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St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1905-06-24
SOME EXCELLENT SALADS.
These Are Not So Often Considered as
They Should Be with Material
So Close at Hand.

There are more ways of achieving
salad than those known to the ultra
fastidious cooks, who look with more
or less contempt upon other than
fresh green salads. Delicious salads
may be made of the everyday vege-
tables-beets, turnips, carrots, pota-
toes They may be combined, little
celery added to them, a good boiled
dressing poured over them, and, thus
prepared, salad is a meal in itself.
When you can add water cress to it,
so much the better. A good salad is
made from the young beet leaves, and
from the tender leaves of the young
dandelion, as we'll as from cress. Com
pound salads of canned string beans
and canned peas, of canned asparagus
and OF uncooked cabbage. Accustom
your family to seeing salad on the
table at least once a day. Your meat
bills and your doctor bills will be les
sened, your blood purified, and your
whole physique improved by the intro
duction of the green foods the system
Graves in the spring weather. Drink
cool water, and drink plenty of it, but
abhor ice water as you would a plague.
Water at a natural temperature is the
best beverage in the world.-Success.
St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1905-06-24
FOOD VALUE OF FRUITS.
Unripe Fruits Dangerously Indiges.
tible and Nutritive Quality De-
ponds on Amount of Sugar,

Fresh fruits contain 80 to 80 per
cent. of water, no proteid or fat, and
when ripe little or no starch. They
owe their nutritive quality to the
sugar they contain, which varies from
10 to 20 per cent. in lemons, currants,
cranberries, bananas and grapes, TO
so to 20 per cent. in raisins, figs, dates
and prunes, and to their organic salts
and mineral compounds, which are
essential to pure blood and sound
tissues.
Fruit only when perfectly sound and
ripe is fit to eat. Unripe fruit is dam
gerously indigestible, and oyerripe
fruit is poisonous from the bacteria it
contains. AS a rule fruit is best
cooked; especially is this so when it
is to be given to children. All fruit
Ehould be eaten in moderation: do not
imagine because it is watery an I'M
limited quantity can be consumed
Fruit is most wholesome at the ba-
ginning of meal or at the end OF
one that has included no dessert
American Queen.
St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1905-06-24
A FEW SPRING DESSERTS.
There Is Quite Wide Variety OF
Toothsome Dishes for the De-
mands of Last Course.

There are all manner of quick ginger
breads, cookies and crullers that do not
require a great deal of work and make
hearty food in the busy days OF spring.
Take the old recipe for gingerbread
one cup molasses, one cup brown sugar.
one egg, one tablespoon butter, one
heaping teaspoon soda, one tablespoon
ginger, pint of boiling water and nour
to make soft batter. Bake this IN q
dripping pan, in quick oven, ana the
whole process need not take more IMAM
three quarters Of an hour. oerVeo
warm, for dinner or supper, 1t IS oe'
icious, and very few people desplse II
cold For variety add chocolate, rals-
ms or nut meats. but this will take
little longer.
In custards and soft desserts there IS
great variety. Beginning with PLAIN
custard of milk, eggs, sugar and Ha 7or-
ing, the lady on the farm can nave
cocoanut sprinkled in just as the Gus
tard is placed in the oven, and this des-
sert is equally good hot or cold. Then
there are blanc mango, made with corn-
starch, and chocolate pudding, made
exactly like the filling of cocoanut
pie, and lemon custard and gelatlne
buildings of every sort, and many ON
ers, cheap and good. The lemon.
chocolate and tapioca buildings are nice
served in large glass dishes with
whipped cream heaped on top. In Sc
lecting dishes it is well to choose per-
fectly plain ones, as the buildings show
off better than in the much Ornamented
ones, and the latter are harder to keep
clean.
In evaporated fruits, and these are
put up with care by reliable firms, the
housewives may have apricots, peaches.
cherries, prunes and many other SEMI
tropical fruits Always soak the fruit
over night, after washing we'll, and
then boil in the water in which it stood
over night. Do not be afraid OF getting
too much juice, and do not sweeten till
the fruit has finished boiling. After
the earthen crock or granite stew pan
is drawn to the back of the stove add
the sugar, and let it stand till every
part of the contents is thoroughly
sweetened. Two or three cloves or a
stick of cinnamon added to a crock OF
dried apples gives a pleasant flavor for
many. One reason why dried fruits
are in such i'll repute in many homes
is because the bits are never soaked
long enough nor simmered long enough
on the fire. The oven is the best place
to cook dried fruits, and heavy earth
en- crock the best utensil. Never cook
enough dried apples to last week, or
they will last indefinitely. Prairie
Farmer.
St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1905-06-24
THE NEW HOLLYHOCKS.
Flower Growers May Be Interested
to Learn of the Development
of This Favorite.

