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Bogalusa enterprise., 1916-06-08
HOLCOMBE NOT IN
CONGRESSIONAL RACE
Which Makes Election OF
BoSalusa Candidate \
Certainty

Charles A. Holcombe, one of the
announced candidates for Congress
in this district has withdrawn from
the race and many believe that
Amos L. Ponder will withdraw be-
fore election day arrives, and
thereby j. Y. Sanders of this CITY
will be the unanimous choice, Fol.
lowing is the statement issued by
Mr.. Holcomb:
i have. on reconsidering the mat
ter, concluded to withdraw from
the race for Congress for the Sixth
district. In doing so, Idesire to say
that | am simply Welding to my
own personal wishes in the matter.
With three candidates in the field,
two primaries were almost certain.
| believe had | continued in the
race, | would have been in the Sec
ond primary with one of the other
two candidates. However, one
campaign covering twelve parishes
is enough, to say nothing of sec
ond campaign The proposition
/ has appealed to me less the more
/ | thought of it, and | have reached
the conclusion. that after all, would
be better satisfied by deVOting my
entire time and attention to law.
u had long since concluded that |
would not offer myself as a Candi.
date to succeed myself to my
friends. When the term of office
has expired, | will have held this
position for over six years, and
while appreciate the honor ofhav-
ing held the position, | shall cheer
fully and gladly turn it over, with
its hard work and trying RESPONSE
biities. to other shoulders.
desire to extend my thanks to
all those here and elsewhere who
so kindly rendered me their vote
and support and to express my
sincere appreciation for same.
Bogalusa enterprise., 1916-06-08
Conclusion Of Speech OF S. S. PEentiss
On The Mississippi Contested
Election

Upon all the states | do most
solemnly call, for that justice to
another, which they would expect
themselves. Let this cup pass from
Mississippi, Compel her not to
drink its bitter ingredients, lest,
some day, even-handed justice
should command the poisoned cha
lice to your own lips. Recind that
resolution, which presses like foul
incubus upon the constitution,
You sit here. twenty-five sovereign
states in judgment upon the most
sacred right of a sister state, that
which is to a state what chastity IS
to a woman. or honor to a man.
Should you decide against her, you
tear from her brow the richest
jewel which sparkles there, and
forever bow her head in shame and
diShonor. But. if your determina-
ton is taken, if the blow must fall,
if the violated Constitution must
bleed have but one request, on
her behalf, to make. When you
decide that she cannot choose her
own representation, at that self
same moment. blot from the span
gled banner Of the Union the bright
star that elitterS to the name of
Mississippi but leave the stripe
behind. a fit emblem of her degra-
dation.
Bogalusa enterprise., 1916-06-08
Introduce New Lawyer

Jess Johnson of Bogalusa, who
passed the legal examination for
the State Bar several weeks ago.
was formally introduced to the
court here on Monday and is now
an acknowledged and heartily well
coined member of the Washington
Parish Bar.
Mr.. johnson has had an unusual
ly successful life for a Young man
having gone to Washington, D. G.
Immediately after finishing his
University course in Louisiana, and
as Secretary TO Senator Ransdall,
had a very broadening experience
in his association with men of affairs,
while at the same time taking his
law course.
He established himself IN the
Magic City after his return from
Washington, and while serving as
Clerk of the City Court has been
gaining practical experience in his
profession which starts him now in
his practice at a decided advantage
and we hope and predict for him a
successful Ezra Leader.
Bogalusa enterprise., 1916-06-08
43,5l8 Injured

Washington, June l,-More than
$4,000 persons were killed ard in
jured in the United States by rail-
road accidents during the three
months ending, September 80, 1915.
Interstate Commerce Commission
figures made public today show 1881
were killed and 43,5lS injured. The
figures show net decrease of 217
in the number of killed and 1857
in the number injured, as compared
with returns for the corresponding
quarter in 1914.
Bogalusa enterprise., 1916-06-08
Miss Bu vens Remains

The many friends and pupils of
Miss Edna Buvens, one of the High
School teachers, will be glad to know
that she will remain in BoSalusa
through the month of June. Miss
BuvenS has been appointed by the
Home Economics Department to
continue the Tomato Club work
here. There are l8 club members,
one tenth of an acre in cultivation,
aud everything is getting along
nicely,
Bogalusa enterprise., 1916-06-08
SELECTIONS of poetry
and prose, humor and
pathos, rare bits OF his
tory and interesting
facts from week to week
Patriotism

