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The Tucson citizen., 1902-12-03
No OnS Made a Motion.

'Kin any one make motion:" asked
one of the audience. Gents" said
Alkali Bill, chairman of the meeting,
as he laid his revolvers on the table,
"owin' to the general custom of wear
in weapons in these parts / trust no
one will make Il motion. Philadel-
phia Record.
The Tucson citizen., 1902-12-03
TOOthRche.

Dentist-Been suffering from tooth
ache. | see.
She-Yes; haven't slept a wink fo,
three nights.
Dentists it back one Or
She-No; it's my husbands tooth.
The Tucson citizen., 1902-12-03
a Mean RivaH.

Miss 4Fsthete-Oh, just adore poets:
What a sad, soulful expression Mr..
Longhan has.
Mr.. Smartchap-You would have a
sad. soulful expression. too, if you were
as tar behind in your board bill as he
is.-New York Weekly.
The Tucson citizen., 1902-12-03
And papa never suspected a thing.
Jack Tmr as "A Critic.
any nonsense.

AT an auction art sale the other day
n marine view was about to be knocked
down at handsome figure when Il
bluff sailor, who had happened to wan
der III. exclaimed earnestly:
'My stars, if there amt q vessel
drifting on to the rocks with strong
breeze blowing ofTshore"
The artist took his work home to re
arrange the wind.
The Tucson citizen., 1902-12-03
She Waa Surnrised-

Mrs. What's that awful
racket in the QeXt room?
Mrs. Rounder-Oh, that's only my
husband dressing to go downtown.
Mrs. Neighbors-Indeed! I've heard
folk say he was loud dresser, but
had no idea it was anything like that.
Chicago News
The Tucson citizen., 1902-12-03
A Compm riSOm.

How'd We like the lecturer at the
town hall last night, SIP"
Great! He was Boston feller, an,
l swan, never laughed SO lard in my
life. He knew more long words than q
negro minstrel. Baltimore American
The Tucson citizen., 1902-12-03
EDITORIAL DEPARTMENT

that he is friendly to their interests.
Mr.. Roosevelt recommends nothing
practical or effective in his trust essay.
He leaves the issue to Congress and the
Republican majority in Congress has
frequently demonstrated it's utter SUBJ
servency to the trusts and moneyed in
terests.
The Tucson citizen., 1902-12-03
4 Mean Defense.

Magjstrate-lt's very disgraceful that
you should beat your wife.
Prisoner-WelI, yer honor, she ag-
grawated me by keepin' on sayin' she'd
ave me hup afore that bald'eaded hold
'umbug. meanin' yer honor.
Magistrate-You'r discharged.
The Tucson citizen., 1902-12-03
A Bachelors Cost of Living.

If the average bachelor, with a mill
Gonaire's income, not the fellow who
goes in for extrayagant fads, but the
man who maintains good social posi-
tion and who entertains literally, We're
to balance up his personal account for
the year, it might contain these charges
without comparative extravaganza:
The Tucson citizen., 1902-12-03
Not a Bargain DnY.

The Husband during the QuarrcD-
You're always making bargains. Was
there ever time when you didn't?
The Wife-Yes, sir; on my wedding
day.
The Tucson citizen., 1902-12-03
Plenty of Proof.

Alice-What makes you think your
new photographs are SO horrid?
Gladys-All my girl friends ask for
one, but my male friends don't.
The Tucson citizen., 1902-12-03

Nothing is more distressing thas
young lnen trying to act old or Ola
men trying 90 act young.-Chicag~
News.
St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1902-10-04
rise which can only be solved by

