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Tensas gazette. [volume] (St. Joseph, La.) 1886-current, 1914-07-17
INERTIA.

Matter IL anything that occupies
space and all matter Is subject to uni
versal. immutable law. Our brains are
composed, Of matter and are. therefore.
subject to these same laws.
Among the characteristics Of mat
ter are those covered by Newton's
three laws Of motion:
!. All bodies continue in . state of
rest or Of uniform motion In q straight
line unless acted upon BY some ex-
ternRl force that compels q change.
2. Every motion or change of mo
tton 10 proportional to the acting force
and takes place In the direction Of the
straight fne aaong which the force
acts.
Tensas gazette. [volume] (St. Joseph, La.) 1886-current, 1914-07-17
KILLS n PIRATES
IN FIGHT ON SHIP
Story of How Chinese Bandits
Then Burned Liner for Re-
venge Is Told.
WAS BLOODY BATTLE
A. Fast az the Ships ofiesrs Could Re-
lead Their Weapons They Fired Into
the Ruek Of squlrmins Figures
That Appeared.

Vancouver, B. C.-From the West
river near Hong Kong. China, the
Canadian Pacific railway liner, EN-
press Of Japan. brought q story OF
piracy and . bloody battle by night
aboard the British steamer Talon.
On April "a. 1913. the Talon was
ssised and looted by pirates at the
point ON West river. where one year
later to the day the piratical attack
Just reported here was made.
On April n. 1914, the Talon cleared
from Hong Kong for Honeymoon with
general cargo. . crew Of 20 Chinese
and 1868 passengers. The vessel was
commanded by Captain Weatherell.
With Chief Omcer Evans and Engineer
Z. D. Mccartney, who was on the
steamer at the time of the nrst pratt
cal attack . year ago.
At about ten o'clock at night, April
81, OF Kai Au, while the captain was
asleep In hin cabin, several score of
pirates that had come aboard as pas
1engers. appeared on the decks with
Mauser rifles in their hands.
Frightened cries from the other
Chinese aroused Captain Weatherell.
Ssising q shotgun. he leaped for the
bridge. reaching 1t q moment in ad-
vance of the first pirate to seek the
point Of vantage. The captain shot
him through the stomach and the body
rolled back upon his climbing fellows
behind,
For the moment the dash of the
armed Chinese was halted. and in that
moment Captain Weatherell was Joined
By the mate and engineer and two
Portuguese guards. A fast as they
could reload their weapons they fired
into the ruck Of squirming figures
that appeared. fell back in the dark
ness and appeared again at the bridge
rail. Across the floor Of the bridge
dashed a figure. screaming with rage
and pain. and the fingers Of two talon
like hands closed in . wounding clutch
On the throat of the engineer. Cap
tain Weatherell whirled and fred with
hasty aim. Several shots from the
weapon raked through McCartney's
hip, but the mass of the load struck
and shattered the pirates skull
Abandoning the attack on the
bridge, which already had cost them
II dead and many wounded. the pirate
hordes withdrew to the lower deck.
They stopped the engines and put the
Tensas gazette. [volume] (St. Joseph, La.) 1886-current, 1914-07-17
BLooDHoUNDs GO ON STRIKE
Either That or safe Crackers Refuse
to Leave q Scent In Mesriek,
New York.

Merrick, N. IA bloodhound's life
is not all that 1t il cracked up to be.
Every time the Merrick postoffice il
robbed-and it happens with regular
ity that is getting positively monoto-
nous-folks say, Call out them
dawgs." and expect the pack Of blood
hounds that the Long Island railroad
keeps kenneled here for emergencies
to get excited about it.
They used to get excited about 1t,
but that was back in the days Of
their youth. 1t was great sport to 90
chasing on in full cry down Main
street and out along the Merrick road.
and keep the whole town on the anx-
ious seat until it was time to come
home with q chewedup woodchuck or
chipmunk. But, of course. they
couldn't keep that up indefinitely. and.
besides, the supply of woodchuck and
chipmunk was running low. In fact.
old woodsmen say 1t Is now more than
two miles cross country from the
village to the nearest woodchuck hole.