The hollyhock has become this veal
| q much sumpler flower to grow thar
it ever was in the past because it has
| been so developed that the flowers
| will bloom during the first year. For
| merly it was not possible to have
them bloom from seed until the second
year, and as so many of the plants
| were killed during the winter, holly.
hooks became impossible to all who
| were not willing to devote great time
and attention to the young plants
during the winter months. Now seeds
planted in a hot bed from February
through April or in the ground in
May will begin to bloom in the former
case in July and in the second in
August. In both cases they bloom
bountifully until frost.
The new hollyhocks have another
beauty. They cluster much more
thickly about the stalk and make the
stalks seem literally spikes of blooms.
Some Of the flowers are double, some
semi double and others as fiat and
open as saucers. They are also varied
in the finish Of the petals, which are
sometimes smooth, sometimes f1ounced
Or fringed, and in other blossoms
edged with tiny line of white.
The growers have succeeded in &C
.quiring all kinds of beautiful shades
for these flowers. A list of the adver-
tised tints is enough in itself to show
what selections the garden may con-
tain. The different flowers are ma
room, black, pink, chamois rose, april
cot with garnet, crimson, canary vel
low, pink with claret throat and veins,
blush with carmine lacings, cerise,
white, geranium scarlet, blush with
white throat, magenta, apricot with
buff margin, and wine red with white
edge" The poet who can detect these
varied colors in hollyhock bed and
describe them so eloquently is ap-
preaching the class of the great Tody
Hamilton.
are five inches in diameter and the
center spike, if not purposely stunted,
may grow to a height of ten feet. If it
is kept down by pinching of the tip,
the side branches will begin to grow
earlier and the plant will have the
bushy appearance which some growers
prefer
Eliminating the leaves as much as
possible and charging the blossoms
is the process applied to most Of the
old fashioned flowers that annear in
their new forms this year. They are
antithetically called the mammoth
verbena and the Tom Thumb natur-
tium. The nasturtium now has so few
leaves in proportion to the size of the
blossoms that they form only a dark
green mat for the varicolored flowers.
The plants form mound which is in
average size about a foot high and
foot across.
St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1905-06-24
A Good Morning Drink.

Everyone ought to drink water the
first thing in the morning before break
fast. AS soon as you get up brush the
teeth and rinse out the mouth with
cold water and gargle the throat with
cold water. Then take a glass OF
either hot or cold water, not ice cold,
but just cool, and squeeze into the
water the juice of an orange. Drink
this about half an hour before
breakfast. This cleanses the stomach
and puts it in good condition to digest
the breakfast. However, there are
some cases where any acid will dis.
agree. In such cases, Of course, the
water should be taken. without the
orange juice.-Medical Talk.
St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1905-06-24

inst Discrimination in Railway Rates
All railroad men qualified to speak
on the subject in responsible way arc
likely to agree with President Samuel
Spencer. of the Southern railway. when
he saws: There is no division Of opin-
ion as to the desirability Of stopping
all secret or unjustly discriminatory
devices and practices Of whatsoever
character"
Mr.. Spencer, In speaking Of unjust
" discriminatory" rates and devices,
makes q distinction which Is at once
anparent to common sense. There may
he discrimination in freight rates which
Is lust. reasonable and imperatively re-
ouired by the complex commercial and
geographical conditions with which ex-
merit rate makers have to deal. To abol-
fish such open and honest discrimination
might paralyze the industries Of cities.
states and whole sections Of our national
territory.
This distinction between just and nm
4ust discrimination Is clearly recognized
n the conclusions Of the international
RAILWAY Congress, published yester-
day:
Tariffs should be based on Commercial,
.r,ncinIes taking into account the epeci.i
ccnnditinns which bear upon the CONNER
cia1 vaine Of the services rendered. VIII
the reservation that rates shall be charxen
1,t9hn,,t arbitrary discrimination "a an
s M'hnous alike under Ike conditions the
sniPR1 ~ rates should as far a. pos.,hio
have All the elasticity necessary to permit
ths development Of the traMc and Is nrnN
S Su1 the greatest results to the public ana
to the railroads themselves
The present proposal is, as Mr.. Walker
D Hines, Of Louisville, showed In his
ramarkable testimony the other dar
before the senate committee ct wash
;neton to crystalline flexible and iust1r
discriminatory rates into fixed govern.
mont rates which cannot be chanrea
.Tcent by the Intervention Of some r nv
eminent tribunal, and by Ills vs,r
PROCESS to increase the temptation =,
danart from the published rate ana M !.
iswfu1 rate IN order to meet soma ov -
towering and urgent commercial -,
dition."-Nsw York Sun.
St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1905-06-24

