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The Era-leader. [volume] (Franklinton, La.) 1910-current, 1915-12-23

l'rankllntOn, La, Dec. t.
Police Jury, Wash. Parish.
Franklinton, La,
Gentlemen:
| hereby submit this as
my report to your honorable body
of the Demonstration Work that
was dome during the month Of
November in Washington Parish
| have visited 81 demonstrators,
% co-operator5, 9 farmers, have
visited 10 schools, have dlstribut-
ed over 100 bulletins among the
farmers, have written -
letters, vaccinated 9 hogs, and
have travelled over 4l6 miles of
road in the parish with team and
car.
| am now busiIy engaged in
making my annual report for the
Washington office.
The work see,nS to be progress
ing nicely and | am receiving
hearty cooperation of the MAORI
ty of the people | could enlist
more for next Years work than
could possibly visit regularly,
but am visiting new ones weekly
and assure them if my services
are needed to call on tme and ]
will gladly assist them.
Thanking You for your assist
ance as has been given in the
past, | am,
Yours very truly,
Jesse Y. Rabb,
Demonstration Agent
The Era-leader. [volume] (Franklinton, La.) 1910-current, 1915-12-23
LOST--One Purse Thursday

LOST--One Purse Thursday
morning on the road between my
home in Tangipahoa parish and
Franklinton, containing $42 in
greenback and about 81 in silver
change. Also has cotton bill
from Darlington Store, Inc. and
a receipt for Woodmen dues.
Parties returning same will re-
ceive liberal reward.
J. D. Graham,
The Era-leader. [volume] (Franklinton, La.) 1910-current, 1915-12-23

Notice-It is hereby given
that the Registration books for
Angie, Boyalusa, lst and 2nd
Precincts, Varnado and Rio, will
be open at the City Hall at Boga
Iusa on Friday Dec. Oath. for the
purpose of registering all voters
who have not registered rms
DC 10Th, 1915.
M. A. Thigpen Clerk and
Ex-Of. Registrar of Voters.
A complete stock of standard
size GLASS. SASH and DOORS
at Tn, Darlington Store
The Era-leader. [volume] (Franklinton, La.) 1910-current, 1915-12-23
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Local Items
:. Brief Mention of Local and Personal !
Happenings of The Week.

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A Merry Christmas.
Mrs. r. D. Magee returned
Saturday from a visit to her
father IN Amite.
Best qvality Flannelete s -
cents per yard.
II. B. Erwin & Son. Ltd.
Miss Marie Magee spent the
weekend a. home.
y Miss Texana Carter arrived
today from L. S, I. to spend the
holidays at home.
Mr.. and Mrs. D. E. Sheridan
entertained Mr.. J. J. Rupp at
dinner Monday.
We have a full assortment of
guns and rifles. prices Sl:75 to
SIS.
The Darlington Store. Inc,
Best wishes for a Merry
Christmas for every reader OF
the Era-Leader.
j. J. Rupp, of Saginaw, Mich.
was a dinner guest Tuesday Of
Mr.. and Mrs. M. W. OFT.
Miss Eva Bateman of Covirg-
ton, came up Monday to spend |
Christmas with relatives here.
We will buy any quantity OF
good fresh butter if brought IN
this week.
The Darlington Store. Inc.
Miss Myrtle BrumtieId spent
last week in Jackson, Miss, as
the guest, of her sister, Mrs. }.
B. Chandler.
The Christmas edition of the
Bogalusa Enterprise which was
issued last week was especially
attractive in looks and overflow
ing with interesting reading
matter.
We are still in the market for
Cane Syrup. Consult US oetor
selling your crop.
The Darlington Store, Inc
After seven weeks of prison
life, Miss Dora Murtf. of Crow
lev, La, received a pardon and
returned to her home FRIDAY
night.
We have just received Ca
If Whita Dove Flour which w
are sellingat very low prices.
The Darlington Store, Inc
The Peace which Mr.. Ford !
nndeavorlng to accomplish DC
yond the seas seems almost ~
significant in comparison wit
the happiness The seems to b
scattering abroad here NV
more cars delivred here Monday
W, P. Dunlap and D. A. Varnad'
- Miss Claudio Hood who
teaching music near Tylerto"l
Miss, spent the weekend
home. This is Miss C'Aut'e'
first visit home since the fair an
we find her looking as if Nils
issippi is agreeing win her Wo
derfully.
We are now selling S., So al
So merchandise cards good II
anything in our store at an
time with which we give 2oO
1900 and 1000 piano votes respe
,ivsly,-Ideal Drug Store
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Daily Thought.

