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Goes Back to Nature

comes from the hand OF nature. Per-
sonally prefer the fruit Of the tropics
bananas. pcrsimmons, lgs, dates
which have been proved to give as
great strength and endurance as does
any mixed dict.
The objects in liying on natural
food are:
"First-To make US more natural in
thought and in action.
Second - From al economical
standpoint it is far cheaper where
these fruits grow. 1t is we'll known
by travellers in the tropics that we
can live on 81 a month or less.
"Third-There is very decided HUI
manhattan issue in this diet. No ami
nal has to suffer imprle onmont and
final slaughter in order to feed tho
fruitarian The fruitarian will tako
his meal directly from The tree and
eat
Mr.. Darling has evidently found
these results in his mode OF life, for
he has built himself up wonderfully.
When hn left Portland year ago he
weighed ninety pounds, while now he
wc;chs about one hundred and sey-
crty.fve pounds. II was done Wl,A-
ou5 a Gror OF m",icine,
He rises at daylight, takes 4 coli
shower bath, then runs fali mile or
so. Then he goes through ca!isthenlc
exercises before eating breakfast OF
| fruit. He eats regularly thrca times
each day and always has a good ap-
! nctito
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ACT NO. 1873.
ACT NO. 139.
BY Mr.. Bailey. House Bill No. 15L
JOINT RESOLUTION.


BY Mr.. Bailey. House Bill No. 15l
JOINT RESOLUTION.
Proposing an amendment to Article l2A
of the Constitution Of the State Of
Louisiana Of 1898 relative to the fill
ing Of vacancies in the office Of
Clerks of the District Court.
Section l. Be 1t resolved by the Cen
eral Assembly Of the State OF Louis
lana. two-thirds Of all the members
elected to each House concurring. That
the following amendment to Article 12t
of the Constitution Of the State of
Louisiana be submitted to the electors
Of the State at the next Congressional
election to be holden on the first Tues
day after the first Monday in Nover-
Der, 1904. to-wit: That Article 124 Of tn"
Constitution Of the State Of Louisiana
be so amended as to read as foEows:
Article 124. Clerks Of District Courts
may appoint. with the approval OF the
District Judges, deputies with sucn
powers as shall be prescribed by law:
and the General Assembly shall have
the power to provide for continuing one
or more of them in office in the event
Va O'~As>f
until his successor shall have been
elected and qualified.
All elections to fill vacancies occa-
stoned by death, resignation or removal
shall be for the unexpired term, and
the Governor shall fill the vacancy until
an election can be held. Provided that
the election to fill said vacancy shall
be held within sixty days from the date
that the vacancy occurs, provided II
such unexpired term is for a shorter
period than one year. the appointee CT
the Governor, shall hold the office for
said term.
Section 2. Be 1t further resolved, etc.
That on the official ballots to be used
at said election, there shall be plaee:
the words: For the proposed amen1-
ment to Article 124 Of the Constitution
OF the State Of Louisiana" and the
words, Against the proposed amend
ment to Article 124 Of the Constitution
| of the State of Louisiana" and eacn
elector shall indicate. as provided ir
the general election laws Of the STATE.
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Of Thirty Years Ago

Twas just in such a springtime. twas
just on such an eve
That there beneath the poplar he took
his last, fond leave,
And blindly she turned downward, aware
of only This:
Within her breast his SromSe, upon her
lips his kiss.
Oh April after April. invokes the twi-
light lane,
And April after April the garden wakes
in vain:
For never Will their coverts another
sprinstime know
Like that dear sweet old sprinstine OF
thirty years ago.
Ann Smith is straight and slender: her
brow is calm and fair:
Her voice is clep: and patient. and
smooth and thick her LAIR.
No fakes have touched her tTeSSes, To
frost her cheeks can dSn.
To her 'tis always "W-!nStfrne. and 81,
must wait for y.
And when the gloamias gathers arou1 {
the garden gate,
And when each thrush and pigeon ha,
sought his gentle mate.
IL children OF the Village WI lead yr
past. to snow
The raid VINO ,ost her lover now thirty
years ago.
edwin l., Sabin in Hoasekeeper.
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She's walking in her garden, with quiet
step and slow
Ann Smith. who lost her lover now thirty
years ago.
