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Tensas gazette. [volume] (St. Joseph, La.) 1886-current, 1915-02-05
salts all readily available for plant

salts all readily available for plant
food again.
The hen does not know these things
AZ We do. but the writer knows from
personal observation that the average
hen Will make vastly harder strug-
gle to correct a deficient diet than
Will the average human being.
The hen doesn't bother about the
color OF food, but II she feels badly
she seems to know instinctively that
something is missing and hunts it up.
Deficiency in our prepared foods Is
at the bottom of the greater part OF
our troubles.
Tensas gazette. [volume] (St. Joseph, La.) 1886-current, 1915-02-05

~ OUEN, although barely sixty
miles in direct line northwest
of Paris, and considerably less
- than one hundred miles from
the scene of the present savage
struggle in northeastern France, sits
in peace and cares for thousands of
the wounded allies in her hospitals,
writes E. N. Vallandigham in the Phila-
delphia Record. She believes her
noble old cathedral, with its fantastic
spire of iron openwork shooting more
than $50 feet heavenward, safe from
the fate Of the lovely structure at
Reims. less than $50 miles distant.
The bombardment of Rouen would
mean the ruin of some of the noblest
and oldest ecclesiastic structures in
France, but Rouen has maintained her
serenity on her beautiful site beside
the Seine in these last months and has
sent forward again to the front many
a soldier nursed back to life and
health. Her ancient churches, some
OF them worn, as 1t were to the bone,
by centuries of wind and rain, have
been even more frequented than usual
by these praying Normans, and her
lovely little street shrines have attract
ed more and more the pious glances of
the passers-by.
Looks Its Age.
Rouen Is one of the few old Euro
pean cities Of considerable size that
really look their age. She has accom-.
plished the seeming marvel of modern
izing her political and industrial life
without throwing of her medieval
garb. Here dwell $4,000 or 10000
people, forming an active modern com.
munity. with the public appointments
and conveniences Of q twentieth GEN.
fury city. yet thousands of them live
in houses from $50 to 600 years old.
and the region round about seems to
the traveller enriched at every step
with the dust of centuries.
Hardly eight miles away. approached
through the magnificent public forest
Of Roumere. covering 10000 acres, is
the perfectly preserved twelfth cen.
tury Norman church of st. George de
Baskerville. while at every turn one
meets In the city ancient towers and
lovely remnants of old ecclesiastical
architecture. Rouen long ago outgrew
its walls, though bit of the old de-
lenses that actually defied Shake
speare's Prince Hal almost exactly 500
vea m, On ettI1 staudo
Broad. new thoroughfares have pene-
trated the very heart of the old town.
yet everywhere the middle ages crop
out. and there remain at least q score
Of old streets 80 narrow that the over.
hanging upper stories almost meet.
while there is scant room for pedes.
TRANS to pass one another below. The
narrowest streets have no sidewalk
whatever, while in many others, busy
and crowded, the footway is less than
two feet wide.
Remains Of the Normans.
1t is, of course. not Celtic Rouen, the
seat Of q bishopric more than 1900
years ago, that now survives, but
rather Norman Rouen. which IL only
1000 years old. How those tall. crazy.
looking, half-timbered houses, huddled
so that the sun in some cases never
penetrates to the narrow streets and
alleys between, have escaped destruc-
ton by fire all these centuries who
Tensas gazette. [volume] (St. Joseph, La.) 1886-current, 1915-02-05
The krupp Guns.

It seems to be the case that the Ger
man Krupps are at present the most
formidable big guns. but what Ger
many has done the other nations
ought to be able to do and the
chances are that II universal peace
does not come soon the Krupps will
find worthy rivals among the artillery
of the nations.
Tensas gazette. [volume] (St. Joseph, La.) 1886-current, 1915-02-05

him which
remained the while husband
him
the candy feeling satisfied
Of the watches and rings Detectives could do nothing
The other Doberg handing
The explained later
Is watches IA
Tensas gazette. [volume] (St. Joseph, La.) 1886-current, 1915-02-05

