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Tensas gazette. [volume] (St. Joseph, La.) 1886-current, 1913-06-20

los ANGELES, CAL.-Despite de-
IL clarations that she could not re-
sist the strange power that compelled
her to run away and live the life Of a
nomad attired as a boy, Lucille Muir
ply, the "Tomboy Tramp" has been
given another opportunity by the Ju-
venile court to make good"
I'm grateful, of course" said the
sixteen-year-old girl tramp, but it's no
use. Try as hard as l will l can't be
good. want to go to school and
learn, but somehow l can't. l try, but
fail. I can't explain why, but it is as
IL some strong hand pushed me out
into the world again and induced me
to dress as a boy. I've broke bron-
chos, rode horses in a circus, drove
automobiles, acted as messenger and
picked cotton as a ranch hand-all as
a boy.
1T was a great mistake that / was
born a girl / hate girls and the
dresses and things they wear. I'd like
to be a boy. free to go and come as
will. The world is harder on girls
than boys.
"The faults of boys are overlooked
but the mistakes of a girl are never
never forgotten. l don't see why they
don't let me alone. I'm happy when
dressed as a boy. look like a boy
anyway, and even more 20 when my
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FOR PsYcHIcS TO UNRAVEL
Seemingly Authentic Incident Con-
nected With Death Of Rublnstein
Calls for Some Explanation.

Lillian Nichia in her "reminiscences
of Rubinstein says Rubinstein prom
ised to demonstrate to her his belief
In immortality. IF die first" he
said. 81 shall come to you and prove
this" The writer continues: six
years later, in Paris, woke one night
with a cry of agony and despair ring
ing in my ears, such as | hope may
never be duplicated in my lifetime.
Rubinstein's face was close to mine
a countenance distorted by every
phase of fear, despair, agony, remorse
and anger. | started up. turned on all
the lights, and stood for a moment
shaking in every limb. till ! put fear
from me and decided that 1t was mere
lv a dream. News is always
hate in Paris, and 1t was LIE Petit Jour-
nal. published in the afternoon, that
had the first account of his sudden
death. Four years later Teresa Car
reno told me that Rubinstein
died with a cry of agony impossible
Of description" But why the cry OF
agony? Here we have problem that
must be left for the explanation OF
those versed In such matters, but al
ways with a foreboding that the expla-
nation win be more battling than the
problem.-Dundee Advertiser.
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"Faun" Trains Simian to Enter Homes for Gems

n HICAGO.-The notorious Fagin Of
~ fiction, who lived from the thiev-
ings of boys he taught to steal, has a
counterpart In real life, H. B. Wheel
ock, Chicago architect living at 104O
Human avenue, Evanston. and his
wife believe. Only the modern Fagin
has shown a resourcefulness over the
old-timer that makes the Dickens
character look like an amateur.
The midnight visitor at the Evan
ston home had a trained monkey to
do his stealing for him. In this he
has the advantage of getting through
windows and into places no small boy
could enter and of making a nimble
getaway II he is surprised In his work.
He also has the further advantage of
being able to see In the dark.
The only thing that seems to be
lacking is the simian's proper appre-
citation OF the value of silence. and
therin lies the fact that he was dis.
covered when about to make away
with tray Of jewelry.
Mrs. Wheelock was awakened early
the other morning by the rafting Of
jewelry in the tray on her dresser
She sat up in bed, and as she did Sc
she heard a chattering which she al
once recognized as that made by g
monkey. Then she saw an animal
about the size of a cat spring upon
the window sill and disappear.
Rose Berge, a servant in the Wheel
ock home, also was aroused by similar
noises in her room, and said she saw
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Reminder to Be Good.

The bon box" was apcther device
the Alcotts had for remembering to be
good. Inside the front door of their
house stood a box which served as the
symbol of an honor system, for. into 1t
at the end Of each day the child who
had been good and hadn't disregarded
a single rule of conduct dropped lit
tie slip bearing her name and the code
word Bon" with three crosses after
It. like this: x x x. 1t was such a
distinction to be a depositor at the
end of the day, that asked whether
[ might be allowed to work for 1t, too.
| do not remember how often my
name went into that box attached/to
a bon slip, but do know that used
to examine my stock of virtues very
carefully in those days.-From Beth
Alcott's Playmate" by Lydia Hosmer
Wood in Harper's Bazaar.
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BULL IN A FIGHT
WITH AN ELEPHANT
Queer Combat Is Described by an
American.
FORCED INTO BATTLE
Smaller Animal Was Not scrappy and
Jumped the Fence Several Times In
Attempts to Eseape-FinaIIy Killed
by a Toreador.

