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The Donaldsonville chief. [volume] (Donaldsonville, La.) 1871-current, 1916-07-22

No stakeholder shall be held liable or re
sponaihle for the contracts or faults of thi:
corporation III any further sum than tbs
unpaid balance due the corporation ths
shares of stock subscribed for by such per.
| son: nor shall any informality in organiza-
ton of this corporation have the effect OF
rendering this charter null and void. Or OF
bility beyond the balance unpaid, if any, OH
his Gtock.
Thus done. passed and signed at mg of
fee in the city OF Denaidsonville. parish OF
Ascension state Of Louisiana. on the day
and date hereinahove written, in the pres
ence OF Messrs. 4. D. Chaavin and A w.
Martin. NJ D.. good and competent witnesses,
who sign these presents As such, together
with said subscribers and me, notary after
due reading of the whole
tNAMES OF SUBSCRIBERS OMITTED).
Witnesses:
r. J. CHAUVIE,
A. W. MARTIN, III. ID.
The Donaldsonville chief. [volume] (Donaldsonville, La.) 1871-current, 1916-07-22

ADOLpHE METER.
c. II. LANDRY, SRs,
LEON NEWMAN,
Finance Committee,
The daily Alaskan., 1916-10-02
One View of the Study as Latin.

If one does not study things because they train the mind," why, then, should one study themf The answer Is extraordinarily simple. One studies things because they serve 6 purpose. do not say. mark you. a useful pur. pose, but a purpose-a valid purpose, a genuine purpose. not make believe purpose. s'+ .s
 Mental discipline Is not A valid or genuine purpese-it's a make believe Meanwhile the number of purposes. of genuine. valid purposes. is simply in- finite. Learning to read Vergil is. of course, just as valid a purpose as learn
 ing to play a symphony or learning to bake a pumpkin pie. The. test Is. how ever, not, Did the student get mental ,liscipline2 but Can he read and en
 ioy Yergn? Can he play the sytnphonyi Will some one eat the pies " :
 And because people rarely care te read Tergil. because almost none of tue thousands who study Latin ever can or do read Vergil. therefore, In so far as they are concerned. studying Latin has no purpose and cannOt be defended as mental ydtScipline.-Abra
 ham Flexner in Atlantic Month"; E
The daily Alaskan., 1916-10-02
Tha Art of Optimism.

Live in the active voice. intent on what you can do rather than on what happens to you; in the indicative mood, concerned with facts ns they are rather than as they might be; In the present tense. concentrated on the duty In hand without regard for the past or worry about the future; in the first person. crlticIsing yourself rather than condemning others; in the singular number. seeking the approval of your own conscience rather than popularity with the many. Whoever lives the life of such unselflSh devotion to the good of others and of all and lives it in the active voice, indicative mood, present tense, first person. singular number, Is bound to find his life full and rich and glad and free-is bound, in other words. to be an optimist-Wililnm De Witt Hyde
The daily Alaskan., 1916-10-02
Japan Harbors No Thoughtof War With
 the United States
By e kAsAL Japanese Autho.

TT evident that certain persons and their followers the United
 States present doing all they to create suspicion
 Japan Notwithstanding that Japan has any gressve bgent to give ground for such surm detractors of Japan keep up their campaign.
 Although relations with the United States during ten have not been wholly satisfactory have nevertheless friendly toward the American people Our attitude has always cliatory and sincerely peaceful
 regard the California question Japan has amcaby endeavore America than halfway and she still trusts wisdom reason and SENSE OF JUSTICE CHARACTERISTIC OF THE AMERICAN PEOPLE TO SEE THAT JUSTICE IS DONE TO- WARD JAPANESE SUBJECTS IN THE UNITED STATES
 Although far Japan is concerned the immigration question at rest certain American politicians still busy with bills at Washington aimed chiefly still further exclusion Japanese subjects. . .+ .,.-e-. .'...
 JAPARs ONLY DESIRE s THAT SUBJECTS AMERICA SHALL RECEIVE AND EQUAL TREATMENT ACCORDED OTHER ALIENS. H"'
The daily Alaskan., 1916-10-02
Feat of a Baseball Pitcher.

