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bor can be had in the same market
for ten cents day, it is plain that
only well-to-do or rich people can sf-
ford to eat it in quantities. 1t makes
very excellent jam, and cans we'll.
Tt grows from the seed and does not
need to be grated. By choosing the
seed of the largest and finest variety
and planting it in Florida or the
West Indies or in southern Califor-
MIA. I see no reason why this fine
fruit should not flourish in the west
ern hemisphere, and become very
popular in the market and profta BILE
to the grower.
The Arbutus comes next in the sea-
son. The best are as large as large
sized cherry, and it looks much like a
large blackberry. It has one seed
like plum. It grows on tree. It
is one of the cheapest of Chinese
fruits. Yet foreigners generally are
fond of it..
There is an ancient chestnut that
is passed on from generation to gen
Grafton in the Foochow foreign COM
munity, of missionary in the early
days. who was struggling with the
mysteries and difficulties of this bar
barous language of tones, who in
structed his cook to buy pound OF
arbutus fruit for dinner. The cook
did not return before noon and the
missionary got cold lunch for him
self; his feelings toward the absent
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But the Chinese will tell you that
the lingengs are their best fruit. They
grow upon trees closely resembling
the lichee. but are round, russell in
color, sweetish in taste and a smooth
skin. With foreigners the taste must
be generally cultivated.
But the fruit is very fine one. It
is dried in immense quantities, and
brings high price for use at feasts
all over China. Both these varieties
are great source of wealth. A tree
with fruit valued at ten dollars (silver)
is very ordinary sight. I have seen
as high as $40 worth of fruit upon one
tree. This is of course unusual, but
when you consider that you can hire
man to work for a whole year for that
sum the relative value Of these fruits
is seen to be enormous.
The trees are planted by the canals,
along the roads, between fields, in COR
ners, wherever space can be found.
They are valued tree by tree as we'll
as orchard by orchard. A man in need
of money will often dispose of SIM
gle tree.
It is to be hoped that in time in
American markets these fine fruits Of
the semi-tropics will become as COM
mon as bananas or oranges are to-day.
WILLIAM n BREWSTER.
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bad if he had not been expecting so
much and recollecting so much. 1t is
wet saw-dust. One bite is sufficient.
These home fruits have been sue
cessfully introduced into North
China by the late DR.. Nevious, OF the
Shantung province, and have widely
spread. The Shantung pears are
shipped to other provinces, and are
much priced by the Chinese. The ex-
pertinent is now being tried IN
Hinghua with fair prospects of sue
cess.
But South China has fruits of it's
own that are well worthy of atten-
ton, especially now that American
territory in this latitude has so
greatly expanded of. late.
They begin with the bi-bo (pro-
nounced bebaw), known in western
lands as the Loquat, which ripens
the last of March and runs on into
Nav. It is about the size and shape
of an egg-plum, or smaller, bright
yellow in color, with smooth dark
brown seeds, and a skin that peels
off like that of a scalded tomato. 1t
is tart and very juicy. Foreigners al
most Invariably like it, and coming
so early in the season is greatly in its
favor as popular fruit. 1t sells in
the native market at from two to
four dollars (silver) per bushel.
When you consider that unskilled Ia
St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1902-05-10
THE ARMENIAN CHARACTER.
An Indestructible Tenacity of Faith
in Self Is the Most Notice.
able Trait.

If the Greek is characterized by his
intelligence, by his worship OF plastic
beauty. and his dream of harmoni-
Gus and noble life. the Armenian is
characterized by an indestructible
open attachment to his traditions and
national beliefs, and by the worship of
a simple and laborious life. The fam
lily among Armenians has preserved
the rigid purity and the pious dihci-
pline of the ancient patriarchial colldi-
lions. The Armenian church is per-
haps that one among all the others
which has best preserved the simple
spirit of the church founded by Jesus.
1t is this passion for simplicity which
has sometimes brought the Armenian
into opposition with the Byzantine
spirit, devoted as this is to a compE-
Gated theology and to a luxurious and
refined art, says a. writer in the In
ternational Monthly. The Armenians
were the promoters of the iconoclastic
movement of Byzantium, and there are
yet some Armenians who constitute
the nucleus of that modern sect of
Politicians which contains the germs
of some of the principles which later
became the basis of the Protestant
church. l have put it's tenacious faith
in itself at the head of the character
istics of the Armenian race, and in
fact nothing else is so strong with it
as the attachment to it's native soil
and to it's ethnic traditions, and the
resolve to defend these to the death.
The great Corneille, without knowing
it, paid a compliment to the race in
choosing, to magnify Christian hero
ism, an Armenian figure, Polyeucte.
Against the Roman as against the
Persian, against the Arab as against
the Turk, the Armenian has always
shown the firmness of Polyeucte, and
his spirit of sacrifice. Quite recently,
during the massacres, when the Turks
tried to force the Armenians under
threats of death to embrace Islamism,
the whole race manifested the spirit
of Polyeucte. Hundreds of girls threw
themselves into the rivers and over
precipices to escape apostacy and
shame, and aged priests have been seen
who, with stoical courage, preferred
to be killed outright or roasted at a
slow fire, rather than to renounce the
faith of their fathers
St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1902-05-10
Rush for Public once.

