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A WIDE-AWAKE HOME NEWSPAPER--PUBLISHED EVERY SATURDAY--SUBSCRIPTION PRICE, $2 A YEAR VOLUME XL. DONALDSONVILLE, LA., SAT RDAY, 1ULY 8, 1911.UMBER 48 PROFESS. NAL AND BISIlNESS DRY HOODS, GROCERIES, ETC. C KLINE, corner Crescent Place and .J. Houmas street, dealer in dry goods, notions, boots and shoes, groceries,-pro visions, corn, oats and bran. 'Phone 152. PHYSICIANS Ti:B' :. SIMS, PHYSICIAN AND SURGEON. i. iOf lfe in Houmas street, between SIber e Istreet and Crescent Place. Tele phone 90. IR. T. HII. HANSON, PHYSIcIAN. Of-. 'l iace: Railroad avenue, between Clai borne and Opelousas streets. 'Phone 240. R. J. D. .IANSON, PHYSICIAN. Of U fice and residence: Lessard street, between Nicholls avenue and Iberville street. Telephone 54. OCULISTS T.R. T. J. DIMITRY, OCULIST. Of f Sice oi Sundays at Cobb's Hotel, Donaldsonville, 11 a. m. to 4 p. m. New , Orleans office, 714-718 Audubon Building, 1 to 5 p. m. TATTORNEYS AND NOTARIES 'R J. YE.A, ATrORNEY- AT LAW AND ,.iB NOTARY PUBLIC. Office With R. Mc Culloh, corner Railroad and Nicholls av, nues. Telephone 313. SONDIRAI , GUION & MARCHAND, S ATTORNEYS AT LAW AND NOTARIES PUBLIC. Office in Nicholls avenue, opposite court h;ouse. 'Prompt attention paid to collec tions and civil business. Telephone 133. 'DIUND MAURIN, ATTORNEY AT LAW, A4:NOTARY PUBLIC AND JUSTICE OF PEACE. Office, 308 Opelousas street, opposite the onaildsonville High SchooL The office of justice of the peace will in no way inter fere with my practice in district courts or j.ustite" courts other than the one over .which I preside, Telephone 3-2. I.ALEInB 0. WEBER,ATTroRNEY AT LAW SAND: NOTARY PUBLIC; Office in Rail road avenue, opposite the Donaldsonville High School. Telephone 109-2. c. PONS - Dealer in - Old Scrap Iron Highest Prices Paid for Brass, Copper, Old BRope and Sacks FOR SALE Clarifiers, evaporators, :strike pans and valves Complete 5-foot mill, six rollers and outfit Complete 4-foot mill, 3 rollers and outfit Steam condensers and pumps, good as new Pulleys and pipes, etc The Nicholls F. ROGGE, Prop. Corner Mississippi and St. Patrick Sts. A Popular Resort for Gentlemen A thorough and select line of Wines, Liquors and Cigars at the bar. Ice cold Beer always on draught Pool and Billiard Hall in Connection A private room for meetings and so cial gatherings. Courteous treat ment to our patrons. IF YOU WANT .. Life Insurance It will pay-you to see L. W. WAR RICK before taking out a policy with anyone, as he represents the PACIFIC MUTUAL LIFE INSUR ANCE COMPANY. Read Their Famous Disability Clause: "Should the insured become totally and permanently disabled through accident or other cause at any time. the premium payments cease and the insured receives the face amount of the policy in ten equal annuol installments." See WARRICK, 125 Lessard St. DONALDSONVILLE, LA. REST AND HEALTH TO MOTHER AND CHILO. M : . MWzeow's SooTurIIN SYRUP has been used for over SIXTY YEARS by MILLIONS of .MOTHiRS for their CHILDREN WHILE T E..THIN. with PERFECT SUCCESS. it SOOTHES t~e CHILD, SOFTENS the GUMS. ALLAT.YSa PAIN ; CURES WIND COLIC, and i, t'lhe best remedy for DIARRHU-A. It is eI.· ,Ws.ti.tly irmoeat& Be sure and ask for Mrs, Wineslows Soothing Syrup.'' and take so oiier i daL 'Twpj -5iceata bohtl.. ~ij ý..., .. , _ =:! The Heights at the Top are always commanded by those who produce the best. Over fifty years of continued Quality and Purity made, "The Old Reliable" ' Budweiser the unchallenged King of All Bottled Beers. Its world-wide reputation is due to its thorough ageing, mildness and exquisite taste which helped to win its Popularity Everywhere. Bottled ont Donaldsonville Ice Co. . Anheuser-Busch Brewery Distributors St. Louis, Mo. Donaldsonville Louislana Prompt Service Free Delivery Every Merchant ." Has His Peculiarity About Conducting Business @ Our great desire is to provide for our custom ] •ers the VERY BEST in the way of @ Fresh Crisp Edibles @.. to be had, and give our customers the bene- @ Sfit of close figures. Everything new in the grocery line is represented in our stock. Let us have a share of your trade. Let us add you to our GROWING LIST of SATISFIED CUSTOMERS * Chas. Maurin, The Leading Grocer © . Mississippi