From some cooked meat remove fat
and gristle and put through the chop
per. Season well and moisten with q
little good gravy. Make a good, rich
biscuit dough, roll out thin and cut
into four or five-inch squares, spread
each piece with some Of the meat mix
ture and roll up as tightly az possible.
Place close together in a creased pan.
brush the tops with milk and bake In
a quick oven. Serve with q good
gravy.
Tensas gazette. [volume] (St. Joseph, La.) 1886-current, 1915-02-05

and die. In milwaukee,, at least, he
does the more sensible thing. He
gives the dog a real funeral, buries
him in a real cemetery, and, last but
not least, erects a monument over the
canine grave, just as though the dog
were a member of the family.
The dog cemetery consists of five
acres of land set aside for canine
burials on the Swan farm in the town
of Wauwatosa. 1t is in the charge of
DIR. f. NJ. Sullivan, a veterinary sur
geon, who is a director of the Wis
Tensas gazette. [volume] (St. Joseph, La.) 1886-current, 1915-02-05
Radium Business Disturbed.

Hdoium ouSineS8 Oi1tuTpeo.
The European war has for the pres.
ent. at least, totally closed the Euro
pean market to American radium ores.
As is we'll known, the uranium ores
Of Colorado and Utah are sold exclu.
sively for their radium content, so lit
tie use being known for the uranium
that the ores cannot be sold for their
content of that element. The closure
of the European market leaves but one
known buyer. 80 that while the war
lasts and probably for some time after.
ward the market will be restricted and
without the benefit Of competition.
Had the bills introduced in congress
been passed, the United States govern.
ment would probably also have been
in the market as a buyer. and the
miner might have had at least the
choice between two purchasers
Science.
Tensas gazette. [volume] (St. Joseph, La.) 1886-current, 1915-02-05
Salmon Grab.

One can salmon. one-half cupful
milk. two eggs. one-half cupful cracker
crumbs, salt and pepper. Beat yolks
Of eggs and then add the other in
gradients, adding the beaten whites
last. Bake one-half hour. Slice cold
and serve with or without mayonnaise
dressing.
Tensas gazette. [volume] (St. Joseph, La.) 1886-current, 1915-02-05
SWeetbreado.

Put two or more pounds Of sweet
breads in lukewarm water for an hour.
then boil them for another hour. drain
them well and when cold bake them
in q hot oven, basting them with the
liquor which comes from them until
they are nicely Drowned all over.
Tensas gazette. [volume] (St. Joseph, La.) 1886-current, 1915-02-05

a chance a job
But
They wanted hair cut"
And refused?"
YES
do
have hair cut?"
Il would"
q n trade?
Job the stage would learn lines He didn't
swell all right Honestly mister did sweer head hair
ife?"
Tensas gazette. [volume] (St. Joseph, La.) 1886-current, 1915-02-05
Cold Catchup.

Cut four quarts Of tomatoes flne.
add one cupful Of chopped onions. one
cupful of nasturtium seeds that have
been cut fine. one cupful Of freshly
grated horse-radish. three large stalks
of celery chopped. one cupful Of whole
mustard seed. one-half cupful Of salt.
one rounding tablespoonful each Of
black pepper, cloves and cinnamon, q
level tablespoonful of mace, one-half
cupful Of sugar and four quarts Of
vinegar.
Mix all well together and put into
Jars or bottle. 1t needs no cooking but
must stand several weeks to ripen.
Tensas gazette. [volume] (St. Joseph, La.) 1886-current, 1915-02-05

