St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1888-05-19
or GENERAL INTEREST.

DISCRIMINATING prairie dogs at so
much an aero is the occupation of sew
sral men at Wichita Falls, Tex.
A silver mine that was once worked
by the Indians has been discovered in
Fannin County. Ga THERE'S legend
that similar mine exists in jackson
County, and = number of persons are
making vigorous search for it
y. T. Campbell, United States Con.
sui at Auckland New Zealand. says in
his latest report TO the State DEPART
ment that twelve million dollars ha.
been expended in New Zealand in the
last eight year. Ii the effort to over
come the rabbit plague.
The Hanover (NIich.) Times an
nounces that il will take in payment for
subscription wheat, potatoes. old stove
pipes. turnips. bcets. parsnips. bce.-
wax. onions, cider. butter, Lard. cast
IF clothing. old rubber shoes. oyster
cans, old iron and money.
1t was believed for long lime
that shaft Of the Balm Lode, neal
Butte, N. r., was haunted, but the
recent discovery Of half starved goat
ut the bottom of the shaft - supposed
to account for tie mysterious appa-
ritiuns :hat terrified the miners.
Food and Morality.
Prof. F. T. Miles. OF the faculty Of
the University of Maryland. delivered
. lecture to large audience of young
men recently. on Food ard Discs-
ton" In the course Of his lecture
Prof Miles. in speaking Of the effects
Of an insufficient quantity Of food.
said: 1.-The fat disappears first. then
the muscles waste Away, and finally
the bone. come through the skin. The
brain. the spinal cord and the nerves
are nonrishcd to the last. Like q king
in beleaguercd city 10 whom his loyal
subjects give up their food, the nobler
organs are longest nourishcd. In
starvation there is not simple hunger
Of the stomach. but hunger of the
whole body. It is not strange that
when hunger presses CT people they
will do strange things 1t produces
insanity. and they have been driven to
ealing what has been called strange
fesh;' that is to cannihalis:,. There
arc millions of people who have not
enough to eat. 1t is at the bottom Of
anarchy. The police may give them a
loaf Of bread. but the whole body is i'll
nourishct. and restless feeling re-
suits. Not much can be done with the
grown-up people of the criminal
classes. but the child criminal comes
first The criminal classes are called
dirty. lazy and ugly. Of course they
are. They are dirty because they have
no spare heat to let go; lazy, because
the muscles arc weak and nature tells
them to keep still when hungry.
You would be astonished to know how
much of the beauty of the fairest
women is made up Of fat. The GRIM
inal classes are ugly becauge they have
no fat How could child whose mus
e:ss ~nd nervous system have been
partly starved be expected to have all
the sympathics and instincts of a high
cr class of society? An everyday Sab
bath-school with breakfast before the
lesson would be capital thing for
poor children. Some say the poor
themselves are TO blame for their con-
dition by living too luxuriously. One
of the most intense cravings of tn.
Greedy Arctic party was for sweet
meats Tea and coffee do more good
than harm. They stimulate not only the
brain. but the activities OF the whole
body. There will be great mission
to the poor some day to see that they
get enough good foo l.-Ba,iimorc San.