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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1905-04-16
IS EARTH LOSING MAGNETIsM3
Yes-In About 5000 Years We shan't
Have Any at ALI.

from Harper s w eekiy.
e A recent investigation by DIR. L. A. Bauer
of the United States coast and geodetic sur
vey, and in charge of the magnetic investi-
gat!onsof the Carnegie Institution, appar-
emily proves that there is shrinkage in the
earth's magnetism which has been going
on as far back as available data exist. This
conclusion DR.. Bauer has reached after ex-
amining magnetic values for a period from
1913 to 1886, and data obtained from more
elaborate observations made between 1890
and 1900. There is manifestiy diminution
in the intensity of magnetism in certain
places which is not compensated for by in
creaSeS at other points, although the lack
of data for the large areas of the earth
covered by oceans or UNEMPLOYED territory
does not make such conclusion absolutely
certain.
DIR. Bauer believes that there is a system
of magnetic or electric force below the
earths surface which is acting to demag-
netize the earth and at the same time to
cause the north magnetic pole to move to
similar system above the earth's surface
which also exerts an important effect on
the secular variation. From this study 1t
is deduced that the earths magnetic mo-
ment is shrinking at the rate of 1-240Oth
part annually, and that in the course of
l. 900 years ii will have but one-half it's
present value.
The original causes for this magnetic ac-
ton are most difficult to determine and on
that account the new data which will prob
ably be obtained from the proposed mag
netic survey of the Pacific and other parts
of the world by the Carnegie Institution
will be most welcome. In the meantime
physicists and astronomers are dealing
with the pi oblem, for which yet no sat
isfactory explanation has been advanced.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1905-04-16
The Matter With Smith.
from the Springfield Republican.


A man in Chicago has 500 cents which
he can't spend, can't sell, can't melt up,
can't give away, and which he can't even
keep. At least IL he does any of these
things he is breaking the law. and he
hasn't figured out the answer yet. He is
proprietor of number of penny-in-the-
slot machines, and the 500 pennies are the
mutilated coin that the machines have ac-
cepted in six months without his consent.
He can't sell them for junk copper, because
they are bad money; he can't pass them
on as pennies for the reason that they are
bad pennies and might cause him to pa IS
some time in jail, and If he keeps them
he is liable for carrying bad money. This
was the opinion of the United States dis
trict attorney, and the assistant United
States attorney general, who was in Chi
cago looking after the beef trust, tried his
hand at the puzzle without better results
Technically, the owner of the pennies, one
Smith, violates the law whatever he does
with them.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1905-04-16

elf they're Ricf's shoes
they're proper. !"
Ten-one F Street-Corner Tenth.
entire building) Phone "one-ffty."
individuality i'm footwear

disncsveness of fashion appeal you
footwear sold at other shoe shops and which give satisfactory
service.
If individuality in footwear is desired shouldn't
De- as well as IN other matters of Dress then will
interested in the exclusive fashions bearing seal
OF Rich s-the hall mark OF character, quality and ee
gance
1t is the footwear which is sanctioned the elite of New
York, as well as Washington 1t embraces
Americas foremost shoe designers and fashion arbtes
Guides dozens of styles which the
Ideasnade to suit the discriminate of this cosmopol
city,
knowing the utter impossbity of duplicating Rch
fashions other shoe shops make attempt show the e
giant styles to be found here Thus does this shoe establishment
stand alone-without compeor-showing
IN footwear for useshowng novelty after novelty
not style and but fully complete line.
Such is the stock from which ask select Eas
ter ootwearthe sporting footwear Needed for the spring
summer seasonthe evening reception wedding
much OF which is being bought for after Easter weddings
SAILOR TIES variety that will especially
you We seen the stocks about Every fashionable shade
white and buckkn sze for
children
Oxfords in the shades of tan and in black patent
leahera with character and exclusive elegance design
finish.
Attention directed the complete showing
footwear for children for May balls.
Order by mail if you live of the city.
b. Rich'S Sons, Ten-one F ST., Cor. 10TH
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1905-04-16

tie thing under the nose. with ends turning
upward and inward. 1t has been adopted
by all the young army officers. The king
has stamped it with the stamp of his APP
prevail
You will hardly believe it. but in Italy
the patch is being worn. The Italian has
his chin shaved smooth except f4f a tiny
circular patch the size of shirt stud and
In this patch he grows little tuft half
Inch long. 1t Is though the Italian had
a mole there, but he has no mole really.
The patch is just his coquetry. Here in
America smooth faces or boards or mus
taches in the more simple, classic styles
continue. The men of America would be
ashamed to wear the box. the butterfly or
the patch"
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1905-04-16
Novelties in Whiskers.
From the Chicago Chronicle.

