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OF SUG AR IN STATE PRODUCTION IS ESTI VATED AT 282.752 000 POUNDS FINISHED PRODUCT THIS IS A BANNER YEAR The Production O f (Volasses This Year Is Estimated at 20,420,000 Gallons An Increased Yield. Baton Rouet —A banner sugar sea son is drawing to a close, according to a preliminary sugar. syrup and mo lasses report issued by Lionel L. Janes, agricultural statistician Tor Louisiana. The Increased seed acreage is an indication of the year's gams. Dr Janes reports. The average acreage set aside each year Tor seed is 16 2-3 per cent of the plantation. The production of sugar in Louisi ana for the 1022 season is estimated at 482,752.000 pisunds, the equivalent of 241,876 short tons. The produc tion in 1021 was estimated at 324.431 shot tons, in 1020 at 169.127 short tons and in 1010 at 121,000 short tons. The eight-year average of production is 227,895 tons. The total prodnction of syrup in Louisiana in 1022 is estimated at 6. 020.000 gallons; 2.403.000 gallons in side the cane belt and 3.527,000 gal lons in the parishes outside the sugar section. The production of molasses this season is estimated at 20,420,000 gal Ions. The production in 1921 was es timated at 25.423,341 gallons ; in 1920 at 16,856.867 gallons; and in 1919 at 12.991.000 gallons. j New Orleans. La.—Following illness of several months. Samuel A. Mont gomery, one of the best known law vers of New Orleans and the state, died last week. Monroe, La.—Irvin S Cobb, Ken tucky author and popular magaz.ne fiction writer, is scheduled for his se cond hunt in the wilds of Louisiana, according to information received by friends in this city. Mr. "obb was a visitor to Monroe last year and he is expected here within the next few weeks to Join a party of other Mon roe residents to be the guests of the McGowan Hunting Club near Monroe. I ; ; I I j I Lafayette. La.—Adoption of next year's parish budget was up for at tention at the regular meeting of the police jury. Road matters also occu pied attention. A committee compos ed of George Malagarie and Eugene Babbe appeared before the jurors peeking the extension of the lateral gravel road in th Fifth Ward. The budget includes estimated revenues of 158,227.65. Hammond. La.—Manager A. A. Ormsby of the Florda Parishes Fair announces that the probable dates for the 1923 fair will be Oct. 30 to No vember 1, inclusive. An effort is un der way to make up a circuit of the larger Louisiana fairs, including Don aldsville, Lafayette, Alexandria, and Hammond, for the purpose of booking reliable shows, free acts, horse rac ing and livestock and educational ex hibits for next season. Shreveport La—The federal dis triet court for the Lake Charles di vision will convene at Lake Charles Monday, December 11 hTe most im portant case scheduled fro trial re the ca»e agaiast eßimont W. Shields, of Leesvllle, La., editor of the ''Wampus Cat," a monthly publication, on a charge of sending Improper matter through interstate express. I j Edgard. La.—Sheriff E. A. Picou is busy issuing tax notices. For sev eral years the taxes in this parish have not been collected until Feb ruary but this year an effort is being made to collect them before the end of the year. ! Edgard, La.—The Columbia Sugar Mill, one of the largest refineries in the parish, has closed its season. Thus Is about three weeks earlier than us ual. The favorable weather and short crops, howeve tended to bring about the early closing. Lake Charles, La.—Attorney Sam Jones of DeRidder is optimistic con cerning the large acreage of Satsuma oranges which he says will be planted in Beauregard parish next year . It is said that the oranges do unusually well on cut-over pine lands of which there are large tracts in Beauregard parish. Opelousas. La— All roads leading Oeplousas will be marked under a piM ot the Opelousas trade exten ■Um toreau. which will be put lato effect soon after Jaauarr 1. CONSECUTIVE RICE PLANTING DOES NOT BRING GOOD RESULTS Si. Martinvilie. La —The threshing of late rice in St Martin pansu has been completed. The yield per acre was disappointing, but this is attrl buted to the fact that most of the acreage was pl&nt^d consecutive]} for several y eavt iß ri;. e without fertil ization and the brame for the 2 ri*ort crop is placed upon the planters them seh es. The territory watered by three ir r.gation canals produced 18,000 bags, and not withstanding the yield was not as abundant as usual, the farmers ob tinned good results. The sale of rice this year was on a hand to mouth basis buyers pur chasing only immediate n"eds and the farmers, encouraged by the farm bu reau and the American Rice Growers' Association, d,d not turn their pro duct loose freely. Farmers who held their long grain rice, strictly 1 and 2. are getting $4 to $4.2a, and for Biue Rose only $5 to $3.25. Larges*, planters in the parish have joined the P'arm Bureau Rice Grow ers' Co-operative Association and are shipping the.r rice to Crowley, where the association has a mill. The great proportion of the rice, however, still is in the farmers' hands. CONNECTED WITH MURDER CASE HURTS MOVIE STAR New Orleans. La.