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tuition were little short of $4,000 year
the income from all sources failed to
reach even this modest sum.
The treasury of New York state was
also in a pretty bad way then. so there
was no aid for the college to be looked
for from that direction. To DR.. Motifs
practical mind the only way of getting
money to help the college and Of getting
it quickly was by means of lottery for
the benefit of the institution. There were
almost as many lotteries in those days as
there were banks, and this form of gam
bling was quite as popular as the buying
and selling Of stocks on margin are now
and even less condemned by moralists.
Dartmouth and Harvard colleges. as well
as many other educational institutions OF
lesser note, had employed this method of
raising funds unsuccessfully. DR.. Mott
applied to the state legislature to secure
an appropriation for Union College. The
legislature answered by authorizing four
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which was expulsion and disgrace. DR..
Mott had thorough knowledge of human
nature and he punished each offense in
his own college in his own way, generally
a lenient and merciful one.
One of DR.. Motifs diversions was the
raising of fine chickens. His Buff
Cochins and Leghorns and Plymouth
Rocks were the very apples of his eye.
On one occasion when inspecting his
poultry yard he discovered that some
of his latest fowls were missing. Being
an intensely practical man. he watched
his henhouse that night himself. Along
toward midnight he saw four youths
whom he recognized as students of his
college creep stealthily upon his sleeping
chickens. He made a sudden noise that
frightened them away.
The next day each of these four boys
received most polite and cordial invita-
ton to dine with President Mott at his
residence. Conscious of their guilt Of an
attempted larceny of the presidents fowls
the night before, they conferred together,
but saw no way of escape. with SUM
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pour forth necessarily. The japanese
monkeys would appear to have dis
tinct language or dialect, and they an
Swer one another in manner Whlch
sounds most Ineligible and satisfac-
tory.
The harshness of the ravens croak
is a tradition. and is quite justified by
the vocal performances of those at the
Zoo. There is, however, to be noted IN
divers of the ravens sounds a distinct
ly social note, a tone of good fellow
ship. however hoarse and subdued.
which commends the bird to favorable
consideration. When in good spirits
one of the Zoo ravens will accompany
visitor around the entire circumfer-
ence of it's cage, uttering the while its
hoarSely cOmpaniOnable sounds.
The badgers, which reside in subter-
ranean lodgings in the vicinity of the
cas- e of the ravens, when heard from
at all, are evidently engaged in alter
cation, and the sounds to which they
give vent have remarkably quarrel
some and snarling information. The
common expression badgering, IN
dicative of a tantalizing or worrying
from the sounds and conduct of these
animals, one of which will follow an
other all over the Enclosure wherein
they are confined, snarling, while the
other SnarlS back.
An extraordinary and unique sound OF
the Zoo is the cry or the roar of the
White-tailed gnu. an impetuous amman.
with a businesslike looking pair OF horns.
which it occasionally uses with someWha-
destructive effect against the walls OF its
den. Somebody has described the gnu as
cross between a pony and a bunalo,
but, however THAT may be, the amman.
which is said to be wonderfully Meet OF
foot, is remarkable one and It's ringing
cry which can be heard at a great dls-
lance. is one of the most striking OF Zoo
noises
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the middle very loud and ringing. The
laugh is almost human in its general ma
ture, though the syllables are uttered
with more than human rapidly; it is of
a distinctively feminine character Despite
the fact that it is, and has been for some
years. in solitary confinement, this
feathered philosopher, for such it veri-
tably is. always seems remarkably cheer
full, even when not laughing and it's ac
tons and general expression are singular
ly quick and knowing. In its native land
of Australia this kingfisher is commonly
and rather slightingly alluded to as the
Laughing jackass," whose ''he-haw," by
the way it's peculiar cachination in no
wise resembles. The sound of numbers of
these birds, laughing in concert in the
bush or forest of their native land, has,
1t is said, led many a traveller to fancy
that he was in the neighbodhood of re-
markably happy and well contendted hui
man settlement, and he has followed the
delusive sound perhaps to his destruction.
