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New-York tribune., 1900-12-15

discovery. the poor. despised potato, would GER
tainly do for hogs. and if boiled with dates,
might keep body and soul together among those
who could find nothing better" Miss Flint has
contrived a small encyclopedia of sense and
sentiment agreeably written.
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them can sing the tCadets de Gaicogne" and re-
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TIVE BY Joel Cook Three volumes Svo. pp.
viii, 51O viii. 514; viii. 5s2. Henry T. Coates &
PhiladelDhia.
St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1900-04-14

Winter IL now almost gone, spring
Is rapidly approaching. Tn sons- birds
in the forests have already caught the
coming inspiration. They have mated,
and are now busy selecting homes and
building nests. From their CHEEKY
notes let us catch something of the
happy spirit. Let us sing paeans Of
praise to the warming sunshine and
budding life.
Not very much progress with the
crops can be expected in February.
but good deal by way of preparation
can be done.
Spring oats should all be sows this
month. We can not safely count on
oats scwn in March. Sometimes they
succeed.
Every farm tool should now be put
in the best condition for good work.
We can not do first class work with
second class tools, or with good tools
in poor condition. IF iron ne blunt
he must lay to the more strength"
This maxim has lost none of its truth
or point by the lapse of thousands Of
years. 1t is still worthy OF repetition
and attention.
Do not be in q hurry to plant, but
he in a hurry to get ready to plant
Dixie Farmer.
St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1900-04-14

Matching time is here, and those
who have neither incubators nor sis-
TIM, hens, will be left when broiled
chicken should be ripe.
When an inexperienced enthusiast
goes into poultry farming with any
where from 500 hens, it IL proof that
th- fools are not all dead.
Oats is one of the best and cheap
est Lay plants that can be grown. Cut
when the plants first form the head,
tie entire plant makes fine hay. This
is . crop that can follow corn or
other crop, and il on the ground and
out of the way of cotton.
The Kansas experiment station
has been trying to kill pocket gophers,
and after trying different methods,
has adopted poisoning with strych-
mined Irish potatoes. The plan is a
good one, but if sweet potatoes are
substituted for the Irish potatoes, II
will he mere ehectual.
The American wool crop last year
was 27a, ,000, 900 pounds. 53.O00. 600 less
than in 1894. The shortage in the wool
crop Of Australia Of about 143, ,OOO. GOO
pounds has assured to American wool
growers fair prices, and . probability
Of considerable expansion in the sheep
business.
III, last year il paid to raise and
market fifty chickens from the farm
flock, it win pay double the amount
to raise and market double that nu0-
Der this year. It II an open market,
and the field Of production is open for
our efforts at production during ~
of the first months of the year.
St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1900-04-14

Then the handwriting experts again
compared the address with Molineux's
writing, and pronounced it his. At
the coroner's inquest the district at
torney was instrumental in securing
a verdict to the effect that Mrs. Ad-
ans came to her death through poison
administered to her by Harry S. Cor
nish. the poison having been sent to
him by Molineux.
The latter was arrested at once,
and an Indictment found against him,
which. later on, was dismissed. A
succeeding grand jury refused to in
dict, and Molineux was discharged.
only to be rearrested at once on the
charge of assaulting Cornish. Then
there followed another long legal bat
tie, and Molineux was agSin discharged
and rearrested. He waived examina-
ton on the assault charge, and finally
the July grand jury found an indict-
ment against him in seven counts,
for the murder by poison of Mrs.
Adams. His trial was Z long one,
and ended in his being found guilty.
his execution to take place in Sing
Sing prison during the week OF
March 26.
Many notable LAWYERS Ars dissatis-
fed with the verdict and III. conduct
of the trial. which cost the state Of
New York s175,0cO, and which has
financially ruined the Molineux family.
WILLIAM WALTER WELIA
St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1900-04-14
PURCHASING SEEDS.


