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Bridgeton pioneer., 1906-08-23

Those who always creep are the only
ones that never fall.
St. Tammany farmer., 1906-09-08

sinful to wear anything save light
wrapper. They were forbidden to sit
on chairs or lie on beds. They. slept
on the floor and sat on the floor. Men,
women and children slept in one
large room together. Sacrificial fires
became a part of the religion. Dogs
and cats were burned alive as sac
rif1ce to God. On one occasion wom-
an was caught trying to make q liv-
ing sacrifice of q child.
Once Indignant citizens tarred and
feathered Crefield and one Brooks, q
male follower. Brooks disappeared.
The women took in Crofield and
cleaned him. He went to Portland.
There Burgess Starr had him ar
rested and he had to do two years.
Then his women followers were de-
clared insane, one after the other, and
were sent to asylums. But when
Creffield came out it was the same
story all over again.
And so followed the mans death at
the hands of the brother of the girl
he had wronged.
To-day Esther Mitchell and Mrs.
Crefheld, who was Maud Hurt, both
glory in their deed. They think it
a martyrdom for their religion. They
rejoice that they have not friend
in the world, for they do not care for
friends.
"They may do what they want with
me-" says Esther Mitchell, the friend
less, "for I have only done my
duty"
St. Tammany farmer., 1906-09-08
GAS USED UNDER LIME KILNs.
Innovation by Connecticut Company
10 4 Success.

:. The New England Lime company,
Of Winstead, Conn, asserts that 1t is
the first to introduce gas as fuel for
lime burning. The method is pro-
nounced an entire success. The grow
ing scarcity of wood fuel led to the
discovery OF gas as substitute for
wood, and the company no longer con-
siders the gas method an experiment.
The efficacy and reliability Of gas
have been demonstrated beyond q
doubt. Had it been impossible to find
q substitute for wood, said member
Of the company, it would have meant
the restriction and perhaps the total
abandonment of the business. Gas
6res are absolutely clean at all times
mo clinkers and no .cinders-and the
lime produced Is much whittier than
that burned by wood. Gas also pro-
duces a more intense heat, and conse-
quently increases the capacity of the
kilns. The daily output at the COM
pany's kilns is increased from so bar
rels per kiln to 100 barrels, or total
Of 700 barrels daily.
St. Tammany farmer., 1906-09-08
Feeding MoIasses to Horses.


There is an immense waste of sweets
in the great sugar mills, and how to
use that waste has been ably discussed
by Prof. Dalrymple, of the Louisiana
state university, and the economy of
his discoveries has been indorsed and
applied to feeding of the mules that
cultivate the sugar cane. One of the
sugar mills that had to feed several
hundred mules annually paid between
$4,000 and $4,000 for oats alone.
Since the test of feeding resulted "a
vorab bly, no more oats are brought from
the north, but homegrown grains and
molasses have been substituted, and
the expense of feeding reduced so per
cent. This was a wonderful saving to
the sugar mills, and farmers who had
an opportunity to buy the blackstrap
molasses at very small cost.
Prof. Walton, chemist of Fiji sugar
estates, says: That for working horses
the sugar in cane molasses is a salts.
factory substitute for starchy food, be-
ing readily digested and transformed
into work. That Is pounds of cane
molasses can be given daily to a 1910
pound working horse with advantage
to the health of the animal and to the
efficiency Of his work. That it pro-
duces no undue fattening, and that the
high proportion of salts In 1t has no in.
furious effect.
St. Tammany farmer., 1906-09-08

The two had 1t all planned between
them. Mrs. Crefneld wished Esther
success when they parted, the girl
to go to the railway station to kill
her brother. the woman to go to the
cemetery to pray over her husbands
grave. She called upon his spirit to
make the girls aim certain.
The Holy Rollers.
This, sect of the Holy Rollers has
set these two states of the North Pa
cific coast by the ears. Crefheld
founded it in September, 1903.- He
taught some of Ruskin's theories
about plain living and high thinking,
and many women became his fol-
lowers. But all this high-sounding
talk was only a mask for what was
to come. Soon Crefheld was revealed
in his true colors.
Il am Crefield no longer" he an
nounced, "but the apostle Joshua re-
incarnated. am Christ's equal;
am another Christ"
When he had things as he wanted
them, he ordered the women to leave
their families and follow him. Many
of them did so. His followers were
taught that to obtain atonement for
their sins they must roll at his
feet. o
The women were taught that 1t was
St. Tammany farmer., 1906-09-08
HEADING OFF THE WEEvlL.
Il Can Be Done BY an Earlier Variety
of Cotton.

