4 THE SIIREVErORT TIMES. WEDNESDAY, 'APRIL 9, 1913 Louisiana Press Here is the Most Prosperous Cave Farmer in America GETS "STUNG" BUT HE PROFITS HE SHREVEPORT 1ES by IDE TDIES I'lttLISHING COM- We Allow Interest at th I I ROBERT SMITH. Rate of a revenue, basis In keeping with long established Domo'cratlo policy, On the other hand, if the Underwood bill goes to tho Senate, as In Its present form, providing for free sugar at the end of three years, there la danger that enough Demo-cratlc votes may be (recorded ngains-t It in the upper house to prevent Us passage. This would force segre-gatlon and proba'bly delay tariff revision several weeks. Is transplanted in the cave, where it grows an Inch a day.
He sella It at 15 cents a pound long before his surface farming neighbors can get theirs out of the ground. Three crops of mushrooms are raised each year. A square foot of ground produces more than a pound of mushrooms, and Smith sells them to St. Louis Four Per Cent per annum on Savings' Accounts and Certificates of Deposit. Commercial National Bank "Shreveports' Only Million Dollar Bank" nOW CAVK-FARMKK SMITH GOES TO HIS FARM.
Pans Fans Fans LATEST IMPROVED WESTINGHOUSE FANS, COMPLETE WITH TEN-FOOT EXTENSION CORD, ALL FANS GUARANTEED. Sold at Cost: THIS SALE BEGINS APRIL. 15. 12-inch Fan Cash 16-inch Fan $12.25 Cash SHREVEPORT DIVISION Southwestern Gas and Electric Co. TUIR1Y YEARS AGO TODAY IN SHREVEPORT (Culled from 01.
Files Shreveport Times.) M.M, UlU. No. 408 Marshall Street Robert Jiwing President Thomas O. Harris. Managiug Editor O.
C. DeGraffenreid Kiiitor 11. M. Denholme. Manager Entered at the Shreveport, l'oat-offlce ag second clans aiuUtr, TERMS OF hllibCIUil'I JN.
Dully. Twelve months I7.E0 Six months 4.00 Three months 2.15 The above rates apply to eub-sonpUona paid in advance. One month 71 One .20 Sunday. Twelve months 2.00 Six months I.UO Twlue-a-Wcek. Twelve months l.0 Six months 60 iku'hones.
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The game is to Do played at Alexandria under the rules of 1883. This challenge Is open tor ten uays to eitner of the above named clubs, and if accepted, names of the players of each opposing club are to be handed in to their respective secretaries. The match is to take place six weeks after acceptance of challenge. A forfeit of $50 has been posted in the Democrat Deputy Sheriff Jim Martin, with the assistance of about half the city's population, succeeded in capturing a swarm of bees which drifted into tho courthouse yard and took refuge a big oak tree. According to The Times the event was one of great Interest.
Host all the store keepers The Virtue of Virtue Ry Bert on Braley. He doesn't smoke and he doesn't drink, he doesn't gamble, he doesn't chew for he is a highly moral gink, ho never does what the shouldn't do. He never smashes the decalogue, and he never fractures the laws of man; "in fact, he's a perfectly proper cog in the big machine sinca his life began. But that is as far as his virtues reach they're negative virtues, one and all; he's never been known, by kindly speech, to ihelp the fellow who's prone to fall he has no knowledge of fellowship, no love of beauty or honest mirth. There is no warmth in the hands you grip, when you greet this chap on Che "Good Ship Earth." He isn't tender or sweet or kind, he Isn't merry or bright of eye; but look him up and you're sure to find his reputation is very high; but It isn't by negative acts we mount for 1 maintain this word Is true; it isn't Uhe things you dn't that count; it's rather the sort of things you do Wood ashes and salt well mixed and sifted around the edges of the feed troughs and self feeders are of great value to tho health and thrift of the lambs.
