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Tensas gazette. [volume] (St. Joseph, La.) 1886-current, 1918-02-15

they may seem better and less costly,
than those made Mt home.
5. Do not look upon the departure
to the front of those dear to you as an
abandonment. Be with them constant
ly in thought. rs they are with you,
particularly in the hour of danger.
6. Do not complain of the difficult
ties, annoyances and privations caused
by the war. Think of those who are
dying for their country. and complaint
will halt upon your lips.
Z. Multiply your activities. in your
home as well as outside. thereby rem
dering yourself useful to your coun-
try by the work of your hands. the
warmth of your heart and the charity
of your intelligence.
s. Exhibit day by day and hour by
hour the same courage a man shows
upon the field of battle. Instruct the
ignorant, uphold the feeble, console
those who are stricken; transmit your
own confidence to others.
o. No matter how long the struggle
may last. await victory with strength
and patience.
10. If you are stricken In your dear
est affections. bear your sorrow nobly,
that your tears may be worthy of the
Tensas gazette. [volume] (St. Joseph, La.) 1886-current, 1918-02-15
GOOD TURNS BY SCOUTS.

Drafted men who had failed to re.
port were located by boy scouts In
Brooklyn.
Scouts in Woodmere, N. T., raised
400 barrels Of potatoes, which were
sold to the poorer class Of the COM
munity at cost, the scouts supplying
their labor free Of charge.
Westchester county members Of the
American Red Cross were given q
demonstration Of stretchers and first
aid work by the boy scouts Of LIT.
Vernon. N. Y.
Cleaning the town of all its Tin cans
Is the way an Oak Grove, La, troop
did its duty to scouting.
A broken trolley wire that was hang
ing down over the street was discov.
cred by boy scout in Dixon, ILL.,, and
he stood guard for couple of hours
warning people away from the danger
until it was repaired.
A COW census was taken by boy
scouts In Independence, Mo-, in COM
pliance with a new milk and dairy or
dinance to secure q clean AMI safe
supply Of dairy products. The loca-
ton and condition of every cow ~as
listed.
Tensas gazette. [volume] (St. Joseph, La.) 1886-current, 1918-02-15
Frogs Fooled by Mark Twain Trick

Long Prairie, Minn.-All you have
TO know to catch frogs is how far a
frog can jump-and just little bit
more. Dave Harpold and w. II. Smith
proved this when they marketed 2S,-
600 dozen pairs of frogs legs in 30
days.
First they captured the champion
jumping frog of Maple lake and meas
ured his jumps for distance and alti-
tude. Then they dug trenches just a
little wider and little deeper than
the champions best marks.
Then they sat down and waited till
the trench bottoms were covered with
frogs. Once I'm the frogs couldn't get
out.
But occasionally some new champi-
on came along and set better marks.
The men were in quandary. To at
tempt to deepen or widen the trenches
would have been fatal to large per-
centage of their frog population.
Then Harpold. who is literary per-
son. solved the problem. Having read
his Mark Twain thoroughly, he did the
Tensas gazette. [volume] (St. Joseph, La.) 1886-current, 1918-02-15
SCOUT PROGRAM IN WAR.

Prof. Norman E. Richardson Of Bos-
ton university tells the Boy Scouts Of
America that the war in European ma
tons has resulted in a rapid increase
Of juvenile delinquency. Information
that has been carefully secured goes to
show that this increase in II Of the
larger cities and towns of Great Brit
ain during one year averaged "a per
cent. The causes Of this unfortunate
condition are In many instances SINH
lar to forces that have already begun
to operate In America. 1t Is impcra-
live that the American people take
time by the forelock In this matter
By setting In motion Immediately in
fluences that will counteract q number
Of injurious forces which viii play
upon the lives of our boys during the
coming months and possibly years.
A careful study Of the causes Of In
creased delinquency and Of the suita-
bility Of the Boy Scout program TO re-
duce the harm coming from these In
iuences presents . powerful argument
for the immediate enlistment OF thou
sands Of Americas best citizens -
scoutmasters.
Tensas gazette. [volume] (St. Joseph, La.) 1886-current, 1918-02-15