The people of New York do not, as
a rule, have to be dragged into public
Office. The municipal civil service
records prove this. There are atpres.
emit on the various eligible lists for
positions in the competitive schedules
about $500 names, and on the registra-
ton lists for positions in the labor
schedule, 3,542 names. In addition to
the above the commission has on hand
the applications of 1894 persons who
have applied for positions in the com.
petitive class, and 26,S79 of the labor
class. Over 10000 of these latter ap.
plications are for jobs in the street
cleaning Departmental. Y. Sun.
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BRAVE INDIANS NAMES.
CouraEeous Red Men Who Are Re
membered for Service in Wfp-
ing Out Sitting Bull.

If the efforts of the interior depart
ment shall prove to be more successful
with the present congress than they
have for the past ten years there will
be authorized a number of medals OF
honor which will bear the most unique
Inscriptions of any like tokens OF brav-
cry ever authorized by the United
States government, reports the Wash
ington Star.
At daylight December Is, 1890, the
Indian chief, Sitting Bull, was arrested
at his camp near Fort Yates, North Da-
kota, by number of native Indian po-
lice. In the fight which Immediately
followed the arrest-as number of
Sitting Bulls followers came to his
rescue-he was killed, as were also a
number of the police.
Great credit has been given to this
band of 43 imperfectly armed police,
who coolly went to Sitting Bulls camp,
where they faced and successfully
routed 16O Indians who were on the
warpath and wrought up to the high
est pitch of excitement through the
medium of the ghost Dance and
every year since that memorable tight
congress has been placed in posses
sion of its details by the secretary OF
the interior, together with the indorse-
ment regarding the bravery of the
loyal Indians by the military authors
ties and the Indian agents
If the $500 is appropriated as re-
uuested medals will be struck off and
inscribed with the names of Marcellus
Chankpidutah (Red Tomahawk), John
Wambdi eagle Nam, Thomas Tunkah
(Stone MANI, Louis Wahpahda (Hat),
Hugh Chetahonollo (Swift Hawk, Luke
Pash white Buffalo). Alexander Hook
okah (Middle), Eugene Akichitahchl-
gala (Little Soldier), Joseph Brown
Wolf Drown Wolff, Paul Hautamaza
Gron CEDAR, John Ishnawichah clone
Mani, Oliver Hehakawaketo Cooking
Elk, Dennis Wahpahaicu (Take the
HAITI. George Iron Star Qron Starr,
Richard Runninghawk drumming
Hawk, Afraid of Hawk, White Bird
Magpie Eagle, Iron Thunder, Paints
Brown. Weasel Bear, Rooster, High
Eagle, Good Voiced Eagle, Red Bear
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CONSERVATIVES AS CRIMINALS.
Some Are Said Have Such Tendencies
Because. of Abnormal Ner.
vOus Tension.

