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The herald., 1915-05-27
MENDED BY LEVEE BOARD.

The Board of Commissioners of the
Orleans Levee District held a meeting
Thursday night, and approved recon-
mendations for work made by the
chief engineer, estimated to cost many
thousands of dollars. This work will
be advertised soon and includes opera.
tons on both sides of the river
TIL meeting first considered the ac-
ton taken by the executive committee
since the last meeting and approved
what had been done. including the
proposition to pay Mr. Lewis for the
site to which ST. AnthOny's Chapel
below Algiers was removed The
title to the land given by Mr.. Lewis
is to be placed in the hands of trustee
until the claim for the lot on which
the church stood can be legally sat
isfied. the attorney being unable to
find that the church held any valid
title to the property on which the
church was originally placed
Other items that effect our district
follow:
Work on the west bank was ap-
proved and the engineer was in
structed to prepare specifications and
proceed to advertise for bids:
Algiers Saw Mill to Southern Pa
cific Railroad Company Terminals, up
per line, length, 925 feet; cubic yards,
$1,000.
Southern Pacific Railroad Company
Terminals to be delegated to that
company for necessary work required
Lower end of Southern Pacific Rail
road Company's Terminals to United
States Naval Station, length, 6S3 feet:
cubic yards, 10000.
Aurora Levee, sheet piling and con-
crete revetment, length, $500 feet
Work estimated as follows: Sheet
piling and driving same, $4,000; "a
600 square yards concrete at 81 per
yard, $4,000. Total, $4,000.
Upper Stanton Levee. river enlarge
ment, length, 1900 feet; cubic yards,
$4,000.
The herald., 1915-05-27
The Mines of Spain.

More than one-third of the quick.
silver produced in the world last year
came from the mines of Spain. Those
mines were worked centuries before
Christ, and they seem good for GEN.
turtles more. Other quicksilver sup
plies are discovered, exploited for a
time, and exhausted, but no bottom
has been found to the veins of Spanish
cinnabar.
Many high authorities hold that other
mineral resources of Spain are quite
as splendid in proportion as her su-
premacy in the production of mercury.
Spanish iron ore is sometimes shipped
to the United States, yet the mines are
said to be worked in very clumsy,
Ineffective fashion. 1t is even claimed
that the coal supplies of the peninsu-
la are superior to those Of any other
part of the continent, but these, again,
are managed in a careless, indolent,
unscientific manner.
The herald., 1915-05-27
COURT ORDERS
MANDAMUS FOR ALGIERs
LIGHTING COMPANY.

Al the instance of the Algiers Rail
way and Lighting Company, the Su.
preme Court Monday issued a man.
damus to require Judge Theard to
show cause why the writ of Injunction
sued out by the plaintiff against the
New Orleans Railway and Light Com
pany some time ago should not be
granted.
In the original suit it appeared that
the New Orleans company had en-
tered into contract with the Algiers
company TO furnish electrical energy
to plaintif exclusively on the other
side of the river.
The herald., 1915-05-27
NO GERMS ON FIRING LINE
At Least Soldiers, Hourly Exposed to
Death, Have One Advantage
Over Civilians.

Trenches are healthier than bar
racks or camps for soldiers. so far as
infectious diseases are concerned De-
spite the hardships, cold, exposure, ir-
regular meals, strain of nerves. and
other wholly unhygienic conditions.
infectious diseases are usually at a
minimum, on the firing line, so says
Col. Valery Harvard Of the United
States medical corps. DR. H. W Hill
of the Minnesota Public Health assO-
citation explains this seeming paradox
In the barracks and camps the sol
diers have wide intercourse with each
other, and with civilians, thus picking
up whatever infectious diseases are
going about Despite regular life,
good meals. discipline and sanitation,
the infectious diseases attack them.
But in the trenches they are compare
lively isolated, and since infected sol
diers are not allowed there. those on
the firing line have little chance to be-
come infected at all. Such injuries
as cold, starvation. strain can produce
are, of course. suffered. but infectious
diseases are not included in this list.
Parallel cases in civil life are not I'M
common. and everyone knows of fam
lilies who 1--we like pigs, yet are never
sick. while other families living under
apparently the best conditions are
more or less constantly infected with
one epidemic disease after another.
Careful investigation always shows
that the former escape, because they
do not happen to be exposed to infec
tiOn
The herald., 1915-05-27
POUND KEEPER APPOINTED.

