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St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1902-02-01
A Popular Success.

A Feeble minded Young Man stood
looking up at New Building one
Day when Hold of Bricks came down
and got him, says the New York Her
aid. When he was poked into the
Ambulance his Dome was perforated.
At the Hospital they removed num-
Der of Brain Lobes that had been
mussed up and had Grit in them.
They packed in Oakum to fill the
Cavity. The Young Man recovered
and soon was able to attend Parties,
where he scored heavily as = Comic,
his great speciality being to make
Pun on somebody's Name. The Men
tai Strain of making Puns was too
much for the small wad of Gray Mat
ter remaining, so he had inflammation
of the Oakum, complicated with Pare
sis. Hysteria and Emotional Demen-
tia. They had to take him away to
the Wheel House and put him in an
upholstered Room. He was without
Means and the Future seemed dark
indeed until it was discovered that,
when provided with Pen and Paper,
he could write Sentimental Songs of
the kind warranted to make a Hired
Girl weep and sell 100000 Copies.
Then the Warden remembered hav-
ing read in Book somewhere that
Insanity and Genius are closely allied.
MoralIf you don't believe it, read
some of the Songs.
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UNCLE HI JONES.

Uncle H Jones was an optimist born:
Doubt In mems motives he treated will
scorn.
Went through the world with a faith tina,
was sweet
aarporing never a thought Of deceit.
Snce remember. imposed on like sin
man tricky, we begged he'd begin
Lega! proceedings and force him to fight.
RECKON. said uncle, hell do what il
right"
In the worlds honesty uncle believed:
lived ~ what man gave, that he received.
~ one was straight in his dealings, and
where!
Never quarrel knew him to pick;
never complained, though his troubles
came thick
Ahough this man nagged him, or that
one, in spite,
Reckon" said uncle. hell do what ii
LONELY believer in all that was good,
~hfough his whole life he was misunder-
stood
dubbed IAN old fogy" and called rather
Queer.''
Yet when Doc told him tho end had
drawn near,
ASKED AS. MIN II any last word he would say.
"netner the parson or someone should
Guess God will know that treated men
white;
Reckon" said uncle. Hell do what is
-Hoy Farrell Greene, In Orange .Iudd
Farmer.
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Indignant.

An amusing little bit Of personal
experience is given by Mr.. Augustus
J. G. Hare in his ''story Of My Life. Is
1t occurred during one of his lectures
in Rome. He had conveyed his little
flock, which included at lest one live
prince, through the palace of the
Caesars, and had gathered them near
the Forum, when he observed that a
mysterious stranger who had at
tached himself to the party was show
ing signs of anger which increased
with every utterance he-tAe speaker
made. At length the interloper
could keep silent no longer. He
burst forth in denunciation. "All
that this person has been telling you
about the palace of tho Caesars" he
informed the party in q loud voice,
The has had the effrontery to relate
to you as if it were his own. You
will be astonished, ladies and gen.
tlemen, to hear that it is taken word
for word, without the sli.s htest ac-
knowledgement, from NJ. Hare's
Walks in Rome.'" "Mt answer"
says Mr.. Hare, twas, OF am SO
much obliged to you. I did not know
there was anybody in the world who
would. defend my interests so kindly.
am Augustus Hare youths
Companion.
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HOPI FLUTE DANCE.
Beautiful Ceremony Of a Purely
Religious Character.
More Attractive Than the Better
known Snake Dance-Meanin4
of the Sacred Rites Ia Quite
POetical.
Especial Arizona letter.

TIME wonderful Snake dance of the
Hopi Indians of Arizona has often
been described, and such is it's
thrilling attraction that hundreds of
people from all parts of the world have
witnessed it. But many Of those even
who have been present at the Snake
dance ceremonlals are not aware that
at other villages of the Hopi (there are
seven of them altogether), another
series of cere monies occur, equally i'm
posing, far more beautiful and attract
i've, and, to the religious Hopi, equal in
Importance to the better known and
more exciting dance with the snakes.
1t must not be forgotten that to the
Indian in his normal condition a dance
is never anything less than religious
ceremony. He may get pleasure and
enjoyment from it's exercise, but, pri-
marily and chiefly, it is purely re-
ligious act, and is always associated
with worship in one or another of it's
aspects. The Snake dance, for in
stance, is prayer for rain and all the
consequent fertility of crops, ETC., that
come from the beneficent showers that
wa ter thirsty desert land. The Flute
dance is closely allied to the Snake
dance. It is performed every alternate
year with it. This year the Snake
dance ceremonies were performed at
the two villages of Walpi and Wash
The Flute ceremonies were
at Oraibi, Shipauhwi and Shongopavi
Next year the Snake dance will be per-
formed at the three latter villages,
while the Flute dance will be given at
Valpi and Washonganavi.
Now, while at Walpi, this year, there
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spring near the home of Loloiami,
the chief of the Oraibi pueblo, and
about five miles west of the town,
Here is one of the pitiful springs up
on which the people depend for their
meager supply of water. Just before
noon men, women and girls might
have been seen vending their way from
the village on the mesa height, down
the steep trails, over the sandy way
trodden for centuries by their fore
fathers, towards the location of the
spring.
Every face was as serious and wore
as grave and earnest an expression as
that of a novice about to be confirmed
IN her hottest vows. Arrived at the
spring, an eminence just above it to the
southwest was the chosen site for the
preliminaries. Here an hour or more
was spent in prayers, sprinkling of
meal before and upon the altar and the
painting of the symbols of the clan
upon the participants.
Other priests during the whole time
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HERE AND THERE.

