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Valentine Democrat. (Valentine, Neb.) 1900-1930, 1905-01-05

Mohammed was abstemious. A handful
OF dates and a mOuthful Of water were
all the food he required for a day OF hard
riding.
Valentine Democrat. (Valentine, Neb.) 1900-1930, 1905-01-05
Cowpeas for the Soil.

The plan Of sowing cowpeas to oc-
cupy the soil after harvesting fall
wheat or oats is as good now as ever,
SAYS Rural New Yorker. With a ia
vorable season the cOwpeas make a
large growth and can be plowed under
in time for another crop Of grain or
grass seeding. The soil is left in much
better shape than it would be if left in
stubble and weeds The trouble about
the plan this year is the difficulty in
obtaining cowpea seed. There seems
to be little if any left in the country.
We are thinking Of using white beans
in place Of the peas.
Clearing Up Brush Land.
The use Of AngOra goats in clear
ing I'D the cut over lands in northern
Michigan has been tried now for sew
eral years and apparently with salts
factory results to those who have in
vested in them. The lands have been
numbered, the pine cut out and then
left to grow up into brush. Upon
these lands the Angora has proved a
very efficient aid in clearing them Of
brush and putting them in shape for
cultivation or to grow into grass.
Neither sheep nor cattle would do this
work as we'll as the Angora.
Valentine Democrat. (Valentine, Neb.) 1900-1930, 1905-01-05

Mrs WinsIow's SOOTHING srRUP for Children
toet ing sostsns the gums reduces Inflammation Al
lays pain cures wind coiic. . cents . bottle.
Valentine Democrat. (Valentine, Neb.) 1900-1930, 1905-01-05
His Idea.

Merchant-That typewriter you sold
me last week amt any good.
Observation-Disclosures the matter with it!
Merchant-It doesn't spell correctly.
Valentine Democrat. (Valentine, Neb.) 1900-1930, 1905-01-05

The following letter is from Congress
man Meekson. of Napoleon. Ohio:
The Peruna Medicine Co, Columbus. o. .
Valentine Democrat. (Valentine, Neb.) 1900-1930, 1905-01-05
How Much Pork to Acrer

1t may be unusual to estimate the
amount of pork that can be produced
from an acre of certain crops, but it is
claimed that an acre of land in clover
will produce 500 pounds of pork; peas,
375 pounds; corn, $50 POUNDS; oats,
800 pounds: barley, 420 pounds, and
wheat 90 pounds.
The value of each crop on one acre,
when converted into pork, is as fol-
lows: Glover, $50; corn, 22.40; peas,
SIS; barley, S16S0; cats, $500, and
wheat Q, estimating the pork at cents
per pound.
Of course something depends on the
prices ruling for the crops. The
amount of produce per acre required
to give the pork mentioned on an acre
is 900 pounds of wheat, 1850 pounds
Of barley, 1920 pounds of oats, 2,24O
pounds Of corn, 1900 pounds Of peas,
and 10000 pounds of green clover
In Fly Time.
Among the various anti-switch de-
vices. one Of the latest is that Of a
Maine farmers boy, who places an old
bicycle tire over the cows back so
that it holds the tail closely enough to
prevent any vigorous activity. A tenn
porary blanket Of old bagging is an
other good tail restrainer which keeps
away the flies besides, and these en-
courage quiet behavior ON the part of
the cow.
St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1905-04-01
CONSCIENCE PRIcKED HIM.
And the Ride-Stealer Sent Railway
Company Ninety-Tour Cents
and Apology.

A letter was lately received at the Wis
consin Central railroad Offices from
White Bear Lake, Mimi, containing 81
cents in stamps-conscience money,
says the st. Paul Dispatch. The anony-
nous sender explained that at divers
times he had cheated the company and
that his conscience compelled him to
make restitution. The letter read:
Dear Sir-Enclosed stamps to be add
ed to the Wisconsin Central for riding
on handcars and gravel trains, and so
forth"
The reverse side was filled with the
following:
six cents more for riding on train
when train was wrecked. Please add
this to the Wisconsin Central Railroad
company And please forgive me for
my past deceiving life. l know some
thing better now"
After the envelope was closed the
writer evidently felt another twings OF
conscience, for he wrote on the back:
please forgive me for my crimes. I
am sCrry for it,"
St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1905-04-01
WANT HOMESlCKER TICKETS
The Kind Sold to Fasteners Going
Out West to Make Their
Fortunes.

