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St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1890-11-08
cHlNA'S POPULATION.

le = Greater Than That 0f All the Coun.
tries Of Europe.
Tho census Of 1875 gave tho popul n
eion Of the empire 1t ass. 600. 000 Since
that time Tonquin has been lost with
several million people. and Kashgaria
has been reconquered. Among NO peo-
ple with any degree Of civilization is
tho birth rate 50 high as In China, and
although the death rate in the densely-
crowded districts Il very great there is
every reason to presume that there are
now 450. 900, 900 people in China
These figures represent more than
ope-third OF the population Of the
globe. 1t is greater population than
that Of all Europe, and three
times the number Of people ON
the Western continent Even at these
enormous figures the average number Of
people to tho square mile for the whole
empire-eighty-five-is not 80 high -
in some parts Of the United States
In the great mountain ranges, on the
arid plains Of Kashgaria and the snowy
regions OF Mongolia and Manchuria, tho
population IL sparse. but in the eight
central provinces Of China proper-in
tho fertile. alluvial soils-the popula.
tion IL denser and more crowded than
in any other region OF equal extent ON
earth. The villages there arc almost
beyond enumeration. and tho numbers
Of the walled cities incredible to those
who have not seen them. In the
two Kiang provinces, at the mouth OF
tho Yangtx river, with an area of 90, 600
square miles. the population in 1875 was
-, 00o. 600. and there were 125 walled
citieA
The census Of 1875 was taken when
the richest portions Of these two prov
inces had been devastated and depopu.
lated BY the TAPPING rebellion. Since
that ume there has been . great in.
pouring Of people from other regions Of
the empire. especially from those dis.
tricts where the famine Of 1878 pre-
vailed. Tho natural increase of popu-
lation has also been very great and II
would b safe to say that these 90. 600
square miles have moro than 50, o00. o0c
people.-Mechanical News
St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1890-11-08

There are now three female dentists
In New York, all Of whom are qualified
70 practice the profession Only ono Of
them IL . specialist She IL . clever
and handsome young Jewess. and she
has studied the work Of filling reeth
with . great deal Of caro- for several
yearn She is amply equipped with
diplomas, 10 business-like and indus
trious, and It Is said that her trade 10
almost exslusively among mon. For
merly she wassemployed as . type-writ-
Or in An g1ice downtown. Her hours
were from 8 to Q and her employment
uncertain. II is said that she clears
q. 900 year now, has three months
vacation, and is seldom at her chair
moro than i've hours day. The num-
ber Of women physicians In New York
ID. Of course. very much greater than
the number Of female dentists. None
Of them thus Tar has attained particular
attention - . specialist though the
names Of st least half . dozen Of them
are known - being general practition.
ers Of ability-N. Y. Sun. fit.
St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1890-11-08

There Il ono solace left to me at
least" remarked the old farmer. after
all my boys leave and 90 into business,
after the pigs and cattle die, and every
thing else forsakes me. there IL st
least one thing that viii stick to the
old farm"
s.And that is--~
St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1890-11-08
WHAT POLLY DID.
How 6he Saved More Than One
Hundred LtveA

Oily GAR D.
Der had been
. pc nding her
vacation With
Aunt Mary in
tho countryside
" ould have
been perfectly
b appy." but
that her father
. nd mother
were Obliged 70
rem1ln In tho
city. II was dve
weeks since she
had seen them.
and tt seemed
St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1890-11-08

Dark meat Of cold roast chicken II
the coolest lunch % hot day. says .
New York spicura. and grsvely Odds .
word u eommendstion for the drum
sticks. in order 70 quote the comment Of
a irste reseaurast eosk who had just
received IN order tor three chicken legs:
II can't help that" snapped the cook:
II can't cut nors thsn Two legs on one
chicken Ask them do they want the
earth. Do they think i0wls u esnti-
pedes7"
St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1890-11-08

Mr.. Rapid--Did you recognise the
lady who smiled at n ss No passed?
Mr.. Gayhoy-No. I u nit remember
% have ever seen her before. 4
Mr.. Rapid-I thought not She =
your wife.-Texas Siftiu1A
St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1890-11-08

