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Tensas gazette. [volume] (St. Joseph, La.) 1886-current, 1913-07-11
INTER DEN LINDEN IN BERLl"
For Five Pfennlgs You Can Rent .
Chair on This Famous Ger
man Thoroughfare.

Berlin.-"Benutzung, FIVE PTS" is
the legend painted in plain black on
the backs Of the garden chairs, which
stand in two long rows on either side
of the promenade in the Inter den
Linden. and 1t means that II you sit
down on one OF those chairs little
hard faced woman will come and
stand before you, hold out her knot
ted hand and wait in silence until you
put your five pfsnnigs into 1t. II you
oblige by handing over the money
you may occupy that particular chair
for the rest of the day II you have
nowhere else to go; II. on the con-
trary. you are so mean as to rise
hurriedly and hasten from the spot on
becoming acquainted with the f. I
that you are expected to pay for sit
ting down, she will scowl at your re-
Tensas gazette. [volume] (St. Joseph, La.) 1886-current, 1913-07-11

ID TTTSBURGH. PA.-Foo 500, known
u In Chinatown circles as Frank H.
500, ESQ.,, of 522 Third avenue. and a
prominent figure there. became high
sy incensed the other night when he
returned home after visit to the joss
house to discover that his wife Lena.
whom he married In Howard, Pa, less
than a year ago, had eloped with a
former sweetheart. Foo 500 did not
wait to report the elOpement to the
police, but secured a weapon and
started out to recover his wife and
an eigth-months-old me- nnikin, both OF
which he says he is devoted to-
Watch the developments!
The chase was successful Foo 500
found his wife and baby at Fourth ave-
nue. and Smithfield street. They were
accompanied by a young man whom
Foo 500 recognized as his wife's sweet
heart when she was a coy country
Tensas gazette. [volume] (St. Joseph, La.) 1886-current, 1913-07-11
WARsHIP GUN cRUSHES MAN
Remarkable Accident Happens In .
Turret Of the BattleshIp New York
in Brooklyn Navy Yard.

New York.-Imprisoned between the
platform and the flooring of a gun car
riage on the forward turret of the bat
tleship New York in the Brooklyn
navy yard, Frank Duffy, a contract
workman, watched the breech end OF
a six-inch gun slowly descend upon
him. realizing that he was about to
die.
Laborers did not hear Duffy's muf.
fed cries in time to operate the stop
ping lever from above, and his head
was crushed instantly killing him. He
had been adjusting machinery, and his
overalls caught on a projecting bar
when he tried to squirm from beneath
the gun.
Tensas gazette. [volume] (St. Joseph, La.) 1886-current, 1913-07-11
Couldn't Take 1t Home

told a policeman about his purchase.
The cop was going to pinch him.
Then he took compassion on him and
said. terlsey: You've been trimmed"
Mr. Hoops said: Gee, | was mad.
Then he got an option on a contract
to shave 10000 policemen. He paid
an alleged politician 500 for the op-
ton. Hoops told some one about the
option and he was tod: You've been
skinned
Trimmed. skinned and fimmed,
was" said Hoops az he sailed away.
Tensas gazette. [volume] (St. Joseph, La.) 1886-current, 1913-07-11

heaving a suitcase out Of a window
and Irene was keeping Susie's mother
interested in front Of the house. When
Susie and Irene slipped away Marie
told her mother what she had seen
and heard.
Mrs. Comisky told Mrs. Doven-
muehn.
At the merry-goround was Susie
and her "whirligig" hero. They had
$11 and quantities of air castles-that
is. before Susie's mother arrived.
After the mother arrived, they had
a ride in the patrol wagon. Susie also
had-painful to say-a sound spank
ing from her father.
Susies distressing experience with
her father. as a result of the other
wise unfruitful experience. leaves hel
one consolation.
She learned from the police station
records that the name she was about
to bear was not Baer at all. She
would have been Mrs. Joe Borzonar
Znok.
Tensas gazette. [volume] (St. Joseph, La.) 1886-current, 1913-07-11
Saves Shoestring Tips to Sell Them for Junk

