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Lower coast gazette., 1909-05-15
New Fiqhtinu Euujpment.

Observation-Disclosures E. S. Gray
is installing $3.50 worth of new
electric appliances in the city pow,
or house. These include a 1OO-kilo-
watt %two-phase Westinghouse alter
nator and an automatic transformer
for a 25-light arc lamp circuit. The
new alternator replaces a direct cur
rent dynamo, and will be used in con,
nection with a single-phase alterna-
tor, which has heretofore been used
for the i%ncandescent lights. The ad.
ditional equipment will provide for
the towns needs for the next Is
years.
Lower coast gazette., 1909-05-15
STATE BRIEFS,

P. P. Van V1eet Of Memphis has
enjoined the disposing of stock OF
the Evangeline Oil Company at Lake
Charles, claiming the company is be-
ing wrecked in the interest OF the
Standard Oil Company.
Count Louis Skarazynski is in New
Orleans studying liquor question on
behalf of International Leauge
against abuse of alcohol.
Elmore Williams, a negro, con-
victed In De Soto parish Of invol-
untary manslaughter, was sentenced
to one hour in the state peniten-
tiary. 1t cost $40 to transport the
prisoner, who received S. cash, a
pair of shoes and a suit Of clothing
on completing his term.
S. c. Quereau of Gueydan was ap-
pointed assistant director of the rice
experiment station at Crowley.
J. w. Taylor resigned as head OF
the public school system at Baton
Rouge.
Baton Rouge has a proposition
from Northern promoters to estab-
lish a hardwood plant and furniture
factory.
Two negroes went to trial at
Franklin for the murder of Sidney
Robichaux.
A boiler explosion at the saw mill
OF the Baldwin Lumber Company,
Baldwin, La, badly damaged the
plant and caused serious injury to
two negro laborers.
Lower coast gazette., 1909-05-15
TO IMPEACH RATE JUDGES
Murphy Incensed Over Telegram
From Hagerman.

Neutrality-suspicious. charges of i'm
parchment against Federal Judges Phil.
FPS and Mcpherson, Of the western dis.
trict of Missouri, are to be filed by Rep
resentatiye Murphy, OF that state, who
made announcement of that fact Thurs.
day.
Incensed over a telegram to Attorney
General Wickersham by Frank Hage''
man, attorney for eighteen railroads, in
which Mr.. Hagerman characterized Mr..
Murphy's resolution of inquiry into the
official conduct Of the two Judges as
'an outrageous tissue of misrepresenta-
tion," Mr.. Murphy held the attention Of
the house with a repetition of the
charges which he had made in his origi-
nal resolution.
His colleague, Mr.. Rucker, c%orroborat'
ed all that he said in denunciation of
the action Of the two judges in connec-
ton with Missouri's 2-cent passenger
rate law and the maximum freight law,
and remarked that Judge Phillips ought
to have been impeached twenty years
Lower coast gazette., 1909-05-15
To Enlarge Agricultural Station.

Baton Rouge.-According to a re-
port which the commissioner OF ag-
riculture and immigration has made
to Governor Sanders on the selec-
ton of Crowley as the site for the
experiment station, the United States
Department of Agriculture, through
its bureau Of plant industry, Is not
only going to cooperate with the
station in the rice experiment work,
but will conduct practically all OF
its scientific rice investigation for
the Southwest at the Crowley sta
ton. This work will increase the
importance of the station, and give
more authority to IT'S experiments.
Lower coast gazette., 1909-05-15
The Little Pigs.

The little pigs should be encouraged
to eat at as early an age as possible.
The dividing of narrowing pens, so
that the pigs a have access to a
shallow trough away from the SOW. Is
of great value. Keep everything scru.
pulously clean, OF serious digestive
troubles will likely result.
Feed only in limited quantities, and
allow no old feed to remain in the
trough from n feeding to the next,
If the little pigs and the SOW are con.
fined inside all the time a few sods
and roots will greatly benefit them II
given every two or three days.
Young pigs fed in this manner will
not fall away in condition when they
are separated from their dams. In
fact, they will practically veal them.
selves by the time they are eight or
ten weeks of age.
Abundant exercise and frequent
feeding are essential to the best
growth and development Of the young
pigs. BY the time they are ready to
wean some kind of forage crops or
pasture should be available for them.
The gains made upon pasture and
green forage crops are not rapid, but
are very economical; and the pigs d.
gestive powers are greatly enlarged
and their bone and muscle are better
developed by the time their fattening
period arrives. A good variety of for
age crops and pasture is necessary to
provide plenty Of grazing during the
season.
Alfalfa, clover, oats, peas, rape and
rye may be proitably utilized as pas
ture and forage crops for pigs. Land
that is utilized for hog pasture will
gain rapidly in fertility, and will be
in excellent condition to produce large
crops of roots for winter feeding.
Lower coast gazette., 1909-05-15
GOES THROUGH PASS
BATTLESHIP MISSISSIPPI WEI.
COINED AT NEW ORLEANS.
TO Show Depth of River, Big Ship
Anchors at Wharf, Almost
Against the Levee.

