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hair, gashes temples. put on mourn
ing, then. in a few days adopts half
mourning. and. shortly afterward.
seizes on q second husband.
Marriage customs vary In different
islands and among different tribes.
Usually the bride IL bought from the
village by payment Of shell-money.
canoes. weapons or other articles Of
value. Sometimes she is stolen.
When the husband tires of her and
sends her away or she divorces him
by desertion, the articles of value or
their equivalent must be returned, .
primitive alimony.
eetrothal In eabyhood.
In Kaiser Wilhelm land, the Bis.
marck Archipelago and other scat.
tered islands Of the German posses.
sions in the Pacific. as indeed In
most lands In this great ocean. the
betrothal takes place when the pro-
spective bride and bridegroom are ba-
bies and they have nothing to say
about 1t. In one tribe the girls are
betrothed at the age Of i've years
and from that date until their mar
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with his work. facing loneliness. pri'
walton, disease, death. Fourteen mis-
sionaries on the island were killed BY
hostile natives. His life was threat
ened and for . long time In Imminent
danger. He never faltered. He went
about alone among the natives. preach
ing, teaching, healing with simple med
icines the sick. leading into gentler
ways the natives, half savage and
half child" Cannibalism was stamped
out. slavery and polygamy disap.
peared.
The Native Converts.
Six thousand converts are the fruits
Of eight years labor of this man and
his associates. Nor are these con.
verts merely rice Christians" ~ the
native Christians for revenue only are
CONTEMPORARY called In some coun.
tries, but men and women who lose
in present position, socially and ma
terially, by adoption Of the new faith.
They are accepted - converts on pro.
baton for three years. during which
time they must lead upright lives. 90
Der, Industrious. before they can be
received into the church communion
After baptism they are dropped from
the rolls or placed again on probation
should they fall into their old and evil
practises. Even the most captioua
critic In the islands has only words OF
commentator for the work of Pastor
Wenxel and his colleagues. The re-
suits In the lives of the natives
brought under their influence are toe
patent to be sneered away. And the
German Methodist missionaries In the
German islands of the South Seas are
types Of the hundreds who labor fol
humanity's betterment in the worlds
dark places. OF such stun are gen
uine heroes made.
Copyright, 1914. by Joseph B. Bowles.)
Tensas gazette. [volume] (St. Joseph, La.) 1886-current, 1914-06-12
SEES PROBLEM FOR ENGLAND
Trouble Over Ulster Has Been the
Cause Of Much Comment Through
out France.

The conflicting reports and rumors
with regard to the attitude Of the ON
GERS Of the British army toward the
crisis in Ulster created . painful i'm
preston In France. French history
has more recent instances Of similar
events than that Of England. The mu-
TIMES in the south when the troops
refused to move against the rioting
wine growers led to . general disloca.
ton of the French army with . view
to avoiding the use Of local con-
scripts against their own friends and
relatives: but perhaps . closer par
allel IL to be found In the refusal Of .
few officers to obey their orders dur
ing the taking of the church invento-
ries under the church and state sep
aration law. Those officers were at
once arrested and court-martialed.
To the general upon whose orders
the arrests were made General de Gal
lifet telegraphed: my heart II with
you; you have done your duty. Dura
lex. sed lex"
That officers who belong to . nation
whose sense Of discipline II the ad-
miration Of the French should have
rendered their designations rather
than obey orders = regarded - q sign
Of the extreme gravity Of the problem
which the Petit Parisien' fears may
lead to an Irish Vendee.
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HUSBAND OF MANY WIVES
Man Convicted Under Mann Act eaid
20 Have Wed 10 Women In
IS Years.

Fort Worth. Textile eight wives
Of Ludie Arnold and two girls who
have testified against him smiled
when he was found guilty on two
charges Of violating the Mann act.
They smiled again when Judge
Meek told attorneys for Arnold that
they could go ahead with the prepare
tons Of q motion for Q new trial. but
to consider 1t already overruled.
The conviction II based on the
charge of transporting Grace HUME
from state to state. The jury fore
man said they reached . decision to
convict In 20 minutes, but there waa
some debate - to the number OF
counts.
Arnold heard the verdict without q
show of emotion or any comment II
10 said that he married Is women In
Is years without the Formally Of get
ting divorces.
The maximum sentence he can -
ceive u llve years In the federal prison
and Q $1,000 me on each Of the two
ofRenseo.
A motion for . new trial win b
fled and the case win be appealed "a
the United States circuit court Of ~
peals ON Judge Meek's refusal 20 giant
q new trial.
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SOAPS SELF AND ESCAPES
Bandit In jail At HollIdaysbur0, Pa
slips Through He Prison
Baro.

