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Arizona republican., 1913-05-26

nose to advance in the effort to secure in removal to Phoenix of the office of internal revenue collector and the naming of a man from that city to fill the position. Principal among these is the percentage of the revenue collected in that section, the presence of an ade- quate federal building and the candi- dacy of a man who has been a con- sistent worker for the party.
Arizona republican., 1913-05-26
EMPEROR IMPROVING
fAssocIArrn pREss p1spArcul

ASSOCIATED PRESS DlSPATCHJ
 WASHINGTON. May 25.-Gratifi cation is expressed in official circles over the news of the marked inn provement of the condition of the Japanese emperor. Latest reports in dicate he is steadily gaining in strength and will probably be well again in a few weeks.
Arizona republican., 1913-05-26
EXECUTE TWO FEDERALS
ASSOCIATED PRESS p1sPATcH]

FL PASO, May 25.-At daybreal> in Juarez, as the bells were an nouneing early mass, two federal pri- yates faced death in public. The execution was witnessed by many of the townspeople. military band played the funeral march as the fir ing squads took their places.
Arizona republican., 1913-05-26
OILER GIVES LIFE
 TO SAVE COMRADES

SAN DIEGO. May 25.-After suffering for two days from ter rible ,scafds received in an eXplo- sion on the torpedo boat destroy CT Stewart. Almar Miller. an oiler died. Miller was scaldcd while attempting to rescue com radcS.
Arizona republican., 1913-05-26
WAR NEARING END
fAssoc1ArED PRESS DISPATCH ]

ASSOCIATED PRESS DIsPATcHJ
 NEW MEXICO, May 25-The war department expresses belief that before the end of the week the gov ernment will be in possession Of Her mosillo. Reports from the rebel dist ricts, however, indicate the insur- gents ranks are filling fast and ad- vantage will be with them.
Arizona republican., 1913-05-26
WEATHER TODAY.

WASHINGTON, D. C., May 25.-For Arizona, cloudy. f, 4f
Arizona republican., 1913-05-26

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The Madison journal. (Tallulah, Madison Parish, La.) 1888-current, 1913-07-26
BATON ROUGE ITEMS
DR.. CHARLES McvEA TENDERS
RESIGNATION AS UNIVERSITY
PHYSICIAN.
DATES SET FOR EXAMINATION
Special Certificates to Be Issued to
Those Desiring to Teach in
High Schools.

Western Newspaper Union News Service
Baton Rouge.-Dr. Charles Mck ca
ot Baton Rouge, has rendered to Gov.
Hall his resignation as physician at
the Louisiana State University, pc.
altion which he has held for several
years.
1t is understood that DR.. r. c..
Kemp Will be named by the board to
succeed DIR. McVea- When the board
of trustees OF the university met dur.
ing commencement. Gov. Hall asked
mat the election Of the physician be
lett open. This was done after George
Hill, then a member of the board had
moved that the board go into the
election at that time. Since then Gov.
Hall has been filling vacancies on the
BOARD. The appointments gave the
governor a majority on the beard.
Dr. McVea feared that holding on
might result in friction on the board
and an injury to the university, and i!
Is said that those were the reasons
prompting his resignation.
The Madison journal. (Tallulah, Madison Parish, La.) 1888-current, 1913-07-26
OLD PIPE KILLS BOY BABY
Nicotine Sucked From the Discarded
Meerscaum Proved Fatal In
an Hour.

