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Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1902-09-15
Accident to French Submarine.

A serious accident took place the
other day on french submarine
boat maneuvering off Cherbourg, the
details of which have not been made
public. The vessel is the Silure and
when at S>e maximum depth several
of the crew were seized with suffoca-
tion and were in SO grave condition
that the boat had to return with speed
10 the naval port. An investigation is
being anxiously held into the cause
of tais unpleasant affair, which in
French naval circles is said to have
somewhat shaken the faith which had
been reposed in these craft. This is
the first accident of the kind that has
occurred to a French boat.
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1902-09-15
In incIerent Weather the man VIII

In inclement Weather the man who
in the head and usually gets it, And
the cold neglected or improperly treat
ed becomes nasal catarrh. a disease
obstinate as it is offensive. Don, t
waste time with "medicines' that
dry and ilritate the membrane, but
cure yourself speedily with Ely
Cream Balm. the recognized specific
for catarrh Price 80 cents. Sold by
druggists or sent by Ely Brothers. %
Warrent street, New York.
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1902-09-15
Relic Hunters at White House.

Even in the hottest Of weather
crowds of visitors go to the white
house. ostensibly to watch the work.
men tearing out the interior. but real
ly to carry away pieces of boards,
laths and other parts Of the interior
driveway. The wrought-iron nails
found sticking out of pieces of wood
here and there are most sought afte".
These are OF unusual shape and are
carried away by sightseers by the
hundreds.
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1902-09-15
Collar and Cuff Statistics.

The Census Bureau has issued a re-
port on the manufacture of collars and
cuffs in the United States during the
census year 1900. 1t shows capital
of $1O,216,S17 invested in the fifty.
seven establishments reporting. The
value of products is given as $l5,769,-
1872.
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1902-09-15

For forty years DR.. Fowl@r's En-
tract of Wild Cherry has been cur
ing summer complaint. dysentery
bloody flux, pain in the stomach, al
it has never yet failed to do every
thing claimed for it.
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1902-09-15

Don't let the little ones suffer from
eczema or other torturing skin DIS
eases. No need for it. Doan's Olnt-
ment cures. Can't harm the most
delicate skin. At any drug store, %
cents.
St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1902-08-09

! man doing moderate work would be
fairly supported by like amount Of
food one year, six months and II days,
which is two years, one month and Is
days less than bananas would feed
him. But a. times as much food as an
acre of potatoes give would feed him IS
years. ..ex
Again disappointment awaits US,
when we look into the statement that
an acre of bananas will give us rs times
as much food as will an acre of wheat.
To do that the fruit should support
man 30 years, four months and 10 days.
1t lacks some q years and 12 days of
doing what has SO often been claimed
for it. Nor does "the result of scien.
tific investigation" help us much more
when we examine the claim that ba-
nanas give 80 times as much food az
rice gives to the acre.
That we may see at glance precisely
how bananas do compare with the
more common of other foods, let us
put them side by side on table, and
show the average annual yield per
acre. the actual food value, and the
number of days each will support
man doing moderate muscular work;
thus:
St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1902-08-09
VERSATILITY OF AMERICA.
Oar Artists Paint "Old Maaters' and
"ImDorted'' Soap, Wines, ETC.,
Are Made ut Home,

There are some articles which SEEM
ingly cannot be produced in America,
but we must remember that Things
are not always what they seem, skim
milk masquerades as cream" as Gil
bert says. We are told that there are
artists here in New York, who are max.
ing good living painting some Of
''the old masters" which bring large
prices at auction. Imported wines are
now made in California, the labels
alone being French. It is very com.
mon-place soap factory that cannot
turn out CASTLE soap, and Maine her
ring are shipped to France, and re-
turned as French sardines, says "Vest
Pocket Condolences" in Four-Track
News. Up in northern New York they
are making all manner of imported
cheese, and down in Kentucky they are
turning out many successful brands of
Scotch whisky. Nor does this Yankee
ingenuity cease in its endeavors to sup
ply the demand for foreign goods, for
western manufacturers are making
maple sugar from ingredients that
never came within the shadow of
maple tree, and. are actually buying
Vermont newspapers in which to wrap
the cakes SO that the unsuspecting pur-
chaser will think he is buying genuine
Green Mountain maple sugar. The
land of wooden nutmegs is no longers
curiosity.
St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1902-08-09

