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New Iberia enterprise and independent observer. (New Iberia, La.) 1902-1944, 1917-06-09
DON'T LOSE YOUR HEAD.

In every crowd there is al
ways somebody who is ready to
yell "fire!' Then the panic
starts. When order is restored,
everybody wonders why every
body else lost his head.
When President Wilson issued
his war proclamation and called
upon the people of the United
States to conserve their resources
for the struggle ahead, he did not
mean that they should stop spend
ing money He did mean that
useless expenditures should stop,
but that was nothing new. BUS
mess consists Of buying and sell
ling. Certain kinds Of business
are fundamental. The building
business is one Of them.
There need be no curtailmcnt
in building or road construction.
Let both public and private use
full building construction proceed.
Production and handling of build
ing materials and public and
private construction work are
fundamental industries Of the
country. Any tendency to sus-
pend or postpone building projects
is inconsistent with maintained
our prosperity. The country is
prosperous. Building investors
should not hesitate to go ahead
with their plans. Railroads
should spare no effort to supply
the building industry with the
cars needed to transport materials.
Government, state, county and
municipal authorities should en-
courage the continuance Of all
kinds of building. Road and
street improvements in particular
should go ON undated. Bad
roads and streets are factors Of
first Importance in the present
high cost of foodstuffs. Never
before was the improvement OF
highways so essential.
The lumber, brick, cement, lime,
sand, gravel, stone and other
building materials industries are
basic. Neither Government reg
ulations nor railroad restrictions
should be imposed unnecessarily
to interfere with them. If any
action is taken which results in
the prostration Of so fundamental
ly important industries, there is
real danger Of a surplus of unem-
ployed labor, a surplus Of railroad
ears and crippling Of business
that will seriously embarrass the
in financing the war
New Iberia enterprise and independent observer. (New Iberia, La.) 1902-1944, 1917-06-09

against the French northwest of
st Quentin, which the French
troops repulsed, quiet prevailed
everywhere on the French front
Thursday except along the. Che
,mindes-Dames. where the artillery
activity was violent.
Considerable fighting continues
between the Austrians and the
Italians in the Carso region.
Along the Vipacco valley the
Italians delivered severl thrusts,
which were repulsed, while near
Jamiano the Austrians have made
further gains, according to Vienna.
Rome, however, asserts that the
Austrian attacks failed in the lat
ter region, as likewise did an Of
fensive in force on the Trentino
front.
Great preparations are being
made in France for the arrival Of
American troops. Already an
American transport containing
food for them has arrived in a
French port and American war
ships are anchored off the French
coast. Camps have been prepared
for all branches Of the American
forces who are expected.
New Iberia enterprise and independent observer. (New Iberia, La.) 1902-1944, 1917-06-09
BRITISH ADVANCE
SKATERS GERMAN
FRONT ON RIDGE

I'm one of the most elaborately
planned and daringly executed
maneuvers Of the war, Sir Douglas
Haig's forces have dealt mighty
blow against the German line in
Belgium and been rewarded with
notable gains in terrain and the
capture of more than five thou
sand prisoners and numerous guns
of various .calfber. In addition,
they inflicted heavy casualties on
the Germans.
Over a front Of more than nine
miles, extending from the region
of Ypres southwark nearly to
Armentieres, the British started
their drive in the early hours on
Thursday morning and at night
fall had everywhere advanced
their line, capturing villages and
numerous points Of vantage,
among the latter the Messines-
lWytschaete ridge, which COM
mands the surrounding plains for
miles and which for two and
half years has been a troublesome
salient.
The villages Of Messines and
lWytschaete fell into the hands OF
the British during the attack and
the British even pressed on east
ward from Wytschaete and oc-
cupied the village of Gosttaverne
and trenches east Of the village on
front Of more than five miles.
Preparation Vast.
Probably never in history was
an attack launched with greater
preparation. For days the Wyt-
scaete salient had been the OBJ
iective of the British guns, which
had hurled tons of steel upon IT.
When the time for the attack
came. the British loosed mines
containing 100000 pounds of
high explosives in front of the
German positions, the detonations
being heard 130 miles away in
England.
With CONSERVATION relenlng
among the Germans and under
curtain of fire, English, Irish, New
Zealand and Austrian infantry
men, with tanks to aid them,
started across the open. The Ger
mans offered only slight resist
anee and everywhere were beaten
off. even late in the afternoon,
when they had somewhat regained
their composure and attempted a
counter-attack near the south
ern end of the line. which was
broken up by the British artillery
fire.
French Repulse Attack.
Except for a German attack
New Iberia enterprise and independent observer. (New Iberia, La.) 1902-1944, 1917-06-09

