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THE DONALDSONVILLE CHIEF. A WIDE-AWAKE HOME NEWSPAPER---PUBLISHED EVERY SATURDAY--SUBSCRIPTION PRICE, $2 A YEAR VOLUME XLV. DONALDSONVILLE, LA., SATURDAY, AUGUST 7, 1915. NUMBER I PASSING OF THE BIG FARM. Intensive Cultivation of the Soil a Growing Tendency. A4 complaint comes that the agri cirtural dope what I have been fur nishing the press seems to be "most altogether" for the "one-horse farm er." Really, I had not thought much about it, but I guess it is so, for the reason, no doubt, that he needs it most if it is any good, and because I am not such a very big farmer my self. Big farming is not a thing of the past, but it is passing. Extensive farming means land-skinning, while intensive farming means soil-build ing; hence the tendency toward small er farms and better handling. And there are other reasons, not the least I of which is the fact that: Since the Lord ceased makint soil, Some thousand years of sweat a toil Have passed away; but don't forget That He is making people yet. From which it seems there is not ground Enough, even now, to go around. The labor question, too, is coming to be against the large farm, upon which labor must be employed; as it appears to be the experience of all employers of farm labor that the sit ugion is becoming more difficult from year to year, owing to increasing un reliability of hands available, to say nothing of trouble to procure la0or, good or bad, on any terms. It seems that a great many would rather suffer want in the cities, than to live well in the country. And even when they starve out and return to the country, they are rarely worth as much as before they moved to town; and this is more particularly true of the younger generation, who come to love better the raucous noises of the city streets, or a jam in the park, than Bob White calling to his mate from the top o' the fence; in short, than the wider spaces and sweeter sounds of the God-created country. Finally, the troubles of the big farmer-loss of labor to the cities, increasing tax discouragement to large land holdings, along with a growing tendency toward encourage ment of farm hands and renters to become small farm owners-would appear to indicate that the "little farm well tilled" is to be the big thing in the future,, if you will pardon my Irish. But the large land owner-the big farmer-in his day and time has served and is serving a great purpose, by making the country ready for the small farmer. He is, for instance, the greatest factor in promotion of diversification. Along this line last year, a Texas banker had 500 acres in cotton, 200 acres in corn and 100 acres in oats. This season, he has the whole of the land in wheat, and it is some crop. Of course, that does not look much like diversification, in so far as he is concerned; but it is an object lesson to the small farmer against too much cotton. When he is ready to parcel out his land to small farmers, they will know better what it is good for. --R. R. Claridge, Agricultural Agent, T'. & P. Ry. Co., Longview, Texas. PERSONNEL OF CONVENTION. Lawyers in Majority Among Framers of New Constitution. Lawyers will dominate the con stitutional convention. They now have 51 out of 118 delegates, barely lacking nine of a clear majority. Seven parishes in which there will be second primaries are not taken into this count, and more lawyers will be elected from them. The following analysis of the per sonnel of the membership of the con vention at this time gives a fairi idea of the trend: Lawers, 51. Farmers and planters, 16. Merchants and business men, 24. Members of legislature, 22. State and city office holders, 5. District judges, 7. District attorneys, 1. Clerks of court, 2. Sheriffs, 2. Physicians, 2. Editors and publishers, 4. Bankers, 6. School teachers, 1. .General contractors, 2. Sawmill owners, 2. Former congressmen, 1. In' many instances, members have more than one vocation. For in stance, several are both planters and merchants. Others are lawyers and planters. John Marks, for example, Bull Moose nominee in Assumption, is one of the largest sugar planters in that parish and at the same time has a large law practice, both criminal and civil. In this analysis theire are twenty-~ two members of the present ht'se and senate. In addition there are nine public office holders, seven district judges, (listrict attorneys, sheriffs, etc., who are not included under the caption "office holders." With the first nominating primary over, greatest interest now centers in whether the convention will be or (lered by a vote of the people in the general election, August 31. Delegates will be elected on that date and the state's electorate will be asked to vote "yes" or "no" on call ing the convention. In this election the Democrats and Bull Moose will v-st in the contested pyishes in the thidl