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SOfcicial Journal of Washington Parish and the Town of Franklinton. VOLUME 2. :t: ,. . ...; FRANKLINTON, LA.. THURSDAY, MAY 41911. .. . . . . . .... . . . .N U M B ER.. . .. . . ... .. . . . ...•. WHERE GOLD ACCUMULATES fueia Passes All Other C=u t rics In Hoarding Up the Pre olious Metal. Inuten years Russia has added $3~0, 000,000 to its stock of gold, raih;i'n :he total in the treasury to $704,:.o ,r Iven France has been pass' d i!. the ntest of accumulation: in ten years e Bank of France has incra:r dl its hupply of the metal by $229,0o,"000, raising the total to $675,0000.00. One ear ago Russia held less than France, but in the interval the former has pined $66,000,000, whil( the latter has lost $63,000,000. It may be learned with some surprise that Italy ranks third as an accumulator of gold since 1900, its stock having risen from $77,000,000 to $194,000,000, a gain of $117,000,000. Germany has gained only a little over $5.00000,000, while the Bank of England's increase has aver aged only $3,000,000 per annum, or less than $33,000,000 in all. Its gold supply today stands just under $200,000,000, Which is exceeded not only by Russia mad France, but by Austro-Ilungary, and Is only $5,000,000 above Germany's, and $7,000,000 above Italy's stock, while, of course, it is little more than half the amount held by the Now' York clearing house banks alone, to $ay nothing of the billion odd dollars that is retained in the United States treasury. Twenty years ago France held only $263,000,000, Germany $1^S, 000,000. England $113,000,000 and Austria.Hungary the insignificant to "tl of $2,000,00, against $227,000,000 today. At home, the New York clear tag house banks and the treasury de partment have added $782,Y41,275 to their holdings in ten years. SHOW TO WIN POPULARITY wdglst Method Is to Be Interested in The People One ' Meets. One of the surest methods of win alag popularity is to be interested in the people one meets. Not a lip in terest merely, but a deep, actual in terest that takes one out of one's self and one's narrow circle and for the moment places one in the midst of another's sorrow or joy and lets one lee life from her standpoint. A girl who can listen sympathetical ly. and with the real interest to the details of another girl's wardrobe and the list of her admirers has the germ d unlversal popularity already de It may seem a trivial and tiresome matter and she may feel conscious all the time that she has far more nteresting things to tell, but, whether er not she realizes it, she is laying the foundation stone of friendship. learts, after all, are very much alike, sad each one has the craving for sym pathy securely planted in its depth. .But nothing irritates one more and 'taras one from another's personality so quickly as the simulated and insin ere interest which, eventually, is al ways detected. The girl who says with deep emotion and with the soft pedal stop of apparent sympathy twned on, "My dear, how dreadful!" to" the confidences of a sickening heart, and then hastens to break in with some frivolous fact about her self or her social engagements, is not apt to win much affection, and cer tainly not any lasting love. Meerschaum Getting Scarce. The valuable material from which meersehaum pipes are made is con tinually getting scarcer and the large Inutry which has flourished in Vien na, Bdapest, Nuremberg, Paris and in the' Thuringlan town of Ruhla seems magigered. The manufacture of ·aeachium pipes is much more Im portanmt than is generally supposed. The town of Ruhla alone has been ex portlng In round figures pipes to the yale of about $1,500,000 annually. The finest grade of meerschaum Is found near Eski-Scheir, in A\natolia, Asia Minor, in a hollow, which in early days was a lake, in which the meet schanm was precipitated. Meerschaum Is also found in other places, including' .Thebes, Egypt, the Bosnlan Mountains in the neighborhood of Grubschitz. and Nueadorif in Moravia and in some see *J* of Spain and Portugal. S Damp-Proof Shoes. When one is sentive to dampness, Syet dislikes to wear rubbers, the only alternative to most women seems to be rubber soles. The chief objection -n tuch soles is that they are heavy for the house and necessitate the chang g of shoes. A better way to keep mat dampness is to rub the soles of shoes with boiled oil. Dip a soft rag in the oil and rub lightly over the bot tem and edges of the soles, then turn Sthe shoes upside down to dry thor . eghly. Not only does this treatment keep out dampness, but if repeated ence a week when the shoes are new will make them last much longer and prevent crackling. As oil is inflam ~ mible, it should be bought' already boiled from an oil shop. This is much better than attempting to prepare it at home, especially as the boiling ope . aematiois are attended with some dare WHERE ARE THE TIPPETS1 ' Once All Boys Wore Them, Now They Are Seldom Seen, Says Oldsby. "Why," said Mr. Oldsby, "why, Pd i:l:e to know, don't boys wear tip;~ts ar.y more? When I was a boy evrY boy wore a knitted wollen tiIppet. Some of these were white, some of a them were red. some of them were of mixed colors. Some wre finished j with fringe of the same material on th.