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New Britain herald., 1916-07-29
1rIp0H 0f Barbary, q
 Land of Little Promise

barley which in the last few years has superseded wheat, olives, figs anu vines. Farley Is shipped mainly to England, but the crops are subject tq great variations, owing to the uncer= tainty of rainfall
 Much has ben said in the press by Italian political writers about tho grandiOse prospects of the country These prospects are mainly based up on the supposition that Tripolitania was, under the Roman empire, province of fOurishing agriculture and enormous wealth. There can be no doubt that Tripoli once saw better days, although the accounts of some of the ancient writers seem to be eX- aggerated. The causes of the decline are manifold and far from clear. The decline commenced when Rome's powx CT began to weaken The wild tribes of the desert, which had heen kept down by force, took advantage of ROmc's weakness ard attacked the boundaries of the colony. The elab- crate system of irrigation could only work when there was absolute securi- ty. When peace was no longer as- sured, the agriculturist was hindered in his work
 "A second cause of the decline of the COuntry-Which is, however, still a point of cOntrOversy-is a change lr the climatic condition of the region. There is probably some truth in this assertion. Every man who has seen, in the midst of the desert, the ruins the belief that some rnightier power ls' the belief that Ome mightier power is responsible for such a change. A great tragedy has been enacted here
 fra behavior of the women prevents the clouds from giving rain. Apart from the droughts, which are sometimes of five, seven and even ten years dura- tion, we find in the invading sand dunes another great eemy of agricul- ture. Quite near to the palm gardens around the city of TripOli one can see sand dunes rising to height of about seventy feet.
 Some fifty years ago Tripoi de- served, with a certain right the gran diose names of the Key to Central Africa and the Queen of the Sahara, T, Today these glories are of the past. Once Tripoli was the great emporium of the trans-Saharan trade Not far from Europe and by its situation in the Syrt nearer to the heart of Afri- ca, 1t was the gateway of the trade 
 arrived laden with the goods of the Sudan and the Niger countries. These goods were ostrich feathers ivory, skins, minerals and slaves. The slave traffic was the most remunera- tive article of that trade.
 The decline of the trans -Saharan trade began when the representatives of the European powers protested against slave trade.
 "But more important than all these causes just mentioned was the ad- vent of European control of the Niger countries and Hausaland. Shipping. was started on the great rivers Niger and Binue, and the communications with the west coast of Africa were greatly improved The new route by ship and rail is safer, cheaper, quick CT than that of nearly 2,000 miles, " across the Sahara where water < is scarce and robbers abundant" .tS-
New Britain herald., 1916-07-29
TEMPORARY" PROSPERITY.

american exports to Russia during He past year have jumped from fig Hes of insignificant proportions to 8ose of startling dimensions Dur 8g the first three months of this year Sey reached a total value of $28,- 10000. For the same period last
 Bar they were $1,00O,000. These Bures, prepared by the bureau of Sreign and domestic commerce, give
 me idea of the prosperity which the Anited States is today enjoying. An a1icial summary of the vast amount of Hreign trade for the past year places Re figures for merchandise exports at ,334, 100000, just about double the mount of business done the year be-
 re the war. Merchandise imports
 ae figured at $2,198, 1000, or six len per cent. higher than any pre- bus record.
 With these figures in mind it Is |ther difficult to lay any weight on Eguments against American prosper E. Experts do not figure such pros Brity as temporary" as MT. Hughes barges, because the figures cover an Itire year and the outlook for an- aher year of the same prosperity is aeal. Even the year previous to this z zcord the figures overshadow many st years. This business having been bee developed will not be lost so I lastly as many imagine. The Repub- Ian party, a party that lays claim being the sole guardian of pros- erity, can lay claim to no such rec Id as that made by the Democrats their three years and more in bwer. Temporary this prosperity l lay be, but it's life up to the present |oment is exceedingly longer than
 by wave of prosperity ever enjoyed bder a Republican administration hch facts will go a long way in keep |g the present Administration on the
New Britain herald., 1916-07-29
O. Henry's Place Secure. (NaM IIa Nnr ITninfnN