showing good production, but will
very soon be put under pump
which the field management
thinks will materially increase the
flow.
The New Iberia Company is
about fifteen hundred feet deep
in Bolivar No. 2 and hopes to
bring III a good producer III the
next few hundred feet. While
there is no doubt the Gulf Com
pany has done more than any
other to deyelope the field 50
far, still several other corpora
tons are at work with the object
of finding the fluid as quickly as
possible. The other concerns
who have wells under way are the
Sun Company on the Eugene He
bert tract, The Hency Oil Co.,
Gralliano land; the Parafine Pc
troleum Co., SumraIl tract; Gulf
Refining Co, Pharr & Busy
lands; New Iberia Oil Co., Boli-
yer; Wilkins Oil Co., Bernard 4
Grimar tract. Aside from that
the Gulf has made locations on
the Sabatier Reymaud and
SchWing properties.
Here in New Iberia the Enter
prise Oil Company has penetrated
depth Of some 1900 feet, pass
ing through sand rock some
tWenty-nine feet, showing pyritis
and numerous pockets of gas. At
the present writing DriIler
Boutte is again in hard gumbo
soil. The outlook is very prom
ising and great hopes Of pay
ing well is entertained by mem
bers Of the board of directors.
New Iberia enterprise and independent observer. (New Iberia, La.) 1902-1944, 1917-06-09
ELKS THEATRE
Week--Bsginning Sunday. June 10th


In Miss Stewards latest picture she has given wonderful
Interpretation of the trials which many of American
heresses put in the attempts of socially ambitious rca-
tves become leaders in foreign society circles Your heart
will 90 out to this poor little girl and the time
you will find many hearty laughs in the actions OF Anita
Stewarts leading Rudolph Cameron. See
The Monticellonian. [volume] (Monticello, Ark.) 1870-1920, 1917-09-06
ACT QUICK WHEN CHOLERA is SUSPECTED

lege workers, county agents and local
veterinarians, begin Immediately to or
ganize antihog- cholera preparedness
campaigns to reach every farmer in
every county. Such an organization al
ready exists in many places. Where
it does not there is need of special
and immediate action before the hot
weather conditions favorable to hog
cholera come on.
Business Men Can Help.
Bankers and other business men can
aid in the work of informing farmers
where they can get expert help imme-
diately when they suspect cholera In
their herds. Lists of accredited per-
sons competent to diagnose cholera
and administer serum, together with
their addresses and telephone numbers,
should be furnished to each farmer IN
the county, with the appeal that he call
for help at once in case of need. Busi-
ness men may also arrange through
the local veterinary authorities or
county agents to buy serum at the
nearest state serum plant. private
plant, or serum depot and hold 1t In
The Monticellonian. [volume] (Monticello, Ark.) 1870-1920, 1917-09-06

\ cane which can be taken apart and
rebuilt into a stool has been invented
by a Frenchman.
A new gas range has two ovens of
the usual kind and third constructed
on the fireless cooker principle.
A recently invented door, intended
for garages, is made in three sections
and slides around the corner of the
building on track.
A furnace of a special type has been
installed in the Bank of France TO de-
stroy all cancelled bonds and damaged
or returned paper money.
The most important of the true bees
are the honey bee and the humble bee.
Next to these are the cuckoo, bee. car
penter bee and the Mason, leaf-cutting,
and potter bees.
Bad roads cost this country $3.50
ooo,0o a year. according to J. E. Pen
nypacker. highway economist in the
United States office of public roads.
According TO his figures our annual
haulage is 350,000,000 tons, averaging
eight miles.
One of the Longest bridges in the
world. the railway bridge over the
Amur river at Khabaroysk, Siberia.
has just been completed. 1t took five
years To build and cost ore than So
100000. The bridge is 1888 feet long.
It's completion marks the completion
of the Amur railway from Kuenga to
khabaroysk.
The Monticellonian. [volume] (Monticello, Ark.) 1870-1920, 1917-09-06

From the United States Department of
Agricultural
Don't take chance with q sick hog
Act quickly. Get veterinarian or a
trained man Immediately Don't walt
single hour when you suspect disease
in your herd. Use the telephone or
send to town at once. Only prompt ac-
ton will stop hog-cholera losses. Every
hog saved will help win the war.
This is the message of tremendous
Importance which the United States de-
partment of agriculture is carrying to
farmers, not only in the great hog belt
Included in Iowa, Missouri and ILL.,
nols, and nearby states, which produce
81 per cent of the hog output of the
United States, but also to farmers of
the South, where in several states in
1918 hog losses due to cholera rose to
two or three times the average losses
for the country. Hog losses in 1916 by
disease rose to 100 per 1000 in Arkan-
sas, 105 in Louisiana, 100 in Florida, so
in Georgia, 76 in Tennessee, 20 in
Alabama, and IS In Mississippi, against
an average of 4S per 1000 for the en-
tire country. At least 80 per cent of
The Monticellonian. [volume] (Monticello, Ark.) 1870-1920, 1917-09-06
GATHERED INFORMATION

