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Tensas gazette. [volume] (St. Joseph, La.) 1886-current, 1913-02-21

from the south, as it should have
flowed, but from the west-from imma-
diately beneath the Smith building
Pop" Stiefel knew what that meant.
The rotten foundations would simply
be swept away. The building, resting
on nothing, would collapse as surely
as a house of cards falls when the un-
der cards are withdrawn.
The sweat poured down his face.
He looked round him in agony. Then
he rushed back to the air lock and
entered the chamber with the next
pressure of atmosphere. One man
was waiting there, and he was just
about to pass back into the upper air.
Rum" shouted Stiefel, plucking
him by the sleeve. Run like all you
was worth, you Teller and tell 'em the
Smith buildings going to fall"
The man caught the Mortified look
on the old Germans face and turned
and obeyed. Then Stiefel turned back
into the lowest chamber again and
waded through eight inches of swampy
sand.
Five minutesi" he muttered. Five
minutes and she falls. But well save
her!"
He knew that slight obstruction
often checks a vast momentum for a
short space OF time. And he, with his
ponderous body-what better purpose
could he serve? So he sat down heav-
lily in the mud, which reached almost
to his armpits. AS he did so he be-
came conscious that the quivering
mass was temporarily halted. like
some wave meeting a breakwater.
The ripping surface undulated away
from him; then slowly it crept round
and upward. But he had saved a min
ute. And q minute meant the margin
between death and safety.
He looked at his watch. -Four
minutes" he said. Five. Good. Now
let her comet" And the mass rose
to hie neck and gulped his watch and
the hand that held it, and Tapped at
his chin and nostrils. The old man
tilted back his head to breathe "She
looked like Nina" he muttered, as
though in extenuation of his sacrifice.
And suddenly he saw Nina beside him,
her arms outstretched. a look of in
effable love in her eyes. "Mina!" he
mumbled thickly. I'm coming, my
dear" And the tapping sands no Ion
ger oppressed him, nor the mud waves
that now surged over him.
Copyright. 1913. by W. G. Chapman)
Tensas gazette. [volume] (St. Joseph, La.) 1886-current, 1913-02-21
Hints for Authors.

The writer of fiction, who also looks
for steady success, must never by any
chance get himself labelled AS soon
as he finds the critics saying, This
man writes sensation" or This man
writes sentiment" as the case may be,
that is the moment when he must sud-
denly switch of to something else
Like Charles Dickens, | believe in
experiment. In my own work have
frequently resorted to 1t, and in nine
cases out Of ten II has proved a sue
cess. Furthermore, the novelist must
ever remember that the public taste
is constantly changing. myself would
never dream writing today the stories
which may say were by no means
unsuccessful.-Tom Gallon, in The
Daily Citizen.
Tensas gazette. [volume] (St. Joseph, La.) 1886-current, 1913-02-21
Her Great Lave.

They had already celebrated the fact
that the mistletoe hung in the hall,
and now they we're occupying not only
one settee, but also the entire draw
ing room.
could you love me, darling" he
murmured, as the thought of that
sprig of mistletoe came to him again.
eff l possessed only one coat in the
wide, wide world?"
She looked up into his eyes as she
framed her reply.
Il could" she said, 'if knew you
had sacrificed the others to buy me
q new dressi"
Tensas gazette. [volume] (St. Joseph, La.) 1886-current, 1913-02-21
WeddInn Rinaa Ihat Wear.

The next time you are married-or,
If you will, when you are married
don't buy a gold wedding ring. 1t isn't
being done. Platinum wedding rings
are the newest thing. Mile. Jeanne
Provost, French actress, is to blame.
She thought of the idea, and when she
was married to NJ. Firpo. she had one.
Platinum rings are more expensive
than gold and wear better. Just why
an actress, especially a French
actress, should want wedding ring
that will last long while the jewelers.
haven't learned.
Tensas gazette. [volume] (St. Joseph, La.) 1886-current, 1913-02-21
No. on the Program.

