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St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1911-02-04

| They forget about the danger. Just
| listen to what some of them have to
say about it:
Mine is not so bad" said the man
who works over diphtheria day after
day. Think of the man at work with
, the tuberculosis germs. When l get
diphtheria l can tell it pretty quick
and get ready to give it a good, stiff
| treatment, but with consumption you
don't know whether you have it or
not until it shows up good and strong.
Id much rather be with my diphtheria
bugs, thank you"
''Dangerous?" querfed the tuberculo-
sis expert. Not at all! Go in and see
the man who is working on rabies.
! Now that's what call risky work.
Just let that bowl slip and the bugs
will fly out, to find their way into the
smallest break in his skin, and then
he is on the road to e case of hydro
phobia- That's an awful disease"
The rabies specialist cannot see 1t
that way; he has his views On the
dangers of the tetanus worker
We'll. If you really want to see
where man risks his life, go in there
l can feel pretty sure of what my bugs
are doing. but lockjaw, well. that's the
limit, think"
And the specialist at work with the
tetanus bacilli is modest and refers
you to the meningitis department, and
he In turn sends you where the CLAN
ders germs are being cultivated, until
you have seen for yourself the danger.
GUS calling of every one OF them. Each
has its risk SO great that it seems re-
markable that anyone would dare to
take up the work.
Commissioner Lederle of the health
department of New York city, and DR..
William H. Parks, chief of the re-
search laboratory, showed the work of
preparing the antitoxin from the first
to the last stage the other day
ITO get the antitoxins and yaccines,
and also for test purposes, we use
guinea pigs. rabbits, goats, calves and
horses" said the commissioner. "The
horse furnishes US with most of the
antitoxin. On the farm there are "a
horses, Of which Is are used for diph-
iberia alone. When they have given
us the immunized serum they are put
to work: their strength has not been
impaired by the operation The calves
from which we take the vaccine are
killed and eaten by us. Yes, actually
eaten, and trust that you will make
this point strong, because believe it
will do much to show the people who
have been crying out against vaccina-
ton that there is nothing harmful in
1t. or We could never eat the meat.
'Antitoxin and vaccine treatment.
wonderful as have been the results, is
only in its infancy, and We cannot but
wonder what the future holds in store.
AS each day passes and new points
are brought to light, we are encour
aged to fight just that much harder in
the hope that the next will bring out
ever so much more.
Take tetanus antitoxin as an exam
pie. 1t is not SO long ago that We dis.
covered that this was an excellent i'm.
munizing agent Injecting it into the
veins has produced cures, and positive
cures at that"
II, the diphtheria room the bacteri-
ologist was preparing for the trans
planting of the living bacteria from
the test tubes, where they get their
start, to larger vessel. in which they
St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1911-02-04

OF the flames; there is the engineer
who kept his hand on the throttle and
died to save his train-load of passen-
gers.
And there are others of a quieter
and less spectacular sort. The men
and women who work day after day
among steaming pots and glittering
test tubes in the laboratories, fighting
inch by inch against disease and cut
ting down the death rate in every one
OF these awful scourges which wipe
out hundreds of thousand of human
lives every year.
Theirs Is no life Of ease. Every day
they take the chance of catching some
fatal malady themselves. And inch
by inch they gain. Each year they cut
down the death rate, though taking
every chance with death themselves.
They are making serums; they are
studying contagion with the micro
scope; they are examining typical
cases inrthe hope of getting some new
idea that will work for stamping out
some pest to men, women and chill
dren
Tetanus. diphtheria, meningitis, tu-
berculosis, rabies, septicaemia, CLAN
ders-these are some of the contagious
they face. Millions of microbes come
before them every day. Is a soldier
in battle taking any more cha-ce with
his life?
Do they die? OF course they do.
Few hear of them, though, because lit
tie Is said about them. There seems
nothing heroic in dying of CHAMBERS or
meningitis, but it is death just the
same. The victim is only one more
martyr to medicine. says the New
York World.
What o useless sacrificed" SO many
may say. But Is it? In every one of
these germ diseases the death rate in
New York and other cities every
where has been cut down. Diphtheria
is NOS longer the awful peril it once
was. tuberculosis Is durable If the
patient be caught in time. The Fourth
of July no longer gets its toll Of dead
boys and girls. thanks to the serum
for lockjaw. Sacrifices have paid.
Take diphtheria alone. The death
rate today is SO reduced that practi-
cally every case, if taken in time, has
q favorable outlook The death rate
has ben reduced rs per cent. But
some men who have worked over the
diphtheria bacilli have died to make
possible this reduction.
The antitoxin from the horse has
worked this wonder and has kept thou
sands of mothers and fathers from
weeping by the side of little graves.
AS with diphtheria, so it has been
with other scourges. Men and women
have worked over cultures until they
have found the culture that gives i'm
munity. Some havs died. but think of
the lives that theyShave saved.
To use platitude, Familiarity
breeds contempt" SO it is with those
who work over the bacteria of dis
ease: so 1t Is with railway men and
workers in powder mills and mines.
St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1911-02-04
Summer Snow.

