davidaulloa/AmericanStories huggingface dataset:
Tensas gazette. [volume] (St. Joseph, La.) 1886-current, 1913-01-31

Dor and a very useful one. for it is re-
markably swift and graceful on the
wing, and is expert and persistent in
catching rose beetles. May beetles.
cucumber beetles, mosquitoes, house
flies and flies that trouble horses
and cattle. One observer records
that 80 parent martins made 3,275 Wis
it's 70 their young in one lay. each
visit meaning, probably, anywhere
from one to half dozen insects.
The nighthawk (also called bull
bat; l. probably one Of the most
useful of birds. It feeds exclusively
on insects, and ranks next to the
golden-winged woodpecker (ficker) as
a feathered destroyer Of ants, which
it takes when they are in the winged
stage. Potato beetles. cucumber bee
ties. leaf hoppers, bugs Of various kinds
and enormous quantities of gnats and
mosquitoes are found in their stom-
achs. They are entirely harmless, for
they never feed on fruit, grain, grass
or vegetables. Yet they are being
hunted for sport and are being exter-
minated.
The loggerhead Tor southern) shrike
is a champion pest destroyer, large
Tensas gazette. [volume] (St. Joseph, La.) 1886-current, 1913-01-31
ELEPHANT IS PARIS DISH
Comes From Bright Idea OF Money
Making Animal Owner In
Paris.

Paris.-Elephant pate will figure on
a menu for a dinner at all the princi-
pal restaurants this year and is being
looked forward to with rather mixed
feelings by Paris gourmets. The APP
pearance of the new dish is the result
of chance supply rather than a popu-
lar demand. being due to the death,
a week or two ago, Of Agra, large
elephant, which for some days terror
lied Paris. Agra was the property Of
a travelling Snowman and developed
a habit Of getting out of his cage.
walking around town, wrecking num-
erous wine shops, uprooting trees, and
causing panic in the streets where
she appeared. When the authorities
suggested that Agra would be better
out of Paris his master took him to a
provincial town, but as 1t was still
found impossible to keep him from
escaping and walking through shop
windows he had to be killed. The
owner determined to lose as little as
possible by his death, so he engaged
several butchers to cut him up and
mince him into pate, which sold here
for nearly the price he paid for the
animal when alive.
The pate is said to have a delicious
flavor, but its digestive qualities are
not insisted on, and this suggested
that Agra's devastating influence may
not have ceased with death.
Tensas gazette. [volume] (St. Joseph, La.) 1886-current, 1913-01-31

placing polygamy-a simple repudia-
ton by the husband of his wife, pro-
vided he is well enough of to pay the
nekyah or marriage settlement, which
hes is legally bound to hand over to
her.
The woman of the poorest classes
can go out alone. Custom does not
oblige her to wear her veil down.
Should her husband, in At of anger,
wish to divorce her, he must first Of
all produce the Nekyah, the dowry,
in ready money, not an easy matter
for a poor man.
The real danger to domestic happi-
ness In the great mass of Turkish
homes is the growing tendency of d.
vorce. and divorce wholly favorable
to the man as against the woman.
The payment of the modest nekyah
arranged at the time of his marriage
is a simple affair. and It is seldom
enough to keep the divorced wife for
the rest Of her days. She is forced to
take refuge with her parents or to
find shelter with some of her friends.
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HAREMS OUT OF DATE in TURKEY