With the advent of the New Year
there appears upon our table the seed
catalogue. profuse IN illustrations OF
mammoth vegetables and beautiful
flowers. Indeed, the catalogues of the
large seed-houses Of to-day are works
of nrt, and we welcome their coming
with pleasure. and examine their con-
tents with increasing interest. With
every succeeding year these catalogues
tell us of new varieties of our standard
vegetables, originated with infinite Ia
bor and placed before the public at
great expense. These so-called novel;
ties are necessarily high priced, and
while the bulk Of our crop must be
planted of the older sorts, it Is always
interesting to try few of these new
varieties in comparison with the old
and tried kind.
1t is wisest when placing your or
der to select those varieties which have
been tried and proved successful in
Jour locality, certain varieties Of toma-
toes, for instance. succeeding much bet
ter in some localities than others. Still
with a great many of our vegetables,
locality has little to do. With Irish po.
tatoes, the newer kinds will be found.
as a rule, the most prolific, the seed
having more vitality, for it has been
shown that all .,arieties Of Irish POta-
toes are apt to deteriorate rs they
grow older. In fact, all seeds need con-
slant breeding up, to insure the best
development, and this is what the
large seed-houses 4re doing for us.
An eye must be also kept on the de-
nands of your market, and those va
rietics selected which have proved IA
vorites with the trade.
Nearly all of the large and we'll
known seed-houses are reliable. ll
they are not, they would not be large
and well known. And, unless you live
near 4 city where you can procure
their seeds from agents, it will pay
you to order direct from the big firms.
Indeed it often pays to do this any
way, for then you are sure Of getting
what you want, and getting it fresh.
Now don't put of ordering your seed
until the last moment, and Their expect
to have them when they are needed;
but give yourself plenty Of time by or
deTing early, and have your seed on
hand ia advance. Then, when the sea-
son is just right, you will be ready to
plant. You know that it Is difficult to
catch the land dry enough to work in
the very early spring, and IL you have
not already procured your seed, it is
liable to rain again before you can
get them, when your planting will be
delayed several weskes, making you
late with your crop. This matter IL
most important to the success Of ths
earliest vegetables, and we have al
ready ordered q large portion Of our
seeds.-r. J. Merriam, in Southern
Cultiyator.
St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1900-04-14

vast wealth and reserving only an
annuity of two per cent, or $40, 900 per
year, payable up to the death of him
self and bis wife.
DR.. Pearsons il now nearly four
score years of age. He came to Chi
!. cago in 1860, from Chicopee, Mass,
where he had practiced medicine for
;.tsn years and accumulated a nest egg
of $4,000. His one ambition at that
time, according to his own admission,
was to get rich; and he worked in sea-
SON and out of season to attain his
end. Instead of continuing the prac-
tice of his profession-a slow and un-
certain way of laying up earthly treas
ure-he engaged in the sale of farm
lands in all:parts Of the state Of Hi.
nois, acting as the agent of eastern
capitalists, western landowners and
railroad corporations. After dispos-
ing of 1000, 600 acres on a percentages
basis of five per cent. he found him
self a welLto-do man. financially able
to become interested in urban trans
St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1900-04-14
A Paying Experiment.

Every farmer, poor or rich, can and
should make the following experiment.
Select at once one acre and break it at
least Is inches and pulverize as fine
as possible with the best tools you
have. Then plant any crop you please
on this acre. Or if it suits you better.
plant several crops upon it. Keep .
careful account of the expenses and
the income, and carefully compare the
results with any other acre in the
same or similar crops.
In this way yon can learn many
useful lessons for future use. We
earnestly request every farmer to try
this. You con not lose anything by
this. You can not lose anything by
this trial. You may make great deal
Try it.-Dixie Farmer.
St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1900-04-14
SENSES OF THE SAVAGE.
se,e.tiAe view Of 1Aeis Alleged Su-
Deriority to Clvilised Men In
This Respect.

