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.x71~ .~~-",.Pj r' ~·· Yd~¶,Ma),; u - f~ .iL ~· MK·~ -··i:.~ -: 4aý The Lower Gastt Devoted to the Interest of the Lower Coast "Agriculture, Horticultureý Fisheries and Commerce. Vol. V. POINTE4ALAIIACHE; LOUISIANA, SATURDAY, MAY 17, 1913. N.0 Boxing Oranges. t si `The report is now current in this parish d that Messrs. Robert Moore, John Meyer and tl A. Commander, all of whom are largely inter- w ested in the orange industry in this parish, have ly recently been visiting Florida with a view of e( investigating the most modern methods of mar- o keting oranges there. This includes sorting h them for size, and also cleaning them from P any incidental growths. These gentlemen, it ti is reported, will establish a number of orange si , packeries in this parish, in which will be in stalled the best machinery available. Oranges w sent to these packeries will be carefully pre- º pared, cleaned and boxed, all in first-class le style and in this way will be salable at their ti full value. Where the lots are mixed sizes, iR as hitherto, and some of them more or less o. stained with other growths, it militates se- tl verely against the value of the oranges in the " e, open markets. All of this, it is presumed, will Ir be overcome by the careful system of packing fl that these gentlemen hope to inaugurate and e1 we wish them every success. si - sl The Actual Net Welght Question. A national net weight law was signed March 1 3, 1913 to go into effect eighteen months after that date. It requires that the quantity of-the ii contents of food packages be plainly marked a : on the outside of each package in items of I f weight, measure or numerous count. h This would seem to be a most proper law, T but it leaves such items as eggs still to be h sold by the dozen, without taking cognizance S of their weight or size and in no other article v is there probably such a discrepancy in value f as exists in eggs of varying sizes. On the Pa- P cific coast apples, and we presume potatoes, t are sold by the pound, or if by the bushel by i] the weight of a bushel of say 60 pounds. In n Louisiana potatoes are coming to be weighed on the basis of 60 pounds to the bushel. i It is one of the evidences of advancing civilization that definite weights and measures s should be had by virtue of .state control and t ' from this results a proper appreciation of the r value of any merchandise or thing under con sideration. e ..i the µDepartments of Coma o .R e r ury and Agriculture, have ap. pointed a committee to draw up regulations s ' for the enforcement of the new weight law and d it is said that this committee is now ready 8 t. to' receive recommendations and suggestions in s writing. The first hearings, for manufactur- t ers, dealers and others interested will be held I in New York during the week of June 9, and t other hearings will be held whenevr and wher- t ever there is sufficint demand. Those desiring .1 information should address the Net Weight Law Committee, Department of Agriculture, Bureau of Chemistry, Washington, D. C. We would say, incidentally, that in the mar kets of New Orleans there seems to be no regu lar way of determining the 'value of produce in I its final sale. It is not. sold by any legal weight, or legal measure, or by any regular ) count. It seems to be sold by the plateful, or I saucerful, or handful, or a bunch, or some equally indefinite way. So far as we know this Ssort of selling is not permitted, and in fact is prohibited by laws in most of the other states of the union, and definite weights and meas ures are established. Now that the national government has tair en up the matter we may have some careful I consideration of all the issues involved and these would certainly apply to all interstate I trade. Science and the Agricultural Experi ment Stations. Jt is only about twenty-five yeairs since Con gress passed the Hatch act founding the sys temr of agricultural experiment stations in this country. The annual federal grant to each state Is now $30,000, to which the states them selves have in many cases added. Those less familiar with the work often think of it solely as an attempt to further the interests of the practicalfa'rmer. The institutions were found ed. "to promote scient1ifle investigation and ex piriment respecting the principles and applica tions of agricultural science'" but the scope of the work nowv extendis far beyond the boimda. ries of the farm. The lessons of this imposing movement in agricultural research and educa tion are manifold. The American experiment stations have demonstrated the solidarity of the different sciences. Their successes