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The Oskaloosa herald., 1903-02-05
A Eull hinh School.

The High school is full to the doors.
Any large addition to the city's popu-
lation will make it absolutely neces-
sary to procure more room for that de-
partment if ali high school pupils are
to be accommodated. A good sized
class will be graduated in June, about
equal to the number to enter from the
Eighth grade. In the mem time some
will drop out and we will get along
very well till the middle of next year
when we shall be crowded again. In
two years from now the first mid-win-
ter class will graduate from the high
school after which time the building
will be relieved twice a year. That
the building is too small, however, has
been apparent for several years. We
are told that many people thought the
high school as it was planned was
larger than any need of. Even very
wise people are said to make mistakes
occasionally and that great mistake
was made in not building larger in
this instance is certainly evident.
The Oskaloosa herald., 1903-02-05
Take Care of Your Mind.

My Dear Friends: Others will write
to you of your duty and Of your moral
life. / want to give you some advice
about you minds. A fellow who works
with his hands and let's his mind lie
still is like one who goes to hunt
SQUIRRELS with club and carries along
fine gun without thinking to use it.
Everyone knows tnat he must attend;
to his hands to see that they do their
work well, anu do not waste time and.
strength; this makes the difference be-
tween clumsy and skillful work
man, But you must also attend to
your mind in the same way; and this
makes the difference between fool
and an able man., Your parents have
worked and saved that you might go
to school. The school has trained
your minds until they are promising
young plants. Now they are turned
over to you.
Your mind will not take care of it.
self. 1t may struggle along as a starV-
ed half-grown weed-crowded plant, but
you want it to grow up into full,
strong, fine tree, rich in flowers and
shade and fruit.
To secure TINS you must:
/. Think about what to do. You
can clean out cellar better IL you do
part of it with your mind; and instead
of your mind going to waste meantime
it will be drawing compound interest
and thus steadily increasing your
capital.
2. Feed your mind. Newspapers
are like soup, good to start meal on,
but poor diet if you stop there. Nov
els are like dessert, good to end meal
on, but producing only pale and sick
Iy growth if used alone. Strong, earn
est books of travel history and science
are the beef and turkey of the intellec-
tual life. See that your mind has
them.
8. Beautify your mind. Hang up
good pictures in it; provide it with
music; and train it to respond to the
rhythm and charm of he poets
words.
4. Keep it clean. Dirty thoughts
are like rubbish in the gearing of
fine machine.
To do all this you must attend to
your minds. See to it that your hands
and feet are not worn out with daily
Toll, while your head becomes merely
place for the hair to grow-A letter
by Prof. Earl Barnes.
The Oskaloosa herald., 1903-02-05
run TRAINS By PHONE
Rock Island Will Adopt New Sys-
tenn of Dispatching.


Des Moines, Jan. S1.-William Bow
en-, of the Stromberg- Carlson Tele-
phone company, announces that the
company has just closed a contract
with the Rock Island railroad for the
equipment of its lines between Chicago
and Denver with telephone apparatus
for dispatching purposes, and which it
is planned to substitute for the tele-
graphic system.
This idea has been adopted by many
of the large systems of railroads and
is being tried with excellent success.
The Great Northern first took it up.
The Illinois Central has equipped it's
lines from Chicago to Dubuque. 1t is
said that the Northwestern has been
figuring on the idea for some time. The
Rock Island contract now let is the
largest of all.
Of course, the installation of the sys-
tenn will take time. 1t will not be
achieved in day. But the idea has
been so far tested that there is little
doubt of it's entire adoption.
Already the Stromberg-Carl people
have equipped the interurban lines
with this kind of a system. In the
city the street cars are dispatched by
telephone. The interurban system will
be ready for trial and operation in
very few weeks.
For the railroads one of the princi-
pal advantages of the installation of
the telephone dispatching is the sub
stitution of low-salaried employees for
the high salaried and technically edu-
posts in the division headquarters as
well as in the way stations. Under
the new system a station agent will
not have to be telegrapher, also. Any
one can talk through telephone.
The matter of records is the first
thing given consideration by those
who investigate the idea. The inter-
urban has installed a system which
cannot possibly be less accurate than
the present telegraphic system of dis
patching in vogue on the railroads.
Three copies of every message are
made. One is for the motorman, one
for the conductor and one falls into
securely locked box which keeps the
file of the order and definitely deter
mines the sort of message telephoned
and received, for it is not only dropped
automatically into closed and locked
receptacle, but it is in duplicate, at
the different ends of the line. In the
same way the telephone system may
be used in the dispatching of railroad
trains.
Another advantage OF this system is
the ability of trainmen to connect di-
rectly and with ease with the entire
telephonic system from telegraph or
Telephone pole at as close distance as
it is desired to arrange the equipment.
on the interurbnn every few poles a
connection can be made with the wires
which lead to Des Moines and the con
ductor, with az instrument a4waVs st
hard and easily adjusted, can inform
The offices at each end Of the line of
the condition of his car and if wreck
of car occurs or it is stalled, those
facts can be made known without diff
Guilty and instantly. The same idea
will be in vogue on the railroads on
which the system is installed.
The Oskaloosa herald., 1903-02-05
Rathbone installation.