In his last lecture ON the Senses Of
Primitive Man" W. II. Il. Rivers dis
cussed the acuteness of hearing in
savages. In this respect none Of the
Torres Straits natives were superior
to one of the Europeans composing the
expedition, while the majority were in
ferior. No great weight. however,
could be attached to the observations,
because all the people were divers
an occupation that certainly damaged
the ears to some extent. To investi-
gate their range of hearing Cations
whistle was used, and It was shown
that they could hear very high notes.
Their sense Of smell was tested by
means of q series of tubes containing
solutions, Of varying strength, Of odor-
GUS substances like valerian and cam
phor, and the results, while not alto
gether satisfactory. tended to show
they had no marked superiority in this
respect over the members of the ex-
pedition. With regard to taste it was
very difficult to get information. as
the natives, naturally enough, did not
like strange objects being put into
their mouths. One fact, however. was
noticed, which was interesting when
it was remembered that sweet and Bit
ter were probably our most definite
taste sensations, and that was the COM
plete absence of any word for bitter.
For the sense of temperature the data
was very scanty, but it was found that
the natives had points on their skin
specially sensitive to cold, exactly as
was the case with Europeans.
AS to touch, when tested to see how
close the points of pair of compasses
must be put ON the skin before they
ceased to be felt as two, their sensitive
aess was in general better than Euro
peans, but there was always the doubt
whether they were really able to bear
pain with more fortitude. However,
the conclusion that the Murray island
ers were distinctly less sensitive than
the Europeans in the expedition was
supported not only by their subjective
statements, but also by object tests
depending ON the condition of the blood
pressure. In the discrimination Of
weight IL wn curious that these ma
tives, who had an abstract idea Of
weight and no word to express it, and
who, moreover, could have had no prac-
tice, were more accurate than a prac-
ticed European Finally DIR. Rivers,
while commenting on -. defective
knowledge of some of the sensss he
had treated and on the absence of COM
parative data, concluded that in gen
eral the sense organs Of the savages
were not markedly superior to those
Of the normal of average European,
and that the recorded instances of ap-
parent extraordinary acuteness were
to be explained by his habits of OBJ
and specialized lnowledge.-
Chicago Chronicle,
St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1900-04-14
ELECTRICITY FROM WIND.


That's another Of them : iijit
yarns" said the skipper to the mate,
as his privateering fork made a prize
of the last piece of bread on the plate.
The Yankee papers stretch out stun
OF that kind like the ship chandler
does his bill. They miss stays half
the time, and do not know what they
are talking about" And he threw the
paper to one side.
What blood and thunder yarn is it
this time?" asked the mate, glancing
knowingly at the empty platter.
'lt's no penny dreadful at ALL" an
swered the captain between mouth
fuls- Its nothing less than a red
hot whisper. It's about them Dutch
men who are fitting out for an arctic
trip to be gone four years. After tell.
ing how the hull il to be strength
ened in and out to fight the ice, it
says that the tub is to be lighted with
electricity throughout. Now. what
want to know is how they can make
electricity without coal. They can't
carry enough coal in her to do the
lighting for four years. That's why
it is . galley yarn"
Not at ALL" said the mate, nj
though he felt bit "shaky" in saying
IL. They don't need coal to make
electricity. When was up north in
the Phoenix four or five years ago l
saw a boat called the Fran, which
was owned by chap named Nansen.
She was at Bergen at the time, and
remember that the mate took me
aboard and showed me an electric
lighting plant that beat old mischief.
Coal for the dynamos? Not. q pinch
full. They worked their machines with
power supplied from windmill, and
tell you it opened my eyes. No,
am not turning pressman, captain. /
am telling you the honest truth.
had my doubts about it, though, until
last year, when / was in Boston. In
the Assyrian I met . very clever
young Yankee who sailed from Wal
pole, Mass, and he claimed that he
had the first and only really success
full windmill electric-lighting plant in
the world. told him that / could
get to windward Of that claim. but
he lighted not only his house at
Walpole with his windmill plant. but
his stables and grounds as well. i
don't believe half tnat read in these
American papers, but this doing with
out coal for electricity is all right.
I'm very sorry to offend you. but it's
as true as the fact that you have
taken my piece of bread. Y.
Mail and Express.
St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1900-04-14

