Tensas gazette. [volume] (St. Joseph, La.) 1886-current, 1908-02-28

The true critic, suggests Life, is one
who can appreciate something he
doesn't like.
Notes the Pittsburg Gazette Times:
Financial doctors disagree just like the
ordinary kind.
Meanwhile, observes the New York
Mail, the railroads of the country are
rumbling with the weight Of moving
crops.
Those Ohio thieves who stole lot
of burial shrouds which they mistook
for valuable wearing apparel, suggests
the Birmingham Age-Herald, are in
position to appreciate the lemon joke.
Says the Washington Post: A Chi
cago woman found a baby in a news
paper on the front porch the other
morning. But no woman is surprised
at anything she may see in the news
papers nowadays.
New York is not Puritan city, pro-
tests the New York World, but it is
an American city. The American Sum-
day is day of both rest and recrea-
ton. Ii Is day of religion, too. There
is no necessity conflict between these
IL the law is regarded as common
sense.
Many find 1t a nuisance to be forever
on their guard against diseases, germs,
ETC.. and some say, There's no sense
In all the fussing, people got on some
how before they ever heard of germs
or microbes" Yes, they did get on
Somehow. Somehow, asserts the New
York Journal, they got into the grave
on an average many years earlier than
they do now.
A tendency towards imitation is one
of the recognized characteristics of I'M
balanced minds, philosophers the
Boston Post. 1t is seen frequently in
the recurrence of peculiar forms of vio-
lent crime, whether murder or NAL
treatment. We say there is an "epi-
demic" of crime. and in certain sense
the expression is correct Weak or dis
ordered intellects "catch," the infection
and are stirred to do what others have
done.
Mosquito fever" malaria is to be
called henceforth, if the international
sanitary congress which has been meet
ing in Mexico City has its way, OBJ
serves the New York Mail. The
change is a good one, for it takes re-
sponsibility for the transmission Of
'chills and fever from the much
maligned night air and transfers it to
where 1t belongs-which is somewhere
in the proboscis OF the swamp mos
quito. The general popular identifica-
ton of the disease with the insect will
tend not only to dispel imaginary fears
but to enlist the masses in the work of
DISCRIMINATING the pest.
That the limit, IL there Is a limit, is
very far from being attained in water
speed no one can doubt. Upwards of
20 knots an hour has been attained by
automobile boats, and there is no rea-
son to doubt that a mile a minute is
possible on the water. This means, as
serts the New Haven Register, that the
express steamer which can safely ac-
complish speed equal to that of the
express train is a thing not impossible,
and not necessarily unsafe. For GER
tain purposes, it will also be desirable.
There will still be opportunity enough
for those who want to cross the ocean
for the sake of the trip to do SO. Per-
haps, also, they may be able to great
ly reduce the cost to themselves, by
sacrificing time.
The collection of automobile laws is
thoroughly typical of our state legisla-
ton In general, laments the New York
Evening Post Most of the statutes are
well meant. but the states have not
yet profited to great extent by each
others experiences. The greater part
of the differences are merely the re-
suit of chance Bills to secure uniform
fly in all but few provisions need
only get hearing to be passed in al
most any of the state legislatures 1t
Is not at all unlikely. in view of the
history Of other legislation, that the
mere drafting and introduction of the
Federal bill will help on the cause of |
uniform legislation, its clauses being |