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The St. Mary banner. (Franklin, Parish of St. Mary, La.) 1889-1931, 1909-10-09
Testing Plant Life
on Fort Brown Land
remarkable Results Of Experiments FoTsgn Growths IL.
GLIDING Cork Oak and Bamboo Raised Cotton Plants Crossed

oak. The acorns from which these
trees sprang We're brought from
| Spain. A barrel of the acorns are
being planted each year The trees
are of slow growth. but are valuable
when they attain a commercial size,
| which is at an age Of about twenty
years. 1t is from the cork oak that
the cork supply of the world is OBJ
tanned. There is one OF these trees
on the Jagua ranch, near Fort Brown,
which is flourishing at the age of six
teen years. 1t is stated by Professor
Green that when cork oak has at
tanned the age of twenty years it is
good for one hundred years of pro-
duction. The cork oak trees which
are now growing in the Fort Brown
gardens are doing splendidly.
The growing of bamboos is anoth-
er feature of these gardens. Owing
to the strong Gulf winds, which pre-
vail almost constantly in the lower
Rio Gande Valley, the need of wind
breaks to protect the growing crops
is felt upon the farms, particularly
where certain delicate kinds of gar
den truck are raised. 1t is the opin-
ion of Professor Green that bamboos
are the coming windbreaks of the
valley. When planted from the seed
the bamboo stalks make a growth of
twelve feet in one year. The second
years growth is twenty to thirty feet,
and. with irrigation, the stalks grow
{~h 20 ivtr
the timber is from four to eight
inches in diameter, and is hard and
straight This bamboo timber is good
for use as rafters In houses, and Is
valuable in a thousand other ways.
BY moistening and splitting, hand
some and durable furniture and mat
ting can may be made from it. The
bamboo stalks which are growing up
on the gardens here demonstrate that
they are we'll adapted to this soil and
climate.
The experiments and investigation
that have been made in growing date
palms in the Fort Brown gardens
show that the raising of this fruit Is
a domestic proposition in the lower
Rio Grande Valley. The trees thrive
and produce an abundance of fruit.
1t is probable that these gardens will
have more than 1000 date palm trees
ready for distribution next year.
Exhaustive experiments are being
made with cacti. There are now 225
varieties of cactus growing in the
Fort Brown gardens. OF this num-
Der sixteen or seventeen varieties are
perfectly spineless. The enormous
production and great value of the
cactus as forage product are well
known to the stockmen of the South
west.
Much attention is given to growing
native fruits, vegetables and grains
in these gardens. A Mexican variety
of corn, which has unusually long
and thick husks, that protect 1t from
the weevil, Ia being grown. This corn
is said to ts we'll adapted to Texas.
The St. Mary banner. (Franklin, Parish of St. Mary, La.) 1889-1931, 1909-10-09
THE SWIMMER.

hack, Which snail it be!
breasting the stream
~ ~ merciless waters roar on ne
ueever / pause to dream
:, ar hack then ! must go
.lu the falls and win,
W - - TN the surging downsweep flow
~ d,o tT in the calJTon's din!
,,d he swept to the deep, dark
seit, m the listless tide
drlia n o e. the stream az It bears on
ne, +-.,g-h is-pride,
sea where drowned men he'
ras are salt with tears;
! xa'e a,nd goes by with a moaning
1 Sigh .,o ronp-lnst years.
.,ben Chalmers, in New York lines
The St. Mary banner. (Franklin, Parish of St. Mary, La.) 1889-1931, 1909-10-09