It is only exceptional places near
Chicago that can have snow all the
year round. A sand hill near Mfchi-
gan City, Ind, within sight Of Chica-
COS smoke, is one of these exceptional
places. There is snow there three feet
deep, or at least there was early in
September 1t is place where sand
is dug and loaded into cars and
brought to Chicago. Last winter the
workmen abandoned one of the sand
pits, and the sand blew over it In the
spr1ngtime, before the snow in the
hole had time to melt. The pit was
opened in September, and snow three
feet deep was found under the yellow
blanket that had kept 1t cold all sum-
mer.
St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1911-02-04
SKATERS HANDY LIFE-SAvER
Little Spike Hanging Around Neck on
Cord Enables One to Escape
When Ice Breaks.

1t is often on some trifling thing
that mans life hangs. The little
article here described, for instance,
can be dropped into pocket and not
noticed, but there are circumstances
under which 1t might be the only
thing between a man and death by
drowning 1t consists of wooden
handle, with sharp metal point pro-
jecting and resembles an awl of un-
usual strength. 1t is meant to be
hung around a skaters neck on a
cord, and is well named 1.-THE Skat-
er's Life-saver." If the ice should
happen to break the skater could
seize this instrument and stick it into
the firm ice alongside the crack, thus
affording purchase by which he
could draw himself to safety. With
out such aid he might founder to his
St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1911-02-04
The canary's Ears,

A canary's ears are back of and a
little below its eyes. They are not
hard to find when one has learned
where to look. There is no outer ear,
such as animals have, but simply a
small opening which is covered by
feathers. 1t is quite surprising that
birds should possess the very acute
hearing which they do while lacking
the fieshy flap which enables the ami
mails to catch sounds.
St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1911-02-04
Great Feat.

Come on, pa" insisted little Ostend
at the summer park, and see the man
hump the humps"
You mean bump the bumps don't
you, SOM" inquired his father.
mo, hump the humps A man IN
going to jump over six cameIs."
St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1911-02-04
Dorothy Visits GRANDPA.

Dorothy was visiting her grand
parents in the country for the first
time. Seeing a quantity of feathers
scattered about the hen yard, she
shook her head In disapproval.
Grandpa" she said gravely, you
really ought to do something to keep
your chickens from wearing out SO"
St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1911-02-04
Monarfed

Look, John, at my dress. feel
so mortarfied. I'm ashamed to walk
through the streets"
what are those white spots, Dot7"
mortar! passed that new build,
Ing. and got all spattered up.
St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1911-02-04
The Boys Idea Of II

A few days ago little John, three.
years old, who is very fond Of hiss
pets, noticed that his young rooster
had comb. In very distressed tore
OF voice he exclaimed: 20. papa, some:
body has made hicks in my ROSTERS
head"
St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1911-02-04
STATELY VERSE.

