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Tensas gazette. [volume] (St. Joseph, La.) 1886-current, 1913-03-21
Avid AuStere Country

other peoples land. clambering
through gaps in the stone walls, plung-
ing through boys, pushing aside the
piles of dead branches that do duty
as primitive gates. and no one will
say you nay.
To the wanderings of the spirit also
there are set no bounds; the world
OF visions is open to any who will
enter in and. take possession. for the
gate of dreams is at the threshold
and the gate always stands ajar. The
real and unreal are interchangeable
words here; the whole scale Of values
las altered, till ghosts and fairies
legend and vision, are inextricably
interviewer with field and mound and
bog. Every square yard Of Ireland has
been fought over and fought for;
there is scarcely an acre which Goes
not hold the bones Of men and the
relics of some old feud-Celt, Dane
Saxon, Norman. Jacobite, Orangemar
everywhere they lie where they fell
fighting. and their spirits. unquiet ever
in death, increase the atmosphere Of
sadness and mystery.
Tensas gazette. [volume] (St. Joseph, La.) 1886-current, 1913-03-21
100000 FOUND
WHEN FARMER DIES
Vast Fortune of Frugal Toiler in
Safety Vault.
PIPE IS ONLY LUXURY
Titled Soil In Homespun for Years
While Standard Oil Stocks, Bonds,
and Stocks In Banks Lay Gaining
In Value Each Year.

Oregon, Ill.-A frugal, simple, old
farmer lived for so years in Ogle
county, Illinois, and titled his farm I'M
assumingly. Then he died, leaving no
will or information regarding his rela-
tives.
More than 100000 in securities
lay during large part of those so
years in a safe deposit vault of Chi
cago bank in his name, and he never
came to look at them, showing no in
terest in them. apparently other than
enough to keep rental on his deposit
box paid
And not until neighbors had them
selves appointed administrators and
thus awakened interest In his estate
did an attorney he had known for
years gain knowledge that the man
who owned the securities and the sim
pie farmer were the same.
David H. Wilson was the farmer
He titled the soil in homespun. years
ago. and latterly in blue jeans. as did
his neighbors. He never found him
self able, he said. to lay aside the care
of his farm and take comfort in life.
His one friend was his corncob pipe,
and his one luxury" as he termed it,
was the purchase. each spring. Of q
new one.
This, while in the deposit vault.
Standard Oil stocks. bonds, stocks In
Chicago and Oregon banks and in rail-
roads. lay gaining each year in value.
At the end, when death came to him.
the stocks had climbed in value till
they represented more than a million
dollars.
Unique In court record is the manner
in which the great wealth OF the SIM
ple-lived. farmer came to be discov-
cred.
Neighbers who had cared for him
had themselves appointed administra-
tors, as distant relatives" II is said
Harry A. Smith. attorney. former may.
or of Oregon. and one of the few who
had broken through the farmers re
serve and had become something Of a
friend. heard OF relatives In Canada,
Tensas gazette. [volume] (St. Joseph, La.) 1886-current, 1913-03-21
Cat in a Long Fight Keeps Everybody at Bay

Witt went in and lighted the gas. His
hand was not down from the jet be-
fore the cat sprang from a corner and
struck his arm. AS he beat her on
she bit his left wrist and her claws
made burrows on his hand.
The cat renewed the attack. She
landed on his knee and he struck her
with his club. knocking her across the
room, but she was not even stunned
for she was crouching for another
spring when De Witt hurled his cluo
at her. She was in the air when she
and the club met and both dropped 10
the floor. Again she was up ana upon
the policeman, this time tearing MS
uniform. before he could seize another
weapon.
se,zins her by the tail. he hurled
her against the far wall. De VIII
then threw a chair at the animal Sne
crawled out OF the wreckage and was
making another leap. when De VIII
hurled another chair. In tifteen MIN
utes the only article of furniture ne
had not thrown was the center taDie'
and upon the cats next lunge he up
set this upon her. But her nine nVeS
served her in good stead and she was
hack in the fight In a second.
The policeman wrapped the taple
cover about his arm and used strate-
gy. He awaited the next spring ana
let the animal fasten her teeth into
the covering on his arm. AS she hung
there he shot her five times.
Tensas gazette. [volume] (St. Joseph, La.) 1886-current, 1913-03-21
LAsso ENDS A DOG Fight
Philadelphia Peacemaker Uses West
ern Method Of Separating Bloody
Combatants.

