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The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1911-12-08
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GOD GIVE US MEN.

God give us menl A time like
this demands
Strong minds, great hearts,
true faith, and ready
hands,;
Men whom the spois of office
cannot kill;
Men whom the lust of office
cannot buy;
Men whom possess opinions
and a will;
Men who have honor; men
who will not lie;
Men who can stand before
demagogue
And damn his treacherous
flattery without wink
ing!
Tall men, sun-croWned, who
live above the fog
In public duty and in private
thinking.
Il
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1911-12-08
Must Love the Boys.

Mr.. Willard said that he did not
claim to be a student of the boy
problem but that he had had them
on his heart for years. The first
requisite was to love the boys, and
to take an interest in them, and
Tensas gazette. [volume] (St. Joseph, La.) 1886-current, 1911-02-03
Through Service to New Orleans.

Messrs. Snyder & Gilfoil, attor-
neys of Tallulah, have addressed a
petition to the Rail Road Commits
sion Of this State, and caused to be
circulated among the citizens of our
town requesting signatures and pray
ing that honorable body to require
the ST. Louis, Iron Mountain &
Southern Rail Road Co. to put on
through trains from Lake Provi-
dence to New Orleans The service we
now have has become so very poor
and unsatisfactory that the road has
almost ceased TO be useful to our
people. The passenger trains run
on such irregular schedule as to
make connection at other points IN
certain and often impossible, there
by causing delays to patrons thai
are always costly in both time and
money. The traffic business ha:
been so badly neglected that oul
freight service is q farce. Only this
week one local was taken off entire.
ly. The condition Of the locomo'
tives has become SO bad that theil
proper place is at best the repair
shop if not really the junk pile.
Under present service (if service
it)may be called almost two entire
days are consumed in travelling
from any point along the line o
the NJ, H. & L. to New Orleans
trip that with through service a
all modern should be made in 81,
hours
The petition asking for through
and better service will be presented
to the Rail Road Commission b.
Messrs. Snyder & Gilfoil and W
sincerely hope viii result in som
improvement over what is now on
of the poorest makeshift schedule
in the country.
Tensas gazette. [volume] (St. Joseph, La.) 1886-current, 1911-02-03

The louisiana Sunday School AS
ISOLATION is in receipt of a letter
Tom Mr.. A. A. Graham, of Ham
-mond, La, stating that as a result
OF the Home Visitation Canvass
made in Hammond on December
] 9TH all the Sunday Schools in that
city have practically increased their
attendance 30 per cent. Mr.. U. G..
Neuhauser, of Slidell, La, where a
visitation was made on the same
day, says all Sunday schools in Sill
dell have increased . per cent.
More men are attending the Sunday
schools in these towns than ever be-
fore in the history of the Sunday
school work. This is but an earn
est of what will come to pass if ev-
cry community will make vista
ton canvass or State Wide Vista
ton Day, Saturday, March 4th. Ii
you will cooperate in this campaign
| the watchword of our Association
will be realized, "0ne Hundred
Thousand people in the Sunday
schools of Louisiana on Universal
Rally Day, Sunday, March 9Th.
Watch this paper for notices re-
garding the greatest state conven.
ton ever held in the South, al
! Monroe, La, March 15-17, 1911.
Tensas gazette. [volume] (St. Joseph, La.) 1886-current, 1911-02-03

Misses Couvillon aud Robertson
and Messrs. Henry and Thomas
Wade leave on Saturday morning
to be the week end guests of Mrs.
I. NJ. Wade of Newelltons
A party of pleasure seekers con-
sisting of Mr.. and Mrs. A. S. Lewis,
Mr.. E. F. Newell, Miss Nell Lewis,
Miss Willie Lewis and little Misses
jamie and Berta Newell motored to
Natchez on Friday.
Mrs. w. J. Steen and Miss
Amalia Steen left this week fol
New Orleans. Miss. Steen will visit
Miss Mittie Floyd and Mrs. c. l..
Gray Of Meridian and Miss Hazel
Willis of Vicksburg after leaving
New Orleans.
A party from St. Joseph consist
ing of Mrs. Davidson, Mrs. B. F,
Young, Mrs. Jos. Curry and Messrs.
Ottway Denny and J. V. Bemiss
motored to Natchez and return on
Wednesday. The trip down was
made in less than three hours.
Mr.. Adam Anderson, of Roberts,
H., who has charge of his fathers
place Erin. in the Fourth Ward,
has as his guests his two sisters,
DR.. Martha Anderson and Miss
Flora Anderson. DIR. Martha An.
derson is a graduate in medicine
and a ,physician of unusual talent.
We trust their visit to our parish
win be most pleasant. "a
Tensas gazette. [volume] (St. Joseph, La.) 1886-current, 1911-02-03