district. Despondency Due to Indigestion. "About three months ago when I was suffering from indigestion which caused head-ache and dizzy spells and made me feel tired and despondent, I began taking Chamberlain's Tablets." writes Mrs. Geo. Hon, Macedon, N. Y. "This medicine proved to be the very thing I needed, as one day's treatment relieved me greatly. I used two bottles of Chamberlain's Tablets and they rid me of this trouble." Ob tainable everywhere. For Sale. Thoroughbred White Wyandotte cocks, cockerels, hens and pullets. Famous Bruce Bros.' strain. Prices reasonable. Telephone 154. MRS. G. D. BENTLEY, Donaldsonville, La. An ad in The Chief will pay. SUGAR CROP OF 1915. Increase in Acreage Planted to Beets Indicates Larger Production. The area planted to sugar beets in the United States for the present year, according to the figures of the Department of Agriculture, is 659, 300 acres, and increase of 146,000 acres over 1914 and 79,000 acres more than in 1913. The direct cause of this expansion in acreage is of course the high price of sugar brought about as a result of the lock ing up of the export sugar supplies of central Europe due to the war. As suming the abandonment of 10 per cent of the acreage between now and harvest time, and a yield equal to the average of recent years, the output of sugar should amount to 800,000 short tons or about 715,000 long This would be an in of S12 per cent over the N nr14. Should the exceptionally -. vorable conditions that attended the growth of last year's crop be repeat ed, the total yield would be nearly 825,000 long tons, but such condi tions are hardly to be expected, and the figures given above may be ac cepted as a more reasonable estimate at this stage of the season. The acreage of the principal beet growing states in order of size is given as follows: Colorado .............. ................ 171,000 Michigan ------------------------------ 146,600 California ---------------. .---.-----_ 128,000 Utah ----------------------------------- 59,400 Idaho ----------------------------------- 36,500 Ohio ----------------------------------- 26,500 Other states ----------------------- 91,300 659,300 In 1913 the number of beet sugar factories in operation was 71, but following the adoption of the Under wood tariff law, 11 of these were closed down and only 60 factories were operated last year. At the pres ent time it is expected that 66 fac tories will be run during the present season, this number including one that is being moved from Holly, Colo., to Sheridan, Wyo., and one trans ferred from Alberta, Canada, to Lay ton, Utah. Except for the fact that foreign grown sugar is to be admitted to the United States free of duty after May 1, 1916, the expansion in the beet su gar industry during the present year undoubtedly would have been much greater. It would have included the building of a number of new factories and the establishment of beet growing in localities where the industry has not previously existed. As it is, how ever, with the certainty that the growing of sugar beets and the man ufacture of beet sugar cannot con tinue profitably .after the temporary conditions brought about by the European war have passed away, cap ital declined to enter the industry. Factories previo ly closed down are able to resume operations at relative ly little expense,. however, and most of the factories that have been con tinuously in operation have extended the acreage contracted for. The estimated output of sugar grown in the United States during the season of 1914-15, the greater part of which has now come to market, is a little less than 2,000,000 long tons, made up as follows: Louisiana and Texas..... -.. 220,000 Hawaii ----------------- -_ 565,000 Porto Rico --------------- 315,000 Philippines ---------------240,000 U. S. beet industry.... ---645,000 1,985,000 Based upon the acreage planted and the present condition of growing crops, the yield of domestic grown sugar for the season 1915-16 should be considerably in excess of 2,000, 000 long tons. Automobile Repairing. Frank Medine, the well-known local automobile mechanician, has leased the repair department of the Donald sonville Garage, in the Lemani Addi tion, and is prepared to do any kind of work in the line of automobile repairing and renovating, with the positive guarantee that the job will be handled in an expert and entirely satisfactory manner. Mr. Medine has had extensive experience in the field of automobile mechanics, and with the modern equipment at his com mand is thoroughly qualified to tackle the most difficult job with complete understanding and a full measure of ability. His prices will be found to be most reasonable, and he solicits the patronage of automobile owners with this understanding. Telephone 151. Walter Cooper, a Natchez levee contractor, was sentenced to eight years in the penitentiary for