Hollidaysburg, Pa.-Frank q. Car.
roll. alias Wilson. the confessed
bandit who robbed the Union bank In
Altoona and shot the cashier. A. e.
Rupert. and w. e. Blackburn. Pennsyl'
vania railroad foreman, on March %.
wriggled through q sixinch window
opening In his cell In the Blair county
jail here. climbed with the dexterity
of . circus athlete up the outer wall
to the roof and then fashioned . 40
foot rope out Of his bedclothing. by
which he descended to the street be-
low.
Carroll then walked to the district
attorneys office, directly opposite the
courthouse. and there scrawled In
chalk marks on the bricks under Q
window of the commonwealth prose
cutor this parting message: See me
later.-F. G. c."
Nearby residents declare that
high powered motor car was stationed
in the street close to the jail at mid
night and that the prisoner had the
aid Of accomplices in making his sue
cessful dash for freedom. The great.
est vigilance had been exercised by
the county authorities In imprisoning
Carroll. He was placed in q cell be-
hind double doors and q guard pa
troled the jail yard beneath his win
dow throughout the night
Carroll's only aid within the cull to
escape was . bar OF soap. With the
soap he CREASED his naked body and
the six-inch opening In the window.
wriggling eel-fashion through the mar
row opening and then. hatless. clad
only in pajamas and bedroom slippers.
fed to the Allegheny mountains. His
escape was not discovered until nve
hours later.
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a cat and could see q snakes trail
where 1t was absolutely invisible to the
ordinary eye.
Having found a snake. probably
asleep after q meal. he had to get 1t
alive and uninjured into his bag. He
rfrely tried to lift up coiled snake. It
was a most difncult thing to do. and
he always preferred to catch the rep
tile when. stretched to its full length.
1t was gliding away from him. He then
approached from behind. caught 1t
firmly by the tail. and az It turned its
head to strike he would catch It by
the neck also and place 1t in the bag.
A fighting snake-for instance, q
tiger snake-he preferred to tire out
before attempting to handle, and
would feint and dodge for an hour on
end as the snake. with head slightly
raised. darted at him. striking vicious
ly this way and that. He disdained
leggings or gloves and always worked
among his snakes with his shirtsleeves
rolled up above his elbows.
He had been bitten over one hun
dred times and used the antidote Of his
own discovery.
In India the country Of fatal snake
bite. thete are about twenty thousand
deaths Ianually. but in Australia.
where the snakes are almost a. VEN
omous, 1t 10 doubtful II there are Q
dozen. The reasons probably lie in the
fact that Australians wear thick boots
and lsggings. and every Australian
has been taught from babyhood up
wat to do in case of snake bite. This
at the expense Of the government.
which placards all schools and railway
stations with snake bite precautions"
Any small child bitten by . snake
knows that he must instantly tie tight
ligatures above and below the wound
and then slash the part freely to let
the low of blood carry away the
venom. Many q lad willingly sacrifices
q finger tip rather than run the risk Of
dying Of snake bite. and will instantly
chop on the tip himself and then hurry
OF for treatment
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ANT|DOTE
FAILED TO WORK
Snake Trainer, Owner Of 500
Reptiles, Dies From Pune
ture in Wrist.
BITTEN BY A KRAFT
Estimated. That Their 6ites cau0e
Fully 10000 peaths Annually IA In
dia-SaId to BE Lots Of Them In
That Country.