When Postmaster Harry Zeiner
opened the Office the other morning
he found that about the only things
that the yeggmen had left untouched
were the blotters, the inkstand, the
portrait of the Great Eastern that
nangs on the righthand wall and the
last years circus poster card by the
Men Wanted for the Army" litho-
graph. The safe was blown to bits
and the back Of the ONCE was mostly
daylight.
The postcards, the sheets Of stamps
and all the cash were gone. 1t was
a clear case for the bloodhounds from
the start.
Deputy Sheriff Murray flashed the
ALARM to the kennels and the crowd
around the ofiice cheered as the pack.
hove in sight at the far end of the
street.
Here come the dawgs." was the
cry.
But this bit Of encouragement only
got them az far as the office door.
From that point they had to be
leashed. and dragged forcibly inside.
aud made to sniff at the safe and the
cash drawer. While everybody was
trying to get Roger. the fiercest of the
lot. to pick up the scent and be on,
two of the pack discovered q soft
spot behind the delivery window and
were found. some time later. fast
asleep.
This more or less broke up the
party. 1t was accordingly decided that
either the yeggs had been careless
enough to leave no scent or the blood.
hounds had gone on strike, and that
whichever 1t was the idea of running
down the robbers with dogs was inn
practicable.
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steering gear out Of commission. Then.
In their rage. they gave up all hope Of
profit from their attack In their lust
for revenge.
Breaking open tins Of kerosene In
the hold. drenching the cargo. the
pirates set fire to the ship. In few
minutes the Talon was wrapped In
sheets of flame. Out of the smoke
which poured over the rails, swarms
Of Chinese. pirates and prisoners.
leaped into the sea.
On the bridge. where the fight had
been fought and won. the i've men
stil stood. sending up rocket signals
Of distress. Then. as three steamers
responding to the signals came into
view, the two Portuguese sprang over
board. For a little longer the three
Britishers. choked by the smoke and
tortured by the heat. clung to the Bills
tering rail and shouted advice to the
Struggling passengers. Evans seized
q oar and plunged into the sea. He
I'D not reappear. Then the engineer
aAd the captain jumped. Both were
saved as were the Portuguese. The
Ision was burned to the water line
md sank.
The three rescue steamers were the
enun Lee. the Wo Kwai and Shin On
hsi Sang. Their boats saved most of
Ne Chinese passengers. - well ~ the
Sour white 81.
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swatch Ne Kill Myself."

avenue station came in response to
their call. He had the boy sent to an
undertaking establishment.
Investigation by the police leads the
detectives to believe that the boy
pulled the trigger without knowing
that the revolver was loaded. They
can find no reason why he might have
wished to commit suicide. His parents
declare that his home life was happy.
Tensas gazette. [volume] (St. Joseph, La.) 1886-current, 1914-07-17

s. To every ace1o0 there IL always
an equal and contrary reaction.
The first law q motion states that
q body once set = motion viii move
forever in Q stfaight line with the
same velocity unIsss acted upon by
some other fotoe which compels .
change. This peupsrty IL known a.
inertia. Inertia - not . force. but 10
the result of abeogbing force.
Tensas gazette. [volume] (St. Joseph, La.) 1886-current, 1914-07-17

Kingston (Ensland) Women.
There are now seven women mem
bers Of the board Of guardians. King
ston, England. No other board In the
kingdom has 20 many.
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the result of absorbins force.
The hardest tn1ng we have to over
come in ourselVet h mental inertia.
An idea once forced will persist until
stronger one overwhelms 1t and
alters 1t. This. II the foundation Of
habit and the reason the past has 20
strong q hold on ~ always. The past
10 the line Of least resistance and
leaning on 1t d highly characteristic
of one with slothful intellect, the ira
dition wosships2* the dawdlins con-
We are naturally conservative be.
cause II requires IN initial effort to up
root old notions and habits: 1t y pain
full and we resent II We want to be
let alone.
II because Of some indiscretion We
had a pain yesterday for which by
recommendation of authority we took
something out Of bottle. 1t h easier
to repeat the act again today than 1t
u to determine the cause or to ignore
the temporary penalty Of pain and re-
solve to sin no more. To repeat IN
act is usually to follow the line Of
least resistance. It requires less
thought and less effort with each
repetition until finally an automatic
cycle of reaction 10 established and .
habit IL born.
