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Louisiana State News NappeglIgs of I~terest for Our Aapy Readers L ejur Companya Shutw Down. sansklinton.--The River Lumber tCqpaay, Limited, operating the mill plant formerly controlled by Carl Oeorg, has suspended operations. Simmons & Robers have attached the logs and lumber to satisfy their claim for $2,100. Efforts to revive the plant were made by interested parties, who recommended Waldo Alford and Ira Pope as trustees who would work up the logs and ship the prepared lumber .and apply the proceeds toward satis fying the plaintiffs and the claimants miaer a delinquent pay roll. This fail tag to meet full approval, J. C. Briant nud the McCrary brothers, were in vited to investigate the plant. Pros pects of a deal are in sight for an early disposition of the management lansufficiency ot funds and a prema ture litigation are given as causes for easp5nsion. Assessor Wins Suit. Lafayette.-Judge Campbell decided the suit instituted by Assessor Trahan to receive a balance due on his com mission for the city assessment roll ".f 1910. The judge rendered judg ment in favor of the assessor on the ground that the law was not specific as to the duty of the assessor. The rolls I the assessor were filed with the State auditor, with the clerk of court, with the sheriff and with the tax collector. The city of Lafayette employed Paul Deballion to copy the roll and to extend thereon the city taxes. For this work he was paid $125. Assessor Trahan rendered his bill for commission at 4 per cent as fixed by law and amounting to $1,464. The city council paid this amount, less $125, allowed to Deballion for making the copy. It was for this amount that the assessor entered suit. Baptist to Rebuild College. Alexandria-The educational com Iniesion of the Louisiana State Baptist convention held a meeting in Alexan dria, with the following members present: Messrs. J. R. Edwards, A. L. Johnston, A. M. Hendon, P. B. Wright, A. M. Wise, F. L. Cox, H. F. Madison, R. T. Lewis, J. A. White, E. O. Ware, C. Cottingham and D. F Lawrence. The committee was in session some time and discussed the matter of re building Louisiana college in Pine ville. It was decided to comemnce the i:rebuildiag of the college as soon as .pos.IlMle, and that if necessary tem perary buildings will be erected to take'eare of the school at the begin . ning the next session in the fatll W.:. W.'s Annual Picnic. VIIIO platte.-The members of Peach eCamn, Woodmen of the World, gave their annual picnic at. Dossman PrrI u o in the northern portion of the pMarsh, recently. This celebration was sti edl'by several hundred peo pleie*li+ta the different portions of the parish. The ceremonies were pre aided ever by Dr. Dossman of St. .andrf. -The principal orator of the day was Hon. H. V. Vaught of Ville PPltte, who delivered a lengthy, ad d.rss on "Woodcraft and the Benefits -t Firat.rnal Orders." Addresses were alse made by Messrs. Perrin, Ortego and Faitenot After the ceremonies an eM-fEasoned dinner was spread which. more than did justice to the New Orleans Rice Market. New Orleans.-There -was no spe 'c eaauiage in the market for rough rice fdbrday. A good demand was .t, alenee, but offerings were llght. oae s -of -cholee grades were firm inftheir views. Trading was confined bto i sew all lots of Honduras. SCl rta ie was steady.' Offerings were light and ealy a moderate volume of ddustes was done. -Quotations: g riee---Honduras, good demand; per il of 12 psounds, $1.5002.75; Spi*o reported , one. Japaz--Good .: sa ; per 'barrel of 162 pounds, 75 ; sales teported, none Re rough rice, 1,026 sacks; mill "edietiptsB , 1,6i A sacks. Salghntt of Pytiasa Anniversary. - l-.--Jeanings Lodge, Knights ?thiapq, celebrated its tenth an riwa at the Wmaen's Christian ON e DUnion anditorium with apwtpriate program. Addresses - made' . by ChaOcellor Commander 3 1..i aear aU Haun. George W. Th.I T'he l.~ram was inter' 'with male by the IIgh ra d vocland instre alE s About twenty-five weore present rom ansad Lake Charles -j4-t TIstParty Arrive'. c:._ ynacht Marie o - . pmtste arriverde #msa R. e (%nsa and re va yee. '3'' - t. New Orleans Sugar Market. sr New Orleans.-The sugar market 11 was steady Saturday and only light ri supplies came on the market from s. plantations to work on. Everything ,e offered met ready consideration at n quotations. Receipts were 212 barrels. it Imports of sugar from Cuba amounted o to 10,000 bags. Refined sugars were u steady and unchanged. New York p refined sugars were quiet and uu ,r changed. Cuba cabled that rain fell m- in all parts of the island and that 110 a centrals were grinding. European 1- beet crop reports were favorable. It London cabled that beet sugar was n- dull and lower; cane sugar dull and B- rather easier. Molasses and syrups a were nominal. - Takings of American Cotton. tr New Orleans.