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St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1905-06-03

In reply to request Of Prof. W.
r. Dodson. Director Of the Louisi-
ara Experiment Station, for topo.
graphical survey Of this section OF
Louisiana, the following letter has
been received from the Director Of
the United States Geological Sur.
vey Bureeu, announcing that the
survey would be made:
"Replying to yours. Of Feb. Is,
urging that this Department make .
survey map Of Baton Rouge, La.'
quadrangle, take pleasure in ad.
visiug you that in The plans for topo-
graphic surveying for the season of
1905 a sufficient sum has been pro-
vided to commence the survey OF
this area, which covers about 200
square miles. The amount OF money
which would be required on thls one
quadrangle, howe.e er. is go great
(about s9.0ooJ that it will probably
be another year at least before the
work can be completed. The work
will he commenced ia the early fall
by a psrey under the charge Of Dun
can Hannegan, Topcgrapher.'
St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1905-06-03
DIVERSIFICATION.

With the great expansion In the
growing of cotton. of rice, of truck
and other crops, the South Is not
raising as much of certain cereals
per capita as it raised in 1860. In
that year it raised s,l53,ooo
bushels of corn, or 1878 bushels
per capita, and ~, 100000 bushels
of wheat, or Al bushels per capita
In 1904 the South raised 66l, ,746,'
754 bushels of corn, or less than
% bushels per capita, and g. '9o2''
975 bushels OF wheat, or less than
three bushels per capita, as nearly
as may be estimated. The pro
ductlon of corn in the South IN
1860 was Al per cent. and OF wheat
66 per cent. of the total of these
crops in the country, but IN 1904
the production of corn was but
about 81 per cent. and OF wheat
but about IL per cent. of the totals
of those crops IN the country.
These figures mark out the proper
line of policy Of the South. 1t
must bold on to cotton, but not TO
to the exclusion or neglect OF other
crops. 1t can raise cotton as no
other part of the country save
Oklahoma and Indian Territory
may do. 1t monopolizes certain
other crops and can raise beside
practically every crop which Is
raised in any other part of the
country. 1t should give greater
attention to diversified crops, no
matter how strong the temptation
may be.-Southern Farm Maga'
zine.
St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1905-06-03
Artificial Cotton.

Some recent experiments have
been made in Bavaria IN regard to
preparing artificial cotton from
pine wood, and it is said that the
new process allows 1t to be made
cheaply enough SO that the art'f-
clal cotton may compete with the
natural product. In the method
which has proved the most success
full the wood, which has had the
bark removed, il cut into thin sticks
70 fibrers, one sixteenth OF an inch
or less IN thickness. These are
placed in a large horizontal cop
per cylinder lined with lead, into
which s,eam is passed. When the
separating action of the steam on
the wood fibre has been prolonged
sufficiently, acid sodium suIph'te
is added and the cylinder is heated
under a pressure Of three atmos-
pheres during thirty six hours.
The wood, which has become COM
pletely white, is washed and then
passed through crusher. After
washing again, the fibres are fur
ther wLitened by chloride OF lime
treatment. The matter which is
thus obtained is dried and consti-
tutes pure cellulose, which IS then
heated under pressure with mix
ture OF nitric and hydrochlor;c acids
aud chloride OF zinc. The pastry
mass thus formed is mixed with
little gelatine and castor oil, which
gives a certain resistance to the
fibre. The cellulose is then formed
into fine threads by q spinning ma
chine, and these are washed in a
carbonate OF soda solution ana
dried. These threads are said to
form a very good fabric when
woven, and can easily be dyed.
the experiments have as
yet only been carried on IN the
laboratory, there is no doubt that
the p.oress may be applied on large
scale, thus coming into the Euro
pean market as u competitor for
the imported cotton. - Scientific
American.
St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1905-06-03