70. Henry has been called many
 things. Some people have called him | the twcntioth "oU;rry Balzac. Some
 have called ht~l tr" American Mau-. 1 passant. T1a+'InTi0- Fullerton Gerould l has a new nci2- for },ir. She calls
 him Pcr,,iciou, G9nuonco.
 And tho author If 'Nain Ohlations' and Tho Crca" Ira lition' was not In
 a sternly critical mood. She was ca- toying the calm of q Princeton after noon in vacation time. enjoying it in
 the mellow shade of Queens Court,
 her plcas2nt ColoMia1 home. Her.
 husband is professor of English at
 the university. Mrs. GerouId was atf peace with all the world-but never-''
 theless, she called O. Henry a per
 nicious nf1uence.'-New York Times
 Of course, we are all sorry the sub
 ject of these remarks did not live to enjoy this amusing indictment lodged
 against him and his work by the wife of a professor of English in dear old
 Princeton. He would have appre-N ciated the humor of the situation cree ated by this lady sitting in judgment while "enjoying the calm of a Prince ton afternoon in vacation time-in the mellow shade of Queens Court, her pleasant colonial hOme-at peace with all the world" No doubt this set ting alone would have been enough to suggest to the fertile imagination < of Sidney Porter short story idea possibly resulting in another gem With the fau1tless technique and absorbing interest for which so much of his work is justly famous. E
 According to Mrs Gerould q great deal of harm is to be done bv the schools and" colleges that use O. Henry's works, because this will spread the "pernicious" idea that O. Henry is a master of the short story She says: 70. Henry did not write the short story. o, Henry wrote the ex- banded anecdote. Tn a short story there are situation, suspense, climax. o. Henry. As a matter of fact. in this nothing else"
 It would be interesting to know if . Mrs. Gerould's husband, the Prince ton professor of English, would at tempt to contend that there is noth-. ing but climax, no situation, no sus- pense, in "The Municipal Report" hv O. Henry. As mater of fact in this superb example of what is best in the short story type there are what Mrs. Gerould calls situation. slspense and climax. But there is much more . besides. much of which our peaceful critic seems totally jn- aware. There is the technique of the master-and art
New Britain herald., 1916-07-29

Washington, D. C., July 29-The re- ported recent successes of the Turks over the Italians focuses the war news searchlight on Tripoli of Bar bary, a section of Northern Africa which is described as a Hand of little promise in a war geography bulle- tin issued by the National Geographic society from Washington today.
 "TripOlitania occupies the land along the Mediterranean sea from the Tunisian frontier to the Gulf of Si- dra. From the coast southwark with an average width of forty miles, runs plain called Jefara. At it's southern border rises with a steep ascent a chain of mountains commonly called Jebel, of which the most famous is Jebel Gharian. These mountains form a sort of tableland which slopes slightly southward till 1t reaches Hamada- el-Homra, a fiat, rocky pla- teau of about 40, 900 square miles GOV cred with little red stones, absolutely dry and arid. Tn the south of the Hamada is the land of Fezzan, a col lection of oases in a country of dunes and desert. Fezzan forms a wedge of sparsely inhabited land into the great Sahara.
 ''The coast of Tripoli, which ex- tends over a length of HOO miles, of fers a few natural harbOrs. The har- bor of Tripoli itself is dangerous, be- cause of the many rocks which lie at the entrance It is only on the eastern coast of Cyrenaica, which is some times called the Marmarica, that we find two harbors of the very best qual- ity: Bomba and Tobruk; but as neith CT has a hinterland, their value is more strategical than commercial. To- brul1 is less than @ hundred miles dis tant from the Egyptian frontier.
 "What is the population now in habiting Tripolitania, that immense area of 100000 square miles (more than half the size of the republic of Mexico,? No exact census exists, but all competent observers agree that it hardly exceeds 800, 1000. That means about two inhabitants to the square mile. The settled population inhab- it's an area of 5000 square miles about one-twenty- first part Of the whole land.
 Tn Tripoli every native calls him self with pride an Arab. As matter of fact a certain number of Arabs came into the country with the Mo- hammedan conquest of North Africa
 
 religion. A few of the conquerors remained in the country and these are still fairly pure representatives or their race; they live as nomads, or Bedouns, in tents, and move with the season from one camping ground to another. Their number is difficult to estimate but it is about 50, 900. The rest of the population, the settled part, are Berbers; their blood is mixed with that of Arabs and also of negroes. The negro element, which we find every where in Tripoli, has it's origin in the slave traffic of former days, which brought thousands of Sudanese to the coast of the Mediterranean.
 Agriculture and cattle-raising are the chief resources of TripOi. but they flourish only in small patches; fertile land we find on a narrow strip along the coast in the region of Jebel Ghari- an and in Cyrenaica. The product is
New Britain herald., 1916-07-29
NEXT MONDAY NIGHT.

