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The Madison journal. (Tallulah, Madison Parish, La.) 1888-current, 1915-02-06

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land.
The Madison journal. (Tallulah, Madison Parish, La.) 1888-current, 1915-02-06

Deep cuts should be healed by Han.
ford's Balsam. Adv.
The Madison journal. (Tallulah, Madison Parish, La.) 1888-current, 1915-02-06

Filipinos are being educated to eat
corn.
The Madison journal. (Tallulah, Madison Parish, La.) 1888-current, 1915-02-06
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The Madison journal. (Tallulah, Madison Parish, La.) 1888-current, 1915-02-06
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The Madison journal. (Tallulah, Madison Parish, La.) 1888-current, 1915-02-06
N. L. HIGGINS.

ally appeared before me this
September, 1909, N. L. Higgins,
aeserbed the above statement and
9th that the same is true in sub
= nd IN fact.
W. A. PAGE, J.P.
Semi-weekly herald., 1915-07-26
GOVERNMENT DOPE
KILLS PRAIRIE DOGS

The government has begun the work
of exterminating prairie dogs in this
region and will pursue the work for
the next two months in the syste-
matte way which has proven effec-
tive in other sections. j. K. Williams
of Saguache has charge Of the work
and has employed force of -four
riders to carry out his directions.
Oats viii be used for bait. The
grain will be moistened with glycerine
and then treated to an application OF
strychnine. About one table speenful
Of the poison is used with forty pounds
of oats. The poisoned grain is plac.
ed near the dog holes.-AntonitC
Ledgre.
Semi-weekly herald., 1915-07-26
ABOLISHING KISSING.

Medical sharps from different
American countries lately assembled
at San Francisco as the Pan-Amcri-
can Medical congress, and aired their
fund of wisdom, and doubtless did
something for the welfare of the ma
tions. Also they started something
that they can't finish. Several of
the wise men forgathered there, for
instance, decided that kissing is a
germ disseminator and would have
to cease for the welfare of the hu-
man race. There was one high brow,
indeed, DR.. Otis of the Dominican
Republic who went so fan as to
offer a substitute. This substitute
is known as the Dominican pit-pat,
and is aplied something after this
fashion.
The ardent youth touches the maid
ems cheek with the tip of his fin.
gers and she returns the compliment
in kind, assuming she feels that way
about it, and doesn't lead for the jaw.
But these learned gentlemen are due
to disappointment if they think the
Young Things of this nation are to
be taught by the silly swains of a
banana republic. Kissing is an an
cient and sometimes honorable Gus
tom, which has come down through
the ages with other inheritances from
the grand era of Grecian civilization,
where mythology teaches it originat-
ed, and that the sages of later date
have not improved it, nor provided q
satisfactory substitute. Cold blooded
medical men man condemn it is the
rapid transit system of the germ
world, but youth will be served, and
frequently with kisses. Science is
wonderful, but so is youth, but they
are wonderful in different ways, and
when they clash in mater of this
sort, science hasn't chance. The
Pan American medicos should devote
their attention to exterminating the
yellow fever mosquito, and other trop
ical pests, and leave the kiss to those
who appreciate it. The same being
large portion of our population.
Semi-weekly herald., 1915-07-26
HARRY X. THAW is FREE.

Harry X. Thaw is free man after
nine years of litigation. Supreme
court Justice Hendrick entered an or
der vacating the order of 1909 COM
mitting Thaw to Matteawan. Thaw's
case has been the most conspicuous
legal proceeding of half century. AS
is usual in long drawn out cases Thaw
held on to his fight for freedom until
the people were with him almost to u
man. Practically the entire country
hoped for his release. There was
not a popular upheaval in favor of
Thaw, but the general opinion seemed
to be that he had had enough. Thaw
has been a good publicity man in his
own behalf. He has always been will
ling to have his pictures taken and
to appear in the movies. There is
a suspicion that he has not been ad-
verse to notoriety. Thaw's own ac-
tons have gained him national SYM
pathy which is rather difficult to
explain, but, which nevertheless ex-
lists. Thaw would probably never
have been heard of nationally but for
the murder of Stanford White and the
long legal battle which has followed
as he is not a man of any considerable
mental capacity. He belongs to the
pampered rich class. He has never
been forced to earn living. He has
caused the distribution of large por
ton of the Thaw millions. His fam
lily has stood by him to the end with
all its resources. He has cost the
state of New York a great many
thousands of dollars and has paid
enormous legal expenses in his own
behalf. 1t will be interesting TO fol-
low the career of Harry Thaw for
awhile and see whether he has really
been worth all the expense and troub-
lie, says the Des Moines Capital.
Semi-weekly herald., 1915-07-26
GERMANY LOSES AN EMPIRE