shooting nd killing Walter Flowers on n East Carroll parish,ar At "Ylie Flowers, the victim lfe, received a sentence of one year as an accessory to the killing, while Elmo Ferguson and a negro named Jim Posey, who assisted in burying the body of Flowers under a new levee in course of construction, were let off with parish jail terms of six months and ten days respectively. All the accused pleaded guilty. The Chief is in receipt of a copy of the catalog and premium list of the Louisiana state fair for 1915, which will be held at Shreveport Nov. 3-8, inclusive. More than $15,000 is being offered in cash premiums to the farmers, live stock raisers, poultry breeders, and boys' and girls' clubs of the state, as well as to the ladies in the art, culinary and textile divisions. A copy of the catalog will be mailed free to anyone making application for same by addressing Louis N. Brueg gerhoff, secretary, P. 0. Box 1100, Shreveport, La. J. P. Mills has resigned as com missioner of public safety for Boga lusa, La., and denies that his action is influenced in any manner by the re cent reduction of his salary. He says he can't do justice both to the city's business and his own. Hubert F. Thomas of Denver, Col., has been appointed by the United States comptroller of the currency as receiver for the Union National Bank of Monroe, La., which suspended busi CONSUME MORE SALT. Production of United States for 1914 a Record Breaker. The salt industry is in some respects unique among '4e mineral inddstries. Although mostof the metallic and of the other non-metallic industries reflect industrial world conditions and sometimes sharply fluctuate with them, the salt industry, presumably from its intimate association with the food supply of man, forges slowly but steadily ahead, generally keeping pace with the increase in population. There has been a steady downward trend in the cost of this most neces sary commodity, owing to the abund ant sources of supply and also to the great advances made in the last few decdes in methods of manufacture. The widespread distribution of salt, hoxver, has led to great multiplica tion of manufacturing plants, so that plant capacity has greatly outstripped demand. This has tended to lower prices and to increase greatly effi ciency of operation in the plants that have survived the keen competition. The salt production of the United States in 1914 was the greatest yet recorded, according to W. C. Phalen, of the United States Geological Sur vey, namely; 34,804,683 barrels of 280 pounds each, or 4,872,656 short tons, valued at $10,271,358. Com pared with the production of 01913, which was the largest previously re corded, there was an increase in pro duction of 405,385 barrels and of $148,219 in value. The domestic marketed production of salt in 1914 was 34,804,683 bar rels and the imports were 934,319 barrels, the sum of the two quantities being 35,739,002 barrels. This fig ure, however, does not represent the quantity consumed, for there were exported 587,818 barrels, leaving for home use 35,151,184 barrels, an in crease of 148,485 barrels over the consumption of 1913. The imports declined 171,147 barrels, compared with 1913, but the exports increased 85,753 barrels. The imported salt constituted only 2.7 per cent of the domestic consumption. Salt occurs naturally in two dis tinct ways, as rock salt in beds or as sociated with bedded or sedimentary rocks, and in the form of natural brines or bitterns. It is prepared for market by simply mining, crushing, and cleaning the rock salt, or by evap oration, which may be either natural, as when the sun's heat is utilized, or artificial, when steam or direct heat is applied. LOUISIANA'S OPPORTUNITY. New Constitution Should be a Model for Other Commonwealths. The subjoined editorial, which is attracting much favorable attention to Louisiana, was printed in the July 17 edition of the New York Coinmer cial and Financial Chronicle, the world's leading newspaper authority on finance and commerce: "The people of Louisiana want to develop their important resources of soil, of minerals, of forests and of navigable waterways, and the people of New Orleans want to develop com merce the 'valley way.' So they have called a constitutional convention for the purpose of adopting a modern code of fundamental law with which to replace their present lengthy and inelastic constitution, which has had to be patched by amendment over and over again during the last few years. "New Orleans is `now constructing a complete system of co-ordinative river-rail-ocean terminal and ware house facilities, and plans to open a great industrial navigation canal through the city to connect the Mis sissippi river with an arm of the Gulf in the rear. A million dollars is soon to be spent on a modern vocational trade school. A splendid system of modern sewerage, drainage and pure