Tensas gazette. [volume] (St. Joseph, La.) 1886-current, 1910-04-29
WORTH QUOTING

A woman, sneers the Chicago News
argues much as she gets off a car.
! What is one mans meat is another
mans bankruptcy, AYERS the Washing
ton Times.
/ If it is easy to get rid OF a habit
declares the Atchison Globe, it is mo-
a serious one.
Many a retiring person is at the
front, observes the New York Tele
gram, in achievement.
Many selftm2de man, explains the
Philadelphia Record, had pretty poor
material 10 begin with.
When you begin forgetting the DAY
OF your birth it is sign 10 the Com
moner that you are growing old.
That is far from being a home, de
fines the Chicago Tribune, where you
cannot see the family fer the furni
ture.
1t is a safe prediction, thinks the
louisville Herald, that the movemen,
to make Paris dry city will prove
popular.
DR.. Wiley must at least conceie
argues the Washington Star, that tbs
inside OF the egg contains 10 suspic
ious rreservative chemicals.
1t is so difficult to locate the man
higher up. He is as elusive as if D..
were riding; the tail of the comet, in.
s:lts the Atlanta Constitution.
|. After looping five hundred t.ti-as
On his wite's dress, a man feei8s like
a qualified delegate to a hoohworm
conference, puns the Atlanta Consti-
tuition.
A lawyer received S775,OO0 for lie
gal work preliminary TO the fcrna
ton OF merger, yet in all probabl
ity another lawyer, prophesies tn
Philadelphia Ledger, for a less fee
viii try 20 demonstrate that it wa
rot legal at all.
The great rise in real estate values
in Chicago may be accounted fer, sug
sests the Louisville Courier Journal,
urol the theory that a rush is being
made to invest in something that o
pick ocFet cannot deprive the owne
Of " lie he is glancing over his news
parer.
South Africa has brand new ma
tional anthem, announces the New
York Tribune. The country endeav-
ored for some th-ce to secure a con-
post on suitable for that purpose, and
out of $50 compositions the work G.
Perthold Kapolowitz was chosen, and
the citizens OF johannesburg had the
first opportunity OF hearing it per-
formed after it had been formally &C
cepted. The composer is not pro-
fessional musician. He is a civil en-
glreer.
Thinks the New Haven Register: It
Is hard to believe it, but if Canadian
official statistics are to be relied upon
the movement from the United States
into the western provinces OF Canada
for the last eight months is the most
heavily financial hegira in the worlds
history. 4 total of 71,9SS settlers
crossed the border in that period. ev.
cry man, woman and child bringing
into the Dominion, it is estimated, an
average OF 81 900 cash and property.
This is an increase of 6S per cent over
the figures of the previous year.
The EotiCn that women teachers
and girl schoolmates weaken a boys
character and vigor and manliness is
based on an entirely superficial and
erroneous idea as to the outward in
dicatiOns of these qualities, submits
tho New York Press. The fact that
boy is polite, well bred, does not
swear like a troCper-in short, is not
confounded nuisance to every
erown-up in his immediate neighbor-
hoods no argument against his
manliness. A man is never more
manly than when his heart has been
captured by a woman. There is just
as much reason for believing that as
soeia.iOn with sweethearts and wives
is disastrous to manliness as that
feminine companionship and control
during school days has such an effect
The real sissy is Born, not made. He
is product of nature, not of educa
ton and environment.
The obsession of the extraordinary
is responsible for some queer news
paper claims on our attention now
adays, remarks the New York Even
ing Post. Only the other day, a New
York morning paper gave the first
place on its first page to an account
OF the sentencing of eight Italian
counterfeiters, under a scare head"
which read: $50 Years In All for the
Lupo Gang" What possible signifi.