South Norwalk, Gonna discarded
pipe was given as a plaything to a
child here and an hour later he was
was dead Of nicotine poisoning.
The victim was the two-year-old son
of Nathan Thornfield of New York
who had been spending a few DAYS
with Mrs. Thornfield's brother, Harry
A. November, in this city. While Mrs
Thornfield and Mrs. November were
rummaging among keepsakes in the
.attick. an old meerschaum pipe was
found. Little Harold cried for it, and
the mother. having no suspicion of
danger, gave it to him.
Sitting on the floor and slappine
his hands the child initiated his father
inserting the pipe in his mouth and
putting out imaginary smoke. With
in ten minutes he toppled over in con
vulsions, which shortly gave way to
coma.
After the baby died Coroner Phalen
Investigated. but found no official &C
ton necessary
The Madison journal. (Tallulah, Madison Parish, La.) 1888-current, 1913-07-26

man of royalty. placed in purple robes
(poetic license) and cloth of cleaning
gold. And it has been hidden as IL it
were too precious to be seen by com.
mon eyes"
Farmer Rucker took the stand and
described the calf in detail Then the
court. the litigants. the lawyers and
the onlookers moved in solemn process
sion into the street to inspect 1t. At
the word Of command the gun wran-
glers aboard the schooner began dis
robing the calf. II kicked and butted
against the indignity. but without
avail
Farmer Rucker stepped forward
then, fell back. CRASHED his teeth. His
description as given in the court room
did not synchronize with the PHYSICAL
markings OF the calf Farmer Rucker
thereupon shouted that he was the
victim Of hocus-pocus: in other words,
another animal had been switched on.
to him.
Search is being made for the origin
al calf. Rucker swears 1t is some.
where In the Brushy mountain .coun.
try. The lawyers on both. sides are
happy. Continuance means more fees
The Madison journal. (Tallulah, Madison Parish, La.) 1888-current, 1913-07-26
TEACHERS EXAMINATION
August 4, S and Dates Set by Board
of Education.

Western Newspaper Union News Service.
Baton Rouge.-The examination of
applicants for certificates to teach
school in the State of Louisiana will
be held in the parishes Aug. 4, 3 and 6
for white teachers, and Aug. Z, 8 and
3 for negro applicants. Applications
may be filed with state examining com.
mittee, of which John R. Commit is
chairman, though the parish super n
tendents for the various grades of GER
tlficates. Special certificates will be
issued to applicants desiring to teach
i'll the high schools. Under resolution
OF the State Board of Education. an
plicants who have pursued successfully
the six weeks course of the summer
normal schools shall be credited with
live points to the general average
earned by them in the examination.
The Madison journal. (Tallulah, Madison Parish, La.) 1888-current, 1913-07-26

him to emphasize beauty. OF course the MAR
ity OF our sitters want us to paint them as besuB
full as is consistent with the laws of art n
woman Of thirty has developed. She has learnd
the value Of dress, how to attire herself IN D
manner that enhances any physical charms sA
may possess. Girlhood lacks the development &
more mature age. Therefore, woman Of thtu
may present far more attractive appearauo
than the girl in her teens Just past the tvedu
mark.
The woman beauty at fifty is less in evideur
than the handsome feminine in her teens or n
low the age of thirty. But have seen hahdscr1
women at fifty; women whose features, whca
personalities and whose physical Develops
struck me as being amazingly handsome.
From my view don't think dress has mud =
do with good looks. The true lover Of beam
gazes and can enthuse over cut Of features ~
tint OF complexion without dwelling on cloths
| consider woman between the age Of eightea
and twenty to be in the bloom Of youth. Nstr
ally, youth is attractive; 1t is like rose In ~
brilliancy beneath light morning dew"
The Madison journal. (Tallulah, Madison Parish, La.) 1888-current, 1913-07-26
MAY RAISE ASSESSMENT
Pressure Being Brought to Bear on
State Equalization Board.

western Newspaper Union News Service
Baton Rouge.-If indications cal,
for anything there is scheduled to be a
raise in the timber assessments of the
state. Pressure is being brought to
pear on the State Board of Equaliza.
ton from all sections of the state for
an increase in the timber assessments.
The Parish of Vernon asks for an
Increase of 100000 in that parish
alone, and the new parishes create d
out OF Calcasieu, all rich in timber
resources, are trying to start their
bank balance with results from this
class of assessment.
The rate of increase and the condi.
lions existing in the timber business
we're developed at an extended hear.n,
before the board in the Senate cham.
Der. Many other parishes dissatisfied
with the rate CT assessment on timber
Will send their representatives from
now on.
The board has issued a special inyi-
tation to all desiring to be heard to
come before the board.
The Madison journal. (Tallulah, Madison Parish, La.) 1888-current, 1913-07-26
WATCH IN POCKET PUZZLES
George Mcpherson Of Tacoma Doesn't
Believe In Fairies, So He 10
Greatly Mystlfied.

