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The Madison journal. (Tallulah, Madison Parish, La.) 1888-current, 1920-07-10
ANIMALS END THEIR LIVES
Collie Dogs Said to Become Despond-
ent and Weary of Existence When
Usefulness Is Over.

Some animals really commit suicide,
says a writer In London Answers.
A dog either from old age or suffer
ing from an incurable malady, will leap
into the sea. Especially is this true
of collie dogs. A kind of melancholy
seems to take possession of them
when their activities and usefulness
are impaired.
The writer has known Scotch col
lie to take, as il were, a farewell look
at the old herding hills one dag and
then to plunge into the sea with a
whining cry. and thus end its misery.
Hunters have known the elk buck
and other big game to heap over preci-
pices deliberately and mangle them
selves when the man-enemy was with
in steady range of his prey.
A stork has been Known to perish
I'm a conflagration rather than desert
her little helpless brood.
A swallow was seen flying back and
forth to its nest after a wicked wreck
ing of her nest by some mischievous
urchins. She was running the same
risk as her birdlings, and seemingly
faced the prospect of their fate I'M
fiinchingly.
The Madison journal. (Tallulah, Madison Parish, La.) 1888-current, 1920-07-10
Highway to Join Twelve National Parks

TWELVE national parks lie In
] rough circle of about $500 miles
between Denver and the PatificS
Starting toward the north. the visitor
comes in turn to Rocky Mountain
In Colorado, Yellowstone in Wyoming,
Glacier In Montana. Mount Rainier in
Washington. Crater Lake in Oregon,
Lassen Volcanic, Yosemite, General
Grant and Sequoia In California.
Grand Canyon In Arizona, Zion in
Utah and Mesa Verde In Colorado.
Between Mesa Verde and Denver are
the Mount Evans region, which Is to
be added to Rocky Mountain and the
Denver municipal mountain parks.
These IA parks are more or less con-
nected by roads Of widely-differing
quality. What Is needed and projected
is a national park-to-park highway
connecting with the Lincoln highway
and other transcontinental roads. he
visitors last year to the national parks
numbered over 10000 and more than
80 per cent Of this travel was by pri-
vate automobile.
June I A. L. Westgard represent.
ing the national park service and the
The Madison journal. (Tallulah, Madison Parish, La.) 1888-current, 1920-07-10
Be Careful When You Smoke In the Woods

IF THE manufacturers of cigars ana
i cigarets adopt the suggestion OF
the agricultural department their new
billboard advertising this summer Will
bear fire-prevention slogans like these
In big lettering:
Don't drop FIRE when you smoke In
the woods. nor throw IL out along the
road. Keep the forests GREEN
DANGER! Matches, pipes, Goals, e.
gar stubs and cigaret ends start many
forest fires. Help protect woods,
streams, scenery.
BE CAREFUL Don't start fire In
the woods when you begin or end your
smoke! Be sure your match, cigaret
or pipe II OUT.
FIRE is DANGEROUS Be care
full when you smoke In the woods.
LOOK QUIT When you smoke In
woods; don't start a forest fire.
YOUR COOPERATION with this
company to keep down forest fires Is
asked. Break your match in two.
Knock out your pipe ashes into your
hand. Don't drop a burning cigaret.
HELP PREVENT FIRES.
Seven of the leading tobacco COM
panies In this country have been asked
to give their cooperation In enlisting
The Madison journal. (Tallulah, Madison Parish, La.) 1888-current, 1920-07-10
WASHINGTON
SIDELIGHTS
How 1922 Appropriations Are to Be Made