have taught the important lesson that no one can foretell' what beneficial results may develop from high ly specialized researches, and they have foster ed a spirit of populari interest-in the progress ( of science quite beyond anything that could have been expected two decades ago, when em piricism still reigned supreme and distrust of the utility of scientific investigation was wide spread. As an illustration of the, value of this' work, the Wisconsin Agricultural Experi- e ment Station now has forty or more prob- r lems under investigation, covering such ques tions as the effect on nutrition of animals and man of a single plant ration, the mineral needs g of animals, the methods of ripening cheese, the improvement of market milk and the caus . es and prevention of animal disease. The quiet . modest labors and persistent patience in the field and the laboratory of these untiring work ers are doing as much for the welfare of the s state as are the efforts of those who shine con- ' spicuously in the legislative halls. Stock Poisoning from Food Scarcity. ý t It has often been noticed in Louisiana that < jin seasons of drought and poor pasturage and a scarcity of hay that charbon, or anthrax Sfrequently broke out among the mules and horses', sometimes attacking other animals. The United States Department of Agriculture. has just issued Farmers' Bulletin' No. 536 on Stock Poisoning due to Scarcity of Food, in which it seems to attribute the poisoning that frequently results under such conditions to poisonous plants that the animals eat when they can get no other. Poisoning from eat ing the loco weed is sometimes reported from northwestern Texas. Larkspur and water hemlock, as well as wild cherry, are charged with similar unfitness for stock feed. Sheep. are sometimes poisoned by milk weeds. It seems that stock when driven over a stock trailT where such poisoning has already occur red are liable to be infected thereby. In Louisiana for many years we have notic Sed that in very dry seasons cases of charbon, .or anthrax are almost suit to be reported. The .old definitions of anthrax were that it was a ;swamp or low land disease, but certainly its Sdevastating influence has been felt in times of great drought. It would seem proper to as sume that in very close grazing or grazing to. the ground line the animals in feeding would Spick up the spores of charbon which are said 1 to exist at the ground line in infected locali ties. The bulletin under consideration makes no reference to such poisoning. Tomato Production in. Florida. In Orange County, Florida, it is reported 1 that there are 2,000 acres of tomatoes growing J and it is thought that there will be a perma r , nent success in tomato production in Florida, r dependent, however, we suppose, to some ex e tent upon the collateral installation of canning B factories competent to take care of the bulk of s the production. s Of course tomatoes are a favorite article r among the market gardeners and New York is a very large consumer, getting much of 'its supply from Bermuda. Florida would proba Ll bly compete for the trade now supplied from 1 Bermuda, but the immense quantity thatcani e be produced in Florida would swamip even the, New York market very quickly and recourse would have to be had to the -canners of toma toes, who take millions of bushels for the enor mous trade of the country in that staple variety of canned goods. Louisiana is a very large consumer of can L- ned tomatoes and it is much to be regretted i- that our truck gardeners here have not thus a far developed the tomato induistry to any very i great extent and by no means sufficiently large - to supply thie demand for them by our local s canning factories. It is said that our climate y varies somewhat from Florida and suffieient to ie prevent our getting as solid toniatoes as are 1- had in Florida. Just the exact truth of these S- statements we are not familiar with, but we d- o know that fine tomatoes are produced here Sf and. in very large quantities. We shall hope' i- that they will become annually an increasin g factor in. oqr gradually developing canning in. b;dUstry. FOREIGN NEWS. The International Opium Conference ill assemble .at the Hague next ý .month. The optium evil is internaa y ionas and of e.ough vitality tq caor International effort alone able to cor The situation in Mexico is the same -monotonos anarchistic situation that Sp y after day reports. The Ot eflzn$set ldom .wins. It hold its ,,o,1 fht:ad:galal oe' its temporary end-another . govern ment and another revolution. This is the pessimistic truth about Mexico to day and If let alone to its own inabil ity, the Mexico of to-mtorrow. The Government never wins the support of the peoiple. The President is cheer. eed while he is rebellious, but ha soon as he becomes the head of the Gov ernnieit those who hung at ;his heels tin oration hang at his heels then for assassination. This Is anotter pessimistc trutht ~The Optimistic Mbxisxfl ~js a eelY init. This I ialhorid trut bot by tite ova m gip laging that crowd the newt coliumns of our papers.