arise which can only be solved BY
scientific knowledge, and to discuss
questions without knowledge of fun
damental principles often leads only
to confusion. It is the custom Of
other professions to hold institutes
for educational purposes, and always
the services of competent teachers
are secured. Farmers institutes
should be similarly supplied. To get
the best results men should be pres.
ent and participating, who by reason
Of learning and experience are capa-
BILE of teaching; whose decisions on
disputed points will be taken as au.
thoritative. The secretary OF agri.
culture, himself IN institute worker
of experience, that after Institutes
have been long held in given local.
ty farmers are not so ready to listen
to those who have nothing to give ex-
cept what has come within the range
of their own limited experience. They
want workers who have wide range
of knowledge Of the science and prac.
tice of agriculture, and up-to-date in.
formation of the progress of the agri.
cultural world in studying agricul-
tural problems at experiment. stations
and on farms. I his has led to a de-
mand on officers of agricultural col
leges and experiment stations for
help in institute work. In states
where institutes are held systemati-
cally the colleges and stations can
not fully supply the oemano, and the
states are developing class of instl-
tute workers and paying them for
their labor. In this great education.
al, work the states must take an &C.
tive part. Appropriations and work
for this purpose have always proven
to be profitable to the states as well
as to the farmers. Texas should be
up and doing, but to secure such ao-
ton farmers, who are a majority as
the polls, must have this object IN
view when they vote.-Texas Farm
and Ranch.
St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1902-10-04
THE JACK-OF-ALL-TRADES.
eral, But He Should be Expert
in His Own Calling.

It is an old and measurably true
saying that a jack-of-a4l-trades is
good at none. If there ever was .
jack-of-all-trades it should be farm
err, for all trades are combined in his
calling. He should not only know
how to work the soil, but he should
be able to perform any sort Of work
in metal, wood or leather. OF course
he can not become an expert in all
trades, but to make his knowledge of
them subservient to his farm work 10
not only within his power, but is his
duty. But these are merely side
shows to the main performance. A
er whose business it is to grow for
the world the things the world must
have, and to prepare his products as
far as possible for the consumers. It
is possible for even jack-of-all-
trades to be expert in one, but to do
so he must make that one the center
Of his industrial system. Farmers
should do likewise. Many a farmer
starts with one line of effort, and the
proceeds do not roll in to his salts
faction, so he changes to something
else land before he hassuficiently mas
tered it to make it profitable, makes
another change, forgetting that "a
rolling stone gathers no moss" When
prices of grain become low, the grain
farmer is discouraged, and tries rails.
ing cattle; and if beef should be low
he will go into cotton, which at 81
cents discourages him again, and
makes another change inevitable.
Thus he rolls on, and gathers no moss
nor money. A certain amount of
stick-to-itiveness is necessary to sue
cess in any business, and in none
more SO than in farming. He who
sticks to any general system, through
out low prices and high prices,
through prosperity and adversely,
seasons his efforts with intelligence,
will win in the end.-Texas Farm and
Ranch.
St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1902-10-04

corresponding increase in the number
OF clerks. The rural free delivery &C.
cupies two floors of large office
building opposite the department
proper; the division Of post office
supplies is half mile from headquar-
tiers; the railway mail service is more
than a quarter of mile away; and
the mailbag repair shop is also sep
arated from the department proper.
All OF these divisions are connected
oy the departmental telephone, but Of
course business. cannot always be
transacted satisfactorily in that
manner.
There are now upwards of 10000
post offices, 4.470 of them being presi-
GENITAL, the remainder being fourth
class; all of them, however, are doing
gradually increased business, which
must be supervised in this capital.
St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1902-10-04
Diversined Farming.

We have at last reached the point
where, on account of the utter unre-
liability Of labor, together with the
high price of provisions, we are
forced to realize the necessity of Gin
tensive diversifcation;" out, like 9TH
er problems that have preceded AZ,
this does not make us change our
system of farming until dire necessi-
ty forces us to do SO. We have got
ton SO in the habit Of following our
forefathers' rules that we never both
er our brains to ascertain whether or
not there are other modes of farm
ing better adapted to our situations.
think nothing more forcibly de-
scribes our persistent pursuance of
old-time plans OF farming than the
proverbial boy and mule carrying the
sack of corn to the m444 to be grouno,
who, when asked why he had rock
in one end Of the sack, replied:
I'm order to balance the corn; that is
the way my daddy did," The truth is
the matter is that the majority of the
southern farmers are land DOOR"
and they think they are obliged to
cultivate it all. If, instead of 80 and
so acres to the mule, they were
forced to cultivate ten acres, thew
would We vastly better off; as, with
the proper preparation and cultiva-
ton of the soil, they would save
nearly half of their labor and make
fully as much or more. We want
more diversiication OF crops. We
should at al times of the year have
something to sell, and make it q rule
to always sell more than we buy. We
should also devote more attention to
the raising of stock, as ny so doing
we not only rapidly build up our land,
but are continually deriving benefits
therefrom in the way o. butter, milk
and beef.-B. II. Biggers, in Dixie
Farmer
St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1902-10-04
HERE AND THERE.

