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The Natchitoches enterprise., 1908-11-26
NOTICE.

U S Land Office at Natchitoches, La !
November Goth, 1908, {
Notice is hereby given that Payton
DewhSrt, of Victoria, La who on
Sept 1st, 1903, made H. E. No.
1916, No. 014O. for Sc! SW4 and ST
SW4, section II, township 3, north,
range west, La. MERIDIAN, has filed
notice Of intention to make Final Five
Year Proof to establish claim to the
Iand above described, before Register
and Receiver, at Natchitoches, La, on
the 9TH day of January, 1909
Claimant names as witnesses
f. T. Ristor, W. Elkins, r. Jones, r
B. Harvey, all of Victoria, la.
J. ERNEST BREDA,
Nov. 26.-6t. Register.
NOTICE.
U. S. Land Office at Natchitoces, La. |
November 10, 1903. {
Notice is hereby given that Guss P
Russell, of Derry, La, who on Octo-
Der 18th, 1908, made Timber and Stone
application No. 0209, for NW4 NW4,
section 6, township 6, north, range
6, La. Meridian. has filed notice of in
tention to make Final Timber and
Stone Proof. to establish claim to the
land above described, before Regis
ter and Receiver, at Natchitoches,
La, on The 10th day of Feb, 1909
Claimant names as witnesses:
N. Kerryr B. Bennett, J. II. Rus
sell, ID. Barnes, all of Derry, La
J. ERNEST BREDA,
Nov &c. Register,
The Natchitoches enterprise., 1908-11-26
STOCKHOLDERS NOTICE.

The animal meeting of the Stock
holders Of the Crystal Ice and Laun-
dry Co, will be held at the Office Of
the company in Natchitoches, La,
Monday, December 18th, 1908, at five
O'Clock p. M, for the purpose of elect
ing officers and directors for the en-
suing year, and to transact such 9TH
er business as may come before the
meeting.
S. II. HILL,
Secretary and Treasurer.
The Natchitoches enterprise., 1908-11-26
nov. lo-tds
NOTICE

The following unsold sixteen sec
tion Of school lands in the parish of
Natchitoches, will be offered for lease
to the highest bidder for the year
1909, at the Parish Treasurer's Office
in said parish on
Tensas gazette. [volume] (St. Joseph, La.) 1886-current, 1908-06-05
Water BRINGS Wealth.

Talk about the romance of engi.
neering. Here are hundreds of thous-
ands OF square miles formerly the de-
SPAR and terror of government and
farmer alike, magically struck" as
Moses struck the rock, and forthwith
turned into smiling fields of grain
and far-stretching stock farms, ca
pable of raising rams worth $4,000
each, writes William George in the
Technical World Magazine.
Truly the dead heart" OF Austrail-
la is being slowly quichened into life
by the water wizards derrick and his
boring pipes. that are miles deep. A
wonderful victory Of mind over mat.
ter, such as enables the commonwealth
OF Australia to produce fine wool
alone worth nearly sSO,O00,OOO a year,
People have wondered why an isl.
and continent with nearly 1900, 900
square miles of territory-nearly q.
OOO,OCO,OO0 acres-could never mus.
ter more people than New York city.
A mere coastal fringe of humanity
at that, running inland here and
there after gold in burning wilder
ness only made endurable at all by
imported camels from India. The pas.
toralists used to look longingly at
vast tracts covered with rich lush
grasses six feet high and clearly DOS
sessed of splendid stock fattening
qualities.
Alas, such lands were a delusior
and a snare. For a month or two lat
or the fertility vanished as though
1t had been a desert mirage. and the
very kangarooS. wallabys, lizards and
birds covered the country with their
dead bodies for hundreds of miles.
The usual terrible drought had set
in, which has ruined even the most
skilful and resourceful stock farmers
the world ever saw.
Tensas gazette. [volume] (St. Joseph, La.) 1886-current, 1908-06-05
Put Out Of Commission.

Abernethy was supposed to infiu-
ence people by a brusqueness amount
ing to absolute rudeness. II Is re-
lated that one day very voluble lady
took her daughter, who was i'll, to see
him.
Which OF ycu two wants to con-
suit me?" said Abernethy.
MY daughter" replied the elder
woman.
Abernethy then put a question to
the girl Before she had a chance to
reply her mother began long story.
Abernethy told her to be quiet, and
repeated his question to the girl. A
second time the woman began a story
and a second time he told her to be
quiet-:hen she interrupted him a
third time.
Put your tongue out" he said to
the mother
But there's nothing the matter
with me-" she exclaimed.
Never mind, put your tongue out"
he commanded.
Thoroughly overawed, the woman
obeyed.
Now keep it out" said Abernethy,
and he proceeded to examine the
girl.-Grand Magazine.
Tensas gazette. [volume] (St. Joseph, La.) 1886-current, 1908-06-05
To Fish From Motor Car Sleigh.