see and hear. If that is true, it may
he taken for granted that scientists
will be quite careful of their state
ments, and that we may therefore
trust to their published deductions.
have taken the trouble to write all
this tedious explanation because to
many people the term "calorie" is new,
and because l wish to prejudice the
iury so that it will accept, without
TOO much explanation, the statements
which are to follow. One of these is
that the average man doing hard work
requires each day about ALSO calories
If food: he who does moderate or
ordinary work gets along on about
za.1s7 calories, while the men who do
light work need but 2,572 calories to
! keep their steam up to good working
pressure.
Now we can get back to the notion
that the beef trust may be downed
by eating bananas instead OF beef. In
a pound Of beef are 944 calories, and
in a pound oR bananas there are 260;
so. to get as much food out of the
bananas as the beef gives. one must
eat 1868 pounds of the fruit. The av-
erare bunch of bananas has about is
dozen fingers of Isl Galleries to the
dozen. If bananas are worth Is cents
a dozen, beef should be worth 1885
cents pound. But if beef sells at Is
cents pound. then bananas should
cost no more than 11.8 cents dozen
IN make matters even.
Potatoes have SIG parts of waste
matter, including water, in 100; while
bananas have $40 parts Of waste, leay-
St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1902-08-09

time to revise his views, because his
people will probably retain him in
the congress for an indefinite period.
His views have been disseminated in
some of the newspapers Of the east
ern states, but they have not exert
ed SO great an influence as they
might have produced if they had en-
anated from congressman whose
experience in public life had been
more extended and diversified.
Congressman Morris, of Minnesota,
speaks from six years of experience.
as against six months of the New
York representative, and he says that
the rules of the house of representa-
lives simply reduce that body to an
aggregation of pitiful followers of
the man in the chair" He further
says: "There will be no national dam
ger in these rules, SO long as there
shall be speaker whose patriotism
is bigger than his egotism. But there
is likely to come a day when man
in the chair will WELD the power Of
the position for his own aggrandizs-
ment. Then you will see dictator
whose antics may produce anarchy"
Congressman Hepburn, of Iowa,
who is accredited with great abil-
tiles, natural and acquired, and who
has been in the house of representa-
tives for 20 years, says: 1.-THE rules
OF the house make every member
look like little midget bowling and
scraping to some other midget, who
is magnifed by the obsequiousness of
the midgets who have enthroned him.
Under the existing rules there may
St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1902-08-09

get at their value. AS the chief end of
man is to work, the wise men natural
ly adopted unit that represents the
amount of energy, force or work a
stated quantity of food will yield,
when it is burned in that wonderful
furnace of that most marvellous of en-
gines. the stomach of man.
That unit of measure of food values
they agreed to make calorie, as. en-
gineers have named their standard of
energy horsepower. A calorie is that
quantity of heat or energy which
would raise the temperature of a pound
of water about four degrees Fahren-
heit; or, to be more exact, Of one kilo-
gram of water one degree centigrade:
or. in other words, to lift one ton 1.54
foot. By analysis, the scientists can
learn very nearly the number of
calories in any food. 1t has been said
that as rule these men are excess
sively jealous for their reputation for
accuracy, and fancy that there may be,
possibly, rivals who would be delighted
to pounce upon, drag out and shake
an error in public places, and perhaps
even cry aloud about it, that all might
St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1902-08-09
BEEF AND BANANAS.
lhels Food Value Compared by Men
of Science.
NEST Trust Cannot BE Downed nv
Eating Tropical Fruit Instead
OF steak-Nutritive Prop
critics Of Vegetables.
Especial Correspondence,l

