Tensas gazette. [volume] (St. Joseph, La.) 1886-current, 1908-10-02


problem of Hamlet's insanity. re-
torts the Washington Herald.
A thing that makes a man abou
as proud of himself as he can be
oonfesses the New York Press, is to
be asked to subscribe for the stock
Of some corporation when he hasn't
q red cent.
The railroad demand fer higher
freight rates is not based on the poor
showing of dull times, argues the
''the BOOM as well as of the subse-
quent depression.
Speed mania" insists the Balti-
more News, is responsible for most
automobile accidents, and the won
der is that in the light of so many
shocking catastrophies it can claim
SO many devotees.
Contends the Washington Post:
The motor car is not at fault.
The blame is on the man, not on his
machine. Out Of speed mania" is
born recklessness, Indifference to the
rights of pedestrians, foolhardiness in
Drawing desperate chances. These
are but warning symptoms of death
to somebody But the motor car is
not at fault.
what they call honor Is a mighty
curious thing" observes Uncle Jerry
PEBBLES, in the Chicago Tribune. Il
know a man who would cheerfully
starve himself to pay a gamblin' debt,
and he still owes the preacher that
married him twenty-seven years
ago."
The people as whole must rise to
their opportunity, asserts the Spring
field Union, or the splendid advantages
which this nation enjoys will be sac
riflced to the superior foresight of
our industrial rivals And wise for
estry laws lie at the base of any
policy of successful waterways de-
velopment.
| 1t is not easy to be generous toward
competitor, when, for instance, he
gets some of ones best milk and
vegetable customers, but. neverthe-
less, keep still about him. A whack
at a rival always comes back with
I q J>ounoa r,oraIi1ac tho Apoorican
Cultivator. even if the other fellow
does nothing.
The Paraguayans are not buying
our farm tools and machines very
briskly at present, and there's a rea-
son for it. Hardly anything in the
shape of cultivated land Is to be
found in Paraguay" writes our con-
sui at Asuncion. 1.-THE bulk of the
country's products come from scat
tered patches Of land where from
seed time to harvest everything is
left to nature. The use of nipple
ments is slowly making Roadway, and
at some future time Paraguay will
be good customer for American
agricultural machinery"
DR.. J. H. Clarke, writing in London
Chronicle, says: l hold to the maxim
die and let die" If any one chooses
the fresh-air method of departing this
life by all means let him take it,
but let him respect the right of 9TH
er people to choose their own meth
cd for themselves. Fresh air has
its victims no less than foul. The
tubercle bacillus does not enjoy fresh
air, it is true, but there are plenty
of other bacilli which rejoice in it.
II consumptives thrive out of the
doors, the subjects Of bronchitis are
generally only safe when they stay
in.
Fifty years ago General Sam Hous-
ton of Texas introduced in the senate
a resolution directing the committee
on foreign relations to inquire and
report as to the expediency of the
government of the United States de-
claring and maintaining and efficient
protectorate over the States of Mex
leo. Nicaragua, Costa Rica, Guatemala.
Honduras and San Salvador. in such
form and to such an extent as shall
be necessary to secure to the people
of said States the blessings OF good
and stable republican government"
The senate laid this resolution on
the table.
Every native-born American inner
its an intuitive knowledge of real
pumpkin pie. He cannot escape the !
exercise of this mysterious faculty
IL he would. 1t is bound up in the /
very roots of his being, along with
love of home and mother, muses. the /
Washington Post. If the coal trust. |
the ice trust, the oil trust and all
the other trusts are wise, they will! /
see that there IS no pumplCin-pie /
trust. The public is a patient ass.
and will bear many a burden. But
there is a limit that cannot be I
passed.
The marked tendency toward an in /
crease in the wages of labor is the /
most satisfactory and encouraging /