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Tensas gazette. [volume] (St. Joseph, La.) 1886-current, 1913-10-17

The two chief houses Of the /.
period repeat several features 40 =.
Cnossian and Phaestian palaces ~
ably pillared halls and stora.rs.. -
with great jars ranged round ~.
walls. The larger living-rooms -
to have had finely frescoed vsr'
Many fragments Of their decorsts..
have been recovered and ara -.
pieced together TO show Rroun.
Minoan ladies. warriors in process,..
and fan-bearing slaves.
OF the furniture, besides the hros.
vessels already alluded to, pa,os.s
vases in great variety have -.
found. among which are very rooa s
amples of that use of natural -.
table forms for stylistic ornsm,..
which is characteristic of the ss,,,
Late Minoan period; and some ".
sells In stone also have been uneav,h..
Of which one, a slender vase IN hl,,s
obsidian, of exquisite form and aduls
able symmetry, once more fIls I.
with astonished envy Of the capacltis-
OF Cretan craftsmanship. That sne.
a material as this volcanic el.,.
could be turned with truth b. vorl.
men who had no tools but Of atm.
or soft bronze would never b \.
heved, had We not this vase and soms
early vessels in Egypt to prove Il.
fact. The process must have been Il
most as slow as a process Of natuml
One remarkable starue1te in bron.,
has rewarded the Ephor's labora
shows a male figure, clad In beIlss
lion-cloth with frontal flap, and stand.
ing in an attitude of salutation. IA
is probably an adorant of the cre.m
goddess. Many similar figures h
similar attitudes have been found else
where In the island, notably IN u.
Psychro cave; but none SO carefully
and scientifically modelled az TIT.
They all seem to have been de2osi,sd
in shrines and holy places BY msn
DESTROYS to put a vicarious represents
ton of themselves in constant relation
with the deity.
II the excavators had found nolh.
ing but this statuette, 1t would have
repaid their enterprises. But. In TACT
Tensas gazette. [volume] (St. Joseph, La.) 1886-current, 1913-10-17

the suspects sure enough. Both, how.
ever. were reclining on the sidewalk,
comfortably resting against a brick
house. fast asleep in the broiling sun
When yanked to their feet by the
jealous limbs of the law, the darkeys
rubbed their eyes and gazed in won,
derment at the blue coats.
"Whahfah you arrest US. boss?'
they asked Of Faulkner. we ain bin
dom nothin' but waitin' yeah fer de
gawbage wagon T. come long. We
all's city 'ployes. we is. We jess"
Bout face!" shouted Lieutenant
Faulkner to the subs" Forward,
march-straight back to the cooler
joint. We've been fooled again"
Tensas gazette. [volume] (St. Joseph, La.) 1886-current, 1913-10-17

mind whether the sound was that OF
q mermaid or a banshee sometime
fell or jumped from aloft and landed
on his back
He screamed In terror as a pair of
hairy arms encircled his neck, and
rose to grapple with the whatever
1t was. Sailors ran to his assistance
and found him tied up with a gibber.
ing, jabbering whistling monkey. II
was species Of the whistling mon
key of the Amazon, which had been
often heard by those on board and
never before seen.
1t was only a few days after this
occurrence that Second Oficer Fur.
neaux, who was on deck, noticed a
most peculiar phenomenon In the wa
ter ahead. The river had suddenly
turned black. The officer called the
captain and, by and by, through the
glass they made out an immense
school of turtles. They were thick as
logs in a jam in the northwest. The
motor boat had to be lowered and the
turtles showed on with pixies, just an
they handle a log jam, to make way
for the steamer. The jam extended
for nearly half a mile.
At Aquim, Hayti, the Javary took on
a deck cargo Of dye wood. The next
day 1t rained and the dye ram out of
wood, flooding the sea with a crimson
hne, so that the ship appeared to
sail with sea of blood in her wake.
The deck was stained with the dye.
All was red, red, red.
Tensas gazette. [volume] (St. Joseph, La.) 1886-current, 1913-10-17

