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Tensas gazette. [volume] (St. Joseph, La.) 1886-current, 1913-06-13
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or eight years. They have trouhls 4,
securing good. reliable servants slso
They are a happy, contented ~
pie, however. There Is no social m.
rest In that country. for crous =.
ripenening weekly, and they know th,s
if the crop this week fails that Of ne,,
week will probably turn out wen Ths
prodigality of nature and the cllmse.
conditions make the people less enee
getic than in many other countvie.
In Siam one sees none of the greed
aud grasping that one sees IN the
countries with cold seasons.
Although l have known Siam n,
twelve years, theoretically, never
knew it practically before. was i'm.
pressed by the thorough trustworthE.
ness of the Siamese, and it was TIE
only place where l saw no ftchIp,
palms. Not a native would accem
a tip for any service performed. but
they will soon get over this when
more tourists visit that country"
Motion pictures are plentiful IA
Siam, said Doctor Gore, and are one
of the chief amusements of the peo.
pie.
Every inducement is offered "a
young n'to work themselves M
Doctor Gore explained. 1T is the
most democratic country in the world
in regard to titles. Titles are 10,
handed down in Siam as they are IN
many other countries. but diminish as
they go down. For instance. the son
of a marquis would be only minis
ter. In a few generations the title
is lost entirely. unless the young men
Tensas gazette. [volume] (St. Joseph, La.) 1886-current, 1913-06-13
WANTS OPEN SEASON ON DEER
Depreciation Of Animals In Connect.
cut Constantly on IHerease-En-
tire Fields Frequently Ruined.

Pomfret, Conn.,. c. Davis, a men,
Der of the state fish and game COM
mission, believes the legislature will
authorize an open season on deer.
Claims filed against the state on ac-
count of damage done by them and
allowed during the last two years
amount to $4,000. The depredations
of these animals constantly increase,
entire fields of vegetables being fire.
Quently ruined.
They have become so bold that they
stalk right into dooryards or pastures
and eat with the cattle, while some
times one will run for a mile In front
of trolley car on country road, as
though 'stumping" the motorman to
catch it.
Tensas gazette. [volume] (St. Joseph, La.) 1886-current, 1913-06-13
ONE TALE OF TWO GOATS
Mrs. Ryswyk's "Gets" Mr.. Mccrac-
ken's and q Neighborhood Quarrel
IL the Result.

Spokane, Wash. - Mrs. Minnie
Ryswyk has goat. Henry McCracken
had goat. Mrs. Ryswyk's goat IL
a hollow horned ruminant mammal,
genus Capro, of the family Bovidae.
Mr.. McCracken's goat was a tigment
of the imagination.
Which is sufficient preface for
chronicling the fact that Mrs. Ryswyk's
goat got Mr.. McCracken's goat For
Mr.. McCracken had pear tree, a rose
bush and several other small but high
ly decorative trees and shrubs In his
back yard.
Mrs. Ryswyk lives across the alley
from Mr.. McCracken. When Mrs.
Ryswyk's goat broke into the Nc
Cracker yard and ate the rose bush,
mangled the pear tree and mangled
the other trees and shrubs, Mr.. Nc
Cracken's goat" departed for pas
lures new. The irate owner of the
ruined herbarium dashed into the alley
and unbraided Mr.. Ryswyk and his
wife.
He punched me in the face and
hit him with stick" Mrs. Ryswyk ex-
planned to the Judge. He got my
goat.
Your honor, that isn't true. Her
goat got my goat. / may have been
a little hasty, but / had lots of provo
cation"
McCracken was put under peace
bonds of $500.
IF you are brought in here again.
McCracken." said the court, you may
get my goat. and If you do it will go
pretty hard with you"
Tensas gazette. [volume] (St. Joseph, La.) 1886-current, 1913-06-13
undertaker,s Feeling.

