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St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1902-07-05
NEW PHOSPHATE BEDS.
Recent Valuable Discovery ON a Lit.
tie Island in the Pacific
Ocean,

IL we we're W SCdAC1 OA VIC uA0HSAoA
the little rock in the Pacific known as
Ocean or Paanopa island we should not
be likely to find it except in two or
three of the best aliases. There is
scarcely any description of it to be
found in geographic literature. But to-
day about 22O white men are at work
on this island. 1t lies a little south of
the equator, 200 miles west of the Gil
bert group and 1,6OO miles in a straight
line from Brisbane, Queensland, says
the New York Sun.
Ocean island is now attracting at
tention simply because it has been dis
covered to possess rich in
phosphate similar to those in Chill,
that have yielded millions of tons of
fertilizers to spread over the fields of
northern Europe. The island had eve
possessed a white resident before this
discovery was made. To-day a steam
er is usually there loading with nitrate,
sent a busy scene.
The industry is carried on much as ii
is in Chill. The nitrate is mined and
then put through various processes to
remove impurities. When it is ready
for shipment it is carried on lighters
to the steamers that are made fast to
mooring buoys, there being no harbor
nor good anchorage ground. All the
phosphate thus far has been carried to
the farmers of Australia and New
Zealand. The company that is engaged
in the industry has secured exclusive
rights, and expects that the phosphate
mines will be a source of wealth for
years to come. ."
Thus the little unknown island has
become a center of some interest.
Naturally the British government.
which is constantly scanning the hori-
zon for valuable finds, formally an
nexed the island several months ago.
Look Pleasant, Please.
A little girl living on East Second
street had her picture taken recently,
and a friend of the family, who was
calling at the house, asked her how it
seemed to sit for a photograph.
ooh, I didn't mind it," she said. You
know, l had that thing on my face you
always have when you get your picture
taken"
Thing on your face?" queried the
visitor. "What do You veil?"
"No; it's a" and she stopped to
think.
"Was it powder?" she was asked.
"No-er-it's-s1l think in a minute
-er-oh, yes! 1t was a smile."-Du.
luth News-Tribune. ~n
Like q Mother,
St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1902-07-05
Like a Mother.

"Aunt Mary seems almost like a
mother to me-" said little Bobbie,
soberly.
, Does she?" replied Boobies moth
Il, very much pleased.
Eyes, she ticks me every time I go
to her house," concluded Bobbie.-
| Oio State journal.
St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1902-07-05
BY ITS TAIL.

bright sunlight falling on its thick fur,
which is like soft plush and colored
olive brown and olive yellow.
The kinkajous come from the tropic
forests of Mexico, Central America
and South America, and they are rare
" seen in menageries. They are night
providers and tree jewellers, and live
on fruit, birds, honey and small ami
mails.
The kinkajou is a little smaller than
a cat, with a body about 81 inches in
length and a tail longer than this. With
its long tongue it can pull to it things
which it cannot reach with it's paws,
and it is able to sit on it's hind quarters
and feed itself with it's "hands." As
might be guessed from its habits, it is a
relative of the raccoon The kinkajous
are easily tanned and very affectionate,
and it is strange that more of them
have not been imported as interesting
pets. However, Belgian hares were a
long time coming, SO there is still time
for enterprising animal dealers to
make a lot of money by creating a de-
mand for kinkajous. (
Bright Boy Saves Property.
Sometimes a bright boy sees things
which older people do not. Morris
Caps, an eight-year-old boy, went
from Los Angeles to visit his grand.
parents at San Diego, says the San
Diego Sun. His grandfather was at
the train to meet him and to look for
his baggage. A few minutes after
his arrival, Morris came to his grand.
father with the report that one of the
valises in a pile of baggage was on
fire. The agents attention was i'm.
mediately called to this. He opened
the %valise, and in the bottom found 9
bunch of burning matches. Near the
matches. was an alcohol lamp, and
some alcohol vas burning. The quick
action of young Caps saved the own.
er. of the valise several dollars, and
may have saved much other property
from injury. This is said to be not the
first time the boy has attracted pyblis
attention because Of his a~lertnesa.
Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1902-01-13
CARE OF THE EYES.

