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The St. Mary banner. (Franklin, Parish of St. Mary, La.) 1889-1931, 1916-01-01

and respect the white suffer
els Of the sugar and rice Sec
tion, and will not follow amy
such doctrine. They may
not vote for John VI. Parker,
but they will not sanction a
sell-out by those who will
vote for Parker.
The St. Mary banner. (Franklin, Parish of St. Mary, La.) 1889-1931, 1916-01-01

AS we intend going out OF the
chin aware business, we will dis
pose OF our entire line Of imported
sets, some complete and some
broken, at less than cost for cash.
An absolute sacrifice-and a bar
gain for those who call early
|. POPKIN.
The St. Mary banner. (Franklin, Parish of St. Mary, La.) 1889-1931, 1916-01-01

Our extensive line of Amphora
pottery. fine imported china and
art porceiains will positively be
sold below cost for cash. We
need the space it occupies for 9TH
er goods and must dis pose CT this
stock before January 10, 1916.
|. POPKIN.
The St. Mary banner. (Franklin, Parish of St. Mary, La.) 1889-1931, 1916-01-01
Constructive Politics.

Champ Clark, Speaker of the
House OF Representatives, while
on a visit to New Orleans las
week gave an interview to the
city papers, in which he gave
some good advice about trans.
portation and freight rates. Mill
lions OF dollars are being spent
on our waterways by the govern
ment, and millions are being
spent by corporations on railways,
all of which is very necessary and
proper, all business is more or less
dependent upon transportation
and exchange Of commodities;
what we produce at home must be
sent to different parts of the
country in order to reach those
who need and desire what We
make for the market. All articles
produced or manufactured depend
upon the cost of selling and de-
livering for their recompeEce to
the toiler and manufacturer. Too
much attention cannot be given 10
this matter.
That the micronesia canal will
be helpful, no one will deny, but
of how much more Importance is
the matter of improving the ma.
tural waterways we already have.
What more desirable improve
ment, for instance, could any
community desire than the i'm
provement Of Bayou Teche from
st. Landry Parish to the Atchafa-
Iaya in this parish? The traffic
from this enormous valley is very
much larger and more valuable
than any one now seems to think
neadwaters for the Teche would
open up the richest section in the
South. To have a canal running
from Bayou Teche through the
Hanson canal to Corpus Christi !;
Texas, sounds something like a
Little Memo dream; but this enter
Prise seems very probable. but
ould this water route benefit South
as much as deep water
or one hundred miles in Bayou
Ceche would benefit a greater
portion of the sugar. rice and cot
on sections of the State. Such a
water course would cost less than
n equal mileage of railroad and
would be permanent, with mex
'ensive maintenance. Cheap
reight rates, drainage and health
onditions that would follow,
hould be ample suggestion or
eason for such an enterprise.
If We thought less of politics,
aid less ior government, and
,ere less governed than we are,
lore time and attention would be
iven to these general and far
eaching improvements and mat
rial benefits. Ii we spent less
me, work and money in exalting
Official parties, and trying to
lect "our man" for Office, we
'ould soon drift into the habit
+ spending time, money and
abor on public Improvements,
nd the general welfare of the
ountry and the hard pressed tax.
ayers. The Federal Govern
lent is hardly apt to help us any
lore than We help ourselves, and
Mess we interest ourselves in
lese matters, and give more time
nd attention to our own material /
'elfare, there is small chance of q
Interesting other people.
The suggestion or hint of Speak,
r Clark was one Enthusiastically of c
elf.help rather than one of pure :
official assertiveness,-do some.
ling yourself and ask for help in +
DING it.
OF course, we do not know how I
II these things can, or should be /
one, but it is perfectly apparent T
lat such things can be done.
Their states and countries deve-
'p along these lines, and why :
OF Louisiana? a
The St. Mary banner. (Franklin, Parish of St. Mary, La.) 1889-1931, 1916-01-01
STATE OF LOUISIANA.
23rd Judicial District Court-Par.
ish of St. Mary.
Succession of j. Dallas Simms
Deceased. No. 1854,