The boil weevil has educated the
planters to the fact that they must
discover an earlier maturing cotton
plant or that insect will destroy one
third of the present product. Educat-
ed breeders of plants are now engaged
In hybridizing the earliest cotton
plants, and good results are antici-
pated, and in some places already re-
allied. Prof. Bennett, of Texas col
lege, has learned that early cottons
have short joints, and the first fruit
limbs are near the ground that late
cottons have long joints and first fruit
limbs are considerable distance from
the ground. Early fruiting Is there
fore dependent upon low fruit limbs;
the first fruit limb should not be high
er than the fifth or sixth joint above
the seed leaf joint. Rapid fruiting is
dependent upon short joints on the
main stem and fruit limbs, and If the
boil is larger the greater will be the
yield. Large bolls can grow and do
grow as readily on low-fruiting,
short-jointed cotton or an early cot
St. Tammany farmer., 1906-09-08

Il want to make up with George" !"
said the girl to her brother Perry. He
called his brother. The girl shook
hands with the man who had protect
ed her and said: Il came down to see
you Of"
Shot Down by Sister.
She had a coat on her arm and
asked Perry to hold it for her. It
concealed revolver. She raised it,
fired and George Mitchell fell over
dead. The sister calmly took her seat
on a bench and waited for the police
to come and arrest her.
II tried to shoot him In the same
place that he shot Mr.. Crefaeld," she
said, quite calmly. Il knew that If
he could kill Joshua I could kill
George by hitting him in the same
spot"
After the shooting Esther Mitchell
was perfectly calm. She said that the
killing had been entirely right. She
contended that as long as the law
would not punish her brother for
killing "a holy man" she had a per-
feet right to do so.
Some one had to do It," she said,
with smile, "and I was the best per.
son"
Outside the county Jail crowd was
clamoring for her life. There were
St. Tammany farmer., 1906-09-08

ters find their grave upon its surface
and the flowers which dip their heads
into the streams turn into petritied
images Of themselves, counterfeiting
nature in stone. even to their slender
petals. ...
"The fall from the top of the cliff
into the valley is, in some cases, alb.
rupt and steep and In others gradual
In the latter succession Of basins
has been formed descending the
slopes in ever-diminishing size, as the
waters In their descent have, over.
flowed from one rim to another.
Stalactites depend from the top of
the cliff, and formations like gigantic
beehives glimmer in the sun. Seen
from a distance the very waters ap
pear to have been caught and turned
to rock as they flowed and noiseless
waterfalls of stona take the place Of
the liquid element"
St. Tammany farmer., 1906-09-08

Hierapolis is a strange ruined city
of Asia Minor It was founded about
200 B. c.. and a large part OF the place
has been buried by the petrifying wa
ter of hot springs. The country round
Hierapolis is to-day infested with bri'
gands. A traveller who visited the
place under an armed guard of Turkish
soldiers says: ''The temperature OF
the springs is that Of q very warm
bath and while hot there Is not trace
OF that petrifying element which rem.
ders the waters so remarkable after
they have cooled and causes them to
turn to stone every object they en-
counter after very slight immersion.
The swimming bath itself is about SO
60 so feet in length, and in many
places from IL to Is feet deep, and is
to-day almost as it was in Roman
times. The opportunity t. take nat
ural hot bath was not lost upon the
writcr. The floor and sides and steps
are Of white marble. and the depth
St. Tammany farmer., 1906-09-08
Finds Grape Culture Profitable.

FtUOS aTdPe N0tIuTS PrOntd0Ies
Capt. Shannon has been cultivating
pears, grapes, pecans and figs near
Ocean Springs, Miss, and they have
been profitable. He has cultivated the
Champion grape, which grows in large
punches, fruit medium size, vines are
prolific. He has found ready sale
for his grapes in New Orleans, fre?
quently selling eight-pound baskets at
IS cents. The Italians of New Orleans
buy the grapes and make them into
wine. Capt. Shannon has realized as
high as 5000 per acre for his Champion
grapes. That is certainly a high per
cent. on the investment. He also cul.
tivates the Herbemont for manufac-
turing wine. The Scuppernog grape is
another variety that is noted in the
iG egg. Gimp ghfimnatacuruf5kL
south for its great abundance and free
dom from disease. The Scuppernong
if prolific, 1ong-lived and very profit
able grape, and yet it is seldom found
in the country home.
Vetch and alfalfa should not be sown
on the same land. Alfalfa should al.
ways be sown alone. It will make all
the land can support.
St. Tammany farmer., 1906-09-08