Street @oo::@:@:©:©:@: o:@::4@:@:@:@::@:@:@::@:@ Silliman College for Girls Clinton, La. An endowed institution of high standard, located in a beautiful hill country. Three handsome Buildings and large, well shaded Campus. Electric lights, steam heat, splendid water supply and sani tas7 bath rooms. It offers fill classical, scientific and literary courses, with special advantages in music, art, expression and stenography. A diploma entitles holder to first grade teacher's certificate in the public schools of Louisiana. We emphasize noble and refined Christian womanhood. Individual attention is given to each student's needs by thorqugh teachers, and we maintain a itridt standard of requirements. Free scholarships are granted a limited number who need financial assistance. Some students pay half expenses by taking duties. Silliman College is positively unexcelled in its careful and painstaking administration. Sixtieth year begins Sept. 13th, 1911. Write at once for beautifully illus trated catalogue. H. H. Brownlee, President, Clinton, La. Southern Exhibit in Washington. The Southern Commercial Congress is preparing to open in Washington, on October 1, a permanent exhibit of Southern products, manufactures and resources. A floor space of 5500 square feet, in one great room, will be used in the new Southern Build ing. It will be accessible from 15th street and also from the corridors of the building, and will be made one of the points of interest to be seen by all visitors to Washington. The mural decorations will be used to emphasize the points of resource in which the south leads the nation: coast line, navigable streams, water powers, rainfall, wet lands, soils, growing hours, forests, minerals. The sixteen columns of the great room will each be used to emphasize the important features of one of the sixteen states embraced in the work of the Southern Commercial Con gress. The exhibit will be so arranged as to impress every casual visitor with the main features of the south's corn ing greatness, while detailed inform ation will be ready for those who wish to study the subject more deep ly. Southern manufacturers and or ganizations working for community development have unafimously hailed the idea as bringing the Southern Commercial Congress nearer to the realization of its slogan "For ' a Greater Nation Through ea Greater South." Live Wires. Norway and Spitzbergen are now connected by wireless. Tungsten, used An making metal filament lamps, is being mined ex tensively in Nova Scotia. The electric fireless cooker is here. Electricity supplies the required amount of heat, and the fireless cooker stores it away until the cook ing is done. Birds, it seems, rarely if ever get accustomed to the sound of electric bells so as not to be startled at the ringing of one. Knowing this, jhe head master of an Austrian school has patented an electric scarecrow, in which a clock makes the connec tion at irregular intervals to electric bells scattered over his orchard. C. T. T. C. "Cheaper than the Cheapest." This season's goods just received in an the different departments. Save mo ney by buying your goods at Cheap Tony's. Lowest prices for high class goods. Call and be convinced. Col. A. D. Vega. MICHHL'S PLATFORII. Gubpnatorial Candidate Denounces Ballot Box Stuffing, Advocates Adoption of Income Tax,. Wants Lobby Abolished and, Promises Not to Boss Legislature. Following is a brief outline of the platform recently issued by Hon. John T. Michel, candidate for gov ernor of Louisiana: He urges the keeping of appropria tions within the revenues; the abol ishment of useless offices; consoli dation of offices and commissions where possible; reorganization where necessary and frequent accounting to the government. He favors" reform of the system of assessment and taxation and the segregation of state and local tax ation. He urges adoption of the income tax. He does not believe it will af fect the marketable value of Louisi ana bonds. He recommends liberal provision for education and the establishment of agricultural schools. He is against the evil of dual of fice-holding. He denounces ballot box stuffing and demands honest elections. He opposes interference by the ex ecutive with the legislature