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Tensas gazette. [volume] (St. Joseph, La.) 1886-current, 1915-11-19

Miss Helen Namur, a popular lead
or and one Of the prettiest girls in
her set. longs for an opportunity to
aid the people Of King Albert's war
torn country. Since the outbreak of
the war she has worked increasingly
in the interests of Belgium, being en-
rolled in practically all the movements
for the aid Of the tiny kingdom where
back in the fourteenth century her
ancestors played q leading part in
some Of the most important and ro-
mantle historical events OF the little
country. They lived in the vicinity of
Namur. where the greatest forts in
the world were shattered by the A.
centimeter guns Of the German army,
and many of their descendants resid-
ed there until the outbreak Of the
war. Miss Namur's parents came to
the United States 40 years ago and
settled in New York. where she was
born. Realizing the great need of
workers in the stricken country where
many of her relatives are fighting in
the trenches. she offers to 20 as a
war nurse or as relief worker to aid
the helpless women and children left
at home to fight battles at even great.
er odds than those encountered By
the men who held the Germans back
until the French were mobilized.
Tensas gazette. [volume] (St. Joseph, La.) 1886-current, 1915-11-19
HEALTH BENEFIT OF YAWNINe
Expert Advises Regular Exercises a.
. Measure for Doing Away With
Throat and Ear Troubles.

Yawning is said to have an exceed
ingly healthful function besides havinf
salutary effect in complaints of tn.
pharynx and the eustachian tubes.
According to investigations yawn.
ing is the most natural form of res
piratory exercise. bringing into &C.
ton all the respiratory muscles Of
the neck and chest. It is recon.
mended that every person should
have good yawn with the stretching
of the limbs morning and evening for
the purpose of ventilating the lungs
and tonifying the respiratory muscles
An eminent authority asserts that
this form of gymnastics has a remark.
able effect in relieving throat and ear
troubles, and says that patients suffer.
ing from disorders of the throat have
derived great benefit from 1t. He says
he makes his patients yawn, by sug.
gestion or imitation. or by q series OF
deep breaths with the lips partly
closed.
The yawning is repeated six or
seven times, and should be followed
by swallowing. BY this process the
air and mucus in the eustachian tubes
are aspirated.
Tensas gazette. [volume] (St. Joseph, La.) 1886-current, 1915-11-19

at once-oh. at once. piease!" and
Prescott dashed from the room. trac-
ing anxiety ana urgency In the vel.
come summons that might mean some
thing helpful tor Lyiia
He found her distractedly pacing
the floor when he arrived at her home.
She was white to the lips and her
eyes bore the traces of a poorly snp-
pressed anguish.
Flora" she gaspei. she is gOne!"
Gone? You mean" began Pres
colt in alarm.
Stolen. kidnapped. spirited away!
She was alone in the garden for an
hour playing with her dolls" narrated
Lydia. when | went to call her in
she had disappeared.
"But-kidnaped? Impossible!" cried
Prescott. She must have wandered
away"
Il found this note on a garden
seat" proceeded Lydia. Read 1t.
The crumpled scrawl was signed
with one name-Shaw-and 1t ran:
You will hear from me shortly. I'm
less you agree 10 marry me you will
never see little Flora again."
The scoundrel!" cried Prescott.
Il will set the police on his track at
once"
mo! no." :mplored Lydia. You
do not know this man Shaw. II any
such an attempt is made. he will dis
appear. and Flora with him. Oh. try
and find her! Try and bring me back
my lost darling!"
Alvin Prescott had q difficult task
before him. Shaw was not to be found
at any of his occasioned haunts. No
trace was discovered of the missing
child. The grief of Lydia was pitiable.
Prescott devoted all his time to the
mission in hand. but it was Of no
avail.
1t was the fifth morning after the
disappearance of Flora. that, walking
along the street. he observed squat
oriental figure speed across the thor
oughfare to his side. 1t was Wang Flo.
Il find yvui" he cried in extrava-
CANT Joy. The pin-of the golden
bantam. You lose?'
mo. l gave it to a child"
Il have found her. You come-come.
quick!"
With faint heart of hope Prescott
accompanied the half coherent. but in
tensely excited Wang Fo. He led him
to the Chinese quarter of the city,
and through sinuous and mysterious
passages into what seemed to be q
secret lodge room.
There. on \ dais. surrounded by
Chinese women, was Flora. She was
supremely contented. for they had
given her all kinds of quaint toys and
seemed only bent on entertaining her.
Wang Fo told his story. The child
had been brought to some avaricious
friends of his to hide or ship to some
other city as the order might come.
He. Wang Fo, had discovered the gol.
den bantam pin. He had removed
the child into the charge of more
trusty friends. He had guessed much.
1t led to seeking out Prescott.
They never heard of Shaw again
they" for what could come of 1t. but
that the rescuer Of the dear little one
should prevail upon sweet. loving
Lydia to give he, 4 protector for
life?
Tensas gazette. [volume] (St. Joseph, La.) 1886-current, 1915-11-19
NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS.
@GOlden
Bantam +
By
Eva horse Henricks