wv -
6(1f YOU want to down the beef
trust, don't eat meat. Eat ba.
nanas instead" So Philadel
phia daily soberly says that dealer in
fruit there advised, and asserted also
that: 1T may surprise you to know
that the banana is the king pin of the
vegetable Kingdom, SO far as nutrition
Is concerned. 1t is Is times as nutri-
tious as wheat of the same weight, has
IS times the nutriment of potatoes and
~ times that OF rice, the three staple
vegetable products of the world. These
hgures are the result of scientific inves.
tigation."
That frnit dealer was probably quite
right. May will be surprised to learn
that the banana has so much virtue,
Such discovery will astound men who
have made what they imagined were
careful and thorough studies of the
fruit and the tube-, and thought the
two were nearly equal in food value.
In fact, the results of number of
such studies show that, if the price of
both bananas and potatoes were one
cent pound, ton of potatoes would
be worth about IA cents more than
would a ton of bananas, as food. I
shall not take into account the differ
ence in palatableness of the food, for
as rule SAVIOR in itself is not known
to be especially nutritious. &t
Studious men in several parts of the
world, whose habit it is to dig up and
show to the world the truth, the whole
truth even to its minutest rootlet, have
anslyzed and weighed by wonderful
devices the different parts of almost
every food commonly used by man.
Having learned a great deal about
these things, those men agreed on a
standard or unit by which to measure,
weigh or count those parts, and thus
St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1902-08-09

ing only ia pounds Of food in 100
pounds of the fruit. A pound Of ba-
nanas furnishes 260 calories; pound
OF potatoes 295 Galleries. If bananas
and potatoes were each priced at one
| cent pound, the money value of a ton
| OF potatoes would be 1915 cents more
than that of ton of the fruit. Sci
| ence seems to have failed this time
! to sustain the assertion of our fruit
| dealer. It seems to me safe to say that
| scientific investigation has not clearly
shown that bananas have As times tho
nutriment possessed by potatoes.
A pound of whole-wheat our has
1850 calories. This is 1890 more than
+ a pound of bananas affords. One would
have to eat 6 1-3 pounds of bananas
to get as much food as pound of the
flour furnishes. He who prefers to
eat soda crackers instead of whole-
wheat flour, can SO get from pound
as much food as rs pounds of bananas
will give. Rice has about 1-3 times a.
much nutriment as have bananas.
Here again science appears to be not
completely in accord with the Phila-
delphia authority.
Possibly he had in mind an assertion
often credited to Humboldt. to the eff
feet that an acre of bananas will yield
as much food as will A acres of pota-
toes. Before accepting such state
ment as a guide in laying out bill Of
fare, it may perchance be well to in.
quire whether, if Humboldt did say
such a thing. he had in mind the prod
uct of an acre of q warm and fertile
farm of Europe, or of one of Peru;
whether he compared the fruit with
the acrid little tuber of the Andes, unfit
to eat before it has been frozen. or with
the big. floury and sweet product of
modern skill in farming.
The average yield of bananas is 2ss
punches yearly to the acre. The aver
age bunch weighs 81 pounds, which
makes 1870 pounds per acre. That
would feed a man three years, four
months and seven days. if he were do
ing moderate work. No wonder life
goes easily in banana lands; or that
an eminent Mexican declares that tho
banana is an institution for the promo.
ton of laziness.
In the years 1890 and 1900 an average
of S22 bushels of potatoes per acre was
obtained for each of those years. A
St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1902-08-09

good in parliamentary law. They have
come up again and again to the detri-
ment of the dominant party, and at
the same time to the detriment of the
country.
Congressman Perkins, of New
York, says: "Many estimable peo-
pie have decided that the influence
of the house of representatives is
diminishing, and that this sad result
is due to the rules of that body. The
first proposition is questionable, and
the second is nonsense" That is the
dirctum of one who has been a mem
Der of congress in active service e
little more than six months. It is cpl
grammatic and bold to declare any
proposition nonsense" and it is
usual with certain class of men to
be aggressively self-assertative, but
assertion is neither syllogism nor
conclusion.
The congressman, whose gentle life
has been spent within sight and
'sou21 of Genesee falls, and whose
home in Rochester is one of the most
lovely in the land. viii have ample
St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1902-08-09

Bananas may be the "king-pin of the
vegetable world" but those who have
tooth for sweeties may be glad to
learn that while that fruit has beg
carly 26O Galleries to the pound there
is delightful copfection which has
5.625, or more than 20 times as much
as bananas, and more than has any
other food easily found. Great is the
virtue of chocolate. Long may it
soothe and sustain from the breakfast
cup; long may it fill the bonbon box.
For it and it alone is the kingpin of the
vegetable kingdom. PAUL BIT.
St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1902-08-09
The Harp of the Mosquito.

