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Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1913-05-12

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BY The Second Ward Bard.
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A PROBLEM.
Geraldine Fay is maiden fair
With fine red checks and curling hair,
She's a girl who is a picture good to
see,
She makes the old piano ring
The rag-time stuff she can certainly
sing,
And in her company it is good to be.
Susan Boggs isn't much for looks,
She's not like the heroines found in
books,
And she cannot play a note or sing q
line,
But she can keep house and sew quit
well,
And, as a cook, she is surely swell,
And qualities like these, of course, are
fine.
Ny hearts perplexed bout which II.
choose
Pm struggling hard with a fit of
blues,
That the problem is hard one you'll,
agree,
But a face that's fair and mus.
sweet
Won't sew on buttons or brcil my
meat,
So l reckon Susan is The girl FOR me.
We would be awfully obliged !.
somebody would only 7urn eff the
west wind.
Just a li..le while now and ne hay
fever squad will be doing pennance.
There's 10. of pretty blossoms Wit!
their fragrance and their rooi!
Approving in my flower "a der
bed,
But it has got 50 cold that ! can
smell their sweet perfume
For Pm suff'r;ng WI. ma n2a:. colo
in NY head.
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FOR SALE.
4 LARGE and Attractive Individual Residence


We are authorized beautiful three-story pfk
South Fairfax sree-doub side yard also large DacA
IN alv brick stable carriage house that could easily De co
~ into large parlors closets pantry water anu gas
hot air furnace splendid dton; attractive dining room WIZ"
window side yard; large kitchen WIN range anu s On
~ an fret floor rooms and second floor; rooms on
third floor large closets in all rooms large eelar unue
with man hole fr fuel sewer conneclohS h.n
rwav 70 third floor large double house. supan
tally built and splendid condition and convenient 10
line This large residence arrange that could more easily
into than know OF in the CITY, ana
ab located for this Price reasonable and terms easy
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Wanted to Borrow.

To pay off mortgage now
due, I want to borrow $4,000
on my three-story brick
building which I paid $4,000
for. Loan wanted for three
years. Interest at six per
cent to be paid semi-annu-
ally.
Address Real Estate. care
Gazette.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1913-05-12
ALEXANDRIA GAZETTE.
PUBLISHED DAILY.

The Alexandria Gazette Corporation.
Gazette Building King Street.
ROBERT S. BARRETT, President.
and General Manager.
HOWARD w. SMITH, Secretary and
Treasurer.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1913-05-12

FOR RENT-4O9 West street, 6 rooms
and bath. Apply to VIM. II:
Peck. 81
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1913-05-12

Entered at the Postoffice of Alex.
andria, Virginia as second-class mat
ter.
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TERMS.-Daily, l year, $500
Six Months, $3.50. Three Months,
S1.25. One month, 43 cents. One week
10 cents.
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Reautiful North Washington Street Residence

Thar beautiful twoory brick residence NO 4zo norm
street. bright cheerful ais reception nail WIFI open t
fXtures In
ful hardwood stairway and back porche ETC. interior
order This one attractive and desirable homes III VIC
beautiful residential
three ano onehaf squares ei King street. and "n
are RAPIDLY advancing residence has side alley ana
o+ DC - bv 100 feet alley bargain at th prize
asked.
For particulars regarding property, call to see
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1913-05-12

Hard Shell Devilcd Crabs at Rammel's
Cafe.
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Maryland Delaware and "
ginia RiIWay Company.

SA1 OhDa St 4.oo +. III.
FOR BALTIMORE AND ALL THE
USUAL RIVER LANDINGS.
Steamers Of this line leave Alexan
.dria on and after May Is. 1916.
livery MONDAY. WEDNESDAY an
Cuisine aud appointments unexcel n
Freight for Baltimore, Philadell..
and New York solicited and handled
with care. Through rates and bills Of
lading issued.
Single fare to Baltimore, $3.50; re
turn trip, $3.50: s.raterooms, one way
$1.5O. Meals, 30 cents.
REARDON G. GRIMES, AGENTS.
Foor of Can ION street
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Lower coast gazette., 1913-01-04
SATURDAY, JANUARY 4, 1912.
The Lower Coast Gazette's Birthday.

