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The Lafayette advertiser. [volume] (Vermilionville [i.e. Lafayette], La.) 1865-19??, 1912-01-16

There will be a regular meeting Of
the Board Of Directors Of the Lafa-
yette Building Association. on Jan.
II, 1912, at 1870 p. N. MONEY TO
LOAN. Members wishing to borrow
should attend.
T. M. BIOSSAT, JR.,
Secretary.
The Lafayette advertiser. [volume] (Vermilionville [i.e. Lafayette], La.) 1865-19??, 1912-01-16
Oysters inc Fish.

Every Friday you al get you
fsh BY ringing up No. 81. Red Fish
Trout. Sheephead and Founders. W.
also have oysters fresh from thu
Deep Pure Beds, open 10c a dozen.
0IANELLOM RESTAURANT.
1-11-4t i
The Lafayette advertiser. [volume] (Vermilionville [i.e. Lafayette], La.) 1865-19??, 1912-01-16
For Sale or. Rent.

The old race track known as Sur
rey Park. Apply to Cochrane Bros,
phone SO.
12-29-1mo.
The Lafayette advertiser. [volume] (Vermilionville [i.e. Lafayette], La.) 1865-19??, 1912-01-16
Real Estate Transfers.

Felix Langlinais to Jos. Breaux.
1891 arpents land and improvements,
$1,000. 5
Elmar Guidry to sevegne .Guidry.
% acres, 1890.
The Lafayette advertiser. [volume] (Vermilionville [i.e. Lafayette], La.) 1865-19??, 1912-01-16

Waterman Fountain Pens are
recognized to be the best pens
lapade. W. have an excellent as
Sprtment to select from. Moss
Pharmacy.
The Lafayette advertiser. [volume] (Vermilionville [i.e. Lafayette], La.) 1865-19??, 1912-01-16

TUESDAY. JANUARY 1s, 1912.
Greene County herald. (Leakesville, Miss.) 1898-current, 1912-04-12
Fertilizer for cantaIoupes.

II manure is to be applied on the
ground on which you are to raise can
taloupes next spring, spread it now
four or five inches thick over the en-
tire land to be planted. Then by
means of an iron pillow or spading fork
mix well with the soil to at least one
foot In depth as early next spring as
possible.
Follow this with disk or tooth
harrow or long toothed iron rake,
using this implement until the soil is
fine and level. If irrigation is to be
used, throw up beds or ridges six feet
wide by five inches high, one foot
apart, and the longer the better; or a
simpler method Is to open furrow
five inches deep and one foot wide
every six and one-half feet, with a
double shovel pillow. thus leaving six
foot beds.
Greene County herald. (Leakesville, Miss.) 1898-current, 1912-04-12
FIGHTS SNAKES ALL NIGHT
When Rescued in the Morning the
Badly Bitten Cowboys Reason
Is Destroyed.

Galveston, Tex.-Fifteen hours bat
thing with dozen or more snakes
forty feet below ground, in an aban-
doned well, was the racking expert
ence of Charles Wellbourne, cow
boy residing In Vallyerde county.
When rescued in the morning after a
night in the well, Wellbourne had lost
his reason and his arms and legs
were literally covered with bites from
the snakes.
Eight dead reptiles, measuring in
length from two to four feet, were
taken out, but the details of his
frightful experience will not be known
unless he RECEIVERS, and his condition
is said to be serious.
Melbourne was riding horseback
when seen in the neighborhood about
FIVE o'clock in the evening, and his
horse returned to the Little Branch
about midnight Shortly after a
search was instituted, and at nine
o'clock the next morning his maniacal
screams directed the searchers to the
well on the side of an old ranch. With
ropes the man was pulled out.
Greene County herald. (Leakesville, Miss.) 1898-current, 1912-04-12
OLD MYSTERY is SOLVED
Messenger Buried Seven Years in the
Desert Sands, Committed Suicide
by Shooting.