DIR. Antonio Fanoni, of this city, says
in an article in the New York Medical
Journal, that he has met consumptlves
who became possessed of CRIMINAL
tendencies as result of the aDnormai
tension on their nervous systems from
the consciousness of being afflicted
with an incurable disease. The article,
which is entitled what Shall We DO
With the Consumptive? has attracted
much attention, states the New YORK
Tribune. DR.. Fanoni says in part as
follows:
to prove this relation between acts OF
violence and phthisis. Is not the TACT
that such patients will spit everywhere
premeditatedly, with the distinct in
tention of killing others, sufficient
proof of a disturbed mental equilibrl-
UNI? There may be many such pa
tents though it is for obvious reasons
difficult to discover them.
I have come across number OF such
persons by accident. Two years ago
while conducting some experiments IN
the treatment of pulmonary tubercu-
!osis, l had under my care a group OF
II patients, who were receiving the
treatment simultaneously in room in
my house, in which they would meet at
an appointed hour. In this room L had
all the necessary arrangements for the
disinfection of the sputum, but IN spite
of this [ noticed on several occasions
that there was sputum on the floor IN
one corner or another OF the room
Astonished and vexed to find my ex-
press orders disobeyed, called these
patients, one after the other, into the
consultation room and told each pri-
vately that if he continued to expec-
torate upon the floor and did not make
use of the receptacle with antiseptlc
fluid, he would never be cured, mas
much as he would reinhale the dry
bacilli which he had expectorated.
Several of these patients, on being told
this, became pale and agitated and
then grew thoughtful. One of them,
young man, admitted that he did not
pay much attention in his own house
to my instructions as to the care of spu-
tun, because he had been newly mar
ried aud did not wish his wife to sur
vive hlm, but preferred her to die with
him rather than to leave her without
anyone to take care of her." Another
patient said that, like Sampson, when
he pulled down the house of the Phil
istines, he wanted the world to die
with him; and still another case illus
trating the criminal tendency of some
phthisical patients was reported by
Gilbert, who tells of man who eNpec-
torated into glass of champagne and
compelled his wife to drink it's con.
tents. The unfortunate woman died
of tuberculosis of the Intestine.
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servant were warm enough, though,

servant were warm enough, though,
to boil coffee. Toward nightfall the
delinquent appeared with a detected
countenance, and small basket with
several fresh sleeps tails in it. he
said he had been to every butcher
shop in the city and these were all
the sleeps tails he could buy. He
had cornered the market and his
master at the same time. 1t was only
a mistake of the tone in giving the
order.
But when we think of Chinese
fruits there is enc that stands out
supreme. Every foreigner pronounces
it delicious. 1t is the lichee.
It grows upon tree resembling the
apple-tree. In size and shape and
color when ripe it is like the largest
sized strawberry. The skin is rough
and brittle. 1t has one seed, which
when grated is very small The
meat is white, and tastes-well you
will have to taste it for yourself. 1t
is unlike anything in America that I
know of.
Henry Ward Beecher is quoted as
saying: "God might have made bet
ter fruit than the strawberry, but he
never did,
Mr.. Beecher never ate fresh lichees.
They are dried and shipped all over
China, and are used on all the steam.
ers of the east, and are found even
in New York. But the dried article
gives no idea whatever of tEs deli
ciousness of the fresh fruit.
An enterprising storekeeper OF Cam
ton has been-canning it recently, and
in this shape it is much more like the
fresh fruit.
It is not propagated from the seed.
A ball of mud is tied around joint OF
a limb, and the bark is cut below the
mud. In six months the limb is cut
off and planted; roots have been
formed in the earth ball. Grating is
done with great care and skill; so also
the pruning, which must be done an
nually. No pains are spared in culti-
walton.
If this fruit were introduced into
America it would certainly become
very popular and profitable. The
skilled horticulturists of southern
Florida would soon learn it's peculiari-
ties and the manner of treatment.
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A Noted Knight Templar
Owes His Health to Peruna'