Newsboys Of Houston, Tex, many Of
whom are good scouts" already, are
going to align themselves with the Boy
Scouts Of America.
Some Of them have been thinking Of
the proposition for some time, and at.
ter the purposes, plans and benefits Of
the work Of the boy scouts had been
outlined to them In detail by the
local scout executive q large number
Of the boys enrolled for the work.
The newsboys are enthusiastic over
the opportunity to enter 1t.
The scout officials expressed the
opinion that they have some excellent
material to work upon, especially after
they had seen the grit manifested by
the boys in number Of boxing match
es and wrestling bouts, which were put
on for the entertainment of the guests.
Tensas gazette. [volume] (St. Joseph, La.) 1886-current, 1918-02-15
DECAL0GUE OF WAR
Or. Anna Shaw Announces One
for Every Woman.
Wartime Commandments Arranged by
the Professor of the University
of Turin.

New York.-Here is the new "Deca-
logue of War;" as announced by DR..
Anna Shaw:
1. Do not chatter. Keep to yourself
the news you hear. your own impress
sions and your approximations.
2. Do not listen to alarmists. to
slackers. or those who would spread
encouragement. Silence them.
3. Be moderate in your spending.
neither lavish in gifts nor sordid in
your economies. Let everything in
your life. even your daily expenses,
take on at this moment Its true ma
tional Importance.
4. Encourage national industries,
avoiding imported goods. even though
Tensas gazette. [volume] (St. Joseph, La.) 1886-current, 1918-02-15
&8I3OH
S(OlJIS
Conducted by National Council Of the Boy
Scouts of Amsrica)
SCOUT 70 BE PRESIDENT

welcome any movement which Will
Intensity young mans attachment to
his church and religion. says DR.. S. X.
Gordon of Tulsa, Okla.
The boy scout movement only brings
the boy in closer touch with The
church. The government now wants
men to GO TO the front and fight. It
wants and needs good, clean, strong
men.
AT the close Of this awful world con-
flict there will be greater need for
good men than now. When this war Is
over, there will be confusion, dissatiS-
faction, unrest, anarchy. high taxes,
high cost Of living and demoraliza-
ton. Sorrow, mourning and distress
will prevail.
Under such conditions the nation
will need strong, educated, religious
men as leaders. And the boy scout
movement is going to provide such
leaders. The boy scouts are prepar-
ing themselves, not to fight, not to
shed blood, but to be wise leaders,
and to conduct the people out of the
wilderness of greed supremacy and
wOrldliness, into the Canaan Of peace.
prosperity and happiness.
Some boy scout Is going to be the
president Of the United States. Some
scouts are going to be governors. Some
will be senators and others will occu-
py high official positions Of trust and
honor.
So we want the boys to stick to their
school and their church and thereby
fit themselves to be men who will be
qualified to rule wisely under the most
trying circumstances.
Tensas gazette. [volume] (St. Joseph, La.) 1886-current, 1918-02-15

A tale Of daring that Is rarely
equalled is told of an exploit Of Sergt.
G. MOrini of the Italian Bersaglieri.
While on patrol he stopped a German
mOtOrcar carrying General Won Berrer.
an adjutant and two chauffeurs. He
killed the general with the first shot
and put the soldier-chauffeurs to flight.
The adjutant, German captain, he
captured after a struggle, and turned
him over to the nearest italian COM
mand. and then Joined his cycle patrol
for further rear-guard action. He was
wounded later and sent to a hospital
In Milan. His most extraordinary and
daring feat took place at the gates of
Udine during the Italian retreat to the
Piave.
Tensas gazette. [volume] (St. Joseph, La.) 1886-current, 1918-02-15
Americans Are Doing Wonderful
Reconstruction in DevaS-
tated Section.
LIVE IN RUDE BARRACKS
Miss Anne Morgan and Her co-Work-
ers Share In Primitive Life While
Carrying on Labors Among
Destitute People.