Tobacco has a great deal to do
with the Government affairs of the
world. The French treasury re.
port of the Tobacco monopoly tor
1904 shows clear profit of $11,'
600, 600. The Government re-
ceipts from $50, ,0Oo,o 900. In the
United States the Government col.
lects $40, 900, 900 from tobacco in
internal revenue taxes. In Italy
tobacco selling is Government
monopoly, and will yield a mel
profit this year of s45, 100000 and
Austria. Hungary expects to collect
about the same amount. Through
the clouds of smoke a good many
ships of war can be discerned
looming up.
St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1905-06-03

iButter is go common c0mmodi-
ty that people use it and scarcely
ever think what wonderful value hes
at their hands in the pats Of dainty
yellow cream fat. But this delicate
fat is as valuable as the dcarer cod
liver oil for the weakly thin people,
and doctors have frequently recon-
mended the eating Of many thin
slices Of bread tbickly spread with
butter as means OF pleasantly TAX
ing into the bodily tissues one OF
the purest forms of fat it is possible
to get. Butter is q Car bon, and all
excess Of it is stored up as fat in
the body. 1t gives energy and
power h work TO those who eat
heartily of it. So it is not economy
at table to spare the butter even to
the healthy folk.
St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1905-06-03
cnvINGTON ST TANMAM PARISH SATURDAY. June 3,
His Complaint is Just.

A country merchant complains
OF ladies' aid society IL his town
who decided to raise money to buy
a new church carpet, says the Mil.
ton, Wis, journal. One means
of securing funds for this purpose
was the solicitation of cash from
the local merchants. Of course
these men could not refuse for fear
of losing the patronage of that
church. When at last the fund
was complete the ladies bought the
carpet of a Chicago mail order
house.
The merchant who complained
was right and the ladies were
wrong. Without the business men
there would have been no village,
no church and no ladies' aid society.
Any local organization owes abso.
lutte loyalty to the business men OF
that village even If it were true
that mail order firms sell cheaper.
But another feature deserves at
tentlon. When people are tempt
ed to buy of mail order house, 1t
they will take the catalogue to
their home dealer and tell him
what they want he will give them
as good or better value for their
money and save the trouble and
expense of ordering.
The Milton Journal believes the
local merchants deserve better
treatment than they get. Compare
the value of farm within a half
mile of a prosperous village made
so by progressive merchants, with
the value of farm six miles from
any village and you have one
reason why the local merchant de
serves your patronage.
St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1905-06-03
Official.
LICENSE ORDINANCE

Section l, Be 1t ordained ov the Town
Council, of the town of Covington, La,
That a license tsx be and is hereby lev
led for the year 1905, upon each person.
corporation, firm or association, pursu-
j, 6 any calling. trade, profession. or
: d ong any business in the limits of the
town Of Lovington. La, except those WHO
are EXPRESSLY exempt from sucL license
tax by Act 229. Of the Constitution.
Sec. III. Be it further ordained, etc.,
That the amount Of license tax due the
town OF CovinRton for each taade, oc-
cupatioD. vocation, business or calling
subject to license by act 229 of tina Con-
! sti.utior and by Act Ill OF the General
Assembly Of 1895. shall pay in the sam
pro rata as tho State law provides for.
Sec. III. Be it further ordained. ETC..
That the licenses due the town of Gov
ington shall be and are hereby due and
collectable at the same time, and in the
same manner as licenses due the State
and in the event that same are not paid
when due, it is ordered that the Tax
Collector for the town Ct Coving ton shall
place said license tax, VIXEN due and
unpaid in the hands of the town Attot.
ney, who is hereby authorized end IL
structed to Immediately thereafter insti
tute legal proceedings, to enfcr,e the
payment of same.
Adopted April 5, 1905.
St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1905-06-03
Special Shoe Vaules.
Gents Shoes, Low Quarters
2.25 Worth $50
Lot Gents Shoes, odds, at half price.