—A number of im portant figures will be missing with the new year from the motion picture line-oip of the Famous Players-Lasky Corporation, it was learned at New York headquarters. Of these, the most noted is Mary Miles Minier of Shreveport. La., who was with the de velopment of the industry from early days as a child star, become one of the highest salaried artists of the ci j oema. With her passing from the fold I occurs the last echo, so far as this organization is concerned, of the shooting of William Desmond Taylor, one of their directors. ; Following the case, in which Miss ; Miniers name and letters were men tioned conspicuously, the public recep tion of her pictures was cold, it is said, and the Paramount did not feel Justified in renewing Miss Miniers I contract, which was said to call for I 1250,000 a year. Miss Minter was known in the mo j Mod picture industry as a ''synthetic star, having been developed by the Famous Players Company to take the I Place left by Mary Pickford. Hammond. La.—Owing to the rapid increase in business interests in Ham mond the past year it is quite prob able that the membership in the local Rotary Club will be increased from twenty to thirty membeps. according to discussions at a recent meeting of tioned conspcuously, the public recep the Rotarians. Oak Grove. La.—Several pioneer people have organized the West Car roll C hnstmas Club, the object of which is to scatter the joy and cheer of the Christmas time all over the par ish. Opelousas, La.—A location in a I prominent pan of the business dis triet here has been selected by offi cers of the St. Landry Homestead Association for its permanent head quarters. The furniture and fixtures will be installed by January 2, when the association will commence opera tions. Nearly 1100.000, four tiiçes more than the goal set. has been sub scribed by stockholders. Crowley, La.—A wind of high veloc j ity struck the western edge of this town and demolished the home of Sidney Armentor. Mr. Armentor was bruised badly and his right arm brok Baton Rouge, La.—There were is sued in the state during the year 103. 090 automobile licenses, including 25, 000 for trucks according to Charles F. Bailey, chief clerk in the automobile license department. Collections to ! taled $1,750,650. Hammond, La.—Through an error of the publicity committee of the Knights Templar the name of B. B. Purser was given the press as having been elected commander. Everett Spraker was elected to the position at the annual election. Covington, La—L. J. Heintx is the owner of the highest yielding milch cow in St Tammany parish. She is a fine young Holstein and from No vember 4 to December 4. according to the manager of the Ozone Dairy As sociation, yielded 1138 pounds of milk, testing 3.3 per cent; producing 46.93 pounds of commercial butter or 37,55 pounds of actual butterfat. Feed con sumed by the cow cost $12. A check is received every two weeks by Mr. Heintx in payment for the milk pro duced by this cow, and shows a nice profit "Ring Qui Rinj* in \\\ X / -A V ' ~ /xx *Är TjSr'-t sge. -I» 241 > L&uriger Koratius, guem fllxistl rerun, Fuglt Euro citlus lernjjus edax rerum. Temjiorii mutantur et no* mutamur In U. I* By JOHN DICKINSON SHERMAN HE Latin has a terse and forceful way of putting things. Now, the first quotation above has been ren dered in free-and-easy style : Old Man Horace, sprigged with bay Truly thou dost say. sir Time speeds taster on Its way Than the EWiftest racer a Clever, but the Latin says it more j forcibly: Crow ned-with-laurel Horace. , what you say is true: Flies than the j southeast wind faster time the devour ! er of things. And the second quotation above neatly supplements the first by say- \ ing : Times change and we are changed ( in them. Ail of which suggests most forcibly i that time has destroyed the old-fash- , toned method of observing several ol our American national holidays; that the times have changed and we iD t hem. Now, there's the Fourth of July, for example. The old-fashioned Fourth is so entirely gone that we don't quite i know what to do with the day. In trie old days we used to twist the Lion s tail when we didn't know what else to do, but since we fought side by side with the British in the Great War. that seems as out of place as do fire crackers and the casualty list of small boys. And it's just about the same with New Year's Day. About all that's left us is to listen to the whistles blow ing at midnight and to make good res olutions. And what changes the day j ha6 seen since first Americans began its celebration ! ' America's celebration of New Year's Day owes nothing to Puritan New England, in the North New York, be- ■ ing Dutch, was the center of New \ 1 ear s gayety. The South, being Eng hsh, but not Puritan, also celebrated enthusiastically. The custom of mak ing calls probably is as old as civilized man; it is likely that it originated independently in almost every clime. Old-time European chieftains used to set "New Year s" apart as a day on which they would condescend to re ceive substantial tributes from their