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St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1909-11-20

| Mars is now only 35,OOO,OOO miles
distant from the earth; never is it
closer to us. From this time on the
| two planets, the earth and Mars. get
| further away from each other from
| day to day. The rate of speed at which
| they separate is terrific. In a period
of a little over seven years from now
Mars will be 234,OO0,OO0 miles away
! from us. That is why astronomers
are gathering hay now while Mars
shines!'
There are many eminent astrono-
mers who have no faith in the theory
Of Mars Availability, but it has been
cOnclusiVely proved that life can be
supported on Mars, and I personally
have been of the same opinion as my
eminent friend, Camille Flammarion,
the great French astronomer-my
countryman as we'll as my friend
that Mars is in many respects world
similar to our own, peopled by beings
Of most Intelligent order. There is
every evidence of it in my mind
The canals on Mars, first pointed
out by the Italian Schiaparelli, are by
no means hypothetical. They are too
regular in formation to be anything
other than the work of intelligent
minds and hands. They resemble a
netting all over the face of the planet,
the main canals extending from the
poles to the equator. At certain points
where a number of the canals con-
verge there is what Lowell and other
astronomers now term 'oases.' These
points Of conveyance are, l believe,
big cities.
1T is, Of course, extremely improb-
able that any telescope will ever be
constructed SO large and of such pow
er that we will be able to actually de-
tect the flora or fauna of Mars or any
other Of the inhabited planets. if other
such there be, Personally, I am loath
to believe that Mars is the only planet
besides our own earth that is habit
able. | think that in time to come we
will study other planets that from aD-
parent conditions may possibly SUD,
port life"
St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1909-11-20
Rash ALL OVER BOYS BODY.
Awful, Crusted, Weeping Eczema on
Little Sufferer-A Score of Treat.
ments Prove Dismal Failures.
Cure Achieved by cuticura.

"My little boy had an awful rash all
over his body and the doctor said it
was eczema. 1t was terrible, and used
to water awfully. Any place the water
went it would form another sore and it
would become crusted. A score or
more physicians failed utterly and dis
mally in their efforts to remove the
trouble. Then was told to use the
Cuticura Remedies. I got cake Of
Cuticura Soap, a box of Cuticura Oint-
ment and a bottle of Cuticura Re-
solvent, and before we had used half
the Resolvent I could see a change in
him. In about two months he was en-.
tirely well. George F. Lambert, 1879
West Centre St, Mahanoy City, Pa.
Sept. 26 and Nov. 4, 1907"
Potter Drug il Chem. Corp, Sole Props, Boston.
St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1909-11-20

Rev. Father Guicheteau of the
French Catholic Church of st. Vincent
de Paul, on West Twenty-third street
New York, famed as the priest
astronomer" has his telescope di-
rected these nights at Mars, now very
close to the earth. Every night he is
up in the little observatory he has
had installed on the roof of his parish
house making both observations a1d
calculations. His telescope is a
very fine instrument, operated by
clockwork to keep pace with the ap-
parent motion of the stars.
Il am firmly convinced" he says,
that there is life on Mars, and l am
eagerly awaiting the report of the
scientists all over the world, who are
now making observations and photo
graphs. l look for the most interest
ing results from the observatory at
Arequipa, Peru, wheer the exceeding
ly clear atmosphere will be OF the
greatest aid in operating the great
Bruce telescope there located.
St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1909-11-20
The Best Food for Workers.

The best food for those who work
with hand or brain is never high
priced.
The best example Of this is found in
Quaker Scotch Oats. 1t stands at the
top among foods that supply nourish-
ment and Vigor, without taxing the
digestion, and yet it is the least ex-
pensiVe food one can eat.
This great food value and low cost
make it an ideal food for families who
want to get the greatest good from
what they eat.
Laborers, factory or farm hands, fed
plentifulIy on Quaker Scotch Oats will
work better and with less fatigue than
If fed on almost any other kind of food.
All of these facts were proved and
very interesting information about
human foods were gathered by Pro
fessor Fisher of Yale University in
1908. You'll find Quaker Scotch Oats
in regular size packages, and hermet-
ically sealed tins; the latter is best for
hot climates. 8
St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1909-11-20
He Eornot Somethinn.