II Girls Are TaagAs the Art They WIN
save Maov Penny Asesr ward.
While do not approve Of putting
girls down to . stint Of sewing when
they ought to b outdoors. at the same
time II they are taught the art for it is
IN art Of mending whom young. it will
save many . penny when they are vom-
On; and mending must b learned in
childhood OF never known Thousands
Of neat sewers can not darn stockinga,
and tho neatest plain sewer know Can
not mako . buttonhole The other
sewing shs Vas taught in early days
when nne needlework WAS IN accom-
piishment for which we need not now
try our eyes. - the machine does this
and more.
Mending Table Linen-Use the shiny
max embroidery cotton. drst basting the
ragged edges Of the rent over . piece Of
stiR paper. Thea make. . network Of
stitches back and forth. running the
needle fully an inch beyond the taro
into the linen. II IN expert In en-
broidery, the pattern Of the cloth or
napkin might be darned In. This
makes . neater finish than to patch the
hole with . piece Of the same. though
this may b neatly done By matching
the pattern and darning over tho raw
edges Of the larger part which 10 laid
over the scrap and basted smoothly.
The moment . break b discov.
cred in table linen. mend it.
- this IL certain case Of
- stitch In time saves nine" BY
the bye. all table linen must be hemmed
BY hand. turning the hons - narrow
- possible. Towels are mended with.
Aax or linen embtU Uldery cotton - we'll.
using number 70 agree With the quali-
y OF the towel and running tho stitches
each way, - usual In darning use .
long. hne needle and make the nrst row
Of threads - close ~ possible. Tho
second row 10 simply over and under
one thread. with the second limo alter.
mating. under one. over one.
'As though we did not know how 70
damn! OF course you know the theory.
my dear sisters; bat what means the
many ''cobbled" pieces Of mending
turned out every week by the family
St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1890-11-08

~ Sunuer Bosrdsr (wsarily) - Yos
Asve had veal At ssvery neal since ]
came sl-. ef-s - ~ =
Farmer Furrews( ws(sheeffully)-We kin
afford it 1t was our own calf; and u
oin't half gone yek-Puck.
St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1890-11-08

McFingle-Howa arc you going to spend
your vacation? You got . month b.
ueve. f
McFangle-Yes; I'm going TO spend
Try. and the other two In she city. -
McFingle-Why don't you spend all
oft away? Why those two weeks in
the city.
AcFangle-To recover from the Of
leets Of the beach snd c0untfy.-kight
St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1890-11-08

Peddler-With one Of these patent
rollers in the room Of zach guest
Landlord Tanner House-Huh! No
use for 'eml Towels ON rollers went out
Peddler-These rollers arc not for
towels. They're for. billa Wind .
guests bill ON this nvention and he can
run over It without trsmpling on It or
being forced 70 lst the end hang out Of
the window.-Munssy's Weekly.
Omaha daily bee., 1890-10-11

chances of defeat, not by q new party, but by
our going on the other sidc.n The farmers
hold the balance ofpowcr and certainly could
have dictated any policy wanted or any re-
form wanted, or any redress sought, IL IL was
reasonable.
Fellow citizens, hope that on the 4th OF
November YOU will exercise the privilege OF
citizens with judgment and cousccntiouslY
aud not rush hcadlong, simply saying, I'VE
want change aud IL don't matter II the man
is q yellow dog" but elect good men and hon
orablo men and the state of Ne braslIa will
see to n that your taxes are lower aud your
property protected as well rs men w no are
Interested in good government would want To
have it, Appla uso,
Omaha daily bee., 1890-10-11
HON. r.. ROsEWa TER's SPEECH.
Food fer Reelection for the Voters OF
This State.

Mr., Rosewater spoke as follows
MIR. Chairman and Feow-ctizens; We
are now on the eve of the most important
election which has ever taken pace in Ne
braSka since she entered into the sisterhood
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1890-05-01
The Son of Victor Hugo.