pind pledges himself never to try to force the passage or defeat of legislation. I-e favors conservation, but de mands reform of the game and fish commission, the wiping out of the board's game wardens and the rele gation of the duties of wardens to the constables. He desires the lobby driven from Baton Rouge. He declares for local option on the liquor question and strict regu lation where the saloon is licensed. He recommends a corrupt prac tices act and a resolution by the State Central Committee requiring candi dates to publl campaign contribu tions and disbursements. He wants better- care of the in sane and generous provision for Con federate veterans and fair laws for capital and labor; He makes a plea for land reclama tion and efforts to bring hither de sirable immigration. He urges proper provision for the two state hospitals, further lopping off of the executive patronage and the printing of election tickets by the p~.' - c=-=in order to still further re d-uce the printing burden of the state. He favors federal control of the levees, indorses the present good roads laws and pledges himself to do all in his power to carry them into effect and proposes that women shall be made eligible for service "on boards of education. He Wanted to Live. When the ship Poisat went down off Malabon, Philippine Islands, re cently, Alejandro Lorenzo jumped clear of the wreck. After an hour's swimming he found a hatch cover on which he rested. Then he start ed toward San Nicholas, pushing the hatch cover ahead of him. He was nearly successful and was just reaching shallow water when the tide carried him out to sea again. As' night came the wind increased and the waves tossed him and his hatch cover back and forth until he thought it would be impossible for him to hold his shupport, but toward midnight he found that he was be ing washed toward the Cavite shore. Just as his hope was strong the tide and the wind carried him to sea again. He struggled against them, but was swept out. Something brushed against his leg. He thought it a shark and screamed in fear. "It did not touch me again or I should have gone mad." The water was cold, the night dark and .the rain beat down on him. He heard a cry in the darkness and pushed. his hatch cover in the direction- from which it sounded. Toward morning he found a Filipino boy, another sur vivor of the wreck, clinging to an oil box. They drifted together. When daylight came, they could see boats and they shouted until they were exhausted, but could not make themselves heard or seen. They were tortured by thirst. Salt water got into their mouths. They drifted all day. Night came again and shortly after dark they saw the lights of a breakwater and with new hope noted that they grew larger and more distinct. They were being washed in again. The boy was taken with cramps, lost his hold on the oil box and went down. The man was washed toward the middle of the bay and drifted during the night. At dawn he was almost ready to give up, but the wind and waves headed him for the east shore and he took heart. Then he saw boats and used his last strength in try ing to reach them. The boatmen saw him, were able to get to him in time, and picked him out of the water. There was not much of ' the man left and he was shrieking for water as he collapsed in the boat. He had been forty-eight hours. on a rough sea in a bad storm with a hatch cover for support. He had been; maddened by' fear of sharks and by the lost chances of rescue. A~s he lay on a pallet, after he found himself able to talk again, his res cuers spoke of his wonderful endur ance. He said of course he had done the best he could. He wanted to live, he said.--Chicago Tribune. 5 or 6 doses "666" will cure any case of Chills and Fever. Price 25c. Sweet Potatoes. This crop has not heretofore had the recognition that it deserves at the hands of Louisiana farmers. This has probably been due, in part, to the ease with which the crop is grown, to the limited market, and to an over=emphasis of certain so called money, crops. Now, however, the Louisiana Experiment Stations have shown that the sweet potato is-, one of the most profitable crops for the production of hogs, and more attention and a larger, acreage will probably be devoted to it. Also, the demand for canned potatoes is rap idly increasing and the general mar ket is expanding. We may, therefore, look for a largely increased produc tion of potatoes in Louisiana daring the next few years. The sandy soils are best adapted to growing potatoes. The variety. planted should be determined b~.fie use to which the crop is to be put.