"Pierpont Morgan was a good hater.
He could like a man well. and he
could hate a man well"
The speaker. a divine. resumed
with a smile:
81 once heard Mr.. Morgan say that
he hated certain financier who had
played him false-that he felt toward
him a good deal like the undertaken.
AT an evening party" he went on.
"a wit endeavored to be facetious at
an undertaker's expense.
"'Yours must be a CHASTITY trade.
said the wit I suppose you never
look at a man without wishing him
deadT
mo said the undertaken calmly
oh. no. There are quite number OF
men whom I'd be more than willing
to bury alive"
Tensas gazette. [volume] (St. Joseph, La.) 1886-current, 1913-06-13

recalled that one of the most striking
of the mural paintings which decorate
the statehouse at Boston depicts the
return of the battle flags by the Union
soldiers in 1866 to Gov. John A. An
drew.
The flag-making plant of the navy is
at the Brooklyn navy yard, where
some 80 women are employed. The
bunting comes from Massachusetts,,
and every case costs the government
$500, or $11.25 a roll. Every piece
must weight five pounds to every 40
yards and stand a weight test of 70
pounds to two square inches. 1t is
STEPPED in salt water for six hours and
then exposed to the sun for another
six hours. II strength and color hold
the fabric is then pronounced At for
service.
Tensas gazette. [volume] (St. Joseph, La.) 1886-current, 1913-06-13
Said His Servants Were "euests.'

said his servants were Guests"
Londcn.-An ingenious attempt to
evade the National Insurance act has
Just been frustrated Robert Cramsie,
a lawyer of Antrim, Ireland, prose
cuted for failing to pay his tax under
the act for his three servants, set up
the defense that the servants we're
now his guests and were no longer in
receipt of wages. The kitchen maid
appeared and said that she had been
discharged on July /, since which time
she had been the guest" Of her for
mer master. Mr.. Cramsie paid her no
wages, but gave her presents. Other
servants testified that they continued
to reside at the home of their former
master as his guests, and that they
received presents from him. They all
testified that Mr.. Cramsie did some of
the homework. The court refused to
accept the guest theory and fined the
defendant, after ordering him to stamp
the cards of his servants from last
July L.
Tensas gazette. [volume] (St. Joseph, La.) 1886-current, 1913-06-13
pouuhnuts BY Parcel Post.

New Britain, Conn.-William c.
Merkle is very fond of old-fashioned
doughnuts. He was brought up on
them and his wife was never able to
duplicate the kind like mother used
to make" Now the household re-
ceives a dozen homemade doughnuts
every other day from Mrs Merkle, ST.,
who lives thirty-five miles away.
They are forwarded by parcel post.
Tensas gazette. [volume] (St. Joseph, La.) 1886-current, 1913-06-13

or flaw. Drills made from the steel
have been driven by blows Of sledge
hammers through four inches Of so'lo
foundry iron with no signs OF break
age or strain. The metal takes me
polish and is said to be rustless. i $
close grained in texture and weighs
more per cubic inch than any other
steel on the market.
Tensas gazette. [volume] (St. Joseph, La.) 1886-current, 1913-06-13

has really been reduced to a
science was an assertion made
by DR.. J. Howard Gore of
Washington. who recently re-
turned from a trip abroad, during
which he covered $4,000 miles. In
that time Doctor Gore used several
kinds of conveyances, including rail-
road trains, large steam vessels, steam
launches, automobiles. rickishAws.
camels and ponies.
Every railroad and steamship ticket
used on the trip was in Doctor Cores
possession before he left Washington.
and all other arrangements. including
the securing of hotel accommodations.
had been made. He had a schedule
which he followed, and so free was
the entire journey from delays that he
returned to Washington within twelve
hours of the time he had set five
months ago. He attributed this large
ly to a good choice of seasons. The
wind was with him instead of against
him, he said.
Doctor Gore spent most of his time
In Siam, where he was the guest of
the late king, Maha Vajirabudh. The
public school system of this country.
known so little as yet to tourists, was
one Of the most interesting features
to Doctor Gore.
Slams Excellent Schools.
"Siam has an excellent public
school system" Doctor Gore said in
describing his trip, land plans for a
university have just been adopted.
doubt whether there is a country In
Tensas gazette. [volume] (St. Joseph, La.) 1886-current, 1913-06-13
Fish stop Steamer.

Philadelphia.-While making the
passage through the Straits of MageI.
Ian the British steamship Characas
was almost wrecked by a school OF
fish. according to Captain Crossley,
who arrived here the other day. The
fish were in such numbers that they
clogged the intake water pipes lead
ing to the boilers and shut of the
steam supply and stopped the ship.
Tensas gazette. [volume] (St. Joseph, La.) 1886-current, 1913-06-13

began. I came up from the newspaper
Office to ask you what you would do
in case we declared war with Canada,
and / continued with the questions
which the city editor had hurled at me.
Looking me straight in the eye,
which only added to my discontinue,
the man waited until had somehow
or other faltered through. Then he
said, frigidly:
Mr.. Vanderbilt is bout. Him the
butler. Good night"
Tensas gazette. [volume] (St. Joseph, La.) 1886-current, 1913-06-13
Church to Guard Babies.