Under and by virtue OF a commlss ion
and writ, issued and directed to me in
the above entitled and numbered sue
cessiOn pursuant to an order of the
Honorable Thomas NJ. Milling, judge
of the 23rd Judicial District Court of
the State of Louisiana. in and for the
Parish of ST. Mary, bearing date the
3Oth day of December, 1915, shall OF
fer for sale, to pay the debts of the de-
ceased and the charges Of the succession.
at public auction, for cash, for not less
than two-thirds of its appraised value,
to the last and highest bidder. at the
principal front door of the Court House,
in the Town of Franklin, Parish of st.
Mary, State of Louisiana, on
The St. Mary banner. (Franklin, Parish of St. Mary, La.) 1889-1931, 1916-01-01

For crockeryware and granite
ware of durability inspect my
line. NEIL MCNEIL's 5 and lOc
store.
The St. Mary banner. (Franklin, Parish of St. Mary, La.) 1889-1931, 1916-01-01

New ideas in mems mats and
shoes at Bells.
The St. Mary banner. (Franklin, Parish of St. Mary, La.) 1889-1931, 1916-01-01
For Sale.

CrOss.tie timber sumclal
to make about $4,000 tia
One mile from Southern n
cific track. Canal to nl'
roak. SAM K. GUYTHR
Patterson, u
The St. Mary banner. (Franklin, Parish of St. Mary, La.) 1889-1931, 1916-01-01
For Sale.

1900 each orange wv
grape fruit Seeding tl ~
two year old stock otlcAn'
inspected. Write to
KNIGHT Fish Co.,
Morgan City, y
The St. Mary banner. (Franklin, Parish of St. Mary, La.) 1889-1931, 1916-01-01
Statesmen w anted

TO solicit orders for lunf
eating oils, greases 'a'
paints. Salary or comnf
sion. Address
The V1cToR Oh Co.,
Cleveland, v
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1916-07-23

DURING the season of 80 there came to Nice
a certain Nine. Sophie Hernanstein. who by
of her toettes, her entertainments. and her
wit quickly became leader of fashion, in that gay
winter city. Nine. Hermanstein was French, the
wife-report had it-of enormously rich diamond
merchant in Johannesburg. Then, day. Nine.
Hermanstein dsappeared-walked right out OF her
fine house, as it were and dissolved into thin air. At
first thought much about it-one doesn't at
Nice. Another fy-by-night. people said, and pro-
ceeded forget her. Presently it to light, how
ever that her priceless jewels still in the safe and
her bank account intact at the that was
another story. Nine. Hermanstein no adventur-
to the end of her tether she was an impor-
tant persona person to be searched for. Her hus-
band came from South Africa She had not been
particularly good housekeeping wife, he said. but
he loved her nevertheless And he really owned those
diamond mines. Nice fermented. Had the handsome
Sophie eloped with of her chosen cavaliers But
no! Impossibel No person missing from the
coterie she had surrounded herself with. Had she
been drowned in bathinge possibility. But she
hated bathing. Had she been murdered? But
why? There you are-just where you started from.
This twentysix years ago-and from that time to
this no one has heard from Nine Sophie Hermanstein
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1916-07-23

WHERE do they go, these people
who nonchalantly vanish, and
fail to answer when we seek to ring
mup through the universal switch-
beard of which the wires are printers
ink? There was Johan, Duke OF
Orth, for instance, who was seen
leaving the Emperor's bali at the Inn
rerial Palace in Vienna back in Jan.
uary. 1879, and was never seen again.
True. when Duke Johan disappeared,
advertising and Journalism had not
reached the pinnacle they now oc-
cupy; but, for all that, enough was
printed about him at the time to
have sunk the LuSitduid unaided by
a submarine. Until she died. his
mother. the venerable Grand Duchess
Antonio of Hapsburg- Tuscana. per-
sisted in believing that he had been
murdered or had fulfilled a suicide
pact. And death seems the most
plausible explanation of this silence.
But. leaving out the question OF the
"Why?' once this theory is adopted
up pops the unanswerable question.
"What became of the body?"
Photograph from Ritzmann.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1916-07-23