Copyright. lSi5. by w. G. Chapman.)
And then 5oa pulled his pigtail!"
Yes. dear. and then all three scam
pered."
And the cute. little yellow man.
Wang Fo? He dropped to his knees
and kissed my hand, and said | was
his preserver. and gave me the golden
bantam"
Little Flora Ward sat in the lap of
her great friend. Alvin Prescott. i'm
mensely interested in quite a tragic
recital. He was telling her of an en-
counter in a dark side street the eve
ming before with three sinister China
men. They had backed another yell
low-hued countryman against a brick
wall. One of the assailants held his
throat in a talon-like clutch. A Sec
Ond had imprisoned his arms. A third
was advancing to dispatch him with a
glittering steel knife. when Prescott
interviewed.
And what was the golden BAN
TAM Mr.. PRESCOTT" Msped the inter.
ested little one.
Prescott fumbled In his pocket.
Eager eyes scanned the odd-looking
pin he drew forth. 1t represented q
bantam rampant. with curious script
characters on its outspread wings.
Il think the three wicked men were
highbinders. my DEAR" explained Pres
cott-"that is. men belonging to a
cruel society who make q business of
killing people they don't like. Poor
Tensas gazette. [volume] (St. Joseph, La.) 1886-current, 1915-11-19
TESLA SEES VISION
Predicts "WorId System" o.
Wireless in Future.
Hundreds Will BE Able to Talk At
Same Time Through the Earth
Static Disturbance Eliminated
by Invention.

New York.-Nikola Tesla announced
that he had received patent on an in
vention which would not only elimi-
nate static interference. the present
bugaboo of wireless telephony, but
would enable thousands of persons to
talk at once between wireless stations
and make it possible for those talking
to see one another by wireless. regard
less of the distance separating them.
He said also that with his wireless
station now in the process of construc.
ton on Long Island he hoped to make
New York one of the central exchanges
In a world system of wireless tele.
phony.
Mr.. Tesla has been working on WIRE
less problems for many years. Recent
Tensas gazette. [volume] (St. Joseph, La.) 1886-current, 1915-11-19
HAS MADE 100000 BUNS
Brother WiIlIamford 10 Baker fer
University Of Notre Dame for
Fifteen Years.

South Bend, Ind.-Brother william
ford. who estimates that he has baked
approximately 100000 breakfast
buns. has just completed his fifteenth
year as the head of the bakery Of the
University Of Notre Dame. He has
kept careful count of the various eat
ables he has prepared since he began.
The brothers family IL about 1900
while school IL in session.
BY Brother Williamford's calcula-
lions he has mixed 32.S50 barrels Of
flour and made 642,500 fve-pound
loaves Of bread. 16.425.000 cookies
and almost 100000 buns for break
fast. Pies for the school are made
by the sisters at st. Mary's college.
Tensas gazette. [volume] (St. Joseph, La.) 1886-current, 1915-11-19
FAv0RS MONARCHY IN CHINA