1OO Pieces vote ue CnIHe, dIl R-
ured and Striped, this sale 7CWURIh l5C
so Pieces, One Yard Wide Col
ored Lawn, this sale ...... 7C WuRIh I5C
rs Pieces, Solid Colored Or
candies. in all the New Shades
this sale, per yard. sc WORTH 20C
25 Pieces White and Striped
Lawn, this sale...... 49,. Sc WORTH lOC
10 Pieces White Oxford Wasting
this sale. I21s regular price csc
5 Pieces Fine Black Sateen the
kind that sells for 25c. THIS SALE sc
Pieces Black Sateen, Damaged,
This sale. =. ..:....e.. SC woIH I2I I2c
10 Pieces Bed Ticking, Damaged,
this sale .....:....,.:.. SC. WORTH u l2C
St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1905-06-03
IN MAD CHASE.

Millions rush In mad chase after
health, from one extreme Of fadism to
another, when il they would only eat
good food, and keep their bowels regu-
lar. with DR.. Kings New Life Pills,
their troubles would all pass away.
Prompt relief and qnick cure for liver
and stomack trouble. Csc. at the City
Drug Store, j. L. Watkins, proprietor,
and j S. Claverie's Drug Store,
St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1905-06-03
4 FEARFUL FATE.

It is fearful fate to have to endure
the terrible torture of piles. Il can
truthfuily say" writes Harry Colson,
of Masonville, Ia, ''that for Blind,
Bleeding. Itching and Protruding Piles,
Bucklin's Arnica Salve is the hest cure
made" A!ao best for cuts. burns and
injuries. 25c. at j. L. Watkins, City
Drug Store and Jos. S. Claverie's Drug.
Store.
St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1905-06-03

Many flowers are eaten as vege-
tables in Asia. In Japan the COM
mon chrysanttemum is eaten with
relish as salad. For this purpose
only the petals were used. These
are plucked while the blossom is
fresh and are boiled until they as.
sumo something Of tue consistency
Of jelly. Salt, vinegar and sugar
are then added, and the salad is
served with any dressing which may
be preferred. Sometimes at a large
dinner party the room is decorated
with growing chrysantlemums.
Petals from plants chosen by the
guests are then and there dropped
into boiling water and 3 salad is
soon ready, tinted with the color of
tie flowers.
St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1905-06-03
SPRAINED ANKLE, STIFF NECK and LAME
SHOULDER.

Th ere are three common ailments for
which Chamberlain's Pain Balm is es :
pecially valuable. If promptly apple d
it will save you time, money and suffer
ing when troubled with any one OF
these ailments. For sale by Jos. S
Claverie, druggist.
The Aberdeen Democrat. (Aberdeen, South Dakota) 1???-1909, 1905-04-07
THE SECURITIES CASE
MANDATE OF SUPREME COURT
WILL BE FORTHCOMING ON
APRIL II.

Washington, April An the su-
preme court of the United States dur
ing the day the chief justice handed
down the opinion of the court in the
case OF Hartman VS.. the Northern
Securities company, the decision in
which was announced several weeks
ago. The motion for the immediate
issuance of the mandate was denied,
the date for issuance being fixed for
April II.
The mandate will allow the pro rata
distribution Of the stock of the North
ern Securities company, as desired by
the faction headed by James ]. Hill.
E. Fl. Hartman, Winslow S. Pierce,
the Oregon Short Line Railway com
pany and others sought to have re-
turned to them the original stock of
the Northern Pacific company that
they put into the Securities company,
which would have given the Harri-
man faction control of the Northern
Pacific railway.
The Aberdeen Democrat. (Aberdeen, South Dakota) 1???-1909, 1905-04-07
AROUND The STATE
New Railroad into Cattle Country
Prairie Fire on Rose
bud
Sioux Falls to be Electric Rail.
way Center -Shirt Making
Job Secured