Thomas Harvey has been appointed
pound keeper for algiers and assumed
his duties Saturday. All roaming cat
tie and live stock will be in danger
of impOunding now when found with
in the pound limits, which extend from
the river to the Jefferson parish line
and Verret avenue, taking in nearly
all the improved section of the Fiji
teenth Ward.
The herald., 1915-05-27
LIEUT.. FOSTER COMES
TO AlGIERS NAVY YARD

Lieut.. John c. Foster Of the United
States Marine Corps arrived in New
Orleans Monday morning, having been
transferred from the marine barracks
at Norfolk. Va, to the New Orleans
Naval Station. Mrs. Foster accom-
panied him. They are at the Grune-
valid Hotel.
The herald., 1915-05-27

Next Saturday. May 20. at Subur-
ban Park, the Germans of Algiers
will give their third annual Volks-
fest. The chairman, Geo. G.. Brunss-
ann and chairlady, Mrs. c. A. Suth-
erland, have given most of their time
to make it a success. Games of all
kinds will be given. Dancing and
refreshments of all kinds will be-.
served on the grounds. -
A new dance will bd
known as the Suburban
ing Louis Webert, John Teuterberg,
Kiser Willie and Walter Lahusen,
after which the winner will receive
ice cream and cake for their reward.
The bar will be in the hands of Mr..
F. Dietrich, who will be pleased to
serve his friends with German lem
onade. The ladies will. have charge
of all the tables and will help to see
that all will have good time.
The herald., 1915-05-27

H3er the direction of public officers or courts I;
% 70 do and carry on a general dredging and
naming business, and for that purpose to own
e1operste construction, dredging and draining
1,nis, consisting of machinery, tools, nipple
ma dredge boats, ditching machinery,
k'sh lighters, derrieks, vessels, engines,
81 wagons and property of every class and
esuption convenient or necessary thereto.
Srton 5. To construct, purchase, lease or
1vlse acquire and own, maintain and
@r,te Steamboats,, sailing vessels, barges
ofher water craft, piers, docks or
9ues and such lines of the tramway or
ssy within the State of Louisiana or
Fshere as may be convenient, necessary
nidentai to any business or any enter
~ Of the corporation, with all necessary
<uaeks, locomotives, cars, depots, round
~ and every equipment necessary TO
9erztion Of said piers, docks, wharves,
.sn Or railways and the traffic thereon,
s'oed mat this corporation shall not with
IN amendment of this charter be
= Service corporation or have the right
eose the power Of eminent domain.
.,uon :. To carry on any other business
under the law It may be entitled to
On which may seem to the corpora
: oe calculated, directly or indirectly,
ecnate the aforesaid objects or either
n - Or to facilitate it in the transaction
ueresaid business or businesses, or
p p3n thereof or in the transaction of
ca..x otner lawful business that may be cal
~. directly or indirectly to enhance the
c1 o. to render profitable any of the
- properties and rights: and gener-
k, mold and exercise all such Incl
-. pvsfs and privileges as relate to the
= - mo purposes hereinbefore set forth
~ ~ ~ necessary, useful OF convenient
lr;rle az said objects and purposes.
4 ~ Ns-Ihe authorized capital stock
- - poration Is hereby declared to be
<ik,s n, % one hundred and fifty thousand
n N3unm), which capital stock may
b A IN the manner provided by law
~ ~ -, o. five hundred thousand dol |
nj 49, The presently authorized |
~ - VI tnis corporation is to be di- |
~ q classes, one thereof TO be |
-unm Seierred stock and the other as |
- tuv.sss and shall be represented by |
- -, Copl shares Of preferred stock |
- -. sslue OF ten dollars (si0OO each |
- 80 thousand 10000 shares of com.
~ - me par value of ten dollars
3 ~ -, The said capital stock shall |
"a 49,, ana n-assessabie when Is
- III su DC represented BY certificates
= 4 - Personal property. NJ t,.ns'
- a, capital stock shall he b;,d;,,
1lnc 'poration unless made in .rs
~ IN ITS charter and hv-I,r,. -
1rS - ne books thereof. anu
- s,,lhe Preferred sto,t of a., -
<1>-1 nsve no voting power or NV
~ =; gut shall be entitled nv nr.,. +
over the comman stoct
Meade County news., 1915-09-23
MOVING DAY AND ITS WOES
Mental and Physical Impressions
That Are Caused by Leaving
Old Home.