water supply has just about been completed. The entire city is now being rat-proofed as a permanent safeguard against a recurrence of bubonic plague. Reclamation of the fertile but wet alluvial lands all around New Orleans is making pro gress and many orange groves and farms now stand where marshes stood before. "It is quite natural, therefore, that the people of New Orleans and Louisi ana should not be content to lcnger live under a constitution which, be cause of its restrictive character, checks their development. "Louisiana possesses great natural wealth and New Orleans holds a strategic position commercially. A sane, sound and liberal constitution under which to work and develop would undoubtedly help state and city in many ways. "Louisiana has in this constitution al convention a singular opportunity to show how successfully a demo crath unit of government may deal effectively with a rather remarkable situation. "Properly drafted, the new consti tution, framed to meet the needs of the new life opening before Louisiana, might well serve as a model for other commonwealths." New Faculty for S. J. C. I. Brother Theodosius, the zealous and well-liked principal of St. Jos eph's Commercial Institute, returned Monday evening from Bay St. Louis, Miss., where he attended the annual retreat of members of the Sacred Heart order, -{.ch was held At St. Stanislaus Colleke. He report~that, apart from himself, an entirely new faculty has been assigned to St. Joseph's Institute for the coming ses sion, the corps of teachers being com posed of Brothers Columban and Gerard, formerly of Baton Rouge; Brother Ernest, of Mobile; Brother Alphonsus, of Indianapolis, and an in structor to be sent here from New York. Brothers Gerard and Ernest arrived Monday evening with Brother Theodosius, and the other members of the faculty will reach here within the next two weeks. School work will be resumed at St. Joseph's Institute Monday, Sept. 6. It is estimated that Louisiana's 1914 lespedeza crop yielded 72,734 tons of hay and 64,670 bushels of seed, approximating $1,103,135 in value; and areas in lespedeza are con stantly increasing. BIG RALLY PLANNED. Campaign for Rural Progress to be Launched at State Fair. A great rally of the executive and parish commpittee members of the Ru ral Progress Conference of Louisiana is planned to be held during the state fair in Shreveport next fall to initiate the campaign for rural progress in Louisiana. The first conference held in Baton Rouge May 26-27, attended by 125 delegates from all parts of the state, ordered a meeting of an executive committee in New Orleans on July 14. This committee worked on de tails for the parish rural progress committees. These will number be tween 17 to 21 members according to the population of the parish, making a total fighting force for rural progress of 1200 or more selected and enthu siastic workers throughout the state. The method of organization brings together and seeks to co-ordinate the machinery of all the commercial or ganizations in Louisiana, that of all the parish fairs, the agricultural and domestic science schools, the federal farm demonstration service, the bank ers who are interested in agricultural development, and all the agricultural organizations of the state. "This movement has the emphatic endorsement of my department," said Mason Snowden, state agent of the Farmers' Co-operative Demonstration Work. "The .Department of Agricul ture has authorized me to help in every possible way." Each parish committee will be com posed of the following members: Ex officio members-The president of the police jury, president of the school board, superintendent of education, secretary of the parish fair associa tion, president and secretary of the local commercial organization, presi dent and secretary of the Farmers' Union local in parishes where there are such locals, parish farm demon stration agents in parishes where there are such agents. Selected mem bers-Presidents or cashiers of par ish banks, not to exceed three in num ber, to be appointed on the recom mendation of the agricultural commit tee of the State Bankers' Association; in parishes where there are no dem onstration agents, one man to be named by the state agent of the Farmers' Co-operative Demonstration Work; in parishes where there are no Farmers' Union local, one man to be named by the executive committee of the State Farmers' Union; three to five business men from the country to be selected by a sub-committee of the executive committee; three to five business men from the town to be selected by a sub-committee of the state executive committee; one wo man in each parish to be named by the executive committee of the State Federation of Woman's Clubs, and one woman in. the ountry tW be se lected by the secretary of the State Farmers' Union. The work of these committees as outlined in