Tacoma. Wash.-George Mcpherson
). does aot believe In fairies. When he
!. .retied a silver watch, worth abou,
s4--ssa dollars: -wss,in his pocket. On
: Hwhkening'he,xas1 surprised to find in
It's place a gold watch of expensive
manufacture. Mcpherson, as has been
said. has no faith in che stories of
nymphs. gnomes and Robin Goodfel
lows. Moreover. he was not pleased
to discover the expensive watch In the
place Of his inexpensive one.
Mcpherson had his suspicious. He
judged that one Of his companions of
the night before had, as he termed It
"nipped" the valuable timepiece. Nc.
Pherson. who says he is employed by
the Tacoma Manufacturers associa
ton, did not relish the thought that he
himself might be "nipped" by blue
coat on the charge of stealing the
watch.
He went Immediately to the police
station and rendered the watch to
Captain of Detectives Fitzgerald. He
returned the next day to the police to
ask, IL the owner had turned up and he
was informed that no one had claimed
H. pr. Fitzgerald still has the mys-
teisous trinket.
On the watch are the initials Wv. F.
D." and Mr.. Mcpherson has notified
everyone with those initials be could
Ind. y. u
The Madison journal. (Tallulah, Madison Parish, La.) 1888-current, 1913-07-26
LONG LEGAL FIGHT
OVER LITTLE CALF
Animal Worth $40 May Cost
Some Thousands.
1T CAUSES 0RATORY
Rides Into Town In a Prairie Schooner
Dressed In Trousers With an Arm
ed Native on the Bow and Another
on the Stern.

Muskogee, Okla.-The battle for the
red bull calf of Brushy mountain has
been on in a local justice court for
several months, and the indications
are 1t will continue until one or both
OF the litigants are dead or bankrupt
When the row began the calf was
three months old and worth $40. 1t is
now seven months old. its rightful
ownership is still a matter of dispute,
and the cost of the suit has run to
$1,000.
NJ. c. Rucker, farmer, charged his
neighbor. L. P. Hatley. with the theft
ST the calf and had him arrested. Hat
ley was acquitted and sued Rucker for
$4,000 damages. Rucker undertook to
replevy the calf, but Hatley retained
possession by giving redelivery bond.
The hearing of the replevin proceed
tngs before Justice Matt Thompson is
what bought as witnesses practically
every farmer In Brush Mountain
township to Muskogee. The litigants
employed the ablest lawyers in Mus
kogee.
The calf-or. perhaps, a calf-also
came to town. 1t rode in a prairie
schooner with Brushy mountain ma
tive on the bow and another on the
stern. both armed with a six-shooter.
The calf wore two pairs of gunny-sack
trousers. a coat of the same material
and a kind of peek-a-boo calico hat. All
this sartorial adornment was for the
purpose Of concealing its exterior ap-
pearance. 1t had. been intended that
the calf be exhibited in the court room
But 1t had grown to a size that made
this undesirable.
The lawyers raved and roared their
level best Jim Cosgrove, for Rucker.
stung with his sarcasm until even the
calf beloved
This bovine" shouted Cosgrove
has been exalted to a throne. 1t has
been elevated and decorated like a
The Madison journal. (Tallulah, Madison Parish, La.) 1888-current, 1913-07-26
Horse and Wagon Went Down.