- ends, more of them had on , :r'h 3 end a tassel made of the wool; the Sfringe used to get ragged with wt'ar I and rough handling or one or loth of s the tassels on a tasselled tippet was sure soon to get torn off. 1 "Many of these tippets that the f boys wore were knitted at home by I thir mothers; many of them were bought in store; every dry goods store kept tippets, you could always see a line of them hanging up in the store; and in those days every boy wore one. They would take a turn or two of t their tippet around their neck and then make one loose tie in it, not a knot. and let the ends hang dlown from front or back. See a lot of Loys . in winter going to or from school or but sliding down hill or skating and you'd see around the necks of these boys as many tippets. "But where are the tippets now, and why did the boys stop wearing them? Boys are not any hardier now than they used to be, are they? Or did they come to think that tippets looked girlish, sissified?" SURE TEST OF GOOD MAN One Who Will Stop to Let Boys Hitch Their Sleds to His Wagon. We say he is a good man who will stop and let the boys hitch their sleds to his wagon. We saw one the other day. A big smile that seemed to warm the air around broke from his face as he waited for the boys to hitch on. The clatter they made and their happy voices were as music to his soul. Then he drove on, looking back to see that all was going well. He re membered he was a boy once, and how much delight there was in hitch ing on and being pulled. At timtts he would laugh outright. ile. for;r .t the $72 he had in his pocket, the pr;o ceeds of two swine that he had hauled in. His heart was on bigger things- making others happy. And he thought of his own boy back at home, how he I would enjoy being with those boys, 1 and he wished he was. And so he rode on, smiling and look ing back, anf occasionally hitting the E horses to make the sleds jerk, and i hear the boys shout their happiest, t when they held on the tighter or dropped off in the snow and raced I again to get a tighter grip. There is c a scene that beats a banquet or an E inauguration out of all reckoning, and r there is in that wagon an old man 1 who is one of the princes of man" I kind.-Ohio State Journal. i London's Overhead Fog. The partial fogs in which certain I portions of London have been sub. I merged during the last week or two culminated yesterday in a black pall, which covered the metropolis and the suburbs for a radius of from six to seven miles. It was of the variety known as the "overheated fog." blot ting out the light of the sun. but bringing none of the unpleasant con- 1 sequences associated with the Lon don "particular." The air near the ground was fairly clear, even when day was turned into night. As is usual in such circumstances, the can opy of fog was of varying density. ,I Though there was a dead calm as far as the tops of the highest trees, cur rents of air higher carried the smoke pall, now In one direction, now in an other. To this reason were due the curious effects produced of twilight sutiddenly merging into complete dark ness, which was exchanged half an -hour or so later for a piebald dawn. London Chronicle. Connecticut Farmers Against Rabbit. Most assuredly the proposed protec tion of rabibts by imposing a limit upon catches and by lessening the opening season will not be approved by farmers and fruit growers. Under present limitations rabbits have mul tiplied until they have become almost Sa plague. Their principal offense is the gird ling of fruit trees, to which they are strongly addicted even when the ground is not snow-covered. So far - as known they serve no useful pur Spose except as food; their pelts are - next to valueless. bringing only a / cent each and "slow sale" even at I that price. Farmers bring the addi Stional charge that rabbit hunters tear I down and do 'not reconstruct their 'fences, and this complaint is founfred Supon facts.