A young man who has been clerk in a
New York brokers' office for three years
believed he knew most things. But he
was called" when a friend from Chey-
enne asked him where to buy a home
sicker's ticket, relates the New York
Press.
What in thunder is that?" be in
quired.
Where have you been rusticating?"
retorted the Wyoming man. Out our
way we are constantly running across
casterIers who got to the far west on
a homesicker's ticket, and would give
their thumb if they could get back on
one. A hcmesicker's ticket is a bit OF
pasteboard sold at low rates by eastern
railroads to men and women who go to
the Pacific slope with the idea of never
coming back until they have made their
pile.
There is no stopover east Of the
Rockies. and the pasteboard is good Tor
only a single trip westward. By-aud-by,
when the person gets homesick and
wants to come east his return fare is
paid on quite a different basis. Out
west we call them hoIlesickers' tickets.
If l can buy enc as a New Yorker anxious
to try his fortunes in the west, III a v
money. Lots of western men soing back
home do this.
St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1905-04-01
TRAFFIC BLOCKED BY SNOW
Difficult by Automatic Switches
and Signals.

Railroads are every year more sub
ject to the interruption Of traffic by
snowstorms. The increasing use OF
labor-saving and automatic inventions
is responsible for the increasing irregu-
larity of railroad travel at every storm.
In the earlier railroad days there were
no automatic signals OF automatic
switches. At every switch there was a
s%witchman, or it was the duty of the
rear brakeman to attend to the switches.
In those days a storm much more severe
than any OF the recent ones would have
produced comparatively small Interior
ence with traffic, says a Chicago ex-
change.
What formerly interrupted railroad
traffic was not the cold, but the volume
of the snow. Snowplows are not an old
invention, and the earlier plows had not
power to cope with large drifts or a deep
now The only ways to remove the OBJ
struction were by a gang OF locomotives
tandem fashion bucking the drift, or by
several hundred laborers shovelling the
track by hand. The first of these meth
ods was dangerous and the second was
slow.
All the great railroads centering in
New York have automatic signal and
switch systems by which operators in a
signal tower can throw any switch or
set any signal in the yards. The older
forms of these systems are operated by
levers and connecting wires. Fhe more
recent forms of signal and switching de-
vices are controlled by the use Of COM
pressed air. While the power afforded
by either of these systems is ample IN
all ordinary occasions, where only the
friction of the switch is to, be overcome,
in times of great cold with a little snow
the switches freeze, and the power OF the
automatic apparatus is not sufficient to
overcome the adhesion of the ice n
snow.
Frozen snCw or ice makes a strong
cement. Pieces of metal can be held to-
gether by a thin film of frozen moisture,
so that no steady pull can separate
them. A jar or a knock with a hammer
will crystalline the ice and enable the
switch to be swung, but this is hand Ia
Dor, and the number of switchmen in
any New York yard is so small that they
cannot handle ten per cent. OF the
switches by hand without the use of the
compressed air and wire devices.
This is what ties up the suburban
travel every cold and windy snowstorE..
1t is not the lack of ability to keep the
tracks clear of row or the lack OF mo-
tive power to pull the trains, but the i'm
possibility of handling the hundreds OF
switches by hand with a small available
force and the ineficiency of the modern
inventions for that purpose when the
switch is frozen to the rail.
The railroads try to get around this
by thawing out the switches with oily
waste and steampipes, but so long as the
wind blows in fresh snow the only prac-
ticable way of manipulating the switch
es is by hand.
St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1905-04-01
ME1MaryK0ehn

Nervous exhaustion invites disease.
This statement is the positive truth.
When everything becomes a burden
and you cannot walk a few blocks with
out excessive fatigue, and you break
out into perspiration easily, and your
face iushes, ard you grow excited and
shaky at the least provocation, and
you cannot bear to be crossed in any
thing, you are in danger; your nerves
have given out j; you need building up
at onceI To build up woman's nerv-
Gus system and during the period of
change of life we know of no better
medicine than Lydia E. Pinkham's
Vegetable Compound. Here is an
illustration. Mrs. Mary L. Koehne, 371
Garfield Avenue, Chicago, ILL.,. writes:
"Ihaveused LydiaE Pinkham's Vegetable
Compound for years in my family and it
never d~isappoints so when 1 felt that I was
manipulating of life commenced treat
ment with it. l took in all about six bottles
and it did me a great deal of good. 1t
stopped my dizzy spells, pains in my back
and the headaches with which I had suffered
for months before taking the Compound. /
feel that if it had not been for this great med
icine for women that I should not have been
alive to-day. 1t is splendid for women, oldor
young, and will surely cure all female disCr-
ders."
Mrs. Pinkham, of Lynn, Mass, in
vites all sick and ailing women to write
her for advice. Her great experience
is at their service. free of cost.
St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1905-04-01
How a Load of Coal Shrinks.

