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The Natchitoches enterprise., 1917-05-03

h delDhla and PlttSburg and a Vlsl
= to his old home in Baltimore.
Miss Alice Callahan who came
up with party from Alexandra
to enjoy the St. Louis SYMPHONY
Orchestra Friday night. was the
f guest of Misses Joyce and Pear
. Weaver until Sunday night.
Porch Swings $2.55 to $685. al
KAFFIE'S DEPARTMENT STORE.
News of the birth of a fine boy
to Mr.. and Mrs. Lloyd Porter of
New Iberia, was received by the
grandparents, Mr.. and Mrs. 7. F.
Porter on Tuesday who are very
proud of this their first graneson,
the third child of the fond parents.
Mr.. and Mrs. j. D. Miller,
Mrs. Edward Suddath and Misses
| Nelken, Katherine .Breazeale and
lrma Sompayrac motored up to
lCampti Thursday to organize
branch of the Natchitoches Parish
Red Cross.
4 Inc l.
and Summer Furniture, Most COM lete
MENT STORE.
Mines. Lawton, Lambre, Phan-
or Prudhomne and Alex Cloutier
of Bermuda and Mrs. Edward |
Cloutier of Campti, were the
guests of Mrs. A. Voters on Thurs
day when she entertained The
Merry Thirteen.
New line cotton dresses, beautiful
numbers, popular priced at SEMMEL-
MANS.
Mr.. and Mrs. NJ. j. Durand
came up from Morgan City Fri
day night and will make Natchi-
toches their headquarters the next |.
three months while Mr.. Durand
covers this territory in bis insur-
ance work and teaches il the sum-
mer Normal.
Just arrived 2 carloads Of Spring
and Summer Furniture Most complete
line in town. KAFFIE'S DEPART
MENT STORE.
Mr.. Oscar Montegut came up
from Baton Rouge where he is
taking course in agriculture to
spend the week end at the home
of Mrs. Maude Henry in East
Natchitoches. Mr.. Montegut has
just received the fine government :
as de monstrtion
agent in some of the lower par
ishes.
DIR. /. /. Katie went up to
Shreveport Friday to stand the
examination, having offered his
services to the Officers ),
Reserve Corps and passed such a :
successful one, that he was ordered :
10 report to the Officers Training ::
Camp in Little Rock for Monday,
May 14th. :
Porch Swings $2.55 to $685. at a
DEPARTMENT STORE.
Messrs. Alex Sompayrac, Blount p
Mclean and Coward b
cached home Sunday morning IL
rom New Orleans, where they e.
vent as members of Company A. b
,ut not coming up to all Of the &c
physical requirements were re- sa
eased. The boys were delighted ic
With their three weeks of solder Sc
ng" and speak in the highest as
erms of the treatment received in. II
very way, and though the discip- fth
inc, the hours and unusual manual Il
abor we're hard at first, after the of
arness was adjusted, conditions II
Tere alright. L.
pa
Watch out for the Better Ex- N
iblts in Ill the store windows be.
inning Saturday and continuing
ext week. Everybody is inter-
sted and anxious to do their part.
The editor is in receipt of an ci'
lvitation to attend the graduation Il
yercises of the training school of Y
le Charity Hospital in Shreve- Il
ort on Tuesday evening May IN
9TH when Mrs. Eloise DeBlieux
ill be salutatirian of her class, 20
i'd receive her diploma. "a
iii
The Cinderellas met on We'd Pl
ssday afternoon with Miss Car of
len Breazeale when the members Pl
The Natchitoches enterprise., 1917-05-03

For the best results advertise in The
Enterprise.
Forest City press. (Forest City, Potter County, D.T. [S.D.]) 1883-19??, 1917-11-29
Back of the American Front.

