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KOBrE LhWLER GETS TWO.

Since being transferred 10 the Grand avenue precinct Patrolman Lawlor has figured fin every case of any promi. nence in that precinct and Saturday he slipped out and cleared up two more dark mysteries As result Peter Standome. gocer's delivery clerk Is under arrest charged with burglarzlng the home Of Mrs. Wrinn, at 93S Grand avenue and Joseph Ieltin ls locked up charged with stealing sl9 from tho pcs- son of Albert Costanzo of cl9 Wallace street
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Rybolt-What do you call good weather anyway?
 Tightwad The kind that makes a mans wife prefer her own home to q trip down town.
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Balances of New Haven Institutions
 Through Week Ending May 9.

The clearings and balances of the New Haven bapks for the week ending May 9, 1908 and for Che corresponding week of last year are furnished by the secretary of the Now Haven Clearing House as follows
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NEW YORK STOCK MARKET.

Reported over private wires of Prince x Whitely. members or the New York and Boston Stock Exchanges, New York office, 52 Broadway, and I5 Center street. Now Haven.
 New York May fane
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JocAT, STOCK oUoTaTyoNs

Corrected daily by Kimberly, Root & Co, Investment Brokers, l33 Orange street.
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GEO. A. SAUNDERS,
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Local Representative of The Colonial Investment Co.,. 2Ot-2O2 Malley Bldg. Tel. 57lo-3 New England Agent for The Dean Alvord Company exclusive dealers in Long Island Real Estate.
Cameron County press. [volume] (Emporium, Cameron County, Pa.) 1866-1922, 1908-09-17

ton, and killed the little beast with a
shot from the saddle when it had
come to bay, turning and going
straight at him. Two of the pcccaries
got off; the remaining one, a rather
large boar. was followed by the two
dogs, and as soon as | had killed the
sow | lcapcd again on my horse ana
made after them, guided by the yeIp-
ing and baying. In less than a quar-
ter of a mile they were on his
launches. and he wheeled and stood
under Il bush. charging ut them when
they came near him, ana once catch.
ing one. inhicting an ugly cut All the
while his teeth kept going like casta-
nets, with a rapid champing sound.
ran close up and killed him by Il shot
through the backbone where it joinc
the neck. Ills tusks wege fine.
The few minutes chase on horse
back was great fun, and there was a
certain excitement in seeing the fierce
little creatures come to bay; but the
true way to kill these peccaries would
be with the spear They could often
be spearcd on horseback, and where
this was impossible. by using dogs to
bring them to bay they could readily
be killed on foot; though, rs they are
Cameron County press. [volume] (Emporium, Cameron County, Pa.) 1866-1922, 1908-09-17

ever although deer were quite plenti.
full.
Having satisfied myself that there
Were no javalinas left on the Frio
ranch, and being nearly at the end of
my holiday, | was about to abandon
the effort to get any, when a passing
cowman happened to mention the fact
that some We're still to be found ON
the Nueces River thirty miles or there
abouts to the southwark. Thither ]
determined to go, and next morning
Moore and l started in a buggy drawn
by redouDtable horse, named Jim
Swinger which we were allowed to
use because he bucked so under the
l6 that nobody on the ranch could
4. We drove six or seven hours
'e dry, waterless plains.
valley of the Nueces itself
grew thick. There were
S of pecan trees, and ever
qks stood in many places.
Cameron County press. [volume] (Emporium, Cameron County, Pa.) 1866-1922, 1908-09-17