A new range oven has been de-
vised, so arranged that ii can be swung
outward for examination of Its con-
tents.
For the protection of men who
carry ice or meat waterproof shoulder
pads and body shields have recently
been invented.
That the human brain is radioactive
and emits a faint glow under certain
conditions is the conclusion reached by
European scientists.
A German inventor has invented
clasps which fold down fiat when
shoestrings are passed around them
and drawn tight to replace the usual
eyelets and hooks on shoes.
Parakeets usually rest in colonies
and live in thick woods or cypress
swamps 1t is said that in an early
day they were numerous along the low
er Wabash. in Indiana. and We're found
in the winter in the hollow trunks of
sycamore trees in state of semi
Information.
The first European convert of st.
Paul was a Jewess named Lydia (Acts
1914. Is. also 40). Her native place
was Thyatira, famous for its dye
works. Lydia was a person of con
siderable wealth and connected with
the trade either as seller of dye or
OF dyed goods.
The Monticellonian. [volume] (Monticello, Ark.) 1870-1920, 1917-09-06

slices croSswise. Slice two navel
oranges unpeeled In the same way.
Cover with boiling water and boil
gently one hour. Add one pint of
sugar, with more water if needed, and
cook half hour longer. This may
be varied by using the ounces whole,
filling the cavity from which the core
was removed with orange marmalade.
Ginger Pears.-Take eight pounds
of green pears, eight pounds of sugar,
juice of four lemons and a fourth of
Il pound of green ginger root. Pare
and cut the fruit in thin slices, the
rind in small thin pieces. Boil slowly
until thick. Seal in glasses.
Carrot conserve.-Wash and scrape
half dozen firm, highly colored car
rots and put them through the meat
chopper, cutting as fine as peas. Boil
for half an hour sailing lightly. To
each pint add two cupfuls of light,
brown sugar. the juice and rind of a
lemon or sour orange. Cook slowly
for one or more hours until clear and
thick.
Plum Conserve.-Take three pounds
of plums and equal weight of sugar.
Cut the plums in pieces, add little
water, the sugar. one-third of a pound
of raisins and. the pulp of two oranges.
Simmer one hour Seal in glasses.
Pineapple may be combined with
rhubarb to make marmalade or pre-
serve which is very delicious. The
quantity of rhubarb is about three
times that of pineapple, but owing to
the strong flavor of the pine, the con-
serve is really pineapple. The same
proportion may be used with straw
berries. raspberries or other fruit that
has a characteristic flavor, which over
comes the rhubarb.
Every fruit and vegetable possible
should be conserved this year either
by canning. drying or sailing.
The Monticellonian. [volume] (Monticello, Ark.) 1870-1920, 1917-09-06
Development of NoduIes on Soy Bean
Plants Thirty Days After Planting.

seed meal will probably be so high
next fall that it cannot be afforded
for feeding. There is sound reason
then for anticipating great demand
on the crop for use as feeding con-
centrate.
Because of the present shortage of
fats and oils throughout the world,
due to war consumption and low pro-
duction in Europe, all available
sources for oil in some parts of the
country, in Virginia and North Car
DINA the threshed crop is sold mainly
TO the cotton oil mills where the oil is
expressed and the residue, or cake,
ground into meal. Indeed soy-bean
seed is actually second only to cotton
seed as source of vegetable oils.
1t now seems certain that the demand
for soy-bean oil will soon become
greater than can be supplied by the
eastern crop and that the southwest
ern crop will he drawn on to meet the
need.
The Monticellonian. [volume] (Monticello, Ark.) 1870-1920, 1917-09-06
DUCKS REQUIRE BULKY FEED
Good Ration is Made Up of Wheat
Bran, Mddlines, cornmeal, Beef
Scrap and Green Food.

