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Lower coast gazette., 1910-01-08

The man who %speculates on futures
or CANDLES for high stakes by any 9th.
er means, becoming one day a pau
per, the next day a millionaire. and
again a pauper, is not happy. He
burns up his strength and his life in
a fever of excitement, and comes to
his end without having ever really en-.
joyed himself.
"Happiness and contentment be-
long to the tiller of the soil, the me-
chanic, the merchant, who earn their
money by labor and invest their saw.
ings wisely to provide themselves a
home for their declining years. They
always know just where they are and
their lives are sweetened by a sense
of security.
Il guess know about as MANY
stock and grain gamblers as does any
mar In the country. And | do not
know one who risks any large per
cent. of his fortune on the market who
Is what you would term a happy man.
1T Is foolishness for a man t ootrv
to be a small gambler. If he has the
habit, some time or other he will
make a big plunge. Then it's all over
with him so far as having much joy
in life is concerned. He will plunge
again and again. He may grow wealthy
or 60 broke, but the fever has him.
and cOntentment is fled"
Lower coast gazette., 1910-01-08
|C0TT0N GOES TO 1916
INCREASED BUYING OF ACTUAL,
COTTON,
Spinner Turned Bulls-Receipts Arc
Light-some Selling for
Bulls Account,

Memphis, Tenn.-The cotton market
arose from its holiday rest with a bound
ing start and with the inception of bust.
ness prices were Is to 20 points higher
IN American markets and throughout the
day the advance was maintained with
only such variations as are incident upon
the proft-taking that accompanies a
bull market. 1t was a big, broad affair,
and in point of trading the day has sell
dom been exceeded this season. Large
sales were made for bulls account. The
market absorbed this selling with scarce.
~ a flicker and was at the close nigh up
to the best level of the session, with
March in New York selling at 1857 and
May 16.12c. Active options were 10
70 10 points higher, January in sympathy
with the advance in spots, showing rela-
lively greater advance.
The rise was accompanied by an ac.
tive demand for spot cotton at Southern
markets, which were almost without cx-
ceptlon Is cent or more higher. At
Memphis the quotation was marked up
to u ~ cents middling, the top notch
of the season. At New Orleans 3-16 cent
was put on, making the middling basis
Is 1-2 cents.
Cotton prices are about one cent high.
than a month ago, but the technical
position of the market seems good and
bulls are opulent and confident.
Lower coast gazette., 1910-01-08
AMERICANS NOT TORTURED
zelaya Was Firm and UnyieldiuR to
Requests for Mercy.

Atlanta, Ga.-A design for a suitable
memorial to the women of the Confed.
eraey was selected here Wednesday by
a committee OF Confederate veterans
named by Gen. Clement A. Evans, at the
memphis reunion last June. All the
southern states except one were repre-
sented at the meeting. Only two artists
submitted designs, Louis Potter, Of New
York, who is now in Atlanta, and Miss
Belle Kinney, of Nashville. The design
submitted by Miss Kinney was selected.
The committee held 4 session thi,
morning at which plans were prepared
for perfeeting their organization and
raising funds for the erection of monu.
ments to the women of the Confederacy
IN each Of the Southern states.
For the purpose o. raising funds to
pay for the erection of ne of these me-
morals i IN the capital OF zach of the
Southern states, the following committee
was appointed: Gen. o. c. Walker, South
Carolina, chairman; Gen. Julian s. carr
North Carolina, treasurer; Gen. John p.
hickman, Tennessee, secretary; Gen. ].
o. Waddell, Georgia; Maj. c. NJ. Fielder,
South Carolina; Maj. L. C. Scott, Mis-,
Col. James Dickins, Louisiana.
The price agreed upon for the monu.
ment is $4,000, the veterans entering
INTO an agreement to accept no less than
ten in duplicate.
Lower coast gazette., 1910-01-08
MISS BELLE KINNEY WINS
Her Design for Memorial to Women
Of South Selected.