even cries of Lynch her, lynch herr"
But this friendless girl sat cool and
collected and made this statement,
though she was notified that it might
be used against her.
Il am not insane. Before killed
my brother Mrs. Creffield and talked
it over. We knew the law would pun
ish us, and after my arrest told the
chief of police everything. Mr.. Cref-
field was holy man. My brother was
of the world and was defled. It was
only right that George Mitchell should
be punished for what he did. The law
set him free. know my brother es-
capped punishment by saying he was
insane. But will not do such thing.
l will tell them l am sane. He told
them he was insane and got free, but
he didn't enjoy his liberty long, did
he?"
Has Not Friend In Seattle.
"Hang her!" is the terse verdict Of
the men and women Of Seattle. She
has not friend in all the town. Not
even the hysterical women who en-
Joy visiting wife-murderer or a man
who has killed his mother will 60
near the girl.
mot for any amount" said one Of
the representative lawyers of Seattle,
when asked If he would defend the
girl.
Crefieii's widow IL in the county
Jail. She frankly admits that she
induced Esther Mitchell to kill her
brother.
St. Tammany farmer., 1906-09-08
The Sofa Bean.

A correspondent in Tennessee
writes: In regrad to sowing sofa
beans, the best way is to let them get
almost ripe, for If you let them get too
ripe you will lost most of them They
will pop open. Then take your binder
and cut them like wheat and shock
them. Let them stay in the shock
until you think they are dry enough
to shred and run them through q
shredder. Then you have q fine lot of
hay, and your beans are not knocked
to pieces like thresher does them.
Be careful that your beans do not
yet heated, as this may spoil them for
seed. The beans are good for all
kinds Of stock. They are among the
best grain for laying hens and will
fatten hogs very fast. A mule will do
good work on them. Some horses pre-
fer sofa beans to any other food. They
are hay and corn, both.
By the way, If wou want them for
hay, SOW the sofa beans broadcast,
putting about one bushel per acre.
Cut when in bloom. Be sure and put
your land in good fix. Cultivate it well
before you put your sofa beans in. Do
not cover too deep. s
St. Tammany farmer., 1906-09-08

Washington, D. C., August 20th.-A
determined effort will be made at the
next session of congress to prevent
another appropriation for the free dis
tribution Of common garden seeds.
Congress now expends $4,000 year
In giving away the commonest varie-
ties Of peas, beans. turnip, squash and
pumpkin seeds. They are divided into
100000 packets SO that the packets
cost about half cent each. But as
large part of the appropriation IS
expended in clerk hire, packeting the
seed. etc.. the actual value Of the
seed in packet is much less than
half a cent. These packets are put
up in packages of five packets, the
total cost of the packages being about
two cents each, and they are purchas-
able anywhere at five cents. Each
member of congress gets 10000 such
packages, which he distributes to the
voters Of his district.
The farmers say that these pack.
ages contain so little seed as to be of
no value to them, while the total ap-
If expended in sending
out really rare and valuable seed. or
In maintaining a national agricultural
college, or divided among the state
agricultural colleges, would be of i'm
value to the farming interests.
They therefore protest against the
waste Of public money. The seeds
men claim that as congress has al
ready expended $5,000.0o0 in giving
away turnip and watermelon seed, it
is time 1t should give away saws, axes
or hoes and give the seed trade rest.
Those who believe that congress
should cut off this perquisite Of its
members now used for political pur-
poses, are writing their senators and
representatives, urging them to abol-
ish the free seed Distribution, and the
National Grange, many state and local
oranges, horticultural, agricultural
and other societies are adopting reso.
lutions condemning it. Mr.. William
Wolff Smith, Of Washington. D. c.. has
been selected to represent the oppo-
sition to the congressional free seed
and is personally answer
ing all inquiries concerning the same.
St. Tammany farmer., 1906-09-08
Petrifying Waters Have
Covered Ancient City

