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Tensas gazette. [volume] (St. Joseph, La.) 1886-current, 1908-01-17
GARDEN. FARM and CROpS
@lNM SUGGESTIONS W
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3. 1t warns the lower portions OF
| the SOIL
4. 1t hastens the decomposition OF
root and other organic matter.
8. 1t accelerates the disintegration
OF the minerals in the soil.
o. 1t causes more even distribution
or nutritious matters among these
parts of soil traversed by roots.
z. II improves the mechanical tex
ture of the soil.
g. 1t tends to prevent grasses from
running out.
9. 1t enables us to deepen the sur
face soil.
10. By removing excess Of water it
renders soil earlier in the spring.
IL. 1t greatly lessons the throwing
out Of grain in winter.
IL. 1t allows US to work sooner
after rains.
13. 1t keeps off the bad effects of
cold weather longer in the fall
IA. 1t prevents the formation of
acetic and other organic acids, which
induce the growth of sorrel and other
similar weeds.
10. 1t hastens the decay of vegetable
matter and the finer communion of
the earthly parts of the soil.
10. 1t prevents, in a great measure.
the evaporation of water and the con-
seQuent cooling of the soil.
IL. 1t admits fresh quantities of
water from rains, ETC., which are al
ways more or less imbued with the
fertilizing gases of the atmosphere, to
De deposited among the absorbent
parts of soil.
Is. 1t prevents the formation of so
hard a crust on the surface of the soil
as is customary on heavy lands.
Tensas gazette. [volume] (St. Joseph, La.) 1886-current, 1908-01-17

Actually, the only permanent effect
that has been accomplished by
century of improvement and inven-
tion in war paraphernalIa. asserts the
New York American. has been to
make 1t more expensive to fight.
Tensas gazette. [volume] (St. Joseph, La.) 1886-current, 1908-01-17
to cause the screw to revolye with

to cause the screw to revolye with
the handle.
In operation the tines are driven
into the meat to the proper distance,
and the handle is then turned to
cause the spiral screw to engage or
twist into the meat, giving a firm
and reliable connection between the
fork and the meat, and permitting
the removal Of the meat bodily with
out danger of spilling or detachment
of the meat from the fork, and to
remove the fork 1t is simply neces-
sary to release the screw by turning
the handle in the reverse direction.
Tensas gazette. [volume] (St. Joseph, La.) 1886-current, 1908-01-17

With the exception Of Britain and
America, there are no two countries
In which the mile 10 Of equal length.
Tensas gazette. [volume] (St. Joseph, La.) 1886-current, 1908-01-17
BRIDE CAUSED A STRIKE.

"The persistence of a bride in sat
isfyipx her curiosity and the super
stitt,u of Mexican miners" said q
Washington man with mining inter-
este n Mexico, caused in Mexico
VIII :. was perhaps one of the queerest
str'tes on record.
1T was at the Jesus Maria Annex
as silver mine in Sinaloa, not far
from the capital, Culiacan. The sup
eri~tendent of the mine is an Ameri-
can and he had just returned from
his wedding trip, his bride being an
American young woman.
"She was greatly interested In the
outside workings of the mines and
wanted to inspect the, underground
operations. There Is an old supersti-
ton among the native Me1can min
ers that II a woman enters q mine
where they are at work some dis
aster is sure to follow.
THE superintendent was aware CT
this feeling among the miners, Of
whom several hundred were at WORK
IN this mine under his charge, and
on the strength o. 1t he tried to in
duce his bride to forego her wish to
60 underground. She ridiculed the
superstition and insisted that she be
shown through the mine, and her
husband gave way and took her
down.
"As he feared, CONSERVATION seized
the miners as they saw the dreaded
intrusion, and as the word went round
among them they deserted the mine
like rats leaving sinking ship. For
three days they struck against going
back into 1t. and it was not until the
parish priest was induced to go
through all the shafts and tunnels
and sprinkle them with holy water
that they would venture to return to
their work. Post.
Tensas gazette. [volume] (St. Joseph, La.) 1886-current, 1908-01-17
A Remarkable Athlete.

A one-legged man who has won
championships ESPECIALLY In tennis)
In many parts of the world. He has
Tensas gazette. [volume] (St. Joseph, La.) 1886-current, 1908-01-17

Papers written with the ordinary
inks in use today will be illegible
q years hence. say chemists.
Tensas gazette. [volume] (St. Joseph, La.) 1886-current, 1908-01-17
FRANKNEss IN INVITATIONS.
HER SECRET.

