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Tensas gazette. [volume] (St. Joseph, La.) 1886-current, 1915-06-18

offered all
streets
The promptly
csptd the Offer Then they
agreement
went work The industry
the garbage
than around picking little
whole
rubbish hours club
difference. Our cellar il piled full Of
The family
They also discovered the Of the
So Mrs E. De president warning
benefit dishonest boys that
bas of rubbish dishonesty collected.
Efforts discover
Tensas gazette. [volume] (St. Joseph, La.) 1886-current, 1915-06-18

mediaey
public Saturdays
fies
Things went along smoothly until delegation
Baden school,
dumfoundd when
mortal Of $4,000 flies That bounties
That flies could in
incredible
health
that there
which could readily he number
Tensas gazette. [volume] (St. Joseph, La.) 1886-current, 1915-06-18

SchrumpR found . skeleton in . fair
state Of preservation. Subsequently he
found Is other skeletons. with their
accompaniment Of articles Of utility
and adornment. All the bodies had
faced the east, and had been buried in
. sitting position. the knees drawn up
against the chest.
A miscellaneous assortment Of ar
row and spear heads; also quantities
of broken pottery were found.
Tensas gazette. [volume] (St. Joseph, La.) 1886-current, 1915-06-18

American Literature.
IF one were asked what IL the dom
inant tone in American literature and
life, the answer would be youthful
ness;' but this youth has attained all
the vices Of age. and has conserved
. few Of the charms proper to its
period. It IL very disingenuous youth
indeed. This insistence on 'boyish-
ness il unhealthy; more. It - de-
PRAYED. These boyish boys and girl
ish girls of the writer and the artist
are the indications Of . real cancer
in American public life. Perhaps in
portraying them the writer and Illus
traitors are describing something which
II a. true a. It IL detestable. The
cult Of youthfulness in America II .
national calamity. far graver than
anything for which Europe has to
mourn. Youth has nothing to give
life but it, energy; 1t has even less
to give literature. for literature u
an expression Of the spiritual truth
which runs parallel with every mate
rial experience. Il 10 not the retail
ing Of petty gossip about petty PEG
pie: and when this youthful energy
10 divorced from the control of ma
tuFity nobody en- bsnsAt from 4 a.
Tensas gazette. [volume] (St. Joseph, La.) 1886-current, 1915-06-18

Alexandria, Ind.-Miss Ruth Rether.
ford. who lives near here, fell into q
tub Of rain water and broke her arm
when walking in her sleep. The young
somnambulist arose from her bed.
walked downstairs to the back porch
of her home and did not come out of
her sleep-trance till she fell OF the
porch into the tub and the bone in her
right arm snapped.
Tensas gazette. [volume] (St. Joseph, La.) 1886-current, 1915-06-18

I'M EE Rome and Athens, see
w the Egyptian temples scat
- tered along the Nile: II you
can. see the temple of Jupi-
ter at Baalbek. but above
all, see the amazing Kazneh at Petra"
wrote an old-time traveller.
That was what fred the IMAGINATION
OF Z. M. Newman, the American travel
lecturer. Petra had been jotted in his
notebook for many years, but he had
never found 1t convenient to take the
time for the journey when he found
himself in the neighborhood of the
Arabian desert. Last year, when he
was In the Holy Land, he gave in
structions for a caravan to be out.
lifted for his use from the Arabian
town of Ell Malan. At last he was to
gaze on Ell Kazneh. rightly called one
OF the wonders of the world; at last
ne was to pitch his camp In that for
gotten city In the Arabian wilderness
where it is believed by historians and
Psychologists the children of Israel
fingered Tor ~ years when they were
on their way from Egypt to the Prom.
Used Land.
Only eight American travellers have
penetrated Petra 1t IL one of the last
OF the interesting places on the earth's
surface that have not been fully ex-
plored. Although 1t IL believed that It
was city Of 100000 population. 1t il
a city without modern history. Its
existence was unknown to Europe for
upward Of II centuries. Nobody knows
why 1t was forgotten. whether it, in
habitants left or were destroyed by
famine. flood or pestilence. In the
fourth century the bishop Of Petra
was among the priests at . conclave
at jerusalem; and then It passed be-
yond notice until 1872, when It was
discovered by accident by Burkhardt.
Tensas gazette. [volume] (St. Joseph, La.) 1886-current, 1915-06-18