The members of the Royal Society OF
Edinburgh were interested, at recent
meeting, in the announcement by
Messrs. A. E. Shipley and Edwin Will
son of the discovery Of an apparatus
heretofore overlooked or neglected, at
the base of the mosquitoes wings, where.
by the characteristic humming of that
insect may be produced. The species
examined was the anopheles maculi-
pennis, and the apparatus consists OF
a slightly movable bar provided with a
series of well-marked teeth which, as
the wings are raised and lowered, rasp
across a series of ridges. The struc-
ture of the apparatus is described as
very complex, but the music produced,
as everybody knows, is extremely eff
fective.
St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1902-08-09
Doctord Mill

Mr.. Pitt understand that there in
good deal of doctored milk on the
market.
Mr.. PENN suppose the water cure
is the one principally used.-Pittsburg
Chronicle-Telegraph.
St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1902-08-09

Rev. Eugene Augustus Hoffman,
dean of the general biological sem
mary of the Protestant Episcopal
church and the richest clergyman in
the world, died suddenly on train
near Plattsburg, n. x
St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1902-08-09
Merely Joke

Mrs. Gabble-Miss Ode says her
family-tree is very ancient.
Mrs. Spark-Yes; it's CHESTNUT
Judge. =.
St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1902-08-09

l
than ever before to fulfill my obliga-
tions as citizen of the nation, as
member of the community, is the head
of my household.
There is vast difference between
loving the world so as to want to
wallow in the mire of it's sin
| and pleasure, and loving the world
with the heart of Christ SO as to want
to get down as near it as possible in
order that we may win some for Christ.
The fact that evil may triumph, the
fact that corruption exists in high
places, the fact that unrighteousness
and dishonesty preside over the ballot
box, and often prevail in the counsels
of political bodies, and in city, state
and nation, does not in the least
.absolve me from my responsibility as
citizen of the nation. What cannot
help am not responsible for. But l
am responsible, most solemnly, as to
how my influence is cast, whether by
means of voice, or pen or ballot, or any
other mediating agent which joins me
with the people and nation and events
around me. There is no obligation to
God which ever conflicts with real duty
in the home, community or nation. If
you are robbing Caesar of his tribute,
you are going contrary to the Divine
will and losing blessed opportunity
of getting close to the world and win
ming some for Jesus Christ. The true
patriot does not rob Caesar of his trib-
Ute
Robbing Goodwill man rob
God?'' asks the heartbroken prophet
as he views the Indebtedness and dis
tress and poverty Of the Jewish people.
which has come as direct fruitage of
their se1fshness and disobedience
Yea, verify, he will and he does. 1t is
The Chickasha daily express. (Chickasha, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1899-current, 1902-02-18

ID. Hovey, is hire from orr
Worth.
5. j. Payne, Of Hobaft' i IN
he city.
Gee. austin went 70 Law'on
this moraing.
W.P. BRADLEY, Of Bradley. 1 T.
is in the city.
Brown Moore, Of Gainesville,
Texas, is visiting in the city.
NJ. Leonard, prominent hard
ware merchant of Anadarko, spent
Sunday in cur city.
e. II. Giilage, +. y Harrison,
G. W. Hicks and J. + Webb. Of
BaiIy. are attending court.
Miss Annie Bassett, trained
nurse. Address Mrs. Trpp's ress
idcuce, block west Of Req barn.
The Expresa has the largest
and best selected stock OF station
ary ever brought to the Indian
rgs go; t,...~
The Chickasha daily express. (Chickasha, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1899-current, 1902-02-18