Paying out money for the bare ne
cessities OF life, the wife said, was
Ike torture to her husband. His one
Joy in living was to watch the bank
account grow bigger. He had been
saving, she said, from the day they
were married.
Il guess he must have almost a
thousand dollars saved by this time'
she told the Judge.
In reciting some of the incidents OF
her unhappy married life, the wife
said that one day letter came from
the bank informing her husband that
interest had been added to his deposit.
And do you know" she said, he
went right down to that bank and
scolded the cashier for squandering
money on a postage stamp. Then ne
made them give him the two cents
they had spent for the stamp, and he
got 1t, too"
Under this severe arraignment, Kay
sing sat in the prisoners dock. His
lips were set firmly and his eyes
glared defiance.
You'll have to turn over half your
weekly wages to your wife, or go to
JAIL" the judge said.
The mans face turned pale and ne
trembled. Then he nodded his head
to signify that he would abide by the
order issued by the court.
Your case will be continued indetl'
nitely," the judge said. Consider
yourself on probation. The probation
department will collect your wages
each week. Half will go to your fam
ily and you shall retain the other
half"
Tensas gazette. [volume] (St. Joseph, La.) 1886-current, 1913-07-11
PORCUPINE CAUSES A
PANIC IN MID OCEAN
Escaped From Cage on Steamer
and There Was Something
Doing Every Minute.

Brooklyn, N. VA porcupine panic
in mid-ocean, with 400 passengers
thrown into wild excitement over the
prospect Of being pierced with quilts.
was described the other day by an
under officer Of the steamship Pre-
toria, when she locked in South
Brooklyn with great load Of animals
from Hamburg.
According to the veracious narrator.
one Of the animal tenders forgot to
latch the door on cage full of porcu-
pines and few minutes later wild
shrieks from tho main saloon an
nounced the appearance of the first of
the be-quilled wanderers. There was
a rush of officers to the companion
way and in his excitement Second
Officer Herman Siffendoer slipped on
the top step and bumped his way
down, landing fairly and squarely up
Tensas gazette. [volume] (St. Joseph, La.) 1886-current, 1913-07-11
Put Doc on Trial

A dog was brought into 80
Greenwich recently and iouna !.
of worrying a lamb. II Delons
Richard Fanthorpe. barrister' ~, =
prosecutor was Daniel Dutton O - ".
way farm, three Of whose en- 4.
swore that the dog In court -
one which they saw on the A'n
rying the lambs a.
Mr.. Fanthorpe said he nae -
dog for eight years and bao
known It to worry sheep ca''<' =.
even fowls. There was ano'n@
exactly like his m the read -
Mr.. Hutton, the magistrate = n.
case would have been one Of 49, -.
able difficulty had not the a ~. q.
brought his dog to court ~
had been identified as the on' n
worried the first lamb. ana n
case the defendant must pay - -
value of the lamb. and zss
Lendon Mail.
Tensas gazette. [volume] (St. Joseph, La.) 1886-current, 1913-07-11

back through the misty reeofo Z
Anglo-Saxon times to the reign q =
Emperor Constantine in THE loF-
century, when the massive hoP-
wall remains OF which are siill = :
seen. was built around the city oI %
rulers order. William the conqa-t
found London a city Of moIs 2
30 900 inhabitants. and though q =
the keep OF the present tower . !
sure peace among the citizens % "
very chary Of London's liberties
One of the earliest English eha,'4
of which there is record 10 that
he granted the men OF London .
turn for their allegiance ane
says:
William King green
bishop and Gosfrith portresvs
the burghers within London.
and English, friendly; and 9,
to wit that / win that ye be ap Z.
worthy that, were in King Ees CO... z
day. And / will that every ee'.
his fathers heir after his father -. -.
and | will not endure that any
offer any wrong to you uOs
you"
Tensas gazette. [volume] (St. Joseph, La.) 1886-current, 1913-07-11