A nation is made great, not by
its fruitful acres, but by the men
who cultivate them; not by Its great
forecasts but by the men who use
them: not by its mines, but by the
men who work in them not by It's
railways, but by the men who build
and operate them. America was a
ereat land when Columbus discover
ed it; Americans have made great
nation
In l776 our fathers had a vision
of new nation conceived in llber-
ty and dedicated to the proposition
that all men are created equal.
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greatest of existing world empires
that they might realize this vision
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Bogalusa enterprise., 1916-06-08
WE SALUTE THEE
Ambition
Ambition is the germ from which

Ambition is the germ from which
all growth of nobleness proceeds.
1t is the spur that makes man strus-
gle with destiny. 1t is Heavens
own incentive to make purpose
great and achievement greater,
To be ambitious of true honor
is the very principal and incentive
of virtue.
Bogalusa enterprise., 1916-06-08
The Pledge To The Flag

Flag of cur Great Republic!' hal
lowed by nobleSt deeds and loving
sacriice-Guardlan Of our honor; an
inspiration i'll every battle for the
right-whoSe stars and stripes stand
for Beauty. Purity, Truth, Patriot
ism and the Union.
WE SALUTE THEE
and for thy defense, the protection
of our country and the conservation
of the liberty of the American peo-
pie, we pledge our hearts, our lives
and our sacred honor.
Bogalusa enterprise., 1916-06-08
With The Break OF Dawn

As We proceeded, the timid ap.
proach of twilight became m ore
preCeptible, the intense blue Of the
sky began to soften. the smaller
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1916-02-29

After marriage, IT'S often these differ
ent influences that wedge themselves
in and turn the tide of happiness. A
loved aunt who interferes too much
in the affairs of the young married
couple can bring about considerable
havoc. She whispers to the wife that
she saw him flirting with pretty girl
on the street. jealousy takes root.
Then the trouble begins to brew.
Hubby cannot uproot love for dear
aunty in his wife's heart He has
taken her for better or worse, with
all these loves, and he must bide by
the consequences.
Most married couples do very we'll
to sail along smoothly in sea so full
of shoals of other loves. He should
do his best to make the corner Of
her heart which he has captured so
happy a dwelling place that he will
rapidly acquire all the rest of the
space within her heart. More couples
marry than are really mated. The
trouble of the mismated often rises
from not realizing that to start in
with they occupy only a part of each
others heart This should give many
a loving couple something to think
about.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1916-02-29
HOW ONE NOVELIST WROTE
Frank Norris Worked Only Three
Hours at Stretch, but Claimed
He Worked Every Day.

Frank Norris, the well-known author
of "The Pit" THE Octopus" and Van
dover and the Brute" once sent let
ter to Ward Macauley, the Detroit
book seller, in answer to certain gen.
'eral questions about Norris writing.
Don't believe fiction writer should
shut himself up in his profession" the
letter says in part. Novels can't be
written from the closet or study.
You've got to live your stuff. Believe
novelists of all people should take in
terest in contemporary movements,
politics, international affairs, the big
things in the world.
Il write with great difficulty, but
have managed somehow to accom-
plish forty short stories (all published
in fugitive fashion) and five novels
within the last three years, and lot
of special unsigned articles. Believe
my forte is the novel. Don't like to
write, but like having written.
Hate the effort of driving pen from
line to line, work only three hours a
day, but work every day. Believe in
blunt, crude Anglo-Saxon words. Some
times spend half an hour trying to get
the right combination of one-half doz-
en- words. Never rewlite stuff; do all
hard work at first writing, only revise
very lightly-in typewriter copy"
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1916-02-29
CHAPTER VlII-Continued.

