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The Logan Republican. [volume] (Logan, Utah) 1902-1924, 1903-04-17
TIE CONTINGENCY WAS REMOTE
What colored Man Thought OF His
Employers Prospect.

"Ha' So'o'eu wan Inou9nt OF HIS
Employers Prospect.
When southern representative is
at home he has as his servant good
old colored man called SNOWFALL, who
stands In ostensible awe of his en-
ployer. One day, while waiting on
the table Snowfall accidentally spilled
the soup on the person of this con.
gresham. With apparent indigna.
ton, the southerner shouted:
SNOWFALL, you black rascal, do you
know you have scalded a representa-.
tive in the United States congress?"
"Fo' de Lawd. ali knows dat, but alb
really didn't mean fer to do It."
DO you know. you scoundrel," con.
tinued the congressman, in still more
violent terms, that you have scalded
man who may be senator OF the
United States?"
Snowballs face took on a still more
serious look and he again apologized
most abjectly, but his master was not
satisfied.
Snowfall" he roared, you have
scalded a man who may yet be presi.
dent of the United States"
Snowbal's face relaxed and two
cleaning rows of worries came into
prominence.
"Lawd, mistah," said he. when you
gets to be president reckon I'll be
Gawd. Washington Post.
The Logan Republican. [volume] (Logan, Utah) 1902-1924, 1903-04-17
The Desert of Gobl,

The great desert of Cobb would I'LL
the entire Mississippi valley from the
Alleghenies to the Rockies. Upward
of 100000 square miles or Arabia are
an uninhabited waste, while the ter
rible Saraha Is vast enough to cover
the whole United States.
The Logan Republican. [volume] (Logan, Utah) 1902-1924, 1903-04-17
Poison "Took" at Once.

A mad dog In Iowa the other day
bit a young man and his fiancee while
they were out walking, and the couple
Immediately repaired to a parsonage
where they were married. Then they
set out for Chicago to take the
Pasteur treatment. Now all the Iowu
girls are training dogs to act as II
mad.-Boston Traveller.
The Logan Republican. [volume] (Logan, Utah) 1902-1924, 1903-04-17
His Finish,

stubb-"What was the cause of poor
Tanker's downfall?"
Penn-"He took the straight route"
Stubbs-"The straight route?"
Penn-"Yes, the whisky. straight
route"
The Logan Republican. [volume] (Logan, Utah) 1902-1924, 1903-04-17
OF Course Mot.

MS. Gabbles-But there are some
things that go without saying.
Cables Right you are, my dear.
But. Of course, women are not classed
as things"
The Logan Republican. [volume] (Logan, Utah) 1902-1924, 1903-04-17
The Idols We Possess.

II Is a strange errand that has
brought Korean to this country-to
contract for idols. 1t is news to learn
that America has manufactures for
supplying the heather with their gods
Heretofore one supposed the Ameri
can girl was the only idol in the
country-Geneva IN. - Times.
The Logan Republican. [volume] (Logan, Utah) 1902-1924, 1903-04-17
Want the Narconi System.

The companies having steamers In
the Alaskan trade offer to subscribe
for stock enough in the Msrconi COM
pany to furnish money for the imme-
date establishment of wireless tele-
graph plants along the dangerous coast
Of British Columbia
The Logan Republican. [volume] (Logan, Utah) 1902-1924, 1903-04-17
The Latest New York Drink.

The very latest drink is that of an
old gentleman at one of the swell
uptown hotels. says the New York
Sun. He takes 1t every morning. 1t
consists of pint OF certain spring
water with alternating sips Of a Man
haitian cocktail. This beats the man
who soused his fried oysters with
molasses the other day.
The Logan Republican. [volume] (Logan, Utah) 1902-1924, 1903-04-17
Has Served Road Faithfully.

With the probably unrivaled record
of having travelled 100000 miles,
Jacob M. Zebley will be placed on the
pension roll of the Pennsylvania rail.
road on March 1, after fifty-six years
Of continued service as baggagemas.
ter. Zebley, who is 10 years old, be.
gan his career on the railroad In 1S47.
The Logan Republican. [volume] (Logan, Utah) 1902-1924, 1903-04-17
DANGEROUS Nostrums.

The indiscriminate use Of headache
powders all of which contains more or
less acetanilid. has In a number OF
instances caused marked evidences Of
alilin poisoning and more than ono
death has been reported as a result
Of these preparations.
The Logan Republican. [volume] (Logan, Utah) 1902-1924, 1903-04-17
To Settle Point Of Interest.
Gas as Fuel.