The military reservation at Fort
Brown, which served the United
States a useful purpose in trouble
some times during periods of border
warfare, is now being put to a still
greater and far more beneficial use,
writes the Fort Brown (TeXas) corr
respondent of the New York Tribune.
The abandonment of Fort Brown as
a military post as a direct result OF
the shooting up of the town of
Brownsville on August 13, 1906. left
the War Department with this valu-
able property upon its hands. Soon
after the abandonment an investiga-
ton of the agricultural possibilities
of the land was made under the d.
rection of the Department of Agricul-
ture. 1t was decided that it would
be an ideal site for the establishment
of United States plant testing and
introduction garden. 1t was found
that it was the most southerly local
ity in the United States where such
a garden could be established. In
point of climate and in other respects
it offered opportunities for conduct
ing experiments and investigation in
the growth of a wide variety of pro-
ducts that could not be undertaken in
any other section of the United
States There were two other govern
ment plant testing and Introduction
gardens in this country, one at Miami,
Fla, and the other at Chico, Cal.
Professor E. C. Green was put in
charge. His first step was to clear
the land and install system of irri-
CATION. The water for irrigation
purposes is obtained from the Rio
Grande by means of one eight horse
power gasolene engine, which drives
a centrifugal pump of a capacity of
six hundred gallons minute. A
small engine provides the agricultural
colony with its own electric lights and
domestic water supply.
These gardens at present embrace
an area of fifty acres. but the remain
ing hundred and fifty acres will be
brought under cultivation as rapid
ly as possible. Even with the fifty
acres in use more than twenty-five
hundred different varieties of plant
life are growing or have been grown
since November, 1907. A detailed
account of what has already been ac-
complished in these gardens would
occupy many columns. Seeds and
plants have been brought from all
over the world and are being expert
mented with in order to discover
whether they are adapted to the soil
and climate of the lower Rio Grande
Valley, as we'll as to other parts OF
Texas and the South generally.
AS an illustration of the POSSIBLE
ties in this direction, one variety of
cotton which was obtained from Mica
ragua produces squares which hang
downward. 1t is a proved fact that
the boil weevil is clumsy insect and
that it clings with difficulty. There
fore it would have difficulty in hang
ing on to the Nicaragua cotton. The
Nicaragua variety Is being successful
ly gown in its native country despite
the fact that that is the country
whence the boil weevil originally
came. 1t is Professor Green's idea to
cross the Nicaragua cotton with the
best long staple cotton Of the South
in the hope that the trait OF the
squares hanging downward may be
retained and at the same time the
yield of the staple increased.
One of the most important expert
ments is that of growing the cork
The St. Mary banner. (Franklin, Parish of St. Mary, La.) 1889-1931, 1909-10-09

Travellers through Servian villages
often see dolls suspended in the win
dows of cottages. The dolls have
nothing to do with child life, but sig
Nifty that a manageable daughter or
a widow lives in the house.
The St. Mary banner. (Franklin, Parish of St. Mary, La.) 1889-1931, 1909-10-09
Something New.

Il notice the stage lawyer in that
play didn't carry his papers in his
hat"
We'll, maybe the author of the play
used as his model real lawyer.
They're getting realism down pretty
fine these days" kansas City Jour.
nal.
The St. Mary banner. (Franklin, Parish of St. Mary, La.) 1889-1931, 1909-10-09
Medicines.

The Doctor-You understand, don't
you, that this is only to be used ex
ternally?
The Patients Wife-Sure, sir, l al
lus make him get out O. bed to drink
tt..-Harper's Weekly.
The St. Mary banner. (Franklin, Parish of St. Mary, La.) 1889-1931, 1909-10-09

The total number of negroes in
the United States in the year 1900
was 100000, speaking in round
terms, and in 1900, 8,841, 900.
The St. Mary banner. (Franklin, Parish of St. Mary, La.) 1889-1931, 1909-10-09

ing fingers. The train on my arms,
too, was becoming more and more in
tolerable. Great drops Of perspiration
coursed down my face. ! was trem-
bling in every nerve and fibre OF my
being. Above me, that roaring train!
Below, that pitiless river. And N
my very face that venomous head,
with its glittering eyes and distended
jaws, striving, striving, always striv-
ing to deal me the cruellest and ghast-
Hest death of all"
Suddenly the hideous brute drew
back its head. The coils of its gleam-
ing brown body swiftly swung round
the black iron cross-bar. They tight
ened and relaxed with marvellous rap
idity. The reptile was making for the
sleeper above it. In an instant real
lied all that this portended. Rage had
made 1t utterly oblivious Of all savo
myself. l had menaced it. 1t could
not reach me from the cross-bar. So
it was coming to me over the sleepers.
A thrill, half of horror, half Of hope,
ran through all my veins. | recol-
,ected that it was a period when al!
snakes are aggressive and ferocious.
Up went the glittering head, whose
bead-like eyes fascinated me with a
horrible persistency.
The thunder OF the on-coming train
drowned all other sounds as it swept
resistlessly on toward me over the
quivering river. The 1.-the head dis
appeared above the sleeper. and came
Arizona republican., 1909-08-13
AGE AND EMPLOYMENT