All right" he said pridelessly, "tyke
It or leave it, I'll like yer none the
less for it." And to save his face he
turned fercely upon the onlookers.
Get outa my galley doors, you bloom
in swabsi"
This command was REINFORCED bv
steaming kettle of water, and at
sight of it the sailors scrambled out
Of the way. This was sort of victory
for Thomas Mugridge, and enabled
him to accept more gracefully the de-
feat l had given him, though, of
course, he was too discreet to attempt
to drive the hunters away.
Il see Cooky's finish" I heard
Smoke say to Horner.
You bet" was the reply. Hump
runs the galley from now on, and
Cooky pulls in his horns"
Mugridge heard and shot swift
glance at me, but gave no sign that
the conversation had reached me.
had not thought my victory was so
far-reaching and complete, but / re-
solved to let go nothing | had gained
AS the days went by, Smokes proph.
ecy was verified. The cockney became
more humble and slavish to me than
even to Wolf Larsen. | Mustered him
and SIRED him no longer, washed no
more greasy pots, and peeled no more
potatoes. did my own work, and my
own work only, and when and in what
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1916-02-29
CHAPTER TX.

My intimacy with Wolf Larsen in
creases-if by intimacy may be de-
noted those relations which exist be-
tween master and man. or, better yet.
between king and jester. My function
is to amuse, and so long as l amuse
all goes well; but let him become
bored. or let him have one of his black
moods come upon him, and at once |
am relegated from cabin table to gal
ley, while. at the same time, am for
tunate TO escape with my life and a
whole body.
The loneliness OF the man is slowly
being borne in upon me. There is not
a man aboard but hates or fears him,
nor is there a man whom he does not
despise. He seems consuming with
the tremendous power that is in him
and that seems never to have found
adequate expression in works. This
loneliness is bad enough in itself, but.
to make il worse, he is oppressed by
the primal melancholy OF the race.
The friyolity of the laughter-lovfhg
Latins is no part of him. When he
laughs il is from a humor that is
nothing less than ferocious. But he
laughs rarely; he is too often sad.
Were he not so terrible man, could
sometimes feel sorry for him, as in
stance three mornings ago, when /
went into his stateroom to I'LL his wa
ter bottle and came Unexpectedly upon
him. He did not see me. His head
was buried in his hands, and his Shout
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1916-02-29

which they live, there are pretty sure
to be young folks there. When they
get their heads together there will be
something doing in the way of frolic
all the winter through. With the first
fall of snow the festivities a.e sure
to start in with an old-fashiOned sleigh
ride. A dozen girls and quite as many
beaux pile into the old bobsleds, well
packed in with straw. Mid shouts
and laughter, away they co. up hill
and down dale, to some farmhouse,
miles distant, where preparations
have been made for them. On comes
the hungry crowd, with shouts and
laughter and toot of horn. The hot
coffee and the doughnuts put an edge
on their appetites.
There was no room in the little
farmhouse for dancing, so the big.
rambling old barn was put in shape
fixed up spick and span. The floors
were scrubbed and sanded for dancing.
All me young men had brought every
Lantern Liley could rake and scrape.
They were hung and lighted in jiffy.
The gir4s' nimble fingers had fash
toned flower brighter in hue than
ever grew. Ropes of evergreens, holly
berries and yards upon yards of bunt-
ing were strung up quicker than it
takes to tell. Two of the young fell
other his accordion, still another his
banjo. The music was fast and furi-
Gus.
But what jolly fun there was dane
| ing to it, among the lads and Easiest
Many girls exchanged beauX. Girls
who had come unescorted found fell
lows there in the same predicament.
| Tender little romances grew out of it.
Every girl or young man who par
ticipated in the revelry had his or her
elry at their respective homes. What
did it matter how the storm ragged?
1t did not scare young hearts and
warm blood.
They laughed in the face of the biz
Zard. 1t deferred them not a whit.
| By the time the winter was half over
there was a score or more of these
couples spooning. My! What a rush
there was for the engagement-ring
counter at the local jewelers.! Talk
about your summer joys-they're
nothing compared to what can be got
out of winter sports! Many a lovely
girl has been taken along under some
other girls wing, and found it the
most enjoyable winter she ever passed.
| With the object of not letting the
| girls get ahead of them in providing
| good cheer, the matrons do their
shares in getting up oyster suppers
| for church fairs. Of course the single
men find their way there, young and
old, which is a magnet for the clever
widows. By spring there won't be an
| elderly bachelor or widower left for
miles around. For when a widow
will she will; you may depend ont.
If she won't she won't, so there's an
| end ont"
Winter, dear old winter, brings JOY
and solace to more than it's given
credit for so doing.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1916-02-29
CHAPTER <.