- A stronger power Is needed, and thit power 1o not in Mex itcol. The horror, of it all ise that peace in Mexico must be secured by blood shed of martyrs from another country, whatever that voluntary martyr na tion may be.i The International Woman Suffrge Alliance wil hold their great conen tfouin BudaPeth, Hungary, fromi Jueii 1 to zo Deetes from a over the world Inludin nub from :our own Stete- oL4iseanarwB1 gatheir there In`=tai- cuseo o! WR' . LATEST NEWS. STATE, NATIONAL AND FOREIGN. Gathered and Condensed for Our Readers Benefit STATE NEWS. Secretary of the Navy Daniels, after 4 visiting the .New Orleans Dry Dock 4 expressed himself as surprised at the a remarkably good condition of the Sta tion, and in the. coarse of an ad- 1 dress declared that h would lay the situation as he saw it here before Con gress and though not expressing him- ] self boldly as an advocate of its re opening, he was very generous in be stowing his praise foi. thin well-kept, idle station worth $3,000,000. Lightning struck anl oil tank in Amesville, La., and a spectacular fire followed, destroying over $60,000 worth of oil and property. The fire lasted over two days.; Part of the N. d. &. N. W, R. R. Company's tracks at Collnston, La., was blown out, with dynamite to allow the spreading of they St. John Lake chevasse water, which was, on ac count vf this impedinient, backing up and flooding to an unnecessary disas trous depth the farms hemmed in be. tween the crevasse and the `railroad embankment. 'The Old Citizens' Bank of New Or- I Ieans-was liquidated and ended a long E existence, The New Citizens' Bank l takes its place. The Knights of Columbus held their Stat convention in nNew Orleans last Sunday, `Monday and ..Tuesday. The United States flood relief head. quarters has been moved to New Or leans from Vicksburg, Miss. Capt. Bankhead is in charge. i *Poydras leveO is now in a very good condition. Last Saturday was tag day in New Orleans. ..The uirpose of this tag day I1 was thie raising of funds to supply 1 pure milk to families in which there are babies who need the nouirishing 1 `milk and whose parehnts are in such poverty as to be unable to buy the life-saving food for their unfortunate babes. Some Shriner- bands passing through the city on their way to their Dallas pigrimage, offered their' ser vices and the services of their tband froim Philadelphia ,to aid in making the amount -secured for the cause as large lasi possible. The result was that over $5,000 was collected for the I pure milk fund. The Indistry of A. lHeinemai , secretary of the New Or leans Baseball Clt"i"was - n most ..im of the poular inter being of .the agitation fo :pi i lk for pool' babies. : aMen. fromn McComab .;City, Miss., - piced out Walter ait Cofumbia, SMiss,from ,among 200 gher prisoners I and idenitified him as the iman who r represented himself as a dtctve to li thbi, telling tem hea ound the ":f fl &b~ik;`hiand .Wý$=;rIlpging:-him -. `'"-. ~bt"1'.; . r z-.". .~~~..~~: 1 «x .f s1 .ý ý '"ý "'it'ý.Y ý. _,^ The Mothers of Men Will P. Lockhart Of thiose who have striven to better ' a This wicked old world and its ways, f Some bear all too much of the burden, So ne have all too much of the praise. d 'The statesmen, the savants, the sages, f The pulpit, the press and the pen,- t But I name, as the last and the greatest, . t The 'old-fashioned mothers of. men. t Not the Spartan dame, sternly heroic, But -woman, unmilitant, mild, Home-loving, affectionate, tender, .Impulsive, perhaps, as a child; :: ~sod 'you aod yro; ~ou paq2ts oqu Whose deep mother-love has sufficed; - Whose golden.. precept and example Th'worll all too cheaply as priced; T No trumpet was sounded before them, vThe world's shallow plaudits to gain, But never. a cause that was righteous Appealed to our mothers in vain; They sought pot acclaim-they were modest And the world has forgotten their names; No niche for the old-fashioned mothers In learning's fair temple, nor fame's. Not theirs was the ruthless ambition, So often the curse of our race; - In the record of brilliant achievement ",. Their names must for others give place. Their greatness, a deep-flowing river, Reveals not the strength of its tide; - But the sweep of its mighty endeavor - 'Is deep as the sea and as