The moving Of ones household ef-
fects entails an amount of physical la
Dor which leaves the mind in such a
condition that there is little desire to
reflect on the process in the abstract.
But it may be that this exhaustion
which accompanies moving, which in
some cases amounts to a painful res
ignation of the functions of the senses,
Is about as much mental as physical
To live in house for any length of
time at all is to like it, says a writer
in the Indianapolis News. The plumb
ing may not suit, the roof may leak,
the cellar may be sodden retreat for
unwelcome guests whom neither poi
sonous powder nor traps will exter-
inmate, the floors may be hopeless and
the whole aspect Of the place may be
repugnant, but when 1t comes down to
the actual departure the fact that, in
spite of its deficiencies, the place was
really home looms larger than the
faults. ia house is not home,
neither is furniture, but somehow the
two of them taken together seem to
approximate home. They need only
few deft touches by an experienced
hand, and the presence of an inter-
ested person or two to enable them to
perform their function in the world.
But when the furniture is taken
from a house 1t becomes a pitiable
thing, indeed. 1t stands mere hulk,
interfering with the free play Of the
winds, robbing the earth beneath of its
natural right to nourish vegetation,
and becoming after few short days
of idleness, the home Of spiders, For
Rent" signs and a general air of mys-
terry. When a man falls into disgrace
he can hide until he finds an oppor-
tunity to re-establish himself among
his kind, but there is no chance for
house to raze itself, and then come
back at the behest Of some tired house
hunter who may overlook its defects
and consent to give 1t trial in the
Meade County news., 1915-09-23

hope that it will redeem ITSELF It
must stand among its kind with its
story written across its face. The
fault may not be its own, for people
must move against their will.
SO when the furniture is taken from
the house this is the fate it may meet,
and even though the prospect of aban-
doning 1t gave delight, the act does
not. Thus the beginning of moving
day is time Of leave taking and,
therefore. time of regrets, and at nd
time does the old house seem so de
sirable as when the furniture is re-
vealed stacked promiscuously about in
the new house. The circumstance
that the mover Is doing his part to
restore the new house to its place in
the world might serve to mitigate the
first disappointment, but the new
house is stranger; its faults are de-
liberate and malicious, while the faults
Of the old house were familiar and,
therefore, not faults, but only amiable
defects in its character But in time
the moving is accomplished. The chair
which looked bad in the only corner
which would accommodate 1t now
looks passing fair; the dining room
windows stick, but that is failing
windows have; the back porch is too
narrow, but it will have to do. In a
week or two the new house has be-
come old. and moving day is but men,
ory.
Meade County news., 1915-09-23
fRv L. M. RENN1NGToN.N

By L. M. BENNINGTON)
From Washington comes the report
that for many years past foreign doc
Itors in China have endeavored to con-
vince the Chinese that there is little
or no virtue in ginseng as remedy
ibeyond its having a slight tonic quail
tty, but although they have been able
ITO introduce foreign drugs and medi-
Icine they have failed to reduce the
Iuse of ginseng, as the Chinese still
have great faith in It,
The thing most likely to convince
the Chinese that ginseng is not indis-
ipensable is the price, which is still
very high. The market for ginseng is
80 extensive that overproduction
would seem to be impossible as re-,
iduction in the cost to the consumer
would undoubtedly increase its use.
Direct trading between American
producers and dealers in Annoy would
be impossible. The entire supply of
ginseng for this port comes through
,Hongkong dealers. who thoroughly ,un-
iderstand the grading and sorting Of
the roots to meet the local trade.
Grading, is most important in map
keting ginseng, and as it varies great
ly throughout China, it requires ex-
perts who are familiar with the pref
erences of the various localities.
The difficulty for the American
grower is the changing requirements
lof so many small markets. The fact
that wild ginseng is supposed to con-
tain stronger and purer properties than
cultivated largely accounts for the diff
ference in price paid for the wild and
cultivated roots. The supply Of wild
ginseng usually comes from eastern
Siberia and Korea, and occasionally
from Manchuria. The roots are larger
and different in appearance from the
American root.
The cultivation of American ginseng
Meade County news., 1915-09-23
WON'T SIGN THE WARRANTS
Kansas Governors Refuse to Give
Word for Carrying Out Death PEN
atty on IA Prisoners.