The money which parents accumulate
by hard work and self-denial is fire.
quently squandered by their children,
but few mortgage future inheritance
SO recklessly as has a son of Victor
Hugo. The great French man of let
tiers, starting in life with q capital of
800 francs, which he had earned for him.
self, besides gaining an immortal place
in literature, amassed fortune of
several million francs, which be left to
his children. His son George has recent
ly become of age, and before he had
taken possession of his fortune his
notes were presented against the estate
for S4S, 600, upon which he had Dor
rowed only $4,000. But there is law
in France against usury, and the greedy
usurers have been arrested and the full
penalty of the law will be melted out to
them for attempting to rob a minor OF
his heritage. If young Hugo's fortune
IS not kept under the control of a guard
ian it is more than probable that in q
few years he will be a penniless vaga-
bond in the city that will forever honor
the name and memory Of his great ia.
ther.-Paris Letter.
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1890-05-01

thing OF the scandlous mess OF stun
bout me and him." she said, as the
sound of the rafting cart wheels came
nearer and nearer; III just 60 out and
ask him how the folks are at home and
get me pound Of paddock and come
right into the house SOS the tongues Of
the gossips won't have nothing to wag
about There he is at the gate. Welt
what's he hitching his horse for? He's
coming in, too. Well, If that amt queer!
Dear me-"
Good morning, Calisty," Uncle
Peter said, stepping briskly into the
widows kitchen and standing. his old
hat in his hand. near the open door. He
had known her all her life. He had
carried her to school often on his hand
sled when they were children, and he
had always called her Calisty, but,
somehow, she blushed when he called
her Calisty to-day. He went on calmly
and directly.
"Calisty. you heard the yarns that's
goin' round bout us?' he asked.
'T-I-yes, Peter"
She turned her burning face from him,
lingering her apron corners in con.
fused way.
Ibid it make you mad when you heerd
emp"
'I-I-didn't like it, Peter"
~ s'pose not-not at first, nohow. I
was mad as a wet hen when I first
heerd 'em, but Calisty, was glad in
the end; yes, sir, 1 jist was. Air you
,oA of
'I-I-hardly know They WANT
true, nohow, Peter"
mo, they want, Calisty, that's So;
there want word of truth in EN-"
He came nearer and caught one Of her
hands in his own as he said:
"Let's make 'em true, Calisty. From
bein' mad at first I've come TO wishin'
and hopin' they might be true, that me
and you was goin' to be married, that"
the end of it all was that Uncle Peter
went away singing about the lady
fair" in louder and shriller but joyfully
triumphant notes, while the lady fair
went about her work hulnming an old
love tune forgotten for years until now.
A week later they drove quietly to a
neighboring town and came home man
and wife, Uncle Peter joyfully and
boldly proclaiming the fact to all whom
they CHANGED to meet.
They came back TO the brides coy
little brown house and settled down to
quiet and happy life, needless of the
fouts and sneers of their children, who,
as a matter of course, soon came to ac-
cept the situation with some degree of
good grace and to make gladly-accepted
overtures of peace.
''We owe 'em a good deal, anyhow,
Calisty,' Uncle Peter said, ''for if they
hadn't raised such a fuss bout what
wasn't so what is so wouldn't of come to
pass, and we wouldn't of thought of
marryin' each other and being the hap
piest old bride and bridegroom on top
of the earth, now, would we?'-Zenas
Dane, in Household.
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1890-05-01
THE POTATO.
Points on Its Successful Culture-How to
Kill the Rugs.

