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OVER THE OCEAN.

Four-fifths of Zululand has been de-
clared unfit for Europenan habitation
by the British delimitation commission.
"To calm public excitement" the Hun
garian Jockey club has paid the debts
Of a Buda-Pesth bookmaker, who lost
S41, 500 over the Austrian derby.
A British board Of trade return shows
that during 1904 453.877 emigrants left
the United Kingdom, nearly half of
whom went to the British colonies.
Twenty-six per cent. of the number went
to Canada.
Three rare specimens of male tree
fern, Osmunda RECALLS, of more than
1000 years growth, have been procured
for the imeprial botanic gardens of st.
Petersburg from the virgin forests on
the Black sea coast. near Adler.
Mrs. Frederick Krupp, widow of the
famous gunmaker, has given 100000
marks for a convalescent laborers'
home, to celebrate the fifth anniversary
of the opening of the great Gruson
works, near Madgeburg, Germany.
The Egyptian government has decided
upon Eostponing-and this may mean
aEandoning-the scheme for raising the
Assuan dam, and thereby increasing the
supply for the irrigation of the country
in the summer, ard has taken this de-
cision mainly because two mathemati-
clans in London have developed a new
theory regarding the stresses upon ma
sonry dams.
Smoking races" are the latest devel-
opmenE OF student life in Germany.
They are usually held at drinking bouts
and form novel feature of these occa-
sions. Hugs pipes are made specially
for this purpose, having a capacity of
from one to three ounces of tobacco. All
pipes must, be identical in shape and
construction and are filed with the same
quantity of tobacco to grain.
Unique was the wedding which took
place at village near Dover, England,
the other day, the bridegroom being a
gentleman engaged in China, who had
inserted matrimonial advertisement
in a London Journal, resulting in a cor
respondence and exchange of photos
with tie daughter of professional gen.
tleman in the Kentish village The
bridegroom has traversed the thousands
OF miles separating China from Kent to
claim the bride
St. Tammany farmer., 1905-08-05
POVERTY TO POWER.
CAREER OF SECRETARY LESLIE
NJ. SHAW, OF IOWA.
e Called the "David Harum" Of the
Presidents Cabinet - Got q
Start Selling Fruit
Trees.

Washington.-"David Harum in the
cabinet" That is the term Of affec-
tionate endearmert often applied to
Leslie M. Shaw, secretary of the treas
ury. Is it to be David Harum in the
white house?" That is the question
which Secretary Shaw's friends answer
most enthusiastically in tho afirma-
tive, in which answer Mr.. Shaw is sup
posed secretly to concur.
The bustling west, of which Mr..
Shaw is type, is made up in its most
successful population of Yankees, -
who have migrated, settled and made
fertile and prosperous the fecund land,
says the Star. The stony farms of Yer
mont, New Hampshire, Connecticut
and the wooded slopes Of Maine have
contributed to the bone. sinew and
brains of the land beyond the Missis-
sippi.
Leslie M. Shaw is a fitting example
of class. He spent his youth in the
hard school of narrow New England
life. Born in Vermont in 1S48, he lived
in the little town of Stowe. He re-
ceived good education at the acad-
emy. at Morrisville and when he was
q years Of age went to Iowa. He
earned the means to graduate himself
from the Iowa College of Law in 1876.
He is the son of Boardman Ozias
Shaw, whose father, Ebenezer Shaw,
was one of the earliest settlers and
first selectman of Morristown, Vt. His
mother was a daughter of Jason Spauld-
ing, a teacher of some reputation in
the eastern part of New York state.
Boardman Shaw moved to farm in
Stowe, VT, where Leslie M. Shaw spent
his minority. Leslie M. Shaw was de-
pendent upon his own efforts in OBJ
tanning an education, but with charac-
teristic persistence went to work. He
taught school in the winter and worked
in the harvest fields in the summer.
Several winters he tramped all over
northwestern Iowa selling fruit trees
and nursery stock. His energy was
wonderful and he was determined to
St. Tammany farmer., 1905-08-05
Arriving at a Verdict.