The officers of the Rathbone Sis
ters for the ensuing year were in
stalled at the last regular meeting.
A few we're not present and will be
installed later. The others were:
Mrs. A. E. Bass, M. E. @.
Mrs. s. B. Jones, M. of R. and O..
Mrs. w. II. Riley, NJ. of F.
Mrs. j. A, Mccullough, Manager.
Mrs. A. w. Van Nostrand, Guard.
The Oskaloosa herald., 1903-02-05
Ida Elsie Chambers

3. Ida Elsie Chambers -
4. Joe Beach.
5. Charles Earl Howary
6. Katherine Barbara lHoopes.
z. John Harvey Harding.
s. Harry Lewis HILLARY.
8. Marry Lucille Jackson.
10. Elva Edith Jackson.
IL. Marietta Cordelia Kurtz
II. Russell Hall Long.
13. Pearl Riegel.
IA. Lennita Ruby.
Is. Lucille Jennievive Smith
16. Paul Stanley Wells.
IT, Patti Eileen Zane.
Is. Pearl McElroy.
Other additions were made to the
d. Jr. class as follows:
Ray Fauquier.
Ray Gatewood.
Oscar Roper
Goldie Van Vert.
Marrilla Colville.
Nettie Colville.
Will Howar and Alfred Rhea, irreg-
ular.
The Oskaloosa herald., 1903-02-05
WITHOUT MEDICINE.
Young Woman CIings to Christian
Science Until Death.

Dubuque, Feb. 3.-There is consider
able excitement over the death of Miss
Mary E. Bennett, young lady who
came here some months ago to be
treated by Christian Science as cure
for consumption. She refused other
treatment until at the last hour her
parents insisted on the attendance of
a regular physician, but he came too
late to be of any aid. He arrived just
after her life ebbed away.
The Oskaloosa herald., 1903-02-05
Enter the klnderaartens Now.

BY moving the classes forward we
have made room for all the five year
old children who should enter the kin
dergartens at this time. A month is
allowed for this purpose at the begin
ming of each half year session. Those
children entitled to kindergarten priv
ileges not entering by the close of
February will be barred until next fall.
Let them come in now and get started
with the others who have enrolled for
the first time.
The Oskaloosa herald., 1903-02-05

English SPAWN Liniment removes
all Hard, Soft or Calloused Lumps
and Blemishes from horses, Blood
Spsvins, Curbs, Splints, Sweeney,
Ring Bone, Stiles, Sprains, all
Swollen Throats, Coughs, etc. Save
$50 by use of one bottle. Warranted
the most wonderful Blemish Cure
ever known. So d by Green & Bentley,
Druggists, OskaloOsa, Iowa. 12w26
The Oskaloosa herald., 1903-02-05
Nearly Eorfeits Life.

A runaway almost ending fatally,
started a horrible ulcer on the leg of ..
B. Orner, Franklin Grove,Il For four
years it defled all doctors and all re-
medies. But Bucklin's Arnica SalVe
had no trouble to cure him. Equally
good for Burns Bruises, Skin Eruptions
and Piles. 25c at Green&Bentley's.
St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1903-12-19
WEARING OF THE MONOCLE.
little Affected I'm America, But Con-
sidered Quite the Thing Among
the English Swells.

