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St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1879-08-02
One WAY OF REDUCING EXPENSES.

One WAY OF REDUCING EXPENSES
81 say, George, what makes You
look So cheerful" said one friend to
another recently. ''Why, didn't
you hear, Bob, Tn going to get
married next Wednesdays We'll,
[ must confess, 1 see nothing in that
to make YOU cheerful; / should
think it would make You feel sad. I"
"Why, no, my dear fellow, it will be
the happiest day of my life. You
see. Matilda is very expensive
luxury. She wants to go to the
opera every night; it's ice cream on
the way, a pound of candy while
there. and soda on the way home
and 1 tell You It's terrible drain on
a fellows pocket, SO I'm going to
put stop to it. Come i'll and have
a cigar!"- Yonkers Statesman.
St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1879-08-02
her shawl. In the dusk, it WAS no
wonder that was thus deceived.

ueT slaWL III the DUSK, III WIS nu
wonder that was thus deceived.
! Ina Grants beautiful face told me
even in that semi-light, that she re-
turned the love she thought l offer
ed her. What should / do? / felt
like shooting myself then and there.
stammered some words, drew
her hand through my arm, and we
walked down the hill in silence.
1t would have been awkward
enough if she had not accepted my
love, but now that she had, / could
not, for a life's ransom, explain
We parted in strange quiet ut the
hotel.
l was pacing my room with fran
tic steps. when Tom Harlan came
in, the whole party having return
ed. I did not notice him. He was
maddeningly gay. As he lit a cigar,
he said:
"Old fellow, wish me JOY! Miss
Varion has made me the happiest
of men!"
/ turned and glared at him, I'M
able to utter word. Then / went
out of the room.
The next morning a note was
handed me. 1t was signed Ina
Grant, and read thus:
81 am sure there must have been
some mistake on your part last
night. [ have ascrlbed it to the
scarlet shawl, and the darkness.
You are a gentleman, and you viii
forget that such Il mistake ever oc-
Cured.
She understood, evidently. She
was Il brick. | said, as | read her
words. I was not obliged to ex-
plain now. All / had to do VAS to
leave tomorrow.
AS time went on, and / knew
must never think of Miss Yarion. L
ceased to want to think of her.
Somehow my heart turned toward
that lovely face l had seen in the
oak woods-I remembered softly
the touch of that yielding hand.
Before two years We're gone, I
found that the wrong girl made the
right wife.
St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1879-08-02
Talk of the bravery of the sterner

Talk of the bravery of the sternsr
sex. Do you remember the first
time You asked her. will you take
my arni?" While you trembled an
over like the narrative of il stump
tailed dog, and experienced the san.s
sation of having swallowed your, !.
Adams apple, what did she do2
Why, she took your arm as coolly
US she would eat a pickle. s.t' 80
St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1879-08-02

A lady WHO had had much ei-
perience in teaching both boys
and girls, speaking of the e1-
traordinary obtusen.ss of u certain
pupils. said: 'In physiology
class, this young lady of fifteen in!
CURED, with languid surprise, Ia
there nota strIght passage through
the head, from one ear to the otherf'
"a somewhat natural conclusion"
the teacher commented drylv. .'if
she ever watched the processes of
her own mind" (which would YOU
prefer teaching" asked the visitor, {
''hoys or SirlS9' Boys. infiniteIy,"i
was the prompt reply. 'No boy, /,
for instance, would ever have asked
snch II question as that. He would
long before have investigated the
subject with Il lead pencil Not,
probably, in his own ears" she add.
ell. meditatively. "but in his young /,
er brothers. '-St,'ibner, for July.
St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1879-08-02
THE JEWS

A jew! what is there in shas:s
name that can be a reproach to any,
man, woman or child now living on
earth? Moses, the wisest Of lar
giyers, was q Jew. Joshua, who
commanded the sun to stand still.
was jew. David, "a man after T
Gods own heart" was Jew. Solo
mon, the wisest of men. whose fame !.
is greater to-day than when he built
the temple, was jew. All the
prophets were Jews; all the apos-
ties were Jews; Jesus Christ him
self was a Jew: his mother was .
Jewess. ~
In every age and country the,
Jews have done their whole duty to
the country in which they have re-
sided and to society. Marshal
Soult, one of Napolean's ablest
marshals, and who stood faithfully
by him to the last, was jew. Z 60
Senator Jonas, of Louisiana, is.s
Jew. The present Prime Minister
of Great Britain is Jew. But why
enumerate further? From the ear
hest dawn of history to the present
time. the Jews have furnished their
full share of brave and honorable
men, and of pure and beautiful =
women Who has surpassed them
in public spirit. in works OF charity.
and devotion to principle?-Er- q
change. 81 =. ss -sf.. -, II
St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1879-08-02
Lincoln once listened patientl,