~ Monday night at Carnegie hall in Mew York there will take place an
 M ent of importance in the political Morld. Then and there MT. Charles
 Myans Hughes will be officially notified # his selection by the Chicago con- @ntion as the nominee of the Repub- #tan party for the presidency Of the Emitted States. This will also mark Ne occasion of the formal opening of Me campaign. His speech of accept nee on that night Is expected to con- \ in an outline of his main plan of #tack on President Wilson. If he is
 &bt in the heroic mood necessary for \ Huch a task he will be aided and #betted by that prince of assailants, Theodore Roosevelt. Despite the fact @at the Colonel has announced his #tention to refrain from politics, that #e is out of the game for good word
 bmes from Oyster Bay that the @teran will be on the firing line when @16 tnfSL SnOJ- -Spl1lS LIlG diT.
 A There are those who feel that the Arvices of Colonel Roosevelt are 8eatly needed in the work of haHgning the Wilson administration. { ot that MT. Hughes Is incapable of Handling the situation; but the task @ tearing apart the policies of Wilson no work for one. It requires the brvices of a few full grown men, Specially those who have been in sears The entire nation awaits the hughes speech of acceptance and the
 hw side remarke that might go with It will be interesting to see in llst what fashion all the argum ents l7i1I be handled, and what subjects are |puched upon. Naturally, Mexico will he easiest targets The others are not fable to be scored upon so readily. Tor once in the history Of its career Bae Democratic party cannot be held |p to ridicule as the party opposed to |rosperity There might be a few
 ondom shots at the present prosperity Fhich MT. Hughes will brand as 'tem- ,orary," but such talk does not carry yeight with people who are in the ridst of enjoyment, whether the fun asts all night or is stopped at the troke of twelve. People are not fa- 0iliar with the term temporary" is prosperity and that is all he nation knows or cares about it. 'o brand it is feeting will be no atcher of votes. Everything is fleet lg in this life. So much for Mexico nd Prosperity, MT. Hughes two big harges against the Wilson adminfs- ration. Whatever he says in regard ? the former will be promptly
New Britain herald., 1916-07-29
When the Cows Come Home.

(Agnes E. Mitchen.) With knngle, klangle l1lingle, Far down the dusty dingle. The cows are coming home; NOW sweet and clear, now faint and low The airy tinklings come and go, Like chimings from the far-off
 tower,
 Or patterings of an April shower That makes the daisies grow;
 koHng, ko-lang, golinglelingle, Far down the darkening dingIe. The cows come slowly home And oldtime friends, and twilight
 plays, And starry nights and sunny days. Come trooping up the misty ways When the cows come home.
 With jingle jangle, jingle.
 Soft tones that sweetlv n1ingle- The COWS are coming home. Malvine, and Pearl, and FIorimel. Dekamp, Red Rose and Gretchen
 Schell
 Queen Bess and Sylph and Span-
 gled Sue,
 Across the fields hear her
 FlOO-OO." And ClanS her silver bell
 Cooling, go-lang, gOiingle1ingle, With faint, far sounds that min-
 gle,
 The cows come slowly home. And baby joys and childish fears, And youthful hopes and youthful
 tears,
 When the cows come home
 With ringle, rangle, ringle.
 By tWOs and threes and single The cows are coming home. Through violet air we see the town, And the summer sun a-sliding down And the maple in the hazel glade Throws down the path a longer
 shade, And the hills are growing brown; To-ring, to-rang, tOringleringle, By threes and fours and single, The COWS come slowly home. The same sweet round of wordless
 psalm. The same sweet June-day rest and
 calm, The same sweet smell of buds and
 balm,
 
 With tinkle, tank1e, tinkle,
 Through fern and periwinl1le, The COWS come slowly home. A-lOiterinG in the checkered stream, Where the sun-rays glance and g1eam, C1arine, Peach bloom and Phoebe
 Phillis,
 Stand l<nee-deep in the creamy lilies Tn Q, drOwsy dream; To-link, to-lank, tolinklelinkle.
 Ger banks With buttercups
 a-twinlle,
 The cows arc coming slowly
 home. And Up through memory's deep ravine Comes the brooks old song and it's
 old-time sheen, And the crescent of the silver queen, When the cows come home.
 With klingle, klangle, klingle, With lOo-OO, and mOo-oO and jim The cows are coming home And over there on Merlin Hill, Sounds the plaintive cry Of the whip
 poorwll,
 And the dewdrops lie on the tan-
 gled vines. And over the poplars Venus shines And oyer the silent mill.
 Ko-lng ko-lang, ko-linglelipgle, With ting-a-lng, and jingle The cows come slowly home. Let down the bars; let in the train Of long-gone songs and flowers, and
 rain; For dear old times come back again, COWS zconaeHhomes -...---
New Britain herald., 1916-07-29

