,.! . - ' .. .. % : i The ower ast Gazet e. Devoted to the Interest of the Lower Coast Agriculture, Horticulture. Fisheries and Commerce. No. 52. POINTE-A-LA-HACHE, LOUISIANA,.• SATURDAY,.l ".... DECEMBER. 27, 1913.. .. .. l .. n ni - l-- - n n- nn --- n .1-mu Vol. V: and fear, he grips them until cent more than last. year in the Unit- wouldn't ride dat oxen if I neber ride memoments I lay panting on the straw. he needs. He needs protein to build with rage for his greediness ed States, India, Japan and Egypt. again!"-. TiThen I crawled up to the tie-piece of a nman's frame and he needs a larger Ithe punishment e a him. LATEST NEWS. Old Plantation Days. This was a decisive angwer from one ththe rick and looked down on my tor- proproportion of it.than the average adult overovertakes FOREIGN NEWS. whowh knew more about Abel than any mementor, and over at Tom and Princee requires.req He also needs fat and By Archibald Rutledge. on STATE, NATIONAL AND FOREIGN Rebel General Villa ordered Chihua- one else; but in those days we seldom aiand the men, who had been thorough- i-stastarches to furnish the heat and en- hua rebels to stop looting. tootook anything as decisive. - lyI alarmed by my danger. ergergy burned out in his ever-active body "Take One." III. BIG ABEL.. ' This is the believed result of the "Can you get a rope Ovqr his horns, "Can you come and get him now,r, aniand to keep his tissues plump and STATE NEWS.- On the plantation Miss Lyddon, a capable member of United States protest against Spanish yo we had a fine Prince?"Pri I persisted. P1Prince?" I called. rotrounded. While he needs much pro- M The Louisiana delegation protested U. yoke of oxen named Cain and Abel; the board of directors, was received property seizure. The negro assented; hie went into a It was getting too dark to see very ytein,tell do not expect him to get it all I against the internal revenue commis- Pt butbui by some at the Old Ladies' Home, after a six Villa's rebels are recruiting Federal perversity of nature, it smallsm. shed near-by, .and brought out a mmuch, but I saw the gleam of Prince'ss fromfro meat. Indeed, it is much better at ti ruling taking the levee, drain- - sioners' wawas not Cain but Abel that was the plow-lineplo with a slip-knot in the end. teteeth. thatthe no small part of this nitrogenous monmonths' absence in California, with an deserters. "Villa proclaimed amnesty 3 age, school, good roads and reclama- wicked one. Bulls are usually consid- "Abel's bex (vexed), but I'll try," foc , of welcome that she We climbed the fence, and crossed the ,"food come from milk and eggs, cheese, excilexcited flutter tion bonds income. The protest was to surrendering Federals. S'On Sunday 500,000 rounds of Gen. ereered dangerous animals; a cow with a litt ththe boy said. be,beans and peas. If he has plenty of afailefailed to understand till she found she based on the grounds that such board little "hog-crawl" that separated the 3was expected to solve a mystery. young calf is likely to be fractious- stastable-lot proper from the large en- As he climbed through the fence the thesethe rich and relatively cheap foods was bonds are State political sub-division i MMercado's evacuating Federals artil- as she should be;. but the ox has be- closurecl where the big rick and all the otother negroes poked fun at him. he will not crave meat so inordinately r"It's"Ii my box," eagerly explained bonds and exempt under the income lealery ammunition was found in an east- col f Miss Sophy Osborne, "my box from come a symbol of harmlessness, delib- cattlecal were. Some of the wilder ones "Lemme hold your hat, Prince," oneLe as some growing boys do. The boy Miss tax law terms. elern Chihuahua lake. eration,ers and pastoral peace. Yet when ran out of the gate when they saw ofr them said. needsne a large quantity of carbohy- California!Call The card doesn't say who The ruling has been suspended un- Helegraphic and railroad communi- an ox does acquire truculent traits, us r sent it, but we thought perhaps you'd us coming; others stopped their feed- up Abel's ears .with straw, so { drates.dri That is why his demand for sent til January 10, to allow Attorney Gen- cecation has been etxended as far west he is one of the hardest brutes in the "Stop ing and eyed us with 4ittrust. he coming!" anotherr brabread and butter is limited only by thee kncoknow. The most beautiful oranges eral McReynolds