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St. Tammany farmer., 1903-04-18
FARMER AND PLANTER.
RAISE MORE CORN.
y 10 the Plain Duty of the Southern
Farmer to Raise More Corn
than He Has Been Doing.

there is pressing demand all over
the south for corn. Men, women and
children are needing it for bread.
Horses, hogs and chickens are need
ing it for food. Corn is scarce and
the western farmer is getting rich
selling corn and flour to us of the
south. But we are eagerly crying to
these very farmers that we have the
best section on earth. We think they
should sell out and come down here
and help us enjoy the scarcity of
corn.
s. Now, we think it is plainly the duty
of every farmer to grow more corn
this year than he has been doing.
Plant more acres and make more per
acre.
You can easily do both. There is no
good reason why your crop should
not average 40 bushels per acre.
Prepare the land well. If you have
not broken it deep, ten or fifteen
inches, then lay off your rows and run
long scooter or subsoil plow in the
bottom of your rows. Then throw
on two burrows and do the same to
each of these and you will have a
good place to plant in. The water
will be right under your corn and
that will help resist the dry weather.
Fertilize as well as you are able,
with stable manure, cotton-seed or
commercial fertilizers. Break the mid
dies as deep as you can, then plant at
least four thousand stalks per acre.
Every time crust forms run over 1t
with weeder until it is six to eight
inches high. Then use cultivator or
scrapes and follow each with a dust
board.
'fhis is important. Keep the top
pulverized and you will prevent the
evaporation of the moisture. Your
corn viii! remain green and keep
growing in dry spells when corn not
treated this way will stop and turn
yellow.
Keep at this until your corn is in
full silk. We have never failed to
get good crop of corn when we did
this way. We would plant part OF
the crop this year early varieties,
such as the Albermarle Prolific. You
will need it early.-Dixie Farmer.
St. Tammany farmer., 1903-04-18
T IKE A DEMON grip has crossed our
country. leaving behind scores OF

country, leaving Dehln1 scores OF
physical wrecks.
Victims of catarrh of the head, ca
tarrh of the throat, catarrh OF the
lungs, catarrh of the stomach, catarrh
of the kidneys, catarrh of the pelvic
organs, are to be counted by hundreds
of thousands. Grip is epidemic ca
tarrh, and sows the seed of chronic ca
tarrh within the system.
This is so true that few grip suffer
ers are able to make complete recov-
cry until they have used Peruna.
Never in the history of medicine has
a remedy received such unqualified and
universal eulogies as Peruna.
4 New York Alderman's Experience.
Hon. Joseph A. Finn, alderman
Fifth District, writes from 1o4 Chris
topher street, New York City, as fol-
lows:
"When a pestilence overtakes our
people we take precaution as nation
to preserve the citizens against the
dread disease.
= la grippe has entered thousands
of our homes. this fall, and l noticed
that the people who used Peruna were
quickly restored, while those who de-
pended on doctors prescriptions, spent
weeks in recovering, leaving them
weak and emaciated.
II had a slight attack of la grippe
and at once took Peruna, which drove
St. Tammany farmer., 1903-04-18
How NEW YORK KEEPS CLEAN.
Eisnteen Hundred "White Wings
Ply Their Shovels and Drooms
Night and Day.