Lincoln once listened patiently
while n friend read a long manu-
script to him, aud asked: What do
you think oft? How viii it takeg?'
He reflected for little while, and
then answered: well. for people
who like that kind of thing. l think
that is just about the kind of thing
they'd like"
St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1879-08-02
81. TAMMANY FARMER.
Covtneton, August 2. 1879.
THE WRONG GIRL.

in those days. aud willing to enter
into any serape. provided it was not
really 1dishonorlbie. I had been
suspended" once at the college to
which my father had sent me, and
had barely escaped a.worse fate.
Now, however, at the age of TWEEN
ty-three, I was free. I had gradu-
sted in decent standing, which was
oil I had ever expeoted-more, /
think, than my friends counted on.
I was gong to have year of travel.
of wandering at my will, and during
that time I must decide what ]
would do or be.
Tom Harlan was going into the
country, to great fishing place.
and he had made me promise to go
with him. / tried to beg off at the
lust, but he held me to my word.
and at sunset on that September
afternoon we ali.hted at the hotel
in Hutchins.
As sprang from the dept-wagon.
turned somewhat sayagely to Tom,
who was seeing To his poles and
thugs. which We're strapped on be-
x g z
lilfd.iS $50 -s1sAE $50 .
What the deuce!" ! exclaimed,
in o suppressed voice, "what the
deuce dad you tell melt was a quiet
place for. See all that womau-kind
on the piazza, with trains and fallals,
too! This is inhuman of you'll"
Tom grinned as he looked up at
the hotel, but he said, earnestly
enough:
@Upon my word, Phil 1 didn't
know the ladies bad found out this
place. When / was down here last
fall, there was not female here but
the two servant girls. 1t is pictur-
esqne here, and | suppose they have
discovered it. But you know we
needn't he bothered with them,
don't your" All this was said in an
undertone, and he added: II
thought, of>ail men, iyou wonid be
the last to object to the presence of
ladies'" i
Generally speaking, l DON'T"
repiieds siibat I'm out of sort. now,
and don't want 'em round"
.'Ilast Irritation not as successful |
as usual. / suppose" was the re-
Spouse, as we walked to the house,
n servant carefully carrying Toms |
pet fishing rod.
We must go across the piazza, on
which some haif dozen ladies !
were sitting or walking. Of course
they were seeing who cane in the I
depot-wagon, and equally of course
] did not know any of them. What
WAS my advertisement. therefore,
When u voice excl,,imed:
If this isn't Il surprise! There's
Mr.. Harmon
And then there was a swish of a
lhLg train. . vision Of lace and dra-
perry, . scarlet wool shawl, falling
curis, blue eyes. u white, extended
h4nd. ind ] found myself holding
it cad bowling very low over it, aud
nurmifing sn,nsthing about the
pleasure it gave me thus to meet
Miss VsriOn ut Hutchina
Aud, to tell the truth, my heart
did beat . good deal faster at sight
oa this girl. She was the identical
subiect-tu which Tom
St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1879-08-02

Cheerfulness not only lengthens
a mans days, bnt swsetens them.
The man who laffs at everything ID
the hardest kind ov y man to xiii,
and dies game when he dug die.
St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1879-08-02

There is no fault SO small that it
will disappear of itself. You must
make II business of pulling it mp by
the roots and throwing it away.s :.
St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1879-08-02

Grandma: Yes, children, when
l was young as you are, I used to
walk in my sleep" Tommy. sagerr
~; Say, grandma. what time did
you maker"
St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1879-08-02

When you come right down to
sounds of industry" boy, club
and an old tin pan can do AS much
business as six carpenters working
on new house. - hi.'..
St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1879-08-02

A colored man named Jerry Hall,a
who has been to Kansas, is .stump-a
ing Rapidfs parish. advising tLsn
negres not TO 20 there. -,
St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1879-08-02