-Secretary Hester gives the takings of American cot ton by spinners throughout the world as follows, in round numbers: This d week, 171,000 bales this year, against n 189,000 last year and 199,000 year be i. fore last. Total since September 1 l this year, 9,315,000 bales, against 8,605,000 last year and 9,993,000 the e year before. Of this Northern spin c ners and Canada took 2,837,000 bales e this year, against 1,828,000 last year b and 2,375,000 the year before; South f ern spinners, 1,835,000 bales, against e 1,851,000 last year and 1,912,000 the a year before; and foreign spinners, a 5,643,000 bales, against 4,926,000 last , year and 5,706,000 the year before. Red Men Make Merry. Brusly. - The degree team and members of Incas Tribe No. 64, L O. R. M., were entertained at a banquet r by Alfred Gwin, member of the tribe, who was recently elected representa tive to the Great Council of the Im proved Order of Red Men of the United States. The degree team of Iichis Tribe at present holds the cham pionship loving cup for the best drill ed body. During the course of the banquet there were a number of ad dresses made by prominent Red Men who were in attendance. Train Tied Up. / Estherwood.-The unsuccessful at. tempt of a negro to steal a ride on a freight train caused the entire train service between Crowley and Midland this week to become tied up. The negro had crawled into a box car laden with lumber and managed to hide himself from view by crawling into a space between the timber. When the train came to a sudden stop the boards moved and fastened the unfortunate fellow as though he was in a trap. Incompetent to Testify. New Orleans.-That a 7-year-old child is incompetent to testify in a murder trial was the decision Satur day of Judge Crelian in the district criminal court where Sidney Barry was on trial charged with murdering his wife's sister, Mrs. Theresa Barry, January 22 last. Little Nathalie Barry, niece of the dead woman, upon whom the prosecution depended, was so frightened that she dould give no coherent answer. State Fair Association. d Shreveport--The directors of the e Louisiana Fair Association have unan imously decided to ask the city com missioners to order an election on the proposition of issuing $100,000 of bonds for permanent improvements, h including steel grand stand, live stock a coliseum and machinery building, at L the State fair grounds. A tax of n three-eighths of 1 mill will be neces d sary. e Louisiana Farm Lands Congress. f Monroe.-The executive committee :of the Louisiana Farm Lands Con ; gress met recently to prepare for the ; meeting soon. Those present were I Messrs. W. B. Monroe, president, c, Delhi; W. A. Jones, secretary, Shreve r- port; F. B. McQuesty; Baton Rouge; E- M. L. Alexander, Alexandria; E. S. Richardson, Arcadia. A large num ber of people are expected at Monroe for the occasian. To Dredge Canal. Houma.-E. F. Morgan and R. R. Barrow have= signed a contract by which the former will start within thirty days to dredge the Barataria canal, belonglag to Mr. Barrow, from Bayou Terreboane to Bayou Beck. The canal will be ug fortb feet wide, with a depth of six feet medium low tide water. This canal, when reopen ed, will connect New orleans with the Bayou BIck and Morgan City by an all-watdr route. Grand Jury Returns indictmenuts. rOpeloas.-ln cents wer re turned by the grand Jury against Tanise Castmle, for manluhter, and Johande William and others, for man der. C. A. Delaboaussaye, a young white mane indicted for fotrgery, ban peleaded guilty and been smnentced to fiew Years e s e the esantry. e Was A ~st utert House Tai. GrizE~anl - e-ourt house tax wis ts an (Werehi ma ijlttt ain IS . :" . in . -'- : -."-.. t - ,.. LIVED YEARS WITH IN31IANS Mrs. Mlthilda Coxe Stevenson One of Most Distinguished Women in Government Service. Of the many distinguished women connected with the government service in vmer line of science, industry and art, Mrs. Mathilda Coze Stevenson an honored place, not only be of the reverence in which her irasband's memory is held, but because of her own faithful and successful work in the field of American ethnology. Mrs. Steveinson has devoted nearly 85 years to the scientific investigation of the Indians, making the Zunis her special study. Several years ago she published a massive volume entitled "The Zunis," the most valuable con tribution to this branch of Indian lore, and the standard and guide of all who will persue the subject still more minutely. For more than 20 years Mrs. Steven son spent months among thees chil dren of the forest, and by winning their respect she gained admittance to their secret fraternities, and holds the record of being the first white admitted to these mysterious rites. During the greater part of the year Mrs. Stevenson lives on a ranch about 25 miles from Santa Fe. Here she studies Indian lore and then system atizes results in her reports to the bureau of ethnology. Mrs. Stevenson possesses a fund of entertaining infor mation about the early days of the government's scientific ventures. She is a daughter of the late Alex ander Hamilton Evans, a brilliant law yer of Washington in the antebellum days, and she is a first cousin of Rear Admiral Robley Evans. She became interested in scientiflo investigation when she married a scientist, James Stevenson of Ken tucky, then connected with the Smith sonian institution, her vocation in that honorable career became assured. After her marriage to Mr. Steven son, already a recognized scientist, she began the systematic study of all Mrs. Mathilda Coxe Stevenson. 