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Bogalusa enterprise. [volume] (Bogalusa, La.) 1914-1918, 1915-06-17

match safe, similarly marked, j. A.
L." appearing on its side. These
articles being formed Of almost i'm
perishable material, and having
been so completely protected from
the rain and weather by the inn
mense bowlder, were found to be in
a perfect state Of preservation.
Examination showed that the
fly leaves and the inside Of
the covers we're filled with
writing, but, having been executed
with a lead pencil, was almost in
decipherable with out the aid of a
microscope.
This Bible is different from others
in that a story of love-love pure
and simple is delineated upon its
pages, and like others, because it
appears to have been the JOY and
solace of its owner; the passages
marked and the words written
therein indicate as much.
On the title page of this book is
inscribed in most excellent hand
writing the name of its owner, as
follows: Lieut. John A. Lotion,
Company A, Wade Hampton's
Brigade, Jeff Davis Legion, Army
Northern Virginia, Dec. 10, 1853.
On the reverse side Of the title
page also appears these additional
markings; Lieut.. John A. Loftin.
Johnson's Island, Sandusky Ba y,
Ohio, March 10, 1884.
Turning over the pages of this
precious book the 35,verie of the
second chapter Of Acts of Apostles
is under cored.
Lieut.. Loftin must have had
bright hopes for the future when he
marked this particular passage, as
a more appropriate text for a war
prison sermon could not have been
found. AS interesting as is the
foregoing, the inside of the first
cover tells of the most pathetic
tale.
This is an affair of the heart of a
love story.
The chirosraphy is that of a wo-
man and executed with great care
and precision, and SCENE to breathe
undyine love and devotion for the
man for whom they are inscribed.
The following is the inscription:
Presented to Lieut.. John A Loftin
by Blanche Lee, June %, 1861.
Magnolia Plantation, Miss" ap-
pended is the following; MY sim
cerest wishes fer you will be found
in Numbers, sixth chapter. Path,
25th and 26th verses. Never forget
thine own true and faithful
Blanche
So much for the Bible hidden
away by a Confederate officer four
decades and more gone. Now to
its companion in those lonely vir-
eils, the match safe" This is of
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AmerIeAn Literature.

II one were asked what is 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 It's
period. 1t Is very disingenuous youth
indeed. This insistence on boyish
ness Is unhealthy; more, it is de-
PRAYED. These boyish boys and girl.
tsh girls of the writer and the artist
are the indications OF a real cancer
IN American public life. Perhaps in
portraying them the writer's and illus
traitors are describing something which
is as true as 1t is detestabie The
cult Of youthfulness In America is
national calamity, far graver than
anything for which Europe has to
mourn. Youth has nothing to give
life but its energy; it has even less
to give literature, for literature Is
an expression of the spiritual truth
which runs parallel with every mate
rial experience. 1t is not the retail.
ing of petty gossip about petty peo-
pie, and when this youthful energy
is divorced from the control of ma
turity nobody can benefit from 1t ex.
cept the middle-aged woman for
whom American literature is now be-
ing written."-James Sterhena In the
Century
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An Ancient Civilization,

"Where was the most ancient civ
iliZatson known" asks recent trav.
eler in Turkestan, DR.. W. j. Parme
lee, IL the Springfield Republican. Elk.
plorations show that ten thousand
years ago (twice the age of the Egypt
tan pyramids) people lived south
east Of the Caspian sea, about 12o
miles from the sea- who had brick
hcuses, decorated pottery, convenient
and ingenious household articles, and
domestic animals; they raised and
ground VII eat. and cooked their food
So far as cen be told, they mad no
weapons, and lived in peace with their
neighbors-a trait that may be taken
as evidencfng civilization, or it's alb
Sence. according to the point OF rfev.
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Hudson Maxim, inventor and Amer.
lean authority in the realm of high
explosives. in statement today de-
. clared that some of the guns have
been made and some of the shells
Cast which shall compel New York
city to save itself from destruction
by paying the biggest gold indemnity
that was ever imposed unon a com
manlty.
Few people have the power of
imagination to see that such thing
as the invasion of this country is CO.
in, to happen, and to feel the real
horrors of it until after it has hap
pened," said Mr. Maxim. Every SOL
der who goes to war confidently be-
lieves that the bullet to kill him has
never yet been cast. We are all en-
doBed with the gamblers nope and
the gamblers faith in chance If it
were not for this we should all be
towards indeed
The greatest welfare workers in
this country are those men and wom-
ell like the members of the Navy
League, the Army League, the Ma
Eional Security League ana the Amer
ice Legion, and those who are writ
ing articles and books upon the sub
ject Of our defenseless condition. r.
the people of this country could only
be aroused to realization of how
actual is their danger there would be
an uprising of the whole people from
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Making Things Even.