dence as the elder male descendants.
And the royal favorite Of the moment
will have transitory importance on
account of the influence which she
may exercise over the sultan.
Royal princesses are considered in
ferior to the mother of the sultan, who
is the real queen Of the little world
of the harem, has absolute authority,
a large staff of officials and the su-
preme title Of "Valide sultan" Thus
it happens that a woman OF slave
birth may, II she be the mother of an
heir to the throne. eventually become
the highest woman of the land.
Every royal princess has her daira'
or separate apartments, slaves. ser
wants and so on, the management OF
the household being given over to her
kalfas. or ladies in waiting-that is to
say. Turkish women of good birth
who have remained unmarried.
Royal princesses rarely take a hus
band of their own rank. They are
generally married by the sultan tC
the sons of men of wealth and posi-
ton. such as pashas, officers of state
high civil officials and the like, {
policy which is founded on a very
practical reason. namely. that the ar
rangement makes the existence Of {
hereditary aristocracy impossible
One of the paradoxes in Turkey II
that the poorer a Turkish woman Il
the greater her freedom. The ricl
woman canont move a step unaccom
panied. She sees Constantinople onl!
from the windows Of her close
! brougham or through veil THO
enough to act as a mask She ma,
dress as exquisitetly as a mannequil
in a Paris dressmaker's showroom
but she must not display so much a
an inch of embroidery in public
When her husband wants to take
second wife, or grows tired of he
and wishes to divorce her. he ha
both the opportunity and the mean
II he is a rich man. 1t is not chi
among Turks OF any education TO TAX
a second wife: but divorce is r
Tensas gazette. [volume] (St. Joseph, La.) 1886-current, 1913-01-31

n CScAul 1oLO " AlSh - oPANAy
ing Extinct.
exterminated, and other curlews great
ly reduced So adverse to the
shorebirds are present conditions that
the wonder is that any escape. In
both fall and spring they are shot
along the whole route of their migra-
ton north and south.
The accompanying Illustrations pre-
sent portraits of group of birds, most
of which the average person probably
knows by sight, though fear that
only a small minority have a clear
idea Of their very great economic
worth.
The jacksnipe Tor Wilson's snipe) is
one of the shorebirds preferred to by
Mr.. McAtee), which, as a family. are
being rapidly exterminated. 1t de-
stroys large numbers of worms and
larvae, for which it probes with its
long bill In the soft earth of corn and
potato fields-thereby doing the farm
er a great service-as well as along
the shores of ponds, lakes and
streams. 1t also feeds on grasshoppers
and other injurious insects. 1t should
be carefully protected, especially dur.
ing the breeding season.
The kildeer plover is another valu
able and beautiful shorebird which
is being hunted to death. 1t frequents
meadows and pasture lands, as wei
as shores, and oevours great quaint
ties of mosquitoes, crane flies, grass
hoppers, army worms. cut worms
caterpillars, cotton-boll weevils, clover
leaf weevils, rice weevils, marine
worms. wire worms and crayfish.
Doubtless everybody knows the rob
in, perhaps the most democratic Of GU
birds. beloved in the northern states
Tensas gazette. [volume] (St. Joseph, La.) 1886-current, 1913-01-31

for his cheerful song and his hand
some appearance, glad everywhere 10
be the companion and the friend OF
man when he is well treated, and high
ly valuable as a destroyer OF harmful
grubs, worms and insects. Yet this
bird is murdered literally by the thou
sands for pot-pies by negroes and
poor whites in the southern states
above mentioned, and is more or less
hunted in other states. Mr.. E. A
McIlhenny, who lives on Avery Island,
La, says that during the ten days or
two weeks of the robin season" Tin
January when the berries are ripe) at
least 10000 Of these useful and beau
tiful birds are slaughtered daily for
the pot. Every negro man and boy
who can raise a gun is after them.
says Mr.. McIlhenny.
Although this bird causes some loss
to small fruit growers, it certainly
does vastly more good than harm. IL
is constantly at work on lawns and
fields hunting for destructive insects,
which it is exceedingly difficult to
keep in control. 1t devours many
caterpillars, including hairy species
which infest the orchard, woodland
and shade trees. Forty per cent. of
it's food is insects, and 4S per cent.
wild fruit. 1t would pay the farmer
we'll to go some expense in order
to keep the robins away from his
fruit trees and berry bushes rather
thar shoot these birds which are sc
useful to him in many ways To muir
der them for pot-pies is, OF course
nothing short of barbarous.
The purple martin is also fond Of
the society of man, and when moi
molested by the villainous English
sparrows-and still more villainous
men by whom it is shot for food
chiefly in the south-it is glad tc
breed in birdhouses near human habi
tations 1t males q charming neigh
Tensas gazette. [volume] (St. Joseph, La.) 1886-current, 1913-01-31

