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of which are the manufacture Of
broOms, brushes, hats and, TO limited
extent, sandals.
1.-THE expectation of this fiber from
Bahia and Ilheos to the United States
and Europe. as well as other parts OF
Brazil and South America. is increas-
ing yearly as new applications are
found for it. In the United States 1t
is used only in the manufacture or
snow sweepers that are supplied to
street car companies.
THE traveller sailing up the straits
that lead into the picturesque little
Bay of Victoria, will notice what at
first glance appear to be bundles OF
huge broadswords tied together at the
handles and pointing in every direc-
ton. A closer examination reveals
these bundles as green bushes, the
roots of which must certainly be past
ed against the sides Of the cliffs to
keep the plant from falling into the
water. A common stalk cannot be de-
tected and, In fact does not exist, the
bush being simply collection of NAM
moth leaves, from ten to twelve feet
long. that sprout independently from
single root.
ut is the piteira, cousin of the
famous agave Of the Philippines. which
has the distinction of being the first
The St. Charles herald. [volume] (Hahnville, La.) 1873-1993, 1920-08-07
BRIDE LOSES DURESS SUIT
Husband Discharged by New York
Court When Charges Were
Not Corroborated.

New York-Angeio Fezza. twenty
four years old. was discharged when
arraigned In Adams street court,
Brooklyn. on a charge Of compelling
Catherine Gormley to be married to
him.
Miss Gormley had Fezza arrested, M
sorting that he met her on an elevated
station and threatened to kill her I'M
less she married him. They forthwith
obtained a license and were married.
Then she went to the district attor-
ney's office and told her story.
Magistrate Walsh discharged Fezza
because the girls account Of the at
fair was not corrobOrated and also be-
cause she had not told the city clerk
that she was marrying Fezza under
duress.
The St. Charles herald. [volume] (Hahnville, La.) 1873-1993, 1920-08-07
INTERESTING SPORT
PARAGRAPHS

Germany's only athletic activity is
soccer football.
Benny Leonard, lightweight boxing
champion, is twenty-four years old.
San Francisco's annual playground
tennis tourney attracted 498 entries.
Vancouver, B. c.. will construct q
municipal natatOrium, 100 by 40 feet.
University of Kentucky will erect a
modern stadium upon its Lexington
field.
Cornell has won the intercollegiate
track and field championships the last
five years in succession.
Victoria, B. c., will hold the North
Pacific association of amateur oars.
men. regatta this summer
The lncognito Cricket Club, of Eng
land, will compete against Philadel-
phia, New York and other elevens In
it's tour in the fall. g.
A nominating committee of more
than 20 members will select the ath-
letes who will represent America In
the olympic games.
The election of Earl J., Thompson
champion 120 yards high hurdler, as
captain Of the Dartmouth track team
of 1921 is announced.
Zenzo Shimidzu, of Japan, rated as
the second best tennis player ever
developed there, will come to this coun
try this summer and play. He is il
India at the present time, where he ha,
three times won the singles title.
The St. Charles herald. [volume] (Hahnville, La.) 1873-1993, 1920-08-07

l read somewhere comparison Of
Ruth and Cobb. somewhat to the dis
arrangement of Ruth. This strikes me
as being extremely unfair. Ruth has
quite as much baseball intelligence as
Cobb ever had, and to my mind he Is
of far greater value to a team, for
Ruth is willing to play for and with a
team, writes W. o. Mcclellan in New
York Tribune.
For one thing, Ruth reports cheer
fully for his spring training and works
Just as enthusiastically as the young
est recruit who is trying to earn for
himself even place on the bench.
Cobb disdains spring training. He
claims the special privilege of prima
donna, and that is bad not only for his
own team but for the morale of organ
lied baseball. 1t makes discipline a
farce.
Cobb Late in Starting.
Cobb seldom has been at his best at
the start Of the season. 1t Is not until
he has worked in many games that he
Is ready to play his game. He is par
ticularly late in starting this season,
and the entire Detroit team was in a
slump at the start, almost directly as
q result of the special privileges grant
ed to Tyrus Raymond Cobb.
In this regard it seems to me that
Ruth displays a higher degree of in
The St. Charles herald. [volume] (Hahnville, La.) 1873-1993, 1920-08-07
Rush on to Canada Also Be-
cause of the Unrest Pre-
vaiIing at Home.
STEAMSHIP LINES SWAMPED
Confusion Into Which Industry Has
Drifted as Result Of Stopping Of
War Work Adds to Gen.
eral Discomfort.

