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The True Democrat. LIE L NSON "'ditols MRS. MAY E.IOI[NSON jL 'os Official Journal of the Parish of West Feliciana, the Towns of Bayou Sara and St. Francisville, and of the School Board. We also own and publish the Feli ciana Record, a weekly newspaper for the town of Jackson, La. Ad vertisers will do well to get joint rates for both papers. Entered at the Post Office at St. Frar.cisville, La., as second class mail matter. Subscription $1.50 a Year in Advance. Saturday, November 16, 1912. AND WHAT WILL BE DONE NOW? Those, who so successfully opposed tax revision as planned in the pro posed constitutional atmendrments,may well enjoy their present triumph, for be it soon or late, it will not always continue. Nothing is ever settled un til it is settled right, and the anti quated, clumsy, unequal and therefore unjust system in present use in Lou isiana, and which is continued by grace of the voters Nov. 5, assured ly belongs to the order of things, which not being "right" will call aloud for a better settlement later. How long it will be before that good time of betterment comes, no one can say, but any one who knows Gov. Hall is fully persuaded that he will not acknowledge one defeat as decisive. His personal pledges to the people, the promises of the plat form on which he was elected alike require that he shall leave no stone unturned to accomplish these ends. His honor and his duty are at stake. Furthermore the needs of the pubsic require it. Without being in his confidence, we believe however that the plea set up for the need of a constitutional convention to settle the question, wil: not be heeded by him. The persons making the demands, are for 'he most part, neither friendly to the administration nor distinguished for reform in any degree, hence their influence for good would be as doubt ful in such a convention as their mo tives now are questionable. Desire for a new deal may be safe ly surmised to be behind most of the deliberate calls for a convention, par ticularly as all the platforms of can didates pledged tax reform, and in .o doing, all were tacitly ,pledged to sup port any practicable means to se cure it. A constitutional convention would not be any more representa tive than was the Tax Commissio,, which framed the measure, that a thousand selfish motives consplred to repudiate and destroy. It would probably be less so. No means would be left untried to load it with non progressives. We hope that Gov. Hall will devise a way to secure tax revision without resorting to anything so dangerous as a constitutional convention. A WORD TO THE ERA CLUB. The Era Club is justly indignant, as should be all intelligent, not to say educated, women in Louisiana, over the defeat of the proposed amendment to Article 210 of the State Constitution, permitting women to serve on boards of charity and educa tion. It is made the more insulting that this shameful rebuff should be given the sex at a time when a large vote was cast for an extension of time in favor of the illiterate white male suffragans of the State; and further amendments were approv ed taxing the property of women, al belt they are denied all representa tion in government. This is also in view of the notable services that women have rendered the State in educational and charitable work. It is a bitter commentary on pub lic gratitude and men's sense of jus tice, or would be, if it were true that it was done deliberately and with due consideration of the circumstances.' But because we do not believe that it was done with men's serious thought that we deprecate the Era Club's scheme of retaliation in proposing to bring the lesson home to the suffra gans by attacking the legality of wo men's holding any public position whatsoever in Louisiana, one member even suggesting that women as pub lic school teachers was unconstitution al. While it cannot be denied that this would be a logical direction of the argument and would bring con sternation into the camp of "the ene my," if man be indeed an enemy, yet it is unwise for the women's cause to attempt anything so drastic. Not only because it would cause gen eral confusion and much suffer!nag among persons entirely innocent of offense, but for the paramount reason that it would be unjust to the voters themselves, who in voting agaplst the amendment did so from lack of proper information rather than from any strong opposition to :.:e amendment. Education, not retaliation, is the proper course for the Era Cluti and all others fnterested, This amend meat, like some other amendments n pproposed, which were entirely meri- p torious, but on which the general pub- d lic required instruction, were forced v into the background by the active t campaign necessary for Amendment a No. 1. Press and people were alike s overworked and could not properly e consider every measure offered. s Better luck fiext time ladies. In- 8 stead of planning to conquer by war, c determine to wage a campaign of ed- a ucation, with all the gentle arts of i peace. You can win that way the truest victory. KNAPP AGRICULTURAL DAY. The State Department has sent out t programs