched
with me until grew up: I shall
watch with her until she steps into
heaven.--Dr. Frank Crane, in T. 6
P. Monthly
The Donaldsonville chief., 1914-03-28

ae Chiefs telephone number i
r. n as a Us up whenever you have
The Donaldsonville chief., 1914-03-28

Chief Justice Edward Douglas
White of the United States Supreme
Court whose home IS Id Louisiana.
has been awarded the Laetare med
al, given annually by the University
LOT Notre Dame 1ndianal to the lay
man who has benefited Catholic So
elety to the greatest extent during
the year.
The Donaldsonville chief., 1914-03-28

Former Postmaster w. j. Price
OF Meridian, Miss, O pleaded teehni-
cally guilty Of embezzlement in con-
nection with a shortage Of $4,000 in
MS accounts and has been sentenced
to four years in the federal prison
at Atlanta. Mr.. Price said he had
received none of the funds and that
others had profited by the transac-
tions, taking advantage of his lack
OF education and inability to under
stand the records.
The Donaldsonville chief., 1914-03-28

A truce seems to have been ar
ranged between the United States
senators from Mississippi regarding
the distribution Of federal patronage
II that state. United States mar
shais for the two Mississippi dis
trlets were appointed last month, w.
g Vardaman being named for the
northern district and j. eastman
for the southern district.
The Donaldsonville chief., 1914-03-28
|. S. j. NEWS AND NOTES.
Weekly Letter from School of jour-
nalisn at State University-En,-
bryonic Reporters Write INTEREST
ingIy Of Student Activities.


If enthusiastic answers to letters
sent from the University each week
to the high schools over the state are
good Indications, the high school raj
" to be held On the University CAM
pus April 80 and May / promises to
be the most successful of these an
nual gatherings ever scheduled.
Professor C. H. Stumberg, the Uni
versity Instructor in charge of the
plans, announces that each day brings
in assurances that the high schools
are preparing to enter into the oeca-
sion with full representation.
Almost every week he sends out a
letter to the principals in charge Of
the high schools explaining some fea-
ture of the plans, and he is
well pleased with their cooperation.
There are two features of the Lou
isiana State University high school
rally which are original in this state.
The first is the fact that the cost
of making the trip to the University
is equalized SO as to give those near
the institution no advantage over
the schools at a distance. The sec
ond feature is the plan to hold some
of the contests at the high schools
instead of at the University.
The first plan is formulated SO
that the pupils pay one dollar each
as an entry fee, which entities them
to compete in as many contests as
they desire, the fund collected In
this way being used to defray the
railroad expenses OF the trip. In
distributing this fund, only railroad
fares are considered, and the expendi-
lures for meals, sleepers, ETC., are
not taken into account.
The contests held away from the
University are not for individual pu-
pills, but for the entire class. The
aim is to bring out the fact that ex-
eeIIent work can be done by the
class as a whole and to give the
teacher chance to accomplish the
greatest amount OF good. To enter q
class FOR the aWay-from-the-Un Un1verai-
ty competition it must contain not
less than five pupils and a paper
must be submitted from each mem-
Der OF the class, unless the absences
on the day of the test are nnavoid-
able. The test will be given under
the supervision Of a COMMITTEES at
the town in which the high school
is located, composed of the teacher
of the class, the principal Of the
school and q citizen of the town.
The. answers will be put In envelopes,
sealed in the presence Of the class,
and sent to the chairman OF the Uni
Versity committee who will In tllrn
submit them to the judges of the
contest. The tests which are to
be held away from the University
are: Eighth grade English, spelling,
composition, grammar. first year
Latin for ninth grades, French,
plane geometry. algebra for tenth
grades, and algebra for ninth grades.
The Baton Rouge Chamber OF Com
merce is making arrangements to
secure the usual one and one-third
railroad fare for the pupils who at
tend the rally.
The Liberal democrat. [volume] (Liberal, Kan.) 1911-1924, 1914-10-02
Ballot Printing To Guthrie Firm.

Ballot Printing To Guthrie Firm.
The Cooperative Printing Company
of Guthrie, with a bid OF $1,571 40,
was awarded the contract for printing
ballots and other printed supplies for
the forthcoming general election by
the state board of public affairs.
The contract calls for 455,732 official
ballots; 10000 sample ballots; 10000
vote certificates; 5000 tally sheets for
precinct officers; $50 tally sheets for
county election boards. At least 25
per cent OF the entire job must be
completed and the ballots in the hands
of the secretary of state election
board on or before October IL, and
the remaining rs per cent not later
than October 18.
Bids were presented by other firms
as follows:
Shawnee News-Herald, 1894
Phoenix Printing Co of Muskogee,
s2,792; Printers Publishing Co. Of Ok
lahoma City, S2.133; FL Reno Demo-
crat. S31S5: Warden Printing Co. of
Oklahoma City. 1890; Leader Print
ing Co., Guthrie, s4,956; Muskogee
Printing Co., $3150; Harlow.Ratliff
Printing Co., $2,104.
The Liberal democrat. [volume] (Liberal, Kan.) 1911-1924, 1914-10-02
AntI.eambIlng Laws In Force.