The single eyeglass, or monocle. Is
worn by only two Philadelphians, says
the Philadelphia Record A half-dozen
New Workers wear it, and. even in
Chicago, it has couple of votaries.
An oculist talked about it the other
day:
Or Kitchener, back in 1924, thought
It good thing" he said. Kitchener adj
vised its alternate use, now in the right
eye, now in the left one. He said in his
book that he had cultivated the habit Of
picking up the glass, each time he wanted
to use it, with different hand. Of course,
picked up with the right hand, it had to
go into the right eye, and vice versa.
Gas a matter of fact, the single eye
glass is injurious. Itthrows all the work
on one eye. 1t destroyes the harmony OF
the optic muscles and nerves. know an
Englishman who has worn, for myopic
affection, a monocle in his left eye for II
years. The left eye is all right, but with
the other the man can see practically
nothing
Joseph Chamberlain wears his mo-
nocle in either eye alternately, and his
son does the same thing. The habit Of
the monocle continues to live among
the English swells."
St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1903-12-19
ruture Of the Saddle Horse.

-
Good walking horses are In great re-
quest, and some fancy figures are be-
ing realized. Like all other kinds OF
horse flesh, the saddle horse has been
neglected, resulting in q scarcity OF
good walking horses. There Is . bright
future for the breeder OF hfgh-class
saddlers. Men in all kinds OF avoca-
tons that require a lot of cross coun-
try riding want saddle horses, for the
running walk is the only gait that is
just fast enough and at the same time
easy on horse and rider-a gait that
can be kept up all day, covering many
miles, and the rider still feel rested
rather than tired out. The farmer,
stOckman and trader find no better
mounts when riding in quest OF stock,
seeing to business on the farm, dr1v-
ing stock, and In many other SUCH
places where the buggy is not handy.
The doctor finds the horse that can
saddle, just right for his business; In
fact, the country doctor regards him AZ
a necessity. All kinds Of agents make
better time with saddle horse, and
visit homes that could not be reached
with buggy handy. Men Of leisure
are very pround of their saddle horses.
and spend much of their time on the
road. Old gentlemen find an carly
morning ride on q good horse the best
of tonics. No better mounts can be
found for women than the amblers, for
thew travel at a rate that is lust right
for them.-Agricultural Epitomist
St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1903-12-19

sleep and to get out Of the wind md
cold rain. Every humane man will take
care of his stock-will sell those he
can not house, or he will build more
shed room. On many farms Is the re-
Quired material for these sheds A
large per cent. of hay, sheaf oats. fod-
der, is rendered unstable on stacks
and shocks exposed to the action Of the
elements. Fodder that is put in shelter
in October or November is not to be
compared to that left out over winteS
to weather-beat and rot. Bright, sweet
corn fodder can be had until the next
crop, if wanted. by sheltering when the
ears are removed. That binder, now
or, rake, roller or cultivator is fast
deteriorating in the field. Build a
cheap shed and save many dollars In
new machinery and repair bills. Sheds
for these, uses need not be expensive;
no extra tounches are necessary, no
skilled labor is required. Just set the
posts, brace, box one side and one or
both ends, and roof with some cheap
roofing such as plank, boards, shingles
or felt-at any rate have sheds for
emergencies, and plenty Of them, any
where, Observation-Disclosures Epit-
Omist.
St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1903-12-19
NEW WAY TO CUT TREES.
Electrically Heated P1atinum Wire
Does Work Of Saw In Much
Less Time.

It is reported in the German press
that successful experiments have been
made in various forests Of France in
cutting trees by means Of electricity.
A platinum wire is heated to white
heat by an electric current and used
like saw. In this manner the tree
is felled much easier and quicker than
in the old way; no sawdust is pro.
duced. and the slight carbonization
caused by the hot wire acts as a pre-
servative of the wood. The new meth.
cd is said to require only one-eighth
of the time consumed by the old saw
ing process.
Some day, says the New York Tr,b-
une. this system will doubtless find q
trial in the United States. or course.
1t is necessary to provide source OF
electricity, and unless the latter is
cheap the operation just described
would not be economical. However.
nearly all districts in which timber is
cut are provided with streams. and
these can often be utilized for power.
Only a small head would be necessary
for this purpose. America has been
so enterprising in the application OF
electricity to industry that it is won
derful that another country should
have had a chance to anticipate it in
any manner The consular report, in
which the news is conveyed, supplies
no details, however. and it is impos-
sible to say how extensively the plan
has been adopted.
St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1903-12-19

without tearing out any more of her
wall than was needful. Accordingly,
she shut her cat up in the parlor-the
parlor is directly below the bathroom
and into the basin Of the defective
washstand she poured a vial of the oil
of valerian. Cats are excessively fond
of the odor of valerian; a cat would
rather inhale this odor than eat fish.
The Manayunk woman's cat, after it
had been in the parlor few minutes,
began to purr. Purring, it crossed the
room; it settled itself on the floor with
it's face to one spot on the wall, and
here it's mistress found 1t when she
came downstairs. its nose glued to the
spot, shifting and purring ecstatically
The wall was opened at this point, and
here, sure enough, the leak was found
Here the valerian had trickled through,
imparting it's intoxicating odor to the
cat.
St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1903-12-19
why Sell Young stocks

