Tensas gazette. [volume] (St. Joseph, La.) 1886-current, 1910-03-11
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II YOU owned the earth, warns the
louisville CourierJournal, think OF
the kickers you'd have to pacify.
4 rolling stone gathers no moss,
admits Smart Set, but who wants to
be a mossback?
Dancer can never be surmounted.
rroclaims the Boston Post, without
danger
Money. confesses the New York
Press, makes a man wish he had the
brains to make it.
Do not Judge a man by his clothes,
protests the Dallas News, but by the
angle at which he wears his hat.
When q man wants company for
dinner, complains the New YORK
/ Globe. he has to have his wife's per-
mission, and she has to have the
cooks.
A man may claim that he Is too
/ proud to beg and too honest to steal,
remarks the Philadelphia Record,
when he really hasn't the nerve to do
/ either
A man is such a fool about what
good Judgment ne thinks he has, con-
tends the New York Press, that he
will even give his wife advice about
the best way for her to handle him.
eyes" said Minister WI to an
aviator. but could you fly to New
York;" Mr.. WI knows what the
really successful flying machine will
he for, boasts the New York World.
Perfection only seems possible in
one thing at a time. Just as We have
gotten our food sanitary, signs the
Pittsburg Dispatch, our literature has
become sadly in need of disinfecting.
Some sinners do not repent be-
cause. suggests the Chicago Tribune,
they fear there would not be enough
iCl in heaven over the event to sat
ISL them.
HAve we lost something which the
anciNts had, asks the Christian Reg
lister, Rnd which shows itself in their
descriA tions of a Joyous universe?
Seine \of Georgia's prohihitionists
are prep9ring to write insurance at
reduced rates for total abstainers.
This awakens the depressing sus-
picion in the Washington Star, that
in spite of legislation there are dis
tinctions to be drawn.
The bearing of arms Is not, as
many assume. favor to the govern
ment, AYERS the Boston Post. In time
Of need it is a duty owed by the citi-
zen. He should not plume himself
upon it. Federal pensions on account
of military service should be restrict
ed to those who suffer physical In
jury through military service; to
widows of pensioners who did not OBJ
viously marry from venal motive, and
10 the children of deceased pension
ers too young to work. Justice to
the veteran is consistent with justice
to the general public. Is it proposed
to create a class of federal paupers
Strange and uncommon perplexi
ties confront a New Jersey presby
terry which debated whether to per
nit n worthy brother to accept q
pastorate at a smaller salary than his
colleagues think he should take. Th<
. church which has called him, relates
| the Boston Transcript, is required by
J the presjytery to pay salary of $500
a year. The clergyman has figured II
! out that, since there is a school In
the region which offers free tuition
. to ministers daughters, he could ge'
along nicely on 500 year, and ne
J would hardly know what to do witt
more money than that. Thus the mat
ter rests, with the church willing tt
rav either amount, and the presby
terry and the minister betraying sign!
of obstinacy, while all the neighbor
ing men OF the cloth stand around
and wonder and admire. And We
they own their kinship to the mai
who wants a smaller salary. Mos
of them have to take one, whether o.
20.
There is undoubtedly occasion fo
the alarms that are sounded by thu
fishermen of the Chesapeake bay reg
ion concerning the continuously les
SEEMING supply of shad and herrin:
, that come in from the ocean, admits
. the baltimore American. The fisher
: men of the upper bay region CLAIM
' that these o1ean-grown fishes ar
q trapped By unfair and wholesal,
: methods in the lower bay region
D while below the mouth of the Poto
? mac the fishermen say that the an
nual runs are nothing like what the.
used to be. Both statements are I'm