The people of Monroe are entitled to sonio consideration and relief, and It should be granted by the Parish Hoard at once. Jt could done by a formul resolution holding In abeyance the collection of tne three mill lax until tho General Assembly, which meets in 1914, has an opportunity to amend the law. This law would have been amended in 1912 hud the Butler bill been allowed to go through without Interference from political Influences opposed to the present officials of the City of Moncoe. Monroe Is the ONLY town or city in the State nf-fected by the three mill tax, and it is the ONLY town or cltv In Louisiana maintaining free schools for white and negTo children WITHOUT aid from tho Parish or State. These fact should insnl respect and admiration for those nave worked so long and earnestly to build up such splendid institution of learning, inston.t rr th hearts of SOME with a creslre 10 weaken and tear down one of the best free Schools In Tsmislnna Men- roe Xews-iStar.
Mr. KlnET'a talk wna vsrv and shows that ho Is thoroughly versed in the building of good roads in any kind of soil. His talk will lie ii.ui 11 hL'u, iiue an Of hia nildlpTlf-A mat. rnt use split-log draffs, there are enough of them who will, and the use of them on the public roads will Insure the balance doing it later on. Alexandria Town Talk.
Strictly in accodance with expectations, only a few comparatively small bids were received for the State bond issue whim the State Board of Liquidation met in Baton Kougo bust week, and other steps will need to be taken. The bids the Board received, however, have considerable significance. One of the banks of Baton Rouge offered to take $100,000 of the bonds, at par, to be delivered on January 1, 1014. Mrs. G.
C. Howell, of St. Francia-ville, offered to exchange $2,000 worth of the old bonds for the new- issue. Georffe Scheib. nf 91 Street, New- Orleans, sent In a for $104 for one bond.
Mr. Scheib WTOtp II letter ttavlnir tVio m.cA to help the State of Louisiana sell its ami regreuea mat ne wa3 unable to take more of the bonds. In our opinion, these three bids point out a way In which the bonds mav rlisnnse.l knn.i,in. about the money markets eleven mil lion umiars worm or oonrts hased on a State- ta.Tfl.hlp vaIha fiftv irtc, great and of the rea? value of three Limes me amount or the assessed valuation. Lake Charles American-Press.
Public spirit and enterprise demand that office holders should consider the welfare of the section thp- rcnM and not cater to self or class. A public office is a trust and should not ne aeemea an investment In which the sum spent in spenrinsr tho r.ffiee is the capital stock. South Mansfield Star. Announcement is made that Texas has (stepped to the head vi the column in the matter of the value of her agricultural resources, it was inevitable that this should be so. She has a far greater area of arable lands than any-other State in the Union, while the mildness of her climate and the wonderful variety of her resources and soil give her advantages of which no other American State can boast.
Texas can produce more cotton than Mississippi, more corn than Illinois, more dairy products than Iowa, I'n-more dairy producth than Iowa, Unless her citizens shall consent to carve her into three or four States, the time is not distant when her population shall exceed that of every other State and her industries and wealth become worthy of an empire. Country lie view. When Governor Hall's friends go to him for support in securing Federal appointments they are evidently of the opinion that Woodrow Wilson is w-llling to turn the other cheek for Hall to lambast. It Is not likely that Wilson will forget the last Democratic State convention in Louisiana nor Bryan the attitude of some of the Hall papers. Lake Charles Times.
Mr. R. T. McClendon was in town last Friday with a lot of fine home-raised hams he was snipping to Shreveport to some special customers, whom he supplies by contract every year. Mr.
McClendon readily dispose all of his surplus hams at 20 cents and the purchaser pays the freight, which Is four cents higner than thev bring In Homer. The same applies home-made syrup. The quality thn! sells for 65 ceyts hpre readily brings a dollar In St. Louis and Chicago, and it is no more trouble lor our farmers to send their meat and syrup to St. IOuis and Shreveport than to sell it here at a loss of 20 per cent or more.
When we get the trolley line the fanners can send their butter, ergs, chickens and all produce of that kind to Shreveport and other markets whor* they will find ready sale at fancy prices the year round. Homer Guardian-Journal. THE FREE MEDICINE GRAFTERS. Graft! Graft is everywhere. The temptation to secure any sort of service lor nothing is too great for human nature to resist.