Between the clean, white palings the vii
lage people view
Her moving midst the tulips all drowsy
with the dew.
The breezes breathe OF sprinEtime. OF
springtime lilts the rill,
There's springtime in the robins enrap-
tured Vesper trtll;
There's springtime in the blossoms she
brushes to and fro.
And in her heart the springtime Of thirty
years ago.
The lane is lying yonder wrapped deep in
fragrant gloom,
Nv bursting hawthorn bordered and cher
ry trees in bloom.
The moths athwart it f1utter on errant,
ghostly wing,
Adown its dusky vista the crickets brave
The crescent moon is shedding a tender
light above
The air is soft and dreamy, and quive-;rg
with love.
TIE world is full of longing, of whispers
vague and low,
Al in that other epringtims Of thirty
years ago,
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A tipping bucket attachment has
been added to the rain gauge of the
weather bureau on top Of the Custom
House at ST. Louis. It accurately
tells OF the amount Of precipitation.
The rain is drained into a double
bucket, so poised that it tips on re-
ceiving a certain amount Of water.
Every movement of this kind is reg
istered by an electrical! connection.
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Bards of Africa.

The only survivor of the true bard
is to be found in darkest Africa. Ex-
actly like the ancient bards of the
North. they wander through the land
singing songs in praise of chiefs.
Most of them are subject to some
particular native chief, whose praises
they sing at all times. Often the
songs are composed by the wise ruler
himself, who thus makes certain oil
getting satisfactory BRAID of praise
When a stranger visits the country
of such chief, bard is always told
off to accompany him as a sign Of
great honor But, as the bard misses
no opportunity to sing songs about
the chief, the pleasure is onesided
The bards are paid handsomely, but
they are not viewed with real respect
The warriors rather look down or
them and force them to ACT. as spies
by sending them abroad to find ou
things about other tribes.
However. the bards are feared i
they are not respected, because they
have the uncomfortable habit of TAX
ing back everything that they fiav,
sung about a chief or his village i
they are offended In such an even
they go to other villages and sins
songs exposing all the weaknesses O
1.-The people who have displeased them
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hands with shining gems that shone
even iii the eternal night of the deep.
You have done well,' said the Sea
Fog, laughing again. "You have
brought up the treasure that was to
be sent over seas ages ago to ransom
king"
Then Rudolph sailed southwark till
he raised the Southern Cross stand
ing splendid in the broad blue heaven
of the South. He sailed till the great
gales of Cape Horn took his boat in
their cold arms and drove him head
long with snow and hail toward the
Polar Sea.
There, one day, he came upon the
brock Carnilhan, that does not stand
in the sea, but swims in it, rocking and
heeling in the waves like a mighty
ship. On it, in snowy white, with
white albatrosses sitting around her,
stood the Tide Mother, with the reins
of all the tides of the world in her
hands, driving them whittier she
willed.
But the Tide Mother could not tell
him where little Elsa was.
you must go to the farthest
| North said she, ''and ask the old
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The Worst Wind of the World.

what is the worst wind of the
world?" said the captain of trading
ship that poles her nose in almost
every spot of the world during her
curious wanderings. well, I'll tell
you first of other winds, so as to lead
up to it artistically I've been through
a Kamtschatka, which is what they call
the storms of that country, and I've
seen it blow drifts fifty feet high in
an hour. put in three days in ty-
phoon, which is the great grand
father of all the hurricanes. 1t blew
every sail out of the bolt-ropes and
swept the deck so clean that it looked
as if it had been scraped Down in ST.
Vincent, in the West Indies, | lay on
the beach during a West Indian hur-
ricane, the black storm that sweeps
over the Caribbean, and | had to dig
my hands into the earth to hold tight
But worse than all these is the
wind that they call the woody, or the
willy, or the willy Willy, according to
locality You get it at its best in the
Straits Of Magellan, but a great part
OF the country around the southern
end of the south temperate regions
enjoys its blessings.
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MI of the German officers in
lV1 German Southwest Africa,
where the black men are IN
revolt against German rule, has sent
home an interesting report on the
African savage in war.
In the first place, says he, the idea
that men in state of nature like the
blacks have sharper vision than civil
lied men is wrong. The white man
with perfect vision can see farther
than the savages. Thus, white scouts
perceive the smoke from the tunnels
of river steamers and steamships
passing below the horizon out at sea
before the insurgents do. German
sailors were almost uniformly quicker
and clearer in sight than the savage
scouts.