Among curiosities which are mod
els of frankness is the following:
Lord and Lady Spencer request
the honor of - company at din
ner at half after six o'clock on -.
An answer Is particularly desired.
Nobody waited for after o'clock"
On many invitations the time was OF
course stated and "A polite answer
requested" or sometimes "A reply
would oblige," but the letters "R. g.
". p" we're hardly ever used at this
date, their first mention being In
1871, on the card of Lord and Lady
Kerry. Indeed till quite recently "An
answer will oblige," was the most
general formula, and 1t Is only In the
last thirty years that the French form
has been at all generally adopted In
this country.-Windso Magazine.
Tensas gazette. [volume] (St. Joseph, La.) 1886-current, 1908-01-17
LAWYER REAPs WORKS RE.
WARD.

Mary Grace Quackenbos, a New
York woman lawyer, has been re-
warded for her work In ferreting out
peonage camps In Louisiana and Sc
curing the release of several hundred
Italian subjects. She was promoted
from the position Of assistant TO the
District Attorney at New York to
special assistant to the Attorney-Gen-
eral.-Washington City News Item.
A POETS WIFE AS MILLINER.
Mrs Richard lie Gallienne, the
wife Of the well known writer, will
soon set up real hat shop in Paris.
It is sure to do well, for she herself
did not disdain to begin at the be-
ginning, working in Paris mod;ste's
atelier until she had acquired all
those y"beggarly elements" OF hat
making which 1t is so dangerous to
despise.-The Sketch.
SOCIETY WOMEN IN A FACTORY
The canning company has many
acres of tomatoes contracted for. but
the crop is late this year. SO many
persons here are interested in the
success of the canning factory that
the society women 60 each afternoon
and work. Last year the Dorcas
Club, the air society Of the Friends
Church, went to the grove in which
the factory Is situated in a body each
afternoon and worked, giving their
wages to the club treasury.-Amboy
correspondent Of the Indianapolis
News.
Tensas gazette. [volume] (St. Joseph, La.) 1886-current, 1908-01-17
We HONE a1a.
| @Z0-0ay 1Y1 :
FREcKLEs CAUSE OF SUICIDE.

FRECKLES CAUSE OF SUICIDE.
A southern girl killed herself the
other day because she heard some
one making fun of her freckles.
Poor, foolish little thing!
Id rather be as freckled as a tur-
Keys egg and have a good heart and
little common sense than to be a
perfect beauty without feeling or in.
telligence.
No. I'm not trying to be a moralist,
I'm trying to talk plain, common
sense; l never saw a beauty in my
life who was really happy, did you?
Just count them up on your fing.
ers, the real, raving beauties you
know, and see how many of them
you would change places with IL you
had a chance.
Wouldn't it be hateful to know that
people liked you not for what you
were but for what you looked like!
A woman who is admired for her
beautiful hair must feel like a con.
victed thief when that hair begins to
lose its color and gloss.
The most unlucky women in love
affairs the world has ever known
have been the beautiful woman. Not
a single great beauty that you can
remember was ever happily married.
And 1t seems to be almost impos-
sible for a beauty to keep her hus.
band in love with her.
There is a very good reason for
this. The sort of a man who falls in
love with a woman because she is
pretty will keep his eye for beauty
as long as he lives, and the next
woman who happens to look prettier
to him than his wife will be apt to
win him-for while.
Beauty lovers are a class apart.
just as musicians and actors and
painters are. They are cursed with
the artistic temperament, and woe be
to the woman whose happiness is held
in the hollow Of the hand Of a slave
to beauty.
! don't want my girl to grow up to
be SO ugly that people will gasp
when they look at her, but do hope
she want turn out to be a beauty.
Beauty costs too much to be a good
investment.
Now, II the poor little girl down in
Georgia who died the other day be-
cause, people laughed at her freckles
had only waited a while, freckles
might have come into fashion and
then she would have been the belle
of the county.
/ remember little girl who cried
herself asleep mere than once be-
cause her hair was red and the boys
in her class at school called her "che~.
~ top"
Now she's so afraid that her hair
will turn dark and lose some Of Its
red that she spends half of her time
at hair-dresser's getting her au-
burn locks treated to keep them au-
burn. Fashions change, beauty
fades, good health will sometimes
droop, but good sense and light
heart are the. best companions for
life. after all-Winifred Black In the
Tensas gazette. [volume] (St. Joseph, La.) 1886-current, 1908-01-17