Glasgow, Scotland.-At the moment
there are more people DESTROYS OF
leaving this country and going to
America than ever before. All the
available steamship berths from Glas-
Cow are booked until the middle OF
summer. 1t is estimated that already
there have been more applications for
passages to New York than there were
In the early months Of any year before
the war.
To Canada there are also so many
prospective emigrants that the ship
ping companies engaged in the Glas-
gow-St. Lawrence service cannot guar
artee passages earlier than July.
1t is evident, therefore, that there 10
general inclination to leave the Unit
ed Kingdom. and to take up life in
The United States or Canada. For a
short time after hOstilities closed II
seemed that settlement at home would
appeal strongly TO ex-service men.
The government promised them land
aud houses Oh reasonable terms. But
DTOctSS III anu SoIioi
construction has been slow and the
land and houses seem still very far
off. Besides, there is a good deal OF
unemployment, caused mainly by the
confusion into which industry has
drifted as a result Of the stopping OF
war work, and the lack of new indus
tries to absorb all the war workers.
Then again. although wages are high,
the cost of living is even higher in
proportion. and there seems no imme-
date prospect Of any reduction in the
prices of food or clothes. There Is
continual call for greater production
of manufactures for export so that the
rate of exchange may be put right but
the great mass of the workers persist
in looking upon higher wages as OF
more Importance than increased pro-
duction. and the output, even OF ne"
ships. remains much too low.
Apathy Among shipbui'ders.
The tonnage launched on the Clyde
anring the first quarter of this year
gas somewhat better than that OF the
arst three months Of 1919. but was
much less than the average for the
corresponding quarters OF pre-war
,yers.- This is explained, to some ex'
~nnt tv lsck of steel, which again Il
The St. Charles herald. [volume] (Hahnville, La.) 1873-1993, 1920-08-07
HAS WEALTH OF
F|BR0US PLANTS
Decline of Coffee and Rubber
Trade Brings Revival of Old
Industry in Brazil
GOVERNMENT AIDS IN TESTS
More Than 100 Varieties Furnish Ma.
terial for Jute, Brushes, Hats and
cordage-country Has Enor.
nous Resources.

Washington.-Brazil, although COW
cred with fibrous plants, imports So
0OO,0OO worth Of jute and Indian hemp
annually. The traveller, who watches a
long line of cargadores staggering I'M
der the weight of bags of coffee In the
port of Santos, has only to turn his
glasses toward the neighboring hills to
see some Of the best specimens of fiber
yielding plants.
The answer is simple. The country
Is 80 huge and at the same time S, I'M
derpopulated that all of its resources
will not be developed for years TO
come. The recent announcement that
the federal government was ready TO
receive 100000 immigrants will give
some idea of the existing ratio of the
population Of this South American
state to its area.
Lately, with the decline of the rub
Der industry. caused by the difficulty
In competing with the rubber planta-
lions Of the far East, and since coffee
raising has become less profitable be-
cause Of oyerplanting, the country has
turned its attention to the commercial
value of dbrous plants, and their devel-
opment has begun to attract the atten-
ton of investors. Nearly every Bra
Gillian is familiar with their fibers, and
IN insistent propaganda has begun for
their exploitation. The government is
assisting, and experiments have devel-
oped several fibers of assured CONNER
:ial value, some of which are described
IN a bulletin of the Pan-American
Union as follows:
Only Fiber Exported.
"The only fiber that figures among
Brazilian exports to the United States
Is plassava, a kind of hairy, pliable
bark. One company has 100000 trees
On its property north Of Bahia City
another important source of supply is
the valley of the Rio Preto. in northern
Bahia. The fibers measure from s to IL
feet in length, the longer ones being
used in making ropes and Irvine and
the heavier, coarser kinds cut into
short strips for number Of uses, chief
The St. Charles herald. [volume] (Hahnville, La.) 1873-1993, 1920-08-07

