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Tensas gazette. [volume] (St. Joseph, La.) 1886-current, 1913-01-10
DOLL PRESENT FOR BRIDE
Odd Wedding Gifts for Ten-Year-oId
Girl. Who VIII Now Lensthen
skirts.

Thibodeaux. La.-Agnes Callahan.
ten, was married the other day and
quit the third reader class in the pub
lie school here.
Her husband is Paul Dietz, twenty
three The girl wore short dresses dur
ing the ceremony, bat Immediately
afterwards announced that she would
have her gowns heightened. as she
was married woman now"
The priest who performed the cere-
mony was opposed. at first, on account
Of the age of the prospective bride,
but because the parents of both of the
contracting parties insisted that the
wedding should take place. he finally
yielded
Dietz's present to his bride was q
huge doll that would open and close
its eyes. Nearly all the wedding pres
ents were toys, but the bride declared
that she would not play with dolls
any more. The wedding was the re
suit of courtship begun when the
bride was almost a baby.
Tensas gazette. [volume] (St. Joseph, La.) 1886-current, 1913-01-10

The couple, accompanied by three
young women and man, went to the
mayors home and with considerable
difficulty aroused him. Rauch. VIII
liam Brommer, saloon keeper. and
August Pohlman followed in an au-
tomobile, wishing to see the fun.
Shortly after midnight the ceremony
was performed and the couple said
they would leave at once for a trip
to Pittsburgh.
John was feeling good and l
thought We had better get married
while he felt like it." the mayor says
the bride explained.
Immediately after the ceremony
the bride exclaimed:
Nov that / am married am go
ing to kiss fat man." and she kissed
a member Of the party.
The mayor declined to accept fee.
Patterson is a printer. The brides
home is in Muncie.
Tensas gazette. [volume] (St. Joseph, La.) 1886-current, 1913-01-10
Woman Faints at Movies and Loses a SIS Hat

Her husband picked her up and
started for home. A friend started
for the Muckermann garage and got
out the automobile. He met Mucker-
mann about a block from the house
and the two lifted the unconscious
woman into the car. In the exertiou
they knocked OF Mrs. Muckermann's
hat.
Get her hat" said the friend.
"Oh. that1l be all right; get It
later. Hurry up for the house." re-
piled Muckermann. and they whirled
of.
When Mrs. Muckermann revived
she inquired for her hat When told
that II was lying in the gutter a block
away she sent searching party.
Muckermann and his friends dug
up lanterns and electric torches and
went after the hat. 1t was gone. A
search until midnight failed to reveal
the hat and the searchers were com
PEELED to go home and break the
news to Mrs. Muckermann.
But, determined to have that hat
back, Mrs Muckermann published an
advertisement and will pay a liberal
reward to the person who brings
back the missing headgear.
Tensas gazette. [volume] (St. Joseph, La.) 1886-current, 1913-01-10
PQDIlQYNNES

Filth and health are arch enemies
Recklessness Is a short road %
failure.
During Indictment weather fowls are
better indoors than out
II Is the wise poultryman who stu
dies the comfort OF his fowls.
The merits OF the scratching shed
are shown during bad weather.
A pint OF kerosene In a gallon Of
whitewash makes an excellent insect
eide.
The closer fewls are confined The
greater the need for variety In then
food ration.
It is an easy matter to overfee1
fowls. and poultrymen should bear
this in mind.
AS a rule. the larger the number 2
fowls kept the smaller the expenss
in proportion.
In poultry breeding, utility should
be the first consideration: beaui,
should follow.
Washing the eggs opens the pores
and hastens decay. It Is best 70 kssS
the nests clean.
Chills. wet food and lack OF sun
shine are the main causes OF bows
trouble in chicks.
The oily nature Of ducks feaths.s
keeps them from being serioas9
bothered with lice.
In order TO manufacture eggs y
necessary for her to be suppns'
with the proper material
Eggs cannot be produced witno.'
,,troqenous food in some form. SuR
ply fresh cut bone II possible
To make sure that fowls na.s
enough grit it should be Kept wnS's
| ,hey can help themselves at win. !.
II is a good rule TO give fowls e
they win eat up clean Some days y.
appetite win be greater than o'ns'
days.
Tensas gazette. [volume] (St. Joseph, La.) 1886-current, 1913-01-10
Stop Game Of Cards to Get Marriage License