Regent street, Piccadilly Cir
Gus and the district of the hotels,
shops and theaters. But it is safe to
say that if one has taste for the
ancient and the picturesque, a month
or more could be spent to advantage
in exploring the dingy. fog hung lanes
of the great English capital in search
of the monuments of the past, a writer
says In the New York Evening Post.
This does not means such well known
structures as Westminster Abbey. the
Tower, or st. Paurs, but the scattered
houses and buildings which once knew
the tread of bygone genius distinc-
ton.
In a city where taxicabs are so
cheap-the rate is 16 cents a mile for
motor Understanding about is too
easy to be regarded as task. This
is all the more true when the general
excellence of London's methods or ur-
ban and suburban transportation are
considered. The various underground
lines, the tramways and the motor
buses link up the various districts of
the great, rambling community on the
Thames. while the railroads suburban
services approach and excellence never
known in the United States.
Only Drawback the Climate.
OF the amusement facilities of Lon.
don it is scarcely necessary to speak
II 1t were not for the climate and its
inevitable effect on the Temperament,
OF the Londoners the city would prob
ably have as much Of a reputation fol-
gayety as Paris. There are plenty OF
means of diversion besides sightsee
ing. Theaters abound; the shops, es
pecially those for mems clothes, are
extremely good. and the hotels are the
best In the kingdom. principally be
cause the increasing number Of Ameri
can tourists visiting London has com
PEELED local hotel proprietors to catel
to their wants.
For the rest. even the most uninter
esting sections of the city have theil
Tensas gazette. [volume] (St. Joseph, La.) 1886-current, 1913-07-11
Millennium Guilds Plan.

Boston.-To wear no kid gloves. no
leather shoes or slippers or belts.
nothing in fact that is produced by
torture or death OF living thing
these are fundamental principles OF
he Nillenuium Guild here, new or,
ganization devoted to spreading the
principles of universal love.
Tensas gazette. [volume] (St. Joseph, La.) 1886-current, 1913-07-11
No aEInatersu hal 1zoo.

In parts of New England during the
seventeenth century voters had to re-
side in ''stone house OF the dimen-
sions OF 20 by Is feet, with enc or
more brick chimney or chimneys. .
Each voter had also to be certified by
his neighbors "of sober and peaceful
conversation"
Tensas gazette. [volume] (St. Joseph, La.) 1886-current, 1913-07-11
Japan In Lead.

Misunderstanding to the report o,
ne British museum. 41.620 books were
published last year in Japan, whilf
Germany, the most 'bookish" nation o
europe, put out 31,2S1.
Tensas gazette. [volume] (St. Joseph, La.) 1886-current, 1913-07-11
slmpIe Way.

How do you make o0'h
meet?" "A ~
I'VE put beef at one ena ~
chicken at the other.
Tensas gazette. [volume] (St. Joseph, La.) 1886-current, 1913-07-11

The eternal fitness Of things slips a
cog when a prohibitionist shows up
with a red nose
Tensas gazette. [volume] (St. Joseph, La.) 1886-current, 1913-07-11

Love is blind-especiaIly The INV
love that attacks cyclists.
Tensas gazette. [volume] (St. Joseph, La.) 1886-current, 1913-07-11

GREAT many Americans who
go to London never visit any
but the small area confined
in Fleet street, the Strand.
Regent street, Piccadilly Cir
The day book. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1911-1917, 1913-03-15
CHIvALRY-1o15

To the Editor:- have a kick to
make, and 1 ask for goodness sake,
that you take and air this outrage in
your book. 1 got in a crowded car,
and it gave me such jar, when l
found two women seated. in a nook,
In front of them l stood, as any sane
man would, but neither one of them
rose to her feet. Where is chivalry,
say, whether has it flown away,
when a lady will not give man her
seat? A Mere Man. !.
The day book. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1911-1917, 1913-03-15

And at the end they stood up and
sang my Country, 'Tis of Thee"
with new spirit, a new hope and a
new meaning.
It's a7pity that none of the big mil
ionaires, who leaned back fatty in
their chairs before the O'Hara COM
mission and talked about how easy it
would be for a girl to live on 81 or SIS
a week, who smugly declared that
any really good girl would starve to
death. before she'd ever go wrong,
who, by the way they talked of their
women employees, eternally disgraced
their own sex, were not at that meet
ing. :.
Their eyes might have been open
ed. They might have awakened to
the fact that these women employees
of theirs of whom they talked in
terms of dollars and cents, actually
were human beings, made of flesh
and blood, just like themselves if
some of these millionaires really are
flesh and blood.
And they might have come to real
ize that the time is really past when
any employer, no matter how many
millions he has, can treat any en-
ploye in terms of dollars and cents.
It's pity, too, that the members
of the O'Hara commission weren't at
that meeting. For if the day should
come when the courage Of any MEM
Der of that commission should begin
to fade, it would have been renewed
by the memory of these women of
last night, the women with the new
hope and the new courage in their
tired faces.
1890 ~
CHIVALRY-1o15
The day book. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1911-1917, 1913-03-15