With this issue this journal enters into the
fourth year of it's existence and we thank our
friends and patrons throughout the parish for
the hearty support that they have given us dur
ing these four years. Plaquemines Parish with
its twelve thousand people, deserves a good
newspaper and it has been our effort to pro-
duce for our people a journal Of which they
could be proud. We have fenAd during these
years that at many times the space allotted to
our news columns was inadequate and there
fore we are now issuing an all home print, four
pages of matter, with which we shall, as rapid
ly as practicable, enlarge our news service, en-
deavoring to cover every ward in the parish and
practically every parish in the state, so that all
of our peuple may be courant with everything
that is going on in the limits of our own state
and particularly in our own parish.
Comparatively few of our parish newspapers
are willing to publish an all home print, but
utilize what are ordinarily called patent out
sides, the bulk of the printed matter coming
from the Western Newspaper Union, that pub
fishes hundreds of such sheets on a portion of
the paper, leaving a limited portion for the local
work. We have found that this was not enough
and our enlarged resources nav, while giving
US a smaller journal, will lead to still better
things in the future and we shall hope to. make
our paper better year by year and would ask
our readers to join with us and aid in the good
Worg. We shall do our part and we would ask
them to do theirs. Part Of that would be to
to send us in their subscriptions, $1.W a year,
which is as low as they can expect a good local
newspaper, and they may be sure that they will
get their moneys worth many times over.
. Our parish has suffered much with bad
weather, flood and storm, but we have survived
it all and believe that we are now facing a gen.
eral revival of business and a prosperous era.
The people of the Parish of Plaquemines can
aid in the realization of all these good things to
come by putting their shoulders to the wheel,
by better approaching tie wonderful resources
of our parish and by announcing to all the
world that we waNt immigrants here and viii
give them a hearty welcome if they will come
and live in this best section Of Louisiana.
With the advent of the new year we wish
all of our friends and patrons and all Of our
people a happy and prosperous New Year,
Lower coast gazette., 1913-01-04
Fruit and Truck Exchange.

A movement has been inauguratedin Dallas,
Texas, to create a Four States Fruit and Truck
Exchange to solve the marketing problems of
Arkansas, Oklahoma, Louisiana and Texas.
This is intended to be a purely cooperative or
ganization and not for the purpose Of making
any profit for the exchange as an exchange. It
is stated that it would have its permanent head
quarters at Texarkana and work in cooperation
with other agencies now in the field. 1t will
attempt to prevent glutted markets and uneven
distribution and will organize local associations
on a uniform basis, incorporating the best fea-
lures OF the most successful associations row
operating and of these there are now. quite a
number. Part of the work contemplated is the
Standardization of packs and packages, and to
aid IN the buying OF such supplies as the truck
growers must havo and can buy to the best adj
vantage IN large quantities. 1t is proposed to
promote IS far as practicable educational work
among the growers for better cultural methods
and Tor the control Of insect enemies and dis
eases OF fruits and vegetables. The matter Of
establishing a credit reporting service is under
with a view of avoiding the swind-
lers, some OF whom are seeking to get consign-
ments on which they never make reports. The
cooperation with TRANSFORMATION and refrigerat
ing lines is a branch of the industry that re-
CURES consideration and more information is
Lower coast gazette., 1913-01-04
Che Muskfat Crop OF The Lower Coast

The y. S. Department of Agriculture in a
recent publication concerning the rearing of fur
bearing animals in the United States for their
pelts, states that skunks, muskrats, minks and
foxes are row being reared in captivity, or on
preserves under the control Of breeders. In re-
gard to muskrat farming, a very possible in-
dustry on the Lower Coast, where the muskrats
are now doing the farming themselves, it is
stated to have reached its highest point of de-
%velopment on the eastern shore of MARYLAND.
1t is stated further that muskrat marshes are
worth more, measured by their actual income,
than the cultivated farms Of like acreage in tie
same vicinity. Only one other animal in the
world, the European rabbit, exceeds the musk
rat in the number Of skins marketed.
his data onens up q new field for action on
the Lower Coast where we have such a vast ex-
tent CT sea marshes, with Little ridges here and
there running through them. These are the
tayorlte habitat of the muskrat and the fact
that on the eastern shore of Maryland they
have developed these marshes to such an extent
that acre per acre the lard is worth more. based
upon the income from it, than the cultivable
la,cs In The vicinity, comes to us as rather
startling We have been taught to de-
plore the existence Of the muskrat, as his fire.
q%uenting Of our levees constitutes one of the
greatest dargers that we have of overflow by
his hlrroving in our l%evees, tut it is possible
that the muskrat can be brought under control.
Any way the experience Of our congeners in
Maryland may teach us how to utilize to our
own advantage what is rev something Of a
pest.
Lower coast gazette., 1913-01-04
Small Farms on the Lower Coast.