--Bridgeport Farmer. 1v,-,.r s' r':e tr'.- -,,.,;; ,rly placed ,. m':.Pt a:is to 1 e ;'alue of the Sfa;,A and to the comfort and happ tenas of the dwellers thereon. CLMEST MAN IN WORLD Naws That He Has Inherited Big Fortune Does Not Change McCluskey. A few days ago the calmest man in the world arrived here, says the New York correspondent of the Cincinnati Times-Star. He is John McCluskey, who, for his Eixty years has been a farm laborer in Scotland. Some months ago his brother James died in this city, and left a large fortune of ~everal thousand dollars to the broth or he had not seen since they bade each other goodby in the heather, 40 years ago. Andrew Wilson, an attor ney of this city, was named as the ad ninistrator. It was his duty to find the lucky brother. "He was slicing turnips for the sheep on his employ er's farm, up among the mist clad hills of Scotland," said Mr. Wilson, "when I found him. I had traced his life from the old farm on which he was born step by step through the 40 years of ill-paid and often most unpleasant labor before I approached him. It was not dlfilcult for he had held but a few positions in all those years. Every one in the countryside knew him. "'Are you John McCluskey?' I asked. "'I am,' said he without taking his eyes from the turnips and the knife. "'Your brother James is dead in New York,' said I. "'A weel, aweel, all men must e'en die,' said John McCluskey, slicing away. "'He left you a great fortune,' said I. 'I want you to come to the house with me so that I can establish your identity and arrange for you to enter into possession of the estate.' "'I'll talk to ye at saex o'clock, young mon,' said he. 'I'l be busy till then. Tb$y fortune will keep, but thay tilr will not.' " DISEASE SPREAD BY INSECTS House Fly, Mosquito and Bedbug Are Chief Sources of Con tagion. A Texas physician has demon strated that smallpox, admittedly a filth disease, is communicated only by the bite of the bedbug. That yellow fever and malaria are com municable holy by bite of an in fected mosquito is also an established fact. The typhoid scourge has its in ception in the filth that is distributed by the common house fly. Rats scat ter the bubonic plague, and tubercu losis is contracted generally through breathing the germs that are carried in dust. With these facts known It would seem an easy task to reduce or eliminate the hazard to life that is found in these dread diseases. Mosqui toes may be eliminated by proper drainage of stagnant pools or by oil ing the surface of such pools. They do not breed in considerable numbers save in dead water. Those that are not eliminated by precautionary meas ures may be shut out of the homes by proper screening. House fdies breed in trash and garbage. Destruction of these breeding places will to a large extent do away with the fly. Those that are left can be shut out of the homes by proper screening. With knowledge of the facts concerning the origin of disease the people are able to make plans for their safety. Con certed effort is necessary, however, and the civic pride of every communi ty should be enlisted in warfare against known dangers such as are found in the presence of flites and mosquitoes. Lace Whistcoats. A lace manufacturer at New Saw ley, near Derby, is making lace-trim ,med waistcoats for men. He is usinf ight dress net over tinted clotl. backgrounds. A black net over a dark purple cloth, for morning wear and a white net over pale green cloth for evening wear, are two of the comrn binations. The effect is said to be both rich and artistic. A Nottingham lace manufrcturer interviewed as to the prospect of lace waistcoats finding favor with the pub lic, said that while the trade woul, naturally welcome any innovatior which would tend to create a deman for lace net, men's taste in dreuL would require a good deal of educat ing up to the new garments. The sentiment against the ornamentatio' of clothing was strong in the masc: line mlnd.--London Dally Mall. How Pennsylvania Boy Caught Carr It isn't safe for the carp in the We: Branch to take a nap. Clarence 8her fer, a ten-year-old boy of Muncy Dar: caught a 20-pound German carp r cently by a unique method. Clarence said that he was walkir~ along the shore when he happened "' see the big fish "sitting near the ba,: asleep." He waded out to the fish a putting both artis around it threw ' to the bank, he says, and It "nev-. woke up until it hit." After it t "wake up," though, he had a tuss! but finally got it back in the field ane then took it home.-Pennsylvanfia Reci ord. Sheriff Sales. 