An authority on the care of the eyes
emphasizes the fact that in this day of
reckless misuse of the eyesight the
rules laid down must consist chiefly
of warnings regarding things to be
avoided. His advice is in the main as
follows:
First-Do not use the eyes in poor
light Or too far from a good light.
Second-Do not have the body in
the way of the light, nor the light di
rectly in front. One is almost as bad
as bad as the other. The light should
fall without interruption from one
side.
Third-Do not use the eyes much
when recovering from illness, or when
very tired.
Fourtb-Do not use the eyes till
they become watery, or show indis
tinctness of vision.
Fifth-Do not work with head bent
over. This tends to gorge the vessels
of the eyes with blood and to produce
congestion.
Sixth-Do not read lying fiat on the
back or reclining, unless the book is
supported in the same relative angle
and position as when erect. This is
so difficult to do that it is better not
to attempt it.
Seventh-Do not go a single day
without glasses after you should put
them on. Glasses may not be becom-
ing, but they become necessary for all
that.
Eighth-Do not burn your candle at
both ends. Do not study or work
both early and late.
Ninth-Do not ignore the close con-
nection of the eyes with the general
health, "He who considers the eye
as little kingdom set off by itself,
with separate laws and administration
will make great mistake"
Tenth-Do not ignore even the
slightest hint from the eye, that
everything is not right with it. Ma
ture is the only walking delegate who
never issues orders for a strike ar
bitrarily.
Eleventh-Do not take any quack
advice about the eye, but so long as it
does it's work with ease and comfort
let it alone. 1t is all right. Be tenn
perate in its use, as in everything, and
all will be well.-N. Y. Tribune Farmer
Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1902-01-13
Hay and Fertility.

A good way to run down the fertil-
ity of a farm is to raise successive
crops of hay on the land without any
special attention to improved methods
of restoring to the soil the elements
which the hay takes from it. In
many parts of the country where
haying was formerly profitable it is
now a pretty poor sort of farming
simply on account of this robbing of
the soil. The hay was raised continu-
ously and money was made thereby;
but gradually the hay crop proved
smaller and less profitable, and in
time the land was good for nothing
else. There are at present many
such rundown farms, and the owners
will tell you that there is no money in
raising hay, nor in any other kind of
farming. 1t is not that the price of
hay is not satisfactory, but the land
which formerly yielded such good
crops fails now TO respond.
I believe in raising good hay for
market, and do it every year, finding
therein as good profit as in any other
crop. But years ago I came to the
conclusion that hay as a market crop
would not pay unless it was raised as
part of a good system of crop rota-
ton. Consequently while other farms
around me have in many instances
shown unmistaka BILE signs of degen-
Grafton through too heavy hay crop
ping, mine is really in better fertility
than at the beginning, Ihave always
contrived to give back to the land as
much if not more than L took from it.
The soil must be in the right condition
to yield heavy crop of timothy, and
timothy takes from it more life and
fertility than any other crop. That is
one reason why fancy timothy hay
always brings the highest price in the
market Yet with forethought and
planning big crop of fancy timothy
can be raised almost as easily as any
other hay grass. 1t is all in rotation
and the method Washington Farmer
Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1902-01-13

dulling the brain dulls ambition.
"The American workman" he says,
'wishes to get on; he accompanies
great deal more work in day than
any other workman in the world"
"He does not drink" says another
English writer.
England is beginning to see the diff
ference in results between occasional
talks by temperance advocates to
school children and the systematic
graded public school study of this
topic re quired by law in the United
States. At recent meeting in Biz
mingham, adore ssed by the arch
bishop of Canterbury, the presiding
fficer, Mr.. Edwin Smith, said: "We
are being beaten in skill by
America. She has been lavish in
spending money inl educating the
brains of her people while we have
been lavish in poisoning them. If we
spent per head on alcohol the same
as America, our drink bill would be
about sixty six millions (pounds) less
than it now is. We can not succeed
commercially while we are hand1-
capped in this way to the extent of 48
per cent. The great mass of the
working people in this country are
| totally ignorant of the effect of drink"
He said that England ought not to
|
merely to the temperance societies
but that it 'should be undertaken by
the state. Surely if the state must
| encourage the traffic for revenue it
should in fairness educate every child
in government schools as to the
nature and danger of alcohol, and the
benefits otto tai abstinence" He
added in closing: off the state will
only educate the children against
strong drink England COM
mercially may even yet be saved"
1t has be en- wisely said that "Indus-
trial supremacy belongs to that coun-
try which enjoys the cheapest ma
terials, the most improved machinery,
and the most efficient labor" AS
clear brains and steady nerves are
ne eded for the preparation of both
material and machinery as well as for
their use in production, that nation,
other things being equal, whose brains
are not dulled by alcohol and other
narcotics will win in the worlds COM
petition.
Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1902-01-13
REMARKABLE CURE OFCROUP.
a TITLE Rows TJFE SAvED