A correspondent, in one of the dailies suggests the burning of seven out of each eight tree dispensaries in New i oi City as a means of destroying the graft that has grown up about these institutions. Formerly, and for a period of many years, only about 4 per cent of the population made use of the free dispensary, the rest of the population being able, presumably, to pay for medical attention. At present a large proportion of the population resort to the free dispensaries with the result that "medical practice has been demoralized, and many doctors have been driven to ultra-commercial methods." This abuse of the free dispensary has been even more disastrous to t.he thousands of persons ho have stooped to accepting a rharity when they should have paid something at least fur the help received. Genuine self-respect Is too prestious sin element of character to be sold for a free treatment at a public dlspen-saiy A better way to correct the evi than by burning the dispensaries would be to enforce the law against false representations used in obtaining free medical service. From Leslie's.
COMMA MIS FOIl l.OAKKS. Here ere the eommanilnients in the 'Heart Breakers." 1. Thou shalt not sing "Tbe Rosary" in order to make a girl sentimental. 2. Thuu shalt not put thine arm around the Kirl to keep her warm.
3. Thou shalt not tell the girl fortune In order to hold her band. 4. Thou shalt not tell any siri about any beauty who looks like her. 5.
Thou shalt not use baby talk except in cases where the lady proves to be more than 30, and any member able to prove any lady more than 30 will he awarded the club's medal for travery. S. Thou shalt not call a tcirl by another girl's name. 7. Thou sha't not kiss ft girl who is asleep.
$. Thou fhalt not a girl she the only girl you ever" loved. Thou shalt not tell a Ctrl what a heart breaker you are don't te'l her show her. 10. Thou halt not tell a gir! how many g'rls tou ht kissed: remember, it Is quality, not quantity, that counts.
St, Louii Times. THE PRESIDENT'S MESSAGE. President Wilson's first message to Congress is remarkable for two things it ia the briefest executive document upon an important subject and on an equally important occasion since Lincoln's terse message fcfter his second and for the Jtrst time slnco John Adams, more than a hundred years ago, the President delivered the message to Congress in person. Going ba'ck over recent history, wo find Colonel Roosevelt Invariably writing long messages upon all sorts rf subjects, scarcely ever failing throw in half a dozen moral lectures, and Mr. Taft dealing heavily In arguments after Ithe manner of the lawyer and ii Judge, both quoting statistics and reports labor iously.
Mr. Wilson doesn't sermonize and he doesn't argue. He Ignores dry figures end the thousand and one reports showing the conditions that prevail in our Industrial centers where w'attt and squalor belie the claim that a high tariff protects the workers and promotes thetr He goes straight to the point, which is that protection and privilege most go because they are unjust, un-American and artificial Simulations which are obtained 'at the sacrifice cf efficiency, economy, enterprise and opportunity. And yet the President emphasizes the importance of moderation in dealing with the conditions that have grown up under a protective tariff. He declares ithat we must seek freedom of business and industry, not "revolution or upset or confusion," and he says that It would be un'vtise to with reckless haste, "or with strokes th'at cut at the very roots of whVit has grown up among us by long process at our invitation." On the whole the message is a clear as it is concise.
It puts the facts before Congress and it lays a duty upon the Democratic that is entirely consistent with the par.ty's contract with the American people. LOW COST OF GOOD HEALTH. Every one has been interested in the wonderful work being done in Partama in the construction of the canal. Startling as have been the results of the work of the engineers and builders, the work of the sanitary department has been even more wonderful- In a region noted as the most unheaSthful in the world, in which our predecessors, the Fren'ch, were unable to succeed because they could mot keep the workers alive, American (army surgeons, by the use of scientific facts known to all, have succeeded in lowering the death rate r.mong American residents far below that of our most favored American communities. According to Colonel Gorgas, the chief sanitary officer of 'the Can'al Zone, who recently discussed this question in the Journal of the American Medical Association, the de'ath rate fur 1311 amnng 10,489 Americans as only 4.43 per thousand.
While his result has been mainly cue to tho control of yellow fever end malaria, and while it Is true tha.t the American population consisted of picked individuals, largely of educated men and women in the prime of life, yet even with all these conditions recognized, the record is a remarkable one, and Is probably without a rival. And all say Colonel Gorgas, has been accomplished at an expense averaging one cent per day for each individual. this res. ill can be secured at this rest in the 'center of a -tropica! Jungle, what would not a simil'ar expenditure do fur our American cities (inp cent a day is what the average American pays for a daily newspaper- It is one-fifth the est of one cigar, it Is one-fifth the price of a daily street far ride. 1-t is M.e-fiftU the cost cf admission to a movinsr pkturo hiw.