New YOrk.-AIiss Margaret Steven
son. co-wOrker of Miss Anne Morgan in
devastated France, has just arrived in
this country with the first direct news
of the reconstruction work already &C
cOmplished by this American Fund for
French Wounded unit composed Of ten
American women. Miss Stevenson told
of the % villages they have partly re-
habilitated. of the 5000 acres Of land
they have had cultivated, the hundreds
of refugee families they have clothed.
fed and installed In houses they have
furnished; the classes they are running
for children who have run wild since
the beginning of the German Occupa-
ton, and of the community center they
have established at Blerancourt, in the
heart of the ravaged region.
Live In Rude Barracks.
eve are living in rude wooden bar
racks built on the ruins of the old
Chateau of BlerancOurt," said Miss
Stevenson. "Our barracks are fur
nished with the same implanted fur
niture and plain iron beds that we
Tensas gazette. [volume] (St. Joseph, La.) 1886-current, 1918-02-15
Fool Economy.

Governor Bilbo said ut q food econ
omy meeting in Jackson:
"But let us have no fool economy,
no miser economy Of the Smithson
kind.
1.-The Smithsons were q misery old
pair, and one day Smithson said timid-
ly to his wife:
"Tve q hankerin' for an orange. I
think I'll go down In the orange grove
and pluck few fruit
Eyes, but don't you pluck no sound
fruit, ST. shrilled Mrs. SmithsOn.
Only bad ones, mind!
"'But suppose there amt no bad
ones, motherY
"'Then you'll have to wait till some
goes bad, that's all. We can't afford
to eat good, sound oranges worth q
quarter a DOZEN
Tensas gazette. [volume] (St. Joseph, La.) 1886-current, 1918-02-15
SNOW HELPS IN THE SOUTH
Planters Will Reap Benefit Of Ext.,
sion Of Snow Line in South
This Winter.

Memphis. Tenn.-Planters will ben.
fit TO the extent OF many thousands of
dollars as result of the snow line
extending far into the South this win.
ter. Agricultural experts contend that
where land is covered with snow dur.
ing the winter months it is more pro-
ductive the following summer. Freez.
ing weather has extended to the. Gulf
coast and snow has fallen to the depth
Of several inches over most Of the
Southern states.
Tensas gazette. [volume] (St. Joseph, La.) 1886-current, 1918-02-15
BRIEF NOTES

A plant is to be established In Ha-
vana to manufacture automobile tires
and otker rubber goods from old rub
Der, said to be plentiful In Cuba.
The military organization Of the
Jews began with their departure from
Egypt. Every man above twenty
years old was a soldier. Each tribe
formed q regiment with its own BAN
ner and ITS own leader. Their posi-
tons in the camp or on the march
were accurately fixed
Tensas gazette. [volume] (St. Joseph, La.) 1886-current, 1918-02-15
Man knits Model Sweater.

Muncie, Ind.-The model sweater of
all that have been made for American
soldiers by Red Cross workers in Num-
Gle is one knitted and turned in for
shipment by Edward Pfeiffer, a city
fireman. The garment has been placed
on exhibition. AS his name indicates.
Pfeiffer is German in ancestry, "but
that's ALL" he told the Red Cross
workers. The firemen in all stations
now are knitting and making trench
candles.
Tensas gazette. [volume] (St. Joseph, La.) 1886-current, 1918-02-15
SCOUTS CUT UP BIG TREES.

