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St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1899-06-10

The FARMER notes the announce
ment of decision Of the Court %
Errors aud Appeals of the State Of
New Jersey, which declares that
property owners need not permit
telegraph poles. telephone poles
and electric light POLES to be placed
on the highways in front OF their
property without due compensation.
Corporations cannot set poles in the
night time or at any other lime
when they Can take property owners
unawares, and thus secure a right
of way. They must obtain the con-
sent and agree with the property
owners ~ to the rate Of compensa-
ton, or, il they cannot agree. must
60 to court and have the issue adj
Indicated there.
St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1899-06-10

"Chickasaw county," says the
Star-Le6ger, has subscribed $685..
600 TO help build q cotton-mill q,
West Point. How much will Attals
county give to build one at Kosclus-
ko? A cotton r2ill here would be =
benefit to the business men OF the
town, because the factory hands
would he paid weekly and all their
wages would be spent with the local
dealers for food and clothing. It
would be q great benefit to the
farmers VI the country by affordinp
. ready market for their products.
It would be blessing to the labor
ing class BY giving regular employ
ment at remunerative wages. Il
would be . great blessing to the
stock holders, for the reason that it
would pay larger aud better divi-
deuds than any other enterprise with
the same amount OF capital invested.
It would4be = blessing to the whole
town and county and boom them
u they never have been boomed.-)
Picayunc Bureau, Jackson, Miss.
St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1899-06-10

General Funston is full of dash
and daring, yet he appears to be a
commander who reckons before
hand all the chances of an exploit.
One of the members of the TWEEN
tieth Kansas relates that before
throwing his column across a
railroad bridge near Malolas which
was under the insurgeut fire the gen.
eral ordered large detail of men
to strip naked and enter the water
beneath the bridge to catch the
dead and wounded who might fall
off. This precaution saved the
lives of at least two wounded men
who fell from the bridge into the
swift river.
St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1899-06-10

That caks-walking may become .
dangerous disease appears to be es-
tablished from the fact that Mise
Rosa Storker, Of Evansville, Ind,
il dead from what the doctors in
attendance diagnose ~ excessive
cake walking" Miss Storker was
pretty girl of sixteen and one
of the most graceful cake-walkers
IN Evansville. It is the second
death there from the same ca1se
within six months.
St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1899-06-10

A student of one Of the leading
educational Institutions Of the state
asks for the publication Of the name
of the author and the circums sances
of the expression, 'Our country;
may she ever be right" In Nc
Kiuzie's life of Stephen Decatur.
the folio wing occurs: 'Having
been appointed navy commissioner
1t Washington, on his return from
his campaign against the Algerine
pirates, Decatur received the com.
plimcnt Of = public dinner at Nor
folk, Va, IN April, 1916, where he
offered . toast, which from the pro-
verbal character it acquired, his bio
grapher calls not the least valuble Of
bis legacies to h's countrymen: Our
country; in her intercourse with
foreign nations may she always be
right; but our country. right or
Times Democrat.
St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1899-06-10
Interesting Decision.

The Supreme Court Of the State
. decision last week that
is not only Of interest to saw mill
men, but to every class Of manu-
facturers, even down to book and
newspaper makers. We publish
it here IN full:
Estate ex rel. 4. A. Browne,
Sheriff and Tax Collector, Iberville
Parish. vs.. The Wilbert's Sons
Lumber and Single Co.-Appeal
from the Fourteenth Judicial Dis
trict Court, Parish Of Iberville.
The provisions Of article 229 OF
the CONSTITUTION OF 1898 are al
most identical with article 2O6 OF
the Constitution Of 1879; and tue
clause thereof which provides that
all persons, association OF persons
and corporations pursuing any
trade, profession, business or call
ing may be rendered liable to . IL
cense tax, except clerks, laborers,
etc., and those engaged in mechanic
cal pursuits and manufacturers
other than those OF distilled alco-
holic or malt liquors. etc., includes
all manufacturers of kind and char
acter and those engaged in mechanic
cal pursuits other than those emu
merated in the exception.
The proprietor of an establish
ment employed in the conversion
Of saw logs into lumber OF different
kind and qualities in its rough state
is engaged in chsnging by machinery
raw material into new and useful
forms, and is, therefore, maufuc-
turer.
A corporation, which by the ap-
plication of labor and mechanical
skill makes salable articles out of
raw materials, and by this means
converts them into new and differ
ent articles having distinctive
name, character or use from that OF
the raw material is . manufactures
IN the sense of the Constitution.
Section IL of Article No. 16l OF
the license law of 1898, which pro.
vides that sawmills shall pay . II
cehse, based on the gross annual
receipts thereof, Is unconstitutional
pro tanto and the license sought to
be collected is illegal and cannot
be enforced.
1t is, therefore, ordered, adj
judged and decreed that tue judg-
ment appealed from be annulled
and reversed and it is further or
dered aud decreed that the demands
Ut the :elatoI he rejected. and that
the exemption claim BY the respond
ents be sustained tand enforced at
the cost of relator in both courts. !"
St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1899-06-10
Louisiana Holidays.

