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St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1899-04-08
NO COBB DESERT.
Asian Waste II Not . =
Desert.

Every once in awhile a new desert
discovery blots from the maps some
t;me-honored geographic feature. 1t is
not many years since a vast territory
west of the Mississippi which was
marked Great American Desert" OF
the maps ceased 10 be so described and
our real desert area is now confined to a
few comparatively small districts be-
tween the Rocky and Sierra Nevada
mountains and little part of southern
California.
Recent explorations in Asia have de-
stroyed our faith in another of the
great deserts which was supposed to
stretch far across the center of eastern
Asia. The Cobb desert is still compared
in school books with great sand wastes
like those in Africa and Arabia, but the
Russians have been traversing the Cobb
in all directions and they declare. that
did not know what they were talking
about when they called it Shame or
''Sea of Sand" Mr.. w. Obrutscheff in
his book. "Aus China tells at length
of what the Russians have discovered
about the physical features of the Cobb,
which he says is not sand waste, but
plateau with all the characteristics of
the sieppe. 1t was once part Of the
sea floor and its many hills and valleys
are the result of long erosion since its
elevation above the sea.
Atmospheric precipitation fails in no
part of the Cobb. and though the guam
tity of rain or snow is not large, it
suffices in most years to produce a good
growth OF grass. The caravan route
from China to Urga is traversed every
year by about 1O0, 600 camels with their
loads of tea and the wells in this most
barren part of the Cobb are usually not
more than 90 to 30 miles. apart. The
wandering Mongolians have large herds
and only in the dryest years have any
difficulty whatever in finding sufficient
quantities of fodder. The author says
that only in few small areas does the
Cobb approach the character of a desert.
and even these regions do not compare
in barrenness apd lack Of water with
the deserts of Africa. Arabia, the Tarim
basin, and the Ala-Schan.
1t may have occurred to some that a
desert must be capable of rearing
very large and stalwart population
when they recalled the fact that it was
largely from the Cobb that the great
hordes of mounted barbarians issued
who gave so much trouble to China. 1t
was to prevent the inroads of these bar
barians who. after all. il seems. did not
inhabit a desert. that the Chinese erect
ed the great wall. a stone-faced earthen
rampant more than l,2oO miles in
length, along the northern frontier of
the empire, but the wall, which is now
in state of decay and has disappeared
entirely for long stretches. did not al
ways prove effective as barrier against
these invasions.-N. Y. Sun.
St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1899-04-08
AGREE WITH ONE ANOTHER.
Various Animals That Get AlOnS
Peaceably Together In Com.
mon Quarters.

Ar intimate connection subsis ting be-
tween different animals is known as
commensalism. commensals being crea-
tnres which may be said to sit at the
same table, but which do not prey upon
one another. OF late years naturalists
have become acquainted with numer-
ous examples of this form of animal
partnership. In one of the Chicken is
lands. off the New Zealand coast, a curi-
Gus lizard known as the tuatara and
certain species of the petrels were
found inhabiting the same burrows, APP
parently on the best of terms. In rare
eases the burrow, which consists OF a
passage two or three feet long. one foot
broad. and six inches high. is the work
of the bird. As rule. however. the
lizard is the eXcavator. Each builds its
nest on opposite sides of the chamber,
the lizard almost invariably choosing
the left and the petrol the right side.
The lizard feeds partly on worms and
beetles and partly on the remnants OF
fishes brought to their common table
by the petrol. both animals being thus
benefited by the partnership. This is
probably more than can be said of the
prairie dog. whose underground home
is frequently shared by the rattlesnake
and the burrowing owl. These were at
one time supposed to form happy
family" but considerable doubt mas
been cast on the point by the discovery
of young prairie dogs in the stomach
of the rattlesnake, which seems to in
dicate that commensalism in this par
ticular case has been a one-sided affair
so far as the benefits were concerned.
1t is among marine animals, however,
that the most striking examples OF
commensalism have been observed. A
feeble fish called the remora owes its
success in life to the powerful alliances
IT forms. One of its fins has been trans
formed into a sucker placed right on
top of its head. by means of which ii
attaches itself firmly to any passing
shark, whale, or even ship, no doubt
mistaking the latter for some huge sea
monster. BY these it is transported
without any eNertion on its own part
over great distances. meanwhile pick
ing up such food as may come in its
way.
Several small fishes have been found
also to habitually lodge in the mouth
cavity of Brazilian catfish, sharing
such food as the latter succeeds in cap
turing. The enemies of the smaller
fishes are so numerous that it is only
by retreating to places inaccessible to
their foes that they have a chance of
survival. A favoUte shelter for many
small fishes is the round disk Of the
larger sea jellies, the stinging proper
ties of which probably cause them to be
avoided by the other denizens of the
deep. As many as 20 fishes have been
counted swimming within the fringed
margin of one of these pulsa,ing um-
brellas. The sea cucumbers are an
other lowly group of marine forms
which afford shelter to fishes.
Other instances might be given. such
as that of the little pea crab. found in
mussels and other bivalve shells, which
in return for the protection given them
by the molluskan she'll gives its host
a share of the food it captures.-Wash-
ington Star.
St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1899-04-08
DUCKS VERSUS COTTON.
4 Texas Farmer who Believes In Dusk
Raissag In Preferences to Slav-
lag In the Coeton Field.