"You cannot realize the amount Of
coal stolen from a railroad train in one
journey Of ten miles" said Special Agent
Camp, Of Moberly, Mo. Every town
along the railroad has a number of resi-
dents who think that because the rail-
road carries a lot of the bituminous
product it has a lot to spare. So every
one Of them, with sack, wagon, basket
and all kinds of receptacles. pile into
the car and take what they want. The
trainmen have a running fight every
winter with coal thieves. No sooner do
they get rid of those from one town than
they are in the next anu a new lot pile
On. The shrinkage of a car of coal in a
100-mile haul is sometimes as high IS
16 per cent."-Des Mcines Register and
Leader.
St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1905-04-01
NEW ORLEANS WINE CELLAR
Fine After Dinner Tale That Lacked
the Element Of Geographical
Experience.

A lady newly arrived in Washington, of
great wealth, was at a dinner a few nights
ago and amazed everybody by telling the
brand and vintage Of a rare wine without
seeing the bottle or label, says a Wash
World.
How can you do it" she was asked.
"Oh," she replied, Il was born in New
Orleans, you know, and was raised there.
When l was a slip of a girl my father used
to take me down into his great wine cellar
under the house and show me the dusty
bottles. He taught me all about wines
down in those gloomy caves"
After the dinner the hostess said to her
husband: Wasn't it interesting to hear
Mrs. So-and-So tell about her fathers wine
ccllars?"
Great" cried the brutal husband.
absolutely great! It was simply fine.
You know, there isn't q cellar in New
Orleans"
St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1905-04-01
THE NEIGHBORS ALL
USE THEM NOW.
Quick Cure of Rheumatism by Dodd's
Kidney Pills-How They Saved
the Shop of a Kansas Black
smith - Cure Was Per.
manent Too.

Goodland, Kan, Feb. 20th.-(Special)
So quick and complete was the cure Of
n. E. Albertson, Z local blacksmith, tnat
it almost seems like a miracle. he had
rheumatism so bad he feared he would
have to give up his shop. One box of
pains and they have never returned.
Speaking Of his cure, Mr.. Albertson says:
Il had Rheumatism in my shoulders
and arms for years. Part of the time it
was so bad I could not sleep at night.
My arm hurt SO that it seemed I would
have to give up my blacksmith shop. I
G So8 Of e b 5od Gsrf Ki sIore 1 Pills 0G aasd to ooe
them. I have not had the Rheumatism
since. A great many of the neighbors
are using Dodd's Kidney Pills since they
saw how they cured me-"
St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1905-04-01
M OF EXPRESS TRAINS
Attractive Titles Purchased by
Prizes Given by Railroad
". Company.

Some time ago a railroad company Of
fered a substantial prize for the most at
tractive title for its fastest train, Il
though M of those submitted was ac-
cepted the igenuity of the competitors
was not undeserving of praise. Among
those sent in were such titles as The Re
publican Limited, The Narrow Path
Express" The Liberty Express The
Yankee High-.isr," and many Others
more CT less good.
Although the novel competition prac-
tically failed in its purpose, it called at
tention to the picturesque and ingenious
names which designate many Of the m
portaEt high-f1iers which run daily over
American rails. There is no better known
express in the world than ''The Twenti-
eth Century Limited" which makes the
run between New York and Chicago in
20 hours. The title in this instance is a
particularly happy one, fer it o only
symbolizes the century in which we live,
but also the actual time occupied in the
run.
The Green Mountain Flier,' is the IA
nous Montreal express for New VOTE,
and received its name from the beautiful
green hills through which it runs on its
daily journeys. An equally picturesque
title is that OF THE Sunset Limited a
Southern Pacific express which oashes
daily toward that Ell Dorado CT horticul~
tprists-Calitoraia.
Minneapolis and st. Pau are now as
the Twin Cities, and so it is only natural
that the train which runs from there to
St. Louis should be called The Twin City
Limited The exposition at st. Louis, by
the way, has been the means of giving
titles to many new trains, among these
being The Exposition Limited over
the Grand Central.
One of the most magnificent trains IN
the world is The High Grass Limited,
which runs from st. Paul to the Pacific
coast, so-called because in its journey it
passes over much Gesolate prairie. This
train is one of the longest for passenger
express service in the country, consist
ing as it does of 13 cars, each averaging
80 feet in length.
St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1905-04-01
Took Railroads Coal,