A GAY crowd of Anelo-Indians
gathered one night twenty
years ago to watch the moon rise
over the old Krishni tomb at
Darjeeling. Among the company
were Captain Alan Cahusac and
his wife, just out "from home
Mrs. Cahusac was young, pretty
las her picture tells us), and we'll
bona Miss Montressor of
Dublin. Some one proposed
game of hide-and-seek before the
ride home. The game was never
finished. They are still looking
for Mrs. Cahusac. Eventually
all India was enlisted in the game.
Jungle and bazaar, walled city
and teak forest. were fine-combed
for her. Through all the subter-
ranean channels of that mysteri-
Gus no-white-man' s-land of ra-
tive life the search was carried by
tie famous secret service. After
ten years or so her husband went
back to England to die. and Mrs.
Cahusac became a legend-a hor-
ror tale to be told by ayahs to
naughty children. along with
the ghost stories of that north
country.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1916-07-23

THE port of missing girls is usually
the badlands. And in this dreary
cross-current of life detectives, these
several years, have been searching
for pretty Elsa Nagel of Hoboken. who
got into an automobile one afternoon
after school, and drove off with man
who invited her to go for spin around
the block. Well, Elsa rode right out
of the lives of every one who had ever
known her. She never came back.
Her people, her friends, never heard
from her again-not one OF them. AS
though the nothingness of nothing
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1916-07-23
Photograph from Brown Brothers.

IN May, 1915, Mr. and Mrs C. L. Glass of
Jersey City. with their three children.
Blanche, Madeline, and James (whom this
story concerns), went for a fortnight's holiday
to Greeley. Pennsylvania. The morning after
their arrival Mrs Glass and the two little girls
went to the post-office hard by. leaving three
year-old James playing in field near the farm
house. Mrs. Glass was gone about five min
utes In the interim no vehicle of any kind
passed along the road. In the country stiffness
a child's scream would have resounded. The
mother saw no person near the place. Yet in
that five minutes little James disappeared as
completely as if the earth had opened and swal
lowed him. Bloodhounds were put on his trail.
woods beaten, wells drained. dam dynamited
and the water drawn off. gypsy camps searched,
and lonely houses ransacked; but not so much
as wisp of his golden hair was ever found.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1916-07-23
People Who H3

L,OR the generation entering middle the question:
became Charlie Ros?" has somber hold the imagine
as it periodically recalls this tale of two Observation-Disclosures and
York the traditional "nissing
disappearance 1874 has probably sent mothers flying
upstairs dark their hearts their mouths to look at their
cradles any history before since Charlie Ross
was abducted He ured from home by two in
buggy candy and toys He was held for
that spread the country placed difficulties
of the abductors who realized that they could
not receive the money without rsking arrest So Charlie
Ross found If he is alive to-day he is ortyS
years Many waits reaching manhood have asserted
their in their identity with Charlie Ross thousand
clues have The mother that bore him is dead
But story still lives In 1900 Mr. and Mrs Edward Cudahy
Omaha recalling Charlie Ross paid $4,000 to kdnappers
of their child rather than call in the police and
run the of seeing him again. though by doing
they realized that they putting kdnappir
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1916-07-23
Photograph from Ri,smann.