percentage of its food being harm-
full rodents and destructive. insects
the latter including grasshoppers'
crickets and moths, which it frequent
" impales upon thorns or sharp tWlgs'
1t sometimes catches young oiros
Though this is more characteristic OF
the northern shrike, or butcher blrd')
but its diet is chiefly insects and small
rodents. 1t is, therefore, very VaIu-
able to the farmer.
The golden-winged woodpeckef
(also called flicker" "highhole." etc.
is an industrious tree protector, anu
the most efficient of all feathered ant
eaters 1t Is also feeds freely upon pee
ties. grasshoppers, crickets, caterpll-
lars. and other harmful insects, as wen
as on weed seds. Yet 1t is raploly
growing rare because it is much
hunted for food. 1t should be pro-
tected everywhere and at all times.
In view of the decrease already ac-
complished in the general volume OF
bird life in America, in view OF the
enormous losses annually inflicted up
on the people of this country by the
ravages of insects, and in view OF the
destruction Of Wild life which Is now
furiously proceeding throughout Amer
lea. the Mclean bill, which is now be-
fore congress, to provide for the FED
eral protection of all migratory birds'
becomes the most important wild lie
measure that ever came before that
body. In view of the annual economic
loss that will continue as long as
federal migratory bird bin fails TO
pass, it is impossible for anyone to put
forth one good reason-unless 1t be on
purely technical grounds-against that
measure. The Weeks bill, before the
lower house of congress. is precisely
like the Mclean bill. and it matters
not which one passes first
Unless the people of this country
wish to shut their eyes to their OWL
interests, and pay out millions OF dol
lars annually in the form Of increased
cost of living due to the losses caused
by insect pests which would DC
DESTROYED by the birds, they should
demand that a federal migratory bird
bill be at once enacted into a law. II
is Senate Bill No. 6497, and on the
senate calendar 1t is No. SOC. We can
not afford to wait until 1914 or 1915
and congress has full power to &C
this winter
Tensas gazette. [volume] (St. Joseph, La.) 1886-current, 1913-01-31
HER FATAL GIFT OF BEAUTY
Missouri Girl In New York, Harassed
by Men, Tried Suicide, but is
Prevented.

New York.-For ten years Mary
Morgan fought the battle of the city"
in an endeavor to earn enough
money to keep life In her own body
and send something back home" to
her crippled father in De Soto. Mo.
She was pretty. an expert stenog-
rapher, hard working, honest and
good. But she found it impossible. al
most, to keep job.
II am too good looking" she said
to her friends as she told how she
had been obliged to leave one Office
after another because men tried to
force unwelcome attentions on her,
or girls appeared who would work
for less money Recently she lost
another Job. Just before daybreak a
policeman saw a young woman walk
ing toward the North river pier. Her
head was bowed and she was mutter-
ing to herself Just as she was about
to cast herself into the water he
caught her The girl was Mary Nor.
gan.
Let me go. let me CO." she
shrieked. IT want to die. They put
another girl in my place. She will
work for less than could and tried
SO hard to be good"
At Bellevue 1t was found she had
almost starved herself to death and
that her clothing was far too thin fol
this season Of the year,
Tensas gazette. [volume] (St. Joseph, La.) 1886-current, 1913-01-31
He's Not a Chicken FancIer.