The August number of Everywhere thus truthfully points out that ad- vancing years are not bar to em- pIoyment if one does not accept from the years mental decreptitude. when he ought to be gathering strength from them:
 Men above a certain age, are com plaining that they cannot get work. They say that employers refuse to take them, because they want those who are younger. This is often, no doubt, true; but, Why?
 Two men. both well over fifty years of age. happen to be walking along the street. not far from each other. one is alert. active and watchfuL He is. in every essential respect, "up to the times" He knows more today than he did yesterday; he knew more yesterday than he ever did before He is active and lively upon his feet agile and ready with his brain. His health is as good -ss ever, for he took good care of it as he went along. He has a reputation for honesty, ability, and energy. Is that man go- ing to suffer for lack of work? No: and why? Because he can do things that employers want done and in the way they want them done.
Arizona republican., 1909-08-13
MAGs, ACCOMPLISHMENT.

This spell of weather is irritating to Wags as well as to level- headed people. Wags is disposed to snarl at The Republican regarding this papers advice a few weeks ago to the busi- ness men of Phoenix to exert such pressure as they could to secure the completion of the Phoenix Eastern, when, as says Wags. the Southern Pacific was preparing to proceed vol untarily with the work.
 All this is immaterial now. The main thing is the completion of the road.
 But, whatever attitude The Repul li- can may have taken at that lime is hardly a subject for consistent com ment by Wags. for at the time The Republican was offering advice to the business Iu,r. Ways. was Gai'y gloat- ing over the fact that its Traffic Manager" Jones as long ago as last october had begun exerting much such a pressure as The Republican was recommending and such as the Arizona railway commission was pre- pairing to exert
 According to Ways, the traffic manager had already made complaint against the Southern Pacific to the Interstate Commerca commission. Cwhose jurisdiction In this matter, by the way, is concurrent with that of the Pure Food commission, the Nevada Fish commission and the Arizona FederatioR4 aof Womens clubs) N
 But more to the point, according to Wags MT. Jones had also com plained to the department of justice that the Southern Pacific was en- gagged in an attempt to control the territory southeast of Phoenix and to stifle competition.
Arizona republican., 1909-08-13
Rugs! Rugs! Rugs!

Say, it will make you think you are in Marshall Fields to step in Massie & Sons store now and see the large line of Rugs and Art Squares. Hundreds to select from, all fine patterns and all sizes from 71sX9 to 12x15. See the Massie Spe- cial spring with heavy rope cables. Will not sag down. Best grade white cotton mattresses. Iron beds in the Vernis Martin (golD finish. Will not tarnish, crack or rub off. We can furnish your house complete. We will buy all your second hand goods see us before buying or selling.
Arizona republican., 1909-08-13

wiser of the president, but only his mouth piece, was the man entrusted to proffer such advice as the president wanted
 That MT. Ballinger, in the adminis- tration of his department, has kept within the laws is admitted. The criticism of him by Pardee, as well as by Chief Forester Pinchot, is not that he is violating the law but that he is not stretching it to cover what they conceive to be the eXiGencies of the period.
 There are certain policies which Mir Ballinger is empowered under the law to adopt They may be good or bad. His policies are proper subjects for criticism, but his critics have mainly attacked not nis policies, but his conception of his duties under the law.
 Pardee demands that things shall be done again after the manner of Roosevelt, who did things first and talked about them afterward"
 According to the recollection of most of us, Mir. Roosevelt talked pretty much all the time-before, dur ing and afterward-and as to the things he finally accomplished We can with difficulty put a finger on con crete results. According to the cheaper magazine writers, there was one thing done-"the public con science was awakened" So was the demon of distrust. The talking is still ringing unpleasantly in the ears of the nation.
Arizona republican., 1909-08-13
THE ATTACK UPON MIR.
g BALLfNGER.

That was an ill-advised attack by former Governor Pardee of California upon Secretary Ballinger in the Irri- gation Congress convention on We'd nesday. It was also in iH-taste and essentially worse than futile It was an echo of that unfortunate Roose- veltian period when executive officers interpreted the laws to meet their own views of not what the laws were, but what they ought to be.
 MT Ballinger is undoubtedly more able lawyer than MT. Roosevelt or any of his legal advisers whose advice he sought and followed. Of course we do not mean to include among his advisers. the then Secre- tary Root and Secretary Taft, who were not consulted in matters relat- ing to the interior department. The feeble Bonaparte, ostensibly the ad-
Arizona republican., 1909-08-13
PHOENIX. ARIZONA. AUG. 13, 1909