to himself = promise that the money
SO saved should be disposed Of for the
public good-during his own and his
amiable wife's lifetime, If possible.
How well this promise has been kept
is evidenced by the fact that since 1890
he has given away $2,5cO, 900 to the
following institutions:
Lake Forest university, Chicago. Sle5,-
eco; Beioit college. 1000: Chicago Taeo.
logical seminary. $780, coo: Mccormick Theo-
logical seminary, $50. 600: Chicago Presby-
terian hospital. $7e. 900: Chicago Y M. c.
A., $40. o.060: Drury college, Springfield No.,
800. 200; Yankton college, South Dakota.
800 600: Colorado college. Colorado Springs,
sloo. 900: Fargo college. Fargo, N. D., $685.
eco; Mount Ho.yoke seminary $50 900: Chi
cago Art institute. $4,000; Berea college,
KY, $l00, 600: Marietta college, $25.C00: Me-
Kcndree cole ege, ,.$25 coo: Grand Prairie SEM
mary, Onarga, ILL.,, SO 900: Whitman coll
lege, $l2o. Zoo: Pacific university. Oregon,
$50 900: Pomona college, Cal. $50. .0o0: Brad
ford, VT, public library. 5000: Pre- esby.er-
ian board of missions. So Oo0: First Presby-
terian church. Chicago, $4,000. Olivet col
lege, Mich. $4,000; Paramount college.
Kan. $50, 600: Carleton college, Northf-ld.
Mimi. So, Geo: Chicago City Missionary
society. $4,000: Anatola college, Turkey,
$50. 900. g. ". WEIPPIERT.
St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1900-04-14
THE ADAMS MURDER CASE
An American "Cause Celebre. u

corning athletic matters. In search
ing for enemies of Cornish, Molineux
was picked out, and handwriting ex-
perts later testified that his writing
corresponded with that on the poison
package. The morning after the pub
lication of his name in connection
with the case Molineux. then a prom
inent society man, and his father,
Gen. Molineux, a veteran Of the civil
war, presented themselves at the
house Of Capt. McClusky, chief Of de-
tectives, and the younger man asked
il. he was wanted. He was told he
was not, and SO the matter ended for
time
St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1900-04-14
d. D. K. pEARsoNs, Of Chicago

portation enterprises and other oom-
mercial ventures. He bought Chicago
city lots and improved property, in
vested in Michigan pine lands and
dealt in logs.
Whatever he touched seemed &c turn
to gold. The hopes of his middle age
had reached fruition; and in 1878 he
entered upon his matchless career as
philanthropist. the city of Chicago
being his first beneficiary. In that
year the western metropolis, still suf-
fering from the evil effects of the great
fire, had reached the end of its credit.
The tax levies were in dispute. an
claims against the municipality were
St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1900-04-14
GELD Ri.x. q. Currency.

1t is interesting to note that the
early Egyptian custom of paying gold
in the form of rings has not entirely
died out in Africa ut the present day.
and that English merchants trading
with the Kongo are quite accustomed
to receiving gold in the form of rings.
frequently ornameuted with the signs
of the zodiac in relief.-Chicago Inter
St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1900-04-14

Q Mrs. Rogers, wife of an insur-
ance agent. On Tuesday evening
Cornish and the two women went
to the theater, after which they had
supper. The next morning Mrs. Adams
complained Of having a headache, and
applied to Cornish for some bromo-
seltzer. He gave some of the contents
of the bottle TO her. Mrs. Adams took
a heaping teaspoonful in glass of wa
ter. She was taken i'll at once, and
died in few minutes after the physi-
clan arrived. The gift, which was re-
ceived by Cornish on Christmas eve
through the mail, was silver med
icine holder, with small bottle, sup
posed to contain bromo-seltzer. The
silver case was . match-holder, Just
large enough to hold the bottle. 1t
w1s nearly noon before the death was
reported to the coroner's Office. DR..
Weston, of that Office, went to the
Adams house and secured what was
left of the supposed bromo-seltzer
Analysis proved that the stuff con-
tained . portion of cyanide of mer-
eury.
Il few days later nlerning news
.anper printed an article headed "The
Police Want Roland b. Molineux," and
- the defendant was first brought
into the case. Molineux, while men,
shcr of the Knickerbocker Athletic
club, . year before. had had serious
pssundeEstandings with Cornish con-
St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1900-04-14