Colonel T. P. Moody, prominent
Knight Templar, is well known IN every
CITY in the United States west OF Bu1-
falo. N. Y. as jewelers. Auctioneer.
In the city of Chicago as prominent
lodge man, being member OF the \.
IT'S and also of the Masons. The cut
shows Colonel Moody in the costume
of the Oriental Consistory Masons,
32nd degree.
In recent letter from 5000 Mich
igan avenue, Chicago, ILL.,, Mr.. Moody
says the following:
"For over twenty-five years I
suffered from catarrh, and for
over ten years I suffered from
catarrh of the stomach terribly
"Ihave taken all kinds of medf'
cines and have been treated by
all kinds of doctors, as thousands
of my acquaintance are aware
In different parts of the United
States, where / have Travelled, but
my relief was only temporary,
until q little over q year ago
started to take Peruna, and at the
present time am better than 1
have been for twenty years.
"7he soreness has left my sf0m'
ach entirely and / am free from
Indigestion and dyspepsia and VIII
say to all who are troubled with
catarrh or stomach trouble of any
kind, don't put it off and suffer,
but begin to take Peruna right
away, and keep it up until you
are cured, as you surely will be 1t
you pelsevere. Is
'"My wife, as many in the southwest
can say, was troubled with q bad
cough and bronchial trouble, and doc
tors all over the country gave her up
to die, as they could do nothing more
for her. She began taking Peruna with
the result that she is better now than
she has been in years, and her cough
has almost left her entirely. The sore
ness has left her lungs and she is as
we'll as she ever was in her life, with
thanks, as she says, to Peruna. Yours
very truly, I. T. Moody.
Catarrh in its various forms is rapid
ly becoming a general curse. An I'M
doubted remedy has been discovered
by DR.. Hartman. This remedy has
been thoroughly tested during the
past forty years. Prominent men have
come to know of it's virtues, and are
making public utterances on the sub
ject. To save the country we must
save the people. To save the people we
must protect them from disease. The
disease that is at once the most preva-
lent and stubborn of cure is catarrh.
If one were to make list of the diff
ferent names that have been applied
to catarrh in different locations and
organs, the result would be astonish-
ing. We have often published a partial
list of these names, and the surprise
St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1902-05-10
THE DAINTY LICHEE.
It Is the Most Delicious Fruit That
Grows in China.
Chinese Oranges and Pears. How
ever. Are Inferior to Our Own
The Missionary Who Bought
Sleeps Tails.

Especial Haugha (China) Letter.
NF COURSE we have oranges in
~ South China, plenty and cheap.
Not Florida varieties, but little
loose-jackct ones that can be eaten
without staining your kid gloves, if
you do not want to remove them, and
without the use of knife or spoon.
There are other varieties, not SO good
and much more trouble to eat. They
ripen in mid-winter, and are the
popular fruit during the great ma
tional holidays at the Chinese New
Year, which corresponds to about
February.
1t is necessary to offer oranges to
each guest who calls on any day
from the first to the fifth of the first
month at least, and many extend the
courtesy to the fifteenth day.. The
guest must refuse and the host in
sist, until finally they compromise by
the guest taking two-never less and
seldom more.
Of the temperate zone fruits, APP
pies have not yet been successfully
cultivated except in the mountains of
North Fuhlien. Peaches are album
dant and of fair quality; plums are
plentiful and like good seedlings in
America. Grapes are very ordinary.
The most disappointing is the pear.
It is yellow and delicious looking.
The newly-arrived initiated Ameri-
can sees the luscious fruit on the
street, and thinks of the fine old
Bartlett trees in his grandfather's Tor
some other boys grandfather's) or
chard, and fixes his mouth for a
treat like that of his boyhood days.
He pays the dealer several prices for
half dozen, and bites into the lar
gest and ripest. Alas! they are APP
pies of Sodom. It would not be so
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caused by the first publication OF it to
all people, both professional and non.
professional, was amusing. And yet
we have never enumerated all OF the
diseases which are classed as ca
tarrh. It must be confessed, however,
to see even this partial list drawn up
in battle array is rather appalling. II
the reader desires to see this list, to-
gether with short exposition of each
one, send for our free catarrh book.
Address The Peruna Medicine Co., CO.
1nmhuS Ohio.
St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1902-05-10

Bad Horse. Cross Bear, Black Pleas
ant, One Feather, Walking Shooter,
Good Voiced Elk, Cetanwicaste (Hawk-
man No. p, Brown Man, Gabriel Wau-
blihota (Gray Eagle), Otter Robe,
spottend Thunder, Young Eagle.
Pensions were also asked for Mary
Bullhead, widow of Henry Bullhead,
lieutenant and in command of the po-
lice, who died of wounds received in
the fight; also for Shell Pipe, the widow
of James Littleeagle; Annie Shave
head, Catherine Akicitah, Red Deer
and Alexander Middle, which will
doubtless constitute the most unique
list Of names on the pension rolls of
the country.
Making . Beauty.
The Mono, like the Turk, has pref
erence for "moon faced wives, and
a bride is more valued for her weight
than her accomplishments. When a
girl is about - years old, she is pre-
pared for the marriage market by a
treatment not unlike that to which
geese are subjected before Michael
mas. Her hands are tied behind her,
and for so many hours day she is
seated on a carpet, while her father,
armed with stick, stands by, and her
mother from time to time pops into
her mouth q ball of maise porridge
kneaded up with grease and just large
enough to be swallowed without the
victim choking. If the poor child re-
fuses to be stuffed, she is compelled;
so she soon resigns herself to the in
eyitable and meekly swallows the
boluses for fear of beating. Ger
tainly she has to suffer in order to be
beautiful, and it is to be hoped that
her Affections are lightened by rosy
dreams of future happiness.-Londor
Mail
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Familiar Phrase.