From the Chicago chronicle.
1.-The most remarkable whisker novelty"
the barber said lis to be found in France.
Frenchmen for the last six months have
been wearing box boards. A box beard Is
as square as a piece of carpentry, nine
inches long, inches wide, inches deep,
every corner sharp and true and all the
surfaces, upper and under and side,
smoothed as IL with plane.
1.-THE box beard is neat and queer. 1t was
introduced by the King of the Belgians.
The English have a new mustache-the
butterfly. The butterfly is not more than
two inches long. 1t is just a feathery lit
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1905-04-16
FUNERALSIN NEW YORK
A DUTY WHICH MOST PEOPLE
TRY TO AVOID.
Small Congregations to Be Expected at
Church Services-Home Funerals
Favored.
From the New York Sun.

From the New York Sum-
New Workers do not go to funerals when
they can avoid it. A full church at flu
neral service is great compliment to any
body who leaves New York for the other
world. 1t Is an indication that he was
either very rich or very popular. 1t is not
always safe In this city to count on a large
attendance at the funeral of even a celeb
rity.
New Workers are too busy with the affairs
of this life or too Indifferent to attend to
duties of this kind. So well recognized is
the disinclination to go to funerals that the
attendance of only handful of persons at
church funeral service is not a cause for
chagrin to the family of the deceased. They
all know that New Workers do not go to
funerals If they can avoid it.
Strangers who come to New York are
more impressed by the Importance of the
sexton at a funeral than by anything else,
save the small attendance. Most sections
here are also undertakers, and when parish
toner's die the funeral preparations are
usually handed over to them.
Office of the Sexton.
Who has not observed their officious and
hasty trips mp and down the aisles of the
church before the service begins, their So
licitude over the order in which the family
are to enter and the state of excitement,
bordering almost on panic, in which they
arrange the departure from the church?
The sexton has his share of enjoyment at
every funeral, whether the congregation
be large or small, and he is the only person
about a New York funeral who really does
go at his work in any but an uninterested
way. He seems much concerned. The con-
gregation stares about with considerable
indifference.
Last summer New Yorker, who at one
time had large wealth and was always in
possession of a high social position, died.
Eleven persons attended his funeral To
be sure, he was buried day that sep
arated two holidays. Many of his friends
were near enough to the city to come In if
they wanted to.
Small Attendance.
A member of several large city clubs,
rich man in small way, in life a New
Yorker, was buried last fall in the presence
of handful Of persons in a church to
which he had belonged for twenty years.
He had large family connection, but they
were away or sick too little interested
to come to his funeral So a man whose
acquaintance would have kept him bowling
constantly in the Fifth Avenue Church
parade had fewer persons at his funeral
than he would have greeted on one clear
morning.
The little groups that gather at the
church door are sometimes too shy to en-
ter the vast church and scatter themselves
through 1t, making only an occasional head
here and there. They wait for friends to
give them courage.
In the same way the funeral party waits
for mourners that never come until finally,
the officious sexton, with look of disap-
pointment that more persons are not to
see his splendid arrangements starts the
mourners up the aisle.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1905-04-16