The attention Of Herbert Hoover
ought to be called to the work Of boy
scout Troop No. 25 of Des Afoincs.
These scouts, under the direction Of
Scoutmaster M. II. Anderson, took
three or four big trees which were cut
down in that neighborhood, and cut
them up into stove wood for needy
families.
Saturday finds them hard at work
with crosscut saws, buck saws and
axes doing a neighborhood "good turn"
and making the chips fly. They have
cut about thirteen cords into stove
lengths.
Tensas gazette. [volume] (St. Joseph, La.) 1886-current, 1918-02-15

The South Manchurian railway has
more than doubled its operated mile
age, becoming one of the great railway
systems of the world.
Because a diaphragm separates the
air chamber from the moving parts Of
a new tire pump for automobiles, oil
is prevented from entering tubes with
the air.
French chemists have discovered q
way to make q cement from the scum
from beet sugar refining, heretofore
wasted, as 1t contains much carbonate
Of lime.
Tensas gazette. [volume] (St. Joseph, La.) 1886-current, 1918-02-15

obvious Calaveras county thing. He
took all the more ambitious frogs and
filled 'em with shot. This settled the
jumping stuff then and there. Owing
to the high price of lead, all the shot
was salvaged when the frogs were
butchereG
Some local frog fanciers propose to
save the cost of digging trenches by
feeding shot promiscuously till the
frogs can't jump at all.
Tensas gazette. [volume] (St. Joseph, La.) 1886-current, 1918-02-15
MANY MERIT BADGE SCOUTS.

The national court Of honor Of the
Boy Scouts Of America reports that
last month there were IA eagle badges
issued and q life badges.
There were % star scout badges 10
sued. There were issued $50 merit
badges. For 1917 so far there have
been issued 1.649 merit badges, az
against TAI in 1915. The total number
Of boy scouts having received merit
badges is now 9,537.
Tensas gazette. [volume] (St. Joseph, La.) 1886-current, 1918-02-15
STUDENTS ASK FOR
"HO0VERlZED" MENU

Athens, Ga.-Two hundred
and sixty-five students of the
University of Georgia have pre-
sented a petition to the director
of their "beanery," the co-opera-
tive Denmark Hall. asking that
the menu be HOOverized In the
latest approved conservation
s,ethOd. They ask for one
\ heatless day each week, three
dinners each week with only
corn pone served as bread and
other edibles boosted by the food
conservutionists. The petition
ends up with this injunction:
"Swat the Kaiser on the bean.
Sign this fellows!" and they did.
Tensas gazette. [volume] (St. Joseph, La.) 1886-current, 1918-02-15
MUCH To RESTORE FRANCE

give to the peasants. The heads OF
Anne Drake, share with us in this
primitive life. They are up at seven
o'clock in the morning, tidy up their
huts, help with the dishes, and then
are off about their duties, visiting the
refugees, finding out their wants and
helping install them in temporary
shelters. Both Miss Morgan and Miss
Dixie speak French as well as they do
English, and they have entered deeply
into the lives of the people. Some
thing approaching normal village life
has been restored to the communities
under the care Of the American Fund
Unit" Miss Stevenson says. "The
French government has placed this
unit in charge of the Aisne and Son.
me districts, both of which were sys-
tematically devastated by the Ger.
mans.
directly under the French army"
Miss Stevenson explained. Through
the military authorities, Miss Morgan
has obtained valuable aid. Soldiers
on eight-day leave from the trenches
are put, under her direction, to help
rebuild shattered homes and pillow the
neglected fields. There are no able
bodied men or women left in this part
of France. When the Germans re-
treated they swept the civilians before
them. All who were able to work for
them they kept behind their lines; the
nonprOducers-that is. the feeble old
people and the small children-they
have allowed to return. These are the
refugees, the people we have to help
make homes for and make self-suppOrt-
ing.
Wonderful People.
"They are wonderful too, these old
people," Miss Stevenson went on.
"They return to their destroyed homes
worn out with suffering and hardships,
but no sooner are they on their beloved
soil again than they seem revitalized,
filled with energy, and the desire to re-
store all that has been destroyed. They
build one-room shelters for themselves
from the ruins of their once comfort
able homes or else their government
puts up small demountable wooden
houses for them. These we furnish
with everything they need to start
home life answ-beds, bedding. chairs,
kitchen utensils, and we supply them
with clothing and foodstuffs. Every
thing that is sent to us from America
we give them without cost, but the
stoves and kitchen utensils that we
buy in Paris we sell for twO-thirds the
cost. They prefer to have it so, and
they pay any way they choOse-in
work or vegetables. The first thing
they do when they reach their homes
is to start garden, and many of them
have been able to support themselves
this way. Others make their living by
washing for the soldiers. These are
all very old people. remember, aged
men and women of seventy-five and
even eighty. They walk from villages
miles away to get help from us, and
they wheel great loads of supplies on
wheelbarrows some eight or ten miles
over cObble roads.
Tensas gazette. [volume] (St. Joseph, La.) 1886-current, 1918-02-15
Are Parrots Left. Handed7