Another bird in the animal house
whose natural cry bears a remarkable
ostrich, but it rarely INDUCES in this
simulated visibility. and, despite its
general expression of good humor and
contentment. is singularly sedate
bird. For a bird of it's distinction as
a national emblem. since the days of
Rome, the eagle has a particularly pa
thetic and unwarlike sort of cry, rather
like that of an ailing child, and it's
tabled scream would appear to exist
only in the fertile Imagination of the
poet
Thackeray has alluded to the hyena
as Jolly Nash, the old hyena, with his
idiotic laugh" If the hyenas at the
Zoo ever laugh, idiotically or other
wise, it must be very seldom, and it
may be confidently assumed that very
few visitors have ever heard them in
dulge in such glad sounds. The pumas-
at least. the pair confined in the main
animal house-are noisy creatures, and
their shrill snarls are sometimes even
louder than the roaring of the lions.
A distinctly ill-tempered sound. that of
these pumas. and they seem to be al
ways either quarreling with each other
or venting their spleen against the
world at large.
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toward Atlanta. 1t was quite near the
Clay home that Gen. Joseph E. Johnston
took up his position, covering Marietta
after he had turned Shermans line from
Dallas and New Hope Church.
Our historic memories in Marietta are
always interesting to our guests, said
Mrs. Clay, land We tell with unfaiing in
terest how Gen. Johnston held Marietta
under sixteen days of heavy cannonad-
ing, and then abandoned it only because
his communications with Atlanta were
threatened. The entire section is historic
ground and we take much delight in
its memories, though they are sad for all
southerners. We have vast historical
library, known to students as the Clarke
collection, and this contains over 5,JW
volumes, a large proportion dealing with
special phases of the war between the
states. We live in the heart of one of
the most fertile agricultural regions OF
the state ands we can raise almost any
thing. But Marietta has taken on all the
industries of a growing center. and we
have manufactures of various sorts. We
are particularly proud of our marble man.
ufactories and of the fact that Georgia
will soon be on the market with other
states which are older in the quarry in
dustry. We have furniture factories, and,
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CHE Is Little Known in
- the Official Set - Has
Spent Her Time Quietly in
Washington, and, Until Re-
Gently, Came Only at Infre-
quent Intervals-Is a Type
of the Old South, Gentle,
Domestic and Rehned-Finds
All Her Pleasure in Her Home
and Her Family-She Was
One of the Pupils of Her
Husband at the Lythia,
Georgia, Academy-Was Be-
fore Her Marriage Miss
Fannie White. daughter of
the Late Col. L. J. White.
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now in better health than for the past
ten years. Mrs. Clay has never cared
very much for the social side of her hus-
bands position and would prefer to re-
side all the year in Marietta. She did
this for years. making only brief trips
to the capital and having the senator
come home whenever he could spare a
day or two from his legislative duties.
But since his health became fragile she
has spent all of the congressional ses-
sions in Washington, going home only
when something urgent required her pres
ence.
Senator and Mrs. Clay have one of
the largest families in the upper house,
six sons and pretty little daughter,
Miss Evelyn, who is now just thirteen.
Senat Orial families, as a rule, seldom ex-
tend over three or four offspring, and
this is the average of the present MEM
bership. Senator Clay is intensely proud
of his group of children, especially his
eldest son, who is taking complete charge
of his fathers law practice and is making
a success of it. All the Clay boys were
educated in the Georgia public schools
and at the state university.
THE size OF my family remarked Mrs.
Clay, furnishes an excellent reason why
l have not spent more time in Washing
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cot Charter from the State of New
~ York, Superintended the Drawings and
Made So Many Hundreds of Thousands Of
Dollars That He Cleared Up ALI the Debts
and Endowed the College with Fortune.

EW men have left
such a lasting i'm
press upon the life
of America as Eli
phalet Mott. For
more than half a
century he was pre-
EN- n mt as a
clergyman. as an
educator of young
men and as a tenn
perance advocate.
