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Tensas gazette., 1916-11-10
LOST!

One promissory note for $1,000,
signed by Frank P. willard, drawn to
his own order and by himself en-
dorsed In blank, dated st st. Joseph,
Louisisna, February 4th, 1916, due and
PAYABLE ct on Belt National Bank,
Oblong, Illinois, three 30 years from
date, drawing interest ct IL per an:
mum from date, payable annually, and
STIMULATING for the payment OF 10%
attorneys fees II placed In the hands
of an attorney for collection after ma
turity.
The finder will greatly oblige by
communicating with rs ct the follow
ing address: Dale & Young, st. Jo-
seph, La, or J. A. York, Oblong, Ill.
The Chicago Illinois idea. (Chicago, Ill.) 19??-19??, 1916-10-28

natives and the enforcement went on
with the lowest women of the island.
1t is being said that men who would
join mob to lynch Negro in the
United States lived in open adultery
with the black women of scarlet char
acter in Haiti.
Our information is that the Wilson
representatives in Haiti are held up
to scorn by the English and German
residents on account Of their gross
immortality with the black people
there.
We do not pretend to say that the
President has knowledge of the way
his deserving Democrats" are repre-
senting him in Haiti. He has the I'M
happy faculty of not knowing anything
he does not want to know, but the
conduct of his people there is last
ing disgrace to his administration.
1t might be noJeQ IN passing that
the usual Wilson consistency prevails.
He will segregate the colored en-
ployes in the departments at Washing
ton, but it appears that his repre-
sentatives in Haiti are not so particu-
lar about living up to the rule that
was laid down by their distinguished
chief in the White House.
The Chicago Illinois idea. (Chicago, Ill.) 19??-19??, 1916-10-28
SOME QUEER OLD "REMEDIES"
Humorous as They Appear to Us,
They Were DevoutIy Believed In
by the Romans.

The Greek physicians in Rome prac-
| ticed one kind Of medicine and the
| Romans themselves-tha is, the ma
jOrity of them-practiced their own
folk medicine which, according to a
writer in the Druggists Circular, was
q combination of some specific applied
or taken with little magic-what
George Eliot called "the medicine Civ
en- with a blessing" For instance, the
roasted liver of a goat was supposed
to be good for failing eyesight, the pa
tent holding his head in such posi-
ton that the steam flowed around his
eyes. And when mixed with honey,
the same organ was supposed to be a
fine remedy for drOpsy; mixed with
bran, it was supposed to cure dyson
terry The sufferer from govt was adj
vised to follow an elaborate treatment.
First, he was supposed to kill field
mouse according to a prescribed meth
cd and to extract from it a tooth. The
tooth was then stitched to the skin of
a freshly slain lion, and if the govt
tooth were bound to the left leg, and
the pain was supposed to cease. An
other cure for govt was to bind to the
afflicted member the first hair cut
from an infants head.
The bite Of a dog was supposed to
be cured by application of mixture
of stale axle grease and hOrehOund.
Scrofula was treated by the following
method: ''Trace a circle around
ounce root, pull it with the left hand,
state for what and for whom, pull and
wear as a charm" And for scrOfulOus
sores the following treatment was re-
sorted to- "Bite off knot from a fig
tree without being seen by anyone,
then wear it in a leather bag suspend
ed on a string about the neck" A
treatment supposed to prevent mala-
dies Of the eyes for a year consisted
of plucking the calyX of blossom of
pOmegranate with the thumb and fourth
finger, rubbing it on the eyes and swal-
lowing it without touching the teeth.
Crocodile hearts wrapped in black
wool and worn on the person were
supposed to ward off attacks of quar-
tan fever, and two bugs wrapped in
piece of stolen wool were recommend
ed as charm against night fever.
Tongue grass, if beaten with axle
grease and rubbed on by three persons
of three nations, was supposed to cure
tumOrs. Epilepsy was treated by Civ
ing the patient meat from wild beast
killed with a weapon that had slain
a man..
The Chicago Illinois idea. (Chicago, Ill.) 19??-19??, 1916-10-28
BOYS REQUIRE MUCH FOOD
Growing Youth Needs More Than
Would Satisfy the Man Who
Has to Work Hard.