New OrIeans.-The people of the low
err Mississippi valley, especially those of
New Orleans, are happy. The big bat
tleship Mississippi, which has been
brought from the naval station at Guam,
tanamo, Cuba, to receive q silver service
from the people Of the state from which
she takes her name, Thursday crossed
the bar at mouth Of the Mississippi
entered South Pass and came up the
river to New Orleans without mishaE
of any kind.
The ear-splitting screech of myriads
of whistles, the clans Of hundreds Of
bells and the enthusiastic cheers Of
thousands of excited and patriotic citi
zens who packed the river front in spite
of the heat of m almost tropical sun
the big battleship Mississippi, the prids
of Uncle Sans Navy, arrived at New
Orleans o after noon.
As she rounded the curve below AL
giers, the noise began, and for five min
utes it seemed as though every siren ant
locomotive whistle in the state had en-
tered into competition to see which coul(
make the most noise.
Quick to take advantage Of the sue
cessful trip through the passes, those
who made provisions in New Orleans fo1
the reception of the big ship had he'
tied up to the jackson venue wharf
almost against the bank, instead of per
hitting her to anchor in midstream
Even this close in there was a hundred
feet of water under almost the entire
shin.
Lower coast gazette., 1909-05-15
Education Of Value.

The school garden has no equal AZ
an aid to nature study. 1t brings the
child in close touch with nature and
natures laws. 1t can be used in cor
relation with all other branches taught
in the school room. The practice in
measuring and marking out the gar
den, systematically planting the seed,
teaches the child to put into actual
practice the mathematics he has
learned In the school room. Much Ian.
guage a be taken up in connection
with it, al a also writing, painting,
drawing and geography. In many in.
stances the products of the school gar
dens are taken to market and sold
and the money deposited in the bank,
thus giving the pupils some idea Of
everyday business methods.
Lower coast gazette., 1909-05-15
$4,000 ABOARD BA11LEsnlP
Big Fighting Machine Was Sunday
Attraction in New Orleans.

New Orleans.-It was demonstrated
Sunday that the big battleship Missis.
s,ppi can accommodate five thousand Wis.
tiers at once and not be overcrowded.
The jackie who stood at the gang plank
all Sunday with an automatic recording
machine in his hand, registering every
soul who came on boald, swears that
there were that many on board at once
several times during the day. When
night fell and there came q lull in the
huge stream of gaily dressed and sm;l-
ingly perspiring people, the register had
clicked over fifteen thousand times.
1t was a patriotic and happy throng,
too. Every man, woman and child in it
seemed to feel not only a pride in the
grim machine of death and destruction,
but a sense Of part ownership in the
craft as we'll. All the gun decks and
even the turrets were open to the callers,
The only parts of the ship not available
to visitors being the state rooms and
quarters below.
Lower coast gazette., 1909-05-15
EDITORS BOARD BATTLESHIP
Members Of Louisiana Press Associa-
ton Guests of Mississippi.

New Orleans.-Lying serenely at an
Choir in the great stream whose name 1t
bears, after having %journeyed through
the passes and up the river without un'
toward happening, the U. S. battleship
Mississippi was boarded and inspected
by a throng of interested visitors Fri
day. Among those who went on the
big ship were a hundred or more Louis
lana editors. They were passing through
New Orleans on the way to their re-
spective homes, after attending the an
nuaI meeting Of the Louisiana Press AS
ISOLATION, at C%ovington, La.
Numerous tenders of hospitality have
been extended to the officers and crew
of the Mississippi during its stay in
this port. The principal feature of en-
tertainment will be a banquet to the Of
fcers of several Southern states. Prom
inent officials of the Lakes-to-thc-Gulf
Deep Waterway Association are expect
ed to be present.
Lower coast gazette., 1909-05-15

TOBACCO IN TEXAS
PRODUCT OF THE FIRST QUALITY
ASSURED.
Exc eriments Have Shown That the
Proper Soil for Growing the
Highest Grade Is Found
in the State.