But among the civilized soldiers
there are many who suffer from opti-
cal weaknesses, particularly short
sightedness, so as whole the negroes
are superior to the soldiers in sight.
Another thing that has been found
to interfere with the quickness OF
sight of white soldiers who have been
without previous experience in Africa
is the fact that the unusual nature OF
the country leads their eyes to mark
the peculiar things, while they over
look the little things. Thus the eye
of newcomer naturally is caught by
the thorny acacia bushes, while on the
plain there may be a score of little
hollows where negroes are lying III
A. 1f 1,o
is almost exactly that of the ground
where they hide
Something in which the savage is
far ahead of the civilized man, says
Major Rickelmann, is the sense of di-
rection of locality. He has found thai
the savage can make his way through
perfectly strange country; and he Is
perfectly at home in districts through
which he has journeyed only once be
fore, no matter how hastily he may
have passed through them
They are also almost as sharp a:
animals in finding and following ;
trail.
Thus he led party of negro scout;
one morning Just after daybreal
they came upon trail that was Sc
fresh that the Europeans in the part,
were confident that the enemy hac
passed that way only a few moment
before. But the negro scouts declare,
without hesitation that the trail ha,
been made before dawn; and whei
they were questioned, they pointe
out that there was dew on the ben
grasses and leaves showing that tn
trail had been left long enough TO
dew to be deposited on it again.
Another time they found trails lead
ing from a water hole AS the foot
prints were quite dry, the Europea
scouts argued that a considerabl
length of time had elapsed since, tn
trail had been made. because ther
had been time enough for the sun t
dry the moisture But the negroe
felt of the foot prints and announce
that the trail was quite fresh. Whe
the white men said to them. But th
sun has had time to dry the waite
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from land in these clumsy and unsea
worthy contrivanceS.
Consequently, when the question
arose as to what race was advanced in
navigation in that early time when
these monuments were put I'D. the
answer naturally came that the only
race known to be race of sailors AMI
merchants then was the race of the
Phoenicians.
And if they were the Phoenicians
how did they come to reach America?
They had colonies on the islands Of
the western Mediterranean, and even
in the islands of the Atlantic Ocean.
as history proves. 1t is not hard to
imagine that they may have found
their way to America. Some archae-
ologists are even willing to believe
that they reached America by way
of the lost Atlantis, that legendary
continent that is now sunken some
where N the Atlantic Ocean, if it ever
existed.
At any rate, the theory that the
Phoenicians were the erectors of the
monoliths of the world, to commem-
crate discoveries or for religious pur-
poses, has gained strength through
the recent discovery or a great up
right stone near the River Loire,
which has Phoenician words engraved
deeply on it. Translated, these words
say, "On this spot was slain our
brave comrade"
In San Luis, in Bolivia, is one Of
these stones which has on it the en-
craving of a foot print and a snake
with its head raised The foot print
is a well-Ilown Phoenician symbol
of death, and is found on many stones
that cover ancient Phoenician burial
sites. And the snake with head raised
is another acknowledged Phoenician
emblem. 1t signifies a march for
ward. Exactly the same symbols as
those on the South American stone
have been found on a stone in central
France.
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till all the vaulted chamber swung
and swirled like smoke when wind
blows it. '.Ho ho! That is a poor
gift. Now | will give you one that
amounts to something. Dive deep
Rudolph, dive deep and seize what
treasure you can from my treasure
house at my feet"
Rudolph dived straight down into
the cold black sea, till his ears
throbbed and the blood hammered al
his temples Fantastic and awful in
the deep lay the wrecks, with their
splintered spars fimmering in the
running water. Skeleton sailors lay
on their crumbled decks, and Rudolph
was seized with fear; but he filled his
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a MONG the greatest mysteries
- in the mystery of the past
4 4 human history on earth, the
monoliths that stand in vari-
Gus parts of the globe have always
been chief.
These strange stone monuments,
generally rude with hardly any sculp-
ture, but wonderfully large in size,
are scattered everywhere. The most
famous of them are the cromlechs,
such as those in Stonehenge in Eng
land. Others are found in the west
ern part of France, in the northern
part of Germany as far as the Oder
river, in Denmark and in Sweden.