Managua.-Recent reports that the
Americans, Groce and Cannon, were tor.
tured before being shot are untrue. The
facts were in the possession of the state
department at Washington a month ago,
and it was generally supposed that any
details of the tragedy had been given
publicity through official channels. As
it is, advantage has been taken of the
opportunity in some instances to paint
a picture that was more interesting than
truthful.
The glory of Capt. Anibal Chaves, who
refused to obey an order to take com.
mand of the firing squad, is dimmed
somewhat by the light of known circum-
stances. Generals Toledo, Medina and
lriasa had implored Zelaya to abandon
his purpose of shooting the two Ameri.
cans.
Zelaya, however, could not be infu.
enced, and General Toledo finally or.
dered Captain Chaves not to assume com.
mand of the squad. Chaves chose to
obey Toledo rather than the president,
and as a consequence was arrested and
held in Jail for six weeks. Upon his re-
lease Chaves made the most of the epi-
sode.
Lower coast gazette., 1910-01-08
STEAMER WRECKED.
f'V Million in Property Destroyed in
Vicinity of Boston.


Boston, Massachusetts Of wrcckace
apparently from the tive-master schoone,
Davis Palmer, of Boston, were found on
the beach at Hull Monday, and it is be,
lleved the vessel struck on one of tbe
outer lodges of the harbor during Sun.
days storm and went to pieces, with
the loss of all on board, a total of twelve
men.
Five million dollars loss was the est.
mate made of the havoc wrought in and
around Boston by the blizzard a. it
swept New England and drove a record
tide over the coast.
On land no fatalities have been re-
ported besides the four known to have
occurred in Chelsea, where a tidal wave,
bursting through the dyke along Island
End river, flooded eighty acres of homes
and forced $500 persons to fee, scantily
clad, into the raging storm.
The storm was the greatest that New
England has experienced in eleven years.
All along the coast phenomenal tides
were reported. In many places sea walls
were battered to pieces, boulevards RACED
and curbs and houses along the shore
destroyed.
Lower coast gazette., 1910-01-08
PROSPERITY HAS RETURNED
Over $40, 900, 900 in Gems Imported
During 1909.

Washington.-Prosperity has returned,
according to the figures of imports and
exports for the calendar year 1909, lust
published by the bureau of statistics of
the department of commerce and labor.
The surest indication of ready money.
officials declare, is the diamond market.
and during the first eleven months of
1909 this has doomed, the importations
of cut diamonds amounting to s25,2l4,,
541, three times more than during the
same period of last year, and almost So
100000 more than during that time in
1902. In fact, the imports Of cut dia-
monds for this year, with December
omitted, amounted to over a million dol.
more than for the twelve months of
1907, the banner year in the importation
of cut diamonds.
Lower coast gazette., 1910-01-08
WILL BOOST RIVER TRAFFIC.
Mississippi Valley Transportation Co.
Active in the South.

Baton Rouge.-The Mississippi Val
ley Transportation Co, with head
Quartrs at St. Louis has placed its
prospectus In the hands o. Governor
Sarders, and It is interesting to note
what the company proposes to do in
developing traffic on the Father OF
Waters and all navigable triouta.
TICS.
The company will build docks cost.
Ing $4,000 at Baton Rouge and 9TH.
er points along the river for the con
venience in handling immense freight
orders.
A representative of the company
called attention to the fact that half
the iron supply Of the country is To-
Gated south of Mason and Dixoa's
Line, and that the development OF
Immense coal beds yet untouched
will make shipping heavy in the years
to come. The immensely Of the cot.
ton crop was mentioned, and the Inn.
Der industry is constantly growing in
relation to the northern markets.
The opening Of the Panama Canal
to the shipping interests of the coun.
try will bring a heavy volume OF
trade down the Mississippi River and
this company will be in line to take
up that business from the first.
The present season has witnessed
a greater volume of traffic on the
river than has been the custom in
recent years.
Lower coast gazette., 1910-01-08
Chang Tang, New Minister.

