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The Natchitoches enterprise., 1920-04-08
ALL ABOARD

! Unlike Mrs. MalaprOp, Natchi-
toches didn't sit patience on q
nan,leplece and await time and
tide in regard to the very impor-
ant matter of through train SER
vice, but has been up and doing
for wears and thru concerted action
and the MERCY OF TIBERIUS,
mercy that was not hard and
strained-of late-but on the con-
trary has been most pleasing and
willing and anxious to do-well.
the following telegram, which
brought unmeasured satisfaction
10 the public at large, arrived Fri
day after a meeting with the Z.
K. Commission.
Shreveport, La. April 2, 1920.
Please notify Judge Scarborough,
Messrs. Sidney Katie and Hope of
Chamber Of Commerce, also Mrs. Brea-
zeale of the Enterprise approval OF
proposed schedule has been granted
and we expect to make the change in
about two weeks.
GEO. D. HUNTER.
Mrs. Brrazeaie: am sure this will
be pleasing information.
As stated in our last issue, the
President of the I. & P. and the
G. 2. 4 T. A.. both most elegant
and genial gentlemen, visited in
person for the first time, the fam
Gus ground, where for nearly two
decades, battles have waged fast
and furious; where General .. II.
K. with full staff Of trained Of
licers has conducted some of the
iiercest fights of wit and Den and
tongue, that the enemy has ever
known. Our forces have held
together, have given long pulls
and strong, puils all together and
incidently proven most torcibly
what cooperation can accomplish.
But revenons q nos m0utons; these
gentlemen came and saw, after
looking the situation DER, recog-
nized that the time was ripe for
action and went away leaving a
wonderful impression upon all
who had the pleasure of meeting
them. and 10! within 48 hours the
glad tidings came, which were
supplemented a few days later by
q message to our Secretary of the
Chamber of Commerce, (incidently
it may be stated that this ipde- !
fatigable trained worker put his |
shoulder to the wheel and rendered
splendid service) stating definitely |
that the change of schedule would
be made With the approval of the
Railroad Commissioners sunday,
80 all Natchitoches must put on |
Kala attire and be at the depot to
see the Inauguration OF through |
train service ia our historic old
city, which is, after these many |
years, at last on THE MAIN |
LINE.
The Natchitoches enterprise., 1920-04-08
SWEET PorAToEs

Sweet potatoes make very fine
hog feed. In earlier days when
the sweet potatoes yielded very
heavily and there was very little
sale for them, the practice of letting
hogs harvest the crop was cop,-
mon. Pork could be produced
comparatively cheap in that way
by using little grain.
With sweet potatoes bringing
excellent prices and with many
storage houses built and being
built to save the surplus, it is not
believed that any farmer could af-
ford hogging of sweet potatoes.
It is doubtful whether the time
will come in many years when
sweet potatoes can be used in this
way.
but sweet potatoes at prcsf mt
prices should have considera Jon
as crop to gro > for market, pro-
vided one has surplus. The
slips may be set most any time
after the ground has become warm
till the middle of June and even
later when the season is favorable
The practice of using vines to
propagate the variety IS now qoite
common. In fact, growers favor
vine setting over slips or draws as
a general rule.
The soil should be we'll prepared
and in case transplanting is not |
done promptly the land had best
be rebedded or listed. or perhaps |
from time to time tol
keep in good condition. Farm
md Ranch.
The Natchitoches enterprise., 1920-04-08
Well Near Chopin Making
Good Progress

"UhcIe" Billie Dodge, field man
sgef ,or the Unit Leasing Com
pany, arrived ip Shreveport today,
after an absence of several weeks
in Natchitoches parish, where
drilling operations of his company
are in progress.
Harmon we'll No, |, according
to Mr.. Dodge, is making salts
factory progress and he predicts a
The Natchitoches enterprise., 1920-04-08
Cattle dinninr

Cattle dipping began Monday
under the supervision a Dr.. X.
L. Smith who announced jlat this
very necessary dipping would be
continued every two weeks for
four times when if the caltle of
Na.chi-o.h5s were thla Eour! tick
free, lAo fedora! quarantine would
be !if.a-j from the parish
The Natchitoches enterprise., 1920-04-08

good producer.
This we'll is being drilled on the
". F. Taylor land, near CHOPIN
in township E, range .. Natchito-
ches parish, known as the ''UncIa
Tom tract, on account of the tra-
dit!on that Harriet Beecher Stowe
gathered most of the material fer
her 'Unele Toms Cabin" in the
ylcinity.-Journal.
The Natchitoches enterprise., 1920-04-08