A proclamation has been issued by
Governor Cruce declaring the two
stringent anti-gambling laws, passed
by the last legislature and referred at
the August primary, to be in full force
and effect. The official returns of the
vote on both measures showing they
had been sustained by large majorittes
were certified to the governor by the
state election board No exact time
is specified in the proclamation at
become operative.
which the laws are supposed to have
The Liberal democrat. [volume] (Liberal, Kan.) 1911-1924, 1914-10-02
STATE CAPITAL
NE WIS NOTES
cruce To Leave the State.


Oklahoma City.-Governo Cruce
will go to Washington, d. c., within
a few days to attend the conference
Of governors, senators and congress
men from the cotton growing states.
called for the purpose of considering
the cotton situation, and during his
absence Lieutenant Governor j. j..
McAlester will be the states chief ex-
ecutive.
Lieutenant Governor j. ]. Meal
ester stated that as soon as Governor
Cruce left the state he would leave for
Oklahoma City to occupy the execu-
tive offices during Governor Cruces
absence.
The last time Governor Cruce left
the state was in June, 1913, when he
went to Kansas City to. attend an in
surance mems banquet. During his
absence McAlester granted number
OF pardons, and attempted to validate
the famous 1912 school book adop-
lions by signing and approving the
pOhuo anu SOhlldClSt WulCH ndu DtSu
rejected by Governor Cruce.
| When Governor Cruce returned to
the state he attempted to revoke the
pardons issued by McAlester and in
the habeas corpus proceedings which
followed in behalf of George Crump,
who was pardoned by the lieutenant
governor, the criminal court of ap-
peals held that the minute the gov
ernor left the state the duties, author
ity and emoluments of the chief ex-
ecutive Immediately devolved upon
the lieutenant governor,
Under this decision McAlester will
be in complete charge of the executive
end of the state government as soon
as the governor leaves the borders of
the state.
A different condition exists now
than there did the last time he left
the state, the governor said last week.
There is nothing that could be done
that would make any material change
in administration policies. The act
Of the last legislature, creating the
present board of prison control, has
placed certain restrictions on the use
of the executive pardoning power.
The Liberal democrat. [volume] (Liberal, Kan.) 1911-1924, 1914-10-02
MoratorIum Plan Gets setback.

Copies of a resolution adopted at a
meeting of farmers in Murray county,
requesting the calling Of an extra ses-
sion Of tn legislature to pass law
postponing the payment of all debts
in Oklahoma during the period of the
European war was received by Gov
ernor Lee Cruce. The governor re-
Piled that he did not think such a law
would offer the needed remedy. and
declined to call the law-maklng body
in extra session for this or any other
purpose.
The Liberal democrat. [volume] (Liberal, Kan.) 1911-1924, 1914-10-02
Proposes Uniform Grade Crossings

Proposes Uniform Grade Crossings.
The state highway department has
just issued bulletin, proposing plan
for constructing the highways near
approaches to grade highway cross
ings over railroad tracks throughout
the state.
The proposed plan would establish
a level crossing fifteen feet each side
of the rail, and 5 per cent grade
leading up or down from the track.
This would make the crossings level
with the rest of the highway.
Establishment of uniform rules for
grade crossings is now before the cor
poration commission. A general In
spection tour over the lines of every
railroad in the state by representa-
tives Of the highway department, rail-
roads and the corporation commission
is no wbeing planned. The advisable
ity of carrying out the plan of the
highway department will be consld.
cred during the inspection tour.
The agitation for better and safer
grade crossings is the result Of the
large number of fatal accidents which
occur every year on railway cross
ings In most instances, II is said, the
accidents are due to unsafe condi-
tions at crossings.
The Liberal democrat. [volume] (Liberal, Kan.) 1911-1924, 1914-10-02
OKLAHOMA NEWS NOTES
SHADOWS OF COMING EVENTS.