II Mary goes far out to sea.
By wayward breezes famed
I'd like to know-can you tell me?-
Just where would Maryland.
II Tenny went high up in air
And looked Ger land and lea,
Looked here and there and everywhere,
Pray what would Tennessee?
looked out of the window and
Saw Orry on the lawn;
He's not there now. and who can tell
Just where has Oregon?
St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1911-02-04

canoe, for the purpose of padding
above the housetops after he has walk
ed up there and hung suspended by
the buoyaIcy of the balloon above his
head. If everything works as intend
ed, this will truly be a remarkable in
vention.
St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1911-02-04
Not Strictly Orthodox

Police Justice-Young man, what ia
your religion, il you have any?
chauffeur (arrested for overspeed.
fng)-Something like Jim BIndso,s.
your honor--never be passed on thu,
highway.
St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1911-02-04

The death Of Queen, while not so
dramatic as that of Mile. Dick. was,
after all, an improvement on the
cruder method of the earlier part of
the nineteenth century.
St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1911-02-04
PRINTER

Not the country town. zone
horse" kind, but the kind that
runs the big printing shops OF
the country, and sometimes be-
comes a member of the firm.
How your boy may 90 about
realizing such an ambition. The
start and the various steps up
wards described, together with
the remuneration that each new
position brings.
BY c. w. JENNINGS.
St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1911-02-04
lnader,,ata

Canaggy-You've quit studvinp M.
peranto! What for?
!, icenoggle-I've just learned TINT
mere are no cuss words in the dad
dinged language. A
St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1911-02-04

Il don't think there was mucb Co.,.
IN the first-aid-to-the-injured thai
nurse bungled So"
It struck me, too. it was rather n
lemon aid"
St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1911-02-04
Working on Their Feelings.

"orkiHy OF fHeir Teettn9s.
HE can bring his audience to
smiles or tears at will"
II suppose some he owes. and some
of them owe him"
St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1911-02-04
EROES? Why, yes, there

EROES? Why, yes. there
are many kinds. There Is
the man who rode through
the town faster than the
water followed him, yelling
that the dam had burst;
there is the man who stuck
to his ship when all the
crew deserted him; there
is the woman who plucked
St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1911-02-04

death before he could get sufficient
grip on the slippery surface to get
out of the water. II the skater is
alone he would find it a difficult task
to save himself IN the event of the
ice breaking unless equipped with one
Of these picks.
St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1911-02-04

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Dakota farmers' leader. (Canton, S.D.) 1890-19??, 1911-12-29
FATE'S FATAL TREAD
Tragedy Which Has Followed the
ParnelI Family.
Irish Leader Only One of Severa Of
His House Whose Lights
Went Out In Storm
and Sorrow.

Dublin, Observation-Disclosures nay be
the fate of Ireland's struggle for au-
tonomy, whether it is to go on an
other century through strife and
tragedy, or end within the present
generation in triumph and glory, the
name Of the great leade who de-
tached the Irish people from revolu-
tionary methods and moored them to
constitutional agitation as the surest
method Of regaining their rights, will
ever be held in reverence.
1t was the fate of Charles Stewart
Parnell to die too soon-before the
seeds he had sown began to bear their
full fruition; and in the pathetic clos
ing of his career there is a reflection
OF the fate that has encompassed the
history of the family OF the Parnells
and enveloped 1t with tragic interest.
The greatness of The family seemed
to have reached its zenith in the
splendid career of Charles Stewart
Parnell when q cloud, black and i'm
penetrable, encompassed its fortunes
and overwhelmed 1t with gloom II
disaster.
1t became known as a doomed
house" and. in spite Of or because OF
the exceptional talents of it's gifted
members, events, startling in their
tragical occurrence, swiftly showed
that the epithet was prophetically
true.
Parnell "a named after his mater"
nal grandfather, Rear Admiral
Charles Stewart, who had served 70
years in the United States navy, had
risen from cabin boy to the command
of the famous Constitution in her
palmiest days and who vas to be ever
afterwards known as "Old Ironsides."
1t seems to have been true that, in
ParnelIs case, coming events cast
their shadows BEFORE" Suffic ient unto
himself, taciturn' and unapproachable,
he was feared rather than loved by
his colleagues in the Irish party who
read future tragedies in that pale
bearded face with the wonderful eyes.
The Menace to Europe" alienated
from the people for whom he had
done so much and from his former
Dakota farmers' leader. (Canton, S.D.) 1890-19??, 1911-12-29
ITCH WAS CURED