After experimenting for several
years with cigar leaf tobacco in Texas,
growers now believe they have found
the proper soil for growing first quail
ity tobacco. Through the courtesy Of
A. H. Prince, formerly connected with
the bureau of plant industry as a
tobacco expert, the following account
of conditions in the Lone Star state is
presented:
The 1908 crop of Texas tobacco
proved beyond all possible doubt that
the Texas grown product is destined
to become one of the principal types
of cigar leaf. During recent years the
acreage planted in tobacco in Texas
has been diminishing, rather than in
creasing, but during this time new
soils were being tried, and the finding
of a soil that produces a superior
quality Of tobacco has resulted in the
industry being transferred to a new
section Of the state.
In east Texas lies what is known as
the red belt" consisting of a strip
of land from three to five miles wide
and extending some hundred miles or
more through the counties of Sabine,
San Augustine, N%acogdoches, Chero-
kee and Anderson. The largest area
of this soil is found in San Augustine
county. At first sight this land ap-
pears identical with some of the red
clay soils Of the eastern states, but a
closer examination shows it to be en-
tirely different in character.
This soil consists Of a rich, sandy
silt loan, whereas the red clay is
stiff in its nature. A peculiar feature
Of the red lands proper is that, al.
though they lie $50 miles or SO from
the gulf Of Mexico and at an elevation
approximating 400 feet above sea
level, oyster and other sea shells are
found in the deposits Of mari which
underlie the belt. The geological evil
dences that this land was at one time
submerged are unmistakable.
When it was discovered that this
soil was identical with the Cuban to-
bacco soils experiments were at once
begun to determine the character OF
tobacco leaf it would produce. In
1908 about 200 acres were planted al
widely separated points in the belt
and this was the first crop that could
be considered of commercial impor
lance. These 1908 crops were a dis
tinct success, the quality Of the Leaf
being excellent, and leaving but little
if any, doubt in the minds of those
competent to Judge that the product
would take we'll in the tobacco mar
kets.
From 700 to 1000 pounds per acre
we're made from the first crop, while
in some cases a second, and even
third crop Of 500 pounds was secured
from suckers. This tobacco solt
readily at Is to 20 cents a pound
bringing the grover from 500 to $27(
an acre. A good percentage Of wrap
pers possessing a perfect burn and
white ash was selected from thes,
crops.
Preparations are being made for
much larger acreage this season, an,
planting is now going on. Packing
houses are being opened up in which
this tobacco and future crops will b.
handled, and sweat and small ciga,
factories are being established tt
manufacture same into cigars.
Lower coast gazette., 1909-05-15
Fast Truck Service ARRANGED.

Denham Springs.-The first large
shipment OF truck was made from
this point last week by the local truck
growers. Arrangements have been
made with the Illinois Central rail
road for the Baton Rouge and Ham,
mOnd train to take the truck to
Hammond, where the fast through
vegetable train will be held long
enough to get the shipments from
this section. This will give the L.iv-
ingston truck growers the same di,
rect service to Northern markets that
is enjoyed by the truckers on the
main line, and will be the means of
making the truck industry all along
the line a paying business.
Lower coast gazette., 1909-05-15
Seed Breeding.

The profits from any crop are large.
ly dependent upon the reliability Of
the seed from which the crop is
grown, says r. N Blinn, Of the Colora-
do Agricultural college. A mixture in
the variety, or a poor quality in the
seed of some crops may be a very Sc
rious injury; but with a special crop
like cantaloupes, that has market de-
mands to meet, the use Of poor seed
may mean the total loss of a seasons
work. On several occasions in the
early days of the cantaloupe indus.
try at Rocky Ford, when the growers
depended upon the seedsmen for their
seed, entire fields we're worthless on
account of mixtures and unmarketable
types.
Lower coast gazette., 1909-05-15
Desire Change in Freight Rates.

DeSire Vndn9e VI TFe'9nt ndteS.
New Orleans.-The entire yellow
pine lumber schedule of rates in the
country west OF the Mississippi riv.
er is involved in a complaint of ex-
cessive rates filed with the Inter.
state Commerce Commission. at
Washington. The complaint was III
stituted by the Louisiana Central
Lumber Company and IL other lum-
Der manufacturing concerns in the
Southern yellow pine territory
against the Chicago, Burlington and
Quincy Railroad Company and 81
other interstate carriers. Reduction
of rates on yellow pine from Louis
lana, Arkansas, Missouri and Texas
to Kansas, Nebraska, Colorado and
Wyoming Is demanded on the ground
that they are excessive, unreason-
able and unjust.
Lower coast gazette., 1909-05-15
Improvement in Texas.