fibrous plant to be cultivated by Euro
peans In Brazil, where the first Portu-
guese colonists found the Indians
gathering the leaves Of this plant for
use In the making of moccasins. The
plants require from four to six years
to mature, but live from twelve to SIX
teen years, in comparison with sisal
which lives from ten to twelve years.
The fiber is lighter than Indian hemp
and finer than henneQuen from Yucca
tan.
Spectacular History.
"Aramina, or guaxima tOxa. has
rather spectacular history. Repeated
experiments In Africa, India and Bra
iii SO encouraged botanists In the lat
ter country that an intense prOpagan-
dn for the manufacture Of coffee bags
from this plant was begun and result
ed in the building Of factory in Sac
Paulo for that purpose.
although the factory attained an
output of 100000 bags a year, and
found ready, enthusiastic buyers. diff
culties SO increased that after few
years Of operation the factory was de-
voted exclusively to the manufacture
Of bags from jute. The failure was not
due to the poor quality of the bags. but
rather to the lack Of cooperation
among the planters.
I'm addition to aramina, which is SUI
perior to jute, Brazil can bOast OF an
other fibrous plant growing wild in the
central part of the country which, II
cultivated and used In the manufac'
ture of bags would eliminate the In
dian product from the list of her I'm.
ports. 1t is the Papoula de Sac Fran
cisco sometimes called Perini fiber
from its once supposed discoverer. The
fibers have the qualities of linen and
hemp with certain advantages in
printing and dyeing.
these represent only fibers of high
commercial value and do not include II
hundred other species that grow In
Brazil. Uses for the others will he
found later"
The St. Charles herald. [volume] (Hahnville, La.) 1873-1993, 1920-08-07
Many Scots Are
Coming to y. S,

explained by lack of ships to carry
ore from Spain. But that there Is a
certain amount of apathy In industry
is undoubted. This is the reaction aft
er the intense activity Of the war.
The general effect Of all this has
been to breed a form of Impotence
with things as they are and desire
to emigrate to other countries. Con-
seQuently there Is a rush for passen-
ger accommodation on the New York
and st. Lawrence steamers. If there
were plenty of steamers this would be
all right. But there are less than half
the number of pre-war passenger YES
sells. On the Glasgow-New York serv-
ice before the war the Anchor line had
four first-claSS vessels-the Columbia,
the Caledonia, the California and the
CamerOnia. OF these only the first
named remains. The others were lost
during the war. When "the four C.'s"
were running they maintained regu-
lar weekly service. One boat Of the
four left New York and one left Glas-
Cow each Saturday. 1t was a service
nearer to that of trains run to time
table than any other from Glasgow.
Now the company finds 1t totally i'm
possible to resume any such service.
Americans Get the Bertha
One or two vessels have been char
tered for single runs. but they are not
fitted for carrying large numbers of
passengers, and they can do little to
relieve the situation. So the chances
are that many of those people desir-
Gus of going to America will be unable
to do so.
For this Americans themselves will
he somewhat to blame. Large num-
bers of them have already booked
massage eastward, and also return
passages later In the year. The round
trim is booked In New York, and the
offices of the lines here are simply in
formed that so much westward &C
commodation for such and such trips
H. filled. The Americans will be COM
Ing over in large crowds early In July
and returning in September or Octo-
her. This means, that berthage which
would nave been utilized for immi-
grants in the latter months has been
taken up by Americans who have
money to spend and wish to see En-
rope. 1t Is pity that this should
have been the case in year in which
there would certainly have been a
boom in immigration. We have been
building cargo boats until we seem to
have enough, but we are only now get
ting on with the building of liners. OF
these there are many on the stocks
In different parts OF. the United King
dom, but few Of them will be in serv-
Ice this year. BY next spring there
should be a large number and then
there shonld be no lack OF travelling
facilities.
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telligence. He is big enough to'realize
that while he is the supreme attrac-
ton in baseball at the present time
his teammates and his employers have
some rights that must be respected.
He is playing the game fairly and ear
nestly, and the way that he is doing
it has earned the regard not only of
those who know baseball but of those
who seldom see a game. He gives the
best that he has.
Ruth Not Spoiled.
Ruth has considerable force of char
acter. He suddenly became a national
idol, yet it has not spoiled him so far,
and / do not think that It will. He
does not pose and he does not play
to the galleries OF course he must
glory in his achievement, this boy who
was reared in poverty and suddenly
shunted into more limelight than has
come to many a general, statesman or
movie star, but he takes it all grace
fully and with native intelligence
that shows character And force of
character is the essential to success,
even in professional sports. You will
realize this if you will look over the
list Of the real successes In profes-
sional baseball.
This Colossus of Baseball is stand
ing on a crude pedestal. but II seeing
to me a very firm one.
The St. Charles herald. [volume] (Hahnville, La.) 1873-1993, 1920-08-07
aHOP" NEEDED ON FAST BALL
Without II Pitchers Like Alexander
Walter johnson or Al Mamaux,
Are Easy Marks.