If tile test of good housekeeping
were unremitting toll New York would
be the best housekeeper in the world
Her broom is as active by night as by
day, says Woman's Home Companion
1t is an army which this ceaselessly
busy housewife employs. Thirty-three
hundred men are included in her CO.
horts of cleanliness. Of these a small
proportion belongs to her executive
and clerical force-are commissioners
and deputy commissioners, surerln-
tendents and the like-but the most
of them are those technically known
as broom-men, colloquially as white
Wings To the public mind they rep
resent the whole New York street
cleaning department.
There are As sections into which the
city is divided for the purpose of being
made clean. In each section is the
section house from which the workers
start each day. white Wings reports
here at his designated hour. Down
town, where cleaning the streets is
done at night, the hour may be quite
late; up in the residential part of the
city, where the idea prevails that all
disagreeable work should be done be-
fore the inhabitants are abroad to see
it, the hour is quite early. At the ap-
pointed time, whatever it is, white
Wings" answers his name in the roll
call, and starts forth armed with the
apparatus of order. This consists OF
broom, shovel, n can mounted on
wheels, both of these propelled much
in the fashion of wheelParrow. The
dirt is swept into piles, and conveyed
into these receptacles-thec can, by the
way, has been gradually supersedi-g
the bag. Before long the cart which
collects the street refuse comes along
"a big, awkward receptacle swung
lower in the back than in the front
and into this the refuse is passed, to be
carried to the dumps.
white Wings''-there are 1,s0O of
him on the force-receives two dollars
day for a working Gay of eight hours,
which may be one reason why New
York's gigantic housecleaning is done
with less disturbance than the individ-
ual housewives little spring job. He
is obliged to furnish his own uniform,
indeed two of them, for it is the rule
of the department that it must be
changed on Mondays and Thursdays.
The uniform costs it's owner one dollar
and 25 cents. The two, together with
the buttons, the belt and helmet-all of
which go to making the broom-man so
picturesque a fgure-cost him some
where over $3.50.
St. Tammany farmer., 1903-04-18
Small Flock of Sheen.

A small flock of sheep can be prof
itably kept on any farm, where sheep
killing dogs do not too much abound.
Where few, just as where there are
many kept, they should be of some re-
recognized breed whose proclivity is
foz fine wool or fine mutton, or for
both wool and mutton, as the farmer
may choose. The dual purpose sheep
will generally prove the most salts
factory, and there are such that will
yield heavy fleece of good wool, and
leave carcass that will make from
rs to 100 pounds of excellent mutton,
which when properly butchered ought
to bring from Sc to IS. There is no
live stock, except goats, that can be
grown at so little cost as sheep, and
there is no animal that exerts so
good an influence on the farm as de-
stroyers of weeds and fertilizers of
the soil.-Farm and Ranch.
St. Tammany farmer., 1903-04-18
GROWING THE SWEET POTATO.
A Simple Operation, But it Needs In.
telligence in Order to Secure
Good Results.

| OF all the crops that the farmer
grows there are none that could be
| favorably compared with the sweet
| otato crop, a crop which requires
| but little experience in order to be-
| come successful grower. However,
some knowledge is necessary, but the
rules to follow ere very simple, so
that it is possible to attain success
i in the growing of this profitable crop,
even for those who have had but lit
tie experience on the farm.
| Though the growing of a sweet po-
tato crop may be very simple, but
nevertheless it Is one which requires
attention from being placed in the
hot-bed until marketed. And here
might lay considerable stress on the
growing of plants in hot-bed. For
a great number of years I have, made
it a point to grow few acres of
sweet potatoes, and during this time
l have had ample opportunity 70
learn their requirements. To begin
with, believe the hot-bed is the es-
sential point to consider.
select the sunny side of hill and
there dig to depth of about eighteen
inches into the ground. This dirt I
always permit to dry before return
ing it to the bed.
Upon finding the dirt sufficiently
dry, then place horse manure in the
bed, being extremely careful that the
manure is fresh, placing this to
depth of from ten to twelve inches
after being firmly packed. Over this
I then return the dirt which had
! previously removed, covering the ma
nure with about four inches Of dirt.
This permit to remain for four days
before planting or setting the seed.
Then I take garden rake and pull
verize the bed, thereby destroying
whatever growth the weeds have
made. Then I set my seed into the
+! bed, not allowing any potato to touch
any other. Over the seed thus set. \
give a sprinkling of dirt, and after
all of this is accomplished the work
| of keen observation begins. Should
| the bed become too warm, water
should be Immediately applied. How
! ever, it will not be best to be extrava-
giant in the use of water, for should
tie bed become chilled the potatoes
would rot fully as much as by get
ting overheated. Therefore too much
care can not be exercised in maintain
ing the required temperature. After
the plants have attained height OF
about two or three inches they are
fit to be transplanted.
In order to get fair yield of sweet
potatoes the ground should be plowed
at least ten inches deep; shallow
blowing should be discouraged. Tho
sweet potato is one of our few crops
that require poor soil. Where the
ground has a tendency to be rich the
sweet potato will 60 to vines.
It is one that demands extensive
cultivation, and it is in the sweet po-
tato field that the "man with the
hoe" can be most profitably used, and
it would be advisable to have the hoe
hands draw the runners upon the
ridge to prevent the plow from catch
ing and disturbing the roots. Guilt
vation should be continued until the
vines have made vigorous growth.
The sweet potato prefers a dry sea-
son. One acre of sweet potatoes un-
der fair cultivation is capable of pro-
duclng 400 bushels.-T. F. McGlynn,
in Farm and Ranch.
St. Tammany farmer., 1903-04-18
Best week In Cow. Lnctation.