wide.. They are passing, the good, gray mothers, Oh, never, on earth, shall we know How much this old world is their debtor, How much to their struggles we owe. But theirs is the ultimate triumph: It is left for the angels to pen, In the golden-leaved ledger of heaven, All we owe to the mothers of men. SThis, on its face, is convincing proof. But there were other proofs wIhich were not proofs at all, before this considered positive. It would be unwise to comment upon this at this 4 time For it is unwise to comment upon mere unproven assertions. And 4 almost all the commentaries upon this 6 case have, in the past, as much as 4 they touched upon essentials, been comments upon mere guesses and fac- 4 tual guesses. We may at least hope that a time 1 when these comments may be positive r enough to be enlightening may soon [ come. The reading columns of gueses a about such important cases may, be ý- cause of this overabundance -of fic 1- tion be powerless to reach a justifi. S able conclusion when the real, true, I- not-very-interesting facts about it are - learned. 4- The almost ever-present dryness s of truisms will most certainly be , eclipsedL by the rapturous delightful ness of these guesses. n Misses Anais Roche and Angelie e Baker, of Alexandria, La., were miss Q ing for a day and a night. They were e found at a farmer's home, where they had wandered after being lost in the L. woods, having been separated from , their companions on a blackberry-pick king picnico Their absence was the e cause of much anxiety to their par . ents, relatives and friends; and choice p food for the morbid, excitement-crav a- ing members of the community. NATIONAL NEWS,. Major Robert Wilson McClaughry, t for fourteen years warden of the Fed g eral Penitentiary at Leavenworth, k Kansas, resigned last week at the age of 74 years. While warden he encour r aged the humane treatment of, prison ;t era, and his success at having his hu mane desires gratified was so great i. that "people called him the "humane W arden.". And men there were treat . ed as men without any disorder or in fractions of discipline being commit Sted, because of this kindness and leni ency. There are many prisons; in R which men suffer because the wtrardene y believe that to treat the "prisoners y like men is to invite trouble and riots. e An immigration dejision which ap g pears to be the' handiwork of 'a men. h tal incompetent' is reported by the e Legal. Aid Society of New York. A e mother, 17 years of age, and German, g was deported and her child, born here, r was kept in this country. r. Four of the indicted New York Po d lice inspectors have been convicted g of the charge of conspiracy to obstruct ,e justice. a Governor Sulzer has' instructed the ae sheriffs. and district attorneys of all L(. New York counties in Which there are r- race-tracks to prevent all wagers, bets, a- or stakes made to depend upoi any ,4g *ho'trace jn the nature of gambliing g in thosacounties.' This is on account as o.the poposed reopening of the race r trap `lowing a favorable Supreme Court ision E., vil as threaened to expose a, Liduit.-Gv O'Hiara, of Illinois. Why n Evil waM to do it no one need ask. to O'Hara's moral mneasures will restrict to Evil, and il loves progress and 4e hates retrictin. Charges made re i filect upon ° e morality o Lieut.-Goo . 4Vaal~e p.4 llt J·~liei~ Charges made cannot reflect upon K the morality of O'Hara's moral meas- dE 3 ures. But this is an old trick of Evil's hi j and seldom used only when all others an 3 of Evil's subtle tricks prove barren, er t and we can at least feel that all oth- th I er tricks have been tried. Li a And this is the last, but the most an 3 evil of them all, is 1 He is charged with being in the th -company of a woman in Chicago for two days. An affidavit is rumored to th be in the possession of an individual Smember of the Army of Evil. O'Hara He 1 has invited investigation and he will he Sforce the plot of Evil to be uncov Sered, hi Evil will be satisfied if it only be- nc L. smirches with the probability of ac- fr. Squaintanceship with it the name of br e O'Hara. Ui it only tarnishes it will be glad ifs g and- it will play upon this reform ai e and call it ingratitude or treason. tb 1. Though it may seem strange, Evil. jo will find some who will shun the gi e traitor whose soul is spotted with re s. form. S1 e Though reform removes evil spots, pý Yand if it spots at all, its spots must G e be brilliant with the brilliancy of re- la a pentance and regained purity. Evil ai ý. will by this secure the evil effect de- pl e sired, unless men vote for measures G r and not for men. al e Miss Ida Hoffman, a governess in ci r. the