INDIANAPOLIS, IND.--A suggestion
1 from friends that they get married
at once, made half In fun. It is said,
caused John Patterson and Miss
Emma Shepp to disturb a penuchie
game In which John Rauch. county
clerk. was playing. They sought
Rauch IN order to get a marriage
license, and they aroused Mayor
Shank from his slumbers shortly
after midnight that the mayor might
perform the ceremony.
II was not full dress affair-far
from It. The mayor was clad in a
pair OF trousers. his nightshirt and a
Prince Albert coat, and also wore a
pair OF shoes. which we're unlaced.
Patterson and Miss Shepp were out
calling on friends, when some one
suggested they get married at once.
II was agreed 1t would be lark.
and an automobile was called
Rauch's home was visited, and he
was induced to leave penuchle
game and go to the court house about
11:00 D. m. and issue a license.
Lets get Mayor Shank" some one
suggested.
But the mayor is probably in bed.
said another.
THAT don't make any difference, 81
replied the first mo one but the
mayor will do"
Tensas gazette. [volume] (St. Joseph, La.) 1886-current, 1913-01-10
FIRE

countries in the world; to tenting
and fishing tackle; to teas and cof-
fees jumbled in with ships paint; to
prints and etchings. and to some an
Client paintings Of greater sentiment
tai than artistic worth. Some $5O,0Oe
worth OF arms and ammunition es-
capped harm
Perhaps the most valuable relics
owned by Abbey come under this last
category.
The building occupied by Abbey
was said by the police to be the old
est along Front street For three
generations 1t has been known as
"the shop with the little brass can
dlestick.g from its trademark. a tiny
gun that could hardly carry more
than buckshot. but which is Of great
age and value.
Tensas gazette. [volume] (St. Joseph, La.) 1886-current, 1913-01-10
GRAIN FEEDER FOR POULTRY
Newly Invented Device Depends on
Same Principle as Is Used In
Batting Animal Trap.

A newly invented type OF automatic
poultry feeder depends upon the same
principle that is used in batting a tran.
for the feeder has bait that is pecked
by the hungry fowls and, In response.
the machine let's a shower OF grain
fall on the ground, which they devour.
says the Popular Mechanics.
The machine consists OF a galvan-
ized-iron supply fount filed with grain
and revolving toothed wheel at the
base Of 1t. This wheel is mounted on
very delicate bearings which admit Of
its. movement at the slightest touch.
Attached to the wheel is q shaft which
supports the bait The bait consists
of hollow tube of wire netting con
tanning wheat. The fowls see the
wheat through the netting and peck at
it. causing the toothed wheel to re-
volye and throw out grain from the top
supply fount which falls on the low
er metal cone and is scattered over
the ground almost as efficiently az by
hand. This prevents the fowls from
gorging themselves.
After the feeder has been In use for
time there is no great rush by the
fowls to- peck the bait as one would
Tensas gazette. [volume] (St. Joseph, La.) 1886-current, 1913-01-10

G t. LOUIS. Mo.-Mrs. John C.
~ Muckermann, wife OF the first
vice-president OF the local ice com
pany. will hereafter eschew moving
picture shows.
The last one Mrs. Muckermann at
tended cost, besides the price Of ad.
mission. one new $25 hat. black vel
vet, trimmed with small red roses.
The other night. after the Mucker-
mann family had dinner at their
home. at 6054 West Cabanne place.
someone suggested night of amuse-
ment at the movies" The sugges-
ton was adopted. and Mr.. and Mrs.
Muckermann. with a party OF friends.
adjourned 70 theater.
The atmosphere of the place was
bad. Mrs. Muckermann stood II as
long as she could. and then tainted.
Tensas gazette. [volume] (St. Joseph, La.) 1886-current, 1913-01-10
: Show Girls Dance Bear"