Recently MIR. II. A. Humphrey de.
livered lecture before the London
Chamber Of Commerce, says the Eleo-
trical Review, in which he stated that
by using the cheaper form Of gas.
known AS producer" gas, at least
one-half Of the total consumption Of
coal would be saved, this result be-
ing due to the greater efficiency Of
gas over coal as a fuel.
The Logan Republican. [volume] (Logan, Utah) 1902-1924, 1903-04-17
ARRIVES.
Preston. 1875 y. m............
SOUTH BOUND.
LEAVES.

North or South. call on
W. W. WoopsIDE.
The Logan Republican. [volume] (Logan, Utah) 1902-1924, 1903-04-17
James G. Walters,
ATTOREY.AT-LAW.
First National 1Ssa Bank Logan, Utah
GRIFFIN BROS.

Machinists, Blacksmiths, and Wheel
wrights. Carriage work Speciality.
One block South of Thatcher's Bank
Main Street, Logan.
The Logan Republican. [volume] (Logan, Utah) 1902-1924, 1903-04-17
McAdoo a Successful Lawyer.

William McAdoo, formerly a con.
gresham from New Jersey and late
assistant secretary of the navy in the
Cleveland administration. is now a cit
izen Of New York, where he has built
up flourishing law practice. During
his congressional career he ranked
as one of the ablest men on the dem.
ocratic side, likewise among the most
popular.
The Logan Republican. [volume] (Logan, Utah) 1902-1924, 1903-04-17
Child Labor In New York.

Child LABOR IN new roTk'
From facts gathered In the last six
months tbs remarkable condition u
revealed Of the existence OF more
child labor In New York city than In
all the states of the south combined
The Logan Republican. [volume] (Logan, Utah) 1902-1924, 1903-04-17
Metals and Microbes.

Prof. Raoul Pictet has proved that
at a temperature of 200 degrees
acids do not act upon metals, their
molecules having ceased to live; and
yet the microbes of many diseases
subjected to that temperature, prac'
tically immured in block Of frozen
air, enjoy good health.
The Logan Republican. [volume] (Logan, Utah) 1902-1924, 1903-04-17
Says Wife Was Unqratesui.

Abraham D'Zon, a Brooklyn photog-
rapher, has been sued for divorce by
his wife. In his answer to the com.
plant DION sets forth that he spent
$1,000 to give his wife a medical edu-
cation and secure her admission to
practice and that no sooner had she
become q full-aedged M. d. than she
turned upon her husband and seeks
separation because his calling Is too
humble to suit her aristocratic ideas.
In Honor Of John Ericsson.
The Swedes Of New York city and
of the cities along the Jersey shore
are planning monster demonstra.
ton on July 81 In celebration Of the
one hundredth anniversary of John
Ericsson's birth and the tenth anni-
versary Of the raising of his statue
In Battery park. The day is always
observed by the Swedes, but this year
the celebration will be Of unusual
scope.
To Settle Point Of Interest.
The New England Historical Genoa
logical Society has appointed COM
mittee to ascertain II possible. the
exact place Of rendezvous of the Bos-
ton tea party when 1t assembled. Dec.
16, 1773, preliminary to throwing the
tea into Boston harbor. The stories
OF the place handed down by tradi-
ton have been conflicting. and many
Of the members of the society think
the effort will be in vain.
The Logan Republican. [volume] (Logan, Utah) 1902-1924, 1903-04-17
WITH THE sAGES.

We often do more good by our sym.
patty than by our labors.-Dean Far.
rar.
Stand up bravely to afflictions, and
quit myself like a man.-Thomas a
Kempis.
Good manners are a part OF good
morals and kind courtesy.-Archbisho
Whateley.
The rule Of self-obedience to the
right will bring all things into order
w. =. Gladstone.
Men show their character In nothing
more clearly than by what they con.
slider Observation-Disclosures.
How much lies In laughter, the
cipher key wherewith we decipher the
whole man.--Thomas Carlyle.
Have a heart that never hardens. a
temper that never tires, and touch
that never hurts.-Charles Dickens.
When man knows his work and
will not do it, pity him more than one
who Is to hang to-morrow.-Dr. Geo.
Macdonald
The Logan Republican. [volume] (Logan, Utah) 1902-1924, 1903-04-17
1c. Worth Of Insect Powder.