The warm weather we are hayin,
has been remarked by many as -.
ing the mildest January seen in
years. We have been practically q
month without rain and cisterns are
getting empty and the roads dusty
Is striking contrast with the Febrn-
airy of 1899, universally acknowl-
edged to have been the coolest win
ter ever known in this section
when snow lay on the ground for
weeks and floating ice in the river
blockaded navigation for some time
this month is more like January
dropped in the lap of May. Fruit
trees are in bloom everywhere and
safety for this years crop is greatly
feared.
The big dry goods house Of st.
Joseph, w. r. Baker & Son, are
offering special remnant sale on
dry goods, in which the best kind
of bargains are offered on all as
sentiments of piece goods.
Services at NeweIiton.
Rev. P. HI. Fontaine of the NJ.
E. Church will preach at Newellton
regularly on the morning Of the
fifth Sunday and the night Of the
first Thursday. These are regular
appointments.
knights of Pythias.
Lake St. Joseph Lodge, No. 102, X.
of p, meets regularly on the second and
fourth Wednesdays of each month at
Newellton, La.
Tensas gazette. [volume] (St. Joseph, La.) 1886-current, 1911-02-03


The large furniture warehouse,
the property of Mr.. Elgutter, one
Newellton's most progressive mer-
chants, was totally destroyed by
fire Tuesday night. The flames were
discovered about | O'Clock, but be-
fore anything could be done the fire
was beyond control, and it was only
by the most heroic efforts that the
citizens saved the town from what
seemed at one time, almost total
destruction. The loss is about 81 600,
and, we understand, no insurance
was carried on either the building
or its contents. Waterproof Enter
prise.
Tensas gazette. [volume] (St. Joseph, La.) 1886-current, 1911-02-03
Rice irrigation and the Public Roads.
sr. JOSEPH, La, Jan. q. II.
editor Tensas Gazette,
81. Joseph, La.


editor Tensas Gazette,
81. Joseph, La.
DEAR SrR-I viii appreciate it
very much you will publish this
letter in an early issue Of your pa
per, as | am sure its contents will
be Of interest to the general public,
and especially those engaged in rice
culture.
Under the provisions OF Act 1873
OF 1906 of the General Assembly Of
louisiana it is declared That it
shall be unlawful for any owner or
user of water supply to allow said
water to flow or drain on any pub
tic road or highway" AS the drain
age bitches on the sides of public
roads are a part of said roads, it is
therefore unlawful to use them as
drains for the water from such
sources as referred to in above
statute.
Act 50 Of 1892 prohibits the cut
ting or in any manner altering of
public levees for the purpose Of
placing siphons over the same; re-
quiring that such siphons conform
to the shape of the levee and that
they be made of such length and
laid in such manner as to deposit
their water at distance Of not less
than q feet from the base of the
public levee so crossed.
Act 155 Of 1910 provides that
lands situated on the land side of
public levees shall not be flooded
or covered with water for purposes
Of irrigation or otherwise within a
distance Of $50 feet from the base
OF any such levee.
Act 1872 of 1910 provides that all
such intake pipes used for irriga-
ton purposes shall be provided with
a screen 20 prevent fish from pass
ing through such pipes. Such screen
must be made of 4x4 timber, the
outer netting being 1-inch mesh and
and the inner netting ! -4-inch mesh,
and said screen shall be not less than
10 feetssquaFe. $500 e.-s--s-., 49,
The penalty provided in all above
cases is fine or imprisonment.
All violations of the above pro-
visions that are properly brought to
my attention win be prosecuted.
Very respectfully,
A. E. GREEN,
District Attorney.
Tensas gazette. [volume] (St. Joseph, La.) 1886-current, 1911-02-03

Since The awe aas put IL type
DIR. and Mrs. Lilly have returned
TO S.. Joseph, both mush better
Tensas gazette. [volume] (St. Joseph, La.) 1886-current, 1911-02-03

JAMES GORDON.
Tensas gazette. [volume] (St. Joseph, La.) 1886-current, 1911-02-03

Lake st. Joseph Lodge, No. l02, X.
of p, meets regularly on the second and
fourth Wednesdays of each month at
Newellton, La.
Tensas gazette. [volume] (St. Joseph, La.) 1886-current, 1911-02-03
Civil Engineer.

