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Tensas gazette. [volume] (St. Joseph, La.) 1886-current, 1916-06-16

the day and night he would not have
destroyed as much money as Mr.. Nc
Kenna is adding every fortnight to the
national debt"
Selling Their Estates.
Mr.. Hirst's view is fully borne oyt by
the men who are in close touch with
the landed gentry. A member of a ia.
nous firm of estate agents through
whose hands most of the sales of prop.
erty of this description pass told me
that hardly week goes by that he IL
not called on to arrange the sale Of
some large country estate and that the
smaller estates are being placed in his
hands for disposal by the score.
1.-The country gentlemen of Eng
land" he said. simply cannot live un-
der the new conditions. Most of them
are dependent absolutely on their rents
for their income. A man has a couple
of thousand acres which have been In
his family for centuries. He let's the
land out to farmers, many of whom
have been on the land as long as him
self. The rents were fixed years ago
when agriculture was depressed and,
although times are good for the farm
ers now. it Is too soon to raise rents.
mo one knows whether the present
high prices for agricultural products
will last, and at any rate the farmers
have a good many bad years to make
up. The squire simply cannot raise the
rents and he cannot live on his income
in the old style. The taxes now take
more than a quarter of it, and the
death duties, il the property should
happen to change hands two or three
times in quick succession, as may well
happen and has happened recently in
many cases in these days of war, eat
up the capital What is the man to
do but try to get rid of the property.
which instead of source of income
has become burden to him?
$50 far there has not been much diff
ficulty in finding purchasers, for there
are many people in this country who
have made money out of the war, and
the Englishman who makes a fortune
is always in a hurry to acquire a coun-
try seat. There have been q good
many American inquiries, too, and
some purchases by Americans, but not
so many as one would have expected.
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ROAD BUILDERS ISSUE A MAP
Tentative Routes Of 100000 Miles Of
Articulated Highways in United
States Are Shown.

The National Highways association.
that body of enthusiastic lockers into
the future, has prepared a map show
ing the tentative routes of 100000
miles of articulated highways which it
thinks should network the United
States in an orderly manner.
This map is the expression of one
of the main ideas Of the association,
namely, that trunk-line roads are the
first equisite-through routes leading
from somewhere to somewhere, and
that the feeder roads must naturally
follow the development and improve
ment Of these main lines. The theory
is like that on which the great railroad
systems of the country were built.
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would have been dead by now" the
surgeon told him.
protection of this kind would have
been frowned on by his fellows as
unsoldierly. A type Of corselet OF
small plates of highly tempered steel
Joined together by steel wires is be
ing more and more worn by officers.
Its structure adapts itself to the
movements of the body, 1t weighs only
a few pounds. and, fitting snugly as
a vest, 1t is not cumbrous. II the son
Of Lord Shaughnessy. president Of the
Canadian Pacific, who was killed re-
Gently, had been wearing one, his life
would have been saved. Since then
Canadian commanders have strongly
urged all their officers to buy corse-
let's. This is at any rate better
than no protection against bullets, un-
less they are spent. Such is their
power of penetration that they go
through the thin steel, mushroom
ing" and making a larger wound than
II nothing had been in their way. But
in the trenches, unless one shows his
head above the parapet and in moving
about in the shell zone in the rear of
the trenches, one is rarely exposed to
bullets. When an officer goes into a
charge in face of machine gun and
rife fire he takes off his corselet.
On average days in the trenches
the main danger is from shrapnel bull
lets and fragments from shell explo-
sions, which may inflict ugly and fatal
wounds preventable by comparatively
thin protection to such a vulnerable
substance as human flesh. Together
a corselet and steel helmet pretty well
shield vital parts from missiles of low
velocity.
The use of the corselet is practical
ly limited to officers. who pay for
them out of their own pockets. The
expense and labor Of supplying all
ranks of a great army with them
would seem out of the question.
But gradually all the British sol.
diers are being supplied with the
steel helmet after their successful use
by the French. who first introduced
them. The French pattern is quite
graceful beside the British. which is
round and somewhat the shape of a
toadstool. The British is heavier
Tensas gazette. [volume] (St. Joseph, La.) 1886-current, 1916-06-16
The Pretty Girl.