It is often of much Importance to
know at what time in a cows lacta-
ton she is liable to make her best rec
ord, as the different live stock asso-
cations favor animals coming within
a tested list In order to obtain a
large number of records, the Nebras-
ka experiment station co-cperated
with the Minnesota station and to-
gether 239 complete yearly records
we're available. Out of this large list.
which was made by cows of various
breeds and ages, a table was compiled.
It was found that the second and
third weeks Of cows lactation in
most cases proved to be the best. The
records also showed that COW
reaches her highest butter production
at an earlier period in lactation than
she does her greatest milk tiow.-
Farmers Home Journal.
St. Tammany farmer., 1903-04-18
HUSTLE ILLUSTRATED.
An Old Employe Learns Why a Young
Man Was Advanced Beyond
Him in Position.

Some of the elderly men who are
trudging along at the same gait as
ever in the houses where they are
employed at the same salary they re-
ceived 25 years ago, may benefit by
the following incident. which oc-
CURED lately in a downtown store,
says the New York Sun.
n young man who came into the
place less than two years ago was
advanced over a man who had been
there 80 years. The latter went to
the proprietor and complained tina:
such treatment as he had received
after all his years of service, was un-
just. The proprietor, without pre-
tending to notice the complaint,
asked:
"What is that noise in the street?'
The old employe replied that he
did not know, and waited.
Better see what it is,'' said the
proprietor.
The old employe went out and re.
turned with the information that the
noise was made by wagons.
''How many wagons asked the
proprietor.
The old employee said he hadn' t
counted them.
''Better find out" said the propri-
etor.
The old employe went out again.
and returned with the information
that there were eight. .=
"What was the cause of the noise =
asked the proprietor.
The old employe said he didn's
know, and the proprietor suggested
that he had better ascertain. The
old employe went out the third time.
and returned with the Information
that the teamsters were hurrying to
load their wagons with goods.
The proprietor then touched the
bell on his desk, which summoned
the young man who had been ad
vanced. The proprietor asked him:
"What is that noise in the street?''
81 will see" replied the young man,
who went out and returned a few
moments later with the following re-
port:
"There are eight wagons out there,
and the teamsters are hurrying to
load them with goods
The proprietor turned to the old
employe and said:
DO you understand now why this
young man was advanced over you?'
The old employe understood, but
his knowledge came too late.
St. Tammany farmer., 1903-04-18
HOW HE GOT IT.
Jones' Easy Way of Laying Up Money
While He Was In the
Leglslature.