rs that all you have to say to me?''
she queried, looking off into space.
Great heavens, grill" said he,
abashed, what more can say?
Haven't l told you that worship the
very ground you walk on? Haven't
I offered you every iota of my worldly
possessions? Haven't I said that you
would never want for anything, that
your relatives could come and stay as
long as they wished, that I would
work my fingers bare for you, and
that l would devote my entire exis-
tence to your"
"Oh, yes, you said all that" she re-
piled, YEARLY, but"
But what?" he asked, TREMENDOUSLY.
"You-you didn't say right out and
out I love you, and that's what l
wanted to hear most of ALL"
St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1909-11-20
MONSTER HIVE IN A WALL.

For 20 years bees have hived them
selves in the wall of house on
Merle common, oxted, Surrey, Eng
land One day recently a man cut
away the brickwork and found large
cIumps of comb containing honey sus-
nended from the outer and inner
walls He estimated the honey In the
self.made hive at about three hundred
weight and actually, managed to secure
abont two hundredweight. In addition
he succeeded in hiving over oushel
A. bees. In the hive there was also
sorDd a starling's nest and a quantity
- eggsheIls and the occupier of the
- Sonse states that brood of starlings
were Matched there this season the
bees and the starlings entered , tnelF
abode s6od by the same aperture and lived
tremendously together.
St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1909-11-20
Snake Story.

Before he went fishin," said the
town story teller, The swallowed
bout pint an a half of snakebite
remedy, an of course you know what
that is. Well, after the snake bit him
the reptile cut all sorts O. capers, kaze
the remedy went straight to it's head
Last thing it tried to do wuz to swal-
Ter its tail, an it got itself in the form
Of hoop an I'm liar eff the children
didn't roll it around all day."
St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1909-11-20
UNEARTHs AN ANCIENT IDOL

A strange image, supposed to be an
ancient idol, recently was unearthed
by Charles A. Ashby, who owns an
extensive farm near Deer Park, Gar
rett county, Nd. It is a curiously
carved stone about eight inches in
length which apparently has been in
the ground for centuries. On one
end is carved the head and face of
some animal, resembling a wolf,
while on the opposite end is the face
OF human being, well proportional
and well preserved, the nose alone
having been worn away.
St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1909-11-20
CUTS LEGS TO FIT COFFIN,

1t was shock to relatives and
friends to discover, when the body Of
Jacob Starman, more than six feet
tall, who died at Hudson, Wyo.,
reached Rock Springs, that in order
to ship it in a casket too short the
legs had been severed at the knees.
Indignant relatives and friends say
they will prosecute the Hudson under.
taker. An order from the undertaken
that the coffin should not be opened
under any circumstances aroused the
suspicion of Starman's friends, and an
investigation revealed the legless
body
St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1909-11-20
BONE IN A MANS HEART.

A strange bony growth, hitherto
unknown to the science of surgery,
was discovered by Drs. J. H. Kusser
and w. J. Wakeman of San Rafael,
Cal, while examining the heart of
Samuel Macrob, who was accidental
ly killed in Rose Valley. The bony
growth was taken from the outer
covering Of the heart-the pericar-
dunn Two pieces were found in this
fibrous membrane of the size and
shape of a silver dollar. No similar
case is on record.
St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1909-11-20
The Rare Gift of Courtesy.

Courtesy includes not merely social
kindness, graces of speech, absence of
rudeness, but honorable treatment of
business associates and of all the fell
low citizens with whom man of al
fairs may have business to transact.
1t is not American to keep one citi-
zen waiting all day at the door be-
cause he is poor, and to grant an
other citizen an interview because it
is believed he is rich Wisdom is not
confined in purse, and frequently
much wisdom may be learned from a
poor man.
St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1909-11-20

his spinal vertebrate cut away and
with his spinal cord covered only
with a thin layer of skin. which lies
directly over the backbone. The man
was given up as in a hopeless CON
dition when he was taken to the his
pital with a broken back. caused by
fall from the fourth story of a
building. His vertebrate were shat
tered. From the waist down he was
paralyzed. 1t was thought that he
would eventually die and the opera
ton was ordered as last slim
chance. The complete success of the
operation is regarded as a surgical
triumph, inasmuch as the bony
framework which throws a casing
about the delicate organism of the
spinal cord was cut away without in
jury to the cord.
St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1909-11-20
EXPLOIT OF LONDON THIEF.