We don't want to make a mill race
out of Niagara. We can't afford to do
it, considering the honeymoons Of the
future. The nation needs Niagara just
ss it is, opines the st. Louis Republic.
The institution of marriage would be
incomplete without it. The future Of
the race is involved. We venture to
say that President Roosevelt doesn't
indorse the proposition to barter what
is virtually universal marital idea
for materialistic manufacturing
agency. The falls should remain, by
all means
St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1905-06-24
The American Man.

There is as distinctive type Of
American manhood as there is of any
other country. True, the American
people are mixture. We combine sew
eral different races and bloods. But
the intermixture has gone on so grad
ually, the original American type al
ways prevalent, that the American
man is distinct representative of civ
ilization, says the Louisville Herald,
differing from the Englishman, the
Frenchman and the German, as much
as these differ from each other. Elk
animation of the portraits of revolu-
tionary times and those of the present
date show little if any difference be-
tween the men of the earlier times
and those of the present day, save in
the matter of attire. Dress the people
of the present day as were the people
Of the revolution epoch appareled, and
nothing could be found to establish a
notable difference between the Ameri-
can of to-day and the American of the
last quarter Of the eighteenth century.
Food, climatic conditions and occupa-
tons have all much to do with the
physical peculiarities of people. The
races that have for centuries received
no admixture of foreign blood retain
peculiarities that seem Interchangeable.
What people eat and drink, their
dwelling places, the soil and climate
they inhabit, their worship, amuse.
ments and work, all determine looks.
The American Indian, when first met
on this continent by adventurous Eu-
ropeans, lived almost exclusively on a
meat and fish diet, the product of the
chase and other adventure. He was
tall, thin, muscular and daring. His
eye was bright, his hearing acute. He
looked the fearless being that he really
was. He had to fight wild beast and
savage man. He feared neither. He,
in fact, courted danger. His descend
ants to-day show in many features
that the same qualities abide, in form
less emphasized indeed, but still nota-
BILE in the aboriginal man. The early
white settlers, obliged by the peculiar
conditions Of pioneer times to live in
measure like the Indians, became
also tall, thin, muscular, daring. Their
eyes flashed with the fearlessness that
characterizes the American race of the
present. We have a more generous
and varied diet than our ancestors.
Diet affects personal appearances in
marked degree. We are becoming
larger and heavier race, but the dis
tinctive features of century or more
ago are still in evidence. The Ameri-
can is easily recognizable everywhere
he goes in foreign lands. He will for
long time present the same type that
to-day distinguishes him from men of
all other races.
St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1905-06-24
Resting at Noon.

Get into the practice of taking a
rest at noon. Lie down, If it is only
for ten minutes, or five minutes. If
you cannot lie down, lean back in a
chair and close your eyes. Do not
think over what has happened. Do
not plan what is going to happen.
Just forget everything. Rest. Relax.
Even If you do not sleep, rest.
This practice will make you live
longer. 1t will make you healthier
While you do live. It will probably
make people want you to live longer.
1t will take the tangle out of your
nerves, the irritability out of your
temper, the wrinkles out Of your face
1t will make your eyes brighter, your
face fuller. Try it--Medical Talk.
St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1905-06-24
Cleaning Windows.