season New Years day, has leased the
home of the late Mrs. D. D. Cotton on
Connecticut avenue, just north of Du.
pont circle, and will occupy it with his
family. The Offices remain in their
present quarters which also served as
a home for Ministe WI and his prede.
cess0rs.
China maintains the largest staff of
any legation in the United States. hay.
ing at present no less than nine sec.
retaries and attaches. This staff is
likely under the new envoy to be still
further increased. MIR. Chang Tang,
who is accompanied by his wife and
a large retinue of servants, came dj.
rect from Picking. He has served his
country in Tibet and has made several
visits to the United States. He is one
OF the ~prOgressiyes of the present gov.
eminent and likes society.
The establishment of a home in tho
smart residence district and his known
desire to strengthen the bonds of
friendship between his country and
the United States is taken as evidence
that China will enter into an active
social campaign this winter in which
the diplomatic circle will play a mosr
conspicuous part
Lower coast gazette., 1910-01-08
Runaway Boy Returns Rich.

indianapolis, Ind.-From Nashville.
the seat of Brown county, q capital yet
untoched by a railroad, comes the story
OF the return to his parents in the lonely
hill country of John Frenshaw, whom
the old folks had not seen or heard from
Tor twenty years, and who brought back
to them not only their lost son. bv,
also a Christmas present of 5000. John
Frenshaw was IL years old when h,
quarreled with his father and ran awa,
from home.
Lower coast gazette., 1910-01-08
TORTURED. IN PRISON
WHITE GIRL HUNG TO WALT.
UNTIL SHE PAINTED.
rood Mingled With Filth an Inch
Thick, the Stencil From Which
Was Unbearahle.

ONE SHEETS ****h h****. 1890.
Atlanta, G%a.-Further stories Of iubu.
man cruelty to prisoners convicted of
mlsdemeanors were told Friday to the
council committee which is investigating
the charges made against the manage.
ment of the city prison or stockade.
Herschel Ivy, a former guard at the
stockade, who resigned because of con.
dltlons and who had kept a diary of
things that happened while he was there.
was a valuable witness. He sworc that
he saw the young white girl, Ruby Gath
er, chained to the wall by her hands until
She tainted. Ruby swore that she did
not know how long she was left hanging
after she tainted. Ivy supplied the in
formation. He said she was left there
for thirty minutes. He held up her limp
body while Vining removed the shackles
and said she went into commissions and
frothed at the mouth.
lhe white women, he declared. were
ted from scraps picked up from the floor
OF the mems mess hall. The floor is of
dirt and witnesses swore that there was
filth a foot thick on it, the stencil from
which was unbearable.
A strap said by the defense to be the
strap used to whip prisoners, was shown.
Members of the grand jury and witnesses
said it was not the one they saw, that
the real one was studded with riyets. |
The officials admitted this and offered
to produce the strap later.
IVY swore that twelve quarts of wits.
KY at a time were sent to the stockade.
addressed to 7. D. Shaw, a policeman, |
who sat in the room in full uniform. It
distributed to the guards and EN-.
oloycs.
Lower coast gazette., 1910-01-08
3 ROBBERS SHOT,; 2 ARE DEAD
One of Them Talked Too Much and
All We're Caught.