The crown princess, as Duchess c.
ellie Of NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS., re-
ceived the offer Of the heart and hand
of the crown prince while the two
were taking tea together. In entering
Berlin in royal procession to meet her
future husband. she was escorted from
the station through the Brandenburg
gate by the Berlin guild of butchers.
exercising an ancient privilege but
one in keeping with the little brides
reputed domesticity. She was eight
cen, tall and slender, with fair brown
hair and soft. dark eyes a. gentle az
gazelle's. She had been born in the
sleepy old town Of Schwerin, but has
lived most of the years of her girlhood
upon the Riviera with her mother, q
member Of the Russian imperial fam
lily, Grand Duchess Anastasia, whose
escapades have furnished food for COS
sip at the courts Of Europe during two
decades. The bride was, outwardly,
modest. charming, unaffected. She
acknowledged q very recent interest
in dolls.
The marriage was acceptable to the
council Of state because 1t brought
the Hohenzollerns into new bonds
with the royal houses Of Russia, and
also with Denmark. The crown
princess sister Is now the queen of
Denmark. Her brother having mar.
ried the duke of Cumberland's daugh-
ter, Duchess Cecilie was also q tie
between the Hohenzollerns and the ex-
lied Cumberlands of Hanover, begin.
ming to heal the wound which the
young duchess Of Brunswick has COM
pletely cured.
The crown princess, gay, vivacious.
fond Of pretty clothes and q good time,
has overcome the prejudices created
by her mothers conduct. Today, with
four sturdy little boys providing direct
succession to the throne. and q tiny
baby girl to appeal to the peoples
hearts. she IL the most popular mem
Der Of the imperial family.
Tensas gazette. [volume] (St. Joseph, La.) 1886-current, 1915-06-18
AzTEcs IN UNITED STATES
Pentwater Farmer Believes He Has
Evidence They Lived In
That Vicinity.

Detroit, Mich.-Buried evidently at
. Ssriod far remote from the time Of
the earliest explorations Of this coun-
try BY Europeans. . collection Of an
tiQuities has been unearthed In the
vicinity Of Pentwater. Mich, which
seems to prove the theory that the
Aytecs Of Mexico once Inhabited whst
Tensas gazette. [volume] (St. Joseph, La.) 1886-current, 1915-06-18

who was aimlessly travelling in the
Arabian desert, and sent word to Eu.
rope Of his discovery.
Carved Out Of Pink Rock.
Petra was once an important trad
ing station for the caravans that
moved between Persia and Egypt, and
India and the Holy Land and Syria It
II built in . colossal bowl Of pink, and
it, palaces, temples and tombs are
carved out Of solid rock. Perhaps 1t
II the Selah Of the Old Testament
Certainly, some Of its carvings are
5000 years old. Its walls preserve the
history Of architecture, for it, struc-
lures date from the days Of cave men
to the magnificent buildings Of Greece
and Rome. which were duplicated BY
the chisel, the theory being that it,
wealthy citizens went out into the
world, saw what was being built else
where and hastened home with the
artisans Of many nations to reproduce
in the living rock what they had seen
built Of blocks Of stone.
Today Petra has about thirty inhab-
itants. They live in temples and pal
aces. and keep . few goats. 60 beyond
their city into the desert to trade with
passing caravans. and, altogether. Lead
. miserable life. They are half-clad.
half-starved and seem to be about half
beast. They have made trouble for
many travellers who attempted to visit
them, for q legend survives that .
Pharaoh of Egypt hid his country's
treasures In the Kasneh, the beautiful
building which II today known -
Pharaoh's Treasure House. For many
years they tried to keep white travel
err from entering the city. because.
Tensas gazette. [volume] (St. Joseph, La.) 1886-current, 1915-06-18

The most primitive lamps were prob
ably the skulls Of animals In which
tat was burned. while certain sea-
shells were also employed for this
.urpose. When pottery and metal be-
gan. to be used the principle Of these
natural lamps was for long time r.
tanned. ~ seen in ancient Egyptian,
Greek and Roman lamps, and IN the
stone cups and boxes of northsrn N,
tiono.
Tensas gazette. [volume] (St. Joseph, La.) 1886-current, 1915-06-18
The sIIIeus optimIst.

eyes and liver spots on the projections
of he face lays himself out" to talk
oDt1mism % N. something seems to
whisper - n that he u blufing him
self o. NJ ~ come little purpose Of
his own D6adDe when bilious per-
son talks ootfmisn. his conversation
suggests . supercreecence Of exposi-
tory notivatioa. % u spsak.-Milvsu-
keo Sentinel
Tensas gazette. [volume] (St. Joseph, La.) 1886-current, 1915-06-18
Defects In Eyes.

