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THE TENSAS GAZETTE
Gazette Publishing Company, Ltd. Official Paper of the Parish of Tensas School Board and Fifth Louisiana Levee District. $1.50 Per Annum.
NI;W SEiUS VOL. X VII. ST. JOSEPIII, LA., FRIDAY, DECEMBER 30, 1910. NUMBER 52.
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THE POLICEMAN OF LC'NDON
Derisively Called "Bobby" After Bap
tlsmna' Na, e cf Man Instrumental
in Fcu,id'rg the Force.
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N E YO.RK -A cat!g; am true I'ari- .nnounced the wedding of Cha'
lote ý ttherine Paizntr to James tC iariyh, Jr., a relaive qfithe Van
detrbilts. The Parrishes are very w ealfhv and have a beautiful home'
near Siuthampton. Mr. Parrish. Jr.. is a Ilarvard graduate, and was ad
mitted to the bar this year. Miss I'.rhmer formerly was in Wang," and
also with the Lew Field forces. In London she numbered Mrs. Oscar Lew
isohn. Mrs. ,.enry Lyndhurst 3ruce and Sir George Prescott among her de
voted admirers.
WON'T COLLECT COIN
Engli;h Court Refuses to Aid The
atrical Press Agent.
Faked Expulsion of Women Who In
sisted on Wearing Big Hats in
Theater Called by Judge a
Fraud on Justice.
London.--British courts of justice
must aot he exploited for the pur
pioses of advertisement. This legal de
cision was given in a case brought by
Thomas Lumley Dann, a press agent.
against Frank Curzon. the theatrical
manager. The evidence revealed the
remarkable manner in which the pub
lic was "sljofed" over a certain matl
nee hat incident which occurred at the
Prince of Wales theater in London
some months ago. This incident was
manifestly a fake to all those who are
initiated into the ways of theatrical
ad vertisement.
Mr. Dlann in his action claimed $500,
which he alleged was the sum Mr.
Curzon agreed to pay him for arrang
ing the affair, while Mrs. Dann. who
as-i -tel her husband in the affair.
claimed $262 In payrnt for her ser
vices. Mr. Curzon tdmitted that he
agreed bo the incident being arranged.
but denied that he agreed to pay these
sums.
The judgment of Judge Woodfall.
who tried the case, explains the na
ture of the incident. iHe said:
"In the early part of this year, when
the plaintiff was empuloyed by the de
fendant as his press agent, he sug
gested to the defe ndant that it would
be an excellent advertisement both for
the theater and for the defendant as
manage-r. If the following scheme were
carried out: Two ladles and a gentle
men were to he engaged, the ladies
were to occupy two stalls and to wear
ujtra-fashionable hats. The gentleman
was to occupy a stall immediately be
hind 4hem. and during the fall of the
curtain peremptorily demand of them
that they should take their hats off.
'"The ladies were to refuse, and the
gentleman to urgently and audibly In
sist, and the disturbance was to attain
slch proportions that the defendant
should be sent for and invite the trio
outside in the corridor, and demand
of the ladies that they should remove
their hats or leave the theater; that
the ladies should resist the demand:
that defendant should thereupon eject
them by a technical assault of laying
his hand on the shoulders of one of
them; that the ladies should leave and
summon the defendant before a magis
trate for the assult and that the de
fendant should plead the right to
protect the convenience of his audi
ence.
"The defendant consented, and the
scheme was carried out in every de
tail, the price of theli seats-which
they had not paid for-was ostensibly
returned to the ladies, and in pursu
ance of the plot they proceeded to
summon the defendant for assault.
"The magistrate heard the charge
and dismissed it, holding that the de
fendant was justifled in what he had
done. The plaintiffs now allke that
the defendant agreed to pay them for
their services in carrying out the yen
ture.