This change will center in the hands
of a single committee the work of pre-
pairing appropriation bills heretofore
handled by seven different committees.
Under the new system the appro-
priatiOns committee Of the house VIII
be made up Of thfrty-dve members
There have been twenty-one members
Of the committee heretofore. In the
past the appropriations committee mas
handled such annual supply measures
as the legislative, executive and judi
cial bills, the sundry civil bills and
the various deficiency bills.
The six other committees whose
power in handling appropriations Lave
been transferred to the appropriations
committee are those on military al
fairs. naval affairs, agriculture. foreign
affairs, post Office and Indian AFFAIRS.
The change in rules does not afect
the committee on rivers and harbors'
which will continue the preparation OF
the annual rivers and harbor appro-
prIations bill, or the committee on pub
lie buildings and grounds, which VIII
handle public buildings measures.
The Madison journal. (Tallulah, Madison Parish, La.) 1888-current, 1920-07-10
A REVOLT AGAINST
OBREGON STARTED
NEW MEXICAN GOVERNMENTS
DREAM OF PEACE is
SHATTERED:
TO BATTLE GUAJARD0
Orders Cannon and Machine Guns and
Five Hundred Troops From
Juarez and Chihuahua City
in Open Revolt.

Concho, Chihuahua. - The dreams
Of the new Mexican government of
unification and new peace and prog
ress are dissipating.
Gen. Jesus Guajardo, into whose
treacherous trap Zapata stepped TO
his death, has declared himself in
open revolt against the Obregon gov
eminent. With the thousand men he
was sent north to reinforce Gen. Joa,
quin Amaro. This follower of Cen
eral Gonzales at Gomez Palacio near
Torrean recently broke relations with
Salustio Lima decided to remain loyal
to the present regime and escaped
and are coming north to Jiminez to
join Amaro. With three trains Qua
jardo started east over the road to
Saltillo. This road parallels the
Torreon-Saltillo road to the north and
crosses Lake Marian in Coahuila
state.
Amaro ordered a road cut east of
the late and waiting until Guajardo's
conveys were out in the middle at
once cut the road behind him, isolat-
ing him on the high embankment in
the center of the lake. He teen or
dered cannon and machine guns and
500 troops from Juarez and Chihua-
hua City. This will leave only skele-
ton organizations to guard the Next
can Central railroad against the re-
Gently defeated Villista forces. ANA
no will race south over clear right
of way to battle Guajardo out in his
lake. Torreon and Saltillo troops are
also being rushed to the scene.
With Arols and his men in open re-
volt in Tamaulipas state east of Mon
terey and another Oral, a rebel in
Michoacan and with Pancho Villa al
ways active it looks like war has
broken out again.
The Madison journal. (Tallulah, Madison Parish, La.) 1888-current, 1920-07-10
Agriculture Hard Hit, Says E. T. Meredith

creasing the use of dairy products will
have to be abandoned in Iowa, Kan
sas. Mississippi and Louisiana and cur
tailed in Nevada and Wyoming.
Other effects. he declared, would he
the closing of many field stations. cur
tailment Of work toward preventing
cereal diseases, abandonment of sta.
tons at which problems In irrigation
agriculture are studied and of the our
forest experiment stations on the west.
ern forests. as well as of work bav.
ing to do with maintaining and repro-
ducing the forests In the east and
south.
Other activities the secretary de-
clared affected, were prevention of
spoilage during shipment of poultry.
eggs and fish; crop reports on cotton
tobacco and rice will have TO be dis
pensed with: advice to cities concern
ing their marketing problems; develop
ment Of direct marketing of farm prod
ucts by parcel post. express and other
wise and the market news service.
The agricultural bill was the sub.
5ect Of many a hot debate In which
party lines were ignored.
The Madison journal. (Tallulah, Madison Parish, La.) 1888-current, 1920-07-10
The Lowly Corncob and Its $40 Furfural

Furfural Is what the chemists call
basic Intermediary In dyes. That
means that you may make about as
many kinds Of dye out of furfural as
a good cook can make good things to
eat out of -four. They have shown
at least a dozen different shades of
cloth dyed with furfural. 1t is
highly useful, too, in the manu-
facture of paints and lacquers and
in the making of bakelite, the sub
stance used in pipe stems and other
articles. In addition to all that, fur
fural is such an excellent insecticide
that 1t has been used to a considerable
extent for that purpose.
About a bushel of cobs is produced
for every bushel Of shell corn and they
have been almost complete waste.
Commercial plants are now being
equipped to manufacture half a dozen
products from them. One of these
products is an adhesive of exception
ally high quality-said to be better for
a number of important uses than any
adhesive previously known. Another is
cellulose, suitable for use In the man.
ufacture of dynamite and various
other things. Paper has been made,
using a part of the corn cob product
as filler. Another product Is acetate
of lime, from which acetic acid L.
made.
The Madison journal. (Tallulah, Madison Parish, La.) 1888-current, 1920-07-10
Why We yawn.