SOUTHERN California prides itaelf en- its
ability to furnish small farms to all those de-
string them and claims to have hundreds of
these small farms now of one, two and three
acres each in extern, each with it's home, it's
dependent family and all these small home own
ers living with no other source of income than
from the tiny patch of land. They claim that
these little landers'' are to be found all over
California and that they constitute the back
bone of many communities.
When we know that two crops of almost any
kind of garden truck and that almost every
thing that human beings desire to eat can be
produced on our Lower Coast, it is manifest
that this section of our state is emphatically the
Mecca for these little landers."
The old matter Of land hunger has prevailed
in Louisiana ever since the country was first
settled. The landed proprietors of those days
got all the land they could by governmental
concession, or otherwise and then tried to get
still more. Many Of the leading men Of this
state have been kept land poor all their lives by
having more land than could be well cultivated
with the resources at their hand. Their work
has made the steamboats,, the railroads, the
banks, the draymen, the barrel and bag makers
and the merchants generally rich, while the
planters themselves have been held down to the
work and remained comparatively poor.
The time has come when we should divide
up our lands, keep half of it if We can, but let
part of TIE lands go to the enterprising people,
provided that we can get the people to come
here and take them.
Lands in California not nearly as good as
those on the Lower Coast sell at $500 per square
acre, and then have to be irrigated in order to
produce crops, the irrigation costing an annual
rental equal to the interest on another hundred
dollars per acre.
Our people stand ready to welcome the West
and, in fact, to welcome the people from any
part OF the Federal Union down to these lands
on the Lower Coast where they can make a liy-
ing for a family on a single acre of well titled
land.
With the splendid railway service that tie
Louisiana Southern is row giving Us under the
Frisco management, it is manifest that a new
era is opening for the East Bank and we have
doubt that the West Bank also will make .equa-
ly rapid progress, as the owners of the Rev
Orleans Southern and Grand Island Railroad on
that side Ct the river seem to be progressive
people and willing to cooperate wi h cur W
people all along the lire in the promotion of
their COMMON good.
Lower coast gazette., 1913-01-04
Young Man Must Have Friends,

For boys and young men friendship
Is a prime necessity of existence.
When q man has established himself
in life and the interests of home and
wife and family have absorbed him,
ne may, perhaps, dispense with friend
ship. But es long as he is young, un.
married and unsettled, he is as de-
pendent on friendship as on air or
food.
Lower coast gazette., 1913-01-04
Uncovered Family Group.

An interesting discovery was re.
Gently made in Edinburgh in the
course Of the demolition of the old
church buildings of a parish church
in Roxburgh Place. A vault contain
ing the remains of Lady Glenorchy, a
member of the Breadalbane family,
and the founder Of the original church,
was laid bare.
Lower coast gazette., 1913-01-04
WASHING Msttino.

Bran Is much better to use for
cleaning mating than soap and wa
ter. Tie the bran in a bag, dip the
bag into clean warm water, and rub
the mating briskly with this; then
wash 1t off with a cloth wrung out of
warm salt water. This method fresh.
ems It up wonderfully.
Lower coast gazette., 1913-01-04

opuIent Bard.

Il can't understand how that poets
wife is able to dress SO well. / thought
there was no money in poetry" II
guess there isn't; but her husband has
the job of writing all the advertising
rhymes for one of the biggest break
fast food concerns in the country.
Have you seer their new automobile?"
Lower coast gazette., 1913-01-04
Muddted.

The lecturer arose and said i'm.
pressively: every time / see a young
man coming out Of a saloon, ] want
to go right up to that young man and
say. Turn right around, young man:
you're going the wrong way.'"-New
York Mail.
Lower coast gazette., 1913-01-04
SWattinu Back.

Mrs. Hiram Offen-'T'm afraid you
Wont do AS nearly as | can find out,
you have worked in six or seven
places during the past year" Miss
Brady-"Well, an how nanny girls
has herself had in the same tonne?
No less, I'm thinkin.'"
Lower coast gazette., 1913-01-04
(
Notice.