Northern Africa, Madagascar and
Asia. from Mount Sinai and the eau
casus to India, all have some here
and there.
Lately they have been discovered
even in Siberia. There are several
places in Japan where such stones
stand.
Others have been found in North
and South America Among the most
wonderful and mysterious of them all
are the vast, almost terrifying stones,
rude1y sculptured, that have been
found on lonely Easter Island in the
Pacific Ocean.
The mystery as to what these
stones meant was not the only puz-
z1e The greatest puzzle was how
primitive people without knowledge of
engineering and without known appli-
ances could have moved and erected
such giant blocks, some of which
weigh as much as $50 tons. In many
districts where the great memorials
stand there are no stones of such size
to be found in the earth. Consequent
| ly they must have been transported
from places long distances away.
For many generations, ever since
men have spent any time in thinking
over these matters, scientists have
puzzled their heads over the monoliths
IN vain Whether they classed them
as all being the same, or whether they
| divided them into different classes,
they remained the same riddle.
Lately, however, there has been a
systematic study of all the monolith
memorials of the world, and as re-
suit a novel theory has been advanced
/ 1t Is ludl. OllS ldOO-llidl VI CilS
Phoenicians- erected all these monu-
ments.
OF course, if this is correct, it means
that history will have to be revised,
for it would show that the Phoenic-
ians once knew all about the whole
globe, and that they had visited Amer
lea and Asia long before modern days.
The first thing that led to the as
sumption that the Phoenicians had
raised the monuments was the obser-
walton of NJ. Levistre, a French
archaeologist, that almost all the
monoliths were to be found near the
mouths of great rivers or along their
courses. This pointed TO people
that used ships.
Now the Celts were never strong
ON the water. Their boats were print
tive, being made mostly Of wicker
work covered with hides, and they
were unable to move any distance
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from the foot prints" the natives said,
Yes. But the sun has not had time to
dry the moisture out of the earth
The spoor is not an hour old" And
this turned out to be correct.
The savages are extremely insen-
sible to outward pain. Thus they suf-
fer serious wounds with remarkable
stolidity and they will go without
food for days if the warfare demands
it. But sickness and other internal
troubles will terrify the negroes i'm
mediately so that they lose all heart
at once
A great obstacle to the white men,
and corresponding help to the saw
ages, are the thorny bushes that flour
ish everywhere.
The negroes are adopts at wriggling
through them, while the white sol
diers can hardly approach them with
out being caught
The thorns are often three and four
inches long, and there are dozens OF
them on every twig, each pointing in
different direction Only the most
skilful of scouts can wriggle his way
through a thorny bush that is fairly
dense. An inexperienced man who
tries it will escape only with loss of
all his clothes and with painful and
deep slashes and tears over his whole
body.
A really dense thorn bush, say the
Africans, is too dense even for a
snake. 1t is certainly true that snakes
are ofteIf found dead i'll such bushes
having been caught by the trap Of
thorns as they tried to crawl through
The negroes crawl into the bushes
and though they may lie only few
| feet away from the road, the soldiers
who pass are entirely powerless to get
at them except with bullets. They
cannot charge and drive the enemy
away.
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1t was the great Sea Fog himself,
but he did not know where little Elsa
was. They sailed through my do
main" said he, and l could not hold
them You must ask the Tide Moth
er. She sits on the ghost rock Car
MILAN in the cold southern seas,
where the sounding lead has never
plunged. You must sail till you see
the Southern Cross in the skies and
then you must sail till you reach the
sea of snow and gale But tell me
first if you have a gift for little Elsa
when you find herr"
The fisher boy told the Sea Fog
what the Starlight had given to him
"Ho. hot" laughed the gray giant.
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her," said the old Finn woman, "and
| will give You the best of all gifts
to bear to her. | will give you
strength and beauty from all my
winds"
She stirred her pot and all the
winds blew on him. go now" she
said, "for you are handsome and
strong enough to win any maiden"
The North Wind spread his black
wings and drove the boat till the mast
sang like a bowstring, while all the
white waters of the white North raced
after them and threw the boat from
one to the other like a ball, till the
shore arose ahead There, with tow
ers and high buildings cleaning, stood
the city
In the golden prison, in the most
beautiful room, sat the girl She had
grown tall and beautiful, but he rec
ognized her at once.