There are two unfailing signs of
fatigue, says DR.. Halford Ross, the
home Office factory Inspector for Lon
don, England. When the mind is tired
people cape. and when the body is
tired they fidget. There is an idea that
gaping is catching" but this is only
true if many people are tired together.
Doctor Ross has watched children In
London schools, and he finds that dur
ing the morning if one gapes the 9TH
ers do not follow suit, but towards the
end of the afternoon. when one gapes
the others do the same. When in In
dia Doctor Ross stood one morning on
the staircase of the viceregal palace al
Calcutta and watched men and women
going up and down past a statue Of a
yawning man. Nobody gaped That
night there was ball at the palace
and at five o'clock i'm the morning Doc
tor Ross again stood by the statue and
watched the people going home. Ey-
eryone gaped, and this was simply be
cause they were fatigued; when they
were fresh, they could pass the yawn.
ing figure with immunity.
The Madison journal. (Tallulah, Madison Parish, La.) 1888-current, 1920-07-10

WASHINGTON - Budget legislation,
w which failed In the last session ow-
ing to the presidents veto. will prob
ably be enacted In the next session.
A year has been lost, however. and
the budget system cannot apply TO the
appropriations for the fiscal year be-
ginning July 1, 1921.
In the meantime a new system of
making appropriations will be tried.
owing TO a change In the rules of the
house, which was put through in the
closing days of the recent session as
supplemental to budget legislation.
The Madison journal. (Tallulah, Madison Parish, La.) 1888-current, 1920-07-10

smokers In a campaign against careless
use Of fire in all forests. Smokers, sta
tisrics show. are annually responsible
for a large number of confiagrations
in timbered areas, causing immense
losses. The letter suggests that the
tobacco companies can render an in
valuable service In this movement by
including In tobacco packages brief
printed legends urging smokers to take
every precaution to prevent the spread
of fire from matches or burning to-
bacco.
With millions of tourists visiting the
national forests and national parks
each summer the question of the care
less smoker is one Of national import
ance.
The Madison journal. (Tallulah, Madison Parish, La.) 1888-current, 1920-07-10

D ROBABLY you think Of corncob
as a handy thing to eat green
corn from and the thing from which
the good old Missouri meerschapm"
Is made. Stop, look, read! Henceforth
you must know the lonely corncob as
the source of furfural and half a
dozen other things, but especially fur
fural. The chemists Of the agricultural
department have discovered that the
corncob is a regular catch-all of good
things.
Up TO this time furfural has been so
rare that It has sold as high as $40
q pound. Every ton Of corn cobs will
yield about thirty pounds of furfural
as a by-product, and the chemists esti-
mate that IL can be manufactured In
this way for less than 20 cents a
pound. What 1t will sell for is another
story.
The Madison journal. (Tallulah, Madison Parish, La.) 1888-current, 1920-07-10
ANGUS ROMAN FEAST DAY
May ~ Has Been for Centuries Day
of Merrymaklno In the Italian
Capital.