The cheapest pork is made from,
pigs narrowed in spring, erazed in
summer and fattened in the fall.
Agricultural experiment stations
are schools for farmers, from which
they may learn much that they will
never learn elsewhere.
An agricultural college without
farm attached is Q misnomer. Apr;-
culture is not an exact science. and
consequently can not be learned from
books.
The difference between blood and
individual merit is shown in the fact
that the latter sells for five cents and
the former sometimes fifty cents per
pound.
The recent run of light, unripe
hogs to the great markets indicates
that hog raisers are afraid they will
otherwise have too many to sell
when prices pick up again.
-Iime lost is lost forever" This.
aplies to live stock, as it is we'll
known that an animal stunted in ear-
~ life never amounts to much. Young
animals should have special care that
growth and development may not be-
Only few years ago, if anyone
had talked to dairyman of bacteria.
ne would have been laughed at as a,
semilunatic. Now every competent
1airyman makes a special study OF
'hese minute organisms, and cult
7ates some and kills others.
The man who starts ont Ia ~.
by his wits" should not remain on =
arm. II he finds himself. there. nor
20 on farm II he finds himself else,
where. The farm Is no place for
monkey bhsiness," hut for thought.
york and results.
Commercial manures are otter
10th best and cheapest, but can NOT
'e used exclusively without exhaust.
ng the humus Of the soil. Humus Il
necessary to best results from chem
cal fertilizers, and can be procured
n stable manure or leueminoaa
Flowed in. A soil lacking in humns i
italy defective.
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were, perhaps, 200 to 300 spectators at
the Snake dance, but five persons saw
the chief portions of the Lelentu or
Flute dance at Oraibi. OF these, three
were of the family of that Mennonite
mis- sionary, Rev. H. r. Voth, who has
already made himself famous by his
wonderful reproduction of Hopi affairs
and groups in the Field Columbian
museum at Chicago. The other was
Denver gentleman, and the fifth the
writer. To see the ceremonies cost me
10 miles of weary, hot walking over the
Painted desert, carrying heavy cam
era and my provisions. But it's beauty,
grace and charm far more than repaid
me Tor the WEAKNESS of body.
After the secret Kiva ceremonies
(rites in the underground chambers of
the fraternity of the Flute) the first
public rites of the day took place at
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1t; figures won't lie-neither will h~s
but your Uncle Jack will bet coon
skin that he fizzles in the poultrv
business. It takes more than figures
to win out in the poultry business
it takes some good judgment and
some common, everyday hen sense. y
I have always had curiosity III
finding out just why people theorizeS
SO much in the poultry business when
they could not think Of it in other
occupations. Does poultry pay? Well
yes; it pays something like five hun.
dred per cent, but you can't figure e
out; somehow or other we have got
to work it out.-M. NJ. johnson, Is
Poultry Investigator.
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at the drawing-room door, muc]
scandalized and agitated. IT was witt
difficulty that I brought her to com
prehend what she saw and heard
Both women were soon crying to
gether.
| When the tears had expended them
selves, 1 persisted in accompanying
the widow home. To be frank I re
posed little faith, at first, in the gen
uineness of her emotion. Ny indig
nation had been simmering too long;
1 wanted to see her properly pun
ished.
When we reached her house she
unlocked chest in the library and
| gave me the lost articles, and with
| them several other things that had
| not come from our house. That chest.
indeed, was plentifully stocked.
II don't fnow why I took them!"
she continued to exclaim. II have
everything I want! But cannot help
it,"
''These articles ought to go back
to the rightful owners!" I exclaimed,
indignant at what l saw.
''Yes, yes, know it! I will give it
all back. I don't want it. I dent
know why took i'll" she cried again,
relapsing into tears.
1 secured what thought had come
from our house and took my leave.
When I reached home my patroness
was very much moved, and besought
me to say nothing about the matter.
At first was far from sure that this
was the right course to pursue. The
next morning the family physician
who is also the widows physician
and lawyer who had come on from
New York called on me, and succeed
ed in convincing me that we were
dealing with an infrmity rather than
a crime. They made it out a case
of kleptomania or purposcless theft.
1t appeared that the woman had been
addicted to such unfortunate slips, at
all her life. She had no mo-
tive for stealing, but appeared unable
to refrain from taking small articles
when exposed to the temptation.
In the opinion of the physician, two
natures, or two distinct spheres of |
seemed alternately to
dominate the behavior of this wo-
nan; one that of a noble, charitable
Christian lady, tho other that of q
:urtive and cunning thief.
readily consented to say nothing
# the matter. Later in the day the
friends held sorrowful
onclave over the chest and redis-
ributed the contents. Her infirmity
vas certainly a very sad one
.outh's Companion.
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were on their knees or in other pos