Three years ago Capt. Halgren con-
ce;yed the idea of a sleigh run by an
engine and propelled by a spiked
wheel which caught in the ice. He
built several sleighs, but did not sue
coed in getting one that operated sat
isfactorily. This season he took his
sleigh to a gas engine works and had
a two horsepower gasoline engine
built with a pair of friction clutches,
to operate on the same plan as an
automobile, with spiked wheel which
was fitted so that it would rise or
fall when going over rough ice or
snow.
The sleigh is common fishermans
sleigh. with the engine attachment,
but it has been run at a speed ranging
from ten to fifteen miles an hour with
perfect ease. The sleight will be
used this winter for fishing at Pesh-
tigo Harbor and the captain expects
to be able to make the distance be-
tween this city and Peshtigo Harbcr
in about cne-fourth of the time taken
by the old sail sleighs under the
best of onditions.-Marinette CORE
spcndence Milwaukee Sentinel.
Tensas gazette. [volume] (St. Joseph, La.) 1886-current, 1908-06-05
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THE ENDLESS CHAIN.

THE ENDLESS CHAIN.
"Such a little lie!" said Johnny, "and
so white,"
So he told it without fear
Though he felt little queer,
And things seemed to go quite pleas
antly and right.
But the next day came another Lie
to call.
"You may need me very soon!"
$50 he did, that very noon).
And this second Lie was gray-not
white at all.
Pretty soon a third Lie came to join
the two.
you must use ne before long,"
(Johnny felt the need was strong).
But this lie was black-as black as
Johnny's shoe.
After that they came in crowds to
Johnny's door.
And he had to tell them al,
While the first Lie, white and
small.
Sat and grinned-he'd worked the
trick so oft before,
Priscilla Leonard, in Morning Star.
Tensas gazette. [volume] (St. Joseph, La.) 1886-current, 1908-06-05
The March Of the Weevil

DR.. L. o. Howard says that the Mex
lean boll-weevil. which causes the loss
of millions of dollars in cotton every
year. and which first crossed the Rio
Grande about 1894. is still advancing,
having now reached Arkansas and Ok
lahoma on the north and the Missis-
sisippi valley on the east. 1t has
shown itself extraordinarily adapta-
BILE to changes of soil. temperature
and moisture. At present, Doctor
Howard says. il seems that the further
spread of the insect cannot be stopped
but as soon as the conservative meth
DDS of the cotton-growers shall be
changed. and the advice which ento-
biological experts have been giving
for years past followed out in prac-
tice. the boll-weevil will cease to
be a pest of the first rank. and the
cultivation OF cotton can be carried
on almost as successfully in its pres.
ence as 1t was in its absence"
Tensas gazette. [volume] (St. Joseph, La.) 1886-current, 1908-06-05
She GOT THE TITLE JUST THE
SAME.

There was a maiden. heiress to
Ten millions cash or more,
Who planned a noble marriage ere
She dotted her pinafOre
Her papa made his golden pile
In patent pills of fame, -. go.
And talked about II, put she SoI
A title just the same.
She sailed across the ocean blue
To hun. her quarry down,
And caught a dissipated earl
In smoky London town.
The Teek of many scandal huhS
Around his ancient name;
He drank and gambled-but she got
The title just the same.
The wedding was magnificent.
A bishop tied the knot;
Her doting father gave to her
gold mine for a dot. -
She found the bridegroom's castle prouu'
When to its gates she came
A roofiess ruin. bit she got
The title just the same.
Though she was pretty. young and gay
He married her for gold.
And grew to hate her long before
The honeymoon was Old
He blackened both her lovely eyes,
And beat her-Oh, the shame!
And spent her mOney-but she got
The title just the same.
She fed in tears across the sea,
Returning home OF course
TO air her marital woes in court
Applying for divorce:
The story set the public prints
With ridicule afiame:
Her life was blighted-but she got
The title just the same.
-Minna Irving, in Leslie's Weekly.
Tensas gazette. [volume] (St. Joseph, La.) 1886-current, 1908-06-05
Tire Fixtures.