< For that part of the crop to be used on the table the different varieties of yams should. be planted; but if the crop is to be hogged-off, the Southern Queen or some other of the larger varieties should be grown. Sweet potatoes may be planted at mny time from frost time to the mid dle of July: It is, therefore, not too late to increase the potato acre age in Louisiana. Grazing experiments made at the ,xperiment Stations showed that 750 pounds of pork can be produced net per acre of potatoes by feeding to hogs on such pasture a -suitable concentrated feed. Such concentrate should be rich in protein, because uotatoes are a carbo-hydrate or fat forming food. The protein concen trate balances the feed by -upplying the necessary blood, flesh ab d fber forming material. Among : ischcon centrated protein feeds are rice pol ish, wheat. shorts,; :ottoaseeqR ieai peas and peanuts. Cottonseed meal should be fed sparingly anda-for not, more- than - two weeks at a time. Some other ration should' then be" fed` for .a , week when the cottonseed meal ]may again be fed for two weeks. The \',other concentrated feeds are free,.fi-om danger. A good plan is to plant pea nuts and sweet potatoes in the si.me field, and hog them off at the sai,,e time. The animals then balance their rations themselves, without the use of any other feeds:. This plan of , supplying pasture crops in balanced form to hogs may also be accomplished by setting aside for them a field of. corn and cowpeas. The corn supplies the energy and; fat-forming material, and the peas supply the necessary protei14 In either case, the farmer is saved the trouble and expense of harvesting the crops. Communicationis addressed to thie Dept. of Agricultural Extension. Lou-l isiana State University, Baton Rouge, La., relative 'to hog-raising, will re ceive prompt attention. A Prize-Winning Recipe. Below is given a recipe for :yeast and bread, by Mrs. W. T.. Southern, of Stokes Co., N. C. Light-bread made by this recipe took the prize at Stokes County Women's Institute last summer. If Mrs. Southern's bread could be duplicated in every farm home in the south,. we should have taken 6ne long step in advance in the matter of niore hygienic food. "The day before making the :bread peel three good-sized Irish potatoes and boil in a pint of water tilI: very, done. Mash and add 1 .teaspooniil of salt, 1 tablespoonful of sugar. Pour water that you cooked the po tatoes in over all this,. Just before it gets cold add 1 cake of Magic yeast and set in a cool place. Sift. 1 gallon of flour, add 1 teaspoonful salt, 1 tablespoonful sugar anrd 1 tablespoonful lard; add rising made the day before and make up .with warm water. Set aside to rise two or three times, working down when yiur dough has doubled. its ;bulk. Mold into pans. Let rise until it has doubled its bulk. BIake in a moderate oven for about one hoiir," -Starkville (Miss.) Progressive iar mer. CRESCENT Hotel and Restaurant V. A. RODRIGUE, Prop. Crescent Place, opposite Munici al Power Plant DONALDSONVILLE, - LA. . EGULAR MEALS and short or ders. Board and Lodging by the day, Week or month. Restaurant opens from 5 a. min. to 11:30 p. in. Hot coffee and pies at all hours. Telephone "or ders filled and delivered to any part of the city., Phone 276. Prompt Service and Politoreimeat tn All IIIsAlllNA RICtE 11A LUMlBER Preliminnary Comparative Statement Issued by the Census Bureau Big Gains Made in, Both indus tries since 1904. Preliminary thirteenth census sta tistics concerning the rice cleaning and polishing industry and the lum ber and timber products of the state of Louisiana are contained in a tab ular comparative statement giving tentative figures of the number of establishments, capital invested, value of products, employees, wages, etc., for 1909 and 1904, submitted,to Act tug Census' Directorr Fallmer by Wm. M. Steua'rt, chief statistician for manufactures, in the Bureau of the Census. The figures are subject to such revision as may be necessary after a further examination of the original reports. RICE INDUSTRY. Notwithstanding the decrease in 1909 in the number of establish ments, in. the average number of wage-earners employed during the year, and in wages, there was an;y increase in the capital invested, in the cost of materials used,- in the.'