/ see Ey your columns that you are
trying to work up the Angora goat
industry. This, 1 think, is money and
effort spent in the right direction. for
your many readers to reap the benefit
and induce those that are fayorabIv
situated to reduce cotton where they
can.
There are many more such industries
.hat would bring more profit than cot
ten if farmers would only stop to
think and make trial. There is. for
instance. the raising OF ducks. Most
farmers would laugh at you to tell
them that there is more money in
small duck farm than there is in u
large cotton farm, but it is fact, il
manged right. have made more
money out of my small flock of ducks
less than q dozen breeding ducks
ast year-than made on of 10 acres
Of cotton. Most of your readers will
probably not believe this, but it is
plain truth This cotton was not on
poor sandy land as some might think,
hut on the black waxy land in the
eastern portion of Travis county which
has been valued ut $50 per acre. Some
rf your cotton raisers might think I
am a little cff to compare less than .
dozen breeding ducks with 20 acres OF
cotton. 1t does not seem fair, but give
me the ducks, they can have the cot
ton.
Why not work up this little indus
try? 1t does not require the capital,
land and wolf-proof fence like a goat
ranch does, but any renter can pursue
this. Some will say they have not =
market IT was thus with me five
years ago when / commenced 10 raise,
ducks, but i have worked up market
in a small town at that, where / can
now sell as many as I have raised
so far. The way / managed to work
up a market for them was keeping the
best stock ] could get, and deliver the
market ducks at good size in first
class condition. This has caused de-
mand for my ducks over all others.
Still / have neighbors that purchased
eggs for Matching from me and sup
rosed they had taken the same pains
in raising their ducks, but had to sell
them for 10 cents less than got for
mine from the same parties You might
say I had them cornered, but that il
not SO; it is the honest treatment and
first-class article delivered them the
first lew weeks which gave me theis
confidence. New, what / can do, or din
do, any one else can do.
/, for my part, am through with kirs
cotton and will go into the duck busi-
ness more extensively this year and
give your readers results later on. but
it is past being an experiment with ME
lit is success.
Would be pleased to see some of the
duck breeders of the state come out
and quack ducks with me, and see ii
we can't get ahead of the goat men
in few years.-Frank A. Hanke. in
Farm and Ranch,
St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1899-04-08
Archery /. the Heart Of the city.


The military students at Tung-Chou
(China) are a conspicuous nuisance.
They have a way of using one'of the
main streets in the city as convenient
spot for practicing archery. and We
have been repeatedly obliged to edge
up to the extreme edge Of the footrath
to avoid possible eccentric flights OF ar
rows. Characterisiicaily. il never &C.
ours to them to suspend operations for
others safety or convenience. and
minor accidents mns; be not uncommon.
4 lad was brought to the hospital the
other day who had been struck by an
arrow just below the eye. as hr was
edging along the highway. He was not
badly hurt. aud p,ohabiy regarded his
in iury as incidental 10 the ordinary
risks Of ,rasv! oA Cit. s;reets.-NoT,h
China u:rald.
St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1899-04-08
why sheer Are woo,lv.

II you want to ask sheep where he
got his wool and why, take dog into
a mountain pasture band and if the
sheep are afraid of the dog they will in
variably run uphill rather than down.
You have your answer. The ancestors
CT the domestic sheep. like wild sheep of
the present day. lived among high
mountains and needed their woolly COW
ering to protect them against the con-
slant cold of high atmospheres. They
chose the high and inhospitable region
to live in because they found the fierce
fesh-eating animals of the plains too
strong for them. Aproof Of these facts
is that the wool grows on a sheep the
year round.-Chicago Chronicle.
St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1899-04-08
IT IS NOT FRANCE.
The African Colonial Party II Rc-
Eardcd AZ Of Little ImpOr-
tance In Paris.