Oklahoma City, Okla.-Five men who
intended to rob the three banks and the
postoftice at Harrah, Okla, ran into a
posse headed by United States Marshal
Jack" Alternately, Roosevelt's great
friend, the wolf hunter. As a result.
two of the bandits are dead, one is in
jail at Guthrie wounded, and two others
are being held in jail here.
Frank Quigg was shot down during the
fight with the posse and instantly killed.
He lived at Atchison, Kas., and was the
son Of a wealthy mother. Frank Carpen-
ter, another of the robbers, was wounded
during the fight and died in jail here.
.. c. Dilbeck, the third bandit, was only
hurt.
The robbery was well planned, but
Carpenter made the mistake of telling a
number of people about the plot. In this
way postoffice inspectors learned of the
affair. Marshal Alternately was notified,
and when the robbers reached the bank
he was ready for them.
Lower coast gazette., 1910-01-08
U0R METHODWASTEFUL
IRISH ECONOMIST GIVES AMER
1CAN FARMERS ADVICE.
Farmers Of Middle West Have Been
More Like Land Spectators
Than Agriculturists.

New lork.-Speaking before the Eco
nomic and Historical Association. 81;
Horace Plunkett, of Dublin, who ha:
brought about almost a rural rev
olution in Ireland, and is said tc
know more about the resources OF
the United States than 80 per cent Of
our own citizens, said:
Il see a rapidly increasing cost of liv.
ing. At the end of a century, as Mr.. Hill
has told you, there will be a vast i'm.
portation of food stutfs into America if
your farming methods are not changed
for the better. Such a situation calls for
urgent action by congress and by state
legislatures. AS an alien l have no right
to say what such action should be, but
II l may not prescribe, ! may describe.
The system of agriculture in the Cen.
tral West, or that part of it settled
thirty years ago, was the most wastefuI
ever saw. The so-called farmer was
not a farmer, but a land Spectator. He
went into the country knowing that the
land was sure to rise in value. So he
bought all the land he could get and
then robbed the land to meet his obi
cations until he could realize his eventual
sure profits from a sale. There has got
to be a change. l believe there will
come in this country cooperation be.
tween farmers-the plan long ago forced
upon the farmers of older countries by
the competition of the then virgin soils
Of America"
Lower coast gazette., 1910-01-08
DON'T GAMBLE. SAYS GATES
Great Plunger Gives Texas Pastors In
formation to Be Used in
Sermons.

Galveston, TeX.-JOhn ". Gates the
noted Wall street Spectator. appeared
IN a new light at the Gulf District
Methodist Episcopal conference in ses-
sion at Port Arthur when he addressed
a gathering OF churchmen and laymen,
warning them against speculation and
all other forms of gambling.
The BET You a Million" plunger,
who Is probably the most famous
Spectator to go from the west and
invade Wall street, delivered his warn
Ing with an earnest expression on his
countenance and in slowly chosen
words. He explained that he didn't
mean anything personal, in address.
ing the preachers, but was merely SUI.
costing a topic for sermons. He said:
Lower coast gazette., 1910-01-08
We ARE MUSICAL BARBARIANS
Neglect Of Musical Education Kew.
note of MEETING.

Chicago.-"The American people are
musical barbarians, and the function of
the American musician is to ~civilize the
people," This declaration by President
Abram w. Harris of Northwestern Uni.
vers'ty, was the keynote of the thirty
first annual convention of the Music
Teachers National Association, which
met here Tuesday.
1T is a regrettable fact that music
plays such a little part in the education
Of the people," said President Harris.
and it is a shame that college gradu.
ates know so little of the sublime works
of music. A young man who goes into
the world without any idea and apprecia-
ton OF music is poorly equipped for his
lie work, for he is forever barred from
the uplifting qualities to be derived from
great musical compositions"
Lower coast gazette., 1910-01-08
HIGH PRICES COME TO STAY
America Ceasing to Be Producing
Nation, Declares Clark.

Washington,-'The present high prices
for farm products have come to stay;
the rural population is playing out; the
present census, if it classes the unincor.
porated villages as towns, will show be-
tween so and IS per cent. of population
living in towns declared Representative
Champ Clark of Missouri, the minority
leader of the house. at the present
rate, in twenty years, the United States
will cease to be an exporting nation for
agricultural products, except as to cot.
ton.
One of the principal causes of the
high prices of farm products is the world.
wide movement of people toward towns
and cities. While a few people i in towns
and cities have gardens and raise chick
ems, and occasionally pigs, practically the
town and city population are non.
producers of anything to eat, but are
only. For the first time. last
year, Argentina beat us in exporting
corn, and Argentina and Brazil are now
fighting to take the frozen meat trade
from u.s."
Lower coast gazette., 1910-01-08
ATTEMPTED TO KILL MOTHER
Would-Be Murderer Is Barricaded in
House and Heavily Armed.