The ravenOuS appetiteS of healthy,
growing boys are notorious. An in
vestigatiOn of the food eaten by 300
boys in one of the largest private board
ing schools of America, published in
the Journal of the American Medical
Association, shows that the food was
of the best quality, including 1913 va
rieties; it cost an average of 20 cents
meal per boy, or 1873 cents per thou
sand calories.
Each boy consumed 1850 calOrieS a
day at table, but bought an average Of
$50 additional calories at a neighbor-
ing store, the principal item in this
being chocolate
Thus each boy averaged 5000 calor-
les a day, or half again as much as q
farmer at work is believed to require.
The total fuel intake was three times
that of the basal level Of LOO to 1900
calOrieS, which is the heat production
of boys from thirteen to sixteen years
of age when resting or asleep.
DR.. Graham Lusk remarks that lack
Of appreciation of the ravenous appe-
tites of boys and lack Of provision for
it are the probable causes Of much
Of the undernutrition seen in children
of school age.
At this particular school bread, but
ter, milk and sugar together furnished
half of the food fuel, and the Journal
of the American Medical Association
comments tbat fhiC ic an pvcpntinna1lu
wholesome combination.
The Chicago Illinois idea. (Chicago, Ill.) 19??-19??, 1916-10-28
No Reputation From Women,

It is discovered that women this
past year have invaded the Phi Beta
Kappa society, high citadel of learn
ing, in equal numbers with men. Suf-
ficiently dark was the hour when, in
1875, it was granted women attaining
equal scholarship to be admitted at all.
But how much worse today when
next years report may show as many
as half a dozen female in excess Of
male members The whole trend here
would seem to ignore the fundamental
differences between the minds Of the
sexes. We may even be forced TO
abandon that picturesque phrase, "the
feminine intellect."> The time is ripe
foe stand, and this Rev. Oscar Vor-
hees, secretary Of the fraternity mas
just taken with a Canute-like gesture
at the national conference. Earnestly
he recommends that annual admission
Of women be curtailed 1T will be
generally conceded" he blandly urges,
that larger share Of it's (the soci-
ety's) reputation must come from it's
men members. The New Republic.
The Chicago Illinois idea. (Chicago, Ill.) 19??-19??, 1916-10-28
RoUmanian Music.

At the Paris exposition Of 1900 there
was great rivalry between the Hun
garian and ROumania1 Orchestras. The
Hungarian gipsies came in bands there
several times to entertain the idle
Parisians. But the Roumanians were
a novelty. The ROumanians played the
popular airs of their country on their
flutes and clarinets, airs moving and
tender. They also played, as did their
rivals from beyond the mountains, the
violin and the cobza, kind Of guitar
with ten strings which took the place
of the cymbal of the gypsy orchestra.
Everyone went to hear the ROumanians
because of their bizarre repertory.
Their national costume was Of strik-
ing character. Their white shirts en-
broidered in many colors, their white
trousers, braided with black, their
short, fringed waistcoats added to their
picturesque appearance. "When the
war is over" says a French journal,
1.-THE patrons of our cafes will substi-
tute the Roumanians for the crisp
haired gipsies."
The Chicago Illinois idea. (Chicago, Ill.) 19??-19??, 1916-10-28
aow Salaries in Greece.

No doubt Greek officers, who are very:
badly paid as compared with our own.
standard, console themselves with the
knowledge that they are probably as.
wei. 0tf ia the army as they would be
in any other profession. For salaries
in Greece are ridiculously low as
gauged by our own. The highest
judges, for example, do not get much
NOR than 600 q year, while many of
their less exalted brothers have to-
make ends meet on about half that
sum-with the prospect of a full pen
sion lfter 30 years service London
Chronicle.
The Chicago Illinois idea. (Chicago, Ill.) 19??-19??, 1916-10-28
Origin Of the Siqn c.