Pittsburgh.-In the hope that more
women can be brought into church
each Sunday, the trustees of the First
United Presbyterian church have es.
tablished a nursery in the basement.
Several nurses will be on hand all
Sunday to attend the babies, while
their mammals sit in the pews and
hear the sermons.
Tensas gazette. [volume] (St. Joseph, La.) 1886-current, 1913-06-13
s...l rhat wan Not Rust.

A new kind of steel is reported to
have been perfected by Joseph C.
Marsh of Cincinnati. The new metal
resists files. saws. and drills, and
while it can be made so hard no drill
can penetrate it, 1t can be bent to a
sharp angle without signs Of cracking
Tensas gazette. [volume] (St. Joseph, La.) 1886-current, 1913-06-13
Rouoh RhymIna.

"T want a word to rhyme win ~
nitable." said the amateur poet WE"
would you suggest"
His friend wrestled with the prov
lem for awhile.
Il would suggest that you get -
other girl" he finally said.
Tensas gazette. [volume] (St. Joseph, La.) 1886-current, 1913-06-13
Couldn't Do Two Things at Once.

Couldn't Do Two Things at Once
Carol had often heard his mother
say. Il can't possibly do two things q
the same time" and was evidently I'D
pressed by the phrase. One evenins
her father came in and said: Caro-
please bring me the evening papsn
and tell your mother that am here
But, daddy" replied the young laay'
Il can't possibly do two things q
both times"
Tensas gazette. [volume] (St. Joseph, La.) 1886-current, 1913-06-13
Some Mover!

Atlantic City. n. J.-Declaring that
no place of abode seemed to suit her
husband. Mrs. Gertrude Towne APP
piled for divorce. She said he had
moved every two weeks for a year.
Tensas gazette. [volume] (St. Joseph, La.) 1886-current, 1913-06-13

It has been considered smart to
sneer at weather prophets, ever since
the days of Noah.
Tensas gazette. [volume] (St. Joseph, La.) 1886-current, 1913-06-13

Everybody seems to know when a
fellow is in love. even before he sus-
poets II himself.
Tensas gazette. [volume] (St. Joseph, La.) 1886-current, 1913-06-13

If we had our lives to live over, 1t
would enable us to make our mistakes
easiez
Tensas gazette. [volume] (St. Joseph, La.) 1886-current, 1913-06-13

Many man aims hign who Is a
mighty poor marksman.
Tensas gazette. [volume] (St. Joseph, La.) 1886-current, 1913-06-13

In getting to the top every man
must be his own elevator
Tensas gazette. [volume] (St. Joseph, La.) 1886-current, 1913-06-13
TRUTHS THAT MAY HURT.

If you are going to combine bush
ness and pleasure, be sure you don't
lose the combination.
Tensas gazette. [volume] (St. Joseph, La.) 1886-current, 1913-06-13

The man who stands on his dignity
never gets SO tired as. he makes other
people.
Tensas gazette. [volume] (St. Joseph, La.) 1886-current, 1913-06-13

It's all right to take time by the
forelock. but don't tell your troubles
before they happen.
Tensas gazette. [volume] (St. Joseph, La.) 1886-current, 1913-06-13

HAT travel in the present day
has really been reduced to a
science was an assertion made
by DR.. J. Howard Gore of
Washin0ton vho racontlv re-
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1913-08-18
REyIyISG An OLD oUARRIJ..

An exchange observes that III took
more than 100 years to establish a
complete and final Interpretation of
the old constitutions, provision as to
the election and appointment Of Unit
cd States senators to FIJI vacancies.
From The complications that have
arisen over the selection of a success
or of the late Senator Johnston of
Alabama it seems likely that the new
seventeenth amendment will be pro-
ductive OF controversies almost as
lasting"
The author OF this amendment
which became effective on the 3lst OF
May las. might have met the whole
difficulty with 20 or 80 words, but he
failed in that respect and so the Old
contention is on again. While it is now
the organic law that senators shall
be elected by the people the manner
Of filling vacancies is left to the dis
erection OF the state legislatures, and
Of course, they have failed to act.
Disregarding the advice of mem.
bers of congress OF both parties Gov
ernor O'Neal has appointed Henry d
Clayton. 4 senator from Alabama, thus
exercising authority unquestionably
conferred upon him under the old ar
rangement but without sanction under
the new. As II is hardly possible that
Mr.. Clayton will be seated, the pro
ceediEg. in view OF the narrow demo
cratic majority IN the senate, is botl
Yexatious and futile.
Apparently says an authority, Their;
Is only one way 20 complete Alabama.
representation in the senate speedily
This is by special session Of the leg
islaturc to confer on the governor tb
power OF appointment.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1913-08-18
CKansas City Starr