M INNEAPOLIS, Minn.-Two chorus
Ivk girls danced a ragtime dance on
the platform of the pulpit of the Rev.
G. L. Morrill, in Minneapolis the 9TH
er day, Illustrating his sermon on
Praise Him With the Dance" The
most amazing and bold dances were
put on the boards" by the two girls
from a Minneapolis burlesque house
and the audience fairly gasped at this.
The Turkey Trot," the Grab
Crawl" the Tortoise Tango" the
Jolly Wobble." the angle Worm
wriggle," the Grizzly" and all others
known to these two girls of the stage
were danced.
Then began the Rev. Mr. Morrilrs
sermon.
Now you have witnessed just how
fashionable society carries on when II
gets started" said the Rev. Mr.. Nor
rill Il admit there is decent dance,
a dance helpful to the body, pleasant
Tensas gazette. [volume] (St. Joseph, La.) 1886-current, 1913-01-10

Cincinnati, ohio.-Held in cells are
Fred Kipp and his young wife. Emma.
the latter charged with the murder of
her eleven-day-old boy baby. The
child was thrown into the Ohio river
by. the mother. the father says. be
cause she thought the infant was in
the way. A news item which told
Of man hearing young couple dis
cuss whether they should kill their
baby was read by two women who
knew Of the birth Of the Kipp baby
and the disappearance Of the man
and the woman. They caused the
arrests
Tensas gazette. [volume] (St. Joseph, La.) 1886-current, 1913-01-10
and Tango" in Pulpit

to the mind and harmless to the soul.
but these rag dances that you have
witnessed, not at all exaggerated. VIII
make the devil blush, and he would
hesitate to introduce them into purga-
tory.
There was a time when statues
were made OF graceful dancers. Out
today there is a crying demand Tor
statutes against dancing which Is as
graceful. The dancing whirlpool OF
society has drawn into its drowning
depths many of the best craft that
ever sailed life's sea- The dance you
have witnessed has degenerated from
devotion and diversion into dissipa-
ton and debauchery. These rag
dances are animal in name and ma
ture and often as much more passion
ate than the oriental dance as Vesu-
vius is warmer than an iceberg.
We seem almost ready for tne
naked dance proposed by Plato in his
ideal republic. The animal world IS
libeled. Mr.. Bear and Mrs. Turkey
were never guilty OF such antics anu
doubtless look with surprise ara
shame at the dances which bear Their
names"
AS the two chorus girls performed
these rag" dances, now and then
coin would Ay toward the pulpit
while the big organ Of the church
pealed forth rag-time music to ac'
company the dance.
Tensas gazette. [volume] (St. Joseph, La.) 1886-current, 1913-01-10

wise respectable writer's are NOT
aShamed to drive the 3,000-year old
hack abroad in daylight, dragging a
full array of the latest millinery be.
hind them. It's shameful.
Then there is the plot of hur,aa
treasure and hidden or DESTROYED
will, and usually a faithful ghost who
gables spiritual Esperanto till Soma
knowing creature comes along and m.
terprets.
Next to the exploits of saints and
monks, this was the favorite Mot =,
the alleged stories of the middle ages
It was so hard worked then that !,
has walked with a limp and a list n
port ever since. but 1t is still thumnad
along by hard-hearted creatures with
typewriter
An old-age pension for plots. Tha,
is the most obvious need of present
day literature. But how such a device
would cut the income of many a non
ular author.-Chicago Journal
Tensas gazette. [volume] (St. Joseph, La.) 1886-current, 1913-01-10
MY, HOW "IIMMY' DID
RIDE THOSE WAVES
First BiIIoW Carried Boy Out Into
Lake; BiIlow No. z Brought
Him Safely Back.