AS long as food is more necessary
to human life than cl thing there
VIII be more profit in growing grain
and meat and vegetables and fruit
than cotton.
If the farmer who makes only av-
erage crops is to be pitied, what Of
the vast number who make less than
average crops? While many farmers
make largely more than the average,
as many make less.
There will be very large amount
of forage grown in tie southwest
this summer and fall. The late and
abundant rains insure heavy yields
of everything planted or previously
occupying the ground
St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1902-10-04
FARMERS INSTITUTES.
Farmers May Learn Much by
Interchange of Experience,

The efficiency of schools of what
ever class is measured by the ability
of the teachers. Farmers institutes
are schools of agriculture, in which
farmers may learn much by an inter-
change of experience, but can never
reach the full measure of possible
usefulness without expert teachers.
At these meetings many questions will
St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1902-10-04

General Payne before leaving this
city recently: This department is
seriously embarrassed for want of Of
fee room. We have rented buildings,
but cannot go on renting year after
year. The only businesslike thing to
do is to provide further regular ac-
commodations for the post Office de-
partment. It seems to me that the
government ought to condemn the en-
tire square south of the department
building and erect thereon substan-
tial annex"
With the purpose Of making ample
and permanent provision for the post
Office department, the congress caused
to be erected on Pennsylvania avenue
q nine-story granite building covering
an entire block of ground, and the de-
partment was moved into that build
ing in September, 1899, less than three
years ago. Just think of it! In that
brief space of time the department
has grown SO that now five divisions
of the department are in rented quar-
tiers at an annual rental of more than
$4,000. There is a constant growth
of the work Of the department ana
St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1902-10-04

rine. The ordinary high-speed mail
train can be stopped inside OF 1.5ot
feet. So a light that can cover this
distance is as great protection as the
noon sun.
The new lights are run by small dy.
namo in the engine. Some of them
are as high as 5000 candle power, and
make the old-time reflector look feeble
and yellow.
St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1902-10-04
RAILROAD SEARCHLIGHTS.
New Luminaries for Engines
Make the Old-Time Renector
Look Very Dim.

When heavy train is rushing IN Inc
dark at 60 miles an hour weak neao'
light is no protection. It cannot re-
veal the trouble ahead, says Harper S
Weekly, soon enough for the engineer
to stop his train.
A number of the newest engines nave
been supplied with headlights that are
visible mile away, and light the track
hundreds OF yards In front Ct the en-
St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1902-10-04

MRS. y. h. HAShlNS.
for months after, and at the time I
thought death was a welcome relief;
but before my last child was born 3
good neighbor advised LydiaE.Pink.
hams Vegetable Compound, and
I used that, together with your Pills
and Sanative Wash for four months
before the child's birth 1T brought
me wonderful relief. I hardly had an
ache or pain, and when the child was
ten days old I left my bed strong in
health. Every spring and fall now take
abottle Of Lydia e. Pinkham's Veg
etable Compound and find it keeps
me in continual excellent health
Mrs. ]. II. HAsK1Ns, 324S Indiana Ave-,
Chicago, III: $4,000 forfeit If above tssttmo-
Mai 10 not genuine.
Care and careful counsel Is
what the expectant and wOuld-be
mother needs, and this counsel
she can secure without cost by
writing to Mrs. PiDkham at
Lynn, Mass.
St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1902-10-04

observatory In the Clouds.
The highest inhabited spot in Eu
rome IS the observatory at the sum
NIT of Mount EtDs, 9,076 feet abo"
sea level j.
St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1902-10-04
TO MOTHERS
Mrs. J. II. Haskins, of Chicago,
ILL.,, President Chicago Arcade
Club, Addresses Comforting
Words to Women Regarding
Childbirth.