Give the pretty girl her due. Why
should she not have her share OF
honest praise? Too often when one
comes to investigate he finds half
contemptuous note In the description
Of some girl whose beauty stands out
so prominently that 1t blinds the OBJ
server to her other virtues. Yes. other
virtues. In itself beauty Is virtue,
1ust as cheerfulness and unselfishness
and sincerity are virtues. 1t is almost
as hard to cultivate these others as II
is to take thought and add q degree
to beauty. Often they are natural gifts,
and yet q girl with these natural gifts
ia given credit for cultivating them,
while the one who Is ''only pretty" is
condemned ON the ground that she
has had nothing to do with her looks.
that heredity or luck or something else
made her pretty. and that she Is sat.
jsfied to be pretty and nothing else.
Give the pretty girl her due. Admit
that whether she wills or not she II
doing q service In the world. just a.
the rainbow or the violet or the noun
tain do their part And admit. too.
that USUALLY she IL glad to render her
share to tbs Joy Of the world. that.
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than the French. and there IL methoc
in its soupplate grotesqueness. Thanks
to its form, q bullet which strikes it
in front, instead of going through the
head, as is the case with the French
helmet. glances and follows the inside
Of the helmet, passing out at the rear.
Citrate Gets Victoria Cross.
The Victoria cross is rarely given
even in this war of countless deeds of
bravery. The Rev. Noel Mellish. q
London curate. is the first chaplain in
the British army to receive the cross
since the second Afghan war Of 1879.
On the occasion Of the presentation
the units of the famous fighting army
were drawn up in division, forming q
hollow square on the spring green Of
an open field. In the center stood Mr..
Mellish with another officer. who re,
ceived the distinguished service order.
In the front lines stood other officers
who we're to receive lesser decora-
tions.
Before pinning the ribbon on Mel
lish's breast the general read brief
account of the deed of gallantry that
won him the honor. When the cler-
gyman came forward those witness
ing the ceremony were agreeably i'm
pressed with an extremely slender
and boyish figure scarcely looking his
thirty years, and indeed, looking more
a gentle and reserved man of peace
than a fighting parson.
The general told how again and
again, fighting at st. Eloi under q
murderous fire, Mellish had risked his
life to attend the wounded and bring
them to places of safety. Then there
was a call of three cheers from the
troops and these were given with a
mighty roar.
AS already told in dispatches. Sec.
ond Lieut.. Arnold Whitridge, Yale
1914, son of F. w. Whitridge of New
York, was among those receiving the
military cross for gallantry in con-
tinuing to direct the fire of his battery
in the face of some of the hottest
fighting recently experienced, and
with the enemy trenches but few
hundred yards away.
Whitridge is one of a group of
young American college men who
Joined the British artillery early in
the war.
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ROAD
BUILDING
MATERIALS FOR A cULvERT
u Good Building Stone Abounds In Lo-
eaiity II Would Be Advisable to
Use This Substance.

By PAUL D. SARGENT. United States
Department of Public Roads.)
Available material in the locality
where the work Is being carried on
will generally determine the material
of which culverts will be constructed.
For example, II we are in a country
where good building stone abounds. It
would generally be advisable to use
this material for culverts.
II no stone is handy, but good gravel
may be secured. plain concrete. or re-
enforced concrete, may be found to be
the most economical material. In
some localities we shall have to resort
to the use OF pipes. My experience
has been that while a good culvert
may be constructed by the use Of Wit
rified tile, its use In most cases has.
been a failure. This is due to lack Of
proper care in laying the pipe.
All culverts, Of whatever material,
should be carried to a good foundation.
Generally speaking, would recon-
mend that the waterways of stone
culverts be paved, and that concrete
culverts be. built with concrete floor,
although this is not always necessary.
In any event the side walls should be
carried to a good, firm foundation, and
each end Of the culvert should be pro-
vided with cutoff wal, carried below
the frost to prevent undermining by
the water.
Pipe culverts should be laid on a
good, firm foundation. II the natural
soil does not provide this, a founda-
ton should be excavated from twelve
to fifteen inches below the bottom Of
the pipe and crushed stone or gravel
should be placed in the excavation
and the culvert well bedded on this
foundation. A head wall should be
provided at each end of the pipe cul-
vert the same as for concrete or stone
culverts, to prevent the water from
getting under the culvert, or along the
side of it, and washing it out. Cast
iron water pipe and corrugated metal,
If of good, pure iron, will be found to
make satisfactory culverts where q
small opening is necessary.
All culverts should be laid on a
grade and, above all things, they
should be provided with good out
let to take the water away from them.
Sometimes this will necessitate the
Tensas gazette. [volume] (St. Joseph, La.) 1886-current, 1916-06-16