To steal a safe in broad daylight
in one of the busiest throughfares of
London, and escape capture, would
seem impossible, but it was done one
day recently. The premises of a
matchmaker and jeweler situated in
Percival street, Clerkenwell, were en-
St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1909-11-20
Waste Material,

In process of time it was observed
that the multimillionaire philanthro
pist had ceased giving costly library
buildings to towns and cities.
why is this, Mr. Canaggy?" the re
porters asked him.
Young men," he said, what is the
use of building great houses for Ii
braries when all man needs for an
education is five feet of books?"
Whereat they marveled, but they
could not answer him.
St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1909-11-20
SUES FOR DAUGHTERS HEART

The mother of Mrs. Lena Petris
murdered by a man with whom she
eloped, brought suit at Cleveland, O.
against the prosecuting attorney to
get possession of the girls heart. The
heart, in alcohol, was used to show
by the bullet wound that the woman
could not have killed herself. The
mother wants to bury it with ths
body.
St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1909-11-20
A l-onu-Panter,

Mary, aged IA, was found one day
by an older sister sobbing and crying
What is the matter?" she asked
with great concern.
Three boys have asked me to go
to the dance tonight" was the unex-
pected reply.
We'll, my dear child, certainly that
is not such a terrible misfortune"
Yes; but l told the first one l
would go with him, and the last one
was a nter!"-Harper's
St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1909-11-20

of the b a d d 9 r
reached it's climax
last spring and / suf-
fered terribly. My
back ached an d
panied so I could
hardly get around
and the secretions
were scanty, fire.
Quent Of passage
and nainfuI 7 was
St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1909-11-20
500 Reward. 500.

The readers Of this paper will be pleased TO IeaFa
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surfaces OF the system, thereby destroying the
foundation of the disease, and giving the patient
strength by building up the constitution and assist
ing nature IN doing its work. The proprietors have
30 much faith in its curative powers that they Offer
One Hundred Dollars for any that it fails to
sure Send for list OF testimonials
Address F. J. CHENEY & CO.. Toledo o.
Sold by all Druggists. 75c.
Take Halls Family Pills for constipation.
St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1909-11-20


tered early one Sunday night, and the
contents Of the safe rifled. The thieves
appear to have forced the door of the
room containing the safe, and re-
moved that repository, weighing two
cwt, to tibet OPP of the stairs and
then slid it down. Upon arriving on
the ground floor the thieves must
have carried the safe into the street
put it in vehicle, and driven awav,
now they managed to do so without
being observed is a mystery, the
street being by no means a quiet one,
and having constable on duty NOT
many yards away. The empty safe.
containing receipts and bills, was
found by a constable in another street
some distance away.
St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1909-11-20
CHRUCHYARD A ROSE GARDEN,

Rev. J. P. Simeon, vicar of Patch
am. ENGLAND has announced his in,
tention of converting the churchyard
into a rose garden by replacing the
hedge with rose trees, covering rallied
in graves with crimson ramblers, and
entwining the chains leading from the
the entrance to the church door with
the same flowers.
St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1909-11-20
Anti-CIimax.

'HoW's yer wheat?"
First rate"
Pigs dom well?"
Fine"
That puny colt come round all
right?"
He sure did"
Glad to hear things is so likely,
Bill. HoWs your wife Washington
Herald.
St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1909-11-20
TWO of = Kind.

Mrs. Boggs--I hate to have a man
always complaining about some little
thing. Now, my husband is contin-
ually harping on the lace curtains.
Mrs. Woggs-Yes, and my husband
has been kicking on our front door
every morning at three o'clock for the
last 20 years.-Puck.
St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1909-11-20
QUININE SERVED AT BANQUET.