As NJ. Decle has pointed out, the
French African colonial party is rot
France. 1t is small, noisy. visionary,
anti-Semitic. and, | believe. royalist.
and its ideas are purely military. Its
sole apparent aim. and l say this de-
iiberately, is to create French negro
army in Central Africa, with vast re-
cruiting grounds and points of vantage.
and eventually to connect this with n
route at both ends Cairo and Fashoda)
and entirely. so as to hold Egypt and
the SueZ canal with a negro army and
to dispose of the revenues there and
right of passage through the canal. In
the preliminary stage of this scheme it
uses Atlantic and Gulf Of Alden sea-
coast bases in-time of peace, knowing
that they will be blocked or taken in
case of war, and looks to desert caravan
route from Algeria and Tripoli to
French negro lands to maintain connec-
tion at pinch between France and its
negro army until the Nile is captured.
The superhuman difficulty of block
aiding the Algerian and Biserta coast.
and the large military resources and
standing army in .Algiers, makes an es-
sential difference between that base
and the others that they now possess.
They are right in thinking that Egypt
and the canal is the point where negro
troops can make most impression on
worldwide issues of war. and that the
Nile is the only trans-Sahara route fit
for big movements of men and supplies.
Such ideas recall the grand schemes for
connecting French Canada and Louisi-
ana, via Lake Erie, Pittsburgh tFcrt
Duquesne) and the Ohio; or for con.
quering India with native troops
trained in the interior hinterlands of
our embryo presidencies. These
schemes did not come off because there
was too much rough sea water in the
question:: but the French draw a dis
tinction in favor of the Mediterranean
in that respect.-Fortnightly Review.
St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1899-04-08
Ultra Proper.

81 did not imagine" sighed the de-
jected suitor, that woman could pos
sibly be as particular as her mother is.
She is ultra, fanaticalIy, absurdly prop
er."
''What's the matter nowT"
"She took pains TO inform me this
gas to go out without a chaperon."-
Detroit Free Press.
St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1899-04-08
Woulan't Trust Hin.

"My dear" said repentant husband
to his wife, IF have ever used any
unkind words to you, take them all
back"
'.No. you don't. know you. You
want to use them all over again.
Tit-Bits.
St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1899-04-08
W. G. KENTZEL, Editor.
SIGNS.


Inere's q circle round the moon.
Inere's mist upon the pane.
Inc winds in the south
LOOK out. Twill surely rain,
Herc's a spider spinning down.
There's a Sagrant bumb.e bee.
10. Polly, stir cake.
There'll be guest at tea.
A bird flies in the door.
The dog howls in the night.
somebody soon will die
Inat is. you know they might.
Inc new moons straight ahead,
You're sure to have a fall;
iou see 1t On your left
You'll have no luck at all.
some one has spilled the salt.
On, dear. what shall we do?
Vuick, throw some in the fire,
Or a quarrel will ensue.
search through all the signs,
In every mood and tense,
Reveals, alas. no sign
Of solid common sense,
Al r. Sanford, in Golden Days.
St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1899-04-08
4 Slow Thinker.

Choliy-My motto is always think
before you speak,"
Dolly-Don't you find it hard sustain
ing conversation and living up to
your motto at the come time?-San
Francisco Examiner.
St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1899-04-08
A Town wieno.t Dor..

Pisek. Bohemia, is probably the only
dogless town in the world In conse-
qusnce of death from hy9rophobia.
the authorities ordered every deg ir tbs
place kiiled.-Chicago Tribune.
St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1899-04-08
new zealand.s Game Preserve.

There are two islands in New Zea-
land set apart for the preservation OF
its remarkable wild birds and ether
animals. All hunting and trapping is
forbidden ihereon.-Chieaso Cnryp-
iele,
St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1899-04-08
HQDeleaa,

s'The Jinkle girls have given up Ill
their social ambitions"
money run out:"
NO; they conldn't teach their moth-
er 10 say 'caIdelabra,' Chicago Trib.
une.
The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 18??-1935, 1899-03-24
THEY KNOW HOW TO SHOOT.