A prominent banker said the
other day: "The banks have re-
ceived such numerous and repeated
inquiries as to whether this or that
day is legal holiday, that l be-
lieve an enumeration Of the days
would be of benefit to the public.
If people would cut out the list
which | will give you and paste it
in a CONSPICUOUS place they will find
it convenient" He gave the fol-
lowing list:
Jan. New Years day.
Jan. s-Battle of New Orleans.
Feb. s2-Washlngton's birth
day.
Mardi Gras--Shrove Tuesday.
Good Friday.
April Decoration Day.
July Independence day.
Nov. All Saints day.
Nov. 25-Labor day.
Thanksgiving day.
December 25-Chrlstmas Day.
Every general and local election
day.
In New Orleans only: Satur-
days are half holidays; public Of
fees and banks closing their doors
at l2 O'CLOCK.
"There are," he said, .sno other
legal holidays, and if the public
will keep the list and refer to 1t,
they will he savefs great deal of
annoyance and difficulty
Some people thought that May
30, the Union Memorial day, was
! legal holiday, and there was 3
discussion in one Of the local courts |
Is to whether they ought to close |
Up that day. That is not q legal
Holiday here.-Picayune.
St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1899-06-10
Abita Springs.
June 8, 1899.

June 8, 1899.
Editor St. Tammany FARMER:
One Of the most charming events Of
the season was the grand ban at
Simon's Hotel last Saturday night.
Our town has been benefited by many
rains In the past week.
Mr.. Edgar Bessau has been visiting
his parents, at Abita Springs. He left
for New Orleans last Sunday.
Mr.. G. s. Price, Of Jackson Miss.
spent last Sunday ct Abita.
Mr.. Paul Cooper has returned from
visiting friends in McComb City.
Mr.. Charlie Hosmer paid . flying
visit to the city last Tuesday.
Miss A. Ewald returned to New Or
leans last Sunday from pleasant visit
IN Abita. CONSTANT.
St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1899-06-10
q. 8. Land Once. New Orleans. L..
hay 9, 1899.

U. 8. Land Once. New Orleans. L.. !
laay 3, l899
Notice il hereby given that the follow.
ine-named settled Las hled notice Of her
intention to make final proof In sup port
OF Ler claim, and that said proof will be
made before II. Il. Warren. Clork Of the
District Court, ct Covinston, La, ON
Saturday. June -. 1889. viz:
LOUISE ROGERS,
Mother and heir Of Louis Sharp, de-
ceased.)
Who made homestead entry No. 5.4l5
for the southeast quarter OF section 5,
township =. south range IL eat, st. He
lena Aesidian.
She names she following witnesses to
prove her continuous residence upon
and cultivation Of said land. viz:
George Schultz, H. Rogers, A.
Schultz and ] Miller, all Of st. Tam
many Parish, Il.
myl3 st. HALrxs L. COHEN, Register.
St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1899-06-10
Babington Bros. i Co. vs.. Arthur
Hutchison.
Third Justice Court, In and for the
Parish OF st. Tammany, State Of
Louisiana.

By virtue Of writ Of seizure aud sale
from the above count in tile above en-.
titled suit. to me directed, bearing date
May 4, 1875
l have seized. and will sell ct ublic sue-
tion, to the Inquest and best bidder tor
c.ssh, at the door OF the courthouse,
in the town Ut Covington, Parish Of 81.
Tsmmany, La, on SATURDAY, June
IL, 1893, between legal sale hours. the
following described property in 81. Tam
nsny rarisLa, T. wit:
Lot No. (0 Elk in square No. 260l and
improvements. Said lot forms corner 0f
Jefferson street and Twenty Seventh
avenue, and has front on Jefferson Of
lao feet by = de- pth and front ON Twenty
seventh avenue Of sixty feet between
parallel lines. in New COvingt0n.
Also one red cow and calf.
Seized In the above entitled suit.
Terms Of sale cash, with the benefit Of
appraisemenk
CHAS. HEINTZ, JR.,
Constable, Third Ward.
St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1899-06-10
verger.
May 81, 1899.