A New York commercial traveller
says that before old Georgia went
dry" he was one day in saloon in
that State when a man entered, nod
ded to the owner Of the place. who
was also the bartender, seated himself
and meditated.
Presently he addressed the owner Of
the saloon.
Reckon yo' wanter sell out, Bill?'
For some ten minutes Bill con-
tinued his occupation OF filling pint
TASKS from a jug. Then he looked
UP.
"Mout," he admitted.
How much-cash?" the other In
quired.
Bill filed another dozen TASKS.
How much you give for the whole
shebang-buildin', stock, good will.
an all?" he inquired cautiously.
What about the fixtures?' Bill
asked.
"Oh, they go along with the rest
Of the outfit" Bill assured him; 10
teen colonies, ten judges, nine majors.
an right smart sprinklin' of boss
doctors. Harper Weekly.
Tensas gazette. [volume] (St. Joseph, La.) 1886-current, 1908-06-05

part of our criminal popuIatpn.
Doubtless this belief has arisen from
the spectacular display with which
certain bands of organized alien GRIM
inals surround their work, for tee
facts are less alarming when consid-
cred in the light of additional infor-
nation. On June 80, 1904, the date to
which a census of the prison popula-
ton OF the United States was COM
pilel as a supplement to the last CON-
plete census Of the country, the per-
sons regarded as inmates of prisons
numbered S1,772. OF this number only
1896, or 1873 per cent. OF the whole,
were of foreign birth, while the for
eign born percentage of total popula-
ton vas 1875.
That there is an increasing ten
dency to crime among aliens, in this
State at least, was pointed out by
Commodore A. V. Wadhams, Of thu
State Board of Parole, who stated at
a recent meeting of the National Lib
eral immigration League that in 1915
they formed SO per cent. OF the prison
population of the State, having in
creased by about Is per cent. sincs
1900. Within the past year there has
been a further increase TO 4S per
cent.
To formulate anything more than
an approximate estimate OF the cost
of crime to the country at large
would, of course. be a task almost i'm.
possible OF accomplishment, for the
reason that in country districts rec
ords are much more imperfectly kept.
while the proportionate cost OF crime
is undoubtedly higher. The cost OF
crime included in taxation in New
York City is about Sc per capita OF
population, the highest in the country.
In San Francisco it is estimated at
about S., and other cities from "a TO
$3.50.
II 10 probably well within the limits
OF safety to say that the total direct
cost OF crime to the country at largo
is about $500, OOO,OO0 or $700,000,0Oo
annually. Criminal losses by fire last
year totahed about s1OO,OOO,O00. while
theAcss CT wages Of some 100000 pris-
eners in State, city and county jails
and prisons amounted to something
over $4,000, 900. There are at the
presen time about 100000 criminals
confined in the State prisons OF the
couAtry, and IL Is estimated that from
Ave TO ten times as many more arc
successful in eludAg the law. From
statistics presented to the Prison AS
ISOLATION of New York some years ago
it has been aecertained that persons
who follow crime as a business rea-
lie from spoliation of the
public $500 each per annum. When
it is considered that the receivers OF
stolen goods get the lions share OF
the profit, some idea is obtained OF
how great the cost to the community
really is.-New York World.
Tensas gazette. [volume] (St. Joseph, La.) 1886-current, 1908-06-05
Sweeping Defy.

DR.. Allan McLane Hamilton, allen.
ist, who is home from Europe, says
the people Of this country have no
idea OF the widespread lack of conf
dencc the Old World has in this more
or less happy lard. Well, who in
thunder cares what they think about
us and ours? Were 1t not for this
country thousands of people in the
old country would die OF starvation
daily. Europe cannot raise crop Of
peanuts without American ploughs;
and they would not have a shirt to
their backs without American cotton,
while half OF them would go bare
footed but for American shoes. And
IL the impudent Holsters think we
won't fight they had better try US.
America can turn all Europe hatless,
coatless, shirtless, barefooted a1d
barelegged in six months, while starv-
Ing them to death; and 1t would not
take US many months to whale the
daylights out OF them just to restore
confdence.-Eldorado (Kan.) Repub.
Ecan. sl~,
Tensas gazette. [volume] (St. Joseph, La.) 1886-current, 1908-06-05
Germany in Asia.