respect. personal likings are not con-
sidered.
Unless engaged q young woman 10
never seen promenading with q young
man. After the announcement Of the
engagement 1t is perfectly proper for
the couple to walk wherever they
choose holding hands-in fact. that
Is the custom.
There are no secret or broken en-
gagements on that island of queer GUS
toms and traditions. The Markenites
haVe an engagement rite. The young
man and his afianced sit up all night
with a large candle lighted on the
table between them. After the house
is closed, the parents leave the couple
each in a straight uncomfortable chair
on either side of the table. Not word
can be spoken until the candle has
burned and gone out. The assumption
is that they must be sincerely In love.
or they could not endure the ordeal.
When the sun has risen. the respective
parents drink boiled wine together.
and the young man is welcomed into
the girls family. They are then con-
sidered engaged for good and all.
The people have married and inter
married for so many years that they
are not only becoming degenerate, but
there is scarcely family on the whole
island which does not have at least
one member suffering from tubercu-
losis. They have been able to endure
as long as they have because the great
er part of their time is spent outdoors
in the sunshine.
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The ordinary diet consists of fish
cod or herring-dried peas or beans.
and cheese. The cheese is made Of
goat milk.
The people use the street as a sit
ting room. Outside the door Of each
house is a bench, where the house
wife knits wooden socks and jackets.
Marker has no street lights. The
extravagant burn gasoline. others.
candles. The customary hour OF re-
firing is nine o'clock in summer and
seven in winter,
There are no old maids in Marker.
Girls have only one sweetheart. Each
sutton Is q Markenite. He has to be.
A girl could not be married on the
island to anyone else. And II she left
the island and married she would
never be permitted to return
Are you adept at fishing?" This IL
the only thing father asks when q
young man is seeking his daughter in
marriage. If he can qualify in that
Tensas gazette. [volume] (St. Joseph, La.) 1886-current, 1916-06-16

a cupful of boiling water. cook two
minutes. stirring well; add salt and
pepper to taste. Using milk and add
ing it before the -four is brown makes
a white sauce. With half cream and
half white stock favored with mush-
rooms and a dash of lemon juice 1t
becomes Bechamel; cut out half the
flour and add the yolks of three eggs.
lemon juice, onion and another table
spoonful of butter for Q Hollandaise:
double the proportion Of -four and 1t
furnishes a thick sauce for delicate
croQuettes.
Brown Sauce.-Cook q half table,
spoonful of flour In q tablespoonful
of butter until well Drowned; add .
tablespoonful Of chopped onion with
other vegetables II liked: cover and
simmer until soft. Add one cupful Of
water or stock, q half teaspoonful of
salt, six peppercorns, half bay leaf
and simmer gently ten minutes. Strain
and serve.
Oyster Sauce.-Parboil and drain q
half pint of oysters. Add cream to
the liquor to make one cupful. prepare
a. white sauce adding the oysters at
tho last.
Lobster sauce Is prepared the same
way, using stock instead Of cream and
mincing the lobster before adding 1t
to the sauce,
Bread sauce-Crumble fine stale
bread crumbs in saucepan with .
half cupful of cold milk and six
cracked peppercorns. Let simmer FIVE
minutes, then add q half cupful Of
cream. a teaspoonful of salt. but do
not stir; simmer until al Is absorbed.
This is excellent TO serve with roast
hfrda
Tensas gazette. [volume] (St. Joseph, La.) 1886-current, 1916-06-16