Calcutta, India.-The death occurred
here recently Of q man for whom 1t IL
claimed that he was without equal in
his skill In handling snakes. This was
Professor Fox, an Australian snake
farmer. who came to India little time
ago to prove the efficiency OF what he
claimed to be a perfectly sure antidote
to the virus Of q snake.
Fox had been successful In all his
experiments with animals In the Cal
cutta zoo. and had just treated a goat
which had been bitten and was lean
ing on q box containing poisonous
snakes when q kraft. one Of the most
venomous of Indian snakes. escaped
and punctured Fox's wrist In i've
places.
Fox. who had often submitted to
snake bite In order to show the EN-
cacy Of his antidote, was In no way
perturbed and treated four Of the bites
at once. Later in the day symptoms
Of poisoning developed and the tiny
fifth puncture was discovered. 1t was
then too late. a. the antidote only acts
II applied at once. and Fox died the
same evening.
Fox was we'll Known In Australia.
His snake farm was . few miles out
side Of Sydney. where he kept over
i've hundred snakes. most Of which
he had caught In the brush. His busi-
ness was to extract the poison from
the snakes and sell Il to the chemists.
and for this purpose he farmed snakes
as other people farm pigs or poultry.
and moved about his>stock - fearless
ly a. II they were rabbits.
On his snake hunts he tracked his
prey with the cunning and patience of
Tensas gazette. [volume] (St. Joseph, La.) 1886-current, 1914-06-12
MAKING T0n10rr0luS
UOrld:
IN THE SOUTH SEA ISLANDS
By WALTER UILLIEMJ. LID.
OLA. So - ~ UeA..ak 4 Ma.10

DDS that great nation employs at
home. The German possessions con-
sist Of German New Guinea (Kaiser
Wilhelm Land) Bismarck Archipelago,
Marshall Islands, part Of the Sa-
moan group, the Caroline Islands and
the Mariana Islands. The native pop.
ulation IL about 10000
The contrast between the British
and German governmental administra.
ton Of their South Sea Islands is
marked. The British interfere AZ lit
tie as possible with the native. The
governor of Papua, British New Gut
nea, issued Q proclamation recently
condemning the undue sale Of Euro
pean clothing to the native. A shell
necklace and q grass loin-cloth. the or
binary wearing apparel, he evidently
thought we're conducive to morality
and progress. The German insists up
on Berlin regularity and upon the ma
tive becoming Germanixed as far az
possible and at once. The native 20
lice army of the Bismarck Archipela-
60 all wear the German military cap
though the climate forbids the coat
and trousers! "Self-government?" re-
marked Q German official at Raboul,
how can we give self-government
to cannibals?'
Natives Enslaved In copra Trafic.
Copra is king in the South Sea IL
lands. Copra Is the dried flesh of the
cocoanut and il used for soap, oil and
many commercial purposes. One Ger
man firm, with headquarters at Maron,
has 100000 cocoanut trees from which
copra is being obtained. The devel.
opment of the copra industry has
brought some commercial prosperity
10 the islands, but 1t has brought also
many of the demoralizing vices OF
civilization. There are honorable
merchants engaged in the business
but there are also many low-class trad
ers or beach combers," who dis.
grace the name of white man. Slave
labor, through . system of enforced
servitude called systematically a Ia
Tensas gazette. [volume] (St. Joseph, La.) 1886-current, 1914-06-12

- N THE fourth day after leav.
ing Shanghai I reached San
Kan bay and passed . light
" house on what II called the
northeast promontory, about
thirty-one miles from WekHai-Wei.
the territory leased to Great Britain
by China in 1898. The hills Of this
coast look bare. but the ground IL
almost all cultivated. and could
make out the shadows Of the lines Of
terracing against the tawny color Of
the dry grass. The commissioner
launch came out to take me from the
steamer to substantial stone jetty In
Port Edward on the mainland. This
was two miles beyond the island Of
Liu Kung. which helps to shelter the
harbor from the northerly gales. and
upon which are situated the marine
barracks and the naval hospital. writes
A. H. Fisher in Illustrated London
News.
The hills slope down to the water,
and the town seems built in tiers.
with government house ct the top Of
one side watching over tand and sea
The territory covers about two hum
dred and eighty-iive square miles, and
includes 500 villages with . native
population Of 10000 exclusive Of
the walled Chinese city Of WeiHat
Wei. This latter u . strange though
picturesque anomaly. Within . gun
shot of government house Lies this
enclosed fragment Of China over which
the British have NO moro Jurisdiction
than nfteenth-esntury London alder.
men had over the sanctuary Of st.
Martin s-le Grand.
Lofty Mountaln Psalra
From government house. where Q
smart Chinese police-guard-all that
remains Of the former. Chinese rsgi.
ment-act - ssntries. there u . mag.
eif1cent view Of sea and mountains.
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This year II u expected that the
ling Of the Belgians and the king Of
Greece win Be admitted to the exclu-
sive Order Of the Garter.
One recalls Lord Du6erin's story OF
the French station master who ap-
preached him with Q request that he
would obtain for him British decora-
don Of some sort Most Of the royal
ties who had. 20 to SPEAK. passed
through his hands had conquered on
him various stars" and "croeooa
but though he had several tines been
responsible for the safety and com
fort Of the British sovereign. he had
received NO decoration in return.
But most Of our orders are given
for military distinction or to civil
servants" Lord DuRerin explained.
eoothingly. For example. the Bath,
the Star Of India. and % forth"
The station master hooked very
glum.
There IL, however" his lordship
continued, ''one order that - given
for NO particular merit q service
the Order Of the Carter
"AA sell" said the station master.
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SUN SUFFERS CONSTANT LOSS
Amount Has Been Figured BY sclen-
lists, Due 70 IT. Radiation
Of Energy.