Though the night of May % was
witches night" in Rome no serious
accident was reported next day. The
witches which fly on brOOmsticks be-
tween the ancient hills of the Gaelic
and EsquilinO apparently were afraid
Of the broom and the basin of salt put
outside so many doors and went home
In despair.
May "A is ST. John the BaptiSts
day, one always kept by old-fashi0ned
Romans as a day for eating snails.
SnailS are the Roman idea of the
lOcustS which st. John the Baptist ate
when in the desert. But why witches
should try to take possession of Rome
on the night before his feast day is
mystery. They do fly about on
brOOmsticks. says popular report and
salt and broom alone will keep them
out of homes.
BY some hidden law which the
Romans themselves don't try to ac-
count for, no witch will enter house
before which stand basin of salt and
broom until she has counted every
grain of salt in the basin and ali the
wisps in the broom. AS the nights
are short in May the witch gives up
the task in despair. knowing she could
never finish her job before sunrise.
The night of May % is a great night
for the Roman people; they gather in
the fields outside st. John Lateran.
eat snails, dance. sing and throw flow
ers at each other.
An odd modern note is given by an
enormous merry-go-round, opposite the
ancient church dedicated to ST. John.
It's wooden horses go round and round
to American ragtimeS. fox trOts and
bunny-hugs. 1t is a mixture of old
and new worthy of that extraordinary
city. where all the centuries get jun
bled up together and make friends in
way you might search the world for
and not find elsewhere.
The May night festival is older than
John the Baptist and marks the tradi-
ton of the old Roman springtime jol-
lily called the lupercali. These
feasts were in honor of the wolf which
fed Romulus and Remus. the twin
founders of the city. A real live wolf
is kept in the capitol till that day in
memory of this one; for had there
been no wolf to feed the twins there
would be no Rome today, the Romans
argue.
The Madison journal. (Tallulah, Madison Parish, La.) 1888-current, 1920-07-10
BEANS MADE HIT WITH Hin
Confirmed Woman Halter Finally sx
cumbed to Culinary Ability Thx
Reminded Him OF Home.

When l worked on a cattle ranAh
Wyoming l chummed with uxtF
named Hank, who was a gdtn
woman hater. writes a correspOndst
His mother died when he was a chn
and a stepmother, stepsisters and So
aunts had treated the boy so unkia1l
that he learned to distrust and dislb
all women. If by chance any voun
stopped at the ranch house Hfi
would seek other quarters.
He often deplored the fact u
western cooking did not measure y
to eastern standards. Well, Hank y
came foreman and / was fsfg
stunned when he announced that y
was to marry a girl who cooked u
boarding house In town.
However did it happenT aske
In amaZement.
"Simple enough" he made ansse
81 discovered that she cooks Dake
beans just like they do in Boston
The Madison journal. (Tallulah, Madison Parish, La.) 1888-current, 1920-07-10
ARK HAD LIVELY CROSSING
For One Thing, orane- outane Chased
Crew Out of Engine Room
and Took Charge.

The swan started something when it
reached forth and plucked bag of
tobacco from the unsuspecting hand of
the Quartermaster.
All in a cluster, the elephants be-
gan to trumpet, the tigers TO roar,
the monkeys to chatter, the snakes 10
hiss, and above all there was raised
the clarion call of giant orang-outang,
or whatever II is an Orang-outang does
when it breaks out of the reservation.
Many Of the animals, freshly pluck
ed from the primeval forests of India
and therefore filled with jazz and pep
per, were entirely willing to join the
mutiny. The giant Orang-Outang chose
the engine room to present his act.
His arrival there was signal for q
grand hegira of engineers, iremen.
coal passers, water tenders and other
beavers who toll in the bowels of q
sea-going steamship.
Let ii be explained that all this hap
pened aboard the good ship Haleakala
while on its way to San Francisco
No sooner had the orang- outang es-
tablished himself as king of the engine
room than he began to experiment with
electric switches and such. In his en-
thusiasm the orang-outang touched
two wires at one and the same time, an
act that caused what is known as a
short circuit.
The odor Of singed hair filled the
air. To get even the ng-outang I'M
limbered a crowbar and began to lam
bast the electrical switches. a bit of
sabotage that caused the ships officers
to fire 46 shots by actual count Their
aim was perfectly punk. Not bullet
registered. In the meantime the orang-
outang's monkeying with the electrical
steering gear caused the Haleakala to
back toward Honolulu, a port that al
ready had been visited.
After 40 shots had been fired at the
orang-outang the animal retreated to
his cage and went to sleep.
Other incidents combined to make
the voyage interesting, too. A bull
elephant, weighing three tons, died,
and was derricked overheard, but the
carcass failed to sink in spite of huge
weights attached thereto.
Oh. yes, one thing more sailor got
too near one Of the lions cages and the
king of beasts removed the southwest
part Of his trousers.-San Francisco
Chronicle.
The Madison journal. (Tallulah, Madison Parish, La.) 1888-current, 1920-07-10
CAL0MEl DANGER
TOLD BY DODSON
Says You Cannot Gripe Scken. or Saivate Yourself u
You Take "Dodsons Liver Tone" Instead