"DEAR MRS. P1NKHAN: Mothers
need not dread collaborating after they
know the value of Lydia e. Pink
hams Vegetable Compound.
While loved children dreaded the
ordeal. for it left ma weak and sick
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:
moved, and in commemoration Of the
5event the poet Mercein wrote:
God Knows. its time thy walls were going;
eThr6ugh every stone life blood as through a
q, wheartis Sfio wing.
The new building was completed in
1895, the one erected in 1853 having
become inadequate~t to the wants of
the institution. The work of the
Five Points mission is carried on in
most practical manner. In addition
to a day school, sewing school, n
reading room and fresh air work are
kindergarten, kitchen garden and
day nursery. All the pupils come
from the lowest order of civilized So
ciety. The greater per cent. of them
are of foreign parentage. They
would receive no education whatever
were it not for the mission.
The mission does not wholly take
home in the sense of giving them
shelter at night. All who attend the
day school are given their dinners at
noon, and their clothing is furnished
to them by voluntary contributions
from the outside. The meals are fur
nished by an organization known as
the Dinner club" the members of
which, unlike similarly named asso-
Citations, do not dine themselves, but
each subscribes five dollars annually.
For this sum a child can be supplied
with dinners for year.
Another society is called the "Shoe
club" 1t undertakes to keep the chill
dren in shoes for year, and the men,
bership for that time is one dollar.
While the chief endeavor is to edu-
cate and care for the little ones, re-
lief is also furnished to men and
women, many of whom receive cloth
ing. On an average between 1000
and 1000 children are taught at the
mission during the year. There are
twelve teachers in the schools, which
are of the primary and first grade of
gammar. In addition to their stud
les the children are given physical
culture. The girls are also taught
| household duties and cooking, and,
| in order to appreciate what is being
done for them, must make them
selves useful to others. An instance
| of this work is shown in the neat
scrap books they are preparing for
| the children of the Harriet Skidmorc
| orphanage in India. The books are
made purely for the amusement and
| instruction of the Indian children,
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1902-06-20

and hasten into the large, airy school
rooms. On the other side of the
square, in a tall building, so round
babies with fat cheeks and fluffy hair
are being taken out of tiny, iron
cribs, and amid much wrestling and
considerable noise, are becoming as
presentable as water, soap and neat
bib and fuckers can make them. A
few years ago in this very spot even
the policemen did not dare to walk
alone in the daytime in the streets,
which were practically abandoned to
criminals and thugs. Education has
wrought the change.
And in no place in the world is the
refining influences of education and
light over debauchery, crime and
power ty more marked than in this
same district of New York, known as
the Five Points. There, surrounded
by the lowest forms of human vice
and depravity, have arisen the noble
walls of two institutions that every
year lead out of darkness and slav-
cry into civilization and good citizen
ship armies of unprotected, unfed
and untutored children of the slums
These institutions are the Five
Points Mission house at 60 Park
street and its big neighbor just
across the way, the House of Indus
try, 155 Worth street. They are in
the heart of locality that is still
the synonym of all that is vicious
and degenerate in the metropolis, al
though the moral condition of the
surroundings has improved vastly
over the old state of affairs Sc
frightful did Dickens think the, place
that he said of it. in his American
Notes." "Debauchery has made the
very houses prematurely old. Where
dogs would howl to lie, women, men
and boys stink off the street."
Worth, Park and Baxter streets
meet here in such a way as to form
five corners, and from this topo
graphical popularity the name is de.
rived. The little plat of ground
made by the crossing of these streets
was converted into pleasure com
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1902-06-20
strongly alkaline waters, in which the
dirty linen of thetown is washed.