Parties holding claims against the
estate of the late And. Mccormick will
please send same to the undersigned.
Anyone owing said Mccormick or hold
ing any property belonging to his
estate is requested to settle or deliver
same
v. L. GILMORE,
Admin. Estate of A. Mccormick,
Nairn, La.
Lower coast gazette., 1913-01-04

desired in regard to loading, packs and pack
ages, cars, traffic and general service. Mr.. c..
W. Holman of Dallas, Texas, is the temporary
chairman and it is certainly to be hoped that
this organization will be able to do considerable
good along the lines Of it's proposed action.
Lower coast gazette., 1913-01-04
No Conclusive Evidence Of Change.

NO Conclusive evidence OF Change'
Give years ago, sir" t~riumphantly
declared the landlord Of the Atlantic
and Pacific hotel at Whoopopolis, Ok,
there was no town here at ALL"
"H'm!" replied the hypercritical tour
list from the east. "And what makes
you think there is one here now?"
Lower coast gazette., 1913-01-04
Probably.

Probably.
The man who spends his life pursu-
ing fame probably does so because he
never gets a chance to turn OF on a
by-path that appears to lead straight
to wealth.
Lower coast gazette., 1913-01-04
Society People Classified.

Storekeeper-"They r society
people. They belong to u first and
last families" Customer-"You mean
first families" Storekeeper-"No;
first and last. First to ask credit and
last to pay."-Puck.
Lower coast gazette., 1913-01-04
Ham and Eaas.

Calhoun Clay says: Oar am a non.
breakable relationship betwixt de cul.
lud race an turkey. the reason bein'
dat de cullud race is descended from
Ham, while turkey comes from eggs"
Lower coast gazette., 1913-01-04
Speech In Marble.

Rodin says Of the antique master.
pieces: They speak to me louder,
move me more, than human beings.
In its turn, may the new century medl-
tate upon these marvels, and may it
try to ascend to them through intelli-
gence and love-"
Lower coast gazette., 1913-01-04
Worlds Meanest Man

We have just heard of the worlds
meanest man. He doesn't like his
wife's red hair, so he is trying, by iii.
Ing her days with care, to cause it to
turn white.
Lower coast gazette., 1913-01-04
Clash Of Contrast.

What is that terrific noise?" ask.
ed the pedestrian. @That." replied the
policeman, lis caused BY an ordinary
one-cent safety pin sticking into q
three million dollar baby"
Lower coast gazette., 1913-01-04
Uncle Pennywise Saws.

Diogcnes Wombat has got the best
library in Plunkville. His father left
him a pile cf newspapers three feet
high.
Lower coast gazette., 1913-01-04
Had a Good "rake.v

Had a Good "Take."
One Of the latest novels says: HE
stopped a little and printed a round
dozen of swift kisses Oh her sur
prised lips" Evidently a job print.
er.-Cleveland Plain Dealer.
Lower coast gazette., 1913-01-04
Daily Thought.

A man should never be ashamed to
own he has been in the wrong,
which is but saying, in other words,
that he is wiser today than he was
yesterday.-Pope.
Lower coast gazette., 1913-01-04
All He Was Interested In.

R!i He Was Interested In.
Mother-""What do You think you
will make out of my daughters tai
ent?" ProfedSor-"About 81 a lesson,
If the piana holds out."-Stray Sto.
TICS:
Lower coast gazette., 1913-01-04
Contentment.

"Contentment consists in the TEN.
porary forgetfulness Of the things we
would like to have next."-Puck.
Lower coast gazette., 1913-01-04

Without courage there cannot be
truth, and without truth there can be
40 other vfrtue.--Sir Walter Scott.
Lower coast gazette., 1913-01-04

Few Words Of Truth.
The attitude of ourselves toward
ourselves has a wonderful effect in
the way we conduct ourselves.
Lower coast gazette., 1913-01-04
|, a Il c h 5 tai dard

EUG. DE NJ M. @. Blu.
RAS and NJ. G. BURAS, Own.
ers; Eng &c Armas, Mas
tiers: J. c. De ARMAS, Clerk
Leaving Wednesdays and Sat-
urdays at 6 o'clock a. m. We'd
nesdays for Port Eads. Satur-
days for Venice. Returning
Thursdays and Sundays.
Freight received Mondays,
Tuesdays and Fridays foot Of
Ursuline Street.
Lower coast gazette., 1913-01-04

New zeaIand's Many journals.
New Zealand has 233 daily weekly
Ind monthly periodicals,
Lower coast gazette., 1913-01-04
Poor Man.