shall guess? Much of Rouen's me-
dievalism has sought to hide itself be-
hind a specifically modern front.
What looks like a weather-boarded
house. at most SO years old, turns out
when one prizes bit to be fifteenth
or sixteenth century survival.
Commonplace house fronts show
quaint old carvings such as went to
decorate the dwellings of the more i'm
portant burghers of the fifteenth CEN
fury. All sorts of modern occupations
are carried on in houses built long be-
fore such occupations were known to
men. Inns that bid for the custom Of
the tourist still retain the old central
court where plays were enacted with,
the well-to-do looking ON from the
hotel balconies, the common folk from
what we should now call the pit, then
the roughly cobbled inn yard itself.
Such inns have the oldest, unexpected
stairways, the queerest red-tiled hall
ways, narrow and dusky, great beams
showing beneath the plaster. windows
a single pane wide between the per-
pendicular timbers and fireplaces, now
nearly bricked up. but once open and
generous, with blazing logs before
which basked the tired travellers Of
500 years ago.
Normans Of Today.
In meeting the Normans Of today a.
they go about their ancient capital,
one feels anew the marvels Of their
history. One fancies in watching the
common people of Rouen that one sees
In these descendants of Duke Rollo's
sea-wolves a persistence of the traits
that made their ancestors the most
dreaded pirates of their day. the foun-
ders of kingdoms in widely sundered
parts of Europe. The women in par
ticular have q high distinction in face
and figure. Girls walk with q sim
gularly charming grace, with the air Of
possessing the earth that they tread,
and carry their heads proudly, as II
recalling the rough glories of their
race for 1000 years. Beauty of line
and expression Is the dover of many
women in Norman Rouen, and both
men and women are quickly responsive
| to courtesy from stranger.
The slums of Rouen show as fepel-
lent human manifestations as one can
find in almost any city. and waterside
loafers are sometimes desperate look
ing characters. though, perhaps. this
impression IL due partly to their
squalid dress, unshaven faces and I'M
familiar dialect. Some of the women
who inhabit the lofty old ruins on the
edge of q sewerlike canal in one of
Rouen's worst quarters would furnish
excellent models for the painter Of
Norman criminal life. But the human
fotsam and jetsam Is seemingly q
small proportion Of the population. In
deed, Normandy seems to have pre-
served the ideals and virtue Of an older
France. Here. II anywhere. the infiu-
ence of sainted Joan's career il power
fully felt. and the city where she suf-
fered fiery death does penance by
paying her peculiar honor.
The spot In the public street where
she bravely met martyrdom in her
fresh and lovely girlhood is marked
for all beholders, and her statue greets
one at every turn, while the ancient
churches vie with one another in per-
petuating her memory.
Tensas gazette. [volume] (St. Joseph, La.) 1886-current, 1915-02-05
Occupied With Other Matters.

(which way do the sympathies of
your citizens lean. as indicated by
their discussion of the European war;"
inquired the man from the city.
Cant say" replied thsr landlord of
the Torpidville tavern, for the reason
Tensas gazette. [volume] (St. Joseph, La.) 1886-current, 1915-02-05
Boiled hesrt With RaIsin Sauce.

Boiled Heart With HaISin Sauce.
Clean, wash and skewer an OK heart.
Put in a stewpan, cover with cold wa
ter, bring quickly to the boiling point
and let simmer until tender, by which
time the liquor should be reduced to
two cupfuls. Remove to a hot serv.
ing dish. pour raisin sauce around 1t
and garnish with parsley.
Tensas gazette. [volume] (St. Joseph, La.) 1886-current, 1915-02-05
Cleans the Can.

Each time, after the garbage can
has been emptied, drop into 1t q
crushed newspaper. light 1t and let
burn out. Place the can on the
ground while burning.
Tensas gazette. [volume] (St. Joseph, La.) 1886-current, 1915-02-05

grow down to his shoulders, showed
attentive care. 1t was sleek and had
been brushed back from the ears into
a compact but luxuriant mass.
Honest. mister" he said, Il am
dead broke. A fellow gave me enough
to get bite, but have no place to
sleep. Give me lift, won't your"
Il should think" said the man.
that rather than beg you would 60
to one Of the institutions maintained
by the city to care for those who are
In your predicament, and where there
Tensas gazette. [volume] (St. Joseph, La.) 1886-current, 1915-02-05
Untimely.

Cohen (entering a delicatessen
store)-Gif me some of that salmon.
Prop.-That's not salmon. that's
ham.
Cohen-Vell, who asked you what
1t yas?-Lehigh Burr.
Tensas gazette. [volume] (St. Joseph, La.) 1886-current, 1915-02-05
EnioyInu Life,

He alone appears to me to live and
to enjoy life who. being engaged In
some business. seeks reputation BY
some illustrious action for some use
full art-Sallust.
Tensas gazette. [volume] (St. Joseph, La.) 1886-current, 1915-02-05

and rings his young son sold" in ex-
change for pennies and candy. In all
the boy depleted his fathers stock to
the extent of about one thousand dol
lars worth Of goods recently, his pa
rents declare. as Mrs. Dolberg solved
the mystery of the disappearance Of
the jewelry when she says she saw
the boy selling" the watches to an
other boy.
For two weeks Louis had been
watching the store. His parents told
him he would be we'll paid for his
Tensas gazette. [volume] (St. Joseph, La.) 1886-current, 1915-02-05
Woes Of the Bachelors Of Chicago Are Mitigated