Kushequa, Pa, July 1o.-(Special) I'm
this section Of Pennsylvania there is a
growing belief that for such Kidney Dis
eases as Rheumatism and Lame Back
there is only one sure cure and that IS
Dodd's Kidney Pills. This belief grows
from such cases as that of Mrs. N. L.
Dawson of this place. She tells the story
herself as follows:-
- have suffered from Rheuma tigm for
thirty years and find that Dodd's Kidney
Pills have done me more good than any
medicine l have ever taken. was also
bothered with Lame Back and can only
say that my back hasn't bothered me
since l took Dodd's Kidney Pills"
Considering that Mrs. Dawson only
took. two boxes Of Dodds Kidney Pills,
the result would be considered wonderful
if it were not that others are reporting
similar results daily. Kushequa is fast
arriving at verdict that "Dodd's Kid
ney Pills are the one sure cure for Rheu-
matism"
St. Tammany farmer., 1905-08-05

succeed in spite of his poverty. After
years of hard work he earned sufi-
| cient to complete his college and pro-
fessional courses and was graduated
from the Iowa college in 1876 In the
same year he located in the practice
of his profession at Dennison.
This keen young Yankee, anxious to
'get ahead" as they say out west,
| looked about him for the best way to
make some ready money quickly. He
realized that dollars would breed dol
lars mighty fast in that region and
| that time, given reasonable number
| Of dollars with which to begin. His
start was humble enough. He loaded
up with stock Of fruit trees and
started out to sell them to the farmers.
Iowa needed fruit trees in those days.
Hardly farmer on the broad prairies,
viewing with however much CON-
placency his fat crop Of corn, his herds
of cattle and droves Of hogs, but did
not banker for little fruit orchard.
Most of them were Yankees, and in
the long winter evenings their
mouths watered for the succulent ap-
pies Of the old homestead. Shaw re-
solved that apples were his long suit
and he set out scores and scores of the
great orchards of Iowa. He dealt fair
ly and in delivering the goods" made
friends. He became known throughout
all that region.
Thus, when he started up as q
lawyer he had friends, ready made,
among the farmers. Litigation there
was in plenty; no one ever accused q
New Englander of readiness to give
up point claimed in his own favor if
the courts could help him sustain it.
Mr.. Shaw in those days was a natural
born trader, they say Between law
cases he traded for anything in sight.
Pretty soon he saw chance to trade
In farm mortgages. He and his law
firm would deal in mortgages and at
tend to the law part Of the trade as
side issue.
Pretty soon, as the prospect opened,
they felt the need of more capital.
Nothing easier than to start bank in
connection with the law firm. Thus
they caught the clients. coming and
going. Up to the outbreak of the
Bryan fever, in 1896, Leslie M. Shaw
was nothing but business man and
q lawyer. He had class in Sunday
school and used to get them into de-
bates. Then he got to addressing
schools and like assemblages. First
thing he knew, the politicians got their
eye on him Good takers were want
ed about that time.
He could tell cracking good story
and keep an audience interested. He
was earnestly opposed to free silver,
his banking experience giving him the
cue in that direction. The republicans
took him up and ran him for governor,
electing him. In 1902 he was asked
to become secretary Of the treasury
and accepted. He still knows good
Iowa mortgage when he sees one.
St. Tammany farmer., 1905-08-05
MARKETING POTATO CROPS.
How the Railroads Made IA pos~;.,.
Y for the Growers to Get Fair
Prices.

In line with the classic case Of the
oyster shippers. cited by Presidert
Hadley, OF Yale University, in his book
on Railroad Transportation, is the case
OF the Arocstook potato growers
brought by President Tuttle, OF the
Boston and Maine Railroad before the
Senate Committee on Interstate Com
rTnerce. Nothing could better show how
"a railroad works for the interest of
the localities which it serves.
A main dependence OF the farmers
OF the Aroostook region is the potato
crop, aggregating annually eight to
ten million bushels which find a mar
ket largely in Boston and the adjacent
thickly settled regions of New Eng.
land. The competition Of cheap water
transportation from Maine to all points
along the New England coast keeps
railroad freight rates on these potatoes
always at a very low level.
Potatoes are also considerable out.
put of the truck farms of MICHIGAN.
their normal market being obtained in
and through Detroit and Chicago and
SeAASA SSAAAA AAAGASo Va IIdl ISEiOu.
Not many years ago fayoring sun
and rains brought tremendous yield
Of potatoes from the Michigan fields.
At normal rates and prices there would
have been glut Of the CUSTOMARY
markets and the potatoes would havu
rotted On the farms. To help the Do.
tato growers, the railroads from
Michigan made unprecedentedly low
rates on potatoes to every reachable
market, even carrying them in large
quantities to a place SO remote as Bos-
ton. Y The Aroostook growers had to
reduce the price on their potatoes, and
even then could not dispose of them
unless the Boston and Maine railroad
reduced its already low rate, which it
did, BY means Of these low rates,
making possible low prices, the pota-
to crops of both Michigan and Maine
were finally marketed. Everybody eats
potatoes, and that year everybody had
all the potatoes he wanted.
While the Michigan railroads made
rates that would have been ruinous to
the railroads, had they been applied to
the movement Of all potatoes at all times,
to al; places, they helped their patrons to
find markets then. The Boston and Maine
Railroad suffered a decrease in its rev.
/. enue from potatoes, but it enabled the
Aroostook farmers to market their crop
and thereby to obtain money which
they spent for the varied supplies
which the railroads brought to them.
1 II the making Of rates were subject to
4 Governmental adjustment; such rad
ical and prompt action could never
have been taken, because 1t is we'll es-
tablished that If rate be, once re-
duced by railroad company, it can
not be restored through the red tape
Of Governmental procedure. II the
Michigan railroads and the Boston and
Maine Railroad had been subjected to
Governmental limitation they would
have felt obliged to keep UP their rates,
as do the railroads Of France and Eng
land and Germany under Governmental
limitation, and let the potatoes rot
Exchange.
St. Tammany farmer., 1905-08-05
BRITISH MUNICIPAL GLORY.
A New $s,ooo,oo Building Is to
House thu london County
CoAacil.