The origin Of the sign @ as used in
quadruple or common time may be
briefly explained. Formerly triple
time was indicated by complete cir
Gle, and was known as Perfect time.
To distinguish it from this, common
time or imperfect time, as it was then
called, was indicated by semicircle,
and this sign has developed into the
now frequently used.
Sometimes the @ has a line drawn
through it, in which case it implies
two beats in bar, each of the value of
a minim, and has but one accent. Oc-
casionally the same sign is used to ex-
press four minims in bar. Time Of
this character is called ALA Breve
time-reckOned or measured by the
breve or Tempo Capella 0talian-
Chapel time), this latter ref ring 70
its true use in church music.
The Chicago Illinois idea. (Chicago, Ill.) 19??-19??, 1916-10-28
ATHLETICS In FAVOR
Not Harmful to Young Men Is
Opinion of Many Experts.
Authorities Practically Unanimous In
Asserting Question Is to Be An
swered in Negative If Prop
erIy Safeguarded.

"Are track athletics harmful to
young men?" is a query that has been
answered by such notables as DR.. John
w. Bowler, professor and director of
the gymnasium at Dartmouth college
DR.. George L. Meylan, professor of
physical education at Columbia uni
versity; DIR. d. A. Sargent, president
of the Sargent School for Physical Ed
ucation; DR.. Albert Ell. Sharpe, athlet-
ic coach at Cornell; DR.. G. Ward
Champion, director Of Physical train
ing in the New York city schools; DR..
William G. Anderson, director of Yale
university, and others.
These authorities are practically
unanimous in asserting that the ques-
ton is to be answered in the negative,
if athletics are carried on with prop
er safeguards. Doctor Anderson Of
Yale has prepared table of statistics
on the lives of Yale athletes covering
a period Of SO years which shows that
the Yale athlete does not die young,
nor is heart disease the leading cause
of the greatest number Of deaths, and
that the percentage is not higher than
that expected among nOn-athletes from
similar causes, and that a comparison
based on the statistics of insurance
companies is favorable to the athlete.
Doctor Anderson says, however, that
although the average athlete is not
short lived, there is no adequate proof
that he owes his longevity to athlet-
ioc
The Chicago Illinois idea. (Chicago, Ill.) 19??-19??, 1916-10-28
DRAWN FROM life
WASHINGTON IRVING USED
FRIEND AS MODEL.
Jesse Meryyin, Companion OF Famous
Writer, Was The Original "icFabod
Crane" in the Legend Of
v Sleepy Hollow"

Few people wkO have read Wash
ington Irving's Sketch Book" are
aware of the fact that IcaabGd Crane
really existed, writes George nv. Mac
Donald in the Atlanta journal Few
er still know that the granddaughter
| Of that classical figure in American lit
erature is a resident Of WaycrOss, Ga.
Washington Irving, sorrowing over
the dealt Of Matilda Hoffman, his first
and only love, sought and found con-
genial retreat at Lindenwald, the home
Of Judge William S. Van Ness, two
miles south of Undertook, n. z, in
the mansion which afterward became
the home of President Martin Van
Buren,. Irving wrote ''The Legend Of
Sleepy Hollow" and most Of his
''Knickerbocker's History of New
York" while engaged in filling the pO-
'sition Of private tutor to the nieces Of
Judge Van Ness.
Near Lindenwald stood a small log
schoolhouse, where Jesse Merwin, the
village schoolmaster, trained the bud
ding intellectS Of the youth Of Kin
derhOok. According to the prevailing
custom, he sojourned among the farm
ers Of The neighborhood, staying at
each house successfully a week at a
time. Eventually he arrived at the
home Of Judge Van Ness, and there be-
came acquainted with the author of
the "Sketch Book" a close intimacy
springiug up between them which last
ed through life. They spent many
hours together fishing i'm Undertook
creek or in the nearby ponds. At
night they read and studied together,
sometimes passing merry hour or so
at the genial freside Of Katrina Van,
Tassel az Brom Bones, who, like Ich-
abOd Crane, were people in actual life.
Among the letters of Washington
Irving, found after his death, is one
written to him by Jesse Merwin, on
the back Of which, in Irving'S own
handwriting, is penned:
"FrOm Jesse Merwin, the original
IchabOd Crane
Harold Van Sanford, a trustworthy
literary critic, has in his possession an
autograph letter written by Irving to
mis- friend Merwin, recalling the days
spent together at Lindenwald. A part
reads Dis follows:
do you remember our fishing eXpe-
ditiou. in company with Congressman
Van Allen, 10 the little lake a few
miles SrOm Undertook, and John
Moore, the. vagabond admiral Of the
lake?
Spy the way. mat same John Moore
and the anecdote you told me Of him
gave me the idea of the vagabOnd
character Dirck Schuyler, in my
'Knickerbocker History Of New York.
which I then was writing
"YOu tell me the old schOOlhouse is
torn down and a new one built in its
place. I am sorry for it. 7 should
have liked to see the old schOolhOuse
once more, where, after my mOrninaw
literary task was over, used to Gomez,
and wait for you occasionally until
school was dismissed"
The Chicago Illinois idea. (Chicago, Ill.) 19??-19??, 1916-10-28
An Intellect TWister.