II seems q bit strange that a citi.
zen of this great republic should de-
clare himself in favor OF the restora-
ton Of Q monarchical form of govern.
ment In q country which only lately
has become a republic. but that is
what DR.. Frank L. Goodnow. presi-
dent Of Johns Hopkins university, vir-
tually has done in the case of China.
For some time DR.. Goodnow has been
adviser to President Yuan Shih-kai
and recently he submitted to that
exalted individual q memorandum
concerning the best form Of govern
ment for the Chinese.
Though not an unqualified ad.
vocacy of the proposal to restore the
monarchy In China. the memorandum
II . historical and analytical review
of the progress of the republican
movement throughout the world and
IN exposition of some of the reasons
Why he believes that such q form of
government IL less suited to the pres
ent-day China than q monarchy Doc
Uor Goodnow finds that governments |
accordance with the effectiveness Of m
anr~assjou NJ fha suuromo author3<v a,
Tensas gazette. [volume] (St. Joseph, La.) 1886-current, 1915-11-19

Wang Fo, as he called himself. must
belong to some other secret society.
l suppose the golden bantam is its
emblem. for he kept saying that the
bantam pin would make me friends
with all his people,"
What a sweet, cute little pin 1t Isl"
said Flora effusively.
We'll, you shall have the trinket."
replied Prescott, and pinned it on q
band of ribbon at her neck.
rOh. how good you are!" cried
Flora ecstatically, and jumped to the
floor and ran over to where a charm
ing young lady was busy at some
fancy work. See, Aunt Lydia-the
beautiful pin Mr.. Prescott has given
me-"
You are spelling the child. MIR.
Prescott" spoke Miss Ward. but with
an indulgent smile.
He did not reply. but his eyes met
her own with a rapt. longing express
sion. She read its meaning-love-
not only for the little one, but for her.
self as we'll. He seemed about to
speak. The memory of what had fol.
lowed an offer of marriage caused
Prescott to control his deep emotion.
Soon he left the house.
1t was hard to be about daily in the
company of the woman he SO devoted
ly loved and refrain from urging her
to reconsider her decision. 1t had been
announced in kindly way. 80 consid-
erately, in fact, that Prescott half be-
lieved that but for circumstances
Lydia might have favored his plea.
An orphan herself. her life was
wrapped up in little Flora, who. hav.
ing lost both father and mother, was
cherished by Lydia as q responsibility
to whom she had devoted her life. This
much she had told Prescott in answer
to his offer of marriage.
There was another suitor-Leslie
Shaw. Prescott had never liked him.
He was persistent in his attention
to Lydia. He was a man about town,
with unknown antecedents. Prescott
had experienced relief and satisfaction
when a servant of the house, with
whom he was q favorite, told him of
the summary dismissal of his rival.
It seemed that Shaw had impor-
tuned Lydia to accept him as her hus-
band. She had given him the same
answer that Prescott had received:
Her life was bound up in little Flora.
The enraged Shaw had fiercely wished
the little one was dead. had let loose
his wicked temper in q way that
shocked and Disguised Lydia. Then
Shaw had sworn that he would yet
win her as his wife. II 1t took him
ten years to accomplish his purpose,
and had gone away in q tempest of
wrath.
Lydia never gave any token Of that
stormy interview. but Prescott was
' ell satisfied that she had a contempt
TOR Shaw. She feared him. too, Pres
colt believed. and. while he was glad
hat persistent rival was out of the
way. he kept himself on the alert to
guard against any attempt to annoy
Lydia on the part of Shaw.
One evening the telephone bell in
his room rang sharply. His name w,s
spoken breathlessly. and he thrilled
and tingled ~ he recognized the tones
Of the woman he loved.
rs II Mr. PRESCOTT" she asked IN
} tone that trembled.
Yes. Miss Ward"
win you Lease come to the house
Tensas gazette. [volume] (St. Joseph, La.) 1886-current, 1915-11-19
new G. A. R. COMMANDER