come true in the ease of Mrs. Sarah j.
Walker, the city's wealthiest negro
woman. Mrs. Walker, or Mime. Walker,
as she is more generally known, has
built a $25O.000 home at Irvington.
Twelve years g she was a washer
woman, glad of a chance to do anyone's
family wash for $3.50 a day. Her
friends now acclaim her the Hetty
Green of her race. They say she has a
cool million, or nearly that.
Ground for the Walker dwelling was
broken eight months ago, and a large
ever since. Although the house is near
ly completed, it will not be ready for
occupancy, for several months. When it
is finished it is to be one of the show
places on the Hudson. OF late Nine.
Walker. in her high powered motor car,
has been a familiar visitor in Irvington.
On her first visits to inspect her prop
erty the villagers. noting her color, were
frankly puzzled. Later, when it became
known that she was the owner Of the
~pretentious dwelling, they could only
gasp in astonishment.
"Impossible!" they exclaimed. mo
woman of her race could afford such a
place."
70 say that the village, when the re-
port was verified. was surprised, would
be putting the case mildly. Does she
really intend to live there, or is she
building it as a speculation? % the peo-
pie have asked. 1t may be sale for Nine.
Walker that she intends to make Irv-
ington her permanent home, and is pre-
pairing to furnish the house in accord
ance with her tastes.
Although she has made money in her
hair tonic business, she has also made
it through good investments. She is the
owner of considerable real estate in
his state, the west and the south. I'm
til recently she owned a $780, 900 home in
the northern part of this city. She has
made a gift of this home to her daugh-
ter. What wealth is hers, she says, had
been acquired through perseverance,
persistency and hard work. "Persever-
ance,' h remarked the other day, sis
my motto. 1t laid the Atlantic cable; it
gave us the telegraph, telephone and
wireless. 1t gave to the world an Abra-
ham Lincoln, and to a race freedom. 1t
gave to h negro Booker 4. Washing
ton and Tuskegee institute. 1t made
frederick Douglass the great orator
that he was, and it gave to the race
Paul Laurence Dunbar. and to poetry
a new song" OF her race Nine. Walker
is ~passionately fond; her race and her
family are the great interests Of her
life.
Forest City press. (Forest City, Potter County, D.T. [S.D.]) 1883-19??, 1917-11-29
GIVE THE HOG A O
From the Manufacturer.' Record.

Probably the most startling significant situation in regard to
che food supply of the country is found in the fact that we now have
So per cent less hogs than we had one year ago. Then we had 65,645,
GOO hogs, now we have 6O218,OOO, decrease of more than 100000.
During this time our population increased ~ per cent or more,
and Europe's demand upon us for pork has steadily and enormously
gained, and yet we have actually 80 per cent less hogs than we had a
year ago.
This is especially significant in view of the great effort that was
made last year to arouse the nation to the raising of more hogs,
for the number of hogs can be increased more rapidly than the num-
Der of cattle or sheep. But despite this there was a great decrease, and
this decrease extended throughout almost the entire country, except
in parts OF the south. The south helped to save the situation. There
was a decrease in the rest of the country of 3,955O hogs, or about 10
per cent In the south, with the exception of Texas and Oklahoma,
there was a decrease of only $4,000 hogs, or about 25 per cent. But,
counting Texas and Oklahoma in the total, this gave the south 24,61O.
QUO hogs against 26,OS2,OOO last year, or 1,472,00O hogs less this year.
Outside OF the south there was not a single state which did not
have a decrease except Delaware, which increased 1 per cent, and
Minnesota, which had the same number of hogs as the year before.
The lesson taught by these figures should be driven home through.
out the country, and that lesson is to concentrate the energies Of the
nation upon increasing our food production both of meats and Of
e grain snun # we '. do don not next Y year largely increase the output of grain and
and il would then be too late to save ourselves from exorbitanhy hieh
prices and an actual shortage of food that would injme the countrys
safety.
Forest City press. (Forest City, Potter County, D.T. [S.D.]) 1883-19??, 1917-11-29
Tho Real supermen.
w. r. Thayer, in the Saturday Evening