The chief obstacle in Asiatic rail-
way expansion, as related to Europe
an powers, is not so much financial
as political. Germany's aspiration to
find an outlet to the East, indepen-
dent of the trans-siberian and also
independent Of the Suez canal route
which Great Britain controls. has,
however, found no insuperable OBJ.
stacles in obtaining concessions for
the Bagdad route. By this line Con-
stantinople will be connected with
the head CT the Persian gulf by way
of the Tigris-Euphrates valley. This
will give Berlin a line OF between
$500 and 5000 miles in length to
the Asiatic seaboard, making the
shortest European approach to the
Indian ocean.
1t is to this phase OF development
that ST. Petersburg really objected,
because it Is part of the line by
which Germany and Austria may not
only reach the Mediterranean direct
ly. but also get to Asia with pro-
ducts more expeditiously than by any
other route. This fast also explains
the persistence of Germany as a
maritime power on the Pacific coast
Of Asia, because the steamship lines
that skirt the coasts of Siberia. Japan,
China and India can be easily con-
nected with the Bagdad railway
encircle Asia on two sides with
strongly intrenched transportation
routes.-Wall Street Journal.
Tensas gazette. [volume] (St. Joseph, La.) 1886-current, 1908-06-05
How Fast Wind Travels.

Most people at some time or other
have used the expression went Ike
the wind" wishing to convey the idea
OF extraordinary velocity.
Coming down to actual figures, how.
ever. the wind is not such speedy
traveller after all. The month OF
March more than any other In the
year has a windy record. so the ng.
ures supplied by the local weather
bureau station for the month just
ended will do to illustrate the fallacy
Of the expression.
From the first to the thirty-frst the
wind movement as registered at the
top OF the Federal Building was 1896
mics. or an average OF 27S miles
day for thirty days. Here is an
average of only liz miles an hour.
a speed which even a slow moving
freight steamer approaches.-Bostoa
Transcript.
Tensas gazette. [volume] (St. Joseph, La.) 1886-current, 1908-06-05

was far in, and as yet not sihsie
man or boy had come out.
They are overpowered b. the al
ter-damp." said the officers.
All the lights moved one behind the
ether. In pit roads you can oaly go
Indian file fashion. Odicial knowledge
is very valuable when it is combine
with stupendous courage. The conf
bination helped the rescue party to
avoid death themselves and bring life
to others.
In spite of fire and poison and
wholesale wTeckage CT horses, trans,
doors, timber and roof, they found,
first, a dozen men and boys in
peaceful group, lying in the dust gent
ly sleeping, and their lamps burning
most brightly among them. All the
sleepers were taken home.
Then they found five or six more.
They came across two brothers locked
in each others arms on the ground. as
if they preferred to die that way. They
did not die. A small boy was found
in another road entirely alone, and
his face and hands were astonishingly
clean. 1t was his first day in the pit,
and the youngster had lost his way.
His drinking tin was in his hands He
seemed to have used what was in it
to battle his burning cheeks. He was
carried out to sunshine and life.
The explorers found everybody but
Mogg in that district, and they were
puzzled.
rs he buried under this fall?" they
asl0d, and all the lights flashed on the
heap of stones and broken timber
which few hours ago Mogg himself
had so leisurely inspected. Just before
they had looked through a doorway.
The road behind was full of fire, and
they hoped he was not down there.
The important point was that all the
other people working in that district,
by running OFT, had plunged straight
into the gas, ard their salvation was
were accounted for-except Mogg.
What has happened to him? Where
is he?" they asked.
They tried to wriggle through the
| broken timber so as to get right down
in Mogg's working place. They were
baffied in that, but they climbed up
over the stones and into the black
hole above to get through.
AS soon as the first man got to the
| top he saw down the long road tran
gull light hanging at post. They all
ran down to it. They saw Mogg calm
ly putting the finishing touches to tho
tram he was filling. The face-slip
that had kept him so busy was out on
the bottom coal in a broken tumble.
He looked up at all the lights as IL
| he were not expecting visitors that
| day.
What are you thinking about?"
they gasped. Didn't you hear the
| explosion"
Mogg did not answer, because he
did not know they had spoken. Then
they remembered that poor old Mogg
was stone deaf.
To his amazement they hauled him
out without giving him time to finish
his dram" or even put on his shirt.
1T was just as WELL" they said af-
terward. IF he had heard the 9TH
ers shouting to him he would have
run into the gas with them and by
stopping there in the fresh he's only
without a scratch on him."-Londou
Daily Mail
Tensas gazette. [volume] (St. Joseph, La.) 1886-current, 1908-06-05