Thousands of letters from candi-
dates for matrimony in all parts Of
he United States and Canada are
reaching United States Land Commits
sioner ]. D. Keller of Bonesteel. The
writer's wish photographs, names, adj
dresses and other information con-
corning the 121 young m who
drew fine farming homesteads in the
recent opening of government lands
In the Rosebud Indian reservation in
Gregory county. The avalanche of
letters pouring in on Commissioner
Keller is the eesult of a recently pub
nshed interview in which Mr.. Keller,
In speaking of the rapid development
Of the newly opened South Dakota
lands, mentioned that over a hundred
Of the lucky homesteaders were young
women and intimated that many Of
them wanted husbands to help take
care of the farms. The postmaster
and other officials at Bonesteel have
also received hundreds of inquiries.
The Aberdeen Democrat. (Aberdeen, South Dakota) 1???-1909, 1905-04-07
R%OOSEVELT'S OUTING
PRESIDENT LEAVES WASHING.
TON ON HIS SOUTHERN
AND WESTERN TRIP.

Washington, April 3.-With cheers
and good wishes resounding at the
Pennsylvania depot the president at
9:05 a. nj. left on a special train for a
trip through the South and West.
Among those at the station were
many friends of the president, includ-
ing Postmaster General Cortelyou
and Secretary Metcalf of the depart
ment of commerce and labor.
The special train, which is one of
the finest the Pennsylvania road eve
has sent out OF Washington, consists
of three cars, the presidents private
car Rocket, the Pullman sleeper For
est and the combination baggage and
buffet car Viceroy. The train is hand
somely fitted and contains every
known appliance to insure the com
fort and safety of the passengers. In
the party besides the president were
Secretary William Loeb, Jr., General
s. B. NJ. Young, DR.. Alexander Lam
bert, Lieutenant G. R. F%ortescue, one
of the presidents aides; A. C. Latta
and J. l.. McGrew, stenographers to
the president; H. A. Stropmeyer, pho
tographer, and representatives of the
newspaper press associations
The trip is being made primarily to
enable the president to attend the re
union of his old regiment, the rough
riders. which is to be held at San
Antonio, Tex, next Friday, and to
hunt big game in Oklahoma and Colo.
RADIO
The Aberdeen Democrat. (Aberdeen, South Dakota) 1???-1909, 1905-04-07
FATAL NINE EXPLOSION
Over Forty Miners Killed in
An Illinois Coal
Mine
Coroner's Jury Making Thor.
ough Investigation as to
Cause of Disaster

Carbondale, ILL.,, April 5.-Thirty-
seven bodies of miners who lost their
lives in the gas explosion at the mine
OF Joseph Letter at Zeigler Monday,
have been recovered and it is sup
posed several more bodies are in the
mine. The exact number of dead will
probably not be known for several
days, at least not until the mine has
been Invested of the gas and persons
permitted to enter. Among the dead
is William Scott Atkinson, state mine
examiner for the Seventh subdistrict,
who lost his life in an attempt to per-
form his duties as mine inspector, and
who died while trying to reach the
bodies Of those who were entombed.
After thirty hours but little light is
shed on the cause of the catastrophe.
The accident is attributed to carbonic
acid gas due to poor ventilation.
Every body so far recovered is a
blackened mass. State Inspector AL
kinson was n of the best known
miners of the district. He was the
father of four children and was a
member of the Masonic fraternity.
All the mines in the Seventh subdis-
trict have been ordered shut down on
Friday next, the day Of his funeral,
and special trains have been ordered
so that the 10000 miners a attend
the funeral.
Joseph Letter arrived at the shaft
during the day. The, coroner's jury
empaneled to inquire into the cause
of the disaster has so far rendered no
verdict. The taking of evidence may
be prolonged several days.
The Aberdeen Democrat. (Aberdeen, South Dakota) 1???-1909, 1905-04-07
Friday, March 81.