EGS57m@NAE | made Il flying visit to
ES5WeGH the ranch country of this
region starting from the
town of Uvalde with Texan friend,
Mr. John Moore. My trip being very
hurried. | had but Il couple of days to
devote to hunting
Our first halting-place was ut Il
ranch on the Frio; low, wooden
building, of many rooms, with open
galleries between them, and veranda-
round about The country was il
some respects like, in others strange
ly unlike, the northern plains with
which l was so well acquainted. II
was for the most part covered with
scattered growth of tough, stunted
mesquite trees, not dense enough tC
be called Il forest, and yet sufficiently
close to cut off the view. 1t was very
dry even as compared with the north
ern plains. The bed of the Frio was
filled with coarse gravel, and for the
most part dry as bone on the sur
face, the water seeping through un
derneath, and only appearing in occa
sional deep holes. These deep holes OF
ponds never fail. even after Il years
drouth; they We're filled with fish. One
lay quite near the ranch house. under
a bold rocky bluff; at it's edge grew
giant cypress trees.
There had been many peccaries, or,
as the MeXicans and cowpunchers of
the border usually call them, javalinas.
round this ranch a few years before
the date of my visit. Until 1886, or
thereabouts, these little wild hogs
were not much molested, and abound
ed In the dense chaparral around the
lower Rio Grande. In that year, how
ever, it was suddenly discovered that
their hides had market value, being
worth four bits-that is, half dollar
apiece; and many MeXicans and not a
few shiftless Texans went into the
business of hunting them as means
- livelihood. They We're more easily
killed than deer, and, as q result, they
were speedily exterminated in many
localities where they had formerly
been numerous, and even where they
were left were to be found only in
greatly diminished numbers. On this
particular Frio ranch the last little
band had been killed nearly Il year be-
fore. There were three of them, a
boar and two sows, and q couple of
the cowboys stumbled on them early
one morning while out with q dog.
After half a miles chase the three
peccaries ran into hollow pecan tree,
and one of the cowboys dismounting,
improvised a lance by tying his knife
to the end of a pole, and killed them
ali.
Many anecdotes were related to me
Of what they had done in the old
days when they We're plentiful on the
ranch.
I spent two days hunting round this
ranch, but saw no peccary sign what.
Cameron County press. [volume] (Emporium, Cameron County, Pa.) 1866-1922, 1908-09-17

None of the Bryan phonograph rec
ords has the speeches advocating free
silver and immediate government own
ership of the railways, nor have they
the great commoner's" attacks on
Roger Sullivan, Colonel Watterson and
Guffey These omissions tell an impor-
tant story.
Cameron County press. [volume] (Emporium, Cameron County, Pa.) 1866-1922, 1908-09-17

spine.
very active. absolutely fearless, and
infiict Il most formidable bite, it would
usually be safest to have two men go
at one together. Peccaries are not diff
ficult beasts to kill. because their short
wind and their pugnacity make them
come to bay before hounds so quickly.
Two or three good dogs can bring to
a halt Il herd of considerable size.
They then all stand in Il bunch, or
else with their Sterns against Il bank,
chattering their teeth at their antag
onists. When angry and at bay, they
get their legs close together, their
shoulders high. and their bristles all
ruflied and look the very incarnation
of anger, and they fight with reckless
Indifference to the very last. Hunters
usually treat them with certain
amount of caution: but, as matter of
fact, | know of but one case where
man was hurt by them. He had shot
at and wounded one, was charged
both by it and by its two companions,
and started to climb Il tree; but as he
drew himself from the ground, one
sprang at him and bit him through the
calf, inficting Il very severe wound.
| have known of several cases Of
horses being cut however and dogs
are very commonly killed Indeed, a
dog new to the business is almost GER
tain to get very badly SCARED, and no
dog that hunts steadily can escape
without some injury. If it runs in
right at the heads of the animals, the
probabilities are that it will get killed:
and, as Il rule, even two goOd-siZed
hounds cannot kill peccary, though
1t IS no larger than either of them.
However, a wary, resolute, hard-biting
dog of good size speedily gets accus-
toned to the chase, and can kill
peccary singlc-handed, seiZing it from
behind and worrying it to death, or
watching its chance and grabbing it by
the back of the neck where it joins the
head.
Peccaries have delicately moulded
short legs and their feet are small,
the tracks looking peculiarly dainty in
consequence. Hence, they do not swim
well, though they take to the water if
HcCcSSdIE. Iuey lecu Ol IootS, pIlCh-
ly pears, nuts, insects, lizards, etc.
They usually keep entirely separate
from the droves of half-wild swine
that are so often found in the same
neighborhoods; but in one case, on this
very ranch where | was staying, Il pee
cary deliberately joined a party of
nine pigs and associated with them.
When the owner of the pigs came up
to them one day the peccary mani
Tested great suspicion at his presence,
and finally sidled close up and threat
ened to attack him. so that he had to
shoot it,
The ranchman'S son told me that
he had never but once had pee.
cary assail him unprovoked, and even
in this case it was his dog that was Aa
object of attack. the peccary rushing
out as it followed him home one cycn-
ing through the chaparral. Evel
around this ranch the peccaries hGG
very greatly decreased in mural, -. al
the survivors were learning some eau
tion. In the old days it had been no
uncommon thing for IL big band to at
tack entirely of their own accord. and
keep Il hunter up tree for hours Mt
q time.
SSG.S a LJT
Cameron County press. [volume] (Emporium, Cameron County, Pa.) 1866-1922, 1908-09-17
Chafin Needs an Ark.