He has only been wearing trousers
since 1914.
Lower coast gazette., 1913-01-04

Washing solled Greenbacks.
A soiled greenback is restored to
Its original glory by washing and iron.
Ing at a cost Of one.tenth Of q cent,
Lower coast gazette., 1913-01-04

United States Ranks Tenth.
In the production of rice and coffee
the United States ranks tenth, COM
pared with other countries Of the
world.
Lower coast gazette., 1913-01-04
Daily rhaunhf-

time mfsspent is not lived, but ,st
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1913-01-18
AMUSEM ENTS.=
"The Toy Maker at the Opera House,
Wednesdax Ian. pod


While the Pollard Australian Juve-
nile opera Company has been visiting
the United States and Canada for the
past eleven years this is the first sea-
son played by them in New England
and the coming of this clever company
of fifty youthful Australians is hailed
as a real novelty.
Ever since early childhood these
youthful mummers have been before
the public of every English speaking
country on the globe and the clever
ness attained and the thoroughness of
their training is said to be really mar
yelous. The management wishes it
distinctly understood that they are
presenting company of real operate
stars even though the eldest of the
company has not reached his nine
teenth year The Pollard organization
is nothing short Of an innovation as
the engagement locally will prove con-
clusively. The repertoire of comic
operas for the present season includes
Edmond Aundron's famous light
opera. THE Toy Maker" The TOY
Maker is free translation of the
famous French Opera Comique, La
Poupee," and is especially delightful
in its numerous tuneful songs and
brillancy of wit, and as presented hv
these clever youths and maidens is
surely thing of beauty and a source
of real JOY. The local engagement at
the Opera House is for one night.
Wednesday, January %. Prices soc,
75c., $1.O0 and S1.50. Seal sale opens
Monday, Jan. 20.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1913-01-18

Pauline Chamberlain of Portland,
who has resigned, on account OF Ill
health.
Mrs. Butler, wife of the Baptist pas
tor, has returned from the Lewiston
hospital, and is slowly gaining. MIS-.
Butler wishes to thank all who klnoiy
remembered her with flowers, letters
and postcards. She will be pleased TO
see all who call at the parsonage.
Mrs. Addison Wing accompanied her
aunt, Mrs. Thomas, who went to the
c. M. G.. hospital, Lewiston, Monday,
for a critical operation.
w A. Richardson of College street,
Lewiston was a recent visitor in town.
John Cram Of New Sharon was the
guest, last week, of Benz. Gordon.
Mrs. Bertha Pike of Livermore is
the guest eff her parents, Mr.. and MIS-
j. M. Colt.
Mrs. w. c. Baker,. wife of the nj. r.
preacher, is confined to the house by
illness.
The w. c. T. Il. held no meeting,
Wednesday, their regular day on ac-
count of illness and absence or some
of the members, but adjourned 10
meet, Thursday. Jan. 20, at the nome
of Mrs. Clara Ridley. Subject: CHRIS
tan Citizenship"
Mr.. and Mrs. Ray l.. Norris were IN
Portland, Wednesday.
Mrs. Hattie Cook is visiting her
daughter, Mrs. Pierce Of Auburn.
George Lord is visiting friends and
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1913-01-18
HELD IN $500.
Sanford Pratt Arraigned for Cheating
by False Pretenses.


Sanford w. Pratt of Bowdoinham
and elsewhere was arraigned before
Judge Lancaster, Friday morning, at
the municipal court, on charge of
cheating by false pretences, the charge
having been preferred against him by
George F. Carleton. Pratt was arrest
ed Thursday night, at Hallowell. The
substance of the complainant's charge
was that Pratt had cheated him out
of a horse, harness and wagon, by Civ
ing him in exchange motor boat
which the defendant did not own, the
boat in question being described as a
and of S-foot beam The estimated
value of the boat ranged from $3.50 to
$780, Regarding the value of the team.
opinions varied, Mr.. Carleton believing
the horse to be worth 500. while the
Pratt estimate was much lower. The
primary cause of the trouble, however,
seemed to be the fact that last Oct
ober, some time after the transaction,
the defendants father came to the
Carleton place and claiming that the
boat which. figured in the trade had
not belonged to his son, loaded it upon
a team and hauled it away. The de-
fendants plea to the court was that of
not guilty, but from the nature of the
evidence submitted the court found
probable cause to hold Pratt in the
sum of $500 for the April term of
court, and as the bond was not forth
coming he was committed to Kennebec
jail.