employ of Mr. and Mrs. John K. bi Laurence, of Short Hills, N. J., was found dead floating in a small private ui lake 'near that town. Her clothing b: was torn and was found in pieces at ci different parts of the lake, No one a 1;nows why she was killed or by whom w or if.she suicided. o0 Geo. W. Guthrie, Democratic State i' chairman of Pennsylvania, the new s' ambassador to Japan, will soon leave l1 for his post. The Japanese Govern- b ment has accepted the new ambassa- fi dor, and it will be buta few weeks be. e fore Mr. Guthrie will leave for Japan v to take probably a prominent part in g8 the 'possible negotiations for a- solu tion of the alien land law problem. ih The Senate, by a vote of 41 to 32, c passed the sundry civil bill with the c provision of =exempting farmers' and a labor organizations. from prosecution I paid with funds from this appropria- a tion measure '- This. exemption was t called obnoxious. by the last President. I1 . he present President did not see in though it 'le s}-been Charged ab'dieing + of such a nature. By providing funds 1 for trust prosecution it is deemed ob- I noxious by those whose freedom of I oppressing it opposes. 1 The Trusts, who are the target of this bill are up in arms,because they l say this is against Democracy, which i does not exempt any one from law, making all members of a Democracy I amenable without exception. ;The apparent injustice is one not done the Trust, though the Trusts may < .believe that with some of the appro briation used in prosecuting labor or. farm movements the amount would be less to fight them with and the fight against them rendered weaker because of this deficit made by the cost of the other prosecutions, and it would be much to their advantage'to have as much of this appropriation used'up as possible to prevent the free and easy legal ejections and injunctions against them from being accomplished. No one believes that the Trusts and their senatorial agents oppose the bill because of its undemocratic quality. - -The Trusts shudder at the amount of Injury that might be inflicted upon them if such a vast amount of money ry, power, together with the allied gor ed- erhment power,- were used in an ef th, fort against these republican prophe ge sled aiders of the people, which have Ur- turtled out in time to be the most per cn- sistent stifling - artificialities which un- parasitically clog - the machinery of eat government. - me The injustice, if any, has been done ut- the people, not the Trusts, but by the in. Trusts. A theoretical injustice it is it- only. A practical injustice-no! For ini. who are -the people -outside of the in Trusts and its agents? Labor and ans farmers, and if there are any others era thaIt are not-identified with either of its, these three, they are few. - The people, ap- if they were backed up in their fight en- against the trusts -with oply part of ;he this . large amount of $117,000,000, A would be weaker than it armed with all an, of it,' and to 'exempt these compara re, tively harmless organizations Is to give the people the strongest weapons for Po- the fight with their strong adversary, Led and it is better to be thus strengthen act ed with the most powerful power of money and a strong government than the to have a limited amount which might all result in the people being forced to ire compromise in the face of certain trk its, umph, because of the 'scarcity of my funds; - Ingr The House of Representatives adopt nit ed the Underwood tarif bill by a vote bce' of .281 to 139. 'Five Democrats voted me against the measure. Two Republicans voted for 'it. Thq Democrats voting ose against It were Broussard, Dupre, La Thy zaro and Morgan, of Louisiana, and C. ask. B. Smith;' of New York. Vary and elct Stafford, of Wisconsin, were the re Lnd publicans voting' in favor of the bill. re- Four ProgresselvaM--44ely and Rip o. ly of yPenmisyiv'flnia; Nolan, of Call j ,,~l,~~i' fora, Bryan. ~:;dW(.shlflgteh~fl and ýn Kent, of California, now an Indepen. ts- dent Progressive, voted to pass the L's bill. Progressive Leader Murdock rs and thirteen of his Progressive follow n, ers voted against the bill along with h- the Mann-led Republican minority Little now is left for the House to do, at and the eye and ear of the interested is now in the Senate Chamber, where eic the final fight will be made. ýr The State of llinois Senate passed to the bill granting votes to women. al The Election Committee of the ra House of Representatives of that State L11 has reported it favorably. v- Gov. Dunne does not make public his executive feeling towards this in 'e novation and the matter of woman aaf ýc- frage in Illinois rests upon these two of bright and one Pale prospects. General Estopinal voted for the tar. 1d iff bill and stated though he was m against the sugar provision he did not think it wise to bolt his party's ma ril. jority without having anything to be he gained by bolting. re- Colonel Roosevelt will stump the c State of New York advocating the ts, passage of Gov. Suizer's (Democratic Ist Governor of New York) direct primary re- law which was defeated In the House vil and Senate of New York State, He has le- placed his services at the disposal of ues Gov Sulzer's committee, which will arrange the State wide campaign to in create a sentiment in favor of the K. bill. as Lieut.