have few words to say regarding Cham
berlain's Couch Remedy. 1t saved my little
boys life and 1 fesl that I cannot praise it
enough. I bought bottle of it from A. E.
Steere of Goodwin, S. D., and when l got home
with it the poor baby could hardly breathe.
/ gave the medicine as directed every ten
minutes until he "threw up'' aud then 1
thought sure he was going to choke to death.
We had to pull the phlegm out of his mout h
in great long strings. 1 am positive that if
had not got that bottle of cough medicine,
my boy would not be on earth to-day.-JoEL
DEMoNT, Inwood, Iowa. For sale by
81. G. Pierce, Barton, II. s. Webster, Barton
Landing, w. E.. Trip, E. Charleston.
Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1902-01-13
OUR FARMERS.
SELECTING CATTLE FOR FEEDING.

Where the cattle for feeding are to
be purchased much care is necessary.
There are cattle on the market which
no amount of skill or feed or attention
could ever make into even fair bull
locks. The type of feeder which has
come to be most sought after by
cattlemen is described as being deep
and broad in the body, fat and broad
on the back set on short legs, and
smooth and even in every part.
recent writer describes this very we'll
by saying: "Select those with the
--LATEST backs" Since animals in low
condition seldom show their true form,
it has come about that much stress is
laid on the shape of the head. The
desirable indications in this part are
large, moist muzzle with open nostrils,
shortness of face, as much breadth as
possible in the forehead and large,
full eyes with an expression that de-
notes quietude and tractability. The
term equality" includes great deal.
The more common parts which are
examined in the Judging of quality
are the bone in the lower part of the
leg, and the skin. In the bone it is
desirable to have sufficient size to
carry the weight of the animal, but
with cleanness and absence of any
freshness or superf1uoust tissue in that
part which is waste when the animal
is placed upon the block. In the skin
| it is desirable to find a soft loose skin
of medium thickness, covered with an
abundant coat of fine, silky hair.
Quality is closely associated with
good breeding. Animals strong in
the blood of any of the purely beef
breeds are more profitable than low
bred animals. When generations of
scientific care and liberal feeding have
been bestowed to produce an animal
we'll adapted to making beef from
grain and forage, it is not the part of
wisdom to disregard the cumulative
effect of all this and seek to secure
profit from animals which have back
of them no judicious selection or sys-
tematic management. The particular
point in which we'll bred cattle must
excel those of lower breeding is in the
extent to which they place the meat
upon the upper part of the body where
it commands higher price, and also
in dressing out high percentage OF
edible meat from their live weight
Exchange.
Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1902-01-13

What is left for
believe
and
o
Lydia E. Pnkhams Vegetable Compound,
of
Read What Hrs. Burnfam
DEAR Mrs PINKHAM:-Words fail thankful
Vegetable Compound for
would faint troubled
land
ovaes would swell badly took lots medicines
Vegetable Compound and well
FOLLOW the record of this medicine
brought about by something else but by Lydia e. Pnliams yege
table Compound, the Woman's
thousand
to
Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1902-01-13
g MA~r~
This signature is on every box of the genuine
Laxative BrOmO=Quinine Tablets
the remedy that cures a cold I'm one day
Se1f-Respect.

1t is now recalled that Abraham
Lincoln, when president once had
Frederick Douglass at the White
House to tea. But that was in war
time. Douglass's ideas on elevating
the race might be profitably studied
just now. The best way to keep a
man out of the mud, he said, was to
black his shoes. In other words,
to make a man a man, give him
some self-respect and a chance in
the world. And that applies all
around, to the white men, the brown
men and the black men.-Erchange.
Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1902-01-13
AN OPEN ZEz YER
Addressed to Women by the Treasurer
of the W.C.T. u. of Kansas City,
Mrs. Il. G.. Smith,