It is one-fifth tt what we pay for a glass ot -soda-water or a package of theing gum. Who would say that the expenditure ct this amount would be (any burden to 'this '-1 and extravagant n-tlon? And jet it is the cost of life itself. Is one cent a day too punch to pay to protect the life end hfsiith ot an American citiz'-n An electric, ht attachment for revolvers, milh battery and button to operate it, has been patented by an Oregon inverter. Swiss optic-tans have developed an arc light in which the carbons are impregnated with iron salts, producing a light rich In ultra-violet rays, for scientific purposes. For painting wires a Pennsylvania mart, has patented two stiff brushes that rVolve against each other as paint is fa to them by compressed air from a fceservoir.
closed up and assisted in the capture. After it was all over, the only place iii town that ihad not closed up did a thriving business. Business was dull, locals were scarce and tho reporter's wife was away on a visit; these conditions were responsible for the fallowing swan song: "Of all the Insidious Temptations invidious. Contrived by the devil for pulling men down, There's none more delusive, Seductive, abusive, Than the snare to a man with a wifi out of town. He feels such dellghtfulness, Stay-out-all-nigh tfulness; Shall I get tight I own with pain A bachelor rakishness.
What will you Next-day's-headache-IsKnens, None can explain." Abe Martin Ther's no horn on th' water wagon. I don't know whether Tell Brlnkley drinks er not, but he's mighty reminiscent, it wuzn' worth as much live in the good ole days. Estate Buyers I Jlfl EDITOR'S NOTE. The story of Robert Smith's farming vulture Is interesting and it is helpful in that It sliOwg what a man can do on a farm by merely taking advantage of hH opportunities. There are more ways tlinii one to make a farm jav.
Smith found a unique way; another back-to-the-soller might look around him when he gets on the land and find another way equally as profitable.) hotels and at f0 cents a pounds. Celery is transplanted In the cave for bleaching, where it attains a perfection of whiteness and tenderness and attracts high prices. When Smith first learned that he couldn't farm his place like a regular farm, and decided farm in the cave, he had to "clear his land. Instead of stumps to pull, he had stalactites, rock formations hanging from the ceiling, to remove and haul out. When he had his cave farm cleared he had to haul soil and manure in and spread it over the rocky floir.
Outside the cave door he built a lake, using tho rocks taken from the cave for embankments. A stream running into the cave from the lake outside which is the playground for the bull frogs Smith raises with his other cave crops also serves ns a road, or rather, a canal. Smith goes to his cave farm In a flat-bottomed boat and hauls out his produce in the same way. He can work in his farm day or night. He has to carry a lantern at either time.
When the frogs are wintering and there's no celery to. bleach, Smith uses part of his cave farm for a storage plant and keeps his neighbors' sweet potatoes during the cold weather for 15 cents a bushel. At one time he had 9,000 bushels of sweet potatoes in the cave. Raise the Standard Our age makes standards Imperative," declares Dr. George Edwin MacLean, formerly president of the State university of Iowa, in a bulletin Just issued by the United States Bureau of Education.
Dr. MacLean points out how the game need that has led to standard gage for railway tracks and a common monetary basis applies to institutions of higher learning. In the case of the universities, "the world-wide interchange of thought, exchange of scholars and migration of students" have inevitably created the demand for re cognized standards. Lr. MacLean attempts to portray the standards of American higher education as they have been and as they are.