HICAGoIts all fixed Bachelors need mend their
missing
scahy piece string from tobacco
Tensas gazette. [volume] (St. Joseph, La.) 1886-current, 1915-02-05
Beggar Prefers Starving to Having His Hair Cut

KANsAs CITY Moe panhandng Grand Sixteenth
n
ing He looked rather
Tensas gazette. [volume] (St. Joseph, La.) 1886-current, 1915-02-05

AS far as that goes, the dress
shirt sleeves that are just about an
uncomfortable inch too long need not
be tucked up under a CALLING rubber
band any more. either.
The Chicago Women's club is aid
ing in eliminating all these troubles
of worried bachelordom,
In the clubs emergency employ
ment center are fingers that will not
get stabbed trying to sew on a button
and expert hands that will not gather
up the hole in sock with a pickering
Tensas gazette. [volume] (St. Joseph, La.) 1886-current, 1915-02-05
Physicians In Germany.

PhyoIcIanS IN Germany.
Germany averages one practicing
physician for each 1000 inhabitants,
the proportion being higher in some
of the cities and lower in the rural
districts.
Tensas gazette. [volume] (St. Joseph, La.) 1886-current, 1915-02-05
jewelers. Son Sells Three Watches fot Penny

NEW WORKMAN Doseg jewe West
~ his Louis
dentaIy Mr. Dobeg displaying
Tensas gazette. [volume] (St. Joseph, La.) 1886-current, 1915-02-05
Milwaukee Has Real Cemetery for Its Pet Dogs

tell how faithful dogs often lnger the
differently
death the faithful dog the master doesn't nger
The Lambertville record. [volume] (Lambertville, N.J.) 1872-1968, 1915-06-17

eeiyer up ana GOWN, repeating the
number. "Hello--hello," he repeated.
"Yes--hello. Is Miss--oh-good morn
ing, Miss Dodge"
He was hurrying along as If to give
her no chance to cut him off. Il have
Just received letter, Miss Dodge, tell
ing me that you don't want me to con-
tinue investigating your fathers death,
and not to try to see you again
about"
He stopped. could hear the reply.
"Why-no-Mr Kennedy, ] have
written you no letter.
The look of mingled relief and sur
prise that crossed Craig's face spoke
volumes.
Miss Dodge" he almost shouted,
this is a new trick OF the 'Clutching
Hand I-I'll be right over
Craig hung UP he receiver and
turned from the telephone. Evidently
he was thinking deeply. Suddenly his
face seemed to light up He made up
his mind to something, and moment
later he opened the cabinet-that in
exhaustible storehouse from which he
seemed to draw weird and curious in
struments that met the ever new prob
lens which his strange profession
The Lambertville record. [volume] (Lambertville, N.J.) 1872-1968, 1915-06-17

no ,aplvt mo the water ana care
mlly sterilized Elaine's arm just above
the gpot where the red mark showed.
Then he drew the hypodermhe from
his pocket carefully sterillzed It,
also, and filing it with scopolamin
from the bottle.
Just a moment, Miss Dodge, ne
encouraged. as he iabbed the needle
into her arm.
She did not vince
Please lie back on the couch, he
directed. Then turning to us he add
ed. 1T takes some time Tor this to
work. Our criminal got over this fact
and prevented an cutlery by using
ethyl chloride first Let me recon
struct the scene
AS we watched Elaine going under
slowly Craig talked
THAT night, he said, "warily, the
masked criminal of the 'Clutching
Hand, bent over, his arm crooked,
might nave been seen down below us
in the ally. Up here, Miss Dodge,
worn out by the strain OF her fathers
death let us say was nervously try
ing to read, to do anything that would
take her mind off the tragedy. Per
hape she fell asleep.
The Lambertville record. [volume] (Lambertville, N.J.) 1872-1968, 1915-06-17