Il deem it my duty to tell about q
cure that the Cuticura Soap and ONT
ment have made on myself. My trou-
BILE began in splotches breaking out
right in the edge of my hair on the
forehead, and spread over the front
part of the top Of my head from ear to
ear, and over my ears which caused q
most fearful burning itch, or eczema.
For three years I had this terrible
breaking out on my forehead and
scalp. l tried Jul family doctor and
he failed to cure it. Then / tried the
Cuticura Soap and Ointment and used
them for two months with the result
of a complete cure. Cuticura Soap
and Ointment should have the credit
due, and l have advised a lot of peo-
pie to use them" (Signed) G. D..
Harrington, Creek, N. c., Jan. 26, 1911.
Itching scaIp-Halr Fell Out.
81 will say that I have been suffer
ing with an itching on my scalp for
the past few years. My hair fell out
In spots all over my head. My scalp
started to trouble me with sores, then
the sores healed up, and crusts
formed on the top. Then the hair fell
out and left me three bald spots the
shape of a half dollar. I went to more
than one doctor, but could not get any
relief, SO L started to use the Cuticura
Remedies. / tried one bar Of Cuticura
Soap and some Cuticura Ointment,
and felt relieved right away. Now the
bald spots have disappeared, and my
hair has grown, thanks to the Cuti-
cura Soap and Ointment. I highly
recommend the Cuticura Remedies to
all that are suffering with scalp trou-
ble." (Signed) Samuel Stern, 236
Floyd ST., Brooklyn, N. Y, Feb. z.
1911. Although C%uticura Soap and
Ointment are sold by druggists and
dealers everywhere, a sample Of each,
with 32-page book, will be mailed
free on application to "Cuticura,"
Dept. 9 K. Boston.
Dakota farmers' leader. (Canton, S.D.) 1890-19??, 1911-12-29

colleagues whose way was not his,
passed away, dauntless and confident
to the end that he would yet regain
his former power.
This was not the first fore-shadOw-
ing Of the tragic doom which fate was
preparing for this unhappy house.
Parnell's sister, Fanny, a beautiful
woman and a gifted poetess, one morn
ing vas found dead in her bed. An
other unhappy sister died in obscure
circumstances in Paris.
The mothers fate was terrifying in
It's horror and brought poignantly
home to the imaginative Irish people
a knowledge of the disastrous nj
memorable destiny which enveloped
the Parnells. She fell into the CRATE
one day and was burned so severely
that, in a short while, she succumbed.
The full tale is not yet told. Anna
Parnell, the best known sister OF the
fated leader, "a a consummate poll
tician and a most courageous fighter
in her brothers battles. After a COM
plete disappearance of many years it
came to the knowledge Of some of the
Irish members OF parliament that the
one time happy and beautiful Irish
woman was starving in a miserable
little room in the purlius of the great
city of London. Death came to her
one stormy day in the neighboring
sea, ending her troubles n closing
another chapter in the mournful his
tory of the ParneIls.
A simple iron cross, six feet high,
marks the grave OF Parnell in Glasne-
vim cemetery. The splendid national
monument outside the Rotunda, at the
top of O'Connell street, Dublin, which
was recently unveiled by John Red
mond, forms a worthy memorial to the
lead chief and a reminder to his coun-
trymen of his inestimable services to
Ireland. The monument is a triangu-
lar obelisk Of Shantalla granite, 81
feet high, and crowned with a bronze
tripod eight feet high. The base
rests on a platform rs feet in diane
ter in which is inlaid a large trefoil
of Barna granite.
The bronze statue of Parnell, eight
feet high stands on a projecting ped
estal nine feet above the street and
round the base are inlaid plaques with
the names of the provinces n coun-
ties of Ireland. Bronze torches orna-
ment the three angles.
Dakota farmers' leader. (Canton, S.D.) 1890-19??, 1911-12-29
RETREATlNG TO LITTLE ROCK
Details Of Battle OF Saline River Do
scribed by Old Veteran. Who
Mas Participant.