Capt. Elias r. Monfort of Cincin.
natl, the newly elected commander in
chief of the Grand Army of the Re-
public. enlisted as a private in Com.
pany A. Sixth Ohio volunteer infantry.
In 1861. Four months later, after re.
ceiving the rank of second lieutenant.
he was transferred to Company F.
Seventy-fifth Ohio volunteer infantry.
In May. 1862. he was elected to the
rank Of first lieutenant. and in Janu.
airy. 1863. to the rank of captain. BY
reason of injuries received at Gettys.
burg. which necessitated his removal
to his home on cot. he was mustered
out one year later.
Among the battles participated in
by Commander Monfort were Philippi,
Laurel Hill. Carrick's Ford. Monterey,
Shaws Ridge. Mcdowell. Franklin,
Strasburg. Cross Keys. Cedar Noun.
tain. Freemans Ford. Waterloo Bridge,
Sulphur Springs. Second Bull Run,
Chantilly. Charlottesville. Fred.
ricksburg and Gettysburg. Since the
Tensas gazette. [volume] (St. Joseph, La.) 1886-current, 1915-11-19
CATS FOR FOOD IN HUNGARY
Demand Causes Jump In Price Until
Maximum 10 Set by Az
thorities.

Paris.-The Figaro quotes the Buds
pest correspondent of the Frankfurter
Zeitung as follows:
The Official organ of the central
Hungarian slaughter houses states
that in the Biharkenszteser district.
where all the Italian residents OF Hun.
gary are interned. q great number Of
cats are killed and dressed daily. The
demand has been such that the price
OF cats rose to q prohibitive figure.
hence the local authorities stepped in
and nxed the maximum price at three
crowns the kilo." about Is cents q
pound.)
Tensas gazette. [volume] (St. Joseph, La.) 1886-current, 1915-11-19
TELLS SEA ROMANCE
Sole Survivor Recalls Wreck OF
Bark Egypt.
Went Down In Gale In Bahama SIXTY
Six Years Ago-clln0s TO Rigging
for Five Days and
Nights.

Blackwell, Okla.-The only survivor
Of the wreck of the bark Egypt IS
years ago is visiting relatives In Kay
county. and celebrated the anniver.
sary of what was known to him a.
the most terrible week he has spent
in his eighty-nine years on this earth.
Sheridan Is yet a hale and hearty
old sea dog" and his tale Of the ad-
venture many years ago In which prac-
tically the whole crew of the bark
were drowned and the remaining IL
come near meeting q much worse
death was told by him In this fashion:
1T was sixty-six years ago this sum-
mer that the old bark Egypt put out
from Portland, Me-, with q cargo OK
lumber and q few weeks later struck
real Northwestern while In the gulf
stream near the Banks Of Bahama.
A happy outfit we were, all full of life.'
"On the evening of September .
storm struck US and for six hours We
battled that gale In q terrific Tight.
Finally, however, the bark turned
over: The masts and rigging were left
afioat. and to these those Of Us that
were left made. When we counted up
the next day. there were thirteen OF
US.
without food, without Q drop OF
fresh water. suffering intensely from
the semitropical midsummer sun by
day and from the cold at night. half
famished and nearly crazed from
thirst. we chung to the rigging Of that
vessel for I'VE days
and nights.
Time after time I was in the no
ton of letting 60 and ending the tor
ture in the cool deep of the sea. but
each time the love of life was too
great, and I held on in the hope that
some time before my mind left me.
which IL the usual ending of those
cast out in that way. we might be
by q passing boat.
"On the evening of the nth day .
sailing vessel bound for New York
sighted US an hour after we had seen
Il. That was the longest hour of my
life. for was afraid that they would
30 right on by without seeing us. We
quickly revived. but the memory Of
hose times viii be vivid always"
Tensas gazette. [volume] (St. Joseph, La.) 1886-current, 1915-11-19
New Plants for America.