One Of the marvellous gifts Of the
eye is the distinguishing Of colors. ana
mere most eyes are more or less de-
fective. Many eyes otherwise eifec-
tive strangely do not convey to the
brain from the retina by way OF the
optic nerve the reflected rays Of light
that make for either Of the primary
colors-red, blue and green-not to
speak Of the innumerable intermedi-
ates. all due to the absorption, reflec-
ton and transmission Of nays Of light
Of varying wave lengths. It might
b said that We do not see objects Ct
all, but only the myriad wavelets Of
luminiferous ether that are reflected
from them.
Tensas gazette. [volume] (St. Joseph, La.) 1886-current, 1915-06-18

been disappearing gradually and
strange odors had permeated houses
where small boys live. The residents
sought in vain for explanations Of
these two strange conditions, which
they did not connect until the truth
became known.
Incidentally the explanation
caused much chagrin to members of
the Woman's Library club.
Recently. at q meeting of the club
1t was decided to have q cleanup"
week. A reward of two cents q bag
Tensas gazette. [volume] (St. Joseph, La.) 1886-current, 1915-06-18


where his grandparents would
.
at pounds
Cant
to divide y ma
and walked the
THAT parcel amt up to be-"
Tensas gazette. [volume] (St. Joseph, La.) 1886-current, 1915-06-18

totaled more than $4,000, which meant
that more than $50 had to be paid
out. The women soon found their
available cash exhausted in the face
Of this unexpected demand. and had
to issue certificates of Indebtedness
to many school children.
The league, which has always
fought for purity of food supplies, de-
cided to start In early this year with
a swat-the-fly campaign. 1t offered the
ten cents hundred prize to school
Children. and the school children i'm.
Tensas gazette. [volume] (St. Joseph, La.) 1886-current, 1915-06-18

IL impossible to tell what was q PAL
ace. what tomb and what Q templs.
Perhaps much Of it, interesting his
tory win come to light when II y sci-
entincally and thoroughly excavated
and explored. for many Of it, glories
have been covered by the drifting
sands; and perhaps It must remain IN
eternal mystery. for It u forgotten
city and seems to have passed from
the memory Of man too long to be ~
called.
OF the Kasneh Mr.. Newman says:
Not even the photographs give any,
thing like . correct impression Of it,
magnitude Its pillars, ornamental
front and its zig chambers were
carved out Of the solid rock, which
gives the whole thing. with it, den.
cate design. the appearance Of . giant
cameo. One sees that II became pos
sible only after millions OF mallet and
chisel strokes had been directed
against the mountain. It IN one Of the
most perfect structures in the world.
and before it, vast portal are four
splendid Corinthian columns suppof y
Ing the portico, two others having br0s.
ken on and tottered over.
Il stayed nearly . week in Petra.
but then did not feel that had been
there half long enough. I had visited
merely the larger structures in this
amazing collection Of rock hewn edi-
ices. 1t 10 said that there are about
760 tombs in Petra, but It seemed 70
me. after attempting to see q many
Of them. - possible. that there are
nearer 1900. The great mountains In
which Petra rests are literally honey
combed.
Tensas gazette. [volume] (St. Joseph, La.) 1886-current, 1915-06-18
Young Fly Killers in St. Louis Were Too Busy

CT flies hundred early
tended with danger financial
bers Of the Consumers
Tensas gazette. [volume] (St. Joseph, La.) 1886-current, 1915-06-18
Chicago Boys Discover Easy Cleanup Week Money

ccAGo-A great solved
the other day when traitor revealed
pg small boys Of that suburb
Tensas gazette. [volume] (St. Joseph, La.) 1886-current, 1915-06-18

weight Of food consumed, or of the
bulk of zizzles and foam that helped
the gastronomic communion. Need
less to aver, the totals in all cases
at such time were big.
For be it known, that there is q
New England Fat Mems club. noted
throughout the universe as the live
lest membership for the load of duty
which membership entails in the his
tory Of fat mems clubs; and that
most of the members of this organiza-
ton belong to the greater, wider and
Tensas gazette. [volume] (St. Joseph, La.) 1886-current, 1915-06-18
He Wanted to Send His Fat Boy by Parcel Post

ANsAs CITYow boy
n
day. The clerk looked puzzled at fat
Tensas gazette. [volume] (St. Joseph, La.) 1886-current, 1915-06-18