Have you considered whether 1t ID to
your interest to sell the calves, colts or
pigs at present prices or to keep them
to get the profit Of the stockman-to
utilize the pastures, grain fields, ana
odds and ends that would be lost, and
that can be made to enrich the farmer?
Would 1t not be better to feed that
feed to stock, both Of which you have
been in the habit of selling unfed and
so contributing to the other mans prot
its, and to the building up of the fer
tility of his land instead of your ownf
The calves might sell for from ten dol
lars to fifteen dollars at weaving time.
One year later they should weigh q
least seven hundred and fifty pounds.
which, at four cents. is $50. Now, to
make this weight very little grain is
required, just make use of the odd
pastures, the extra grazing of the corn
and small grain fields in the summer
and autumn, then the rye and wheat in
winter and early spring; also the fod-
der and straw that was previously vast
ed. These little odds and ends, II used,
add to your bank account. Colts
horse or mule sell well at weaving
time, yet there is better money In
keeping, breaking and making, desir-
able work stock. Match them we'll, take
extra pains in breaking, rub them UP
until you have fancy team, then you
can ask and should have q fancy price.
Who knows into what class colts will
develop? Pigs may be easily and cheap
" kept, until the feeding period, ON
very little corn, by using Stops, CLEAN
ing the small grain after harvest and
pasturing clover. And SO all along the
line. Make your farm a factory OF some
kind. Epitomist- i
St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1903-12-19
PLUMBER CAT.
Ingenious Device by Which Woman
Sets a Feline to Discover
Leak In Pipe.

Making her cat act as her plumber
was heterogeneous feat that woman
of Manayunk accomplished the other
day, says the Philadelphia Record
This woman had noticed that one of
the pipes connected with the washstand
in her bathroom leaked. and she
wished to locate the leak precisely,
St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1903-12-19
FARMER AND PLANTER.
LANDLORD AND TENANT.
satisfaction Between Landlord
and Tenant In the south.

The landlord of tina Gouth works land
on three different systems: For stip-
uiated sum-either in money or cotton
ION shares, when he takes part of the
crop In payment for use of land, and
sometimes stock and tools,-and the
wage system when he pays the laborer
SO much per day, or month. From the
landlords point of view, the wage sys-
TEN is of the most profit, because the
labor is worked under "a competent
manager, and the place will be better
kept up and will not detoriorate. On
either of the other systems, the laborer
is working the land for what profit
he can make out of it, and he is not
liable to look after the welfare Of the
farm; besides frequently he will do
things just because he knows they will
injure the landlord. There is feud
between the southern landlord and the
tenant; each seems to believe that the
other is trying to take the upper hand
of him, and they try to get even, which
generally terminates in each doing all
he can to aggravate the other. have
known landlords to charge large sums
OF money to tenants because they failed
to cut the weeds IN their crops, or be-
cause someone had taken few OF
bis best watermelons, and he suspected
the tenant,-more because he was
tenant, than for anything else. The
southern tenant is an indole1t, happy
go-lucky fellow, and the majority OF
them leave all their bookkeeping IN
the hands of their employer; but it an
account is enlarged great sight
person can form an idea, and the ten
ant concludes he has been humbugged
and starts out to play even by Destroy
ing everything on the place that he can
get hold of. The share crop system Is
the best for the laborer If hs will think
as we'll as work. have known men OF
business ability to locate on q farm.
keep their own books, make the land
lord give them account for all tneH
crops, and in a few years become own
ers of their own farms. But 1t taxes
q person WHO doesn't fear to go up
against q hard proposition" to rise
above share cropper on q cotton farm.
though men Of untiring energy, coupled
with a good business head, can event
ually become home owners, provided
they practice economy for q few years.
The curse of the laborer in the south
is the middle man that stands between
the landlord and tae tenant He rents
two or three hundred acres OF lano
which he sub-rents-share crops or
hired labor-and by underhand tricks
he manages to make q living. The
merchant puts up his cap
ital. 40 he has it~sll to gain and nothing
to lose. They pay their hands when
they can't keep from it. They are also
a curse to the farmer, as they usually
run stores with their operations, ire
quently paying their laborers with 80
cents worth of goods. OF course, the
farmer who has to pay for his work
with silver, at 100 cents for q dollar
cannot compete with the mar who pays
II. merchandise at so cents on the dol
lar. when a scarcity of labor forces the
farmer and the Spectator (he Is moth
ing clse) into competition.--Enos =.
Pittman. in Agricultural Epitomlst.
St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1903-12-19
HERE AND THERE.