Just one pitcher in the history of baseball-that Is. hurlcr who was working In. q league of recognized standing and claSs-is credited with pitching two complete games in sue. cessIon wherein the opposing batsmen failed to register base hit. A big pitcher sailing under the name of Gene Wright, who hurlcI for the Day ton club of the Western association back in 1901. on Sept of that season pitched a no hit. no run game against Columbus. He followed up this feat by turning the same trick against the Grand Rapids team on Sept 4.-New York Sun.
The daily Alaskan., 1916-10-02
How Leaves purIf, Ar.

It has been calculated Shst single tree Is able through Its leaves to purify the air from the carbonic acid arising from the respiration of considerable number of men. perhaps a dozen or even more. The volume of carbonic acid exaaled by human being in the course of twenty-feur hours Is put at about 100 gallons, but by Boussin gault's estimate single yard Of leaf surface, counting both the. upper and the under side of the leaves. can. in favorable circumstances. decompose at least gallon of carbOnic acid day
 One hundred square yards of leaf sur face then would suffice to keep the air pure for one man, but the leaves of a tree of moderate size present a surface of many hundred square yards. All other forms of vegetable life act similarly In sbstracting the noXlous carbonic acid from the atm0s3 phere ~@''--. . '',-,- --'' -',s,-s-''-.'>
The daily Alaskan., 1916-10-02
RAW MATERIAL FOR PRINT
 PAPER "

Frederick J. HeskltA ia telling the people in the states about the vast amount of raw material in AL aska adapted to the manufacture of print paper, which Is now So much In demand. We don't know Ffo MT. Heeskith Is. but we do know tha' he kaows what he Is talking about, because there are thousands of acres ot cottonwood forests that may easily be manu- factured into wood pulp. And cot (oDwood Is what the manufacturers want, above all other woods. Print papers so scarce and so high, that in old Missouri they seeking to manufacture pulp out of corn cobs.
 This paper has heretofore had oc, casion to disccuss the presence of raw material for the manufacture 0 print paper in this section. Some are disposed to laugh at the idea, bu- time will see the establish wen' Of wood pulp plants here abouts. All that is needed to at- tract men who engage in this in- dus'rv is due publicity of the re- sources available for this pur- pose. Il may take time to con- vince them Of the possibilities in this direction, but come they will in due course, If not hampered or hindered by government regulations maintaining, as much of the cotton wool forest is located in forest reserves.
 It Is such industries as these that make for the prosperity and de- velopment of the country.
The daily Alaskan., 1916-10-02

tion agent when the Northw est called for leaders.
 Gladstone was past seventy when he tcok up the study of Greek.
 One Of the principal counsel of the tobacco interests WEE Q family man when he was tacking signs for the same companies whose le- gal affairs he now directs.
 William de Morgan was in the fifties Whsn he started his first nov el.
 h the long run we are all what we choose to be. A man gets no more out of this world than he takes out for Himself.
The daily Alaskan., 1916-10-02
Tibet.

Tibet Is all mountains and valleys There is scarcely plain worthy of the name The mountain passes are at a high altitude and crossed only with great difficulty. The valleys are well populated, but the cities are small and the houses crude buildings of mud walls, The streets are narrow and dirty. Northern Tibet is peopled large ly by nomad tribes. while In the south there Is a more settled population.
The daily Alaskan., 1916-10-02
EDITORIAL
MINUTE SERAIONETTE
By Herbert Kaufman