Chicago-Two large. cold waves of
Lake Michigan played a peculiar
prank with Jimmy Lucas the other
day. After one had all but drowned
him along came another-a sort OF
kindly disposed wave-and saved
"Jimmy's" life.
Jimmy" is eleven years old He
was standing on a temporary break
water at the foot of East Thirty-ninth
street shortly after. ten o'clock, with
his friend BILLY" Maloney. watching
the waves dashing spray for many
feet in the air.
"Geel There comes a whopper?'
shouted Jimmy" gleefully.
The "whopper" Numbered against
Tensas gazette. [volume] (St. Joseph, La.) 1886-current, 1913-01-10

OPSu bno STSoA nooS St'Hy'
the portion of the breakwater upon
which Jimmy stood and crumbled
1t like so much sand. In an instant
the boy was sucked out by the under
tow and swept out in the lake. BILLY"
was on the point of running for help
when he saw another largs wave roar
ing to shore. Upon the crest, high in
the air, rode Jimmy He was lifted
clear Of the breakwater by the food
and hurled high up on the shore,
shivering and frightened. but ex-
tremely grateful to wave No. g."
C. A. Kyle. engineer of the city
pumping station close by. witnessed
the accident, and called Jimmy
into the engine-room to dry.
Them waves are s-s-some strong.
said Jimmy" between chattering
teeth. when was ridin' that
s-s-second one III though w-was goin'
Dover the p-pumpin' station"
He then dispatched Billy" to his
home for a dry suit Of clothes.
"S-square It wiwith dad" he ad.
monished. "cause he's got s-strong-
er fright hand than them waves"
BILLY" soon returned with the
clothes, and announced that dad
was going to take him 70 a nickel
show after supper.
Tensas gazette. [volume] (St. Joseph, La.) 1886-current, 1913-01-10

A Nebraska ranchman has more
than 200 acres of wild land. toe dry
for cultivation without irrigation, and
makes good living BY raising tur-
keys.
A small creek runs through the
place. and along its side grow some
cottonwood trees.
About 200 acres OF this farm have
been sown to alfalfa. and in spite Of
the absence of much rain 1t thrives
very well.
The old ranch owner raises from
500 to 1000 turkeys every year. and
about the only care he gives them 10
to feed them alfalfa.
Tensas gazette. [volume] (St. Joseph, La.) 1886-current, 1913-01-10

through the center and one side fiat
tened. Across the fiattened side are
slots and through these slots the type
urotrudes. The type is mounted on
wheels which revolve on the axle and
can be adjusted to suit the date In an
instant. When adjusted the owner is
provided with a rubber stamp with
which he can implant on each egg the
time of its arrival into the world and
the place where 1t was laid. The
cylinder opens at one end for easy
access to the type wheels.
Tensas gazette. [volume] (St. Joseph, La.) 1886-current, 1913-01-10

head. it is usually lacking in consti-
tuition. Such bird is likely to have
narrow. long body and long legs.
upon which it seldom stands straight
There are some exceptions to this
vule, yet generally speaking If bird
has a good head the chances are
favorable for a good body; and. II 1t
has poor head. the chances are
against it. l have frequently noticed
In the rose-comb breeds that good
shaped one is seldom found with a
long, narrow comb.
Tensas gazette. [volume] (St. Joseph, La.) 1886-current, 1913-01-10