Little Elsap' he cried.
She looked at him. For a moment
her weary eyes frightened. "Who
are your she asked. Il seem to know
you, but I cannot remember"
Il will tell you later" said he. See
first the gift that the old Finn woman
has given to me for you"
She gazed at him, and her eyes be
came weary again. Strength and
have brought such a gift"
Listen, then" said he, while tell
you what the Tide Mother has given
to me-"
He told her all that the tides OF the
world had taught him. eyes" said
she, chat is better. But it, too, has
been brought to me in vain. Wisdom
is not what am waiting for"
Without word Rudolph laid at her
feet the Kings ransom that he had
wrested from the treasure house of
the Sea Fog. But her eyes became
only the more weary and she shook
her head sadly.
Ashamed and sorrowful, he turned
to go. "Of what avail will be the poor
gift of the Starlight" thought he. 'if
wealth, strength, beauty and wisdom
cannot free ter?"
But at that moment the words of
the Starlight came unbidden to his
| lips. They told of the sounding
beaches where two children once
played. They told how a boy and
girl once ran hand in hand all day
and loved each other even as babies.
They told how she went away at last
and left him sorrowing forever.
With every word a link of the
golden chains broke away. Link after
link they fell, till suddenly the girl
sprang to her feet with eyes and
mouth smiling.
Rudolph! Rudolph" she cried.
THAT is the gift for which I have
been waiting i'll my golden prison.
You have brought me the gift Of true
| love and I am freer
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THE. FISHER BOY FINDS TIE
Pf1NT011 ROCK CARdILffAN

Finn woman who makes the winds.
She sits in Upland, where she has
sat since the world began, and there
she stirs the pot that boils forever.
Every time she stirs it the winds
come out and blow. She can tell you
But before you go, will make you a
gift"
Then the Tide Mother reined in her
racing horses-the Japan Current,
foarning and Juggling; the Polar Cur
rents, gliding green and smooth, with
white names glistening with ice, and
last of all, the huge blue racer, the
Gulf Stream, that tugged iercely to
get away and sent the sea smashing
toward the sky in its struggles.
Firmly she held them all and made
them tell the fisher boy everything
that they had learned in their rushing
around the world-the good and the
bad, the beautiful and the terrible.
Lapland was cold and 1ifeless and
the foes Numbered on its shores.
There sat the old Finn woman, and
when Rudolph asked her, she stirred
her pot. AS each wind came tapping
out of it, she seized it by the wings
and asked it if it. knew where little
Elsa was.
None of them knew till the biggest
wind of all leaped out, screaming and
fighting. It was the North Wind, with
his black feathers. yes" roared he.
In great city stands a house all
made of gold. But it is a prison for
all its beauty. In its most beautiful
room, chained with golden chains to
a golden throne, sits the girl. She is
weary and waits for deliverance. but
only he can rescue her who brings her
the right gift"
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ships are, is the palace of the Sea
Fog. He may tell YOU where she is, >
Il will 60" said the fisher boy.
You must take a gift from us. =
said the Starlight. 1--WE will teach
you what to say to her when you find
her. You will never be able to say it
to any one else, but when you stand
before her it will come to your lips
at the right moment Listenw
He listened, but all that he could
hear was the confused murmur of the
waves-the sea. sounds that are like
the rushing of distant waters and the
beating of wings and the whispers of
many voices far away.
Il do not understand" said he
Farewell, farewelll' said the Star
light. You will understand when you
need the knowledge"
He sailed fast and far over the
worlds deep places into which no hui
man eye has ever looked since the
world began. At last over the brim-
ming rim of the heaving sea he saw
dim, low land, and that was Cape
Sable, all alone in gray sea.
The palace of the Sea Fog arose out
OF the running waters SlTalgnC DeIOre
him. In it the pillows roared unseen,
and drowning ships beloved with all
their steel lungs for fear of the death
that came invisibly and the shining
black rocks stood, each with a hood
of fog, and each with barred black
teeth.
With a stout heart the fisher boy
drove his little craft through the
ghostly dark, till he sailed into vast
dim vaulted chamber. There, stand
ing breast deep in the black water,
was huge gray figure that seemed
to sway and expand and change each
moment Now and then a terrible
face looked out, and again the misty
wells that futtered around its head and
shoulders closed in and hid all