n LEvELAND, GA desire to excel
~ in the manufacture of fiy-traps is
responsible fer bad blood" between
the police at the Eleventh precinct on
East One Hundred and Fifth street.
near Euclid. and the firemen at en-
CINE house No 10, next door.
Sergeant Cregan, the Thomas Alva
Edison OF the force, wearied Of shoot
Ing nies from his face, or pursuing
them with q swatter," designed and
built q gigantic fiy-trap. This was
placed near the front door, as the
transformation Of the stable into q
garage had eliminated the busy fly
from that region. The flies began to
buzz around.
Charles Trump, the Marconi of the
aremen. CHANGED to see the police trap
and went back to the station with an
idea. The firemen contributed to a
fund to build the largest and most
lethal ny-trap In existence. II was In
stalled near the stable. wherein the
Tensas gazette. [volume] (St. Joseph, La.) 1886-current, 1913-10-17
CAPTIVE IN MUsIc's SPELL
Quail In No Uncertain Mood When ~
Heard the Call Of the
Notes.

"A baby quail was captured 90
brought to the house. The large esp
provided for him stood upon . squaN
of oilcloth, and this was little %,
Whites ranch. Here were bis ioes
his basin of water, and the sandpiN
where be took his daily dust-bath. ins
door Of his house was always ope4
but he seldom wandered beyond u'
limits of his own domain
"One thing invariably tempted Up
little recluse to venture forth; ~
was the sound Of music. Like sn'.A
boy racing after the band, the ~
mert the tones Of the piano reAcls'
his quick ear. he started on ~
and the quick pat-patting Of bis nn5
feet announced his approach ..
would circle about the piano and w.
q fluff-fiuff of his short wings, noun
to the keyboard. The little square ~
ner at its end was his opera cn'9
where he cuddled down contente11 =
long as the music continued, q u'r
expressing his appreciation By 2 "
tented, soft, purring sound. -So''
ban Life
Tensas gazette. [volume] (St. Joseph, La.) 1886-current, 1913-10-17
GROUP OF BUILDINGS ExcNMNTED

been prosecuted, the whole site has
been found to be Minoan, and those
cauIdrons must be accounted rare and
precious survivals of the metallurgy
of the Later Palace Period at Cnossus.
What has been laid bare at Tylissos
is rather a group of large residential
houses than any palace" properly so
called. They resemble In type certain
houses found In 1900 In the town OF
Cnossus at some distance from the
palace building, but are larger and
more richly decorated. The different
residences, having had some archtec-
tural connection with one another.
seem to have formed a sort of block,
much as houses Of the same age at
Phylakopi, in Melos, were found to be
linked one to the next, and probably
they represent family settlement.
Around them, but separated, are re-
mains of few poorer dwellings. form
ing a dependent village or hamlet. In
habited by villeins or retainers, as
was the case at Hagia Triada- What
buildings are now visible are OF the
Third Middle and First Late Minoan
Periods-that is, the sixteenth century
B. c.. or whereabouts; but there were
both seigneurial residences and also
poor dwellings In a previous age. the
Second Middle Minoan, and possibly
a village existed before any noble
house was built. This point, II Is
hoped. will be cleared up when the
excavations in the area surrounding
he main site have ben carried deeper
and wider next season.
Tensas gazette. [volume] (St. Joseph, La.) 1886-current, 1913-10-17
Beet Greens.

Choose very young beets. Wash
with care. taking care that the skin
is not broken. Cut of the leaves one
inch above the beet. Cook the beets
in boiling sailed water until tender.
II very young. this may take only
As minutes. Twenty minutes before
the beets are done, place the greens in
boiling sailed water and cook with
the cover of. Remove the beets from
the water, peel, dice, season with salt.
pepper and butter and place in serving
dish. Drain the greens. chop and sea-
son, and place around the beets.
Tensas gazette. [volume] (St. Joseph, La.) 1886-current, 1913-10-17
Rounds Up $1,000, 900 Bugs.