STNOOWo OF COmlNG EVENTS
Oct 5-1O-Caddo County Fair. Anadar-
ko.
Oct. 7-s-choctaw County Fair. choc-
taw.
Oct. 7-lO-Pawne County Fair, Hal
lett.
oct, 9-Phllllps VS.. A. & NJ. saltwater
Oct: 7-l7-Dry Farming Congress-
Oct. 14-17-Bryan County Fair, Durant
Oct. 15-Oklahoma Methodist (North)
Conference, Guthrie.
water
Oct. 26-Baylor U. VS.. A. & NJ, Still
water.
Oct. aO-Ark. U. VS.. A. & NJ. at Nor
man.
Nov. S-Indian land sale. McAlester.
Nov. 4-lndian land sale, Wilburton.
Nov. 6-lndian land sale. Poteau.
Nov Go. U. VS.. A. & NJ, Norman.
Nov. 9-Indian land sale, Hugo.
Nov. 26-Colorado Aggle vs. A. & NJ.
Oklahoma City.
NOV, SO-Dec. 5-OkahoIna State Poul-
try Federation, Muskogee
Dec. 1O-12-Poultry Show, Sulphur.
Dec. 14-19--North Central Oklahoma
Poultry Association, Perry.
Dec. 14-2O-Tillman County Poultry AS
ISOLATION, Frederick.
Dec. 15-20-Southwestern Oklahoma
Poultry Association, Hobart
Dec, 16-l9-Mountain View Poultry AS
| ISOLATION, Mountain View.
Jan. 4-9-Big Center Poultry Associa-
ton, Enid.
Jan. 5-s--Elk City Poultry Association,
| Elk City.
Feb. 2-6-Logan County Poultry Asso-
citation, Guthrie.
April, 19l5-southern Commercial Con-
gress, Muskogee.
The Liberal democrat. [volume] (Liberal, Kan.) 1911-1924, 1914-10-02
DOTS AND DASHES
WIRE NEWS OF
THE WEEK
Washington.

Telegraphic reports from the state
department agents throughout Europe
received at Washington indicated that
there has been general improvement
in financial, commercial and indus
trial conditions in the war zone.
+ + +
Secretary McAdoo has adopted
stringent measures to urge national
banks to extend legitimate credit and
charge normal interest rates on loans.
He telegraphed to ten national banks
in the four reserve cities in the South
that their requests for additional
crop-moving funds from the federal
government would not be granted at
this time.
+ + +
The Clayton antitrust bill, the
second of the administrative anti
trust measures, is at last ready for
the final consideration of congress,
| after many months of deliberation in
both houses.
r. + T.
On complaint of the British en-
bassy the department of agriculture
has begun a search for a mysterious
wireless plant supposed to be operat-
ing In the mountains on the Pacific
coast.
1, + +
Further and more stringent regula-
! tions to prohibit all forms of gambl-
| ing in the Panama Canal zone have
been made in an executive order by
President Wilson.
Prompt passage by the senate of
substitute measure providing $4,000
900 to be expended by the army engi-
neers on existing projects finally end
ed the long filibuster against the river
and harbor appropriation bill which
originally carried $53,OOO,OOO. The
bill now goes to the house, where 1t is
expected to precipitate another vigor-
GUS fight.
r. + +
The senate by a vote of q to %
ended the determined struggle over
the S34000,000 rivers and harbors
bill by adopting a motion by Demo
crat, Senator Bankhead of Alabama,
to recommit the bill to the commerce
committee with instructions that it
substitute a measure appropriating a
lump sum of $2O,OOO,OOO to be expend-
ed on existing waterway projects in
the discretion of the secretary Of war
and the board OF army engineers.
r. + +
Plans for establishing 2-cent let
ter postage rate throughout the Wes-
tern hemisphere are being considered
by Postmaster General Burleson.
While a sacrifice of revenue would be
involved, Mr.. Burleson said strong
arguments have been advanced in
favor of the proposal.
The Liberal democrat. [volume] (Liberal, Kan.) 1911-1924, 1914-10-02

A petition containing ten thousand
names was presented to Gov. James
B. McCreary asking pardon for Henry
E. Youtsey, charged with completely
in conspiracy to assassinate Governor
William Goebel Of Kentucky.
The Liberal democrat. [volume] (Liberal, Kan.) 1911-1924, 1914-10-02
Domestic Items.

A nationwide campaign for consti-
tutional prohibition is about to begin,
1t is to be under the leadership of
the Anti-Saloon League of America,
cooperating with other temperance
organizations. This national cam
paign will move from state to state,
every city and town in each state be-
ing covered with meetings in weeks
campaign.
The Liberal democrat. [volume] (Liberal, Kan.) 1911-1924, 1914-10-02

Americans whose automobiles were
Communicated or requisitioned in Eu-
rope at the outbreak of the war have
been advised by the solicitor of the
state department, that they should
file claims with the belligerent gov
ernments.
The Liberal democrat. [volume] (Liberal, Kan.) 1911-1924, 1914-10-02

The cruisers Tennessee and North
Carolina, which went abroad with
gold for stranded Americans, will re-
main in European waters indefinitely
to afford further relief should any
emergency arise, the war department
announced recently.