Ell Paso, Tex.-H. F. Lang Of Phila-
delphia, who stopped over in this city
q few days ago, thus describes an in
teresting incident which he witnessed
in Juarez, just across the river, In
Mexico:
Il was walking down Mesa avenue,
some few days ago, when all at once
/ heard a brass band playing the IA
miliar strains of Sousa's Tnvincible
Eagle and as / reached San Antonio
street there l saw a Mexican band
federal soldiers) in civilian clothes
maching down the street. Following
the band were two good-sized ele-
plants. A canvas sign almost COW
cred the last elephant. On 1t was
painted: This African elephant Will
fight a ferocious bull from Chicucha
to the death in the bull ring In Juarez
tomorrow, Sunday, February 10. Price
for admission, 5000, box seats; $3.50.
shade seats; 800, sun seats
Il concluded to go over to Juarez
on Sunday to see the fight. On my ar
rival in Juarez found the street lead
ing to the bull ring was crowded with
people, mostly Americans, all stand
ing in front OF small boths. l finally
found my way into the bull ring, and
1t was crowded with about 5000 Amer
leans, very few Mexicans being pres
ent.
Finally the large elephant was
brought into the ring. He had large
bright red ribbon tied to his tail and
another around his neck. The keeper
securely chained his hind left leg to
stake in the ground, and the bugle
sounded to bring In the bull. AS the
latter passed through the gate man
seated on a fence stuck a banderillo
into his back to anger him. He was
a good-sized animal, with rather short
and sharp horns. He ran around the
ring once or twice and finally saw the
elephant, and stood stock still, sizing
up Mr.. Elephant. The elephant also
saw Mr.. Bull at this time and they
both stood staring at one another.
Mr.. Elephant seemed the most willing
for a battle, but Mr.. Bull turned his
head and ran away. and then the
crowd yelled to take him out, which
was done. After awhile another bull
was brought in; he was likewise treat
Tensas gazette. [volume] (St. Joseph, La.) 1886-current, 1913-06-20
Made a Deliberate Charge.

ed to two banderillos; he was reg
ular Texas steer. long horned and
lively. He ran around the ring sever
al times, when he finally saw the ele-
plant.
"They gazed at each other and the
elephant finally made a step toward
the bull and the people roared and
whistled. But the bull was not any
too anxious, and finally he ran away
from the elephant and jumped the
outer fence, about five feet high. He
was quickly induced with sharp In
struments on long poles to run around
until he found an open gate, which
led into the ring again. All this time
Mr.. Elephant was lazily tugging at his
chain to free himself with no apparent
reason, except to get loose. Finally
one of the matadors succeeded in
plunging a rocket banderillo into the
back of Mr.. Bull, and as 1t struck In
the flesh 1t commenced to spiutter as
all skyrockets do. Mr.. Bull was
jumping and running around the ring
now like mad Finally he stood still
a minute and saw Mr.. Elephants tail
or rather the red ribbon on it. and
made a deliberate charge. Mr. Ele
plant saw Mr.. Bull coming. and he
simply squatted with his hind legs
Mr.. Bulls horns struck him with such
terrific force that it knocked the bull
over Mr. Elephant then. in his slow
moving way. attempted to roll his
hind quarters over to crush the bull
Mr.. Bull was too active for that. and
succeeded in getting up and away. Sc
the fight went on; every once in q
while Mr.. Bull would charge a fence
and occasionally jump over. only tC
be goaded back again. to have more
banderillos stuck in his back. After
perhaps an hour of these maneuvers
the bugle was blown for the toreadoi
to come forth and with his red cape
tantalize the bull until he was Sc
furious and exhausted that 1t was ar
easy matter to plunge the sword into
his heart. and the exhibition was
over"
Tensas gazette. [volume] (St. Joseph, La.) 1886-current, 1913-06-20
HE PAYS FOR HIS MISDEEDs
Man Sends Money to the Poor In Re-
turn for His Past Err
rors.