The bureau of plant industry re.
ports that its agricultural explorer,
F. N. Meyer, who already had many
remarkable finds" to his credit. has
recently sent in an unusually interest.
ing collection Of new fruits from the
Tibetan border of China. These in.
elude the Tangutian almond, the Po-
tanin peach. and q notable series of
wild forms of the ordinary cultivated
peach. Mr.. Meyers latest expedition
succeeded in reaching Lanchowfu,
when further progress was prevented
by the desertion of the interpreter.
Recent collections have largely aug.
mented the agricultural departments
stock of jujubes and persimmons from
western China.
Tensas gazette. [volume] (St. Joseph, La.) 1886-current, 1915-11-19
BELIEVES IN CHICKENS

Representative Charles K. Davis
of Minnesota is a level-headed fellow
with few superstitiOus notions; but he
believes nearly everything he hears
on the subject of rearing chickens.
There is absolutely no doubt in the
mind of Davis that, with a trifiing in
vestment. a man could clean up not
less than $4,000 annually. out of the
chicken business, with practically no
work to do except count money.
Davis explains it plausibly enough.
You buy a dozen or so hens and build
a few coops and roosts at trivial cost.
Every morning you 60 out with a lit
tie sack containing some prepared
chicken food. such as one can buy at
any canary bird store. and call IN
shrill tones: Chick chick chick =
chick" like that, at the same time
scattering the Battle Creek-looking
food.
After the hens have eaten hearth
ly, and dispersed, their proprietor
NAV On m hack into his study ind
Tensas gazette. [volume] (St. Joseph, La.) 1886-current, 1915-11-19

ly he exhibited an article published
in the Electrical World eleven years
ago. in which he predicted not only
wireless telephony on q commercial
basis but that 1t would be possible to
identify the voice of an acquaintance
over any distance. That its operator in
Hawaii was able to distinguish the
voice of an engineer friend at Airing
ton. Va. was announced by the Amer.
lean Telephone and Telegraph COM
pany as the most marked triumph of
its communication by wireless tele-
phone from the naval radio station at
Arlington to Pearl Harbor. Hawaii, q
distance Of 1000 miles.
The inventor. who has won fame by
his electrical inventions. dictated this
statement:
The experts carrying out this bril-
liant experiment are naturally de-
serving Of great credit for the skill
they have shown In perfecting the de-
vices. These are of two kinds: First,
those serving to control transmission.
and. second. those magnifying the re-
ceived impulse. That the control of
transmission is perfect IL plain to ex-
perts from the fact that the Arlington.
Mare Island. and Pearl Harbor plants
are all inefficient and that the dis
tance Of telephone communication ID
equal to that of telegraphic transmits
sion. 1t is also perfectly apparent that
the chief merit of the application lies
in the magnifcation of the micro
phonic impulse. 1t must not be imag-
ined that we deal here with new dis
coveries. The Improvement simply
concerns the control Of the transmit
ted and the magnincation Of the re-
ceived impulse, but the wireless sys-
tenn is the same. This can never be
changed.
THAT 1t is practicable to project the
human voice not only to q distance of
5000 miles, but clear across the globe.
l demonstrated by experiments in
Colorado in 1889. It is claimed that
static disturbance will fatally inter
fere with the transmission. while, as q
matter of fact, there is no static dis
turbance possible in properly designed
transmission and receiving circuits.
Quite recently l have described, in a
patent, circuits which are absolutely
immune to static and other interior.
ences-so much SO that when q tele-
phone is attached. there IL absolute
silence. even lightning in the immedi-
ate vicinity not producing q click of
the diaphragm. while In the ordinary
telephone conversation there are all
kinds of noises. Transmission with.
out static interference has many won
derful properties besides. first Of which
Is that unlimited amounts of power
can be transmitted with very small
loss.
Another contention il that there
can be no secrecy in wireless tele-
phone conversation. say 1t IL absurd
to raise this contention, when II II
positively demonstrated by expert.
ments that the earth is more suitable
for transmission than any wire could
ever be. A wireless telephone CONVEX.
sation can be made a. secret a. q
thought.
It's all wonderful thing. Wireless
Is coming to mankind in its full mean
ing like a hurricane some of these
lays. Some day there will be, say. six
great wireless telephone stations In q
world system connecting all the in.
aabitants Of this earth to one another
not only by voice but by sight. It's
surely coming"
Tensas gazette. [volume] (St. Joseph, La.) 1886-current, 1915-11-19
FINDS HUSBAND TOO PIovs
Wife Of Washington Man Says After
Conversion He Kept Her -
Hired Girl.