Berlin-After having been buried
for seven years in the desert, the
body of German trooper named Rog-
ge has been found In shifting sand
dune near Kolmanskop, German
Southwest Africa. The unfortunate
trooper had been sent to convey the
mails from Luderitzbucht to some re-
mote inland station. He never ar
rived.
His route Jay via the Ukama springs
a small oasis, and from notes found in
a pocketbook on the body it appears
that he lost his bearings, owing to
desert mirages. He wandered about
aimlessly for days, without finding his
way
His last note was to the effect that
he was suffering fearful torInents
from thirst. and that he intended to
blow out his brains before his reason
gave away completely The body
was found with . bullet hole in the
temple, and the packet of letters lay
beside 1t intact.
Greene County herald. (Leakesville, Miss.) 1898-current, 1912-04-12

"Now just listen to the logic of
what / am saying" continued Justice
Harlan, thoroughly warmed up to the
subject, the more so because his cigar
was out and he saw no chance of re-
lighting it. "a wind moving in a
southerly direction cannot possibly
carry smoke north, can it?''
To all of which the harassed and
puzzled conductor tried to turn a deaf
ear. He sought refuge in superior
sort of silence, since the justice was
too large a man to make a personal
encounter entirely safe.
AS the car reached their destina-
ton, Just above U street on Four
teenth, both men alighted- Chief JUS
tice Fuller stepped down from the
car and gravely offered Justice Har-
Ian the stump of his cigar as a light
err. It was his third! To his credit,
though, he did not smile nor make
any reference to that fact. Nor did
he pass any opinion on the case that
had just been tried before him. Which
goes to show what a truly courteous
gentleman the late chief justice OF the
United States really was.
Greene County herald. (Leakesville, Miss.) 1898-current, 1912-04-12
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Cross Section of Temporary Hotbed.

Cross Section of Temporary Hotbed.
cred with common window sash and
filed with twelve inches of manure
and two inches of finely pulverized
top soil is all that is necessary.
A temporary hotbed can be made by
making a foundation of coarse stable
manure into broad fiat heap and
thoroughly tamping it down. The
manure heap should be eight or nine
feet wide. 10 to "a inches deep and
as long as may be necessary to fit
the window-sash The frames, placed
on top of the manure-heap should
face the south and the front board
should be from four to six inches
lower than the back, so that the water
will drain from the glass.
After the top soil is put on, the
bed should be thoroughly sprinkled,
the sash closed and the bed left to
generate heat. II properly made the
heat ought to run up to 100 degrees
or more but no seed should be planted
until 1t falls to about 80 degrees.
This condition will generally occur
about the third day.
The seed should be sown in straight
rows and each variety marked with
the name on a small stick placed at
the end of the row.
The hotbeds must be watered slight
~ In the morning only. If watered at
night, it will tend to chill the bed and
retard the plant. The bed must al
ways be well ventilated and on bright
days the sash should be removed in
order to give the plants all the sun
shine possible. On cool nights the
sash should be closed with the excep-
ton OF about an inch, in order that
the plants may have ventilation.
BY March 1st the hotbed should be
planted to cabbage, onions, lettuce,
beets, celery, carrots. tomatoes and
radishes to be transplanted to the
garden just as soon as the ground be-
comes warm enough.
Tomatoes, cabbage. cauliflower and
celery should be transplanted twice
In order to give the plants a good
root system and promote vigor.
Transplanting is not very much trou-
Greene County herald. (Leakesville, Miss.) 1898-current, 1912-04-12
Roughness in Reviving Is Not Assault

means OF bringing him around. he
rolled the man on the ground, kicked
the soles of his feet, thumped him
roughly on the back and chest and
otherwise mistreated him, it Is said,
with the result of restoring conscious
ness and saving life.
Bystanders, including DR.. Miller,
who is a dentist at Takoma Park, OBJ
iected to Harris manner of resuscitat-
ing men overcome by gas, and the
assault charge was filed. Hart entered
:. plea of not guilty and demanded q
jury trial.
After considerable delay the case
was called up. when Hart withdrew
his plea and demand for jury trial.
and asked Judge Pugh to dispose OF
the case at once. Hart explained that
the method he used was one he had
used successfully in many other cases,
and that it has always been successful.
The court held that if men who help
resuscitate persons overcome by
gas or almost drowned are to be pros
ecuted for the necessarily rough treat
ment that must be administered feel
ing of timidity will obtain, which may
result in the death of many who 9TH
erwise might be revived.
Greene County herald. (Leakesville, Miss.) 1898-current, 1912-04-12
yXTAsHINGToN.-Keepers at the Ma

Observation-Disclosures at the Ma
w tional Geological park are horror
stricken. Monkeys there are doing
the turkey frost" and the grizzly
bear" The little animals do the
dances in the most unapproved style.
Where the monkeys discovered the
dance is the mystery that is puzzling
the keepers. Some believe that 1t
must have been danced in the house
by some enthusiast. Others contend
that it is the result of the monkeys
artistic temperament"
A discussion of the way and man.
ner they were enabled to become IA
miliar with the famous pastime is not
so important as the fact that they
were actually caught in the act. Steps
were at once taken by the keepers to
Immediately put an end to the per-
Torrance, as the antics of the young
er monkeys met with violent disap-
proval on the part of the older ami
mails, thereby causing noisy demon
Etration.
That the monkeys were indulging
In the disfavored dance was discover
Greene County herald. (Leakesville, Miss.) 1898-current, 1912-04-12
SQUIRREL STOLE THE ACE.
Gard Game Mystery Soived-it Hap
pened in Winsted, Conn.,,
of Course.