'Never since the flood has water
reached such high tide as at pres
ent," says the dry candidate for presi-
dent. Looks as if he might be swept
away in the freshet
Cameron County press. [volume] (Emporium, Cameron County, Pa.) 1866-1922, 1908-09-17
Rafting the Skeleton.

Eugene w. Chafin, the Prohibition
candidate, was born in Waukesha,
Wisconsin's foremost watering place
New York Mail
Cameron County press. [volume] (Emporium, Cameron County, Pa.) 1866-1922, 1908-09-17

THE
PECCARY
BY
THEODORE ROOSEVELT

Copyright. 1888. by 6. Z. Putnam's Sons.
Published undo" arrangement with @. II.
Putnams Sons. New Ao-,. and London.
Cameron County press. [volume] (Emporium, Cameron County, Pa.) 1866-1922, 1908-09-17

the United States the
pee, ary is only found in
the outhernmost corner
Of Teas. IN April, 1892,
/ made Il flying visit TO
the ranch country of this
region. starting from the
St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1908-03-21
The Soul immortal.

Can that be nonentity which has
built UP particles of carbon and by.
drogen and oxygen into the form Of an
oak or an eagle or a man? Is it some
thing which is really nothing; and
soon shall it be manifestly the moth.
ing that an ignorant and purblind crea.
ture may suppose it to be? Not so;
nor is it so with intellect and con.
seriousness and will, nor with memory
and love and alteration, nor all the
manifold activities which at present
strangely interact with matter and ap.
peal to our bodily senses and terres.
trial knowledge; they are not nothing,
nor shall they ever vanish into moth
ingness or cease to be. They did not
arise with us; they never did spring
into being; they are as eternal as the
Godhead itself, and in the eternal Be-
ing they shall endure forever.-Siy
Oliver Lodge, in Hilbert Journal.
St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1908-03-21
Merit vs. Prizes,

Premium schemes and prize Offer
ings held out as bait to the people to
get them to use certain brands of
goods should be very carefully consid-
cred. The most common plan is the
certificate deal, by which is promised
some article represented to be worth
the total amount paid for goods. if
only certain number be saved. Com
mon business sense assures that when
such proposition is made the goods
must be of an inferior quality. or that
there is catch somewhere. Goods of
merit do not have to carry a prize in
order that they be in demand. People
are quick to buy goods of merit. par
ticularly in the staple line, if thew
know of them. Of the standard brands
OF foodstuffs, of cigars, of thread. OF
different other things, how many are
giving prizes? This is not the case
with numerous classes of goods that
ire sold with a premium attachment.
Most of them are of inferior quality
and the price paid for them more than
covers the cost of the premium given.
It is the old glimmer of getting some
thing for nothing. and the women who
want trading stamps, or a prize with
their purchases. pay pretty dearly eefor
their whistles"
St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1908-03-21

are satisfied with an inside finish OF
ordinary wood that is commonly got
ten out in large quantities and is kept
regularly in stock by all dealers. AN
other man building the same kind of
house wants finishing lumber brought
a great distance and he is not salts
fed with the holdings and designs
kept on hand, but he must have some
thing different This means that
other things must correspond. 1t is
like the man who was ruined by build
in ga new stable. When the fine
building was finished the old horses,
harness, rugs and sleighs were not in
keeping. He fancied they didn't look
well In the new up-to-date stable, so
they were sold and he bought an en-
tire new outfit. The stylish rigs re-
0uired a stylish coachman, which
called for more style, and before he
got through with it he found it neces.
sary to sell his fine property and his
pride was such that he could not come
down to earth in his native town, so
he moved away to distant city.
don't know just where the moral
comes in, but ] suppose there is one
somewhere If you hunt for it.
have seen great deal of non
sense IL building. What is very COM
NOR in enc section of the country IS
I rarity two or three hundred miles
distant. Red brick, for instance, is
common in one section because the
v,ixtnre of clay and sand used for
.sr,nE burns rcd. In other sections
St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1908-03-21
Towns and Their Growth.