-Gov. O'Hara is in indeed an ete unenviable position. Evil has proven ng by the Lieut-Gov.'s commendably friank at confession of the truth of part of the ne accusation that he was acquainted ým with Evil for one day. From the ten or of the investigation one would Lte judge that Evil had prophetically fore ew seen the present crisis and had wise. 4ve ly prepared for it, Lleut-ov. O'Hara -f rn. has been honest. He admits the sa- friendship with the woman, but as hoen be. estly denies the excessive intimacy - an which Evil would mbadly make him in guilty of committing.. Iu. The sad feature of the whole charge is the even slight truth upon which the 32, chairge is based. And though none the can but praise Mr. O'iara's sincere md admissioni, no one.could do so without Ion feeling the reluctance of the acknow-l. ia. edgement'hthie evil, knowing that in vas these times bills are so often judged ,t. by their authors. in No oneian deny that Evil has been g lily aIes1 esr'anor that the pa5ssage . iing bf the b iu l>En blocked. But, -. ads again and again, the reasonless of this ohb- successiful evil is evident without rease of oning. The morality of the bill musteda t h ly be judged apart from the morality of of its author. _nL D Evil is practical and . hey knows from a world's lifetime of ozx ich perience that the morality of the ' aw, cause will never be separated from ay the morality of the effect, Evil's practicality has served it well and - not Evil has the advantage of an eternity nay of experience, and because of this ad.- · pro- ditional strength, the man or men who or. fight it must knhbw that the tight Is I be more than an uphill tight--It is a los- - ight Ilng fight except if allied with these iuse ment is another eternal power-Good ; of ness--which is stronger than Evil and -: mid an evenly strengthened adversary. ave The effect which this clouding of 1'up the question will have upon the and threatened extermination is to dim lons linish its intensity, if not to kll It.j ted. It will remove the poison and make and it harmless it it does not, in its tmU bill lions of moving ways, move men to re Lity, pudlate the measure so as to repudi. t of ate the man. To those of its active Ipon members it will tell them, "This will aey kill me-Evil." gov- To those who are good, justice-lovw ef- ing men, it will make the perfidy of phe. ite prime mover as black as It can to iave ,their eyes and make them hate him. per- if it can, and then in a conscienceless 1ich way, it will advise them as though In r of the voice of an angel, "Repudiate him . by repudiating it." lone Thus has Evil succeeded if men vote the for men and hot for measures. t is Preiddent Wilson asks a veto of the the Alien Land Law by Gov. Johnson, of and Califotaia, and promises to co-operate in a systematic etfort to discover and hers rof correct any evils of alien land owner sple, shp. The Shriners' Imperial Council met g In Dallas, Texas, last week. 090, Erie railroad officials have neen Sall threatened if they.continue to trans ara- port strike breakers to Paterson, N. live *- - for A pyramid of rocks placed by strik airy, era upon the tracks near ?aterson was hen- discovered in time to prevent the r of wrecking of a passenger train upon han which the predident of the Erie and ight otber officials were riding. I to The Public Health Service has filed td- Its report on the value of the Fried r of mann serum for tuberculosts, And in the report no definite opinion is reon (opt- dered as to its virtue or its worthless vote ness. We are told that at this time ated its power is unproven. We arc told *ans that which makes us no more the -wls ting er except that it cautions us to be La- more reserved and more careful of Jl d C. this "discovery." . We are told that · and which centuries of experience with ni-: . re- tried innovations could have told us. bill. We are not told that it is a curative, Rip- norare we told thatitisnot. We ore :ali- told in fact that this time is not the and (Concluded on Page 4, Vol.1'.)