A grotesque- conundrum uggest itself:
If 1T took the Germans. by devoting their
chief attention to militarism. 40 years to
ganize a magnificent army, and il it has
taken the English, a non-militarist nation.
two years to rganize an army equal and
In some respects superior to the German.
who are the supermen?
Perhaps l am not deterrent enough to
the superman: but 1 deny that anything
whether made of flesh and blood or Of
steei-should be an object of reverence,
much less of worship. If l were hunting
for a superman l should look for him in
someone who achieved great victories
against great odds. This has not been
true of the Germans in the present war.
Hindenburg In east Prussia and Poland,
Mackensen in Galicia and the Balkans,
F~alkenhayn in Rumania, and the gem
erals who led the dash into France and
Belgium-an had great odds in their favor.
AS soon as the allies rose anywhere near
to an equality with them the German
spectacular successes ceased.
Forest City press. (Forest City, Potter County, D.T. [S.D.]) 1883-19??, 1917-11-29
Find Old Buddhi.tic Manuscript,

TfUIH JdpaH Society Bulletin.
I'm the city of Matsue there lived an in
dustrious maker of clogs named Jisuke,
whose family had possessed for genera
tons a quaint manuscript of vellum. the
origin of which was unknown. 1t re-
gently occurred to the present owner that
the parchment might have value. He
first submitted it to the Tokyo Imperial
university. where il was pronounced a
sacred Buddhistic writing of the 18th CEN
tury. JisulSe was advised to take it to the
Nichieren Sect college, where he was in
formed that it was an original manuscript
by Nichiren G222-12S2), founder of one
OF the many sects of Buddhism. The writ
ing was in Nichiren's own hand and was
executed when he was 80 years old. The
manuscript was pronounced so valuable
that it's value was c~onservatively esti.
mated at 100, 600 yen &5O,OOO.
Forest City press. (Forest City, Potter County, D.T. [S.D.]) 1883-19??, 1917-11-29

may award the attorney not more than
10 per cent of the amoun secured.
The provision as to contested cases
is necessary, though Uncle Sam has
no thought of contrasting death losses.
His whole intention is exactly the OPP
posite. But everybody knows that
there are cases where men have dis
appeared at sea and have turned up
later with marvellous tales of their
escape. Since the war began not a few
sailors and passengers from torpedoed
ships have come back after being given
up for dead. and so long as human
nature remains what it is there will
| always be Il few men who would not
hesitate to impose ON their dear
a%vuncular relative if occasion offered
and To stay away from HON until
their insurance had been collected.
and spent. ii is for such cases as these
that Uncle Sam is forced to be pre-
pared.
Insurance Not a Gift.
Insurance is compulsory. 1t is not
left to the memory of men who might
forget N be unwilling. But it is not
II gift. Uncle Sam considers that
shipowners Who are getting rich out
of the enormous freight rates they are
charging owe something to the fami-
lies of the men h do the work for
them when these men are "scuppercd
and left i'm the lurch."
The law provides that if the owners
of any vessel traVersing the war zone
fail to insure the master, officers, and
crew before the ship goes to sea the
secretary of the treasury nay take
out insurance for them with the bu-
reau of war risk insurance and may
further fine the owners not more than
$1,000 to help them to remember next
time; and may also charge his interest
1Atl, ny, flna nrnto,i,rro MD an th4 G~4
mfl.w arodin hrdlu mfwyp etaoin shr
In the early DAYS of the law an
American schooner with a complement
of 20 men slippcd off to sea from New
York without being insured. The in
surance to be paid was more than
100000. and the owners lust forgot to
put up the premium. But the collector
of the port did not forget. He reported
the case to the treasury, and the sec
rotary took out the insurance n called
on the owners to make good. However,
as ii was a first offense. the secretary
let them off with q fine of $500 (and
the premium. of course.) h insur-
ance referred to did not cover the hull,
and as there was no loss of life no pay
ment was made
The losses since war insurance went
into effect have not been great. From
June 26 to August 81 the compliments
! of 119 steamers and "a sailing vessels
were insured bN the government for
a total value of nearly SIG, OO0, 900. These
ships carried nearly 10000 sailors. Total
losses incurred. approximately $40, 900.
Three steamers. the Kansas, Montono
and Campana. n three sailing yes
sells. the Carmela. Augustus Welt and
Laura c.. Anderson. We're destroyed
about one steamer in every 40, n one
sailing ship in every nine. All the men
lost We're on the Kansas and the Mon
tano. Cant, Albert Oliver, of the Cam
reau has arranged to pay the first
monthly installment of s337.5O to his
wife. and will continue to pay this
amount during detention for the next
y year.
Forest City press. (Forest City, Potter County, D.T. [S.D.]) 1883-19??, 1917-11-29

