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Tensas gazette. [volume] (St. Joseph, La.) 1886-current, 1913-06-27
BALL FOR ELDERLY DANCERS
Paris Has Institution That Is Said
to Have Led to Many Mar
rlages.

Paris.-We have all known the
balls blancs" for young lads and
lasses, the balls roses" for young
couples. balls d'apaches." balls par
fumes" and all sorts of other freak
balls, but the bal muir" is a novelty.
This has been invented by a chart
table hostess for the great parterre
of wallfiowers. for men and women
who have long lowered over the
forty" line. yet still desperately
claim it's neighborhood, or for those
who heroically have said good by to
dancing before.
The. name Of bal MUIR is not a
very fiattering one and probably this
category Of choreographic fetes will
soon come to be known by the more
poetic title of bal de st. Martin. -
referring to the legendary summer
afterglow known as the Etc de st.
Martin. The first one was a great
success, and in the two months fol-
lowing it led to no fewer than thirty
seven marriages. In one OF these the
bridegroom was seventy-eight and the
bride sixty-two.
Tensas gazette. [volume] (St. Joseph, La.) 1886-current, 1913-06-27
ELECTRIC SHOCK NOT Fatal
John Bancroft, Before coroner's JuY
Allows 40 Volts to Pass
Through Body.

Wilmington, Del.-To demonstrss
to a eoroner's Jury that ITO volts q
electricity are not sufficient to hh :
man, John Bancroft. wealthy no
president of the Joseph Bancroft .
Sons company, permitted that quat
THY Of electricity to pass through ~
body In full view Of the jury ana o1
not so much as wink.
The case in progress was that q
William Stewart, youth, who E~
electrocuted in the Bancroft cor
pany's plant a week ago.
He was holding an electric llg9
globe on an extension corn when y
was killed. The same light and coia
were produced and attached 70 .
socket and Mr.. Bancroft. after the ~
ture had been taken apart, formed
circuit and let the ITO volts pa
through his body. Experts ten
fed II ie an everyday occurrence %
electrical workers to receive $50 vo.p
without Ill effect Two physiciaM
testified that Stewart died frpn
electric shock, despite the testinon!
of the experts and Mr.. Bancroft's en-.
bition, and the jury returned vefon
to the effect that Stewards death w
caused by an electrical shock
Tensas gazette. [volume] (St. Joseph, La.) 1886-current, 1913-06-27
GHOSTS OF LONDON
Temple Bar and Tower Favoriit
Haunts of SpookS.
Writer Advises Americans Who Seek
Excitement to Spend an Evening
With the Spectral Forms That
Roam In Buildings.

London.-If the Americans who
come to London find time hanging
heavily on their hands, they might do
worse than divert themselves with
ghost hunting. II is widely known, OF
course, that the shade of the famous
American lawyer. Judah P. BENJAMIN,
haunts the picturesque old Temple,
*. C.s" in the history of the English
bar, he once had chambers, and now
we have it on the. authority of one
of the leading spo& experts in this
country that the Tower of London.
where so many celebrities. from
queens downward, lost their heads, is
haunted, too, though not by as many
specters as might have been expected,
considering the wholesale killing that
once went on there.
Thousands of our countrymen visit
the Temple" every year-mainly to
see the grave of Oliver Goldsmith
and thousands more explore the grim
old Tower, with its racks and dun
geon and site of the scaffold where
Queen Anne Boleyn. Lady Jane Grey
and the Earl of Essex were beheaded,
and perhaps If these visitors stayed
on after nightfall, instead of going
back to their respective hotels and
boarding houses, and kept a sharp
eye out, they might be rewarded, at
the Temple, by glimpse of the ghost
ly Benjamin, or maybe even Of the
ample shade of Doctor Johnson, who
likewise lodged there, or, at the Tow
er, with a view of Henry VIII, the
much-married, whose spectral form
has been seen in the neighborhood at
least once.
Eliot O'Donnell, who, of course, is
one of the most eminent authorities
on ghosts in England, tells about the
Tower ghosts in the pages of the Oc-
cult Review. and an astonishing crowd
they prove to be. One of them, which
was undoubtedly" according to
O'Donnell. the shade of Queen AIDE
Tensas gazette. [volume] (St. Joseph, La.) 1886-current, 1913-06-27
FIRST SOUTH POLE PAPER OUT
Editor Of the Blizzard Sends WIre,,.
Greetings Throughout the Word
but Complains Of Circulation