An old darby walked into an apothe
cary's store in Philadelphia few
days ago and asked for a cents worth
of insect powder. whats that?
said the clerk. "a cents worth? Why
that wouldn't pay for the. paper and
string and the time and trouble OF
wrapping 1t up who said anything
bout wrappin' 1t up? want you &c
take dat powder and pour 1t dowr
nah back"
The Logan Republican. [volume] (Logan, Utah) 1902-1924, 1903-04-17

Stand up bravely to afflictions, ant
quit myself like a man.-Thomas
Kempis.
The Logan Republican. [volume] (Logan, Utah) 1902-1924, 1903-04-17

We often do more good by our sym.
patty than by our labors.-Dean Far.
rar.
St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1903-05-23

warm. sunny air outside to the cold.
vault-like chill of the dim interior. Ills
next impression is of the ford decora-
ton of the grand altar and chapels,
with profusion of furnished gildings
in the Moorish style, quantities of arti-
fetal flowers, ropes of gay-colored
tissuepaper, trimmings of cotton lace;
apostles and saints carved from wood,
now decaying and leaving their holy
visages rather snub-nosed and fat
tened by the hand of time.
No doubt to the eyes of the simple
Indians, for whose worship, it must be
remembered, the church was de-
signed, it seems very temple of splen-
dor and beauty.
A small butte adjoining the church
and crowned by a cross shows on its
top the crater of an extinct volcano.
The reservation numbers about 500
Indians, living in tiny adobe huts and
brushwood shelters. Many of the
women are engaged in making pottery
with an entire absence of any tools
save their own skillful brown hands.
Besides making pottery the women are
skilled in basket weaving, while the
extensive fields on the reservation
give employment to the men. Agreat-
er abundance of water is all that is
needed to fully develop the agricul-
tural possibilities of this valley of the
Santa Cruz to coincide with the devel-
opment of the mineral resources Of
the surrounding mountains.
St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1903-05-23
vene.uela's wealth.

One of natures most generous en-
dowments to Venezuela is rubber, for
which the demand of the world is in
creasing, while the resources are by
no means keeping pace with civiliza-
tons needs. With the wants of the
world increasing in such enormous
strides. it is only a question of time
when the producing of rubber must
be undertaken upon large scale and
under regular methods of planting,
culture, and harvesting. Venezuela
offers here rich field to enterprise,
for rudimentary as are the methods
of the present, they produced 100000
pounds from the Rio Negro and Or
.inoco valleys alone one year ago. Ex-
plorers in the upper reaches of the
Orinoco and Rio Negro have reported
that there are available about six mil
lion rubber trees, counting only those
within certain distance of navigable
water. Every. tree is good for about
FIVE pounds of crude rubber per an
mum, making the possible annual out
put Of the two valleys 80, 900 900 pounds,
At present it is no more than 400, 1000
pounds. If the tree survives the at
tacks of inexperienced or improvident
gatherers in it's youth, it is good for
a century of rroductiyity.-Pcarson's
Wealth.
St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1903-05-23
A LITTLE NONSENSE.

Not Without Reason.-Sunday- Schcos
Teacher-"Well, who was sorry at the
return of the Prodigal Son?" Little
Girl-"The fatted caf."-Boston
Christian Register.
Wrong Diagnosis. - Physician ~
''What you need is change OF cli-
mate" why, doctor, l get
that every day right here in Chicago
Chicago Daily News.
Grant-"So Grimes has been forced
into bankruptcy? How did it hap
pen?" Gray-"A particular friend Of
his gave him tip about a perfectly
safe investment Boston Transcript.
Land Poor-Hassit-"I strange
you're so hard up, old man. I thought
you owned half of Swamphurst, and
had lots to sell?" Haddit-"I have;
bat what want is lots to eat. Town
and Country.
Disappointment did she
ever see in him that made her want to
marry him." Nothing. She married
him because she wanted home"
Poor girl! And he took. her to a
flat!"-Chicago Tribune.
Didn't Want It.-"Say, Uncle Eben, l
guess when your son Sam grows up
you'll want him to follow some pro-
fession." EFF you mean foller per-
cession, wy, no, suh!" said the old
darby. ivy de ve'y minute dat boy
heahs band play he folders in the per-.
cession immedjut. Baltimore Her
aid.
Yes said D'Auber, the artist, pa
tronizingly: I'm selling my canvases
now at my own prices" you don't
say?' replied Sharpley, whose works
had not yet caught on. Eyes, indeed.
suppose you'd give good deal to be
great artist" "No, indeed. I'd rath-
er be YOU. Philadelphia Press.
St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1903-05-23
THE TELEGRAPH HABIT.
nn> who Had Contracted 1T HAD q
Message Delivered to Him
In Church.