Speaking of chickens q funny man
writing in Puck says:
"They are the most dadbusted, un-
certainest creatures that walk the fam
lily acre. Almost everybody tries to
raise chickens at one time or another.
Looks easy-that's the deceiving part
of II.
"And 1t is easy after you learn one
thing. Little chickens don't know
anything, medium sized chickens don't
know anything. II there is any change
of an intellectual nature as the size
increases the big ones know less, 4
possible, than the little ones.
"If there is a wire partition In your
pen with an open door at one end the
chickens will try to plunge through
walking through the door"
Tensas gazette. [volume] (St. Joseph, La.) 1886-current, 1913-01-31
THE BEST TEACHER.
Old Experience Still Holds the Palm

For real practical reliability and
something to swear by, experience
plain old experience-is able to carry
big load yet without getting sway
backed.
A So. Oak. woman found some
things about food from Old Expert
ence a good, reliable teacher.
She writes:
81 think / have used almost every
breakfast food manufactured, but none
equal Grape-Nuts in my estimation.
81 was greatly bothered with weak
stomach and indigestion, with forma-
ton of gas after eating, and tried
many remedies for it but did not ma
relief.
Then decided must diet and see
II l could overcome the difficulty that
way. My choice Of food was Grape
Nuts because the doctor told me !
could not digest starchy food.
"Grape-Nuts food has been great
benefit to me for feel like different
person since / begun to eat 1t. II IL
wonderful to me how strong my
nerves have become. l advise every
one to try it, for experience Is the
best teacher.
"If you have any stomach trouble
can't digest your food. use Grape
Nuts food for breakfast at least, ane
YOU won't be able to praise 1t enough
when you see how different you feel
Name given by Postum Co., Batti'
Creek, Mich. Read the little Dook
"The Road to weIlville." in pigs
There's q Reason"
Ever read the above letter. A s.
| one appears from time % n.ns,
interest. AZ
Tensas gazette. [volume] (St. Joseph, La.) 1886-current, 1913-01-31

somewhat familiar with. He was
also certain that she had been con-
firmed within the week at another
place. The bishop whispered to her
to remain after service, and said.
my dear madam, what do you mean
by coming for confirmation? / am
sure ! confirmed you on Monday at
such a place. Did l not?" She said.
You certainly did. have been fol-
lowing you up the river and have
been confirmed every day this week."
He, astonished. said. why did you do
thatf" whereupon she replied. BE
Tensas gazette. [volume] (St. Joseph, La.) 1886-current, 1913-01-31


Destroyer. But Murdered by the
Thousands for Pot-Pies
In the South.
with the result that the damage they
do is mounting up, year by year.
II il perfectly apparent that here
IN a situation which demands immedi-
ate action, and that this action should
bring about the vigilant protection for
all time, and In all parts of the coun-
try, of all insectivorous birds. Many
Of the most useful of these birds are
already on the tobogganslide to-
ward determination. as the result OF
stupid state legislation, or the lax en-
forcement OF such laws as have been
enacted. To be explicit:
There are seven states in which the
robin is being legally killed by the
tens of thousands annually as game!
These states are louisiana, Mississip-
ri. Florida, South Carolina. North Car
DINA, Tennessee and Maryland.
The black bird is legalized game" "
and suffers the same fate in four
states-Louisiana, South Carolina,
Tennessee and Pennsylvania-and the
District Of Columbia besides.
Doves are slaughtered by the whole
sale In 26 states. much to the loss OF
the farmers, for this bird is great
eater of weed seeds.
Cranes, which are also very useful
birds. are much hunted for food and
for sport" in Colorado, Nebraska
North Dakota and Oklahoma.
OF the sixty-odd species Of shore
birds q. e., snipe. curlews. plover
sandpipers and the like). at least 90
feed on noxious insects; yet all Of
these birds are rapidly disappearing
According to Mr.. w. L. McAtee Of the
Tensas gazette. [volume] (St. Joseph, La.) 1886-current, 1913-01-31
GeoraraphY of LIQUOR.