-idSt iii taliou, Trough lie ulu MOI
know it, aid I had been unfortu-
nate.
/ did not now know quite what
Miss Varion thought of me. She
had smiled ON me and snubbed Inc
to such degree that was Devil
dered. She had been visiting Mt the
house of one of the professors.
where I had seen her, during my
last term at college.
I was not often snubbed by young
lsdies--for some reason / WAS very
popular with them; and I was quite
astounded at the manner in which
Miss Varion, a brilliant blonde of
nineteen, chose to behave toward
me.
My last meeting with her / re-
membered distinctly. / had been
disposed to be tenderly attentive,
aud she had laughed at me. /
thought l quite hated her when 1
parted from her that night, but I
found that her face came rather Of
ten before my mind. and that it pos
sessed a curious charm for me.
After few words of question and
answer, went on into the house
with Tom and up to our room.
"You see what fix we've got
into I said, as I carefully brushed
my hair, preparatory to going down
to supper.
Il see You seem to know one of
the prettiest young ladies here"
WAS the reply, "and I should like to
be presented. And, if you'll allow
ne, I'll make the remark that it did
not seem an uE endurable hardship
for you to meet this Miss Vnriop."
Oh, pshaw Don't begin Your
sarcasm. It doesn't sit we'll on YOU,
and makes you quite ridiculous,
said /. "Of course, III present Won.
and I'll warn you that Miss Varion
turns the head of every man she
meets
"In that case / should say that
for the safety Of the human race
masculine, she had better be shut
up-incarcerated somewhere" he
said.
Then We went down to supper,
and l confess I did use q little
strategem in order to get. opposite
my acquaintance.
Matters progressed very rapidly
from that day. Tom Harlan de-
veloped wonderful amount of gal
lantry, and l thought it made him
very disagreeuble, for he selected
Miss Varion Us the object of his de-
votions. 1. s&4& e- So Z: 4
We went fishing, of course; but it |
.urned out that We did not appear
70 care much for the excursions, /
when we went of, alone with the
ZEAL intention Of getting fish: If We /
lid get tish-an abundance of them
the fact did not seem to exhilarate |
Is. and it soon came about that we
gave up such trips, and organized
fishing parties, picnics and the like,
md the September woods and hills
we're filled with our laughter and
chatter half the time.
have good c.use to remember
me of the days well. We had gone
Up to Oak Hill for an all-day excs.r-
ion. There were three ladies and
hree Of us fellows. BY some means
which 1 inwardly resented, Tom had
in being the particular
.scort of Miss Varion. I was angry
St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1879-08-02
did not know when I should see her

agdln.
!! / made n mighty effort. and sue.
eeeded, ! think. in concealing my
chagrin and disappointment, and
devoted myself to another of the
young latlies-Ina Grant.
/ l had paid her IL good deal of at
tention during my stay in Hutchins.
I liked her, and, when | could not
be with Miss Varion, / tried to con-
sole myself by perhaps an exagger-
ated attention to Miss Grant. Poor
policy, you will say? Yes, and more
than one besides me has found it 80.
The day passed as such days do
pass. We lunched hilariously; we
gathered ferns and MOSES, and
talked great deal of sentiment
which meant nothing but that we
We're young.
The early sunset of September
had come. We watched it from the
/ top of Oak Hill, and tnen prepared
to descend.
/ Halfway down, some one pro-
posed short detour after a certain
kind of fern. All of the party start
ed off but me. / was too much out
of sorts to want to go, SO l said l
would go on slowly and JOIN them
at the foot of the hill.
1t Was fast getting dusk now. L
sauntered on for a quarter of an
hour. The oaks were not very thick,
and l could see perfectly we'll enough
to find my way.
Suddenly my heart gave a great
throb, rs | saw near the path the
CLEAN of the scarlet shawl that /
knew so we'll. There was Miss Va
rion alone, leaning against a tree.
Evidently she had preferred to be
alone for awhile
She heard my hurrying footsteps,
and turned to look at Inc, then
looked away again. The next mo-
ment was by her side. my heart
beating fast the only things of
which l WAS fully conscious being
that l had found her, that we two
were alone, and that | was going
away Tomorrow.
Need I add that this conscious
ness was saturated with the love she
had inspired 10 me?
/ took her hand with an impetn-
Gus motion. She did not look at
me, but the manner of my touch
accounted for that.
"Tcan't be silent any longer" I
whispered eagerly. Il must speak,
dearest. You will listen to ME? You
will not be surprised when 1 tell
you love you'll have loved you
from the moment / first saw you?
Don't take away your hand! Is my
love SO hopeless? Give me your
hand again. that I may know your
heart answers mine!"
l hardly knew what 1 said; my |
heart seemed to beat in my voice
How cab / tell my rapture when She |
shyly put her hand back in mine?"
Iheld, it. to, my lips I murmnred
/ know not what. She loved me,
She turned her head towards me !
now. A cold tremor went over me.
Mechanically / retained her hand.
1t was the face of Ina Grant which
was looking at mel. 1 had made
love to the wrong girl! And worse
still ii Thousand times worse-the |
wrong girl had acknowledged that
she loved me!
Ina Grant was very nearly Miss
St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1879-08-02