Canton on the Pearl river. in south
ern China
1t was evening when we left Hong
kong on the Pow An" en- route for
the blue city OF Canton, ninety miles
up the Pearl river. Twenty thousand
Chinese are said to live In this har-
Dor entirely on boats. In sampans
where shrill-voiced women steer,
cook. scull. raise families, drive bar
gains. 1t is a picturesque locality al
night, when there are hundreds OF
boats drawn up side by side. their
masts gently raking the air as they
sway up and down, their dark sails
clinging and tapping against the rig
ging, the straining timbers and creak-
ing tillers adding a subtitle sense OF
action. while the arch of each mat
forms a cave Of light, against which
the whole family is silhouetted as
they cluster about the low, round Ia
BILE to bolt their rice. The light Of the
lantern falls on a circle of yellow
faces, casting strange shadows on the
roof
Guard Against Pirates.
From the hurricane deck we
watched the city lights and the moon
until the one dwindled to a mere line
and the bleak headlands shut out the
other, leaving us only narrow,
gloomy stream Screened OF from us
by heavy iron bars were the natives.
and firearms we're stacked in conspic-
uous places, as protection against pi-
rates. The better class of Cinnamon
sat around on chairs. or laid on mats
with their little bundles huddled up
beside them. The coolies occupied the
lower deck, thick as blackberries in
August, but they were more suggestive
of rats with their long. black queues
and scuttling. noiseless motions.
When reached the deck next morn
ing we had passed Lintin island. IA
nous in 1880 as a freebooter's haven,
and were steamfng past an old Chi
nese fort in the Tigers Mouth. Nc
sentries saluted; the guns were Gov
cred up; but the glorious yellow mas
with the dragon floated above. 1t was
here the Chinese had their Opium
Party" in 1S41, when the English gov
eminent tried to force them to admit
opium, and the heather Chinee'
dared to think he had a right to drive
their ships out of Celestial waters
The sun shone brightly on the
muddy river that morning, and on the
numerous bits of picturesque Graf
(some man-propelled-men watkins
on tread wheels; on the widespread
ing fields and shapely lochee trees
the strengthening pagodas (fantas
tic. hollow towers of brick. about S0I
feet high. adorned with numerous cir
cular terraces ornamented with tree
and bushes). In that silvery. haz!
light no one ever thought Of pirates
nor that the little yellow rolls of mat
ting by the waters edge contained un
welcome little girls left there to die
but 1t was sickening enough when w
churned up one as we we're making
: our landing at Canton.
have heard friends tell of thei
landing at Joppa and at Pernambucc
: and | have landed at Matras when |
was necessary to beat the natives owe
the head with strong clubs in order Z
: get into the mesullah boats to b
! rowed to shore; but at Canton tn
} river was so crowded with sampan
, there seemed no place to land at al
for at Canton 100000 people live 4
D their boats. and these are lined u
, from three to ten deep along shor,
Tensas gazette. [volume] (St. Joseph, La.) 1886-current, 1913-01-10
CONSTITUTION OF GOOD FOWL
Points Of Weak and Strong Bird
characterized by Prof. w. r.
Graham of Ontario Station.

Prof. w. R. Graham of the Ontario
station characterizes the points of a
weak and constitutionally strong
fowl as follows:
What we want is good feeder and
an economical producer, Generally.
bird with short. stout. well-curved
beak, broad head mot too long).
and bright. clear eye. has good
constitution. And l have noticed
that when bird has long. narrow
beak. thin. leng comb and head,
and an eye somewhat sunken in the
Tensas gazette. [volume] (St. Joseph, La.) 1886-current, 1913-01-10