J large bow OF velvet ribbon.
Muskrat, pony-skin and mole-dyed
squirrel skins are shown In bewild-
ering variety for motor and long
coats.
Stitched bands of cloth are used
to define seams on fur garments.
HER SECRET.
We occasionally meet a woman
whose old age is as beautiful as the
bloom of youth. We wonder how It
has come about-what her secret is.
Here are few of the reasons:-
She knew how to forget disagree
able things.
She kept her nerves well in hand
and inflicted them on no one.
She mastered the art Of saying
pleasant things.
= She did not expect too much from
her friends.
She made whatever work came to
her congenial.
She retained her illusions and did
1ot believe all the world wicked and
snkind.
She relieved the miserable and
sympathized with the sorrowful.
She never forgot that kind words
and a smile cost nothing, but are
priceless treasures to the discouraged.
She did unto others as she would
be done by. and now that old age has
come to her and there is a halo OF
white hair about her head she Is
loved and considered. That is the
secret Of long life and happy one.
New York Telegram.
DON'T SHEER AT "OLD MAIDS"
Never sheer, girls, at an unhappy
odd maid" Once she was very
likely just as sweet and young and
sunny-hearted as yourselves. But
she missed the road which may. per-
haps, lead you to a sweetheart and q
prospect Of married happiness.
OF course, she was wrong to turn
sour.
To brood over things that cannot
be helped is weakspirited. There
are many roses to be gathered in the
garden Of life over and beyond the
romance belonging to men and maids.
Success and happiness can be won
by any girl OF today, even IL nobody
comes to WOO. But neither is likely
to come to the girl who, when love
fails her, sits down to weep and wall
over a might-have-been marriage
New York Journal.
Tensas gazette. [volume] (St. Joseph, La.) 1886-current, 1908-01-17
Bricklayers' Mitt.

Now that base ball players have
taken to wearing sliding gloves and
Los Angeles herald., 1908-04-30
CONNECTICUT DELEGATION
WILL GO UNRESTRICTED
BY Associated Press.

BY Associated Press.
NEW HAVEN, Conn, April 29.-
Not many minutes were needed to dis
pose of the business of the Democratic
state convention today. Immediately
prior to the call to order the commit
tee on resolutions voted down q reso-
luton instructing the delegates for
w. J. Bryan.
Negroes for Foraker
Topeka, Kan, April 29.-The Afro
American league of Shawnee county,
claiming to represent 500 negroes. to-
night passed a resolution commencing
Senator Foraker of Ohio and condemn
ing Secretary Taft and President
Roosevelt for their stand on the
Brownsville episode.
Los Angeles herald., 1908-04-30
TROUBLE BREWING
BETWEEN BOARDS
CIVIL SERVICE COMMISSION
MAY ACT
Library Management's Maintenance
and Operation Worry Chairman
EdeIman's Colleagues, Hence
Threatened HostiIities

Another serious clash between the
public library board and the civil SER
vice commission is nearly due.
Remarks by the commissioners at
their last meeting contributed evil
dence of breakers ahead.
DR.. John r. Hynes says he favors
holding up all payrolls of the public
library and bringing matters to an
issue.
Several members of the commission
have, it is stated, received letters tell
ing them that the library maintains too
large a force, that attendants are in
each others way. with nothing to do,
and that the cost is out of proportion
to that of other departments Of the city
government.
Chairman d. w. Edelman said he
knew that conditions were peculiar In
the library, but he failed to see what
the commission could do. AS he under
stood the laws, they were being obeyed
and though he believed there was need
and cause for reforms he thought the
commissions hands were tied at least
until the charter was amended.
1t is probable a conference will be
held with the city attorney and city
auditor to see If common ground can
not be arrived at, so that the depart
ments will harmonize.
Los Angeles herald., 1908-04-30
ASSOCIATED CHARITIES HAS
A ROMANTIC LOVE AFFAIR
One of Society's Officers Tells of
Weddings Brought About in Dis
pensing Ald--Wills Also
Handled