Carlinville, Ill.-Farmers in Macou.
pin county, Illinois, are making a
profit out of pest by taking advan-
tage of a strange bounty" offer. Ma.
coupin county business men organized
a committee, which offered 50 bushel
for all cinch bugs sent in by farmers
to the committee headquarters at Car.
linville. Ike Sneadeker of Jerpeyville
was the first to claim the bounty. He
shipped 80 quarts of bugs. Sneadeker
estimates there we're 100000 bugs
In the consignment
Tensas gazette. [volume] (St. Joseph, La.) 1886-current, 1913-10-17
Green Corn Puffs,

Beat two eggs until light. add one
cup sweet milk. one pint grated corn
seasoned with salt and a dash of red
pepper. Butter well six custard cups
Fill them half full Of the mixture, place
the cups in the largest cooling uten-
sill, which has been sufficiently filed
with boiling water to keep the cups
from floating. Fill the cups about
level full with soft grated cheese.
Heat radiator Is minutes and leave
In the fireless cooker one hour. Serve
with tomato sauce.
Tensas gazette. [volume] (St. Joseph, La.) 1886-current, 1913-10-17

NO, not unless you wish"
We'll, ladies are a little bashful
about telling their age after they pass
thirty"
"Aw, tell the man how old you are.
Hannah" The husband seemed dis
gusted with coyness.
Well" the old lady made confes-
sion reluctantly, Il amt so old as
the old man is, but I'm eighty-four."
And / suppose you are retired.
too?" said the smiling teller.
That may be your name for it, but
what with the cooking and the house
work and the milking and the butter
ing and all, / manage to keep kind of
busy"
Both old people are a little nearer
ninety now, but seem likely to go on
drawing interest on their savings for
years to come. 1t may be that there's
something in Ohio's soil or air that
strengthens and preserves her chit
dren, at least in the onion belt
Tensas gazette. [volume] (St. Joseph, La.) 1886-current, 1913-10-17
Changed His Mind.

When the old farmer entered the
bucket shop" he was angry all over.
Il dot think I'll invest cent with
you," he calculated. Il Just heard. by
Hen, that you handle watered stocks. +"
The fake broker was nonplussed for
the moment. Quickly recovering his
compoeure, however. he slapped the
old farmer on the back and said In
his most fabricated tones:
My dear sir, of course our stocks
are watered We water them through
precaution."
"Precaution?"
Yes; in these days Of fierce germs
and ferocious microbes we can't be
too particular. That Is why we put
all of our stock through a hot-water
process before putting 1t on the
warket"
And the old farmer was so tickled
he put up another thousand dollars.
Tensas gazette. [volume] (St. Joseph, La.) 1886-current, 1913-10-17

the summer OF 1912 these invesuts
tors descended into the crater -
collected gases directly from the -
These they sealed in glass tubes ~
out letting the gases come IN cons-
with the air at all They SEM =.
tubes to Washington. Besides 'aAns
samples of liquid lava directly IT,
the molten lake. the nvestlsaD''
studied the composition Of the 10y
gaseous matter in the cloud OF son.,
above the volcano. Since some
thoritiess have believed that tnsis
no waS in the material emitted y
volcanoes, it is interesting 70 no.S
that the geophysical laboratory w.
ers condensed no less than han . -
Of water by cooling one Of the -
that they had taken directly ron :"
boiling lava.-Youth's Companioh-
Tensas gazette. [volume] (St. Joseph, La.) 1886-current, 1913-10-17
To Keep Grapes.

Grapes may be kept for months. Sc
lect perfect lunches and see that the
fruit is solid on the bunch. Remove all
little spiders and their webs. but do
not wash the fruit Wrap each bunch
carefully in dark blue tissue paper.
twisting the ends tightly to exclude
the air, then pack the grapes away in
a closely covered box. and keep the
box a cool. dark. dry place.
Tensas gazette. [volume] (St. Joseph, La.) 1886-current, 1913-10-17
chIIdren's Luncheon.