To be a gunsmith and the proprie-
tor of a shooting gallery seems to be
natural for a veteran of the civil war.
In tinkering with the mechanism OF
rifles and revolvers and in smelling
the smoke of cartridges John d. Gre
dlebaugh keeps a familiarity with his
youth. In the war he was a soldier
of the 4Oth Iowa infantry regiment
Afterward he became a sharpshooter
with Buffalo Bill. Wild Bill and other
persons Of similar profession. He re-
tains the appearance of the frontiers
man. He confesses to the & of 65.
though a casual guesser would not ap
proach that figure by twenty years.
One of the stories that he tells In his
home and place of business in Chi.
cago is of the battle of Saline river.
Arkansas. April 80, 1864. and is as
follows:
Gen. Steele's expedition was re-
treating before the advance of the
confederate army that had whipped
Gen. Banks. We had dom our part
In occupying the Arkansas country
down to Camden, but the Red river
expedition in northern Louisiana was
broken up by Price and Kirby Smith
before we could join Gen. Banks at
Shreveport. The confederate army
drove us out of our position and back
toward Little Rock.
I'VE had been on the march several
days from Camden when the enemy
caught up with US near the Saline
river, which we had to cross. The
crossing was going to be difficult be-
cause 1t vas in the spring and h
river was flooded. Our crossing, the
only one near the place we had come
to. vas in a sharp bend Of the river,
which we were approaching from the
concave side. We came down the road
that led to the ferry, and at a cross
road a rebel battery opened fire on US.
Beyond, between us n the river.
there was a rise Of ground and o
of the army kept On and passed this
rise, leaving the rear guard to hold
back the attack. The 40th Iowa regi-
ment was in the rear guard and we
helped prevent the advance Of the
enemy. We fought until nightfall.
when the days fighting was over
we withdrew behind the rise of
ground. The slope went down to the
bottom land of the river and 1t was
all wet. I went to sleep sitting
against a tree trunk and In the morn
ing I awoke In cold water up to my
breast. 1t was still early in the year.
the morning Of April 80. All the bot
tom had been flooded in the night and
the army had to go through the water
to the pontoon bridge that was laid
across the channel Of the river.
while the crossing was going on
the rear guard had more fighting to
do. We went back to the rise OF
ground and took our position there.
not going down to the crossroads.
The river bent behind us and came
around to the left and right in a big
bow, so that our line could extend
from water to water and prevent the
rebels from getting to the ferry. We
fought from daylight until o By
that time the rebels we're lying five
and six deep in three ines on the
slope of the hill.
There was one battery that we
couldn't take for a long time, though
Dakota farmers' leader. (Canton, S.D.) 1890-19??, 1911-12-29
NEVER COUNTED THE GIRLS
Princes Answer to Question Typical
Of Life in the Countries
of the Orient.

The big punkah Topped and tagged
between the columns, as We sat and
talked. Mem Sahib, who vas born in
the Caucasus amid Georgian and Cir
cassian dignitaries, and so had a hap
Ply way with Oriental princes. took us
all back by suddenly asking the good
gray prince how many brothers he
had. His %highness looked at her with
a queer little smile, half tolerant,
half amused, and began, with great
show Of seriousness, to count them
or his fingers, first Of the right hand.
then of the left; after going once or
twice round, he halted. started again.
then stopped and said:
Il am afraid I must ask my secre-
tary!"
The secretary replied, with dignity:
Your highness had a hundred and
nineteen brothers,"
Mem-Sahib, not whit %abashed, then
asked this good Oriental nobleman
concerning his sisters.
He smiled very ch~armingly, saying:
Il am afraid l do not know; we
never counted them!"-Charles John.
ston in the Atlantic Monthly.
Dakota farmers' leader. (Canton, S.D.) 1890-19??, 1911-12-29
Her Credit Was Strained.

A young country merchant who had
something Of a reputation for close
figuring was especially attentive to
the village schoolma'am. The young
woman had a sweet tooth and was not
at all retiring about making the fact
known. Accordingly, she limited to
her admirer hat a box Of chocolates
would be greatly appreciated On the
occasion Of his nex visit. Later the
suggestion was repeated and again
duly needed. The third time the sub
ject was preached, however, the dis
penser of sweets turned a deaf ear to
the ~entreaty.
Il don't know about taking that girl
any moro candy" he conf1ded to a
companion next day. "She's OWN me
sixty cents for chocolates already
~Lippincott's Magazine.