You picked your job and it will continue to fit you until you grow out Of i;
 r. you want better one, show your better self. You cant hold a bigger place thau you're qualified t9 manage. Your wage is calcuiat' .ed upUn your ways. Change, and so will your prospects.
 The men who order your "om- inss and goiugs preferred their hardshlps at the outset-fumbled when it counted least-made one or two false starts and returned to the scratch for q cleaner getaway.
 They fell down before they got uE in ,le world. Nobody eyer learn ed to jump high without some pre- limirary bruises. Experiment and experience teach Us how to reach maintained points.
 But you welshed from the very tssinu:ug and chose the easiest way, never sensing that the route would psccme tougher the further ycu followed it.
 You failed through seeking to es- cape failure.
 S:de steppers are invariably ov- erLsken by the responsibilities they try hardest to avoid.
 Your character is weak and fab by from the lack of exercise.
 There's no room for development in a standardized position for which every contingency has been an- ticipated by a headquarters rule.
 You wouldn't trust to your own pvwers of originality and tenacity but elected instead to become a part Of somebody else's machine with every action determined by influences in which you have no voice.
 Day ay day you turn in the same measured course, unable to as sert individuality or express per sOnal preferences.
 You didn't manifest enterprise in all these opportunity-laden years and now folks have grown accus- toned to regarding you incapable of undertakings that involve judg- meut and vision.
 If there's a latent spark in your imagination-coax it, nurse it, fan it to a flame.
 Its never too late to demon strate ambition.
 But prepare for Encouragement. You wouldn't undergo it in your youth and it will be even more diff ticIlty to assert restrained ability witt an established reputation for insignificanee.
 You arn't too old to succeed in a new field.
 You'll stand a better chance among folk who havn't set you down as a nonentity.
 Unused faculties will creak for while: the habit of initiative will return sIcWl-you've stunted it by neglect. 7 ,
 But iE you are determined to as sart yourself and willing to attempt and fail and attempt over again, coafiderce and completeness are inevitable.
 The foremost astronomer of the nineteenth century wasted the prim of his life upon the flute and pick ed uo a precarious income in sec ond class orchestra until he req 1ized that his fortune lay among the sta1s
 Jim Hill wasn't disenthused be- cause he was still country sta --s-sssSCSNS
The daily Alaskan., 1916-10-02
Brioht Child,

How long has your daughter been studying art?"
 "Five years, and she bus made great progress. She can talk about motifs and atmosphere and such things In such way as to make you think she knows perfectly what she means."- Chicago Tribune.
The daily Alaskan., 1916-10-02
Tho Kitchen Closet.

Glass Is an ideal shelting for kltch. en closet, as Ii can be kept clean so easily. If this Is too costly paint the shelves white and give coat of cham, el This is easily scrubbed and does away with the necessity of germ catch Ing papers
The daily Alaskan., 1916-10-02
WycIiffc's Bible,

John WycllfSe completed the trans lation of the whole Bible for the first time Into the language of the English people. He was born near Richmond. ln Yorkshire. England. about 1924
The daily Alaskan., 1916-10-02
For Safety,

raek--Ny stenographer was forever making mistakes. I had to discharge hsr to keep her from marrying me- Town Topics.
The daily Alaskan., 1916-10-02
Harsh.

Gerald - Coffee keeps me awake. Geraldine e-Me too always drink an extra cup when 1 know you are coming to call
The daily Alaskan., 1916-10-02
Its Class.

She--i waive all claim to your pitt ful unworthy. utterly despicable af- fecti"ns. Hc-Whew, but that was esne hot wave.-Baltimore American.
The daily Alaskan., 1916-10-02
Never at a Loss.

'.Th's is the flat"
 '@rsa rooms are rather dark"
 'Gsat for photography" enthused shs aseof.-Lou!sville Courier-Journal.
The daily Alaskan., 1916-10-02
Makinu 1t Easy.

Doctor Take this medicine after each meal Pat'ent-But, my meals come unreg'lar. doc. Doctor-Well, take lt before each meal
The daily Alaskan., 1916-10-02
His EdvantaGe.

How many miles can you go on a gallon?"
 HHow many can youf" T asked you first."-Life.
The daily Alaskan., 1916-10-02

Is 6 manly to love ones country; 1t is godhke to love the world.-J. W. Copkita.
The daily Alaskan., 1916-10-02

There are 100000 tons of stone IT the pyramid of Cheops.
The weekly messenger. [volume] (St. Martinsville [i.e. St. Martinville] La.) 1886-1948, 1916-11-04
Some Advantages Of HoSsinS.
Off Corn.
Press Bulletin.

Press Bulletin.
/. More pork is produced from
the corn crop.
2. Rapid and economical gains
are made by hogs.
3. Labor and expense are saved
lin harvesting and marketing the
corn crop.
4. Crib space is saved because
corn that is hogged-off does not
have to be stored.
5. The corn crop is fed in the
field where grown, thus the plant
food contained in the crop is, to q
large extent, returned to the soil
6. The manure produced by the
hogs is evenly scattered over the
land.
The weekly messenger. [volume] (St. Martinsville [i.e. St. Martinville] La.) 1886-1948, 1916-11-04
NAV Use School States.