Civil Engineering, Land Surveys,
Rice Levees, Drainage, Irrigation.
All work promptly and carefully done.
References: II. Miller Todd and T..
G. Tollinger, Y. $. Assistant Engi-
neers, Vicksburg, Miss.
Address
b. w. WATKINS LEIGH,
2l7 Breard St.,
MONROE, La.
Tensas gazette. [volume] (St. Joseph, La.) 1886-current, 1911-02-03

Readers of the Gazette some times
quite often-complain of the scar
city of local news found in our col
umns. 1t is not an easy matter to
CLEAN all the news that happens in
the community alone, to say moth
ing of the parish at large. The Ga
zette is always glad to publish any
thing of interest to itsyreaders and
appreciates any item sent in. If the
friends of the paper will kindly call
ND the Office or send memoranda
through the mail or otherwise when
they have visitors or know of any
thing worthy Of note they would
confer favor upon the management
and thereby enable us TO cover the
field of news to better advantage.
We want to publish ali the news:
marriages, births, deaths and even
scandal-it all makes interesting
reading, especially the latter.
DIR. and Mrs. Lilly and son Jack
went to Natchez last week, but were
unable to return due to illness of
Mrs. Lilly, who has been confined
to bed since her arrival there. The
doctor had been unwell for some
time before going to Natchez, but
his presence being so needed here
he returued to st. Joseph only to
be compelled to go to bed upon
reaching home. Last Sunday his
sister in Law, Miss Molhe Grafton,
.came up aud took him back to
\ ehez ilf and Mrs. Lilly are
h n III ere report
Since The aO0ve aas put IL type
DR.. and Mrs. Lilly have returned
TO ST.. Joseph, both mush better
Tensas gazette. [volume] (St. Joseph, La.) 1886-current, 1911-02-03

The Gazette regrets to learn of the
death Of Mrs. Geo. N. Clarke,
which occurred at Dardanelle, Ark,
on Sunday last, while on a visit to
her son, Mr.. T. d. Mackie. Mrs.
Clarke was So years of age. She
was born near Rodney, Miss, and
was daughter of the late Mr.. Hi
ram L. Winters, prominent citi-
zen of Jefferson county. In 1897,
deceased, then Mrs. Widow Mackie,
was married to Mr.. Geo. N. Clarke
of Adams county, and lived with
her husband in this parish num-
Der Of years before their removal to
Boyina, Miss, about year ago.
She is survived by her husband and
four children from her first mar
rage. Deceased was an affectionate
wife and mother and was devoted
10 her family. She had been an
invalid for aame years prior 70 her
a. cen !; lsu s'fffs
ew Is his n
titude. and throu.hent her illness
received the tenderest care OF her,
loved ones.
Tensas gazette. [volume] (St. Joseph, La.) 1886-current, 1911-02-03

The petition of the above named com
plainants, respectfully shows:
Northern Wisconsin advertiser. [volume] (Wabeno, Wis.) 1898-1925, 1911-02-10
WATER SNAKE PUMP Is OLD
Can Be Made Simply by Placing Gar
den Hose Around Clothes Pole
Used in Egypt.

Before pumps were invented all
sorts of queer devices were employed
to raise water from ponds, streams,
and wells. One of these was ma
chine which is commonly called
Archimedes' screw, because it was
supposed to have been invented by
Archimedes, who lived in the third
century before the Christian era. But
the same apparatus has been used in
Egypt from long before his time until
the present day.
1t is nothing but tube wound spir-
ally, like a corkscrew, around pole
and placed in an inclined position
with it's lower end dipping into the
water and turned by a crank at its
upper end. Every time the open
lower end of the tube dips under the
surface it scoops up a little water,
which as the tube, or screw, is turned
rises along it until it reaches the up
per end and flows out.
The apparatus will not work if it is
inclined very steeply, so to raise wa
ter to any great height it would have
to be made exceedingly long. But it
would do very we'll for raising water
from a pond or stream to a reservoir
on the bank from which it could be
carried away in buckets, or allowed
to flow through canals or pipes to
places farther down hill And if the
source of the water were swiftly
flowing stream you would not have to
turn the crank, for paddle wheel at
tached to the lower part of the screw
and just dipping into the stream
would do the work for you.
So there is your water snake. You
can make it very simply by coiling
long piece of garden hose around a
clothes pole, inserting one end of the
pole among the rocks in the bed of
brook so that 1t can turn without
slipping from it's place, and laying the
other end, which should have an arm
attached to turn it with, in a forked
stick driven in the bank
This will do to show that the thing
will really work and raise water. If
you are handy with tools you may
Northern Wisconsin advertiser. [volume] (Wabeno, Wis.) 1898-1925, 1911-02-10
MAKE WEIGHTS FOR ATHLETE
Round Lead Bali for Shot-Putting or
Hammer-Throwing Can Be Cast
in Paper Board.