SOME one you love drops out of sight-little
son. husband, father or friend. How can YOU
find himl If you have any theories on the sub
ject. communicate them to Mrs. w. c. Richter
of Brooklyn She'll be glad to hear from YOU.
She's tried everything in the world in the effort
to find her little son, Robert Stryker, who disap-
peared in Florida in December. 1914; and now
she's got nothing to do in the world but wait
Robert left his mother one morning in the back
yard and entered the kitchen Shortly after
ward he must have left the house by the front
door. as tiny broom he was playing with and
few footprints were found. At this point all
trace of Robert ends
South Bend news-times. (South Bend, Ind.) 1913-1938, 1916-01-12
INDIANA AND MICHIGAN STATE HAPPENINGS
EXPECTS TO FIDDLE INTO
OFFICE On ONE STRING

COLUMBUS. Ind. Jan. ~
News-Times Special Service:
William c. Smith. assessor OF
Bartholomew county. ran for
sheriff on the democratic ticket
several years ago. and was elect
ed. Persons who recall the cam
paign declare that "Bin Smith
nddled his way into office" Smith
is an old-time fiddler. and with
his fiddle he stumped this cOun-
~. playing old fashioned reels
and jigs whenever ne could get
a crowd Sometimes he went out
by himself. played few break
downs and now and then danced
a little on his own motion He
also went out with speakers and
often he was the main attraction.
Now comes Earl Skeet Rey-
nolds. OF this city. with a propo-
sitlon 20 fiddle his way into office
on one string Reynolds is seek
ing the republican nomination for
sheriff lie has a one-string I'D
die and has played il at some
home talent vaudeville shows as
well as elsewhere about the city.
He manages 10 coax considerable
music out Of one string. He says
he can make one string do for
him what four strings did for
Smith. The campaign will de
termine whether or not his de
claration is correct
South Bend news-times. (South Bend, Ind.) 1913-1938, 1916-01-12
FERRIS SAYS He WILL
Run UPON CONDITION
Governor of Michigan, How
ever, Will Not State Con-
ditiOn at This Time.

News Times Special Service:
LANSING. Mich, Jan. 12-"There
is only one condition under which L
viii be a candidate for a third term.
and ] absolutely will not divulge that
condition" declared Gov Wood
bridge y. Ferris when asked wheth-
er he had yet made up his mind to
announce his candidacy. hat the
one condition is, no one knows, and
that they will not. at least for a
time was made pretty certain when
the governor made this remark.
II would not tell Ed. Shields or r.
o. Wood, If they were sitting where
you newspaper men are now. No one
knows what this one condition is ex-
cept myself, and l cannot say more
about IT,"
The governor stated very plainly
that there was absolutely no use in
trying to guess what il is, for he
knew no one knew Regarding the
national situation, the governor said
that there was only one man in the
republican ranks he was afraid OF
and that was Justice Charles +.
Hughes OF New York. He does not
consider Roosevelt as the type of a
man who could beat Pres't WILSON,
and added that he would, however,
like TO see Roosevelt and Wilson in
the race and watch the result Gov.
Ferris says he would not have any
alarm over the result if the two men
were candidates, as il is his opinion
that the country is not waiting for
the Roosevelt type of president.
Il made the race for governor two
times when I did not want TO run.
and / am being urged now more than
ever. yet / cannot say at this time
what l will do" declared the COVER
nor. IF John T. Winship or some
other good democrat would come to
my office and say he would make the
race, 1 would back him and step out
gladly. for l am not DESTROYS of hold
ing the office longer"
South Bend news-times. (South Bend, Ind.) 1913-1938, 1916-01-12
WOMEN IN PLEA
FOR WAR s END
Jane AddanS Heads Peace
Party Before Foreign Re-
IationS Committees.
Press Service:

Associated Press Service:
WASHINGTON, Jan. 12.@Speak-
ers for the Woman's peace party,
headed by Miss Jane Adams of
Chicago. pleaded with the senate and
house committees on foreign rela-
tons Tuesday TO enlist the strength
Of the United States 10 help end the
European war.
Miss Adams. told the committees
all Europe was ready for peace, the
beIligerent nations most of all, if it
could be gained for them without
sacrifice of dignity and standing.
Besides Miss Adams, Miss Soph-
ronisba Breckenridge of Chicago,
Mrs. Crystal Eastman Benedict, Mrs.
Lucia Ames Mead and Miss Zona
Gale addressed the house committee
in the morning and repeated their
statements to the senators in the
afternoon.
Want President Empowered.
They urged the adoption Of joint
resolution, introduced by Rep. Curry,
which would empower the president
TO invite all nations 10 send dele
gates 10 a convention to provide for
disarmament, create an international
J legislature, court, army and police
All of the warning nations have
organizations seeking peace, Miss
Adams said. but because Of the
patriotism of the people and press,
| who decline to talk peace for fear
/ of discouraging the army. No nation
has the means of learning the senti-
ments Of its adversaries.
South Bend news-times. (South Bend, Ind.) 1913-1938, 1916-01-12
"GH0ST" SEEKERS HUNT
ELUSIVE BALL OF FIRE
kratzVillc Mystery Remains Unex-
pl1inC l-CrOwd Led by Line
man i'm Hunt.