A little four-year-old girl, whose par
ents had been discussing an approach
ing meeting in connection with the
Society for the Prevention of Cruelty
to Children, begged to be taken. Her
mother explained that the meeting
would not amuse her, but she persist
ed in her demand, and finally her
mother agreed to take her If she prom
ised to be very quiet.
She was very good throughout the
greater part of the proceedings, but
after listening patiently to the
speeches for some time she whispered
to her mother:
Mummy, this is dull! When is the
cruelty going to begin?"
Tensas gazette. [volume] (St. Joseph, La.) 1886-current, 1913-02-21
Resented Hls pefectIon.

Mary and James had been good
friends for some years, but with the
advent OF some new children" in the
block James rather failed in his ale
glance for a time. The new chill
dren" proving, after all, unsatisfac-
tory, he returned to Mary-who
scorned his advances.
You needn't come over here no
more, James," she told him. I've
done with you. You an me was
friends while you didn't have no
others, but l amt goin' to be no last
chance or common folks friends.
James. You can go back to your show
of friends, for all of me-"
Tensas gazette. [volume] (St. Joseph, La.) 1886-current, 1913-02-21
Fair To All,

Recently" says a Richmond man.
7 received an invitation to the mar
rage Of young colored couple for
merly in my employ. | am quite sure
that all persons similarly favored
we're left in little doubt as to the atti-
tude Of the couple. The invitation ran
Is follows:
You are invited to the marriage
Df Mr.. Henry Clay Barker and Miss
Josephine Mortimer Dixon at the
house Of the brides mother. All who
cannot come may end."-Lippincott's
Magazine.
Tensas gazette. [volume] (St. Joseph, La.) 1886-current, 1913-02-21
DOWN TO THE BARE FACTS
Young Minister'S Passion for seIf-sac-
rifiee Had Results That Might
Have Been Anticipated.

The announcement of Miss Helen
Miller Gould's betrothal led one of the
charity workers of New York to say:
Marriage itself will not be able to
quench Miss Gould's passion for Civ
ing. Apropos to this passion, she once
told me story.
There was a young minister, the
story ran, who, being poor and hav-
ing nothing else to give, used to give
away his clothes.
The young minister's district con-
tanned many needy men, and he would
give them shoes and socks, shirts and
coats, gloves, overcoats and trousers.
Yes, time and again he would give
away his clothes, foolishly and reck-
lessly, piece by piece, until"
Here the charity worker smiled.
UNTIL" she ended, he came to
himself"
Tensas gazette. [volume] (St. Joseph, La.) 1886-current, 1913-02-21
ExeeutIoner Set Fashions.

In England fashions have been kill.
ed at executions, but in France over
century ago fashion in mems attire
was set by Samson, the public execu.
toner. Samson, who had high ideas
of the dignity of his Office, was famous
for the richness of his attire when
,ficiating on the scaffold. Just be.
fore the revolution he was forbidden
to wear blue. the nobleman's color.
and by way Of protest he made him
self even more gorgeous. He took to
green, and that color. as well as the
peculiar cut of his clothes, was adopt.
ed by many Of the young dandies OF
the court.
Tensas gazette. [volume] (St. Joseph, La.) 1886-current, 1913-02-21
RHEUMATIC ADVICE
o,,Irent Doctors Best Prescrip-
,Ion Easily Mixed at Home.


.r,o,n YOUR druggist get one ounce
rr1is compound lin original sealed
ot.. TSr,S, and and one ounce Of syrup Of
packEaa1ssy,lia compound. Take these
,wo ingredients home and md put xb,s sRem
tnto ,ba hottie and take a table,
snaans,ui before each meal and at bed
SPOOL spoon This is said TO be the quickest
sna best remedy known to the The me sacs
pI9pn Good results come after the first
sene' n your druggist does not have
S oses compound in stock he will get
4 O for you in a few hours Sr i from nlS
nnV tsEe a patent medicine instead OF
70 70. Insist on having the genuine TORS
ttnnm,Spound in the original one-ounce. seal
ed yellow package HUNDREDS Juno rec ,n Gi n Ine
Nolist,en last winter Published by the
e,nbs pharmaceutical laboratories OF
chicago.
Tensas gazette. [volume] (St. Joseph, La.) 1886-current, 1913-02-21
Neat Differentiation.