were on their knees or in other pos
lures of reverence, praying, singing or
chanting, and sprinkling the sacred
! meal on or before the altar. A large
number of bahos or prayer sticks and
plumes were used. These are a fea-
ture of all Hopi and cognate peoples
ritual.
At this time the chief priest left the
hillside and solemnly marched down to
the spring. It is circular in shape, and
with rude wall built around it. At
the opening in the circle three small
goard vessels were placed, two of
which held sacred water from some far
away spring, and the other was full
of honey. A singular thing occurred
about the filling of this honey lar.
nest of bees had located in the wall of
the spring, and the chief priest, taking
it for granted that this was good sign,
had the nest dug out and the honey ex-
tracted from the comb, for his sacred
purposes. After he had prayed for
awhile the priests and women from
above all marched down, except the
AoeS PAAvSAS' 1As lACy SlOOU around
the spring they sang and prayed, while
the chief priest stepped into the water.
bowling his face down over it, and way-
ing his tiponi (the sacred palladium of
these ceremonies) in and through it.
Soon it was filthy, muddy mess, in
stead OF water spring, and when it
seemed mixed up enough he began to
dip his face deep into it while the men
and women around continued their
singing and worship. 49,
Then he came forth, and now be.
gan a most beautiful professional
march around the spring, in time to |
the weird playing of the priests above.
After three times circling around, the
group stood facing the west, and at
certain signals sprinkled- large hand
Fuls of sacred meal in the direction of
he water. This was followed by most
orofuse scattering of bahos in the
ame manner. Literally hundreds of
hem were thus thrown, and | gathered
after the celebrants were gomez
cores of them for my collection. The
'ahos used on this occasion were
mere downy feathers to'which cotton
trings were attached. The effect az
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the meal and the feathers were throw,
was remarkably beautiful, and tn,
scene was most impressive; none the
less SO for its strangeness and peculiar
ity.
These concluded the ceremonies a,
this spring. In the meantime the CHIEF
priest had gone to his house over the
hill, and from there had started out
group of young men who were to
race to the spring near the mesa-four
miles away. It was a scorching hot
day-as had found out in my own wa *
and yet these young men bounded
over the sandy trail like hunted deer.
1t was glorious sight to witness them.
Ten or dozen athletic youths, clad
scantily, their bronzed figures in per-
feet proportion, revealing their
strength and power, their long black
hair waving out behind them, darting
off like strings from bow across the
desert.
Slowly we followed them, and when
we arrived at the other spring found
they had long ago passed it, and the
victor received his reward. Racing
constitutes large part of the sacred
ceremonies, for it is religion to them
that each man shall develop his physi-
cal powers to the utmost.
Similar ceremonies were gone
through at the nearby spring as at
the one further away, and when they
were completed the whole party
formed in procession, and as solemn
" as if it were a funeral march. pro-
:eeded up the steep trail to the village
and there repeated some of the cere-
monies already described.
The purport of all this it is compare
lively easy to understand. The Snake
lance is prayer for rain, which, ac-
'ording to the Hopi's ideas, is stored |
n vast reservoirs in the heavens. He
llso believes that there are vast water
supplies under the earth, and so, every
'ther year, he petitions the powers
hat govern and control these subter-
anean reservoirs to loosen the waters
nd let them flow forth into the
prings. In one of the dances thew
ymbolize the water from above and
he water from below by linking the
rst fingers together. This gives us
he Greek fret, and when this symbol
copied in their basketry, we see this
lasslc design, purely the result of imi-
alton, and having as clear meaning
D the Hopi mind as the cross has to
ne Christian. This is an interesting
act that writer's on the origin Of this
7mbol have not yet noticed.
G. WHARTON JAMES. /:
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Their Chance.