Melbourne.-The editor Of the A.
lie Blizzard sends wireless greetIn,,
to his newspaper contemporaries a.
world over.
The Blizzard, which is printed =
Adelieland, the headquarters Of n
Mawson. the Antarctic explorer i.
Just made its bow to the public. He.
after it will be printed at the hsaa
quarters of the explorer. 1t WIN !.
printed once a month, and win A,
all the news Of the Antarctic eor,,
nent.
The editor says that the first ma.
Der, which was of 26 pages, va, ,
great success. except for the fact thst
the circulation was limited, as ever,
body except the seals and penguin,
had gone into winter quarters.
The members OF the Mawson sartr
the editor of the Blizzard says, are 4
most showed up in their huts, but q,
all healthy and able to attend 70 lhs
scientific instruments, which are won
ing in an efficient manner
Tensas gazette. [volume] (St. Joseph, La.) 1886-current, 1913-06-27
WILL VISIT frances GRAVE
Olga Mem to Sail for Austria on Pill
gramage to Sulcide-Sweet-
hearts Tomb.

Chicago-Stil. grieving. although
three years have ensued since the sui
eide of her fiance. the young Baron
Oskar Rothschild, Miss Olga Mem.
the beautiful daughter of DR.. and Mrs.
Rudolph Mem, 1882 Lincoln avenue,
will leave soon for Austria on her an
nual visit to the baron's grave
I'VE hope to sail shortly" said Mrs.
Mem. at all depends. however. on
the condition of Olga's health. She
is slowly recovering from the great
shock and hope this trip abroad will
restore her health completely"
I'VE shall visit the Rothschilds in
Austria. in response to invitations we
have received. Later we will travel
on the continent. My daughter will
remain abroad until late in the fall,
after which she will visit in the east"
The romance of the beautiful Chi
cago girl and Baron Rothschild is well
known. She had met the young scion
Of the American branch of the Roth
schild family in Chicago while he was
making trip around the world. He
fell in love at first sight. Miss, Mem
and her mother went to Vienna for
the formal engagement announcement
While they were there, the late Baron
Albert Rothschild, father of Baron
Oskar, gave notice to his son that he
would not permit the American girl
to become a member of his family.
Then Baron Oskar went to his room,
wrote a note of farewell to Miss Mem
and killed himself.
Tensas gazette. [volume] (St. Joseph, La.) 1886-current, 1913-06-27
WOMAN BRAVE NIGHT WATCH

into the house where / was care
taker uptown did strike me, and o.
located my shoulder. II pains NJ
still sometimes. but 1t hasn't made n
afraid.
Women would make good waicA
men in almost any building, as far =
l can see. should be quite willing q
take charge Of an office building Ths
scrubvomen are there nearly all night
and even when they are not there B
no danger II you are not AFRAID
Women caretakers are very mnch
needed now in the subway apd elevated
women's dressing rooms. Men never
get anything clean. They slop a 10
tie dirty water about and never look
to see If the dirt Is gone. Womss
stree inspectors and policewomsl
would not be bad thing, either"
Tensas gazette. [volume] (St. Joseph, La.) 1886-current, 1913-06-27
K BOOMS AFTER FLOOD

Of the boards, broken furniture and
the like was taken to the public
dumps and burned. At Mckinley park.
devastated by the flood, there was a
huge bonfire covering two city blocks,
with fire fighting apparatus surround
ing it.
1t is contended by large element
that the work of cleaning has been
hampered by the opening of the
saloons, which opened ten days ago.
Four thousand men had been en-
ployed on the cleaning work, many
imported from Chicago and other
cities. Hundreds of them became de-
moralized through drinking and left
the city.
Immediate attention is to be given
the broken levees, in which only the
bad breaks have been stopped. The
government is giving attention to the
improvement of the great Miami from
source to mouth. War department
engineers have surveyed the district.
Revised estimates of the financial
loss very almost as widely as they
did at first A survey sy company
of bankers and real estate men re-
suited in a total OF $12S,000. 900, in.
GLIDING s50,00O,O00 for depreciation
of real estate. All the estimates prob
ably are too high. The chamber of
commences estimate Of mercantile
losses is $12,000.000. Not more than
one-third of the churches and schools
escaped the food. Most of the schools
re-opened as soon as the waters re-
ceded. A few of the buildings can
not be used before fall, and pupils
are Doubling up, half time, in nearby
schools.
The Red Cross has distributed aid
to 5000 families, most of them hav-
ing received an average of $25 each.
More aid is to be extended in the way
of start in housekeeping, anG in all
about 100000 will be used in Day.
ton. More than 5000 families have
registered as being in need Of help.
Tensas gazette. [volume] (St. Joseph, La.) 1886-current, 1913-06-27
WHY WOMEN PREDOMINANT
Weaker Sex Possess Greater Power
Than Men In Shaking Attacks
Of Disease.