Some recent developments at jefferson
City have recalled a story that used to be
told about former Buchanan county rep
resentative in the legislature. Before his
election to the legislature he was chronic
ally "broke" When he returned from
Jefferson City he exhibited $500 in good
crisp greenbacks. Some of his friends
"jollied" him about his prosperity, relates
the Kansas City journal.
"You didn't have a cent when you, went
to the legislature, did you, Jones" said
one of them.
mot blamed cent" said Jones. :.
"As matter of fact, | lent you half
your railroad fare. didn't / ?"
S. II believe you did
A "Well, YOU were down in Jefferson City
about 40 days You got five dollars day.
Now what we want to know is how you
managed to save $500 out of total income
Of 500"
"Come closer" whispered Jones, "and
I'll tell you how I did it. had my wash
ing done at home"
St. Tammany farmer., 1903-04-18
The Reward. of Talent.

"And how is your son John doing?''
every well, indeed, thank you. He
has just had a call to an eastern par
ish where he is to receive salary
of $500. We are very proud of Johns
success"
"You must be. And your son jim,
where is he?" ..
'Jim is the lawyer, you know. He
is doing very nicely. He has been
practicing only three years, and last
year he received in fees nearly 5000
We think he's doing remarkably
well.'
'And your third son, Jasper. Is he
doing well, too?'
"Why, yes. Jasper is under con
tract for 40 weeks at $500 week ts
do monologue turn in vaudeville >
Cleveland Plain Dealer.
St. Tammany farmer., 1903-04-18
Proof Positive.

Roy's papa is boot and shoe dealer.
One day a box of liquid shoe blacking
was received at the store, which Roy
helped the clerk unpack. One bottle
was found broken.
Afterward Roy's papa and the clerk
were conversing about the blacking in
Roy's presence.
The clerk said: 81 wonder if it is
combustible."
Roy replied: "Oh, yes, tits, cause one
bottle come busted" - Cleveland
Leader.
St. Tammany farmer., 1903-04-18

Pigs intended for breeders should
be kept vigorous, strong and healthy.
To do this give them the run OF a
good pasture, all tie milk you can
spare and plenty of heterogeneous
foods, such as peas. cracked wheat
shorts and the Ike.
St. Tammany farmer., 1903-04-18

Mrs. F. Wright, Of Oelwein.
Iowa, is another one of HE
million women who have been
restored r: to health by Lydia E.
Plnkham's Vegetable Compound.
A Young New York Lady Tells
OF q Wonderful Cure:-
My trouble was with the ovaries
l am tall and the doctor said I grew
TOO FAST for my strength. 1 suffered
dreadfully from inflammation and
doctored continually, but got no helm
suffered from terrible dragging sem
sations with the most awful pains low
down in the side and pains in the back.
and the most agonizinp headaches
No one knows what endured. Often
I was sick to the stomach. and every
fttle while would be too sick to 90
to work, for three or four days: Iworlx
in large store, and suppose stand
ing on my feet al day made me worse.
AT the suggestion Of q friend of
my mothers l began to take Lydia
z. Ptnkham's Vegetable Com
pound, and it is simply wonderful.
I felt better after the first two or three
doses it seemed rs though q weight
was taken of my shoulders; 1 con-
tinued its use until now I can truth
fully say I am entirely cured. Young
girls who are always paying doctors
bills without getting any help as did,
ought to take your medicine. It
costs SO much less. and it is sure to
cure them. = Yours truly, ADELAIDE
PRAHL, 174 st. AIMS Ave-, New York
City. $4,000 forfeit II original of abous letter
ptoutng genuiHeness cannot be produ1Ed
St. Tammany farmer., 1903-04-18
ALL TIRED OUT.

r he w e a r y,
worn-out, all-tired
feelings come to
severybod w h o
taxes the kidneys.
Whenthe kidneys
ere over-worked
they fail to per-
form the duties
nature has provid-
ed for them to do.
When the kid
neys fail danger
Gus diseases quick
~ follow. Urinary
disorders, diabetes,
St. Tammany farmer., 1903-04-18

Mrs Kingley-"You say you like colored
servants better than white because they
are slower. How. is. that" Mrs. ,BiEso-
sit takes them longer to leave. Town
and Country.
St. Tammany farmer., 1903-04-18

Butler-Wot time is ut, Jeems?
Footman-It must be going on three
o'clock-the misses has Just made her
6fth change of costume!-Stray Stories.
The Marietta journal. [volume] (Marietta, Ga.) 1866-1909, 1903-02-19
Union Chapel.