New equipment, new schedule
new route. 'Oh0ctaW Route
The Chickasha daily express. (Chickasha, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1899-current, 1902-02-18

m -. fre.. Asarlow ,re
"'s xix w II
y = ''.'N r. i
y '''''' IF vt
inson
w.s...., ofAme,.
Inc 'i0's'"
=" WIZ ""s o,osaasd.,
'"' - Mo NJ
eFeD''s' 4
'e'0'
Among those here from bush
Springs are John Coyie' = ~
Hill, a. II. DicSs. y = 80 r.
The Chickasha daily express. (Chickasha, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1899-current, 1902-02-18

/ am over stocked with shotguns,
revolvees, rifles. ammunition, hunting
coats, loggins, and all kinds Of
Sporting goods
The evening times. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1895-1902, 1902-01-03

The American Chemical Society has
been doing what it can to have
metric system of weights and meas
ures adopted; but as Herbert Spen-
Ger pointed out some time ago. there
are grave defects in such Il system
considered as scheme for general
commercial transactions The proof
of this is that so far as the common
people are concerned. IL has never
tobtained, even when supported by
/ law. In this country. for example
we have the decima system i'm our
currency. 1t has some advantages
from a bookkeeper's point of view; it
1 is more convenient TO multiply a
number by ten than by eight. or six.
( or twelve, because all YOU have TO do
/ is TO add cipher. But when II comes
! to ordinary commercial transactions
/ the difficulties begin. We're the dcci-
NAL system adopted for weights and
measures as well as currency. these
obstacles would be simply legion.
The trouble is that ten is a multi
/ pie Of only two numbers. SO that the
/ effort 20 divide it results I'm a neat
little sum-in fractions solved bv men
tai arithmetic. OF course. anybody OF
/ ordinary intelligence can do the sum.
/ but it is a bother. tt is so much
easier to divide dollar by four or
/ eight instead of by five and ten-the
mental process is SO much simpler
and more natural-that we have bar
gain sales I'm which things are sold
for twelve and a half cents. or fifteen
cents each. two for quarter, quite
as often as for ten. or twenty OF
fifty cents. Ia fact, the tventy-ceut
piece never gained popularity. The
tquarter is the coin that has held its
own, simply because 1T is handler
Mental habit I'm calculating mum
bers is a great deal older than the
French Revolution, which gave birth
4 to the metric system. This is why
twelve, which can be divided into
fourths, thirds, halves, or siNths. vii
ever be a handler number than ten
The evening times. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1895-1902, 1902-01-03
NJ SEY

convince the people that a thing is
right. they viii put mp with some i'm
convenience and try to secure IT,.
But when a law is made which is not
supported by this inner light of pub
lie sentiment. IL Is GemoraIizng I'm
the extreme. 1t produces effects
varying with the individual The
community Is composed of three
classes-the Iaw-abiding. the law
breaking. and those who are ON the
border between the two. The law
abiding, if they do not approve the
law. viii be inclined 10 wink at the
breaking of IL. and this removes the
good influence which the force Of
their example might have. The law
breakers are ten times as determined
To make trouble as they would be if
they did not feel that they have more
OF less sympathy i'm their violations
of the principles of order. and the
indeterminate class Joins them i'm
making the law dead letter The
whole thing is productive of hyPoc-
risy on the one hand and rrckIcssuess
4 on the other
The evening times. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1895-1902, 1902-01-03
Dr.. RaIn.ford on TrmD,rarre-

Dr. Bainsford, of New York, is
rather noted for doing unusual and
Individual things. and he has put an
other original speech o. record. In
regard to the desire of the temper
ance societies TO close all saloons on
Sunday. and If possible, at all other
times. ne said:
when you make a law that is be-
yond the peoples conscience, you de-
base the peoples conscience"
Whether one regards this state
meut rs applicable TO the particular
situation which evolved IL or not.
there is no question that it is true
Moreover, it expresses an idea that
ought not 10 be overlooked 1t will
not do 10 enact law that cannot be
enforced. Such a law is worse than
none. As rule, the public will stand
a great deal more moral reform than
the pessimists think il will, so long
as the Utmost feeling Of the people
Is sound and wholesome. If you can