varies to suit the convenience Of the
swimmer. Some great upheaval has
brought down the marble columns
which once decorated the sides of the
bath and they lie across 1t in pic.
turesQue disorder, some almost intact,
others broken into many fragments.
Zone of the columns has SO fallen
across the bath that its base Is ex.
posed, while its slanting top shines
cleaning white beneath the water at
a depth of some ten feet. On this col
umn one can lie with ones head out
Of water and it is not possible to imag.
inc bath enjoyable under more ideal
The water flows out OF
the basin in many little rivulets and
d few hundred yards nom its source
begins to develop its petrifying ma
ture. AS it cools It's bed becomes
white with a hard, chalky substance
and no living thing or plant can re-
sist It's stony grip The grasses and
leaves which fad into its deadly wa
St. Tammany farmer., 1906-09-08
Japanese Glover a Friend.

Japanese clover will grow on any
kind OF land, fro ma clay loam to
rich bottom. When it gets start in
a field It soon spreads all over it. Don't
be alarmed If It gets start. It Is
friend and one that your stock will
welcome to your waste lands. It IL
rich in nutritive properties, will fatten
sheep, hogs. cattle and horses. st Is
next to alfalfa as feed In the hay
condition. It will improve the land
wherever 1t takes hold. It will not
grow in the fields that are being culti-
waited. Welcome 1t to you soils.
St. Tammany farmer., 1906-09-08
Hew Emperor William 10 sattilns
Aaainst Dangerous Hsredity. 4

Emperor Williams father died Of cancer
"a Emoeror sne William himself had infantile
paraNsis. and has had to struggle with
many infrmities..
ia tronbled with the same malady which
carried off his father Royal blood is un.
III hIood .d' Emperor % William knows this az
well al ANYBODY, and ia doing his best to
eradicate the bad blood from himself and
his family by the adoption Of simple lite
principles. :.
Through the visit Of . countryman Of
this country, visiting the Worlds Fair in
seouain.ed with the Battle Greek idea of
simple living and has to large extent
adopted the methods in his family. His
wife rGH and children i've the simple life and
take Battle Creek light; baths. Their
uncle, King Edward, also has these baths
installed in his Windsor and Buckingham
Palaces for the use Of himself and Queen
Alexandra.
Among other things GOOD HEALTH.
the Oldest health journal in the world.
tells about the Battle Greek idea and the
simple life. Every number is br,mful OF
up-to.date ideas. Sample copy 10 cents.
One dollar q year.
If you will cut this out and send to
GOOD HEALTH PUBLISHING CO..
Battle Creek. Mich, with quarter you
will receive a trial three mouths subscrip.
ton to this handsome illustrated monthly
health magazine. Write to-day.
St. Tammany farmer., 1906-09-08
Mexican clover.

! Mexican clover, while not a true
clover, has similar habits. It Is an an.
nual and grows in the corn and cotton
fields OF the south after ceasing to
ploy the lands. It will produce as high
as q ton Of feed per acre, If cut at the
proper time. 1t will come with crab
grass and can be turned under in the
fall as green fertilizer. It makes q
fair feed II cut at the proper tire. It
will not become pest, nor will; 1t be
OF remarkable value as a feed, but 10
as worthy Of being saved as crab-grass.
St. Tammany farmer., 1906-09-08
A Stranger From Brazil.

A tall grass, and a stranger to the
vicinity, has been found growing in Q
ditch In southern Tennessee. Investi-
cation shows it to be South American
grass, known as paspalum dilatatum.
In Brazil It grows several feet high,
bearing five or more horny spikes, and
is considered an excellent grass for
pasture In that country. It will endure
drought exceedingly well. It is 'Yaluar
BILE for late summer and autumn feed,
at which times It makes Its principal
growth.
St. Tammany farmer., 1906-09-08
To Grow MeliIotus,