French and British inventors
combined their ideas in perfecting
air bags to be quickly inflated
with compressed air carried in
bottles attached to them, to keep
afoat airplanes that happen to fal
upon water.
The Natchitoches enterprise., 1920-04-08

The soil is so rich IN China that
farms are generally very small--
il. being estimated that ) square
nile Is capable Of supporting i.
l'opulation d 1000 people.
The Natchitoches enterprise., 1920-04-08

We are authorized to announce the
candidacy of SAM AARON, for Council
Commissioner of the City Of Natchi-
toches.
The Natchitoches enterprise., 1920-04-08

,ye ars authorized TO announce the
canaiiacy Of A. W. WAT;HS' ior Coon'
c,l Commissioner of the City o. Natcnl'
toches.
The Natchitoches enterprise., 1920-04-08

So many people are preaching
production that few are left to
practice 1t.
The Natchitoches enterprise., 1920-04-08
THURSDAY. APRIL n As@o

we are authorized to announce tne
candidacy of T. E. POLICEMAN for May
or.t Commissioner OF the City OF Match
itocEes.
The Natchitoches enterprise., 1920-04-08

The railroads returned from the
wor wearing . lot of wound
stripes. .-Ex. -
Charlevoix county herald., 1920-10-22

Derry was then given to the cor
poration of London, which tackled on
the prefix London. Three years later
the Irish society, to which London
derry and much of the surrounding
country had been given, pledged itself
to enclose Derry within walls. and
these walls, wide enough for a coach
and four, are excellently preserved
today, perhaps to the inconvenience
of the inhabitants, but certainly In
accordance with their sentiments and
wishes. Any one who expressed a
desire that they be taken down would
be treated as traitor. Long ago
they grew too small to encompass all
the inhabitants of the hustling port,
but they stand like a stiff belt around
the waistline of the hill on which
the city is built. The most incon-
venient thing about them is that,
though they are more than a mile in
circumference, there are only seven
gates leading through them. Because
the walls defended the city in the
siege begun by James ii, busy man
must make quite a jaunt out of his
way to find a passageway through
them, but, true to Irish sentiment,
he does It without murmur. On one
Of the bastions of the wall an old
gun, affectionately known as Roaring
Meg" points her nose over the city.
Here, too, on the hill in the center
of a crowded old graveyard stands
the quaint, squat cathedral with its
queer pinnacled tower. 1t is called
after st. COLUMBIA, although 1t is not
on the site of the old abbey built by
the saint fourteen centuries ago.
On high, inaccessible hill in the
distance, looms the stronghold of the
lords of Tyrone. 1t is said that st.
Patrick came to the fort to baptize
Owen, who first set himself up to rule
over the province of Tyrone, and st.
COLUMBIA visited it before his exile.
Here, too, captive Danes who had
threatened the peace of the city were
dragged in triumph.
Though every trace Of the old cas-
tie has been obliterated, the massive
stone wall fourteen feet thick and
eighteen feet high, resembling the han
diwork of a cyclone, has stood out
grimly against the centuries. A small
iron gate hangs across a two-foot door
way, the only entrance to its huge
amphitheater-like interior, which re-
veals further devices designed for the
protection of the inmates.
Charlevoix county herald., 1920-10-22
MINSK: AN INCUBATOR OF
BOLSHEWSM

One of the least interesting among
Russian cities in its physical aspects,
Minsk has an economic history that
helps in understanding how bolshevism
spread so readily among the Russian
people.
The industrial history Of Minsk,
where the Poles and the bolsheviks
met to discuss peace terms, is espe-
cially significant in view of present
conditions in Russia. 1t was one or
the centers where ideas long germl-
mated which blossomed forth so sud-
denly into bolshevism under the hot
house influences of war distress.
There, in the early nineties of the last
century, q group Of dilettantes formed
a Working Mans union, later more
accurately termed the Union for
Struggle. PRONUNCIATION Of literature.
Struggled into the country or printed
in secret, was major activity of this
group in Minsk. Few workingmen be-
longed to 1t.
In the course of five years these
groups, working in Moscow, st. Pc
tersburg and Minsk, had accumulated
a number of followers, few of whom
agreed. They gave wide publicity to
the doctrines of Marx, mixed indis-
criminately with every variety Of rad
icalism. native and imported. With
such diversity of aims little was
accomplished, and II was with the
hope of formulating definite pro-
gram that the Union for Struggle and
committee Of the Jewish bund held
their notable convention at Minsk in
1898. From that meeting arose the
Social Democratic Working Mems
party.
Minsk Is built upon the Svisotck
river. nearly 500 miles southwest Of
Moscow by rail, and has a population
of 10000, fully half Of whom are
Jews. It was the capital of the old
Russian government Of Mlnsk, which
included some OF the least fertile and
least developed regions of the fallen
empire.
The annual fair. held in March, fur
nished the chief event I'm the towns
life. It's trade. mainly In corn, lum-
Der and leather, gained perceptibly
when II became the intersection point
of the railway from Moscow TO War
saw and that from Libau TO Kharkov.
Formerly II maintained municipal
pawnshop.
Charlevoix county herald., 1920-10-22
CUNNING FOR PROFITEERS
AN ANCIENT PRACTICE