Never bear more than one kind Of
trouble at time. Some people bear
three-all they have now, all they
ever had. and all they ever expect to
have.
The Era-leader. [volume] (Franklinton, La.) 1910-current, 1915-12-23
Sheriff Sale.-NO. 27I5.
Mrs. Samantha Struggled
vs..
Luther Struggled

Notice is hereby given that by virtue
of an order O. e, cure and sale issued
out of the rs Judicial District Court of
Louisiana, in ar'' COR Washington Par,
lsh, in the above entitled cause. and
to me directed, will proceed to sell
at public aucti"l TO the last and high
est bidder, on
Saturday, Feb. 5, 1916.
at the = ;1ripal front door of the court
house ranklinton, La, between
legal s,..> lours for judicial sales, the
following described property to-wit:
Fifty ;,>ros of land more or less,
bounded "0rlh by lands of Mrs. Gym
tbia G,i,- eat bv land of Arthur
Miller, south Dy channel Of Silver
creek, w., by IaDt, g.. Mr.. k.jzibeth
Garter, 81 iaId f. .".D,-d by wat
ter mil, cotton ga, En.. M, aHd all
other mil fixtures. All of which ma
linery together with all other i'm
provements there on are included in
the sale with the land.
Terms of sale: Cash
This 20 day of Dec. 1915.
J. }. Simmons, Sheriff
The Era-leader. [volume] (Franklinton, La.) 1910-current, 1915-12-23

For Rent-Six room house.
Apply at this Office.
The Kansas City sun. (Kansas City, Mo.) 1908-1924, 1915-09-04

twenty-five feet away in a low side chamber IS 10
be seen the place where the modeler scraped To-
gether the clay off the floor and kneaded 1t. Two
or three worked rolls of his material stll lie
there. The whole thing looks as if done a week
ago, and yet the bison has been absent from the
locality probably for thousands of years.
The least suggestion Of skepticism is in keep
ing with the general impression that the visitor
retains from the painted caves. 1t is a most bat-
fling experience. When the investigation is con-
fined to the stratifed deposits everything is beau
tifully simple. Art objects have a definitely as
certainable place in the series and go back TO
Aurignacian times. The cave proper is Of the
same general style as that of the stratifed refuse
and must of course be of the same date; more
over, the animals represented are in nearly all
cases either extinct or absent from the region.
And yet almost all the mural figures in the caves
are within reach of the hand. In other words,
the caves have undergone no particular changes
since the artist did his work. Not a few of the
paintings, and especially the finer engravings
seem as fresh as if done yesterday. In the Pin
dial cave is the representation of a fish incised
on the wall and the visitor who examines it close
ly would swear that he could make a line exactly
like it with a lead pencil, but with Professors
Breuil and Obermaier standing behind him he
says nothing. And how did paleolithic man man
age to get about in these caves? 1t is unsafe to
move ten steps in them without a light. 1t is
true that a very few stone basins have been
found that may have served purposes similar to
the Eskimo lamp, or the artists right-hand man
may have carried a torch; but there are no signs
of such torches or of carbonization on the walls
in the vicinity of the paintings, although smoke
spots made by modern lamps and candles held too
close are abundant enough. The conviction that
this cave art is not so old as some would have US
believe seems irresistible.
The Kansas City sun. (Kansas City, Mo.) 1908-1924, 1915-09-04