the conference in Baton Rouge will be as follows: (a) To make a business study of the needs of the rural schools, the agricultural fa cilities and courses at the institutions of higher learning, the state exper iment stations, and the other agen cies of the state and the nation work ing for rural progress; to organize lo cal sentiment for completely adequate support of all these agencies and for more general utilization of their facilities by the farming elements; (b) to make a determined effort to have the police juries of the parishes about each market-town adopt a pro gram of better road building and drainage, looking to the completion within a given term of years of the road system and drainage in each giv en district; (c) to study the needs of each district for financing, harvest ing and marketing the products of that district; and then work to have these needs met by the proper ele ments in each instance. It is expected that the membership of the parish organizations will be ready for announcement not later than Aug. 15 and that the organiza tion meetings will be early in Septem ber. G. A. Waterman, secretary of the Baton Rouge Chamber of Commerce, was chosen chairman of the executive committee at the New Orleans meet ing, and J. E. Edmonds, manager of the land and immigration department of the New Orleans Association of Commerce, was shosen secretary. The clerical force and resources of these associations of commerce were pledged to defray all expense of or ganization in the way of correspond ence and clerical work. Death of Frank Randolph. Frank Randolph, formerly editor of the Crowley Signal, but more re cently with the Beaumont Enterprise, died at his home in Beaumont, Texas, July 18, after a protracted illness. As a contemporary says, "Besides being a fluent and virile editorial writer, Mr. Randolph achieved a wide reputa tion throughout southwest Louisiana, through the splendid work he did for the rice industry. By his splendid efforts, he formed the rice growers of three states into an organization which succeeded in marketing this great crop upon a definite selling plan by which price levels were maintain ed without bringing it into conflict with the federal anti-trust laws." Cipriano Castro, the banished ex president of Venzuela, paid a visit to St. Thomas, Danish West Indies, last week, and was promptly notified by the government to leave. He return ed to Port Spain, Trinidad, where he has resided for some time. A newspaper controversy at Mon. roe between Representative J. T. Bryant and Col. Frank P. Stubbs, growing out of the latter's candidacy for constitutional convention dele gate, led to the arrest of Mr. Bryani on a charge of criminal libel. The Wabash railroad was sold al auction July 21, at St. Louis, and s Sjoint committee of creditors repre senting a $41,000,000 mortgage bic in the property for $18,000,000. Dr. W. R. Elgin, a prominent phy sician of Ruleville, Miss., fell from third-story window of the Monteleon4 Hotel in New Orleans and was killed AUTO RUN FROM BATON ROUGE. Tourists to Pass Through This City En Route to New Orleans. An automobile tour from Baton Rouge to New Orl 'ns and return, via the west bank of t1, river going down and the east side coming back, will be 'run Saturday and Sunday, Sept. 4 and 5, under the auspices of the Baton Rouge Chamber of Commerce. It will be a trade extension and good roads boosting trip, and at the same time will afford an opportunity to see a beautiful section of Louisiana under delightful conditions. The tourists will begin crossing the river at Baton Rouge on the 5 o'clock trip of the ferry Saturday morning, Sept. 4, and will be started in sections from Port Allen at inter vals of two minutes apart. A short stop will be made at Plaquemie. Breakfast will be served at thit Hotel Donaldson, in this city, begin ning at 8:30 a. m. Rooms at the ho tel for the convenience of the mem bers of the party will be provided. Leaving Donaldsonville at 9:15 a. in., a run will be made to Napoleon viyle down the east side of Bayou La fourche. returning on the west side, with a 30-minute stop in the Assump tion metropolis. Cars will leave Donaldsonville for Ne v Orleans at about 11:30 a. m., and will make short stops at St. James, Vacherie, Edgard and Hahn ville, arriving at Gretna at about 4 p. m. A committee of the New Orle ans Automobile Association will meet the tourists at several ferries at New Orleans and will escort them to the Monteleone Hotel, where an informal reception will be held. The return trip will be made Sun day, Sept. 5, starting from the DeSoto Hotel in New Orleans at 11 a. m. The route will follow the east bank of the river to the Geismar lane, thence across country to the model road ex tending from Hope Villa to Baton Rouge. A trip over the first lap of the tour was made recently by a scout car owned and piloted by