The ryepublican is the omy newspaper in Arizona holding two certificates Of circulation from the above Association, and bases all advertising contracts day, thus certified to is:
 From Oct. l, 1906, to March S1, ,,.
 1sOl ......-. '''''s%S0 From Jan. l. 1908, to Feb. s,
 These figures represent a larger circu- lation than that of all other Phoenix dailies combined, and is the largest in Arizona by more than 2OOO. The Re- nublican is the only Arizona newspaper that makes public its circulation as cer- tified to by the Association of American Advertisers, which is the only recognized authority in the United States.
Arizona republican., 1909-08-13

THE PERFECT FLOUR EMBRACES all of the good qualities of other brands and some extra ones of it's own. The Perfect is not a flour that Is su- perior in only one or two qualities. IL is superior all round. It bakes better, goes farther and stays moister than any other. Try a sack just to see what the best of all Hours is like. Ask your grocer.
The Columbus journal., 1909-09-22
WESTERN CANADA

During the early days In the pc
Rod OF the growth Of the grain crop in
western Canada. a. well as throughout
the ripening and garnering period.
there Is yearly growing an increasing
interest throughout the United States.
as to the results when harvest Is com
p'eted. These mean much to the thou
sands OF Americans who have made
their homes in some of the three Prov
lnces that form that vast agricultural
domain, and are Of considerable interest
10 the friends they have left behind.
The year 1909 is no disappointment
The crops Of wheat. oats and barley
have been harvested and it is now
safe to speak of results. Careful es.
Inmates place the yield of spring wheat
The Columbus journal., 1909-09-22

parts Of the world the production OF
wheat Is diminishing today: but as 1t
d1minishes Canada's will increase;
therefore, 1t is safe to predict that In .
few years from now large part Of the
world viii be looking to western Can
ada for its wheat supply. and espe-
cially will the United States. In many
parts OF western Canada IL Is possible
to have q hundred-mile square Of
wheat. without q break A writer says:
I'VE were driven west and north Of
Moose Jaw through 20 miles of dead
ripe wheat. acres Of stocks and we'll
worked summer-fallows. One of these
fields would yield 40 bushels TO the
acre, and another man had oats that
would yield 80 or 100 bushels to the
acre. In this district wheat will aver
age 30 to IS bushels. The conditions
The Columbus journal., 1909-09-22

tie, following the millions OF buffalo
that once grazed their grasses, will
be solid grain field covering a
territory of over 10000 square miles,
and very little of it but what will yet
be worth from $40 to $50 per acre. Al
ready the homestead and presumption
lands are being we'll filed.
In the district of Calgary, south, east
and north, which comprises Nanton,
High River and other equally impor-
tant districts. correspondent of the
Winnipeg tManitoba) Free Press
says: (Aug. 2D The grain In this
district is going to make some money
for the farmers this year. All the
crop is now crowding along and is good
on both irrigated and unirrigated lands"
There are to be found those who
speak of pioneering" life in west
ern Canada. but as one man said. If
The Columbus journal., 1909-09-22

sOIS1u9 IT'S (V-ACTe eleo0 o. WUe9t
were never better and throughout the
district the people are assured of .
most prosperous year"
1t would be unfair to close this ar
ticle without quoting from an expert
crop-correspondent regarding the two
BattlefOrds in Central Saskatchewan.
on the line of the Canadian Northern
Railway. Writing on August 18th OF
this year, he says:
1t is necessary to drive about sir or
seven miles out of the town Of North
Battleford in order to see the best
crops of the district This morning /
was driven about 20 miles to the
north and west of the town and In all
the drive did not see a poor crop. I
saw one wheat crop which the owner
estimates will yield 40 bushels per
acre, and I believe it."
The Columbus journal., 1909-09-22

this is pioneering I don't for the life
of me see what our forefathers had
to complain Of" He didn't know.
though. for the pioneering Of his fore
fathers was discomfort and hardship.
The opening up and development Of
western Canada. with its railroad lines
to carry one to almost the uttermost
part of It. the telegraph line to fash
the news to the outside world. the tel
ephone to talk to ones neighbor, the
daily and weekly mail service which
brings and carries letters to the
friends in distant parts: the schools
headed by college-bred and highly GER
teachers; the churches
manned by brilliant divines; the clubs;
the social and festive life; what Is
there about any Of this to give to the
man who goes there to make his home
the credit of being pioneer? Moth
Ing! He might az well be In any of
the old middle-west States. In other
The Columbus journal., 1909-09-22