Senator Lodge. at a dinner in the
Back Bay district of Boston indicated
sery neatly the difference between a
statesman and a politician.
"A statesman" he said, thinks of
the next generation; a politician of the
next election"
Tensas gazette. [volume] (St. Joseph, La.) 1886-current, 1913-02-21
ealsworthv AnhorIsms

Nothing that's true is cynical, and
nothing that is cynical is true.
The word smart" Is the guardian
angel Of all fashions, and fashions are
the guardian angels of vulgarity.-
For Love Of Beasts" by John Gals
worthy
Tensas gazette. [volume] (St. Joseph, La.) 1886-current, 1913-02-21
Really Not 70 Blame

Don't you know l toll you not t. go
sHimmin' wild no white trash chillun.
en- sternly asked Sambo Johnsing.
But he wan white befo' he went
"a replied Sambo's small son.
Tensas gazette. [volume] (St. Joseph, La.) 1886-current, 1913-02-21
QUAR- r,rro voup suors

Aliens Foot-Ease, the Antiseptic powder for
tired, aching, swollen. nervous feet Gives
rest and comfort. Makes walking delight
Sold everywhere, csc. Don't accept any sub
stitute. For FREE sample address Allen s.
Olmsted, lie Roy, N. 7. Adv
Tensas gazette. [volume] (St. Joseph, La.) 1886-current, 1913-02-21
Iouoh Luck.

why so disconsolate?"
i've such a fine formula for getting
rid of red ants" pouted the bride.
''Well?"
"And / have no red ants to get nd
of"-Louisville Courier-Journal
Tensas gazette. [volume] (St. Joseph, La.) 1886-current, 1913-02-21
AImnst rhroun AVIAN.

''The fish l had from yesterday
wasn't fit to eat. l was obliged to
give 1t to my servants!
Opinion.
Tensas gazette. [volume] (St. Joseph, La.) 1886-current, 1913-02-21

= .hriiiy on little things like bluing. Don't
49,, w9ier Tor bluing. Ask for Red Cross
'sH nlue, the extra good value blue. Adv.
Tensas gazette. [volume] (St. Joseph, La.) 1886-current, 1913-02-21

us easy for man to resist tempta-
e0n--n he has something better in
sight
Tensas gazette. [volume] (St. Joseph, La.) 1886-current, 1913-02-21

~. ferce's Pellets, small, sugar-coated,
s.sy 70 take as candy, regulate and iuvigorate
a'onach, liyerand bowels. Do not grippe. Adv.
Tensas gazette. [volume] (St. Joseph, La.) 1886-current, 1913-02-21

wen are like trees; they grow eth
eF crooked or straight.
Tensas gazette. [volume] (St. Joseph, La.) 1886-current, 1913-02-21
Real Test.

Gabe-How can you tell a genuine
diamond from a fake?
Steve-Try to hook 1t.
Tensas gazette. [volume] (St. Joseph, La.) 1886-current, 1913-02-21

Nature generates facts. but fiction
Is manufactured by man.
Tensas gazette. [volume] (St. Joseph, La.) 1886-current, 1913-02-21

We feel sorry for the man who has
a nagging wife to fusE over the ashes
from his pipe dreams.
Tensas gazette. [volume] (St. Joseph, La.) 1886-current, 1913-02-21

do you ever give your husband
Christmas hints?"
"Of course / do"
do you? Why. the least hint
makes my husband so mad"
"Poohi you don't know the com
bination. I tell my husband don't
want what I do want, and then get
It"
Tensas gazette. [volume] (St. Joseph, La.) 1886-current, 1913-02-21
The Best Physicians
Gave Him Up