London.-The London county council
has sanctioned the purchase of site
on the south bank of the Thames, op-
posite the houses of parliament, at a
cost of s3,000,000, on which to erect a
county hall at an additional cost OF
about s5,28o,000, with river embank-
ment costing S220,000. There will be
a frontage of 800 feet on the river and
St. Tammany farmer., 1905-08-05

Kidney Pills relieve
and cure it.
ii. B. McCarver,
Of 2o1 Cherry ST.,
Portland, Ore, in.
spector of freight.
for the Trans-Conn- A.
tinental Co., says !:
" / used Doan's Kid
ney Pills for back.
ache and OF h G r
symptoms of kid
ney trouble which
had annoyed me for
months. l think a
cold was response
BILE for the whole
St. Tammany farmer., 1905-08-05
Electric Locomotive Now,

The rapidity with which electric in
vention has progressed il shown fore
ibly by the fact that every indication
points to the adoption Of the electric
locomotive before it is 20 years old as
the means By which the trafic Of two
Of the greatest railroads in the world
into the largest city in the western
hemisphere will be handled
St. Tammany farmer., 1905-08-05

trouble. Itseemed to settle in my kid
neys. Doan's Kidney Pills rooted it
out. It is several months since used
them, and up to date there has been no
recurrence of the trouble .
Doan's Kidney Pills are for sale by
all dealers, price SO cents per box.
Foster Mnburn Coz, Buffalo. N Y.
St. Tammany farmer., 1905-08-05
ToRTURING, DlsFIGURlNG
Humors, Eczemas, Itchings, Infam-
nations, Burnings, scalings and
Chafngs Cured by Cuticura.

The agonizing itching and burning Of
ing, as in psoriasis; the loss Of hair and
crusting Of the scalp, as in scaled head;
the facial disfgurements, as in pimples
and ringworm; the awful suffering Of in
fants, and anxiety of worn-out parents,
as in milk crust, tetter and salt rheum
all demand remedy of almost superhu-
man virtues to successfully cope with
them. That Cuticura Soap, Ointment and
Pills are such stands proven beyond all
doubt by the testimony of the CIVILIZED
world.
St. Tammany farmer., 1905-08-05
Fresh dnuS.

ARen,rter ito the zoo superinfendent)
--Anv fresh news this morning
snnerintendent-O oh, yes, indeed! the
horned horses wife had TWINS 'as'
night.-N. \. Sun.
St. Tammany farmer., 1905-08-05

IF nature ever mace mistake, it was
when she made good canteloupe and a
bad eanteloupe look exactly alike.-Toledo
Blade.
St. Tammany farmer., 1905-08-05
MIGRATION OF THE DOES
The "Roes" Also Departing-othe,
Names Of Later Note Taking
s Their Places.

From Brooklyn borough courts is re-
ported a large increase in the number Of
John Does The excess of Does" in
Brooklyn, too, says local authority, is
almost coincident with the disappearance
from the courts of Manhattan OF Does
and .Roes." In the old English courts
when the name of plaintiff was un
known, the custom was ito describe him
as ''John Doe.' When the defendants
name was unknown he was described as
Richard Roe" In the criminal courts
the name of an unidentified male prisoner
was entered as John Doe' and of fe-
male prisoner as Jane Roe" In civil
cases with women appearing as principals,
"Jane Doe was the name, in default of
any other, for the female plaintiff, and
Jane Roe" for the female defendant.
In Manhattan the colloquial use of the
word dough" as slang designation for
wealth is chargeable with the words,
John Dough- describing man of
money As John Dough has come for
ward, John Doe has receded, and the
name John Doe has been giving place
in the criminal courts to Walter Jones"
AS Jane" and John Doe" have often
been allied in legal papers in court, Jane
Doe'' has been superseded by "kate Best. :"
St. Tammany farmer., 1905-08-05
Affronted Authority.