S1sTERs:-I believe advocating unfolding
everything that will lift and help and but little appears
all knowledge and learning have not the health enjoy
found by personal that Lydia E. Pinham's
medicine of virtue, and having
back
life utime simply by the Of few
of should
doing duty suffering mothers and draggedout housekeee
Sister, your health poor do feel out and used
the troubles which bese take
advice let alone Lydia E. Pnklams Vegetable
they
do noMRs E. c. SMITH, 1912 Oak St. Treasurer W. c. T. IT, Kan
City. Mo.
Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1902-01-13

To Cure a Cold in One Day.
Take Laxative Bromo Quinine Tablets. All
druggists refund the money if it fails to cure
E. w. Groves signature is on each box. Csc.
The Cook County herald. [volume] (Grand Marais, Minn.) 1893-1909, 1902-07-05
Mary Morrison Dead.

Last evening the home of Mr.. ard
Mrs. James Morrison was visited by
death and their eighteen year-old daugh-
ter, Mary, died very suddenly of heart
desease. The young lady was around
with her friends Yesterday forenoon and
expected to participate in the celebra-
ton. Not feeling we'll she returned to
her home early in the day. Nothing
serious, however, was anticipated UNI til
about six o'clock, when she became sud-
denly worse and passed away in short
time.
Mary Morrison lived here during her
whole life and has had the respect Of all
who knew her and her death is universal
ly regretted.
The HERALD joins with the commun-
ity in extending sympathy to the be-
reaved parents and family.
The Cook County herald. [volume] (Grand Marais, Minn.) 1893-1909, 1902-07-05
Did the Shark Emf TIE

In the stomach Of shark recently
caught at Lukovo were found, among
other things, it is said, pair of trous-
ers, a COW bell and shoe. Probab lv
anyone who should hold that these ex-
hibits are prima facie that this shark
at least swallowed a man would receive
the rejoinder from our expert aquari-
UNI friends, who assert that there is no
such thing as ating shark, that
they prove just as much that the afore-
said shark would, could or did, swallow
cow, for certainly, we can hear them
argue, it is as reasona bic to claim that
this fish did not swallow the cow bell
without swallowing a COW, as that in
swallowing a pair of trousers and an
old shoe it necessarily must have
swallowed man or two.-Fishing Ga
Zette.
The Cook County herald. [volume] (Grand Marais, Minn.) 1893-1909, 1902-07-05
NEEDED A BRAVE MAN.
He Was an Hour Behind Time and
His Wife Was Waiting for
Him at Home,

The wind sighed dismally in the big,
bare office at the Harrison Street Po-
lice station every time that the door
opened, and with one of the sighs there
drifted in pale little man with wispy
mustache and a discouraged express
sion on his careworn face, relates the
Chicago Tribune.
He sided up to the grated desk and
said, plaintively:
''Sergeant, I want the bravest man
in the police station. Iwant to borrow
him for half an hour"
Visions of the capture of the stamp
robbers, of Patrick Grove, and of half
a dozen other noted offenders flashed
into the sergeant's consciousness.
man." said he, you can have "a
dozen. What is it? The capture of a.
desperate criminal?"
NO"
"Perhaps you want to have a hold
up man arrested?"
mo-
"Can it be that you have seen bur-
glars at work and want the bravest
man we have to 60 with you and take
them?"
NO." said the Little man, sadly, "it
is not that"
'But, see here. You are askins or
the bravest man we have, and we don't
send him out unless there is big game
to be bagged. Give me an idea of the
service you wish to have performed
and 1 may send half dozen men in
stead of one"
"One will do"
'"Then what do you want him for?"
The little man raised himself on tip
toe. He said, softly:
81 want the bravest man in. the sta
ton to go with me to my house. T
promised to be home at ten o'clockand
it is now II. My wife is waiting for me,
and it will take the bravest man in
Chicago to explain to her that missed
the last carr
The sergeant, who would have liked
to have sent a man, found that he could
not spare one.
The Cook County herald. [volume] (Grand Marais, Minn.) 1893-1909, 1902-07-05
LINES UNDER TWO RIVERS.
Mammoth Undertaking Of a Private
Railway Corporation in a.
New York,