"Down in 'front.'"
The American traveller started guilt
lily, and ducked. He had not expected
to hear this familiar phrase in the
middle of the African desert.
Then he looked up again.
Tie camel driver-imported from
Chicago-was training young ship OF
the desert to kneel; that was ALL
Cincinnati Observer.
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One or the Other.

One or the Other.
Professor-From your experience in
life how would you analyze amiability,
Miss Katherine?
Miss Katharine (briskly)-Oh anna
bility, professor, is always a sign of
great weakness, or sign of great
strength.-Detroit Free Press.
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Not Much to show.

Some mems only boast is tina,
they always had to hustle for them
selves, and frequently they do not
show very good job.-Washingtss
ia, Democrat
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realized responsibilities and these made me
determined succeed that single man
would have affected Now there the comfort
and well being another provide for Every married man OF
character feels the
EMPL OVERS AS A CLASS KNOW THIS.
Marred?" say applicant for position Children ?
they aghtway they that job the wife and babes
So marriage good It does than
prove himself letter of recommendation For
there considerable cvaly in the business of the twentieth
century, practical chvay that him. Here's chance
make happy usually avas himself of that
chance.
Marry just you young manwhen Ger
your ability support your wfeand take word for it,
will regret step You will be amazed how wife will
aid you in all your efforts. YOU MAY THINK YOU ARE IN
TERESTED IN YOUR WORK AT PRESENT, BUT OF
COURSE, YOU DO NOT KNOW WHAT REAL INTEREST
IN WORK IS UNTIL. YOU GET MARRIED.
All this of that sensible
have explained fully your condition in m who
will achieve ambitions In this class included
should OF
characters.
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SAYS CABLES ARE SAFE.
Hiram Maxim Declares These Inter-
ests Need Not Fear the Inven-
ton of MarcOni.

Hiram Maxim thinks the Marconi
system will not be dangerous COM
petitor of the cable companies for
transatlantic business. He argues
chiefly on the difficulty of securing Sc
crecy, or even certainty, saying: can
enemy in time of war might set up
Matchmaking apparatus of every great
power giving off waves of all amplitude
and making it absolutely impossible
to work any system of wireless teleg-
raphy.
"The atuning of transmitter or re-
ceiver to certain pitch is only feasible
to limited extent, say dozen differ
ent kind of waves. Supposing that in
war two hostile fleets were concerned,
no one depending on the ordinary sys-
tenn of signaling, no two depending on
wireless telegraphy. it would be possi-
BILE to provide fleet No. with appara-
tus for making such confusion Of
waves as to render the apparatus Of
fleet No. absolutely useless.
"Marconi now has the atmosphere
to himself. but when others enter the
nelO anu all are uldhIlSS5 UuciI llttlc
waves, though they may not interfere
with each other, nevertheless the oper-
ator who receives them and reduces
them to the English language will have
rather a difficult task.
"The Marconi system undoubtedly
has enormous value, chiefly for ships
signaling each other or with the shore
during fog. Cable companies and Mar
conf can both live in the same world
in perfect accord. One system will not
interfere with the other. The Marconi
system can perform new services with
out encroaching on the cable compa.
MES sphere"
knew 1t Was Love.
care you sure it is really and truly
love-" she asked.
positive answered the practical
young man who had just proposed.
81 tested it.
"Tested it?''
"Yes. I doctored myself for indi.
gestion for two weeks before defin'
itely deciding just what the symp.
toms meant. Chicago Post.
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Al Suggested.

Borem-Now, what would you do
if you were in my shoes, Miss Cit
ting?
Miss Cutting-Td point the toes
toward the front door and give them
start.-Chicago Daily News.