Summer Leat has the effect of
making people i'll one place want to
60 to some other place.
St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1879-08-02

The saddest word Of. tobeas or
pen, Il intend to pay / can't tell
when. vs. t...t ..I.g ,dE..
St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1879-08-02

The first thing man takes III III life
is hrs milk; the last Is his bierrsI.si .
Union County courier. [volume] (Elk Point, Union County, D.T. [S.D.]) 187?-1913, 1879-04-02
Late Murders.

A.ade muf0erN.
George Alexander, colored, aged 26 years,
SHOT his white wife at De Kalb, ILL.,, on the
Gath, blowing one side of her head com.
pletely off. She was 19 years of age and had
recently left her husband.
Houston Holt, a desperate of Denton
county, Texas, had a difficulty with one
Howell, in stable at Sherman, on the 22d,
and struck him. Shortly afterward he call
ed at Howelps Office and shot him dead.
A stabbing affray occurred at Grand
Rapids, Mich, on the 2lst inst, between
two boys-Wm. Sunderland and Nelson
Berry, both ~ years of age. Berry received
fatal wound in the back.
A dispute arose between John Norton and
Gather, two prominent farmers in Madison
county, N. c., on the 2lst, about the length
of pigs tail they were examining in sty.
Norton gave Gather the lie, which SO en-.
ragged him that he told his opponent that he
was going to kill him, and that he must pre-.
pare himself. Both men were armed with
revolvers. Their weapons flew out of their
hip pockets almost simultaneously, and
they commenced firing. Norton shot his
antagonist in the abdomen, inflicting fatal
wound. AS he was falling Gather fred a
parting shot, striking Norton in the thumb
cutting it of.
Thomas ]. Wood, a prominent attorney
was shot at starksville, Tenn, on the night
of the 18th, by VIM. Gilmer, colored. Wood
had previously caned Gilmer for using in.
sulting language in the presence of his wife.
On the night of the 18th inst. shooting
ARRAY occurred at Vicksburg, Miss, between
Capt. w. P. Fitzgerald, Capt. w. H. An.
drews and w. L. Green. Andrews and
Green were killed almost instantly, and
dangerously wounded.
Union County courier. [volume] (Elk Point, Union County, D.T. [S.D.]) 187?-1913, 1879-04-02
A Mound Discovery in Japan.

A mound similar to those 20 common
in our western states was recently found
and opened in japan, and scientific ex-
animation of its contents affords ground
for very strong argument that canni-
balism was practiced, perhaps habitual.
ly, by some of the ancient inhabitants
of that country. That the Ormori
mound was not a tomb was sufficiently
shown by the fact that the skeletons
found in it were never complete, and
that the bones lay about in disorder,
and in no relation to each other, whereas
the bones of buried bodies would be
found approximately in some position
possible in life. Moreover, the human
bones were found among those of other
animals, and, like them, were broken
into lengths convenient for cooking and
eating, and were deeply scratched in
those portions, such as the joints, from
which the eater would find most diff.
Guilty in removing the flesh. The dis
covery is a curious one, as it is the first
indication of cannibalism among people
whose characteristics as at present known
strongly negative the practice by them
of so horrible q custom. But similar
evidence has been held by archeologists
sufficient to prove the former existence
of cannivals in North America.
Union County courier. [volume] (Elk Point, Union County, D.T. [S.D.]) 187?-1913, 1879-04-02
The Marseillaise.', ,,