Many men have the telegraphing
habit, as others have the telephoning
habit. They send "a Wire" with and
without provocation. Even where time
IS not an object, and letter would DO
much more good, they call for blank
and scratch off 20 or 40 words, says the
New York Press. There is young
lawyer here whose career has been
greatly accelerated by judicious en-
,,lovment of the telegraph. In some
xay he always manages to receive two
or three messages wherever he hap
mems to be-in hotel, theater, muse
MN, church, opera house Or Jail When
St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1903-05-23
PERSONAL AND IMPERSONAL

Editor Webb, of the Bosworth (Mo.)
Weekly Star puts this headline over his
announcements of births, marriages
and deaths. "Yells, Bells and Knells.' y
King Edwards chef is one NJ. Menan-
ger, from southern France. He gets
$4,000 year and comes to Bucking-
ham from his private residence in a
| hanson.
In Copenhagen lately the new gov
eminent bill creating elective parish
councils for church matters was found
| to exclude servants from the fran
chise. Immediately the servant girls
| federated themselves and with the aid
of the social democrats compelled the
law committee of the folkething to
drop the DISTINGUISHING clause.
A sartorial authority in London an
nounced some months ago that before
long well-dressed men would be wear
ing corsets. The statement caused
same ridicule, but it has been borne out
by facts, for the real London swell of
to-day is Enthusiastically corseted. More
than that, he is having his hips padded
and there is a growing demand for
| the effeminate articles necessary to
giving the appearance of wasp waists.
In a public address recently Wheeler
H. Peckham, of New York, took ground
against skyscraper office buildings,
which he condemned as dangerous to
health. "How considerate we are" he
exclaimed. 1--WE build hospitals for
the poor consumptive and thenwe turn
around and build sky-scraping struc-
lures where consumption may breed
SO that we shall not lack for patients -
This matter Is beginning to attract
serious attention in New York city,
especially in the lower part ofManhat-
tan island, where the streets are so
narrow and crooked as when the Dutch
burghers laid them out or their cows
traced them across the fields.
Among late crop of stories told at
the expense of Chicago is this one, set
affoat by an Italian paper: When the
duke of Veragua, the descendant of
Christopher Columbus, visited Chi
cago, he inquired at a telegraph Office
the charge for a telegram to the city
of Columbus of ten words. Fifteen
cents" answered the official, mot in
Guiding the signature, which is wired
free" Whereupon the duke wired:
Mayor, Columbus: Shall visit your
city next Monday or Tuesday" And
he signed it: "Cristobal Colon de To-
ledo y Larreategul de la Cerda Ramirez
de Baquedancy Gante Almirante y
Adelantado Mayor de las Judas, Mar
quis de Jamaica, Duque de Veragua y
de la Vega, Grande de Espana, Sentor
del RENE, Cabellero, de la insigne
orden del Toison d'Oro, Gran Cruz de la
Conception de Villaviciosa, Gentil
Hombre de Camarra del Rey de Es-
St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1903-05-23

dollars-or say a million or billion
an puts hit into sheers, he's with jes'
that much, amt he, whether he sells or
no?"
eyes, in wagon paper"
"Jes'so, in stock. An I've heered
stock is safer nor straight mo2ey-not
stole so easy. An now ag'in, if that
propt'y amt put into stock, he's with
jes' the prop'ty, without no special sum
to name?'
."Of course"
Whereas" continued Jake, sturdily,
IF man has prop'ty, an wants to
know how much It is, or if he wants to
be with a special set sum, he'd bes'
corporation his belongings into stock
sheers. That's all. An now" briskly,
" bout the deal. WhatIn ye give me,
straight cash, for that coal LAMP"
''Why, I-er-we haven't arranged
about the manganese land yet"
mo, we amt; that's a fact. I'd
plumb forgot, hits so trifiin'. Wall,
how much for the manganese, fust?
I'm aimin' to git the whole thing
Strengthened up now.
''Will ten thousand suit you?"
Jake stared. Ten thousand for that
small patch of waste land that only
showed a few faint streaks of man
ganese? Why, it didn't contain even
the color of coal. But he only said:
Eyes, reckon that's far price. I'll
take ten thousan.'
very WELL" eagerly. II will give
you a check for it now and get the
matter off our hands"
"Jes' as you say. An now bout the
coal lam. low if the price is right.
hit'll suit better to sell than to hol'
fur somebody else"
The man laughed. mo one else will
buy" he declared. "The land is too far
from a railroad. I can afford to give
more than anyone on account of its
St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1903-05-23
TRAGEDY OF ANIMAL LIFE.
Something Very Pathetic in the Ca
reer of the Beautiful Pas
senger Pigeon.