The man who goes about his task
generally makes . weary mess Of e
Tensas gazette. [volume] (St. Joseph, La.) 1886-current, 1915-06-18

the postmaster" he said.
The negro, James Taylor. took
the boy into Postmaster Collins ONCE
and again expressed the desire to
mail the negro boy by parcel post.
why don't you send him by the
train as q passenger" Mr.. Collins
asked.
Il done counted the cost and I
amt got that mount" the negro re-
piled.
The negro said he and his wife
were separated and that he wanted
Whore hia 1ra ndna reufs vould 20 Ia 10,
Tensas gazette. [volume] (St. Joseph, La.) 1886-current, 1915-06-18
Nine Tons at Fat Mems Club Banquet in Boston

thousand
at the OF the United
mousse on night not long estimate
Tensas gazette. [volume] (St. Joseph, La.) 1886-current, 1915-06-18

cept the middle-aged woman for
whom American literature 10 now b.
ing written."-James Stephens in The
Century.
Tensas gazette. [volume] (St. Joseph, La.) 1886-current, 1915-06-18

What kind Of IN auto have you, !,
Il got one Of those cars everybodv ix.
telling Jokes about Every time I
think about It have to laugh and tor
get the trouble 4 nay cause me-
Bisbee daily review., 1915-06-16

an professions not not here involved The practice Of law, engineerns architecture farming cooking and schoolteaching may possibly be conducted as well by men women But if ever there were a field in which women were needed so badly that their absence disgrace human intelligence, medicine that field
 The number of wolen suffering from lack of medical surgical attention who do not get because they will tell their physical troubles to man almost beyond belief That number is lesseuing, now because the woman physician is at hand
 The burst of indignant replies to Dr. Cabots state ment is both amusing and hopeful Men as well as wom- en physicians Of long standing and wide experience rush in to tell wherein they know Dr. Cabot is wrong Per haps the amusing from Dr. Elizabeth Riley, Superintendent of he Boston Surgical hospital who says
 In regard women not being competent research work Dr. Cabot had for many years woman graduate of Tufts College Medical School who not only did his laboratory work but helped him write the book that has made him famous. She also made all the important platcs the book contains
 Dr. Mary Haiton made this statement Co the New York World:
 While have the keenest respect for Dr. Cabot and bis work, know that he and his kind are women phy- sicana greatest enemies. There boycott us, and our competitors are responsible for it. We have all been denied our wenearned positions h hospitals. In New York it is next to impossible for woman become member of any hospital stan. ! managed to get on three in California, but it was hard work Women are just successful in general practising and in research
 work as are but they do get the chance their worth"
 However slowly. in spite Of obstacles. phy- sf.,a ,ra --,vipa their worth 7bov a-s iDcraaeir in numbers and .n ability to handle the problems which face them and a ape of the Dr. Cabots who face back ward there S no doubt that they are hero to stay.
Bisbee daily review., 1915-06-16
NO REAL PROFIT IN WAR.

The European belleerents especially the that interfering most with our commerce. are convinced that are getting rich out of the war and that con yicuon a good deal to do with their petulan treat ment of trade protests
 If We are getting rich it isn't merely because we're prodting even uninentionay from the msfortunes of the warning powers Most American economists agree that should have been better business condition than We are # ther had been war That view is supported by the that every hint peace sends mp the prices American securities in the stock market and every event that seems porend prolonsation of h struggle has "bearish" influence.
 Foreign trade figures sweep away any misconcepuon the share that war orders have had in revving American business According to !ho statement of the federal department Of commerce. our total exports of manufactured articles for the war period SO far are less than for similar periods in peace years. The net n crease in our exports has been due solely to the mark eung of our big wheat surplus The helped to make that market to be sure. and yet that advantage was couneracted by the crppng enect of the war on tho cotton industry Our enormous favorable balance of uade has been due more than anything else to the fact hat ve were unable to obtain usual quantities of imports and Una. lack in itself has seriously hampered many of our industries
 It may be said business recovery thus far been loss on account of the war than in spite of the war; Our great crops together with the need Of re- ploaishine manufactured supplies Of all kinds after long period of slack production, and the ere .ens understanding and cordiaHty arrived at between bust ness and government al lseemed to create the ground work oi period of development such no merely political events could altogether destroy. Tho ouJbur- Of war npped the bud what appeared be a genuine business revival Now the revival is coming again, with prospect cf growth which the will help in some respects. and hinder in others
 Our manufacturing exports steadily ncreas- ing. and unless interrupted likely be a much big ger foreign trade history during the next few months But however much stuff may sell to Europe for military purposes, wish that Europe would un oo,, and that we'd be better of in a business way if ,ae war would stop. and that if prosperity de- pended solely the we'd work and pray for peace just the same.
Bisbee daily review., 1915-06-16
BORDERLAND ROUTE
 IS BY WAY OF YUMA
California Highway Commission Adopts That Course for
 the New Highway