The Kansas Southwestern, a short
City, has opened up a conscience fund
account. Some time ago the agent at
Caldwell received the following let
ter: "Agent-Will you please send the
address of the superintendent of the
Frisco depot. or where shall l write to
make a wrong right?" The required 40
dress was given, and the following letter
came as a response: Dear Sir-When
l was a small child l took some of the
railroads coal, which l wish to pay for,
as | am 10Y a child Of God, and Heaven
and lost souls are my only Desires" In
the letter was inclosed a post Office Or
der for IS cents.-Topeka Capital.
St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1905-04-01
Coal and Railroads

The total coal production of the Unit
ed States is now at the rate of 1000, 900
tons per day, and the consumption of
coal by railroads is equal to 40 per cent.
of this, or 400,0 tons per day. The
fuel bill of a railroad contributes about
ten per cent. OF the total expense of op-
Grafton and SO to 40 per cent. of the total
cost of running the locomotives. A To-
S., 900 worth of coal per annum, and for
a road having an equipment of 1000 10.
comotives the coal bill is approximately
SIS, 000, 000.-Railway Age.
St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1905-04-01

this offer which is made to get you to
test Salzer's Warranted Vegetable Seeds.
They will send you their big plant and
seed catalog, together with enough seed
to grow
1000 fine, solid Cabbages,
1000 rich, juicy Turnips,
1900 blanching, nutty Celery,
1900 rich, buttery Lettuce,
1000 splendid Onions,
1000 rare, luscious Radishes,
1000 gloriously brilliant Flowers,
ALL FOR BUT Ice POSTAGE,
providing you will return this notice, and
if you will send them zoe in postage, they
will add to the above a package of "a
nous Berliner Caulifower. TX. IL
Between pretending to be what we are
not and not to be what we are, we are
under a considerable strain to keep up
appearances.-Puck.
St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1905-04-01
Definition of Railway Ticket

A little schoolgirls definition of a
railroad ticket is worth repeating. In
a composition written in one of the
Boston primaries on "A Railway Jour-
ney," the little one says, among other
things:
You have to get a ticket, which is .
piece of paper, and you give it to a man,
who cuts a hole in it and lets you pass
through."-Boston Herald.
St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1905-04-01
Alpine Railways.

No less than IA electric mountain
railways are now under way Of con-
struction in Switzerland. Within the
course of a few years all the leading
Alpine heights a be reached by noun
tain railways. Switzerland is spending
many millions on these enterprises, and
it is hoped that, with these increasing
facilities, the number OF tourists will
become greater every year. The Jung
frau and Chamounix railways will be
completed and open for passenger traf-
fc by the summer of 1906.
St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1905-04-01
-
Me402AAIH,
oHlPBUILDER
AND PREACHER
9Sah sERMoN STORY - =.
"ay and Byway" Pre.ch =
"a vision Between the Lines Of c;od..
Inspired Word.J
~pyetght, 1905. by J. II. EdsonI

Noah oef'pt ,hs Authority:-"1n the dav. =.
ried wiva: c.a eat, they drank, they mar.
until the d,n ney Were given in marriage.
ARK sbs, and the food came. and de anto the
+he them all.'-Luke 1925, p. And O Coz :as,
the ean e "ickedness of man was great Nv
,he tasln, and that every imagination ~ -
uaI, thoughts Of his heart was evi, cont,u1
ayes of But Noah found grace in the
Cen o. 81 the Lord. and walked with God."N
warned of ca BY faith Moan. being
moved with 1oa OF things not seen as vet.
savina WI rear. prepared an ark to the
saving OF his house; by the which he oo ene
. Ielhneo the world. and became heir If tho
.1s1 1'eousness which is by faithI,OHah
- Do 1>oan a preacher Of righteousness
- ret. 2:5. Read all of Gen g
St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1905-04-01
RAILROAD BUILDING IN 1904
Mileage Computed to Be Twenty-Five
Per Cent. More Than in Year
Preceding.

During the past year, the construction
of railroads in the United States was
about 25 per cent. less, in the aggregate,
than in 1903; the mileage built in 1904.
az computed by the Railway Age, being
4,i6S. as against 5.7S6 in 1903. By sec
tons Of the country, the tabulation is as
follows:
St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1905-04-01
CUTICURA PILLS
For Cooling and Cleansing the Blood
In T~orturing, DishEurinE Hum0rs
go Chocolate Pills Csc.