We are one; you cannot treat one
of us badly without treating all of us
badly; you cannot starve one girl
without every other girl working for
you or your brother millionaires re-
senting it; you cannot dig grave be-
fore the feet of one child among us
without all of us fighting you for it.
Working women have a right to
life, have right to sunshine, have
a right to little play as well as to
lot of work. And we're ready to go
as far as possible to get these rights"
said Mary Mcdowell, the woman who
has become known as ''The Mother
of the Stockyards"
eff girl could live on So week,
as some of these milIionaires say"
said Mrs. John T. Bowen, "it would
leave nothing for emergency, nothing
for amusement, nothing for right Iiv-
ing. We must demand more, and we
must make our demand so strong
Wen get more"
81 don't believe in people getting
together and plying themselves"
said Mary Mcdowell. Were not go
ing to do that. We're going to get
to work."
Organization is the only hope of
the women said Elizabeth Maloney,
the fighting little waitress who did
more than any other one person to
force a sluggish, employer-cowed
legislature to pass the ten-hour
law. eff there were a few more
strikes on State street, the girls of
the department stores would get
more decent treatment. You girls
have a right to live and to enjoy life.
You've got to fight for that right. :.
I think you're ready to do it. :"
81 found that the girls of the de-
partment stores looked on the work
of the O'Hara commission as a God
send" said Mary O'Reilly. They're
all ready now to fight for the right |
The Washington times., 1913-05-07
Moral, Educational, and Plays
With Historical Interest
Are Included.

every disturbance. rest from the strenu-
for the empty mind-the movies In
there at your command. a willing. faith
full, truthful. reliable. and, best of all.
an inexpensive servant. so inexpensive
that even the little ncwsboy can scrape
together enough pennies to give nirn-
self. and. perhaps, a co-worker. a treat
for ali hour or two.
The uses to which the motion pictures
are being put are seemingly endless
complexities, mechanical Or otherwise.
are to be untangied by apt illustra-
tons, if the sleeping moral conscience
of the public is to be awakened to civic
wrongs, 1t has been the fashion to re-
SORT to moving pictures. ~ -.
The educational value of the motion
camera is no new thing. but the con-
tinued display of ingenuity i'm its adapt.
alton continues to excite wonder. Pic
lures. and very efectual ones. have IN
pressed upon children the justice Of
treating animals kindly. --..
Films have been utilized 10 show the
W vlicle civilized world the menace that
lies il. the common house ny. and so
on In countless directions. the educa-
ticnaI and semi-educational' list has
pe en- extended.
The best that exists in literature.
science. and ART has been adapted for
the motion-picture camera. and OF OF
the carly failures and succes has
leen Developed the present-day pc &c
ticn. JULIA MURDOCH
The Washington times., 1913-05-07
For The Times Children
Just Before It's Bedtime


want to know IL you have a gallon
measure which will hold a gallon and
! half: l intended to measure by using
wheat. but you seem a smart lad and
will have jewels TO test the measure,
yours
An idea occurred to Simon. Taking
one Of his rubber boots. which he knew
held a gallon. in his hand, he found
1t would stretch till 1t was many inches
longer than at first. So he gave 1t to
the Jinx
Stand that boot on the ground" said
, SIMON. and IL will hold Just a gallon"
60 The JinX had a bag OF Jewels
brought out and filled 1t quite full
! Then simon took UP the boot II
! stretched several inches and more Jew
els were poured In till it held half a
gallon more
You have solved the second question
well. cried the Jinx. and the Jewels
are YOURS. Now for the third. I want
yot yo, 10 ger the % hide from the COW only.
So Simon thought and scratched his
head for long time, but he did not see
how 1t could be done Suddenly he
whipped out his knife. cut the cowhide
which he tied together. making one
which would reach around all sides of
an acre OF ground. Then he placed Il
OF the earth In wide circle with the
''ihN y lfft IN the center.
My cows hide is now inclosing Your
whole tent cried Simon. So the Jinx
gave him bag of gold in addition To
the bootful of jewels. then took his
army and disappeared over the noun
tains. While Simon put his riches on
his back and went to the kind woman's
cottage Here he left her n bowl of
money. Then he kept on to the palace
The Princess was delighted to see the
nan who saved her. especially as he
had so much wealth now And the
next day Simon and she were married
with great feasting. After the mar
riage was over the bride and groom got
into beautiful gildcd coach drawn hy
SIX milk-White horses. with red velvet
harness and with pages in purple at
their heads on which were long, tossing
plumes. buSler went before to clear
the way and at their back rode a tToop
Of guards on black horses and dressed
in silver and blue.
And that is the way that Simple
Simon rode home again to get his father
and family to come and live with him in
his great castle with the beautiful Prin-
cess.
Tomorrow,s story. "Why Ostriches
Cannot Fly.
The Washington times., 1913-05-07