Say, did you ever think that a town
or city is only what the people make
it? There are dozens of towns, hun.
dreds of them, yes, thousands, that
have been killed off and made
grazing places just because the people
of the place who had in their hands
the direction of its destiny were not
Of the right spirit. There are exam
pies all around of how few penurious
mentalities killed of every prospect
of advancement, and prevented some
town becoming q city of more than
ordinary Importance. 1t is the people
that make town or build up a city.
Enterprise is what wins: Talk about
one-man towns! Dozens of them can
be named-Anaconda a city of $4,000,
in Montana, was built up by the work
of one man-Marcus DAILY; Jerome,
Ariz., is the work of w. A. Clark, a
multimillionaire who has the richest
copper mine in the world there; Pull
man, Ill.,, was built UP by George Pull
man, and thousands Of other towns
and cities have found their existence
and development through few enter
prising mortals. Read thu census sta
.tistics of the United States for the
past ten years; note the advancement,
and then think! Stand up for your
town. A half dozen men with
brains and the will to work can do
more for town than a dozen skin
fiints who hoard their money and sap
the life out of the poor farmers and
business men who become their debt
ors. Merchants, business men, get
together, pull together, and for the
good of your town! Tell the world
of the advantages that it offers. Start
enterprises that will employ people.
Work to keep the dollars made at
home. Pick out the ones who send
away for their supplies and persuade
them to patronize home stores. Don't
be niggardly. Work with will. Get
together and make your town q
good one
St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1908-03-21

r. william A. Radford will answe,
IIss4ohs and give advice FREE or
LIST on all subjects pertaining tn III.
SUBJECT OF building for the readers of this
E s, on account OF his wide expe.
$50 ~ Editor, Author and Manufac.
4s, ne is, without doubt, the highes.
auenor1ty on all these subjects Address
9al INQUIRIES to William A. Radford No
1f nth Ave.. Chicago, Ill, and onlT
ose tWo-cent stamp for reply.
A good front hall, four rooms and a
oathroom down stairs and three rather
large bedrooms upstairs is hrias
description of the interior of tbis
mouse. Looking at it from the south.
east corner 1t appears especially we'll
r. with verandas, and so it is.
~ Is regular summer resort in the
summer time, but the yerandas are
hoI WIDE anough to darken the rooms
aauch In winter Some people have a
horror OF an overhanging roof to shut
OUT the little light that nature nrovidee
between daylight and dark during the
Fan and early winter months. but
enere Is possibility of designing a
yeFanda SO 1t will answer the purpose
intended without a corresponding dis
advantage.
This Is a good big square house as
dimensions go in these days of high
prices, Just the kind Of house to sum-
port good veranda. In fact, the long
yeranda gives an air of elegance to
what would otherwise be a rather
pam exterior. To save expense the
hlecnen part Is only one story in
nelgnt' but the house Is large enough
tnen for an ordinary family of from
-FOUR to six adults and children.
a bedroom down stairs is liked by
Ola persons because they object to
climbing stairs. This style of house
permits the building OF bedroom and
oath on the first floor and still have
large living rooms conveniently ar
ranged.
Putting the pantry away back in the
northwest corner has the advantage
OF GOODNESS. You can't have a pantry
TOO cold in house that is heated
by steam, hot water or furnace. The
arrangement of kitchen, dining room
and pantry must depend to a great
extent on the way you want to keen
house. II you use big ice box and
take ice the year round you can man.
age without cold pantry, but If you
prefer to do without ice during the
St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1908-03-21
PLEASURES or FARM LIFE.
Science and Invention RevoIutionizs
Methods in Agricultural Districts.