Artificial incubation Is the greatest
aid of all to successful and profitable
poultry-keeping, whether the object be
to raise chickens for the market, or to
get out early chickens in order to have
early layers in the fall and winter fol-
lowing.
Sir Thomas Upton, who proved a
failure as "cup litter" is going to
embark in the business of vegetable
growing on large scale in this coun-
try. He has purchased a fine planta-
ton In Georgia, and will ship his veg
etable products to the English mar
kets. t
Blackberry canes should be care
fully trimmed and the dead canes
those that bore fruit last spring re-
moved and burned. Hedge shears 1; a
good tool to do the latter with, az they
can be used to trim the vines, and to
grasp the dead canes with in removing
them
AT the Arkansas experiment sta
ton the highest yield Of merchantable
potatoes was secured with ridges three
inches high. The same method also
gave the smallest per cent. of culls.
Expert potato growers no longer pile
the earth up to plants in ridges six
inches above the bottom Of the furrow.
ALI tools, whether costly or other
wise, should be we'll taken care OF, and
NOT allowed to be out In the weather,
neither should they be dropped down
and left where they were used last.
but put away in the same place always.
so that no unnecessary time will be
spent hunting for them. when perhaps
in a great hurry.
I'm case the plans Of the chief Of
the live stock department Of the
Worlds fair meet the approval OF man
axemant. the mule and his kin will be
accorded unusual honors ut st. Louis
next year. A lack of knowledge exists
as to the varied utilities OF the mule.
but this display at the fair will be an
eye opener in this respect.
-One of the greatest wastes ON many
farms is in manure. Some farmers will
sell manure to neighbor rather than
handle and have It on his own land. or
because he is pushed for money. This
is wrong, because his own land needs
it. and is entitled to it. It is the same
sort of economy as refusing to feed
stock on account Of the labor involved
St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1903-12-19

Experiments i'm Hydrophobia Cure.
The German government is about to
establish an institute on the lines of the
Pasteur institute of Paris, its object be-
ing to manufacture different sera at SO
cheap a rate as to be within anyone's
means.
St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1903-12-19
An Explanation.

According to one of the scientific jour-
nails more than 5000, O0O of the Is 500 900
people of Mexico do not work, says the
Chicago Record Herald. No wonder
some of the Mexicans are opposed to hav-
ing Yankee ideas introduced into that
country.
St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1903-12-19
Polyglot Nations.

The diversity of tongues to be found
in one country is often matter of sur
prise. Last year the Bible society's
agents sold the Scriptures in So languages
in the Russian empire. in % languages
in Burmah, and in 80 in South MALAYSIA,
and So in the Egyptian agency.
St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1903-12-19

from the flower of one specimen and
dusts it into the stigma of the flower
Of another specimen. The result Is a
hybrid, for better or for worse.
''Of course the experiment is not
made quite at haphazard without q
certain knowledge of Natures mystic
rious ways and laws of production.
There Is story of man who thought
he would produce some marvellous new
fruit or flower, he dared not think
which, by collecting the pollen of his
garden flowers, and busting it upon the
flowers Of his apple tree! But there is
q limit even to fruit-breeding. Five
years-possibly ten years-must pass
before there can be any certainty. Then
one spring. at last the seedlings them
selves bear fruit.
"The fruit slowly ripens, and is
brought to judgment. There is an ex-
citing moment when it is tasted. Many
points are taken into consideration.
Is the flavor good? Is the fruit good
color? Does the flesh separate freely
from the stone? Is it as juicy as it
should be?
"a great work of selection now be-
gins. Only the finest are allowed to
survive