Profiteering in foods and high wage
demands by labor are far from being
ultra-mOdern problems.
Ancient Egypt flogged its profiteers
in the market places and medieval
England passed maximum wage laws.
according to communication by
Ralph A. Graves to the National Geo
graphic society, which says:
Following the devastation of the
Black Death in England in 134S-1349,
cultivation of the fields was utterly
impossible and there were not even
enough able-bodied laborers to gather
the crops which had matured. Cattle
roamed through the corn unmolested
and the harvest rotted where it stood.
"Out of the situation which resulted
from the impoverishment of the labor
resources of the kingdom grew the
first great clash in England between
capital and labor. The peasants be-
came masters of the situation. In some
instances they demanded double wages,
and whereas formerly landowners had
wheat as the harvesting wage they
were now forced to pay one-eight.
parliament hurriedly passed dras-
tic laws in an effort to meet the new
condition. Statutes provided that
every man or woman, bond or free.
able in body and within the age Of
threescore years, not having his own
whereof he may live, nor land Of his
own about which he may occupy him.
self, and not serving any other, shall
be bound to serve the employer who
shall require him to do so, provided
that the lords of any bondsman or
land-servant shall be preferred before
others for his service; that such serv-
ants shall take only the wages which
were custOmarily given in 1347' (the
year prior to the first appearance Of
the plague).
"The first ordinance in English his
tory. designed to curb the greed Of
the middleman, was passed nearly a
century earlier lin 1851 when there
was a bountiful harvest, but destruc-
tive rains caused the heavy crops to
rot in the fields.
but England did not originate food
control measures. A low Nile in 967
A. d. resulted in a famine the follow.
ing year, which swept away 100000
people in the vicinity of the city OF
Fustat. Caviar, a Mohammedan Jo-
seph. founded a new city (the Cairo
of today short distance from the
stricken town and Immediately organ
lied relief measures.
"The Caliph Mo'izz lent every assist
ance to his lieutenant, sending many
ships laden with grain; but price Of
bread still remained high and Caviar
being a food controller who had no
patience with persuasive methods, or
dered his soldiers to seize all the mill
ers and grain dealers and fog them
in the public market place. The adj
ministrator then established central
grain depots and corn was sold
throughout the two years Of the famine
under the eyes of government in
spector."
Charlevoix county herald., 1920-10-22
LONDONDERRY: MAIDEN
CITY OF IRELAND"

Derry, or Londonderry, in Ulster,
known in song and legend as the
Maiden City Of Ireland" has the
charm of the CHEEKY, busy town and is
truly characterized by the stirring
marching song which these Irish sing
on their days of celebration:
"Where Foyle his swelling waters
rolls northward to the main,
Here, Queen of Erin's daughters, fair
Derry fixed her reign;
A holy temple crowned her, and CON-
merce graced her street;
A rampant wall was round her. the
river at her feet"
These four lines briefly tell Lon
donderry's story. Along the two-mile
quays of the river Irlshmen jolly each
other as they load and unload the for
eign, colonial and coasting trade of
the docking vessels. For the Foyle
Is wide and deep, and large tonnage
ships flying the flags Of France, Aus
tralia, Brazil, the United States. and
India bring their wares to her port.
Busy looms In the city make linen,
and then laughing, twinkly-eyed Irish
girls make the linen into shirts before
II leaves Londonderry. The salmon
fishery on the Foyle is important and
the town has timber mills, grain mills
and shipyards.
But Derry has for the traveller a
charm greater than its hustle and up
-and-doing atmosphere-the story Of a
past replete with romance, devotion
to principle, and the exhibition Of
indomitable spirit. COLUMBIA, the
greatest of the Irish saints after Pat
rick and Brigid, in $40 looked on the
oak-clad hills and coveted them. Here
he founded his abbey, known as Daire-
Columbkille, or Oolumba's Oak Grove.
within the shadow of the great fort
on a nelghboring hill, the stronghold
Of the lord Of Tyrone, in order that
his sanctuary might have the protec-
ton of the fort. But in vain did he
reckon his chances against the Danes
and Saxons who, time and again,
pushed their boats against his shores
Despite their plundering and burnings
the settlement, of which he had made
the nucleus, grew and maintained Its
independence until 1909.
Charlevoix county herald., 1920-10-22
WILL ALAND ISLANDS BE-
COME A BALTIC FIUME?