Misses Kidd and Coleman from
Carrollton, are visiting Mr. and
Mrs Coleman.
We regret to learn Of tie i'll
ness Of Mrs VIII Camp.
Mr. Coon Shaw gave pound
supper Tuesday night. Every
one enjoyed it immensely:
Miss Narcissa Morley is suffer-
ing. with inhammatory rheuma-
tism.
Although not very welcome visl-
tors generally, yet we enjoyed see
ing a Dunn in our community
Sunday.
Valentine day has gone and the
hopes and slghs for love missives
are things Of the past.
Mrs A N Edwards returns home
tkis week.
The roads are almost impossible.
ILnn
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Powder Springs.

Our people enjoyed a valentine
drawing at the home Of S o Hany
last Friday night.
Prof and Mrs j S lookout ale
the proud parents of a bouncing
boy.
DR. Middlebrooks is suffering q
great deal from rheumatism,
Rev G B Borne filled his regu-
lar appointment at the Presbyter-
ian church last Sunday.
DrW L Wright attended the
Tri-County Medical Association at
Dallas the 18th INST
Lon Scott has concluded it is
better to pull the bell chord over
festive mule than to pail it over a
palace cal, so he has acted accord
lngIy by quitting the railroad and
going to farming,
d f Green's little daughter had
the misfortune to break her leg as
school last week, she is getting
along nicely
Quite a number got tokens of
remembrance on Valentine day.
Il No.
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g .Ga4l S@D AZ 10 EG z "a.
Bears the - IA6 kad YOU FaV6 Always BOug1
signature os &e1Agzzx
NiCkaiaCk.

Mr. and Mrs W E Dodgens of
Atlanta, visited their parents
Saturday.
B F Blair, Arthur Dodgen and
G e Moss went hunting the other
day, and brought back four brer-
rabbits, a large hawk and sapsuck-
er. The hawk was killed near
Middleton aud the boys will call
around for the chicken pie.
Twenty of Us young folks had a
most pleasant time Saturday night
at the tacky. party given at Mr.
Mables.
The Southern Railways luck
seems to grow worse, collisions
and wrecks of every description,
Oh every hand, a collison.at Pey-
ton, one at Atlanta Junction and
another at Temple during As hrs,
There is all awful flaw somewhere.
B L Ruff and wife of Atlanta,
visited relatives here Sunday.
David
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from other Towns and Lo-
CaIiticS.
WORK OF NEWS-FlNDERS.
All Points of the County Represented.
Rural News Fresh ana Spark.
ling for PeruSai.
Wileys.

a small selected crowd gathered
at the residence of A. A. Mayes
Wednesday night of last week for
the purpose of valentine drawing.
Last Thursday was a lovely day.
1t made the farmers feel like
spring was near.
Mrs. Sarah Ann Baswell, of At
lanta, who has been staying with
her son, j. H. Spinks, returned
home last Thursday.
We are informed that Gel tain
young man thought he would go
home with his sweetheart, and W.
guess he would have gone, but
something happened.
Mrs. Martha Ann Thomas raised
some of the largest cabbages the
past year Of any one in this sec
ton. She cut one about the first
of this month that weighed III
pounds Can anyone beat that?
DIED On last Friday, 18th
inst. Mr.. Brown went to Smyrna
Thursday and while standing on
sidewalk he tainted and fell.
He was sent to the home of his
sons, Frank and Osburn Brown,
and DR.. Nolan was called in to
see him, but could not do him
airy good-and he died on Friday
last. M. Brown was 81 years Of
age and leaves a wife and several
children to mourn his demise &.
His remains were carried to Ken
nesaw for burial. The bereaved
family have our sympathy.
BEULAH.
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ACWOrth.