W. M. Barrow, chairman of the special committee in charge of the arrangements for the run. Other members of the commit tee who went along were President Payne Breazeale, Secretary G. A. Waterman and L. H. Grandjean. Leaving Baton Rouge on the 6 o'clock ferry, the party arrived at Donaldsonville in two hours and 22 minutes from the ferry landing on the Port Allen side. Following breakfast here, the run to Napoleonville was made in 40 minutes along the east side of the bayou. After a 20-minute stop, 35 minutes sufficed to find the auto on the ferry at Donaldsonville. Leaving the ferry at 11:18 at Darrow, on the east side of the river, and pro ceeding via Geismar, Dutchtown and the Manehac bridge, the auto turned into the model road-" ° 12:40, and reached the city limits of Baton Rouge 27 minutes later, at 1:07 p. m. Distance, 117.4 miles to city lim its. Running time, 5 hours and 26 minutes. Gasoline consumed, seven gallons. Average distance per gallon of gasoline, 16.77 miles. Average time made, 21.6 miles per hour. High est speed indicated at any time, 29 miles. Slowest speed at any time for a mile continuously, 10 miles. The log of the trip shows some in teresting statistics, as follows: Pavement traveled, 2.4 miles; oiled gravel road, 7 miles; unoiled gravel, 55.8 miles; dirt road that was good or better than good, 27.3 miles; dirt road that was less than fair or only fair, 24.9 miles. Gasoline consumption on west side of river, one gallon per 18 miles; on east side of river, one gallon per 15 miles. Average time made on west side of river, 22.13 miles per hour. Average time on east side of river, 20.4 miles per hour. Distances were determined as fol lows: Ferry at Port Allen to West Baton Rouge-Iberville line, where gravel be gins on west side, 10.8 miles. Dirt and gravel, Port Allen to bridge at Donaldsonville: Dirt road, 21.4 miles; gravel, 25.2 miles. T. & P. station via east side bayou to bridge at Napoleonville: Dirt road, 5.9 miles; gravel road, 9.6 miles. Assumption courthouse via west sitdp bayou to bridge at Donaldson ville, 15.9 miles gravel, no dirt. Darrow via river road, Geismar, Dutchtown and Manchac bridge to the model road, 24.9 mil~es of dirt. Thence to Baton Rouge city limits, 12.1 miles of gravel, of which seven are oiled. Jos. W. George of Yazoo City, son of the late United States Sena tor George, has been appointed by President Wilson United States ak torney for the southern district 6W Mississippi. 9 The Chief is the official jour nal of the police jury, parish school board and city council of Donaldson ville. Send us your subscription and keep posted on the official proceed ings of these important bodies. The home merchants are prepared to supply your needs. Buy from them, and by keeping your money at home help build up your own com munity. IN M ,' pRIAM. T. W. Johnson Donaldsonville, La., July 14, 1915. WHEREAS, it has pleased the Sovereign Commander of the Universe to remove from this forest of life our esteemed sovereign, T. W. Johnson, who died June 30. 1915; and Whereas, we, the officers and members of Olive Camp No. 18, Woodmen of the World, desire to pay a last tribute of respect and esteem to the memory of our departed sovereign: be it Resolved, that we, the officers and mem bers of Olive Camp No. 18, Woodmen of the World, mourn the loss of our Sovereign Johnson and extend to his grief-stricken family our heartfelt sympathy and condo lence. Be it further resolved, that our charter bE draped in mourning for thirty days, that s copy of these resolutions be forwarded tU the sorrowing relatives of our lamented soy ereign, a copy published in the newspaper ol the city, and that a page be set aside on oui minute book for the above resolutions. J. C. BOUCHEREAU, EMILE DUGAS, R. N. ROBERTSON, Committee. TOWBOAT BURNED. Steamer C. J. Reynolds Destroyed by Fire in River. The Standard Oil Company's big sternwheel towboat C. J. Reynolds caught fire Tuesday morning at about 11 o'clock while en route to Baton Rouge with three empty oil barges, and was burndd to the water's edge. For several days the vessel had been moored a short distance above the coal fleet of the West Kentucky Coal Company in Port Barrow, from whence oil was pumped from the three barges into the big storage tank of the Standard Oil Company on Bayou Lafourche, just below Donaldsonville. Having emptied the barges, the Reynolds cast off her lines and start ed for Baton Rouge at about 7 o'clock Tuesday morning, but some time la t me drifting down the river ith y a 1 v, it appearing to observyrl ire that trouble was probably it ing experienced with the machinery. Apparently the breakdown was re paired, for the boat soon was brought under control and once more started up the river. In a short while she again came in sight, and this time was a mass of flafnes. The crew escaped to the barges, which were cut loose