Gallatin, Mo.-Remorseful over mis-
deeds, Charles F. Mccall of Perrin.
Mo-, is striving to make restitution
In so far as it is possible.
In August, 1911. he sent County
Treasurer Mcdonald a check for
$16.75, which he said represented the
money he had gained wrongfully.
The other day Treasurer Mcdonald
received another letter from Mccall
inclosing a check for $3.50. In this
letter Mccall said:
Enclosed please find check for
s4s.10 for the county poor fund for
Daviess county poor and needy. The
price of a violin, with compound in
terest, which / saw one-armed man
steal some years ago; in fact, urged
him to do SO for charity's sake that
he might sell it and get some money
for himself, as he had none and need
ed IT,"
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pursue in Canada and the United
States. So far, therefore. as the char
acter of the schools is concerned and
the subjects that boys and girls study.
Japanese youth and youths In Canada
and the United States are educated In
much the same way.
DR.. Pritchett points out, however.
there is one remarkable difference OF
detail in the school curriculum In
Japan and In America that arises out
of the comparative isolation Of the
Japanese people from other highly
civilized Industrial nations, and which
cannot fail to have an enormous eff
feet, not only upon the intellectual de
velopment of the youth Of the nation,
but also upon their relations to the
citizens of other countries. The peo-
pie of Japan speak language which
the citizen of no other civilized nation
expects to learn.
In order, therefore, that japan may
be in touch with other nations. Japan
csc children must learn foreign Ian
guage. and must learn 1t well. The
international language Of Japan Is
English. and 1t is not too much to say
that in Japan today English. with
the resulting knowledge Of the litera
ture, is the most influential single
study that the Japanese child pursues
The English-speaking nations have
every reason to be glad and proud oveI
Tensas gazette. [volume] (St. Joseph, La.) 1886-current, 1913-06-20
DOGS ANCESTRY A PUZZLE
Naturallsts by No Means Agreed as to
How the Present Favorite of Man
!. Really Has Descended.

Naturalists and the world at large
seem to generally accept the theory
that the domestic dog is, In some
sense. a collateral descendant of the
wolf or jackal, says Harper's Weekly.
A professor In the Natural History
museum of Paris has communicated
results of his study of various canine
skulls to the Academy of Sciences.
He appears to have noticed certain
peculiarities of growth which have
hitherto escaped biologists.
He states that the skull of almost
every species of wolf and jacket differs
from the skull of the shepherd dog to
an extent that makes it impossible
that this dog should belong in the
same classification. The skull of the
Indian wolf, on the contrary, shows
some points of resemblance. This, in
deed. is the only savage canine the
top of whose head projects like that
Of our dog.
There are, moreover, other charac-
teristics which the Indian wolf has In
common with the dog, and which the
ordinary wolf does not share with
them, although his origin and that OF
the dog have long been supposed to be
a common one.
The conclusion Of this scientist Is
that the Indian wolf is the progenitor
Of the shepherd dog and the blood.
hound. There were two primitive
races of dogs analogous to these which
were first domesticated in Central
Asia, whence they passed to Europe
and there seems no reason to doubt
that the bloodhound of today Is the
direct descendant of the dog spoken Of
by the ancients as the dog OF the
age of bronze"
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eASHED BY LEAPING DEMON
Wounded Victim staegers Into Police
Station and Tells Of Fight With
FeroeIous Squirrel.

Chicago.-Haggard and pale, and ex-
hibiting several serious wounds. H.
Church, BIS South Francisco avenue.
staggered into the Austin police sta
ton the other day and reported that
he had had a terrific battle with a
wild beast
The sergeant's eyes bulged.
wild beast, did We say?" he asked
when he recovered his breath. What
kind av a baste?"
1T was one of those animals with
a long tail and terrible teeth" ex-
planned the wounded man, weakly. Il
forget the name of it. It's one Of
those things that leap from tree to
tree and from ear 70 ear"
"Fr-rom ear to ear? What ARE ye
talkin' about?"
The man exhibited two bleeding
ears to prove his assertion. The SER
geant named all of the wild beasts he
could think of from elephants to
mice, and finally mentioned squirrel
That's it, That's it," exclaimed
Church. Il was walking along at Park
avenue and west Ontario street when
a savage squirrel leaped from a near
by tree and bit of a piece of my right
ear. / struck at it and it leaped over
my head onto the other ear and bit
me again. Then 1t ran up tree.
climbed up after 1t and it leaped
across another tree. i came down
a.
jumped back We kept this up until
the squirrel got so dizzy 1umpin1 back
and forth that it fell to the ground and
l grabbed it."
And what Them" asked the ser
geant, breathlessly, leaning far over
his desk.
THE ferocious beast bit me in the
hand and escaped"
The sergeant tainted.
Tensas gazette. [volume] (St. Joseph, La.) 1886-current, 1913-06-20
LEADER OF ELK HERD
Is SHARED BY CHAIN
"Bad Bill" Could Not Resist the
Temptation to Butt Into
Strange Objects.