Ducks require a much more bulky
ration than hens. A good ration is as
follows: Two parts bran. one part
each of middlings and eornmeal one
half part of beef scrap and five parts
of green food. This green food may
be most anything-chopped turnips,
beets, pumpkins, cut clover, etc. AS
the breeding season approaches 1t
would be advisable to increase the beef
scrap to one full part. Little whole
grain should be fed. If on range dur
ing the spring and summer months
ducks require little feeding.
The Monticellonian. [volume] (Monticello, Ark.) 1870-1920, 1917-09-06

sugar, Il teasponful of lemon extract,
a tablespoonful of butter and pinch
of salt. Bring the milk to the boiling
point, add salt and vermicelli and
cook for a quarter of an hour. Butter
pudding dish, stir in the eggs into
the cooled mixture, add the extract
and sugar. Turn into the dish and
bake until delicate brown. Crate a
little nutmeg over the top when serv
ing.
Spaghetti and Fruit Pudding
Take a quarter of pound of boiled
spaghetti, cut in half-inch pieces; a
pint of stewed fruit or preserves, and
teaspoonful of vanilla. Place a layer
of the fruit in glass dish, then a
layer of spaghetti until all is used
having the spaghetti for the top layer
Pour over a custard, made of the yolks
of two eggs, pint of milk and three
tablespoonfuls of sugar, bake ten min
utes, or until the custard is set, cover
with a meringue, using the whites of
the eggs and two tablespoonfuls of
sugar with little vanilla. Brown in
the oven.
Spaghetti TimbaIes.-Boil quar-
| ter of a pound of spaghetti in boiling
sailed water Do not break 1t, but
slide it gradually into the pan, holding
| it in the hands until 1t softens. Boil
until tender but do not lose its shape,
then drain and blaneh in cold water
and spread it out at full length to
cool. Butter some small molds well
and line them with the spaghetti, be-
ginning at the middle of the bottom
and coiling the spaghetti up the sides.
Fill the centers with any desired GUS
tard and nut mixture, cover with but
tered paper and steam for half an
hour Turn out and serve with toma-
TO sauce.
Macaroni cooked and served hot with
grated cheese makes most accepta-
BILE dish to serve as vegetable.
The Monticellonian. [volume] (Monticello, Ark.) 1870-1920, 1917-09-06
Fright Chanced a Docs Color.

According to Andrew Fisher, widely
known rancher of this district, the black
hair of his high-bred water spaniel
turned white from fright when the
dog was locked in an empty grain bin
with exploding fireeraekers, says Il
Live Oak (Cal.) dispatch to the Sac
ramento Bee. He produced the dog
TO prove his story. When the dog was
liberated 1t staggered under the barn,
where it remained two days. When ii
again appeared at the house, to the
establishment of the family. its hair
was streaked with gray.
The Monticellonian. [volume] (Monticello, Ark.) 1870-1920, 1917-09-06
these losses We're attributed to hoi
cholera.
Serum Is Efficacious.

these losses were attributed to hog
cholera.
Serum Is Efficacious.
The time for argument about anti
hog-cholera serum is past. declare the
SPECIALISTS of the bureau of animal in
dustry, United States department of
agriculture Explicit figures are readily
available which prove Enthusiastically
that, when administered In time by
competent persons, hog-eholera serum
will keep we'll hogs from taking the
disease for period of three to six
weeks. Not argument but quick ac-
ton is imperative to get serum and a
trained operator to the farm to treat
the hogs. Hogs will be saved and the
nations meat supply increased if every
farmer will Immediately upon sign of
disease call in the nearest available eX-
pert to diagnose the complaint and ad-
minister whatever treatment is neces-
sary
The department of agriculture is
urging that all state, county and local
live stock interests, including state vet
erinarians, live stock boards, state col
The Monticellonian. [volume] (Monticello, Ark.) 1870-1920, 1917-09-06
Owl Is Farmers Friend.

As FANNY the owls are among the
most beneficial of all birds from the
economic standpoint of the agricultur-
list. With few exceptions the owls are
nocturnal. Their eyes and ears are re-
markedly developed and are keenest
in the early hours of the night and
morning. Many harmful rodents are
most active in their search for food
during the night and the owls are the
natural check for this multitude. The
hawk hunts by day and the owl by
might, and the work of one supplements
that of the other.
The Monticellonian. [volume] (Monticello, Ark.) 1870-1920, 1917-09-06