Calomel loses you day! You know
what calOmel is. It's mercury: quick
silver. Calomel is dangerous. 1t
crashes into sour bile like dynamite,
cramping and sickening you. Calomel
attacks the bones and should never be
put into your system.
When you feel bilious, sluggish,
constipated and all knocked out and
believe you need a dose of dangerous
calomel Just remember that your drug
gist sells for few cents a large bot
tie of DodSOn's Liver Tone. which is
The Madison journal. (Tallulah, Madison Parish, La.) 1888-current, 1920-07-10
Catarrh is a Real Enemy
and Requires Vigorous Treatmd

Throw these makeshift remedies n
the winds, and get on the right tres.
ment. Get a bottle of S. S. s. and b.
gin a treatment that has been praised
by sufferers for half a century. SSS
is an excellent system-cleanser; Il Is
not sold or recommended for veneresl
Diseases.
S. S. S. gets right at the source d
Catarrh, and forces from the bloOdhe
germs which cause the disease. Spedal
medical advice regarding your own
case free. Address Medical Dlrecu,
LOG Swift Laboratory, Atlanta, Ca
The Madison journal. (Tallulah, Madison Parish, La.) 1888-current, 1920-07-10

American Automobile association. left
Washington 5y automobile for Den.
yer. From there he started on a
pathfinder" circuit of the nationsal
parks named. seeking the best route
for the park-to-park highway.
In August he will report at Denver.
Then a large party will go under his
guidance over his preliminary route
and make selection Of a permanent
route.
The purpose Of this trip is three
fold: To select a park-to-park route.
which is to be improved by state and
county organizations pending assist
ance from the federal government
The Madison journal. (Tallulah, Madison Parish, La.) 1888-current, 1920-07-10
Do Not Neglect 1t.

When you use sprays, atomizers
and douches for your Catarrh, you may
succeed in unstopping the choked-up
air passages for the time being. but
this annoying condition returns. and
you have to do the same thing over
and over again.
Catarrh has never yet been cured
by these local applications. Have you
ever experienced any real benefit from
such treatment?
The Madison journal. (Tallulah, Madison Parish, La.) 1888-current, 1920-07-10

Compound SO tried it. Now / feel all
right and can work better. You have
my permission to publish this letter"
-vicroRIA KoPPL, q Oak Ridge Ave-,
Summit, N. j.
If you have warning symptoms such
rs sense of suffocation, hot flashes,
headaches, backache, dread of i'm
pending evil, timidity, sounds in the
ears, palpitation Of the heart, sparks
before the eyes, irregularities, con-
stipation, variable appetite, weakness,
inquietuds, and dizziness, get bottle
of Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable Com
pound and begin taking the medicine at
once. We know it will help you as 1t
did Mrs. Koppl.
The Madison journal. (Tallulah, Madison Parish, La.) 1888-current, 1920-07-10

MORE than fifty department of agri-
AVA culture activities will have to be
abandoned, according to Secretary
Meredith, because of reductions in
the annual appropriation. The bill ap-
propriated approximately $4,000. 900.
This. he says. is $6.O00.OOO less than
the department needs and s2.1S5. 900
lees than was appropriated for this
gear. As a matter Of fact the appro-
priation for the 1910 fiscal year (calen-
dar year 1912 was SIS, 500. 761.
Werk designed to wipe out our hog
cholera viii have to y abandoned
= sovefal sfatsk C0operative work
ouase inpFovins n eua,ip and IN
The Madison journal. (Tallulah, Madison Parish, La.) 1888-current, 1920-07-10
Explosion Caused Fire.