One of the most interesting incidents
which came up at the Associated char
tiles recently was wedding.
Mrs. Mary Finajara, an Italian wo-
man, was the bride, and Marcello Cas-
sabilla, also an italian, was the groom.
The bride was widow with three
children. During the hard times she
often came to Miss Carver of the As
ISOLATED charities for advice, and since
the society's officers found Mrs. Fina-
lara perfectly honest and industrious
they became interested in her.
One day Mrs. Finajara asked Miss
Carver most interesting question.
The result was that Miss Carver adj
vised her, upon investigating the huS-
band-elect, that the two get married.
Oddly enough, the husband, who
works at a hope, wanted to wait until
he had earned more money, so that
they could be dressed more suitably
for the wedding.
But his objections were overcome
easily enough, and he was ready soon
to be married at the office of the So
ciety which had SO befriended his
bride-to-be.
The Rev. w. G. Searles of the Con-
gregational church performed the cere-
mony. The bride and groom are living
in the southeast portion of town, and
are saving enough money to buy them
a home.
"This worthy woman is but one of
many widows whom we have be-
friended as a society,"" explained Miss
Carver; land we have persuaded many
old women. alone in this world with
but a sister, possibly, to draw up wills
and deposit them with us. Then there
was no confusion when their death
came. Everything was left to that one
dear relative whom they really wished
to befriend, instead Of having a legal
wrangle."
Los Angeles herald., 1908-04-30
Ruskin Art Club

The annual business meeting of the
Ruslxin Art club was held yesterday
in the clubrooms in the Blanchard
building, and the following board OF
directors chosen to serve for the year
of 1908: Mesdames 1. B. Hibbard,
w. S. Taylor, w. j. Hendricks, Frank
Long, C. E. Day, Robert j. Chambers,
G. L. Hutchinson, ]. w. Saunders,
Miss Wadleigh. Miss Frances Clarke
and Miss Victoria Wilmer. Officers
will be chosen from this list.
Although no definite action was
taken as to the line of work that will
occupy the club next year, a sugges-
tion that the program be of radically
different nature from any of previous
years met with favorable reception.
The program that is being considered
will devote the first half of the year
to the study of some form of literature,
beginning, perhaps, with the sagas of
the Norsemen and the myths and
legends of the Vikings, and beginning
with these and following the fascinat-
ing thread of folklore among the ma
tions as widely as time will permit.
The second half of the year. if the
plan outlined yesterday is followed,
will treat of the home and will include
the study of the arts and crafts that
go toward it's architecture and fur
niShingS.
Los Angeles herald., 1908-04-30
SMALL PARKS ARE
WHITE ELEPHANTS

Several councilmen have received in
timations that an unusually large crop
of small parks will be added to the
park list if certain individuals, syndt-
Gates and improvement organizations
carry out their plans. The idea Is to
present" them to the city.
Several of the councilmen say they
are skittish about these small parks,
squares or circles as they are named.
They have in many cases proven to
be white elephants, costly, but little
used, and drawing much needed
money from the large and generously
patroniZed parks.
The park commissioners have used
up many thousands of dollars this
year in paying for street improvements
alongside these smaller parks, which
work was partly assessed to the city
treasury.
Councilman r. w. Dromgold of the
finance committee has set his foot
down, temporarily at least, on appro-
priating money for these small strips
or receiving them as gifts from indi-
viduals, as it carries too many extra
expenses for an overburdened treas
ury, he says. Therefore there will be
no acceptances of parks" till after
July,
Los Angeles herald., 1908-04-30
ALABAMA REPUBLICANS
REJECT FEDERAL CONTROL
BY Associated Press.

BY Associated Press.
BIRMINGHAM, Ala, April 29.-The
Alabama Republican state convention
of the nti-administration faction of
the party was held in Birmingham to-
day with practically every county rep
resented.
The surprise of the convention was
the affiliation of National Committee
man Charles H. Scott with this faction
of the party. Mr.. Scott was elected
permanent chairman of the convention
and made a ringing speech, calling
for IAN Independent Republican party
in Alabama, untrammeled by the in
fiuences of federal officeholders."
The sessions appeared to be harmoni-
GUS, the only ripple being created when
there was an attempt on the part of
the negro delegates to make III. V.
Cashin, one of the best known negroes
in the state, temporary chairman. The
colored delegates, however. were given
places on all of the committees.
Candidates for all states offices to be
filled at the November election were
named. Four delegates-at-large to the
national convention at Chicago were
chosen, as follows: Judge Asa e.
Stratton. Charles d. Alexander, w. r.
Pettiford (colored), Major Charles j.
Allison.
The report of the resolutions COM
mittee was modified considerably. AS
adopted, 1t indorses the national ad-
ministration; is entirely non-committal
as to candidates for the presidential
nomination, and takes a pronounced
stand against the anti-corporation ac-
tivity of the Democratic party in Ala
bama.
The administration wing of the par
ty, headed by ]. o. Thompson of Bir-
mingham, will hold it's convention in
Birmingham next Wednesday.
Los Angeles herald., 1908-04-30
: >Wornen's Clubs