The parole of Mollie Stewart from
the Kansas penitentiary last week by
Governor Capper leaves few death
prisoners" in that institution. 1t re-
moved the only woman death prisoner
the state has had for many years. No
governor since 1870 has signed a
death warrant.
When capital punishment was aboI-
ished in Kansas in 1907 there werG
fifty-six men in the prison under SEN
tence of death. Two more were add
ed when Mrs. Stewart and Frank
Schneck were sentenced. According
to the reports of the governors Office
there are fourteen men in the prison
still under death sentence.
The legislature was in session at
the time of the murder A bill abolish
ing capital punishment had been in
troduced in the house. 1t had been
passed by The house and was ready
for consideration by the senate at the
time of the murder. 1t became law
some weeks after the murder, but was
not retroactive and when Schranck
and Mrs. Stewart were found guilty
of murder in the fire degree the court
was compelled to sentence both to
be hanged.
There were three legal hangings in
Kansas prior to the time this law
went into effect. These were hangings
under state authority and there were
numerous hangings under government
authority after that date, the last le-
gal hanging of any kind in Kansas
being in Wichita. November 21, 1888,
when two brothers were hanged.
About that time the people of Kansas
began protesting against the hang
ings in state which did not practice
this form of punishment and the pro-
tests to the government officials be-
came so numerous and insistent that
orders were made to stop it.
Meade County news., 1915-09-23

has become an industry of such pro
portions that there are few people who
have never heard of it, Ginseng is
low herbaceous plant, native in the
rich, moist soil of hardwood forests
from Maine to Minnesota and south.
ward to the mountains of northern
Georgia and Arkansas. 1t is cultivat.
ed commercially in New York, Penn
sylvania, Michigan and Wisconsin and
southwark to Missouri, Tennessee and
North Carolina.
The seed Is sown in the spring
or autumn In drills six inches apart
and about two inches apart in the
row. The plants remain in the seed.
bed forltwo years and are then trans
planted, being set about eight Inches
apart each way. 1t requires from FIVE
to seven years to obtain marketable
roots from seed. II roots are planted
marketable product will be obtained
sooner, according to the age and vigor
of the stock used.
HlThe roots are set about by inches
apart. = When the roots have reached
marketable size they are dug. washed,
sorted and dried.
The price Of ginseng varies with
market conditions. Roots of southern
origin bring less than those from
northern localities. A small quantity
of ginseng is used by the Chinese res
idents in America, but the principal
market is found in China.
Meade County news., 1915-09-23
Women Llfe.Savers.

The National Women's Life-Savlng
league announces that with the open
ing Of the coming indoor season they
will inaugurate new branch of work
in the form of junior branch for girls
under the age Of sixteen. No child
will be considered too young to learn
the rudiments of swimming, and prac-
tically all Of the crack swimmers Of
the league have promised their aid to
Miss K. F. Mehrtens, its president, in
developing the younger MEMBERS
New York Evening Post.
Comparative Fun.
THAT fellow had the nerve to tell
me to bant."
"Oh, that was only his banter"
Meade County news., 1915-09-23
HAVE NEW GOOD ROADS PLAN
Arkansas City Business Men Raise
Fund to Keep County Highways
in Repair.