According to authorities on forestry ana
plant life, more varieties OF trees and
shrubs furnish shade and ornamentation on
the streets and in the parks of the capital
of the United States than are found in any
other community approximately ten miles
square In the world. Just as Washington
has adopted people from all quarters OF
the globe and furnished them an agreeable
home, so has 1t adopted and fostered the
forestry of many lands and chimes. OF
course, there are aborotums, or tree mu-
seums, in the world which contain a larger
variety of specimens of trees than are found
here, but In no other locality the size of
the District are so many different kinds OF
trees and shrubs growing and actually IN
use for shade and ornamental purposes.
On the streets and in the parks of the
District there are more than $50 different
varieties of trees and more than 100 differ
ent kinds of shrubs. In addition to the
varieties which are Indigenous to the Dis
trict and to the various states of the Union,
north. south, east and west, trees from
many foreign countries have been brought
here and made to thrive. Representative
species from the forests of China. Japan.
England, Russia, Hungary. Austria, Nor
way, India, Switzerland, Turkestan, Ger
many, Africa Manchurfa and other lands
have been planted in the parks and on the
avenues and streets of Washington and
these representatives of forest life In SO
many different climates are spreading their
branches and foliage here almost as sbund-
antly and hardly as in their native Chimes
The peculiar geographical location of
Washington is responsible in measure
for the large variety of trees growing here
Many trees which are essentially of north
ern growth and will not thrive south of
Washington are successfully cultivated In
the District while many varieties of the
south will grow vigorously within the cap
ftaPs ten-mile-square tract of land, which
cannot be successfully grown farther north
The cold winters of the north are too
severe for the tropical forestry of the
southern states, while on the other hand,
the summer heat of the southland pre-
cludes the possibility of successfully Gull
tivating there some of the species indigo
nous of the northern states.
The District of Columbia situated almos
on the dividing line between the two sec
ticns, becomes meeting place for the ele-
ments, and here the cold of the north
and the heat of the south join in battle for
supremacy. AT times the one is In ascend
ancy and again the other holds sway and
the tree life of each section is encouraged
in the respective periods of victory. When
the warning elements of the north and
south are at rest the temperature is about
in the mean and the trees native of each
section continue to thrive during the cessa-
ton of hoStiIities. Because of it's location,
therefore, the District harbors and fosters
the growth of the trees of each section
and shows no favoritism.
In addition to the peculiar climatic adj
vantages afforded tree growth in Washing
ton, one reason why many different va
rieties are found here is that a great eff
fort has been made by both the federal
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1905-04-16
Plague in India.

From the I4aHcet-
The serious news regarding the plague in
India indicates that no progress has been
made in the control of the disease. On the
contrary. the situation is becoming worse
year by year. and not only threatens to be.
but is already, one OF the greatest catas-
trophies of modern times. Have those re-
sponsible for the welfare of our Indian en-
pire fully realized the gravity OF the sftua-
ton either from its humane or political az
pects2
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1905-04-16
War on Posters.

From Lesle's Weekly.
A tax on posters is suggested. Why not?
What reason exists for permitting the dis
figurement of public streets without re-
straint? The posters are usually an Of
Tense to the eye, and sometimes to morals
and they can be readily put out OF exist
ence by the taxing method. Tax them to
death!
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1905-04-16
Music in the Dark.

From the London Musical World.
In many of our theaters and at the opera
it is the custom to lower the lights in the
auditorium during the performances. Why
should not this plan be adopted at concerts?
The real music-lover comes to listen and to
listen only.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1905-04-16
The Vile Lumiere.
ON the Journal des Debats.

From the Journal des Debats.
Paris! Paris! No other city knows how to
amuse itself. The passing of time, else
where so pitiless, here brings nothing but a
succession of feast days, which follow so
rapidly and closely that one has hardly
time to count them.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1905-04-16
A Witty Diagnosis.
be British Medical Journal.

From the British Medical Journal.
The object of the duel is said to be the
healing of wounded honor To try to cure
a. wound of the spirit, or rather the tenn
per, by scratch on the skin savors of
homeopathy, but may perhaps be justified
by the surgical principle of relieving ten
sion by incision.
St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1905-07-15
DR.. ]. F. PIGOTT,
covinaton, II.

covinoton, u.
Residence In the Exterstein raised
sottage, two blocks west OF public
school building.
offers his professional services to
the public.
once 1T the City Drug Store. On
Columbia street.
St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1905-07-15
HERE AND THERE.