4 DELIGHTFUL program was
IA furnished to members of the
"a Cosmos club yesterday afternoon
by Mrs. Emma Greendeaf, who spoke
entertainingly of Brave Little Eiol-
land"
Plans were shown for the new club
house at Venice that Abbot Kinney Is
erecting for the Cosmos club, and both
the elevation and floor plans were en-
Enthusiastically approved. Building Will
begin at once and it is expected that
the housewarming will take place
about July /. The structure is to be
bungalow with mission front, the
estimated cost of which is about $4,000.
The building, which will face the canal,
will consist of one large room 30x35
with buffet, kitchen, lockers, etc. The
furnishings are to be provided by the
club and will probably be provided by
donation of individual members.
AS this was the fifth Wednesday in
the month, 1t was observed as social
day and the serving of tea and an in
formal half hour followed the pro-
gram.
The card matinee which the Cosmos
club is giving Saturday in the interest
of the George, jr. Republic promises to
be one of the delightful social events
of the season and will probably be at
tended by several hundred women.
There will be tables of bridge In
the reception room under the direction
of Mrs. Charles w. Stansbury whist
in the tea room nder the direction of
Mrs. S. l.. Groder and "500'' in the
auditorium with Mrs. w. H. Wheeler
in charge. Arrangements are in the
hands of the civic committee of the
Cosmos club, Mesdames J. G. Mclean,
S. L. Grover, M. M. Merry, w. o.
Toliver, assisted by Mrs. A. J. Bledsoe,
who managed the very successful card
matinee given by the Cosmos last sea-
son. Tickets are on sale by different
members.
A reception will be given at the home
of Mrs Sullivan at 676 Coronado street
the afternoon of May in compliment
to the retiring president, Mrs. G. w.
Jordan.
The regular program for the next
meeting will be under the direction OF
the Shakespeare section, which will
present "Othello." Mrs. r. H. Howell,
the recently elected president, has de-
cided that the last meeting of the year,
which falls upon May 27, shall beathe
occasion for club luncheon.
Los Angeles herald., 1908-04-30
TWO EVILS MENACE,
ASSERTS JOHNSON
GENERALIZATION OF POWER
AND OF BUSINESS BAD
Governor of Minnesota Delivers Leo
ture at Detroit In Which He
Denounces Wrongs of
Present

By Associated Press.
DETROIT. Mich, April 29.-Two
evils menace America today, said Gov
ernor John A. Johnson of Minnesota,
in lecture tonight on 1.-THE Majesty
of the Law before the alumni associ-
alton of the Western high school. They
are, he said, the Capitalization of pow
er In the federal government and the
Capitalization of business power in the
hands of a few men.
Executives; too, are frequently gov
erned by expediency." he said. "Ex-
pediency is always fraught with dan
ger. The political organization which
disregards expediency and sticks to a
principle is the one which accomplishes
results. America has become a great
world power. Her progress has been
phenomenal. 1t has brought system
of Capitalization of power. Instead or
a government by the people and for
the people, it seems to becoming gov
ernment by people and for people who
have been enfranchised by people to do
a quasi public business.
"Some things have happened in the
last few years which seem to indicate
that a few men are trying to. control
everything. We nave now IN l Inls
country an oligarchy of business. The
men who are responsible are making
a mistake. And 1 think they will be
called to account soon. There is
demand from certain people that there
be more Capitalization of government
in Washington in order that we may
become a great world power.
"rhere are two evils which menace
America today. They are the central"
ization of federal and business powers,
The fathers came to this country to
create for themselves and their poster
ity a new government. They gathered
from the various states in the conti-
mental congress and adopted the
Declaration of Independence. And now
we are told the Declaration of Inde-
pendence has no particular force or
effect and that the constitution is a
flexible document so that we may be-
come a great world power. cannot
make myself believe that they have
quit becoming living, breathing forces"
Los Angeles herald., 1908-04-30
WILL BE TAKEN TO OLD
HOME TO FACE A TRIAL

At the session of the federal district
court next Friday Judge Wellborn
will make out an order for the removal
of Fred Lubbe to Indiana for trial on
the charge of embezzling from the Ma
tional bank of Dillsboro, Ind, of
which institution he was cashier.
Lubbe, who went by the name of
williams. was captured in Los Angeles
by the city authorities, on an indict-
ment of the Indiana state courts and
also on an Indictment of the United
States courts.
Yesterday he was handed over by the
city police to United States Marshal
Leo Youngsworth. and waived exam
nation. AS Lubbe is willing to be
tried in Indiana, the order for his re-
moval will be made out Friday, when
the federal courts are convened again