The rock garden, to be successful,
must be along the lines approved by
nature. 1t must not, in any point,
resemble a piece of masonry or other
formal construction, says a writer In
the Minneapolis Journal. The most
satisfactory location for 1t is at the
foot of 8 gentle slope, where 1t can
climb the declivity and the rocks be
given the appearance Of jutting out
from the hillside. But very excellent
results may be achieved ON fiat sur
faces If it is remembered to let the
rocks appear to crop out on the sur
face rather than appear to be placed
there for a purpose. The rock garden
should have its highest point or be-
ginning at some natural or artificial
boundary wall, or better still, a
clump of trees and shrubbery which
will serve to mask its origin. From
this vantage point it may extend In
a natural way to the limits marked
out for it; here an isolated bowlder,
here a group of less p%retentious stones
and again a group Of large stones
may find room in their pockets for .
small tree. The extent may be two
or three rods in width at one end and
gradually narrow until at the other it
becomes an occasional rock on the
lawn.
The Kansas City sun. (Kansas City, Mo.) 1908-1924, 1915-09-04
STILL REMAINS A PUZZLE
Lovers Of Dickens Long Have Pom
dered over His Creation of
"Harold Sklmpole."

Was Harold Skimpole, in BLEAK
House a ~caricature of Leigh Hunt?
The old literary enigma received at
tention again by the discovery OF a
hitherto unpublished letter OF Charles
Dickens by &C. X. 81 reproduced in
his literary columns in the London
Sphere.
This new letter is probably an an
swer to the last appeal Leigh Hunt
made to the novelist to give assur-
ance. in a public manner that the
wretched creature Skimpole was not
a portrait OF himself. Jealous Dick
ensians have done their Utmost TO
clear the novelist's name in respect
of this charge of cruelty caricaturing
a noble man, but they receive little II
any support from Dickens own words.
And the new letter is only n more
evasion. my dear Leigh Hunt" he
writes from Gad's Hill in June. 1859,
''believe me, ! have not forgotten that
matter; nor will ! forget 1t. To alter
The Kansas City sun. (Kansas City, Mo.) 1908-1924, 1915-09-04
Many Factors Affect Cost.

Certain preliminary estimates given
in connection with this series OF house
plans are necessarily subject to
change. For instance. digging a cellar
in rocky, hilly ground would cost moro
than the same JOB might cost else
where. Materials vary in cost as In
dividual tastes differ Most CT the
houses shown in this series have
been built about Boston. The estt-
mates given, therefore, are of actual
costs. Do not neglect, however. TO
allow for the inevitable extras" that
crop up in the course of any building
operation.
The Kansas City sun. (Kansas City, Mo.) 1908-1924, 1915-09-04
THE PRIZE
BY ALISON MIEa woRrHlNeroN

III you please, sir" remarked Ezra
Bartlett. bookkeeper for the Vulcanite
Rubber works at Springville," it has
been the custom for many years for
the plant to recognize the graduation
exercises of the town high school,"
Wilton Dacre looked up hurriedly
and somewhat irritably from an analy-
sis of a large war order for army
bicycle tires. He had been summoned
from initial legal duties into the city
six months since to assume charge of
the plant business when his father
had died. He had found the enter
prise a vast paying one. but methods
and workers in slovenly ruts. He
had been arbitrarily exacting in intro
ducing a new system and it was hard
to beat his progressive ideas into the
brains of others. However, he was
liberal and humane and hoped that
time would successfully establish his
model and modern ideas.
ITO recognize the high school grad
uation exe%rcises?" repeated Daere
Il don't understand you"
why, sir" old Ezra fastened tC
volubly explain, your father for years
sought to encourage local advance
ment by donating fifty dollars in golt
each year as a prize for the best es
say produced by a member of the grad
uating class, and"
Make it one hundred, this time,
directed Dacre in his crisp business
way.
Telephone, Mr.. Dacre," spoke thu
office boy just here, and the parted
lips of the bookkeeper closed, abou
to add something to what he had al
ready said.
ut will keep. I'd better not spring
too much IN the boss at one time
Then he chuckled as he made out
check for a hundred dollars and wrot'
a letter to accompany it to the tow
school board. stating it's purpose.
The town paper expatiated duly ant
in a commendatory1 way on 9TH
marked liberality of u Mr.. Dacre.
The school exercises took place
Dacre was invited, but was too bus.
The Kansas City sun. (Kansas City, Mo.) 1908-1924, 1915-09-04
Oriental Immigration.