from the burn ing vessel, and which after drifting a short distance were towed to shore on the east bank by a fleet of skiffs that put out to the rescue from both sides of the river. The Reynolds, afire from stem to stern, drifted slowly down stream and finally, at about 12 o'clock, grounded on a sand bar on the east bank of the river immediately oppo site Donaldsonville. An hour and a half later, the charred hulk went to the bottom, a total loss. None of the crew was injured, and the barges being towed by the steam er were not damaged. The ferryboat Ruth cruised about the doomed ves sel and 'went to the assistance of the crew, but the bar~ges on which the latter had taken refuge had been safe ly conveyed to sho~e and the services of the Ruth were not required. The Reynolds was owned by Cap tain. E. F. Wiecks, superintendent of transportation of the Standard Oil Company of Louisiana, and had been engaged in .towing` oil for that com pany under contra@. The vessel was built at Proctorville, 0., in 1901, and was 112 feet long. by 22 feet beam, with a depth of hold of 2' feet, and had one boiler 43 ipches in diameter and 24 feet in letgth, operating en gines having 12 inches diameter of cylinder and 4 feetstroke of pistons. In her early life she ran on the Ohio river and its tributaries, and later was operated on the Mississippi river in the cotton seed trade by a New Orle ans company. Subsequently she be came the propertypf W. G. Coyle & Co., and four or ' years ago was purchased .by, # ln Wiecks, St. Louis Live Stock Market. National Stock Yards, Ill., Aug. 2. Cattle receipts 8000. Included in the receipts were 3000 quarantine cattle, a goodly proportion of which were mixed cattle. The market was 15 to 25 cents lower on mixed grown stuff, and 10 to 15 cents lower on yearlings. However, steers sold strong and featuring the trade was a string of Guatemala cattle, weighing 877 pounds, at $6.80. Among the mixed cattle were the following: Heifers, $5 to $7; mixed, $4.05 to $4. 90; cows, $4 to 5.50; bulls, $4.50 to $5.50; oxen, $3.50 to $3.75; calves and yearlings, $4 to $5.50. Hog receipts 5000. Market slow and 5 to 10 cents lower. Pigs topped at $7.80; light shippers at $7.70. Bulk of the pigs sold at $7.50 to $?. 75; light shippers and butchers, $7.50 to $7.60; hogs 210 to 250 lbs., $7.20 to $7.50; 260 lbs. upward, $6.50 to $6.75; roughs, $6. Southern' hogs will sell 25 cents below these quota tions. NATIONAL LIVE STOCK COMMIS SION COMPANY. The Clerk Guaranteed It. "A customer came into my store the other day and said to one of my clerks, 'have you anything that will cure diarrhoea?' and my clerk went and got him a bottle of Chamberlain's Colic, Cholera and Diarrhoea Remedy, and said to him, 'if this does not cure you, I will not charge you a cent for it.' So he took it home and came back in a day or two and said he was cured," writes J. H. Berry & Co., Salt Creek, Va. Obtainable every where. Alex. F. Leonhardt, former post master of New Orleans and a prom inent grain dealer, was seized by a severe attack of acute indigestion in a street car July 28, but recovered. present postmaster, Ho s'le, is still prostrated stfoke of apoplexy which he suffered several weeks ago, and little hope for his recovery is felt. A Second Cincinnatus. C. C. Durden, editor of the Kent wood New Era, is reported to have mysteriously disappeared, and the former editor, J. N. Wolf, has been compelled to leave his farm work and take possession of the paper.-Ham mond Vindicator. The Interstate Commerce Commis sion has refused to sanction the pro posed increase of rates for carrying lumber from the southwestern terri tory to New Orleans. F. P. Breckenridge has been elect ed manager and Jesse Lobrano super intendent of the big cotton warehouse being erected by the New Orleans Board of Port Commissioners. The Danish consul at New Or leans, T. Soegaard, has resigned after holding the place nineteen years. Mr. Soegaard retires because of his advanced age. Mutt and Jeff are going to cavort exclusively in the columns of the New Orleans Times-Picayune from and after August 10. Sumrall, Miss., had a $250,000 fire last week and the destruction of the town was narrowly averted. For local news read The Chief. A SELF-EVIDENT PROPOSITION. National Treasury Conditions Demand Retention of Sugar Tariff. Under the caption, "Government Finances and Su,- v," Modern Fs m ing says: ; "With the close of the second bus iness year of the present administra tion, June 30, 1915, it was officially announced that there is a government deficit of nearly thirty-six millions, which is indeed a sorry showing, es pecially compared with the approx imate thirty-five millions surplus of the previous year. "Were it not for the special war taxes levied to cover the deficit that became apparent as soon as the war broke out, our national finances would be in a far