The work of Einstein on the prin-
ciple Of RELATIVELY shows that q body
which radiates energy loses q portion
of its mass depending on the energy
radiated. 1t follows that the sun,
which continually radiates energy, Is
constantly losing mass. NJ. J. Bosler
has calculated that the sun loses a
mass equal to that Of our earth in
100000 years.
II 1t be assumed that the mass thus
lost 10 gravitational mass, 1t follows
that the length of the year Increases
by six seconds in q million years, and
that in the same time the mean longi-
tude of the earth is affected in such
a way as to produce q variation of
one-tenth of a year. that is, a retar-
dalton of 36 days In the seasons.
Such variations are too minute to
be observable. In stellar systems pos
sessing a higher temperature the eff.
feet would be much more marked, for
the energy radiated by a body varies
as the fourth power Of its absolute
temperature.
II, a. M. Nordmann believes. there
exist stars having q temperature six
or seven times that of our sun. their
radiation IL one or two thousand
times a. intense. Thus, II the tenn
perature of Algol il 1880 degrees. II
IL calculated that at the end of 1000
years the eclipses Of Algol suffer q
retardation of about II minutes.
Tensas gazette. [volume] (St. Joseph, La.) 1886-current, 1914-06-12
BEETLE MAKES AUTO
CRASH INTO A POLE
Bug Alights on Drivers Clothing
and Distracts His Attention
From the Wheel.

Newton Centre. Mesa beetle
that alighted on the clothing Of Law.
renee Rice Of Newton a. he was driv.
Ing his fathers automobile toward hif
home the other afternoon. distracted
his attention from the wheel long
enough to send him crashing into Q
telephone pole at the top of the incline
On Commonwealth avenue. near Lake
street.
Rice and his companion. John Carl
son of Newton Centre. had a narrow
escape from serious injury. and the
machine was considerably damaged
The car hit the pole with such force
that the lamp on top Of 1t was shat
Tensas gazette. [volume] (St. Joseph, La.) 1886-current, 1914-06-12

Yalu by sea. Al I walked tov.,s.
the walls Of the Chinese city 49,
q Franciscan Catholic mission. ~
near 1t. in fenced enclosure ~
heaps Of scrap-iron from the varra1r>
sunk at Port Arthur.
A wide middle road divided tia -,
within the walls Of which I frst ~
tied Confucian temple. Behind -
chief altar sat an image Of the No.
sage (of whom. BY the way, Mneol
descendant still survives). the rem,rs.
able contemporary Of Pythagoras a.
Of Cyrus. king Of Persia: and e
either side Of this were figures Z
his favorite disciples; Mencius "a.
Tsengtxu on the left. and ON the M
Sxutxu and Yentxu. Above the allar
In large golden character hung q,
motto. Among living mortals nevop
has there been one like him. -
over this. also In gold characters NJ
q red ground. Teacher and mood ~
all ages" Farther along the Co..
street stands an open-air stage ~
theatrical performances. q stone ~
form. i've feet high. with tall 3D.
columns at the corners to support 8
roof.
Monuments to widows. n
The distinguished commissions. -
James Stewart Lockhart. who has .
exceptionally thorough knowledge e
the Chinese language. took me @
morning on . long pony ride to 500
Of the inland villages. The housoo
were Of stone and matched with -
weed which had weathered to silvuk
grey. They were less substantial ~
they appeared. ~ the binding mstsrinl
was only Of mud. The cir was M
and bracing-hills to the right Of =
terraced except for their rocky ~
>mits and few stretches Of oak,eoso&
lower down. Near several Villages =
saw stone monuments to female G.
Tensas gazette. [volume] (St. Joseph, La.) 1886-current, 1914-06-12