With the track once laid, Q word
spoken, the fash of q sign before the
eye. the most remotely associated idea.
each serves a. . signal for train Of
thought bringing into action automatic
ally Q complicated line Of co-ordinating
nerve centers. and the act Il again per-
formed practically involuntarily. often
unconsciously.
This is why the drunkard II In .
perilous condition If he contents him
self merely with saying or swearing
that he will avoid strong drink.
Thought precedes action and therefore
II thought be not clearly focused on
some wholesome dominant idea 1t
must inevitably revert to the estab-
lished line.
To rescue one permanently from
habit we must have an equivalent In
some mental occupation sufficiently At
tractive to submerge the old impress
sions. else ones vitality will be sQuan-
dered in the struggle. Inability to re-
sist drink or drugs or bad habits In
general II because of inertia
II one II weak II u dinicult to gem
crate sufficient power to overcome the
accumulated force Of the little act fire.
quently repeated. and one becomes .
slave to habit.
Habits may be good or bad: both
are the natural and inevitable result
Of training. For the future must grow
out of and inherit the present, just -
the present grew out of and inherited
the past Intelligence gives thorough
training. good habits. good health and
happiness. Ignorance or indifference
gives bad training. vicious habits. dis
ease and crime. Bad habits can be
surely and safely broken. not by sub
stitution. nor by cures. nor by miracles.
but only by . frank and courageous
recognition of the true conditions and
4 sane development out Of them.
The fundamental necessity for the
correction of bad habits IL intellectual
integrity-a rare quality. The mos
difficult and unpleasant duty we have
to perform. but one absolutely neces-
sary If we would have good health and
be able to use. the greatest power
within the reach Of man. thought. IL to
be square and truthful with ourselves.
| to see ourselves as we are.
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Accompanying Photographs Show the
Latest Styles Exhibited by Modistcs
at the French Race Courses
An attractive
summer outfit.

you can put a bet on If waiter knows
you. He will call an agent for one of a
dozen rich bookmaking rings.
Taking your money the waiter agent
will write you a ticket on u sheet of
plain white paper, just the date, sum-
horses name and race" or ''place."
II you win the same waiter will very
honestly hand you the Government
mutual betting price. The rings find
it good business to pay pari-mutuels
prices-they earn s per cent. automati-
cally.
How tax such bookmakers? a secret
service army wars on them, yet they
thrive. The people of Paris are with
them. They permit the masses to
gamble at Government prices, without
the trouble. expense and loss of time
in going to the race track.
Which, of course. Is just what the
Government wants to prohibit.
Bet on the track" it says. but only
on the track"
OF course 1t is vast success. On
Grand Prix day the total Longchamps
public runs to half a million. Every
race day of the year twenty, forty.
sixty. eighty thousand persons pay
to the tribunes or 50 or 81 to the fiowery
paddock. And when Longchamps closes
it is Auteuil. Chantilly, St. Ouen. Vim
cennes st. Cloud. Maisons, Enghien or
lie Tremb!ay. They are racing round
Paris all the year except midwinter.
To see the horses run, think you?
To see the new styles? Magnificent
astonishing. amusing. rich and often
"a n ~ IN 10. hA al. .,l
attraction is Misunderstanding in an at
mosphere of optimism and excitement
amid vast throngs all agog with
rumors. tips and tiurries in a setting OF
pure beauty.
Where do they get their money to bet
with? Here is the continual mystery to
the present writer. 1t Is not SO much
the poor clerk who goes wrong, but the
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In a word, the French State adopted
mutual betting op condition that it
should hold and distribute the stakes
and pocket the profits
The idea is that such profits from
such dubious sources are justified only
by worthy uses. The rakeoff is 8 per
cent. Charity gets per cent. Hygiene
gets l per cnt. Agricultural prizes
per cent. And per cent. goes to the
race societies which produce the money
and Dy their embellishments and at
fractions make a brilliant Paris season.
Also. they have to settle with NJ. Oller
pay him for printing those tickets.
Last year the profits were per cent.
on $4,000. 900 bet in Government booths.
principally on nine Partisan race tracks,
whose total was in round figures $62,-
500. 900. Other French cities and resorts
did the balance.
Eight per cent. on SS5, 00O, 900 makes
s6,S00,000 profits to the French State
and from mutual betting only. Germany
proposes to raise half of her six millions
by taxing bookmakers.