1t has been noticed that parrots
seize objects with the left claw by
preference or exclusively, and they
make a reader use of the left claw
for climbing than the right. Are they
andedT-Exchange.
Tensas gazette. [volume] (St. Joseph, La.) 1886-current, 1918-02-15
Curioua

Just happened to think-funny, but
true-that every man who ever made
q pioneer of himself was considered
looneyl Can you locate a single ex.
ceptioni Look 'em over.-Richmond
Times Dispatch.
Tensas gazette. [volume] (St. Joseph, La.) 1886-current, 1918-02-15
Married $4,000 Couples.

Crown Point. Ind.-Harry b. Mich
olson of this city. Familiarity known
as Judge Nick, has married $4,000
couples since he has been a justice Of
the peace.
Tensas gazette. [volume] (St. Joseph, La.) 1886-current, 1918-02-15

Consul Thomas d. Davis reports
from Grenoble. France, that the Gren-
oble district produced a medium crop
of walnuts Of good quality; that the
yield was slightly reduced by local
storm
Tensas gazette. [volume] (St. Joseph, La.) 1886-current, 1918-02-15

hero whose death you mourn.
These wartime commandments were
arranged by the professors of the
University of Turin.
Tensas gazette. [volume] (St. Joseph, La.) 1886-current, 1918-02-15
Incredible FeatS Performed Every
Day in Treating Soldiers
on Battlefield.
KINE.TEHIHS Pull THROUGH
Percentage of Losses Among the
Wounded Striking Tribute TO the
Skill OF Surgeons-Speed
Important Factor.

h FrOnt.-AlmoSt Incredible
Our Ne been and are being accom-
very day Of the war by the
MATT who treat soldiers wounded
ttlaiield. These remarkable
increased in frequency, as
men are more quickly
by the ambulances and
c field hospitals for surgi-
ion.
ginning of the war II was
- possible to clear up bat
|Unde the ,e casualties h 5, in ,l less than than
Inded men waited even long
re their injuries could be han
6 result of this was that large
fcrs of the wounded succumbed
,gangrene or blood poisoning. or
c'rendered SO feeble from loss of
that they were unable to under
erations that were vitaily neces-
O''S 1t was ut that time regarded
Sfactory result when 60 per
-~e wounded brought into the
5spitais recovered eventually from
lie injuries.
Nine-Tenths Are Saved.
This percentage of losses among
the wounded men would at present
&c regarded with horror by the mill
Dry surgeons. who now reckon with
8rfect assurance on saving about
8ne-tenths of the wounded men COM
81, under their treatment. During
81, battle of Flanders the percentage
3 recoveries among wounded men
'rought to the hospitals amounted
TO SO.
This striking figure was still fur
Aer improved on the occasion of the
$cent battle In which the French
&rested from the Germans the fort
q MalmaisOn and caused them to
8acuate the Chenin des Danes after
Growing away hundreds of thou
Ands of the crown princes best
troops in the effort 10 retain it, The
French surgeons reports after the
Tensas gazette. [volume] (St. Joseph, La.) 1886-current, 1918-02-15
WAR SURGEONS WORK MIRACLES