DR.. II. I. Stout and ten engineers,
who returned to New York from Bra
I'll, where they are building a railroad,
ere given a banquet at Porto Belho
before leaving. The final course of
tie dinner was quinine Owing to ma
l%ria there the drug is frequently
to ken with meals.
St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1909-11-20
WOULD SAIL IN UMBRELLA

A German inventor has taken the
comic supplement artist seriously and
patented an umbrella which may be
turned into boat, with rudder, sail
for the stick, and seat to be placed
across the ribs.
St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1909-11-20

tired all the time and very nervous. I
began using Doan's Kidney Pills, and
after taking fer boxes was cured
and have been wei ever since"
Remember the ame-Doan's. Sold
by all dealers. so cents a box. Foster
Milburn Co., Buffalo, N. Y.
St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1909-11-20

Rough on Rats fools the rats and mice,
but never fools the buyer. The secret is,
you mot the maker) do the mixing. Take
hint do your own mixing; pay for poi
son only, then you get results. It's the I'M
beatable exterminator. Don't die in the
house. l5c, 2jc, 75c.
St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1909-11-20
DOUBLE SARCASM,

Old Crab-What be ye dom araound
this place, Ell? Wanter buy it?
Merry Nicholas-Why, Use de spe-
cial agent of Andrew Morganfeller
and Use lookin' fer a site ter lay out
his enormous estate on. I'll offer yer
tree plunks fer dis place if yen trow
of 80 per cent. fer cash.
St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1909-11-20
HALF HIS SPINE REMOVED

After one Of the rarest and most
d,f a operations known to surgery 9
I 1aroaa Tournigh, aged 81 years, les
an an air mattress in the Hah l7a If
30osnital. philadelphia. with nan u
St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1909-11-20

Willie Holt seems to be developing
into a very fast young man"
What else could be expected in his
ease? Hasn't his father been fined
nearly a dozen times for exceeding
the speed limit?'
St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1909-11-20

loneliness does more than destroy
ugliness; it destroys matter A mere
touch of it in room, in street, even
on door-knocker, is spiritual force.
Henry DrummOnd
St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1909-11-20
Found!

Knicker-What is your definition of
a gentleman?
Bocker-He was evidently my wife's
first husband.
St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1909-11-20

Some people would drown with q life
preserver at hand: They are the kind
that suffer from Rheumatism and Neural
gia when they can get Hamlins Wizard
Oil. the best of all pain remedies.
St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1909-11-20
Important to Rno4hars.
Beaten bv Nature

Waggs-I had the laugh on my wife
yesterday.
Boggs-How did it happen?
Waggs-We were out driving and
she discovered an echo that beat hel
out of the last word-Stray Stories.
St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1909-11-20

For Headache Try Hicks capudIne.
Whether from Colds. Heat, Stomach or
relieved by Capudine. It's IiquidEpleas-
ant to take-Efects Immediately. 10. 26
and SOC at Drug Stores ~ ~
St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1909-11-20

AS you grow for it, somewhere or
other you will find what is needful for
you in a book or a friend.-George
Macdonald.
St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1909-11-20

Fools in glad rags are often permit
ted to rush in where unlaundered
hobos would be knocked down and
dragged out.
St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1909-11-20
COLLECTS OLD ALMANACs.

G. B. Spofford of Claremont, N. H.,
has nearly 500 old almanacs of differ
ent makes and dates from 1889 to
1909.
St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1909-11-20
When the end of your work is out
of sight, look aloft.-De Lesseps.

Dr.. Pierce's Pellets, small sugar-coated easy Ia
take as candy, regulate and inyigurate stomach
liver and bowels and cure constipation.
St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1909-11-20
For Colds and crTpn-canudfrs

The best remedy for Gripp and Colds fs
Hicks .Capudine. Relieves the aching and
Geverishness. Cures the cold-Headaches
8 and SOC at Drug Stores.
St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1909-11-20

The patriotism of the Office seeker
is the greatest ever.
St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1909-11-20
SUFFERED TERRIBLY.
How Relief from Distressing Kidney
Trouble Was Found.