at the first move or the s;deboard
William rushed at her, his tail erect,
his eyes glaring, she gave way in
fright and let him pass.
Upstairs to the children's room
few William, with Duke, Mr.. Jones.
Mrs. Jones, the cook and the broom
all at his heels. They plainly saw
him run into the room, but when they
got there he was nowhere to be seen.
They locked under the beds and I'M
der the bureau, the children even woke
up and helped hunt. After a while
they found him outside the window,
on the windowsill. Hold him, Duke"
said Mr.. Jones to the cook, as he
caught William and carried him down
to the back yard. There" he said to
the assembled company when he came
upstairs again, II think that cat has
caused trouble enough for one day.
i guess he won't come back here
again in hurry"
But he was wrong, for while they
were all upstairs William went
back to the kitchen and stole the fish.
Washington Star.
Tensas gazette. [volume] (St. Joseph, La.) 1886-current, 1908-06-05
The Maiden's Prayer.

Walter Damrosch tells OF a matroh
in Chicago who, In company with NET
young nephew, was attending musF
cal entertainment.
The selections were apparently en-
tirely unfamiliar to the youth; Du'
when the Wedding March oil men
delssohn was begun he began "
evin'ce more interest.
That sounds familiar" ne saia.
I'm not strong on these classics'
pieces. but that's good one. "nA'
Is it,"
That" gravely explained the mf
tron, lis the 'Maiden's Prayer. -fA
per's Weekly.
Tensas gazette. [volume] (St. Joseph, La.) 1886-current, 1908-06-05
Color Cure.

Experiments have been made iiVl.
time to time to test the effects -
color on the sick, especially on tnoss
suffering from nervous affections ana
mental disorders. In an institution
OF Alexandria, where the rooms nav
been fitted up with colored glass "
is found that In a blue chamber .
restless person has been Gained; y
a red chamber a person sunerins
from melanchoIia, with a tendency
to suicide, has become gay. and N
a violet chamber q maniac has ~
come sane.-Paris- Figaro,
Tensas gazette. [volume] (St. Joseph, La.) 1886-current, 1908-06-05
FEEDING THE SEA TURTLES.

Twice a week the sea turtles a.
the aquarium get meal OF lettuce
and cabbage. In one pool here there
are eight sea turtles, including hawks
bills, green turtles and loggerheads,
the biggest of them all being green
turtle about five feet in length and
weighing about 300 pounds, turtle
big enough to make soup for regi-
ment. The other turtles range from
two and a half to three and a half
feet.
Some of these turtles came from
the Atlantic. some from the Pacific
Ocean and any Of them would be quite
at home in the open sea, and IL might
seem that such land vegetables as let
tuce and cabbage would be food quite
foreign to them. But as matter OF
fact all these turtles in nature eat
more or less marine vegetation, as sea
grasses, which they get when they
go iashore or which, torn adrift by
tides and storms, they may find float
ing on the ocean. and they all take
very kindly to the lettuce and cab
bage here, which may indeed taste
better to them than any green thing
ever ate before.
When the lettuce and cabbage
leaves are scattered in their pool the
turtles all go for them-the big green
turtle from the Caribbean and the
hawsh.ll from the China seas and all
the rest. They swing around in the
water in pursuit Of it, and open their
mouths wide and take in this grean
land stuff to the last leaf.
Where they came from these turtles
ate various crustaceans, snails and
other things which they found on the
shores Of the sea and in shallower
waters. Here for flesh food they get
cut-up fresh codfish.-New York Sun.
Tensas gazette. [volume] (St. Joseph, La.) 1886-current, 1908-06-05
His Only Chance.

Anxious Mother-Oh. professor
don't you think my dear little Reginald
will ever learn to draw?
Prof Crayon-No. madam: not un.
less you harness him up TO z truck
Comic Cuts.
Tensas gazette. [volume] (St. Joseph, La.) 1886-current, 1908-06-05
Railway Bridge to Match HOUSE.

Before giving his consent the GreA'
Western Railway to build a rah"u
bridge across a part Of his properly
a landowner stipulated that It shouis
be constructed of stone which shoula
match that of which his house was
built, end ghcrld consist Of three
elilytical arches. The bridge wnie'
has been successfully completed az
spite the difficulty Of construction, y
the only one OF its kind In Enslaha'
perhaps in the world.-RsiIway hasS
zine.