the whirlpool St. Lawrence;
skilled on the willow-lined
Merrimac; excursioned along
the Potomac; houseboated on the
Ohio; steamboated past the levees
OF the Mississippi; barged at evening
on the Sacramento; seined IN the Co
lumbia; mined on the Yukon; gain
cred rubber along the Congo; shot Dig
game by Zambesis cataracts; attend
ed a regatta on the Thames; pulled
grapes on the Rhine hills; reveled IN
art by the Arno; been stranded In
the volga; swan the Tiber; crossed
the Jordan; foated under the Nile
palms; roamed in the palaces OF the
Jumna; smelled the CHATS OF the
Ganges and the stencil of the Hoogh-
ly; hobnobbed- with cannibals and
eaten Doorian nuts on the Irrawaddy
all these he may have done and
more, but his river reveries are in
complete unless he has sailed on
Chinese waters; for like everything
else in the Celestial land, its rivers
are not like anything else found any
where else in the world.
Few have had the Joy of exploring
the great Hoang-Ho or the Kiang; but
those who know the latter put 1t first
among their river experiences, writes
Sarah G.. Morrison. The Yangtse-K-
ang. as most Americans call it, is the
third greatest river in the world, over
three thousand miles long and seven
teen miles wide at its mouth at Shang-
hal, where the writer well remembers
it's yellow food which stained the
ocean for $50 miles from shore.
One may have taken the 700-mile
steamer trip up to Hankow; changed
for a smaller boat and three days
ride to Shasi; then houseboated for
100 miles to Chungking, where one
sees the finest "hongs" on the street
of the White Elephant. 1t is in the
houseboat days that ones adventures
begin and the grandeur of the Yangtse
is encountered. Brown and blue and
white-striped sails of many junks,
with long-queued, chanting crews. dot
the water between needle-spired pa.
godas and bold headlands, At Ichang
and the river is mass of blue-bodied
and yellow-decked native steamers;
war junks with red standards and
pennants and throbbing tom-toms.
Through Mountain Gorges.
During the next 500 miles the river
rises 500 feet as 1t runs through the
mountains of the Seven Gates and
then the boat fights its way OF
tracks" along over thirteen big rap
ids and seventy-two minor ones. Yet
this region of perils is annually trav
ersed by over seven thousand junks
the average loss being more than
five hundred.
The mountain gorges being passed
and these are often 1880 feet high
one finds himself in rice-irrigateC
section. or, that impossible. sugar
cane. sweet potatoes. or tea is the or
der. Here the persistent, peculiar
Chinee lives simply, crudely and pic
turesquely. with no malice towart
foreign DEVILS" phrase neve
heard in these parts. Here the hea'
man of the village. in silken gown
offers hospitality of twenty or thirt,
courses from a central dish, his mem
including such rare delicacies a
sharks fms. cod-bladders. frog legs
birds nests and slugs.
But It is given to more people .
take the voyage from Hongkong .
Tensas gazette. [volume] (St. Joseph, La.) 1886-current, 1913-01-10
AGE OF EGGS is INDICATED
Rubber Stamp, Invented by Washing
ton Man, Prints Date and Name
of Farm as Guarantee.

Recently great many egg dealers.
especially those who own their poul-
try farms, have the eggs stamped with
the date on which they were laid and,
sometimes, with the name Of the farm
as a guarantee. An egg stamp in
vented by a man in the state Of Wash
ington appears herewith. 1t consists
of a hollow cylinder with an axle
Tensas gazette. [volume] (St. Joseph, La.) 1886-current, 1913-01-10
Ernm aoId sI,uash .

I'VE are more frivolous in our col.
lege life than in our fVainess." George
Fitch said. "Still. sllege life has
made business what Il is. Fraterni.
ties are Clearinghouse for ability and
ambition. kansas CsSF Star.
Tensas gazette. [volume] (St. Joseph, La.) 1886-current, 1913-01-10
RANGE TO FATTEn TURKEYS
Birds Must Have Plenty Of Exercise to
Promote Good AppetIte-Feed
Plenty Of Corn.
By ANNA GALIGHER.)

Turkeys should have free range
while being fattened for market
We used to fatten the turkeys In
small enclosures but discontinued this
several years ago because they did
not seem to thrive well.
After the first few days they would
begin to lose their appetite, no mat
ter how great a variety of food was
given.
The whole trouble was lack of ex-
ercise. II a turkey cannot get plenty
of exercise 1t cannot have good ap'
petite and OF course win not gain in
weight.
Give the turkeys plenty Of corn
these days and see that they have
plenty Of sharp grit
Better still. let the turkeys have
free access to corn field for a few
weeks.
Tensas gazette. [volume] (St. Joseph, La.) 1886-current, 1913-01-10
opuIent Bard.

81 can't understand how that poets
wife is able to dress so well. l thought
there was no money in poetry" 81
guess there isn't; but her husband has
the Job OF writing all the advertising
rhymes for one Of the biggest break.
fast food concerns in the country.
Have you seen their new automobile?~
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Uncovered Family Group.

An interesting discovery was re-
Gently made in Edinburgh in the
course OF the demolition of the old
church buildings OF parish church
in Roxburgh Place. A vault contain
ing the remains OF Lady Glenorchy, a
member OF the Breadalbane family,
and the founder OF the original church.
wa0 laid bare