made Of the yolks Of the eggs. Serve
cold.
Prune Whip.-Stew q half a pound
OF prunes until soft, then set aside
to cool after draining OF the liquor.
When perfectly cold chop very fine.
Beat the whites of six eggs to .
close firm meringue. add six table
spoonfuls Of sugar and add the prunes.
Bake half an hour In a deep buttered
dish. covered for 20 minutes so that
the souffie has risen to its full height.
Send to the table Immediately with
sauce made of cupful of whipped
cream, sweetened and favored.
Rhubarb Puddins.-Ron out a thin
piecrust and heap on a cupful or two
Of chopped rhubarb and half cupful
of raisins. Roll up and place in deep
dish. Add cupful of brown sugar.
two tablespoonfuls Of butter and q
cupful of boiling water. Place in the
oven and bake an hour There will be
sauce enough to serve with the pud-
ding Of the juice and sugar.
Date PuddIng.-Take third of q
cupful Of softened butter, add q half
cupful Of sugar. one egg beaten, a
cupful Of milk, two and a half cup
fuls of graham -four. three teaspoon
fuls of baking powder, little salt and
cupful Of dates, cut fine. Steam two
hours in covered mold. A tube
mold is better.
Caramel Rice Pudding.-Wash q
cupful of rice and cook it in sailed
water Zone cupfuD until 1t is abb
sorbed. Add quart of hot milk and
cook until the rice is soft: then add
two wellbeaten eggs. Melt three
fourths Of cupful of sugar until q
light brown; cover the bottom and
sides Of pudding dish with this cara
mel. Turn in the rice and cook in hot
water for half an hour. Turn upside
down on o serving dish and let stand
ten minutes, and 1t will slip out easily.
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RemIttances Wanted.

For hours the sympathetic mother
had listened to her sons TRADE against
the college that had expelled him in
disgrace and against his father for
abetting them in It But, DEAR" she
said at last, you really cannot blame
your father for being angry. You
must see that you have made q very
bad return for all his unremitting kind
ness" "Ah, that's just it," retorted
the irate student. III 1t hadn't been
30 confoundedly 'unremitting' l could
have pulled through"
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digging of ditch from two to six or
seven hundred feet long, but the ditch
must be dug II necessary; the drain
is a failure unless we provide the
outlet.
All culverts should be covered with
a cushion of earth to prevent traffic
from coming directly on them. In the
case of stone or concrete culverts, six
or eight inches under the macadam
or gravel surfacing will be sufficient.
With pipe culverts there should not be
less than twelve of eighteen inches,
and two feet of cover under surfacing
material will be more satisfactory,
Tensas gazette. [volume] (St. Joseph, La.) 1886-current, 1916-06-16
WAR BREAKS UP
ENGLISH ESTATES
Owners Are Forced by High
Taxes to Dispose of
Their Holdings.
FARMERS ARE DOING WELL
Squires Cannot Raise the Rents and
Cannot Live on Their Income in
Old styIe-Newly Rich
May Buy.

London.-"Country life in England
will undergo and is undergoing a revo-
luton such as England has not wit
messed since the Norman conquest"
In these words Frank Hirst. editor OF
the Economist and one of the leading
authorities on economic subjects in
England, summed up one of the most
striking effects of the war. What he
means is that the country gentlemen
of the old school are disappearing,
squeezed out by the high taxation, the
death duties, and killed off in many
instances in the service of their coun-
try. Their places are being taken by
men who have grown rich in supplying
goods that are needed by England's
immense armies, or who are making
tremendous profits out of the necessi-
ties of the people by taking advantage
of the conditions created by the war
what will happen to the stately
mansions of England after the war;
Hr. Hirst asked. He answered his
question as follows:
"In individual cases the answer de-
ponds on the investments of the own
ers man who has invested in Bra
I'll or Mexico is in specially sad way,
whileN the man who has put his money
in ships or coal is very fortunate in
deed. But on the whole the fate of the
landed gentry and of the country seats
depends on taxes.
Savings Swept Away.
Taxes have already risen high
enough to make II certain that most
large houses will be to let or for sale,
for most country people before the
war had places which fitted their in
come, with a comfortable margin for
savings or special expenditure. Most
of them will have to move into smaller
houses If they can find tenants or pur.
chasers. The doubling and trebling OF
the income tax has swept away the
margin, and the higher the flood OF
taxation rises the fewer country seats
will remain unsubmerged.
Evidently there will be a wholesale
migration and country life will under.
go a revolution such as England has
not witnessed since the Norman con-
quest. Some of the finest estates, ex.
pect, will be bought up by English and
American contractors who have made
fortunes out of the war Office and the
ministry of munitions. Others will per-
haps be cut up by the labor ministry
and parceled out among disbanded sol
diers whose jobs are gone and for
whom no other employment can be
found.
THE present public expenditure OF
the government is supposed to be
about equal to the whole of the private
incomes Of all the inhabitants of the
United Kingdom. II Alfred the Great
had lived until now and had through
out his long life of more than a thou
SAID years burned one f5 ($25) note
Of the Bank of England every hour Of
Tensas gazette. [volume] (St. Joseph, La.) 1886-current, 1916-06-16