Waco, Tex.-Crop prospects nave
greatly improved during the past ten
DAYS. In Central Texas good rains have
fallen from Waxahachie south, extend
ING as far as San Antonio, and west to
Brownwood. While about two weeks
late, cotton is practically all planted,
a fair portion UP and doing well. South
Texas is about three weeks late, and
while this section received scattered
showers recently, more rain is needed.
Southwest. West and Northwest Texas
are suffering very much from the drouth.
Lower coast gazette., 1909-05-15
HARRIS Sorrows Increase.

Lexington, Ky.-Sorrows' are coming
in b~attalions upon the house of Hargis.
Beach Hargis was sentenced to life i'm
prisonment last week at Irvine for the
murder of his father, Judge James Har.
gis, and now comes the threatened men.
tai arrangement of Ensign Edward G.
Hargis, Of the United States navy, who
has been at the home in this city of
his father, former Senator Alexander H.
Hargis, on sick leave, but is now with
relatives at Jackson, the seat of all the
family's troubles.
Lower coast gazette., 1909-05-15
To Punish Husband.

Louisville, Ky.-Mrs. Perry Campbell,
wife Of the erring shepherd of the flock
At Stamping Ground, KY, who was ar
rested in st. Louis with Josie Hosely,
one of his choir singers, announced that
her husbands former congregation had
raised money for her aid. She will rent
and keep a rooming house for her own
maintenance. 81 have decided on q fit
punishment for my husband said Mrs.
Campbell. "He wants me to secure a di.
yorce, but / shall refuse. He must re-
main in his present relation to me"
Lower coast gazette., 1909-05-15
MUST SERVE PEI MAGE TERMS
Federal Supreme Court Denies Writ
in w. s. Harlan Case.

Pensacola, Fla.-Manager W. S. Har-
Ian, of the jackson Lumber Company,
of Lockhart, Ala; Robert Gallagher, as
sistant superintendent, and three of the
%company's foremen will have to serve
terms in the Atlanta federal prison, to
which they were sentenced in the United
States circuit court here three years ago
on the charge of conspiracy to commit
peonage.
Manager Harlan is one of the most
prominent lumber men of the South, n
the mills at Lockhart, where it was al.
legged foreigners were held as poems, are
the largest in this section.
Mr.. Harlan is a nephew Of Justice
Harlan, OF the United States supreme
court.
Lower coast gazette., 1909-05-15
For Louisiana History Day.

New Orleans.-Miss Verona Keen
er OF Lake Charles is interesting
the Daughters OF the %Confederacy
and the state officials in a PROPOSE,
ton to have a day set aside for the
teaching Of Louisiana history. 1t is
the plan to have n day devoted by
the school children to the history OF
their town, community, parish and
state, just as a day now is devoted
to the study Of birds and the plant.
ing of trees. The proposition has
the approval or Governor Sanders
and State Superintendent Harris.
Lower coast gazette., 1909-05-15
Check Holder Gets Verdict.

Mansfield.-The district court has
rendered judgment for $535 in favor
OF Ella Schwartz of New Orleans
against a prominent planter of this
parish, based upon checks alleged
to have been given by defendant
while in such an intoxicated condi-
ton that he did not know that he
signed them. The case was appeal
ed.
Lower coast gazette., 1909-05-15
For the Head Of the Herd.

Whatever the character of a dairy
herd there should be a thoroughbred
sire at the head Of it, and he should
be of the dairy and not of the beef
type. Once in a while you may run
across a dual purpose" COW, but ma.
ture does not provide dual.purpose
bulls.
Lower coast gazette., 1909-05-15
Will Contest Appraisers Figures

Baton Rouge.-It is reported that
the Pullman Palace Car Company
will file a suit against the Louisiana
State Board of Appraisers contest.
ing the assessment of the Pullman
cars in Louisiana for 1909, which
were assessed by the board at $12.-
900 a car, an increase over the past
year of $4,000.
Lower coast gazette., 1909-05-15
To Belt state With Model Road.

Baton Rouge.-lt Is said to be the
aim Of Governor Sanders to belt
Louisiana with a system of model
roads, building a highway on each
side Of the Mississippi river from
New Orleans to Baton Rouge, and
at the latter point diverging to Sims.
port, Bunkie, Alexandria, Monroe,
Ruston, Minden, Shreveport, Mans
field, Many, Leesville to Lake
Charles, and thence along the South
ern Pacific back to New Orleans.
Lower coast gazette., 1909-05-15
Spend s5oo,ooo For Improvement.