A campaign, waged at the cost of
many human lives to determine the
ownership of country six times the
size of Iowa has been carried on of
recent months with little or no at
tention paid to it by the reading pub
lie. 1t was only when the word came
that General Botha had gained COM
plete control of German Southwest
Africa that the immensity and san
guinity of the African campaign was
realized.
Here was country as large as
Iowa, Illinois, Missouri, Nebraska and
South Dakota combined, for which two
great nations were contending, in their
dreams of empire. The people dwell
ling therein were few in number, the
last available figures placing the pop
ulation at 1886, chiefly Hottentots
and bushmen. A little handful of
German people, less than 1900 in
number, were holding this vast empire
for the fatherland, bringing as much
of the country under cultivation as
they could, considering the vast OBJ
stacles in their way. With the deter
mination and thoroughness of their
race, they went ahead drilling ar
tesian wells and securing the water
supply necessary to make the plains
produce for their sustenance and for
the enrichment Of the kaiser's peo-
pie back home. The fact that the
exports had reached the $5,000,000
mark shows that their efforts were
not in vain. The sturdy Germans
were making their possessions in
Southwest Africa something more
than diamond mine, they were prov
ing that they could produce crops
and herds and that diamonds were
not the only assets.
Then came the war and German
colonies all over the world were in
danger. The British saw to It that
the kaiser's holdings In the South
Semi-weekly herald., 1915-07-26

Pacific were snatched away from him.
The Japanese took u hand in the
war game and wrested the kaiser's
Asiatic holdings away, after a deter
mined resistance, which is bright
chapter in the heroic epic. But the
bravery Of their brethren across the
seas helped the little handful Of
Germans holding their vast empire
in South Africa, little. They were
surrounded by wall of steel, and al
though they battled valliantly there
was neither breaking through it nor
breaking it down.
The end came last week, when Cen
eral Botha announced the surrender Of
the last of Germany's military forces
German Southwest Africa coming I'M
der the dominion of the British flag
upon which the sun never set, even
before this last vast addition to the
empire. There still remain the Ger
| man colonies in East Africa an area
| about equal to that of the West Af-
| rican colonies which have been captur-
ed, but is is almost foregone con
clusion that the far flung lands OF
| the kaiser will be taken from him;
not one, however, without determined
resistance and at the cost of many
human lives.
Were the war to end today, Ger
many would find herself the loser in
land area for that which it has lost
in its colonies far more than off
sets that which it has won in con
tinental Europe.-Des Moines Capi.
| tai.
Semi-weekly herald., 1915-07-26
WAR PREVENTS ANCIENT
CEREMONY IN ROME
By Alice Rhoe.

Omitted Press Staff Correspondent.
ROME, June 23.-(By Mail to New
York)-St. Johns Eve-and for the
first time in centuries-more centuries
than the dazed old woman by the steps
of st. John Lateran could count OF
her withered fingers-the Vigil as
San Giovanni is not kept.
"Mother of God" cries the old wo.
man, "what has harpeEed?"
Don't you know there is to be no
vigil tonight" remit a young Roman
matron of the people, a baby nursing
Justify and unashamed at her breast.
"Did you not read in the papers that
the vigil cannot be kept-because"
and her voice became vibrant and her
black eyes dilated-"becaus of the
Austrians we cannot light our can
dies, we cannot light the torches. The
innkeepers cannot illuminate their
places nor can the vendors put up
their stalls. You see for yourself
how the Piazza, how all the squares
from the Gate of st. John even to the
San Gerusalemma and Santa Maria
Maggiore, are dark and without the
sellers of snails, or lavendar. or car
nations, OF garlic flowers, of terra
CO tia bells. 1t is "A sad year, a ter
rible year-when we cannot keep our
vigil to the good St. John"
The old woman with startled eyes
gazed at the young mother, at me,
at the darkened Piazza. Then she
raised her shriveled hands to the ia
nous church before us.
"My the evil spirits blast them
the Austrians," she cried. "No vigil
for st. John. 1t is the first time il
has ever happened. My mother be-
fore my mothers mother-have new
er missed vigil of st. John. And
before them my grandmother has told
me and her grandmother told her
they were always here, always with
their candles and their suppers, eat
ing snails, as did st. John when he
wandered in the wilderness. How
could / know there was no vigil?"
she said simply turning her old eyes
on me, N cannot read--and no one
Semi-weekly herald., 1915-07-26
THE FOREST OF ARGONNE.