It would be difficult to find a region
where the ups and downs of fortune
have been so sudden and extreme az
IN California. IN its early days, be-
fore its production of graiL was equal
20 the demand, wages Of farm hands
were high, but as production increased
the prices lowered faster than the rata
of wages A farmer employed an in
dustrious Irishman for five years, at
the rate of fifty dollars month land
tound'--board, lodging. washing, and
mending. At the end OF the term he
said 20 his man: II can't afford to pay
you the wages I have been paying.
You have saved money, and | have
saved nothing. At this rate you VIII
soon own my farm" Then III hire
you to work for me- said the other.
and you can get your farm back
ngsin."
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ARMENIAN NOT IN
NAVAL SERVICE At
time Of SINKING

Washington. July 3..-The steam
ship Armenian. sunk by German
submarin with loss of Auerican
lives. was not under Britis1 govern
ment rsquisition when she sailed
from Newport News June Il with
mules fer the British army. but prior
to this voyage she had been requ. 81
TONED by the English gov rnment.
Although the British acquisition
terminated befor her final trip. the
Armenian had not been put back on
ths regular sailing list OF 5 Leland
line, owner of the ship.
This statement froar the manage
ment OF the Leland line at Liverpool
was reported to the STAFF department
by Amba :ador Page al London.
\ dispatch from Consul Armstrong
at Bristol brought definiate- word
that the Armenia attempted for 10
minutes 10 run away from the Ger
nun submarine and that she hove .
only after she had been ST af,re by
shots from the German vessel
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ocean 20 ocean, and the creates
uEiteG cry that ever went up to Goo
in a call to arms for national de-
Tense
Cleveland Motfett has done a big
patriotic duty in writing the admir-
able serial just now appearing in Nc
Cures, The Conquest of America.
What he has done is to tell a story OF
what has actually happened Hind
sight is much better than foresight
He takes the reader forward to 1921
and from that vantage point gives
him an opportunity to look backward
into the past, which is cur present.
and our immediate future, and let the
reader see into what hell of war we
are drifting
Some Of the guns have been
made, some of the shells nave been
cast. and certain it is that many
more are IN the making, and in the
casting, which shall command and
compel New York city to SAFE itself
from destruction by paying the big
gest gold indemnity that was ever
imposed upon a community.
"The pernicious propagandism of
pacificism has paraIyzed the reason
ing faculties of g large number Of
the American people AS have
ssia in my book, sDefenseless Amer
ica,' 'Pacifcism has ringed the nose
of the American people, ard is lead
ing them, blind and unkncwing, to
the slaughter
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The Pineapple In Ena!and.

Pineapples, which Londoners can
now buy at the cheapest rate within
living memoir. first reached England
IN the latter part of the seventeenth
century. The fruit was thus a novelty
to Sir Christopher Wren's generation:
but he soon recognized it's value as an
architectural ornament. and copper
pineapples about five feet high figure
prominently on the towers of st
ParPs So highly did Wren esteem
the fine proportions and enriched sur
face OF this fruit that HE original de-
sign for st. Paul's shows an enormous
pineapple In the place of the dome.
Happily his rnaturer thoughts saved
as from that appalling spectacle. Since
Wren the pineapple has been as much
at home III our architecture as on our
dinner tables. 1t has descended even
to cast iron, and is frequently found in
streets. Queen Victoria
treasured seal given by her husband
on which pineapple was engraved.
together with the motto, "Sa gloira
nest pas sa conronne. Mall Go
zettA
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His Translate .n.