The Monroe doctrine is the name
given to a scheme of national policy
outlined by James Monroe G75S-
1S31), while president of the United
States, and promulgated by him in his
message to congress, dated Dec. 2,
1923. 1t embodies the principle of
nonintervention of European powers
in the affairs of the western hemi-
sphere, and has been, practically,
though not formally, adopted by the
United States. The Monroe doctrine
was asserted against Napoleon HIS
attempt to found an empire in Mexico
in 1S63-1S67, and was frequently re-
1 ferred to at the time of the boundary
disputes between Venezuela and Brit
Iish Guiana in 1S95-1S96.
The following passage is from Pres
ident Monroe's famous message: eve
owe it, therefore, TO candor and to
/ the amicable relations existing be,
tween the United States and those
powers to declare that we should con
slider any attempt on their part to
extend their system to any portion OF
this hemisphere as dangerous to OuI
peace and safety. With the existing
colonies or dependencies Of any Euro
pean power we have not interferet
and shall not interfere. But with the
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1913-08-18
AMBASSADOR PAGE ON THE COUN-
TRY LIFE PROBLEM.

The largest problem tina. faces
American civilization today is the
building up of country Ife." declares
Walter II. Page, ambassador to Eng
land, in a bulletin on Education in
the South" Just issued by the United
States bureau of education. we
have Just passed through 4 period of
organization of the machinery of the
modern world, making the city and
the railroad, but the country has been
left out. Now we must build it up. We
all know that in the coming centuries.
as in the past, the character and the
vision of American life will come from
the soil
I'm our early days the character.
istic Of the people of the United States
was individualism. Great as this was
for the cause Of democracy, it rested
upon a false economic basis. A
mans home can not be his castle. for
he Is mutually linked as his brothers
keeper, whether he will or no. A
larger vision and large liberty and a
larger opportunity have come upon us
as the task for our working hours.
/ We must organize in the country"
Speaking Of the work of the confer.
ence for education in the south, to
which the bureaus bulletin is chiefly
devoted, Mt. Page said:
THE historian of the progress OF
democracy could not write a more
thrilling chapter than the events o.
the past 10 or 10 years, taking as the
cue the note of the conference fol-
education in the south. We begar
with the school and the child. and We
end with them, OF course; but ever,
step has been toward a widenin,
democratic idea, to see how we coul,
teach one another, and we have come
to have broadening sense OF all tina
cooperation means.
ITO till the soil, TO train the chi
dren, TO make the home, a work o
continuous human service, l coun
these the greatest privileges that ca
fall 10 the lot Of man. We hav
worked on a program 10 bring to pas
the dream Of the fathers, that our re-
public shall be and remain the hop
of the world.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1913-08-18

Which he proceeded to do. To COM
bat the republican argument based on
the disparity of mine wages in Mex
leo and the United States, Senator
Thomas said:
My experience teaches me that a
20-cent laborer will always bring
forth a 2O-cent product, and that a
half-starved and ill-fed laborer will
prove in the end far more expensive
than a well-fed and well-paid laborer."
And then he produced statistics show
ing that the cost of mining a ton of
lead ore in India, where wages are
20 cents per day, is just twice the cost
of mining a ton in the United States,
where wages are $3.50 per day, due to
the fact that the American miner pro.
duces IL times as much ore as the
native East Indian.
Secretary McAdoo will not be
greatly disturbed by any clustering
Iemand from either the senate or the
house that he prove the statement re
Gently made regarding the decline OF
the government per cent bonds in
the New York market" says Senator
Robert N. LaFollette, the progressive
republican. up to the present time
every move of the speculative banking
| interests to embarrass the admins
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1913-08-18
Capital Comment
BY CLYDE H. TAVENNER
Congressman from the Fourteenth District.