Philadelphia.-Two bulldogs en-,
gagged in a fight and nearly cheved
each other to pieces the other evening
in the back yard Of the home Of Ms
J. Edwards. 2S7 South Ounce street
The battle continued for more than
an hour, and resulted in the death o.
one of the dogs.
Both animals we're kept in separate
kennels in the yard. Their barka
snarls and yelps attracted the atten'
ton of everybody in the neighborhooc
and. owing to the size Of the animals
no one dared to enter the yard e
separate them. Finally Mrs. Edwards
telephoned to the police station e
Fifteenth and Locust streets. appear
ing for assistance.
The police communicated with ne
Pennsylvania Society for the Proven
ton of Cruelty to Animals, and turned
the Job over to them. Secretary Ruth
erford sent Agent Ryan to the scene
of battle, and even he, with all his
experience in Quelling fights betvsss
dogs, was undecided as to what could
be done to end the combat Fiaai5
he went to the second floor OF tns
house, and from a bay window over
looking the yard. he lassoed one q
the dogs with long piece OF wire
Tensas gazette. [volume] (St. Joseph, La.) 1886-current, 1913-03-21

who owned the cat everybody said
Jim Robertson"
1T ought to be given some milk"
said Shook with an eye on a bottle
back OF the counter.
The girls shook their heads and re-
piled that the company did not give
away milk. Shook then had talk
with Robertson. The latter bought
the bottle OF milk Soon the cat was
tapping up milk after which it curled
up near a steam pipe under one Of the
benches.
Il told Jim that II the cat had milk
II might stop bawling. / had on my
uniform and no change in my peck
ets," said Shook. 'T1l be darned, but
the first thing knew this afternoon
! missed the cat" explained Police
man Shook.
Jim told me he didn't know where
It went But. thinking It over, the cat
disappeared about the time the s:45
train went out No. don't know
where 1t came from"
Tensas gazette. [volume] (St. Joseph, La.) 1886-current, 1913-03-21

ined Courtney at the Central police
station, could not find that the man
was abnormal in anything other than
ultra generous impulses anent his
wife.
He is insane" insisted Mrs. Court
ney to Captain Schwartz. Resides
the jewelry he bought me three pairs
of shoes, himself a half-dozen suits
and overcoats and he spent half Of
last night taking a cold water bath
in preparation for this trip into town."
While they were arguing the propo-
sition Courtney confided to a police
man that he was very sorry about
this. Been married twenty-five years,
always loved one another, and now
she's insane"
WELL" said Captain Schwartz, mel
Their of you has shown me any good
reason for thinking the other one in
sane. So you'll have to go on home"
Tensas gazette. [volume] (St. Joseph, La.) 1886-current, 1913-03-21

made green and gray splashes on wood
and floor and ragged rugs; but still
the room waited, open to sun and
wind and rain, for the owner who
never came home. Surely some Irish
Rip Van Wrinkle had strolled out one
summer afternoon, fifty years ago. to
the fairy mound two fields away. and
there, encircled by the moss-grown
moat and ring Of rough gray stones.
had dreamed away half a century in
the twinkling of an eye. One looked
to see him return down the "boreen"
now, gray-bearded, dim-eyed. old and
crooke' as the fairy shorns; but no
one came, only the breeze stirred soft
ly through the bare larch twigs, and
from the broken roof the rain dripped
as steadily as the ticking of ghostly
clock
Such deserted homesteads, ruins at
every turn of the road, every corner
of the fields, Wondering away In I'M
lovely and uncared-for decay, create
a sense of overwhelming desolation
which the land itself-truly "a land Of
ruins and weeds"-does nothing to
Hay. The country is in no sense
beautiful: It has been called fat,
though in reality there are never
twenty yards of level going on road or
field. An Irishman back from the
States said to me, 1T is what we
Tensas gazette. [volume] (St. Joseph, La.) 1886-current, 1913-03-21
Brief Tale and Pulling

ID UFFALO, N. Y.-The tiger cat may
- have come in on the 11:49 o'clock
train at the Lehigh Valley station In
Washington the other morning. James
Robertson, who checks the baggage.
did not notice 1t, but Tony, his assist
ant, came along the platform with the
cat under his arm.
Lehigh Valley station" was the label
on the cat
Robertson said he did not want 1t.
The cat arched its back and rubbed
Robertson's legs.
Some cat. jim" said policeman
Grant B. Shook at takes to you all
right"
The cat sneezed.
Its not my cat" protested Robert
son.
pressed the belief that It might have
tuberculosis. but on further thought
decided that Il was too fat
IF didn't claim to own the cat,
wouldn't have 1t going around with
my name on a tag" he said
Robertson cut on the tag. where
upon the cat seemed to grow fonder
OF him. Where he went the cat went
When he sat on the office stool 1t
perched beneath the stool He put
the cat outside and shut the door.
The cat paved the door and uttered
piteous cries. When anyone asked
Tensas gazette. [volume] (St. Joseph, La.) 1886-current, 1913-03-21
EARLY HEARD CALL OF WILD
John Muir, Great Naturalist, Showed
His Bent in the Earliest Years
of His Long Life.