This is an age of stupendous engi-
neering works. An end seems, to
have come to the construction of
great trunk lines of railway upon
the better known continents. Amer
lea, Europe and Asia have been
spahned; but the "Cape to Cairo"
railway is projected for Africa, and
the "Pan-American" line for Central
and South America.
Meanwhile enterprises of startling
magnitude are in progress or are
planned for opening lines of COM
munication by digging through the
surface of the earth, says Youths
Companion. The great Manchester
ship canal, the German government
canal between the North sea and
the Baltic, and the Chicago drain
age canal are finished. Two tunnels
already pierce the Alps, and a third
will soon be opened. The rapid
transit tunnel through New York
city from end to end is under rapid
construction. The Nicaragua canal
awaits the action of congress, which
is sure to be favorable, and in a few
years an artificial waterway will sep
arate the continents of North and
South America.
The latest scheme, brilliant in con-
ception and almost unexampled in
the difficulties to be encountered, is
the construction of double railroad
tunnel from New Jersey beneath the
Hudson river and beneath the streets
of New York to a huge central sta
ton, there to divide into three tun-
nels to pass under the East river
to Brooklyn. When this great en-
terprise shall have been finished a
passenger may take his seat in a
palace car at Brooklyn and not
alight from the train until the car
rolls into San Francisco.
Forty million dollars to be spent
by private corporation; five years
of time for construction; an under
ground station in New York city a
little less than a third of a mile
long and having two miles of tracks;
steel tube nearly 10 feet in diam
eter, driven through the mud of the
Hudson river bed, 80 feet below high
water mark, and resting on steel pill
lars going down 100 feet to hard pan;
all trains to be operated by electric
ity-these are some of the wonders
of the great undertaking.
In our day such huge enterprises
as this excite far less surprise and
attract much less attention than
were bestowed in former times on
works that are now everyday occur
rences. Probably the limit has not
been reached. The next generation
may see France, England and Ire
land connected by submarine tun-
nels, and Asia joined to North Amer
lea by railway bridge.
The Cook County herald. [volume] (Grand Marais, Minn.) 1893-1909, 1902-07-05
TO SAVE THE MAORI RACE.
Ignorance of the People Responsible
in = G5eat Measure for Their i
Taking Or.

Considerable progress is being made
IN connection with the movement for
providing school for Maori girls. His
excellency the governor and Lady Ran
furly have, in furtherance of the
scheme, recently had a most interest
ing gathering in the ballroom at Gov
eminent house, Wellington, reports
the Pal Mall Gazette.
At one end of the room was a group
OF Maori chiefs, their dark faces and
grizzled heads forming picturesque
oado round the cleaning amber-col-
ored walls. To some of the chiefs pres
ent their surroundings must have been
strange, though they never lost their
selt-possession or dignity, and their
eyes never wandered down the rows of
people in idle curiosity. A few of them
carried meres or clubs. The governor
IN a short opening speech impressed
on his hearers the necessity of educat-
ing the Maori girls, the future wives
and mothers of the race. Among the
more prominent items of the pro-
gramme was Maori song by the
chiefs. Then Rev. F. Bennett Zone of
the native race), who is devoting him
self to this crusade, addressed the
gathering.
In picturesque metaphor he showed
the necessity of aiding the Maoris to-
day, who, if official returns are to be
believed, and no aid comes from their
white brothers, are dying as a race.
In speaking about the question of
dress, Mr.. Bennett told a humorous
tale of an old Maori who came into
northern town from a village some
mics away, one hot summers day. He
had little money and wanted to buy
European clothes in the store. He
stood puzzled by the choice of raiment.
At last his gaze fell on yellow oilskin
coat, gay with red flannel Innings. To
this he added comforter and a SOU
wester, and, thus. attired, strutted in
the sunshine outside, his bare legs
showing below the coat. AL day he
showed off his fnery in the streets,
but in the evening Mr.. Bennett found
him sitting outside hut with nothing
but shawl twisted around his waist.
where are your clothes?" asked the
clergyman. "Too hot; no good,'' said
the old man.
In summer money is fairly plentiful
with the Maoris, and the natives buv
clothes and wear fannels and substan-
t1al ma terials. In winter, when money
is scarce, they are often reduced to
straits, and their clothing is of the
most fiimsy nature. This causes great
mortality. The little children especial
~ suffer through the ignorance of
their mothers, and Mr. Bennett gave
many sad instances where knowledge
of diet and nursing would have saved
the lives of the ba bies. In one district
the poor Ma orr mo theirs were told flour
was good food for INFANTS. Probably
baked -four was meant, but the woman
used it raw, mixed with water, and not
one of the children survived