After tracing the significant changes that have taken place in American college standards from colonial days down through the battle over the elective system, he dis cusses the present standards of collegiate departments in the United States; standards of theological schools, medical schools, law schools, schools of engineering, dental schools, schools of pharmacy, schools of fine arts and music, and unlver- siiieg in general. In his summary pr. MacLean sug gests that the Increasingly high professional standards, which make the American graduate 'JS or 27 years old in beginning the practice I of his profession, form an important point in the demand for a complete reorganization of the educational system. A PKOMIXENT CITIZEN. A prominent citizens Any male who owns a dress suit, Is a member of two expensive clubs, is opposed to child labor, acts as honorary pallbearer at at least four funerals a year; is a member of at least two public boards or commissions wmcn never meet; prefers a musical comedy to "Tristan and Isolde," owns a "library edition" of Guy de Maupassant bought from a book agent; regards nil socialists as scoundrels, has a theory to account for all money panics, possesses only one wife, send hie children to Sunday school as a punishment for petty misdemeanors, believes 1n free will and tho greatness of Charles Dickens, is (or wishes he were) director of a national bank, has nis shoes shined every day, cultivates an illegible signature, thinks It is immoral for a workingman to get drunk on Saturday night, contributes to all le-lief funds managed by newspapers, rides In a taxicab, constantly argues that the country is going to the dogs and wears a stick.
Owen Hatters in April Smart Set. l.IKF.nO ST Bl I.ES. Revised rules for life-saving appliances at sea have just been Issued by the Hrltish Hoard of Trade. A Ubie showing the number of davits which must be carried on vessels of various lengths. Thus, vessels under lf.O feet In length must carry two davits, Vessels 245 and 270 feet must carry six davits.
Those of from 360 to 2i0 feet, ten davits; vessels of from to 610 feet fourteen davits. Those from C'JO to T0 feet must r.irry eighteen davits, tboso from 750 to S0 feet, twenty-two davits, and vessels from 940 to 1.040 feet must carry twentysix davits. The number of or approve, substitutes therefor, must provide a seat for every passenger. Motor lifeboats may be fitted, but their use Is not encouraged. Kansas City Star.
ABSENT-MINDED I.OVEU. (Louisville Courier-Journal.) An Arkansas paper reports that voun? man drove two miles before be found cut that the girl had fallen out of the bucgy. Huszing a rlelupion is common enough, but In the popular mind It is not associated with moonlight meanderings in a buggy. I ROBERT SMITn FAllMS A HOLE LV THE GROUND, HI HE HAS MADE IT PAY HIM. Springfield, April S.
A few years ago Robert Smith was a St. Louis workingman, bringing home a workingman's wages and despairing of making both ends meet. Like lots of other city men, Robert Smith got the "back to the land" fever; got it bad. TODAY ROBERT SMITH IS THE MOST PROSPEROUS CAVE FARMER LX AMERICA, When the back-to-the-soil fever got the better of Smith he went to a real estate dealer and bought a 26-acre farm In the Ozarks, a few miles from Springfield. The farm he bought was considerable worse than most Ozark mountain farms, which, in are bad enough for farming purposes, however great they may be on scenery.
In plain language, Robert Smith was "stuck" for a poor rocky farm." He was "just a city feller" and didn't know much about buying farm land. So the seller thought. The Smith family moved down from St. Louis, and when Robert found out he could not make a living working the top of the land he had bought he began farming under ground. On his land was a big cave, par ticularly fitted for a "cellar garden." It was large, welUaired, had an even temperature, standing at 60 winter and summer; had no cold, damp drafts, and was moist enough and not too dripping wet.
So, instead of raising and fruit and other farm products as Smith had intended, he raised mushrooms, rhubarb, celery and hull frogs. Iist year he cleared nearly $4,000 on his cave farm. The rhubarb is started outdoors and Jambalaya Seated In a crowded travion car some time since was a rtout man who weighed about 300 pounds and beside squeezing into a space about three inches br.iad, was a messeng'-r boy one of very small, abn.aed-lookirg kid, says ih Chicago Presently two young Kvlies ra-no in and, reaching for titraps, stood close to the stout mil, who turned to tho me "--singer boy and said: ioy, why don't you get up and let tne of those young ladies ut "Why don't yon get ap and let 'em both sit down?" replied the bey, much to the amusem*nt of tne rest of the passengers. Horace L. Moore was lieutenant- colonel the noted Nineteenth Kansas cavalry.
says the Kansas City Journal. He could lead men for a longer period without rest, on a single ration of cheerful xil hu mor, than any other officer. Though not given to jokes, he was the reputed author of as many asr.onisners as the great Lincoln. Lato one nisrht he was hi'arl in the darkness the tent cailing his orderly. The man, who slept on the floor, wt)H finally awakened, when the colonel in a voice of mingled curiosity and solicitude paid: ''Now, orderly, be honest and ten the truth; did vou ever tually hear i'.
