Tensas gazette. [volume] (St. Joseph, La.) 1886-current, 1908-04-17

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According to the British Medical
Journal, lying is often caused by in
digestion. Then politics, suggests the
Rochester Post Express, must be the
most dyspeptic of occupations.
Philadelphia girls are being round
ly abused by the Inquirer for giggling
in street cars. New York girls aren't
guilty, notes the Louisville Courier
Journal, because there is never room
for giggiing.
Sympathy for the mature criminal
at least sympathy which takes the
direction of leniency in Furnishing or
actual acquittal-is, the New York
Globes believes, one of the chief OBJ
stacles in the way of effectively pro-
tecting society from professional law
breakers.
The tuberculosis fight must De
largely local fight, declares the Al
bany Argus, every community fighting
it with local institutions, every citi-
zen with individual effort, now and
here. That is the sort of fight that is
most effective, If We are to believe
the experts.
The selection of forty-one enIlsted
men of the Army for commissions as
second lieutenants shows the New
York Press that the door of every re-
cruiting Office is the door to an honor
able career for young Americans OF
good morals and sound physique.
Innumerable causes have been as
signed for the fall of such empires
as Greece and Rome. One of the la
est, observed by the Christian Regist-
er, is that blonde people cannot sur
vive long in the light and heat of
Southern countries.
President Roosevelt has done well,
thinks the Springfield Republican, to
urge that more ample provision be
made for members of the life-saving
service. Justice and humanity alike
call for the care of men in that dang
erous employ who may be injured in
the line of duty, and for their families
in case of death. The perils of the
service and the heroism of it are
well set forth by the President.
Says the Hartford Times: upon
the health promoting virtues of fresh
air too great emphasis cannot be laid.
No better prescription than fresh air
for a large number of classified all
ments is known to the medical profess
sion. II fresh air couldn't be had for
the asking or by opening the window
it would be appreciated great deal
more. There are many gospels and
the gospel of fresh air stands high
among them.
Congress has directed that all rev.
enues received from forest reserves
shall be turned into the Treasury,
which is a businesslike procedure. 1t
has given the Forest Service 100000
with which to develop the reserves
and execute a policy which will work
in the interest of all the people, as
serts the Washington Post. The Pres
ident has stoutly supported Forester
Pinchot in celebrating a policy which
will save the national forests to the
people, and the country generally, we
believe, will approve Of everything
that has been done toward that end.
anese economist, predicts a financial
panic in Japan as a result of the re-
action from the war, which has just
begun to be felt. Bankers were re-
sponsible, he declared, for stimulating
a mania for promotion of new under
takings, which had now reached fever
ish heat. which had no outlet and
which Is bound to succumb when SUP
port is withdrawn. He suggested
that, to prevent thelpanic or reduce
it to a minimum, currency be con-
tracted so far as possible and treas
ury bills to the amount of s25,000.000
be issued.
It is several years now since the
word went forth among the makers of
school books that "the bottom has