When two peoples find that their
standards repel like oil and water they
do not care to associate. Naturally,
then, the oriental immigrants tend to
huddle in colonies in which they nay
live in the old way, keepStheir pride
and spare themselves the pains of
adjustment to American ideals. Not
only do-such colonies check the assim-
ilation of those who must need it, but
they are apt to be nests of congestion,
disease and d~epravity, as well as hot
beds for the propagation of false and
impractical ideas of political and so
cial freedom.
The Kansas City sun. (Kansas City, Mo.) 1908-1924, 1915-09-04
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CLEAN MINDS; CLEAN CITIES
People Must Be Educated TO the
Necessity Of Proper Appearance
Of Municipality.

I'm as good as you are" said the
dirty nan to the well-dressed gentle
man in the street car who had drawn
away from him a bit.
You may be right" answered the
clean one, but you certainly don't
smell as good"
Lord" exclaimed a visitor to n
of the most %populous sections of Bos-
ton. what smells there are here"
Yes" agreed the social worker OF
the party, we've got to clean out a
lot of minds before we'll get rid Of
this dirt"
you have to clean mlnds.'
Surely. Dirty minds make dirty
people, and dirty people make a dirty
town. The idea of cleanliness must
be put in the minds of those whose
present standards Of cleanliness are
elemental.
The woman who will tolerate cob
webs in the corner of her ceiling has
cobwebs in the corners Of her mind.
Disorder in a home is evidence of the
presence of minds that are ~disorderly.
OuT SuIIOuuullBS always lShSCb Nh""
we are within. To make these streets
clean we must create in the people
who live here a desire for clean
streets"
DO you mean to say that the peo-
pie here are content with all this dirt
around them?" the visitor asked with
surprise.
The majority of them are. What
the majority really and truly wants,
the majority can have" The speaker
was silent for a few moments. When
they reached the next corner, he said,
eff there was on this street one man
or I'M who wanted more than any
thing else to have this street cleaned
and made understanding, the work
would be done"
THE old story of Sodom and Gomor-
rah, chi" observed the cynic.-FOrd
Hall Folks.
The Kansas City sun. (Kansas City, Mo.) 1908-1924, 1915-09-04

to attend. He had forgotten all about
the incident when, the day after the
exercise. old Ezra introduced once
again upon his office privacy.
IF you please, sir" he observed tim
orously. the high school business"
why, thought that was owe and
done within" returned Dacre.
Yes, sir; surely. sir. but"
You made the do~nation?"
"Surel:r, but"
well, what next?" .
THE winner of the prize, Mi. Dacre.
You see, in addition to giving that. the
custom of the works has been to hon
or the winner with a starting position
in life. at the works here. An hon.
ored, cherished custom, sir. My junior
assistant was the prize winner three
years ago. Young Mr.. Brown in the
shipping department was the winner
two years ago. Last year young Wat
son, the checker, was the favored
one"
rs there room for the present grad
uate?" inquired Dacre quickly. anxious
to get to work to his business papers.
why, yes. sir. Your stenographer,
Mr.. Timms. leaves next week."
"All right. Bring your new boy
> around and I'll look him over"
but, sir" began Ezra, in a great
state of perturbation. tits not"
Telephone" announced the Office
boy just here, and Mr.. Dacre became
Immediately absorbed, and Ezra, his
face distressed and anxious, backed out
of the room. with the unsteady words:
"How am | goinS to tell him!"
Whatever was oil his mind, how
ever. of the unsolved problem indi-
Gated, Ezra grasped the dilemma by
the horns. When Wilton Dacre came
down to the office the next morning
The Kansas City sun. (Kansas City, Mo.) 1908-1924, 1915-09-04

union. The best previous record for
one thousand miles was made by a
pigeon belonging to H. Beech of
Fort Wayne, in 1912. the time being
two days, nine hours. and some odd
minutes And this record lowered
the time made in 1910 by a bird be-
longing to Mr., L. Gebfert of the same
city. this time being three days,
eleven hours and some odd minutes.
Such records will probably never be
beaten except by happy combinations
Of strong favorable wind and clear,
warm weather.--Harpers Magazine.
The Kansas City sun. (Kansas City, Mo.) 1908-1924, 1915-09-04
Who spolIs the chudrena