thunder?" In surprise the soldier stammered; "Ten yes, fir." "What a of a clap It must have beeni" exelalmed Moore, seemingly icist in wonder and adm'ratioil at the bare thought. Another time, on the m.ircn, he sent an orderly with a messngj 1.0 an officer at some distance. Before the man was out of hearing Moore shouted. ''Key, orderly! Com; back here!" He came back, slttln? limply In the saddle. Moore dropped his voice, and assuming a haif-confldentlal manner inquired: "orderly.
In the course or your life have you ever seen a snail?" "Yes, sir," was the astonished re- ply. "Vou one!" m-t then," rplid 'for rou'd never overtake On one occasion in hia carser Nat rioodwin the gas-dine circuit as the star in a play which was 8o ad that tne oniy good thing In it was the last curti'ln. Naturally, the public evidence! no uew.re to patronize It. Finally, however, the brave actors and actresses played in a town which, for some mysterious reason, turned out a good crowd to ihe dismal performance. It w-a, too good to be true.
After the first ar aoodwin sought out the stage manager and said: "On the level, are those real people out "Certainly, a whole lot of then," replied tb'? manager. Well, that's one on me." repiiel Goodwin. "I thought that crowd wis a painted drop curtain." The popular Magazine. The late Thcma.3 V. Jeffery, Who built and automobiles, was a man of few words.
One day he w-as on a railroad train when a traveling acquaintance called his attention to a big building in a town by wjiich the train wan passing. "See that warehouse?" asked the traveler. "Well, ten years ro I could hHve bought that whole thing foe seven thousand dollars, and now It's worth twenty." "Tid j-ou have the seven thousand "Oh. no!" "Weil, then," said Jeffery. "I wouldn't let it worry me." The Saturday Evening Tost.
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OIL CITY, LA. OIL CITY ADDRESS, BOX 76. THE CASE OP SCG.VH. If sugar is forced on iihe free list In the Underwood tariff bill, the plank in the Democratic platform which pledges the party to do nothing to destroy any legitimate industry is meaningless and might just as well never have been 'writ 4 ten. There are thrnse who compare the situation in Congress today wltlh.
the situation which confronted Cleveland tariff reform was undertaken by him and when the Wilson bill was emasculated in the Senate by Gorman, Smith, Murphy snd others. There is some similarity tut the conditions are different in Khat the present fight ia merely to save one industry from through unjust discrimination in levying tarriff duties- Of course, the Louisiana Senators who are fighting against free sugar as well as the sugar growers themselves, realize that the present duty on sugar will have be reduced. They are aware that sugar should bear a just proper of tarriff reduction, and the 4 harge advanced in some quarters that they t-re striving to have the present duty retained is unfounded. One compromise offeree1 the President was -to agree to gradual reduction for three years and to him at the end of that reriod say whether or not all duty Hhea ehou'd be removed. If the President was convinced after three ears that putting sugar on the freu list would -not destroy the domestic Industry, he could pl.vce it on the free list In pursuance his present purpose.
If he was convinced to the contrary, he would of course be vnder a moral obligation to retain a email duty on sugar. This offer, It strikes The Times, was eminently fair and just, but -the President refused to consider it. There ia a chance, cs indicated by dispatches from Washington Monday night, that the President may agree to segregation of some of the schedules 5n the tarriff bill, inelud-t tig the sugar schedule, and if this i done, it will probably mean that igar nill he treated as several ther meressitles are being treated- he duty will be reduced eiaiply to i KB Attention Real ARE YOU Looking POR A home? Vacant lots them. For an best bank A farm We ha- cae that will suit you. cn which to build? We have Investment that will increase like the stock? We can supply it.
or plantation? We have the choicest. MORRIS GRAY SI COMMERCIAL NATIONAL- BANK BtTLDrXG. Talk Real Estafo With Morris Gray." Parcel Post Coupon No. 75 HJT SIX COUPONS, consecutively numbered, together with 20 cents, brought to our office will entitle you to one of our Handsome Parcel Post Maps. II.