of the river. This district has much
the best wheat crop prospect of any
l have inspected this year. consid-
ering sample and yield. The wealth
er conditions for the whole season
have been ideal and the result is what
might easily be termed a bumper crop.
A sample sheaf brought in from the
farm of George Truscott was shown
to me which spoke for itself. This
farmer is said to have sixty acres
which will yield IS bushels per acre
In stating an average for the dis
trict of South Battleford I would say
that the wheat will yield SO bushels
per acre. The oats viii yield about
IS and barley IS bushels per acre."
A correspondent summing up q trfl
over the Canadian Northern Railway,
from Dauphin to BattlefoPd, says:
"As l inspected the crops In the W
The Columbus journal., 1909-09-22
|DR. COOK IS COMING
THERE'S ROOM ENOUGH FOR TWO
FLAGS At POLE he SAYS.
4 FURTHER REPLY TO PEARY
Cook Says His Claim Has Been Ae-
cspted by Polar Bureau OF
Research At Brussels.

| On Board Oscar 1.-THE steamer
Oscar H., with DR.. Frederick A. Cook
aboard, will not arrive at New York
until Tuesday morning. This is II
the urgent request of the reception
committee which is to meet DIR. Cook
The steamer could have reached
Sandy Hook Monday afternoon. but q
message from the reception committee
asking that the arrival be delayed ow.
ing to the fact that it was impossible
to change the committees arrange
ments was received Sunday evening by
wireless, and the captain consented
to comply with the request. The
Oscar II. is therefore under decreased
speed and will reach Quarantine at
about 1880 Tuesday morning.
DR.. Cook appears to exercise great
self-restraint, but can hardly repress
natural annoyance at impeachment
of his veracity without proofs. He
requested the Associated Press to
make public the following:
Commander Peary has as yet given
to the world no proofs of his own case.
My claim has been fully recognized
by Denmark and by the king of Swed-
en-; the president of the United States
of America has wired me his confid-
ence; my claim has been accepted
by the International Bureau for Polar
Research at Brussels; most of the
geographical societies of Europe have
sent me congratulations which mean
faith and acceptance for the present,
and almost every explorer of note has
come forward with warm and friendly
approval.
"A specific record of my journey is
accessible to all and everyone who
reads can decide for himself. When
Peary publishes a similar report, then
our cases are parallel. Why should
Peary be allowed to make himself a
self-appointed dictator of my affairs?
In justice to myself, in justice to the
world, and to guard the honor of ma
tional prestige, he should be COM
PEELED to prove his own cases: he
should publish at once a preliminary
narrative, to be compared with mine
and let fair minded people ponder
over the matter while the final records
by which my case may eventually be
proven are being prepared.
81 know Peary the explorer. As
such he Is q hero in Arctic annals
and deserves the credit of q long and
hard record. To Peary the explorer
I am still willing to tip my hat, but
Peary's unfounded accusations have
disclosed another side of his char.
acter which will never be forgotten.
when Peary added that he had
nailed the stars and stripes to the |
pole 1 Immediately sent congratula- |
tons. l then believed. as l do now,
that his work over a new route far |
east of my line of travel was a new
conquest of great importance and of |
that his position at the pole |
would supplement my work with |
data. There is room enough |
and honor enough for two American
flags at the POLE"
The Columbus journal., 1909-09-22

Topeka, Kas.-A habeus corpus suit
was fled in the federal court here on
behalf of three Ute Indian girls who
are at the Haskell institute at Law.
renee. The girls allege that they have
been held nine years at the institution
In opposition to the wishes Of their
parents In Utah.
The Columbus journal., 1909-09-22
TALK OF DIVISION.
Some Of People Of California Want
State Divided.

SOusS W SSopsS W ~osuotUba dUS
State Divided.
Washington.-The recent threat of
body of citizens in California to es-
tablish another state within California
borders because of dissatisfaction
with taxation methods, has attracted
the attention of officials here. The
United States constitution in section
3 of article Nv, provides that mo new
state shall be formed or erected with
in the jurisdiction of any other state;
nor any state be formed by the juno.
ton of two or more states. or parts
of states without the consent of the
legislature Of the states concerned, as
well as congress"
Taxation was a great problem in
California during the '40s and SOS. It
was claimed that the southern part of
the state from Montery downward was
sadly neglected in early state legisla-
ton.