Mayor Gaynor, discussing city gov
eminent in his wonted Illuminating
and brilliant way. said in New York:
I'VE must not have one reform law
for the rich and another for the poor.
It is as bad for the millionaire to gam
BILE in his club as for the laborer 70
gamble in a stuss joint. 1t is as bad
to become intoxicated on champagne
as on mixed ale.
"Too many reformers, so-called
think that when a man is drunk on
Fifth avenue he is i'll. and when q
man is i'll on Third avenue he is
drunk"
Tensas gazette. [volume] (St. Joseph, La.) 1886-current, 1913-01-31
pav on which Women RUE.

Candlemas day is not celebrated In
Holland much more than in England,
but it's place is taken by festival I'M
known in this country. Slipper day in
the Netherlands is the one day in the
year in which the Dutch woman
claims superiority over her husband.
On that day she rules him to her
hearts content, and he generally
obeys good humoredly enough. That
is, unless she is one of those ladies'
not unknown in Holland or in any
other country who aspire to complete
rule over their unhappy partners
throughout the year.-Philadephia In
quirer.
Tensas gazette. [volume] (St. Joseph, La.) 1886-current, 1913-01-31
A WeakIinu.

ct am sorry to say" remarked the
young wife, that my husband seems
to lack initiative and lewiston"
what has caused you to think so?
her friend asked.
ct have to suggest it every time
when he asks a raise in salary, and
then he hesitates for long time
about doing It,"
Tensas gazette. [volume] (St. Joseph, La.) 1886-current, 1913-01-31

one hand is a sword and in another
the severed head Of one of the gods
victims. The face and the breast OF
this idol are smeared with blood and
the eyes are red. Her hair is matted
and she has projecting, fanglike teeth
between which protrudes a tongue
dripping blood In some of the idols
of this dread goddess she wears a
necklace of skulls, and she is girded
with serpents.
The ritual performed in the worship
of Kali involves the most revolving
rites, which the British government
has long tried to suppress, but not
with complete success. To the true
worshipers of Kali" human sacrifice
is essential. The victim, always a
male, was taken to the temple after
sunset and there imprisoned. The
next morning he was dead and the
priests told the people that Kali had
sucked his blood In the night.
Cutting their flesh and burning por
lions of their bodies is part Of the de
votion required of Kali's worshippers
1t is in her worship that the famous
hook swinging festival" was held un
til prohibited by the British. Those
who vowed themselves to self-torturt
submitted to be swung in the air from
hooks which passed through theil
muscles Just over the shoulder blades
The hooks were hung from lont
cross beam which seesawed upon
long upright pole The victim wal
thus hoisted into the air and swun;
in a circle for fifteen or twenty min
utes. Many died under the excruciat
ing pain.
Tensas gazette. [volume] (St. Joseph, La.) 1886-current, 1913-01-31
CRUSHING ReloInder

A workman sat on curb nursing an
injured foot which had been struck
by an iron casting which had fallen
from the top of building.
Did that big thing hit you3" asked
a sympathizing bystander.
The workman nodded.
"And is it solid iron?"
NO." replied the victim. half OF it
is only lead"
Tensas gazette. [volume] (St. Joseph, La.) 1886-current, 1913-01-31
Recipes for Longevity.

The late John Bigelow, the patri-
arch of diplomats and authors, and the
no less distinguished physician and
author, DR.. s. Weir Mitchell, were to-
gether several years ago at West
Point. DR.. Bigelow was then ninety
two and DR.. Mitchell eighty.
The conversation turned to the sub
ject of age. 81 attribute my many
years." said DR.. Bigelow, ito the fact
Tensas gazette. [volume] (St. Joseph, La.) 1886-current, 1913-01-31
cRUELEsT WORSHIP IN WORLD
Tribe In India Who infiict Horrible
Torture on Persons to Please
Their Idols.