9 branches that would prepare her to t aid her husband in every branch of the work. She is now making a special study of a branch of the Pueblo Indians known as the Tewa. She makes her ranch near Santa Fe her headquarters and from this point makes excursions into the Indian reservations there about. This ranch, called Tonyo, from the giant of the mountains, is the pride 1 of Mrs. Stevenson's heart. She raises fruit and alfalfa, two of the most profit able crops in the southwest. WORK OF 'SUNDOWN DOCTORS' Government Employees Who Practice Medicine After Their Daily Task Is Done. "Sundown doctors" are an institution peculiar to the national capital. They are physicians who practice their pro fession only after sundown. From 9 in the morning until 4:30 o'clock in the afternoon they are hold ing down desks in various departments of the Federal government. When their daily task for Uncle Sam is done they take up that pertaining to their profession. There are many sundown doctors in the employ of the government at Washington. In many cases medical students with little means secure clerk- ' ships in the departments in order that they may provide themselves with a living while they are finishing their medical courses. Their diplomas thus laboriously 'acquired, they enter tenta tively upon the practice of medicine, , holding on, however, to their govern ment Jobs until they shall be firmly es tablished professionally. Nor are all sundown doctors mere clerks. Not a few of them hold chief ships of division, a circumstance which of course renders the act of resigna tion from the government service a still more unlikely event than in the case of a simple clerk. No matter how earnestly a sundown doctor may tell himself that some day he will quit the department service to engage excln slvely n;athe practice of his profession be generally deceives himseltf Postal Service SeIf-Sustaining. Postmaster Geleral Hitchcock says that before the close of another fiscal year the federal postal establishment wll beome self-sUtaining, and that 4 this will be accomplished without cur- I tltag Ia the slightest the service ren- I lered or lessening to any respect its I eaceaey. -Mr. Hitchcock is also con- I vincdd that peny. postage for first- t class letters abnet by any meaner of t means an Iridescent dream. He is 1 almost prepared to say that one-cent I postage Iu ow- in sight as a practical 1 bhsines proositln-. GETS INDIAN RELICS SMITHSONIAN INSTITUTE SE. CURES COLLECTION. I Four Sacred Packs From Graves of Osage Indians Secured Through Dlplomacy-Scalps Attached to Hawk's Mummy. Officials of the bureau of American ethnology of the Smithsonian Institu tion are highly pleased over an addition which they have just arn tý made to their col lection, and which they regard as one of their choic est treasures. This acquisition com prises four sacred bundles or packs of the Osage In dians, very few of which have ever been obtained by scientists, as they are generally buried with their "keep ers." These sacred bundles are just as precious from a religious standpoint to the Indians as they are from a scientific standpoint to the ethnolo gist, and are extremely hard to ob tain. They represent the holiest fe tish of a tribe, and so zealously are they guarded from any profaantion that they are put in the charge of a special priest or medicine man, who keeps them carefully hidden. At cer tain periods they are opened and the contents worshiped amid the most elaborate ceremonies, but even at these times only the chosen men of the tribe are allowed to see the strangely assorted articles that are kept in the bundles. These Osage packs differ greatly from any that have been found hith erto, both as to the texture of the various wrappings and also as to the nature of the articles they contain. The bundles were secured for the Na tional museum by Francis La Flesche. an educated Omaha Indian, who is in the employ of the bureau of Amer ican ethnology. While at work in Oklahoma he learned of the existence of such bundles and immediately opened negotiations with the Indian to whose care they had been entrust ed. After exercising considerable diplomacy he succeeded in persuading the Indian to part with them and brought them to Washington and turned them over to the bureau of ethnology. One of these was opened with much care by Dr. Walter Hough, one of the curators of the National museum. Dr. Hough found the outside wfapping or sack to be made of a rare Indian fab ric, woven of the silky brow hair of the buffalo. This was bound with a buckskin band decorated with human scalps, and the leg of an eagle. Inside this was a buckskin bag and inside 0 that a