Window cleaning loses much of it's
terror when the drying and polishing
are accomplished with the aid of a
chamois. Light and heavy weight
chamois in both red and light or dark
yellow is at the housewives disposal,
and she who cannot afford a whole
channels skin buys a chamois mitt.
This is a species of brush made from
short strips of yellow chamois and is
held on the hand by rubber straps
Another polishing mitten is built from
layers of cotton flannel which may be
ripped off as they become soiled.
St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1905-06-24
THE BRIGHT WORLD.
city bright world, with it's songs and its

l.
Pretty bright world, with its songs and its
s signs a IS 49, --. a. 4
One rose is born when another rose dies;
And stars in the stormiest heaven will
rise
Pretty bright world forever!
H.
Pretty bright world, with its crosses and
cares,
Where hearts still are sending to Heaven
sweet prayers,
Ever a light glimmers still through our
tears
Pretty bright world forever!
Pretty bright world:-let US sing it that
way
In the white Of its winters the bloom
of it's May,
Till we rise to the regions of Gods perfect
Pretty bright world forever!
~.
Pretty bright world!-But the time flynn
fast;
Yet love-time still fingers when youth
time is past;
Ger the graves Of our dead Wen sight
Heaven at last
Pretty bright world forever!
Atlanta Constitution.
St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1905-06-24
Live Among the Dead

Away up in the northernmost part OF
northern China is town composed en-.
tirely of graves. The place is, as mat.
ter of fact, a deserted burial ground, and
has been taken possession Of by band
Of beggars, thieves and outcasts of all
descriptions. who eat and sleep well in
spite of their strange environment
There are several of these towns among
the tombs" in various parts of the Chi.
nese empire, but the one mentioned b
the most extensive.
St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1905-06-24
all mean

Three wealthy young eastern men
own a 7O,000-acre game preserve at
Hickory Valley, Tenn, 60 miles from
Memphis. Their preserve, reports an
eastern contemporary, is considered
the finest in many respects in
America, though others exceed it in
size. The bird dogs are undoubtedly
the best on this continent-they have
demonstrated this in field trials TO.
many generations-and the fox and
hear hounds cannot be equaled either IL
the United States or in any other
country.
St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1905-06-24
Fine Strawherru ni.h

Strawberries are .eiicious servod
with whipped cream sweetened .nd
favored with lemon and vanilla ex
tract, or lady fingers may be placed
IN the bottom of the dish with the
berries on top, and then spread with
whipped cream; or cut the center on,
OF sponge cakes, fill each with berries
and spread tablespoonful of whipped
cream over them.
St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1905-06-24
Agricultural and Horticultural Col
onies on the Kansas City
Southern Railway.

Lockesburg Colony in Sewer County.
Arkansas, containing about &, 900 acres, and
Loring Colony in Sabine Parish, Louis.
open for settlement. Lands range in price
from 800 to $500 per acre, and are sold
on easy terms to actual settlers. Lockes.
burg Colony Is wen suited for General
Farming, stock raising and commercial
fruit growing. Loring Colony lies in 4
splendid fruit, truck and tobacco region.
and is good for corn and cotton also. Both
are situated in beautiful country, with
healthy climate and excellent water,
Write for books concerning LoekesbHrg and d
Magazine to s. G. Warner, G. p. 4 T. A.,
K. G. s. Ry., Kansas City, Mo-; +. E.
Roesler, Immigration ACT, K. G. s. Ry,
Kansas City, Mo.
St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1905-06-24
Care of the Toothbrush

The care of toothbrushes is not suf-
ficiently observed. In our houses they
stand in their cups Or hang on their
racks above the toilet bowls, absorb
ing any disease germs that may be
floating about. They should be washed
frequently-at least twice a week-in
some antiseptic solution, strong salt
and water or bicarbonate of sodium
and water being two good and readily
provided cleaners. Tooth washes and
pastes should also be kept carefully
covered.
St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1905-06-24
Care Of the Clock,

l have found that when clock gets
out of order and ceases to keep correct
time, piece of flannel cloth saturated
with kerosene and laid inside will
often have the effect of making it run
like new one. Try Il
St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1905-06-24
Chasing the Phantom.

The sale of the house in which Ad-
miral Dewey was born, under foreclos-
ure of a mortgage, passes with little no.
tice 1t would not have been SO few
years ago. Yet men continue to strive
for fame!-Pittsburg Dispatch.
St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1905-06-24
Jewish Paper in Russia.

Permission has been granted to pub
fish in St Petersburg Jewish paper
in the Hebrew language, to be called
The Way. So far as known this is the
first time paper published in Hebrew
has been authorized in Russia.
St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1905-06-24

An olo coat that's paid for feels better on
you than new one that ain't-but, then,
it's the looks of the garment nowadays and
not the feel Of it that counts.-Judge.
St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1905-06-24
Observations.