Caught In the swirl or the minor
furries that disturb Europe are the
remote Aland islands, where Swedes
and Firms clashed in a manner sug-
gestive of the dispute between Jugo-
Slavs and the Italians along the Adri-
attic, according to newspaper dis
patches.
For more than 200 years the Aland
islands, which are situated like a cork
In the wide mouth Of the Gulf OF
BOthnia. have been sort of Alsace-
Lorraine question between the Swedes
and the Russians. After having passed
back and forth several times, they
were finally coded to Russia in 1909.
During the reign of Nicholas 1 they
were strongly fortified, a move most
distasteful to Sweden, because the
islands occupy a strong strategic posi-
ton with respect to Stockholm, the
Swedish capital, which is less than
100 miles to the southwest from Bo-
marsund, the chief fertilization of the
islands.
These Notifications were short
lived. In 1854, during the Crimean
war, a Franco-British fleet, under Sir
Charles Napier and paraguay dHil-
Tiers, destroyed the works, and after
that time the islands were left I'M
fortified, in accordance with an inter-
national agreement.
The Aland group, which is separated
From, tho Cwadicb mainland hy AIond
bay (Aland Haaf) and from the Finn
ish mainland by Skiftet sound, is
composed of some 300 islands and
rocky islets, the total area Of which
is not more than $50 square miles.
The largest island, Aland, name sig
nifying 'land Of streams" Is almost as
large as all the others combined, hav-
ing an area Of PAT square miles, about
twice the size of Martha's Vineyard.
Cattle raising and fishing are the
chief occupations of the $4,000 people
who live on the islands. Some cereals
(barley and oats) are grown on the
thin soil, and there are q few forests
of birch, spruce and fir.
Finnish troops recently were re-
ported marching through the streets
of Mariehamm. This attractive little
bathing resort is the chief town of
the islands, having population Of
1,400. In times of peace daily
steamer service is maintained between
this port and Abo, the oldest and
historically the most interesting city
In Finland. The voyage from Abo to
Mariehamm takes about 10 hours.
1t was in the water adjacent to the
Aland Islands that Peter the Greats
navy won its first important victory,
defeating the Swedes in 1717.
Only about 80 of the 300 islands are
inhabited, and the fsherfolk, in the
main, are of Swedish descent.
Sweden's desire to hold the islands
arises in part from the fact that they
control the entrance to the Gulf of
Bothnia, through which most of that
Kingdoms internal trade is carried on.
Charlevoix county herald., 1920-10-22

desert industry, man of great wealth
and possessed of trade information
concerning all of north Africa. From
him Malfante learned of such flourish
ing places as Teghazza, famous for
its salt mines and unique for its archi-
lecture. The houses were made of
rock salt. Malfante noted that II new
er rained there, or the houses would
have melted away.
Charlevoix county herald., 1920-10-22
OLDLETTERS REVEAL LOST
CHAPTER IN WORLD
HISTORY