There was a discussion held recent.
ly among a crowd of men about the
spelling Of children. Some of the men
said il was the fathers fault: They
give the boys about the same amount
of time every day that it takes them
10 shave. If they took, the job OF
father seriously and really put some
time and thought on 1t. there would be
a different story" But most of the
fellows seemed to blame the mothers.
The Kansas City sun. (Kansas City, Mo.) 1908-1924, 1915-09-04

the book itself would be to revive a
forgotten absurdity, and to establish
the very association that is to be de-
MED and discarded !" But. as
&c. X. s." points out in his common
tary on this literary find, there is am
pie evidence that Dickens was sorry
for the portrait and vowed never to
do so any more"
The Kansas City sun. (Kansas City, Mo.) 1908-1924, 1915-09-04

bird was ent to Abilene, Tex. 1910
miles tair-line measure) from Fort
Wayne. The bird was liberated at
4;30 a. m. July IL, 1918, and homed
at 4 p. m, July -, the flying time
being one day. eleven hours. thirty
minutes. and six seconds. In this
same race a bird belonging to Mr..
John Schilling homed at 1880 a. m.
the following day (July 49,, and a
third bird, belonging to Ir. F. Nahr-
valid, a half hour later. All of the
above ace were flown under the
rules of the American Racing Pigeon
The Kansas City sun. (Kansas City, Mo.) 1908-1924, 1915-09-04

and allowed to return. (This training
was distributed. of course. over sew
eral weeks,) She was then entered
in the l00-mile and 2c0-mile races.
In 1910 she was again given the
above preliminary training races. and
allowed to compete in the 200. 500. 400
and 500-mile races In 1911 and
1912 she was given the same
amount of training. In 1918. after the
preliminary flights, she won the 200
and the 500 mile races. flying the SOC,
hundred-mile race in about ateyen
hours. Shortly after this fight the
The Kansas City sun. (Kansas City, Mo.) 1908-1924, 1915-09-04
FLIGHTS OF HoMING PIGEONS
Remarkable Records Have Been Made
by Birds Trained to Do
Their Utmost.

The present world champion is Bull
let D-1S72. owned by Mr.. o. w. Ander-
ION OF Fort Wayne. Ind. The bird
was Matched in 1909, When four and
a half months OF age, training was be-
gun. She was taken first two. then
ive, eight. fifteen. twenty-five, forty,
and then seventy-nve miles away
The Kansas City sun. (Kansas City, Mo.) 1908-1924, 1915-09-04

borious journey, VIZ
the representations OF
two bison (male and
female) modelled in
clay. The figures, which
are about two feet in
length, are proppeu
against the sloplng
side Of a rock which
rises from the floor
and in front of the ami
mails on the floor there
are some tracings as II
the artist had here
sketched and impro'
vised before beginning
his real work. About
The Kansas City sun. (Kansas City, Mo.) 1908-1924, 1915-09-04

forced c-oncretespOst
also offers a COLI
venient place for
displaying street
signs. At the top
of the pole is a IL
in h f~rosted-glass
globe in which there
is a high-candlepow-
er electric lamp.
Surrounding b
globe is a square
framework in which
four strips of blue
glass, carrying the
street names in
white letters, are
held. During either
the day or night,
the name of the
street and its inter
secting thorough
fare are thus plainly
visible when the
pole is placed at q
AE@Aha-Eoa
The Kansas City sun. (Kansas City, Mo.) 1908-1924, 1915-09-04
An Ancient Frleze.

These Egyptian friezes tell a story
If we could but read them. Now, look
at the driver of this chariot. He II
holding up five fingers. / wonder what
that signifies"
Il judge he was operating a tmey
chariot. kansas City Journal.
The Kansas City sun. (Kansas City, Mo.) 1908-1924, 1915-09-04
In His Business.