The bookmakers in France escape
taxation. After the great shakeup the
more honorable among them formed
the club which still exists. No money
passes on the track. The bookmakers
just lounge at ease. accepting bets by
mods and fingers from the rich sports
whom they can trust. At night they
meet at the club and settle. They are
assimilated to private gentlemen.
The greater number of bookmakers
are clandestlne. make no books and do
not go near the races. This Is why
they are untaxable. In almost any cafe
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good father and dear patient mother
who go out and lose the rent money
| know retired General who is wasting
his daughters marriage portion on
preteXt of increasing it.
| know a Paris business man who's
firm is making money. His partners
value him and seek to wean him from
the races. He says that his health re-
CURES him 10 take air; IL also makes
him win or lose $500 of an afternoon.
| know young woman who made a
success as dressmaker. BaCkers in
stalled her in Rue Trunchet lease with
cutter. ten hands and two mannequns
She used to pay dividends. Now she
finds II necessary to follow her name
quns to the races when they show the
gowns off. She meets customers who
chat with her and introduce her 10
others. Yet, Is II not queer? She has
stopped paying dividends!
know a young bourgeois couple who
live handsomely on the income of stock,
and bonds which their parents gave
them when they married. She wanted
To see the styles at the races-and now
they have broken into their capital
l know-I know-listen. The daily
papers have their race service indicat-
ing winners with reasoned chats of pas
performances of horse and Jockey, Of
stable. owner, trainer, weather. track
conditions.
Then there are three special dailles
suited to the understandings of plain
sports, SNUG family sports and gilded
knowing sports.
Then there are two extra special
tabulating dailies which accumulate Tho
entire data of the others.
How could any workingman -
wrong? How shall not father. DRAWN.
his annuity, go out and double il 90
make things easier at home" WHY
should not mamma with the furnturr
instalment money win the price OF a
spring hat? And their losses are vast,
bitter and deep reaching!
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job required that quality In any organ
ization. So from this toughest member
of the Tough Club the hidden depraN..y
of the fiercely named body Was ascrr-
tanned.
II am the only living charter member
of the Tough Club" said Mr., sharp
I'VE organized November 10, 1865 So
that next year We shall have COmplr'ri
our half century.
There is no other organization
exactly like us. We are social Cluh
pure and simple, absolutely refusinG to
attach ourselves to politics or any other
specific thing for which so many other
clubs are organized.
We were incorporated as the ToHEA
Club. with the motto, Bend but y "r
Break embraced within horseshoe ~
an emblem, June 30 1896. We chan 4
our clubhouse half dozen times unI
in 1898 We moved to - Grove S''"''.
For nineteen years that was our home
until We bought our present cluhh Use
outright. November s, 1912,
To all of the special functions he
President of the United States has .rrA
invited for years. His answers io '.'
| invitations are on view in the Cluh- *
| scrapbook. Do not imagine IN" '.'
grets sent by the Presidents are JOB .'
perfunctory acknowledgements. TIE
| sent by Woodrow Wilson last NJ
was as elaborate as any ISSUING 90
| the White House-susplclous as
name of the Tough Club Is.
you're as tough looking as Ne
| said John Palmer, a member tla 20
| eight years. and Charles cropsrt
| I
around chowder night and prove "I 10
| as tough as you look. We're al a,I.'i
to be respectable rowdies in a
! Climb"
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ers, cab companies and associated thea
tres. music halls, cafes, restaurants and
hotels all spoke with no uncertain voice:
Bring back real racing.'
The solution was simple.
1t Is that of Germany and most
European countries. I say nothing Of
Its morality. In the name of prosperity
the Government purified the races by
becoming stake holder,
/ refer, of course, to the mutual bet
ting. which most European Govern
ments administer. Joseph Oller began
by inventing the totalzer. 1t was
great booth hauled to the racetrack
and having numerous dials 20 indicate
the number of simple dollar bets put
on each horse. When the race was run
they totalzed the dollar bets on all
losers and divided them up among the
dollar bets on the winners-less 10 per
cent. for NJ. Oilers pocket.
NJ Oilers success was so great that
he lost his head. When he set up his
first of all poolrooms in the boulevard
1t was too much.
I'VE can't have public gambling in
mid-Paris" was the general sentiment.