$50 your wife does not approve of base
ball?,
NO" answered Mr.. Meekton. Henri
eta can't stand it to see any mere man
bossing people around the way the umpire
does Washington Star.
St. Tammany farmer., 1905-08-05
Too Eunan.

There is proverb: "If you're fond Of
hero worship, never make pilgrimage to
see the hero"
A sweet girl graduate who called on
her favorite author said of him, after
wards:
.tHe was on the front porch in his
shirt sleeves Oh, he seemed SO terribly
human!f-AtlantaC Constitution.
St. Tammany farmer., 1905-08-05

Do not believ. Piso's Cure for Consnmp-
ton las an equal for coughs and colds:-J. /.
f. Bover, Trinity Springs, Ind, Feb. IS, 1900.
St. Tammany farmer., 1905-08-05
CONSTANT ACHING.

Back aches Gil the time. spoils yous
appetite. wearies the body, worries tho
mind. Kidneyscause it all and Doan's
St. Tammany farmer., 1905-08-05

It is highly improbable that the world
will ever again see time when. it will
not consider itself on the threshold Of a
new era.-Puck.
St. Tammany farmer., 1905-08-05

In the beginning the woman sits down
and waits for a husband; in the end she
sits up and waits for him-Life.
St. Tammany farmer., 1905-08-05
Two Great Qualities.

s1s it possible, asked the passenger on
the Mississippi river steamboat, looking at
the turbid, boiling food, that people ever
drink this water?'
"sir," said the lanly passenger with the
broad brimmed slouch hat, ''you take q
glass of that water, let it settle, pour off
the clear fluid at the top, and it's the best
drinking water in the world"
But the sediment at the bottom"
'You don't need to throw that away,
either. By George, s;r, it makes the best
and richest soil you ever saw!,-Chicago
Tribune.
St. Tammany farmer., 1905-08-05
ladies Can wear shoes

AdU1es CaE W e6T SuoeS
One size smaller after using Aliens Foot
Ease. A certain cure for swollen, sweating,
hot, aching feet. At all Druggists, Csc. Ac-
cept no substitute. Trial package FREE.
Address A. S. Olmsted. LIE Roy, N. Y.
St. Tammany farmer., 1905-08-05

We all would "a been richer ef we'd
only been wiser; but maybe we'd been
baldheaded, with no appetlte.-Atlanta
Constitution
St. Tammany farmer., 1905-08-05
His Qhiectiou.

De style-What is it you don't like
about Miss Golddust?
Gunbusta-Other fellows arms.-N. y.
Times.
St. Tammany farmer., 1905-08-05

plungsr-Then there IS no use q M
.~r,ro MN for ! loan.-Iudge.
St. Tammany farmer., 1905-08-05

The men who get the most out of life
are those who put the most into 1.-THE
Commoner.
St. Tammany farmer., 1905-08-05
/. r,t /, All He Had.

sponger-I Just met Dyer doWn tns
Daily press. [volume] (Newport News, Va.) 1896-current, 1905-09-02

red, there are 10 chances Us blacks
and zero) against his being correct.
The fair odds are 10 to Is against him.
but the bank only lays even money.
The advantage of the bank does
not end here, for when zero turns I'M
the bank takes all stakes, except those,
on zero, and the cvcn-money chances.
The latter are put asldo-'en Prise
Is the technical term.
III on the next turn of the wheel the
player on these even chances wins.
his stake is released and he may pick
1t up, but he wins nothing.
TO win he must stake again, and
thus when zero turns up 1t is nj least
two to one against player on an
"even-money" chance.
Tho second, reason why the bank
must always viii n the long run Is
the existence OF the maximum"
/ Tho maximum (G.000 francs) is the
highest amount player can win on
any one chance. II Il player with un
limited resources could so on playing
"doublc or quits" with the Casino I'm
definitely lie would eventually break
the hnnk in the full sense of tho
term. But you cannot play double on
quits" with M. Blanc for long.
Starting with the minimum stalk,
nllowed-viz.. 5 francs and doublin,
your stakes each time. your eleventh
stake. surprising you win or lose con
sccutivcly. would he over 5000 francs
and You could double no longer.
In other words, you would have
come To point mt which you could
not on ono turn of the wheel clthc,
double your winnings or rocoup ali
your losses.
All systems are designed to nullf,
the effects CT zero anu the maximum
If one could be certain that zero would
turn up, ms 1t ought to turn up onc.
in every 81 turns. II could he provided
against, AMI the Casino, oven with the
llnlD of the maximum, would he in q
bad way.
hut no such certainty is possible
and, therefore, every system splits o.
this rock. And so with the maximum
st. Louis GlObc-Demccrat.
Daily press. [volume] (Newport News, Va.) 1896-current, 1905-09-02
HAMP TON BOY WINS
a SCHOLARSHIP
Alton w. Belts. Son of C. w. Belts
Wins Miller Trophy at Univer-
city of Virginia.