How Two Tennessee Soldiers Brought
Down a Convict in Manila,
A yarn is told in Manila, and it
concerns the prison and two Tennes-
see volunteers. A Filipino convict
had climbed the prison wall and was
running for dear life through the
open. Two long-legged Teunesseans
were on guard duty. They kneeled
to fire.
II don't guess it's more than three
hundred yards" said one, quietly.
II reckon it's most five hundred, y
said the other, as if he were discuss
ing the weather.
The prisoner was running like a
deer, and rapidly approaching the
underground around innumerable
little huts, where he would be safe.
Call it four hundred" suggested
the first Tennesseean, in a concilia-
tory tone.
They adjusted their sights, aimed,
and fired. The escaping convict
fell, and the two Tennesseeans went
out to bring in what was left of him.
IF he's hit in the head, it's my
shot" said one.
II aimed low, according to army
regulations, drawled the other.
The convict was found with one
bullet through the back of his head
and another through the lower end
of his spine. They know how to
shoot in the mountains of Tennes-
see.-Harper's Weekly.
The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 18??-1935, 1899-03-24

Hinkle, driver of IA brewery wagon.
Ed Spears was shot in the neck and
may die.
The shooting was the result Of
feeling growing out Of the mayoralty
contest which was under way here.
The Sheriff was a warm supporter of
the regular Democratic nominee,
while Toler, Hart and Goslee were
supporting an opposition candidate.
Feeling ran high and early in the
afternoon shots were exchanged be-
tween the Sheriff and his son John,
in front of the City Hall, on one side,
and Sergeant GusIee on the other,
but no one was injured. After this
both parties determined to have it
out. Toler, Hart and Gosloe were
together walking south on Central
avenue at about $3.50 O'Clock, when
they met Sheriff Williams and his
two sons, John and Cotfey, and Ed
Spears, Deputy Sheriff, in front of
Lemp'5 beer depot. The quarrel
was renewed, aud in moment there
was general fusillade in which
forty or fifty shots were exchanged,
When it was over Toler, Hart,
Goslee and Hinkle, y noncombatant,
were dead and John Williams was
mortally wounded He died about
an hour later. Louis Hinkle at
tempted to separate the combatants
at the commencement and was shot
in the head and died instantly.
The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 18??-1935, 1899-03-24
GarwOOd's Sarsaparilla-for the blood
-guarauteed to cure A, b. RAINS
KILLING Az GOODWIN.
Tom Buyers Kills Dave Kelley aud
Wounds Tidy Timmons.

Tom Buyers Kills Dave Kelley and
Wounds Tidy Ttmmons.
As result of pistol shooting at
Goodwin on Thursday night of last
week, Dave Kelley is dead, Tidy
Timmons is badly wounded, and
Tom Buyers is in Jail on the charge
of murder. All Of the parties are
negroes.
On the night mentioned, Buyers
had invited number Of his friends
to his house to attend IA "pound-par-
ty." Everything passed off very
peaceably until Kelley asked Buyers
for his pound Buyers seemed to
take offense at this, and few words
passed between the two. Kelley
said he meant no otfense and was
only joking, and told Buyers he
fought not to act the foolthat way
or words to that effect. At this,
Buyers pulled his pistol and began
firing, one ball striking Kelley in
the abdomen and another hitting
Tidy Timmons in the back. Kelley
lived only few hours afterwards.
Buyers was arrested and placed in
Jail, and arraigned before Judge
Whitthorne Monday afternoon for a
preliminary hearing. He was bound
over to Circuit Court, and upon fail
ure to make bond Cor So coo was re-
manded to jail.
The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 18??-1935, 1899-03-24
FROM A WELL-WISHER.
Such Words as These. Drive Away the
Blues.

Such Words as These. Drive Away the
Blues.
The following letter was received
one day last week, and the next
mail brought one of similar import
from Kansas City, Mo. Such kind
words are an inspiration to do ones
best.
EsROTA, TEXAS, Mar. l3, ls1J.-EF.
COtU m5id Herdid:-My time for your
paper has expired, and enclose $l.O0 70
you to pay for 10 again. | hope TO be
AID as long az the HERALD continues
TO be the HERALD; that is, as long as the
present editor continues TO herald the
HERALD. Tho cross the "Great Faith
er of Waters in distant state, the
HERALD has no truer well-wisher than
your friend, PATTIE &. WRIGHT,
The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 18??-1935, 1899-03-24
TORTURED TO DEATH.