AS the inventor of
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= rs a wild chorus of sounds that
residents in the vicinity Of the Zoo
4 are treated to when the animals
give vent to their various natural cries.
but one which is. happily for the afore-
said residents, mellowed by distance as
it floats over the ample area of the
park. The average visitor to the Zoo.
unless. indeed, he be a sufficient devo-
tee of natural history to make study
of the subject. has not the opportunity
of hearing the peculiar cries OF many
of the animals. To be sure. If he visits
the main building, where are confined
the big carnivorae, he may listen to
the far-famed roar of the lion,. sound
which has been variOusly commented
upon by different travellers who have
heard it in the natural habitat Of the
king of beasts"
Terrible" is the epithet usually be-
slowed upon the loud, chesty below OF
the lion, but those who have heard the
angry snarl of the tiger. like that of a
monstrous cat, will acknowledge that
it has a far more bloodcurdling effect.
The tigers at the Zoo are. however, very
quiet animals compared to their neigh
bors, the lions, and the savage snarl
alluded to Is heard very rarely. The
indulge in their well known vocal per-
formances for the mere fun Of the
thing The roar Of one is the signal
for all the rest, and they join in with
seemingly genuine gusto. 1t has been
suggested that the lions roaring Is by
no means an expression OF ferocity on
the part of those beasts, but Is a wise
precaution before dinner, with a view
to the proper digestion of their food.
Certain II is that the roaring is chiefly
pronounced as the time for feeding
draws nigh, and there would appear to
be some plausibility to the theory that
the pre-prandial performance is really
a natural digestive.
1t is a question whether the lions or
the wolves are the noisest animals in
the Zoo. They resemble each other in
their love of impromptu concerto eff
fects, but while. as observed. the lions
seem to roar chiefly in preparation for
dinner. the wolves give their perform
ances. at almost any time. and apparent
ly for no reason whatever. Wolves, how
ever. have always been regarded as
weird animals. and the conduct of those
in the Zoo is n no wise calculated to
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existence with all the luxuries of life of
a comfortable-sized city. We have a
plantation right in the heart Of Marietta.
a pretty little town of about 5000 in
habitants. and we enjoy al. the good
things which go with town and coun-- y
combined. Just now we have more than
100 acres under cultivation. and TO enuIn-
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The rare occasions when the prairie
dogs indulge in vocal exercise to any no.
ticeable degree would appear TO be of
ceremonous nature, and these constitute
about as quaint spectacles as can be wit
messed at the Zoo. One member OF the
strange little community flies into erect
position with the suddenness of a jack
in-the-box, his forepaws sloping GOWN
ward, and commences chattering away
in the popular vernacular, to beat the
band" Immediately, all the prairie dogs
in the Enclosure assume the upright at
titude and appear to listen to the speaker
with the utmost respect This singular
holding forth continues for quite a long
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By Margaret B. Downing.

HAVE Otice d
some wailing on
the part of south
ern women about
the passing off the
old plantation life
r e IN a r k e d Mrs.
Clay, wife of the
junior senator from
Georgia. Il nave
the II e s [ i mable
privilege of COM
bining that passing
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Each species of monkey seems to
have it's own peculiar cries, all gener-
ally plaintive in sound, unless the ami
NAL is angered, when it is apt to in
dulge in frenzied sort of jabber The
pig-tailed monkey is one Of the most
voluble of the simians at the Zoo. and.
as it watches the approach of the
keeper with it's dinner, his remarks
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the community which has the peacock
swan, and all the rest, even it's neigh
bors the macaws, faded to gentle
murmur in the matter Of weird sound
This is the hornbill, which, as the laoel
attached to its cage states, halls from
the East Indies, and the label further
informs the curious that the creature
at it's present stage of development. Is
immature. What it's cry will be when
it is fully matured fairly staggers the
imagination. as. even now. it almost
lifts the roof of the hearers head on
In the hornbilfs case the dispropor-
tion between the sound and the size OF
the bird-that is, the body whence the
sound presumably issues. for 1t is near
ly all bills most striking. The cry
of this creature can be compared to
nothing else in nature, and resounds
through the birdhouse, in which there
are divers other aspirants for noise
producing honors, with deafening pre-
eminence.