strongly alkaline waters, in which the
dirty linen of theetown is washed.
The steamer which carries one from
Managua to sMomotombo, 80 miles
along our line, skirts the. point of
Chlltepe, which has in its crater a
lake OF sweet, cool water. Rounding
the point one has in full view the cone
of the; great Momotombo, its snowy
plume foreversstreaming far out over
the perfect curve of its southwestet
slope. Between the lake and the Pa
cific,s and plainly seen from both, is
La Iona del Tigre; but it is insig-
nificant in size--only 1000 feet in
height-compared with the immense,
symmetrical bulk of the smoking
giant, bearing its white banner $500
feet above the lake which laps three
sides of it's base.
History says that in days before Co.
lumbus large town was on the shore
where now a small village is at the
edge of the lake. But the mountain
labored, and brought forth such evil
dent signs of distress or of rage that
the people fed, with goods and house
hold gods, to where Leon now stands,
none too securely, in the broad val
ley, not SO far away that the bulk of
the huge smoker cannot be plainly
seen from the streets. They might
have gone much farther and still have
kept in sight their one-time idol; for
one may stand on the crest of Cerro
de Hule, in Honduras, and look across
a valley IS miles to Tegucigalpa, the
capital city, cleaning white in the
afternoon sun; then turn his back to
the city and see in Salvador, little
west of south, and 75 miles distant,
the smoke rising from San Miguel.
Then almost due south he will see
Coseuina, full IS miles away; and 100
miles to the south7southeast he can
see the steam rising from the crest of
Momotombo.
Many a time Momotombo threat
ened the people; and they have been
afraid. On one occasion a multitude
took their way -up the slope of the
mountain until the edge of the ashes
was reached. There they knelt in
earnest prayer, while two devoted
priests bore up the steep the cross
they would plant at the brink of the
crater, to repel whatever flow of lava
might threaten. No one ever again
saw cross, nor priests. Nor did the
crater overoflw. If human foot has
ever reached the edge of that pit no
word of it has come to other men.
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mon by the city in 184S, and, as if in
mockery to the ragged, miserable
jewellers of the shambling tenements,
it was called Paradise park.
One day in 1853 the residents OF
the district stood in open-mouthed
wonderment as workmen began to
tear down the "Old Brewery" and
the word was passed around that the
site was to be occupied by building
of the Ladies' Home Missionary So
ciety, of the Methodist church, an
organization that had been working
among them for three years, with
headquarters in small room in one
of the rickety buildings in the neigh
borhood. The "Old Brewery" was
one of the landmarks of criminal
! New York. 1t was erected as brew
cry in 1892, and in 1887 was changed
into a tenement house. 1t became
the headquarters of the worst cut
throats of the new and the old world
Many men were murdered there, and
the expression, Sudden death of the
Old Brewery" became common one
in police circles. The house was
called the 'sDen of Thieves" and the
narrow alley which ran around it
was known as "Murderers' alley"
Into this building the mission
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1902-06-20

Irazu should burst its bounds, as did
Pelee and La Soufriere, the destruc-
ton. of life would appal the world.
Within sight of the 32,00 people who
dwell in San Jose are the peaks of the
volcanoes of Barba, 9,290 feet, and of
Poas, $3.50 feet in altitude. Poas car
ries III its crater little lake, such as
was in Pelee until, perhaps, some seam
in the rock opened to let the water to
the fires raging beneath, and thus in
aninstant made of pretty and peace
full pond the means of the most awful
destruction man has known since the
fatal day of Atlantis.
Tenorio and Miravalles, La Vieja and
Orosil are near the line, before it
touches Lake Nicaragua. There it
passes closes to the volcanic island of
Solentiname, near the head of the Rio
San Juan and the line of the proposed
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the representatives begin to- think
that they have, life mortgages on
their positions. They first sbecome IN
different, and then Independents.
After awhile they form groups of
favored sons. They pat each other
on the back, and walk to the bar to-
gether. The man from Massachusetts
meets the man from California, and
they regard each other as special
fayorites and great men of their Sec
;tions. Mutual admiration societies
are formed. Then they join or es-
tablish clubs. Thus they have meet
ing places for all-night drinking
bouts, playing cards for money like
professional gamblers, and repeating
the performances Sundays, when all
other places are closed by law.
Now that it is time for the people
to choose their candidates for con-