II was attacked with a severe
nervous disease. which was caused
by q dlsordered stomach and liv-
er,"writes Mn. Jas. ID. LIVELY, OF
Washburn. Tenn, Route 2, Box SO.
All my friends thought I would
die and the best physicians gave
me up. / was advised TO try DR..
Pieree's Golden Medical Discoy-
cry. and derived much benefit
from same. MY case had run 90
long. It bad become 90 chronic,
that nothing would effect q per-
manent cure, but Or. PiercIas
medicine has done much for ne,
and 1 highly recommend t. I
heartily advise its use as a spring
tonic and further advise ailing
people TO take DR.. Pierce's medi-
cines before their diseases have
run 90 long that there is no chance
to be cured"
Tensas gazette. [volume] (St. Joseph, La.) 1886-current, 1913-02-21
VIII Bring Quick Relief

DR.. R. v. Pierce found years ago that glyceric
extract of Golden Seal and Oregon grape roots,
queens root and bloodroot with black cherry bark,
would aid in the assimilation of the food in the
stomach correct liver ills and in natures own way
enrich the blood, tone the entire system and con-
sequenty help in the restoration of perfect health Many
who have used Dr. Perces Golden Medical Discovery
y that they have been restored to health when suffering
from stomach and liver ills Let this famous old medicine
start today to lead you to health and strength
Mow-r you prefer-you can obtain Dr.. Pierces
FdUorite Prescription tablets of your druggist
at$I also tn SOC o. nc 5Oone-c
stamps to r. Y. Pierce, Buffalo, for q trial bor.
You learn all about hygiene anatomy medicine etc. the
Peoples Common Sense Medical Adviser
revised upodate edition of which offered covers
postpaid for 81 cents stamps wrapping
and mailing only Address, Dr. Perce's nvds Hotel Buffalo, N Y
-
Don't be poisoned by sluggish bowels. Dr.. Pierce's
Pleasant Pellets regulate and invig0rafe stomach,
liver and bowels. Sugar coated. tiny granules.
Polk County news-gazette. (Benton, Tenn.) 190?-191?, 1913-09-04
whv You Cannot Swim.

The non-swimmer, fearing the water,
very naturally lenses his muscles as
he struggles to keep his head above
the water, until he is hard as a
rock, and like rock he sinks; where
as the swimmer, having no fear, re-
lakes his muscles, and hence becomes
buoyant. The explanation Is a simple
physical one. Tense. taut muscles in
crease the specific gravity of the body
and make it sink in water; loose, re-
Taxed muscles (given an ordinary sup
ply of air in the lungs) will make the
body fioat.-Outing.
Polk County news-gazette. (Benton, Tenn.) 190?-191?, 1913-09-04
"a Man. NV Son."

The fellow who acquires the phys
zeal strength to handle big pillow and
to manage a mule: who learns to love
an honest furrow who gets the moral
courage to kill grass, in spite of the
shade trees that invite him, and who
can be patient, realizing that he is be-
coming, day by day, real man, has a
thousand things more to thank God
for than the fellow who hasn't the
physical strength to carry a walking
cane unless one end of 1t is in his
mouth who hasn't learned to draw
line without straight edge to go by;
who hasn't the moral courage to get
out of bed before 10 a. M, and who IS
impatient because he thinks the gov
ernor" is too hard on him.-Atianta
Constitution
Polk County news-gazette. (Benton, Tenn.) 190?-191?, 1913-09-04
UNCLE SAM AND THE RAILWAY
Claim Government Forces
Than to Garry the Nails AZ
Enormous Loss-