Miss Dixie Hargis has returned
from visit to friends in Atlanta.
Little Miss GenieSmall Mitchell,
daughter of Mr. and Mrs Penn
Mitchell, is visiting Mrs Glen
Steed in Macon.
Mr.. Solomon Kemp. aged So
years, died near Acworth on the
9th inst. He leaves a wife and
eight children.
Mrs John \ Scrcggs. aged -
years, died near Acworth rece.tly.
Tom McLain has recovered from
pneumonia.
Born to Mr.. and Mrs. H ".
Kitchen q fine boy.
Miss Matte Mcdowell has re-
turned from Macoli accompanied
by her sister, Mrs.'P. G. Carnes.
Miss Lillian Mcdowell who has
been attending college at Wesley
an also returned home.
Paul Martin and wife have NOV
ed into the house with Mrs Mar
TINS father, NJ J Abbott.
Miss Carrie Gregg, of Marietta,
visited Mrs Martin here the past
week.
Oscar Orr, the popular letter
carrier on Route No II, visited his
sisters in Calhoun last Sunday.
Miss Louise Gilbert of Marietta
is visiting Miss Maybelle John
son here.
Mrs Ludie Wilson has returned
from Atlanta, Marietta, and Blue
Ridge where she has been visiting
for several weeks.
Miss Lena Nichols has returned
from visit to relatives and
friends in Cartersville.
Lester Osborn was up from At
lanta and spent Sunday here with
friends. IL
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fountain View

Mrs A H Talley and son, Pounds
T., visited her daughter, Miss
Maggie, at Villa Rica last week.
Well. we will get the S A L
road yet at this place and have a
station, Surveyors here this week
and six wagons passed here last
week loaded with tents. They
are camping near J T Echols'.
We saw a man coming up the road
with a blue snit on and we thought
it was the. engineer, We didn't
think the engine was far behind.
A H Talley is adding some i'm
provemeDts on one of his tene-
ment houses.
R G Adams passed here last
week going to sale, and when he
was seen again he had rockers on
his wagon.
Mr. Stanley, wife and daughter,
of near Kennesaw, visited A H
Talley lrst Saturday and Sunday.
What has become of Tattler of
Forrest Hill?
Lonesome Bow.
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In ninety-eight cases out of 100
of tetanus, or lock-jaw, the suffer-
CT dies in commissions on the third
day or the beginning Of the fourth.
In ISt Louis a fleman by the
game of Wand, who is being treat
sd for lock-jaw with injections of
carbolic acid into the veins, has
passed his seventh day and is said
to have a fair chance for recovery
Wand has had several commissions
but they have constantly dimin-
ished in violence and duration
since the first injection, the latest
lasting only about one minute.
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MaCiand

The civil engineers of the S. A.
L, are camping near here and are
surveying from Dallas to Mariet-
ia. The survey runs within a
quarter of Macland. We hope
the road will be located on this
line and we will get depot at
this place.
Misses Kathleen and Effie Fowl
Ell, of Smyrna, visited their sister,
Mrs J J Greer last Saturday and
Sunday.
Mr. and Mrs A P Griggs are in
very feeble health.
Misses Kate Scott, Berta MUIR
ray and Bessie Hughey, of Pow
der Springs, were guests of theil
cousins, Misses Myrtle and Nina
Lindley last Sunday.
Prof Greer made a business trip
to Atlanta Saturday.
Mr. Porter Griggs and wife OF
Dallas, Mr. John Griggs and fami.
ly of Marietta, visited their pa
rents here Saturday and Sunday.
Miss Clara Blackwell, of Chat
tahoochee, spent last week with
Misses Mary and Mizzie Kemp.
Misses Clara Scott and Bernice
Lindley, of Powder Springs, were
guests of Miss Otie Hewitt Satur-
day and Sunday. Ruby