Il prithee, didst thou hear the
news?" asked Mr.. Hamlet Ham. the
eminent tragedian, of Mr.. Cad Cooks,
the comedian.
L didst not" was the the latter's
reply. "Reiterate the news to me-"
There's corner i'll eggs.'
Really, truly?''
Truly, really! The price is now IS
cents dozen, with perpendicular
tendency. I need not point out to
you, my friend, the Importance of this
fact to our noble art"
Thou needst not. Eggs are now
too costly for missiles. We will sally
FORTH
Then the one-night stands suffered
an MISUNDERSTANDING Gazette.
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FARMER AND PLANTER.
SOUTHERN BEEF CATTLE.
No Reason why the Southern Cattle
men Should Not Produce q Fine
Type of Beef Animal.

| Cattlemen in the south SHOULD
wake up. There is no reason WI.
they should not produce q fine typ
of beef animal. The blood OF thu
Jersey, the Holstein and other dair!
types predominates, which is one rea
son why the south produces so few
good beef animals. The aggressive
ness of the dairy cattle breeding as
sociations and the neglect OF the bee1
breeding associations are responsible
for this condition in the south. At
lanta, Nashville, Chattanooga
Charleston and other cities have their
fairs and live stock shows, and at
each the dairy breeds outnumber the
beef breeds five to one. The same
feeds that produce the richest and
most abundant supply of milk in the
dairy types will produce the frame
and hardness of constitution in the
beef types. Prominent dairy breed
ers have recognized the south as
their most profitable field. Why, then,
don't the beef breeders spread out
OSCl CudG SSCUAOus
We know of several shorthorn
breeding establishments in MISSISSIPPI
pi, Tennessee and North Carolina
where purebreds are raised on a
small scale. The rich delta lands and
the uplands Of Mississippi produce
luxuriant pastures of Bermuda and
bluegrass. The writer visited beau
tiful stock farm at Co1dwater, Miss,
thirty miles south of Memphis, where
the grass was green and knee deep in
August. There were thirty head OF
and the owner said that
he sold his bull calves in his state at
prices ranging from $3.50 to $500. 9th
er sections of the south are as well
adapted to raising the beef breeds.
The Biltmore farm of Asheville, n. c., |
will 'disperse its Jersey herd and buy
shorthorns.
Florida is in the lead of all south |
I'm states, with the exception of Ken
ucky and Virginia, in the production
# purebreds. The farmers find it a
profitable investment, and their bust
ess is growing rapidly. Louisiana
as just begun. The experiment sta
ion, located at Baton Rouge, has
purchased several fine bulls for ex-
erimental purposes. The results O:
hese experiments will be given to
he farmers of that section, that they
lay learn of the profits to be derived
rom . better grade of cattle than
hey have been breeding.
Southern farmers can easily pro-
uce the grasses necessary to bring
neir steers up to a fattening stage,
nd then have their cotton seed meal,
orn and clover for finishing pur-
oses. The fat beef industry has
reat future in the south. There is a
g business down there for the bull :
an, if he will only go after it and
ork for it. It can not be built up in :
month, or a year, but will require
stematic work on the part of the
sociations that represents the :
Shorthorn, Angus and 9th
breeds.-Chicago Drovers' Journal.
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BATTING THE HOLE.
Have Good Thing If They
Only Realize 1t.

it is a custom in many places. b.
fore beginning piscatorial CANE
paign, to ''bait the hole" the object
being to encourage an appetite on tho
part of the fishes for the particular
kind of bait to be subsequently used
on the hook. This policy properly
handled is almost always successful.
| In q similar manner and for simi-s
lar purpose, the south Texas truck
growers have been batting the people
Of the great northern cities until the
appetite for fresh garden stuff in The
early spring has been greatly ii.
creased and now the craving begins
before the snow and ice have melted.
Our truck farmers have the means to-
satisfy this craving and are preparing
to do it, partly for humanity's sake
and partly for the money there is II
it. The indications are that the COM
ing season will load more northbound
trains than ever before, by many hum
dreds. The northern people are noted
for the size and capacity of their an
petites and the south Texas truck
growers for the size of their early
cabbages, cauliflowers, beans, lettuces. Il
and so forth. This is rapidly ex-
panding traffic, and there is no good
reason why it should not continue to
expand, as long as population In 81
creases, and a taste for wholesome
diet remains unappeased. We Judge
from the number of new fruit and
truck growers organizations being q
formed all over the state, and the en-
thusiasm that seems to possess the
people, that the campaign is only Just
begun, and that hundreds of recruits y
are focking to the standing of diver
sified farming, and that larger ana
still larger areas will be brought into
subsection to the comparatively new
departure. There will be a meeting
n Dallas early in January of persons a
Interested in the campaign, men OF
ong experience, large intelligence,
md who know more or less about
low the thing is done. These men
viii discuss every phase of the fruit
nd vegetable growing business, and
veryone OF them, no matter how far
dvanced he may be, will expect to ~
earn something that will do him
God, and many who know but little.
ut know that little well, will have N
pportunity to swap little for
luch, a profitable transaction for
oth.-Iexas Farm and Ranch.