boils." Cover closely, and let it stand
two minutes, then remove the tea
leaves, chill with Clipped ice and
serve with lemon quarters allowing
each guest to sweeten his drink or not
as 1t pleases him.
Cherry Jelly.-Soften quarter of
package of gelatine In a quarter of a
cupful of cold water, then add half
cupful of boiling water. a half cupful
of sugar and cupful of cherry juice.
Stand the bowl in ice water and stir
until it begins TO be firm, then add a
cupful of pitted cherries. Turn into
molds and serve with whipped cream
at serving time.
Fruit Puffs.-Take a cupful of flour
sifted with teaspoOnful of baking
powder and a quarter of a teaspoonful
of salt, add half cupful of rich milk
or enough to make a drop batter. put
spoonful into small cups well
creased. then drop in any fresh fruit
finely chopped another spoonful of the
batter and set into a pan of hot wa
ter cover closely and cook Is minutes.
Serve with cream and sugar.
When canning any fruit or when
the can is opened and some of the
fruit strip is left, this should be care
fully saved and may be used as a pud-
ding sauce, as a garnish to plain ice
creams or as a basis for any number
of delightful frozen dishes. A half
cupful of two or three fruit sirups
with lemon or two pint of thin
cream or rich milk will make most
tasty sherbet.
An old and most palatable dish US
ing blueberries. either cooked or fresh
Is this spread bread with butter and
place in a deep baking dish, cover
with hot blueberries and let stand
for two hours until chilled when
the bread will have absorbed the ex-
cess of juice. This is a most tasty
pudding to serve children. Accompany
the pudding with sugar and cream.
The Monticellonian. [volume] (Monticello, Ark.) 1870-1920, 1917-09-06

Cook the cucumbers whole, slit them
open and serve with butter and salt
Another way: Boil the peeled cucum-
Der in a mixture of milk and water
and then dip in egg and crumbs and
fry brown, or dip in fritter batter
and serve as any other fritter.
If you have not tried cream of Gu
cumber soup there is something new
in sensations coming, for it is deli
cious. Use two or more cupfuls of
chopped cucumber cooked in small
amount of water and the water and
cucumber put through a sieve, adding
it TO rich milk with a binding of flour
and butter as usual In preparing a
cream soup. A seasoning of onion is
an addition If liked
Stuffed Baked Cucumbers.-Take
the largest sized cucumbers for this
dish. Cut them in halves and remove
the seeds, leaving a smooth cavity for
the stuffing. Drop these shells into
boiling water and cook for five min
nutes, then chill in ice water, drain
and fill with mixture of cold meat,
mushrooms, hard-cooked egg, or left
over vegetables well seasoned. with
sufficient butter and crumbs to make
the filling of the right consistency. The
halves may be tied together or baked
separately, basting occasionally with
hot stock, gravy or butter and water.
Bake about an hour.
Stewed cucumbers.-Peel quarter
and seed the cucumbers. Fry a little
onion in butter, add the cucumbers
turning until brown on both sides. Re.
move and add a tablespoonful of flour
to the fat in the pan and when brown
add a cupful of veal or chicken stock
Season with pepper and salt. replace
the cucumbers in the pan, cover and
/ let simmer a half hour.
Cucumber Sauce for Fish.-Place q
| Tablespoonful each of butter anG
chopped onion in saucepan; wher
light brown remove the onion and ado
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NeA1. hl4t~ eeQ

the life of adventure to all who crave
it. What possibilities lie in merely
crossing street, for examplei Some
one remarked the other day as he
lodged among the motor-cars, why
not take a chance now and then and
lead a real life for few minutes?"
l therefore recommend the life of ad
venture. 1t conceives each day as a
fresh enterprise, full of delightful pos
sibilities and promise. and preserves
the wine Of life from growing fat
Here is the secret Of youth.-Edgar j..
Goodspeed, in the Atlantic.
The Monticellonian. [volume] (Monticello, Ark.) 1870-1920, 1917-09-06
LATE WEEDS ARE INJURIOUS
Few Cockleburrs or Other Plants Left
In Field Will Scatter Seed in
All Directions.

Weeds that are left in the corn are
the ones that do the damage. A few
cockleburrs or other weeds left at the
last will grow up and, by going to
seed, scatter over the whole field. This
will make matters next year just as
bad as before. Every effort to get out
the late weeds from the corn ought
to be made, even if it is necessary TO
use the hoe on the worst spots In the
field.
The Monticellonian. [volume] (Monticello, Ark.) 1870-1920, 1917-09-06
NEED FOR SOY BEANS
Demand for Crop as Feeding
Concentrate and for Oil.
Several Manufacturers Have Success.
fully Substituted Soy Beans for
Navy Beans-Demand in
East Is Increasing.

Although many farmers have
planned to grow a far better crop of
soy beans in 1917 than ever before,
they should now greatly increase the
acreage of this crop. 1t is predicted
that as a result of the war the crop
will be in demand as feeding concen-
trate, for oil and for human food in
addition to Its normal use as forage
crop.
Experiments have shown soy-bean
meal to have about the same feeding
value as cottonseed meal; and cotton