"I am of opinion that the agreement
alleged is illegal, being contrary to
public policy, and that no action is
maintainable upon it. And this for
two reasons: (1) The spectacle of two
ladies being peremptorily and brusque
ly treated might -well have aroused in
terlocution on their behalf and led to
a serious breach of the peace. (2) The
invocation pf a court of law to' punish
an offense which, to the knowledge of
thie. larties. ifal not been. even tech
nically committed, was in She nature
of a iraua.ow the administration of
justi(e,. iýrfer.dismnt" the two
actions. and leave each party to pay
his owno
In c . ý ucces'ful appeal
against t g nd'to save the
expense OE4J .hearing, I will
state what'ot er Ise would have been
my deci'ion. I find that the defend
ant did agree to pay the plaintiff
£ 105: that the defendant's setoff is
valid, and I should have given judg
ment accordingly. for the defendant,
with costs. I find 'the defendant did
agree to pay Mrs. $ 52 10a, afld
I should has. gve'n x eit for. hei.
with costs.. '
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EASY " 'f1.J LIMA BEANS
One-Eight- ofrh1' Aorg Yields Crop,
Th i Is fr'f $42 -Sdid
.Ig qtOlm.
Cooper, Pa. -4n eighth of an ae-rs
of lime beanr on the truck farm of
Albert E. Rinn* former deputy clerk
of quarter sjionsm, hae yielded $162
to dMr. Rin His lima bean patch
comprises two and a half acres, but
the- aoesý were k'ept oiftl from an.
eighth of ln ac~'eio ascetitai if. the
ialping ofbea b would prove profit
able.
The bean t-ra' .mall Prenof 'llme.
None of .the stns wre" mold fot less
than 'fiften Bents a quart. 'and for
the extra fine ones. $6.50 a bushel
was realited. Theprcip)- oustom-'
ers durin -1ke sea.rmer were eleven
large hot t* .~ridtic City. a nam
her of Jiot lf Philadelpliia 'a ,f
New York, in addition- to families in
Allentow4t #4ýý" , 5' ,.
MAkPERATIflS ON HEART
Have BecoW/l.$Ue ,orsLests of Comn
neenplace in '#ldkal History
10iQ Ca coeded-,
New York. ca o pefratons
upon the heart have becomr more or
less of a Ce czihaSl e In medicY his
tory. Sontotling approximating )00
cases of t sewin* of h4piS
wond4 are on record, and hee reeov
eries 'have been considerable when
one consideaG . hiSb dap'eroun
character O- " work. Hitherto,
howe~er, hsreuu ,y hsrY been lim
ited to accit ! s. : ,
In a recent lasue of the Annals of
Surgery one of the workere -at -te'
Rockefeller Institute of MEmcal Re
search. discusses the possibiltt 'of
treating diseased Weits surgfcally.
He has made nume ous experiments
on animals tlhhasdrtat sueah op
erations ý be° ogsfully -per
formed on human beings in the near
future. His tests have convinced him
that the heart can be opened, scraped
out (oleaned, so to speak), sewed up
and started off on its "betting" path
again wilthou$,, j4, at least in-,
superable. dldleulty. By an ingenlous
system of shle pp ýpa v-chan
neling he . is ab bt Wj to: eat
out of the circulation portions d such
important vessels as the doescoii
aorta, the largest irtery in the body,
without killing the animaLr Among
his susggsted 'e thisý s one on the'
coronary a tesIrrlh betr-i" trhe
cure of angina peetorts.
This doctor" ly proved,
to his owa, ... o anmals
IHILD IS BORN APE
Lecturer Explains Working of Bi
ogeiýtic Law.
Elucidates Many Strange and Absurd
instincts That Come and Go Dur
Ing Human Infancy, Chlld
hood and Adolescence.
Chicago.-J. Howard Moore told
members of the Socialist league a
lot about babies the other night. Mr.
Moore discussed "The Biology of the
Child" at a meeting which was held
at 160 Washington Street.
"There is a law in biology. called
the biogenetic law.' It was ,diseov
ered by Haeckel. It is one of the
most important laws of the organic
world. It is this: 'Each organism in
its individual development repeats
the life history of the race to which
it belongs.'