Alton w. Belts first year student
Mt the University OF Virginia. has re-.
ceived notice That he has been award.
cd the Miller scholarship for the high
est aggregate marks in biology, ply.
sizes and chemistry the past session
Mt the University.
This scholarship is tenahlc for two
years tho cmClumcnts consisting of
$2"o session, with free tuition in tho
schools of the department of agricul.
turc
Being abnut tho youngest member
in his. classes and having To compete
with men much older. some Of whom
ma been attending the University for
several years. makes the honor 10
young Bctts all the greater and shows
with what assiduity and carncstncss
nc applied himself to his studies.
MIR. l,etts was student at Old Point
Comfort College for several session
rs were also two other young men
who lave been attending the Univer-
sity-1aoland d. Cock. law department,
Daily press. [volume] (Newport News, Va.) 1896-current, 1905-09-02
STRIKING TRIBUTE
Paid to Chinese Cook by Inhabitant;
of Oreuon Town


of Oregon Town.
fine gold watch was presented IL
Cling fick on his departure for HON.
In the Fiowcry Kingdom. 1t was pre-
Hcnted hy the people of Irrigon, Ore.
IN token Of The hish esteem in which
Cling Is held. and bore this inScrip
lion: TO Cling Yicli from his Ore
gon friends. August ., 1907
Cling Yick has left lis ami gone &c
China, the land of his birth. where n
loving wife and family ycarn for his
coming. lie has not seen them fol
over eight years, and there is among
them one son. now almost eight years
Old. whom he has never seen
Cling has been in the employ almOSi
constantly for seventeen years OF
some member of the present Oregon.
Land and Water Company, and f0
nearly three years he has been at thi.
place, cooking III camp, in cook house
and finally in the hotel He and Mr..
liolbrooi were the pioneers of Stokes,
Now lrriGon.
There arc people who do not Xix,
our Acknowledged Celestial friends.
They call them "chinks" and thipl
lhcm an inferior race. unfit to deal OF
associate with To all such we would
point to our friend Cling He was e
cook. He never posed for more than
he was; hut there Is not person in
the State Of Oregon who did his dur,
better more hon0rnbly and honcstl,
Or in plcasantcr. gentlcr way thar
did Cling.
Tho editor of the Irrigator is not q
worshipcr of the yellow mon. He he
licvcs that for many reasons they vii
never, can never, assimilate with tho
great English speaking family But,
we do believe in giving the yellow
men. brown or black men crcdit-full
crcdit-when they perform their duty
exceptionally we'll
And Cling did more than this. He
did it always chcerfully, always
promptly, and he had the intuition tc
do the right thing ut the right time
I And over and above and beyond this
he. was honest clear down to his toes
Not bccaliso he was watched or lie
cause he feared detection, but he
cause it was his nature to be homes,
and loyal and true.
T! He goes to China never to return
He cannot come back, owing to the
laws of our country, but he docs no
care much, for he has bcen frugal
and saving and ranks ns ii rich mar
at home. But VIC often wish that there
was some elasticity to the exclusion
act, some clause that would allow sucf
men as Cling to go and come at will
for we who know him hest know him
to be man who would only honor
our. country by g.-Irrigor
(Orc.) IrrigatCr.
Daily press. [volume] (Newport News, Va.) 1896-current, 1905-09-02
Piano Aids pentists.

"a piano player as an adjunct to the
dentists set of tools is novelty 10
me-" said woman who requires fire.
qncnt dental attention. Il just had
TO see the dentist the other day, and
as it happened my regular practitioner
was OIL a vacation, SO went TO an
other man near by.
He took me In hand in good shape,
and started the bnzzer going. Then
before he put it to my tooth he walked
over to piano had observed in the
corner. and touched hutton, The
thing began playing right away, and
ran from ragtimc to sacred mEsic he.
fore 1t stopped. The music seemed to
distract my attention somehow, and
tho dentist had finished his jnb in
what seemed an unusually short time
But think 1t was more t.te novelty
than the soothing qualities Of the mir
sic that appealed to me. The dentist
told me, however. that he had found
the instrument very useful in Quiatilip
nervous patients. New York Sun.