The first advantage to the farmer
is that dairying takes less fertilizer
from the soil and returns more to it
than any other branch of agriculture.
The Peach Grower says the Georgia
crop of Elbertas will be 5000 car loads,
or thousand more cars than the cro2
of last year. Fruit culture in the south
increases in acreage each year.
The dairy farmer is less dependent
upon the season for his product than
any other class of agrieulturist Too
much rain or not enough may cause
other crops to be total failures; not sc
with the dairyman.
Reports from Texas are to the eff
feet that the acreage in cotton has this
season been greatly reduced below that
of last year, and that the wet weather
and other conditions have reduced the
prospects of the crop.
The farmers, if they would sue
coed, must produce vegetables and
fruits, grow grasses, raise their own
meat and curt it in a first-class order.
and have something Of everything to
sell and nothing to buy.
There is more room at the top In
the dairy business, especially in the
south, than in any other branch Of ag-
riculture. Skill and brain work get
better pay in dairying than in any
other branch Of farm work.
The difference in the market price
between good grades and common
scrubs Is always apparent. At present
prices of live stock there is no reason
why . farmer should not supply hint
self with q thoroughbred male.
St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1905-07-15
SOME GooDcRoPs.
What These Men Have Done Other
Southern Farmers Can Do
If They Will.

The editor took little run down to
Pomona, Ca, last week to see the gar
den and farm of Messrs. Wayman and
Riegel. They have one Of the best
truck farms in the state. They are
finished gardeners, and know how to
do work exactly right, which is GER
tainly great accomplishment. II
there is one man whom honor more
than another, it is the man who knows
how to do some one thing we'll.
We can not tell of all we saw, but
we want to mention few facts that
should stand out with unusual clear
ness. First, they have an acre in
Strawberries, that will yield 1000 or
5000 quarts The plants cover solid
space two and half feet wide, so that
you can not see the ground. They were
white with blooms and loaded with
fruit in all stages, from bloom to ripe
fruit They have an acre in cabbage.
set out 1Sx16 inches, not missing a
hill and covering the ground. They
put 1000 pounds high-grade guano
upon this acre, and several tons of ma
nure. They irrigate it every week that
it does not rain. The field requires
no work, as the cabbage shades the
ground, thus preventing the growth OF
weeds and also preventing the soil
from baking. Last year they raised
&c, 900 pounds of hard head cabbage
upon one acre.
Mr.. Riegel and Mr.. Wayman are
great believers in vetch and grain.
They have an acre in vetch and wheat
about four feet high, and as thick as
it can grow. We are satisfied they
will make 5000 pounds Of forage from
this cutting, and they expect to get
equally as large a yield of peayines
and sorghum as their second crop.
This is what we call farming Just
below this acre of wheat and vetch is
an acre of oats that will make 100
bushels. They sowed five bushels OF
seed upon the acre, and they were a
foot high on April 26, though sown in
spring. We never saw better grain.
What has been done, can be done
again. GO thou and do likewiset
and we are going to do it next year
Southern CultiyatOr.
St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1905-07-15

time with nlmseII before he can get
his consent to pay for one animal the
price for which he has been accus-
toned to selling four of his scrubs for.
Usually the first thoroughbred sire
used and possibly purchased at the
seemingly exorbitant price of 500,
looks very much more extrayagant and
unreasonable whim than $500 or $500
will few years later in his career as
a breeder.
Naturally, a man who invests. for
the first tine, 500 or $3.50 in single
animal IS anxious fer quick results.
He is apt to set impatient, and if there
happens to be decline in the cattle
market, becomes discouraged and neg
lects his animals at the very time when
an older and experienced breeder
would be giving his cattle more than
ordinary care, in order to make up in
quality the difference in price between
ordinary and prime cattle. Every
business has it's fluctuations, and while
inflated prices attract spectators and
tempt boomers, the man who succeeds
in cattle breeding is the man who has
q natural love for it-can look beyond
present conditions, and will stick
closer to thoroughbred bulls, making
the improvement of his cattle the prin-
ciral object. He stands no possible
chance to lose and every chance to
win. Bat there is another thing the
young beginner must make up his
mind to, even before he decides to
purchase thoroughbred, and that Is
to feed and care for him. 1t is often
the case that most promising animals
ere bought and have the misfortune OF
falling into the hands Of someone
whose interest wears out in short
time, and for the lack of proper at
tertion dagenerates, and in a few
years their descendants can not be dis
tinguished from the scrubs that sur
round them. An animal that1s worth
owning is worth caring for. Good blood
is wonderfully prepotent, but good
blood can not accomplish the desired
results without feed and attention, and
the breeder who expects to treat his
thoroughbred cattle as he does his
scrubs and feed them on scrub rations
had better stick to breeding scrubs,
for in this case he has nothing to lose
and nothing to gain, whereas if they
were thoroughbreds he would have
much to lose and would gain nothing.
Neither can the farmer who purchases
a thoroughbred bull expect the best
results from mating him with half
starved scrub COW. Calves from COM
mon cows by a good pure-bred sire
will be, if the COW is of average size
and in thrifty condition, worth fifty
per cent. more at six months OF age
than if sired by scrub bull; but it
could not be expected for a starved
animal to do so well.
St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1905-07-15
]. NJ. YATES,
i Parish Surveyor -
covington, la.