Judge Joseph C. Ferguson of the
Philadelphia orphans court is dead.
The Tennessee legislature has in
creased the a on grain brokerage
houses in that state from $400 to
$1,000 a year.
President Roosevelt will deliver an
address in Brooklyn On May 80 at the
exercises In connection with the un.
yelling Of the statue of General Slo-
cum.
George H. Colket, president of the
Huntington and Broad Top Mountain
Railroad company and a director in
many leading financial and business
concerns, dropped dead of heart dis
ease at Philadelphia.
James F. Wardner, known the
world over as Jim Wardner, mining
prospector, promoter of all manner of
gigantic enterprises for ~moneymak-
ing, maker and loser of fortunes and
an eccentric genius. is dead at Ell
Paso. Tex.
The Aberdeen Democrat. (Aberdeen, South Dakota) 1???-1909, 1905-04-07
Saturday, April I.

Big Bear, the we'll known Winnie
bago Indian chief, is dead at Reeds
burg. wis.
Frank Byers, a junior law student
in the University of Michigan from
Harlan, Ia, was drowned while canoe-
ing on the Huron river.
The Dowager Duchess of Abercorn,
who was Louisa Jane Russell, daugh-
ter of the sixth Duke of Bedford, is
dead at Coates castle, Sussex, Eng.
Officers of Drake university at Des
Moines have received an offer of a
donation from Andrew Carnegie of
$50, 900 for the erection of a library.
M. de Thygeson, known as the
Father of the Rigsdag, being the old
est member of that body, is dead at
Copenhagen. He was ninety-eight
years old.
Inga Hanson, former Salvation
Army girl, convicted of perjury at
Chicago, has been denied a new trial
and will go to the ~penitentiary on an
indeterminate sentence.
The Aberdeen Democrat. (Aberdeen, South Dakota) 1???-1909, 1905-04-07
NEWS CONVERSATIONS
Thursday. March 80.

Fire in L%ouisburg, N. c., Wednes-
day destroyed about $4,000 worth of
property.
Both houses of tie Nebraska legis-
lature have passed 3 bill prohibiting
sports on Memorial day and the gov
ernor VII sign it.
Colonel Jacob 4. Greene, president
of the Connecticut Mutual Life Insu.
rance company, is dead of apoplexy
ut Hartford, Conn.
st. James Episcopal church at Man
itowoc, Wis, has been robbed of all
the service vessels, valued at $4,000.
The edifce was then set on fire.
The Rock river has risen two feet
at GAINESVILLE, Wis, and is now at the
danger line. Several factories have
closed down. Much damage has been
done.
Five thousand dollars is b%equeatheG
to the National Spiritualist associa
ton of Washington, d. c., in the viii
of the late Samuel w. Tucker, {
wealthy citizen OF Keokuk, la.
The Aberdeen Democrat. (Aberdeen, South Dakota) 1???-1909, 1905-04-07
convicts to Make shirts.

The state board of charities and
corrections, at a meeting in Sioux
Falls, closed a contract with Milton
S. Goodman OF Chicago for the serv-
Ices OF 1875 lei at the penitentiary.
This Is in connection with the shirt
factory which is being established at
the ~penitentiary. Mr.. Goodman is one
Of the leading manufacturers of work
Ing clothing in the United States and
will take the entire product of the
shirt plant. The first two floors of
the factory will be stitching rooms,
u which 100 sewing machines will be
IN operation. These machines will be
operated by electricity. 1t is the in
tention to manufacture only rough
work shirts. 1t is estimated that 1875
men will manufacture about 200 dozen
shirts q day.
The Aberdeen Democrat. (Aberdeen, South Dakota) 1???-1909, 1905-04-07
Sioux Falls Electric Railway.

Articles OF incorporation have been
fled with the secretary of state for
the City Railway company Of Sioux
Falls with a capital of 100000. The
purposes Of the company as set out
In the articles of incorporation are
the construction of a city and subur-
ban electric line of twenty miles to
supply the city Of Sioux Falls and
surrounding country, to extend into
the counties of Minnehaha, McCook,
Turner, Lake and Moody, in South
Dakota; Rock, in Minnesota, and Ly-
ons, in Iowa. The company is to sup
ply electric power to consumers as
well as to operate an electric rail-
way.
The Aberdeen Democrat. (Aberdeen, South Dakota) 1???-1909, 1905-04-07
ACCEPTS RockEFELLER's GIFT
Action Of American Board for Foreign
Missions.