Gap. Caroline
Islands. No old
maids are to be
fou n d In tn Q
South Sea Is
lands. There are
no "unappropriat-
ed blessings" No
widow remains q
W 1 d o " m q n y
days. There are
no odd" women.
The bachelor CIR;
is one product Of
civilization which
has not yet found
way to these
tropical islands.
though cigarettes
and liquor are
here In ample
m g q sure. The
widow tears her
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bor-recruiting system, has nearly ev-
erywhere been introduced as neces-
sary for the copra industry. It IL not
strange to find that the native fears
the white man. Wherever possible
the white man, trader or planter, in
the South Seas forces him to labor,
when he had never worked before, and
carries him, q practical slave, for this
labor to cocoanut plantations on dis
tant islands.
Good Work Of Missionaries.
The German missionary has done
and continues 10 do much good among
the natives. For making conditions
better in these lonely but beautiful IL.
lands much credit il due to the Ger.
man missionaries-as in other lands
credit II due missionaries of other
nations. The missionary seldom re-
ceives the need Of praise he merits.
A new Acts Of the Apostles could be
written from the stories Of the lives
Of the missionaries, men and women,
out in these outposts Of German civ.
ilization. True, there IL Q divided and
discordant Christianity, to the shame
Of Christianity here and ut home. Com.
petition still exists among Christian
sects when cooperation has succeed
ed competition In the business world.
True, there are unworthy mission
aries. But when all has been said
against them by traders with whose
cruel methods they interfere and By
tourists who travel only for pleasure
and by cynics who are deaf and blind
though not dumb. the worlds good 10
being promoted, immeasurably pro
NOTED, BY these sslfsacrificing men
and women who are engaged in splen-
did adventure for God and man IN
the islands Of the sea.
Heroic Prsaehers Work.
Take one example out Of many. On
the Island Of New Pommeru the Rev.
H. p. Wensel. . German Methodist
missionary. IL closing his eighth year
Of unremitting service. without holi-
day or relief. He gave mp . comfort,
able pulpit In Berlin 70 come to this
distant land. His wife. who came
with him, died of fever and Hes buried
near the mission church he built. His
children were sent home 70 live with
relatives In Germany. He kept q
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rage, five or ten years afterward, they
are kept imprisoned in bamboo cages
from which they are released Tor only
an hour once q day. Despite this
close imprisonment. they grow up ap-
parently strong and in good health.
Romance Is absent from the betrothal
ceremony which Is concerned altogeth-
er with pigs. canoes and tomahawks.
Husbands Won by Cookery.
The second marriage differs in this
tribe from the first in that the widow
has her husband selected for her BY
her relatives. but she must win him
by her skill ~ . cook. A soon a.
the man IL selected. the widow. with
her cooking pots, 10 taken to his house.
She prepares and cooks his food and
when he returns in the evening offers
It to him with her own hands. Should
he accept. the marriage IL established,
but II the lady be not attractive In his
eyes he clicks his tongue, q peculiar
Papuan note of disapproval. and she
must leave to try her culinary skill
on another man. The good cook near.
ly always wins, whether or not she 10
good booking. Not In America alone
is husband won or kept by feeding
the brute" The American girl who
wears q cook apron gracefully will
get her best young man sure!
A story is told in New Guinea Of .
Papuan widow who was an indiffer-
emit cook. She cooked dinner every
day for three weeks for the man 90
lected to be her second husband. while
the willy prospective bridegroom.
knowing what was in store, took al
his meals with his father. Finally.
seeing the case was hopeless. she re-
moved the cooking pots. her impls.
ments Of warfare, to the house Of
another man where she-and her din
ners-proved irresistible.
osrmany's lslands.
Germany's possessions In the PACT
&c ocean are not large. They ere
mere stepping stones along the oceans
Highways, thrusting themselves above
the surface Of the sea - the ancient
stepping stones In Columbia. Missouri.
or Pompeii. rise above the level Of the
streets. Germany holds to them With
tsnacity. however. and governs them
With The samr antocratic police mstA-
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stancy. columns erected to ths -
Org Of widows who had never -
ried. . curious title to respect q
. people who consider women -
no mind Of their own. nor to -
able Of taking the initiative =
thing.
Near the end Of that street. ~ g.
upon some that were weeping -
menting with loud voices 4 -
procession was crossing . strean
der nickering sunlight that
through the Willows. A canOple4
was carried In front Of the pgocol
with . tablet inscribed win 9
acters about the dead-a vo0U
this case-and after the hoosoo
the chief mourners walked . ugQ
women wailing loudly. "a