"No being comes into the world full
grown. Every being goes through the
performqace of what is called growing
befota it is a complete organism.
jv4ry being commenc ae a.- slal'.
simple and rather as bit ,t
protoplasm. The tween this
condition and mat i bridged in
by a longer or sh series of
changes in size, f `d architec
ture. The remara thing about
these changes is th ey are strik
ingly parallel to t anges which
the race has under e in its evolu
ton from the beginn " of the earth.
"The biogenetic laws applies to men
tal phenomena as well as to
physical. Only in the light of this
law is it possible to unrstand the
many strange and abst instincts
that come and go durti human in
fancy, childhood and adolescence.
It has been said that the child is
born savage. This is nIt quite true.
It is worse than that. mnly after a
rather long and inglor us prelim
inary as a quadruped is ift able to walk
with its pront feet in the air and
rightfully lay claim to the title of
savage."
Mr. Moore said the general, ideas of
the child, its conception o2 itself, and
its outlook on the world e eten
tiilly the same as those of t.e savage
a- rrow, mystical, and naive. The
child uelieves in ghosts, fairy tales,
magic and miracles, much as the sav
age does. ,-'
"Among the points brought ojt by
the lecture were the following:P
The 'human baby antedates t sav
age by several hundred th 
years.
The child is a born ape. t
The instinct of the baby to cngto
everything within reach is the stinct
of the monkey.
A stick in the hands of a bt.be
comes a club.
A baby's attack on the ca a
relic of the club stage in man de
velopment.
A child's love of camp fire the
forming of gangs among boys, tLh dc
slte to stone dogs and snowball ped
diers, and the strong love fot a bow
and arrow are remnants of the ear
BOYS KICK $75,000 ABO j
Squad of Players Used ParchI of
Bonds as Pigskin-Police Loo
ing for Owner.
New York.-The police of a' u
town station have in their posgaslo&
a parcel of bonds worth about $b5,000
which was picked up by a patrolman
after it had been kicl:ed two or th
blocls by a squad of schoolboy f
tpal players.
One boy gave the parcel a nal
kick which sent it under the stars
leading to a subway station. There
the ioliceman found it. The bundle
was addressed in pencil on the man
il,. wrapper: "Don A. Dodge. Yon-)
kers, N. Y."
The Yonkers police were notifi ,
but were unable to locate the ownep-.
that successful surgical Interference
with the great vessels and the heaI(
itselftj a possibility. It is, of cou ra,
a lons step from these experiments t
actual operations on human' beings.
but there is every indication that the
latter feat will be attempted in the
near future. T intractability of
aruiao affections and their high fa
-tality'tnake the proposed new surgery
a thing of great general interest, a
may justify the extreme boldness of
the proposal.
PLAN ODD BOBSLED-AIRSHIP
Belief i1 Expressed That Phenomeial
Speed May Be Acquired by New
Experiment.
Springfield, M -A'uaique exper
ment in near-aeillaing is to be tried
in the Berkshire EllR this winter, un
der the auspl$ee of the Williams col
lege and B erkshre aero clubs.
S6vral tyl biplanes Without ea
tines are ldkbe cunstrueted with
sleds at thuir base.
Th.se aeroplane sled. will be toke
to the tope et some of the lob hills.
la c hary of expert cosaters, and as
soon Wt the sleds reach a speed of 48
o 50 miles an hour, the elevatins
ploaes. wil be tilted. Then by man.
fpulstf the planes the sled will leae
the ground sad can be kept a few
feet above the snow, Just s
the ground unatil the bottom of the
It reachedt
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T~lC 7ZX-~AJ R~iWZC
rHE TEXAS RANGERS, who f'
have had a prominent part In
trouble along our southwestern a
border. constitute a force that j'
is more teared by miscreants it
han any other body of men that clvi- h
Ization has ever organized. e
They carry law and ord:r to the re- tI
note regions. along the Rio Grande.
where outlaws Of two nations take w
efuge. They carry it into .4he back- ii
tode where fends rage c~istantly, o
eside which those of Kentuck"'a d
nountains sinlk into insignificance. t1
rhey- carry it into populous cities J e
rea carry it into every nook and o
orner of that great state of Texas. s
he extent of which is such that they C
ire problems to face such as other C
tates dream not of.