When | was a boy in Scotland 1
was fond of everything that was Wilo'
and all my life I've been growing
fonder and fonder Of wild places ana
wild creatures, wrote John Muir IN
the Atlantic. Fortunately around my
native town of Dunbar. by the stormy
North sea, there was no lack OF WHO
ness, though most of the land lay IN
smooth cultivation. With red-blooded
playmates, wild as myself. | loved TO
wander in the fields to hear the birds
sing, and along the seashore to gaze
and wonder at the shells and sea
weeds, cells and crabs in the pools
among the rocks when the tide was
low. And, best of all, in glorious
storms to watch the waves laundering
on the black headlands and craggy
ruins of the old Dunbar castle when
the sea and the sky, the waves and
the clouds, we're mingled together as
one. After | was five or six years old
I ran away to the seashore or the
fields almost every Saturday, and eV-
cry day in the school vacations except
Sundays, though solemnly warned
that / must play at home in the gar
den and back yard, lest l should learn
to think bad thoughts and say bad
words. All in vain. In spite of the
sure sore punishments that followed
like shadows. the natural inherited
wildness in our blood ran true on its
glorious course as invincible and un-
stoppable as the stars.
Tensas gazette. [volume] (St. Joseph, La.) 1886-current, 1913-03-21
JeII Row Stump for Court but the Maid Wins

wave of culinary terms. 1T jelled
beautifully" was placed in jaxtapo-
sition in the argument between the
women with 1T was. exactly like
syrup, judge"
Placidly. almost as II in a brown
study. Judge Levine listened. Maybe
his mind went back to King Solomon
who had considerable repute in his
day for adjusting disputes between
women
Finally, there came a rift IN the
verbal storm and the Judge adroitly
slipped in couple of words.
Bring the jelly to me-" a smile of
anticipation was on his face, land II
it measures up to the standards
established by my mother l will buy
1t at Is cents a glass"
This suited the plaintiff, although
It was a reduction of cents a glass
from her demand
But in her minds eye she saw a
neat little sign:
Miss Pauline Pickrul. Jelly Maker
by Appointment to His Honor Judge
Levine" Sure the advertisement
would more than Offset the loss.
Mrs. Hayden considered the propo-
sition for a few seconds, weakened
and finally agreed to pay the $3.50
demanded by her former hired girl.
"Ho hum" said the Judge. but not
so very loud.
Tensas gazette. [volume] (St. Joseph, La.) 1886-current, 1913-03-21

NJ EW YORK-A cat which had kept
~ Mrs. Amelia Long out of her
home, at No. 20 Jane street. all after
noon by attacking her every time she
tried 10 enter lost all nine lives after
Policeman John ]. De Witt OF the
Charles street station. had fought
with the animal half an hour the 9TH
er night and wrecked the furniture in
Mrs. Longs home.
Mrs. Long had had the cat for FIVE
years and recently had observed queer
actions. She nursed the animal the
last few days. but this did no good,
and during the afternoon the cat
sprang upon Mrs. Long. tearing her
dress. Mrs. Long ran out of the
house and closed the door. When she
tried to enter few minutes later the
cat was waiting for her and drove her
back
The remainder of the afternoon
Mrs. Long spent in trying to get into
her home, and at night went to the
Charles street station and Policeman
De Wit was sent back with her. De
Tensas gazette. [volume] (St. Joseph, La.) 1886-current, 1913-03-21
Peanut as a ncivlIlzer."

The peanut seems to be playing the
part of "civilizer" in some of the
colonial districts Of Africa. Traders
give a negro a bushel of nuts for
seed on condition that he returns four
bushels from his crop, and since the
yield In good years is twenty fold,
the black man generally has a sur
plus that he can sell at the rate of a
shilling a bushel From a single sta
ton in Senegambia there we're ship:
ped in one year $4,000 tons. Small
boys and scientists have long been In
agreement as to the value Of the pea.
nut; now statesmen also will have to
do it honor. since 1t seems likely to
lead the native African into the paths
of agriculture.
Tensas gazette. [volume] (St. Joseph, La.) 1886-current, 1913-03-21
FREE BY MILLION; TO REWED
Josiah Thompson Of PIttsburo, Rsesns
Iy Divorced, to Marry Girl o.
OF Twenty-one.