Mrs. Elizabeth Wolf, 1888 W. Morgan
st., Upton, Mo-, says: Inflammation
St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1909-11-20

Some family skeletons are padded
beyond recognition.
St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1909-11-20

You don't have to run a boarding
house in order ID board a train.
St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1909-11-20

PERRY DAVIS PAINKILLER
has no substitute. No other remedy is 30 eff.
fective for rheumatism, umbago, stiffness neura lga
St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1909-11-20

ARE YOU LOSING FLESH
through a racking cough that you cannot seem to
check! A bottle of Aliens Lung Balsam will cure
the trouble and help you back to health.
Five Mile Beach weekly journal., 1909-11-12
Civil War Pensioners

Virtually ten per cent. Of the Civil
War pensioners are residents of Penn
sylvania. Ohio is the only other Com
monwealth which has more persons on
the list, and the difference is trifling in
this regard. Although New York has
a larger population, the number of its
inhabitants on the roll is placed at
1884, as against so, 066 for Pennsyl-
vania. The reason for this showing is
evident to all who recall the prominent
part which the keystone Stale bore in
the conflict for the maintenance of the
Union, one of the most decisive Of
whose battles were fought on her own
soil.-PhaddetphiG Evening Bulletin
Five Mile Beach weekly journal., 1909-11-12
The Latest Story

With the November 18th issue ''The
Philadelphia Press" will publish the
first instalIment of the new serial story
ga Son of the Immortals," written by
Louis Tracey. 1t will appear in serial
form in the Sunday maya zine section,
aud will not be published in book form
until after completion by 1.-THE Phila-
delphia Press" IA Son Of the Immor-
tals'' is a story which will bold your
interest until the last chapters have
been read.
Order ''The Philadelphia Press" for
November IA SO you will not miss the
opening chapters.
Five Mile Beach weekly journal., 1909-11-12
OTTENS TRACT NOTES

william ID. Eynon, of Philadelphia,
W o has been spending several weeks
hete, made numerous Improvements to
the grounds surrounding his cottage,
ism and Central avenues.
Commodore Henry H. Ottens, of the
Wildwood Yacht club, has been elect
ed Vice-president of the National
Power Boat association. The thous-
ands of members of this organization
are putting up a vigorous protest
against a bill recently introduced in
Congress by Congressman Humphreys,
OF Oregon, which will, if enacted, put
n of motor boats of every size to
equipment expense that is foolish and
unnecessary.
William E. Gibson, of West Phila-
delphia, was numbered among the
Sunday visitors.
Charles s. Shick spent several days
at Sea Isle City visiting his parents
and at the same time congratulating
his life long friend, Lewis Steinmeyer
upon his election as mayor of that re-
sort.
A number of the local members of
the North Wild wood Automobile club
will attend the clubs "Gasolene Night
at the Pen and Pencil club, Philadel-
phia, on Monday night.
Owners of lawns on the Ottens Tract
ere engaged in covering them as pro-
lection from the winter storms.
Robert Kennedy's new cottage on
18th avenue, is rapidly nearing COM
pletion and he expects to eat his Christ
mas dinner under his own roof.
Five Mile Beach weekly journal., 1909-11-12

would have returned home sorely dis
appointed had he not encountered at
least one deep drift experience.
At breakfast it was arranged that
Lawrence, with old Jacob. should I'M
dertake the breaking through of the
gully road as far as the Widow Ben
nett's. At that point they would I'M
doubtedly meet the Pearson boys from
a mile beyond.
Now, Lawrence had pleasant recol-
l~ections of Widow Benefits hospita-
BILE home. AS a boy it had opened its
arms to him. and it was there he had
spent MANY an hour with Mrs. Bennett
and her granddaughter, the brightest,
black eyed. alert little girl that ever
wore short skirts, rode on snowplows,
called him Uncle Law" and insisted
on his own grownupness and his fit
ness to advise her on her reading. her
studies ard her amhitipna-Ger-
trude, however, had been away at
school these later winters and Law
renee had caught no glimpse of her,
although his aunt and even his uncle
had much to say of her attractiveness
and loneliness as evidenced in the sum-
mer life of the place.
1--WE ought to make Benefits by
noon and get back here by chore time"
was the schedule announced by bic
Jacob.
IF it gets any worse later in the
day don't try to get back tonight. Just
bed at the Bennett farm and dig to-
ward us in the morning" was the I'M
cle's parting advice.
The storm did grow worse and grew
worse so rapidly that by the time they
had covered three-quarters of the dis
lance to the Widow Benefits Law
renee and old Jacob considered 1t adj
yisable to detach the horses from the