gagged a youth to act as chauffeur for { him for a shore time. Later when the young man called around to get his pay he was advised that there was nothing due him. Didn't you get as much pleasure riding around in my nice big car as I did. You don't deserve anything else," is all the satisfaction the chauffeur got
New Britain herald., 1916-07-29

The signs are unmistaka ble that MT. Hughes is getting ready to prove that he is off the bench and truly a man of the people when he says to hand shaker: You bet your life" Will the former justice of the United States supreme court be called "Charlie" on his stumplng tour as Mr. Wilson four years ago was hailed as "Woody'' ?- Springfield Republican,
New Britain herald., 1916-07-29

l shown to be disgustingly insanitary. ! Tn every reported instance conditions 1 were such that the locality was an
 ideal breeding place for germs of all kinds. Energetic work of the health l board such as it has been doing, i coupled with the apparent co-opera-
 ton of the police court, will go far
 toward obliterating this evil.
 One nuisance that should be abated 1 is on Church street where quantities 1 of dirty water from the factory and ! yard of the Union Manufacturing l company are permitted to flow across
 the sidewalk and into the gutter. i Further down Church street is catch basin but as the water would have to flow past a garage entrance dirt dike is often used, backing the water up in the gutter and making an un- tidy looking street. The factory yard
 is equipped with a drain but frequent lv this drain Is not capable of carrying l off the surplus water from the hard 1
 ening and tempering shop and from i
 other sources about the yard. The |
 overflow is oily and greasy and should ]
 not be permitted.
 The latest development in the move
 of the High school principal, who IS
 said to be acting at the direction of | the superintendent of schools in at
 tempting to discharge Dr. Frank Zwick as football coach is the reslg- nation of the three faculty council ] members and the principals state ment that he will not appoint their successors thereby permitting the
 tn ont of existence Public feeling on This souabble has been aired before and is proved by the names of some of the citizens whose names appear on a petition for the retention of the coach and object to the interference with the council. It is said that Judge G. W. Klett, president of the High School Athletic association on his return from Maine next week may have some good advice to give the alumni in this matter. Whatever the outcome may be, there is considerable speculation as to what will become of the coachs salary. Before the coun- ,il was broken up he had been off, cial1v enga ged. He has not yet been notified that his services are no longer required and even if he is there , appears to be no reason why he can , not compel payment of his contract. , Should the coach care to go so far. it Is said that it might be possible for ! 1im to compel the individual council { nemb bers with whom he entered Into | he contract, to dig into their own ; pockets and pay his salary if an at , empt to evade payment should be made on the ground that the 2oun- il has ceased to exist <
 A good story is going the rounds {
New Britain herald., 1916-07-29

In Mexico City barrel of flour costs $500 in Mexican money, but even at that price we shouldn't like to go into the flour business in Mexico City-Al- bany Journal
New Britain herald., 1916-07-29

No once can doubt that Germany would not like to sell Belgium for s10,- 00O,0O0,000. But there aren't going to be any bids.-Boston Journal.
New Britain herald., 1916-07-29

Two years go Austria sent her fate ful ultimatum to Serbia. Today the Russian bear is tearing the Austrian en pire.-BuffalO Courier.
New Britain herald., 1916-07-29

They're training dogs for scout duty on the border. 'Treated like dogs" will now take on a new significance.-New I Ork Telegram.
New Britain herald., 1916-07-29
FACTS AND RANCHES.