il was almost dark, Simon
~ tramped toward the city. On
n the way he passed cottage.
and. looking through the win
dow, saw neat kitchen with a fire
burning brightly on the hearth, and
the dinner pot swinging from a hook
over the flames. A kind-lookinS wom-
an was getting supper, so Simon rap
ped at the door and she said, Come
IN
Simon sat down by the fire. Present
ly the pot began to boil fiercely and
clouds of steam came tossing out.
THE soup needs more water" cried
the woman. 1T is far to the spring.
but IL you will look down in the ice
house you can get lump OF ice and
throw it into the pot. That will make
enough water"
So Simon stepped out across the yard,
got the lump of ice and threw II into
the pot. Then he sat down again to get
warm. AS he watched the flames leap
ing up the chimney and the steam be-
ginning to puff again. he jumped up
with a shout.
Il have II. | have it" he cried. II
know what tn answer is to the Jinx' 5
first question-it is water. For water
grows hard into ice In winter, il runs
to the sea in brooks and IL clouds up
into steam from the dinner pot"
So he went In Ded and slept soundly
all night. After a big brcakras; the
next morning he thanked the kind
woman. told her ne would reward her
soon and set out for the army Of the
Jinx. arriving there by noon.
The Jinx was sitting as before in
front Of his tent and on the ground at
his side was big bag.
Are you prepared to answer my first
question: asked he of Simon.
Certainly" laughed the boy. That's
easy Here II is
IRE answer IL water-in winter 'tis ice.
Then it rises in steam from the soup
cooking nice.
1t flows in the brook. in the river, the
sea,
So waters the answer as plain as can
be-"
The Jinx was very angry at first. FIe
jumped into the air. the dogs howlcd,
the crows tapped about wildly and the
monkey chartered. But in moment ne
was jolly again.
You did well in guessing my first rid
die" he said. Now for the other.
The Washington times., 1913-05-07
Young Couples Are Kept Off
Benches in Park by Exhibi-
tions in "Movies" Theaters.

A LITTLE working woman of per-
~ haps forty-five sat next to me
n in a moving picture show last
evening. She was dressed in
navy blue serge, that always safe and
sane choice of the poor working woman.
and her shoes and gloves told plainly
that she had scrimped on these necessi-
ties. She dark in, with apparently all
the enjoyment and enthusiasm of which
her starved soul was capable. the pic
ture story that was being shown upon
the screen at that particular moment
an old historical classic-done over for
people. many of whom probably had
never heard it's title until that night.
The world is full Of people who cannot
possibly understand just what that pic
ture meant to her. and to several OF her
kind all over the civilized world. Things
which had been closed book to her
before. a book which her tired hands
could never open. were that evening
pl need before her in a pleasing manner.
Not only did this tired little old-before-
her-time working woman have COM
Portable scat. music of a high order,
comparative quiet and picture of more
than ordinary merit. but she was as
sured by the flashes on the screen that
the picture she was looking at had been
passed by board OF censorship. and
she knew that her children. II she had
any, might visi; this place without fear
OF moral contamination.
Right in front of this little old woman
sat a young couple. girl and boy who.
If there had been no moving picture
show in that precise locality to tempt
them. might have been sitting on
park bench. or on some highly uninter-
esting front stoop. listening TO the sum-
mer night noises made by the babies on
the block They sat there in silence.
watching the picture of this splendid
classic OIL a subject of which their