VT THERE is one place on earth
more conservative than all the
rest, that place is the little Dutch
L island Of Marker. in the Zuyder
Zee. f
There are only five hundred inhabi-
tants on the island, and all are, in
measure, related. For centuries no
stranger has ever been permitted to
settle and live there. So unfriendly
are the Markenites even toward tour
lists that an inn or hotel is not per-
mitted on the island. To stay all night
you must bride an INSCRIPTIONS Mar.
kenite to let you sleep in his food
attic.
The people have an indescribable
dialect of their own which staggers
even a Dutchman.
Although they can reach Amster-
dam in less than two hours by gaso-
line launch. the women never leave
the island, and the men leave only on
business.
Their attitude toward the people Of
Holland and the inhabitants of any
other country is one of antipathy and
strict isolation.
In addition to being the cleanest
people on earth, they are most peace
full. No alien power has ever had
any perceptible influence on them.
Fashions Don't Change.
Fashions of men and women do not
change in Marker. They are wearing
the same styles today that their great
grandmothers and great-grandfathers
wore. From infants to old women, all
dress alike. Women never wear mourn
ing, but add a piece of black material
either to the left or the right side Of
the sleeve, or to some part Of the skirt
to designate the relationship to the
member of the family deceased.
Boys and girls are dressed alike un-
til they are six years old, and can be
distinguished only by button on the
cap of the boy, and rose on the cap
of the girl. The sixth birthday is q
great event in the life of every boy,
for it is at this time that he doffs his
corset and dress and puts on male
garb. The only change that girls
make in the mode of dress is that on
the day of marriage corsets are laid
aside never to be worn again, and it
becomes stylish to wear many under
skirts. This gives hoop-skirt effect.
The men and the boys over six years
old habitually wear what Americans
would call blooniers, and loose plain
jacket with couple of gold or silver
buttons on the collar.
The 1Markenites are tall. heavy of
frame, have eyes of blush gray, sand
colored hair, conspicuously poor teeth
and large lips, which they seldom
close. This description applies to both
men and women who, according to our
standards, would be called stupid look.
ing.
Women's Ages Uncertain.
1t is difficult to tell the age of the
women. One little woman, her face q
network of wrinkles and most of her
teeth gone. proudly held up a three
weeks-old baby for inspection. It was
dressed exactly like her. To one who
did not know. she would have been
taken for the grandmother, but as mat
ter Of fact, she was only twenty-eight
years old, and this was her first child
Their houses are all pretty much
alike. There is never more than two
rooms downstairs. a dining room which
is also kitchen. and living room and
bedroom combined. There is always
q fireplace of old blue tiles. From the
rafters hang Jugs. dried fish and hams
| The Markenites ara not meat eaters
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fire was sweepiAg upon his California
ranch house, where he lay. alone. SUI.
fering from a broken leg.
Smith was the only man among the
fire fighters who dared to attempt
the rescue. Smith did not see Simp.
SON again, but the rancher remem
bered him and willed him all his prop
erty.
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Ju6oed BY His Talk.

els It possible to become habitually
optimistic?"
THAT depends q great deal on per-
sons environment and the way IN
which he earns living"
"Yes?"
II notice that after Q man has sold
suburban real estate for few years .
hundred square feet Of swamp seems
q. him q Garden Of Eden In disguise."
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TripIets by, cesarean Operation.

Omaha.-Triplets were born by .
Cesarean operation to Mrs. Anna Rich
ter, wife of farmer Of Murray. Ac-
cording to Omaha surgeons. this is the
first case of the kind on record. The
operation killed the mother. while the
babies died later.
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Small oiri's Compliment.

We had recently remodeled our
home. making it into bungalow style.
having long. almost steep roof. with
bungalow windows in 1t. A little girl
came up to my husband one day and
said to him: my. you've made your
house over. haven't you? 1t looks aw-
fully cute. II looks just like q barn.
doesn't it?"-Chicago Tribune.