to pass'o, the sub. aoas Minaca and as far south as Berme- animalanI kingdom, to manage. He has he can't hear you But Big Abel did noe deign to give 3 sishouted. supplys, "athand, and why he uses al-I- and grapefruit! Dozens of them! Most ject. jillo.ji" the stubborn spirit of the mule, the And3 a third cried, "Prince, I will me .His-indifference, the I most as much butter as. bread. Lett as Ibig as melons! I haven't tasted Ashton Phelps, a New Orleans finan- SGen. Villa expects soon to have Chi- uncertaintyun of a colt, and the cun- us a glance. tell3 your pa that I was the last one to his d anything so good since the 'Burry Dan. slzsize of his great body, and the wide tE t him have all he wants. By the pound anyl cial and cotton expert, has been men- Lhihuahua, Sonora and Sinaloa as freely ningnix of a swamp pony. , swsweep of his scythelIke horns im- stsee you!" bubutter is expensive, but it is pure, , jo' Ipears in the old garden at home." tioned as a possible Reserve Board ap-. open01o] as in times of peace. Big Abel was a handsome creature, Lwholesome food, andd he can use it MissM Lyddon's face lighted sudden- pointee. Raoul Madero, the murdered Made- pressed us as much aiopen hostility Iwalked rBut Princestraight was across not the daunted; lot toward he wirei with a frosty gray .coat, a fine neck, e ly. "Pears! Beurre d'Anjou pears!" Sumner A. Cunningham,` editor andj~ rcro's brother, conferred with Villa up- a i wouldwe have done. Totl and I stopped eAbel.:w I admired his spirit, but doubt-d readily.th' It will not make him ill; quite ly. a lean but powerful body, and the contrary. And do not be afraid Sophy, did you proprietor of "The Confederate Vet- .0oon a civil government formation. the wid- at the bars, .but Prince, carrying the A of she exclaimed. "Miss est and longest horns I ever saw;; rol susugar and sweet foods. Sugar is a ever put a basket of pears on the side- eran," died in Nashville last Satur-- Juarez, Mexico, reports fruitless ne. rope, slipped quietly into the lot, pass- eied his wisdom. eve, some of his ancestors 1walk by your gate, with a 'card on it gotiations for the $250,000 paid release probably lived ededY the other cattle, . and walked Sudenly Big Abel heard the step true, concentrated food. Give him can- wak day. .g< in Texas. This ox had a sinister.repu- sta s saying "Take one"? .Robert Sterling, Louisiana Conserva- .01ofof Villa's Chihuahua prisoner, Luis tn straight up to Big Abel behindb him, whirled, and with head `ddy for dessert. He craves it and his says ' tation among the negroes, and con- r down, plunged for the negro boy. He r e"Years ago, when there was a good to thee TTerrazas, Jrl He ran, his hand caressingly over d e craving is natural, not abnormal. The tion Commission agent, reported 'sesequently we looked upon him with dtook Prince by surprise. The boy hes- b '' Before adjournment until April 2, the huge ox's side, str0ked the bowed t< boy's instincts will lead him to choose iel Miss Commisfon that some neat Plaqueminee 1914, the Mexican Congress approved distrust and just a little superstitious eitated, called out a protest, then a th yield, I always did," admitted ' deftly over the it athe all-around diet he needs. To limit plen, sugar houses discharged daily more lI dread. When we mentioned this dis- neck, set the noose Sophy, wondering. "There'd be than 20 gallons of acids into the ditch.L| tUthe Belgian syndicate concession to horns,he drew it taut, and pulled Abel'sa tlthreat to the ox; and not until the ahi-t- his choice to a few articles compels ty tot put up and give away, and a good trust to Prince, the negro boy would amal was almost upon him did he turn him unconsciously to overuse the one and so I'd put out a bas- es and canals emptying into the Grossee C(construct 5,000 miles of narrow gauge great bulk toward himjas if he had a n emay lover, laugh in his quaint manner and say gr he likes the Tete section bayous. The daily aver- rf.railway. grievance against the .x. These tac- aand run. best. To regulate his,diet ketfulketi each day while they lasted. that Abel just looked ugly and could gri But1 he -did not have a fair start. to the tastes or foods of his father orr People seemed to appreciate them; age sugar house acid discharge in tenI The Tampico rebel defeat is ascribed no tics won the favor of teieold monarch, e to the Federal gunboats and Federal notdo help the way he looked.