covington, Ia.
All orders left with H. r. Warren
clark Of court, or addressed to J. M.
yates. Verger Postofiice. La, Will re-
reiye prompt attention.
St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1905-07-15
The MAKING
Of Ishmael
OUR BIBLE STORY by the
highway and Byway" Preacher.
"a Vision Between the Lines Of Gods
Inspired Word.)
Copyright. 1909, by ]. II. Edson.)

scripture Authority: "And Abraham
rose up early in the morning, and took
bread. and bottle OF water, and gave 1t
unto Hagar, putting it on her shoulder,
ana the child. and sent her away: and
sne departed, and wandered in the wilder
ness OF Beersheba. . And God was with
the lad and he grew, and dwelt in the will
oerness, ana became an archer And he
o"eit In tbs wilderness Of Paran: and
us mother took him a wife out of the
land of Egypt Gen. 21:14, 20, p. Read
Gen. 2l:l2-21.
St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1905-07-15
4 WORD TO BEGINNERS.
Advice to Farmers who Intend to
Grade Up Their Live
Stock.

It is the price that the young breed
Or pays for his first thoroughbred an
imal that frightens him; like q boy
taking a cold bath. He hates to make
the first plunge, and debates long
St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1905-07-15
SHMAEL'S cad

5HMAELS Il e q q
was in a whirl and
his heart beat like
a trip-h a m m e <.
What was this that
Sarah was saying?
"Cast ut this
bondwoman a n d
her SOM" The
words fell upon
the boys ear as he
lay concealed IN
the bushes not far
from the tent door.
That ovaning as
St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1905-07-15
DR. +. JULIUS HEINTZ,

Tenders his professional services 70
lha people Of the parish.
once and residence: Abita springs
next to the postofice. Phone, 1874.
Private diseases q specially.
The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1905-05-09
NO UNION
IN FRENCH
WATERS

H.ss<eCsss<s<ssBssss. -. sx.s.sss ss.sss-ssss
= Paris, May 9-orders have been
g sent TO the civil and naval authori-
9 ties in French Indo-Chin not TO
q permit the junction within French
o waters of the Russian naval forces
@ under Admiral Rojestvensky and ,
@ Rear Admiral Nebogator,
= Instructions have also been sent !
(. 10 Admiral De Jonquiers. the
o French naval commander to see Z
9 that Rojestvensky fully observes Z
Z" the promise he has already given Z
(. to leave French waters. These or /.
I. ders resulted from the receipt OF {.
q detailed dispatch giving an account (.
% OF Admiral De Jonquiers meeting 8.
o with Rojestvensky. Z.
The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1905-05-09
Honorable Walter R. stiness Providence, r. I.

This letter left but one course open Tor
the members of the grand committee.
vote was promptly taken and after many
a set back Judge Sweetlaud was assured
a placer in the higher courts. No one
voted In opposition 10 Judge Sweetland
for chief justice. The great night OF
Senator Stinsss had proved ineffective.
Former Attorney General Willard y.
Tanner was nominated and elected by a
vote Of ss 20 81 for T.. J. Rathbun This
was the first show down. Darius " Ba-
ker of Newport defeated John w swee-
ney rs a vote Of So to & Tor third place
on tho bench
There we're three nominations for fourth
position John Murdock. Esa former At
torney General Charles r. Siearns and
City solicitor Erwin J. France were