Boston, March 3O.-The American
board of commissioners for foreign
missions announced during the day
that it's p%rudentials committee had &C.
cepted a report of the subcommittee
recommending the acceptance of the
gift of 100000 by John D. Rockefel-
Ter, but that final action on the matter
had been postponed for two weeks,
The report of the subcommittee, in
the language of a statement issued
by the board during the day, was re-
ceived and accepted as expressing the
utmost judgment of the prudential
committee and the executive officers"
and was to the effect that the commit
tee could not accede to the protest of
those who objected to the acceptance
of the gift.
The Aberdeen Democrat. (Aberdeen, South Dakota) 1???-1909, 1905-04-07
BLOODY TRIBAL WARFARE.
Natives of Liberia Engage in Deadly
Combat.

Liverpool, April According to a
report brought by the Royal Mail
steamer Sokoto from West Africa,
tribal warfare is now waging in Lii
IBERIA. Natives of the Picanannynes
tribe On March 10 attacked Cestos,
killing sixty men and eighty women.
The Cestos natives are organizing a
big counter expedition. When the So
koto sailed a fierce encounter, with
much slaughter, was expected.
The Aberdeen Democrat. (Aberdeen, South Dakota) 1???-1909, 1905-04-07
Z BLOWN OFF
cIAL AT LODI, Y
AND, VICTIM OF
p OUTRAGE.

"a Poland, April 1.-Po-
nner S~zabalovicz of the
was seriously injured
by a bomb which was
in the street.
Commissioner had been
telephone to come to
he chief of police and
followed by a police
ner noticed at the cor
fAtiloWsk and Zawaski
clad man, carrying a
aabalovicz approached
enly hurled a bomb,
with terrific force,
commissioners feet
pounding him in the
ared his injuries will
hated by the social
kged with the killing
ing the disturbances
The Aberdeen Democrat. (Aberdeen, South Dakota) 1???-1909, 1905-04-07
THREE MEN INSTANTLY KILLED.
Explosion Wrecks a Brick Building
at Bridgeport, Conn.

Bridgeport, Conn, April 5.-In a ter
rifle explosion that blew to pieces one
of the brick buildings OF the Union
Metallic Cartridge company shortly
before the close of the days work,
three men were instantly killed. Great
crowds gathered and in the panic that
followed ONE tainted and made
frantic efforts to get within the walls
surrounding the plant, as it was re-
ported that many lives were lost.
They were held in check, however,
and the employees in the other build
ings made their escape in safety.
The Aberdeen Democrat. (Aberdeen, South Dakota) 1???-1909, 1905-04-07
Sioux Falls Wins Suit.

City Attorney Keith has been Off
oially advised that Sioux Falls had
won a victory in the federal circuit
court Of appeals over the South Da-
kota Water company in a suit involv-
ing the right of Sioux Falls to COM
plete and operate its W system Of
waterworks. A twenty-year contract
with the South Dakota Water COM
pany terminated in April of last year.
The water company will probably
carry the case to the United States
supreme court.
The Aberdeen Democrat. (Aberdeen, South Dakota) 1???-1909, 1905-04-07
~wjll Tar Cattle Country.

Information received at Sioux Falls
from an authoritative source indi-
Gates that the Milwaukee railroad will
not be extended to the Black Hills,
this year at least. 1t is stated that
the agreement existing between the
different roads will not permit the
Milwaukee company to build to the
Black Hills this year, but the com
pany is at liberty to tap the cattle
country west of Chamberlain for a
limited distance, not far enough to
interfere with the Black Hills traffic
Of other roads.