Pittsburg. Pa--JosiaA Van NJ
Thompson, millionaire coal man vns
on January 20 was granted a divo'e'
from Blanche Gardner Halves Tnomg
son, to whom he paid one million ooF
lars in return for his freedom y
marry Miss Mabel Moredock. az.
twenty-one years. Of Jefferson. 0rsens
county, according to report The sIp
Is in the West Pennsylvania bosp''.-
where she recently was Operated =
for appendicitis. Thompson Is n'4
eight years old. but looks forty
his home in Uniontown he reIuses 9
discuss the engagement report
Moredock family Is one OF the -
known in Greene county. The s
grandfather was president OF
Farmers & Drovers' National panA
Waynesburg, the Green county So
when 1t was ruined by the acting p.s -
ident. Frank B. Rinehart, ana -
ara
Tensas gazette. [volume] (St. Joseph, La.) 1886-current, 1913-03-21

The other day there was a test Of
new automobile fire engine, In Hyde
Park, one Of the city's swell suburbs
A number OF the bellies OF the city
having expressed a desire to see The
new automobile engine. Mr.. Wiltshire
in his capacity as inspector. pulled the
bell. II drew out every company on
the hill. The bellies gathered out At
Grandin Road and my goodness. hos
they did applaud. As climax to the
dramatic picture. Inspector Wilshirs
took load of the society buds on the
big automobile engine and they went
flying to the Hyde Park station. Right
then and there. in the presence Of the
girls. he inspected the fire house. T.
was perfectly lovely as the society
bellies put it. It was q big Eoc'ai
scream. At the height OF the merfy'
making. Inspector Wiltshire made one
big mistake. He forgot the horses
were out on the cali and be pushed
the button that drops the joker. There
was no response. but the society bellies
had had their inning and did not mind
the mistake.
Tensas gazette. [volume] (St. Joseph, La.) 1886-current, 1913-03-21

should call rolling prairie out there;
and for anyone who has seen the corn
plains Of Canada, or the wild prairies
of Mexico or Texas, the description
exactly fits. Low hill behind low hill
mound beyond mound. they stretch
away south for over thirty miles, to
where the long line OF the Sieve
Bloom mountains show family cobalt
against the pale winter sky. The only
boundaries consist of loose stone
walls, as ruined as the cottages.
their gaps sometimes stuffed with
thorn branches, but more often left
Just as the flying hoof of a hunter
sent them down There is no contrast
In the fields of red plowed earth
with golden stubble: no young winter
oats show vivid green against the
deeper emerald of root crops: as far
as the eye can see stretches an ex-
panse of grayish green pasture. broken
only by gray walls. pierced by gray
rocks. under a low. gray sky-a study
in gray that is relieved only by the
warmer coloring of the boys
Boys Are Elusive.
After heavy rain, when the clouds
are clearing. the pools among the
yellow grass reflect the patches OF
wintry sky, giving an effect Of Damas-
Gus steel work inlaid with gold. only
here the gold is Damascened with
steel. In another place. even in mid
winter, patches of gorse are in full
flower, while beside their golden glory
a still pool mirrors In its shining sur
face those tall, feathery gray PUSHES
that look like a Japanese embroidery
on pearly satin, while perhaps a bird
swaying on a tall rush gives just the
touch of animal-life which the Jap
anese portray so inimitably.
The boys are typical of Ireland
changeable, elusive. full Of moods and
mystery. not beautiful in the obvious
sense, but with the fascination OF an
aloof and subtle woman, who is all the
more irresistible because she cares
nothing whether her charms are felt
or not. These great stretches of bog
give a sense of freedom and wide
spaces which is one of the joys of Ire
land. No neatly-trimmed hedges con-
fine you; no great belts of woodland
shut you in, for where there is a
cIump of trees on hill, they accentu.
ate rather than lessen the baroness
of the country. Undeterred by barbed
wire or notices to trespassers, you
ma. ride or walk for miles across
Tensas gazette. [volume] (St. Joseph, La.) 1886-current, 1913-03-21
limitations Of Mahogany,

A remarkable disparity is shown be
tween the mahogany cut and the ma
hogany consumption. The cut Of real
mahogany per year amounts to 10000
600 feet. while 10000, 900 feet are sold
as mahogany. An investigation made
of this subject shows that there are
no less than 20 different kinds Of
wood which are offered as true ma
hogany, to say nothing Of the others
which are stained to initiate mahog-
any. The newest arrival in the ranks
Of the limitations is what is called Co
lombia mahogany, which is so-called
for the reason that 1t comes only from
Colombia. II is not mahogany in any
sense Of the word and it belongs to an
entirely different family, but 1t has a
remarkable superficial resemblance in
grain and color. There Is said to be
quite a large supply Of this wood avail
able.
Tensas gazette. [volume] (St. Joseph, La.) 1886-current, 1913-03-21
ORDERS HORSE SENT BY P. P.
Failing to Receive $29 steed, Negro
Is Doubtful of New Systems
Value.