The great advantage to . dairy
farming section, where butter il the
ccI2mercial product made and sold, II
the inevisaDee increase in the fertility
AMI value of the agricultural land
St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1900-04-14

paid in deprecated
scrip, and the eastern
b o n d h o ! d e RS were
clamoring for their
pound of flesh. The
city council thought
seriously OF. repudiat:
ing. the bonds, a prop
osition which was en-
ergetically opposed by
DR.. Pearsons. who was
then one of the alder
men from the First
ward. On his own re-
sponsibility he went to
New York and Boston,
convened meetings Of
the bondholders and
pledged his personal
fortune for the re-
demption of the bonds.
His reputation for hon
esty and integrity was
SO high in the east that
the guarantee was
gladly accepted; and
he returned to Chicago
the savior of the city's
credit and the foremost
benefactor of that day.
When DIR. Pearsons,
way back in 1860, re-
solved to accumulate
= f1r<nno Ia also IL
St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1900-04-14
Refre.hi.. Her Memory.

what is your waist measure?"
asked her dearest friend.
"Really, I've forgotten" replied the
demure little maiden. For q moment
she was buried in thought. Then.
turning to her escort, she asked:
Harold, how long is mans arm.
anyway ?"-Indianapolis Journal.
St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1900-04-14
Especial Chicago Letter.l
ANE OF our American humorists
: the other day defined n mil

NE OF our American humorists
~ the other day defined phil
$50 anthropist as "a man who
spends his time inducing other people
70 spend their money for charity"
Anis definition may be considered
witty by some, and quite to the point
0y Others, but it does not apply to
the venerable DIR. Daniel K. Pearsons
OF chicago, who has up to this time
gwen s2,5Go.ooO to charity, and has
out recently made the announcement
that ne would dispose of the rest of
nus fortune, amounting to S1,50D. 900,
IN the sane way, keeping none of this
St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1900-04-14
Especial New York Letter.l

Especial New York Letterl
MO CASE in the history of Amer
IN ican criminal Jurisprudence
has caused greater interest
among the lawyers of all nations than
that which ended in New York the
other day in the conviction of Roland
Burnham Molineux for the murder of
Mrs. Kate j. Adams.
Told in brief, the history of the
crime for which Molineux is to
pay the death penalty is as follows:
Mrs. Adams, widow SO years of age.
died suddenly on Wednesday morning.
December %, 1898. at her home, No. 81
West Eighty-sixth street, New York,
St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1900-04-14

The success Of the Germans in tee
war of 1870 has been attributed by ex.
perts to the conveniently carried pre-
pared food supplied b. the sausage
makers Of Berlin.-N. 7. Sun. =
St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1900-04-14

thought to be a dose OF
effervescing salts used
to relieve headaches.
The physicians who at
tended her and the cor
oner's Office were equal
ly sure that she had
died of one of the dead
liest poisons known,
cyanide of potassium.
Interest W S a d d ed
by the fact that If the
police theory should
prove correct the poi
son was intended for
Harry Cornish, physical
director and manager
of. the knickerbocker
Athletic club, who re-
ceived the package con-
tanning the poison as a
Christmas gift. Cor
nish and. DIR. Hitchcock,
the first physician
called in after Mrs.
Adams was taken ill,
both tasted the con-
tents.of the bottle and
were seized with the
symptoms of cyanide
poisoning. Cornis S b
boarded with Mrs. Ad-
ans and her daughter,