Winsted, Conn.-On pleasant day
last fall spirited game of ''set back
high, low, jack and the game-was
played in a grove on the shore of
Highland lake, between four men out
for walk When the final game OF
a series was being played and Fred
Jacobs, who declared he had drawn
the ace of hearts. went to play the
card he discovered 1t was missing and
his hand" was declared dead.
After the game the card could not
be found and a count of the deck
showed fifty-one instead of fifty-two
cards. The robber was discovered
the other day a tame red squirrel,
which has made its home in the grove
for two years. had carried the ace to
its nest in a high pine tree, where 1t
was found by BOY who climbed the
tree to see If the squirrel had survived
the winter.
Greene County herald. (Leakesville, Miss.) 1898-current, 1912-04-12
THIEF TAKEN

ity with church affairs while receiving
his education in an ecclesiastical SEM
mary His father probably hoped that
he would become a priest. But the
youth found his vocation along very
different lines.
1t would be impossible and useless
to make list of those he has swim
died 1t is believed he has got away
with several millions of francs in all.
The greater number of his victims
have made no formal complaint against
him, preferring to pocket their losses
rather than to suffer the chatting of
their friends because of their gullibil-
ity. But it is known that among the
sufferers are cardinals, archbishops,
abbots of monasteries, mother superb
ors and ADDRESSES of converts and noble
men and women who are charitably
disposed.
How did he do it? In many ways
He forged letters of introduction from
one bishop to another He ingratiated
himself here and there by conspicu-
Gus acts of charity and piety and so
got genuine letters of introduction
from prelates and mobiles.
Among those upon whom he imposed
was the dowager duchess of Genoa,
mother of Queen Margherita of Italy,
in whose private chapel at Novara he
said mass, and from whom he received
present.
When caught in Rome he was about
to go to st. Peters to say mass, the
authorization so to do being signed by
Cardinal Respighi, which signature is
declared to be forgery
There was nothing new about his
swindles; they were the old, well-worn
devices, with which every one ought
to be familiar, but which work just
as effectively today as they worked in
the time of Gil Bias.
He is to be sent successfully to
each of the cities where he is want
ed" in each of them he will be tried
and, if convicted, will be sentenced. So
he has the prospect of four or five
prison terms, one after another, in
different parts of Italy
Greene County herald. (Leakesville, Miss.) 1898-current, 1912-04-12

A CHARGE of assault, which had
"a been pending against William
Hart, a foreman In the employ of the
Washington Gasoline company. was
dismissed by Judge Pugh In police
court the other day. The charge
against Hart had peculiar origin.
He was foreman of gang of men
who were working in the gas mains In
Takoma Park this winter. December
z IL Of the men were overcome by
gas and several of them had narrow
escapes from death. Hart. with the
assistance of DIR. Archibald L. Miller
and several citizens of Takoma, got
the men out of the trench and revived
all of them but one.
The man was in such a serious con-
dition from the effects of the gas that
he failed to respond to the methods
used, and Hart adopted strenuous
Greene County herald. (Leakesville, Miss.) 1898-current, 1912-04-12
Europe's Most Daring Swindler
Is Under Arrest
Robbed the Charitable, Posed as
Prince, Marquis and Monsignor of
Church, and His Loot
Totals Millions.