tratlon and compel submission to
their continued dictation of legislation
affecting money and credit has been
promptly and vigorously discounted
by the secretary, who is making effec-
tive use of the resources at his COM
mand. This is quite irregular. 1t
does not conform5to the usual subserv-
iency Of the treasury department to
Wall street. If things go on in this
way it is doubtful if this administra-
ton could be coerced into approving
another such piece of beneficient as
similation as the Tennessee Coal &
Iron company by the Morgan inter
ests. Hence this roar from the Beast.
II is illuminating to note that the
recent valiant demands of the republi.
can stalwartS that McAdoo prove his
charges or resign failed ingloriously
OF their purpose. The people are not
going to be misled by any such parti'
Fan tactics. Wall street has manipu'
lated securities before to attain its
ends. The intrinsic. value of the gov
eminent 2 per cents has not been i'm
paired. No provision in the pending
]
currency bill. threatens their integrity
as a security. Yet they are quoted
several points below par. Secretary
McAdoo will not be required to pro
duce any specific evidence to con
vince the people that there is a Wall
street conspiracy to influence pending
( legislation.
Light on one trust which probably
grips the people of the United States
I harder than any other, with possibly
one exception, is being sought by Rep
resentative w. F. Murray, of Massa
| chusetts. This is the anthracite Goa
trust. Mr.. Murray has introduced ;
resolution in the house calling upo1
the department of commerce and labol
and the interstate commerce commits
sion to furnish data showing the cap
italisation and inter-corporate rela
tionship of the eastern coal carrying
railroads and of the coal mining com
panies affiliated with them.
q have reason to believe" says MI
Murray, that these executive depart
ments have information in their pos
session already sufficient to show tina
more than 80 per cent of the availabl
anthracite coal is in the control O
the seven railroad systems which forr
I, the only means of transporting thi
coal to market"
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1913-08-18

Fortune is lady. with lady's whims
and wiles:
There is glory in her favor and enchant-
ment in her smiles;
She may turn her back tomorrow, though
her mood is kind today,
She may turn from love to hatred in a
tickle woman's way.
Fortune is lady; she may frown on him
who tries
Through the fairest means to WOO her, to
find favor in her eyes.
And bestow her choicest blessings on
some undeserving one,
Who neglects TO give her credit, and in
suits her just for fun.
Fortune is a lady with a wilful lady's
right
To be petulant or merry. to exhibit love
or spite,
And the man is blest WHO bravely has
the heart 10 take her so,
Who declines TO think she means 1t when
he hears her murmur No"
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1913-08-18
The Daily Story
THE TABRIz CARPET-BY CLARISSA MACKIE.
Copyrighted 1918. by Associated Literary

The three young men gloated over
the beautiful. silky carpet from Tabriz
John Fleming had spread it on the
floor OF his studio. and his two friends
sat cross legged in the middle of its
rich expanse while John pointed out
its remarkable pattern.
ITS exactly as Billy translated from
the old Persian manuscript" said John
excitedly. Here is the body of the
mosque All these little squares are
the prayer rugs of the worshipers. Here
in the niche facing the east is the altar.
This mixture of peacock tints repre-
sents the altar itself. and beneath the
altar. so the manuscript says. lie buried
these famous emeralds of the great
shah"
who has been dust these 200 years. ~
solemnly added Billy Blake.
Peace to his ashes" piously con-
Guided Tom Pike. by the way. John.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1913-08-18

to 40 bushels to an acre, about 10 to
II. Even a rain cannot save il now.
But despite their great loss, the
farmers Of the corn belt are cheerful.
They are in good shape. They have
had II splendid years. And even this
year they had a bumper wheat CROP
They have thousands Of tons OF hay
in NOV and clover seed was never 50
plentiful Then, too, it is the belief
that the soil. by lying fallow one year,
will be doubly enriched for years to
come.
The lack of water is being keenly
! felt in many Kansas localities. Those
countries not traversed by either Of the
states two rivers or their tributary
creeks, are much in need Of water
Many of them are importing water by
the trainload from other sections of
the state. This lack of water and pas
turage is making it impossible to feed
cattle. Diaries, too, are being closed
and cows sold in many counties. This
same course is forcing many cattle
| raisers TO ship thousands of cattle to
market before fattening. Meat on the
hoof is now selling lower than for six
| months.
The consoling feature of the entire
situation is that the corn belt farm
ers absolutely refuse to fret. They
regret, of course, the loss of the
years crop, yet they see good, even in
an apparent calamity. And the rea
son? The modern farmer is scientific
He has had years of plenty. Specula
ton has had no attraction for him
He saves his money in his fat years
and he knows, that despite all science
can do. there will be now and then {
lean year.