May d, A0SSs
Editor st. Tammany FARMER:
II you will allow me space in
your paper 1 will endeavor to give
your many readers few dots from
this section OF the parish.
We are all moving along up here
with our farm work etc.. a. nicely
Is could be expected, and crops are
very good considering the six weeks
drouth we have had, which is not as
yet broken.
Other business seems to be some
what on a boom. Mr.. James II.
'ralley, who has charge OF the Live
Oaks Mill, has all parts Of the ma
chinery IN perfect order, and is
turning out the best Of yellow pine
lum Der.
Messrs. Burns Bros. Sawmill has
shut down for short while.
Messrs. Jones & Pickett, who are
in the turpentine business at the 10
mile post on the Holmesville road.
seem to be doing q good business
in that line, judging from the teams
etc. they have steadily employed.
These gentlemen are doing business
at four different places in the parish,
and Is they are both experienced
men in that business nothing but
success can ever crown their efforts.
We learn that the enterprising
firm OF Fendlason Bros, composed
Of Geo. N. & II. N. Fendlason, has
several thousand acres Of land in
this and Tangipahoa Parish Of the
finest Of timber leased and contem-
plate opening up one or two tur-
pentine stills this coming season.
Young gentlemen we wish you
much success.
Frederick & Singletarv are also IN
the turpentlne business, near the
Bennett bridge on The Tchefuncta.
The write. has argued that be
would never have the turpentine
extracted from his timber. behaving
it to be detrimental to the timber.
but, alas, wher we get in Rome, we
presume will do as Rome does.
NJ. D. n. Wallis and wife, Of
Covington, has been visiting rela-
tives near Verger this week.
Mr.. and Mrs. j. ID. McLain. OF
Covington paid their relatives of the
Second Ward q short but pleasant
visit few days ago.
NJ. James L. Rogers has the
Blackwell school. and will begin
teaching in y few days.
Mr. b. F. Rogers, our Police
Juror OF this Ward hiss purchased a
place in Livingston Parish, and will
move on it in month or go.
Mr. John Carroll, prosperous
farmer Of verger, while blowing in
his field q few days ago uuearthed
ard killed rattle snake. The reptile
had 5 rattles.
Messrs. A. Rogers and ". Black
we'll have a great many logs in the
Bogue Falis, and they are only wait
ing now for the rain to come and
foat their timber to market.
Mr.. Willis Blackwell is now
butchering, and we can get the
choicest Of beef once . week.
Mr.. Rea Mckee, Deputy Sheriff,
went eight miles north of Franklin
ton last week and succeed in arrest
ing Eugene Harvey. (colored. who
had escaped from the State Peni-
Tertiary several weeks ago.
For fear that we may take up too
much of YOUR valuable space We
will close, and il this article escapes
the waste basket probably we will
come again. With best wishes to
the kind editor. We are yours,
OPTIMA.
St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1899-06-10
The Beet Sugar Industry

Gov. Tanner OF Illinois has vetoed
the act OF the Legislature giving 3
bounty on sugar beets. He did so
on the ground that the cultivation
Of the beet can be made profitable
without . bounty, and that the
protection afforded BY the customs
duty is sufficient. The veto OF the
Governor does not seem to have
caused much panic in Illinois, and
the contracts made for sugar beets
show that even without the bounty
there is going to be q large acreage
ia beets and . big yield.
The stories told OF the profits in
the new industry will have decided
tendency to make all the farmers Of
the Northwest 90 into sugar beet
culture, for even without the bounty
the crop 10 Ole of the most prOfita-
BILE that can be cultivated.
Some OF the Western papers are
giving the experience OF farmers in
this matter, and the returne they
indicate are certainly . great temp
tatlon. Thus ut Glencoe. Mimi,
two large farms planted in sugar
beets yielded fifteen tons per acre,
worth 81 so per ton, or $67 so per
acre. The Gust of cultivation is
much heavier than that Of wheat
t27 IS per acre-but it leaves .
profit Of $50 IS per acre, which 1t
is needless to say, is extraordinary
for Minnesota. Neigbbol hing land
planted in wheat, and which yielded
the very large crop of twenty-five
bushels per acre, brought . profit
of only S. 81, or less than one-fifth
what the beets brought. These
figures are rather staggering. es-
pecially Is tue growers Of wheat
have made SO much money lately. |
To lind another crop six times as
profitable seems q wonder indeed.
There WAS . disposition at first
among the Western farmers to con-
slider the Minnesota estimate an ex-
one, but the returns from
New York agree remarkably we'll
with it. Forty-six Of the farmers
who raised beets for the sugar
factory 1t Rome got 1875 tons per
acre which sold ut "a 46 per ton,
yielding $66 rs to each acre grown
10 bcsts, or very nearly the same
as in Minnesota. This Is only an
average. some OF the New York
farmers doing much better and
getting twenty tons Of beets aud
80 per acre.
These figures are pretty good evl-
lence that the beet sugar industry
Il the United States does not need
my additional bounty.
The bounty Is likely to have the
anne effect - in Germany-prove|
St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1899-06-10