~ miscellaneous expenses, in the valu'' of products, in 'the number of .l. aried employees and in the 'aneint of salaries. The total nuimber of establidments engaged in the industry wa~<-37 in 1909 and 43 in 1904, a decrease of 6, or 14 per cent. The total amount of capital invest ed was $8,385,212 in 1909 and $6,138, '228 in 1904, an increase of. $2,246, 984, or 37 per cent. The total value of products was $12.528,656 in 1909 and $10,718.311 In 1904, an increase of $1,810,345, or 17 Der cent. The total cost of materials used was $10,970,862 in 1909 and $8,973,084 in 1904, an increase of $1,997,778, or 22 per cent. The total number of salaried of ficials and clerks was 257 in 1909 and 232 in 1904, an increase of 25, or 11 per cent. The total" amount paid in salaries was $337,966 in 1909 and $288,488 Ip9 1904, an increase of $49,478, or':t 17': per cent. The average number of wage-earn ers employed during the year was 693 in 1909 and 923 in 1904, a de crease of 230, or 25 per cent. The total amount paid in wages was $326.537 in 1909 and $400,023 in 1904, a decrease of $73,486, or 18 Ser cent. The total amofint of miscellaneous expenses was $463,983 in 1909 and $399.874 in 1904, an increase of $64,109, or 16 per cent. LUMBER AND TIMBER PRODUCTS There were noteworthy increases between 1904 and 1909. They ranged from 30 to 125 per cent. The -largest was in the amount 'of cap tal in vested and the smallest in the mis cellaneous expenses. Gains of more . than 50 per cent were made in the.. value of products, wages, wage-earn ers;isalaries and 'salaried employes. Ther4 were '702 establishments 'in 1909, as compared with 471 in 1904, an increase of 231, or 49 per cent. The total amount of capital In vested was $88,973,240 In 1909 and $39,573,185 in 1904, an increase of $49,400,055, or 125 per cent. The total value of products was $62,837,912 in 1909, and $38,370,645 in 1904, an increase of $24,467,267, or 64 per cent. The total cost of materials used was $23,156,196 in 1909 and $10,384, 568 in 1904, an -increase of $12,771, 628, or 123 per cent. The total number of salaried of ficials and clerks was 2,811 in 1909, and 1,866 in 1904, an increase of 945, or 51 per cent. The total amount paid in salaries was $3,679,407 in 1909 and $2,251,841 In 1904, an increase of $1,427,566, or 63 per cent. The average number of wage-earn ers -employed during the year was 44,072 in 1909 and 27,877 in 1904, an increase of 18,195, or 65 per cent. The amount paid in wages was $20, 033,213 in 1909, and $12,826,892 In 1904, an. increase of $7,206,321,. or 56; per cent. The total amount of miscellaneous expenses was $8,552,360 in 1909, and $6.567,994 in 1904, an increase of $1,984,366, or 30 per cent. The British Corohation. , With great pomp and ceremony, varying but little from the program followed on such occasions in Lon don lfor generations, George V. and his wife,, Mary, were week before -. last crowned king and queen of Eng larid, Scotland, Ireland and Wales, emperor and empress of India, etc., etc. The gorgeous spectacles and brilliant functions attending the aus picious event attracted. vast throngs of spectators and a host of dis tinguished visitors from all parts of the world, and it is to the infinite credit of the British people that the entire affair passed off with the same degree of good order and gen eral good humor that characterizes the . Mardi Gras festivities in New Orleans. The naval display at Ports nouth which followed the coronation brought together the most formid able array of armed vessels ever as embled in the world's history The British fleet alone numbered over :50, and there were many from other nations. The largest and most pow erfurl ,vessel in. the great aggrega tion: was the United States battleship Selaware. St.' Elmo--the ,livest proposition that ever struck Louisiana.