A favorite luncheon for small chill
dren with dainty appetites is made
from a box of animal crackers, one of
saltines and a cup Of pure maple strip.
Boil in the strip until It forms a soft
ball when dropped in ice water. Then
put little on each saltine and press
an animal into this in a standing po-
sition. Cream cheese and marmalade
with saltines is also a good combina.
finn
Tensas gazette. [volume] (St. Joseph, La.) 1886-current, 1913-10-17
Beef Loaf.

Beef loaf, served cold. is an mex
pensive cold meat Mix a pound Of
fresh, chopped beef with half pound
of fat salt pork chopped fine.
Bind them together with an egg and
add salt, pepper. little grated onion
and then half a cupful each of milk
and cracker crumbs. Roll into a loaf
and bake for three-quarters Of an hour,
bdsting occasionally with hot water
and melted butter.
Tensas gazette. [volume] (St. Joseph, La.) 1886-current, 1913-10-17
AppIerine PUDDING.

Stew sliced apple until tender. Add
two cups of sauce to three cups milk
and about two cups of bread crumbs,
broken in coarse pieces. Sweeten
with one and one-half cups white sug-
ar, season with lemon. cinnamon or
nutmeg, one-half cup raisins cut in
halves, pinch Of salt. piece OF butter
size OF walnut. Bake one hour Serve
hot or cold with or without sauce.
Whipped cream is delicious.
Tensas gazette. [volume] (St. Joseph, La.) 1886-current, 1913-10-17
rake AWAY unused SUGAR.

People in France when they olns
restaurant frequently appropria..s =,
sugar they don't happen to use. 49,
in France is dear, and what Is ss,', =
with the coffee belongs, by rlsnS !.
the purchaser as much as the 49, =
itself. So why not take . lumr
two home to little Jeanne or ris'
Tensas gazette. [volume] (St. Joseph, La.) 1886-current, 1913-10-17
Watermelon Punch.

The juice of watermelon squeezed
from the pulp makes an excellent foun-
dation for a summer punch. Add SUI
gar to taste, a bottle of ginger ale,
Juice of two lemons, quart of spark.
ling Moselle and cracked ice. Serve
as soon as made.
Tensas gazette. [volume] (St. Joseph, La.) 1886-current, 1913-10-17
Plain Cake.

Half a cup of molasses, Y cup Of
sugar, Y cup of sour milk (sweet will
dol, teaspoon soda, small piece short
ening. egg. l teaspoon cinnamon. u
teaspoon cloves (scant;, little salt.
Add -four the same as for ginger bread
Bake in moderate oven.
Tensas gazette. [volume] (St. Joseph, La.) 1886-current, 1913-10-17

MA ELOW the Cretan kings, VINO
IL held state in the great palaces
~ of Cnossus and Phaestos four
~ thousand years ago. there
ranked, as we know, vassal
princes and noble families, each Of
whom lived on and by a smaller town.
ship or district. contributing, doubt
less, in kind or in service to the
royal treasures, writes d. G. Hograth
in The Illustrated News. Such min
or townships, dominated by miniature
palaces" were laid bare in eastern
Crete, at Gournia and Palaikastro, by
Mrs. Boyd Halves and the British
school at Athens. and perhaps the so
called Royal Villa" at Hagia Triada.
excavated by the Italian mission, must
be regarded. not as a kings seat,
but as a very splendid example Of a
territorial mobiles residence, overlook
ing rich fief at the head of the Bay
of Messara.
Quite recently, by the enterprise
and care of the Cretan Department
of Antiquities, directed by DR.. ]. Haz-
Zidakis, the chief ephor, another of
these seigneurial settlements has been
excavated at the village of Tylissos,
near Gambia. The place lies some
seven miles west of Cnossus In a fer
tile hill country which extends to the
base of Mount Ida: and no doubt 1t
was the center of q territorial fief
held under the Minoan kings by some
noble house.
Large Bronze Vessels.
Some years ago it came to the
knowledge of the Ephorate that pea
SAINTS of Tylissos were in the habit
Of resorting for building stone to a
certain locality hard by the village,
and that the stone procured there
was ready squared. In the process Of
quarrying they had thrown out guam
titles Of potsherds. and one peasant,
more fortunate than the rest, had
come on some large bronze vessels,
much battered and crushed, but COM
plete. These we're impounded for the
government, but for long time sup
posed to be of Hellenic date. Since,
however. systematic excavation has
Tensas gazette. [volume] (St. Joseph, La.) 1886-current, 1913-10-17
AnaIYzina a Volcano.