From the DeScret, Utah.. News.
II there 10 any violation OF good taste in
sefecgtne today to . time when the United
states and France were On the verge OF
war With each other. It will be excused
bocause OF one incident connected with
that unhappy crisis that has present time
lhNeas and interest a. showing that the
draft for military service is neither a new
thang nor restricted in its application to
those wanted for the humber walks Of
tho service. The father OF his country
was hiuabelf the person summoned to it's
eanlrn on the occasion referred to. He
Aad not volunteered, and probably thought
~ country did not need him: but whom
che war department said. Come, we want
vouis. ne went. It was IN !::3s. The war
e( the revolution was long since over;
0onnral washington had LAID aside his
1Hoe1. had also served two terms -
orsa1lsak o. the new republic. n had
SSas19 % = well earned rest OF his peace
sSStp At Mount Vernon. France had
6~lnaouaatic relations with u. and
&16nAsd. BY special act, congress
Uh0hlnUtou to 20 commander-
Aeek1 army. nd the SECRETARY OF
@ % Mount Vernon bAAeiuu
AETXH an and%thes coMneeesoas
h1ro. likss Cencinnatus q
osAotd: ~. upon, deliveries ~
Hr1SoSfveA 1haa reply: ~ a. voaAy
&,sl 51stcG tit j ~ i've =. 81
~ 4he ssoonscI1pee. . soeay
- eoils1te csaNsand. ~ ssvss
Forest City press. (Forest City, Potter County, D.T. [S.D.]) 1883-19??, 1917-11-29
POLICE DISTURBED
BY A VARN|SA CAN
They Drive Slowly With Flivver
Bringing in "Dyna-
mite"

Oklahoma City. Okla.-lt didn't take
a Handle With Care sign to cause
the police to treat with respect a var
nish can found buried in the ground
In the 22o0 block West Twenty-third
street. GinSerly and gently, was the
said can moved around.
Five stocks of dynamite, all fused
up, n ready for the battery connec-
ton, was found i'm the receptacle that
had once contained nothing more than
floor paint, when it was discovered by
Donald Finley, 16 years old, 1886 West
Sixteenth street.
The police. Chief Nichols sent Detec-
tlves Witten, Corners, and Harold out
to bring i'm the internal machine.
TO the credit of the brave men, let
1t be said that they obeyed orders.
hey got back finally. The speed
ometer on the police car showed hat
1t was the slowest trii; eve made by
the worthy machine. The chauffeur
explained that he had his orders to
a X it easy INC avoid even the light
est obstacles.
When the "A reached railroad cross
ings, the entire party got out and
walked, leaving the varnish can. the
navy anu Nie llINVeT 10 amy lale Ilal
might come.
AS the car pulled into Wall street
from Maide Lane, there was a scram-
BILE to get out n the chauffeur found
himself alone.
1t fell to the lot of Jack Thomas,
motorcycle patrolman. to remove the
innocent package to the captains Of
flee. To keep down any adverse COM
ment as to Thomas action, the in
formation is given that he had no
inkling of what the bundle contained.
Thomas worked with the packet for
an hour and a half before it was finally
unwrapped. Then he did a funny
think. He left, it in a hurry and re-
manned outside under the sergeant's
window the rest of the afternoon.
There was enough explosives in the
sarnish can to blow to pieces either
of the local packing plants, the state
capitol. the federal building or any Of
the downtown skyscrapers.
How the bomb reached fits place of
concealment and who put it there was
the cause of much speculation among
the police. The /. w. w. element waS
accused.
Forest City press. (Forest City, Potter County, D.T. [S.D.]) 1883-19??, 1917-11-29
Protecting Sea Sk;rmishers.
|. s. Rowe. a%ssistan. secretary of tho treasury.