How TO GAIN AvoIRDUPOls.-
The following recipe for gaining
weight is seriously proposed by an
eastern physician Of note: Eat
vegetables and sleep after each
meal. Go to bed at nine O'Clock
and lie in bed half an hour after
you wake up. Laugh q great deal.
Drink water by the pint or quart
If you can. Drink weak and sweet
tea with plenty Of milk in 1t. Take
cod liver oil and sweet oil as much
rs you can. Eat until You feel as
il you would burst at the table.
Put plenty Of butter on your bread.
This will guarantee . gain Ut five
pounds . month, and il you can
sleep q great deal, Of double that
amount.
St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1899-06-10

The Washington papers say that
the war department is being flooded
with pension chains from dis
charged soldiers. Fifty thousand
men have fled claims already, and
they are still pouring in at a rate
Of $50 per day. 1t is estimated that
not more than ten per cent will
ever be approved.
St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1899-06-10
Turned Out for q Trihe.

/ wish to call the attention of the
public to the fact that l am turning
out very high grade of carriage
painting At very reasonable prices.
A large number of Surveys and
buggies painted in my shop are
now on the street, and the work
speaks for itself.
Drop me q postal and ! will call
and give estimate. Respectfully
yours II. WIGHT.
Covington Carriage Shop.
All orders left with Roubion h
Strobe will receive prompt atten-
ton.
St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1899-06-10
HOMESTEAD APPLICATION.

In accordance with Act EO. 81 of the
Legislature Of the State Of L.ouisi ana OF
1888. hereby give notice Of my inten-
taon 70 homestead the following State
land, viz:
Southeast quarter Of section IS, town.
ship s, south range II east, Greensburg
District.
May Fiat. MRS. d. J. DILLARD,
St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1899-06-10

m undue stimulus and bring about
overproduction. II sugar beets
pay 40 we'll as the Western papers
say, they can get along without
further governmental assistance
Times Democrat.
II these bee,s will grow in the
South, we can easily double the
profits made in the Northwest. by
making two crops q year on the
same land.
St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1899-06-10

The War Department has decided
that each State shall receive one
gun from the ordnance captured
from the Spaniards in Cuba. the
Governor to decide what DISPOSE
ton should be made of the gun.
St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1899-06-10

We call attention to the adver-
tisement of the Twlce-a-Week
Picayune, issued Monday and
Thursday morning. Price one dol
lar a year.
The Twice-a-Week Plcayune is
a ten page paper, containing all the
most important and best news from
preceding daily issues, and the
Telegraphic and Local news Of i'm
portance up to eleven o'clock the
night before issue. Subscriptions
left at this offics will receive
prompt attention.
St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1899-06-10
Pearl River.