Miami. Fla. - Fire department Of
hcials investigating the destruction
by fire rere Of Gar, ia, holder of the
express cruiser world records for one,
two and 20 miles, annouced indica-
ions were that the flames originated
from an explosion of gasoline.
The Madison journal. (Tallulah, Madison Parish, La.) 1888-current, 1920-07-10

entirely vegetable and plea.,,
take and is perfect subsi,n. .
calomel. 1t is guaranteed to u.- Y
liver without stirring you nm Nv.
and can not salivate.
Don't take calomel! II can =
trusted any more than 4 Iaor,
a wild cat. Take DOdSon's Live
which straightens you right nv
makes you feel fine. Give il +,
children because it is perfectly \.
less and doesn't gripe.-Ady
The Madison journal. (Tallulah, Madison Parish, La.) 1888-current, 1920-07-10
Malice.

college professors" said President
X. G. II. Sills Of Bowdoin. "can be
very malicious at times. Two profess
sors were talking the other day over
their luncheon.
at zee that Erudice of Yalevard
has written a novel; said the first pro-
fessor. is il any goodY
ut ought to be- said the second
professor. 1T cost him $50 to get II
published
The Madison journal. (Tallulah, Madison Parish, La.) 1888-current, 1920-07-10
Ancient Inquiry.

"We are still seeking" said the sci.
enlist, ITO ascertain the exact pur.
pose for which the pyramids of Egypt
were constructed"
YES" replied Senator Sorghum, alb
sent-mindedly. Some Of these inves
ueations do take q long time"
The Madison journal. (Tallulah, Madison Parish, La.) 1888-current, 1920-07-10
Poles Evacuate Towns.

Warsaw. - Polish forces on the
Bolshevik front have evacuated Ho-
zir and Kalenkowitz in Polesia, &C
cording to an official statement is
sued at army staff headquarters here.
This step was taken, it is said, for
the purpose of shortening the front.
The Madison journal. (Tallulah, Madison Parish, La.) 1888-current, 1920-07-10
Luther Burbank III.

San Francisco. = Luther Burbank,
the horticulturist, was brought to a
San Francisco sanitarium from his
home in Santa Rosa, Cal, for treat
ment. Information as to the nature
of the illness of the plant wizard
was declined at the sanitarium.
The Madison journal. (Tallulah, Madison Parish, La.) 1888-current, 1920-07-10
Surrender zeppelin,

London. The greatest Zeppelin
ever constructed, the LII, built IN
1918 by the Germans for the purpose
of bombing New York, was surrend-
cred to the Pulham airdrome in COM
pliance with the terms OF the peace
treaty.
The Madison journal. (Tallulah, Madison Parish, La.) 1888-current, 1920-07-10
Barracks Are Shattered.

Cork. The Kings Street police
barracks was partly shattered by a
bomb. The explosion, however, did
more damage to an adjacent resi-
dence than to the barracks. The mil
itary, with armored cars, dispersed
the crowd.
The Madison journal. (Tallulah, Madison Parish, La.) 1888-current, 1920-07-10
Enoinemen Are Attacked.

East st. Louis. - Two men were
wounded, one seriously, when crowd
said to have been composed of strik-
ing switchmen, attacked the crew Of
a switch engine in the yards Of the
Southern Railroad here and precipi-
tated a revolver fight.
The Madison journal. (Tallulah, Madison Parish, La.) 1888-current, 1920-07-10
Call For Troops.

Dublin. - Soldiers were hurrlediy
called out Of their barracks at 1870
o'clock by the discharge of firearms
in the neighborhood Of the Kings
bridge terminus of the Great South
ern Railway line. There has been no
explanation of the disorder.