Tensas gazette. [volume] (St. Joseph, La.) 1886-current, 1910-05-06

but lots Of it seems to be misplaced.
Half the battle against real sins
would be won, predicts the Chicago
Tribune, il we would ignore the imag-
mary ones.
About the surest thing In this
world, asserts the Dallas News, is
that a good-looking girl with lot OF
money is going to be noticed.
Anti-big hatpin legislation is RAM
pant in several communities, and yet
We wonder, observes the Albany Ar
gus, at the persistence Of the suf.
fragette movement.
New York is to have a salon for
poets. Let no thirsty bard get In
spired OF a hope that this is a case
of accidental misprint, cautions the
Philadelphia Ledger.
This country could no doubt be run
a great deal better, admits the Pitts
burg Dispatch, If it wasn't for the con-
stitutional objection an American has
to letting anyone run him.
SAYS the st. Louis Republic: If Can
ada has more miles of railroad per
capita OF population than We have, II
may also be remembered that she has
more acres OF unoccupied land to the
mile of railroad.
When a bank clerk starts out to
break a faro bank it is safe to predict
declares the Bfnghamton Republican
that a bank will be busted even II
it is not the faro one.
We might understand better some
of the abstruse problems Of life
thinks the Trenton American, If there
were so many very clear explanations
Of them by people who know nothing
about them.
The farmers, boasts the Agricultur
al Epitomist, cannot consistently com
plain OF hard times or unremunerative
prices. They are realizing more fol
their products, and their farms are
valued higher, than at any former pc
riod within the past eighteen years.
In the declaration OF the New Yorl
City game and poultry dealers tina
the advance in food prices is du'
solely to the natural relations of sup
DIV and demand there is only ont
error, AYERS the Indianapolis News
Instead of natural" the adjective
should be unnatural"
Is it mark of the Philistine
submits the New York World, to as'
what we have to do with Greek stand
ards of feminine beauty? What woul
they have thought in the Athens o
Pericles of the suggestion by EgyI
tan critics that Greek women did no
conform to the physical proportion
of the women Of Memphis or Thebes
Our own standards OF physical beaut
are now the test by which such con
parisons are to be determined. Tn
main consideration is the superiorit
of the American type, whether or 70
it agrees with classical ideals.
Replying to the argument by TN
packers counsel, at Trenton, to Tn
effect that the corporation act OF Ne'
JERSEY could Tot have contemplate
the use of corporation books in erin
inal proceedings, because at the tim
of the passage Of the law the right
compel a corporation to produce II
books in criminal proceedings wa
!, doubtful, Justice Swayze says: Wha
ever may be said of the privilege
a corporation against self-fncrimin'
ton at the time the corporation az
was passed, it certainly was neve
supposed that a corporation who's
books contained evidence whic
would be important in a criminal pr
ceeding against individuals could M
be compelled to produce these boob
for the purpose Ct affording such ev
dence. That right was as clearly r
cognized in 1896 as it can ever be
and think this argument fails.
An excellent demonstration OF I.
discipline enforced at the WesteI
: Penitentiary was afforded recent
.. notes the Pittsburg Dispatch, whe
fire was discovered in a building in IL
prison yard while the prisoners We
at services in the chapel. Remembe
!, ing the instructive rush that follow
an alarm of fire anywhere amor
those in the vicinity, and the fact TIL
these men were penned in the instit
ton and for a moment unaware
whether they were threatened or ne
, the fact that they went on with Il
service as IL nothing had happene
the prisoner at the piano playing u
4 interruptedly and the congregatit
completing the hymn, won the adm
ing approval OF the warden when
;, later addressed them. At the san
s time it is in order to recognize Il
g admirable discipline which the ward'
:. and his staff maintain and which W
q so splendidly demonstrated und
such trying circumstances.
The Barber Gets the Bulge.