serious difficulty, traffic and pedes-
TRANS getting safely out of the road.
The horse turned north into Grand
avenue, and there was a stampede
among autoists and pedestrians. 1t
ran seven blocks to Juniata street.
where it collided with a wagon of a
laundry company. The latter wagon
was destroyed and the horse attached
suffered a broken jaw and other in.
juries.
The Ferris horse and wagon cleared
the debris and continued to Hartford
street, where it hit a grocer's wagon.
This wagon was demolished. but the
Ferris horse and wagon came out un-
scathed.
half block further north. the run.
away crashed into an auto driven by
Charles Nichols. This time the horse
and wagon went down. Before the
animal could get up. Nichols had
jumped from the wreck of his auto
and seized 1t. The wagon was
wrecked. but the horse. beyond a few
bruises, was not injured.
The Madison journal. (Tallulah, Madison Parish, La.) 1888-current, 1913-07-26
E. O. BRUNER ARRESTED
Director Dodson Swears Out Warrant
on Charge of Criminal Libel.

western Newspaper Union News Service
Baton Rouge.-A sensation was
sprung last week when E. o. Bruner.
commissioner of agriculture, and ]. E.
taliigan, former safe chemist were
arrested on warrants sworn out by
Director Dodson of the state expert.
ment station. The charge was GRIM
lnal libel. The charges are based on
alleged accusations against Director
Dodson of padding his accounts and
that he was unfit for office.
The case is expected to be tried this
week. 1t is probable that he will
seek to recover damages In the civil
courts.
The Madison journal. (Tallulah, Madison Parish, La.) 1888-current, 1913-07-26
WRECKS 8 WAGONS
AND AN AUTOMOBILE
Horse Breaks Another'S Jaw In
Runaway, but Ends Wild
Race Unhurt.

St. Louis, Mo.-Three wagons and
an automobile were wrecked the other
day and one horse suffered a broken
jaw in a runaway which kept vehicles
and pedestrians along Grand avenue
on the jump for a time.
The horse and wagon which started
the trouble are owned by Emil Ferris.
a dairyman. The animal was left UNI
tied in front of 1858 Mcdonald ave
nue. by William P. Nauman. the driv'
er. The horse became frightened
while Nauman was in a house deliv-
ering goods. 1t ran three blocks
along Mcdonald TO Grand without
The Madison journal. (Tallulah, Madison Parish, La.) 1888-current, 1913-07-26
NRSEeANcZ3 BR0Wv0

and taking on the richness of valley flower
before the touch of whitening heat.
From thirty-fve to forty takes US to a period
where the average human unschooled in more
than superficial appreciation Of beauty might
remark that righteousness giving way to
the ravagos Of age / have found many, many
beautiful between the ages of thirtyive and forty
positively handsome.
This brings us to the half-century mark
where woman has all the strength Of character
impaired by lifetime Of observation. Here en-
tiers personal magnetism factor which fig
ures largely in the determination Of beauty. If
face. form and temperament harmonic, she is
placed in the category of the lovely.
Il have seen women fifty years old who I con-
sidered exceedingly handsome"
Edwin Blashield, mural decorator says:
There are four types or ages Of beauty-chil-
dren, who are most handsome; youth, between
the ages of sixteen and nineteen; middle age,
ranging from twenty-five to thirty and tomen
who are mounting the ladder of time toward the
half-century mark
Il have seen many handsome women at forty
five and fifty. Sometimes wrinkles are exceed
ingly beautiful in women of that age Persons
who use their brains a great deal in after life
generally are exceedingly attractive. Wrinkles
enhance this type
Il have no particular choice of beauty as re-
CARDS age. use models from nineteen to thirty.
but by no means do consider they are the en-
bodiment of all that is beautiful"
Harrison Fisher illustrator, has his personal
tastes as regards the age of charming women.
Il prefer the beauty Of woman from sixteen to
twenty-eight," he says. Between those periods
of life consider her the most charming because
she embodes all the spirit of youth the innocence
OF girlhood and lacks the veneer Of worldliness
that comes to a woman later In life But am
not decrying the attractions of older women.
l have seen them at thirty and thirty-fve and
even forty whom consider more handsome than
girls. know women Of fifty who I consider
embody all the elements of general beauty. They
may have lost some OF the fairness Of their girl.
hood days. but they have made up for It in physi
cal development, In mental sharpness and in the
strong characteristics of the face
There are so many good-looking women in
New York It's hard to pick out any particular
beauty Of any type or Of any age Women all
are to be admired"
Irwin Wiles. eminent portrait painter. who has
daily opportunities to observe types Of beauty Is
more lenient as to advanced age than either Mr.
Fisher Mr.. Bremen Mr. Blashield
Il have seen women who were handsome at sew.
enty, he declared. woman at thirty NAV he
far more handsome than one at fifteen or eight.
cen. They say age is no respecter of beauty
but you may reverse 1t and remark that beauty ia
no respecter OF age. Much Of the secret OF
beauty depends upon the physical and mental
care woman takes of herself. The portrait
painter does not look much for beauty in his
subject as he does for the medium that permits
The Madison journal. (Tallulah, Madison Parish, La.) 1888-current, 1913-07-26
Is READY FOR THE FUNERAL
New York Woman Scrubs Floors for
Money to Buy Fancy Coffin
and Tombstone.