underlings. Queen Elizabeth re ceived New Year's calls every year, and there was always much rivalry be tween her ambitious courtiers as to the quantity and value of the gifts they should bestow upon the virgin sovereign. It was on a New Year s Day that Sir Walter Raleigh gladdened the queen's heart with a memorable pair of silk stockings—the first ever made and worn iD England. In Holland the custom of making New Y'ear's calls had been general long before the settlement of New Amsterdam, and the natives of the Netherlands who came to live In the New World brought the practice with them. And, of course, they had plenty to eat and drink—for who ever heard of Dutchmen who did not take good care of their stomachs? Up to the beginning of the Nine eenth century the typical New Year's observance was a neighborly custom. Ihen it became an observance decreed by fashion and was observed in every city of any size in the country. The younger women of such house holds as had daughters were the host esses, and great was their rivalry, one j with another, in respect of richly load ed refreshment tables and elegance of , I* / \ ( i , i j toilet. The "beaux." and "dandies," and "gallants" attired themselves In their best and started out early In the morning, calling first ut tue houses where matrons received, and afterward upon the younger ladles Tat drinks that were offered at every house of any prominence were ardent and di verse. It was n<>t until about the middle of the century or thereabouts that the abuse which finally led to the cus tom's decline begun. For years the dandies rivaled one another :n the length of their calling lists, und the nothing more cake und gulp calls soon came to I than hasty gorgings ings of wine. Then the ladle-—the matrons as well as the y oung w . men—began to ' vie with une another in the number of their caller-. This led to tie most extraordinary practice.-. Cullers were ■ recruited, drummed up. < . r 1- an \ nouncing that Mis.- This-or T would be "at home" cn January 1 were sent out almost indiscriminately. The Sun day newspapers began to prim lists of those who would receive, ami the houses of those mentioned In the lists "«"äts were sure to be besieged by numbers of men whom the ladies bad never met or. heard of and desired never to meet again. Men would and parties. or mere, remaining as short s time a: each stopping place a« possible, and announcing evervwhere how many calls they had already made, and how many they expected to make before they finished. At every plate they drank. The result was a most ap palling assortment of "jags" iong be fore sundown, and a crowding ut the police stations at night. This New Y'ear's observance finally became so abused that it was called a "national evil." and was attacked by reformers everywhere and ministers thundered against it from the pulpit. Finally fashion set Its face against it and it died a gradual death. Its place was taken after a while by eating and drinking In the restaurants, and by the street carnivals. If Croesus himself had come back to earth and had visited New Y'ork— or any big city In the country—in 1906, he couldn't have got a seat In any restaurant of note after ten o'clock the night of December 31, for all his fabulous wealth. In fhet, he probably couldn't have got inside the door. ig j Every table was engaged—at prices and long in advance. Diners , had to get out at nine o'clock and X guards at the doors um cept those with ere lag the last hour of thef people feasted, and at I of the Few Year eve restaurant arose, and drank a health tv thsl It was eomparatireljr phi but the people in the i noise enough to scan Every sort ol noisem»ki(l known to man eicept am« I naniite bmnbf was hi «dhu "Get your horns and I the prayer roared by fakers all evening, wagons were halted ittkn >-d w ith tin horn* and this* ü 0 f huctlefeatb«*! yrien( ] g could siring tte hue- together or find ao « address to copy. Sock *<r w ere popular : *t-v c jtvoted rev -® ■ To open bou« awl * oc ^- _ ( New JriendsiuP mot»» « '*"1, Ard gives her tuneful b«» •" While plenty *P reia *** * Of » me * d toot la Idleness •*> | To spend the *^«>*£*J Vli rave the carrier, __, Still mut P»" u[) If you were a real Year's humorist yoa this: First, fickle *oatt der the chin with the I as he turned to pruteS, !*•! horn In his face. A universal custom ot oi those days was the < Year's address. This 4U 1 rhvme if '.be came « «] - e— - lt * Ä I go give to bim a -ace he alone this «■[, m And to your , Ln blip am tad » «*■ By 1614 there I lK:t * of LTZm ! A ; -ms sä* most of the •»*' < f doors. tide horns, hidt n Cleveland k r( ' b "X 91i ' i NVv Fve 1» l» 14 Year's E ve , save the >*.1% «"«w "'SÏÏ— of community **1 w eek before. ( , Jce J0 enforce** ' ^ ^ ^ ^reet«. I* . tlüD 1 , EO ise ^ 1 cWc** 0, tor 1 xtnms. confetti »ad „„„clans, were^ L ' n*»n<f!» r they P' 8 - ve< * h /" tbt pdW Announcement by ^ ^ midnight formt festivities d °' hgd !b* C c» G«* ! conditions pr« T Indianapolis. Then came the then prohibition■ So at present Year's tw ixt and bet* ye *ji What wfi 1 It ** 1 i^it And wfcat * century b«***