Hello! That you, denf?" Yes
I'm going to bring Green up to sup
per tonight. We're on the way now"
For goodness sake, how many times
gave | told you never to invite your
fool friends ur here without giving me
notice? I haven't thing in the house.
You make me tired I've been work.
Ing ha,d all day and was going to have
just little picked-uD lunek tonight
and now you spring Green on me at
the last minute. You must think Ike
t. stand around hot stove. l tell
you right now you're not going to get
any swell meal tonight. You'll get
yesterdays cold lamb and some
warmed-over potatoes, and If he
doesn't like that he can lump It." Yes,
dear, that's fine. Just the thing. Well
be right up" What did she say?"
She's tickled to death to have YOU
come. Said she'd been wondering why
hadn't brought you up before. Come
on"
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Defects in Eyes

sSne of the marvellous gifts of the
eye is the distinguishing of colors, and
here most eyes are more or less de.
lective. Many eyes otherwise effec-
tive strangely d. not convey to tbs
brain from the 1etina by way of the
optic nerve the reflected rays of light
that make for eithe~ of the primary
colors-red, blue and green-not to
speak Of the tnnumcrable intermedi
ates, all due to the absorption, refiec
ton and transmission of rays of light
of varying wave lengths It might
be said that We do not see objects at
all, but only the myriad wavelets Of
,uminiferous Ather that are reflected
from them
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Nara az Food,

Nuts form very concentrated form
OF food, in fnany cases more SO than
cheese, and when nationally used they
are readily digested and form a part
OF well-balanced ration. Nuts are
plentiful in many localities and should
not be allowed to go to waste A
pound Of walnuts will prodnce almost
three times as much energy as pound
Of steak Such being the case, would
not the use of considerable quantity
OF walnuts, butternuts, and hickory
nuts be a valuable addition to tho
households supply of provisions2
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ORDERS LAND SOLD
commissioners Report PatiIIo Estate
Cannot he PartitiOned.

Commissioners c. lP. Could. ]. A..
Mccoy and |. y. Nall reporting TO
Oh ncellor John VI. Elliott that the
Pattllo property in sections T. and
%, township four south of rang 10
west, is wild land and cannot b. par
titioned advantageously Judge Ellio t
ordered the property to be sold at
public auction on July 80 Thu order
is in the case of S Geisreiter VS..
f-ovelace Patille and elsven others
Mr. Geisreiter is the owner of ! one
tenth interest, and has a judgment
for S316 against the property.
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A Chicago man with business In
tercsts in Missouri tells of an incidAn
as a railway junction there He
was yery hungry. with only two min.
utes before the departure of his train.
Sandwich and coffee" he said to
the counter man. Haven't time for
anything eiss." Easy. friend" said
the other. Take al the time
you want. Cast your eye over
this bill O. fare and I'll phone the
superintendent to .old the train a
while Hold the train wtile eat.'
Sure. This is branch road, and
there's no other train comm or goin'
ovev II this mcrnin'. The super.n.
tsndent VIII want you to have goo1
meoEhs owns this lunch room~
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Method.

There Is no one able Or anxious to
deny the value of method. But there
are many who realize that method IL
not everything, and that strict adher.
ence to it sometimes becomes nuts.
ance. There is d madness in hard and
fast rules. The strict adherence to
some method is almost az bad as 'hav.
ing no method at all. We should re-
member that our actions have. ut all
taEses to b gnf1ed By circumstances
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DESERTION ALLEGED.
Mrs. keeier Wants Dissolved Mar
rage Bends Assumed % Years
Ago,

Mrs, Agnes Jane Keller yesterday
filed suit for divorce against JOS ph
Paul keeler, alleging cruelty. Plan
tiff says the marie &c TOOK place in
1885 in Winnipeg, Manitoba. Canada,
and t. separation IN April. 1914 The
last time she heard Of the defenda Mt
he was in Cassner, Manitoba. She
asks the custody of the youngest
child Dorothy. ags d s. Two 9th e.
cflildren re grown
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Importance Of Work.