News Times Special Service.
EVANSVILLE. Ind. Jan. IA
crowd of men and boys. armed with
shotgung, rifles, clubs aud pistols.
and accompanied by several hounds.
entered the EImendorf woods near
kratZville, six miles west of here.
in search OF the ghosts" that are
supposed 10 be inaabiting the woods
and which have caused much ex-
citement i'm the ueighborhood. The
crowd was led by James A. Duggan.
a telephone lineman.
After the men and boys had
searched new paths several hours
the dogs suddenly began 10 bark
and the men and boys got ready
Ia charge. From out Of blank space
small bail OF fire suddenly drop
ped. II hoated gently among the
gnarled tree trunks and branches OF
the woods The searchers stood still.
frightened for few seconds. Then
they began the pursuit. When first
seen the illumination looked TO be
about three blocks away. The pur-
suers failed To capture or overta Ike
il. When last seen the pheuom-
enOn seemed 90 be still moving.
Persons living in the KratzvFle
neighborhood tell tales Of a pile of
gold that was supposed 10 have been
buried in the Elmendorf woods sew
eral years ago by an old miser who
lived there. Some OF the supersti-
tious ones believe that the ghost
is the spirit OF the old miser which
has come back 10 earth 10 guard
the gold
South Bend news-times. (South Bend, Ind.) 1913-1938, 1916-01-12
NAME Is WITHDRAWN
Roosevelt Will Not be on Ticket i'm
Michigan Race.

News Times Special Service:
LANSING. Mich. Jan. 12.-TheO-
dOre Roosevelt's name will not ap-
pear on the presidential primary bal
lot in Michigan at the election April
when the voters of the state will
instruct the delegates Of the various
political parties as to their choice
for president. Secy Of State
Vaughan received a letter from Oys-
ter Bay in which the colonel says:
Il desire TO have you withdraw
forthwith my name as candidate in
the presidential primary to be held
in Michigan on the first Monday in
April"
This letter, which was mailed
from New y ork Jan. s, was in re-
Spouse TO an official notification from
Sec'y Vaughan that a sufficient num-
Der of petitions had been filed to
place Roosevelts name on the ma
tiOnal progressive ticket at the presi-
Dental primary
After Naughan's letter was mailed,
petitions were filed 10 place ROose-
velts name on the republican ticket.
However. as the state department
believes il to be Roosevelts inten-
ton 10 remain out of the fight in
Michigan, he will be notified Monday
that his name will not appear on
either ballot. Monday morning more
petitions were received from Wash
ttnaw county 10 place Roosevelt 5
name on the republican ticket.
-
be officially notified by Sec'y
Vaughan that a sufficient number of
petitions have been received to put
the name of the Detroit manufac-
tUrer on the republican ballot.
South Bend news-times. (South Bend, Ind.) 1913-1938, 1916-01-12
AFTER LOWER RATES
Cedar Springs Residents Decide To
Fight Phone Raise.
Ncws-Timcs Special Service :