conclusion of the fighting and the
treatment of all the wounded show
that ~ men out of every 100 brought
to the hospital recovered from their
hurts.
Speed Important Factor.
Speed IN collecting the wounded Is
the greatest factor in bringing about
This progress.
Americans have had much to do
with the speeding up of the ambu-
lance service, for their ambulances
have been present at every point
where fighting has been severe. and
their work has been highly praised
by the army commanders.
One instance of American effort In
providing for the accommodation and
The Watertown news. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1917-1919, 1918-03-15
Asks Boys To Enroll.

President Wilson on Thursday call
and over, not permanently employed
to enroll in the United States Boys
Working reserve. A national enroll
ment week beginning March IS has
been set aside by the department of
labor.
The presidents open letter, made
public on Thursday follows:
"The department of labor has set
aside the week beginning March IS
as national enrolment week for the
United States Boys Working reserve
The purpose of this national enroll
ment week is to call the attention Of
the young men of the nation to the
ply by working on the farms, and to
urge them to enroll in the reserve.
Il sincerely hope that the young
men of the country, of 16 years of age
and over, not now permanently en-
plOyed and especially the boys in our
high schools, will enter heartily into
this work and join the boys working
reserve in order that they may have
the privilege, for such | believe it to
be, OF spending their spare time in
productive enterprise which will
certainly aid the nation to win the
war by increasing the means of provid-
ing for the forces at the front and for
the maintenance of those whose SER
vices are so much needed at home"
Woodrow Wilson"
The Watertown news. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1917-1919, 1918-03-15
LIVE CHICKS ON DISPLAY.
Wisconsin Gas & Electric Window
Full of Future Food.

The first line of meat producers
that will help to win this war have
arrived and are on display in the win
dow of the Wisconsin Gas & Electric
company office.
They are chicks just Matched and
which members of the Watertown
Poultry and Pet Stock association in
tend to sell to prospective poultry
breeders. The chicks, ten in number,
with one cluck, will be sold for $3.50
The chicks are utility pure strain
stock and are rapid growers. They
were Matched by T. Berto, Robert
Doerr and Fred F. Wittenwyler.
Take look at them when you pass
by and order your supply. Supply your
own food and help win the war.
The Watertown news. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1917-1919, 1918-03-15

It is gratifying to note that Senator
Charles Mulberger and Assemblyman
Henry Grell, Jefferson county's repre-
sentatives in the legislature have come
out square-toed in favor of censuring
La Toilette. Both of these represen-
tatives are of German American de-
scent, too. Coupled with the further
fact that every democratic state SEN
ator who voted against La Toilette
was of German-American descent, the
result is, as Senator Mulberger re-
marked, significant in that it proves
the loyalty of the German-American in
this war.-Fort Atkinson Democrat
The Watertown news. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1917-1919, 1918-03-15

Democrats should vote for Joseph E.
Davies next Tuesday. He is good
citizen, loyal man and a friend Of
the administration who can be de-
pended upon in any emergency. He is
a Jefferson county boy as well as hav-
town, where he practiced law and en-
tered upon his lifes career. By about
the same reasoning the republican
voters should support Congressman
l. L. Lenroot for the republican NOM
nation and thus have two loyal can
didates in the field after the primary
election.
The Watertown news. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1917-1919, 1918-03-15

The Juneau Telephone has been
sold to Clifford Bros, owners of the
Juneau Independent. John Kelley,
who retires from the ownership Of the
Telephone, will devote his entire time
to the duties of school superintendent
of Dodge county, and the paper will be
merged with the Independent. This
will leave Juneau with one paper, but
Clifford Bros. are hustlers in the news
paper field and will be up to the re-
quirements. In leaving the newspaper
field Mr.. Kelley has the we'll wishes
Of a host of newspaper friends in this
section of Wisconsin,