Tensas gazette. [volume] (St. Joseph, La.) 1886-current, 1908-05-01

| une, by inventing a noiseless fire.
cracker and a noiseless hand organ.
As we understand 1t, defines the
New York Mail, the distinction be-
tween a suffragist and suffragette
is that the former maintains a wo-
mans right to smoke cigarettes and
the latter exercises 1t.
II Henry the Eighth's marginal
notes on the Institution Of Christian
Matrimony" prove to be genuine,
AYERS the Boston Transcript, the
book should go at once to the State
library Of South Dakota.
The New York tunnel system, as
| planned, looks to a facilitation of the
commerce of the world, remarks the
Boston Post. Let US hope it will
prove its promise.
Says the Chicago Tribune: There
has long been recognition OF the
principle that child labor should have
its own laws and should not be put
upon the same plane as that of
adults.
Chicago woman fell dead as she quit
talking. Well, she has nobody to
blame but herself, comments the At.
lanta Journal, when she takes such
chances.
That an automobile is not a car
rage and that cities and towns are
not liable for injuries sustained by
automobiles on roads not suitable for
such vehicles, but which are in con-
dition for carriages, says the Pitts
burg Dispatch, was the decision Of
the Supreme Judicial Court in Bos-
ton.
Not all anarchist murders could be
prevented, but most Of them could,
insists the Chicago Inter Ocean. The
way to deal with the anarchist is,
when possible, to strike him first.
The time to lock him up is when he
: begins to advise killing instead of
waiting until he has lashed himself
or others to the deed.
A Havana policeman went out the
other morning and suppressed the
new revolution, declares the Philadel-
/ IA t. t. 1xr I'D
however, to say that the wives of
/ six of the patriots had refused to
take in washing any longer and there
was nobody left to finance the cause
of liberty.
It is suggested. to the Chicago Trib
une, that an improvement in the
rural schools might have some effect
in stemming the tide toward the
cities. Much stress is laid also on
, the need of scientific education for
farmers to fit them properly for their
work. And as a solution of the trou-
blesome labor problem 1t is proposed
that colonies of immigrants of the
same nationalities be established
throughout the State.
Grandeur of character lies wholly
in force Of soul-that is in the force
of thought. moral principle and love;
and this may be found in the humb-
lest conditions Of life. A man brought
up to an obscure trade and hemmed
in by the wants of a growing family,
said Matthew Arnold, may, in his
narrow sphere, perceive more clear
ly, discriminate more keenly, weigh
evidence more wisely, seize on the
right means more decisively, and have
more presence of mind in difficulty,
than another who has accumulated
vast stores of knowledge by laborious
study; and he has more Of intellectual
greatness.
The advocates of pooling, by the rail-
ways, argues the Pittsburg Dispatch,
have tried to make it appear that the
only way 30 escape rebates and IA.
voritism was to stifie competition by
means of pools, notwithstanding the
fact that the most successful pools
were those which united in enforcing
determinations. But the supporters
of honest and impartial rates easily
showed why the rebate is not 'neces
sary to secure traffic which shippers
would move otherwise"
The projected reservoirs on the
Ohio headwaters would take 100000,
100000 gallons out OF the foods. This
would. by letting it out through gates
give the Ohio IL feet of water through
the dry season clear to Pittsburg
Low water is as durable as food
Cure the one and you cure the other
And in damming back this water
the government would create more
power on the Moncngahela and Great
Kanawha alone than is to be got out
of Niagara without spelling the falls
nearly 100000 horsepower, and cap
able of being raised to more than a
million. The business men Of the
great Ohio Valley, contends the Pitts
burg Press. should demand that Con
gress quit playing politics and dc
something for the material prosperity
of the country.