Berlin evidently has made up it's mind that it isn't going to be able to annex anything.-ROCheste Herald.
New Britain herald., 1916-07-29

Dr. Aked's characterization of Ford's peace party as "cOmposed of crazy cranks and dreamers" is neither Christian nor polite. Possibly ac- curate.--NeW Haven JOurnal-Courier.
New Britain herald., 1916-07-29

SneoSd daily Sunday excepted) at 4:1S D. En-s
 ae Herald Building. ST Church St.
New Britain herald., 1916-07-29

tered at the Post Off1oe at New Britain
 sS Second Class Mail Matter.
New Britain herald., 1916-07-29

only profitable advertising mcJ1um in tne oaty. Circulation books and press room always open 10 advertisers.
New Britain herald., 1916-07-29

A good story is going the rounds about a well known and wealthy prop erty owner in town who recently pur- chased a new car. The story relates that said W. k. real estate owner en-
New Britain herald., 1916-07-29

HERALD PUBLISHING COMPANY.
 Proprietors
New Britain herald., 1916-07-29

Disclosures made by tho health board in police court during the pa9t week have shown the absolute need of their cleanup campaign. Not only have yards been shown to be filthy and untidy, but stores have also been
New Britain herald., 1916-07-29

Further improvements in safe- guarding traffic and pedestrians are being planned and Chairman Babcock of the safety board has worked out tentative plan, which if adopted, he says will do away with all conges- ton from the parking of autOm Obilos on Main street. He will shortly un- fold this scheme to the puhlic. An other move will be the purchase of number of heavy standards to be used in roping off the aisles of safety These standards will be made with a heavy base and wooden top so that if they are tipped over and strike anyone they will not cause injury. By using these as posts the safety zone district at the car terminal will he roped off and other safety zones will be esta bliShed elsewhere. It is DOS- sible that the board will see fit to have another such district at the in tersection of Main, Church, Arch, Walnut and Chestnut streets and an- other at the junction of East Main Hartford avenue and Spring streets.
 Disclosures made by tho health board in police court during the part
The St. Mary banner. (Franklin, Parish of St. Mary, La.) 1889-1931, 1916-12-09
ANNOUNCEMENT.

Dr.. Beverly w. Smith.
Dr.. Espy M. Williams
This is to announce that both
DR., Smith and DR.. Williams are
practicing General Medicine and
General Surgery and either will
entertain and answer oil profess
eionol calls.
The St. Mary banner. (Franklin, Parish of St. Mary, La.) 1889-1931, 1916-12-09
FOR fruit CAKES.

Chrystalized Pineapple and Cherries,
already shelled Pecans, Walnuts and
Almonds, used for making Fruit Cakes
Full line of high grade Candy
Will handle Fresh Boiled Ham,
Boiled Smoked Tongue, and Swiss
Cheese.
l have De Luxe Fruit Cake, the
finest fruit cake ever on this market
SAM SER|O,
Phone 49, Main Street. Franklin, La
The St. Mary banner. (Franklin, Parish of St. Mary, La.) 1889-1931, 1916-12-09
STATE OF LOUISIANA.
23rd judicial District Court-Par.
ish of St. Mary.
The Adeline Sugar Factory Co.
Ltd, We. Francis B. Drake.
M. ID O02.

By virtue of writ of 6eri facias,
issued out of the Honorable the 23rd
Judicial District Court, in and for
the Parish Of St. Mary, and to me d.
rected, in the above entitled and num-
bered suit, have seized and will offer
for sale, for each, without appraisement,
TO the last and highest bidder, at the
principal front doOrsof the Court House
in the Town IF Franklin, Parish OF st.
Mary, Louisiana, on
SATURDAY, THE 23RD DAY OF
DECEMBER, A. D., 1915.
between the hours of II o'clock a., m. :,
and 4 o'clock p. M, the following men
toned and described property to-wit:
"All and singular the following des-
cribed property situated in the Parish
of st. Mary, State of Louisiana, tO-wit:
Lots or tracts numbered seven ~, seven
one-half e 1-2), and seventeen (17), con-
tanning 1855 acres, more or less, OF
the Adeline Plantation. according to
the recorded plat thereof.
Together with all the buildings and
improvements upon said property stu
ated, rights, ways, privileges and ser
vitudes thereto belonging.
1.-THE Adeline Sugar Factory Co.,
Ltd, specially reserving the right Of
drainage for the benefit Of adjoining
lands over and across the land conveyed
herein through such drainage as is now
constructed, or may be necessary to
construct, by the owners for the benefit
of the adjacent property holders. and
subject to perpetual servitude or right
Of way reserved by the Adeine Sugar
Factory Co., Ltd, for public road
parallelling the Bayou Teche where
said road is now laid off and construct
ed, said servitude of way to have the
width of sixty (60) feet, and also to the
swamp in the rear as now laid out.
CHAS. PECOT, Sheriff.
Sheriff's Office, Parish of st. Mary, La,
November IA, 1916.
Borah, Himel, Bloch & BOrah,
Attorneys for Plaintiff