To him who knows the story of the
passenger pigeon, this group of beau
tiful grayish brown birds with the
iridescent golden sheen upon their
throat is the last word of tragedy Of
animal life, says the New York Even
ing Post. America was once the land
of the wild pigeon. Early American
writer's are full of references to it.
Alexander Wilson, the father Of
American ornithology, estimated that
a flock seen by him in 1903 contained
over 2,O0O, 900 individuals. 1t stretched
from horizon to horizon, as far as the
eye could see, and was over four hours
in passing given point. He saw nest
ing colony 40 miles long and several
miles in width.
In 1905 Audubon saw schooners at
the wharves in New York loaded, not in
packages, but in bulk with wild pigeons
caught up the Hudson river and sold
for cent apiece. Up to 1860 the bird
continued fairly abundant. Then a
frightful slaughter began to supply an
increased food demand. Gun, pole,
club, net and sulphur pot were en-
ployed. Thirty dozen birds were cap
tured at one. spring of the net. One
man netted 500 dozen in one day. In
the nesting season trees were
shaken or felled and wagon
loads of SQUAD taken nightly.
droves OF hogs being turned
in to utilize what the hunters" had
left. Wherever the distracted f1ocks APP
peared the slaughter began. At the
last known large resting" in 1873, a
billion birds were killed during the sea-
son. Like the bison, it was effectually
exterminated, showing the terrible eff
ficiency of man when he sets out sys-
tematically in pursuit of a lower
species
St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1903-05-23
HOSPITAL BALLOONS.
Excursions in the Air for the Cure
of Lung Troubles May Be-
come Popular.

Hospital balloons will make half
hourly trips between seven and ten
each morning. Patients must procure
tickets at the dispensary Office.
Notices of this sort, we are told by
eminent European physicians, will
soon be posted in all of the free dis
pensaries for the poor in the great
cities. Balloon voyages up into the
better air for anaemic and consump-
tive patients! It will be cheaper
than trip to the mountain attitudes,
and has even more pronounced ben
efcial effect, says the New York Her
aid.
DR.. Naugier, of Paris, has for some
time been experimenting with pa
tients suffering with anaemia and he
has found that balloon excursions for
| a few hours into the upper air strata
have worked marvellous improvement
upon his patients. These little ex-
cursions into the clouds, or above
them, have increased the number of
red blood corpuscles in a marked de-
gree, and the change has been last
ing.
Other eminent physicians in Europe
have duplicated these experiments
with success, and in some of the
large cities of the Continent arrange
ments are being made to provide hos
pitfalls with balloons for the pale faced
and thin blooded people who cannot
afford to go to the country for purer
air.
Balloons for this purpose could be
procured and operated at compare
lively small expense. Physicians in
New York say that this method of
treatment, while appearing somewhat
fantastic, is quite likely to come into
common use as navigation of the up
per air becomes easier and less ex-
pensive. 1t is generally admitted
that two or three hours inhalati ton of
the air far above the fumes and gases
of a great city would be more bene-
fetal in certain cases than any other
treatment that could be given.
The Tropical Gently EIDE.
The sight of full-grow centipede
Is SdIu Ny LIdNclcIS III Ito )lCHl ldnOR
to be enough to affect the strongest
nerves. Ten to eleven inches is tho
average length, although larger ones
have been seen. Lafcadio Hearn, in
1.-TWO Years in the French West In
dies" says that the vitality of the
centipede is amazing. Ile kept one
in a bottle, without food or water, for
10 weeks, at the end of which time it
remained as active and dangerous as
ever. The hen attacks the centipede
with delight, and often swallows him
head first without taking. the trouble
to kill him. The eat hunts him, but is
careful never to put her head near
him. She has a trick of vhirling him
round and round upon the floor so
quickly as to stuEefy him; then, when
she sees good chance, she strikes him
dead with her claws. Il. you kill
centipede, you are sure TO receive
money soon, and even if you dream Of
killing one it is good lucklat least, SO
local tradition says.
St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1903-05-23

he crosses the ocean next month on a
big liner he will have half dozen
marconigraphs day by wireless. He
is confident of the success of keeping
himself in the public eye, no matter
what the cost. One Sunday he re-
ceived message in church, and, quiz
city rising to his fullest stature to
give the congregation opportunity to
view him, he stalked out satisfied that
he had made an indelible impression.
The message consisted of five words
"Read Reflections of Barrister."
St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1903-05-23

Some the campaigning of the civil
such the Burnside the D Pont and Port
blockade the southern OF this the
Savannah by Omstead the
fl
of the fort