The Ghost has attained the south
ernmost point of the arc she is de-
scribing across the Pacific, and is al
ready beginning to edge away to the
west and north toward some lone
island, it is rumored, where she will
fill her water casks before proceeding
to the seasons hunt along the coast of
Japan. The hunters have experiment
ed and practiced with their rifles and
shotguns till they are satisfied, and
put their boats in apple-pie order-to
use Leach's homely phrase.
His arm, by the way, has healed
nicely. though the scar will remain all
his life. Thomas Mugridge lives in
mortal fear of him, and is afraid to
venture on deck after dark. Louis
shakes his head obviously over the
outlook for the man Johnson. VINO has
collided two or three times with Wolf
Larsen over the pronunciation of his
name. Johansen he thrashed on the
amidships deck the o.her night, since
which time the nate has called him
by his proper name. But Of course it
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1916-02-29
Money of Various Kinds.

We need money as something of
standard value to facilitate the ex-
change of commodities in the trading
that is inseparable with human life.
Trading in one form or another goes
on constantly in the course of main
tanning our existence. We are con-
tinually exchanging what we have for
what we need or want, and money is a
STANDARD by which relative values are
established. Skins of animals were
long used by savage tribes as money.
A mans fortune was reckoned by the
number of skins he owned. When
animals became domesticated, the
whole animal replaced the skin as the
unit of value. Among domestic AMI
mails oxen and sheep were the earli-
est forms of money. An OK was con-
sidered worth ten sheep. Cattle are
still recognized as the wealth unit
among Zulus and Kaffirs.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1916-02-29

AS the centuries roll on it becomes
more difficult for a poet to reach the
first rank of greatness and more diff
cult for the world to estimate his
greatness.
Whatever is new" said Rossini,
Cannot be beautiful, and whatever is
beautiful cannot be new" Although
this is truer Of music than of poetry,
it comes home to us none the less
when we compare the six pre-Victorian
poets with six of their Victorian sue
cessors; that is to say, Byron, Shelley.
Wordsworth, Keats, Scott and Burns,
with Tennyson, Browning, Swinburne,
Matthew Arnold, w. Morris and Ros-
setti. AS for those other six, we know
they are great poets, and we know
their individual greatness, BIT what
of the six who come after?
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1916-02-29
WOMEN SUFFERERS
NEED SWAMP ROOT

Thousands upon thousands of women
have kidney and bladder trouble and never
suspect it.
Women's complaints often prove to be
nothing else but kidney trouble, or the
result of kidney or bladder disease.
If the kidneys are not in healthy con-
dition, they may cause the other organs
to become diseased.
You may suffer a great deal with pain
in the back, headache, loss of ambition,
nervousness and may be respondent and
irritable.
Don't delay starting treatment. DR..
Kilmer's Swamp Root, a physicians pre-
scription, obtained at any drug store, re-
stores health to the kidneys and is just
the remedy needed to overcome such con-
ditions.
Get fifty cent or one dollar bottle inn
mediately from any drug store.
However, if you wish first to test this
great preparation send ten cents to DIR.
Kilmer & Co., Binghamton, N. Y, for a
sample bottle. When writing be sure and
mention this paper.-Adv.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1916-02-29
GROWING Suspicious.

There is G. place down Third street
where certain printers hang out when
twilight has come and the days work
is over. And there's a reason!
In lifting type from galley to form
printer uses what is called a make
up rule" 1t is a thin strip Of steel.
and you can buy EN- for about ten
cents each.
But the man that runs the place
where the Ben Franklin boys go has
been led to believe that this little
bit of steel 10 tho printers badge.
Without it the printer can't work, ac-
cording to his conception. He has
been led to believe that.
So, when a printer asks him for the
loan of a couple of dollars and is
willing to leave the makeup rule"
rs security, the genial host readily
passes over the coin. He has a cigar
box full of the thin strips of steel at
present, and is beginning to think
San Francisco Chronicle.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1916-02-29
| SCIENTISTS KEEP AT WORK
Turmoil of War Seems to Have Had
Little Effect on the Develop
ment of Ideas.