NO sailor who risks his life on Uncle
ha"s merchant fleet of today or on
his Tar greater fleet OF tomorrow need
fear that he will leave those depend
cnt ON him pcnniiess. Uncle Sam has
derrced hat he can not leave them
penniless. even il he would. Months
ago the government realized that these
merchant sailors were the country's
reat advance guard. it's sea skirmish
finc. sent forth. first of all. in advance
OF the army n eve of the navy, TO
draw the German fire. daily and hour
Is. without uniforms and without
chcers. rs Il mere matter IF duty. 1t
decided that the men tvho did this We're
tcal'y as much a part of the national
service AS were the army and navy, and
II made prompt provision for the care
of their families in case they were lost
OR captured. Only two months after
war was declared congress wrote into
law q merchant sailor insurance clause
under Which the treasury department
stands ready to lessen. as far as money
can. h effects of their loss upon their
families.
Unier the government plan a blanket
showed regret. and something more. A
Dissatisfaction with something.
we must take her in hand" John
returned. Il am surprised that Elsie
Barton hasn't convinced her of our
worth tong before this"
She is fond OF Elsie, but she cares
nothing for any OF the rest OF you. She
seems to think you will lead me astray,"
and again ] noted the touch of bitter
ness In his voice.
TolnOrroW-An Interruption.
policy is written providing for the in
surance of the master. the officers, and
the crew of every ship that sails from
an American port to The war zone and
vice versa. i'm an amount equal to IL
nuscs. and providing further that no in
dividual insurance shall be for less than
$1,000 or more thar SIS, 200. The policy
also provides that the full amount shall
be paid not only for death but also for
permanent disability. or for the loss of
both hands. arms. feet, legs. or eyes.
For lesser injuries from As to Go per
cent of the principal sum is to be paid.
Pay Prisoners Dependents.
Nor are prisoners forgotten. Uncle
Sam recognizes his liability to families
that are temporarily deprived OF their
br~cadwinners as muc as to those that
IRE permanently deprived. No Ameri-
Fan sailor need eat his heart out in
prison wondering how his family is
managing to live. Uncle Sam will pay
Them his full wages until such time as
:.he total amount paid shall equal the
principal sum for which he was in
Sured.
Death awards are paid to the estate
pf he Insured for distribution to his
family free Of all liability for debt.
Awards for injury are paid only to the
insured himself. and awards for i'm
prlsonment are held for him. unless
ne himself has directed to whom they
are to be paid. No attorney or claim
agent is necessary to aid in the collec-
ton OF Uncle SANS insurance, and
aone Is entitled to receive any pay
nent for helping to collect it. except
where the liability is contested by the
government and Is tried in "A United
States district court. Then the judge
Forest City press. (Forest City, Potter County, D.T. [S.D.]) 1883-19??, 1917-11-29
Went to His Head.
From the Houston Post.

"He is building castles out of clouds.
And some time his creditors will come
and gently ooze him onto the boundless
spaces OF desuetude, where the whang-
doodle wears a nightcap and the daddaw
swings by its tail from the swusswus tree
like a pendulum with whiskers on it,
1t is with these words that Estate Press'
of the Dallas News describes the fate Of
the country publisher who continues to
try to conduct a newspaper at a loss.
How awful such a fate Is may be imag-
ined by the reader-and the words Of
State Press are not exaggerated.
Forest City press. (Forest City, Potter County, D.T. [S.D.]) 1883-19??, 1917-11-29
Whx He Went.
From the Philadelnl