Members of the staff of the geophys-
ical laboratory of the Carnegie insti-
tuition are studying the physics and
chemistry of active volcanoes at the
crater of Kilauea In Hawaii. During
Tensas gazette. [volume] (St. Joseph, La.) 1886-current, 1913-10-17

they have found much else. a. -
have seen, and before they leave Tyht
SOS, should find yet more.
The ranch. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1902-1914, 1913-01-01
Our Thirty-Five Cent Dollar

ed little, besides being skinned to
death on the price.
On vegetables, fruit, berries, on
milk as we'll, the IS cent rule holds
good. Eggs used to bring a better
return, but large part Of the 1912
output returned the producer but 35
cents of the consumers dollar. The
"Big Six'' held the price of ranch
eggs down to 10 cents a dozen away
into June last summer while they
filed all the available cold storage
warehouses. Later, in November,
these eggs came out of their seclusion
and, mixed with few fresh eggs, or,
in many instances, sold straight out
as fresh ranch eggs, we're retailed at
from 55 to 65 cents per dozen.
What can we do about it? Nothing.
Why? Because we are lot of sheep.
We have neither courage, energy or
intelligence else some sixty thousand
of us egg producers would not be
made monkeys of after this fashion
by any six Western Avenue sharks,
however "big' Philip of Macedon
said that the Chians were born to be
enslaved. The "Big Six" seems to
have the same opinion of Washington s.
poultry raiser.
The ranch. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1902-1914, 1913-01-01

The Rural New Yorker, after a
pretty thorough investigation, states
that the producer of farm products
receives but 35 cents out of every
dollar paid by the consumer. At first
thought this seems like an exaggera-
ton but, sad to say, it is we'll within
the limits of the truth. The writer
can cite instances within his own
personal experience that prove the
correctness of the New Workers. state
ment, and believes every poultry
-aiser can do the same.
Not long ago we had occasion to
ship some plump, we'll developed six
month old cockerels-"s rOasters"
to market; consigning them to a
firm on Western Avenue that has a
reputation for fair dealing better than
the average. The return was eight
cents per pound-less freight and
commission. An explanatory note
stated that they had to be sold at the
same price as old ROSTERS, but his
was a downright lie as we we're able
to trace most OF them to the ''ulti-
mate consumer" and found that they
retailed at % cents per pound. So
in this case ours was less than 30
cent dollar" for we we're short weight
The ranch. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1902-1914, 1913-01-01
THE RIGHT KIND OF LAYING
COMPETITIONS.

At the most all we can say of all
the laying competitions held SO far is
that they have furnished little in
formation Of positive value to practi.
cal poultry raisers. They have shown
that picked fowls of all varieties,
from all over the country, when hous-
ed at enormous cost and coddled and
cuddled by ridiculously large num-
Der of attendants, lay about one
fourth enough eggs to pay expenses.
This knowledge Is certainly of no
practical value; nor is the ascertain
ed fact that under such impossible
conditions 500 selected hens averaged
an annual production of Isl eggs.
The widespread interest displayed
does show that a competition held
on practical, commercial lines would
be most desirable thing. This idea
does not seem to have penetrated the
domes of the college gentlemen
operating these fool competitions, and
the witching hour of midnight which
terminated the first lot of competi-
tions at the same time inaugurated a
brand new bunch of them, conducted
in precisely the same impractical
manner. Like the Bourbon kings
they have learned nothing and for
gotten nothing. They do deserve our
thanks, however, for demonstrating
so completely how an egg laying com
petition should not be held.
How, then, should such competi-
ton be conducted? There can be but
one answer to that question. Fowls
entered in such contest should be
given exactly the care as is accorded
The ranch. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1902-1914, 1913-01-01