man civilization in Pompeii; tombs
protected the records of ancient
Egypt's culture; and now there is pros
pect that some long neglected letters
NAV reveal one of the most fascinat-
ing chapters in the historic trail of the
Jewish people, and incidentally show
that Africa doomed larger in the mid
die ages than modern historians have
realized.
Hitherto Africa has figured not at
all in medieval history. 1t still was
a clark continent" when Stanley and
Livingstone penetrated it less than a
century ago. Yet, in view Of remark
able documentary discovery made by
Charles de la Ronciere, librarian of
the national library In France, II
would seem Jews OF the fifteenth cen
fury had trading posts in northwest
Africa. and carried on vast COM
MERGE with the natives from the Sa-
hara to the Atlantic and from Algeria
to the Niger.
Antonio Malfante, q Genoese citizen,
traversed this region and wrote his
descriptive letters, in 1447, from Tim
buktu and Touat. Timbuktu was the
Chicago of the west African plains !;
and Touat the center Of the camel
caravan traffic that exchanged the
wheat and barley of Egypt for the
powdered gold of Timbuktu and the
precious salt from Teghazza.
All the places visited by Malfante
were so we'll known to the Jews of
his time that they were listed in a
Catalan atlas prepared three-quarters
Of a century earlier for Charles v,
according to NJ. ROnciere. But short
" after Malfante's visit the Jews were
driven out of Spain, and since the
Jews were the only ones In Europe
who knew Of the Nigeria country and
apparently permitted no Christian to
enter there except Malfante the Jew
ish knowledge was lost in Europe. Not
until DR.. Gerhard ROhlfs began his
explorations in Algeria and Morocco
in 1860 did the rest Of the world again
form a contact with the extensive re-
gions Of Malfante's travels.
Landing at point west Of Algiers,
Malfante worked his way south to
Touat. which Rohlfs believed himself
to have been the first European to Wis.,
1t. Yet Malfante dated his first letter
from there four centuries earlier.
Touat was an oasis, containing from
$50 to 200 villages, which together
formed vast commercial center.
Each had a chief. Travellers became
the guests Of these chiefs and NAL
hinte reported their protection SUI
perior to that in states like Tlemcen
and Tunis. One of these towns was
Tametit now decayed village, whose
people still recall the Jewish epoch
Arabian invaders earlier had routed
the Jews, who were masters Of the
Sahara and whose empire extended
south to the Niger Tametit, Malfante
wrote, sheltered both Jews and Mo-
hammedans, who lived in harmony.
The native negroes valued copper
highly, Malfante stated, and used II
for money. Profiteering, apparently.
is not q modern vice. Malfante COM
planned, "The people here do not want
to transact any business If they do not
make n commission of 100 per cent"
And their business was on big scale
at that. Half million head Of cattle,
to mention but one item, were brought
to market In the caravan season.
Pushing on to Timbuktu, Malfantes
host was the brother Of q captain of
The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1920-08-07
BIG TEXTILE PROFITS
Were Made in the Fan River Industry
This Year.

Fall River Mas Aus a total
q s3.633.S55 was paid out 20 stock
holders in the local textile industry
during the third quarter Of 1920. ac-
cording 10 figures furnished to-day by
G. ~ HaHsrds and company This
amount is an average of lo.730 plus per
cent - : capitalization ~ s55 500 drOg.
record never before reached in the
history 4 this city - textile cen
ter TIE previous quarter vas the rec-
ord breaker up r. its tirne with = d.s
tribution Il s260s 50. but q j. e,lip-rd
~ the present quarter ~ slo5ssl5.
TIE quarter iuss ended b. A. ssgss 20
more thar ths corresponding quarter
tar he year. 1919.
The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1920-08-07
WILL "SQUEH" ON PALS
IN COUGHLN CASE
If They Do Not Return the Kidnapped
Baby By O'clock This
Afternoon.

Philadelphia, Aug. Further i'm
portant developments in the Coughlin
Kidnapping case were expected by the
authorities to-day. The 24-hour period
given the eaptors of the l3-month- old
child by Augusta Pasqusle held as an
accomplce in the kidnapping, for the
bsby's return expires at 4 o'clock this
afternoon, and, unless he is restored
t. his parents, Pasquale, according to
Major Lynn g. Adams, head Of the
state police, said he would tell all he
knows.
Tell them, he is quoted as saying,
that If they don't hiring back the kid
within p hours III squesl. I can't
stand this much longer
Major Adams said the prisoner ad-
mitted that he was the writer of 'the
crank letters and that he got the Sl2,-
600 ransom money left by George II.
Coughlin, father of the missing boy at
lonely spot on the outskirts Of Nor.
ristown Pasquale also told the author
titles, Adams said. that the child is
alive and that he is being held in the
vicinity Of Philadelphia by a woman
who has learned to love him and is car.
ing for him tenderly. This woman is
known to the police. but so far they
have been unable TO locate her She Is
said TO be = friend of a former asso-
ciate Of Pasquale
Scores Of federal agents. postal in
spectors and Local police continued their
search to-day for the baby while Pas
quale was put through another grilling
at city hall. Despite his repeated de-
mails. Major Adams declares, De Is con
WINGED that "the crank" was the actual
4 abductor