4 Melilotus has the possibilities of i'm.
proving the soil, equal II not superior
to peas. It Is a legume, and the roots
sof this plant will form bacteria about
equal to alfalfa, but the bacteria is
somewhat different, but induces alfalfa
growth. Melilotus must have liberal
share OF lime In the soil to thrive. II
your soil has not the lime, burn 100
bushels and put Is bushels OF the fresh
lime on each acre this winter and SOW
melilotus seed next spring.
St. Tammany farmer., 1906-09-08

ton as on q late or long-jointe6 ca
ton. Besides the factors Of short Joint
and low fruit limb, the fruit limbs
especially the first limbs, should bo
long continued in growth, for q max
imum yield in b short period of time.
They should not stop after growing
two or.three bolls, but should continue
to grow bolls. In buying seed the
farmer should demand of the dealer or
seed breeder that the cotton be of this
character, and when seed are thus
bought the purchaser can know def.
nitely that he is getting an early, rapid
fruiting and productive cotton.
per cent of the seed are of the early
variety. The seed from the short
jointed limbs will produce q much
larger quantity Of cotton per acre than
the long-jointed. This fact should in
duce the planters to incur more ex-
pense to obtain the latest improved
seed. The fruit on the short -jointed
cotton plants are sufficient to make
one ead one-half bales per acre while
that on the 80 per cent. poor stalks
was only sufficient to make one-third
bale per acre at the time of counting,
which was 80 days from the date OF
planting. If by proper seed selection
Is per cent. of the stalks could be
made as good as the ten per cent.
stalks in this case the grain would be
one and one-haf bales.
These investigations show another
fact that Is instructive, and that is,
that the large boil and thick hull cot
tons are storm proof, since the burrs
do not curl backward and leave the
locks unsupported. The thin hull cot
tons curl completely backward, open
ing, and the cotton falls out by its own
weight or from winds. An earlier va
riety of cotton is about the only thing
that will head off the weeyi1
St. Tammany farmer., 1906-09-08
Au.tra,ia's War on Rabbits.

Australia is now going to make war
on her rabbit pest scientifically, hav-
ing raised $4,000 for experiments on
Broughton island, of Newcastle.
writes Consul Cooling. DR.. Danysz, OF
Paris, will be in charge, and it Is pro-
posed to infect rabbits with such con.
tagious diseases that will spread
among their kind, but do no harm to
other animals or humanity.
St. Tammany farmer., 1906-09-08
Bio Game.

Il haven't noticed any mosquito
netting around" remarked the visitor
who was making his first trip to
Swampvilie-0 0n-the-S Sound.
# no" answered Mr.. Summering
nro.,d,y. we use mouse t1aps."-Lifs.
St. Tammany farmer., 1906-09-08

Yes, Alonzo. there are some fair
singers who are. not blondes.
Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1906-12-01

Paris Miss Marbury the well known
agent for dramatic authors In America,
has hit upon an Idea which Will be OF
great service to English and American
visitors. With the characteristic en-
terprlse OF the American woman. she
has arranged to provide district mes
senger service for the sole use Of Eng.
lish visitors and those from her. own
country. French postoffice authorities
and others have been frequently asked
to introduce service of this kind, but
the idea would not be entertained, the
invariable answer being that Paris
could do very we'll without it," AS re-
CARDS tho French themselves, this is
quite true; but Anglo Saxons think diff
ferently, ana there IL no doubt Miss
Andrews scheme will be welcomed by
them.
PROMISE TO DEAD WIFE.
Lord Curzon's forthcoming visit to
America will be made In fulflllment Of
a promise given his poor wife some six
months before her sad deVth. She
wished him to attend personally to tho
erection of q stained glass window TO
her fathers memory In the United
States. Although he is far from we'll
perhaps all the more because OF the
admonition II conveys TO him that life
IL uncertain--he feels It incumbent on
him to delay no longer In carrying out
her bohests He expects 10 remain In
America only week, and, Of course,
win seek to avoid all publicity.
LADY MARY.
Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1906-12-01
New Island Rises from Ocean.

A volcanic island has Just come to
the surface from the depths of the Pa
cific ocean, writes J. Mayne Baltimore
in the November Technical World Mag
azine. When we are accustomed TO
think Of geological epochs In terms of
thousands of years, and the countries
that we know were formed countless
ages before historic times, an island
which was born within the present year
becomes the center Of tue worlds in
terest. Fishermen came to Dawson
City, Yukon. in the early summer, and
told of great clouds of steam and
smoke around the Alehian group OF
Islands, and said that the water was
seething and boiling for miles around.
Later, after the first commoton had
ceased and the smoke partially cleared
away, an island was discovered In the
midst OF this tremendous devils cald-
ron, and 1t is now thought that the
fateful 18th Of last April when san
Francisco was ruined by earthquake,
was the birthday Of the new baby
island. Recently the United States rev.
enue cutter Perry was cruising In these
waters. and several officers from the
boat landed on the island at consider
able risk They found the island to be