June D, 1879.
Editor st. Tammany FARMER:
Ye Scribbler of Pearl River must
chronicle an uncommon occurrence
on this eventful day, even June 5,
a gracious rainfall. Everybody,
all vegetation, and the parched
earth, seemed to be glad and re-
freshed by the delightful shower.
A little dog, who wags his tail
and gives you his paw if you ask
him where Joe Wheeler" is. had
never in all his two months of life
seen it RAIN, showed his astonish-
ment by running wildly from one
room to another, through the hall,
into a closet, back aud forth, then
sat down and watched the big drops
as if in quandary whether it was
ga new thing nnder the sum-" OF
something so old it was beyond his
memory.
Miss Kate Willis, and her
brother Mr.. Irlous Willis, returned
home last Saturday night, each
honored with their sssheepskin
rolls" which they had won by dint
of hard study and perseverance.
May the world be made wiser and
better by the grand opportunities
and possibilities that lie before
them. Mrs. Willis, to welcome
their home coming, gave them a
fine dinner to-day, to which few
special friends were invited, making
it quite an enjoyable affair.
Miss Lizzie Willis, who had been
attending the commencement at
f. NJ. F College, Meridian, and
the Poplarville High School, also
returned home.
Mr.. H. Nelson and family have
returned to "Villa Marie" their
summer home at this place.
Crowds of visitors from the city
are seen every excursion day
Miss Ida Sadler, after pleasant
stay of several months in the city,
returned home to-day, gladly leav-
ing the dusty city to get a breath
of the health-giving plny woods
bleezes of Old st. Tammany.
Miss Alice Porter. who is teach
ing the public school, paid a flying
visit to friends IN the city, and is
back at work, teaching the young
ideas of Pearl River how to shoot.
Mrs. Walter Gamble, from the
city, was visiting Mr.. and Mrs. j.
Monroe yesterday.
Mr.. Heitkamp's fine large store
is going up rapidly.
Mrs. Fred Hinze expects shortly
to leave for Minneapolis, MIMI, to
visit her husband, who has gone
there for his health.
The Postoffice was changed to-
day inside Of the so rod limit,
Mr.. J. J. Willis, with Miss Lizzie
Willis as assistant, taking charge
of the same. in place of Mrs. l..
Crary Sadler. who after nearly six
years. service for "Uncle SAM"
had resigned.
With best wishes and long life
to We Editor, and the st. Tam
MANY FARMER. Yours,
RELDAS.
St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1899-06-10
MISS L. A. GUNZEL
Mllliner and Dl,essmakel.
CONVICTION, LA.

US. Land Office. New Orleans. La. /
May. 9 1883. !
Notice is hereby given that the follow.
ipR.Hametl settler has filed notice OF his
intention to maze final proof in sup port
of his claim, and that said proof will be
una lie before II. r. Wirren. Clerk of the
District Court af Covinyton. La, on
Saturday, June 81; 1889. viz:
JAMES CULBERT.
Who made homestead entry No. ID. $50
for the west half Of the southve quarter
and the southwest quarter Of the north.
vert quarter Of section Is, township
5 south mango il east. st. Helena
meridian.
he names the folio wing witnesses to
prove b il continuous residence upon
and cultivation OF said land viz:
John Quave, Of Abita Springs, and
C. w. Bush, Alex Bush and F. z. Bush
Of T.lisheek r. o., La
myl3-6t. WALTER L. COHEN, Register.
U. &. Land Ofice. New Orleans. La I
May 9. 1888.
Notes in hereby given that the f0llow-
inR-aamed settler has fled notice Of his
intention to make final proof in support
of his cLsim. and that laid proof will be
made befor re H. B. Warren, Clerk of the
District Court at Covingt0n, La., on
Saturday, June 81. 1889. Wig:
EDWARD FNOSCH.
Who niads homestead entry No. Is. 66l
for the northeast quarter of section 81,
township z, south Of range II eas.. st.
Helena MeHdia1.
He names tbs following witnesses to
prove his continuous residence upon
and cultivation Of said land. viz.
Ernest Miller, Louis Pizetti, Jules
Roquette and Anthony Frosh, all Of
Vaudeville, La.
myl5-6t. WALTER L. COHEN, Register.
St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1899-06-10

q, 6. Land Oficc, New Orleans. fe. I
April ~. 1899.
Notice 10 hereby given that the fol-
lowing named settler has fled notice Of
his intention 70 make final proof in
support Of his claim. and that said proof
will b :. ade before II. T. Warren. clerk
OF the DistTie. court. At Covingeon, La,
on Saturday, Juno II 1899. wig:
CHARLEY r. PROVOST,
WHO made hon. stead entry Nc. l4..la
for the northeast quarter OF section -,
township 3, seuth Of range IL east lSt
Helena meridian.
He uancs the follow ing Witnesses 70
prove his continuous residence upon
and cultivation o: said land, VIZ:
w. H. Kahll, 8. B. Cow4rt, O. ID.
Crawford and John Slade, all Of rhom-
asville, Ii.
sp29-6k WAErEs l.. cozxx, Kegister.