New York.-Viewing with pride her
coffin. which she keeps in her bed
room. and for which she says she paid
more than 5000 so that she would not
have to be buried in a pine box"
Mrs. Elizabeth Watt is also keeping
her eyes open for a hostile act by he,
neighbors in the house at $50 West
Forty-second street They have pro-
tested against the coffin being in the
tenement and although the agent. Fl
w. Mehrtens, has talked with the
eighty-five-year-old woman, he has
been unable to persuade her to move
the bier to some other place. She is
determined to keep 1t near her all the
time. so that when the end comes she
may be sure that she will rest in a
coffin that will be the envy of all.
Mrs. Watt has the coffin directly
under the picture of her husband. who.
she says. has been dead 20 years. Her
one ambition now, she admits. is to
earn enough money to buy a silver
plate for the coffin and have IL right
over where my heart is" She also
has lot in Greenwood cemetery. and
added to her pleasure a short time
ago by purchasing a handsome head.
stone.
Il earned that by scrubbing the
doors OF the Grand Central station
every night for so cents a nIgnt." sne
says my name is carved on the
headstone."
Mrs. Watt says the reason she has
purchased the coffin is that she has no
one who would care whether she was
laid to rest in pine box.
They may take all have" she
but they can't or won't take
a coffin. So l am determined that I'll
not be laid away in a pine box. | have
II here where I can watch 1t night and
day. | earned every penny to buy 1t
and it's nobody's business IL I keep 1.
in the place where | pay rent"
The Madison journal. (Tallulah, Madison Parish, La.) 1888-current, 1913-07-26
Taking Out Old Presa

Birmingham, Ala. L. Gather,
,wner and publisher of the AshvilIe
argus, 1t st. Clair County, is taking
nut his old Franklin press. which he
nd his father have used so years. and
which has been operating Just one
hundred years, having been started
i've years before Alabama was admit
cd as q state into The Union. The
ress has frog frame and weighs
N and half. II is embellished witt
ghteen stars, Indicative of the o:
lotto zeal of its makers.
The Madison journal. (Tallulah, Madison Parish, La.) 1888-current, 1913-07-26

an aeroplane propeller. 1t Is so light
and its bearing surface is so great
that 1t will ride over the sands with
out sinking. leaping over light depres
sions and climbing the steepest sand
dunes. There is decided advantage
in using an air propeller. for then the
drive of the machine is Independent
or its traction. In the loose sand of
the desert 1t would be rather difficult
to propel machine after the mahner
The Madison journal. (Tallulah, Madison Parish, La.) 1888-current, 1913-07-26
Barrie, Extremely Modest.