Hermitage, Ark.-While Postmaster
Greed was having one Of his busiest
hours at the Office, long, lanky,
''keen-headed" negro appeared before
the delivery window. An anxious ex-
preston mantled his face.
Boss" he queried, "ah sent 20 dol
labs foh uh hawse. Has 70 got 'em?'
NO, this is no livery stable" replied
the postmaster.
"Ah knows dat, boss, but ain he
byah7 He's 'spose to come by de
passul pos. sab"
mo. haven't seen your horse" said
the postmaster. but II one Of the boys
SHOULD happen to shake him out Of a
mailbag, I'll tie him up in here and
let you know"
And the negro vert away shaking
his head doubtfully, his confidence in
the parcel post sadly shaken
Tensas gazette. [volume] (St. Joseph, La.) 1886-current, 1913-03-21
Only sIIoht difference.

The young girl graduate was con-
versing with a minister who was call.
ing on the family.
After all, DR.. Crowford," she said,
there's only difference of a single
syllable between salvation and perdi-
ton"
why, Marion" interrupted her
mother, how can you say that?"
The minister looked at her ques-
tioningly
Its merely a question Of eternal
bliss OF eternal blisters," she replied,
looking past the reverend gentleman
Pennsylvania Grit.
Tensas gazette. [volume] (St. Joseph, La.) 1886-current, 1913-03-21
SOCIETY GIRLS FIND
A NEW AMUSEMENT
Watch Firemen Slide Down The
Poles and Horses Run to
Their Places.

Cincinnati, O.-The society girls :,
Cincinnati have found new amu,s.
ment 1t overlays anything that ii,
been conceived. as good medium 70,
passing time by even the smart set !,
Long Branch OF those eastern place,
Jack Wiltshire, prominent in Clpc,n
natl society and widely known. is ths
latest personal ornament of the Az
department MIR. Wiltshire has the An.
thority to drop into an engine hoass
at any time pull the joker and watch
the firemen slide down the poles sna
watch the horse run to their places I,
the wagons. Mr.. Wiltshire was q,
pointed by the present city admins.
tration. without compensation.
Tensas gazette. [volume] (St. Joseph, La.) 1886-current, 1913-03-21

n LEVELAND, O.--Nineteen cups Of
~ jelly. crimson tinted and quaking
just as well-behaved jelly should. are
what the lawyers call the casus belli
between two women in municipal
court the other day.
Judge Levine, who was trying to
straighten out the tangle involving
Mrs. Florence Hayden and Miss Pau
line Pickrul. was doing fairly well un.
til he ran afoul Of the jelly.
The plaintiff. Miss Pickrul, estab-
lished that Mrs. Hayden owed her 50
for labor In the kitchen. It looked as
simple as A. B, G up to that point
until Miss Pickul said: she owes
me $3.50 for making her nineteen
cups Of Jelly"
Mrs. Hayden admitted that the
Jelly had been made. but mercy.
what jelly 1t wasl"
In Just seven seconds the Judge
was fathoms deep beneath tidal
Tensas gazette. [volume] (St. Joseph, La.) 1886-current, 1913-03-21

less from fires than most Oriental
cities; but one occurred in 1866 which
turned the name by which the sui.
tan's government is generally known
into a misnomer. Among the dam.
aged buildings was the Serai palace,
where councils are held and ambas-
sailors received. The chief gate OF
the palace. BabtHumayum. or Su,
blime Porte. from which the govern.
ment derives its title, was burned
down, and has never been rebuilt.
Tensas gazette. [volume] (St. Joseph, La.) 1886-current, 1913-03-21
Queer French Food

The French eat many things which
other nations do not care for or eye
askance and only partake of sparing.
ly. Not the least of these tidbits to
the Gallo estimation are small tur.
ties. snails and frogs. So popular are
all these that they are hawked pub.
licly on the streets Of Paris. the live
frogs being fastened on skewers, in
long rows, and the snails being adver
tised as fresh from the vineyards
their quality being considered Their
the best.