Athens. Ca-Undsr the heading.
BE Honest Even With the Railroad,
The Banner Of this city makes the fol
lowing editorial comment regarding
the contention OF the railroads that
the pOstofice department is under
paving them for handling the mails:
TO carry the peoples mail quickly
safely and frequently is a social
obligation which the railroads freely
concede. Ii is a service voluntarily
performed. for no law compels a rail-
road company 10 carry mails unless II
contracts to do so. The courts hold,
however, that if the railroads so con
tract they must do so on terms named
by the government.
Though surrounded by these anon
aIous conditions, the railroads have,
without stint. placed their resources
at the disposal of the nation to deyel-
Cd the transportation of mails TO the
highest possible state of efficiency
This service has been paid for at a
price fixed by the government. price
from which the carriers have had no
appeal. Railroad officers have felt.
ever since the present method of rail
way mail payment was established in
1873, that this compensation was I'M
justly low.
This opinion is still held by expe-
rienced railroad officers throughout
the country. but with even greater
firmness and earnestness, on account
of the increasing costs of railroad OPP
GRAFTON combined with frequent heavy
reductions in railway mail pay made
by the government
"The railroads maintain that at
present they are underpaid by at least
$15, 900, 900 per year. 1t is their belief
that fair adjustment would require
that the government should pay the
railroads for all services they rem
der"
Polk County news-gazette. (Benton, Tenn.) 190?-191?, 1913-09-04
ESsczzzz SzREET zzXzHE~

the mast eight years. challenges the attention.
study. admiration and imitation OF all lands Anu
In connection with it should be STUDIED the ser
governing penal agricultural settlement Oh .no
Island of Palawan which has already proven
notable success. .
Tho army and constabulary quarters are mod
ola Of their kind The building OF the YOUNG
Mems Christion association In Manila ana Tue
one at Fort Mckinley donated by Heien "ou,u'
are perfect in their equipment There are ciups
aplentv The stranger asks, What Is thls Vi 'hae
fine structure? The answer may be, sucn or
such a municipal building. Yonder is one LOT
medical research. That is the headquarters LOT
nublic works There is the plant for the puDhc
water supply, and there Is the Ice plant
The Ayuntamiento, the old Spanish captoi
hu,lding Is now used for the Philippine Assembly
and for the government Offices. It's commooious
hall is the center of interest as IL Is 1nele Oi.
the laws are made for the Islands ana tneir
enances regulated Eighty Fipinos form the
assembly which may be described as correspond
ing to our lower house. The commission WHICH
ia Mt once senate and cabinet, consists oi 'ouf
men from the islands and i've from tne sta'es'
including the encouragement anu tno A.
ernor. Several of these men are heads OF ue
nartmants All bills passed In the assembly must
he ratified by the commission In order TO De-
come laws The upper chamber mas INC po"e
OF veto But this function is usually exerciseu
in the less drastic form of laying on the taDie
questionable meaSuTeS-aHu ieo''Ao
II goes without saying that as Americans nave
charge of things there are schools galore III
these. throughout the islands, 6OOOoo pupiis are
gathered Now all schools including the paro-
chial the Jesuit and those of other religious or
ders are under government supervision as re-
CARDS the standard of scholarship. The schoois
are all embracing, from the university 10 tne
kindergarten including state, church, mlssion'
boarding. charity, Industrial trade and norman;
aven schools for the blind and the dear ana
dumb and by no means least, for the training
of nurses.
Manila depends much for its interest anu ias-
cination upon the native nipa dwellings seen on
every hand They are scattered, keeping up tne
ever present note Of contrast, among the modern
houses or huddled, almost touching each o.hei,
an the poorest lands OF lined along miles OF roau
IN suburban barrios. Npa Is coarse dwarf
palm of which the Filipino makes anytnins' from
a string or a basket to the house he lives H.
Iika all matched construction the nipa cottage 10
vonderfully picturesque. AS rule II Is raised
an rosts eight or ten feet above the often camp
mr. marshy ground and thus affords shelter Tor
chickens. goats and even pigs and ponies Wnen
these cottages are, as is more and more tne
cage clean in their surroundings, and have the
shade of cocoanut palms, broadleaved bananas
or plumy bamboos with the blaze among them
Of a brilliant fire tree or the bloom Oh lovey
babiscus, the effect Is of finished picture TINS
is heightened at dusk as lights appear inside the
Polk County news-gazette. (Benton, Tenn.) 190?-191?, 1913-09-04
Study He Needed Most.