So thick and fast come the devel-
opments of science in these days that
men are losing their sense OF astonish-
ment The impossible becomes the
actual so often that il is unsafe to
say that anything cannot be done. A
few months ago the first telephone
message was transmitted across the
continent Today we hear that a
still greater distance has been covered
by a wireless telephone. FcTty years
ago e current OF electricity could not
be made to jump more than a few
inches through a vacuum Today
there is no known limit to Il, or rath-
er 10 the capacity OF new instruments
TO detect it. Some electrical en-
gineers believe that messages could be
sent TO the moon, and perhaps out into
infinite space through the ether Just
SIS easily as from San Francisco to
Honolulu through the atmosphere.
With all this, no man can tell what
electricity is. All We know about 1t
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1916-02-29

is out of the question that Johnson
should thrash Wolf Larsen.
Louis has also given me additional
information about Death Larsen,
which tallies with the captains brief
description. We may expect to meet
Death Larsen on the Japan coast
And look out for squalls" is Louis
prophecy. 'for they hate one another
like the wolf whelps they are" Death
Larsen is in command of the only seal
ing steamer in the fleet, the Mace
donia. which carries fourteen boats.
whereas the rest of the schooners
carry only six.
AS it is forward and in the galley.
so it is in the steerage and aft. on this
veritable hell-ship. Men fight and
struggle ferociously for one another
lives. The hunters are looking for a
shooting scrape at any moment be-
tween Smoke and Henderson. whose
old quarrel has not healed, while Wolf
Larsen says positively that he will kill
the survivor of the affair, if such af-
fair comes Off l think even the hunt
ers are appalled, at his cold-blooded-
ness. Wicked men though they be,
they are certainly very much afraid
of him.
Thomas Mugridge is curlike in his
subsection to me, while | go about in
secret dread of him. His is the cour-
age of fear-a strange thing l know
well of myself-and at any moment it
may master the fear and impel him
to the taking of my life. My knee is
much better, though it often aches for
long periods, and the stiffness is grad
! ually leaving the arm which Wolf
Larsen squeezed.
l was amused. couple of evenings
back, by seeing Wolf Larsen reading
the Bible, a copy of which had been
found in the dead mates sea-chest.
l wondered what Wolf Larsen could
get from it. and he read aloud to me
from Ecclesiastes. can hear him now,
as shall always hear him, the primal
melancholy vibrant in his voice as he
read.
There you have it, Hump" he said,
closing the book upon his finger and
| looking up at me- "The Preacher who
| was king over Israel in Jerusalem
thought as l think. All is vanity and
| vexation of spirit There is no profit
under the sum- There is one event
unto ALL, to the fool and the wise, the
| clean and the unclean. the sinner and
the saint and that event is death, and
an evil thing, he says. For the Preach
er loved life, and did not want to die
saying, For living dog is better than
a dead lion.' He preferred the vanity
and vexation to the silence and IN
movableness of the grave. And so l.
To crawl is piggish; but to not crawl
to be as the Gsod and rock, is loathsome
to contemplate Life itself is unsat
isfaction, but to look ahead to death is
greater dissatisfaction"
CTO BE CONTINUED)
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1916-02-29
SYNOPSIS.

Humphrey Van Weyden, critic and diet
tante, is thrown into the water by the
sinking OF a ferryboat in a fog in San
Francisco bay. and becomes unconscious
before help reaches him. On coming to
his senses he finds himself aboard the
sealing schooner Ghost, Captain Wolf
Larsen. bound to Japan waters. witnesses
me death of the first mate and hears the
captain curse the dead man for presuming
70 ole. The captain refuses to put
Humphrey ashore and makes him cabin
boy for the good Of his SOUL" He begins
70 learn potato peeling and dish washing
under the cockney cook, Mugridge, is
caught by heavy sea shipped over the
quarter as ne fs carrying tea aft and his
knee is seriously hurt, but no one pays
any attention to his injury. Humps quar-
ters are changed aft. Mugridge steals his
money and chases him when accused of
It; IL, Later he listens to Wolf give his idea
Oh ne e. NE lie yeast, ferment the big
eau the little :" Cooky is Jealous of
lump ard hazes him. Wolf hazes a sea-
man ana makes it the basis for another
philosophic discussion with Hump. Wolf
eentertalns Mugridge in his cabin. wins
from him at cards the money he stole
rom IRON lump, and then tells Hump it is his.
MoHs, by right of might Cooky and
hump Whet knives at each of her