Spend $500,000 For Improvement.
Rochelle.-The saw mill of the Ire
mont Lumber Company at this place
was started recently, and is now in
operation on full time in all depart
ments. Over $500, 600 has been spent
on this plant since it's purchase by
the aboye-named company in 1907.
Lower coast gazette., 1909-05-15

Cows that are to calve in winter or
early spring should have about six
quarts of some vegetable every day
for two weeks before calving. If this
course is pursued there will be no milk
fever nor any of the other many trou.
bles incident to calving time.
Lower coast gazette., 1909-05-15
TENNESSEE BOY KIDNAPPED.
Lads Mother Believed to Be Behind
Scheme to Get Him.

San Bernardino, Cal.-Kidnaped and
furnished with money by an unknown
party, young Bryan Alexander, the IL
year-old son of /. j. Alexander, was
stolen away from his home near Red
lands, and placed aboard the Salt Lake
limited, bound for his old home in Nor
ton, Tenn, where the boys mother re-
sides. Alexander, with his children.
came to California for his health. His
wife refused to follow, and is believed
to have furnished the money to start
the lad home.
Lower coast gazette., 1909-05-15
TO Probe Prohibition Violations.

Crowley.-The May term Of dis
trict court has opened with Judge
William Campbell presiding. In his
charge Judge Campbell urged an in.
vestigation Of alleged prohibition vio-
lations.
Lower coast gazette., 1909-05-15
Fifty.sour Members Initiated.

FNty-Iuur MeTtberS initiated.
Observation-Disclosures of mem
bers from adjoining camps were here
several days ago to attend the ini-
tiation Of 81 candidates by the Wood.
men Of the World.
Lower coast gazette., 1909-05-15

There is always a market for the
chicken from the time it is a month
and a half old till 1t is ready to die a
natural death.
The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1909-03-20

There is a good deal of kick left in
old Mr.. Winter yet.
The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1909-03-20
AN OLD STORY.

II Henry Clay Ide gets the appoint
ment OF United States minister to Spain
to succeed William NJ. Collier of New
York, IL viii be another case where a
vermonter had to leave his native state
in order to secure official preferment, for
it is said that in case the office goes to
him New York state, where he now re-
sides, will be credited with the honor.
Since his return from the Philippine Is
lands, Mr.. Ide has spent the greater part
of the time in New York, although St.
Johnsbury, Vermont, we doubt not, win
lay vigorous claim to him as one OF
her own, and with considerable right, too.
BY the same token Vermont can claim
him. Mr.. Ide is a native of the state
and he spent his life here until 1891,
when he was pounced upon for foreign
commission, going to Samoa as United
States commissioner. Since that time
he has enjoyed particular favor, being
appointed TO various positions, chief
among and in which he did his most
notable work was that of governor gen.
eral in the Philippine Islands, having
first gone there with the now President
Taft as member Of commission to
establish civil government. The close
relationship which he sustained with
President Taft at that time will probably
land him in some good governmental
position at home or abroad, as the pres
ent executive has, it is understood, a
good opinion of the Vermonter. In view
of his past services, it will not be neces-
sary to state our conviction that Mr.. Ide
viii be able to Gil acceptably the position
OF minister to Spain or some other office
even of higher rank.
The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1909-03-20
Bowng to Public Opinion.

That institutions which depend on the
patronage OF the public for their exist
ence arep retty sure to govern the quail.
ity, as we'll as the quantity. of their
products by the public demand Is again
Illustrated BY the action Of men repre-
senting three hundred and fifty moving
picture show places in New York, in
choosing a censoring committee Of five to
pass upon all pictures exhibited and
songs sung in their theatres. The func-
tion OF this committee is to make thor
ough inspection and careful rulings, to
the end that nothing OF an objectionable
nature may be charged against the en-
tertainments presented in the houses con.
cerned.
1t is probably safe TO say that. so long
as public sentiment to great extent
seemed to demand entertainments of a
questionable character, managers of play
houses not only took no measures them
selves to purify the moral atmosphere
of their establishments, but strongly re-
sented any attempts on the part of 9TH
ers to do so. No sooner, however, did
it become convincingly apparent that
real public sentiment--the sentiment OF
the substantial public--was opposed 70,
and even intoIerant Of, the vulgar and
coarsely suggestive in The amusement
line, and earnestly DESTROYS Of the clean
and Wholesome, then the amusement
producers began to bestir themselves TO
eliminate the Objectionable and present
the features which the public demanded
and for which it manifested willingness
TO pay. So 1t goes The public usually
gets what it demands by way of service
from those dependent upon Manches-
ter Union.
The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1909-03-20

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