THAT policeman is too conscientious
to be a gardener"
What do you mean?"
He arrested the growth of a vine
on his house when he found it climb
ing through a window"
The Kansas City sun. (Kansas City, Mo.) 1908-1924, 1915-09-04
SIMILAR, BUT DIFFERENT.

Mrs. Graspit-You are always growing about
the household expenses, yet you used to say that
| could make a dollar go twice as far as you
could.
Graspit-And so you can, my dear. You make
1t go so blamed far that l never even get a
glimpse of 1t again.
The Kansas City sun. (Kansas City, Mo.) 1908-1924, 1915-09-04
TWO WAYS OF EXPRESSING 1T.

"Oh, don't worry about such %trifes," said the
Indianapolis girl. Just keep a stir upper lip
and you'll come out all right"
But" protested her fair cousin from Boston,
ut is a physical impossibility for me to main
tain a strict labial rigidity."
The Kansas City sun. (Kansas City, Mo.) 1908-1924, 1915-09-04
HE WAS

Said She-After all you must admit that wom-
en- are better than men.
Said He-Oh, / don't know. The good book
doesn't say anything about seven devils being
cast out of a man.
Said She-No, of course not; he has every one
of them yet.
The Kansas City sun. (Kansas City, Mo.) 1908-1924, 1915-09-04
oIdest and Best.

Is not old wine wholesomest, old
pippins ~toothsomest, old wood fire
brightest, old linen wash whitest9 Old
soldiers. sweetheart, are surest and
old lovers 7 soundest---John Web
s&-.
The Kansas City sun. (Kansas City, Mo.) 1908-1924, 1915-09-04
IN PouLTRYVlLLE.

81 love that chicken" said the young red
rooster, but she gave me the frigid claw"
"Oh, WELL" replied the old brown hen, that
was probably the best she could do. Her mother
was a cold storage egg"
The Kansas City sun. (Kansas City, Mo.) 1908-1924, 1915-09-04
P-aradoxlcaI Crime.

There's a queer case in court thia
morning"
'What Is IT."
"A dumb man arrested for uttering
forged notes" '
The Kansas City sun. (Kansas City, Mo.) 1908-1924, 1915-09-04
FEMININE "sHoRT AND UGLY"

You say Mrs. Gadders and Mrs. Plimly ex.
changed the short and ugly word?"
That's what they did"
Shocking! Was it liarT"
"No- 'Cat'n
The Kansas City sun. (Kansas City, Mo.) 1908-1924, 1915-09-04
ADDS TO ClTY'S APPEARANCE
Form Of Street Lamp That is Coming
Into General Use Throughout
the Country.

Besides forming a very attractive
support for a street lamp, this re-en-
The Kansas City sun. (Kansas City, Mo.) 1908-1924, 1915-09-04
MOENZHHOVMLNAE3Z0nE GHF 10
SHEZZZR EN2ZYIHAW

HERE are recorded at the present
time for the southern two-thirds of
Europe, including Mediterranean
Asia and Africa. no less than four
hundred paleolithic stations, that is,
places where remains of n kind
or another have been left behind
by early man. This man was pri-
marily a hunter and his chief center
of ACTIVITY appears to have been
Rogue River courier. (Grants Pass, Or.) 19??-1918, 1915-10-06
UNITED STATES NOW HAS
GREATEST TRADE BALANCE.
Statistics Show How Gold 10 Pouring
Into Golfers Of This Country.

The following figures which show the
financial relations of the United States
with the allied war nations nre In
teresting ut this time
Balance In favor OF the United States
In trade with Great Britain, Canada
France and ltussia In fiscal year ended
June 80 was 81. 1913. 7G2,000
Gold to meet the Indebtedness has
been sent to this country by Canada,
Great Britain and France since Jan. ]
totaling SlSJ000.000.
Foreign owned American securities
have been brought back and sold on
the American markc, to an estimated
amount Of $250,OOO.OO0
Government loans and credits an
nounced as made In this country to
Canada, Russia and France. amount
to $10G,OO0.0Oo.
Despite these payments. an estlmat'
ed total Of $G31 100000 in gold securi
tes and loans, sterling exchange sold
recently at 4.G2is or at discount Of
more than 8 per cent.
Gold holdings Of the Bank OF Eng