ROme.-Nerve was what kept this
phenomenal rascal skating gracefully
over the thinnest kind of ice. And his
nerve has not deserted him, now that
the ice has broken under him and he
has sunk overhead in the muddy wa
tiers of trouble.
Behind his prison bars he seems, in
deed-like most clever criminals-to
take a sort of professional pride in his
achievements. When he realized that
denial was henceforth futile he shrug-
sed his ST ulders and said:
Il congratulate the Roman police l
have travelled all over the world and
got away with many hundreds of
thousands of lire
However. that which | stole | stole
from the rich | never trimmed any
one for less than 100000 lire ($20, 000)
What a pity that the law must punish
me! have helped an infinite number
OF poor priests. Today l had an APP
pointment with another prelate; in
stead, I am in jail. What a PITY.
This unique scoundrel is a sort of
combination of Tartuffe and Barry
Lyndon. He posed as a priest and
wore priestly garb, but he was not con-
tent with that, for he wore purple at
his throat and a purple girdle, which
indicated that he was a monsignor of
the church.
The bearer of these noble names and
ecclesiastical titles had no right TO
any of them. He never was priest.
He had no right to wear even a cas-
sock, much less the purple of pre-
late He is just plain Giovanni Bat
tista Gindri, son of respectable Turin
hotelkeeper. He obtained his familiar
Greene County herald. (Leakesville, Miss.) 1898-current, 1912-04-12
Scorns to Work on Cobbler's Bench

THERE Is q limited diet in store for
L Marce1lus Wilson, an inmate Of the
Home for the Aged and Infirm, and
possibly expulsion from the institu-
tion, il Wilson and Superintendent
William J. Fay do not adjust their diff
ficulties shortly.
Exasperated by alleged repeated re-
fusals by Wilson to work, Superintend-
ent Fay has brought the matter to the
attention Of the commissioners Of the
district. suggesting limited diet and
confinement In a room as means
of enforcing obedience. The commits
sioners have decided to inform Mr..
Fay OF their support in the infection Of
proper discipline. and IL Wilson does
not conform to the rules and regula-
tions he will be ordered to leave the
institution.
The case IL such an unusual one
that superintendent Fay was in doubt
as to his authority 10 inflict discipline.
IN his letter to the district heads
10 states that Wilson ID In rugged
Greene County herald. (Leakesville, Miss.) 1898-current, 1912-04-12
GROWING GOOD THINGS
AS General Rule Farmers Leave
Gardens to Women.
Good Seed, Proper Fertilization and
Care Are Essential to Profitable
Gardening-Main Thing Is to
Get Early Start.
by s. M. CLINTON. Illinois,

The farm garden is usually left to
the Women-folk. but they manage to
produce an average of over 5000 per
acre every year. Sometimes four or
i've times as much as the average
farmer produces from his general
crops.
AS a rule farmers pay little or no
attention to their gardens, although
they expect their wives to supply the
entire family with vegetables the year
round. The most the men-folk do
is to grudgingly plow up a plot of
ground, harrow it perhaps once or
twice and then leave the rest to
Providence and the women
If more attention were paid to the
selection of good seeds and the use of
proper fertilizers in addition to stable
manure, and if the women-folk could
have the services OF the hired man
three or four hours a week, they
would be able to double their garden
crop
Even if the farmers wife cannot
buy bone meal, nitrate soda and
other vegetable fertilizers, but must
depend upon what manure she can
wheel to her garden plot in a wheel
barrow, she can by proper methods
not only increase the yield of her
garden but do it with less work.
The main thing is to get an early
start with good seed. This requires
a hotbed, one of the simplest things
in the world but which is in use
In comparatively few farmers gar
dens. The hotbed should be made
early in February in the north. A
square box about IS inches deep COW
Greene County herald. (Leakesville, Miss.) 1898-current, 1912-04-12
Value of Sheep Manure.

An analysis of sheep manure indi.
Gates that it contains about 6.2 per
cent of nitrogen. 7.3 per cent of phos-
phoric acid and &c per cent of pot
ash. 1t Is higher in phosphoric acid
than manure from cattle. In other
respects this analysis shows 1t to be
not dissimilar In composition to or
binary yard manure At prices pre-
vailing for commercial fertilizers, say.
Is cents pound for nitrogen, four to
five cents for potash, it would be
worth about 1885 a ton. OF course.
its value would depend on the care
and skill with which it had been
handled It should be protected from
teaching by covering and from fer
mentation by keeping moist.
Greene County herald. (Leakesville, Miss.) 1898-current, 1912-04-12
EXCELLENT FEED FOR HORSE
cottonseed Meal Has Passed Far Be-
You'd the Experimental Stage
Value as Fertilizer