for the observance of Knapp { Agricultural Day on the 28th inst. in r all the schools. As one purpose of C these exercises is to reach the peo- T ple, Supt. Hendon has asked the C teachers to try to get some of their I patrons to participate in them and to I make a special effort to get all of t them to attend. The exercises will < be given at 2:30 p. m. in all of the t schools and all who will attend will f have an opportunity to do so. It should be well understood that i the day primarily is named to honor ' the memory of Dr. S. A. Knapp, who l diid such fine pioneer work in point- i ing out to the people of the South i better farming methods. It is fitting that such exercises in memoriam should be devoted to thoughts and subjects along the lines of his life- ` work: improvement in agriculture. The program for the day as outlin ed by the State Superintendent of Education will be very interesting ifu carried out with any enthusiasm, as for example if some of the topics suggested are intelligently treated by the boys and girls themselves, it will certainly be helpful to the community in general. No youth could write on "How to make the land produce better crops," "Value of deep fall ploughing," "Crops that increase the fertility of the soli" without helping himself and helping others as well. No girl could study reasons for the "Value of improved poultry," or "Advantages of screen ing our homes" without receiving personal benefit and imparting like btenefit to others. We hope that Knapp Day exercises will be held throughout the Feliciana. CANNOT SAVE THEMSELVES. The Savior was taunted on the cros by mockers who said: "He say- 1 ed others, Himself He cannot save." That expression often occurs to us as applicable to the press, that of this state particularly. The press is cred ited with great powers, undoubtedly not exaggerated. Even the smallest country newspaper, however much it may be looked down upon as a genern thing is recognized as a most useful instrument when anything of conse quence is to be done, whether for church, charity, education or politics. And the newspaper as a rule responds liberally, cheerfully, earnestly. And how praises go up concerning what it has done, But let the newspaper want any thing! That is something else alto gether already, as Montague Glass would say. The above reflections impress themselves upon us at this tims, be cause the newspapers that have pub lished the proposed constitutional amendments must wait till after Jan unry 1st for their pay. Every one melse connected with the election has nbeen paid, but the newspapers-who •have borne the expense of publishing the amendments, besides giving much ,space free for their exposition, -must wait. This is no new experi ence, nor is it any special reflection Son the Hall administration. Louisi t ana never pays cash in full for pub Slishing constitutional amendments. It is usually part down, at sixty days, and wait two years for the remain derl What other so-called business men e would submit to such an arrangement, I money out two years without inter test? It seems to us that since the t press is so powerful it might exert s some of its power to its own benefit. There should be one of its leisure class at the legislature to see that arrangements are made for the State ato pay its obligations to the newspa ~r. pers promptly. -[ DEFEAT OF ROAD TAX. S The defeat of the proposed road tax f in this parish was not unexpected. In - far it had been a foregone coiclu -sion for weeks before the election. , It was not on account of lack of in S ter& st in the subject of good road.;, . but it was thought by many persons,. - tivu the plan as outlined was inconm g plete, undigested, There was a fear )t that efforts would culminate in sim mply a job for somebody, possibly 's some one who would know very little t about building good roads. This feairl k( militated greatly against success, and ,n addedl strength to that aggregation, e who like the poor are always with us thosa who are dead against new tax e es for any purpose whatever. . It is encouraging to observe that r- the citiaens of Star Hill, tecond to none in the parish for energy and progressiveness, are undismayed by defeat, and have already arranged with the Police Julry to call an elec tion on a road tax for their ward alone. Almost to a man they have signed the petition, asking for an election, and the chances all are that such an election will carry. When the good people of this ward show what can be done with roads, it will prob ably incite the remainder of the par ish to do likewise. AN IMPORTANT POINT. In the disastrous wreck of Sunday night, while there can be no question that the flagman's own admissions convict him of both dilatoriness of movement as well as absolute disobe dience of the company's rules and regulations, other considerations will obtrude themselves. It may be tor much to expect the railroad manage ment to put in a block system where the returns from the traffic possibly do not warrant, this being a point the Railroad Commission should care fully determine, but it may naturally be inquired if the company had pro vidced good engines for