BY decree of the French govern
ment France has once more a national
anthem. The decree of 1896 making
"The Marseillaise the national air,
often suspended, is again put in force.
Rouget de pIsle's great inspiration is
unquestionably the most intoxicating
war-song ever written. ~ have beaten
the enemy, having with me ten thou
sand soldiers and the Marseillaise, ,"
wrote one general. Napoleon prohibited
it in time of peace--Proudhon said later
that it was war-song which should be
unheard in peaceful hours-but Napo-
Icons soldiers sang it at every bivouac
and ON every battle-f field from Marengo
to Mont Saint-Jea Under the restora-
tion it was prohibited music; so it was
under the monarchy of July. It is q
matter of history how during the expo
sition of 1867 an Austrian band sent an
electric thrill through astonished Paris
by playing the Marseillaise in the
Cirque des Champs-Elysees. Three years
later, on the eve of the Franco Prussian
war, Napoleon surprised vast reception
at st. Cloud by ordering one of the
bands of the Imperial Guard to play it,
and that same night by order--not by
permission or request-at every cafe
concert and theatre in France La
Marseillaise was sung TO electrified au.
diences that roared the chorus and
shrieked "a Berlin! A Berlin!"
Union County courier. [volume] (Elk Point, Union County, D.T. [S.D.]) 187?-1913, 1879-04-02
Scotland in tho Storms of Winter.

Scotland in the Storms of Winter.
Whoever for pleasure, business or sport
has gone by rail to Southland must re-
member the extreme desolation of the
scenery between Dalnaspidal and Dali
winnie. The landscape has the aspect
of high sour table-land; the prevailing
colors are suIlen green and dreary
brown, while chill CLEANS of sunlight
chase each other across the melancholy
hills. The country seems starved.
The rare houses are built Of dull gray
stone, and have an inhospitable appear
ance. The very streams flow out of the
black peat moss, and runs over channels
40 stony that you wonder where the
travelling yellow trout can pick up
scanty livelihood. On this side or that
long, narrow loch winds up amsng the
forbidding hills. The waters are black,
and as the Scotch say, "gurley," and
everand again squall shrieks down
from the heights and lashes the black
water white. A suspicion of hail even
in summer is mixed with the rain that is
always scudding by. 1t was on these
levels that the Highland clans gathered
before Kiliiecrankie. There is no diff
culry in imagining good reason why they
should have been anxious to leave the
braes" that yield SO very little material
for "brose," and where the chief food
must have been that which the liberal
shepherds call braxey"-the flesh, that
is, OF sheep which have died by reason Of
the weather. Now if Dalwhinnie and
Dalsnspidal are 30 forbidding in sum-
mer, it may be guessed that they are
peculiarly uninviting in winter. 1t is
in this very table-land and among the
cuttings in this doleful country that the
Highland Railway is most commonly
showed London News.
Union County courier. [volume] (Elk Point, Union County, D.T. [S.D.]) 187?-1913, 1879-04-02
Paris Hospital for Insane Women.
Many Americana who have an interest

Paris Hospital for Insane Women.
Many Americans who have an interest
in pathology have visited La Salpetriere,
the famous hospital in Paris for old
and insane women. 1t is vast establish
ment, never sheltering less than 5000
unfortunates, entirely unknown to the
world, mere zeroes in life. Death is
continually busy there; on an average
one person expires every two hours; but
this is too small mortality for the
public convenience, as there are ten
applicants for each vacancy. At9 o'clock
every morning six hearses stand at the
chapel door. and at 9:15 they they are
driven away. Each hearse carrying two
corpses. For some time DR.. Charcot, sn
eminent professor, had been lecturing
there on nervous diseases, of which he
had made special study. He traces
hypnotizm animal magnetism, epilepsy,
and somnambulism all to nervous dis
order, and demonstrates it by expert
ment. He places . hystero-epileptic
patient and bids her look at an electric
or Drummond light. Her whole being
ID absorbed by the light, and she soon
becomes insensible. She remains
mOtnOAA-t -tuc cyeb Wi<tc UPcu, suc
conjunctivs humid and unmoved. She
may be pinched or punctured without
betraying the least sagn OF pain: she re-
mains In any position In which she or
any of her limbs may be put, the ex-
preston of her countenance varying
with the position. AZ long as she keeps
her eyes on the light she continues In
catalepsy. il the eye b closed, or the
light shut oG she falls into msgnetized
state Of somnnmhulism. She 4 auhject
u the viii VI other1; goes when called; !;
docs ~ ordered; answers amy question;
shows ~ nlore iutslligence than n heT