Il is hard to say which Is the more diff
i1eulty-living down . past or living up to
. future.
Expe ence-the name we give our fall
ures.
Impulse-what we regret next day
Beatrice Sturges, in Smart Set.
St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1905-06-24

'sHit makes no difunce ter me-" says
Brother Dickey, "ef de worp il fat or
roun'; what's botherin' me il how not
to iall of."-Atlanta Constitution.
St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1905-06-24
FEMALE TROUBLE
NOT RECOGNIZED
AS CATARRh.

ing caused by catarrh.
same as catarrh of any other organ.
What will cure catarrh Of the head will
also cure catarrh Of the pelvic organs.
Peruna cures these cases simply because
it cures the catarrh.
If you have catarrh write at once to
DR.. Hartman, giving full statement
of your case, and he will be pleased to
give you his valuable advice gratis.
Address DR.. Hartman, President OF
The Hartman Sanitarium, Columbus, o.
St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1905-06-24
80 Eleventh Street,
MiIWaukee. Ute

"a short time ago I found my con.
difi0n very serious. Ihad headaches,
pains In the back, and frequent dizzy
spells which grew worse every month.
/ tried two remedies before Peruua,
and was discouraged when took
the first dose, but my courage soon
returned. In less than two months
my health was restored. "...A1rs. M.
Brickner.
The reason Of so many failures to
cure cases similar to the above is the
St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1905-06-24

1acL Gnat diseases
peculiar to the
female sex are
not com monly
recognized aa he.
The Washington times., 1905-04-09
CHAPTER II.
A Sneak in Camp.

The Yankees cabin was some dis
tance up the ravinc, situated at one
end or the camp as ours was at the
other. Hugo. therefore, had to pass all
the other cabins, and doubtless every
man In the place saw him on his way
He came back in an hour or so It
seemed TO me as ne approached that he
strobe with heavier step than usual.
as If his mind were pcrturboG. and l
Looked at him with some anxiety when
he came within the glow of the fire.
His face was ali frowns, and his Jaws
were set hard together
What's the matter?" asked .
wouldn't he believe you?''
Yes, said Hugo, The believed me
readily enough, though there are one or
two OF the men who are inclined to dis
credit me. Reagan and Harvey Will
have it that I've made 4 find that I'm
trying to keep from them"
Wen. what of 1t? AS long AS Raw
lin believes"
"Oh. I'm not giving myself any trou-
bic over what Reagan and Harvey
think. They never liked rs, anyway, so
there's no friendship lost"
Then. what Is the matter? VVhar
has happened to put you In such tenn
per-"
Am 1 In a temper? l wasn't aware
of it
Hugo threw himself full length upon
the ground and glared into the fire.
waited patiently for him TO speak, know
ing him well and being certain that in
his own time he would tell me every
thing.
Its just IlIts," he said expIosively at
length: "the only way to get gold is not
to pan the sand for It or hammer the
rocks. but hold up hard working men
like ourselves and take it from them -
OF course understood at once what
ne referred to.
Isn't it a little late in the day." /
suggested. ito find fault with Rawlin's
We went into IL with our
eyes open
Yes, but on the theory that we would
get something from it. What is the re-
suit Rawln gets Il ali.
oh, no. Hugo. not quite SO bad as
The Washington times., 1905-04-09
CHAPTER III.
The Yankees Embarrassment.

How shall l describe ny emotions?
Do ! need to? Was it not perfectly clear
that somebody had LAID a terrible trap
for r.?
For whEt purpose?
Why should a man take the risk OF
stealing Rawlin's dust and not make Oft
with It" Why put 1t where it was GER
tain to be discovere,.
There were plenty Gf other queries of
this scrt, and speedily there came an
answer to some OF them. 1t came with
such force that l was instantly con-
vinced of its correctness, and all seemed
as cleor as da--
The bag of dust was put on my bed
for the purpose of being found there
If Rawlin had made the search that
The Washington times., 1905-04-09

(To Be Continued Next Sunday.l
The Montgomery tribune. (Montgomery City, Mo.) 1892-1910, 1905-01-06
nlu, LIeh, q, Nsutalals.

Nouralsis Is said 90 he successfully
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