this excur sion. Some have said the engine was in !bad condition. If this be true, it is obvious that if the engine had not broken down, no wreck could have occurred. In the investigation of a catastrophe of this character, before deciding upon certain human beings as scapegoats, it Is well to see if thei corporation itself is blameless. In this instance, outsiders like ourselves are not prepared to say whether or no the corporation has done its whole duty in the premises, but this fact should be established. GOOD ROADS BY SUBSCRIPTION. A correspondent sends us a clip ping from the Fayette Chronicle which relates that citizens of that place are assisting by private sub scription in the building of good roads. There can be no doubt that when it comes home to people that they need good roads so much that it is wise for them to spend their own money for them, something w;ll indeed be accomplished. Like it was in the old story, when the farmer determined to reap his wheat him self, it was time for field larks to move. It is noteworthy however that the subscribers to the road fund will let out the work under the contract sys tem, which in itself has served w( ll in producing good roads, and which will be even better when the men, who are paying out their own money, will be the supervisors. SPECIAL MEETING OF ASYLUM BOARD. A special meeting of the board of the East Louisiana Hospital for the Insane was held at Jackson Tues day and the following members pres ent: Gov. L. E. Hall, vice president; J. W. Lea, J. W. Nicholson, P. G. Borron, H. W. White, Max Samson, Julius Adler. The meeting was called for the pur pose of discussing the building opf a criminal insane building-the lost leg islature made an appropriation of $40 S000 and the funds were not available - under the promises laid down unt!L 1'1913, but Governor Hall made suita Sble arrangements whereby this •amount could be had at once and the iwork commenced. I he board also bought the antebel lum Taylor place and on its lands will be 'rccted this building. There is a fin? old covered slate building that will be converted into suitable Squarters for 60 inmates. It will be steam-heated, have water-works and -all modern sanitary equipment nec essary. This will carry out the co!o ny idea, for there is a fine pressed brick and concrete colony building now in successful operation just op posite the site now selected for the criminal insane building. After the two buildings are completed the pop e ulation will be about 200. .t - The city press argues for a land Ie show in New Orleans. The very 4 thing. That city has for so long eishown people )at Mardi Gras( how to ,.spend money, that it is good for that alone is a general impression: a city of pleasure. But to show peoplehow they can make money and save mon ey is a better mission, and one from Iwhich all Louisiana would profit. ,- The investigation by officials rf .the Y. & M. V. railroad in the re i- cent wreck met, Wednesday, finding ;, that Flagman M. H. Cunningham wa:. a. guilty of negligence in not observing 1- the company's rules, therefore prin r cipally responsible for the wreak. - The conductor, W. D. Stinson, is also v blamed for not seeing that the flag e man did his duty, and Assistant - Trainvnaster R. W. McBurney for not d assuring himself that the conductor 1, was doing his duty. The Railroad s Commission,assisted ;by the Interstate c- Commission, have yet to pass upon the case. o ADVERTISE EVERY WEEK. INDIAN PAPER SOLD AS JUNK. Its rarest historical treasure-the plant of the old Cherokee Advocate, a paper which for halt a hundred years was a part of the national life of the Cherokees, was recently sold by that nation. It was the only newspaper in the world printed in an Indian language, in Indian characters. It was sold as junk because there was no further use for it and no place to store it. This once powerful agent, now a souvenir, was purchased at public auction by J. S. Holden, editor of the Fort Gibson Post, more as a matter of sentiment than anything else. He paid $151.00 for it, which was more than anyone else would bid. rime was when Cherokee politicians would have paid hundreds of times that much merely to have controlled :'. policy. The Cherokee Advocate was first published in Neuechotah, Ga., prior to the migration of the Cherokees to Indian Terrtiory in 1836. Elias Bou dinot was its first editor. Its mission was to disseminate the teachings of the Bible and further Christianity among the Cherokees. When the Cherokees moved to In dian Territory the plant of the Cher okee Advocate was brought along, just as if a part of the records of the nation, but it was not until 1852 that its publication was resumed in the new country. It was published continuously until the Civil War, when it again suspended. Then the Cherokee national council raised money for its support. A number of men, most of them Cherokees, tried to keep the paper going, but it was a costly experiment and all of them failed to make it a success. It was largely a matter of sentiment with them. The field for a paper of this character had vanish ed. The types for the paper were man ufactured by a type foundry