haversack made of a material f resembling Chinese matting. In this haversack were a pipe deco rated with scalps, a tobacco bag, a s braided cord made of woolen fabric r and a bundle of buffalo bladders s bound with a thong ornamented with scalp, and one other bundle, which was the most important of all, for it represented the "holy of holies." This bundle was a buckskin case, to which was bound a buckskin object resemb ling a head band. Inside this bundle was found the most sacred object of the pack-the body of a hawk, which had been mummified and then painted a brilliant vermillion and green. At · tached to the tail was a circlet of human scalps. The body was sus pended by a braided band made of woolen fabrics, which evidently had a been obtained by the tribe through r trade with other Indians. One of the three other bundles was found to contain the tattooing appa l ratus and materials used by the Osage Indians, all of which are regarded as i sacred, as the tattooing is a religious ceremony. The other two packs were Isimilar to the one described, but the articles each contained were different. After careful examination by Dr. Hough and his assistants the bundle was restored to its proper condition and carefully stored away, but it will be the subject of long study by the ethnologists, who are gueatly interest ed in the industrial accomplishments of the Indians revealed by the con tents, as well as in the mystical and symbolical meatiings of the pack and 'the various articles it contains. Was Soldier Fifty-Six Years. Thirty years' service is required in the army for retirement, with double time allowed for foreign service. Near ly twice the required period, not count ing foreign double time, was served by David Robertson, who continued in the service 56 years. Three-quarters pay and allowances are awarded to enlisted men on retire ment, but in the case of Robertson, he waas retired on full pay and allowances of a hospital steward, $113.56 a month. This was accomplished by a special bill passed near the close of congress. Negro Woman Lived 124 Years. There died in Washington the other day a woman aged 124 years, accord ing to the record of her life history. Ier namihe was Ann Walker, and she was a negro. She was born in Freder icksburg, Va., in 1786, and lived there for nearly three-quarters of a cen tury, coming to Washington in 1865, where she has lived ever since. She had 44 great-granacildren. One daughter, who is nearly ninety-dve years old, lives in Misaissippf. s; s AS HE ,UNDERSTOOD THEM Apprentice Carried Out Orders of His Employer, but the Result Was Sad. "Now, William," the old farmer said to his new apprentice, "I want thee to paind what I do say to thee, to be f sharp and attentive and to delay not in carrying out my instructions.", "Ay, ay, sur," replied William. "First, now, I want thee to take out the old white mare and have her shod." "Ay, ay, zur," said William, and de He returned two hours later and the a old farmer questioned him. h "Thee hast not been quick, lad," he said, reprovingly, "but if thee hast done thy work as I ordered thee thou h shalt be forgiven. Didat thee have S the mare shod, as I telled thee?" "Ay, ay, zur!" replied William. a beaming. "Didst thou not hear the gun? I shot her myself and I've just d buried her."-London Answers. c WHY BOND'S PILLS r ARE THE-BEST. They are honestly made of best agents, and are small, gentle but ef fective. Bond's Pills relieve the bad ef fects of overeating or drinking. Head aches, Biliousness, Constipation, Sour Stomach, yield readily to one pill, - taken at bedtime. Try them once. . Their merit will convince you. A free sample on request. Mention this paper. BOND'S PHARMACY CO, Little Rock, Ark. Wall Street Anchor. "James R. Keene, at an Easter cele bration in Cedarhurst," said a New t York broker, "once gave, in a dozen words, the Wall street definition of a lamb. "'A lamb,' said Mr. Keene, 'Is one who invests first and investigates afterwards.'" WIRE FENCING Plttsburg Electric Welded fencing for cattle, hogs, poultry, garden and lawn. ROOFINGS of galvanized iron, corrugated and crimped; also rubber roofings $1.00 square and upward. Pidgeon-Thomas Iron Co, 94-96 N. snd St, Memphis, Tenn, Taking a Chance. Employer--So, then, Miss Willing, you're leaving us for good?. Miss Willing-No, sir! . For better or for worse! For your own sake, don't wait until it happens. 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From many a woman's point of view a bird on her hat is worth a back yard full of poultry. Oh! d AwM Did you hear It? How embart rassing. Thesestomach noisesmake you wish you could sink througI the floor. You imagine everyone hears them. Keep a box of CAS. CARETS in your purse or pocket and take a part of one after eating. It will relieve the stomach of gas. m CASCARET'S 10 a box for a week's treatment. Alldruassts. B.ggestsemer !a the wodd-m5lio boxes a mMth. DAISY FLY KILLERb"LL M- Memphis Uhbrilla CS. zas Sta Mat Sta re" or. aLr maDml e DsslPstsr P ia ·It~E·La((I l6. wd irw ..S1BS~Ii