Altoona, Pa.-"Bad Bill" monarch
of the elk herd kept by John Kazmaier
at his Sylvan Hills country seat, is no
more. The big fellows death came
about in a strange way. He hanged
himself, but his owner is inclined to
think it was not a case Of suicide,
but rather due to Bills" propensity
to charge something
AheaVy log chain was hanging from
tree in that part Of the preserve
maintained for the elk, and the end OF
the chain reached to within five feet
of the grounS Some time during the
night "Bill" plunged headlong into
what proved to be his moose, His
antlers, which he could have shed
few days later, became entangled IL
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self around bed post and writhed.
Mrs. Smith-Jones began to come out
of her stupor of fright. She looked at
her screaming husband first with mild
interest. then curiosity, and finally
with some show Of anger. She arose
and looked into the closet. Then she,
too, became hysterical.
The figure in the closet was that of
Mrs. Sis new clothes model, pur-
chased the day before for the tanning
of a refractory and ever wrinkling
spring suit. Mr.. and Mrs. Smith-Jones
have made some mutual concessions
to avoid any discussion of the subject
before company.
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the chain, and in his desperate strug-
gle to free himself from the snare he
twisted upward until his hoofs were
lifted clear of the ground. There he
hung until next day, when the keeper
found him. Block and tackle were
procured to lower his 1000 pounds to
the ground.
With something of the old hre,
Bill rose on his hind legs and sprang
forward. ran 20 feet. wobbled and top
pied over.
About three months ago Bit
"treed" his owner, on whom he had
charged, and kept him on the anxious
limb for several hours. The elk was
finally driven of with clubs and guns.
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Official Cats.

Nowadays there do not appear TO be
any human rat-catchers on the estab-
lishment of the civil service, but some
government Offices maintain cats for
this work. At the general postofhce.
for example, there is staff of cats
charged with the duty of protecting
his majesty's mails from rats. In re-
turn they are provided, out of the pub
lie purse, with free board and lodging.
The stan of the Deptford victualing
ward includes cats. In France cats are
specially trained for government en-
nloyment To fit them for service
among military stores they are at first
sent for one or two voyages on war
ship. II they prove equal to killing
the rats always found in the holds OF
large ships they are promoted to a
shore billet-London Chronicle.
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nENVER.-There is probably no per-
~ son in Denver who is able to start
at the Union depot, traverse every
street between there and Broadway.
with Fourteenth street as the western
limit and Nineteenth street as the
eastern, and stop without a mistake
or change of mind at every mail box
in that area, but a horse, aged If
teen, yclept Bess, known the hundreds
of mail boxes and knows them so
we'll that she can find them on the
darkest of nights, with blizzard, a
rainstorm or a ninety-mile wind oc-
cupying all available space.
Bess is the property of Frank Mon
roe, mail collector. She has grown
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True chlvaIryl