Points on Its Successful Culture-How to
Kill the Bugs.
The potato crop always pays for good,
clean, constant cultivation, says the
Western Rural. As the potato season
is short, the crop should be pushed as
rapidly as possible. Some people begin
cultivation even before the plant ap-
pears above the ground, and it is good
plan, especially if the weeds begin to
show themselves. Cultivation should
be continued until the vines cover the
ground, provided it is necessary to keep
the land clean. Different seasons will
require different degrees of cultivation,
perhaps, but even in a dry season when
the weeds are not as aggressive, STIR
ring the soil and keeping it in fine con-
dition is to assure greater degree of
moisture. So perhaps the rule laid
down should be: constant cultivation.
After horse cultivation is no longer
practical, the weeds, if they start,
should still be kept out, and it must
then be done by hand. A potato field
filled with weeds can not produce as
good a crop of potatoes as it would if
the weeds were not there. After the
weeds are in blossom there is an idea
that the weeds can not hurt the crop,
but that cultivation will. 1t is big
error.
If it were not fact that weeds must
be supported by a soil that should be
made to devote its entire strength to
the potatoes, it would be true that it
would cost more to harvest the crop,
when the field would be full of weeds;
and more than that and worst Of all, is
the seeding of the ground to weeds for
the next season, and the expense of
keeping them down. Whoever is an
implacable enemy to weed under all
circumstances, is an excellent friend
to himself and practices economical
farming.
The potato beetle, of course. will be
on hand for it's share of the crop. Sea-
son his meal with Paris green, being
careful not to make the mixture too
strong. 1t is the bugs you want to kill
and not the vines. The quantity of
Paris green that will settle bug is ex-
ceedingly small Hence there is no
necessity of strong mixture. One of
our most prominent farmers and agricul-
tural writer's has not used Paris green,
however, for number of years. He
cultivates twice week, and attaches to
the end of the singletree light brush.
This brushes off the beetles ahead of
the cultivator, and many of them are
killed. But the Paris green diet is by
all odds the most efficient Of any thing.
Push the growth as much as possible
and sprinkle with Paris green.
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1890-05-01
As Per Sche nile.

Mr.. Nibbs-Oh, Miss Snoozer! love
you devotedly, truly, lastingly! On my
knees beseech you, will you be mine?
Miss Snoozer-I have heard your APP
plication. Here is 'Form No. l." which
] wish you would consider, and fill out
the answers to the questions and file the
same with me tomorrow.
FORM NO. 1.
1. Did your mother ever have any bad
luck in baking pie?
2. Was the last young woman who re-
fused you entirely without fault?
3. How many lodges week do you at
tend2
4. Do you think that women's rights
60 any distance beyond marriage rites?
5. After man and woman are made
one, which is the one?
6. How long, do you think, does a
woman maintain her good looks?
Z. What should be the difference be-
tween a man waiting for meal and a
meal waiting for man?
8. What is the relative difference be-
tween a wife's relations and a husband's2
9. Define the point between liberality
and stinginess.
TO- At what age does short-sighted.
ness strike in your fanily?-Time.
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1890-05-01
Kid Gloves for Infants.

Not only may a woman buy gloves
with pocket in the left hand one
sufficiently large to hold few coins for
car fare, but if she is a mother she may
buy six-button kids for q six-months'-
old baby. A young woman who had
never heard Of such styles for mere
babies, saw long pair of gloves being
fitted to the tiny fingers of pretty girl
baby in q Broadway store few days
ago, and asked the clerk if they were
gloves made to order. The clerk said
no, that they kept six-button kid
gloves for children only few months
old, and that recently there mad been
quite sale. Their size, she said .1s
marked o 0. IN. Y. Sun.
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1890-05-01
POOR BATTENBER0
The Welded Woes of Victoria's Younger