Professor w. A. Henry, dean of the
Wisconsin Agricultural college, and
perhaps the greatest practical animal
feeder In the world, under the head
ing, "Cottonseed Meal for Horses,
quotes approvingly Gebek, recog-
nized authority on horse feeding, as
follows: Draft horses do well on
a ration containing two parts of cot
tonseed meal He then adds on his
own account: THE use of cottonseed
meal for horses will be greatly ex-
tended at the south if experiments re-
veal equally good results" Numer-
GUS experiments have revealed and
confirmed these very results.
In truth, cottonseed meal as a feed
for horses has passed far beyond the
stage of experiment. To put cotton
seed meal into the ground without first
running it through the inside of an
animal seems to me to be direct in
suit to a bountiful Providence If our
farmers were to take their own freight
free, cottonseed meal, feed it first to
their farm animals and next to their
farm lands-oh, what would come
of it?
There are in the 15 cotton produc-
ing states today 5,699,114 head of
horses, 2,594,199 head of mules; each
one of these should eat at least one
pound day or four sacks of cotton
seed meal annually. This would mean
a brand new demand on the cotton
seed meal market alone in the states
where it is produced. or 1,658,462 tons
per annum, or half million tons more
than is actually made.
The value of the commercial fertil-
izers Is determined by the amount and
value of their three ingredients-am-
monia, phosphoric acid and potash, in
the same way the value of horse feed
may be ascertained by determining the
amount and value of its three principal
components - protein, carbohydrates
and ether extracts. One of the latest
estimates based on the value of many
different animal feeds, places their
value as follows: Protein one and one
half cents per pound, carbohydrates
one cent per pound, and ether extract
five cents per pound
Greene County herald. (Leakesville, Miss.) 1898-current, 1912-04-12
CAT AcoUITs MAN OF ARSON
Story of Overturned Lamp DispeIs
"RIack Hand" Theory and Jury
Frees Prisoners.

Pottsville, Pa.-Accused of setting
fire to residence at Palo Alto at the
instigation of the BLACK Hand" Do
nato L. d'Angelo was acquitted in
court when he placed the blame on a
cat which overturned kerosene lamp
The fire was begun shortly after
the midnight hour and several persons
had narrow escapes with their lives.
The police found gasoline cans ex-
ploded near the place where the fire
started and became convinced that the
defendant, in company with friend
from Philadelphia, committed the
crime, but the jury believed the cat
story.
Greene County herald. (Leakesville, Miss.) 1898-current, 1912-04-12
Chief Justice Fuller Was Courteous

JUSTICE HARLAN and Chief JUS
a tice Fuller were riding home one
evening on the back platform Of a
car, preferring that to seat in order
to smoke. The door of the car was
open, and at intervals smoke from
their cigars drifted in. Noticing this,
the conductor Informed them that
smoking was prohibited.
But" objected Justice Harlan, "the
wind carries the smoke to the south
and we are travelling north
That's all right, mister; but them's
my orders" insisted the knight OF the
bell rope.
During the conversation Justice
Fuller had stepped down on the car
step and hidden himself behind the
mammoth physique of his argumenta-
tive friend. He was enjoying his cigar
to the fullest extent.
Orders are orders, | know" con-
tinued Justice Harlan, determined to
convince the conductor by logic of the
folly of blind obedience; "but there
are cases where law coercive at
one time may at another be void Al
low me to cite certain case in our
common law statute book"
s'I take my orders from the supe,
and / don't care about no law!" per-
sisted the conductor stubbornly.
The car had turned into Fifteenth
street by this time.
The little chief Justice was just
lighting his second cigar, entirely dis
Interested in the plea of his learned
colleague.
Greene County herald. (Leakesville, Miss.) 1898-current, 1912-04-12
Effects of Good Stallion.

Can anyone estimate the value
brought to a community by the use
of good stallion? The increased
usefulness of the colts and tssir
more ready stability are not tAs
only gains A good stallion improves
the horse stock of the farm side, but
he also improves the men.
Every owner takes a pride in a
good horse, and a good horse is i'm
possible without an appreciation on
the part of mankind. Pure-bred live
stock is an educator, and is worth
it's cost and keep for its influence
upon the boys and girls, If for no
other purpose.
Greene County herald. (Leakesville, Miss.) 1898-current, 1912-04-12

health, although both legs are or at
the knee. He Is 81 years old and il
said to be an expert cobbler. but, ac-
cording to the head Of the institution
in which he is given a home by the
district, the suggestion that he give
his time and attention to the mend
ing of shoes is received only with
scorn. The decision of the commits
sioners to enforce obedience ON the
part of Wilson with the rules Of the
house was reached following report
by George s. Wilson, secretary of the
board OF charities, who says that his
''namesake has been a disturbing ele
ment IN the institution for some tina !"