Macklin was once lecturing on "Lit-
erature and the Stage" and in discuss
ing the education of memory, boosted
that he could repeat any formula after
hearing it.
Samuel Foote, the sardonic come
dian. who was one of Macklin's audit
ors, wrote out and sent to the plat
form the rigmarole that has ever
since been famous:
$50 she went into the garden to cut
q cabbage leaf TO make an apple pie
At the same time great she-bear,j
coming UP the street, pops it's head into.
the shop"
"'What No sOapY
$50 be died, and she very imprudent-l
" married the Pickaninnies, the Jo-I
bililies and the Gayrulies, and the
Grand PanjandrUm himself, with the
little r0und button at the tip; and they
all fell to playing the game Of CATCH
as-catch-can till the gunpowder ran out
of the heels OF their boots"
M cklin failed, and 50 does every
body that tries orally to repeat the
confusing arrangement Of words.-De-
troit bEee Press.
The Chicago Illinois idea. (Chicago, Ill.) 19??-19??, 1916-10-28
GREATEST RIDER is DARING
Married jockeys Take More Chances
in Saddle Than Do Single Boys
Several Are Named.


Do married boys make the best
jockeys?
Roscoe Goose, Americas greatest
rider at this time, is married and no
other jockey in the country takes as
many chances in a race as Goose.
Other married riders include Frank
Murphy, Billy Hoag, Danny Connolly,
Walter Address, Charley Van Dusen,
Eddie Martin, Willie Meehan, Johnny
Callahan and A. Pease.
Married jockeys will take as big
chances in a race as those who are not
married." said Hoag. Sometimes it
appears to me that married boys show
a bit more daring in the saddle than do
the single boys
The Chicago Illinois idea. (Chicago, Ill.) 19??-19??, 1916-10-28
Rope Tires.

Ar emergency tire, which Is said to-
have proved successful In Australia in
helping q car to get over roadless cOun-
try when one or other tires have failed,
is made of coconut fiber woven in the
form VI rope, and is strapped on to
the rim. In appearance it is ungain-
~, but is said to have considerable
cushioning effect, and is, moreover,
very cheap. 1t would be hardly popu-
lar, as yet, in this country, remarks a
motoring paper. though it is conceiv-
able that III the future the dictates Of
strict economy may compel some Of US
to adopt rope tires, just as now we
are compelled to use the once-despised
parafin.-LOndon Mail.
The Chicago Illinois idea. (Chicago, Ill.) 19??-19??, 1916-10-28
Democracy.