Old-fashioned life or the farm /,
fast disappearing. Things have quick
ened some and science has wrought
changes for the better. Drudgery has
been obliterated through improved
machinery and there is no reason why
the farmer of to-day should not lead a
life of comparative gentle ease. In.
stead of following the pillow he rides
the pillow. The sowing of the crops
and all this cultivation is done by ma.
ch1nery. It is no uncommon thing to
find the farm house equipped with all
modern conveniences known to the
city folks, gas or electric lights. hot
and cold water and every sanitary in
novation. The telephone and tho
rural delivery bring the farm close to
the town, and no longer need the
average farmer be behind the times as
to passing events. He has sufficient
leisure at his home fireside to acquire
a greater fund of information from the
daily papers and other good literature
which he receives than has the busy
merchant or professional man who re-
sides in the city.
This closer communion with the
world at large has revolutionized farm
life and has robbed it of many unde.
sirable phases. No longer does the
farmer feel abashed when among
toWnspeople on account of his lack of
information; rather he is proud Of the
fact that he is quite as up-to-date and
well informed as any intelligent citi-
zen, 1t matters not where he may re-
side. This feeling on the part of the
farmer has changed his attitude
towards the home town. He has come
to a realization that the distance be-
tween the farm and the town has been
and that his work on the
farm Is an important thing In the
maintenance of the nearby town. He
Is interested in good roads, he is in
terested in all local improvements.
These are matters of Importance to
him just as well as things directly re-
ating to his farm. The farmer is be.
ginning to realize even more than the
merchant, the relationship of the agri
cultural district to the home town.
1t is now up to the residents of the
villages and the small cities to study
INTO conditions and to place the proper
upon the Importance of the
armers' work in town maintenance.
St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1908-03-21
OUR COUNTRY BOYS
CHANCES THAT THEY SOME.
TIMES OVERLOOK.
BRAINS FOR THE BIG CITIES
Opportunities for the RuraI-Born Youth
to Gain Success by Making
His Start in His Home
Town.

! There is no use in complaining be
cause you perhaps were born on q
farm and fortune destined that you
must get your initial business expert
ence In the four-corners' grocery
store, or some other business estab
lishment in the home town The aver
age country boy has kind of banker
ing for city life, and for a chance to
climb to the front. Some, however,
never stop to think that if they are
built of the proper material they will
drift there without realizing the
change. Yes, the country town is
the kindergarten of success, and If
you don't make a winning there you
might as well make up your mind to
go back to the pillow.
Business men, much like poets, are
born, not made, and if one has not
| the talents requisite for success in
mercantile life. he will have a hard
road to success. Business principles
| are the same the world over, and the
little country store affords the gaining
| Of knowledge that is necessary to the
winner. The most successful mer-
chants in the world gained their start
in the country store. The greatest
statesmen found their ambitions while
following the pillow. Then the country
boy should not be sorry that he is not
In the big city. The one with brains
and ability in these days will win
out. The country is the fertile field
for the growing of brains for city
use. Therein is held in reserve the
energy that goes to move the world of
business. Study into the lives of the
great men of to-day, and you will
find three-fourths of the most sue
cessful ones the product of the farm
and the country town. Then, il you
are country-store clerk, be thank
ful, and IL you use honest endeavor in
time you will find that instead of you
seeking the city, the city will be seek
Ing you. Merit always finds its re-
ward
What you learn, learn well. Be
thorough in everything you do. Better
be good grocery clerk than poor
lawyer. Better be a good plow boy
than poor clerk. Brains backed up
by industry and honesty of purpose
are essential to success. Hours spent |
in study of whatever business you may
enter are hours well spent You can
never learn too much, If you only |
learn rightly. Ambition is one OF |
the things that assists in working
wonders. Have an aim in life, and |
let that aim be your loftiest ideal. |
Once you decide upon a worthy accom-
plishment never rest until you sue
coed. The small country store or bust
ness place gives splendid opportunity
to study. It has advantages that the
city store never affords. There are
spare moments that can be prof1tably
utilized. Make the best of them,
and remember that a well-stored mind
ID gteat capital in business, and the
talent that enables you to make the
best of what you know is an important
factor. Study, improve every min
ute; don't grumble; keep at work,
and your chance will come.
D. M. CARR.