26th. Judicial District Court, State of Louisiana, Parish of Washington. Farmers Merchants BSank Vs. No. 1738 J. B. Flanagan. Notice is hereby given that by vir tue of an order of seizure and sale is sued out of the above named court in the matter of Farmers & Merchants Bank vs, no. 1738 J. B. Flanagan dated 27th day of Maich, 1911, and to me directed for execution, I have seized and will offer for sale and sell to the last and highest bidder at the principal front door of the court house on Saturday, May 27th, 1911 between the legal sale hours for judi cial sales the following described property to wit: 27 1-2 acres of land in N. W. 1-4 of N. E. 1-4 Sec, 36 Tp. 2 S. R. 13 E. St. Hel. Mer. beginning at old Qr. stob between Sees. 25 and 36, thence S. 1-2 deg. W. 8.17 chs., thence S. 89 deg. 52 min. E. 6.52 chs., thence S. 1-2 deg. W. 8.17 chs., thence S. 89 deg. 52 min. E. 13.06 chs., thence N. 1-2 deg. 16.34 chs., thence N. 89 deg. 52 min. W. 19.58 chs. to point of beginning, less one half acre sold to N. O. G. N. R. R. off N. E. corner as right of way. Term of sale: Cash with benefit of appraisement. This 2th0 day of Apr. 1911. JOE N. MAG EE SHERIFF -- 4--- 26th. Judical District Court, State of Louisiana, Parish of Washington. Ed & Phillip Baham Versus No. 1103 Brooks Scanlon Co. Notice is hereby given that by vir ture of a writ of fieri facias is sued out of the above named court in the matter of Ed & Phillip Baham vs. Brooks Scanlon Co., dated March 25th, 1911 and to me directed for execution, I have seized and will offer for sale and sell to the last and highest bidder at the principal front door of the court' house on Saturday, May 27 1911 between the legal sale hours for judi cial sales the following described prop erty to-wit: 135 acres of land, S. 1-2 of S. W. 1-4 and 35 acers in N. 1-2 of S. W. 1-4, Sec 14, Tp. 2, 8. R. 9, St. Helena Meridan Terms of sale cash with benefit of appraisement. This 20th day of April 1911. JOE N. MAGEE, Sheriff. 1 Orleans Hotel M. K. SCHILLING, Prop. 121 St. Charles Street New Orleans, La. European and American Plan. Comfortable, clean rooms and Jirst class meals, day or week, at moderate prices. Centrally located, half block from Canal Street. Convenient to shopping district, theatres, and depots, Cars to all parts of the city. Ladies will be met at train if requested. New Orleans 6reat Northern R, R. Fast Freight Line BETWE EN Franklinton, La. AND New Orleans, La. Jackson, Miss. Columbia, Miss. Tylertown, Miss. Folsom, La. Cheap Round Trp Tickets on Sale Dally; also Week end Rates in Effect. PASSENGER SCHEDULE IN EF9PECT DECEMBER 18, 1910. DAILY North Bound. South Bound No. 36-10:09 a.m. No. 39-2:48 p. m. DAILY-EXCEPT SUNDAY No. 38-7:45 p. m. No. 37-5:49 a. m. SUNDAY ONLY North Bound South Bound No. 40-9:00 p. m. No. 4147.20 a.m. For further information, apply to local Tioket Agent, or to M. J. McMabon, G. P. A., or G. B. AUBURTIN, A.G.P.A., 941 Maison Blanche, Naw Orleans, L h. Long Distance Phone,-xaln 4u8. VEZY woma't ho is well ostea buys only trade-marked goods. She takes no risks, for t.e red utation of a successful 7roduct is too valuable to allow any deterioration. Thousands of women buy . ueen ,Luality' shoes silnfily because years of ex~erience Aas taught tAem that any shoe stamged "Q een Quality" is sure to be absolutely good. Burris Bros. Ltd., Fran~linton, Louisiana Guard the Family Health Health is often endangered by unsanitary cooking atemon Physicians have found that cancer is caused by enamel ware chipping of and initating the stomach. If you have children or invalids in the family beware of cheap cooking utensils that crack, scale, peel o, tamish and rust. Disease germs lurk in the worn places and there is further danger of tainting the food. Health is too precious to take risks with it. Besafe. Use "1892" Pire Spun Aluminum Cooking Utensils which are guaranteed for 15 years constant service and will never spoil food nor endanger health. This new ware is featherweight, beautiful, easy to clean-oes not tarnish nor rust. The slight extra cost is more than made up by long service and absolute safety., aook For Trade mark on Every Piece The Maltese cross with the words Pure Illinois '"1892w Aluminum-the original, insures that r you get the genuine. There are imitations:,' so be sure this trade mark is on every piece. For Sal. By Robed Babington, Ltd. FRANKLINTON, LOUISIANA Notice. We will' not crush corn nor grind meal any more. Wasllisrt Mr Lue. & Sup, C.., LI FOR SALE-6ne 35 Horse Power Portab e Boiler, one 9' Horse Power Enaine for sale for $800.00. Apply '; . Po. Box 155, " " Blogalusa, Il