Fate Of an American Mi-sionary and His
Wife iu Africa.
LONDON, Mar. 2l.-The Liverpool
correspondent ofthe Daily Chronicle
says Information has been received
there from Sierra Leone, on the
west coast % Africa, thattwO daugh-
ters Of an American missionary are
held in captivity by the natives II
the Mendi district; their parents
have been tortured and killed.
The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 18??-1935, 1899-03-24
Five KILLED

In Bloody shooting ARRAY at Hot
Springs.
HoT SPRINGS, ARK, March lG.-A
shooting occurred here at $3.50 this
afternoon which resulted in the
death Of i've men and the serious
wOunding Of two others, one Of whom
Is not expected to live. The killed
are:
Thomas Toler, Chief OF Police: J.
f. Hart. City Detective; Thomas r.
GOslee, Police Sergeant; John Will
Jams, son Of Sheriff Williams; Louis
The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 18??-1935, 1899-03-24
NE WIS AND COMMENT.

THE peace treaty with the United
States has been formally ratified by
Spain. The Queen Regent affixed
her royal signature last Friday.
The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 18??-1935, 1899-03-24

COMPANIES b. G. NJ. and l.. Of the
First Tennessee Regiment took part
in the fighting about lloilo last
Thursday. Private Samuels was
slightly wounded.
The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 18??-1935, 1899-03-24
OMAHA HAS A HOLOCAUST.
Two Women Burned to Death-Anothel
One Dying.

OMAHA, Neb., March 2I.-Fire
broke out this afternoon in the Pat
tersOn block, at Seventh and Doug
las streets, where about twenty wO-
men of the lodge of Maccabees were
attending a committee meeting.
When the blaze was discovered the
women were almost surrounded by a
wall Of fire, aud two Of them were
burned to death, aud another will
die. Others are suffering from
broken limbs aud burned aud lacer-
ated flesh.
The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 18??-1935, 1899-03-24

THE Hon. Patrick Walsh, eX-
United States Senator from Georgia
and editor of the Augusta, Ga.
Chronicle, died Sunday of nervous
prOstratiOn.
The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 18??-1935, 1899-03-24

A$l,OOO,OOOOOO copper trust, $75,-
100000 knit goods trust, and SlO,-
O0O GOO screw trust are among the
latest additions to the list Of trusts.
The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 18??-1935, 1899-03-24

THE great battleship Oregon
reached Manila last Saturday even
ing. The long voyage was made
without incident, and the ship was
in perfect condition.
The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 18??-1935, 1899-03-24

LAST Sunday, March 10Th, was
Hon. VIM j. Bryan's 39th birthday.
A banquet was given in his honor at
Chattanooga on Monday night, Mr..
Bryan and large number of proml-
nent Democrats being in attendance.
The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 18??-1935, 1899-03-24
THE DEWEY BOOM
FOR PRESIDENT.
An Effort of the Gold
Democrats
TO KILL OFF WILLIAM J. BRYAN

And the Issue of Bimetallism in 1900
The Opposition are Getting Desperate,
and IA Combination is at Work to Get
the Admiral to Run on the Democratic
Ticket.
The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 18??-1935, 1899-03-24

motion and require defendants to
give bond in the sum of $4,000 each
for their appearance at the next
term Of the Supreme Court.
The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 18??-1935, 1899-03-24
"Phosphate.-

You need a Mitchell wagon and a
set OF our good harness. See
Il SATTERFIELD & OODsON.
The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 18??-1935, 1899-03-24

A STEAMER arriving at San Fran
cisco last Friday from Honolulu
brought news of the death of Prin-
cess Kainlani on the morning of the
9th inst. The cause of her death
was attributed to intlammatory
rheumatism. The Princess was
born October 16, 1875.
The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 18??-1935, 1899-03-24

AT Laredo, Texas, Monday, resis-
tance was made to the removal OF
smallpox patients by the Health Of
ficers, and detachment of the
Tenth cavalry had to be called out,
resulting in the killing of one man
and the wounding of several others.
The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 18??-1935, 1899-03-24
THE VERDICT
MUST STAND.
Judge Holding Overrules
the Motion for a
NEWTRIAL TORTRE IRVINE BOYS.

If The Court or Jury Have Made Errors,
the Supreme Court Must Pass Upon
Them--BOth the Defendants are Out On
Bail.
The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 18??-1935, 1899-03-24

CALIFORNIA has joined the list OF
States in which Legislatures have
adjourned without electing Senators
to fill vacancies in the United States
Senate. Delaware, Utah and Calf
fornia now have only one Senator
each in the United States Senate
and Pennsylvania may also fail tc
elect.