A negative life Is wicked life
Someone has said mo angel ever ap
! peared to a man who was not at
| work" You cannot make a man good
| oy keeping him idle. Il must be about
my Fathers business" said Christ IL
the temple. That Is the gospel oe ev-
cry man who Is loyal to his own soul,
Is the comment of the Ohio State
Jou,Ual. There is no excuse for idle.
ness. Work, like virtue. religion, faith,
Is from within. The impulse toward
the right is what Keeps a man at work,
and If he is not at work he lacks the
impulse. His religion Is too weak to
exert itself A positive life Is the only
true life. Nor Is mere eltrufsm the
only form of work. 1t is as much
mans duty to help himself as 1t Is to
help others, so that help Is upbuildipg
which is the very condition of ones
being benefit to others A man who
loves roses, sunsets, stars, creeks.
trees, birds, Is a friend of humanity.
Loving Gods beautiful world includes
man,. or it is false love. Not to
love these creations Of goodness ana
grace denotes a negative life that la
positively wicked
"RegIc,des~ in America.
Three of the men appointed by Oh.
yer Cromwell to try King Charles /
fed to Massachusetts and we're in hid
Ing there for quite while. Cromwell
appointed $50 commissioners to try
the king, Of whom 10 acted and SO
signed the death warrant. After the
restore ton 20 OF those who had signed
the death warrant were tried, IS were
executed, snG three fed to Massachu-
sets, viz, William Cote, Thomas
and John Diywell They were
all men of good families stood high in
C-omwel's confidence and had fought
in some Of his hardest battles. They
dved in Massachusetts several years
N concealment. and then in Conn.Acti.
cut, one or two of them dying at New
Haven. Dixwell assumed the name of
James Davids, married Massachu.
sets goman and reared a family OF
Davids children, whose descendants
may still be living After coming to
this country COTE correspondent affec-
NTH his wife in England, but
never saw her again. He was buried
1T Hadley, Mass. where at one time
be led the Inhabitants in repel!ing an
attack by the Indians.
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Thar man has the widest influence
who has the deepest sympathy, for
men open their hearts to sympathy
as flowers open to the sun. Said
Emerson: TITS good to give .
stranger meal, or nights lodging.
It's better to be hospitable to his good
meaning and thought, and give couxs
- to companion"
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Bracinu the VIII.

think 1t rather fine, this necessity
for the tense bracing Of the will be.
fore anything worth doing can be
done, writes Arnold Bennett. \ rather
like it myself. feel it to be the chief
thing that -differentiates me from the
cat by the fire.
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AT the war beneh. In London
three queens were present" "Well,
they were good cards % have on
hand"
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Welcll Bests white.

New York. Iuly 81 BY the narrow
margin Of one round the best Of it,
Freddie Welch. lightweight champion.
had the better Of his ten-round fight
With Charlie White of Chicago at
Brighton Beach tonight.
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Must Provo Their W
MASTER how many
haSe, your worth IS Il. ~ .f,s.
! ~ cssFy oat
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american Leagne.

C.Ecinnati-St. Louis. rain.
Pine Bluff daily graphic. (Pine Bluff, Ark.) 1893-1942, 1915-07-04

Warhcp. BroWn MoHaIe. CottreII
and Nunamaker; Boiling. Ayers, Cal
LA, Johnson md Henry
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Texas league.
Fort worth 10. sanAntonio 4.
National League.

Tionston- Waco, rain.
The Madison daily leader. [volume] (Madison, S.D.) 1890-current, 1915-11-22
The COYOTES
WALTER ENGSTROM HAS A
STRANGE EXPERIENCE IN
BROWN COUNTY.

Groton. Nov 22.-Wolves in this
section of the state have been a very
unusual sight in several years, but to
be chased by a pack of six of these
animals was the rather unusual ex-
perience of Walter Engstrom, who re-
sides on the Mckee farm south of
town.
Engstrom had been visiting at a
neighbor's and was en- route home
when he discovered that pack of
six wolves was following him. They
appeared to be wo old ones and four
of their litter. They shortly closed
up the distance between themselves
and the man, and were even so bold
as to nip at his heels, one bolder
than the rest, tearing Engstrom S
trousers in an attempt to bite him.
BY means of club the man man
aged to secure, he was able to beat
off the animals until he gained his
home, but by the time he could To-
cate his rifle and ammunition, the an
imals were gone.
The Madison daily leader. [volume] (Madison, S.D.) 1890-current, 1915-11-22
TWENTY YEARS
AGO TO-DAY
Items Taken from the Daily
Leader Files

Mercury fell to degrees above
zero this morning.
Mrs. Jerry Hurley went to Lanes
boro, MINI, TO visit her people.
Mrs. Sarah Flynn was a passenger
to Flandreau to visit a sick friend.
Mr.. and Mrs. Torkel Hanson went
to Castalia and other points in Iowa
TO visit friends.
1t may seem hardly credible In
these piping times of low prices,
stringent money matters and busy
farm work that 1900 chattel mort
cages should have been paid off the
past month in Lake county, but such,
as we are informed by Register of
Deeds Schmidt, is the fact And fur
ther, the number of these mortgages
paid off in one month at this timN Is
greater than all the chattel mort
cages paid off in any one year alto
gether during Mr.. Schmidt's three
years incumbency, and no doubt for
any one year in the history of Lake
county This is marvellous and is
either an index of returning prosper
ity or the severest persecution by the
collecting agents.
The Madison daily leader. [volume] (Madison, S.D.) 1890-current, 1915-11-22
CHASED BY wolves
THEY WILL CLOSE SEASONS
BATTLES AT OMAHA
THURSDAY.