The forest of Argonne, where the
allies and the Germans are now en-
gagged in mortal combat, is as famous
in French history as the forest of
Arden in English literature. 1t is
more than mere historical coinci-
dence that the great armies should be
engaged in the death struggle in this
place.
Readers of French history will re-
call that it was here, in the forest of
Argonne, that General Dumouriez
made his famous defense of France
against the allies, Austria and Prus-
sia, inflicting a severe defeat upon
them at Valmy on September 20, 1892.
The place is historic, therefore, for
the French soldiers now drawn up
once more after the lapse of CEN
tury and quarter, to repel the same
foe, with generals equal in military
ability though perhaps not to stren-
uous, to that Dumouriez who led them
to victory in 1892. The Frenckman is
great lover of the romantic, of the
Theatrical. 1t is n foregone conclu-
sion that among the French soldiers
those who know their national history
well, will be all the better soldiers for
realizing that in the forest of Ar
gonne where they are now fighting,
much of the foundation of France of
today was laid by the revolutionists
who repelled the allies and added lus-
ter to glory for the French rams.
Perhaps, after all, that is one Of the
reasons why the French soldiers are
showing up so exceptionally well in
the present war. They have the CLAM
or of romance over them. In the first
stages of the war they set out, with
an enthusiasm, but poorly balanced
with their equipment and numbers, to
win back the lost provinces Of Alsace
and Lorraine, at whatever cost. From
that time on it has been success
sion of instances or history repeating
itself, the remontic history which the
French love; stories of Bonaparte, the
interment Of the ashes Of the author
Of the Marseillaise, the fighting in
the forest Of Argonns whore the al
Semi-weekly herald., 1915-07-26
THE STRAGETIIC
MOVES OF THE WAR

Scientific American Military Expert
During the week ending July z, the
fighting on the numerous battle
fronts did not differ materially in
character from that which occurred
in the previous seven weeks. In the
French, Italian and Turkish theatres
there were no marked changes in
the situation, but Kaleidoscope chang
es continued in the German campaign
against Russia on the eastern battle
line, and the future developments OF
the great war depend as much as
ever on the outcome of this cam
paign which is the supreme effort
up to date of the German armies.
The general disposition of all the
contending forces makes this an OPP
perfume occasion TO recall very brief
ly the large strategic situation which
has confronted Teutons and allies
from the outset and controlled the
initiative OF both sides. Germany
and Austria Hungary occupy CEN
tral position in Europe and lie side
by side. n,ercommunication is easy
naturally anil fas been greatly ia
ciljtated py the evstem of strategic
railways con,tf.cted by both coun-
tries by way of preparing for this
war. Cooperation between their
armies and The rapid concentration
of the bulk of their forces on any
one of tn three pri' cipal battle
frcnts- Russian, French or Italian
are controlling fatcrs I the forma-
tion of every German strategic plan,
enhanced in importance because of
the unfavorable geographical positio'
of their enemies. Intercommunication
hetveen the allies is much more diff
ficuIt. and is almost impossible be-
tween the eastern and western fronts.
II Russia. England, France and Italy
could join hands and operate on a
pp;ted front, the Germanic forces
would surely be overwhelmed by the
weight of numbers and steel, despite
their wonderful civil and military or
oanization and superior leadership.
Rut this is not possible, and the Rus
alan flag will not dip in salute to the
flags Of the other allied nations until
Germany is prostrate-
From the beginning Of the war
.varv German campaign has been
..,s,,,,.d 20 ret the maximum benefit
from 81 csntraI position Of the Ger
.ssaja I ustion.. In few words the
Semi-weekly herald., 1915-07-26
GLOBE SIGHTS.