Calcutta.-The cruelest and the
kindest idols in the world have been
located in India by Hugh Fisher. the
English archaeologist. Kali. the tute-
larry deity of that well organized fed
Grafton Of professional assassins call
ed the Thugs, is the cruelist. while
Jaggernaut, or Jagannatha, the lord
of the world" is the kindest.
In the role of the cruelist the idol
of Kali is terrible to behold. 1t Is
black, with four arms, the palms OF
the hands smeared with blood. In
Tensas gazette. [volume] (St. Joseph, La.) 1886-current, 1913-01-31

bureau OF biological survey UNITED
States department Of agriculture):
The black bellied plover, or beetle
head, which occurred along the Allan
tic coast In great numbers years ago,
is now seen only as a straggler The
golden plover, once exceedingly abun-
dant east of the Great Plains. is now
rnre The Eskimo curlew with
In the last decade has probably been
Tensas gazette. [volume] (St. Joseph, La.) 1886-current, 1913-01-31

that l have been most abstemious
have eaten sparinglY, and have not
used tobacco. and have taken little
exercise"
1T is just the reverse in my case"
explained Dr. Mitchell. 81 have eaten
just as much as | wished, II could get
It: have always used tobacco. immod-
erately at times; and have always
taken a great deal Of exercise"
With that. Ninety-Two Years shook
his head at Eighty Years and said,
well. you win never live to be an old
manl"-Lippincott's
Tensas gazette. [volume] (St. Joseph, La.) 1886-current, 1913-01-31
PLEASING Sounds.

What is more delightful than the
careless prattle of a child?" asked me
fond father?"
Have you ever heard the rattle OF >
train for which you had been waiting
nine hours at lonely little station
$50 miles from homer" replied the
travelling man.
Tensas gazette. [volume] (St. Joseph, La.) 1886-current, 1913-01-31
jumped, Killed: STAYED, Safe,

Ernest Woods. fireman, jumped and
was killed, while Fred Lebush, en-
gineer, stayed at his post and escaped
death when the train from st. Adams,
which they we're driving. collided with
an engine In the Grand Trunk yards at
Montreal Woods had barely leaped
from the engine when the baggage
car toppled over upon him.
Tensas gazette. [volume] (St. Joseph, La.) 1886-current, 1913-01-31

To Her Incredible, Otherwise.
He-My brother is making more
money than he can spend.
She-Goodness Where's he work
ing, In the mint?
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Percentage Amount
nFT oaa nf T.Oss

Keeping In mind this enormous
loss, consider also the following
facts:
"a That insectivorous birds do
more than all other agencies COM
bined to keep down insect pests;
(2) That such birds undoubtedly
are rapidly decreasing in number;
and that, therefore.
(3) Destructive insects are, in all
probability, increasing very rapidly.
Tensas gazette. [volume] (St. Joseph, La.) 1886-current, 1913-01-31
Episcopal Cure for rheumatism.

Episcopal Cure for rheumatism.
Rev. Joshua Kimber. in his interest
ing "reminiscences, which have been
running through the Living Church
(Milwaukee), tells the following anec-
dote of the late Bishop Horado Pot
ter:
He had been journeying up the east
bank of the Hudson river. stopping for
confirmation each day at adjoining
parishes. When he reached Pough-
keepsie he saw q woman at the rail
waiting for confirmation whose face
he was sure he recognised and was
Tensas gazette. [volume] (St. Joseph, La.) 1886-current, 1913-01-31

Many a young man Is up with the
lark because he kept the lark aWaks
all night.
Tensas gazette. [volume] (St. Joseph, La.) 1886-current, 1913-01-31

He United States de-
partment OF agricul-
ture is responsible
for the start
ling statement that,
in the year 1904. in
sect pests cost this
country no less than
$420,1OO,OOO. Here
are the figures Of
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CThe bird portraits with this article are
from tho american Natural History.
Copyright. 1904, by William I. Hornaday:
are reproduced here by the permission OF
thu publishers Charles Scribner's Sons.)
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Some spinsters are unhappy -
cause they have no man around v
worry them.