in Chic ago and were very expensive, the molds having to be made especially for this one order. In order to keep the paper going it was necessary to take young Cher okees and teach them to set type. No one except Cherokees could read the characters, of which there were 86. The Cherokee national council saw to it that there were always as many as four compositors in the na tion who could set this type. It is not generally known that it is a pretty custom of the Altar Guild of Grace Church after each Sunday morning service to place the flowers, that adorn the altar, upon the grave of their former rector, Rev. W. K. Douglks. It is fitting that there should be this weekly act of remem brance for hiin, who like his Master "went about doing good" all the days of his earthly life. Much needed rain fell Tuesday night, followed by weather slightly colder. 5 or 6 doses 666 will break any case of Chills & Fever; and if taken then as a tonic the Fever will not retrrn. Price 25c. The Love Letters of a Confederate General We begin in the November issue a series of real love-letters written over fifty years ago by one of our national heroes to his sweetheart dur ing 'the period of '61 to '65. This great general will go down to posteri ty as having accomplished one of the most brilliant feats of arms in the history of the world. He was as great a lover as he was a general, therefore these letters combine au thentic history and exquisite ro. mance. They sound a human note that no other work of literature has done in a decade; it is war, it is ro mance, it is history, it is literature. You simply can't afford to miss this wonderful series-an inside story of the Civil War now published for the first time and containing all the freshness of a contemporary happen ing. 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THE YOUTH'S COMPANION, 144 Berkeley St., Boston, Mass. New Subscriptions Receievd at this Office. Rub-My-Tiam will cure you, LET THE TRUE DEMOCRAT PRINT THE LABELS FOR YOUR SYRUP CANS. -If#+I-r+6+HIrf i# )l+,#, + #H4,4,al "LITTLE ADS." I will be in the market for sweet potatoes the year round. See me for prices and shipping inetructions. W. R. DANIEL, St. ]Francisville, ia. FOR SALE-Red Rust-Proof Seed Oats and Pea Vine Hay.-JAS. P. BOWMAN. LOST STRAYED OR STOLEN One black mare mule about 11 years old, 15% hands. Suitable reward for her return to J. F. IRVINE CO.. Ltd. FOR SALE--A few tons of fine sugar cane. For particulars apply to MRS. H. M. WILLIAMS, St. Francis ville, La. Public is requested not to purchase corn from tenants on Rosedown, In heritance and Hazlewood plantations until settlement for rents has been made. JAS. P. BOWMAN. 5oct8t. FOR SALE---Grade Hereford Cattle. Lespedeza Hay and Seed. EDWARD BUTLER, St. Francisville, La. SOLDIERS' CHRISTMAS BOXES. Miss Lise Allain, custodian La. Div U. D. C., is sending out the annual appeal for the Christmas feast for the veterans at Camp Nicholls, the State Confederate Home. In a per sonal letter to West Feliciana Chap ter, Miss Allain says: "I hope you will be able to respond as gener ously as you have always done." This will serve as a reminder ta those who give so freely, each year, to cheer the old soldiers' declining years. Donations of the usual kind will be received at this office for shipment to the Home, with the pro viso that every thing be sent in be fore Dec. 1. 50Oct.4t. 00000000000000000 0 0 0 FOR SALE. o o 1 self-measuring 120 gal "Bow. o o ser" oil tank, cost $60, sell o o $15; 1 Standard computing o 0 scale, cost $45, sell $15; 2 dou- o o ble-story counter show cases, o o each $5. o o ESTATE H. W. JONES, o o Wilhelm, La. o o 0 0000(,000000000000 Don't forget when fall house-clean ing to send your old magazines to this office to be sent to the State Farm a Angola. No reading matter has been sent there since the high water, and the supply must be run ning short. As soon as a box can be tilled, it will be shipped. Mrs. Wnm. Kahn has sent in donations of read ing matter. SUCCESSION OF FREDERICK T. WIMBISH, DECEASED, State of Louisiana, Parish of West Feliciana, 24th Jud. Dist. Court. Notice of Application for Letters of Administration. Notice is hereby given to all whom it doth or may concern to show cause within ten days from the pres ent notification, if any they have or can, why the application of Waldo Beale, praying for Letters of Admin istration on the above entitled and numbered succession, ,hould not be granted. Witness the Hon. Gco. J. Wood side, Judge of the 24th Judicial Dis trict of Loulsiana, this 7th day of November, 1912. E. S. MUSE, Clerk of said Court. TRESPASS NOTICES. The Flower and Magnolia places are hereby posted against all hunt ing, under penalty of trespass. No exceptions. W. J. FORT. Chas. P. Johnston, who ran for state land office, has .been appointed cattle inspector. If there must be one, we should rather see him have the place than 'most any one else. Senator Foster's friends want to see him Collector of the Port. But Senator Broussard has a few words to say about that. A mushroom plant, recently estab lished in New Orleans, has already outgrown its capacity. Verbum sap. ADVERTISE EVERY WEEK.