The Welded Woes of victoria's Youngest
Son-in-Law.
What has become of Prince Beatrice?
Did Battenberg strike and was he threat
ened? The other day 1 met relative
of his sister-in-law, the Countess Alex
ander Won Hartenau (you see what bad
company sometimes keep, who told
me that 1.-The poor fellows lot is not to
be envied." The Queen, on whose favor
he depends, being now seventy, few
about the court take the trouble to be
civil to him. Military men don't at all
relish being told off to ''attend" this
curious Royal Highness. Though the
Queen is exacting of respect for him,
she treats him herself with curt dry
ness, and she expects him to be always
hanging about the Princess Beatrice,
who since her marriage keeps as close
to her Majesty as her shadow, and is
constantly getting up entertainments
for her royal mothers delectation, which
Prince B. thinks awful bores. He would
infinitely prefer friendly pipe and
flagon of beer and war of words at a
Kneipe to her tableaux wants, private
theatricals and concerts The concerts
are the most doleful things imaginable.
The Princess performs on the piano and
gets herself accompanied by other in
struments. She is particularly fond of
the violin, and has always some first
rate violinist to play with her. Prince
B. used to turn the leaves of her music
book when they were freshly married,
but he has since allowed lady or gen.
tleman in waiting to do that honorable
service, and sits near the musicians
seeming to listen, but more often than
not in brown study. If it were not for
the pleasures of memory these concerts
would be uncomfortable. The Queen, who
loves music, is nearly always present
and sits by herself, with dusky per-
sonal attendant standing behind her
chair. She, too, is wrapped up, and no
doubt also passing mentally in review
her bygone pleasures. Whenever she
makes sign to Prince B., he is on his
feet in an instant, walks over to her,
and stands before her in an att tude of
submission. She would not PIT up with
any other. There never was a more
despotic sovereign in the precincts of
her court than our constitutional mon
arch, and her mind is 50 full of the be-
lief in her prerogatives, in all that re-
CARDS etiquette and the department of
her family and household, that her will
overbears every other. One feels that
it is imperious as fate. Prince B. new
er attempts to dispute it until he gets
beyond its range. He then tries to make
new conditions and thus improve his
position. At Gratz he thoroughly en-
joyed himself. There was smoking,
beer-drinking, capital music in an un-
affected way, guard-room talk with Count
Won Hartenau and Austrian officers and
no etiquette. London Truth.
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1890-05-01

These lines of Pinckney bring before the
mental vision a woman Of surprising beau
ty, challenging admiration and homage.
This sentimental tribute was, no doubt,
worthily bestowed by the poet, but it is a
prosaic fact that large numbers Of our fair
country women are deficient in personal
charms, because they do not try and con-
quer the disorders peculiar to their sex, and
from which so many of them suffer mar
tyrdom. As it is the ambition of every
woman to look her best, let the afflicted
ones use DR.. Pierce's Favorite Prescription,
and thus recover their health, without
which there can be no beauty.
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and perfectly harmless in any condition Of
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As an invigorating tonic, it imparts
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seanstresses, "shop girls" housekeepers,
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1890-05-01
OVER AND OVER,

Over and over, the birds are singing
The same sweet strains OF the long ago;
Over and over, each year are springing
Flowers where fadeth the winter snow;
Over and over, the ships go sailing,
Leagues on leagues across the sea;
Over and over, when the day Is paling,
Signs the breeze in the forest tree.
Over and over, do JOY and sorrow
Silently walk by US everywhere;
Over and over, will each tomorrow
Bring it's blessings or bring its caro-;
Over and over, the mother blesses
After each prayer q golden head;
Over and over her sweet caresses
Into each heart loves sunlight shed.
Over and over, we all are teaching
Daily our lessons Of good or i'll;
Over and over, are pastors preaching
Words which speak Of the Masters will;
Over and over the sunset glories
Glow and vanish Ger land and sea;
Over and over, to Grandmas stories
We listen, sitting beside her knee.
j. B. NJ. Wright in Good Housekeeping
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1890-05-01

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The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1890-05-01


dmental tablet, but not unhonored."
On the 18th of May, 1888, an imposing
procession marched through the streets
of the quiet little town to 1.-THE grounds
inclosing the remains of the mother OF
Washington" There were Masonic cere.
monies, and prayer and an Grafton, re-
sponded to by Andrew Jackson, Presi-
dent of the United States, who, in con-
Guiding his address, laid the corner
stone of "a monument to the memory
of her who gave birth to the founder
and preserver of the Union"
Mrs. Sigourney wrote poem for this
august ceremonial, beginning:
"Long hast thou slept unnoted."
Tardy justice was done-so declared tho
press, and so believed the Nation-to
the names of great and good woman.
To-day, fifty-seven years subsequent
to the date of the pageant recorded upon
the following pages from which our cut
Of the original plan of the monument is
taken, the tourist to the battlefelds Of
Fredericksburg strays upon neglected
inclosure, without the gray walls OF
which is the unfinished memorial
sl1etched for this paper. Cattle Craze
about the base; it is discolored by time
and weather; the Nalic-hunter's hammer