The macaws, those gorgeous and
magnified members of the parrot fam
lily, can, as one visitor to the blrdhouse
was heard to observe, come 1T few
In the matter of noise, and when they
unite in concert even the hornolii
seems to- get a trif1e discouraged, but,
plucking up heart, he manages to emit
soul-subduing squawk. whereas all the
macaws tumble off their perches' or
wherever they happen to be cilng1ng'
and eye one another in a rueful man
ner, as though they realized that they
We're distinctly outclassed.
some OF the parrots have. after the
manner of their kind, adopted human
speech to a certain and rather limited ex-
tent, and converse chiefly with JuVeniie
interlocutors. One of the best OF these
is a macaw, Whlcn re-
sides in a cage by itself, and which some
tlnes INDUCES in succession o! SOME
what disconnected remarks. By its side
is kea. or New Zealand sheep-eatins
parrot, which, despite its savage-iookng
peak. is very quiet bird, and, uncoh-
sciously following Jerry Crunchers pre-,
cept, Never. says nothing to nobody.
Perhaps 1t is regretting the days when II
mad mutton on the hoof in the far-aWay
antipodes.
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MRS. ALEXANDER STEPHENS CLAY.

crate all the toothsome products would
make the city dweller too envious for his
happiness. Every season we raise hun
dreds Of chickens. the line. plump ycilo w
leggo;i variety. whi.-n always go with
stories about religious conferences, bar
hecues and a .loisc full CT company. or
course We "as:o. consume mere than
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cries to- be drawn to produce ss5, OOO

lotteries to be drawn to produce $4,000
for this purpose.
Lotteries in those days were not man
aged with the same skill and expedition
that now characterize them in the coun-
tries where they still flourish. The draw
ing of the Union College lottery was not
completed until 1914. nine years after it
was authorized. and the net result was
S613S. DR.. Mott then made a new effort
and secured the passage of an act by
which lotteries were authorized to raise
the following sums: For Union College.
100000: for Hamilton College. $4,000: for
the Ashbury African Church in New York.
$4,000: for the College of Physicians and
Surgeons. $4,000, and for the Historical
Society, $4,000.
These lotteries were as lily managed as
their predecessors. The state appointed
managers for each of them and paid them
a regular annual salary. 1t was for the
interest of the managers, therefore, to
make their jobs last long as possible,
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decrease the reputation of the crea-
lures in this regard. They howl. in
nearly every instance, when there are
no persons in the vicinity of their dens,
and at such time their weird chorus,
rising to shrillness at the loudest, is
sort of diabolica1 crescendo. and, dying
away like the cries of the invisible
COLLINS that SO terrified Gabriel Grub
in the churchyard at midnight, could
scarcely be surpassed for eerle effect
in the entire animal Kingdom.
In the neighborhood of the wolves dens
is to be found one Of the noisiest denlZens
Of the Zoo, in the person-if the term be
allowable-of a northern sea lion. This
fellows yelpings are well-nigh incessant.
and one of the keepers has given IL as his
opinion that the animal continues MS
shrll cries during his sleep. BY no
means like the roar of the land lion is the
cry of his aquatic namesake. Indeed, the
latter partakes more of the nature OF the
barking of a dog than any other sound TO
which it could be compared AS the
creature must have been originally, ike
the whale land animal with four legs,
it Is curious to speculate on Its retention
of it's original canine bark during the
myriad centuries In which It's oooy mas
been fashioned by nature into Its hshllke
form to accommodate 1t to its Watery
habitat. With the exception of the water
birds, this is the only noisy aquatic
creature at the Zoo, the all1gators oelng
notably among the creatures winch put
golden.