A chicken becomes a hen after she
gets married.
Talk less about people and you will
hate them less.
When you think of your past, do
you smile or do you frown?
An Atchison woman is so ugly her
husband backs into the house.
most men seem to wait until after
they get home to lose their patience.
Mrs. Jude Johnson. "My husband
is so stubborn, mule flies follow him."
You are urged to keep your troub-
les to yourself but to turn your money
loose.
One of the most unpleasant Jobs in
world is herding chigers. Still,
running down a pig is a pretty mean
task,
Semi-weekly herald., 1915-07-26
EDISON AND MODERN WAR.

Thomas A. Edison who has contrib
uted so much to the comforts OF life,
could not possibly crown a wonderful
career with any greater achievement
than an invitation to protect a hundred
million people from the dangers of war
while they continue to follow the oc-
cupations of peace. The fact that Mr..
Edison has accepted the craftsmanship
of an advisory board of civilian in
ventors, suggested by the secretary Of
the navy, is evidence that Mr.. Edison
realizes his opportunity and is read
TO exert his unsurpassed inventive
genius to the limit.
The present war has done more than
anything else ever did to offset the
notion that wars could be brought to
an end by guns and battleships of such
death dealing propensities as to make
the whole world shudder in terror.
There were those, prior to last August
who maintained that the surest and
off "a btoI way " Gnu wa . Nsto W iiihC
their conduct so terrible as to appal
humanity. Yet we are no nearer the
end of world wars today than we were
then, though there is no question but
that the world shuddered at the fero-
city of the present titanic struggle.
In the wild days of the far west the
man who was quickest on the trigger,
the surest on the draw, dominated
the camp. 1t is the same with ma
tions today. The fact that the man
upon whom the gun was drawn, back
in the Bret Harte days of the argo-
nauts, was not armed did not prevent
his being killed. Nor does the fact
that Belgium is a weak, unprepared
nation today prevent its being devas-
tated. Should Mr.. Edison close his
life work with an invention that will
destroy hundreds of thousands of the
| enemy, even in a twinkling, it will
not mean an end to wars any more
than gas bombs used by the Germans
means an end to The present war nor
an end to any possible war for all
time to come.
But Mr.. Edison lives in nation, the
people of which are domestic, indus
trial and agricultural in their tastes
| and vocations rather than military
and martial. His inventive genius
must be applied to devising some in
strument or munition which will make
1t possible for the unskilled at arms
to protect; themselves against the
skilled, for the farmers, who, like
those who stood at Concord and Lex
ington and fired the shot heard round
the world, can leave their plows stand
ing in the burrows and ride their plow
horses out to meet the uhlans of
nation whose every thought is of war,
with the knowledge that armed as they
are the contest will be an equal one.
Should it be given to Mr.. Edison to
invent such a wonderful war-making
device it will be of this nature and
with this virtue, rather than one
'''N'i ~ Ito 'SilhiC intensity may
be hoped to end all wars for all time
to come.
Certainly, it is one of the perver-
sions and ironies of fate that the man
whose inventive genius has given
light to the world, has given music
to those that were without it before,
should be looked to to devise some new
and awful way of hurting men into
eternity
Semi-weekly herald., 1915-07-26