London.-The fact that in almost
all civilized countries women outnum-
Der men has been ascribed to the high
er birth rate of girl babies; yet Stats
tics show that los boys are born to
every 100 girls. According to figures
compiled by an European statistician.
the girl has better chance than the
boy Of attaining her maturity.
He finds that from the third to the
fifteenth year the mortality for both
sexes is the same; from the fifteenth
to the nineteenth year, the critical age
Tensas gazette. [volume] (St. Joseph, La.) 1886-current, 1913-06-27
Dayton, o., Is on Road to Pros.
perity Again.
Everybody In One DEVASTATED Town
Working, and Wages Are Higher
Than They Were Ever Known
to Be Before.

Dayton, O.-Dayton is taking care
Of herself again. Only few soldiers
are left doing police duty Military
law Is theoretically in force, and
Adjt. Gen. George H. Wood is still
here. The curfew has become a tech
nicality. and citizens may go abroad
till III o'clock each night. The saloons
are open through the day.
Major Rhoades of the United States
army has gone. leaving the work of
sanitation and cleaning in the hands
OF the city authorities. Relief proc
esses have come to a standstill, ex-
cept for the work of the Red Cross.
under DR.. Edward T. Devine of New
York.
The factories started running in an
incredibly short time after the food.
Their accumulation of orders in
sures rush work and overtime all sum-
mer. With everybody working. wages
higher than ever known, and with 90
900 persons having lost part or all
OF their household goods and clothing,
there could be no question about busi-
ness. Dayton is already boom town,
and must continue to be the busiest
city in the United States for many
months to come.
Every merchant who has been able
70 get new stock has been doing a
volume of business from 40 to 60 per
cent greater than at the correspond
ing time last year-and this with
rough board counters, emergency fix
lures, and demoralized sales forces.
Treasury department officials sent
here to restore financial operations
told disheartened merchants from the
frst that they would turn their stock
more times in the next six months
than they ordinarily did in FIVE years.
The first months sales have con-
WINGED most of them that this was a
correct prediction.
Every merchant Of good reputation
has received astonishing favors from
houses from which he buys. Many
have cancelled old accounts; nearly
all have extended their credit. Citi-
sens have been advised not to avail
themselves of the bankruptcy law. and
none so far have done SO.
Thousands of carpenters, plasterers
and paiaters are at work. There is
still much mud and debris In the
streets. though nearly 10000 wagon
loads have been hauled away. Most
Tensas gazette. [volume] (St. Joseph, La.) 1886-current, 1913-06-27

the founders of the Amateur Musical
club, and until 1911 was one of the
most popular contributors to its pro-
grams.
For many years she was also the
moving spirit in the musical programs
of the Fortnightly and the Little
Room. Her musical education was
commenced under the best European
masters, and in 1871 she enjoyed the
privilege Of listening to Franz List
at his own home in Weimar.
Tensas gazette. [volume] (St. Joseph, La.) 1886-current, 1913-06-27
LOSES FOOT TO SAVE BABY
Tot snatehed From Danger by Its
Mother While Would-5e Reseuer
Is Run Down.

Minneapolis.-A baby was snatched
from under the wheels of Milwau-
kee passenger train. and as a result
of the incident W. J. Morrison, a
brakeman. is in hospital seriously in
jured.
Morrison's right foot was cut of
when he tried to save the life of Elsie
Harvey, three-years-old daughter of
Mrs. C. E. Harvey Of Chicago. The
baby had crept in front Of the train
east bound. which was leaving the sta
ton. Morrison leaped n front of
the moving engine, but the mother
had grasped the baby before he could
reach her. He tried to stop, slipped
and fell directly under the pilot.
Tensas gazette. [volume] (St. Joseph, La.) 1886-current, 1913-06-27
MAD CROESUS DYING
Mr.. Brown is a powerfully built
man with Jet black beard and fierce
countenance. He is known to the
Brighton folks as a woman hater.
HERRING DIE IN FROZEN DAY
BY Sudden Freeze-Up in
Alaskan Waters.