To the door of every generation
there comes knocking and unless the
household, like the Thane of CawdOr
and his wife, have been doing some
deed without a name, they nee1 not
shudder. 1t turns out at worst to be a
poor relation who wishes to come in
out of the cold. The porter always
grumbles and is slow to open. who's
there, in the name of Beelzebub?" he
mutters. Not a change for better
in our human housekeeping has ever
taken place that wise and good men
have not opposed it-have not prophe-
sled with the alderman that the world
wake up and find it's throat cut in con-
sequence of it. The world, on the con-
trary, wakes up, rubs it's eyes, yawns,
stretches itself, and goes about it's bust
ness as if nothing had happened
James Russell Lowell.
The Chicago Illinois idea. (Chicago, Ill.) 19??-19??, 1916-10-28
FAMOUS SKIN-GLOVE BATTLE
Jack McAuiffe and Jem Carney Fought
"a Rounds to DraW-NoW Being
Shown on Movie Films.

Jack McAuliffe has made several fly
ing trips to England during the last
few years. He has never landed on
the British isle without digging" up
his old antagonist, Jem Carney, who
gave him the hardest battle of his ring
career, at Revere Beach, just outside
Of Boston, Mass, on November 16,
1887.
This famous fight lasted "A rounds
and ended in a draw. The last time
McAuliffe was in England he had Car
ney and himself rehearse the old mill
in front Of movie camera, Of which
he is now showing the reel with his
monOlogue in various theaters through
out the country, with considerable sue
cess.
The imaginary battle is quite inter-
esting, but it is pity that we cannot
view the real skin-glove. combat of %
years ago.
The Chicago Illinois idea. (Chicago, Ill.) 19??-19??, 1916-10-28
SIIIv Talk About Wuck."

One Of the many ways in which the
individual unwisely eclipses himself,
is in his worship of the fetish Of luck.
He feels that all others are lucky and
that whatever he attempts, fails. He
does not realize the untiring energy,
the unremitting concentration, the
heroic courage, the sublime patience
that is the secret of some mems sue
cess. Their ''luck" was that they had
prepared themselves to be equal to
their opportunity when it came and
were aM\ke to recognize it and re-
ceive it.-William George Jordan.
The Chicago Illinois idea. (Chicago, Ill.) 19??-19??, 1916-10-28
Can You Do 1t?

If you we're to ask an average cigar
smoker if he could smoke cigar right
through in steady, consecutive puffs
without once taking it from his mouth,
he would probably smile at the sim
pIicity of the feat. You are fairly safe
to wager him that he cannot do it.
Half cigar generally consumes itself
while held in the fingers Of the smoker
or placed on an ash tray.
The Chicago Illinois idea. (Chicago, Ill.) 19??-19??, 1916-10-28
Couldn't Corner Him.

In the orchard of Jacks home was
one apple tree which bore particularly
fine apples land these were always
saved for special occasions. One day,
however, the temptation proved too
great for the small boy, and when his
father looked for him he found him in
the prize apple tree. Jack" he called,
"what are you doing up there?" co."
replied Jack, with elaborate indiffer-
ence. " 1 just climbed up here to cool
off,"
The Chicago Illinois idea. (Chicago, Ill.) 19??-19??, 1916-10-28
Erenzied Finance.

Two American citizens of African
descent were discussing the other day
the state Of their finances. One Of
them proudly proclaimed himself to
be the possessor of nearly $40 in hard
cash. dat amt nothin' at all, mig
ger" retorted the other. Reckon I
had nigh on to fo' hundred dollars in
the bank one time, but the doggoned
interest done eat it all up."-The
Lamb.
The Chicago Illinois idea. (Chicago, Ill.) 19??-19??, 1916-10-28
Worth Remembering.

Let us always remember that hope
in us kindles hope in others, that
smiles beget smiles, that trust creates
trust, that goodness awakens good
ness, that love awakens love, and that
in unseen but sure ways integrity,
strength and honor in us plant seeds
of honor, strength and integrity in
numberless other lives, many of whom
we may know nothing of. I. Suth-
erland.
The Chicago Illinois idea. (Chicago, Ill.) 19??-19??, 1916-10-28
Numerous Smith EaniIu