As a result of the European war
the Starvation and suffering in the
devastated portions Of the battle
fields and surrounding country is
inconceivable to US Americans. Near
ly every family in America on the
average throws away sufficient food
from their eating table to sustain
the life of many persons who un-
fortunately suffer because of the
war.
Semi-weekly herald., 1915-07-26

lected by the Austrian General staff
prior to the war, and followed by the
Austrian army in its first advance
into Russia in the opening weeks of
August of last year, when an effort
was made to capture Warsaw before
the Russians could mobilize. But
the Austrians met stronger forces
then they expected, were defeated
south of Lublin and driven back into
Galicia, and finally to the south of the
Carapathian mountains to the position
they occupied when this campaign
began two weeks ago. There seems to
tbe but small chance that this bit
Of the history of the war will be re-
peated. On the contrary Wnsaw, the
unreached goal and many hard fought
campaigns, seems to be doomed.
| But there is much hard fighting
ahead Of the Germans before the
city is abandoned; for it is protected
ched camp of Ivangorod and the
fortress of Brest-Lotivsk one hun
dred and fifty miles to the west.
They will form strong supporting
points for the Russian army, but need
not necessarily be captured by the
Germans before the fall of Warsaw.
Just as the Russians surrounded
Przemysl and passed it in their ad-
vance into Galacia last October, SO
the Germans may surround Ivangorod
and pass on 10 Warsaw, protecting
| themselves from attack from Brest-
| Litovsk. A successful bombardment
of Ivangorod without railways to
transport the vast quantities of am
nnunition would be stupendous un-
dertaking adm the only railway at all
available before Warsaw falls is the
one through Kielce, and it reaches
but one small portion of the front
to be attacked. With the fall of War
saw and Lukow the railroad junction
between Warsaw and Brest-Litovsk,
two more railroads are available in
the eighty mile section from the rail-
road through Jaroslov to the one
through Lublin is serious handicap
to the German armies advancing on
Warsaw. In fact, unless Ivangorod
| falls in the meantime, the German
army on this front will be without
rail communications until it reaches
and captures Warsaw, a distance of
nearly two hundred miles from the
Galacian railroad. This might easily
be factor which would decide this
campaign against the Germans.
The Russians are holding on tenac-
ously to the line of the Dniester
river in the extreme south. Here we
have seen splendid examples of the
power and initiative of which the Rus
sian army is capable. Time and again
this port of the army has made bril-
| liant and successful attacks only to
lose all that was gained because of
reverses to the Russians elsewhere.
| The strong line of the Dniester is
the natural resting place for the
southern wing of the Russian army
and may become the pivot on which
the entire Russina line will swing
in case it is forced to withdraw east
of Warsaw to the line of the Bug
river. This foothold near the Rus
sian frontier is very important to
Russia and we may witness con-
tinuation of the heavy fighting in
this section. In the sixty miles be-
tween Stanislaw and the Russian
frontier there are five parallel riv-
ers running from north to south each
of which is available as defen-
sive line for the slowly retreating
Russians.
Semi-weekly herald., 1915-07-26

Practical experience is the best
teacher. General Won Hindenberg
of the German army, that is now
enveloping Warsaw, is not only a
highly educated man in military tao
tics, but is a practical man. He went
all over the ground on foot, and
sometimes at night. Knows intima-
tely many parts of the battle ground
that he now controls.
Semi-weekly herald., 1915-07-26

Is Won .Hindenberg thq greatest
general in the war? 1t is now or
soon will be up to the famous Frene,.
general Joffre, and Lord Kitchener,
commander of the English forces.
Semi-weekly herald., 1915-07-26

lies were defeated once before, and
SO on and on-who is there to say
that this has not been the prime fac
tor in making the French soldier
fight with a determination and die
with heroism that is one of the sur
prises of the present war?
Semi-weekly herald., 1915-07-26

The ammunition factories strike
lends the view that the expert me-
chanic has not been adequately rec
ompensed for his services.
Semi-weekly herald., 1915-07-26

That wonderful electrical inven-
tive wizard, Thomas A. Edison has
been invited to assist our governmen,
in the invention of something as.
tonishing, in the matter of our wal
defenses. Genius cannot be demand
ed, and when it is, the mind is de.
mentia.
Semi-weekly herald., 1915-07-26

You may object to the prolonged
answer to the German note. 1t takes
time and diplomacy to handle such a
matter.
Semi-weekly herald., 1915-07-26

England has failed to win the
war on land and sea. She now con-
templates, that since the sky is the
only thing left, to try that.
Semi-weekly herald., 1915-07-26

Preparation is the foundation of
eventual results. Germany was pre-
pared, England was not.
Semi-weekly herald., 1915-07-26

The manager plan for Durango
starts out with vigor and vim.