The old fashioned school slate
which Dad use to clean with his
sleeve. ETC., ETC., is likely to come
in style again. There is very Sc
rious shortage in all kinds of pa
per. and the School Boards are
considering adopting the old fash
Toned writing materials. The OBJ.
lection is that states are unsanita.
nv. however. it is admitted thai
they may be made sanitary, by &
sponge and water accompaniment
|-Houma Times.
The weekly messenger. [volume] (St. Martinsville [i.e. St. Martinville] La.) 1886-1948, 1916-11-04

Pimplv, muddy. cOmplexiOns are due
to impurities in the blood. Clear up
the skin bv taking DIR. Kings New Life
Pills. Their mild laxative qualities re-
move the poisons FROM the system and
brighten the eye. A full. free. non-grip
ing bowel movement in the morning is
the reward of a dose of Dr. Kings New
Life Pills the night before. At your
druggist, 25c.
The weekly messenger. [volume] (St. Martinsville [i.e. St. Martinville] La.) 1886-1948, 1916-11-04

MIR. Alcibiades Prudhomme, the
II year old son of Mrs. Virginia
Prudhomme died at her home Cor
ner Cove and Magnolia street, at
Hot Springs, Arkansas, at 5:2o
a, m. October the 9th.
The weekly messenger. [volume] (St. Martinsville [i.e. St. Martinville] La.) 1886-1948, 1916-11-04
DIED.

Mr.. Hermogene Bertrand OF St.
Martin parish died Monday and
was buried here Tuesday evening
at two o'clock from the Catholic
Church. Mr.. Bertrand was aged
sc years old.
The weekly messenger. [volume] (St. Martinsville [i.e. St. Martinville] La.) 1886-1948, 1916-11-04

Mr.. Eugenia Freeman of Cade
died Sunday and was buried Mon
day in New Iberia. Mr.. Freeman
was aged 40 years.
The weekly messenger. [volume] (St. Martinsville [i.e. St. Martinville] La.) 1886-1948, 1916-11-04
THE EVIL DOORS.

There are men who take the name
of God in vain thereby working
for the devil without promise or
hope Of reward. But profanity is
a harmless pastime compared with
the work of man or woman who
will deliberately assail an innocent
character. The character assassin
is the lowest paid of any of the de-
wills laborers yet some of our &C.
quaintance hang on that job with
bulldog tenacity. Leesville Toll
er.
The day book. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1911-1917, 1916-08-22
NoT EULL

- NOT FULL
Rastus (at the colored cabaret)-
Mandy, am yoah programme full?
Mandy-Lawdy, no, Mr.. Apple
white; it takes mo. dan two sand
witches an cup OBJ tea fob dat
The Birmingham age-herald., 1916-12-03

Is, that the Honerabu Jennett will kinder get peevsR under the restraint of the cawcus and may refuse to jump thro' hoop when the bosses crack the whip. Of corse, everybody knows that when it s close between the parties in the House that 1t takes feeder with moor diplomacy than forrain diplomatt to keep evyeryboddy pulling togethur The chances air that Jim Mann had rathur have thousend dol ers, enny time, than the job of trying to keep the Honerabull Jennett rum jumping out of the corral and mussing up the programme.
 Of corse, it may turn out that she will be as dosils as pet rabit but the chances air against it. Frum what Washington has alreddy herd of Jennett is looking forwarl to lively doings aftur she gets up steem in the next Congress. She is likely tc hand the feeders out line of back talk and to butt in with a mynorrity report most enny time that will spill the beans
 It must not be overlooked that Miss Rankin rep resents Montana, and Montana don't take enny fool- ishness when it cums to being progressive. She is going to have hard time seeing things like of the old timers of her party in the House. The south and west having joined hands the next step it, guess, for Alabama to adopt sufferage, and if so I will give you three guesses who will be the furst membur of the House rum Jeffersun???
 Yours trooly,
 BILL VINES. Washin eton. D. C.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1916-12-03