Several Ohio lawyers once gathered
In Judge Wilson's room after adjourn
ment Of court, and we're discussing the
retirement of a member of the bar.
Among them was one whose practice
was worth $4,000 year. He said: IL
have been practicing several years,
and am we'll fixed. have thought |
would like to retire and devote my re-
naming years to studies l have neg
lected. study law" put in Judge
Wilson
Polk County news-gazette. (Benton, Tenn.) 190?-191?, 1913-09-04
Meters placed on Porches.

Remove, railroad town in Penn
sylvania, has adopted the very con-
venient scheme of placing electric
meters on the back porches of the
houses. This arrangement permits
the meter reader to read a great many
meters in day. 1t is a common mat
ter to read 800 meters Another ad-
vantage is that the meter is placed
in a conspicuous place. where the con-
sumner may read it from time to time
and get better acquainted with it.
Polk County news-gazette. (Benton, Tenn.) 190?-191?, 1913-09-04

Pellagra, the mysterious skin dis
ease in semi-tropical climates, which
has baffled medical authorities for
nearly 200 years, is caused by infected
" later, according to Professor Scala
a ID Professor Alessandrini, of the In
ctitute of Hygiene,> Rome. The
scourge has long been ascribed to the
consumption of bad corn, but the pro
fessors announce they found that in
the districts of Italy, where the dis
ease is most prevalent, the water Is
infected with flint stone in colloidal
solution.
Polk County news-gazette. (Benton, Tenn.) 190?-191?, 1913-09-04

anese tiendas looking like nothing but big pack
ing boxes open to the sidewalk the wares kept
neatly folded shelves along the SIDES, Whle /"
front shelf affords repose for the cigarette-smok-
ing proprietor or proprietress when not moes'eu
by custom.
Tho citv's busy traffic its air of life and stir
suggest little of the sweet do nothing" OF the
torpid east Smart automobiles and auto TRUCKS
share right of way with countless one-pony wv
wheel calesas and carts drawn by the "ioe-
horned small-necked. amphibious carlDaos vi
water buffaloes
Then men of all classes wear white DUCK ou'
the CAV flowing costumes Of the Filipino women
Give nlenty of color to say nothing OF the pretty
frocks from across the seas
The water thoroughfares present activities anu
contrasts not less striking than those OF tne anu
The harbor is often crowded with liners war yes
sells transports cutters cruisers, salllns SHIPS
Yachts and It. as we'll as the river and Its Canals
swarms with long. quaint scows, caieu cascos'
ladan with rice or hemp, corn or cocoahuts'
bananas. bread fruit, small green, ripe oranges
and MANY other fruits and vegetables. Inere
are fishing craft of hundred rantastic Shapes
and bearing sails of lumber or carmihe uye'
When It comes to buildings It Is hard to credt
1901 or thereabout as the date Wnen AneI ,
architects and builders first set to work IN Man
ua II would seem that Aladdin spell must
have helped the work along. In no III accoro
with the old Spanish churches, STANDS the ulshl-
Aed American cathedral, Bishop Brents, ana
other and simpler churches neither encroan
upon nor are bettled by churches OF the ola
order
The Manila hotel is called the compietese anu
most artistic hotel of the east. 1t is young, put
does not show its age 1t will soon celebrate us
second birthday.
There are in Manila FIVE excellent hospitals OF
American make including the Mary Johnson
home and the Tuberculosis hospital in nlgn-
living suburb Strange to say, there Is as YET no
insane asylum, a lack, as can easily De unu ~
stood that often causes peculiar hardship and
suffering. Ne ,,.hoa,st
There are homeiike pensions under Methodist
management for girls and for boys VINO come as
students from the provinces and who would o.ner'
wise lead but makeshlft existence tresny.e-
rians and others carry on helptui cnurcn e'''''
ties. ,a ,nr,ng
Bnbid prison. as It has been evolved during