Many times boys would like to
make their own shots and weights for
athletic stunts, but do not know how
to go about it to cast the metal. In
making lead sphere as shown in the
illustration, it is not necessary to
know the method of molding. The
round lead weight for shot-putting or
Misunderstanding can be cast in a hol-
low cardboard or pressed-paper ball.
sold in department and toy stores for
10 cents, says writer in the Popular
Mechanics Cut a half-inch hole in
the ball as shown in Fig. l and place
it with the hole up in damp sand and
press or lamp the sand lightly around
the ball as shown in the section, Fig.
2. Cover over about one inch deep.
A wood plug inserted in the hole will
prevent any sand falling inside.
When the sand is tamped in and the
plug removed, it leaves a gate for the
metal. Pour melted lead into the gate
Northern Wisconsin advertiser. [volume] (Wabeno, Wis.) 1898-1925, 1911-02-10
ADVERTISING BY THE BANKER
Local Newspapers Should Be Used
First, Says Magazine Expert,
in Address.

when the Banker Advertises" was
the subject of an address delivered be-
fore the Bankers AID association Of
Pittsburg, Pa, by Charles E. Jones of
the Cosmopolitan Magazine. Mr..
Jones said in part:
II believe that the greatest in
crease in advertising in newspapers
and magazines in the United States in
the next five years will be made by
institutions of a financial nature. Just
as automobile dealers suddenly ava
kened to the value of established pub
locations, so financial men are even
now beginning to understand what
may be done in a dignified way.
Il have often been asked to advise
financial men how to advertise, and
give you now my main ideas for what
they may be worth. The banker goes
to his trade paper for his publicity, he
goes to the magazines for prestige,
and he goes to the newspaper for
money. No banker should attempt to
advertise outside of his own city until
he is conducting an intelligent and
forceful campaign in the newspapers
of his own town. Then, when he has
laid solid foundation, he can bring
to his bank by means Of national adj
vertising a prestige which IS OF meal
culable value"
Northern Wisconsin advertiser. [volume] (Wabeno, Wis.) 1898-1925, 1911-02-10
Accident Is Said to Have Sunk Maine

ammunition. This theory is borne
out, it is claimed, by the evidences al
ready developed. 1t has been found
that in the mud and silt surrounding
the hull of the Maine there is great
quantity of coal. Human bones have
also been picked up outside the hull
An internal explosion naturally
would force outward a large part of
the contents of the vessels hull. This
condition has been found. The report
was prevalent in Havana and in the
United States shortly after the work
of raising the Maine was begun that
wires had been found close to the hull
of the ship which communicated with
the shore, but this report was found
to be false. The wires were those in
use between Havana and Casa Blanca.
The battleship sunk in 2S fathoms
of water. It's bow is plunged deep
into the clay, and in the years that
have elapsed since the disaster the
constant washing of the waves has
increased the depth of the deposits
that surround this part of the vessel
below the water line until now it is
surrounded by from IL to IA feet of
mud and silt.
Northern Wisconsin advertiser. [volume] (Wabeno, Wis.) 1898-1925, 1911-02-10
See Little Hope for Low Food Prices

ten years the value of his products
has been increasing at such a rate
that the tiller of the soil is now able
TO afford hitherto undreamed of luxu.
ries and the old homestead has been
fitted with every modern convenience
In the Crop Reporter just issued bv
the department considerable space ia
devoted to the cost of living problem
from the farmers point of view. The
Reporter says: Within the last ten
years the purchasing power of the
farmer has increased more than fifty
per cent. Such conditions are having
and will continue to have more force
in keeping the rising generation of
farmers children upon the farm than
volumes upon volumes of printed adj
vice TO stay there"
With the mass of figures before
them from which to draw comnari.
sons, the statisticians set to work and
now announce that while the cost oP
articles purchased has increased. the
increase in purchasing power of each
farm acre has outstripped it and the
farmer is left with a comfortable mar.
gin OF profit for his work.
Northern Wisconsin advertiser. [volume] (Wabeno, Wis.) 1898-1925, 1911-02-10
Popular First Names.