peese or coroner as enny meer man. she is the equal and peer of her husbend or sweethart when it cums to riding bronco starting riot and casting bal lot, and still rains soopreem in her spheer the queen of the household and outlying presincts. In uther words, Montana in confirming all the rites of man upon her. has not presumed to ask her to share her rites with the men.
 The wfmmin of Montana still hold to theere ex- elusive rites of being the muthers of the land and of having the last word in argurmint The conces- sions maid by the in permitting her invade the relm of polyticks is cleer profit.
 gentulman frum Montana told me confidensial1y that it was augured before sufferage granted to the wmmin theere that it would meerly be an in. creese in the number of voters It was continded he sed, that the wimmin would vote just theere hus bands dictated all questions further he sed that the gennere proposision advansed that the vim min would take little inturrest in polycls and few of them would cum to the polls to register theere opinions But, he sed that it Is apparent that those who advansed theese fdears not famer with the Montana wimmin as a species The average Montana lady he obsurved had grate strength of pur pose and is exceedingly furm and fixed in her con victsions. The men, he sed, who weer deseeved by theese theeories found polycks theereaftur exseed ingly dscorraging The secund or thurd electsion ill
The Birmingham age-herald., 1916-12-03

a gennerel demand frum the sufferage states for lady running malt for the cannydae for President
 in electing woman to Congress, Montana, as usuel maid good. She did not wish off on of those feerse looking brands of suferagets with fase like interrupted beef stew. Not much. Montana cum cleen and sent us 8 yung lady who passing down Broadway and inspected by the most fastiddus and critical, would bring forth no less commint than sum chicken When it cums to looks, Miss Jennett Rankin is theere whereabouts amung the feeders When 1t cums to gray mattur, her admirers declare
 that she has enuff to fill furniture car It Is sed of her that she is good looking, accomplished vii vasious and a flewent conversasionillst. As to the first adjective. skepticsm is removed when her pie ure is exhibited, and the accomplished and vivasious staff be passed up for future development: as the flewent conversasionist, having been student of wimmn in gennerel and one two in perticuler, and having had the opportunity to compare the average with the average woman as regards ability to convurse upon enny subject whatever, whethur they evver herd of it before not, we ac- cept the statement in its broad turns and will bet our last winters oyvercoat to the hole in a doughnut that she will measure up to the full requirements as a fewent conversasionst and sum to spare.
 Miss Rankin being a republican, we think we can foresee lot of wurry for the Honerabull Jas. R. Mann We don't know, but the way figger it out
The Birmingham age-herald., 1916-12-03
Burglar Took Only a Shave

From the Chicago News.
 A collection of stiff red whislSers is the only clew to Windsor Parks battling burglar mystery,
 Mrs. Martin Lynch locked all the doors and windows when she left her home the other afternoon and went down to the beach. When she got back three hours later the house was in dis order. There were marks of a jimmy or one of the back windows.
 Mrs. Lynch rushed to her bedroom and opened her jewel case. Nothing miss irg. She rushed to the dinning room and jerked out the drawers of the silver chest Nothing missing She rushed 10 the kitchen, she rushed to the library, she rushed to the bathroom and
 An.
 The floor was strewn with towels. The wash bowl was dirty. The walls were splashed Mir. Martins shaving kit was out. And on his shaving stand were the shorn remnants of stiff red beard.
 The burglar took nothing but shave. South Chicago detectives would thank someone for an explanation. So woull MT. Lynch
The Birmingham age-herald., 1916-12-03

Montana aftur feemale sufferage had been granted convinced the mail populason that all dope sheets the handling of the feemail vote mite as we'll be junked. He wasn't going round making enny per ticuer fte for universal sufferage for the wmmin he sed, but he remarked with quite good deel of scarcasm lily conseaed in his voise that the com munity state that granted wimmins sufferage or the theeory that they would trail along behind the men, mite do well to pawse and ponder the ords of Montana. He sed if they would pile up & - tie ponder and few statistcks, easily obtained it mite them large assignment of saffroned hued regrets Still he was less bttur in his com hints, I thought. I lerned afturwards that he had been in the habit of cumming to Congress frum Mon tana till the wimmn got the ballot when he abruptly ceased to do so by overwhelming majority.
 Now Montana cums to the frunt and spreads her self all ovver the limelite by electing a woman to Congress- the furst time in the history of the re- pubick skurts will occupy the halls of our nasone Legislature while in session. Shades of Daniel Web stur, Hennery Clay and E. Plurry Bus Unum what is the country cumming to? Montana has spilled the beans; she has gummed up things to finnish. Sum western state will want to go her bettur and we will next have a senatur who will worry moor ovver whethur her toga is strait than she will ovver the advalorum on Swiss cheese, and the next step will be