Memphis, Tenn.-Heavily barricade.>
IN a little house on Fay avenue, armed
with a heavy shotgun and a pistol, and
swearing tnat he will kill the first man
who attempted to take him, James Frank.
lin Roach, the young man who ATTEMPTED
to Kill his mother, Mrs. Sallie E, Miller
Is hemmed in by a posse of officers, who
slowly but surely are drawing the lines
OF their dragnet closer about the man.
who, from present indications, will never
be taken alive.
frenzied with rage because his mother
had upbraided him for an alleged theft
Roach, who is 20 years old, walked into
the rear room of his mothers little dwell.
ing, and without a word of warning sent
a bullet crashing into her head, With
a groan she staggered to her feet, and
then, after tottering several stems,
pitched forward on the floor
Lower coast gazette., 1910-01-08
Lemon Famine Threatened.

New Orleans.-With its arrival here
expected to break a lemon famine in New
Orleans and other cities in the South
which New Orleans supplies, the tramp
ship Mary Mcneil is now a week overdue.
In the meantime the price of the fruit
has scared higher and higher. Lemons
have sold as high as $40 a box during
the past few days.
Lower coast gazette., 1910-01-08
MRS. SAGE GIVES YALE se5o,ooo.
Second Largest Gift Ever Made the
University.

New Haven, Conn.-Mrs. Russell Sage
said happy New Year to Yale today to
the tune of S65O,O00. She sent a letter
announcing that she gave the university
that SUM to pay for the Hillhouse prop
erty on Prospect street, which was
bought in 1905, but which has not been
paid for. The gift is next to the largest
ever made to Yale. Three years ago
John D. Rockefeller made the largest
gift when he presented the university
with 100000 This is easily the larg>
eat real estate gift, and means that the
Yale future will be largely located away
from the present campus. The new biol
ogy building and the physical laboratory
which are contemplated will be erected
on the Hillhouse estate just purchased.
Lower coast gazette., 1910-01-08
80 PERISH IN STORM
BLIZZARD GREATEST EXPERT,
ENCED IN YEARS.
Five Million Dollars in Property
Destroyed in and Around Boston.
Hundreds Are Homeless,

New lork.-Eishteen persons in and
near New York persisted in the Christ
mas blizzard or from accidents caused
oy 1t. Six of these died from exposure
after being caught in snowdriits. 9th.
ers were drowned and several were killed
by trains.
Blockades on railroads created a short.
age OF food supplies and q consequent
increase in prices, which contributed to
the hardships of the poor.
Lower coast gazette., 1910-01-08

ESTIMATE OF RICE CROP.
Bureau Figures are Nearly Same as
the Government Report.

Crowley.-The Crop Reporting Blu
reau Of the Texas-Louisiana Rice Far
mers' Association has given out its
report OF the investigation of the
crop ard holdings OF rice now in
sight.
The crop in Louisiana is estima.
ted at 3.OO7,S96 bags; Texas, 1890.
III; Arkansas, $4,000. Total 5,723,-
III bags. The amount of rough and
clean rice On hand on November 20.
as shown by the statement of mills,
warehouses and farmers, was as fol-
lows:
Louisiana, t,795,112; Texas, $780,
III; Arkansas. 217,OO0.
The crop figures are very near to
those OF the United States Depart.
ment Of Agriculture, given out on De-
cember b. The government figures
and showed the crop to be about
10000 0 sacks.
Lower coast gazette., 1910-01-08
Youth Dies From Exposure,

Crowley.-Louis Fontenot, a white
BOY, aged II, vas found dead in the
road three miles west of Church
Point, where he had fallen from his
pony into a pool of water while on
his way home from a country dance.
Inc body was partly submerged in
the pool OF water and the cononer's
jury rendered a verdict Of death
from exposure.
Lower coast gazette., 1910-01-08
MORGAN'S MONEY FOR STRIKE.
Daughter Anna Turns Over Gifts to
Shirtwaist Makers.