Klawack Bay, Alaska.-Probably the
greatest fish killing ever known took
place here on Prince of Wales island
a short time ago. when at one stroke
1t is estimated that 1000, 000. 000, 900
good sized herring lost their lives.
Capt. Simon Brounn and the Of
fcers of the steamship Northland had
the remarkable, experience of navigat-
ing their vessel through miles of the
dead fish.
For three days the bay had been full
Of schools Of herring so dense that fish
were often thrown out of the water.
A day before the Northland arrived
sudden freeze caught the herring
in the narrow necked harbor before
they could escape.
The freeze came with great sudden
ness, and about six inches of ice form
ed on the haraor. Millions of the her
hing could be seen fighting for last
desperate chance of getting out Of the
inclosed water before frozen.
When Captain Brunn arrived with
the Northland the tide had receded.
and for 20 to so feet on the beach, and
for several hundred feet out into the
water for three miles around the har-
Dor lay the frozen fish. Measurements
were made, and it was found that the
herring lay tightly packer for IN aver
age Of three feet.
The greatest chance in the world
for obtaining fresh fish without a
bit Of work was lost. The cannery
people took all they could, but the
Northland was not equipped to carry
them, The fear now is that an cpl
demic of disease may break out follow
ing the decay of the dead fish.
Tensas gazette. [volume] (St. Joseph, La.) 1886-current, 1913-06-27
ELEPHANT GOES ON A SPREE
Battling Problem Presents itself t.
Captain on "Noah's Ark"
Animal Ship.

New fork.-Captain Kuhls of the
livestock freighter Salamanca, known
in shipping circles as "Noah's Ark"
brought a puzzling problem to port
with him recently. He put it this way:
What is it that one should do when
a lady elephant gets Jag on whisky?''
The captains troubles began two
days before. Aside from a thousand
monkeys ring tails, mandrils, rizus
and just plain monkeys, a zebra, ten
lions and eight tigers, the ship had
no passengers except nineteen ele-
plants and nineteen honey bears.
Hans Tost, Karl Hagenbeck's trav-
cling animal nurse, has found how to
keep the honey bears quiet. He mixes
whisky with boiled rice and keeps
them drowsily jagged ali the way
across the Atlantic.
One day. when he was mixing up
their sleeping potion, or meal, he set
down a pannikin containing gallon
of whisky beside the cages and went
upstairs to get the rice.
Amy, the veteran OF the elephant
herd, reached. out a thieving trunk
and sucked up all the whisky. Amy
became scandalous. She lifted her
voice in song. She winked flirtatious-
ly at The zebra.
Poor old Amy-she is only about
one hundred and twenty-five years
old-couldn't sober up. She was wild
er and more shameless every minute.
The keeper finally rugged a hose
to one of the ships pumps and played
cold salt water on her fevered brow.
Amy slept ftfully.
Tensas gazette. [volume] (St. Joseph, La.) 1886-current, 1913-06-27

laide, the wife of George w., APP
peared to two persons, one of them a
former keeper of the crown jewels at
the Tower, as a cylindrical figure.
like a glass tube, about as large as
ones arm, and seemingly filed with
q dense fluid" and another in the
shape of huge bear" which issued
from underneath the jewel room door.
"A soldier thrust at it with his bayo-
net, which, going right through it,
stuck in the doorway, whereat he
dropped in a fit and was carried
senseless to the guardroom, dying on
the following day"
Tensas gazette. [volume] (St. Joseph, La.) 1886-current, 1913-06-27