The commercial clubs of Arkansas
City and Winfield have each adopted
an original plan for the improvement
of country roads which promises to
give Cowley county the best dirt roads
in the state.
Nine principal roads run into Ar
kansas City, and through the efforts
of the Commercial Club, nine business
men have volunteered to look after
those roads. Each has just one road
to look after. He is known as the road
captain, and the responsibility for
keeping up the road rests entirely
upon his shoulders. Each captain has
named two enterprising farmers
along his road as. a construction and
maintenance committee. Where pos
sible, the captain gets the co-opera-
tion of the road overseers. But if the
road overseer is a drone, the captain
pays no attention to him. '''-
Each captain has made. an, estimate,
of the amount of money it will take
to keep his particular road in good
condition for year, with such aid as
the township trustees, and farmers
will render. The total amount asked
for by the nine captains has been
raised among the business men of Ar
kansas City. -.
The Winfield plan differs material
ly from the Arkansas City plan, but
it is proving very effe ctive. The Win
field Commercial Club has raised
fund to give prizes to the farmers who
keep their respective roads in the
best condition from now until March
1 next.
A. o. U. w. Act lnvalid.-Judge Os-
car Foust, in the district court at Iola
held invalid an act'passed by the Kan
sas grand lodge of the Ancient Order
of United Workmen, providing for a
cash settlement with aged and needy
members in good standing.
X X X
30-Cent Gas Is Announced.-An-
nouncement was made at Lawrence
recently by the local gas company of
a raise to 80 cents per 1000 cubic feet
in the price of natural gas, to become
effective October l.
X X X
Horses Kick Kills Farmer.-Victor
Wilmeth. 2S years old, farmer liv-
ing north of Atchison, in Doniphan
county, was kicked on the head by
horse the other morning and killed.
Gave Blood to Save Life.-One Of
Fairmount's football stars will take a
chance at not being able to play the
game this season, in an effort to save
the life of a Mrs. Kirk Of Mullinville.
A quart of blood was taken from the
arm of Bruce Wetmore and infused
into the veins of Mrs. Kirk, In last
effort to save her life.
Dead in Motor Mishap.-F. Miles,
A years old, wealthy. retired farmer
of Green, Clay County, was killed and
Mrs. A. S. King and her niece, Miss
Edna Hunter, severely injured when
the motor car in which they were rid
ing skidded in the sand one mile
south OF Monument, Col, and turned
over.
X X 4
Capt. A. J. Vickers Dead.-Capt A.
]. Vickers, one of the members of the
company which plated the city OF
Pittsburg and widely known resi-
dent of Crawford County many years
ago, died the other night at his home
in Oklahoma City at the age Of so.
E--,.ss ,1ss = ,.y,-k 4 A..
Pays LawIer peficit--The Emporia
tcity commissioners have received a
check for $5,OOS51 from bonding
company, settling in full the amount
appropriated from the city treasury by
w. A. Lawler, former commissioner Of
Meade County news., 1915-09-23
Colony Plan Ia Best,

The colony plan Of keeping poultry
is best suited for the farmers and
those who have plenty of land at their
disposal 1t makes it possible to keep
several hundred hens on the ordinary
farm without the expense Of yarding
them, and still have them away from
the home buildings. It's the farmers
way.
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1915-11-26
suffrage2 Yes! But
 No Vote in Holland

The Hague, Nov 26i-Woman's suf- Erage has been made an essential part of the government's program in sHoT- Iands A bill making suffrage possible through an amendment of the consti- tutional law of the Netherlands, has just been brought into Parliament.
 The bill involves also other changes in the organic law It proposes to ex- tend the right of voting to all male citizens who have reached the age of 2s and are nor excluded by certain disabilities, fsand also to female citi- zena who have reached the same age.''
 It is stated that the passage of the bill will not of itself bring suffrage into being, but will only pave the way for it. A further revision of the exist ing electoriaI law will then be in or der putting in to effect the principle thus embodied in the substitution.
 The new Constitutiona1 amendment also introduces proportional represen- takion in the different representative
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1915-11-26
MISS B.
ToDAY's POEM
EPmOGUE

Into land x Storm mwrought. a place of quakes.
 all thunder-scarred, Helpless. degraded, desolate. Peace, the White Angel, comes. Her eyes are as a mothers. Her
 good hands Are comforting and helping. and her
 voice Falls on the heart. as, after winter,
 spring Falls on the world, and there is no
 more pain. And, in her influence, hope returns
 and life, And the passion of endeavor;; so that,
 soon,a TheNidle ports are insoIent with keels; With energy and achievement; weald
 and wo1d Exu1t; the cottage garden teens With innocent hues and odors; boy
 and girl Mate prosp'rously; there are sweet There are good women to breed. In
 a golden fog. A large, fuIl=Sstomached faith in
 kindliness All over the world, the nation, in a
 dream Of money and love and sport, hangs
 at the paps Of welI--being, and so Goes fattening, mellowing, dozing, I rotting down Into a rich de1irium of decay. Then. if the Gods be good. Then. if the Gods be other than mis-
 chievous, Down from their footstools, down With a mil1ion-throaed shouting
 swoops and storms War, the Red Angel, the Awakener, ! The Shaker of Souls and Thrones, and
 at her heel Trail grief and ruin and shame! The women weeps her man, the
 mother her son, The tenderling it's father. In wild A people. haggard with defeat. Asks if there be a God; yet sets it's
 teeth, Faces calamity, and goes into the fire Another than it was. And in wild
 hours A people. roaring ripe With victory, rises. menaces. stands
 renewed, Sheds it's old peddling aims. Approves it's virtue. puts behind it.
 self The comfortable dream, and goes, Armoured and militant, NeW-pitched, new-souled, new-vision- / ed, up the steeps I'd those great attitudes. whereast the
 weak Live not. But only the strong Have leave to strive, and suffer and
 w. E. Henley.