Adyices have been received by ol- Hcials of the Borderland Route that the California Highway Commission has officially adopted the Fl Centro Holtyine road to Yuma over the sand hills as the State Highway Co Arizona. This concludes vicloriously for San Diego the long drawn out conflict be- tween local highway boosters and those in Los Angeles and san Bernar dino who have been trying Go have the northern route via the Mammoth Wash adopted
 It is also further stated that Cali fornia, under the Weeks convict labor law. will start immediately to put con yict labor at work on the road. the expenses of construction from El Cen tro and Holtville to Yuma to be paid out of the highway commission funds.
 The decision of the coml9ission means that automobilists from Arizo- ma will have to pass through San Die. 30 going Co Los Angeles and points north. It is fifty-eight and one-hall miles from El Centre to Yuma via Che uoltville route and 100 miles via Nam moth Wash, with El Centre as the di- yereine point It is 252 miles from E Centro to Los Angeles via Che San Bemardlno route and l22 miles to San Diego.
Bisbee daily review., 1915-06-16
BONDS OVER THE couN7eR.

New York City pays middemen from s5ooooOo ta S4.OoOo0O year for selling its bonds and probably losses much failing to get the best possible rrice and the lowest rate of interest
 Last year for example the city had to make an amer gency loan of slOOOooo0o The bankers who handled the loan made s3.OOoOOO on it within a month. The of interest was per cent which is double the ordinary bank pays its deposi,ors hnd certainly moro than solvent city should pay
 The metropolis is now considering the possibility ol eliminating the middeman and selling part Of it's bonds at least direct to the consumer That fact is of general interest merely because New York 90 vast loan business. carrying aoaJing debt almost equal Co ou national debt and issuing bonds in far greater volume than any other city in the world The principle of the thing the same whether a city is large or small Tho few thousands dollars that country town mieh, sa- are as imporan, to t as the millions the metropolis wastes.
 The method proposed is that which originated in s.. Paul. and has been adopted to in Cleveland Baltimore and Philadelphia The city. instead of selling bond issue wholesale to banking houses Chat distribute .bem retaus tho bosds itself oyer its own counter In small denominations instead of tine usual 5loJO units tie securities find a ready purchase l peases the man or woman in modest circumstances particularly 10 De- come bondhoder" Both the investing citizen and the city are better on for the transaction. The buyer gets good rate of interest on his savings he that his
 investment H absolutely safe and his civic interest and patriotism are stimulated
 similar method has been used for many years in German IL may soon be the rule in American Cities rathe than the exception.
Bisbee daily review., 1915-06-16
lHE woMAN P4YslcIAN.

Dr. Richard C. Cabot professor of medicine liar yard has made things rather unpleasant for himself in the public prints.
 pr Cabot was invited give address to the sradu- ang class at he Woman's Medical College of Philader phia He gave it. And he took occasion in Inc course of it, 10 tell the strong hopeful young who starting out on their chosen ife-work after hard years of preparation that they were fitted tenperament ay or physically for that work It wasn't what might be called actfa courteous graduating address t?
 Fortunately for the comfort Of the eraduates-and C. Dr cabot-he left them one field. For research work and general practice he said they temperamenaly end physicsily unGtted He therefore advised them tc devote Themselves to social service.
 Exactly why social service should ft the physques and emperamonts SO unsuited research and general prac tce is not quite clear. To a lay observer it would seem to be composed in about equal parts of the elements of he other two IL requires the patient logic req serch the same adaptabniy the human problems Of sick humanity the same readiness to call at al hours and under hard circumstances as general practice
 uu, is O, course. just barely possible that Dr. Cab c uovcdgc of the requirements is sketchy as that of ae succesa of the women physicians of the last quarter century
 A quarter century all one need consider for be- fore 1a. Ime womon physicians were ao few and rare a- ,o make their consideration am individual anair Father ian ha Of a class. in Inc last taeny-ve gears ney have Justified homselyos # amy class of peo- p'a eor have.
 whether one believes n he entrance Of women Into