FFOW Ute I"HIIdUeIpH1a ITeSS.
The boy came into the house weeping
and his mother was naturally solicitous.
whats the matter. Willie?" she asked.
1.-THE boy across the way hit me- he
replied.
"Oh. we'll. I wouldn't cry for that" she
returned. "Show that you can be a little
man."
II amt crying for that" he retortcd.
HE ran into the house before 1 could get
ut him."
Forest City press. (Forest City, Potter County, D.T. [S.D.]) 1883-19??, 1917-11-29

theless look back with satisfaction upon
q pleasant precedent. and should take
pride in making it complete by the equally
patriotic promptness Of their response.
Forest City press. (Forest City, Potter County, D.T. [S.D.]) 1883-19??, 1917-11-29
Majsr Stanley washburn. U. 8. A.

After three years Of service a
special correspondent with the Rus
,stan armies at the front, Mai. STAN
Isy Washhurn. Of the American
army hae begun . tour Of our larg-
eee eteee With Russian represents
etvoe - tel q the present military
e!ttua43oa = Russia. Maj. Washburn
, so3d - know more shout the mill
ny espsees e Russia than any
Forest City press. (Forest City, Potter County, D.T. [S.D.]) 1883-19??, 1917-11-29
American War Bread.
ingfeld Republican,

From tins Springfield Republican.
The United States is to have a war
bread. and Mr.. Hoover and his associ-
ates are studying just how it shall be
made. 1t has been decided to use IS per
cent of wheat flour and Is per cent Of
other grains. For this Is per cent. rice
flour. potato flour. rye. corn and other
ingredients are being considered. The
effort Is to preserve the wheaton flavor
80 that the result may be palatable as
well 'as n%ourishihg. The Official food
conservator Of Connecticut has been
trying flour made in Tennessee con-
tanning four fifths wheat flour to one.
NTH white corn flour. which 10 said to
bake Into very alatable bread. It has the
appearance Of fine cake IN the texture
ana crust. and Hartford reports favor
ably upon It.
Nssrs Wsman 0uilds Pslsee.
rDa ~ New Yerk Times.
To oWn . country estate On tho banks
OF the Hudson hae been the dream Of
mant Q New Yogksr. Il - dream
The Kenna record. (Kenna, Roosevelt County, N.M.) 190?-1924, 1917-03-02
About the Planets.

The albedo or rejecting power Of
the planets is believed to give a hint
as to their physical condition. In a
table prepared by Prof. H. N. Russell,
the albedO of the moon is given as
OCT; Mercury, COG; Venus, O.59;
Mars, OILS; Jupiter, O.56; Saturn, O.63 /;
Uranus, 0.63, and Neptune, 0.73. The
earths albedO, measured from the
earthshine on the moon, has been
placed as high as O.89, though a new
calculation indicates 0.49. The four
large planets have high albedo on ac-
count of their cloud-laden atmosphere (;
that of Mercury, with practically no
atmosphere, is low.
The Kenna record. (Kenna, Roosevelt County, N.M.) 190?-1924, 1917-03-02
They Saw the Cow.

A woman with a family of children
recently moved from the heart of a
city to one of the suburbs, where they
found various new educational Oppor-
tunities. One day neighbor met them
all walking back from the edge of
town and asked whether they had
been out in the country. Eyes" said
the woman, "the man who brings our
butter said he had a cow out there and
/ took the children out to see it"
The Kenna record. (Kenna, Roosevelt County, N.M.) 190?-1924, 1917-03-02
VALLEY VIEW

Everybody is invited to attend
the literary society Friday night,
March 0, 1917.
The young people enjoyed a
pleasant singing at the home
OF Mr.. and Mrs. John Miller
Sunday evening.
News was received from
Clovis stating that Chas. Stobb
was recovered sufficiently from
the previous operation, t. be re-
moved to his home at Valley
View.
The rabbit drive was a sue
cess. About 14O rabbits were
killed, which will be a great
help to the farmers of this com
munity.
Mr.. Large Of Elida and Miss
Mildred Pettitt of Valley View,
were united in marriage at Por-
tales, Heartiest congratula-
tions are extended,