worse way. When these taxes were levied it was thought the war n ht be of short duration and .at the hardship of war taxation ?I uld soon he removed. However, with it becoming more manifest as time passes that the European conflict is most probably to last several more years, it is clear that instead of an early removal of the war taxes now in force, steps will have to be taken to increase taxation. "One of the most important sources of federal income, now being enjoyed, but which by tariff legislation stands to be done away with next spring, is the some fifty millions annually `b tained in the form of sugar duties. The president, having taken the at titude that the sugar tariff was an un fair form of taxation in that it pro vides income through imposts levied against a foodstuff, forced an unwill ing congress to his free trade ideas on this staple, and as a result of his dis crimination against sugar it was free listed, to become effective May 1, 1916. "Due to the war upsetting all esti mates as to revenue receipts and cal culations anent cheap sugar attend ing the removal of the tariff, the ad ministration is up against a difficult proposition. Democratic house lead ers are, according to what seems re liable advice, now figuring on the abrogation of the free sugar clause in the tariff at the opening of congress, for the majority are convinced that the present finances of the nation are such as' will not permit of any available funds being disregarded. "If this is done, it will be a wise move, for with the conflict in Europe greatly curtailing the output of beet sugars, every source of domestic sup ply will be needed for years to come if sugar prices are to be held down to reasonable levels. The restora tion of the duty will give courage to the producers of cane and beet sugars in the United States and to the cane producers of the Philippines and of Porto Rico; it will result in an early expansion of sugar areas, which were very appreciably diminished the past 3tar _a, agaat..o£ .the prospers .. tariff removel. "In this part of the south, we all know how terribly the sugar indus try suffered in the withdrawal of cred its and destruction of factory and land values as a result of the free trade action. Fortunately, though, with better prices last fall and, prom ise for good prices this fall, cane planting is coming back in the south, and it needs but a restoration of con fidence in the future, such as will come with the tariff put on again, or rather with a definite understanding that it will not be taken off, for every thing to be smooth sailing once more in the cane sugar world. "In the meanwhile, the beet sugar folk of the west, whose different methods of planting with seed make it easier to resume full plantings, are growing a record crop this year. The area planted in the northern and western states to sugar beets is 659, 300 acres, (Louisiana's normal crop in cane being about 350,000 acres), which is 144,700 acres more of beets than grown last year. The estimated 1915 production of beet sugar is therefore about 825,000 tons, and will probably sell for between sixty and seventy millions of dollars; and, with the Louisiana crop, make up approx imately a hundred millions. In addi tion the Porto Rico and Philippines crops amount to about half that again. "From these figures an idea is' gained of the tremendous planting and manufacturing import the sugar business is to this country. It is poor economics to figure on sending such vast sums abroad for sugar sup plies when by simply retaining the tariff on sugar these monies will be kept at home and paid to American farmers, workmen and mechanics. Further more, as time goes on, if fostered by tariff, the American sugar production would continually increase and there would be a constantly smaller per centage of our sugar consumption faised each succeeding year in for ~elgn countries. "1 'e chance will present itself at Ithe next session of congress for the Iadministration to show, by reversion of sugar tariff procedure, that it is equal to the situation. We shall hope for the best." GOOD NEWS. Many Donaldsonville Readers Have Heard It and Profited Thereby "Good news travels fast," and the bad back sufferers in this vicinity are glad to learn where relief may be found. Many a lame, weak and ach ing back is bae o more, thanks to Doan's Kidney .Als. Thousand up on thousands of people are telling the good news of their experience with this tested remedy. Here is an exam ple worth reading: Mrs. M. Copponex, Plaquemine, La., says: "I suffered from a dull pain across the small of my back and I could hardly get around to do my work. My kidneys acted irregularly and caused me a great deal of misery. I read so much about the good Doan's Kidney Pills were doing others, that I got a box and began taking them. 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