For here was gambling merely for
gambling and not as a stimulus to at
tend the races and make a show ground
for fashion and commerce. They de-
clared NJ. Oilers plant a game of chance.
Following on this came the short
reign of the bookmakers and the
welching scandals which brought about
all betting was prohibited. have men,
toned how the attendance fell off. and
Paris commerce, joining with the agrl-
cultural societies and racing interests,
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"Red Mike and violets." I whispered.
Sure" said Mr.. Clancy, you always
meet them here on st. Patrick's night.
We have big time on that date. We
prepare a big lot of EN-"
"a big lot? Might-will-would you
mind telling me who Red Mike and
Violets are?"
"Why-ha, ha-haven't you met them
before? Why, you know--corned beef
and cabbage-Red Mike and Violets-
same thing. you know"
We went into the back room, which
proved to be the club kitchen-as big
as Harlem suite of housekeepings.
In one corner l noticed a great iron
caldron. felt sure l had run down
the criminal side of the Tough Club at
last. This was the dark room, no
doubt, where victims were hell before
they were garroted in case they would
not yield up proper blackmail.
What might that dark chamber be ?"
! queried OF another member who didn't
look at all tough-Chairman Edward
Mclean of the entertainment commit
tee.
"Oh, that? Why, that's our ninety
gallon chowder pot. Made by the Mott
iron Works specially tough to stand
the strain. Every second Saturday we
mix and brew 100 gallons of the finest
chowder ever rolled over your tongue
Five thousand clans in it,
SAY" / jerked out. flash me some
thing tough so long as you're the Tough
Club, cancher?"
We'll introduce you to the toughest
guy in the club. He has to be tough
Has to be without a heart. Come and
get introduced to Simon NJ. Sharp"
They had me shake hands with Mr..
Sharp. He was tough. they said. simply
because he was financial secretary. The
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divide up the totals of the losers among
as many as have bet on him. II the
mass OF booths have sold in the same
proportions the idea will be correct.
Often they don't. Often there is a run
on a horse in certain booths at the
last moment, which modifies all cal
culations.
They pay off in five minutes. Runners
take the totals from each booth to the
central office. The average is rapidly
calculated and the price goes back
Immediately to each paying booth.
Rich and poor alike bank on the
system. Mingled with delicious uncer-
tainty. there is a feeling that great
averages cannot tell lies.
In the first year the mutual betting
held $20,0O0.0O0 stakes. NJ. Oller, whose
commission was reduced to 8 per cent,
pocketed 81 500, 900, less what he had to
give back to the race societies. But
they wanted his system and were tender
with him.
And, once again, it was too good!
Poor NJ. Oiler! He who built the Moulin
Rouge. the Jardin de Paris. Casino
Olympia and the Rochechouart Swim
ming Baths. always erred by making
too great a success. Three years later
the French Government said to NJ.
Oller:
We compliment you. Your system
works beautifully. We authorize all
race societies to use it-and shall ad-
minister II ourselves"
They took 1t away from him.
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st)OME over to the Tough Club
and meet Red Mike and Vio-
~ let's"
These were the very word

These were the very words
OF the invitation. I controlled myself
fairly well as l took the ticket and Won
dered If 1t would explode in my pocket.
Despite the Sullivan law armed. / did
intend stopping in the Eighteenth pre-
cinct police station and arranging for
the retrieving Of my corpse, but at the
last moment I perked up and proved
once more that pride often enables a
man to face death vigorously.
l reached 2i3 West Fourteenth street
and stopped shiveringly at the curb. Be-
fore me stood the four story home of
the redoubtable Tough Club This was
the spot selected by fate to prove
whether ! was "A man or mouse.
had been comprehenslvely advised that
while there are tough steak and tough
times and tough characters by the
million there's only one Tough Club
This was where | was to be shown.
entered, thinking of Comrade Dante and
that little subway "trip he made regard
less OF the warning posted up at the en-
trance wicket.
There were dozen or more members
seated at tables. | put on an ingra tat
ing smile. Hard and tough as no doubt
they We're perhaps | could deceive them
into letting up on me. To tell the truth
they didn't look tough, but this no doubt
was just the superficial smear of all
rightness they put on to cover up their
murder work until the time came to
strike. / advanced into the room as
properly as though l were to be pre-
sented to the Kaiser.