Drought TO MIN.
l watched curiously He took out 81
bottle and what looked like a little
his pocket and, for once, oblivious to
my very existence, deliberately walked
out of the laboratory.
l did not propose to be thus cava-
lierly dismissed. ! suppose it would
have looked ridiculous tc a third par
ty, but l followed him as hastily as If
he had tried to shut the door on his
own shadow.
We arrived at the corner above the
Dodge house just in time to see anoth-
er visitor-Bennett-e
And, Perry" we heard Elaine say,
as we were ushered in, someone has
even forged my name-the handwrit-
ing and everything-telling Mr.. Ken
nedy to drop the case-and / never
knew"
She stopped as we entered.
That's the limit" exclaimed Ben
Just then the 'Clutching Hand ap-
peared. He came stealthily through
that window, which he had opened. A
moment he hesitated, seeing Elaine
asleep. Then he tiptoed over to the
bed, let us say, and for moment
looked at her, sleeping
A second later he had thrust his
hand into his pocket and had taken out
a small glass bulb with long thin
neck. That was ethyl chloride-a
drug which produces quick anesthe-
STA. But it lasts only minute or two.
That was enough. AS he broke the
glass neck of the bulb-letting the
pieces fall on the floor near the bed
he showed the thing under Elaine's,
face, turning his own head away and
holding handkerchief over his own
nose. The mere heat of his hand is
enough to cause the ethyl chloride to
spray out and overcome her instantly.
lie steps away from her a moment and
replaces the now empty vial in his
pocket
Then he took box from his pocket,
opened it. There must have been a
syringe and a bottle of scopolamin.
Where they came from do not know,
but perhaps from some hospital /
snail nave to find that out later. He
went to Elaine, quickly jabbing the
needle, with no resistance from her
now. Slowly he replaced the bottle
and the needle in his pocket. He
could not have been in any hurry now,
Tor 1t takes time for the drug to
work"
Kennedy paused. Had we known at
the time, Michael--he OF sinister
face-must have been in the hallway
The Lambertville record. [volume] (Lambertville, N.J.) 1872-1968, 1915-06-17

AS l came up the path to the chem
istry building I saw through the win
dow that, in spite of his getting there
early, he was finding it difficult to keep
his mind on his work 1t was the first
time ] had ever known anything to
interfere with science in his life.
Well | exclaimed as | entered
you are the early bird Did you have
any breakfast"
l tossed. down the letters. He did
not reply. So became absorbed in
the morning paper Still, / did not
neglect to watch him eovertIy out of
the corner of my eye. Quickly he ran
over the letters, instead of taking
them, one by one, in his usual method
lcal way. / quite complimented my
superior acumen. He selected the
dainty note.
A moment Craig looked at it in an.
ticipation, then tore it open eagerly.
was still watching his face over the
top OF the paper and was surprised to
see that 1t showed. first, amazement.
then pain, as though something had
hurt him.
He read it again-then looked
straight ahead. as if in a daze
suddenly he jumped up, bringing his
tightly clenched fist down with a loud
cap into the palm of his hand.
BY heaven!" he exclaimed. "I-I
wilt"
He strobe hastily to the telephone.
Almost angrily he seized the receiver
and asked for number.
"Wh-what's the matter Craig!" 7
blurted out eagerly.
AS he waited for the number he
threw the letter over to me. 7 TOOK
it and read:
Professor Craig Kennedy.
The University, The Heights. CITY.
Dear Sir:
nave come to the conclusion that
your work is hindrance rather than
an assistance in clearing up nv
fathers death, and / hereby beg to
state that your services are no longer
required. This is final decision. and
beg that you will not try to see me
again regarding the matter.
Very truly yours,
ELAINE DODGE"
II 1t had been bomb / could not
nave been more surprised
l could not make 1t out.
Kennedy impatientlv worked the re-
Goo tha pboto,,I,,, r.. IL.
The Lambertville record. [volume] (Lambertville, N.J.) 1872-1968, 1915-06-17
SYNOPSIS.

The formation Of a partnership as pro-
fessor and aide in crime science between
Craig Kennedy, university chemistry pro-
fessor, and Walter Jameson, newspaper
man. is at once followed by their becom-
ing interested in a series of murders by
q master criminal who leaves no other
clue TO his identity than the sign manual
of a "Clutching Hand" Elaine Dodge,
whose father is one Of the latest victims
of the mysterious murderer. witnesses
the beginning of Kennedy's scientific in
Vestigation of the murder