them on an up to date, profit making
commercial egg ranch. Their records
should be made under practical COM
mer cial conditions. 1t does nobody
any good to learn what hens can do
when penned and yarded at cost of
from 80 to $11 per hen and with one
attendant to every 70 hens, as was
the case at the Storrs contest. We
want to know, indeed we need to
know, what hens of all varieties will
do when handled in manner within
the means of any poultry raiser. The
writer knows of poultry ranch, run
at good profit, where the fowls are
admirably housed at cost of 60 cents
per hen. Twelve cents more may be
added to this for the cost of fencing
in their yards. OF course these fowls
are not confined in houses and yards
holding but five hens each. Where
would that be done except at one OF
these absurd laying competitions?
On most commercial ranches the fowls
are penned in punches OF at least one
hun dred and on many ranches run at
a profit several hundred fowls are
penned together.
To make such contest practical
proposition, of value to practical
poultry raisers, the hens entered for
contest should be leg banded and
turned into commodious house and
yard capable of accommodating LOO
fowls. and that should be the number
penned together. Light weight, mid
die weight and heavy weight breeds
should be penned separately, the same
number to a pen. If there we're not
enough contestants to fill out pen
dummies could be added until the
pen held the full number. One man
could easily look after all the hens
ever entered in contest and do the
trap nesting as we'll. This the writer
knows from personal experience.
Except for the trap nesting, which
would be necessary in contest, the
fowl should be cared for exactly as
they would be on we'll managed egg
farm. Then we would get records OF
value to the many thousand plain,
The ranch. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1902-1914, 1913-01-01

EARNED'S strain trap nested White Leg
IL horns. Send for circular (its free) and
learn more about our birds-it is worth while.
A. X. Learned, Des Moines, Wash.
The ranch. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1902-1914, 1913-01-01

CINGLE Comb Brown Leghorn cockerels and
" yearling hens for sale at reasonable prices
HI. Shepard, Granger, Wash. 12-6tp
The ranch. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1902-1914, 1913-01-01

MAMMOTH Toulouse Geese $3.50 each. 50. so
N1 pair, $500 trio. Order from this ad. W. d.
Good, Mt. Vernon, Wash. It'll
The ranch. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1902-1914, 1913-01-01

CIRCULAR FREE, of the best Buff and White
- Leghorns, Buff, White and Partridge Wyan-
dottes, Black Minorcas and Barred Rocks
Fred A. Johnson 613 35th BIT Tacoma, Wash.
Atlanta Georgian., 1913-03-11
Civil Service Tests
For AllPostmaSterS
Favored by Burleson
Postmaster General, However, Is
Not Very Positive About
First Glass Offices.

WASHINGTON, March lL-Postmas-
ter-General BurlesOn today expressed
himself as being heartily in favor Of
President Tafts order placing fourth
class postmasters under the civil service
and added that he did not think the for
mer president had gone far enough,
while the policy of President Wilson 8
administration with regard to postmas-
ters has not been fully determined, said
the postmaster general as he left the
cabinet meeting, II have no objections to
saying that President Taft's plan has my
hearty approval and Endorsement. How
ever. | do not think he went far enough.
"Postmasters Of the second and third
class also should be placed under the
civil service and possibly even those of
the first-class. This would effectually
prevent the employment of politicians as
postmasters and would work for greatly
increased efficiency"