When a fast ball pitcher can't get
the hop on his fast ball he is very easy
to hit, as speed artists occasionally
demonstrate. The reason is plain. A
fast ball without the hop is just a
straight ball with some speed to IL.
That is why fast ball pitchers, even
the best of them, sometimes take ter
rife drubbings. Take Grover Cleve-
land Alexander, for instance. When
he has his fast ball working, there are
few pitchers as difficult to hit, but now
and then Aleck is beaten by a count
Of something like 10 to 2. The same
goes for Walter johnson. Al Mamaux
or any other hurler who places his
chief dependence on fast ball.
The St. Charles herald. [volume] (Hahnville, La.) 1873-1993, 1920-08-07
MUST HAVE BALL TEAM

II don't care who the manager
is" says Frank Bancroft, who
has seen them all come and most
Of them go. "he can't win unless
he has the ball club.
(Which reminds me of what
happened to Pop Arson. When
Pop was winning with the Chi
cago team, in 1885 and 1886,
fellow who ran a barber shop
across the street from the Chi
cago park told me one day what
great manager Arson was.
"'Why, Pop could take,a team
Of cigar store Indians and win
pennant,' the barber declared
by and by Pop got that team
of cigar signs, but he didn't win
any pennants with them that I
could notice"
The St. Charles herald. [volume] (Hahnville, La.) 1873-1993, 1920-08-07
Die Following Their Bell Weather

Paris. Ky.-Two tenants on the farm
of Fred Roberts caught large rat
and tied small bell about its neck
afterward liberating It. The rat dis
appeared in hole in the barn floor
appearing again In few moments
closely followed By continuous
stream Of rodents Of all sizes. The
two men killed rats until they wers
tired, but have not figured yet Just
why the rats followed the one with
the bell,
The St. Charles herald. [volume] (Hahnville, La.) 1873-1993, 1920-08-07
Johnson IS GREAT ATHLETE
Coach Jack MoakIey Of Cornell Pays
Hioh Tribute to Captain OF
Michigan Team.

1.-THE greatest track athlete ever
turned out In this country, Is the
tribute paid to Carl e. johnson. cap
tain of the Michigan track team, by
lack Moakley, track coach at Cornell.
Monkeys eulogy appeared in the Cor
nell Sun on the occasion of JOhnson's
visit to Ithaca to take part In the
Cornell Michigan indoor track meet
,as+ Saturday II making this state
The St. Charles herald. [volume] (Hahnville, La.) 1873-1993, 1920-08-07
Chicago Fortune Heiress
Sticks to S2-a-Day Job

Cincinnati-A modest Chica-
go fortune Of $4,000 just claim
ed by Miss Jessie NJ. Evans OF
this city, stenographer. will
not change in an iota the inten-
ton of Miss Evans TO continue
a working girl at 50 per day in
the office of the A. c. Lawrence
Leather company here. Miss
Evans nursed her Chicago aunt,
Mrs. Kate 81. Roberts, during
her recent illness, and was re-
warded by being made her sole
heir.
The St. Charles herald. [volume] (Hahnville, La.) 1873-1993, 1920-08-07
BASEBALL
STORIES

Inc Detroit Tigers have given signs
u coming to life again.
ruth Is galloping far ahead Of his
home-run record of year ago.
Meusel is rapidly becoming the most
dangerous hitter on the Yanks.
The pantomiming of Nick Altrock is
ue most entertaining stunt In base
bali.
Brooklyn has released Outfelder
Walter Hood to Pittsburgh by the wal
yer route.
The only way to stop Ruth is to have
Ban Johnson give him a season pass
to first base.
Wallace of Purdue university. hurled
a no-hit. no-run. no-base on balls game
against Wabash.
itNiiCI al btlilihia VI tiiS -
Louis Cardinals has been released to
the Seattle club.
Max Carey, of the Pirates. is lead
ing the base stealers of the National
league up to date.
Ty Cobb is exhibiting a great deal OF
life for a fellow who is said to be
slowing up quite bit.
The Georgetown nine had won II
straight when Arthur Devlin's Ford
ham lads stopped them.
John Brickett of the University OF
= Nebraska baseball team is to be given
tryout by the Chicago White Sox.
Charley O'Leary, shOrtstop for the
Tigers in the pennant winning days. is
employed as coach Of the Yankees.
Outfielder Tierney of Tulsa had hit
safely in 20 straight games when ne
was stopped In the series at Joplin re-
Gently.
SAYS George Stallings: what team
couldn't play winning ball behind such
pitching as Grover Alexander puts
forth?"
The fans revel in games in which
20 IA nd ryln.Upf.
ting, especially If the home club Is do
ing these little things.
Hope springs eternal in the hearts
of the Giant rooters. They still be-
lieye that McGraw has the best outfit
in the National league.
Scores In the West Texas league In
dictate a player should have good legs
and long wind to make good, for the
scores as an ordinary thing run into
double figures.
Alvarez, who played third for Tam
pa last year until he took to pitching
late in the season is considered reg
ular on Tommy Leach's staff OF box
men this year.
st. Joseph seems to be doing SO well
under John Kelleher's leadership that
there is room for suspicion that Cozy
Dolan wasn't such factor as man
ager last year after all.
Emilio Palmero, who is too good for
the Western league, climaxed his re-
markable pitching for Omaha on May
IS by holding Joplin hitless. Twenty
nine batters faced him.
There are two sets of brothers In
the Southern league-the Jonnard
twins with Nashville. and Andy and
Charley High, the former with Mem
phis and the latter with Atlanta.
JOHNSON Is GREAT ATHLETE
The St. Charles herald. [volume] (Hahnville, La.) 1873-1993, 1920-08-07
ENGLISH GOLFER IS COMING
Rumored in Sporting Circles That Abe
Mitchell Will Meet Hagen In
Open Championship.