Cuticura Resolvent Pills Chocolate
ecated) are the product of twenty-five
years practical laboratory experience in the
preparation of remedies for the treatment
Ct humors of the skin, scalp and blood,
with loss of hair, and are confidently be.
lieved to be superior to all other blood
kumor may now be had for $l.OO, con.
sisting Of Cuticura Soap to cleanse the
skin, Cuticura Ointment to heal the skin,
and Cuticura Resolvent Pills to cool and
cleanse the blood. A single set is often
sufficient to cure.
St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1905-04-01
Locomotives in Balkan States

No locomotives are built in the Balkan
states. All the engines used on the rail-
ways of Turkey, Roumania, Bulgaria,
Servia and Greece are imported from
Germany, Austria, France, Belgium and
England. There are no American-bui!t
locomotives in the Balkan peninsula.
St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1905-04-01
Shv at Drawing,

when I was a young man" said
Stcrmington Barnes, Il went on the stage
with the determination of becoming the
architect of my own fortune"
"Well?" queried Walker Holme.
las an architect" continued Mr..
Barnes, II was a successful failure be-
cause Of my inability 20 draw large
houses."-Chicago Sun.
St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1905-04-01
EIRD, wild music

.1RD wild music
ILLS the air. There
is merry-making in
the rude village.
Javan, the leader
OF the town, had
just taken to him
self another wife.
his third, who had
met his fancy on a
recent trip to the
land of Nod, where
the daughters e
fair, and after
whom the sons of
God e fast he
St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1905-04-01
Shake Into Your Shoes

Allen'sFoot-Ease 1t cures painful, swollen,
smarting, sweating feet. Makes new shoes
easy. Sold by all Druggists and Shoe Stores.
Address A. S. Olmsted, LIE Roy, N. Y.
St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1905-04-01

The Pulajones are on the war path in
6amar. This is the first outbreak that has
occurred in the Jones family for over 40
years.-Minneapolis Times.
St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1905-04-01
Millions of vegetables.

When the Editor read 5000 plants for
Ice, he could hardly believe it, but upon
second reading finds that the John A..
Salzer Seed Co., La Crosse, Wis, than
whom there are no more reliable and ex-
tensive seed growers in the world, makes
St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1905-04-01

Taylor's Cherokee Remedy of Sweet
Gum and Mullen is Natures great rem.
sumption and ali throat troubles. At
druggist, 25c.. Soc. and $l.O0 per bottle.
St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1905-04-01

The greatest new mileage built in any
one state is Missouri, with 372 miles.
Next comes Texas with 312 miles, and
then in order, Minnesota, 271; West Vir-
ginia, 237; Mississippi, 229; Pennsyl-
vania, 22O; Nevada, 215; California, 2O1;
Illinois, 1861. There were seven states
in which there was no railroad construc-
ton last year: Nebraska, Delaware,
New Hampshire, Vermont, Massachu-
sets, Rhode Island and Connecticut.
Nevada's prominence in mileage of new
railroads is due to the extension, across
the desert, of Senator Clark's San Pc
dro, Los Angeles & Salt Lake line, which
has already been sold to the Union Pa
cific interests.
In IL of the past Is years. more miles
of new railroad were constructed than
in 1904, but the average has been about
$500 miles. Indications are that On
siderably more railway lines will be
built in 1905 than were built in 1904. The
total railway mileage, for the country at
large, is now 212,000 miles.
St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1905-04-01
Variable.

Harry-What a sweet voice your wife
has. l heard her talking over the phone.
Dick-Umhuh. She always talks that
way-over the 'phone.-Detroit Free Press.
St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1905-04-01

Do not believe Piso's Cure for Consump.
ton has an equal for coughs and colds:-J.
St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1905-04-01

If you amt got nothin' in the world to
say an have jest got to say it, say it
St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1905-04-01

Some of us are too apt to confuse graft
tude with the rate of interest.-Chicago
Tribune.
St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1905-04-01

A Guaranteed Cure for Piles.
Itching, Blind, Bleeding or rotrudingP Piles.
Your druggist will refund money If PAzo
OINTMENT fails to cure in 6 to IA days. SOC.
St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1905-04-01

The less polish a man has the more re-
Elections he is apt to cast.-Chicago Daily
News.
St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1905-04-01

To Cure a Cold in Cns Day
Take Laxative Bromo Quinine Tablets. All
druggists refund thu moneyif IT, it fails to cure.
E. W.. Groves signature is on each box. Csc.
St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1905-04-01

Civilization advances, but poverty grows.
I'VE ask you for %predigested Bread" cry
the poor, "and you give US an urpasteur-
lied stone!"-Puck.