New York.. P. Morgan's Christmas
gift to his daughter, Anna, a princely
check of at least five figures, will be
turned over to the poor shirtwaist strik-
ers and societies working for women's
welfare. And oddly enough the man
at whom the labor agitators point scorn.
fully as a horrible" example of the CAP
italistic class, does not seem to care a
whit what che does will. it.
Lower coast gazette., 1910-01-08
ROBBERS ARE DETERMINED.
second Attempt Made to Loot Post
Office at Thibodaux,

Thlbodaux.-The second attempt TO
rob the p%ostoffice at this place with.
IN he past year was unsuccessful,
and our citizens are wondering ,
the persistent robber will try the old
ruie OF perseverance and try, try
again.
The Keefe Foundry was entered
and tools stolen from that place were
used In an attempt to gain entrance
TO the p%ostofice. During the first
attempt the robbers secured quite a
quantity OF booty, but their last ef-
Tort was not successful in any meas
ure.
Lower coast gazette., 1910-01-08
CHtNA'S new ENVOY ARRIVES
Chang Tang Who Succeeds WI Tina
Fang Prepares for Great Cam
paign In Society.

Washington.-An important and sig.
nif1cant change in the diplomatic cir
Gle will be the establishment of a
new and imposing home by the new
Chinese minister, Chang Tang, who
has arrived in Washington. 1t will be
independent of the official Chinese res.
ldence built some years ago on Nine.
teenth street. Mr. Wu's successor
who arrived here in time to take his
place IN the formal opening of the
Lower coast gazette., 1910-01-08
DRAG CHINESE OUT OF CARS.
Celestials Being Struggled in Via Texas
and West.

Denver, Colo.-Federal officers dragged
two Chinese out of their berths in Pull.
mar sleepers and will send them to San
Francisco for deportation. The officers
say the Orientals are members of the
band of eight young Chinese who swan
the Rio Grande river several nights ago.
Officials assert that hundreds of Chinese
are being Struggled across the Mexican
border, taken to obscure points in Texas,
Colorado and other Western states, and
then shipped in freight cars to the East
ern cities.
Lower coast gazette., 1910-01-08
MORSE NEAR PRISON STRIPES.
only Technically Between Banker and
Federal Prison.

New iork.-0nly a technicality now
stands between Charles W. Morse, bank
er and one.time ice king, and the fifteen.
year sentence in the federal prison at
Atlanta. Judge Hough, in the United
States court today, denied his motion
Tor a new trial, but close upon the heels
of the decision Martin w. Littleton his
counsel, announced that one more stand
would be taken. Tomorrow he will move
IN the circuit court for a writ Of error
on Judge Hough's decision of TODAY
Lower coast gazette., 1910-01-08
Woman Burned While Rescuino Babv

ShrertHott.-In %rescuing her baby
from a fire which damaged her hus-
bands tailor sl.op. Mrs. C. Dollard
was terribly hHned about the face
and hands. The child was severely
burned on the limbs. Both will re.
cover. A gasoline stove exploded and
imprisoned the woman and her child
in the rear of the shop.
Lower coast gazette., 1910-01-08

With the mercury lowering near
the zero mark, and with a fri. ge of
1cicles on the north caves, and with
a cold wind blowing, Baton Rouge
entered upon its Christmas week. In.
clement weather did not greatly in
terfere with shopping, however, and
the merchants report record.breaking
sales.