"Abe" Mitchell, the noted English
golfer, is expected to arrive in this
country soon and it is reported IN
sporting circles that he will be the
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ment. the Cornell paper continues:
coach Moakles does not even except
G.. Kraenzlein, who was the great
star at Penn in 1S97-9S. Moakley ex-
nacts that before the yer is over
Iobnson will conclusively prove his
right to the title of the greatest Amer
ican athlete"
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1920-01-29
WALK ON BOTTOM
OF SOUND
Latest Invention For Searching For
Sunken Boats And Treasure

BRIDGEPORT, Conn.-What was
considered to be successful dc ,on-
stration in reaching the bottom of
Long Island Sound with ease and
safety was made recently on the sub
marine salvage boat Argosy and Ar
gonaut B, Captain Simon Lakes
latest invention for searching for
sunken boats and treasure. The
demonstration was made for a group
of newspaper and magazine writer's
and camera men.
In order not TO put too much pres
sure on the ear drums of the party,
the demonstration was made in six
fathoms OF water Recently Mr..
Lake went to a depth OF fifty-four
feet and obtained several lanterns
from the sunken schooner Mary
Alice, without any great pressure
against his ear drums,
None of the party felt the slight
est inconvenience. Some women
newspaper writers took delight in
picking up crabs from the bottom of
the Sound. No one in the party had
any difficulty in reaching the bottom
and walking on the soft mud.
The Argosy and Argonaut 3 is a
twin hulled craft. Projecting from
between the bows is steel cylider-
ical contrivance four and half feet
in diameter. Before entering this
cylinder one first passes through an
air chamber.
For salvaging coal there is sep
arate cylinder which, when its nose
is pushed into the hull of sunken
cargo, sucks up the coal at the rate
of 300 tons an hour with facorable
conditions. There is said to be
$l,O0O,000 worth of coal at the bot
tom of the sound, which Captain
Lake expects 10 recover.
The Argonaut Salvage Corporation
is building a larger boat for ocean
work, with tube capacity for 800
feet below the water.
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1920-01-29
FARMING NEWS SREVIEW
FARMER ANNOUNCES HIS CANDIDACY FOR GOvERNORSHIP
MICH @MlChIdANIBEET IAN SuGARAR GROWERS BAND TO OBTAIN
TO FARMR-MONDELL BILL UNLIKELY TO PASS
Business Service.)

A farmer and farmers organizer,
Milo d. Campbell, has announced his
candidacy for the gOvernorship of
Michigan. 1t is a noteworthy fact
that he stands on platform not of
class interest, but of stauneh Ameri-
canism and fair representation. His
platform is broad enough to enlist the
support Of all voting classes. The
Michigan candidacy tends to reassure
business men and others who may
have feared injustice at the hands
of farmer executive or legislative
body, or more generally from the
farmers active participation in poll
tics.
A current instance of resistance by
the farmers through collective action,
not unlike a strike, appears in the
demand Michigan beet sugar growers
at Salt Lake Cit yis expected to voice
mighty protest against what it will
term an unair division of the proceeds
from refined sugar. The Michigan
campaign is significant as tie test Of
joint action by the farmers.
Business men are making overtures
W lhc ldihCI VIII view W UI1llS
ing agricultural and business inter-
ests into closer relationship. Recent.
ly the Agricultural Publishers associ-
alton, aided by various advertising
bodies, held conference and demon
stratiOn at New OYrk. The exhibit
was graphic in character and COM
prised displays by leading farm pa
pers, advertising agencies, trade and
community organizations and adver-
tisers. 1t was intended to portray
the farmers place in world business.
Among titles of addresses given
were the following: "Co-Operation
with the Farmer Needed to Steady the
Nations Business" by Lewis E. Pier
son, chairman of the board Of direc-
tors Of the Irving National bank !;