The Texas rangers are the most t
iIcturesque set of legalized fighting e
nen in this country. They have no a
-ounterpart in the world. Only forty
n number, they are equal to almost I1
ny emergency that may arise when it
:omes to putting to a test real fight- b
ng qualities. The presence of one
ranger upon a scene of disorder and 0
:hreatened lawlessness is usually suf- s
cilent to quickly restore peace and
uphold the dignity of the law. The b
ranger is there to do his duty. He e
oes, it fearlessly.
The rangers are picked men. every
sne of them They must be proved )
experts in marksmanship and at home
In the saddle; they must be of ggod
moral character, which means that
they do not drink or gamble When
a vacancy in a company occurs the
captain selects the man to till it
"I can look into a man's eyes and
tell whether he has got the right kind
of stiff rr him to make a good rang
er." Captain W. J 111ill) McDonald.
who saw many years in the service,
said the other day "I never made a
mistake in pickirg my men."
Most of the rangers were former
cowboys When a man leaves the
ranger service lie usually either goe',
back to the ranch or takes a position
as peace officer in some county or
city
The oflicial reports of the a !Jcr.tJnt
general's department of Texau ,'ow
that during the period from si:U to
1884 Indians and Mexican thieves
stole 30.838 head of cattle. 3.781
horses and 2.436 sheep. The m:.rand
er killed hundreds of citizens. hurnedl
many homes and destroyed n, vast
amount 4f property "Althoupgh ca'.
tlItealing was the orlginal object cf
ife raids, the lawless bands eng-ar-d
in them have been necessarlly led to
the perpetration of other ard grr-. :er
crimes. The lawless spirit e.-'t,: "red
by tbhir trade, and their o rr ec
tion. caused them to m'ari ravel
ers who happened to min ' n on
their raids, and those a they
ought might inform age . them.
ilct. these raids were . turned
in eneral robbery and t rder.
T conditions on the "er Rio
G  border region b . to tm
ve as soon as Captal'. H !c
elly pnd his company ' rangers
ere sent down there to run down
ýhe outlaws. McNelly r h; ted the
•olicy of giving no quarter re a, ked
(none It was a fight to ce d ?ath
when he and his men - 't w::hln
shooting distance of Ut." Mexica
thieves.
The men who won disttaction in the
Texas ranger service we .c. the fore
runners of the present . " of r sace,
development and pros;' r' the the
state is enjoying. Most -of the many
rangers who won distinction for their
bravery and notable eploits in .the
oe of their (uty are dead.
r lied in thbe service, oth
sre smcc d ntatLi causes. A
few of them are still alive and active
Rangers Carnes. Lawrence, West
and Craigbead recently rode into a
jungle that skirts the Rio Grande near
its mouth. Mexican renegades were
hidden in the thickets and the rang
ers knew the deadly peril into which
they rode.
Despite the disadvantage under
which they worked, the rangers rode
into the thicket. They could die but
once and their besiaess was to court
death. A roud had been cut through
the jungle and following this the rang
ers were ambushed. The outlaws
opened on them at close range with
shotguns and every man went doraL
Carnes and Lawrence were killed-and
Craignead and West were wounded.
Pablo Trevino was so indiscreet as
to peep for a moment from the thick
et and Ranger Carnes. whose right
arm was broken and who was near
death, shifted his six-shooter *o his
left hand and got his man, the died.
Sergeant W. J. L. Sullivan. wno has
been shot to pieces so many times
that he is no longer able to chase
outlaws. is doorkeeper for the house
side of the Texas legislature. He has
the reputation of having been the
best ranger sergeant that the force
ever knew.
If the present movement to abolish
the rangers is not carried into effect
by the legislature it is probable tha
J£ROCEA/T JIILLIVA/I I
the' service will be completely reon
ganised- It is planned to merge the
four companies, each of which now
consists of only ten men, into one
company of forty men, and to place it .,
in charge of an experienced oceer,
who shall have full control of al)
ranger operations.