for girls, the girls chances are slight
ly better than the boys; from the thir-
tieth to the thirty-fifth year the NOR
tally among women is smaller than
among men, and it continues smaller
until the SEVENTEEN year Then for a
decade and half the sexes once more
have the,same chance of survival, but
about eighty-fve years of age woman
again stands a better chance than
man.
To account for this difference the
statistician points out that woman has
greater residence in shaking of dis
ease than man. II is true that the
physical strength of man is greater
than woman's, but woman's power OF
endurance is more robust.
One reason for this is that woman
possesses a finer perception of her
power of endurance than a man, and
when her perception warns her OF IA
tigue she stops. A man does not stop
until his power is exhausted His
nervous system Is not as finely organ
lied as a woman's, and, as Masso. the
Italian physiologist, has pointed out.
men and women are entirely depen-
dent on their nerves for caution not
to overexert. While it is true that wom-
en- more easily contract many dis
eases, particularly nervous and mental
diseases, than men. they overcome
them more easily.
Tensas gazette. [volume] (St. Joseph, La.) 1886-current, 1913-06-27
New York's Only Example Has Re
pulsed 6urgIar-BeIIeves "We're
Good as Men,"

New York.-New York's only yom-
an might Waterman" is distinctly pref
ty. Her fair hair curls softly under
her gold lettered cap and her blue
eyes are so dark as to be almost black
Her clear color and tall figure are a
heritage from her Swedish ancestors.
and there is Viking quality. too. In her
courage.
I'm not afraid" she says simply.
ANY woman would make as good a
Waterman as a man II she had his
nerve. ! took 1t up after my husband
died. so could have a home for my
little girl. If l went out to work she
would be alone, but now when she
comes home from school l am here"
The little girl is rather a big little
girl, for although Mrs. Astrid Wolfe
is not thirty. her daughter Lillian is
ten.
When | first took charge of this
studio building l didn't know quite
what my work would be, but the own
er wanted a woman on duty at night,
because there are several ladies liv-
ing alone in the studios. am here
in case they should be taken Ill, but
/ have never had to do anything for
any OF them except to crawl down the
fire escape and get the cat that one
OF them locked in her studio and for
got when she went away for a week.
The two or three encounters that
have had with men have not been
serious. When the house was being
remodeled the fence next door at the
back was torn down, and three young
men came in one night and sat on the
steps. went over and told them
they would have to move, because
knew ! would be held responsible for
anything that happened while the
fence was down and the people
were away.
What right have you got to ask
US to movs?' one Of them asked.
We're going to stay right here
No you are not | said, and
took hold Of his collar and jerked him
up to his feet. He started to strike
back at me. but pulled out the police
mans whistle that / wear around my
neck, and they ran of in hurry. A
burglar that ! caught trying to get
Tensas gazette. [volume] (St. Joseph, La.) 1886-current, 1913-06-27

on the problem of THE Pineys."
Drunkenness and the social evil, he as
serted, can never be curbed until the
problem is attacked from the stand
point Of feeble-mindedness. Philadel-
phia, in its vice crusade. he said. faces
exactly the same problem that New
Jersey finds most strongly intrench-
ed in its pine belt
ITO call this the Piney problem is
a misnomer," said DR.. Goddard. I'VE
have made the recent research in the
Burlington county pines merely be-
cause that section seemed to AFFORD
Tensas gazette. [volume] (St. Joseph, La.) 1886-current, 1913-06-27
FIns us PIpe WIN Powder.

Kansas City.-Jack Hedstrem is
employed in construction camp north
OF the city. He tired of camp chuck"
and came here to get a square meal.
After the dinner his first thought was
Of his pipe He sat down on the curb
ing. produced a handful of tobacco
from his pocket. He forgot that he
had carried blasting powder in the
same pocket When the smoke clear
ed away Hedstrem was suffering from
severe burns on his right hand and
face. He was taken to a hospital
Tensas gazette. [volume] (St. Joseph, La.) 1886-current, 1913-06-27
PSYCHE KNOT is LIFE SAVER
Woman's Hair Stops Bullet Fired b
Her Husband and She WIN
Recover.

Boston.-William Mahoney SHOT b
wife twice in their home at "a spriar
street, Cambridge. and then ended h
own life.
Returning home at 900 a. m. Ma.
honey found the door locked, end
when his spouse did not open 4
promptly he broke 1t down. Then hs
entered and fired at his wife.
The bullet struck Mrs. Mahoney a
the back of the head, but was Impedod
by her hair, which mad been done q
in a tight knot behind. The shot pen.
etrated her scalp. but her Psyche mo.
is believed to have saved her lie
At the hospital It was said she would
probably recover.