Everett. Wash.-Too much RELIGION
on the part Of Roy Pattison has re-
suited in his wife filing . suit for d.
vorce.
In her complaint Mrs. Pattison
charges that In January. 1913. her hus-
band Joined . religious society and
announced he had been consecrated
to God. which compelled him to give
mp his wife," She says her husband
hired her to do the work about the
house and told her he had no further
use for her - his wife because Of his
conservation.
Tensas gazette. [volume] (St. Joseph, La.) 1886-current, 1915-11-19
OPPORTUNITIES In China,

There are great opportunities at the
present time in China for the Ameri.
can. for 1t is reported that never II
the history of China have the Chi
nese been better disposed to America
and things American. II is said that
there are numerous chances for Amer.
leans to establish Industrial plants.
China offering the. best field in the
world for cotton manufacturing -
There are tens of thousands of miles
Of railroads to be built: there are
tramways. telephone lines. electric
plants. glass making establishments
oil mills and -four mills to be erected
while there are rich mineral deposits
to be mined and native products to be
exported
Tensas gazette. [volume] (St. Joseph, La.) 1886-current, 1915-11-19
FERDINAND THE STATESMAN

The career of Ferdinand, car of
the Bulgarians. has been q Pandora's
box of surprises from the August day
twenty-eight years ago when he &C.
cretly left his home in Coburg. sailed
down the Danube with a few faithful
companions and entered Sofia with
out asking permission Of any of the
European powers for liberty to &C.
cept the offer of the people of this
Turkish province to become their
ruler. !. But the greatest surprise has
been his ability to hoodwink the
statesmen of Great Britain, Russia,
France and Italy for over a year with
the idea that any arrangement could
be devised through which he could be
persuaded to Join them in carrying
out their plans of this war.
A perfumed dandy, his long, slen.
der fingers carefully manicured and
loaded with rings. credited with spend.
ing $500 upon dressing gown. a con-
nofsseur in the dainty garments OF
ladies and an authority on precious
Tensas gazette. [volume] (St. Joseph, La.) 1886-current, 1915-11-19
True difference.

Why does Bliggins insist on tell.
ing Us he was an expert baseball play
er when he was boy? He wasn't any
thing of the kind"
WELL replied Miss Cayenne, 81
don't think we should criticize him
It's rather nice Of him to be 20 De
sirous Of our good opinion to oe viii
ing to tell whoppers in order to %
cure It."
Tensas gazette. [volume] (St. Joseph, La.) 1886-current, 1915-11-19
Safety Pins.

Safety pins must be at a premium
In France today. Industries which
formerly turned them out by the thou.
sand dozen now are forging shrapnel
and shells. Therefore one woman col
lected safety pins by the bushel 10
the United States for distribution in
French hospitals to be used In SURG.
cal dressings. Another American WON
IN sent over 1000 sewing outfits to
refugee seamstresses that they Nigh,
at least have the tools with which t.
earn their bread
Tensas gazette. [volume] (St. Joseph, La.) 1886-current, 1915-11-19
GATHERED FACTS

Orders for 100000 tunics for the
Russian army have been placed with
Leeds 6fma
The Uhglish language 10 spoken BY
TIT ahoat ten per cent Of the worlds
lnhah1ennta
lAlEn Erio produces moro ash 10 the
sounro me than any other body Of
water q H. world.
Tho totnl amount Of property In
M York clty ~ subjected to taxa
- 1ovn0uoa q o1yo73, SOS 900.