Mr.. Deakin once prime minister of
Australia in describing his expert
ences at the Kings Coronation. re-
marked that the scene that had i'm
pressed him most was not witnessed
in any royal palace, but in a miser-
able slum alley. zone night" Mr..
Deakin says. 81 had been to a great
function. 1t was midnight. l was
making my way home, and l turned
aside into a narrow, dark alley. There
on the doorstep saw little lad
aged about twelve, with his arms
around little girl of three The lad
had taken of his coat and wrapped II
around the child, and with his cap he
had covered her feet"
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IF / had a daughter. know what
/ should say to her. II she was pref
ty, l should say, My dear. make the
very most of your looks and of your
time. Don't try to be clever, be
cause you are probably fool-bui
that. doesn't matter. Keep your mouth
shut, and look all the brilliant things
you haven't the wit to say And II
she were ugly. would say, Fo1
Heavens sake, be amusing. and cul
tivate the gift of patience, and dom
hope for the impossible Fast 4
the Shadows" by Mrs. Hubert Bar
clay.
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ferent and who fall by the wayh'ds;
but on the other hand, the ayeftzs
college student Of Japan LOOKS upca
his education less in the light Of per
sonal opportunity and more 10 ns
nature of call to serve his soFsr
eign and his country. College spln'
is with him synonymous with pairlpf
ism. II Is not local, but national
With him, education Is a matter q
personal ambition. but always WIZ 'n'
ideal of serving his native land
The influence that goes far TO con
ceal from the outside observer ~
fact that the underlying Ideals o. p'
Japanese and American student =,
much alike Is the difference IN p,
philosophy of life between the szA
and the west.
The philosophy that the Japane,'
student learns teaches him to repf9,'
his emotions, to conceal from J"
world the evidences Of suffering ~.
of 10y. of love and of hate. The p.1
osophy of the westerner permits n'''
to exhibit freely these emotions.
But the educated westerner VINO e,
look below the surface to the nnl...
nature beneath viii understand tnA. .
Japanese gentleman has a heart n :.
bosom. even IL his code Of life teaea.'
him to express his Joy and DIS
row in ways that to western a~
seem cold.
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'fDOCAT ION
IN
.R)ApAN9

this. 1t has arisen not only nm, :.
the need Of the Japanese for 4 ~.
venient medium of communicated 80
the availability of the English lanpp,--
for that purpose, but it means also
genuine liking of the japanese for n.
language and the institutions Of cre,:
Britain. 1t represents, in fact Al u
fort on the part of this progressIv.
nation to adopt into her own cIvIlI,..
ton those moral and practical ide,l,
which she has recognized with friend
ly admiration in Great Britain ana +
America.
Other Points Of Similarity.
Not only is the form Of educa,la,
much the same in America and Jap,n
but a comparison of Japanese ans
American student ideals shows extr,.
ordinary points of similarity. The d.
panese show alertness,. resourcelul
ness and power of initiative. Fdrths,
more. in the Japanese student is The
extraordinary individual ambition /,
succeed. coupled generally with a.
idealistic impulse toward patrictic ans
social service.
The Japanese people have inherited
deep reverential devotion toward u,
imperial house which affects atudeal
ideals as profoundly as those Of Other
groups Of the population. This intenss
feeling is the heritage of many cen.
turtles.
AS consequence OF this deep nst
ional feeling. the Japanese studen,
takes his education not simply &C 4
personal opportunity, but as a part q
his service to his sovereign and to hls
country.
1t goes without saying that In Japan.
as In other parts of the world. shers
are students who are lazy and lndt
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a Fit.

Gov. sulzer was talking IN Aloe',
about a politician who had poan.'
and souirmed and wriggled very se'1
lively under newspaper cri''e's =
"Oh. we'll" said the governor
his grim smile, some men shrek e.
howl about having lost their ~. 49,.
ton, when the fact is that ines !, Y
found at last the kind that reaii5
longs TO them"
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n HE JAPANESE boy has a school
experience quite similar to that
of the United States boy, writes
DIR. Henry s. Pritchett in the

LIT. 1enry .. fTlIcuetI III Iuo
Youths Companion. He begins
his education at the end of the sixth
year in a primary school. In which he
spends six years. In this school great
stress is laid on moral education. The
middle school, which follows 1t. lasts
five years. and corresponds in part to
the last years OF the grades U. S.
schools and the first year of high
school.
From the middle school boy either
goes to a college to learn vocation
or enters a higher school for a three
years course in preparation for the
university. On completion of the
higher school he may enter one of the
two imperial universities. which have
professional courses in law, medicine.
science. literature, philosophy, engi-
neering and agriculture similar in all
respects to the courses in the better
universities of our own country.
The Japanese boy thus begins his
education at about the same age as
the boy in the United States, enters
the university a little younger than
the United States boy. and finishes
his professional school somewhere be
tween the ages of twenty-three and
twenty-five.
The Same Form Of Education.
For girls the elementary school II
the same as for boys, but after the ele
meptary school they generally go for Q
period Of four or five years to high
er elementary school. in which they
learn foreign languages. history
science. household economics. music
gymnastics-subjects that many girli
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aomb wr.cks : Rectorx.

Leroy, N. Y.-The rectory of st.
Joseph's Italian church was partially
wrecked by bomb planted on the
veranda by BLACK Hand agencies.
according to the police. The explo-
sion tore out the front Of the building
and broke many windows in the
church adjoining.