The Smith family certainly is COM
ing into its own as big-yard FASTENERS.
Pittsburgh, Boston, Brooklyn, Cincin-
natl, Chicago and st. Louis in the Ma
tional league, and Cleveland and Wash
ington in the American league each has
a Smith on the pay roll.
The Chicago Illinois idea. (Chicago, Ill.) 19??-19??, 1916-10-28
REAL GOLFING HEIGHTS

It took Chick Evans long
years to satisfy a craving am
bition in golf, but he has now
reached a height to which he
never even aspired. 1t may be
for years and it may be never
before another player will stand
forth as the proud holder of
both the open championship and
the amateur championship in
the same season. He has now
written his name in gOlfing his
tory in an indelible way and has
earned place with Harold
Hilton, Francis Ouimet, Jerome
ID. Travers and Walter J. Travis.
The victory was popular. Chick
Evans has a charming person
atty and congratulations so
widely offered were well de-
served.-New York World.
The Chicago Illinois idea. (Chicago, Ill.) 19??-19??, 1916-10-28
RAISING the Hat at Funerals:

Many curious instances of old laws
may still be found in England. In
Chester, the man who fails to raise
his hat when a funeral is passing be-
comes liable by an old law to be taken
before a magistrate and imprisoned.
This practice of raising the hat when a
funeral passes is now more observed
in London than it ever was.
The Chicago Illinois idea. (Chicago, Ill.) 19??-19??, 1916-10-28
Job for Tom FLANAGAN.

1t is probable that Capt Tom Elan
nagan Of the Northumberland ightieth
(Sportsmen's) battalion, and superin-
tendent of athletics at Camp Borden
maybe attached permanently to Cana
dian militia headquarters as director
Of physical training and military ath-
letic sports for the Canadian troops.
The Chicago Illinois idea. (Chicago, Ill.) 19??-19??, 1916-10-28
Meadows Works Hard.

Lee Meadows, the specialized hurler
Of the Cardinals, although weighing
only $50 pounds, has pitched in more
than fifty games this season, and says
his arm has withstood the strain. He
has pitched IN nearly one-third of the
games played by the st. Louis club.
The Chicago Illinois idea. (Chicago, Ill.) 19??-19??, 1916-10-28
License Gave PRIVILEGE.

Angelo walking down the street saw
Tony coming the opposite way leading
his dog. Being deathly afraid of it,
as it was playful, he said to Tony:
"Say, if your dog bites me I'll have
him arrested" go on" said Tony,
"this dog has a license; he's allowed
to bite anybody"
The Chicago Illinois idea. (Chicago, Ill.) 19??-19??, 1916-10-28
POP WARNER AS STRATEGIST
Had Printed Number of Stories Roast
ing Work of Cornell Players
Wrote Yarns Himself.

Joe Birmingham. former manager of
the Cleveland ball club, was football
player at Cornell when Pop Warner
was coach there and tells something
of the strategy Of the man who made
The Chicago Illinois idea. (Chicago, Ill.) 19??-19??, 1916-10-28
Filling Tree Cavities.

Il trees have very large hollows
within, so that the shell is thereby
weakened to fill this cavity with con-
crete is not always sufficient, for if the
shell be thin and weak it may be SO
pliable that 1t win not remain close and
solid ~ the concrete core. Disease and
1nsects may enter or the tree break
with wind during heavy storm. Braces
in the shape of bolts, with big washers,
at each end, and tightly screwed "A
may be necessary, these bolts to
later included Ill the concrete BODY
The Chicago Illinois idea. (Chicago, Ill.) 19??-19??, 1916-10-28
O'DonneII Is From Everett.

Cleo O'Donnell, the new football
coach at Purdue, comes from the Ever
EFT (Mass) high school, where he de-
veloped some of the greatest schoolboy
teams the sport has ever known.
The Chicago Illinois idea. (Chicago, Ill.) 19??-19??, 1916-10-28

the Carlisle Indians famous and gave
Pittsburgh university an undefeated
eleven this year.
An Ithaca newspaper printed num-
Der of articles roasting the Cornell
team. The players became SO sore
they went out and hustled for all they
were worth. Then it was learned War
ner had written the stories. He got
the results he wanted, too.