One of the most familiar sounds at the
Zoo is the extraordinarily harsh cry OF
the peacocks. which have multiplied
greatly since their introduction into the
park a number of years ago. A great
flock of these birds is sometimes to be
seen in fight, and a gorgeous sight 1t is.
with the sun illuminating their plumage
into myriads of wonderful hues. Ordi-
narily. however, the peacocks do not flock
together but seem to communicate, one
with another, by means of their penetrat-
ing cries.
Another bird of traditional grace. but
with a most harsh and discOrdant
voice, is the swan, the ringing croak-
ings of which can be heard in the east
ern end of the Zoo as the birds float
lazily upon the creek Or waddle among
the other fancy fowl in this section of
the park. There is a sort OF bird here
which looks, ordinarily, like something
twisted up at the end of a stick, which
gives frequent vent to an amazing
croak. the volume of which seems total
ly disproportionate to the size Of the
vocalist But up at the .birdhouse
proper there is a feathered member OF
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queer little noisemaker from the same
quarter of the world as the kea IS the
laughing kingfisher. AS its name indl-
Gates the sound produced by this odd HI
Tie bird Is Of risible nature, and, despite
the fact that it is nearly all head, 1t is
surprising what a really loud cachina-
uon II can produce. There are three dis
linct stages to the laugh of this bird, the
nrst ana last comparatively subdued, and
Tensas gazette. [volume] (St. Joseph, La.) 1886-current, 1910-08-05

A quiet wedding was consum-
mated last Saturday afternoon, at
the Arlington Hotel, the contract
ing parties being Mr.. Dorrance
Chase and Miss Rhea Dutarte, the
former of Nachez and the latter
of Vidalia, the Rev. ]. B. Car
penter of the Presbyterian church,
officiating.
Miss Dutarte is u sister of Mrs
W. H. Worsham, of this city, and
belongs to q fine old French FAM
lily, tracing lineage to the HUI
gnenots, who fled to America TO
escape the prosecutions of the
mother country. Mr.. Chase is a
young man of sterling worth and
We wish for him and his winsome
bride all the bliss that the chalice
Of life can hold.
Among other relatives present
at the marriage from ont of town,
were Judge John s. Boatner and
family of Vidalia.-Ruston Lead
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Ruston, La, August /, 1910.
The Tensas Gazette,
st. Joseph, La.
Dear Sir-In my quota OF government
documents, / have large number OF
copies of the Agricultural Yearbook and
a small number of the Diseases of the
Horse and Diseases of Cattle, neatly
bound books issued by the Department
OF Agriculture. / have not enough to
send to everyone, but am anxious to dis
tribute those have to persons who will
appreciate same, and will be glad to fill
requests as long as my supply lasts. The
books contain a great deal of valuable
information.
would also be glad to furnish a list
Of Farmers Bulletins to anyone desiring
same and let them select such bulletins
as they may wish.
A letter or postal addressed to me at
Lake Providence, La, will receive prompt
attention.
Thanking you for giving this matter
publicity through your columns, l am,
with best wishes,
Very respectfully yours,
JOS. f. RANSDELL.
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NOTICE..


NEWELLTON, La, July 10th, 1910
At its last meeting, July 9th, 1910, the
School Board established schools at the
following places: st. Joseph, Newellton,
Waterproof, Ashwood, Limerick and
New Light. A committee was appointed
by the Board to establish schools at 9TH
er points other than the places named
above. l hereby give public notice that
all parties wishing schools for the session
Of 1910 and 1911 must file their applica-
ton with me by the 10th Of August
This applies to those who had schools
last session az well as those who wish to
organize new schools. In making appli-
cation give the number of children to at
tend the school with ages and sex, and
the distance nom an organized school.
THOS. NJ. WADE, Supt.
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offer for sale at the Court House door
In the town Of st. Joseph, in this parish,
within the hours prescribed by law,
that il bet ween the hours Of II O'Clock
A. n. and 4o'clock p. NJ, to.the highest
bidder, for cash, the following de-
scriDea properly situated IN TINS par
''r Ts -. .s...,,, - s
mart Of the Inch,.nd nisnt.tion IN