News Times Special Service.
CEDAR SPRINGS. Mich. Jan. 10.
Following the announcement Of
the raise in rates by the Citizens
7 telephone Co. more than 500 resi-
dents, prominent business and pro-
fcssional men. held a mass meeting
here and decided that unless the
company Immediately decided to
alter its action, all will have their
telephones removed and begin the
use of another telephone system.
Because OF two previous raises
and the recent decision Of the state
commission that the company was
warranted In raising its present
rates. citizens are up in arms and
have firmly resolved TO resort to
drastic measures unless their de-
mands are complied with. Besides
the higher cost. il is claimed that
the service here is not of the best,
and an Improvement should he made
before the rates are changed
South Bend news-times. (South Bend, Ind.) 1913-1938, 1916-01-12
FISHERMAN Is LOST
Partners Say He Refused TO Return
With Them.
News Times Special Service

News-Times Special Service
CHARLEVOI%, Mich, Jan. "a
Considerable mystery surrounds the
whereabouts Of William Duba. for
merly OF Bellaire, who recently left
on a fishing trip to Fox island and
for more than a week has not been
heard from.
Duba recently purchased the II.
l. Brady gasoline boat Red Devil
and a fishing outfit. He was induced
TO take in as working partners Fred
Slminow and George Fay, fishermen.
The partners made Fox island their
base and worked in that vicinity.
About a week ago SiminOw and
Fay arrived here with the boat,
quantity Of fish, and the OUTFIT,
claiming that Duba had refused to
come with them.
Three attempts have been made 10
reach the island from here, but the
boats have been driven back by
storms. An investigation is being
made.
South Bend news-times. (South Bend, Ind.) 1913-1938, 1916-01-12
4 POOR PLACE

New Servant-An' have yez a
a garage on the place?
No. VIC have no car.
New Servant-Then 1 can't come
wild yez. have TO have a place fer
me FOrd.-Puck
South Bend news-times. (South Bend, Ind.) 1913-1938, 1916-01-12
BULL KILLS FARMER
Man il Tramplcd and Battered To
Death by Animal
News Times Snccial Service .

NewS-TimcS Special Service.
SAGINAW. Mich, Jan. 12.-Carl
Foelker. 9 vars old. was killed while
attempting 20 drive an Infatuated
bun into a barn on a farm near here.
Foelker was warned not 10 attempt
the dangerous task. but he persisted
and was found within a few minutes
ais body badly bruised and life eN-
tinct.
South Bend news-times. (South Bend, Ind.) 1913-1938, 1916-01-12
international News Serv,re

International News Servirp.
BRAZIL, Ind. Jan. 12.-The state
today closed its evidence in the case
OF Mrs. Myrtle Gibbons. charged
with numbering Elroy Smith at
TerTe Haute. June Il. 1914. The
state introduced evidence TO show
there were no powder burns on
Smiths clothing. in order 10 blast
Mrs. Gibbons self-defense plea. The
defense opened today.
South Bend news-times. (South Bend, Ind.) 1913-1938, 1916-01-12
BAND INSTRUMENT
MEN SHORT OF BRASS
War Operations Felt in Trade
Says Manufacturer at
EIkhart.

ELKHART. Jan. 11.-'Although
manufactures OF band instruments
are now operating full forces on
full time. IL begins 70 look as II
they would have 90 suspend opera
tons for lack CT brass and nitric
and sulphuric acid" said an Elk
hart manufacturer Tuesday.
BRASS Ia hardly 90 be obtained at
all-at any price" he said. because
Of the demand for that metal in
making .war munitions. The acids
are offered in small quantities. but
at cxhorbitaut prices They are not
made here in sufficient volume. and
we have depended upon the import
ed supply"
South Bend news-times. (South Bend, Ind.) 1913-1938, 1916-01-12
STATION Is DESTROYED
Fire ut Mount Vernon Causes $4,000
Loss ON Building.
News.Times special 60:

NeWS-Itmes Special Service:
Mt. VERNON, Ind. Jan. r.
The c. 4 +. l. railroad freight and
passenger station in this city was de-
Stroyed by fire early today, causing
loss OF about $4,000. Several
pianos and other freight were
burned. Engines moved freight and
passenger cars from the yards and
saved them. The fire Is thought 10
have originated from defective wiz
ing