A cablegram from London says that
on the day the public announcement
was made that James NJ. Barrie, auth
or OF Peter Pan" and other comedies
that Maude Adams las made familiar
to American theatergoers, had been
given baronetcy by King George Of
The Madison journal. (Tallulah, Madison Parish, La.) 1888-current, 1913-07-26
Plan for Bond Election

Baton Rouge.-Plans are already un.
der way to have another election call.
ed IN the First Good Roads district for
the voting OF the bonds to build the
model road between Baton Rouge and
Hope Villa. A conference was held be.
tween those interested and District
Attorney Holcombe, who will draw I'm
the petition foi the second election.
The Madison journal. (Tallulah, Madison Parish, La.) 1888-current, 1913-07-26
SLEIGH OF THE DESERT

A corporal in the French army in
North Africa has devised a peculiar
machine particularly adapted for trav
Ell over the sand wastes of the Sa-
hara. The machine is a cross be-
tween an automobile and an aero
1'ane and has been dubbed the
sleigh of the desert
The construction i very light, in
'ed. 1t Il mounted on broad-tired
-eumatic wheel. D. j driven by
The Madison journal. (Tallulah, Madison Parish, La.) 1888-current, 1913-07-26
UNMISTAKABIE EVIDENCE.

Those seeds you sold me for flower &C.,
were nothing but weed seeds"
Come up have they"
OF course not; only planted them day N
fore yesterday" ST
Then how do you know they are ves1
seeds?"
THE neighbors' chickens won't dig them up]
The Madison journal. (Tallulah, Madison Parish, La.) 1888-current, 1913-07-26
Charlton Vaccine for East FeIieisn,

Charlton Vaccine for East FeIieiana.
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS Nor.
gan obtained an order from the Blu.
reau of Animal Industry to send $50
loses Of anticharbon vaccine to be dis.
tributed to planters in East Feliciana
parish. where Charlton is present
among the cattle.
The Madison journal. (Tallulah, Madison Parish, La.) 1888-current, 1913-07-26
PLANNING AND PLANNING.

Il am planning trip to the Panama canal
That so? So is President Wilson"
But the trip he is planning is altogehs
different from the one I am planning"
THAT so?"
Eyes. he's going" ~
The Madison journal. (Tallulah, Madison Parish, La.) 1888-current, 1913-07-26
WRITING THAT PAYS.

What does this young fellow writer ! WOW
have my daughter married to a starving VI
thor"
"On the handle, as usual. dad That youns|
chap wrote 100000 worth Of life Insurance. VI
years"
The Madison journal. (Tallulah, Madison Parish, La.) 1888-current, 1913-07-26

OF an automobile. The peculiar vehi-
Gle is named La Sauterelle," or the
grasshopper. because of its peculiar
hopping flight over the irregularities
of the desert.
The Madison journal. (Tallulah, Madison Parish, La.) 1888-current, 1913-07-26
Bill for Louisiana Postoffice

Washington Representative Nor.
gan introduced a bill in the house
appropriating $4,000 for a federal
building at Plaquemine.
The Madison journal. (Tallulah, Madison Parish, La.) 1888-current, 1913-07-26
A FREQUENT HAPPENING.

I'VE don't do as we should. For one INN
we are told to love our enemies
"A great many OF us live up to that uo.
you ever notice a couple OF society eaes'
kissing each other?"
The Madison journal. (Tallulah, Madison Parish, La.) 1888-current, 1913-07-26

De to beauteous ideals, long nurtured
and jealousy guarded. An old WON
an is handsome, wrinkles are be-
coming, and dash Of rouge no more
is a crime against the symphony of
feminine loneliness.
Evil days have befallen the tradi-
tional bloom Of youth" chestnut
tresses" and the soulful brown
orbs' of which poets have sung
immemorial. Grandmother at last is
coming into her own. She is en-
sconced upon an artistic pedestal