Vermillion, Nov 22.-The Coyotes
finish the football season at Omaha
on Turkey Day when they play
Creighton in what is expected to be
an even match The comparative
scores give Coach Cortright's men
the edge, but the Catholics always
leave the best for the last and in the
past years have played their best
game on Thanksgiving against South
Dakota. Last year the score was 8
to Z in favor of South Dakota
The seasons showing of the two
teams gives some interesting contra
dictory dope on the comparative
strength of the teams. Creighton
defeated Hamline; Hamline won
from North Dakota and North Da-
kota was tied by South Dakota. On
the other hand Creighton was de-
csively defeated by Notre Dame by
the score of Al to 0-snowed under
by the team which only took the
game from the Coyotes the week be-
fore by one touchdown. Coach Cort-
right is confident that his team will
win even though three of his best
men, injured the season, are out OF
the game.
The game with Yankton on Friday
which resulted in the score of AS to 0
was little more than a scrimmage.
During the first half the second team
men were used The regulars were
put In durng the last two quarters to
give them practice. Vidal did some
spectacular open field running
through the Yankton team several
times with comparative ease.
The Madison daily leader. [volume] (Madison, S.D.) 1890-current, 1915-11-22

fenced to three years in the state pen
itentiary. Having missed articles
about the store, Keegan, formerly
chief of police. watched the store one
night from an office across the street
and saw the man enter and steal the
money from the cash register.
Pierre-The supreme court denied
the writ of mandamus asked for by
DR.. Oscar Phelps of Lennon, who
sought to compel Gov. Byrne to ap-
point him as head of the state board
of health under the old soldier pref
erence act of the state. The court
holds that the governor is not per-
forming a mere ministerial act in
making an appointment, but should
use discretionary powers.
Aberdeen-H. B. Watkins, who
came to Aberdeen from Redfield
about two years ago and organized
the Aberdeen Retail Merchants asso-
citation, and several months ago re-
moved to Grand Forks, N. d., where
he organized a similar association,
has accepted an offer from the di-
rectors of the Aberdeen association to
return to Aberdeen as manager of
the association, and he will come
back here on January /. --
Iroquois-At the family home here
occurred the death OF C. w. Grannis,
one Of the best known Of the early
hotel men OF this part of South Da-
kota. He was SO years OF age. He
The Madison daily leader. [volume] (Madison, S.D.) 1890-current, 1915-11-22
UNFAIR TO URDAHL
STATE NEWSPAPERS DISCUSS
MADISON'S SENATOR
URDAHL.

DeSmet Independent: Hans Ur-
dahl, the noisy statesman from Sioux
Falls, is reported as a candidate for
and public lands. Isn't it about time
that the windy gentleman from Sioux
Falls was retired TO private life?
Brains, not wind, is the qualification
required for a good administration in
that office.
Sioux City Tribune: In addition
to several absolute inaccuracies in
the statement the foregoing comment
Is typical of the appreciation" often
accorded TO conscientious public ser
wants. Senator Hans Urdahl does not
live in Sioux Falls; he is not can
didate for land commissioner; he is
not windy or noisy.
1t was given out few days ago, in
news reports from Pierre, that SEN
ator Urdahl probably would be a can
didate for the office of commissioner
of school and public lands. Mr.. Ur-
dahl declares the report is unfound-
ed. In view of this disclaimer it is
qualifications for the office, but
every unprejudiced person who has
seen Mr.. Urdahl in action realizes
that he Is rigidly honest and excep-
tionally capable.
During his services in the South
Dakota house and senate Mr.. Urdahl
worked quietly and earnestly for the
improvement of many conditions that
needed to be improved. There isn't
a boisterous hair in his head. He
made no effort to promote his own
affairs or interests or those of any
personal or political friends. He
acted the part of diligent and faith
full public servant.
Just what have been Mr. Urdahl' s
offenses, aside from airing CRAFTS?