The latest bulletin of Smith college
gives the total number of students as
1850, coming from all parts of the
country. To many women and parents
a summary of their first names NAV
not be uninteresting. The most popu-
lar name is Helen, of which there are
1O1; the old favorite Mary, follows,
with 50; Margaret comes third, with
So: Ruth has so; Florence, So; Eliza
beth, At; Marion and Mildred each
Al; Dorothy, 40; Edith, 35. Fewer
than twenty of the others number over
a dozen each, viz: Agnes, 10: Alice.
IS; Anna, %; Edna, 16; Eleanor. IS;
Ethel, %; Frances, 16; Gertrude. 80;
Grace, %; Josephine, 1S; Katherine.
%; Louise, %; Marguerite. II; Mar
iorie, %; Mabel, Is. The foregoing
constitute one-half of the 1850, and
the rest are in great variety.
Northern Wisconsin advertiser. [volume] (Wabeno, Wis.) 1898-1925, 1911-02-10

r. HE United States battleship Maine,
Il destroyed in Havana harbOr in
February. 1898, with a loss of many
lives, was blown up by an internal
explosion, and when the ship is raised
it will be shown that the Spaniards in
Cuba had absolutely nothing to do
with the destruction of the vessel.
This is the opinion of officials of the
war department, based upon informa-
ton conveyed to them by army Off
GERS engaged in the work of raising
the shattered hull.
Persons who have arrived in Wash
;ngton recently, and have an intimate
knowledge of the work of raising the
battleship, it is learned, agree that the
destruction of the Maine was due to
the explosion of one of the alright
compartments used for the storage of
Northern Wisconsin advertiser. [volume] (Wabeno, Wis.) 1898-1925, 1911-02-10

G IXTEEN thousand claims for pen
- sions growing out of the Spanish
war are on file in the pension office in
Washington. All the pensions Incl
dental to this war are being disposed
of more promptly than those growing
out OF the Civil war, because the ma
chinery was in full operation at the
time the claims accrued. The events
are recent enough that they do away
with the difficulty of finding witness
IS; the records of the hospital sur
geons and of the field hospitals have
been carefully kept from the start.
Indeed, all conditions are favorable to
a prompt examination and adjudica-
ton of these claims. But when it
comes to the Civil war things are diff
ferent
Widows claims have always been a
Northern Wisconsin advertiser. [volume] (Wabeno, Wis.) 1898-1925, 1911-02-10
Pension Claims of Ready-Made Widows

source of interest in the pension Of
flee. In fact, the widow business has
developed into highly organized in
dustry in some of the border states.
where many negroes who were in the
Union army, are buried. Recently
from one such community 100 claims
for widows pensions poured into
Washington within a few days, all of
them being from widows of colored
soldiers in that neighborhood Sus-
picion was aroused in the minds of
the examiners and it was found that a
sharp lawyer had worked up the
claims for commission. Today only
four Of those claims remain on the
books and it is probable these are
false but evidence for wiping them off
has not been unearthed.
Dependent mothers furnish some
trouble to the pension department
with their claims, though many have
remarked since the war In some
cases lawyers have coached them into
destroying all records of their mar
riage and then to claim the common
law marriage which makes more trou.
bic for the pension office.
Northern Wisconsin advertiser. [volume] (Wabeno, Wis.) 1898-1925, 1911-02-10
Uncle Sam Nips Many Postal FRAUDS

dled Inv postofffce inspectors coVereu
a. onarations of the so-called Ma
brav gang The swindle is pelleVeu
~ have been the most glgahlic
scheme of this kind that the posIai III
spectors ever had to contend Will
was worked by an organization -
confidence men by means OF lahe
horse races. athletic contests, etc
The swindle was perpetrated sue
cessfullv in various parts OF the
limited States and victims IN all par'S
of the country were robbed OF SUMS
varying from $1,000 to $3O'ooo' II Is
estimated that the promoters secured
approximately $5,000,OOO.
John C. Mabray, the prlnclpal oL
the organization and eighty-nine OF
his assistants were indicted III cohneo
ton with this scheme and many OIL
them have already been tried anu
convicted :,
scheme to defraud, international
in it's scope, known as the golu'
brick" swindle, by which "lctlms
have been fieeced out OF various
sums, ranging from $500 to $25,ooo-
and it is believed the sWlndlers Sc
cured over a million dollars-nas
been in operation a number OF years.
Letters were mailed in the Unlteo
States addressed to deceased persons
in Great Britain, the general IDEA con-
veyed being that the deceased was IN
terested in mining speculation; that
the undertaking had been SUCCESSFUL
and that gold in vast quantities had
been discovered.
The investigation of this case re-
ouired the utmost skill on the part or
the inspectors handling it; a trip TO
England was necessary to obtain i'm
portant information and evidence
and investigation had to be made In
various parts of the United States
and Canada.